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AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, SEPTEMBER 18. 1935

Student Government
Greets Students
Heartily and

Greetings from the Student Govern-
ment Association! To the old colleg-
iatcs we would say, "Welcome back.
We hope you will share with us the
benefits of a pleasant summer. Stu-
dent Government goes forward on your
strength." And to the new collegiates
we would express, "A special welcome
to you! You will add new life to the
student body with the new interests
and personalities which you bring to
us. It is our wish this year that each
student will recognize the Student
Government Association as a means of
effective self-expression. It is our pur-
pose to use the power which the ad-
ministration has given us for interests
of the entire college community."

Encouraged by the success of the
Greater Agnes Scott Campaign and by
contacts with the faculty we are ready
for work.

Adelaide Stevens
President of Student Government.

A. A. Urges '39 To
Be Sporting and - -

Opening day at last! Vacation has
been wonderful for us all, but there's
no denying it's great to be at Agnes
Scott today. You new students are,
of course, eager to see just how things
"tick" here on the campus, and we
others are equally as anxious to begin
again the fun we've already tasted.

Perhaps these miles of red-tape in-
volved in registration make you won-
der just where we keep this fun all
Hottentots claim to have! Just don't
give up the ship, 'cause registration
can't last forever, and we have good
times in A. A. all the time. Try that
sing this Tuesday night in Main, and
croon off your registration wearies.

In fact, whenever in need (of no-
matter-what) try A. A. first! You've
no idea how a round of tennis can
change your attitude toward chemistry
problems or theme conferences. Or
what relief to discover that Lost and
Found really has found your pet foun-
tain pen or his fraternity pin! And
of course you'll want to learn all the
latest dance steps, not to mention the
most fashionable and acceptable meth-
od of wielding that wicked ping pong
paddle.

You're going to have more than one
person advise you to study much and
diligently; so, if I may leave those ad-
monitions to others, let me advise you
to play often, whole-heartedly, and as
well as you can. A. A. welcomes you!

Ann Coffee
President of Athletic Association.

"FOR I DIP'T INTO THE FUTURE"

Greater Agnes Scott

This is how Agnes Scott will look
some years hence perhaps when you
are seniors! It has been made possible
by a series of campaigns, the last of
which and by far the jolliest! being
the Victory Effort which closed on
July 1, 193 5. Of course you all missed
that tremendous campus drive in the
Spring the all-College luncheon in
the gym and the horse race (which the
Juniors won!). All of that was fun,

but just think! you all are going to
see greater Agnes Scott grow almost
under your eyes! And the new library
building is first!

Just because you missed our fun of
raising the money is no sign it's not
as much yours as ours. It's yours now
for keeps today in the living reality
of it all, later, in memories of the fin-
est, dearest four years of your life
four years filled with activity and
study, four years steeped in the sacred
Traditions of Agnes Scott College.

Hello

There W

W

O

e are awfully glad you chose
to

nter Agnes Scott. It's a swell
place, a

ively one, too, when you think
of

hapel, and athletics and classes
and

h! I nearly forgot Wednesday
night coffee and

Meeting slews and slews of girls
whom

Eventually believe it or not!
you'll come to recognize!

R

H
M

N

irsc of all, you'll have
a

ound of teas and on
Saturday

vening the formal reception.
Then, later, there's

tunt that's the big moment
before the Thanksgiving

oliday! And there'll be classes,
to

eet and orientation
and

ven professors! It's a great life
and

ow's the time to begin to live

Things You Really

Ought Not to Miss

SEPTEMBER 19 (THURSDAY)

10:45 A. M. Moving pictures. Miss
Wilburn will show pictures of the col-
lege in the Chapel.

4:30-6:30 P. M. Y. W. C. A. tea
Alumnae Garden.

7:00 P. M. Dancing in the gym.
SEPTEMBER 20 (FRIDAY)

8:00 A. M. Classes begin.

10:00 P. M. Dormitory floor par-
ties.

SEPTEMBER 21 (SATURDAY)
8:30 P. M. Reception in Main;

Dancing in the Gym.

SEPTEMBER 22 (SUNDAY)
9:30 A. M. Mr. McCain's Bible

class.

1 1:00 A. M. Church.

3:00 P. M. Tour of Atlanta.

SEPTEMBER 23 (MONDAY)
7:00 P. M. Handbook classes in
dormitory lobbies for boarding stu-
dents.

SEPTEMBER 24 (TUESDAY)
7:00 P. M. Handbook classes in
dormitory lobbies for boarding stu-
dents.

SEPTEMBER 25 (WEDNESDAY)
10:00 A. M. Election of stunt

chairman after chapel.

3:30 P. M. "How to Study" Mr.

Stukes. Chapel.

SEPTEMBER 27 (FRIDAY)
3:30 P. M. Test on Handbook
Buttrick.

7:3 0 P. M. Athletic Rally.

Y. W. C. A. Offers
Challenge to All
New Students

When you first come to college you
will find that life may be rather com-
plicated. When you were at home you
always had someone to call on, to ad-
vise you, or to help you in the smallest
things. Here at school you must learn
to live independently and to "shift" for
yourself. That is just where the Y. W.
C. A. comes in at Agnes Scott. We
want to help you as much as possible,
and we are anxious really to know you.

In our Y. W. C. A. you will find
a wonderful opportunity for spiritual
growth, along with a great deal of fun
and enjoyment from all our activities.
Later in the fall you will learn all
about our "hobby groups" which will
give you a chance to cultivate almost
any hobby you have ever cared for.
Don't miss our Y. W. C. A. tea on
Thursday afternoon and the Inman
floor party Friday night. They will
both give you wonderful chances to
meet more girls!

We really need your help as much
as you may need ours. Won't you sign
up with us and work with us? We need
you and we want you. Make this or-
ganization yours as well as ours. We
are glad that you are all here and to
each of you the Y. W. C. A. extends
the heartiest welcome.

Sarah Spencer
President of Y. W. C. A.

Day Students Must
Be Campus-Minded

Welcome to Agnes Scott, the friend-
liest, finest school in the world. We
open our arms and hearts wide to you
and bid you to come in. Won't you?

Freshmen! Your college career has
begun! May you keep your eyes peeled
for every opportunity that knocks at
your door and may you learn early
what it really means to be a Hotten-
tot.

Day Students, do not think that be-
cause you are not boarding, you can-
not take part in every college activity.
Just remember that what you do at
college, what you achieve, what friends
you make, depends entirely on you, so
make your stay at A. S. C. a joyful
one. If you wish to spend the night on
the campus, there are day student
rooms all ready and waiting for you
where you can not only enjoy a very
comfortable night, but also get a taste
of boarding life.

Don't forget the stunt. It is the
first important activity of the fresh-
men. Put all you have into it, and re-
member that co-operation in this first
event indicates your spirit in the ac-
tivities of your other years at Agnes
Scott.

Mary Snow
President of Day Students.

Pay Your
Budget

<P) Agonistic

VOL. XXI

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE. DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 2. 1935

NO. 1

R. Frost Will
Lecture Here

Thornton Wilder To Be Second
in Series; Students Will
Vote For Others

Agnes Scott As Viewed from the Air

Robert Frost, who is probably the
foremost poet of America today, will
lecture at Agnes Scott College on the
evening of November 7. Coming un-
der the auspices of the Lecture Associa-
tion, he will be the first in a series of
prominent people to be presented at the
College this season. The second in the
series will be Thornton Wilder, the
novelist, who will appear in February.
In accordance with a new policy, the
other lecturers will be selected by stu-
dent requests which are to be turned
in as tickets are bought.

After trying in vain for ten years
to have Mr. Frost appear, the Pulitzer
Prize winner finally accepted the in-
vitation extended him last year by the
college Lecture Association. Associate
Professor Emma May Laney, of the
English department, has heard Mr.
Frost lecture, and in a discussion of
the man and his poetry in chapel on
Wednesday, September 2 5, reported
that he is a charming person with a
quiet humor and delightful whimsy.
His poetry is simple, and is of the soil
of New England from which his an-
cestors came; it has a distinctive qual-
ity because of his theory that poetry
is a combination of sight and insight. |

Nell White, president of the Lecture
Association, announced the following
prices for tickets: Students, 5 0c for
unreserved and 75c for reserved; gen-
eral admission, 75c for unreserved and
Sl.00 for reserved. Unlike last year,
the Lecture Association is not keeping
a catalogue of those who bought tick-
ets during the advanced sale. Since ad-
mission will be by ticket only, students
are cautioned not to lose theirs.

The officers of the Lecture Associa-
tion under whose auspices Mr. Frost
will appear here are: Nell White, presi-
dent; Mary Jane Tigert, secretary and
junior representative; Mary Margaret
Stowe, ex-officio, publicity; Jane
Thomas, day student representative;
Meriel Bull, social committee chair-
man; Ethelyn Johnson, senior represen-
tative; Nell Hemphill, sophomore rep-
resentative.

PAY YOUR BUDGET

A. S. C. Has Seven In
"American Women"

College Sees
Improvements

Work Begun on New Projects
As Result of Successful
Campaign

THE PICTURE ABOVE TAKEN BY THE DE K ALB NEW ERA RECENTLY SHOWS THE COLLEGE
AS IT IS TODAY. THE SITE OF THE PROPOSED NEW LIBRARY IS SHOWN IN THE RIGHT FORE-
GROUND. THE ROAD CONNECTING McDONOUGH AND SOUTH CANDLER STREETS AS WELL AS THE
NEW STREET FROM IN M AN HALL TO THE FRONT OF BUCHER SCOTT GYMNASIUM ARE ALSO
VISIBLE.

American Women, woman's Who's
NY/ho, includes the names of seven fac-
ulty members of Agnes Scott College
in its first edition issued the early part
of the past summer. They are Professor
Lucile Alexander, of the French depart-
ment; Associate Professor Emily S.
Dexter, of the psychology department;
Professor Edith Muriel Harn, of the
Spanish and German departments;
Dean Nannette Hopkins; Professor
Mary Stuart MacDougall, of the biol-
ogy department; Professor Catherine
Torrance, of the Greek department;
and Miss Llewellyn Wilburn, of the
phvsical education department.

American Women, similar to Who's
Who in form and make-up, devotes a
short article to the birth, parentage,
education, writings, occupations and
hobbies of each woman whose name
appears in the volume. It includes as
well a statistical summary of the wom-
en and forewords written by outstand-
ing women in practically all the fields
which are represented by the book.

Out of a possible 1 5,000 women to
whom questionnaires were sent, the ed-
itor, Durward Howes, and his staff
chose 6,214 names. American Women
was published by the Richard Blank
Publishing Co., who also published the
recent America's Young Men.

Kreisler Will Open
New Concert Series

Artists including Fritz Kreisler,
Grace Moore, Nelson Eddy, and La Ar-
gentina will come to Atlanta this fall
under the auspices of the All-Star Con-
cert Series, which each year offers un-
paralleled opportunities for hearing
foremost artists of the music world.
Mr. Marvin McDonald, manager, out-
lined the program Friday in chapel,
and, according to his custom, offered
tickets at half-price for Agnes Scott
students. There will be no box seats
this year since the concerts are to be
held in the Fox Theater instead of the
city auditorium.

The season will open on Tuesday,
October 22, with Fritz Kreisler, one of
the leading violinists of all time, whose
genius has thrilled the world for more
than thirty years. The second concert
offers an attraction new to Atlanta
music lovers the National Symphony
Orchestra, of Washington, D. C,
which will be presented on Wednesday,
November 13. This orchestra, now rec-
ognized as one of the country's lead-
ing symphonic organizations, will be

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Enrollment Nears
Five Hundred

Agonistic Honor
Society to Elect
8 Members

Collectors To Vie
For Book Award

The Agonistic has organized a
new honorary society, the Ago-
nistic Key, which will be awarded an-
nually to eight girls who have done un-
usual work on the editorial and adver-
tising staffs, and who have shown loy-
alty and devotion to The Agonistic
and its purposes. The election of four
of the members will be announced at
The Agonistic chapel in December,
and the remaining four just before the
spring holidays. A committee made up
of the editor, the business manager, the
instructor in journalism, and one other
member of the faculty, will elect the
members.

The object of this organization is to
encourage a finer type of journalism
and to designate those who do unusual
work on The Agonistic.

The symbol of the new society is to
be a modeled gold A with a key run-
ning through the center up and down.
On the left corner of the bar across
the A is a smaller modeled S and on the
ri^ht corner a C. The entire key,
which is to be manufactured by L. G.
Balfour Co., of Attleboro, Massachu-
setts, is a size suitable to be worn on
a chain around the neck.

Dr. J. R. McCain has said that he
thinks it a very good idea to recognize
earnestness and cooperation, and the
Agonistic Key is a very stimulating
way to do it.

PAY TOUR BUDGET

The enrollment of 484 students for
the 1 93 5-36 session represents the
greatest demand for admisson that Ag-
nes Scott College has had since the sys-
tem of boarding students out was dis-
continued in 1926.

Last year there were 473 girls who
attended the College; because the num-
ber of boarders was greater than the
year before, Gaines Cottage was opened.
This year, with 2 89 boarding students,
it has been necessary to re-open White
House. Without White House, the dor-
mitory capacity is for 277.

173 of the 484 are new students,
either freshmen, transfers, or exchange.
A list of their names appears on page 3.,

N. B.

Annual fall try-outs for work
as a reporter on The Agonistic
are due Saturday, October 12;
the article submitted may be
cither a news story or a feature.
On this same date, try-outs for
the writing of Giddy Gossip are
to be handed in; each girl trying
out for this position will submit
a regular Giddy Gossip article,
which is a feature containing hu-
morous college news.

The articles may be given to
Lulu Ames, Frances Cary, or
Laura Steele, or they may be left
in the box in The Agonistic
office in the basement of Main.

The Richard de Bury Book Award of
$2 5.00 will be given to the Agnes Scott
student who has made, between now
and May 1, 193 6, the best collection
of books, and who has, in the opinion
of the judges, shown the most discrim-
ination in her selection. The books are
to represent the taste of the owners,
and may be ones that have been pur-
chased or acquired as gifts. Each col-
lection will be judged by the number
and quality of the books and by the
owner's understanding of their con-
tents. No collection of fewer than fif-
teen books will be considered; there are
no restrictions as to the type of books,
but a reading list posted in Buttrick
No. 213 may be helpful in suggesting
titles which are acceptable.

Interest in books is always furthered
and encouraged at Agnes Scott. Every
fall Book Week is observed, when rare
books are placed on display and stu-
dents are invited to come and browse
among old literary treasures and new
publications of special appeal in the
fields of poetry, drama, fiction, and
(Continued on Page 6, Col. 1)
PAY YOUR BUDGET

Miss F. Smith
Wins Promotion

A concrete tunnel, sewer system,
driveways, and walkways are tangible
results of the Greater Agnes Scott
Campaign which ended July 1, 1 93 5,
with pledges amounting to $45 0,000
for new buildings, improvements, and
endowment. The General Education
Board of New York had promised the
college $1 17,000, with an additional
bonus of $100,000 if Agnes Scott ob-
tained pledges for $233,000 by last
July 1. This sum was reached after a
vigorous campaign which included a
campus drive in April that netted al-
most $25,000.

Work began last June when the in-
firmary was turned around and West-
lawn, the home of Dean Nannette
Hopkins and several members of the
faculty, was moved to College Place,
below Mr. Rivers' cottage. Both the
infirmary and Westlawn were com-
pletely remodeled. The cost of all this
work was approximately $4,000. The
infirmary was turned so that the drive
and sidewalk could be extended from
Buttrick Hall past the Bucher Scott
Gymnasium through to Candler
Street; Westlawn was moved in order
to prepare a site for the proposed li-
brary.

A small drive connecting the old
one in front of Inman Hall with the
new one in front of the gymnasium
makes it possible to drive through the
campus from the front to the back.
These new driveways have opened up
what originally were two public thor-
oughfares: twenty-five years ago there
was a street-car line that ran between
what are now the homes of Dr. Mary
F. Sweet and Mr. R. B. Cunningham,
the business manager of the College.
Later the line ran through Mr. J. C.
Tart's driveway.

Several new walkways and steps have
been completed, so that eventually the
lower terrace will be laid out like the
upper quadrangle. The total cost for
the drives and walks was about $12,-
000.

A concrete tunnel has been extended
from Buttrick to the Candler Street
(Continued on Page 6, Col. 1)

PAY YOUR BUDGET

Johnson, Riepma,
Stunt Chairmen

The faculty committee and Board
of Trustees have named Miss Florence
Smith an associate professor of his-
tory. Miss Smith was assistant profes-
sor until she received notice of her
promotion on September 2 6.

Miss Smith taught history at Agnes
Scott first in 1927-28 when she came
to relieve a sick teacher. After receiv-
ing her doctor's degree at the Univer-
sity of Chicago, she returned to the
College in 1929 as an assistant profes-
sor. She has specialized in the fields of
American and Medieval history.

The nineteen year old Black Cat,
having rested the past year with the
present junior class, will move again
in accordance with the outcome of the
annual stunt contest which the fresh-
men and sophomores will stage this
year on Saturday evening, October 19,
in Bucher Scott gymnasium.

Ann Worthy Johnson, of Rome, Ga.,
heads the sophomore stunt committees,
and Anna Margaret Riepma, of Spring-
field, Mo., has been elected freshman
stunt chairman.

Sophomore committees, appointed by
Ann Worthy, are:

Writing: Elizabeth Cousins, chair-
man; Mary Smith, Anne Thompson,
Hortcnse Jones, Martha Long, Ellen
McCallie, Mildred Davis, Frosty
Brown.

Music: Tommy Ruth Blackmon.

Costumes: Carolyn Elliott, chair-
man; Zoe Wells, Jacque McWhite.

Decorations: Ola Kelly, chairman;
Virginia Hart, Lydia Whitner, Virginia
Watson.

Scenery: Winifred Kellersberger,
chairman; Jane Guthrie, Hibernia Has-
sell, Jane Wyatt, Virginia Suttenfield.

Program: Jean Barry Adams, chair-
man; Doris Dunn, Sara Beatty Sloan,
Dot Kelly, Jane Turner.

Dance: Kay Ricks, chairman; Mar-
garet Morrison, Lettie McKay, Elise
Seay.

Financial: Eliza King, chairman;

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BOOK NOTES

PUBLISHED W EEKLY

Owned and published by the students of Agnes Scott College.

Entered as Second Class Matter.

To-Da^'s To-Morrou , Walter S.
Martin. Christopher Publishing House
($2, 50).

A new novel in a new style by a new
author, To-Day % s To-Morrou is not a
novel but a series of character sketches
connected cioselv enough onlv to re-

The

Lulu Ames
Editor-in-chief

Laura Steele
Frances Cary
Assistant Editors

Nellie M. Gilroy
Feature Editor

Nell Allison

Assist. Feature Editor

Jane Guthrie

Book Notes Editor

Ellen McCallie
Alumnae Editoi

Nell White
Society Editor

STAFF

Mildred Clark
Make-up Editor

June Matthews
Assist. Make-up

Rosa From

Current History

Elizabeth Baethke
Laura Coit

Exchange Editors

Elizabeth Burson
Sports Editor

Cornelia Christie
Club Editor

Alice Chamlee
Business Manager

Kathryn Boven
Advertising Manager

Business Assistants
Ellen Davis
elizabeth cox
Rachel Kennedy
Sara Beaty Sloan
Ken n on Henderson

Circulation Managers
Mary Margaret Sto we
Margaret Cooper
Mary Gray Rogers
Wita Moreland

ETHIOPIA
Ethiopia, "in a sense an image of the
ancient world that has remained un-
changed throughout the centuries,"

suddenly finds herself brought to the &m the interest of the reader,
world's attention, because she is in- story, in short, centers about a mother,
volved in rumors of war with Italy. who is a kleptomaniac, and her chil-
Interested observers discuss the facts dren, all of whom are queer, somewhat
that Ethiopian natives smoke too much perverted, but brilliant. The mother,
d that they go without shoes or Sara Willis, blindly devoted to her old-

that, according to legend, the Queen of
Sheba ruled the land and was followed
in the legal procession by her son, Men-
jlik I, whose father was Solomon.

Ethiopia would merit attention even
\i she were not involved in a threat to

he sanctity of international agree-
ments. Sometimes this feudal state,
which has no outlet to the sea, is called

'Abyssinia," a word of Semitic origin,

est son, Sonnv, a doctor, interests her-
self superficially in the activities of
her other offspring in between her zeal-
Dusly pursued social work and her re-
ligiously attended seances. The first
part of the book, called Illusion, por-
trays the family in its natural setting
under normal conditions.

Disillusion, the second part of the
book, concerns itself with the failure

lv be classified as an unusual book.
Whether it opens an era of "free writ-
ing" among the novelists of the day is
difficult to say. Without a doubt, a
second volume devoted to those mem-
bers of the Willis family, touched only
lightly in this book, would prove to be
a delight to readers of To-Day % s To-
Morrou . L. D. A.

is surrounded bv Italian, French, Eng

THE APPROACHING she takes part, or has the right I "L^tZTZ TZty

GREATER AGNES SCOTT ; to take P art ' ln ever >' P hase of wastes and rugged mountains. The pla

the college life

rather than "Ethiopia," which is Ne- of each member of the family: The col-
gro. It is about nine times as large as . umnist son, Louis, begins to lose his
New York State with a population es- ; grip; the movie company of which
limated from six to twelve million and daughter Yvonne is a star faces fail-

What with new roads and side-
walks and steps and general im-
provements on the campus, the
ideal of a Greater Agnes Scott
no longer exists as a shadow of
the future. Especially does the
sight of the empty space between
Buttrick and the gym take the
futuristic touch altogether out of
Greater Agnes Scott. The fact
that bids for the new library are
to open on October 15 enhances
the prospect for all of us even
those of us who came through
the thrill and excitement of the
Victory Effort Campaign of last
spring. Yet the need of a library
commensurate with the demands
of such an institution as Agnes

The so-called
up of those students who have
not paid their Budget is, unfor-

ure; the preacher son, Winston, is
about to be revealed as one of the lead-
ers in local radical movements; and
Sonny is accidentally murdered. Only
the youngest daughter, Helen, who

teau of Ethiopia is really the only part
black list" made j of the country that is suitable for white j writes, persists in successful and fairly
colonization. Between this upland and sane living, complete with a f lourish-
the eastern coast lies a great desert ing romance. The death of Sonny
.which only two parties of Europeans breaks Sara; her social work is no longer
tlinately, no disgrace. Names of : nave ever crossed. One of the leaders i interesting to her and she seems to have

ap- who crossed it successfully gave it the

The Stars Look Don n A. J. Cronin.

Dr. A. J. Cronin, English physician,
novelist, and author of Hatter's Castle,
depicts in his latest novel life in an
English coal-mining town trom the
years 1 903 to 1 95 3. He writes from
the point of view of a physician, an-
alyzing his characters as a doctor an-
alyzes his patients, stating the facts
but offering no remedy. Especially in-
teresting is his account of the struggle
between labor and capital during the
thirty years' span of his book.

ome of the "better people
pear there from time to time.
One year in the past the name of
Student Government president
held its alphabetical position on
the "black list" for an entire ses-
sion. Consequently, in the spring ource of the Blue
of '3 1, a plan was adopted where-
by each Budget-supported or-
ganization would lose a certain
percentage of its money, the
amount forfeited being figured
on the basis of the number of
"black list" people in the group.

Scott is not much greater than, This p | an w hich worked admir-

the need of a center for student
life on the campus. Such a cen-
ter will be realized in the remod-

ably in L934-35, will be followed
again this year.

The logical way to eliminate

eling of the ; present library into j this annua , (iisturbance is , of

a Student Activities Building

The necessity for a gathering
place for students has long been
felt by students and administra-
tion alike. Definite rooms for
meetings so that clubs would no
longer have to visit around in
studios and parlors; offices for
publications so that editors would
not have to work in the nearest
empty corner; a place where stu-
dents could gather for social
functions and general hilarity
these have been lacking in the
campus life of the past. And
these will be furnished by the
proposed Student Activities
Building.

This concentration of campus
life will not only remove many of
the difficulties of student gath-
erings but it may also introduce 4
a new era in which it may be pos-
sible to achieve a fuller, a more
normal, and a more nearly round-
ed social life here.

WHY NOT PAY
YOUR BUDGET NOW?

The matter of the Budget is
again the subject of much dis-
cussion on the campus; it is
every fall. Nevertheless it still
merits serious attention mainly
because the money derived from
it forms the basis of many of the
important organizations at Ag
nes Scott

course, to include the Budget in
the tuition. And. although this
may be done by next fall, it is
clearly out of the question for
this session. Therefore, in the
meantime, we have the matter of
the Budget. A good two weeks
remain before the posting of first
semester "black list" for there
MUST be a black list.

Or MUST there? We wouldn't
consider making this a 100' >
Budget-paid session, would we?
Or would we?

FOR FRESHMEN
ONLY

Of course you've been advised
until your blood more than likely
tingles! You've been told about
greeting faculty members with a
calm "Good morning" rather

name, The Hell-hole of Creation/
Lake Tana, beautifully clear with very
green water, is located in the high-
lands. This lake, a very large inland
reservoir about forty-five miles long
and forty miles wide, is not only the
Nile but also the
source of a great deal of agitation
among countries which would desire to
develop its resources. "It is sacred to
Abyssinians, essential to Egypt and the
Sudan, coveted by Italy, of vital in-
terest to Great Britain, and under
rreaty subject to American control."

The character of the country is prob-
ably the main reason why Ethiopia has
remained practically a feudal state and
kept so many of its old customs. The
general opinion is that the people do
not desire any change; they cling to
tradition and insist that the old cus-
toms remain. Illiteracy is almost uni-
versal; and society is made up of classes,
the basis of which is military. "Every
Abyssinian is a warrior," and the love
for his country amounts practically to
(Continued on Page 6, Col. I)
PAY YOUK BUDGET

Alumnae News

ost the ability to raise money for her
charities. Her kleptomania grows worse.
She holds seances more often and now
with the purpose of bringing Sonny
back. The high point of the action ar-
rives when, just before she is to be ar-
rested for stealing, she falls over dead
of heart failure at the sight of Sonny's
face and the sound of his voice in a
seance.

The book is, for the most part, phil-
osophical. The material used reveals the
wide reading and training of the au-
thor who is a doctor by profession. The
style, anything but orthodox, is refresh-
ingly simple and convincing although
the conversation at times lacks natural-
ness and apparent spontanietv.

To-Day's To-Morrow mav accurate-

My Country and My People Lin
Yutang.

Few countrymen write ot their na-
tive lands with more truth and flavor
and with less boastfulness than Mr.
Yutang writes of China. In exceptional
English prose he touches upon each
phase of life in his country not blind-
ed, but guided by affection tor it.
Pearl S. Buck said of My Count) ) and
My People, "It is the truest, the most
profound, the most important book vet
written about China."

Vein of Iron Ellen Glasgow .

Courage, sweet and blind, is, as the
title suggests, the keynote of Miss Glas-
gow's new novel. She successfully un-
dertakes a great difficulty in present-
ing the six major characters of the
book in six consecutive chapters. The
story centers around a poor minister in
a small Virginia town, his daughter and
light-headed wife, the grandmother,
and the housemaid each with his own
brand of courage. Readers of the Vein
of Iron will appreciate the excellence
of the book as well as the worth of
an author whose rise to tame has been
sure and steady*

Mary Queen of Scotland mid tin
{Continued tin page S , column 2)

EXCHANGES

The University of Kentucky this | Of all the people in the world today,
year is offering courses in Ethnology i not more than one-third eat with a

knife and fork. Another third use chop-

and Geology. Education and Philos-
ophy are added to the curriculum at
\V. and L.

Alberta Palmour, '3 5, field secretary
for the Alumnae Association, is plan-
ning a trip to Charlotte, N. C, where
she will be entertained by the Char-
lotte Agnes Scott Club, October 14.
She will visit a number of other cities
in this vicinity.

Dorothy Cassel, '3 4, is living at the
Alumnae House for two weeks, during
the absence of her parents.

Seventy-five percent of rush work is
due to postponing thinking. An equal
Dart of overtime work is due to post-
poning thinking. The Hornet.

than a gaily -hurled "Hey." And, tjic Alumnae House for a few weeks,
doubtlesa you've been warned ! while she IS taking a Business Course
about throwing: paper helter- ! in Atlanta

Small (enrollment 3,069) West Vir-
ginia University announced the ap-
pointment as its president of "the out-
standing person in the field of educa-
tion throughout the country." This
person was identified as Chauncey
Samuel Boucher, U. S. historian and
dean of the college at the University
Jacqueline Wooifolk, '3 5, is living I 0 f Chicago where he is No. 2 Man of

sticks. And the final third still eat
with their fingers. Collier's,

Wellesley College has enrolled a sin
gle male student. Strangely enough this
sturdy stalwart of the stronger sex is
working for a bachelor's degree.

skelter, at random, likewise in-
discriminately about the campus ;
perhaps you've even been con-
ducted on a tour of the roomy
wastebaskets scattered at decent

Mary Wallace Kirk, '12, an alumna
trustee, spent the opening week at the
Alumnae House.

Rose B. Knox, '99, has recently pub-
lished a book entitled Patsy's Progress,

Robert Maynard Hutchins' Chicago
Plan.

Distinctly unprofessional in appear-
ance, slim, wiry Dean Boucher is given
to sport clothes, neither looks nor acts
his 49 years. Students' chief criticism
of him is that he slaps too many backs.

Time.

At Northwestern Univcrsiu there
has been organized a knitting class for
men. At Purdue University a course is
ottered in bridge. A girl is enrolled in
a boxing class at the University of
Alaba ma.

The student body at the University
of Richmond recently initiated a cam
paign tor the abolition of the svstem
under which undergraduates are allow-
ed to grade papers. Ring-T urn-Phi.

intervals about the College. But a great deal of whose setting is sup-
have you heard about chapel? posedly at Agnes Scott

Chapel at Agnes Scott is dif-
ferent from chapel at many col-
leges mainly because it's not
compulsory. And the reason it is

not Compulsory is because most has announced the birth of twin girls
And, although the of us get the chapel-going habit on August I,

Amy Underwood, '3 5 was married
to William Wallace Trowell on Au-
gust 15.

Martha (Stackhouse) Grafton, '30,

amount is comparatively small early in our freshman year. It

especially when it's paid on the
installment plan, there are many

furnishes a half-hour of relaxa-
tion from classes perhaps from

students who feel unable to bear the very classes from which you
the extra expense or who under- need relaxation most. And you

estimate the value of the fee.
The Budget not only supports

can get more information from
one chapel period than you can

such organizations as THE AG- from even two gossip-bees, al-
ONISTIC, the SILHOUETTE, though gossip-bees do have their
Student Government, the AURO- strong points.

Frances Napier, ex-'3 6, is to be mar-
ried soon to Dillard Griswold.

Gussie Rose Riddle, '34, recently
married Harold Albert List from Ra-
leigh, N. C.

Laura Spivey, '3 3, is attending the
Assembly Training School at Rich-
mond, Ya.

Elinor Hamilton, '34, married Wil-
liam 1 larrison Hightower, Jr., of

A new organ has just been perfected
which has no pipes. It is much smaller
than a small upright piano and costs
only $ 1250 as compared with $4000
and up for most pipe organs. It is tull-
toned and rich, eerie and soft. It can
be plugged into the wall with an ordi-
nary electric cord, and costs less than
a cent an hour to operate. Time.

At Mount I lolyoke a two-unit plan
of Study, which makes possible a more
individualized college course, is being
affefed to twenty freshmen entering
this year. The group has been selected
on a basis of ability and mature ami
specialized interest and will be permit-
ted to substitute for the usual five-
course curriculum, a correlated pro-
gram centering in two main subjects.

R \, and V. \Y. C. A., together ( 'hapel is only one of the many Thomaston, Ga., on June 29
with many clubs but it gives to things yoaTI Hke at Agnes Scott

each budget-paid student a year

subscription to the publications
as well as the right to participate

But after you've shopped around
and tasted* of all the other things
hor<\ you'll a^ree with us that no

in athletic events. An Agnes other activity can quite equal the
Scott student cannot rightly call effect regular chapel attendance
herself one of the campus unless has on you.

Mildred Hootcn, '3 3, is attending the
Emory University Library School this
year.

Florence Burford, ex.-'3 5, was mar-
ried to Alonzo Morris Atkinson in
June.

(Continued on Page 6, Col. 1 )

Several companies are adding nose j
appeal to their products. Perfumed hos-
iery .ind paints have been on the mar-
ket for some time. Newer arrivals in-
clude scented inks in a variety of deli-
cate shades, and pme-scentcd coal
which "gives your home a pleasant and
healthful odor and also acts as a cold
preventive.* ' Natio n\s BmtneSS.

In Japan undressing in public is quite
permissible. Passengers on railway-
trains frequently step
and change all the
Iter's.

on
into the
clothing.

aisles
-Col-

A questionnaire given to the class
of '3 5 at Washington and Lee gave the
following results:

Most popular newspaper New York
Times.

Most popular political figure F. I).
Roosevelt.

Most popular author Thorne Smith.

Most popular actress Ginger Rog-
ers.

Must popular actor W. Q Fields,
Clark Gable.

1 lvonte historical figure Cleo-
patra, Lee, Napoleon.

The Agonistic

3

EXCHANGE STUDENTS
EXPRESS DELIGHT
\\ ITH AGNES SCOTT

What Agnes Scott would be without
the Exchange students that come every
year from across the sea no one knows,
and fortunately no one needs to know,
for this year again a girl from Ger-
many, Lucie Hess, and a girl from
France, Marcelle Cappatti, have en-
rolled in the College.

Marcelle Cappatti is eighteen, a na-
tive of Nice, a wonderful and fascinat-
ing city, according to her; she thinks
it unsurpassed, with its old churches
and straight cypress trees. Since her fa-
ther was a French officer, she passed
most of her interesting childhood in
Germany in Mainz. Naturally from
this contact, she loves Germany, its
people, and its literature almost as well
as her native land.

Later on Marcelle was in Philipp-
ville, Algeria, for four years, learning
to love the sunny land and its treas-
ures of tapestry and embroidery, some
of which she has brought with her to
Agnes Scott. Like most French girls,
she is very fond of dancing and sing-
ing, while her favorite sport is swim-
ming. She attended school at the Lycee
in Nice, and it is from there that she
comes to Agnes Scott.

Marcelle came to America on the
Lafayette during the past summer,
landing in New York at midnight, and
her impressions of the great city with
its lights at that first glimpse are very
vivid. "But the Statue of Liberty is so
small!'' she complained! After only a
day in New York she spent a few days
in Riverdale, where she met Lucie Hess,
the other Exchange student.

Lucie is nineteen, and was born in
Jena, though since that time, she has
lived in Stuttgart in southern Germany.
She is the niece of Rudolf Hess, one
of Hitler's most prominent represen-
tatives, in whose charge is the settle-
ment of race and church questions.
During her early life she traveled
widely in Europe, and is well acquaint-
ed with Belgium, Switzerland, Austria,
and the Netherlands, besides all parts
of Germany except East Prussia. For
thirteen years she has attended Obercal-
schule in Stuttgart, finishing last year.

Lucie is keenly interested in the na-
tional organizations of her country.
She has been for six years a member
of the Protestant Girl Guides, and had
planned to go into the Service Labor
camps, the regular year's service for
the government that is required of Ger-
man girls.

Like a true German, Lucie plays the
piano and loves music, especially organ
music. In Germany she attended con-
certs almost continually. "Cultural
life," she says, "has changed very much
for the better under Hitler." She is
fond, too, of hiking, another national
hobby.

Lucie came over on the Albert
Baffin with forty-seven other German
transfer students. They evidently had
a gay voyage, and gathered for the
last time at Riverdale to sing their na-
tional songs together. "We sang a great
deal," said Lucie, "to make up for our
year in America when we cannot sing
our songs."

ENROLLMENT FOR SCHOOL YEAR 1935-1936 INCLUDES AU A ^, A Ar A ^ s
112 BOARDING STUDENTS; 61 DAY STUDENTS be ST cover design

Decatur Beauty Salon
Offers Agnes Scott (iirls

A 2- Week Special
Shampoo and Finger-Wave,
50c, Every Day!
Phone DE. 1692

TATUM'S
PHARMACY

To all students of Agnes Scott
College we extend an invitation
to visit our store when trading
on the square. All your wants
will be handled by our Mrs. Ma-
gee, and we are sure she can be
a great help in supplying your
needs. All orders sent to dormi-
tories will be handled promptly
and courteously.

113 E. Court Square

Phone DE. 2181-82

BOARDING STUDENTS
Alice Adams, Elberton, Ga.
Ruth Holt Anderson, Burlington,
N. C.

Sara L. Baskin, Culverton, Ga.
Patricia Baxley, Columbia, S. C.
Adelaide Benson, Jacksonville, Fla.
Henrietta McWillie Blackwell, Laurens,

s. c.

Ethelyn Boswell, Elberton, Ga.
Margaret Inez Calcutt, Fayetteville,
N. C.

Catherine Mobley Caldwell, Winns-

boro, S. C.
Millicent Lupton Caldwell, Waco, Tex.
Marcelle Cappatti, Nice, France.
Jane Carithers, Winder, Ga.
Caroline Carmichael, McDonough, Ga.
Lelia Carson, Rogersville, Tenn.
Sara Elizabeth Carter, Bamberg, S. C.
Barbara Nell Cassat, Poughkeepsie,

N. Y.

Ann Chambers, Lexington, Ky.
Mildred Woods Coit, Richmond, Va.
Mary Elizabeth Cooper, Holly Springs,
Miss.

Annie Lee Crowell, Nashville, Tenn.
Estelle Wyse Cuddy, Mount Holly,
N. C.

Lucy Hill Doty, Winnsboro, N. C.
Jane Louise Dryfoos, Fieldston, N. Y.
Grace Duggan, Hawkinsville, Ga.
Goudyloch Erwin, Davidson, N. C.
Mary Virginia Farrar, Manchester,
Tenn.

Martha Cochran Fite, Dalton, Ga.
Martha Elizabeth Galbreath, Frank-
fort, Ky.

Mary Everlyn Garner, Lawrenceville,
Ga.

Emogene Gaskins, Nashville, Ga.
Susanne Gifford, Hickory, N. C.
Susan Brooks Goodwyn, Newnan, Ga.
Judith Clark Gracey, Augusta, Ga.
Dorothy Graham, Bluefield, W. Va.
Mary Frances Guthrie, Louisville, Ky.
Jane Moore Hamilton, Dalton, Ga.
Louise Jacqueline Hawks, Petersburg,
Va.

Lucie Hess, Stuttgart, Germany.
Grace Muriel Hilford, Naples, N. C.
Mary Hollingsworth, Florence, Ala.
Anne Marshall Howell, Thomson, Ga.
Cora Kay Hutchins, Atlanta, Ga.
Catherine McConnell Ivie, Greenville,
S. C.

Phyllis Johnson, Elberton, Ga.
Katherine Jones, Winder, Ga.
Kathleen Kennedy, Washington, D. C.
Mary Frances Kennedy, Grovetown,
Ga.

Elizabeth Joan Kenney, Monroe, La.
Eunice Elizabeth Knox, Pickens, S. C.
Virginia Belle Kyle, Charleston, W. Va.
Mary Josephine Larkins, Mobile, Ala.
Mary Locksley Long, Rutherfordton,
N. C.

Rebecca Lee Love, LaFayette, Ga.
Flora McGuire, Montgomery, Ala.
Ella Hunter Mallard, Greenville, S. C.
Vera Irby Marsh, Oliver, Ga.
Martha Hunter Marshall, Americus,
Ga.

Original Waffle
Shop

Restaurant

I

Famous for Fine
Foods

62 Pryor, N. E.
Just Below Candler Bldg.

Sara Louise McCain, Sanatorium, N. C.
Emma Moffett McMullen, New York
City.

Mary Wells McNeill, Florence, S. C.
xMarie Merritt, Clarksdale, Miss.
Erna Mae Mohns, Birmingham, Ala.
Annie Catherine Moore, North Wilkes-

boro, N. C.
Helen Lucile Moses, Sumter, S. C.
Mary Elizabeth Moss, Nashville, Tenn.
Mary Ruth Murphy, Hot Springs, Ark.
Annie Houston Newton, Dothan, Ala.
Hortense Orcutt Norton, Savannah,

Ga.

Esthere Jonte Ogden, New Orleans, La.
Lou Pate, Newbern, Tenn.
Julia Porter, Covington, Ga.
Betty Price, Mahwah, N. J.
Annie Read Purnell, Charlotte, N. C.
Mamie Lee Ratliff, Sherard, Miss.
Jeanne Wilson Redwine, Fayetteville,
Ga.

Harriett Burns Reed, Augusta, Ga.
Frances Winter Ricks, Madison, Miss.
Anna Margaret Riepma, Springfield,
Mo.

Olivia Smith Root, Raleigh, N. C.
Miriam Antoinette Sanders, Greenville,
S. C.

Adelaide Hayden Sanford, Mocksville,
N. C.

Mary Elizabeth Shepherd, Atlanta, Ga.
Barbara Shloss, New York City.
Aileen Shortley, Columbia, Tenn.
Alice Anna Sill, Atlanta, Ga.
Elizabeth Simmons, Timmonsville, Ga.
Mary Pennel Simonton, Covington,
Tenn.

Ruby Will Smith, Nashville, Ga.
Beryl Folmar Spooner, Donalsonville,
Ga.

Mary Eleanor Steele, Mooresville, N. C.

Selma Steinbach, Carrollton, Ga.

Virginia Louise Stephens, Augusta, Ga.

Betty Ann Stewart, Winchester, Tenn.

Antoinette Houston Stickley, Madison-
ville, Tenn.

Kathryn Prout Toole, Hegins, Penn.

Virginia Elizabeth Tumlin, Cave
Spring, Ga.

Emmy Louise Turck, Danville, Ky.

Elinor Ruth Tyler, Florence, S. C.

Florence Fannon Wade, Meriden, Conn.

Lois Ann Walton, Palatka, Fla.

Ann Dupuy Watkins, Culpeper, Va.

Mary Belle Weir, Douglas, Ga.

Elizabeth Hartwell Wheatley, Green-
wood, Miss.

Cary Rogers Wheeler, Lafayette, Ala.

Mary Ellen Whetsell, Columbia, S. C.

Jerry White, St. Petersburg, Fla.

Lena May Willis, Edgemoor, S. C.

Margaret Evans Willis, Roanoke, Va.

Mary Willis, Augusta, Ga.

Emma Frances Woodall, Blackshear,
Ga.

Mary Isabelle Workman, Winnsboro,
S.' C.

Louise Young, Soochow, China.

Candler Beauty Shoppe

in

Candler Hotel

Phone DKarborn 9243

HOMEFOLKS' GRILL
Welcomes

Agnes Scott Girls

119 E. Ponce de Leon, Decatur

HOTEL CANDLER

Decatur, Ga.

( lean, Comfortable Rooms
Good Food

HANAN'S

Carefree Shoes
FOR CAMPUS WEAR

Also

Ringless Chiffon Hose
69c

HANAN & SON

170 Peachtree St.

DAY STUDENTS
Betty Auberry, Jacksonville, Fla.
Jean Bailey, Atlanta, Ga.
Kathleen Blair, Atlanta, Ga.
Meadow Brown, Decatur, Ga.
Frances Eleanor Chambless, Avondale

Estates, Ga.
Alice Cheeseman, Decatur, Ga.
Cynthia Clegg, Atlanta, Ga.
Vivian Virginia Cofer, Decatur, Ga.
Elizabeth Cox, Atlanta, Ga.
Mrs. Trava F. Culp, Atlanta, Ga.
Sara Joyce Cunningham, Atlanta, Ga.
Margaret Ophelia Edmunds, Decatur,

Ga.

Catherine Alberta Farrar, Avondale

Estates, Ga.
Lilla Jean Flynt, College Park, Ga.
Charlotte French, Decatur, Ga.
Elizabeth Furlow, Atlanta, Ga.
Cora Ansley Gantt, Atlanta, Ga.
Adele Turner Haggart, Atlanta, Ga.
Margaret Hansell, Atlanta, Ga.
Mildred Harding, Decatur, Ga.
Emily Carolyn Harris, Atlanta, Ga.
June Sluth Harvey, Atlanta, Ga.
Marguerite Irvin, Decatur, Ga.
Charlotte Johnson, Decatur, Ga.
Kathleen Marie Jones, Decatur, Ga.
Helen Mary Kirkpatrick, Decatur, Ga.
Ruby May Laney, Atlanta, Ga.
Helen Elaine Lichten, Atlanta, Ga.
Douglas Lyle, College Park, Ga.
Mabel Melanie Mabel, Stone Mountain,

Ga.

Emily Hall MacMorland, Atlanta, Ga.
Carolyn Myers, Avondale Estates, Ga.
Winnelle Myers, Atlanta, Ga.
Amelia Nickels, Decatur, Ga.
Mary Hill Oatley, Atlanta, Ga.
Nelle Welborn O'Dell, Atlanta, Ga.
Margaret Olsen, Atlanta, Ga.
Peggy Pleasants, Atlanta, Ga.
Helen Rowan Prince, Decatur, Ga.
Jessie Stafford Query, Charlotte, N. C.
Maxine Eugenia Rice, Decatur, Ga.
Rosalinde Richards, Decatur, Ga.
Nancy Lee Richardson, Decatur, Ga.
Olive Mae Rives. Atlanta, Ga.
Mary Ella Rogers, Atlanta, Ga.
Virginia Anne Rumbley, Decatur, Ga.
Mary Anne Christine Schultz, Atlanta,
Ga.

Julia Sewell, Atlanta, Ga.
Dorothy Marie Siler, Decatur, Ga.
Eloise Elsie Simpson, Avondale Estates,
Ga.

Elizabeth Jordan Smith, Atlanta, Ga.
Jane Smollen, Atlanta, Ga.
Marian Husch Spitz, Atlanta, Ga.
Sarah Staplenton, Decatur, Ga.
Dnrothy Frances Still, Decatur, Ga.
Harriet Elizabeth Thompson, Decatur,
Ga.

Mary Frances Thompson, Decatur, Ga.
Sarah Thurman, Atlanta, Ga.
Harriette von Gremp, Decatur, Ga.
Sarah Martha Whigham, Hapeville, Ga.
Cornelia Whitner, Atlanta, Ga.

The Aurora, the College quarterly
I literary magazine, will award a prize of
, S 2 . 5 0 for the best drawing submitted
in its annual cover contest. The draw-
ings are due October 19, and are to be
submitted to Lita Goss, editor. Miss
Louise Lewis, of the art department,
will judge them.

The contestants are asked to observe
the following regulations:

1. The drawing is to be symbolic
of the name Aurora.

2. The size can be 4 J/2 x 6 l / 4 , but
preferably double that size.

3. The colors are limited to two,
with each competitor selecting any
combination that she wishes. Black and
white is acceptable.

Last year Sarah Spencer drew the

prize- winning cover.

PAY YOUR BUDGET

Death of Mr. Candler
Is Loss to A. S. C.

Mr. Murphey Candler, a member of
the original board of trustees of Agnes
Scott College, died on August 7, 1935,
He was a member of the committee
appointed to draft the charter and by-
laws of the Institution in 1 8 89, and
has drafted every change that has been
made during these 46 years.

For more than 20 years he served
as chairman of the executive commit-
tee of the College; for 15 years he was
chairman of the committee on build-
ings and grounds, and under his chair-
manship there has been an expenditure
of more than $ 1,500,000 for improve-
ments.

Mr. Candler was responsible for the
awards of scholarship. He has also been
active in all the campaigns for the Col-
lege, and served as treasurer of the first
drive in 1909. No other person has had
so long a connection with the Institu-
tion as he; his is a unique place in the
history of Agnes Scott.

MORGAN CLEANERS
Phone DEarborn VM2
423 Church St.

ELITE TEAROOM

Welcomes

Agnes Scott Girls

Back to Decatur

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4

The Agonistic

SOCIETY

Virginia Gaines entertained Janet
Gray, Alice McCallie, Frances Miller,
Sarah Spencer, and Ruby Hutton at a
luncheon at her home on Sunday, Sep-
tember 22.

Elizabeth Strickland and Sarah Jones
attended a Chi Phi dance last Monday
night.

Meriel Bull attended rush dances at
the Emory chapter of the A. T. O.
fraternity on Thursday and Friday-
nights.

Lavinia Scott and Naomi Cooper at-
tended a dance given by the Tech chap-
ter of the A. T. O. fraternity on Fri-
day night at the Biltmore Hotel.

Virginia Turner was present at a
dance given by the Kappa Sigma fra-
ternity on Fridav night at the Ansley
Hotel.

Many of the Agnes Scott students
attended a reception at Columbia Sem-
inary on Friday night. Among those
present were: Ruby Hutton, Caroline
Elliot, Barton Jackson, Kathleen Dan-
iel, Fannie B. Harris, Frances Steele,
Mildred Davis, and Frances Cary.

Helen Moses, Jeanne Redwine, Kitty
Hoffman, Martha Young, and Helen
Handte were present at the Pi Kappa
Alpha rush dance given at the Druid
Hills Country Club on Friday night.

Augusta King attended the K. A.
dance at Emory on Friday night.

Susan Goodwyn went to her home in
Newnan, Georgia, for the week-end.

Nancy Moorer attended a Phi Delta
Theta rush dance at the Athletic Club
on Saturday night.

Annie Lou Whitaker was present at
the Pi Kappa Alpha house dance at
Emory on Saturday night.

TAYLOR'S
All Night

TEA ROOM

216 Peachtree and Cain

Sara Steele visited her sister,
Frances, for several days last week.

Elsie West had as her visitor the lat-
ter part of the week her sister, Court-
ney.

Caroline White entertained her vis-
itor. Skipper Hull, over the week-end.

To honor the 173 new students on
the campus, the Alumnae Association
of Agnes Scott College will entertain
with a tea on the afternoon of October
4 in the Anna Young Alumnae House.

In the receiving line will be Dr. J. R.
McCain, president of Agnes Scott Col-
lege; Dean Nannette Hopkins; Mrs.
Francis Dwyer, president of the Alum-
nae Association; Miss Dorothy Hutton,
general executive secretary; and Miss
Alberta Palmour, field alumnae secre-
tary. Receiving at the door will be
Miss Carrie Scandrett, assistant dean,
and Mrs. J. F. Durrett, alumnae trus-
tee.

In charge of the entertainment is
Mrs. Samuel Inman Cooper, chairman
of the Entertainment Committee for
the Association, assisted by Mrs. J. F.
Durrett, Mrs. Francis Dwyer, Mrs. R.
L. MacDougall, Mrs. S. B.' Slack, Mrs.
Cullen Gosnell, and Miss Margaret
Phvthian.

Miss Mary MacDougall entertained
at a tea on Friday afternoon in honor
of Miss Helen Miller, an assistant in
the biology department, and her
mother.

Misses Ellen Douglas Leyburn, Mar-
garet Bell, and Nelle Chamlee, and Mr.
Fhomas W. Whitaker entertained the
faculty on Saturday afternoon at the
annual faculty Bacon Bat. The new
members of the faculty, Misses Laura
Colvin, Helen Miller, Elizabeth Mitch-
ell, and Carol Griffin were the guests
of honor.

PAY YOUR BUDGET

In England today more than 20,000
babies of wealthy families do not live
at home but in fashionable "baby ho-
tels" where they are taken at birth.
Many remain until old enough for pre-
paratory school. Collier's.

Not so many years ago, many of the
small circuses that traveled about the
United States not only made each ticket
seller pay up to $3 5 a week for his
job because short-changing was so
profitable but they even sold the
pocket-picking privilege for the season
:o the highest-bidding gang. Collier's.

Prof. MacDougall
Receives Science
Degree in France

Professor Mary Stuart MacDougall,
of the biology department of Agnes
Scott College, was awarded the degree
of doctor of science by the University
of Montpellier in July, and spent the
month of August at the Stozone Zo-
ologica in Naples.

Her thesis is concerned with the
Physical Basis of One Group of Proto-
zoa. Written in French, it received the
citation 'Tres Honorable," the highest
recognition given by the University.

Miss MacDougall sailed for France
during the latter part of May, arriving
on June 2 at Sete. At the Marine Lab-
oratory there she continued the work
begun during the summer of 1934,
when she discovered near the labora-
tory the material which is the subject
of her thesis. She was awarded her de-
gree on July 12.

The University of Montpellier is one
of the oldest universities in the world.
Since 179 5 the medical school has oc-
cupied a building which was formerly
a Benedictine monastery. A gallery de-
voted to portraits of professors since
1239 contains one of Rabelais. Miss
MacDougall was invited to study there
this summer by Dr. E. Chatton, head
of the zoology department, who knew
of her work last summer at Sete.

The method of procedure at the ex-
amination is quite different from that
followed by American colleges. Permis-
sion for the printing of the thesis must
be obtained from an officer of the
Academy, and it must be seen and ap-
proved by the dean of the faculty. At
the examination, all of which is con-
ducted in French, the applicant for the
degree must be able to defend her the-
sis before a jury of three examiners.
All those present stand at attention at
the entrance and departure of the ex-
aminers, who are dressed in red robes
and hats, and who conduct themselves
with extreme formality. It is the duty
of each examiner to make some criti-
cism of every thesis presented. (The
criticisms made of Miss MacDougall's
thesis were: the omission on one page
of an accent, on another of a circum-
flex) . After grave deliberation, the jury
delivers its verdict, almost in the man-
ner of a sentence in a courtroom. The
citation, "Tres Honorable" is rarely
awarded, and is universally recognized
for its distinction.

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Glee Club
The College Choir held its first
meeting on Wednesday night, Septem-
ber 2). The members have already be-
gun work on the Christmas carol serv-
ice.

The Glee Club sang at the Presby-
terian Church in Decatur on Tuesdav
night, October 1. Since the Special
Chorus has received numerous invita-
tions to sing in Atlanta, the girls are
working on many gay and attractive
numbers, which will undoubtedly be
\er\ popular.

Black friars
Blackfriars held their first meeting
last night, October 1, in Miss Gooch's
studio. Plans for the year were dis-
cussed, and Miss Gooch announced that
the first play of the year, A. A. Milne's
Mr. Pim Pusses By, will be presented
on November 2 3.

Outing Club
The first meeting of the Outing
CI ub was held on Wednesday, Septem-
ber 2 5, and a varied and interesting
program was planned for the year.
This will include experimental cooking,
nature, and woodcraft. The high point
of this program is to join the Appa-
lachian Club for a week-end hike.

Try-outs will be held within the
next two weeks. Freshmen will not be
eligible until the second semester, but
everyone else is invited to try out. Club
meetings will be held every Tuesday
afternoon at four o'clock.

Chi Beta Phi Sk.m a
Chi Beta Phi Sigma will hold its
first meeting on Monday, October 7,
m the Chemistry lecture room at 7 P.
M. At 7:30 Lewis Mobley, a student at
Georgia Tech, will speak. Mr. Mobley
is well known for his pictures of the
eclipse as well as his work in con-
structing his ow n telescope and ob-
servatory. The college communin is
cordially invited to hear Mr. Moblev.

French Cll w
The French Club will hold its tirst
meeting on Monday, October 7, at $
P. M. in Mr. Johnson's studio. All
members are urged to attend.

Pi Alpha Phi
The first meeting of Pi Alpha Phi
will be held on Thursday, October }.
This will be a business and social meet-
ing. The fall try-outs will be October
10, and everyone is eligible except
t reshmen.

Library Will Be Closed on
Saturday P.M. This Year

This year for the first time the li-
brary will be closed on Saturday nights.
The reason for this change, according
to Miss Edna R. Hanley, librarian, is
chat the library is not used enough at
that time to warrant keeping a part of
the staff on duty.

The rush on Saturday nights before
has been mainly boarders who could
not take out reserve books until nine
o'clock. Under the new arrangement
all students may get reserve books at
four o'clock on Saturdays. The library
closes at S :40 P.M.

During examinations, Miss Hanley
said, the Saturday night hours will be
resumed.

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Reporters

Mary Richardson Loice Richards

Hor tense Jones Ora Muse

Nell Allison Enid Middleton

Ruth Hertzka Ann Wheaton

Eliza King Mary Lillian Fairly
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Rise of American civilization:

1929 Marathon dancers.

1 93 0 Tom Thumb golf.

1931 Tree sitters.

193 3 Jigsaw puzzles.

1 934 Hog-calling contests.

193 5 "Scratch out the top name
and send a dime." Denver Rocky Mt.
News,

For those freshmen who feel that the
rule of chaperonage at Agnes Scott is
a strict one, the following rule from
an outstanding college for men is call-
ed to their attention: Freshmen may
not have social engagements unless ac-
companied by an upperclassman.

Today's Football Play. Selassie tried
a quick pass to Vacuum, who dropped
the ball as Hull hit him hard a few
aids from the goal-posts. New York
Sit ii.

Miss MacDougall, who refuses to qual-
ify herself as a linguist, spoke in Ger-
man to the Director, French to the
Under-dircctor, and Italian to the serv-
ants while she was in Naples.

Compliments
of

WILNERS

Six New Members
Added to A. S. C.
Teaching Staff

Six new members have been added to
the teaching staff and faculty group
of Agnes Scott College this vear. They
are Miss Martha Crow, Miss 1 lelen Mil-
ler, Miss Laura Colvin, Miss Fli/abeth
Mitchell, Miss Carol Griffin, and Miss
Alberta Palmour.

Miss Crow, a graduate of Agnes
Scott and a former professor at Agnes
Scott, has returned to teach in the
French department after having .stud-
ied at Lyons, France. Miss Crow re-
ceived her M.A. at Columbia Univer-
sity and has taught for several years
at Girls High School in Atlanta. Miss
Miller, a member of the biology depart
ment, received her A.B. from Goucher
College. Her graduate work, leading to
the degree of doctor of philosophy, w as
done at Johns Hopkins University,
w here she did research work.

Miss Colvin, of the library depart-
dentj is a graduate of William and
Mary, and later took an A.B. degree
in library science from the University
of Michigan. During the past year she
has worked in the cataloguing depart
ment of the library at Sw art hmore
College, Pennsylvania. Miss Mitchell,
who graduated from Alabama Wom-
an's College at Monte\ alio, is taking
Miss Page Ackerman's place in the gym
department. Miss Griffin, of the class
of '3 5 j returns to the campus as a fel-
low in the biology department. Mi-.s
Palmour, of the same class, is field see
retary of the Agnes Scott College
Alumnae Association.

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At eighty-three a Tennessee farmer
has journeyed to Knowille, forty-one

miles away, for the first time in his
life. It must be the gypsy in him.
San Francisco Chronicle.

There's a Puppy Club on the roof
of the Park Lane (New York City)
where your dog can lunch, snooze, play
or be beautified w hile you lunch down
t ors. He can be left all afternoon, if
you like, sunning himself in his cabana.
Diets and treatments are arranged by
an expert yet. Vo^ne.

GRIEF
Then if by tears I only gam
A knowledge of the world's disdain,
I'll run and hurl my griel at trees,
' V seatter it along the bree/e;
C )r let it fall with rain.

Marjor/c FfOft I rawr, Poetry*

Don't forget that you are a part of
all ot the people who can be fooled
some of the time. Jackson l illc jour-
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The Agonistic

5

Faculty Members Globe-Trot Abroad

For Vacation During Past Summer

During the past summer a large
number of the faculty members devot-
ed themselves enthusiastically to globe-
trotting, both for pleasure and for
studies relating to their various sub-
jects.

Although Dean Nannette Hopkins
was too busy memorizing an unusually
lengthy list of freshmen to go abroad,
she found time for a sky-line ride in
Virginia. Since the trip took her
through the famous caverns of that
section, Miss Hopkins can rightly say
that she went from "the top to the
bottom of the earth."

Miss Louise Lewis, of the art depart-
ment, and Professor Muriel Harn, of
the German and Spanish department,
going farther afield, specialized in Ger-
many, reveling in its famous art and
music. Most of their seven-week vaca-
tion was spent in northern Germany,
though they made several tours, in-
cluding a cathedral tour for the study
of Gothic art and architecture. At
Munich and Salzburg they were for-
tunate enough to attend some unusual-
ly fine operas.

Miss Emma Miller, matron, expe-
rienced sea adventure as she sailed from
Quebec for England. In a heavy fog in
the Gulf of the St. Lawrence her liner
crashed into a small freighter, killing
several men. However Southampton
was reached with little delay; and Miss
Miller began a general tour of Eng-
land and Scotland, visiting among
other places the romantic Trossachs.
She determines to spend more time in
York on her next visit, saying that on
this occasion she found her stay in the
quaint old city too short.

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under the baton of Dr. Hans Kindler,
world-renowned conductor.

La Argentina, world's outstanding
personality of the dance and one of the
stars on the first All-Star Concert Se-
ries, returns to Atlanta on Tuesday,
December 3, in .i program of Spanish
dances.

Atlanta audiences are eagerly await-
ing the concert of Ruth Slenczynski
on Monday, January 13. This ten year
old child prodigy has been the sensa-
tion of the music world for the past
two years.

One of the most popular concerts
of the series will be that of Nelson Eddy
and Helen Jepson, who will appear in
.i joint concert on Saturday, February
8. Both stars are outstanding in the
fields of opera, radio, and motion pic-
ture. Equally famous is the singer who
brings the series to a close on Thursday,
March 19 Grace Moore, "America's
First Lady of Song." Miss Moore has
just returned from a triumphant con-
cert tour of Europe, after her record-
breaking success in the picture, One
Night of Love.

Associate Professor Elizabeth Jack-
son, of the history department, would
content herself with nothing less than
a complete trip over Europe. Sailing on
the Empress of Australia in June, she
first traveled through Norway, Swe-
den, Finland, and Denmark. From
there she followed an irregular course
including Danzig, Russia, and Ger-
many. Before going farther she spent
a delightful month in England between
Oxford and London. Of course France
and Italy were necessary for a well-
rounded tour, and Miss Jackson finally
sailed for home from Naples.

Associate Professor Emma May Laney
of the English department, chose Eng-
land and visited all parts of the beauti-
ful country, especially those sections
immortalized in literature. She com-
mented particularly on the well-known
lake country that so inspi red Words-
worth. London was enjoying an active
theatrical season at the time of her
visit, and she attended A Midsummer's
Night's Dream as well as many other
masterpiece productions.

A most delightful and thrilling four
weeks were experienced by Professor
Catherine Torrance, of the Greek de-
partment, and Professor Alma Syden-
stricker, of the Bible department, who
enjoyed an Eastern Mediterranean
cruise with the University Travel Tour.
Prior to this, Miss Torrance spent some
time on the continent, joining Mrs.
Sydenstricker at Naples where their
cruise began.

ATTENTION

Announcement of students
making the honor roll for the
session 1934-3 5 will be made in
chapel Saturday morning, Octo-
ber 5.

CHAPEL TO HAVE
NEW PROGRAMS

Dr. Elliott Is Speaker
At College Opening

Decatur Ministers, Mr. J. K.
Orr, President of Alumnae,
Welcome Students

BOOK NOTES

(Continued from pare 2, column 5)
Isles Stefan Zweig.

Fiction and not fact might be the
criticism applied to Mr. Zweig's ac-
count of the life of Mary Queen of
Scots. And it is precisely this criticism
that makes the book such good read-
ing; for the author combines in this
work the roles of biographer, historian,
and novelist and achieves a story that
is swift, moving, and interesting, full
of the personality of its subject.

The Agnes Scott College chapei pru-
grams this year promise to be both va-
ried and interesting. Students, faculty
members, and guest speakers will par-
ticipate in them.

The Y. W. C. A., working toward
its goal which is "realizing Christ,"
will bring speakers to the campus each
Tuesday. On Wednesdays members of
the faculty will conduct the programs
in chapel.

Student government will have charge
of the exercises on Thursdays, when it
will hold open forum in order that
srhool problems may be settled. At
intervals throughout the year Pi Alpha
Pi will have debates in chapel. These
will be designed with the purpose of
instructing students in affairs of cur-
rent interest.

On the second Friday of each month
The Agonistic will conduct chapel.
The College weekly hopes to bring as
speakers outstanding people in newspa-
per work as well as in other fields.

Mr. W. F. Caldwell, Southeastern
editor of the Associated Press, will
open the chapel series of The Ago-
nistic on Friday, October 11. Mr.
Caldwell will talk on the experiences
of an Associated Press man.

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Silhouette Staff Makes
New Plans

Agnes Scott College was officially
opened at the exercises in Gaines
Chapel on September 18 at 10:00 A.M.
Rev. William M. Elliott, Jr., pastor of
the Druid Hills Presbyterian Church,
made the principal address. Dr. Walt
Holcomb, pastor of the First Method-
ist Church of Decatur, opened the ex-
ercises with prayer, and Dr. A. J.
Moncrief, pastor of the First Baptist
Church of Decatur, read the scripture
lesson.

Mr. J. K. Orr, chairman of the
Board of Trustees of the College, wel-
comed the students on behalf of the
Board. A welcome from the Alumnae
Association was extended by Mrs.
Francis Dwyer, the president. Rev.
Charles Holding, pastor of the Trinity
Episcopal Church of Decatur, spoke a
greeting for the local community.

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6 Little Sisters"

Swarm to A. S. C.

Honey in the Horn H. L. Davis.

This is the Harper prize novel for
1 93 5 and is worthy of such a distinc-
tion. Its title is taken from an old
camp song, its scene laid in Oregon,
and its characters placed in the pioneer
year, 1908. The result is an intensely
American book with a character so hu-
man that he has been compared to
Mark Twain's beloved Huckleberry
Finn.

Apparently the only time the League
of Nations can stop a war is when there
isn't going to be one anyhow. Ohio
State Journal.

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The abolition of the position of as-
sistant editor and the election of the
beauty section by popular vote are two
changes which the staff of the Silhou-
ette, the Agnes Scott College annual,
has made this year. Since Martha Sue
Laney, former assistant editor, did not
return to Agnes Scott this fall, her po-
sition was left open. According to a
plan presented last week to the student
body by Shirley Christian, editor, sev-
eral staff members will cooperate in
doing the work of the assistant editor,
which consists mainly in collecting in-
formation about the various campus
organizations. Eloisa Alexander has
been appointed organization editor.
This plan means that there will be
three or four girls, instead Qf one,
trained for the position of editor next
year.

There was also a change made in
the selection of the beauty section this
year. Formerly the staff decided on the
girls. This year the student body elect-
ed from a list of fifty about twenty
girls whose pictures will be sent away
to be judged.

Pictures for the Silhouette will be
made this year by Elliott's Studio at
the usual cost of S 1 . 5 0. The photog-
rapher will begin taking the pictures
on October 7, in the parlor across
from the Dean's office in Main. Stu-
dents are urged to sign up this week
for their pictures.

The old riddle "Brothers and sisters
have I none, but this man's father is
my father's son" has taken on new sig-
nificance and appeal in the last week
on the campus, for new faces with a
somewhat familiar air about them have
been the cause of much perplexing rec-
ollection. The solution is nieces, sis-
ters, and granddaughters of Agnes
Scott College students or faculty mem-
bers.

After proper scrutiny, it has been
revealed that Esthere Ogden is the sis-
ter of Margaret and Grace Augusta,
I two former Agnes Scott girls; Emma
McMullen is the sister of C'Lena, who
was president of Y. W. C. A. in 1934;
Caroline Carmichael is the sister of
Treliis Carmichael, '3 5; and Jeanne
Red wine is the sister of Martha Red-
wine, who was president of Y. W. C.
A. last year. Kathleen Kennedy is Mar-
guerite's sister, and Laura Coit, of
Richmond, Virginia, has a younger sis-
ter, Mildred, here this year. Also Mary
Alice Newton has a sister, Annie, at-
tending the College, and Loice Rich-
ards' sister, Rosalinde, is here. Another
sister is Jane Moore Hamilton, who is
the sister of Elinor Hamilton, editor
cf the 1934 Silhouette and field secre-
tary of the Alumnae Association last
year.

Those whose mothers attended the
College, and therefore are considered
granddaughters of the Alma Mater, are:
Martha Fite, Jeanne Redwine, Susan
(jocdwyn, and Martha Marshall.

The new students who may claim
Agnes Scott aunts or uncles are: Sara
McCain, niece of Dr. J. R. McCain;
Elizabeth Wheatley, niece of Professor
Phillip Davidson; Vera Marsh, the niece
of Mr. J. C. Tart, treasurer; Mary
Everlyn Garner, niece of Mary Alice
Juhcn, '2 9; and Katherine I vie, Hilda
McConnell's niece.

Parties and Teas Fill
1st Week With Gaiety

New Students Meet Faculty
At Reception; Y. W. Has
Tea for Freshmen

Entertainments for the freshmen and
new students during the first week of
school included a tea given by the Y.
W. C. A., and a reception and dance
sponsored by Student Government, the
Y. W. C. A., and the Athletic Asso-
ciation.

The Y. W. C. A. tea was in the
Alumnae Garden from 4 to 6 on Sep-
tember 19. The social committee under
Kitty Cunningham as chairman was in
charge of the plans. The Y. W. C. A.
cabinet acted as hostesses, and the spon-
sors escorted the new girls and intro-
duced them to members of the faculty
and the officers of the organization.

On September 21 the formal recep-
tion was held in Agnes Scott Hall. In
the receiving line were Dr. J. R. Mc-
Cain, president of the College; Dean
Nannette Hopkins; Sarah Spencer,
president of Y. W. C. A.; Adelaide
Stevens, president of Student Govern-
ment; Ann Coffee, president of the
Athletic Association; Ruby Hutton,
vice-president of Y. W. C. A.; and
Registrar and Mrs. S. G. Stukes. After
the reception there was dancing and
refreshments in Bucher Scott Gymna-
sium.

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Club Presidents

Renew C ouncil

The President's Council held its first
meeting of the year on Monday after-
noon; Virginia Gaines, recorder of
points, Chairman of the President's
Council presided. Presidents of all the
clubs and editors of the publications
were present. The following points,
a part of the plan carried out by last
year's Council, were adopted:

Members of clubs who do not pay
their dues by October 1 5 for the first
semester arc to be automatically
dropped from membership; likewise,
three unexcused absences from meet-
ings will expel a member.

A set fee of 2 5c is to be charged
for each poster, with the club furnish-
ing the paper or cardboard and the
poster-maker the paint or ink.

Try-outs for language clubs are to
be held on the same day, the manner
of try-outs being uniform for each or-
ganization.

In addition, a schedule of meetings
was arranged so that there will be no
conflicts.

The President's Council was organ-
ized last year by Mortar Board in an
effort to eliminate the apparent over-
organized campus life. Its function is
to straighten out inter-club confusions
and to adjust organization problems.

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Six A. S. C. Students
To Play in Benefit
Ensemble Oct. 4

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Six Agnes Scott College students will
take part in a piano ensemble to be
given at the city auditorium on Fri-
day, October 4, at 8:30 P.M. Twenty
pianos will play together in this con-
cert, given for the benefit of Rabun
Gap-Nacoochee School. Tickets are 2 5
cents to a dollar.

The Agnes Scott girls will play in
three different combinations. Alice
Hannah and Mary Earnest Perry will
take part in a Polonaise by Weber. Alice
Chamlee and Tommy Ruth Blackmon
will play in "Sicilienne" and a Bouree
by Bach. Nell Hemphill and Jean Kirk-
patrick will play in Strauss' Artist's
Life Waltz, transcribed by Chasins.

Last spring auditions were held for
this program, in which students from
all over the state will participate. Fair
Week was chosen as the time for the
concert, so that those attending the
fair could hear it.

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ALUMNAE NEWS

{Continued from Page 2, Col. 3)

Ida Buist, ex-^, married George
Knox Rigby on June 2 0.

Laura Buist, '34, married Vernon A.
Bouknight on June 5.

Dorothy Bell, '3 5, married Benjamin
H. Dillard on July 27.

Sport Notes

Hockey will probably have a limited
season this fall because of the work
soon to be begun on the new library
building. The first game will take ;
place during the first week in October.

The following hiking managers have
been announced: senior, Lily Weeks;
junior, Frances Cary; sophomore, Hi-
bernia Hassell; freshmen, Alice Cheese-
man.

Summers and Espy
Head Junior Class

r, i i The following class hockey managers

I hvrza Lllis, ex- 37, has announced , -

have been chosen: senior, Lena Arm-
strong; junior, Charline Fleece; soph-

i_ j omore, Laura Coit; freshman, Jane

Virginia Cheshire, ex- 36, married

Dryroos. The senior manager, along

her engagement to D. Cartledge Fow
ler

with Helen Handte, college hockey
manager, Ann Coffee, and Miss Mitch-
ell, will attend a hockey conference at
Alabama College October 4 and 5.

Peter Thomas Langan of Washington,
D. C, on June 1.

Mary Helen Chandler, ex-'37, will
be married to Edwin Bateman Norris
on Oct. 18.

Marian Calhoun, '3 5, married John
Girardeau Murray on July 19. They are j The lists of class tennis and swim-
now living at Edisto Island, S. C. i i_ i

w _ 6 /w . , .._ ming managers are complete with the

Mary Fay (Martin; Brumby, ex-'37, ! b . * . ,

has announced the birth of a daughter, exce P tlon of the freshman managers,
Mary Bolan, on September 13. \v/ho will be announced later. The ten-

Penelope (Brown) Barnett, '32, an- nis managers are: senior, Sara Law-
nounces the birth of a daughter on rence; junior, Frances McDonald; soph-
September 26. TT t> t~i

r PAV y0l R dtjdGET ! omore, rrosty Brown. 1 he swimming

KEY TO CURRENT HISTORY managers are: senior, Mary Richard-
(Continued from Page 2, Col. 3) son ' junior. Barton Jackson; soph-
a religion. On almost every hill is a - omore, Martha P. Brown,
church; and the religious faith, which

is Christian, is very important to the
inhabitants. Although there are no
newspapers, news is broadcast at the
weekly markets in every city. The state
language is Amharic, of Semitic origin.

Haile Selassie, which means "the
power of the Trinity," has tried to con-
centrate the supreme power in his hands
and has, to a degree, been successful in
westernizing his people. He is greatly
interested in the American people and
their customs. When we become more
familiar with the people of Ethiopia,
we can better understand "The Con-
quering Lion of Judah" and his ac-
tions.

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COLLEGE SEES IMPROVEMENTS

(Con tinned from Page 1, Col. 5)
side of the gymnasium in order to sup-
ply steam and water for a new science
building, chapel, and Department of
the Home. About $1 5,000 was expend-
ed for this tunnel.

For around $6,000 the College has
put in an entirely new sewer system
which will take care of the develop-
ment of the College for the next fifty
years.

The Athletic Association opened the
new school year with a weiner roast
last week at the Decatur Water Works.
All the Board members were present,
together with Miss Wilburn, Miss
Haynes, and Miss Mitchell. Plans were
made for the coming year, with special
emphasis on the Athletic Rally.

The hike for the freshmen on Sep-
tember 24 was a decided success with
more than fifty freshmen attending.
Martha Long was in charge of the out-
ing and was assisted by Frances Rob-
inson and Bee Merrill, who led the
songs. Evidently the freshmen like
Ice Cream Springs, not to mention
"pigs in blankets," "angels on horse-
back, " and black, black coffee.

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JOHNSON, RIEPMA, ARE

CHAIRMEN FOR STUNT
{Continued from page 1, column
Laura Coit, Jean Chalmers.

Sophomore Commission, whose chief
duty is to plan the party given for the
freshmen by the sophomores: Elizabeth
Blackshcar, Ann Worthy Johnson,
Eliza King, Anne Thompson, Laura
Coit, Nell Hemphill, Jean Chalmers,
Plans are now being drawn for the j Martha Peek Brown, Virginia Watson,
new library, which will cost $200,000. .Ellen McCallie, Bee Merrill, Jean Barry
Bids for construction will probably be Adams, Mary Past, Mary Smith.

opened on October 15. The library, it
is hoped, will be completed by July 1,
193 6, so that the equipment can be
moved there from the old building. In
August the present library can be re-
modeled to be used as a Student Activi-
ties Building.

The General Education Board has
sent Agnes Scott S 125,000 in securi-
ties for endowment; the balance it will
pay in proportion as the College spends
hers for the library building.

Freshman committees are:
Writing: Douglas Lyle, chairman;
Aileen Shortley, Julia Sewell, Martha
Fite, Anne Purnell.

Program: Mildred Coit, chairman;
Sarah Thurman, Rosalinde Richards.

Dance: Helen Kirkpatrick, chair-
man; Annette Stickley, Mary Evelyn
Garner.

Music: Marie Merritt, chairman;
Maxine Rice, Mary Ruth Murphey.
Properties: Nancy Lee Richardson.

The Music Building and Auditorium chairman; Inez Calcutt, Elizabeth Cox.

Setting: Jane Dreyfoos, chairman;
Ann Watkins, Carolyn Rice.

Costume: Mildred Harding, chair-
man; Lois Walton, Elizabeth Gal-
breath.

Decorations: Esthere Ogden, chair-
man; Virginia Kyle, Lucy Doty.

Cheerleaders: Caroline Carmichael,
Alice Cheescman.

will probably be the next buildings to
be constructed. The erecting of the
science hall has been postponed for the
present.

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COLLECTORS TO VIE

FOR BOOK \w AKI>

(Continued from Page 1, Col. 4)

belles lettres. To continue this interest
throughout the year, and to foster the
spiritual and physical possession of
books, the Richard de Bury Award is
ottered. In 193 1 an award of this type
was made for the first time at Agnes
Scott College, as a result of a similar
one at Swart hmore College which had
proved successful in awakening intel-
lectual activity there.

The committee is desirous of keeping
the contest as free from regulations as
possible. The entrant is encouraged to
collect during the year books that she

that she may show how fully she ap-
preciates and understands her books.

The winner is expected to use the
S2S.00 for intellectual enrichment
such as new books, music, and pictures.

Girls who wish to enter the contest
are asked to give their names within
the next few weeks either to Miss Janef
Preston or to Miss Ellen Douglas Ley-
burn.

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It vou want to flatter somebodv.
just look serious and ask him what hi
enjoys, and then in May she will be paid thinks of the general situation. Phila-
an informal \isit by the committee so del pbia Inquirer.

i

Greetings"

To the students of
Aenes Scott

Elliotts Peachtree Studio

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Photographers to the 1936 Silhom

The athletic clubs are planning to
meet every Tuesday afternoon at the
same hour. Therefore no girl can be-
long to more than one club each sea-
son, but she may change at the end of
the season to another. The Tennis and
Outing Clubs are already functioning
on a "try-out" basis. Plans are now
being made to form a Swimming and
an Archery Club in the same wav.

Martha Summers was elected presi-
dent of the junior class at a special
meeting held in chapel on Tuesday,
September 24. She is taking the place
of Elizabeth Perrin, who did not re-
turn to college this fall.

Elizabeth Espy is secretary-treasurer
of the class as the result of a meeting
held on Thursday, September 2 6. Dor-
othy Jester, who held this position, had
resigned.

Sports & Sports Inc. Open
Gym Season With Rally

Sports & Sports, Inc., under the di-
rection of Ann Coffee, president of the
Athletic Association, opened the fall
gym season on Friday night, September
27, with an evening of vigorous fun in
Bucher Scott Gymnasium. This event,
which was heralded by pink hand-bills
dropped into all mail boxes, included
a general inspection of the gym depart-
ment, a tableaux, dancing, and a swim-
ming exhibition.

Sporting goods and sports clothes
were on exhibition throughout the
gym. Cider and crackers were served
in the individual gym room which was
arranged to resemble a bar.

without a shadow of a doubt
trie creations now present
in our stock of excellent
and cocky college fashions
are the smart foreruns of
others to come. . .you who
select early select well!

16 95 - 29

.75

black velveteen tops this high fashion sports
two-piece affair buttons go up the front to
greet a subtle chartreuse bandana . . . leather
the belt, tri-color plaid wool the skirt . . .
perfect for campus and spectator shorts. .22.75

apparel shop
second floor

PeocA]t^eStm

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Budget

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Before
the 15th

VOL. XXI

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 9, 1935

NO. 2

Agnes Scott
Will Debate
English Club

Agnes Scott College will meet the
Cambridge Union Society in debate on
the question, Resolved: That in the
opinion of this house the judiciary
should have no power to over-ride the
decisions of the executive and the legis-
lature. The debate will be held in
Bucher Scott Gymnasium probably on
November 11. Sarah Catherine Wood
and Edith Merlin, president and secre-
tary, respectively, of Pi Alpha Phi,
Agnes Scott debating society, will up-
hold the negative against the Cam-
bridge team, Cuthbert James McCall
Alport and John Royle.

Mr. Alport, born in South Africa,
has lived in England since the begin-
ning of the War. He was educated at
Hai ley bury College and Pembroke Col-
lege, Cambridge. In 193 2 he became a
member of the Middle Temple prepar-
atory to reading for the Bar. He is also
a Second Lieutenant in the Artist's
Rifles and is a keen golfer. His inter-
ests lie mainly in matters of a political
nature, especially those of an interna-
tional character, but he also "dabbles"
in Scottish archaeology. His father is a
doctor in London.

Mr. Royle, English by birth, was
educated at Arnold House and Clifton
College. He graduated from Cam-
bridge in June with honors. He was
secretary of the Peterhouse Debating
Society and coxed the College Second
Lent boat. He is a member of the In-
ner Temple; his profession is to be law.

These international debates, in which
Agnes Scott has participated for many
years, are arranged by the National
Student Federation of America. They
are sponsored locally by Pi Alpha Phi.

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TWENTY-NINE WIJN
HONORS FOR '34-'35

Announcement of honor students of
Agnes Scott College for the session
1934-3 5 was made at a special service
in Gaines Chapel on Saturday morning,
October 5. Dr. J. R. McCain, presi-
dent of the College, read the Honor
Roll which included the following
names:

Class of 193 6 Elizabeth Forman,
Lita Goss, Ethelyn Johnson, Edith Mer-
lin, Sarah Nichols.

Class of 1937 Kathryn Bowen,
Louise Brown, Frances Cary, Charline
Fleece, Barbara Hertwig, Sarah John-
son, Mary Elizabeth Morrow, Pauline
Moss, Isabel McCain, Rachel Shamos,
Laura Steele, Mary Fairfax Stevens,
Martha Summers, Ann Walker, Frances
Wilson.

Class of 193 8 Elizabeth Blackshear,
Lulu Croft, Mildred Davis, Eliza King,
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Improvements May
Include Gateways

The campus improvements projects
may include new gateways at both en-
trances of the front drive to Agnes
Scott College and a new gate to replace
the old one that stands directly in front
of the walk leading to Main Building.
Blueprints have been made for the
gateways, but their construction de-
pends upon the amount of money avail-
able from the Greater Agnes Scott
Campaign which ended last July with
$4 5 0,000 pledged for buildings, endow-
ment, and improvements.

The gateways will be large, handsome
ones of brick and stone in order to
harmonize with the buildings and
grounds of the College. They will be
memorials to Captain Milton A Can-
dler and his son, Mr. Murphey Candler,
both of whom were trustees of Agnes
Scott College. The gateways will cost
approximately $4,000 apiece.

The present iron gate, which stands
on the center walk leading to Main,
is a memorial to Captain Candler. For-
merly it stood at the only entrance to
the college, and served as a passageway
to Main for buggies. After turning
around in a space in front of Main,
the carriages drove back the same way.
At the present time, the old gate, which
has become a relic of the College, is of
no real value, for it is too small for
automobiles to use. Now it is hoped
that, for about $2,000, it may be possi-
ble to build a new gate in its place.

Tentative plans are also being con-
sidered for gateways at each end of
the drive leading past Buttrick Hall.
These would suggest privacy and would
also control, by use of chains, entrances
and exits, especially for occasions such
as May Day. These would probably
not be as elaborate as the ones on the
front campus.

New Driveway Opened

Other improvements resulting from
the campaign are already to be seen on
the campus. The drive and sidewalk
which were extended from Buttrick
Hall past the Bucher Scott Gymnasium
to Candler Street were opened last
Thursday, and a smaller drive, connect-
ing this one with the old drive in front
of Inman Hall, now makes it possible
to drive through tre campus from
front to back. It was necessary to move
both the infirmary and West Lawn in
order to complete these two drives.

New walkways and steps have also
been completed, adding to the appear-
ance as well as to the convenience of
the campus.

A concrete tunnel extending from
Buttrick to the Candler Street side of
the gymnasium, and a complete new
sewer system which will take care of
the college for the next fifty years are
among other already tangible results of
the campaign.

Freshmen Choose
Y. W. Cabinet

A gonistic Gets Views on War

Fr om Sen, Robert LaFollette

"No, I can't talk politics. I can't
talk about 193 6. It's too far off and
too many things may happen."

Thus Senator Robert M. LaFollette
opened what was said to be his exclus-
ive interview of this visit to Atlanta
exclusive with The Agonistic. It was
at the Biltmore last Friday, the after-
noon of his speech at Wesley Memorial
Church.

So, politics being out of the ques-
tion, he began to give his personal
views on the Ethiopian situation.

"I had hoped," he began, "along
with most people that hostilities might
be avoided. Now that the war has
begun, I hope it will be short. Al-
though with economic conditions as
they are today, it is difficult to pre-
dict the duration or extent of the war.
Of course it's just like throwing a
spark in a powder magazine!"

We were interrupted at this point by
some of the Senator's friends. Already
in that short time his room, which atj

the beginning of the interview had a
total population of three people, was
fast coming to resemble open house.
The growing hub-bub and commotion
didn't disturb the Senator, though, and
he returned to his discussion of the war.

"In the event of spread of conflict,
this country," he went on, "in spite of
differences in domestic and economic
problems, I believe, will present a unit-
ed frame of mind against our becom-
ing involved. Our experiences in the
World War, and the investigations filed
in the archives of the State Depart-
ment show that neutrality cannot be
maintained unless sacrifices arc
made."

"By that I mean to forego selling
munitions, and implements," he con-
tinued, "and products that go to sup-
port military operations. And no ship-
ments should be made in American bot-
toms" ships to you! "Of course we
should prevent citizens traveling with

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The freshman class elected fifteen
of its members to serve as the Y. W.
C. A. Freshman Cabinet. The class
voted on Wednesday, October 2, and on
Thursday, October 3, Ruby Hutton.
vice-president of Y. W. C. A., an-
nounced the following members: Jean
Bailey, Jane Carithers, Mildred Coit,
Cynthia Clegg, Annie Lee Crowell,
Jane Hamilton, Cora Kay Hutchins,
Douglas Lyle, Sara McCain, Emma Mc-
Mullen, Esthere Ogden, Elizabeth
Shepherd, Emmie Lou Turck, Cary
Wheeler, and Louise Young.

At a meeting held on Friday evening.
Mildred Coit was elected president.

The freshman cabinet members are
the leaders of the freshman hobby
groups.

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COLLEGE OFFICIALS
TO ADDRESS SYNOD'S

Recent improvements made on the
Agnes Scott campus will be the sub-
ject of an informal report to be given
by Dr. J. R. McCain, president of the
College, before the Presbyterian Synod
of Alabama at Mobile on October 8.
On October 16 he will make a simi-
lar report to the Georgia Synod meet-
ing in Athens.

Mr. S. G. Stukes, registrar of Agnes
Scott College, will speak to the Synod
of Florida on October 16 in Lakeland.
Although Agnes Scott is a non-de-
nominational college, it was founded
by Presbyterians and has always en-
joyed the friendship and cooperation
of the Presbyterian Church.

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Agnes Scott Profs
To Read M. S. C.
Work for S. A. C.

Members of the Agnes Scott College
faculty will read all the written work
handed in at the Mississippi State Col-
lege for Women during the last semes-
ter. This will be done for the Southern
Association of Colleges as a part of the
customary procedure for removing a
college from the probation list into full
recognition by the Association. This
material, which will arrive some time
within the next week, comes to Agnes
Scott from the Alabama College for
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MEYER TO SPEAK ON
AGONISTIC PROGRAM

Mr. B. F. Meyer, of the Associated
Press, will open The Agonistic series
of chapel programs on Friday morning,
October 11. Mr. W. F. Caldwell,
southeastern editor of the Associated
Press, who had accepted the invitation
to speak on Friday, has been called on
business to Chicago. Mr. Meyer, whom
Mr. Caldwell chose as his substitute,
will speak on the experiences of an As-
sociated Press man.

The second in the series of The
Agonistic programs will present, on
November 8, a discussion of Interna-
tional Peace by a speaker who has not
yet been chosen.

ATTENTION

Girls who wish to try out for
the reporter staff of The Ago-
nistic are reminded that their
articles are due Saturday, Octo-
ber 12. The article submitted
may be etiher a feature or a
news story, and is to be given
either to Lulu Ames, Frances
Cary, or Laura Steele, or to be
left in The Agonistic box in
the basement of Main.

Try-outs for Giddy Gossip are
also due October 12.

Y. W. Reaches Goal
In Budget Drive

The Y. W. C. A.'s goal of $1,274
for the Benevolent Budget was reached
after a week's campaign which began
Tuehday, Otober 1, and ended yester-
day, October 1, and ended yesterday,
October 8. On the first day of the
campaign, 276 girls and 17 faculty
members pledged $8,081. By Friday,
over $1,100 had been promised.

Isabel McCain, treasurer, presented
the budget to the student body during
the chapel hour on October 1. The
items include expenses for world wide
service, contacts with other associa-
tions, religious life on the campus, and
special service for students. Following
her talk, Professor Philip Davidson, of
the history department, discussed the
value of having such a campus organ-
ization as the Y. W. C. A. He stressed
the fact that college students spend
four years on their own development,
but that through the Y. W. C. A. they
make possible somebody else's develop-
ment.

A poster in the lobby of Buttrick
Hall has given the progress of the drive
throughout the past week. Solicitors
have been collecting pledges which will
be paid in installments on the first
Tuesday in every month.

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FROST ENTHUSIASTS
RUSH TO EARLY SALE

The Lecture Association of Agnes
Scott College reports that the advance
sale of tickets for the Robert Frost
Lecture on November 7, proved most
encouraging.

Many inquiries from the surrounding
vicinities have come in since the an-
nouncement of the lecture in the local
papers. The Georgia State College for
Women wrote to ask how the Lecture
Association of Agnes Scott secured two
such notable persons as Robert Frost
and Thornton Wilder for this year's
program.

Tickets will be on sale again during
the week before the lecture. Student
admission prices are 75c for reserved
seats and 50c for unreserved seats. Gen-
eral admission prices are 75c for un-
reserved seats and $1.00 for reserved
seats.

In order that the students may be
able to familiarize themselves with the
works and life of Robert Frost, there
is a "Frost Reserve" in the Agnes Scott
College library. Some of the books on
the reserve are: Sidney Cox's Robert
Frost, and Frost's Mountain Interval,
A Boy's Will, and North of Boston.

A. S. To Have
New Plan for
Coming Year

The Academic Council, in a meet-
ing held on Monday night, October 7,
voted to replace the semester plan
with the quarter system at Agnes Scott
College effective September, 1936; this
proposed change was submitted by the
curriculum committee together with
other recommendations relative to the
new plan.

Under the quarter system, Agnes
Scott will require for graduation 180
quarter hours plus the present number
of physical education. The major,
minor, and merit requirements will re-
main unchanged except that they will
be stated in terms of quarter hours.
The examination period will be cut
from the two weeks allowed heretofore
to approximately one week. The three-
hour examinations now used here will
be supplanted by two-hour ones. The
number of hours per week in year
courses will not be changed.

Each department will be asked to re-
fer to a special committee a plan for
the semester courses now offered. It
is believed that some of the present
semester courses should be offered four
hours a week for one quarter (the exact
time now given to these courses) while
others should be only three hours a
week for one quarter. In addition, each
department will be permitted to sug-
gest a limited number of five or six
quarter-hour courses; a special com-
mittee will be appointed to coordinate
the courses to be offered by the various
departments.

To Offer Violin Degree

The final recommendations of the
committee were that Agnes Scott allow
24 hours credit in music, and not more
than 24 hours in music, art, and spoken
English combined. A degree will be
offered in violin under the same condi-
tions as is the one in piano.

Within the near future revision of
the catalogue will be begun. All
courses, hours, and credit must be re-
arranged on the basis of the quarter
system.

The members of the curriculum
committee are Dr. J. R. McCain, chair-
man; Professor Lillian Smith; Mr. S. G.
Stukes; Professor Robert B. Holt; Pro-
fessor Lucile Alexander; Professor
James M. Wright; Professor Mary
Stuart MacDougall; and Dean Nan-
nette Hopkins. The Academic Council
to which the curriculum committee
presented its recommendations is made
up of Dr. McCain, Dean Hopkins, Miss
Carrie Scandrett, assistant dean, and all
full professors.

Work to Begin on New Library

Soon; Plans Near Completion

Construction of the proposed Agnes
Scott library in Carnegie Hall will be-
gin during the first week of November.
Plans are nearing completion, and bids
are to be opened next week.

"The library has been designed to
achieve the highest coordination be-
tween learning and study," said Miss
Edna R. Hanley, librarian, under whose
direction plans have been made. "In
order that the building may serve ade-
quately the needs of the campus, suffi-
cient space will be provided for under-
graduate study, study of an advanced
type by faculty and honor students, the
administrative work of the staff, and
shelving and stacking of books. The
first floor will be the main feature. It
is hoped that it will be a room of ex-
ceptional charm, open, colorful and
welcoming. Throughout the building
details have been carefully worked out
for arrangement of books in appealing
locations, and for the artistic use of

color in the walls, hangings, furnish-
ings, and floors."

The library will be situated between
Buttrick Hall and Bucher Scott Gym-
nasium, facing the back campus drive.
It will be an L-shaped building, set
back about thirty feet from the road,
with a sunken lawn in front and an
outdoor reading terrace in the back.
The main entrance will be at the north-
west corner of the building, near But-
trick.

The entrance will open into a large
lobby, with the charging desk opposite
the door. To the left of the lobby will
be the main reading room, ninety by
forty feet. It will extend the length
of the building, and will be two floors
high. This room will provide shelving
for books, locked cases, and magazines.
Its main features will be a fireplace at
the eastern end, around which will be
placed informally-grouped furniture, a
browsing collection, and magazines.

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Current History

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Business Assistants

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Circulation Managers
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WHY NOT DRINK
IN THE LIBRARY?

A request for a drinking foun-
tain in the library was met with
much laughter and some argu-
ment in Open Forum last Thurs-
day. The laughter was spontane-
ous; the thought of a fountain in
the library the thought of any-
thing but something conducive to
study in the library sounded
absurd. Yet the idea was not so
foolish, perhaps, as it sounded.

One of the arguments against
it was that a fountain there
might offer itself as a gathering
place for chit-chat, some serious
conversation, maybe, and cer-
tainly noise. The fountain in But-
trick is a fashionable watering
place but not because of the wa-
ter; there's the added attraction
of the bulletin board. The un-
bulletin-boarded fountains in
Main and Science Hall are notice-
ably unpopulated. Why it should
be that a fountain in the library
in the library, mind you, where
the very atmosphere makes for
the business of study would
make students garrulous fails to
be clear.

An able argument presented
against the plan was that,
with the building of the new li-
brary and the remodeling of the
present one into a Student Activ-
ities Building, any change at this
time would be inadvisable. The
new library undoubtedly will
have available drinking water.
Yet a fountain neatly placed just
within the outside door would
surely not be a draw-back to any
student frolic of the future in
the Activities Building. The pres-
ent arrangement whereby a stu-
dent must leave her work to go
to Buttrick, or Main, or the
Science Hall for a drink is most
unsatisfactory. The great com-
fort of having a fountain close by
would certainly compensate for
an enforced rule of silence while
drinking.

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AND NOW THE

QUARTER SYSTEM

The adoption of the quarter
system by t lie Academic Council
last Monday night gives us cause
to pause and meditate on the
changes this new plan will make
in the courses, the classes, and
the lives of Agnes Scott students
from next September on. The
quarter system indubitably has
its good points; it's only the
abandonment of the apparently

leisurelinees of the semester
system that pains.

To begin with, some courses
will meet every day for eight
weeks. That, in itself, recalls to
us those arduous days in high
school when we had barely fin-
ished one assignment before an-
other was thrust upon us. Yet,
with daily meetings. B course can
lx come so concentrated that even

those of us who are less given
to unceasing labor will be able
to get a more connected view of
the course as a whole. And cer-
tainly it will allow of really in-
tensive work a thing almost to-
tally denied by the every-other-
day scheme under the semester
plan.

Moreover, examinations will
fall before the Christmas holi-
days and that is an item not to
be overlooked. As it is now, a two
weeks or so of vacation, followed
by two weeks of jumbled assign-
ments and sprinkled review, in-
troduce a rather lengthy period
of another two weeks set aside
for mid-year exams. The shorten-
ing of the exam time to one week
will do away with much last min-
ute cramming and all of the
nerve-wracking waiting for it to
be over.

The credit for summer work,
as well, can be more easily ar-
ranged since Agnes Scott will
then be figuring its hours on the
same basis as most other colleges
and universities do.

Finally, the action of the Aca-
demic Council does seem to indi-
cate that the plan for coordina-
tion between Agnes Scott, Em-
ory, and possibly Georgia Tech,
is developing into a project of
! the more immediate future.

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The College spent a nice sized
sum of money this summer build-
ing walks practically all over the
campus. Some day the back cam-
pus will be a beautiful sight of
walks and grass. That is, of
course, if we use the walks and
give the grass a chance to grow
even at the corners.

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Have you ever been on the
Black List? It's a gruesome place
to be mainly because you can't
play hockey and be there at the
same time. You can't work on
THE AGONISTIC either. In fact,
you can do little else besides at-
tend classes. You don't belong if
you don't participate in organi-
zations and activities.

Have you paid your Budget?

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What we need on the campus
is not more trash cans not even
small ones set obscurely under
bushes. We have enough big, dur-
able, visible ones now. All we
have to do is use them.

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What do vou think of Agnes
Scott? Of the rules? Of the
classes? Of the quarter system?
THE AGONISTIC publishes a
column called "We Think." It's
vour column. What do vou
think?

Italy's first colonial question in Af-
rica took place when she acquired the
Bay of Asab in 1870. This bay, along
with a nearby island, is now part of
the Italian colony of Eritrea, which
borders the present Ethiopia on the
northeast. However, since this bay
and its port were bought primarily for
a coaling station and since it did not
seem worthy of development, Italian
interest in its new-found colony waned
until she found she had been cheated
out of Tunisia, on the northern coast
of Italy, by France in 1881. It was
about this time that the "scramble for
Africa" began among the European
nations, and the Berlin Conference of
December, 1 884, strengthened this
fact. At the time of the conference
some Italians returning from an offi-
cial mission to Ethiopia were massacred
by natives; and Italy seized upon this
as an excuse to settle Massawa, which
was the natural port for the trade of
the Ethiopian plateau.

The settlement of Massawa seemed
only a signal for Italians to settle in
other parts of Ethiopia, and the situa-
tion began to appear difficult. Italian
troops were sent in, and by 18 87 sev-
eral conflicts had occurred between
Italians and natives. In 18 89 Menelik
of Ethiopia concluded the Treaty of
Uccialli with Italy. Later Menelik
found that he had been tricked and
sought to acquire France's aid and to
turn against Italy. Several bloody bat-
tles followed; and Menelik, who was
successful in the encounters, suggested
a peace conference. The Italians, how-
ever, desiring to avenge their defeat, re-
fused. Then occurred, in March, 1896,
the tremendous Italian defeat at Adu-
wa. Peace was made in October, 1896.
at Addis Ababa, and Italy kept Eritrea.
In the peace treaty Italy recognized
Ethiopia's independence.

Ethiopia enjoyed her independence
until the period of the World War;
this was because Italy had no colonial
administrators and was in no position
to interfere. Since the War, however,
Italy has become "colony conscious,"
and she has a sufficiency of colonial
officials. The Treaty of 1906 between
England, France, and Italy maintained
that these countries are the guardians
of Ethiopia and that no one govern-
ment should intervene there without
the consent of the other two. Then
followed the Treaty of London of
1915, which provided that Italy was

(Continued to page 3, column 4)
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Alumnae News

Life with Father Clarence Day, Jr.
Only a dutiful and irresistible son
could have added that final touch to
the character of Old Clarence Day,
Wall Street broker of the past genera-
tion. Dignified and stern, taking him-
self seriously and being taken serious-
ly, Mr. Day, Sr., is now surveyed
through the eye of comedy and made
human with the rest of us. Excellent
wit and discrimination were employed
by the author in giving this new angle
| to the character and yet preserving its
dignity and strength.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom T. E.
Lawrence.

This is the full, unstinted account
of Lawrence's great Arabian adventure,
oi which The Revolt in the Desert was
only a faint echo. Here he pours out
all that which he alone knows of the
children of the desert.

The story pictures at the outset
Lawrence as a young, intelligent officer
in the Arab Bureau at Cairo, "full of
assorted ambitions." Where Fate led
him through the commands of imper-
ious English dignitaries to spur the
Arabs against Turkey makes a boldlv
stirring tale. Side by side with Feisal,
the somber Arab chieftain, Lawrence
plodded through burning deserts, heed-
less of his filth-festered wounds and
everywhere weakening the Turks to-
j ward surrender.

Lawrence is essentially an artist,
mind and soul. In the midst of spec-
tacular attacks, retreats, guerilla skirm-
ishes, and interminable marches, he
speaks in a rich, high-colored, and
lofty style that never lapses into plain-
ness. That which torments him cease-
lessly is his loathing of the bloody task
to which he must devote himself, and
throughout he reveals the struggles of
his own soul in passages of poignant
beauty.

The greatness of the man Lawrence,
fitfully revealed, yet still shrouded in
mystery, and the charm of his man-
ner of telling make Seven Pillars of
Wisdom destined to live on as a book
of the age.

Yachel Lindsay: A Poet in America
Edgar Lee Masters.

A genius writes of a fellow -genius,
unfolding with infinite sympathy and
appreciation the story of a life obscured
by poverty and lack of recognition.
He "kept the heart of a little child,
and has written the purest American
poetry since Poe." The greatness of
Lindsay's dream and his lack of
strength and opportunity to carry it
into reality brought on the tragedy of
his self-inflicted end.

Summer T.me Ends John Har-
grove.

Summer Time Ends is an English-
type novel that brings out the various
classes verv clearly and seems to pre-
pare a bird's-eye view of the back-
ground of the next great European
war. Its forward look "is like the ex-
perience of reading tomorrow morn-
ing's newspaper at nine o'clock to-
night."

Cilhert and Snlliiau Hesketh Pear-
son.

Gilbert and Sullivan are mentioned
together because to separate them
would be to shatter the marriage of tal-
ents that have brought tears of laugh-
ter to the eyes of the world. It was
second nature to the hearty Gilbert to
reel out the pithiest of witticisms and
puns, drawing from the whimsical Irish
dreamer Sullivan the lilting music of
the world's best-known light operas.
This story brings out these two dis-
similar natures in amusing and clever
contrast.

Pole Star Stewart Edward White.

Mr. White has written a vigorous ro-
mance of the Russian fur traders in
Alaska of the early nineteenth century.
The spirit of that "short-lived but
greatly conceived empire" is centered
in the character of Alexander Baranov,
the Czar's manager of the Russian Fur
Company.

EXCHANGES

The enrollment at P. C. this fall is
the largest in the history of the
college. The same is true of Washing-
ton and Lee. Seven pairs of tw ins have
been enrolled at Florida State.

Sara Hewlett, '3 3, will be married
October 9 to Lamar H. Ellis.

Mary Ames, '34, has an F.E.R.A
job in Austin, Texas.

Frances Espy, '3 5, is working for the
Retail Credit Company in Atlanta.

The resolution which the Oxford
Union drew up two years ago is of
particular interest now. It has been
reverberating in the colleges of the
western world. The latest echo comes
out of McGill University at Montreal,
where a group of students voted 2,23 3
to 8 3 against support of their govern-
ment in any war it might attempt.
The Blue Stocking.

Sometimes a child will develop a
phobia or fear indirectly. A case in
point was that of a child who feared
rabbits, with which it had played for
years, after being startled during such
play by the beating of a gong. Another
case was that of a boy who grew to
manhood with an intense fear of con
fined spaces because, when very voung.
he had been frightened by a dog in .i
narrow passage. Col I it ' rs .

More than 90 per cent of the popu-
lation of the world and U) per cent of
the people of the United States do
not have running water in their homes
and still use wells, springs, lakes, rivers
or fountains. Colliers.

Carolyn Cole, '3 5, is visiting Doro-
thea Blackshear in Atlanta this week-
end.

Marie Adams, '3 5, is living with
Anne Scott Harman while attending
Crighton's Business School in Atlanta.

Elizabeth Alexander, '3 5, is working
for the Retail Credit Company in At-
lanta.

Caroline Dickson, '3 5, is secretary
for the Red Cross in Anderson, S. C.

Four women are enrolled in the
coaching school at Butler University,
trying eagerly to master the manly art
of football coaching.

One of the newest industries in
Japan is the reproduction of old Amer-
ican heirlooms New England furni-
ture, etc. Time.

The first Chinese Sorority in the
United States has recently been found-
ed at the University of Michigan. Its
name is Sigma Sigma Phi, and the four
charter members are: Pearl Chen, Lilian
Wang, Lily Wang, and Helen Vong.
. . . Incidentally the largest delegation
of foreign students to the United
States comes from China. Ring-Turn
Phi.

In the seventeenth century lace be-
came highly popular among gentlemen,
particularly those in royal and aristo-
cratic circles. The peak of this fash-
ion was probably reached by King
Charles I of England (1600-1649)
who had even his night clothes trim-
med with 1,800 feet of fancy lace
rut \ les. Colliers.

Jule McClatchey, '3 5, is teaching
the fourth grade at the Lovett School

Mary Hutchinson, '3 5, is attending
Crighton's Business School in Atlanta.

Marjorie Carmichael, '3 5, is in De-
troit where she will be a bridesmaid in
Betty Flounce's wedding.

Massachusetts State College recently
conducted an investigation to see what
proportion of students come from
homes of college graduates. It was
found that 70 per cent of the fathers
had had no college education, and only
half of those had finished high school.
Only 19 per cent were college gradu-
ates. Crimson Rambler.

According to a recent test, a woman
tends to remember the pleasant experi-
ences in her life and forget the un-
pleasant ones, while a man generally
remembers the unpleasant ones, forget-
ting the pleasant ones. Popular
Science.

Elizabeth Rodrigue is assisting in the
French Department at Columbia Col-
'ege in Columbia, S. C.

Mart hi Redwme. '3 5, is teaching
school in Barnes vi lie, Georgia.

The following postscript was found
in a blue book at Maryland University:
"Dear Professor, If you sell any of these
answers to the humor magazine, re-
member I want my cut."

Rulers are part of equipment of Chi-
nese railway conductors. Children are
paid for by the foot. Those under two
feet six inches ride free, those between
that height and four feet four inches
pay half fare, and taller ones are class-
ed as adults. Rati u ay Age.

Nell Pattillo, '3 5, is doing secretarial
work at Emory University and working
for her master's degree at the same
time.

Bones of a prehistoric Indian child
were found under the U. K. football
held last summer. Perhaps Agnes Scott
will unearth some such relics when the
foundations for the new library are
begun.

Another movie magnate was asked
recent l\ if he had read H. G. Wells'
Outline of History. "Nope," he replied.
"I thought it might make a picture.
But I looked at the ending and I don't
like the wav the story comes out."

N. V. World-Telegram.

The Agonistic

3

SOCIETY

CLUBS

Nell Allison was the guest of Miss
Mary Caldwell at dinner last Sunday
night in Scottdalc.

Elizabeth Strickland attended the
A. K. K. medical fraternity dance at
Emory on Monday night.

Barton Jackson was present at the
Delta Sigma Delta dental fraternity
house dance on Monday night.

Among those present at Club Quad-
rille on Wednesday night were Lavinia
Scott, Sally McCree, and Mary Vines.

Dr. Paul McCain visited his daugh-
ter, Sara, on Thursday.

Meriel Bull attended the Theta Kap-
pa Psi dance at Emory on Saturday
night.

Catherine Caldwell, May Workman,
and Aileen Shortley attended the Geor-
gia Tech-Sewanee football game Sat-
urday.

Sarah Frances McDonald attended
the Psi Omega dance at the Biltmore
Hotel on Saturday night.

Katherine Bishop was present at the
Phi Sigma Kappa dance at Tech on
Saturday night.

WORK TO BEGIN

ON NEW LIBRARY

(Continued from page 1, column 5)
The furnishings of the entire room will
be more or less informal, and it is plan-
ned as an inviting place for required
and cultural reading.

Also on the first floor, back of the
charge desk, will be the work rooms,
the librarian's office, and open reserve
shelves.

The ground floor will contain a
reading room of the same size as the
main reading room, and will be fur-
nished with formal tables and chairs.
This floor also will contain receiving
and storage space, janitors' work rooms,
and machinery rooms for the elevator
and ventilating systems. All of the
windows on the ground floor will be
above ground level.

On the second floor will be three
seminars, a typing room in which stu-
dents may use their own typewriters, a
starl lounge, and a projection room for
lantern slides and film books.

Six-tiered stacks will be built in the
internal angle of the building. Each
floor will shelve twenty thousand
books, with a total stack capacity of
one hundred and twenty thousand vol-
umes. About half of the stacks will
be completed this year, but all the
floors will be installed.

The outdoor reading terrace will be
placed at the southeast corner of the
building. A stairway will go down to
it from the main reading room. There
w ill be no outside exit. The terrace will
be controlled from the main reading
room.

The building will be about one hun-
dred and fifty feet long, by one hun-
dred feet. There will be elevators for
books, and passenger elevators in the
stacks. A ventilating system will be in-
stalled, and facilities for artificial and
natural lighting have been carefully
planned. Noise-absorbing materials will
be used throughout the building.

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Mary Hull and Rosa Miller left Sat-
urday for Augusta, Ga., where they
will attend the wedding of Mary's sis-
ter, Katherine.

Sarah Jones spent the week-end at
her home in Canton, Ga.

Kay Kennedy spent the week-end at
the home of her sister, Mrs. C. A.
Black, in Fort Bcnning, Ga.

Nancy Moorer and Miriam Sanders
atended the home-coming game and
dance at Clemson College last week-
end.

Phyllis Johnson and Ethelyn Boswell
spent last week-end at their homes in
Elberton, Ga.

Sara Baskin spent the week-end at
her home in Culverton, Ga.

Mary Everlyn Garner visited her
home in Lawrenceville, Ga.

Myrl Chafin spent last week-end at
her home in McDonough, Ga.

Ruth Tate visited Jerry Wisenbaker
at Oglethorpe University over the
week-end.

Campbell soup company deliberately
advertises "21 kinds of soup to choose
from" and then lists 22. And every
year since 193 1, from 400 to 700 alert
advertisement readers write to the com-
pany calling attention to the discrep-
ancy which pleases the company im-
mensely, the error being written in to
make people talk about it and to give
an idea of how thoroughly the adver-
tisement is read. Time Letters Supple-
ment.

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During the war between the Eng-
lish and the Maories, when a Maori
chieftain noticed one day that the Brit-
ish firing decreased considerably, he
dispatched a messenger carrying a white
flag to the English line to inquire why
they were so slow. The commander
told the truth: "We are running out of
ammunition." When the Maori chief-
tain learned this deplorable situation, he
sent his messenger back to the English
with the information that they might
borrow some ammunition from him so
that the fighting might be resumed
along the old lines. American Swed-
ish Monthly.

The architecture will resemble that
of Buttrick Hall. It is Gothic in type,
following continental rather than Eng-
lish Gothic styles. Architects for the
library are the firm of Edwards and
Sayward, special work having been done
by Mr. R. B. Logan.

Freshmen Lapses
Recall Trials of
Other Poor Souls

Freshman orientation has had unsur-
mountable values, but the upperclass-
men note, with an attitude of regret,
the slow but sure development from
the delicious believing greenness to a
ripe sophistication in the newcomers.
Soon will one hear no more the ques-
tion asked in an excited yet awe-struck
tone, "Do Agnes Scott girls give dances
every week at Emory?" Never more
will Anna Margaret Riepma gravely in-
quire whether Dr. McCain is a man or
woman or will Ruby Laney declare
that her one compensation will be that
school will not be held Saturday. For
such have been some of the unsuspect-
ing ideas of the illusioned set who, hav-
ing been whirled from lectures on "how
to study" to teas, and from handbook
classes to receptions, are now at last
lapsing into the prosaic state of non-
chalance.

Their relatively quick adaptation to
college life brings recollection of days
of yore when freshmen experienced
more trials and tribulations, such as
that memorable occasion when, upon
being invited to a reception at the
Alumnae House at 4:3 0, Brooks Spivey
arrived at the ostentatious time of 4:29
because, as she explains now, she had
an appointment in town later. Dorothy
Hutton rushed immediately upstairs,
rounded up the much-f lustrated receiv-
ing line, herded them down the stairs,
and Brooks was greeted and received in
all due pomp and glory. After this or-
deal she drank her punch in silence
and left without a word at least five
minutes before the other guests ar-
rived.

More tragic in its result was the es-
capade which Helen Tucker, Edith
Merlin, and Lita Goss experienced the
year before. Being invited to a tea at
the Alumnae House, they, innocent
souls, entered the back entrance, pass-
ed through the hall, and were gracious-
ly told as they filed through that it
was too bad they were leaving so soon,
that it had been lovely having them,
and that they must come back again.

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his time at meals New York snack bars
offer a machine which crushes up raw
spinach, carrots, watercress, potatoes,
apples and oranges, and extracts their
juice. From its spigot runs apple-green
liquid, a pint of which is guaranteed to
be a full size vegetarian meal complete
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Bible Club
The first meeting of the Bible Club
was held Monday, October 7, at 5
o'clock in the Y. W. C. A. cabinet
room. Rev. Peter Marshall made a
most interesting talk on "The Bible in
Music and Poetry."

Cotillion Club

The Cotillion Club held its first
meeting Thursday, October 3. The fall
try-outs will be held October 10 and
1 1 from 4 to 6 in the afternoon and
from 7 to 9 at night.

The purpose of Cotillion Club is to
create and maintain interest in the so-
cial life offered on the campus. This
club sponsors the dances 4 given cVn
Thanksgiving and Founder's Day.
Every one is eligible and all who are
interested in dancing are cordially in-
vited to try out.

Poetry Club
The first meeting of the Poetry
Club was held Tuesday night, October
8, at 9 o'clock in Miss Laney's room.
Try-outs will be held Tuesday, October
15, and all classes are eligible. Poetry
Club is expecting many new members.

Spanish Club
Spanish Club try-outs will be held

KEY TO CURRENT HISTORY

{Continued from page 2, column 3)
to be compensated in case France and
England annexed the German colonies.
Italy feels that this pledge has not been
fulfilled.

These European countries again
showed their interest in Ethiopia when
Italy and France sponsored her entrance
into the League of Nations in 1923.
Also, in 192 8 Mussolini signed a Treaty
of Arbitration and of Friendship with
Selassie of Ethiopia. Nevertheless these
treaties seem to have meant practically
nothing, because since their promulga-
tion numerous bloody battles have
taken place between Italy and Ethiopia
in a disputed area, which really seems
to be a part of Ethiopia. The League
of Nations has endeavored to relieve the
situation, but it has accomplished little.
France's position, too, is important. It
is thought that Laval, when he visited
Rome in December, 1934, assured Mus-
solini that he "would not meet with
French opposition in the event of a
conflict."

Thursday, October 10. All Spanish stu-
dents are eligible and cordially invited
to try out. Full information for the
try-outs may be found on the bulletin
board in Buttrick Hall. Many inter-
esting and entertaining programs have
been planned for the year. A supper
hike in honor of the new members has
been planned for Tuesday, October 15,
at 4:30 in the afternoon.

Granddaughters' Club
The Granddaughters' Club will hold
its first meeting Friday afternoon, Oc-
tober 11, at 5 o'clock in the Anna
Young Alumnae House. All girls whose
mothers attended Agnes Scott are elig-
ible to join the club, and all new
members are cordially invited to attend.

K. U. B.

The regular monthly meeting of K.
U. B. will be held Wednesday after-
noon, October 9, at 4:3 0 in the Y. W.
C. A. Cabinet Room. Ideas concern-
ing a feature article on Robert Frost
will be discussed at this meeting. Every
member of K. U. B. is invited to take
part in the writing of this article. Some
new officers will also be elected at this
time.

AGONISTIC GETS VIEWS ON WAR
FROM SENATOR LAFOLLETTE

{Continued from page 1, column 2)
American passports in hostile zones.
As I've been going about the country
these past few weeks, I've observed that
the people are willing to sacrifice. Fi-
nally, I believe public sentiment can
be built to support the government in
its efforts to stay out."

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. . . the appointment of Miss Elizabeth Cox as a
special representative of our Ladies' Ready-to-
Wear Department. Miss Cox will consider it a
privilege to be of service to you in the selection of
smart wearing apparel . . . and she will be here at
Muse's on Tuesday and Friday afternoons to assist
you in any way in which she is able.

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COPY FOR "AURORA"
DUE OJN OCT. 21: TO
APPEAR NOV. 5

All contributions for the first issue
of the Aurora, the Agnes Scott College
literary magazine, which will appear on
November 5, must be placed in the
Aurora box in Main or given to Lita
Goss, editor, by Monday morning, Oc-
tober 21. This year the Aurora will
contain discussions of current events, a
type of article never before accepted.
Other articles which will appear in the
quarterly magazine are short stories,
poems, and formal and informal essays.

This year several prizes are offered
for work of exceptional merit. These
include a prize of $2.50 for the best
short story to appear during the year,
one of S2.50 for the best poem, and
another of the same amount for the
best piece of non-fiction. The Aurora,
whose aim is to encourage literary ef-
fort among the students, hopes that a
large number of students will con-
tribute to it, making it representative
of the best creative work of the cam-
pus.

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Richard Halliburton
To Speak in Atlanta

Richard Halliburton, world-famous
writer and adventurer, will lecture in
the Wesley Memorial Auditorium at
8:3 0 o'clock on Thursday evening, Oc-
tober 24. He comes to Atlanta under
the auspices of the World Caravan
Guild.

Tickets for Mr. Halliburton's lecture
are on sale for $1.10 and $.55, includ-
ing tax; they may be obtained at Davi-
son-Paxon Company and at Rich's, Inc.

Mr. Halliburton is noted especially
for his books The Royal Road to Ro-
mance and The Glorious Adventure.
He is a delightful speaker and is re-
membered at Agnes Scott College for
the entertaining lecture he gave several
years ago when he was brought here by
the Lecture Association.

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Sport Season Opens Friday
With Class Hockey Games

Aggie Will Serve
Coffee Tonight

The Agonistic will serve coffee
after dinner tonight in the Day Stu-
dents' Room in Main Building; Lulu
Ames and Elizabeth Baethke will
pour. Every Wednesday night a cam-
pus organization has charge of cof-
fee; last Wednesday, the Administra-
tion acted as hostess, and next Wed-
nesday the Athletic Association will
serve.

Another occasion which contributes
to the social life of the campus is Senior
Coffee, served each Sunday afternoon
at the Alumnae House. Two or three
members of the senior class are host-
esses.

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Members of French Club
To Give Bernard's Play
"La Maison du Crime"

SOPHOMORE CLASS
HONORS FRESHIES
AT TACKY PARTY

Ada Foote Accepts
\VP A Job in Miss.

The first hockey game of the sea-
son will be played Friday afternoon at
4:30. The Seniors will play the Juniors;
the Sophomores will play the Freshmen.
There will be more treats for the side
line this year, so a large attendance is
expected. Scorer and timer for this
game and the season will be Lulu Ames
and Sarah Johnson, respectively.

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t\\ i: \ n -NINE win

HONORS FOR '34-*35
(Continued from p#g0 1, column 1)
Enid Middleton, Anne Thompson, Jane
Turner, Zoe Wells.

Unclassified Mrs. Agnes J. McKoy.

The honors for last year's graduat-
ing class were announced at Com-
mencement together with the College
honors.

"La Maison du Crime," by Tristan
Bernard, will be presented at the first
meeting of the French Club, Monday.
October 14, at 4:3 0 in Mr. Johnson's
studio. The cast is as follows: Le Ser-
rurier (Locksmith), Jane Turner; le
detective William, Marcelle Cappatti;
le secretaire, Mary Johnson.

At this meeting the club plans for
the year will be discussed. Marcelle
Cappatti will talk on the French For-
eign Legion, and Alice Chamlee will
play two selections by French com-
posers. All those who are planning to
participate in the French Club this year
are urged to attend.

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A. A. Officers Return
From Alabama Meet

I The sophomore class entertained the
freshmen with a tacky backwards
party in Bucher Scott Gymnasium on

| Saturday night, October 5. The hilari-
ties began with a cake-walk, prizes for
which were fudge bars. Miss Llewellvn
Wilburn, of the physical education de-
partment, called phe figures for the
square dance that followed, and real
mountain music was furnished by
Olivia Root, at the piano, Anna Kath-
erine Fulton and Dean McKoin, violin-
ists, and Jane Guthrie, who played the
ukulele. After the grand march before
the judges, Miss Ellen Douglas Ley-
burn and Miss Blanche Miller, first and
second prizes for the best costumes
were awarded to Julia Sewell and June
Harvey. Apple cider, oatmeal cookies,
and corn candy were served.

At the end of the party the rules
which the freshmen must obey for the
first four days of this week were read
by Elizabeth Blackshear, president of
the sophomore class. These included
wearing no make-up on the campus,
saying "mam" to sophomores, curtsey-
ing to sophomores, keeping "a solemn
countenance in the presence of all soph-
omores," and wearing the caps which
the members of Sophomore Commission
gave out.

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TO A. S. C. LIBRARY

Ann Coffee, president of the Ath-
letic Association, Helen Handte, col-
lege hockey manager, Charline Fleece,
junior class hockey manager, and Miss
Elizabeth Mitchell, of the physical edu-
cation department, attended a hockey
conference on Friday and Saturday,
October 4 and 5, at Alabama College
for Women, at Montevallo. They re-
turned to the campus on Sunday.

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Members of the Emory Library
school visited the Agnes Scott College
library several times last week in order
:o inspect and observe the building
The class has also been visiting the
Atlanta Carnegie library and the Geor-
gia Tech library.

Mildred Hooten, an assistant in the
Agnes Scott library last year, is a mem-
ber of the class.

Miss Ada Page Foote, asssitant librar-
ian at Agnes Scott College, left on last
Wednesday for Mississippi where she
has accepted a position with the W. P.
A. She is to be supervisor of District
Six with headquarters in Jackson; her
job will be extension work in county
libraries, her particular section being
eleven counties around Natches. Miss
Foote is responsible in her work to Miss
Elizabeth Robinson, Jackson, Missis-
sippi State Library Commissioner.

Miss Foote has worked in the library
here for the past two years. She was
graduated from Mississippi State Col-
loge for Women and took her library
training course and degree from the
Emory University Library School. Her
home is Canton, Miss.

Mrs. Vivian Martin Buchanen and
Miss Mary Green, both Agnes Scott
graduates, are working temporarily in
the library this week. Miss Rosalyn
Crispin, '3 5, of Gulfport, Mississippi,
has been appointed to fill the vacancy
left by Miss Foote. Miss Crispin will
arrive on the campus on Saturday.

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Reporters for this issue:
Loice Richards Ruth Hertzka
Enid Middleton Mary Richardson
Ora Muse Nell Allison

Eliza King

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AGNES SCOTT PROFS. TO READ
ML S. C. W. WORK FOR S. A. C.

(Continued from page 1, column 3)
Women, Montevallo, whose faculty has
inspected the work.

Last year Agnes Scott professors read
the written work of Baylor University,
Texas. The Baylor material weighed
about 2,000 pounds, filling 16 large
boxes.

Dr. J. R. McCain, president of Agnes
Scott, is chairman of the Committee on
Triennial Reports of the Southern As-
sociation.

Y. W. C. A. BRIINGS
MANY SPEAKERS
TO A. S. C. CAMPUS

The Y. W". C. A. theme for this
year, "Realizing Christ," is being car-
ried out in a series of programs which
have included Rev. R. T. Gillespie, pas-
tor of Rock Spring Presbyterian
church; Bishop H. T. Mikell, of the
Atlanta diocese; and Sara Lane Smith,
an Agnes Scott College alumna.

"Realizing Christ" is being discussed
in three phases: in personal lives, in at-
titude toward campus problems, and in
attitude toward world problems. On
Sunday evening, October 6, Mr. Gilles-
pie spoke at vespers on the subject
"What it means to realize Christ with-
in ourselves." The following Sunday
evening, Sara Lane Smith, a former
president of Mortar Board, will talk
on "Realizing My Opportunities. "

Chapel talks carrying out this theme
began with Bishop Mikell's discussion
on Tuesday, October 8. His subject
was "Realizing Christ right in out-
personal lives."

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Six Agnes Scott Students
Play in Piano Ensemble

Six Agnes Scott students took part
in a piano ensemble given at the City
Auditorium Friday evening, October
4, for the benefit of the Rabun Gap-
Nacoochee School. Significant features
of the performance were the twenty
pianos played in concert and the excel-
lent voices of the chorus.

Agnes Scott girls who played were
Alice Hannah, Mary Earnest Perry,
Alice Chamlee, Tommy Ruth BLick-
mon, Nell Hemphill, and Jean kirk-
patrick.

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Attend
the Stunt

VOL. XXI

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE. DECATUR. GA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16. 1935

NO. 3

Halliburton
Will Lecture
In Atlanta

May Day Scenarios
Due in November

Public to Hear Again Speaker
Who Appeared on Lecture
Series at A. S. C.

Richard Halliburton, the inimitable
lecturer, will appear in his latest lec-
ture, "Seven League Boots," at the
Wesley Memorial Auditorium on
Thursday, October 24, at 8:30 P.M.
This will be the first appearance of
Mr. Halliburton in this section since he
was brought to Agnes Scott by the
Lecture Association some years ago. He
is known as the author of The Royal
Road to Romance, The Glorious Ad-
venture, New Worlds to Conquer, and
The Flying Carpet.

Mr. Halliburton comes with first-
hand information about the Italian-
Ethiopian situation. As the guest of
Haile Selassie, king of Ethiopia, he was
allowed to observe at close range the
progress of the political condition in
that country. He spent two months in
this marvelous and romantic land and
has returned with startling conclusions
and accurate facts.

TAKES ELEPHANT TRIP

He secured the first eye-witness
story of the assassination of Czar Nich-
olas and his family, how the entire fam-
ily was killed, their bodies disposed of,
and every trace of the murders care-
fully concealed. This confession was
made to Mr. Halliburton by the Bol-
shevik who did the killing as he lay
at death's door. As a result of obtain-
ing this confession, Mr. Halliburton
was asked by the Russian authorities
to leave the country. It has been a long
time since a more thrilling and terrible
and authentic story has come to the
American lecture platform.

In the tracks of Hannibal, Mr. Hal-
liburton rode his famous elephant over
the Alps via the great St. Bernard Pass
and one hundred miles into Italy in or-
der to relive the celebrated Carthagen-
iaji's elephant march on Rome. All over
Europe, this dramatic exploit caused
one of the greatest sensations of the
\ear. Despite rumors to the contrary
circulated in America, Mr. Hallibur-
ton's elephant expedition was a com-
plete success and gives him the most

(Continued on page 4, column 2)

The annual contest conducted by the
May Day committee for a scenario ap-
propriate for the May Day festival will
close in the latter part of November
when all scenarios are to be turned in
to the committee. Last year Alice
Chamlee and Jane Blick wrote the win-
ning scenario, which was based on
Peter Pan.

Eloisa Alexander is the May Day
chairman, and Jane Blick, the busi-
ness manager. Their committee in-
cludes the following: scenario, Anne
Thompson and Charline Fleece; cos-
tume, Sarah Nichols, Frances Steele,
Kathleen Daniel, and Sarah Turner;
dance, Helen Ford, Ruth Tate, and Lu-
cile Dennison; properties, Fannie B.
Harris; poster, Jane Wyatt; publicity,
Alice Chamlee.

The May Day festival takes place on
the first Saturday in every May. The
dell at the left of the hockey field is
the scene. Colorful dances are fea-
tures of the pageant, which is presided
over by the queen and her court.

More exact details of the scenario
contest will be announced at a later
date.

Agonistic Names
Nine Reporters

Following the judging of articles
submitted on Saturday, October 12, the
following girls have been named mem-
bers of the reporter staff of The Ago-
nistic: Alice Cheeseman, Giddy Erwin,
Mamie Lee Ratliff, Mildred Davis,
Carol Hale, Douglas Lyle, Mary
Frances Guthrie, Mary Willis, Selma
Steinbach, and Nell Hemphill.

Each article was judged on a basis
of the subject matter, the lead, and the
general treatment of the story in re-
gard to detail of structure.

Lulu Ames, editor, and Laura Steele
and Frances Cary, assistant editors
judged the reporter try-outs as well
as those for Giddy Gossip. No decision
has been reached yet about the latter.

The new reporters will receive reg-
I alar assignments beginning with the is-
l sue for October 2 3. They will also be
expected to attend reporter and staff
meetings called by the editor and the
assistant editors.

Robert Frost Uses Realism

In Numerous Poems on Trees

By Sarah Catherine Wood
Robert Frost is a poet who finds the
chief source of his inspiration in na-
ture. While, of course, he deals with
people a great deal, even these seem
to have their roots fixed firmly in that
New England soil to which he always
turns for the sources of his poetry.

Predominant among the aspects of
nature of which Frost writes are the
trees. The picture of the New England
landscape which he paints so accurate-
ly and so vividly seems dominated by
these trees. Other details are present,
such as the snow, the brooks and pools,
and the piles of stones, but there is
almost always in the picture a tree
which overshadows these other details.
Thus, if the poems are not actually
about trees as in "Christmas Trees,"
"The Sound of the Trees," "Stopping
By Woods on a Snowy Evening," "Tree
At My Window," and many others,
there is a background of them present
as in "Ghost House," "The Hill Life,"
and "Spring Pools."

Through these poems we are able to
formulate a very definite idea of the
kinds of trees which dot the New Eng-
land hillsides. There are the evergreens,

the "straighter, darker trees"

the

"young fir balsams like a place

Where houses all are churches
and have spires "

dealt with so lovingly in the poem

"Christmas Trees," or the hemlocks in

"Dust of Snow:"

"The way a cro%u
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree. 39

There are the maples with their many

moods:

n lt was the tree the autumn fire ran
ran through
And swept of leathern leaves, but left
the bark

Unscorched, unblackened, even, by

any smoke.
They always took their holidays in

ant iimn."

There are the birches in the poem
"Wild Grapes:"

"Wearing a thin head-dress of pointed
leaves,

And heavy on her heavy hair behind,
Against her neck, an ornament of
grapes "
or as they appear in "The Birches:"
"When J see birches bend to left and
right

Across the line of straighter darker
trees "

The delicacy of the wild apple tree is
given in the pcem "A Winter Eden:"
"Some wild apple tree's young tender
bark"

The contention may ue made that all
(Continued on page 5, column 4)

Meyer Gives
Gay Account
OfA.P.Work

Mr. Ben F. Meyer, state news editor
of the Associated Press, spoke at The
Agonistic chapel on Friday morning,
October 1 1. He gave an interesting and
amusing account of his adventures as
an Associated Press writer, and spoke
of the excellent training in journalism
offered by modern high schools and
colleges.

In speaking of journalism as a career,
he advised work on school papers for
practical experience and knowledge,
adding that it is amazing with how
much of the mechanics and technicali-
ties of a newspaper some students are
acquainted.

Mr. Meyer's experience in the news-
paper field is colored with such inci-
dents as interviewing President Roose-
velt, and covering the story of the
Mississippi flood, which included rescu-
ing people and then being rescued him-
self. Mr. Meyer has been connected
with the Associated Press in Atlanta
for the past nine years. He came here
from Texas where he did his college
work at Baylor University, in Waco.

Mr. Meyer is the first in the series
of speakers that The Agonistic will
bring to the campus this year. Mr. W.
F. Caldwell, southeastern editor of As-
sociated Press, who was to have spoken,
was called to Chicago on Thursday to
an Associated Press meeting; he sent
Mr. Meyer in his place. Mr. Caldwell
will speak on The Agonistic pro-
gram, however, later in the year.

Four to Receive
Agonistic Award
On December 13

As recognition for their service, four
students who have done unusual work
on The Agonistic will receive the
Agonistic Key at a special chapel
program on Friday, December 13. The
Agonistic Key is a new honorary or-
ganization, created for the purpose
of encouraging a finer type of journal-
ism on the campus and for giving
credit to those persons who do out-
standing work on the editorial or busi-
ness side of The Agonistic. Eight
members will be elected a year, four
in December and four in the spring.
The emblem of this society is to be a
gold A w ith a key running through the
center; at the corners of the bar on the
A are a small S and C.

All those who are elected shall have
merited two-thirds of their academic
work for the semester preceding; in the
case of freshmen, they shall have merit-
ed two-thirds of their work for the pre-
ceding six weeks. Girls who are elect-
ed must also be active participants in
at least one other campus organization.

Girls working on the business side of
the paper will be judged by their work
on all the issues of the paper for this
year; reporters and members of the edi-
torial side will be judged for their work
on four editions of The Agonistic,
beginning with the one on October 23,
which will be published next Wednes-
day.

CORRECTION

The Agonistic sincerely re-
grets the error made last week in
reporting the amount pledged on
the first day of the Benevolent
Budget drive. The correct
amount was $1,064. The Budget
required $1,274; the full amount
was promised by the end of the
drive on October 8, Isabel Mc-
Cain, Y. W. treasurer, said.

Underclassmen Vote
For Stunt Judges

Going from practices masked in se-
crecy to pep meetings reverberating
with cheers, the sophomores and fresh-
men are preparing for their annual
contest of wits, which will take place
at 8:30 on Saturday evening, October
19, in the Bucher Scott Gymnasium.
Ann Worthy Johnson and Anna Mar-
garet Riepma are the sophomore and
freshman Black Cat stunt chairmen.

The judges who will decide to whom
the coveted Black Cat belongs will be
Miss Carrie Lou Scandrett, assistant
dean; Professor Philip Davidson, of the
history department; and Miss Bee Mil-
ler, biology assistant. They were elect-
ed at class meetings held in the chapel
on Thursday, October 10. It is the
custom for each class to elect one
judge apiece, and for the combined
classes to elect a judge. Miss Scandrett
was chosen by the freshmen, Mr. Da-
vidson by the sophomores, and Miss
Miller by the freshmen and sopho-
mores.

The following have leads in the
sophomore stunt: Gene Caldwell, Anne
Taylor, Kennon Henderson, Anne
Wheaton, Kitty Hoffman, Anna Kath-
erine Fulton, Jeanne Mathews, and
Frances Norman. Others in the cast in-
clude Anne Howell, Mary Lillian Fair-
ly, Jane Turner, Martha Peek Brown,
Ellen McCallie, Sue Bryan, Ola Kelley,
Laura Coit, Hibernia Hassell, Betty
Anderson, Giddy Erwin, Alice Reins,
Lulu Croft, Lillian Croft, Peggy Ware,
Joyce Roper, Nell Allison, Anne
Thompson, Anne Cullum, Betty Ad-
ams, and Kay Ricks.

Those taking part in the freshman
stunt are: Mary Simonton, Mary Guth-
rie, Barbara Cassat, Mary Moss, Flor-
ence Wade, Jeanne Flynt, Catherine
Moore, Catherine I vie, Kay Kennedy,
Jane Moore Hamilton, Jane Carithcrs,
and Helen Moses.

Members of the choruses are: Har-
riette Von Gremp, Vera Marsh, Eliza-
beth Furlow, Mary Workman, Char-
lotte French, Catherine I vie, Estelle
Cuddy, Virginia Kyle, Mary Ellen
Whetsell, Mary Eleanor Steele, Lucy
Doty, and Mamie Lee Ratliff.

Blackfriars Will

(wive Milne Plav

Blackfriars will present Mr, Pirn
Passes /j 1 ), the clever and amusing play
by A. A. Milne, on November 22 and
2 3. The play will be directed by Miss
Frances Gooch, head of the Spoken
English department.

Mr. Irvin McKoy of Atlanta is to
play Mr. Pirn, but as yet the rest of
the cast has not been chosen. Tryouts
are to begin next week, so that work
on the play may be started as soon as
possible. The cast is small, including
seven people four women and three
men.

The scene of Mr. Pirn Passes By is
the typical English country house, a
small distance from London, in the
present day. The action is brought on
by a careless remark which Mr. Pirn
lets fall in the beginning of the play.
Mrs. Marden, the ravishing widow who
has married again on her first husband's
supposed death, is e'ectrified to hear
Mr. Pirn say casually that he had had
a recent shipmate named Telworthy.
At the name of her first husband, Mrs.
Marden and her present husband are
thrown into the most painful con-
fusion. Is she Mrs. Marden or Mrs.
Telworthy?

Mr. Pirn the innocent, having
thrown his bomb, disappears. After
endless complications, he naively con-
fesses that the name could not have
been Telworthy after all, bringing the
play to a startlingly clever climax.

A.S.C. Sends
Four to Press
Convention

Ames. Chamlee, C hristian. Jones
To Represent Publications
In Chicago.

Lulu Ames, editor, and Alice Cham-
lee, business manager of The Agonis-
tic, Shirley Christian, editor and Sarah
Jones, business manager of the Silhou-
ette, will represent Agnes Scott Col-
lege at the national convention of the
Associated Collegiate Press in Chicago,
October 17-19. Sarah, Shirley, and
Alice drove through the country with
Miss Helen Morgan, of Atlanta; they
!eft yesterday afternoon. Lulu left this
morning by train. There will be 276
delegates representing 119 publications
at the convention, which was attended
last year by 104 colleges from 3 5
states. This is the first year Agnes
Scott has sent delegates to this conven-
tion although both the publications
have long been members of the organi-
zation.

ABLE MEN TO APPEAR
Among the prominent speakers will
be Leland Stowe, Paris correspondent
of the New York Herald Tribune and
winner of the Pulitzer prize for the
best example of foreign correspondence
in 1930; and Carrol Binder, distin-
guished foreign expert of the Chicago
Daily News, who has represented his
paper in Rome, Moscow, London, and
Latin America.

Mr. Stowe will discuss "The Euro-
pean vs. the American Press" and Mr.
Binder will speak on "News of the
World." Others on the program include
Harry B. Rutledge, managing director.
National Editorial Association; Curtis
D. MacDougall, editor, Evanston Ncivs
Index, and lecturer in journalism at
Northwestern; Grant F. Olson, adver-
tising manager of Sheaf fer Pen Co.;
Chet Oehler, Lord and Thomas Adver-
tising Agency; Carroll Geddes, grad-
uate manager of publications at Min-
nesota; and Gerhard Becker and Fred
Noer, manager and editor, respectively,
of Collegiate Digest.

While in Chicago the delegates will
stay at the Mcdinah Club. They will
return to Decatur on Sunday, October
20.

300 From A.S.C.
To Hear Kreisler

Fritz Kreisler, world-famous violin-
ist, will appear as the ffest artist in the
Atlanta All-Star Concert Series when
he plays on Tuesday evening, October
22, at the Fox Theater. Approximately
3 00 Agnes Scott College students will
attend.

Atlanta audiences already know and
appreciate Mr. Kreisler, who was re-
ceived with unusual enthusiasm bv
music lovers when he appeared here
before on the Concert Series. His ren-
dition of his own compositions proved
especially popular.

As in past years, special street-cars
have been obtained for the boarding
students who are going to the concert.
They arc asked to be at the underpass
in front of the College before 7:15,
since the cars will leave promptly at
that time. There will probably be three
cars available to carry the girls all the
way to the Fox and back. The fare
will be 5c for the trip in and 10c for
the one back.

After the concert is over, it has been
requested that the Agnes Scott students
wait in the front lobby until the cars
arrive. Students are also requested to
sign out early Tuesday in order to
avoid confusion.

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Editor-in-chief

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Assistant Editors

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Feature Editor

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Assist. Feature Editor

Jane Guthrie

Book Notes Editor

Ellen McCali
Alumnae Ed it 01

Nell White
Society Editor

STAFF

Mildred Clark
Make-up Editor

June Matthews
Assist. Make-up

Rosa From

Current History

Elizabeth Baethke
Laura Coit

Exchange Editors

El ZABETH BlJRSON

Sports Editor

Cornelia Christie
Cub Editor

Alice Chamlee
Business Manager

Kathr^n Bowen
Advertising Manager

Business Assistants
Ellen Davis
Elizabeth Cox
Rachel Kennedy
Sara Beaty Sloan
Kennon Henderson

Circulation Managers
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Mary Gray Rogers

WlTA MORELAND

ON THE NIGHT
OF JUNE 27

In Albert Hall, decorated by
the flags of nearly all the mem-
ber-nations of the League of Na-
tions and of the three non-
League member powers, 10,000
people gathered on June 27, to
hear the final returns of Great
Britain's unofficial "peace bal-
lot" a ballot voted on by four
out of every ten qualified voters
in England, Scotland, Wales, and
Northern Ireland. In January of
last year the balloting began at
the suggestion of Lord Cecil
made in November 1934 for the
League of Nations Unions. And
for six months, despite the oppo-
sition of Sir John Simon, on the
grounds that it is dangerous to
seek opinions of "uninformed
persons" on such questions as
war and peace, it continued.

The questionnaire included
five pertinent questions:

L Should Great Britain re-
main in the League?

2. Do you favor abolition of
national military and naval air-
craft by international agree-
ment?

3. Do you favor all-round re-
duction of armaments by inter-
national agreement?

4. Should the manufacture
and sale of armaments for pri-
vate profit be prohibited by in-
ternational agreement?

5. If a nation insists upon at-
tacking another, should other na-
tions combine to stop it (a) by
economic and non-military or (b)
by military measures?

The majority of the answers
were in favor of the questions as
stated; in the last, the majority
was for non-military and eco-
nomic measures.

Thus were the British in June.
The question of international
peace as well as of war has be-
come more of a matter for seri-
ous consideration in the develop
ments of the past few weeks. A
sane public opinion toward this
problem IS Of utmost importance
in maintaining a sane national
position. In order to find out how
British citizens stand in the mat-
ter, an unprecedented poll was
taken. And 11,627,765 Britons,
whose opinions had never been
SOUghl on so large a scale before,
revealed themselves to be over-
whelmingly for peaceful relations

in arbitration with other na-

t ions.

"Of what you can, and w r hat you
can't,

And what you'd like to do.
It all sounds pleasant, I agree,
It all seems up to you !
And now Fm down to good, cold
fowl ;

A matter hard but true.

"It is the Budget," she went on,
"That causes all this talk.

With that thing paid, you're
your own boss.

Reversed? Well, you can walk!

It's not a private fad of mine ;

It's just not fair to balk.

"You wan't to play in hockey
games?

Not in the Stunt? You're lost!
You've made a club? Aw!

That's not fair,
For they must pay the cost.
Unless, of course, you pay me

first.

Has that your mind not cross't?

'My! let's don't have a Black

List, girls.
It really makes me sick !
Yet there I see some good, fine

girls,

And all of them the pick!
Despite my groaning, griping,
growls,

Among that group they'll stick.

T've dreamed about a Listless
year,

That's foolishness, you say.
It would be nice, you grant me
that?

You cannot say me nay!

So, come on, do, and let's be

sports :
Please pay me ten today."

UP WENT

THE BLACK LIST!

"The time has come," the treas-
urer said,

"To speak of many things:
Of hockey, swimming, horsing,
too,

Of Aggie work, and sin^s.
Of everything, in fact, my
dears.

That College with it brings.

AND THUS
WE GROW UP

It's happened again. It always
happens as soon as the freshmen
begin to look cheerful on their
way back from a Stunt practice.
The sophomores and seniors
think the juniors wrote the
freshman stunt! They haven't,
of course; they never do. They
have juniors to advise them. So
did we when we were freshmen.
Rut we wrote our own Stunt. All
freshmen do they know what
they want and they know how to
say it. Juniors can't write a Stunt
for freshmen; they don't know
how. Although the presence of a
comfortable handful of juniors
has a soothing and somewhat in-
vigorating effect on the fresh-
men, they are neither soothed
nor invigorated to the point of
trusting in the hands of juniors
so precious a thing as the Stunt.
There's really no secret transmis-
sion of junior thought to fresh-
man brains. It's poor taste to in-
timate that there is.

And it's horribly poor sports-
manship.

A Key to Current
History

What Has Gone Before

By Margaret Watson
In the fifteen years since its found-
ing the League of Nations has never
attempted to bring full pressure to
bear against any Great Power. It was
feared that the League could not do
this: but in the present Italo-Ethiopian
crisis her covenant is being upheld by
her most powerful member, Great
Britain, and it seems possible for the
League to exercise its stated power to
invoke sanctions against an unpro-
voked, aggressive nation.

When Italy and Ethiopia submitted
reports to the League early in the sum-
mer, an arbitration committee was ap-
pointed, being composed of two Ital-
ians and two white Ethiopians with
Dr. Niccolas Politis of Greece as chair-
man. The first week of September this
commission agreed unanimously in its
report that in the encounter at Ualual
(the specific "causi belli" mentioned
by both nations), where 32 Italians and
107 Ethiopians were killed, neither side
was to blame. It failed to decide
whether Ualual was in Ethiopia or in
Italian Somaliland.

Following that report the Italian
case was presented to the League As-
.embly by Baron Pompeo Aloisi. He
spoke of some revolting Ethiopian prac-
tices which are still sanctioned by sav-
age customs and of the prevalence of
slavery despite edicts against it. "Such
a country," declared the Baron, "is un-
fit to belong to the League of Nations."

Ethiopia's case was presented by the
French Law Professor Gaston Jeze, who
said that since neither side was to
blame for the Ualual incident no cause
for war exists. He continued, "In
France we have a proverb, 'When a
man wants to drown his dog, he first
says it is mad.' Italy, having desired
to conquer Ethiopia, begins by calling
Ethiopia mad."

The League then appointed a Com-
mittee of Five to draft a proposal for
settlement. The committee had as
chairman Salvador de Madariaga, of
ilpain, and as members Premier Labal,

(Continued on page 5, column 1)

BOOK NOTES

Golden Apples Marjorie Rinnan
Rawlings.

Henry Canby in his review of Miss j
Rawling's latest novel, Golden Apples,
likens the Florida setting of the book
to the Wessex country of Hardy's
works. Both, he explains, have the
"spiritual environment," unlike any
other part of the world. Through the
story a simple one of two orphans
trying to raise oranges on the Florida
scrub land, the author gives a new
beauty and understanding to the life
of the despised Cracker.

War to the year 1914. No less remark-
able than the undertaking of such a
task is the success with which Europa
has met. It holds the place of the third
most popular book on the nation's
fiction list.

The Lees of Virginia Biography of
I a Family, Burton M. Hendrick.

This is the biography of not one
brilliant man, but of six all sons of
the famous Thomas Lee. Richard Hen-
ry and Francis Lightfoot Lee signed the
Declaration of Independence; William
and Arthur Lee were prominent diplo-
mats in the American Revolution; and
the youngest, Arthur Lee, whose life is
the most emphasized, is also noted for
his negotiations in Europe. Mr. Hen-
drick also emphasizes the Lees of
"Stratford" rather than the "Leesyl-
vania" branch.

Red Sk} in the Morning Robert P.
Tristam Cofrin.

Hamlet, as a Maine fisherman, is a
rather difficult characterization to real-
ize. Yet Mr. Cofrin throughout his
novel, compares the hero, with his trou-
bles and sorrows, to Hamlet. Basil Dav-
enport calls the book "a poet's novel"
and speaks of the characters as having
no more analysis than one might expect
of a lvric.

Alumnae News

Ida Lois McDaniel, '3 5, is giving a
series of classes in Spoken English at
the Pro-Cathedral of Saint Philip.

Virginia Nelson, '3 5, is taking a bus-
iness course at the Atlanta Opportunity
School.

Nina Parke, '3 5, was an attendant
in Elinor (Hamilton) Hightower's
wedding in June.

Marie Simpson, '3 5, is traveling all
over Georgia, teaching in Baptist train-
ing schools. She is specializing in pri-
mary work.

Mary Green, '3 5, has been appointed
field organizer of the Atlanta Council
of Campfire Girls.

Betty Lou Houck, '3 5, has entered
the Yale School of Dramatics in New
Haven, Connecticut.

Caroline Long, '3 5, has announced
her engagement to Mr. Gaither San-
ford. The wedding will take place in
December.

Clara Morrison, '3 5, is teaching sci-
ence and math at Stone Mountain
High School.

Mary Jane Evans, '3 5, is taking a
business course in Fort Valley, Georgia.

Mary Virginia Allen, '3 5, is in Rich-
mond this winter, studying for her
M.A. degree through a correspondence
course from the University of Chicago.

Jane Cassells, '3 5, is teaching school
in Bamberg, South Carolina.

Sarah Bowman, alumna and a former
assistant in the Biology Department,
has taken the place of Miss Bee Turner
as Fie'd Captain of Atlanta Girl Scouts.

Emily (Spivey) Simmons, secretary
of the class of '25, has anounced the
birth of a daughter, Emily Ann, on
October 2.

Hettie Harkness, ex-'37, was married
^o Cornelius B. Shear on October 12,
1 93 5, in Vienna, Virginia. Rose North-
cross, '3 7, was an attendant in the wed-
ding.

Elizabeth Wilson, '22, who is editor
cf Sili er Screen, movie magazine, was
written up in Town and Country as
having been entertained recently by
Claudette Colbert.

(Continued on page 4, column 2)

Europa Robert Briffault.

Society with a capital letter is the
theme of Mr. BrirTault's "panorama of
European society." He writes of Europe
from the days following the World

// Memory Serves Sacha Guitry.

If Memory Seri es is not so much an
autobiography as an unraveling of one
of the most interesting peronalities in
France. Sacha Guitry, well known
playwright and actor, writes of his
amazing life with humor and reserve.
Kidnaped by his own father, spending
his childhood on the Russian stage,
writing plays by the week one act a
day all these facts and many others
he records in this account of his career.
Mr. Guitry 's most well-known play is
Pasteur.

(Continued on page 4, column 1)

EXCHANGES

If you like to be staggered here are
some figures that should do the trick
for you. If you were to get $24 a
minute it would take you 2,000 years
to earn the money the Government has
spent in the last three years.

Baudette (Minn.) Region.

dems, on which, at stops through the
White Mountains, passengers may
pedal about looking at autumn foliage.

Time.

Lest any one take undue credit to
himself for racial superiority in fore-
head height, Dr. Hrdlicka makes it
clear that this measurement has noth-
ing to do with intellectuality. He meas-
ured four groups: old Americans at
large, representing the "average citi-
zen" of native stock; Tennessee high-
landers, a group much retarded educa-
tionately; old American members of the
National Academy of Sciences, and
academy members without regard to
race. The latter two groups, of
course, may be presumed to be the very
cream of American intellectual life.

Their foreheads were all of almost
exactly the same average height. There
wasn't a twelfth of an inch difference
in the forehead heights of the four
groups, and the averages for the Old
American in the Academy and Old
Americans from the Tennessee moun-
tains were precisely the same! Science.

The Reich press pays glowing trib-
ute to the United States for giving the
Philippines their independence. Some
view this as evidence that Hitler may
follow precedent and free the Ger-
mans. Philadel phia Inquirer.

Big, burly Professor J. Duncan
Spaeth is famed among Princeton men
as the loudest lecturer on the faculty,
the most tumultuous impersonator of
Shakespearean characters, Princeton's
longtime crew coach (1910-25), half-
brother of "Tune Detective" Sigmund
Spaeth. Last week new, small Univer-
sity of Kansas City ran up great tele-
graph tolls persuading Professor Spaeth
to become its first president. Time.

"To see what the effect would be,"
James ("Jimmie") Donahue, Wool-
worth 5 and 10c heir, cousin of
Countess Barabara Hutton Haugwitz,
stepped onto a balcony of his Rome
hotel, shouted "Viva Ethiopia," squirt-
ed a syphon of soda water at a group
of young Fascists. Effect: two govern-
ment agents presently escorted Playboy
Donahue to the Italian frontier.

Time.

For several years before the Civil
War, about two-thirds of all the money
in circulation in this country was
worthless. One-third was counterfeit,
and the other third had been issued,
under loose laws, by impoverished and
irresponsible banks. Collier's.

One of the rarest things in the world
is a perfect human body one without
a defect of any kind. It is doubtful if
one has ever existed, because every in-
dividual is believed to have defective
vision. Some degree of astigmatism, it
is said, is present in every eye. Col-
lier's.

Boston and Maine R. R. announced
a week-end train out of Boston equip-
ped with 100 bicycles, including tan-

The heir to the African throne, Peter
Koinange, the future ruler of 3,000,-
000 East Africans, was graduated from
Ohio Wesleyan University.

Collegiate Digest.

Work for Wits

L Who wrote the following: (a)
The Hoosier Schoolmaster, (b) The
Lady or the Tiger, (c) Old Creole
Days, (d) Timothy Tit comb's Letters,
(e) Potiphar Papers, (f) The Fair
God?

2. Where is Amherst College?
Brown? Yale? Wellesley?

3. What three discoveries did the |
1 alchemists seek? Name a modern 1

science developed largely from al-
chemy.

4. Explain the origin and meaning
of "Hobson's choice."

5. The people of what state arc
called Rovers? Creoles? Tarheels? Wol-
verines? Badgers?

6. What does St. Patrick's Day j
commemorate?

7. For what is Charles William El-
iot noted? (b) Arthur T. Hadley? (c) j
A. Lawrence Lowell?

8. Who has been called the Plato

of China? Of whom was he a fol-
lower?

9. Associate each of the following
names with some public enterprise: (a)
fane Addams, (b) Clara Barton, (c)
Andrew Carnegie, (d) George W. Goe-
thals.

10. Give the title and author of
each of the poems beginning with: (a)
"Drink to me only with thine eyes";
(b) "How does the water come down
at Lodore?" (c) "One more unfortun-

,iu"; (d) "Now came still evening on,

and twilight gray"; (e) "Bowed with
the weight of centuries, he leans"; (f)
"Roll on, thou deep and dark blue
ocean roll"; (g) "When the wind
works against us in the dark"; (h)
"Backward, turn backward, O time in
VOW f light"; (i) "My mind to me a
kingdom is"; (j) "[ .im monarch of
all I survey."

( A //mi rrs on page 4, column 1 )

The Agonistic

3

Open Forum Promotes Thrilling

Debate on Ingenious Suggestions

Faculty members often must feel
certain qualms of curiosity as to what
fantastic action goes on when they,
baying just comfortably sighed and
slipped a little farther down into their
chapel seats, are informed in no gentle
or diplomatic manner that there will be
a student meeting. If they but realized
it, the whole fate and future of'Great-
er Agnes Scott" are deliberated and de-
cided at these very exclusive gather-
ings, notably, open forum. In this as-
sembly, progress is being made in
strides which are unbelievable. While
the administration is doing its part in
giving to the students new library fa-
cilities, new roads, sewers, ditches, and
other prosaic necessities of the campus,
the student body itself, "E pluribus
unum," in its wild enthusiasm is tak-
ing the initiative in striving for those
higher attainments which will make
Agnes Scott the college useful and the
college beautiful.

Only last week a motion was made to
place dainty (perhaps rose-budded and
lacy) waste paper baskets in obscure
corners and in the leafy foliage of
shrubbery about the campus. The most
serious objection to this ingenious sug
gestion is the fact that a waste paper
basket in the hand is worth two in the
bush. In the future strange forms seen
hovering around shrubs will not, as the
case may seem, be searching for lost
golf balls, collar buttons, or zoology
grasshoppers, but they will be diligent-
ly looking for nifty little containers in
which to place their chewing gum
wrappers. This little scheme might be
converted into an extra-curricula ac-
tivity like Easter egg hunting, provid-
ed the whereabouts of the exact basket
were unknown, which would make
them fugitives from trash cans.

A.A.U.P. Holds
First Meeting

The first meeting of the American
Association of University Professors
took place Monday afternoon, October
7, in the Y. W. C. A. cabinet room.
The president of the chapter, Profes-
sor Henry Robinson, of the mathe-
matics department, presided; the pro-
gram included talks by Mr. Robinson
and by Professor Alma Sydenstricker,
of the Bible department. Following
these a discussion and brief business
meeting were held.

The subject of Mr. Robinson's talk
was "Some Reasons for the Current
Trend in Mathematical Requirements."
Mrs. Sydenstricker spoke on "Biblical
Research."

About fifteen professors belong to
the Agnes Scott chapter of the Asso-
ciation. In order to be a member, the
professor must have been a college
teacher for two years.

The Ancient Mariner's cry, "water,
water, everywhere, and not a drop to
drink," inspired some thirsty soul, at
this same memorable meeting, to sug-
gest the placing of a water fountain
in the library. The chief objection to
this is, according to the radical left,
that girls would gather around the
cooler. One can see the vast possibili-
ties for bridges, teas, and receptions
around the little social beauty spot of
the college the water faucet. The
sound of tinkling crystal water, the low
twitter of the water fowl along with
the melodious quack of the duck, and
:he sweet fragrance of the water lily
would be a fitting background for any
social function, even a steak fry. The
possibilities of obtaining such a foun-
tain have even diminished excitement
over the new library, itself.

The opening of the new roadways
has been almost ignored because of the
wild agitation aroused in this same aug-
ust assembly over the merits of having
a pencil sharpener placed in Buttrick.
Though the enthusiastic "Order of
Pencil Whittlers" is still cheering, the
question of the hour remains unsettled
for decision must be passed by the ad-
ministration.

The climactic point was reached,
however, when a bold and courageous
senior defied conventions and proved
that hope still "springs eternal in the
human breast." In a dramatic yet rath-
er optimistic voice she asked that sen-
iors be allowed to come in at 12 P.M.
unchaperoned. Needless to say, the jun-
iors shrieked with horror, the sopho-
mores shouted in amazement, and the
freshmen, unknowing dears, yelled with
delight. Had the 10:30 bell not rung

{Continued on page 6, column 1)

French Club Receives

Fourteen New Members

Agonistic Delegates to Chicago

Aliee Chamlee, business manager and Lula Ames, editor of THE AGO-
NISTIC who will attend the annual convention of the Associated Collegiate
Press meeting in Chicago, October 17-11).

Cotillion Club Announces
Election of 22 Members

Spanish Club
Admits Three

Elsie Blackstone, Miriam Talmadge,
and Ovieda Long were admitted to the
Spanish Club at its annual fall try-outs
on Friday afternoon, October 11. As-
sistant Professor Melissa A. Cilley, of
the Spanish department and adviser to
the club; Lois Hart, president; and
Louise Brown, vice-president, judged
the tryouts.

In accordance with a ruling of the
President's Council, of which Virginia
Gaines is chairman, all language club
try-outs were held on the same after-
noon; the requirements for membership
have been made as uniform as possible
for all.

After tryouts on Friday, October
11, Nell White, president of the Agnes
Scott College Cotillion club, announced
the election of twenty-two new mem-
bers. Girls applying for membership in
the club were judged according to
poise, appearance, posture, ability in
dancing, and grace.

The new members are Martha Mc-
Afee, Kathleen Jones, Marjorie Scott,
Doris Dunn, Mary K. Matthews, Alice
Taylor, Mary Elizabeth Whitsell, Mar-
tha Peek Brown, Shirley Christian,
Alice Chamlee, Naomi Cooper, Jane
Dryfoos, Carolyn Elliott, Carolyn
White, Bee Merrill, Harriet Reid, Nell
Hemphill, Ellender Johnson, Jane
Moore Hamilton, Marcelle Cappatti,
Rosalinde Richards, and Mary Lib Mor-
row.

Fourteen girls, as the result of try-
outs held on Thursday afternoon, Oc-
tober 10, have increased the member-
ship of the French club to forty-three.
Of the twenty-six who tried out, the
following were selected for membership
by a committee composed of Jane
Thomas, president; Julia Thing, vice-
president; Ann Worthy Johnson, sec-
retary-treasurer of the club; Professor
Lucile Alexander; Associate Professor
Louise Hale; Assistant Professor Mar-
garet Pythian; and Miss Martha Crow,
all of the French department:

Bazalyn Coley, Margaret Hansell,
Zoe Wells, Jean Chalmers, Evelyn Wall
Ellen Little, Sarah Johnson, Ovieda
Long, Cecelia Baird, Emily Rowe, Enid
Middleton, Nell Scott, Regina Hur-
witz, and Josephine Bertolli.

The French Club met for the first
time this year on last Monday after-
noon. La Ma/sou du Crime, by Tristan
Bernard was presented by Jane Turner,
Mary Johnson, and Marcelle Cappatti
under the direction of Miss Alexander.
In addition Marcelle discussed the
French Foreign Legion and Alice
Chamlee played two selections by
French composers.

Special guests at this meeting in-
cluded the new members, and Mrs.
George P. Hayes, Clara Morrison, '3 5,
Jule McClatchey, '3 5, Louise Wesley,
'34, and others.

Agnes Scott Lends
G.S.C.W. Stunt Idea

The Georgia State College for Wom-
en at Milledgeville, Georgia, held its
first stunt contest on Saturday night,
October 12. The idea of the competi-
tion, which was between the freshman
and sophomore classes, was borrowed
from the traditional Agnes Scott Col-
lege Black Cat Contest.

Four Agnes Scott students, Martha
Crenshaw, Marie Stalker, Martha Head,
and Mary Jane King visited G. S. C.
W. for the occasion.

Freshman Y. Cabinet
Has Hobby Groups

At a class meeting held Wednesday,
October 9, the freshmen signed up for
hobby groups, which are under the di-
rection of the members of the Y. W. C.
A. freshman cabinet. These hobby
groups include the charm, book, cur-
rent events, handcraft, and music
groups. Ruby Hutton, vice-president
of the Y. W. C. A., states that the ma-
jority of the freshmen signed up at
this meeting.

The freshman cabinet is under the
leadership of Mildred Coit, president,
Louise Young, secretary, and Miss Les-
lie Gay lord, advisor. Meetings of the
Cabinet are held every other Thursday
night at 7 o'clock in the Y. W. C. A.
room. At present the members are
sponsoring a prayer group every after-
noon and planning their project
this year.

Faculty to Appear
On WSB Programs

"Finland" was the subject of a talk
made by Associate Professor Elizabeth
F. Jackson, of the history department,
on the first Agnes Scott College radio
program of the school year. It was the
first of a series of talks to be made
each Wednesday by members of the
faculty over radio station WSB. Asso-
ciate Professor Emily S. Dexter, of the
psychology and education department,
spoke on the second program; her topic
was "Fatigue."

This is the third year that Agnes
Scott College has presented weekly ra-
dio programs. They were begun in col-
laboration with Emory University, as
a series of University Round-Table dis-
cussions.

The programs this year are under
the direction of Assistant Professor
Janef Preston, of the English depart-
ment, and are announced by Miss Polly
Vaughan, of the spoken English de-
partment.

for

Margaret Bland Sewell

Publishes Third Play

F. CARY REPRESENTS
CHURCH FOR Y. P. S. L.

Washington and Lee University re-
ceived 1200 books from the collection
of the late J. B. Payne, recent bene-
factor of the college. The rare books
in Payne's collection were left outright

to the State of Virginia.

Ring-Turn Phi.

During the month of October sev-
eral colleges are celebrating the four
hundredth anniversary of the publica-
tion of the English Bible. A complete
translation of the Bible was first pub-
lished in English on October 4, 1 5 3 5.
This anniversary is being observed in
every English-speaking country.

Frances Cary was a delegate to the
Young People's Service League Conven-
tion of the Episcopal church of the
diocese of Upper South Carolina, held
October 11-13 in Rock Hill, S. C, at
the Church of Our Savior. Frances
went as a representative from the St.
James' Y. P. S. L. of Greenville, S. C.
All leagues of the Upper Diocese of
South Carolina sent delegates.

Frances left Agnes Scott last Thurs-
day afternoon, and returned to the col-
lege on Sunday.

(NSFA) First steps in an intensive
safety campaign to eliminate the num-
ber of automobile accidents involving
Antioch College students were taken
recently when the Traffic Committee
of Community (Student) Government
held an inspection of all student-owned
cars. The program includes a thorough
mechanical check-up, a comprehensive
driver's examination, appending of
metal tags to licenses, and the presen-
tation of a mandate requiring personal
liability and property damage insurance
in accordance with the Ohio state fi-
nancial responsibility law.

"The gum-chewing girl and the cud-
chewing cow
They're somehow different; I wonder
just how.
Oh, yes, I think I have it now,
It's the thoughtful look on the face of
the cow." Sundial.

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Mrs. Frank Sewell, the former Mar-
garet Bland of the class of 1920, has
recently written her third play, First
at Bethel, which was released on Sep-
tember 2 8 by the publisher, Samuel
French. The play is a story of a Con-
federate veteran, and is described as
being one that fills a need for South-
ern Memorial Day tributes. It is very
adaptable for Little Theater produc-
tions.

Mrs. Se well's other plays are Pink
and Patches, and Spinach Spitters,
which was published last year.

Before her marriage, Mrs. Sewell was
connected with the French department
at Agnes Scott.

Alumnae Speak
To High Schools

Mrs. Frances Craighead Dwyer,
president of the Agnes Scott Alumnae
Association, Miss Alberta Palmour,
field secretary, and Miss Jacqueline
Woolfolk, left last Sunday, October
13, on a trip which will take them
through three states. The itinerary in-
cludes Charlotte, N. C, where Miss
Palmour will address members of the
two upper classses of the high school,
and where Mrs. Dwyer will speak to
the Charlotte chapter of the Alumnae
Association, which has 74 members.
She will show them pictures of the rose
pergola in the Alumnae Gardens, to
which they so largely contributed.

The group will then go to Belmont,
Lincolnton, and Shelby, in North Car-
olina; Greenville, Belton, and Ander-
son, in South Carolina, in each of which
cities Miss Palmour will address the
high schools on the subject of Agnes
Scott, showing them moving pictures
taken at the college. The three will re-
turn to the campus on Saturday, Oc-
tober 19.

Traits that make us liked:

1. Can you always be depended upon
to do what you say you will?

2. Do you go out of your way to
help others cheerfully?

3. Do you avoid exaggerations in
your statements?

4. Do you avoid being sarcastic?

5. Do you refrain from showing off
how much you know?

6. Do you keep your clothing neat
and tidy?

7. Are you natural rather than dig-
nified?

8. Do you avoid borrowing things?

9. Do you avoid making fun of
others to their faces?

10. Do you avoid criticising others?

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Phi Beta Kappa Initiates
Elizabeth Burke Burdette

Mrs. W. C. Burdette, who was form-
erly Elizabeth Burke, '16, was initiated
into Phi Beta Kappa at a special meet-
ing held Friday, October 11. She was
elected to Phi Beta Kappa in 1931,
but could not be initiated then because
she was living in Lima, Peru, where her
husband is in the consular service. Mrs.
Burdette is now on a visit in this
country.

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SOCIETY

Rose Northcross spent the latter
part of last week in Washington, D. O,
where she was maid of honor in the
wedding of Hettie Harkness, a former
Agnes Scott student of the class of '37.

Jerry White and Barton Jackson at-
tended the Delta Sigma Delta dance
on Wednesday night.

Jane Dryfoos attended a Ballyhoo
dance in Atlanta on Thursday night.

Helen Handte, Martha Young, and
Virginia Tumlin were among those
present at the Anak dance at the Tech
Armory on Saturday night.

Susan Bryan, Betty Adams, and
Anne Wheaton attended a K. A. dance
at Emory.

Mary Hollingsworth and Cary
Wheeler had lunch in Decatur with
Virginia Rumbly on Saturday.

Ruth Hunt and Isabel Richardson
attended a steak supper Saturday night.

Mrs. S. R. Brittingham visited her
daughter, Katherine, this week-end.

Lena Mae Willis attended the G. M.
A. dances last week-end.

Mamie Ratliff and Jeanne Redwine
went to their homes in Fayetteville,
Georgia, for the week-end.

Martha Marshall and Annie Lee
Crowell spent the week-end in Ameri-
cus, Ga., with Mrs. T. O. Marshall.

Florence Wade and Mary Elizabeth
Moss spent the week-end in Cornelia,
Georgia.

Jane Carithers and Catherine Jones
went to their homes in Winder, Geor-
gia, for the week-end.

Fannie B. Harris spent the week-end
with her aunt, Mrs. Sam Hollis.

Frances Wilson visited Alice Taylor
over the week-end.

BOOK NOTES

(Continued front page 2, column 4)
Dwight Morroiv Harold Nicolson.
At the beginning of this biography
Harold Nicolson writes: "What renders
Dwight Morrow so fascinating a sub-
ject for biography is that in the varied
and rapid expansion of his career, he
developed a new type of civilized
mind." And it is this "civilized mind"
of the Pennsylvanian lawyer, New
York financier, and United States Am-
bassador to Mexico, that the author
portrays in his biography. Mr. Nicol-
son pays a high tribute to Dwight
Morrow, in saying, "He is a model for
the completely civilized man."

NEXT WEEK
A special review of Anne Morrow Lindberg's,
"North Through the Orient."

WORK FOR WITS

(Continued from page 2, column 5)

L (a) Edward EgRleston j (b) Frank R.
Stockton; (c) George Washington Cable; (d)
J. (;. Holland; (e) George W. Curtis; (f) Lew
Wallace.

2. Amherst. Mass.; Providence, R. I.; New
Haven. Conn.; Wellesley, Mass.

3. To discover the philosopher's stone, a
mineral that would, by mere contact, turn
baser metals into gold; to prepare the elixir
of life, a substance which would prolong life
indefinitely; to discover the alcahest, or uni-
versal solvent. Chemistry.

4. Tobias Hobson was the first man in Eng-
land that let out hacking horses. When a man
tame for a horse he was led into the stable
where there was a wide choice; but he was
obliged to take the horse that stood next to
the stable door. Each customer, therefore, was
served alike according to his chance. Hence,
when something which ought to be one's own
choice is forced upon him. it is said he takes
Hobson's choice.

5. Colorado. Louisiana. North Carolina.
Michigan. Wisconsin.

6. Celebrated on March 17, the reputed date
of the death at Saul. Downpatrick, in the year
198, of the apostle and patron saint of Ireland.

7. (a) Educator, president of Harvard 1869-
[909. lb) Educator, president of Yale 1899-1921 ;
American editor of the tenth edition of the En-
cyclopedia Britannic*, (c) Educator, president
of Harvard 1909-1933.

8. Mencius, 372 B.C., the last and greatest
apostle of Confucius.

JJ. (a) Social and political reformer, head
resident of Hull House, (b) Founder and or-
ganizer of National Red Cross in the United
States. <c) Capitalist, manufacturer, philan-
thropist, gave huge sums of money for estab-
lishment of branch libraries, (d) Chief engi-
neer of Panama Canal; governor of Panama
( anal Zone, 1914-16.

10. (a) TO CELIA, Ben Jonson. (b) CAT-
AJRACT OF LODORE. Robert Southey. (c)
THE BRIDGE OF SIGHS, Thomas Hood, (d)
EVENING IN PARADISE, John Milton, (e)
MAN WITH THE HOE. Edwin Markham. (f)
THE OCEAN. Lord Byron, (g) STORM FEAR,
Robert Frost, (h) ROCK ME TO SLEEP, Eliz-
abeth A. Allen, (i) MY MINI). A KINGDOM,
Sir Edward Dyer. (j) ALEXANDER SEL-
KIRK. William Cowper.

Some of us have been at our work a
year, two years; some of us are just
beginning. What is to come out of this
year's work depends upon what we are
going to put into it. Siilcm/tc.

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The sophomore class made twenty
dollars for its Black Cat stunt at a
rummage sale held in Decatur on Sat-
urday, September 2 8. Laura Coit was
in charge.

Among the sophomores assisting at
the sale were: Myrl Chafin, Martha
McAfee, Caroline Elliott, Virginia
Hart, Nell Allison, Jane Guthrie, Julia
Telford, Mary McCann Hudson, and
Elizabeth Warden. All the articles sold
were collected by the students and con-
sisted of old dresses, hats, shoes, coats,
jewelry, pajamas, and blouses. The ar-
ticles ranged in price from lc to 50c.

ALUMNAE NEWS

(Continued from page 2, column 3)
Mary Lib (Squires) Doughman, '3 5.
is living in Atlanta this winter.

Nell Tarpley, '3 5, is teaching in the
high school in her hometown, Hamp-
ton, Georgia.

Elizabeth Thrasher, '3 5, is working
in the office of the Industrial Life and
Health Company in Atlanta.

Laura Whitner, '3 5, is studying lab-
oratory technique at Emory University
this session.

Virginia Wood, '3 5, is studying voice
on the Agnes Scott campus.

Elizabeth Young, '3 5, is teaching the
fourth grade in the Fair Street School
in Atlanta.

Alice Frierson, ex-'3 5, spent part of
the summer at Lakemont, Georgia, and
two months in Fort Union, Virginia.

Clara McConnel, '3 5, is running a
stocking shop in the Piedmont Hotel
with Aline Timmons.

HALLIBURTON WILL

LECTURE IN ATLANTA

(Continued from page 1, column 1)
dramatic story he has ever had to tell.

Mr. Halliburton has made a num-
ber of trips around the world since the
time he left Princeton. The results,
conclusions and findings of his first-
hand gathered information he will give
in his latest and most thrilling lecture,
"Seven League Boots."

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NOTICE

Rev. Peter Marshall, pastor of
the Westminster Presbyterian
Church, will speak in chapel Fri-
day morning. October 25, on the
Y. W. C. A. program. His sub-
ject will be "The Test of a Chris-
tian." He will come on Friday
instead of Tuesday, the regular
Y. W. C. A. day.

9 Members Elected
To German Club

The nine new members of the Ger-
man club include Hortense Norton,
June Matthews, Kathryn Bowen, Ora
Muse, Wayve Lewis, Ruth Hertzka,
Ann Worthy Johnson, Jane Thomas,
and Jane Dryfoos. These girls were se-
lected at the annual fall try-outs on
Friday, October 11, by a committee
made up of Ethelyn Johnson, presi-
dent of the club; Mary Kneale, vice-
president; and Professor Muriel Harn,
of the German department.

The German club will hold its first
meeting this afternoon in Miss Harn's
room in Lupton Cottage. Miss Harn
will discuss the opera she heard the past
summer in Munich. The new members
will be welcomed at this time.

Faculty Notes

Miss Elizabeth F. Jackson spent the
week-end at Milledgeville, Georgia. She
visited and inspected the excavations
of the Indian mounds around Macon
on Sunday.

Miss Muriel Harn will be hostess to
the faculty members of Boyd and Ans-
ley Cottages at coffee in Lupton on
Friday night.

Miss Nannette Hopkins had as her
guest at dinner in Rebekah Scott din-
ing room last Friday night Mrs. W. C.
Burdette, Agnes Scott '16.

Miss Louise Hale poured at Senior
Coffee last Sunday. Ann Coffee and
Lily Weeks were hostesses.

Dr. J. R. McCain was in charge of
the regular morning services of the
Panthersville Presbyterian Church on
last Sunday morning.

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CLUBS

Bible Club
At the last meeting of the Bible
Club held Monday, October 7, Alice
Hannah was elected treasurer to re-
place Frances Steele, who is unable to
hold this position.

Granddaughters' Club
Granddaughters' Club announces the
following new members: Willie Jones,
Kathleen Jones, Susan Goodwyn,
Martha Marshall, Jeanne Redwine, and
Julia Sewell.

Chi Beta Phi Sigma
Chi Beta Phi Sigma wishes to an-
nounce that all science students only,
not chemistry students, are eligible for
membership.

Glee Club
The fall try-outs for the Glee Club
were held on Thursday, Oct. 10, in
Mr. Johnson's studio. The new mem-
bers are: Caroline Armistead, Virginia
Kyle, Amelia Nickels, Marie Stalker,
Mary Primrose Noble, Sara Lawrence,
Katherine Leipold, Miriam Sanders,
Mildred Coit, Emma McMullen, Bar-
bara Cassat, Margaret Hansell, Mary

Frances Guthrie, Esthere Ogden, and
Hortense Norton.

B. O. Z.

The first meeting of B. O. Z. will be
held Friday afternoon, October 18, at
4:3 0 in Miss Preston's room. B. O. Z.
is the literal) club on the campus and
is especially interested in essays and
short stories.

Try-outs will be held Thursday, Oc-
tober 17.

K. U. B.

K. U. B. held its regular monthly
meeting Wednesday, October 9, at 4:30
in the Y. \Y. C. A. cabinet room.
Two new officers were elected at this
meeting: First vice-president, Barton
Jackson; secretary, Mary Walker. Bar-
ton Jackson is taking the place of Gene
Brown who did not return to school
this year, and Mary Walker is replacing
Barton Jackson as secretary.

Eta Sigma Phi
Eta Sigma Phi announces two new
members, Isabel Richardson and Lulu
Ames.

R. Crispin Is
Assisstant In
A.S.C. Library

Miss Rosalyn Crispin, '3 5, of Gulf-
port, Mississippi, arrived at Agnes
Scott College on Sunday, October 13,
to take the place left by Miss Ada Page
Foote as an assistant in the library.

Miss Foote resigned here to accept
the position of supervisor of District
Six for Mississippi for PWA; her work
is with extension libraries. Her head-
quarters are in Jackson. She left on last
Wednesday afternoon.

Miss Crispin assumed her duties on
Monday morning.

College Officials
Speak to Synods

Dr. J. R. McCain, president of Ag-
nes Scott College, will address the Pres-
byterian Synod of Georgia today in
Athens. His subject will be the recent
improvements made on the Agnes
Scott campus.

Today, also, Mr. S. G. Stukes, reg-
istrar, will address the Synod of Florida
at Lakeland.

Last Wednesday Dr. McCain was in
Mobile, Alabama, to attend and speak
before the Presbyterian Synod of that
state.

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Pi Alpha Selects
4; Debate Set
For Nov. 12

new

Pi Alpha Phi admitted four
members at its annual fall try-outs
held on Thursday night, October 10.
They are Lillian Croft, Lulu Croft,
Frances Lee, and Florence Little. The
committee of selection was composed
of Sarah Catherine Wood, president;
Nellie Margaret Gilroy, vice-president;
Lucile Dennison, treasurer; Edith Mer-
lin, secretary; and Professor George P.
Hayes, of the English department, ad-
viser to the debating society. Those
who tried out chose one of the sub-
jects posted and, after listing the
points, developed one for two minutes;
thev were judged on delivery, logic,
and general debating ability.

The Cambridge Union Society-Agnes
Scott College debate has been set defi-
nitely for November 12. Edith Merlin
and Sarah Catherine Wood will uphold
the negative for Agnes Scott on the
question, Resolved: That in the opinion
of this house the judiciary should have
no power to override the decisions of
the executive and the legislature. Cuth-
bert James McCall Alport and John
Royle will speak for Cambridge.

Debating Society Officers

REPORTERS FOR THIS ISSUE:

Jane Turner
Hortense Jones
Mary Richardson
Eliza King
Ruth Hertzka
Anne Wheaton

Ora Muse
Nell Allison
Alice Cheeseman
Giddy Erwin
Carol Hale

Above are Nellie Margaret Gilroy, vice-president, and Lucille Dennison,
treasurer, standing; seated are Sarah Catherine Wood, president, and Edith
Merlin, secretary of Pi Alpha Phi. Sarah Catherine and Edith will speak
for Agnes Scott in the international debate on Nov. 12.

(NSFA) Reports from colleges
throughout the country indicate an in-
crease in enrollments average almost
3 %, This figure is based on unofficial
advance figures which indicate that
there will be more than 20,000 addi-
tional under-graduates studying this
year and that the total number will at
least equal the record set in 1929-30.

A KEY TO CURRENT HISTORY

(Continued from page 2, column 3)
Captain Eden, Polish minister Josef
Beck, and Turkish minister Rushtu
Aras. This committee proposed a
scheme for a League High Commis-
sioner and subordinates appointed by
the League to reorganize Ethiopia's po-
litical system completely and in a meas-
ure to exercise control. The commit-
tee did not state whether or not the
League appointees would be predomi-
nately Italian, but it was assumed that
they would be. Ethiopia guardedly
announced that she was willing to dis-
cuss such a plan; but Italy, because of
the "vagueness" of the proposal, reject-
ed it and proposed a plan whereby she
would simply take over Ethiopia. This
plan was rejected by the League and
resulted in a deadlock.

However, the Council, sitting as a
committee of thirteen, excluding Italy
and Ethiopia, made a statement on Sep-
tember 4: "We are working under Ar-
ticle XV of the Covenant." This arti-
cle deals with disputes not submitted to
arbitration and gives the League au-
thority to take such action "as it deems
wise and effectual to safeguard the
peace of nations."

Sir Samuel Hoare, British Secretary
of State for Foreign Affairs, stated

Britain's position when he said to the
League Assembly, "Great Britain stands
for steady and collective maintenance
of responsibility, and particularly for
collective resistance to all acts of un-
provoked aggression." Since actual war
has broken out, Britain has repeated and
emphasized this statement, especially
the word "collective." She does not
want to support the League alone but
is angling now for France's support.
France has promised England the use
of her naval bases in the Mediterranean
in case of war, but, as yet, has made no
definite statement concerning support
of the League.

A new Committee of Six has been
appointed by the League Council to
study the situation since fighting has
begun. This committee is composed of
Great Britain, France, Rumania, Por-
tugal, Chile, and Denmark. These
countries will probably decide on the
kind of sanction to be invoked against
Italy, the aggressor. League sanctions
are of four kinds: (1) recalling of all
the diplomatic representatives from dis-
credited nation; (2) refusing further
credit to that nation; (3) making an
international boycott; (4) declaring
war against the offending nation by
all League states.

A.S.C. Alumnae
Fete Sponsors
At Three Teas

The Agnes Scott College Alumnae
Association will entertain the sponsors
at three informal teas, to be given at
4:30 in the Alumnae Garden on Oc-
tober 21, 22, and 23. The teas are
given in appreciation of the work that
the sponsors have done in the orienta-
tion of the new students.

Mrs. Samuel Inman Cooper, chair-
man of the entertainment committee,
is in charge of the teas. Her commit-
tee is composed of Mrs. S. B. Slack,
Mrs. Francis Dwyer, Mrs. J. F. Dur-
rett, Mrs. R. L. MacDougal, and Mrs.
Cullen Gosnell.

Different members of the committee
will be hostesses for the teas. Approx-
imately twenty sponsors are invited to
^ach tea.

ROBERT FROST USES REALISM
IN NUMEROUS POEMS ON TREES

(Continued from page 1, column 2)
poets who use nature as their theme
must, almost of necessity, deal with
trees. However, to Frost they have an
added significance and a greater influ-
ence than it is possible to find in most
other nature poets. The obvious ques-
tion is therefore, exactly what signifi-
cance do these trees have for Frost?
Why does he use them in such a great
body of his poetry?

It seems to me that there are three
reasons for this. First, the trees are to
Robert Frost a symbol of his isolation
from the world. That he does feel him-
self withdrawn from the paths in
which the majority of mankind tread is
clearly stated in the poem "New
Hampshire" in which he says,
"I may as well confess myself the
author

Of several books against the world
in general"
He likewise expresses the same idea in
the poem, "The Road Not Taken," in
which he describes his life as a travel
through the woods,

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I
/ took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."
Frost does not care for the glitter of
the world, nor for the bustle of city
life. His very nature compels him to
lead a life closely allied with the soil.
In the poem, "The Vantage Point," he
uses the trees as a symbol of this isola-
tion from the world, "If tired of trees,
I seek again mankind" or in "Bereft"
the leaves symbolize the same thing:
"Out in the porch's sagging floor,
Leaves got up in a coil and hissed,
Something sinister in the tone
Told me my secret must be known,
Word I was in the house alone
Somehow must have gotten abroad,
Word I was in my life alone,
Word I had no one left but God"
Secondly, the trees have significance
for Frost, because in his isolation, it is
from them that he gains strength and
inspiration. They seem to be the force
which anchors him to the earth. In one
of his earlier lyrics, Frost thus describes
how the trees inspire him ever to strug-
gle on along the road which he had
chosen in "The Road Not Taken:"
"I should not be withheld but that
some day
Into their vastness I sJyould steal away,
Y earless if ever finding open land,
Or highway where the slow wheel

pours the sand
They would not find me changed

from him they knew
Only more sure of all I thought was
true:'

But if this road which he choose is a
lonely one, it is also a beautiful one
so often made lovely by those same
trees whose beauty seems enough to
satisfy the soul of the poet. Once he
says:

'Td like to go by climbing a birch
tree,

And climb black branches up a snow-
white trunk

Toward heaven "
The third reason that Frost turns to
the trees for much of his poetry, is be-
cause in them he sees a reflection of
his every mood. In the dark, lonely
house of "The Hill Wife" they mirror
the feeling of mystery and desolate
fear:

'She had no saying dark enough

For the dark pine that kept
Forever trying the window-latch
Of the room where they slept.
The tireless but ineffectual hands "
In "The Sound of the Trees" they per-
fectly express Frost's restlessness and
desire to wander:

"Sometimes when I watch trees sway,
From the window or the door
I shall set forth for somewhere,
I shall make the restless choice
Some day when they are in voice
And tossing "
Sometimes the trees seem to Frost an

expression of lightness and buoyancy

as in "Tree at My Window" when he

says:

"Not all your light tongues talking
aloud

Could be profound" or they may seem
to sympathize when the poet's soul is
swept with a tempest:
"But trees, I have seen you taken and
tossed,

And if you have seen me when I slept,
You have seen me when I was taken

and swept
And all but lost"
To Robert Frost the trees are thus
one of the chief springs of his inspir-
ation, symbolic of the life which he
has chosen, and one of the most satis-
fying things to his soul.

One of the chief values of poetry is
that through the poet's eyes we are en-
abled to see familiar things in a new
way. Those of us who have read any
of the poetry of Robert Frost can never
again see trees in the same old way. We
shall never be able to forget the pic-
tures which he has given us of the
straight, dark evergreens, the maples
"each scarlet and pale pink," or the
slim, silver birches, whose tops, for
Frost, must ever point skyward.

During the World War a group in
Brussels, in constant danger of their
lives, clandestinely published and dis-
tributed a little newspaper of facts,
under the nose of the German army,
which never caught a single individual
with a copy in his home or upon his
person during a three years' search. La
Libre Belgique was printed on thin
paper, letterhead size, and each dealer
received his supply in a holLow walking
stick. Collier's.

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OPEN FORUM PROMOTES
INGENIOUS SUGGESTIONS

{Continued from page 3, column 2)
at that time, one may feel reasonably
sure that many more constructive, pro-
gressive, lasting suggestions would have
been considered ideas vital to the life
and reputation of Agnes Scott.

For instance, some enterprising
American history student could sug-
gest that a committee of not less than
10 and not more than 1 1 be appointed
to see that Dr. Davidson's roll book
is in his hands at 8 o'clock on Mon-
day, Wednesday, and Friday mornings.
A glistening-eyed senior could tearful-
ly suggest that Mr. Dickinson, the re-
nowned artist, should paint a portrait
of the immortal Fidesah to be hung be-
neath the hook and ladder.

Another rather radical good demo-
cratic motion would be that girls be
allowed to hold mass meetings in the
day student telephone booth in Main.

Some member of the A. A. could
submit in the forum for approval the
plan of having an annual football game
Latin vs. Greek department, or if
the parlor in Main does not facilitate
such activity, a lively, hair-raising
spelling bee. Another very constructive
accomplishment would be the passing
of an act which would prevent Miss
Jackson from asking any question on
a test which requires outlining or dis-
cussing.

And last but most important from
the standpoint of the student welfare
as a whole, an anonymous personage
could tactfully point out that a Chau-
cer corner somewhat similar to a poe-
try corner should be established which,
it is hoped, will abolish that depressing
drone of voices all over the campus
every other day about 1:2 5 a unison
of voices chanting together
"Whan that Aprille with his shoures
soote

The droghte of March hath perced
to the roote."

Hicky Reads Works
At Davison-Paxon's

king urges girls Seniors, Sophs Win a. a. and m. b. to

TO SHOOTARCHERY jj^j^ PLAN WEEK-END FUN

By Close Scores

Mary Jane King announces that the
requirement for the Archery Club is a

score of 175 on two Columbia rounds. Wkh SCQre of 4 _ 0 the seniors de _

Everyone interested in archery is urged feated the juniors m the fim hockey

(NSFA) An algae sandwich and
some sea moss pudding may be a lunch-
counter order of the near future if
Americans take to heart the advice of
Dr. Josephine E. Tilden, professor of
botany at the University of Minne-
sota, and add more sea-weed to their
daily diet. "No other known food,"
declares Dr. Tilden, "contains such a
wealth of minerals and vitamins."

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to come out any Tuesday afternoon at
3:3 0 and practice toward that score,
which will be raised to about 22 5 in
the spring. An interesting project of
the Archery Club this year will be
teaching high school girls how to shoot.
The sport is gaining in popularity
everywhere and the Archery Club of-
fers an excellent opportunity for im-
provement. The class managers, with
the exception of the freshman manager,
have been selected and are as follows:
senior, Lenna Sue McClure; junior,
Ellen O'Donnell; sophomore, Mary
Alice Baker.

A. A. Names '35 Council
To Pick Hockey Varsity

The Varsity Council for hockey has
been selected. Those who will work
with Miss Llewellyn Wilburn, Helen
Handte, and Lena Armstrong are Miss
Elizabeth Mitchell, Frances Cary, and
Rachel Kennedy. The second game of
the season will be played Friday after-
noon at 3:30, and everybodv is urged
to attend. All the teams are good this
year, and it will be a close race for the
hockey banner.

In the will of one Mrs. Hansi Glo-
gau, filed in White Plains, N. Y., news-
hawks spied the following passages: "I
have had various operations on my head
which Dr. Harvey Cushing, now of
New Haven, Conn., most skillfully
and generously performed; I believe
that a study of my head after my
death may serve the advancement of
science, and I therefore direct that it
be severed from my body and deliv

ered to the said Dr. Cushing." At the

Yale Medical School famed Brain Sur- Merrill; Roper__R.B

geon Cushing, father-in-law of James

Roosevelt, said he was already working Adams L.B

on Mrs. Glogau's brain which had been Robinson G Clegg

j marred by a tumor of the pituitary j Scorer Lulu Ames.

I gland. Time. Timekeeper Sarah Johnson.

game of the season on last Friday aft-
ernoon. The freshmen lost to the soph-
omores by a score of 2-1. An enthu-
siastic crowd cheered, while a news-
paper photographer took pictures of
the teams in action. Earlier in the aft-
ernoon, Mr. S. G. Stukes, registrar,
took colored pictures of the teams and
side line.

All four teams played well, but the
freshmen deserve special mention. The
forward line showed good team work,
especially Shloss and Dryfoos with
their passing and stick work, while
Moses made the only goal for her team.
Henderson and Coit scored for the
sophomores, while Stevens, Handte, and
Coffee made goals for the seniors.
The line-ups were as follows:
Senior Junior

Hart __R.W Jackson

Stevens R.I McCain

Handte C.F Fleece

Burson; Coffee __ L.I Johnson

Derrick __ L.W Belser

Grimson;

Townsend R.H Harris

Armstrong C.H Little

Crenshaw L.H Lasseter

Miller R.B Gillespie

Estes, S. F L.B Taylor

Forman G Estes, J.

Sophomore Freshmen
Croft, Lu, Lil__R.W.-_Flynt; Purnell

Henderson R.I. Dryfoos; Ivie

Coit, L C.F Shloss

Wright; Lee L.I Moses

Elliott; Davis __L.W.__ __Coit, M.;

Shortley

Ware; Allison___R.H. _ __ Doty

Hassell; C.H Crowell;

Noble; Reeves

Blackshear L.H. ^Marshall;

Cheeseman
McMullen;
Harding
Young

Mortar Board has delegated the
Athletic Association to have charge of
recreation for Saturday afternoons and
nights. A committee composed of one
faculty member and two student mem-
bers will be appointed each month to
work out a recreational program. This
month the committee consists of Miss
Llewellyn Wilburn, Florence Lasseter,
and Frances Robinson. The pool will
probably be open on Saturdays, and
everyone is invited to use the ping pong
sets in the basement of the gymnasium.

Umpires Miss Wilburn and Miss
Mitchell.

The next games will be played on
this Friday afternoon at 3:30.

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Daniel Whitehead Hicky. well-
known Atlanta poet, was the guest of
honor at a tea given by Davison-
Paxon's bookstore on Thursday, Octo-
ber 10. The occasion marked the ap-

, pearance of his latest book. Call Back

; the Spring.

Miss Jessie Hopkins, librarian of
Carnegie, introduced Mr. Hicky, who
read several poems from the book in-
cluding: "Sounds," "Autumn," "A
Grave in Belleau," and "Credo." An-
other feature of the program was the
singing of two of the poet's songs
which have been set to music by Ken-
neth Walton, famous English composer.

Over 1,000 people attended the tea,
including many Agnes Scott students.

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VOL. XXI

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 23, 1935

NO. 4

Four From A.S.C. Attend

r>nr\ Speak at Investiture
Press Convention of SVi) Service, November 2

Lulu Ames, editor, and Alice Cham-
lee, business manager of The Agonis-
tic; Shirley Christian, editor, and Sa-
rah Jones, business manager of the S/7-
houcttc returned to the campus on
Sunday from the fourteenth annual
meeting of the Associated Collegiate
Press held in Chicago at the Medinah
Club, October 17-19. By a vote of the
3 00 delegates from 37 states in attend-
ance this year, the Associated Collegi-
ate Press and the National College
Press Association will combine into one
organization, thereby broadening the
scope of the work done in connection
with college press and avoiding dupli-
cation in program and objectives.

This convention, the first one at
which Agnes Scott College has been
represented, was divided into three
main groups: year books, newspapers, |
and magazines. Each of these was di-
vided into business and editorial
groups; and the editorial section of the
newspapers were further separated into
round-tables for papers published less
frequently than twice a week and lec-
cures for dailies and tri-weeklies.

Among the topics discussed inform-
ally by the former section were news
coverage, staff organization, the edi-
torial, society, and sports pages, and
editorial and business staff relations.
The matter of salaries for staff mem-
bers was argued but no formal action
was taken.

Able Speakers Heard

Sterling North, literary editor of the
Chicago Daily News opened the con-
vention on Thursday with a talk on
"What the Young Writer Must Face."
Mr. North, himself only a few years
removed from college, drew illustra-
tions of the hardships suffered by a
would-be metropolitan news person
from his own experiences. Leland
Stowe, Paris correspondent for the New
York Herald -Tribune, closed the ses-
sion on Saturday with an address on
"The European vs. the American
Press." Mr. Stowe has only recently re-
turned to this country and, through-
out his talk, he described graphically
the situation of the press under the
present systems in Germany, Italy, and
Russia.

On Thursday night the delegates
were guests of Stewart-Warner at their
weekly Alemite Program broadcast
from the grand ball room of the Me-
dinah Club over the C.B.S. An all-
convention no-speeches banquet was
held on Friday night at which James
Hall, popular movie star, presented a
floor show; this was followed by a

(Continued on page 4, column 2)

Kreisler Opens
Concert Series

Committee Grants
New Privileges

Beginning with Fritz Kreisler, and
looking forward to Ethel Barrymore,
music and drama will add much to the
cultural life of Atlanta this season,
and will afford Agnes Scott College
students many opportunities of hear-
ing and seeing excellent concerts and
plays.

Of special interest to the college stu-
dents is the All-Star Concert series at
the Shrine Mosque; this series, which
opened October 22 with Fritz Kreisler,
will bring the National Symphony Or-
chestra on November 13, and La Ar-
gentina on December 3.

There are several other interesting
programs planned for the near future.
The Fine Arts division of the Decatur
Woman's Club will present a violin,
'cello, and piano recital on October 27
at the Decatur Woman's Club house.
The Mu Omega chapter of Mu Phi Ep-
silon has announced a concert at Cable
Hall on October 3 1.

In the field of drama and literature,
the next month offers several interest-

(Coutinued on page 4, column 1)

Sunday dates, to go into effect at a
later time, and Y. W. C. A. open
house, are privileges and pleasures
granted Agnes Scott College students
by the Administrative Committee at
its meeting Thursday afternoon, Octo-
ber 17. The Dean's office has not yet
announced when the girls may have
the Sunday dates.

The final request made by Student
Government for the student body was
that seniors with dates be allowed to
return unchaperoned to the college un-
til 11:30. The council refused this on
the grounds that distinction in rules
is between upper and lower classmen,
not between juniors and seniors. The
ruling in this connection is that upper-
classmen with dates may come in un-
chaperoned until 11:00 o'clock; the
council felt this hour to be sufficiently
late. All dates at the College may re-
main until 11:00 o'clock.

The other matter passed on by the
Administrative Committee means that
books and magazines will be available
for students to read on Sunday after-
noon. This plan is sponsored by the
Y. W. C. A., who will hold this open
house in the Y. W. C. A. Cabinet
Room every Sunday afternoon. They
will obtain the books and magazines
from the College library.

The Administrative Committee
meets quarterly to consider problems
that are beyond the power of the Stu-
dent Government Association; it is
made up of five members of the ad-
ministration and five members from
Student Government. Those from the
administration are Dr. J. R. McCain,
Dean Nannette Hopkins, Dr. Mary F.
Sweet, Mr. S. G. Stukes, and Miss Car-
rie Scandrett. Representatives from
student government are Adelaide Ste-
vens, Frances James, Mary Jane Tigert,
Frances Wilson, and Carrie Phinney
Latimer.

C. Fleece Orders
College Rings
For Classes

Charline Fleece, the junior chairman
of the ring committee, will take or-
ders from seniors and juniors for the
Agnes Scott College rings either now
or just before Thanksgiving. Rings or-
dered now will arrive around Thanks-
giving; those ordered at the end of
November will be delivered at home
C. O. D. in time for Christmas. De-
signs are also being made by the Herff-
Jones Company for Agnes Scott Col-
lege pins, and will be submitted for ap-
proval at a later date.

The price of the rings is the same
as that of last year: the solid gold ones
are $12.50; the ones with silver in the
back are $1 1.25. The ring may be pur-
chased by paying an initial price of
$3.00, and the rest in convenient in-
stallments.

The cost of the pins has been ap-
proximated at the following rates:
$7.50 for a pin set with pearls; $5.50
for a gold and black enamel one; and
$3.50 for the gold filled one, with the
black enamel.

The design of the ring will remain
as it is, as the Alumnae Association
voted against any change. In the spring
of 1934, the rings were changed from
a plainer style to the present one with
its black onyx face, on which are en-
graved the letters A. S. C. The degree
and year of graduation appear on the
shanks.

Miss C. Scandrett To Freshmen Win Black Cat;

Break Five Year Record

Miss Carrie Lou Scandrett, assistant
dean of Agnes Scott College and an
adviser of the senior class, will deliver
the address at the annual investiture
service to be held in Gaines Chapel on
Saturday, November 2.

The seniors chose Miss Scandrett as
their speaker at a class meeting held
on Thursday, October 10. On October
18, Master Henry Robinson, five-year-
old son of Professor Henry Robinson,
of the mathematics department of Ag-
nes Scott, was elected mascot of the
senior class. Henry will lead the pro-
cession of sophomores dressed in white
and seniors wearing academic gowns.
Dean Nannette Hopkins will perform
the traditional capping ceremony.

Investiture, which was begun in
1908, 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. As each senior receives
her cap from Miss Hopkins, she is in-
vested by the college with the full priv-
ileges and dignity of seniorhood.

"Little Girl Day," on which the sen-
iors will for the last time don hair
ribbons and short dresses, will be ob-
served on Friday, November 1. This
occasion is also traditional to the sen-
ior class and is observed annually on
the day before investiture.

A.S.C. Will Have
New Tennis Courts

Further improvements on the Agnes
Scott College campus include the build-
ing of three new clay tennis courts,
the extending of the hockey field for
sixty feet, and the construction of a
concrete practice wall at the end of
the field. The wall will serve the dou-
ble purpose of holding up the bank of
the field and of being a practise wall
for the tennis courts just below the
field.

Two of the courts will be laid off
in the old riding terrace, at the rear
of the McCain house. The other court
will be parallel with College Place, in
front of Mr. S. G. Stukes' home. The
two present courts that are below the
hockey field are to be moved down
near the car tracks on Doroughty
Street.

The fill-in dirt for the courts is be
ing brought from the grounds of the
new Decatur post office.

"Wooster Bulletin"
Begins 50th Year

Ranking as the second oldest publi-
cation of its kind in America, the
Wooster Alumni Bulletin opens with
the current October issue the fiftieth
year of its continuous existence. Dr.
Arthur Compton, the noted physicist
who lectured last spring at Agnes
Scott College, is an alumnus of the
College of Wooster, and last year was
president of the Alumni Association.

From 1 886 to 1903, the title of the
publication was that of the Postgrad-
uate and Wooster Quarterly. For the
next eighteen years its name was short-
ened to the Wooster Quarterly. At that
time, too, the name of "Wooster Uni-
versity" was changed to "College of
Wooster." Since 1921 the magazine has
been known as the Wooster Alumni
Bulletin.

Professor Alma Sydcnstricker, of the
Bible department at Agnes Scott Col-
lege, attended Wooster University.

Decatur to Have
New Post Office

Work on the new postoffice building
for Decatur has been started on the
site at the corner of Church Street
and Trinity Place, two blocks from
Agnes Scott. Approximately five per
cent of the mail handled by the office
is for the College. It has been estimated
that almost two thousand letters are
received from or delivered to Agnes
Scott each week. Figures were not ob-
tainable as to the number of packages
and special delivery letters handled.

The new postoffice will be con-
structed of marble furnished by Geor-
gia quarries. White marble will be used
for the outside of the building and
the floors, while colored marble will
be used for the trimming and wains-
coting in the main lobby and in the
interior. New furnishings will be used
throughout. There will be one main
entrance on to Trinity Place.

The building will be erected accord-
ing to plans similar to those of other
small postoffices in the state, and,
when completed, will add greatly to
the beauty of Decatur's business sec-
tion. The contract for the construc-
tion of the new postoffice was award-
ed to E. M. Williams, Monroe con-
tractor.

The Decatur postoffice has been lo-
cated in its present quarters in the
Masonic Temple since January 1, 1925.
Since that time it has grown consid-
erably, and the service to its patrons
has been steadily improved. During the
past ten years postal receipts here have
been increased by over $13,000.00.

Sydney Dickinson
Displays Work
For Public

Sydney Dickinson, eminent New
York artist, is exhibiting 21 of his
portraits at the High Museum of Art
during the week of October 13-27. The
exhibit includes the portraits of Dr. J.
R. McCain, president of Agnes Scott
College, Mr. J. K. Orr, chairman of
the board of trustees, and Mr. Samuel
M. Inman, a former chairman. These
portraits Mr. Dickinson painted last
year.

Other prominent Atlantians whose
portraits are on display are Mr. J. J.
Haverty, Mr. Clarence Haverty, Mrs.
Clarence Haverty, Mrs. Russell Bell-
man, Dr. Lon W. Grove, Mrs. Beverly
M. DuBose, Mr. G. Arthur Howell, Mr.
Cator Woolford, Mr. T. Guy Wool-
ford, Mr. Walter C. Hill, Mr. Claude
M. Frederick, Mr. George A. Bland,
Mr. Ryburn G. Clay, Mr. Andrew M.
Fairlie, Mrs. J. M. High, Mrs. Thomas
P. Hinman, Mr. George W. Adair, and
Mrs. James E. Hickey, Sr.

Sponsors of the preview of Mr. Dick-
inson's portraits are Agnes Scott Col-
lege, Mr. J. J. Haverty, Mr. Beverly
M. DuBose, Mr. Ryburn Clay, Mrs. G.
Arthur Howell, Mr. Andrew M. Fair-
lie, and Retail Credit Company.

Mr. Dickinson, artist of note, has
received the two highest portrait
awards of the United States: the Coral
Beck gold medal, Pennsylvania, and the
Maynard prize, National Academy. He
is represented in the following mu-
seums: Cochran Gallery, Washington,
D. C, and the Chicago Art Institute,
Chicago, 111.

For the first time in five years, the
freshman class holds the Black Cat,
who celebrated his twentieth birthday
when he was presented to Anna Mar-
garet Riepma, freshman stunt chair-
man, after the contest in which the
freshmen defeated the sophomores on
last Saturday evening, October 19, in
Bucher Scott Gymnasium. The winning
stunt was Agnes in Scot t-Land , a
clever adaptation of Lewis Carroll's
Alice in Wonderland ; the sophomore
presentation was Disputin' Ratspntin,
a colorful Russian tale under the di-
rection of Ann Worthy Johnson, stunt
chairman. The judges for the contest
were Miss Carrie Scandrett, assistant
dean of Agnes Scott College; Miss
Blanche Miller, instructor of biology;
and Professor Philip Davidson, of his-
tory. Their unanimous decision was
based on presentation and originality.
Both Stunts Original

The freshman stunt was about Ag-
nes and her magic handbook, stolen
by Queen Sophie; throughout the
struggle to regain the book, in which
Agnes was helped by the Junior Bunny,
was a background of Agnes Scott re-
ceptions, open forums, and administra-
tive offices. The sophomores' Dispntin'
Ratsput/n opened with fiery soap-box
oratory, puns, and signs of "Down
with the Sophiettes," and ended with
the Pied Piper leading away the fresh-
man rats who had dared rebel against
Czar Raise McCainsky and the Sophiet
Brawn Trust.

The gymnasium was decorated with
a huge freshman king, queen, and rab-
bit on the left wall, a long string of
handbooks, and bunches of purple bal-
loons; the sophomores on the right
wall, had a Russian czar, a rat, and
a mousetrap to signify their stunt.
Red and white festoons of paper indi-
cated their class colors. Juniors and
freshmen, transformed by yellow bun-
ny ears, and seniors and sophomores,
equipped with bright red caps, cheered
in traditional manner for their respec-
tive classes and sister classes.

The cast of the freshman class in-
cluded:

Agnes Mary Pennell Simeton

Junior Bunny Anne Purnell

Registration Card .Catherine I vie

Teller Tart Kay Kennedy

Queen Sophie

Mary Frances Guthrie

Drowsy Dormouse

Jane Moore Hamilton
(Continued on page 4, column 1)

M. B. Will Install
Chapter in Ala.

Six members of the Agnes Scott
College chapter of Mortar Board will
leave Saturday, October 2 6, to assist
in the installation of a chapter of the
national honorary society at Birming-
ham-Southern College, Birmingham,
Alabama.

Those who plan to make the trip are
Carrie Phinney Latimer, Frances James,
Ruby Hutton, Loice Richards, Dean
McKoin, and Miss Alberta Palmour,
'3 5, alumna member of Mortar Board.

The formal installation service will
take place at sunset on October 26,
w hen Scroll, present honor society of
the college, will be officially accepted
into the national organization. A for-
mal banquet will follow the service.
Sunday afternoon, a tea will be given
in honor of the installing officer, Mrs.
Harry F. Richards, who has been a fre-
quent visitor and speaker on the Agnes
Scott College campus.

Mortar Board is a national senior
honorary organization, with member-
ship based on scholarship, leadership,
and service. The members of the active
chapter at Agnes Scott include Carrie
Phinney Latimer, president; Lulu
Ames, Shirley Christian, Ann Coffee,
Ruby Hutton, Frances James, Augusta
King, Dean McKoin, Sarah Spencer,
Adelaide Stevens, and Loice Richards.

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WlTA MORELAND

A Key to Current
History

THE UNITED STATES' NEUTRAL-
ITY IN THE ITALO-ETHIOPIAN
CONFLICT
By Fannie B. Harris
Just before the close of the last ses-
sion of Congress President Roosevelt
attached his signature to the Joint Neu-
trality Resolution presented by Con-
gress and thus charted Washington's
official course at least until February,
193 6. This resolution provides that the
President shall declare an embargo on
the shipment of implements of war to
the belligerents in case of a war be-
tween foreign nations; that the Presi-
dent shall list those articles to be con-
sidered "arms, munitions, and imple-
ments of war"; and that within the
State Department a National Munition
Control Board shall be set up to reg-
ister by November 30 every manufac-
turer and exporter of arms, munitions,
and implements of war and thereafter
to issue licenses for the shipment of
such articles to other nations.

Three days after fighting actually
began in Ethiopia, but two days be-
fore the League officially noted its be

BOOKS
Review s and Note s

BUT WHAT HAS I Cat last Friday night. And for

THAT TO DO WITH US? i breaking the spell that has hung

The collegiate world, in an ef- ! heavy over freshmen heads since ginning, President Roosevelt issued a
fort to make its opinions known,

staged an all-college peace dem- this impossible years ago in 1930.
onstration on April 12 last. Stu- Unfortunately for them, how-

3ver, they shall be expected to

dents who, for nine months of

the Class of '34 accomplished | statement from San Diego, California,

to the effect that since "a state of war
unhappily exists between Ethiopia and
the Kingdom of Italy," the citizens of

the year, are theoretically tucked win evei T other contest that

away in soft down and cotton,
rose almost as a body and ex-
pressed whole-hearted opposition
to war of any kind, for any cause,
in any place. Some of the "re-
bellions" reached bloody and un-
ruly proportions; some were
peaceful but forceful exhibitions;
many were squelched in the mak-
ing. These activities were good
news copy for the college papers.

Their aftermath were excellent
subjects for personal comment
by college editors throughout the
States. The withdrawal by Mr.
Wahlgreen of his daughter from
the University of Chicago and
his charge of communism against
President Hutchins echoed and
re-echoed in the American colle-
giate press. The back-boneless
behavior of the administration of
the University of Michigan after
it had been accused of attempted
"indoctrination of the youth"
brought showers of collegiate
condemnation. The suspension,
early in May, of five Hunter Col-
lege students for mixing in

shall be scattered in their way
They shall be looked upon as un-
usual ; and their class shall be re-
garded as one of great promise.
And they will probably live up to
all the expectations.

The sophomores more than
likely have yet to arrive at an
unbiased attitude toward the
matter. It should be some con-
solation to them although it
doubtless isn't now that they
were defeated by another good
class. And the fact that they
have been able to round up some
good, friendly, healthy antagon-
ism toward the underclass indi-
cates that all the spice, and vim,
and worth of the Stunt has not
wasted away through years of
constant use.

WHAT GOOD

ARE CONVENTIONS?

When as many as four dele-
gates attend a convention at so
distant a city as Chicago, the
"Red Q ues tion "Are these things
ff ' s" losed the academic vear worthwhile?" logically arises in
l C ~* jj^ii'f,, the student and, in some cases,

in a stew of unrest, dissatisiac- . \ x , .

t' n and susDicion ' faculty mind. It is common

ion, an s p . . Wll i - knowledge that such meetings

The students who conceived 01 . . u fe ... /
th> ace demonstration last rmsn acce P^ a ble excuses for
e pe ce carried ft absence from classes; and the

spring an more distant the place of conven-

through to its various conclu- . , - . . _> ,

1 ing, the more fun the trip is. But,

sions h ; ^e graduated and left our happens?

in 1 ", }tl SLpH n, , thP What do we do? Do we learn any-
us in that they pointed out the , . ?

wav we should come; thev forced u ^

A meeting whose attendance is

us to realize our position in the
affairs of this changing world.

drawn from 37 states cannot help

, i . , T , I but broaden the out-look of the

By their example, we have been , i i i r 4.

1 1 j * 4U 4 *u * o^4 ; individual delegate. The contact
led to see that the time spent in ^ students B fram other col .

college is not ape nod for ma rk-| , h collefiriate careers are

tag time, for others to , dentical whose Voblems, more
make our plans, tor idling gener-
ally. We are no longer a large

the United States are admonished to
abstain from exporting "arms, muni-
tions, or implements of war" to either
of these belligerents. During the pre-
vious week he had published a list of
"Impiements of War/' and this list ac-
companied his declaration of the em-
bargo.

In a voluntary message accompany-
ing his mandatory embargo President
Roosevelt issued a warning to Ameri-
cans that if they embark in belligerent
ships and continue communication and
trade with belligerent countries they
do so at their own risk. In other words,
he is really determined to avoid "those
perils which endanger our peace with
the world."

There is much discussion concerning
these mandatory and voluntary state-
ments made by the President. Some cit-
izens have said that, while mortars,
machine guns, and methyldichlorarsine
are obviously "Implements of War,"
in time of war many other goods be-
come "means of war" to a nation at
war, and that in order to maintain
strict neutrality the President's list
may have to be revised. Under the
Joint Resolution, however, the Presi-
dent has no authority to make such
a revision. It is also significant to note
that the President has no authority to
place or lift an embargo on only one
of the belligerents. While many are
(Continued on page 4, column 2)

North to the Orient Anne Morrow
Lindbergh.

(Reviewed by Elizabeth Warden.)

"As I turn over the pages, seeking
concrete examples to illustrate my esti-
mate of North to the Orient , I find it
difficult to make a selection; it seems
a pity to omit anything!" So one re-
viewer has spoken of Anne Lindbergh's
book, which is her personal story of
the "survey flight over the great cir-
cle route from New York to Tokyo,"
made by Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh
in the summer of 1931. From the first
to the last page the reader is held spell-
bound, as Mrs. Lindbergh paints the
vast panorama of their flight across
the frozen wastes of Canada and Alas-
ka, across the Bering Sea and the Rus-
sian peninsula, over the Japanese Em-
pire, and inland to Hankow. Acting in
the role of radio operator, Mrs. Lind-
bergh had thrilling experiences trying
to communicate with the world during
rain, wind, fog, and hail. When they
were nearing Nome, fuel was running
low, and a landing had to be made be-
fore dark. They did not, however,
know at what hour dark fell at Nome.
After repeated efforts she got her mes-
sage through:

WXY WXY What
time does it get dark at
Nome?" And at last the answer:

"Men are going to put
flares on Nome River."

Illustrated with maps drawn by her
husband, Mrs. Lindbergh's book is a
delightful combination of geography,
travel, and adventure, the whole per-
vaded by a sense of the beautiful which
only a poet can give.

Alumnae News

mass of unimportant beings.

Thi> changed conception of the
student is not peculiar to stu-
dent minds. Our courses have
been expanded to include practi-
cal Study Of current problems.
We are taught the value of think-
ing for ourselves, of ceasing to
be unsuspecting, purposeless, un-
thinking individuals. As molders

in number, perhaps, and more
complicated but similar nonethe-
less to her own, creates a new
perspective of what she has left
on her own campus.

As for the matter of learning
something new, no college editor
knows all there is about the
tricks of the collegiate press
trade. Somehow it fortifies the
nirit to greater effort toward

, , .. , , higher ends; the stimulus to the

and CO-moIderS ^*J^f^pinion mQra]e js incalculabU ,

And as Agnes Scott climbs

of tomorrow we are obligated to
build up sane, stable attitudes to-
ward the problems that confront
our citizenship.

We are faced with a world pre-
paring for war. What is our
stand ?

The Alumnae Association gave a tea
for the sixty-two sponsors on Monday,
Tuesday, and Wednesday afternoons at
the Alumnae House at 4:3 0. Members
of the Entertainment Committee were
hostesses. Members of the Executive
Committee of the Alumnae Associa-
tion were also present.

Frances (Craighead) Dwyer, '2 8,
President of the Alumnae Association,
and Alberta Palmour were in Charlotte,
N. C, Monday, October 14, attending
the fall meeting of the Alumnae As-
sociation. There were thirty present,
including some out-of-town guests.
Ten dollars was raised for use on the
Alumnae House.

On October 16 the Business Girls
Group of the Atlanta Agnes Scott Club
held a meeting at the Daffodil Tea
Room. Emma Wesley, '99, spoke on
progressive education.

On October 1$ the Atlanta Agnes
Scott Club announced a series of lec-
tures which it is sponsoring for the
home interest of the alumnae. Those

ucational who speak are Mr ' Harold Bush '
Miss Marv Miller, Mrs. S. Y. Tupper,

great geniuses are wine. Everybody
drinks water."

From the recently published note-
books of Mark Twain comes this whim-
sical comment and many others. These
diaries, hitherto ransacked by biogra-
phers, are now printed in full with
many notes, which in 1912 were
thought "hardly suited for polite so-
ciety." In no better way can one com-
plete or stimulate his study of the fore-
most humorist of the 19th century
than by a perusal of his private and
philosophical notes. One of the most
quoted of these is, "It is the strangest
thing thai the world is not full of
books that scoff at the pitiful world
and the useless universe and violent,
contemptible human race books that
laugh at the whole paltry scheme and
deride it. Curious, for millions of men
die every year with these feelings in
their hearts. Why don't I write such
a book? Because I have a family. There
is no other reason."

Mark Twain's Notebook Prepared
for publication by Albert Bigelow
Paine.

"Mv books are water those of the

There's Always Tomorrow: The
Story of a Checkered Life Marguerite
Harrison.

It is hard to determine which is the
most interesting the author, Marguer-
ite Harrison, or her new book, There's
Always Tomorrow. For it is a report-
er's book, written by a reporter for a
reporter and of a reporter's experiences
as an "American Agent" in Europe
during and after the Great War. Hailed
as a "find" by the Baltimore Sun just
before the war, young Marguerite Har-
rison was sent to Europe, where she
wandered around from Germany to
Russia, barely escaping the firing squad
but always getting her story. This is
the story which she has now turned
into one of the most popular books of
the day, winning her anew the title of
one of America's three outstanding
women reporters.

'Wav Out In the World

Nineteen colleges and universities
are giving prizes to those seniors who
have acquired the most interesting li-
brary during their college years.

Three universities in Chicago are
sponsoring a university of the air to
broadcast over five local stations. An
extensive four-year course is being
planned for this novel university.
Queens Blues.

"The human race has grown a full
two inches in average height the last
century," reported Dr. E. Boyd, Uni-
versity of Minnesota, after extensive
research.

Brazil sometimes solves her coffee
surplus problem by using it to fire rail-
road engines. Indian.

The State University of Iowa in
Iowa City has inaugurated a course
which deals with the problems of mar-
ried life.

A new series of broadcasts will be
featured this year by the National Stu-
dent Federation during its weekly pro-
grams over a nation-wide Columbia
Broadcasting System hook-up. The first
of these programs was heard October
16, and the others will be presented
each Wednesday afternoon from 4:00
to 4:15, Eastern Standard Time. New
York (NSFA).

Ten thousand students at Los An-
geles relief school are paid to go to
school and are docked if they cut
classes. The Tiger.

To continue Hull House in its spirit
of present usefulness and future prog-
ress, the trustees, upon the advice of
many friends, have established the Jane
Addams Memorial Fund. During her
life Miss Addams obtained from friends
or gave from her own resources about
$3 0,000 a year, one-third of the annual
budget of the House. It is hoped that
a sum can be raised, the income of
which will replace Miss Addams' finan-
cial contribution to the work she
founded and loved. Woman's Press.

Another argument for the virtues of
higher education is seen in the state-
ment made by Warden Lewis S. Lawes
of Sing Sing Prison, that college stu-
dents make very good prisoners.
Johnsonian.

Cannibalistic fish may serve the
cause of science. Recently an ichthyol-
ogist found in the stomachs of catfish
specimens of the great Caspian stur-
geon, which scientists had previously
been unable to study. He suggests that
his fellow-scientists dissect the stom-
achs of aquatic animals to find other
fish which have been swallowed.
S( icnttfic American.

Pure water is essential to health. 70
per cent of body weight is water; the
lens of the eye contains 98.7 per cent;
the lungs, 79 per cent; the heart 75.9
per cent; the blood, SO per cent; our
bones, 2 5 to 5 0 per cent even our
brains contain 90 per cent water!
Scientific A merican.

I ven higher in the
.field, representation at national

and sectional conventions wi n 1 ^d Mrs. Samuel C. Porter.
! come to be an absolute necessity, Margaret (Telford) St Amant, 33,
no longer a matter of choice and v,sited at A S ncs Scott College on Oc-
finances. An able press speaks tober ll and 12.

vy for the college. It is essential Frances (Fletcher) McGeachy, ex-

THL WHLhL Or \\\&X. fta managers and editors '3<>, has a daughter born October 9.

FORTTXK SPINS . . . take ever} opportunity to keep'The baby is the grandchild of Dr. D.

It la with unsisterly but proud up with the activities of their P. McGeachy, member of the board of

pleasure that we congratulate the contemporaries. trustees of Agnes Scott and pastor of

freshmen on winning the Black Hence the Chicago convention. 1 the Decatur Presbyterian Church.

Debating teams representing Oxford
and Cambridge Universities will arrive
in America on October 29 on the
Berengaria tor tours sponsored by
the National Student Federation. About
thirty engagements have been arranged
for each team. The Oxford speakers
will tour the mid-western states; the
Cambridge men, the East and the
South. The length of their stay in
America has not been determined be-
| cause many additional requests are be-
ing received at the NSFA office.
New York (NSFA).

An innovation introduced at Klmir.i
College in connection with the revised
curriculum adopted last spring is a new
system oi three-member advisory com-
mittees appointed from the faculty to
aid individual students in selecting
their courses. Each student is assigned
to a faculty committee made up of a
member of the department in which
the student expects to major, a mem-
ber of her second major department if
she has one, and another member cho-
sen from some other department. In
Cases where fl student has not devel-
oped a particular interest, she is en-
couraged to explore many fields until
her interest becomes apparent to her.

The advisory committees are con-
cerned with all phases of a student's
development and strive to suggest
courses that will supplement deficien-
cies in her earlier training as well as
develop her particular capabilities.

NSFA

The Agonistic

3

On the campus

International Relations Club
The International Relations Club
held its first meeting Tuesday, October
IS, at 4 o'clock in the Y. V. C. A.
Cabinet Room. Mr. Philip Davidson led
the discussion on "Italy and Ethiopia."

Cotillion Club
The Cotillion Club gave a tea-dance
Thursday, October 17, from 4 to 6 in
Mr. Christian Dieckmann's studio in
honor of the new members. Nancy
Tucker, Wita Moreland, and Nell
White were hostesses.

Y. \\ 7 . C. A. Music Appreciation
Group

The Music Appreciation Group of
the Y. W. C. A. is sponsoring musical
programs every Sunday night in the
Music Room in Main. These programs
are given at 7 o'clock, and everyone
who is interested in music is invited to
come. The life and music of an emi-
nent composer will be discussed each
week. There will also be occasional re-
quest programs.

Sunday night, October 20, Marcelle
Cappatti spoke on the music of Franz
Schubert. His Unfinished Symphony in
B Minor, the Ave Maria, The Serenade,
and his Moment Music ale were greatly
enjoyed as part of the musical program.

tha Summers, Sarah Turner, and Mary
Comely.

The publicity committee consists of
Kitty Printup, chairman; Jane Turner,
Shirley Christian, and Zoe Wells.

Making up the program committee
are Julia Thing, chairman; Ann Cof-
fee, Agnes McKoy, and Nell Allison.

The music committee comprises Eth-
elyn Johnson, chairman; Jean Kirkpat-
rick, Ruby Hutton, and Evelyn Wall.

The office bulletin committee in-
cludes Sarah Traynham, chairman;
Mildred Clark, and Mary Johnson.

Students, Faculty
Discuss Black Cat

Spanish Club
In honor of its new members, Oveida
Long, Miriam Talmadge, and Elsie
Blackstone, Spanish club gave a sup-
per hike to Ice Cream Springs Tues-
day, October 1 5.

Initiation of the three girls will be
I held at the next meeting, Tuesday,
November S.

Poetry Club
Four new members were admitted to
poetry club at its fall tryouts held on
Tuesday, October 15. They are: Lita
Goss, Carol Hale, Mildred Chandler,
and Myrl Chafin.

Eta Sigma Phi

Eta Sigma Phi will entertain at a
tea-dance Thursday, October 24, from
5 to 6 in the gymnasium in honor of
the new students of the classical de-
partment.

The new members of the club, Lulu
Ames and Isabel Richardson, were in-
itiated at the regular meeting held Oc-
tober 21 at 4:3 0 P. M.

French Club

Five committees are to divide the ac-
tivities of the French club, Jane
Thomas, president, announced at the
last meeting on Monday, October 14.

On the social committee are Naomi
Cooper, chairman; Janet Gray, Mar-

Citizenship Club

Professor Bryan of Emory Univer-
sity will speak to the Citizenship Club
at its regular meeting on Tuesday, Oc-
tober 2 9, at four o'clock. His subject
will be "The Supreme Court Today."
The meeting will be held in the Y. W.
C. A. Cabinet Room in Main.

All those who intend to join the
club are urged to be present at this
meeting.

and off again

Rachel Kennedy and Hortense Nor-
ton attended the Sigma Chi tea-dance
at Emory last Friday afternoon.

Nell White attended the Charity
Ball at the Piedmont Driving Club Fri-
day niqht.

Rosa Miller, Lavinia Scott, Gregory
Rowlett, Vivienne Trice, Naomi Coop-
er, Bee Merrill, Caroline Armistead,
Sue Bryan, and Ruth Tate were among
those who attended the Emory Medi-
cal Dance at Forest Hills County Club
Friday night.

Frances Steele, Nell Hemphill,
Nancy Tucker, Doris Dunn, and Vir-
ginia Turner attended the Alpha Kap-
pa Psi dinner-dance at East Lake Coun-
try Club Friday night.

Among those present at the Tech-
Duke football game were Kathleen
Jones, Esthere Ogden, Vera Marsh, and
Kathryn Bowen.

Marjorie Scott, Frances James, Helen
Handte, and Vera Marsh attended the
Tech Anak dance Saturday night.

Janet Gray and Virginia Gaines en-
tertained Georgia Goodson from Duke
University last week-end.

June Pearson from Shorter College
was the guest of Betty Stewart over
the week-end.

Exclusively
for

Agnes Scott Girls

Bring in this ad and receive
a beautiful evening bag
FREE

with the purchase of any
evening dress,
or

a hat FREE with any street
dress.

Threadgill's

Decatur's Only
Iveadv-to Wear

Bob Kennedy and Carl Wingard vis-
ited Rachel Kennedy last week-end.

Erma Mae Mohns entertained Rose
Lorena Martin from Birmingham over
the week-end.

Isabel Vretman visited Lena May
Willis and Emma Louise Turck during
the week-end.

Martha Fite had as her guest last
week-end Coy Watter of Dalton.

Hester and Anne Chafin spent last
week-end with Myrl Chafin.

Caroline Armistead visited relatives
in Newnan, Georgia, over the week-
end.

Mary Willis spent last week-end at
her home in Augusta, Georgia.

Flora McGuire went to her home in
Montgomery, Alabama, for the week-
end.

Sarah Frances McDonald attended a
dance at Peachtree Gardens on Satur-
day night.

Elizabeth Blackshear was a dinner
guest of the Delta Tau Delta frater-
nity at Tech last Sunday.

Lupton Cottage entertained at a
faculty coffee on Friday night, Octo-
ber 18.

Bailey Brothers Shoe Shop

Welcomes
AGNES SCOTT GIRLS!
1 12 Syeamore St. Decatur, Ga.

Agnes Scott Girls Enjoy the

Original Waffle
Shop

Restaurant

Famous for Fine

Foods
62 Pryor, N. E.
Just Below C andler Bldg.

Whether the Black Cat has grown
too young for Agnes Scott, or whether
Agnes Scott has grown too old for the
Black Cat, has been a matter of much
interest on the campus in the last few
weeks.

Students are almost universally in
favor of the stunt. Ruby Hutton, vice-
president of Y. W. C. A., believes that
the contest binds classes together, es-
pecially the freshman class, giving
many students opportunities to show
their talent and sense of responsibility.
Frances Cary, a junior, also believes
that the stunt promotes cooperation
between classes. She thinks that the up-
per classes are bery little benefited but
that the freshmen and sophomores get
a gleat deal of enjoyment out of it.

Lita Goss, editor of the Aurora, feels
that while the stunt is a good thing
generally speaking, there is far too
much stress laid on it both in time
and preparation. According to Sarah
Sbencer, also, president of Y. W. C. A.,
the stunt is very hard on lessons. "But,"
she adds, "fun comes with the stunt
that would not come in any other
way."

Miss Alberta Palmour, '3 5, field sec-
retary of the Alumnae Association, of-
fers the opinion that working on the
stunt not only brings out ingenuity
and wit that should be recognized, but
also gives a great deal of pleasure.

Faculty members appear to be rather
less sure of the advantages of the Black
Cat stunt, although some are in favor
of it.

Mr. S. G. Stukes, registrar, does not
believ that Agnes Scott has outgrown
the stunt. However, he states, it has
become too elaborate and important.
The first stunts ever given by Agnes
Scott students were much simpler and
more extemporaneous than the present
performances, taking a great deal less
time and expense. Mr. Stukes believes
that the spirit of rivalry has gradually
expanded the idea too much: there is
always a group in each class whose aca-
demic work suffers because of stunt ac-
tivity.

Miss Carrie Scandrett, assistant dean,
favors the stunt as long as it is kept
subordinate to scholastic work. It is a
necessary group function for the fresh-
men, but nevertheless has more disad-
vantages than advantages unless held
in its proper place. She has noticed that
this year the stunt has been better
planned and has caused less confusion
than on many other occasions.

Other faculty members think that
Agnes Scott has outgrown the Black
Cat stunt. According to Assistant Pro-
fessor Leslie Gaylord, of the mathemat-
ics department, too much time is spent
in preparation and there is too much
strain on the freshfen at the start of
their college work.

Dr. Mary F. Sweet believes that
some other occasion should be substi-
tuted for the stunt. The tension of
preparation tires some of the leaders
more than is wise, and some simpler
performance would be an improvement.
The original stunt was much less tax-
ing to the performers, and yet gave
as much pleasure, she says. "However,"
finishes Dr. Sweet, "it is up to the stu-
dents; let them choose for themselves
whether they prefer the stunt or some
substitute."

Tit les of Robert Frost's Poems

Fascinate Gr actuate of 1935

By Carolyn McCallum, '3 5
In reading the poetry of Robert
Frost I was impressed particularly by
the appropriate titles of the individual
poems. Even though my study has been
rather general and certainly brief, it
seems to me that Frost shows a par-
ticular astuteness and accuracy in nam-
ing his selections. The titles always re-
veal the vital and essential thing in the
poem.

For instance, he has called one of
his dramatic narratives The Fear in
doing so he has given in two mono-
syllables the very essence of the poem.
The important thing about the poem
is not the situation, the plot of two
men in love with a woman, but it is
the overwhelming, powerful fear of
the woman a fear so strong that every
time she returns home and turns the
key in the lock it seems to her to warn
someone to be getting out at one door
as she enters another. This intense fear
is the one thing that the poet is try-
ing to get across to his reader hence,
he entitles his poem The Fear.

Similarly in a poem in which he
wants to show an unwritten law to
which the New England laborer clings,
he creates a situation, gives a definite
incident, but it is the fact that
"The hand that knows his business
won't be told
To do work better or faster "
that is the important thing. He calls
the poem The Code to reveal this code
is the essential purpose of the poem, not
to present an actual situation and oc-
currence which he has used merely as
a vehicle.

Just so, in his lyrics, Frost signifi-
cantly tags each of them. I think the
titles reveal something of the emo-
tional depth of the poem. As an ex-
ample, he has called one of his earlier
lyrics Ghost House. He is showing his
isolation in an utterly forsaken old
house, but rather than the poet's alone-
ness, one gets the picture of a cellar
where the "purple-stemmed wild rasp-

berries grow," the "ruined fences," the
"disused and forgotten road" all ac-
centuate isolation, but it is the physi-
cal isolation of a house Ghost House.
In a later lyric, isolation is again the
theme but here, it is spiritual isolation.
The elements of nature are dwelt upon
only as they are symbolic of a man's
absolute solitude:

"Word I was in my life alone:
Word I had no one left but God."
The poem is entitled Bereft a title
definitely indicative of the essential
thought of the poems.

With the same appropriateness, Frost
has named one of his poems Lodged.
He has taken nature to express his feel-
ing, but it is the feeling rather than
the symbol which is the underlying
thought.

"The rain to the wind said
'You push and III pull:
They so smote the garden bed
That the f loners actually knelt,
And lay lodged though not dead.
I know how the flowers felt: 9
The title Lodged is, I think, self-ex-
planatory.

Again he has used nature to convey
his ideas in a little poem called Devo-
tion, but again it is the emotion, not
the description of natural elements
which is the real meaning to be con-
veyed.

On the other hand, one of the lyrics
is entitled The Tuft of Flowers, and,
certainly, it expresses deep feeling, but
at the same time, this description of
nature "a tall tuft of flowers beside
a brook" makes the poem more signif-
icant to me than does any great emo-
tional feeling that the poet might be
expressing. Consequently, for me The
Tuft of Flowers as a title is especially
significant.

Just so, Frost labels each of his
poems, I think, very appropriately. The
title, I have found, is usually defi-
nitely suggestive of the essential
thought of the poem.

Five Girls Elected
To liOZ This Fall

Five members were elected to BOZ
at its fall try-outs. These include Carol
Hale, June Matthews, Agnes J. Mc-
Koy, Brooks Spivey, and Betty Hollis.
The try-outs were handed in to Eliza-
beth Espy, president of the club. They
were judged by the members of the
club under the direction of Miss Janef
Preston, faculty adviser.

From all these opinions, it seems that
the Black Cat still reigns supreme as
a college tradition, bdt will in future
have to wave his tale with caution and
tact.

Presbyterian Young People
Extend Hearty Welcome
To A. S. C. Students

The Young People of the Decatur
Presbyterian Church extend a very cor-
dial invitation to Agnes Scott College
girls to attend their Young People's
meetings, which are held every Sunday
night at 7 o'clock. The programs are
planned especially for the young peo-
ple and are most interesting and bene-
ficial to all who hear them. Mary Alice
Baker will be glad to arrange for chap-
erons for all those who wish to attend
these meetings.

The Agnes Scott girls who attend
the Church will be guests at a party
on October 26 given by the Young
People's department under the direction
of Miss Doris Hunter.

MORGAN CLEANERS
Phone DEarborn 1372
423 Church St.

Hotel Candler

DINING ROOM
Offers

The same meal and prices
formerly furnished
in the Coffee Shop

Agnes Scott Girls
are cordially invited

Corner Ponce de Leon
and Church Street

Decatur, Ga.

BOWEN PRESS

COMMERCIAL PRINTING AND
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Blotters Note Paper Poster Paper
Office Supplies

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AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE

DECATUR, GA.

A college for women that is widely re cog-
nized for its standards of work and for the
interesting character of its student activities
For further information, address
J. R. McCAIN, President

The Agonistic

FRESHMEN WIN BLACK CAT;

BREAK FIVE YEAR RECORD

(Continued from page 1, column 5)

Heckled Hatter Jane Carithers

Trustee Turtle Helen Moses

King Senior Barbara Cassatt

Tweedle-LiLMary Elizabeth Moss

Tweedle-Lou Florence Wade

Waddling Walrus Jeanne Flynt

Choruses: Funny Bunnies, Harriet
Von Gremp, Vera Marsh, Elizabeth
Furlow, Charlotte French, Catherine
Ivie, Emma Lou Turck; Singing Chefs,
Anna Catherine Moore, Lucy Hill
Doty, Estelle Cuddy, Mamie Lee Rat-
cliff, Helen Kirkpatrick; Roistering
Oysters, Mamie Lee Ratcliff, Estelle
Cuddy, Mary Workman, Mary Ellen
Whetsell, Cary Wheeler, Mary Ellen
Steele.

Members of the sophomore cast
were:

Buttinsky Jane Guthrie

Ratsputin Anne Taylor

Czar Raise McCainsky

Mary Anne Kernan
Sophiet Brawn Trust:

Ivan Frances Norman

Skivinsky

Anna Katherine Fulton

Scvar Jeanne Matthews

Secretaries:

Abdul Kennon Henderson

de Bui Bui Catherine Hoffman

de Mere Ellen Little

Mr. Davidinsky

Martha Peek Brown

Mr. Stukesy Virginia Watson

Mr. Robinoff Mary Lillian Fairly

Miss Hopkinsky Myrl Chafin

Ella Ellen McCallic

? Margaret Morrison

Choruses: Rats, Laura Coit, Jean
Chalmers, Ola Kelly, Betty Lee An-
derson, Giddy Erwin, Frances Castle-
berry, Hibernia Hassell, Lulu Croft,
Lil Croft, Mary Ford, Alice Reins;
Vulgar Boatmen, Anne Thompson,
Ann Cullum, Joyce Roper, Betty Ad-
ams, Nell Allison, Elise Seay.

Freshman cheerleaders were Alice
Cheeseman, Caroline Carmichael, Ma-
rie Stalker, and Rachel Kennedy. Those
for the sophomores were Mary Venetia
Smith, Bee Merrill, Ellen Davis, and
Virginia Gaines.

Chairmen of the freshman commit-
tees were: writing, Douglas Lyle; pro-
gram, Mildred Coit; dance, Helen
Kirkpatrick; music, Marie Merritt;
properties, Nancy Lee Richardson; set-
ting, Jane Dryfoos; costumes, Mildred
Harding; and decorations, Esthere Og-
den.

The sophomore committee chairmen
included: writing, Elizabeth Cousins;
program, Jean Barry Adams; music,
Tommy Ruth Blackmon; costumes,
Carolyn Elliott; properties, Ruth
Hertzka; decorations, Ola Kelly;
scenery, Winifred Kellersberger; dance,
Kay Ricks; and financial, Eliza King.

Margaret Bell Leaves Oct. 22
To Be Cousin's Attendant
In Washington Wedding

Miss Margaret Bell, secretary to the
dean, left for Washington, D. C. on
October 22 to be an attendant in the
wedding of Marie Mclntyre, the daugh-
ter of Marvin Mclntyre, Miss Bell's
uncle, who is secretary to President
Roosevelt.

Another of the bridesmaids will be
Louisa Robert, ex-'3 6.

FOUR FROM A. S. C. ATTEND

PRESS CONVENTION OF 300

(Continued from page 1, column 1)
dance for which Charlie Straight and
his orchestra played.

The merging of the two college press
associations was attempted but met
with defeat at the annual convention
two years ago. A temporary organi-
zation was outlined after the vote this
year whose job for the next year will
be to complete all necessary plans. The
name of the new organization has not
yet been settled. Fred L. Kildow, di-
rector of A. C. P. and also a member
of the journalism faculty at the Uni-
versity of Minnesota, was appointed
chairman of the constitution and by-
laws committee.

Seniors Win at Hockey; Athletic
Clubs Have Interesting Activities

A

S. C. Episcopalians
To Entertain at Tea

For Bishop MikeU

With a last-minute goal the fresh-
men brought their score up to two for
a tie with the juniors, while the sen-
ors defeated the sophomores 3-0 in
the hockey games on last Friday, Oc-
tober 19. Shloss and Moses scored for
the freshmen, while Jackson and John-
son made goals for the juniors. Frances
Wilson played well for the juniors. The
entire senior forward line showed beau-
tiful team work. Hart played an out-
standing game, and King, playing her
first game, did exceptionally well.

Helen Handte, hockey manager, pre-
sented a very entertaining skit between
halves of the first game. There would
be no trouble in drawing a crowd if
hockey were played as the skit rep-
resented it. The sideline expressed a
desire to see more entertainments of
this kind.

The line-ups were as follows:

Senior Sophomore

Hart K.W Hudson

Stevens;

Burson __R.I Wright

Handte C.F Thompson

Coffee L.I L. Coit;

Derrick; Woodford

King _ L.W Hassell;

Croft

Townsend R.H Allison

Armstrong C.H Blackshear

Crenshaw L.H Warden;

Miller R.B.

Estes, S. F. L.B..

Forman G.__

Tribble; Noble

McCallie;

Merrill

Adams

Robinson

Junior Freshman

Jackson R.W Flynt

Johnson R.I. Dryfoos

Fleece C.F Shloss

Thing L.I Moses

Belser L.W M. Coit

Kneale R.H Whetsell;

Doty

Little C.H Crowell

Harris L.H Marshall

Taylor R.B.__ Turck; Young

Wilson __. L.B. _ McMullen

J. Estes G Clegg

Umpires: Miss Wilburn, Miss Mitch-
ell.

Scorer: Elizabeth Baethke.
Timekeeper: Sarah Johnson.

Twenty-five people went on the
moonlight hike Saturday night, Octo-
ber 12. Leaving from the gymnasium
they hiked out Columbia Drive, took
a short cut through the woods, and
came out at the Pig'n Whistle in Av-
ondale. Frances Robinson, hiking man-
ager, was in charge of the hike.

The Tennis Club has admitted

The Episcopal members of the fac-
ulty will entertain at a tea in honor
of Bishop H. J. Mikell, of the Diocese
of Atlanta, in the Anna Young Alum-
nae House from 4:30 to 6 on Thurs-
day afternoon, October 24. At this tea
the Episcopal students will have the
opportunity of meeting Bishop Mikell
and Rev. and Mrs. Charles Holding of
Decatur.

The guests will include the forty-
five Episcopal students at Agnes Scott
College. A committee appointed to es-
cort the new students to the tea con-
sists of Ann Martin, Lucile Dennison,
Jane Thomas, Mildred Davis, Frosty
Brown, Mary Hull, Frances Belford,
and Frances Cary.

new members: Anne Thompson, Ann
Cullum, Ellen Little, Rebecca Whitley,
Barbara Cassat, and Marion Derrick.
Much interest is being shown in the
tournament, which began Mondav, Oc-
tober 21. Mary Kneale, tennis man-
ager, announced that the sets must be
played off within three days.

The Outing Club held it< regular
meeting Tuesday afternoon. Plans have
already been made for the vear, with
the result that the program this year
is larger than it has been before. Classes
were begun Tuesday under the direc-
tion of Martha Long.

A KEY
TO CURRENT HISTOB V

(Continued from page 2, column 3)
criticizing Roosevelt's warning as too
sweeping and as utterly absurd in view
of the fact that Ethiopia has no ves-
sels, others maintain that the correct
stand has been taken that a few
should not be allowed to risk the peace
of the nation. Some citizens lament the
loss of trade with Italy, while others
maintain that the right of the United
States to remain neutral is greater than
t he right of a citizen to engage- in
trade which threatens neutrality.

Seventy-eight per cent of the news-
papers of America are said to approve
the President's neutrality proclamation
and to believe that it will go a long
way toward keeping this country out
of war. The other twenty-two per cent
consider his action premature since no
formal declaration of war has been
made and since there is uncertainty as
to the effect of the embargo on Amer-
ican trade.

KREISLER OPENS CONCERT
SERIES

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pear at the Erlanger Theatre on No-
vember 1-2, and Robert Frost will lec-
ture at Agnes Scott College on Novem-
ber 7. The Emory Players will give
Lewis Beach's The Goose Hangs High
on November 8, and the Blackfriars
of Agnes Scott will present A. A.
Milne's Mr. Pirn Passes By on Novem-
ber 22-23.

These are only a few of the many
interesting features of an artistic na-
ture that have been scheduled to be in
Atlanta.

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VOL. XXI

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1935

NO. 5

Committee Offers
Varied Ideas For
May Day Scenario

The annual contest for a May Day
scenario begins tomorrow, October 31,
and will continue through December
2, when all entries must have been sub-
mitted to the May Day Committee.
Since the May Day festival, which
takes place on the first Saturday every
May, is a colorful and attractive fea-
ture of the College program, the writ-
ing of the scenario is necessarily impor-
tant.

The committee has posted on the
bulletin board outside the library sev-
eral suggestions for the theme of the
scenario. They include a gypsy idea,
such as The Bohemian Girl; an Indian
idea; Rip Van Winkle; a German fes-
tival; Robin Hood; Hansel and Gretel;
a fairy tale, such as Snow-Drop or Cin-
derella; an English fair; and an histori-
cal one. Any subject may be used, and
the student may refer for help to the
May Day files in the Athletic Board
room on the second floor of Bucher
Scott Gymnasium.

Scenarios are to be turned in to any
member of the committee, of which
Eloisa Alexander is chairman and Jane
Blick, business manager. The remain-
der of the committee is composed of
Anne Thompson and Charline Fleece,
scenario; Sarah Nichols, Frances Steele,
Kathleen Daniel, and Sarah Turner,
costume; Helen Ford, Ruth Tate, and
Lucile Dennison, dance; Fannie B. Har-
ris, properties; Jane Wyatt, poster; and
Alice Chamlee, publicity.

Several girls may write the scenario
together. Last year Jane Blick and Alice
Chamlee wrote the winning scenario,
based on Peter Pan.

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A.S.C. Will Observe
Armistice Silence

Joining with all other college mem-
bers of the National Student Federa-
tion of America, Agnes Scott College
will observe two minutes of silence at
1 1 o'clock on Armistice Day, Novem-
ber 11. The imminent threat of an-
other World War is the immediate rea-
son for dedicating two minutes tribute
to those sacrificed in the last World
War. Students will remain in their
classrooms during this period, which
will begin when a bell rings at 11
o'clock and will end when Loice Rich-
ards plays taps from the quadrangle.

Dr. J. R. McCain, president of Ag-
nes Scott College, has requested that
the faculty and students cooperate in
this matter. Student organizations in-
dorsing this observance at Agnes Scott
are Thf Agonistic, Pi Alpha Phi, Y.
W. C. A., Student Government Asso-
ciation, and the Current History Fo-
rum.

(Continued on page 6, column 2)

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DR. McCAIN RETURNS
FROM BATON ROUGE
ON S. A. C. TRIP

Dr. J. R. McCain, president of Ag-
nes Scott College, spent several days
last week in Baton Rouge, La., work-
ing on a committee investigation of
political control of the state educa-
tional institutions of Louisiana. The
committee, of which Dr. McCain is
chairman, was appointed at the last
meeting of the Southern Association of
Secondary Schools and Colleges. The
chief purpose of this examination was
to observe the effects of the death of
the late Senator Huey P. Long on the
educational situation in Louisiana and
to investigate particularly the control
of the Louisiana State University and
Normal College.

The committee will make its report
at the meeting of the Southern Associa-
tion, to be held sometime in December
in Louisville, Ky.

Bids for Library
Will Open Today

Bids for the new Agnes Scott Col-
lege library opened today at 2 o'clock,
and it is assumed that the contract will
be let immediately. The construction
of the library is made possible by the
$450,000 pledged in the Greater Agnes
Scott Campaign which ended last July
first.

The library will be located between
Buttrick Hall and Bucher Scott Gym-
nasium, on the former site of West-
law n. It will be an L-shaped building,
set back about 30 feet from the back
campus drive, with its main entrance
at the northwest corner of the build-
ing, near Buttrick. In the front will
be a sunken lawn, and in the back, an
outdoor reading terrace.

The architecture is to be Gothic in
style, and will resemble that of But-
trick Hall. It will be called Carnegie
Hall.

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Second Concert

To Be Orchestra

102 to Receive
Caps From Dean
At Investiture

As the second feature on its pro-
gram, the All-Star Concert Series will
bring to Atlanta the National Sym-
phony Orchestra, of Washington, D.
O, and its famous conductor, Dr. Hans
Kindler. They will appear on Wednes-
day evening, November 13, at the Fox
Theater.

The National Symphony Orchestra,
one of America's major symphony or-
chestras, will be heard for the first
time in Atlanta. Conducted by Dr.
Hans Kindler, a man of unusual musi-
cal ability, this organization has won
within five seasons recognition as one
of the leading orchestras of the coun-
try. Dr. Kindler, who undertook the
task of developing this symphonic or-
ganization of his own, formerly has
made appearances as a guest conductor
with the New York Philharmonic, Phil-
adelphia Symphony, Paris, Vienna, and
other European orchestras.

Fritz Kreisler, noted violinist, opened
the All-Star Concert Series Tuesday
evening, October 22. More than 3 00
Agnes Scott College students were pres-
ent.

One hundred and two seniors, the
largest group to be invested in the his-
tory of Agnes Scott, will be invested at
the traditional ceremony in Gaines
Chapel on Saturday morning, Novem-
ber 2.

Miss Carrie Scandrett, assistant dean
of Agnes Scott College, and an adviser
of the senior class, will deliver the ad-
dress. Dean Nannette Hopkins will per-
form the capping ritual.

The investiture service, unique to
Agnes Scott, recognizes the members
of the senior class as a group, wearing
for the first time the academic caps
and gowns. As each senior receives her
cap from Miss Hopkins, she is invested
with the dignity and responsibilities of
seniorhood. The impressive service is
one of the most revered traditions of
Agnes Scott College.

The ceremony begins with a proces-
sion of the sophomores dressed in white
and the seniors, wearing academic
robes. The senior class mascot, Master
Henry Robinsn, son of Professor Henry
Robinson, of the mathematics depart-
ment of the College, will head the pro-
cession.

Parents and friends of many of the
seniors, and a large number of Alumnae
are expected to be on the campus for
investiture.

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Agonistic Sponsors
Ballot on Peace

A Peace Ballot, sponsored by The
Agonistic, will be mailed to all stu-
dents and faculty members of Agnes
Scott College tomorrow afternoon.
The ballot, which is patterned on ones
circulated in many American colleges
last year, will attempt to discover the
attitude of Agnes Scott toward the
matter of war, and of peace.

It is not necessary that the question-
naires be signed; only the class stand-
ing and, in the case of the faculty, the
department should be indicated. It is
hoped that from this information con-
clusions as to trends may be deter-
mined.

Students and faculty alike are urged
to answer the questions and to return
the ballots to The Agonistic by Fri-
day, November 8. The results of the
poll will be carried in the Armistice
Week edition of the paper, to be pub-
lished on November 13.

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A. S. C. To Take Part
In B. S. U. Convention
In Atlanta, Nov. 1-3

The Agnes Scott College council of
the Baptist Student Union, which will
hold its annual convention in Atlanta,
November 1-3, will entertain at a buf-
fet breakfast on Saturday, November 2,
honoring the presidents of the B. S. U.
councils of other Georgia colleges.

The convention will hold its first
meeting at the Druid Hills Baptist
church on Friday night. The program
for the three days will include a re-
ception to be held on Friday night for
the out-of-town students, a banquet on
Saturday, and a morning watch on Sun-
day, followed by a breakfast at the
home of Dr. Louis D. Newton on Oak-
dale Road. The convention will close
on Sunday afternoon, November 3.

A number of interesting speakers
will address the B. S. U., among whom
are Hon. Walter F. George, United
States senator; Dr. M. A. Cooper, At-

(Contmued on page 6, column 1)

Blackfriars Has

Milne Play Cast

Try-outs for the parts in Mr. Vim
Passes By, the clever play by A. A.
Milne, which Blackfriars is presenting
November 22 and 2 3, have resulted in
the following cast:

Dinah Marden Kitty Printup.

Olivia Marden Myrl Chafin.

Lady Marden Carrie Phinney Lati-
mer, Virginia Turner.

Anne, the maid Carrie Phinney Lat-
imer, Virginia Turner.

Brian Strange Luther Carroll.

Mr. Pirn Irvine McKoy.

George Marden Jimmie Jepson.

The parts of Lady Marden and Anne
are to be interchanged between Car-
rie Phinney Latimer and Virginia Tur-
ner in the two different performances
of the play.

Mr. Pirn Passes By was very suc-
cessful in London on its first presenta-
tion. It is interesting to note that the
role of Brian Strange was first played
by the well-known Leslie Howard.

After the play's success in London,
it was presented, seven or eight years
ago, by the Theatre Guild in New
York. The original English cast came
over to play in these first American
performances.

Gym to Celebrate
Tenth Birthday
With Open House

The tenth anniversary of the build-
ing of the Bucher Scott Gymnasium
will be celebrated at Agnes Scott Col-
lege on Friday, November 1, under the
direction of the physical education de-
partment. Members of the Athletic As-
sociation board, members of the May
Day committee, and student athletic
instructors will assist the physical ed-
ucation directors in sponsoring this cel-
ebration.

The physical education department
will keep open house from 4 to 6
o'clock in the afternoon and from 7:3 0
to 9 o'clock at night. At 4 o'clock
there will be a hockey game between
the varsity and sub-varsity teams. Be-
tween halves the senior team will award
the hockey stick to the sophomore who
has shown the most skill during the
hockey season. Following the game tea
will be served in the gymnasium.

From 7:3 0 to 8 o'clock coffee will
be served in the gymnasium, and im-
mediately afterwards there will be an
inter-class swimming meet. At this
time the Swimming Club will make its
first public appearance. Events of the
meet will include a 40-yard dash free
style; a 20-yard dash backstroke; back
and front tandems for form; diving
with sparklers; and a novelty relay.

A picture showing the activities in
athletics during the past ten years will
be placed in the gymnasium for ob-
servation. The college community,
friends of the college, and guests and
visitors for investiture are cordially in-
vited to attend this celebration.

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Professors, Critics, Find Frost a Fine Reader;

Greatest Living American Poet Is Ordinary Man

By Mary Margaret Stowe
Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, in one of
her series of portraits of contempora-
ry Americans in The New Republic,
gives some of Frost's definitions. She
says of Robert Frost in the number for
September 30, 1925: "Frost the shrewd,
lounging rascal, has vanished behind
the junipers. In his place I fancy I
see an austere, hieratical figure, serving
a rustic altar wth a ritual of his own
making. And these are some of the
ritualistic words:

Imagery and after-imagery are
about all there is to poetry. Synecdo-
che and synecdoche My motto is that
some thing has to be left to God.

In making a poem you have no right
to think of anything but the subject
matter. After making it, no right to
boast of anything but the form.

A poem must at least be as good as
the prose it might have been. A poem
is a box with a set or assortment of
sentences that just fit together to fill
it. You are rhyming sentences and
phrases, not just words. They must
go into it as unchanged in size and
shape as the words.

A straight crookedness is most to be
(Continued on page 3, column 3)

By Ruth Hertzka
"Robert Frost is a simple and friend-
ly person. He is not at all spectacular;
he has no stage tricks. He is a person
to whom one can talk easily.*' These
are Associate Professor Elizabeth Jack-
son's impressions of the well-known
poet as he was several years ago. Miss
Jackson met him at Russell Sage Col-
lege in Troy, New York, where he
spent a few days lecturing. At this
time she not only had the opportunity
of hearing him read but also had the
pleasure of having several meals with
h i m .

Miss Llewellyn Wilburn, of the
physical education department, heard
Frost speak at the University of Michi-
gan about ten years ago. She found
that she enjoyed him more as he con-
tinued his lecture, and was so impressed
by his reading and interpretation of his
works that she still remembers the con-
tents of the poems he read that eve-
ning.

Since the home of Assistant Profes-
sor Melissa A. Cilley, of the Spanish
department, is in New Hampshire, she
is well acquainted with the country
that Robert Frost writes about in his
book, New Hampshire. She feels that
in this book Frost gives an interesting

(Continued on page 6, column 1)

By Margaret Watson
Appearance might not make the
man, but to know what a man looks
like certainly makes him more real and
interesting to us. Especially is this
true of the poet Robert Frost, who is
to lecture here on November 7. Several
authors have written vivid descrip-
tions that give us a most interesting
and contrasting "pen portrait" of
Frost.

In the section "Literary Spotlight"
of the May 192 3 Bookman, an un-
named writer has this description of the
poet:

"Frost's body, which is sturdy and
square, makes little impression on one
who meets him for the first time. It
is the eyes: bright blue, steady, gentle
yet canny, two vivid lights in a face
that is otherwise grey. There is the
loose, coarse, now almost white hair, the
full but finely cut lips, the nose that
is a trifle too broad to allow the char-
acterization "Greek" for the whole
head, which is indeed a noble one.
Physical movements are casual. In old
age they may become soft and sham-
bling. Loose clothes become the poet.
If he were to wear a snappy cut suit,
it would take on the appearance of

(Continued on page 6, column 1)

A. P. A. Congress
Meets in Atlanta

The sixty-fifth annual congress of
the American Prison Association, held
in Atlanta October 27-31, was offi-
cially opened Sunday afternoon by Dr.
M. L. Brittain, president of the Geor-
gia School of Technology, at a mass
meeting in the Biltmore auditorium.
This congress, which is the largest an-
nual gathering of its kind, is the great
yearly forum for the discussion of all
problems relating to delinquency. The
highlight of this opening session was a
talk, "Humanizing Our Prisons", by
Warden Lewis E. Lawes, Sing Sing
Prison, Ossing, New York.

At the general session on Monday,
the Hon. Paul V. McNutt, governor of
Indiana, addressed the convention on
"The State and Probation". One of
the most interesting features of this
meeting was the reading of papers writ-
ten by prison inmates, expressing their
views on penal problems. The com-
mittee on criminal law has offered
prizes for the best papers.

A formal reception was held Monday
night, following addresses by the Hon.
Eugene Talmadge, governor of Geor-
gia, and the Hon. James L. Key, mayor
of Atlanta. Dr. J. R. McCain, presi-
dent of Agnes Scott College, presided
over the general session Tuesday eve-
ning. The topic under discussion was
"Revenge or Reform."

The Hon. Homer S. Cummings, at-
torney general of the United States, will
be the main speaker at the formal ban-
quet held tonight at the Biltmore Ho-
tel. Music and dancing will follow.

Special sightseeing trips to Grant
Park and the Cyclorama, the Stone
Mountain Memorial, and the city of
Atlanta have been planned for the
ladies attending the convention. The
convention will close Thursday after-
noon with a barbecue luncheon at the
United States penitentiary honor farm.

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PEACE AND
AGNES SCOTT

As we draw nearer to Armis-
tice Week and the climax of THE
AGONISTIC'S Peace Program
for the fall, our attitude, as Ag-
nes Scott students, toward the
question must be made known.
The College, neither collectively
nor individually, participated in
the nation-wide, all-college Peace
demonstration of last spring; we
overlooked our first opportunity
to take an active position on this
in the collegiate world. So did
many other colleges. They, now,
are conducting local polls and
campus programs, the purpose of
which is to create a wide awake,
intelligent interest in the prob-
lem and to bring forth a united
campus expression.

We at Agnes Scott are at-
tempting to cover our apparent
lack of interest last spring by
vigorous Peace projects this fall.

Tomorrow afternoon, THE
\(.()NISTIC is mailing an Ag-
nes Scott Peace Ballot to every
student and faculty member. We
have selected three of the many
questions on international affairs
that are of vital concern to vot-
ing citizens and should be only
slightly less so to students. For
a week the Ballot will be on the
campus. The results of the vote,
together with such conclusions as
we may be able to draw, will ap-
pear in the Armistice Week edi-
tion.

You will get your Peace Ballot
tomorrow afternoon. What is
vour stand?

ANENT OUR

WEEKLY STAMPEDE!
One more unfortunate
Wednesday has passed :
Rashly importunate,
Up to the last.

Think of it carefully
Coffee, it's called;
One enters darefully,
Most being hauled.

Coffee is plentiful,
Cakes are not rare.
All of it scentif ui
What do we care?

In we rush bodily,
When dinner's done,
Servers gripe moodily,
Watching the run.

Alas ! for the rarity
Of calm sobriety
Under the sun !
Oh ! it is pitiful!
In a whole collegeful,
Tact have we none.

Pseudo-guests, sourly,
Scramble for food
While pourers dourly
Hone after blood.

No one is sociable.
We izral > and eat.
Hostess, emotional.
Clings to her seat.

Out we rush madly,
Hostess most gladly,
Watches us go.
But, if she think of it,
Still on the brink of it,
It's been so-so.

Nothing unusual,
Always confusional,
Don't say her no!

Dreams stalk her hauntingly,
Widely in range,
Warting her tauntingly,
Yearning for change.

Just a half-hour-full,
Of gay chatter-chit.
Some acting larkful,
Others could knit.

Now, in the present,
Nothing is pleasant,
All is up-roar.
Some say "I'm hungry'
Others go lungeing,
Seeking for more.

Let's be more dignified,
Stately and rarified,
Not make them mad.
If we go boldly,
They'll meet us coldly
That would be bad !

Oh ! it is pitiful !

In a whole collegefull,

Tact have we none!

STUDENT

INDEPENDENCE

The Columbia Spectator, re-
garded along with The Daily
Cardinal of the University of
Wisconsin and the Cornell Daily
Sun as a leader of American col-
legiate journalism will no longer
be supported by the Columbia
Board of Trustees. After two
more years, the "activities fee,"
which admits students to athletic
games and entitles them to re-
ceive copies of student publica-
tions free, will go out of exist-
ence.

The discontinuation of the fee
iid not come as a result of the
radical and critical attitude of
the Spectator during the last
four years. In the opinion of the
Board, such a change will vest
more responsibility in the heads
of the publications and will give
to the student body more control
of the Spectator, and the literary
magazine, and the humorous
publication. Since all financial
support must come from sub-
scription and advertisement,
vast campaigns will probably be
started before long.

The subscription - supported
plan is in effect in many Ameri-
can colleges today. A newspaper
supported by subscription alone
arouses a sense of personal own-
ership in the students. Such a
system at Columbia should make
for an even more independent
Spectator, and one in which stu-
dent life and activities can be
more accurately reflected.

By Emily Rowe

The League of Nations has adopted
three classes of sanctions: (1) an em-
bargo on exports of arms to Italy; (2)
a credit boycott against Italy; (3) a
refusal to buy Italian goods and an em-
bargo against shipment to Italy of "key
products" necessary for war. The
League decided that the coordinating
committee should meet October 3 1 to
decide the date on which these sanc-
tions would be put into force by all
che participants.

Will these sanctions force Italy to
end her war? There are certain ob-
stacles which will hinder their ef-
fectiveness. In the first place, several
League members refuse to cooperate
with the League in these sanctions.
Austria's delegate expressed Austria's
stand by saying "Austria will never
forget that at a fateful moment in her
history it was Italy who, in the best
spirit of the League Covenant, helped
by her attitude to safeguard the in-
tegrity of another League member, my
country. My government does not
find itself in a position to associate it-
self with the conclusion reached by the
League". The premier of Hungary
stated the intention of his country to
continue trade with Italy by saying,
"Exclusion of Italy from the outlets of
Hungarian trade would lead to com-
plete upheaval of the economic and fi-
nancial equilibrium of Hungary."
Albania associated herself with the
Hungarian delegate in saying, "We
shall in no way disturb the action taken
by the other countries." There were
reservations made by the minor coun-
tries, Iran, Peru, and Spain. Maxin Lit-
vinoff, Soviet Foreign Commissioner,
warned the League that Russia would
follow closely the result, and that if
L'he measures proved ineffective he
reserved the right to reconsider her ac-
ceptance as she was a heavy economic
loser as a result of her agreements to
apply the sanction. The delegate from
Switzerland said that his country would
preserve "the historic principle of Swiss
neutrality" regardless of her duties as
a League member. This means that
she will let Italy buy from her what-
ever Mussolini wishes.

The decision of such non-League
members as Germany, the United
States, and Japan to cooperate or not
to cooperate with the League will help
determine the power of the boycott.
R. G. Hawtry, British expert at Gen-
eva, considers Germany's cooperation

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Alumnae News

Gail Nelson, '3 3, is returning to At-
lanta November 1 to work in the lab-
oratory of Dr. Hal Davison.

Mary Summers, '3 5, is working in
the registrar's office at Emory.

Margaret (Smith) Kingdom '3 3, is
living at 1 5 2 5 23rd Avenue, Meridian,
Miss.

Sara (Strickland) Beggs, '3 3, plans
to visit relatives in Decatur at Thanks-
giving.

Carrie Lena McMullen, '34, is study-
ing at Columbia University this win-
ter.

Anna Humber, '3 5, is living at 440
North Colson Street, Gainesville, Fla.
She has a temporary job with the New
General College of the University of
Florida. She is living with Elizabeth
Lynch, '3 3, who is secretary there.

Cornelia Keeton, '3 3, is with the
Keeton-Parker Flying Service, Bates
Field, Mobile, Ala. She is associated
! in business with her brother who trains
students in aviation. She made her
I first solo flight September 1 and is
; the only woman in Mobile to have made
one.

Statistics of the class of '3 5:
2 1 are teaching.

7 are doing clerical and secretarial
work.

4 are doing leadership work.

8 are doing graduate work.

5 are married.

1 1 are taking business courses.

1 is doing library work.

2 are working in a department store.

Green Light. . . . Lloyd C. Douglas.

Green Light is a genuine story and
an exceptional one. It is genuine in |
1 that it presents a clean-cut and unpre- j
tending account of the life of a brilliant
young doctor who, through loyalty to
his superior, took the blame for a mis-
take that resulted in the death of a
patient. It is exceptional in that it
rises from the pit of sordidness and
pessimism, into which so many modern
novels have fallen, to the level of good ,
literature.

Three characters seem to be most
individualized. There is the minister,
Dean Harcourt, who, not unlike
Chaucer's "povre persoun", lived to be
an example for his flock and whose
quiet outlook on life pervades the en-
tire novel. It is through the Dean
that Paige, the young doctor, self-
exiled from his profession, and Sonia,
bereft of parents and home, are brought
together.

Certain climaxes as well as certain
characters are outstanding. One of
the most dramatic climaxes occurs in
a scene between the Dean and Paige.
Here the minister reveals the whole
theme of the book. He says, "Behind
every red light, there is a green light.
No matter what the set-backs in life
I get the call to go on through! I get
the GREEN LIGHT!"

A genuine and exceptional story, a
group of realistic characters, a plot
filled with electrical climaxes, and a
style such as could belong only to the
author of Magnificent Obsession
all are combined in this book that has
headed America's reading list for the
entire summer and that promises to
become a permanent addition to it.

// Can't Happen Here. . . . Sinclair
Lewis.

Out of the maze of criticism and
praise with which this latest novel
of so famous an author has met, one
fact arises. The book is a song of
American freedom, foreseeing the reign
of a facist dictatorship in America and
picturing the terror of such a state in a
way that the reader, as one reviewer put
it, "is in a state of insomnia for some
days after." Now to the immortal
Babbitt and Elmer Gantry is added Do-
remus Jessup, hero of the book, a small
town newspaper editor and lover of
freedom. It is through this character
that Lewis voices his own views of free-
dom. "More and more, as I think
about history," Jessup says, "I am con-
vinced that everything that is worth-
while in the world has been accom-
plished by the free, inquiring, critical
spirit, and that the preservation of this
spirit is more important than any so-
cial system whatsoever."

Butter field 8 John O'Hara.

Again, as in Appointment in Sa-
mara, John O'Hara has created a
highly dramatic and successful novel.
The plot centers around the giddy pace
of a young Manhattan girl who is
found drowned, supposedly murdered,
on a New York beach. The book is
well written, contains a well-defined
plot, and is guaranteed to hold the in-
terest.

Abyssinia on the Eie. . . . Ladislas
Farago.

Of the many books on Ethiopia that
have sprung up almost overnight,
Abyssinia on the Eie gives most sat-
isfactorily the real state of Abyssinia.
Boy Scouts, food, armies, the royal
family, relations between Italy and
Abyssinia all details of this hitherto
unnoticed and far-away country are
carefully and interestingly worked out.

and what of them?

For two reasons the number of rat-
tles carried by a rattlesnake do not tell
its age, contrary to general opinion.
One is that the rattle is brittle and seg-
ments occasionally break off. The
other is that a new button is exposed
each time the snake sheds and this pro-
cess is repeated fom two to seven times
a year. Scientific American.

niture, chiefly from graduating sen-
iors. NSFA.

In the first six months of 193 5, 85 1
airplanes were produced in the United
States, a 14 % increase over the cor-
responding period in 1934. These new
planes include 5 17 for domestic civil
use, 173 for military purposes, and 161
for export. Scientific American.

A 160-pound person climbing an or-
dinary flight of stairs at the rate of
one step per second exerts approximate-
ly the energy required to lift one end
of an upright piano, according to Dr.
S. Calvin Smith, author of How Is
Your Heart? Scientific American.

G. Howard Scott, organist at the
Convention Hall, Asbury Park, N. J.,
announced to 2,000 listeners that for
the first time on his request program
he had been asked to play the com-
munist anthem, the Internationale.

He emphasized that the request came
from the National Capitol from
Howard Johnson, of Washington, D.
C. Scott replied: "We do not play that
here. We have another we like better."

Then, while his audience cheered
wildly, he played The Stars and Stripes
Fore 1 er National Republic.

Wcllesley College undergraduates in
need of books, furniture, or jobs have
all profited by the book and furniture
exchanges this fall. The buying and
selling of second-hand textbooks, for-
merly handled by the Hathaway House
Bookshop, was undertaken last June for
the first time by two students. With
a loan from the Wellesley National
Bank they purchased textbooks dis-
carded at the end of last year. This fall
they made a room on the third floor
of the administration building head-
quarters for booming business with the
freshmen as the best customers. The
student managers of the book exchange
have already redeemed the loan of last
June and hope to clear profit from the
sale of books for second semester
courses later in the year. The furniture
exchange, an institution of long stand-
ing at Wellesley, also began its activi-
ties in June with the buying up of fur-

Professor Kipp, of the law faculty of
the University of Bonn, was forced to
resign because his maid patronized a
Jewish butcher. ... At the Univer-
sity of Berlin M. Wolf and E. Kauf-
man, prominent professors of interna-
tional law, were retired. Professor W.
Kochler, world famous psychologist and
an Aryan, has resigned in protest
against the treatment of his colleagues.
Campus Comments.

Good breeding consists of concealing
how much we think of ourselves and
how little we think of the other per-
son. Mark Twain.

During the orientation exercises at
Mercer a freshman became irked at an
upperclassman and drew his gun.

In comparison with other countries
the United States ranks tenth in the
educational scale, according to a state-
ment made at the last national conven-
tion of the Parent-Teachers' Associa-
tion. . . . The Science Society of China
was founded 21 years ago by Chinese
undergraduates at Cornell University.
. . . Twelve American and five Cana-
dian colleges have organized the Inter-
national Ski Union to further compe-
tition in ski jumping and racing.
Collegiate Review.

The University of North Carolina is
publishing a daily campus newspaper
with a special Sunday edition.

The Daily Mini, the University of
Illinois student paper, suggested that
the reason the Sing Sing prison foot-
ball team is trying to get a game with
the Army team is to prove that the pen
is mightier than the sword.

A chemistry professor at Harvard
recently won a bet that he could eat
his shirt. He dissolved the garment in
acid, neutralized the acid, filtered off
the precipitate, and spread it on a piece
of bread. Maryland Diamond back .

A certain professor at P. C. permits
smoking in his classes, but he vigorous-
ly demands that all who chew must
bring their own spittoons.

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3

It Happened One Night - -

On the Way to the Concert

Twas the night of the concert

And thru the street car

Strains of "How Am I Doin y "

Could be heard near and far.

Thus in the immortal words of the
renowned poet, Ambiguous Anony-
mous, is described the jovial and frolic-
some spirit of the Agnes Scott con-
cert goers while enduring their peril-
ous journey through the wilds of At-
lanta and its outlying districts on the
memorable night of October 22.

The three iron vehicles, filled with
befurred and bejeweled lovers of music
which thundered their way through a
startled and bewildered city could have
vied for honors with Caesar's cohorts
or Napoleon's legions, as would also
the "sopralto" voices raised together in
one discordant unison have been quite
a match for the husky-voiced Romans
or the singers of La Marsellaise.

Just as in the case of those other
mighty armies whose names have been
written in the pages of time, so in this
aggregated mass, the development of
enthusiasm was general and was
brought about by the psychological at-
mosphere that prevailed. The voya-
geurs, at the beginning of their jour-
ney, although far from tranquil in
spirit and much removed from what
Wordsworth called a state of "wise
passiveness," were at least somewhat
subdued in the display of their emo-
tions. However, the first ding of the
street car bell was an inevitable signal
for the hurly-burly to begin. With the
first slow movements of the wheels,
the occupants of the first half of street
car number 3 burst forth quite un-
expectedly into the melodious strains

of The Man on the Flying Trapeze.
Having duly finished this selection and
having been applauded by a very criti-
cal yet appreciative audience (that is,
those occupying the remaining half of
;he car), these same accomplished sing-
ers blended their voices in Beethoven's
(or was it Chopin's?) There Is a Tav-
')')] in the Toil n.

At this point a glamorous under-
classman stepped forth into the aisle
and demonstrated to the envious and
admiring group her version of the lat-
est Carioca dance step while the "stitch
in time saves nine" sections knitted fu-
riously as did those equally brave spirits
who watched the gruesome horrors of
;he guillotine over their potential
sweaters and socks. In spite of the dis-
approving glances of these who were
not anxious to impress the faculty
chaperons with their musical ability,
the merrymaking not only continued
but was increased as the skyline of the
city loomed upon the horizon. Innocent
bystanders stood in awe and amazement
at the renditions of How Dry 1 Am
and Show Me the Way to Go Home
that issued from the overladen ava-
lanche of cars.

At the climactic peak of the recital,
however, the spires of the Fox Theatre
were seen, and once more with the ding
of the street car bell the glorious con-
fusion ceased and some three hundred
hilarious collegiates, remembering, per-
haps, the tactful hint to chewing gum
chewers and pop corn eaters of last
year, became smart, sophisticated, and
above all, dignified college women,
connoisseurs of good music.

Armstrong Wins
"Aurora" Contest

Lita Goss, editor of Aurora, Agnes
Scott College literary magazine, an-
nounces that Lena Armstrong is the
winner of this year's cover contest.
Her design, which suggests a sunrise,
in keeping with the name Aurora, will
appear on the cover of the first issue,
November 5. It will be in color rather
than in the black and white which has
been used for the past few years. Miss
Louise Lewis, head of the art depart-
ment, judged the contest, to which
several people submitted try-outs.

A special feature of Aurora this
year will be a section of the magazine
reserved exclusively for freshman work.
This new section will begin with the
second issue, early in January.

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Ass't Prof. Christie Speaks
On Campus Etiquette at
Chapel for Student Gov't

Y.W. PLANS SPEAKERS,
VESPERS, OPEN-HOUSE

With the recital of a careless col-
lege day, Assistant Professor Annie May
Christie, of the English department,
pointed out campus weaknesses in eti-
quette at a student meeting in chapel
on Thursday, October 17. The pur-
pose of the talk was to impress upon
the students the importance of observ-
ing campus etiquette and of cultivat-
ing personal charm, which is the fourth
objective of the Agnes Scott ideal.

Each year the Student Government
Association sponsors skits or speeches to
emphasize different phases of the ideals.
Formerly Associate Professor Emma
May Laney, of the English department,
has made a talk on this same subject
of campus etiquette.

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St. Lawrence University (Canton,
N. Y.), Alma Mater of Owen D.
Young, last week promised each of its
female students Sunday breakfast in
bed. "It is," said Dean Louise Jones, "a
little luxury that I think every woman
is entitled to." Time.
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Interesting speakers, open house, and
vesper services are important features
of the Y. W. C. A. program for this
year. Among the speakers have been
Dr. E. H. Rece, of Emory University,
who spoke in chapel yesterday on
"Honoring the Personalities of Oth-
ers"; Bishop H. T. Mikell, of the dio-
cese of Atlanta; and Rev. Peter Mar-
shall, of the Westminster Presbyterian
church in Atlanta.

The Y. W. C. A. is also planning
open house every Sunday afternoon in
the Y. W. cabinet room, where good
books and magazines are placed and
where students can come to discuss top-
ics of general interest.

Class vespers will begin on Sunday,
November 3, with the sophomores in
charge. The juniors will have their
vesper program on November 10, and
the seniors and freshmen at a later date.

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In Kansas City, Mo., newspapers,
James W. Stobaugh advertised: "To
wild drivers. I no longer shall make
my car jump sideways, backwards, do
flip-flop curves, etc., to get out of
the way. If you see Missouri 3-167
coming down the street just keep in
your proper place and you will have
no broken headlights, smashed fenders
or broken windows. My nerves are
worn to a frazzle." Time.

ATTENTION

Student tickets for the Robert
Frost lecture of November 7 will
be on sale Thursday and Friday,
October 3 1 and November 1 ; and
Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thurs-
day, November S, 6, and 7.

Admission prices for students
are 75c for reserved seats and 5 0c
for unreserved seats. General ad-
mission prices are $1.00 for re-
served seats and 7 5c for unre-
served seats.

Six Mortar Boards
Attend Installation
At Alabama College

Six members of the Agnes Scott Col-
lege chapter of Mortar Board spent Sat-
urday and Sunday, October 26 and 27,
in Birmingham, Alabama, attending
the installation services of a chapter of
Mortar Board at Birmingham-Southern
College. They assisted in the formal
ceremonies Saturday afternoon, and
were guests at a banquet that night
and a tea on Sunday afternoon.

The six who made the trip are Miss
Alberta Palmour, '3 5, alumna member
and field secretary of Agnes Scott Col-
lege, Carrie Phinney Latimer, president
of the local chapter, and Ruby Hutton,
Frances James, Dean McKoin, and Loice
Richards, active members.

Installation of Scroll, the Birming-
ham-Southern honor society, as a mem-
ber of Mortar Board, the national hon-
orary society for senior women, was
followed by the initiation of six active
members and twenty-four alumnae.
Mrs. Harold F. Richards, of Tallahas-
see, Florida, editor of the Mortar Board
Quarterly, was the installing officer.
Four members from the chapter at the
University of Alabama also assisted.
The services took place in Stockham
Woman's Building on the campus of
Birmingham-Southern College, at sun-
set on Saturday.

The Agnes Scott delegation returned
to the campus Sunday night.

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desired in a stick or a line. Or a crook-
ed straightness. An absolutely aban-
doned zig-zag that goes straight to the
mark.

See him standing on his hilltop, this
Virgilian who, for all his crooked, New
England speech has made the ancient
renunciation, and for all his love of
earth left earth behind."

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N.Y.A. Assists 75
A. S. C. Students

The seventy-five students who are
receiving scholarship aid from the Na-
tional Youth Administration met with
Dr. J. R. McCain, on Friday morning,
October 18, to hear something of the
workings of the system which makes
the scholarships possible.

Dr. McCain explained that Agnes
Scott College is especially fortunate in
being able to receive help for seventy-
five girls, since the maximum number
of students which the government or-
dinarily aids in a single college is fifty-
seven. Agnes Scott is fortunate, too, in
being able to advance the loans before
the work is done, whereas in most other
colleges this is not permitted.

Every week each student is to submit
an accurate written report of her work
to the College administration office,
from where it is to be sent to the N.
Y. A. headquarters. Besides these

weekly reports, Agnes Scott will send
a monthly report to the national office.

The N. Y. A. students are engaged in
various kinds of work, including libra-
ry and stenographic work and assisting
in the language departments.

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ETA SIGMA PHI HOLDS
TEA DANCE OCT. 24,
FOR A.S.C. STUDENTS

The Agnes Scott chapter of Eta Sig-
ma Phi, national honorary classical so-
ciety, entertained at a tea-dance in
honor of the new students of the Latin
and Greek department on Thursday,
October 24, from 5 to 6 in the Bucher
Scott Gymnasium.

In the receiving line were Profes-
sor Catherine Torrance of the Greek
department, Professor Lillian S. Smith
of the Latin department, and Associate
Professor Martha Stansfield of the
Latin and Greek department. Also in
the receiving line were the officers of
Eta Sigma Phi: Elizabeth Forman, pres-
ident; Mary King, vice-president; and
Bazelyn Coley, secretary.

Gertrude Lozier and Catherine Bates
served, and Alice Hannah furnished
music for dancing.

Alumnae Go Nov. 3
On Extensive Trip
Overland to Texas

Miss Alberta Palmour, '3 5, field sec-
retary of the Agnes Scott College
Alumnae Association, and Miss Jacque-
line Woolfolk, '3 5, will leave on No-
vember 3 for a tour of the Southern
and Southwestern states. They will be
eone for approximatey six weeks. Miss
Palmour will speak to the upper classes
of the high schools in various cities on
the subject of Agnes Scott, telling them
of campus activities, the scholastic
standards, and other items of interest
to prospective students. She will meet
with Alumnae whenever possible.

The itinerary includes Montgomery
and Mobile, Alabama; New Orleans,
Baton Rouge, and Lake Charles, Lou-
isiana; Beaumont, Houston, Galveston,
San Antonio, Austin, Waco, Dallas,
and Fort Worth, Texas; Shreveport and
Monroe, Louisiana; Little Rock, Hot
Springs, and Forrest City, Arkansas;
Memphis, Tennessee; Clarksdale, Green-
ville, Vicksburg, Yazoo City, Jackson,
and Meridian, Mississippi; and Birming-
ham, Alabama.

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AA.C. To Convene
In Atlanta, Nov. 1-2

A regional conference of the Asso-
ciation of American Colleges will meet
November 1-2 at the Atlanta Biltmore
Hotel to discuss relations of the fed-
eral government and higher education.

Dr. J. R. McCain, president of Ag-
nes Scott College, will lead a discussion
on college finance on the afternoon of
November 1. Other speakers are: Dr.
H. W. Cox, president of Emory Uni-
versity; Professor M. W. Dewey, Em-
ory University; Chancellor S. V. San-
ford, University of Georgia; Dr. Dice
R. Anderson, president of Wesleyan
College; and Dr. T. H. Jack, president
of Randolph-Macon Woman's College.

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"R. C." inserted this advertisement:
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while parked. Owner can have same
by describing property and paying for
this ad. If owner can explain satisfac-
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car, will pay for ad myself." Time.

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The Agonistic

campus activities

B. O. Z.

Five new members were admitted to
B. O. Z. as a result of the fall try-
outs held on October 18 and 19. They
are June Matthews, Brooks Spivey, Bet-
ty Hollis, Carol Hale, and Agnes Mc-
Kov.

Citizenship Club
The Citizenship Club will be in
charge of the Current History Forum
meeting Tuesday afternoon, Novem-
ber 5, at 5 o'clock, in the Y. W. C. A.
room. Professor Glenn Rainey of
Georgia Tech will speak on "Ameri-
ca's Foreign Policy".

The Current History Forum is a
union of the Citizenship Club, the In-
ternational Relations Club, and the N.
S. F. A. Discussion Group. The Forum
meets every four weeks for discussion
of problems of national and interna-
tional interest. Everyone who is in-
terested in these problems is invited to
attend the Forum.

Glee Club
The Triple Trio sang at the First
Baptist Church in Atlanta Friday
night, October 2 5. The members of
the Triple Trio are Rosa Miller, Nelle
Chamlee, Virginia Wood, Evelyn Wall,
Gene Caldwell, Martha Young, Ruth
Tate, Augusta King, and Alice Cham-
lee.

Music Appreciation Group
Wagner was the musician discussed
at the meeting of the Music Apprecia-

tion Group Sunday night, October 27.
Ellen McCallie spoke on the life and
operas of Wagner, discussing chiefly
the most famous of his operas, Tatni-
I hi user.

Freshman Y. Cabinet Home Reflects Personality
Elects Group Heads Of Noted New England Poet

Pen and Brush Club
As a result of the fall tryouts, ten
new members were admitted to the Pen
and Brush Club. They are Emmy Lou
Turck, Adele Haggart, Catherine
Moore, Jane Dryfoos, Elizabeth Gal
breath, Lucile Barnett, Antoinette
Sticklev, Zoe Wells, Lucv Dotv, and
Peggy Willis.

The first meeting of the Pen and
Brush Club was held Thursday after
noon, October 24, at 5 o'clock in Vir-
ginia Gaines' room in Main.

Bible Club
The Bible Club will hold its regular
meeting Monday afternoon, November
4, at 5 o'clock in the Y. W. C. A.
room. Miss Margaret Pritchard, a mis-
sionary to Korea, will speak at this
meeting. Miss Pritchard is a personal
friend of Miss Emily Winn, the mis
sionary to Korea who is supported by
Agnes Scott College. The college com-
munity is cordially invited to hear
Miss Pritchard speak.

N. S. F. A. Discussion Group
The N. S. F. A. Discussion Group
met Tuesday afternoon, October 22, at
4 o'clock in the Y. W. C. A. room.
Frances James led the discussion on
"Peace Movements".

Current History Forum

To Join Related Clubs

The recent formation of a Current
History Forum, made up of the Inter-
national Relations Club, Citizenship
Club, and the National Student Federa-
tion of America, marks a progressive
step toward clarifying national and in-
ternational current problems for the
students of Agnes Scott College.
Frances James is chairman of the Fo-
rum.

The International Relations Club,
headed by Rosa From, meets for
discussion of international affairs; the
Citizenship Club, with Augusta King
as president, discusses the affairs of
the state; while the more recent N. S.
F. A., under Frances James, discusses
with cooperation of the other clubs, na-
tional and international affairs through
student movements. Last year these
three independent organizations decid-
ed to meet jointly every fourth Tues-
day as the Current History Forum.

One of the three clubs meets every
Tuesday at 4 o'clock in the Y. W. C.
A. cabinet room. Members of these
clubs are automatically members of the
Forum, and are invited to its meetings
on the fourth Tuesday.

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Miss J a c k s o n I s
YAV. Forum Speaker

At an assembly of the entire mem-
bership of the Atlanta Young Women's
Christian Association, Associate Pro-
fessor Elizabeth Jackson, of the history
department of Agnes Scott College,
spoke on the subject of the League of
Nations on Thursday, October 17.

Miss Jackson has spoken twice during
this month at meetings of the Forum
ot Public Affairs, a group of the At-
lanta Y. \V. C. A. with which she is
associated. Her subjects on October
10 and 24 were "Italy" 1 .md "Ethiopia/ 1

respectively.

PROF. DAVIDSON

ATTENDS MEETING

Professor Philip Davidson, of the his-
tory department of Agnes Scott Col-
lege, attended the first annual meeting
of the Southern Historical Association,
in Birmingham, Alabama, Friday and
Saturday, October 2 5-26. Professor
Davidson is a member of the executive
council of the organization.

The Southern Historical Association
was organized in Atlanta last year by
a group of historians interested in the
study, teaching, and preservation of
the history of the South.

The Tutwiler Hotel in Birmingham
was headquarters for the first meeting.

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Chevrolet Shows

Films to College

Three educational films were shown
by the Chevrolet Company of Detroit
in Gaines Chapel on Monday even-
ing, October 21, at 7 o'clock. The
college community was invited.

The first film, "Behind the Bright
Lights", explained flasher control and
the work of the "sign monkies." Ac-
cording to the second picture, entitled
"The Safest Place*', after a car leaves
the factory, the only thing needed is a
careful driver. In the last picture, "No
Ghosts", the process in making the
foundation of a Chevrolet was given.

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The election of leaders for the fresh-
man hobby groups was the work of the
freshman cabinet of Agnes Scott Col-
lege Y. W. C. A. at its first meeting
on Thursday afternoon, October 10.

The votes of the members of the
cabinet, under the direction of Ruby
Hutton, vice president of Y. W. C. A.,
appointed the following to direct the
work of the groups for this year: charm.
Associate Professor Louise Hale, of
:he French department; knitting, Nelle
Chamlee; book, Miss Ellen Douglas
Leyburn, instructor in English; and
current events, Professor Philip David-
son, of the history department. Jean
Barry Adams will serve as head of the
music group for freshmen as well as
for the general music committee for
Y. \V. C. A.

Seventy freshmen chose to be mem-
bers of the charm group; twenty elect-
ed the knitting group; fifteen prefer
music; twelve, book; and ten, current
events.

The freshman cabinet has decided
to study during the year Borden of
Yale, by Mrs. Howard Taylor. The
group is to meet regularly on Thurs-
day night at 7.30 in the Y. W. C. A.
cabinet room.

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PETER MARSHALL
IS SPEAKER FOR
Y. W. C. A. CHAPEL

By Mari Margaret Stowe
Homes, certainly if they are true
homes a -id not just houses, do portray
to us the personality make-up of those
who live within them. So it is with
the home of the American poet, Robert
Frost, which is so well described for
us by Dorothy Canfield Fisher in TJk
Bookman for December, 192 6.

The Frosts, according to her descrip-
tion, live in an old stone house, still
often called "the Peleg Cole house",
which stands on the top of "Peleg Cole
hill". The stones used for this house
were not well smoothed as they were
for the two other stone houses in the
valley. They were left beautifully
rough, "just as it flaked off under the

quarrvman's hammer", as the people of
the tow n saw To the people of the
town and vallev this house looks strong
and homelike, cheerful and protecting
as are their beliefs about Frost him-
self. The house stands "wide- roofed
and substantial" at the top of the Peleg
Cole hill, "with firewood laid up
against the winter, and early blossom-
ing lilies-of-the-valley whitely fragrant
against grey old stone walls; a barn
across the w a\ , a real barn w ith hay
and stock in it; robustly fruitful old
apple trees; vigorous, new lv planted
young ones just coming into bearing;
and blue remembered hills rising up
around orchard and pasture . . . we
think the place needs no label to show
that it is Robert Frost's home."

REPORTERS FOR THIS ISSUE
Douglas Lyle Mary F. Guthrie

Eliza King Mamie Lee Ratliff

Selma Steinbach Enid Middleton
Mildred Davis Giddy Erwin

Rev. Peter Marshall, pastor of West-
minster Presbyterian Church of Atlan-
ta, spoke on "The Test of a Christian"
at the Y. W. C. A. chapel program on
Friday morning, October 2 5.

Attacking the tendency, especially
prevalent among young people today,
to deny the reality of whatever can-
not be dissected and analyzed, Mr.
Marshall declared that the root of the
world's personal and social unrest is to
be found in that attitude of which
many are so proud: "Except I see, I will
not believe."

Mr. Marshall concluded by chal-
lenging his audience to take Christ at
I lis w ord, to test that word, and to
find that it never fails.

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of the late U. S. Senator Bronson Cut-
ting, refused the customary $10,000
voted by the Senate to deceased Sena-
tors' next of kin. Senator Cutting left
an estate of nearly $4,000,000. Time.

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Last Year's Silhouette Photos
Reveal Unexpected Poetic Vein

The lines of Owen Meredith,
Changed! There the epitaph of all the
years u as sounded! I am changed, too.
Let it be, has become almost the battle
cry of those poor long-suffering souls
whose countenances were so misleading
as they appeared in last year's annual
and who, with renewed hopes and as-
pirations, are once more courageously
facing the unrelenting, all-revealing
photographic camera. It is with much
enthusiasm that some, as a result, have
already been able to say, 7 am changed,
too. Let it be.

And why should they not be
thrilled? One has to do very little remi-
niscing to remember rather vividly the
harassed, care-worn, down-trodden ex-
pressions of many students coupled
with the joyous, inane, and naive ex-
pressions of others.

Consider the sad likeness of Alice
Chamlee last year who seemed to speak
forth from the glazed page the immor-
tal words of Shelley:
The black despair,

The shadow of a starless night was
thro u n

Over the world in which I moved
alone,

or the pitiful, hopeless look of Lita Goss
which seemed to say in the best Chau-
cerian style

The lyfe so short, the craft so lon'ge to
leme

T/f assay so hard, so sharpe the con-
quering.

Nell Allison's dismayed or rather re-
signed look gives the impression that
her uppermost thought is the Shakes-
pearean utterance
Farewell, a long farewell to all my
greatness.
Thou canst not say I did it,
Never shake thy gory locks at me
seem the words of defiance that issue
from one Frances Wilson who in her
picture seems rapt in indignation and
disdain. Becky Whitley whose Grecian

profile also adorns the pages of the an-
nual, as a result of many science labs
or just from the unconscious imbibing
of the writings of Thomas Hood, might
easily be uttering
Ob! would that I were dead now
Or up in my bed now,
To cover my head now
And hare a good cry.

Dorothy Jester, harassed by the
many financial matters of last year's
sophomore class, looks as if she might
burst forth any minute with much ve-
hemence into

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale
Vexing the dull ear of a dreaming man.
And is there little wonder that Marie
Townsend has been much excited over
the pictures this year when only a
few months ago her likeness or unlike-
ness appeared which, to be complete,
needed only Shelley's quotation in-
scribed beneath it
How wonderful is death?
Death and his brother sleep.

Nor are these representations the
only ones which are hoped by their re-
spective owners to be changed. There
is Ad Stevens whose
Oh joy to be out in June
'Neath the cloudless blue, in the dawn
and dew

:: ' When the cup of bliss runs over
expression she hopes will be somewhat
modified this year and that of Lucile
Dennison who, in spite of term papers
and exams, seems to be exclaiming with
Coleridge

Joy rises in one like a summer's moon.
And there is Kathryn Bowen whose
half-wistful yet rather contented look
expresses her feeling that
y Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.

All of these and many others are
fervently hoping that in the Agnes
Scott Rogues Gallery of 1936 their
countenances will be, if not serene,
happy, and intelligent, at least
changed!

Investiture Procession Seven Years Ago

KEY TO CURRENT HISTORY

(Continued from page 2, column 3)
vital to the success of the League. He
says that in foreign trade with Italy-
Germany stands second only to the
United States. Germany supplies 46%
of Italy's coal and a heavy proportion
of Italy's other imported essential com-
modities. Germany has not committed
herself, one way or the other. But an
Italian spokesman at Geneva said that
Italy did not fear economic sanction be-
cause she counted on getting her ne-
cessities from Germany through Aus-
tria. He added that oil might be ob-
tained "from some other nation" which
could send it to Italy through Ger-
many. So far the only stand taken by
the United States is as follows: Presi-
dent Roosevelt has ordered all sales of
munitions to Italy and Ethiopia to stop.
I [e warned that Americans who have
"transactions of any character" with
either nation do so at their own risk.

The trade expert of the Commerce De-
partment disclosed that the United
States had been supplying a major part
of a large increase in Italian imports of
four classes of products easily made into
munitions. None of the commodities is
on the list of war materials subject to
the embargo ordered by President
Roosevelt, although cotton waste, for
example, can be turned into gun cot-
ton by a simple chemical process. The
spokesman for Japan said, "Our atti-
tude toward sanctions will be decided
by Japan's interests and her policies as
a whole".

Another hindrance to the sanctions is
the fact that Italy has plenty of ma-
terial for a short campaign because she
has been laying in supplies for the last
year. Furthermore, providing that cer-
tain nations allow Italy to buy from
them, even though her currency is of
little value in other countries, she still
has enough purchasing power to last
her for a time at least. Her gold re-

The picture above shows the procession of seniors on their way to Gaines Chapel to be invested at the tradi-
tional ceremony held each fall at Agnes Scott. This was snapped as the line was passing Main Building.

The academic procession is headed by the sophomores dressed in white. Seniors with caps and gowns come
next and the faculty closes the line. Professor Lucile Alexander, of the French department, and Mr. S. G. Stukes,
registrar, being the marshals, lead the procession. When the line reaches the Colonnade, the sophomores and seniors
form an aisle through which the faculty marches.

The group shown above is a part of the class of *28.

Miss Marian Vaughan
Reads Frost Selections
On Radio Station WSB

Miss Marian Vaughan, assistant in the
spoken English department at Agnes
Scott College, will read selections from
the shorter lyrics of Robert Frost on
the Agnes Scott radio program this aft-
ernoon at 5 o'clock over WSB. Evelyn
Wall will play special music as a back-
ground for the poems.

Associate Professor Emma May La-
ney, of the English department and
faculty chairman of the Lecture As-
sociation, spoke on last Wednesday's
program, presenting a brief sketch of
Frost, who will appear at the College
on November 7 under the auspices of
the Association.

serve still totals $3 50,000,000 while
she can get perhaps another $2 S 0,000,-
000 in devision by liquidating her for-
eign investments. Mussolini has opened
public subscription for his war con-
version loan in every bank in Italy. The
Fascists seem to think of the financial
sanctions as more of a nuisance than a
blockade.

The majority of League delegations
believe that neither the war nor the
Fascist regime can persist indefinitely
against the force of these measures.
Edward H. Collins, associate finance
editor of the New York Herald-Tri-
bune said, "Much depends on whether
the Ethiopian campaign is short or
long-drawn out. If it is long-drawn
out, then Italy might conceivably be
brought to her knees by economic and
financial pressure. But in a compara-
tively brief campaign, the chance of
applying such pressure successfully
would, it seems, be very dubious."

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squad of thirty-four former college
players from Tulsa University, the Uni-
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coast schools will play a series of ten
games in seven Japanese cities.

Reports from colleges throughout
the United States indicate an increase
in enrollments averaging almost 3 per
cent.

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A. S. C. TO TAKE PART EN B. S. U.
MEETING IN ATLANTA, NOV. 1-3

(Continued from page 1, column 3)
lanta; Dr. Carter H. Jones, Murfrees-
boro, Tennessee; Dr. Charles E. Mad-
drey, Richmond, Virginia; and Mr. O.

B. Nicholson, Athens, Georgia.

The Baptist Student Union is the
connecting link between the student
and the church. It strives to bring col-
lege students into the work of B. Y.
P. U., Sunday school, and Y. W. A.

The officers of the Agnes Scott B.
S. U. council are Lois Hart, president;
Tommy Ruth Blackmon, first vice-
president; Sarah Johnson, second vice-
president; Catherine Bates, third vice-
president; Elizabeth Burson, secretary;
and Irene Wilson, corresponding secre-
tary and publicity chairman.

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PROFESSORS, CRITICS FIN I)

FROST A FINE READER

(Continued from page 1, column 3)
if not sympathetic interpretation of
New Hampshire and the people. There
is a characteristic intenseness, which,
with the originality of his genius, gives
charm to the picture of familiar scenes.

Associate Professor Emma May La-
ney, of the English department, has
heard Frost lecture, and reports that he
is a charming person with a quiet hu-
mor and delightful whimsy.

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PROFESSORS, CRITICS FIND

FROST A FINE READER

(Continued from page 1, column 4)
homespun. Yet his is dignified fig-
ure."

Elizabeth Sargent, in the September
192 5 Neic Republic in an article titled
"Robert Frost a Good Greek out of
New England," treats another aspect of
Frost's portrait when she says that she
would pick Skopas as a sculptor for
Frost because "he added the shadows of
human passion to calm Greek faces. . . .
In certain moods this Frost face touch-
ed by that pathetic hand."

She continues by comparing a certain
"grave, mystical-religious" expression
of brow and eyes to Dante, but she
says "only a New England quip is nec-
essary to bring a gentle cynic out of
hiding. Or shall I say rustic deity?
Eyebrows arch roundly, cheeks draw in
to shrewd satiric wrinkles, eyes turn
to flashes and darts of blue light, mali-
cious or rejoicing, and as an unruly
lock is tossed, one hears the stamp of
a hoof

( Pan came out of the woods one day;
His ski)i and his hair, and his eyes were
grey.'

Frost's skin and his rebellious hair
have now a fine harmony of tone,
'Grey of the moss of walls', a young
and living greyness that, like a delicate
lichen, softens without hiding the hard
and eternal shape of the rock beneath."

In these quotations we see Frost com-
pared to a New Englandcr, a Greek,
Dante, and Pan. Whether or not we
see him as anyone or a combination of
these varied personalities will depend
on our individual viewpoints. But
such descriptions as those quoted give
us some grounds for speculation as to
what manner of a man is "America's
leading poet."

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The Agnes Scott College Alumnae
Association entertained the sponsors at
a series of informal teas, given in the
Alumnae House on October 21, 22,
and 23, in appreciation of the work
of the sponsors in orientation of the
freshmen. About twenty girls attended
each of the teas. Two members of the
entertainment committee acted as host-
esses each afternoon. These were Mrs.
Augusta (Skeen) Cooper, '17, and Airs.
Laura (White) Gosnell, '27, on Mon-
day; Miss Margaret Phythian, '16, and
Mrs. Pratt (Smith) Slack, ex-' 12, on
Tuesday; Mrs. Margaret (McDow)
MacDougald, '24, and Mrs. Laura
(White) Gosnell on Wednesday.

The programs presented were intend-
ed to give some idea of the work of
those committees which are most inter-
esting to the students. The programs
included talks on the work of the gar-
den committee, on the program of the
entertainment committee, and on the
proposed redecoration of the Alumnae
House. Alumnae who spoke were Mrs.
Eloise (Gay) Brawley, '16, Mrs. Au-
gusta Cooper, and Mrs. Fannie G.
(Mayon) Donaldson, '12, on Monday;
Mrs. Frances (Gilliland) Stukes, '24,
Mrs. Julia Slack, and Mrs. Sarah Belle
(Brodnax) Hansell, '23, on Tuesday;
Mrs. Louise (Brown) Hastings, '2 3,
Mrs. Helene (Norwood) Lammers, ex-
'22, and Mrs. Laura Gosnell on Wed-
nesday. The chairmen of the executive
committee who were present were also
asked for informal reports of their
work.

Varsity Council
Chooses 13 Girls
For Hockev Team

Se niors, Juniors Win at Hockey;

All Teams Show Good Playing

The hockey varsity and sub-varsitv
I were chosen Monday, October 2 8, by
the varsity council from the votes cast
by the class teams on last Friday. The
, girls who made the varsity team are:
Forwards Hart, Handte, Fleece,
Shloss, Derrick, Burson; halfbacks
Armstrong, Kneale, Crenshaw; full-
backs Gillespie, Taylor, Betty Adams;
goal guard Forman. The following
girls were chosen for the sub-varsity
team: Forwards Stevens, Drvfoos,
Laura Coit, Thompson, Coffee, Isabel
McCain; half-backs Grimson, Black-
shear, Crowell; full-backs S. F. Estes,
McMullen; goal guard Robinson. The
varsity council is composed of Miss
Llewellyn Wilburn, Miss Elizabeth
Mitchell, Helen Handte, Lena Arm-
strong, Rachel Kennedy, and Frances
Cary.

Tennis Tournament Begins
With Eighteen Couples

A. S. C. WILL OBSERVE

ARMISTICS SILENCE

(Continued from page 1, column 1)
The National Student Federation of
America is sponsoring the student mob-
ilization for peace on Armistice Day,
and requested in its bulletin of October
1 1 that all colleges cooperate in a na-
tionwide demonstration. Among the
stands that the N. S. F. A. take are the
supporting of genuine neutrality legis-
lation to prevent entanglement of the
United States in war, the demilitariza-
tion of colleges and schools especially
by making R. O. T. C. optional in-
stead of compulsory, and the insistence
upon opportunities in the curriculum
and out for relating education to these
crucial problems.

In 1931, Agnes Scott College ob-
served Armistice Day in the manner
planned for this year.

The first rounds of the Tennis Tour-
nament were played off Thursday. The
eighteen couples who signed up for the
tournament are as follows:

McDonald and Kneale

Adams and Little

Jester and Wood

Derrick and Scott

Cullum and Thompson

Estes and Jackson

Norton and Stephens

von Gremp and Richards

Brown and Cassat

Handte and Young

Forman and McKoin

O'Neal and Cunningham

Blair and Suttenficld

Dennison and Stalker

Blackshear and Pardee

Mathis and Hoffman

Lasseter and Willis

Lawrence and Talmage.

In the hockey game on Friday after-
noon, October 2>, the seniors beat the
freshmen by a score of 2-0, and the
juniors defeated the sophomores by the
same score. Stevens scored both goals
for her team, while Fleece made the
two for the juniors. All four teams
played better Friday than ever before,
especially the freshmen, who showed
excellent team work. Miss Wilburn and
Miss Haynes were umpires; Lulu Ames,
scorer; and Sarah Johnson, timekeeper.
The line-ups were as follows:

Senior Freshman

Hart R.W Richards;

Farrar; Flynt

Stevens R.I Carson

Burson C.F Shloss

Coffee L.I. __ Moses; Spooner

Derrick L.W Coit, M;

Purnell

Townsend R.H Whetsell;

Cheeseman; Rives

Armstrong C.H Crowell

Crenshaw L.H Marshall:

Doty

Grimson R.B. McMullen

Estes, S. F. L.B Young

Forman G Clegg

Junior Sophomore

Jackson; Belser__R.W Davis; Lee;

Wright

Johnson R.I Henderson

Fleece C.F Thompson

Thing L.I Coit, L.

McCain L.W Merrill

Kneale R.H Allison;

Tribble

Lasseter C.H. Hassell

Harris; Little __L.H W arden;

Blackshear

Taylor R.B McCallie

Gillespie L.B Adams

Estes, J G Robinson

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Those trying out for the Outing
Club were taken on a trip to Ice Cream
Springs last Tuesday, October 22,
where Miss Bee Miller conducted a na-
ture study class and Martha Long
taught fire building. About ten were
present at the meeting yesterday. The
subject of study was outdoor cooking.

The Swimming Club entertained the
North Avenue swimming team Tues-
day afternoon at 5:30. Florence Las-
seter announces that Jane Moore has
been chosen freshman swimming man-
ager.

The club will appear for the first
time on Friday night in the anniversary
swimming meet.

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VOL. XXI

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1935

NO. 6

Robert Frost
Will Appear
Here Nov. 7

Robert Frost, the noted poet, who is
lecturing at Agnes Scott College on
Thursday evening, will arrive in At-
lanta on Thursday morning, November
7, at 8:30. Nell White, president of
the Lecture Association of Agnes Scott
College, and Sarah Catherine Wood,
treasurer of this association, will meet
him at the station. Mr. Frost has to
leave at midnight in order to be at Am-
herst on the ninth for a lecture.

He will be on the Agnes Scott cam-
pus almost the entire day. Associate
Professor Emma May Laney, faculty
chairman of the Lecture Association, is
giving a luncheon in his honor at noon.
In the afternoon Associate Professor
Louise Hale, of the French department,
will take Mr. Frost to drive.

He will lecture at 8:30 P. M. in the
Bucher Scott Gymnasium. Immediately
after, the Lecture Association will en-
tertain at a reception in the day stu-
dent parlor in Agnes Scott Hall in or-
der that the students may meet him.
When asked if he would like a recep-
tion, he wrote that he would be glad to
have the opportunity of meeting the
girls.

Tickets for the lecture will still be
on sale on Thursday, November 7. Ad-
mission prices for students are 75c for
1 reserved seats and 5 0c for unreserved.
General admission is $1 for reserved
seats and 75c for unreserved ones.

Dr. Logan Will
Speak on Nov. 9

Dr. Charles Logan, missionary from
Tokiushima, Japan, and well-known
friend of Agnes Scott College, will
speak in Gaines Chapel on Saturday
morning, November 9. Dr. Logan was
invited to deliver the baccalaureate ser-
mon at the commencement exercises of
Agnes Scott last May, but was unable
to do so on account of illness.

Having served as acting professor of
Bible while Professor Alma Syden-
stricker was on a year's furlough, Dr.
Logan has an especially close connection
with Agnes Scott. He also has three
daughters who are alumnae of the Col-
lege.

One of the greatest pieces of work
done by Dr. Logan was that which he
and his brother-in-law did in the con-
verting of Kagawa, the Japanese whom
many call the greatest living Christian
speaker. Kagawa is coming to America
under the auspices of the Student Vol-
unteer Convention, and will speak in
Atlanta on January 6, 193 6.

M. McDonald Aids
In Dean's Office

Miss Mary McDonald, '34, began
duty last night as assistant in the
Dean's office, and will continue to help
there on every Tuesday and Thursday
night from 9 until 12 o'clock. Miss
McDonald is working in order to re-
lieve Miss Carrie Scandrett, assistant
dean, of so many night hours in the
office.

The office is kept open every night
until 12 o'clock in order to give per-
missions and to sign in girls. Since
Miss McDonald was president of Stu-
dent Government Association of Agnes
Scott in 1934, she is familiar with the
regulations of the College, and can take
up the work easily.

In addition to her duties at the Col-
lege, Miss McDonald is doing Relief
work, in which she has been engaged
since graduation. She is living in Ansley
Cottage.

Mr. L. Thomas to Adams Co. Begins |CambridgeWill Debate A. S. C.
Speak on Peace
In Chapel Nov. 8

Work on Library
Building This Week

Mr. Lavens Thomas II, of the Cand-
ler School of Theology, Emory Uni-
versity, will speak on "International
Peace" at the second chapel program
of The Agonistic on Friday, Novem-
ber 8. Mr. Thomas was one of the fac-
ulty leaders of the Peace Demonstra-
tion held last April at Emory in co-
operation with the national all-college

movement.

His appearance at Agnes Scott Col-
lege is a part of an International Peace
policy which The Agonistic has
adopted for this fall and encouraged
actively. His speech will open the last
week of the fall Peace Program of the
College weekly.

Mr. Ben F. Meyer, Georgia state
news editor for the Associated Press,
was the first speaker on the new series
of chapel programs presented by The
Agonistic. His subject dealt with the
experiences and attitudes of an Asso-
ciated Press man.

Agnes Scott Groups
To Arrange Chapel
Program for Peace

A student demonstration for Inter-
national Peace will be staged in chapel
at Agnes Scott College dn Tuesday
morning, November 12, as a part of the
campus-wide and nation-wide drive to
be'eontinued throughout the year. The
national movement is being sponsored
by the National Student Federation of
America, and is being endorsed at Ag-
nes Scott by the Current History Fo-
rum, including the International Re-
lations Club, the Citizenship Club, and
the N. S. F. A. discussion group, by
the Student Government Association,
the Y. W. C. A., Pi Alpha Phi, debat-
ing society, and The Agonistic, Col-
lege weekly. The entire student body
voted to take part in the movement at
a recent student meeting in chapel.

At the program on Tuesday Augusta
King will speak on the privileges and
responsibilities of Agnes Scott students
in taking an active part in the move-
ment. The meeting will be presided
over by Frances James, president of
the Current History Forum, and chair-
man of the local division of the Na-
tional Student Federation. Complete
plans for the program have not yet
been released.

The program was originally planned
for November 11, Armistice Day, but
was changed at the suggestion of the
national federation, since over thirty
colleges cannot take part on that day
because of a legal holiday.

ADMIRAL BYRD WILL
SPEAK IN ATLANTA
|ON ARMISTICE DAY

Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd,
renowned polar explorer, will give two
illustrated lectures at the Fox Theater
in Atlanta on Armistice Day, Novem-
ber 11. Admiral Byrd will describe his
second expedition to Little America and
will show nine thousand feet of film
picturing the trip to the South Pole.
There will be both an evening and a
matinee lecture.

Admiral Byrd has made two trips
to the South Pole, one in 1929 and
one in 193 3. Previously he had flown
over the North Pole and made a non-
stop trans-Atlantic flight from New
York to France.

His two books, Skyward and Little
America, are well known.

The contract for the construction
of Carnegie Hall, which will house the
new Agnes Scott College library, was
awarded on November 1 to A. K. Ad-
ams and Company of Atlanta, and
work has already been started.

Six bids were made, ranging from
$227,000.00 to $254,000.00, A. K.
Adams and Company being low bid-
ders. It was necessary to rearrange cer-
tain specifications in order to meet the
funds available for the building of the
library; the contract was closed at
$200,000.00.

The contract calls for the comple-
tion of the building by August 1, but
it is possible that it may be finished by
the first of July. It is hoped that dedi-
catory exercises may be held during
Commencement Week next spring.

Certain features of the original plans
have been eliminated, while option is
reserved on others until more money is
available. An air-conditioning system
will be installed for the winter months,
but the dehumidifying system for sum-
mer months will not be installed yet.
Four tiers of stacks will be completed
instead of the six originally planned,
although space for the other two tiers
will be reserved. It may be necessary
to leave the basement reading room un-
finished, and the outdoor reading ter-
race will not be built. The floors will
be made of rubber stone, like those of
Buttrick Hall, instead of a more sound-
absorbing rubber, as was formerly
planned; the walls will resemble those
in the lobby of Buttrick Hall. They
will be finished with a decorative plas-
ter instead of carved stone. The decora-
tive woodwork screen between the lob-
by and the main reading room will be
omitted.

Reopening of the old road from
Candler Street back of Bucher Scott
Gymnasium to the site of the new li-
brary is necessary to facilitate the de-

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On Judiciary Question Nov. 12

College Acquires
5 Acres As Site
For Outdoor Camp

Providing the site for a possible lake
and outdoor camp, Agnes Scott College
has purchased five acres of land on
either side of the South Decatur car line
as it goes through the woods south of
the campus. The land originally be-
longed to Colonel George Washington
Scott, who bought it at the time of the
founding of the College to provide for
the protection and expansion of Agnes
Scott.

Two streams which converge in low
ground form an ideal location for a
lake, while the higher ground is suit-
able for houses.

Dr. McCain hopes that the College
may have a camp there where the girls
may go to spend the night rather than
the whole week-end.

N. B.

A two-minute period of silence
at 1 1 o'clock will mark Agnes
Scott College's observance of
Armistice Day, November 11. A
bell will indicate the beginning
of the period, and the playing of
Taps by Loice Richards, the end.

This observance is a nation-
wide movement sponsored by the
National Student Federation of
America as a tribute to those sac-
rificed in the last war. It is a
part of the peace program of the
N. S. F. A.

Dr. J. R. McCain, president of
Agnes Scott, has requested stu-
dent and faculty cooperation.

JOHN ROYLE

CAMBRIDGE

C. J. M. ALPORT

CAMBRIDGE

Miss C. Scandrett
Speaks to Seniors
At 27 th Investiture

One hundred and two seniors were
capped at the twenty-seventh Investi-
ture service of Agnes Scott College
held in Gaines Chapel on Saturday, No-
vember 2, at 11:30 A.M. Miss Carrie
Scandrett, assistant dean and a faculty
member of this year's senior class, de-
livered the address; her subject was the
"Meaning of Investiture."

"College," she said, "is the time when
one may perceive what knowledge is
and has been and is to be. It is funda-
mentally a place of the mind, a time
for thinking, an opportunity for know-
ing. The dangers likely to divert one
from this purpose are many. Chief
among them are extra-curricular activ-
ities, valuable in themselves, but too
frequently used as alibis by which to
escape the hard work which the intel-
lectual aim places on you."

Throughout her talk, Miss Scandrett
stressed the aims of the Liberal College
by means of pertinent questions neces-
sarily soon to be uppermost in the
minds of the seniors.

"When you have graduated," she
concluded, "you should be the 'posses-
sor,' as Dean Gildersleeve of Barnard
has said, 'of a kind of knowledge which
makes you not a stranger among things
strange to you'. You should be at home
with life."

The academic procession, which

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Merlin, Wood, A. S. C. Team

Agnes Scott College and the Cam-
bridge Union Society will meet in de-
bate on Tuesday night, November 12,
at 8:30 in Bucher Scott Gymnasium,
on the question, Resolved: That in the
opinion of this house the judiciary
should have no power to override the
decisions of the executive and legisla-
ture. Edith Merlin and Sarah Catherine
Wood will uphold the negative for Ag-
nes Scott against Cuthbert James Mc-
Call Alport and John Royle of Cam-
bridge. There will be no decision.

The Cambridge team under the di-
rection of the National Student Fed-
eration of America, which makes all
arrangements for international debates,
will be in this country approximately
six weeks. They are scheduled to de-
bate twenty-six American teams. They
will come to Agnes Scott from Ala-
bama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn,
and go on from here to the University
of Florida, Gainesville.

International debates which have
been held at Agnes Scott for the past
several years have proved to be popu-
lar with the community. Last year Ag-
nes Scott debated the University of
London. These debates are sponsored lo-
cally by Pi Alpha Phi, Agnes Scott
debating society, of which Sarah Cath-
erine Wood is president.

Peace Ballot to
Show A.S.C. Views

JUNIORS TO HONOR
SISTER CLASS WITH
FORMAL TEA-DANCE

The junior class will entertain the
freshman class at a tea-dance in Bu-
cher Scott Gymnasium from 4:3 0 to
6:00 on Friday, November 8. At this
time, Martha Summers, junior presi-
dent, will formally present the fresh-
men with a gold bell for the Black
Cat, to signify their victory over the
sophomores in the stunt contest of Oc-
tober 19. The bell, engraved with the
year 1939, will make the twentieth bell
suspended around the cat's neck.

Graham Jackson, popular Atlanta
Negro pianist, will furnish the music
for dancing. Other features of the en-
tertainment are in charge of a com-
mittee composed of Frances Wilson,
Mary Elizabeth Morrow, Marie Stalker,
Alice Taylor, Julia Thing, and Mar-
tha Summers.

In an attempt to discover the atti-
tude of Agnes Scott College toward
international peace, The Agonistic
mailed peace ballots to the students and
faculty members on Thursday, Octo-
ber 31. The ballot is in the form of a
questionnaire which is to be answered
and returned by Friday, November 8,
to The Agonistic, either by mail or
by putting it in The Agonistic box
in Main or in the one outside the maid's
office in Buttrick Lobby.

The ballot is stated in the following
form :

1. Would you be willing to sup-
port the United States in defen-
sive warfare?

2. If a nation insists upon attack-
ing another, should other nations
including the United States com-
bine to stop it (a) by military or
(b) by economic and non-mili-
tary measures?

3. Are you in favor of protect-
ing by force of arms property
rights of United States citizens in
foreign lands?

9

The Agonistic

Agonistic

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PUBLISHED WEEKLY

Owned and published by the students of Agnes Scott College.

Entered as Second Class Matter.

1935 Member 1936

Plssociated Golle6iate Press

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PRESENTING

A UNITED FRONT

International Peace heads the
policies of many of the outstand-
ing organizations at Agnes Scott
this year. The Peace Ballot in cir-
culation on the campus now;
chapel speakers for this week and
next ; the two-minute silence to
be observed on Armistice Day
all these indicate the desire of
the organizations to concentrate
their activity in the week of No-
vember 11.

There is no better indication of
the desire for concentration now
than the campus-wide, student-
faculty Peace Demonstration to
be held during the regular chapel
period on next Tuesday. The
heads of all the organizations
have come together to plan this
program which will present a
united attitude on the part of
Agnes Scott toward International
Peace.

This project is sponsored nec-
essarily by a comparatively small
group of students; yet its aim is
to represent the opinion of the
student body as a whole. It will
succeed only insofar as the stu-
dents endorse the feelings ex-
pressed and take them to them-
selves as their own.

The support and attendance of
every member of the College
community is needed next Tues-
day in order that this first united
effort may become a students'
movement, in order that it may
be interpreted as the honest ex-
pression of student thought at
Amies Scott.

WHY NOT GO

TO THE DEBATE?

With the opening of the debat-
ing season at Agnes Scott next
Tuesday night, there arises the
time-frayed question, Will it be
well supported? About this de-
bate there's very little doubt. Not
so much because the Cambridge
team is masculine as because
they're different and likely to
have accents and, perhaps,
strangely enough, senses of hu-
mor. Besides, the subject is not
an untimely one.

It's not the British debate that
calls forth the questioning spirit.
It's the other debates on the se-
ries. Ones with other Georgia
colleges and the triangular one
in the spring. These, in the past,
have been presented to stunted
audiences whose interest in the
subject for debate has out-bal-
anced their anticipated boredom

at the length of the speeches, or
the presentation, or even the
points of argument themselves.
Yet those students who have
gone have not complained un-
duly. Some have come away in a
mildly combative spirit; and a
few have been moved to research
into the subject just argued.

Debates furnish the only inter-
collegiate activity at Agnes
Scott. By reason of that, debat-
ing has come to be a major extra-
curricular activity here. The
questions are matters in which
students should have a real inter-
est; they are not of an irrelevant
nature.

Let's go to the Cambridge de-
bate, by all means. But let's not
forget the other debates this
year.

STUDENT

AWAKENING?

In the past few weeks student
organizations and college news-
papers on various campuses have
issued protests against American
participation in the Olympics.
The addition of the collegiate
world to the growing objection
to our taking part cannot have
helped but give impetus to the
movement.

College students, among oth-
ers, compete in the Olympics.
Their conception of fairness and
decency, which they feel Ger-
many has violated, is a matter
not to be overlooked. They be-
lieve the ideals on which the
Olympics are based have been set
aside. Since the American atti-
tude toward sports and codes of
competition is more nearly an
emotion than something of the
mind, collegiate comment is like-
ly to reach a new high in con-
demnation and protestation.

It has been suggested that this
feeling indicates a realization on
the part of students "that they
should concern themselves with
what is going on in this world."
It is obvious, however, that un-
controlled, unbounded, emotional
collegiate comment against
American participation will work
more harm than good. Although
students ought not to remain
passive, student leaders of the
agitation should present it from
the side of reason ; printed opin-
ion should be of a wholly intel-
lectual character. Indeed, in its
beginnings at least, the move-
ment could very well be treated
as an academic matter.

A Key to Current
History

FRANCE'S SITUATION TO-DAY
By Alice McCallie
France has seldom appeared to have
such complete disorganization in its
political parties as under the Laval gov- |
ernment. The two parties causing the
most attention are the pro-Fascist
Right and the Anti-Fascist Left, both
of which are divided into many fac-
tions. The best organized faction of
the Right is the Croi de Feu under Col-
onel de la Rocque, who attempted a I
coup d'etat last February. The fact
that whoever tries to seize the govern-
ment illegally will lose has kept Colonel
de la Rocque's legions quiet during
these past few months. He has not put
forth a program and has thus avoided
antagonism, which definite ways cause.
There is much whispering in Paris
about what will be the next move of
de la Rocque and his armed Croix de
Feu.

At the other extreme is the Anti-
Fascist Left with the People's Front,
the consolidation of Socialists and Com-
munists, as the main faction. The mem-
bers of the Left Wing have appointed
themselves defenders of the Republic
and regard the Croix de Feu as an issue
to be considered. However, Colonel
de la Rocque stopped this criticism
when he published a letter to Premier
Laval stating that he had no other in-
tention than to defend the Republican
regime and to keep within the law by
holding his demonstrations on private,
not public, grounds. It is generally
understood that Laval is not in sym-
pathy with the Left Wing. With so
much domestic disturbance it has been
more difficult for Laval to determine
a foreign policy.

France's foreign policy is a matter
that is drawing the attention of those
interested in the Italo-Ethiopian af-
fair. It is definitely not a stable policy
because France is primarily interested
in guaranteeing her own security. Dur-
ing the past few weeks she has seemed
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Book Reviews

Five Atlanta Poets
Acclaim R. Frost

So Red the Rose Stark Young.

So Red the Rose y by Stark Young,
is less a tale of action than a warm,
glowing setting of the rich plantation
'ife in the Mississippi delta during the
War.

Romantic Natchez is revealed to the
reader, a city nourished by the great
river's shifting tides of life. The state-
ly home; the filth and color of the :
waterfront life, with both white people
and Negroes; the sandbar where the
bones of slaves dead in the stockades
lie whitened in the sun; the noisy con-
fusion of the tavern where young Cha-
lie Taliaferro met the olive-skinned,
tragic-eyed girl from New Orleans
all these are actual glimpses of Natchez.

So Red the Rose forms a perfect
background for the War. One sees
and feels the rising tide of unrest from
the huts of the slaves to the plantation
drawing-rooms, where there is but one
subject of talk secession. Then one
day black clouds rising over Natchez
tell that the time has come.

These planters do not have the air
of resurrected ghosts; more than in
almost any other Civil War story they
are real. Valette, the lovely adopted
daughter of the Bedfords, wins her way
into everyone's heart by the artless

charm of her whimsical moods. Wheth-
er she is playing for the brilliant corn-
pan) of a ball, or sitting at the feet
of her old mammy, or wandering
through the weed-grown garden of
Portobello thinking of Duncan the sol-
dier, she brings her world to the reader.

The type of strong southern woman-
hood assuming command is perfected in
Mrs. Bedford. In the absence of her
husband this gently-bred lady presents
a fearless front to marauding North-
erners and insolent ex-slaves alike, until
the day when her beautiful home lies
smoking in ashes.

Pathos there is in plenty, as these
proud planters are forced to realize
their loss. The death of young Ed-
ward McGehee on the field of Shiloh
comes as an almost personal shock to
the reader, as does the discovery of his
body by his mother among the dead at
night.

Told in a naturally beautiful style.
So Red the Rose gives so true and
intimate a glimpse of the delta planter-
folk that one feels as though a curtain
had actually been lifted. It is to be
hoped that the screen version soon to
appear in Atlanta will do justice to the
story itself.

EXCHANGES

Davidson College had an unusual
surprise the week of October 9 when
the weekly paper did not appear. The
copy of the Dai id son/an left Davidson
on a midnight bus, reaching Charlotte
a few minutes later, where the paper is
published. There a man who claimed
to be a representative of the publish-
ing company took the copy and disap-
peared with it.

The Hornet, the weekly paper of
Furman University, publishes a column
of student opinion, which consists of
about fifty answers from various stu-
dents to a question chosen each week
and which is of interest to the student
body. One purpose of the column is to
encourage the students to read the
newspapers and other current news.

The trustees of Washington and Lee
University have voted for a $200,000
improvement fund for buildings on the
campus.

A realistic demonstration of modern

warfare was given by students of the
R. O. T. C. unit of Presbyterian Col-
lege between halves at the P. C. -New-
berry game. The floodlights were
turned off and the "attack" was made
by moonlight. Bright and noisy aerial
bombs and the sputtering of machine
guns added to the effectiveness of the
demonstration.

Statistics concerning the occupation
of fathers of students now enrolled at
Winthrop College show that farmers
lead the list.

Gerlack James will be inaugurated as
the twelfth president of Ohio Univer-
sity on November 15.

General Chang Chih-Kiang, noted
Chinese statesman and distinguished
military leader, is in America on a
mission of peace and establishment of
fellowship and good will among na-
tions. He is visiting colleges all over
America.

By Mildred Clark
Since Robert Frost, acclaimed by
'critics as America's greatest living
poet, will come to Agnes Scott College
on November 7, curiosity prompted me
to interview local poets about him.

I caught Daniel Whitehead Hicky in
Rich's Book Shop a few minutes be-
fore he was to read from his third and
latest volume, Call Back the Spring.
"I haven't had the pleasure of meeting
Frost," he said, "but Holt and Co., his
publishers, are wild about him. I think,
with England and Europe, that he and
Edwin Arlington Robinson are the
most important poets America has pro-
duced in some time."

Dr. Anderson M. Scruggs, Atlanta's
dentist poet, author of Glory of Earth y
thinks that Robert Frost is great for his
ability to combine simplicity with
emotion, and that his use of the speech
of ordinary people gives his poetry a
genuineness and sincerity that is appeal-
ing.

Miss Janef Newman Preston, who has
won Georgia Poetry Society prizes for
sonnet sequences and teaches English
literature and writing courses at Agnes
Scott College, said, "I feel that Robert
Frost is in the great tradition of Eng-
lish-speaking poets because his poetry is
so firmly rooted in reality. His
themes, like Wordsworth's, are 'the
speaking face of earth and sky' and the
simple dignities of the human heart,
and through his interpretation of these
he increases our ability to see and hear
and to feel more profoundly."

James E. Warren, Jr., the nationally
known poet who teaches English at
Commercial High School and Central
Night School, placed Frost high among
the first half-dozen American poets.
"Nobody can attack him for being too
modern," he added. "I think he has
been consistently popular for such a
long period of time partly because he
writes for poetry itself and never for
reform."

Minnie Hite Moody, nationally
known novelist and poet, said in a let- 1
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Club Notes

Bible Club

The Bible Club held its regular meet-
ing Monday afternoon, November 4.
Miss Margaret Pritchard, missionary
from Korea, was the guest speaker.

The Bible Club will serve coffee
Wednesday night, November 6.

International Relations Club
The regular meeting of the Inter-
national Relations Club will be held
Tuesday afternoon. November 12, at
4 o'clock, in the Y. W. C. A. room.
Associate Professor Elizabeth Jackson,
of the history department of Agnes
Scott College, will speak on "A
Glimpse of Russia." Miss Jackson vis-
ited Russia while on her European tour
this summer and is adequately prepared
to give an interesting and delightful
account of what she saw there. Every-
one who is interested in this discus-
sion is invited to attend.

Cotillion Club
Cotillion Club will entertain its
members at a tea dance Thursday, No-
vember 7, at 5 P. M. in Mr. Johnson's
studio. Rosa Miller, Sarah Jones, and
Elizabeth Strickland will be hostesses.

Spanish Club
The Spanish Club will present a play,

Los Itttereses Creados, on the night of

December 3 in the chapel. This is one
of the most delightful of Benavante's
plays and has been read by many of the
Spanish students. The principal char-
acters are: Crispin, Lois Hart; Leandro,
Louise Brown; Silvia, Hibcrnia Has-
sell. The college communitv is cor-
dially invited to attend this play.

was held on the subject: Resolved,
That the Constitution of the United
States should be amended so that the
presidential term would be six years
without the privilege of re-election.
Hibernia I lassell, Jean Barry Adams,
Anne Wheaton, and Joyce Roper par-
ticipated in the debate.

Pi Alpha Phi presented a chapel pro-
gram this morning for the purpose of
explaining more fully the details of the
debate with Cambridge. Nellie Mar-
garet Gilroy and Isabel McCain were
in charge of the program.

Crrizi- n s 1 hp Club
Citizenship Club met Tuesday, Oc-
tober 29, in the Y. W. C. A. room at
4 P. M. Professor Bryan of F.morv
University^ spoke on "The Supreme
Court To-day," giving a most interest
ing discussion of the personalities of
the Supreme Court.

Musk Appkm CATION Group
The Music Appreciation Group of
the Y. W. C. A. continued the study
of Wagner and his operas, which was
begun last week. The meeting was
held, as usual, in the music room at 7
o'clock, Sunday night.

Pi Alpha Phi
The regular meeting of Pi Alpha Phi
was held Thursday night, October 3 1,
in Miss Gooch's studio. The new
members were initiated, and a debate

Chi Beta Phi Sigma
At a call meeting held Saturday, Oc-
tober 2 6, Chi Beta Phi Sigma awarded
the key which is given for outstanding
work in the science department CO
Carol Griffin. Carol graduated from
Agnes Scott College in 1935, having
majored in biology. She was recording
secretary for Chi Beta Phi Sigma in her
senior year, and she has returned to the
campus this year as a fellow in the
biology department.

Chi Beta Phi Sigma held its regular
meeting Monday night, November 4,
in the Science Hall.

The Agonistic

3

Interest in Cambridge Debate

Recalls London Team of 1934

It is with pleasurable anticipation
that the campus awaits the arrival of
the dashing young Englishmen who
will debate at Agnes Scott College on
November 12. From the description of
their versatile talents which seem to
range from reading volumes of econom-
ics to dabbling in archaeology and en-
gaging in boxing, it appears that the
two Cambridge forensic artists will
prove to be quite interesting and en-
tertaining. Speculation upon their prob-
able actions and reactions during their
visits on the campus brings back mem-
ories of the two British expounders
from London University who honored
Agnes Scott with a visit last year. Who
has forgotten the vivid green socks that
the first speaker wore or the furious
way in which his colleague sharpened
pencils with a sort of butcher knife
in the middle of his opponent's most
important sentence? Or who again will
ever cease to remember the way in
which one of the young men literally
crawled up the table leg every time a
point of his was refuted, or with what
difficulty the other maintained his dig-
nity in spite of a very uncontrollable
Stiff shirt front? Memorable, too, was
their limitless capacity for delicious
jokes concerning crazy people who en-
joyed immensely diving and swimming
in a pool fully a week before the water
was put in and their ability to quote
gliblv yet accurately the words of their
immortal countryman, William Shakes-
peare. That brave, courageous declara-
tion describing the Agnes Scott speak-
ers' heroic attempt "It is a tale told
by an idiot . . . signifying nothing"
not only showed true debating art but
also a knowledge and love of the great
classics.

The gentlemen were enjoyed and ap-

preciated most, however, when they re-
moved the cloak of diplomacy and eco-
nomics and when they became at the
social function given in their honor,
the tea-drinkers and small talkers for
which their country is so famous. In
this field of endeavor they fairly shone.
Only a small amount of reminiscing
will call to mind the unostentatious
manner in which the diplomat, the es-
sence of sophistication, seemingly for-
got his formerly carefully preserved
dignity and lounged in true bohemian
fashion upon the floor in front of the
fireplace. Being a good student of
American history he probably thought
that Abraham Lincoln established a
precedent when he, stretched at full
length, studied before the fire. The
situations are strikingly similar except
that Lincoln was not staring into the
flattering eyes of southern beauties.
His colleague, however, not to be out-
done, vied for honors with his friend
by performing all kinds of interest-
ing contortions with a mere everyday
neck scarf. This scarf, which was about
six feet long, was vigorously twisted
about his neck upon his arrival and
departure at every function.

In spite of these features which were
delightful to witness, the Englishmen
were remarkable for their adaptation
to life of the campus. In their witty
and illuminating manner they answered
hundreds of questions concerning every
phase of knowledge from the number
of radios played in London after 11:45
to a critical analysis of the eon of the
fifth dimension. Gracious through it
all, they were so complimentary at their
departure as to say that Agnes Scott
girls were the loveliest and most gen-
teel with whom they had come in con-
tact.

REPORTERS FOR THIS ISSUE:
Giddy Erwin Ruth Hertzka

Alice Cheeseman Mildred Davis
Mary Richardson Hortense Jones
Elizabeth Warden Douglas Lyle
Cora Kay Hutchins Eliza King
Carol Hale Loice Richards

FIVE ATLANTA POETS

ACCLAIM ROBERT FROST

(Continued from page 2, column 3)
ter, "The familiar query is 'Which is
greater, Robinson or Frost?' I suppose
a winter could be spent in arguing that
question. My answer is, 'Both are
great; each in his own way'."

Mrs. Moody finished her letter with,
"When Frost comes to Atlanta, if I
get a chance to speak to him, I shall
ask him whether it is true that he ac-
tually has worked on a poem twenty
years before publishing it. I rather hope
it is true, because it sets so telling an
example for the rest of us."

MISS ( . S( ANDRETT SPEAKS TO
SENIORS AT 27TH INVESTITURE

(Co ii tin tied from page 1, column 4)
formed on Inman porch, was led by
the sophomores dressed in white. The
faculty preceded the seniors into the
chapel followed by Master Henry Rob-
inson, son of Professor and Mrs. Henry
Robinson, and the senior class. Dean
Nannette Hopkins performed the tra-
ditional capping ritual. This year's
class is the largest group in the history
of Agnes Scott to be invested.

Y. W. Endorses
Peace Project

Agnes Scott College is cooperating
in a program for peace to be carried
on this year by the colleges of seven
states, including North Carolina, Vir-
ginia, Mississippi, Alabama, Kentucky,
Tennessee, and Georgia. Last summer
at Blue Ridge representatives from the
Y. M. C. A.'s and Y. W. C. A.'s of
these colleges passed a resolution to
emphasize World Peace on the campus.

There is a regional council and com-
mittee at the head of this work in
Georgia, of which Augusta King is the
representative at Agnes Scott. The
program will be carried on through
study courses and discussion groups,
and attempts will be made to mold
public opinion by means of the press,
radio, and drama. There will be an
Armistice Day program which, in ad-
dition to being a memorial for the
dead, will emphasize the responsibility
of the living to work for peace. The
committee in charge of this at Agnes
Scott is made up of Loice Richards,
Frances James, Adelaide Stevens, and
Jean Barry Adams.

Dr. L. B. Parkinson,
M.S.C.W. President,
Visits Agnes Scott

Dr. L. B. Parkinson, president of
Mississippi State College for Women,
Columbus, was at Agnes Scott College
on Thursday, October 31. He visited
Dr. J. R. McCain, president of the
College; Dean Nannette Hopkins; and
Mr. S. G. Stukes, registrar.

During the morning, in an un-
planned and informal interview with
The Agonistic, he revealed that he
was a student in English under Dr.
McCain's father and that he attended
Erskine College, South Carolina, with
all the "McCain boys."

Dr. Parkinson has been, among oth-
er things, a professor at Presbyterian
College, and connected with the Ala-
bama State Department of Education.
He was born in Tennessee.

Dr. Parkinson believes that a wom-
an's college campus is far more civi-
lized than the campus of a boy's col-
lege. And, as for a coeducational uni-
versity, he has found that "the boys
get all the plums, the girls get all the
crumbs." He thinks that an institu-
tion, such as Agnes Scott or M. S. C.
W., is the "choicest type of college
environment."

Dr. Parkinson was in Atlanta at-
tending the regional meeting of the
American Association of Colleges held
from Thursday through Saturdav. He
expressed pleasure at this opportunity
to visit Agnes Scott and to discuss
general policies with the officials of the
College.

Dean Hopkins "Caps" Seniors

Courtesy of the Atlanta Constitution.

Dean Nannette Hopkins is shown investing Adelaide Stevens, president
of Student Government Association, while Lulu Ames, editor of THE A(i<>-
NISTIC, looks on.

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Visit A. S. C.

Alumnae Represent
A. S. C. at Rollins,
Bryn Mawr Colleges

Two alumnae, Mrs. Lucile (Smith)
Bishop, '21, and Miss Nina Parke, '3 5,
represented Agnes Scott College at the
c ftieth anniversaries of Rollins and
Bryn Mawr colleges, respectively. The
services began on Friday, November 1,
and continued through Monday, No-
vember 4.

Mrs. Bishop, who lives in Orlando,
Florida, attended the exercises at Rol-
lins, in Winterhaven, Florida, for the
last three days; while Miss Parke, who
lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was
present during all the anniversary cele-
bration of Bryn Mawr.

Agnes Scott has long been closely re-
lated with these two eminent colleges
for women. In the past it has been cus-
tomary for members of the faculty to
attend meetings of this sort, but this
year Dr. J. R. McCain, president of
Agnes Scott College, requested that
alumnae living near the institutions
should act for their Alma Mater.

ADAMS CO. BEGINS

WORK ON LIBRARY

(Continued from page 1, column 3)
livery of materials and to prevent any
congestion of the drive in front of But-
trick Hall and the gymnasium.

The committee which considered the
bids was composed of Dr. J. R. Mc-
Cain, president; Mr. R. B. Cunning-
ham, business manager; and Miss Edna
R. Hanley, librarian, of Agnes Scott
College; and Mr. V/. E. Edwards and
Mr. W, J. Sayward, of the architectural
firm, Edwards & Sayward.

Smoking in church used to be com-
mon, and the first edict against tobac-
co came from Pope Urban VIII in
1642 who forbade it because of the
noise set up by steel and flint among
echoing naves during Mass. Fortune.

"It is almost a definition of a gen-
tleman to say he is one who never in-
flicts pain. He makes light of favors
while he does them, and seems to be
receiving when he is conferring. He
observes the maxim of the ancient sage,
that we should ever conduct ourselves
toward our enemy as if he were one
day to be our friend." Flora-Ala.

CLUB NOTES

(Continued from page 2, column 5)

French Club
The next meeting of the French
Club will be held on Monday after-
noon, November 11, at 4:3 0 in Mr.
Johnson's studio. The new members of
the French Club will be initiated at
this time.

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Agnes Scott College entertained the
seniors of North Avenue Presbyterian
School in Atlanta on November 1 from
3:45 until 9 o'clock. N. A. P. S.
alumnae at Agnes Scott were hostesses.

At 4 o'clock the guests enjoyed the
hockey game and, at 5 o'clock, open
house in the gymnasium. After dinner
the Cotillion Club sponsored a dance in
their honor. At 8 o'clock they at-
tended the swimming meet held in
commemoration of the tenth year of
the building of Bucher Scott Gymna-
sium.

This year there will not be one day
on which all Atlanta and Decatur high
school seniors are guests of Agnes Scott,
as has been the custom for some time.
The seniors of each high school will be
entertained at Agnes Scott on separate
days. Their student hostesses will be
alumnae of the particular high school.

Aids Local Students

The Agnes Scott College fire de-
partment met Wednesday afternoon,
October 3 0, for a period of discussion
and instruction in fire prevention.
Present at the meeting were the mem-
bers of the department, of which
Katherine Bishop is chief, Dr. J. R.
McCain, president of Agnes Scott,
Dean Nannette Hopkins, Mr. R. B.
Cunningham, Mr. Jones, Mr. Rivers,
and two members of the Decatur fire
department. The duties of the brigade
were clearly outlined, and their re-
sponsibility in case of fire was em-
phasized. Stress was laid on the fact
that preservation of life is the main
objective.

It was decided to inaugurate a pro-
gram of fire drills in the dormitories
in the near future, when students will
be instructed as to the location of exits
in their respective buildings. Attend-
ance at these drills will be compulsory.

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Seniors in Final Girlishness

--Courtesy of the Atlanta Constitution.

Shown above are Alice Chamlee and Nell White, seated, and Rosa Miller,
kneeling, as they appeared on Little Girl Day last Friday. TVs was the last
day that seniors can dress anyway other than strictly dignified.

A KEY TO CURRENT HISTORY

(Continued from page 2, column 3)
to follow two contradictory foreign
policies. One has been of the Left
group whose main objective has been
to seize the present opportunity to form
a solid front with Great Britain against
Hitler. They want to co-operate with
the League; because if France does not,
she will lose the support of Great Bri-
tain and the Little Entente of Central
Europe and will thereby be left with-
out protection against Germany. The
other policy is that of the Right which
is in favor of Italy; because if Italy
should fail, Germany would probably
take Austria and possibly Italy. Thus I
the Right party wants to preserve Italy I
as an ally against Hitler and does not
want to apply the sanctions.

Laval has evidently felt sympathetic
with the attitude of the Right, because
he has been so slow in agreeing to ap-
ply the sanctions. He has agreed on
one condition: that France receive four
days notice in which to put the eco-
nomic sanctions into effect. Laval also
gave Great Britain an offer of naval aid
in case of an unprovoked Italian at-
tack; so Great Britain has withdrawn
some of her largest ships from the Med-
iterranean, and Italy has promised to
end the concentration of troops in
Libya near the Egyptian frontier. This
offer and its results brought Laval
international prestige.

A few weeks ago Laval was re-elect-
ed senator in two departments where
he had presented his candidacies. His
victory was regarded as an endorse-
ment of both his domestic and foreign
policies. However the foreign policy
is not stable; and since it is very im-
portant in European affairs, it is worth
w hile to watch its course.

SENIORS WIN FIRST,
JUNIORS ARE SECOND
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In the swimming meet Friday night,
November 1, the seniors placed first
with a total of 23 points, the juniors
came second with 21 points, the sopho-
mores won third place with 16 points,
and the freshmen placed fourth with
13 points. The first event was a 40-
yard dash free style. The result was:

1st place Coffee, 2 5.1 seconds.

2nd place Hamilton, 26.2 seconds.

3rd place Burson, 29 seconds.

In the front tandem for form,
Thompson and Henderson won first
~>lace, Lasseter and Johnson second, Og-
den and Wheeler third. In the back
randem first place went to the juniors,
second place to the sophomores, while
the freshmen and seniors tide for third.
In the 20-yard dash, back crawl,
Kneale, swimming for the juniors,
placed first with 14 seconds, while Cof-
fee came in with a close second for the
seniors with IS seconds. Henderson,
swimming for the sophomores, placed
third.

In the diving events the juniors won
first place with Johnson and Printup
diving. The seniors came second with
Coffee and Armstrong; and the soph-
omores third with Smith and Chal-
mers. In the last event, the glove relay
race, the senior-sophomore team won

Hockey Sub-Varsity
Overcomes Varsity:
Robinson Gets Stick

First the freshmen win the stunt.
Then the sub-varsity hockey team de-
feats the varsity. What will happen
next? They have the opportunity to de-
feat the varsity again, for the sub-var-
sity team has accepted a challenge to
another game with the varsity. The
game will be played off perhaps during
the week. The varsity team, made up
of Hart, Burson, Handte, Shloss, Fleece,
Derrick, Kneale, Armstrong, Crenshaw,
Taylor, Gillespie, Adams, and Forman,
will have to do some expert plaving
to out-point the sub-varsity, made up
of Stevens, Isabel McCain, Dryfoos,
Thompson, Laura Coit, Coffee, Grim-
son, Crowell, Blackshear, Sarah Frances
Estes, McMullen, and Robinson. In
the game Friday Laura Coit shot the
only goal made during the game, giv-
ing the sub-varisty a score of 1-0 over
the varsity team. It was by far the
most exciting game of the season; and
both teams, as well as many fans, are
eagerly awaiting the next.

The hockey stick was presented be-
tween the halves of the game Friday.
Each year the senior team chooses the
sophomore whom they think has shown
the most skill during the hockey sea-
son. This year the award went to
Frances Robinson, goal guard for the
sophomores, because of her stick tech-
ique, speed, presence of mind, and pos-
-ibility of developing into a skillful
player.

first place; the junior-freshman team
won second.

The meet was sponsored by the
swimming club, the members of which
presented a skillful formation and beau-
tiful diving with sparklers as the cli-
max of the meet.

Gym Celebrates Tenth Year;

Entertainment Held on Nov. 1

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came to one asking the applicant's
higher education, if any. She stuck
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Gymnasium, the physical education de-
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open house on Friday, November 1.
The events of the day included a spe-
cial chapel program, a hockey game,
afternoon tea, after-dinner coffee, and
a swimming meet.

Ann Coffee, president of the Ath-
letic Association, was in charge of the
morning chapel program. At this time
four athletic group leaders spoke of the
activities of their respective groups.
These included Helen Handte, hockey
manager; Martha Long, president of
Outing Club; Florence Lasseter, swim-
ming manager; and Anne Taylor,
chairman of the health committee. The
hockey varsity and sub-varsity, and the
swimming club members were also an-
nounced at this meeting.

In the hockey game at 4 o'clock the
sub-varsity upset the varsity team by
a score of 1 to 0. Between halves Eliz-
abeth Burson, representing the senior
team, awarded the hockey stick, which
is given every year to the sophomore
showing the greatest skill and technique
n hockey, to Frances Robinson, sopho-
more goal guard. From 5 to 6 there

was an informal tea in the gymnasium.
Dr. Mary F. Sweet and Miss Harriette

; Haynes, of the physical education de-
partment, poured, while Miss Llewellvn
W/ilburn, also of the physical education

'department, Miss Elizabeth Mitchell,
assistant in physical education, Wavve
Lewis, Julia Thing, and Marie Stalker
assisted.

After-dinner coffee was served in the
gymnasium from 7:50 to S o'clock.
Mildred Frost Brown and Frances Rob-
inson poured, and Mary Hull assisted.
At S o'clock there was an inter-class
swimming meet followed by an exhibi-
tion by the swimming club. The events
of the meet included a 40-yard dash
free style; front and back tandems for
form; a 20-yard backstroke race; div-
ing; and a novelty relay in which the
girls swam with gloves on. The seniors
placed first, the juniors second, the
sophomores third, and the freshmen
fourth. Eight members of the swim-
,ming club took part in the swimming
formations, and three members partici-
pated in the dives made with sparklers.

Guests for the athletic celebration
included members of the College com-
munity, friends of the College, and vis-
itors for investiture.

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VOL. XXI

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1935

NO. 7

A. S. C. Holds
Peace Chapel
November 12

An all-Agnes Scott faculty-student
Peace program was presented in chapel
yesterday morning as part of the Peace
policies being sponsored this fall by
many of the leading campus organiza-
tions. Augusta King, of the Y. W. C.
A., speaking on "Personal Peace," rep-
resented the students. Dr. J. R. Mc-
Cain, president of the College, repre-
senting the faculty, presided over the
meeting.

The organizations which took an ac-
tive part in planning the program were
Student Government Association; the
Y. W. C. A.; the Current History Fo-
rum including International Relations
Club, Citizenship Club, and the local
chapter of the National Student Fed-
eration of America; Pi Alpha Phi, de-
bating society; and The Agonistic.

This program was one of the many-
held throughout the country at this
time in connection with a nation-wide,
faculty-student mobilization for peace.
This movement was sponsored by N. S.
F. A. and other national student or-
ganizations. Eleven o'clock last Friday
was the time chosen for the demon-
stration but since the chapel hour at
Agnes Scott comes at ten and The Ag-
onistic program was already sched-
uled, yesterday morning was substitut-
ed for the hour on Friday.

Dr. Works To Visit
A.S.C. Next Month

Dr. George A. Works, dean of the
School of Education, University of
Chicago, and secretary of the North
Central Association of Colleges and
Secondary Schools, is expected to come
to Agnes Scott College early in De-
cember, in connection with the plans
for co-operation between Emory Uni-
versity and Agnes Scott.

Dr. Works, with several other prom-
inent educators, visited Agnes Scott in
January, 1934, in connection with the
same project, and investigated the con-
ditions existing in the educational in-
stitutions of Atlanta. Although no ac-
tion was taken at that time, the proj-
ect has not been abandoned. It is ex-
pected that during Dr. Works' visit
this year definite plans will be made.

ALUMNAE LEAVE ON
FIELD TRIP THROUGH
SOUTHERN STATES

Miss Alberta Palmour, '3 5, field sec-
retary of the Alumnae Association of
Agnes Scott College, and Miss Jacque-
line Woolfolk, '3 5, left on Monday,
November 5, on an overland trip to
Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkan-
sas, and Texas. They will be gone for
approximately six weeks, returning to
the College around December 14.

Miss Palmour spoke on Agnes Scott
and showed moving pictures of campus
life to students in Mobile, Alabama, on
November 6; New Orleans, Louisiana,
on November 9; Baton Rouge, Louisi-
ana, on Monday, and Lake Charles,
Louisiana, and Beaumont, Texas, yes-
terday. She will arrive in Houston to-
day, and will be there through Satur-
day of this week, when she will go on
to San Antonio and Austin.

While in New Orleans, Miss Pal-
mour and Miss Woolfolk were guests
of Mrs. Fred R. White; and they will
be entertained in Austin by Miss Mary
Ames, '34.

AGONISTIC PEACE BALLOT FAILS IN PURPOSE

AS ONLY 23 PER CENT OF COLLEGE RESPONDS

Questions

Total
Ballots

%

Freshman

!

Sophomore

%

Junior

Senior

Unclassified

%

Facultv

%

Percentage
Voting

23.3

14

12

31

]

23

35

Question
No. 1 Yes

91.3

95

!

100 88

87

85

96

No

8.7

0

12

13

15

4

Question
No. 2 a

1.8

6

0

0

0

0

4

b

98.2

94

100

100

100

100

96

Question
No. 3 Yes

11.4

17

23

4

31

0

No

88.6

83

77

94

96

69

100

Mortar Board Plans
Recognition Service

Mrs. Elinor Hamilton Hightower,
'34, will address the College at the an-
nual recognition service of the Agnes
Scott chapter of Mortar Board, to be
held at the chapel period on Saturday,
November 16. Her subject will be
"Service of Mortar Board on the Cam-
pus."

Mrs. Hightower is a former editor
of the Silhouette, a member of Phi
Beta Kappa, and a member of Mortar
Board. Before her marriage, she was,
in 1934-193 5, field representative of
the Agnes Scott College Alumnae As-
sociation.

Mortar Board, which replaces at Ag-
nes Scott the local honorary society of
Hoasc, is a national honorary society
for women, with scholarship, leader-
ship, and service the qualifications for
membership. Members of the active
chapter are Carrie Phinney Latimer,
president; Lulu Ames, Frances James,
Shirley Christian, Sarah Spencer, Ruby
Hutton,, Ann Coffee, Dean McKoin
Augusta King, Adelaide Stevens, and
Loice Richards.

Agonistic Key
To Honor Four
Staff Members

The four recipients of The Agonis-
tic Key, emblem of the honorary or-
ganization established this year by The
Agonistic, will be announced at The
Agonistic chapel program on Friday
morning, December 13. Election to the
chapter is based on the loyalty and
'work of the members of the editorial
and business sides of the paper. Girls
who are elected must also be active par-
ticipants in at least one other campus
organization and must have merited
two-thirds of their academic work for
the semester preceding; in the case of
freshmen, they shall have merited two-
thirds of their work for the preceding
six weeks.

Initiation of the new members will
take place the night of their election.
The following Saturday the first meet-
ing of the organization will take place
in the form of a luncheon at the Anna
Young Alumnae tea house.

Girls working on the business side
of the paper will be judged by their
work on all of this year's editions of
the paper, and reporters and members
of the editorial staff will be judged by
their work on the four editions from
October 23 through today's edition.
Election is to be made by a committee
composed of Professor George Hayes,
of the English department; Assistant
Professor Annie May Christie, of the
English department and instructor of
journalism; Lulu Ames, editor of The
Agonistic, and Alice Chamlee, busi-
ness manager.

The election of four more girls to
the organization will take place next
spring.

Mr. Thomas Makes
Peace Speech At
Agonistic Chapel

Mr. Lavens Thomas II, of the Can-
dler School of Theology, Emory Uni-
versity, spoke on International Peace
at The Agonistic chapel program, on
Friday, November 8. This address
opened the final phase of The Agon-
istic fall Peace Program, which closes
with this issue of the paper.

In the course of his talk, Mr. Thomas
said, "We, as loyal citizens, can not
but dare to follow the example of our
government in renouncing war as a
means of settling international dis-
putes, first of all, because of the ter-
rific expense in dollars and ccikj." Ik
pointed out that, according to the most
accurate statistics available, the money
spent for shot and shell in the last
war would be enough to build ten col-
leges like Agnes Scott in each of the
forty eight states, and to furnish each
of these four hundred and eighty
schools with a $5,000,000 endowment
together with 1000 scholarships worth
$5,000 each.

Mr. Thomas declared that loyal citi-
zens will renounce war because of the
terrific toll it takes of human life. Just
how great this was in the World War
can be seen from the fact that 16,5 8 5
men were killed every day. If these
dead would march twenty abreast,
eight hours a day, he said, it would
take 94 days for them to pass a given
spot. Thus, if this troop should have
begun on November 8, to march past
Gaines Chapel, it would be March 13
before the last figure had passed out of
sight.

Mr. Thomas concluded that, not
only as loyal Americans, but also, "as
loyal citizens of the kingdom of God,
we must denounce war, because of the
teachings of, and the spirit revealed by,
Jesus of Nazareth, whom we call 'Mas-
ter' ". Instead of being swept away by
martial airs, by militant propaganda,
and by threats of court martial, it
would do better to expend energy to-
ward righteous indignation, to show
patriotism by "attacking iniquity in
high places," and that thus, "with
minorities moving here and there, we
may usher in His kingdom."

Roosevelt to Speak
In Atlanta Nov. 29

President Franklin D. Roosevelt will
speak at Grant Field in Atlanta on
Friday, November 29, as the major
part of a celebration to be held that
day in his honor.

This date has been set aside as Roose-
velt Day in Georgia and delegations
from all parts of the state are plan-
ning to be in Atlanta then; a crowd
of about 100,000 is expected. Various
civic and political organizations are in
charge of the plans for the program
which will be held during the Presi-
dent's annual visit to Warm Springs,
where he maintains a cottage and
where, for a number of years, he has
come to spend Thanksgiving with the
patients. He is a trustee of the Wnrm
Springs Foundation and has been in-
strumental in making the Foundation's
reputation for the successful treat-
ment of victims of poliomyelitis na-
tion-wide.

He will arrive at Warm Springs
around the twentieth; he will make the
70-mile trip to Atlanta by car.

President Roosevelt will speak at
noon. Agnes Scott students who have
no classes at this hour will probably
hear him.

Juniors Lead
Student Poll
By 8 Percent

Faculty Has High Record
By Numbers; Nine Depts.
Remain Silent on Issue

Silhouette Wins
National Award
For Fourth Time

ATTENTION

Cornelia Otis Skinner, the fa-
mous daughter of the noted ac-
tor, Otis Skinner, will appear in
a program of Modern Character
Sketches on next Wednesday
night, November 20, at 8:15
o'clock in Glenn Memorial Audi-
torium. She is being brought to
Atlanta by the Student Lecture
Association of Fmory University.
General admission will be one
dollar.

The awarding of the 1934-3 5 Sil-
houette first-class rating for colleges
with 5 00 students or less makes the
fourth consecutive year that the Na-
tional Scholastic Press Association has
accorded this honor to the Agnes Scott
College annual. The editor and busi-
ness manager of last year's annual were
Caroline Long and Betty Lou Houck,
respectively. Their development of the
theme, the diary of an Agnes Scott girl,
was especially complimented.

The Southeastern Photo-Process
Company, in recognition of these suc-
cessive honors, has presented to the
Silhouette a cup which is to remain
in its permanent possession.

At the recent convention of the N.
S. P. A., editors of college yearbooks
were advised to "withdraw from the
stereotyped, conventional type" of an-
nual. Shirley Christian, editor of the I
193 6 Silhouette, has announced that
this year the staff is making several
changes in accordance with this pol-
icy. One of these which has already
been put into effect is the popular
ballot to choose the students who will
try out for the beauty section. An-
other important change is that all of
the art work for the annual is being
done by students. In general the staff
is making a deliberate effort to in-
clude all phases of campus life and to
give a more informal record of the
college year.

The returns of The Agonistic
Peace Ballot, conducted on the cam-
pus Nov. 1-8, are charted here on a
percentage basis. The figures were com-
piled by Professor Henry A. Robinson,
of the mathematics department, who,
assisted by Lulu Ames, tabulated the
votes. Only 23.3 % of the College re-
turned their ballots.

Of the four classes the juniors re-
sponded best; the seniors, after three
years of liberal college training and
mental activity, were almost 10 % low-
er than the juniors. It is interesting to
note, also, that the freshmen were 2 ( t
better than the sophomores. The fac-
ulty group, in point of number, re-
turned most ballots; re-calculated by
departments, its record is not so high.
The history department and the de-
partment of physics and astronomy
both voted 100%. The next highest
were the French with 75% and ^
Fnglish with 60 ( < . The rest ra J
from 50' ' down; nine departr ,nts
made no response at all.

The unclassified column in the chart
includes all those who failed to indi-
cate on the ballot their class standing
or their department.

The sophomore class is more willing
than the five other groups to support
the federal government in defensive
warfare, with the faculty next. Of the
definitely classified groups, the seniors
tend most toward complete pacifism,
although only 1 % more than the jun-
iors. The freshmen lead the group in
favoring military methods as a means
for settling disputes between other na-
tions, followed closely by the faculty
group.

The final question, Are you in favor
of protecting by force of arms prop-
erty rights of United States citizens in

(Continued on page 6, column 1)

Concert Orchestra
To Appear Tonight

Dr. Hans Kindler will conduct his
famous National Symphony Orchestra
of Washington, D. C, as the second
presentation of the All Star Concert
Series tonight at 8:30 at the Fox Thea-
ter, in Atlanta.

More than three hundred Agnes
Scott College students will hear this
leading symphony orchestra on its first
appearance in Atlanta. Dr. Kindler,
who has acted as guest conductor with
the New York Philharmonic, Philadel-
phia Symphony, Paris, Vienna, and
other European orchestras, has been
recognized as a man of unusual ability
because of his development of this na-
tionally known organization.

The transportation of Agnes Scott
boarding students attending the con-
cert will be arranged as for the first
concert of this season. Three street
cars will leave the underpass prompt-
ly at 7:15 o'clock. After the concert,
Agnes Scott students are to wait in
the front lobby until the cars have ar-
rived. The fare for the trip in will be
five cents and for the trip back, ten
cents. To prevent confusion in the of-
fice, the boarding students are request-
ed to sign out early this afternoon.

2

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OUR WORLD WITHIN THE WORLD

For the first time in three years, the organizations of Agnes
Scott have adopted an active policy. We have chosen International
Peace. We have outlined programs that include discussion groups
dealing with international affairs, chapel speakers whose subjects
deal with important matters of the world today, club programs
with student speakers.

We have shown undue enthusiasm in this campus-wide Peace
project. We have discussed and talked and read and learned almost
to the saturation point, we believe. We listen to speakers and we
ask them intelligent questions. We could, if we put our minds to
it, resent the blanket criticism that students are a part of human-
ity set aside in cotton batting, a group apart from the real prob-
lems of citizenship. Why, we are no longer asleep. We are no
longer campus-minded. We are interested in those questions on
which the attention of the world is now centered. And we are
sincere.

YET, out of the 540 Peace Ballots mailed to all faculty, admin-
istrative officers, and students last week, only 129 were returned.

GOOD OLD
AMERICANISM

In a syndicated article timed,
apparently, to greet the British
debaters at the boat, the Hearst
papers have let loose a stream of
the "usual Hearstian taunts" at
the N. S. F. A.-sponsored debate
teams representing Cambridge
and Oxford. According- to the ar-
ticle, titled variously "Sappers
Are Coming" and "English 'Stu-
dent Tourists' Rap U. S. Consti-
tution," the teams have come to
the United States in order to
"advocate the superiority of the
British system of government to
the American system."

The practice of international
debates, doubtless a new one to
the Hearst writer, is backed, he
says, by "a group of radicals in
politics" who are "waging war
on the American system of train-
ing with the Colors which George
Washington recommended, Ab-
raham Lincoln inaugurated and
every President and Congress
since his time has strongly sup-
ported." With surprising caution.

JOY!

JOY! JOY!

The thought of an honest-to-
goodness holiday that won't be
passed before we know it's here
is too much. For eight weeks
by the time Thanksgiving gets
here, if it ever does, it will be
eight weeks we have been
struggling and pushing along
after the most approved fashion.
For those of us who have been
here before, it's been an effort.
What then must it be for the
freshmen ?

Of course, if we should hap-
pen to get Friday and maybe Sat-
urday, too, we would have to
make it up later in the year
Memorial Day, say, or a bite out
of Spring Holidays. But then we
will have had Christmas and ex-
ams (there's always extra time
running loose during exams!)
and Founder's Day for excess re-
cuperation and back work.
Whereas, now, it's been a steady
beat since the middle of Septem-
ber.

It's time to play. Why not
Thanksgiving week-end?

American Peace Movements Since
the World War
When the Commission on the Coor-
dination of Efforts for Peace, set up
by the American Peace Society in 192 8,
made its report, it submitted data on
several hundred organizations. The re-
port divides the peace organizations
into four categories: "(a) Organiza-
tions organized primarily for the pro-
motion of peace; (b) organizations not
organized primarily for the promotion
of peace but engaged in the promotion 1
of peace through a special committee;

(c) organizations not organized pri-
marily for the promotion of peace and
not engaged in the promotion of peace
through a special committee or section,
but having the promotion of peace as
one of the several stated objectives;

(d) other organizations organized for
purposes more or less closely related to
the promotion of peace." This report
clearly indicates the fact that peace
movements in America have been very
numerous and yet have had extremely
varied programs.

The movement for peace in America
received its first impetus from en-
dowed peace societies, the first of
which was established in 1815. The
American Peace Society, which is still
functioning, boasts an existence of over
a century. The main features of its
program as adopted at its centenary in
Cleveland in 1928 are: "(a) Opposi-
tion to compulsory military training in
public schools; (b) withdrawal of gov-
ernment protection of the investments
of nationals in notoriously unsettled
and disturbed countries." Another or-
ganization for the promotion of peace
in America is known as the American
section of the Women's International
League for Peace and Freedom. This
international organization was begun
at the Hague Conference of 1915, and,
under the leadership of Jane Addams,
its chairman, many constructive con-
ferences were held in various countries.
This organization sponsored courses
for peace workers at Geneva in 1926.
Just this year the American section an-
nounced itself in favor of the "com-
plete abolition of the munitions indus-
try." The third and perhaps the best
known of the peace foundations is the
National Committee on the Cause and
(Continued on page 6, Col. 1)

Exchanges

A certain professor states that with
the present rate of insanity 5 0 per
cent of the population will be insane
by 1975. Florida Flambeau.

The last book written by Lawrence
of Arabia, entitled The Mint, is priced
$5 00,000 a copy. At that price no
title could be more appropriate.
Ohio State Journal.

Books

he lays all the blame for this en-
croachment on American ideals
on "an organization operating
under the name of National Stu-
dents Federation"; he plainly
stales ''that this extraordinary
expedition is not sponsored by
the government or people of
Great Britain." He condemns the
project as "anti-American."

This attitude of fine jingoism
is not one that will contribute,

greatly to international friend- a five-minute interval.

Dr. Albert Bushnell Hart, widely
known historian, has written or edited
104 volumes of history. Dr. Hart is
a former professor at Harvard. The
Flat Hat.

Alumnae News

HOUR
CLASSES

One hour is long enough for
any class. Especially since one

Mary Virginia Allen, Mary Boggs,
Liselotte Roennecke, and Margaret
Robins spent two weeks at Edisto
Island, S. C, on a house party this
sum mer.

Vella Marie Behm is church secretary
and secretary to the pastor. Reverend
William M. Elliott, Jr., at Druid Hills
Presbyterian Church in Atlanta.

Mary Boggs is living at 107 Walker
Street, Cambridge, Mass., while attend-
ing the graduate school of Radcliffe
studying for her M.A.

Alice Burke is teaching at the Lee
Street School in Atlanta.

Trellis Charmichael is teaching
school in LaFayette, Ga.

Sara Davis works with the Georgia
Power Company in Atlanta.

Alice Dunbar is teaching high school
English in Troy, Ala.

Fidesah Edwards is teaching in Texas,
where her family has recently moved
from New Orleans.

Willie Florence Eubanks is teaching
in Roswell, Ga.

Alsine Shutze is teaching English lit-

the

The carpenter at the University of
Southern California, E. N. Currier, 85
years old, is an alumnus of the Uni-
versity. He gives his entire salary to
a scholarship fund dedicated to the
memory of his son. At the opening
and closing of each year he writes his
greetings to the students on the black-
board in the classrooms.

Harvard has the largest university
library in the world. It has 3,602,040
books in all.

Lee and Grant have met again. Two
freshmen at Dartmouth College on
meeting each other said:

"My name's Lee."

"Mine's Grant."

They are both great-grandsons of
the cousins of the famous generals and
live in Washington, D. C.

Dr. H. W. Stopher, director of mu-
sic at Louisiana State University, has
made arrangements with the famous
Mozartcum, Austrian National Con-
servatory in Salzburg, whereby two
students from each school will ex-
change for a year's study. Associated
Collegiate Press.

Expansion of the University of
Michigan is being made possible
through the gift of $5,000,000 from
the trustees of the Horace H. and Mary
Rackham fund.

class follows another after only

That is ! erature, shorthand, and typing in

shto^^ connections. It is possible, j ^ 2 -^ h SchooL .

based on emotional and false though, because too many ^A^^gI^^I^^
premises, will not W f*^* diea make an unexcused absence. | 2?v4> < oltmn 1 I

unbelievecL I he intentional mis- , . v

interpretation of the purpose of And unexcused absences louei
the debatea and the "anti-Ameri- grades.

can" motif addressed to hysteri- All this being so, we believe
cal patriots will weaken, if not that professors should stop^ their
de-troy, the wee, small bit N. S. lecture8 when the first bell rings

!* f i,ou r e t

the youth of this countrv and to dismiss themselves then witn-
Grea1 Britain. out danger of rebuke.

Carnegie Institution astronomers are
conducting studies of a very faint ne-
bula said to be 1,3 30,000,000,000,000,-
000,000 miles away. This is about the
same distance that a college student's
mind is from the lecture on Monday
morning.

the

The faculty and student body
of Airnes Seott College wish to
express their sincere sympathy
to Miss Martha Stansfield in the
death of her father.

"The world is a looking glass, and
gives back to every man the reflec-
tions of his own face. Frown at it,
and it in turn will look sourly upon
vou; laugh at it and with it, and it is
a folly, kind companion." William
Makepeace Thackeray.

Tn one day's time the heart pumps
enough blood to fill an ordinary rail-
road tank car. Time.

National Velvet Enid Bagnold.

By Elizabeth Warden.

The piebald horse couldn't stand be-
ing shut up and would clear stone
fences and go thundering down the
village street, scaring the children half
out of their wits and leaving a path
of devastation behind him. So the pie-
bald was raffled and won by Velvet
Brown, and there it all began. Velvet,
aged fourteen, fourth daughter of the
butcher, fairly lived for horses. And
with the Grand National steeplechase
only a few months off almost any-
thing could happen with Velvet
a round.

But the piebald does not hold all the
interest; there are the Browns. Mr.
Brown, the butcher; Mrs. Brown, who
was once a channel swimmer but who
has grown fat, so that her stays, cheap
ones, wound her broad back; Malvolia,
Meredith, and Edwina, "like golden an-
telopes" galloping over the country-
side; 4-year-old Donald, who is saving
his spit in a spit bottle, and who re-
fuses to swallow his dinner " 'cause
'taint slidy"; Jacob, the hypocritical
old fox-terrier; Mi Taylor, who makes
all the arrangements for Velvet's dar-
ing adventure; and Velvet herself, the
family's ugly duckling, who smuggles
out her torturing gold plate so she
can eat in comfort when her father's
back is turned.

The jacket announcement that ;Yt/-
tional Velvet deals with horses and
horse races may cause some people to
turn aside; but it takes no more than
three chapters to have the reader be-
witched by the South Downs of Sus-
sex overlooking the sea, by the Brown
family gathered in their dining room
next to the slaughter house, and by
Velvet who races through the pages on
her beloved piebald.

National Velvet, illustrated with de-
lightful sketches by the author's
daughter, is a book to be read "for
pure enchantment, excitement, and en-
joyment."

Sir James Barrie presided at a re-
cent dinner given by the Author's Club
in London in honor of Morley Rob-
erts. Sir Barrie, rarely seen in public,
appeared to be in the best of spirits;
and after speaking for thirty seconds,
he reached for a bell and tang it to stop
himself.

Morley Roberts, honor guest and 78-
year-old author with sixty outstanding
novels to his credit, answered the toast
given him by Horace Annesley Va-
chell with an account of Ins early
struggles in San Francisco.

1 1 has been sui^csted that the dinner
was somewhat of a reparation, since a
few days before one of the club mem-
bers, ignorant of the fact that Mr.
Roberts has recently delved into the
field of science, approached the author
and congratulated him on the "success
of his son's Malignancy and Fvnln-
tion."

(Continued on Page 4, Col. 4)

The Agonistic

3

Christian Youth Meet
In Atlanta Nov. 15-16

Presided over by leaders of the va-
rious city leagues of Baptist, Methodist,
and Presbyterian societies, the Atlanta
Christian Youth Conference, to be held
on November 15-16 at the First Bap-
tist Church of Atlanta, will bring to-
gether many young people of all de-
nominations for worship services, dis-
cussion groups, and addresses. Agnes
Scott College students have received
special invitation to attend.

There will be five sessions; on Fri-
day and Saturday mornings, on Friday
and Saturday afternoons, and on Fri-
day night. The main features of these
meetings will be addresses by promi-
nent speakers and discussion groups on
subjects of interest to Christian youth.
The choice will be given from among
seven or eight subjects of discussion,
led by well-known ministers of At-
lanta, including Rev. Richard Gilles-
pie, Rev. B. Frank Pirn, Dr. W. A.
Shelton, and others. Adult discussion
groups have also been arranged; Dr.
J. R. McCain, president of Agnes
Scott, will be the leader of one of
these. A main speaker of the confer-
ence is Mr. S. D. Gordon. Conferen-
ces similar to this one have been held
recently in most of the large cities with
much success. A very large enroll-
ment is anticipated for this conference,
and a small enrollment fee of 2 5c will
be charged those who attend.

Agnes Scott girls wishing to attend
are asked to see Isabel McCain, who
is in charge of registration.

Blackfriars Offer
Milne Play Twice

Blackfriars, dramatic club of Agnes
Scott College, will present A. A.
Milne's play, Mr. Pfon Passes By, on
Friday and Saturday evenings, Novem-
ber 22 and 2 5, in Bucher Scott Gym-
nasium. Miss Frances K. Gooch, of the
Spoken English department, is direct-
ng the play.

The following cast has been chosen:

Olivia Marden Myrl Chafin.

Dinah Marden Kathryn Printup.

Lady Marden Carrie Phinney Lati-
mer; Virginia Turner.

Anne Carrie Phinney Latimer;
Virginia Turner.

Mr. Pirn Tom Wesley.

Brian Strange Luther Carroll.

George Marden Edgar Neely.

Blackfriars try-outs were held on
Monday evening, November 11, in the
gymnasium. Those who tried out either
must have had or now be taking the
first year course in spoken English;
each one used one of the selections
from the posted list. The new mem-
bers are: Helen Handte, Joyce Raper,
Mary Primrose Noble, Hortense Nor-
ton, Ola Kelly, Jean Barrie Adams, and
Mary McCann Hudson.

Mr. Tart Has
Narrow Escape

Mr. J. C. Tart, treasurer of Agnes
Scott College, narrowly escaped disas-
ter on Friday, November 1, in a spec-
tacular automobile crash at the cross-
ing of Ford and Ellis streets in Atlan-
ta. When approached for an interview
about the accident, Mr. Tart seemed
doubtful at first, apparently thinking
the reporter had legal designs on him.

"I've had enough lawyers visiting
me already!" he complained aggriev-
edly.

Finally convinced, however, of the
harmless character of the interview, he
briskly described his accident, and his
almost miraculous escape.

He was driving down Ellis street at
about thirty-five miles an hour to-
ward Decatur. At the Ford street cross-
ing it is impossible to see any oncom-
ing car on Ford from Ellis, and here,
in the space of a few seconds, came
the collision. Mr. Tart said he had no
time to be nervous, and although when
he first saw the other car it was about
forty feet away, he knew that noth-
ing could possibly prevent the crash.
"Anyone driving at sixty miles an
hour might as well expect an accident
at a crossroads," observed Mr. Tart.

The other car, a Chevrolet coach,
struck Mr. Tart's car broadside, smash-
ing the left side beyond repair. Then
whirling around from the impetus of
the first blow, the car crashed into
the back of Mr. Tart's car. Meanwhile
a third car coming down Ford turned
into Ellis just in time to be knocked
into a telephone pole by the front of
Mr. Tart's car as it skidded away from
the collision And there in the middle
of the crushed car sat Mr. Tart, wreck-
age in front of him, wreckage behind
him, and wreckage beside him, al-
though he suffered no injury worse
than a bruise on the forehead.

Mr. Tart said that the damage done
to his car is estimated at about $3 00,
and added, with characteristic canni-
ness, that it will be more practical to
get a new car than to attempt repairs.

Decatur Beauty Salon
Offers Agnes Scott Girls

A 2-Week Special
Shampoo and Finger-Wave,
50c, Every Day!
Phone DE. 4692

Fewer Names Are
On Black List
Than Last Year

The Black List, posted October 15,
contains the names of eighty-seven girls
who have not paid their student budget
fee and are therefore ineligible for
membership in organizations that re-
ceive money from the fund. The list
is noticeably shorter this year than
last.

No organizations this year were
forced to take a H% discount of their
Budget percentage because of mem-
bers' failing to pay their student ac-
tivities fees; by Tuesday, October 29,
when the Budget Committee met, there
were no organization members on the
list.

The student treasurers, Meriel Bull
and Cornelia Christie, wish to remind
those who have not yet paid that pay-
ments are still being accepted and that
those who do not pay will not receive
annuals at the close of the year, and
will be excluded from participating in
May Day, in class athletic contests, and
in other activities. The fee is $15.00
for the year, all of which is payable
now or in installments of $10.00 now
and $5.00 in the spring.

Juniors Fete
Sister class

Members of the freshman class of
Agnes Scott College were the guests of
the juniors at a tea-dance held in Bu-
cher Scott Gymnasium on Friday after-
noon, November 8, from 4:3 0 to 6
P. M. An important feature of the oc-
casion was the presentation by .Martha
Summers, president of the junior class,
of an engraved gold bell to Anna Mar-
garet Riepma, chairman of the fresh-
man stunt committee. The bell, which
is to be hung about the Black Cat's
neck, is symbolical of the victory of
the freshmen over the sophomores in
the annual stunt contest held this year
on October 19.

Graham Jackson, popular Atlanta
Negro pianist, furnished music for
dancing.

Robt. Frost Lectures
Here on November 7
To Large Audience

Robert Frost, eminent American
poet, spoke before an audience of over
700 in Bucher Scott Gymnasium at
Agnes Scott College, on Thursday
night, November 7. Mr. Frost lectur-
ed for an hour and a half, speaking
first of the purpose and place of
poetry, and later reading selections
from several of his books. Among the
poems which he read were "Mending
Walls," "Two Roads Diverged in a
Wood," "Birches," "Departmental,"
"The Death of the Hired Man," and
others.

Besides the College community and
Decatur, students and faculty mem-
bers of several Georgia colleges were
present. From the Georgia State Col-
lege for Women in Milledgeville a
party of 40, including the Dean of
Women, the professor of English and
several other members of the English
department, came to hear Mr. Frost.
Twelve students, accompanied by the
Dean and several faculty members
came from Shorter college, Rome; 8
from Bessie Tift in Forsyth; 16 facul-
ty members from the Berry schools;
and several from the University of
Georgia and from Piedmont college.

The President of the University of
Florida, who was visiting in Atlanta
at the time, attended the lecture. Sev-
eral Alumnae of Agnes Scott were also
present, among whom was Margaret
Glass of Richmond, Va.

Immediately after the lecture, there
was a reception in Main building for
Mr. Frost. Mr. Frost left at mdinight
Thursday for Amherst, Massachusetts,
where he is a member of the faculty,
in order to address the Amherst Alum-
ni Council which meets early in this
month. During his stay on the cam-
pus, Mr. Frost was entertained at a
small luncheon by Associate Profes-
sor Emma May Laney, of the English
department. On Thursday afternoon a
small group of faculty members took
him to ride.

Agnes Scott is one of the few places
in the South and the only place in
Georgia at which Mr. Frost has lec-
tured. He never makes lecture tours
and dislikes public appearances.

Parents of Seniors
Attend Investiture

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Di\ Logan Gives
ReligiousTalk
During Chapel

Dr. Charles Logan, missionary to
Tokiushima, Japan, spoke in chapel to
the student body of Agnes Scott Col-
lege on Saturday morning, November
9. He took as his text Corinthians II,
2:15, "For we are unto God a sweet
fragrance of Christ, in them that are
saved, and in them that perish."

In the course of his address Dr.
Logan discussed Kagawa, the Japanese
reputed to be the greatest living Chris-
tion, whose conversion was brought
about largely by Dr. Logan and his
brother-in-law. Kagawa, who now is
only 46 years old, has written 80 books
and has spoken countless times in many
countries. He is to speak in Atlanta on
January 6, 193 6.

The Bible Club entertained at an in-
formal reception in Dr. Logan's honor
from 1:10 to 2:30 P. M. in the Y. W.
C. A. cabinet room on Saturday after-

All for One and One for All-
in the Grandest Love Story Ever
Written!

"The THREE
MUSKETEERS"

With

WALTER ABEL
PAUL LUKAS
HEATHER ANGEL
Starting Friday

pwrnnmmt

The parents of twenty-six seniors
were guests of Agnes Scott Col-
lege during Investiture week-end, No-
vember 2. Among these were: Mrs. J.
R. Forman, Birmingham, Alabama;
Mrs. J. W. Chamlee, Canton, Georgia;
Mr?. W. J. Bishop, Augusta, Georgia;
Mrs. E. F. Comely, Abbeville, S. C;
Mrs. J. C. Latimer, Honea Path, S. C;
Mrs. Stella G. Leipold, Augusta, Geor-
gia; Dr. and Mrs. E. M. McDonald,
Jefferson, Georgia; Mrs. F. H. Rich-
ardson, Black Mountain, N. C; Mrs.
Doug'as G. Rogers, Fort Smith, Arkan-
sas; Dr. and Mrs. W. M. Scott, Mil-
ledgeville, Georgia; Mr. W. A. Bates,
Greenville, S. C; Mrs. S. R. Spencer,
Columbia, S. C; Professor and Mrs. S.
J. McCallie, Chattanooga, Tenn.; Mrs.
E. P. Gray, Winston-Salem, N. C.

Mr. and Mrs. Peter Handte, Sumter,
S. C.J Mrs. I. S. Bull, Winston-Salem,
N. C; Mrs. W. G. Weeks, New Iberia,
La.; Mr. and Mrs. F. F. Rowe, La-
Grange, Georgia; Mr. and Mrs. F. B.
Derrick, Clayton, Georgia; Dr. and
Mrs. W. M. Vines, Quincy, Florida;
Dr. and Mrs. W. C. McRee, Trenton,
Tenn.; Mrs. C. E. Davis, Columbia, S.
C; Mrs. Asbury Hull, Augusta, Geor-
gia; Mr. and Mrs. M. S. Symms, Au-
gusta, Georgia; Mr. and Mrs. L. T.
Turner, Summerville, Georgia, and
Mr. S. A. Christian, Chattanooga,
Tenn.

Juniors Have
Rummage Sale

A profit of $19.45 is the result of
a successful rummage sale held by the
junior class to raise money for the $100
pledge made to the Greater Agnes Scott
Campaign last April. The sale took
place in Decatur on Saturday after-
noon, November 2, from 1:30 to 4:00
o'clock. Marie Stalker was chairman of
the sale committee, and was assisted
by Mary Johnson, Mary Kneale, Mary
Bucholz, Mickey McKee, Cornelia
Christie, Martha Head, and Eloisa Alex-
ander.

Another project undertaken by the
junior class to raise money for the
pledge is the selling of cotton-knit
dresses at prices ranging from $3.95 to
$4.95. June Matthews is in charge.

Eloisa Alexander is chairman of the
general committee to raise funds.

Agnes Scott Meets
Cambridge Debaters

The teams of Agnes Scott College
and the Cambridge Union Society met
here last night in debate on the ques-
tion, Resolved: That in the opinion of
this house the judiciary should have no
power to override the decisions of the
executive and legislature. The debate
was held at 8:30 in Bucher Scott Gym-
nasium, with Miss Daisy Frances Smith,
principal of Girls High School, presid-
ing. Agnes Scott was represented by
Edith Merlin and Sarah Catherine
Wood, upholding the negative side of
the question, against C. J. M. Alport
and John Royle of Cambridge. There
was no decision.

The Cambridge team arrived in De-
catur on Sunday morning and have
been guests at the Hotel Candler. Va-
rious entertainments were planned for
the members of both teams, including
dinner and coffee on Sunday, a trip
to Stone Mountain the same afternoon,
and a banquet at the Hotel Candler on
Sunday night. The Cambridge team
went to Auburn Monday to meet Ala-
bama Polytechnic Institute, returning
to Decatur yesterday. After the de-
bate a coffee was given in their honor
in the Day Students' room in Main.
Mr. Alport and Mr. Royle leave today
for Gainesville, Florida, to meet the
team of the University of Florida.

International debates are sponsored
by the National Student Federation of
America, which makes all arrange-
ments. The Cambridge team will be in
America for six weeks, meeting
twenty-six teams while in this country.
Agnes Scott has engaged in interna-
tional debates for several years, having
met last year the team from the Uni-
versity of London.

WILSON STRESSES
KEEPING SABBATH
ATJUMOR VESPERS

Frances Wilson spoke on "Sabbath
Observance" at the junior vesper serv-
ice on Sunday evening, November 10.
Mary King, the leader, read the scrip-
ture and the poem Ceremonial, and
Rachel Kennedy played a violin solo.
Other music was furnished by Tommy
Ruth Blackmon, accompanist, and the
junior choir, consisting of Molly Jones,
Louise Brown, Rachel Kennedy, Lucile
Cairns, Frances Steele, Sarah Johnson,
Florence Lasseter, Jean Kirkpatrick,
and Mary Alice Newton.

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The Agonistic

Dr. Logan Discusses Kagawa

In Interview With Agonistic

Dr. Charles Logan, the missionary
from Tokushima, Japan, who spoke in
chapel Saturday, November 9, has led
a singularly interesting and devoted
life during his thirty-three years in
the Orient. Dr. Logan is willing to
speak on any subject of interest except
himself. It was only after he had thor-
oughly covered his favorite subject of
Toyoniki Kagawa, the internationally
known Japanese author, scholar, and
social worker, that he could be per-
suaded to touch on his own personal
experiences.

Dr. Logan has long known Kagawa
in a deeply intimate way. In fact, he
was the first Occidental that the young
man Kagawa ever met. "I was just out
as a missionary, and very eager to
preach," said Dr. Logan, "so even be-
fore I learned the language, I started
an English Bible class in my home.
Kagawa came among about a dozen
other young men, eager to learn Eng-
lish."

Kagawa asked many questions of Dr.
Logan and his brother-in-law, Mr.
Henry Myers. It was due to the in-
fluence of these two that Toyohiki
Kagawa became the world-famous be-
nevolent figure that he is today. "Kag-

awa's life keynote is the practice of
love," declared Dr. Logan. Certainly
that broad ideal has expressed itself in
many different useful fields of serv-
ice, from slum work to higher educa-
tion. From his million-dollar income he
saves forty dollars for the support of
himself and his family of five. "Kaga-
wa says that he learned love in our
home," Dr. Logan said.

Dr. Logan has never stayed long set-
tled in any church, although his regu-
lar field has always been Tokushima
province, with a population of 800,-
000. He builds churches and then,
passing their management into the
hands of native workers, moves on into
other fields.

He is primarily a traveling evangel-
ist, answering the invitations of
churches of many denominations all
over the Orient. For the past seven
years he has preached and lectured
many times in Japan, Korea, Formosa,
Quelport, Manchukuo, and South
China. "My work is divided into four
sections," said Dr. Logan, "Revival
meetings, meetings for the deepening
of Christian lives, Bible conferences,
and the publishing of books from time
to time."

A. S. C. Campus-Wide
Two-Minute Silence
Marks Armistice Dav

A. S. C. Mortar Board Chapter

Know Your Country

1. Associate the name of each of the
following with some crisis in Amer-
ican history: Sam Houston, Win-
field Scott, Santa Ana.

2. Name a cabinet department created
in 1913.

3. Which president once killed a man
in a duel?

4. Which president received the larg-
est popular vote? The largest elec-
toral vote?

5. State one fact concerning suffrage
in the District of Columbia.

6. Name a subject to which William
Lloyd Garrison devoted much time
after 183 1.

7. In case of death or removal from
office of both president and vice-
president, how would the succes-
sion to the presidency run? Name
three cabinet members who cannot
succeed to the presidency in case
of vacancy and tell why.

8. By whom are the laws for the Dis-
trict of Columbia made? How do
the officials obtain their offices?

9. In what cases does the Supreme
Court of the United States have
original jurisdiction?

10. Why is a mouse when it spins? .

(Answers on page 5, ml. 1)

Every member of the Agnes Scott
College community joined together at
1 1 o'clock on last Monday in a two-
minute period of silent prayer for those
whose lives were sacrificed in the
World War. A bell was rung two times
exactly at 1 1 o'clock to indicate the
beginning of the silence; the playing
of Taps by Loice Richards in the cen-
ter of the quadrangle closed the pe-
riod. The observation was sponsored by
The Agonistic and endorsed by all
the major organizations of the College
including Student Government Asso-
ciation, the Y. W. C. A., Current His-
torv Forum, and Pi Alpha Phi.

This was the only official observa-
tion of Armistice Day at Agnes Scott
this year; it was suggested by the Na-
tional Student Federation of America.
In 1931 Armistice was celebrated at
Agnes Scott in the same manner.

COMPOSITIONS OF
PROF. DIECKMANN
TO RE PURLISHED

ALUMNAE NEWS

(Continued from page 2, column 3)

Anna Humber, '3 5, is teaching in
Greenville, Fla.

tom Cater, '34, is living at 3 Har-
rison street, East Orange, N. J.

Mary Jane Evans, '3 5, spent Thurs-
day night, November 7, on the campus
to hear the Frost lecture.

Alberta Palmour, '3 5, and Jacque-
line Woolfolk, '3 5, left November 5
tor Texas. They will be away for six
weeks.

Diana Dyer, '32, is studying music
appreciation at Salem College.

Mary Elliot, '3 2, is teaching at De-
funiak Springs, Fla.

Elizabeth Sutton, '32, is working in
Charlotte, N. C, with the Southern
Bell Telephone Company as a member
of the engineering department.

The recent Florida hurricane missed
Ernest Hemingway's home in Key
West, but the wind was more than
enough to uproot trees and set boats
adrift. For many hours no one knew
what had happened on the mainland.
When boats could finally sail, Mr.
\ icmingway went immediately and
spent days helping in the recovery of
bodies at the veterans' camp. S< / //>-

(Catherine Happoldt, '3 3, is taking a
Course in business administration at the
Princeton School in Boston.

( arrie I ingle, '3 3, is working in the
alumni office at Davidson College,
Davidson, N. C.

It should be recorded, perhaps under
the heading of Recovery, that on the
night of September 24, 1935, 95,000
spectators paid $948,3 5 2 (not includ-
ing premiums paid to speculators) to
be in the audience for the Lewis-Baer
fight at Yankee Stadium, New York.
And also that the papers ot the follow-
ing morning carried advertisements an-
nouncing that tickets for the New
York premiere of the Remlurdt-Hol-

lvwood Midsummer Nights Dream
film were available at prices ranging
from $2.50 to $11. Theatre Arts
Monthly.

Ethiopian and Chinese theme song:
"Why Not Take All of Me." Florida
Flambeau.

Within the last few weeks, leading
publishing concerns have accepted two
compositions by Professor Christian
Dieckmann, of the music department
of Agnes Scott College: Benedictus es
Domine and Blest Arc the Pure in
Heart.

The Benedictus, which is to be pub-
lished by the H. W. Gray Company,
of New York, may be used in the
Episcopal Church service in place of
the Te Deum. This setting is in Greg-
orian style and in a minor key, which
is unusual for a canticle; it is the
second setting of Mr. Dieckmann's
that the H. W. Gray Company has ac-
cepted.

The Theodore Presser Company, of
Philadelphia, will publish Blest Arc the
Pure in 1 1 cart, an anthem with a so-
prano solo. Last May this company
published another composition of Mr.
Dieckmann's: Nearer the Cross, an an-
them with a contralto solo.

Not off the press yet is Jesus, the
Very Thought of Thee, accepted early
in the summer by the Oliver Ditson
Company, of Boston.

Above are the active members of the Ajrnes Seott chapter of Mortar
Board who will take part in the recognition service on Saturday. Front row,
left to right, Coffee, McKoin, Ames, Spencer, and Hutton. Baek row. Juims.
Stevens. Richards, Latimer, and Christian. Not in the picture, Augusta King.

A questionnaire asking vocational
plans was sent recently to senior stu-
dents in some forty-five Pennsylvania
colleges. In the women's colleges we
learn with interest that 5.1 per cent of
the students indicated marriage as their
vocational choice; in co-educational
colleges, 1.7 per cent of women stu-
dents showed this preference. Just an-
other case of distance lending enchant-
ment! independent Woman.

BOOKS

(Continued from Page 2, Col. 5)
FORTHCOMING BOOKS
Fiction

Claude Genevieve Fauconnier
(MacMillan), November.

After a Hundred Years Ruth Elea-
nor McKee (Doubleday, Doran), No-
vember.

There Was a Crooked Man George
Worthing Yates (Morrow), December.
Non-Fiction

Arctic Ad tent urc. My Life in the
Frozen North Peter Freuchen (Far-
rar and Rinehart), November.

Religion and Science Bertrand Rus-
sell (Holt), November.

The T wen ties Mark Sullivan
(Scribner's) , November.

O.rveth Wells who, under the aus-
pices of the National Travel Club and
the Geographic Society of Chicago, has
just completed a successful ascent of
Mount Popocatepetl, will on return to
this country incorporate his experiences
in a book to be published by Robert
M. McBride and Co.

Mortar Board Plans
Hay ride for Transfer

Students on Nov. 15

To entertain transfer students at
Agnes Scott College, Mortar Board will
give a hay-ride on Friday evening, No-
vember 15, from five-thirty to seven-
thirty o'clock.

The destination of the trip, which is
to be made in a truck, will be Glen-
wood Springs, where the girls will conk
dinner. The chairman of the Mortar
Board committee for this entertain-
ment is Augusta King, assisted by Ad
Stevens and Ruby Hutton.

Education should do several specific
things: it should enable the individual
to find himself; it should acquaint him
with the procedure of gaining knowl-
edge in the field which he has chosen;
it should inspire him to go ahead; and
it should provide the background
which will enable him to make sat-
isfactory adjustments to his problems.
It is entirely up to the individual
whether his four-year sojourn at col-
lege will accomplish these things.
The Inter collegian and Fat Horizon.

REPORTERS FOR THIS [SSUEs

Cora Kay HutchinsOra Muse
Selma Steinbach Hortense Jones
Douglas Lyle Carol Hale

Giddy Erwin Enid Middleton

Mamie Lee Ratliff Eliza King
Mary F. Guthrie Ruth hlert/ka
Mildred Davis Loice Richards

Mary Richardson Elizabeth Warden
Anne Taylor Ann Worthy Johnson

At the Piedmont-I urnun game a
certain professor handed his public li-
brary card to the ticket collector at
the gate. He walked to his seat un-
concerned, with his ticket undisturbed
in his pocket.

The famous Madame Reeamier said
that she always found two words suf-
ficed to make her guests feel their
welcome. Upon their arrival she said,
"At last!"; and when they took leave,
she said, "Already?" Ladies Home

Journal.

The average "literary longevity" of
the popular author is estimated by Des-
mond MacCarthy to be: for the aver-
age popular writer, 8 to 10 years; for
the superior writer, 15 to 20 years;
and for the lowest class of authors, or
that class which appeals to the "semi-
illiterate public," 10 to any number of
years.

Mary Ames, '34, is working in Aus-
tin, Texas. I Eer address is 2207 Nueces
street ,

Mary Hamilton, '34, is working on
her master's degree in journalism at
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Term.

Martha Skeen, '54, is studying dra-
matics m New York City* Her ad-
dress is 47 West 5 3rd street. Rehearsal
Club, Neu York ( tty, N. Y.

Planting a dummy on a sharp curve
of the Palo Alto, California, highway,
members of Stanford's Theta Xi Fra-
ternity hid in the bushes and waited
to see what would happen. Around
the curve came a large sedan, which
struck the dummy squarely, sliced it
in half, and ground to a stop. A wo-
man in a high state of nerves climbed
quickly out of the driver's seat.
Theta Xi's funsters blinked, gulped,
and ran away when they recognized
Mrs. Herbert Hoover. Time.

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there are still many women who do
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W hile Allen's has never deviated from
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The Agonistic

5

Up and down and

Life around here is just a vicious cir-
cle if it's not one thing, it's one thing.
We advise you to attend bull sessions,
as recommended by the treasurer of
Y. W< C. A., or read this column.

Our charming president of Cotillion
and Wimpy and a white carnation were
combined in a Saturday afternoon es-
capade. See Miss Hopkins for minute
details.

Phone scholarship girls threaten to
strike! It seems that two young ladies
on third floor Rebekah receive an av-
erage of nine tube calls every day.
Phoney, we say.

Main's mouth is watering for some
of Mary Smith's er unexpected
candy.

Flash! Our now full-fledged seniors
are at it already. A blond one is sport-
ing the time-honored diamond. Was
it the dimples that did it?

But seniors aren't the only cute

girls; the freshmen are holding their
own. Besides her stunt laurels, one
member of said class, tall, dark, and
handsome, has crashed print with hon-
ors.

We suggest chartering a bus to carry
the left wing on second floor Main
and a third floor proctor to and from
the Seminary.

The password in the life of an oh, so
vivacious sophomore is Fred.

Ah, Fate! Why, out of the five thou-
sand seats in the heavenly Fox, should
the Rebekah house president choOse the
one next to three Agnes Scott Fred
Astaire enthusiasts who were unfortu-
nately enthusing after time limit!

And now the last straw: Exec has
a way with them. After their solemn
search of Main Monday night one
astonished sophomore returned to her
room to find the better part of her
nut-bread gone!

around the quadrangle

SENIOR COFFEE
Senior coffee on Sunday afternoon
has been changed from a half hour to
an hour, 2:00 P. M. to 3:00 P. M. The
seniors felt that the former half hour
was too short for real social contact,
and that an hour should be long enough
for really satisfactory enjoyment of the
senior tradition.

Blackfriars

The regular meeting of Blackfriars
was held Tuesday night, November 5,
at 7:00 o'clock in Miss Gooch's stu-
dio. A Hindu drama, The Little Clay
Curt, was presented. The play was
directed by Kitty Printup, and the
principal characters were: Shampooer,
jane Turner; Vasantasena, Kathryn
Bowen; Madonika, Frances Steele; Ma-
thura, Lucile Dennison; and Gambler,
Dixie W r oodford.

French Club

The French Club held its second
meeting of the year Monday afternoon,
November 1 1, at 4:3 0 in Mr. Johnson's
studio. The new members who were
initiated presented the program, which
consisted of several French poems, a
short farce, and a piano selection. A
choral group led the club in singing
a group of French songs.

Glee Club

The Glee Club has decided to pre-
sent Pirates of Penzance as their an-
nual light opera instead of The Gondo-
liers. This operetta, to be presented
some time in the early spring, is the
rame that was given last year.

KNOW YOUR COUNTRY

1. Chief of army which defeated Mexicans
under Santa Ana at San Jacinto April 21,
1S36. .

Commander of American forces in Mexi-
can War.

Santa Ana. leader of Mexican forces in
War for Texas independence.

2. Department of Labor.

3. Andrew Jackson killed Dickinson.
I. Woodrotv Wilson 1916.

Woodrow Wilson 1912.
5. The District of Columbia is without suf-
f rage.

K. Abolition of slavery.

7. (a) Heads of Executive Departments suc-
ceed to Presidency in following order: De-
partment of State. Treasury, War, Justice,
Post Office, etc. lb) Secretaries of A^ricul-
turr. Commerce, and Labor are ineligible,
since these three cabinet offices were cre-
ated subsequent to the passage of the act
in which provision was made for presiden-
tial succession.

s. i a) Congress.

(b The three governinR commissioners are
appointed by the President.

9. All cases affecting Ambassadors. Ministers,
and Consuls, and in all cases in which a
state is a party.

in. The higher the fewer.

Bible Club
Ac the regular meeting on Monday,
November 4, the Bible Club voted to
take part in the City of Atlanta's cel-
ebration of the four hundredth anni-
versary of the printing of the English
Bible. This celebration will be held
the first week of December, and the
Bible Club is planning to present a
pageant at that time. Further plans
will be announced later.

Spanish Club

Spanish Club held its regular meet-
ing Tuesday, November 5, at 4:30 P.
M. in Mr. Dieckmann's studio. After
a few brief announcements and the
reading of the club's constitution, all
members took part in a delightful rec-
reation program. Several Spanish games
were played; among them were El Co-
che de Amor and Las Frutas. Lilian
Grimson and Lois Hart taught the
members a lively Argentine dance, El
Pericon.

Music Appreciation Group

The music appreciation group of the
Y. W. C. A. met Sunday night, No-
vember 10, at 7 o'clock, in the music
room. Eliza King led the discussion on
Edouard Grieg and the music of his
Peer Gynt suite.

Easy lives never meant vigorous per-
sonalities; soft living never meant
strong bodies or keen minds. It is only
as we have been forced that we have
been pushed forward. Now comes so-
cial security to guarantee us soft liv-
ing from the cradle to the grave, to
beg the unfit to become more unfit,
and to beg the fit to give up the strug-
gle and to vegetate. Every avenue is
open to a life of indolence and supine-
ness. Review of Reviews.

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

For further information, address
J. R. McCAIN, President

Annual Announces
Snapshot Contest;
Will Close Dec. 7

The staff of the Silhouette, Agnes
Scott College year book, is sponsoring
this year for the first time a snapshot
contest, which opened on November 7
and will end on December 9. This con-
test is open to all students; cash prizes
will be awarded to those submitting
the two best pictures.

All snapshots will be judged on the
basis of general campus interest, orig-
inality, and clearness. The first prize
will be $3.5 0, the second prize, $1.50;
I page in the annual will be devoted to
all pictures receiving honorable men-
tion. Barton Jackson, contest chair-
man, has offered the following sugges-
tions to those desiring to enter the
contest: emphasis should be placed on
groups rather than on an individual;
indoor exposures, imposed "shots," and
unusual backgrounds make the snap-
shots interesting; the pictures must
have local color and be characteristic
of college life; and all snapshots must
be taken on the campus this year.

Y. W. To Sponsor
Starvation Dinner

In order to help pay its pledges to
a larger fellowship group, the World
Fellowship group of the Y. \Y/. C. A.
is sponsoring a starvation dinner at
Agnes Scott College tomorrow night.

The group will receive the differ-
ence between the cost of the starvation
dinner and that of an ordinary one.

Atlanta, Decatur A. S. C.
Clubs To Entertain at Tea
In Alumnae House, Nov. 19

The Atlanta and Decatur Agnes
Scott College Alumnae Clubs will en-
tertain at a tea in the Anna Young
Alumnae House from 4 to 5:30 on
Tuesday afternoon, November 19.
Dean Nannette Hopkins, among oth-
ers, will be in the receiving line. The
faculty of the College is invited.

The tea, which is to be preceded by
the regular monthly meetings of the
two clubs, will assemble about 150
people, including the combined club
membership and the faculty.

Mrs. Cora (Morton) Durrett, '24,
has charge of the arrangements of the
Atlanta Club, and Mrs. Helene (Nor-
wood) Lammers, ex-'22, the Decatur
Club. Last year the two groups enter-
tained in the same manner.

Interview Reveals R. Frost As

Humorous, Likable, Interesting

Robert Frost, the man, is the per-
sonification of the writings of Robert
Frost, the poet. New England in his
appearance, in his speech, and in his at-
titudes, he is the typical calm, simple,
though extremely intelligent person of
the New England soil which all of his
poems exhort. Steely-blue eyes, wiry
whitish-gray hair and a Greek-type
face that fairly radiates with person-
ality and character, are those qualities
of appearance that immediately catch
one's attention. The amused expres-
sion often noticed about these blue
eyes, coupled with a slight tendency to
smile about the lips, connote to the ob- 1
server a rather whimsical sense of
humor and a tendency not to take life
too seriously. This attitude of taking
and enjoying life as it is, not only is
one of the themes stressed in his poems
and one of the basic philosophies un-
derlying his theory of poetry, but also
this same idea predominated an inter-
view that Mr. Frost granted last Thurs-
day afternoon. "To me," he said,
"writing and living should be play,
especially writing. The chief fault that
I find with young writers is that they
take their work too seriously."

When asked what he thought of col-
lege magazines as a whole he answer-
ed, "I feel sure that a college liter-
ary magazine should be only a play-
ground for pleasure. The chief ob-
jection that I have to these publica-
tions is that too many young would-be
writers are wearing their ambitions on
their sleeves. Personally, I would have
far too much pride for that."

After having made this indictment
against the majority of those who sub-
mit their work for publication, he has-
tened to add, "I rather think that your
college magazine is a playground to a
great extent, and I think that the writ-
ing, especially the prose, in your latest
edition which I have sketchily read, is
very well done." And then he modest-
ly added, "That editorial about me was
a good piece of writing, but I wonder
where the writer found all that infor-

mation. Oh, I suppose there are one or
two biographies being circulated
about."

This idea of enjoyment in life also
seems to predominate Frost's work
other than writing. Aside from his
farming, he is a member of the staff at
Amherst College where he says every-
one, including Robert Frost, is won-
dering what he is supposed to be doing
if anything. Although he jokes care-
lessly about his rather easy relationship
with the college, one can easily see the
valuable asset that his presence would
be on any campus, even though it was
for only 3 or 4 months in every year.

He thoroughly believes in direct,
personal contact with his students, and
though he has no formal classes or
lectures, he gathers groups of boys
about him quite often to discuss with
them their work and their problems.
At present he is very enthusiastic over
his plans for meeting a group of 3 5
or 40 boys several times a year in a
beautiful room which is now being de-
signed for that particular purpose.

"We will have no formal classroom
procedure," Mr. Frost asserted. "We
will all just learn together." This re-
minds one greatly of the Oxford tutor
and the boys that are smoked at for
four years as described by Stephen Lea-
cock in his famous essay.

Mr. Frost is a delightful conversa-
tionalist, and with an inimitable transi-
tional ability he gracefully elided in the
space of twenty minutes from a dis-
cussion of his stage and camera fright
at the University of Michigan to a dis-
cussion of the 3 00th anniversary of the
founding of Harvard which he hopes to
attend in 193 6, and then skipping sev-
eral centuries, with equal ease he com-
mented in a very enlightening manner
on the Chaucerian style of poetry and
its possible effect on later English
poetry.

Frost the Poet, interesting to read
about!

Frost the Man, more interesting to
know!

In Atlanta there used to be a de-
lightful family who, unfortunately,
had lost almost all they had owned in
the war; so they had to cut down ex-
penses as well as they could. Their
servants helped them beautifully. Ice,
for instance, was dear in the South in
those days; but always at the table in
the house was to be heard the tinkling
cool sound of ice bobbing against the

sides of the silver water pitcher from
which the butler refilled the glasses.
The daughter of the house one day
peeked into the pitcher when the but-
ler was not looking. Inside instead of
ice was a shining napkin ring. She
never told, and the clinking went mer-
rily on from meal to meal, with no one
apparently the wiser. The Common-
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In Wraps hoods are the thing.
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The Agonistic

JUNIORS HEAD

STUDENT ROLL

(Continued from Page 1, Col. 5)
foreign lands, brought lOO^c from the
faculty against such action. The other
groups varied in their attitudes, the
sophomores being most in favor by a
vote of 23% for.

In general, the ballot brought peace-
ful returns. The faculty, representing
mature judgment on the matters,
brought less variation from policies of
peace than any of the others. Since
only 23.3 % of the college community
voted, the chart and its percentages
cannot accurately be taken as a gen-
eral attitude on the campus.

The Peace Ballot, sponsored by The
Agonistic as part of its policy to pro-
mote a campus attitude toward the
matter of international peace and to
stimulate interest in questions of im-
portance outside college problems was
composed of the following questions:

1. Would you be willing to support
the United States in defensive war-
fare?

2. If a nation insists upon attacking
another, should other nations including
the United States combine to stop it
(a) by military or (b) by economic
and non-military measures?

3. Are you in favor of protecting
by force of arms property rights of
United States citizens in foreign lands?

MANY PRESENT AT
Y.W.C.A. OPEN HOLSE

A KEY
TO CURRENT HISTORY

(Continued from page 2, column 3)
Cure of War. It dates from the spring
of 1924 and has had for many years
Carrie Chapman Catt as its enthusias-
tic leader. Only organizations which
were not considered guilty of pacifism
were accepted as members of the com-
mittee. In this respect and in many
others this organization is more con-
servative than the International League.
The aims of the Committee on the
Cause and Cure of War are: "(a) To
establish round tables to set people
thinking on peace aims of the Confer-
ence; (b) to strengthen all peace or-
ganizations; (c) to keep peace (and
war) facts before the public." The
American Peace Society, the American
section of the International League,
and the Committee on the Cause and
Cure of War are only a few of the
great number of the long established
endowed peace societies.

Since the World War the church has
become conspicuous in its desire for
peace. Judge Ulman, of Maryland,
stated in a discussion several years ago
that at least twenty-six Protestant de-
nominations have been as closely lined
up with the pacifist position as their
governing bodies could permit them.
Many state interdenominational meet-
ings have proved themselves pacifist in
sentiment. The ministers themselves
have often adopted this position. In
1930 almost 20,000 of them replied to
a questionnaire circulated by a publica-
tion; and of this number sixty-two per
cent voted that the church should not
support any future war. Dr. Harry
Emerson Fosdick, pastor of the River-
side Church of New York City, cre-
ated much excitement last year when
he apologized to the Unknown Soldier
because he himself had "counseled sol-
diers before they went over the top on
the murderous and suicidal task." A
great number of people look to the
church for the leadership in peace
movement in the future.

The school has taken its customary
place beside the church in its partici-
pation in the American peace move-
ment since the World War. Last April
12 a collegiate peace demonstration was
held at many colleges in the United
States. This student "strike" against
international conflict was sponsored by
the National Council of Methodist
Youth, the Inter-Seminary Movement
(Middle Atlantic Division), the Na-
tional Student League for Industrial
Democracy, the American Youth Con-
gress, and the American League
Against War and Fascism (Youth Sec-
tion). This demonstration was a pro-
tot against "imperialist war," Fascism,
and the R. O. T. C.

Another movement thoroughly op-
posed to war, yet varying in its make-
up from most peace organizations, is
tlut organization known as the Fel-
lowship of Reconciliation* The Ameri-
can branch of this movement, which
began during the World War, is com-
posed mainly of those who are opposed
to the use of force under any circum-
st.wues. The I . O. R. split in 1934 be-
cause "main of the leaders had become
convinced that the issue of social jus-

Approximately thirty-five girls at-
tended the third Y. W. C. A. open
house, held in the Y. W. cabinet room
on Sunday, October 27, and sponsored
by the freshman Y. W. C. A. cabinet,
with Sarah McCain acting as hostess.
Magazines, books, a radio, and tables
for letter-writing were provided for
the guests.

Although this is the first year that
the custom of holding open house for
the students on Sunday afternoon has
been observed, it has proved very suc-
cessful. The freshman Y. W. C. A.
cabinet and the social committee of the
regular Y. W. C. A. have adopted it as
their project for the year.

When Mrs. Janet Roper was called to
the Seaman's Church Institute in New
York in 191 S, she was told that she
could create her own job. She made
it her work to find missing seamen.
This year alone she has found more
than 160, and there has been many a
family reunion in her office. She car-
ries on a voluminous correspondence
with shipping masters and post cap-
tains all over the world. Her finger
is on the pulse of every port, and since
she began her work she has located
more than 5,000 men. Literary Di-
gest.

tice must be met before a pacifist
world order is possible."

Left wing political groups have tried
to maintain a prominent position in
the peace movement, but their efforts
have not been very successful because
they are so often confused with poli-
tics as such. The socialist stand for the
pacifist ideal, which insists on parlia-
mentary and non-violent methods, has
lost prestige as a pacifist movement in
recent years. "When a Hitler strikes
for power, what price pacifism." This
condition afforded the Communists
the opportunity to extend their ideas
concerning pacifism. In 193 3 the Com-
munist party organized an American
League against War and Fascism; but
non-Communist bodies which had
joined this movement in order to form
a "united front" soon found that the
"pacifism which the Communists were
promoting was pacifism against 'impe-
rialist' war" rather than the type of
pacifism they had been led to expect.
These left wing political groups have
fallen short of their goal in their peace
movements.

Among such a varied list of organi-
zations much inner confusion is bound
to arise as to aims and purposes. The
endowed peace societies, the peace
movements in the church and in the
school, the work of the Fellowship of
Reconciliation, and the left wing polit-
ical groups have all contributed their
share in the peace movement, but their
programs are too varied to accomplish
very much as a collective group.

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Alumnae Organize
Discussion Group
On Current History

Fifteen alumnae of Agnes Scott Col-
lege, under the direction of Professor
Philip Davidson, of the history de-
partment, are meeting every Monday
night at 7:30 in the Y. W. C. A. cab-
inet room to discuss current world
problems.

At the first meeting, which was held
on Monday, October 2 8, the group
outlined its plans for systematic study
of political situations and contempor-
ary problems. At each meeting it will
consider one international problem of
current interest.

The program for the year includes
two main topics for discussion: (1)
characteristics of pre-war civilization,
which includes a summary of charac-
teristics and ideals, and the ideals in
practice; and (2) attempted solutions
of major problems, domestic and for-
eign. Twenty-seven meetings have been
planned during the year, two of which
have already been held.

Upperclassmen Win Hockey Games;

Sports Clubs Continue Fall Program

To fill a county weekly with "Per-
sonals" takes many a telephone call,
lots of time, some energy. Last week
Publisher Frank B. Cox of the Douglas
(Neb.) County Gazette decided to
save on all three. In his paper he in-
serted this advertisement:

If you have:

Died, moved, eloped, been ill, sold
out, sold hogs, been born, had a baby,
been drunk, been gypped, had a fight,
broken a leg, had a party, caught cold,
been robbed, had company, been mar-
ried, bought a car, been visiting,
broken an arm, been courting, been
divorced, been arrested, stolen any-
thing, gone bug-house, lost your hair,
had a birthday, had an anniversary,
been bitten by a snake, had an acci-
dent, cut a new tooth, or had an op-
eration

Get in touch with a representative of
the Gazette. Time.

The seniors defeated the sophomores
at hockey 4-0, while the juniors won
from the freshmen by a score of 2-1, in
the games played on Friday, Novem-
ber 8. Stevens shot two goals for the
seniors, Handte one, and Coffee one.
Fleece and Belser made goals for the
juniors, and Dryfoos shot the only goal
for the freshmen. Susan Bryan was
scorer, and Martha Long was time-
keeper. Miss Llewellyn Wilburn and
Miss Elizabeth Mitchell officiated as
umpires. The line-ups were as follows:

Seniors. Sophomores.

Hart __R.W Merrill

Stevens I.R Henderson

Handte C.F Thompson

Coffee I.L Wright

Derrick L.W Hudson;

Davis

Grimson R.H Allison

Armstrong C.H Blackshear

Crenshaw L.H Tribble

R.B McCallie

Estes L.B Adams

Forman G.G Robinson

Juniors. Freshmen.
Jackson _ __R.W.__ Flynt;

Purnell

Johnson I.R Dryfoos

Fleece . __C.F. Shloss

Belser I.L Moses

McCain L.W _ Coit

Kneale R.H Doty;

Whetsell

Lasseter C.H Crowcll

Wilson; Harris L.H Marshall

Gillespie R.B Young

Taylor L.B McMullen

Estes G.G._- Clegg

The second round of the tennis tour-
nament has been played off, with the
following couples as winners:

Cullum and Thompson; Brown
and Cassat; Young and Handte; Blair
and Suttenfield; Blackshear and Par-
dee: Lawrence and Talmage.

The th ird round will be played off
this week.

The Outing Club went on a hike
Tuesday afternoon to Ice Cream
Springs. The members had a lesson in
outdoor cooking. In addition to Miss
Llewellyn Wilburn and Miss Blanche
Miller, Martha Long, Eliza King, Mary
Lillian Fairly, Ola Kelly, Jeanne Mat-
thews, Lulu Croft, Martha Johnson,
Enid Middleton, Mildred Davis, and
Mildred Harding were on the hike.

Outing Club conducted a class in
first aid Tuesday, November 5, for the
benefit of the prospective members.
Elizabeth Forman had charge of the
meeting. The following are trying
out for the club: Mary Lillian Fairly,
Virginia Watson, Lillian Croft, Mildred
Davis, Martha Johnson, Enid Middle-
ton, Ola Kelly, Martha McAfee, .ind
Eliza King.

The Swedish Press boomed Ethio-
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Nobel Peace Prize. Time.

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VOL. XXI

<P) Agonistic

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20. 1935

NO. 8

New Agnes Scott Library Now Being Constructed

Snead and Co.
Get Contract
For Stacks

For S2 1,780, Snead and Company,
of Jersey City, N. J., have contracted
to build the bookstacks in the new
Agnes Scocc College library. Bids for
che contract were lec on Wednesday,
November 6; che lowesc base bid was
$31,261, and che highesc one, $34,865.
Because of limiced funds, however, the
contract was closed at $21,780.

Snead and Company, an internacion-
ally known firm, did che scack work
in che Vacican Library ac Rome, and,
at the present time, are constructing
stacks in the annex to the Congression-
al Library in Washington. This stack
job, having a $1,500,000 contract, is
one of the largest that has ever been
done.

The stack room, which is the storage
space for books, is located in the internal
angle of the L-shaped building. The
scacks, six ciers in heighc, will be of
che Snead Sceel Brackec type, with the
open bar hinged bracket shelf, and the
deck floors will be of the new Snead
reinforced concrete flat slab type. The
walking surface of the deck floors is to
be covered with asphalt tile. At pres-
ent only two tiers of the stacks are to
be equipped with shelves and carrels.

Advantage has been taken of light
coming from the east and south win-
dows co provide a row of scudy car-
rels in che decks along che east and
south walls. In each tier there will be
twelve carrels, and in each carrel there
will be a cable of sheec sceel, covered
with a linoleum cop, equipped wich a
drawer, and supporced on brackecs from
che sceel carrel parcicion. Above each
work cable chere will be cwo adjuscable
shelves for che books in use by che oc-
cupanc of che carrel.

Prof. Dieckmann's
Pupils To Appear
In Music Recital

The pupils of Professor C. W.
Dieckmann, of the music department
of Agnes Scott College, will present a
varied program of piano and organ
numbers on Monday, November 2 5, at
8:00 P. M. in Gaines Chapel.

This program, which is the first re-
cital of che year, has as ics feacures a
concrasc of classical and modern num-
bers and a variacion of organ, piano,
and piano duo numbers. Of parcicular
interesc on che program is che presen-
car'on of Mr. Dieckmann's recenc cwo
piano arrangemenc of a well-known
Bach Aria, Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring,
to be played by Jean Kirkpatrick and
Ne'.l Hemphill. The program is as fol-
lows:

Fantasie and Fugue, G Minor, Bach,
Tommy Ruth Blackmon.

Concerto, D Minor (cwo move-
ments), Mozart, Alice Hannah.

Waltz, E Minor, Libtzki; Girl with
the Flaxen Hair, Debussy, Jean Kirk-
pacrick.

Chanson En fan tine, Liapounow;
Golliwog's Cake Walk, Debussy, Nell
Hemphill.

Chopin Ecudes: C Minor, Rerolu-
fionary; G Flat, Black Key; G Flat,
Butterfly, Caroline Mizers.

Hwmoresque, MacDowell, Mary belle
Cruger.

Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, Bach;
Artist's Life Waltzes, Scrauss-Chasins,
Nell Hemphill, Jean Kirkpacrick.

The architect's drawing of the new Agnes Scott College Library in Carnegie Hall is pictured above. Work on it was started last
week. According to present plans, it will be ready for a dedicatory ceremony during Commencement next June and will be completed by
the first of July.

Blackfriars to Give
Comedy Nov. 22-23

The narrow-mindedness of a typical
English country gentleman concerning
tan and black window curtains and
concerning the marriage of his niece
to a young artist is the amusing situ-
ation in Mr. Phi Passes By, the three-
act play by A. A. Milne, which Black-
friars is presenting Friday and Sacur-
day evenings, November 22 and 23.
Tickecs for che play are now on sale
in Buccrick Hall ac prices of fifcy cencs
for reserved seacs and thirty-five cents
for unreserved.

A. A. Milne is a leading playwright
of che modern scage. His clever creac-
ment of George Marden's narrow atti-
tudes concerning the "fucuriscic non-
sense" of Brian Scrange, a promising
young paincer, who wanes co marry
his niece, Dinah, and che conquering
of chese accicudes chrough che pranks
played by his wife, cogecher wich the
scatterbrained accounts of Mr. Pirn,
who has just returned from Australia,
are highly entertaining. Mr. Pirn, an
appealing old gentleman, describes a
man who bears a striking resemblance
to Telworthy, the first husband of
George's wife. George is ready to give
up his wife to preserve his English
moralicy when Mr. Pirn recalls chat the
man whom he described is now dead
and later remembers that his name was
Henry, or was it Earnest, Polwittle.

The part of George Marden is played
by Edgar Neilly, who is working for
the first time with Blackfriars. Other
members of the cast are:

Olivia Marden Myrl Chafin.

Dinah Marden Kathryn Printup.

Lady Marden Carrie Phinney Lati-
mer; Virginia Turner.

Anne Carrie Phinney Latimer; Vir-
ginia Turner.

Mr. Pirn Tom Wesley.

Brian Strange Luther Carroll.

May Day Tryouts
Are Due ou Dec. 2

Students writing May Day scenarios
must hand them in to the Committee
by Monday, December 2, the final day
of che concesc. This concesc, which chis
year began on Occober 3 1 and will
concinue chrough December 2, is an
annual one sponsored by che May Day
Commiccee in order co selecc a scenario
for che fescival nexc May.

Several suggescions for che cheme of
che scenario have been posced on che
bullecin board oucside che library. May
Day files in che Achlecic Board room
may also be consulced.

The scenarios may be curned in co
any member of che Commiccee, of
which Eloisa Alexander is chairman
and Jane Blick, business manager. In
addicion co Anne Thompson and Char-
line Fleece, who arc in charge of the
scenario concesc, che Commiccee in-
cludes Sarah Nichols, Frances Sceele,
Kathleen Daniel, Sarah Turner, Helen
Ford, Ruth Tate, Lucile Dennison,
Fannie B. Harris, Jane Wyacc, Alice
Chamlee, Tommy Ruch Blackmon, and
Jean Kirkpacrick.

Quarter System
Plans for A. S. C.
Near Completion

Plans for che adopcion of che quar-
cer syscem ac Agnes Scocc College next
year are nearing completion, according
to Mr. S. G. Stukes, registrar. Some
few details have not yet been worked
out, but it is expected that these will
be planned and that all material for
the 193 6 catalogue will be in the hands
of the printer by the first of Decem-
ber.

The changes in curriculum under
the new system will make little differ-
ence in the year courses and, for that
reason, will have slight effect on un-
derclassmen, most of whose studies are
year courses. Requirements for majors
and minors for graduation will be pro-
portionately the same, with one hun-
dred and eighty quarter hours being
required for graduation, instead of one
hundred and twenty semester hours.
Each quarter course will be counted as
four hours. The curriculum is being
planned to make possible a reduction
in the number of courses a student
may carry at a time.

With three terms instead of two,
each examination period will be short-
ened and three sets of examinations
will be given. On certain days a stu-
dent may have to take examinations in
more than one subject.

The system is being adopted to make
possible closer coordination between
Agnes Scott and Emory University,
and the program will resemble closely
that used by Emory. The fall quarter
will end at Christmas; the winter quar-
ter, in March; the spring quarter, at
the end of the term. Agnes Scott will
open earlier than Emory in order to
keep spring holidays, a recess which
Emory does not have at present.

The new catalogue announcing the
changes to be inaugurated with the
adoption of the quarter system will be
published earlier than the catalogue
formerly has been. It will probably be
released by the end of January, 1936.

Agnes Scott Has
25 Students at
Atlanta Meeting

The Atlanta Christian Youth Con-
ference, which met at the First Bap-
tise Church of Atlanta, closed on Sat-
urday, November 16, after a success-
ful two-day session. The conference at-
tracted, by its discussion groups, wor-
ship services, and addresses, a number
of Agnes Scott College girls of all de-
nominations.

Friday afternoon, Dr. J. R. McCain,
president of Agnes Scott College, led
a discussion grup on How co Reach
the College Student. Isabel McCain
was in charge of the worship service at
the same time, and Amelia Nickels
sang, accompanied at the piano by
Alice Hannah.

Five sessions were held: Friday and
Sacurday mornings, Friday and Sacur-
day afcernoons, and Friday nighc.
There were a number of addresses by
prominenc speakers, and several discus-
sion groups on subjeccs of incerest to
Christian youth. The main speaker of
the conference was Mr. S. D. Gordon.
Other outstanding ones were Rev.
Richard Gillespie, Rev. B. Frank Pirn,
and Dr. W. A. Shelton, all of Atlanta.

There were about twenty-five girls
from Agnes Scott who attended the
conference on Friday and Saturday.
These took active part in the discus-
sion groups.

Elinor Hightower
Speaks at Service

Mrs. Elinor Hamilton Hightower,
'34, spoke on the Service of Mortar
Board on the Campus at the annual
recognition service of the Agnes Scott
College chapter of Mortar Board held
in Gaines Chapel on Saturday, Novem-
ber 16.

Dr. J. R. McCain, president of the
College, and Dean Nannette Hopkins
headed the academic procession which
included the active members, Carrie
Phinney Latimer, president; Lulu Ames,
Shirley Christian, Ann Coffee, Ruby
Hutton, Frances James, Augusta King,
Dean McKoin, Loice Richards, Sarah
Spencer, and Adelaide Stevens; mem-
bers of the alumnae, Margaret Bell,
'3 3, Florence Perkins Ferry, '26, Leone
Bowers Hamilton, '26, Blanche Miller,
'3 0, Carrie Scandrett, '24, and Llewel-
lyn Wilburn, '19; Laura Colvin, alum-
na Mortar Board from William and
Mary; and Kitty Blood, of Florida
State College for Women; the faculty
advisers of Mortar Board, Associate
Professor Florence Smith, of the history-
department, Professor George P. Hayes,
of the English department, and Asso-
ciate Professor Louise Hale, of the
French department.

Mrs. Hightower, in her speech, gave
a brief history of the Agnes Scott chap-
ter which became in 1931 the forty-
ninth chapter of the national organi-
zation. She emphasized the fact that
che Agnes Scocc chapcer fulfilled che
definicion of service as someching chat
is both timely and contagious.

Alumnae Quarterly Shows Work

Of Association in Many Projects

Cornelia Skinner
To Appear Nov. 20
On Emory Campus

Miss Cornelia Otis Skinner, the fa-
mous daughter of the noted actor, Otis
Skinner, will appear in a program of
Modern Characcer Skecches ac 8:15 P.
M. Wednesday, November 20, in che
Glenn Memorial Audicorium ac Emory
Universicy. This is che firsc of a series
of programs presenced under che aus-
pices of che Student Lecture Associa-
tion of Emory University.

Miss Skinner is well equipped for
the field she has chosen, having been
trained for the stage in Paris; she has
received recognition throughouc che
resc of che world as well as in America
for her remarkable calenc. Tickecs for
chis program may be secured for $1.00
each ac Davison-Paxon's, ac Rich's,
from Dr. Ross H. McLean, faculcy ad-
viser of che Associacion, and ac che

(Continued on page 3, column 1)

An Alumnae Associacion chat is un-
tiring in the cangible expression of its
interest in Agnes Scott College is the
firsc and mosc imporCanc impression
given by che November issue of che
Alumnae Quarterly. A second impres-
sion is of a well-organized publicacion
concaining a variecy of arcicles per-
caining direccly co che College, includ-
ing news of che faculcy and of che
alumnae.

A very incerescing pare of che Quar-
terly concains annual reporcs of che
Alumnae Associacion. The reporc of
Miss Dorochy Hutton, general secre-
tary, reveals the worthwhile work of
the Association done through her de-
partment, including several trips in the
interesc of che College and che Asso-
ciacion, concacc wich che Granddaugh-
cers Club and various Agnes Scocc
Clubs, financial assiscance in che painc-
ing of Dr. J. R. McCain's porcraic, a
campus parcy for over cwo hundred
high school seniors, managemenc of
che Alumnae House, and class reun-
ions.

Anocher reporc, submicced by Miss
Janef Prescon, publicicy chairman,

cells chac during che past year the pub-
licity committee has planned and di-
rected fifty-two radio programs, has
assisted with the special publicity work
for Alumnae Week-End, and has kept
a general oversighc of Agnes Scocc pub-
licicy in che newspapers.

The preparacory schools, curriculum,
House and Tea Room, local clubs,
grounds, encercainmenc, scudenc loan,
and conscicucion commiccees also give,
chrough cheir reporcs, proof of work
done for che College. Accribuced co
rhem are such encerprises as a success-
ful Al umnae Week-End, improvemencs
in che Alumnae House, che beaucify-
ing of che campus, scudenc loans, par-
ties for seniors, alumnae, and new scu-
dents.

Ocher seccions of che publicacion
deal wich a memoriam co Mr. Charles
Murphey Candler, former cruscee of
Agnes Scocc College, a leccer co che
alumnae from Dr. McCain, announce-
ments of interest about che College,
and news of che faculcy. The remain-
der of che Quarterly concains news of
che alumnae.

2

The Agonistic

l)e Agonistic

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PUBLISHED WEEKLY

Owned and published by the students of Agnes Scott College.

Entered as Second Class Matter.

1935 Member 1936

Pbsocided GoUe6iafe Pres<

Lulu Ames

Editor-in-chief

Laura Steele
Frances Cary

Assistant Editors
Nellie M. Gilroy

Feature Editor

Nell A t * 'son

Ass't Feature Editor

Jane Guthkif
Book Notes Editor

Ellen McCallie
Alumnae Edito*

STAFF
Mildred Clark
Make-up Editor

June Matthews
Ass't Make-up

Rosa From

Current History

Elizabeth Baethke
Laura Coit

Exchange Editors

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Society Editor

Alice Chamlee
Business Manager

Kathryn Bowen
Advertising Manager

Circulation Managers
Mary Margaret Stowe
Margaret Cooper
Mary Gray Rogers
Wita Moreland
Sarah Brosnan
Elizabeth Burson

Sports Editor

Cornelia Christie
Club Editor

PEACEFUL

DEVELOPMENT

Well over half a million stu-
dents united thought, purpose,
and action on November 8 and 11
this year in a nation-wide Mobil-
ization for Peace. This move-
ment, sponsored by NSFA,
YWCA, YMCA, SLID, NSL, and
other national student organiza-
tions, was patterned on the Peace
Demonstration held in many
parts of the United States on last
April 12. The object on both oc-
casions was to present a one-ness
of collegiate attitude toward In-
ternational Peace. Both move-
ments were in protest to war of
any sort for any reason.

Last April "strikes" were
staged instead of demonstra-

And not to belong to the weaker,
Those who have come to view !

The servers are many and fair ;
And abundance is present of
food.

A reflection it is on the Col-
lege name,
It's something more than just
being rude
In the Chit! Chat! Chit!
To pass the visitors by

And feed to the students every j and implied that th.
bit

Of that for which visitors sigh.

The plan for the Lecture is fine;
The gathering afterward, right.
But the way it's done on the
present scheme
Is truly a terrible sight !
Food ! Food ! Food !
tions. At some colleges, noting Have it in p i en ty, indeed,
broke out and police were re- But think of the tg of the
quired to quiet the peace agita- College that night'

tors." Rabid petitions, composed Pass them refreshments with
in the throes of emotional enthu- speed !

siasm. were sent to President! '

Roosevelt by students in those I p ood \ Food f Fooc j 1

institutions where a public meet- With the guests a part of the

tag of any nature was strictly , mob.

forbidden. Yet, as destructive] chat ' Chit T Chat '

and unsettling as the demonstra- Strive bravely to make them hob .

lion last spring was, it pointed nob

the way to the calm yet fervent The rece ption will then be corn-
mobilization ot this month. plete

On this November 8, students. And all ^ f those present one
and faculty met together to hear crowd*
sane, sincere peace speeches in Each person with food be replete,
which the intense feeling of last And us> of our manners be
spring was not lacking. Peace pa- proud !

rades replaced student rioting. |

And on Armistice Day, President DUMBER
Roosevelt received a delegation '
of seventeen students who pre- .PLEASE!

sented a statement interpreting The day students' telephone in
the action of over one-half mil- 1 the basement of Main is a mat-
lion students who participated in iter of increasing irritation to the
the Mobilization for Peace. |day students, mainly because it
The change in manner of stu-, belongs as much if not more so
dent expression in these seven] to the boarders as to the dav
months is a noteworthy develop-; students. At almost any hour ev-
ment of student attitude. We| e ry day there is a long line of
realized last April that united students of both varieties lolling
Student thought is powerful in j about the day students' room,
molding public opinion. We have waiting, in varying degrees of
learned since then that it is not, temper, to use the phone. The
through emotional and uncon- | p h 0 nees are not numbered; it's not
trolled outbursts that we can jS0 formal as that. It's just an in-
best use this power but through formal scramble of first-come-
intellectual and dignified demon- first-phone-day - students - take
sirations thai we can become a |y 0 ur-chance- with - the-rest

A Key to Current
Historv

RECENT SINO-JAPANESE RE-
LATIONS
By Frances James
On November 10, 193 5, Japanese
troops invaded Shanghai to avenge the
killing of Hideo Nakayama, a Japan-
ese marine in uniform, who was shot in
the head by an unidentified man on
November 9. He died the next morn-
ing without regaining consciousness.

The Japanese assume that the assail-
ant is a Chinese, though the Chinese
contend that he is a Korean or Japan-
ese. By midnight of November 10
:he boundaries of the International
Settlement and Chapei were guarded by
armed forces of international police
and Japanese marines on one side and
Chinese police on the other side.

The Japanese prepared to fight at
the command of Rear Admiral Araki,
the commander of the Japanese land-
ing party, who ordered a company of
Japanese marines to take their positions
along the Shanghai-Woosung railway,
which is adjacent to the Japanese bar-
racks. Araki also demanded an imme-
diate settlement of what he termed
"an act of provocation directed at the
special naval landing party." He
stated that if satisfaction were not re-
ceived, action would follow.

The Chinese police testified that the
assassin was clothed like Nakayama.
The Japanese officials said that the
killer was a Chinese in civilian clothes
e shooting was for

political ends.

On November 1 1 General T. Ishii,
of Japan, called on General Wu Teh-
Chen, mayor of Shanghai, to urge a
thorough hunt for the assassin of Na-
kayama. The Japanese consul general
said, "We cannot afford to have the
culprits escape all the time."

The Japanese are worried about the
recent concentration of 100,000 Chi-
nese troops in the area adjoining the
zone demilitarized by the Shanghai Ar-
I mistice of 1932. They assert that
' Blue Shirt terrorists, "a nationalistic
Chinese organization which the Japan-
ese claim sponsors fascist anti-Japanese
terrorism," and soldiers in civilian
clothes have entered the demilitarized
zone. On November 1 1 bricks and
bottles thrown through the window
of a Japanese-owned store in Shanghai
intensified the crisis. The demonstra-
tors scattered handbills reading "war
on Japan to save China." Japanese of-
ficials attribute the damage to the
Chinese, though the International Set-
tlement police say that the nationality
(Continued on page 3, column 1)

BOOKS
Reviews and \ote$

He Sent Forth a Raven by Eliza-
beth Madox Roberts.

Reviewed by Hibernia Hassell.

He &'/// Forth a Raven, by Elizabeth
Madox Roberts, is the tale of the strug-
gles of an embittered soul against the
outside world. When his second wife
died, Stoner Drake vowed "never to
set foot on God's green earth again."
And it is upon the vow of a selfish,
caustic, shrewd old man, such as Stoner
Drake, that the plot of the novel is
built.

The setting is laid in an old southern
home just before and during the time
of the World War. It is a stern, digni-
fied old homestead; seeming, with its
low-roofed, raftered bedrooms, with its
large blackened fireplaces, its rugged
walls and its bare surroundings, to take
allegiance with its master in defying
and scorning the outside world. Inside,
the master sits before a glowing hearth,
bowed and thinking; or outside he
walks upon the broad balcony, shout-
ing directions to his hired men, survey-
ing the latest calf or foal brought for
his inspection, or scanning the rolling
hills of grain. Stoner Drake is the mas-
ter, the man who has lost two dearly
beloved wives and who has given his
oath never to set foot on God's green
earth again.

House and household alike are under
the influence of the vow and its maker.
Jocelle, a granddaughter, abandoned by
a flirtatious mother, and thrown upon
his mercy, makes her home there and
comes consequently under his domina-
tion. It is through Stoner Drake that
she loses her lover, that her aunt is
likewise disappointed in love, and that
all visitors are unwelcomed and unre-
ceived. We get the feeling of gloom
and of thwarted desires chiefly through
the figure of Martha, the aunt. One
sees her, an eerie figure who, in the
gray shadows of the approaching morn-
ing, slips through opened doors to stoop
over the hearths and set the first fires.
She then disappears, going to her room,
only to return quietly at night and ex-
tinguish them again.

Hope comes, however, with the ap-
I pearance of the uncouth, illiterate
j Preacher Briggs, who wanders over the
I land, preaching, using only one piece
.of scripture that of the flood, the
ark, and the raven. Briggs enters un-

invited through the back door of Ston-
er Drake's home, stretches his naked
feet before the fireplace, and delivers
his gospel to the strangely silent host,
Drake. When the climax comes, it
strikes these two characters and Jocelle,
who is planning her elopement fear-
fully and secretly. One of the author's
most powerful scenes occurs at this
climax. Martha, weak and ill, is lean-
ing over the banister, praying and
whispering advice; Jocelle and her lov-
er stand irresolutely in the doorway;
and Stoner Drake sits in the other room
listening to Briggs, suspicious and un-
easy.

The story ends abruptly, leaving
much to the reader's imagination. He
Sent Forth a Raven, combining a well-
unified plot with good characteriza-
tion, is recommended to all who appre-
ciate an unusual storv well told.

OTHER NOTES

The Atlantic $5,000-prize book for
193 5 is Old Jules, written by Marie
Sandoz. It is also November choice for
the Book-of-the-Month Club.

"Marie Sandoz was the guest of hon-
or at a lunch given by Letitia Bolton
on behalf of the Little, Brown Com-
pany last week, to celebrate the pub-
lication of Miss Sandoz's prize biogra-
phy, Old Jules. . . . Miss Sandoz doesn't
look like a husky daughter of the pio-
neers; she is very slender, with a nar-
row face and narrow dark eves and
small hands and feet and a bird-like
poise and quickness. . . . She looks as
if she had the nervous endurance of an
Indian pony. . . . She says she is writing
another book, a novel. . . . " From
Turns With a Book norm, The X t 11
York Herald Tribune, Nov. 10.

FORTHCOMING BOOKS
Fiction

The Jew of Rome Lion Feucht-
wangcr (Viking Press), January.

Cross Over Mine Walter C. But-
ler (Macaulay), December.

Archy, Does His Wirt Don Mar-
quis (Doubledav, Doran), December.
Non-Fiction

Vine Prints of the Year L935 Mal-
' calm S. Salaman (Minton, Balch) De-
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Crossroads of the Caribbean Sea
Hendrik de Leeuw (Mcssner) Decem-
ber.

EXCHANGES
Here and Elsewhere

Alumnae News

Amelia Lee Barlow, '3 3, was mar-
ried Saturday to Mr. John Kell Martin,
Jr., of Atlanta. They will make their
home at 13 37 Peachtree street, Atlanta.

In the St. Lawrence County, N. Y.,
i jail, Sheriff McCormack, unable to ex-
terminate the jail's hordes of cock-
le aches, offered convicts 10 cents
bounty per 100 roaches turned in. With
nothing else to occupy their spare time,
convicts delivered thousands each day.
Time.

Rosemary May, '3 3, spent two
months this summer working with the
State Board of Health in Atlanta. Dur-
ing the last term of summer school she
assisted Dr. Butts at the University of
Chattanooga.

Studies in widely scattered areas of
j the United States show that the birth
Irate among families who have been on
.relief for more than a year is about 60
jper cent higher than that among fara-
jilies of similar social st.iuis who are
not on relief. Reader's Dig< V.

The class of '3 5 will hold an infor-
mal reunion Thanksgiving week-end.

The Granddaughters Club met
of - Thursday, November 14, at 5 o'clock

factor in forming stable attitudes them. Occasionally a public-spir- 1 to discuss plans for a dinner in early

toward matters that affect us as
potential citizens

ited boarder will give way to a 1 December. Each granddaughter will
(lay student, but that happens bring an escort. Mary Hull is presi-

about as often as the "man bites] dent of the club.
1 dog" act of which we hear so!

much and see SO little. Mrs. Clara (Whips) Dunn, 16,

The day Students are a gener- chairman of the curriculum commit-

In Manhattan's Doctors Hospital
was found a patient named William
Shakespeare, 54, Southampton, L I.,
j carpenter with gallstones. Said he: "My
father was born in Stratford-on-Avon,
Warwickshire, and he and my mother
used to say that we are descendants
of the old man. I got hold of one of
his plays years ago Romeo and Juliet,
I think and 1 started to read it, but it
didn't make sense to me. One of my
boys I named William Shakespeare
after me, not the play writer. I don't
take much stock in names. A rose by
any other name would smell as sweet,
as the fellow said." Time.

RECEPTIONS
\ND SUCH

With visitors eager but strange

And students hungry yet bright, ous lot. They do not begrudge tee, has announced the tentative plans

A reception was, ill unseemly boarders the privilege of fre- for the Alumnae week-end, February

haste quent use of free phone service ; j 2 1-22. On Friday morning from 10

finished on/ 1 Thursday night. sometimes, however, this social o'clock to 12*15 three lectures will
Cha1 : ('hit ! Chat ! '

The students were doing it all !
The waiting visitors merely sat,
Unfed, in Agnes Scott Hall.

Food ! Food ! Food !
How the students
around.
Food ! Food ! Food !

attitude becomes burdensome. It be given on Present Day Trends in
is ridiculous that the day Stu- Music and Art. This will be followed
dents should have a telephone for i by a luncheon in the College dining
themselves and that it should be room. On Saturday morning the lec-
listed in the directory as "Non- tures will be on National Problems in
residence Students," when it 1 Washington's Day and Our Own. Dur-
Cl'owded isn't theirs. But it is just as H- ing the morning session Miss Llewellyn
idiculous that the boarders should Wilburn, '19, will be in charge of spe-
be inflicted with pay-Station | cial programs for the children of the

In Los Angeles from his $2,000,000
castle in Death Valley chugged Walter
Scott (Death Valley Scotty) in an old
rebuilt Franklin. Snorted he: "These
city trails ain't no place for this loco-
motive. It's a special made model for
traversing the desert mountains into
the Valley. It goes 700 miles without
stopping. Got a 100-gallon gas tank
and carries ten gallons of oil." l ime.

In addition to receiving orders the
police motor patrolman is now enabled
to report back to headquarters or talk
to other cars w ithout leaving his own
car. Headquarters, thus in touch with
any or all members of its mobile unit,
can visualize an entire situation and
direct maneuvers with full knowledge
of how its forces are distributed. To
I talk from the car the patrolman merely
I lifts a hand-set telephone from its hook
on the instrument board, simultaneous-
ly flipping a switch which turns on
the dynamotor that supplies the trans-
mitter. The system is at present in op-
eration in Evansville, Ind., and is being
installed in Nashville, Tenn. Scien-
tific A m eric an.

The first college cheer is credited to
Princeton students, who got the idea
from an unknown private of the Sev -
enth Regiment of Xew York as the
outfit mobilized for war in April,
]K6Q.Ring-Tnm-l>/>/.

And the visitors uttered no; phones in the dormitories and Alumnae. There will also be an ex-

snund. [that they shouldn't possess for | hibit of colonial relics. Saturday night

It s ohl to be a speaker, themselves this modern conven-|the local clubs will have dinner to-

Alon*: with collegiate crew. ience. gether.

At the University of Chicago Alan
J. Kringel, 18-year old freshman of
Woodmere, N. Y., invented a chemical
wrinkle-remover from animal blood,
scowled a month to develop a wrinkle,
applied the wrinkle-remover to the
wrinkle, and cried, "It works!"
Time.

V. M. I. has eleven prep school foot-
ball captains. Princeton has nine in
I the first year class, but none of them
I has appeared m the starting line-up.
The captain of the freshman team savs,
"You may be famous but you've got to
show me."

The Agonistic

3

club news

K. U. B.

The regular monthly meeting of K.
U. B. was held on Wednesday, Novem-
ber 13, at 4:30 P. M. in the Y. \V. C.
A. room.

Granddaughters Club
The Granddaughters Club met on
Thursday afternoon, November 14, at
5 o'clock in the Anna Young Alumnae
House.

Eta Sigma Phi
Eta Sigma Phi met on Monday after-
noon, November 18, at 4:3 0 o'clock in
room 103 Buttrick Hall. Professor
Lillian Smith, of the Latin department,
spoke on Modern Excavations in Italy,
and illustrated this interesting lecture
with slides.

Pen and Brush Club
The Pen and Brush Club will hold
its regular meeting on Thursday, No-
vember 21, at 7:00 P. M. in Virginia
Gaines' room. At this time the new
members will be initiated.

Making marionettes is the project
chosen by Pen and Brush Club for this
year. The club is planning to pre-
sent a play next spring using the ma-
rionettes they have made.

Poetry Club
The Poetry Club met on Tuesday
night, November 19, at 9 o'clock with
Miss Emma May Laney in Ansley Cot-
tage.

German Club
The regular meeting of the German
Club will be held on Wednesday after-
noon, November 20, at 4:30 o'clock in
Lupton Cottage. Lucie Hess will speak
on Modern German Literature.

Music Appreciation Group
The Music Appreciation Group of
the Y. W. C. A. met on Sunday night,
November 17, at 7 o'clock in the music
room. The members studied George
Frederick Handel and his music, es-
pecially his Largo and a part of The
Messiah.

Holiday Is Given
On Roosevelt Day

Following the Thanksgiving holiday
of Thursday, November 2 8, a holiday
on Friday, November 29, comes as a
result of the faculty's consideration of
the student petition for extension of
time. The faculty decision was made
in order that the students may hear
President Roosevelt's address at Grant
Field on November 29. No holiday
planned for later in the year will be
forfeited for this privilege.

If This Be 1 (As 1 Suppose It Be) is
the rather bewildering title of Mar-
garet Deland's new book of childhood
experiences. One amusing anecdote
gives the whole flavor of the book.
Maggie, the "enterprising enfant"
(Margaret Del and at the age of five)
proposed to a drummer boy on a street
car sometime during the Civil War
days. The author describes herself as
having said, "Sojer boy, will you marry
me?" But it seems that the answer was
never given, for Maggie's aunt, shocked
at such "brazen feminism," quickly
jerked her off the car.

S. I. A. S. G. OFFICERS
ON A. S. C. CAMPUS
TO PLAN CONVENTION

William Shakespeare and Henry
Longfellow play football for North-
western . . . Herbert Hoover, Jeffer-
son Davis, Benjamin Franklin, Henry
Hudson, William Penn, David Livings-
ton, and Ben Hur are registered at the
University of North Carolina.

The executive committee of the
Southern Intercollegiate Association of
Student Governments held a meeting
at Agnes Scott College on Friday and
Saturday* November 15 and 16, in or-
der to plan the annual spring conven-
tion. Last year the convention was held
at the Florida State College for Wom-
en, March 28-30.

The officers of the Association are
as follows: President, Katherine Blood
of Florida State College for Women;
vice-president, Adelaide Stevens of Ag-
nes Scott; secretary, Rosa Hendrix of
Converse College; and treasurer, Eliza-
beth Pinkerton of Sweetbriar. The As-
sociation deals with the needs of the
comparatively small southern women's
colleges, whose problems are to a cer-
tain extent common.

The Student Government officers of
Agnes Scott entertained the officers at
a luncheon at the Alumnae House on
Saturday afternoon.

Mr. Stukes Opens
Community Chest
Drive on Campus

As chairman of the DeKalb County
Chapter of the American Red Cross,
Mr. S. Guerry Stukes, registrar of Ag-
nes Scott College, opened the Agnes
Scott student Community Chest drive
in a speech in chapel on Friday, No-
vember 15.

Mr. Stukes explained that this an-
nouncement was not to appeal to the
students for funds, but to inform them
of the activity of the drive in Deca-
tur and of their opportunity for serv-
ice as temporary citizens of the com-
munity. Assistant Professor Leslie
Gaylord, of the mathematics depart-
ment, and Miss Blanche Miller, instruc-
tor in the biology department, are in
charge of the campaign on the cam-
pus.

With approximately $420,000 as its
goal the Community Chest drive has
the slogan, "Say 'yes' to the Commu-
nity Chest." The need is especially
great this year because of the fact that
all government relief has been discon-
tinued.

giddy gossip

Seniors To Wear Gowns

To Class on Saturday

CORNELIA SKINNER

TO APPEAR TONIGHT

ON EMORY CAMPUS

(Continued from page 1, column 3)
auditorium on the evening of the en-
tertainment. Season tickets for the
193 S- 1936 season may be secured for
$2.5 0 each from Dr. McLean and at
the auditorium on the evening of Miss
Skinner's performance.

The seniors voted to wear caps and
gowns to chapel every Saturday morn-
ing and to all classes on that day at a
special class meeting held on Thursday,
November 14.

President Speaks
To Junior League

Dr. J. R. McCain, president of Ag-
nes Scott College and vice-president of
the Social Welfare Council of Atlanta,
made on Friday, November 15, the
second in the series of addresses being
given to the members of the Junior
League of Atlanta. Dr. McCain spoke
on Certain Social Theories as to Classes
of Society, as an introduction to so-
cial work and as a background for
social work in Atlanta.

After this general introduction, he
discussed more specifically the work
of the Community Chest and the So-
cial Welfare Council, which is the gen-
eral coordination agency for such
groups as family welfare, child care,
recreation and education, relief, and
health, in the city and in the Com-
munity Chest.

Dearest Giddy:

Out of the chaos and debris of so-
ciology quizzes, Chaucer papers, his-
tory exams, and Byron analyses, I raise
my once proud and self-assured head
in order to pen you a short and mourn-
ful epistle. Giddy, dear, in the words
of the gangsters (or is it the debu-
tantes?) they've got me! In spite of
the present dismal outlook, however, I
can still cherish the memories of a week
not far gone by in which we heard the
cutest little poems about radicals and
flies, and in which two charming
young Britishers who were too, too
divine with their "Oh, ma deah," and
their equally thrilling "A jolly ole rip-
ping time, eh what?" and who debated
our girls on a subject concerning (I
forgot the exact wording of the ques-
tion) a tour through England, the
King's Jubilee, or was it the League of
Nations?

Giddy, the Englishmen were exotic
and strange enough, but the queerest
things have been happening on the
campus lately. Imagine Miss Jackson's
surprise and astonishment the other
day after a heated discussion about the
dictator of Germany, who is either
Mussolini or Hitler (I always did have
a hard time remembering names and
dates chronological ones, to be more
exact), when a mumble was heard in
one corner of the room and a faint "I
wonder" issued from the much per-
turbed countenance of Alice McCallie.
"What do you wonder?" Miss Jackson
asked in her most sympathetic manner.

"What the world's coming to," replied
the anxious Alice.

But goodness, that is mild when
compared with the bedlam history
class that Dr. Davidson experienced
last week. In the middle of his per-
fectly legitimate lecture on soap and
potash and all, or some like sub-
ject, Dr. Davidson was overwhelmed
with an avalanche of questions asked
by the pursuers of knowledge in the
process of partaking of his greater wis-
dom. The questions very timely and
significant were, to give only a few
Why did n't we get Saturday as a holi-
day? In what century did the 18th
Century Enlightenment occur? Are the
Constitution and the Declaration of
Independence the same document?

Really, do you suppose there was a
subtle meaning behind this demonstra-
tion?

Even members of the faculty have
imbibed, perhaps unconsciously, the at-
mosphere that has prevailed of late. In
American literature, Miss Christie, in
describing the adversities of Edgar Al-
lan Poe's family, and in particular the
poverty and drunkenness of the father,
exclaimed in mournful tones, "So one
day the 'Poe father' disappeared." To
think that a member of our august
faculty would stoop to such!

Now, dear Giddy, you must under-
stand why students and faculty need
the extra holiday which the adminis-
tration has so graciously given us.

Hopefully yours,

Aggie.

l lllllllllllllm| iiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiim

Colin Hudson, the brother of Mary
McCann Hudson, '3 8, was chosen as
the representative from Presbyterian
College for the Rhodes scholarship.
Blue Stocking.

Rev. Peter Marshall, of Atlanta, Ga.,
conducted the annual fall services at
Davidson College. The Davidsonian.

Compliments of

A Friend

KE1 TO CURRENT HISTORY

(Continual from page 2, column 3)
and identity of the offenders are un-
certain.

Following this incident 5 00 more
Japanese marines landed in the de-
militarized area of Shanghai, bringing
the total number of marines to 2,5 00.
This situation is even more serious be-
cause it follows an attempt to kill Pre-
mier Wang Ching-wei of China on
November 1.

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The Agonistic

chat - chit

Put your galoshes outside and come
and gossip 'round our fire; rain or
shine things happen here in our institu-
tion of higher learning for women.

For a thrilling and true story of a
letter to the lovelorn and its sequel at
a dance, see Anne Wheaton.

We should like to know the tech-
nique of one charming Newberry Ju-
nior with "a rose in her hair." She
keeps Ella on the job saying, "You got
company in the parlor."

Here's to the sophomores, hail, oh
hail, oh hail; oh there's nothing that
they can not do! Five scintillating
sophs, Jean Barry Adams, Kay Ricks,
Anne Thompson, Laura Coit, and Hi-
bernia Hassell, hit it out for David-
son homecoming, and they didn't want
to come home. Also gracing the cam-
pus were those worthy ex-sophs, Jane
Hashagen, Becky Harrison, and Jane
Merrill.

The shorter of our two famous comic
strip characters should be taking a pre-
med course so that she can uphold her
end of the conversation in her future
life.

"All work and no play makes Agnes
a dull girl." This is the motto of third
floor Inman. See them for favorite
recipes for pie beds.

How 'bout two roommates, sophisti-
cated seniors, a blond and a brunette,
plus two brothers! The horn of plenty
we call it.

Wouldn't Bee Merrill's English pro-
fessor pause if he knew that she wanted
to learn Shakespeare's shortest sonnet!

We keep up with these day students
too, especially one senior who is itching
for a "Dutch" treat.

It was a dark and stormy night, the
clock struck three, and plaster fell
and broke the beauty sleep of inno-
cent Main maidens. They were not an-
gry, just hurt and grieved.

Swim Club Plans
Antony and Cleo
For November 26

Sports

New Gym Season Begins
November 30; Swimming,
Other Sports Offered

Tennis, horseback riding, hockey,
and archery will give place to natural,
tap, and folk dancing, basketball, and
individual gymnasium instruction
when the physical education depart-
ment begins its winter season on Sat-
urday, November 30. Registration will
begin on Monday, November 2 5, and
will continue through Wednesday, No-
vember 27.

Miss Eugenia Dozier is to be a mem-
ber of the department again this year,
as instructor in dancing. She will also
be in charge of May Day.

Swimming classes are offered for the
first time during the winter season.

NATIONAL OFFICER
TALKS TO Y. W. C. A.

Miss Winnifred Wygal, national of-
ficer and student worker of Y. W. C.
A., led a discussion group in the Y. W.
Cabinet Room on Thursday, Novem-
ber 14, at 8:00 P. M. Miss Wygal dis-
cussed the place the Y. W. C. A.
should have on the campus and what
it should do for the students.

Those present included the Agnes
Scott cabinet members, the faculty ad-
visers, and Miss Willett, the secretary
of the Southern District.

The Swimming Club of Agnes Scott
College will present a water pageant
on Tuesday, November 26, at 8:00 P.
M. in Bucher Scott Gymnasium.
| The theme of the pageant will be the
I romance of Antony and Cleopatra,
with Antony's legions and Cleopatra's
| maids performing the dives and novel
I formations.

The committees in charge of the
pageant are as follows:

Writing Ann Worthy Johnson,
Bee Merrill, Mary Venetia Smith, and
Lena Armstrong.

Property and Setting Anne Taylor,
Jane Moore Hamilton, and Loice Rich-
ards.

Costumes Martha Crenshaw, Jean
Chalmers, and Meriel Bull.

At a later date it will be decided
which group of Atlanta high school
seniors will be entertained at Agnes
Scott on the day of the pageant.

On Tuesday, November 12, the
Outing Club held its meeting in the
Athletic Board room in the gymna-
sium. Two members of the club, Ora
Muse and Dean McKoin, instructed the
class in camp craft. About twelve
were present. Plans were made for en-
tertaining the Appalachian Trail Club
of Atlanta.

Pearl S. Buck Wins
Medal For Fiction

REPORTERS FOR THIS ISSUE:

Loice Richards
Ruth Hertzka
Elizabeth Warden
Eliza King
Mary F. Guthrie
Sarah Johnson
Mary Richardson
Alice Cheeseman
Nell Hemphill
Douglas Lyle
Mildred Davis
Enid Middleton

Business Assistant
Vera Marsh
Anne Wheaton
Ellen Davis
Elizabeth Cox
Rachel Kennedy
Sara Beaty Sloan
Kennon Henderson
Hortense Norton

Pearl S. Buck, well-known American
novelist, received the William Dean
Howells Medal for fiction, awarded on
November 14 by the American Acad-
emy of Arts and Letters. Since Mrs.
Buck is the niece of Professor Alma
Sydenstricker, of the Bible department
of Agnes Scott College, this announce-
ment is of special interest to the Col-
lege community.

As author of The Good Earth, the
Pulitzer prize-winning novel for 1932,
Pearl Buck won universal acclaim in
the literary world. She has also writ-
ten East Wind, West Wind, Sons, The
Mother, and numerous short stories.

The Swimming Club held its regular
meeting Tuesday, November 12, at
3:30 P. M. After a short business
meeting members of the club rehearsed
a formation which they planned to pre-
sent Tuesday night, November 19, at
the Briarcliff indoor pool for the bene-
fit of the Examiners' Club of Atlanta.
All examiners and senior life savers are
urged to attend these meetings every
Tuesday night at the Briarcliff pool.
These meetings are sponsored by the
Atlanta chapter of the American Red
Cross.

MARTHA ELLIOTT TO
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Language Clubs
Will Sing Carols

One of the loveliest features of the
Christmas season at Agnes Scott Col-
'ege will be the singing of carols by the
French, German, and Spanish club
members on Tuesday evening, Decem-
ber 17. As is customary on the night
before the Christmas holidays, the three
groups of carolers will meet on the
quadrangle at 9 P. M. and from there
go to the various dormitories and fac-
ulty homes on the campus, singing the
familiar songs in the different lan-
guages. The caroling usually lasts about
an hour.

Definite plans as to the selection of
songs have not been made by the
French and German clubs, but rehear-
sals have already begun. The Spanish
club plans to sing Belen, Los Reyes
Magos, El Nino Jesus, and Noche de
Paz.

Miss Martha Elliott, '34, will rep-
resent the Agnes Scott College Cercle
Francais at the annual convention of
the Federation d'Alliances Francaises
aux Etats Unis et au Canada, at New
York in April. Miss Elliott, former
president of the Cercle Francais of
Agnes Scott, is now in New York
where she is studying at Columbia Uni-
versitv.

Alumnae Prepare
To Entertain for
High School Girls

In accordance with the new policy
of setting aside a special day for each
local high school, Agnes Scott College

' and the Alumnae Association will en-
tertain the seniors of Washington Sem-

j inary at a campus party on Friday,
November 22. The purpose of the par-
ty is to acquaint the girls with the
campus and the College activities.

After dinner in Rebekah Scott and

I coffee in Main, the quests will attend
the Blackfriars' play, Mr. Pint Passes
By. Agnes Scott girls who are gradu-
ates of Washington Seminai'v are also
invited.

The seniors of North Avenue Pres-
byterian School were guests of the Col-
lege on November 1, and were the
first high school group to be enter-
tained. In former years, the seniors of
all the local high schools attended the
same party, but the plan adopted this
year has been found more advisable.

A few days ago it was announced
to the students on the McKinlock cam-
pus of Northwestern University that
a voice class for amateur harmonizers
was to be opened on the ninth floor of
the Ward Building. One day after the
class began the dean in charge moved
his office from the eighth to the first
floor.

Tank-town performance of Uncle
Tom's Cabin The dogs were poorly
supported by the cast. Reader's Di-
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AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1935

GIVING

HOLIDAYS

NO. 9

Dr. McCain, Dr. Cox Confer
With Groups in New York

Officials Plan Investigation
For Program to Develop
Center of Learning

Dr. J. R. McCain, president of Ag-
nes Scott College, and Dr. Harvey Cox,
president of Emory University, re-
turned on Saturday from New York
City where they conferred with the
General Education Board, the Carne-
gie Corporation, the Commonwealth
Fund, and Harkness officials about the
development of the proposed educa-
tional center in Atlanta.

All four groups expressed keen in-
terest in the project; the Carnegie Cor-
poration and the General Education
Board will send representatives here
soon to investigate the situation. In
view of the fact that this was the first
approach of these two institutions, Dr.
McCain said that the results are most
encouraging. It is impossible to tell
yet, however, how the matter will turn
out.

Since next year is the centennial of
Emory University, both Dr. McCain
and Dr. Cox feel that this is the time
for action on the coordination and ex-
pansion of the two schools which was
proposed first a year ago.

Y.W.C.A. Speaker
T a 1 ks on Peace

Carrying out the Y. W. C. A. theme
of Realizing Christ, Mr. Jack McMich-
ael, of Emory University, spoke at
chapel yesterday on what other stu-
dents are doing towards peace. Be-
fore the Christmas holidays, the Y. W.
C. A. plans to bring to the Agnes Scott
College campus two more speakers who
will carry out the theme as related to
world problems. On December 3, Rev.
William M. Eliott, pastor of the Druid
Hills Presbyterian Church, will discuss
The Attitude of the Church Toward
Peace. The last of these programs, on
December 17, will present Dr. W. A.
Smart of Emory, speaking on Christ,
the Prince of Peace.

During the fall, the Y. W. C. A.
has brought to the campus several
speakers whose subjects have dealt with
the theme Realizing Christ personally,
on the campus, and in the world.
Among these have been Bishop H. J.
Mikcll, of the Atlanta Diocese; Rev.
R. T. Gillespie, of Rock Springs Pres-
byterian Church; Sara Lane Smith, Ag-

(Continued on page 4, column 2)

CHORUS SINGS FOR
COMMUNITY CHEST
AT ATHLETIC CLUB

The special chorus of the Agnes
Scott College Glee Club appeared on
the program at a banquet given for
the Atlanta Community Chest cam-
paign workers at the Atlanta Athletic
Club on Monday, November 18, at 6
P. M. Approximately 600 campaign
solicitors attended the banquet, among
whom was Mr. S. Gucrry Stukes, reg-
istrar of Agnes Scott, who is serving
as chairman of the DeKalb County
Chapter of the American Red Cross.

The chorus, accompanied at the pi-
ano by Alice Hannah, sang "Annie
Laurie," "Italian Street Song," "Win-
ter Wind," "Sweethearts," and "The
Sleigh." The members of the chorus
are: Jessie Query, Amelia Nickels,
Shirley Christian, Evelyn Wall, Rosa
Miller, Alice Chamlee, Nelle Chamlee,
Virginia Wood, Sarah Jones, Virginia
Kyle, Mary Alice Newton, Augusta
King, Ruth Tate, Maxine Crisler, and
Martha Young.

Blackfriars Play
Is Milne Comedy
Of English Family

Mr. Pint Passes By, by A. A. Milne,
was presented by Blackfriars on Friday
and Saturday evenings, November 22
and 2 3, in Bucher Scott Gymnasium
to good houses. The play was under the
direction of Miss Frances K. Gooch, of
the spoken English department.

The scene takes place in the drawing
room of Marden House, in Bucking-
hamshire. Dinah Marden (Kitty Print-
up), niece of George Marden (Edgar
Neely, Jr.), has forgotten her careful
upbringing to the extent of wanting to
marry Brian Strange (Luther Carroll),
a young artist whose success is lim-
ited to bright air castles.

The young couple is nervous about
telling Dinah's uncle, although Olivia
Marden, his wife (MyrI Chafin),
thinks they will be happy together. As
they had feared, George Marden is in-
dignant.

Mr. Pirn Passes

At this point, Mr. Caraway Pirn
(Tom Wesley), appearing from no-
where, casts a bomb that further
wrecks the peace of the Mardens. He
has recently met in his travels a cer-
tain Telworthy: and George and Olivia
believe that he is speaking of Olivia's
former husband, supposedly dead.

Thereupon, the elder Lady Marden
(Carrie Phinney Latimer) repeats that
she should make sure her husband was
dead before she married again.

Then Mr. Pirn passes by again and
in his uncertain, smiling manner, re-
calls that the name of the mysterious
traveler was certainly not Telworthy;
and the curtain goes down on the joy-
ful family whose happiness the passing
of Mr. Pirn has so nearly shattered.

The part of Anne, the maid, and
that of the elder Lady Marden were
played by Carrie Phinney Latimer and
Virginia Turner, president of Black-
friars, respectively, on Friday night.
On Saturday they exchanged roles.

Community Chest
Results Near $800

A contribution of $743.5 0 was the
result of the ten days' Community
Chest drive on the Agnes Scott Col-
lege campus under the direction of As-
sistant Professor Leslie Gaylord, of the
mathematics department, and Miss
Blanche Miller, instructor in the biol-
ogy department. The campus campaign
was begun on Tuesday, November 12,
and was brought to a close on Friday,
November 22.

Members of the faculty and the ad-
ministration were the only contribu-
tors to the campus drive, no students
having pledged. According to Miss
Miller, some faculty members pledged
with the Decatur teams to which they
belong. These team contributions to-
gether with those made on the cam-
pus brought the total faculty contri-
bution to approximately $800. There
was no set goal, but this amount was
considered to be an average one.

Reports from the drive being made
in Atlanta show that the returns are
proving very successful, and the cam-
paign solicitors expect to reach their
goal of approximately $420,000. Mr.
S. Guerry Stukes, registrar of Agnes
Scott, is chairman of the DeKalb
County Chapter of the American Red
Cross.

Alumnae Continue Many From A.S.C. To Hear

Texas Field Tour;
To Return Dec. 14

Miss Alberta Palmour, field secre-
tary for the Agnes Scott Alumnae As-
sociation, and Miss Jacqueline Wool-
folk, '3 5, who are now traveling in
Texas in the interests of the College,
will spend Thanksgiving and the rest
of this week in Dallas, according to a
letter received from Miss Palmour. She
plans to contact the Hockaday School
for Girls while she is in that city.

Miss Palmour and Miss Woolfolk
have visited in Houston, San Antonio,
Austin, Waco, and Fort Worth so far.
While they were in Austin, they were
the guests of Miss Mary Ames, '34.
From Dallas they will go to Shreve-
port, Louisiana, and Monroe; in Mon-
roe they will visit with Dr. and Mrs.
B. M. McKoin, parents of Dean Mc-
Koin, '36. On December 4, they will
be in Little Rock, Arkansas, with
Frances McCalla, '3 5.

They will continue their trip back
to Decatur by way of Memphis, Ten-
nessee; Clarksdale, Greenville, Vicks-
burg, and Meridian, Mississippi. In
each of the towns visited, Miss Pal-
mour will speak on Agnes Scott and
show moving pictures of campus ac-
tivities to members of the upper two
high school classes. They plan to reach
Decatur on December 14.

Roosevelt Speak on Friday

Ames to Represent
Agonistic in N. Y.
At Editors' Meeting

Lulu Ames, editor of The Agonis-
tic, will leave for New York City to-
morrow morning to attend a Confer-
ence of College Editors meeting there
November 29-December 1. The Con-
ference is being called by the National
Student Federation of America. Dele-
gates, who will probably number no
more than thirty, will be housed at In-
ternational House near Columbia Uni-
versity; all meetings will be held at In-
ternational House.

Among the speakers at the Confer-
ence will be Heywood Broun, Scripps-
Howard columnist and president of the
American Newspaper Guild; J. David
Stern, publisher of the New York Post
and several Pennsylvania papers; Fran-
cis G. Smith, Jr., former editor of The
Daily Princetonian and president of the
Association of College Editors; and
James Wechsler, former editor of The
Columbia Spectator and author of Re-
volt on the Campus. The program,
which will include discussion of such
problems as editorial policies, function
of college press, intercollegiate cooper-
ation, features, and printing, has been
arranged by Jane Whitbread, editor of
the Vassar College Miscellany News;
Roger Chase, editor of The Columbia
Spectator; and David Schwartz, of the
N. Y. U. Washington Square College
Bulletin, among others.

This is the first year that The Ago-
.nistic has sent a delegate to such a
meeting although it has long been a
member of NSFA.

ATTENTION

Davison-Paxon Co., of Atlanta,
wishes to employ Agnes Scott
students during the Christmas
rush. Mrs. Latady, employment
manager, began interviewing girls
on Saturday, November 2 3. Work
will begin on December 18.

Unlike last year, students will
not be excused from classes early
in order to work.

La Argentina Will
Dance Here Dec. 3
On Concert Series

La Argentina, the greatest living
genius of the dance, follows the All-
Star Concert Series' presentations of
Fritz Kreisler and the National Sym-
phony Orchestra with her appearance
at the Fox Theater in Atlanta on Tues-
day evening, December 3. The only
dancer to appear on the Concert Se-
ries of this season, she is expected to
draw a large audience, including over
300 Agnes Scott College students.

From triumphs in Europe, South
America, and Mexico, La Argentina re-
turns to America for her seventh tour.
The Legion of Honor from France, and
the Rosetta of Isabella, the first Order
bestowed by the Spanish Republic, are
the tributes to her dancing that she
brings with her. The Atlanta audience
will see La Argentina in a program of
Spanish dances colored by gorgeous
costumes and castanets.

Madame Argentina returned to the
Town Hall in December, 1934, to open
her fifth New York season after an ab-
sence of nearly three years. According
to the New York T/uncs of' that date,
no other artist has been able to supply
that peculiarly electric quality of ex-
citement in an audience, nor to perme-
ate a hall with such a glow of gracious-
ness as did La Argentina. Yet under
that engaging surface is an art of ex-
quisite perfection, an art that conceals
art.

The outstanding Spanish dancer of
today, comparable to none, La Argen-
tina is the objective artist with a defi-
nite point of view and a unity of style
in all her creations. Since she always
knows how to re-create her characters
afresh at each performance, she is look-
ed forward to with even more delight
by those who have seen her than by
those who have not.

Students Have Reserved Seats
At Grant Field; College
Has Holiday

City Music Group
Presents Quartet

The Gordon String Quartet, one of
the foremost chamber music organiza-
tions of the country, and the second on
this winter's series of concerts present-
ed by the Atlanta Music Club, appears
tonight at 8:30 in the Atlanta Wom-
an's Club Auditorium. Tickets are on
sale at Davison-Paxon's and at Rich's.

Members of the Quartet are Jacques
Gordon, first violin; David Sackson,
second violin; Paul Robyn, viola; and
Naoum Benditzky, cello. Their pro-
gram tonight will include the entire
Haydn Quartet in G minor, Opus 74,
No. 3; the Quartet in D major, No, 2,
by Borodin; and two movements of the
Debussy Quartet in G Minor, Opus.

In addition to the Gordon String
Quartet, the Music Club offers this
year the famous Vienna Choir Boys on
January 22, and Myra Hess on Febru-
ary 25. An integral part of cultural
Atlanta, the Music Club has done much
tor the city in bringing famous artists
here every year. In combination with
the Atlanta Philharmonic Society, it
has made possible the All-Star Concert
Series, which this season is bringing La
Argentina on December 3; Ruth Slen-
czynski, January 13; Nelson Eddy and
Helen Jepson, February 8; and Grace
Moore, March 19.

Participating in the Roosevelt Home-
coming Day, a large part of Agnes
Scott College's student body will hear
President Franklin D. Roosevelt ad-
dress the people of Georgia at one
o'clock on Friday afternoon, November
29, at Grant Field in Atlanta.

Agnes Scott has proclaimed a holi-
day for Friday, as have the majority
of Georgia schools and colleges. The
State Education Committee on the
Roosevelt Celebration is anxious to pro-
vide tickets for reserved seats in Grant
Field for Agnes Scott students. Those
who wish to take advantage of this
offer have been requested to sign up on
the bulletin board in Buttrick Hall.
Atlanta Decorated

Before the main address at Grant
Field, President Roosevelt will make a
short talk to the school children at
Piedmont Park at 12 o'clock noon.
After riding through the city, he will
go to Grant Field from where he may
be heard by those outside the Georgia
Tech stadium through loud speakers
placed throughout the city. Atlanta
will be decorated with United States
and Georgia flags and banners, and all
colleges and schools having bands have
been asked to send them to take part
in the parade.

The President passed through At-
lanta on Thursday, November 21, on
his way to the Little White House, his
Georgia home at Warm Springs, where
he is spending his Thanksgiving holi-
days.

During President Roosevelt's stay on
the Foundation this year, a special de-
tachment of Marines has been stationed

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Swimming Club
Offers (Pageant

The Swimming Club of Agnes Scott
College presented a colorful water
pageant in Bucher Scott Gymnasium
on Tuesday, November 26, at 8 P. M.
The theme of the pageant was the ro-
mance of Antony and Cleopatra, with
Antony's legionnaires and Cleopatra's
maids performing the dives and novel
formations.

The members of the cast were:
Antony Helen Handte.
Cleopatra Margaret Morris.
Herald Kathryn Peacock.

Legionnaires Marie Stalker, Ken-
non Henderson, Elizabeth Burson, Bee
Merrill, Margaret Wright, Loice Rich-
ards, Anne Thompson, and Martha
Crenshaw.

Roman Soldiers Mary Richardson,
Michelle Furlow, Mary Jane Tigert,
Eugenia Symms, Cary Wheeler, Mar-
tha Peek Brown, Elizabeth Forman,
and Martha Johnson.

Maids Mary Vcnetia Smith, Ann
Worthy Johnson, Jane Moore Hamil-
ton, Helen DuPree, Lena Armstrong,
Barton Jackson, Barbara Shloss, and
Jean Bailey.

Serpents Ellen McCallie and Mary
Johnson.

Divers Kitty Printup, Ann Coffee,
and Jean Chalmers.

Guests for the occasion included the
seniors of Druid Hills High School,
members of the Examiners' Club of At-
lanta, and members of the college com-
munity.

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1935 Member 1936

Flssocided Colle&ide Press

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Editor-in-chief

Laura Steele
Frances Cary

Assistant Editors
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Feature Editor

Nell Aj lisox

Ass't Feature Editor

Jane Guthkii

Book Notes Ed /tor

Ellen McCallie
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STAFF
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Make-up Editor

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Ass't Make-up

Rosa From

Current History

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Laura Coit

Exchange Editors

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Society Editor

Alice Chamlee
Business Manager

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Advertising Manager

Circulation Managers
Mary Margaret Stowe
Margaret Cooper
Mary Gray Rogers
Wit a Moreland
Sarah Brosnan
Elizabeth Burson

Sports Editor

Cornelia Christie
Club Editor

SHOULD WE

PARTICIPATE?

Since the collegiate press took
up a few weeks ago the fight
against American participation
in the 1936 Olympics to be held
in Germany, many college papers
throughout the country have lent
their support to the movement.
All college editorial comment has
been in hearty opposition to
sending a team from the United
States to Berlin next year.

The objection is mainly that
Germany has violated the princi-
ples on which the Olympics orig-
inally were founded. There ex-
ists, it is believed, little true
sportsmanship in the actions of
Germany and no fair play. The
amateur code, by which the
Games are controlled, provides
that no amateur athlete be dis-
qualified because of race, color,
or creed. The code further states
that no amateur can retain his
amateur standing if he compete
with one who has disregarded
the sportsmanship code. And
Germany has disregarded it
without reservation as indicated
by the names which have been
scratched from the participation
list. The question is not, how-
ever, concerned with Germany
and her methods alone; it is a
matter of whether the United
States should permit her team to
compete with the hand-picked
athletes of Germany.

There is much to be said on
both sides. The business of fair
play and honest sportsmanship is
a vital thing to most American
amateurs. Discrimination be-
cause of race is not a subject on
which we can maintain a self-
righteous attitude for any length
of time. Nevertheless, that the
spirit of the Olympiad has been
tainted by Germany cannot be
denied. On the other hand, it is
difficult for those who have
trained long and arduously for
the 1936 Games to forego par-
ticipation, even for a principle.

On December 6, the Amateur
Athletic Union of the United
States, meeting in national con-
vention, must decide whether or
not to uphold a resolution adopt-
ed in November, 1933, whereby
the A. A. U. is bound to refuse
to certify athletes for participa-
tion in the event that Nazi Ger-
many shall have been guilty of
discrimination in sports.

NO

BOOK WEEK

We are without a Book Week
this fall. We never realized, so
accustomed had we become to it,
that its failure to be would prove
so lamentable as we now find it
is. For understandable causes, it
is out of the question for this
fall.

But for the spring?

The leading campus organiza-
tions under faculty direction
might very well sponsor an ex-
hibition in April, soon after
spring vacation. It would not be
so well organized, perhaps, or so

bly run as those of the past, yet
: t would bring to the campus
something of the same spirit of
gmtle browsing among literary
treasures of old and modern
times. A Book Week-less year at
Agnes Scott is inconceivable
nd unbearable.

TO DRESS OR
NOT TO DRESS!

The number of girls in the din-
ing room on Wednesday night
has been steadily growing less
and less. It all reached a fine
point last Wednesday when there
were almost as many girls up-
stairs in Rebekah as there were
eating dinner. What is to be-
come of this custom? Should it
stop? Or should it be modified?

Getting dressed formally to
eat dinner in the same old din-
ing room and then to drink cof-
fee for ten minutes or so the
whole function lasting an hour at
most, perhaps does seem futile.
But missing one meal a week al-
together can become unpleasant.
And all the beauty and charm of
the Wednesday night formal
habit without a doubt it has
charm and does make for a mo-
ment of more leisurely social life
can be lost before the prospect
of appearing in the time-honored
same evening garment, week aft-
er week after week.

If "dressing" could be limited
to twice a month, or if "dress-
ing" could be merely a change of
clothes, that would be something.
The entire abandonment of the
plan would destroy the reason for
Wednesday night coffee which,
in spite of the hustly-bustliness
of its tempo, does have its good
points.

Shall we abandon then, or shall
we modify?

A Key to Current
Historv

THE PROPOSED NORTH CHINA
AUTONOMOUS STATE
By Isabel McCain
The Japanese government announced
Tuesday, November 19, that ninety-
five million Chinese would soon find
themselves citizens of a new state,
North China. This declaration by the
Japanese government followed the
massing of thousands of Japanese
troops on the Chinese border at Chin-
chou and at Shanhaikwan.

The Japanese army leaders issued an
ultimatum to the North China officials
that the autonomy program must be
approved by noon Wednesday or eleven
divisions of troops would invade and
occupy the involved territory. Military
intervention was threatened if the
Nanking government should send
troops to suppress the North China au-
tonomy movement.

However, the Nanking correspond-
ent of the Rengo (Japanese) News
Agency reported that Generalissimo
Chiang Kai-shek, leader of the Chinese
national government, had decided to
approve the projected autonomous con-
federation. This alleged decision, the
correspondent said, resulted from com-
promise speeches designed "to save his
face.*' Other dispatches indicated that
the Chinese officials realized it would
be suicidal to interefere with the au-
tonomy movement.

Although the new state will nomi-
nally acknowledge the sovereignty of
the Chinese republic, there will be no
allegiance to the Nanking government
and no financial or economic ties. It
will be called the governing body of
North China autonomous anticommu-
nist commission of the Chinese repub-
lic, but the name and the fact that
it will continue to fly China's national
flag of red, white, and blue are re-
garded merely as "face saving" devices
for Chinese nationalistic leaders.

Dispatches said that a Japanese-ad-
vised subcommission will supervise the
collection of taxes hitherto sent to
Nanking. A new currency will be es-
tablished linked to the Japanese yen
and the Manchukuon yuon rather than
to Nanking's new currency system.
North China's airways, railways, and
telegraph and telephone systems will
be linked to those of Manchukuo.

Although in Chinese quarters the
opinion has gained ground that the au-
tonomous North China state would be
set up without bloodshed, government
officials in Shanghai said, "We have
been instructed to prepare for any
eventuality." The Kuomintang (na-
tionalist party) congress at Nanking
(Continued on page 4, column 1)

BOOKS
Reviews and Notes

AGAIN
WE SAY

Repetition is reputation or so
we firmly believe. So once more
we make words concerning the
matter of classes ending when
the bell rings.

It is not queer that a student
should want to leave the class-
room when the first bell rings. It
is not that she lacks interest in
the course. It is not that she
burns to hear the next lecture.
Her eagerness to be gone is the
fear of an unexcused tardy which
can equal, after three times, an
unexcused absence which, in
turn, removes automatically a
third of a merit. All students
know this as do all faculty mem-
bers. Yet faculty members per-
sistently offend.

If the students could be moved
as a body to walk out at the end
of the hour and this without dan-
ger of rebuke, the matter would
be moved at the same time; one
student won't. Yet one faculty
member could help a lot and
mass cooperation on the part of
1 the faculty would end the whole
' thing.

Alumnae News

Miss Betty Lou Houck, Agnes Scott
'35, and Mr. Pulaski Lethbridge Smith,
of Atlanta are to be married today in
New York City at The Little Church
Around the Corner.

Miss Houck, while she was at Agnes
Scott, was most prominent in campus
activities. She was business manager of
the Silhouette and an outstanding
member of Blackfriars, dramatic club,
and Glee Club. She attended Yale Uni-
versity School of Dramatics this fall
and studied voice in New York. Mr.
Smith is associated with the Guardian
Life Insurance Company.

They plan to make their home in
Atlanta.

New Book Reveals
Realism of Last War

Paths of Glory By Humphrey
Cobb.

Paths of Glory, by Humphrey Cobb,
is a very realistic novel with a theme
of outstanding and immediate interest
to everyone War. We are conveyed
bodily to the battleground of the
World War, which we perceive in all
its horror and loathesomeness. We en-
counter here not the glory for the
very title is infused with cutting irony,
not the victory, not even the mere fact
of death per se; but we come in sicken-
ingly close contact with that side of
war that is not so obvious or so gener-
ally recognized, that is never discussed
in our polite or indifferent society.

We are brought face to face with the
most revolting physical conditions im-
aginable. We behold the glazed eyes
and gray faces of men in whom all
physical functions have been stopped
by the tenseness of constant fear and
by improper living conditions. We
smell the smell of death on every hand.
We perceive men dying the most ap-
palling deaths conceivable. That of
Lieutenant Paolacci is perhaps one of
the worst. The lieutenant "groped for
his thigh and couldn't find it. Instead,
his hand entered an enormous, sticky
cavity which seemed lined with sharp
points . . . Later his eyes opened, and
his jaw relaxed . . . Later still, a rat

. . . stepped forward daintily, jumped
onto the lieutenant's chest and squatted
there. It looked to the right and the
left, two or three times, quickly,
then lowered its head and began to eat
Paolacci's under lip."

The situation of Paths of Glory
it can hardly be called a plot is pri-
marily one of bitter anguish as opposed
to the general atmosphere of physical
$u fieri ng which pervjdes the entire
book. We witness the selection by their
captain of three men all courageous,
as it happens to be shot for cowardice
in the face of the enemy, admittedly
not for personal cowardice, but as an
example to the regiment because it has
been absolutely unable to make a par-
ticular advance. We are fascinated by
the several methods of their selection
and by the ultimate dramatic outcome
of the whole deplorable situation.

Indeed, it has truly been said that
Paths of Glory will be instantly sup-
pressed by any government approach-
ing war; for it is a hideous indictment
of the facts and methods of war,
which, after all, remarks one of the
characters, "never settled anything ex-
cept who was the strongest." More-
over, it is my firm belief that this
novel, so suggestive in its simplicity,
so overwhelming in its realism, so bit-
ter in its irony, and so accusing in its
significance, will take its place among
the realistic masterpieces of English
prose. Jacque McWhite.

NEW BOOKS IN OUR LIBRARY
Kent merer On Money Edwine Wal-
ter Kemmerer.

Behind the Headlines Vernon Mc-
Kenzie.

The Odyssey of Homer T. E. Shaw.

Dynamic Theory of Personality
Kurt Lewin.

A Book of Dramatic Costume
Edith Dabney and C. M. Wise.

Human Relations in Changing Fn-
dustry Harry Walker Hepner.

Swimming Analyzed Gertrude
Goss.

American Farm Policy Wilson Lee.

.4 History of Music Theodore M.
Finney.

Neic Pathways in Science Sir Ar-
thur Eddington.

Literature of the Italian Renaissance
Jefferson Butler Fletcher.

Architecture for the New Theater
Edith J. R. Isaacs.

Michaelangelo The Man Finlay-
son.

Religion in Virgil Cyril Bailey.
DECEMBER BOOK-OF-THE-

MONTH SELECTION
With Napoleon in Russia by General
de Caulaincourt.

EXCHANGES
Here and Elsewhere

There is no such thing as govern-
ment only men acting under that
name; men no wiser, no better, no
purer than ourselves. Survey.

We want a modest degree of security
without having to buy a lot of things
that look like investments but turn out
not to be. Harpers Magazine.

The ancients recognized the non-in-
flammability of asbestos; for, according
to Westinghouse, the lamp-wick of the
sacred fire of the goddess Vesta, attend-
ed by the Vestal Virgins in Roman
times, was made of this rock fiber.
Scientific American.

Ida Lois McDaniel, '3 5, is teaching
Spoken English at the Atlanta Con-
servatory, where she is also taking piano
lessons.

Helen (Etheredge) Griffin, '33,
with her baby daughter, Deborah
Anne, is now living in Chattahoochee.

Mary Lillian Deason, '3 5, is teach-
ing the sixth grade in the Woodbury,
Ga., school.

M.irgaret ( (joins) Wagner, '3 5, is
living in New York City, where her
husband is an experiment engineer with
I the Ford Instrument Company.

Frances McCalla, '3 5, is taking a
business course in Little Rock, Ark.

\ era Frances Pruet, '3 5, has been
appointed teacher of high school dra-
matics in Jesup, Ga. She made a trip
to Chatauqua, Ohio, and through Ken-

(Coutinued on page 3, column 5)

Some tropical woods are so dense and
hard that a saw with extremely hard
teeth is necesary to cut them. The
difficulty of sharpening the teeth has
been solved by the use of diamond
dust. Scientific A m erica u.

Seniors at Newark College of Engi-
neering have voted in favor of allow-
ing women to enter their classes.

We think of airplanes as aging even
more quickly than automobiles; yet the
Bureau of Air Commerce, Department
of Commerce, says that the useful life
of an airplane frequently exceeds five
years. As many as 169 civilian air-
planes now in service in this countrv
were built in 1926 or before. Scien-
tific American.

A scientist has estimated that forest
trees in the United States capture and
store much more of the sun's radiation
every year than is released by all the
coal mined. Even at that there is a tre-
mendous waste of the sun's energy, for
the energy-utilizing process is waste-
ful in the extreme. Scientific Ameri-
can.

Oxford University (England) offi-
cials have removed virtually all restric-
tions against women students. All de-
grees at that institution are now open
to men and women alike. Campus
Canopy.

A master of nursing degree has been
created at Yale University (New
Haven, Conn.) for graduates of that
institution's school of nursing.

A Princeton University administra-
tor recently announced an expansion
plan that calls for the raising of $7,-
750,000.

Roscoe Pound, dean of Harvard Law
School and one of the giants of Amer-
ican jurisprudence, was once blacklist-
ed by the Daughters of the American
Revolution.

From Mary Dixon Small, nurse in
charge of home service at the Chicago
Lying-in Hospital, comes a frontline
story, via the news letter of the Chi-
cago Council of Social Agencies.

A post-haste call from a Greek fam-
ily brought doctor and nurse to a small
tenement flat, where life was about to
go on without benefit of the medical
profession. When the nurse rushed into
the bedroom she gasped. A large Amer-
ican flag had been sewn over the top
of an old quilt "the stars fairly
twinkling with suppressed anticipation,
the stripes rippling gently."

Not many minutes later little Louis
entered the picture, a son of Greece,
literally born under Old Glory. Sur-
vey.

It is said that Finland's payment of
her war debts has resulted in increas-
ing American tourist travel by 5 0 per
cent. American travelers naturally
want to sec one of the wonders of the
world. Arkansas Gazette.

The whole man and not just the part
above the neck is admitted to college.
1 Surrey.

The Agonistic

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B O Z

B O Z held its regular meeting on
Friday night, November 2 2, at 7:3 0
in Miss Janef Preston's apartment.

International Relations Club
The International Relations Club
will have charge of the program at the
meeting of the Current History Forum
on Tuesday, December 3, at 4 P. M. in
the Y. W, C. A. room. Mr. Hartsell,
of the history department at Georgia
Tech, will speak, on The Sino-Japanese
Conflict. The College community is
cordially invited to hear Mr. Hartsell
speak.

Blackfriars
Blackfriars held its regular meeting
on Tuesday night, November 19, at
7:3 0 in Miss Gooch's studio. The new
members were initated at this time.

Cotillion Club
Mary Hull, Katherine Bishop, and
Harriet Reed were hostesses at a tea
dance for the Cotillion Club on Thurs-
day afternoon, November 21, from 5
to 6 o'clock. The dance was given in
Mr. Johnson's studio.

Glee Club
Eighteen members of the Glee Club
presented a program of religious songs
at the Rock Springs Church on Sunday
night, November 17. Virginia Wood
sang the soprano solos.

Music Appreciation Group
The Music Appreciation Group met
on Sunday night, November 24, at 7
o'clock in the music room. The study
of George Frederick Handel was con-
tinued; and Ann Worthy Johnson
talked on his life.

Prof. Hayes Speaks
To Alumnae Club on
Cicero's Humanism

Professor George P. Hayes, of the
English department of Agnes Scott
College, addressed the Decatur Agnes
Scott club on Tuesday afternoon, Oc-
tober 19. The subject on which Mr.
Hayes spoke was "The Humanism of
Cicero."

Mr. Hayes' talk preceded a joint tea
of the Atlanta and Decatur Agnes
Scott Alumnae clubs, held from 4 to
5:3 0 at the Alumnae House. Over 150
were present, including the combined
club membership and the faculty of
Agnes Scott College. Last year the two
groups entertained in the same man-
ner.

Mrs. Cora (Morton) Durrett, '24,
and Mrs. Helene (Norwood) Lammers,
ex-'22, were in charge of the arrange-
ments for the tea.

A machine to correct all the wrong
answers and to grade examination
papers has been invented by Herbert
Lebmann of Woodridge, N. J. The
machine can grade about 100 papers
consisting of 100 questions each in
four minutes. Tests containing true or
false and multiple choice questions may
be used. The Elm hurst Advance.

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So at last it's come to this: Our
perennially original (we've got you
there) freshmen have to sit upon the
parlor floor with their company to un-
ravel the mysteries of bridge. Yea,
Culbertson! !

The shining lights at the Emory
med. dance Friday night were Nell
White, Jeff Cooper, and Alice Cham-
lee. (One of these young ladies inform-
ed us that she was going with a "nice"
boy.) Steady nerves, Docs!

We take pleasure in announcing
those sophomores who in recognition
of this year's work, as well as last year's
record, have made Cupid's Honor Roll:
Nancy and Bruce, Kay and John
Sharp, and Nell and Ben. May they
live happily ever after!

Men may come and men may go,
but if you go too much Campus
Slips! This year is the "pay-off." Nev-
er have we seen so many girls with
ugly, ugy, white slips.

Then there's always the freshman
who phones her friend at G. M. A.
every time she hears a fire-engine. It
seems there was a blaze out there the
other night, and Lena May Willis is
anxious about her interests at said
Academy.

Our jeune-fille, Marcelle, is strange-
ly affected by moonlight. Maybe it's
the French in her. The other night
"when the moon was low" she insisted
that the car be parked. Taking a deep
breath she launched into a spring
dance. The American boys were both
pleased and surprised mostly pleased.

The Glee Club is going professional
on us. They are getting payment for
their services! Rosa Miller came home
with a pie in her purse!

For our last warning and request as
regards Thanksgiving dinner, girls, we
quote Dr. McCallie (Ellen and Alice),
"Five minutes in the mouth, and the
rest of the life on the hips!"

FOR THIS ISSUE:

REPORTERS

Ruth Hertzka
Alice Cheeseman
Douglas Lyle
Hortense Jones
Enid Middleton
Giddy Erwin

Mildred Davis

Cora Kay Hutchins
Elizabeth Warden
Mamie Lee Ratlif f
Mary F. Guthrie
Loice Richards
Eliza King

BUSINESS ASSISTANTS

Vera Marsh Sara Beaty Sloan

Ellen Davis Kennon Henderson

Rachel Kennedy Hortense Norton

Elizabeth Blackshear

ALUMNAE NEWS

(Coiiti lined from page 2, column 3)
tucky this summer with the Bergman
Players, a stock company of Atlanta.

Mary Summers, '3 5, is working in
the registrar's office at Emory.

Louise Schuessler, '34, is teaching
school in Columbus, Ga., and is living
with her family there.

Dr. McCain Talks
In Chapel Nov. 25
On A. Carnegie

Dr. J. R. McCain, president of Ag-
nes Scott College, spoke in Gaines
Chapel after vespers on Monday night,
November 2 5, on the subject of An-
drew Carnegie and his benefactions to
Agnes Scott in observation of the
hundredth anniversary of the birth of
Mr. Carnegie. A picture of the philan-
thropist has been presented to the Ag-
nes Scott Library.

Among the many Carnegie gifts are
the library itself; $75,000 for endow-
ment; $1 5,000 for books; an art col-
lection worth $5,000; and a music col-
lection worth $2,5 00. In addition, the
Carnegie Corporation has given money
so that Miss Louise Lewis, of the Art
department, might study modern art
during the summers at Harvard Uni-
versity. The slides and lantern used in
the art history courses are also gifts
from the Corporation. The advanced
study in library work of Miss Edna
R. Hanley, Agnes Scott librarian, has
been financed by the Carnegie people
as well.

The Corporation appropriated a sum
of money, moreover, for the study of
the best plans for the new library now
under construction. With the develop-
ment of the fine arts department at
Agnes Scott, the interest of the Car-
negie Corporation will probably be re-
doubled.

Dr. Kracke To Be
Speaker Dec. 2

Dr. Roy R. Kracke, head of the
pathology department of the Emory
University School of Medicine, will
speak on The Effect of Drugs and
Other Agents on the Blood at the sec-
ond open meeting of Chi Beta Phi
Sigma, national honorary scientific so-
ciety, to be held on Monday night,
December 2, at 7:3 0 P. M. in Science
Hall.

Dr. Kracke, who has done extensive
research work on white corpuscles, will
discuss some of his most recent research
problems. He is recognized nationally
for his work in hematology.

Chi Beta Phi Sigma holds four open
meetings a year at which off-campus
people speak. The subjects included on
these programs pertain to modern prob-
lems in mathematics, physics, biology,
chemistry, and astronomy.

The entire College community is
cordially invited to attend this second
open meeting of the organization and
to hear Dr. Kracke.

A. L. Crowell To Head
Freshman Class; Lyle,
Hamilton Hold Offices

Annie Lee Crowell was elected pres-
ident of the freshmen class at a meet-
ing held after chapel Thursday, No-
vember 2 1. Douglas Lyle and Jane
Moore Hamilton were chosen vice-
president and secretary-treasurer, re-
spectively.

Druid Hills Seniors
Visit A.S.C. Campus

Members of the senior class of Druid
Hills High School were guests of Ag-
nes Scott College and the Alumnae As-
sociation on Tuesday, November 26.
They were entertained by the College
at dinner and at the water pageant pre-
sented by the Swimming Club on Tues-
day night. Graduates of Druid Hills
who attend Agnes Scott served as host-
esses.

This was the third group of high
school students to visit the campus this
fall, in accordance with the new plan
of inviting each group separately.
Heretofore all the Atlanta high school
seniors have been invited for the same
day. The seniors of North Avenue
Presbyterian School were entertained
on November 1, and those from Wash-
ington Seminary, on November 22.

Tech, Ga. Frosh
Will Play Football

For the benefit of the Scottish Rite
Hospital for Crippled Children, the
freshman football teams of Georgia
Tech and the University of Georgia
will play at the Grant Field Stadium
on Thanksgiving Day, November 28,
at 2 o'clock. Reserved seats are $1.00;
general admission is 50 cents.

This is the third annual charity
Thanksgiving game in which these two
schools have participated. The entire
proceeds go to the Scottish Rite Hos-
pital.

Y.W.C.A. To Sponsor
Christmas Services

The annual series of Christmas Can-
dle Services sponsored by the Y.
W. C. A. will begin this year on
Monday, December 2, at 10 o'clock P.
M. in Gaines Chapel with Sarah Spen-
cer, president of Y. W. C. A., leading.
Ruby Hutton, vice-president, will con-
duct on Monday, December 9, and
Adelaide Stevens, president of Student
Government Association, has charge on
December 16, the Monday before the
Christmas holidays. She will read a
Christmas story.

The first two will be Red Candle
Services and the last one, White Can-
dle. The entire College community is
invited to attend the three programs.

PROF. L. SMITH HAS
LUNCHEON NOV. 23
FETING VISITOR

Professor Lillian Smith, of the Latin
department, entertained at a luncheon
in honor of Mrs. T. R. Allen in the
Anna Young Alumnae House on Sat-
urday, November 23. Mrs. Allen is vis-
iting her sister, Professor Lucile Alex-
ander, of the French department. Other
guests at the luncheon included Miss
Alexander; Dean Nannette Hopkins;
Dr. Mary F. Sweet; and Assistant Pro-
fessor Margaret Phythian, of the
French department.

Agnes Scott Girls Enjoy the

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I wish to announce that I have sold to W. A. and
B. W. Medlock, but take this means to say I am re-
maining on the job as usual. If there be any change
in business with the Medlock co-operation it will be
for the better.

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Class of '35 Plan>
First Reunion for
Saturday Nov. 30

The class of '3 5 will have a reunion
dinner at the Tavern Tea Room in At-
lanta on Saturday, November 30, at
6:30 P. M.

Mary Green, class secretary, is in
charge of the arrangements for the
dinner; the cost of the meal is 65 cents
for each person.

It is customary each year for the last
graduating class to have its first re-
union around Thanksgiving time. Last
fall the class of '34 attended an in-
formal buffet supper at the Anna
Young Alumnae Tea House.

MANY FROM A. S. C. TO HEAR
ROOSEVELT SPEAK ON FRIDAY

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at various points on the grounds in
order to prevent the entrance of
crowds of outsiders and to assure the
President of rest and quiet. Many of
the main roads leading to Georgia Hall
have been closed temporarily, cars be-
ing routed by less direct roads. Admis-
sion is by special pass only except to
patients and their guests who are al-
lowed to come and go at will. No cars
are allowed near the Little White
House although visitors who have been
admitted to the Foundation grounds
may walk as far as the outer enclosure.

Special instructions for Agnes Scott
students have been posted on the bulle-
tin board in Buttrick Hall.

J. Bailey Gives
Talk at Vespers

Jean Bailey spoke on the Hundredth
Psalm and its connection with college
life at the freshman vesper service on
Sunday evening, November 24. Mil-
dred Coit, chairman of the freshman
Y. W. C. A. cabinet, led the service,
the theme of which was related to the
Thanksgiving season.

The freshman choir, consisting of
Louise Young, Emma McMullen, Sara
McCain, Anne Purnell, Jane Moore
Hamilton, Vera Marsh, Jeanne Red-
wine, Amelia Nickels, Henrietta Black-
well, Mary Frances Guthrie, Mary
Ruth Murphy, and Elinor Tyler, and
accompanied by Esthere Ogden, sang
a special number, "A Song of Thanks-
giving," and furnished other music.
Mildred Coit, leader, read the scrip-
ture; and Amelia Nickels rendered a
vocal solo, "Thanks Be to God."

MISS ELLA YOUNG
FRLEND OF A. S. C.
DIES IN MARYLAND

NOTICE

The Emory University Student
Lecture Association will present
the Kryl Symphony Band, with
Bohumir Kryl conducting, in the
Glenn Memorial Auditorium at
Emory tonight at 8:15 P. M.
The concert will include soprano,
harp, and cornet solos.

General admission is 75 cents.
Tickets may be secured at the
door.

Sport News

A KEY
TO CURRENT HISTORY

{Continued from page 2, column 3)
instructed the government to enforce
conscription under a 193 3 law on No-
vember 2 0.

The Japanese embassy said that the
North China autonomy movement was
undoubtedly precipitated by the mone-
tary program of the Chinese national
government at Nanking. This with-
drawal of a monetized metal in favor
of a managed paper currency by the
Nanking government was caused by
the severe inflation following the sil-
ver purchasing policy of the United
States for the necessity of forcing the
creation of the new state.

In the meantime both the British
and American governments are watch-
ing events closely. Both countries have
large commercial holdings in the af-
fected territories. William Philips, un-
dcr-secretary of state, conferred with
Sir Ronald Lindsay, British Ambassa-
dor, but the discussion was general,
and there seems little probability of
armed intervention.

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Agnes Scott College has lost a very
dear friend in the recent death of Miss
Ella Young, principal of Agnes Scott
Academy until 1913. Miss Young died
at the home of her sister in Catonsville,
Md., on Thursday, November 21, after
several years of very poor health. After
serving as principal of the Academy
for about ten years, Miss Young left
in 1913 before the Academy was dis-
continued to live with her sister. The
body is to be brought this week for
burial in Rome, Ga., the family home

Y. W. C. A. SPEAKER

TALKS ON PEACE

(Continued from page 1, column 5)
nes Scott, '32; John Howard, of Co-
lumbia Seminary; Rev. Peter Marshall,
of Westminster Presbyterian Church;
and Dr. E. H. Rece, of Emory Uni-
versity.

Gracey, Moorer
Score Highest
In Golf Tourney

Agnes Scott College's first mixed
two-ball golf tournament, held at For-
rest Hills Club, came to an end last
week with Judith Gracey and Mr.
Johnny Owens as winners of low gross
and Nancy Moorer and Mr. Willie Liv-
ingstone as winners of low net. The
scores were as follows:

Gracey-Owens 42-39-0-81

Moorer-W. Livingstone 44-43-12-75

Malone-Malone 48-44-10-82

Roache-J. Livingstone 44-48-12-80

Mathis-Smith 52-50-20-82

Rowe-Payne 48-52-18-82

Forman-Flowers 52-50-22-80

Wood-Fuller 100-20-80

Bettv Mathis, in an article for one of
the Atlanta papers, said: "Judith Gra-
cey, a junior from Augusta, is one of
the best golfers the school has had in
several years. She is prominent in the
sports fields in Augusta, having played
in several invitation tournaments."

Virginia Wood is last year's A. S. C.
champion, while Mr. Willie Livingstone
is professional at Forrest Hills Club.

The Outing Club spent Sunday at
the Agnes Scott College camp at Stone
Mountain. Under the direction of Miss
Wilburn, Miss Haynes, and Miss Miller
the members planned to do some exper-
imental cooking. The following girls
went to the camp: Martha Long, Eliza
King, Martha Johnson, Frances Robin-
son, Ann Worthy Johnson, Anne
Thompson, Enid Middleton, Lillian
Croft, Margaret Wright, Primrose No-
ble, Mildred Davis, Ola Kelly, and Vir-
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College presented a formation last
Thursday night, November 21, at the
meeting of the Examiners' Club at the
Briarcliff pool in Atlanta. At this time
the Agnes Scott Club members ex-
tended an invitation to the Examiners'
Club to attend the water pageant to
be given in Bucher Scott Gymnasium
on November 26.

On Tuesday, December 3, the Swim-
ming Club will entertain the North
Avenue swimming team.

those who have had some previous
training in dancing. Miss Dozier is
well prepared to teach this class, since
she specialized in this type of the dance.

Miss Llewellyn Wilburn, of the
physical education department, enter-
tained the champion senior hockey
team at a supper in the gymnasium on
Friday night, November 22. Miss Har-
riette Haynes, Miss Elizabeth Mitchell,
assistant in the physical education de-
partment, and Miss Blanche Miller, in-
structor in the biology department,
who served as referees during the
hockey season, were also present. The
following students were present: Eliz-
abeth Forman, Lois Hart, Lena Arm-
strong, Ad Stevens, Lilian Grimson,
Marion Derrick, Sara Frances Estes,
Martha Crenshaw, Ann Coffee, and
Helen Handte.

Mary Kneale and Frances McDonald
defeated Helen Handte and Martha
Young in the finals of the tennis tour-
nament on Friday afternoon, Novem-
ber 22, by 6-4, 0-6, and 6-4. The tour-
nament was successful, and some ex-
ceptionally good tennis was played.

The Saturday Afternoon Recreation
Committee for the month of Decem-
ber consists of Miss Harriette Havnes,
of the physical education department.
Bee Merrill, and Mary Jane King. On
Saturday, November 23, the pool was
open in the afternoon for a plunge. The
pool will be open for a plunge again
on Saturday night, November 3 0, at
8 o'clock.

Miss Eugenie Dozier, instructor in
physical education, is offering a class
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AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, G A.. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1935

NO. 10

L. Ames Attends Meeting

Of College Press in N. Y.

Editor of The Agonistic Hears
Distinguished Speakers
Nov. 29-Dec. 1.

l ulu Ames, editor of The Agonis-
tic , returned yesterday from a three-
day conference of College Editors
called by the National Student Federa-
tion of America in New York. The
delegates, who numbered fifty-four,
were housed at International House
near Columbia University. All meet-
ings of the conference were also held
at the House. Twenty-three institu-
tions, including Agnes Scott, the Uni-
versity of North Carolina, Hampden-
Sidney College, West Hampton, and
Tennessee State Teachers College from
the South were represented.

Editors Make Speeches

The delegates were welcomed at
luncheon on Friday, November 29, by
John L. Mott, director of International
House. Other speakers at that time
were Francis G. Smith, Jr., former edi-
tor of the Daily Prmcetonian and now
president of the Association of Col-
lege Editors; and James A. Wechsler,
editor last year of the Columbia Spec-
tator, the outstanding college newspa-
per in the United States, and author of
Revolt on the Campus. Mr. Wechsler
urged the delegates to closer inter-col-
legiate cooperation at times when edi-
tors are too blatantly suppressed by
college administration.

Miss Ruth McKenney, of the tjew
York Post and secretary of the New
York Newspaper Guild, was the prin-
cipal speaker at the dinner meeting on
Friday night. She outlined the work
and program of the American News-
paper Guild and proposed a union or-
ganization for college newspaper staffs
which would be affiliated with the
American Guild. Such an organization
would have to spring from local groups
affiliated with local newspaper guilds.

Mr. J. David Stern, publisher of the
Nett York Post and several Pennsyl-
vania papers, who spoke at the lunch-
eon on Saturday, encouraged the dele-
gates to work for a "free collegiate
press but a tactful one."

At the final session, held on Sunday
morning, the editors present formed
an association which will work under
the National Student Federation. Mem-
bership in the new group will be ex-
tended to editors in all NSFA-member
colleges. Its advantages will include a
(Continued on page 3, col.

Three From A. S. C.
Will Attend Meet
Of 500 Colleges

Adelaide Stevens, Winifred Kellers-
bcrger, and Alice Flannah will repre-
ent Agnes Scott College at the
Twelfth Quadrennial Convention of
the Student Volunteer Movement in
Indianapolis, Indiana, December 2 8-
January 1. At this time representatives
from some five hundred colleges of
Canada and the United States and a
I dozen foreign countries will come to-
gether under the direction of capable
leaders and speakers for five days of
i study, fellowship, and prayer.

More than forty men and women
from Canada, the United States, Great
Britain, Korea, China, Mexico, and
other countries will speak from the
platform or lead seminars. Among these
outstanding leaders are Toyohiko Kag-
awa, Richard Roberts, Baez Camargo,
Induk Pak, John Mackay, T. Z. Koo,
and the Archbishop of York.

The program of the convention will
be in three main divisions: platform
hours for a sequence of addresses; sem-
inars for an intimate exchange of
thought between delegates and leaders;
and special informal features during
each afternoon. The platform hours
will be based on themes relating to the
World Mission of Jesus Christ; and the
"eminar topics will consider thirty of
the livest problems now confronting
the Christian world community.

Other attractions on the program
will include the presentation of Opera-
tion at One, a play by Maude Taylor
Sarvis, who was for fifteen years a mis-
sionary in Nanking, China; special mu-
sic hours; the denominational suppers
planned for Sunday night, Decembcr
29; and a New Year's Eve party. After
this party the convention will be
brought to a close with a brief but
inspiring watch-night worship service.

Frost To Return
To A.S.C. Campus
For Longer Star

Dr. McCain, Mr. Stukes Are
At Louisville Conferences

Group Will Travel
On European Tour

Assistant Professor Leslie J. Gaylord,
of the mathematics department of Ag-
nes Scott College, will chaperon a
group of fifteen or twenty girls on a
trip to Europe this summer. She will
be assisted by Miss Carrie Scandrett,
ass'stant dean of the College. All res-
ervations and arrangements for accom-
modations will be made bv the Elliott
Tours of Talladega, Alabama.

Miss Gaylord and Miss Scandrett
plan to sail from New r York on June
17. They will be gone two months, vis-
iting many countries including France,
Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium,
and Holland. The trip will end with a
motor tour through England and Scot-
land.

This will be the fifth such trip Miss
Gaylord will have taken, the last one
being in the summer of '34. She has
been abroad many times, having spent
one year in study at the University of
Rome. She is well acquainted with the
European countries she proposes to
touch next summer and has made defi-
nite plans for all parts of this year's
tour. All Agnes Scott students who are
interested in going may gain additional
information from either Miss Gaylord
or Miss Scandrett.

Bible Club Gives
Pageant on Dec. 8

As i part of the celebration com-
memorating the four-hundredth anni-
versary of the first printed English
Bible, about forty members of the Ag-
nes Scott College Bible Club will take
part in a pageant, The Power of the
Word, to be presented at the Baptist
Tabernacle on Sunday afternoon, De-
cember 8, at 3 o'clock.

The pageant will consist of a pre-
lude, two episodes, "The Tinker of
Bedford Prison" and "The Universe of
ihe Soul," and a postlude. The charac-
ters which have been chosen are: Jailor,
Mary Alice Baker; artist, Julia Tel-
ford; musician, Gertrude Lozier;
writer, Irene Wilson; lawyer, Mil-
dred Coit; colporteur, Marie Mer-
ritt; assistant, Martha Johnson. Repre-
sentatives from various countries are:
Korea, Laura Coit; Africa, Winifred
Cellersberger; Argentina, Lilian Grim-
son; China, Louise Young; Japan, Hi-
bernta Hassell. The singing chorus will
consist of: Edith Belser, Mildred Da-
| vis, Gene Caldwell, Betty Hollis, Sarah
Johnson, Rachel Kennedy, Bee Merrill,
I Mary Ruth Murphy, Molly Jones,
Frances Cary, Lois Hart, Sara Beaty
Sloan, and a group with Mrs. DeWitt
directing.

The pageant will be Agnes Scott's
part in the Bible celebration. Other
churches in Atlanta and Decatur will
take part also, and the play may be
presented later at the First Baptist
Church in Atlanta.

Practices for the pageant were start-
ed about two weeks ago. Professor
Alma Sydenstricker and Associate Pro-
cessor J. T. Gillespie, of the Bible de-
partment, will assist in the practise.
The Y. W. C. A. has expressed its wil-
lingness to cooperate. Georgia Tech, as
well as other Georgia colleges, have
planned programs.

Expressing a desire to return to Ag-
nes Scott College, Robert Frost, who
is probably America's foremost poet of
today, wrote Monday to Associate Pro-
fessor Emma May Laney, of the Eng-
lish department, that if it is agreeable
with the College, he would like to
make a visit here of longer duration
than the one day's stay when he lec-
tured on last November 7. Since he and
Mrs. Frost arc spending the winter in
Florida, he could stop at the College
in March or April on the return trip
North, and could have the opportunity
of having individual conferences and
talks with students. A definite time in
one of these months will be arranged
by Miss Laney and Mr. Frost.

When the members of the College
Lecture Association first invited Mr.
Frost to speak here in November, they
had expressed the desire that he might
be able to remain here a few days after
the lecture. However, as it was impera-
tive that he return immediately to Am-
herst, where he is a member of the
faculty, Mr. Frost was able to be at
Agnes Scott for only one day. Feeling
that he had cheated us, as he termed
it, he wrote Miss Laney that to the
colleges where he goes, he "usually
gives one public lecture, one-half a
dozen or a dozen individual confer-
ences, and one or two round tables.
The arrangement is my own invention
and has grown to be rather my spe-
cialty." In the two or three places that
Mr. Frost has spoken since, he has fol-
lowed this plan.

Mr. Frost continued that "Fmd
shaking receptions almost never hap-
pen to me. I usually sit somewhere and
talk awhile to or with anyone who will
sit on the floor at my feet after the
platform is over."

In his letter, Frost also remarked
that he is sending some first editions
of his poems to Miss Laney and to
Frosty Brown, a relative of his.

Robert Frost came to Agnes Scott
on November 7 as the first of the dis-
tinguished men to be brought here this
season under the auspices of the Lec-
ture Association. Thornton Wilder, the
novelist, will be here in Febuary as
the second. If the financial returns
from this lecture are very satisfactory,
the Association, continuing its policy
of bringing a few distinguished peo-
ple to the campus, hopes to bring either
a speaker on current events or some
well-known woman.

Three College Associations Hold
Annual Conventions
This Week.

Dr. J. R. McCain, president of Ag-
I nes Scott College, and Mr. S. G. Stukes,
l registrar, are now attending the for-
tieth annual meeting of the Southern
Association of Colleges and Secondary
Schools and the first annual meeting of
the Southern University Conference,
held this week in Louisville, Kentucky.
Mr. Stukes is also representing Agnes
Scott at the conference of the Southern
Association of Colleges for Women,
which is meeting today in Louisville.
Dr. McCain left for Louisville on

Mr. S. D. Gordon To
Conduct Services of
Religious Week

Mr. S. D. Gordon, well-known re-
ligious author and speaker, will con-
duct the week of religious services
rponsored annually at Agnes Scott Col-
lege by the Y. W. C. A. He will speak
every morning in Gaines Chapel during
the week of February 11-15; each eve-
ning and on Sunday he will talk at the
Decatur Presbyterian Church.

Dr. W. M. Anderson, of Dallas,,

bunday night and will return to De-
Texas, had accepted the invitation to L atur ^ Sattirday evening; Mr. Stukes
conduct the religious services, but hls | Mt [m mg , n ^ m

da>- morning. This afternoon they plan
to meet with twenty or twenty-five
Agnes Scott alumnae who live in Louis-
ville.

Dr. McCain to Report

The Southern Association of Col-
leges and Secondary Schools is meeting
students had the opportunity ot hear- f V-j T ^ i , >

, . , t j j- I nursday and Friday, December 5-6;

me him at that time. In addition to - . . 7 ff _ ,

, ? , r \\ r~~A~~ lt has i r ,ts general theme Education

beine a speaker of note, Mr. Gordon . .

, , , i _ in the bouth tor Changing Conditions

is also the author of more than twenty . 6 6 _

tm . ^ ,, >, i ii . j , m the National Recovery. Dr. Mc-

Ouiet Talks, which have a circula- . . . r i

. r it Ann nnn i-ii, -f^,,- Cain is chairman or the committee in-

;ion of more than 2,000,000. His tour . ,. . , . r \

, , r\ : t ]\ vestigatine political control ot the

latest volumes are Ouiet I alks with i , i- r r

m t .is^tnrif //,, state educational institutions ot Louisi-

Eaeer Youth, Ouiet Talks on the New .

'. , * a"\ ~ * nr 1 1 .. jv/ ana, which will make its report at this
Order of Things, Ouiet Talks on D/f- ^ t f _ ,

\ , A . n - j r\ ; t -r^L, time. I he Southern University Conter-
\ficult Onest/onS, and Ouiet Talks on , . _ . /.

' i . i Cl u c- . t a, arn ence, ot which Dr. McCain is secre-

\thc Bible Story. Of the first ot these 9

ctw' ^ j l n tary, will meet Iridav afternoon tor

la critic says: Mr. Gordon has some- J >

, i the first time. It was formed last April

nd wise counsel ... . ., , v .

by thirty- three colleges and universi-
ties for the purpose of considering mat-

death in November necessitated
procuring of another speaker.

Mr. Gordon, who is considered one
of the most famous speakers in the
world, was the main speaker at the At-
lanta Christian Youth conference this i
past November; many Agnes Scott

thing of rare moment a
for the youth of our day. He is quite
at his best in his new volume, which
means that he is arresting, sagacious,

rers pertaining to higher undct-graduarp

I work and graduate study. All the insti-
compelling, readable to the last page. . 7 . .

_, r . l -yr \yr \ c tutions represented in the Southern
Each year the Y. W. C. A. brings i

to the campus for a week of evangel-

istic services some prominent religious
leader. Last spring Dr. Edwin McNeil
Poteat, Jr., pastor of the Pullen Memo-

German Club Will
Present Christmas
Play December 11

Ten members of the Agnes Scott
German Club will take part in Das
Weihnachtspiel, a Christmas play, at
the last meeting of the club before
Christmas. The date has been set for
Wednesday, December 11. The play is
under the direction of Professor Mu-
riel Harn of the German department,
Lucie Hess, and Ethelyn Johnson, pres-
ident of the club.

The cast of the play includes the
following: der Vater, Wayve Lewis; die
Mutter, Lucie Hess; eine fremde Fran,
Anne Thompson; der Tod, Kathryn
Bowen; das Madchen, Jean Austin; der
Soldat, Mary Kneale; der Konig, Jane
Dryfoos; die Alte Fran, Ora Muse;
and Engclchor, Ann Worthy Johnson
and Virginia Wood. Ann Martin and
Lulu Ames are in charge of properties
and costumes.

The scene of the play is laid in a
lonely hot in the woods, where a child
lies dying. As Death is about to seize
him, a strange woman who has come
into the home reveals herself as the Vir-
gin Mary and saves the child.

Rehearsals for the play began last
week. Practices for singing German
Christmas carols have also started.

University Conference belong to the

Southern Association of Colleges and
Secondary Schools.

Today Mr. Stukes is attending th<*

fourteenth annual meeting of the

rial Baptist Church of Raleigh, North

i ? u South

Carolina, delivered a series of talks on
"The Good Life.'

ern Association of Colleges for
Women. The general subject for the
conference is "Toward an Understand-
ing of the Younger Generation. *'

Roosevelt Speaks ^ vc "' chese conferenees were held

i in Atlanta.

To Large Audience

Dr. G. A. Works Will

Welcomed by cheering hundreds of j A C ArroJn

thousands w ho made up the largest V Ibll J\ Ks.

crowd ever assembled in Georgia, Dr. George A. Works, dean of the
Franklin D. Roosevelt, president of the School of Education, University of

United States, visited Atlanta on Fri-
day, November 2 9, for the Homecom-

ng Celebration held in his honor.
Speaking to more than fifty thou-

and Georgians packed into the sta-
dium and to thousands of others listen-
ing by means of loud speakers through-

Chicago, and secretary of the North
Central Association of Colleges and
Secondary Schools, will be at Agnes
Scott College on January 6 and 7. He
; s coming in connection with the plan
for coordination between Emory Uni-
versity and Agnes Scott College.

out the city and radios throughout the Last January Dr. Works, along with

several other educators, visited the col-

nation, the President said in his main
address at Grant Field that the gov-
ernment has "passed the peak of ap-

lege for this same purpose, and also
for the purpose of investigating condi-
propriations," and that America "can I tions existing in the educational insti-
tutions of Atlanta. No definite action
was taken at that time.

N.S.F.A. HEAD TO
SPEA k l\ CHAPEL
ON FRIDAY, DEC. 6

look forward with assurance to a de-
creasing deficit."

More than two hundred Agnes Scott
College students, taking advantage of
the holiday given in honor of the
Roosevelt Homecoming Day, heard
Senator Richard B. Russell preside and
present Senator Walter F. George, who
introduced President Roosevelt at
Grant Field. Before his address at the I Mr. Thomas F. Neblett, president of
stadium Roosevelt spoke to approxi- I the National Student Federation of
mately fifty thousand Atlanta school America, will speak to the Agnes Scott
children at Piedmont Park. College student body in chapel on Fri-

On his trip from the Little White day morning of this week.
House at Warm Springs, where he | Mr. Neblett will come to Atlanta
spends his Thanksgiving holiday every f mm Louisville, where he is to address
vear, the President rode between large i ^ > , c , .

. , , i -j r l j' the meeting ot the Southern Associa-

crowds packed on each side ot the road

from Fort McPherson through his tour j t,on of Colle S e * <* Secondary Schools,
of the elaborately decorated city to | He P ians to visit at Georgia Tech and

Grant Field. Bands from schools all
over the state added to the celebration.

Accompanying the President on his
trip to Atlanta were Mrs. Roosevelt
and their son, James. The party re-
turned to Warm Springs Friday eve-
ning.

at Emory University as well as at Ag-
nes Scott.

Mr. Neblett, a native of Mississippi,
did his undergraduate work at the Uni-
versity of Mississippi. He holds his
Master's degree from Louisiana State
University.

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COLLEGE PRESS

The Conference of College Edi-
tors, which met in New York the
latter part of last week, closed
its three days of hectic discus-
sion with the proposal of tenta-
tive plans for the formation of
an organization of collegiate edi-
tors who, united by a common
desire, will work relentlessly for
freedom of the collegiate press.
Such an organization of student
editors has never been attempted
before in this country. Yet, in
the light of the events of the past
months, its formation was inevi-
table.

The first suppression of col-
legiate publication that brought
forth storms of protest from oth-
*.r college editors, particularly
those in the Middle West, the Big
Ten editors, was the incident at
Louisiana State University when
ihe editor and several other stu-
dents were removed by Senator
Huey P. Long. This coupled with
1 he affair at the University of
California at Los Angeles awak-
ened students generally to the
act that college administrations
DO work gross injustices on
their student bodies.

The aftermath of the Peace
demonstrations of last April 12
reinforced this idea in the stu-
dent mind. The behavior of Pres-
ident Ruthven of the University
of Michigan was deplored and
heartily condemned by editors in
colleges all over the country. The
attitude of President Hutchins
toward the disturbance raised by
Mr. Wahlgreen was a source of
great inspiration to the collegi-
ate press which already had be-
gun to feel a common interest
drawing its members together.

Scattered happenings of this
fall, combined with all that has
gone before, moved thirteen of
the twenty-three editors present
in New York to come into closer
union. The weekly news-release
which membership in the new or-
ganization carries with it is only
a fixture; it is only one of the
benefits of belonging.

The main purpose toward
which the group will work is
freedom of the press. A collegi-
ate press limited only by the laws
of libel. A collegiate press that
is tactful, to be sure, hut one that
is unafraid of administration re-
buke.

Moral and editorial support
from editors all over the coun-
try when one editor is unjustly
suppressed or individual students
are causelessly expelled will lend
strength to the movement. Stu-
dent thought on world-wide mat-
ters and affairs of national in-
terest, both socially and econom-
ically, will expand. And the idea
current in administration circles
that there are matters peace,
the Olympics, race that stu-
dents take no active part in and
therefore should have no inter-
est, even editorially, in may be-
come a relic of the past.

The new movement is not yet
completely organized; its meth-
ods are not yet fully determined;
its power is not yet tried. But its
objective is firmly fixed; its de-
velopment is certain. And its suc-
cess, as measured by the determ-
ination and earnestness of its
founders, is without question.

PAGING

THE FACULTY

Since the faculty has cooper-
ated so willingly in the matter of
dismissing classes when the bell
rings, we present another diffi-
culty that some students have
met recently. That is, the busi-
ness of not giving a full week's
notice before a test.

At Agnes Scott, where all cam-
pus life is organized to the min-
ute, it is most inconvenient to
have a test a regular, formal,
hour test spring up without
warning. It is only fair that a
student know in advance so that
she can rearrange her schedule
to include free time for sufficient
review.

Pop quizzes are, of course, an-
other thing altogether. They are
as much the professor's risk as
the students.

But a week's notice for a test
Is a small thing to ask of the
faculty. It is of vital importance
to the student, however, and it is
a just request of the faculty.

j JAPANESE POLICY IN CHINA
By Marie Tovcxshxd
While the rest of the world was con-
cerned with the conflict in Ethiopia,
Japan started another move in her pen-
etration of China. This time she is
seeking control of five provinces
Hopei, Chahar, Suiyuan, Shansi, and
Shantung by making them into an
autonomous state under her guidance.

Japanese expansion on the continent
began in the last decade of the nine-
teenth century because of the exhaus-
tion of her own markets for her goods.
Since 190 5 when she secured from Rus-
sia the southern portion of Sakhalin,
the Kwantung leased area, and the
South Manchurian railway, her exten-
sion of possessions and influence of the
Asiatic mainland has been almost con-
tinuous. In 1910 the annexation of
Korea was the result of expansion start-
ed in 1 89 5. In 1915 when the major
European countries were at war, Japan
made her second demand upon China,
consisting of special privileges and
practically complete control of Shan-

1 tung. She demanded Shantung out-
right in 1918 and got it. Japan gave
Shantung back in 1921 because the
countries refused to make any naval
concessions to her unless she did so.
Her desire for Shantung has not ceased,

'however, as is shown by her effort to
get control of it now.

About 192 2 Japan began another ex-
pansion, which resulted in the invasion
of Manchuria in 193 1-32. Here she
set up the puppet state of Manchukuo
with Pu-Yi, the former emperor of
China, as chief executive. In 1934 Pu-
Yi ascended the throne as Emperor
Kang Teh. Jehol was invaded and ad-
ded to Manchukuo in 193 3.

j During the past summer, following
j incidents which took place along the
I border between Japanese and Chinese
I troops, Japan made vigorous demands
j on the Chinese government. These de-
tmands included the removal of the
Chinese general in command of the
Chinese troops in Chahar; the dismissal
of certain officials in Hopei; and the
(Continued on page 3, column 1)

Review of Asylum by William Sea-
brook.

The Author

William Buehler Seabrook is 5 0 vears
old, was born in Westminster, Md.,
went to Roanoke College in Virginia
for a few years, and has spent the rest
of his life trying to run away from
himself. As he tells it, "I had been
variously publicized as an 'explorer,'
'traveler,' 'adventurer,' but I had al-
ways been merely a frightened man
running away from something. At 21
I had been city editor of the Augusta
(Ga.) Chronicle, had stood it for six
months and thrown it up to be a tramp
in southern Europe. Returning a few
years later, I became established on the
Atlanta Journal . . . in 1915 I ran
away to war ... I came back, a little
gassed but not badly, started farming
in Georgia, and ran away from that as
soon as I had cleared the land and
planted the first crop. In 1924, mak-
ing more money than I needed in soft
jobs with newspaper syndicates, I got
sick of it, met an Arab, and ran away
into the Arabian desert where I joined
a tribe and got along so well that its
sheik offered me an oasis village, a hun-
dred men and a couple of new wives,
including his niece.

"I ran away again, and this time
kept running, all over the map, for
miles and years (with books as by-
products) until I got caught in a trap
of my own devising where I had to sit
down and face myself. I had been so
unwilling to face it that I had tried
to drown myself in booze. It landed
me by the back door, since I hadn't
even the excuse of being cracked in
this asylum." "Incidentally," he adds,
"they seem to have cured me. . . . "
From the Reader's Digest, Among the
Authors, December.

His Book

"I am not a reformer of public opin-
ion, or a propagandist. I am an ad-
venture writer of sorts, and I write
this mainly as the story of a strange
adventure in a strange place."

In the very beginning of his book,
Mr. Seabrook thus explains his purpose.
But he does a good deal more than
write of an unusual experience in an
unusual place. He also gives a com-
plete and detailed review of asylum life
as he found it, dispersing, with this re-
view , many of the old-fashioned ideas
commonly held today concerning asy-
lums, caretakers, and inmates.

William Seabrook went to an asylum,
not as a patient with mental disorder,
but as a drunkard. As he says, "I had
become a confirmed habitual drunkard,
without any of the stock alibis, *or ex-
cuses. My health was otherwise excel-
lent; I had plenty of money in the
bank, a pleasant home on the French
Riviera; my work had been going well
enough until the drink put an end to
it and promised to put an end to me."

The author writes of his seven
months' experience in an asylum as one
of the most fantastic adventures of his
life. He found courteous attendants,
clean well-lighted rooms, good food,
comparative freedom, many amuse-
ments, and a life of ease and enjoy-
ment. He did not find the proverbial
padded cells, medieval torture rooms,
brutal nurses, or strait-jackets. He
found that the attendants addressed
everyone respectfully and used force
only when necessary. "The patient,"
he says, "has all the advantages of
being permitted and expected to gouge,
slug, kick, and hit below the belt,' while
the whitecoats must net him unscath-
ed, and as nearly unhurt as humanly
possible."

Besides the enjoyment derived from
{Continued on page 4, column 1)

EXCHANGES
Here and Elsewhere

Alumnae News

OLYMPICS
OR NOT?

Student thought in the past
few weeks has been concentrated
on whether athletes of the Unit-
ed States should participate in
the 1936 Olympics to be held in
Berlin. The agitation against
American athletes going over
was started by the Columbia
Spectator and has been led, for
the most part, by Roger Chase,
Spectator editor.

Most of the leading institu-
tions of the country have added
their support. Numerous edito-
rials have attacked the anti-Jew-
ish activities of the German na-
tion. On Monday of this week the
New York Times carried the
names of 41 American college
presidents who are opposed to
United States participation. Pub-
lic opinion has been growing.
Resolutions have been presented.
Recommendations have been
made.

All these forces will be united
in one mighty last effort on Fri-
day of this woek when the A. A.
U. meets to decide whether or
not wo shall go. Public opinion
is against it. Their decision must
certainly reflect the temper of
the people. It is not without the
realm of possibility that 1936
will bo an American-less Olym-
pics.

The engagement of Miss Laura
Whitner, May Queen at Agnes Scott
last year, was announced Sunday to
Mr. Hugh M. Dorsey, Jr., of Atlanta.

Betty Fountain, Caroline Long, Mar-
guerite Morris, Hester Anne Withers,
Elizabeth Alexander, Mary Adams,
and Carolyn McCallum were among
the graduates of 193 5 who visited the
College during the Thanksgiving holi-
days.

The same inventive genius that has
made Henry L. Doherty, at 6 5, master
of a fortune estimated at anywhere
from 2 5 to 200 millions has been ap-
plied to home problems. He enjoyed

! the sleeping porch on his penthouse,
but he didn't like going out to it on
cold nights; so he devised a bed on
tracks. He climbs into it indoors and
pushes a button which opens French
doors and rolls him outside. In the
morning another push of the button

i brings him back to a warm room.

! News-Week.

Adelaide Benson's mother spent
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights
at the Alumnae House.

Nellie Richardson, '26, spent the
night of Saturday, November 30, at
the Alumnae House.

Emily (Spivey) Simmons, '2 5, and
her husband had Thanksgiving dinner
at the College. Emily and her young
daughter, Emily Anne, spent Thanks-
giving night at the Alumnae House.

Visitors at the gigantic goodwill
feast recently held for Arabian chiefs
at Amman were regaled with one of
Arabia's most highly prized dishes,
boiled camel. Each camel is stuffed
with three sheep which have been
| stuffed with eight chickens stuffed
with eggs and nuts. The meat is served
with boiled rice. i\eu York Times.

Nobody has questioned the verity of
a sign observed on a government road
project: "Slow Men at Work."
Reader's Digest.

The class of '3 5 had a reunion din-
ner at the Tavern Tea Room at 6:30
, on November 30.

Mildred Poth, ex-'3 5, and Elizabeth
Watts, ex-'3 8, are going to the Uni-
versitv of Texas.

Thelma Richmond, alumna and in-
structor in the French department last
vear, is an exchange student at the
Universitv of Toulouse in France.

The roof of the New York journal
building houses seventy-six carrier
pigeons. The birds can fly 5 0 miles
per hour with a 2 -ounce load and are
used within a 5 0-mile radius. Film
negatives and copy written on onion-
skin paper are placed in aluminum cap-
sules fastened to the birds' back. They
are used to cover trials, sports, outly-
ing murders, and especially ship news.
From Quarantine, 14 miles away, the
Journal gets pictures of incoming
celebrities in twelve minutes. Rival
papers must wait two hours until the
ship docks. Time.

The first golf ball ever driven in
Russia a fine wood-shot that whistled
far across a grassy park near Moscow-
was struck recently by U. S. golf-
architect Leonard Macomber before a
gallery of peasants, workers, and of-
ficials who have cn^cd him to intro-
duce capitalism's pet game to Red
land. Time.

"Blair Niles has departed by plane
for Peru, where she will gather addi-
tional material for her forthcoming
novel, Day of Immense Sun, which
Bobbs-Merrill Company will publish
next spring. Mrs. Niles' husband, Rob-
ert Niles, Jr., will join her in Decem-
ber, and they will both return to New
York in January." "Books and Au-
thors," Neil York Times, November
17.

The funniest campus incident we
have heard of this fall happened dur-
ing the registration period at the Uni-
versity of Minnesota (Minneapolis).

Mr. Ashcr Christensen, a professor,
was strolling past two long lines of
freshmen. One line consisted of fresh-
men who planned to be doctors and
were registering for prc-medicine cour-
ses. The other line was filled with
those about to enter pre-busincss cour-
ses.

A small voice from the end of the
pre-medicine line piped a call to Mr.
Christensen.

"Hi, mister," the frosh said, "which
is the longest line?"

The professor considered. "1 would
say your line is about 2 5 feet longer,"
Christensen answered.

"Okay," the boy said, stepping out
of the queue, "I'm .i business man al-
ready." And he registered for prc-
business.

Jule Bethea, '3 3, is again studying at
the Graduate Hospital in Philadelphia.

Bessie Meade Friend, '3 3, spent part
cf the summer in Mon treat, N. C. She
taught at the Petersburg Commercial
College last year.

Sear all the residents of Alaska (one-
fifth the size of the United Stales)
white, Eskimo, Indian inside the
Yale Bowl, and it would be only three-
quarters full. Reader's Digest.

Lampoon, \\.\y\ AV{ \ publication, is
the oldest college humor magazine m
America.

Olive Weeks, '3 2, is working for

I )r

The George Washington bridge
across the Hudson at New York is 1 6
inches longeron a hot summer day than
on a cold winter day. Eu/nire.

Yale and Harvard students will meet
m the annual "intellectual" contest for
a pr./e of s 5,000 awarded in the w,||
of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Putnam

"B'g Bill" Edwards, st , r Princeton
guard of a decade ago, lost 30 pounds
in one game.

The Agonistic.

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Chi Bi:ta Phi Sigma
Dt. Roy Kracke, head of the depart-
ment of Pathology, School of Medi-
cine, Emory University, spoke in
Science Hall Monday evening, Decem-
ber 2, at 7:30. His subject was the
Effects of Drugs and Other Agents on
the Blood.

International Relations Club
The regular meeting of the Interna-
tional Relations Club will be held on
Tuesday, December 10, at 4 P. M. in
the Y. \V. C. A. room. An interest-
ing program has been arranged, and the
college community is cordially invited
to attend.

Pi Ai \ Phi
Pi Alpha Phi will meet on Thursday
night, December 5, at 7 o'clock in Miss
Gooch's studio. There will be a debate
by the club members at this meeting.

Citizenship Club
Mrs. Frances Cragihead Dwyer spoke
to the Citizenship Club at its meeting
on Tuesday afternoon, November b6.

Music Appreciation Group
The Music Appreciation Group of
the Y. W. C. A. met on Sunday night,
December 1, at 7 o'clock in the music
room. Ella Watson talked on the life
and works of Mozart.

Blackiriars
The next meeting of Blackfriars will
be held on December 10 instead of De-
cember 2, as the concert comes on the
night of the regular meeting. The
meeting will be held in Miss Gooch's
studio at 7 P. M.

Nearly everyone went somewhere
during the Thanksgiving holidays. If
they didn't go home, they stayed here
and went dancing or skating, as
Frances Wilson and Betty Hollis' were
last seen doing, and as Faxie Stephens
had the express purpose of doing when
she went off, leaving her skates in her
room. And, of course, many went to
hear Mr. Roosevelt.

Among those going to Augusta,
Georgia, were Tibby Baethke with Eu-
genia Symms, Mary Elizabeth Cooper
with Mary Willis, Jo McClure with
Mary Hull, Katherine Bishop, Kathryn
Leipold, Harriet Reed, and Judith Gra-
cey. By bus to Winder, Georgia, went
Jane Carithers, Estelle Cuddy, Mary
Helen Barrett, and Elizabeth Gal-
breath. Annie Lee Crowell visited Mar-
tha Marshall in Americus; Martha
Alice Green went to Harlem, Georgia;
Rachel Kennedy visited Kitty Jones at
Ball Ground; and Naomi Cooper went
jo Columbus, Georgia.

Nell White and Rosa Miller went to
New Orleans; Kay Ricks to Jackson,
Mississippi; Mary Long to Spartanburg,
South Carolina; and Miriam Sanders
and Frances Cary to Greenville, South
Carolina. And, of course, many others
went home, too.

But dances, especially the Tech
dances, were almost as big a drawing
card as home. Carolyn White went to
V. M. I., Sara Carter went to Clemson,
and Virginia Gaines went to Chapel
Hill. Beginning Wednesday night,
though, innumerable Agnes Scott girls
were seen at Tech: at the Scabbard and
Blade dinner-dance, for instance, were
Elizabeth Blackshear with Dan Hol-
senbach, Sarah Brosnan with Charley
Bouts, Kathryn Bowen with Dizzy Bat-
son, and Ann Purnell with Lee Min-
gledorf.

Among those attending the Home-

Granddaughters To
Give Dinner Dec, 5
At Alumnae House

Eta Sigma Phi
Eta Sigma Phi will entertain at a
Christmas party on December 16 at

4:30 o'clock. The party, which is toicoming dances at Tech were Ann Mc
be in the form of a Roman Christmas

The members of the Granddaughters
Club of Agnes Scott College will en-
tertain at their annual dinner on
Thursday, December 5, at 6:30, in the
Anna Young Alumnae House. After
dinner, coffee will be served in the
living room.

The following have been appointed
to serve as chairmen of the various
committees: Barton Jackson, date com-
mittee; Caroline Armistead, arrange-
ments; Lulu Croft, entertainment; and
Virginia Gaines, decorations.

The following members are planning
to attend the dinner: Nancy Tucker
with Bill O'Callahan, Kennon Hender-
son with Marion Clark, Lulu Croft
with Eugene Smith, Lillian Croft with
Albert Edwards, Kathleen Daniel with
Leonard Elmore, Barton Jackson with I
Frank Patterson, Frances McCully with |
Charles Sill, Elizabeth Forman with
Jack McKinnon, Dorothy Lee with
Searcy Slack, Caroline Armistead with
Dan Sullivan, Mary Hull with Dave
Black, Martha Young with Charles
Hodgson, Elizabeth Cousins with Sam
Troutman, Martha Marshall with Ed
Goddard, Jeanne Redwine with T. J.
Denton, Virginia Stephens with Ray-
mond Nelson, and Mary Nell Tribble
with Bill Churchill.

The membership of the Granddaugh-
ters' Club is made up of those students
whose mothers attended Agnes Scott.

Dav Students Will

J

Enjoy Annual Tea

The Agnes Scott chapter of Mortar
Board, national honorary society, will
entertain at a tea in honor of the day
students and their parents from 4:3 0
to 5:30 o'clock in the Day Students'
Room in Main Building on December
7. Members of the active chapter and
the faculty advisers, Associate Profes-
sor Florence E. Smith, of the history
department; Professor George P. Hayes,
of the English department; Associate

L. A M ES ATTENDS MEETING

OF COLLEGE PRESS IN N. Y.

{Continued from page 1, column 1)
weekly news-service which will carry
reports from other campuses in the
United States and also from European
institutions. The editors felt such an
organization is necessary to promote a
free press on the American campus;
toward this end the editors propose to
work through intercollegiate coopera-
tion and exchange.

The meetings of the conference were
devoted to discussions of make-up, edi-
torial policy, faculty-newspaper rela-
tionship, attitude toward administra-

Professor Louise Hale, of the French j tion, exchange, and intercollegiate co-
department; and Dr. J. R. McCain, operation.

The delegates passed a resolution
against American participation in the
Olympics just before adjournment on
Sunday afternoon.

Lulu Ames returned to the campus
Ion Tuesday morning.

president of the College; Dean Nan-
nette Hopkins; and Miss Carrie Scan-
drett, assistant dean, will receive the
guests.

Miss Cilley Attends Meet
Of Language Association

festival, will take the place of the
regular meeting. Mary Jane King, vice-
president, is in charge of the entertain-
ment.

Cotillion Club
Members of the Agnes Scott College
Cotillion Club are entertaining the
college community at a dance on Sat-
urday evening in Bucher Scott Gym-
nasium from 8 to 11. The Emory Aces
will furnish music for dancing. A rep-
resentative from the Fox theater has
charge of decorations.

Cullum, Charlotte French, Jean Aus-
tin, Ann Purnell, Jane Blick, Mary
Snow, Sarah Brosnan, Meriel Bull, Mary
Catherine Matthews, Elizabeth Black-
shear, Catherine Ivie, Frances Steele,
Eloisa Alexander, Nancy Moorer, Au-
gusta King, Rosalinde Richards, Mary
Elizabeth Moss, Mary Collier, Rachel
Kennedy, Kathryn Bowen, Cora Gantt,
Shirley Christian, Nelle Scott Earth-
man, Marjorie Rainey, Ellender John-
son, Nell Flemphill, Katherine Bishop,
Frances James, Sarah Turner, and Jane
Thomas.

The rest went to the parade.

When law students at the University
The South Atlantic Modern Lan- ! of Ind.ana were challenged by the

French Club Will Give

Mystery Play Christmas

A charming old French mystery play
will be the French Club's contribution
this Christmas to holiday cheer. Under
the direction of Professor Lucile Alex-
ander, of the French department, they
will present Contc de Noel, by Maurice
Bouchor, in Gaines Chapel, Thursday
evening, December 12.

The play is archaically representative
of Paris in the fifteenth century. Other
features of the production will be in-
cidental music during the play and a
chorus of angel voices.

guage Association held its eighth an-
nual meeting November 29-3 0 at the
University of Georgia in Athens. The
meeting included special and general
sessions of the English, French, Ger-
man, Spanish, and Italian divisions. As-
sistant Professor Melissa Annis Cilley,
of the Spanish department at Agnes
Scott College, was a member of the
general Spanish committee.

At a general meeting Saturday
morning, Professor Sturgis E. Leavitt
of the Spanish department of the Uni-
versity of North Carolina, was elected
president. Next year the association
will meet at Richmond, Virginia, with
the American Association of Modern
Languages, and will be the guests of
the University of Virginia and William
and Mary College.

medical students to a donkey baseball
game, they refused on the grounds that
they would be at a disadvantage be-
cause the medics had more jackasses
than they.

Compliments of
ROGERS GROCERY STORK
307 College Ave.
"Little Dec"

KEY TO CURRENT HISTORY

(Continued from page 2, column 3)
removal of Chinese troops from Hopei.
When China complied, two more pro-
vinces were placed within the influence
of Japan. It is these two provinces
along with Suiyan, Shansi, and Shan-
tung that make up the group that
Japan wishes to make autonomous and
independent of China, but dependent
upon her.

These recent moves in inner Mon-
golia and in the northern part of China
proper are but a part an integral one,
however of the continuous process of
Japanese expansion in China. In the
words of Japan's General Hayado Tada,
his country must protect "China's
400,000,000 exploited humans" and
"exterminate anyone obstructing her."
The evident Japanese plan for saving
China is by swallowing her.

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Anna Young Alumnae House

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Consult a competent Eye-Physician (Oculist) for a
thorough eye examination. When he gives your pre-
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and dependable service.

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The problem of getting up in the
morning has been solved by a couple
of roommates. Every night before
turning out the lights they each put a
half dollar in the middle of the room
equi-distant from each bed. Then in
the morning when the alarm goes off,
the one who gets to them first keeps
them. The Tiger.

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Now in Big Dec!
For the Poor Children's Party!
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We welcome you any time

and all the time.

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Let's all meet at the

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For Refreshments After
the Dance.

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE

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A college for women that is widely recog-
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interesting character of its student activities

For further information, address

J. R. McCAIN, President

TO DISCRIMINATING STUDENTS

We Recommend RICH'S Own Hosiery

The splendor, the sheerness the accessory
value of hose that young ankles of students
demand: these things we offer in the lovely
Lyric with the thirteen weights for every
occasion, in six shades for every mood. All
sizes, priced from 85c to $1.15.

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The Agonistic

Silhouette Offers
Snapshot Prizes

Entries for the Silhouette snap-shot
contest, which closes on Monday, De-
cember 9, may be given at that time to
Barton Jackson, contest chairman, or
Shirley Christian, editor of the annual.
This is the first time that such a con-
test has been held, and it is open to all
students. Cash prizes of i3.S0 and
$1.50 will be awarded to those submit-
ting the two best pictures.

All snap-shots will be judged on the
basis of general campus interest, orig-
inality, and clearness. The first prize
will be S3. 5 0, the second prize, $1.5 0;
a page in the Silhouette will be devoted
to all pictures receiving honorable men-
tion. The following suggestions have
been offered those entering the contest:
emphasis placed on groups rather than
individuals, indoor exposures, unposed
shots, and unusual backgrounds. The
pictures must have local color, be char-
acteristic of college life, and have been
taken on the campus this year.

Y.W.C.A. Plan Partv
For County Children

BOOK NOTES

{Continued from page 2, column 5)
physical comforts, the author obtained
much pleasure from the inmates them-
selves. He laughs through his entire
account both at himself and at his
neighbors. And in defending his mirth,
he brings out one of the main points
of the book that "most forms of
mental derangement have lost their
element of hushed shame and horror-
pity by the fact that modern psychia-
try has proved them curable." "This
being true," he goes on to say, "I may
add that a good deal of the stuff that
goes on in such an institution is funny,
de facto, whether it ought to be or not,
and that any picture which leaves it
out would be sentimental buncombe."
Therefore we laugh wholeheartedly
with the author over the three men
who each claimed to be Napoleon
Bonaparte and who found it uproar-
iously funny that anyone else should
call himself Napoleon, and again at
the little chap who went around say-
ing "Tinkle, tinkle, tinkle," thinking
he was the bell inside the telephone,
and at the patient who always hid un-
iet his bed when the occupation bell
rang.

ith characteristic humor, Mr. Sea-
brook ridicules "those innumerable
families who would rather see a relative
'in his grave' than shut up in a 'mad-
house.' . . ." maintaining that the cross-
ing of two cerebral-lingual wires is no
more embarrassing or incurable than a
broken arm or leg. And with a sud-
den change of tone he crosses from the
humorous to the serious, showing the
different kinds of insanity and their
causes. Loss of control he placed first
in the list of causes.

\Y/e enjoyed Asylum because it pre-
sents the real inside picture of a mod-
ern asylum, because it gave us some
new ideas about mental disorders, and
because it is written in a delightful and
informal style scintillating humor and
pathos.

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Approximately 150 needy Decatur
children from two to six vears of age
will attend a Christmas party given for
them at Agnes Scott College on Sat-
urday afternoon, December 14. A spe-
cial feature of the entertainment will
be a Christmas tree, at which they are
ro receive candy and balloons.

A list of the children's names has
' been posted in Main Building in order
that the girls may sign up to fill
Christmas stockings for them. When
members of the transportation commit-
tee call for the children on the day
f the party, they will leave at the
various homes the stockings and some
boxes that are to be prepared.

The party, which is an annual af-
fair, is under the direction of Mary
Hull, chairman of the social service
committee of the Y. W. C. A. She is
assisted by other members of the or-
ganization.

( > oss Announces
A u ro ra Material
Diu December 14

Soort Notes

Material for the second issue of Au-
rora, the Agnes Scott College literary

; quarterly, is due on Saturday morning,
December 14, and should be given to

| Lien Goss, editor, or placed in the Au-
rora box in Main or Buttrick Hall. The
magazine w ill be published about the
middle of January; because of the
Christmas holidays, it is necessarv that
the material go to press around De-
cember 14.

Short stories, poems, formal and in-
formal essays, and discussions of cur-
rent events are the types of articles to
be submitted. A special freshman sec-
tion has been planned for freshman
contributions.

This year the Aurora is offering

i several prizes for work of exceptional
merit. These include a prize of $2.5 0
for the best poem published during the
ear; $2.50 for the best short story;
md ^2.50 for the best piece of non- j
fiction.

The physical education department
will offer a course in camp leadership
during the winter season to sopho-
mores, juniors, and seniors who are in-
terested in camping and in leadership
work with Girl Scouts, Campfire Girls,
and Girl Reserves. Miss Hancock, of
the Campfire Girls of Atlanta, will
conduct the classes, which will be held
two afternoons each week and which
will be considered as physical educa-
tion work.

Madame Argentina
Th ri 1 Is Audience

The Swimming Club entertained the
North Avenue girls at its regular meet-
ing on Tuesday afternoon, December 3.
About ten were present. The program
included swimming and diving, water
polo, and other water games.

Freshman Groups
Play at Hobbies

Two of the freshman hobby groups,
the book group and the current events
group, held their regular meetings re-
cently. These groups together with the
charm and knitting groups are spon-
sored by the freshman Y. \V. C. A.
cabinet and meet every other week.

Assistant Professor Annie May
Christie, of the English department,
spoke to the book group on Tuesday
afternoon, November 19. Brooks Spi-
vey is to be in charge of this hobbv
group, beginning with the next meet-
ing. At this time the members will be-
gin a study of Thornton Wilder.

Alice McCallie spoke to the current
events group on Thursday afternoon,
November 21. Professor Philip David-
son, of the history department, is the
adviser of this group, and Alice Mc-
Cailie is its leader.

Dr. McCain Talks
On WATL Program

A number of girls enjoyed the
plunge Saturday night, sponsored by
the committee on recreation which is
composed of Assistant Professor Har-
riette Haynes, of the physical educa-
tion department, Mary Jane King, and
Bee Merrill.

I a Argentina, the most famous
dancer of Spain, appeared last night at
the Fox theater before a large audi-
ence that included many Agnes Scott
College students. On her second ap-
pearance in Atlanta, as the third on
the All-Star Concert Series, Madame
Argentina received unusual acclaim as
the result of her brilliant and graceful
dancing,

Her program included "Cordoba,"
Albeniz; "Tango Flamenco," Balleste-
ros-Romero; "Fire Dance," from the
ballet "El Amor Brujo," de Falla; "An-
dalasian Suite," popular melodies; "La-
garterana," 1. Guerrero; "Goyescas,"
Granados; "Jota," de Falla; "Madrid,
1890," Granados; "Dance No. S," Gra-
nados; and "La Corrida," J. Yalverde.
Mr. Louis Galve, La Argentina's ac-
companist, also played several solos.

Credit towards a degree may be ob-
tained by Alfred University students
who participate in certain extra-cur-
ricula activities.

Dr. J. R. McCain, president of Ag- 1
nes Scott College, Mr. Scott Candler,
mayor of Decatur, the DeKalb County
Commissioner, and other civic leaders
made talks over radio station WATL
on Tuesday evening, November 2 6. The
former WJTL, the Oglethorpe Uni-
versity station, is now under new man-
agement and has its local studio on the
first floor of the Candler Hotel in
Decatur. The name W JTL has been
changed to WATL.

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To

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VOL. XXI

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11. 1935

NO. 11

Wilder Will
Lecture Here
In February

Mr.WhitakerWill
Go to Conference
Of Genetics Ass'n.

A.S.C. Glee Club Four To Receive Agonistic Key

Will Sing Carols j n Q , g ervice Qn Dec /l 4
in Lliurch^lJiapel *

Lecture Association to Bring
Brilliant Novelist Here
For Second Time

Thornton Wilder, prominent Ameri-
can novelist, will lecture in Bucher
Scott Gymnasium at Agnes Scott Col-
lege on February 6 at 8:30 o'clock.
Mr. Wilder will be the second in the
series of celebrated persons whom the
Public Lecture Association of the Col-
lege is bringing to the campus this
year. Associate Professor Emma May
Laney, of the English department, an-
nounced that the advanced ticket sale
will be from 10:30 until 2:30 on Jan-
uary 8, and all morning of January 9
in the lobby of Buttrick Hall.

Mr. Wilder, who ranks among
America's foremost literary authorities,
has achieved his greatest distinction
through his brilliant novels: The Ca-
bala, The Bridge of San Euis Rey, and
The Woman of Andros, all of which
may be found in the Agnes Scott Li-
brary. His latest novel is Heaven's My
Destination. Mr. Wilder has also scored
success as a dramatist with his widely
acclaimed play, The Trumpet Shall
Sound.

This will be the second time that
Thornton Wilder has lectured at Ag-
nes Scott. Professor Catherine Tor-^
ranee, of the Greek department, said
of his previous lecture, "The lecture '
was splendid, Mr. Wilder delightful,
and all together the occasion was a
most successful one."

Acting Associate Professor T. W.
Whitaker, of the biology department,
will attend the annual conference of
the Genetics Society of America,
which will be held in Princeton, New
York, between Christmas and New
Year's.

The program of the convention will
be in two parts: formal addresses and
informal discussions. At the conference
each year papers are presented on all
scientific subjects, the number of
these sometimes totaling as many as
four thousand.

The Genetics Conference is only one
phase of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science. This
association, which is called the "Triple
A's," includes also chemistry, mathe-
matics, physics, biology, and psychol-
ogy members.

Dr. McCain Returns
From Conferences
In Louisville, Ky.

Dr. J. R. McCain, president of Ag-
nes Scott College, returned on last Sat-
urday night from Louisville, Kentucky
where he attended the annual meeting
of the Southern Association of Colleges
and Secondary Schools and the South-
ern University Conference.

The main business of the Southern
Association was the adoption of a new
constitution for the body.

Principal speakers at the Southern
University Conference, of which Dr.
McCain is secretary, were Dr. Isaiah
Bowman, president of Johns Hopkins;
Chancellor Harry W. Chase, of New
York University; and Mr. Trevor
Arnett, president of the General Edu-
cation Board.

Mr. S. G. Stukes, registrar of Ag-
nes Scott, who was in Louisville last
week, too, returned on Saturday morn-
ing. Mr. Stukes attended the confer-
ence of the Southern Association of
Colleges for Women.

Faculty Entertain

mi

Senior Class At
Reception Dec. 14

The faculty of Agnes Scott College
will give its annual reception for the
seniors in the lobby of Rebekah Scott
Hall at 8:30 o'clock on Saturday even-
ing, December 14. Invitations for this
occasion were sent out on Monday af-
ternoon, December 2.

The receiving line will consist of Dr.
J. R. McCain, president of Agnes Scott;
Dean Nannette Hopkins; Miss Carrie
Scandrett, assistant dean, and Miss
Blanche Miller, instructor in the biolo-
gy department, who are advisers of the
senior class; and Elizabeth Forman,
president of the class. Mrs. S. G. Stukes,
accompanied at the piano by Mr. C. W.
D^eckmann, professor of music, will
sing several solos.

( hristmas Decorations Used

Assistant Professor Leslie Gaylord, of
the mathematics department, and As-
sociate Professor Florence Smith, of the
history department, are serving as
chairmen of the decorating committee.
The refreshment committee consists of
Associate Professor Llewellyn Wilburn,
of the physical education department,
chairman; Assistant Professor Annie
May Christie, of the English depart-
ment; Miss Blanche Miller, instructor
in the biology department; and Miss
Elizabeth Mitchell, instructor in the
physical education department.

Christmas decorations will form the
background for the reception.

The Agnes Scott College Glee Club
will present a program of Christmas
carols at the First Methodist Church
in Decatur on Sunday morning, De-
cember H, followed by the annual
evening service at 7:00 in Gaines
Chapel. The chorus, which is com-
posed of sixty-five voices, has added
several new and very beautiful songs
to the repertoire of old favorites. Di-
rected by Mr. Lewis Johnson, voice in-
structor, they will sing Lo, How a
Rose; Here a Torch; Jeanette; Silent
Night; The Holly and the ley; When
the Christmas Sun is Set; Sleep, Holy
Babe; and others. The chorus, wearing
surplices; the Christmas tree; and the
Christmas decorations will add to the
beauty and significance of the occasion.

A special chorus from the Glee Club
will sing several selections this after-
noon at 5, on the weekly Agnes
Scott broadcast over WSB. They will
also sing at the Second Ponce de Leon
Baptist Church for the annual banquet
of the Men's Bible Class, which is pre-
sided over by Dr. M. L. Brittain, presi-
dent of the Georgia School of Tech-
nology. The banquet will be on Friday
night at 6 'clock.

Mortar Board Will
Give Parties Again
For Soph Boarders

The parties for sophomore boarding
students, given annually by Mortar
Board, will be given this year on the
four successive nights, December 10-
13, from 8 to 1 1 o'clock in the day
students' room in Main Hall.

Committees of Mortar Board mem-
bers are making all arrangements, in-
cluding decorations, refreshments, and
invitations, which were sent out Wed-
nesday to more than 150 young men of
Decatur and Atlanta and students at
Tech and Emory.

Hostesses for the four parties are:
on Tuesday night, Frances James, Au-
gusta King, Adelaide Stevens; on
Wednesday night, Lulu Ames, Ann
Coffee, Loice Richards; on Thursday
night, Shirley Christian, Dean McKoin,
Carrie Phinney Latimer; on Friday
night, Ruby Hutton, Carrie Phinney
Latimer, Sarah Spencer.

These parties have been given by
Mortar Board for a number of years
in order to acquaint sophomore board-
ing students with young men.

N. Parke Attends
Bryn Ma w r Ev en t
For Agnes Scott

Miss Nina Parke, '3 5, of Philadel-
phia, represented Agnes Scott at the
fiftieth anniversary celebration of Bryn
Mawr College, held November 1-2.
Delegates from 1 1 1 learned societies,
foundations, colleges and universities
were present and took part in the im-
pressive academic procession that mark-
ed the beginning of the main anniver-
sary service in Goodhart Hall. Among
those in the procession were thirty-
four college presidents and sixteen
deans.

Prominent Men Speak

Speakers on the program included
Dr. James Bryant Conant, president of
Harvard University; Dr. Ada Louise
Comstock, president of Radcliffe Col-
lege; Dr. Isaiah Bowman, president of
Johns Hopkins University, and Dr. M.
Carey Thomas, president-emeritus of
Bryn Mawr College. Dr. Marion Ed-
wards Park, president of Bryn Mawr
College, was the presiding officer.

A letter from Miss Nina Parke to
Dr. J. R. McCain, president of Agnes
Scott, gives some idea of the dignity
and importance of the occasion. She
writes "I never have associated with so
many notable people in my life red
gowns, green ones, yellow ones, gold
tassels, yellow caps, scarlet caps. The
procession on Saturday morning of
three hundred or more was an inspiring
sight. It marched down the campus
to Goodhart Hall through lines of
spectators."

Miss Parke also mentioned the splen-
did work that the alumnae of Bryn
Mawr did in raising $700,000 of a $1,-
000,000 fund for the construction of
I new buildings on the campus. One
member of the first graduating class
gave $5 0,000 one thousand for each
year of the College's existence.

Miss Yolande Gwin of Atlanta
Constitution Will Speak
At Program

The fall announcement of election
of four girls to Agonistic Key, local
honorary journalism society, will be
made at the regular chapel period of
The Agonistic on Friday of this week.
Miss Yolande Gwin, of the Atlanta
Constitution, will be the speaker at
this time. Miss Gwin, who has had
much experience in newspaper work in
the East as well as in this section, will
discuss her work and the opportunity
and future of women in journalism.

The four to be announced have been
selected on the bases of their service
to The Agonistic, the quality of their
work, and their general attitude to-
ward the paper; in addition they must
have merited two-thirds of their aca-
demic work for the preceding semes-
ter. Initiation of the new members will
take place at 9 o'clock on Friday eve-
ning and a luncheon in their honor
will be held at 1 o'clock on Saturday
in the Alumnae House. The guest list
for the luncheon includes the new
members; the founders of the society,
Lulu Ames, Alice Chamlee, Frances
Cary, Laura Steele, and Kathryn Bow-
en; Dr. J. R. McCain, president of
the College; Dean Nannette Hopkins;
Miss Carrie Scandrett, assistant dean;
Assistant Professor Annie May Chris-
tie, of the English department; and
Professor and Mrs. George P. Hayes,
of the English department.

The purposes of Agonistic Key are
to further a finer type of journalism
on the campus and to recognize those
staff members who have done unusual
and outstanding work for The Ago-
nistic. The members are elected from
the editorial, business, and reporter
staffs by a committee composed of the
editor and the business manager of the
paper; the instructor in journalism;
and one other member of the English
department.

Coaches, Comfortable Chairs To

Be Features of New Library

P'.ins for the furniture of the new
Agnes Scott College library reveal that
comfort will be the chief aim of both
the formal and informal arrangements
of the equipment, according to Miss
Edna R. Hanley, librarian. The present
equipment will be utilized in the new
building, and new equipment will be
used to supplement it.

The main lobby on the ground floor
will have a medieval style to corre-
spond with the architecture of the
building. The loan desk will be situated
directly opposite the entrance and will
be specially designed by the Globe-
Wernicke Company of Cincinnati.
Miss Hanley stated that plans are be-
ing made to have in the lobby a mu-
seum case with a glass arrangement for
display purposes. There will also be
chairs of medieval style here.

The main reading room, to the left
of the entrance will have an informal
arrangement of chairs and tables and

will consist of six bays, each fifteen
f eet across. This room will have a ca-
oacity of 120 readers. The first bay
will have an informal arrangement of
davenports and chairs, while the other
bays will have more formal tables and
chairs. Individual study tables will be

^aced in various parts of the room.
Here, as throughout the rest of the
building, the low and rather composite
chairs will be so designed as to be com-
fortable for women. At the far end
of the room there will be a special nook
with three large davenports of red and
blue leather arranged informally around
the fireplace. Magazines will be placed
on one side, and a coffee table will
stand on either side of the nook. Com-
fortable chairs and an occasional Ot-

oman or hassock will also be located
here.

The office of the new library will
use the present equipment supplement-
(Continned on page 6, column 4)

Prof. Davidson Has
Essay in Book To
Appear on Dec. 24

Professor Philip Davidson, of the
history department of Agnes Scott Col-
lege, has written an essay entitled "The

Emory To Debate
Oxford Tonight r 0lJ

Emory University and Oxford Uni-
versity will meet on the Emory campus
in debate tonight on the question, Re-
solved: That in the opinion of the
House the judiciary should have no
power to over-ride the decisions of the
executive and the legislature. The sub-
ject of this debate is the same as that
between Agnes Scott College and the
Cambridge Union Society, which took
place on November 12. In the debate,
which will be presided over by Robert
Elliott, member of last year's debating

he Revolution," which is a part of the
book Essays in Honor of William E.
Dodd, to be published on December 24
by the University of Chicago Press. It
is the custom for former students of
a president of the American Historical
Association to publish a series of essays
in his honor; Mr. Davidson studied his-
tory under Mr. Dodd at the University
of Chicago. At present, Mr. Dodd is

Prof. Christian To
Offer New Course

Next semester the Physics depart-
ment of Agnes Scott College will offer
a new course, History of Science (Phy-
sics 310) according to Professor S. M.
Christian, of the department; this
course will be a survey of the develop-
ment of all the sciences, mathe-
matical, physical, biological, social,
from the Greeks to the present. Since
a period of 2,5 00 years and the work
of dozens of geniuses are to be cov-
ered, only a survey course can be of-
fered. It will be for upperclassmen
who have a background of some lab-
oratory study, plus some acquaintance
with history or literature. The usual
orientation course for freshmen lacks
sufficient foundation.

There have been many significant re-
lations between science and contempo-
rary affairs, and many dramatic events
in the lives of the scientists, which
everyone needs to appreciate. Through

ambassador to Germany, a position he this course, interrelation between
held at the same time that he was pres- science and life will be sought, as well,
ident of the Historical Association. Although such courses as History of

Mr. Davidson will attend the annual
meeting of the American Historical As-

Science are given by the great uni-
versities, it is an innovation in this
section. Hours for the course are to

team, Emory will uphold the negative

side of the question. I sociation in Chattanooga, Tennessee, be nrrani , ec j.

Members of the Oxford team are December 27-30. The American Polit-

Richard U. P. Kav-Shuttleworth and ical Science Association, meeting in At- BOARDERS CONTINUE
A. W. J. Greenwood; Emory will be lanta December 27-28, will meet with
represented by Randolph Thrower and the American Historical Association in
Milton Richardson. Mr. Greenwood is Chattanooga on December 29. Several

Agnes Scott professors w
tend this convention.

TO DRESS FORMALLY

making his second trip to the United
States, having represented Oxford in
an international debate with Columbia

University in 193 3. Both members of v ,

, _ - , i . ^ T1 . . * , addresc for Senior Recognition Day at

the Oxford team are from Balliol Col- I " - , ...

lege, Oxford, where they have held of- i Brenau Colle 3 e ' Gainesville > Georgia.

fices in the various Union societies of This service corresponds to Investiture

the University. '.Day at Agnes Scott.

The boarding students of Agnes
probably at- | Scott College voted to continue to
dress formally for dinner on Wednes-
Today Mr. Davidson is delivering an day night and to have the usual after-

dinner coffee. After a lengthy discus-
sion, presided over by Carrie Phinney
Latimer, this decision was reached at
la meeting held after chapel on Wed-
nesday, December 4.

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Entered as Second Class Matter.

1935 Member 1936

Plssocided Golle&ide Press

Lulu Ames

Editor-in-chief

Laura Steele
Frances Cary

Assistant Editors
Nellie M. Gilroy

Feature Editor

Nell At lison

Ass't Feature Editor

Jane Guthmf

Book Notes Editor

Ellen McCallie
Alumnae Editor

STAFF
Mildred Clark
Make-up Editor

June Matthews
Ass't Make-up

Rosa From

Current History

Elizabeth Baethke
Laura Coit

Exchange Editors

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Society Editor

Alice Chamlee
Business Manager

Kathryn Bowen
Advertising Manager

Circulation Managers
Mary Margaret Stowe
Margaret Cooper
Mary Gray Rogers

WlTA MORELAND

Sarah Brosnan
Elizabeth Burson
Sports Editor

Cornelia Christie
Club Editor

AGONISTIC
KEY

The organization of Agonistic
Key, journalism honor society,
for the recognition of able mem-
bers of THE AGONISTIC staff
indicates the contribution of the
staff members to the success of
the College weekly. The service
of the business assistants, the
departmental editors, and the re-
porters are considered, in the
election of members to Agonistic
Key, according to the ability of
their individual members. It is
obvious that no one part of the
paper can march ahead unless all
parts progress.

The selection of the charter
members was something of an
experiment. The standards of
THE AGONISTIC had, for the
first time, to be put into words
and the students on the paper
and their work had to be com-
pared carefully and accurately
with those standards. Their per-
sonality and their character en-
tered somewhat into the election ;
and their general attitude not
only toward THE AGONISTIC
but toward campus affairs and
student life was another of the
fundamentals considered. Preju-
dice or friendship had no part in
the deliberation.

Not only was the first election
to Agonistic Key an experiment ;
it was also a responsibility. The
importance of the charter mem-
bers is obvious. It is they who
must guard the ideals of Agonis-
tic Key and maintain the stand-
ards of THE AGONISTIC. It is
they who must carry the society
on and must bring about a pur-
poseful and worthy existence of
Agonistic Key at Agnes Scott
College.

tence but to the student it is a
I oase of losing a perfectly good

third of a letter through no fault
I of her own.

LIKE THE
DRIP, DRIP, DRIP

It grows monotonous, this con-
stant suggestion to faculty that
they dismiss their classes when
the bell rings. After the second
time, new arguments are lacking
and. necessarily so, since all good
reasons for this change in habit
were presented in Editorial One
some weeks ago. Particularly is

it embarrassing to re-open the
subject after our optimistic at-
titude of last week that the fac-
ulty has reformed.

We erred. They have not.

Letting classes out when the
bell rings is important. Some stu-
dents have to go from one build-
ing to another in five minutes
and unless the full five minutes
ran be devoted to movement,
those students are apt to be late.
And some faculty members are
particular about punctuality.

An hour is long enough for any
class, as we have said before.
And the desire to leave at the
first bell is no indication of lack
of interest in the course also as
wo have said before. To the pro-
fessor it is merely a matter of
-topping in the middle of a sen-

ON TO

KANSAS CITY

Nominations for the junior
delegate to the annual convention
of the National Student Federa-
tion of America to be held this
year in Kansas City the latter
part of this month have been
open for nearly a week. The se-
lection of this student is no small
matter.

She must, first of all, have an
interest in NSFA both nationally
and as it relates to the Agnes
Scott campus. She must know
what the local NSFA chapter has
been attempting to do this fall.
She must be prepared to take
much of Agnes Scott with her to
Kansas City ; and she must be
able to bring much of the con-
vention back with her not only
for herself alone but for the or-
ganizations and clubs of Agnes
Scott. It is assumed that the jun-
ior delegate will be capable of di-
recting the NSFA group on the
campus next year, whether she is
actually called to that position or
not.

The girl whom the Executive
Committee is to elect will prob-
ably be a senior. And she will
represent the Committee. But we
are nominating and electing a
girl to represent us, the students.
This is the first time that we
have been called upon to elect
from the entire class; we must
choose wisely and according to
the ability and personality of the
girl.

OPENING OF 195 6 PRESIDENTIAL
CAMPAIGN
By Margaret Watsox
War guns are booming in Africa and
China, but of more immediate concern
to many United States citizens was the
opening boom of political big guns in
Atlanta on November 29. Roosevelt's
Homecoming Celebration was arranged
to prove that Georgia would remain
Democratic in November, 193 6, despite
the vigorous opposition of her anti-
New Deal Governor.

At this time Roosevelt very definite-
ly tossed his hat into the ring and call-
ed for votes in a speech designed to
explain and justify his actions since
March, 193 3, particularly in regard to
financial matters. Most interesting and
significant were his statements about
the budget, work relief, and the debt.

Of the budget he said, *\ . . We have
passed the peak of appropriations . . .
We can look forward with assurance to
a decreasing deficit." Much pressure is
being brought to bear to reduce the
1 budget and deficit, because the gov-
ernment is spending $21,100,000 a day
[and taking in only $9,900,000.

In discussing work relief the Presi-
dent stated "with a certain satisfac-
tion" that of the 3,5 00,000 workers on
relief rolls, 3,12 5,000 are now at work
and the others are engaged for work on
! unfinished projects or on new ones
ready to be begun. The dole ended on
! Friday, November 29, and the states
1 must now care for their own unem-
| ployment. Since it began in May,
1933, the dole has cost $3,694,000,000.

When Roosevelt discussed the na-
tional debt, which has jumped from
$21,000,000,000 to $29,500,000,000
during his administration, he said that
[bankers had told him in 193 3 that the
I country could stand a debt of 5 5 bil-
! lions, though in his opinion such an
j estimate was too large. Prominent New
I York bankers intimated that they
thought 5 5 billions too large, and Wall
Street doubted that any "great bank-
ers" had given the President such ad-
vice.

Roosevelt touched on several other
phases of his administration, but none
in such detail. Although a huge
crowd was on hand for the occasion,
both the President and his speech were

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GIFT

SUGGESTIONS

Sometimes we think Christmas was ,
Instituted for the sole purpose of cir-
culating good books and creating book I
lovers. Certainly at no other time of
the year is the market so flooded with I
reading material, or the buying and j
giving of books so prevalent, or the

j weather so provocative of good reading. |
With these points in mind, we have en- :
deavored to draw up a list of Christmas

j book suggestions, believing firmly that j
s good book is the Christmas gift "most

'likely to succeed."

j Biography: For the lover of literary
biography, we suggest Ann Lou ell,
a chronicle of one of the most inter-
esting personalities in English litera-
ture, written by S. Foster Damon;
and Byron: the Years of Fame, by |
Peter Quennell. The latter is a new
version of those four short years of
the poet's life from 1812-1816.
For the lover of non-literary biog-
raphy, we recommend Old ]ules y by
Marie Sandoz, an exciting tale of
pioneer life in northwestern Nebras-
ka and winner of the Atlantic
Monthly prize for non-fiction. In
this category we also place the re-
cent book, With Napoleon in Russia:
from the Memoirs of General de
Canlaincourt. This is the most talk-
ed-of biography in the literary
world. The circumstances of its
printing are as interesting as the book
itself. And of course we include
in this list Mary Queen of Scotland
and the hies, by Stefan Zweig.
Novels: We have chosen only six
novels from the maze of unusually
good fiction published this year. Silas
Crockett, by Mary Ellen Chase, the
author of Mary Peters; Green Light,
by Lloyd C. Douglas; Euro pa, a
story of European society in the j
period before the World War, by
Robert Brif fault; Lucy Gay heart,
another Willa Cather novel; and the

best-selling piece of fiction for the
year, Ellen Glasgow's Vein of Iron.

Advexture axd Exploration: No
Christmas list would be complete
without these four: North to the
Orient, Anne Lindberg; Discovery.
The Story of the Second B^rd Ant-
artic Expedition Richard Evelyn
Byrd; Seven Pillars of Wisdom T.
E. Lawrence; Lort\ Days of Musa
Dag/.y Franz Wert'el.

World Problem: Goi eminent in
Business, by Stuart Chase, a discus-
sion of the New Deal. Land of the
Free, by Herbert Agar. ()//; Times:
the Twenties, by Mark Sullivan.
Measuring Ethiopia, by Carleton S.
Coon.

Short Stories: Heading the list we
find Thomas Wolfe's From Death to
Morning and Josephine Johnson's
Winter Orchard and Other Stories.
Other editions of short stories wor-
thy of mention are: Tie Best S/.H)rt
Stories of 1 93 5, edited by Edward
J. O'Brien, and O. Henry Memorial
Award Prize Stories of 1 93 5, edited
by Harry Hansen.

Poetry: Edwin Arlington Robin-
son's last volume of poetrv. King
Jasper. A Spectacle for Scholars, by
Winifred Welles. Selected Poems bv
Robert Nathan.

Juvexile: Around the World with
the Alphabet, written by Hendrik
Van Loon for his brand-new grand
son. The Chinese Twins, for boys
and girls from 8 to 11, bv I uc\
Fitch Perkins.

Misc 1 llaxy: Drama Prize Ptditzei
Plays (from 19 18 to 1934). Art
Christian Art . . . C. R. Morev.
Music Life and Times of Beetboi en
. . . Edouard Herriot. Nature
Lour Hedges: A Gardner's Chroni-
cle . . . Clare Leighton. Myster\
The Garden Murder Case . . . S. S.
Van Dine. Reminiscence / ife with
Lather . . . Clarence Day. Novel
politics // Can't Happen Llere . . .
Sinclair Lewis.

EXCHANGES
Campus and World

Alumnae News

Josephine Jennings, '3 5, is teaching
American history in Milledgeville, Ga.

When a person can recite the follow -
ling without difficulty, his speech is
j normal: Are our oars here?

Many a wit is not a whit wittier
than Whittier.

The menu is not less important than
the men you will meet.

His suit showed spots of suet and
scot. Readers D ig est.

The game of lawn bowls, one of the
'oldest as well as one of the simplest of
j out-door games, is finding increased
popularity in American colleges. Se\
era! colleges now include it in their
co-ed athletic programs. Tech Oracle.

ELEVEN WE
THINK-LESS WEEKS

For eleven weeks now we have
been dashing about madly trying
to get done all there is to be done
before the holidays. We have had
a debate, a lecture, a play. We
have had innumerable club meet-
ings. And we have had tests and
term papers. All this in eleven
weeks. Yet we have had no We
Thinks.

For the past few years THE
AGONISTIC has maintained a
column for the free and unre-
strained expression of student
thought on campus matters. The
policy this year is the continued
maintenance of the We Think
column. And, although it has not
been used at all, there is still,
technically, such a column.

Frequent expression of student
thought is an indication that
there is movement among the
st udents. Spontaneously ad-
vanced opinions on campus prob-
lems stimulate thought and, in
some castas, bring about changes.
It's normal and healthy and
wholesome that students should
have moments of intense dissat-
isfaction. And eleven weeks
seems an amazingly long period
of utter contentment.

Betty Lou (Houck) Smith, '3 5, has
returned from New York to Decatur,
where she and her husband are making
their home.

Helen Derrick, '3 5, is teaching
French and English in Forrestville, Va.

Sara (Strickland) Beggs, '3 3, has
returned to her home in Pensacola, Fla.,
after visiting her aunt and father in
Decatur.

Thomas Wolfe was the author cho-
sen by the winner of the essay contest
held by the American Book Company
on Who is the Outstanding American
Author and Why? The prize went to
a Mrs. Jessie Winston Turnipseed, of
Birmingham, Alabama.

la Pa/, Bolivia (AP) Universities
and high schools in Bolivia are running
full blast for the first time si nee the

Chaco war with Paraguay started m

1 932. The June armistice permitted
students to return from the front, and

the universities were reopened Oc-
tober*

Annie Laurie Whitehead, '3 3, is liv-
ing at 123 Avenue A, Southwest, Win-
ter Flavcn, Fla.

Elizabeth Allison, ex-'37, is attend-
ing the Alabama Polytechnique Insti-
tute in Auburn, Ala.

Wilhelm Gordenio received the first
M D. degree from the College of Asti,
Italy, in 1329. Soon after this date the
degree was conferred by the University
of Paris. Blue Stocking.

Ohio State gatekeepers have a novel
way of deciding whether or not you
are sober enough CO enter the stadium.
If you can wiggle your thumbs in
unison, you are all right. Otherwise
you will have to watch the game from
a telegraph pole. Rmg-'L nm -Phi.

Duke, Furman, and Johnson C
Smith Universities, and Davidson Col-
lege are the four institutions which are
receiving funds from the Duke Endow-
ment.

According to Who's Who, 85 per

This paragraph is written for those
students who teel that they are bur-
dened with work. A Student at Miami
University is carrying 20 study hours
a week and auditing one course. To
support himself he works SO hours a
month on the \YA, assists in the de

Genevieve Baird, ex-'3 8, is attending
Arlington Hall in Washington, D. C.

partmcnt of mathematics and works
cent, ot the outstanding persons in the J > , . .

' TT c 11 1 r.J\....;..t.. .from 7 o clock to midnight every d.u

Elizabeth Bowden, ex-'3 8, is a stu-
dent at the Norfolk, Va., branch of
William and Mary College.

U. S. are college graduates. -

Digest

Ollegiate I .

the ol f ice oi a taxi company.

Meredith Crickmer, e.\-'37, is attend-
ing Northwestern Universitv in Evans-
ton, III.

Elizabeth Perrin, ex-'37, and Mary
Pitner, cx-'37, are roommates at the
University of Tennessee in Knoxville.

Caroline Phillips, ex-'3 8, is a student
at the Universitv of Texas in Austin.

"The recent Florida hurricane 'miss-
ed' Ernest Hemingway's home in Key
West. But the wind was more than
enough to uproot trees and set boats
ulrit't. l or many hours they did not
know what had happened on the main-
land. When boats could finally go,
Mr. Hemingway went immediately and
spent days helping in the recovery of
bodies at the veteran's camp." I mm
"Behind the Scenes," Si ri&nef*s s No-
vember.

A c-immolngv class .11 Syracuse Uni-
versity has discovered that morons can
dance as well as, if not better, th.m
most people ot normal mentality. The
students declare that they are gifted
with an abnormal sense of rhythm. In
view of this fact, think twice before
you smile the next time your partner
tells you that you dance divinelv.

Sara Emeline Steele, ex-'3 8, is at her
home in Anniston, Ala., doing Young
People's work and taking an active part
in Little Theater activities.

(Continued on page 6, column 2)

General U. S. Grant had no memory
I for music. On one occasion he re-
marked to a friend sitting next to him
at a concert: "Why, I only know two
tunes. One is Yankee Doodle and the
other isn't." Reader's Digest.

A poll at the Universitv of Ohio
among co-eds showed an amazing dif-
ference between freshmen and seniors.
Glassed as most desirable traits by the
eniora were a good family, closely fol-
lowed by good morals. freshmen
classed good social traits as most im
portant. Good morals came four-
teen h Dai idsonian.

The Agonistic

3

Mr. T. F. Neblett,
Pres. of N.S.F.A.
Is Speaker Here

Mr. Thomas Fair Neblett, president
of the National Student Federation of
America, spoke in chapel on Friday,
December 6. He discussed the changing
temper of American youth, describing
it as a definite Youth Movement; he
pointed out that the great difference
between such movements in Europe
and the one in this country is that
the American change is being made by
the students themselves and not by
extra-collegiate leaders. He cited as ex-
amples of the change the Peace Mob-
ilization of students last month and
the concerted opposition of students
all over the country to American par-
ticipation in the 193 6 Olympics. After
chapel Mr. Neblett met with a group
of students for informal discussion in
the Y. W. cabinet room.

Mr. Neblett came to Atlanta from
Louisville, Kentucky where he had ad-
dressed the annual meeting of the
Southern Association of Colleges and
Secondary Schools. On Saturday he
spoke to the meeting of Deans of
Graduate Schools being held in Atlan-
ta. He visited at Emory University and
Georgia Tech in addition to Agnes
Scott while he was in the city.

Mr. Neblett, a native of Mississippi,
did his undergraduate work at Mill-
saps College, Jackson; he holds his
Master's degree from Louisiana State
University.

Spanish Club Will
Give Play Dec. 13
In Gaines Chapel

The Spanish Club of Agnes Scott
College will present one of the most
popular plays of the Spanish theater,
Los In tenses Creados, by Jacinto Be-
navente, on Friday night, December
13. Los Intereses Creados is the story
of a very clever, roguish servant who
creates social contacts which are most
beneficial to him and to his young
master. As a result of his ingenuity
and daring, Crispin, the servant, brings
his affairs to a satisfactory conclusion
in the marriage of his young maste-,
Leandro, to the daughter of a wealthy
merchant.

The cast of the play includes: Cris-
pin, Lilian Grimson; Leandro, Louise
Brown; Silvia, Hibernia Hassell; Capi-
tal!, Cornelia Christie; Arlequin, Mar-
tha Head; Senor Polichinela, Elsie
Blackstone; Senora Polichinela, Meriel
Bull; el Doctor, Josephine Bertolli; el
Hostelero, Mary Johnson; Colombina,
Alice Taylor; and Dona Sirena, Lois
Hart.

The play will be given in Gaines
Chapel at 7:30 o'clock. The College
community and all friends who are in-
terested are invited.

Language Groups
Will Sing Carols
Before Holidays

The singing of Christmas carols by
the Spanish, French, and German Clubs
on the night before Christmas vaca-
tion will again be one of the loveliest
features of the Christmas season on the
Agnes Scott College campus. The mem-
bers of the three clubs will meet to-
gether on the quadrangle at 9 o'clock
cn Tuesday evening, December 17, and
will go from there to the various dor-
mitories and faculty houses, singing the
carols in the different languages.

The Spanish Club plans to sing Be-
Icu, Los Reyes Mages, El Nino Jesus,
and Noche de Paz. Among the carols
to be sung by the French Club are
Wnidt Chretiens, V n Vlambcau, Jean-
;/('//(, Isabcllc, Dans les Ombres de la
Nu:t 3 and Les Trois Anges. The Ger-
man Club has chosen to sing Es ist ein
Ros BntsprUngen, Maria Durch ein
Dornwaldging, Stille Nacht, Heiligc
Uachty 6 Tanncnbaum, Still, Still,
Still, and Von Him tnel lloch, da Kam
Ich Her.

German Club Gives
Christmas Program,
"Das Weihnactspiel"

The German Club of Agnes Scott
College will present Das Weihnacht-
spicl, a Christmas play, at its meeting
this afternoon in Mr. Johnson's studio
at 5 o'clock. The cast includes the fol-
lowing members of the Club: der Va-
ter, Wayve Lewis; die Mutter, Lucie
Hess; eine fremde Frau, Anne Thomp-
son; der Tod, Kathryn Bowen; das
Madchen, Jean Austin; der Soldat,
Mary Kneale; der Konig, Jane Dry-
foos; die alte Frau, Ora Muse; and
Engelchor, Ann Worthy Johnson and
Virginia Wood. Rehearsals for the play
have been held during the past two
weeks under the direction of Profes-
sor Muriel Harn, of the German de-
partment, Ethelyn Johnson, president
of the Club, and Lucie Hess. Lulu
Ames, Alice Chamlee, and Ann Martin
are in charge of costumes and proper-
ties for the play.

The Club plans to continue inten-
sive practice of German carols for the
rest of this week in preparation for
the traditional carol serenade of next
Tuesday night. All practices are held
in Mr. Dieckmann's studio in Main
under the direction of Miss Harn.

T.B. Ass'n.To Sell
Christmas Seals
Again This Year

The quaint little woman posting a
letter forms the design for the 193 5
Christmas seal that the Tuberculosis
Association of Atlanta and other cities

BUY

CHRISTMAS

Modern Fireproof
C VJNDLER HOTEL
European Flan
De. 3715
T. J. Woods, Mgr. Deeatur. (ia.

MISS HELEiN GILROY,
FORMER INSTRUCTOR,
IS CAMPUS VISITOR

Miss Helen T. Gilroy, former sub-
stitute teacher of physics at Agnes
Scott College, visited on the campus
Saturday and Sunday, December 7 and
8, as the guest of Associate Professor
Emily Dexter, of the psychology de-
partment, and Professor Muriel Harn,
of the German and Spanish depart-
ments.

Miss Gilroy taught at Agnes Scott
during the session of 1927-192 8 in the
absence of Miss Emily Howson, who
was for eleven years professor of phys-
ics and astronomy at the college. At
present she is teaching physics and
mathematics at the Berry School near
Rome, Georgia. She is a very interest-
ing person, and has traveled widely
not only in the countries which Amer-
icans usually visit but also, as Miss
Dexter says, "where no one else goes."
She recently spent several years teach-
ing in the University of Lang Kang
in Peiping, China.

On Sunday afternoon Miss Harn en-
tertained at a tea in honor of Miss
Gilroy.

French Club Plans
To Honor Alliance
With Mystery Play

Comte de Noel, a French mystery
play of the fifteenth century, by Mau-
rice Boucher, will be presented by the
members of the French Club at the
meeting in Gaines Chapel at 4:30 to-
morrow afternoon. The Alliance Fran-
caise of Atlanta will be guests. The
cast of the play is as follows: Saint
Nicolas, Jean Chalmers; Samte Rose,
Nell Allison; Pierre Coeur, statuaire,
Enid Middlcton; and Jacqueline, sa
femme, Marcelle Cappatti. The chorus
includes Virginia Wood, Amelia Nick-
els, Alice Chamlee, and Olive Rives.
After the play the entire club will sing
French Christmas carols.

The lovely story is of a woodcarver
whose figures, two saints, come alive
while he is away from home and bring
Christmas gifts to his children.

According to a recent estimate, the*
American people spend $5,000,000,000
in a normal year on holiday and vaca-
tion travel. Scientific American.

AGNES SCOTT GIRLS!
You are especially invited to come
to Lawrence's Pharmacy from 2 to
5:30 Thursday afternoon.

Lawrence's
Pharmacy

"LITTLE DEC"

FIGHT

TUBERCULOSIS

n the United States is selling to raise
funds for the control and preven-
tion of tuberculosis. Millions of these
eals are sold annually in this country
for this purpose; more than forty dif-
ferent countries throughout the world
now have or have had Christmas seals
that are sold wholly or partially for
tuberculosis work, also.

Total returns for the twenty-eight
years the seal has been used in America
are over $75,000,000. The funds de-
rived from the sale are used for edu-
cation, organization, and demonstra-
tion of tuberculosis work.

The little figure on this year's seal
is a tribute to the women in the six-
ties who sold charity stamps to take
care of the soldiers.

letter-box

Cotillion Club

Has Fall Dance

The Cotillion Club of Agnes Scott
College entertained for the College
community at a dance on last Sat-
urday evening from 8 to 1 1 in Bucher
Scott Gymnasium. The Emory Aces
provided music for the dancing.

In the receiving line were Associate
Professor Louise Hale, of the French
department, Associate Professor Llewel-
lyn Wilburn and Assistant Professor
Harriette Haynes, of the physical ed-
ucation department, faculty advisers;
Nell White, president, Wita Moreland,
vice-president; and Nancy Tucker,
secretary-treasurer. The lead-out was
composed of the members of the club.

Faculty members and officers of the
club wore corsages of white roses. The
student members wore corsages of red
roses.

Mr. Frank Catez of the Fox Thea-
ter decorated the gymnasium for the
occasion. Draperies were hung around
all the walls; and one spotlight, two
large flood lamps, and eight colored
flood lamps of a smaller size provided
the illumination.

ELECTION NOTICE

Nominations for a junior dele-
gate to the NSFA convention in
Kansas City were opened on last
Thursday. In past years the pres-
ident of student government and
one junior on the executive com-
mittee, but elected by the stu-
dents, have represented Agnes
Scott at NSFA. In addition to the
junior delegate to be elected from
the entire junior class, the Execu-
tive Committee will appoint one
of its number.

The election will take place to-
morrow morning in chapel.

Agnes Scott College,
14 Days Before Christmas.
Dear Santy:

Time was when, at this Yuletide
season, I would have voiced my own
needs and desires in my letter to you,
but that day is past, for, prompted
by a sudden benevolent and unegotis-
tical spirit, I write to you in behalf
of that long-suffering group of believ-
ers the faculty. They, rushed with
thinking up subjects for term papers
and questions for tests and the conse-
quent grading of said documents, are
too busy or too modest to ask that you
and your reindeer pay them a visit "on
the night before Christmas," etc. Nev-
ertheless, after much psychological an-
alysis, I have discovered or at least I
have hazarded guesses concerning what
the professorial minds would like de-
posited in their stockings.

Mr. Robinson would be thrilled pink
if he received only one dozen x -}- z's
and one pound of x z's, provided
they are both garnished with some
PiR 2 's. Miss Laney desires so much a
class that doesn't inevitably become
drowsy over Chaucer's translation of
Boethius and I have a sneaking suspi-
cion that Mr. Hayes would be quite
elated over a stocking full of so's (but
not ' like so's" because you brought
some of those to Mr. Davidson last
year, and he hasn't exhausted the sup-
ply yet). The latter would be grateful
for some celephane-wrapped American
Revolutionary propaganda tied with
red ribbon, if you please!

And dear ever-obliging Santa, please
bring Miss Jackson a sign post or a tra-
fic light signal to guide her eager Euro-
pean History students upstairs to their
new room. So many have been lost in
the wilderness of Buttrick of late. If
this is too awkward to handle, you may
substitute an untranslated copy of the

Snapshot Contest
To Close Monday

The snap-shot contest which the Sil-
houette is conducting this fall, will
close on next Monday, December 16.
All entries must be in by that date.
They may be given to Shirley Chris-
tian, editor of the annual, or to Barton
Jackson, contest chairman. The date
for closing the contest was set for last
Monday but it has been decided to con-
tinue it for the rest of this week. Cash
prizes of $3.50 and $1.50 will be
awarded to those submitting the best
pictures.

All snap-shots will be judged on the
basis of general campus interest, origi-
nality, and clearness. In addition to the
cash prizes, a page in the Silhouette
will be devoted to those pictures win-
ning honorable mention. Students en-
tering are cautioned to place emphasis
on groups rather than on an individ-

Nicky-Willy Letters (this dear Santa
to you is Nickolas II to Wilhclm II.)

If, in your "Rome-ing," you come
across a nifty little Ciceronian Toga, I
am sure Miss Latin Smith would be de-
lighted to discover it under her Christ-
mas Tree on December 2 5 th.

Several required courses in those for-
mal Disciplinary Courses, Latin and
Math, tied with a huge red and green
bow, would make also a happy New
Year.

And Dear Santa, don't forger that
Mr. Gillespie is so anxious to receive in
neat form the threefold reason why
Chapel attenders went on a strike in re-
gard to responsive reading. If you don't
grant this request he may declare a
lock-out or something. Ne onblics-Pas
also, Sanity-Clause, to light Miss
Gooch's Christmas tree with many gay
and brilliant broad A's. And above all
don't overlook the -ing's.

There are many things that you
might send Miss Hopkins, Santa, but
I believe she would be satisfied with
two or three of those dainty little ex-
cuse blank pads and one freshman who
knows how to sign in and out proper-
ly. And Mr. McCain only wants a
spacious new library (with a foun-
tain for social activities).

Dear Santa, as I said in the invoca-
tion of this epistle I am being un-
selfish in this pursuit and to prove my
sacrificing spirit. I beg you not to bring
me another term paper or a case of the
measles just before exams.

Hopefully yours,

Agnes Doe.

P. S. Don't forget the pencil-
sharpener for Buttrick and the waste
paper baskets for the shrubbery!

Aftermath. If you haven't a cos-
tume in which to make your appear-
ance with the above mentioned gifts,
Miss MacDougall will lend you hers.

ual; they may submit indoor exposures,
imposed shots, and unusual back-
grounds. All pictures must have local
color, be characteristic of college life
and must have been taken on the Ag-
nes Scott campus this fall.

Barton Jackson has been for the past
few weeks taking indoor informal ex-
posures of organizations, clubs, and
publications. The emphasis which the
193 6 Silhouette is putting on student
life and campus activities is a new pol-
icy for the annual.

CITY SHOE REBUILDERS
"Big Dec"
We put New Life in Old Shoes
542 MeDonough St.

THE ANNA YOUNG ALUM-
NAE HOUSE extends a cordial
invitation to campus visitors to
mi est privileges while at Agnes
Scott.

the quest for fine christmas
gifts leads to . . .

Pea cRi/i Store

m

WEIL'S 10c STORE
"Big Dee"

Let us fill your Xmas Stockings!

Meet your friends at

Cox's Prescription Shop

Between Paramount &
Grand Theatres

Agnes Scott Girls Enjoy the

Original Waffle
Shop

It e tu u ran I

Famous for Fine
Foods

62 Pryor, N. E.
Just Below Candler BIdg.

4

The Agonistic

at home

B O Z

The next meeting of B O Z will
take place on Friday night, December
13, at 7:3 0 in Miss Janef Preston's
apartment.

Chi Beta Phi Sigma
Chi Beta Phi Sigma served coffee to
the College community on Wednesday
night, December 4. Sarah Nichols,
Elizabeth Forman, Pauline Moss, Mar-
tha Summers, and Mildred Tilly as-
sisted.

Blackfriars
The regular meeting of Blackfriars
was held on Tuesday night, December
10, at 7 o'clock in Miss Gooch's stu-
dio. A Greek play, The Frogs, direct-
ed by Virginia Turner, was presented.
The characters were: Euripedes, Kath-
ryn Leipold; Bacchus, Lucile Cairns;
Aeschylus, Hortense Norton; and Plu-
to, Jean Barry Adams.

Poetry Club
Poetry Club met Tuesday night, De-
cember 10, at 8:30 with Miss Emma
May Laney.

International Relations Club
The last meeting of the International
Relations Club was held on Tuesday

afternoon, December 10, at 4 o'clock
in the Y. W. C. A. room. Associate
Professor Louise Hale of the French
department spoke on The Political Sit-
uation in France Today.

Music Appreciation Group
The Music Appreciation Group of
the Y. W. C. A. met on Sunday night,
December 8, at 7 o'clock in the music
room. Mary Ruth Murphy spoke on
The Life and Works of Franz Schubert.
Special study was made of the Unfin-
ished Symphony and his better known
short compositions, Ave Maria and the

Serenade.

Pi Alpha Phi
At the Pi Alpha Phi meeting on
Thursday evening, December 5, Mary
Lillian Fairly and Betty Mathis debated
on Resolved: That Lynching Should be
a Federal Crime.

Mission Interest Group
The Mission Interest Group of the
Y. W. C. A. met on Wednesday after-
noon, December 4, at 4:3 0 in the Y.
W. C. A. room. This group has sent
Christmas cards to thirty-five alumnae
of Agnes Scott College who are now
in foreign mission fields. Cards were
also sent to Miss Emily Winn, the mis-
sionary supported by the College.

Prof. Muriel Harn I Adelaide Stevens To
Hostess at German Read Christmas Tale
Christmas Party At Candle Service

Professor Muriel Harn, of the Ger-
man department, was hostess at a de-
lightful German Christmas party in
Lupton Cottage on last Sunday after-
noon, December 8, from 3:30 to 5:30
o'clock. Members of the College com-
munity and students in the German
department were present. The guests
sang German carols and Lucie Hess,
exchange student, read a dramatic Ger-
man poem.

The rooms were decorated with holly
and evergreens; two Christmas trees
dressed in the old-fashioned way with
strung popcorn and cranberries and
lighted by candles added to the festive
atmosphere. A set of small carved wood
figures of the Holy Child, Mary, Jo-
seph, and the Wise Men arranged
around the Manger were displayed on
the mantle. A music box, a wooden
angel, a Santa Claus and other small
carved figures emphasized the German
note of the party.

Miss Harn was assisted in serving by
several students and the other faculty
members who live in Lupton.

Adelaide Stevens, president of Stu-
dent Government, will be in charge
of the traditional White Candle Serv-
ice to be held on next Monday night,
December 16, at 10 o'clock in Gaines
Chapel. She is planning to read Henry
Van Dyke's beautiful Christmas story,
The Other Wise Man. The chapel will
be lighted by white candles only. The
rest of the service will be devoted to
singing Christmas carols and to spe-
cial Christmas music.

The White Candle Service is the
third and final Candle Service which
Y. W. C. A. sponsers each year. The
first two, which were under the direc-
| tion of Sarah Spencer, president of Y.
| W. C. A., and Ruby Hutton, vice-
I president of Y. W. C. A., were Red
Candle ones. The White Candle Serv-
ice, which is always held on the last
Monday before the holidays, has usual-
ly a longer program; the president of
Student Government always plans the
program for the final service.

Professors Will
Spend Christmas
In Many Places

Almost all the faculty members of
Agnes Scott are making extensive plans
to be up and away, during the coming
Christmas holidays, to many interest-
ing spots.

Miss Muriel Harn has decided to go
to Baltimore; Miss Leslie Gaylord to
Winchester, Va.; Miss Helen Miller,
and Miss Katherine Omwake, to Wash-
ington, D. C.

Miss Edna R. Hanley and Miss Car-
rie Scandrett are to visit New York to-
gether, spending Christmas day there.
Miss Scandrett shows a delightful
vagueness as to just why she chose New
York; but she is thrilled over the pros-
pect of Christmas in the great city.
Toward the end of vacation Miss Scan-
drett plans to go to her family in
Birmingham, Ala.

Miss Harriette Haynes is wavering
between spending the holidays in Mar-
ietta, Ga., or Danville, Va. However,
the fact that she cannot make up her
mind does not seem to trouble her,
for she gaily explains that if the worse
comes to the worst, she will go to both
cities.

Mr. R. B. Cunningham may spend
some time in Columbia, S. C, where he
will visit his grandchildren.

Florida seems to have attracted the
greatest number; for Miss Louise Hale,
Miss Blanche Miller, Miss Elizabeth
Jackson, Miss Lillian Smith, Miss Emma
May Laney, and Mr. Robert B. Holt
have all chosen to go there for their
vacation. Miss Jackson owns a home
in Orlando, where she will stay. Miss
Lillian Smith plans to stay in Miami,
and Miss Emma May Laney will visit
her brother in Tampa, later on includ-
ing St. Augustine in her trip.

Mr. and Mrs. Holt are going through
St. Petersburg, Bradenton, and Sara-
sota. Mr. Holt jovially expresses the
hope that he will enjoy plenty of golf
and fresh air, the two main purposes
for his visit.

Miss Nannette Hopkins will attend
a family reunion at the home of her
sister, Mrs. J. S. Dejarnette, in Stan-
ton, Va.

Mr. J. C. Tart, treasurer, is dutifully
planning to spend Christmas with his
family in Oliver, Ga., as is his custom,
'"s anticipation is slightly marred,
owever, by the knowledge that he
must be back to work agan by De-
:ember 31. He has the sympathy of
:he students!

STRLNG ENSEMBLE HAS
CHAPEL PRUGKAM OF
1 RARE SEASONAL MUSIC

Alumnae Return
From Texas Trip
Saturday, Dec. 14

Miss Alberta Palmour, '3 5, field sec-
retary for the Agnes Scott Alumnae
Association, and Miss Jacqueline Wool-
folk, '3 5, who have been traveling
through the South and Texas in the
interests of the College for the past
six weeks, are expected to return to
the campus on Saturday, December 14.

Miss Palmour, who addressed groups
of students in the two upper years of
high school, and Miss Woolfolk have
visited the principal cities in Alabama,
Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. They
have also touched some parts of Ar-
kansas and Tennessee. At many places
on their itinerary, the two visited with
alumnae of the College and met with
Alumnae Clubs.

They are returning to Decatur by
way of Clarksdale, Greenville, Vicks-
burg, and Meridian, Mississippi, and
Birmingham, Alabama. They will prob-
ably arrive late on Saturday.

The String Ensemble of Agnes Scott
College, under the direction of Profes-
sor Christian W. Dieckmann, of the
music department, presented a program
of rare and beautiful Christmas music
this morning at chapel.

The program included the Pastoral
S) in phony from Bach's Christmas Ora-
toral and two Bach Chorals. The morn-
ing hymn, one seldom used at Agnes
Scott, was Luther's A Mighty Fortress.

The String Ensemble, which is made
up of both faculty and students, will
take part in the annual Carol Service
to be held on next Sunday in Gaines
Chapel.

Florida State College for Women at
Tallahassee conferred the degree of doc-
tor of laws on Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen,
U. S. minister to Denmark and Ameri-
ca's only woman diplomat.

and abroad

Well, Roosevelt has come and gone,
as all the best things in life will do.
Our next bet is Santa Claus, but we are
told that "there ain't no Sanity-
Clause," but we're gonna get those let-
ters off to him just the same.

S:rick and Virginia are one up on us!
They've gone domestic in a big way.
They are just before blossoming out in
brown and black suits of their own
creation. Well, anyway, they have the
pattern and material.

planted for her, and the other day her
mother sent her an apple from this
tree, big and red and juicy. And at
package call one morning there were
ten big packages from the "Vaterland"
for our German student. You see, they
love her as much as we do.

Miss Mary Jane Willett
Of National Y. W. Ass'n.
Leads Discussion Group

Miss Mary Jane Willett, regional
secretary of the national Young Wom-
en's Christian Association, led an in-
formal discussion at a meeting of the
local Y. W. cabinet members on Fri-
day afternoon, December 6, in the Y.
W. C. A. cabinet room. The group,
under Miss Willett's leadership, dis-
cussed in particular the high aim of
the organization and the responsibili-
ties it places on its leaders.

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Here's a choice bit. Our self-com-
posed Lib Blackshear had a quaint
street-car experience. The vehicle
lurched and so did Lib; when she re-
covered she discovered a man literally
at her feet! She had laid him out
in no uncertain terms.

The faculty are not immune to pull-
ing boners either. On Investiture Sat-
urday Mr. Raper, being a bit flustered
by the presence of mamas and papas in
his class, greeted Irene Wilson, who
entered in hat and gloves, with a po-
lite smile and a "so glad you could
visit us this morning!"

Peggy Willis, a go-getting freshman,
doesn't waste any time. Two dates
and a frat pin! We'll drop by and
talk to you, Peg.

And now for our foreign news and
favorite story of the week. When Lu-
cie Hess was born, an apple tree was

Public Enemy No. 1 of dormitory
life is "Adelaide Ant." She has moved
in, bag and baggage, children and an-
cestors, to stay, she thinks; but we just
laughed and laughed, because we know
we're gonna put our foot down on her!

The Freshmen book group met last
Tuesday, December 3. A group consist-
ing of Cora Kay Hutchins heard
Brooks Spivey talk about Thornton
Wilder.

Christmas Books
To Be Useful in
Du Bury Contest

Since books are popular gifts for
Christmas, it is timely to publish a
reminder of the Richard du Bury Book
Award of $2 5.00 to be given to the
Agnes Scott College student who has
made, between now and May 1, 193 6,
the best collection of books and who
has shown the most discrimination in
her selection. The books may be ones
that have been purchased or acquired
as gifts.

No collection of fewer than fifteen
books will be considered; there are no
restrictions as to the type. Each col-
lection will be judged by the number
and quality of books and by the own-
er's understanding of their contents.
In May the girl will be paid an in-
formal visit by the committee so that
they may show how fully she under-
stands and appreciates her books.

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Y. W. Has Musical
Program in Chapel
On December 10

Mrs. Agnes Adams Stokes, instructor
n violin, Mrs. S. Guerry Stukes, and
Miss Polly Vaughan, of the spoken
English department, took part in the
Y. W. C. A.'s program of music and
poetry presented in Gaines Chapel on
Tuesday morning, December 10. Jean
Barry Adams was in charge of the
:ervice, and Mr. Christian Dieckmann,
professor of music, was the accompa-
nist.

Mrs. Stukes sang James Whitcomb
Riley's The Prayer Perfect, to music
written by Mr. Dieckmann. Following
:his, Mrs. Stokes gave a violin solo,
Serenade Espagrtole, by Chaminade-
Kreisler. To further the ideal of peace.
Miss Polly Vaughan read Amy Lowell's
ovely poem, Patterns.

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5

Mortar Board Has
Tea In Honor Of
Faculty Members

Mortar Board entertained at a tea
on Saturday afternoon, December 6,
from 4:30 to 5:30, in honor of the
faculty of Agnes Scott College. Guests
included the day students of the Col-
lege and their parents, and the fresh-
men boarding students. They were re-
ceived by Carrie Phinney Latimer, pres-
ident of Mortar Board, Dean Nannette
Hopkins, Miss Carrie Scandrett, assis-
tant dean, and the faculty advisers:
Associate Professor Louise Hale, of the
French department, Professor George P.
Hayes, of the English department, and
Associate Professor Florence Smith, of
the history department.

Miss Margaret Bell, '3 3, and Miss
Mar) MacDonald, '34, alumnae mem-
bers of Mortar Board, poured tea. Ac-
tive members served, and were assisted
by Frances Miller, Alice McCallie, Eu-
genia Symms, and Mary Margaret
Stowe.

A color scheme of yellow and white
was carried out in the flowers, decora-
tions, candles, and refreshments.

The members of the Agnes Scott
chapter of Mortar Board are: Lulu
Ames, Shirley Christian, Ann Coffee,
Ruby Hutton, Frances James, Augusta
King, Carrie Phinney Latimer, Dean
McKoin, Sarah Spencer, Adelaide Stev-
ens, and Loice Richards.

Bible Club Gives
Church Pageant

To commemorate the four-hun-
dredth anniversary of the translation of
the English Bible, the Agnes Scott Col-
lege Bible Club presented a pageant,
The Power of the Word, at the Baptist
Tabernacle last Sunday afternoon, De-
cember 8. Mrs. Olin Rogers, formerly
Mary Sayward, an alumna of Agnes
Scott and former president of Black-
friars, directed the pageant.

Dr. W. A. Shelton, president of
Christian Council of Atlanta, presided
over the entire celebration. Dr. Nat
Long introduced the pageant by giving
its historical background. The princi-
pal parts in The Power of the Word
were taken by Catherine Bates, Isabel
McCain, Martha McAfee, Mary Alice
Baker, Julia Telford, Gertrude Lozier,
Irene Wilson, Mildred Coit, Frances
Steele, Marie Merritt, and Martha John-
son. Other members of the Club rep-
resented various countries or were in
.he chorus. Professor Alma Syden-
stryker and Associate Professor James
T Gillespie, of the Bible department,
aisistecf at the practices.

Many colleges besides Agnes Scott
took part in the celebration. Georgia
Tech, as well as other Georgia colleges,
planned programs. Other churches in
Atlanta and Decatur took part, also.

Macon Group Offers
Prize for Best Play

For the best one-act play submitted
to the annual contest for amateur
writers of Georgia, the Macon Little
Theater will offer five dollars and pro-
duction. For second and third best
plays the theater will offer production,
and for the best three-act play submit-
ted, provided it is worthy of presenta-
tion as one of the major productions of
the vear, it will offer a money prize
and production.

The contest closes December 31,
1935. All entries must be typed on one
r : de of the paper, and submitted under
a pen name. Complete rules for the
contest are posted on the bulletin board
in Buttrick Hall.

Emory Glee Club Will
Sing Carols Sunday

The Emory University Glee Club,
under the direction of Dr. Malcolm
H. Dewey, will present its twelfth an-
nual program of Christmas music on
Sunday afternoon, December 15, in
Glenn Memorial Church.

The program this year will be simi-
lar to that used in Kings College Chap-
el, Cambridge; this program has been
broadcast by the British Broadcasting
Corporation for the past eight years.
The only changes that Dr. Dewey has
made are the substitution of several
American carols for the English songs.

Y. W. C. A. Committee
Will Give Party For
Poor County Kiddies

The Social Service Group of the Y.
W. C. A. of Agnes Scott College is
sponsoring the annual Christmas
party for the under-privileged children
of DeKalb and neighboring counties
on Saturday afternoon, December 14,
at 4 o'clock in Bucher Scott Gymnas-
ium. Sixty-five children between the
ages of 3 and 12 have been invited.

Gay red and green decoiitions with
a lighted Christmas tree and other
evergreens will decorate the main audi-
torium of the gymnasium. Marie Simp-
son, Social Service chairman during
1934-193 5, will entertain the children
with a story, and Alice McCallie, as
Santa Claus, will give them balloons
and candy bought with money con-
tributed by the day students. In the
basement of the gymnasium ice cream
and cake, which the boarders are giv-
ing from one of their meals, will be
served. The cones will be donated by
Lawrence's Pharmacy.

The committee chairmen, as an-
nounced by Mary Hull, Social Service
chairman, are: entertainment, Jean
Barry Adams; transportation, June
Harvey; decorations, Mary Alice
Baker; wrapping, Mary Alice Newton;
and refreshments, Kitty Cunningham.

Stockings filled by the students will
be given to the parents of the children
and kept by them until Christmas
morning when they will be presented
to the children. Students are requested
to bring their stockings to the Y. W.
C. A. room by 6 o'clock Thursday
afternoon, December 12. All girls who
would like to help in entertaining the
children with games at the party are
invited to attend.

Prof. Robinson Reveals Unusual

Calculations as Favorite Hobby

Change of Day Students'
Mail to Main Basement
Proves to Be Successful

The first method of cooking eggs on
record is that used by Egyptian shep-
herds who cooked them without fire.
The eggs were placed in a sling which
they turned so rapidly that friction of
the air heated them to the right degree.
Literary Digest.

The city of Tulare, CaL, has a week-
end school for farmers, to which scores
of farmers drive in from the country
every Friday afternoon, bringing their
entire families. While the children are
separately cared for, the adults attend
lectures and dramatic entertainments,
followed by special classes and discus-
sion groups in such subjects as eco-
nomics, current affairs, child training,
and farm problems. N. Y. Times
Magazine.

The transfer last week of the day
r.tudent mail boxes from the library to
the day student room in the basement
of Main has proved a satisfactory solu-
tion to the former problems of limited
amount of space and of disturbance
in the library because of confusion in
the mail room.

Under the present plan the names
of four, in some cases five, girls are
on each box; they are arranged alpha-
betically. These boxes are large enough
to hold The Agonistic and the Au-
rora. Unclaimed mail is removed from
the boxes on Monday of each week and
put in a dead-letter box.

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That the number of Agnes Scott
girls attending chapel every day dur-
ing a given period of time is exactly
the same as the number of soldiers in
the British army killed by horsekick,
was the startling coincidence revealed
by Professor Henry A. Robinson, of
the mathematics department, recently
in an interview concerning his practi-
cal application of math to everyday
life. "But," he hastened to add after
such an interesting statement, "this
does not imply that there is any sub-
tle connection between the two occur-
rences, however. It is interesting to no-
tice the similarity of the two sums."

Not only has Mr. Robinson diligent-
ly counted the number of girls who
attend chapel, but he has also estimat-
ed the number present at other campus
activities. For instance, at the recent
British debate before the actual speak-
ing began, Mr. Robinson compiled a list
of figures concerning the number of
people there, the percentage of faculty
members present, the percentage of
each class represented, and the num-
ber of young gentlemen other than the
debaters who attended. At present Mr.
Robinson has found no British army
equivalent to these results.

"This calculation/' Mr. Robinson
explained, "is done by means of a fre-
quency curve, and in case of boredom
this little pastime certainly comes in
handy."

Whenever he is attending a perform-
ance which becomes unbearably dull,
Mr. Robinson amuses himself by count-
ing the number of rows and the num-
ber of seats in a row. Then he spots
the vacancies in the audience. With
this information he draws a frequency
curve from which he derives his mi-
nutely accurate results. And judging
from his facial expression when he dis-
cusses this hobby, it must be an im-

mediate and an absorbingly interesting
relief from boredom.

In his early days the popcorn, pea-
nuts, elephants, and bare-back riders
of the circus parade held no charms
for Mr. Robinson, because he was quite
too busy counting the number of peo-
ple actually participating in the parade
and estimating the number watching it
from the sidelines. This he did also by
means of a frequency curve.

"When I was attending Johns Hop-
kins," Mr. Robinson said, "some of the
leading newspapers asked me on spe-
cial occasions to estimate the number
of people in town or the percentage
attending a particular event, and I us-
ually got the number about right." Mr.
Robinson further stated that had he
been in town when Roosevelt made his
address, he would have estimated by
mathematical calculation the number
of people in Atlanta.

To those who have never counted
anything other than insomnia sheep
and the days before Christmas (with-
out the frequency curve), Mr. Robin-
son's interview may be an interesting
and a helpful suggestion.

There is actually one girl student at
Lindsay college, Lindsay, Ontario, Can-
ada, whose ambition is to become "a
good wife for some man." The others,
a survey revealed, would like to be-
come teachers, nurses, stenographers,
dietitians, writers, or interior decora-
tors. Campus Com merits.

The Chinese, in developing their gar-
dens, often deliberately add a bit of
ugliness for purposes of contrast. A
dead tree may be left standing with
glowing flowers and shrubs grouped
around it. They argue that beauty will
thus appear more beautiful. Reader's
Digest.

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The Agonistic

A KEY TO CURRENT HISTORY

{Continued from page 2, column 3)
surprisingly quietly received. How-
ever, when he was introduced as "the
President of the U. S. and the next
President of the U. S.," this statement
received as much applause as any.

For some weeks past, Postmaster
General Farley has been touring the
western states, shaking hands and hav-
ing dinners with local politicians. He
visited eighteen states and talked with
politicians in nine others. All twenty-
seven of these states, reported General-
issimo Farley, will go Democratic in
1936.

The Republicans have not, apparent-

ALUMNAE NEWS

{Continued from page 2, column 3)
Kathleen Bowen, '32, was one of ten
students selected to spend the summer
with Madame Louise Homer, Metro-
politan opera star, at her camp at Bo-
land on Lake George, New York.

ly, determined the range of their big
guns and are still contenting them-
selves with small fire, like the dig of-
fered the administration by one of the
prospective G. O. P. 193 6 candidates,
Herbert Hoover, who said of the new

I U. S.-Canadian treaty that "it pro-
vided for a more abundant life for the

] Canadians/'

Compliments

of a

Friend

m

Basketball Season
Opens Next Friday

Vith the seniors playing the juniors
and the sophomores, the freshmen, the
basketball season will open this Friday
afternoon at 3:30 in Bucher Scott
Gymnasium. Miss Bee Miller, instruc-
tor in biology, and Associate Profes-
sor Llewellyn Wilburn, of the physi-
cal education department, will referee;
Lulu Ames will be scorer, and Mary
Elizabeth Morrow, timekeeper.

Alice Taylor is basketball manager
for this year; the class managers are:
senior, Kathryn Bishop; junior, Isabel
McCain; sophomore, Elizabeth Black-
shear; and freshman, Caroline Car-
michael. During the season, each team
will play six games.

Suort Notes

Dancing proved to be the most popu-
lar form of recreation for the winter
season, according to the check-up made
by the physical education director. It
topped the list with 191 students sign-
ing up for it, excluding the 29 mem-
bers of the class in fundamentals of
movement. Basketball came second
with 62 signing up; individual gym-
nastics next with 53; then swimming
with 48; and finally campfire leader-
ship with 30. This list does not include
the large number of girls who belong
to swimming, tennis, outing, and arch-
ery clubs.

Athletic Board Has
Party for Members

The annual Christmas party given
by the Athletic Board took place last
night at 8 o'clock in the Athletic
Board room in Bucher Scott Gymna-
sium. Present were Associate Professor
Llewellyn Wilburn and Assistant Pro-
fessor Harriette Haynes, of the physi-
cal education department; Miss Eliza-
beth Mitchell, instructor in physical
education; and the fourteen members
of the Board.

Frances Steele and Anne Taylor
planned the party. Entertainment in-
cluded a Christmas tree, gifts suitable
for each person's position, and dancing.

The members of the Board are Ann
Coffee, Helen Handte, Julia Thing,
Marie Stalker, Alice Taylor, Anne Tay-
lor, Mary Kneale, Bee Merrill, Martha
Long, Elizabeth Burson, Mary King,
Florence Lasseter, Frances Robinson,
and Frances Steele.

COUCHES, COMFORTABLE CHAIRS
TO BE FEATURES OF NEW
LIBRARY

(Continued from page 1, column 2)
ed with new desks. The reserve book
room will have a formal arrangement
: of tables and chairs and will have a
maximum capacity of 180 readers.
There will also be on the ground floor
, a large room, 29* 2 feet by 60 feet,
where the art collection given to Ag-
nes Scott some years ago by the Car-
negie Corporation will be placed.

The second floor will contain three
seminar rooms, a typewriting room, and
i a special room for the showing of lan-
i tern slides. It is hoped that the seminar
rooms may be used as memorials to Dr.
J. D. M. Armistead, professor of Eng-
lish at Agnes Scott for eighteen years,
to Miss Cleo Hearon, professor of his-
tory for nine years, and to Miss Emily
Elizabeth Howson, professor of physics
and astronomy for eleven years. The
equipment of these rooms will consist
of the tables and chairs in the present
library, which will be refinished. The
typewriting room will contain tables
and chairs for the use of those girls
who have their own typewriters.

Miss Hanley hopes that it will also
be possible to have attractive furniture
on the terrace, which will be connect-
ed with the reading room by an at-
tractive staircase. Further details of the
plans for the equipment of the new li-
rary are now being made.

Class of "35 Have
Annual Reunion
November 3 0

The class of '35 held a reunion Sat-
urday, November 50, at 6:30 P. M., at
the Tavern Tea Room. Elizabeth Al-
exander, Frances Espy, Katherine Her-
tzka, Clara Morrison. Ida Lois Mc-
Daniel, Virginia Wood, Elizabeth
Young, Mary Adams, Yella Marie
Behm, Mary Green, Carol Griffin, Eliz-
abeth Heaton, Caroline Long, Marguer-
ite Morris, Martha Redwine, Marie
Simpson, Elizabeth Thrasher, Amy
(Underwood) Trowell, Hester Anne
Withers, and Alsine Shutze were pres-
ent.

It is customary for the graduating
class of the preceding June to hold its
first reunion around Thanksgiving.
Last fall the class of 1934 reunited
at an informal buffet supper at the
Anna Young Alumnae House; after-
wards they were the guests of Cotil-
lion Club at its traditional Thanks-
giving dance given in Bucher Scott
Gymnasium each year for the College
comm unit v.

The University of Virginia has open-
ed its new art museum. Among the
many famous paintings is one of George
Wasnington by Rembrandt Peale, given
bv Mr r Tiffany to the University.

FOR THIS ISSUE:

REPORTERS

Selma Stein bach
Elizabeth Warden
Loice Richards
Ruth Hert/ka
Eliza King
Giddv Erwin
Fnid Midd cton

Mildred Davis
Hortense Jones
Douglas L\ le
Sarah Johnson
Mary F. Guthrie

Mary Richardson
Mamie l ee Ratliff

Cora Kay Hutchins Ann W. Johnson

Anne Taylor

BUSINESS ASSISTANTS

Elizabeth Blackshear Estelle Cuddy
Sara Beatty Sloan

Agnes Scott Girls Recommend

MINER & CARTER

When you think of Gifts think of
Miner & Carter

Peachtree & Ellis Sts.

Phone WA. 4900

HELP
M. B.
MAKE

DATE
PARLORS
OVER

VOL. XXI

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 15, 1936

NO. 12

Johnson, King
Will Vie For
Scholarship

Faculty Names Two Seniors For
Beck Award

Mortar Board to
Redecorate Date
Parlors in Main

Ethelyn Johnson and Augusta King
have been named the candidates from
Agnes Scott College for the Beck
Scholarship as the result of the nom-
inations of the faculty and the recom-
mendations of the heads of the depart-
ments of the College. For the first
time since the award was offered two
years ago the majority of the nomina-
tions were in favor of members of the
senior class instead of alumnae. The
other four candidates for the graduate
study award will be from Emory
University and the University of Geor-
gia, which with Agnes Scott are the
only Georgia colleges having chapters
of Phi Beta Kappa, a requirement of
the scholarship. The winner w ill be
announced following the Commitee of
Selection's decision, to be made in Feb-
ruary.

The Beck Scholarship allows a sti-
pend not to exceed $2,000 annually for
graduate study in any institution in
America or elsewhere approved by the
Board. It may be held for as long as
three years. The candidates must be
citizens of Georgia and members of
the present senior class or alumni of
two years standing or less; their col-
leges must be Georgia institutions that
have chapters of Phi Beta Kappa and
standards approved and recognized
both by the Southern Association of
Colleges and Secondary Schools and the
Association of American Universities.

The Committee of Selection bases its
decision upon literary and scholastic
ability and attainments; personality
and character; leadership and interest
in others; and physical vigor as shown
by interest in outdoor sports or in
other ways. Distinction in character,
personality, and in intellect is the most
important requirement for the de-
cision.

The scholarship is furnished by a
fund left for that purpose by Mr.
Lewis Beck, former president of the
Beck & Gregg hardware store in At-
lanta. It was offered for the first time
in 19 34, when Virginia Heard, '3 3,
won it.

A campaign to raise funds for re-
modeling the date parlors in Main
Building was opened on last Saturday
morning, January 11, in chapel; the
local chapter of Mortar Board is spon-
soring the drive. The campaign, ac-
cording to Shirley Christian, general
chairman, will continue throughout
this week. A poster in Buttrick Hall
shows the daily progress of the drive.
The administration has agreed to match
up to fifty dollars the sum raised on
the campus. The first contributors last
Saturday were Dr. J. R. McCain, presi-
dent of the College, who gave five dol-
lars and Mortar Board which gave
eleven. Additional contributions have
been made in the three days this week.

Carrie Phinney Latimer and Ade-
laide Stevens are in charge of collec-
tion in Rebekah; Ruby Hutton and
Sarah Spencer are in charge in Main;
and Dean McKoin, of Inman. Day
students may contribute to Ann Cof-
fee, day student chairman, Lulu
Ames, Frances James, or Loice Rich-
a-ds. In addition, girls are stationed
outside the doors after chapel each
morning and a box has been placed in
Buttrick for the convenience of the
faculty.

The refurnishing and remodeling of
the date parlors in Main is worthy be-
cause they are, because of their pres-
ent drab and uncomfortable appear-
ance, apt to leave visitors to Agnes
Scott with an unpleasant first impres-
sion and, too often, an untrue one,
according to Shirley Christian.

1935-6 Catalogue
Describes Changes

The Agnes Scott College catalogue
for 1 93 5-1936 with announcements
for the session 1936-1937 was released
on the campus the first part of this
week. The general lay-out of the cata-
logue is the same as in former years.
Credit hours for courses have been con-
verted from semester to quarter hours
in accordance with the change, effec-
tive next September, from the present
semester system to the quarter system.

According to the new bulletin, 189
quarter hours will be required for the
degree, nine of which must be in physi-
cal education. The effect the change
will have on course plans is little, if
any. A year course now worth six
semester hours will amount to nine
quarter hours. Science courses carry-
ing eight hours credit now will carry
twelve quarter hours. Some subjects
which are now offered for a semester
will be extended over two quarters;
other semester subjects will be com-
pleted in one quarter. Since the limi-
tation of hours which a student can
carry has remained unchanged, there
will be no lessening in the number of
subjects each quarter.

The examination period has been cut
to a week. Exams for the fall quarter
will be given December 2-9; those for
the winter quarter, March 10-17, will
be followed immediately by spring

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Wilder to Talk
Here on Movies
And Literature

Dr. McCain Goes
To Conferences
Held in New York

Mr. Caldwell Talks
On Purpose of A. P.
At Agonistic Chapel

Mr. W. F. Caldwell, divisional news
editor of Associated Press, spoke at The
Agonistic chapel on Friday, January
10; his subject was The Organization
and Purposes of Associated Press.

He explained that Associated Press
is not a money-making organization
but one that attempts to serve all
newspapers equally through its rapid
system of news distribution. He
stressed the fact that Associated Press
stands for truth in news and that it is
not dominated by any one man or
group of men. In discussing Wire-
photo, Associated Press' year-old pic-
ture discovery, he told how The Dallas
News sent its front page, a half at a
time, by Wirephoto to California so
that Texans attending the Rose Bowl
game could have their own paper the
morning after.

Mr. Caldwell's interest in Agnes
Scott has made him an invaluable
friend to The Agonistic; he has served
as judge of the annual Class Contest
twice and has acted in an advisory
capacity many times. Mr. Caldwell
was a student of Dr. McCain, father of
the president of the College, at Erskine
and he married an Agnes Scott girl.

Mr. Ben F. Meyer, state news editor
for Associated Press, who opened the
series of The Agonistic programs last
October, was on the campus Friday
with Mr. Caldwell.

Dr. J. R. McCain, president of
Agnes Scott College, is in New York
City today attending the annual meet-
ing of the National Conference of
Church-Related Colleges; on January
16 and 17 he will attend the twenty-
second annual meeting of the Associa-
tion of American Colleges, of which
he is vice-president. Last year this
meeting was held in Atlanta; it is the
only time that the Association has met
in the South.

Religion in Education is the general
theme of the meeting of Church-Re-
lated Colleges. Among the talks to be
given are The Social Sciences and Re-
ligion, by Professor C. A. Ellwood,
Duke University; The Literature
Group and Religion, by President J. H.
Moyniham, College of St. Thomas; and
The Church and State in Higher Edu-
cation, by Dr. James Gillis, editor of
The Catholic World.

The theme of the meeting of the
Association of American Colleges, The
Integrity of the American College, will
be discussed from two angles. Dr.
Walter A. Jessup, president of the Car-
negie Foundation for the Advancement
of Teaching, will speak from the stand-
point of the administration, and from
the standpoint of the professions the
subject will be discussed in four di-
I visions: education, engineering, law,
and medicine. At the annual dinner on
Thursday evening Principal A. E. Mor-
gan, of McGill University, and Presi-
dent Henrv M. Wriston, of Lawrence
Coll ege, president of the Association,
will speak on The Educational Integ-
rity of the American and British Col-
lege.

In addition to the general meetings
at which these talks will be given, there
will be five sectional meetings where
such topics as The Purpose of College,
Instruction in Art, and Trends in
Higher Education for Women will be
discussed.

Thornton Wilder, distinguished nov-
elist, lecturer, and literary authority,
will come to Agnes Scott College on
February 6 as the second of the promi-
nent American writers presented this
year by the Public Lecture Association.
The author of such best-sellers as The
Bridge of San Luis Rey and Heaven's
My Destination, Wilder is expected to
attract an audience as enthusiastic as
the one that heard Robert Frost when
he lectured here last November. Mr.
Wilder's lecture will be on The Motion
Pictures and Literature.

Several years ago Mr. Wilder lec-
tured at Agnes Scott on The Relation
Between Literature and Life; those who
heard the lecture recall it as one of the
most delightful and successful ones
ever given at the College. Concerning
his appearance here next month, Mr.
Wilder has written Associate Professor
Emma May Laney, Lecture Chairman,
a letter from which the following ex-
cerpt is taken:

"It (the lecture on The Motion Pic-
tures and Literature) is an adjusted
balance between topical interest and il-
lustrations, and theoretical principles.
I think that it would interest your
audience.

I have the happiest memories of my
former visit to Agnes Scott College
and am looking forward to renewing
them."

Tickets for Thornton Wilder's lec-
ture will be on sale in Atlanta on
January 2 2 at both Davison-Paxon's
and Rich's department stores, and at
Agnes Scott during the week before
February 6. Student tickets are 5 0c for
unreserved seats and 75c for reserved;
general admission is 7 5c for unreserved
seats and $1.00 for reserved.

ATTENTION
Francis Hackett, author of Henry
VIII and other books, will speak
tonight at Glenn Memorial Audi-
torium on the Emory University
campus. He will discuss Henry
VIII and Francis I. Mr. Hackett is
appearing here under the auspices of
the Emory Student Lecture Associa-
tion. Tickets may be bought at the
door for 75c.

STUDENTS FAVOR CHANGE
IN AGONISTIC ELECTION

Works Assists In
University Plan

Dr. George A. Works, dean of the
School of Education, University of
Chicago, and secretary of the North
Central Association of Colleges and
Secondary Schools, met with Dr. J. R.
McCain, president of Agnes Scott Col-
lege; Dr. M. L. Brittain, president of
Georgia Tech; Chancellor S. V. San-
ford, of the University System of
Georgia; Dr. Harman Caldwell, presi-
dent of the University of Georgia;
Dean Stevens, of the graduate school
of the university; representatives of
the faculties and trustees of Emory
University and of Agnes Scott College;
and a number of leading citizens of At-
lanta for a two-day conference held
Monday and Tuesday, January 6 and
7, in Atlanta. The purpose of the con-
ference was to plan a system which will
coordinate Agnes Scott College, Emory
University, Georgia Tech, and the Uni-
versity of Georgia.

The progress of plans for such a co-
ordination system is slow, but satisfac-
tory under existing circumstances, ac-
cording to Dr. McCain. The next step,
he says, is a conference between the
faculties of the institutions. Coopera-
tion between them is already a fact.

Plans are being laid now for the be-
ginning of Emory's Centennial Cam-
paign, which, presumably will under-
take to raise a part of the funds neces-
sary for the project, Dr. McCain con-
tinued. No figures are available as yet.

Survev of Science,
Mythology, Eng. 326
AreNew Courses

History of Science, Physics 310, Car-
lyle, Arnold, and Newman, English
3 2 6, and Classical Mythology, Greek
211, are to be offered the second semes-
ter this year. The physics and Greek
courses are altogether new ones at
Agnes Scott; English 3 26 was offered
in the spring of 1934 for the first time.

History of Science, according to Pro-
fessor S. M. Christian, of the physics
department, will be a survey of the
development of all the sciences, mathe-
matical, physical, biological, and social
from the Greeks to the present. Since
a period of 2 500 years is to be covered,
the course necessarily will be only a sur-
vey. Three hours of credit in physics
will be given. Although the class hours
have not yet been definitely decided,
Mr. Christian said that the class will
probably meet at ten-thirty on Tues-
day, Thursday, and Saturday.

English 326 plans for an intensive
study of Carlyle and Arnold in rela-
tion to the development of Nineteenth
Century thought. Because of lack of
time, Newman will not be included.
This course, which is open to students
who have had English 211, will include
oral reports and term papers. Hours
are still to be arranged but, according
to Professor George P. Hayes, of the
English department, the class will
probably be on Monday, Wednesday,
and Friday afternoons.

Classical Mythology is to be a study
of the myths of Greece and Rome as
an aid to the interpretation and appre-
ciation of literature and art. Professor
Catherine Torrance, of the Greek de-
partment, will teach it. It will meet
I on Wednesday and Friday afternoons
at 2:30.

Aurora Approves New Plan;
Annual Opposes Change ;
Committee Will Decide

The student body of Agnes Scott
College passed by an overwhelming ma-
jority a motion to change the method
of selecting the editor of The Agonis-
tic from popular election to a system
of staff election at Open Forum on last
Thursday, January 9. Frances James,
vice-president of Student Government,
presided. No vote was taken on the
Aurora, which favors the change, or
on the Silhouette, which is opposed to
any departure from the present method.

The new system, which was pre-
sented by Lulu Ames, editor of Thi
Agonistic, provides for a point-vote
whereby the majority vote of the stu-
dents, the majority vote of the staff,
and the business manager's vote will
each count one; the vote of the editor
will count two. Election of the editor
will be made from the three assistant
editors whose election will continue to
be handled by popular vote of the
students.

Discussion of the plan was led by
Lulu Ames. A number of students
spoke in favor of its adoption; dissent-
ing opinions were few. Lita Goss, edi-
tor of the Aurora, endorsed the plan
for The Agonistic and expressed a
desire for a similar change for the
Aurora; although no action was taken
on the Aurora situation, it is believed
that the matter will be brought up at
the February Open Forum. Shirley
Christian, editor of the Silhouette, held
to the present system in regard to the
year book because "it is democratic."

Opposition to the change for The
Agonistic on the ground that such a
plan will breed politics was met by the
argument that, under the proposed
plan, emphasis will be placed on merit,
ability, and an understanding of the
duties and responsibilities of the posi-
tion. It was agreed that the students
as a body will have a strong voice in
the selection since the three assistant
editors will still be elected popularly;
the two assistants who are defeated for

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A.S.C. To Have New
Theme For Series
Of Radio Programs

The Place of the Liberal Arts Col-
lege in the World Today is the theme
of the new series of Agnes Scott Col-
lege radio programs to be broadcast
every Wednesday over WSB. The
series, beginning last January 8 and
continuing for five months, will be
sponsored each month by one of the
five groups which compose the College:
the trustees, the administration, the
faculty, the alumnae, and the students.
Previous programs have featured cam-
pus and alumnae activities.

The plan is to have on each broad-
cast a musical program and a short
talk by someone representing the spon-
sors for that month. During the fifth
month, which will be in the hands of
the students, each of the four classes
will be in charge of one program.

Mr. J. K. Orr, chairman of the
board of trustees, opened the new series
on Wednesday, January 8, with a talk
on The Purpose of the College as the
Founders Saw It. Miss Evelyn Wall
played a piano solo. This afternoon's
program will present Mr. George Win-
ship, a member of the board, who will
speak on The History of the College.

The students and friends of the
College are especially urged to listen
to these programs every Wednesday at
five o'clock.

The Agonistic

<l)e Agonistic

Subscription price, Sl.25 per year in advance. Single copies, 5c.

The Book
of This Week

A Key to Current History

PUBLISHED WEEKLY

Owned and published by the students or Agnes Scott College.

Entered as Second Class Matter.

T935 Member 1936

Pbsocided Golle6iate Pro

Lulu Ames
Editor-in -chief

Laura Steele
Frances Carv

Assistant Editors
Nellie M. Gilroy

Feature Editor

Nell At ' tsox

Ass't Feature Editor

Jane Guthkif
Book Notes Editor

Ellen McCallie
Alumnae TLdUo*

STAFF
Mildred Clark
Make-up Editor

June Matthews
Ass't Make-up

Rosa From

Current History

Elizabeth Baethke
Laura Coit

Exchange Editors

Nell White
Society Editor

Alice Chamlee
Business Manager

Kathryn Bowen
Advertising Manager

Circulation Managers
Mary Margaret Stowe
Margaret Cooper
Mary Gray Rogers
Sarah Brosnan

Elizabeth Burson
Sports Editor

Cornelia Christie
Club Editor

OUR SISTERS
IN SORROW

The attitude of the day student
toward the date-parlor campaign
is apt to be an academic one un-
less a College-wide point of view
is taken of the movement. No
day student, no matter how cam-
pus-minded she may be, can work
herself into a tizzy over an ac-
count of a boarder's evening in a
date-mauseleum in Main ; indeed,
to the day student, it has all-
humorous sides.

But th-e date-angle is not the
important part of this drive; it
was chosen mainly because its
popular appeal is greatest and
readiest. Mortar Board, in spon-
soring the campaign, is not at-
tempting to foster increased
popularity on the campus and to
center the activity of that popu-
larity in parlors rejuvenated for
that sole purpose. Anyone with
an average imagination can see
the impossibility of creating, by
the addition of radios, lamps, pil-
lows, and easy chairs, in a four-
story brick building of an amaz-
ing number of rooms the home-
like coziness of a small bungalow
somewhere in the suburbs. Mor-
tar Board is not seeking the im-
possible.

A modified reproduction of
that coziness, however, is possi-
ble in the parlors in Main. For
the sake of the College, it should
be made possible. Every day,
visitors to the campus, left in
those rooms, get their first im-
pression of Agnes Scott. Only
the bare necessities for changing
their position from that of stand-
ing to sitting are furnished
them: colorless settees not
sofas ; rug, floor, walls of one
dull shade ; two windows, if they
are lucky ; one radiator . . . all of
these things contribute to the
formation of an unfavorable
opinion of the "other side," so-
called, of college life. Although
that opinion is directed primarily
at hoarders, day students get

their share.

Of course the day students
have already the pick of the
rooms in Main; certainly they
have the pick of the atmospheres
of the roams. But the time is
coming whrn the ugliness and
emptiness of their room in the
basement of Main w ill become 1 to
them as unbearable as the par-
lors now are to the boarders. As
insurance against that time, the
day students can cooperate in the
date-parlor drive. Reciprocity is
not only an admirable game but
it also pays well.

POLITICS?
POPULAR VOTE?

The vote of the student body
last Thursday in favor of staff
election of the editor of THE
AGONISTIC indicates a certain
degree of confidence on the part

of the students in the ability of
the editor and the staff to select
an able person for the position.
The suddenness and, to some, the
revolutionary character of the
change has aroused in the stud-
ent mind a natural wonder about
how the change will work and
why it has been made.

The adoption of the plan, to
begin with, is not a radical move.
It is common knowledge that the
advice of the editor has, in past
years, been taken without ques-
tion by the Nominating Commit-
tee, that the editor, through the
Committee, names her successor.
The power of the editor, under
the new arrangement, will re-
main unchanged since she can de-
cide, by her two-count vote, the
election. And her selection will
be limited to the three assistant
editors whom the students have
elected by popular nomination
and vote. The business manager s
vote has always gone with the
editor's. Clearly the onlv
CHANGE is the vote of the
staff. Although the personnel of
the staff may change with the
editor, the efficient people are
usually retained in one position
or another. If there is to be co-
operation between staff and edi-
jtor, the staff must have the right
! to voice its opinion on the quali-
1 ties and capability of the editor.

The matter of politics the
current "mad dog" on the Ameri-
can campus has been linked
with this movement. The aim of
THE AGONISTIC is to remain
the center of student life on the
campus by serving the students
fair-mindedly and in an unpre-
judiced manner; an editor can-
net rail-road her best girl friend,
irregardless of certain funda-
mental qualifications, into the
editorship without defeating this
aim. No person knowingly slits
her own throat.

Objection to the plan has been
taken on the ground that an edi-
tor selected in this way will in-
herit the policies of the out-
going editor since, naturally, the
incumbent would find for her
successor a girl whose ideas and
opinions agreed with her own.
In order to get at this objection
at all. one must first assume that
there is a policy in existence. If
a student body by itself should
ever become aware of a policy
followed by the average college
weekly, the editor could not help
but feel that a local paradise had
been established for her own hap-
piness. First of all, in dealing
with a college paper, one should
guard against confusing policy
with personality.

In practise, will it be fair?
Certainly a system that brings
forth into the open a condition
that has existed on THE AGON-
ISTIC since its founding in 1916,
that system cannot honestly be
condemned as undemocratic.

Last Adventures of the "Bounty
Mutineers"

Pit cairn's Island, by James Norman
Hall and Charles Nordhoff, was chosen
as the book of the week because, ad-
ded to Mutiny on the Bounty and to
Men Against the Sea, it completes a
trilogy of one of the most adventure-
some tales in English seafaring history.
And the story is not yet ended, for in
the spring of 193 5 a Boston skipper
sailed into Glouchester from his vov-
age to the South Seas and told of hav-
ing found on a small tropical island a
chief magistrate named Parker Chris-
tian and some islanders named Young
and McCoy. Strange as it may seem,
these friendly people are the direct de-
scendants of Fletcher Christian, Ed-
ward Young, and Will McCoy all
mutineers of His Majesty's ship, the
Bounty, and principal characters in the
three books mentioned above.

Pit cairn's Island, written in the same
rough and hearty style of its prede-
cessors, contains the further adven-
tures of the mutineers and the story of
how they fared on their lonely island.
After the Bounty was destroyed, the
fifteen men and twelve Tahitian wom-
en set up a crude but comfortable vil-
lage, raised children, fished, and lived
in harmony for three years. But trou-
ble came with the dividing of the land,
with the introduction ot an old-fash-
ioned still, and with the growing envy
of the unmarried men. Fighting and
bloodshed began, followed by the
deaths of Christian and all but four of
the mutineers. In 1808 when an Amer-
ican ship, Topaz, discovered the is-
land, only one male survivor was found
with the women and children. And in
this small colony were found also, a
church, a schoolhouse, a constitution,
and a speaking and writing knowledge
of English. Peace and happiness seem-
ed again to have pervaded the little
village a peace which Fletcher Chris-
tian had hoped for and which Alex-
ander Smith, the last of the mutineers,
spoke of as he talked with the captain
of the Topaz. "Aye, it's a quiet life
and a good life we've had here these
nine years. 1 doubt if ye could find
anywhere a family of human beings
that lives together with more kindness
and goodwill. We're at peace, in our
lives and in our hearts. Pitcairn's Island
is home, for all. There's the sum of it,
sir, in few words."

What This Congress Brings
B) Eliza King
The convening of the seventy-fourth
Congress of the United States on Fri-
day, January 5, has for a time drawn
the attention of America from the
Ethiopian question to national affairs
and particularly to the coming presi-
dential election, the outcome of which
will probably be affected by the poli-
cies and acts of this session of Con-
gress.

The first job of the House and the
Senate is to pass the regular appropria-
tion bills, which would have been a
routine affair had not the Supreme
Court declared the Agricultural Ad-
justment Act unconstitutional. This
decision upset the President's budget
by deducting $1,047,342,000 the
amount to have been received from the
processing tax over a two-year period
from the fiscal income and by leav-
ing no provision tor raising the $500,-
000,000 which the government still
owes to farmers for existing benefit
payments. In addition, there is some
question as to whether officials will be
allowed to collect the rest of the pro-
j cessing tax due this year, which
'amounts to over $450,000,000.

One matter about which there seems
to be little dispute is the payment of
the bonus. The Ways and Means
Committee of the House expects little
opposition to its plan for cash pay-
ment, which tf ( 1 ) will give former sol-
diers full maturity value of adjusted
compensation certificates, and (2) will
allow those desiring to hold their cer-
tificates and cancel the unpaid inter-
est, but which (3) sets no definite

method of raising the money for pav-
ment, estimated by supporters of the
bill at $1,000,000,000 immediately up-
on enactment."

The neutrality controversy, how-
ever, has not yet been settled. Last
August Congress passed the temp-
orary Neutrality Act, which expires
on February 6, forbidding the export
ot arms or munitions from the United
States to any belligerent but leaving
, to the President the right to determine
what materials should be considered as
arms or munitions. There is now a
deadlock between Congress and the
State Department concerning the na-
ture of a permanent neutrality act.
Congress wishes an inflexible law for-
bidding export of arms and materials
' to all warring nations alike, because it
j fears that the State Department, if the
power were given to it, would, by its
policies, draw the United States into
war. On the other hand, the State
Department declares that the discretion
of the President exercised under a flex-
ible law would remove the danger of
the country's being drawn into wars
provoked by an inflexible neutrality
law. President Roosevelt, discussing
the question of neutrality in his mes-
sage to Congress, made no reference to
this situation.

Congressional leaders had hopefully
predicted a short session due to the
party conventions this summer, but the
Supreme Court decision on the AAA
and those which are to be handed
down on the Bankhead Act and other
such acts will probably necessitate new
legislation and therefore delay the date
of adjournment.

Among the Clubs

Poetry Club
The last meeting of Poetry Club was
held on Tuesday night, January 14, at
8:30. Miss Laney entertained the mem-
bers of the club in her apartment in
Ansley Cottage.

Glee Club
The special chorus of the Agnes
Scott College Glee Club sang at the
First Presbyterian Church in Atlanta
on Monday morning, January 6. The
chorus sang Faith, Hope and Loi c.
Fifteen members took part in this pre-
sentation, which was a part of the pro-
gram arranged for the meeting at
which Kagawa spoke.

STUDENTS FAVOR CHANGE

IN AGONISTIC ELECTION

(Continued from page 1, column 5)
the editorship, it was explained, will
become associate editors and together
with the editor will form an editorial
board for The Agonistic.

The proposed plan for The Agon-
istic is a modification of the system
now in use at Radcliffe College, Cam-
bridge, Massachusetts. The Nominat-
ing Committee, which is made up of
all senior office-holders, must pass on
the plan before its final adoption. The
matter was referred to the Committee
on last Thursday; a report of its deci-
sion is expected early in February.

Music Appreciation Group
The Music Appreciation Group of
the Y. W. C. A. met on Sunday night,
January 12, at 8 o'clock in the Music
Room. Mary Ruth Murphy spoke on
Schubert and His Popular Works. The
Unfinished Symphony, Are Marin, and
his Serenade were discussed.

Chi Beta Phi Sigma
The members of Chi Beta Phi Sigma
held a closed meeting on Monday
night, January 6, at 7 o'clock in the
chemistry lecture room. Mary Walker
gave an interesting discussion of Na-
tural and Artificial Disintegration of
the Elements, and Ann Coffee gave a
talk on Relativity.

B. O. Z.

B. O. Z. held its last meeting on Fri-
day night, January 10, at 7:30 in Miss

Preston's apartment. Lulu Ames, Ann
Martin, June Matthews, Mildred Clark,
Betty Hoi lis, and Nell Allison read.
Hortense Jones and Lita Goss were hos-
tesses.

Citizenship Club
The last meeting of Citizenship Club
was held on Tuesday afternoon, Janu-
ary 14, at 4 o'clock in the Y. \V. C.
A. cabinet room. There was a general
discussion of the problems and bills of
Congress to be brought up and their
effect on this election vcar.

Bible Club
The Bible Club held its regular meet-
ing on Monday afternoon, January 6,
at 5 o'clock in the Y. W. C. A. cabi-
net room. Adelaide Stevens, Alice
Hannah, and Winifred Kellersbcrger
brought messages from the Indianapolis
Student Volunteer Quadrennial Con-
vention, which they attended during
the Christmas vacation. Ori Sue Jones
was hostess at this meeting.

Pi A 1 .pi 1 a Pin
Pi Alpha Phi had its last meeting
on Thursday night, January 9, at 7
o'clock in Miys Gooch's studio. Nellie
Margaret Gilroy, Brooks Spivey, Jean
Austin, and Florence Little participated
in a debate on Radio Control. At this
meeting a new system ot judging the
debates was initiated. Under this sys-
tem Mr. Haves acts as a critic judge
and criticizes the debates from a tech-
nical standpoint. The members of Phi
Alpha Phi received their pins at this
meeting.

Athletic Association to Provide Sports and Fun

In Health Contest During Oncoming Exam Trials

By Alice Cheeseman
During the days of darkest strife
the days of exams the Athletic Asso-
ciation usually becomes our heartiest
friend. Why? Because A. A. stands
truest and sturdiest then, in annoint-
ing our parched, trembling, and piti-
fully frayed spirits with refreshment,
amusement, and courage anew.

This winter A. A.'s compassion is
ncne the less compassionate, for the
health committee, of which Anne Tay-
lor is chairman, will sponsor all during
exams a jolly and rejuvenating health
program consisting of numerous after-
noon recreations and a contest. Miss
Wilburn and Lli/abeth Blackshear,
chairman of the health program itself,
explain that there will be a plunge
period, that the ping-pong tables and
the shurTleboard apparatus will be
ready for use in the gym, and that

volleyball nets will be up and basket-
balls will be handy. Besides all that,
girls, there will be daily hikes under
the direction of Frances Robinson and
the class hiking managers: Lily Weeks,
senior; Frances Cary, junior; Hibernia
Hassell, sophomore; and Alice Cheese-
man, freshman. These hikes will be
short and will mean the very revival
of you!

The big contest we must describe
with zest and directness, for every
boarder will be expected to do her share
of "being healthy" during those
atrocious, hideous days. Yes, of course,
it's a health contest! On each wing of
each floor of each dormitory there will
be posted a chart. Each inmate on
each wing will be expected to check,
with a truthfulness untainted by biased
(or otherwise warped) attitude or men-
tahtv, each of the following items on

each chart: first, one hour of exercise
(excluding intellectual gymnastic*);
second, proper amount of sleep (that
means twelve hours for all students
under six years of age); third, attend-
ance at regular meals (\<///\ assorted
and StUldry textbooks), I aeh wing will
nave a chairman, who will see that we
arc healthy. The dormitory wing with
the highest number of checks and
healthy girls will receive a prize, the
nature of which will remain undi-
vulged until- -well, until this end of
first floor Inman wins. Ah now, Miss
Haynes, what can the pri/e be!

It is the sincere hope of the Athletic
Association that all of us pitiable
'pariahs (those exist in g during exams)
will hobble t(. the gym every dav to
patch our tattered beings and learn
"how to be healthy though taking
exams! "

The Agonistic

3

Three From A.S.C.
Attend Convention

Adelaide Stevens, Alice Hannah, and
Winifred Kcllersberger attended the
twelfth quadrennial convention of the
Student Volunteer Movement which
was held in Indianapolis, Ind., from
December 2 8, 193 5, to January 1,
1 936. Present were 3 900 students, rep-
resenting countries all over the world,
including Persia, China, Japan, India,
Korea, British Columbia, Canada, Nova
Scotia, Scotland, Mexico, and the West
Indies. The convention was interna-
tional, interdenominational, and inter-
racial.

The principal speaker was William
Temple, Archbishop of York; among
other well-known religious leaders
present were Robert P. Wilder and
John R. Mott, founders of the move-
ment, Robert E. Spear, McNeil Poteat,
and Kagawa. In addition to the
speeches, discussion groups were held
on such questions as race relations,
peace, and missions; the idea of a world
community was stressed throughout.

Other attractions on the program in-
cluded the presentation of Operation
at One, a play by Maude Taylor Sarvis,
who was for fifteen years a mission-
ary in Nanking, China; special music
hours; denominational suppers; and a
New Year's Eve party.

Miss Hanley Visits
Famous Libraries

Miss Edna R. Hanley, librarian of
Agnes Scott College, made a series of
interesting visits during the Christmas
vacation for the purpose of securing
information concerning library furni-
ture. She visited the public libraries
of Richmond, Va., and of New York
City; and the libraries of the College
of William and Mary, Williamsburg,
Va.; of Columbia University, and of
the College of the City of New York.

Miss Hanley also visited several
show rooms and discussed furniture
with library furniture specialists in
New York. She is chiefly interested
at present in learning about library
chairs and tables and their construc-
tion. It is probable that no definite de-
cision about the furnishing of the new
Agnes Scott library will be reached be-
fore March.

A. Palmour Returns
To Campus Friday
From Speaking Trip

Miss Alberta Palmour, field secretary
of the Agnes Scott Alumnae Associa-
tion, will return to the campus on Fri-
day of this week from an intensive
speaking trip through Alabama and
south Georgia. Miss Palmour left on
January 6.

Her itinerary included six towns in
Alabama and ten in Georgia. In each
place Miss Palmour spoke to high
school groups about the College and
showed moving pictures of student life
at Agnes Scott. She also met with
alumnae groups.

On Saturday of this week, Miss Pal-
mour and Miss Dorothy Hutton, gen-
eral secretary of the Alumnae Associa-
tion, will attend a tea in Birmingham,
Alabama, in honor of all high school
seniors of that city. Miss Lucille Wood-
berry. '3 3, is in charge of the arrange-
ments.

Kagawa Addresses
College Students
In Atlanta Visit

Approximately 100 Agnes Scott Col-
lege students heard Toyohiko Kagawa,
internationally known Japanese relig-
ious leader, address a student meeting
at the First Presbyterian Church of
Atlanta on Monday morning, January
6. His subject was concerned with the
history and geography of Japan.

Called "one of the striking phenom-
ena of the Christian world today," and
considered by many to be the out-
standing Christian of today, Kagawa
is an evangelist, lecturer, organizer and
leader in labor movements, charity
worker, and editor. He conducts a so-
cial service bureau, supports a Chris-
tian doctor and two nurses, has in-
fluenced constructive social legislation,
and has served, alw ays without pay, on
important official commissions. Among
other things he is the most popular
Japanese novelist of his day: beginning
with Across the Deadline, he has pub-
lished sixty-one books, including relig-
ious and psychological ones.

On Sunday, January 5, Kagawa
spoke at the Druid Hills Baptist
Church, the First Baptist Church, and
the Central Presbyterian Church. Sun-
day night he spoke over the Atlanta
Journal station, WSB, in a nation-
wide broadcast. On Monday, January
6, he addressed a student meeting at
the First Presbyterian Church, spoke
over WSB, addressed a state-wide meet-
ing for ministers at St. Mark's Method-
ist Church, was honor guest at a lunch-
eon at the Atlanta Biltmore under the
auspices of the inter-civic clubs of the
city, and addressed a meeting for
Negroes at Butler Street Y. M. C. A.

James and Fleece
Attend Eleventh
N. S. F. A. Meeting

Frances James and Charline Fleece
represented Agnes Scott College at the
eleventh annual convention of the Na-
tional Student Federation of America,
held in Kansas City, December 27-30.
Frances James, vice-president of Stud-
ent Government, was the delegate ap-
pointed by the executive committee of
Student Government Association; and
Charline Fleece, member of the junior
class, was elected by the student body.

The objectives of NSFA, of
which Student Government Associa-
tion of the College is a member, are to
aid student activities on local cam-
puses, to broaden the student view-
point, and to stimulate a more intelli-
gent attitude toward economic, social,
and political affairs.

At the Plenary Sessions the National
Congress went on record in favor of
the press division of NSFA. Reso-
lutions were also passed against sales
and consumptive taxes and the advis-
ory power of the Supreme Court; and
for government ownership of the pub-
lic utilities, judicial review, and con-
stitutional social legislation.

OFFICIAL NOTICE

The Agnes Scott College Library
will be open on this Saturday night,
January 18, and on the following
Saturday night, January 25, for the
convenience of the students. The
Library will close at 12:30 on Sat-
urday, February 1, and will not be
open again until Monday morning,
February 3, when the regular sched-
ule will be resumed.

Edna R. Hanley, Librarian.

Snow, Ice Cover Decatur

Agonistic Sponsors
Knit Style Show

The Agonistic sponsored a spring
style show of hand-knit fashions from
Davison-Paxon on the evening of
Thursday, January 9, in Bucher Scott
Gymnasium. Ellen Davis announced
the opening of the program. As the
models displayed the styles, Miss Helen
Otten, Davison's New York fashion
expert, described the different gowns,
explaining the cost and method of
making them. The six girls who dis-
played the gowns were Virginia Turn-
er, Naomi Cooper, Catherine Ricks,
Elizabeth Strickland, Katherine Bishop,
and Maxine Crisler.

Particular features of these spring
styles are clear, bright colors, smart
simplicity, large broad-brimmed hats,
and skirts decidedly shorter than be-
fore. Miss Otten laid particular em-
phasis on the accessories, most of which
were white or brown. All the styles
were for street or afternoon wear ex-
cept the last, a charming black cro-
cheted evening dress.

At the end of the program Ellen
Davis announced that Davison's will
sponsor a knitting and crocheting class
on the campus every Thursday night.

During the show, music was supplied
by an orchestra consisting of Ruby
Hutton, piano; violins, Miss Florence
Smith, Mrs. Henry Robinson, Anna
Katherine Fulton, and Phyllis Johnson.

TWELVE FROM A.S.C.
TO ATTEND GIRL
RESERVE SUPPER

Members of the Social Service Com-
mittee of the Agnes Scott College
Y. W. C. A. who are assisting with
Girl Reserve Work; Sarah Spencer,
president of the Y. W. C. A.; and Mary
Hull, chairman of the Social Service
Committee, will be among the guests
at a supper given by the Girl Reserves
of Atlanta for all Girl Reserve helpers
tonight at 6:3 0. The Agnes Scott girls
who are planning to attend are Cor-
nelia Christie, chairman of the College
assistants; Kennon Henderson, Prim-
rose Noble, Emmy Lou Turck, Eliza-
beth Burson, Martha Head, Frances
Starnes, Mildred Chandler, Ann Cham-
bers, and Betty Anderson.

Campus Trees Suffer

From 200 to 470 trees on the Agnes
Scott College campus were either de-
stroyed or seriously damaged by the ice
blizzard which struck Decatur and
surrounding vicinity the last part of
December. The storm, the worst that
this section has known in thirty years,
covered everything with a slippery
sheath of ice that lasted for p week.

Although the magnolia and oak
trees of Agnes Scott withstood the rav-
ages of the storm very well, the brittle
elm trees were almost entirely de-
stroyed, Mr. R. B. Cunningham, busi-
ness manager, said. He added, "It was
only with difficulty that we saved our
giant red oak, which is the largest tree
in Decatur and is over 100 years old."
This tree, located in front of Rebekah
Scott dormitory, measures 155 feet
across the top, and its trunk has a

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diameter of five feet. Mr. Cunningham
explained that it would have been de-
stroyed had the workers not run cables
up to it to keep it stationary.

Agnes Scott has opened bids to
trained workmen to repair the trees as
far as it is possible. The College has
offered to needy families the broken
branches and brush, which Mr. Cun-
ningham estimated as ten cords of
wood.

The blizzard also broke the electric
wires, leaving the College without
lights; and all but one of the College
telephones were out of order. Mr. Cun-
ningham commended the consideration
of the Georgia Power Company and
the Bell Telephone Company which re-
paired the wires and telephones in time
for the College to reopen on January 3,
the scheduled time.

Blackf riars Group
Attends Convention

Associate Professor Frances K.
Gooch, of the Spoken English depart-
ment of Agnes Scott College, was
elected vice-president of the Georgia
Theatre Convention, held in Macon,
Georgia, in December. Miss Polly
Vaughan, assistant in Spoken English,
and Carrie Phinney Latimer, Eugenia
Symms, and Kitty Printup also at-
tended the convention. Representatives
from Agnes Scott, Mercer, Bessie Tift,
the Little Theatre of Columbus, Amer-
icus, and Macon were present.

The purpose of this dramatic organi-
zation, founded at the invitation of the
Little Theatre of Macon, Georgia, is
mainly one of stimulation and mutual
help. Delegates from the various so-
cieties which are members of this asso-
ciation are to meet every fall and com-
pare notes on the year's work.

Mrs. Piercy Chestney, president of
the Macon Little Theatre, was elected
president; she is to appoint a secretary
and treasurer.

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The Agonistic

Spanish Club Gives Seniors, Freshman
Play January 14th Score Highest in
In Gaines Chapel Basketball Game

Sports

The Spanish Club of Agnes Scott
College presented one of the most
popular plays of the Spanish theater,
Los Intereses Creados, by Jacinto Ben-
avente, on Tuesday night, January 14,
in Gaines Chapel. The play was orig-
inally planned to be given on Decem-
ber 13, but was postponed.

The cast of the play included:
Crispin , Lilian Grimson; Leandro,
Louise Brown; Silvia, Hibernia Hassell;
Capitan, Cornelia Christie; Arlequin,
Martha Head; Senor Polichinela, Elsie
Blackstone; Senora Polichinela, Meriel
Bull; el Doctor, Josephine Bertolli;
el Hostelero, Mary Johnson; Colum-
bina, Alice Taylor; and Dona Sirena,
Lois Hart.

DR. H. W. DODDS TO
SPEAK AT EMORY
TOMORROW NIGHT

President H. W. Dodds, of Prince-
ton University, will speak on the
Causes of Present Discontent, at Glenn
Memorial Auditorium, on the Emory
University campus, tomorrow night,
January 16, at 8:00. Dr. Dodds is a
recognized authority on political
science.

A special invitation to attend this
lecture has been extended to the facul-
ty and students of Agnes Scott Col-
lege. There will be no admission charge.

Aurora To Appear
For Winter, Jan. 22

The second issue of the Aurora, the
Agnes Scott College literary magazine,
is expected to be ready for distribution
on Wednesday, January 22. Special fea-
tures of this issue will be a freshman
section and a study of Thornton Wil-
der, the well-known novelist who will
lecture at the College on February 6.
Short stories, poems, essays, book re-
views, and exchanges complete the
magazine.

The seniors and freshmen defeated
the sophomores and juniors by scores
of 31-25 and 18-17 in the second bas-
ketball game of the season played on
Friday night, January 10, at 7:3 0 in
Bucher Scott Gymnasium. The junior-
freshman game was the surprise of the
evening. At the half the juniors were
leading by 12 to 6; but in the third
quarter the freshmen came up steadily,
and thereafter until the end of the
game it was a draw as to which team
would win. Carmichael shot the deci-
sive goal. The juniors displayed swift
passing and quick footwork, but they
lacked smoothness.

The senior-sophomore game, though
not so exciting, was the better game
from a technical standpoint. The
sophomore passes were more accurate,
and their plays were smoother and more
deliberate. The seniors got off to an
easy start and held the lead throughout
the game, despite their faulty passwork
at times.

The next games will be played on
this Friday afternoon at 3:30, with
the seniors opposing the freshmen, and
the juniors playing the sophomores.

The line-ups for the Friday night
games were as follows:

Seniors
Stevens (13)

Strickland (2]
Handte (8)
Burson (8)
O'Neal
Hart
Derrick

] nnJors
Johnson (4)
Stevens

R.F.
L.F.

Sophomores
Thompson (6)
Pardee
Henderson (6)

C.F. Blackshear (13)

C.G.
R.G.
L.G.

R.F.

Merrill
Kin-
Kelly

Freshmen
Garner (6)

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J. R. McCAIN, President

Ann Coffee, president of the Ath-
letic Association, presented letters to
Charline Fleece, Elizabeth Forman, and
Adelaide Stevens at the first of the let-
ter awards of the Association in chapel,
December 14. Helen Handte received
a star which is given to that student
who has gained 1200 points above the
1600 required for a letter.

The fall riding team, which was an-
nounced at the same time, includes Lu-
cile Barnett, Lavinia Scott, Hortense
Norton, Lorraine Smith, Jane Blick,
and Bee Merrill.

Many From A.S.C
Hear Child Pianist
In Fourth Concert

A glass hotel in Doncaster, England,
demonstrates the possibilities of glass
as a construction material. The ex-
ternal walls and the interiors of the
public rooms even the floors and the
furniture are of varied colored glass.
The floors are of non-slippery composi-
tion, patterned in small squares of dif-
ferent hues. Scenes particularly of
horse-racing have been sandblasted
into the walls. N. Y. Times.

Stalker (6) L.F. Carmichael (10)

Kneale (6) C.F. Purnell (2)

McDonald (1)

Thing C.G. Cuddy-

Taylor R.G. Hamilton

Wilson L.G. Steele

The referees were Associate Profes-
sor Llewellyn Wilburn, of the physical
education department, and Miss Page
Ackerman, former assistant in the
physical education department. Lulu
Ames was scorer, assisted by Ann Cof-
fee; and Dorothy Jester was time-
keeper.

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Agnes Scott College students heard
Ruth Slenczynski, famous ten year old
pianist, play at the Fox Theater on
Monday evening, January 13, as the
fourth on the All-Star Concert Series.
This series, sponsored by the Atlanta
Music Club and the Atlanta Philhar-
monic Society, has already brought
Fritz Kreisler, the National Symphony
Orchestra, and La Argentina to At-
lanta audiences this season, and for its
next attraction will present Nelson
Eddy and Helen Jepson on February 8.

Ruth Slenczynski, the young Polish-
French prodigy, has received world-
wide recognition as a musician whose
renditions show miraculous power and
maturity. She is one of the two or
three celebrated pianists now before the
public who can be identified by the in-
dividuality of their piano tone.

Her program Monday night includ-
ed Chaconne in D Minor, Bach-Busoni;
the Waldstein Sonata, Opus 5 3 in C
major, by Beethoven; Schumann's
Papillons; two Paganini Liszt Grand
Etudes, No. 1 in G minor, and No. 2
in E flat major; the Chopin Ballade in
G Minor, Opus 23; and Weber's Rondo
Brill' ante.

1935-6 CATALOGUE

DESCRIBES CHANGES

(Continued from page 1, column 2)
holidays until March 23; and exams for
the spring quarter will be held May 2 8-
June 5. Commencement has been set
for June 9.

New courses are being offered in
many of the departments. Among the
new courses offered are a European
Classics in the English department;

I American Parties and Politics in the
history department; and Ethics in the

(department of philosophy and educa-

i tion.

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Agonistic

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA.. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5. 1936

Wilder
Lecture

NO. 13

Agonistic Class Contest to

Begin Feb. 19, End Mar. 11

Noted Lecturer

Seniors To Edit First Paper
In Series; Rules Are
Announced

The annual class contest, which is
sponsored every spring by The Ago-
nistic in an effort to uncover latent
journalistic talent on the Agnes Scott
campus, will begin this year on
Wednesday, February 19, with the sen-
ior edition. The publication of the
freshman issue on Wednesday, March
11, will close the contest. The silver
cup, which has been awarded as the
prize annually, will be presented to
the editor of the winning class issue
in chapel on April 3. The seniors will
meet probably tomorrow to elect their
editor and business manager.

This year the judges include Miss
Ina Berequist, editor of The Radcliffe
News, Radcliffe College, Cambridge,
Massachusetts; Mr. Roger Chase, editor
of The Columbia Spectator, Columbia
University; Miss Winifred Mallon, the
only woman on the Washington staff
of The New York Times; Mr. Henry
B. Fox, editor of The Leon County
News, Centerville, Texas; and Profes-
sor Henry A. Robinson, of the mathe-
matics department of Agnes Scott, who
will furnish both the lay and College
opinion on the competing papers. An
invitation to act as judge has been sent
to Mr. Glenn Ramsey, of the Asso-
ciated Press, Atlanta; as yet no reply
has been received from Mr. Ramsey.
RULE LIMITS COST

There are only two rules that the
class editors and business managers
must follow this year: (1) the editorial
staff, the elected members of the busi-
ness staff, and departmental editors
are ineligible to serve in any capacity
on the class editions; that is, only re-
porters are eligible; and (2) the cost
of each edition must not exceed
$57.50. Instructions and suggestions
for the class editors will be posted in
Buttrick Hall the end of this week;
additional information may be had
from Lulu Ames, for news problems,
and Alice Chamlee, for financial dif-
ficulties.

As in past years, the papers will be
judged on news, departments, editorials
and features, and make up; originality
will be considered in connection with
all four points. The four points will
be rated according to importance; the
matter of cost will be considered in
relation to the product. Any amount
over $57.50 must be paid by the class
involved.

For the last two years, the Class of
'37 has won the contest. Laura Steele
was editor of the prize paper both
years and Kathryn Bowen was business
manager both times.

Students To Make
Nominations Feb. 7
Naming May Queen

The student nominations for the
May Queen for this year's festival will
begin Friday, February 7, and continue
through February 1 1 ; election will take
place February 12-14, and on Febru-
ary 1 5 the announcement of the Queen
will be made by the May Day Com-
mittee, of which Eloisa Alexander is
chairman. The Queen is always a sen-
ior; last year Laura Whitner was elect-
ed. By the end of this month, the en-
tire court will have been chosen.

The scenario itself, written by Char-
line Fleece and Anne Thompson, has
the setting of an English country lane
of the eighteenth century. Here a ro-
mantic love story takes place between
a beautiful gypsy girl and a dashing
English army captain. Excitement and
action are guaranteed, although the
plot itself is to be kept secret until
May Day.

The music and several of the dances
are to be worked out during February
also.

Eddy, Jepson to
Sing Here Feb. 8
In Joint Recital

Nelson Eddy and Helen Jepson, stars
of radio, screen, and opera, will appear
in joint recital on Saturday evening,
February 8, as the fifth of the presenta-
tions of the All-Star Concert Series.
Special street cars will carry Agnes
Scott College students to the concert.

Helen Jepson, lyric soprano of the
Metropolitan Opera Company, made
her debut last season with Lawrence
Tibbett in /// a Pasha's Garden, and
was acclaimed as the "outstanding new
personality of the year." As the star of
Naughty Marietta and Rose Marie,
Nelson Eddy, baritone, has won popu-
larity as an actor in addition to his
fame as a radio and concert artist.
Both Miss Jepson and Mr. Eddy are
making their first appearance in At-
lanta, where they will be heard by the
largest audience ever to attend a con-
cert here. All seats in the Fox Thea-
tre were sold a month ago, including
5 00 special seats to be placed on the
stage and in the orchestra.

Among Miss Jepson's songs will be
The Night Has a Thousand Eyes, Rich-
ard Hageman; Tales from the Vienna
Woods, Johann Strauss; and Ah. fors e
lui, from Verdi's La Traviata. Mr.
Eddy will sing, among others, Pilgrim's
Song, Tschaikowsky; Now Sleeps the
Crimson Petal, Roger Quilter; Non piu
andrai, from Mozart's Le Nozze di
Figaro; and Serenade, John Alden Car-
penter. Duets by Miss Jepson and Mr.
Eddy include Baigne d'eau vies mains,
from Massenet's Thais; and J Pagliacci,
by Leoncavalla. Ernst Wolff will play
for Miss Jepson, and Theodore Paxon
for Mr. Eddy.

A.S.C. Heads Speak
At Recent Meeting
Of College Ass'ni

Dr. J. R. McCain, president of
Agnes Scott College, and Mr. S. G.
Stukes, registrar, spoke at the twen-
tieth annual session of the Association
of Georgia Colleges, held in Macon,
Georgia, January 31 -February 1. In
connection with the discussion on
Challenges to Higher Education, Dr.
McCain spoke on Obligation to
Womanhood. Saturday afternoon Mr.
Stukes made a talk on What the Bache-
lor's Degree Should Signify.

Representatives from the nineteen
Georgia colleges and universities that
are members of the Association took
part in the program. At the Friday
session, following the presentation of
the theme by Dean John B. Clark,
president of the Association, the presi-
dent of the Association, the presidents
of Georgia, Mercer, Georgia Tech,
Shorter, Agnes Scott, Emory, and G.
S. C. W. made talks. Their talks,
based on the theme Challenges to
Higher Education, consisted of panel
discussions of Obligation to Politics,
Religion, Industry, Fine Arts, Woman-
hood, and Internationalism.

The session on Saturday consisted of
talks by presidents and representatives,
special reports and election of offi-
cers. Among the speakers were dele-
gates from Wesleyan, South Georgia
Teachers' College, Brenau, G. S. C. W.,
Augusta Junior College, Bessie Tift,
Agnes Scott, and Piedmont.

The 1935-36 officers of the As-
sociation are Dean John B. Clark, presi-
dent; Dice R. Anderson, vice-presi-
dent; and Dr. W. D. Hooper, secre-
tary-treasurer.

Courtesy Atlanta Constitution

THORNTON WILDER

Wilder to Talk
At Agnes Scott
Tomorrow Night

Thornton Wilder, internationally
known as the author of The Bridge of
San Luis Rey and Heaven's My Destin-
ation, will lecture tomorrow evening,
February 6, at 8:30 o'clock in Bucher
Scott Gymnasium. Since this is the
second time that the Public Lecture
Association has brought Mr. Wilder to
Agnes Scott College, his lecture on The
Motion Pictures and Literature is an-
ticipated with especial interest. Im-
mediately after his lecture there will
be a reception in the Day Students'
Room in Main Hall.

Wilder comes to the College after
appearing as a speaker on the Town
Hall Series in New York and at the
Brooklyn Institute of Art. His sub-
ject here concerning the motion pic-
tures and literature is particularly
timely since Shakespeare's Midsummer
Night's Dream is being shown in At-
lanta just prior to his lecture.

With the publication of the Pulitzer
Prize novel, The Bridge of San Luis
Rey in 1927, Wilder, then only 29,
received world-wide recognition. His
The Woman of Andros continued his
success, and Heaven's My Destination,
which appeared in 193 5, is considered

{Continued on page 4, column 3)

GLEE CLUB BEGINS
PRACTIGE ON OPERA
FOR EARLY SPRING

The Agnes Scott College Glee Club
has begun practice on The Pirates of
Penzance, Gilbert and Sullivan comic
opera, which it plans to present some
time in March or April. Performances
will be given both at Agnes Scott and
at Emory University.

The Glee Club presented this same
opera last commencement, but, accord-
ing to Mr. Lewis Johnson, director,
the production this year will be much
better, chiefly because of the unusually
well-trained voices making up the
choruses. The masculine lead, Fred-
erick, will be sung by Frank Sole,
tenor, who sang the part with an or-
ganization in New York City last year.
The feminine lead will be Augusta
King, soprano, singing the part of
Mabel. Ruth Tate will understudy her.
The other characters are: Edith, Ruth
Tate; Kate, Alice Chamlee; Ruth,
Amelia Nickels; King of Pirates, Eu-
gene Traber; Samuel, Charles White;
Major-General, Dick Smoot; Sergeant
of Police, Dan White. The chorus will
consist of members of the Glee Club
and singers from Atlanta and Decatur
invited to participate.

Heretofore an opera and also a play,

{Continued on page 4, column 4)

Dr. Walter Miller to Speak

At Phi Beta Kappa Election

A.S.C.Organizations
To Enter National
Story Competition

Short story entries in the local com-
petition of the Story magazine contest
may be submitted beginning today to
Assistant Professor Janef Preston, of
the English department. The stories,
wnich must be at least 1500 words and
not exceed 7000, will be judged by
Miss Preston and the best two submit-
ted by Agnes Scott students will be
sent to Story magazine to compete in
its third annual College Short Story
Contest. All entries must be in Miss
Preston's hands by March 15.

The terms of the contest include the
following regulations: (1) each entry
must be certified by a faculty member;
(2) all stories entered must have been
written by a student duly enrolled in
a college or university in the United
States; (3) stories submitted must not
be less than 1 5 00 words nor more than
7000; (4) all entries must be legibly
written, preferably typed, on one side
of the page. The story may or may not
have been published in the college lit-
erary publication.

The first prize of the national con-
test is $100; second prize is $50. The
winning story, which will represent the
best selection, by qualified judges, of
the work of students of the school
year 193 5-3 6, will be published in
Story.

Miss Preston has consented to act as
local judge in the selection of the two
stories which will represent Agnes
Scott. Entries are expected to be made
by members of BOZ, creative writing
club, members of the Short Story class,
and contributors to the Aurora. Other
students are urged to try out. The lo-
cal contest, for which there is no prize,
is being sponsored jointly by BOZ, the
Aurora, and The Agonistic.

A. A. C. Selects
Dr. J. R. McCain
As President

Dr. J. R. McCain, president of
Agnes Scott College, was elected presi-
dent of the Association of American
Colleges by representatives of the 497
outstanding American colleges and uni-
versities who attended the annual con-
vention held in New York on January
16-17. Only once before in the twenty-
three years of the Association's exist-
ence has the South been represented in
that office. Last year Dr. McCain was
vice-president and year before last he
was a member of the executive com-
mittee. The Association is the largest
of the many college associations in
America.

The other officers elected at the con-
vention are: vice-president, J. L. Mc-
Conaghy, president of Wesleyan Uni-
versity in Connecticut; secretary, Dr.
R. L. Kelly, New York City; and
treasurer, L. E. Kimbrell, comptroller
of the New York University.

An extensive program for next year
was drawn up at the convention. It
includes the writing of a book on the
use of the library as a teaching unit
in the college; the publishing of a
book on the "imponderables" in music;
the giving of scholarships to outstand-
ing music students who are ready for
graduate study; the providing of good
concerts at economical rates for col-
leges that do not have them available;
and the reviving of inter-collegiate
glee club contests. The Carnegie Corp-
oration has asked the Association of
American Colleges to accept $100,000
for the musical enterprises and $2 5,000
for the publishing of the book. The

{Continued on page 4, column 3)

Georgia Beta Chapter Will An-
nounce Names of Four,
February 8

Dr. Walter Miller, noted classical
scholar, will speak at the open meet-
ing of the Georgia Beta chapter of
Phi Beta Kappa to be held in Gaines
Chapel, at 10 o'clock on Saturday
morning of this week. His subject will
be The Scholar in American Life. Fol-
lowing Dr. Miller's address, Professor
Catherine Torrance, of the Greek de-
partment, and president of the Agnes
Scott chapter, will announce the mid-
year election of seniors to membership.

Dr. Miller, who received his college
education at the University of Michi-
gan, has been professor of Classical
Languages and Archaeology at the Uni-
versity of Missouri since 1911. For a
number of years he has been dean of
the graduate school of that institution.
He did graduate work at the Univer-
sity of Leipsic and at the American
School for Classical Studies, Athens,
Greece; at the latter institution he has
also served as annual professor and as
director of their summer school many
times.

CONDUCTS SUMMER TOURS

Dr. Miller is known to hundreds of
travelers as a most able and scholarly
conductor and lecturer for the Bureau
of University Travel. Professor Tor-
rance was on a tour conducted by Dr.
Miller to Athens last summer; she re-
calls it as a most delightful and well
directed trip.

In addition to being a frequent con-
tributor to scientific and other journals
of Greek archaeology, he has trans-
lated and edited Cicero's De Officiis
and Xenophon's Cyropaedia for the
Loeb Classical Library. His recent
book, Daedalus and Thespis, a beauti-
ful and sumptuous work in three vol-
umes on the arts and crafts of Greece,
is regarded as a distinct contribution
to American scholarship.

On Friday afternoon of this week,
Professor Lillian Smith, of the Latin
department; Professor Torrance; and
Associate Professor Martha Stansfield,
of the Latin and Greek departments,
will be hostesses at a tea in Dr. Miller's
honor in the Day Students Room in
{Continued on page 4, column 2)

Mary Boggs Gains
High Recognition
For Graduate Work

Mary Boggs, '3 5, after spending a
successful term at Radcliffe this year,
has applied to the Institute of Inter-
national Education for a fellowship to
Germany. She is remembered at Agnes
Scott as a member of Phi Beta Kappa,
Mortar Board, editor of The Agonis-
tic last year, and winner of the Quen-
elle Harrold Fellowship.

A copy of the letter of recommen-
dation for the German fellowship,
written by Assistant Professor Walter
Silz of the German department of
Harvard, was sent to Dr. McCain. Mr.
Silz taught Mary Boggs this past ses-
sion. The following is an excerpt from
his letter:

"Mary Boggs is my best student at
Radcliffe this semester and one of the
best I have ever had at either Harvard
or Radcliffe. She has shown unusual
powers of appreciative and critical
analysis of literature, and unusual abil-
ity to express herself clearly and ele-
gantly in English. She is well read,
and thinks independently.

"I might add that Professor Karl
Victor, who has now returned to the
University of Griessen, considered Miss
Boggs his best student in the seminar
for graduates which he gave here this
semester."

2

The Agonistic

gt)c Agonistic

A Key
To Current Historv

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.

T935 Member 1936

Ptssocided Colle&iate Press

Lulu Ames
Editor-in-chief

Laura Steele
Frances Cary

Assistant Editors
Nellie M. Gilroy

Feature Editor

Nell At lison

Ass't Feature Editor

Jane Guthkif
Book Notes Editor

Ellen McCallie
Alumnae Edito*

STAFF
Mildred Clark
Make-up Editor

June Matthews
Ass't Make-up

Rosa From

Current History

Elizabeth Baethke
Laura Coit

Exchange Editors

Nell White
Society Editor

Alice Chamlee
Business Manager

Kathryn Bowen
Advertising Manager

Circulation Managers
Mary Margaret Stowe
Margaret Cooper
Mary Gray Rogers
Sarah Brosnan

Elizabeth Burson
Sports Editor

Cornelia Christie
Club Editor

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RACE RELATIONS
SUNDAY

Next Sunday is Race Relations
Day. It was started many years
ago by the Federal Council of
Churches and has been observed
by some denominations in some
sections of the South for the past
ten years. It is a day when,
theoretically, all racial antago-
nisms and hatreds are sup-
pressed and the two races live at
peace in fellowship with God.

To the race situation we give
one-seventh as much importance
as we do to health and cleanli-
ness. For a week every year we
guard our health and well-being;
for another week each year we
correct unsanitary conditions.
And for ONE day every year we
are conscious of our Negro
neighbor as a person. Yet oddly
10 h we have chosen for this
one day the day of the week
which is set aside for the wor-
ship of God and His Son whose
first precept was the importance
of the individual. Clearly, it is a
Christian movement.

Agnes Scott is not only an in-
stitution in a Christian land; it
was founded by a denomination
of the Christian church. And it
has followed the ideals held by
its Christian founders and has
striven toward the goal laid out
for it by them. Surely we
students of Agnes Scott, cannot

thrill has gone but the ants not
! only linger on but multiply.

Ants do not necessarily indi-
cate dirt. They do, however, in-
dicate the presence of rotted
wood and decayed foundations
and general unhealthful condi-
tions. The College cannot help
but realize the effect a welcom-
ing committee of thriving ants
must have on chance visitors
and week-end guests to the dor-
mitories. Ant-bane is worthless
in this case. Besides a well-con-
structed, well-kept building
should have no need for ant-
bane or any other sort, even a
guaranteed brand, of ant poison.
Obviously the thing to do is to
discover the source, or the cause,
of the ants and destroy the
breeding places. The proper time
for this is spring holidays, the
next vacation time, when the
dormitories will be empty, there-
fore open to investigation and
thorough fumigation.

CLASS
CONTEST

The purpose of THE AGO-
NISTIC class contest was, origi-
nally, to discover hidden journal-
istic talent among the students.
This year, by eliminating from
competition all elected members
of both staffs and the depart-
as I mental editors, we are returning

? to the original purpose. We rea-
allow next Sunday to pass unob- gon soundl we belie when we

served Our failure to observe assume that the editorial staff
Race Relations Sunday will not d the elected members are al _
harm the Negro so much as it| read discovere d.
will harm us who, through blind- 1
ness, or prejudiced attitude, or! We are expecting good, well-
simple lack of interest, do not managed, and different class
see that we hold within our j editions ; accordingly we have
hands a possible solution to the selected a variety of judges who,

race problem as it exists today j we h P e > Wl11 ^ able to de lde on

I one paper as the winner. We and

the judges are going to play

THE BONUS
The Adjusted Compensation Pay-
ment Act, more commonly called the
"united front" bonus bill, finally be-
came law on January 27 when it was
passed by the Senate after having been
vetoed by the President. This action
culminates a fight for World War vet-
erans* compensation which began in
Congress the same hour the Armistice
was signed and which has come up for
debate during every administration
since then.

When the War Risk Insurance Act
of 1917, which was concerned with
World War soldiers* welfare, and which
was of monetary value to them, was
passed, Congress believed it had elim-
inated the problem of pensions which
they had expected to arise. Then,
in 1919, the first bonus law, a rider to
the Internal Revenue Act of 1919,
gave $60 to each soldier as he secured
his discharge from the army. But the
veterans began their fight for a more
substantial bonus. From 1919 to 1924
this fight continued, but all of the
bills were killed in Congress. President
Harding made a personal appeal to the
Senate, in 1921, expressing his disap-
proval of a soldiers' bonus. Although
Coolidge also expressed his objection to
a bonus bill by vetoing the World War
Adjusted Compensation Act of 1924,
it was passed over his veto. This act
provided veterans with paid-up twenty
year endowment policies which would
be due in 20 years and which would
serve as security for their old age. Un-
der this act, each soldier was given
$1.00 or $1.25 for each day of service,
the total of which was to be increased
by 25%. This whole amount was to
be kept at 4% compound interest for
20 years. At the end of 20 years, the
certificate would have reached the
"maturity" value as shown on the face
of each certificate.

This plan seemed to satisfy the vet-
eran leaders and very little discontent
was expressed with the existing situa-
tion until the years of the depression.
In 193 0, the veterans started a cam-
paign for the cash payment of the
bonus and in 1931, again over the
President's veto, (this time it was
Hoover's), a law was passed which al-
lowed the veterans to borrow up to
one-half of the maturity value of their
certificates.

Then, in the spring and summer of
1932, the nation witnessed the move-
ments of the "Bonus Expeditionary

(Continued on page 4, column 1)

Wilder's Latest
Is Fascinating

Heaven's My Destination, Thornton
Wilder, Harper & Brothers, $2.5 0. Re-
viewed by June Matthews.

In this latest of his books the author
of The Bridge of San Luis Key has
come a long way from the quiet
beauty of a little city in eighteenth
century South America. He has writ-
ten the story of a "Modern Don Quix-
ote," a traveling salesman whose at-
tempts to reform the world are as
amusing as they are pathetic. Entirely
different from its more famous prede-
cessor in setting, style, and subject,
Heaven's My Destination is, neverthe

the ultimate problems of life; and the
j reader "may as well make up his mind
i to be arguing about it for the next

twelve months. It's that kind of

book."

What We
Are Reading

Non-Fiction
Man, the Unknown Alexis Carrel,
Harpers.

The Lees of Virginia Burton J. Hen-

drick. Little, Brown.
Mrs. Astor's Horse Stanley Walker.

Stokes.

/ Write As I Please Walter Duranty.

Simon and Schuster.
The Tu en ties Mark Sullivan. Scrib-

ner's.

The Columbia Encyclopedia Colum-

bia University Press,
less, very much like The Bridge of San pmoW m _ yincent shean

L,m Key m that it treats with pro- | DoubledaVj Doran .

found undayndms and fyn^thy <rf \ My Country and My People Un Yu-

tang. John Day.

Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles

Stefan Zweig. Viking Press.

in the South.

ANTS AT
AGNES SCOTT

The ant situation on the cam-
pus is miserable. It is becoming
more so every day.

Last fall, the first ants ap-
peared in the halls of Main, trek

fair. We are asking that the
class editors play fair with us,
particularly in the matter of
news. It is not the sporting thing
to do to "hog", for any one pa-
per, all the news of the spring.
No edition should carry news
past the Tuesday of the week

the themes "deeply embedded in human
emotions and experiences."

Written with tender irony and with
keen and penetrating humor, the book
presents an objective, yet completely
sympathetic picture of George Brush,
still in the "awkward age of good-
ness." We meet him on the eve of his
twenty-third birthday and travel with
him "in school books" through a year
of valiant attempts to set things right
in a world distressingly out of joint.
His many adventures are more or less
unified by his desire to find the girl to
whom he is "practically married" and
of whom he hopes someday to make an
honest woman if he can ever remember
her name or where she lives. He takes
a whole house full of fallen women to
a quiet Sunday movie, believing that
they are sweet young girls; he becomes
uproariously drunk on what he thinks
is medicine for a cold; he is the despair
of hotel managers because he writes
scripture neatly on all the clean blot-
ters; and, in the course of his struggles
with an unfeeling world, he finally
comes to the conclusion that "every-
body's crazy the whole world's nuts."

Genuinely amusing because of the
simple humorous manner in which it
is written, the book is at the same
time a disturbing one because of its
presentation of a mind at grips with

Fiction

It Can't Happen Here Sinclair Lewis.

Doubleday, Doran.
Sprifig Came On Forever Bess Street-

er Aldrich. Appleton-Century.
Edna, His Wife Margaret Ayer

Barnes. Houghton, Mifflin.
Vein Of Iron Ellen Glasgow. Har-

court, Brace.
Silas Crockett Mary Ellen Chase.

MacMillan.
Shining Windows Kathleen Norris.

Doubleday, Doran.
Hands Charles G. Norris. Farrar and

Rinehart.

Blood Relations Philip Gibbs. Dou-
bleday, Doran.

Alumnae News

Marie Wagner,
Penn State.

-'36,

is attending

Jane Allen Webb, ex-'3 6, is attend-
ing the University of Kentucky in
Lexington.

mg up the stairs from the base- following its publication. Blan-
ment, on up to the second and | fe* instructions will be pasted on

third floors, into students
rooms. They became commoner
than bureaus and beds. The Col-
lege sprinkled small amounts of
ant-killer about and chose, ap-
parently, to ignore the hordes
that lived on long after the
power of the powder had died.
When Main, a sizeable dormi-
tory, grew to be too small for
the branches of the first ant
families, Rebekah was taken over
as a logical annex; the Collon-
nade made the migration even
more convenient. Now the ants
not only live with the girls in
Main and Rebekah ; they eat
with them as well. And the time
has come when killing ants on
clothes, in beds, and at the table
has ceased to be exciting. The

Friday of this week in Buttrick;
the regular staff will be willing
to advise the class staffs.

Another matter that we might
as well get straight now is that
of finances. THE AGONISTIC
has never failed to come out
holding a bag full of excess class
expenditures. This year no class
issue can cost more than $57.50.
After due deliberation we have
decided that, since a regular
four-page edition costs $55, two-
fifty is a good sum which, while
it will provide for some pleasing
fancy-work, will not allow for
anything overstuffed or ornate.
If the class editor, however, feels
she must splurge, it'll be be-
tween her and her class treas-
urer.

Elizabeth Allison, ex-'37, is attend-
ing Alabama Polytechnic Institute at
her home in Auburn.

Martha Lee Bowman, ex-'37, is tak-
ing a business course in Atlanta while
living at home.

Jane Clark, ex-'37, is staying at
home in Atlanta and studying voice.

Notes:

For those of us who have read her
two famous novels, Mary Peters and
the recent Silas Crockett, it is not sur-
prising to learn that Mary Ellen Chase
is as New England as the books which
she writes. For with a sea-captain
grandfather and with a father as a
lawyer in a Maine seaboard town, the
author has had much experience with
those New England virtues, stable liv-
ing and hard work.

Exchanges

The University of Wyoming has just
started a four-year course in Recrea-
tional Ranching for prospective dude
ranchers; studies will include geology,
botany, hotel management, book-keep-
ing, public speaking, journalism, wild
life, and history of the West. Time.

In England today more than 20,000
babies of wealthy families do not live
at home but in fashionable "baby
hotels," where they are taken at birth.
Many remain until old enough for pre-
paratory school. Colliers.

The stomach of a 40-pound dog can
hold at least three times as much food
as that of a 15 0-pound man. Hence
dogs often eat more food than their
masters. ... A newly invented dog
whistle is pitched so high that it is
virtually inaudible to the human ear.

Many an author gets a plot for a
new novel from the screen version of
his last one. Reader's Digest.

Meredith Crickmer, ex-'37, is at-
tending Northwestern University in
Evanston, Illinois. She is a pledge of
Gamma Phi Beta sorority.

Peggy Ann Fowler is going to school
at Centre College in Danville, Ky.

Mary Garland was married to Lieu-
-cnant Robert Selser on November 12,
193 5, in Atlanta.

Evelyn Hollan was married to Mr.
Clifford J. Hillard on July 3, 1 93 5.

Martha Sue Laney, ex-'37, is going
to school at the University of Missis-
sippi in Oxford.

"The typographical error is a slippery

thing and sly.
You can hunt till you are crazy, but it

somehow will get by.
Till the forms are off the presses, it's

strange how still it keeps;
It shrinks down into the corner, and

it never stirs or peeps,
That typographical error, too small for

human eyes,
Till the ink is on the paper, when it

grows to mountain size.
The boss, he stares with horror, then
grabs his hair and groans

ACP. Mr. Joe E. Moore, of North
Carolina State College, is an enterpris-
ing fellow and a gentleman of parts in
the psychological field. He has recent-
ly published, in the Journal of Ab-
normal and Social Psychology, a trea-
tise giving the results of an experiment
he undertook to discover the annoying
habits common to the college profes-
sor. Mr. Moore had a class of 123 ele-
mentary psychology students to study
112 professors for two weeks and then
turn in a report on the teachers' an-
noying habits and mannerisms.

Campus Comments.

Ten times as many students are
using their college libraries now as in
1925. The answer must be more par-
allel. The Tiger.

The "pedagogue" was originally a
slave. He was a slave in the Athenian
household, where he looked after the
safety of the master's sons. Under the
Roman empire he became the instruc-
tor of the boy slaves in the house of
the noble. These slaves were known as
the "pegagogiani." How times have
changed! Old Cold and Black.

The University of Mexico, the oldest
university in the West, last week voted
to suspend classes indefinitely because
of lack of funds. Three hundred radi-
cal students, who disapproved of the
holiday, barricaded themselves and pro-
ceeded to object vigorously with the
help of stones. They demand the in-

clusion of liberals on the University
The copy reader drops his head upon councils and federal funds in place of

his hands and moans endowment. The Spectator.

The remainder of the issue may be as

clean as clean can be,
But the typographical error is the only

thing you see."
/. #T Harden, Charlotte (N. C.)
News.

A rich horse-lover, with an estab-
lishment in central New York state,
has 110 horses on his place; and he
gives them puffed oats not merely
oats by the ton. Reader's Digest.

The Agonistic

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&?! extra-curricular 35

International Relations
The next meeting of the Interna-
tional Relations Club will be on Tues-
day afternoon, February 11, at 4
o'clock in the Y. W. C. A. room. Mr.
Mose Harvey, of the Emory University
faculty, will lead the discussion. The
College community is cordially invited
to attend.

French Club
The regular meeting of the French
Club will be on Monday afternoon,
February 10, at 4:3 0 o'clock.

Spanish Club
The last meeting of the Spanish Club
was held on Tuesday afternoon, Feb-
ruary 4, at 4:3 0 in Mr. Dieckmann's
studio. An interesting musical pro-
gram was presented by members of the
club. Spanish composers and their
works were studied, with illustrations
from the musical library of Agnes
Scott College. Louise Brown, vice-
president of the club, was in charge of
the program.

Bible Club
The Bible Club met on Monday
afternoon February 3, at 5 o'clock in
the Y. W. C. A. room. Dr. Charles A.
Shelton, president of the Christian
Council of Atlanta, spoke on The
Poetry of the Old Testament.

MCKEE WINS PRIZE
FOR BEST SNAPSHOT

Glee Club
The Agnes Scott College Glee Club
sang at Decatur Girls' High School on
Tuesday morning, January 14, during
the chapel period.

K. U. B.

The regular meeting of K. U. B.
will be held on Wednesday afternoon,
February 12, at 4:3 0 in the Y. W. C.
A. room. All members are urged to at-
end.

Chi Beta Phi Sigma
Chi Beta Phi Sigma will hold its
next meeting on Monday night, Febru-
ary 10, at 7:30 in the chemistry lec-
ture room. There will be a short busi-
ness meeting at 7 o'clock. At 7:3 0
Dr. R. C. Rhodes, of the faculty of
Emory University, will speak on eu-
genics. His subject is This Generation
and the Next. After the meeting there
will be a social hour. The College com-
munity is cordially invited to attend.

Elizabeth McKee received the prize
of $2.50 as the winner of the snapshot
contest sponsored this fall by the Sil-
houette, Agnes Scott College annual;
Winifred Kellersberger and Elsie West,
tying for second place, received $1.50
each. The contest closed on Decem-
ber 16.

The pictures were judged on the
bases of clarity, originality, and repre-
sentation of campus life, with empha-
sis placed on groups rather than indi-
viduals. Pictures receiving honorable
mention will have a page in the Sil-
houette devoted to them.

Pi Alpha Phi Orders Pins ;
Presents One to Dr. Hayes

Members of Pi Alpha Phi, honorary
debating society of Agnes Scott Col-
lege, have ordered diamond-shaped gold
pins as the emblem of their society.
This is the first time in several years
that the club has had pins; the former
ones were of a more elaborate design
than these, which bear only the Greek
letters of the society.

The chapter is presenting one of
these pins to its sponsor, Professor
George Hayes, of the English depart-
ment.

This year the pins are being made by
the Allied Jewelers of Atlanta.

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Music Appreciation Group
The Music Appreciation Group of
the Y. W. C. A. met on Sunday night,
February 2, at 7 o'clock in the music
room. The program consisted of a dis-
cussion of ballet music.

Miss Cilley Surveys
High School Spanish

Assistant Professor Melissa Cilley, of
the Spanish department, compiled a
report on high schools teaching Span-
ish in the State of Georgia which was
read at the annual meeting of the
American Association of Teachers of
Spanish in New York City on De-
cember 29. Miss Cilley 's report was
part of the study that the Association
is making of all the Southern states:
the amount of Spanish taught in the
high schools and the decrease or in-
crease in the number of students tak-
ing it.

Of the 5 2 high schools that teach
Spanish, 42 answered the questionnaires
sent out by Miss Cilley. Her report,
based on these 42 schools, gives the
total number studying Spanish at 5 2 86,
ranging from 434 pupils in one school
to one in another. Most of these high
schools offer a two year course.

An increase in the number of Span-
ish students was reported principally
by schools in or near cities where there
are vocational or commercial interests
and opportunities. The decrease re-
ported was due to the fact that ( 1 )
the University of Georgia system seems
to discourage the study of Spanish;
(2) new regulations in several high
schools do not require a language for
graduation.

Miss Cilley's report has been filed
at the State Board of Education.

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Reinhardt's MND Is
Able Adaptation of
Shakespeare Play

Max Reinhardt's motion picture ver-
sion of Shakespeare's A Mid summer
Night's Dream, which has been pre-
sented at the Georgia Theatre in At-
lanta on Monday and Tuesday of this
week, will close today with a matinee
and evening performance. The picture,
which follows the text closely, is ac-
companied by the famous Mendelssohn
music; it lasts for two hours.

The cast includes such notables as
Joe E. Brown, James Cagney, Mickey
Rooney, Anita Louise, Jean Muir, and
Dick Powell. All the parts are well
taken and the fantastic fairy world is
maintained throughout. The success of
this production doubtless owes a great
deal to the fact that Reinhardt, before
he attempted the screening, had pre-
sented a spectacular version of A Mid-
summer Night's Dream in the Holly-
wood Bowl. The camera offers possi-
bilities of presentation which makes
the screen version doubly inviting.

According to Professor George P.
Hayes, of the English department, who
saw the pre-view last week, the only
notable departure from Shakespeare is
in the interpretation of the scene in
which Bottom, gazing into the river,
sees himself in the ass's head. "Pathos
has been introduced here," Professor
Hayes said, "and Shakespeare intended
it to be humorous." Professor Hayes
expressed great delight with the picture
and with the manner in which the fair-
ies are handled. A great deal is made
of some scenes which contribute to the
atmosphere but do not reduce the
faithfulness to Shakespeare, according
to Professor Hayes. The music con-
tributes immensely to the beauty of
the version, he said; the whole produc-
tion, he feels, is superior to any on
the stage. In commenting on Shakes-
peare in the movies, Professor Hayes
expressed the hope that more adapta-
tions will be made in the future, now
that A Midsummer Night's Dream has
demonstrated that it can be ably done.

OBSERVE

Autograph enthusiasts will be
glad to learn that Thornton
Wilder has consented to auto-
graph his books while he is on
the campus tomorrow. He re-
quests that he be allowed to do
so privately, however, and all
those wishing autographs are ask-
ed to leave their books in Asso-
ciate Professor Emma May
Laney's office, 303 Buttrick, by
10 o'clock Thursday morning, or
earlier if possible.

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Thornton Wilder Is Cosmoplite,

Hiker, Professor - - - and Author

By Lucile Dennisox
The well-known writer whom the
Lecture Association presents tomorrow
night has had time during his dis-
tinguished career to engage in a w alk-
ing tour with Gene Tunney, a debate
with Hugh Walpole, and the trials of
correcting "absurd French exercises."
In this novelist and playwright, Thorn-
ton Wilder, is that degree of original-
ty and individualism which makes ac-
tivities such as these and others includ-
ing his lecturing and his writing inter-
esting to the public.

Not all of his 3 8 years have been
spent in the United States. Nine vcars
after he was born in Wisconsin he went
to China where for seven years his
father was a consul-general. He lived
in Rome before he wrote The Cabala
and he was again in Europe when he
wrote The Woman of Andros. His ac-
tivities include teaching as well as
traveling. Almost immediately after
his graduation from Yale in 1920 he
became a teacher of French at the
Lawrenceville School. In 1930 he ac-
cepted the lecture post which he still
holds at the University of Chicago.

Assistant Professor Annie May Chris-
tie, who has seen him in action there,
reports that he is a "dynamic teacher"
who vigorously "prances around" his
class. Fie likes association with the
students and prefers to live in a dormi-
tory.

His interest in writing appeared
early. He has revealed that, for in his
First Year Algebra is one of the first
tables of contents for the collection of
his three-minute plays. The fame which
came with the publication of his second
novel, The Bridge of San Luis Rey,
surprised none more than it did the
publishers who had accepted it because
it was an excellent book and not be-
cause of any belief in the possibility
of its success. He professes in his writ-
ing a passion for compression, a pen-
chant for religion, a repugnance for
didacticism, and a regret for the de-
terioration of the English language.

His lectures are so popular that his
audiences are always large. He has an
easy delivery and an intimate manner
that delight his listeners. This is the
most excellent recommendation that
can be given to his lecture here.

Marcelle Capatti Is Guest of
Y.W.C.A. at Florida College

Marcelle Capatti, French exchange
student at Agnes Scott, was recently
i guest of the Y. W. C. A. at the
Florida State College for Women in
Tallahassee. She spoke to the members
of the Y. W. at an evening meeting
and was guest of honor at a tea given
by Beta Pi Theta, national French hon-
orary society.

Her visit was sponsored by the in-
ternational and world fellowship com-
mittee of the Y. W. C. A. at F. S.

E. SYMMS' PICTURE
TYPIFIES EDUCATION

REPORTERS

Mary Richardson
Mildred Davis
Eliza King
Douglas Lyle
Carol Hale
Giddy Erwin
Ruth Hertzka
Mary F. Guthrie
Sarah Johnson

Hortense Jones
Selma Steinbach
Mamie Lee Ratliffe
Cora K. Hutchins
Loice Richards
Alice Cheeseman
Nell Hemphill
Enid Middleton

A photograph of Eugenia Symms, a
senior at Agnes Scott College, has been
selected to represent "Education" in a
forthcoming edition of the publication
of the Presbyterian Church, U. S. This
publication, the hand-book of the
Every Member Canvass, attempts to
show the benevolent work of the de-
nomination. It is published annually
by the stewardship of the Presbyterian
Church.

The picture of Eugenia Symms was
made for the Silhouette in her acad-
emic robe. It was considered the one
most nearly typifying modern educa-
tion. The Presbyterian magazine in
which her picture will appear is being
circulated throughout the South the
early part of this month.

The choice was made from unsub-
mitted photographs of hundreds of col-
lege men and women.

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Before we get down to the business
of revealing all of what there is to
reveal, we must find out whether
you've noticed the steady flow of
present Shakespearites, and all con-
scientious former Shakespearites, too,
to Atlanta the first three days of this
week. It is purely coincidental that
they all land up eventually at the
Georgia Theater, too. Such devotion
to one's drama is admirable, certain-
ly is.

Nell White has taken to her bed on
account of her fatiguing trips to town
to exchange Christmas presents.

Get Bert Palmour to introduce you
to John Allen Charming personality,
fetching bow-tie, appealing voice, and
guaranteed no fleas!

Joke of the week: Definition of
nothing: An idiot with amnesia.

Don't mention taxis or taxi drivers
to Alice Chamlee and Mackie Crisler.
It was a rainy day, funds were short,
and did they get soaked!

You have to hand it to one Anne
Russell Taylor. She waits till the din-

KEY TO CURRENT
HISTORY

(Conftnued from page 2, column 2)
Force" in Washington. At this time,
about 20,000 men gathered in the
capital with the purpose of forcing
cash payment of the bonus. But Con-
gress refused to pass the Patman Bonus
Bill which had come up for the first
time during that session, and the Bonus
Expeditionary Force was forced to
leave by the use of tear gas. In 193 3,
a bonus amendment to the agricultural
adjustment act was defeated.

The Patman Bonus Bill came up for
consideration again in 1934 and in
193 5, but on both occasions it was de-
feated. President Roosevelt vetoed this
measure in a personally delivered mes-
sage to Congress. This message, which
was especially opposed to the inflation
issue with which the bill was con-
cerned, is considered one of Roosevelt's
greatest state papers.

But even Roosevelt's prestige was
unable to withstand the fight for the
bonus, for on January 27 it pushed on
to victory. When the seventy-fourth
Congress convened on January 3 of
this year, a bonus bill, which had been
prepared by leaders of the American
Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars,
and the Disabled American Veterans of
the World War, was ready to be pre-
sented to Congress. For the first time,
these three organizations had taken a
united stand concerning any certain
bill. The House passed this prepared
bill with only one major change and
sent it on to the Senate, which made
another change in the bill. The Presi-
dent's swift veto of the bill did not
surprise anyone. His six line message
which was written in his own hand-
writing, referred the congressmen to
his veto message of last year. But this
veto was overridden and the bonus bill
became law three weeks after the open-
ing of Congress. This was more rapid
procedure than even the veterans
themselves had hoped for.

The bill, as finally framed, provides
for payment in non-negotiable "baby
bonds" of $50 each, cashable at face
value on or after June 15 or bearing
3% interest until 1945 (the date on
which the certificates were to have
been paid). Loans which have been
made on the certificates are to be de-
ducted but all unpaid interest on them
Since October 1, 1931, will be forgiven.
Roosevelt immediately announced that
the bonus w ould be paid as soon as pos-
sible and later issued another statement
requesting Congress to provide for an
appropriation to meet the bill which
amounts to about two and one-half bil-
lion dollars. There is much speculation
as to just how this money will be
raised, although it is generally assumed
that taxes will be increased in spite of
the fact that this is an election vear.

ing room is settled, then stalks in lead-
ing four real, grown-up men. No flies
on her!

We like Dr. McCain's friend's bit
of philosophy, "An ounce of taffy (in
daily living) is worth a pound of epi-
taphy."

One more name to put on your list
of June brides Miss Frances Ricks, to
become Mrs. Frank Hamlin.

We like Mutt Fite's attitude. With
two house knocks to her credit, she
was living in dread of the third fatal
one; so she deliberately let out a yell
after lights, and the knock was all
hers.

Imagine Anne Thompson's astonish-
ment when she breezed blithely into a
group of weeping sophomores. Time:
Sunday night. Place: Around a radio.
Reason: Dramatization of w And Sud-
den Death." These girls are walking
from now on.

And for our parting word, remem-
ber "you blow through, and the music
goes down and around "

DR. WALTER MILLER TO SPEAK
AT PHI BETA KAPPA ELECTION

(Continued from page 1, column 5)
Main building. Students of Latin and
Greek are especially invited to come
and meet Dr. Miller. Initiation of the
members announced on Saturday morn-
ing will take place that afternoon and
a banquet will be given in their honor
on Saturday night in the Tea House.

The Georgia Beta chapter at Agnes
Scott is one of the three chapters of
Phi Beta Kappa in the state; the other
two are at the University of Georgia
and at Emory University. Officers of
the local chapter are Professor Tor-
rance, president; Associate Professor
Emma May Laney, vice-president; As-
sociate Professor Florence E. Smith,
secretary; and Professor James M.
Wright, treasurer. It has been the cus-
tom of the Agnes Scott chapter to
bring an outside speaker every two
years to the February announcement;
Dr. Donald Davidson, associate profes-
sor of English at Vanderbilt Univer-
sity, Nashville, was the speaker two
years ago. In alternate years the local
president makes an address.

Italy's latest contribution to the
science of living is the "sunflower"
house which rotates on circular tracks
so that the living room always faces
the sun. Motive power is supplied from
a three-horsepower engine in the center
of the house. Architectural Forum.

Lasseter Names
Swimming Teams

Florence Lasseter, college swimming
manager, has announced the class
swimming teams. They are as follows:

Senior team Lena Armstrong, Ann
Coffee, Elizabeth Burson, Martha
Crenshaw, Elizabeth Forman, Mary
Richardson, Loice Richards.

Junior team Mary Jane Tigert,
Barton Jackson, Mary Kneale, Kitty
Printup, Mary Johnson, Florence Las-
seter; squad Betty Willis, Helen Du-
Pree, Michelle Furlow, Marie Stalker.

Sophomore team Kennon Hender-
son, Ann Worthy Johnson, Mary Ven-
etia Smith, Bee Merrill, Jean Chalmers,
Anne Thompson, Margaret Wright,
Martha Peek Brown; squad Nell
Hemphill, Jeanne Matthews, Ellen Mc-
Callie.

Freshman team Jane Moore Hamil-
ton, Esthere Ogden, Jean Bailey, Cary
Wheeler, Mary Ruth Murphy; squad
Barbara Shloss, Barbara Cassat, Anna
Margaret Riepma.

Sports Editorial

A. A. C. SELECTS DR. J. R.

McCAIN AS PRESIDENT

(Continued from page 1, column 4)
Association also plans to cooperate
with Associations of Law and Medical
Schools to see if they can abolish pre-
aw and pre-medical courses in col-
ege; to attempt to get uniform teach-
ers' training requirements throughout
the United States; to keep in touch
with Federal legislation in regard to
colleges and youth in general; to make
a study of college professors for a per-
sonal bearing on selection of teachers;
and to try to get better regulation of
the radio programs of the country.

WILDER TO TALK AT AGNES

SCOTT TOMORROW NIGHT

(Continued from page 1, column 3)
the most discussed novel of the year
and was the choice of the Book-of-the-
Month Club in America and the Book
Society of England. Wilder has also
won fame as a dramatist with The
Trumpet Shall Sound, which met with
remarkable success when produced in
New York.

Student tickets are 5 0c for unre-
served seats and 75c for reserved. Gen-
eral admission is 75c and $1.00. The
tickets may be secured in Buttrick
Hall today and tomorrow, at Davison
and Rich's department stores, or at
Bucher Scott Gymnasium tomorrow
evening.

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The Increasing Popularity of Lacrosse
for Girls

Condensed from the article bv
Martha Gable in a recent
issue of

Health and Physical Education
Ten years ago an English coach in-
troduced the game of lacrosse to the
girls in two New England colleges.
Interest in this new sport spread rapid-
ly among Eastern schools and colleges,
so that in 1932 the United States Wo-
men's Lacrosse Association was organ-
ized. At present forty-one schools and
colleges are affiliated with this organ-
ization.

The game itself is thoroughly en-
joyable and fascinating. Throwing,
catching, picking up the ball, dodging,
shooting, and checking are all prac-
ticed with increased speed. The fun-
damental of playing is similar to that
of basketball in that attacking players

aim to get free to receive a pass while
defense players guard their opponents
in order to intercept passes to them or
to prevent them from passing. The
positions of the players on the field are
much less limited than those in hockey
or soccer.

An excellent feature of the game is
that the rules are easy to understand
and fouls are few. Play progresses
without the constant stopping and re-
starting necessary in many sports; and
since there are no boundary lines, play
continues unless the ball goes into an
inaccessible place. The rules have been
adapted to the capacities of girls, and
there is little chance for roughness or
physical violence.

The hearty endorsement of those
who have had experience with the game
marks lacrosse as an excellent game
for girls and one which is bound to be-
come increasingly popular in America.

The Students
of

Agnes Scott College
are cordially invited NOT to grab all the food at the

Wilder Reception
Day Students' Room Tomorrow Night

Main Building

GLEE CLUB BEGINS

PRACTICE ON OPERA

(Continued from page 1, column 3)
given by Blackfriars, Agnes Scott
dramatic club, have been presented at
commencement time. It has been de-
cided, however, that the two presenta-
tions will be offered alternately at
commencement in order to avoid con-
flict.

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VOL. XXI

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12. 1936

NO. 15

Seven Receive
Phi Beta Key
At Mid-Year

Se\ en Alumnae Also Honored
At Annual Elections in
Chapel, Feb. 8

Announcement of the election of
seven seniors and seven alumnae to the
Georgia Beta chapter of Phi Beta Kap-
pa was made by Professor Catherine
Torrance, president, at the annual Feb-
ruary service in chapel on last Satur-
day, February 8. The seniors elected
are Shirley Christian, Elizabeth For-
man, Lita Goss, Ethelyn Johnson,
Edith Merlin, Sarah Nichols, and Mary
Snow. Those of the alumnae who were
elected from the class of '21 are Miss
Sarah Fulton, of the faculty of Atlanta
Girls High School; Mrs. Donald Rob-
erts, Shanghai, China; Mrs. Leon L.
Noble, Miami, Florida; Mrs. W. R.
Cate, Nashville, Tennessee; Assistant
Professor Janef Preston, of the English
department of Agnes Scott; Associate
Professor Martha Stansfield, of the
Latin and Greek department; and As-
sociate Professor Philippa Gilchrist,
'2 3, of the chemistry department.
Mrs. Roberts is the first American
woman to receive a degree from a
Chinese university and is the author
of Western Travelling to China.

The announcement of membership
to the Agnes Scott chapter was made
following the address of Dr. Walter
Miller, dean of the graduate school of
the University of Missouri. His sub-
ject was The Scholar in American
Life. In his discussion he expressed
the hope that some day the American
scholar will ascend to his true place,
and stated that "every scholar should
be in politics, not for personal prefer-
ment but for the public weal." He
stated that "America's most notable
advance in material progress, the tri-
umph of man over matter is due to
the American scholars," and attributed
the scholar's failure to the tendency to
look upon education as a tool for
money-making and to the lack of deep-
seated national traditions.

Initiation of the new members was
held on Saturday afternoon, and a
banquet was given in their honor on
Saturday evening in the Alumnae
House.

Ga. Classical Ass'n.
Will Sponsor Latin
Contest This Year

The high school Latin contest spon-
sored every spring for the past five
years by The Atlanta journal under
the direction of the Georgia Classical
Association will this year be sponsored
by the Classical Association alone. A
pamphlet containing rules and other
information for contestants will be
printed by the University of Georgia
and will be sent to every high school
in Georgia. Fifty dollars in cash has
been voted by the Association for
prizes; the distribution among the four
years of high school is to be announced
ater. Scholarships for fourth-year
winners in Virgil will be awarded by
Agnes Scott College and by several
other colleges in Georgia.

Among fourth-year winners who
have attended Agnes Scott College are
Willie Florence Eubanks, Phi Beta
Kappa, '3 5, and Cora Kay Hutchins,
who resigned her Latin scholarship to
the runner-up since she was also win-
ner of the $700 scholarship awarded
by Agnes Scott College in 1 93 5.

Officers of the Georgia Classical As-
sociation are: president, Dr. W. D.
Hooper, professor of Latin, University

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Miss Preston Has
Two New Poem sin
Poetry Magazine

Assistant Professor Janef Preston, of
the English department of Agnes
Scott College, has received notice that
her two companion sonnets, Midsum-
mer Mornhig and Mid sum mer After-
noon have been accepted for publica-
tion by Voices, poetry magazine edited
by Harrold Vinal. These poems, writ-
r en last summer in the Alumnae Gar-
den, will be published this summer.

Miss Preston also received first hon-
orable mention in a contest sponsored
by the Chattanooga Writers' Club.
This one, a nature poem, was selected
out of 400 entries submitted from all
sections of the United States.

Sir A. Willert to
Lecture Here On
"Europe Today"

Sir Arthur Willert, distinguished
diplomat and publicist, will come to
Agnes Scott College on March 3 under
the auspices of the Public Lecture As-
sociation of the College. He will speak
in Bucher Scott Gymnasium on Eu-
rope Today. Sir Arthur is the third of
a series of outstanding personages
which have appeared on the campus
this session, Robert Frost, American
poet, being the first, and Thornton
Wilder, noted author, the second.

Sir Arthur has been in intimate
touch with public affairs in England,
Europe, and the United States for the
past twenty-five years and has had ex-
ceptional opportunities for first-hand
study of the chief figures of interna-
tional politics since the war.

After working as an apprentice in
the Paris and Berlin offices of the
London Times he came to Washington
as .in assistant in the local bureau of
that paper. For ten years he was
Washington correspondent for the
Times; in 1917-18 he was secretary of
the British War Mission to the States
and representative of the British Min-
istry of Information, being stationed
in Washington. He was created a
Knight of the Order of the British
Empire in 1919 for his services in
these positions.

Sir Arthur, who has contributed to
The Atlantic Monthly, the New Re-
public, World's Work, and other such
magazines, was the principal British
speaker on the Williamstown Institute
of Politics in 1927. At the beginning
of 1 93 5 , he resigned as head of the
publicity department of the British
Foreign Office with which he had been
associated since 1920.

Dr. S. D. Gordon Begins Series
Of Religious Talks in Chapel

Wilder Discusses Young Writers,

Novels, In Entertaining Interview

Skipping with a lightning-like ra-
p'dity from sparkling comments upon
young writers and their trials and
tribulations to serious discussions of
the novel as a vehicle for the portrayal
of human experience, Thornton Wil-
der, internationally famous for his
The Bridge of San Luis Key and The
Woman of Andros chatted quite in-
formally and very delightfully in an
interview just before his lecture last
Thursday night.

"It seems to me," explained Mr.
Wilder in his inimitable dynamic man-
ner accompanied by vigorous hand
gesticulations, "that the chief trend in
young writing as I am acquainted with
it in my narration class at the Univer-
sity of Chicago is that most of the
aspirants seem to be striving toward
realism a realism which is expressed
through a literal interpretation of ma-
terial objects and experiences actually
seen and undergone by the writer.
True reality, however, is a very differ-
ent quality it is an inner experience
such as Shelley so keenly felt and ex-
pressed in that poetry of his which by
the more prosaic is felt to be some-
times too ethereal and obscure."

In further discussing reality as it is
manifested in the description of actual

objects, Mr. Wilder stated that most
people feel that an author should not
write of places he has never seen, and
yet they seldom realize that the same
is true of time. "Writers, for instance,
who visit the Holy Land in order to
make studies of the Bible or to write
books with a biblical setting," he said,
"do not seem to realize that this coun-
try is really not the same as when
Christ walked the earth. New foliage,
change in topography, growth of cit-
ies and the like have entirely changed
the environment so that using this
landscape for a background of early
Christendom is a serious breach of lit-
erary truth and reality."

Mr. Wilder, because his chief liter-
ary interests lie in the novel, became
very enthusiastic when this vehicle of
writing was mentioned. Since La Prin-
ces de Cleve written by Madame de
LaFayette, in the seventeenth century,
seems to him to be the first real novel,
he says that the novel is too contem-
porary to state dogmatically whether
or not it is a better means of portray-
ing human life in all its aspects than
the play.

Although he believes that there has
been a considerable decline in the qual-
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Decatur Citizens
To Vote on Bonds
For Second Time

Citizens of Decatur will vote Fri-
day, February 14, on the question of
the issuance of bonds in order to se-
cure funds available from the Federal
Government for improvements in the
schools and the sewer and water sys-
tems. Agnes Scott College is particu-
larly interested in the latter improve-
ments, which call for the erection of
an elevated 5 00,000 gallon steel water
tank and a modern sewer system to
provide for the disposal of approxi-
mately two-thirds of Decatur's sew-
age.

Since it was necessary to raise the
tax digest to provide for a previous
election last November, the Court in-
validated it. This objection cannot be
raised to the election of February 14.
Nine schools will benefit from a favor-
able return, as Federal funds will com-
bine with bond funds to make im-
provements amounting to $60,326.00.
A new water works tank will provide
increased pressure and additional stor-
age capacity, greatly facilitating water
service and fire protection. Federal
funds will contribute $16,1 52.00 and
the bond funds, $21,223.00.

M. CLARK RECEIVES
PRIZE FOR POETRY

Mildred Clark, '3 6, tied for first
place with her sonnet sequence, Coun-
ty) Girl, at the monthly Poetry Forum
of the Atlanta Writers' Club held at
the home of Dr. Anderson M. Scruggs
on February 2. The prize was an auto-
graphed copy of Glory of Earth by Dr.
Scruggs.

Country Girl will appear in the
March number of the Aurora.

Miss Stansfield Is
Speaker at A.A.U.P.
On Teaching Latin

Associate Professor Martha Stans-
field, of the Latin and Greek depart-
ment of Agnes Scott College, gave a
report on The Teaching of High
School Latin Since the Classical Inves-
tigation at the meeting of the Agnes
Scott chapter of the American Asso-
ciation of University Professors held
on Monday afternoon, February 3. At
this same meeting, three new members,
Associate Professor J. T. Gillespie, of
Bible, Professor Arthur Raper, of so-
ciology, and Miss Helen Miller, of the
biology department, were admitted.
The membership of the chapter now
numbers 14.

Basing her report on the results of
the classical investigation held from
1921 to 1924, Miss Stansfield discussed
the objectives of studying Latin, the
content of the courses, and the method
of stud) r ; she then showed some of the
:e\tbooks, written since the investiga-
tion, that are used now in the high
;chools. These textbooks endeavor to
apply the principles the investigation
has recommended, and are arranged
with the view of following a main
objective of studying Latin: the abil-
ity to read and understand it. Miss
Stansfield also gave an outline of the
Latin courses as given at Atlanta Girls
High School.

The officers of the Agnes Scott
chapter of the American Association
of University Professors are: Profes-
sor Henry Robinson, president; and
Associate Professor Martha Stansfield,
secretary- treasurer.

A. S. C. Continues
Theme of College
In WSB Programs

The Intellectual Life or The De-
velopment of the College as the Presi-
dent Sees It was the subject of the
talk given by Dr. J. R. McCain, presi-
dent of Agnes Scott College, on the
Agnes Scott College radio program
last Wednesday. This afternoon Dean
Nannette Hopkins, of the College,
will discuss Social Life or The De-
velopment as the Dean Sees It; on
February 19, Dr. D. P. McGeachy will
give the viewpoint of the local pastor,
in speaking on Spiritual Life and Dr.
Mary F. Sweet, on February 26, will
discuss Physical Life, the development
as seen by the resident physician.

The programs for February, which
are being presented by the Administra-
tion, form the second group in a five
months' series, the theme of which is
the Liberal Arts College: What Agnes
Scott College Has Done and Plans to
Do. The first month's series was given
by the trustees. The faculty will have
charge of the programs in March, the
alumnae in April, and the students in
May.

These programs are broadcast every
Wednesday over WSB at 5 o'clock,
and are under the supervision of Miss
Polly Vaughan, of the Spoken Eng-
lish department, recently elected by
the Agnes Scott College Alumnae As-
sociation to take the place of Assistant
Professor Janef Preston, of the Eng-
lish department, as chairman of the
Radio Publicity Committee of the As-
sociation. Miss Preston resigned after
serving in that capacity for four
years. FJJJ

'The Fullv-Rounded Life" Is
Theme; Services Will End
February 15

Dr. S. D. Gordon, religious author
and lecturer, began yesterday the series
of informal services which he is con-
ducting in Gaines Chapel at 9:4^
o'clock every morning through Sat-
urday, February 15. His general theme
is The Fully-Rounded Life; yesterday
he discussed There's Someone at Your
Side You Don't See, and today. The
Simple Secret of Self-Mastery. His
tentative subjects for the remainder
of the week are The Earliest Portrait
of God, Woman's Power, and An Old
Portrait of God Restored. Last Sun-
day Dr. Gordon spoke at the North
Avenue Presbyterian Church in At-
lanta, and each night of this week he
has charge of services at the Decatur
Presbytcrian Church.

A career as Ohio State secretary of
the Y. W. C. A., public speaker,
traveler in the Orient and Europe, and
author of more than 100 books on re-
ligious themes makes Dr. Gordon par-
ticularly interesting to young people.
When he was principal speaker at the
Atlanta Youth Conference last No-
vember, many Agnes Scott College
students had the opportunity of hear-
ing him. In order that the students
may know him better, the College
Y. W. C. A. has arranged that girls
may take him to meals at the Tea
House. There vvill also be a tea in his
honor on Thursday afternoon at 4:30
in the Y. W. C. A. room.

Dr. Gordon, although a iayman, is
considered one of the most distinguish-
ed speakers in the world. In addition,
he is the author of Quiet Talks, which
have a circulation of over 2,000,000.
Among his Quiet Talks are Quiet
Talks With Eager Youth, Quiet Talks
with Jesus, Quiet Talks on Prayer, and
Quiet Talks on the Bible Story.

Each year it is the custom of the
Agnes Scott Y. W. C. A. to bring to
the campus a distinguished religious
leader to conduct a week of evangelis-
tic services. Last spring Dr. Edwin
McNeill Poteat delivered a series of
talks on The Good Life.

Dr.Hayes t of B e
Banquet Speaker
At Eta Sigma Phi

Eta Sigma Phi, national honorary
classical society, will hold its annual
spring banquet at the Elite Tea Room
in Decatur on next Tuesday night,
February 18, at 6:30 o'clock. Profes-
sor George P. Hayes, of the English
department of Agnes Scott College,
will be the main speaker; his subject
will be Humanism and Cicero. Pro-
fessor Hayes spoke on this subject at
a joint meeting of the Atlanta and
Decatur Alumnae Clubs last fall.

The new members, who will prob-
ably be announced the latter part of
this week, will be guests of honor at
the banquet. They will be initiated
at 5 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon in
Main Building.

The officers of Eta Sigma Phi are
Elizabeth Forman, president; Mary
King, vice president; Bazalyn Coley.
secretary; Gertrude Lozier, treasurer;
June Matthews, corresponding secre-
tary; and Floyd Butler, sergeant-at-
arms. Professor Catherine Torrance, of
the Greek department, is faculty ad-
viser to the society this year, and Pro-
fessor Lillian Smith, of the Latin de-
partment, and Associate Professor
Martha Stansfield, of the Latin and
Greek departments, are faculty mem-
bers.

2

The Agonistic

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PUBLISHED WEEKLY

Owned and published by the students of Agnes Scott College.

Entered as Second Class Matter.

X935 Member 1936

Associated Golle6icde Press

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Editor-in-chief

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STAFF
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Make-up Editor

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Current History

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Business Manager

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Advertising Manager

Circulation Managers
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Sports Editor

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Club Editor

CULTURALLY SPEAKING

Last Thursday night, the Lecture Association presented Thorn-
ton Wilder, famous and popular author and lecturer. His coming
was announced the middle of last month in this paper and gentle
reminders of the event, reminders of an interesting and attractive
nature appeared from time to time in the Atlanta papers as well
as in THE AGONISTIC. His books, relatively widely read on the
campus, were pleasing to Agnes Scott students. The subject of
his lecture here was one that appeals keenly to the modern mind.
And the Lecture Association took just pride in their successful
efforts to bring him here this year.

Yet, out of the 489 students enrolled at Agnes Scott, scarcely
200 bought tickets.

WHY

MAKE NOISES?

\e question "Why all this
sudden hub-bub over the publi-
cs?" was logically asked in
Open Forum last week. Indubi-
ly it is a very good question.
Thl editors of the two publica-
1 ions presenting plans for change
were no less surprised over the
stir they had made than was the
student who put the question.

It has long been believed that
the students honestly do not care
how publication people are elect-
ed so long as their work is satis-
factory from the students' point
of view. Many times the student
is not even aware of who is what
on which publication; she is
more interested in what sort of
paper or magazine is being
mailed to her as partial receipt
for her Budget. Yet the rumpus
of the past three weeks would
seem to indicate that the stu-
dents, some of them, at least, are
actively concerned with this mat-
ter.

It was with no intention to
draw the wool or hide evil prac-
tices or push into office nice but
incapable girls that the Aurora
and THE AGONISTIC expressed
desire for change. It is held
jointly by the two editors that an
election placed in the hands of
the staff who knows and can
evaluate the work of its fellow
staff members would make for
greater spirit and loyalty within
the publication. The present
Nominating Committee, while it
does have its good points, tends
to place too much power in the
hands of too few. And under the
present Committee system, the
editor of either the Aurora or
THE AGONISTIC can literally
name her successor. The new
plans allow the editor's vote to
sway the election; yet, if the
staff, the student body, and the
business manager are all agreed
that the editor is playing favor-
ites and not attending strictly to
business, their combined votes
can defeat the editor's choice.

It is not a new bit of politics.
We are trying to pave the way
for inevitable expansion of both
publications. The road must be
cleared for action and we believe
a changed system of elections
for the Aurora and THE AGO-
NISTIC is the first step.

LITERARY
COMPETITION

The Short Story Contest which
was announced in last week's edi-
tion of THE AGONISTIC has
been received with quite some
enthusiasm. So far, however, it's
been enthusiasm alone, no stor-
ies. And, while enthusiasm is a
wondrous thing, we feel that the
formal entry of a few local ef-
forts might give the momentum
that a week's worth of enthusi-
asm has failed to supply.

The stories submitted to the
local chairman do not necessar-
ily have to be printed in the
Aurora; they may have been,
however. The type of story has
not been specified; it may deal
with any phase of any life the
writer feels she knows best. The
two winning stories of the Agnes
Scott division will represent the
best of the College literary
groups. The winner of the Story
contest will be the best that has
been written by a college student
during this session.

In order to stir up additional
interest and make the whole af-
fair more spontaneous, the local
sponsors of the contest have de-
cided to offer a prize of two dol-
lars to the writers of the Agnes
Scott entries in the national com-
petition. The contest closes on
March 15; the prizes will be
awarded soon after spring- holi-
days. That is, of course, if any-
body submits anything.

A Key
To Current History

The American Liberty League
In spite of the fact that President
Roosevelt vetoed the bonus a bill
which all "Liberty Leaguers" opposed
on the eve of their elaborate dinner,
the American Liberty League secured
considerable publicity for itself and
for its speaker, Al Smith, as a result
of its famous dinner on Saturday
evening, January 2 5. The leaders of
the A. L. L. perhaps deemed it incon-
siderate of Roosevelt that he, their
enemy, should agree with one of their
policies negation of the bonus bill
even before their meeting; but they,
nevertheless, managed to stir up quite
a bit of excitement.

The American Liberty League was
incorporated in August, 1934, as a
non-partisan organization. At that
time it was composed of and it still
counts in its membership many
prominent Democrats and Republic-
ans, such as John W. Davis and Al
Smith, former Democratic nominees
for president; John J. Raskob and
Jouett Shouse, former Democratic Na-
tional Chairmen; Joseph Ely and Al-
bert C. Ritchie, former Democratic
governors of Massachusetts and Mary-
land respectively; James M. Beck and
David I. Reed, former Republican
Congressmen from Pennsylvania; Mrs.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth; and Rob-
ert V. Fleming, president of the
American Bankers' Association. The
American Liberty League is an organ-
ization formed to protest against what
its members consider the radical tend- |
encies of the New Deal. The League
insists that the constitution be up-
held. Its enemies, of which there are
many, call it an "association against
the Brain Trust" and ridicule it by
saying that the only kind of liberty it
deserves is "liberty for millionaires."

Soon after its founding Roosevelt
commended the American Liberty
League, at least outwardly, by stating
that it was good in that it was born
out of the necessity for criticism. But
last fall while Jouett Shouse, presi-
dent of the A. L. L.. was still saying
that it was "definitely not anti-
Roosevelt," Roosevelt himself said he
believed the organization stressed the
protection of property and neglected
the protection of citizenry.

The rift between the president and
this anti-New Deal group grew and
reached an exciting climax in what
might be termed the group's coming-
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Life With Father"
Is Life-Like Book

Life With Father, by Clarence Day.
Reviewed by Giddy Erwm.

One could give an adequate descrip-
tion of Clarence Day's Life With
Father by saying, "It is a book that
anyone could write." And from the
point of view of the subject matter
almost anyone could write a book sim-
ilar to this one. Anyone could recall
the peculiar characteristics of his own
father and all the favorite family
anecdotes and reproduce them as a
book. Such experiences as Father's
hiring a cook, or returning to find un-
expected guests in the home these are
common in every family. Just what
is it then that makes Life with Father
one of the year's best sellers?

All who have read this book will
answer immediately that the success
of the book is due largely to the ar-
resting style in which it is written.
Under Clarence Day's light whim-
sical touch Father's experiences be-
come vivid episodes in the life of a
person who seems strangely familiar
to us. The intimate conversational
tone of the book compels us to laugh
hilariously at the idiosyncrasies of
this irascible, yet lovable man. Day
achieves somehow in the character
sketch of Father an unbelievable mix-
ture of anybody's father and a dis-
tinct personality as well,
special likes and dislikes his pet rug
and his violent reaction to its removal
we see reflected the whims of our
own fathers. In his absent-minded-
ness, his occasional economic streaks,
his blustering pride, his impatience, his
egotism, and his boyishness in these

human characteristics we recognize
failings of our own fathers, failings
which make them all the dearer to us.
We account for the book's popularity,
therefore, by the universality of its
subject, Clarence Day's father, and by
the interesting style in which this
character is presented.

Notes

2 Minute Interviews
with

2 Famous Authors
Sinclair Lewis:

School boy, college graduate, jani-
tor, journalist, author, and farmer. As
a school boy in Minnesota, Lewis dis-
tinguished himself by his low marks
in school. As a graduate, he left Yale,
joined Upton Sinclair's Utopian col-
ony, and became janitor of the settle-
ment. As a journalist, he sold jokes
for magazines, held various journalis-
tic jobs, and produced Main Street m
1920. Mr. Lewis has a farm in Ver-
mont where he spends his time when
not traveling. He says of himself,
r Tm just a country hick living on a
farm, and every time I leave it I get
into trouble."

Clarence Day:

New Yorker, college graduate,
Neanderthal artist, and author. He
was born in New York City in 1874.
jHe graduated from Yale and receiv-
In Father's j ed an honorary degree from this Uni-
versity thirty years later. He has
written many books, his most recent
being Life with Father, which is still
on the popular reading list of the na-
tion. Mr. Day has also illustrated in
his own peculiar style a book of verse
called Scenes from the Mexozoic.

Snow and Ice Contribute Color

To C lose of Hila rious Exa m Week

Alumnae News

Rebecca Harrison is attending Bre-
nau College in Gainesville, Ga. She has
pledged Alpha Delta Pi.

Margaret Erwin is attending the
University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa.

Margaret Belle Keller is a day stu-
dent at Mary Baldwin College, which
is in her home town, Staunton, Va.

Exam time was almost over when,
on January 29, the weather man de-
cided to stage a free show for the suf-
ferers of Agnes Scott, and meanwhile
to solve the problem of the Athletic
Association, "How to get them out of
doors?" No one can be certain which
head first peeped out the next morning
and saw the miracle of the night, but
it is sure that several hundred heads
followed suit within five seconds. Evi-
dently not a breath of wind had stir-
red all night, for great feathery drifts
lay deep and untouched, even on nar-
row ledges, blinding white in the sun.
Walks and steps were inches deep,
deep enough to have made a fortune
for snow-shovelling younger brothers.

Great industries sprang up immedi-
ately, snow-building, snow-fighting,
snapshotting, and the manufacture of
snow ice-cream made with smuggled
sugar. Killers lay in ambush and dealt
destruction to passersby with unerring
snowballs aimed at necks and faces.
Snowmen and women! sprang up
magically as students put forth efforts
that would astonish their teachers. On
the quadrangle one snowman sat on
a bench with his lady-friend and
watched the scurrying crowds. Little

Sylvia Kuniansky is attending the
University of Georgia in Athens.

Eleanor Lemmon is attending school
at Sargent in Boston.

pools of water grew around radiators
in the dormitories as parties came in
to thaw out temporarily. The Electives
Committee received red-cheeked appli-
cants in toboggan caps and mittens.
While Decatur, according to news re-
ports, "dug out some old snow-plows"
and went to work to clear the streets,
Agnes Scott janitors shovelled out nar-
row paths on the campus, for the more
sedate. No one was proof against the
ungraceful sprawls that increased as
the trampled snow froze into slippery
rinks.

It was a tragedy that such a beauti-
ful siege of snow should end in rain,
but the weather man's kindly whim
seemed to be over. Agnes Scott strug-
gled disgustedly with umbrellas and
galoshes, grumbling about the double
trial of rain and exams. The slush per-
sisted until everyone thought it was
permanent, and then vanished over-
night in a strong dry wind. The cam-
pus was itself again at last, damp but
c l ean unt il the afternoon of Febru-
ary 6, when more sleet and snow caused
even Floridians to sigh at a novelty no
longer a novelty. "A snow 'is a snow
is a snow . . ."

Exchanges

Betty Maynard is taking a business
course in Atlanta while living at her
home in Decatur.

NOTE
BENE

Attention is called to the an-
nouncement of an editorial con-
test for college students which
is posted on the second bulletin
board in Buttrick. The contest
is being conducted by The Na-
tion and sponsored at Agnes
Scott by THE AGONISTIC. The
subject, a timely one, of the edi-
torial is Will Neutrality Keep Us
Out of War?

Caroline Phillips is a student at
University of Texas in Austin.

the

Elizabeth Watts is
University of Texas.

attending the

Geraline Young is going to the
Woman's College of North Carolina
in Greensboro.

In the Eskimo language "I love you"
is "unifggaernauburenslfingununagiou-
gaifoes." A Perdue journalist suggests
that this might explain the old ques-
tion as to why the arctic nights are
so long.

Statistics indicate that 200,000 chil-
dren now attending school in the
United States will probably become
criminals. The Sun Dial.

Coribel Langley is at Georgia State
College for Women in Milledgeville.

Louise Norris is attending the Uni-
versity of Tennessee in Knoxville.

Esther Soutter is attending the Uni-
versity of Chicago.

Slapstick comedies are few and far
between these days; but even so, a
movie villain is now and then tossed
through a window. When you see this
don't cringe for fear the glass will cut
the actor, for the property man has
prepared this glass-like pane from
sugar. Scientific American.

The Universities of Wisconsin and
Brown are two of the few American
colleges which maintain handicraft
workshops for their students.

Rin^-Tum-Phi.

The trouble with soaking the rich is
that you are apt to get your own feet
wet while you are doing it. National
Republic.

What a woman needs is: up to the
age of 14 good health and good par-
ents; from 14 to 40 good looks; from
40 to 60, personality; and from 60 on
cash! Ladies Home Journal.

At one of our eastern colleges re-
cently the professor was unable to stay
for class so he placed a sign on his
door which read as follows:

"Professor will be unable to

meet his classes today."

Some college lad seeing a chance to
display his sense of humor, after read-
ing the notice, erased the letter "C"
from in front of "classes." The pro-
fessor, noticing the laughter, wheeled
around, walked back, looked at the
sign, looked at the boy; he then calmly
erased the "L" in "lasses" and walked
awa y. Dai idsoniiiu.

The Agonistic

local color

And the snow came and blanketed
the earth just as we blankety-blankcd
our exams. Moral of our story, girls,
is to keep this new semester as clean,
white, and cool as our snowed-in
campus was before our snow-man
(and Alumnae Garden Lady) racket
became so popular.

It was in the midst of exams. Miss
Hopkins was in her office calmly con-
ferring, when, lo, from above there
came such a clatter that Miss Hopkins
had to get up to see what was the
matter! (Intentional.) Scene II: Third
Floor Main. No less than fifteen girls
playing "Pussy Wants a Corner" in a
ten-foot space, making more noise
than fifty of our radiators. Scene III:
Second Floor. Miss Hopkins on her
way to Third. Grand Finale: Miss
Hopkins arrives on Third! Draw your
own conclusions ???????

I his might have been pulled on an
English 211 exam, "Humor was then

introduced into the English drama
for example, a wife wringing her hus-
band's neck."

Speaking of boners, Shirley Chris-
tian is tops this week. At a Rebekah
house meeting the condition of the
ironing boards was being discussed.
Just as Phinney asked if there was
anything more to be said on the sub-
ject, Shirley, descending the stairs,
contributes, "The reason we haven't
had new lamp shades before in the
date parlors is that the boys have liked
to scratch them up."

Ask the business manager and her
assistant to show you their Agonistic
Keys embarrassing pause search
farther afield why not try the Tech
campus?

Joke of the week: During a Rus-
sian exam a boy sneezed. He was ex-
pelled for having conjugated a verb
out loud.

OPPONENTS DEFEAT
JUNIORS, FRESHMEN

Clubs

Poetry Club
The regular meeting of the Poetry
Club was held on Tuesday night, Feb-
ruary 11, at 8:30 in Ansley Cottage.

Cotillion Club
Cotillion Club gave a tea-dance for
its members on Thursday afternoon,
February 6, from 5 to 6 o'clock in
Mr. Dieckmann's studio. Ellen Davis,
Marion Derrick, Carolyn White, and
Lavinia Scott were hostesses.

Pi Alpha Phi
The regular meeting of Pi Alpha
Phi will be held on Thursday night,
February 13, at 7 o'clock in Miss
Gooch's studio.

Music Appreciation Group

The Music Appreciation Group of
the Y. W. C. A. met on Sunday night,
February 9, at 7 o'clock in the music
room. The Group studied the vocal
music of Galli-Curci, Lily Pons, Lotti
Lehman, and others.

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The most decisive basketball games
of the season took place when the
seniors defeated the juniors 3 8-14 and
:he sophomores the freshmen, 20-19,
on Friday afternoon, February 7, in
Bucher Scott Gymnasium. The fresh-
man-sophomore game was the more
exciting. At the half, the sophomores
were leading 16-7, but in the third
quarter the freshmen steadily increased
their score by accurate shooting, swift
passing, and close guarding. Garner
was the star shot. The sophomores
played too closely together, and had
trouble with their passwork, but Black-
shear's two goals put the sophomores
ahead, and the game ended with one
point in their favor.

The junior-senior game was a sur-
prise to all. It was expected that this
game would be very close, especially
since the result would put either team
in first place for the banner. The first
quarter was close. In the second, how-
ever, the senior guards prevented the
junior forwards from scoring, while
the senior forwards rang in one ball
after another, leaving the score at the
half 20-10 in their favor. In the sec-
ond half the juniors scored only 4
points, although they made frequent
shots toward the goal. Their passwork
was good, and the guards kept up their
good work all through the game, but
they were outpointed. Stevens scored
17 of the 3 8 points.

Both the junior-senior game and
the freshman - sophomore game were
smoother than previous ones. The
freshman team made one foul, the only
one made.

Miss Elizabeth Mitchell, of the phys-
ical education department, and Miss
Page Ackerman, a former instructor,
were the referees. Lulu Ames kept
score, assisted by Jane Estes, and Ann
Coffee was time-keeper. The line-ups
were as follows:

Freshman Sophomore
Garner (14) R.^. Thompson (6) ;

Pardee

Carmichael (5) L.F. Henderson
Dryfoos, Flynt C.F. Blackshear (14)
C.G. Adams, Kelly
R.G.
L.G.

Interview With Dr. Miller Is
Interesting, Inf o r m a 1 C h a t

His surprise and joy at what he has
done according to Miss Torrance's in-
troduction, began twenty minutes of
varied and often hilarious conversa-
tion with Dr. Walter Miller. "That's
what I'd like to see in the paper," he
said. "What she said was wonderful
although I didn't know about it be-
fore." When he started to catalogue
his impressions of Agnes Scott, he ex-
pressed his delight at the manner in
which the students received his speech;
he lays his Saturday morning success
to the "horse story" and he can't re-
member where he first found it. Al-
though this is his second visit to the
College, Dr. Miller declared that it
was just like coming somewhere else
for the first time his earlier visit was
made during the presidency of Dr.
Gaines before the recent development
campaigns. "You have a good plant,
and a fine faculty, a fine faculty."

From that point on, there was no
method in the talk. From Stone Moun-
tain and the figure of Davis that looks
like Lincoln to Emory with "its mag-
nificent plant" to Mark Twain and
Schiller and their Joans of Arc. Here
Dr. Miller told of the time he was ar-

rested as a deserter from the German
army. "It was a young fellow they
were looking for and I fitted his looks
and my speech was all right." The
discussion between him, as he stub-
bornly insisted that the passport was
his own, and the policeman, whose in-
creasing doubt could be measured by
the growing number of fellow police
whom he summoned, Dr. Miller related
in German, recapturing a great deal of
the fire he must have had when he was
actually in the situation.

From Germany we went on to
Greece. He admitted that he is par-
ticularly fond of Greek as one re-
mark in his address Saturday morning
clearly indicated. He confessed that
once, when he was offered an instruc-
torship in Latin, he referred to it as
"that stuff" but he doesn't do that
any more. He is openly and frankly
partial now to Greek because of its
vast store of literature and the arts.
As the head of the Latin department
said on the occasion of "that stuff,"
" 'if we had your literature and art,
Latin would be greater than Greek'
ah! but there's that 'if'," Dr. Miller
said, "and so it's not!"

Cuddy
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McCain (4)
Kneale (6)
Taylor
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Senior
Handte (10)
Stevens (17)
Burson (11)
O'Neal
Hart

Estes

Low Temperature
Interrupts Work

Because of unfavorable weather
conditions work on the new library of
Agnes Scott College was somewhat
delayed during the week of February
1-8. Workers were unable to pour the
concrete during the cold weather be-
cause in order that concrete may set
properly, a temperature of fifty de-
grees fahrenheit must be maintained
for not less than seventy-two hours
after it has been poured. However,
the work has been continued this
week, and one-half the concrete in
the main reading room has been
poured.

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New, Term Brings
4 To Agnes Scott

Helen Ramsey, Esther Burns, Har-
riette Moore, and Bettye Sams have
enrolled at Agnes Scott College for
the second semester, which began on
February 3. Helen Ramsey, of Dar-
lington, S. C.j is returning to the cam-
pus after a year's absence; Esther
Burns, of Atlanta, is also a former
student; Harriette Moore, of College
Park, Ga., is transferring from the
University of Georgia; and Bettye
Sams, of Decatur, Ga., comes as a
transfer student from Wheaton Col-
lege, Wheaton, 111. These students
have not yet been classified.

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A. Palmour Travels
In South Carolina
For Agnes Scott

Miss Alberta Palmour, field secre-
tary of the Agnes Scott Alumnae As-
sociation, left on last Saturday, Feb-
ruary 8, for South Carolina where she
will speak to high school groups in
Florence, Sumpter, Columbia, Winns-
boro, Newberry, Laurens, Chester, and
Union. At each place Miss Palmour
will show moving pictures of Agnes
Scott and campus activities; shots of
the ice and snow storms have been
added recently.

Miss Dorothy Hutton and Miss
Palmour will represent the College at
the regional conference of the South-
eastern Alumni Secretaries, to be held
at Winthrop College in Rock Hill,
S. C, on February 14-15.

At the afternoon session of the first
day, Miss Hutton will give a talk on
the Training Course for Undergrad-
uates.

Miss Palmour and Miss Hutton will
return to the campus on Sunday.

Richards, Cunning-
ham Head Senior
Edition in Contest

Loice Richards and Kitty Cunning-
ham were elected editor and business
manager of the senior edition of The
Agonistic, to be published next
Wednesday, at a meeting of the senior
class on Friday, February 7. The fol-
lowing weeks the junior, sophomore,
and freshman classes will each publish
an edition, the freshman edition ap-
pearing March 11. The silver cup will
be presented to the editor of the win-
ning issue in chapel on April 3.

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history

(Continued from page 2, column 5)
out party of January 2 5. At that
time 200 conservative politicians,
capitalists, and socialites attended the
dinner at the Mayflower Hotel in
Washington, where Al Smith criti-
Li/ed the New Deal in a somewhat
witty and sarcastic talk, which was
broadcast to the nation. He almost
apologized for attacking the adminis-
tration, whose president he had helped
to elect, when he said: "This is pretty
tough for me to have to go after my
own party this way, but I submit that
there is a limit to blind loyalty. "
Smith's talk and the dinner at which
it was made have naturally received
national comment. Much discussion
has been caused by Smith's statement
concerning his action at the forth-
coming Democratic national conven-
tion: "We can cither take on the
mantle of hypocrisy or we can take a
walk." He and his associates will
probably take a walk and leave the
Democratic party for the more con-
servative Republican one.

Will the American Liberty League
form a third independent party? Will
it join one of the two major parties?
Or will it cause a readjustment of
parties according to conservative and
liberal tendencies? The situation bears
watching.

WILDER DISCUSSES YOUNG
WRITERS

(Continued from page 1, column 2)
ity of writing in recent years, Mr.
Wilder announced that there were
four novels written in this century
which will endure and which will be
proclaimed great Marcel Proust's Re-
membrance of Things Past, Thomas
Mann's Magic Mountain, Gertrude
Stein's The Making of Americans and
James Joyce's Ullysses.

Throughout his further discussion
of the novel and of many other things
w hich he subsequently touched on in
i\k- lecture, the impression was con-
veyed that here was a man who is not
only famous writer but who is also
in 'eciative audience for the liter-
.ir\ \uions of others an audience
who not only appreciates but under-
stands everything from the immature
Stn es of a novice in narration to
tho seemingly unintelligible utter-
ance of the much talked about and
little understood author of A Rose
is a Rose is a Rose is a Rose.

Eight Cakes Are
Contest Prizes

GA. CLASSICAL ASS'N

WILL SPONSOR LATIN

CONTEST THIS YEAR
(Continued from page 1, column 2)
of Georgia; vice president, Mrs. J, D.
Gardener, graduate of Agnes Scott
College, teacher of Latin, Camilla,
Georgia; chairman of committee on
rules and prizes, Professor Lillian S.

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"Big Dec"

With results even better than last
year, the health contest conducted
during the two weeks of examinations
closed with the awarding of eight
cakes, four going to Inman dormitory,
which scored highest in the contest.

The cakes were awarded on the
basis of health charts, placed on every
dormitory wing and checked by spon-
sors of the respective wings on the
following points: three meals a day,
at least seven hours sleep, and one hour
of exercise each day. Two of the cakes
received by Inman went to the first
floor wings (Emmy Lou Turck and
Primrose Noble, sponsors) ; one to the
second floor (Mary Wells McNeill,
sponsor) ; and one to the third floor
(Mary Simonton, sponsor). Main dor-
mitory came next with one cake going
to the second floor (Kay Ricks, spon-
sor) ; and one to the third (Ellen Lit-
tle, sponsor). Second floor Rebekah
(Mary Willis, sponsor), and Gaines
(Frances Wilson, sponsor) also re-
ceived cakes.

Smith, of Latin, Agnes Scott Col-
lege; and member of committee on
final examinations, Associate Professor
Martha Stansfield, of Latin and Greek,
Agnes Scott College.

Summary of Aurora Plan

(In accordance with the majority vote of the student body in Open Forum last Thurs-
day. THE AGONISTIC is publishing the following condensed report of the AURORA Flan
for Staff Election. The students will vote on this proposed change in chapel ?. week from
tomorrow. Ed.)

The Aurora Plan for Staff Election,

which is similar in some respects to

The Agonistic plan, includes the fol-
lowing points:

The student body will nominate

two juniors for editor of the Aurora;

one of the nominees must be selected

from the staff, the other may come

from either the class or the staff. The
{Aurora staff will name one candidate

from the staff. These three will be
j voted on by the students, the editorial
I staff , the business staff, and the editor.

All of the votes, except the editor's,

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Elba King Ruth Hertzka

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shall count one; her vote will count
two. Nominations and election of the
editor of the Aurora will take place at
the regular time in the spring.

The election of the business man-
ager will follow the same procedure
except that the editor's vote, in this
case, will count with that of the edi-
torial staff and the out-going business
manager's vote will be worth two. The
nominees, both of the students and the
staff, may come from the class at
large. In each election, a total of five
vores will be cast.

A. S. C. Group To Go
To B. S. U. Meeting

The State-Wide Spring Retreat of
the B. S U. is to be held at Athens
this week-end, February 15-16. The
general theme of the retreat will be,
God's Clarion Call to Youth. The de-
votionals and discussions will be con-
ducted by various students through-
out the state. A banquet will precede
the Saturday evening meeting. At all
sessions prominent state and south-
wide leaders will speak. At the Satur-
day evening session Lois Hart, presi-
dent of Agnes Scott B. S. U., will pre-
sent special music.

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ALUMNAE
WEEKEND

I) Agonistic

ALUMNAE
WEEK-END

VOL. XXI

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE. DECATl'R. CA.. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 19. 1936

NO. 15

NA OMI COOPER ELECTED MAY QUEEN

Fifth Alumnae Week-End
To Be Held February 2 1-22

Founder's Day Radio Program,
Alumnae Dinner, and Lecture
Series To Be Features

The fifth consecutive Alumnae
NX/eck-End will be held on the campus
February 21 and 22.

Highlights of the week-end will be
a luncheon for alumnae in the dining
room of Rebekah Scott Hall on Fri-
day and the luncheon on Saturday in
the Anna Young Alumnae House for
the alumnae and their children. Satur-
day night at 6 o'clock the Founder's
Day Dinner will be held at the Druid
Hills Golf Club. Miss Florence Smith
will speak on "The History of the
University Movement."

Following is a complete program for
the Alumnae Week-End:

Friday, February 21, 1936

9:00-3:00 P. M. Exhibit of Relics,
arranged by Mrs. C. J. Lammers.

10:00-10:45 A. M. "Present-Day
Trends in Music," Miss Martha Gait.

10:45-1 1:30 A. M. "Present-Day
Trends in Painting," Mrs. Harold
Bush-Brown. j

11:30-12:15 P. M. "Present-Day
Trends in Architecture," Mr. Hal
Hentz.

12:30 P. M. Luncheon for Alum-
nae in Rebekah Scott Dining Room.

Saturday, February 22, 1936
9:00-12:30 P. M. Exhibit of Rel-
ics, arranged by Mrs. C. J. Lammers.

10:00-12:00 M. Program for Chil-
dren, arranged by Miss Llewellyn Wil-
burn.

10:00-10:45 A. M. "Social and
Economic Conditions of Washington's
(Continued on page 4, column 5)

Special Program
To Be Broadcast

Blackfriars Give
Play by Alumna

Bridal Chorus, the play to be pre-
sented by Blackfriars on March 6 and
7, was written by Roberta Winter, an
alumna of Agnes Scott. She started
writing while a student in college,
graduated with the honor of Phi Beta
Kappa, and continued her studies at
Yale. She is now head of the speech
department of a high school in New
Haven, Conn. Miss Winter is pleased
that the first production of Bridal
Chorus is to be given at her alma
mater.

Rehearsals for the play have started,
and the following cast is announced:

Carrie Phinney Latimer Martha
Jane Perry.

Alice McCallie Mrs. Perry.

Luther Carroll J. R. Perry.

Frances Steele Georgia Davis.

Myrl Chafin Charlotte Wright.

Marie Stalker Josephine Bennett.

Kathryn Printup Caroline Bell.

Jim O'Shields Steward Gibson.

Marion Camp Bishop Rathbone.

Jimmy Jepson Ellis Bradley.

The production of Bridal Chorus
will be the second public performance
of Blackfriars this year, the club hav-
ing presented A. A. Milne's Mr. Pi?n
Passes By on November 22 and 2 3.
Tickets for the play will be put on
sale at an early date.

Senior Will Reign Holiday and Banquet Mark

Founders Day Celebration

Dance Club Holds
Ann ual Recital

New Furniture
Put in Parlors

The Founder's Day Program will be
broadcast over WSB from 6:30 to 7:00
o'clock Saturday night. Speakers will
include: Dr. J. R. McCain, Miss Nan-
ette Hopkins, Mr. R. B. Holt, Miss
Polly Vaughan. The early part of the
program will be devoted to a presenta-
tion of short dramatic incidents from
the early history of the College. These
will feature the founding, the appoint-
ment of Miss Hopkins as principal,
Colonel Scott's gift, and the changing
of the name from Decatur Female
Seminary to Agnes Scott Institute, so
named for his mother; the acceptance
in Dr. Gaines of the presidency; Agnes
Scott's recognition as a college by the
Ass tciatioa of Colleges and Secondary
Schools of the Southern States; the
hrst otter of the General Education
lv ard* and the "whirlwind campaign"
of 1909 conducted by Agnes Scott un-
der the chairmanship of Mr. J. K. Orr,
the present chairman of the board of
trustees oi \gnes Scott. This program
is dedicated to the founders of the Col-
lege, the birthday of G. W. Scott, and
is especially arranged for local groups
of alumnae.

The first of the new furnishings for
date parlors is today being placed in
the rooms in Main that are to be re-
decorated. Approximately $175.00 was
raised for this purpose in the campaign
recently conducted on the campus by
Mortar Board.

Radios, end tables, lamps, light fix-
tures, and pillows were bought on Sat-
urday and delivered to the campus yes-
terday.

The Mortar Board committee for
decorations includes Sarah Spencer,
chairman, Ruby Hutton, Ann Coffee,
and Miss Louise Hale, faculty advisor.

The other members of the chapter
arc assisting.

BAPTIST STUDENTS
ATTEND CONFERENCE

A group of Baptist students of Ag-
nes Scott attended the spring retreat
ut the Georgia Baptist Students Union,
in Athens, Ga., February 16-17. Con-
ferences were held at the Athens First
Baptist Church, and delegates attended
from schools and colleges throughout
the state. Those attending from Agnes
Scott were: Irene Wilson, Catherine
Bates. Lois Hart, Elizabeth Burson,
Sarah Johnson. Miriam Sanders, and
C'arv Wheeler.

Y.W.C.A.TO PRESENT
NEW VKSPER SERIES

On Sunday night, February 23, Y.
W. C. A. will begin a series of five
rape* services on the subject, "Christ's
Person." Judge A. B. Etheredge, who
will talk on "Realizing Christ," will
be the first speaker in the series. Fol-
lowing three of the services, Miss
M.uv Jane Willett, national student
secretary of the Y. W. C. A., will lead
a discussion in the cabinet room. These
discussions will take place on Februarv
23, March 1, and March 8.

J . W. C. A. did not conduct its
usual Tuesday chapel service on Feb-
ruarv 18, because of the recent reli-
gious emphasis week. On February 25,
however, the programs will be re-
sumed beginning with a talk by Eu-
genia Symms on "The Christian Atti-
tude in Industry."

Naomi Cooper

Naomi Cooper has been elected
queen of the annual May Day fete by
popular vote of the student body, it
is announced today by Eloisa Alex-
ander, chairman of the May Day Com-
mittee. Nominations were made from
February 7-11, and voting took place
from February 12-15. The celebration
will take place on Saturday, May 2.

The members of the court will be
elected by the May Day Committee
from a list nominated by the students
at a meeting after chapel tomorrow
morning, February 20. Virginia Tur-
ner, the other candidate for May
queen, will automatically become a
member of the court. The other mem-
bers may be chosen from any class.

Naomi, a member of the senior
class, has been one of the queen's at-
tendants every year in the May Day
court, and has been selected for the
beauty section of the Silhojiette in past
years.

Willert to Speak
Here March 3

The annual dance recital of the de-
partment of physical education was
presented last night, February 18, at
8 o'clock, in the Bucher Scott Gym-
nasium, under the direction of Miss
Harriette Haynes, and Miss Eugenia
Dozier, dancing instructors. Members
of the Dance Club presented the fol-
lowing program:

I. Walk (Bach), The Dance Club;
Waltz (Chopin); Polka (Beethoven),
E. Alexander, H. Ford, A. Thompson,
M. Snow, C. Fleece, H. Handte.

II. Rhythm Tap, M. Cappatti, S. J.
Cunningham, R. Long; Syncopated
Tap, M. Stalker, L. Dennison; Chiop-
anecas (Mexican Dance), F. Steele, S.
Traynham; Leyenda (Albeniz), J.
Flynt, A. Cheeseman, H. Moses, C.
Ivie, C. White.

III. Der Rosenkavilir (Strauss), H.
Ford, L. Hart, E. Alexander, H. Reed,
R. From, J. Matthews, C. Fleece, R.
Tate, M. Snow; Gypsy Rondo (Hay-
den), H. Reed, R. Tate; Dance of the
Amazons (Gluck), H. Handte, H.
Haynes, C. Fleece, A. Thompson;
Roses of the South (Strauss), E. Alex-
ander, H. Ford, L. Hart, R. Tate, M.
Snow, H. Reed.

Accompanists at the piano were Mrs.
Claude Hamilton, and Nell Hemphill.

The seniors of Decatur Girls High
School were guests of the College at
dinner last night, and attended the
Dance Recital.

Seniors Will Characterize His-
torical Figures; Forman To
Preside At Banquet

j

unior Banquet
Groups Named

Sir Arthur Willert, whose book,
"What Next in Europe?", has just been
released by Putnam, will speak at Ag-
nes Scott College under the auspices of
the Public Lecture Association on the
evening of March 3. His subject will
be, "Europe in 193 6."

A distinguished diplomat and pub-
licist, Sir Arthur was Washington cor-
respondent for the London Times from
1910 to 1920. He was created a
knight in 1919 for his services as sec-
retary in Washington of the British
War Mission to the United States and
as Washington representative of the
British Ministry of Information. In
1920 he joined the British Foreign Of-
fice, and organized and became the
head of the publicity department from
which position he resigned in 193 5 to
make a tour of inquiry through Bel-
gium, Germany, Danzig, Czechoslo-
vakia, Austria, Italy, and France.

"Fie talked to all sorts of persons,
high and low," says a reviewer in the
Sen York Times, "seeking to learn
states of mind of peoples rather than
of politicians and the points of view
of informed but detached and inde-
pendent observers. And then he set
down his observations with a frank-
ness that is not only refreshing but
highly informative."

The class committees for the Junior
Banquet, sponsored annually by Mor-
tar Board, are announced today. The
banquet will be given on March 7,
honoring members of the junior class
and their dates.

Mary Malone was appointed general
chairman. On the date and invitations
committee are: Barton Jackson, chair-
man, Rachel Kennedy, Alice Taylor,
Mary Gillespie, and Kathryn Bowen.

Charline Fleece is in charge of en-
tertainment, and Fannie B. Harris, of
the seating arrangements. The place-
cards committee includes Julia Thing,
chairman, and Marjorie Scott; decora-
tions committee, Frances Belford,
chairman, Mary Jane King, Judith
Gracey, and Edith Belser.

A holiday on Saturday, February 22,
will mark the annual celebration of
Founder's Day, commemorating the
birthday of George Washington Scott.

The annual Founder's Day banquet
will be held in the dining room of
Rebekah Scott Hall, at 6 o'clock. The
dinner will be presided over by Eliz-
abeth Forman, president of the senior
class, who, as George Washington, will
introduce various other historical
characters, to whose brief speeches the
sophomore class will respond in song.
After the meal, members of the senior
class will dance the minuet in the tra-
ditional manner, in the gymnasium.
This will be followed by a dance,
sponsored by Cotillion, at which the
Emory Aces will play.

The following seniors will represent
historical figures at the banquet: Mary
Margaret Stowe, Patrick Henry; Helen
Handte, Benjamin Franklin; Margaret
Cooper, Lord Cornwallis; Adelaide
Stevens, Paul Revere; Loice Richards,
Daniel Boone; Eugenia Symms, La-
Fayette; Mary Hull, Betsy Ross; Au-
gusta King, Martha Washington;
Elizabeth Forman, George Washing-
ton.

Seniors who will take part in rhp
minuet are: Elizabeth Forman, Au-
gusta King, Eugenia Symms, Mary
Hull, Mary Margaret Stowe, Ruby
Hutton, Helen Handte, Sarah Spencer,
Margaret Cooper, Naomi Cooper, Lois
Hart, Katherine Bishop, Loraine Smith,
Ellen Davis, Elizabeth Burson, La-
vinia Scott.

ALUMNAE COMPLETE
FIELD TRIP IN S. C.

Seniors To Assist
At Phelps Lecture

Twelve Agnes Scott seniors have
been selected to serve as ushers at the
lecture of William Lyon Phelps, out-
standing literary critic, who will speak
at the Atlanta Woman's Club tomor-
row night at 8:3 0 o'clock on the sub-
ject, "Modern Books and Authors."
Dr. J. R. McCain will preside at the
lecture, which is one of the Town Hall
Intime series.

Nell White, Rosa Miller, Alice Mc-
Callie, Virginia Gaines, Janet Gray,
Meriel Bull, Gregory Rowlett, Naomi
Cooper, Catherine Cunningham, Vir-
ginia Turner, Mary Hull, and Eugenia
Symms will usher at the lecture and
will assist Mrs. S. M. Inman at the re-
ception at the Woman's Club follow-
ing the address.

Miss Dorothy Flutton, secretary,
and Miss Alberta Palmour, field sec-
retary of the Agnes Scott Alumnae
Association, returned to the campus
Sunday, February 16, from Rock Hill,
S. C, where they represented Agnes
Scott at the sixteenth annual confer-
ence of the Southeastern Alumnae Sec-
retaries. The conference took place
February 14-15, at Winthrop College.
Friday afternoon, Miss Hutton spoke
to the delegates on the subject, "Train-
ing Course for Undergraduates."

Before attending the conference,
Miss Palmour had addressed high
school groups in Florence, Sumter, Co-
lumbia, Winnsboro, Newberrv, Lau-
rens, Chester, and Union, S. C. She
has been away from the campus since
February 8.

Dr. Fishbein Will Speak
On Emory Lecture Series

Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the
Journal of the American Medical Asso-
ciation, and widely - known health-
writer and lecturer, will speak in
Glenn Memorial auditorium Mondav
night, February 24, at 8:15 o'clock.
His subject will be, "Fads and Quack-
ery in Healing." His lecture will be
the final presentation of this year of
the Emory Student Lecture Associa-
tion.

SENIORS APPLY FOK
BARROLD FELLOWSHIP

Ten seniors have filed application
for the Quennelle Harrold Graduate
Fellowship, according to Mr. S. G.
Stukes, registrar. February 16 was the
last day open for applications. An-
nouncement of the award will be
made about March 14.

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OUR POLITICAL SYSTEM

We think that the political system
at Agnes Scott is receiving a great
deal of unjustifiable criticism. The
fault lies not with the system, but
with the student body.

Speaking generally, there are, of
course, some persons who denounce
the entire system. They are enchant-
ingly articulate in voicing their dis-
approval without having a single con-
structive suggestion to offer; they
would be just as dissatisfied under any
other imaginable order. We will never
be able to dispose of that group, but
they are fortunately small in number,
and we may minimize their censure by
realizing that their attitude is charac-
teristic of a somewhat juvenile dis-
position they have nothing they like,
they like nothing they have!

Others think the situation is not
too bad, just bad enough. It is to this
larger group that we are speaking.
Taking separately the parts of the
system, we shall attempt to answer the
attacks made against each. We do not
maintain that it is perfect: nothing is
so good that it cannot be improved.
But we offer this as a deliberate chal-
lenge to the great amount of unmind-
ful criticism now prevalent.

1. Election is by the student body.
I ver) girl at Agnes Scott has the

right to vote, and to vote as she
chooses. We are free from the cor-
rupt practices found where sororities
or cliques are powerful; where groups
vote by ticket, by blocks, or by force.
We have no parties. There is absolute-
ly no way in which pressure may be
brought to bear on a girl to vote
against her will. Every student not
only is allowed to vote, she is encour-
aged to vote; and the system is dem-
ocratic both in principle and in prac-
tice.

Some contend that a minority of the
student body rules the college. This is
true to the extent that, as yet, only a
minority have interested themselves in
the nominating and electing of their
officers. Unfortunately, the same con-
dition exists wherever people vote. The
fault lies, then, with those students
whose disinterested attitude defeats
the ideal of a majority vote, who re-
fuse to concern themselves with the
selection of their officers and leaders.

2. Popular nominations arc nude by
the tfndent body.

Again we are free from party rule,
tickets, "bargaining," etc. The only
requirement a girl must meet to be
nominated for any office on the cam-
pus is her class standing, scholastically.
The worth of that rule is self-evident.
One who cannot meet curricular
standards has no place in extra-cur-
ricular activities. Every student is free
to nominate any student who satisfies
that requirement. The three girls re-
ceiving the highest number of votes
are nominated. There is no rule re-
quiring that a girl "work up" in an
Organization* A dissatisfied student
bodv may make a change when it so
desires it has done so in the past on
certain unforgettable occasions.

v \ omnia t ions arc made aUo fay a
n&min^ting commit tee.

The nominating committee is com-
posed of the senior officers of the
major organizations and of the publi
cations. It is against this committee
that SI081 of the criticism is directed.

The committee is undeniably repre-
sentative of the campus. The members
are familiar with the work of their re-

spective organizations, and with the
duties and responsibilities of their of-
fices. They are members of that com-
mittee by virtue of their having been
elected to those offices by the student
body.

The committee, in making its nom-
inations, considers every girl a possi-
bility. It tries, for the good of on-
coming classes, to name the girls best-
suited to fill the places to be vacated,
valuing worthy qualities above popu-
larity, a consideration sometimes over-
looked in student nominations. With-
out graft, without prejudice, without
partiality, the committee endeavors to
choose wisely.

The committee has been called des-
potic, autocratic. Certainly it has far-
reaching influence, and justly so.
Those who have held office know best
what qualities are needed by a girl to
succeed in that position. But there is
nothing which compels a girl to ac-
cept the nominations of the commit-
tee when she votes. If she knows no
one of the candidates, or is undecided,
she may accept the committee's nom-
ination because she trusts its judg-
ment; or the popular nomination be-
cause she does not; or she may simply
not vote for that office.

4. Nominations, both popular and
com mi t tec, are posted a week before
election day.

A week is ample time for every in-
terested student to acquaint herself
with the nominees. Lists are placed on
all the bulletin boards, on every floor
of every dormitory, and are published
in the Agonistic.

5. Voting takes place in chapel, by
secret ballot.

Because the morning hours find
more students, especially day students,
on the campus, it is wise to hold elec-
tions at extended chapel periods. The
system under which we operate pro-
vides for secret ballot. The provision
is sometimes abused. Some "stuffing,"
some voting-by-proxy, take place;
often a girl votes according to the way
the girl seated next to her votes. Such
practices are deplorable, but unavoid-
able where a person lacks a mind of
her own, or is willing to resort to un-
fair practices. These are matters of
student honesty.

We think that the system is fair and
just, and that unwarranted criticism is
to be condemned. We would like to
offer these suggestions:

1. That more general interest in
elections be stimulated among the stu-
dent body.

2. That the vote of a senior count
only a half. There is too great dis-
parity between the evaluation of class
votes. The seniors are graduating and
will not be in college under the ad-
ministration of the newly-elected of-
ficers, l et they may even swing an
election without purposely doing so.
Besides, the nominating committee's
prestige gives sufficient weight to
senior opinion.

3. That exact results of voting be
announced. Sometimes accusations are
made, fairly or unfairly, that the man-
ner in which counting of votes is car-
ried out, is not always honest. We do
not question the integrity of any one
person, and we resent the suggestion of
faculty supervision. We do feel, how-
ever, that such accusations are to be
avoided when possible; and that the
student body is entitled to know the
exact results of elections.

THE SUPREME COURT
In spite of the recognizable defects
and weaknesses of the New Deal, there
are still many people who are con-
vinced that it represents the first defi-
nite step towards a planned economy
and an overthrow of those vested in-
terests which hold American industry
in a vise-like grip. Yet with decision
after decision handed down by the Su-
preme Court against the chief innova-
tions of the Roosevelt administration,
it is time that we face the question
squarely: Has the Supreme Court be-
come a menace to national progress?
The NIRA itself, the gold clause, and
the AAA have all fallen under the axe
of the Court's decisions and only the
TVA has been upheld. Has the Court
itself become a stronghold of naked
class interests? Has the Court become
reactionary?

In the first place, it should be re-
membered that nowhere in the Consti-
tution is the power directly granted to
the Court to declare acts of Congress
unconstitutional. It is a practice which
has grown up through the years. The
important fact is that the Supreme
Court has, through the years, steadily
gained power and prestige, so that to-
day it stands as the arbiter of the su-
preme law of the land, the body hav-
ing final say, the power before which
Congress and even the President must
bow.

The charge has been leveled against
the Court that it has been prejudiced
against labor. However, when the his-
tory of the Court is examined in any
detail, a rather laudable record is re-
vealed. The Court has decided about
one hundred cases specifically involv-
ing labor. Of these, not more than
twenty were decided in a manner
which labor might term at all adverse
to its supposed interests. For every one
case holding a labor union in violation
of the Sherman Act, there have been
at least eight decisions prosecuting
large business corporations on the
same charge. In 146 years, there have
been only 6 cases in which the deci-
sion of the Court in deciding on the

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WE THINK

It has often been said that when co-
eds are allowed to enter a boys' school,
a noticeable change occurs in the dress
and grooming of the men students.
Maybe that's what Agnes Scott needs
a few male co-eds!

It seems fairly certain that nothing
short of that is going to prevent girls
from coming to classes wearing no
make-up and ill-assembled costumes;
with heads covered with newly-plas-
tered waves, "bobby-pins" and "roll-
ers"; wearing hose full of runs, or dis-
pensing with hose altogether; and de-
fying generally the standards, not only
of feminine beauty and grooming, but
even of good taste.

We feel that we need wholesome
vanity on our campus not a frivo-
lous, silly ornateness, but a vanity that
is self-respecting, that has the just
pride of personality, that is conscious
of its good points while striving con-
stantly to make the best of its bad
ones. We need a vanity on the cam-
pus that demands cleanliness, neat-
ness, the desire to be as well-groomed
and well-looking as possible in accord-
ance with one's environment and one's
means.

From the behavior of Agnes Scott
girls, it would seem that women dress
for men, but among themselves have
little self-respect and no pride in their
personal appearance.

THE AI.OMSTK extends sin-
cere sympathy to Florence Las-
seter and Frances Cary, mem-
bers of the junior class, in their
recent bereavement. Florence's
mother. Mrs. Hugh Lasseter.
died January 24. at her home in
Fitzgerald, Ga. Mr. L. H. Cary,
Frances' father, died at his home
in Greenville. S. C, on Febru-
ary 7.

The Son of Marietta, by Johan Fab-
ricius (translated by Irene Clephene
and David Hallet). Little Brown and
Company. S3. 5 0.

Last month saw the publication of
the English translation of Johan Fab-
ricius' novel, The Son of Marietta,
which, in its original three-volume
form, has achieved phenomenal suc-
cess in Holland. Translated from the
Dutch by Irene Clephene and David
Hallet, and published in a one-volume
edition, the novel appears in epic pro-
portions of length and breadth remin-
iscent of Anthony Adverse; the story,
however, is its own. Laid in the set-
ting of eighteenth century Italy, the
book develops a complete and well-
rounded picture of the society of the
period in all its brilliance of color and
warmth of atmosphere. From the
simple folk of the tiny Umbrian vil-
lage Todi, to the picturesque societv
of Venice the women of the street,
the Jews of the Ghetto, the clergy,
and the aristocrats living beautifullv
in their peaceful, walled gardens and
cypress-shaded palazzos every where
are characters who stand out vividly
as persons and individualities.

The title of the novel is well-chosen;
the interest of the three books is al-
most equally divided between the
mother and her son. Marietta's life
must be explained before her son can
be understood. The story begins with
the desertion of the child Marietta by
a band of strolling players. After a
childhood and youth of contrasting
and conflicting influences, she grows
to love the highly-cultivated man who
has cherished her as a daughter. In
spite of mutual love, their marriage
is impossible; from their one moment
of romance, however, comes the proud,
restless, reckless, ambitious spirit of
Benedetto, the son.

To such a character, life in the pro-
vincial village is a prison. A hand-
some young scamp, irresistibly attract-
ive to all who know him, yet inevit-
ably involved in difficulties, Benedetto
finds it necessary at last to flee from
his native village to hide himself in
Venice. There against the colorful
gaiety of carnival season, Benedetto
tastes the swift, reckless life he had
desired, but comes finally to know the
bitterness at the bottom of the cup.

The Set en Sms. Audrey Wurde-
mann. Harper 6\l Brothers. S2.00.

Audrey Wurdeman, winner of the
Pulitzer Poetry Prize for 1954, has
written another book. The Seven Sins.
This time her work is a narrative
sequence, a dramatic poem of seven
brothers, who, freed at last from the
tyranny of their stern old father,
leaving him unburied, set out into the
world and bring about their own de-
struction. Each represents one of the
seven deadly sins which figure so
largely in medieval literature.

The stern dramatic power of this
work is reminiscent of Old Testament
literature. "The wages of sin is death";
this motif appears again and again.
Each brother pursues his sinful course
and meets death in the only manner
possible.

Audrey Wiedemann's style is clear,
direct, and powerful. Her earlier book
was remarkable for the lyric quality
of her writing. In The Seven Sins,
there are beautiful passages remark-
able for the singing quality of the
verse; but on the whole her interest
in this volume has gone beyond the
purely lyric to the dramatic. She
draws with precision the portraits of
the seven brothers and gives to each
an incident in which to act, an inci-
dent which might well be an act from
a drama, from one of the medieval
morality plays. And always: "The
wages of sin is death."

Recent Books

Non-fiction:

LaFayette, Andreas Latzko. Double-
day, Doran. $3.00.

Marguerite of Naiarre, hirst Mod-
ern Woman, Samuel Putnam. Coward
McCann. $3.50.

What Is a Book, Thoughts About
Writing, edited by Dale Warren.
Houghton Mifflin Co. $3.00.

The Exile: Portrait of an American
Mother, Pearl S. Buck. Reynal cV
Hitchcock. $2. 5 0.

The Four Georges, Sir Charles Petne.
Houghton Mifflin Co. $3.7 5.

Fiction:

Murder in the Cathedral, T. S. Eliot.
Harcourt Brace & Co. $1.2 5.

ALUMNAE

Betty Fountain, '3 5, is to be mar-
ried on Saturday, February 22, to Mr.
Harrison Griffith Edwards.

EXCHANGES

Esther Soutter is attending the Uni-
versity of Chicago.

Eleanor Terhune is attending Sophie
Newcomb in New Orleans.

Chrysanthy Tuntas is resting at her
home in Atlanta after an extended ill-
ness last year.

Meredith Turner is at the University
of Georgia at Athens. She has pledged
Phi Mu.

Gladys Vallebuona is attending
Oglethorpe while living at her home
in Atlanta.

Mary Carlcnc Wallace is attending
business school in Atlanta while living
at her home in Decatur.

Anne Walker is taking a business
course at her home in H tints ville, Ala.

Rosa Wilder is attending the Uni-
versity of South Carolina in Columbia,
where she has pledged Alpha Delta Pi.

Coribel Langley is at Georgia State
College for Women in Milledgeville.

Virginia Sauls is attending Ogle-
thorpe while living with her sister in
Atlanta.

Helen McClelland is attending
Southern Business College in Atlanta
while living at her home in Decatur.

Louise Norris is attending the Uni-
versity of Tennessee in Knox ville,
where she has pledged Phi Mu.

In the Federal Reserve Branch of
Memphis, Tennessee, bumbling old
Senator Kenneth Douglas McKellar
thought he would see how good the
police were. He stepped on a burglar
alarm. Police arrived in two minutes
and took Senator McKellar to the
lock-up. lime.

From Lynchburg College come the
definitions of college students:

A freshman is a pie before baking.
A sophomore is a half-baked pie.
A junior is a pie that has too much
crust.

A senior is a pic that has soaked too
long. The Cri to graph.

We admire young Vincent Kelley,
who, when he registered at the Uni-
versity of Nebraska, offered 3,600
pennies which took him seven years to
save. The registration fee weighed 2 3
pounds. Maryland Diamond bat k .

At Indiana University part of a
psychology class is standing up
throughout the lectures while the rest
of the class is seated; and the "sit tees"
and the "standees" are being watched
to see which group makes the better
grade average. Think what future
classrooms will be like if the "standees"
win! Los Angeles junior Collegian.

Totally ignorant of Carolina's fam-
ous honor system, a freshman landed
in Chapel Hill and jumped into uni-
versity life. Three weeks later, after
rushing season, he had his first quiz.
When the professor asked for Pi.i.dgf
he wrote "Phi Delta Theta."

Daily Tar Heel.

The Agonistic

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on the campus

K. U. B.

The regular meeting of K. U. B.
was held Wednesday, February 12, in
Mr. Dieckmann's studio. A very in-
teresting and profitable round table
discussion concerning "Home Town
News" was led by Barton Jackson,
vice-president of the club.

Pi Alpha Phi
Pi Alpha Phi met Thursday night,
February 13, in Mr. Johnson's studio.
The subject of the debate was, Re-
solved: that Gov. Talmadge should
join the Liberty League. It was an-
nounced that freshman tryouts will be
held in the near future.

Cotillion Club
Cotillion Club will be entertained
tomorrow afternoon at a tea-dance
from 5 to 6 in Mr. Dieckmann's studio.
The hostesses are Alice Chamlee, Vir-
ginia Coons, and Naomi Cooper.

Blackfriars
Blackfriars met Tuesday night, Feb-
ruary 18. Kitty Printup had charge of
the program which was a play, "The
Two Blind Beggars." Those taking
part were Ola Kelly, Kathryn Lcipold,
Kennon Henderson, Mary McCann
Hudson, Primrose Noble, Winifred
Kellersberger.

Music Appreciation
At the next meeting of the Music
Appreciation group Sunday, February
2 3, vocal music will be discussed, es-
pecially the artists, Lily Pons, Galli
Curci, Lotte Lehman, Charles Hackett.

Chi Beta Phi Sigma
Chi Beta Phi Sigma will have charge
of the chapel hour Friday, February
2 1. Gail Nelson, '3 3, who is a charter
member of the club, will speak on the
history and organization of the club.
At this time, announcements will be
made of the award of the key, and of
the new pledges.

What Do You Think of Asnes Scott Girls?

Are you sensitive? Do people talk
about you behind your back? Do you
often wonder what opinion of you
others hold?

The Agonistic Roving Reporter
decided to investigate. Here is a cross-
section of the people you meet and of
their reactions toward the problem
your reporter presented:

Question: What is your opinion of
Agnes Scott girls?

Hon. Scott Candler, Mayor of
Decatur: "After long years of observa-
tion I have a high opinion of Agnes
Scott girls, particularly of those whom
I have known personally."

Question: What is your opinion of
A^ncs Scott girls?

"Scoop" Thrower, president of the
Emory Student Activities Council, and
politician par excellence: "I think
they're swell. I'm all for 'em, and I'm
all for making it mutual."

Question: What is your opinion of
Agnes Scott girls?

Mrs. Sarah Fleming, beautician-
in-demand: "They are all beautiful,
attractive, well-groomed, and charm-
ing."

Question: What is your opinion of
Agnes Scott girls?

Anonymous, from Georgia Tech:
"Keen on the dance floor, but (cen-
sored ) ."

Question: What is your opinion of
Agnes Scott girls?

Mr. George Everitt, prominent
Decatur business man: "They are a
real asset to our community, and I
have the impression that they are all
studious, hard-working girls. But they
should trade more in Decatur!"

Question: What is your opinion of
Agnes Scott girls?

Dr. D. P. McGeachy, beloved min-
ister: "This is like being proposed to
'it's so sudden!' But please say that I
believe in Agnes Scott, and in youi
girls, and, certainly, in The Agonis-
tic."

Question: What is your opinion of
Agnes Scott girls?

Christopher Conyers, Chi Phi
Don Juan: "I am not interested. I
really don't make statements."

Question: What is your opinion of
Agues Scott girls?

Unknown Chewing Gum Ven-
dor, on the street: "Huh! How should
I know?"

A Street Car Conductor, with a
wry smile: "Hm. Good-looking, some
of them. They all giggle too much.
And why do they try to pass off pink
car tickets on me?"

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A Bit of a Touch
With Dr. Gordon

As Dr. Samuel Gordon shared in the
campus life last week and gave sym-
pathetic attention to the students who
came to him in the Y. W. C. A. cabi-
net room for private interviews and
discussions of their problems, he re-
vealed himself as one who was much
interested in students and student af-
fairs. But when requested by a student
reporter to grant an interview with
himself as the subject, he proved un-
expectedly modest and would consent,
as he put it, to talk only "a bit about
myself for your paper."

Beginning with the statement that
he "is a native of old Quaker Philadel-
phia, though not a Quaker," Dr. Gor-
don went from that point about him-
self to a few comments about his work
and its connection with young people.
Although Dr. Gordon has devoted his
life to Christian service, his work,
which has been in touch with all
Christian organizations, has been un-
der the auspices of none, and he de-
clared himself to be "technically a lay-
man." The best known part of this
work is the "Quiet Talks" series, a
group of short works on the personal
Christian life and world currents. The
last published number in this series is
"Quiet Talks With Eager Youth."

Dr. Gordon indicated that he has
been enabled to have wide contact
with present-day college students by
means of speaking journeys which have
taken him through colleges and uni-
versities of this country, Canada,
Great Britain, Asia, and Continental
Europe. On these trips and on other
extended speaking journeys made dur-
ing a period of three years in the Brit-
ish Isles and Europe, Dr. Gordon found
interpretive speaking to be one of the
sources of keenest delight in his work,
and he said that to him it was "like
having a double wire for the transmis-
sion of a current."

Questioned about his attitude on
world peace, a subject which has been
In the forefront in student opinion
this year, Dr. Gordon replied that he
is "personally an incorrigible pacifist."
However, he continued, he feels that
"the race is heading up toward a world
war more intense than that of '14-'18
but happily briefer."

With this statement Dr. Gordon, in
order to satisfy the demands made up-
on his time by a well filled schedule
of conferences with interested students,
was forced to end the comments which
he was giving as "a bit" about him-
self for The Agonistic.

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Gala days ... a holiday, dances,
Alumnae Week-End, reminiscences of
Valentine's Day, the Cotillion formal
. . . things are happening to us, we
are happening to things! . . . Seen at
the Sigma Chi house dance at Emory
Saturday night, Virginia Turner, Ra-
chel Kennedy, Frances Wilson, Mary
Venetia Smith, Kitty Jones, and Bee
Merrill . . . and Alice Taylor, Meriel
Bull, and Frances Miller at the Tech
Beta Kappa buffet-supper, Sunday
night . . . Ruby Smith, Elizabeth
Blackshear, and Adelaide Stevens din-
ing and dancing at the Campus Club
formal last Friday.

Friday was Valentine's Day, too . . .
Mary Frances Kennedy exchanges flow-
ers for a heart-shaped box of candy.
Good going, Kennedy . . . Kitty Hoff-
man gathers a gardenia corsage, jon-
quils, candy, and a Beta Theta Pi pin
all in one day, each from a different
man. We thought harvest time was
in the fall . . . Everybody gets specials
and boxes of candy Mildred Davis,
two of them . . . According to the
maid's office, Mary Past, Gene Cald-
well, and Sxrah Beaty Sloan are the
most regular recipients of specials.

Be sure to listen for the red-headed
trumpet-player at the Cotillion dance
Saturday night ... In that connec-
tion, gardenias to Nell White for being
the most charming critic at Agnes
Scott. She has a way with her . . .
Look for Mary Hull at Ben-be-nimble-
Bernie's dance tomorrow night . . .
And for Alice Chamlee at everything,

everywhere. There's a girl who gets
around.

We nominate for the best-loved
man we know, Tech's own Top-Tis-
sle - Mick - Micklc-Mike-Michael-Car-
michael, from Arkansas, yessuh! He's
good at publicity, too . . . For the
most-loved girl, a tie between Big
Bowen and Rachel Kennedy. And
speaking of girls who are on the up
and up, there are about twenty-five
Emory fraternity pins on the campus,
at least three of which are very recent
acquisitions. That, in reply to last
week's Emory Wheel.

Travellin' and truckin' to the Clem-
son mid-terms were Barton Jackson,
Nancy Moorer, Emily Rowe, and
Marion Derrick . . . Another delega-
tion leaves Friday for the Military Ball
at the University . . . Many, many
more will attend the Anak dance Sat-
urday at the Biltmore . . . but if you
want to see some real Terpischorean
Art, be on hand for the Senior Minuet
Saturday night.

Socializing has been somewhat di-
minished lately because of the sudden
wave of illness. Even that has its
points . . . many thoughtful notes and
some exquisite flowers. One violet, ar-
tificial, to a certain senior . . . Best
wishes to Lavinia Scott, elder of the
blonde sisters, who has been criticallv
ill.

To everybody, happy holiday . . .
and don't forget Beatrice Lillie's ad-
vice to mesdemoiselles: "Don't do any-
thing unless you want to, then don't
do it."

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the third our special concern. Come on
into MANGEL'S and look at our dresses.
Perfect in line, good in quality and almost
absurd in price. If you wear one of these
your keen, wise man, is certain to make a
fool of himself over you. And with this
problem off of your mind, good marks will
be easy pickings.

Come down to MANGEL'S today, just glance
over our dresses. You know that new ones
arrive every day from our New York head-
quarters. MANGEL'S is college headquarters
for smart economists. Are you one?

J janqel's

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The Agonistic

A KEY TO CURRENT HISTORY

(Continued from page 2, column 3)
constitutionality of state statutes has
been against labor. On the whole, this
would seem to be an admirable record.

In spite of these facts, there are
many who feel that evidence against
the Court is by no means lacking.
These critics of the Court are con-
vinced that it has not been consistent.
They would point out that "when the
people have gained control of state
legislation, as happened in Marshall's
day and in the decades on agrarian re-
volt, the Court has denied power to the
states and concentrated it in the fed-
eral government. But, when, as is true
now, the people have captured the fed-
eral offices, then the Court denies
power to the federal government and
reserves it with the state govern-
ments." At the heart of such criti-
cism, however, lies the fact that most
of them would repudiate the Constitu-
tion itself. What they are saying, in
reality, is not that the Supreme Court
is a hindrance to progress, but that the
Constitution is. Hence, since it is the
peculiar function of the Supreme
Court to interpret the Constitution
and to guard against violations and
infringements of it, those who would
do away with the Constitution, can
see no place left for the Supreme Court.
The inescapable fact is that the Su-
preme Court has fulfilled its function;
it has protected and reserved the Con-
stitution. The American people must
decide, then, whether or not they wish
the maintenance of the Constitution in
the future. The answer to this ques-
tion will decide the fate of the Court.

As the twentieth century has ad-
vanced, and government has steadily
been forced to enter social and eco-
nomic fields to an increasing degree,
the question arises as to just how com-
petent the Supreme Court judges are
to deal with these questions. The mem-
bers of the Court are lawyers, and in
the early history of the nation, the is-
sues brought before the Court were
largely questions of law. But the sit-
uation has now changed. Is it right
for our social and economic policv to
be shaped by judges? They are forced
to decide these questions on purely
legal grounds.

These recent decisions against the
chief measures of the Roosevelt admin-
istration have again brought the issue
to the forefront and emphasized the
fundamental questions at stake. We
are not yet able to say whether the
prestige of the Supreme Court will
thereby be strengthened or whether
this will constitute the first step to-
wards a diminution of its amazing
powers.

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Members of the Swimming Club are
attending an aquatic school conducted
by the Atlanta chapter of the Amer-
ican Red Cross every Tuesday night
at 8 o'clock at the Briarcliff pool.
The classes, which will continue
through March 4, are being held in
preparation for an examiners' training
course to be given by Mr. Ramone
Eaton, from national Red Cross head-
quarters. All those who successfully
complete this examiners' course will
receive appointments as examiners in
the Red Cross life saving service.
Later in the season classes in junior
and senior life saving will be conduct-
ed by the examiners. All senior life
savers are eligible to attend the aquatic
school. Additional information may
be obtained from Florence Lasseter,
president of the Swimming Club.

DR. McCAIN ATTENDS
COMMITTEE MEETING

Dr. J. R. McCain, president of Ag-
nes Scott, is attending the conference,
February 17-20, in New York City, of
the executive committee of the Ameri-
can Association of Colleges. Dr. Mc-
Cain recently was elected president of
the Association.

Along with every other profession,
the profession of being a college stu-
dent is over-crowded, says no less an
authority than the New York Times,
after a survey of 67 colleges and uni-
versities.

The surveyor makes the assertion
that only 3 0 per cent of young col-
lege men and women are capable of
thinking for themselves, which means
that the other 70 per cent are just
being "carried along." Parley Voo.

lnterclass Games
Take Place Today

The annual "Little Brown Jug"
contest, one of Agnes Scott's tradi-
tions, will take place this afternoon in
the gymnasium at 3:30. The school is
divided into the following basketball
teams:

Faculty and Alumni, Captain Miss
Wilburn; Rebekah, Captain Marion
Derrick; Main, Captain Betty Adams;
Inman, Captain Bobbie Shloss; Atlanta
Day Students, Captain Mary Gillespie;
White House and Gaines, Captain Julia
Thing; Decatur Day Students, Cap-
tain Elizabeth Burson.

Each of the teams will be dressed
in a characteristic manner, presenting
a skit or a song of some sort before
playing, and the winning team will be
awarded the Little Brown Jug. Last
year the Atlanta Day Students won
the contest.

L. AMES AWARDED

ATHLETIC LETTER

Tigert and King Elected
To Head Junior Edition

Mary Jane Tigert and Mary Jane
King were elected at a recent meeting
of the junior class to serve as editor
and business manager, respectively, of
the junior edition of The Agonistic.
Both girls have previously worked on
the paper. Mary Jane Tigert has as-
sisted with make-up, and Mary Jane
King has been a member of the busi-
ness staff. They have not yet an-
nounced their staff. The junior edi-
tion will appear on February 26.

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Lulu Ames was awarded a letter and
membership in the A. S. Club at the
last meeting of the Athletic Board, ac-
cording to an announcement made to-
day by Ann Coffee, president of the
Athletic Association.

The A. S. Club will have a feature
place in the sports section of the 1936
Silhouette. The club is composed of
those girls who have been awarded
letters by the Athletic Association for
having attained 1600 points by par-
ticipation in various sports. The fol-
lowing girls arc members: Ann Coffee,
Helen Handte, Marie Stalker, Lena
Armstrong, Adelaide Stevens, Lois
Hart, Elizabeth Forman, Charline
Fleece, Mary Kneale, Lulu Ames, and
Elizabeth Burson.

ILLNESSES DELAY

ALL GYM CLASSES

The activities of the gym depart-
ment were postponed last week because
of illnesses on the campus. A ten-mile
hike was conducted early Monday
morning but the regularly scheduled
inter-class games, swimming events,
and dancing classes were not held.

FIFTH ALUMNAE WEEK-END

TO BE HELD FEBRUARY 21-22

(Continued from page 1, column 1)
Day and Our Own," Dr. Arthur
Raper.

10:45-11:30 A. M. "The Consti-
tution of Washington's Day and Our
Own," Dr. Haywood J. Pearce, Jr.

11:30-12:15 P. M. "Foreign Af-
fairs of Washington's Day and Our
Own," Dr. Fletcher M. Green.

12:30 P. M. Luncheon for Alum-
nae and Children, Anna Young Alum-
nae House.

6:00 P. M. Founder's Day Dinner,
Druid Hills Golf Club.

6:30-7:00 P. M. Founder's Day
Broadcast over Station WSB.

Many clubs of the Alumnae Asso-
ciation are planning Founder's Day
meetings and will hear the Founder's
Day Broadcast over Station WSB, in-
cluding those in Baltimore, Birming-
ham, Charlotte (where Dr. Philip Da-
vidson will speak), Chattanooga, Chi-
cago, Jacksonville, Knoxville, Lynch-
burg, New Orleans, New York City,
Washington, D. C, and a state-wide
Mississippi meeting in Jackson.

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VOL. XXI

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR. GA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1936

On Nem
Diplomacy

NO. IK

Nominating Committee Passes
Agonistic Plan of Election

O

Alumnae Week-End
Features Exhibits
And Radio Program

Former Students Return For
Interesting Programs

Publication Board to Choose
Editor from Assistants
in the Future

In a meeting on Thursday, Febru-
ary 20, the Nominating Committee
passed by a large majority the plan of
The Agonistic for a board of publi-
cations to provide for the election of
future editors. By this plan there will
be no nominations for editor, as has
formerly been the case, but the editor
will be chosen from the two assistant
editors, who at present are Laura Steele
and Frances Cary. At the time of
regular spring elections, the students
will vote between the assistant editors,
their vote counting one; the vote of
the staff of The Agonistic will count
one; the vote of the business manager
will also count one; and the editor's
vote will count two. The assistant
editor not elected as editor for the fol-
lowing year will serve as associate edi-
tor. This plan is to go into effect
this spring.

The plan of The Aurora affects
the election of both editor and busi-
ness manager.

Science Sorority
Honors C. Griffin

Carol Griffin, assistant instructor in
biology, was awarded an honorary key
for work done in 193 5 by the local
chapter of Chi Beta Phi Sigma, na-
tional scientific sorority, in chapel Fri-
day, February 21. The key was award-
ed for scholarship, service to the club,
and promise of future accomplish-
ments. Gail Nelson, '3 3, charter mem-
ber of the Agnes Scott chapter of Chi
Beta Phi Sigma, was the speaker of the
morning. She spoke on contributions
of women to the field of science and
traced the history of the existing or-
ganization. "Scientific research," she
said in explaining woman's fitness for
scientific work, "requires faith, unsel-
fishness, and vision. Women are nat-
urally endowed with these qualities."
The speaker paid tribute to Dr. Mary
Stuart MacDougall, professor of biol-
ogy at Agnes Scott, for her study of
evolution in the protozoa and for the
stimulus given her students by her in-
ordinate devotion to scientific re-
search.

New Members

Following Miss Nelson's talk, Sarah
Nichols, president of the club, an-
nounced the following new members:
Jean Austin, Jane Blick, Ann Cox,
Jane Estes, Sarah Frances Estes, Wayve
1 c\\ is, Dorothy Lyons, Katherine Max-
well, Virginia Stevens, Lena Sweet,
[esse Williams, and Betty Willis.

Those who are eligible for member-
ship in Chi Beta Sigma have to have
merited twenty hours of science and

hiathematics, two-thirds of all their
Work, be a science or mathematics ma-
im, and have a deep interest in science.

Speakers of Note
To Talk in Chapel

Within the coming week there will
be several chapel speakers of unusual
interest to everyone on the campus.
These include Judge A. B. Etheredge
on Saturday, February 29; Mrs. E. R.
Kellersberger on Friday, Februar\ 28,
and Dr. George H. Opdyke on Wed-
ni sd.n . March 4.

Judge Etheredge, who is rut Aco-
\ is iii speaker for this w eek, will talk
on the Supreme Court. Mrs. Kellers-
berger, who is the author of Congo
( K-sst s and who has recenth been tak-
ing a prominent part in the Florida
Missions C onference in St. Petersburg,
is en route to New York City and will
sail for Africa on March 8. The third
speaker. Dr. Opdyke. is an authority
on the art of musical appreciation and
has written a textbook on this subject.

The fifth Alumnae week-end was
held on the campus February 21 and
22. Features on the program were an
exhibit of colonial relics, a series of lec-
tures, the Founder's Day broadcast,
luncheons on Friday and Saturday, and
the Founder's Day dinner at the Druid
Hills Golf Club on Saturday night.
Display of Relics

The exhibit of colonial relics ar-
ranged by Mrs. C. J. Lammers was dis-
played in the Day Student's lounge in
Buttrick Hall. Included in the exhibit
were 18th century books, many of
which were autographed first editions.
Also in the book display was a copy of
Agnes Scott's own Arithmetic. In ad-
dition to books there were interesting
displays of furniture, china, silver, and
wearing apparel from the time of
George Washington.

Cultural Lectures

Friday's lecture program included
the subjects: "Present Day Trends in
Music, Painting, and Architecture,"
while the lectures on Saturday were
comparisons of policies and principles
in Washington's day and our own.
Radio Broadcast

At the dinner on Saturday night
which concluded the program the
Alumnae listened to their tenth annual
Founder's Day broadcast over WSB.
The broadcast was under the direction
of Miss Dorothy Hutton, Alumnae
secretary, and had as its distinctive
feature the brief re-enactment of im-
portant developments in the history
of the college. Speakers were: Dr. J.
R. McCain, Miss Nannette Hopkins,
Mr. R. B. Holt, and Miss Polly
Vaughan.

English Professors
Make Holiday Trips

Professor George P. Hayes of the
English department was the principal
speaker at the Founder's Day meeting
of the Charlottee (N. C.) Alumnae
Club on Saturday, February 22. He
lectured on The Op port unity of Agnes
Scott in the Light of Main Trends of
Civilization; preceeding his lecture the
club had their Founder's Day banquet
and listened to the Agnes Scott broad-
cast from WSB.

Miss Annie Mae Christie attended
the annual meeting of the Georgia As-
sociation of College Teachers of Jour-
nalism held in Athens last week-end.
This meeting was held in connection
with the Georgia Press Institute which
w as meeting at the same time. Alice
Chamlee, business manager of The
Agonistic, also attended the Georgia
Press Institute.

NOTED LECTURER

Courtesy DeKalb New Era
SIR ARTHUR WILLERT

Publicist Will
Lecture Here
Next Tuesday

By Elizabeth Espy
Agnes Scott may anticipate with
interest the forthcoming lecture of Sir
Arthur Willert, K.B.E., distinguished
British diplomat, at 8:30, March 3, on
"Europe in 193 6." "If you are look-
ing for a fair, open-minded guide
through the maze of European rival-
ries, jealousies, and ambitions, you can-
not do better thau to read Sir Arthur
Willert's What Next In Europe?" ad-
vised a recent editorial in the New
York Stin. Such a recommendation of
the book is a challenge to alert Ameri-
cans, especially college students, to
hear what its author has to say. Wash-
ington correspondent for the London
Times for ten years, founder and for-
mer head of the publicity department
of the British Foreign Office, member
of the British delegation to the League
of Nations meetings from 1927 to
1934, and speaker at the Williamstown
Institute of Politics, Sir Arthur is well
qualified "to discuss England's policies
and to present to American listeners a
graphic account of Europe today."

Having "succumbed to a hunger for
perspectives and distances," Sir Arthur
resigned from the British Foreign Of-
fice early in 193 5. Last summer he
made an extended tour of inquiry and
observation through Belgium, Ger-
many, Danzig, Poland, Czechoslavakia,
Austria, Italy, and France. Thus he
comes to us with first hand informa-
(Continned on page 4, column 1)

From and Watson
Atte nd Conference

Rosa From, president of Internat-
ional Relations Club, and Margaret
Watson, vice-president, leave tomor-
row for W'mthrop College in Rock
Hill, S. C, to attend the Conference
of the International Relations Clubs of
the Southeast, as the Agnes Scott del-
egates. The conference which lasts
from February 27 through the 29 has
as its theme "Peace through Under-
standing" and most of the topics for
discussion emphasize the study of eco-
nomic adjustments necessary for bet-
ter international understanding. Miss
Amy Hemingway Jones and other
members of the Carnegie Foundation
will be honor guests at the conference.

A March Wind Blows,
Winter Time Goes;
Soon School' 11 Close

Everyone knows how time flies
when one is busy, and a glance at
this calendar of events for the next
three months proves that tenipus
is going to do some tall fugiting
from now on.

March 3 Lecture by Sir Arthur
Willert.

March 4, 5, 7 Mortar Board par-
ties for freshmen.

March 6 Miss Frances K. Gooch
will read Much \do About Noth-
ing.

March 13 Triangular Debate.

March 18 Grace Moore Concert.

March 20 and 21 Blackfriars'
Play and Junior Banquet.

March 27 to April 2 Spring holi-
days.

March 27 to March 29 Confer-
ence of the S. L A. S. G.

April 26 Memorial Dav.

May 2 May Day.

May 19--Final examinations be-
gin.

May 31 Baccalaureate address.
June 2 Commencement.

Committee Chooses Twelve

To Attend Queen of Fete

Colonial Festivities
Mark Traditional
Founder's Day

Banquet, Minuet, and Dance
Feature Celebration

According to tradition, students and
faculty gathered in the Rebekah Scott
dining room at six o'clock February
22, to celebrate the birthday of George
Washington Scott, founder of Agnes
Scott.

Colonial Figures

Elizabeth Forman, president of the
senior class, as George Washington,
acted as toastmaster and introduced
the prominent revolutionary figures,
dressed in colonial costumes, whose
parts were taken by the following
members of the senior class: Mary Mar-
garet Stowe, Patrick Henry; Helen
Handte, Benjamin Franklin; Margaret
Cooper, Lord Cornwallis; Adelaide
Stevens, Paul Revere; Lily Weeks,
Daniel Boone; Eugenia Symms, La-
Fayette; Mary Hull, Betsy Ross; Au-
gusta King, Martha Washington.
Original Songs

After each character's response, the
sophomores sang, to a popular tune, an
original song about the character.
Later in the program the seniors and
sophomores sang to each other, pledg-
ing anew their loyalty as sister classes.
Dancing in Gym

Preceding the annual Founder's Day
dance sponsored by Cotillion Club, six
senior couples danced the minuet, and
as an encore the Virginia Reel. The
dancers were: Elizabeth Forman, Au-
gusta King; Eugenia Symms, Mary
Hull; Helen Handte, Sarah Spencer;
Margaret Cooper, Naomi Cooper; Ade-
laide Stevens, Katherine Bishop; Mary
Margaret Stowe, Ellen Davis.

Dr. Sweet is to be
Next Radio Speaker

The regular Agnes Scott broadcast
over WSB this afternoon will feature
a talk by Dr. Mary F. Sweet and music
by the string ensemble under the direc-
tion of Mr. C. W. Dieckmann. Dr.
Sweet will continue the series of talks
begun several weeks ago. Her subject
is "The Development of the College as
Seen by the College Physician." The
ensemble will play Handel's Largo and
Hungarian Dance No. 5 by Brahms.

Members of May Court Chosen
According to Popular
Nominations

In a series of meetings held last
week the May Day Committee chose
the following girls from student body
nominations as members of May Court
for this year: Jean Barry Adams,
Eloisa Alexander, Margaret Cooper,
Lucile Dennison, Mary Malone, Rosa
Miller, Nancy Moorer, Ann Purnell,
Kay Ricks, Lavinia Scott, Aileen
Shortley, and Kay Toole. These girls
were selected to preside with Naomi
Cooper, May Queen, and Virginia Tur-
ner, maid-of-honor, over the May Day
festival, an annual feature at Agnes
Scott, taking place on the first Satur-
day in May.

This year the May Day Committee
has chosen to be presented a scenario
written by Charline Fleece and Anne
Thompson, having as its setting an
English country lane of the eighteenth
century.

Eloisa Alexander is chairman of the
May Day Committee, and Jane Blick
is business manager.

H.Jones, Robinson
Head Next Edition

Hortense Jones and Frances Robin-
son were recently elected by the soph-
omore class as editor and business man-
ager respectively, of the sophomore
edition of The Agonistic. Hortense
Jones has had previous experience as
editor of the Girls' High Times in At-
lanta in 1933-34, and Frances Robin-
son has previously assisted with busi-
ness on the regular Agonistic staff.
The sophomore edition will appear on
Wednesday, March 3.

Banquet and Play
To be Postponed

The date of the Junior Banquet,
sponsored each spring by Mortar
Board, has been postponed from March
7 until March 21 on account of the
change in the date of the Blackfriars'
play, The Bridal Chorus, Carrie Phin-
ney Latimer, president of Mortar
Board, announced last Thursday. The
banquet is given each year by Mortar
Board in honor of the junior class and
their dates, and the Blackfriars' play
is an annual feature of the entertain-
ment at this time. The date of the
play was changed because of illnesses
of some of the members of the cast,
and it was considered wise also to post-
pone the banquet.

Orchestra

Charline Fleece, chairman of the en-
tertainment committee, has engaged
Kirk DeVore's orchestra to play during
the banquet. A color motif of yellow
and green has been decided upon by
the decorations committee, composed
of Frances Belford as chairman, Mary
Jane King, Judith Gracey, and Edith
Belser. Mary Malone is general chair-
man; date and invitations committee,
Barton Jackson, chairman, Rachel
Kennedy, Alice Taylor, Mary Gilles-
pie, and Kathryn Bowen; seating ar-
rangements, Fannie B. Harris; place
cards committee, Julia Thing, chair-
man, and Marjorie Scott.

Student Treasurer
To Post Black Lisl

The second semester Black List, con-
taining the names of students who
have not paid their student budget fee,
will be posted March 2. Those who do
not pay will not receive annuals at the
close of the year, will be excluded from
participation in May Day, in class ath-
letic contests, and are ineligible for
membership in organizations which re-
ceive money from the budget. The
second semester fee is $5; new students
I must pay $ 10.

President Attends
Executive Sessions

Dr. J. R. McCain, president of Ag-
nes Scott, has recently returned from 1
a meeting in New York City, Febru-
ary 17-20, of the executive committee
of the American Association of Col-
leges, of which he is president. Plans
were made for the meeting of the As-
sociation next year at the Mayflower
Hotel in Washington, D. C. Work is
progressing on projects such as: the
formation of a bureau of musical tal-
ent for various colleges and universi-
ties unable to receive the benefits of
concert programs, a bureau for im-
proving the quality of college glee
clubs, the awarding of scholarship aid
in music on a graduate basis, the writ-
ing of a book on how a library may be
used in teaching, by President Wriston
of Lawrence College, and also a book
on the imponderables in music ap-
preciation.

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PUBLISHED WEEKLY

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Entered as Second Class Matter.

T935 Member 1936

Plssocided Golle6iate Press

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A Judiciary Committee?

As the time for spring elec-
tions draws near, we should be
carefully considering the forma-
tion of strong, smooth-running
organizations for next year. In
this connection, there was pre-
sented in N. S. F. A. forum last
week a project which was left as
a consideration for the Executive
Committee by the Committee of
last year. This project takes the
form of a suggestion for the for-
mation of a separate judiciary
body, with powers separated
from those of the so-called Exec-
utive Committee, but composed
of members from within the lat-
ter body.

There are several very strong-
reasons favoring such a change.
As the organization now stands,
the executive, legislative, and ju-
dicial powers of Student Govern-
ment are invested in one commit-
tee of sixteen members which
the student body elects. At the
present time the judicial duties
of the Committee occupy the
large part of their time and
greatly overbalance their execu-
tive and legislative duties. It is
the general feeling of the Com-
mittee that problems and cases
might be more quickly and easily
solved if the executive and legis-
lative matters were undertaken
separately from the judicial mat-
ters. It is clear that a smaller
group could work with much less
effort and reach a clearer un-
derstanding of all judicial cases
than the present large commit-
tee is able to. Furthermore, with
a smaller committee, there would
be more opportunity for post

facts of each case and the deci-
sion reached by the Judiciary
Committee would necessarily
have to be presented to and ap-
proved by the Executive Com-
mittee before going to the fac-
ulty.

The Student Government As-
sociation is clearly one of the
strongest and most influential
organizations on the campus.
The members of its Executive
Committee are all elected and are
given broad powers. Therefore,
we as students and as members
of Student Government should
be keenly interested in such mat-
ters as these and feel it neces-
sary to express frank opinions
when called on. Let's be think-
ing and be prepared to discuss
the issue when it comes before
us officially.

WE THINK

A Key to Current History

The Last Lecture

We think; do you? If so, do you
ever sit and meditate on the pleasures
of dancing with men? Yes, of course
we know that those pleasures are de-
nied to us on the campus. But why?
Does any one know? We certainly do
not.

Although this question of dancing
has long been discussed in "ye olde
bull-sessions," it has not been in open
discussion during the past three years.
We think that the majority of the
student body sincerely wants this
privilege. Most students by the time
that they are of college age, if they
are allowed to dance at all, are allowed
to dance with men at home. Yet they
are prohibited from enjoying that
privilege when they come here to col-
lege to spend the next four years of
their life. Doesn't it look just a little
bit illogical in view of the fact that
each year we are getting older and
more discreet?

While we admit that intellectual ac-
tivity is the primary aim of the col-
lege, we insist that a well rounded life
for the college girl should include a
little bit of social life. We further
contend that dancing is, if not essen-
tial, at least a decided asset to that
social life.

We feel that dances on the campus
could be conducted with all due pro-
priety as we could be assured of proper
chaperonage and of a select group of
young gentlemen for our partners.

Honestly, we don't know what the
objections are, and we would like to
know the viewpoint of the administra-
tion. Of course, in order to find out
we have to ask for an expression. Why
shouldn't we?

The decision which the Supreme
Court handed down on Monday, Feb-
ruary 17, with regard to the T. V. A.
is extremely interesting. The decision
was an eight to one majority with only
Justice McReynolds dissenting. The
judgment may be said to be in favor
of the Administration, but it must be
remembered, of course, that the deci-
sion was limited to the case involved.
That case was the suit brought by the
Alabama Power Company minority
stockholders who had tried to prevent
the directors and owners of the con-
trolling stock from selling to the
United States lines for the transmis-
sion of power generated at the Wilson
Dam.

There were four main points con-
sidered by the Court. First, Did the
plaintiffs have the right to bring this
suit? The Court decided that the hold-
ers of preferred stock of the Alabama
Power Company were bringing suit in
accordance with the rights of the com-
pany.

Second, What was the scope of the
issue? The case was limited to the de-
termination of the validity of the con-
tract of January 4, 1934. The contract
thus referred to was the contract pro-
viding for the sale of the power lines.
In order to determine the validity of
the contract the question arose as to
the constitutional authority for the
construction of the Wilson Dam. The
Court decided that the dam had been
constructed and rightfully maintained
"in the exercise by Congress of its war
and commerce powers, that is, for the

defe

and

purposes ot national
improvement of navigation."

The question of constitutional au-
thority for the disposal of the electric
energy generated at Wilson Dam was
then raised. The Court decided that
the power generated was an incident
to the construction of the dam; that
it is the property of the United States,
and as such may be disposed of as Con-
gress shall decide. If Congress decides
to purchase lines for the transmission
of power to a market there is nothing
in the constitution to prevent it from
doing so. This particular case then was
concerned with the purchasing of
transmission lines by the U. S. from
the Alabama Power Company, and as
such did not call for a decision regard-
ing the T. V. A. as a whole. The deci-
sion of the court was limited very def-
initely to the case in hand, and Chief
Justice Hughes in the closing para-
graphs of his statement said: "We ex-
press no opinion as to the status of
any other dam or power development
in the Tennessee Valley whether con-
nected with or apart from the Wilson
Dam, or as to the validity of the T. V.
A. act or of the claim made in the
pronouncements and program of the
authority apart from the questions we
have discussed in relation to the par-
ticular provisions of the contract of
January 4, 1934, affecting the Ala-
bama Power Company."

Both critics and advocates of the
present administration would like to
know what the Court would decide if
in some way the constitutionality of
the whole project were challenged.

Not many of us would deny
that the Agnes Scott Lecture As-
sociation is one of the most alert
and valuable organizations on the
campus. Four faculty members
and thirteen students work to-
gether to procure for the college
community interesting and noted
outside speakers. Then why is it
not supported by the whole cam-
pus? The interest of outsiders
in our lectures seems to be more
intense than that of our own stu-
dent body, if attendance at lec-
tures can be used as a measur-
ing rod. It seems strange that
others recognize the significance
of the personalities brought to
our campus by the Lecture Com-

EXCHANGES

Books by Agnes Scott Alumnae

Prove Inter esting and Popular

falls in love

Twenty-five prisoners at Alcatraz,
which houses the , toughest federal
criminals, are taking correspondence
courses at the University of Califor-
nia. Mt. Hoi yoke Neics.

The Student Bar Association at Ohio
State offers free legal aid to any stu-
dent in a scrape with the law The
Broicn and White.

An assignment at a mid-western
university was to bring in a report of
the "Middle Ages. The professor re-
ceived a review of Life Begins at For-
ty. The Swart hmore Phoenix.

mittee more quickly than we our-
case work and a chance for psy- selves do

chological corrections; contacts
could be made and help given to
girls who have left school. Of
major importance also is the fact
that the Executive Committee,
freed from exacting and engross-
ing judicial duties, would be able
to spend more time and effort in
solving real campus problems, in
perfecting various activities, and
in working more on behalf of the
student body.

The time has come to consider
the value of forming such a sep-
arate judiciary committee. As
the plan was discussed in N. S.
F. A. forum, there would probab-
ly be seven girls chosen from the
members of the Executive Com-
mittee to serve on the Judiciary
Committee. These girls would be
either permanent members or
would be appointed by the presi-
dent of Student Government.
Still another plan is for a par-
tially permanent and partially
temporary committee, with cer-
tain members of the Executive
Committee working regularly on
the Judiciary Committee and
others appointed according to
the demands of the case. Such
a committee would only be
obliged to meet upon the occa-
sion of a severe violation of the
Honor System, and at such times
a small committee of this kind
would certainly be able to inves-
tigate a case from all angles rap-
idly and accurately with less in-
convenience to its members than
has formerlv been the case. The

It seems superfluous to point
out the implications involved in
the fact that so many of our past
lecturers are considered distin-
guished by editors of important
present - day publications. Wit-
ness the publishing in the No-
vember Harpers of a sequence of
poems from Conversation at
Midnight by Edna St. Vincent
Millay, who thrilled not only Ag-
nes Scott but its vicinity with
her intriguing appearance here
last November. Many have no-
ticed on the cover of the January
13th issue of Time the unusual
picture of Arthur Compton, who
lectured here last year. Further-
more, the frequent appearance of
Robert Frost's name in The Sat-
urday Review of Literature is not
to be ignored. His poem Lost in
Heaven graces the pages of the
issue for November 30, 1935,
while the edition for February
15, 1936, points out that Mr.
Frost is a "signal instance of
how the unremunerative profes-
sion of poetry can be made to
yield a living wage for the poet
and at the same time pay divi-
dends from the rich capital of
the poet's mind. ,, In regard to
our most recent and one of our
most charming lecturers, we
have the opinion of the DeKalb
New Era, that Thornton Wilder's
"lecture at Agnes Scott was in
the same vein of good fellowship,
of interest and pleasure as that
which he created in the informal
atmosphere of an interview."

At the University of California it
is now possible for a student to insure
himself against being called on in class
when unprepared. The rates are five
cents per class, and if called on, the
student is entitled to damages of twen-
ty-five cents. Maryland Diamond -
back.

Go ahead and sleep. A professor of
philosophy at the College of the City
of New York is quoted as saying that
those who sleep in class learn more.
The Blue Stocking.

Prosperity is returning in northern
colleges. They report that students
are lending longer pencils this year.
The News Letter.

Congo Crosses, by Julia Lake (Skin-
ner) Kellersberger, gives a clear in-
sight into the life and thought of the
natives of the Belgian Congo, where
the author and her husband, Dr. Eu-
gene Kellersberger, are in missionary
service. She writes: "I have walked
on Broadway at night when the theatre
lights were shining brightest, but I
have never seen any sights nor heard
any sounds more enthralling than one
hears and sees in an African village
when the tropic moon is full . . . the
rhythm of the ever-beating drum call-
ing the villagers to the dance; the
merry voices of children playing tag
games beneath the palms; the chatter
of women on their door steps, talking
loudly in a language vivid with color-
ful expressions . . . the tiny fires flick-
ering before every hut; and babies
sprawling around on the sand or asleep
on their mothers' laps." Congo Crosses
is a wonderfully sympathetic and dis-
cerning study of Congo womanhood.

where she unfortunately
with a married man.

Those who have read Marion (Mc-
Camy) Sims' Morning Star, reflecting
some of the author's experiences at
Agnes Scott, found it, because of its
high local color, peculiarly interesting,
and welcome eagerly Mrs. Sims' second
novel, The World With a Fence. In
this new novel, she tells of a real Geor-
gia girl and her experiences as teacher
in a small Georgia town, and later as
a young business woman in Atlanta,

Unto the Least of These, a story
adapted to the screen, was written by
Edith (Williams) Maxwell, who at-
tended Agnes Scott Institute as a spe-
cial student of voice. Mrs. Maxwell is
well qualified to know the require-
ments for screen adaptation because of
her work in Hollywood with "The
Maxwell Choristers," organized and
trained by Mr. Maxwell and herself.

Roberta Winter, of the class of
1929, has written a three act comedy,
Bridal Chorus, which is just as inter-
esting as its name. Laid in "a small
Southern town, provincial, intimate,
leisurely," it is filled with the compli-
cations and unexpected demands of
preparations for a wedding, all in spite
of the bride's mother's assiduous at-
tention to her "lists" of not-to-be-for-
gottens. Members of Blackfriars plan
to present Bridal Chorus the evening
of March twenty-first.

Alice Virden, of the class of 1922,
conceived the idea of compiling a book
of the works of Mississippi poets, and
has edited a volume entitled Singing
Mississippi. It includes contributions of
several Agnes Scott alumnae, and has
gained wide popularity since its recent
publication.

Using a zipper on an operation is
no longer a gag. Dr. Morris Fishbein,
editor of the Journal of the American
Medical Association, has revealed that
the use of an ordinary zipper to permit
the opening and closing of an incision
for day by day surgical treatment of
a cancer in the stomach has been car-
ried out. Daily Tar Heel.

Not the least of any former
lecturer is Sir Arthur Willert,
who is going to lecture on our
campus March 3 on Europe in
1936. He is the last speaker that
will be presented by the Lecture
Association, and to say that he
will be worth listening to would
be to put it mildly. Are we, for
whom he is being brought to the
campus, going to support him, or
are we going to leave it to out-
siders?

ALUMNAE NEWS

Carolyn Russell, '34, is teaching the
fifth grade in Commerce, Georgia.

Frances Paris, ex-'37, was married to
Mr. Robert Hanna, of Athens, Geor-
gia, on February 2 at Brunswick, Geor-
gia.

Madeline Race, '3 5, is studying or-
gan, dancing, and athletics at G. S.
W. C, Valdosta, Georgia. "Mad" is
planning to go to Columbia Univer-
sity where she will obtain a masters
degree in physical education.

Caroline Waterman, '34, is studying
law at the University of Maryland in
Baltimore.

Mary Pitner and Elizabeth Pcrrin,
ex-'37, are attending the University of
Tennessee in Knoxville, where both
pledged Tri Delta.

Plant Ellis, '34, is working with the
Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph
Company.

Mae Duls, '3 5, is working in the per-
sonnel department of a large depart-
ment store in Washington, D. C.

Mrs. Sarah (Hill) Brown, '3 1, is
teaching Bible in Greenbrier College
for Women, Lewisburg, W. Va.

Margaret Robbins, '3 5, is working
in the Bank of Ashboro, N. C.

Suzanne Smith, '3 5, attended sum-
mer school at the University of North
Carolina and is now taking a library
course at Peabody in Nashville, Tenn.

Helen Derrick, '3 5, is teaching in
the high school in Forrestville, Vir-
ginia.

Jane Goodwin, ex-'3 5, was married
on February 1 1 to Dr. Bannester Har-
bin of Rome, Georgia.

Elizabeth Grier, '2 8, is home on fur-
lough from Suchowfu, China.

Susan Turner, '3 5, is taking a busi-
ness course at home, Newnan, Georgia.

The Agonistic

3

SIGNS of the TIMES

Any ordinary observer of last year's
feverish campaign activities might
reasonably have supposed the campus
stock of ingenuity to have suffered
considerable loss. Perhaps in a less fer-
tile field such a supposition would
have borne justification that not even
the stimulus of an unusually resource-
ful freshman class could have contra-
dicted. Not so at Agnes Scott! The
clever inventions of a past season
served only to add fuel to the fire of
its zeal for curious contrivances. And
the present campus rage has indisput-
ably queerest claim to popularity of all
its predecessors.

The secret of one's success in this
latest device is a set of nimble fingers
plus an even nimbler imagination. Thus
equipped one may, minus Lady Astor's
Contour Control Cream, minus bar-
baric maneuvers with a celery stalk,
minus even aromatic ablutions with
Lightbulb soap, become the dramatic
dynamo of any slightly jaded society.

Imagine the thrill of discovering in
a zero figure made by the thumb and
first finger of the right hand extended
over the upturned palm of the left, the
Moon Over Miami! Think of the ar-
tistic interpretation that goes into con-
curring rhythmic convulsions of the

I chest in time to the snapping of both
fingers as the hiccoughs of a deaf-

j mute. And the poetic vision demand-
ed to discern in the twittering of the
fingers of the right downward above
those of the left upward, the rain rain-
ing and grass growing. The possibili-
ties of the thing are limitless, its ef-
fects magical. With only the repeated
snap of the fingers of one hand around
the extended index of the other one
gets the astounding effect of an entire
orchestral ensemble poignantly render-
ing The Broken Record. There's a
technique to the practice that is not
to be ignored. You may think your-
self well grounded in the essentials but
until you can accurately discover the
exact point at which the three fingers
of the right hand upright beneath the
palm of the left cease to be men under
a tree and become a three-legged stool
you can hardly be counted an adept
at the art. And the supreme test is to
detect the very fine shade of difference
between "sitting on the beach watch-
ing the boats go by" and the energetic
movements of a certain faculty mem-
ber. Upon such an achievement you
may indeed congratulate yourself as
an astute observer of the signs of these
times.

In Founder's Day Dance

It Wasn't Told to Me

I only heard . . . rumblings of the
junior banquet and quite a bit of
grumblings at its postponement. Kinda
bad on the out-of-town dates it is (not
to mention the junior Aggie). But the
longer it's put off, the longer we have
to talk about it, and amongst the jun-
iors it's an all-important, perplexing,
and absorbing subject "Where can I
rind a man?" "Which one shall I
ask?" "Will he send me flowers?"
"Shall I risk a blind date, who'd never
know about flowers!" "Will it be
spring enough for me to wear my new
rufflcdy dress?" And the men who
rate the biggest of social affairs in an
Agnes Scotter's life the one and only
time when she can parade, with and
for approval, a man, the man, tux 'n*
all, before classmates, dean's office, and
t rcslimen they seem to appreciate the
honor . . . and now they'll have to in-
dulge in watchful waiting weeks more
for that bid! Who were the Pi Kaps
and Sigma Chis wishing for 'em not
to mention a certain scrambled-over
annual editor and an assistant instruc-
tor at Tech. Can't some of you juniors
do something about them? . . . Can
the two Sewanee true-loves of the
White House gals come, even if the
date has been changed? . . . Then
there's an extra special from Augusta
and two, at least, from the U. of Geor-
gia . . . We've been hearing about
some of these for three years and at
list, we'll see them . . . Emory and
Tech will, of course, be well repre-
sented . . . One of our too popular
juniors couldn't decide, and rather
than get her wires crossed, she saves
the day by calling down .1 brother from
S. C. Another with the same trouble
digs up an unknown, but anyone with
such problems deserves not sympathy,
but envy! Don't blame the postpone-
ment on Miss Gooch. She said she

couldn't put on a play, but she could
read Midsummer Night's Dream to us
if we couldn't change the date.

Strange how everybody recovered
from the plague, the colds and fever
in time for the week-end holiday. Miss
Omwake says it's psychology, but we
call it common sense . . . you'd never
know they'd been sick from the week-
end capers except for the relapses . . .
Orchids and orange juice to Miss
Daugherty and Miss Thomas for nur-
sing us through in spite of all the dif-
ficulties and we'd like to keep Miss
Hitt.

Who? We didn't catch. Oh! sen-
iors who picked up a chaperone on
the front door steps, but Providence
must provide when you can't make it
by time limit . . . The ideal chaperone
is one like Sue Bryan's brother, an
Emory med . . . most convenient.

But now that we have parlors-just-
like-home maybe we won't be wanting
a chaperone quite so often . . . they've
been really transformed soft lights
instead of an overhead glare regardless
of where you sit, bright pillows, and
sweet music to put the words in his
mouth. You'll look and be your most
charming self as the men flock to Ag-
nes Scott now. (classified ad) Emory
not allowed if they're afraid for their
pins.

We did think the day students at
least knew the names of the buildings,
but Lucile Dennison, when told that
the Atlanta Day Students were play-
ing Rebekah Scott in the Brown Jug
contest, said, "Who's she?" But now
Giddy Erwin gets the patent leather
flshbowl of the week. When somebody
yelled up the hall, "Is the tub en-
gaged?" she giddily replied, "I guess
so, it has a ring."

Now, 1 only heard . . .

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Agnes Scott at Play

Courtesy of Atlanta Journal
From left to right: Elizabeth Forman as George Washington;
Adelaide Stevens as Paul Revere; Mary Hull as Betsy Ross.

Decatur Church Holds

Special College Service

The Decatur Presbyterian Church
has invited Agnes Scott girls to be their
guests on Sunday, March 1, when they
will observe a Special Day of Prayer
for schools and colleges. Dr. D. P. Mc-
Geachy will preach a sermon for stu-
dents at the morning service, and as
an added feature the Tech Y choir will
sing.

Students at Northwestern Universi
ty are demanding a course on war to
deal with war by its political, eco
nomic, and psychological factors. The
University of Chicago is also contem
plating this addition to their political
science courses. Associated College
Press,

Emory Jean Austen and Virginia
Watson attended an A. K. K. dance
Saturday night.

Tech Nancy Moorer, Rachel Ken-
nedy, Mary Malone, Lib Blackshear,
Katherine Bowen, and Sue Bryan at-
tended the Phi Sigma Kappa dinner
dance at the East Lake Club Friday,
February 2 1.

Dental College Sara Frances
McDonald, Caroline White, and Bar-
ton Jackson attended the Psi Omega
dance last Friday.

Seminary At a George Washing-
ton party Friday night were: Enid
Middleton, Mildred Davis, Alice Baker,
Kitty Caldwell, and Alice Hannah.

Eugenia Symms dined and danced
at the Athletic Club last Wednesday
night.

Rose Northcross attended the dance
at the Piedmont Driving Club on Fri-
day.

Among those hearing Ben Bernie
were Ola Kelly and Mary Hull.

Mary Willis, Harriet Reed, and
Katherine Liepold spent the week-end
at their respective homes in Augusta.

Dot Cabiniss spent the week-end at
home in Columbus.

Ellen Little entertained Gene Cald-
well and Sara Beatty Sloan at her home
in Louisville over the holidays.

Sara and Jane Estes spent the holi-
day week-end at their home in Gay.

Sara Johnson and Hortense Norton
spent the week-end at the former's
home in Washington.

Martha Alice Green went to Harlem
for the week-end.

Attending the Military Ball in Ath-
ens were Elizabeth Strickland, Emily
Rowe, and Jane Carrithers.

A sense of humor is recommended
as a philosophy of life by Dr. Robert
C. Clothier, Rutgers president.

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The Agoxistic

NOTED LECTURER TALKS
ON PRESENT DAY EVENTS

(Continued from page I, column 3)
tion of actual present day conditions

presented with the refreshing clarity
and keeness of a journalist and the sea-
soned understanding of a diplomat.

During his last trip he associated
with all sorts of people, trying to dis-
cover the "states of mind of peoples
rather than of politicians and the
points of view of informed but de-
tached and independent observers."
And he has collected a store of anec-
dotes and experiences perhaps trivial in
themselves yet significant of the con-
ditions and cross currents of the po-
litical and economic life that form
their background. There is the story
of the incognito visit of Mussolini to
a movie in a small Italian town. When
his picture came on the screen every-
one but II Duce arose. The proprietor
of the place, however, tapped him on
the shoulder and said, "I feel that way
too. But you had better stand up. It
is safer." And the observation of a
German friend in one of the big in-
dustrial towns of west Germany, that
the bricks of the Nazi regime are made
of patriotism and hope but the mortar
holding them together is scarce. There
is the comment of Mussolini's spokes-
man, Baron Aloisi, on the New Palace
of Nations being built in Geneva
"This," said Aloisi, "is the new Tower
of Babel." And an observation of simi-
lar interest from Hitler's Herr Goeb-
bels: "And there the invading armies
of the Bolsheviks will before long
stable their horses." And there is the
uneasy hope of Sir Arthur himself that
the League will not fail and leave a
terrified Europe with no Geneva to
serve its nations as a mixture of club
and court house."

In his most recent book What Next
In Europe? Sir Arthur discusses the
probability of another war in Europe
and is "alarmed but not panic-strick-
en" at the inevitable conclusions which
existing conditions indicate. He recog-
nizes that "fear sits uncomfortably
near the elbow of most people, though
conditions on the surface appear nor-
mal. Nation is afraid of nation, small
countries of their large neighbors, of
each other, of the breakdown of
peace treaties. Yet against this over-
hanging fear he feels the "ultimate
sanity of ordinary peoples" and their
desire "above everything to be left
alone, to be allowed to get on with
their work, and to bring up their fami-
lies quietly and decently."

Sir Arthur holds that the way to
make Europe safe is through economic
reconstruction, moderation of social
and political nationalism, and strength-
ening of the League of Nations sys-
tem. He makes it quite clear that Eng-
land cannot escape being drawn into
a European war and that in the fu-
ture her policy toward the League
must be one of wholehearted coopera-
tion rather than eleventh hour action,
as in the case of Ethiopia.

"A long term of the British Foreign
Office has not injured the lucidity of
Sir Arthur's style or speech. You are
not to expect any violence in his
phrase, any passion in his criticism. He
sees excesses, German and otherwise,
with the Sight and cool disapprobation
of a gentleman, but above all, with
the (fetachment of an Englishman."

Hockey Leaders
Go to Conference

Faculty Team Wins
Little Brown Jug

The "Little Brown Jug" was won by
the Faculty-Alumnae team, who de-
feated the Atlanta Day Students 18
to 14 in a series of exciting basketball
games played in the gym Wednesday,
February 19. In the first game the
team from Rebekah Scott defeated a
coalition team of Decatur Day Stu-
dents, students from Gaines and White
House by a score of 26 to 10; the At-
lanta Day Students defeated the In-
man team 22 to 9; the Faculty-Alum-
nae team won over Main by a score
of 22 to 10, and the Atlanta Day Stu-
dents defeated the Rebekah Scott team
24 to 10. Preceeding the games each
team presented a skit and song; the
Inman team appeared as children; the
Main team as hill-billies; the Rebekah
team as Hindus; the Coalition as The
Dark Horse; and the Atlanta Day Stu-
dents as drunks. The line-ups were: In-
man: Shloss, Dreyfoos, Steele, Hamil-
ton, Carmichael, Purnell, Garner;
Main: Blackshear, Howell, Merrill,
Coit, Allison, King, Erwin, Thompson;
Rebekah: Handte, Derrick, Estes, Stev-
ens, Latimer, Symms, Grimson, Hart;
Coalition: Burson, Coffee, Cheeseman,
Flynt, O'Neal, Wilson, Tigert; Atlan-
ta Day Students: Taylor, Stalker,
Kneale, Gillespie, L. Brown, Johnson,
McDonald, Little; Faculty-Alumnae:
Miss Wilburn, Miss Haynes, Miss Mit-
chell, Miss B. Miller, E. Young, S.
Austin.

Winter Gym Season Ends
On Saturday, February 29

Saturday, February 29, marks the
close of the winter gym season, and
registration for the spring season will
begin March 2. Sports offered for this
season are: May Day, tennis, archery,
riding, golf, swimming, and water
polo.

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How's your health? It seems that
during exams anyway, Agnes Scotters
proved to be almost disgustingly
healthy. But because exams are over
there is no reason for our lapsing again
into the mire of colds, flu, and fever.
So we have a plan to help us keep up
our exam record.

For the past two or three years the
Athletic Association has made it their
business to stress various phases of
health on the campus. All the organi-
zations should and do contribute to
health-building activities, and the Ath-
letic Association merely acts as the
leader in this program.

On Thursday and Friday, February
27th and 2 8th there will be a big op-
portunity to check up on your ability
to choose healthful things to eat dur-
ing the day. There will be a Piggly
Wiggly Grocery store in the basement
of the gym for these two days. Here
you may browse around, look at all
the good things to eat and make out
your idea of a perfect menu for one
day. The cashier will take up the slips,
consult with Miss Wilburn and Dr.
Sweet and post the best-balanced meals
that are handed in.

This is just another suggestion for
keeping Agnes Scott girls at their best
in health and for keeping them up to
the Agnes Scott ideal of mental, spir-
itual, and last but not least, physical
well-being.

Basketball Ends
With Final Games

The basketball season will end with
the playing of one set of games tonight
at 7:3 0, and the final set Friday at
3:30. Tonight the seniors will play the
sophomores, and the juniors will play
the freshmen. On Friday the seniors
play the freshmen, and the juniors, the
sophomores.

The seniors stand in first place, hav-
ing won all four of their games; the
juniors are second with two games
won, while the sophomores and the
freshmen tie for third with one game
each.

Miss Llewellyn Wilburn, Associate
Professor of Phvsical Education; Miss
Elizabeth Mitchell, Assistant Professor:
Helen Handte, vice-president of Ath-
letic Association, and Alice Taylor will
attend a meeting of the U. S. Field
Hockey Association at Alabama Col-
lege in Montevallo on February --

At the meeting the representatives
will observe a game between the U. S.
Field Hockey Touring Team and the
hockey team of Alabama College. Later
they will be instructed in umpiring,
refereeing and coaching.

This is the second hockey confer-
ence of the year to be attended bv rep-
resentatives of Agnes Scott, and it is
expected to prove interesting and
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VOL. XXI

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4. 1936

NO. 17

Seven Players
To Head Cast
In Spring Fete

Ford, Stalker, Fleece, Hart,
Blick, Stevens, Guthrie to
Act in Colorful Play

Miss Dozier Supervises Dances

Eloisa Alexander, chairman of the
May Day Committee, announced the
selection of the seven character parts
for the May Day cast after tryouts
in the gymnasium Tuesday afternoon,
February 2 5. A group of representa-
tive dancers competed for these leads,
and the cast was selected only after
much consideration.

The girls who were chosen for the
parts are as follows: Helen Ford, a
gypsy girl; Marie Stalker, an English
boy; Charlene Fleece, a gypsy boy;
Lois Hart, the spirit of the forest;
Ad Stevens, a tinker; Jane Blick, the
tinker's apprentice; and Mary Frances
Guthrie, an old crone.

The dance committee has not yet an-
nounced the chorus dances, since there
has been difficulty both in composing
the dances and in completing the list
of girls who wish to be in May Day.
This committee, under supervision of
Miss Eugenie L. Dozier, consists of
Helen Ford, Lucile Dennison, and
Ruth Tate. The announcement of
chorus dancers will be made later.

The costume committee, which will
design and secure all costumes for the
dances, consists of Sarah Nichols,
Frances Steele, Katheleen Daniel, and
Sarah Turner.

Students Entertain
Willert At Banquet

The Agnes Scott Lecture Association
entertained at a banquet for Sir Arthur
Willert, noted diplomat, at six o'clock
last night in the Anna Young Alumnae
House. Nell White, president of the
association, was hostess.

Covers were laid for the hostess, the
guest of honor, Miss Emma May Laney,
Miss Annie May Christie, Miss Florence
Smith, Lulu Ames, Laura Steele, Car-
rie Phinney Latimer, Frances James,
Augusta King, Rosa From, Mary Mar-
garet Stowe, Sarah Catherine Wood.

A. King Speaks
To Rotary Club

Augusta King spoke Monday,
March 2, at a luncheon of the At-
lanta Rotary Club on the subject,
"Youth and International Relations."
The program, "Youth Looks at the
World Today," consisted of a series of
four-minute talks given by students
of Emory University, Cox College, Co-
lumbia Seminary, Georgia School of
Technology, and Agnes Scott College.

In her talk, Augusta expressed her
belief that the youth of today is in-
ternationally minded and has faith in
the ultimate realization of the ideal of
a unified world.

Intercollegiate Debating Team of Agnes Scott College

Pictured above are Mary Lillian Fairley, Brooks Spivey, Sarah Catherine Wood, and Edith Merlin, who as the
Agnes Scott varsity debating team will meet Randolph-Macon and Sophie Newcomb in the annual triangular debate.

High School Seniors
Compete for Award

Over Two Hundred Girls Apply
To Take Examinations
For Scholarship

Approximately 200 high school sen-
iors who are interested in attending
Agnes Scott College next term will
compete for scholarships in examina-
tions on Friday, March 6. Applicants
in and near Atlanta will take the ex-
aminations on the campus at Agnes
Scott, where they will be entertained
at lunch in the dining room of Re-
bekah Scott. Students of other cities
will take the examinations at the local
high schools.

The winning contestant will receive
a full one-year scholarship ($700),
while the runner-up will receive a
scholarship of $5 00. Contestants will
take one-hour examinations in three
subjects: English, Latin (Cicero or
Virgil), and a third subject to be
chosen from algebra, French, chemis-
try, and physics.

Freshman Class Chooses
Julia Sewell to Edit Paper

The freshman class, at meetings on
February 2 5 and 26, elected Julia
Sewell and Jane Moore Hamilton as
editor and business manager, respect-
ively, of the freshman edition of The
Agonistic. Julia was literary editor of
the Girls' High Times of Atlanta Girls'
High School in 1934-3 5. Jane Moore
Hamilton was editor of the Red and
White in Dalton, Ga., in 1933-34.

Agnes Scott Establishes New Plan
For Efficient Dispensation of News

Council Gives
Q.H. Fellowship
ToLitaGoss

Mary Virginia Allen Receives
Mention as Alternate
for Scholarship

Winner to Study at Radcliffe

Out of a large number of applicants,
Lita Goss has won the Quenelle Har-
rold fellowship for the year 1936-37.
The academic council of Agnes Scott
College, composed of President J. R.
McCain, Dean Nannette Hopkins, and
the heads of the departments, made the
award at its meeting Tuesday night,
March 2 5. At the same time it named
Mary Virginia Allen, '3 5, who is doing
graduate work in French at the Uni-
versity of Virginia, as alternate.

Mrs. Thomas Harrold, of Americus,
Ga., established the Quenelle Harrold
Foundation in honor of her daughter
who graduated from Agnes Scott in
1923. The income from the $10,000
she contributed finances the fellow-
ship which goes each year to a senior
or to an alumna of not more than two
years standing. The award is made on
the basis of qualifications for research
and promise of leadership.

The recipient does research and

{Continued on page 4, column 3)

W.C.Bowen Speaks
On TVA to Seniors

Official of T. V. A. Reports
Openings in Project
for Graduates

Mr. W. C. Bowen, former personnel
director of the International Telephone
and Telegraph Company, and at pres-
ent an official of the Tennessee Val-
ley Authority, spoke at Agnes Scott
Tuesday, February 2 5, to a group of
seniors interested in stenographical
work for the T. V. A. Mr. Bowen is
visiting different universities and tech-
nical schools of the country to secure
engineers; and several women's colleges
to find stenographers.

Mr. Bowen reports that there are in
the T. V. A. unlimited openings for
graduates with stenographical training.
There are more limited openings for
teachers, librarians, and office workers.
Seniors may secure application blanks
by writing to the personnel director,
T. V. A., Knoxville, Tenn.

Six Girls Win Admittance
To A. S. C. Debate Society

Because of the complication and in-
efficiency of the former publicity sys-
tem of Agnes Scott, the college has
established a publicity committee for
the purpose of prompt and accurate
dispensation of news of the school.

The committee, under the direction
of Assistant Professor Annie May
Christie, consists of student reporters
for the Atlanta and Decatur news-
papers: Nell Chamlee, the Atlanta
Georgian; Alice Chamlee, the Atlanta
Constitution ; Mary Margaret Stowe
(president of K. U. B.), the Atlanta
journal; and Mary Hull, the DeKalb
New Era. Besides these reporters, Lita
Goss, Laura Steele, and Eliza King, as-
sistants from the senior, junior, and

sophomore classes respectively, serve on
the committee.

The purpose of this publicity plan is
to centralize the dispensation of news.
Officers of campus organizations are
responsible for prompt reports to the
committee of all interesting news.
There will be a publicity room in
Buttrick Hall which will be open twice
daily for the collection of news. Cam-
pus "news spots" boxes in the gym-
nasium, the library, and science hall
will collect the news articles, all of
which must be signed.

K. U. B., cooperating with the pub-
licity plan, has undertaken to send
prompt reports of any girl's activities
to her home-town paper.

Commission Chooses

Varsity in Basketball;

Selects Sub-Varsity

As a reward to those who have
proved most proficient in shoot-
ing goals and blocking goals,
comes the announcement of the
basketball varsity, chosen by the
commission at its meeting on
Thursday, March 27: forwards:
Ad Stevens, Helen Handte, Lib
Blackshear, and Mary Garner;
guards: Mary Kneale, Marie
Stalker, Elizabeth Burson, and
Estelle Cuddy. Because of the
large number of outstanding
players the commission also nam-
ed a sub-varsity: forwards: Isabel
McCain, Carolyn Carmichael,
Marion Derrick, and Lib Strick-
land; guards: Julia Thing, Betty
Adams, Jane Moore Hamilton,
and Alice Taylor.

Pi Alpha Phi, debating society of
Agnes Scott College, admitted six girls
at its spring tryouts held Friday night,
February 2 8. Jane Guthrie, Nell
Hemphill, Laura Coit, Sarah Beaty
Sloan, Gaudelock Erwin, and Mary
Frances Guthrie are the new members.

Professor G. P. Hayes, of the Eng-
lish department, and the officers of
the club judged the tryouts.

Debating Club
Elects A. S. C.
Varsity Team

E. Merlin, S. Wood, M. Fairley,
B. Spivey to Participate
in Triangular Meet

To Debate Subject of Judiciary

Pi Alpha Phi, under the direction of
Professor George P. Hayes of the Eng-
lish department, has chosen the varsity
debating team composed of Edith Mer-
lin, Sarah Catherine Wood, Brooks
Spivey, and Mary Lillian Fairley, who
will represent Agnes Scott college in
the annual triangular debate between
Randolph-Macon, Sophie Newcomb,
and Agnes Scott. Nellie Margaret Gil-
roy is alternate debater.

The colleges will debate Friday,
March 13, at 8:30 o'clock, on the sub-
ject: Resolved: That congress should
be permitted to override, by a two-
thirds majority vote, the decisions of
the supreme court declaring acts of
congress unconstitutional. Edith Mer-
lin and Sarah Catherine Wood, uphold-
ing the negative, will go to Sophie
Newcomb; while the affirmative team,
composed of Brooks Spivey and Mary
Lillian Fairley, will meet Randolph-
Macon in the Bucher Scott gymnasium.

Each debater will speak fourteen
minutes. Contrary to usual custom,
each team will give only one rebuttal,
which will last six minutes. Sarah
Catherine Wood and Brooks Spivey will
give the rebuttals for their respective

Students to Choose
New School Officers

The student body of Agnes Scott
College will elect school officers for
the year 193 6-37 at special chapel
periods March 19 and 20. On Satur-
day, March 14, the students will make
popular nominations, which will be
posted with committee nominations
the following Monday, March 16.

The nominating committee is com-
posed of the presidents and vice-presi-
dents of student government, Y. W.
C. A., and the athletic association;
the president of the day students; the
recorder of points; and the editors and
business managers of the three papers.

S.C.Wood Makes
Speech on Youth

Sarah Catherine Wood represented
Agnes Scott College Monday, March
2, at the Minsters' Association, an in-
ter-denominational organization, which
met at Davison-Paxon's in Atlanta.
Sarah Catherine was one of several
college students making talks on the
subject: "Youth Looks at Its World."

In developing her topic, Sarah
Catherine spoke about the part religion
played in the life of the youth of the
Victorian age and the World War
period.

International Relations Club Sends
From, Watson to Annual Convention

Rosa From and Margaret Watson
represented Agnes Scott at the south-
east regional conference of the Inter-
national Relations Club held at Win-
throp College, Rock Hill, South Caro-
lina, February 27-2 9. This was the
tenth regional conference to take
place.

According to Rosa, the high spot of
the convention was the Model League
Assembly featured Friday. Students
seated themselves with whatever coun-
try they wished and participated in
discussions as representatives of these
countries. The faculty, however, talked
so much at the "League" that a reso-
lution was passed forbidding the fac-
ulty to speak without permission.

Internationally famous diplomats

were guest speakers. Dr. Edgar J.
Fisher from the Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace spoke on the
subjects "New Thinking Necessary
for Peace" and "Can Europe Be
Saved?" Dr. Joseph L. Kunz, who is
a frequent observer at the League of
Nations, spoke on "Science and Art in
Austria Today," emphasizing the fact
that Austria has never been "nation-
alistic but always internationalistic."

Miss Amy Hemingway Jones, also of
the Carnegie Endowment, led meet-
ings of I. R. C. representatives in
which suggestions for club organiza-
tion were advanced.

Next year the conference will meet
at the Alabama Polytechnic Institute
in Auburn, Alabama.

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News Editor
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Ass't News Editor
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Alumnae Editor
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Current History Editor
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Society Editors

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Business Manager
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Advertising Manager
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Joyce Roper
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HONOR SYSTEMS ARE NOT DEAD
IN AMERICAN COLLEGES

The organized cheating which was recently brought to light
at the Chapel Hill University of North Carolina has aroused a
furor of speculation as to the adequacy and efficiency of honor
systems among colleges. The student government council of
Chapel Hill uncovered a complete system of espionage and dis-
honesty headed by an alumnus of the institution. He was a bril-
liant member of Phi Beta Kappa who made his living by selling
themes and answers to examination questions to undergraduates.
He even had paid spies who stole copies of tests from teachers and
sold them to students.

This affair has called forth editorials from papers all over
the country asking if honor among college students is dead, specu-
lating as to the practicability of honor systems among colleges.
Some ask if the ideals of our universities have not been lowered,
if the caliber of our students has not become more gross than it
formerly was; others imply that the honor system has been out-
grown.

We, of Agnes Scott, who have for a number of years had such
successful experience with the double honor system the most
exacting and therefore the most respected of plans wish to speak
in defense of college honor.

Our system is not heavy with an excess of burdensome liber-
ties. While giving the student such privileges as make her rely
a great deal on herself, and giving her the responsibility for her
personal honor, our honor system is yet shaped and restricted by
such regulations as leave no room for doubt of a student's charac-
ter. Such regulations are made for the benefit of the student.
This system has functioned extremely well.

The college student has not lost his sense of honor. His ideals
are not impaired. In some cases, perhaps, his sense of values has
been lost" because he has been given too much unregulated free-
dom ; but that can be remedied by a few necessary restrictions.
The honor system has not been outgrown ; it has, in some cases,
merely been misused.

Financial Affairs
Reach Crisis
In State

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS MEET
ADVANCES WORLD PEACE

Believing that world peace is the greatest problem which our
generation must face, and that concerted opinion and action may
be obtained only through centralized organization, we heartily
commend the regional conference of the association of interna-
tional relation clubs, which met last week at Winthrop College.
Such conferences both stimulate the interest of the individual
clubs and unify the program of the associations as a whole.

At the conference lectures under the auspices of the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace were given by noted Euro-
pean diplomats who could not, of course, visit each separate cam-
pus. Delegates heard and reported back to their clubs national
and international crises described and explained by men who can
look behind political screens. These speakers tend to bring us into
closer understanding with Europe by demonstrating that all na-
tions have mutual problems to face.

We believe that an intelligent understanding of the govern-
ments of the world, their virtues and vices, is necessary to good
citizenship. The International Relations Association moves to-
ward such an understanding. This does not mean that the colleges
are furthering the development of radical anti-American political
sentiment. Academic circles are not fostering any "isms" ; they
are merely trying to discover the unbiased truth about various
systems of political economy. The object of the colleges has al-
ways been to seek tin- truth in all phases of life; and the fit-Id of
government is by no means exempted from this search. Through
such an organization as our International Relations Club, we can
study the several governments of Europe. We can see their faults
and virtues, and we are thus enabled to criticize constructively our
own government. In the discussions at the conference, situations
were always considered in the light of how they affect America.

At the conferences of the I. R. C, students learn what youth
is doing and thinking; they hear what authorities have to say;
they formulate intelligent opinion. We believe that it will be by
such organizations as the International Relations Clllbfl that there
will be developed in the American student not only a national
consciousness, but also an international sympathy and understand-
ing which will mark a great step in the direction of world peace.

The Georgia State Treasury is fac-
ing a crisis which promises to become
interesting history. On February 24
Governor Eugene Talmadge ordered
State Comptroller General William B.
Harrison to leave his position and re-
placed him immediately by G. B. Car-
reker. Later in the day State Treas-
urer George B. Hamilton was forcibly
removed from his office in the capitol
and replaced by J. B. Daniel. These
officials were ousted because Harrison
refused to sign a warrant of $139,000
for the State Board of Control, and
Hamilton refused to let the money go
unless the order was signed by Harri-
son.

The ousted Comptroller General in
defense of their action said, "No
money shall be paid out of the state
treasury except under appropriation by
law. Only the general assembly may
make an appropriation; the governor
has no power to do so. The governor
may suspend the Comptroller General
only when he has trustworthy infor-
mation that he is insane, or has ab-
sconded, or grossly neglects his duties,
or is guilty of conduct violative of his
duties, or demeans himself in his office
to the hazard of the credit of the
state."

The result of these displacements is
chaos in the financial affairs of the
state. For a while the Post Office im-
pounded all mail addressed to either
the ousted officials, or the state offi-
cials, or the state offices which they
held. Now, however, it will send mail
addressed to Comptroller General and
the Treasurer to the capitol.

The banks of Atlanta take the fol-
lowing stand: "Our future policy has
been announced. It is unchanged. We
will have nothing to do with a check
signed by anyone but the person held
by the courts to be the legal treasurer
of the state." "Washington officials re-
fuse to give nearly $17,000,000 federal
aid highway funds to the state and
$360,000 grant to the University of
Georgia system because of the muddle
in financial affairs. About $5,000,000
has been withdrawn from local banks
by the Highway Board. Talmadge and
Daniel refuse to say what these funds
are being used for. An account has
been opened at the National City Bank
of Rome in Daniel's name. This is the
only state depository into which the
state can put money and from which it
can withdraw money at present.

There are rumors all over the state
that individuals and counties are plan-
ning to seek aid at court in what is
believed to be wholesale diversion of
highway funds. The counties are pro-
tecting approximately $2,600,000 due
them March 25.

Legislators are trying to get a con-
vention of the state general assembly
to see if the chaos of financial affairs
cannot be cleared up soon.

The governor says that this is a
scheme to keep him from campaigning
against Roosevelt. It is an interest-
ing and unusual situation which will
bear watching closely to the solution.

Giddy
Gossip

dear aggie,

take it from me. . . . contrary to the
opinion of our misinformed public, the
studious atmosphere of our campus is
being undermined, yes mam, the inside
dope (and i have it this time) leads
me to believe that attention is fast
being diverted from mere studies,
maybe half the freshmen and many of
the sophisticated sophs can explain this
phenomena by one mr. john bumstead,
god's gift to agnes scott. for specific
information arrange for interviews
with betty adams, olivia root, anne
thompson, bee merril, anna margaret
reipma, mary ellen whetsell, ann pur-
nell, Caroline carmichael, and on down
the roll, wonder who will be the lucky
one? a geranium to her who can settle
him! on the other hand see margaret
morrison, who is rumored engaged to a
med student, for data on how to tie a
male down.

word comes to me that our dean is
thinking of prohibiting skating be-
cause of the danger, i can't decide
whether the pastime is dangerous to
hottentots or to the innocent by-stand-
ers was it dangerous or pleasing to
the gentleman by whom or around
whom mary willis restored her balance
the other afternoon?

Through a
Needle's Eye

The modern girl's difficulty in at-
taining that peak of beauty which
makes men ask "Who is she?" is great.
Every newspaper, magazine, and bill-
board tells her something else she has
forgotten her yeast, her soap, her face
cream, her stockings, her hair-wash, or
her diet. After all, how did Cleopatra
do it?

Birds of a feather are apt to catch
cold.

And then there is the realist who re-
ports that he put his hand on a broken
window and felt a sharp pain.

You may be sure that he who laughs
last didn't get the point anyway.

"Experience keeps a hard school"
but you can't get a job unless you've
been there.

Talmadge seems so determined to an-
nex five million dollars of state funds
that we have hopes of his investing ten
cents of the sum in a pocket comb.

Complaint of a forlorn lady: "All's
fair in love and war. Why can't we
all be fair?"

Willert's "What Next in Europe?"

Gives Solution for Foreign Tangle

Those who heard Sir Arthur Wil-
lert's lecture at Agnes Scott on Tues-
day evening, March 3, will find his
book, What Next in Europe, as en-
lightening and as entertaining as its
author's excellent lecture gave them
reason to expect.

Sir Arthur, who for twenty-five
\ ears has been in close touch with pub-
iic affairs in England, Europe, and
the United States, was head of the
Press Department of the British For-
eign Office until he resigned in 193 5
for the purpose of traveling unoffi-
cially through Europe to try to ascer-
tain the real state of affairs. It is the
observations which he made during his
tr.ivels that he sets forth in this book.
His attitude is unusually detached.
He quotes for us the opinions of the
people in the countries which he vis-
i tec | officials, merchants, barbers, stu-
dents, and people from every walk of
life.

The chapters devoted to Germany
and her neighbors are especially good.
Although a considerable part of the
book consists largely of historical
facts, opinions of others, and Sir Ar-
thur's observations, the last few chap-
ters are devoted chiefly to presenting
the author's conclusions about the
whole situation, especially about the
part which Great Britain must play in
leading the way out of European diffi-
culties.

Sir Arthur Willert's discussion of
Great Britain's attitude toward the
United States should prove especially
interesting to American readers. "Nor
is the average Englishman unaware,"
says Sir Arthur, "that, just as the
political distempers of Europe will not
be cured except with the help of his
country, so the economic distempers
of the world are going to continue un-
til the United States leads the way-
out of them."

there were big doings in inman the
other night when our own senior class
president came of age with candy,
flowers, telegrams, and a party!

let all of kennedy's suitors profit by
the mistake of a pi kappa phi who
erred by taking her to his fraternitv
house, now he can't get a date with
her because his frat brothers have her
all booked up.

how did dick chase get miss dough-
erty to let him in the infirmary? but
then tommy ruth has been rash, you
know, charlie wilkerson also had a way
with miss dougherty.

i must close this, darling; next time
i will tell you how meriel bull ac-
complished the impossible she was the
reason for four beta kappas' coming to
the phi chi formal at emory!

gabbily yours,

giddy.

p.s. i understand that pi kappa al-
phas and sigma chis rate at agnes scott.

p.s. 2 crash! ain't it awful when
faculty members start breaking glass
to the doors? another thing that puz-
zles me is why mary hull and carolyn
white did not go to the military ball
at athens?

Ingenious
Alumnae

It is a far cry from a vocal scholar-
ship that was awarded to an orphan
girl by Agnes Scott Institute, to par-
ticipating in "It Happened One
Night"; but that is the story of Edith
(Williams) Maxwell. In 1 889 at the
end of three years of instruction she
was required to be in a song recital.
Dressed in a frock given her by the
traveling companion of the fake Lord
Beresford, she fainted dead away alter
singing the first few measures of her
song, and was carried off the plat-
form. At the close of the program
she returned and sang her numbers,
receiving vociferous applause.

She and her husband, who is also a
trained musician, are today in Califor-
nia training the Maxwell Choristers
whom they taught in small groups in
their little telescopical apartment of
parlor-bedroom-kitchen and bath when
they began the school.

One of their outstanding experiences
is that of the time when the Maxwells
were down to their last dollar and got
a call to MGM to take part in "Smilin'
Thru." That was three years ago and
since then the major studios have rec-
ognized the standard of their work.
Some of the pictures that they have
provided the musical background for
are: "Whom the Gods Destroy," "Mu-
tiny on the Bounty," "A Talc of Two
Cities," and "David Copperf icld."

During the summer of 1934 in
Mountain City, Georgia, Charlotte
Newton, '2 1, an unemployed librarian
at the time, was seized with a desire
to operate a library as a game and not
a business. A leading citizen offered
a room of the abandoned railroad sta-
tion which he used for his truck farm
business. Scrubbing, fresh curtains,
packing boxes made into attractive and
comfortable seats, and shelves made
from donated lumber created an in-
viting place. The collection included
three hundred books. Rent books and
a small line of gifts for sale covered
expenses of the library.

The hundred and seventy-odd bor-
rowers of "Rabun Bookshelf" were a
heterogeneous group ranging from the
daintily dressed woman from the Clay-
ton Hotel to a boy who had to be sent
outside to wash his hands.

The project was not continued, for
no one was able to assume the respon-
sibility, and Miss Newton became a
member of the library staff at the Uni-
versity of Georgia in September of
1934.

Condensed from the Alumnae Quar-
terly of Januarv, 1936.

The Agonistic

3

Boarding Students Buy Candy,
Fruit Juices, Pickles, and Soap

Corner Grocery Sells to Both Students and Faculty; Mary Gray
Rogers Prefers Dieting Foods; Miss Stansfield
Buvs Blue Sea Tuna Fish

Agonistic Replies
To A tl. Journal

Motivated by the current interest in foods and diet which has swept the
campus, The Agonistic inquiring reporter went to the little grocery store
around the corner to interview the person who knows most about what Agnes
Scott girls are buying to eat. Ruth Hendon, who helps her father at the
store, revealed a wealth of heretofore unknown information about campus life.

Ruth has a number of college customers among both students and fac-
ulty. Mary Gray Rogers is her most regular customer, craving large quantities
of dieting food including fruit juices and dried prunes. Stump Reid (who
likes dried peaches and apricots) and Jerry White often accompany Mary
Gray. Two unidentified customers are a tall, blonde girl, who comes in
rather seldom and buys party cakes
and coffee, and a lively brown-eyed,
brown-haired girl who says she is not
going to eat candy but does.

The most usual customer among the
professors is Miss Martha Stansfield,
who buys Blue Sea Tuna Fish, Camp-
bell's Tomato Juice, Libby's Pickled
Peaches, and Kraft's Old English
Cheese. Just lately "a little lady with
dark hair" has been making similar
purchases, so the reporter wondered if
she might be Miss Muriel Harn, who
is shopping during Miss Stansfield's
illness. Mr. J. T. Gillespie comes shop-
ping for household groceries, "but,"
Ruth says, "I've never seen him with
his wife."

Ruth sells mostly fruit and candy
to Agnes Scott. Favorite candies are
chocolate bars, marshmallows, and
jelly beans; favorite fruits are bananas,
apples, lemons, and oranges. Carrots,
which are popular, are in a class apart.
She has sold but one loaf of bread and
two sticks of butter to Agnes Scott
girls, but daily sells many spreads, in-
cluding jams, jellies, peanut butter,
relish, mayonnaise, and cheese. Dill
pickles, sardines, potato chips, yeast
cakes, are campus weaknesses.

The Atlanta Journal in a recent ar-
ticle praising health programs of
Eastern universities recommended their
system to Southern colleges. The Ago-
nistic answers the article by giving
briefly the program at Agnes Scott.

Agnes Scott is a member of the
American Student Health Association
which has agreed upon the ideal health
program including physical examina-
tion at entrance and once yearly, ob-
ligatory hygiene and physical educa-
tion classes, scientific supervision of
food, sanitation, and the sick, as well
as careful check on the health of ser-
vants. Agnes Scott has also a resident
physician. Agnes Scott's own program
has in addition clubs, season sports with
inter-class tournaments, special pro-
grams for exam weeks, and an annual
health program in which "Miss Health"
is elected.

"Lady of Happiness"
Tells of Congo Work

Mrs. Julia Skinner Kellersberger,
dubbed "Lady of Happiness, wife-of-
the - doctor - not-af raid-to-touch-any-
body" by the Africans to whom she
was sent five years ago as missionary,
spoke in chapel of Agnes Scott College
on Friday, February 2 8. Mrs. Kellers-
berger, an alumna of Agnes Scott, has
recently written a book, Congo
Crosses, which depicts her life in
Africa.

In her talk Mrs. Kellersberger out-
lined her duties, which she described
as exacting but enriching. She con-
cluded by saying that she wished for
herself "not a long life, but a hard
one."

CLUB NEWS
French Club
Jane Thomas, president of the
French Club, announces a new method
of tryouts for membership in response
to invitation. French majors auto-
matically are invited to tryout; other
French students who make merit
grades will receive invitations to try-
out.

Scenes from Moliere's he Maladc
Imaginaire will be the club's presenta-
tion to the Atlanta Alliance Francaise
on the night of March 16 in the
chapel.

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Back-boner: The story concerns one
of our prominent Phi Beta Kappas who
was recently be-
sieged by a mys-
terious young man
who called her
each day, but re-
fused to divulge
his identity. At
length, after
much debate (she goes in for argu-
mentation), the young lady consented
to see her unknown admirer. He
came; he was an earnest young chiro-
practor awfully earnest. Need we
add that the prominent Ph. B. K. sent
him home before 10:3 0? Moral: all
blind dates should be killed at birth.

Seen across the quadrangle: Mary
Johnson showing a sophomore how she
can say "bee" and "vee" at the same
time without biting her tongue
A pair of gaudy castanets followed im-
mediately by Alice Cheeseman . .
Eager botany student looking every-
where for a square root . . . One of
the Croft twins (if not Lulu, most as-
suredly Lillian) showing her I. G.
class how she trucks ... A senior vot-
ing in the election of the sophomore
editor.

Mar ma laid to rest: Stark tragedy
has visited our campus in the form of
the death of Mar-
maduke the
Mocking Bird,
who fell from the
pine outside the
library and broke
his neck. N e 1 1 e
Scott conducted
his funeral services with all the pomp
and ceremony due his high calling (he
reached high C in his prime) . Who
would have thought that Martha Fos-
ter could qualify as the grim weeper?

Startling facts! . . .
"The great handicap of the deaf
child is probably his inability to hear
what other people say." p. 418, Psy-
chology by R. S. Woodworth.

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Inscriptions for New Library

Come from Variety of Sources

John Milton Contributes Quotation for Main Reading Room;
Library Committee Chooses Thirteen Quotations
From Works of All Ages

The wisdom of noted writers of all the ages has contributed appropriate
and inspirational inscriptions for the new Agnes Scott library. The Bible,
The Book of Common Prayer, Latin works, Greek philosophers, Milton, Shakes-
pere, Bacon, and Thoreau are the sources of the thirteen quotations which
will be inscribed in suitable places in the new building. The selection for the
main entrance is "Nutrimentum Spiritus." Over the mantel in the main
reading room will be "Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet
and still air of delightful studies" from Milton.

The remaining quotations will be on the concrete beams in
Of these, three will be written in Greek. The translations for

'To the wise

Miss Gooch to Read
Shakespearian Play

Miss Frances K. Gooch, head of the
Spoken English Department of Agnes
Scott College, will give a dramatic
reading of the principal scenes from
Shakespere's Much Ado About Noth-
ing in the chapel, Friday night, March
6, at 8:30. Miss Gooch read many of
the scenes of this play when she re-
ceived her diploma at the graduation
exercises of the School of Expression in
Boston. Since then she has memorized
the whole play and has read it a num-
ber of times, one of which was for the
Atlanta Drama League.

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these quo-
nothing is
They who

"The modern community is at last
thoroughly agreed that the young
must be kept separate from habitual
criminals." p. 79, The Adolescent by
J. J. Findlay.

"Many problems have been solved;
many remain to be solved." p. 132,
Personal Hygiene Applied by J. F.
Williams.

"There are two general classes of
women those who are wives and
mothers and those who are not." p. 95,
The Adolescent.

"The sun bath indicates, by its
name, that the body may be bathed
without water." p. 3 54, Personal Hy-
giene Applied.

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foreign" from Antisthenes;
have torches will pass them to each
other" from Plato; and "A learned
man has always riches within him-
self" from Phaedo. The others on the
beams will be: "The truth shall make
you free," "The fear of the Lord, that
is wisdom," "Happy is the man who
findeth wisdom," from the Bible;
"Read, mark, and inwardly digest"
from the Book of Common Prayer;
"For wisdom's sake, a word that all
men love" from Shakespeare; "Read
not the Times; Read the Eternities"
from Thoreau; and "Seek ye first the
good things of the mind" from Plato.

Suggestions Considered
With seven large books of quota-
tions available in the Agnes Scott li-
brary, and with numerous suggestions
from the faculty, the library commit-
tee still had a hard task in choosing
the inscriptions. The choice depended
not only upon appropriateness but also
upon brevity because of limited space.

Among the quotations discarded at
the last were lines from other great
writers, including Longfellow, Jonson,
Cicero, and Seneca.

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4

The Agonistic

Sophomores Stage Upset

To Defeat Seniors 39-20

Lib Blackshear Leads School in
Scoring for Season With
83 Points

Exciting basketball games on
Wednesday, February 26, and Friday,
February 2 8, brought to a close the
winter season of sports at Agnes Scott.
On Wednesday the sophomores de-
feated the seniors in the season's ma-
jor upset, the final score being 39 to
20. The juniors defeated the freshmen
by a score of 16 to 15.

In Friday's games the freshmen lost
to the seniors by a score of 3 3 to 19,
and the juniors defeated the sopho-
mores 41 to 27.

The lineups for Wednesday were:
Sophomores Seniors
Tribble F. Brosnan

Coit P. ?Y^ n ,

Blackshear P. Strickland

Adams G. O'Neal

Kelly G. Symms

King G. Hart

Substitutions Sophomores: Merrill, Thomp-
son : Seniors : Handte, Stevens, Foreman.
Juniors Freshmen
Kneale F. Purnell

Stalker F. Dreyfuss

McCain F. . Schloss

Thing G. Hamilton

McDonald G. Clegg

Stevens G. Steele

Substitutions Juniors: Gillespie; Freshmen:
Furlovv, Cuddy.

The Fridav lineups were as follows :
Juniors Sophomores
Stalker F. Coit

McCain F. Blackshear

Kneale F. Thompson

Wilson G. Adams

Thing G. Merrill

McDonald G. King

Substitute Sophomores : Henderson.
Seniors Freshmen
Handte F. Sch ,!? ss

Brosnon F. Flint

Stevens F. Purnell

Hart G. Hamilton

O'Neal G. Cuddy

Burson G. Steele

Substitutions Seniors: Foreman, Derrick;
Freshmen : Cheeseman, Dreyfuss.

The entire season was marked by ex-
cellent guarding in all classes. The
forwards did excellent work as shown
by the total number of points shot
during the season. Stevens led the
senior scoring with 80 points; Kneale
had 54 points to her credit for the
season, thus leading the juniors. In
the sophomore class Blackshear led
with 83 points, and Garner shot 3 8
points to lead the freshmen.

After the varsity-sub varsity game
on Friday night, the season for outdoor
sports will begin. Uppermost in the
interest will be practices for May Day
an opportunity for everyone to get
in a quarter of dancing.

Miss Wilburn will also have classes
in golf one of the best carry-over
sports. Other sports of this type will
be offered under Miss Mitchell's su-
pervision. They are tennis, archery,
and swimming, with emphasis on
water polo. Miss Haynes' instruction
in riding completes the plans of the
gym department's spring season. In
addition to these supervised sports
there will be a new opportunity for
hiking squad tryouts.

Dr. Opdyke Speaks
On Art, Layman

Dr. George H. Opdyke, authority on
art appreciation, spoke this morning in
chapel under the auspices of the
Carnegie Corporation and the Amer-
ican Institute of Architects. This lec-
ture completed a series of talks which
Dr. Opdyke has been giving in col-
leges in and around Atlanta on such
subjects as "The Place Art Holds in
Education," "Art Appreciation and
Nature," and "Art Appreciation and
the Layman."

Dr. Opdyke, who is author of "Art
and Nature Appreciation," a textbook
widely used by American colleges, ap-
proaches art from the standpoint of
the layman. Stressing this idea, he
says, "One of the greatest needs in
America today is a larger conception
of art; one that extends beyond ex-
terior and interior, to the grounds
around the home, and to dress and per-
sonal adornment; even to the office,
store, and factory."

Fellowship Winner

Student Volunteers Hold
Conference at Druid Hills

The Georgia Student Volunteers,
who will hold their State Conference at
the Druid Hills Presbyterian Church
from Friday, March 6, to Sunday,
March 9, will have as speakers Dr.
Charles Logan, of China, and Dr.
Ernest Moreland, of Brazil. Four dis-
cussion groups will consider the sub-
jects, "Home Missions," "Foreign
Missions," "Christ and International
Affairs," and "Personal Work."

Judge Ether edge Talks

At Agonistic Chapel

Judge A. B. Etheredge spoke at
chapel Saturday, February 29, under
the auspices of The Agonistic. His
talk involved the organization, func-
tion, and purpose of the Supreme
Court, "unique to America in its pres-
tige, power, and the respect in which
it is held." Concerning the judges of
the Court, Judge Etheredge says,
"They are men of vast learning, wide
experience, and an unquestionable
patriotism."

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Classical Society
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Lita Gcss, who recently won the
(Juenelle-Harrold fellowship.

LITA GOSS RECEIVES

HARROLD FELLOWSHIP

(Continued from Page 1)
graduate study in some institution ap-
proved by the academic council. This
is the only scholarship for graduate
work that Agnes Scott offers.

Lita, who plans to do graduate work
in English at Radcliffe in Cambridge,
Mass., is editor of the Aurora, campus
literary magazine. She was elected to
Phi Beta Kappa at the February an-
nouncement. She is a member of Eta
Sigma Phi, of Poetry Club, and of B.
O. Z.; and she has made the honor roll
for the past three years.

Eta Sigma Phi, national honorary
classical society, under the direction
of Professor Catherine Torrance, an-
nounced the election of six new mem-
bers during the week of February 12.
Nell Allison, Mildred Davis, Frances
Lee, Gwendolyn McKee, Enid Middle-
ton, and Miriam Talmadge are the new
members who were installed at the
ceremony last Friday night at 5:30 in
the Day Student Room in Main.

Immediately following the initiation
was the society's annual spring ban-
quet held at the Elite Tea Room in
Decatur. Dr. George P. Hayes, dis-
cussing humanism and Cicero, was the
principal speaker. He said that the
central virtue of Cicero's humanism
was the "nothing too much of Greek
philosophy and literature." Professor
Hayes concluded that the method of
humanism is "not to repudiate the age
in which one lives but to render it
more complete by supplying it with
elements essential to the higher nature
of man."

Students Give Talks On Life at
(Ollege Before Groups of
Atlanta Girls

CLUBS (Continued from page 3)
Blackfriars
Blackfriars met Tuesday night,
March 3, at 7 o'clock in Miss Gooch's
studio. Several members presented a
play of the Reformation under the
supervision of Frances James.

A. Saye of Georgia Wins
Lewis Beck Scholarship

Albert Saye of the University of
Georgia was the winner of the Beck
Foundation Award, which is offered
annually to a student of either the
University, Emory, or Agnes Scott.
Mr. Saye will take his Ph.D. in his-
tory at Harvard.

For the past two weeks Miss Alberta
Palmour, field secretary of Agnes Scott
College, has been supervising lectures
and programs in the high schools in
Atlanta and the vicinity. On Thurs-
day, February 20, at Druid Hills High
School, Marcelle Capatti spoke on a
foreign student's impression of the col-
lege; Ad Stevens gave the serious aims
of college; and Lib Blackshear told
about the broadening effects of Agnes
Scott for an Atlanta girl.

At Decatur High School Tuesday,
February 2 5, Mary Hull told how col-
lege prepares one for a job; Anne
Thompson gave the advantages of the
athletic department for day students;
Mary Smith outlined a model day at
Agnes Scott; and Lib Blackshear told
why Atlanta girls should board at the
college.

On Friday, February 2 8, the college
entertained the seniors of North Ful-
ton High School with swimming,
basketball games, dancing, and supper
cooked in the woods behind the May
Day dell.

Miss Palmour will bring these local
trips to a close by putting on a pro-
gram at North Avenue Presbyterian
| School today, and by showing college
pictures at Russell High School.

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VOL. XXI

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA.. W EDNESDAY, MARCH 11. 1936

NO. IS

Weslev, Bush
Avery, Traber
Complete Cast

Blackfriars Pick Outside Actors
For Masculine Roles in
"Bridal Chorus"

The completed cast of "Bridal
Chorus," the play which the Black-
friars will present on Friday and Sat-
urday nights, March 20 and 21, is as
follows:

Mrs. Kate Perry Alice McCallie
Martha Jane Perry Carrie Phinny

Latimer
J. R. Perry Luther Carroll
Willie Gresham Tom Wesley
Ellis Bradley Jimmie Jepson
Georgia Davis Elizabeth Cousins
Bishop Rathbone Marion Camp
Dr. Scott George Bush
Charlotte Wright Myrl Chaffin
Caroline Bell Kathryn Printup
Josephine Bennett Marie Stalker
Dave Gray Gene Traber
Charlie Wood Stephen Avery
Stewart Gibson Jim O'Shields
Three of the masculine members of
the cast have played with Blackfriars
before: Luther Carroll, who acted last
year in "You Never Can Tell," Jim
O'Shields, and Tom Wesley, both of
whom were in this year's performance
of "Mr. Pirn Passes By." Those who
are new to Agnes Scott theatricals are
Gene Traber, a senior at Tech, Stephen
Avery, a former member of the Emory
G'ce Club; George Bush, a graduate
of Yale, well known for acting and
radio work, and Marion Camp, who is
prominent in amateur theatricals in
Atlanta.

Freshmen Elect
Exec Members

Leads in Blach.fr iar s "Bridal Chorus"

Above are, left to right, Alice McCallie, Myrl Chaffin, Carrie Phinny Latimer, Marie Stalker, Elizabeth Cousins,
Kathryn Printup, the feminine leads in "Bridal Chorus."

Concert Stars
Grace Moore

Jean Bailey and Emma McMullen,
elected to the executive board of stu-
dent government by the freshman
class at a meeting on Saturday, March
7, will serve as freshman representa-
tives for one year.

Jean and Emma are both members
of the freshmen cabinet of Y. W. C. A.

Grace Moore, the last of the artists
in the All-Star Concert Series, will ap-
pear in concert at the Fox Theater,
Thursday evening, March 19, assisted
by Marcel Hubert, violoncellist, and
Gibner King, pianist.

Miss Moore will sing: "Air de Lia"
from "L'Enfant Prodigue," Debussey;
"Ouvre Ton Coeur," Bizet; "Valse,"
Arensky - Koshetz; "Pano Murciano,"
Nin; "Seguidilla," de Falla; "Aira"
from "Louise," Charpentier; "There's
Not a Swain," Purcell; "The Unfor-
seen," Cyril Scott; "Wild Geese,"
James H. Rogers; "Who'll Buy My
Lavender?", Edward German; and
"Serenade," John Alden Carpenter.

Agnes Scott students will leave for
the concert at 7:10 P. M. and go by
special street cars furnished by the
Georgia Power Company.

Sir Arthur Reveals Journalistic Skill

In Conducting Own Casual Interview

With the gallantry of an English-
man and the understanding of a
journalist, Sir Arthur Willert kindly
took his own interview out of the
l ands of the amateur reporter, and
conducted it with finesse, now and
rhcn pausing in his rapid talk to ex-
claim, "That's a good line, you know,"
rnd, with an amused smile, "I'm writ-
ing the whole interview for you, you
see."

In discussing his early journalistic
life. Sir Arthur said that he started
before the war with the London Times
and worked in Paris, Berlin, Washing-
ton, besides. He was sent to Wash-
ington to look after the Times* in-
terests there when he was only twen-
ty-six, as the man who sent him "be-
lieved in young men;" it was in Wash-
ington that he first learned to type, as
at that time no typewriters were used
in London. Asked about famous men
he had known, Sir Arthur mentioned
Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin D.
Roosevelt (whose work he considers
very similar), Lord Northcliffe (the
inventor of modern journalism), and
Mr. Pulitzer.

Asked about the attitude of young
pconle on the continent, Sir Arthur
said that their main characteristic were
a desire for peace and a fear that their
elders might involve them in war.
One of the most impressive demon-
strations of this attitude, Sir Arthur
said, was at the disarmament confer-
ence at Geneva in 1932. "No one

Emory Singers
Will Sponsor
A. S. C Opera

A. S. C. and Emory Glee Clubs
To Present A. King, F. Sule
in "Pirates of Penzance"

Student Association
Will Meet Here
March 27-29

South Sends Seventy-Five Dele-
gates To S. I. A. S. G.
Conference

could forget the contrast between the
fresh earnestness of the appeal of the
young spokesmen with the perfunc-
tory sham sentimental oratory to Scott during the spring holidays and

Seventy-five delegates representing
southern colleges will meet at Agnes
Scott College to hold the Twenty-first
Annual Conference of the Southern
Intercollegiate Association of Student
Governments from March 27 through
29, during spring holidays.

Prominent speakers on the program
of the conference are to be Dean
Lloyd, Michigan University; Dr. Rob-
ertson, president of Goucher College;
Dr. Smart, Emory University, and
Dean Dorman, F. S. C. W. Talks by
outstanding educational leaders, dis-
cussion groups, a formal banquet, a
tea, and campus recreation will be fea-
tures of the conference.

Ad Stevens, president of Agnes
Scott Student Government Associa-
tion, is vice-president of the S. I. A.
S. G., and Alice McCallie, also of Ag-
nes Scott, is to serve as chairman of
the convention.

All students who remain at Agnes

which the conference had been treated
by many delegates. It was like a
breath of fresh air in the dead atmos-
phere of an unventilated room. The
tragedy is that the fresh air has not
yet been spread very far."

In discussing English boys and girls
as compared with American boys and
girls, Sir Arthur said that there is no
great difference except perhaps that
the English youth is slightly more
serious-minded than the American,
and that it is "inclined to be impatient
at the way in which politics are run-
ning in dangerous grooves. "

When asked about the position of
women in the English universities,
Sir Arthur, with a sly smile, admitted
that he was much interested in that
subject, since he was formerly one of
the governors of Lady Margaret
Hoare, the woman's college at Oxford
and the largest of the women's colleges
in England, and that he had only re-
signed because he had begun to in-
crease in weight. (This was the "good
line.")

In his opinion, women are not only
tolerated, but even liked at Oxford
and "arc not doing the men any harm
and may be doing the women some
good." He said that there is a com-
mon social life at Oxford between the

{Continued on page 4, column 3)

the Atlanta day-students are urged to
attend the conference meetings and
meet the representatives.

Emory is Host to
Phi Beta Kappas

Seven representatives of the Agnes
Scott Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa were
present at the initiation and dinner of
the Emory Chapter of Phi Beta Kap-
pa, Thursday, March 5.

Mr. Smythe Gambell spoke on the
subject of "Constitutional Govern-
ment Today." Ten new members
were initiated into the Emory Chap-
ter, one of whom was Jean Walker,
who was a student at Agnes Scott for
one year.

The Agnes Scott members who at-
tended this meeting were Associate
Professor Emma May Laney of the
English department, Professor S. G.
Stukes of the education department,
Professor P. G. Davidson of the his-
tory department, Professor Mary Stuart
MacDougall of the biology depart-
ment, Associate Professor Philippa
Gilchrist of the chemistry department,
Assistant Professor Florence Smith of
the history department, and Miss
Laura C. Colvin, assistant librarian.

Juniors List
Banquet Dates

Over sixty juniors, with their dates,
will be the guests of Mortar Board at
the annual Junior Banquet Saturday,
March 21. The date committee, head-
ed by Barton Jackson, has completed
the list of escorts, which follows:
Eloisa Alexander Jack Bagwell
Cecelia Baird Warren James
Frances Belford Otis Wragg
Edith Belser Allan Little
Kathryn Bowen Dick Pyron
Louise Brown George Arias
Mary Buchholz Charlie Browner
Millicent Caldwell George Black
Frances Cary Gordon Taylor
Cornelia Christie F. E. Hodgdon
Mary Elizabeth Cooper Mac Keiser
Ann Cox Gene Brown
Kathleen Daniel Wayne Yeager
Helen Dupree Ralph Anderson
Elizabeth Espy Paul Flowers
Charline Fleece Jimmy Haverstadt
Michelle Furlow Bert Smith
Annie Laurie Galloway Judson
King

Mary Gillespie Cecil Thompson
Nellie Margaret Gilroy Glenn

Thomas
Judith Gracey Mat Gracey
Alice Hannah Frank Brown
Margaret Hansell Paul Allen
Fannie B. Harris Jimmie Jepson
Martha Head James Shealy
Barton Jackson David Ponder
Martha Johnson Joe Tucker
Mary Johnson Edgar Pinson
Catherine Jones John Maudeville
Rachel Kennedy Bob Kennedy
Mary Jane King James Shealy
Jean Kirkpatrick Teddy Watson
Mary Kneale William Stewart
Florence Lasseter Willis Paulk
Wayve Lewis Willis Rosenthal
Vivienne Long John McCain
(Continued on page 3, column 3)

High School Pupils
Visit At Affnes Scott

In order to continue and promote
interest in Agnes Scott among De-
catur and Atlanta high school stu-
dents, Miss Alberta Palmour, field sec-
retary, entertained thirty-five girls
from Sacred Heart School, University
School, and Avondale School on Wed-
nesday, March 4, on the Agnes Scott
campus.

The entertainment program consist-
ed of a tour of the campus conducted
by the sophomores, swimming, dinner
in Rebekah Scott, introduction to the
faculty and students, and dancing in
the gymnasium with the freshmen of
Agnes Scott.

The Emory University Glee Club
will sponsor the Agnes Scott College
Glee Club's performance of "The Pir-
ates of Penzance," Gilbert and Sulli-
van light opera, at Glen Memorial
Church, Saturday Evening, April 18,
according to a statement made by
Dick Brumby, manager of the Emory
Glee Club. The performance will be
presented on the Agnes Scott campus
Friday evening, April 17. This is the
first time in the history of the Agnes
Scott Glee Club that the light opera
has been presented off the campus.

The masculine lead, Frederick, will
be sung by Frank Sule, tenor, who
sang the part with an organization in
New York City last year. The femin-
ine lead will be taken by Augusta King,
singing the part of Mable. The other
characters are: Edith, Ruth Tate;
Kate, Alice Chamlee; Ruth, Amelia
Nickels; King of Pirates, Eugene Tra-
ber; Samuel, Charles White; Major-
General, Dick Smoot; Sergeants of Po-
lice, Walton Bobo (at the Emory per-
formance), and Don White (at the
Agnes Scott performance).

Three of the leading masculine roles
are being sung by former Emory Glee
Club men, Dick Smoot, Walton Bobo,
and Charles White. Other Emory men
singing in the chorus include: Bealy
(Continued on page 3, column 2)

Three Parties

Fete Freshmen

The Mortar Board Chapter of Agnes
Scott College entertained the members
of the freshman class last week, with
three parties on Wednesday, Thursday,
and Saturday evenings from eight un-
til eleven o'clock.

It has been a custom with Mortar
Board to give the sophomores a party
each year, but beginning only with
last year was the first party for the
freshmen held, the purpose being to
acquaint the new students with young
men of surrounding schools and col-
leges.

Radios and flowers decorated the
entire first floor of Main, while the
day student room was decorated in
green and white, carrying out the St.
Patrick's Day theme. The refresh-
ments, ice cream, cake, and coffee, al-
so carried out the color motif of green
and white. The entertainment consist-
ed of "five minute proms," and games,
including "whoosa-meesa" and ping
pong.

The hostesses for Wednesday were:
Ann Coffee, Ad Stevens, and Loice
Richards. Thursday: Sarah Spencer,
Ruby Hutton, Shirley Christian, and
Carrie Phinny Latimer. Saturday:
Frances James, Lulu Ames, Dean Mc-
Koin, and Augusta King.

M. Clark Again
Receiv es Prize

For her "Two Sonnets for Leave
Taking," Mildred Clark of Agnes
Scott received the monthly prize for
the best poem contributed to the
Poetry Forum of the Atlanta Writers'
Club in February.

This is the second time that Mildred
has won recognition from the Writers'
Club, having recently tied for first
place with her sonnet group, "Coun-
try Girl," which will appear in the
next issue of the Aurora.

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Entered as Second Class Matter.

T935 Member 1936

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STAFF

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Editor
Cora Kay Hutchins

Assistant Editor
Douglas Lyle

Make-Up Editor
Mary Frances Guthrie
Mary Ellen Thomas

Feature Editors
Henrietta Blackwell
Jean Bailey

Book-Note Editors
Mildred Coit
Emma McMullen

Exchange Editors
Alice Cheeseman

Sports Editor

Jane Moore Hamilton

Business Manager
Jane Dryfoos

Ad vertising Manager
Mary Margaret Stowe
Margaret Cooper
Mary Gray Rogers
Sarah Brosnan

Circulation Managers

Helen Moses

Current History
Louise Young

Alumnae Editor
Ann Purnell

Society Editor
Emmy Lou Turck

Club Editor

NOTICE

Tomorrow, March 12, from 4:30
to 6:00, Y. W. C. A. will enter-
tain informally at a Saint Patrick's
Day party in the gym. The enter-
tainment, directed by Marie Stalker,
will consist of a program and
games. The entire college commun-
ity, both students and faculty, is
invited to come and "wear a touch
of green."

Spanish Communists Stage
Uprising Against Republic

Mamie Lee Ratliff
Annie Lee Crowell
Estelle Cuddy
Grace Duggan
Martha Fite
Mary Evelyn Garner

REPORTERS
Flora McGuire
Vera Marsh
Sara McCain
Mary Wells McNeill Elizabeth Furlow

Anna M. Riepma

AlLEEN SHORTLEY

Elizabeth Wheatley

Marie Merritt

Martha Whigham

The "Golden Mean" of

American Democracy

The "golden mean," which for
centuries has been determinedly
expounded by hundreds of teach-
ers, and just as determinedly
disregarded by hundreds more,
seems to apply to the present
controversy in many states over
the principle of freedom of
speech in our schools and col-
leges.

Should professors be allowed
absolute freedom in their teach-
ings or should they be bound by
an oath to teach nothing critical
of the American government?
The participants in the struggle
are extremists and refuse to
admit of any middle ground, re-
fuse to consider any form of
compromise. The aggressors, ac-
cording to the editor of The Sat-
urday Review of Literature,
maintain that youth should be
taught "nothing that was not
believed in by the last genera-
tion," consequently, that stu-
dents should never be exposed to
the slightest notion of any doc-
trine hostile to the existing or-
der. Therefore, these conserva-
tives intend to carry their point
by endeavoring to pass laws re-
quiring all teachers to take an
oath not to teach any ideas
which criticize the present gov-
ernment. On the other hand, the
defendants maintain that stu-
dents should be taught to think
for themselves and that every-
thing in the way of social and
political doctrines should be ex-
pounded to them with no regard
to the established order and long
tried systems.

Through their extreme posi-
tions on this question, both op-
posing: factions seem to be
traveling toward exactly the op-
posite goal from the one that
they both hope to reach that of
educating American youth to be-
lieve in American democracy.
The conservatives do not realize
that, if students are sheltered so
completely from all existing po-
litical creeds but that of Ameri-
can democracy, they are more
likely, when they leave college
and are exposed to such ideas, to
swallow them immediately with
the natural relish for something
new and forbidden. On the other
hand, the more liberal agitators
do not stop to consider that if
young people have no criterion
of standards with which to meas-
ure their ideas they are likely
to accept whatever their teach-
ers think, even though left to
think for themselves, and if a
teacher is allowed absolute free-
dom, he may impose upon stu-
dents biased personal convic-
tions.

Therefore, we, the students
for whose benefit all this agita-
tion is carried on, and of whose
opinion no one seems to take any
notice, advocate a happy me-
dium. We believe that if politi-
cal and social doctrines are
neither hidden from our eyes
nor thrust down our throats, but
presented to us equally and im-
partially, we are much more like-
ly, as we are really (though
young), sane and responsible
people, to choose the democratic
middle course the present
American government.

The Ten

O'Clock Scholar

To reprove full-grown and re-
sponsible people on such a fun-
damental subject as behavior in
chapel may seem foolish and un-
necessary, but to regard this
subject in such a light as many
of these people do, seems even
more foolish and even more un-
necessary. It is positively sim-
ple-minded to go to chapel "when
you don't want to and when you
don't have to," and when the
only thing you do is disturb other
people.

Even if those who commit
such folly are not willing to con-
sider the question of irreverence
and the discomfort of others,
they might be induced to con-
sider their own well-being. After
all, in chapel one can not talk
and laugh with perfect freedom,
and it would be much pleasanter
to remain elsewhere, so as to
converse with friends with great-
er ease. Also, chapel is not a
convenient place to send notes,
and communication is much
simpler outside. The atmosphere
in chapel is not particularly con-
ducive to concentrated study,
and one could prepare for that
ten-thirty class more quickly
and thoroughly in the seclusion
of one's own room. The thorough
reading of letters is also not par-
ticularly facilitated by being
done in chapel. In fact, almost
any other spot on the campus
would be more pleasant, not to
say more suitable.

If you must talk and laugh, do
it elsewhere on the campus; if
you must study and read letters,
do it in your room. But, if there
are times when the talking and
laughing can wait, when the
studying is done, when the let-
ters are read; if there are times
when you can feel hushed and
reverent, when you can feel the
need of a quiet prayer, w hen you
can be moved by the sound of
music or stirred by the solemn
beauty of a hymn, THEN come
to chapel.

The breakdown of constitutional
guarantees has been very noticeable in
the history of the Spanish Republic
during 193 5. At the end of that year,
Spa n was in a state of political un-
certainty. The Left was brought
around to a sense of "the danger to
the Republic" by the aggressiveness
and evidence of the Right's military
program. The country was uneasy,
each party fearing and suspecting the
other.

Some weeks ago, a demonstrative
uprising occurred in Spain, in place of
the election that was expected to be
calm and uneventful. Very recently,
the Spanish Communists were burning
down churches; Papal Munico was
trying to do something with the Re-
publican Premier, Azana; and the Gil
Robbu crowd has revealed in its news-
paper that the Proletariat in Spain re-
ceive yearly over $200,000 of Russian
money. There have occurred many
Spanish marches of mobsters, waving
red flags and shouting, "Down with
Fascism!" The climax of a week of
rejoicing was reached when a general
amnesty was issued which released
about 30,000 political prisoners. Since
the release of these prisoners, they
have, accompanied by other Spanish
mobs, marched through Madrid sing-
ing the Internationale, and uncertainly
shouting, "Long live Russia!"

Since these demonstrations have oc-
curred, Spain has been in an even
greater unrest than before. The trains
are packed with fleeing people dukes,
marquises, and millionaires. The ter-
ror of the people is shown by Juan
March and the Marquesa de Fernon
Nunez. Juan March, a political graft-
er, is now quite terrified, who, a few
weeks ago, was making no secret of his
offer to sell to the highest bidder the
Governorship of a Spanish province
and all its seats in the Cortes. He
realizes the uncertainty of his position.
It seems that the Duquesa de Fernon
Nunez is equally frightened. The
Duchess tried to leave the country;
but she found that she would not be
allowed to go to France, unless she
first gave up her great string of pearls.
Therefore, the Duchess was forced to
leave her pearls with Spanish frontier
guards "for safe keeping." These in-
cidents typify the conditions existing
in Spain at the present time.

If Premier Azana, who is now look-
ed upon as a moderate liberal, wishes
to establish friendly relations with the
conservative Catholic Republicans and
use them in Parliament to check the
zeal of the extreme Lefts in order to
bring about a Marxist transformation
of regime, he must break with Cabal-
lero, a Socialist leader; and he must
firmly hold back the Catalon separat-
ists. Premier Azana realizes that he
stands on dangerous and insecure
grounds. What will he do to once
more unify the Spanish Republic?

Helen Moses.

BOOK NOTES

Treasure Express, Neill C. Wilson.
McMillan. $2.50.

Gold! That electric word sent a
thrill of excitement through the most
unexcitable, in the days of '49. The
country round about poured itself into
:he West, and California soon swarmed
with gold-hungry adventurers, pig-
:ailed Chinese, Hawaiians, South
Americans, Mexicans, New England-
ts, Southerners, Western pioneers.
Madly they rushed to the West, and
once there, sadly they longed for
home. Before long, those hardy, home-
sick pioneers came to ask of life but
two things: gold and mail, and how
they got both is told by Neill Wilson
in Treasure Express.

Treasure Express is the story of the
epic days of the Wells Fargo com-
pany, a sort of combination bank and
express agency. In the old stagecoach
days, the Wells Fargo sent rattling
across the mountains unnumbered
stagecoaches laden with money and
mail, stagecoaches whose drivers
thought nothing of being attacked by
bandits, assaulted by Indians, washed
oft* the trail by mountain floods, top-
pled off the side of cliffs by the
wind, or delayed for weeks by the
weather. The mail had to go through,
and it did.

Such is the picture created by
Treasure Express. The whole book is
composed of a series of Western yarns
about the old stage coach. There is no
particular connection between any
two they sound like the most fan-
tastic wild west show; but they create
a colorful and unforgettable picture of
primitive American transportation.
The author's style has a certain easy

Chemistry Students Edit
Analysis of Feminine Charm

We extend sincere sympathy to
Miss Janef Preston for the loss of
her beloved cat, "Grandpa."
"Grandpa" was not just a cat; he
was a member of the college com-
munity. This sleek, aristocratic
creature with a soft black and white
coat and beautiful green eyes was
often to be seen playing in the
Alumnae Garden with his "Older
Friend," only a little less sleek and
aristocratic than himself. "Grand-
pa" was personally acquainted with
many of the girls, who loved and
petted him, and who will miss his
friendliness in the garden; for al-
though "Older Friend" still plays
there, he is wild and mistrustful of
human beings and will never take
the place of "Grandpa."

Accomplishing the heretofore im-
possible task of pinning women down
and making definite statements con-
cerning those ephemeral creatures, the
"Purple and White" has published a
"Chemistry of the Fairer Sex":

Symbol: WO.

Member of the human family.
Specific gravity: Variable.
Molecular structure: Exceedingly
va liable.

Occurence: Can be found wherever
man exists.

Physical properties: All colors, sizes,
^.nd shapes. Generally appears in dis-
guised condition; natural surface rare-
ly free from extraneous covering of
textiles and film of grease and pig-
ment. Melts readily when properly
treated. Boils at nothing, and may
freeze at any moment. Ordinarily
sweet, occasionally sour, and some-
times bitter.

Chemical properties: Exceedingly
volatile, highly inflammable, and dan-
gerous in the hands of an inexperi-
enced person. Possesses great affinity
for gold, silver, platinum, and precious
stones of all kinds. Capable of ab-
sorbing astonishing quantities of ex-
pensive foods and beverages. Reacts
violently when left alone. Turns green
when placed next to a better appearing
specimen. Ages rapidly.

freedom, a liveliness, and a pictures-
queness, which makes his book enter-
taining, and he has enough of the west-
ern "flavor" to create a perfect at-
mosphere for his tales. Treasure Ex-
press is the type of book you like to
pick up, read a little, and put down
again, and whoever has a chance to
do just that will enjoy many a hair-
raising lark in the old West.

The House in Paris, Elizabeth
Bowen. Alfred Knopf. $2.00.

Although Elizabeth Bowen has been
writing excellent books for a number
of years, she has been more or less
shunned by the reading public because
her novels have been written in a glit-
tering, cold light of intellect. Her
latest, however, The House in Paris,
descends "not like a hail of sleet, but
a gentle dew"; and the reader feels
that he has been, for a time, submerged
in and surrounded by the very sym-
pathy evoking gropings and emotions
experienced by real, if somewhat mud-
dled, people.

A little boy waits in vain all after-
noon in a strange house in Paris for the
mother whom he has never seen. He
does not know of his past, but this the
reader is told in a second portion of
the book which traces how Karen, a
lovely English girl, becomes involved
in an affair with the fiance of her
French friend, Naomi, and how fol-
lowing her lover's suicide and the
birth of her son, she allows him to be
adopted by some Americans living in
Italy while she marries her own long-
put-off fiance. The last part of the
book returns to her son in Paris and
the meeting between him and his step-
father after his mother has so bitterly
disappointed him.

In two hundred and fifty pages,
Elizabeth Bowen has packed a whole
philosophy of life, a whole field of
psychology, with a background of
skillfully misty descriptions.

Alumnae of 1935

Marie Simpson is to be married to
Mr. Guv W. Rutland, Jr. The wed-
ding will take place in the First Bap-
tist Church of Atlanta on April 16.
Mr. Rutland is the president of the
Atlanta Motor Convoy Company.

Dorothy (Bell) Dillard is living at
3 04 McDonough St.

Anne Scott Harman and Dorothea
Blackshear are working in the W. P.
A., Anne Scott Harman in the sta-
tistical department and Dorothea
Blackshear in the recreational division.

Fidessah Edwards is living with her
aunt in Columbia, Miss.

Mae Duls is living at 2217 Que St.,
N. W., Washington, D. C.

Frances Espy is in Atlanta, at 917
St. Charles Avenue, N. E.

Carolyn Cole works for the Savan-
nah Electric Company.

Eva Poliakoff is in charge of the
campfire girls of Atlanta.

Leonora Spencer is taking a business
course in Columbia, S. C.

Hester Anne Withers is teaching
sixth grade in a country school near
Waynesville, N. C.

THE DECATUR LINE

Transportation may be a useful
thing and all that, but it can cause a
lot of trouble, too. For instance, Miss
Bee Miller can it be too much trans-
portation or too little of the easy kind
that makes her take off her shoes when
she eats? Miss Scandrett, too she
must have been transported to some
far away place the other day in chapel
those yawns, you know.

Now Mutt Fite knows how to turn
her street car transportation to good
account. Pretty soon she should be
able to afford a taxi, if she goes into
comedy at the suggestion of the totally
strange lady and her husband who had
watched Mutt's antics on the way to
town one day. Dean McKoin, self-
centered one, has transported her-
self up and down the hall to the tele-

phone every day lately. Isn't his name
Harold?

Last week the freshmen certainly
did some tall transporting of men at
the Mortar Board parties. One air-
minded dental college student told
Cora Kay Hutchins "to have a wing,"
and she innocently replied that she
"liked the neck better." The key to
The Agonistic room has had some
high-minded transportation these last
days in the back of Julia Sewell's
hair! Giddy Erwin again takes the
prize! She, out of soap and unable to
borrow any, was seen transporting a
box of Super Suds to the bath tub the
other night. "It was so exhilarating!"
she said.

All off! The battery's burned out.

The Agonistic

3

Profs Lay Bare Carpenters, Bricklayers and Steel Workers

Campus Prowler

Romantic Past

Although in classes they grill us

And u hen we are dumb they chill
us;

Our profs are quite harmless,

And by no means are charmless
For the tales of their romances thrill
us.

This is how our president d ; d it!
He had a blind date and was so suc-
cessful that he persuaded the young
lady to make the date permanent.

Mr. Wright's first meeting with his
future wife happened in a similar man-
ner. At the time Mr. Tart met his
better half he thought her too "high-
schooly," but soon changed his opin-
ion. Another of our professors, Mr.
Raper, was out visiting friends when
he first saw Mrs. Raper.

While Mr. Hayes was visiting in
Prance a girl whom he had met in
America, he was introduced to her sis-
ter, the present Mrs. Hayes.

Mr. Stukes used to chaperon a Hot-
tentot until he at last secured permis-
sion to be her lifelong chaperon.

As for Mr. Johnson, his wife had
been his accompanist, and he said when
she left Agnes Scott to teach in Mon-
roe, "1 went down there to get her to
accompany me, and she has accompan-
ied me ever since. ,,

It was while he was teaching at
Emory that Mr. Christian fell in love
with one of his pupils. The first time
Mr. Holt saw his future wife was when
into his chemistry class walked a girl
with big, brown eyes. Mr. Cunning-
ham confessed that he wished he had
known of his future marriage with one
of his high school pupils, so that he
could have bossed her a little, "For,"
he said, "I've never had the chance
since." Mr. Dieckmann taught his wife
piano. When asked if it was a case of
love at first sight, he replied, "Oh,
indeed!"

But Mr. Gillespie firmly declares
that with him it was not love-at-first-
sight. He didn't seem slow, however,
for, after graduating from Columbia
Seminary in South Carolina at 5:00
o'clock one afternoon, he got married
the next morning. He would have
married sooner, he said, if there had
been an earlier train.

A little boy and girl ten years old,
met at their music school and became
sweethearts for life Mr. and Mrs.
Robinson.

On the subject of his marriage Mr.
Davidson's comments were censored,
so there remain only the bare facts.
He met the present Mrs. Davidson
when both were freshmen at the Uni-
versity of Mississippi.

Oh, Romeos, wherefore art thou our
Rom cos! ! !

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owing
into Spring

With a waa-hoo! Think
of those dances, those
dates and those days of
fun ahead and then,
think of all those at-
tractive and delightful-
ly different fashions
you know you'll find at
Leon's. What are you
waiting for?

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From the height of temporary tow-
ers and newly-built stairs and from
the depth of freshly-dug ditches and
from behind piles of brick and stones,
seventy noisy workmen have been ob-
serving Agnes Scott's daily life for
many a hammering month and have
decided that Agnes Scott girls are
"beautiful" and "well-behaved" and
even that they "would like to live
here" themselves.

An Italian who speaks four lan-
guages is Corada Gubanna, the brick
foreman, who
talks with a slight
but telling accent.
When he came to
the United States
in 1914, he knew
Italian, Slavic,
and Furlan (a dia-
lect of French and Italian), but not a
word of English. In two years he could
speak and understand English, but he

EMORY SPONSORS OPERA
{Continued from page 1, column 5)
Smith, Howell Green, Harold Dobbs,
John Austin, and Leland Mackey.

The chorus consisting of members
of the Glee Club and singers from
Atlanta and Decatur includes:

Caroline Armistead John Houck
Jean Caldwell Harold Dobbs
Maxine Crisler George Hayes
Sara Jones Guy Chappell
Florence Lasseter Bealy Smith
Mary Malone Paul Carroll
Rose Northcross Marion Bullard
Mary E. Perry John Austin
Frances Wilson Jean Powell
Virginia Wood Wilson Davis
Jean Barry Adams, Mary Hull, sub-
stitutes.

Jane Moore Hamilton Walton
Bobo

Rachel Kenedy Frank Hagwood
Virginia Kyle Philip Davidson
Lettie McKay Leland Mackey
Rosa Miller Tom Hicks
Annie Newton Jack Smoot
Mary Alice Newton Don White
Hortense Norton Howell Green,

Jessie Query Stephen Rives
Frances Robinson Raymond Stan-
ley

Frances Steele Alexander Blair
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still says, "I suppose I will be learning
'American' all my life, because a for-
eign-born cannot ever learn to speak
without the accent." However, Mr.
Gubanna declares that he "thinks in
English but figures in Italian," be-
cause of the difference in standards of
measure. Waving his long folding rule,
he says that though there are differ-
ences in other things, "there is no dit-
ference whatsoever in Italian and
American girls!" This brick foreman
held the same position on the building
of the Bucher Scott gymnasium, and
is therefore an authority on Agnes
Scott. And with great enthusiasm he
said, "I think the world of Agnes
Scott."

Another foreman, waving blueprints
as big as himself, manages twenty-five
steel workers as he expounds his views.
This James W.
Webster stated
that the new li-
brary will be an
unusually fine
building because
it is "well - plan-
ned and well con-
structed." This small man in a
lumber jacket had definite ideas
about Agnes Scott girls. "They are
very different from the girls in town,"
he states. "Naturally the men on the
job notice the girls and they have all

JUNIORS LIST DATES

(Continued from page 1, column 4)
Isabel McCain Bill Brown
Frances McDonald Gaywood
Moore

Mary Malone Jack White
June Matthews John Allgood
Enid Middleton Ralph Waldrop
Erna Mae Mohns Bill Sulzhy
Mary Lib Morrow Dizzy Botsell
Pauline Moss Bill Carr
Rose Northcross Dick Fickett
Ellen O'Donnell Tommy Flynn
Kitty Printup Albert Spivey
Isabel Richardson Joe Burton
Marjorie Scott Jack Calhoun
Nell Scott Aaron Rose

commented on the fact that you girls
tend to your business and are not cur-
ious like the girls in town and the
students at other schools." Another
epithet he applies to Agnes Scott girls
is "well-behaved." All in all, Mr.
Webster thoroughly approves of Agnes
Scott, saying, "I'd like to live here my-
self."

A big man in striped overalls runs

his fingers
through his snow-
white hair and
says that he had
helped build the
old library and
Inman. He is Mr.
Nisson, the car-
pentry foreman. "It was in about
1910, as far as I recollect, that we
built the other library," he drawls. His
opinion is that this building is a vast
improvement over the old one, al-
though there have been scarcely any
changes in carpentry. But the great
changes have been in the way the girls
here look. "They didn't have short
hair, and they wore long skirts when
I worked here before." But with true
tact, he states, "As far as their looks
are concerned, you girls always look
good."

So take courage, young women, take
courage! At least the carpenters think

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tells nothing! When asked to confide
a wee bit of scandal, his reply was:
'Tm not allowed to" Mr. Robert M.
Jones, better known as the night
watchman, thinks Agnes Scott girls
are "good," mainly because the boys
they go with are nice and quiet. He
has been here six months and has
twelve more years to go because his
predecessor Mr. White was here for
thirteen years, and he shan't be out-
done by Mr. White! He never goes
to sleep on the job reads the Aggie
after midnight whenever he begins to
nod was assistant manager of the
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behind Inman, he heard unearthly
noises, and upon investigation, found
it to be the freshmen snoring! has
had many hair raising and exciting ex-
periences found Donald Duck, Esq.,
promenading up and down the hall in
the ghostly hours of the night when
asked what his wife thought of his
work his reply was: "She's red head-
ed." when asked why he got mar-
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thing I did, 'cause if I hadn't I would-
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SPORTS SPURTS

Flynt Receives
Prize for Menu

Amidst the pusillanimosity of this
thin existance rise the substantial col-
umns of the Bucher Scott Gymnasium,
towering with an enveloping warmth
and a soothing, come-hither pacifica-
tion. (*) The preceding phraseology
was composed for the benefit of the
confused lasses found hiking all over
the top of the budding new library.
Really, dear children, the library
doesn't look like the gym yet (even
though it may yet) ; and besides, the
most juvenile freshman knows where
all Agnes Scott hikes begin not on
top the library. We might also make
this suggestion to the inhabitants of
Gaines, who enjoy marching around
the roof and climbing in Gainesian
windows.

In a-ma-zing compliance with the
above paragraph, several hikes have be-
gun recently from the door-mat of
the gym. On Monday, March 2, the
Outing Club sponsored a supper hike
to Coffee Hill, thus carrying out its
long established and weatherbeaten
plans. (Remember? we used to have
such nasty weather!) Each member
of the club invited a guest from the
campus, making a group of about
twenty hikers, who, after the invig-
orating tramp (wonder who he was?),
gathered around a crackling fire and
"cooked grand steaks," and sang lilt-
ing ditties. The whole affair was rus-
tic and romantic. Miss Wilburn liter-
ally breathed that "the woods were
so pretty!" (Mercy! Miss W., with
what feeling you uttered them words!)
Guests attending this feast were:
Misses Gaylord, Crowe, Jackson,
Laney, Gilchrist, Griffin, Haynes,
Mitchell, Anne Coffee, Ann Worthy
Johnson, and Lucy Hess.

At the outlandish hour of 5:00 A.
M., last Saturday there was a particu-
larly exclusive "private" hike to Ice
Cream Springs, with more steaks and
a celebration of presents. This pedal
function was in honor of two birth-
day guests, Helen Handte and Helen
Ford. A couple of potted azaleas to
them, and kisses from A. A.

And Saturday night at 9:00, a moon-
light hike effected itself. So spirited
were the performances of "Salvation
Army" and so lusty the laughs, that
some of the masculine guests at the
Mortar Board parties asked if it were
freshman night. After making the
stupendous decision not to crawl under
the train at the R. R. crossing (be-
cause the train was in the way), the
girls surrounded numerous ice cones in
"Big Dec."

Now in regards the change in gym
seasons the freshman editor has been
complaining about her role as a wood-
nymph in May Day. We think she's
very fortunate in being able to look
her part. Don't you think Julia looks
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. . . Imagine how demure Alice Taylor
and Mary Kneale looked ordering a
"brown jug" in various unconvention-
al, uncouth establishments, (t) It
seems that the faculty-alumnae bas-
ketball team is still waiting for its
prize, the Brown Jug . . . The follow-
ing remark is designed solely to evoke
in your being a "you-can't-keep-your-
cake-and-eat-it-too" sensation: The big
hockey conference at Alabama College,
Montevallo, would have been held at
A. S. C. had not the hockey field been
so busy sprouting a new library. How
utterly killing! A hungry athlete has
avidly demanded to know why Jeanne
Flynte gave us orange sherbet and
chocolate cake on her Hottentot
menu. Also she had this suggestion to
make: two banana splits and half a
Florentine fruit cake (with almonds),
or (alternate suggestion) a Power-
House with nine jelly beans and some
prune float . . . And now to leave
you with sisterly mention of the jun-
ior rummage sale. Though this sale has
no vital relation to the physical educa-
tion department, we merely wanted to
establish a reason for any misfortunes
you, the seething populace, may now
be confronting like missing your gym
shoes or sweat shirts, or even your
well, if you miss it, its pecuniary value
is probably represented in the six dol-
lars and thirty cents gleaned by Eloisa
Alexander and Marie Stalker Saturday
morning in "Big Dec." Disregard their
childish pranks and see Julia Thing
and Co., like a lady.

Well, tallyho, and enjoy your spin-
ach.

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IN LAST BASKETBALL CLASH

The Hottentot Grocery Company
surprise award for the best menu sub-
mitted to the mock concern February
27-28, went to Jeanne Flynt for her
winning program of three meals a
day, judged according to caloric value.

The grocery store, managed by a
cashier and clerks, was a part of the
health program sponsored by the Ath-
letic Association, to stress food and
nutrition. It encouraged each visitor
to submit a menu for three meals. The
judges of the contest were Ann Tay-
lor, Ola Kelly, Esthere Ogden, and
Elizabeth Burson. Jeanne Flynt's win-
ning menu is:

Breakfast
Orange Juice
Bacon Toast
Cheese Eggs
Coffee Milk
Lunch j
Vegetable Soup
Corn Sticks Fruit Salad |

Cookies Hot Chocolate

Dinner
Tomato and Lettuce Salad
Baked Chicken
Hot Biscuits Rice and Gravy

Peas and Carrots
Orange Sherbet Chocolate Cake

With a slow, formal beginning,
working up to the overwhelming vic-
tory of varsity by the score of 34-14,
the varsity-sub-varsity game got un-
der way at 7:50, Thursday night,
March 5. This conflict terminated the
193 5-36 basketball season. The line-
ups were as follows:

Snh-Viirsif}
( 5 ) McCain
( 1 ) Carmichael
(3) Derrick

Varsity

Stevens

(7)

F.

Handte

(6)

F.

Blaekshear (4)

F.

Garner

(I)

F.

Kneale

G.

Stalker

G.

Cuddy

G.
G.

Physical Directors Meet

At Knoxville Today

In Knoxville, Tennessee, March 11-
14, the Southern District of the Physi-
cal Education Association will meet.
Miss Llewellyn Wilburn and Miss
j Elizabeth Mitchell will go as repre-
I sentatives of Agnes Scott. Miss Wil-
i burn will meet the Southern Associa-
' tion of Directors of Physical Educa-
i tion for College Women and there
lead a discussion group concerning
colleges for women. Miss Mitchell will
demonstrate group teaching of tennis
for the public school section.

W II LERT CONDUCTS INTERVIEW

{Continued from page 1, column 2)
men and women and that the lectures
at one college are open to the mem-
bers of the other colleges, so that the
^irls attend the lectures in the men's
:o'leges and often have the same tu-
tors.

After having given out, formulated,
and arranged his own interview, Sir
Arthur modestly dismissed his work
with a "Well, I hope you can make
something out of that," and said good-
bye with a breezy, "It is a lovely day,
i r n't it?" leaving the impression of
he knowledge and experience of a
cosmopolitan, and yet the casual un-
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During the first half Cuddy, Ste-
vens, Kneale made excellent plays. The
varsity team displayed good guarding
ability. After a long pass by the sub-
varsity, the length of the court, end-
ing in a short goal, Handte and Ste-
vens began a varsity pass just as spec-
tacular down the opposite side of the
court to end the second quarter with
the score 22-10 in favor of the var-
sity.

The second half brought out more
teamwork and livelier playing than the
first. Important plays began when
Derrick led the sub-varsity in several
unsuccessful attempts at the goal and
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Following a slippery pass by Thing,
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some graceful plays. Stalker did her
best guarding in this quarter. Varsity,
with growing cooperation and skillful
teamwork, made close but futile at-
tempts at the goal, losing the ball to
the neat work of the sub-varsity, and
allowing McCain to make a beautiful-
ly timed long shot, the last point
scored in the game. While varsity was
fast losing a pass the whistle blew to
close the score at 54-14 in favor of
varsity.

Though the outcome of the game
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Because the teams were playing to-
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NO. 19

SENIORS REVIVE A. S. C. MARDI GRAS

Class Papers Go to Judges

As Agonistic Contest Ends

Winner, Agonistic Key Elections
To Be Announced April 3
In Chapel

Copies of the four contest papers
were mailed to the judges on last
Wednesday when The Agonistic
class contest closed with the publica-
tion of the freshman edition. The
points on which the papers are to be
judged, arranged in order of impor-
tance, include the following: (1)
news: leads, heads, construction, space;

(2) features (including scandal col-
umns) : construction, apparent inter-
est, originality, and percentage of
whole paper devoted to such material;

(3) editorials and departments: of edi-
torials, apparent timeliness and worth,
construction, force; of departments,
worth and originality; and (4) make-
up of the whole paper with special re-
gard to the first and second pages.

FIVE ACT AS JUDGES

The judges are this year Miss Ina
Bergquist, editor of The Kadcliffe
News, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Mr.
Roger Chase, editor of The Columbia
Spectator, New York City; Miss "Wini-
fred Mallon, only woman on the
Washington staff of The Neiv York
T ines; Mr. Henry B. Fox, editor of
The Leon County News and The Buf-
falo Press, Centerville, Texas; and Pro-
fessor Henry A. Robinson, of the
mathematics department of Agnes
Scott. The judges were asked to have
their decisions in the hands of the edi-
tor of The Agonistic by April 1.
The winner will be announced and the
cup will be presented at The Agonis-
tic chapel on April 3.

At the same chapel hour, spring
elections to Agonistic Key will be an-
nounced. Initiation of the new mem-
bers will be held that night and a

(Continued on page 6, column 2)

A. S. C, Newcomb,
Randolph Macon in
Triangular Debate

The annual triangular debate be-
tween Agnes Scott, Sophie Newcomb,
and Randolph Macon Colleges took
place on last Friday evening, March
13, with Brooks Spivey and Mary Lil-
lian Fairley debating the Randolph
Macon team at Agnes Scott and Edith
Merlin and Sarah Catherine Wood de-
bating Sophie Newcomb in New Or-
leans. The subject for debate was Re-
solved, That Congress should be per-
mitted by a two-thirds majority vote
to override the decision of the Supreme
Court declaring acts of Congress un-
constitutional. Edith Merlin and
Sarah Catherine Wood upheld the
negative side in New Orleans, while
Brooks Spivey and Mary Lillian Fair-
ley, forming the affirmative team, de-
bated Cheney Walker and Virginia
Hall of Randolph Macon. Nellie Mar-
garet Gilroy of Agnes Scott and Ame-
lia Garber of Randolph Macon were
alternates. Mrs. Crawford Barnett, nee
Penelope Brown, '3 2, presided. There
was no decision.

The Randolph Macon team debated
the University of Georgia before com-
ing to Atlanta, and spent last week-
end in Griffin, Georgia. They returned
to Atlanta to meet the Emory Univer-
sity team in debate on Monday night.

Sarah Catherine Wood and Edith
Merlin left Atlanta for New Orleans
last Thursday evening and returned to
the College on Monday morning. Shir-
ley Christian accompanied them.

Students to Vote
On Committee

March 19-20
, Popular Nominees

COMMITTEE
NOMINATIONS

STUDENT GOVERNMENT
President Mary Jane Tigert
Vice-President Fannie B. Harris
House Presidents:

Rcbekah Frances Wilson

Main Florence Lasseter

Inman Betty Willis
Secretary Laura Coit
Treasurer Ann Worthy Johnson
Student Treasurer Sarah Johnson
Student Treasurer Jean Chalmers
Student Recorder Alice Hannah
Fire Chief Judith Gracey

Y. W. C. A.

President Isabel McCain
Vice-President Betty Hollis
Secretary Carolyn Elliott
Treasurer Jean Barry Adams

SILHOUETTE
Editor Barton Jackson
Business Manager Mary Gillespie
Advertising Manager Joyce Roper
Advertising Manager Susan Bryan

AURORA

Assistant Editor Jane Guthrie

THE AGONISTIC

Make Up Editor June Matthews
Assistant Editor Ruth Hertzka
Assistant Editor Hortense Jones
Assistant Editor Anne Thompson
Business Manager Cornelia Christie
Assistant Business Manager Eliza-
beth Blackshear

ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION

President Julia Thing
Vice-President Marie Stalker
Secretary Frances Robinson
Treasurer Bertha Merrill

POPULAR
NOMINATIONS

STUDENT GOVERNMENT

President Mary Jane Tigert, Alice
Hannah, Frances Wilson, Charline
Fleece

Vice-President Mary Jane Tigert,
Frances Wilson, Alice Hannah,
Charline Fleece
House Presidents:

Rebekah Betty Willis, Fannie B.
Harris, Frances Wilson, Mary
Alice Newton
Main Fannie B. Harris, Frances

Wilson, Mary Jane Tigert
In man Frances Wilson, Julia
Thing, Betty Willis
Secretary Anne Thompson, Laura
Coit

Treasurer Ann Worthy Johnson,

La ura Coit, Anne Thompson
Student Treasurer Cornelia Christie,

Barton Jackson
Student Treasurer Eliza King, Laura

Coit, Jean Chalmers
Student Recorder F ranees Cary,

Florence Lasseter, Cornelia Christie
Fire Chief Mary Buchholz, Mary

Willis

Y. W. C. A.

President Isabel McCain, Alice Han-
nah, Betty Hollis

Vice-President Betty Hollis, Alice
Hannah, Isabel McCain

Secretary Laura Coit, Jean Barry
Adams, Carolyn Elliott

Treasurer Jean Barry Adams, Wini-
fred Kellersberger, Carolyn Elliott
(Continued on page 5, column 1)

A. S. U. TO HAVE
THIRD NATIONAL
PEACE STRIKE

The third nation-wide student anti-
war strike has been called this year
for April 22 by the American Student
Union. Half a million students all
over the United States are expected
to walk out this year to attend stu-
dent meetings protesting war of any
kind for any reason.

Concerted effort is being brought
to bear on college administrations and
officials in an attempt to enlist their
aid and cooperation in this mass de-
monstration of student opinion. The
Union, in planning this year's pro-
gram, has taken into consideration the
fact that there will be some college
authorities who will oppose and try to
stop by force any such meeting on
their campuses. The opposition of
these will have little effect in stop-
ping the movement, the Union be-
lieves, and it recognizes that the
quest for peace is long and arduous.

In 1934, 25,000 students participated
in the strike; last year, 175,000 took
part. The peace mobilization last fall,
unprecedented in its breadth, is con-
sidered a valuable and indispensable
educational step toward the strike
planned for next month.

SUPPORT MARDI GRAS

A.S.C. Alumna is
Author of Latest
Blackfriars Plav

Blackfriars, dramatic club of Agnes
Scott College, will present Bridal
Chorus, a play written by Roberta
Winter, an alumna, in Bucher Scott
Gymnasium on Saturday evening,
March 21, at 8:30 o'clock. Tickets
are priced at thirty-five cents for un-
reserved seats and at fifty cents for re-
served seats.

The cast of the play includes Car-
rie Phinney Latimer, Elizabeth Cous-
ins, Alice McCallie, Myrl Chafin,
Kathryn Printup, Marie Stalker, Jim-
my Jepson, Tom Wesley, Marion
Camp, Jim O'Shields, Luther Carroll,
Gene Traber, George Bush, and Steve
Avery.

Bridal Chorus is a clever and enter-
taining modern play, the story of
which is based on one wedding that
causes three. The Blackfriars* presen-
tation on Saturday night will be the
first production of Miss Winter's play.
Miss Frances K. Gooch, head of the
Spoken English department, is direct-
ing the production. The play will be
the annual feature of the entertain-
ment for the Junior Banquet on Sat-
urday night, and special prices will be
made to juniors and their dates for
seats in a section to be reserved espe-
cially for the juniors.

ELECT YOUR KING

DAVIDSON BAND WILL
GIVE CONCERT HERE
FOR A. S. C. ALUMNAE

The Davidson College Symphonic
Band, directed by James Christian
Pfohl, will give a concert at Agnes
Scott College on Wednesday, March
25th, under the auspices of the At-
lanta Agnes Scott Alumnae Associa-
tion. The Davidson quartet will also
appear on the program.

The band, now in its third season
before the public, is making its first
concert appearance in Atlanta. Because
of its success in previous seasons, the
group has been booked for concert en-
gagements in several southern states.
Mr. Pfohl, the conductor, is director
of music at Davidson.

Gay Celebration Will be

In Gym March 24 -April 4

Miss Cilley Accepts
Portugal Position
For Summer Session

Assistant Professor Melissa Cilley, of
the Spanish department of Agnes Scott
College, has accepted a position to
teach a course in comparative liter-
ature at the summer session of the
Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra,
Portugal during the summer session,
which will be from July 20 to August
30. Courses are offered in five lan-
guages, Portuguese, Spanish, German,
French, and English, by native profes-
sors of each country, and special ex-
cursions are planned for the students
to the Roman ruins of the city, which
is in the central part of the country,
north of Lisbon, and to other points
of interest. The university, which
dates from the thirteenth century, is
one of the most outstanding in Portu-
gal.

Miss Cilley has studied at the Uni-
versity of Madrid and taught for
three years at the Colegio Internacional
in Barcelona. In the fall of 1934, she
published a textbook on the history
of Spanish drama, El Teatro Espanol,
which is being used in colleges and
universities throughout the United
States and Spain. She has received per-
sonal letters from sixty-eight of these
institutions, among which are Bryn
Mawr, Smith, Wellesley, and Radcliffe
Colleges, Princeton, Johns Hopkins
and Columbia Universities, and the
Universities of California, Chicago,
New Mexico, and Nebraska.

ELECT YOUR KING

Grace Moore Will
Sing Here Mar. 19
In Last Concert

Grace Moore, Metropolitan opera
star and screen and radio singer, will
appear in concert at the Fox Theatre
tomorrow evening, March 19, as the
last of the artists presented this season
by the All-Star Concert Series. Spe-
cial street cars will carry Agnes Scott
College students to attend the per-
formance.

Miss Moore, a soprano, has gained
a world-wide reputation through her
concerts, her weekly radio broadcasts,
and her pictures, "One Night of Love"
and "Love Me Forever." Recently she
completed "The King Steps Out,"
with music by Fritz Kreisler, another
of the artists brought here by the All-
Star Series. After singing in American
cities, Miss Moore will sail for Europe
to give concerts in Cophenhagen,
Allcrup, Stockholm, London, and
Paris,, and to appear in opera in Buda-
pest, Vienna, and Paris. Her appear-
ance in London will be for the second
time in a year, for last spring, at the
Royal Opera House, she gave four
performances of La Boheme. King
George and Queen Mary heard her sing
at that time.

Marcel Hubert, violoncellist, and
Gibner King, pianist, will appear with
Miss Moore. Among the selections of-
fered on the program are "Depuis de
Jour," from Louise; "Air de Lia" from
Debussy's UEnfant prodigue; Sere-
nade, by John Alden Carpenter; Bi-
zet's Out re ton coeur; and Purcell's
There's Not a Swain.

Other artists who have come to At-
lanta this year under the auspices of
the All-Star Concert Series are Fritz
Kreisler, La Argentina, Ruth Slenc-
zynski, Dr. Hans Kindler and the Na-
tional Symphony Orchestra, Nelson
Eddy, and Helen Jepson. The Series
is sponsored by the Atlanta Music
Club and the Atlanta Philharmonic
Society.

Popular Songs To Serve As
Theme; Proceeds Go
To Campaign

Mardi Gras, an old tradition of Ag-
nes Scott, is to be revived this year
on March 24, and raised to its old
popular place in campus life. The ac-
tivities, lasting from March 24 to
April 4, are to center around the
theme of popular songs, and require a
King, a Queen, and floats. As in the
past, the seniors are in charge, with
Lena Armstrong, general chairman.
Proceeds go to the senior building
campaign pledge.

The carnival program opens on the
evening of March 24, with the presen-
tation in the chapel of kings nominated
secretly by each class for the high posi-
tion of King of Mardi Gras. The stu-
dents will vote on that evening and the
evening following, each vote costing
one penny. The King then chooses a
Queen, whose name he conceals until
the climax of the festival in the Cos-
tume Ball held in Bucher Scott Gym-
nasium on the night of April 4. A
float parade will accompany the Ball,
one float being entered by each of the
various organizations, bringing the
Mardi Gras season to a brilliant close.

SENIORS HEAD COMMITTEES

Senior general committee chairmen
are: floats, Helen Handte; elections,
Kitty Cunningham; publicity, Lulu
Ames; refreshments, Mary Margaret
Stowe; entertainment, Ellen Davis;
and decorations, Lily Weeks. Class
chairmen are: senior, Eugenia Svmms;
junior, Elizabeth Espy; sophomore,
Anne Taylor; and freshman, Anne
Purnell.

The last Mardi Gras celebration
took place in 1933, when the members
of the present senior class were fresh-
men. Elizabeth Forman was king, and
Lavinia Scott his queen. The fresh-
man float portraying the wedding
scene in Smiling Through won first
place, and second place went to Stu-
dent Government with / Am a Fugi-
tive from the Chain Gang. The car-
nival was built around the central
theme of movies. Songs, nursery
rhymes, and advertisements formed
the themes of previous celebrations.

SUPPORT MARDI GRAS

Majority Favors
Staff Plans for
Aurora Election

A majority vote in Agnes Scott
Open Forum on Thursday, March 5,
accepted the Aurora plan for staff
election proposed by the campus lit-
erary magazine. This question has been
pending since February 5, when Lita
Goss, editor of the Aurora, presented
the plan to the student body in Open
Forum. The Aurora's new plan for
staff nomination went into effect last
Saturday in the popular nominations
of student officers.

The newly-approved Aurora plan is
as follows: The student body nomi-
nates two juniors for editor, one of
which must be from the staff, the
Aurora staff nominates one candidate
from the staff. The three nominees
are voted on by the student body, the
editorial and business staffs, and the
editor, the vote of each counting one,
except the editor, whose vote counts
two. The business manager is elected
by a similar method, the only differ-
ence being that the business manager's
vote, instead of by the editor's, counts
two. The business manager may come
from the student body at large.

The election of the editor and busi-
ness manager of the Aurora will take
place at the regular election.

2

The Agonistic

l)e Agonistic

PUBLISHED WEEKLY

Owned and published by the students of Agnes Scott College.
Entered as Second Class Matter.

Subscription price, $1.25 per year in advance. Single copies, 5c.
*935 Member 1936

Associated CbUef*iate P^c

Lulu Ames
Editor-in-chief

Laura Steele
Frances Cary

Assistant Editors
Nellie M. Gilroy

Feature Editor

Nell A T r so\

Ass't Feature Editor

Jane Gui hkif
Book Notes Ed/tor

F,LLEN McCaLLTF

Alumnae Edito*

STAFF

Mildred Clark
Make-up Editor

June Matthews
Ass't Make-up

Rosa From

Current History

Elizabeth Baethke
Laura Coit

Exchange Editors

Nell White
Society Editor

Alice Chamlee
Business Manager

Kathryn Bowen
Advertising Manager

Circulation Managers
Mary Margaret Stowe
Margaret Cooper
Mary Gray Rogers
Sarah Brosnan

Elizabeth Burson
Sports Editor

Cornelia Christie
Club Editor

AGAIN WE
ARE CALLED

The third student strike
against war has been called this
year for April 22. The demon-
stration this year is not intended
to be merely an educational ges-
ture, as it was in 1934, focusing
the attention of students on the
perils of the world in which they
live. Since then, it has grown to
the stage of earnest, undeniable
persuasiveness. The half million
students who will "walk out"
next month indicate the solemn-
ity and determination of the col-
legiate attitude against war. This
is not to be a "peace strike"; it
is an "anti-war strike."

rh< v cent developments in
Europe lend vigor to the pro-
posed student action. The fact
that R. 0. T. C. enrollment has
gained 5,000 this year in forty
of the leading colleges and uni-
versities in this country in-
creases the need for concerted
student protest against war of
any kind for any purpose. Stu-
dents who, within four months,
will leave the shelter of academic
life and begin to be recognized
as citizens in their communities
cannot afford to sit by in silence,
unprotesting, apparently un-
aware of today's events.

Last April Agnes Scott took
no part in the nation-wide de-
monstration because, we said, we
knew nothing about it. As proof
of that, being informed before-
hand in the fall, we joined in the
peace mobilization last Novem-
ber. And now, for the second
time this year, we have the op-
portunity to add strength in a
mass student movement for
forming public opinion against
war.

April 22 MUST mean for us,
as Agnes Scott students and po-
tential citizens, a demonstration
for peace, an "anti-war" strike.

sonian, Winthrop College paper,
last week for additional informa-
tion about THE AGONISTIC
Plan and more specific details of
its method of working. The
Johnsonian believes, according
to the letter, that their system
can be improved and that a plan
similar to the one now in prac-
tice at Agnes Scott can well be
adopted at Winthrop.

The new plan, which will be
used for the first time on Friday
of this week, will doubtless in-
crease staff spirit on the paper.
Such a spirit will improve the
general quality of the work. It
follows, therefore, that, in time,
THE AGONISTIC will not only
reflect but lead campus life, will
become, indeed, the center of
campus activity.

THE AGONISTIC
PLAN CLICKS

THE AGONISTIC Plan for se-
lecting the editor of the weekly
caused quite a bit of discussion
and created a lot of confusion
some months ago. The term
"undemocratic" was carelessly
applied to the change and thus it
was regarded until the Aurora
proposed a change in its staff
elections and the Silhouette re-
vised its organization at, to all
outward appearances, the re-
quest of the student body. Up-
heavals in the publications were
most stylish for a time and vari-
ous murky motives on the parts
of the editors involved were sug-
gestively tossed about in light
conversation.

In view of all this, it was with
unbounded happiness that we re-
ceived a request from The John-

THE NORTH
WIND DOTH BLOW

During the ice storm of early
January, and the sleet storm of
central January, and the snow-
storm of late January, philos-
ophic^ 11 v, perhaps bitter! v, THE
AGONISTIC refrained from edi-
torial comment on the elements.
Undeniably this restraint was
not so much the result of abnor-
mally strong will power as it was
a total absence of editions during
the tempests.

But, now, after two weeks of
pseudo-spring, complete with cot-
ton dresses, and peach trees bud-
ding, and inattention to things
of the mind as presented in text-
books, and concentration on
things of the soul, the sudden
flurry of polar weather and wind
and snow gives just and ade-
quate cause, we believe, for edi-
torial condemnation of the ac-
tivities of the world outside.

In the first place, it makes the
opening to THE AGONISTIC'S
sole scandal column sound silly
and goosey and girlish in its
blatant reaction to the local arri-
val of spring. Furthermore, the
current wind and snow lends a
I a r c i c a 1 atmosphere to the
thought of spring holidays that
Mr. Shakespeare, even in his bet-
ter moments, would have to
struggle to equal.

In short, the only thing worse
that could happen now would be
for the weather to take on once
more its last week's Polyana as-
pects and, before we are decently
off the press, reduce these com-
ments to an inanity horrible to
contemplate.

AN FAT OUR
LAST PAPER

"Of true experience from this
great event
With peace and consolation

hath dismist.
And calm of mind all passion
spent."

A Key
To Current History

Lucile Dennison

To the fast accumulating series of
tense situations in Europe was added
on March 7 a new disturbance which
demoted the Italo-Ethiopian war to
the position of a minor worry. The
occupation of the Rhineland by Ger-
man troops quickened and increased
the already prevalent European occu-
pation of hunting autographs or
pledges of friendly nations.

The focal point of the disturbance,
the Rhineland, was divided by the
Versailles Treaty into three zones to
be occupied by Allied troops for the
respective periods of five, ten, and
fifteen years as a protection to the
countries on Germany's western bor-
der. Actually the occupation of the
last zone ended five years ahead of
time in 1930. These territories were
also to be demilitarized by Germany.
In the Locarno Pact of 192 5 of which
England, France, Belgium, Italy and
Germany were the signatory powers,
Germany reasserted her wish to abide
by the Rhineland provisions of the
Versailles Treaty. The Pact was a
mutual non-aggression pact. Germany
feels that the occupation is justified
because it has meant the casting off
of another of the humiliating condi-
tions imposed upon her by the Allies
without breaking any agreements, since
France had already broken the Locarno
Pact, according to German logic, by
signing a very binding mutual assist-
ance pact with Russia. (However, Ar-
ticle 8 of the Locarno Pact makes its
dissolution possible only by a two-
thirds majority vote of the Council
of the League of which Japan, Italy,
France, and England are permanent
members.)

France has appealed to the League
to enforce demilitarization. Mean-
while, Hitler, vowing that he will
never evacuate, offers inducement to
the acceptance of his move in the pro-
posal of 2 5-year non-aggression agree-
ments with France and Belgium, an
air pact of the Western powers, as well
as equal, bilateral demilitarized zones
for Germany and the countries on her
western border. These proposals are
not blameworthy except in that they

{Continued on page 6, column 1)

ELECT YOUR KING

WE THINK

Book Notes

The privilege which the College al-
lows the day students of having two
dormitory rooms which may be freely
used by them whenever they wish to
spend the night on the campus is sure-
ly a kindness which should entail much
courtesy and consideration on the part
of those who avail themselves of this
privilege. However, such has not been
the case during the past months: fre-
quent complaints have been made be-
cause of the noise visiting day stu-
dents make in the room in Gaines, and
great disgust has been expressed be-
cause of the filthy condition in which
many day students leave the Tnman
room.

Although the room in Gaines is at
the very rear of the house, any racket
which day students make by laughter
and conversation prolonged far into
the night can be and often is very dis-
turbing to the girls living in that cot-
tage. When girls from town stay on
the campus, they are under dormitory
regulation; therefore, observance of
the rules, if not courtesy and consid-
eration for others, should cause the
visitors in Gaines to keep the quiet
rule after 10:3 0. The state in Gaines
is one annoying to the boarders, but
the complaints about the Inman room
have come from the day students
themselves. Both the rooms have been
set aside for use by all the town girls
and for any group to make it their
bedroom, kitchen, and dining room
tor a night or two, and then leave it
in such a disgraceful condition that it
cannot be used by others until it has
undergone a thorough cleaning such
behavior indicates many things about
those girls, the least of which is poor
breeding. To leave apple cores and
orange peels on the window sill,

(Continued on page 6, column 1)

How Well

Are You Read?

Everyone realizes the difficulty of
going to school and keeping up with
new books at the same time. Realizing
this difficulty the Book Column has
endeavored to present each week re-
views of the latest fiction and non-
fiction, in order to give the student
knowledge of the new books at the
least expense of time. The following
list contains questions which come up
in everyday conversation concerning
new books. How up-to-date are you?

1. Who is the author of Vein of
Iron?

2. What author won the Harper
prize for the best novel of 193 5 ?

3. The Lees of Virginia have as their
latest biographer .

4. Anne Morrow Lindbergh has just
won wide acclaim with her new
book called .

5. What is the name of the latest
novel by the author of the Mag-
nificent Obsession?

6. Sinclair Lewis again amazes Amer-
ica with his novel, .

7. Who is the subject of Stefan
Zweig's latest biography?

8. What novel, recently filmed, de-
picts plantation life during the
Civil War?

9. Velvet Brown and a piebald race
horse live in what recent novel by
the English writer, Enid Bagnold?

10. The Atlantic $5,000 prize book

for 193 5 was Old Jules by

11. Who is the author of Paths of
Glory?

12. What is the latest novel of a re-
cent lecturer on Agnes Scott Col-
lege campus?

13. What Next m Europe? was writ-
ten by .

14. Seien Pillars of Wisdom was writ-
ten by .

(Answers on page 6, column J )
Notes

The new "telescoped" words which
are found in Time, the weekly news
magazine, may prove of interest to
modern writers. Some of them are as
follows: Adman, A AAdministration,
bally hooligan, Brisbanalities, cineman-
sion, cineadict, franchiseler, GOPossi-
bility intelligentsiac, newsheet, micro-
phonies, radiorator, ransoman (Jafsie),
RFChairman, sexpert (Earl Carroll),
Sophomoron, slimelight, and tennist.

Novelist Booth Tarkington predict-
ed: "The novel and the poem may be-
come extinct in 200 years, 100 years,
or in much less time. Radio and talk-
ing pictures already have displaced
books in many homes and television
will injure the popularity of books.
There will always be books; but per-
haps the only books in the future will
be reference books, scientific books,
and research books." Time.

Exchanges

Moon tides in the earth's crust?
Yes, scientists have shown that such is
the case, and their delicate instruments
have proved that Pittsburgh rises and
falls from 13 to 23 inches a day.

Scien tific A m erica n .

Anna M. Pabst, 3 9, bacteriologist
with the U. S. Public Health Service
in Washington, was to read a paper
at the New York meeting proving the
impossibility of testing anti-menin-
gitis serum on rabbits and guinea pigs.
The night before her appearance she
died of meningitis contracted when a
guinea pig, into whose head she was in-
jecting virulent meningitis germs,
jerked out of her hands. The menin-
gitis germs squirted into Miss Pabst's
eye, sped to her brain, killed her in
eight days, and earned her a medical
martyr's kudos. Time.

A new wingless autogyro is equip-
ped for operation on the highway as
well as in the air. With the blades of
the motor folded back, the pilot will
be able to disconnect the motor from
the propeller and connect the power
plant by a gear arrangement to the
wheels. Rolling out of the garage he
will bowl merrily down the highway
to the nearest field. Here he will take
off, aided by Juan de Cierva, inventor
of the autogyro. Like a flea, the gyro
will jump upward from 15 to 25 feet;
then before it can drop back, the pro-
peller will take hold and normal flight
begin. Reader's Digest.

To the coaches, Professor Floyd R.
Eastwood of New York University,
who has been compiling statistics on
the subject for five years, read the re-
sults of his investigation of football
deaths and injuries. In the 193 5 sea-
son 3 0 players were killed, five more
than in 1934. There were 5 5,440 in-
juries to players on 66,000 high school
teams; 9,900 injuries to players on
829 college teams. Injuries caused
football players to lose a total of
1,000,000 days of education. Time.

Russian farmers spread coal dust
lightly over their cotton fields and
so speed up the ripening of their cot-
ton crops by a month or more. The
dark surface absorbs the heat during
the day and radiates it during the night.
The higher average temperature during
the growing season shortens the time
necessary for the crop to mature.
Commerce and Finance.

During the recent Soviet militan
maneuvers 1 1,200 troops were safely
landed by transport planes behind the
lines of a hypothetical enemy. Of this
number 3,000 descended by parachute,
while the planes brought down 1,000
soldiers every 16 minutes. The troops
landed were equipped with automatic
rifles and light machine guns. Cur-
rent History.

Queen Victoria's voice is now being
coaxed from a long-forgotten phono-
graph cylinder which was found re-
cently covered with fungus. Engineers
must draw out the voice from beneath
its accompaniment of noise clicks and
scrapings, a most delicate operation
involving many recordings. At each
recording the noises will get quieter
and the voice clearer; finally the voice,
duly amplified, will be iransferred to
a modern record. Months of similar
work recently restored the voice of
Florence Nightingale and ol Glad-
stone; others who may soon be heard
again are Elizabeth Browning, Disraeli,
and P. T. Barn urn. The Christum
Science Monitor.

Joseph Mortan, the yachtsman, has
installed steam pipes under all the
sidewalks of his Long Island country
place. After a snowfall he just turns
a valve in the front hall, and there is
no need of shoveling. N. V. Herald
Tribune.

In Michigan City, Indiana, the night
before his execution, uxoricide Harvey
Edwards slashed his wrists and started
to bleed to death. Prison physicians
gave him blood transfusions and work-
ed twenty-two hours to save his life.
Saved, Harvey Edwards was success-
fully electrocuted. Time.

On the back of the salary checks
received by the faculty at the Uni-
versity of Illinois appear the follow-
ing directions: "If endorsement is
made by mark (X) it must be wit-
nessed by two persons who can write,
giving their place of residence." The
New Yorker.

Vassar college is considered the
most expensive of the women's col-
leges in the United States. It costs
approximately $ 1,3 50 to cover the
yearly expenses of each student.

Blue Stocking.

Sign in the Arlington Hotel (Bing-
hampton, Vermont): In order that
American traditions may be preserved
and that time-honored customs of our
forefathers may endure, at the request
of many of our patrons we have placed
pie upon our breakfast menu. The
American Mercury.

Senator Glass probably wouldn't
have minded the college professors' in-
vasion of Washington if they hadn't
brought their senior classes with them.

-Life.

The Agonistic

3

Plans Are Complete
For Junior Banquet;
MB To Pour Coffee

The junior Banquet, sponsored an-
nually by Mortar Board for the juniors
and their dates, will be held in Rebc-
kah Scott dining hall on Saturday eve-
ning, March 2 1, at 6 o'clock. The
banquet, which was to have taken
place on March 7, was postponed be-
cause of the change in the date of the
Blackfriars' play, Bridal Chorus. After
dinner the members of Mortar Board
will entertain the guests at coffee in
the lobby of Rebekah. The Black-
friars' play, the annual feature of the
entertainment at this time, will take
place in Bucher Scott Gymnasium at
8:30.

The decorations for the banquet will
carry out a color scheme of green and
yellow, according to an announcement
made by the decorations committee
composed of Frances Belford as chair-
man, Mary Jane King, Judith Gracey,
and Edith Belser. Char line Fleece,
chairman of the entertainment com-
mittee, has engaged Kirk DeVore's or-
chestra to play during the banquet.
On the date and invitations commit-
tee are: Barton Jackson, chairman, Ra-
chel Kennedy, Alice Taylor, Mary
Gillespie, and Kathryn Bowen. Fan-
nie B. Harris is in charge of the seat-
ing arrangements; and the place cards
committee is composed of Julia Thing,
chairman, and Marjorie Scott. Mary
Malone is general chairman of the
Banquet.

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Hopkins Magazine To
Print Chaucer Paper By
Mrs. C. W. Dieckmann

Mrs. Christian W. Dieckmann, an
alumna of Agnes Scott College and the
wife of Professor Dieckmann of the
music department, has written a pa-
per on Chaucer that has been accepted
for publication in Modern Language
Notes, the literary magazine of Johns
Hopkins University. The paper, which
concerns an interpretation of two lines
in the Nun's Priest's Tale and the edu-
cational and cultural background of
Chaucer, represents independent re-
search done by Mrs. Dieckmann.

Several years ago Mrs. Dieckmann,
the former Emma Pope Moss, taught
in the English department of Agnes
Scott. She is also a member of Phi
Beta Kappa.

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Stuart Manley, University of Cali-
fornia sophomore, is a man without a
country. Born in Japan of American
parents, he is a citizen of neither coun-
try.

S.I.A.S.G. to Meet
Here March 27-29

Band Director

The twenty-first annual conference
of the Southern Intercollegiate Asso-
ciation of Student Governments will
assemble seventy-five delegates at Ag-
nes Scott College, March 27-29. Ade-
laide Stevens, president of Agnes
Scott Student Government Associa-
tion, is vice-president of the S. I. A.
S. G.

The program of the conference in-
cludes talks by such prominent educa-
:ional leaders as Dean Lloyd, Michigan
University; Dr. Robertson, president
of Goucher College; Dr. Smart, Em-
ory University; and Dean Dorman, F.
S. C. W. In addition to their talks
there will be discussion groups, a for-
mal banquet, a tea, and campus rec-
reation. Agnes Scott students who re-
main at the College during spring va-
cation, or who live in Atlanta, are
invited to attend the conference meet-
ings.

Alice McCallie, chairman of the con-
vention, has appointed the following
committee of day students to provide
cars to take the delegates on a tour
of Atlanta: Mary Snow, Frances
James, and Jean Bailey.

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President to Go
To 3 Colleges
For Phi Bete

Short Story Contest
Closes March 16

Dr. J. R. McCain, president of Ag-
nes Scott College, will visit three
southern colleges within the next three
weeks to make inspections for the
Committee on Investigation of Phi
Beta Kappa. Dr. McCain will go to
Furman University, at Greenville, S.
C, and the College of Charleston,
Charleston, S. C, during March; to
Rollins College, Winter Park, Fla.,
during the first part of April.

Personal impressions by representa-
tives of the committee supplement the
written material submitted by colleges
petitioning admission to Phi Beta Kap-
pa. Dr. D. A. Robertson, president of
Gcucher College, is chairman of the
committee. This group makes its re-
port to the Phi Beta Kappa senate next
fall.

There are, at present, about fifty
institutions seeking admission. Those
meeting the requirements will be ad-
mitted at the next meeting of Phi
Beta Kappa Council, to be held in At-
lanta during September, 193 7.

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Davidson Symphonic Band, to appear
here March 25. (Story on Front Page.)

French Club Elects
Thirteen Members;
To Present Comedy

Thirteen new members joined the
French Club as the result of try-outs
held Tuesday, March 10: Mary Mc-
Cann Hudson, Julia Telford, Giddy
Erwin, Anna Margaret Riepma, Bar-
bara Shloss, Adelaide Benson, Mary
Ruth Murphy, Amelia Nickels, Prim-
rose Noble, Winifred Kellersberger,
Louise Young, Florence Wade, and
Mildred Davis.

Following is the cast which will
enact scenes from Moliere's Le MalaJe
Imagmake at 8 o'clock in Gaines
Chapel on Tuesday night, March 24:
Argan, Jane Thomas; Toinette, Mar-
celle Cappatti; Beline, Ann Coffee;
Angelique, Cecilia Baird; Cleante,
Hortense Jones; Beralde, Zoe Wells;
Diaphoirus pere, Elise Seay; Diaphoirus
fils, Rcgina Herwitz; Purgon, Ann
Worthy Johnson; and Florant, Emily
Rowe.

The local division of the national
short story contest sponsored by Story,
h? monthly magazine, closed on
March 1 6, when all entries submitted
by Agnes Scott students had to be in
the hands of Assistant Professor Janef
?rcston, of the English department,
who will send the two be:t ones to
the national judges by April I. This
'is the third annual Short Story Con-
test sponsored by Story. First prize is
$100, second prize is $5 0. The win-
ning story, selected by qualified judges,
will be published in the magazine. A
prize of two dollars will be awarded to
each of the local winners.

Contestants had to observe the fol-
lowing regulations: (1) each entry
had to be certified by a faculty mem-
ber; (2) all stories entered must have
been written by a student duly en-
rolled in a college or university in the
United States; (3) stories submitted
could not be less than 1 5 00 words nor
more than 7000; (4) all entries had
to be legibly written, on one side of
the page.

The following students submitted
stories to Miss Preston: Lita Goss,
Carol Hale, Lulu Ames, Mildred Clark,
Brooks Spivey, June Matthews, Fran-
ces McCully.

BOZ, the Aurora, and The Ago-
nistic sponsored the local contest.

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Alumnae Association Sells
Daffodils To Raise Money

Miss Janef Preston, Agnes Scott '21,
was in charge of "Daffodil Days" on
last Friday and Saturday for the Alum
nae Association. The flowers, which
were sold on the Quadrangle, were
grown in the Hastings gardens and
brought freshly-cut to the campus
both mornings. The proceeds from the
flower sales went to the Alumnae As
sociation.

About 1000 daffodils were sold dur-
ing the two days, according to Miss
Preston.

Methodist Church
Of Decatur Holds
Series Of Talks

Dr. Wa't Holcomb, pastor of the
Drcuur First Methodist Church, led
rhe devotional service on Saturday
morning March 14, at 10 o'clock in
Games Chapel. At this time Dr. FIol-
^or">b invited the Agnes Scott College
"tudents ro attend a series of services
*o be held at his church each Sunday
evening at 7:4 5 for three months.
There will be an open forum after
each lecture.

The speakers and their topics are
as follows:

March 8, Dr. Andrew Sledd, "God
and World Problems."

March 15, Dr. Will Nelms, 'The
New Climate Which Science Has Cre-
ated for Religion."

March 22, Dr. Arthur Raper, "Our
Heritage to the Past and Our Debt to
the Future."

March 29, Mr. Claud Nelson, "The
Christian Seeks Justice Without Vio-
! ence."

April 5, Dr. Holcomb, "Relating
World Problems to Principles of
Jesus," and Miss Elizabeth Thompson,
"Youth Building a New World."

April 12, Dr. Harvey Cox, "Per-
sonal Responsibility in an Irresponsi-
ble Man."

April 19, Music night with the
cantata, "The Holy City," directed by
Mr. Walter Herbert.

April 26, Dr. Richards, "Carrying
the Cross Around the World."

May 3, Mr. Anderson, of Ogle-
thorpe, "Recreation and Amusement
of the Church," and Dean Floyd Field,
"Ideals of Fraternity Life."

May 10, Mr. J. T. Goree, "Problem
of Youth and Crime."

May 17, Dr. W. W. Young, "Moti-
vation of Human Behavior," with Dr.
Mary Sweet presiding.

May 24, Dr. J. R. McCain, "Prob-
lems of College and Students in a Ma-
chine Age."

May 31, Dr. McGhee, "An Up-to-
Date Approach to the Liquor Ques-
tion."

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A. S. Group Plan Mr. Raper To Talk
To Sail, June 17, On Radio Program
For Europe anTnp Over WSB Today

From twelve to fifteen Agnes Scott
College students under the chaperon-
age of Assistant Professor Leslie Gay-
lord of the mathematics department,
and Miss Carrie Scandrett, assistant
dean of the College, are planning a
tr.'p to Europe this summer. Miss Gay-
lord is in charge of making arrange-
ments with the Elliot Tours, Talla-
dega, Alabama.

The party will sail from New York
on June 17 on the S. S. Berengaria,
using tourist class. They arrive at
Cherbourg, France, on June 2 3 and go
from there to Paris where they spend
four days. After spending several
days in other French cities, the party
will visit Italy, passing several days in
Rome, Florence, and Venice. They will
also visit the Alps, Germany, Belgium,
and Holland. From the continent they
will go to London, arriving there on
July 28. On August 1 the party will
begin a motor trip of England and
Scotland. They sail home from Liver-
pool on August 8 on the S. S. Corin-
thia and arrive in New York on
August 16. The rate for this trip is
$735.00.

This party is particularly fortunate
because Miss Gaylord has a number of
friends in many of the cities which
they are visiting and through these
friends they will have access to many
interesting places that the ordinary
tourist might not have.

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Agonistic Editor
To be Selected
By New Method

(So that the student body may understand
the way THE AC.ONISTIC plan for selecting
the editor will work, the following explana-
tory articlf is being published. It is sug-
gested that all students use it for reference
and that they make themselves thoroughly
familiar with the plan before publications
lections on Friday of this week. Ed.)

The editor of The Agonistic will
be elected at the regular publications
elections this week. The candidates
for the editorship are Laura Steele and
Frances Cary, now assistant editors of
the weekly.

The students will vote between these
two. All members of the business,
editorial, and reporter staffs of Tin
Agonistic will mark their votes
"Staff." The business manager will in-
dicate her position on her vote by
marking it "Business Manager"; the
editor will also indicate her office on
her vote.

The votes will be counted at the
regular time by members of the Nomi-
nating Committee. The majority vote
of the student body will count one;
the majority vote of the staff will
count one; the business manager's vote
will count one; and the editor's vote
will count two.

The candidate who is defeated for
the editorship will automatically be-
come associate editor of THE Agonis-
tic and, together with the editor-in-
chiefj will form an editorial board for
1936-37.

This plan, which was approved by
a majority vote of the student body at
the January Open Forum, was passed
unanimously by the Nominating Com-
mittee the latter part of Februars . It
is a modification oi the plan now in
use at Kadclifte College, Cambridge.
Massachusetts.

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"What have you done," St. Peter
asked, "that 1 should admit you here?"

"1 ran a paper," the editor said, "of
m\ college for one long year."

St. Peter pitvingly shook his head
and gravely touched a bell.

"Come m, poor thing, select your
harp, vou've had your share of h ."

The Agnes Scott College radio pro-
gram, broadcast over WSB every
Wednesday afternoon at five o'clock,
is continuing its series of programs
on the place of the liberal arts college
in the world today. The portion of
the series sponsored by the faculty is
being brought to a close this after-
noon with a talk by Acting Professor
Arthur Raper, of the sociology de-
partment, on the place of the social
sciences in the world today.

On the three programs immediately
preceding this one, Professors George
P. Hayes, Mary MacDougall, and Al-
ma Sydenstricker talked on the rela-
tion of their respective departments of
English, science, and Bible to present-
day problems. An interesting feature
of last week's program was a two-
piano arrangement by Mr. Christian
Dieckmann of one of Bach's chorales.

The programs next month, follow-
ing the same general theme, will be
sponsored by the alumnae, and the fol-
lowing month, by each of the four
classes. The trustees of the College
and the Administration had charge of
the January and February broadcasts.

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Palrnour, McCallie
Return From Trip

Miss Alberta Palmour, field secre-
tary for the Agnes Scott College Alum-
nae Association, and Alice McCallie
left Sunday, March 15, for a publicity
trip to Chattanooga, Tennessee. While
there they spoke to the students of
Girls' Private School, of which Alice
McCallie is an alumna, and to those
of City High School. They returned
on Monday, March 16, including Dal-
ton, Georgia, High School in their
itinerary.

Today, March 18, a party of girls
from Russell High School at East
Point and Fulton High School of At-
lanta arc visiting Agnes Scott. The
girls will be entertained by swimming
in Bucher Scott Gymnasium, dinner
in Rebekah Scott Hall, and after-din-
ner coffee and dancing in Mr. Dieck-
mann's studio.

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Y. W. C. A. Entertains
At College Party On

St. Patrick's Day

The Y. W. C. A. entertained the
College community at a St. Patrick's
Day party in Bucher Scott Gymnasium
on Thursday afternoon, March 12,
from 4:30 to 6 o'clock.

Features of the entertainment were
games and a short program announced
by Marie Stalker, who presented Ame-
lia Nickels in an Irish love song; Mar-
ce.le Cappatti, Ruby Laney, and
Sarah Joyce Cunningham in rhythm
tap dancing; Anne Taylor in comic
readings; and Marcelle Cappatti in
popular American and French songs.
Sarah Johnson was the accompanist.

Kissing the Blarney Stone and dis-
playing the necessary "touch of green"
resulted in the securing of tiny meal
tickets entitling the guests to refresh-
ments offered in the green and white
decorated basement cafeteria.

Dancing closed the party, with
Elizabeth Simmons at the piano.

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Dr. J. R. McCain, president of
Agnes Scott College, Mr. Lewis John-
son, of the voice department, and Act-
ing Professor Arthur Raper, of the so-
ciology department, represented the
College at the first southeastern con-
ference of the Progressive Education
Association, held at the Biltmore Ho-
tel in Atlanta on March 13-14. Dele-
gates from North Carolina, South
Carolina, Florida, Tennessee, and Geor-
gia and speakers from these states and
from New York and Ohio attended
the conference.

The theme of the convention was
Individual Development the Basis for
Education. There were four general
sessions, with Dr. McCain chairman of
the second general session which had
for its topic American Education
Moves Ahead. This meeting was held
at St. Mark's Church at 8:30 P. M.
on March 1 3.

Mr. Johnson was chairman of the
section of the first general session in
which Music as a Means of Creative
Expression was discussed. Mr. Raper
spoke in a panel discussion on Individ-
ual Development and the Liberal Arts
College.

This conference was held for the
purpose of bringing together outstand-
ing leaders in the field of education
who consider the traditional school in-
adequate in meeting present problems
and who wish to seek in recent de-
velopments the foundation on which
to build a sound and adequate educa-
tion.

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Glee Club Chorus
Presents Program
In Chapel, Mar. 13

The special chorus of the Agnes
Scott College Glee Club presented a
varied program of songs at chapel on
Friday morning, March 13. The
chorus was directed by Mr. Lewis H.
Johnson, of the voice department;
Alice Hannah accompanied on the
piano.

The program included among oth-
ers the following: "The Night Wind,"
Farley; "The Sleigh," Kauntz-Bald-
win; "Cradle Song," Kreisler-Page;
"The Wind's in the South," Scott;
"Sweethearts," from Sweet hearts, Her-
bert-Reiggers; "Will You Remem-
ber?", from Maytivu'y Romberg-Reig-
gers; "Italian Street Song," from
Naughty Marietta, Herbert-Trinkaus,
with Augusta King as soloist.

The chorus is composed of the fol-
lowing girls: Gene Caldwell, Maxine
Crisler, Sarah Jones, Florence Lasseter,
Mary Malone, Mary Erneste Perry,
Frances Wilson, Virginia Wood, Au-
gusta King, Ruth Tate, Alice Cham-
lee, Amelia Nickels, Virginia Kyle,
Rosa Miller, Mary Alice Newton, Jes-
sie Query, and Evelyn Wall.

The chorus sang at the Decatur
Woman's Club on Sunday afternoon,
March M, at 3:30 o'clock.

Mrs. Dwyer Honors
Alumnae Groups at
Luncheon Meeting

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Mrs. Francis Craighead Dwyer,
president of the Agnes Scott College
Alumnae Association, complimented
the executive board and the entertain-
ment committee of the Association
with a luncheon at her home in At-
lanta last Wednesday, March 1 1. After
the luncheon there was a short busi-
ness session during which plans were
made for a tea for the senior class and
tor the alumnae week-end gathering
for next year.

Those attending the luncheon were
Associate Professor Philippa Gilchrist,
of the chemistry department; Miss
Dorothy Hutton and Miss Alberta
Palmour, secretary and field secretary
of the Association; Miss Polly Yaughan,
instructor in spoken English; Miss
Carrie Scandrett, assistant dean; and
Assistant Professor Margaret Phythian,
of the French department; and Mrs.
Donald Hastings, Mrs. W. M. Dunn,
Mrs. S. I. Cooper, Mrs. J. F. Durrett,
Mrs. R. L. McDougall, Mrs. C. B. Gos-
nell, Mrs. S. G. Stukes, and Mrs. S. B.
Slack.

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Sun-dial Stands
In JNew Position

The sun-dial and stone bench, given
to Agnes Scott College by the Class
of 1914, was placed in the center of
the Quadrangle the latter part of last
week. The dial and bench formerly
were in front of Bucher Scott Gym-
nasium, beyond and to the side of the
library where the road connecting the
front campus with the back now runs.
The shadows cast by the trees made
this spot unsuitable even before the
present road system was begun.

The dial keeps accurate sun time,
being only 22 minutes off from clock
time. The present location in the cen-
ter of the Quadrangle makes practical
use of the sun-dial and emphasizes the
beauty and simplicity of both the dial
and the bench.

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Princeton students can now cut as
many classes as long as their "standing
remains unimpaired."

Lecturer Writes
Thanking A.S.C.
For Pleasant Trip

In a letter to Associate Professor
Emma May Laney, chairman of the
Public Lecture Association, Sir Arthur
Willert mentions the enjoyable time
he had when he lectured at Agnes
Scott College on March 5. Writing
from the White House, in Washing-
ton, D. C, Sir Arthur says:

"Having become static in Washing-
ton for a few days, I must write you
a line to tell you how much 1 enjoved
my little stay at Decatur. The audi-
ence, the whole atmosphere was so
very pleasant and together with the
charming hospitality of your girls
the way they met me and saw me off
and fed me at breakfast, were one of
the nicest memories of what has been
a most pleasant and interesting tour. 1
am most grateful.*'

Prior to his appearance here the
well-known English publicist and lec-
turer visited at the White House for
several days, returning there after his
trip South. Mrs. Roosevelt, in her daily
column "My Day," wrote on March
10 that "we were about ten at tea.
Later I had an interesting conversa-
tion with Sir Arthur Willert, who is
staying here after a lecture tour
through the country. My husband and
Sir Arthur went out to the White
House correspondents' dinner."
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Old Staff To Release

Last Aurora March 20

The last issue of the Aurora to be
published by the present editor, Lita
Goss, will appear on Friday, March 20.
Special features of this issue will be a
sonnet sequence by Mildred Clark;
a fantasy, by Jane Guthrie; and an
article, "Lynching and the Press," bv
Lulu Ames.

The issue will also include freshman
essays, book reviews, and short stories,
some of which were submitted to the
short story contest.

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Eta Sigma Phi
The regular meeting of Eta Sigma
Phi was held on Monday afternoon,
March 16, at 4:30 in 103 Buttrick
Hall. Professor Catherine Torrance, of
the Greek department, gave a most in-
teresting lecture on Modern Greek
Archaeology.

International Relations Club
International Relations Club met on
Tuesday afternoon, March 10, at 4
o'clock in the Y. W. C. A. room. Pro-
fessor Philip Davidson led the discus-
sion on Germany; and Rosa From and
Margaret Watson made reports on the
Southeastern Conference of Interna-
tional Relations Clubs, which they re-
cently attended at Winthrop College.

Poetry Club
The last meeting of Poetry Club
was held on Tuesday night, March 10,
at 8:30 in Associate Professor Emma
May Laney's apartment. MyrT Chafin
was hostess. Spring try-outs for the
club will be due Friday, March 20,
and may be placed in the Aurora box
on first floor Buttrick Hall. On Mon-
day afternoon, March 2 3, at 3:30, the
members will meet to decide on the
try-outs, which will consist of one or
two original poems.

Chi Beta Phi Sigma
Chi Beta Phi Sigma initiated its new
members on Tuesday night, March 17.
After the initiation a formal banquet
was given at the Silhouette Tea Room
in honor of the new members. Many
alumnae were present at the dinner.

B. O. Z.

The next meeting of B. O. Z. will
be held on Friday evening, March 20,
at 7:3 0 in Assistant Professor Preston's
apartment. Mildred Clark, Elizabeth
Espy, Ann Martin, Jacqueline Mc-
W'hite, and Lulu Ames will read. June
Matthews and Brooks Spivey will be
hostesses.

White shoes, unprepared lessons, lazy
people, chic ensembles, time-limit 7
o'clock, dreamy eyes, onions in grass,
ecstasy inside, open windows, luscious
bull-sessions, holidays, daffodils
SPRING!!!

Hear ye, psych students, what's
your I. Q. on this?

"Here lies the body of John Brown,
Lost at sea and never found."

(Mutt Cooper gave up.)

Some prospective freshmen were en-
tertained on our campus lately. Joyce
Roper, acting as their guide, was con-
fronted with the following questions
and remarks: "Why do you call them
'motor-boat' parties?" and "Does Miss
Hopkins chaperon you on dates?"

Prize break of the week: Ellen Mc-
Callie had decided not to go to the Sun-
day night discussion group led by Miss
Willett. But being urged on all sides
to attend, she breezed into the group,
not knowing Miss Willett was already
present, loudly stated, "I'm a sucker,"
and took her seat.

Kay Ricks is truly hitting the high
spots. This time he is a Yale graduate
with a New York job and a friend of
Miss Gaylord's. Does John Sharp know
that "In the Spring other young men's
fancies also turn to thoughts of love?"

Item: Ad Stevens picks peach blos-
soms just before American literature.

Y.W.C.A. Delegates
To Go To Student
Meet On March 20

The annual State Student Confer-
ence, sponsored by the student Y. W.
C. A.'s and Y. M. C. A.'s in Georgia,
will meet this week-end, March 20-
22, at Wesleyan College, Macon, Geor-
gia. Betty Hollis, Isabel McCain,
Winifred Kellersberger, Alice Hannah,
Laura Coit, and Jean Barry Adams
are planning to represent Agnes Scott;
other students on the 1936-37 Cabi-
net, which will be selected tomorrow
night, may also attend.

The theme of the meeting this year
is High Religion for Life's Adventure.
Acting Professor Arthur F. Raper, of
sociology, and Miss Carrie Scandrett,
assistant dean, both of Agnes Scott,
and Mr. Claud Nelson, southern secre-
tary for the Fellowship of Reconcilia-
tion, are among the Conference lead-
ers. Miss Scandrett will lead a discus-
sion on Campus Relations and Personal
Adjustment; Mr. Raper's subject deals
with social and economic problems.

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Community Chest Offers
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On Stories of Service

Aggie's Guardian Angel Tells

Of Troubles of Class Contest

District Attorney David Keedy, of
North ampton, has issued a warning to
Amherst University students to discon-
tinue the practice of teaching Smith
College girls to drink. National Re-
public.

Spanish Club
The Spanish Club held its spring
try-outs on Tuesday afternoon, March
10. Four new members were admitted
to the club: Dorothy Lee, Emily Mac-
Moreland, Virginia Tumlin, and Bunny
Marsh.

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STUDENTS TO VOTE MARCH 19-20

{Continued from paye 1, column 2)

SILHOUETTE

Editor E 1 o i s a Alexander, Barton

Jackson, Charline Fleece
Business Manager Mary Gillespie,

Charline Fleece, Barton Jackson
Advertising Manager (2 to be elected)

Joyce Roper, Mary Venetia Smith,
Susan Bryan, Bertha Merrill

AURORA

Editor Elizabeth Espy, June Mat-
thews, Nellie Margaret Gilroy

Assistant Editor Jane Guthrie, Nell
Ulison, Jacque McWhite

Business Manager June Matthews,
Kathrvn Trintup

THE AGONISTIC

Make Up Editor June Matthews,
Nellie Margaret Gilroy, Frances
Cary

Assistant Editor (3 to be elected)
Hcrtense Jones, Jane Guthrie, Ruth
Hertzka, Eliza King

Business Manager Kathrvn Bowen,
Cornelia Christie

Assistant Business Manager Eliza-
beth Blackshear, Frances Robinson

ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION
President Marie Stalker, Julia Thing
Viee-President Julia Thing, Marie

Stalker

Secretary Frances Robinson, Anne
Thompson, Elizabeth Blackshear

Treasurer Anne Thompson, Bertha
Merrill. Martha Long

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THE DE BURY BOOK AWARD

The attention of students inter-
ested in the De Bury Book Award
is called to the approaching time
for the judging of their collections.
All girls taking part in the contest
are asked to submit at once to Miss
Tieston or Miss Leyburn a list of
the books they have already col-
lected and of those they hope to
acquire by May 1.

It is the expectation of the Eng-
lish department to offer the prize
again next year; and they would
like to know this spring how many
students now in college are inter-
ested in competing during 1936-37.
The object of the competition is to
stimulate interest in the kind of
knowledge of books which can come
only through actually possessing
them.

The Atlanta Community Chest is
sponsoring a series of weekly dramatic
presentations, based on true stories of
service rendered by the member agen-
cies, each Friday evening at 10:30
o'clock over WGST. In this series
they are attempting to interpret to the
people of Atlanta the work which the
Chest agencies are doing.

Mr. Boyce M. Eden, director-secre-
tary, has requested that criticism of
the programs be sent him, as they want
the presentations to be as helpful and
interesting as possible.

ELECT YOUR KING

JAMES, RICHARDS
PLAN TO ATTEND
WASH. INSTITUTE

According to Willie, the guardian
angel of The Agonistic during the
perilous period of the contest, the
mighty battle between the class edi-
tions of the paper this year proved to
be one of the most interesting that he
has ever seen staged midst the ink,
type, and paper of Bowen Press.

"The work itself was less tedious
this year," he said, "because all of the
staffs seemed well qualified in news-
paper technique, or if they weren't,
they certainly kept me from finding it
out."

In spite of the inevitable increase in
work caused by the contest, Willie con-
fessed that he greatly enjoyed his con-
tact with the girls. Their sudden out-
bursts of horror and amazement at a
cut placed upside down on the page;
their yells of delight concerning a
story that just fit into a space sans
cutting; their very audible sighs of re-
lief over the finished paper, all amused
Willie exceedingly.

"You can imagine my secret hilar-
ity," he chuckled, "when one girl,
ignorant of the fact that flames come
out over the press during the process
of printing, vividly imagined the whole
machine to be on the verge of explos-
ion and in no 'petite' feminine voice
frantically voiced her fears."

Another young journalistic aspirant
became exceedingly perplexed when

Frances James and Loice Richards,
seniors, plan to attend the National
Institute of Public Affairs, to be held
in Washington, D. C, March 29-
April 4.

Special student courses in govern-
ment will be given, with tours of ob-
servation arranged. Visits to sessions
of the House of Representatives and
the Senate will be included.

Frances James is president of the
Current History Forum and vice-presi-
dent of the Student Government Asso-
ciation. Both of the delegates are
members of Mortar Board.

SUPPORT MARDI GRAS

A society known as the "Stray
Greeks" has been started at Purdue.
It is composed of transfer students who
were members of Greek organizations
not represented at Purdue.

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nized for its standards of work and for the
interesting character of its student activities

For further information, address
J. R. McCAIN, President

Willie, standing in front of her and
gazing intently at her soon-to-be per-
turbed countenance, asked in his most
dignified manner, "Do you have any
ears?" One can imagine her regret and
penitence for her unthinkable and un-
printable reply when she was informed
later that those objects of discussion
were not the auditory organs through
which sound vibrates, but only those
innocent and unassuming little boxes
at the top of each side of the front
page inclosing such encouraging ideas
as "Attend the Debate," and the like.

For the musical ability of Agnes
Scott journalists Willie has the most
profound respect. It seems that the or-
deal of proof-reading galley sheets and
marking up dummy papers was con-
siderably lightened by vocal renditions
of every conceivable musical selection
from Rachmaninoff's "Prelude in C
sharp Minor" to "The Man on the
Flying Trapeze." The song that most
often made the background for sighs,
groans, laughs, and exclamations was
"The Music Goes Round and Round"
or as the English debaters would have
put it "The Music Proceeds in Circles
and Emerges Elsewhere," a number
which through it all seemed to stimu-
late and revive the spirits of all the
novices from the blase seniors to the
naive freshmen.

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6

The Agonistic

WE THINK

(Continued from page 2, column 3)
crumbs and lunch paper scattered over
the dresser and tables, soiled sheets
and towels tossed about in corners, and
dirty clothes pitched on beds and
chairs well, if the girls who leave the
room in this state are accustomed to
living in a hog-pen, they, might con-
sider that other students who would
like to use the room prefer a cleaner
environment.

If the day students wish to show
their appreciation for the kindness
which set these two rooms aside for
their benefit, they should obey the cus-
tomary dormitory rules, especially as
to quiet, and every one who uses the
rooms should feel it her personal re-
sponsibility to leave them in a state
of cleanliness.

SUPPORT MARDI GRAS

A KEY TO CURRENT HISTORY

{Continued from page 2, column 3)
are at variance with the Treaty of
Versailles, a treaty whose imperfec-
tions are generally recognized today.

The scramble for sides in the squab-
ble has not ended. The position of the
nations is not yet clear. France has
hinted an inclination to push her case
even to the limit of an immediate war
while her position is strong in prefer-
ence to what she fears is an inevitable
war within two years when Germany
will be stronger. The Balkan proteges
of France, Rumania, Yugoslavia,
Czechoslovakia, and her neighbor Bel-
gium, are backing her, the former
group threatening withdrawal from
the League if its covenant is not en-
forced. Poland's announcement that
she also supports France has routed
the rumor of a rapprochement with
Germany which their non-aggression
pact caused.

Germany is then well encircled ex-
cept for the fact that the two critical
countries, England and Italy, are strad-
dling the issue. Italy is in that excel-
lent position where attention to her
war has lapsed, where uneasiness of
Europe may cause suspension of sanc-
tions, and where concession to her
wishes at the price of her support of
France is possible. Though France ad-
mits she needs England's assistance in
punitive measures against Germany,
Parliament and public opinion in Eng-
land are reported to oppose coercion
of the Reich. Foreign Minister An-
thony Eden as an idealistic and force-
ful supporter of the League is in a
precarious position. Working for a
compromise between France and Ger-
many, perhaps he based his optimistic
primary view of the situation on the
hope that according to the German
suggestion the League might be made
to work as an instrument for peace
rather than as the instrument of the
faulty Versailles treaty. England may
be forced to take a definite stand for
France and the enforcement of the
pact. But prediction of the outcome
of affairs in such a muddled state is
impossible.

ELECT YOUR KING

FOR THIS ISSUE:
Reporters
Ruth Hertzka Jean Chalmers
Sarah Johnson Giddy Erwin
Eliza King Mildred Davis

Nell Hemphill Mary F. Guthrie
Hortensc Jones Elizabeth Warden
Carol Hale Loice Richards

Enid Middlcton Douglas Lyle
Alice Cheeseman

Business Assistants
Elizabeth Blackshear
J.mc Dryfoos Rachel Kennedy

Ann Coffee Wins Medals
In Recent Swimming Meet

In a recent Birmingham swimming
meet, Ann Coffee, president of the
Agnes Scott College Athletic Associa-
tion, won medals for first place in
back stroke, second place in breast
stroke, and third in two free-style con-
tests.

SUPPORT MARDI GRAS

May Day, Tennis Top List
As Popular Gym Courses

With May Day and tennis classes

leading in popularity the spring gym

season began Thursday, March 5. The

approximate enrollment in all the

sports offered is: May Day 140, tennis

115, swimming 71, archery 45, riding

45, golf 12.

ELECT YOUR KING

ALUMNAE NEWS

Margaret (Smith) Kingdon, '33,
has moved to Asheville, N. C.

Doushka Sweets, '3 3, is teaching
infantile paralysis convalescents in the
city hospital of Louisville, Ky.

Rosalind Ware, '3 3, will be married
on April 20 in the Emory Theological
Chapel to Mr. Robert Milton Rey-
nolds. They will live in Kingsport,
Tennessee.

Betty (Fountain) Edwards, '3 5, is
living at 1708 North Emory Road,
Atlanta.

Marie Simpson, '3 5, recently spent
the week-end with Martha Redwine,
3 5, in Barnesville, Ga., where Martha
is teaching.

Amy (Underwood) Trowell, '3 5, is
working in a department store in Au-
gusta, Ga.

SUPPORT MARDI GRAS

CLASS PAPERS GO TO JUDGES
AS AGONISTIC CONTEST ENDS

(Continued from page 1, column 1)
luncheon will be given in their honor
at the Tea House on the following day.
Active members of Agonistic Key in-
clude Lulu Ames, Alice Chamlee,
Laura Steele, Frances Cary, Kathryn
Bowen, Rosa From, Mary Gray Rog-
ers, Nellie Margaret Gilroy, and Loice
Richards.

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When physical education was made
non-compulsory at the University of
California, enrollment in the depart-
ment jumped 1800. Ring-Turn Phi.

Athletic Groups
Participate in
Conference

Members of the physical education
department of Agnes Scott College
took part in the Georgia Recreation
Conference held Monday, Tuesday,
and Wednesday of last week at Emory
University. Associate Professor Llew-
ellyn Wilburn, of the physical educa-
tion department, gave a short talk on
Recreation for Girls and Women.
Helen Handte, Elizabeth Burson, Marie
Stalker, and Connie Pardee took part
in an exhibition game of paddle ten-
nis and of ring tennis, and Miss Wil-
burn explained the rules and technique.
Mary Malone, Jane Turner, Cecilia
Baird, and Florence Little presented a

Freshmen Elect Dryfoos
As Athletic Board Member

Jane Dryfoos has been elected fresh-
man representative on the athletic
board. Jane has taken a very active
part in athletics this year, especially in
hockey and basketball. She will have
charge of taking pictures of board
members for the athletic scrapbook.

The Swimming Club held its spring
try-outs last week. Esther Byrnes was I
the first to pass the tests and has been
admitted to the club.

Mexican folk dance under the direc-
tion of Miss Eugenie Dozier, instruc-
tor in the physical education depart-
ment. They were accompanied at the
piano by Mrs. Sarah Hamilton.

BOOK NOTES ANSWERS

{Continued from page 2, column 5)

1. Ellen Glasgow,

2. H. L. Davis with his Honey in the
Horn.

Burton M. Hendrick.
North To the Orient.
Green Light by Lloyd C. Douglas.
// Can't Happen Here.
Mary Queen of Scotland and the
Isles.

So Red the Rose, by Stark Young.
National Veh et.
Marie Sandoz.
Humphrey Cobb.
Heaien's My Destination, by
Thornton Wildei.

13. Sir Arthur Willert.

14. T. E. Lawrence.

9.
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'Last Days of Pompeii"

DE KALR THEATRE

Beauty Treatment Is Incomplete Without Care of Eyes

By Jean Prentice

T^HE fact that proper lighting en-
* ables us to see better should be
ample reason for having it. But
there's a further reason than that;
proper illumination actually helps
us to look better. Those eye wrinkles
that come from continued squinting
and eyestrain don't have much
chance to form when the light is
glareless and abundant.

The question is, however, how to
obtain this kind of light conveniently
and economically? Well, let's take a
typical case; that of the attractive
lady in the picture.

The numbers and lines on the il-
lustration have 'been placed there to
help you visualize the relationship
between lamps, the position of the
eye work and the amount of light as
it would be shown by a light meter.
By actual measurement it has been
proved that when a good-sized table
is used for a lamp beside a fairly
large comfortable chair, there will be
approximately 32 inches between the
lamp and the eye work.

Utilize Light Effectively

When sitting in the average chair,
the book or eye work is held about
30 inches from the floor. Under such
conditions it is found that 150-watts,
or two 75-watt bulbs are needed in
the table lamp to obtain on the task
the desired amount of light for aver-
age eye work approximately 25
foot-candles. (The foot candle, you
know, is the unit of measurement of
illumination intensitv.) One bulb
may of course be turned off when
eye work gives way to conversation,
and still hold the charm of this
grouping.

The lamp shade, you'll notice, has
a white lining, a very desirable virtue
it we v..i:u to utilize the light most
effectively. It is tall enough to throw
a generous circle of light so that our
lady doesn't have to hug close to the

Soft, shaded light of adequate intensity enables one to see better and look
better. Wrinkles show up less and are less likely to form.

lamp in an unnatural and uncomfort-
able position. Thus, we have a fortu-
nate combination of three important
elements in home lighting:

1. Enough light to see by.

2. Shaded light, which softens and
lends attractive tone.

3. General light, plus extra local
light for close eye-work.

True beauty demands proper care
of the eyes. The right kind of light,
properly shaded, and sufficient in
quantity, will help to minimize eye-
strain, reduce fatigue, and prevent
the formation of those tell-tale wrin-
kles resulting from eye-abuse that
do so much to spoil facial attractive-
ness.

GEORGIA POWER COMPANY

Daylight Saving
April 26th

Holiday
April 27th

VOL. XXI

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1936

NO. 20

Faculty Members" and Choruses
Start Senior Opera Practice

New Mortar Board Members

Shirley Christian is Director of
Practices for Annual Com-
mencement Play

Ames, (ioss Head Writing Group

English Students
Aid in Festival

Under conditions of greatest secrecy,
the seniors, headed by Shirley Chris-
tian, are practicing for the annual
senior opera which they will present
on Saturday, May 2, in Bucher Scott
gymnasium. Lulu Ames, former edi-
tor of The Agonistic, Lata Goss,
former editor of the Aurora, Tibby
Baethke, Mildred Clark, and Loice
Richards were in charge of the writ-
ing of the opera.

Under the misleading caption, "Fac-
ulty Members," the seniors have posted
their cast which includes Carrie Phin-
ney Latimer, Lily Weeks, Oveida
Long, Gertrude Lozier, Mary Corneley,
and Marion Derrick. Understudies are
Carrie Phinney Latimer, Marian Der-
rick, Dean McKoin, and Carolyn
White.

The first chorus consists of Helen
Handtc, Sarah Frances MacDonald,
Emily Rowe, Mary Margaret Stowe,
Elizabeth Forman, Eugenia Symms,
Margaret Cooper and Elizabeth Bur-
son. In the second chorus are: Meriel
Bull, Lavinia Scott, Carolyn White,
Kitty Cunningham, Frances McCully,
and Miriam Talmadge. Helen Ford,
Dean McKoin, Sarah Spencer, Sara
Cureton, Frances Miller, and Mary
Snow make up the third chorus. The
fourth chorus includes Bazalyn Coley,
Anne Coffee, Martha Crenshaw, Cath-
erine Bates, Sara Lawrence, Myra
O'Neale, Mildred Clark, Mary Rich-
ardson, Lena Armstrong, Lois Hart,
Lilian Grimson, Floyd Butler, Sara
Frances Estes, Janet Gray, and Irei e
Wilson.

Last year the seniors presented
"Sam's Son and the Lilac," in which
Betty Lou Houck and Carolyn McCal-
lum played the leads. An opera, writ-
ten and executed by the graduating
class, is an annual feature of the com-
mencement program.

Furnishing a speaking background to
the music and dancing groups of the
Atlanta Dogwood Festival, spoken En-
glish students of Agnes Scott College
will give selections from Shakespeare's
"Midsummer Night's Dream" at the
Fox Theatre on the night of April 23.

Elizabeth Cousins, Winifred Kellers-
berger, Myrl Chafin, and Ola Kelly
will play the parts of Titania, Queen
of the Fairies; Puck, the Sprite; Ob-
eron, the Fairy King; and the Fairy,
respectively. Members of the begin-
ning and advanced classes in spoken
English will speak in chorus the lulla-
by sung to the Queen.

A.S.C. Sends Four
To Southern Meet
At Memphis, Tenn.

Bowen, Steele, Jackson, Hannah
Represent Publications,
Student Government

Justice Allen
Will Address
Senior Class

Dr. Frank C. Morgan to Deliver
Baccalaureate Sermon
Sunday, May :*1

Above are the newly elected members of the Ajrnes Seott Mortar Board chapter. From
left to right are, seated: Frances Cary, Eloisa Alexander, Mary Jane Tigert. Alice Hannah;
standing: Isabel McCain, Julia Thing, Laura Steele, Marie Stalker, and Fannie B. Harris.

A.S.C. Has Two at
Social Conference

President J. R. McCain, and Pro-
fessor Arthur F. Raper, of the sociol-
ogy department, represented Agnes
Scott College at the Georgia Confer-
ence of Social Workers, which met in
Atlanta Tuesday, April 14, to Friday,
April 17. The theme of the confer-
ence was: Responsibility for a Social
Security Program in Georgia. Re-
nowned social workers and educators
addressed the convention on such sub-
jects as: Social Work and Change,
Principles of Community Organiza-
tion, Problems of Youth in Georgia,
Va!ue of Voluntary Effort, and Rural
Child Welfare Program. Other fea-
tures of the conference were the in-
formal discussion groups which con-
sidered current social problems.

On Friday, after its annual business
meeting, the conference met in joint
session with the Southern Social Con-
vention.

STUDENTS TO SELECT
OFFICERS THURSDAY

Election of the house president of
Tnman and of a third assistant editor
of The Agonistic will take place to-
morrow morning after chapel. Com-
mittee nominee for house president is
Mary Alice Newton; popular nomi-
nees are Mary Alice Newton and Kitty
Printup. Mary McCann Hudson is
committee nominee for assistant editor
and Carol Hale and Mary McCann
Hudson the popular.

The offices are open because of the
resignations of Frances Wilson and
Eliza King, who are doing Y. W. C. A.
and Silhouette work.

Alice Hannah, president of student
government, Barton Jackson, editor of
the Silhouette, and Laura Steele and
Kathryn Bowen, editor and business
manager of The Agonistic, returned
Sunday from the annual convention of
the student government associations
and publications of the Southern and
Southeastern division of the N. S. F.
A., held in Memphis April 16-18.
Delegates assembled from twenty -nine
colleges and universities to discuss
problems relating to student govern-
ment and to the editorial and business
sides of college annuals and newspa-
pers. Headquarters were at the Pea-
body Hotel, with Southwestern and
the University of Mississippi as co-
hosts.

Noted Men Speak

Many leading newspaper men of the
South participated in the discussions
of the Collegiate Press division, and
representatives of college publishers
and advertising agencies conferred
with business managers. Among the
speakers heard at the convention were
Dr Charles W. Pipken, dean of the
graduate school of L. S. U.; Judge
Camille Kelly, justice of juvenile
courts of Memphis; Mayor Watkins
Overton of Memphis; and Mr. Her-
bert Agar, of the Courier-Journal of
Louisville.

The men and women student gov-
ernment representatives met separate-
ly; the girls discussed such problems as
the relation of college women to pub-
lic and international affairs, led by
Alice Hannah; student organizations,
social problems, campus activities, and
the honor system. Publication repre-
sentatives dealt with the problems of
editorial policies, campus coverage and

(Continued on page 4, column 3)

Agnes Scott
Has Program
Urging Peace

Kino, Wood Speak at Exercises;
L. Richards Sounds Taps
On Quadrangle

Students Participate in Service

A.S.C. Contributes $352.94
To Aid Gainesville Victims

Agnes Scott College's contribution
of $3 5 2.94 to the Red Cross fund for
victims of the recent Gainesville tor-
nado is the result of an intensive cam-
pus campaign which began on Tues-
day, April 7, and continued through
Thursday, April 9. Students gave
$ 1 33.69, and the faculty $219.25.

Associate Professor Louise Hale, of
the French department, directed the
campus campaign, and Miss Llewelyn
Wilburn assisted her. Registrar S. G.
Stukes, who inaugurated the drive, is
president of the DeKalb County Red
Cross chapter. He announced that De-
catur, Georgia, contributed over $6,-
000 to the fund.

Besides giving money, Agnes Scott
students contributed many old clothes
for the storm-stricken people.

Agnes Scott College students joined
this morning in a peace demonstration
which climaxed the series of peace
programs sponsored during the year by
The Agonistic, the Current History
Forum, and the Y. W. C. A. The pro-
gram took place at the same time that
other schools all over the nation were
presenting demonstrations for peace.
King is Chairman

Augusta King, chairman, presided
over the program in Gaines Chapel,
and Sarah Catherine Wood, elected by
the student body Saturday morning,
was the speaker. The students and fac-
ulty marched out of the chapel to the
recessional hymn, the words of which
were written by Lulu Ames, former
editor of The Agonistic, and formed
a double circle on the quadrangle with
the American flag and banners in the
center. After a minute's silence the
assembly was dismissed when Loice
Richards played taps on the bugle.

Augusta King, chairman, and Loice
Richards, assistant chairman, formu-
lated the plans for this program, which
was sponsored by the Peace Commit-
tee of the Y. W. C. A. to carry out
the resolution to emphasize peace
passed at Blue Ridge last June by the
Y. W. C. A.'s and the Y. M. C. A.'s
of ten southern states.

Mortar Board Has
Election of Girls
From Junior Class

Dr. George P. Hayes Addresses
Student Body in Chapel;
Latimer Presides

Commencement Dav is June 2

A. S. C. GIRLS GIVE
ROTARIAN PROGRAM

Eight Agnes Scott students, daugh-
ters of Rotarians, took part on the 1
program, April 13, at the monthly
meeting of the Atlanta Rotary Club.
With Eugenia Symms presiding, the
program opened with a prayer led by
Esthere Ogden.

Dorothy Kelly introduced the visi-
tors, and Fannie B. Harris spoke on
"Leap Year Proposals". Songs by the
chorus and a series of three-minute
talks by Mary Kneale, Joyce Roper,
Mary Jane Tigert, and Isabel McCain
completed the program.

Agonistic Tryouts April 29

Freshmen, sophomores and juniors
who wish to try out for the reporter
staff of The Agonistic may write
either a news or a feature article and
hand it in by Wednesday, April 29, to
Laura Steele, Frances Cary, Hortense
Jones, or Jane Guthrie, or may place
it in The Agonistic box in the base-
ment of Main.

Nine Agnes Scott students of the
class of 1937 received recognition for
outstanding scholarship, leadership and
service when, on April 11, the college
chapter of Mortar Board named them
as members of that honorary society.

Following a Mortar Board proces-
sional and an address by Professor
George P. Hayes, Carrie Phinney Lati-
mer, president of the chapter, an-
nounced the election of the following
juniors: Eloisa Alexander, chairman of
May Day; Frances Cary, associate edi-
tor of The Agonistic; Alice Hannah,
president of student government; Fan-
nie B. Harris, house president of Main;
Isabel McCain, president of Y. W. C.
A.; Marie Stalker, vice-president of the
Athletic Association; Laura Steele,
editor of The Agonistic; Julia Thing,
president of the Athletic Association;
and Mary Jane Tigert, vice-president
of student government.

Mr. Hayes Gives Discussion
Carrie Phinney Latimer, as president
of this year's chapter, introduced the
speaker, Dr. George P. Hayes, pro-
fessor of English at Agnes Scott Col-
lege. Dr. Hayes, speaking on the three-
fold purpose of Mortar Board on the
campus, scholarship, leadership, and
service, discussed scholarship as the
basis for further advancement in lead-
ership and service.

The initiation ceremony took place
on the following Tuesday afternoon at
5:30 in the Y. W. C. A. room in Main,
and was followed by a banquet at the
Alumnae House honoring the new
members. In addition to these there
were present Dean Nannette Hopkins
and Miss Carrie Scandrett; Professor
George P. Hayes, Associate Professor
Florence Smith, and Associate Profes-
sor Louise Hale, faculty advisers;
Loice Richards, Lulu Ames, Shirley
Christian, Anne Coffee, Ruby Hutton,
Frances James, Augusta King, Carrie
Phinney Latimer, Dean McKoin, Sarah
(Con tinned on page 3, column 1)

When the traditionally capped and
gowned seniors receive their degrees
from Agnes Scott College on June 2,
Justice Florence E. Allen, of the
United States Circuit Court of Ap-
peals, will deliver the commencement
address. Justice Allen, who was for-
merly a member of the Ohio State Su-
preme Court, spoke at Agnes Scott
some years ago on the program of the
Public Lecture Association.

On May 31, Sunday of commence-
ment week, Dr. Frank Crossley Mor-
gan, son of Dr. G. Campbell Morgan,
will deliver the baccalaureate sermon
to the senior class. Dr. Morgan, who
does Bible teaching work at his home
in Augusta, Georgia, has often spoken
at Agnes Scott.

The graduation exercises will take
place in the auditorium of Bucher
Scott gymnasium, and will climax the
activities of commencement week,
which will include: baccalaureate ser-
mon, May 31; alumnae day, with its
reunion luncheons, June 1; class day,
with sophomore Daisy Chain, class his-
tory and poem, and bookburning,
June 1; and commencement, June 2.

Last year Dr. Theodore Jack, presi-
dent of Randolph-Alacon Woman's
College, made the commencement ad-
dress; and Rev. Wallace Maxwell, pas-
tor of the Maxwell Presbyterian
Church, Lexington, delivered the bac-
calaureate sermon.

Miss E. Jackson Attends
Sixth A.A.U.W. Meeting

Associate Professor Elizabeth Jack-
son, of the history department, repre-
sented Agnes Scott College at the
sixth biennial conference of the South
Atlantic district of the American As-
sociation of University Women, which
met March 27-28 at its national head-
quarters in Washington, D. C.

The guest speakers at the conven-
tion were Senator Pope of Idaho, Presi-
dent Glass of Sweetbriar, Dr. Galleg-
her of Goucher, and Dr. Wright of
Exeter, England.

A, S. C. Glee Club
Gives Comic Opera

The Agnes Scott College Glee Club,
under the direction of Mr. Lewis H.
Johnson, of the vocal department, pre-
sented "The Pirates of Penzance," a
Gilbert - Sullivan opera, on Friday,
April 17, in Bucher Scott gymnasium,
and on the following evening at Em-
ory University.

Augusta King took the leading role
as Mabel, while Frank Sule, of Deca-
tur, sang the part of Frederick, the
hero. Other leading characters, sup-
ported by the entire Agnes Scott Glee
Club, were: Richard, a pirate king,
Eugene Traber; Samuel, his lieutenant,
Charles White; Ruth, a piratical
"maid-of -all-work," Amelia Nickels;
Major General Stanley, of the British
Army, Richard Smoot; Edward, a ser-
geant of the police, Walton Bobo;
Kate, Edith, and Isabel, Stanley's
daughters, Alice Chainlet, Ruth Tate,
and Mary Alice Newton.

The three choruses, composed of the
Glee Club and men from Atlanta and
Decatur, were: women's chorus: J. B.
Adams, Armistead, G. Caldwell, Ham-
ilton, Hull, S. Jones, Kennedy, Kyle,
Lasseter, Malone, Miller, McKay, M. N.
Newton, Northcross, Sloan, Wilson,
Wood; men's chorus: J. Austin, W.
Bobo, M. Bullard, P. Carroll, G. Chap-
pell, W. Davis, P. Davidson, H. Dobbs,
G. Gill, J. H. Green, G. Hayes, F.
Hegwood, T. Hicks, L. MacKey, J.
Powell, S. Rivers, B. Smith, J. Smoot,
R. Stanley, D. White. Evelyn Wall
was accompanist for the opera.

"The Pirates of Penzance," subtitled
"The Slave of Duty," is one of the
better known Gilbert and Sullivan pro-
ductions. The first scene is laid on the
rocky coast of Cornwall, and the sec-
ond in a ruined chapel by moonlight.
The action hinges around the conflict
between Frederick's high sense of duty
to the pirates and his love for Mabel.

The Policemen's Chorus and the
Love Duet between Mabel and Freder-
ick proved most popular.

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Vol. XXI

April 22, 1936

No. 20

AGNES SCOTT
AND PEACE

(Excerpt from the talk given in chapel this
morning by Sarah Catherine Wood, as a part
of the Agnes Scott peace program. I

The problem of peace as well
as anything else ultimately goes
back to the individual. World
peace can never be attained with-
out world brotherhood a sheer
love for our fellowmen and
world brotherhood can never be
attained unless Christianity be-
comes firmly rooted in the hearts
of men. In the final analysis,
whether or not we are successful
in abolishing war in the future
depends on how we as individ-
uals stand. All great monuments,
all far-reaching ideas, were first
the idea, the conviction of a sin-
gle person. Even one individual
may have undreamed of influ-
ence in world opinion. A little
emaciated, ninety - five pound
man in India, with few worldly
possessions beyond his spinning
wheel, yearly completely upsets
the equilibrium of the entire
British Empire. It can be done.

The policies and acts of the
United States will depend ulti-
mately upon public opinion. Pub-
lic opinion is the product of the
thoughts and feelings of individ-
ual citizens. If this nation is to
pursue steadily a peace-loving
and peace-creating policy, it will
be because the men and women I
who make up its citizenship real- 1
ly want peace. Furthermore, it
is not necessary that all citizens
actually work for peace, but sim-
ply enough to influence and con-
trol the situation. There are
about five hundred girls at Ag-
nes Scott College, representing
twenty-two states. By the time
that all of the girls now here
graduate they will go out to al-
most five hundred different
communities or at least have con-
tact with that many different
gT nips. They, as college grad-
uates, should be leaders in our
various communities. As a very
conservative estimate, I would
say that each of us in the course
of a year comes in contact with
at least five hundred other peo-
ple sufficiently to influence their
ideas to some degree. That
means that in the course of a
single year Agnes Scott students
could Influence 250,000. Suppose
every girl here were really con-
cerned about the problem of
peace, had a real passion for the
cause of peace, what a far-reach-
ing and tremendous influence we
could have I

Our nation has many faults,
but among them is no lack of en-
thusiasm and of ability to get
things accomplished when that
enthusiasm is aroused.

Victor 3ugo said in L849 1 "A
day will come when two im-

mense groups, the United States
of America and the United
States of Europe will be seen
standing in the presence of each
other, extending the hand of fel-
lowship across the ocean, unit-
ing for the good of all, these two
irresistable and infinite powers,
the fraternity of men and the
power of God." And these words
are no unrealizable aim world
peace is not an unattainable
goal. It is as practicable to abol-
ish war as it was to abolish the
institution of chattel slavery.
War may join slavery, cannibal-
ism, human sacrifice, and other,
once sacred human habits, as one
of the shameful and abandoned
institutions of the past. Idealis-
tic? Yes. But all great things
must be found in idealism. What
the world needs today is not more
skepticism but more faith that
certain great Christian ideals
will be realized. About a hun-
dred years ago Thomas Carlyle
penned these words: "It seems to
me, you lay your finger here on
the heart of the world's mala-
dies, when you call it a skeptical
world !" And so we, with unfail-
ing strength and idealism born
of a driving ambition and a tire-
less energy, shall march toward
the goal which lies ahead world
brotherhood and a lasting peace.

COLLEGIATE
WHO'S WHO

Deserving editorial notice is
the appearance of the names and
short biographies of six Agnes
Scott College students in the
second volume of Who's Who
Among Students in American
Colleges and Universities. Fran-
ces James, Adelaide Stevens, Lu-
lu Ames, Augusta King, Shirley
Christian, and Charline Fleece
are among the thirty-eight stu-
dents from Georgia colleges who
are listed in the book, in which
over 1600 students from more
than 450 colleges and universi-
ties are mentioned.

This book serves the practical
purpose, as the introduction
states, of establishing a refer-
ence volume of authoritative in-
formation on American under-
graduates, with emphasis on ex-
tra-curricular activities instead
of scholarship alone. It also
gives recognition to the students
who have distinguished them-
selves for "character, scholar-
ship, leadership in extra-curricu-
lar activities, and possibility for
future leadership."

Never was more than one per
cent of the student body at a
given institution nominated for
Who's Who, and their nomina-
tions were never accepted unless
approved by a dean or a member
of the faculty.

PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES
By Margaret Watson

Talmadge may rant in Georgia, Al
Smith in the East, and other New Deal
foes wherever they are; but it is in-
conceivable that the Democratic Party
will repudiate its leader and run any-
one but Franklin Delano Roosevelt as
its presidential candidate. In spite of
the vigorous opposition to him in some
sections the party cannot afford to do
otherwise.

However settled the Democratic
nomination may be, the Republican
one is just as undecided, and the varie-
ty of possible candidates and their
platforms offers a fertile field for
speculation to the political commen-
tators.

Most of them consider ex-president
Hoover, Governor Landon, Senator
Borah, and Colonel Frank Knox the
leading candidates. They are certainly
the most prominent ones nationally.

Mr. Hoover, recently christened
'The Sage of Palo Alto", is believed
to be acceptable to business in the
East, but, in spite of the improvement
in his speeches and disposition, he is
still not a general favorite.

Many "experts" say that the Re-
publicans will need a Westerner who
can carry that doubtful area, and Gov-
ernor "Alf" Landon is usually picked
as the favorite. Comparatively un-
known until this year he is vociferous-
ly supported by William Randolph
Hearst, and has been introduced to the
country in numerous magazine articles
and news stories praising his political
record and qualifications. He has been
dubbed "Frugal Alf", and his record
as a "fighting Progressive" makes him
favored by the Middle West.

Borah Is Possibility

Senator William E. Borah of Idaho
is well-known as a candidate of long
standing and great influence. A liberal
with very pronounced views, he is op-
posed to the other candidates, and if
he does not approve of the nominee
and platform, he may possibly with-
draw his support as he did in 1932.
Judging from the past, however, his
actions are unpredictable, and it is
quite possible that he will join forces
with either Hoover or Landon against
the other.

Colonel Frank Knox of Chicago,
publisher of The Chicago Daily News,
has campaigned vigorously in Illinois,
and is the candidate of the party com-
mittee of the state. In their preferen-
tial primaries last week he led the
ticket. He has a good organization and
personal funds for the campaign chest.

And then, there are always dark
horses; two who are "available" and
have achieved some measure of nation-
al recognition are Senator Vandenberg
of Michigan and Senator Dickinson of
Iowa.

The Republican convention meets in
Cleveland in May, and until then it is
apparently anybody's nomination.

The Exile, by Pearl S. Buck. Revnal
and Hitchcock, N. Y. 1956. $2.50.

This portrait of her mother which
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck has painted
in her latest work will undoubtedly
prove as popular as this author's pre-
vious stories.

The author begins her fine psycho-
logical study with her own great-
grandfather, a thriving merchant of
Utrecht, Holland, and follows him,
his son, and his son's French bride, as
they emigrate to America for freedom
to serve God in their own way. She
sets the stage for the central figure, the
product of stolid devout Dutch and,
on her mother's side, of vivacious pas-
sionate French. From details told her
by her mother, the author has con-
structed a beautiful and intimate pic-
ture of Carrie Stulting's girlhood in
West Virginia during the turbulent
days of the Civil War; of the never-
ceasing struggle within herself between
the "warm, merry, sensuous, hot-tem-
pered person" and the "puritan, the
practical mystic, straining after God
but never quite seeing Him"; of her
decision to become a missionary; of
her years at Bellewood Seminar}-; and
of her acceptance of Andrew, who
was going to China as a missionary be-
cause "he felt it his duty." The years
which followed years in which she
endured heroically war, famine, sick-
ness; child-bearing, and grief as she
buried, one by one, four of her chil-
dren are told not from the point of
view of a missionary laboring to save
souls, but from that of a woman and
a mother, sacrificing "for a cause
never too clearly seen."

Although The Exile is not really a
novel, Pearl S. Buck has performed in
it, as in her other writing, the busi-
ness of the novelist which, she says in
a recent article in the Yale Review, is
"to secure and see that which others

do not see, and by choice and skill in
the use of the materials of art and
materials are forever people and only
people make it clear as any bronze or
music to be seen and to be heard."

Pearl Sydenstricker Buck is doubly
interesting to the Agnes Scott College
community as the niece of Professor
Alma Sydenstricker, of the Bible de-
partment.

Her life corresponds almost exactly
to that of Comfort in The Exile. Born
in West Virginia in 1S92, she was
taken to China at an early age, where
she grew up almost alone. Her chief
companion was her mother who, try-
ing to compensate for her daughter's
lack of playmate* and schools, taught
her carefully herself, training her es-
pecially to feel the beauty of words,
of music, of art, and of the common-
place things around her. After two
years at a boarding school in Shanghai,
the young girl was taken to Europe
and England and then to America,
where she attended Randolph-Macon.
Shortly after her return to China she
married a young American. Five years
later the couple moved to Nanking,
where Dr. Buck became a professor in
the University of Nanking.

It was not until middle age, with
an extraordinarily rich experience be-
hind her, that Mrs. Buck began writ-
ing. Her first published writing, a
short story entitled A Chinese Woman
Speaks, which was purchased by As/a,
is said to have moved the whole staff
to tears. Mrs. Buck's first novel, East
Wind: West Wind, received little at-
tention; but her second, The Good
Earth, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
Since then her important books have
been Sons, The First Wife (a collec-
tion of short stories), All Men Are
Brothers (a translation of the Chinese
classic), and finally The Exile.

ET CETERA

ALUMNAE NEWS

Alberta Palmour, '3 5, is traveling
in Florida in the interests of the col-
lege. She will return to the campus
April 2 5. Miss Carrie Scandrett, '24,
left April 1 5 for Tampa, Florida,
where she joined Alberta for the rest
of her trip. They will visit alumnae
groups and organized clubs, especially
those in Tampa and Jacksonville.

Flora Young, '34, was married on
March 12 to Mr. Charles Mobley, of
Charlotte, N. C.

Nancy Bishop Stevens is the name
given to the daughter born to Frances
(Cassels) Stevens, ex-'3 5, on March
15.

Marie Simpson, '3 5, was married on
April 16 to Mr. Guy Walter Rutland
Jr., of Atlanta.

Ella Kirben, ex '36, has done remark-
able work in the Fashion Academy of
Radio City, N. Y., for the past year
and a half. She was recently presented
with the school's gold medal as the
most outstanding pupil of the year. In
the fall she received recognition for de-
signing the costumes for the Beaux-
arts ball. Ella is specializing in theatri-
cal designing.

Betty Fountain, '3 5, was married on
February 22 to Mr. Harrison Griffith
Edwards, of Atlanta.

Dual-Personality. Two Washington
and Lee seniors were solemnly intro-
duced, on a certain evening in April,
to one Arabella Austin, sophomore and
resident of Main. At exactly ten min-
utes past eight of this same night, Ara-
bella was seen descending the stairs,
wearing white cotton hose, a blue jer-
sey skirt, a long, loose-fitting middy,
horn-rimmed spectacles, and a chain-
ing ribbon attached to a knot at the
back of her head. Gently propelled
through the growing crowd by her
room mate, Arabella was ushered into
the parlor containing the guest? and
presented to them. Whereupon, as
many eye witnesses can testify, a great
silence fell upon the room, broken only
by certain attacks of coughing on the
part of the visitors and by rustling of
paper as Arabella idly turned the
leaves of Plato's Theory of the Vtti-
cerse. The climax reached its height,
however, when a well-known voice
dispersed the curious crowd and in-
quired into the past and present life
of Arabella. Due to the sudden dis-
missal, therefore, this event extraord-
inary still remains veiled in mvsterv.

EXCHANGES

In Cambridge, Mass., sophomores Al-
fred Bunch and Frederick Ncagle at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
returned from a week-end to find an
old Ford truck standing in the center
of their fourth floor room, brought in
piecemeal and assembled there by
prankster fraternity mates. Time.

Scene Emory Woods.

Time Late afternoon.

Characters An Agnes Scotter, an
Emory stude, and seventeen girl scout
hikers.

They were walking along, the boy
and the girl, endeavoring to ignore
the curious glances of a girl scout hik-
ing squad. And he said, "I bet you
don't know what poison ivy looks
like," and she said, "No," and he said,
"Well, I do, and I get it if I come
within twenty yards of it." "Do you
think we've been that close to it?"
she said, and he answered, "Time will
tell." All of which goes to show that
truth is stranger than fiction for the
next morning the student called to
find his companion of the afternoon
before in bed with a very itching c.ise
of poison ivy.

Dancing This Week: Mary Rogers,
Joyce Roper, Mary Lib Moss, and oth-
ers at the Phi Kap tea dance. At the
East Lake Country Club on April 9:
Elizabeth Blackshear, Ellen O'Don-
nell, Scotty Earthman, Kitty Hoff-
man, Dot Kelly, Rosalyn Richards,
Marjonc Rainey, Alice Taylor, Jane
Thomas, Sara Turner, Ann Purncll,

A few weeks ago a group of students
from Randolph Macon were on then-
way to paint the campus of Hampden-
Sydney yellow. When Hampdcn-Syd-
ney received news of this, watchers
were organized. The invaders were re-
pulsed twice, and having been sent
home in defeat, carrying their cans of
paint, found that their own campus
had been sadly besmirched in the mean-
time by some energetic Hampden-Syd-
ney boys. The Tiger.

A new farm tractor has an air-condi-
tioned, sound-proofed cab equipped
with radio and cigar-lighter. Forbes.

Yale has reversed its attitude of last
year and will accept federal aid for its
needy graduate and professional stu-
dents, with 102 students slated for
N. Y. A. jobs.

The William and Mary annual this
year is to have as its theme the restora-
tion of Williamsburg, the college site.
Many colored views of the campus and
pictures of the restoration will be in-
cluded. The publication of the pictures
is being effected through the aid of
John D. Rockefeller. The Wooden

Horse,

Rose Northcross, Caroline White, and
Kathryn Bowen. Those seen at the
Emory dances were: Nancy Moorcr,
Rose Northcross, Jerry White, Rachel
Kennedy, Joyce Roper, Flortense Nor-
ton, Bee Merril, Mary V. Smith, Sue
Bryan, Martha Marshall, Eleanor John-
son, Mary Catherine Matthews, Alice
Chamlee, Rosa Miller, Elizabeth
Strickland, Jeff Cooper, Betty Adams,
Mary Malone, Mary Alice Newton,
Augusta King, Mcriel Bull, Mary Wil-
lis, and others.

Come-Bai ks: Jane Allen Webb from
the University of Kentucky to visit
Mary Mull and Joe McClure.

Mrs. Rigby (Ida Buist) from Green-
ville, S. C.

Lib Flea ton to visit Mary Cornel I v.

The Agonistic

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t vents of Importance Happen

Despite Cessation of Agonistic

Although holidays, finances, and
elections intervene, preventing the pub-
lication of The Agonistic, news does
not cease to be made on the campus,
and several events of importance have
occurred since the last issue of the
paper.

The sophomore edition of The Ag-
onistic, edited by Hortense Jones,
won the cup awarded in the annual
contest for the best class edition. Fran-
ces Robinson was business manager.
The junior and freshmen editors tied
for second place, and the seniors came
third.

On that same day, April 3, Lulu
Ames, former editor of The Agonis-
tic, announced the following new

members of the Agonistic Key, local
honorary society: Elizabeth Blackshear,
Nell Allison, Mildred Clark, and El-
len Davis; and Dr. J. R. McCain and
Dean Nannette Hopkins, honorary
members.

Recent class elections for next year
have resulted in the following officers:
junior Martha Summers, president;
Eloisa Alexander, vice-president, and
Dorothy Jester, secretary - treasurer;
sophomore Eliza King, president;
Jane Turner, vice-president, and Mil-
dred Davis, secretary-treasurer; fresh-
man Annie Lee Crowell, president;
Douglas Lyle, vice-president, and Jane
Moore Hamilton, secretary-treasurer.

A.S.C. Sponsors
Psychology Meet

Associate Professor Emily Dexter
and Assistant Professor Katherine Om-
wake, of the psychology department,
were hostesses for the Southern Society
for Philosophy and Psychology, which
held its annual meeting Friday and
Saturday, April 10 and 1 1, 1936, at
the Henry Grady Hotel in Atlanta,
Georgia. Agnes Scott College spon-
sored the convention.

On Friday afternoon Miss Omwake
spoke on "The Effectiveness of Visual
vs. Auditory Presentation of Material."
The place of meeting and other ar-
rangements were under the supervision
of Miss Dexter who was invited to sit
at the speaker's table at the banquet
on Friday night.

Dr. Albert G. A. Balz, of the Uni-
versity of Virginia, is the president of
the Southern Society for Philosophy
and Psychology. Professors from num-
erous colleges and universities attended
the meeting.

Father of Prof. Hayes Is
Recent Speaker at A.S.C.

Dr. McCain Gives
Talk at U. of C.

Dr. J. C. Hayes, father of Professor
George P. Hayes, of the English de-
partment of Agnes Scott College, gave
an illustrated lecture at Agnes Scott
on April 10 on "Scenes and Sights
Around the Mediterranean."

This is the fourth lecture that Dr.
Hayes has made at Agnes Scott. The
first was on "Literature and History,"
the second on "Cathedrals," and the
third in Gaines Chapel on "Emerson"
in 1934.

President J. R. McCain, of Agnes
Scott College, delivered the opening
address last Friday at the semi-centen-
nial celebration which marked the fif-
tieth anniversary of the University of
Chattanooga. Dr. McCain spoke in the
Patten chapel on "College Cooperation
and Education."

The semi-centennial ceremonies will
continue through Friday, April 25,
presenting such renowned speakers as
Hon. H. J. McAlister, governor of
Tennessee; Professor Emeritus W. L.
Phelps, of Yale; President H. W. Cox,
of Emory; and Associate Editor J. H.
Finley, of the New York Times. Other
features of the celebration were a play
Wappin' Wharf, by Charles S. Brooks,
and a concert given by the university
choir and directed by Blynn Owen.

Although Dr. McCain found it nec-
essary to return to Agnes Scott before
the close of the ceremonies, he will go
back to Chattanooga on Friday to at-
tend the closing services and the final
luncheon at which the University will
entertain the delegates.

R. Frost is Unable
To Revisit A. S. C.
Until Next Winter

111 health and the acceptance of the
Charles Eliot Norton lectureship at
Harvard will prevent Robert Frost,
noted American poet, from returning
to Agnes Scott for an informal visit
this spring. Mr. Frost, in a letter to
Associate Professor Emma May Laney,
had expressed a desire to come back to
the campus and complete the too short
visit, as he considered it, that he made
when he lectured here last November
7; he planned to stop here after spend-
ing the winter in Florida. But having
been asked to accept the Charles Eliot
Norton lectureship, an honor accorded
for the first time to an American poet,
Mr. Frost had to go to Cambridge
March 1, where he will have to remain
until May 19 delivering his series of
six lectures on poetry.

Mrs. Frost, in a letter to Miss
Laney, writes: "Now it seems as if we
shall have to postpone our visit with
you until we go south next winter
about the first of December. I looked
forward to being with him there in an
informal way; I have been disappoint-
ed, but we will look forward to it un-
til next fall."

Teachers, Doctors,
To be Produc

and Chemists

ts of Agnes Scott

Sociology Class To
Visit Resettlement

MORTAR HOARD HAS

ELECTION OF GIRLS

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Spencer, and Adelaide Stevens, active
members, and several alumnae mem-
bers.

Mortar Board was installed at Ag-
nes Scott in the fall of 1931, replac-
ing Hoasc, the local honorary society
for senior women.

Frances Gary Will Head
Eta Sigma Phi Next Year

Frances Cary was elected president
of Eta Sigma Phi at a meeting held
Monday afternoon, April 20, in the
Y. W. C. A. room. She succeeds Eliza-
beth Forman, president for 193 5-3 6.

Other officers elected were Mildred
Davis, vice-president; Mary Jane Kim*,
recording secretary; Nell Allison, cor-
responding secretary; Molly Jones,
treasurer; and Gwendolyn McKee,
Pvloros.

Professor Arthur Raper, of the so-
ciology department of Agnes Scott
College, will conduct an observation
tour to Pine Mountain Resettlement
near Warm Springs on Thursday,
April 2 3. The party includes all the
students of the social pathology class,
and the following faculty members:
Associate Professor Emma May Laney,
of the English department; Professor
Lucile Alexander, of the French de-
partment; Assistant Professor Mar-
garet Phythian, of the French depart-
ment; Assistant Professor Katherine
Omwake, of the psychology and edu-
cation department; Associate Professor
Elizabeth Jackson, of the history de-
partment; Professor Mary Stuart Mac-
Dougall, of the biology department;
Professor Louise McKinney, of the
English department; and Dr. Mary F.
Sweet, resident physician.

Thousands of acres of government
land are under cultivation by modern
farm> methods at the Resettlement.
The purpose of the tour is the particu-
lar study of such important modern
problems as soil conservation by ter-
racing, up-to-date housing of farm-
ers, and the practical application of
the latest farming methods to the mass
of Southern farmlands.

Recently a speaker in chapel pointed
out the interesting fact that all girls
at one time or another secretly wish to
be either a nurse, a bare-back rider in
the circus, or a missionary. The poll
conducted recently by the Y. W. C. A.
which asked for the two occupations
that each individual is interested in,
for the purpose of choosing approp-
riate vocational speakers, verified two-
thirds of this statement, for three
girls listed nursing and two girls chose
missionary work with a third desiring
to teach missionaries' children (per-
haps the offspring of the third just
mentioned, provided they go to Af-
rica). Realizing the inferiority of the
horse in this day of efficiency anotner
hottentot abandoned the traditional
desire for bare-back riding in favor of
being an aviator. Others entirely dis-
carded the old theory and chose such
occupational endeavors as radio, land-
scape architecture, play writing, lan-
guage interpreting and stock-broking
(or whatever that capitalistic proce-
dure is technically called). In fact
everything was mentioned at least,
almost everything from such an eth-
ereal position as air line hostess to such
an "of the earth, earthy" occupation
as farming.

Many Desire Radio Work

In glancing over the little pink and
white slips upon which these fascinat-
ing life ambitions were divulged one
could not refrain from thinking of
that fine May morning 10 years from
now when Cally Careless or Connie
Conference will wake up and turn on
the radio to listen to a program an-
nounced by an A. S. C. girl and pre-
senting a dramatic early-to-bed, early-
to-rise play enacted by six personages
of said specie, while she slips into a
frock designed by four other former
college mates. In order to get to break-
fast on time she has to turn off the
setting-up exercises that five of her
other friends present each morning.
Upon reaching the tea room, after
greeting three hostesses and comment-
ing on the splendid work of the five
interior decorators who have just re-
modeled the place, she reads the news-
paper whose staff numbers twenty-
four.

Because the thirteen technicians and
three dietitians are rather slow, she has

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time to glance over the ads which
have been beautifully drawn by nine
of her friends, to read stories written
by four others, and to look up her two
stock-broking friends on the business
page to which fourteen math majors
have contributed statistics.

Having finished her meal, Cally or
Connie, as the case may be, winds her
way toward the office. She passes the
sanctuary of knowledge when 64 of
her acquaintances are receiving red ap-
ples and quoting Douglass' "Principles
of Secondary Education. " Next door
is the church in which there are two
secretaries to the pastor, six young
peoples' workers, four religious educa-
tors, and three other general church
officials.

Some Are Artists

She looks across the avenue and mar-
vels at the beautiful lawn of the city
hospital, the creation of two landscape
artists, the hospital where fourteen of
her former fellow-sufferers are now
engaged in medicine. And of course,
back in the old days she had known
quite well the two leading bacteriolog-
ists and the nine chemists, along with
the pharmacist now registered there.
Her gaze is interrupted by a cheery
hello from forty-three social welfare
workers just starting out on their case
work. They are followed by a Red
Cross representative and two Girl
Scout executives.

As she traverses the grassy plot sur-
rounding the entrance to her office
building, she stumbles upon what are
apparently two engrossed archaeolog-
ists busily digging for buried treasure.
Notes are being taken concerning these
two interesting personalities by three
business-like psychiatrists who are
lurking about nearby corners.

Cally enters the office, greets three
clerks, two accountants, eight secre-
taries, four personnel directors and the
corporation lawyer. She falls down in-
to her chair dismayed and stunned by
the fact that out of all the girls she
has known not one single one has
chosen to be a follower of Hymen.
Could it be that that cry of despair
in the sophomore aggie of long ago
"Romeos, wherefore art thou, Rom-
eos," was a transcendant truth in spite
of the much bragged about sixty-
seven per cent?

TRIUMPH OF MIND
OVER "PATER"

"After Pater clamped down on my
allowance, I used the old bean, went
to Mangel's."

"Pretty smooth, Peg, pretty smooth."

"It's not original. The whole gang at
the house are wise to Mangel's, too."

"Not so dusty' On sorority row,
Mangel's is the tops?"

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4

The Agonistic

Clubs Elect New
Leaders for >ext
Year's Activities

K. U. B.

K. U. B. met on Wednesday after-
noon, April 8, at 4:30 in the Y. W.
C. A. cabinet room. At this meeting
the following new officers were elect-
ed: president, Margaret Watson; first
vice-president, Joyce Roper; second
vice-president, Lucille Cairns; secre-
tary, Ruth Hertzka; and treasurer,
Enid Middleton.

Ten Professors
Represent A.S.C.

Four Read Reports on Research
in Biology, Psychology
at Science Meet

Y.W.C.A. Installs
Cabinet Members
At Sundav Service

Thing" Announces
New A. A. Board

Music Appreciation Group
The Music Appreciation Group of
the Y. W. C. A. met on Sunday night,
April 19, at 7 o'clock in the music
room. The group studied Leopold
Stokowski at this meeting. Mary Prim-
rose Noble will lead this group next
year.

German Club
German Club will meet this after-
noon at 4:30 in Mr. Johnson's studio.
The play, U titer Vier An gen, directed
by Miss Harn and Lucie Hess, will be
presented by members of the club. The
characters in the play are: Felix, Anne
Thompson; Hermine, Jean Austin;
Baron Hubert von Berkon, Martha
Long; Lotte, Olivia Root; and Bau-
maun, Ann Worthy Johnson.

Blackfriars

The regular meeting of Blackfriars
was held on Tuesday night, April 7,
at 7 o'clock in Miss Gooch's studio.
Plans were discussed for the com-
mencement play, and a scene from As
You Like It was presented by members
of the club. Those participating in
the scene were: Lucile Dennison as
Rosalind, Marie Stalker as Duke Fred-
crick, and Elizabeth Cousins as Celia.

Miss Lois Secour, director of dra-
matics at Brenau College, spoke to
Blackfriars on Tuesday night, April
14, at 7 o'clock in Miss Gooch's stu-
dio. She spoke on the national dra-
matics honorary society, Zeta Phi Eta.
Miss Secour was unable to attend the
regular meeting, as previously planned.

Chi Beta Phi Sigma
The last meeting of Chi Beta Phi
Sigma was held on Monday night,
April 6, at 7 o'clock in the chemistry
lecture room. Mildred Tilly read a
paper on Mathematics and Chemistry.
New officers for the coming year
were then elected: president, Martha
Summers; vice-president, Pauline Moss;
treasurer, Nell Scott; corresponding
secretary, Mildred Tilly; and record-
ing secretary, Margaret Watson.

Ten members of the faculty repre-
sented Agnes Scott College at the
fourteenth annual convention of the
Georgia Academy of Science, which
met April 3 and 4 at the University
of Georgia in Athens. Professor Mary-
Stuart MacDougall, of the biology de-
partment; Associate Professor Emily S.
Dexter, of the psychology department;
Acting Associate Professor Thomas W.
Whitaker, of the botany department;
and Assistant Professor Katharine T.
Omwake, of the psychology depart-
ment, read reports based on original re-
search work that they have done at
Agnes Scott.

Other faculty members who attend-
ed were Professor Robert Holt, of the
chemistry department; Professor Henry
Robinson, of the mathematics depart-
ment; Professor Schuyler Christian, of
the physics department; Associate
Professor Philippa Gilchrist, of the
chemistry department; and Misses
Blanche Miller and Helen Miller, in-
structors in biology.

The purpose of the Georgia Acad-
emy of Science is to unify state scien-
tists interested in chemistry, biology,
mathematics, physics, botany, and psy-
chology; and to encourage original re-
search in anv of these fields.

Bible Majors Entertain

For Prof. Svdenstricker

Eight Bible majors entertained Pro-
fessor Alma Sydenstricker, of the Bi-
ble department, with a birthday party
at the Tavern Tea Room on Tuesday
evening, April 2 1. Members of the
Bible Club sent Mrs. Sydenstricker
flowers.

Present at the dinner were Mrs.
Sydenstricker, Catherine Bates, Molly
Jones, Elizabeth Burson, Miriam Tal-
mage, Floyd Butler, Ernelle Blair, Ade-
laide Stevens, and Frances Cary.

French Club
The French Club met on Monday
afternoon, April 20, at 4:30 in Mr.
Dieckmann's studio. Initiation of new
members was held, and a short French
play was presented. The play was II
/<//// Qu'une Porte Soit Outer te on
Vermie by Alfred Musset, and the
characters were Lucie Hess as the
Comte, and Marccllc Cappatti as the
Marquise. This play, directed by Miss
Lucile Alexander, was presented also
before the Alliance Franchise in Atlan-
ta on Thursday afternoon, April 16.

Pi Alpha Phi
The last meeting of Pi Alpha Phi

was held on Thursday night, April 9,
at 7 o'clock in Mr. Johnson's studio.
The following new officers were elect-
ed: president, Nellie Margaret Gilroy;
vice-president, Mary Lillian Fairly;
secretary, Brooks Spivey; treasurer,
Lucile Dennison; and social chairman,
Fannie B. Harris. As this was a busi-
ness and social meeting, no debate was
held. However at the meeting to be
held on Thursday night, April 2 3, at
7 o'clock in Mr. Johnson's studio there
will be an interesting debate between
members of the club.

Installed at a candlelight service at
vespers on Sunday, April 4, the new
Agnes Scott Y. W. C. A. Cabinet took
over its duties at its first meeting on
Tuesday, April 6, with Isabel McCain,
president of the organization, at its
head.

The Cabinet for next year is as fol-
lows:

President Isabel McCain
Vice-President Betty Hollis
Secretary Caroline Elliot
Treasurer Jean Barry Adams
Program Chairman Frances Wilson
Devotional Chairman Winifred

Kellersburger
Social Service Chairman Nellie

Margaret Gilroy
Music Chairman Primrose Noble
Mission Interest Chairman Hiber-

nia Hassel
Industrial Chairman Martha Long
Social Chairman Cary Wheeler
World Fellowship Chairman Millie

Coit

Publicity Chairman Douglas Lyle
Ex-Officio Alice Hannah
To plan for the work of next year,
the Cabinet will have its first "retreat"
on Sunday, April 26, at Stone Moun-
tain, where the members will spend
the day and cook dinner.

The first activity of the new Cabi-
net will be the annual weiner roast for
the freshman class at Ice Cream Springs
this afternoon.

\ S C. SENDS FOUR

TO SOUTHERN MEET

[Contrntued from page 1, column 2)
general news, editorial staff problems,
newspaper mechanics, features, and
business managements.

At the final plenary session, a num-
ber of resolutions were passed, includ-
ing the resolution that the honor sys-
tem is the most desirable and construc-
tive system of discipline and should be
adopted wherever possible; that stu-
dent activities funds be made compul-
sory wherever possible and be collected
by the administration, turned over to
the organizations, and the finances be
published; and that a school should be
established for the training of men and
women in government.

Next year the convention will be
held in New Orleans, with Tulane as
host.

Annual Banquet on May 6 Will
Be Climax to Year's
Sports Events

Alumnae Sponsor
Senior Reception
And Radio Talks

Selection of the Athletic Associa-
tion Board for 193 6-37, announced
by Julia Thing, president, in chapel on
April 16, ushered in the events of the
sports calendar for the next four
weeks. The final season of this year's
athletic activities promises the excite-
ment of conferences, tournaments, |
and social activities.

May 6 will bring to a climax the
year's sports when the association en-
tertains at its annual banquet. The
same afternoon is the date set for ten-
nis finals and a swimming meet, plans
for which are to be announced later.

Results of the first round in the golf
tournament have been announced by
Associate Professor Llewelyn Wilburn:
Judith Gracey defeated Jean Kirkpat-
rick; Mary Ma lone defeated Virginia
Anne Rumbley; Peggy Willis defeated
Ellen Little; Mary Johnson defeated
Nancy Moorer; and Esther Byrnes and
Meadow Brown drew byes. The second
round is to take place at Forest Hills
tomorrow.

Off-campus events of interest are
three conferences to which Agnes
Scott is sending delegates. Julia Thing
left yesterday to attend the national
conference of the Athletic Federation
of College Women, which is being held
April 2 5 and 26 in Minneapolis, Min-
nesota. Bee Merrill, next year's swim-
ming manager, will represent the as-
sociation at the swimming conference
at the University of Alabama. Marie
Stalker and Frances Robinson have
been elected as representatives to the
Georgia State Athletic Conference
which meets April 2 5 and 2 6 at G. S.
I C. W. in Milledgeville.

Members of the new athletic board
are: Julia Thing, president; Marie
Stalker, vice-president; Frances Robin-
son, secretary; Anne Thompson, treas-
urer; Marie Stalker, head of basket-
ball; Alice Taylor, hockey; Ellen Lit-
tle, tennis; Bee Merrill, swimming;
Jane Dryfoos, hiking; Anna Margaret

The Alumnae Association of Agnes
Scott College has set aside the month
of April as publicity month, to inform
the campus of the purpose and ideals
of the association. As parts of this
program, several chapel and radio talks
have been arranged, and a tea was
given to the present senior class.

The first chapel speaker was Mrs.
Frances (Craighead) Dwyer, '2S, pres-
ident of the association, who spoke
April 15, urging the seniors to become
members, and giving the numerous
benefits. Miss Llewellvn Wilburn, '19,
will speak on the various projects
which the Alumnae Association has
sponsored.

Radio programs have been planned
throughout the month. On April 1,
Miss Carrie Scandrett, '24, spoke on
"Outstanding Alumnae in the Field oi
the Fine Art." Miss Lucile Alexander,
'11, presented on April 8 "The
Achievements of the Alumnae Assoc-
iation as an Organization". Miss Doro-
thy Hutton, '29, spoke on "The Re-
lation of the Association to the Cam-
pus," on April 15. On April 22, Mrs.
Margaret (Bland) Sewell, '20, will talk
on "An Alumna's Use of her Leisure."
The last of the series will be presented
by Miss Alberta Palmour, '35, on April
2 9, on "The Relation of the Associa-
tion to the World Outside."

On April 14, the seniors were enter-
tained at a tea by the Association ai
the home of Mrs. Allie (Candler)
Guy, '13. The entertainment was un-
der the direction of Mrs. Augusta
(Skcen) Cooper, '17, chairman of the
entertainment committee. Those pres-
ent were the seniors, members of the
entertainment committee and ol the
executive board, Miss Nannette Hop-
kins, Dr. and Mrs. J. R. McCain, Miss
Carrie Scandrett and Miss Blanche
Miller, faculty advisers of the class.

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VOL. XXI

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1936

NO. 21

Seniorpolitian Opera Company
Will Misrepresent "Phoughst

Kini?, Richards, Stevens, McCal-
lie, Miller, Chamlee, From
to Sing Leads

Performance Will Be On May 2

The Seniorpolitan Opera Company
of Agnes Scott College will misrepre-
sent, as its annual opera, Phoughst, in
Buchcr Scott gymnasium on Saturday
night, May 2, at 8:3 0 o'clock. Al-
though they have refused to divulge
their plot, the seniors have announced
their cast, which does not consist as
The Agonistic stated last week
mainly of the "faculty members." The
leading characters are:

Maggie Reet Augusta King.

Phoughst Loice Richards.

Messy topof leas Adelaide Stevens.

Martyr Alice McCallie.

Valentino Rosa Miller.

C. Bull Alice Chamlee.

Vulgar Rosa From.

Besides the cast and four choruses,
the Seniorpolitan Company has its own
twelve-piece orchestra, made up of the
following: Anne Worthy Johnson,
leader, and Anne Taylor, Frances Cary,
Annie Lee Crowell, Martha Long, Bee
Merrill, Mary Perry, Lettie McKay,
Jean Matthews, Kathryn Fulton, Fran-
ces Norman, Mary Venetia Smith, and
Elizabeth Simmons.

Prices of the tickets to the opera
are, box seats, fifty-five cents, reserv-
ed seats, fifty cents; unreserved seats,
thirty-five cents; balcony seats, twen-
ty-five cents. The seniors will also sell
refreshments.

Charline Fleece is
Lecture President

The Public Lecture Association of
Agnes Scott College, at a meeting on
Tuesday, April 15, elected the follow-
ing officers for the year 1936-37:
Charline Fleece, president; Frances
Wilson, secretary-treasurer; Mary Jane
Tigert, senior representative; Nell
Plcmphiil, junior representative; Anne
Purneil, sophomore representative;
Mary Malone, senior day student rep-
resentative; Jane Turner, junior day
student representative; Margaret Wat-
son, publicity manager; and Zoe Wells,
poster manager.

The faculty advisers of the lecture
association are: Associate Professor
Emma May Laney, of the English de-
partment; Associate Professor Louise
Hale, of the French department; Pro-
fessor Stukes, of the psychology de-
partment; Professor Schuyler Chris-
tian, of the physics department; and
Professor Philip Davidson, of the his-
tory department.

The association is making plans for
the first speaker of next year's series,
to be announced later.

Dr.T.W. Whitaker
Accepts Position

Accepting the position of associate
geneticist at the University of Cali-
fornia, Dr. Thomas W. Whitaker, act-
ing associate professor of botany at
Agnes Scott, plans to do research work
next year on the genetics of disease re-
sistance in plants.

Six months of the year he will spend
at Berkeley and six at La Jolla, Cali-
fornia. Mr. Whitaker has spent many
years in California and is a graduate
of the University where he will now
teach. He has done previous experi-
mental work on various types of dis-
ease resistance in plants and states that
the new experiments will probably be
on lettuce.

Mr. Whitaker, who took his Ph.D.
at the University of Chicago, has
taught botany at Agnes Scott for the
last two years.

Senior Opera Leads

Lcice Richards as Phoughst sees
the vision of Augusta King as the
lovely Maggie Reet.

Isabel McCain is
Y.W.C.A. Delegate
From Agnes Scott

Attends Triennial Convention
at Colorado Springs
April 29-May 5

Isabel McCain, newly-elected presi-
dent of the Agnes Scott College Young
Woman's Christian Association, left
Monday, April 27, to attend the four-
teenth triennial convention of the
National Y. W. C. A., which will be
held at Colorado Springs, Colorado,
April 29-May 5.

The conference will consist of
meetings of the three assemblies of the
national organization: the industrial
group, the business and professional
group, and the student group. Prob-
lems concerning these divisions and
their relation to the organization as a
whole will be discussed. The confer-
ence will also adopt a Public Affairs
Program for the next biennium. A
feature of the convention will be the
discussion of "The Status of Women,"
at which representatives from Great
Britain, Geneva, the Philippines, India,
Japan, and China will be present.

Among the many entertainments
which the Colorado Springs Associa-
tion has planned for the delegates will
be the reception held at the beautiful
new Art Center of that city. The last
girl to represent Agnes Scott at a na-
tional Y. W. C. A. convention was
Diana Dyer in 1 93 3.

D. HUTTON RESIGNS AS
ALUMNAE SECRETARY

Miss Dorothy Hutton, who recently
announced her engagement to Mr.
James Edward Mount, of New York
City, will resign from her position as
secretary of the Agnes Scott College
Alumnae Association on May 1. Mrs.
Fannie (Mayson) Donaldson, '12, will
replace Miss Hutton, whose marriage
will take place around the first of
June.

Mrs. Donaldson has been active in
alumnae work. She was alumnae sec-
retary during the sessions, 1929-3 0,
1930-3 1, and 1 93 1-32. She has also
served as president of the Agnes Scott
Association, and as a trustee of the Col-
lege.

Miss Nell Chamlee, '34, will assist
Mrs. Donaldson, who will work as su-
pervisor. Miss Chamlee will carry on
the office routine. Miss Ruby Hutton,
'3 6, will be in charge of the College
book store, which for the past two
years has been under the direction of
Miss Chamlee.

New Officers
Select Girls
As Sponsors

Seventy From Upper-Classmen
To Assist In Orientation
Of New Freshmen

Majority Is In Sister Class

A committee composed of Alice
Hannah, Mary Jane Tigert, Laura Coit,
and Ann Worthy Johnson, the offi-
cers of student government, selected
seventy freshmen sponsors for next
year at a meeting held last Friday.
Most of the girls chosen are members
of the present sophomore class and will
therefore belong to the sister class of
the freshmen next year.

The students being asked to serve as
sponsors include the following: Rachel
Kennedy, Tommy Ruth Blackmon,
Martha Peek Brown, Betty Adams,
Gene Caldwell, Myrl Chafin, Jean
Chalmers, Frances Castleberry, Eliza-
beth Cousins, Mildred Davis, Mary
Lillian Fairly, Anna Katherine Fulton,
Hibernia Hassell, Nell Hemphill, Ken-
non Henderson, Ruth Hertzka, Wini-
fred Kellersberger, Ola Kelly, Mary
Anne Kernan, Ellen McCallie, Eliza-
beth McKee, Jacque McWhite, Jeanne
Matthews, Margaret Morrison, Prim-
rose Noble, Frances Norman, Con-
stance Pardee, Virginia Poplin, Alice
Reins, Kay Ricks, Elise Seay, Mary
Smith, Frances Steele, Mary Stipe, Vir-
ginia Suttenfield, Anne Thompson,
Mary Nell Tribble, Jane Turner, Vir-
ginia Watson, Frances Belford, Sarah
Johnson, Cornelia Christie, Adele Hag-
gart. Julia Telford, Elizabeth Warden,
Sara Beatty Sloan, Giddy Erwin, Jane
Wyatt, Frances Wilson, Edith Belser,
Ellen Little, Mary Past, Elsie West,
Rose Northcross, Martha Long, Mary
Elizabeth Cooper, Mary Willis, Mary
King, Vivienne Long, Frances McDon-
ald, Mary Lib Morrow, Dorothy Jester,
Judith Gracey, Enid Middleton, Ruth
Tate, Katherine Brittingham, Dixie
Woodforth, Martha Alice Green, Fran-
ces Starnes, and Margaret Wright.

Sponsors have for their special duty
the assistance in the orientation of
freshmen. They instruct them in the
rules of the College, help them with
their schedules, and give them a gen-
eral introduction to Agnes Scott.

Annual May Day Celebration

To Take Place Next Saturday

May Day Dancers

Latin Department
Has New Teacher

Miss Narka Nelson, a graduate of
the Western College for Women at
Oxford, Ohio, will teach Latin and
Greek at Agnes Scott College during
the session 1936-37. Miss Nelson, who
took her Ph.D. at the University of
California, is at present teaching in
California.

Before she went to California, Miss
Nelson taught for six years at Western
College, her Alma Mater. She has also
taught at Smith College, where she
held a fellowship. She has done some
writing in the general field of Latin
criticism.

Newton Is New Inman
House President; Hudson
Is Agonistic Assistant

The students of Agnes Scott College
elected Mary Alice Newton and Mary
McCann Hudson to the positions of
house-president of Inman and assistant
ed itor of The Agonistic, respectively,
at a meeting held last Thursday, April
23. The positions were open because of
the resignations of Frances Wilson and
El iza King, who will do Y.W.C.A. and
Silhouette work, respectively. Eliza is
also president of her class.

Mary Alice and Mary McCann were
both popular and committee nominees.
Kitty Printup and Carol Hale were al-
so popular nominees.

Marie Stalker and Helen Ford are
the captain and gypsy maid of "Down
an English Lane."

Students, Alumnae
Make Reservations
On S.S. Berengaria

Miss Gaylord, Miss Scandrett
Conduct European Tour
During Summer

Seven Agnes Scott College students
and six alumnae have made reservations
for the European tour to be conducted
this summer by Assistant Professor
Leslie J. Gaylord, of the mathematics
department, and Assistant Dean Carrie
Scandrett.

The students and alumnae already
registered are: Margaret Cooper, Max-
ine Crisler, Sarah Jones, Rosa Miller,
Julia Sewell, Elizabeth Strickland,
Nell White, Harriottc Brantley, Dor-
othy Chamberlain, Diana Dyer, Susan
Glenn, Blanche Miller, and Roberta
Winter.

Leaving New York on June 17, this
group and others who have not yet
made reservations will sail on the "S.
S. Berengaria." Included in the itiner-
ary are Paris, Avignon, Nice, Pisa,
Rome, Naples, Capri, Florence, Venice,
Milan, Bellagio, Interlaken, Lucerne,
M u n i c h , Nuremberg, Heidelberg,
Mayence, Cologne, Brussels, T h e
Hague, Amsterdam, London, Stratford,
York, Edinburgh, Glasgow, English
Lakes, Chester and Liverpool. The par-
ty will be due back in New York on
August 16.

A. S. PHI BETA KAPPA
ELECTS DR. DAVIDSON

Processor Philip Davidson, of the
history department of Agnes Scott
College, will serve as president of the
Beta of Georgia chapter of Phi Beta
Kappa for next vear. Other officers
elected are Associate Professor Florence
Smith, vice-president; Professor Mu-
riel Harn, secretary; Professor Henry
Robinson, treasurer; and President J.
R. McCain, member of the executive
council.

The officers who have served for
the past year are Professor Catherine
Torrance, president; Associate Profes-
sor Emma May Laney, vice-president;
Associate Professor Florence Smith,
secretary; and Professor J. M. Wright,
treasurer. Professor Torrance presided
at the mid-year election of seniors to
the chapter, when Dean Walter Miller,
of the University of Missouri, made
the principal address.

Plans are being made for the meet-
ing of the triennial council of Phi
Beta Kappa in Atlanta next year.

Naomi Cooper Will Preside As
Queen; Virginia Turner Is
Maid of Honor

Ford and Stalker Have Leads

The annual May Day festival of
Agnes Scott College will take place
next Saturday afternoon in the May
Day dell at 4:3 0, when the May Court,
gypsies, and an English Captain will
combine to present Down an English
Lane, written by Charline Fleece and
Anne Thompson. Eloisa Alexander is
chairman of the May Day committee,
and Jane Blick, business manager.

Naomi Cooper will preside as queen
of the May, and Virginia Turner will
be her maid of honor. Members of
their court include Jean Barry Adams,
Eloisa Alexander, Margaret Cooper,
Lucile Dennison, Mary Malone, Rosa
Miller, Nancy Moorer, Anne Purneil,
Kay Ricks, Lavinia Scott, Aileen Short-
ley, and Kay Toole.

The seven leading character parts
are being taken by Helen Ford, a gyp-
sy girl; Marie Stalker, an English cap-
tain; Charline Fleece, a gypsy boy; Lois
Hart, the spirit of the forest; Ad Stev-
ens, a tinker; Jane Blick, the tinker's
apprentice; and Mary Frances Guthrie,
an old crone. About 140 other girls
will dance in the various colorful chor-
uses. The dance committee was com-
posed of Miss Eugenie Dozier, Helen
Ford, Lucile Dennison, and Ruth Tate.
The costumes were designed and se-
cured by Sarah Nichols, Frances Steele,
Kathleen Daniel, and Sarah Turner.
Members of other committees are Fan-
nie B. Harris, properties; Jane Wyatt,
poster; Alice Chamlee, publicity; and
Tommy Ruth Blackmon and Jean
Kirkpatrick. music.

General admission will be twenty-
five cents; those students who have
paid their budget will be admitted free
of charge.

Miss Phvthian Will

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Study for Degree

Assistant Professor Margaret Phy-
thian, of the French department, plans
to sail for France in the early part of
August to study for her Ph.D. at the
University of Grenoble.

Miss Phythian will spend some weeks
in Paris, after which she will go imme-
diately to Grenoble. Her plan of
study for next year includes an inten-
sive course in the regional novel so out-
standing in French literature.

Stevens Installs
NewA.S. Officers

The new officers of the student gov-
ernment association of Agnes Scott
College assumed the responsibilities and
duties of their positions at the formal
installation ceremony held Saturday,
April 25, in Gaines chapel. Adelaide
Stevens, out-going president, delivered
the gavel, signifying her authority, to
Alice Hannah, new president; and ad-
ministered the oath of office to the in-
coming executive committee.

Girls who will serve as officers and
members of student government asso-
ciation during the session 1936-37 are:
Alice Hannah, Mary Jane Tigert,
Laura Coit, Ann Worthy Johnson, Isa-
bel McCain, Betty Willis, Fannie B.
Harris, Mary Alice Newton, Mary
Lillian Fairly, Mary Anne Kernan, Em-
ma McMullcn, Florence Lassetcr, Lu-
cile Dennison, and Jean Bailey.

In her speech, Adelaide expressed the
hope that the ideals of this year's as-
sociation would become the realities
of next year's. Alice, in her installa-
tion talk, asked for closer cooperation
of students and the administration
with the executive committee, and ex-
pressed the desire that student opinion
may be stimulated more next year.

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Vol. XXI

April 29, 1936

No. 21

WHAT ABOUT
HUMOR?

To make a statement neither
original nor sage, people have
such different kinds of senses of
humor. Applied to Agnes Scott,
this means that what some think
funny others consider silly. Some
demand more humor in The Ag-
onistic; if they get it, others con-
demn it as high-schoolish. Nat-
tily the staff of any publica-
tion wants to please as many of
the readers as possible and at
the same time publish a credi-
table paper, so when opinions are
divided it is difficult to know
K uit to do. We believe person-
ally that The Agonistic should
be lightened by humor, but our
problem now is what kind of
humor.

At a recent publications con-
vention of editors and business
managers we learned from many
college editors that scandal and
slander columns were the most
popular parts of their papers.
The editors deplored this, admit-
ted that they themselves dislik-
ed the columns, but also said that
they could not afford to leave
them out. In most cases the col-
umns are so personal that they
cannot be signed; the editors
themselves have to assume the
responsibility. Students like
these columns until they are em-
barrassed by an unfavorable per-
sonal reference then they com-
plain. Disliking this natural re-
sult and also realizing that such
writings lower the standard of
their papers, the editors would
like to replace them by less ob-
jectionable features.

The Agonistic, OOt having
these slander columns and be-
lieving that certainly the major-
ity of the students does not want
them, would like to receive sug-
gestions on humor. Whether you
want a Giddy Gossip, which so
many criticise as high-schoolish,
how large a percentage of the
paper you would like to be hu-
morous these questions we
want you to answer. If you have
any suggestions, 01* it* you wish
to attempt a feature of your own,
by all means do so and place it
in The Agonistic box in the kisr-
ment of Main.

PARLIAMENTARY
INSTRUCTION

Recognizing a campus need,
Student Government, with the
cooperation of the Presidents'
Council, is sponsoring next week
a course in parliamentary pro-
cedure. A ss o c i a t e Professor
Florence Smith will take charge
of the instruction, which will
probably consist of a lecture and
discussion followed by a model
meeting. More definite plans are
to be announced later.

Student conduct in Open Fo-
rum meetings has made it clear
that we need some kind of parli-
amentary organization. Since
Open Forum offers the students
their only real opportunity for
expressing opinions, it should be
conducted in a way to avoid con-
fusion and to eliminate the use-
less and sometimes endless dis-
cussions that often arise. Not
only will a knowledge of parlia-
mentary procedure help the stu-
dents in Open Forum, however,
but also in the various campus
clubs. And of course after we
leave college, many of us, as civ-
ic leaders, will find it beneficial.

If the students will recognize
the importance of such a course
and will cooperate with Student
Government and the Presidents'
Council by attending the meet-
ing, we can perhaps improve our
Open Forums and therefore ac.
complish more in them.

Mussolini Predicts
Italian ^ ictory
In Ethiopia

By Frances Wilson

As Ethiopians fled from Addis
Ababa, with rumors running wild as
to the position of the Italian troops
outside the city, Mussolini was accept-
ing the cheers of his people as they
celebrated in a sort of American
Labor Day the 2,689th anniversary
of the founding of Rome. The suc-
cesses of recent days, which w r ere
looked for six months ago, gave Mus-
solini reason to believe that it was only
a matter of days till he would be in
Addis Ababa.

As II Duce was claiming victory in
his long-fought war, the League of
Nations was faced with the problem
of judging the peace terms presented
by Baron Aloisi, Italian representative.
In Geneva, Aloisi presented the condi-
tions upon which Italy would seek
peace. He admitted that they were, in
effect, occupation of the entire enemy
country. Specifically, Italy demanded
occupation of Addis Ababa and other
principal Ethiopian centers, and Ital-
ian control over mobilization points
and frontier posts through which sup-
plies might reach Ethiopia.

Eden Condemns L T se of Gas

Great Britain's Sir Anthony Eden
objected to recognition of Italy's de-
mands because of her violation of the
anti-gas protocol of 192 5. Italy has
used poison gas thirteen times between
December 20 and mid-March, Eden
declared. The League admitted that it
had failed to end the Italo-Ethiopian
war, and adopted endless resolutions.
Attacking sharply Italy's use of gas,
which threatens the civilization of all
nations, Eden implied that Great Brit-
ain's attitude toward the League might
change if the poison pacts are ignored.
He admitted that the final outcome of
the war may shake Great Britain's be-
lief in the League.

Still Ethiopia complained that the
nations had, in signing the League
covenant, promised the victim of ag-
gression more than a platonic appeal to
the aggressor for peace; and still Aloisi
would yield nothing of Mussolini's
conditions. The only action taken by
the League, if it in fact is action, was
failure to adopt stronger sanctions
against Italy.

E t c e t

era

Harvard will celebrate the 3 00th
anniversary of its founding in 1936.
It is the oldest institution of higher
learning in the United States.

Princeton students can now cut as
much as they like, so long as their
"standing remains unimpaired."

Puppet shows are being used as a
means of discovering what ails mis-
behaving children at the Bellevue
Psychopathic Hospital (New York).
The puppets act in specially written
plays that dramatize various situations,
either badly or in guise of fairy tales.
The response of the "problem children"
to these situations often reveals neu-
rotic attitudes which, left untreated,
might result seriously in later years.
Reader's Digest.

Don't worry when you stumble. Re-
member that the worm is the only
thing that can't fall down. The
Technique.

The Sweet Briar News tells us of a
professor at Brown University who
photographs people who borrow money
from him. This is probably the speed-
iest known way of collecting material
for an album.

A Matter of Interpretation
Saichi Sakai, Southwestern freshman
from Nogoya, Japan, thought he knew
English until confronted with southern
drawl and college slang. Although he
has studied English for eight years un-
der American professors in his own
country, he admits that the language
of the collegians defeats him.

Parley-Voo.

New etiquette as outlined by the
dean at the University of Iowa is in-
teresting. He thinks that students
should wait three minutes for an in-
structor to appear, five minutes for an
assistant professor, eight for an as-
sociate professor, and ten for a full
professor or dean.

Seen (and heard) Across the Quad-
rangle:

Four promising young romeos call-
ing, "Yoo-Hoo!" under Naomi Coop-
er's window. . . . Giddy Erwin, Pixie
Fairly, and Kennon Henderson on their
knees, praising Allah in a most devout
Hindu manner. . . . Martha Cren-
shaw and Lena Armstrong carrying a
plate of chinese salted-beetles to senior
coffee.

Cala Holiday :

Caroline Armistead and Kay Ricks
left Saturday to attend the wedding of
Miss Frances Ricks to Mr. Frank Ham-
lin. Those present at "Little Com-
mencement" in Athens were: Jane
DryfoQS, Helen Moses, Phyllis John-
son, Jane Carithers, Caroline White,
and Barton Jackson. Anna Margaret
Riepma attended the Riverside dances.
Frances Belford and Mary Jane Tigert
left for Sewanee.

Dancing This Week:

Joyce Roper, Meriel Bull, Nancv
Moorer, Rose Northcross, Kathryn
Bowen, Rachel Kennedy, Ola Kelly and
others at the Phi Gamm dance Friday
afternoon.

Meriel Bull, Rose Northcross, Nancy
Moorer, Rachel Kennedy, Jane Cari-
thers, Kay Jones, Mary Ellen Whetsell,
and Aileen Shortley at the Pi. K. A.
dance Friday night.

At the Theta Chi dance, Nancv
Moorer, Jean Kirkpatrick, and Kath-
ryn Bowen.

At the Delta Sig dance, Barton
Jackson and Jean Kirkpatrick.

Nell Hemphill and Nancy Tucker
at the Buttermilk dance.

At the A. K. K. dance at Emory:
Hortense Norton, Elizabeth Strickland,
Rosa Miller, Sara Jones, Mary Richard-
son, Martha Peek Brown, Sue Bryan,
Mary Smith, Bee Merrill, Caroline
Armistead, Carolyn Carmichael, and
Kitty Jones.

BOOK NOTES

ALUMNAE NEWS

APTITUDE TESTS
FOR VOCATIONS

In answer to the unanimous
request of the student body that
the Y. W. C. A. give aptitude
tests as a part of its vocational
program, the Association has or-
dered a grading system and tests
for six vocations. Because of the
expense of buying these forms,
only a few could be secured, and
a charge of ten cents per student
is necessary. At hours that will
be announced, the tests, under
the supervision of Associate Pro-
fessor Emily Dexter, Miss Car-
rie ScandreU, and Nellie Mar-
garet Gilroy, will be given dur-
ing the coming week. The social
service committee of the Y. W.
is sponsoring them.

Since these aptitude tests are
offered for the benefit of the
students and are not only expen-
sive to the Y. W. C. A. but also
take time, we are urged to take
advantage of them. They are con-
sidered helpful in determining
right vocational selection.

Louise (Brown) Hastings, '2 3, was
recently elected president of the Gar-
den Club of Georgia, at the eighth an-
nual convention of the organization in
Albany. She is active in local and
state civic groups.

Alma Groves, '34, is now with the
Georgia Baptist Sunday School board,
and is active in intermediate work.
She visited on the campus the week-
end of April 12.

Rebecca Cashion, ex-'36, has an-
nounced her engagement to Mr.
Walter W. Hunzicker, Jr.

Margaret (Bland) Sewell, '20,
spoke April 22 on the alumnae radio
series on "An Alumna's Use of Her
Leisure." She has gained considerable
recognition through her plays. On
April 29, Alberta Palmour, '3 5, will
conclude the alumnae radio series with
her talk on "The Relation of the As-
sociation to the World Outside."

Florence Preston, '3 5, sails for
America on July 3. For the past two
vears she has been at her home in
Korea, where she was teaching. She
olans to take post-graduate work in
home-economics at the University oi
Tennessee.

Eleanor Farjeon's New
Book Is Family Portrait

The Agonistic extends deepest
sympathy to Bazalyn Coley, in the
recent loss of her father; and to
Grace Hilford, and Mary Snow in
the loss of their mothers.

Portrait of a Farm Eleanor Farjeon
Frederick A. Stokes Co., N. Y. 193 6

The delightful family biography has
come along just in time, perhaps, to
refresh some of us, a little weary of
reading long accounts of families, mere
parades some of them of people
who cannot seem real to us.

Partly because of her skillful use of
her material, but largely, too, because
of the extraordinary interesting per-
sonalities and activities of the people
she describes, Miss Farjeon has suc-
ceeded in creating for us a living fam-
ily. Her Jewish father, B. L. Farjeon,
a once famous writer himself, appears
as an adventure-loving boy working
his way with his pen from poverty in
the gold fields of Australia to wealth
and prominence in London.

The personality of the dainty, wit-
ty mother, daughter of Joseph Jeffer-
son, famous "Rip Van Winkle" of the
stage, pervades the book as it did bet
daughter's life. But probably the most
charming chapters in the book are those
dealing primarily with Eleanor herself
(Nellie, as she was called), and her
three brothers. Through countless de-
tails, we come to know and to love
these four precocious children, whose
fruitful imaginations produced not
only poetry, music, drama, and opera,
but also the most fascinating and
amusing games and nursery regula-
tions.

Furthermore, the literary portrait
which Miss Farjeon paints so skillfully
for us with her whimsical humor and
poetic power of expression is made
still more vivid by actual photographs
of each member of the family, from
Grandfather Jefferson, as old Rip Van
Winkle, to Bertie the baby, who ac-
customed to hearing from each guest
what beautiful eyes he had once tod-
dled up to a visitor who had neglected
to mention them, and said, "I'se got
booful eyes!"

Nordhoff and Hall Write
Vivid Tale of Native Life

The Hurricane by Charles Nordhoff
and James Norman Hall, Little Brown
and Company, Boston, 1936. $2,50,
Reviewed by Helen Handle

The unique collaboration of Charles
Nordhoff and James Norman Hall
which produced Mutiny on the Boun-
ty, Men Against the Sea, and Viti aim's
I si a 'id, gives another, a modern story,
of the serenity and simplicity 01 the
life of the natives on one of the small
islands of the Low Archipelago, in
their latest book, The Hurricane.

It is a moving story of Terangi, a
native son of admirable and sterling
qualities, whose six month's sentence
under white man's methods of disci-
pline, wholly minus understanding and
insight into native temperament, cans
ed him tO become an habitual jail
breaker and gained for lum great no-
toriety. The stern duty-bound admin-
istrator of the island, Monsieur tie
Laage, understood little of the under-
currents and eddies of the native tem-
perament temperament so like the

beautiful surrounding lagoon, some-
times gentle, again stormy and forbid-
ding, but altogether lovely and lik-
able. In the course of Terangi's last
escape .in officer of the law w.is killed
and confinement on a French penal is-
land was to be his fate upon recapture.
But nature, m the form of .1 furious
hurricane, entered into the seheme of
white and native conflict. In the
course of ensuing events, Terangi saves
the life of the .ulmimst rator's wife and
under her covering manages to escape
to another island before her husband
and a rescue party come on the scene.

The description of the semi-tropical
island at the height of the hurricane's
fury is the most dramatic part of the
book. And the simplicity of the na-
tives in their mingled state of culture
and pagan superstition is most inter
esting and educational. I laving once-
started 1 'he Hurricane t it is difficult
to put the book down.

The Agonistic

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Gypsies Move Into May Dell

For Dances at College Fete

Old Crone Tells Fortunes as Nymphs, Sprites, and Elves Join
English Ladies, Gentlemen, and Villagers In
Gay Holiday Celebration

On a certain day in the windy month of April an unforseen
catastrophe loomed over the campus of Agnes Scott College. It
came in the form of a roving tribe of gypsies who, on seeing our
green and shining campus, decided to remain. And they chose
as their camping ground the loveliest spot on the campus The
May Day Dell. In vain did

vain did certain
authorities rush to the place and beg
them to be off at once. In vain were
they told of the great festival to take
place in the dell so soon. The gypsies
shook their heads and refused to move.
"We like it here," they said.

Then, suddenly, out from the band
came a beautiful gypsy girl in a yel-
low skirt and brilliantly colored blouse.
"Wait!" she said, and the band became
silent. "You say there is to be a fes-
tival?

The authorities answered, "the gay-
est kind of a festival with elegant
English ladies in satin gowns, and care-
free villagers in holiday attire, and
dashing young soldiers in red coats,
shiny boots. And there will be nymphs
and sprites and laughter and fun and
dancing. . . ." "And dancing?" inter-
rupted the young girl, "ah, yes, there
will be dancing. We will dance for

A. S. Mortar Board
Plans Club Rooms

Present Reading Room Will Be
Comfortable Lounge
For Students

Dennison, Z. Wells, C. Clegg
Will Head Day Students

Lucile Dennison was elected 193 6-
37 president of the day students at a
meeting held on Thursday, April 16;
she is also automatically day student
representative in student government, j
Other officers elected were Zoe Wells,
vice-president, and Cynthia Clegg,
secretary- treasurer.

At the same meeting, the day stu-
dents elected a speaker, Mary Jane
King, and a leader, Jean Bailey, for
their vesper services.

Georgia, Friday and Saturday, Apri
17 and 18. She lectured Friday morn-
ing to the teachers of romance lan-
guages on the influence of the gaucho
on Argentine literature. The Georgia
Educational Association is an organi-
zation of grammar and high school
teachers of the state.

Grimson Speaks at Meet

Lillian Grimson, exchange student
from Argentina, was one of the speak-
ers at the annual meeting of the Geor-
you. . . Look!" Turning, she struck g Educational Association in Macon,
her tamborine and the gaudy band im-
mediately began such a merry gypsy
dance as was never seen before. Col-
ored skirts and ragged petticoats swirl-
ed and fluttered. Elves and wood
nymphs suddenly appeared and danced
madly with the rest.

The High Authorities gazed en-
chanted. "We must have them dance
down English Lane," they cried to one
another. "Stop, stop! they shouted,
"we want you. ..." But the rest
was lost in the noise and frenzy of the
spectacle. In desperation, the Author-
ities ran to an old crone sitting to one
side. "Will your band," they asked,
"dance in our May Day celebration?"
The old crone removed her pipe.
"Well dance for ye, my friends, on
two conditions," she mumbled. "Fust,
my grand-daughter over there (a
boney finger indicated the beautiful
girl who led the dance), my grand-
daughter must marry an English cap-
tain and second, I must have a dance
or two m'self in this program."

The High Authorities stood dazed.
An aged crone dancing on English
Lane. ... A gypsy for a heroine
. . . But, . . . and then their faces
lighted up and they said, "why, of
course! What could be a better plot?
A young captain in love with a be-
witching gypsy girl an old crone
telling the fortunes of noble English

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So, you see, it comes about on a cer-
tain balmy day in May, that a real
band of gypsies will appear in the an-
nual May Day fete. Who will be able
(especially after this extraordinary
scoop) to resist donning a white hat,
grabbing a pillow, and starting for the
May Day Dell next Saturday after-
noon? Every body will be there at
4:3 0 to see Agnes Scott College pre-
sent Down an English Lane.

The 1935-36 chapter of Mortar
Board has made the following recom-
mendations for the apportionment of
rooms after the conversion of the pres-
ent library into a student activities
building.

(1) The main reading room will be
used as a students' lounge, with fire-
place, piano, comfortable chairs, and
radios.

(2) The English room will be used
for Y. W. C. A., Mission Interest and
Bible Club.

(3) The history room and upper-
back balcony will be used for language
clubs, Pi Alpha Phi, Blackfriars, Cur-
rent History Forum, and will be eqiup-
ped with a stage.

(4) The Latin room will be used for
K. U. B., Chi Beta Phi Sigma, Eta Sig-
ma Phi, and Lecture Association.

( 5 ) The German room will be used
for B. O. Z., Granddaughters Club,
and Poetry Club.

(6) The French room will be used
for Pen and Brush Club.

(7) The psychology room will be
used for The Agonistic.

(8) The room in which old news-
papers are stored will be used by the
Silhouette and the Aurora.

(9) The Spanish room will be used
as a sitting room.

(10) Miss Hanley's office will be
converted into a dressing room and
kitchen. There will also be a telephone
in the building.

(11) The front alcove will be avail-
able for the playing of games.

The main purpose of these plans is to
provide a place of recreation for the
students themselves. The Presidents
Council will decide upon regulations
and provisions regarding the use and
care of the building. Mortar Board
hopes the work will be completed by
September.

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Pathology Class Views Striking
Improvements at Resettlement

New Furniture Plant, Weaving Plant, .Mess Hall Delight Visitors;
Government Supplies Jobs, Houses, Land, Clinic
To Manv Ex-Relief Families

Professor Arthur Raper, of the sociology department of Agnes
Scott College, conducted an observation tour to Pine Mountain
Valley Resettlement near Hamilton, Ga., Thursday, April 23.
Those making the trip included twenty members of the social
pathology class, Jack Smoot, Mr. and Mrs. Raper, and the follow-
ing faculty members: Associate Pro-

Faculty Members Out-do
Greek and Latin Savants

Though the ages of Aristotle, Plato,
and Aesop have long since passed, sage
sayings and philosophical comments on
life are as prevalent as ever. Here on
the campus one is assailed daily by nu-
merous choice bits of rare verbosity
contributed by faculty and students
alike. Consider Mr. Raper's desire in
regard to his sociology class He said
in a moment of enthusiasm and fervor
"Young ladies, I covet for you in
the future a house with a fence and
other little things running around it."
Or again, is not Mr. Stukes' confes-
sional equally as startling: "I laugh
when I realize that I once taught
French. yy The immortal Shakespeare's
poetic genius pales when compared
with such statements as this one at-
tributed to Mr. Wright "The stocks

rise and fall like the billowy waves on i rent on the house that is accredited

fessor Emma May Laney, Professor
Lucile Alexander, Assistant Professor
Margaret Phythian, Professor Mary
Stuart MacDougall, and Professor
Louise McKinney.

The buildings visited included the
furniture plant, where all the furniture
is made from wood grown in the val-
ley; the sawmill, where each piece of
each house is cut out ready for assort-
ment and building; the weaving plant;
the new grammar school; a settler's
house; and the mess hall.

Mr. Bennett, the project manager,
explained that the project began in
February, 193 5, as part of President
Roosevelt's program. 1 1,550 acres are
now being resettled by 1,12 5 families
taken off the relief rolls of nearby
towns. They now live in government-
owned houses, receive money from gov-
ernment jobs, buy goods from indus-
tries in the valley, and pay a monthly

the bosom of the brimy deep."

Mr. Davidson's remark "You can't
have your cake and eat it, unless you
eat it in bed" has all the ear marks of
an Aristotelian maxim.

To cap the climax one Isabel Mc-
Cain as she placed a solidified particle
of terra firma upon her history term
paper, leaving it on Miss Jackson's
unfeeling doorstep, uttered the follow-
ing axiom "A stone on the paper is
worth two in the bush." And so is the
bulk of philosophical literature increas-
ed every day after all, who was that
guy, Plato?

Compliments
of

TATUM'S PHARMACY

toward payment on the total cost of
the house. It is hoped that this plan
will enable all the settlers to own their
own homes in the future. The settlers
and only 90 outside workers are em-
ployed in the industries of the valley.

Meet Your Friends at

Cox's Prescription Shop

Between Paramount and Grand
Theaters, Atlanta

Compliments
of

ROXY'S DEPT. STORE

TOP HAT . . . WHITE TIE
A\D TAILS

If he tells you that he's wearing them . . .
then you'd better scurry down to
M ANGEL'S and get the feminine counter-
part. It's a real party just choosing a dress
for a parly at MANGEL'S because there is
such a grand array. Decide whether you want
to be stately and elegant or sweet and cling-
ing vine-ish. After all its 90% the dress you
wear and only 10% the way you act that
makes the effect.

Come down to MANGEL'S now and buy that
extra evening dress and make it a real gala
evening. And, the prices will help the festive
spirit along as they are really reasonable.
For evening dresses come to MANGEL'S.

Jl jancjel's

185 Peachtree

60 Whitehall St.

4

The Agonistic

Expert in Knitting,
Sports, Visits Here

Mrs. \V. Harris, of Nashville. Is
duest of .Miss Wilburn
Here Recently

PROFESSOR ROBINSON
ATTENDS CON VENTION

A woman who can play golf, volley
ball, tennis, and badminton, has ridden
horseback, bowls, and is an ardent base-
ball fan would be of interest merely
because of these "minor" achieve-
ments; but when she adds to this list
knitting and playing the violin, she
becomes truly a person of importance.
Such a woman is Mrs. Weaver Harris,
president of the Nashville Women's
Golf Association, who has been visit-
ing Miss Llewelyn Wilburn during the
past week.

Mrs. Harris is enthusiastic over any
sport you can name, but, because of
her position in the golf association, is
naturally more concerned with that
field. She tells the gruesome details
of her first golf game, which so hap-
pens to have been with Miss Wilburn.
The two of them started out under a
caddy's supervision. He carefully in-
structed them to avoid a tree which
stood menacingly near the fairway.
So, of course, the beginners immedi-
ately hit the tree with their little white
golf balls. But, undaunted, Mrs. Har-
ris took three golf lessons and entered
the city tournament. Needless to say,
she didn't win. Since then, however,
she has entered every golf tournament
she could find. One of her most priz-
ed possessions is her loving cup won in
a beginners' match.

Mrs. Harris has a husband, a son, and
a married daughter. She can beat her
husband and her daughter in golf, but
says her son can play around her. Her
husband, however, is just a beginner
and shows signs of improvement.

Badminton is already a very popular
sport in Nashville, according to Mrs.
Harris. "Badminton is most interest-
ing," she said in approval of the game.
"Women seem to enjoy it, and men
adore it. It seems to be taking the

Professor Henry A. Robinson, of
the mathematics department of Agnes
Scott College, attended the annual
meeting of the southeastern section of
the Mathematics Association of Amer-
ica on Friday and Saturday, April 17
and 18, in Columbia, South Carolina.
Mr. Robinson is secretary and treas-
urer of the organization and was re-
elected to serve for his fourth year.
He arranged for extensive publicity
for the meeting before and during the
sessions; of unusual interest was the
writing of articles for the local papers
of each of the twenty-five speakers.

Out of two hundred members of
the southeastern section of the Mathe-
matical Association about one hundred
sixty out-of-town guests from seven
states were present. Mr. Robinson gave
a paper on "The Problem of Regions,"
dealing with possible divisions of vari-
ous figures. Dr. Walter Bartkoi, pro-
fessor of mathematical astronomy, of
the University of Chicago, and inven-
tor of the stellagraph, was one of the
speakers. His paper on "The Expand-
ing Universe," was especially interest-
ing.

King, Bailey. Lead
^ espers Program
For Day Students

LARGE GROUP ENTERS
CLUBS BY TRY-OUTS

Eight Are Left in
Golf, Tennis Finals

place of cocktail parties and dancing."
When she was informed that the gym
department here was considering the
purchase of some equipment, she said
that undoubtedly the girls would like
it very much.

The violin heads Mrs. Harris' list of
artistic likes. She began studying when
she was twelve years old and has play-
ed with several symphony orchestras.
She proudly claims to have played for
the weddings of fifty-seven couples,
none of whom has been divorced.
And she says she has volunteered to
play for Bee Miller's wedding if Bee
will say when.

Unfortunately, in the middle of this
musical discussion, the sports world
called, and Mrs. Harris and Bee Miller
drove swiftly to town to see the At-
lanta Crackers defeat Knoxville.

Emphasizing the theme, "Personal
Peace," the Agnes Scott College day
students conducted vespers on Sunday
evening, April 2 6. The speaker and
the leader, elected by the day students,
were Mary Jane King, and Jean Bailey,
respectively.

Completing its plans for the re-
maining weeks of the school year, the
Y. W. C. A. cabinet made out the
following program for Sunday night
vesper services:

May 3 Marion Bradwell of Colum-
bia Seminary.

May 10 Freshman vespers: "Where
Art Thou?"

May 17 Sophomore vespers: "What
Doest Thou?"

May 24 Junior vespers: "Where Is
Thy Brother?"

May 31 Senior vespers: "What Is
In Thy Hand?"

Frances Wilson will serve as pro-
gram chairman for next year.

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE

DECATUR, GA.

A college for women float is ividely recog-
nized for its standards of work and for the
interesting character of Its student activities

For further information, address
J. R. McCAIN, President

'twill be a pleasant surprise to see our
May Day and Graduation Frocks. .

j?

8L v \

second floor

get off the elevator

ORGANIZATIONS PLAN
CONVENTION RULES

Campus organizations wishing to
send members to conventions are mak-
ing out schedules of the ones in which
they are most interested, so that the
executive committee may make defi-
nite decisions regarding them. The
committee wishes to find out the most
important conventions, for there are
so many that representatives cannot
possibly be sent to all of them, and
determine the number of delegates that
may attend, and the number of times
an individual student may be excused
to go.

Spanish Club
The regular meeting of the Spanish
Club was held on Tuesday afternoon,
April 7, at 4:3 0 in Mr. Dieckmann's
studio. Mr. Pierre Porohovshikov, pro-
fessor of Romange Languages at Ogle-
thorpe University, lectured on The
Modern Spanish Novel. Miss Cilley en-
tertained the club on Thursday night,
April 16, at a supper hike.

Forest Hills Will He Scene of
Golf Tourney ; Tennis
Finals May <>

French Club

The French Club met on Monday
afternoon, April 20, at 4:5 0 o'clock,
in Mr. Johnson's studio. The follow-
ing new officers were elected: Presi-
dent, Margaret Hansell; vice-president,
Elise Seay; secretary, Jane Turner; and
treasurer, Adelaide Benson.

The new members of the club pre-
sented delightful skits for their initia-
tion. La Fontaine dc Jeunesse was pre-
sented by Giddy Erwin, Louise Young,
Mildred Davis, Mary McCann Hudson,
and Julia Telford. Lcs Lecons dc Pho-
netique was presented by Adelaide Ben-
son and Barbara Shloss.

PEACOCK
ALLEY

1564 Peachtree, N. E.

DELICIOUS
SANDWICHES

Drive In and Enjoy
Yourself

Blackfriars
Blackfriars held spring try-outs on
Monday, April 20, and the following
new members were admitted: Kathryn

Quarter-finals in tennis and golf,
played off last week, brought the two
tournaments one step nearer the close
and left eight girls in the field for
semi-finals.

In golf, Mary Johnson defeated
Meadow Brown; Peggy Willis advanc-
ed by a default; and Judith Gracey and
Mary Ma lone drew byes. Semi-finals
will be Thursday at Forest Hills.

Mary Knealc defeated Marion Der-
rick in two sets of tennis, 6-0; 6-1.
Connie Pardee defeated Anne Thomp-
son 6-4; 6-0. Frances Steele won by
default, and Helen Handte defeated
Ellen Little. Finals will be May 6.

Toole, Estelle Cuddy, Kathleen Ken-
nedy, Beryl Spooner, Jean Bailey,
Jeanne Flynt, Mary Elizabeth Hoyle,
Mary Simonton, Anne Purncll, Caro-
line Carmichael, Lettie McKay, Helen
Moses, Anna Margaret Riepma, Frances
Belford, Bertha Merrill, and Anna
Katherine Fulton.

CAttTtRIA

Extends a special

Invitation to Agnes Scott

girls to

Join the Merry Crowd

THURSDAY NIG] IT

MUSIC BY KIRK DeVORE
AND Ills ORCHESTR \

RICH'S 6 9th

ANNIVERSARY SALE

Extends through May 2nd ....

Things every girl needs for the sprung and summer are included in the
store wide sale of everything from ready to wear to the lightest acces-
sory touch. Come in, see the fine merchandise that is specially reduced
for this birthday occasion, and buy at definite savings the things that vou
will have to have now or later in the season. For vour convenience
some of the things all girls might be interested in are listed. Come to
Rich's and see for yourself.

Hosiery
K erchiefs
Hairs
Gloves
Undies

Suits
Coats
Hats

Daj Dresses
Evening Dresses

Let Penelope Venn help you shop!

Tennis Singles
Today

<P) Agonistic

Swimming Meet
Today

VOL. XXI

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1936

NO. 22

Commencement Program Begins
With Annual Trustees Meeting I

New Instructor

Banquets, Luncheons, Breakfast
To Fete Senior Class
During Week

Traditional Class Dav Is June 1

The commencement exercises for
this year's graduating class will begin
formally with the annual meeting of
the Board of Trustees of Agnes Scott
College on Friday, May 29, at 10
o'clock. In the evening the junior-se-
nior banquet, one of the most impor-
tant events of commencement, will
take place.

The following day the seniors and
the alumnae will be honored by the
trustees at a luncheon, after which the
alumnae will assemble for their yearly
meeting. This is but one of the many
activities planned by the Alumnae As-
sociation for graduation week. Satur-
day night at 8 o'clock in Bucher
Scott Gymnasium, Blackfriars will
present "Playing The Game," by Alice
Gcrstenberg.

The Rev. Frank Crossley Morgan
of Augusta will deliver the baccalau-
reate sermon on Sunday, May 31.
After dinner, Dean Nannette Hopkins
will serve coffee for the alumnae,
seniors, and their guests. The Vespers
program Sunday evening will be led
by Shirley Christian; Sarah Catherine
Wood will speak on "What Is in Thy
Hand."

On Class Day, Monday, June 1, the
seniors will entertain the sophomores,
their sister class, at a breakfast. The
traditional class day exercises, includ-
ing the daisy chain, will take place at
4 o'clock in the afternoon, followed in
the evening by a concert under the
auspices of the music department, and
ending with the book-burning and the
capping of the juniors by the senior^.

The principal address on Com-
mencement Day, June 2, will be de-
livered by Justice Florence E. Allen,
former member of the Ohio State Su-
preme Court, after which the awards
for the past year will be made, and the
degrees conferred.

Emory to Present
"The Racket" May 7

The Emory Players of Emory Uni-
versity will present their final produc-
tion of the year, The Racket, on
Thursday, May 7, at 8:3 0 in the Glenn
Memorial Auditorium. The play, writ-
ten by Bartlett Cormack, a Chicago
newspaperman, deals with the under-
world connections with a corrupted
police force.

The cast includes: Sam Shiver, an
honest police captain; George Down-
ing, a cub newspaper reporter; Gaty
Workman, a gangster; Ed Pendleton,
the district attorney; and Joe Crowley,
a hardboiled newspaperman.

The Racket depicts a city's struggle
with crooks, in office and out. In
scene and speech it reflects vividly the
gangland regime which has corrupted
so much of America's civic life. The
play finds favor with audiences by the
honesty of its drama. Agnes Scott
girls may obtain tickets at the regular
student rate, twentv-five cents.

Barton Jackson, recently elected ed-
itor of the 193 6-'3 7 Silhouette, and
Mary Gillespie, the new business man-
ager, have selected a staff of twenty
girls to work next year; the editorial
staff is as follows:

Feature editor Eloisa Alexander.

Photography editor Charline
Fleece.

Faculty editor Margaret Watson.

Sports editor Mary V. Smith.

Kodak editor Elsie West.

Organization editor Virginia Wat-
son.

Club editor Eliza King.

Art editor Zoe Wells.

Class editor Jane Moore Hamilton.

Joke editors Anna Margaret Riep-
ma and Aileen Shortley.

Mary Gillespie chose for her busi-
ness staff the following:

Advertising managers Joyce Ro-
per and Sue Bryan.

Art managers Marjorie Scott and
Emmy Lou Turck.

Business assistants Bertha Merrill,
Anne Watkins, Betty Adams, and Bar-
bara Cassat.

Correspondence manager Lucille
Cairns.

Shirley Christian, present editor of
the Silhouette, has announced that
this year's issue will be available around
May 15.

V. WoodtoH gve
Recital May 13th

Virginia Wood, soprano, will give a
recital on Wednesday night, May 13,
at 8:30 in Gaines chapel. Her pro-
gram will include the following num-
bers:

Air "These Are They" (The Holy
City), Gaul.

Fruhlingsglaube, Schubert.
Heidenroslein, Schubert.
Gretchen am Spinnrade, Schubert.
Aria "Ernani, involami" (Ernani),
Verdi.

Arioso O Mer ouvre toi, Delibes.
Die Loreley, Liszt.
O Lovely Night, Ronald.
Harmony, Del Riego; Evelyn Wall.
Spring, Ronald.
The Throstle, Dieckmann.
Song of the Open, LaForge.
Ave Maria, Mascheroni.
With piano, organ and violin obli-
gate

Assisting Virginia will be: Evelyn
Wall, contralto, accompanied by Alice
Hannah; Associate Professor Florence
Smith, violinist, accompanied by Eve-
lyn Wall. Evelyn will also play the
organ.

Agnes Scott Girls Enter Contest

For Rich ard du Bury Award

Judges selected from the English
department will, on Friday, May 15,
give the Richard du Bury Award of
twenty-five dollars to the Agnes Scott
student who has acquired the best col-
lection of 15 books during the year
193 5-3 6. The entrants must have se-
lected their books as an expression of
their interests, and must be able to dis-
cuss the contents of the books with
the judges.

Students who have already submit-
ted their entries are: Mary Anne Ker-
nan, Julia Sewell, Jane Thomas, and
Sara McCain. The object of the Rich-

ard du Bury Award is to stimulate
ownership of books through actual
possession and through knowledge of
their contents. The twenty-five dollar
prize is to be used by the winner for
some artistic interest. The award is
named after the author of Vhilobiblon,
the first book in English which de-
scribes the joys of reading.

All students interested in entering
the contest for next year are requested
to leave their names with Assistant
Professor Janef Preston, Professor
Louise McKinney, or Miss Ellen Ley-
burn.

Jackson, Gillespie
Name 20 Students
To Staff of Annual

Silhouette of 1936 to Appear on
May 15, S. Christian
Announces

Above is Miss Helen Carlson, who
will be acting assistant professor of
French next year.

Helen M. Carlson
To Teach French
During Next Year

Miss Helen M. Carlson will come to
Agnes Scott College next year as act-
ing assistant professor of French to re-
place Assistant Professor Margaret
Phythian, who plans to study abroad
on leave of absence. Miss Carlson, a
graduate of Grinell College in Iowa, is
a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the
Cap and Gown Society. She has been
holder of the Lydia C. Robert Fellow-
ship at Columbia University for the
last four years and is completing work
for her Ph.D. She has had teaching
experience both in Iowa and at Co-
lumbia.

Baptists Entertain
At Annual Banquet

About thirty-five students from
Agnes Scott College attended the an-
nual banquet of the Baptist Student
Union of Atlanta held Friday night,
May 1, in the Georgia Tech dining
room. Guests included about two
hundred Baptist students from Atlanta
colleges.

Dr. Willis Howard from LaGrange,
Georgia, was the principal speaker.
The program included installation of
the Baptist Student Union Council
for Atlanta and a skit showing the
work of the past year. The banquet
was under the direction of Bill Den-
ham, student secretary for Atlanta,
and Jeanne Flynt, of Agnes Scott and
Decatur, social chairman.

The new officers of the Agnes Scott
B. S. U., who were installed at the
Decatur Baptist church on Wednes-
day, April 29, are: president, Sarah
Johnson; enlistment chairman, Cary
Wheeler; social chairman, Miriam San-
ders; devotional chairman, Tommy
Ruth Blackmon; secretary, Catherine
Ivey; publicity, Jeanne Flynt; Sunday
School representatives, Kitty Jones and
Martha Johnson; and Y. W. C. A.
representative, Mildred Harding.

Following the installation service,
Professor and Mrs. Henry Robinson
entertained at their home in honor of
the council, Dr. and Mrs. A. J. Mon-
crief of the Decatur Baptist Church,
Bill Denham, and Lois Hart, Cathe-
rine Bates, Elizabeth Burson, and Irene
Wilson, retiring Agnes Scott officers.

Y.W.C.A. Sponsors

Vocational Tests

Aptitude tests in six vocations
are being offered to the student
body this week, May 5-7, at 3:30
in the afternoon by the social
service committee of the Y. W.
C. A. The tests are ten cents
apiece and are considered valua-
ble in determining the right vo-
cational selection.

"Playing The Game" to Climax
Year's Work for Blackfriars

Thing Represents
A.S.C. at Meeting
Of Athletic Clubs

Minnesota University is Host to
Over 400 Delegates at
Conference

Returning from the national con-
ference of the Athletic Federation of
College Women, held April 2 3-25 in
Minneapolis, Julia Thing, who repre-
sented Agnes Scott, brings reports of
constructive discussions in the field of
women's sports and of three days of
enjoyable association with college
girls from all over the country. Four
hundred delegates representing over a
hundred schools were the guests of the
University of Minnesota.

The program for Thursday, the first
day of the conference, consisted of
registration at the Curtis Hotel, a wel-
coming address by Dr. J. Anna Norris,
a tour of the University campus con-
ducted by forty guides, a tea and
dance recital, and a banquet at which
copies of the six-page college daily
newspaper were distributed as favors.
Friday was devoted to round table dis-
cussion groups and another formal
banquet, unfinished discussion and re-
vision of the constitution.

Miss Helen Hazelton, director of
the physical education department at
Purdue, was the head speaker of the
convention. She spoke Friday on
"Pioneering in i936." Miss Blanche
Trilling, physical education director
at the University of Wisconsin, talked
on "Then and Now"; and Dr. William
A. O'Brien, associate professor of
pathology at Minnesota, spoke on
"Physical and Mental Hygiene."

The next national conference will
be held at Berkeley, California, in
1939, which is the year scheduled for
the California Exposition and the
opening of the San Francisco bridge.

Latimer, Chafin To Take Leads;
Fourteen Girls Comprise
Entire Cast

Year's Best Actress Wins Cup

Dr. J. R. McCain
Speaks at M eet

Dr. J. R. McCain, president of Ag-
nes Scott College, attended the meet-
ing of the executive committee of the
Association of American Colleges,
which met in New York during the
week of April 27. On Monday of that
week, he addressed a gathering of stu-
dents in Washington, D. C.

Dr. McCain leaves today to inspect
Furman University in Greenville,
South Carolina, for the establishment
of a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa there.
He will return to Agnes Scott on
Thursday.

Librarians Go To Meeting

Miss Edna Hanley and Miss Laura
Colvin, librarian and assistant librarian
of Agnes Scott, will attend the annual
meeting of the American Library As-
sociation in Richmond May 11-16.

Carrie Phinney Latimer and Myrl
Chafin will take leading roles in Alice
Gerstenberg's "Playing the Game," to
be presented May 30 by Blackfriars as
their annual commencement play. Miss
Gerstenberg is well known for her suc-
cessful adaptation of "Alice in Won-
derland" for the New York stage.

The play is of unusual interest be-
cause its cast consists only of girls.
The characters are as follows:

Mrs. Roger Wyndham Carrie Phin-
ney Latimer.

Amy Ola Kelley.

Claribel Elizabeth Cousins.

Glee Myrl Chafin.

Natalie Kitty Printup.

Tabitha Mary Past.

Miss May Jefferson Mary Ann
Kernan.

Vivian Mary Gillespie.

Bernice Kay Kennedy.

Marcia Addington Joyce Roper.

Mrs. Benjamin Clark Jane Turner.

Mrs. Eugene Meakins Alice McCal-
lie.

Amelia Pike Lucille Cairns.

The Maid Jean Bailey.

The plot is a humorous story of a
widow and her three daughters who
try to improve their petty fortune of
ten thousand dollars by marrying the
only unmarried daughter, Glee, to a
multi-millionaire. Hence they must
"play the game," and they do so by
lending their ermine opera cloaks and
red satin dresses to Glee who is eager
to do the right thing but is unfortu-
nately in love with a poor young man
and finally loses the rich man to a
plain type of girl.

At the end of this play, which is the
third and last of the year, a loving cup
will be awarded to the girl doing the
best individual acting for the year.

S. Johnson to Give
Recital in Chapel

To complete the requirements for a
music certificate in organ, Sarah John-
son will give a recital in Gaines Chapel
next Friday evening, May 8, at eight
o'clock. The string ensemble, under
the leadership of Nell Hemphill, will
assist her. The program includes:

"Concert Overture in B Minor"
Rogers.

"Toccato and Fugue in D Minor"
Bach, Sarah Johnson.

"First Movement by Piano Concerto,
Opus 46" Schumann, Nell Hem-
hill with second piano, organ and string
ensemble.

"Piece Horoique" Cesar Franck.
"In Summer" Charles Stebbins.

"Intermezzo" Collerts, Sarah John-
son.

"Largo" Handel.

"The Swan" St. Saens, String en-
semble.

"Toccato in G" Dubois.

Mary Virginia Allen Has Fellowship
At University of Toulouse Next Year

Miss Mary Virginia Allen, '3 5, re-
ceived one of the forty-two scholar-
ships for study abroad that the Min-
istry of Education in France awards
to Americans attending schools having
French exchange students. She will
study for a year at the University of
Toulouse in southern France.

This award, made through the In-
stitute of International Education in
New York City, is won this year for
the seventh time by an Agnes Scott
student. The former winners include
Helen Hall, who was unable to accept
the award because of the war; Vivian

Little and Elizabeth Cheatham, who
studied at Paris and at the University
of Toulouse; Mary Sprinkle, who went
to the University of Grenoble; Miss
Martha Crowe, now a member of the
French department, who studied at
Lyons; and Thelma Richmond, who is
now at Toulouse. Sarah Wilson took
her junior year at Paris and returned
to be graduated from Agnes Scott.

Five French exchange students ha^
attended Agnes Scott since September ,
1928, and one of them, Marguerite
Jarrard, stayed here for three yea.,
and graduated.

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No. 22

CAMPUS PLEDGES
ARE DUE

With a goal of $15,000, the
campus campaign for Greater
Agnes Scott closed April 19,
1935, with pledges amounting to
$24,072.22 from the faculty, the
four classes of the College, and
the organizations. By July 1,
1935, the entire $450,000 neces-
sary for the developments pro-
gram had been promised, with
part of it guaranteed by under-
writers.

Work began last June when
the infirmary was turned around
and Westlawn, the home of sev-
eral faculty and administration
members, was moved to College
Place. The cost of moving and
remodeling these buildings
amounted to approximately $4,-
000. New drives and walks were
constructed for about $12,000,
and a concrete tunnel was ex-
tended from Buttrick to the
Candler Street side of the gym-
nasium for about $15,000. After
a conference, the trustees and
the General Education Board de-
cided to use the $100,000 for en-
dowment instead of a n e w
science building, as the rate of
income on general investments is
so low and as the cost of the up-
keep of a science hall would be
so high. At the same time, they
invested $230,000 in the library
instead of the $200,000 as
planned.

Then, too, some of the money
has been spent in buying about
four acres of land from the Scott
Investment Company with the
idea of eventually building a
lake behind the campus. The
College has also purchased about
200 yards below the steam plant.

Having already invested these
sums of money, the College is
desirous that all the pledges be
paid by July 1, the stipulated
date. The three classes have
worked this year to meet their
obligations: the seniors with dry
cleaning, the sale of sandwiches,
and the proceeds from Mardi
Gras; the juniors with the sale
of dresses, chocolates, hunkies,
and rummage; and the sopho-
mores with the sale of rummage.
But there is still a campus debt
of over $7,500. Mr. R. B. Cun-
ningham, business manager, has
compiled the following figures:
Pledges 19:^5 Effort (Campus)

Faculty $14,210.25

Class of 1935 2,071.95

Seniors 1,957.19

Juniors 2,244.48

Sophomores 1,747.05

Organizations 1342,00

Paid To Date

Faculty $11,511.25

Class of 1935 1,039.00

Seniors 979.50

Juniors 840.50

Sophomores 741.60

Organizations 1,422.05

$16,533.90

These results mean that the
faculty owes $2,699 ; the class of
1935, $1,032.95; the seniors,
$977.69; the juniors, $1,403.98;
the sophomores, $1,005.45; and
the organizations, $420.95. This
makes a total of $7,536.02 of the
campus campaign pledges that
are as yet unpaid.

Although the campus sub-
scribers are paying better than
the average off -campus subscrib-
ers, there is great necessity for
an increase in their payments.
For last year, in order to close
the campaign successfully, a
group of friends of the College
had to underwrite part of the
money pledged during the last
month ; these underwriters may
have to expend actual cash if the
quota is not reached by July 1.

Editor's Note: This column is conducted in
order that students may express freely their
opinions about campus affairs. The staff does
not assume responsibility for articles appear-
ing here.

For four years now, spring, rue
month of May, the twitting of the lit-
tle birds, and the blooming of the lit-
tle flowers and the big trees have
meant nothing more to me than term
papers and this is probably true of
every other senior on the Agnes Scoct
campus.

Life goes on smoothly for four
months or so and then term papers
become due. For those students ma-
joring in English or history or both,
the last month of school is absolutely
unbearable. There are many cases of
girls who have five term papers all
due at approximately the same time
and all requiring considerable research
and organization and careful writing.

It is not so bad when teachers either
give cuts or discontinue assignments
for a period in order to give students
time to write a reasonably good paper
without spending their lunch hours
and nights doing it. Those teachers,
however, who require attendance at
every class meeting, who continue, in
spite of everything, to give assign-
ments requiring two or more hours for
every class, and tests, and then expect
well-written, well-documented papers
on time came into this world a lit-
tle late: slave-driving is the profession
to which their talents are suited.

At some of the largest universities
in the country there are rules as to
the number of term papers a student
may be required to write during a
term. It should be possible for some
such regulation to be put into force
here: for papers to be scattered
throughout the term, or for cuts to be
required, or for papers to be substi-
tuted for exams.

EXCHANGES

While the outside surface of the
sun is only 6000 degrees centigrade,
Dr. T. E. Sterne, astrophysicist of
Harvard College Observatory, recent-
ly guessed that the internal temper-
atures of some stars must be as much
as 1,000,000,000 degrees centigrade.
We say "guessed" because there is no
known way of making actual determi-
nation. Scientific American.

Sinclair Lewis Depicts

Terrifying U. S. Picture

// Cant Happen Here: Sinclair
Lewis. Doubleday, Doran and Co., N.
Y. 193*. 52.50.'

The very idea of the United States
under a dictator was preposterous to
Doremus Jessup, editor of a small
town Vermont newspaper. "It can't
happen here," he said. But it did. Or
at least it does in Sinclair Lewis' lat-
est novel, in which he gives his imag-
ination full play and depicts for us a
terrifying picture of what "the land
of the free" might become in the
hands of an unscrupulous president.

Berzelius Windrip soon exchanges
his president's chair, to which he was
elected in 195 6, tor the throne of a
dictator. The horrors which ensue
seem those of the French Revolution,
Red Russia and modern Germany com-
bined. Through the eyes of Doremus
Jessup, his family and their friends,
we see innocent men killed because of
their opposition to the "Corpos," and
others sent to concentration camps to
be "reconditioned to comprehend the
new day of authoritative economic
control," while manual laborers and
professional criminals take the govern-
ment in their hands.

Naturally such subject matter af-
fords excellent opportunity for social
and political satire and Mr. Lewis is
not one to let such an opportunity
pass. From beginning to end the four
hundred fifty pages are teeming with
the bitter satire typical of this author.
The material also provides ample op-
portunity for characterization, but of
this opportunity Mr. Lewis does not
avail himself. The numerous persons
whom we meet, especially the women,
never quite become real to us. As for
the plot itself, the incidents succeed
each other rapidly after the story is
finally under way, and interest in the
action itself is fairly well maintained.

As literature, this latest effort of
the author of Babbitt, Main Street,
and Arrowsmith will probably have no
standing whatsoever. But those who
are interested in Communism, Fascism,
and world affairs in general, may be
sure of finding in // Cant Happen
Here enough ideas to stimulate their
thoughts for weeks to come.

(Review of this book through cour-
tesy of Rich's Book Shop.)

S24.072.92

NO COMMENCEMENT
AGONISTIC

THE AGONISTIC staff would
like to publish a commencement
edition, but for financial reasons
finds it impossible. Although we
realize that a paper containing
the commencement addresses,
the announcement of awards,
and the class history, will, poem,
land prophecy would be of espe-
i cial interest to the seniors, we
do feel that it would be neither
wise nor right for us to incur a
I debt that would mean postpone-
ment of the payment of bills,
and that would probably con-
i tinue for the next staff to bear
I when it comes into office. Hav-
ing had a campaign pledge to
meet this past year, THE AGO-
NISTIC has had an unusually
hard time in monetary matters.

Since the budget should sup-
ply funds for twenty-two is-
sues of the paper, and this year
is supplying them for only twen-
ty, the commencement edition
would have to be published at an
expense much greater than we
can afford, especially since it
would have to be twice as large
as the regular AGONISTIC. So
we would like to assure the sen-
iors that we wanted to publish
this special paper, but it would
be unfair to pass the resulting
large debt on to the next staff,
we are unwilling to do it. Per-
haps nest year there may be
enough money to continue the
i project as we wish we could.

The Joachimsthal region of Czecho-
slovakia is celebrating the extraction
of radium there just forty years ago.
This calls to mind the fact that in
that time just 100 grams have been
produced, the average yield at present
being just three grams per year. The
yield, however, can be increased upon
demand to eight grams yearly.

Scientif ic A merican.

The French government again has
awarded to Davidson College medals
to be given to the best students in
French in the graduating class. Le
Cercle Francais has drawn considerable
interest from the French consul, Mon-
sieur de Verneuil, for its extra-curricu-
lar work in the French language.
Davidson is singularly honored in this
award in that no other college in North
Carolina has ever received this recogni-
tion, so far as can be learned. David -
sania >/.

F. D. Roosevelt played guard at
Groton School and later was on the
Harvard squad.

Herbert Hoover was manager of
Stanford U. eleven in 1 894.

Wood row Wilson was the first
Princeton coach to defeat both Harv-
ard and Yale, originated the double
pass, and was responsible for the mod-
ern eligibility rules. The Tiger.

Highway police in Utah are equip-
ped with small motion-picture cameras
to take pictures of any person jeopar-
dizing the highway safety. Most fre-
quent use so far has been in taking
movies of motorists suspected of
drunkenness. Of the first fifty-two
cases so photographed, forty-eight
pleaded guilty after they had a look
at the films. Three of the remaining
four were convicted when the jury
saw the movies. Wall Street Journal.

Foreign Correspondent

Writes Fearless Expose

Old George, the wooden statue of
George Washington, is to remain atop
the cupola of the Central Building
even though the rest of Washington
and Lee is to be renovated. The V.
M. I. Cadet.

I Write As 1 Please: Walter Duran-
tv. Simon and Schuster, New York.
193*. S3. 00.

Reviewed 69 Lelia Carsons

It was a foreign correspondent's
narrow escape from death, the ulti-
mate fear, which rendered him fear-
less of the opinion of his boss and of
his triends and which made it possi-
ble for him to give us a book as re-
freshing as its independent title.

There are innumerable stories of
foreign correspondents who have met
with equal nonchalance, death and
celebrities, until both have become
commonplace. Even the supply of
startling facts concerning post-war
Russia, the most engrossing political
experiment of the age, has become al-
most exhausted. It is not, therefore,
the subject matter which makes this
book different, but the writer. We be-
come acquainted not only with the
progress of the U. S. S. R., but with
one of the most colorful personalities
of the day. No one is better qualified
to give a clear unbiased report of Bol-
shevism than Mr. Duranty.

Made impervious to sentimentality
by his experience as a war correspond-
ent, and possessed of the ability to
grasp a situation accurately, he has ac-
complished the impossible he has
written to please the Bolsheviks, his
public, and himself.

INVITATIONS ON THE BOOK-
SHELVES
Fiction

Sparkenbroke: Charles Morgan. Mac-
Millan Co. N. Y. 1936. $2.75.

The Sixth Beatitude: Radclyffe Hall.
Harcourt, Brace. 1936. $2. SO.

Jamaica Inn: Daphne du Maurier.
Doubleday, Doran. 1936. $2.50.

Sacrifice: Harmon Bellamy. Wm.
Godwin. N. Y. 1936. $2.00.

Chanty of the Keys: Lydia de Bech-
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The Vanishing Idol: George Gibbs.
Appleton Century Co. 1936. $2.00.

The World Over: Edith Wharton.
Appleton Century Co. 1936. $2.00.
Non-Fiction

Around the World in Eleven Years:
Patience, Richard and John Abbe. N.
Y. Frederick A. Stokes Co. 193 6.
$2.00.

My Life and Work: Dr. Adolf Lo-
renz. Scribner's. $3.00.

The Story of a Novel: Thomas
Wolfe. Scribner's. 193 6. $1.5 0.

Noah Websters Harry R. Warfel.
MacMillan. $3.00.

European Youth is More Energetic
Than Students of American Colleges

By Lucile Dennison
The manifestation of the existence
of some degree of unity and purpose
in some of the college student portion
of Young America in peace sentiments
at least, provides subject for compar-
ison with the youth activities of other
countries. The more outstanding
world powers have a young genera-
tion of either of two obvious classes:
one which is moderately or even slight-
ly active or one which is extremely en-
ergetic.

Under the three famous dictator-
ships, those of Italy, Germany, and
Russia, members of the younger gen-
eration, not as individuals but as a
group, find most prestige and power.
The Fascist movement in its beginning
was pushed by the younger people.
Now the children of its organizers and
their contemporaries are being edu-
cated to Fascism from infancy. In 1932
half of the Italians between the ages
of 8 and 18 belonged to the Bat ilia. Of
course there has been opposition to
Fascism in which the younger gener-
ation has participated. A young polit-
ical prisoner in the Roman prison re-
ported that the majority of political
prisoners there in 193 2 were under 3 0.
This does not hinder the fact that a
majority of the Young Italians are giv-
ing either nominal or sincere support
to the Fascist state and that they arc
being educated and organized to that
end.

In Germany and Russia this organ-
ization of the youth around the state
and for the state ideal is repeated with
perhaps the exception that here is found

a greater degree of youthful enthusi-
asm. Russian youths predominate in
the direction of the new industries
and in the new music, art and litera-
ture. Russia is often called the "land
of Youth." German youth societies
starting with pre-war walking groups
have grown to efficient, systematized
Hitler organizations which train the
youth through Nazi ideals to be fu-
ture Nazi leaders. Hitler, Mussolini
and Stalin seem to need the energy and
idealism of the youth to make their
governments go.

Even in England where the younger
generation is of that less active type
there has been noticed a growing seri-
ousness and idealism. This is attribu-
ted to a realization of the implication
of the recent world crisis. There have
been walking societies organized so
similar to the German ones of pre-war
days as to seem ominous to some. Since
193 1 the Youth Hostel Association has
provided stopping places for the
"Wanderers."

The belief of some that a vigorous
youth organization may be an omen of
a change of government and that of
others that such an organization gives
a desirable exuberance, vitality and
idealism to national affairs leaves the
question open as to whether the feeble
sign of a possible youth movement in
the United States should be viewed
with alarm or with satisfaction. It is
certain that a union of young people-
does have great potentialities poten-
tialities which may or may not be used
for good.

The Agonistic

3

Faculty Have Various Plans

For This Summer's Vacation

Some to Teach School in Portugal, New York, North Carolina;
Others Will Travel Abroad or Remain Home to
Study, Write, or Garden

With plans varying from teaching
in foreign universities and traveling in
all parts of the world to "staying at
home," and doing "nothing in par-
ticular," the Agnes Scott College fac-
ulty awaits the advent of commence-
ment and the arrival of summer.

Assistant Professor Melissa Cilley
looks forward, after a Mediterranean
trip including Gibraltar, Algiers, Sic-
ily, Naples, Athens, Turkey, Syria,
Palestine, and Cairo, to teaching com-
parative literatures at the summer ses-
sion of the University of Coimbia, the
national university of Portugal, from
July 20 to August 30.

Another of the faculty who plans
to combine work with pleasure is As-
sistant Professor Margaret Phythian,
who will sail on August 6 for France,
and before going to the University of
Grenoble to study, will spend some
time in the highest parts of the Alps.

Also spending their summer abroad
are Assistant Professor Leslie Gaylord,
Miss Carrie Scandrett, and Miss
Blanche Miller, who will travel through
Europe with a party.

Several members of the faculty will
continue teaching, nearer home: Asso-
ciate Professor Emma May Laney, As-
sociate Professor Florence Smith, and
Professor George Hayes at Hunter
College, New York; and Professor
Philip Davidson at the University of
North Carolina.

Miss Frances K. Gooch plans to go

JUNIORS PLAN FOR
BANQUET HONORING
GRADUATING CLASS

to New York to study, write, and at-
tend the latest Broadway plays. Pro-
fessor Mary Stuart MacDougall will
spend June and July on a fellowship
at the biological laboratory at Moun-
tain Lake, Virginia; August at the
laboratory at Wood's Hole, Massachu-
setts, and the period from September
7 to 11 at a conference at Harvard
University. Assistant Professor Janef
Preston will remain at home in Deca-
tur, to spend an "idyllic summer" in
studying and writing.

Several of the teachers will spend
their summers at home, and several
more will spend theirs, as they express
it, doing nothing. Professor Lillian
Smith will spend some time with rela-
tives in Syracuse, New York, and will
go later to the beach. Professor Lu-
cile Alexander will be with her fam-
ily in Asheville, North Carolina, and
Associate Professor Louise Hale wall go
with her mother to New York. Pro-
fessor Catherine Torrance is planning
merely to remain at home in Decatur
to "keep house and do some garden-
ing;" and Professor Louise McKinney
and Dr. Mary Sweet "are considering"
St. Simon's. Associate Professor Eliza-
beth Jackson and Miss Martha Crowe
admit that they are contemplating
nothing in particular, while Associate
Professor Llewellyn Wilburn declares
that she simply "can't come to a deci-
sion."

Junior committees, headed by Mary
Elizabeth Morrow, are making plans
for the annual junior-senior banquet
to be held Friday night, May 29. The
banquet, honoring the seniors, takes
place each year shortly before com-
mencement.

The six committees and their mem-
bers arc: place cards, Julia Thing, Lu-
cile Barnett, Martha Johnson, Rose
Northcross; invitations, Frances Wil-
son, Dorothy Jester; decorations, Fan-
nie B. Harris, Louise Brown, Frances
Cary, June Matthews; favors, Florence
Lasseter, Jean Kirkpatrick, Kitty
Jones; transportation, Frances Mac-
Donald, A4ary Kneale; entertainment,
Alice Taylor.

Leonardo da Vinci, when painting
Mona Lisa, the most famous portrait
in the world, worked twelve years on
the lips. The Pasquino.

Miss Christie is Present
At Publicity Convention

Assistant Professor Annie May
Christie, of the English department of
Agnes Scott, attended the district
meeting of the American College Pub-
licity Association, held in Macon April
24 and 2 5. Publicity officers repre-
senting the University of Florida, Rol-
lins, Florida State, John B. Stetson,
Mercer, Wesleyan, and the Macon
Clumber of Commerce led discussions
concerning publicity through cata-
logues, pictorial books, and newspa-
pers. Professor A. A. Wilkinson pre-
sided over the discussions.

The southeastern states represented
were North Carolina, Tennessee, Ala-
bama, Georgia, Florida, and Virginia.

Paper Has New Reporters

Ten students will assume their du-
ties as reporters for The Agonistic
as a result of the spring tryouts, which
were held recently. Anne Purnell,
Marie Merritt, Alice Reins, Myrl Chaf-
fin, Louise Young, Frances Lee, Ken-
non Henderson, Mary Frances Kenne-
dy, Henrietta Blackwell, and Primrose
Noble are the new reporters.

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Secret Diaries
Disclose Gossip
Of Agnes Scott

Endless Term Papers Inspire
Girls to Pen Poetical Laments

Agnes Scouting

While gaily-clad gypsies and soldiers
have been flitting down an English
Lane, while the seniors have been hys-
terically misrepresenting 'Thoughst,"
and while the Spoken English classes
have been "breathing in an idea," your
faithful snoopers have been poking
around among the sacred pages of our
Agnes Scott diaries, and here's a bit of
what we've unearthed:

Martha Marshall at an A. T. O.
dance at Emory; Anne Purnell, Nancy
Moorer, Mary Malone, Frances Steele,
Ola Kelly, and others, at the Alpha Chi
formal at East Lake; Julia Porter with
Bobby Sewell at the Phi Delta Theta
dance; Isabel Richardson, Ruth Hunt,
Meriel Bull, Mary V. Smith, Bee Mer-
r ill, Loraine Smith, and others going
UJ the Theta Kappa Psi dance Wednes-
day night; Rosa Miller, to a dance at
Druid Hills Saturday night; and Loice
Richards, Alice Taylor, Meriel Bull,
and Alice Chamlee, at the Beta Kappa
dance at Tech Saturday night.

Hair Raising Experience
Leading Lady Mildred Davis.
Setting Back steps of Main on a

sunny afternoon.

Scene I Mildred busily drying her

hair.

Scene II Approach of a well-known
voice the Voice of Experience "My
dear, this is too public a place to wash
your hair. It is improper for an Agnes
Scott girl, etc."

Scene III Exit Mildred (oh, well
hair today, gone tomorrow!)

Campus Vignettes
Ray Kennedy, Mary Elizabeth Coop-
er, Kit Jones, and Punkin Espy skip-
ping gaily down Church Street in their
bare feet with their stockings and
shoes tucked cozily under one arm . . .
All of first floor Inman haunting the
telephone booth, anxiously awaiting
Lena Mae's phone call from G. M. A.
. . . Giddy Erwin, Pixie Fairly and
Petunia Hassell beating on staff room
windows and in various other ways
making public nuisances of themselves.
. . . Tommy Ruth, Carolyn Elliott,
Anne Taylor, and Jeanne Flynt being
hailed as high school girls in the big
city . . . Nell Allison helping the Ma-
rines to "keep the situation well in
hand." . . . Enid Middleton being the
proverbial life-of-the-picnic at Stone
Mountain by falling from a moss-cov-
ered log to "ye olde rippling stream
below."

Students, Afflicted With Writers' ( ramp and Spring Fever, Voice
Vehement, Emotional Dirges as Season Brings
Inevitable Papers

Wordsworth, the poet, has defined
poetry as ''the spontaneous overflow
of powerful feeling." In the light of
this definition the verse of late inspired
by term papers plus tests sans cuts is
true poetic expression whose chief
characteristic is that of "high serious-
ness" as Matthew Arnold would say,
had he the privilege of criticizing it.
Consider that highly poetical
I think that I shall never see
The day when someone says to me,
To me who has term papers four,
You needn't write them any more.
Touching because of their sensuous
details are such passages as
The rainbow comes and goes
And lovely is the rose
But what know we of these heav-
enly sights,
We, who are slaving days and nights.
Or

Behind him lay the gray Azores
Behind the gates of Hercules,
Columbus sailed to foreign shores,
But never had he trials like these.
Then for sheer accuracy of expres-
sion there is

Tell me not in mournful numbers,
Life would be long, endless slum-
bers,

Were it not for countless papers
Written for the Hayes and Rapers.
Also there is the little pearl of wis-
dom

Lives of great men all remind us,
We can make our lives sublime
If, somehow, we leave behind us

Five term papers in on time.
Poems not only manifesting the
overflow of emotion but also ones
which succeed in transmitting the at-
mosphere of dawn are

Between the dark and the daylight
When Chanticleer gets out of bed,
I push my index cards from sight
And place an ice pack on my head.
The day is done, and the darkness
Falls from the wings of night;
While others are enjoying leisure
I'm burning the midnight light.
And

I burn my candle at both ends;

It'll have to last the night,

For oh dear profs and ah my friends,

I've got a lot to write.

Exquisite for its subtle significance

and pre-Raphaelitic style is
The blessed damozel leaned out
From the Gold Bar of Heaven
And uttered Gee, I'm glad I'm here
Below, they have papers, seven.
Vehement in its utterance is that

masterpiece

It isn't raining rain to me
It's raining papers down
In every third floor room I see

Someone I'd like to crown.
As is that of the fair young archer

who emotionally overflowing cries out

against her own gross inaccuracy
I shot an arrow into the air
It fell to earth I knew not where
But if I had the same to do
I'd try to make the aim more true.

COLUMBIA SEMINARY
MUST RAISE $300,000
TO KEEP SITE HERE

Unless the sum of $300,000 is raised
by July 1, Columbia Theological Semi-
nary will unite with the Union Theol-
ogical Seminary in Richmond, Vir-
ginia. Dr. J. Sprole Lyons heads a
committee to raise the sum; other
members of the committee are Dr. J.
R. McCain and Dr. J. M. Richards,
president of the Seminary, represent-
ing the board of trustees; and Dr. D.
P. McGeachy, Rev. Richard Gillespie,
and Dr. Stuart Oglesby, representing
the community as a whole.

The Seminary has received a prom-
ise of $100,000 provided that the re-
maining $200,000 is raised. If $300,-
000 is secured in Atlanta, the com-
mittee will attempt to raise $200,000
more in the neighboring states.

Five Seniors, Palmour Go
To Augusta, Ga. on May 8

Miss Alberta Palmour, alumnae field
secretary, and five senior transfer stu-
dents from the Augusta junior college
will motor to Augusta next Friday to
attend a tea in honor of the junior
college graduating class. The tea will
be given at the home of Eugenia
Symms.

Mary Hull, Eugenia Symms, Kath-
erine Bishop, Kathryn Leipold, and
Carolyn White are the senior transfer
students who will make the trip with
Alberta Palmour.

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4

The Agonistic

Finals in Campus
Sports Take Place
During This Week

Clubs End Work With Final Meetings

Banquet Will Serve As Climax
For Tournaments in Vari-
ous Fields

This week is the date set for finals
in practically all campus sports. Com-
petition in archery, swimming, tennis,
golf, and horseback riding is drawing
to a close.

Agnes Scott has been participating
in a telegraphic archery tournament
sponsored by the National Archery As-
sociation. Eight students competed in
a Columbia round, which consists of
twenty-four arrows shot from a dis-
tance of fifty yards, twenty-four from
a distance of forty yards, and twenty-
four from a distance of thirty yards.
Scores have been posted as: Eloise Es-
tes, 295; Frances Cary, 2 5 9; Mary
Jane King, 2 5 0; Nell Scott, 241; Mary
Alice Baker, 231; Martha McAfee,
205; Ellen O'Donnell, 205 ; and Cor-
nelia Whitner, 196.

On May 6 Mary Kneale will defend
her tennis singles title against Frances
Steele. The match should prove es-
pecially exciting because of the out-
standing ability of both contestants.
Mary Kneale has made a surprising ad-
vance to the finals by winning thirty-
six out of forty-two games played. The
other finalist defeated Helen Handte,
one of the strong contenders, in a
close match 4-6, 6-4, and 6-0.

A swimming meet open to all swim-
ming classes and the swimming club
will take place the same afternoon at
four o'clock. Events for beginners in-
clude: crawl stroke for form, side
stroke for form, and back stroke for
form. Intermediates will compete in:
twenty-yard dash, free-style, and a
medley relay. Advanced events are:
diving, forty-yard free-style, forty-
yard back stroke, and twenty-yard
breast stroke races.

Following these two events the Ath-
letic Association will entertain all par-
ticipants in the year's sports activities
at a formal banquet.

In the riding contest at the Biltmore
Riding Academy, April 18, Lucile
Barnett placed second and Bee Merrill
placed fourth in horsemanship. lucile
Barnett and Lorraine Smith are to ride
in the Atlanta horse show at Fort Mc-
Phcrson April 8-10.

Chi Beta Phi Sigma
The regular meeting of Chi Beta
Phi Sigma was held on Monday night,
May 4, at 7:30 o'clock in the chem-
istry lecture room. Dr. Clinton C.
Howard spoke on "The Study of
Twins." This was an open meeting
and the college community was in-
vited to attend.

Music Appreciation Group
The Music Appreciation Group of
the Y. W. C. A. met on Sunday night,
April 26, at 7 o'clock in the music
room. The group studied Handel and
his works.

ALUMNAE NEWS

On the campus for May Day last
week-end were Rossie Ritchie, '34;
Margaret Robins, '3 5; Mary Virginia
Allen, '3 5; and several Charlotte, N.
O, alumnae, who brought with them
nine prospective students.

Two new alumnae addresses are:
Martha Ann (Rodgcrs) Turbyville,
'3 5, who is now living at Roland
Apartments, B-3, 10 5 S. Victoria,
Vent nor, N. Y.; and Evelyn Campbell,
'3 3, who is now at home at 1656 Stokes
Avenue, S. W., Atlanta.

Alberta Palmour, '3 5, will live in
the Alumnae House for the last month
ot this session.

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Bible Club
The regular meeting of the Bible
Club was held on Monday afternoon,
May 4, at 5 o'clock, in the Y. W. C.
A. room. Dr. Ryland Knight, pastor
of the Second Ponce de Leon Baptist
Church, spoke to the club. Election
of officers for the coming year took
place at this meeting.

B. O. Z.

The following officers for 1936-37
were elected: President, June Mat-
thews; secretary-treasurer, Jane Guth-
rie. New members of the club are:
Nell Hemphill, Giddy Erwin, Hiber-
nia Hassell, and Jean Bailey.

International Relations
The regular meeting of the Inter-
national Relations Club was held on
Tuesday afternoon, April 21, at 4
o'clock in the Y. W. C. A. room. The
secretary's report was read, and new
officers for the coming year were elect-
ed. The new officers are: president,
Margaret Watson; vice-president, Mary
Fairfax Stevens; and secretary and
treasurer, Jean Chalmers.

German Club
The German Club held its spring
try-outs on Wednesday, April H, and
Wednesday, April 22. The following
new members were admitted to the
club: Jane Turner, Nell Scott, Helen
Ramsey, Mildred Davis, Cornelia
Christie, Kennon Henderson, Elizabeth
Blackshear, Jane Guthrie, Jeanne
Matthews, Frances Norman, Elise Seay,
Jacquelyn McWhite, Martha Head,
Martha Summers, and Emily Harris.

Citizenship Club
The Citizenship Club elected the
following officers for the coming
year at a call meeting on Wednesday,
April 29: president, Frances Belford;
vice-president, Lucille Cairns; and sec-
retary and treasurer, Lucile Dennison.

Poetry Club

Poetry Club met on Tuesdav eve-
ning, April 14, at 8:30 in Miss Laney's
apartment in Ansley Cottage. Miss
Preston read some of her poems, and
the members of the club contributed
spring poems. Hortense Jones and
Carol Hale were hostesses at this meet-
ing.

At a short meeting on Tuesday
afternoon, April 2 8, new officers were
elected: president, Hortense Jones;
and secretary, Winifred Kellersberger.
The next meeting of the club will be
held on Tuesday night, May 12, at
8:30 o'clock at Miss Laney's.

Spanish Club
The last meeting of the Spanish
Club was held on Tuesday afternoon,
May 5, at 4:30 o'clock, in Mr. Dieck-
man's studio. An interesting cultural
program was presented. Assistant
Professor Cilley, of the Spanish depart-
ment, read a poem, and there was
music and dancing bv members of the
Club.

Granddaughters Club
There was a meeting of the Grand-
daughters Club yesterday afternoon
at 4 o'clock in the Anna Young House.

Alberta Palmour
Visits in Florida

Miss Alberta Palmour, alumnae field
secretary of Agnes Scott College, has
returned from a trip to Florida, where
she made contact with the principals
of high schools throughout the state.
Miss Carrie Scandrett, assistant dean,
accompanied Miss Palmour for half
the trip.

They visited schools in Gainesville,
Tampa, Miami, Winter Haven, Jack-
sonville, Ocala, Orlando, Tallahassee,
and other cities. In Gainesville, they
stopped at Mary Jane Tigert's home,
and at Amelia Bond's in Winter Haven.
They made short trips in the immedi-
ate vicinities of these cities.

Espy. JcnesIVame
New Aurora Staff
Of Twelve Girls

The 1936-37 staff of the Aurora,
campus literary magazine, will under-
take its duties when it edits the final
issue which will appear May 15. Eliza-
beth Espy, editor, has appointed her
staff, which consists of: Nell Allison,
June Matthews, and Carol Hale, as-
sistant editors; Anna Margaret Riep-
ma, book editor; and Douglas Lyle,
exchange editor.

The business staff includes: Kitty
Jones, business manager; Ola Kelly,
Zoe Wells, and Rosalinde Richards,
business assistants; Mary Buchholz,
circulation manager; and Tommy
Ruth Blackmon, assistant circulation
manager.

Phi Alpha Phi To Announce
Cup Winner at Banquet

Pi Alpha Phi, debating society of
Agnes Scott College, will give its an-
nual banquet on Thursday, May 7, in
the Silhouette tea room. The club will
discuss its plans for next year, consid-
ering especially the question of

w hether or not to render decisions in
debates.

As the climax of the banquet, as
well as of the year's activities, Profes-
sor George P. Hayes will present a lov-
ing cup to the girl who has done the
most outstanding work during this
session. Last year Edith Merlin won
the cup.

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Health Contest
Is Friday Night

Entrants from all campus organiza-
tions are to compete in the annual
health contest which will take place
in Bucher Scott Gymnasium Friday
night after supper. Judges will choose
as "Miss Health" the girl who is most
nearly perfect in walking, standing
posture, foot position, weight, and
general health.

Last year Helen Handte and Nell
White shared the title and will not be
allowed to enter again this year. Other
"Miss Health's" in the history of the
contest have been Mary Perkinson,
Virginia Seers, Caree Lingle, Laura
Spivey, and Betty Lou Houck.

The contest is the final event on the
year's health program. The Athletic
Association and the physical education
department have cooperated through-
out the season to bring about good
health on the campus by sponsoring
hikes, plunge periods, and indoor
games.

Aluiiiiiae to Elect
Fourteen Officers
At Annual Meeting

Voting Will Take Place May 30;
Twelve Classes To Have
Reunion June 1

Elections of officers of the Alumnae
Association will take place at the gen-
eral alumnae meeting to be held Sat-
urday, May 30. A committee com-
posed of Penelope (Brown) Barnett,
'3 2, chairman; Martha Crowe, '27, and
Florence (Perkins) Ferry, '2 6, has
nominated the following:

President: Daisy Frances Smith, '24.

First vice-president: Janice Stewart
Brown, '24.

Second vice - president: Nannie
Campbell, '23.

Secretary: Dora (Ferrell) Gentry,
'26.

Treasurer: Margaret Ridley, '3 3.

Radio publicity: Ruth Moore, '34.

Newspaper publicity : Letitia (Rock-
more) Lange, '3 3.

Curriculum: Emma Pope (Moss)
Dicckmann, '13.

Tea room: Martha Stansfield, '21.

Local clubs: Sarah Slaughter, '26.

Grounds: Eloise (Gay) Brawlev,
'16.

Entertainment: Betty Lou (Houck)
Smith, '3 5.

Student loan: Kenneth Maner, '27.

Constitution and by-laws: Mary
(Crenshaw) Palmour, Institute.

The meeting will be held immed-
iately after the trustees' luncheon, for
which many alumnae are expected to
return to the campus. On Monday,
June 1, there will be luncheons and
dinners for the various classes. These
classes for which reunions are sched-
uled are '93, '94, '95, ' 1 1 , ' 1 2, ' 1 3 . ' 1 4,
'3 0, '3 1, '3 2, '3 3, and '35. Each class
has a local chairman in charge of the
entertainment.

Seniors Plan Class Day

At the annual Class Day exercises
on Monday, June L, Lulu Ames will
read the senior class prophecy, Lena
Armstrong the will, Mildred Clark the
poem, and Mary Richardson, the his-
tory. They were elected at a meeting
of the senior class held last Thurs-
day, April 3 0.

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

(Enmmrnrempnt Litton

VOL. XXI AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 1936 NO. 23

Reverend Morgan Urges Life
Of Seeking for Righteousness

Judge Florence E. Allen

Gives Editor|Interview

Delivered by
Rev, F. Crossley Morgan
Augusta, Georgia

I am deeply conscious of the honor
you have conferred upon me in invit-
ing me to bring the message to this
class on this occasion. I am deeply
conscious of the high privilege that
is mine; and yet, perhaps supremely,
conscious of the responsibility of the
Hour: The responsibility of an ambas-
sador, for I take it that I have been
asked to speak as an ambassador of the
Lord, Jesus Christ.

I suppose nearly always when you
invite someone to deliver the com-
mencement sermon you ask a minister
of the gospel. I wonder if we have
asked ourselves just why that is so:
Surely it is not because you are seek-
ing a message from that man as a man,
it is because you want a message from
him as an ambassador. That is to say,
you have not invited me to hear some-
thing from Frank Crossley Morgan,
you have invited me as an ambassador
because you want in this great hour
some word from the King, some mes-
sage from the Lord Jesus Christ. Any-
how, it is thus I have interpreted your
invitation and consequently I have
sought carefully and, I trust, prayer-
fully, for the word of the King for
you in this great crucial hour in your
lives. And as the result of that quiet
thought and meditation I bring you
from the King a precept and a prom-
ise, an appeal and an assurance, words
of counsel and words of confidence;
words that are found in that passage
of scripture I have read in your hear-
ing, the Gospel according to Matthew,
Chapter 6. Verse 33: "Seek ye first
his kingdom and his righteousness and
all these things shall be added unto
you.'"

Having laid down that great prin-
ciple he made certain spiritual appli-
cations, first of all in regard to alms,
and then with regard to prayer, and
fasting; and, having made those spirit-
ual applications, he made certain ma-
terial applications, first of all with re-
gard to weath, and then with regard
to the necessities of life.

This morning I read just that sec-
tion of the manifesto in which the
King is dealing with those material
applications concerning wealth, the
necessities of life, and it is in that lit-
tle section dealing with the attitude
of the subjects of the King with re-
gard to the necessities of life there
occur the words of our text: "Seek
ye first the kingdom of God, and Hisl

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By Mary Richardson
We are the largest class ever to be
graduated from Agnes Scott College.
One hundred and five of us, two-thirds
of the original class which so light-
heartedly entered in 1932, are leaving
tomorrow to go our separate ways. Let
us not say that our education is com-
pleted; let us say rather that we are
just beginning it but stop, I forget
myself. This is not the commence-
ment address, but the class history.
We are not those girls, I say, who
started in 193 2. We are changed by
what we have passed through. We
have lived and suffered, but we have
learned, we nave learned.

With purple and white ribbons
pinned bravely to our dresses, and
with the confident smiles of youth on
our trusting faces, we took over In-
man. "This is college life," we said
as we were whirled from the Alumnae
tea to the Student Government recep-
tion and the Grandmothers dance,
taking just enough time between to
write home for curtains twice as long
as the ones we had bought. We rented

Baccalaureate

REV. F. CROSSLEY MORGAN

Seniors Leave Their
Dearest Possessions
As Token of Esteem

By Lena Armstrong
To whom it may concern:

We, the senior class of Agnes Scott
College on this the first day of June
in the year of our Lord nineteen hun-
dred and thirty-six (193 6), being still
wholly and completely in possession of
our rather decrepit minds and facul-
ties, and being about to pass on to a
bigger and better existence than hither-
to, do hereby make, set forth, and pub-
lish this our last will and testament.
Section I
Article I To the college at large
we leave our blessing and the impres-
sion that the aforesaid college is a bet-
ter place because of our four years at-
tendance at the same aforesaid college.

Article II To the future gener-
ations of Agnes Scott College we do
bequeath two hundred and sixty-seven
(267) bricks of the new library.

Article III To our worthy profes-
sors we do bequeath the aching void
we have left in their classrooms. We
return with hearty thanks those jokes
which were not assimilated by us in
hopes that they will be more fully ap-
preciated in the future. As a mark of
our esteem we also give the faculty
permission to publish any of our start-
ing flashes of wit which might work
(Continued on page 6, column 1)

a mail box and found five letters in
it the second day. We stood in line
and people made out nice schedules
for us. Classes started, and we en-
joyed them, at first. Were we not the
valedictorian of our class in High
School? What was there for us to
worry about? But one day a notice
appeared: Special meeting of Fresh-
men, 10 P. M. in the chapel. We went
in, the lights went out, and the so-
called fun began. Need I recall to the
mind of any Senior the details of this
painful occasion? I trow not. And it
was only the first event in the two
days of Sophomore ''ratting." Fresh-
men appeared in dresses put on back-
ward and inside out, with stockings
of various hues on arms as well as
legs, and with distinctive coiffures.
Our stunt, at the end of the ratting
period was a dismal flop. We lost, and
were not able to forget our defeat for
more than a week, because the black
make-up would not come off, do what
we would.

Inman was to us the center of the
universe. We could not understand
the attitude of upper classmen who

(Continued on page 4, column 1)

Agnes Scott College
Commencement
Awards

At the forty-seventh commence-
ment exercises of Agnes Scott College,
held this morning in Bucher Scott
gymnasium, Dr. J. R. McCain, presi-
dent, announced the following honors:

The Hopkins Jewel, given in honor
of Miss Nannette Hopkins, Dean of
the College, to the member of the
Senior Class most nearly meeting the
ideals of the College:

Miss Alice McCallie, Chattanooga,
Tennessee.

Collegiate Scholarship, full tuition
for the next session awarded to the
member of the Junior, Sophomore, or
Freshman Classes who makes the best
all 'round record for the year:

Miss Mildred Davis, Orlando, Fla.

Honorable mention: Miss Enid Mid-
dleton, Birmingham, Ala.; Miss Frances
Cary, Greenville, S. C.

Quenelle Harrold Fellowship, the in-
come on $10,000 to be used for study
in graduate work:

Miss Lita Goss, Atlanta, Ga.

(Continued on page 6, column 3)

Classes Honor '36
At Varied Parties

The entertainments in honor of the
senior class this year included a sopho-
more-senior luncheon, a senior-soph-
omore breakfast, a junior-senior ban-
quet, and a senior picnic.

The sophomore-senior luncheon was
given on Saturday, May 23, at Druid
Hills Golf Club. The junior-senior
banquet was held also at Druid Hills
on last Friday night, May 29. The
Emory Aces furnished music for danc-
ing.

The seniors were given a picnic by
their faculty advisers, Miss Blanche
Miller and Miss Carrie Scandrett, on
Thursday, May 2 8, at the Venetian
Club in Decatur. The seniors enter-
tained the sophomores yesterday at
breakfast at the Atlanta Athletic Club.

On last Sunday after dinner, Dean
Nannette Hopkins and Miss Scan-
drett were hostesses at faculty cof-
fee to which were invited the seniors
and their parents and friends.

Yesterday afternoon after class day
Mortar Board served tea in the Alum-
nae Garden to seniors and their par-
ents.

These functions are a traditional
part of Agnes Scott commencement;
they are given each year in honor of
the outgoing class.

Chamlee Announces
Many Engagements

At the annual luncheon given by
the Board of Trustees of Agnes Scott
College in honor of the seniors and
alumnae, held on last Saturday, May
3 0, in Rebekah Scott dining room,
Miss Nelle Chamlee, of the Alumnae
Association, announced the following
engagements:

1929 Dorothy Hutton to Edward
Mount, of New York City, the wed-
ding being yesterday in Savannah.

Gladys Austin to William Ellis
Mann, of Chester, Pa., the wedding to
be June 27.

(Continued on page 6, column 4)

PHI BETA NAMES SIX
AT SECOND SERVICE

Lena Armstrong, Janet Gray, Au-
gusta King, Agnes J. McKoy, Marie
Townscnd, and Mary Walker were
elected to Phi Beta Kappa at the regu-
lar spring announcement of the Agnes
Scott chapter, on Friday, May 29. Pro-
fessor Philip G. Davidson, president of
the Georgia Beta chapter, presided.

Initiation of the new members was
held Saturday afternoon and a ban-
quet was given in their honor at 7:00
Saturday night in the Alumnae House.

Commencement

JUDGE FLORENCE ALLEN

Class Prophet Finds
Buttrick Elevator in
Odd Futuristic Mood

By Lulu Ames

I was riding in the Buttrick eleva-
tor, as is my custom, some weeks back
when a queer and curious thing hal-
lucination perhaps we psychologists
might call it took hold of me. The
sedate but reliable elevator seemed to
be moving at an almost indecent speed,
perhaps four and a half miles an hour,
assuming that it would run for an
hour, and apparently with no definite
end in view. On we rode, the eleva-
tor and I, past the third floor where
I, but not the elevator, wanted to
stop and on still higher up. "Hmmm,"
I said, "you will be responsible if I
am late to class," I knowing very well
that the elevator could do little to get
me an acceptable excuse for tardi-
ness; and "I," sez I to the elevator, "I
thought you worked on the honor sys-
tem" try to get on her, that is, if
you can get it away from the ground
floor Buttrick customers. But the ele-
vator was sweetly unconscious of what
might turn out to be my plight and
it plowed its way higher up. Sez I,
as we, the elevator and I, crashed
through the roof of Buttrick, sez L
"How inconsiderate of you not to
think of the roof," but soon I, too,
had forgot the roof for before me
lay the whole campus, and I was at
last in a position to see all and know
all without asking questions . . . see-
ing and knowing all, as on that day,
was quite an experience. Telling all,
at this point, is even somewhat more
of one. For what lay before me was
not the current Agnes Scott but a
panorama and an inside job of the
lives of some hundred girls who once
inhabited the campus and stirred up,
in their time, some cause for pause.

There was, first of all, Adelaide
Stevens who now was devoting her
life and soul to the writing of an
adequate rule book a rule book that
would cover any occasion. Included
in the book was a map of local terri-
tory and it seemed I saw a large black
spot above which was written Avon-
dale in capital letters. Numbered
among Ad's assistants were Mutt
Cooper, Nell White, and Sallie Mc-
Ree. Helping her read proof on the
work was Carrie Phinney Latimer who
believes that any job should be done
well.

Great flocks of the hundred sum-
odd whose private lives I inspected
that morning were busying themselves
about the house, learning the gentle

(Continued on page 3, column 1)

It was almost inevitable that Judge
Florence E. Allen, of the United
States Court of Appeals, should have
turned to law as a profession. Her
father, a student of American history
and politics, was a member of the leg-
islature of Ohio for some years, and
then was a member of Congress. Vi-
vidly last night did Judge Allen de-
scribe herself and her sisters, all
youngsters, standing in their front
yard on election day, shouting "Allen,
Allen, C. E. Allen"; and their father's
satisfaction when he came home vic-
torious was more than matched by the
joy of the young Allen girls.

It was natural, too, that Judge Al-
len should have been a ready speaker
in the "Votes for Women" struggle
in Ohio; in her family the girls came
first. And when the call for woman
suffrage went out, Judge Allen
stumped 66 counties. "And," she said,
"I had a swell time."

In answer to an abrupt "How did
you begin?", Judge Allen told how
she spent two years in Berlin study-
ing music. Back home again, she did
her undergraduate work at Western
Reserve where she also received her
M.A. She went to Chicago for law
but took her LL.B. from New York
University. From there she came to
Ohio to practice; she collected $670
the first year. In succession she has
been assistant prosecutor, county
judge, judge of the Supreme Court of
Ohio, and now federal judge by ap-
pointment of President Roosevelt.

Two weeks ago she fell down the
stairs in her building; her mouth, she
said, was mangled and one tooth was
broken. The day following her acci-
dent, she appeared in court with a
mustache of adhesive tape. This inci-
dent, together with her excellent ad-
dress of this morning, are notable
memories of Judge Allen's visit to Ag-
nes Scott. There is, however, fore-
most in this mind at least, the picture
of Judge Allen as a little girl, stand-
ing in the front yard on election day,
shouting "Allen, Allen, C. E. Allen."

Dr.McCain Reviews
Development Fund

By Dr. J. R. McCain
While it is somewhat exciting to
conduct a financial campaign and very
thrilling to find loyalty and sacrifice
enough to win success, yet it is much
more pleasant to spend the money
which is raised through campaign ef-
forts. I take pleasure, therefore, in
reporting the expenditures of the
$45 0,000 which we secured last year.

By far the most important item in
our program is the building of a new
library. When we first began to plan
for this, we hoped that it could be
secured for $150,000. We have found
so many other interesting things
which we wish to include that the
contract price was finally $215,000.
It will take $15,000 more in order to
equip it and the Student Activities
Building.

The Library has many features
which are not ordinarily included in
such a building. On the main floor,
there is to be a very large reading
room, equipped informally with dav-
enports, easy chairs, floor lamps, and
other devices for comfort and enjoy-
ment. Books will be in evidence
everywhere. On cold days, an open
fireplace will give an added touch of
comfort and cheer.

On the floor below, there will be a
' room of equal size, though the ceil-

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Historian Recounts Essentials

Of Mo mentous Years, 1932-36

2

THE AGONISTIC

(tfyc Agonistic

Lulu Ames Editor

Alice Cham lee Business Manager

Cornelia Christie Salesmanager

BUSINESS ASSISTANTS
Ellen Davis

Sara Cureton
Helen Handte
Rosa Miller

Ruby Hut ton
Frances Miller

SALES ASSISTANTS
Mary Alice Baker
Jane Guthrie
Nell Allison

Carolyn Myers
Frances Chamblee
Frances Belford
Martha Head
Mary Jane Kinsr
Ruth Hertzka

"THE MOVING FINGER WRITES . .

SEPTEMBER

18 Agnes Scott gets started formally.
21 Formal reception for new students in Main.

26 Miss Florence Smith is promoted to associate professorship.

27 Freshmen sign Student Government pledge, therefore begin right.
Enrollment is announced as nearing 500.

OCTOBER

2 American Women lists seven faculty members.
THE AGONISTIC carries a story of Miss MacDougalPs degree which

she received from the University of Montpellier in July, 1935. De-
scription of her gown is included in the body of the article.

Miss Colvin, Miss Mitchell, Miss Griffin, Miss Palmour, Miss Crowe,
and Miss Miller are new this year, according to the Ag.

Anna Margaret Riepma is elected freshman stunt chairman and Ann
Worthy Johnson is named ditto for the sophs.

3 Richard du Bury Book Award of $25 is announced again.
Lucie Hess and Marcelle Cappatti express delight with Agnes Scott.
Proposals are made in open forum that a drinking fountain be added

to the current library and that convenient trash cans be placed
about in the vegetation of the campus. Protest is registered against
the closing of the library. All three matters are voted down.

4 Lena Armstrong wins the Aurora cover design prize and Lita Goss

makes numerous words about a new and revived Aurora which is
soon to appear on the campus.

Six Agnes Scott girls play in the Rabun Gap-Nacoochee Benefit in |
Atlanta.

Honor roll of 29 is announced.
6 Shirley Christian, in her first move toward a more democratic scheme
of things, abolishes the position of assistant editor for her publica-
tion; the beauty section, she announces, will be a matter of popular
election along with a judge's opinion.
9 Freshman Cabinet is elected.

Annual Y. W. Budget Drive reaches its goal in pledges; collections
begin on the first Y. W. Tuesday afterwards.

Agnes Scott will go on the quarter system beginning the fall of '36,
the Academic Council votes.

THE AGONISTIC carries its second interview and this one an ex-
clusive one with Senator "Young Bob" LaFollette.

Ada Foote leaves to join WPA forces in Mississippi; Miss Rosie Cris-
pin arrives to work in the library as an assistant.

11 Dr. McCain reveals that gateways into the campus may be a part. of

the planned improvements. The hockey field begins to be threat-
ened by the new library.
Mr. Ben Meyer of the Associated Press opens THE AGONISTIC
chapel series.

Sport season opens with class hockey games; the library still threatens.

12 Advance sale for Frost tickets reaches its heights; the lecture is set

for Nov. 7. Much talk has already been made concerning same.

13 Lita Goss openly requires that all copy for her magazine be in by

the 21st.

16 May Day scenario contest opens.

17 Ames, Chamlee, Christian, and Jones leave for Chicago; a convention

is the cause.
Spanish Club gets choosey and admits only three.

German Club takes in all who try out this time the number is nine.
A. A. U. P. is reported to have held its first meeting of the year.

19 Freshman win the stunt, likewise the Black Cat.

20 Sophomores make $20 on old clothes; merely a hangover from the

Victory Effort of the spring before.

22 Fritz Kreisler opens the All-Star Concert Series.

23 Plans are announced for new tennis courts below the once-was hockey

field; and hints are dropped concerning a camp to be built in the
woods back and down from the College.

24 Sunday dates and Y. W. Open House are new privileges granted.

30 Bids for the new library are opened.

31 Peace Ballots are mailed to every student and faculty member
NOVEMBER

I- 3 B. S. U. holds state convention in Atlanta.

1 Gym celebrates its tenth birthday.
Little Girl Day.

2 Investiture. Miss Scandrett speaks to the seniors who are now ex-

pected to lay aside childish things. Caps are affected by 102.

3 Miss Palmour leaves for an extensive six weeks trip into the other

southern states and Texas.

5 The $*&t Aurora is put in the mail boxes and becomes a permanent

piece of mail as it is a permanent publication.

6 According to a feature, Robert Frost's home reflects his personality.

7 Robert Frost opens the lecture series.

8 Mr. Lavens Thomas, of Emory, speaks on Peace and War for THE

AGONISTIC.

9 Dr. Logan speaks in chapel.

10 Mary McDonald, '34, comes to work in the Dean's office.

The College buys five acres of land back and down from the campus
for the camp of which there have been hints.

II Agnes Scott observes Armistice with a two-minute silence; Loice

Richards plays taps at the end of the period.

12 John Royle and Cuthbert James McCall Alport debate Sarah Cather-

ine Wood and Edith Merlin on Supreme Court. No decision.
Student demonstration for International Peace is held in chapel; Au-
gusta King hones for a "world of international lovers."

13 Construction has started on the new library; the hockey season is

ended.

THE AGONISTIC Peace Ballot falls flat as only 23 per cent of campus
responds.

14 Decatur fire officials confer with the campus fire fighters

^SA^l^^ ** f r annUa,S " f C0l,e * es 500
The National Symphony Orchestra of Washington, D. C, under the

te ^35^2 of Dr * Hans Ki Ner appears in Atlanta.

15 lb Christian \ outh Conference is held in Atlanta.
15 Fewer names are on Black List this year

M a f ^ r s t Cornmunit > r Chest Driv *; 00 is finally pledged after

El inor Hamilton

about 100 Agnes

16 Mortar Board holds its annual recognition service
Hightower. "34, speaks.
Shirley Christian announces the opening of a snapshot contest for the
Sil; she offers money as prizes so a lot of girls will try out.

22- 23 Blackfriars presents "Mr. Pirn Passes By."

23 According to the vote of the class, seniors "will wear caps and gowns
to chapel on Saturdays if they sit in the senior section. Lib Forman
appears in proper regalia and sits in the midst of her plainclothes
classmates.

Dr. McCain and Dr. Harvey Cox return from New York where they
have conferred with the General Education Board, the Harkness
Foundation, and the Carnegie Corporation about the possibility of
financial aid for an educational center in Atlanta.

25 Mr. Dieckmann's students appear in recital in Gaines Chapel.

26 Swimming Club presents "Antony and Cleopatra."

28 Thanksgiving; therefore holiday.

29 President Roosevelt speaks in Atlanta; miraculously another holiday.

30 New gym season begins; swimming is offered.

29-Dec. 1 Lulu Ames attends an editors' conference called by the National
Student Federation of America.
DECEMBER

1 La Argentina appears in Atlanta.

2 The first Red Candle Service of Y. W. is held.

4 Boarders vote to continue the habit of dressing for Wednesday night
dinner and the dining room continues to be full of empty chairs.

6 Tom Neblett, N. S. F. A. head, speaks in chapel.

7 Mortar Board entertains at tea in honor of the day students and their
parents; the faculty is present.

9 Lita Goss sends out an SOS and refuses to take material for the next
issue of her magazine after the 14th.

10 13 Mortar Board gives its annual parties for boarding sophs so that
they (the sophs) can meet young men.

11 German Club presents its annual (almost) Christmas play.

12 Charline Fleece is elected by the students to attend the annual con-
vention of N. S. F. A. Exec, elects Frances James as its delegate.

13 Mary Gray Rogers, Loice Richards, Nellie Margaret Gilroy, and Rosa
From are elected charter members of Agonistic Key.

Basketball season opens.

14 Faculty entertains seniors at a reception; stars mark the occasion.
Miss Palmour returns from Texas.

Y. W. gives a party for the underprivileged youngsters of DeKalb
county.

16 Ann Thompson and Charline Fleece win the May Day scenario contest
with "Down an English Lane."

17 Red-faced Agonextra appears quite unexpectedly in chaped.
Language clubs join in traditional campus serenade.

Dec. 18-Jan. 3 Christmas holidays.

Dec. 28- Jan. 1 Alice Hannah, Adelaide Stevens, and Winifred Kellers-
berger attend quadrenniel convention of Student Volunteer in Indian-
apolis.
JANUARY

6 Kagawa addresses a student meeting in Atlanta

Scott girls hear him.
9 Open Forum reveals hidden democratic principles in Shirley Christian
and rough-shod dittos in Lulu Ames. THE AGONISTIC changes its
way of electing its editor and the Sil persists in following the tried
and true method that was workable in the early days of the annual
but which may have become outmoded by now.
THE AGONISTIC sponsors a knit style show.

10 Day students are still talking about the vast and wonderful ice storm
of the holidays. Boarders are praying that such another storm may
come and close the College.

11 Mortar Board opens a drive for much money with which to re-decorate
the date parlors in Main. First contributor: Dr. McCain.

13 Ruth Slenczynski is presented in Atlanta.

15 31 Mid-winter rest period.

15 Ethelyn Johnson and Augusta King are named as candidates for the
Beck Scholarship Award.

17 Dr - McCain is named president of the Association of American Col-
leges.

22 Aurora appears for winter; time does bring all things.
FEBRUARY

1- 8 Low temperature interrupts work on library.

2 - Ground hog day.

Mildred Clark ties for first place in Atlanta Poetry Forum with her
sonnet sequence "Country Girl."

3- 5 Reinhardt's Midsummer Night's Dream is shown at the Georgia
theatre in Atlanta; the Shakespeare class makes a point of seeing it
one of the three days it's here.

6 Snow and Thornton Wilder.

7 Students nominate for May Queen.

8 Dean Walter Miller, of Missouri, makes the Phi Beta Kappa address.
Shirley Christian, Elizabeth Forman, Lita Goss, Ethelyn Johnson,
Edith Merlin, Sarah Nichols, and Mary Snow are announced as mem- 1
bers of Phi Bete. Moreover, Miss Stansfield, Miss Gilchrist, and ;
Miss Preston are named members.

Nelson Eddy sings in Atlanta. Oh yes, and Helen Jepson appears
with him.

Elizabeth McKee is Silhouette snapshot contest winner.
Eugenia Symms's picture is selected as "Spirit of Education."
11-15 Dr. S. D. Gordon makes a series of Quiet Talks as the annual re-
ligious week speaker.

14 St. Valentine's Day.

18 Eta Sigma Phi banquet with Dr. Hayes as speaker.

19 THE AGONISTIC Class Contest begins.
Jeff Cooper is elected May Queen with Virginia Turner as maid of

honor.

Faculty team wins Little Brown Jug.

20 Nominating Committee begins to meet; its first business is to approve
the new plan for the election of the editor of THE AGONISTIC;
Shirley Christian withholds her vote.

21 22 Alumnae Week-End.

22 Founder's Day.

25 Lita Goss wins Quenelle Harrold Fellow-hip. Mary Virginia Allen,

'35, is named as alternate.
27-29 Rosa From and Margaret Watson attend a conference of Interna-
tional Relations Clubs in Rock Hill, S. C.
MARCH

3 Sir Arthur Willert speaks.

5 Aurora presents a complicated plan for change in its elections; stu-
dents pass it.

6 Competitive exams for high school seniors for scholarships to Agnes
Scott are given.

Cast for May Day is named.
13-14 Alumnae sell daffodils on the campus.

Sun dial and bench get moved into center of the quad.
13 Annual Triangular debate with Newcomb and Randolph-Macon.

Miss Gooch reads "Much Ado About Nothing" in Gaines Chapel;
Shakespeare class in attendance.
19 Grace Moore sings in Atlanta.
19-20 Student elections.

{Continued on page 4, column 4)

We have approx-
thousand books

the D

evelopment

DR. McCAIN REVIEWS

DEVELOPMENT FUND

{Continued from page 1, column 5)
ing will not be so high; and this will
accommodate nearly two hundred
young women with regulation tables
and chairs which will be convenient
for study and note-taking.

On the south side of the building
will be arranged an open outdoor
reading terrace which can be used
most of the year. This will be equip-
ped with outdoor furniture, awnings,
umbrellas, and the like, and will be
accessible only from the library itself
and not from the outside.

On the second floor, there will be
a number of seminar rooms which will
be available for small groups of stu-
dents who wish to study together or to
have informal conferences. There will
also be carrels in the stacks for facility
members or for advanced students
who have special investigations to
make.

The third floor of the Library will
be arranged for a museum. This will
not be used immediately, as we do not
have the funds for an elevator at this
time; but, eventually, it will be one of
the most attractive features of the
campus.

The stack room will have a capacity
of more than one hundred thousand
volumes. It will be six floors in height,
but we are equipping only two floors
with actual shelving at this time, as
this will be ample for our present
number of volumes,
imately thirty-five
now.

Another item of
Program which will cost about $5,000
is the remodeling of the present library
for a Student Activities Building. It is
planned that this will be used for stu-
dents only, and will accommodate
most of the clubs, publications, and
other organizations which have been
so largely homeless in previous years.
The main reading room will be an ideal
recreation place for students who wish
to get together in large or small
groups.

We have spent about $4,000 to
move the locations for the Infirmary
and West Lawn and to improve these
buildings. They are much more at-
tractive in their new positions.

Another item of our improvement
has been the opening up of the drive-
way between McDonough Street and
Candler Street, and the connecting of
this road with the drivewav in front.
For the first time it is now possible to
drive through our grounds and see .ill
of the buildings without alighting
from automobiles. This improvement
cost $13,5 00, including the sewer
system which it was necessary for us
to install before the driveway could be
planned.

In order to take care of the im-
provements on the east side of the
campus, it was necessary for us to ex-
tend our steam tunnel so as to pro-
vide facilities for many years to come,
especially in the heating and lighting
of our present buildings and of the

proposed ones. This improvement cost
$10,000.

We have used $3,5 00 of the cam-
paign fund to purchase five and one-
halt acres of land on the south side of
the campus, running on both sides of
the car line for about four blocks.
This will enable us in the future to do
some very attractive landscape work
and will provide a site for a lake in
case we wish to develop one.

The remainder of our Development
Fund, amounting to $182,000 has been
added to the general endowment and
to scholarship funds.

We wish to thank very heartily all
of the people who have contributed to
the success of this effort. Any one
who sees the improvements which have
resulted will feel that the sacrifice has
been well worth while.

3

THE AGONISTIC

C lass Prophet Finds Buttrick

Elevator in Odd Futuristic Mood

{Continued from page \, column 4)
art of housekeeping among them I
saw Ellen Davis, Elaine Ahles, Cath-
erine Bates, Harriet Peck, Virginia
Coons, Willie Lou Sumrall, Rebecca
Whitley, Mary Margaret Stowe, Eve-
lyn Robertson, Gertrude Lozier, Mar-
tha Crenshaw, and Kathryn Leipold,
Mary Vines, Ovieda Long, Virginia
Williams, Elizabeth Strickland, and
Frances Miller. Not quite up to 67%
but pushing on nevertheless. A fine
perspective revealed to me a thriving
Granddaughters' Club back on the
campus a quarter of a century off!

Shirley Christian, too, it seemed
was married but her hands were not
so full with trying to learn to cook
as with trying to instil into the hearts
and minds of her own lads and lassies
a spirit of democracy that would carry
them through their college years at
least; hers was a difficult job, of
course.

Then there was Lita Goss who now
had become something of a whiz in
the literary world but who devoted
most of her earnings and they were
great to the support of the Lita Goss
Fund for the Maintenance of the
Aurora at Agnes Scott.

Mildred Clark, another follower in
the paths of fine writing during her
college years, had developed into
America's foremost woman poet and
had shoved the out-moded Millay clean
off her roost. Yet Mildred lacked,
she had felt, a certain glory of past
that had marked the career of Millay
there was, in short, a want of "pur-
ple patches" in her life. Whereupon
Mildred had set forth to the Reputa-
tion Consulting Bureau wh'ch adver-
tised a "Glorious Past for Ten Bucks
or Your Money Refunded; Our Cus-
tomers Never Complain," which high-
sounding business firm was headed up
by one President Floyd Butler whose
fame as a dispenser of gossip had fast
covered this country. Working under
her were a slew of her classmates
President Butler's motto was "Emplov
Agnes Scott and Keep it All in the
Family" there was Willie Leaks, crack
reputation splasher, whose territory
took in most of the places which we
might call "jurnts"; Frances James who
covered the higher-ups and scattered
the good tidings there; Sarah Catherine
Wood whose duty it was to keep the
foreign diplomats and debating teams
well informed on the past glories of
domestic notables; and Jane Thomas
who took care of everyone else. The
script-writer for the fabulous reputa-
tions which were so ably spread about
was said to be Loice Richards, whose
imagination had lost nothing with the
passage of years. Finances for the con-
cern were added and subtracted and
occasionally divided by Sarah Jones.

Irene Wilson had now become a
power in the Southern Baptist Con-
vention.

The Agnes Scott faculty had been
enlarged somewhat, in the meantime,
to meet the needs of the realized
Greater Agnes Scott: in the German
department, struggling side by s : de,
were Ethelyn Johnson and Celia Hoff-
man; Ethelyn's friendship with Sarah
Traynham was still in existence be-
cair-e Sarah labored nearby under the
careful eye of Miss Alec. Sara Law-
rence and Rosa From were both teach-
ing history and Augusta King had

taken charge of oral comprehensive
in government, now a thing of annua
occurrence.

The Latin department, too, was not
without its additions because I clearly
aw Bazalyn Coley almost pounding
into the heads of her freshmen the
uses of the ablative absolute while
Miriam Talmage did practically the
same to her freshmen when she taught
them the distinction in Greek between
mn and on.

Tibby Baethke had grown up to b?
a research person of some note; her
present problem was the discovery and
isolation of the polio bug; before tha'
she had worked on the discovery and
isolation of the polio bug; and soon
she planned to start on the problem
of discovering and isolating the polio
bug. At times, she declared, she feels
that perhaps there isn't a polio bug to
discover and isolate. Her experiments
were taking place in a fine, new hos-
pital, designed and constructed by Eu-
genia Symms and Mary Richardson
Inc., where Dr. Ann Martin was ch ef
of the psychiatry staff. Among the
nurses who jump when Dr. Martin
hollers "froggie" were Mary Hull,
Janet Gray, Dorothy Lyons, and
Sarah Turner. Head nurse at this
place was Alice McCallie who employs
the strong-armed methods she learned
from Miss Daugherty years past.
Ruby Hutton, who is a fool about
children, brings candy and ice cream
to the patients in the children's ward,
not primarily to upset their digestion
and make sick children of them as
Head Nurse McCallie insists; Ruby,
on the side, was THE piano for a
popular blackface orchestra whose
conductor was Lena Armstrong. Into
this hospital Mary Gray Rogers, now
an outstanding social worker, brings
her cases and since they are equivalent
to human guinea pigs, she demands
and receives free treatment for them
from Marion Derrick who controls
the business end of the establishment.

Teaching school around and about
were Elizabeth Burson, Ernelle Blair,
Ora Sue Jones, Lenna Sue McClure,
Marie Townsend, Mildred Chandler,
Mary Henderson, Mary Comely, and
Louise Jordan.

Gracing the covers of the magazines
of these times were luscious likenesses
of Jeff Cooper, Lavinia Scott, and Vir-
ginia Turner. Many of these pictures
were drawn by Tay Spencer and Vir-
ginia Gaines, both of whom have held
annual exhibits for the past decade.
These magazines for which Jeff, and
Lavinia, and Virginia decorate the cov-
ers were edited by Alice Cham lee who
occasionally joins the business staff
just to see that everything is all right
and that the publication isn't going
into debt and sometimes she goes
out and gets ads; it is a chain maga-
zine concern, competing with Mr.
Hearst. The chief short story writer
for Alice was Frances McCully. Also
Alice employs Edith Merlin as a spe-
cial article writer; Edith's field is not
only political and economic problems
but it is rumored that once she did a
masterly job on Matthew Arnold
whose classicism she has admired since
her senior year in college; the Arnold
article eventually found its way back
to Agnes Scott and was published in
the Alumnae Quarterly. Before it was
published however, it had to go
through the hands and under the pen-
cils of Louise Mclntyre and Betty
Roach who make their living by put-

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By Mildred Clark
When u Ords were fresh and writ-
ten thoughts were rare
The young unlearned sat with
pulsing breast
And heard old songs and tales in
feast halls, where
He sought to satisfy his mind's
unrest.

There, as the firelight played upon
the shields
At evening, he would slake his
fierce desire
To know, with stirring tales of bat-
tle fields
That filled his eager spirit with
new fire

lie Lamed the splendid deeds his
sires had done
Proving their staunch endurance
on the sea

And nightly left to meet the morn-
ing sun

Whetted and spurred to lice
more gloriously.
Always a sudden strange and rest-
less turning

To greater heights has followed,
after learning.

ting quotation marks and footnotes in
all matter that is submitted to the
Quarterly; as they say, it is better to
put them in before, you have to any-
way, and it just saves time!

The sole millionaire among that
group of girls was Maxine Crisler, who
knows really how to spend her dough.
Personal dress designer to her was Em-
ily Rowe.

Only one of the hundred has taken
to brightening the night life of the
nation one Dean McKoin was now
proprietor of a ritzy "jurnt", popular
with all sorts of life. Dean's club
had set a record the week before I saw
it by not being raided but three times
in that seven days. The club had, of
course, been closed for four days for
repairs but Dean, honest soul that she
used to be, was basing her bragging
on a seven day basis. A couple of her
hostesses were Mary Collier and Meriel
Bull In addition to keeping the police
out, Dean had to keep peace between
her chief aesthetic dancer, Helen Ford,
and her chief tap and anything-else
dancer, Jane Blick. Her only solution
to this problem had been to establish
an aesthetic night and a popular night;
the two dancers now resented each
other's crowd and having types of
nights didn't keep the police out any-
way as how could it when Captain
Helen Handte was in charge of raid-

ing the McKoin Sneak-In-When-You-
Can Club, that was, in fact, Captain
Handle's only duty!

Now come to be a swimmer of na-
tional and international fame, with
room after room of her fine home de-
voted to cups, was Ann Coffee.

Chemists of note were Mary Snow.
Mary Walker, Ellen Johnston, anL
Sarah Nichols.

Elizabeth Forman had devored most
of her life, so far, to translating, writ-
ing, and editing all the Latin work
she could get her hands on; these lit-
eral translations she sold at a reason-
able rate, having been a mathemati-
cian in her time she could figure ac-
curately at what price to sell them
and still keep alive. And the reason-
ableness of her prices had put the book
within reach of everyone in the Stare.
as a result, Lib's name had now be-
come a household word, as much a
Scott's Emulsion and Lyd'a Pinkhair
before our time, and her daily mai:
was made up of hundreds of note'
from small but grateful school chil-
d ren.

Head librarian down at the Carne-
gie was now Agnes McKoy who has for
her assistants Janie Norris and Fran-
ces Estes. There are rooms for typing
all over Carnegie now.

Among the rising movie ladies 1
found Sara Cureton, Katherine Bishop,
Sarah Brosnan, and Rosa Miller. One
of the foremost directors is Catherine
Cunningham whose experience with
May Day at Agnes Scott gives her
reason to believe that she can vie, and
successfully, too, with Reinhardt in
the matter of extravaganzas.

Lois Hart, Carolyn White, and
Gregory Rowlett are all miss : onaries.
Lois and Carolyn living in Korea
as the wives of missionaries and Greg-
ory a real missionary whose habit of
changing the customs of the natives
has drifted back to the States by way
of Dr. Lorraine Smith who travels
around the world every fall fast
boat, you know, three months and
lives in China the rest of the time.

Lilian Grimson has gone back to
South America and is introducing Ag-
nes Scott methods into the schools
there.

Sarah Frances McDonald and Myra
O'Neal have gone into the real estate
business and Jo McClure writes all
their ads and does stories for children
on the side. It is said that they have
gathered unto themselves quite a pile
of money.

Quite wonderfully I was aware of
events in Germany as well, and there
I saw Lucie Hess, who had gone to
Freiburg and following in the steps

of Ursula and Liselotte, had become
engaged and married and was now as
charming a Haus Frau as she had been
a student at Agnes Scott.

And in the country next door to
Germany, I saw Marcelle as the first
and supreme singer of France.

And the prophet herself? Indeed,
yes oh my my! I saw her, too.
There she lived in a cool southeast
room of the finest funny farm in th?
state of Texas. Her mornings she de-
voted to the reading of the eighr-pa^e
daily AGONISTIC which came in the
early mail and her afternoons were
given over to inciting, but without
success, the other inmates to rebellion
and strikes. At nights she was sleep-
ing.

About this time, the elevator was
becoming restless. I closed the door
again and pulled to the gate and sez,
sez I, "Shall I push a button or is this
still your party?" The elevator sat
and, since the scene had ended and I
was gazing immediately down on only
the new Library's top, and the eleva-
tor might be impatient, 1 punched a
button and decided, "Well, it'll be
mind over matter" I being the mind,
the elevator the matter, in case I won
and vice versa in case the elevator
chose to crash through the bottom of
Buttrick this time. Slowly we moved
down again and stopped on the third
floor; Dr. Hayes opened the door
"My!" he sez, "I have punched and
punched the button and nothing
came; I thought the elevator wasn't
working." "Hmmm," sez I, "the same
thought has occurred to me." "Was
it," he sez, "stuck on the second
floor?" "No," sez I, "not on the sec-
ond floor, nothing could have hap-
pened there." "Nothing," generalized
he, "ever happens in an elevator, does
<t?" I smiled at him blandly and got
out; for once I knew not only his
question but the answer to it and as
usual he thought the answer had me
stopped. But it hadn't. Things do
happen in an elevator don't they?

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Commencement Guests

Among the relatives and friends
who are here for graduation are the
following:

Mr. and Mrs. S. J. McCallie, Dr.
and Mrs. R. L. Ware, Miss Tommie
Duffy, Miss Eula Jarnigan, and Mr.
and Mrs. S. J. McCallie, Jr., all of
Chartanooga, Tennessee.

Mr. and Mrs. Julian S. Miller, and
Miss Roberta Miller, of Charlotte,
\\ C.

Mrs. F. B. Hutton, of Abingdon,
Virginia, and Mrs. J. T. Lloyd, Ruby's
sister, of Jackson, Mississippi.

Mr. and Mrs. S. Reid Spencer, of
Columbia, S. C.

Dr. and Mrs. E. P. Gray and Miss
Caroline Gray, of Winston - Salem,
N. C.

Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Forman, Miss
Carolyn Forman, and James Forman,
of Birmingham, Alabama.

Mrs. B. M. McKoin, Misses Jessie
Lee and Joyce McKoin, Mrs. J. F. Kel-
ler, and Mrs. Francis Pettis, all of

Monroe, Louisiana.

Mr. and Mrs. L S. Bull, and Irving
Bull, Jr., of Winston-Salem, N. C.

Mr. and Mrs. M. S. Symms and Miss
Marguerite Symms, of Augusta, Geor-
gia.

Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Baethke, of Ke-
wanee, Illinois.

Rev. and Mrs. J. A. Wood, Robert,
and Emma T. Wood of Keyser, W.
Va., and Miss Sarah Herndon, of Tal-
ahassee, Fla.

Mr. and Mrs. Wilson B. Nairn, and
xVIiss Jane Darby, of Washington, D.
C, are guests of Ann Coffee.

Mr. and Mrs. William Weeks, Misses
Violet and Margaret Weeks, of New
Iberia, La., and Mr. D. C. Walsh, Jr.,
L. S. U., Baton Rouge, La.

Mr. and Mrs. I. R. White, of Au-
gusta, Ga.

Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Latimer, Cap-
tain J. C. Latimer, Jr., Hubert, Ben-
nett, and Ralph Latimer, of Honea
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Historian Recounts Essentials

of Momentous Years, 1932-'36

(Continued from page 1, column 2)
ner, "I don't see how you can live in
Inman it seems so far away from
everything."

We won the Mardi Gras, king and
float. The floats were to carry out
the theme of some motion picture, and
ours, depicting the wedding scene
from S///.7/V Through caused bright
tears to glisten in many an eye and
steal down many a cheek. We will
pass over our athletic record for the
year. There is no need to elaborate on
our one honor, that of tying for first
place in volley ball. We heard Rich-
ard Halliburton and Joseph Alexander
on the campus, and Lawrence Tibbett,
and Grace Moore, among others in
town.

Our Sophomore year started off
very successfully; only one bitter cir-
cumstance marred our happiness. We
were the first class under the New
Deal, and instead of the usual hazing
we gave the Freshmen an N. R. A.
party No Ratting Allowed. Not that
it would have been any pleasure to
us to have done to them what our
Sophs had done to us, but we felt, in
a sisterly way, that it would have
done them no harm to have been
taught the meaning of stern discipline
by their superiors. But we put them
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of Oz. Looking back on that, after
three years, we cannot help saying,
impartially, that it was the best stun:
ever put on at Agnes Scott, a master-
piece, no less.

In November Mortar Board gave a
series of parties for the Sophomores so
that we might meet suitable young
gentlemen from around and about, to
our mutual advantage. I met many,
and I am open minded enough not to
blame Mortar Board for the fact that
those who met me must have seen
enough of me during the two hours
of the party to last them, for I have
seen nothing of any of them since
However, others met and mingled,
and were started on social careers
which have lasted to this day.

All in white we led the procession
of Seniors at Investiture, very much
impressed by the fact that for the first
time we were really part of an acad-
emic procession. Other big events of
the year were the Sophomore-Senior
luncheon, the Senior-Sophomore break-
fast, and the night before class day,
when we labored until 5 in the morn-
ing, making the Daisy Chain. The
longest hour was from 3 to 4, but we
took renewed hope, then, with the end
in sight, and tied the last few bunches
with the good old class spirit strong
in us, but with the feeling that we
would not care if we never saw a daisy
again.

Louis Untermeyer spoke at the col-
lege, and we were able to go to the
Monte Carlo Ballet Russe, Fritz Krcis-
ler, Rachmaninoff, and the Don Cos-
sack Russian Male Chorus. They were
even worth having to go in evening
clothes by street car, which is saying
a good deal.

The now famous Campaign for the
new Library was the great event of
our Junior year. We take great pride
in the fact that our horse, Cavalcade,
came in ahead of the horses of the
other three classes in the Derby. Every
one of us pledged to the limit, and

DEDICATION PRAYER

(Ok/en in behalf of the Senior
Class by the President of the Col-
lege just before the diplomas are
deli i ered.)

Our Father, in the quiet of this
moment, may our thoughts be
drawn from aught else and be cen-
tered now on Thee. We recognize
Thy good hand upon us through
this year and through all the years
that have brought us to this hour.

We thank Thee for this class
for them as a group and for them
as individuals. We rejoice that Thou
has 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 blessing upon each one.
Consecrate with Thy presence the
way their feet may go. Sanctify
the choices they are to make. Open
their eyes that they may see Thee
beckoning them from the low r
things of this world to the high
things of Thy truth and 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, on
the homes that are here represented,
and on all the interests that center
in these exercises.

And so make each member of
this class a true daughter of the
King friends and co-workers with
Thyself forever. In Jesus name, we
ask it. Amen.

had a wonderful time doing it. The
Junior Banquet was an overwhelming
success, we felt, and the Junior-Senior
Bancuet was a credit to us. We began
to feel like Seniors when we were
capped the night before graduation,
and when we left after seeing the
seniors graduate, we had an idea that
we might possibly hate to finish Agnes
Scott, too, when our turn came, al-
though we had always laughed at the
seniors when they spoke of having this
feeling.

This year we heard Edna St. Vin-
cent Millay on the campus, and Yehud
Menhuin, Lucretia Bori, and Lawrence
Tibbet again in town.

Our senior year has been just what
we always thought a senior year should
be when we read When Patty Went
To College. One of the nicest things
has been that we could go to Senior
Coffee every Sunday, instead of just
going occasionally by invitation. And
it was fun to give it, even though at
the end of a day of carrying cups, re-
ceiving, and straightening tables, we
felt as if we had been dragged through
a keyhole. Our Investiture was the
26th without rain, and we know it
was more impressive than any of the
previous 2 5. When we received a re-
minder to pay our campaign pledges,
that afternoon, we paid them willing-
ly, so impressed were we by the cere-
mony of the morning.

Our class renewed the tradition of
Mardi Gras, so that we might again

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win with our king, the same one as
our freshman year. Our float, //'>
Been So Long, gave an idea of what
the class has been through during zh:
past four \ ears. Senior opera,
Phonghsf was superb. We had a grand
time getting it up, and thought it just
as funny after seeing it rehearsed twice
a day for two weeks as those who saw
only the finished production. When
ir was over, we wore .is Lir from feel-
ing like cutting each others throats as
we were when we began, which is
something that cannot be said of every
class. However, we will never again
be able to hear an operatic piece with-
out putting our senior opera words
to it. This year Nelson Eddy was the
chief attraction of the Ail-Star Con-
cert series, and Robert Frost was our
most distinguished lecturer.

During these last few weeks there
have been so many social affairs that
it has almost seemed a pity th.u we
have had to bother with exams. There
has been the Alumnae tea, and the tea
given by the American Association of
University Women. (We are so im-
pressed by the name that we have al-
most decided to join.) We have at-
tended the Sophomore-Senior lunch-
eon, and entertained the sophomores
ar breakfast. We have listened to the
announcement of engagements at the
Trustees Luncheon. We have been
guests at the Junior-Senior banquet
and hostesses at luncheons and suppers
given for our major professors.

We have not been a particularly
brilliant class, although we have had
our fair share of Phi Beta Kappas, nor
have we been one which has taken
every athletic honor, although never

Latimer Wins Cup
For Dramatic Ability

Carrie Phinney Latimer was award-
ed the silver loving cup at the close
of the Blackfriars play, Ptaymg t /v
Gann\ by Alice Gerstenberg, on last
Saturday, May 5 0. The cup, which is
given each \ear bv Mr. Claude S. Ben-
nett, jeweler, of Atlanta, is awarded
for the best individual acting during
the \ear. The cup was presented by
Miss Frances K. Gooch, of the spoken
English d epartment, who produced
and directed the play; Miss Marian
Vaughan assisted Miss Gooch.

Seniors Elect Lib Forman
(lass President For Life;
Lulu D. Ames, Secretary

Elizabeth Forman, Birmingham,
Alabama, was elected life president of
:he Class of '3 6 at a meeting held dur-
ing the third week of Ma\ . Lulu
Ames, Decatur, was elected to serve
as secretary for two years.

The class is planning its first re-
union for sometime during next tall.

let it be said that we have not held
up our end pretty well in this t eld.
But we have been able to work to-
gether and get things done, and have
had a wonderful time doing it.

THE MOVING FINGER WRITES . . .

(Continued from page 2, column 4)

20 Old staff of the Aurora releases its final effort.

21 Junior Banquet. Blackfriars presents "The Bridal Chorus."

24 Seniors revive Mardi Gras for financial reasons; Lib Forman is elected

king of the fun.
Mar. 27-Apr. 3 Spring Holidays.
27-29 S. I. A. S. G. meets at Agnes Scott.
APRI1V-

1 You guess, I'm tired.

3 Sophomores win THE AGONISTIC cup, juniors and freshies tie for

second, and seniors haul in third. Four more people are named to
membership in Agonistic Key and Dr. McCain and Miss Hopkins are
made honorary members.

4 Lita Goss and Lulu Ames win the local competition in the Story short

story contest.
11 Mortar Board announcements.

16 18 Laura Steele, Kathryn Bowen, Barton Jackson, and Alice Hannah

attend the southern convention of N. S. F. A. Alice Hannah doesn't
think the meeting is so hot!

17 The Glee Club and Mr. Johnson present "The Pirates of Penzance."
Work is begun on senior opera.

22 Agnes Scott joins in a nation-wide peace movement; Sarah Catherine

Wood speaks, Augusta King presides, and the students sing a peace
hymn by Lulu Ames.

23 25 Julia Thing attends an athletic conference in Minneapolis.
MAY

2 "Down an English Lane" in the May Day Dell and "Phoughst" at night

in the gym.

11-16 Miss Hanley and Miss Colvin go to Richmond leaving Miss Crispin

in charge.
15 Senior exams start.

18 Rest of exams begin.

23 Sophomore-senior luncheon at Druid Hills.

27 Senior exams end.

28 Senior picnic at Venetian Club. Gals get sun-burned.

29 Phi Bete announcements. Junior-senior banquet at Druid Hills. Sun

burn shows through dresse s.

30 Trustees' luncheon.

31 Baccalaureate, Dr. Morgan preaching. Senior vespers.
JUNE

1 Senior-sophomore breakfast. Class Day. Music recital. Book burning.
Capping.

2 Commencement. Judge Allen speaks. Conferring of degrees.

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REV. MORGAN URGES LIFE OF
SEEKING FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS

(Continued from page 1, column 1)
righteousness; and all these things
shall be added unto you": all these
things the necessities of life, as we
shall see, all these things shall be added
unto you: The precept and the prom-
ise, an appeal and an assurance, words
of counsel and words of comfort.

The appeal: "Seek ye first the king-
dom of God, and his righteousness."
Now I submit to you for thought that
behind this appeal of the King there is
a philosophy of life, and it is this phil-
osophy that life is a quest, a quest de-
manding an end, demanding an em-
phasis, and demanding an effort; and
the appeal of the King is for the true
end, for the proper emphasis, and for
the necessary effort.

You may remember that when our
Lord first met Andrew, of whom we
have spoken this morning, it was on
the banks of the River Jordan. An-
drew had been a disciple of John the
Baptist, and was standing beside his
master.

Then when the King passed from
fundamental principles to enunciate
laws he said "I say unto you ye have
heard that it is said of them in olden
times, but I say unto you," etc., and
if you work through this passage you
will find in the kingdom of God it is
not the outward act but the inner at-
titude. And if we go out into the
world seeking His kingdom in our own
lives it will be those inner attitudes
we shall be careful of. For if the in-
ner attitudes are kept in accordance
with the mind and the will of God,
those ugly acts simply can never be.
Man keeps in his heart something of
the love of God for his fellowman. The
outward act of murder is thereby made
impossible.

Now I go back and reaffirm the
appeal of the King for the one and
only true end, for the proper empha-
sis; the appeal of the King is for the
necessary effort, the appeal is for the
true end his kingdom and his right-
eousness; the appeal is for the true
emphasis, the proper emphasis; First,
his kingdom and his righteousness.
The appeal is for the necessary effort:
"Seek ye first his kingdom and his
righteousness."

We could turn over the pages until
we get to the beginning Genesis
the story of the origin of the universe;
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lady of the origin of the order of
things in the midst 'of which we find
ourselves and of the crowning glory
of that order of things, which is man:
Everything leads up to the moment
when man appears upon the earth.
And then turn from Genesis I to
Genesis II, the record centers in the
crowning glory, Man, because Man is
the crowning glory of the whole
scheme of things. In Genesis II the
writer deals with the subject of man,
as to his nature, as to his office. You
will remember, as to his nature a
mingling of dust and of deity, formed
and fashioned of the dust and yet
never a living soul until that had been
inbreathed of God. And then as to
his office you will remember he was
placed in a garden, a garden of divine
planting, and in that garden he was
to find his occupation, he was to serve
in subjection to the Will of his Cre-
ator, and he was to reign over every-
thing beneath him: That is to say, his
place was that of dominion in service.
He was to submit to a divine inten-
tion and cooperate in a divine purpose.
Moreover, he was conditioned by a
very simple and clear command:
There were certain things he might
do, there were certain bounds beyond
which he might not go. His liberty
and his dominion were conditioned by
his loyalty to the divine law. He would
realize life at its best. He would reach
fulfillment as he lived his life beneath
the control of his Creator.

Then we turn another page and
come to Genesis III and we are face
to face with tragedy. Man's faith in
the goodness of the divine government
failed. There came the moment when
man questioned the goodness of the
divine government, and, because of
that, he revolted against the divine
government and made an attempt to
govern his own life by acting accord-
ing to his own choice, and there fol-
lowed disaster: The ideal was lost.
And then, as we have said, in the full-
ness of time the King came to the
world. He found men everywhere in
revolt against the throne, failing to
recognize the throne, failing to real-
ize God's ideal, failing to realize upon
earth the heavenly order of things.
And finally, as we have said, he called
men to think again, he called men to
reconsider the ideal, he called men to
readjust their lives according to that
ideal; he called men here in these words
to make the sovereignty of God the
supreme end of life. He came into
the midst of men and saw all that we
see, all the heartbreak and sorrow and
all the sin. It was all the result of
failure to recognize the throne in
heaven and the sovereignty of God,
and he calls his own to make the su-
preme end, the true end, of their quest
in life that sovereignty and that king-
dom, and we have wonderful illustra-
tions in this manifesto of the King of
what it will mean in human life if we
will but seek his kingdom, recognize
his sovereignty.

May we spend a moment taking up
this philosophy of life it is a phil-

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osophy of life rooted in the constitu-
tion of man: Man is so constituted
that an end, an emphasis, and an effort
are inevitable; life for him is a quest,
it is a seeking after, a striving for.
There must be some end toward which
a man is bending all his efforts and all
his energies. That certainly is true of
every one of us here today; it will be
true of every one of you as you move
out now from your college days into
the great life that lies ahead of each
one of you. And the vital quest in
life concerns the end that you are
seeking.

You will remember Paul said "One
thing I do," and there are certain
senses in which that is going to be
true of every one of us. As we move
through life we cannot escape the fact
that in our lives there is going to be
an emphasis upon some one thing. The
Lord suggests the same line of think-
ing "Ye cannot serve two masters."
There has got to be an emphasis, it is
inevitable.

And again, man is so situated in this
world that nothing is achieved apart
from effort. Back of these words of
our Lord there is a philosophy of life:
There must be some end, some goal,
some master conception, some passion
in life; and inevitably there must be
EFFORT.

May we take a little while consid-
ering these three things. The appeal
to you in this great hour is, as you go
out into life, the end that you are con-
stantly seeking, that you are bending
all your efforts and energies to achieve,
shall be the true end his kingdom and
his righteousness. First of all, his king-
dom, God's kingdom, and that word
"kingdom" might with perfect accu-
racy be translated "sovereignty" the
sovereignty of God. The King sug-
gests that is the true end for the chil-
dren of man to have in mind as they
face life. And that becomes very ob-
vious when we get back to basic
things. Our Lord, over and over
again, in His teaching would take man
'way back to the fundamental things,
to the beginning of things, and if we
will do that this morning we will per-
ceive this is the true end to be sought
by the children of man, and therefore
I take you back to the very begin-
ning.

For example, let us take one or two
illustrations. This manifesto begins
with the beatitudes a clear revelation
that in the kingdom of God it is not
what a man possesses, so much as his
character. Consequently, if as we
move through life, we are ever seek-
ing His kingdom we shall be putting
the emphasis there always. The thing
that your hearts will be set upon, if
you are seeking His kingdom, will be
character, not capital; your character,
the characters with whom you have
to deal. Or, again, there are other il-
lustrations as we move through life.
The King speaks of those who are seek-
ing his sovereignty he speaks of them
as the "salt of the earth and the light
of the world." If a man is within the
kingdom, recognizing the sovereignty
of the King, then in this life his whole
influence will be like salt aseptic it
will tend to prevent the acid of cor-
ruption and it will be illuminative
it will be like light and if you and
I move out into life with the master
passion of our lives his kingdom, then
wherever we go that will be our in-
fluence we will be like salt, aseptic,
will tend to prevent the acid of cor-
ruption. If, in the community where
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ty, our influence will be illuminative,
like a lamp shedding light in the midst
of the darkness of the world.

Another illustration: We have al-
ready taken it, but let us look at this:
"It was said of them of old time, but
I say unto you," etc., and if you and
I are seeking His kingdom the only
thing that matters is what the King
says. You will demonstrate the fact
when you go out into life if you are
seeking His kingdom when you go you
will be more anxious about character
than capital, making your life aseptic,
illuminative, breaking the dark wherev-
er you go, being careful about the
inner attitudes in your life, listening
not to what man in any age says so
much as to what the King says: There
you will find the ultimate Court of
Appeals. I am glad that when I go to
bed at night I do not have to think
"What will men think of me?" The
thing that matters is what the King
thinks, what does the King say; and
1 would rather report to the King than
anyone in the world the King of life,
and light, and love, and his heart is
full of wonderful understanding.

What is the goal going to be, the
end you are going to strive for, the
aim at which you are aiming? The
King calls you to the true objective
His kingdom. Men have forgotten;
men are living their lives as though
this life were everything and this earth
all. The King says, "Nay, it is because
of that attitude there is all the sor-
row in the world." Men broke away
and are in revolt against the throne of
heaven.

"Seek ye His kingdom and His
righteousness." H i s righteousness.
That is a great word righteousness.
What is righteousness? We can us-
ually get at the heart of a big word
by abbreviating it. Righteousness is
rightness; rightness is right. What is
right? Insofar as our relationships
with our fellowman are concerned,
that word right is a relative term. Last
summer I was in England, and while
in England I saw things they consid-
ered there perfectly right, and yet they
would not be right in Decatur; and
some things in Decatur which are con-
sidered right would not be so consid-
ered in London. Right. Notice the
pronoun He uses: "Seek ye His king-
dom, His righteousness." Righteous-
ness in man is adjustment to God:
Willing with God, feeling with God,
thinking with God the measure in
which I do that is the measure in which
I shall become righteous. Righteous-
ness in man is willing in harmony with
God and thinking in harmony with
God and feeling in harmony with
God. But it is more than that. Right-
eousness in man is also that relation-
ship between a man and his fellowman
which is the outcome of his adjust-
ment to the life of God. Righteous-
ness in man finally is that attitude in
man toward things which is the out-
come of his adjustment to the life of
God, so that he makes of things his
servants and never his master.

It is the proper emphasis in life. If
in your religious life the emphasis
comes anywhere else, you would be bet-
ter with no religion at all. Then the
necessary effort SEEK, because noth-
ing is worth while without effort. Let
it not be forgotten that these are words
of command. And that word "seek"
has within it the suggestion of some-
thing lost. "Seek and ye shall find"
is the suggestion something is lost.
"The Son of Man came to seek and to
save that which is lost." Men have
lost sight of the sovereignty of God.
They have gone their own way, have
done as they chose, they have forgot-
ten, and the King calls us to an effort
to seek, to recognize something that
we have lost sight of and to seek
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for, coupled with this command there
are words of comfort, coupled
with this appeal words of assur-
ance, and it is the assurance, mark
you, of the King: "Do this thing
that the King is bidding you do, make
the supreme passion of your lives as
you go out not earthly things but a
heavenly order of things: "Seek ye
FIRST His kingdom and His right-
eousness, and all these things shall be
added unto you." All what things?
Go back and look at the things. The
King is speaking of the necessities of
life food, water, raiment. When
Moses was about to lay down the bur-
den of leadership he reminded his peo-
ple of the wonderful leadership of
God and always reminded them that
"thy raiment is not old upon thee; He
brought thee water and manna." He
promises that if we seek first His king-
dom, His righteousness, all these things
shall be added unto us.

I was dipping into the life of David
Livingstone yesterday and I came ac-
ross this entry in his journal, June 14,
1836. It was a critical hour in his life
and he wrote these words: "I read that
Jesus said 'all power is given unto Me
in heaven and earth, go ye therefore
and teach all nations, and lo I am
with you alway, even unto the end of
the world.' It is the word of a gentle-
man of sacred and strictest honor."
Seek ye first His kingdom, His right-
eousness, and all the necessities of life
shall be added unto you. It is the
word of a gentleman of sacred and
strictest honor, and I don't want you
to miss the significance of the little
word "added." "Seek ye first His
kingdom, and His righteousness, and
all these things shall be added" not
subtracted. You will probably come
across those who seem to think that
when we put God first in life every-
thing becomes a story of subtraction.
Nay, never. The King does not ask
you to give up one thing that is worth
the holding onto. If there be anything
that must go when we crown Him it
is something that if we retain will
spoil and blast and ultimately damn
us. Life isn't a life of subtractions,
1 it is a life of additions, and you have
the promise of a gentleman, the King,
which is of strictest honor. And if
you move out into life and if you
will make the supreme passion of life
His kingdom and His righteousness
and if you will make them the things
upon which you place the emphasis al-
ways and if you will seek, then the
King says "all the necessities of life
shall be added unto you."

There are two realms, the earthly
and super earthly, the earthly and
heavenly order of things, the material
and the spiritual, the kingdom of man
and the kingdom of God, the annoint-
ed of heaven, the annointed of God.
He appeals to you as you move out
into life not to move like a beast of
the earth but as a man, mingling of
dust, yea, but under deity, with head
high and erect. Deal with things we
must but having always commerce
with heaven, seeking first His sover-
eignty, His kingdom and His right-
eousness.

And this leads us to speak of the
word "first," of this proper empha-
sis of His kingdom and His righteous-
ness. The only proper emphasis is that
which harmonizes with the only true
end. I use that word "emphasis"
rather than "order." When the King
said that, He didn't say "begin every
day with prayer." It is not merely an
order but it is an abiding emphasis.
Oh, what a great thing it would be if
in every home in our land, every
school and in every office man could
have written up large where they could
see the very first words of the divine
library: "Seek ye first His kingdom
and His righteousness." Listen to me:
As you go out into life seeking the
Kingdom of God, unless you seek it
FIRST it is going to do you no good.
Religion, out of place in home life, is
surely the most miserable and insipid
thing you can think of. When a man's
religion takes second or third place it
is one of the greatest tragedies, to say
nothing of its miserable nature; and
therefore I repeat that if you do not
put the kingdom of God first, you
may as well have nothing to do with
it at all. The King demands preced-
ence in your life, He demands preced-
ence, preeminence. "Seek ye first the
kingdom."

(Continued on page 6, column 5)

6

THE AGONISTIC

SEXORS LEAVE THEIR

DEAREST POSSESSIONS

(Continued from page 1, column 2)
for the edification of the world at
large.

Section II

Article I To the oncoming, upstart-
ing class of nineteen hundred and
thirty-seven (1937) we do bequeath
our honored name of Seniors and all
the privileges pertaining thereto;
namely such as that of holding down
the left front seats of the chapel from
10:00 to 10:30 ante meridian (A. M.)
and also that privilege of entering the
dining room distinguishedly late. (Ap-
ply to Sarah Jones for information on
the latter subject.)

Article II To our sister class, the
present and existing sophomores we
do bequeath our shining light of learn-
ing in hopes that they, too, will be
considered the most outstanding class
the College has ever produced.

Article III To the present (and
absent) Freshman Class we leave the
privilege to search the rooms of the
deceased for safety-pins, pencil-stubs,
laundry-slips and any other articles of
like sentiment to be kept as priceless
souvenirs of those of us who have
passed on.

Section III

We, the individuals of the present
Senior Class do allot our residuary
possessions as follows:

I, Adelaide Stevens, do bequeath my
complete nonchalance and unquench-
able passion for the color red to Ce-
cilia Baird, realizing her need and
gratitude for both aforementioned vir-
tues.

I, Dean McKoin, and I, Elizabeth
Forman, do bequeath the Freshman
Class to Main Building in hopes that
the aforesaid building will withstand
the trial as nobly as we, Dean and
Lib, have.

I, Shirley Christian, do bequeath two
hundred and twenty-two (222) pages
of the Silhouette (not including the
fly-leaf) to the yet undaunted Barton
Jackson.

I, Alice Chamlee, do bequeath my
personality plus ( + ) to the Science
Hall cat in order that its life will be
more safely protected from biology
majors.

I, Mary Gray Rogers, do bequeath
one of my wisecracks to a certain pro-
fessor with the provision that the
aforesaid wisecrack not be used for
more than five (5) years without a
year of rest.

I, Mildred Clark, and I, Ann Mar-
tin, and I, Sarah Catherine Wood, and
I, Lita Goss, do bequeath our poetry
to anyone who can understand or com-
prehend it.

I, Maxine Crisler, do bequeath my
expressive and vivacious eyebrows to
my needy friend, Dorothy Cabaniss.

I, Ellen Davis, do bequeath my
bounteous golden tresses to Joyce
Roper to be used for a braided switch
and halo.

I, Augusta King, do bequeath the
echoes of my vocal virtuosities to
anyone who will take the trouble to
look for them. If no one sees fit to
claim them, Mr. Johnson may have
them back.

I, Sarah Spencer, do bequeath one
Y. W. C. A. program to Isabel Mc-
Cain to start her on her career next
year.

I, Meriel Bull, do bequeath my abil-
ity to remain off the campus between
tight o'clock (8:00) and eleven
o'clock (11:00) post meridian (P. M.)
to the much-neglected Rachel Ken-
nedy.

I, Lois Hart, do bequeath one hair
to the noble cause of red hair so poor-
ly upheld by Betty Willis.

I, Lulu Ames, do bequeath my caus-
tic uul trank wit to Nellie Margaret
Gilroy.

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I, Agnes McKoy, do bequeath my
special privileges on the Agnes Scott
campus and also my eagerness to any-
one who can attain them. The iaculty
members are also eligible applicants for
this vacancy left behind.

I, Naomi Cooper, and I, Rosa Mil-
ler, and I, Nell White, and 1, Virginia
Turner, do bequeath our cremes and
lemon-lotions to the sun - votaress,
Kathleen Jones.

I, Helen Handte, do bequeath one
point in a tennis game to the ineffi-
cient sissy, Mary Kneale.

I, Elizabeth Strickland, do bequeath
my unusual ability to express my in-
nermost feelings with vivid and pic-
turesque monosylables to anyone who
dares take the aforesaid ability.

I, Ruby Hutton, do bequeath a
pianistic chord to Alice Hannah in
order that she will be able to say,
"They laughed when I sat down at
the piano."

1, Caroline White, do bequeath
"what it takes" to Nell Scott.

1, Loice Richards, do bequeath my
operatic ability as exhibited in the
Seniorpolitan Opera Company to Law-
rence Tibbett and Nelson Eddy.

I, Margaret Cooper, and I, Jane
Blick, do bequeath our respective ele-
vated and diminutive statues to Lil
and Lulu Croft for the purpose of bet-
ter identification.

I, Mary Richardson, do bequeath
two puns to Frances Cary so that her
store of puns will not run out.

I, Eugenia Symms do bequeath the
photograph of my typical college girl
countenance to the Southern Presby-
terian Church.

I, Alice McCallie, do bequeath my
ability to act like a fool to Ann Tay-
lor in order that the spice of life will
not be lacking on the Agnes Scott
campus.

I, Ann Coffee, do bequeath one dive
each to next year's swimming classes.

We, Ellen Davis, Martha Crenshaw,
Mary Vines, Evelyn Robertson, Elaine
Ahles, Willie Lou Sumrall, Gertrude
Lozier, do bequeath our affinity for
diamond to the rest of the sixty (60)
per cent (%) of Agnes Scott.
Section IV

Article I All the rest, residue, and
remainder of our estate, real, personal,
or mixed we do hereby give, devise,
and decree to Mildred Davis and the
Assyrian Mission.

Article II We do hereby appoint
Mr. Jones, the night watchman, prime
executor of this will and chief under-
taker and head mourner at our inter-
ment. We decree and request that
funeral expenses be settled as soon as
possible after our decease.

In witness whereof, we have here-
unto subscribed our name and set our
seal this the first day of June in the
year of our Lord, nineteen hundred
and thirty-six ( 1936).

(Signed Lena Armstrong.

(Class Scribe.)

Witnesses:
Tabby
Wesley
Ella

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE COM-
MENCEMENT AND AWARDS

(Continued from page 1, column 3)

Alternate: Miss Mary Virginia
Allen, Clarksville, Va.

Rich Prize, Fifty Dollars ($50.00)
| from Rich's, of Atlanta, for the fresh-
man making the best record:

Divided between: Miss Mary Ruth
Murphy, Hot Springs, Ark.; Miss
Sarah Evelyn Thurman, Atlanta. Ga.

Art Scholarship:

Miss Jane Wyatt, Easley, S. C.

Piano Scholarship:

Divided between: Miss Nell Hemp-
hill, Petersburg, Va.; Miss Jean Kirk-
patrick, Anderson, S. C

Voice Scholarship:

Divided between: Miss Virginia

Kyle, Charleston, W. Va.; Miss Amelia

Nickels, Decatur, Ga.

Spoken English Scholarship:
Divided between: Miss Elizabeth

Cousins, Decatur, Ga.; Miss Myrl Cha-

fin, McDonough, Ga.

Richard DcBnry Award (Book
Prize) :

Given to: Julia Patterson Sewell,
Atlanta, Ga.

Laura Candler Prize in Mathematics:

Given to: Miss Mary Snow, Atlanta,
Georgia.

Morley Mathematics Medal:

Given to: Miss Mildred Tilly, De-
catur, Ga.

Graduation With High Honors,
based on full college record:

Miss Elizabeth Forman, Birming-
ham, Ala.

Miss Lita Goss, Atlanta, Ga.

Miss Ethelyn Johnson, Atlanta, Ga.

Miss Edith Merlin, Atlanta, Ga.

Miss Sarah Nichols, Atlanta, Ga.

Miss Mary Snow, Atlanta, Ga.

Graduation With Honor, based on
full college record:

Miss Lena Armstrong, Saluda, N. C.

Miss Shirley Christian, Chattanooga,
Tennessee.

Miss Janet Gray, Winston-Salem,
North Carolina.

Miss Augusta King, Atlanta, Ga.

Mrs. Agnes Jamison McKoy, At-
lanta, Ga.

Miss Marie Townsend, Decatur, Ga.

Miss Mary Walker, Atlanta, Ga.

Senior Honors, based on record of
193 5-1936 only:

Miss Lena Armstrong, Saluda, N. C.

Miss Shirley Christian, Chattanooga,
Tennessee.

Miss Elizabeth Forman, Birming-
ham, Ala.

Miss Lita Goss, Decatur, Ga.

Miss Frances James, Atlanta, Ga.

Miss Ethelyn Johnson, Atlanta, Ga.

Miss Edith Merlin, Atlanta, Ga.

Mrs. Agnes J. McKoy, Atlanta, Ga.

Miss Sarah Nichols, Atlanta, Ga.

Miss Mary Snow, Atlanta, Ga.

Miss Marie Townsend, Decatur, Ga.

Miss Mary Walker, Atlanta, Ga.

Dr. McCain also announced the
schedule of expenditures for the $450,-
000 fund which was successfully com-
pleted last July. The principal items
of improvement have been as follows:
1. A splendid new Library

Building, with equipment $230,000

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CHAMLEE ANNOUNCES

MANY ENGAGEMENTS

(Continued from page 1, column 3)

1932 Laura Brown to Rev. Charles
Logan, of Staunton, Va., the wedding
to be tomorrow.

Anne Chapin Hudson to Frank Dan-
kins, of Miami, the wedding being on
last Saturday in Warm Springs, Ga.

193 3 Mary Charles Alexander to
Benjamin Parker, of Marshville, N. C,
the marriage to take place on June 6,
in Lincolnton, N. C.

Margaret Alice Belote to Rev.
Frank Rogan Morse, of Eatonton, Ga.,
the wedding to be August 15.

Laura Spivey to William Kenney
Massey, Jr., of Boston and Lexington,
Ky. No date.

1934 Alae Risse Baron to James
John Leitch, of Atlanta, the marriage
to be in July.

Dorothy Cassel to Dr. Havelock
Frank Frazer, of Belmington, Wash-
ington, the wedding to be tomorrow.

Elizabeth Johnson to Leonard
Thompson, of Columbus, Ga., the
wedding to be July 7.

193 5 Mary Jane Evans to James
Leichfield, of Columbus, Ohio, the
marriage to take place in the summer.

Frances Waid, Special '3*, to George
Otis Taylor, Jr., of Atlanta, the wed-
ding to be in September.

1936 Elaine Ahles to Charles Pu-
leston, of Atlanta. No date.

Rebecca Cashion, ex-'36, to Walter
William Hunzicker, Jr., the marriage
to be June 15, in Oklahoma City.

Ellen Davis to James Durham Wal-
ters, of Columbia, S. C, the marriage
to be in June.

Gertrude Lozier to Grayson Strad-
ley, of Atlanta, the wedding to be in
the fall.

Evelyn Robertson to Martin Jar-
mon, of Hazelhurst, Ga., the marriage
to be June 24.

Willie Lou Sumrall to Jack D.
Peugh, of Baltimore, Md., the wedding
to be in the early fall.

2. The remodeling of the
present Library Building
for a Student Activities
Clubhouse 5,000

3. New driveways, and the
extension of the steam

tunnel 23,500

4. Moving and improving

two cottages 4,000

5. Purchase of additional

land 3,500

6. Additions to scholarship

and endowment funds 182,000

REV. MORGAN URGES LIFE OF
SEEKING FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS

(Continued from page 5, column 5)
You are going out into life. What
is going to be the master passion in
your life, the thing that is going to
take precedence? The King challenges
you, the King appeals to vou: "Seek
ye first his Kingdom." Men are living
their lives as though there were no
God in heaven. Men have forgotten.
They are trying to manipulate their
lives by their own cleverness. The
King calls upon us to make the master
conception His kingdom. His right-
eousness.

"God first, in all the problems of the
years,

If He shall guide, oh heart, why
then those fears?
This is the place of rest, eternal love,
of shadows deep,
With mercies from above.

"God first, if thou wilt have it so,
Thy counsellor in all thy work and
play.

Dear heart, beat stronger for thy God
is near,

Those that have confidence shall
have no fear."

And so, in the name of the King,
I bring you from the king that pres-
ent, that precept, and that promise;
and, as you move out into life, life is
going to be a quest, an inevitable end,
an emphasis, an effort. And the King
appeals to you to make the end the
true end, the emphasis the proper em-
phasis, the effort the necessary effort.
"Seek ye first His kingdom and His
righteousness and all the necessities of
life shall be added unto you," "for
your Father knoweth that ye have
need of all these things."

Mary Vines to Corlcy Wright, of
Atlanta, the marriage to be this fall.

Mary Hall Young, ex-'36, to Regi-
nald Bell, of Charlotte, N. C, ihe
wedding to be June 26.

Harriet Peck to Leon Jordon, of
Roanoke, Ala., the wedding to Ik in
the fall.

Virginia Williams to Charles Ed-
ward Reiner, of Detroit, the wedding
to be in the fall.

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