The Agonextra
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1937.
L. Coit Welcomes
Freshman Class
For Government
Hello, there, Freshmen, and other new
students!
Student Government wants to wel-
come each one of you new students
to our campus. We are as thrilled over
meeting you and getting to know you
as we hope you are over being here.
We've thought about you before you
ever reached the grounds and won-
dered what you would be like. Now
we are looking forward to finding
out. We want you to look us over
too, and feel that we are really your
friends, ready and anxious to help you
and know you.
We are interested in you both as a
group our freshman, and also as in-
dividuals with potentialities to enrich
the life on the campus, as well as your
own personalities. Our life here is
four-fold: spiritual, mental, physical,
and social. We each want to grow in
all four ways, to be worthy of our
name, an "Agnes Scotter."
In case you hadn't realized it, you'll
soon be a member of Student Govern-
ment Association yourself, with a
right to express your own ideas and
thoughts. We want you to feel that
you are a part of Student Government
and discover our purpose, ideals, and
work. We are here not to guard and
punish, but to understand and help
you.
We are sincerely happy that you
are here with us.
Laura Coit,
President of Student Government
Association.
Alumnae Greet
Class of 1941
The Agnes Scott Alumnae Associa-
tion extends heartiest greetings to the
new students who are entering Agnes
Scott. We trust that this will be a
most delightful and successful year in
your college life; we, as alumnae, are
ready to do all in our power to make
it so. The Alumnae House, its guest
rooms, the tea room, the garden, are
all at your disposal. The alumnae on
the campus are your friends, and are
eager to convince you that there's no
better life to be lived than that of a
college girl, until you get around to
the alumna stage! Luck to you!
Day Students Receive
President's Welcome
Dearest Hottentots:
If you've managed to recover from
Monday's hectic sessions and I'm sure
(?) you have by this time won't you
stop for just one more moment while
we send you greetings from all our
day students? We are glad to have
every one of you here.
Do remember that we shall be glad
to do anything in the world we can
to help you; don't fail to call on us.
Zoe Wells,
President Day Students.
The Spirit Walks
A Dormitory Drama in One Act
The setting is in Freshmen Hall.
The time is midnight drear.
The character is Freda Frosh,
Homesick and filled with fear.
Freda (trembling) :
I'm lying in this strange new bed,
Upset by all I've seen.
I'm scared of learned pedagogues,
I know they must be mean.
I'm scared of rules I must obey
And all sophomore demands.
I'm scared of teas where I must
shake
That endless row of hands.
I'm frightened silly at the thought
Of handbook tests and such.
I wish that I were safe at home,
I don't like college much.
(Enter slowly and vaguely spirit of
Agnes Scott.)
Freda (continuing soliloquy still
trembling) :
What is this strange phenomenon,
This ghost within my room?
I can't seem to distinguish it
From all the dark and gloom.
Spirit of Agnes Scott:
I heard your moans and mumbling
And I have come to say
That every Freshman feels like this
On registration day.
It's just the newness of it all
That makes you feel afraid.
When you have been here several
days
Your fears will be allayed.
You'll love the learned pedagogues;
They're human just as you.
And don't be scared of Sophomores,
Next year you'll be one too.
Don't let these rules and handbook
tests
Cause you to groan and gasp.
And please remember rows of hands
May hold a friendly grasp.
Freda (not trembling any more) :
I wish you'd tell me who you are,
I cannot see your face;
But since you've come this college
seems
To be a different place.
Spirit of Agnes Scott:
I have no hands, nor feet nor face.
Spirit's all I've got.
I'll haunt you always with the
phrase,
"WELCOME TO AGNES SCOTT V s
The curtain falls with sombre flop.
This stirring act is through.
But give us one more bow to say
We're glad that you're here too.
TomOrrOW and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Wednesday, September 22:
10:00 A. M. Opening exercises in
the Chapel.
11:00 A. M. All Freshmen meet in
Chapel. President McCain's talk.
Moving pictures shown by Miss
Wilburn and Miss Palmour.
8:00 P. M.Musicale Chapel.
Thursday, September 23:
8:00 A. M. Classes begin.
10:00 A. M. Chapel.
4:30-6:00 P. M. Y. W. C. A. tea
Alumnae Garden Formal.
6:45 P. M. Vespers in the Chapel.
7:00 P. M. Dancing in the Gym.
Friday, September 24:
8:00 A. M. Classes.
10:00 A. M. -Chapel.
6:45 P. M. Vespers in the Chapel.
10:00 P. M. Floor party in Inman.
Saturday, September 25:
8:00 A. M. Classes.
10:00 A. M. Chapel.
8:30 P. M. Reception in Murphey
Candler Building.
Sunday, September 26:
9:3 0 A. M. President McCain's
Bible Class for Freshmen.
10:00 A. M. Church.
3:00 P. M. Tour of Atlanta.
6:00 P. M. Vespers in the Chapel.
7:00 P. M. Discussion of Stunt,
Inman Lobby.
Monday, September 27:
4:00 P. M. Handbook classes for
Day Students Murphey Candler
Building.
5:00 P. M. Day Student discussion
of Stunt.
6:45 P. M. Vespers in the Chapel.
9:30 P. M. Handbook classes for
boarders in dormitories.
Tuesday, September 28:
4:00 P. M. Handbook classes for
Day Students Murphey Candler
Building.
4:3 0 P. M. Alumnae tea for new
students.
9:30 P. M. Handbook classes for
boarders in dormitories.
Local Ministers Inaugurate
Agnes Scott 1937-'38 Term
The opening exercises of the 49th
session of Agnes Scott took place in
Gaines Chapel this morning, Septem-
ber 22. President J. M. Richards, of
Columbia Theological Seminary, de-
livered an address, and Chairman J. K.
Orr, of the Board of Trustees, wel-
comed the students. Miss Daisy Fran-
ces Smith, President of the Alumnae
Association, gave the welcome address
to the new students from the former
students of the college.
Ministers from the Decatur church-
es who took part on the program
were: Dr. Polding, of the Christian
Church, who read the scripture; Dr.
Moncrief, of the Baptist Church, who
led in prayer; and Dr. McKibben, of
the Methodist Church, who gave a
welcome address to the college com-
munity. The glee club concluded the
program with several musical selec-
tions.
Y.W.C.A Cabinet
Explains Purpose
Of Organization
A sincerest welcome to the new stu-
dents!
Many times during the harum-
scarum rush of these first few days
many of you will wish for the magic
gift of the wishing ring. You could
wish yourself straight through Mr.
Tart's office and down the line in no
time at all! And you could wish your
room into perfect order with all the
trunks in, the curtains up, the rugs
down and the trash out! But there is
no wishing ring.
And yet for this your first year at
Agnes Scott, we would make for your
three wishes, because many a wish
though called a wish is more than a
wish!
The first is for Personality that in
living from day to day with other
girls, strong and ambitious, as you
are, you will unconsciously grow into
a richer character, with a finer per-
ception, and a more sincere under-
standing.
The second is for Purpose. "With-
out a fixed point outside myself I can-
not live." And so, this wish is that
you may search and discover in Living
one integrating end toward which all
your effort knowingly or unknowing-
ly, is bent.
And last of all, having discovered
yourself, your Personality and the one
great Purpose to become the standard
of decision and action, there is the
wish that you will find the Power.
And Power comes from only one
Source an invincible faith in Christ
as Savior and Master of all that you
are!
So there are our wishes for you
ideals yes! But what is life without
them?
The Cabinet.
Young Women's Christian Association.
A. A. Foretells
Fun for Frosh
Dearest F res hies:
This is a wide open letter to tell
you that A. A. would like to hug each
one of you individually, to say "How-
dy!" and "we're awfully glad you
came!" But we'd have a little trouble
doing that, so we're just sending this
note to the Agonistic, hoping the kind
editors will help us greet you.
Last year, like all other years at Ag-
nes Scott, was so much fun that we've
about decided it's impossible to do any-
thing but enjoy a year here. All the
girls of A. A. (and you are a member
too, don't forget) are putting heads
together and planning lots of good
times. Hikes, outdoor suppers, swim-
ming, hockey, and basketball just be-
gin to hint at the happy days we'll
have. And that ping-pong table we
acquired last year isn't losing any of
its popularity.
They are all yours, so come on out
and play with us.
Sincerely,
Jean Chalmers,
President of Athletic Association.
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VOL. XXIII
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AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1937
NO. 1
Phi Beta Kappa Delegates
Elect Dr. McCain to Senate
Mr. Davidson Also Honored;
September Council is
in Atlanta
45 States Are Represented
Dr. J. R. McCain, president of
Agnes Scott College, was elected
senator of the Phi Beta Kappa
Senate, and Professor Philip David-
son, head of the history depart-
ment, was elected member of the
nominating committee, at the an-
nual meeting of the Phi Beta
Kappa Council in Atlanta in Sep-
tember. The Senate is the execu-
tive and legislative body of Phi
Beta Kappa; it makes the rules un-
der which memberships are
granted, and recommendations as
to which institutions shall have
charters. At the present time 124
colleges and universities have Phi
Beta Kappa Chapters. Senators
are elected for a term of six years,
and there are 24 members of the
senate. The nominating commit-
tee, to which Mr. Davidson was
recently elected, is composed of 9
people. For the second time in its
history the Phi Beta Kappa Coun-
cil met in the South, and there
were representatives from all but
three states in the Union. Dele-
gates were sent from each institu-
tion having a chapter of Phi Beta
Kappa.
Honor Fraternity
Gives Invitation
To Mortar Board
Mortar Board, Mary Lillian
Fairly, president of the local
chapter announced recently, has
been invited to join the National
Association of Collegiate Honor
Societies. Mortar Board is the
first women's society to be so
honored. With its sixty-seven
college chapters, Mortar Board
is one of the largest of the sen-
ior women's honor societies.
Class Hopes Rise
As Annual Battle
Over Cat Begins
Freshmen Keep Plans Secret;
Sophomores Work For
"Poor Seniors"
Front Row
BROTHERHOOD OF NATIONS?
With a Spain that has not quite
succeeded in exterminating itself, a
Japan and China that have not
quite succeeded in exterminating
each other, an accusing Russia, a
glum England, a silent United
States, and a Germany and Italy
that smile at each ither much too
ostentatiously, the world today
seems to offer but slim hope to the
promoters of world peace.
INTERNATIONAL LAWLESS-
NESS
As to which particular match
will set off the conflagration that
will constitute the next world war,
Agnes Scott students have diverse
opinions. Mary Lillian Fairly, vet-
eran of many debates, finds that
the greatest threat to peace lies in
the disregarding of international
law, as evidenced by the submarine
warfare in the Mediterranean.
Along this same line, Carol Hale,
perpetrator of Aurora, thinks that
the greatest war threat arises from
the refusal of the world's leading
nations to uphold the League of
Nations. She states that by disre-
garding the League Covenant and
the court decisions, the world pow-
ers have rendered ineffective the
most promising agent for peace.
FASCIST YOUTH SPEAKS
Ann Worthy (Open Forum)
Johnson relates an encounter with
a young Italian who was extolling
the glories of war. It gave, he
claimed, a barren Italy her only
hope for natural resources. Further-
more, it offered golden opportuni-
ties to youth, and it was a glorious
calling.
HUMAN NATURE
One Agnes Scotter finds that
the greatest threat to world peace
lies in humanity. Jean (Come-to-
the-A-A-rally) Chalmers thinks
that each nation's desire for supre-
macy as opposed to equality might
precipitate war. She claims that it
is just individual, aggressive selfish-
ness carried to the mass degree.
Two Alumnae
From College
Attend Forum
Agnes Scott College was among
the more than 150 leading Ameri-
can schools, colleges and universi-
ties represented at the New York
Herald Tribune's Seventh Annual
Forum on Current Problems, to be
held October 4 and 5 at the Wal-
dorf-Astoria Hotel in New York
City.
Delegates, appointed at the re-
quest of Mrs. William Brown Me-
loney, forum chairman and editor
of "This Week," were as follows:
Alumnae, Mrs. James Edward
Mount and Miss Pauline Gordon,
both of New York City.
"The Second Discovery of
America" is the general theme of
this year's forum. Of particular
interest to students was the first
and third sessions, on the morning
and evening of October 4, which
was devoted to problems of youth
under the sub-topics, "A Genera-
tion Finding Itself" and "Youth's
Explorations."
The second session on the after-
noon of the first day was given to
a discussion of "The Status of a
Free Press in the World Today."
The October 5 program presented
an afternoon session on "Some pro-
posed Changes in Government"
and an evening session, the fifth
and closing one, on "The State of
War Throughout the World."
Authorities of national and in-
ternational importance at each
session addressed audiences of 3,000
to 3,5 00 persons, representatives
of the country's organized women
and youth.
Behind guarded doors freshmen
and sophomore committees work
on the stunt which each class
hopes will bring home the Black
Cat. The excitement caused by the
approach of the contest on Satur-
day, Oct. 16, is shown in a series
of rival pep meetings which has
roused the campus lately.
In spite of the tradition of
sophomore victory, Chairman Hen-
rietta Thompson, while admitting
"hopes," refuses to make predic-
tions. Interviewed recently, she
made this statement, "We are real-
ly working hard to give the seniors
a victory for a graduation present,
because they didn't win that Black
Cat, and last year well! Inciden-
tally, we want to win for our-
selves."
Patty Patterson, chairman of
the freshman stunt, revealed her
greater confidence or slighter ex-
perience by declaring that her class
means to "win the Black Cat and
make merits the first quarter, as
last year's freshmen did not do."
She added that half the class is
composed of high school valedic-
torians, annual editors, and student
government representatives for
whom winning the contest should
offer few difficulties, especially
with the backing of their twice
victorious sister class.
Finally, Patty disclosed that she
and Henrietta are good friends re-
gardless of the rivalry concerning
which they temporarily united to
say, "May the best man or stunt
win!"
Editors, Business Managers
To Go to Press Convention
Nine Proves Lucky
For Three Classes
In Winning Honors
Nine is a lucky number for
the three upper classes; and
these same classes have proved
their spirit of cooperation by
sharing equally the glories of
the Honor Roll. Dr. McCain
announced that for the first
time in the history of the school
the same number of girls in each
class attained distinction.
Honor List is
Read Friday by
Dr. J. R McCain
Four New Workers
Join Agonistic Staff
Skinner, Kenney, McNeil and
Baty Are To Fill Vacan-
cies Left On Staff
Four people have been appointed
to the staff of the Agonistic to fill
the vacancies left by staff mem-
bers who did not return to school
this year. The new appointments
are Elizabeth Skinner, make-up
editor; Elizabeth Kenney, assistant
make-up editor; Mary Wells Mc-
Neil, assistant feature editor; and
Evelyn Baty, club editor.
At the student meeting Satur-
day, October 2, Esthere Ogden was
elected the assistant business man-
ager of the Agonistic.
Twenty-seven students received
academic recognition when Dr. J.
R. McCain announced the honor
roll for the 1936-37 session Friday
morning: Class of 1938: Efsie
Blackstone, 308 Bryan Avenue,
East Point, Ga.; Jean Chalmers,
839 Penn Avenue, N. E., Atlanta,
Ga.; Mildred Davis, 448 E. Gore
Avenue, Orlando, Florida; Hor-
tense Jones, 47 Anderson Avenue,
Atlanta, Ga.; Mary Anne Kernan,
1172 Briarcliff Place, Atlanta, Ga.;
Eliza King, 1813 High Street, Co-
lumbia, S. C; Elise Seay, 370 Col-
lege Street, Macon, Ga.; Anne
Thompson, 3410 Chamberlayne
Avenue, Richmond, Va.; Louise
Young, Soochow, Ku, China.
Class of 1939: Emily Harris,
1432 Beecher Street, S. W., Atlan-
ta, Ga.; Cora Kay Hutchens, 1428
Donnelly Avenue, S. W., Atlanta,
Ga.; Marie Merritt, Clarksdale,
Miss.; Mary Ruth Murphy, 102
Watt Street, Hot Springs, Ark.;
Lou Pate, Newbern, Tenn.; Mamie
Lee Ratliff, Sherard, Miss.; Sarah
Thurman, 944 Euclid Avenue, N.
E., Atlanta, Ga.; Virginia Tumlin,
Alabama Street, Cave Spring, Ga.;
Mary Ellen Whetsell, 1327 Rich-
land Street, Columbia, S. C.
Class of 1940: Evelyn Baty,
1229 N. 26th Street, Birmingham,
Ala.; Polly Heaslett, 1403 Suther-
land Place, Birmingham, Ala.; Em-
ma Louise Hughston, 300 S. Church
Street, Spartanburg, S. C; Eva
Ann Pirkle, 26 Rogers Street, At-
lanta, Ga.; Mary Cox Reins, 223
W. Cambridge Street, College
Park, Ga.; Jane Salters, 317 S.
(Continued on page 5, col. 4)
Agnes Scott Book-Collectors are Invited to
Compete for 1937*38 DuBury Booh Award
All Agnes Scott students inter-
ested in book collecting are eligible
to compete for the Du Bury book
award of twenty-five dollars for
the best collection of books made
between May 15, 1937, and May
1 5, 193 8. The regulations of the
award are:
1. Books acquired as gifts may
be included in the collection. It
will be assumed that all books en-
tered, whether acquired by pur-
chase or by gift, represent the
taste of the owners.
2. The award will be made to
the book-owner who, in the opin-
ion of the judges, has shown the
most discrimination in the selection
of her books. Each collection will
be judged by the number and the
quality of the books and by the
owner's understanding of their
contents.
3. No collection of fewer than
fifteen books will be considered.
4. There are no restrictions as
to type of books which may be col-
lected. The collector is urged to
follow her own interests in one or
various fields.
5. It is expected that the win-
ner will use the award for intel-
lectual enrichment: for purchasing
books, music, pictures; for attend-
ing musical and dramatic perform-
ances or lectures; or in some like
way.
Miss Louise McKinney, Professor
Emeritus of the English Depart-
ment of Agnes Scott College, was
prompted to start the contest be-
cause of an incident which occur-
red in Philadelphia. A professor of
Bryn Mawr asked permission of
Mr. Edward Newton, a book col-
lector of that city, to show his
books to some of his students. Mr.
Newton reluctantly consented and
was so impressed by the interest
and intelligence of the girls in the
books that he offered an annual
prize of fifty dollars for the best
collection.
The award at Agnes Scott takes
its name from Richard Du Bury,
one of the first known book col-
lectors. The first year Miss Virginia
Prettyman, now a teacher in the
English Department, won the
award.
Jones, Blackshear, Watson,
Roper Plan To Go To
Chicago Meet
Study Course to be Given
Virginia Watson, editor, and
Joyce Roper, business manager, of
the Silhouette, and Hortense Jones,
editor, and Elizabeth Blackshear,
business manager, of the Agonistic,
will represent Agnes Scott at the
sixteenth national convention of
the Associated Collegiate Press,
which will be held in Chicago
October 14 to 16.
With a program headlined by
Henry Goddard Leach, eminent
editor of The Forum magazine,
and Howard Vincent O'Brien,
news-making editorial columnist
for the Chicago Daily News, dele-
gates will attend a real short course
in newspaper, magazine and year-
book business and editorial man-
agement.
Some of the famed journalists to
appear on the program include
Curtis MacDougall, editor of the
National Almanac and Yearbook;
George Brandenburg, Editor and
Publisher staff writer; John E.
Drewry, director of the University
of Georgia School of Journalism;
Kenneth E. Olson, director of the
Northwestern University School of
Journalism; O. Fred Wittner, New
York publicist; James N. Krohne,
Chicago advertising writer; G. D.
Crain, publisher of Advertisings
Age; Frant Olsen, advertising
manager of the Sheaffer Pen Com-
pany; Harry C. Baldwin, of Na-
tional Advertising Service, and
many others.
Delegates to the convention will
be entertained by Dusty Miller,
famed Indiana publisher, and the
music of Al Diem.
School Elects
"R e p" Groups
To New House
The Student Government in-
stalled Wednesday at chapel a new
method of governing the students
who board. Formerly proctors,
elected by popular nomination,
maintained order in the dormi-
tories. Now the members of the
Lower House, elected by commit-
tee nomination and popular vote,
will replace the proctors, and will
be called representatives or "reps"
for short. Eleven "reps" have been
selected from Rebekah Scott and
Main dormitories, and White
House. Representatives from Rebe-
kah are: Samile Saye, Eunice Knox,
Mary Wells McNeil, Kitty Cald-
well, Florence Wade and Mary
Penel Simonton.
"Reps" from Inman will be
elected as soon as the freshmen be-
come better acquainted with each
other.
The members will meet quarter-
ly with Ann Worthy Johnson,
chairman of the Lower House. The
house presidents are chairmen of
the committees in their respective
dormitories and will call meetings
at their discretion.
The "rep's" duty is to try to cor-
rect problems in the dormitories
and to maintain order. She must
present not only her ideas but those
of other students. In this way stu-
dent government can learn the
opinions and ideas of the entire
boarding faction.
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THE AGONISTIC
<Jl)e Agonistic
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
Owned and published by the students of Agnes Scott
College.
Entered as Second Class Matter at Decatur, Georgia.
Subscription price, $1.25 per year in advance.
Single copies, 5 c.
Freshmen Find
Timely Hints
In Press
1937 Member 1938
Ptesocided GoUe6iote Press
STAFF
Hortense Jones
Editor
Jane Guthrie
Mary McCann Hudson
Associate Editors
Mary Frances Guthrie
Marie Merritt
Assistant Editors
Elizabeth Skinner
Make -11 p Editor
Elizabeth Kenney
Asst. Make-up Editor
Giddy Erwin
Feature Editor
Mary Wells McNeil
Asst. Feature Editor
Mary Anne Kernan
Current History
Elizabeth Warden
Book Editor
Elizabeth Blackshear
Business Manager
ESTHERE OGDEN
Advertising Manager
Frances Castleberry
Vera Marsh
Jeanne Redwine
Alice Reins
Circulation Managers
Alice Cheeseman
Sports Editor
Mary Reins
Exchange Editor
Jeannette Carroll
Alumnae Editor
Louise Hughston
News Editor
Evelyn Baty
Club Editor
REPORTERS: N. Allison, E. Baty, M. Chaftn,
M. L. Dobbs, G. Duggan, M. L. Gill, N. Hemp-
hill, L. HOUGHSTON, E. HUTCHENS, C. K.. HUTCH-
ins, R. HuRwrrz, F. Lee, E. McCall, P. Noble,
M. L. Ratliffe, A. Reins, H. Solomon, S. Stein-
bach, V. J. Watkins, L. Young, D. Weinkle.
BUSINESS ASSISTANTS: J. Dryfoos, J. Flynt.
Agonistic Launches
Dis-organize Drive
Agonistic, in its original meaning, is an ad-
jective applied to one who wrestles. We deem
it, therefore, not inappropriate that we set
ourselves to struggle mightily with a prob-
lem which has long knotted many an acad-
emic brow. We refer to the over-organiza-
tion which is prevalent, we believe, not only
at Agnes Scott, but at other colleges through-
out the country.
If organization was the genius of Rome, it
is the disease of America. It has become a
national habit to "start a little club" for any
and all purposes. There were at Agnes Scott
last year: twenty-three clubs, four publica-
tions, five associations and three honor so-
cieties. These include: two clubs devoted to
creative writing, three language clubs, four
clubs for sports, four current events clubs,
and a journalistic club and a (presumably)
journalistic newspaper, which are in no way
connected.
We would be the last to deny the benefits
of these organizations ; indeed, we think they
add much to the cultural and social life of
our campus. But we believe that they are
complements and not purposes of college. We
are still so unenlightened that we think edu-
cational institutions exist for the pursuit of
learning. But we have heaped our lives in a
kaleidoscopic structure of committees, coun-
cils, boards, and meetings, that Miss Leyburn
once termed "a clutter of activities which we
are pleased to call our service to the college" ;
and scholarship has become a thing that
lucky girls get to pay their tuition.
To the freshmen come these
timely hints from the first issues
of various college newspapers:
From the Florida Flambeau of
Tallahassee: "The hardest thing for
the average freshman to realize is
chat college professors do not stand
over the lazy or indifferent stu-
dents with clubs to keep them go-
ing. The matter is entirely up to
the individual whether he makes
or breaks. Don't hold the delusion
you can bluff with little or no
work . . . Take pride in your col-
lege and your college will take
pride in you."
The Sale mite advises: "Don't
follow the crowd coo closely or
sooner or later you'll be lost in it."
And the Colonnade of G. S. C. W.
adds: "If I were a freshman I'd
know my world, because things of
vast significance are happening in
the world today. I'd keep up with
world affairs because I would then
be in a position to comprehend
their meaning."
Queer results were found at the
registration of the University of
Alabama, says the Crimson and
White. "A backward glance at
registration oddities reveals that
several girls were signed up to take
military training, and a boy with
one arm was put in a typing class."
But something even more unusual
is happening at Mount Holyoke
College. The students there have
written a prophecy about whither
we are drifting, to be sealed up for
a hundred years.
Constitutional Day at the Uni-
versity of Alabama proved the
student body to be of this frame
of mind: "We firmly believe that
Mr. Roosevelt has the best inter-
ests of this country at heart. We
are confident that he will continue
Alumnations
While the present Agnes Scot-
ters are settling down to their new
study routines and at the same time
becoming feverish over the antici-
pated stunt night and Investiture,
the members of the 1937 class are
progressing rapidly in various
ways.
Most of the girls are still pur-
suing the way of learning. Eloisa
Alexander is way up at New York
University; Margaret Hansell spent
the summer abroad studying at the
University of Grenoble and is now
teaching English in the high school
at Lawrenceville, Ga. Mary Ma-
lone is going domescic by attend-
ing che cooking school at Exten-
sion School of the University of
Georgia system.
Isabel McCain is still an indus-
trious, determined young lady.
After attending the Progressive
Demonstration School at Emory
this summer and finishing a busi-
ness course at Crichton's in Atlan-
ta, she is now Director of Religious
Education for the Purity Presby-
terian Church in Chester, S. C,
and assistant to the pastor, Rev.
John McSween. It is bad to tell
this on Isabel, but it seems all of
her experience and training did not
keep from letting the mimeograph-
ing machine "stutter" when she
tried to get out the Sunday bulle-
tins not long ago.
Laura Steele, ex-editor of the
"Aggie" chose Emory for the sum-
mer course and is now becoming
"commercialized" at Crichton's
(Continued on page 6, col. 1)
to safeguard our lives and privi-
leges. On this constitutional anni-
versary year let us go on record as
recognizing in this man, not a de-
stroyer, but one of the noblest pre-
servers of the values of our Ameri-
can democracy."
Return to Religion Offers
Solution to World Crises
Headlines Of the Past
Three years ago this week Agnes Scott had
a booth at the Fair, the freshmen and sopho-
mores elected stunt chairmen Frosty Brown
and Barbara Hertwig, and Lecture Associa-
tion announced the coming of Edna Millay to
Agnes Scott.
Two years ago this week Agnes Scott had
a booth at the Fair, stunt chairmen Ann
Worthy Johnson and Anna Margaret Reipma
were elected, and building improvements re-
sulting from the Greater Agnes Scott cam-
paign were begun.
One year ago this week Agnes Scott had a
booth at the Fair, stunt chairmen Jane Dry-
foos and Marjorie Boggs were elected, and
Dr. G. H. Buttrick, Mrs. Grace Overton, and
Dr. W. T. Thompson spoke at Agnes Scott as
representatives of the National Preaching
Mission.
"The Return to Religion," Hen
ry C. Clink, Macmillan Co., New
York, 1936, $1.75. Reviewed by
Julia Telford.
Of Dr. Henry C. Link's recent
book entitled The Return to Reli-
gion Dr. William Lyon Phelps
says: "The finest book on practi-
cal psychology I have ever read.
Every American ought to read it."
The book was probably the most
popular in its field during the year
of its publication. This was due
partly to the fact that it is, in a
sense, an autobiography. Dr. Link
was reared in a strict Methodist
home, but the higher education
which he received at a large eastern
college left him a "complete and
powerfully fortified agnostic." At
the age of thirty-two he was recog-
nized as one of America's foremost
scientists. As director of the Psy-
chological Service Center of New
York, he has examined and advised
approximately four thousand indi-
viduals in the past fifteen years. It
was through his experience with
the problems of these people that
he came to realize the importance
of religion in the development of
personality. He found from the re-
sults of one project that individ-
uals who attended church had bet-
ter personalities than those who
did not. With such facts before
him, Dr. Link himself returned to
the religion which for twenty years
he had scorned as the "refuge of
weak minds."
The theme of the book is the de-
velopment of personality through
the process of extroversion. In the
first part Dr. Link discusses, in
connection with the brief account
of his return to religion, a number
of the cases which influenced him
to emphasize the importance of re-
ligion in personality development.
Introversion was the chief cause of
the social, economic, and domestic
problems of his clients, and only
by the process of extroversion did
these individuals find the happiness
which they desired.
In the last half of the book Dr.
Link points out several sources of
introversion in our modern world.
He is convinced that too much
stress is laid on social planning and
not enough attention is centered
on the individuals who make up
the social order. He considers ex-
tensive education which continues
the period of absorption and delays
the process of acquiring extrovert
habits, another vice. The desire for
wealth has a similar effect, for the
effort to get without giving tends
toward introversion. If the indi-
vidual is to live an abundant life
he must center his attention out-
side himself.
Dr. Link sums up the basis for
his contention in the following
paragraph:
"My return to religion, as an in-
vidual, is not important; but the
discoveries of scientific psychology
which influenced me are. In spite
of the great benefits which the
physical sciences have bestowed on
mankind a longer life, a more
comfortable life, a life more free
from physical pains, and a life
filled with an infinite variety of
interesting objects and educational
experiences, there is no evidence
that individuals are happier, that
families are more united, that gov-
ernments or political bodies are
wiser, or that nations are less likely
to go to war." A universal return
to religion, which has too long
been crowded out by science, is the
only solution for the present crises
among individuals and nations.
Foreign Wars Blast
Summer Pleasures
Spain Fights On; Japan and China
Clash; Italy and Germany
Oppose Communism
History takes no vacation ; it recognizes no
holidays. Least of all is there a cessation of
world activity during the summer months ; it
seems more likely that some of the most sig-
nificant events occur while diplomats and
senators are wearing straw hats. This sum-
mer saw the opening of the Sino-Japanese
war as well as the first anniversary of the
Spanish Civil war, to say nothing of the Su-
preme Court fight and the prevalent labor
struggles of the C. I. O. and the A. F. L.
From our present perspective the most im-
portant occurrence of the summer is the
Sino-Japanese war. The struggle assumed
the nature of open hostilities with the ex-
change of shots at the Marco Polo Bridge
near Peiping on July 7. Blame for the firing
of the first shot has not been placed ; that is
relatively unimportant since observers be-
lieve the war almost inevitable. H. W. Cham-
berlain writing in Current History, calls the
war "Asia's irresponsible conflict. ,, He at-
tributes the clash to the coincidence of a
movement of outward expansionism in Japan
with a period of intense nationalism in China.
A large part of Japan's expansionism cer-
tainly is the result of the pressure of her in-
dustrialists. Japan actually exports much
less than she imports and is dependent on the
outside world for most of her raw materials.
Thus it is expedient that she dominate the
Asiatic market so that she may maintain
economic security. China, on the other hand,
is not willing to make the concessions that
Japan demands and consequently hostilities
have resulted. As in any war affecting two
important nations others have become in-
volved. The Chinese army has been aug-
mented by 250,000 Communists, thus rather
definitely allying it to the U. S. S. R. Japan,
however, is known to have made important
diplomatic agreements with Germany. On
account of her citizens and investments in
China, the United States is also involved.
Marines and battleships are stationed at
strategic points for the protection of Ameri-
can citizens and property. The state depart-
ment has not yet formulated a particularly
virile policy as far as the Far East is con-
cerned.
The Sino-Japanese conflict has in general
overshadowed the other events of the sum-
mer. The Spanish Civil war, however, showed
new developments, with the piracy situation
growing directly out of it. Italian submar-
ines, it is charged, attacked British ships in
the Mediterranean. This is not without basis
when one considers the rebel position, but
the entire incident has been relieved by a pi-
racy patrol which Italy was finally invited to
join. The familiar opposition of the U. S.
S. R. and Italy in the Spanish war persists.
It is highly probable that the Mediterran-
ean affair precipitated the historic meeting
of Mussolini and Hitler in Berlin. At that
time a vehement agreement was made unit-
ing Italy and Germany against communism.
This may be expected to have a definite ef-
fect on the Far Eastern situation.
Foreign affairs certainly occupied a large
space in the news of the summer, but the Su-
preme Court fight and the labor disputes
were scarcely ever off the front page. The
Supreme Court Bill was introduced, vehe-
mently debated, and finally, following Sen-
ator Robinson's death practically destroyed
within the short space of two months. Al-
though the court bill seems killed, the pub-
licity for the court has continued loudly.
President Roosevelt's appointment of Sen-
ator Black to fill a vacancy on the bench and
the subsequent furore aroused by the accusa-
tions of his membership in the Ku Klux Klan
has kept the question in the public mind.
John Lewis has also kept before the public
eye. In his Labor Day address the active
C. I. 0. leader indicated that a third party of
farmers and trade unionists would be formed
in order to accomplish its ends through legis-
lation. Apparently the reconciliation of the
C. I. O. and the A. F. of L. is no nearer now
than it has been all summer.
With this issue the Agonistic puts up a
more rugged, but (we hope) not less inter-
esting front to the world. We would remind
the students that this is their paper, and we
invite their comment, criticism, and ideas in
the opinion column, We Think. What do you
think about the cut system, about the stunt,
about anything? Or do you?
THE AGONISTIC
New Members of Faculty
Recount Exciting Stories
Hawaii, Africa, India as Well as Native States Fur-
nish Glamorous Subjects of Conversation
of New Professors
Pi Alpha Phi to
Debate England
Powers of Trade Unions Will
Be Discussed Here
Agnes Scott College will meet
the Cambridge Union Society and
the Oxford Union Society in debate
on this campus about the middle
of November on the question, "Re-
solved: That the powers of the
trade unions have increased, are in-
creasing, and ought to be dimin-
ished. " Mary Lillian Fairley and
Mary Frances Guthrie, ex-vice-
president and vice-president, re-
spectively, of Pi Alpha Phi, Agnes
Scott debating society, will uphold
the affirmative side of the question
against the Englishmen.
These international debates, in
which Agnes Scott has participated
for many years, are arranged by
the National Student Federation of
America and are sponsored locally
by Pi Alpha Pi under the supervi-
sion of Professor George P. Hayes,
faculty adviser.
After conversations with the new members of our faculty, one
begins to realize how cosmopolitan the Agnes Scott campus really is.
From such glamorous places as Hawaii, Africa, and India, as well as
from their native states, the new comers, Dr. Swanson, Miss Gray, Miss
Cummings, Mrs. Graham, and Dr.
Mary Ann McKinney, bring excit-
ing tales.
Dr. Swanson, the college physi-
cian, is adhering to the slogan "see
America first," although she admits
that it is an ambition of hers to go
to Europe. Originally from Mon-
tana, she obtained her B.A. degree
from the University of Washing-
ton and then did graduate work at
the University of Oregon Medical
School. For the past three years,
she has been doing psychiatric work
in the Sheppard and Enoch Pratt
Hospital near Baltimore. As Dr.
Swanson says, she has a special in-
terest in psychiatry. This interest
still leaves plenty of room for oth-
ers, however, which include golf,
horseback riding, Kirsten Flagstad,
red roses, and southern accents. Of
Agnes Scott, Dr. Swanson says
that she has never been any place
where everybody is so friendly and
where there are so many healthy
and happy-looking girls. She also
admitted that she has one pet aver-
sion, playing bridge. (You "fourth-
hunters" take notice.) Finally,
she announced that her secret am-
bition and intense desire is to learn
the Big Apple. Although she is fa-
miliar with the true Hula dance
from her experiences in Hawaii, she
is more intrigued with this new
American dance craze.
Speaking of the Big Apple, Miss
Gray of the French department,
announced laughingly, "I have
never received such a shock as
when I saw Agnes Scott girls doing
the Big Apple in the gym. The
dance is ridiculously like an old
ceremonial dance performed at tri-
bal rituals by the wives of chief-
tains in Africa. They even perform
identical figures such as 'Truck to
the center and shine/ though of
course the terminology is differ-
ent." (Now does that curb your
Big Apple- tite?) Miss Gray is
originally from Union, West Vir-
ginia, and graduated from Agnes
Scott. After obtaining a degree in
library science at the University of
Illinois, she spent three years teach-
ing in a missionary school in the
Belgian Congo. She liked her work
there very much, and tells of her
experiences at big-game hunting
and getting stranded in a cannibal
village at night. However, she in-
sists that it is a wonderful feeling
to be back here in the Alma Mater
again.
In the library there are two ad-
ditions to the staff, Miss Cum-
mings and Mrs. Graham. Miss
Cummings was born in Toledo,
C Mo; obtained her A.B. degree at
Cae University of Toledo; and
gained her degree in library science
at the University of Michigan.
Mrs. Graham is a graduate of West-
ern College in Ohio and Columbia
University. Although both of these
ladies upheld the librarian's tradi-
tion of silence, especially in regard
to their past history, likes and dis-
likes, both of them admitted that
they like the South.
Dr. McKinney, of the science de-
partment, tells in a most interest-
ing way many unusual customs in
India. Dr. McKinney 's home is in
Nacagdoches, Texas. She received
her training at Agnes Scott, Co-
lumbia University, and Tulane
Modern Fireproof
HOTEL CANDLER
EUROPEAN PLAN
T. J. Woods, Mgr., Decatur, Ga.
University. After teaching for a
while at the State Teacher's Col-
lege in Texas, she went to India to
teach in the Woman's Christian
Medical College for three years.
The conditions she describes on the
campus there are most interesting.
Although the majority of the stu-
dent body is Christian, there are
many Mohammedans and Hindus.
This creates such a racial problem
that there are of necessity three
dining rooms to cater to their dif-
ferent religions. For instance, the
Hindus will have nothing to do
with either pork or beef, and will
not eat anything except fruit with
people of other religions. The caste
system of the Hindus of course af-
fects their relations with other
races, also. The Sikhs, an off-shoot
of the Hindus, are not so squeam-
ish; but they have many unusual
things essential to/ their religion,
such as uncut hair (consequently
their beards grow to such a length
that they have to be plaited), a
comb, a sword, a bracelet, track
pants. All of these things must be
worn by a faithful Sikh. The pe-
culiar marriage customs of these
people influence the social life, ac-
cording to Dr. McKinney.
Most of the girls are betrothed
to an unknown fiance by their
families at their birth. They see
their husbands for the first time
at the wedding and then only
through a mirror. If they displease
their husbands, they are treated
cruelly both by them and by their
mother-in-laws. In spite of this,
says Dr. McKinney, marriage is the
only ambition of all Indian girls.
On the whole, in making a com-
parison of Indian students and Ag-
nes Scott students, she says, "The
Indian girls have almost perfect
memories; but the Agnes Scott girls
surpass them in reasoning power."
Collideoscope
Freshman Fantasies-. With mani-
fest flaunting of purple and white
ribbons, much bangling of be-
stickered baggage, and inevitable
repetitions of "Where are you
from?" the Class of 1941 has in-
vaded the Agnes Scott campus.
The upperclassmen have smiled
benignly, as usual, remembering
smugly the days when they, too,
did not know at what hours the
mail was put up, or that all visit-
ors enter and leave from Main
Building, or that the blue card
must be in before the Stunt. To
celebrate the arrival of the new-
comers, the Muse has been very
kind (?) and has inspired ye Ag-
nes Scoute with a masterpiece of
lyricism should we say "a syn-
thesis of hybiscus and biscuits?"
which at this point we wish to dedi-
cate to all freshmen in memory of
the way we have felt. Of course,
we are aware of our deficiencies as
a poet, but remember: Any old
poet in a storm!:
An Elegant Elegy for Ella Fresh-
man
The engineer tolls the bell of part-
ing train;
The taxicabs wend slowly to A.S.C
The family homeward plods in
dreary rain,
And leaves the world to Sponsors
and to me.
The handbook, with its mass of
miscellanies;
Of rules whose "modulations mix
mellifluous,"
Haunts me till I think I'll go in-
sania,
Learning all the things that seem
super-ifluous.
Of course, a deep aesthetic ap-
preciation of all that is beautiful
must be acquired by the reader be-
fore she appreciates the rhyme,
meter, and sense of the above poem.
In addition to the above piece of
poesy which is, as Coleridge says,
"The breath and finer spirit of all
knowledge" the Muse has blessed
with another inspirational "synthe-
sis of hybiscus and biscuits," which
begins as follows:
"I wandered lonely in the crowd
That floats in organdy in the
Alumna Garden"
However, the Muse apparently
couldn't think of a rhyme for
Alumna Garden; and as the author
couldn't either (you know the old
saying if it isn't one thing it's
an author!), the masterpiece is
forced to end there. At any rate,
the freshmen have survived the or-
deals of registration and curricu-
lum-arrangement, and have found
time to upset the general peace.
Although lessons are generally con-
ceded to be the worms in their Big
Apple (for further illumination on
the subject page Mr. Gillespie),
the neophytes remain prankful. Ac-
cording to Martha Moody, Nell
MARY'S MENDING SHOP
Alters, Relines, and Covers
Buttons
105 E. Court Sq.
You're Sure To Find Your Favorite
TOILET GOODS
JACOBS
Stores All Over Atlanta
A.S.C. Sponsors
Exhibit at Fair
Section of New Library is
Depicted in Booth
Faculty and Students See
j
Europe in Blaze of Glory
Scotch Trossachs, Paris Exposition, English Gar-
den Party, Stratford Dramas, and Alps
Delight Travelers
While most of us were spending our time seeking out the coolest
spots beneath the biggest trees and lazily waiting for something to hap-
pen, some adventurous (and lucky, too, we might add) ones from our
midst were dashing madly about Europe, leaving the goddess of excite-
ment trailing breathlessly at their
heels. And yet from the little they
can be wheedled into disclosing, you
would hardly know they had been
outside our ports.
But, due to the perseverance and
snoopacity of us eager newshounds,
we are now able to inform you un-
informed collegiates on the whole
truth about the European summer
of certain faculty members and
students of this dear old college.
First, we'll begin with Miss
Scandrett's group which included
Miss Mitchell, Bert Palmour, Ann
Worthy Johnson, and Adelaide
Benson, not to mention some past
and future Agnes Scotters. Miss
Se n.! ctt was particularly inter-
est irj che guides provided for
them by the Open Roads Tours.
The guides, cultured European
students, conducted visitors about
purely for the sake of international
friendship and hospitality. In Italy
one of their guides was a girl who
had been an exchange student at
the University of Chattanooga,
and during her stay there she had
seen Atlanta, Agnes Scott, and
even Stone Mountain.
Budapest, with the Danube flow-
ing through the city and separat-
ing Buda from Pest (really!), and
with the dreamy music of violins
played by small Hungarian boys
appealed to Bert. Here, too, was
one of the major triumphs of their
trip after having longed for and
talked about corn on the cob all
over Europe but not ever having
found any, a Hungarian waitress
(Continued on page 5, col. 2)
Reproducing a section of the
new library, Agnes Scott will again
sponsor a booth at the Southeastern
Fair, October 7-16. Alberta Pal-
mour, field secretary of the Alum-
nae Association, is in charge of the
exhibit, with Nell Chamlee, assist-
ant alumnae secretary, and Carrie
Phinney Latimer, '3 6, as her assist-
ants.
The corner of the library to be
reproduced will show the fireplace
and a few of the red and blue leath-
er-covered chairs. The booth will
be in the Educational Building,
and Agnes Scott girls will stay by
it at various times. Last year a
dormitory bedroom was repro-
duced by the College.
men's men created quite a disturb-
ance at the floor party. In addi-
tion, Dorothy Debele, Miriam Bed-
inger, Virginia Hickman, and Ella
Muzzey (no relation to Mussy
Lena, the Fassist gal in town)
prophesied many a pie-bed Thurs-
day night . . . Elaine Stubbes re-
counts an embarrassing moment
when she and Mary Bell were dig-
ging tap-roots in the gymnasium
yard, while giggling spectators
gained the impression that they
were performing Chinese obeisan-
ces .. . "Lib" Barrett and Ann Mil-
likan gleefully tell of an experi-
ence which should entitle them to
a medal by the S. P. C. A. To be
specific, they were inspired to leave
names, telephone numbers, and lip-
stick imprints on the placards of
two Tech freshmen to keep the
boys from having their heads
shaved . . .
Quest /ana: Did you enjoy fully
the thrills of the Athletic Associa-
tion circus complete from the
weight-guessing booth to the
trained horse who could truck and
Susie Q. (not to forget the super-
natural beauty of Alice" Cheese-
man, Mary Wells McNeill, Martha
Long, and Georgia Hunt.)
dc.:r Auld Lang Syne sport cos-
tumes)? . . . Do you know what
naive freshman made the quaint
remark, "The seniors are certainly
dumb they've been here for four
years and still don't know how to
get to meals on time!" . . . Have
you heard all the nasal maneuvers
in French conversation, spoken
English, etcetera? . . . And, by the
way, do you realize that etecetera
is one of the most beautiful words
in the English language? . . . Final-
ly, has anybody been able to locate
the Spirit (certainly not alcoholic,
we trust) which somebody has ob-
viously been trying to locat?
somewhere for some vague reason?
CAftTtRIA
Wei comes
Agnes Scott Girls
An Organization Specializing Exclusively
in the Production and Serving of Whole-
some Foods
BILL CLARK'S ORCHESTRA
I
THE AGONISTIC
English Tests
Are Sent to
Georgia Group
Educational Testing Board
of University Uses New
Mechanism
The English placement tests re-
cently taken by the freshmen at
Agnes Scott and other colleges in
Georgia will be graded by machin-
ery, members of the English de-
partment disclosed. The tests, con-
taining only multiple choice ques-
tions, will be sent back to the Uni-
versity of Georgia's Committee on
Educational Testing at Athens
and graded by an electrical mech-
anism which records correct checks
made with graphite pencil. The
principle of the machine is that the
graphite on the test sheets, when
in the correct place, closes a cir-
cuit, thereby automatically regis-
tering the questions answered cor-
rectly.
The tests are given this year on
the basis of diction, usage, and
spelling. Their purpose is to deter-
mine the strength and efficiency of
the courses in various high schools.
Although only the English tests
are given at Agnes Scott, other col-
leges use tests in several subjects.
After they are graded, each stu-
dent's rating is sent to his high
school. The system enables col-
leges to rate high schools and high
schools to improve inadequate
courses.
Professors Plan
Annual Bacon Bat
The annual Faculty Bacon Bat
will be held on Saturday, October
9, at 5 P. M., in honor of the new
faculty members, which includes
Miss Prettyman, Miss Cummings,
Mrs. Graham, Miss Gray, Miss
Wall, Dr. Swanson, and Dr. Mc-
Kinney. The host and hostesses for
the occasion include Misses Carl-
son, Nelson, Nunally, Latimer,
Hutton, McCalla and Dr. Runyon.
All faculty members and members
of the administration have been in-
vited.
Seniors Announce
Investiture Plans
Investiture, one of the oldest
and most impressive traditions on
the Agnes Scott campus, will be
held on November 6 in the Gaines
Chapel. The speaker, a member of
the faculty, will be selected by the
senior class.
During this ceremony, when
seniorhood is recognized for the
first time, each senior, wearing her
academic gown, will receive her
cap.
Presbyterians Are
Honored At Social
The Presbyterian girls of Agnes
Scott College and the Columbia
Seminary boys were the guests of
honor at a party Saturday evening,
October 2, which was given by the
Young People's Department and
the Women's Auxiliary of the De-
catur Presbyterian Church.
With the program centered
about .i day in school, all those
present were divided into groups
contesting in History, Literature,
Engineering, Art, Botany, and
Geography. These mental tests
were followed by an athletic meet.
The members of the Intermedi-
ate and Senior Department of the
church served the refreshments.
"Democracy would be wise if it
would curb the education of thou-
sands of our present school popula-
tion, ' President James L. Mc-
Conaughsy of Wesleyan University
takes the other side of the Save-
Democracv fence.
New Students Represent Cosmopolitan Group
According to Agonistic Statistician's Report
According to the Agonistic stat-
istician, the 175 new students are
quite a cosmopolitan group, repre-
senting 23 states, 4 foreign coun-
tries, and 1 8 colleges and universi-
ties. The tabulations of freshmen
and transfers per state show Georgia
heading the list with 79 students,
South Carolina taking second place
with 16, and Alabama and North
Carolina tieing for third with 10
each. Transfers are from such wide-
ly scattered schools as Northwestern
University, Sophie Newcomb Col-
lege, and Duke University.
The new students are:
Jeanne Allen, Atlanta, Ga.
Grace Anderson, Tampa, Fla.
Ruth Ashburn, Winston-Salem,
N. C.
Lucille Bach, Jackson, Ky.
Dorothy Lee Barnes, Macon, Ga.
Mary Elizabeth Barrett, Gaines-
ville, Ga.
Rowena Barringer, Florence, S. C.
Lula Bass, Latta, S. C.
Miriam Bedinger, Asheville, N. C.
Martha Jane Behm, New Richmond,
Ohio.
Kathryn Benefield, Atlanta, Ga.
Mary Brainard Bell, Shelbyville, Ky.
Suzanne Bellingrath, Montgomery,
Ala.
Martha Boone, Elkton, Ky.
Mary Elizabeth Boote, Thomasville,
Ga.
Frances Breg, Chevy Chase, Md.
Ruth Brody, Sumter, S. C.
Nina Broughton, Hackensack, N. J.
Sabine Brumby, Atlanta, Ga.
Gentry Burks, Charlotte, N. C.
Frances Butt, Blue Ridge, Ga.
Marion Candler, Decatur, Ga.
Gladys Carr, Emory University, Ga.
Josephine Cates, Jackson, Ala.
Catherine Cocco, Norwood, Penn.
Harriette Cochran, Atlanta, Ga.
Beverly Coleman, Eastman, Ga.
Alice Comer, Eufaula, Ala.
Freda Copeland, Brunswick, Ga.
Mary Elizabeth Culver, Culverton,
Ga.
Doris Dalton, Atlanta, Ga.
Jeanne Davidowitz, New York
City.
Dorothy Davis, Atlanta, Ga.
Margaret Deas, Atlanta, Ga.
Dorothy Debele, Savannah, Ga.
Eugenia Dennison, Atlanta, Ga.
Kathryn Donehoo, Decatur, Ga.
Martha Dunn, Decatur, Ga.
Ethelyn Dyar, Atlanta, Ga.
Margaret Eiseman, Atlanta, Ga.
Florence Ellis, Monroe, Ga.
Betty Ball Embry, Evanston, 111.
Ruby Evans, Lithonia, Ga.
Jean Fairly, Hazlehurst, Miss.
Margaret Falkinburg, Atlanta, Ga.
Winifred Finger, Ripley, Miss.
Ann Fisher, Newport, Tenn.
Louise Franklin, Marietta, Ga.
Lucille Gaines, Anderson, S. C.
Anne Garrett, Atlanta, Ga.
Grace Goldstein, Atlanta, Ga.
Ellen Gould, Jacksonville, Fla.
Florence Graham, Bluefield, W. Va.
Caroline Grav, Winston-Salem,
N. C.
Nancy Gribble, Austin, Texas.
Agnes Hall, Atlanta, Ga.
Modesta Hance, Wilmington, Del.
Agnes Harvey, Laurel, Va.
Beryl Healy, Chattanooga, Tenn.
Edith Henegar, Copperhill, Tenn.
Ann Henry, Macon, Ga.
Virginia Hickman, Fort Smith,
Ark.
Dr. Raper Has Spent
I nte resting Summer
Dr. Arthur Raper, professor of
sociology, gave a series of discus-
sions of southern social and eco-
nomic conditions during the Insti-
tute of World Missions at Chau-
tauqua. N. Y., this summer.
Among his other summer activi-
ties was an address on Race Rela-
tions before the Y. W. C. A. con-
ference at Blue Ridge, N. C, and
an address to the council on a
Christian Social Order at Lake
Junaluska; thence back to Blue
Ridge for the conference on Edu-
cation and Race Relations.
Esther Hillhouse, Hendersonville,
N. C.
Lillie Hogan, Atlanta, Ga.
Mary Alice Home, St. George,
S. C.
Roberta Ingles, Radford, Va.
Marguerite Ingley, Sanford, Fla.
Mary Ivy, West Point, Miss.
Frances Jernigan, Decatur, Ga.
Helen Jester, Lynchburg, Va.
Emma Jane Jones, Albany, Ga.
Aileen Kasper, Atlanta, Ga.
Elizabeth Hendrick, Suffolk, Va.
Helen Klugh, Atlanta, Ga.
Elzabeth Kvle, Huntington, W.
Va.
Julia Lancaster, Taichow, Kiangsu,
China.
Catherine Lawrence, Charlotte,
N. C.
Dorothy Lazenby, Decatur, Ga.
Sara Mayers Lee, Danville, Ky.
Margaret Lentz, Atlanta, Ga.
Mary Lucile Longino, Sarasota,
Fla.
Allie Malone, Atlanta, Ga.
Marcia Mansfield, Atlanta, Ga.
Anne Mapother, Norfolk, Va.
Anne Martin, Marion, S. C.
Ursula Mayer, Stuttgart, Germany.
Maxine McAuley, Atlanta, Ga.
Julia McConnel, Talladega, Ala.
Janet McKim, Sierra Nevada, Mex-
ico.
Virginia Lee McWhorter, Decatur,
Ga.
Anna Louise Meiere, Atlanta, Ga.
Marjorie Merlin, Atlanta, Ga.
Ann Millican, Macon, Ga.
Betty Moffat, Elmhurst, Penn.
Grace Moffat, Scranton, Penn.
Isobel Moncur, Webster Groves,
Mo.
Martha Moody, Plant City, Fla.
Elizabeth Moore, Talladega, Ala.
Catherine Morgan, Guyton, Ga.
Margaret Murchison, Florence,
S. C.
Mary Louise Musser, Charleston,
W. Va.
Ella Muzzey, Patterson, N. J.
Elizabeth Myers, Savannah, Ga.
Sarah Nicholson, Shreveport, La.
Valgerda Nielsen, Evergreen, Ala.
Margaret Nix, Madison, Ga.
Katherine Oates, Sweetwater,
Tenn.
Mary Ball Oliver, Wellesley Hills,
Mass.
Betty Jean O'Brien, Decatur, Ga.
Martha O'Nan, Cropper, Ky.
Schelle Parham, Decatur, Ga.
Mary Elizabeth Paris, Jacksonville,
Fla.
Sarah Frances Parker, Canton, Ga.
Pattie Patterson, Charlotte, N. C.
Dorothy Peteet, Atlanta, Ga.
Irene Phillips, Woodward, Ala.
Marion Philips, Atlanta, Ga.
Marion Phillips, LaGrange, Ga.
Sue Phillips, LaGrange, Ga.
Beatrice Piassick, Atlanta, Ga.
Georgia Poole, Mullins, S. C.
Therese Poumaillou, Tours, France.
Sarah Rainey, Asheville, N. C.
Harriett Reid, Atlanta, Ga.
Hattie Mina Reid, Madison, Ga.
Katherine Rhodes, Estill, S. C.
Nellie Richardson, Rayle, Ga.
Betty Robey, Decatur, Ga.
Elizabeth Ann Ruprecht, Gaines-
ville, Fla.
Laura Sale, Atlanta, Ga.
Ruth Sammon, Abbeville, S. C.
Louise Sams, Charleston, S. C.
Lillian Schwencke, Thomasville,
Ga.
Susan Self, Ninety Six, Ga.
Beatrice Shamos, Atlanta, Ga.
Charlotte Shepeard, Opelika, Ala.
Eugenia Slack, Decatur, Ga.
Eunice Sloan, Shelton, Conn.
Onie Frances Smithy Ripley, Miss.
Sarah Smith, Atlanta, Ga.
Marv Frances Sproles, Charlotte,
N. C.
Ann Stansbury, Chattanooga,
Tenn.
Watch for Opening Date
WOMAN'S EXCHANGE
New Location Hotel Candler
About the 15th
Arlene Steinbach, Carrollton, Ga.
Betty Jane Stevenson, Atlanta, Ga.
Martha Stone, Kingsport, Tenn.
Carolyn Strozier, Baxley, Ga.
Elaine Stubbs, Fort Myers, Fla.
Shirley Swagerty, Atlanta, Ga.
Ann Tatum, Opelika, Ala.
Laura Thomas, Greenville, S. C.
Dorothy Travis, Hapeville, Ga.
Tommy Turner, Atlanta, Ga.
Mary Bondurant Utterback, Louis-
ville, Ky.
Ida Jane Vaughn, Jenkins, Ky.
Betty Waitt, Maxwell Field, Ala.
Grace Walker, Summerville, S. C.
Betty Jean Waliin, Columbia, Mo.
Eleanore Walton, Thomasville, Ga.
Martha Lois Watkins, Cedartown,
Ga.
Cornelia Anne Watson, Ridge
Spring, S. C.
Doris Weinkle, Atlanta, Ga.
Margaret Wells, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Bonnie Westbrook, Ila, Ga.
Mary Scott Wilds, Hendersonville,
N. C.
Frances Williams, Elkton, Ky.
Virginia Williams, Hamilton, Ga.
Cornelia Willis, Culpepper, Va.
Nancy Willstatter, New York
City.
Nancy Wimpfheimer, New York
City.
Mary Wisdom, Atlanta, Ga.
Hilda Woodard, Louisville, Ky.
Margaret Woodhead, Graniteville,
s. 1 C.
Anita Woolfolk, Fort Valley, Ga.
Elsie York, Atlanta, Ga.
Lessie Young, Atlanta, Ga.
Statistician Finds
Football Harmful
Football makes addled-brained
stumble-backs of its players. That
is the indictment leveled today
against the nation's leading ama-
teur sport by Frank Scully, noted
author, who attributes his invalid-
ism to the drubbing he took in
school competitions.
Reporting the results of a survey
he made of the leading players of
twenty years ago, Scully declares
in the current Liberty magazine
that many of these who weren't
killed in the World War either
died from tuberculosis or are now
addled-brained dim wits.
"After careful study I have
come to the conclusion that you
don't have to be a half-wit to be a
half-back, but if you are a half-
back long enough you will be," he
writes.
Scully relates a meeting with
Charlie Barrett, former ail-Ameri-
can quarterback at Cornell and
captain of the 1916 unbeaten
team. Barrett was in the last
stages of t. b., just before his
death. "He told me," says Scully,
"that six members of that cham-
pionship 1916 squad have also
broken down with t. b. Barrett's
confession was the greatest mass
indictment of varsity football I
had run into up to that time."
But, says the writer, their fate
was less pitiful than others whose
brains could not stand the constant
vicious jarring. He relates the ex-
perience of one Coast champion-
ship team: "Of the three stars in
the backfield, all named on one
Ail-American team or another,
Faculty Plays,
Works During
Busy Summer
Traveling, Teaching, Resting,
Studying Comprise Chief
Pastimes
Realizing that what our faculty
members do off campus and es-
pecially during the summer is deep,
dark, and almost secret informa-
tion to most of us Hottentots, the
Aggie reporters have been digging
around this past week and unearth-
ing a lot of news for us.
According to their revelations,
Miss Laney, Miss Florence Smith
and Dr. Hayes spent six weeks
teaching in Hunter College in
New York, while Miss Bartholo-
mew remained in Atlanta to teach.
Miss Hanley seems to have been
quite busy attending a convention
of the American Library Associa-
tion in New York City, visiting
friends and working in our library.
And we are very glad indeed to re-
port that Miss Preston went to the
mountains and got a lot of much-
needed rest.
Mr. Dieckmann did some com-
posing at his home in Decatur and
arranged some pieces for the string
ensemble. Miss Gilchrist traveled
to New York and sailed to Bermu-
da. Mr. Johnson, too, went to the
mountains, and Miss Bee Miller
sought out Texas.
Miss Nunnally was here at Ag-
nes Scott except for six weeks in
Richmond, Williamsburg, Wash-
ington, and other points of inter-
est in that section of the country.
Mr. Wright reports a rather quiet
summer spent, for the most part,
in Atlanta. He carried on the re-
search on which he was working.
Miss Carlson also did research work
for two months in the Columbia
University Library. She spent the
last month of her vacation in Iowa.
Miss Cilley was in New England
for the first part of the summer,
and for the last few weeks she also
did research work in the Library
of Congress in Washington.
subsequently, one broke his neck
in his last season and therefore
missed his chance of becoming
stumble-back; the second ended
I his football days by walking on his
heels; and the third was so punch-
drunk from too much football
that he could see no way out ex-
cept playing more football, either
as a professional or as an assistant
coach.
"A woman's college is not con-
cerned with the war between men
and women .... The notion that
women's colleges were designed to
gear women to fight men is out of
date." Wellesley College's youth-
ful president, Mildred H. McAfee,
discusses her hope of training
young women to take their places
in society, not militantly, but in-
telligently aware of their responsi-
bilities as citizens, i
BAILEY BROTHERS
SHOE SHOP
142 Sycamore St., Decatur, Ga.
WALTER BALLARD OPTICAL CO.
DISPENSING OPTICIANS
Three Stores
105 Peachtree Street (Clock Sign)
Medical Arts Bldg. (382 Peachtree St.)
Doctors Bldg. (480 Peachtree St.)
ATLANTA, GA.
THE AGONISTIC
5
Frau Mayer, Mile. Poumaillon Tell
First Impressions and Experiences
Big Apple, Henry, Salads Give
Exchange Students a
Surprise
Two of the most colorful per-
sonalities on the campus this year
are Ursula Mayer from Stuttgart,
Germany, and Therese Poumaillou
from Tours, France. Ursula is
blonde, rosy-cheeked, athletic, and
a typical representative of the H/7-
lerjugend. She talks animatedly
with an accent and a few gestures.
She cocks her head to one side when
thinking looks straight at you
while talking. "American cities,"
she began, "are very different from
those of Germany. How can I ex-
plain it . . . well, first the streets
are all so wide, much wider than
ours and much darker and more
dreary. And the buildings are
taller and larger. Your hourses are
higher and your skyscrapers are
much bigger. I liked New York
very much. I came over on the
Deutschland with fourteen other
students and we all stayed up to
watch the sun rise in New York.
It was beautiful but I shouldn't
like to live there.*'
From New York, Ursula came
directly to Atlanta. So far her only
difficulties have been our southern
accents and our salads. "In Ger-
many," she said politely but defi-
nitely, "we never put lettuce and
fruit together." She added in part-
ing, "At first I was a little home-
sick I have never been away from
home for more than fourteen days
but now I've my room settled
and the girls are so friendly, and I
like Agnes Scott very much."
Therese, small, dark, and poised,
is as typically French as her fellow
exchange student is German. She
answers your questions politely,
sits with her hands folded in her
lap, and looks at you with a pair
of dark inquiring eyes. "When I
finished the Lysee," she began, "my
teacher called me in and we began
checking through a list of possible
jobs. We spent three hours at this
none of the jobs seemed to suit.
Finally the teacher turned to me
and said, 'How would you like to
go to America ?'
" Tine/ I said, although the
breath was almost taken out of me,
Td like to go.' And so here I
am."
Therese did not stop in New
York City but came on to Atlanta.
"I want to visit it on my way
back," she explained, "the only
thing I saw there was the men
the legionnaires at the station beat-
ing on the sidewalks with their
bells. I think New York must be
very exciting." When asked what
was the most unusual thing she had
seen in the United States so far,
Therese immediately answered,
"The Big Apple . . . there's noth-
ing like that in France. And there
is one other queer thing, too. When
I arrived in Atlanta I thought the
automobiles were very strange be-
cause the first one I saw was rather
like a box and bright red. But then
a girl got out of it and said she
was to take me to Agnes Scott and
I realized that is was just . . . well
. . . an American custom."
FULTON PAPER
COMPANY
distributors of
NIBROC TOWELS
Sophomores Will
Honor Freshmen
At Top Hat Club
"The Top Hat," ultra night club
owned by Sophomore Georgia
Hunt, announces its premiere open-
ing on Saturday night, October 9,
at 8 o'clock in Bucher Scott gym-
nasium. The exclusive invitations
have been extended to Agnes Scott
freshmen only.
They will be escorted by mem-
bers of the sophomore class, attired
in top hats, white ties, and tails.
All guests are requested to wear
full evening dress. A further an-
nouncement from the manager is
that, as a special treat, many celeb-
rities will be present to provide en-
tertainment for the occasion.
Teachers, Students See
Glories of Europe
{Continued from page 3, col. 5)
promptly brought them some for
their dessert.
Miss Mitchell successfully dodged
her interviewer by yelling as she
fled that she had a grand time in
Europe and that "anything Bert
says is true." Well, we shouldn't
doubt about her enjoying the trip,
especially after hearing about her
German Roland. And we are told
Bert didn't do so bad herself in
dancing with a German General,
although, at the time, she thought
him just a private on leave and she
almost ruined his feet in her effort
to give him a good time.
Other highlights of their tour,
as reported by Ann Worthy and
Adelaide, were their attending a
genuine English garden party with
tea and monicles and all that, their
dining with a baron and a baroness
at an Italian villa, and their swim-
ming at Lake Geneva in the shadow
of snow-covered Mont Blanc.
Another of our travelers in the
Alps was Miss Hale. With Miss
Phythian she drove through these
mountains and over the highest of
them on a road that had just been
opened. The Paris Exposition was
the thing that caught Miss Hale's
fancy. Seeing its lovely, illuminat-
ed fountains, its grand buildings,
and the Eiffel Tower strung with
brilliant colored lights was, to her,
like seeing Fairyland. The excel-
lent art collection of great master-
pieces was another good feature of
the Exposition.
Miss Gray was also an enthusi-
ast over the Paris event, although
she had the misfortune to be there
during the waiters' strike. At Ver-
sailles, sitting in the open-air thea-
tre and surrounded by eager French
peasants, she saw a ballet of the
French Opera House.
In an unguarded moment, Em-
ma McMullen, who toured Europe ship.
Social Lights
"Don't," says Laura, reading us
the news fashions out of the hand-
book, "in fact, never get excited
even if you've just checked in with
an engagement ring!" So Samille,
being up on the styles, slips in
sedately without a murmur. This
rule does not apply to freshmen
and fraternity pins. Advice from
editors: Brag while it's stylish.
Alas, times don't change. Only
the same old good-time round of
football, Anak dances, and rush
parties. Rain on the Mercer game
didn't keep Anita Howard, Mar-
tha Peek Brown, and Elizabeth
Blackshear at home. And that
night the juniors came out in all
their glory. Jeanne Flynt, Jane
Moore Hamilton, Kay Toole, Kay
Kennedy, and Sue Goodwin shone
at the Anak dance. More advice to
the freshmen: Hang on for two
years!
Agnes Sc otters Choose Various
Unusual Styles for Fall Season
with her family, revealed that she
got lost once, but she couldn't be
inveigled into describing the cir-
cumstances of what she called "a
dumb thing to do." But she did
say that they had fun exploring
the Blue Grottoe on the Isle of
Capri and dropping their handker-
chiefs from the top of Eiffel Tow-
er in a hard rainstorm.
One of our new librarianians,
Mrs. Graham, after spending sev-
eral weeks in Italy visiting some
friends, decided that she liked that
country best of all those in which
she had traveled. Italy, in her opin-
ion, has the most to offer travelers.
And next in her estimation was
Scotland, particularly the romantic
city of Edinburgh and the Tros-
sachs.
In the five minutes between
classes we questioned Miss Harn
about her sojourn in Europe and
learned that she stayed mostly in
Germany and had the pleasure of
visiting with Lucy Hess and Ursu-
la Mayer, a former and a present
exchange student, respectively, at
Agnes Scott.
Miss Gooch and Miss Omwake
also spent some time abroad this
summer, but so busy were they
that we could not secure an inter-
view with them. We did hear that
Miss Gooch studied at a school of
drama in London and also that she
saw a new Shaw play and several
of the plays at Stratford-on-Avon.
But, if their experiences correspond
in any measure to those of the stu-
dents and faculty with whom we
were able to talk, we are sure that
they, too, found Europe in a blaze
of glory.
College Librarian Is
On Leave of Absence
Miss Laura Colvin, assistant li-
brarian of Agnes Scott College, is
on leave of absence this year to do
graduate work in Library Science
at the University of Michigan.
She was granted a Carnegie fellow-
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
By Mary Wells McNeil
Madamoiselles, the time has come
for us to stop and think of clothes,
that ever present help in time of
woman's trouble! Have you been
noticing the various and sundry
styles around the campus? Yes, I
know, you are too busy. Well, I
will have you know that I nearly
broke my neck the other day I was
so busy looking at Shirley Armen-
trout's cute multi-colored san-
dals. Speaking of sandals, have
you noticed Bee MerriPs white
ones? Honestly, the woman must
have a very magnetic personality
to keep those things on. They are
the kind that you stick your toes
in and hope the heel part will be
somewhere around, the next time
Chorus Gives Program
At Methodist Church
As the special feature of the
Young People's Class of the Deca-
tur Methodist Sunday School last
Sunday, October 2, the Music De-
partment of Agnes Scott gave a
musical program.
The Special Chorus sang two
numbers, O Lord Most Holy and
I Shall Not Pass Again This Way.
A piano solo, Etude in C Minor, by
Chopin, was played by Nell Hemp-
hill. Other numbers, both vocal
solos, were Clouds, sung by Amelia
Nickels, and A Green Cathedral,
sung by Jane Moore Hamilton.
27 Make Honor Roll
{Continued from page 1, col. 2)
Warley Street, Florence, S. C; An-
toinette Sledd, 144 Erie Avenue,
Decatur, Ga.; Florence Sledd, 144
Erie Avenue, Decatur, Ga.; Violet
Jane Watkins, 1402 17th Avenue,
South, Nashville, Tenn.
you take a step.
To me, hats are every bit as in-
teresting as shoes. The hat of the
moment on our campus seems to
be one of those cute little things
that one places gently but firmly
on the crown of the head. Kay
Ricks and Nell Echols are among
the devotees of this little model.
Now, if it is allure and glamour
^ou desire in a hat, you must fol-
low Ruby Hutton's and Helen
Moses' example and have a veil
upon your chapeau.
Perhaps scarfs in themselves are
not glamorous but they do their
part toward disguising the "tin
wave" which is designed to put
waves in newly-washed hair. If
you have a scarf like Genevieve
Baird's, you can wrap Edward
VIIFs abdication address around
your head.
Speaking of modern inventions
and progress and stuff, aren't the
new dresses with zippers cute?
Three piece suits are quite popular
with the lasses, too. Cally Carmi-
chael has a lovely one. Her chief
difficulty seems to be in deciding
whether to wear one coat or both
when she goes out. The Yankee
portion of the hall says, "Wear
only one coat or you will burn up,"
while the Southerners ardently de-
mand that she wear both or freeze.
Three piece suits and dresses are
nice, but when buying them, please
don't make Julia Sewell's mistake.
Poor Julia decided that instead of
paying her student budget right
away, she would apply Mr. Sewell's
check to her wardrobe. Woe was
Julia! After going all the way to
Atlanta, she discovered that the
check was made out to the Student
Treasurer of Agnes Scott College.
So, beware!
Touchdown !
Touchdown!
Keep Your
Own Record
of the Qame
Xvith your
Eastman Camera
2.98
The Bullet! And it hits the line squarely every time.
Scientifically designed to take really good pictures
. . . l%x2 l /2 inches. It's the sensation of the picture-
taking set.
Cameras
Street Floor
RICH'S
6
THE AGONISTIC
Y. W. Retreat
Gives Cabinet
Gay Week-End
Last Friday night a gay and col-
lossal Big Ring Circus stopped on
the campus soon after supper. It
was glorious.
Greeted by husky barkers and
warmed by the tremendous swell
of a swing band, the crowd packed
the huge tent. Really, there was
hardly standing room! Side shows
to the right, side shows to the left
"Try-ie yore ski-yal a-yt sin-kin'
th' cup!" "Madame Palmalena ,>
knows all and tells it at the least
provocation. The "Guess Your
Weight" booth realized amazingly
heavy gains, despite hopes to the
contrary. The freak booth dis-
closed some of the rarest creatures
ever seen this side of Inman a
brunet bearded lady whose facial
foliage was glamorously blonde, an
extremely elongated creature tall-
est personality in Main, and a sim-
ply huge fat lady. My dear, her
tonnage was atrocious! The mem-
ory of having seen her will make
us count three next time we're
tempted to order a third cheese-
burger!
After Ringmaster Chalmers and
Big Apple Expert Merrill succeed-
ed in shouting a few more fresh-
men out of Inman and down to
the tent, the main show was on.
A triple trained seal act (best in
the Rebekah Scott collection), a
fiercely strong Amazon who could
heave two immense iron weights
above her head with almost no ef-
fort, a tumbling bunch of acro-
bats and so many other stupen-
dous attractions it would take all
the Aggie space to describe them.
Well, you should have been there!
Some of the caged beasts deserve
mention. We were simply terrified
at the sight of them. All but one
was awful. This one, an untrained
blue checkered monster, reputed to
be the wildest of its kind ever cap-
tured in Boyd, grew strangely lim-
pid and lifeless as the show pro-
gressed. The trainers were dis-
tressed. They couldn't decide why
he displayed so little Fite, until
they noticed that all his favorite
beverage, kerosene, had spilled on
the Flora. And you can check us
on that detail, if you're doubtful!
Before closing this little chat,
we must include a word of com-
mendation to Bandmaster Castle-
berry, who produced the musica
hits with graceful gusto, in spite
of the current odds against her.
Sometimes, above the din of the
surging circus mob, you could al-
most hear the soothing swish of a
Castleberry swing. The girl's a
born electrician!
There are week-ends that con-
sist of just another day or two, or
maybe one "red letter" day. But
the week-end that thirteen Hotten-
tots and a faculty member have
just spent at Smyrna will be re-
membered often as this year rushes
on. Last week-end found the Y.
W. C. A. cabinet and Miss Virginia
Gray planning the year's activities.
Read about it between the dots . . .
Winifred in "Little Llewellyn"
(Bert Palmour's pride and joy on
four wheels) rolling helplessly
backwards into a funny old mule
. . . Thirteen girls and a faculty
member eating "African" toast
(every-day toast plus the smoke of
a kerosene range) . .. . Doug Lyle
hard at work "taking down what
other people say" . . . Primmie,
Grace W., Martha Long all in one
bed, buried under every coat, blan-
ket, and pillow in the cabin . . .
Amelia and Mamie Lee arguing
over who snored the loudest . . .
Millie sputtering with her mouth
full of toothpaste suddenly realiz-
ing that the water "just isn't" . . .
Julia and Henri trudging toward
the well with arms full of pans and
pitchers . . . Mildred screwing up
her hair and blossoming out with
adorable curls in the morning .
"Cat" and "Bobbie" trying their
best to secretly rub the soot off the
cheese with Winnie's only clean
towel . . . Everybody out under
the trees talking and planning . . .
Singing echo "Taps" across the
lake under a full moon . . . Thir-
teen girls and a faculty member
playing, marching, and praying to-
gether for two glorious days . . .
Another Y. W. C. A. retreat is
We Think
(Editor's Note: The We Think column is
conducted for the purpose of giving an out-
let to student opinion. The staff is in no
way responsible for what is printed in this
column and it is by no means to be taken
as the editorial opinion of the paper.)
B. S. U. Council Athletic Board
Enjoys Annual
Fall Retreat
We've been thinking for a pret-
ty long while now and we've de-
cided that the time has come to
mention the unmentionable, to dis-
cuss the lowest of practices Boot-
licking. What is bootlicking any-
way, and how can it be distin-
guished from common courtesy
and a sincere desire for friendship?
Bootlicking has been defined as:
flattering a teacher in order to get
a good grade . . . yessing a superior
to make a good impression ... or
kotowing to anyone to raise your-
self in that person's estimation. It's
a despicable habit and, we think, a
habit so looked down on by stu-
dents today that on many campus-
es it has placed a sort of barrier be-
tween the teacher and student.
What has happened to the once
popular custom of Sunday after-
noon open houses when groups of
students called at the homes of fac-
ulty members to talk with them
about things outside the classroom,
and to become better acquainted
with them? It has been discouraged
and destroyed by a whispering
campaign. Today, if a student is
seen walking with a professor,
playing tennis with her, calling at
her house, the word somehow gets
around and another victim is added
to the list of bootlickers.
Agnes Scott professors are se-
lected as much for their ability to
deal with and understand students
as for their ability to teach them
facts from books. It seems rather
stupid then, on our part, to miss
one of the greatest opportunities of
a college education. That of be-
coming acquainted with some of
the best well-stocked, well-rounded
minds with which it will ever be
our fortune to meet.
The Baptist Student Union
Council of Agnes Scott College
had its annual fall retreat Sunday,
September 19, at Mr. Grady Lee's
farm near Decatur. The council
received inspiration for this work
during the coming year through
addresses by several Baptist leaders
carrying out the theme adopted for
the year: "The Maximum Christ-
ian." The speakers included: Mr.
Henry Robinson, of Agnes Scott
College; Dr. Ellis Fuller, pastor of
the First Baptist Church of Atlan-
ta; Dr. A. J. Moncrief, pastor of
the Decatur Baptist Church; Mr.
D. B. Nicholson, state B. S. U. sec-
retary, and Mr. William Hall Pres-
ton, south-wide student leader.
loss of her father early in the sum
mer and with Wayne Lewis, who
also lost her father. The class of
'37 was deeply saddened by the
sudden death of Betty Hollis, June
27, 1937J
Chooses Three
To Lead Work
At a meeting early in the fall
the 1937-3 8 Athletic Board chose
Lettie McKay to be song leader,
Mary Nell Taylor to manage ten-
nis, and Mary Eleanor Steele to
manage basketball, filling vacan-
cies left by Mary Past, Helen Car-
son, and Stell Cuddy. These girls
join the board in getting under
way a full and exciting program
for the fall sports season.
Fouch Brinton, hockey manager,
has announced the following class
managers of hockey: Nell Allison,
senior; Emma McMullen, junior;
Penn Hammond, sophomore; and
Ruth Hancke, freshman. The
hockey season began last Monday.
Practice hours for each class are
posted in the gym.
Virginia Milner, swimming man-
ager, announces three of the class
managers of swimming. They are
Kat Brittingham, senior; Esthere
Ogden, junior; and Bryant Holsen-
beck, sophomore.
Alumnations
(Continued from page 2, col. 3)
Business College in Atlanta. Julia
Thing has just finished a business
course.
"At home doing one tfting and
another" is Mary Jane Tigert's sit-
uation. She is waiting until she's
twenty-one when she will be able
to enter the University of Florida.
One of our Phi Beta Kappa's,
Frances Wilson, has received a
teaching fellowship at Mt. Holy-
oke, where she is taking her mas-
ter's degree.
There were quite a few of the
'37 class who decided travel was
more interesting than a summer
school. Louise Brown visited in
Dallas, Texas; Frances Cary made
a more extensive trip by going to
Europe, and taking the Mediterran-
ean cruise, too. Dorothy Jester and
Sarah Johnson also spent the sum-
mer in Europe. Sarah has resigned
a teaching position in the Atlanta
public schools to become Dr. Ful-
ler's secretary at the First Baptist
Church in Atlanta.
As would be expected, many
alumna are now teachers in vari-
ous towns. Mary Buckholz is
doing cadet teaching in Miami,
Fla.; Cornelia Christie is instruct-
ing seventh grade at Cuthbert,
Ga.; Jane Estes and Barton Jack-
son teach in Chipley, Ga.; Mary
Gillespie at Donalson, /Ga.; Martha
Head and Kitty Jones at Monticel-
lo High School, Monticello, Ga.,
and they're rooming together.
There is also Jean Kirkpatrick
teaching at Beton, S. C; Florence
Lassiter at Jefferson, Ga.; Vivienne
Long has a first grade at Doraville,
Ga.; while June Matthews is at
Symrna, Ga., and Marie Stalker at
the Samuel Inman School in At-
lanta. Both. Mary Jane King and
Fannie B. Harris are enjoying their
teaching in Dalton, Ga. Mary Jane
claims she still misses Virgil and
Chaucer in the atmosphere of an
elementary school; however, Dal-
ton is so full of Agnes Scott alum-
nae that it is possible to talk over
such matters with sympathetic
Hottentots.
Two former students enjoy
medical work. Wayve Lewis works
for three doctors and lives in De-
catur, while Betty Willis is fur-
thering her medical study at the
University of Virginia.
It seems fifteen Hottentots are
at Southern Bell in Atlanta, the
most recent being Nellie Margaret
Gilroy, Martha Summers, Mildred
Tilly, Florence Little and Kitty
Printup. Mildred and Kitty are
also going to night school.
Everyone who knew the presi-
dent of student government must
want to know what Alice Hannah
is doing. Hannah was a counselor
at Juliette Lowe Camp for Girls
this summer and is now attending
the Assembly Training School in
Richmond, Va. She has been ex-
cited about a job in a mission sta-
tion in Africa, but is not going
for a while.
Then, the May Queen, Lucile
Dennison, is working in the regis-
trar's office at Emory, where she
has a two year fellowship.
Sadness entered several of the
girls' homes since they left Agnes
Scott. The student body sympa-
thized with Charline Fleece, now
Mrs. James Halverstadt, in the
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VOL. XXIII
<P)e Agonistic
AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1937
NO. 2
Front Row
By Jane Guthrje
UNITED STATES: Takes the
lead by denouncing Japan as
"treaty-breaker." Roosevelt's Chi-
cago speech and Secretary of State's
accusation gratify other European
nations. Conference with Nine
Power signatories considered a\id, it
is rumored, will be held in Wash-
ington. Definite measures to end
war without war gain popular sup-
port.
BRITAIN'S ambassador in Wash-
ington, Sir Ronald Lindsay, asks
a further statement concerning
United States quarantine proposal.
England hopes quarantining is just
another word for boycotting and
that United States will back her in
interrupting trade relations with
Japan. If this plan goes through,
75% of Japan's vital supplies will
be seriously handicapped, making a
continuation of the invasion almost
impossible.
FRANCE joins Britain in asking
United States to unite in negotia-
tions against Japan. GENEVA is
much cheered up by the United
States' stand.
ITALY: The press at Rome, dis-
regarding Ethiopia and Spain, pro-
tests that Italy is seeking peace.
Italy has been invited to partici-
pate with France and England in
Three Power conversations con-
cerning Spain. It is said that Italy
will refuse. The reason being that
Germany was not invited to the
tete-a-tete.
GERMANY seems, like Italy, to
have been undisturbed by an-
nouncements from the west. The
Berlin press suggests that the Presi-
dent initiate "a genuine investiga-
tion into causes, not merely symp-
toms, of present world chaos."
JAPAN fights on, ignoring
words, codes and pressures. She
agrees to attend the Nine Power
conference. Expects no sanctions
and will tolerate none. Meanwhile
ammunitions pile up, food is scarce
and the dissatisfaction of the Jap-
anese citizen increases.
Georgia Hunt Plans
For Fire-Prevention
"I am going to stage a good
fire-prevention campaign," said
Georgia Hunt Wednesday imme-
diately after the announcement of
her election to the office of school
Fire Chief. The winning candi-
date was the popular nominee for
the office left vacant when Mary
Past, who was elected last spring,
did not return. Mary Nell Tribble,
the other candidate, was the com-
mittee nominee for the post. The
first vote was held October 2.
Chairmen Patterson and Thompson Examine Cat
Courtesy Atlanta Constitution.
Deep Secrecy Cloaks Plans
Of Black Cat Committees
With only four days left before
Saturday night, October 16, the
freshmen and sophomore commit-
tees are completing plans for the
traditional Black Cat contest.
Chairman Henrietta Thompson
says plans are being finished for
the sophomores under the com-
petent direction of her committee
chairmen. Pattie Patterson reveals
that the capable freshmen chair-
men have their stunt well on the
way to perfection.
The sophomore chairmen:
Writing Sophie Montgomery.
Program Mary Reins.
Property Mette Williamson.
Decorations Ruth Slack.
May
Costumes Lucille Scott.
Dances Marjorie Boggs.
Stage Manager Evelyn Baty.
Music Mickey Warren.
The freshmen chairmen:
Business Manager Tom
Turner.
Treasurer Grace Moffat.
Writing Jean Slack.
Costume Louise Musser.
Properties Betsy Kendrick.
Stage Freck Sproles.
Chorus Mary Scott Wild.
Dance Jean Dennison.
Music Grace Walker.
Decoration Edith Henegar.
Make Up Marguerite Ingly.
Song Creations Gay Swagerty.
English Debate Tryouts
Pi Alpha Phi, the Agnes Scott
debating society, has set Monday,
October 18, as the date for its
members to try out for the team
which will debate the Cambridge
Union Society and the Oxford Un-
ion Society, of England, about the
middle of November. Mary
Frances Guthrie will be one of the
two debaters.
Mr. Stukes Serves on Group
To Unify Teachers 3 Training
Realizing the need of uniform
teacher training requirements in
southern states, the Southern Uni-
versity Conference two years ago
appointed a committee to study
the matter and make recommenda-
tions for accomplishing it. Agnes
Scott, ably represented by Mr.
Stukes, is the only woman's col-
lege boasting a committee mem-
ber. The other members are
Chairman President Guerry of the
University of Chattanooga; Chan-
cellor Butts, of the University of
Mississippi; Chancellor Carmichael,
of Vandcrbilt, and Dean Holton,
of Duke University.
After investigating regulations
for teaching throughout the South,
the committee made a preliminary
report in December, 193 6. Fol-
lowing this report, the committee
turned its efforts to urging state
departments of education to unify
their requirements. Week before
last a meeting was held in At-
lanta to which all southern states
except North Carolina and Texas
sent delegates.
In view of the great need for an
arrangement allowing teachers to
qualify for their profession in one
state, and subsequently follow it
anywhere in the region, it is ex-
pected that the program proposed
will immediately be adopted.
Professor Dieckmann
Publishes Two Songs
Professor C. W. Dieckmann,
head of the music department, has
had accepted two original composi-
tions, an anthem and solo song,
for publication by the H. W.
Gray Company. The former is ded-
icated to Mr. Ragan, director of
the All Saint's choir, at whose re-
quest Mr. Dieckmann wrote the
anthem, and to his choir. The
composition is a unison anthem,
having as an especially interesting
feature an independent organ
background. The solo song is a
setting of Rossetti's Uphill.
Main, White House,
Cottages Announce
Loiver House Reps
Five girls have been elected to
represent Main, White House, and
the cottages in the quarterly
meetings of the lower house. They
are: Myrl Chafin, from White
House and the cottages; Ruth
Crisp and Georgia Hunt, from
second floor Main; and Ludie
Moore and Shirley Steele, from
third floor Main.
Current History
' Clubs Combine
To Form Forum
The Citizenship Club, the Inter-
national Relations Club, and the
National Students Federation of
America Discussion Group have
combined their activities on the
campus to form a Current History
Forum. The new organization will
be known as the Current History
Forum, sponsored by the three
former organizations, with com-
bined dues, meetings, and member-
ships, and with one group of offi-
cers.
The first meeting was held
Tuesday afternoon, October 12, at
4:00 P. M. in the Murphey Cand-
ler Building, with Dr. Philip
Davidson, professor of history, as
speaker. The subject for the day
will be the Supreme Court and
Justice Hugo Black. Monthly
meetings will be held thereafter,
open to all those interested. The
forum will be instrumental in
bringing to the campus speakers of
merit and in conducting discus-
sions preparing the student for
citizenship and acquainting her
with affairs of the day.
Forum Sponsors
Bulletin Board
The Current History Forum is
planning to sponsor a community
bulletin board to be placed in the
library at Agnes Scott. The board
will be for the benefit of the stu-
dent body and will contain lists of
the most important recent maga-
zine articles, radio programs, and
news articles. It will also have
news clippings and headlines.
The bulletin board is being
made in the same finish as the li-
brary so that it will harmonize
with the other fixtures. Eliza
King and an appointed committee
will have charge.
Paper, KUB
Make Plans
To Combine
Students May Try Out For
Club and Agonistic at
One Time
One of the first efforts toward
dis-organization on the campus
was made at the call meeting of
K. U. B. on Wednesday, October
6, when the members voted to
combine the journalism club with
the Agonistic staff.
Under this plan, only one try-
out will be necessary to become a
member of K. U. B. or an Ago-
nistic reporter. Those on the Ag-
onistic staff this year will become
members of the K. U. B., and
those who are already in the club
may be reporters for the Agonistic
if they wish. Next year's staff will
be drawn entirely from the club.
K. U. B. is the publicity club
for Agnes Scott. Through its mem-
bers the Atlanta papers receive
pictures and notices of the day
students, and the home town pa-
pers are informed when some spe-
cial honor comes to a boarding stu-
dent. At its regular meeting this
afternoon, at four-thirty, in the
Murphey Candler Building, Dr.
McCain will speak.
Nine Transfers
Attend Picnic
Entertaining the nine exchange
students, Mortar Board gave a
picnic Thursday, October 8, at a
clearing two blocks from Agnes
Scott. Those attending include, be-
sides the members of Mortar
Board: Hattie Minna Reid, Grace
Ruderson, Florence Graham, Bun-
nie Westbrook, Sara Nicholson,
Jean Fairley, Beth Paris and Betty
Embry.
Concert Series Presents
Artists of World Fame
By Mamie Lee Ratliff
The All Star Concert Series,
presented by the Atlanta Music
Club and the Atlanta Philhar-
monic Society, under the manage-
ment of Mr. Marvin MacDonald,
has scheduled for its 1937-193 8
season seven internationally known
groups of musicians; two of the
greatest prima donnas of the Met-
ropolitan Opera Company, "Amer-
ica's most popular baritone," the
foremost contemporary pianist-
composer, a new and unusual bal-
let, a master violinist, and a mag-
nificent symphony orchestra.
Because the Atlanta Series at-
tracts an audience at each per-
formance of about 5000 people
and because it has the largest sub-
scription of any such series in
America, it is recognized as the
outstanding concert series of this
country. The low prices at which
these concerts can be heard is
made possible only through the
support of the music-lovers of this
section. So popular is this scries
that usually there is a sold-out
house on season tickets long before
the first concert.
The schedule of this winter's
concerts is as follows, the first
three programs being presented in
the Fox Theatre and the last four
in the new Atlanta Auditorium:
Rosa Ponselle, soprano, Thursday
evening, October 14; Yehudi Men-
uin, violinist, Wednesday evening,
November 24; Rachmaninoff,
pianist-composer, Thursday eve-
ning, December 9; Joos European
Ballet, Saturday evening, February
12; Nelson Eddy, baritone,
Wednesday evening, March 9; St.
Louis Symphony Orchestra, Vlad-
imir Golschmann, conductor,
Wednesday evening, March 30;.
Kirsten Flagstad, soprano, Wednes-
day evening, April 27.
Rosa Ponselle's program, as she
opens the season's concerts, is com-
posed of the following numbers:
Aria "Adieu Forets" from "Jeanne
d'Arc" by Tschaikowsky; "A
Pastoral," Verocini; "Marietta's
Lied" from "Die Tote Stadt" by
Worngold; "Rispetto" by Wolf-
Ferrari; "Contemplation" by
Widor; "Ouvre ton Coeur" by
Bizet; "Addio Del Passato" from
Verdi's "La Trayiata"; "Chanson
Bohcmc" from Bizet's "Carmen";
"My Lovely Celia" by Higgins;
"Eros" by Grieg; "Fairy Pipers,"
by Brewer; "Soldier's Bride" by
Rachmaninoff; and "Into the-
Light" by La Forge.
Piano solos to be played by
Stuart Ross, Miss Ponselle's accom-
panist, will be: "Choral from Can-
tata No. 22" by Bach-Kalberine;
"Organ Prelude in G Minor" by
Bach-Samaroff ; "Rhapsodic in G
Minor" by Brahms; and "Etude in
B Minor" by Chopin.
2
THE AGONISTIC
l)e Agonistic
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
Owned and published by the students of Agnes Scott
College.
Entered as Second Class Matter at Decatur, Georgia.
Subscription price, $1.25 per year in advance.
Single copies, 5c.
Historical Work Depicts
Pageant of the Ages
1937 Member 1938
Flssocided Golle6ieie Press
STAFF
Hortense Jones
Editor
Jane Guthrie
Mary McCann Hudson
Associate Editors
Mary Frances Guthrie
Marie Merritt
Assistant Editors
Elizabeth Skinner
Make -u p Editor
Elizabeth Kenney
Asst. Make-up Editor
Giddy Erwin
Feature Editor
Mary Wells McNeil
Asst. Feature Editor
Mary Anne Kernan
Current History
Elizabeth Warden
Book Editor
Elizabeth Blackshear
Business Manager
ESTHERE OGDEN
Advertising Manager
Frances Castleberry
Jeanne Redwine
Alice Reins
Eugenia Bridges
Circulation Managers
Alice Cheeseman
Sports Editor
Mary Reins
Exchange Editor
Jeannette Carroll
Alumnae Editor
Louise Hughston
News Editor
Evelyn Baty
Club Editor
REPORTERS: N. Allison, E. Baty, M. Chaftn,
M. L. Dobbs, G. Duggan, M. L. Gill, N. Hemp-
hill, L. HOUGHSTON, E. HUTCHENS, C K. HUTCH-
ins, R. Hurwitz, F. Lee, E. McCall, P. Noble,
M. L. Ratliffe, A. Reins, H. Solomon, S. Stein-
bach, V. J. Watkins, L. Young, D. Weinkle,
M. Merlin.
BUSINESS STAFF: M. Chaitn, H. Hirsch, N.
Echols, J. Flynt, M. Williamson, F. Abbot, M.
Oliver.
Union of KUB, Paper
Will Help Both
Believing that until we move out of our
own glass house we cannot heave even the
tiniest pebble at others, the Agonistic has
responded to its own dis-organization cam-
paign by entering a co-operative union with
K. U. B. We believe that the journalism
club can help us with its technical training
and with the valuable advice of its able fac-
ulty advisor, Miss Christie; and we hope we
can help K. U. B. by giving its members an
opportunity to take a more integral part in
campus activity.
We also feel that this union will be one
step toward remedying the dissipation of
energy which we think is apparent through-
out our organizations. New members of K.
U. B. will become at the same time reporters
for the Agonistic; and in the future, ' the
paper's staff will be chosen exclusively from
K. U. B. Potential journalists take note!
With great satisfaction we also note the
consolidation of the four current events clubs
into the Current History Forum. Although
it would gratify us to claim credit for the
move, veracity forces us to admit that the
combination was decided before we published
our momentous declaration. At any rate, we
thoroughly approve the plan.
We Think
Charmed Circles. Hobart C. Chat-
field-Taylor, Houghton Mifflin
Co., New York, 193 5. Re-
viewed by Jane Salters.
Charmed Circles, a recent his-
torical work by Hobart C. Chat-
field-Taylor, is presented to the
public in the author's foreword as
not "a treatise, a preachment, an
allegory, or a propaganda, but
merely a diversion" a pageant of
the ages. To see clearly, one must
stand before it in imagination as
"in a French public square during
the performance of a mistere de-
picting the ways of other days, or
else in an English street while
scenes from bygone ages pass by
on wheels."
This interesting history of polite
society and of the social arbiters
of succeeding ages ranges from the
Golden Age of Greece to the mod-
ern mechanical and scientific era.
To each chapter the author has
given a descriptive title which in-
troduces the theme which he fol-
lows in picturing each age. Thus
we read of the lofty philosophy of
the Olympian Age, the republican
ideals of 'the Patrician Age, the
pomp and grandeur of the Impe-
rial Age, the fusion of the Eastern
customs with Western manners in
the Schismatic Age, the fierceness
of the Age of Chivalry, the court-
liness of the Age of Minstrelsy,
the artistic Age of Culture, the
buccaneering, explorative Age of
Daring, the refined Age of King-
ship, the voluptuous Wanton Age,
the saner and more tolerant Hu-
manizing Age, the hospitable and
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gracious Plantation Age, the weak
and neurotic Fatuous Age, the rev-
olutionary Subversive Age, the
strict Victorian Respectable Age,
and the modern, progressive Chal-
lenging Age.
Although the author describes
each age on a different theme, the
same qualities of human nature
can be traced from Pericles' Day
to our own. Though covered up
under changing names and con-
cealed by altering customs, there
can be seen the heroism or coward-
ice, strength or weakness, nobility
or baseness that run through all
ages, exerting a varied influence.
In his book the author describes
in detail the customs, morals, man-
ners, politics, ideals, and philoso-
phies of the polite society of each
period, revealing plainly the follies
and foibles, virtues and vices of
each leading class of society. None
of these pictures can be said to
represent faithfully the whole
view of the age, for it must be re-
membered that Charmed Circles is
a history of polite society and not
of the plebian customs of the
masses.
The conclusion of the book is a
plea for the salvation of democracy
in an age of insecurity an age
that challenges the altruistic peo-
ple of the world to their best ef-
forts toward the preservation of
civilization, "that in years to come
historians may speak of the Chal-
lenging Age, of which our troubled
day is but a part, as a renaissance,
not of the humanities, but of hu-
manity itself."
Winthrop Students
Find New Use
For Hose
(Editor's Note: The We Think column is conducted for the
purpose of privinp an outlet to student opinion. The staff is in
no way responsible for what is printed in this column and it is
by no means to be taken as the editorial opinion of the paper.)
We think we should remember that Thurs-
day night we shall attend the first concert
of the season, and that we shall be noticed
there, not as individual music-lovers, but as
representatives of Agnes Scott. It may not
be a fair way to do so, but it seems that a
large group of people in Atlanta judge the
school mostly by the conduct of its students
at these concerts.
Peanuts and chewing gum are fine for the
fair, but they just don't go with evening
dresses; candy is nice, but crackling paper
spoils the event for a great many people;
singing "How Dry I Am" is fun at camp, but
is doesn't sound so nice coming from a special
street car full of girls in evening clothes, rid-
ing down Peachtree Street.
We think we can enjoy our rides into the
concerts and intermissions there, and at the
same time act like fairly grown-up people
who are accustomed to environments of cul-
ture and refinement.
Looking through the papers this
week, we find some unique ideas
incorporated into the campus life
of different colleges. At Winthrop
huge boxes are put in each dormi-
tory labelled "Put Your Old Hose
Here." During the summer two
of the students visited in a sana-
torium in Connecticut where the
invalids made rugs out of old hose.
And so to help the sanatorium they
brought the idea to their college,
and the plan has taken like wild-
fire.
In the Parley-Voo we run across
an interesting account of plans
for a Junior-Freshman wedding.
To formally join the two classes
in the "holy bonds of friendship"
the bride, a freshman, and the
groom, a junior, are to be united
in a mock ceremony. Bridesmaids
and groomsmen from both classes
are chosen by the juniors, and to
stir up excitement, the identity of
both bride and groom is kept
secret until the last.
The Crimson and White, in
its editorial column, "Student
Thoughts," devotes a whole col-
umn to the need of "living up-
stairs." For an introductory ex-
planation there is a quotation from
A. E. Dimnet's book, The Art of
Thinking: "We are all conscious
of living our moral life, as it
were, in a two-storied house.
Downstairs goes on what has been
too evident a claim to the painful
label: ordinary. Upstairs we have
a different outlook and associate
in better company." The editorial
continues with this comment:
"A common form of conserva-
tion on lower levels consists of
banter and attempts at humor
harmless accessories of speech, but
admittedly tiresome and useless.
Unfortunately, a great part of our
conversation among college stu-
dents falls into this category."
From the Current Events col-
umn in The Huntress comes two
spicy comments on world affairs:
"While the Chinese are audibly
A. S. Missionary
Sends Thanks
For Donation
In acknowledgement of their
gift of $19 to the mission work
among Korean girls, the Freshman
Bible Class of last year received on
October 5 a letter from Agnes
Scott's own Missionary, Miss Emily
Winn, of Chunju, Chosen. Miss
Winn expressed her appreciation
not only for the financial aid but
also for the encouragement of her
Agnes Scott friends. She asked
that all the girls of the college
pray for the condition of Korean
Missionary work, distressingly re-
tarded by the forced closing of
the Boys' and Girls' Schools, which
-makes it impossible for the youth
of Chosen to secure a Christian
education.
An excerpt from Miss Winn's
letter states: "The $19 came to
about 6 5 yen and I'm pretty sure
this is what I'll do with it pay
the tuition of 3 high school stu-
dents who have been studying in
our Girls' School but who are now
entering the kindergarten course
(10 yen); use some to help pay
the expense of one of our Bible
School graduates while she holds
Bible classes for a month and a
half in some of our country
churches, giving her some New
Testaments to give to some who
really mean to study it . . . and
the rest toward the expenses of
another former Bible student a
girl of unusual gifts and personal-
ity as she assists a missionary in
holding Bible classes during the
next five or six months." Miss
Winn, who is due to go on fur-
lough next June, added in closing
that she was "heartily looking for-
ward to knowing all you girls at
Agnes Scott."
U. S. A. Declares Japan
Violater of Treaty
Roosevelt Proposes Quarantine, Sec-
retary Hull Endorses League's
Condemnation
lamenting the fact that they ever
invented gunpowder, all Europe is
wondering if this modern machine
age is quite the berries after all.
Members of college fraternities
are advocating a return to the
Chaucerian Ideal of Internation-
alism."
By Mary Anne Kernan
Uncle Sam has at long last pointed the ac-
cusing- finger at Japan ; for the first time in
its history the United States has declared a
nation an aggressor and a violator of specific
treaties. This latest development in Ameri-
can foreign policy has significant implica-
tions and far-reaching consequences.
The League has had an important part in
formulating the most recent policies of the
State Department. Last week the League
sent a copy of the Advisory Committee re-
port on the Sino- Japanese situation to Secre-
tary Hull. The Secretary of State replied im-
mediately with an endorsement of the report
and a direct condemnation of Japan, togeth-
er with assurances of cooperation in the
speedy settlement of the Far-Eastern con-
flict. This statement was an excellent follow-
up to that of President Roosevelt in his Chi-
cago speech in which he recommended a quar-
antine against warring nations as a means
of terminating the present conflict. Varying
comments, most of them favorable to the de-
cisive policy indicated, were expressed
throughout the world.
PLAIN DIPLOMACY
Secretary Hull's pronouncement contained
some very plain language: there was no
guarded diplomacy in his expression. The fol-
lowing part, for instance, is obvious enough
to be startling: "The government of the
United States has been forced to the conclu-
sion that the action of Japan in China is in-
consistent with the principles which should
govern nations and is contrary to the Nine-
Power Treaty of Feb. 6, 1922, regarding prin-
ciples and policies to be followed in matters
concerning China and to those of the Kellogg-
Briand Pact of Aug. 27, 1928."
Treaties, neutrality legislation, League
provisions all of these are involved in the
present attitude of the United States. Under
the Nine-Power Treaty the United States,
Belgium, France, Great Britain, Japan, China,
Portugal, Italy and the Netherlands agreed
to "respect the sovereignty, the independ-
ence, and the territorial and administrative
integrity of China." The present reference
of the State Department to this treaty is the
first time that it has been invoked. Another
treaty signed at the Washington Conference
and also important here is the Four-Power
Treaty uniting France, Great Britain, Japan,
and the United States in an agreement to re-
spect the rights of each other in the Pacific.
The Kellogg-Briand Pact consisted principal-
ly of a denunciation of war as an instrument
in the settlement of disputes and a recom-
mendation of pacific methods in such cases.
These, then, are the international agreements
involved.
AND THEN THE LEAGUE
The League provisions deserve separate
consideration. The famous and much-abused
Article 16 is the important one here. This
article, of course, provides for the employ-
ment of sanctions against an aggressor na-
tion. While the United States is not a mem-
ber of the League, Secretary Hull's endorse-
ment of League condemnation and offers of
co-operation may involve the United States
in the application of sanctions against Japan.
If this should happen there would be the
problem of modifying our present neutrality
legislation, since the Pittman Neutrality Act
of 1936 provides for an embargo on the ship-
ment of arms to belligerents, not simply to
the aggressor. Obviously the embargo and
sanctions could not operate at the same time.
In the event of an immediate necessity for
changing this legislation, the President would
have to call a special session of Congress
which might in turn debate until the war
was over.
COMPLEX PROBLEM
The problem is complex and far-reaching
in its implications. The United States has
taken an active and significant stand in open-
ly condemning Japan, thus supporting the
League and several of its treaties while vio-
lating the spirit, if not the letter, of the ex-
istent neutrality legislation. The present
question seems to be whether to maintain
strict neutrality by a hands-off policy or to
actively strive for peace through methods
such as sanctions. The possibility of an in-
ternational conference to discourage Japan-
ese aggression in China seems quite likely
now.
THE AGONISTIC
3
Agnes Scotters Tell About
Vivid Summer Experiences
Camping, Teaching, Loafing, Sight-seeing Leave
Gay Memories in Minds of Those Not Going
On European Tour
The crackling of camp-fires, the rippling of white-ruffled
waves, the creakling of hammock-chains, and the roaring of
train-wheels these seem to have been the sounds most fa-
miliar to Agnes Scott ears during the past summer. Back
three exciting months of
from three exciting months of
camping, teaching, loafing, and
sight-seeing, those Agnes Scotters
who were not fortunate enough to
go to Europe (and thus be inter-
viewed last week) recount their
most vivid experiences of the
summer. These range not only
from the well-known sublime to
the ridiculous, but also from the
gory to the hilarious.
Gary Home cites as her most
dynamic adventure the winning of
$100 on Bank Night (and who
wouldn't?) Hortense Jones be-
comes quite animated over the
memories of seeing Colorado, New
Mexico and points West by tin-
can method. She was especially
enthusiastic over using the same
tin cup for coffee, soup, stew,
beans, eggs, bacon, and hand-
washing.
Mickey Warren's most unfor-
gettable incident was returning
from a boat-ride to find her family
dredging the river for her body.
Jane Turner declares that "Having
my sister getting engaged" was
her most interesting experience.
Alice Reins likes to remember
"knitting in a canoe at Ridge-
crest." Ruth Caplan recalls most
vividly the anguish of having to
stay in Savannah while her mother
barged up to New York.
Many girls, including Bunny
Marsh, Nell Pinner, Eloise McCall,
and others considered "falling in
love" their most dynamic summer
experience. Samille's most thrilling
adventure was no doubt saying
"Yes," from the looks of the ring.
"Little Nell" Allison recalls most
vividly sailing around in a kyack
(one of those canoe coupes, so to
speak) on White Lake, North
Carolina.
Jean Chalmers will never for-
get her anguish the night she had
to get up enough courage to face
her Abbeville, S. C, hostess after
giving out of gas actually!
with a date and waiting for hours
for some kind soul to bring them
home. While she was suffering at
the thought that Frances' aunt
would probably scoff at the "old
gag," poor Frances Castleberry
was torn over the thought that her
string of explanations for her
quest's delay would probably give
out before Jean finally drifted in
at early dawn.
Ruth Slack has definite recollec-
tions of the night she, Barbara
Holland, Mary Reins and a hun-
dred other girls from Camp Toc-
coa went for a moonlight, open-
air truck ride and were practically
drowned and frozen by the deluge
which occurred. But the prize
camp story is the hilarious account
Educators Enjoy
Agnes Scott Tea
Library Is Complimented
"Really, your tea is quite Eng-
lish," was the verdict of a group
of twenty educators from various
parts of the British Empire, when
Agnes Scott entertained them at
tea served on the library terrace
Wednesday, October 6, at eleven
o'clock. Members of the faculty
were hosts at the occasion, while
girls from Mortar Board served.
The educators are on an observa-
tion tour of the country, and
Agnes Scott was highly honored in
that it was the only woman's col-
lege in the United States which
the group visited. After the tea,
the guests inspected the library
and announced that of the several
college libraries they had seen
(such as those of Duke and Col-
umbia), Agnes Scott's was the
finest.
Most of the educators came
from colonies in South Africa,
with a few from South America.
While the merciless noon sun of a
hot October day wilted the Agnes
Scott hosts, the guests from South
America pronounced the weather
"perfect."
Virginia Milner, Lettie McKay,
Mary Evelyn Francis, Penn Ham-
mond, and Virginia Suttenfield
give of the soda-imbibing, head-
holding, and rail-hanging that
prevailed at Camp Highlands the
night that the entire Camp ac-
quired ptomaine poisoning from
green-pepper sandwiches. It seems
that Penn Hammond digested
eight of the said sandwiches and
infuriated the rest of the camp by
remaining well. The one cheering
ray in the entire camp was the
clever lass who exclaimed upon
leaving the infirmary, "Thanks
loads for your hospitality!"
Along
The Colonnade
Quad r a n g I c Quandaries:
Across the campus, mingling
with the Heaven-scent odor of
newly-mown wild onions (their
best friends really ought to tell
them!), there floats such an at-
mosphere of mystery that even
your Agnes Scouter is baffled al-
though she realizes that this
aroma wasn't built in a day. This
mysterious aura is created by the
combined efforts of the Frisky
Freshmen and the Sober Sophs as
they creep about behind sinister
expressions murmuring weird epi-
thets obviously, they're in the
same Black Category! All this is
in spite of the fact that the
freshmen and sophs became quite
chummy at the fresh-soph party,
Astairing at each other in Top
Hats, White ties, and tails.
Sidelong Slants: Georgia Poole
received eight letters in one day
. . . Margaret Douglas, used to the
selectly secluded life of Boyd (a
Boyd in a gilded cage, so to speak),
innocently inquiring if the first
House-meeting of Rebekah was to
be held in Pixie's room . . . Aileen
Shortley and Jane Moore Hamilton
playing tag (or something) across
the Colonnade . . . An innocent
freshman glibly "waiting for her
next class" in what to her was a
nice place to sit; known to more
experienced Hottentots as Dr. Mc-
Cain's office . . . Dr. McCain re-
cessing all by himself to Hymn
163 in Chapel . . . "Double" trou-
ble being had by Peggy Willis and
Freshman Lutterbeck; also by
Freshman Henninger and Amelia
Nickels (but, after all, what could
you expect for your Nickels??) . . .
Story of the Week: Mary Mc-
Phaul has concluded that would-be
virtue is futile, after a most pain-
ful experience. It seems that Mary,
Nell Pinner, Ellen Stuart, and
Jane Luthy were seeing the "Pris-
oner of Zenda" together, when
Time Limit began to loom over the
horizon (If only it had been "Lost
Horizon," thought Mary!). The
others were so thrilled by the
movie that they decided to stay
until the end even if it meant a
"campused" doom. However,
Mary could stand it no longer as
the fatal hour approached, so she
finally left in the exciting part of
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Did You Know
Our assistant dean, Miss Carrie
Scandrett, took her Ph.D. in per-
sonnel work. For a long time she
has done vocational guidance
among Agnes Scott students, and
is ready at any time to help them
in choosing curricula or jobs.
On the fourth floor of our li-
brary is a museum and exhibit
room in which are displayed a
number of excellent paintings by
Miss Louise Lewis, of the art de-
partment.
Being absent for the first time in nine years, Miss Nan-
nette Hopkins, beloved Dean of Agnes Scott, has extended
her rest cure for at least two weeks. The revered "first lady"
of the college returned from her vacation and worked so hard
that her physician advised a brief
rest cure.
Miss Hopkins was the first offi-
cial employed by the college when
it was begun as an "Institute for
Presbyterian Young Women";
and she has served Agnes Scott for
forty-nine years. She worked the
first seven years as principal of the
school. During this time she also
taught, mathematics among other
things. When Dr. Gaines came as
President of the young college,
Miss Hopkins became Dean, which
post she has held ever since.
Her duties have included, among
other things: placing all room-
mates, adjusting all hoods and
caps at Investiture and Commence-
ment, and previewing all stunts
and senior operas. One of her
greatest tasks is remembering all
the alumnae when they bring their
children to introduce them to her.
Daily, for years, she has occupied
the first seat of the front row on
the left side of the chapel.
Miss Hopkins has watched the
school through its growth and the
development of its traditions. She
tells with a gentle smile of the
four men who attended Agnes
Scott during its brief coeducational
period. She relates how the stunt
(as a battle of wits) replaced
hazing (a battle of fists).
Associate Professor Emma May
Laney has in her keeping what
will someday be a priceless collec-
tion of letters written to her as ad-
visor of the Lecture Association by
such famous personages as: Robert
Frost, Vachel Lindsay, Edna Mil-
lay, Thornton Wilder, and many
others.
the picture to catch the street car
for Decatur. Imagine the razzing
she received many moments later
when Nell, Jane and Ellen saun-
tered to the carline and found her
still there. It seems that she had
suddenly remembered that she
couldn't have the "twenty-min-
utes late" privilege if she returned
alone. (Author's Note: All the
gals got back before the final time
Limit!!)
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BILL CLARK'S ORCHESTRA
Starts Friday
DEANNA DURBIN
"100 MEN and a GIRL"
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ATLANTA'S ONLY VAUDEVILLE!
4
THE AGONISTIC
SPORTING
Little girl blue,
Come grab a stick
Your class team awaits you
down on the hockey field in a
peppy game of sticks next Friday
afternoon at 3:30. So hurry and
meet your practice classes and snap
into good form. With practically
a whole team of freshman players
on the field who've had previous
hockey experience in various pre-
paratory schools, there's a distinct
challenge to every other class to
drill its team to the limit for good
sprinting form and accurate crack
shots. Miss Wilburn is overjoyed
to see so much enthusiasm at prac-
tices. She says there are more
freshmen who have played before
this year than ever before. Betty
Moffat, Grace Moffat, Julia Lan-
caster, Ella Muzzen, Nancy
Wimptheimer, Nancy Willstatter,
Hilda Woodard and Dusty Hancke
have all played high school hockey.
And Golf
Miss Wilburn also gives a very
favorable report on the golfing ac-
tivities at A. S. C. While we were
snooping around the gym and in-
cidently sliding up and down the
new gym floor (ain't it elegant?)
she mentioned that the advanced
group of golfers were planning a
visit to one of the popular lighted
links some night soon. Personally
we're jealous of such skilled peo-
ple. (You see, we're only in the be-
ginners' class and we have to
practice on the bedroom floor, and
sometimes the lights go out on
that right in the middle of a
putt, too!)
Miss Mitchell responded crisply
and concisely to our demand for "a
statement for the press" about
archery and tennis. "Both are go-
ing over with a bang and we hope
it will continue." We're waiting
for exciting activities in both
sports, especially in the way of a
tennis tournament.
Tournaments
And as to tournaments we gath-
ered some good news. Attacked in
the middle of a cheeseburger the
other night, Mutt the yet pend-
ing ping-pong champ confessed
to plans for a rousing tournament
in that husky art soon. But Mutt-
sie will probably have to shift this
responsibility, due to her stren-
uous duties as sargeant-at-arms for
the Worthy Miss Johnson's open
forum. What with this extra load
to carry, along with that inflicted
by Miss Latimer and her cold
"frankfritters," this poor delecta-
ble star will be forced into quiet
retirement. And for that, Mutt,
we suggest the stacks in the li-
brary where you can stay for days
without once being discovered. Or
you might try Nell Allison's fire
escape, which means absolute se-
clusion and divine solitude. Or, for
even greater solitude (?) you
might try any one of the fresh-
man pep meetings.
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Swimming Club
Names Date of
Yearly Try outs
The swimming club has an-
nounced the following dates for
prospective members to try out:
Monday through Thursday
(Oct. 11-14) at plunge period,
4:30; and Monday through
Wednesday (Oct. 18-20) also at
plunge period.
The list of requirements is ap-
propriately thorough and exacting.
Those for form include:
Five lengths of the pool with
front crawl.
Three lengths, back crawl.
Two lengths, side stroke.
Two lengths, breast stroke.
Three dives.
The test for endurance involves
a half mile (36 lengths) with any
stroke. For speed and form there
is the forty yard dash plus three
racing dives and turns. Life sav-
ing tactics are important, and
they are tested on three points:
artificial respiration, three good
surface dives, and one approach
and one carry.
Members of the swimming club
participate annually in the water
pageant and represent A. A. in
such athletic conferences as the
Alabama Swimming Conference
held last year, and the sports' day
program held at the University of
Georgia last spring, both of which
included excellent formation
swimming by the Agnes Scott
stars.
Present members of the club are:
Jean Chalmers, Bee Merrill, Peek
Brown, Nell Echols, Virginia Mil-
ner, Carolyn Forman, and Jane
Moore Hamilton. They are heart-
ily looking forward to the admis-
sion of new members, and they
urge all sophomores and upper-
classmen interested in the water
arts to try for membership.
Miss Jackson Speaks
At A.A.U.W. Meeting
Associate Professor Elizabeth
Fuller Jackson, of the history de-
partment, recently attended a
meeting of the Executive Board of
the North Carolina branch of the
American Association of Univer-
sity Women. The meeting, held in
Raleigh, N. C, was deyoted to the
discussion of problems of state ed-
ucation and to the functions of
committees on improvement. Miss
Jackson, who is Director of the
Social Lights
"Home James!" yelled Jane
Luthy to the Americus-bound bus
driver this week-end, while Bee
Sexton gathered a flock of happy
seniors in her golden chariot and
delivered them home to the wait-
ing mamas. Sue Bryan gave Cal a
hint and Reynolds was their desti-
nation.
But we who sat at home refused
to sit still except for Eloise Len-
nard who got so tongue-tied and
addle-brained that she couldn't
solve the equation: Chi Phi house
mother and Phi Chi dance versus
Phi Chi house mother and Chi
Phi dance. Callie Carmichael,
Nancy Moorer, Jean Austen, and
Mickey Warren learned how to say
the formula and took the Phi Chi
dance by storm; while Jane Moore
Hamilton, Bee Merrill, and Jane
Guthrie rushed for a rival frater-
nity and presented their pretty
selves at the AKK dance.
Kay Ricks left school Saturday
night with a happy look and a
stunning costume to make hey-dey
at the Military Ball. Three hours
later she returned, looking slightly
taken a-back. "Nice dance," she
murmured, "only it ended before
we got half way down the receiv-
ing line." But at least Governor
Rivers got to shake hands with
one of the fair Agnes Scott dam-
sels.
Rebecca McCree stands by and
adds charm today at her sister
Sally's wedding in Trenton, Ten-
nessee. Sally graduated from Agnes
Scott in '36. Which brings to
mind that among this year's senior
class, there are at least four en-
gagement rings worn in public
and several summer weddings
planned rather nebulously.
South Atlantic section of A. A.
U. W., gave a report on recent
improvements in the methods of
education ranging from kinder-
garten through college.
Next week Miss Jackson will
attend the convention of the South
Carolina branch at Converse.
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Aurora Contest
Carol Hale, editor of Aurora,
has announced the annual contest
for a design for the cover of the
literary magazine. Entries will be
due Wednesday, October 27, and
a prize of $2.50 will be given to
the winning drawing. Miss Louise
Lewis, of the art department, will
judge the covers. Last year the
cover contest was won by Jane
Guthrie.
Material for the first issue of
Aurora is also due October 27.
Students are urged to contribute
short stories, poems, essays and
articles for publications. Contribu-
tions, as well as cover entries, may
be placed in the Aurora box in
Buttrick Hall.
The editor has also announced a
contest extending throughout the
year, in which prizes will be given
for the best poem, short story, and
non-fiction article published in
Aurora during the year.
Sears, Watkins are
Poetry Club Heads
Poetry Club elected Evelyn
Sears president, and Violet Jane
Watkins, vice-president at its
meeting on Wednesday, October 6.
At this meeting the club began its
year's business and arranged* the
regular meeting which was held
last night.
Students Make
Gym Honor Roll
For This Term
15 Sophomores and Juniors
Make Average of "B w
and Get Cuts
The physical education depart-
ment has announced the 1937-3 S
honor roll in physical ed, chosen
on the basis of last year's work.
Those in the group are, in the
sophomore class: Elizabeth Davis,
Carolyn Forman, Lorraine Guinn,
Sarah Lee, Mary Matthews, Nell
Pinner and Ruth Slack; and in the
junior class; Jane Moore Hamilton,
Douglas Lyle, Helen Moses, Betty
Price, Ailleen Shortley, Sara Thur-
man, Harriet Von Gremp, and
Peggy Willis.
Each of these honor students
made an average of at least "B"
on her physical education an4 pos-
ture last year. Each has the privi-
lege of unlimited cuts in gym dur-
ing this year.
History Forum Meets
The Current History Forum had
its first meeting yesterday after-
noon at 4:30 in the Murphey Cand-
ler Building. Professor Philip Da-
vidson, of the history department,
led a discussion of the Supreme
Court issue, in general, and Justice
Black in particular.
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Blackshear, Roper Go
To Chicago
Famous Journalists Speak
Six heads of the three student
publications represented Agnes
Scott at the sixteenth national
convention of the Associated Col-
legiate Press, which met at the
Medinah Club in Chicago October
14 to 16. Hortense Jones and
Elizabeth Blackshear were the
Agonistic delegates; while Carol
Hale and Ola Kelly represented
the Aurora; and Virginia Watson
and Joyce Roper attended from
the Silhouette.
The convention studies were
divided into three groups: news-
papers, annuals, and magazines.
The newspaper meetings were
further divided into sessions for
dailies and roundtables for week-
lies. The program of the conven-
tion included speeches by many
well-known journalists.
Mr. Upton Close, prominent
writer, made the opening address,
his topic being America's inter-
est in the Sino- Japanese conflict.
Other features of the program
were: a tour of the city, a trip
through the Herald -Tribune, a
banquet* a dance, and a floor-show
from the Tallo-Ho room of the
Medinah Club.
Front Row
by Jane Guthrie
DEADLOCK: At the meeting
of the Non-intervention commit-
tee in London, Italy offers to with-
draw Italian "volunteers" from
Spain. French and British hopes
rise, but fall again as Italy states
conditions. THE conditions being
that the same number of volun-
teers must be withdrawn from the
Loyalist side. The evasion is as ob-
vious as it is clever. Italian volun-
teers outnumber Loyalists six to
one, and excluding even a thou-
sand members would leave the
Italians still in the majority. An-
thony Eden's speech is regarded by
Italy as a threat to reopen the Py-
renees and supply the Loyalists
with arms. Peace seems farther
away than ever. And the deadlock
continues.
MEDIATION: An American
Delegation sails today for the
Nine-Power conference called by
Belgium to he held in Brussels,
October 30. Norman H. Davis,
American Ambassador at Large,
heads the group as the only offi-
cial delegate. Russia and Germany
are to be included in the interna-
tional peace conference. Japan may
or may not accept bid to attend.
' She sees no need either for peace
project or for mediation.
JUVENILE: Like a childrens'
quarrel is the struggle between the
C. I. O. headed by John L. Lewis
and the A. F. L. headed by Will-
iam Green. Both parties seem to
have forgotten the original pur-
pose of the argument and are now
fighting apparently for the sake of
fighting. The C. I. O. offers con-
ciliation on the terms that the
A. F. L. accept their Industrial
UnioQ rights. A. F. L. dubs this
move propaganda, and retaliates by
sending peace proposal on own
terms.
Sophomore "Cutting Romance" Qets Black Cat,
Winning Over Freshman "Appalling Freshella"
Approximately eight hundred
people were present to see the soph-
omore class win the Big Black Cat
in the annual stunt contest be-
tween the freshmen and sophomore
classes Saturday night in the Bu-
cher-Scott gymnasium. Henrietta
Thompson was the chairman of
the sophomore stunt, "A Cutting
Romance, or Two Hearts In Three
Quarters" while Pattie Patterson
was the chairman of the fresh-
men's "The Appalling Freshella."
The plot of the winning stunt
was taken from the story of the
Martin and Coy feud of old Ken-
tucky. It was slightly changed by
substituting the freshmen and the
sophomores for the two families of
the original story. Jane Moses, as
Soy Soph, had the male lead, while
Georgia Hunt was the heroine,
Flossie Freshie. Nettie Lee Greer
took the part of Grandma John-
son, who always helped the fresh-
men in time of distress. The sophs
were: Jeanette Carroll, Frances
Abbott, Mary Evelyn Francis,
Mary Elizabeth Leavitt, Ernestine
Cass and Shirley Armentrout.
Freshies were: Gary Home, Susie
Blackmon, Eloise McCall, Ruth
Eyles, Virginia Milner, Julia Mose-
ley and Hazel Solomon. A quan-
tity of campus idiosyncrasies such
as freshmen meetings, poached and
scrambled eggs, fried chicken,
Robert's Rules of Order, and bat-
tles of wits were added to thicken
the plot.
The freshman stunt, "The Ap-
palling Freshella," was a parody on
the problems of a freshman. First,
Freshella, played by Lib Barrett,
was assailed by upperclassmen who
borrowed her possessions, then
troubled by books which haunt
her, and finally was rudely treated
by Sophie, who was Janet McKim,
and Senie, Schelle Parham. But the
end of the stunt was gay, for Em-
ory Tech, who was Beverly Cole-
man on this side of the footlights,
claimed Freshella as his own.
Other characters were played by
Louise Sams, Martha Watkins,
Frances Butt, Bitty Waitt, Mar-
garet Murchison, Suzanne Bellin-
grath, . Rowena Barringer, Lillian
Schwencke, Nancy Wimpfheimer,
and Betsy Myers.
The production of the stunts
represents four weeks of thinking,
writing, casting, and rehearsing on
the part of each class. The com-
mittees of the sophomore class
were writing, program, scenery,
property, decorations, costumes,
dances, music, stage, and cheers.
Members of the writing committee
were Sophie Montgomery, Mary
Matthews, Betty Alderman, Elea-
nor Hutchens, Jane Salters and
Evelyn Baty. Those on the pro-
gram committee were Louise
Hughston, Sam Olive Griffin, Bar-
bara Lee Murlin, Mary Elizabeth
Leavitt, and Louise Sullivan. The
scenery committee was composed
of Mary Reins, Mary Clay Price,
Lillie Belle Drake, Martha Zellner,
Mildred Joseph and Julia Moseley.
Mette WiUiamson, Bryant Holsen-
beck, Sarah Smith and Anne Enloe
made up the property committee.
The members of the decoration
committee were Ruth Slack, Mar-
garet Hopkins, Harriet Stimson,
Gary Home, Rebecca Drucker and
Sarah Nicholson. Costumes were
made by Lucille Scott, Elizabeth
Davis," Grace Ward, Nettie Lee
Greer, Joan Brinton, Eleanor Deas,
Irene Phillips, and Ruth Kaplan.
Marjorie Boggs, Hazel Hirsch, Sara
Lee, Sally Parker and Lois Sexton
were the composers of the dance of
the eggs. Mickey Warren, as chair-
man of the music committee had
as her assistants Louise McCall,
Eloise Lennard and Shirley Armen-
trout. Evelyn Baty was the stage
manager; Mickey Warren and
Betty Jean O'Brien were the soph-
omore cheer leaders.
The freshman class also had
numerous committees and man-
agers. The business manager was
Tommay Turner; the treasurer,
Grace Moffat; the cast manager,
Elaine Stubbs. Members of the
writing committee were Gene
Slack, Harriette Cochran, Vir-
ginia Williams, Ella Muzzey, Sa-
bine Brunby and Tine Gray. Those
on the costume committee were
Louise Musser, Gentry Burks,
Betty Moore, Molly Oliver, Marcia
Mansfield and Virginia Hickman.
Betsy Kendrick, Ruth Brady,
Miriam Bedinger, Martha O'Nan,
Betty Sloan, Helen Klugh, Frances
Breg and Allie Malone. The stage
committee was composed of Freck
Sproles, Ann Millican, Nina
Broughton, Winnie Finger, Lucille
Gaines, Ann Tatum, Dorothy De-
bele, Ann Mapother and Val Neil-
son. Composing the decoration
committee were Edith Henegar,
Nita Woolfolk, Onie Smith, Mar-
garet Woodhead, Ann Fisher,
Nelly Richardson. Jean Dennison
was chairman of the dartce com-
mittee; Marquerite Ingly, Beryl
Healy and Nancy Willstatter were
on the make-up committee; Grace
Walker and Caroline Strozier had
charge of music; Mary Bell and
Helen Jester were cheer leaders.
The cost of each stunt, which
averages twenty dollars, is met by
class dues. This year the freshman
budget totaled a new high, $21.68.
E. Little, J. Harvey
Post "Black List"
Yesterday, October 19, Ellen
Little and June Harvey, student
treasurers, posted the "Black List"
which contains the names of those
girls who have not paid their stu-
dent budget. These girls will not
be allowed to participate in the
activities of Student Government,
Pi Alpha Phi, Agonistic, Aurora,
Silhouette, Athletic Association,
Y. W. C. A., Mortar Board, May
Day, Lecture Association, or In-
ternational Relations Club.
Miss Leyburn is to
Speak at Investiture
Miss Ellen Douglas Leyburn, in-
structor of English at Agnes Scott,
has been selected by the members
of the senior class to be the speaker
for Investiture, Saturday, Novem-
ber 6, in the Gaines Chapel. The
class has also chosen its mascot,
who will be Louise McKinney Hill,
the grand-niece of Miss Louise Mc-
Kinney, professor emeritus of Eng-
lish. 4
On Friday, November 5, the
seniors will celebrate "Little Girl's
Day."
Mrs. Svdenstricker
Is Officer Of Club
For the second time Mrs. Alma
Sydenstricker, professor of Bible
at Agnes Scott College, has been
elected vice-president of the Chau-
tauqua Woman's Club of Chau-
tauqua, New York. This club is a
part of the General Federation.
The president, Mrs. Percy V.
Pennybacker, was formerly presi-
dent of the General Federation.
Last year the club had over six-
teen hundred members who came
from all parts of the world includ-
ing England, Scotland, and India.
Cut System is
Again Adopted
Because of the favorable re-
sults of the experiment with the
cut system in the third quarter of
last year, the faculty has re-
adopted the system at Agnes
Scott, giving the privilege of cuts
to the student body this year. Dr.
McCain states that on an average
the students took only one-third
of the cuts which they were priv-
ileged to have.
Freshmen will not have cuts un-
til the third quarter of this year.
The only changes in the system
from last year's is that absence
from each laboratory period shall
count as two class cuts; and lab-
oratory cuts may not exceed fifty
per cent of the cuts allowed in a
given course.
Exams Will be Given
To High School Pupils
The three competitive examina-
tions consisting of one on English,
one on either Latin or French or
Spanish, and one on algebra,
American history, chemistry, or
physics, will be given to high
school seniors who wish to take
them on March 4, 193 8. The two
awards, a $700 scholarship and a
$500 scholarship will be based 75 %
on the results of these examina-
tions and 25% on personal quali-
ties and participation in school ac-
tivities. Applications should be
made for the necessary blanks as
soon as possible. Winners of the
$700 scholarship for the past four
years are Eliza King ('3 8), Cora
Kay Hutchins ('39), Evelyn Baty
('40), and Pattie Patterson ('41).
Richard Crooks
Will Sing in City
Atlanta Club To Be Hostess
Making his first appearance in
Atlanta since he .has been recog-
nized as America's foremost tenor,
Richard Crooks will give a concert
Tuesday, October 26, under the
Atlanta Woman's Club.
Mr. Crooks began his career as
a boy soprano soloist in his church,
then several years later he made his
debut as a singer with Mme. Schu-
mann-Heink in Asbury Park, N. J.
In 1922 he appeared as tenor with
the New York Symphony Orches-
tra under the direction of Walter
Damrosch. He made his operatic
debut on the continent in Tosca,
Hamburg (Germany) Opera in
1927 and in this country at the
Metropolitan Opera House in
1933.
Y.W. Budget
For Session
Is Enlarged
Syrian Chapel In Atlanta
And Class Cabinets
Receive Fund
Grand Total Is $1,500.00
The Agnes Scott Benevolent
Budget has been arranged with an
increase over last year's. This year
more attention is to be devoted to
providing good speakers oftener
and the programs promise to be ex-
cellent. The Syrian chapel in At-
lanta and the freshman and sopho-
more cabinets will all receive a
fund, and the money set aside for
the all Southern conference at
Blue Ridge has been increased. The
grand total amounts to $1500.00,
and it is further divided up as fol-
lows:
I. Our missionary (Miss Emily
Winn) $500 $ 500
H; Contacts with other asso-
ciations and student
training :
(a) National Student Council 180
(b) World Student Christian
Federation 25
(c) Training for Service
(Student Conferences) :
1. State Cooperation 15
2. All Southern Confer-
ence (Blue Ridge) 125
3. National Training
National Student* As-
sociation 50
(d) Deputations to other
schools and colleges 50 445
III. Christian Life on Our
Campus :
(a) Week of Services in
Spring 100
(b) Additional Fund for
Speakers 120 220
*V. Syrian Chapel in Atlanta. 50 50
V. Special Services for
Students :
(a) Student Handbook, Sil-
houette, Other Printing.. 100
(b) Receptions for All Occa-
sions 50
(c) Committees, Incidentals,
Books, Emergencies 100
(d) Freshman Cabinet 25
(e) Sophomore Cabinet 10 285
Grand Total $1500
Lec ture Qroup
Picks Members
The Lecture Association of
Agnes Scott has elected its repre-
sentatives for the year 1937-193 8.
Lutie Moore is the sophomore rep-
resentative, and Kay Kennedy has
been elected representative from
the junior class. Charlotte French,
from the junior class, is the new
assistant publicity manager.
Grace Tazewell, president of the
association, is not ready to make
an announcement concerning their
speakers for this year.
Council Meets
To Decide New
Year's Policies
The Presidents' Council, com-
posed of the heads of all classes,
clubs, and associations on the
campus, met Monday, October 11,
to decide its policies for the year.
"Inactive membership" in clubs
was approved, thus providing that
girls who have too many points to
take part in clubs may be mem-
bers, paying dues and attending
meetings, but not taking active
part in the work of the club.
It was further decided that no
clubs, except Granddaughters and
Cotillion Clubs, may admit fresh-
men during the first quarter, al-
though freshmen may visit the
clubs.
Other business was the revision
of the schedules of club meetings
to avoid conflicts and the election
of Carolyn Forman, sophomore
president, to be the secretary of
the organization.
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THE AGONISTIC
l)e Agonistic
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
Museum to be
Y.W.C.A. Hobby
Owned and published by the students of Agnes Scott
College.
Entered as Second Class Matter at Decatur, Georgia.
Subscription price, $1.25 per year in advance.
Single copies, 5c.
2937 Member 193S
Ftesocided Golle&ide Press
STAFF
Hortexse Jones
Editor
Jane Guthrie
Mary McCann Hudson
Associate Editors
Mary Frances Guthrie
Marie Merritt
Assistant Editors
Elizabeth Skinner
Make-up Editor
Elizabeth Kenney
Asst. Make-up Editor
Giddy Erwin
Eeature Editor
Mary Wells McNeil
Asst. Feature Editor
Mary Anne Kernan
Current History
Elizabeth Warden
Book Editor
Elizabeth Blackshear
Business Manager
ESTHERE OGDEN
Advertising Manager
Frances Castleberry
Jeanne Redwine
Alice Reins
Eugenia Bridges
Circulation Managers
Alice Cheeseman
Sports Editor
Mary Reins
Exchange Editor
Jeannette Carroll
Alumnae Editor
Louise Hughston
News Editor
Evelyn Baty
Club Editor
REPORTERS: N. Allison, E. Baty, M. Chaftn,
M. L. Dobbs, G. Duggan, M. L. Gill, N. Hemp-
hill, L. HOUGHSTON, E. HUTCHENS, C. K. HUTCH-
ins, R. Hurwitz, F. Lee, E. McCall, P. Noble,
'M. L. Ratltffe, A. Reins, H. Solomon, S. Stein-
bach, V. J. Watkins, L. Young, D. Weinkle,
M. Merlin.
BUSINESS STAFF: M. Chafin, H. Hirsch, N.
Echols, J. Flynt, M. Williamson, F. Abbot, M.
Oliver.
An Indictment
Agnes Scott advertises that she is noted
for the "interesting character of her student
activities. " However, judging from the stu-
dent attendance at the stunt last Saturday
night, an outsider might have good reason to
think that this activity was not considered
by many of the students as interesting. And,
in reality, the stunt is supposed to be the
most entertaining campus program of the
year.
Of course, the freshmen and sophomores
turned out in all their glory. But what hap-
pened to the other half of the junior class
and where were the seniors for whom the
sophomores so cleverly won? We do not
mean to infer that some stayed away on pur-
pose, but rather that, being not directly con
nected with the plans of the stunt groups,
they were indifferent to the whole affair.
In fact, it seems that the average Agnes
Scotter is impervious to anything that does
not pertain to her directly. The general atti-
tude seems to be that anything that is any-
one else's business is none of my business.
The stunt, however, is not alone in being
supported so poorly by the non-participants.
Blackfriars' plays, debates, recitals of the
Music Department, timely lectures by the
Lecture Association, and other worthwhile
activities come in for some of this niggardly
student support also.
The Debate Club, for example, has found
it difficult to secure even a small attendance
for its public debates. And perhaps the only
time these debates have good support from
the student body is when there is the wit of
the English debaters as a drawing card.
Students say that they never know any-
thing about the questions being argued, that
they cannot appreciate the elevated and tech-
nical music of Bach, or that the lectures are
often too dry. But it seems that the truth of
the matter lies in the physical and mental
inertia of most students when they are called
upon to do something outside of their re-
quired course of study. Unless they are ob-
ligated to attend these extra-curricular ac-
tivities, they manage to find reasons for not
doing so.
The usual thing to do after criticizing an
existing condition is to propose some method
of reform. But the solution this time does
not lie within the power of this editorial
staff. The problem rests not upon just a few,
but upon each one of us as students inter-
ested in the advancement of our school. Only
when we all solemnly agree with ourselves to
be loyal and enthusiastic backers of our cam-
pus activities will we correct this evil and
encourage a school spirit that is worthy of
so fine a college as ours.
"Come and see the new mu-
seum!" That is what we hope you
will be hearing some time this
year, and who knows perhaps
you will want to be a contributor
yourself. Of course, there are mu-
seums and museums, but as for
your own pet museum, nothing
surpasses that, and here is your
chance to have your own pet on
your back campus. This museum
is the Y. W. C. A.'s latest idea,
and is to be a hobby group for the
whole school. The origin of the
idea is slightly vague but it seems
to have leaped completely armed
(like Minerva) from a choice
trunk of museum material hidden
in the basement of the science
building. The museum is to be
further supplemented by a store of
African drums, elephant whiskers,
baskets, et cetera, coming from the
big black trunk of Winifred Kel-
lersberger. "After all," says
Winie, "I can't carry them around
all the rest of my life."
Qlee Club Qives
Two Cone erts
The Agnes Scott Glee Club, un-
der the direction of Mr. Lewis H.
Johnson, has begun its activities
for this year by giving concerts at
two conventions. The special
chorus sang at the southwide con-
vention of the Audio- Visual Edu-
cation Association in the Henry
Grady Hotel on October 14th, led
by Mr. Johnson. On Saturday,
October 16th, a sextet from the
special chorus sang at Indian
Springs before the Appalachian
Trail Club convention. Miss Eve-
lyn Wall was the accompanist.
The choir, with Mr. Dieckmann
at the organ, is working on a
Christmas carol service to be given
before the holidays.
It has been announced that Gil-
bert and Sullivan's "The Mikado"
will be the operetta. Practice
starts this week, although the
leading parts have not yet been as-
signed.
Headlines
Of the Past
Three years ago this week Pi
Alpha Phi announced that it would
meet the English debaters on the
abandonment of isolationist poli-
cies. Marion Calhoun and Edith
Merlin upheld the negative of the
question, with Brooks Spivey as al-
ternate.
Two years ago this week the
Academic Council voted to replace
the semester plan at Agnes Scott
with the quarter system, effective
in September of 1936.
One year ago this week Mortar
Board entertained the college com-
munity at a reception to mark the
completion of the Murphey Cand-
ler student activities building.
Vogue Contest
Is Announced
For the third successive year,
the editors of Vogue are announc-
ing a career competition open to
members of the senior classes of
accredited colleges and universities
throughout the country.
As in the past two years, there
will be two major prizes, each of-
fering a position, with salary, on
the staff of Vogue magazine. The
winner of the first prize will be
awarded one full year's employ-
ment with Vogue; six months of
which will be spent in the New
York office, the remaining six
months in Vogue's Paris office. A
second prize of six months on
Vogue's New York editorial staff
will be awarded the runner-up.
Both the first prize winner and
runner-up will be eligible for per-
manent positions on Vogue's staff
after completion of their trial
periods.
Last year's Prix de Paris was
awarded to Miss Virginia Van
Brunt, of Horicon, Wisconsin, a
senior at the University of Wis-
consin. Second prize went to Miss
Alice Schultz of Wellesley, Mass.,
a senior at Smith. Besides the two
announced awards, one contestant
received a job.
Invitations cn the Bookshelves
In these days of books, with new
volumes appearing at an over-
whelming rate, the average reader
cannot possibly read all that is
published, were all of it worth
reading. Confronted with innum-
erable books in the fields of fic-
tion, biography, history, poetry,
drama, travel, science, and art, he
must choose. So, the question
arises, What shall I read, How can
one decide which books are the
most worthwhile. In answer to
this query, various magazines and
papers devoted exclusively to the
reviewing of new books, publish
periodically a list of the books
which have been "best sellers" in
the past few months. The follow-
ing list was taken from the "New
York Times Book Review" and
shows the most popular books for
the months of July and August.
Fiction
1. The Citadel, A. J. Cronin,
Little, Brown, $2.50, published
September 10.
2. And So- Victoria, Vaughan
Wilkins, Macmillan, $2.5 0, July
27.
3. Northwest Passage, Kenneth
Roberts, Doubleday Doran, $2.75,
July 1.
4. You Can't Have Every-
thing, Kathleen Norris, Doubleday
Doran, $2.00, August 20.
5. The Nutmeg Tree, Margery
Sharp. Little, Brown, $2.50, Aug-
ust 2 3.
6. The Seven Who Fled, Fred-
eric Prokosch, Harpers, $2.5 0,
August 26.
7. Gone With the Wind, Mar-
garet Mitchell, Macmillan, $3.00,
June 20, 1936.
8. Twenty-four Hours a Day,
Faith Baldwin, Farrar and Rine-
hart, $2.00.
9. Storm Girl, Joseph C. Lin-
coln, Appleton-Century, $2.00,
August 13.
10. The Case of the Lame
Canary, Erie S. Gardner, Morrow,
$2.00, September 8.
General
1. Life With Mother, Clarence
Day, Knoff, $2.00, August 23.
2. How to Win Friends and
Influence People, Dale Carnegie,
Simon and Schuster, $1.96, Nov
ember 5, 1936.
3. On Gilbert Head, Elizabeth
Etnier, Little, Brown, $2.50,
July 26.
4. Orchids on Your Budget,
Marjorie Hillis, Bobbs-Merrill,
$1.50, June 9.
5. The Return to Religion,
Henry C. Link, Macmillan, $1.75,
March 24, 193 6.
6. Conversation at Midnight,
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Harpers,
$2.00, July 21.
7. Ordeal in England, Philip
Gibbs, Doubleday, Doran, $3.00,
August 20.
8. The Story of Ferdinand,
Munro Leaf, Viking, $1.00, Sep-
tember 1 1, 1936.
9. How to Lose Friends and
Alienate People, Irving D. Tress-
ler, Stachpole, $1.49, August 30.
10. Live With a Man and Love
It, Anne Fisher, Dodd, Mead,
$1.50, August 17.
F. D. Roosevelt Explains
Special Session
Of Congress
President Roosevelt spoke to the people
again last Tuesday night; completely equip-
ped with fireside, microphone, and his usual
patient friendliness he explained, almost too
simply, his reasons for calling a special ses-
sion of Congress. He said in effect, if we
might paraphrase the current New Deal sa-
tire 'Td Rather Be Right": "Congress take
a train to Washington. We've got to figure
out what the trouble with the country is."
Actually, of course, there are apparently
valid reasons for the premature session.
Opening on Nov. 15, only six weeks before
the regular session Jan. 3, it has five major
(questions to consider, according to Roose-
velt's recommendation. The President's ob-
jectives were stated to be these: wage-hour
legislation, crop control, governmental reor-
ganization, regional planning, and a curb on
trusts, with foreign policy also under consid-
eration.
NO SURPRISE
The President's proclamation calling for a
special session of Congress and his talk to
the nation did not come as surprises to those
who had been following his movements the
last few weeks. Arthur Krock, writing in the
New York Times, comments on the masterly
publicity build-up Roosevelt has given this
latest announcement. On his trip through
the West he made numerous references to
the necessity for regional planning, some
form of crop control, an equitable wage for
all, and, more recently, world peace. The
President rarely relinquishes an objective,
but gradually prepared the people for its ac-
complishment.
Certainly the legislation to be considered
by Congress is important, but the proclama-
tion for a special session seems a little un-
usual since no emergency was declared. The
only other such session during the present
administration was called in the summer of
1933 during the bank holiday. Apparently
the President feels that Congress ought to
get its desks cleared, particularly of his
cherished proposals, in order to effectively
tackle taxation and balancing the budget in
the regular session. Behind all this also may
be the fact that next spring and summer the
entire House and one-third of the Senate will
be elected. Many Congressmen are anxious
to have the opportunity of doing intensive
personal campaigning for re-election. As a
matter of fact, this session of Congress is
necessary possibly because of the general in-
efficiency of Congress and because of the
confusion caused by the Supreme Court ques-
tion which retarded the business of legisla-
tion. It is regarded as significant that the
President made no mention whatsoever of
the Court in his last speech. The silence was
impressive, but perhaps not unexpected. It
is time now to consider things more immedi-
ately concerned with the people.
AGRICULTURAL NEED
Agriculture is at present most obviously in
need of government aid. While the South is
faced with the second largest cotton crop in
its histbry, 17,573,000 bales according to the
latest estimate, the President explains the
need for crop control, prevention of soil ero-
sion, and other activities planned to create a
"balanced abundance." In regard to this agri-
cultural program the United States News
says : "The aim is to clothe the spirit of the
invalidated AAA, which still can be felt in
Washington, with the flesh and blood of
reality." Wage-hour scales are related to the
main economic question, since higher wages
would tend to raise the standard of living.
Regional planning is likewise related, conser-
vation and efficient use of natural resources,
certainly a part of this, pertain finally to a
great many people. The curb on trusts is
bound up with the wage-hour question per-
haps, and certainly must contribute to the
"balanced abundance." The plans for gov-
ernmental reorganization are entirely separ-
ate; they are more mechanical and promise
more efficient government.
NOTHING OF BUDGET
This seems to be a comprehensive pro-
gram, yet with all this Roosevelt made no
mention of balancing the budget, which after
much stream-lining shows a probable deficit
of between $400,000,000 and $500,000,000.
This rather important item is to be left to
regular session.
Congress has an intensive program mapped
out for it. This is perhaps wise in the light
of the current situation. It is to be hoped
that the work will not prove too burdensome
for efficiency and that Justice Black will not
furnish too great a temptation for oratory.
THE AGONISTIC
3
A.S.C. Teachers Write New
Books Soon to be Published
In spite of their many varied
duties as professors, several mem-
bers of the Agnes Scott College
faculty have found time to work
on books which will soon make
their appearance. For example,
Miss Dexter and Miss Omwake,
both of the Psychology Depart-
ment, have completed a book en-
titled "An Introduction to the
Fields of Psychology." This work
is already in the hands of Prentiss
Hall Publishing Company, and has
been forecast both by this com-
pany and by Macmillan to be quite
a success in the educational world.
It is designated to supplement any
general text in Psychology and
will be used for the first time in
the General Psychology courses at
Agnes Scott in the spring quarter.
For the past summer Dr. David-
son has been getting ready . for
publication a volume entitled
"Propaganda in the American Rev-
olution. " This subject is one in
which Dr. Davidson has been do-
ing research for sometime, so the
volume promises to be valuably
authoritative as well as extremely
interesting.
In addition to these two books
soon to appear, Miss MacDougalPs
high school text-book on Biology
is almost ready for press. Also,
Miss Christie's work on Bellarp is
nearing completion. Likewise, Dr.
Wright's articles on taxation, for
which he has been gathering ma-
terial all summer, will soon make
their appearance. The public will
also see very shortly the results of
Dr. Christian's research at Har-
vard this summer.
Two members of the faculty are
away on leave of absence to com-
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plete research work. As a result
of her study in France, Miss Phy-
thian will publish a volume relat-
ing to the geographical back-
ground of French n6vels. Miss
Laura Colvin, in connection with
one of her courses in the Depart-
ment of Library Science of the
University of Michigan, will pub-
lish a manual giving instructions
in the use of the library, with
special attention to this need at
Agnes Scott College.
In the fields of Music and Art,
also, the Agnes Scott faculty
members have been distinguishing
themselves. Professor Dieckmann
has had accepted for publication
two original compositions, an an-
them and a solo song. Miss Lewis,
head of the Art Department, has
completed quite a number of un-
usually fine paintings, many of
which are on display on the fourth
floor of the Agnes Scott College
Library.
Finally, the mathematical form-
ulas published by Dr. Robinson are
now being used by the United
States Artillery Department.
Picture Shows Work
Of Community Chest
Depicting typical scenes from
the activities of its thirty-three
agencies, the Atlanta Community
Chest presented in the Gaines
Chapel October 8 a moving pic-
ture entitled "Wake up and live
for Others."
President T. Guy Woolford and
Leader Harry Summers announced
that Chest funds are swelled an-
nually by over 46,000 contribu-
tors. Of each dollar given, 53.9%
is used to care for needy children.
Some of the child, agencies sup-
ported by the Chest are: Hillside
Cottages, Atlanta Child's Home,
Child Welfare Association, He-
Along
The Colonnade
In case anyone has been won-
dering at the strained and slightly
baffled expression on the faces of
the Agnes Scott student body, let
him wonder no longer, for we have
found the explanation it is an in-
evitable result of viewing the
"proofs" of Annual pictures for
the first time. In fact, if it is
true that the proof is in the pudd-
ing, we personally wish that ours
had stayed there! Seriously speak-
ing, the pictures this year are per-
haps better than ever before; and
we vote a rousing cheer to both
the Silhouette staff and to Mr. El-
liott. However, there is still a
great deal of numor also room
for sjze A inferiority complexes
in the way most of us look with
our bare faces hanging out full of
that insipidly vague expression we
acquire just as the "birdie" is on
the wing.
During the past week, however,
there have been many events stim-
ulating enough to rouse the alleged
students from contemplation of
their own vicious visages. For in-
stance, the Stunt as usual
brought to a climax the friendly
Fresh-Soph rivalry in a charming
way, with both classes offering de-
lightful dray-mers. Also, there's
the never-to-be-forgotten Ponselle
concert, in which a piano-arrang-
ing usher became the recipient of
overwhelming though mistaken
applause, the artiste became her
own accompanist, and the accom-
panist became completely con-
fused. The audience, needless to
say, became appreciatively hila-
rious!
brew Orphans' Home, and several
day nurseries.
The Chest also does much work
among the unemployed. Such or-
ganizations as the Y. W. C. A.
classes for unemployed girls, train-
ing for the blind, and the Com-
munity Employment Service, give
help to society's disinherited ones
Little Sisters at A. S. C
Moan Lack of Individuality
Astutely pursuing knowledge on
our fair campus, there is a small
group of people who long both day
and night for individuality. Each
of them is known as so-and-so's
little sister. Merely that and noth-
ing more.
Nellie Richardson, when asked
if she had a sister who had once
come here, gazed prayerfully up-
ward and gently murmured, "Not
one, but four." Sad is the state of
Nellie and poor Mary Bell, for ex-
perience has taught them that teas
and receptions bring no joy to the
heart. Upon such occasions they
are forced to stand first on one
foot and then on the other and to
smile angelically while faculty
members go into a huddle with
themselves over whether they look
like their sisters or whether they
don't.
Nothing escapes comparison.
Everyone tells Mary Ivy that she
certainly doesn't talk as fast as
Claire did. Meanwhile, Susan
Bellingrath asks in a hushed voice
if they are going to compare
grades. Jean Dennison fears the
same fate for sister Lucile made
Phi Beta Kappa. People are so
helpful, too. They all smile and
say, "Oh, I certainly would hate to
be in your shoes."
Helen Jester and Jean bewail the
fact that they have to tell their
sisters every little thing that hap-
pens, and Jean says that her sister
can ask more questions about
things of which she knows abso-
lutely nothing. Arline Stienback
doesn't have to tell Selma the cur-
rent events of the campus, but she
has her troubles, too. No one ever
understands how she can get home-
sick when she has a perfectly good
sister on the campus.
Now the saddest of all these in-
teresting cases is that of Grace
Walker. When you even mention
the word sister to Grace she starts
waving her hands in the breeze and
exclaiming in her Charleston ac-
cent, "Isn't it terrible!" She is re-
membered by the faculty as that
cute little four-year-old who play-
fully threw sand on the audience
at the senior play when she came to
see big sister. In short, our Grace
is a living example of the fact that
your sins will find you out.
Eta Sigma Phi Has
Five New Members
Eta Sigma Phi, national honor-
ary Greek and Latin fraternity,
received five new members at its
meeting on Tuesday, October 19.
Those elected were: Evelyn Baty,
Sarah Joyce Cunningham, Mary
Primrose Noble, Eva Ann Pirkle,
and Julia Porter. ' Laura Coit,
president of Student Government,
was unable to accept membership
Small church colleges, by bring-
ing together young men and
women of the ' same cultural level,
are indispensible allies of Mr.
Cupid.
B. Ames to be
Emory Speaker
Ben Ames, noted European cor-
respondent of the United Press,
will be the first speaker on the
1937-3 8 schedule of the I Student
Lecture Association of Emory Uni-
versity. Mr. Ames' lecture will be
given sometime early in Novem-
ber. The definite date will be an-
nounced later.
Other features of the years' pro-
gram include an illustrated lecture
by Mrs. Martin Johnson, and a
lecture by Dr. Victor Heiser,
author of "An American Doctor's
Odyssey."
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THE AGONISTIC
Juniors, Sophs
Are Victors in
Hockey Games
Seniors Need Experienced
Players; Frosh Offer
Peppy Combat
Last Friday afternoon at 3:50
on a crisp and sunny field the
first hockey game of the season
was played with the juniors victor-
ious over the seniors, 3-0, and the
sophomores over the freshmen,
4-0. Without a right halfback,
and with four new players, the
senior team met the well equipped
junior team with good courage but
no points.
During the first half there were
such notable individual plays as a
long dribble by Flynt, and the shot
for the first goal, by Dryfoos, won
after a struggle against determined
senior fullbacks, Johnson and
Chalmers. Benson scored a third
point after a slight lull in the
game. Also in the first half was a
remarkable dash by Erwin in the
wrong direction. The score at the
end of this half was 3-0, in favor
of the juniors.
In the second half the teams
were much slower and more awk-
ward. Neither team scored, and
perhaps the only commendable
play was L. Coit's long drive down
more than half the field's length,
to a hasty interception by the
juniors.
The freshman-sophomore game
was a thrill to both grand stand
and coach. Miss Wilburn remarked
afterward that it was "the best
initial freshman game we've ever
had!"
After a slow beginning the
freshmen pepped the playing up
with a good run by Wimpfheimer
and another by Hance, the latter
being intercepted by the excellent
guarding of the sophomores. Will-
statter played her wing position
very skillfully. Toward the close
of the first period, and after a
half-field dash, Moseley went
down to the benefit of the fresh-
men, who didn't use this oppor-
tunity for points. After substitut-
ing Muzzey for Wimpheimer, dis-
abled by a sprained ankle, the half
ended with a double "long corner,"
and a loss of excitement. The
score stood at 1-0 in favor of the
sophomores.
The second half began with a
near-goal, and exhibited good run-
ning by Forman and Salters, and
excellent defending by Wilds. Wil-
liamson and Brinton together
scored three points for the sopho-
mores, and brought the score to
4-0. A mishap during this half
resulted in an injured knee for
Willstatter, Butt substituting.
The line-ups in these two games
were as follows:
Seniors Juniors
Douglas R.W Flynt
Merrill I.R.__ Benson (1)
Coit, L C.F Moses
Erwin I.L._ Dryfoos (2)
McKay L.W Coit, M.
R.H Jane Jones
Allison C.H MacGuire
Rodgers L.H Marshall
Johnson R.B McMullen
Chalmers L.B Hamilton
Robinson Goal Kenny
Substitutions: Doty, Campbell,
and Short ley for the juniors.
So pho m o res F resb m c n
Eyles R.W. Willstatter
Heaslett I.R. Wimpfheimer
Brinton (2) C.F. Hance
Williamson (2)LL Bell
Forman L.W Vaughn
Salters R.H Woodard
Milncr C.H Moffat
Reins L.H Walker
Thompson R.B Wilds
Watkins L.B Wallin
Case Goal O'Ran
Substitutions for the sopho-
mores: Montgomery, Moseley, and
O'Brien; for the freshmen: Muz-
zey, Henry and Butt.
Athtetic Board A. A. Discusses
Picks Members Over-Organization
At an Athletic Board meeting
held October 12, Lou Pate, arch-
ery manager, announced the four
class managers of archery as fol-
lows: Eloise Estes, senior; Alice
Sill, junior; Eloise Lennard, soph-
omore; and Virginia Hickman,
freshman. Lucy Hill Doty, hiking
manager, announced that Bea Sex-
ton, senior; Ella Hunter Mallard,
junior; and Jane Mases, sophomore,
are three of the class hiking man-
agers. The freshman manager will
be announced at a later date.
Also at this board meeting
Mary Nell Taylor, tennis manager,
announced the appointment of
Peak Brown as senior tennis man-
ager, and of Elizabeth Kenny as
junior manager. The other two
managers will be chosen later.
French Club Admits
Seventeen Students
During the club try-outs last
week, the French club chose sev-
enteen new members and the Ger-
man club, sixteen. Those accepted
by the French club were: Betsy
Banks, Marjorie Boggs, Jeanette
Carroll, Mary Louise Dobbs, Mary
Evelyn Francis, Mary Lang Gill,
Hazel Hirsch, Gary Home, Louise
Hughston, Eloise McCall, Lutie
Moore, Mary Reins, Jane Salters,
Lucille Scott, Hazel Solomon, Har-
riet Stimson, Mickey Warren. The
new members of the German club
include: Jean Codding, Giddy Er-
win, Mary Elizabeth Galloway,
Cora Kay Hutchins, Phyllis John-
son, Ruth Kaplan, Elizabeth
Kenny, Eunice Knox, Bertha Mer-
rill, Irene Phillips, Nell Pinner,
Evelyn Sears, Mary Pennel Simon-
ton, Harriet Simpson, Elinor Tyler,
Florence Wade.
Outing Club to
Visit Mountains
On the much discussed subject
of over-organization on the A. S.
C. campus, the Athletic Associa
tion submits this explanation of
its stand on the topic. In an ef
fort to discourage over-participa
tion in the four athletic clubs,
A. A. has established the follow
ing regulation:
A student may have active
membership in only one of the
four campus athletic clubs during
a quarter of a scholastic year.
That is, a student may, during the
course of a quarter, be an active
member in either Swimming Club,
Tennis Club, Archery Club, or
Outing Club; but she may not be-
long actively to more than one of
these at a time. She has the privi-
lege of establishing her name on
the inactive list of the club she is
leaving to become actively con-
nected with another for the suc-
ceeding quarter or quarters.
This regulation is a strong ef-
fort on the part of A. A. to curb
the tendency at Agnes Scott to-
ward too much organization. It
is the hope of the association that
this stand is clear to the entire
body, which constitutes its mem-
bership.
Benson Opens Contest
Adelaide Benson, snapshot editor
of the Silhouette, has announced
the prizes for the annual snapshot
contest. A first prize of $2.50 and
a second prize of $1.50 will be
given for the best pictures of cam-
pus life. There will be another
prize of $2.00 for the best candid
shot which is turned in. The con-
test will last until the beginning
of spring holidays.
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On October 7 the Outing Club
met at Jeanne Matthews house for
supper. During the evening the
members discussed plans for a trip
to the nearby mountains in the
future, and also for putting a firev
place on the four acres of land re-
cently bought by the college for a
camping ground. The fireplace
will be part of the foundation for
a cabin, which the club hopes
soon to erect.
This land is situated directly be-
hind ,the campus, its proximity re-
lieving somewhat the problem of
chaperonage on overnight and
week-end hiking trips. The fact
that it is so near the campus, how-
ever, is one of the most frequent
objections to this beautifully
wooded strip of land. Dr. McCain
has mentioned a lake there to make
the lot even more attractive to
Agnes Scott- campers.
Pop Warner, the "old fox" of
intercollegiate football, won his
3p0th victory in 43 years of
coaching when his Temple Univer-
sity team beat Virginia Military
Institute, 18 to 7.
N.Y.A. Will Give
Increased Aid
For Students
220,000 Will Be Helped By
Youth Administration
In Colleges
Washington, D. C (ACP)
The National Youth Administra-
tion will spend 20 million dollars
during this school year to help
220,000 students earn an educa-
tion. This is an increase over last
years allotment of 28 million dol-
lars for 310,000 students.
Every state will share in the stu-
dent aid funds and several special
funds have been created.
College aid allotments now be-
ing forwarded are expected to ap-
proximate $10,700,000. Employ-
ment quotas for colleges will be
about 80,000.
This year, graduate students
have been eliminated from direct
student aid. A college may, how-
ever, at its discretion, allot a por-
tion of its funds to graduate stu-
dents.
A special fund of $70,000 has
been set up to aid Negro graduate
students in states which do not of-
fer advanced courses for Negroes.
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VOL. XXIII
AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1937
Z115
No. 4
Front Row
By Jane Guthrie
MONKEY WRENCH: Russia
upsets the Spanish Non-interven-
tion Committee's "Love Feast" by
announcing her refusal to recog-
nize belligerancy of the Rebels un-
less all volunteers ' are withdrawn
from Spain. Italy follows this up
by demanding unanimous support
of the British plan from all nine
members before entering agree-
ment. Germany and Portugal back
her. Russia accuses Britain of
treating Italy with a "plague of
Politeness," and reminds the
members that any delay in the
withdrawal of volunteers from
Spain is distinctly to General
Franco's advantage.
BUDGET DILEMNA: Roose-
velt's latest budget estimate is 256
millions below his estimate last
April. This is attributed to the de-
cline in tax receipts, and to con-
gressional profligacy. On the
other hand, government savings
are above the April Forecast.
Monthly expenses have been re-
duced from 274 millions to 200
millions. But added expenditures
have wiped out this again and
leading economists estimate the
national debt will be 695 millions
by June, 193 8. Meanwhile Roose-r
velt faces a new dilemna. Business
activity is falling off and the list
of unemployed will consequently
increase. If tKe President acquieses
in new employment plans the re-
vised budget will be disarranged.
And if he does not comply, social
trouble may ensue.
RED INK: The Japanese cabi-
net has approved reductions of 59
millions in government expenses
for the remainder of the fiscal
year. Her trade balance shows 250
millions in the red. Commodity
prices are rising. Taxes are going
up. Yet members of the Japanese
Economic League declare, "The
story of Japan's instability is a
pleasant fiction of our enemies. We
no longer are a poor nation." By
aggression, substition and gold
mining, Japan plans to meet all
the problems of the future. And
where these methods will not
work, as in the case of the wool
supply, Japan states she will sim-
ply "do without it."
Dr. Philip Davidson
Addresses Council
Blackfriars to
Give Drama
November 20
Chafin, Cousins, Bailey, and
Flynt To Act in New
Play By Levy
With Myrl Chafin in the title
role, Blackfriars, under the di-
rection of Miss Frances K. Gooch,
associate professor of English, will
on Saturday, November 20, pre-
sent in Bucher Scott gymnasium,
"Mrs. Moonlight," by Ben Levy.
Jeanne Flynt, Elizabeth Cousins,
and Jean Bailey will portray Jane,
Emily and Minnie, respectively.
The male characters, some of
which will be played by Emory
students, have not yet been as-
signed.
"Mrs. Moonlight" is the story
of a woman, who although she
wished to grow old, could not. The
action starts in 1890 in the days of
the Gibson girl and passes through
the pre-war period to present day
times. The cast is ordering cos-
tumes from New York. Three sets,
one for each of the periods por-
trayed, will be used.
Miss Carrie Phinney Latimer, as-
sistant in Speech, will assist Miss
Gooch in directing the play.
History Professor Delivers
Lecture Series
Professor Philip Davidson, of
the history department, is giving
a series of lectures sponsored by
the Council ob Jewish Women,
the first address having been made
on October 26 at eleven o'clock at
the Standard Club. He will con-
tinue his lectures on successive
Tuesdays.
The tentative program, subject
to change by the wishes of the
group, is as follows:
1. Birdseye view of the situa-
tion in Europe and the relation of
the states to each other. 2. Bri-
tish foreign policy since 1918 as
determinant in world affairs. 3.
Frightened France in European af-
fairs. 4. The role of the Fascist
states in Europe. 5. The oriental
complex Russia, China and
Japan. 6. The United States as a
world power Europe. 7. The
United States in South American
affairs, and 8, the United States
and the orient.
Sophomores Will
Be Honored at
Hallowe'en Fete
Spooks and witches will reign
tonight, October 27, when the
members of Mortar Board enter-
tain the boarding students of the
sophomore class and their dates
with a Hallowe'en party at the
Murphey Candler building.
The members of Mortar Board
have divided into groups in plan-
ning for the party. Jean Chalmers
is in charge of securing spooks;
Winifred Kellersberger and Vir-
ginia Watson, decorations; Laura
Coit, invitations; Jean Barry
Adams and Lib Blackshear, dates;
Eliza King and Mary Lillian Far-
ley, food. The hostesses are plan-
ning games in the different rooms
of the Murphey Candler Building
in place of the proms of former
years.
President Goes
On Convention
Dr. J. R. McCain left his duties
at Agnes Scott Thursday and Fri-
day, October 21 and 22 to attend
a meeting of the Southern Associa-
tion of College Activities at Birm-
ingham and to address the mem-
bers of the Women's College at
Columbus, Mississippi, at the
Founders' Day program which was
held Friday.
May Day Group Has
Five New Officers
At its recent meeting on Octo-
ber 22, the May Day Committee
chose five new officers for this
year. Miss Ellen D. Leyburn, Miss
Emma May Laney, and Miss Cath-
erine Torrance will be the faculty
auditors; Helen Kirkpatrick, the
publicity chairman; Mary Mat-
thews, the Scenario chairman.
Anne Thompson, chairman of
the committee, will announce the
Scenario contest sometime around
the Christmas holidays.
Publication
Heads Form
New Council
Blackshear To Give Report
From Press Group In
Chapel
Body Will Decide Policy
Believing that the interests
and aims of their activities
are similar, the six heads of
the three campus publications
have formed a press council, which
will outline and direct, along
parallel lines, the policy of all three
issues. Friday morning in chapel,
Elizabeth Blackshear will make a
report from the council, speaking
on the broadening, concrete scope
of college life.
The council will consist of Hor-
tense Jones, editor, and Elizabeth
Blackshear, business manager, of
the Agonistic; Carol Hale, editor,
and Ola Kelly, business manager,
of the Aurora; and Virginia Wat-
son, editor, and Joyce Roper, busi-
ness manager, of the Silhouette.
They conceived the idea for the
council at the national convention
which they attended in Chicago,
where the excellent work of such
councils on other campuses was
reported.
Who's Who Lists
Seven Students
Seniors Begin
Year's Duties
As Chaperones
Thirty-one Sign Agreement of
New Responsibility For
Students
Organ Gives Honor Rating
To Campus Leaders
The Agnes Scott students in-
cluded in Who's Who Among Stu-
dents in American Universities and
Colleges this year are Jean Chal-
mers, Winifred Kellersberger, Hor-
tense Jones, Mary Lillian Fairley,
Eliza King, Ann Worthy Johnson
and Laura Coit.
To be included in Who's Who, a
student must have a combination
of character, leadership in extra-
curricular activities, and scholar-
ship to indicate that she is out-
standing and an asset to her school.
Y.W.QA Sends
Two to Macon
Mary Hollingsworth and Cary
Wheeler went last week to a Synod
at Wesleyan as Agnes Scott
Y. W. C. A. delegates and spoke at
a vesper's program on the subject
of "Persecution in a World of
Struggle." The Macon college en-
tertained them at an informal sup-
per. It is a part of this year's
Y. W. C. A. program to send dele-
gates frequently to other col-
leges.
Freshman Y Cabinet
Is Chosen by Class
The freshman Y. W. C. A. cab-
inet for 1937-3 8, recently elected
by the freshmen class, consists of
the following girls:
Gene Slack, Gene Dennison,
Pattie Patterson, Grace Walker,
Mary Scott Wilds, Edith Henegar,
Tommay Turner, Nancy Gribble,
Louise Musser, Miriam Bedinger,
Tine Gray, Louise Sams, Martha
Dunn, Shirley Gay Swagerty and
Anne Garrett.
These fifteen girls have already
begun their duties in directing the
Y. W. C. A. projects of the class
of 1941, under the leadership of
Louise Musser, president.
As the result of popular request,
senior chaperones have become a
reality at Agnes Scott. The Stu-
dent Government Association has
been working on the idea since last
spring, and Thursday, October 7,
the student body voted on a list of
senior chaperones which was then
approved by the Administrative
Committee. The seniors whose
names were approved were re-
quired to sign an agreement to fol-
low strictly the rules of the col-
lege and to be personally responsi-
ble for the underclassman or un-
derclassmen whom they are chap-
eroning.
The reason for this innovation is
that Agnes Scott has been severely
criticised for permitting her girls
to impose on people in Decatur and
Atlanta by spending the night at
their homes or using them as chap-
erones. The Dean's Office and Stu-
dent Government feel that
through the use of senior chaper-
ones, this imposition will be les-
sened.
Those seniors who are chaper-
ones are: Jean Barry Adams, Tom-
mie Ruth Blackmon, Catherine
Brittingham, Martha Peak Brown,
Laura Coit, Mildred Davis, Mary
Lillian Fairley, Anna Katherine
Fulton, Martha Alice Green, Jane
Guthrie, Nell Hemphill, Mary Mc-
Cann Hudson, Ann Worthy John-
sen, Ola Kelly, Eliza King, Ellen
Little, Jean Matthews, Bee Merrill,
Mary Primrose Noble, Frances
Norman, Frances Robinson, Sa-
mille Saye, Elizabeth Skinner,
Julia Telford, Mary Venetia Smith,
Anne Thompson, Virginia Watson,
Mary Belle Weir, Dixie Woodford,
Jane Wyatt, Louise Young.
Students, Dates
Are Entertained
At Open House
Last Saturday night the Mur-
phey Candler student activities
building was formally opened to
girls and their dates, when Mortar
Board held open house for about
fifty people.
Various games were provided for
entertainment, and hot chocolate,
cookies, and candy were served.
Mildred Davis and Anne Thomp-
son had charge of the entertain-
ment and refreshments; while Mrs.
Emmie Ansley served as chaperone.
Sociology Students
Go To Copper Hill
On Thursday, October 21, five
cars filled with Agnes Scott So-
ciology 305 students under the
leadership of Dr. Arthur Raper,
acting professor of Sociology; Miss
Emily Dexter, associate professor
of Psychology, and Miss Kather-
ine Omwake, assistant professor of
Psychology, left the college for a
trip to Copperhill, Tennessee, to
study the social problem of the
intelligent use and the conserva-
tion of the natural resources of
the United States.
They spent three hours in this
region of big gullies, where fumes
from the copper mines have des-
troyed all vegetation.
M. F. Guthrie,
Hopkins are
Debate Team
Austin Will Be Alternate
When Pi Alpha Meets
Englishmen
Fray To Be December 10
At the tryout of members
of Pi Alpha Phi Debating So-
ciety for a position on the Ag-
nes Scott team meeting the
Oxford-Cambridge debate team on
Friday, December 10, Margaret
Hopkins was chosen by Dr. George
P. Hayes, faculty advisor for the
club, to uphold with Mary
Frances Guthrie the affirmative of
the question, Resolved: That the
power of the trade unions has in-
creased, is increasing, and ought to
be diminished. Gene Austin will
serve as alternate.
One of the Englishmen, James
A. Brown, is an Irishman, and the
other, Ronald V. Gibson, is a
Scotchman. The former, represent-
ing Oxford, was educated until he
was 18 years of age, in Northern
Ireland, where his home still is.
Then he went to Germany and
studied at Heidelberg University
for several months. For the last
four years he has been at Balliol
College, Oxford, reading for the
Honours degree of Modern History
and being actively engaged in poli-
tics both inside and outside the
University as president of the
University Liberal Club and also
of the Oxford Union. He' an-
nounces that he intends, as his life
work, to practice as a barrister.
Although he was a Scot by birth,
Mr. Gibson was reared in England.
He spent a few years in Insurance
before he went to Cambridge three
years ago to read for the Econom-
ics Tripos. He, having been
brought up a Liberal and now be-
ing a moderate Socialist, supports
an alliance of the Liberal and La-
bour parties and has developed an
organization in the University for
this purpose called the Democratic
Front. He has been president of
the Cambridge Union Society, sec-
retary of the Socialist Club and
president of the Union. During his
residence at Cambridge he has
maintained his business connec-
tions and intends to spend some
time on the staff of a London
daily newspaper before taking up a
post as Parliamentary Private Sec-
retary.
Miss Sturdivant
Speaks at A.S.C.
Executive Committee Is Host
To Personnel Worker
Miss Sarah M. Sturdivant, pro-
fessor of education at the teachers
college of Columbia University,
arrived at Agnes Scott today to
speak to the student body and to
the executive committee of stu-
dent government, her official
hosts.
The executive committee will
entertain Miss Sturdivant at tea
this afternoon, at which time she
will speak to them on the general
theme of student government as
an intellectually inspirational
rather than a penalizing organiza-
tion.
At the student government
chapel tomorrow, Miss Sturdivant
will speak on "How Student Gov-
ernment Trains for Citizenship."
2
THE AGONISTIC
"Island Magic" Holds
Gav Charm and Humor
"Island Magic," Elizabeth Goudge, Cow-
ard-McCann, Inc., New York, $2.50.
True to its name, this book is full of magic,
in both senses of the word. There is magic
in the second sight of Rachell, and there is
magic in the scenes from the Guernsey coun-
tryside, in storms and wrecks and picnics.
The story is laid in the Channel Islands in
the eighties, when the people there lived in a
world all their own, leading a quiet existence,
and clinging to the folklore and superstitions
of the past. It concerns Rachell du Frocq,
who, through her wonderful gift of second
sight, managed to save her farm from ruin,
in the face of censure and ridicule from her
husband, Andre, and from her friends.
Of all the characters, perhaps the most
charming is the eight-year-old Colin. "Colin
had not the smallest objection to telling lies.
He liked things to be pleasant and agreeable
all around, and he had found from painful
experience that the giving of truthful ans-
wers to direct questions bearing on his re-
cent whereabouts and behavior invariably
led to unpleasantness. Therefore in conver-
sation he aimed always at giving pleasure
rather than accurate information, and was
throughout his life universally beloved." Be-
sides Colin there are four other children
Colette, Michelle, Peronelle, and Jacqueline
all as different as they can possibly be.
"A really charming book, very human and
humourful, with five of the most real chil-
dren . . . ever met in fiction, and full of the
most gorgeous descriptions of life in Guern-
sey."
<&t)c Agonistic
Innovations Spice
Routine of College
Exploring the news of other colleges this
week we find that Agnes Scott isn't the only
one that can recognize outstanding person-
alities. In the Emory Wheel Lucille Denni-
son's picture under the headline "Seeks New
Fields to Conquer," made known the fact that
another "campus queen" had been added to
the graduate school at Emory. From the
Colonnade, we learn that a Golden Slipper in-
stead of a Black Cat takes up all the time
and worry of the sophomores and freshmen
at G. S. C. W. These two classes compete for
the Golden Slipper by presenting original
plays, written and directed by members of
each class.
At Alabama College, a group of students
are pursuing culture in a big (and rather ex-
pensive) way. Every third week of the month
is set aside as Culture Week and during that
week any lack of courtesy, refined language,
or lady-like behavior shown by a member of
the group costs that member a penny and up
according to the offense committed. At the
end of the article, the Alabamian comments
that that part of the dormitory is fast losing
its reputation of being the nosiest on the
campus. It seems that the pursuits of culture
is highly beneficial.
From The Triangle we see that the senior
students are planning to get profits by
opening the "Jolly Joint" where candy,
drinks, and chewing gum will be served dur-
ing the day. They even plan to serve dough-
nuts and coffee for the "late breakfasters."
While seniors may have tijne to run a cam-
pus store, poor freshmen are buried under
common troubles on all the campuses. At
the Florence State Teachers College in the
"Open Forum" column of the paper a iresh-
man makes a wail over certain teachers'
hobby of having thirty or forty textbooks
from which students get only vague, scramb-
led facts. She ends her letter with this wise
remark: "It's easier to take a huge book
home with you to study than stay all night
at the library waiting for a book on reserve
(they're always in use)."
The most unusual article was found in the
Flor-Ala from Florence State Teacher's Col-
lege. It announces the request for limericks
which "May be sung in chapel programs.
Students and faculty members are invited to
contribute limericks to be used in this way."
Two limericks already contributed were
printed. Imagine a student singing this in
chapel :
"There was a young man from Lynn
Who was so exceedingly thin
That when he assayed
To drink lemonade
He slipped through the straw and fell in."
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
Owned and published by the students of Agrnes Scott College.
Entered as Second Class Matter at Decatur. Georgia.
Subscription price, $1.25 per year in advance. Single copies, 5c.
1937 Member 1938
Pissocided Golle&iate Press
Lost Horizon
"The time has come/' we chant with Lewis Carroll, "to
think of many things." And though we realize that in this
voluble age many people have said many things many times,
w T e yet raise our quavering voice. In spite of (or rather be-
cause of) the fact that nobody reads editorials, we neverthe-
less think that the time has come to speak of many things
among them the college student, his world, and what he does
there.
It is only through such assemblies as the recent national
convention in Chicago that we come to realize that there is
a student world a whole sphere of activity built in, around,
and for the pursuit of higher learning. It is an artificial
state, constantly shiftly in population, lasting only four years
for the average person, yet withal remaining, on the whole,
static.
The attributes of such a world are, of course, determined
chiefly by its occupants. Students take up a unique position ;
they are social parasites. It is not through any grace or vir-
tue of our own that we are enrolled in Agnes Scott, but
through the fortunate financial conditions of our families.
For each girl who sits at one of our library tables, nine others
take up stations behind store counters and at telephone
switchboards. Not from any personal superiority, but from
the lot spun out by the three fickle sisters of destiny, we re-
ceive, as birthright, privileges which are denied to nine-
tenths of our generation.
Moreover, we do nothing lucrative to gain these privileges ;
everything w r e have or do is paid for by somebody else. How,
then, justify our existence? Simply on the premise that in
the future we will repay society for. the extra time and money
it has spent on us. Last year Dr. Davidson pointed out to
us the need for dynamic and creative leadership; it is this
that society wants from us we say it without boast.
j There is going on in all phases of social life a process of
crystallization of economic groups. We see this in interna-
tional labor movements and in organizations like the Liberty
League. It is a horizontal rather than a vertical stratifica-
tion. Youth, too, has its part in this movement; and we find
the militaristic, dictator-directed young people in Germany
and Italy, the "New Life" movement in China, the Youth
Congress in America.
Only in recent years have students realized this growing
youth consciousness and taken their place as leaders of the
movement. They have inaugurated peace demonstrations, ef-
forts toward academic freedom, and work with the National
Youth Administration. There is growing a definite feeling
of internationalism, as evidenced by such things as: the sys-
tem of exchange students, the English debates, and interna-
tional youth congresses.
To the spluttering publicists who have pointed a quivering
finger and screamed "Red Communism" at what we have
done, we recommend the memory of our perhaps saner an-
cestors who offered an amused tolerance to youth's rose-col-
ored glasses.
Perhaps we are a trifle preposterous ; perhaps we are ap-
plying feeble matches to rivers. Nevertheless, we dare to
claim that we are old enough to know what kind of a world
we want:
We covet, first of all, absolute academic freedom. Believ-
ing that it is intellectual suicide for a nation to lay over its
best minds a muffler which derides our claim of freedom of
speech, we aver that a teacher's classroom is his castle.
Desiring recognition of the fact that, while we are a part
of the American people, we are primarily members of the
human race, we affirm the sacredness of humanity and claim
the right to live, thus outlawing the wholesale murder in-
volved in war.
We wish to cultivate the ability to look at facts creatively
and at ideologies matter-of-factly.
Finally, we would remind ourselves of the thirteenth-cen-
tury scholar who sold his coat to buy books, and shivered in
cold that he might burn his last candle at the shrine of learn-
ing.
And what is ~
mellowing, a loosening and a restraining
a liberal arts college but a tempering and a
4 on*iiMrY o -nrJ o rocf ro in in or ?
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Current History
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N. Hemphill. E. Hutchens. C. K. Hutchins. R. Hurwitz. F. Lee. E. McCall. P. Noble,
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A Letter Written by
A Freshman's Daddy
\ Editor's Note: A freshman's father sent the following letter
to the editor, and feeling that it is a sincere tribute to one of
the finest attributes of our Alma Mater we are printing it.)
I decided that I would go back to college
again this year as a freshman and that this
time I would try a girl's college instead of a
boy's.
And I'll tell you what it was that surprised
and impressed me most. It was the spirit of
kindness that was everywhere like the warm
sunshine of the opening day. Kindness es-
pecially to us freshmen! My former experi-
ence at a boy's college was that the poor
freshmen had to go it alone, find their own
way with fear and trembling, and be laughed
at and ridiculed and treated like the tradi-
tional "red-headed step-child." But this time
I found it entirely different. The kindness of
kind hearts had prepared for me just the op-
posite kind of a reception such a reception
that, instead of being like undergoing an op-
eration in a hospital or entering a peniten-
tiary, it was one of the most delightful ex-
periences of my life.
Now in the midst of it all, this spirit of
kindness was specially focused upon me
through one whom I know as my sponsor.
She is an upperclassman who was appointed
to, shall I say, big-sister me ? Well, whatever
you may call it, what she did was to write me
a welcome letter before I came ; and, when I
arrived, there she was and she took charge
of me directing or guiding me in all of the,
to the freshmen, unknowns of college life.
And so the first course that I received
upon entering this college was one that was
given to me, not in books, but in persons. It
was a course in kindness, unselfishness,
though tf ulness of others, love for others
all expressed in kind words, kind deeds, and
kind faces. And it seems to me that kindness
is the best thing of all. It meant more to me
than anything else did in my rather dreaded
experience of entering college it made a de-
lightful experience of what I had feared
would be a most trying one. And I rather
think that I shall learn no finer lesson in my
four years here than the lesson of kindness
which I have learned at the beginning. And
I have determined to practice it all the way
through college and through life.
I am certain that Tennyson was right
when he said,
"Howe'er it be, it seems to me,
Tis only noble to be good.
Kind hearts are more than coronets,
And simple faith than Norman blood."
Headlines of the Past
^hree years ago this week, the Atlanta
Civitan Club celebrated "Agnes Scott Day."
The college special chorus sang for the Civi-
tanians, and President J. R. McCain spoke on
"Extra School Education."
Two years ago this week, the Bucher Scott
gymnasium celebrated its tenth birthday
with an open house.
One year ago this week, Lecture Associa-
tion announced that Stuart Chase would lec-
ture at Agnes Scott on November 13.
Looking Backward, We
Stumble Ahead
Of the score of students whom we ques-
tioned on the Sino-Japanese war, nearly all
replied that they didn't' know anything about
it because they don't read the newspapers.
This self-confessed ignorance reveals the
crying or should we say bellowing need
for the current events bulletin board which
has been planned by the Current History
Forum.
Dr. Davidson has often explained that we
study history primarily to interpret the pres-
ent. Thus, even though we master all the cul-
ture and knowledge of the past, we are not
educated if we have not arrived at an intelli-
gent interpretation of the present. For the
major events of the world today, discriminat-
ingly chosen and attractively presented, we
refer you to the current history bulletin
board in the library.
If we fix our eyes on the ground we have
already covered, we can be expected to stum-
ble over the steps in front of us.
THE AGONISTIC
3
Girls Disclose
Deep Desires
Of Childhood
Do you remember what you
wanted to have or to be most when
you were a little girl? What was
the height of your ambition? It
seems that most of the fair damsels
at Agnes Scott started out with
the desire to be missionaries, and
then as the years passed and the
tender age of about ten was
reached, they decided they had
rather be great actresses. Bunny
Marsh and Grace Duggan wanted
to be missionaries to the darkest
part of Africa emphasis on the
dark. Helen Moses and Susan
Goodwin felt the lure of the foot-
lights when quite young, and Net-
tie Lee Grier said that at one time
or another she wanted to be every-
thing from a toe dancer to a mis-
sionary.
Giddy Erwin after a few mo-
ments of fluttering contemplation
came to the conclusion that she
has always wanted to be a novelist.
Aileen Shortley said that she had
felt that urge, too. Don't tell any-
body but Aileen once wrote a
poem in memory of her pet gold-
fish, Ella, who did a swan dive
over the goldfish bowl. According
to the author, the poem was ex-
ceedingly good.
Although Ruth Slack never
harbored any desires to be - a
poetess, she did want to teach kin-
dergarden. Kay Toole wanted to
be a surgeon and slice up people.
From the vicious let us go to the
gentle. Virginia Kyle always
wanted to be a lady. Surely that
was a worthwhile ambition. She
also wanted a pink dress, a pink
car and a pink house. Kitty Cald-
well was Virginia's kindred soul
because her chief aim in life was a
pink hat, dress, and shoes. Eliza-
beth Shepherd did not care
whether her 'dress was pink but it
did have to be long like the ones
her mother wore and of course she
wanted high heeled shoes to match.
Shoes played an important pare in
Corky Hutchin's life also, for to
her mind nothing could be more
wonderful than red shoes just like
the ones Mrs. Lyle bought Douglas
every year.
Not all the small girlish hearts
were turned on frills and flounces,
however. Flossie Wade didn't want
any ole dress. In fact, her dearest
wish was to be a boy and from day
to day Flossie's poor mama would
shake her head and say, "Tsk! Tsk!
What have I here?" Why that
child of hers wore overalls, went
barefooted, and even chewed
liquorice!
Pen and Brush Club
Wants all Try-outs
Tomorrow is the last day to
submit try-outs * for Pen and
Brush Club, a group organized by
the students of the art department
to stimulate interest in individual
art work on the campus. Try-outs
may be given to Jane Wyatt, Jane
Guthrie, or Henrietta Thompson.
Unofficial Traditions (Not
found in the Handbook, but an in-
tegral part of Agnes Scott life):
The ten-fifteen (A. M.) train
wheezing by during every Chapel
speech.
Six Fur 'CI ad Agnes Sc otters Meet TaxUDrivers,
Musicians in ThrilLP ached Visit to "Windy. City
Social Flashes
Last week Agnes Scott added
six more puffs of hot air to the
"windy city" of Chicago when the
Alma Mater bade farewell to Hor-
tense Jones, Elizabeth Blackshear,
Carol Hale, Ola Kelly, Joyce
Roper and Virginia Watson. After
embarking for the Chicago Press
Convention, the six girls, each
wrapped in a swanky fur coat,
(two of
which, by
the way,
were bor-
rowed a
la Agnes
Scott tra-
d i t i o n) ,
were swept
away by a three day whirlwind
which seems to have included
a delicious mixture of wierd taxi
drivers, baffling telephone slugs
(not thugs!), the Big Apple, foot-
ball games, Kay Kyser, Russian
Artists, Fred Waring, "Snazzy"
chums, and "You Can't Take It
With You!" Believe it or not,
the girls actually took time off
from these important activities
to attend over eight stimulating
Along
The Colonnade
Weekly Whopper The Ironic
Tragedy in which heroines Irene
Phillips,^Mary Bell, Margaret Bell
and their cavaliers drove gallantly
through a red light in a "do-or-
die" attempt to return to the cam-
pus before Time-Limit, only to be
arrested by an unsympathetic offi-
cer of the law!
News Flash Jean Austin de-
cided to be the "clinging vine"
type, but the vine turned out to be
poison ivy so she's reverting to
her old poisonality!
Silly sallies Ernestine Cass re-
ceiving a book-knock for signing
up as attending the "Church of
the Air" . . . Polly Hazlitt receiv-
ing a male visitor who rode all the
way from Albany on a motor cycle
(No, it's not the "eternal tri-cy-
cle!") . . . Ellen Stuart receiving
the unbelievable a box of candy
from a "blind date"!
Committee of Tea
House Begins Work
With Associate Professbr Emma
May Laney of the 'English depart-
ment and Assistant Professor Les-
lie Janet Gaylord of the Mathema-
tics department as faculty repre-
sentatives, and Caroline Armistead
and Regina Hurwitz as student
delegates, the Silhouette Tea house
committee has begun its year's
work.
At its meeting last week, the
committee discussed prices and
service. Chairman Caroline Armis-
tead announces, that student criti-
cism and opinion will be wel-
comed.
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meetings in three days which
ought to set up some kind of rec-
ord!
The round of adventures in
Chicago apparently began when
an ancient taxi driver with a
mariner-ish gleam in his eye more
or less kidnapped Hortense, Carol
and Lib because he was so anxious
to show them the colossal new
bridge. He drove them around for
miles, spinning yarns of Al Ca-
pone's village, Cicero, where the
street-cleaners had to arm them-
selves with blotters to soak up all
the blood; while all this time Ola,
Gina and Joyce were at the Medi-
nah Club (convention headquar-
ters) tearing half their hair over
the whereabouts of their friends
and the other half over their vain
attempts to unravel the mysteries
of Lost
Foyers and
regis-
tration
desks and
so on.
' 1 T h e
first im-
pression of
the convention," says Carol Hale,
"was the way in which those
Northerners looked when they
heard our Southern accents. They
were all so nice and friendly to
Southerners; but I didn't think our
accent was any funnier than the
queer slang they used. For in-
stance, everybody was everybody
else's 'chum' and everything was
simply 'snazzy.' Also 'scuddly-
wucks' and 'Zip! You said it' were
favorite expressions." One bewilder-
ing thing about the whole affair,
as Carol says, was the way in
which all the Agnes Scotters took
everybody seriously when they
were joking and vice versa. An
example of the aforesaid vice versa
is an incident which Business
Professor Goes
To S.C. Meeting
Miss Jackson Conducts Round
Table Discussion
Miss Elizabeth Fuller Jackson
returned to Agnes Scott on the
seventeenth after spending several
days in Spartanburg, S. C, where
she attended the meeting of the
South Carolina Division of the
American Association of Univer-
sity Women.
An enthusiastic member of the
Association, Miss Jackson took a
prominent part in the meeting and
in the activities surrounding it.
Friday night she gave a lecture at
Converse College on Fellowships,
A Contribution to Democracy,
Manager Blackshear will never for-
get. It seems that the girls were
tired of being fooled, so they ap-
pointed Lib to be the spokesman at
a drugstore where they wished to
use the 'phone. Determined to ac-
cept no nonsense, Lib asked the
man in a business-like voice it they
could telephone there. The man
answered to the affirmative, but
suggested that they might wish to
purchase a slug from him. Sus-
pecting foul play, Lib declined
with much squelching hauteur,
only to discover that slugs are the
sine qua non of phoning in Chi-
cago!
Of all her convention adven-
tures, Joyce recalls most vividly
the excitement of the Northwest-
ern-Perdue game, which was "just
like a movie! She also became quite
enthusiastic over Kaufman's play,
"You Can't Take It With You!"
as did all of the girls. The thing
that appealed to Ola most was the
monopolization of the floor by all
the Southerners at the convention
7
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day night
during
their rendi-
tion of the
Big Apple,
to the
amuse-
ment of
the Yankees. Hortense and Carol
were both literally entranced by
the revolving doors and escalators
at Marshall Fields. The others
testify that Carol and Hortense
spent an entire afternoon during
the edifying convention running
up and down and around these
peculiar transportational facilities.
Gina's most vivid impressions
are of the dynamic people she met
(the powerhouse!), including Fred
Waring and Kay Kyser who re-
membered going to school with her
brother at Chapel Hill. The most
memorable person she met, how-
ever, was a Russian artist who in-
quired casually (and just to set
himself straight) whether "Geor-
gia was the capital of Alabama or
vice versa he never could remem-
ber which!"
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After freezing at the Auburn
game Saturday afternoon, Agnes
Scott thawed out at the many and
various dances that night. Gay
Cindcrellas dashing home on the
stroke of 12:30 were: Julia Porter
and Sue Goodwyn from the Em-
ory Theta dance; Jane Jones from
the Chi Phi dance; scores of girls
from the AKK dance, including
Freshella Dusty Hants; and the
usual delegation from the Anak
affair.
Meanwhile, the campus was
alive with color namely two
glamorous Auburn buggies, fan-
tastically engraved and loaded
with uniforms. Pixie Fairley, wel-
coming them into the Murphey
Candler building, caught the eye
of Grace Ward's Auburn brother,
and lo! We see another family af-
fair to add to the list where glow
the names of: Callie and Nick,
Nell and Bob, Mary Ellen and
Barclay, Mary Venetia and Phil,
and Jean and Paul.
Bee Merrill's little sister, who
visited* her this week, had the sig-
nal honor of "looking exactly like"
Jane Moore Hamilton, Julia
Porter, Mary Scott Wilds and, of
course, Bee.
Next week-end will see Anne
Thompson off to the Davidson-
Furman game at Davidson.
Ursula Mayer Speaks
To German Students
Ursula Mayer, the German ex-
change student at Agnes Scott,
spoke to the German club at its
meeting on Wednesday, October
20, about the youth movement in
Germany. Mrs. Haager, from Lii-
beck, Germany, also gave a short
talk.
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THE AGONISTIC
Sporting
No game.
No hike.
It rained.
P.S. (1) Ruth Slack never did
return those clothes she misap-
propriated the other day. But she
needn't think Milner hasn't found
them yet. Poor Milner, why, it
was excruciating even to think of
her going to lunch in that
c-c-cold, wet t-t-towel!
P.S. (2) Also Excruciating was
it to see that silly barefoot citizen
galvanting b'twixt the library and
Main last Friday night. Supposed-
ly hunting her shoes, she had all
the earmarks footprints, rather
of being a freedom-of-the-foot ad-
dict, but that is entirely the
wrong conclusion to have drawn.
The truth is that Jane Moses had
"misplaced" the child's shoes. Per-
sonally we think Eric should have
taken an iron hand in the case.
Members of Classes
Of Late Years Have
Interesting Offices
Juniors and seniors who knew
the members of the classes of 193 5
and 1936 will be interested in this
news which has been received from
them.
From the '3 5 group, two girls
especially have made marked prog
ress. Mary Virginia Allen re
ceived her certificate of etudes
superieuses from the University of
Toulouse in the spring after taking
her final exams. She was one of
nine foreign students who passed
the exam and one of two who won
honors.
Betty Lou (Houck) Smith has
been playing in the Atlanta Thea-
tre Guild productions and was one
of the group from the Spoken
English Department of Agnes
Scott who attended the Speech
Convention in Nashville, April 22.
Congratulations, Mary Virginia
and Betty!
Mary Summers was married to
Dr. Curtis Langhorn of Smith-
field, Va., last June. Dr. Langhorn
is associate professor of psychology
and assistant registrar at Emory
University.
Much has happened to the grad-
uates of 1936:
Lulu Ames, the class secretary,
has been working at the Decatur
Clinic for negroes since the middle
of the spring; Mary Coarnely has
finished her course at Peterson's
Business College in Greenwood,
S. C; Virginia Gaines worked and
studied at Emory until August;
Lita Goss, who taught school the
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Cotillion Adds 27; Therese Poiimaillon Speaks i Virginia Milner
At French Club; Erwin, Kernan, Entertain B.O.Z. Tells Plans of
Aquatic Meets
A talk by Therese Poumaillon,
French exchange student, and the
initiation of new members were
two parts of the French club meet-
ing on Monday, October 18.
Therese told of her impressions of
American girls, and the new mem-
bers presented original skits of col-
lege life. Associate Professor
Louise Hale, of the French depart-
ment, also talked. The head of the
French department at Emory Uni-
versity and two of his students
were visitors at this meeting.
Spanish Club Elects
Eight New Members
At its social and business meet-
ing on Thursday afternoon, Octo-
ber 14, El Circulo Espanol re-
ceived eight new members, who
are: Evelyn Baty, Katherine Britt-
ingham, Mary Virginia Brown,
Lillie Belle Drake, Adele Haggart,
Janet McKim, Sara Lee, and Annie
Houston Newton.
The program, one of a series
planned to increase the members'
appreciation of Spanish art and
customs, consisted of a talk by
Sarah Thurman on some famous
composers; a Spanish song by
Jeanne Red wine; and selections by
Jane Clark, a graduate of Agnes
Scott, accompanied by a former
president of El Circulo Espanol,
Louise Brown. The entire club
also joined in several familiar
Spanish songs.
Cotillion Club, the only purely
social organization on the campus,
chose twenty-seven new members
at its try-outs on Wednesday and
Thursday afternoons of last week.
The girls, selected from each of the
four classes, include: Caroline
Armistead, Rowena Barrenger,
Frances Butt, Caroline Carmichael,
Alice Comer, Eleanor Deas, Nell
Scott Earthman, Jeanne Flynt,
Mary Hollingsworth, Frances
Jernigan, Jane Jones, Eloise Len-
nard, Martha Long, Jane Luthy,
Jeanne Matthews, Betsey Myers,
Vai Neilson, Primrose Noble, Mar-
jorie Rainey, Aileen Shortley, Ruth
Tate, Anne Thompson, Mette Wil-
liamson, Peggy Willis, Anne
Wheaton, Cary Wheeler and Lydia
Whitner.
The Cotillion Club entertains its
members at a number of tea-
dances during the year. This year
the group is headed by Mary Vene-
tia Smith, president, and Frances
Abbot, secretary.
past year, studied German and
English at Emory.
Lillian Grimson is away in
Buenos Aires where she, her sister,
and a friend have an apartment,
which is lots of fun. Lillian still
enjoys her work and claims she'd
still like to hear from "all the
Agnes Scotters."
Augusta King is doing fine in
her work as N. Y. A. adminis-
trator for Columbus, Ga.
Having finished a year at the
Baptist Women's Missionary Union
Training School in Louisville, Ky.,
Lois Hart went to Ridgecrest,
N. C, to the Baptist Assembly
ground this summer and is now in
Johns Hopkins training to become
a medical missionary.
It is deeply regretted that Janet
Gray was killed near La Rochelle,
K.U.B. Holds Meeting
At its first regular meeting, on
Wednesday, October 13, K. U. B.
initiated its three new members,
Eleanor Hutchens, Anne Enloe,
and Jane Salters, and also those
who were elected last spring.
After the secretary had read the
Constitution, setting forth the
purposes and rules of the club, the
new members repeated and signed
the pledge to support K. U. B. in
all its activities.
Miss Christie, the club sponsor,
gave an informal talk, suggesting
various ways of expanding home
town news. After a discussion of
these suggestions, the club ad-
journed downstairs for a social
hour.
in France in an automobile acci-
dent, June 5. Janet had been con-
ducting classes in conversational
English at a French school, L'Ecole
Normale d'Institutrices, at La
Rochelle.
Catherine Bates attended the
Baptist World Youth Conference.
An athletic young lady is Ann
Coffee who took to skiing in lieu
of her beloved ming. She also seeks
recreation at baseball games and
the zoo.
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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
B. O. Z., the creative writing
club on the campus, has set No-
vember 1 as the last day for sub-
mitting try-outs. Any essay, short
story, sketch, play, or other form
of literary composition will be
considered in selecting the new
members.
Giddy Erwin and Mary Ann
Kernan were hostesses at the last
meeting. Jane Guthrie, president,
led a discussion on criticism, and
Giddy Erwin reviewed some of the
work she had in criticism at Col-
umbia University last summer.
Nell Allison, Mary Ann Kernan
and Julia Sewell read.
Eastern grid officials will have
to go into training if they expect
to work any eastern college games
this fall. They must produce a
physician's certificate attesting
perfection of sight, hearing and
general condition.
Current Swimming Classes
and Club Should Enter
Two Contests
The swimming heads have an-
nounced the dates of two swim-
ming meetstfor the coming month,
the first of which is scheduled for
November 11. Virginia Milnefr,
swimming manager, urges all
members of current swimming
classes, as well as swimming club
members, to begin regular practice
on the fundamental strokes and
dives. The meet should give every
swimmer on the campus an oppor-
tunity to participate.
The second meet will be Novem-
ber 22.
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Unsettled.
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VOL. XXIII
AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1937
Z115
No. 5
College to
HearWoted
Theologian
Y. W. C. A. Asks Dr. Alston
To Conduct Religious
Week Services
Talks Begin November 9
Dr. William M. Alston, di-
rector of young people's work
in the Presbyterian church,
will be the guest speaker at
Agnes Scott during Religious
week, November 9-13.
With his home in Decatur, Dr.
Alston attended Emory University
and Columbia Seminary here and
then did graduate work at the
University of Chicago. After-
wards, he was the first pastor of
the Rock Springs Presbyterian
church in Atlanta. Dr. Alston
later became pastor of the Univer-
sity Presbyterian church in Lex-
ington, Kentucky. Two years ago
he delivered the commencement
sermon at Agnes Scott.
The speaker last year was Dr.
Ben Lacy.
Front Row
By Jane Guthrie
Lost Battalion: The four day
seige of a Chinese warehouse cita-
del in Chapei comes to a dramatic
climax as China's "Lost Battalion,"
running a gauntlet of machine
guns, escapes to safety in Shang-
hai's International Settlement. Of
the 377 members, 200 remain be-
hind, dead, as defenders of the ci-
tadel in the face of the Japanese
"surrender or die" ultimatum.
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek or-
ders the surrender of a battalion
"too valuable to spare." And ten
minutes later the Japanese Rising
Sun banner is hoisted over another
affair of "discipline." Chinese bat-
talion to be interned by British in
concentration camp.
Sorry: Japan is reported incensed
over British interference with their
"Lost Battalion" victory. Three
more British soldiers are wounded
by Japanese shells bringing the
total number of such accidents to
10. Japan offers apology. And
British-Japan tension increases.
Footnote: Italy's offer of safety
to the grand mufti of Jerusalem,
sought for arrest by British, seen
as another thrust as England in re-
taliation of her opposition to the
Ethiopian conquest.
Alumnae Will
Have Meeting
In November
Former Students Will Have
"New Emphasis" For
Theme Of Meet
With "New Emphasis" as its
theme, the alumnae week-end,
which annually calls scores of
former students back to Agnes
Scott, will get under way Friday
and Saturday, November 19 and
20. The alumnae have chosen an
autumn rather than the usual
spring week-end, because their
Alma Mater's calendar is less
crowded in the fall.
Beginning at 10:30, Friday, Dr.
Mary Ann McKinney, '2T of the
Woman's Christian Medical Col-
lege in Punjab, India, will give
"Indian Impressions" as her chapel
talk.
From 10:30 to 11:30, Dr. Good-
rich C. White, dean of Emory
University, will talk on "Cross
Currents In the Colleges."
"New Emphasis In World Af-
fairs" will be given by Judge Sam-
uel H. Sibley, 11:30 to 12:30, fol-
lowed by a luncheon in Rebekah
Scott. The after-luncheon talk is
to be rendered by Registrar S. G.
Stukes.
The Alumnae and guests are
then invited to a book display in
the browsing corner of the library,
on exhibit as part of National
Book Week.
On Saturday, November 20,
the chapel program held 7X the
usual 10:00 to 10:00 will be con-
ducted by Mr. C. W. Dieckmann
and the school string ensemble.
Professor Thomas H. English,
of Emory University, will speak
immediately after chapel on "New
Emphasis In the Drama and
Theatre," and Associate Professor
Emma May Laney, of the English
department, on "Contemporary
Poets and the South," at 11:30.
Press Council
Report is Made
"It is up to us, as students, to
assure for ourselves that progres-
^iveness in our academic pur-
suits, student organizations, and
social life which will make us a
part of the real universe," said
Elizabeth Blackshear, when she
spoke for the Press Council in
chapel last Friday on the broaden-
ing concrete scopes of college life.
Elizabeth discussed the nature
and spirit of the recent national
press convention in Chicago. She
urged the application of modern
business methods to student organ-
izations.
Y.W.C.A. Follows New Method
In Making out Membership Roll
By Julia Moseley
This year Y. W. C. A. has fol-
lowed a different method hi mak-
ing out its membership roll. In-
stead of having a mass signing up,
the Y. W. C. A. cabinet carried
out a plan by which each girl was
visited and the aim and activities
of the year were explained. Activi-
ties of Y. W. C. A. are supported
by a budget raised by voluntary
subscription and allowance from
the student activities fund. Sign-
ing ur> for groups and signing the
pledges were explained in the vis-
its, and nearly all of the student
body signed.
The groups that the students
have joined are: industrial group,
social service group, social com-
mittee, world fellowship, mission
interest, music and publicity. The
industrial group works a good part
of the time with the Atlanta In-
dustrial girls, and at each one of
the meetings there will be a speaker
or a report on some book dealing
with industrial problems. The
group also goes on visits to factor-
ies in and near Atlanta.
(Continued page 4, col. 3)
Investiture
Is to Honor
83 Seniors
Miss Leyburn Will Address
Class; Dr. Fairley To
Make Prayer
Service Will Be In Gym
The college will officially
express its confidence in its
upperclassmen Saturday when
83 seniors will don their aca-
demic caps and gowns for the tradi-
Two Innovations are
To Mark Investiture
Two changes will mark In-
vestiture this year. Since the
Gaines chapel is too small to
seat the steadily growing In-
vestiture audiences, the audi-
torium of the Bucher Scott
gymnasium will be the scene of
the occasion.
And the traditional capping
ceremony, fashioned on the
medieval accolade, will be per-
formed by Assistant Dean Car-
rie Scandrett rather than Dean
Nannette Hopkins, who is tak-
ing a rest cure.
tional Investiture service, to be
held this year in the Bucher Scott
gymnasium. Miss Ellen Douglas
Leyburn, instructor in English,
will make the address of the occa-
sion; while the Investiture prayer
will be led by Reverend Dr. T. L.
Fairley, father of senior Mary Lil-
lian. In the absence of Dean Nan-
nette Hopkins, Assistant Dean
Carrie Scandrett will perform the
traditional capping ceremony.
The academic procession, which
will form on the porch of Inman,
will be headed by the sister-class,
the sophomores, dressed in white.
Little Louise McKinney Hill, class
mascot and grand-niece of Miss
Louise McKinney, Professor Emer-
itus of English, will lead the pro-
cession.
Investiture, which was orig-
inated at Agnes Scott and has been
borrowed by other colleges, is one
of the school's oldest traditions.
It was begun as a simple service
expressive of the college's trust in
its seniors, but the years have
brought it such added prestige and
expanded audiences that the chapel
will no longer seat all the people
who wish to attend the service.
Therefore the ceremonies will
take place in the gymnasium this
year.
Educators o f
South Attend
Session Here
Conference Delegates Visit
College For Luncheon
In Dining Hall
Agnes Scott to
Have Booh Week
From Sunday, November 14th,
through Sunday, November 21st,
Agnes Scott will be richer in books
of biography, poetry, fiction, cur-
rent problems, and drama. These
books, which are lent by Davison's,
Millers, MacMillian's and Rich's
for the annual Book Week, will be
displayed in the browsing corner of
the library.
Such titles as The Devil and
Daniel Webster, The Making of a
Scientist, Men, Women and Tenors
and The New Culture of the
Chinese give intimations that
many of the more current books
will be worth investigating. Other
best sellers are by or about such
men as Clarence Day, Emile Zola,
and Edward VIII.
Agnes Scott College was hostess
to the delegates and visitors of the
Southern University Conference at
a luncheon in Rebekah Scott Hall,
Monday, November 1. After
luncheon the Conference met for
its afternoon session in the assem-
bly room of the library. Dr. Har-
vie Bronscomb spoke on the Li-
brary and the Teaching Program
of the college and Dr. H. F. Kohl-
man led a discussion of the topic.
The Southern University Con-
ference held its Monday morning
meeting at Emory University and
its Monday evening and Tuesday
morning sessions in the Biltmore
Hotel.
President J. R. McCain, of Ag-
nes Scott college is Secretary-
Treasurer of the Conference. The
presidents and vice-presidents are,
respectively, Chan'cellor-Emeritus
J. H. Kirkland, of Vanderbilt
University, and President H. W.
Cox, of Emory University. Thir-
ty-eight southern colleges and uni-
versities sent delegates.
Alumnae Give
Radio Program
Agnes Scott's radio program,
"Three Girls in a Room," is now
well under way with its weekly
broadcasts every Wednesday from
9:00 to 9:15 A. M. over WSB.
Sponsored by the^ Alumnae Asso-
ciation and written by Betty Lou
Houck Smith, the skit includes
four characters, representative of
types of college students. Three of
these are roommates: Peg (Betty
Lou Houck Smith), a junior;
Pudge (Mary Freeman Curtis), a
sophomore; and Ginger (Frances
James), another sophomore. Mic-
key (Carrie Phinney Latimer), is
a freshman befriended by the
roommates.
Typical Agnes Scott students,
the four girls encounter all the
usual events of a college year. This
week's adventure was a visit from
Marge, a last year's senior, who di-
vulges news of her engagement.
Dale Carnegie Will
Lecture in Atlanta
Mr. Dale Carnegie, author of
the recent best seller, How to Win
Friends and Influence People, will
arrive in Atlanta today to speak
at the Georgia Theatre at 8:30
P. M. Ticket prices range from
$1.10 to $2.00.
H- S. Ede to
Speak Here
In January
Curator At Tate Gallery To
Be In United States
For Lectures
Lecturer To Speak On Art
On January 25, 1937, the
Public Lecture Association of
Agnes Scott will present Mr.
H. S. Ede, Curator at the Tate
Gallery, London, and a widely-
known artist, author, and lecturer,
in the first of its year's series of
lectures. Mr. Ede will arrive in the
United States early in 193 8 for a
two months' lecture tour under
the auspices of the Institute of In-
ternational Education. In England,
where he is well-known as a stu-
dent and critic of modern paint-
ing, his home is a rendezvous of
artists and people interested in art.
At Agnes Scott he will deliver a
lecture on art appreciation and
will illustrate with slides.
The Lecture Association chose
Mr. Ede as the first speaker in ac-
cordance with the requests made
by students last year in the ques-
tionnaires. Art was found to be
most popular among lecture sub-
jects, physchology second. The as-
sociation has not yet secured a
speaker for the second topic. The
third favorite request was for a
man of letters. James Hilton and
Pearl Buck have been asked to
visit the campus, but no definite
answer has been received yet. Asso-
ciate Professor Emma May Laney
is hoping to secure Sinclair Lewis
at some time during the year and
is considering the Grand Duchess
Marie. However, the only definite
engagement is that of Mr. Ede.
Emory to Hear
Monologuist of
Note Saturday
Cornelia Otis Skinner will pre-
sent her original "Modern Mono-
logues" Saturday, November 6, at
the Glenn Memorial Auditorium
under the auspices of the student
lecture association of Emory Uni-
versity. Miss Skinner's presenta-
tions consist of short dramatic
sketches which she wrote herself.
She plans her programs so as to
represent comedy, satire, and
pathos in balanced proportion.
Besides presenting her mono-
logues, Miss Skinner is also a radio
star and an author, having re-
cently published a book of amus-
ing commentary entitled "Excuse
It, Please."
Fundamental Requirements for
Class Standing are Made Clear
By Mary McCann Hudson
Now that the first tests of the
school year have been taken, the
question of requirements for class
standing makes itself heard. The
necessarily complicated system,
which its makers very patiently
explain, is based upon the funda-
mental requirement that to grad-
uate, a student must have made at
least a passing grade on 189 quar-
ter hours, and she must have at
least a merit grade on 90 of those
189 quarter hours. To prevent
overcrowding of work, a freshman
is allowed to take no more than 48
quarter hours and no less than 42;
and advanced students may take as
many as^ 5 1 quarter hours a year.
To be promoted to the sopho-
more class, a freshman must have
either (1) at least passed all her
work, or (2) she must have at
least passed 30 quarter hours (not
including physical education) and
must have merited 1 5 of those 30
hours.
To receive promotion to the
junior class a student must have
(Continued page }, col. 3)
2
THE AGONISTIC
Carl Crow Describes
A Picturesque China
"Four Hundred Million Customers/' Carl Crow,
Harper and Bros., N. Y., 1937. Happily called "the
diverting adventures of an American advertising
man in China," this book tells of many interesting
customs and habits of the Chinese people.
"Carl Crow went to China a quarter of a century
ago as a correspondent of the United Press. He re-
mained to conduct his own advertising agency there,
and to meet oriental human nature in many intrigu-
ing guises, all the way from Shanghai debutants to
the lowly scavengers of the streets. He even learned
what the Chinese are too polite to say about certain
Occidental traits."
One feels, after reading this book, as if he, too, had
been to China, been barked at by twenty-five Chi-
nese dogs, who disapprove heartily of the Westerner's
odor, and eaten shark's fins and ancient eggs. One
of the most interesting traits of the Chinese people
is their ability to make use of anything and every-
thing rusty nails, cigarette stubs, buttons, worn-
out horseshoes, old clothing, tin cans, paper, bottles.
With their native ingenuity, the Chinese salvagers
are capable of turning the most unpromising article
into something of cash value. "The harbor of Shang-
hai is not only one of the busiest, but one of the
cleanest, in the world. On its surface will be found
none of the flotsam and jetsam of other harbors, no
broken fruit crates, half-submerged gunny sacks, de-
cayed oranges, and odds and ends of lumber. All
these valuables are rescued from the harbor by sal-
vage boats that ply about. The crew invariably con-
sists of the owner, his wife, and such children as are
too young to be usefully employed ashore. The en-
ergies of the entire family are devoted to the rescue
of wrecks from the sea. It is because they do their
work so thoroughly that there are no seagulls in
Shanghai. These useful scavengers thrive on the
thrifty coast of Scotland, but they would starve to
death here."
" Tour Hundred Million Customers' is an amusing
study in human nature, of which the 'London Times'
says: 'An unusual book, because so much of it is
practical good sense and so much of it is just good
fun. The reader who wants enlightenment and
laughter . . . will neglect it to his loss.' "
Brisk Fall Weather
Invigorates Colleges
College students everywhere are taking time out
to enjoy the spirit of autumn, for at G. S. C. W. the
whole school is getting excited over the big Hal-
loween carnival to be put on by the school Recrea-
tional Association. Fortune Tellers, Spooks, Music,
and Food are the big attractions. But at Mount
Holyoke, Mass., we learn from the Mount Holyoke
News that students are getting ahead of our season
by spending delicious week-ends at various nearby
colleges learning to ski-waltz and cut fancy figures
on the ice. Perhaps our expert Big Appiers and their
expert Ice and Ski Waltzers should get together and
swap knowledge. The traditional Sophomore-Fresh-
men feud is being carried on in a new way at G. S.
W. C. In their paper, the Campus Canopy, we dis-
cover that the Sophomores have started the hunt for
the old battered hat of a former president of the col-
lege, by hiding it in some out-of-the-way place on
the campus. If and when the freshmen find it, they
will in turn hide it from the sophomores; every
Thursday from the first of October to the first of
February is put aside for the hunt. On the last Thurs-
day, the class who knows where the hat is wins a
party from the other class.
One of the most original ideas we've come across
was found in the Kadcliffc News. One of the Rad-
cliffe students conceived the plan of having a pri-
vate bulletin board in her own room. It has become
one of the popular sites on the campus, for she filled
it with caricatures of overwhelmed college stu-
dents, baby pictures of her family, a rattle, a cross-
eyed zebra, poems, and a list of Do's. As one of her
visitors said, "It was an expression of her personal-
ity" (such an expression of personality might be a
good outlet for the pent-up opinions of modern
youth) .
In the Howard Crimson is an interesting report of
recent chapel programs which featured discussions
on good grooming. It is particularly interesting in
that Howard is co-ed and that the masculine part
of the school seemed as interested as the feminine
part. One of the warnings given the boys was: "The
biggest insult to modern women is to find her escort
for the evening improperly attired." The article on
"Getting Along With Freshmen" was the most un-
usual we found this week in exploring the college
news. It was in the Salctnifc from Winston-Salem
College. It commences by stating that "Freshmen
are queer people"; after a long explanation of their
various moods ("modest as a violet, or superior as
Methuselah") and of how to be sure to let them
know that sophomores are sacred people, the article
ends with "but they arc human, yet Freshmen are
queer people."
<rjc Agonistic
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
Owned and published by the students of Agnes Scott College.
Entered as Second Class Matter at Decatur, Georgia.
Subscription price, $1.25 per year in advance. Single copies, 5c.
1937
Member
1938
Associated GoUe&fcite Press
Canned Education
We covet, first of all, absolute academic freedom. Be-
lieving that it is intellectual suicide for a nation to lay
over its best minds a muffler which derides our claim
of freedom of speech, we aver that a teacher's class
room is his castle.
From last week's editorial, "Lost Horizon."
FOR SALE : Several brands of education, canned and ready
to serve to students for nine months of the year.
We realize that this is an exaggeration probably a gross
exaggeration; but we nevertheless believe that if certain
forces now at work are carried to their logical conclusions,
this statement will no longer be so gross nor so exaggerated
as you might think.
We have been old-fashioned enough to believe that the ob-
ject of education is truth truth approached from different
angles and interpreted in different fields, but presenting a
synthesized, unified whole. Such is not the case: in this en-
lightened age a blind spot distinguishes education a blind
spot located usually in the touchy region of politics, a region
seemingly beyond the pale of learning.
Thus the object of education becomes truth censored.
But censored truth is untruth; it cannot be true because it
is one-sided. We do not agree with the old adage, "The truth
hurts." Truth hurts only those who try to suppress it.
We believe that in seeking to bar from American school
rooms the study of the so-called foreign "isms," we are en-
dowing them with an aura of exciting mystery and are leav-
ing our youth in ignorance which might make them the gulli-
ble prey of indoctrinators.
Certain publicists (who, by virtue of owning the most
newspapers, consider themselves the "Voice of the People")
have filled their publications with accusations and exclama-
tion points that dub everything that piques their fancy as
"Communism." According to them agitators hide in every
ink-pot and treachery lurks in every beard.
Two English students debate Agnes Scott on the supreme
court Communism ! An eminent sociologist and author lec-
tures on the campus Communism! Some students attend
an inter-racial convention Communism! We congratulate
Russia on the breadth of scope of her government.
A portentious volume entitled, "The Red Network," ap-
pears, purporting to lay the red brand on all the Moscowardly
fiends in America, and the roll contains so many of our great
that it is an honor to be included. Among countless others,
Stuart Chase and Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt find their
places there. If this be Communism, call us comrade !
It is time to look with sanity on this whole ridiculous fet-
ish of Communism. The term has been applied so broadly and
so inconsistently that it no longer has much meaning except
in sensational sheets which specialize in bug-a-boo.
At any rate, the whole matter is not important enough to
merit the limiting of academic freedom. The high profession
of teaching must not be reduced to a mere parrot-like serving
of certain selected and carefully censored facts. Educational
institutions must not bargain the intellectual integrity of
their teachers for an enticingly dangled endowment from re-
actionary vested interests.
Again we say that truth to be true must be whole and
wholly fearless.
In Appreciation
We wish to express our thanks to Miss Laney and to Lec-
ture Association for their choice of Mr. Ede as our first lec-
turer. We feel that the Muse of art has long been accorded
the most inconspicuous position at Agnes Scott, and we wel-
come the announcement that an eminent authority on the
subject will visit our campus.
We also wish to approve the democratic system of allow-
ing the students to designate in what field their interests lie
as regards their lecturers. Need we add that lecturers come
to be heard, and that, having asked for an art expert and
having been offered him, we have entailed certain responsi-
bilities?
C. I. O. Lays Peace Plan
Before Irate A. F. of L.
Hortense Jones
Editor
Jane Guthrie
Mary McCann Hudson
Associate Editors
Mary Frances Guthrie
Marie Merritt
Assistant Editors
Elizabeth Skinner
Make-up Editor
Elizabeth Kenney
Asst. Make-up Editor
STAFF
Elizabeth Blackshear
Business Manager
Esthere Ogden
Advertising Manager
Giddy Erwin
Feature Editor
Mary Wells McNeil
Asst. Feature Editor
Mary Anne Kernan
Current History
Elizabeth Warden
Book Editor
Francis Castleberry
Jeanne Redwine
Alice Reins
Eugenia Bridges
Circulation Managers
Alice Cheeseman
Sports Editor
Mary Reins
Exchange Editor
Jeannette Carroll
Alumnae Editor
Evelyn Baty
Club Editor
REPORTERS: N. Allison, E. Baty. M. Chafin. M. L. Dobbs. M. L. Gill. E. Hutchens,
C. K. Hutchins. R. Hurwitz. F. Lee. P. Noble. M. L. Ratliffe, A. Reins. H. Solomon,
S. Steinbach, V. J. Watkins. L. Young. D. Weinkle. M. Merlin.
BUSINESS STAFF: M. Chafin. H. Mirsch, N. Echols, J. Flynt. F. Abbot. M. Oliver.
Two-Year Rivalry May Come To End
If Fundamental Obstacles
Are Dissolved
By Mary Anne Kernan
The C. I. O. vigorously waved the semblance of
an olive branch before the irate A. F. of L. last week.
Phillip Murray headed the C. I. O. committee which
presented its peace plan to George M. Harrison of
the A. F. of L. In effect, so most observers say,
Lewis' organization simply offered to come within
Green's fold without losing its real identity or sur-
rendering its primary principles. To date, the plan,
not unexpectedly, has not been accepted.
It seems possible, however, that the two-year-old
rivalry might be discontinued if certain fundamental
obstacles can be cleared. The C. I. O. is admittedly
an organization promoting industrial unions, where-
as the A. F. of L. sponsors craft unions. However,
there seems to be no essential struggle on this point,
since the C. I. O. actually did most of its organizing
among workers who had not been touched by the
A. F. of L. and whose work was not suited to craft
unionism. It is a well-known fact that Lewis began
his labor organizing in the steel industry, progressing
from there to other major industries. It is not t he
method of organization procedure which constitutes
the obstacle in the way of labor unity. Personal ani-
mosity in the staffs of both groups if the consolida-
tion is effected is one of the most serious threats to
peace. As in the case of any merger some authority
and some control must be given up; neither side is
willing to risk surrendering the power it now has.
Men with personal feelings, not abstract organization
methods, are obstructing the peace maneuvers of la-
bor. In addition to this obstacle is the question of
the number of members each group may have; in
numbers rests the ultimate control. The C. I. O.
claims 3,800,000 members, who, if given one vote
each would, it is said, possibly over-ride the A. F.
of L. or certainly balance it. The estimate of mem-
bership may be greatly exaggerated, but the question
of the comparative numerical strength of the two
organizations is another factor standing in the way
of peace.
Whatever the obstacles, a peace plan was offered
by the C. I. O. to the A. F. of L. It consisted of a
three point program:
(1) Organization of mass production, marine, pub-
lic utilities, service, and basic fabricating industries
workers only on an industrial basis.
(2) Formation of a separate department for the
C. I. O. in the A. F. of L. to be autonomous with
the sole jurisdiction to organizers workers in group 1.
(3) Convention of both sides for joint ratifica-
tion of proposed agreement.
This was the plan, but it will probably go through
much revision before final acceptance.
There is a question, of course, as to whether any
peace plan will be satisfactorily evolved. People on
both sides seemed hopeful in their recent conventions,
but The Nation characterizes these gatherings thus:
"The one at Denver riddled with hatred, spite, and
indignation; the one at Atlantic City confidently
assessing its gains and charting the future course of
organization." The truth of this picture may be
doubted, but such an atmosphere must have pre-
vailed in some degree.
Certainly forces outside the two labor groups are
not particularly active in attempting reconciliation.
Some time "ago President Roosevelt summarized his
attitude with the neat quotation: "A plague on both
your houses," which very naturally failed to accom-
plish anything constructive. It is extremely difficult
for a government to keep isolated from internal la-
bor disputes. Secretary Perkins, whose ego received
a slight shock when she failed to be invited to the
A. F. of L. convention, says now that she has "high
hopes" for the success of the peace plan ? but is not
actively participating in the affair. James F. Dewey,
the Labor Department conciliator, however, has been
in close touch with both sides. The National Labor
Relations Board, which has, it seems, been unjustly
accused of favoring the C. t O., can take no defi-
nite part in the peace moves; it exists simply to pro-
tect for labor # the collective bargaining right.
Labor realizes that unity is essential for its progress
and whether or not government help is offered the
C. L O. and the A. F. of L. must agree on some kind
of amicable procedure for the future. It seems cer-
tain that the apparent deadlock reached last week
will have to be broken soon.
THE AGONISTIC
3
Mortar Board Announces Hallowe'en
Program on Ghost-to-Ghosts Hook-Up
Station M-u-r-p-h-e-y C-a-n-d-l-e-r B-u-i-l-d-i-n-g
Broadcasts "Spirited" Party Wednesday
In Authentic Setting
'Twas on a ghost-to-ghost hook-up last Wednesday night
that station M-u-r-p-h-e-y C-a-n-d-l-e-r B-u-i-l-d-i-n-g broad-
cast its Hallowe'en program especially for the Sophomores,
with Announcer Mortar Board spooking. The broadcast be-
gan in the "Y" Cabinet room in
Main (all dates enter and leave
from Main Building, you remem-
ber), where with the theme song
of: "Miss Smith, may I introduce
Mr. Jones?, " "Miss Twinklebury,
Mr. Throttlebottom," and so on to
the chorus of "How do you do?,"
M
clustering,
had found
the entire
to the Murphey
There they
the party was
After each of the
hovering "Blind Dates'
his or her soul-mate,
crowd migrated
Candler Building
were greeted by an eerie-looking
ghost who conducted them up the
dark, spooky back stairs to the
main rooms, where myriads of
orange-and-black festoons, hang-
ing skeletons, pumpkin Jack-'o-
lanterns, and grinning cats burst
into view. Amidst these authentic
Hallowe'en settings, all the sopho-
mores and their dates became ac-
quainted in an exciting peanut
hunt, accompanied by # much
squealing and yelling. Then the
crowd split up into four groups,
each of which was conducted by
an official-looking ghost on a tour
of the various entertainments in-
cluding a bowling alley, an apple-
bobbing game, a fortune-teller's
booth, and a Hair-Razing drama
of Bluebeard and his four dead
wives. At the fortune-teller's
booth all of the girls especially
Betty Embry learned many
amazing things about their "tall,
dark men" and "long journeys."
In a Little Theatre, constructed
for the occasion by Hortense Jones,
the guests were chilled by "Blue-
beard, or A Close Shave A Hair-
razing Drammer in No Acts and
Fewer Scenes," presented by the
Spooken English Department of
Agony Scott. In this mellow-
drama, Bluebeard, a gay young
blade, poetically lamented the
pathetic fact that he had never
been able to keep a wife, while his
be-headed brides, who were noth-
ing more than actual dead heads
hanging by their hair (Moral: Hair
today, and gone tomorrow) chant-
ed this sad refrain between
speeches:
"We four wives of Bluebeard were
But he has killed us dead;
We ain't got nobody
But we all came out a-head."
Finally, after pronouncing that
elegy in sepuchral tones (all the
while merrily dodging peanuts
thrown by the playful little col-
lege Men!), the heads advised
Bluebeard to use Burma-Shave to
end his troubles.
After being entertained thus de-
lightfully, the guests enjoyed a
gastronomical repast of cocoa,
cakes, popcorn, and candy; and a
facial coating of candied apples.
Spanish Club is
To Give Comedy
"La Fiesta De La Flor" Plan-
ned For Next Meeting
The Place To Go
After Dance
or Show
Pig 'N Whistle
and
Peacock Alley
Where the Food is Always
Good and Prices So
Reasonable.
El Circulo Espanol is planning a
musical comedy, La Fiesta de la
Flor, for its meeting on November
11, at 4:30, in the Murphey Cand-
ler building. The play is based
upon the Spanish custom of a
flower festival and of the romanc-
ing of the young senoritas and
their lovers. It is a compilation of
some of the best Spanish poetry,
arranged and combined with orig-
inal dialogue by Miss Cilley, the
club sponsor. Jeanne Redwine and
Tony Newton are the young ladies
in the story, and Jane Clark and
Katherine Brittingham are the
lucky young men who seek their
favor.
The action gets off to a brisk
start when Jeanne, on her balcony,
repays the serenades of Jane with a
rose and a promise for a date the
next day.
X-Rays Will be
Given Students
Dr. Florence Swanson, physician
of Agnes Scott, announced last
week that a few of the one-hun-
dred and ninety-three tuberculin
tests which were given to all fresh-
men and transfer students reacted
positive. A second injection, one
of stronger solution, was given to
all girls whose first test was posi-
tive. Those whose second test was
positive will be required to have an
x-ray picture of their chests made
the second or third week in No-
vember. Although the vaccine
costs approximately ten cents an
injection, the x-rays will be given
free by the State Board of Health.
Dr. Swanson emphasized the great
opportunity.
Then the party rolled to a climatic
close to the strains (You said it!)
of "Down by the Old Mill
Stream," harmoniously rendered
(render meaning to tear apart) by
the entire crowd around the piano.
As Announcer Mortar Board
signed off, it was generally agreed
to be a most "spirited" affair al-
though the ultra-dead ghosts were
paradoxically the life of the party!
Along
The Colonnade
"Only the brave deserve the
fair!" Upholding this belief as
well as the other one, that "It's al-
ways fair weather when good pals
get together," many of the stu-
dents of Agnes Scott took time to
trek out to the Southeastern Fair
in Atlanta before it closed last
week. Yep, it was certainly Fair
weather for a while out at Lake-
wood. And, furthermore, only the
brave deserved the thrills of the
ferris wheels and Greyhound not
to mention the chill-provoking
predictions of ye Madame X, as-
trologist. Margaret Douglas stands
ready to advise against playing
sucker to the Midget Show, a
colossally stupendous production
which does not prevaricate when
it calls itself "The Smallest Show
on Earth" . . . Mary Wells Mc-
Neill, Corky Hutchins and a crew
of their playmates were enthusias-
tic over the Greyhound, and also
the Merry-Go-Round music . . .
Pixie Fairly liked the Art exhibit
and the cotton candy (you know,
the pink fluffy variety that looks
luscious but somehow dissolves
during the process of being trans-
ferred from the stick to your face)
. . . Alice Reins preferred the Can-
died Apples and the Kiddie's Per-
sonality Show . . . Margaret Lips-
comb was swept away by the
beauty of a cuddly fur dog won as
a result of her escort hitting
something-or-other, probably the
barker.
Class Rating
Requirements
Are Clarified
(Continued from page 1, col. 5)
at least passed 78 quarter hours
during both of her years here and
she must have merited 27 of those
78 quarter hours out of the 27
merit hours, at least 18 must have
been made during her sophomore
year. She must take 5 1 hours dur-
ing her junior year.
To have class standing as a sen-
ior, the student must have com-
pleted 129 quarter hours of credit,
at least 54 of which are of merit
grades. Eighteen of those.. 54 merit
hours must have been made during
her junior year; and she must take
5 1 hours during her senior year.
A student who has not passed or
merited enough work to fulfill the
requirements for class standing or
cannot take enough work to keep
up her standing, is not promoted to
the class to which she belongs, but
is retained in the one just below
that class.
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Girls Aspire to
Be Housewives
Domisticity Finds Favor
Vocational Tests
In
Blackfriars Search for Husband for
Gay New Production, Mrs. Moonlight
Wife Flynt, Grandmother Chafin, Scotchman Bailey,
Son Tilford Get Practice Underway For
Play On November 20
Jeanne Flynt is looking for a husband. She has a son at
Emory, and a handsome one, too, who takes after his grand-
mother, Myrl Chafin. But, alas! Where is a husband?
No, Jeanne has not just inherited an orphans' asylum. She
is looking for a husband to appear
with her in Mrs. Moonlight, the
production which Blackfriars is
planning for November 20. Most
of the cast is already chosen and is
hard at work to make Mrs. Moon-
light the real success that it prom-
ises to be. There is Mr. Jack Til-
ford, of Emory, whose wife came
to watch the love scenes at one
practice, but has not appeared
since. There is Jean Bailey, dis-
guised under an impeccable Scotch
accent. There was Jimmy Reeves,
of the Atlanta Federal Theatre,
and the drunkard of Moorborn,
but a production in Atlanta will
keep him busy on November 20.
Let this be a warning to all
Agnes Scott boarders and their
dates: one young man peeped in on
a rehearsal and four girls imme-
diately seized him and forced him
to read lines for them. So, beware!
Jeanne and her cohorts are out to
put on this play at any cost. And
you know what happens when such
young ladies are as determined as
they are Agnes Scott sees a really
good play.
was
Little Mary took a test,
On it she did her very best,
And when the little dear
through,
She knew just what she wished to
do be a housewife!
We admit that this feeble at-
tempt at verse shows as well as any
vocational guidance test that we
were not meant to be a poetess.
But it does mention the word
"housewife" which is, after all, the
desired point. Do you realize that
last year every girl who took a vo-
cational guidance test asked to be
rated as a social service worker and
that this year every girl decided to
be rated as a housewife? Evidently,
somebody decided that charity be-
gins at home.
Many girls were rated on more
vocations than one. Jane Whitman
was given an "A" on law, and a
"C" on housewife. Fouche Brin-
ton made "A" on housewife, and
Eleanor Hutchins, her roommate,
made a tf C," while Elizabeth Shep-
pard made "A" on both housewife
and teacher.
How do you know but what you
were born to be an auctioneer or
something. Surely that voice that
Mamma has been trying to calm
down for so long a time is going to
be of some, use! Vocational tests
tell all, and besides its fun to
take them. One minute you sit and
ponder over whether you would
rather have been Jane Adams, the
social worker; Ethel Barrymore,
the actress, or Edna Ferber, the
authoress, and perhaps the next
minute you ruefully admit that
you do like to read True Story
magazine. Therefore, fear not and
be on hand to have your astound-
ing abilities brought forth into
the cruel, cruel light next time
vocational guidance tests are given.
Faculty Gives to
Community Chest
The 1937 Community Chest
Campaign has closed on the
campus and Miss Leslie Gaylord
reports that the fifty-three pledges
she has received amount to
$790.00. The Community Chest
supports thirty-three charitable
organizations in this section.
Meet Your Friends at
Cox's Prescription Shop
Between Paramount and Grand
Theatres, Atlanta
LEARY'S
Where Agnes Scott can
find a spot.
102 E. Ponce de Leon Ave.
Decatur, Ga.
Meet your friends at
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Enjoy one of our delicious
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Your choice of flavors. Two huge
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10.
AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE
DECATUR, GA.
A college for women that is widely recog-
nized for its standards of work and for the
interesting character of its student activities.
For further information, address
J. R. McCAIN, President
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THE AGONISTIC
Sophs Defeat
Seniors, 5-1;
Freshmen Win
Big Apple Rocks Agnes Scotters to Core as
Campus Sivings to Tune of Latest Dance Craze
Underclassmen Carry Away
Hockey Honors In
Fast Games
With the very exciting scores,
5-1 and 3-1 respectively, the soph-
omores defeated the seniors and the
freshmen defeated the juniors last
Friday in the weekly hockey game.
The weather was invigorating to
the players, encouraging them to-
ward beautiful individual plays as
well as excellently ordered team
plays.
The first game, between the
sophomores and seniors, beginning
quietly, was suddenly enlivened by
a long dash by McKay toward the
sophomore goal, an interception by
Brinton's quick playing, and a
long run back down the field for
the sophomores. During the very
fast playing which resulted, For-
man executed some excellent play-
ing in the corner and almost made
a goal. Coit and Milner played
back and forth with speedy delib-
eration until Coit shot the only
senior goal of the entire game. In
the middle of the field following
this goal, the playing became lock-
ed, neither team breaking away,
until Erwin and McKay ran for
the seniors, with Coit's consistent-
ly good playing aiding them.
When the sophomores intervened
they took little advantage of their
position, and some seconds lapsed
before Brinton with Milner's
steady help shot the only sopho-
more goal in this half.
From the very beginning of the
second half, the sophomores were
out to win. First there was a goal
by Forman, and after Salter's fine
playing, two swift goals by Brin-
ton, followed by the fifth goal by
Salters, to bring the score to 5-1
and victory for a hard fighting
sophomore team against a senior
team minus one player and any
substitutes.
Line-ups for this game were:
Seniors Sophomores
Peak Brown _R.W Francis
Erwin I.R. Salters (1)
L. Coit (1)__C.F.__ Brinton (3)
Merrill I.L.- Heaslet
McKay L.W._ Forman (1)
Allison R.H Slack
Blackshear C.H Milner
L.H O'Brien
Johnson R.B Thompson
Young L.B Watkins
Robinson Goal Cass
Substitutions: Montgomery, for
the sophomores.
At the beginning of the junior-
freshman game the playing was
slow, deliberate, and concentrated
at the junior goal post. Because of
determined interference, Wimp-
heimer was not successful in her
attempts at a goal. The peppy
freshman team met strong inter-
ference by McMullen and Moses,
but soon overcame it with a goal
by Butt. Little progress was made
after this until Walker shot a
strong ball half the length of the
field, gaining an advantageous
position for Wimpfheimer to at-
tempt a goal. However Moses
stole the ball, starting a very excit-
ing period of shifting plays and
dribbles.
There followed another lapse of
excitement, broken by Hamilton's
dash toward the freshman goal.
Everybody's learning how to do
the Big Apple! Every time
everybody everywhere from
Miss Haynes' riding class in front
of the gym on Tuesday on up to
third floor Rebekah par Pheure!
Mein word, but it's absolutement
inescapable! And so, when campus
personalities began voicing opin-
ions on the ceremony (under pres-
sure quite frequently they mut-
tered them where we could hear
them) another column was born,
which as usual will divulge the
very core of its topic and in a
very apple-tizing manner.
Now when Nell Allison does the
Huge Fruit, she wants it spiced.
We heard her saying, "Boy, I think
it adds spice to life; and it gives
you a goal in life, when you prob-
ably didn't have one before! (Yes,
Nell-with-the-diamond said just
that.)
When we asked Miss Mitchell if
she considered it good exercise, she
quickly stated that it wasn't as
good as ballroom dancing "consid-
ering the clothes you do it in."
"The Big Apple is more like a gym
suit activity!" And we are inclined
to agree with her there.
Mr. Tart has stayed behind his
little bars so closely he hasn't seen
the dance, but he furnished us a
tart opinion from Tech students.
He has heard that Techers at a re-
cent dance voted overwhelmingly
against the Immense Vegetation.
But he further advised us that the
older dancers at the Piedmont
Driving Club were very much in
favor of it. .
Miss Christie was taken by sur-
prise as we attacked her and Miss
Scandrett together for a faculty
opinion. She admitted no views on
the subject, having never seen it,
but she did know about it from
reading the papers. Miss Scandrett
complains that it's "not very
graceful." And we have to agree
to that, too. Just watch it once.
Miss Wilburn smiled a whole-
hearted "I think it's fun!" And
she meant it, too. Jeanne
Matthews reported that at the
Outing Club meeting the other
night somehow somebody started a
Big Apple, and Miss Wilburn
and Miss Miller "were a sight to
behold!" (Tsk.)
"It gives such good exercise,"
breathed Miss Gooch as we ap-
proached her, "and it looks like an
awful lot of fun." And she ex-
panded this opinion by adding that
"it can be mutilated," and that it's
"not as good diaphram exercise as
the waltz, which gives good rhy-
thm in breathing. The Big Apple
produces panting."
Laura Coit believes it's "just the
thing for entertainment on our
picnics around a bon fire." The re-
tiring Miss Castleberry muttered
that "it's all right if you're on the
outside looking in!"
It gives Mary Hollingsworth
"something to break the ice of
dancing." And Mary Evelyn
Francis firmly believes that "if
it's big enough, the whole school
will eat it." As we sighed at this
and moved on the Jane Moses, she
refused point blankly to make a
statement, saying she was afraid
we'd misquote her. Now isn't that
just like Jane! Stubborn child!
We rejoiced at the delightful
statement of Winnie Kellersburger
that this Big Apple contraption is
"absolutely like a tropical African
da*nce!" And when some silly re-
porter interrupted the dignified
business procedure (?) Tuesday
night at the Athletic Board meet-
ing to find how the board feels
about the B. A., she got more than
she deserved; another unanimous
vote "in favor" to report to us.
Well now you have it. A. S. C.
is very adept at performing the
Tremendous Plant and is very
fond of it. Also fond are we of
the Little Apple, an admirable lit-
tle echo-re of its big relative. An
example that shines is the Ad Ben-
son version, complete with the
Benson side kick.
We've had glorious fun truckin'
up to people and shagging down
their Big Apple opinions, and our
hopes are that even dumb little
Susie Q. may enjoy our findings.
But it took us a long time to com-
prehend Amelia's situation. When
she confessed she'd never had a
very Big Apple, we soon realized
the limit of a Nickel's purchasing
value.
and the freshman recovery to the
middle field. The half ended with
a fast ball by Dryfoos going back
down the field, encountering
handicapping defense on the part
of Scotty Wilds. The score stood
at 1-0 in favor of the freshmen.
The second half began with
sluggish playing. However as Bell
made a goal the spirit changed and
the teams recovered. Against very
poor guarding, Dryfoos made a
goal only to follow it with a care-
less shot which gave the ball to the
freshmen. The most beautiful pass-
ing witnessed during the entire
afternoon was led by Hance down
the field to the junior goal. The
game came to an exciting close
with a goal by Wimpfheimer,
making the final score 3-1 for a
freshman victory.
Line-ups for this game were:
Juniors Freshmen
Garner R.W Vaughn
Benson I.R. W'heimer (1)
Moses C.F Hance
Dryfoos (1) __LF Bell (1)
Shortley L.W Butt (1)
Marshall R.H Patterson
J. Jones C.H Henry
Ivey L.H Walker
Hamilton ___R.B Wilds
McMullen L.B , Woodard
Porter Goal O'Nan
Substitutions: Doty and M. Coit
for the juniors.
For both games the referees
were Miss Wilburn and Miss
Mitchell. The time keeper was
Eleanor Hutchens and the score
keeper was Penn Hammond.
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Call Us For Special Delivery
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Y.W.C.A. Follows New
Membership Method
(Continued from page 1, col. 2)
The social service group is go-
ing to put on programs every Sat-
urday at the Scottish Rite Hos-
pital for the crippled children, and
visit the incoming and out-going
department of the Grady Hospital.
At Christmas time, they will give
a party for needy children who live
in Decatur, and deliver Christmas
stockings at the appropriate time.
The social committee is going
to have every one of its meetings a
party, though it will also have
speakers occasionally. It is rum-
ored that this committee also may
go on visits to the faculty. The
world fellowship group is going to
discuss world problems and write
letters to students in other coun-
tries, and the members of this
group will be in charge of the
World Fellowship Banquet.
Bible Club Enjoys
Informal Meeting
Marshmallows and graham
crackers and an open fire were the
setting for the meeting of the Bible
Club on Monday, November 1.
The members discussed the place
of the Bible in our everyday lives.
Under the leadership of Louise
Young, president, the Bible Club
is planning many interesting dis-
cussions and outside speakers.
RIALTO
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Jane Guthrie
Designs Best
Aurora Cover
Wins Contest Second Time;
Cover Will Be Cream
And Cinnamon
For the second time in succes-
sive years, Jane Guthrie has won
the $2.50 prize for designing the
best cover in the Aurora contest,
Carol Hale, editor, announces. En-
tries were due on Wednesday, Oc-
tober 27.
The winning cover is a design of
the library door, done in cinnamon
and cream. Jane is president of
B. O. Z., associate editor of the
AgonistiCy and a member of Pen
and Brush club, Pi Alpha Phi, and
Blackfriars.
Carol Hale has also announced
the publication dates of the six is-
sues of Aurora for the year. The
first edition will appear November
10; the others will be issued De-
cember 1, February 2, February
23, April 20, and May 11.
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VOL. XXIII
AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1937
Z115
No. 6
Dr. McCain
Speaks for
Publications
Staffs, K. U. B. Members
Meet This Afternoon
For Party
West Heads Committee
Dr. J. R. McCain, president
of Agnes Scott, will talk to
the members of the Agnes
Scott press organization on
this Wednesday afternoon when
the members of K. U. B. and the
staffs of the Agonistic and Silhou-
ette will meet together in the Mur-
phey Candler building. Dr. Mc-
Cain will discuss ways
these organizations can
in making Agnes Scott
college.
After this talk the guests will
be entertained at a party. Elsie
West is chairman of the food com-
mittee; other members of the
committee are: Eleanor Hutchins,
from the Agonistic; Louise Hughs-
ton, from the Aurora, and Cary
Wheeler, from the Silhouette.
n which
cooperate
the ideal
Class President is Invested
Front Row
POSTPONEMENT: An un-
justified "misunderstanding"
causes the Duke
postpone his trip
of Windsor to
to the United
States less than fifteen hours be-
fore the planned starting time.
The Baltimore Federation of Labor
condemns the Duke's American
guide and friend, Charles E.
Bedeaux as "arch enemy" of labor.
Queen Mother Mary believes Ed-
ward "terribly misguided" in his
plans for studying working condi-
tions in America. A trip to the
' neutral countries" of Europe con-
sidered by exiles while waiting for
"misconceptions" to clear.
OPEN DOOR.: A new peace in-
vitation is sent to Japan by Brus-
sels conference members. It asks
her to confer with a smaller group
of nations on Far Eastern conflict
or even with Germany who is not
a representative of the conference.
Norman H. Davis, head of United
States delegation, urges reconven-
ence. Pertinax in Paris dubs the
Brussels conference an "abject fail-
ure because no participating gov-
ernment is willing to assume re-
sponsibilities that could in the long
Mortar Board
National Head
Visits Campus
Mrs. F. D. Coleman, of Lincoln,
Nebraska, National President of
Mortar Board, visited the Agnes
Scott chapter Tuesday, November
2. The campus chapter honored her
at a luncheon in the Anna Young
Alumnae house, at which time
Mrs. Coleman talked to the mem-
bers about Mortar Board in general.
In the afternoon from five to
six o'clock Mortar Board held open
house to introduce the Atlanta and
Decatur members to her. Mrs.
Coleman had dinner in Rebekah
Scott dining room, and then dis-
cussed the year's work with the
run involve it in armed conflict." Agnes Scott chapter.
Student Qovernment Committee
Outlines Year's Plans, Activities
1000 Attend
Investiture
Of 84 Girls
Miss Leyburn Makes Talk
On Love Of Books
For Class
Assistant Dean Carrie Scandrett caps Jane Turner, president of the senior class, as Jean Chalmers looks on.
Bugle to Announce
Armistice Silence
At eleven o'clock tomorrow
morning, November 11, a bugle
will be blown, followed by a two
minute's silence to commem-
orate Armistice. There will not
be a special peace program in
chapel as Armistice Day comes
during Religious Week on the
Agnes Scott campus this year.
By Eleanor Hutchins
In carrying out its new policy of
announcing all plans to the stu-
dent body, Student Government
last week gave a report of all its
activities to date, and outlined its
plans for the rest of the year.
Last spring, aided by suggestions
from last year's Committee, Stu-
dent Government took a survey of
Social Regulations to see what
changes were needed and where
dishonesty existed. An extensive
and careful study of the regula-
tions of other colleges was made,
for the purpose of comparison and
of bettering our system by adopt-
ing the good points of other sys-
tems. Changes were effected
some stricter laws and some lenient
most of which are on trial this
year. Their success and continua-
tion will depend on how the stu-
dents use the increased trust re-
posed in them and whether the
privileges are used for the express
purpose for which they were
granted. These changes were in-
fluenced by an unsigned question-
naire filled out by students and by
the help of the administration. The
Constitution was revised, with
special attention to needs on the
campus.
One of the outstanding new pol-
icies to be adopted was that of
making the Student Government
Association an organization by and
for the students and an organ for
student expression. As many of the
students as possible are to share in
the active phases and functions of
Student Government, such as
chapel programs, skits, committees,
forums and student meetings. This
policy will serve to bring as many
as possible of the student body into
(Continued on page 4, col. 3)
Professor M. Cilley
Is Chosen Speaker
Professor Melissa Cilley, of the
Spanish department at Agnes
Scott, has been especially honored
by the South Atlantic Modern
Language Association. She has
been selected as one of the speak-
ers at the tenth annual meeting of
this association, which will be held
at V/inthrop College, Rock Hill,
S. C, on Saturday, November 27.
Miss Cilley's talk on "Spanish
Contributions to Civilization" will
open a discussion which will be led
by Dr. Sturgis E. Leavitt, of the
University of North Carolina, in
which the correlation between
Spanish and other subjects in the
curriculum will be considered.
Miss Scandrett
Receives Honor
Miss Carrie Scandrett, Agnes
Scott's assistant Dean, recently re-
ceived the honor of being elected
president of the Georgia Associa-
tion of Women's Deans. This or-
ganization, composed of represen-
tatives from various colleges and
high schools of the state, held the
election at their last meeting at
Milledgeville, Georgia, October
29-30.
Dobbs, Patton
Will Debate
Law Students
On Friday night, November 19,
at 8:15 P. M., Agnes Scott college
will debate the Atlanta Law
School over station WAGA in At-
lanta. The debate will be on the
Pi Kappa Delta question for this
year, Resolved: that the National
Labor Relations Board should be
empowered to enforce arbitration
of all industrial disputes.
Mary Louise Dobbs and Kath-
erine Patton will defend the nega-
tive side for Agnes Scott against
Mr. Sidney Shell and Mr. Milton
Allen on the affirmative for At-
lanta Law School.
Rev. Fairly Leads Prayer
For the text of Assistant Professor
Leyburn' s speech, see page 2, col. 1.
The pleasures of reading
and woman's appreciation of
books was the subject of the
address which Assistant Pro-
fessor Ellen Douglass Leyburn,
sponsor of the class of '3 8, deliv-
ered to the 84 seniors who first
donned their academic caps and
gowns at the thirtieth annual In-
vestiture services Saturday, No-
vember 6, in the Bucher Scott
gymnasium before an audience of
1000.
The ceremonies began with the
academic procession, headed by the
faculty. White-dressed sophomores,
sister-class to the seniors, escorted
the upperclassmen, who were led
into the auditorium by their mas-
cot, little Louise McKinney Hill.
Rev. T. L. Fairly, father of
Mary Lillian, led the Investiture
prayer, after which the audience
joined the seniors in singing their
selected hymn, "Come Thou
Fount." Assistant Dean Carrie
Scandrett performed the capping
ceremony.
The program closed with the
singing of the Alma Mater and
the recessional.
Orders For Rings
To Be Sent Soon
Juniors and seniors wishing to
receive their class rings before
Christmas should see Aileen Short-
ley immediately. A down pay-
ment of $3.00 must be made on
the rings, which cost $12.25.
If any girls want to have their
rings sent to them at home during
the Christmas holidays they should
make arrangements now. As soon
as samples of pins and bracelets ar-
rive, an announcement will be
made concerning them.
An Armistice Day Call
Fellow Students:
Armistice Day on the Ameri-
can campus must be a signal
for renewed efforts on behalf
of peace this year. With a ma-
jor war in the Far East, with
the Fascist invasion continuing
in Spain, American students
must not despair of peace but
increase their efforts to re-
strain aggTession and keep
America out of war. There are
certain values and potentalities
in American life that war would
destroy; therefore it is a mat-
ter of life and death to our gen-
eration that the United States
does not go to war. At the
same time we must bring into
play on the world scene the
great power that our country
might exercise for peace in co-
operation with other nations.
The wars raging in the world
today are direct results of the
failure of nations to observe
their international obligations
failure that was inevitable as
long as peace treaties rested
upon economic injustice. The
immediate task confronting the
peace forces of our country and
of the world is the pacification
of the world. But such pacifica-
tion will be short-lived unless
far-reaching, long-time meas-
ures of economic and social jus-
tice become its foundations.
The nineteenth anniversary
of the end of the first world
war sees what may well be the
beginning of the second. In the
present troubled moment there
is no easy, simple road. Above
all we must remain united be-
cause we, the students of this
country, have no interests
which are separate from those
of peace.
UNITED STUDENT PEACE
COMMITTEE.
2
THE AGONISTIC
"Pleasures of Reading" is
Topic of Address by
Miss Leyburn
(Following ta the speech made by Assistant Professor Eilen
Douglass Leyburn at Investiture Saturday.)
In this year when colleges and universities every-
where are celebrating with Oberlin the hundredth
anniversary of the beginning of college training for
women and when our own growth is marked by our
having to leave the chapel for Investiture, perhaps
it would be appropriate to consider the century of
progress since the day when men feared that higher
education would make women desert their babies for
quadratic equations. But I prefer to discuss with
you this morning a delight of the mind more inti-
mate than the atmosphere of the chapel and one en-
joyed by girls for hundreds of years before it oc-
curred to them to seek an equal footing with their
brothers in institutions of higher learning. It is the
sheer pleasure of reading books which I covet for
you, a pleasure not dependent upon college training
and sad to say, not even fostered by it in many
cases, for the pressure of being a part of the busy
college community and of working at books too
often precludes the conception of them as a source
of fun. How many college students and conse-
quently college graduates there are who deserve the
pity Nathaniel in Love's Labour's Lost bestows on
him who has never "fed of the dainties that are bred
in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath
not drunk ink; his intellect is not replenished."
The zest for books has been a peculiar gift of
women since men first provided books for them to
enjoy. You remember Ascham's charming account
of his discovery of Lady Jane Grey's zent for reading:
I found her, in her Chamber, readinge Phaedon Platonis in
Greeke, and that with as moch delite as som ientlemen wold
read a merie tale in Bocase. After Salutation, and dewtie done,
with som other taulke, I asked her, whie she wold leese soch
pastime in the Parke 1 Smiling she answered me ; I wisse all
their sporte in the Parke is but a shoadoe to that pleasure, that
I find in Plato: Alas good folke, they never felt what trewe
pleasure meant.
The daughters of Lady Jane in every generation have
taken the same exquisite delight in books. In 175 5
Lady Mary Wortley Montague, as great a devourer
of the printed page as literary annals give us record
of, writes to her daughter:
My dear child, I received two days ago the box of books you
were so kind to send ... I was much pleased to see before me
a fund of amusement.
and again of the literary lion of her day:
This Richardson is a strange fellow, I heartily despise him, and
eagerly read him, nay, sob over his works in a most scandalous
manner.
and specifically of the reasons for reading she says:
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so
laatmj:.
At the beginning of the next century, Dorothy
Wordsworth, busy about mending William's shirts
and baking William's bread never dreaming of com-
peting with him in learning yet tasted with rapture
the rich feast of books. Her journal is as much a
record of her reading as of the changes of her Gras-
mere countryside:
We sat snugly round the fire. I read to them the tale of Cus-
tance and the Syrian monarch, in the Man of Lawe's Tale . . .
In the afternoon we sate by the fire; I read Chaucer aloud and
Mary read the first canto of the Fairy Queen. After tea Mary
and I walked to Ambleside for letters . . . Read Tom Jones . . .
I read a little of Boswell's Life of Johnson. I went to lie down
in the garden . . . Worked hard, and read Midsummer Night's
Dream, and ballads. Sauntered a little in the garden. The
skobby sate quietly in its nest, rocked by the wind, and beaten
by the rain . . . Read part of Knight's Tale with exquisite
delight . r . . We spent the morning in the orchard reading the
Prothalamium of Spenser ; walked backwards and forwards.
It seems to me deplorable that we should come to
think of books in terms of assignments, that in ad-
vancing toward college degrees, we should lose the
high joy of our less educated grandmothers, the joy
which most of us have actually felt as children in
the tales of Uncle Remus or the brothers Grimm. We
can keep the same spirit of delight, though the ob-
ject of it changes from the Golden Goblin to The
Faerie Queens, from At the Big House to Boswell's
Johnson*
Besides this elemental pleasure of being rapt out
of ourselves, of just giving ourselves up to the spell
of books, there are certain peculiar treasures to be
derived from them. One is that of becoming alive
to more and more subjects and ideas and finding
them recurring and wherever we turn in reading.
And what is education after all but becoming aware,
but making the mind alert at more and more facets?
To take a trivial example of what I mean, several
years ago I was made conscious of the eighteenth
century addiction to tar water as a medicine because
my study of Bishop Berkeley had made me know of
his promoting it as a panacea. After that tar water
seemed to meet me on every hand. Even as late as
Dickens it was the nauseous dose administered at fre-
quent intervals to the defenseless Pip. Doubtless be-
fore I had read blindly through quarts of tar water,
but the good bishop had made me notice his remedy.
It is an experience you must all have had; and what
fun it is to recognize in new relations an interest of
which the awareness is fresh and to increase the num-
bers of such recognition.
Another related pleasure to be found in books is
(Continued on pa&c 5, column 2)
<&l)e Agonistic
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And on Earth Peace
Desiring recognition of the fact that, while we are a
part of the American people, we are primarily mem-
bers of the human race, we affirm the sacredness of
humanity and claim the right to live, thus outlawing
the wholesale murder involved in war.
Another Armistice Day, and the whole world calls for peace
while it feverishly prepares for war. On the nineteenth anni-
versary of the end of the "war that ended wars" the Spanish
people have practically annihilated themselves, and Japan is
busily engaged in snipping China's queue. On the nineteenth
anniversary of the end of the "war that made the world safe
for democracy" one dictator, having systematically broken
nearly every clause of the miserable Versailles treaty, shakes
hands (perhaps too ostentatiously) with another. The whole
world joins together to thank the powers that be for the con-
tinuance of peace and works day and night to arm itself
before the war begins.
The next major conflagration bids fair to be a Jack Hor-
ner-in affair; and he who puts in his thumb stands good
chances of having it blown off. Nevertheless, it appears that
none of the important thumbs will be withheld. It is doubt-
ful if our civilization can survive another such plum pie.
What, if anything, can students do? The United Student
Peace Committee, composed of such organizations as the
National Student Federation of America, the Fellowship of
Reconciliation, and the War Resisters League, has sent the
following recommendations to American campuses :
1. Keep America out of war by exercising unceasing vigi-
lance against those groups that would utilize the present
crisis to involve the United States in wars: groups that
foster compulsory R. 0. T. C. and large military budgets ;
that promote fascism in the United States by the organi-
zation of vigilantes and Nazi groups ; that exploit for im-
perialist purposes the genuine resentment of the common
people of this country against the Japanese military
clique. In this connection we oppose the extension of our
naval establishment in the Pacific.
2. Help the Chinese people in their struggle against Japan-
ese aggression, even though we sympathize with the com-
mon people of Japan in their suffering. To indicate our
sympathy with Chinese people who are victimized by
Japanese violation of international law, we should cooper-
ate with those agencies which are providing relief aid for
Chinese students.
3. Support the demand for the withdrawal of foreign troops
in Spain, a demand which the Loyalist government heart-
ily favors. If Germany, Italy, and Portugal refuse this de-
mand, urge our government to extend its present embargo
to those countries.
4. Cooperate with the Campaign for World Economic Coop-
eration of the National Peace Conference since economics
is the basis of world politics and the clue to lasting peace.
5. Urge that the United States make good her obligations
assumed under the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact outlawing
war and act with other signatories of the pact to imple-
ment it as a means of preventing and halting war.
Perhaps too many and too passionate things have been said
about peace. Perhaps we have been so assailed by pacifistic
expostulations and exhortations that we grow resentful at
the mere suggestion of the necessity for opposing war. For
our approval, the bunting around the god of war has been
drawn aside to display his death's head and clay feet ; for our
enlightenment, the brass bands have been silenced to give
full attention to the screams of the dying ; for our enlistment,
over nineteen organizations have been formed for the sole
purpose of insuring peace.
Thus we see that there is no dearth of pacifistic activity.
What, then, remains? In The People, Yes, Carl Sandburg
remarks, "Some day they will give a war, and nobody will
come." It is that for which we work: not for associations,
programs, and apoplectic speeches; but for a firm resolve in
the heart of each individual to hate war and love peace; to
hold sacred the precious entity of human life.
Having attained that, we shall not fear. Let them give
their war, nobody will come.
Brussels Conference Fails
In Allaying Strike
Of Orient
Hortense Jones
Editor
Jane Guthrie
Mary McCann Hudson
Associate Editors
Mary Frances Guthrie
Marie Merritt
Assistant Editors
Elizabeth Skinner
Make-up Editor
Elizabeth Kenney
Asst. Make-up Editor
STAFF
Elizabeth Blackshear
Business Manager
Esthere Ofirden
Advertising Manager
Giddy Erwin
Feature Editor
Mary Wells McNeil
Asst. Feature Editor
Mary Anne Kernan
Current History
Elizsbeth Warden
Book Editor
Francis Castleberry
Jeanne Redwine
Alice Reins
Eugenia Bridges
Circulation Managers
Alice Cheeseman
Sports Editor
Mary Reins
Exchange Editor
Jeannette Carroll
Alumnae Editor
Evelyn Baty
Club Editor
REPORTERS: N. Allison. E. Baty, M. Chafin. M. L. Dobbs. M. L. Gill. E. Hutchens,
C. K. Hutchins. R. Hunritz, F. Lee. P. Noble, M. L. Ratliffe. A. Reins, H. 8oloroon,
S. Steinbach. V. J. Watkins, L. Young, D. Weinkle. M. Merlin, A. Enloe, R. Drocker,
J. Baiters. H. Sanford. P. Heaslitt. J. Moseley.
BUSINESS STAFF: M. Chafin. H. Hirsch. N. Echols. J. Flynt, F. Abbot. M. Oliver.
By Mary Anne Kernan
The Brussels Conference which in prospect seemed
to offer such high hope for the settlement of the
Sino-Japanese war opened with an almost public ad-
mission of defeat. No workable plan for an attempt
at settlement was offered by any of the participating
nations. The 44 representatives of 19 governments
assembled for the noble purpose of actively produc-
ing peace have abandoned the attempt with only the
apathetic struggle of a Milquetoast diplomat or the
acrobatic antics of a fence-straddling politician. The
conference which purported to be an assembly of
nations sympathetically but not selfishly concerned
with the Sino-Japanese war has turned to be simply
another organization for the alignment of dictator-
ships versus democracies or fascism versus commun-
ism. The signing of the Italo-German-Japanese anti-
Communist agreement, without any very active op-
position, almost precludes the success of the Brussels
Conference.
Optimism
When the conference opened on November 3
there were several factors for peace giving an opti-
mistic outlook, however. As stated in the New York
Times these were the facts that: (1) Japan's ma-
terial objectives have almost been gained; (2) a
long war is not desirable because the Japanese army
does not wish to drain its resources in China while
the Soviet Union looms as the ultimate enemy; (3)
an atmosphere has been created presenting the United
States as a reliable neutral. It is interesting that in
spite of the Chicago speech of President Roosevelt
and the denunciation of Japan from the State De-
partment the United States is still primarily regarded
as neutral. These statements condemning Japan are
referred to there as not truly representing the Ameri-
can people. China has, perhaps, less of the feeling
that the United States is strictly neutral and more
hopeful that we are partial to her.
And Difficulties
On the other side there are indications that point
to the difficulty of a settlement of the Far Eastern
conflict through the present Brussels Conference.
The principal considerations involved here are: the
announcement of the Italo-German-Japanese anti-
Comitern agreement, the impending establishment of
imperial general headquarters with a consequent
declaration of war, and the sustained Japanese press
attacks against Great Britain. The anti-Communist
pact was signed Saturday. In this document Japan
was lauded as "engaged in a hard, Asiatic, anti-Com-
munist struggle.'' It is difficult to imagine how a
group of nations professing neutrality can hope to
settle a conflict when some of its most important
members are openly partial as Germany and Italy
seem to be. While the agreement signed Saturday is
ostensibly a union of nations against Communism
anywhere, not specifically in Russia, many observers
believe the alignment represents dictatorships versus
democracies. For this reason the most active work of
the Brussels Conference has been in private tete-a-
tetes to determine how far the world democracies
will go toward joining in opposition to the dictator-
ships.
Headquarters
The establishment of imperial general headquarters
has not yet occurred but it seems imminent. The
press attacks on Britain are directed mainly against
the shipment of munitions to China through the
British-controlled city of Hong-Kong.
These then are some of the main factors operating
behind the Brussels Conference. They give the reasons
for much of its action or inaction. The main diffi-
culty lies in the absence of Japan from the confer-
ence and in the lack of responsible leadership on the
part of any government. At first there seemed to
be general agreement that Great Britain and the
United States would assume active leadership. How-
ever, in the keynote address Norman Davis disclaimed
for the United States either a plan or leadership.
Anthony Eden essentially agreed with Mr. Davis
in desiring peace but presenting no plan for its ac-
complishment. At a subsequent meeting of the con-
ference Mr. Davis suggested a small committee to
offer mediation to Japan and China, but this pro-
posal hit a snag when France, Italy, and Russia all
demanded places on the committee. At present the
conference is loitering along waiting for Japan's re-
ply to the latest conference bid sent to her. This
bid leaves the way open to her either to finally reject
outside help or accept one of the plans worked out
by the conference.
THE AGONISTIC
3
Little Qirls Have
Last Qay Frolic
Campus Swarms With All
Types Of Frisky Children
With ruffles fluffing, be-rib-
boned hair flying, and goose-
pimpled knees bravely exposed to
frost-bite, eighty-three little girls,
accompanied by one Boy Scout,
took possession of the campus
Friday. At the sight of the over-
grown children frisking and frol-
icking over the quadrangle, a
stranger would have thought that
perhaps Agnes Scott had become a
Kindergarten for Backward Chil-
dren but any well-informed per-
son knew that the gaily laughing
little girls were merely the Seniors
having their final youthful fling
before Investiture Service be-
queathed them caps, gowns and
Senior dignity.
Among the swarm of children
jumping rope, playing games, do-
ing the Big Apple, and taking each
other's pictures, there was every
imaginable type of little girl to be
seen, from the old-fashioned kind
like Elsie West, frisking around
in red checked dress and sunbonnet
with white ruffled pantaloons to
the ultra modern kind like "Bee''
Merrill, Martha Peake Brown, and
Ola Kelly, all clad in very short
dresses with matching bloomers.
Joyce Roper and Winnifred Kel-
lersberger adhered more to the
quaint, old-fashioned style, com-
plete with middies and bow-tied
pigtails. "Kat" Brittingham,
Mary Venetia Smith and Anne
Thompson sported adorable sun-
bonnets, while Frances Lee, Anne
Wheaton and Jane Guthrie went
Scotch in pleated jumpers. All of
the little girls looked adorable with
huge bows of every description in
their haid. Myrl Chafin, Jean
Austin, Martha Long, Margaret
Morrison, Elisa King and Primrose
Noble looked especially attractive
with their flowing Alice-in-Won-
derland tresses. However, the hit
of the day was the Lone Boy Scout,
Mary Ann Kernan who with her
complete equipment was prepared
for everything, except perhaps the
swarm of photographers and her
innumerable Leap- Year proposals.
With class president Jane
Turner leading the procession in a
pink-and-blue Shirley Temple out-
fit, all the children skipped
through both dining rooms during
breakfast, singing a trifle off-
key, perhaps, but with a very
youthful spirit "Shoo, Fly, Don't
You Bother Me!" The playful
pranks continued bravely despite
the cold weather until lunch-time,
when the harrassed Seniors were so
stiff and exhausted from renewing
their youth that they foresaw great
difficulty in kneeling for Investi-
ture Saturday. (Please note that
due to extreme delicacy, no men-
tion is made of all the gastronomi-
cal trouble encountered as a result
of all-day suckers, peppermint
sticks, and so on.)
Every Senior will have stories
galore to tell to her grandchildren
about the fun on Little Girl's Day;
but the prize incident of all occur-
red in the All-Senior "Faust" class,
when Miss Harn joined the rest of
the "kids" in all-day suckers!
French, Spanish, Classical Cluhs Present Dramas;
Musical Comedy, Satire, Tragedy Are Offered
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El Circulo Espanol Presents
Musical Comedy With
Flavor Of Spain
Tomorrow is the day! El Cir-
culo Espanol is presenting its musi-
cal comedy, La Fiesta de la Flor, on
Thursday afternoon, November
eleventh, at 4 o'clock, in the
Murphey Candler building. Betty
Lou Houck Smith directed the
dances, in which Evelyn Baty, Jane
Clark, Sara Lee, Tony Newton,
Sarah Thurman and Martha Zcll-
ner perform the traditional Spanish
steps. Decorations and costumes
will add a flavor of Old Spain to
this tale of two senoritas and their
lovers, on a festival day of flowers.
The club cordially invites all
students and friends interested in
Spain and its art to attend the per-
formance.
Teacher Speaks
Of Book Lovers
(Continued from page 2, col. 1)
the stretching of the sinews of the
mind. Few of us know enough
phiosophy and physics to under-
stand Eddington's Nature of the
Physical World; but the effort to
understand it is exciting mental
exercise. And such use of the mind
has the same tonic effect that
physical exercise has upon the body.
An even more important satis-
faction which books afford us is
that of finding in them our own
experiences intensified and clari-
fied through the expression given
them by great writers, by men and
women who before they are mas-
ters in the craft of writing have
been human beings living through
much the same situations that we
live through and who because of
their gift of speech can unlock
their hearts in words. When we
arc bewildered by the conflict be-
tween the old and the new in our
beliefs, Arnold speaks to our spir-
its with:
Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he
Who finds himself, loses his misery.
When we are moved by the spir-
it of evening, Wordsworth's:
It is a beauteous evening calm and free
The holy time is quiet as a nun
Breathless with adoration
gives expression to what we would
express. When we are tempted to
manage other people's affairs, we
can laugh at ourselves deliciously
in Jane Austen's Emma. When
the awful mystery of death con-
fronts us, we can be steadied by
Emily Dickinson's:
The bustle in a house
The morning after death
Is solemnest of industires
Enacted upon earth.
The sweeping up the heart,
And putting love away
We shall not want to use again
Until eternity.
When we are in love, almost the
whole range of poetry and fiction
Le Cercle Francais To Give
Moliere Satire On
Artificiality
Moliere's satire on the women
who aspire to the professions, Les
Femmes Savants, will be the pres-
entation of the French club in the
Murphey Candler Building on
Monday, November 15, at 8
o'clock. Miss Lucille Alexander,
professor of French, will direct the
Agnes Scott girls and the members
of the cast chosen from the Emory
French club in this delightful play
on artificiality.
The cast includes the following
Agnes Scott girls: Therese Pou-
maillou as Philaminte; Susie
Blackmon as Armande; Nell Alli-
son as Henriette; Martha Alice
Green as Belise; Ruth Kaplan as
Martine; Rebecca Drucker as Le-
pine; Regina Hurwitz as le No-
taire, and Kitty Caldwell as
Julien.
The male characters, who will
be played by students from Emory
University, are: Mr. Arleppe as
Trissotin; Mr. Shealey as Chrysale;
Mr. McGinty as Clitandre; Mr.
Pendley as Ariste, and Mr. Felder
as Vadius.
Eta Sigma Phi Opens With
Classical Tragedy In
De Luxe Style
is at our command. Perhaps what
we turn to is John Donne's:
All other things to their destruction draw.
Only our love hath no decay ;
This, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday.
Running it never runs from us away,
But truly keeps his first, last, everlasting
day.
In almost every shade of emotion
that comes to us, we have been
preceded by those who have been
able to give utterance to feeling.
And this is one of the fortunate
ways in which we are the heirs of
all the ages.
But the most profound effect of
reading seems to me to lie beyond
this recognition of ourselves in lit-
erature. Few of us shall witness
so noble a nature as Othello's so
hideously destroyed by jealousy as
his. We are not to share Orestes'
fate of being compelled by a re-
lentless destiny to the murder of a
mother. Yet we are definitely the
poorer if we have not given our-
selves up to the tragedies of
Shakespeare and Aeschylus. Milton
has said that
A good book is the precious life-blood of
a master spirit embalmed and treasured
up on purpose to a life beyond life.
We live ourselves, we became
something different through asso-
ciation with the greatest life; and
this touching of the sources of be-
ing is the best gift that books, or
that our college, can offer us, for
Spirits are not finely
Touched but to fine issues.
Cow-education is the word for
it, it seems, at Eastern New Mexico
Junior College. Bossie is helping
put several youths through school.
Bringing their cows to the campus,
they are selling milk to pay ex-
penses.
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Pyramus and Thisbe, de luxe
style, entertained the freshman
classical students at the open meet-
ing of Eta Sigma Phi, national
honorary Greek and Latin fratern-
ity, on Monday, November eighth.
Nell Allison was the headstrong
lover of Thisbe, Mildred Davis,
and could not be restrained even
by his own irate father, Primrose
Noble, or by his beloved's mother,
Frances Lee. The members compos-
ing the walls of the houses and the
tomb furnished the appropriate
Roman atmosphere, while Julia
Porter and Virginia Farrar made a
very respective moon and "master
of ceremonies," respectively. Miss
Narka Nelson directed the produc-
tion.
Mrs. Moonlight
Finds Husband
With the casting of the remain-
ing male roles for Mrs. Moonlight,
rehearsals for the current Black-
friars' production are under way.
Jack Tilford will portray Mr.
Moonlight; Jimmy Jepson has the
role of Willie Ragg; Jack Boden-
hammer will be Percy Middling,
and Ale Doremus will be Peter
Middling. Ale Doremus and Jack
Tilford are from Emory, Jimmy
Jepson from Atlanta, and Jack
Bodenhammer from Decatur.
Mrs. Moonlight is to be presented
on November 20, with Myrl
Chafin playing the title role.
Committee Tells
Of New System
Plan Of Accumulative Penal-
ties Is Being Tried Here
The Student Government Ex-
ecutive Committee has been work-
ing since last spring on a system
of accumulative penalties. At that
time, the Committee felt the need
for a fairer system, and they of-
fered the students a chance for ex-
pression of their feeling in a ballot
in which the majority of the stu-
dents favored the proposed system
of accumulative penalties.
Under this new system penalties
are given in relation to the offense
in most cases, thus making a great-
er variety of penalties. Fewer
campus penalties are given in this
system; therefore, campus carries
more weight, and any infracture of
a campus penalty is more serious
than in the previous system.
Since the factors of relation to
offense and of accumulation are
involved, the system is a more
complex one, and yet, it is be-
lieved to be a fairer one. Although
it takes more thought and investi-
gation to study the new system,
the student can see why it is a bet-
ter system after she understands it
as to its motive, qualities, and
reasons behind the penalties. The
present system attains more nearly
the purpose of a penalty; that is,
not to punish but to teach ways of
better living in group life.
This is a transition year in the
penalties' system, and this new-
system is subject to change at any
time by the Executive Committee.
Records of statistics and the ef-
fects of this system are being kept
in order to determine just what
further changes might be needed.
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Sporting
Three cheers for good ole Tech!
We wish we could play football
like that. And three tears for the
hard fighting guest, Clemson. We
wish we could see more of those
elegant uniforms! Last Saturday's
game was a credit to both teams
. . . ach!
Now back to our own campus.
Every Friday (weather permit-
ting) we have two peppy games of
hockey played by two pairs of ex-
cellent teams. But we rarely have
a very peppy grandstand. In fact
we are boasting to say that we
never have a grandstand at all. The
people who fill the wooden struc-
tures out beside the field every
Friday are members of the respec-
tive class teams not individual
spectators who have actually
walked out from behind a book in
the library, or deserted personal
plans for the sole purpose of wit-
nessing good hockey playing and,
perhaps, rooting a little to cheer on
a hopeful team. We sadly lack
class spirit. And it looks as if we
also lack the spirit of youth the
same spirit that thrills to the crack
of stick on ball, that yearns for
bigger lungs to yell for a point,
that appreciates a well-dressed,
anxious team.
Well now, we're sorry we scold-
ed. And aren't you sort of ashamed
you don't make it a point to come
to these games? Dr. Robinson al-
ways comes, and so does Miss
Jackson. They along with about
five"* peppy hottentots consti-
tute the spectating grandstands
weekly. How your team would
adore even just one little "rah"
next Friday from YOU!
And you can start "supporting"
your class earlier than next Friday
if the inclination strikes you. To-
morrow night brings the first big
swimming meet of the season, fea-
turing speed and form swimming
and advanced diving by some of
the best swimmers on the campus.
The program, headed by Virginia
Milner and the swimming man-
agers, is described a column or two
away on this page. Read it and see
how you like it, and then try to
spare a half hour tomorrow night
to see your class swim and dive for
the coveted swimming banner.
No more scolding, we promise
not even for those immature sillies
who menaced Rebekah's weak
hearts and timid souls a few nights
ago with apoplexy, panic, locomo-
tive ataxia, and possible inflama-
tion to the synovial bursa all by
turning loose eight of those tor-
pedo-contraptions a couple of
hours after the midnight hour and
perfect quietude! (The latest re-
port by Associated Press has it
that an air squardron bombed the
bathtub during the A. M. with
malicious intent, particularly to-
wards one Catherine Ivie.) We
don't know what to believe.
Now for a little tidbitty-news:
The new blue tank suits have to be
ordered a size larger than the old
grey ones. Where Mary used to
hand us a 34 to go swimming in,
she now hands us a 3 6. Personally,
we're afraid it's making us feel
clumsy too clumsy. But that's
all right, the color's flattering,
n'est-ce pas? And speaking of
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Swimming Meet
Tomorrow night, November 11,
at 8:30, the swimming department
will sponsor the first meet held
this season. The interestingly
varied program demands participa-
tion by all the available swimmers
on the campus, and includes the
following features:
Forty yard dash, free style; 20
yard dash, back stroke; meddley
relay (one length breast stroke, one
back stroke, and one front crawl) ;
diving; and for intermediates only,
side stroke and elementary back
stroke for form and a relay the
width of the poor. After the meet
there is scheduled a general dip
period. And during the program
the swimming club will do exhibi-
tion formation swimming.
The performers will be judged
according to points which will add
into the individual class scores, and
so toward winning the aquatics
banner awarded annually by A. A.
Judges will be Miss Wilburn, Miss
Mitchell, and Marie Stalker, '37.
At the swimming club meeting
held last Monday night Virginia
Milner announced that Gentry
Burks will be the freshman swim-
ming manager. Initiations were
held for the five new members of
the club.
swimming if you've noticed, the
best way to stand in well with
your swimming teacher is to
" turn-off -the-shower-before - you-
come-in-to-a-class." You can al-
most see Milner liking you if you
show her that consideration. She
hasn't a very strong voice, and for
her to have to talk to a class
before all that wet racket is ex-
pecting too much!
This is a personal note to Miss
Wilburn: Could you do something
about Corky Hutchins? She har-
bors an unquenchable desire "to
read up on hockey." And before
we cover the typewriter for
another ha'fortnight, we have a
plea for the physical ed department
as a whole: Please, could you
spend more time on little Jean
Bailey? She has discovered through
the efforts of the spoken English
department that "her head and her
body are not together." Or should
we appeal to the science depart-
ment?
* Pure exaggeration.
Athletic Clubs
Gain Members
Two of the four campus athletic
clubs, Tennis Club and Swimming
Club, have announced a number of
new members admitted this fall
through the customary bill of try-
outs. Mary Nell Taylor, manager
of tennis, announces the following
girls are new members of the Ten-
nis Club: Elizabeth Kenny, Ellen
Stuart, Ruth Slack, Roberta Ingles,
Helen Klugh, Ethlyn Dyar, and
Ann Fisher. Initiations will be
held in the very near future.
Virginia Milner, manager of
swimming, announces the follow-
ing girls are new members of the
swimming club: Lettie McKay,
Bryant Holsenbeck, Esthere Og-
den, Virginia McWhorter and Pat-
tie Patterson.
Student Government
Outlines New System
{Continued from page 1, col. 2)
close contact with and active par-
ticipation in their government.
During the first part of this
year, the three main projects are
the accumulative relative system
of penalties, the campaign to fill
campus needs, and deputation of
delegates to other colleges to study
various methods of government.
November has been set aside as
Information Month, in which three
special chapel programs the in-
cluded. The first, held November
4th, presented the whole setup of
Student Government: N. S. F. A.,
Regional Conference, S. I. A. S. G.,
and Agnes Scott. There will be a
discussion of N. S. F. A. on No-
vember 16th in the Murphey
Candler Building from four to five
o'clock. All students are urged to
attend; it is guaranteed that the
meeting will break up at exactly
five o'clock. The second chapel
program will be an Open Forum
on November 18th, in which the
spending of the Student Govern-
ment budget will be itemized and
presented to the students in detail.
Lights will be discussed, among
other privileges. The delegates to
accompany Laura Coit to the
N. S. F. A. conference in Alber-
querque during the Christmas hol-
idays will be elected from the Jun-
ior members of the Executive
Committee.
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Sophomores Triumph Over Juniors;
Freshmen Barely Beat Senior Class
Last Friday the sophomores
overwhelmingly defeated the jun-
iors, 5-0, and the freshmen defeat-
ed the seniors, 1-0, in the weekly
hockey game. Miss Wilburn ex-
pressed her opinion that the play-
ing is, on the whole, much improv-
ed over that witnessed in the ini-
tial games this fall. She praised the
sophomore team for its very excel-
lent work Friday, adding that the
freshmen and the juniors were not
playing up to par, and that the
seniors suffered because of a team
shortage, which had to be filled by
members of their sister class.
During the soph -junior game
two goals allegedly made were in-
valid. One, not officially wit-
nessed, was made by Brinton with
Milner's help; the other by Wil-
liamson, not valid because of dan-
gerous hitting. Cass deserves com-
mendation for good goal keeping,
and Dryfoos for a good offensive
game. A bystander reports the
junior battle-cry was "Watch Mil-
ner!" to which task the juniors
stuck with goodly spirit, though to
small avail.
Four sophomores came to the aid
of the seniors for the second game,
between the seniors and the fresh-
men. Hudson merits comment for
good goaling against the determin-
ed freshmen. Armentrout played
an excellent game for the seniors.
In the freshman line-up, Wilds was
outstanding for good defense, and
Wimpfheimer for good passing.
The last half of this game was cut
to ten minutes because of darkness.
On the sidelines were Atlanta
Journal photographers, who snap-
ped four freshmen rushing a goal
defended by junior McMullen. As
usual the grandstand attendance
was sparce.
The line-ups for these games
were:
Sophomores Juniors
Eyles R.W Garner
Williamson (1)_I.R Doty
Brinton C.F Moses
Heaslett I.L Dryfoos
Forman (4) ___L.W Shortley
Slack R.H Marshall
Milner ^C.H Jones
Montgomery __L.H Ivey
Taylor R.B Hamilton
Thompson L.B McMullen
Cass Goal Porter
Substitutions for the sophomores
Salters for Williamson; for the
juniors Hutchins for Porter.
Freshmen Seniors
Vaughn R.W.. Armentrout*
Wimpfheimer I.R Erwin
Hance C.F Thompson
Bell IX Douglas
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Lee R.H Chalmers
Henry C.H Watkins*
Walker L.H Rodgers
Scott R.B Robinson
Woodard L.B Young
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VOL. XXIII
AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1937
Z115
No. 7
By Jane Guthrie
EMERGENCY meeting of Con-
gress is called by Franklin D.
Roosevelt. Four major problems to
be considered are war, financial
panic, aid for agriculture or indus-
try, and "extension of the frontiers
of social progress." Senator Walter
F. George of the finance commit-
tee predicts concerted drive at ses-
sion to cut down existing capital
gains of the federal revenue act.
The new farm bill scheduled for
early discussion will not be ready
for opening, due to dispute over
assistance to corn growers. Presi-
dent Roosevelt is faced here with
task of balancing budget, stim-
ulating business recovery, and put-
ting rein on congressional spend-
ing.
HITLER DEMANDS that the
colonies Germany lost after the
World War be given back to her.
Mussolini agrees. Anthony Eden
says "maybe." But public opinion
in England and the United States
says no. Some say yes because they
believe the restoration of Ger-
many's former colonies, constitut-
ing an area six times the size of
the Reich, will satisfy the nation
and make peace in Europe. Those
of the negative declare that Ger-
many forfeited all rights to her
colonies in declaring war in 1914.
They also maintain the restoration
would solve neither the population
problem or satisfy Hitler's de-
mands for food stuffs.
TOKYO WARNED: Brussels
conference approves draft criti-
cism of Japan's policy in China
after Japan's second refusal to
work with conference. The orig-
inal draft was prepared by ^he Big
Three: United States, Great Bri-
tain and France, with the reserva-
tion that delegations possessing no
instructions from their govern-
ments could make alterations
later. Italy's proposal of another
message to Tokyo is rejected.
Italy vigorously opposes Chinese
demand for virtual sanctions
against Japan.
WAR NOTES: Some 200,000
Chinese civilians trapped in Soo-
chow by disrupted transportation
system unable to heed Japanese ul-
timatum to vacate city in path of
their advance toward Nanking.
Leaflets dropped from war planes
warn citizens to flee. Soochow and
Wusch to be bombed because of
their "industrial areas in which
Chinese military supplies are man-
ufactured."
Religious Week
Is Observed in
5 Chapel Talks
Director Of Presbyterian
Young People Is Guest
Speaker Here
Daily News Fills
Board In Library
Current History Forum Has
News Bulletin Board
The new bulletin board which
has been attracting much attention
in the reference room of the li-
brary is arranged by Current His-
tory Forum. Clippings from vari-
ous newspapers, including the New
York Times, and from prominent
current events magazines supply at
a glance the most important news
of the day. The items are changed
every morning between eight and
nine o'clock, the board being
thereby kept up to date.
A new feature of the board is to
be a list of books supplied by the
Carnegie Endowment for Interna-
tional Peace, together with clip-
pings from the jackets of the
books. It is felt that these will be
of special interest to all who desire
to supplement their reading of
periodicals with wider research.
In observance of Religious
Week, November 9-1}, Y. W.
C. A. brought to the campus as
guest speaker Dr. Wallace M. Als-
ton, director of young people's
work in the Presbyterian Church.
Using as his general theme for
morning chapel talks, "Growing
Up In Christ," Dr. Alston spoke
on the following subjects on con-
secutive mornings: "Jesus and Hu-
man Nature," "Christian World
Community," "Habit Is The Serv-
ice of the Soul" and "Relevance of
Christ." This carries out Y. W.'s
general theme, "Finding My
Faith." At night, he conducted
meetings at the Decatur Presby-
terian Church.
Dr. Alston held personal confer-
ences with the girls and was their
luncheon and dinner guest in both
the Tea House and in Rebekah
Scott and White House dining
rooms. On Thursday afternoon
the Presbyterian girls on the cam-
pus entertained Dr. Alston at an
informal party to give the girls
an opportunity to meet him per-
sonally.
As Dr. McCain said in his intro-
duction of Dr. Alston, he is not a
stranger to Agnes Scott, since his
home is in Decatur. He attended
Emory University and Columbia
Seminary, later doing graduate
work at the University of Chicago.
Then he became the first pastor of
the Rock Springs Presbyterian
Church in Atlanta, going from
there to the pastorate of the Uni-
versity Presbyterian Church in
Lexington, Kentucky, before ac-
cepting his present position. Two
years ago he delivered the com-
mencement sermon at Agnes
Scott.
Y. W. Gives Approval
Of Sophomore Cabinet
Last Tuesday night the Y. W.
C. A. officially accepted a list of
girls comprising this year's sopho-
more "Y" cabinet. The list in-
cludes: Betty Baty, Sophie Mont-
gomery, Mary Winston Crockett,
Polly Heaslett, Lutie Moore, Jane
Moses, Lucile Scott, Sam Olive
Griffin, Sara Nicholson and Betty
Alderman.
Water Color
Exhibit Will
Be Displayed
Mrs. Mary M. Wills Displays
Paintings Of Georgia
Wild Flowers
Dr. J. R. McCain
Lectures Over
Station WAG A
Collection Is Weil-Known
Mrs. Mary Motz Wills, a winter
visitor to Atlanta, will exhibit a
collection of water-color paintings
of Georgia wild flowers next Fri-
day and Saturday in the museum
of the Agnes Scott library build-
ing. This exhibition for the pub-
lic will be a feature of the alumnae
week-end program.
Mrs. Wills, who is a native of
Texas, has had her paintings ex-
hibited at the Museum of Natural
Arts in New York City, Harvard
University, the University of
Pennsylvania, the University of
Georgia, and other educational in-
stitutions. It was at the sugges-
tion of Dr. W. B. Baker, botanist
at Emory University, that she
agreed to lend her collection of
Georgia paintings this week.
Among the interesting water
colors is a painting of "The Lost
Rose" or gardenia of Georgia, first
discovered by Martram, the botan-
ist, growing along the Altahama
River in 1774.
Other Prominent Educators
Are On Educational
Week Program
A.S. Alumnae
Will Return
November 19
Qreeting Cards
To be Sold Here
Mortar Board Sponsors Proj-
ect For First Time
This year, for the first time,
Mortar Board is sponsoring a col-
lege Christmas card. This card was
designed by Jane Wyatt and will
be printed by the Rose Printing
Company. The cards are to be on
dark purple paper, with the print-
ing done in white, and a silhouette
of the tower on the front, and
with a four line verse on the in-
side. There will be envelopes to
match. Mortar board felt that the
students would appreciate a card
distinctly Agnes Scott in design.
These cards will be five cents
each, but reductions will be made
on large orders. Any member of
Mortar Board will take orders for
these cards, which will be available
in about two weeks.
Dr. J. R. McCain, president of
Agnes Scott College, made an ad-
dress over radio station WAGA
November 10 at 6:15 P. M. He
was one of the speakers during
American Education Week which
was observed from November
7-12. The other speakers during
the week of these broadcasts which
were / sponsored by the Atlanta
Board of Education were: Dr.
Willis A. Sutton, Superintendent,
Atlanta Public Schools; Dr. S. C.
Garrison, President, Peabody Col-
lege, Nashville, Tenn.; Superinten-
dent Jere Wells, Fulton County
Schools; Hon. E. D. Rivers, Gov-
ernor of Georgia, and Dr. M. D.
Collins, State Superintendent of
Schools.
Dr. McCain spoke on "Our
American Youth Problem/' In his
address Dr. McCain said the prob-
lems revolve around a few ques-
tions: To whom may youth look
for guidance? How shall I use my
time? How may I know the laws
to obey? How may I have the
greatest fun? How may I choose
my life work? May I have a God
who cares? In conclusion Dr. Mc-
Cain said: "There are many prob-
lems which could be mentioned.
The ones cited are only illustra-
tions. We believe that youth real-
izes some of the obstacles which it
may face and that it is meeting
them better than we did in my
generation. If the school and the
church and the home and the na-
tion will have sympathy for young
people and will cooperate in the
solving of their problems, we will
find that there is ahead a better
and happier day than we have ever
had."
"New Emphasis" Is Theme
Of Varied Program
For Week-End
Reunion Offers Speakers
Dr. Hayes is to Give
Lectures for Alumnae
The Agnes Scott Business
Women's Club will conduct a lec-
ture course every Tuesday evening
at 7:45 o'clock in the Anna Young
Alumnae House. Dr. George P.
Hayes, professor of English, will
lead the course, speaking on mod-
ern American, English and Twen-
tieth Centuries. Those attending
the course will read and discuss' a
novel every week.
Student Body Works Toward Purchase of Machine,
Kitchen Equipment, New Day Student Facilities
In its campaign to locate and
fill outstanding needs on the
campus this year, student govern-
ment has so far decided on three
projects to present to the student
body for approval and support.
These are the sewing machine,
kitchen, and day students projects.
After investigating the need, the
practicality, and the cost of in-
stalling a sewing machine for stu-
dent use, student government of-
ficials took a student ballot, asking
three questions: (1) Do you feel
the need of a sewing machine? (2)
Would you use it? and (3) Would
you contribute? The response to
the ballot was overwhelmingly
favorable, especially among the day
students. If student contributions
correspond with chis expression of
approval, the sewing machine will
be bought and a room will be ar-
ranged and furnished completely
for sewing, with such extra con-
veniences as the money collected
will allow. The uses of the ma-
chine, as suggested by Laura Coit,
would include repairing clothes,
making costumes for various ac-
tivities, and heavy sewing for the
ambitious. Day students would
find the new appliances conven-
ient.
The second project under con-
sideration is that of the student
kitchen. There is need for new
facilities; a cabinet, a table, china,
utensils, and perhaps silver bonbon
dishes. If student support makes
their purchase possible, these
things will be bought and a chart
will be made for signing up for the
use of the kitchen. Groups of
girls may make candy or have
small informal parties, day stu-
dents may cook lunch, teas may be
held, and dates may be entertained
on Saturday night. Details of the
expense of maintenance will be
worked out later.
In the third project of the day
students exclusively will be bene-
fited. Zoe Wells, president of the
day students, will call a meeting
for discussion of needs and requests
for improvements. It is expected
that there will be a demand for
more attractive furnishings of the
day student room in Main. Stu-
dent government hopes to fulfill
requests as far as contributions will
allow.
The annual alumnae week-end,
which will call scores of former
students back to Agnes Scott this
Friday and Saturday, offers in its
schedule a series of addresses on the
theme "New Emphasis." Follow-
ing is the calendar for the two
days:
Friday, November 19
10:00 Dr. Mary Anne McKin-
ney speaks in chapel on "Indian
Impressions. "
10:3 0 Dean Goodrich C.
White, of Emory, speaks on
"Cross Currents in the Colleges."
11:30 Judge Samuel H. Sibley
discusses "New Emphasis in World
Affairs."
12:30- Luncheon in Rebekah
Scott. Registrar S. G. Stukes de-
livers speech.
Saturday, November 20
10:00 Mr. C. W. Dieckmann
presents the school string ensemble.
10:3 0 Prof essor Thomas H.
English, of Emory, speaks on
"New Emphasis in Drama and the
Theatre."
11:3 0 A s s o c i a t e Professor
Emma May Laney, of the Eng-
lish department, discusses "Con-
temporary Poets and the South."
8:30 P. M. Blackfriars presents
"Mrs. Moonlight."
A further feature of the alum-
nae week-end will be the book ex-
hibit which opened Sunday, to be
on display in the browsing corner
of the library throughout National
Book Week. A display of a series
of botanical paintings of Georgia
wild flowers will also be open to
alumnae and their friends.
Seniors Give Hike
For Sister Class
Sophomores Attend Celebra-
tion Of Stunt Victory
To celebrate the sophomores'
victory in the Black Cat contest,
the members of the senior class is-
sued invitations to a senior-sopho-
more supper hike Thursday, No-
vember 11. Since it rained, the af-
fair was turned into a party at the
Murphey Candler building. After
eating' hot dogs, apples, marshmal-
lows and graham crackers, and
drinking cups and more cups of
hot chocolate and coffee, the soph-
omores were entertained by such
noted personalities as Corny Really
Orta Skinnem, whom the Hotten-
totes know as Georgianne Whea-
ton, and Bergen and Charlie Mc-
Marthy, played by Myrl Chafin
and Jane Guthrie. The climax of
the party was the presentation of
the silver bell engraved Class of
1930 by Charlie McCarthy to Hen-
rietta Thompson, chairman of the
sophomore stunt. Jane Turner,
president of the senior class, was
the general chairman of the party.
Heads of committees were: Anne
Thompson, of food; Giddy Erwin,
of entertainment, and Jane Wyatt
and Jane Guthrie, of invitations.
2
THE AGONISTIC
Exchange Papers Reveal
Wide Student Interest
The fact that college students do concern them-
selves about international news was impressed on us
this week, for inexploring the news, we found sev-
eral articles on current topics in the Crimson and
White from the University of Alabama we read an
open letter to Japan. It reminds Japan that "The
Chinese made 'you what you are today, and because
they refuse to pull themselves from the mire of tradi-
tions, you now stand upon their submerged should-
ers." It also points out that though Japan claims
Chinese land because of an urgent need for more
habitation area, she has not moved over into Manchu-
kuo, "the first section of land added to the Japanese
pouch."
In the hnmaculation from Immaculate College,
Pennsylvania, there was an article on communism in
Russia. The introduction to the article seems to get
at the root of the whole thing:
"There's nothing wrong with Communism,
But there is something wrong with communists."
In the Florida Flambeau from Florida State Col-
lege for Women, we find an article summarizing a
recent lecture given to the professional society in
education. The lecturer puts much of the responsi-
bility for a peaceful world on the shoulders of the
future, who have the opportunity to direct and train
the thoughts of young minds.
The wide range of student interest was proven
when we ran across a small reminder in the Mount
Holyoke News from Mount Holyoke College, Massa-
chusetts, that a chess club had been started for both
faculty and students and regular meetings were being
held.
Further proof of varied student interest was found
in the Tech Oracle from Tennessee Tech. A fishing
expert is to demonstrate his abilities there by casting
and explaining the art to his audience.
^Stranger Prince" Excels
Among Historical Fiction
THE STRANGER PRINCE
By Margaret Irwin
Reviewed by Julia Sewell
The present demand for historical fiction has
brought forward a great many admirable works, but
none is a more true or vivid re-creation than Mar-
garet Irwin's Stranger Prince.. The background of
the story is England in the turbulent seventeenth
century, when Charles I and Cromwell came to grips
for the crown of the Stuarts, and it is painted with
a vividness and a familiarity with the time that is
almost startling.
The story itself is centered about the romantic fig-
ure of Prince Rupert of the Rhine, that impetuous,
engaging young fellow who came so joyously to fight
for his beloved uncle, Charles I. The life of Rupert
is told from the time of his birth, in the war-torn
barbaric capitol of Bohemia, to the time of his de-
feat by Cromwell, when, as a rather bitter young
man of twenty-six, he determined to seek a command
"somewhere beyond the seas," where he might still
fly the flag of the House of Stuart, and harrass the
ships of the Lord Protector.
The character of this boy, who had the unfailing
charm of the Stuarts without the fatal indecision
and susceptibility to flattery which characterized the
later ones, including Charles I, is delineated with
bold, seemingly careless strokes. And yet, when the
whole picture is drawn, one sees the care with which
the artist has created her work.
Rupert's character, as a soldier and*a man of ac-
tion, completely honest, and as tactless, impatient of
all delay and supremely loyal to his principles, is set
against the background of the other characters, equal-
ly well drawn. The picture of Charles, the precise,
rather pathetic little man who should have been a
churchman, not a king, and whose character was
such a queer combination of weakness and nobility,
is perfect. Cromwell, the gloomy fanatic, tortured
in mind, yet supremely capable in action, is por-
trayed with a great deal of psychological truth. The
members of Rupert's family are vivid figures: his
mother, Elizabeth Stuart, with her untiring energy
and her never-failing fascination; his elder brother,
Carl, calm, selfish, cynical; and his younger brother,
Maurice, honest and impetuous like himself. All the
foremost men of the time are portrayed: Montrose,
Pym, Hampden, Strafford, completing a full and
rich characterization.
It is very hard to convey any adequate idea of
this book, it is so rich, full, and varied. One cannot
handle with words this wealth, for in seizing upon
what seems the most glorious and outstanding parts
of it, one soon finds that one has left out equally
great parts. This story, of the rise of a man and the
fall of a throne, is simply a masterpiece of writing
as well as reconstruction which makes one feel that
the author found her facts not by poring over old
books and faded manuscripts, but by living in that
glorious, tragic century herself.
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Owned and published by the students of Agnes Scott College.
Entered as Second Class Matter at Decatur, Georgia.
Subscription price, $1.25 per year in advance. Single copies, 5c.
1937 Member 1938
Flooded Gotte&tde Press
Through A Glass, Darkly
We covet the ability to look at facts creatively and
at ideologies realistically.
Realizing- that generalizations are generally untrue, we yet
venture to note that there are, in general, two extreme types
of college students: the pigeon-holeing f actualist and the
river-scorching visionary. The one gets from education a
series of neatly-driven nails, hit quite squarely on the head ;
the other, a rather loose-jointed, ill-supported groove along
which he wishes the whole universe to run. The first fixes
his microscope on details, denying that there are larger
things; the second burns with zeal for all-consuming ideals,
ignoring smaller truths. We understand that Anne Average
lies somewhere between these extremes.
After some fifteen years of intellectual exercise, accom-
panied (more or less) by creakings and groanings of mental
joints, we have acquired an assortment of facts common
and garden varieties. The question then arises, how shall we
view them? In answering this let us borrow a term from Dr.
Alston, who spoke one day last week on the need for Social
Imagination.
It is that which we covet the insight which sees through
obvious facts to their implications and consequences, the
ability to see that:
The fact that there is a boom in the sale of scrap-iron may
mean not only that Tony, the junk man, can buy a Concertina
accordion, but also that there is being created a whole race
of life-size tin soldiers, who can be ingeniously blown to bits
by crusading mankind.
The fact that there are Germans, Italians, and Englishmen
fighting on both sides in the Spanish rebellion may imply a
crystallization of society along class and economic rather
than racial lines.
The fact that floods in the East and dust storms in the
West occur simultaneously, and only after the trees and grass
have been uprooted may signify that, as Stuart Chase aptly
remarked, "Americans can sit by a river and watch their
continent flowing by."
The fact that Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin may
have some bearing on the crushing heel which King Cotton
has firmly set on the neck of the South, subjecting it to ex-
ploitation which has exhausted the land and reduced millions
of people to virtual peasantry.
Some broader truth lies behind the fact that: eighteenth
century Frenchmen tore down a prison, stone from stone,
with their bare hands; that present day lynchings are not
reported in the southern white press ; that one of the great-
est thinkers of ancient times was forced to drink Hemlock
by a jealous humanity; that almost two thousand years ago
a man hung bleeding on a cross because he had the effront-
ery to lead a perfect life, to apply love to living.
As we would apply social imagination to our facts, so we
would apply social realism to our ideologies. Let us consider
the greatest of our idealisms, Christianity. In present day
Spain, the church has identified itself with the fascistic reb-
els ; in present day Russia religion has been banned only be-
cause the church became a sucking, gorgeously-arrayed para-
site rather than a source of spiritual comfort ; in present day
America the greatest of the modern "robber barons," after
bargaining away his own honor and that of the railroads and
ruining countless lives all in the interest of the almighty
dollar yet died a revered old man, honored in Baptist
churches throughout the country. Can these facts throw any
light on the waning spirituality of a materialistic world ?
The church used to give aid to the poor ; it has relinquished
that to the government. It used to be the guardian of learn-
ing ; it has relinquished that to the schools. Only its spiritual
duties are left it, and they must be made practical if they
are to be accepted by a cynical world. He who has an empty
stomach does not wax enthusiastic over the salvation of his
immortal soul. To quote Dr. Raper, "We must fit our actions
to our ideals, or our ideals will inevitably fit themselves to
our actions."
Finally then, we covet the ability to find the originality in
platitudes and the practicality in dreams. For things are not
important in themselves, but in their implications; and life
and living is primarily a matter of attitudes.
Hortense Jones
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Dictator at Our Doorstep
By Alice Reins
Another dictatorship! And here on our very
boundary line, so to speak. News of the bloodless
coup which took place in Brazil a few days ago, in
which President Getulio Vargas made himself dic-
tator of the first authoritarian state to be moulded
along European corporate lines in America, comes
with a sense of surprise, and, shall we say, alarm.
After enlarging the anti-Communist pact to include
Italy and thereby establishing in their minds a cer-
tain self-assurance, the totalitarian states turn their
eyes to the Americas. So far, Brazil has given no out-
ward sign that she has or will join the united Fascist
front, doubtless because she is still dependent on the
U. S. as a market for her coffee and other products.
Generally speaking, it may even seem a mere repeti-
tion of history, for South American civilizations
have been dotted with dictatorships; yet there are
two features of this revolution that are significantly
different from previous ones of its nature. One is
that Brazil is the largest country on the continent,
and consequently exerts a decided influence over the
other governments; the other is that Vargas abro-
gated the old constitution and drew up a new one
which establishes a dictatorship indefinitely.
Fortunately, Vargas' immediate interest is in in-
ternal rather than international affairs, and the ef-
fects of the dictatorship will be first along national
political, economic and social lines. Politically, he
wants "to establish a highly centralized government,
eliminate the traditional rivalry between the states
of the Brazilian union, prevent petty civil wars, and
effect a thorough program of internal political de-
velopment." This move to remodel the government
by curtailing the power of the states is a repudiation
of the political system which has been in existence
since the old Empire days. Brazil has had no na-
tional political group until the advent of Fascism
and Communism; the states formerly marked the
sole political grouping and jealously guarded their
autonomy. Economically, Vargas must find a solu-
tion to the coffee question. The prosperity and eco-
nomic independence, so dear to the heart of a dicta-
tor, depends on the ability to maintain domination of
world coffee markets. He must also "put Brazilian
finances in order and balance domestic economy, im-
ports and exports in order to resume payments on the
nation's foreign debt of $760,000,000. Socially, he
must reform the national education and replace the
spirit of septionalism, individualism and democracy
with the appropriate spirit of nationalism, patriotism
and authoritarianism. When these reforms are ac-
complished and Brazil is made a strictly totalitarian
state, the fascist powers will doubtless induce her to
join their exclusive society.
The recent change was really only nominal and
probably will continue as it began without any
bloodshed. The president has actually ruled from
Guanabora palace as a dictator since the Communist
revolution of 193 5 which he put down with artil-
lery, and with the army behind him, he has main-
tained power by a continuous state of war decrees
since that time. He justified his recent step by point-
ing out with amazing unoriginaiity that the coup
was necessitated by a threat of armed revolt from
"regional mobsters masked as party leaders and
armed to impose their decisions on the nation." He
assured the world, after the fashion on dictators,
that the new state was not Fascism but Democracy
"moulded to Brazilian necessities a Democracy in
the modern sense."
If the object of the new state is merely to combat
Communism, and upheaval within the country, there
would be no cause for alarm, btrt it could readily be
a smoke screen raised by the fascist powers to hide
the extension of their influence on this continent.
Three fifths of the population of Brazil are native
born, the rest is made up of immigrants mostly from
Portugal, Italy, Spain, Germany, and Japan each
one a fascist or pro-fascist country. In the south of
Brazil, a German Colony has long been established
with its own schools and other institutions, all sub-
sidized by the Fatherland. Most of the young people
belonged to the Youth Organizations, Nazi propa-
ganda was circulated and a drilling and espionage
system established. Against such influences working
consistently to undermine the government, democra-
cies apparently have no defense at all. The keen fas-
cists seem to be using the same methods in America
as they are in Europe. They were too weak to attack
an Anglo-French coalition, so they made trouble in
Spain and Belgium to detract and divide their vic-
tim's interests. Realizing that England, in conse-
quence of Roosevelt's Chicago Speech is looking to
the United States to back her, the three powers may
be giving us warning to stay at home.
In any event, the recent developments seem far
more than the traditional Latin American method of
seizing the political power. It represents the change
of one of the strongest "states rights" governments
in the world to a South American version of pure
authoritarianism a dictatorship which will without
doubt draw its inspiration from the domestic experi-
ences of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.
THE AGONISTIC
3
Frantic Reporter Vainly] Seeks
Cornelia Otis Skinner Interview
Attempting to interview Cornelia Otis Skinner is, quite
roughly speaking, one of the most purgatorial experiences
that one can undergo. The process, in the first place, is quite
complicated. To start things rolling along, one enters a small
and rather ill-lighted room, from
the center of which a small, un-
shapely black object stares at the
intruder malignantly. In spite of
this lack of co-operation on the
aforementioned small black object
(which, incidentally, is not Miss
Skinner's personal maid but
merely any available telephone in
its respective telephone booth),
the prospective interviewer grasps
the receiver in a determined man-
ner and asks not for Miss Skin-
ner, as that is a climax to be deli-
cately approached for the person
in charge of Miss Skinner's per-
formance on the Emory campus.
Having been referred to a very af-
fable gentleman who knows noth-
ing about where Miss Skinner will
stay upon her arrival in Atlanta,
one then obeys his instructions to
call a Mr. Price, who manages all
stars who appear in Atlanta. This
gentleman is a bit more satisfac-
tory, as he is able to impart the
facts that Miss Skinner is expected
to arrive the next day, that she has
reservations at the Biltmore, and
that all of the papers are usually
granted on common interview at a
certain time. However, the city ed-
itor of the Constitution knows
nothing about the entire affair
when called and even goes so far
as to inquire who Miss Skinner is,
when she arrives and why. Having
been greatly aided by this little
tete-a-tete, our prospective inter-
viewer indulges in a cessation of
activity until the next day. At this
point, the events occur in such a
rapidly dramatic series, that they
would perhaps be better presented
as follows:
The Next Day
10:30 A.M. Voice from Bilt-
more: 'Miss Skinner has not arrived
yet."
11:30 A.M. Ditto.
12:30 P.M. Ditto.
1:30 P.M. Ditto.
3:30 P.M'. Voice from Miss
Skinner's suite (notice the climatic
order of events) : "Miss Skinner
has just arrived. She will be rest-
ing until time for her performance
tonight . . . No, it is impossible to
see her before then. Perhaps if you
would call back Monday morn-
ing .. .
Monday
10:30 Miss Skinner's suite does
not answer . . .
11:30 Ditto.
12:30 Ditto.
2:30 Voice from Miss Skin-
ner's suite (again) : "No, I'm sorry
but Miss Skinner is not here now.
When she returns she will be rest-
ing until her performance tonight.
Perhaps if you would call just be-
fore she leaves for the auditor-
ium . . .
Later
3:00 Same voice: "Miss Skin-
ner is out. I'm sorry."
Now from all the intricate in-
ter-mingling of plot and counter-
plot in this true-to-life drama, two
ideas are pre-eminently evident. In
the first place, the action springs
from character rather than vice-
versa; and in the second place, one
central idea is quite obvious. As to
the characters in the Valid Vig-
nette, the major ones may be an-
alysed thus: The telephone is def-
initely the aloof, unsympathetic
type especially when Miss Skin-
ner's secretary furnishes the stim-
ulus at the opposite end; the inter-
viewer's chief trait is persistence;
while Miss Skinner is shown to be
a very complex character. She ob-
viously possesses to a great extent
an ethereal quality of elfin elusive-
ness, which is most intriguing (if
not distinctly otherwise). Also,
her Garbo-esque desire to be alone
is quite interesting. Perhaps, like
Christabel's guardian spirit, she
likes to "peak and pine" (not
mountains and woods, as an Eng-
lish 321 scholar would have one
believe) . Or perhaps the master-
piece of her monologues is an ul-
tra-convincing imitation of a sec-
retary chanting the refrain that
"Miss Skinner is resting." At any
rate, it would possibly be in order
to suggest ever so subtly that Miss
Skinner change to Camels or Chase
and Sanborn or Jello "for that
tired feeling."!
Some degree of protection
against the virus of sleeping sick-
ness is afforded by the blood serum
of an individual who had the dis-
ease in 1933, Dr. G. O. Brown, of
the St. Louis University School of
Medicine has found.
40 New Books
Are Added to
A.S.C. Library
Miss E. Hanley Announces
New Arrivals Which
Enrich Shelves
The following new books have
just been received by the Agnes
Scott Library according to the an-
nouncement of Miss Edna Hanley,
head librarian of the college:
Bell, Men of Mathematics; Stag-
ner, Psychology of Mathematics;
Kirstein, The Dance; Nye, Neiv
Bodies for Old, Culture Methods
for Invertebrate Animals;' Land-
reth, Dear Dark. Head; Durling,
Georgic Tradition in English
Poetry; Groba, The Magic Plant;
Digeon, The Novels of Fielding;
Eliot, Collected Poems, 1909-
193 5; Ulter and Needham, Pam-
ela's Daughter; Bulliet, Significant
Moderns and Their Pictures; Belas-
co,The Theatre Through the Stage
Door; Franklin, You're in the
Show; Collins, Studies in Shakes-
peare; Bradley, ed., Shakespeare
Criticism, 1919-193 5; Peyser, The
House That Music Built; Stagner,
Psychology of Personality.
Demioshkevich, Introduction to
The Study of Education; Churc-
hill, Marlborough, His Life and
Times, Annual Review of Bio-
chemistry, v. 6 (1937; Dumond,
Roosevelt to Roosevelt; Col. Sal to,
and others, What is Ahead of Us;
Duncan, New Light on Hebretv
Origins; Coester, Cuentos de la
American Espanola; Irwin, Angels
and Amazons; Bridgman, Heads,
Features, and Faces; Van Laren,
Succulents Other Than Cocti;
Daves, Table of the Higher Math-
ematical Functions; Curti, Peace
or War; Choyter, Troubadours of
Dante; Brinkley, English Poetry of
the Seventeenth Century; East-
mann, Mox, Enjoyment of Laugh-
ter; Mead, Movement of Thought
in the Nineteenth Century;
Hatcher, Creator of the American
Novel; Brigart, Postman y s Horn;
Garrath, 'The Two Mr. Gladstones;
Hermann and Goldberg, You May
Cross-Examine; Robinson, Collect-
ed Poems; Curti, Bryan and World
Peace; Bridgman, Constructive
Anatomy; Smith, Lettering; Kahn,
Design in Art and Industry.
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Dr. Alston Finds Young People
Most Promising for Ministry
When asked the secret of his splendid success in Young
People's Work, Dr. Wallis Alston, speaker for religious week
at Agnes Scott, vouchsafed no concrete reasons: but from
the very story of his life as a student and later as a minister
it is evident that he has been di-
rectly guided toward that one
challenging field.
Having taken his M.A. degree in
philosophy at Emory University,
he proceeded to lay bright plans
for a lawyer's career. Meanwhile
he had the interesting experience of
acting as principal of Avondale
Estates High School and of wrestl-
ing with the problem of the co-ed-
ucation of mill children and chil-
dren of cultured homes as he ex-
pressed it, "both sides of the
track."
As a young minister at Maxwell
St. Church, Lexington, Ky., Dr.
Alston found his first real position
of contact with young people. It
happened that his church was very
near the University of Kentucky
campus, and a great deal of student
work naturally followed. He
speaks with pleasure of his associa-
tion with the Pitkin Club, sponsor-
ed by the Y. M. and Y. W. C. A.'s
an organization strictly limited
to seventy-five members whose
places, when vacant, were eagerly
sought by students in the long
waiting lists. The members chose
one minister every year to give real
evangelical messages.
From Maxwell St. Church Dr.
Alston was called to a position of
outstanding importance, that of
director of Young People's Work
of the Southern Presbyterian
Church. "It's a hard job," he con-
fessed smilingly. He has taken cap-
able charge of all work from In-
termediates' through Young Peo-
ple's departments, and his duties
include supervision of all vesper
services, Sunday schools, week-day
religious education, and summer
camps and conferences. Of the lat-
ter there were 80 last year, with an
attendance of 12,000 young peo-
ple.
"Colleges," said Dr. Alston,
"are the greatest unworked places
possible in modern religious educa-
tion, especially state universities.
And yet young people's groups are
the most promising fields of the
ministry." Believing implicitly in
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tude, and responsiveness of the
youth of today, Dr. Alston added
that they are often ahead of the
adult groups in sensitiveness to
right presentation and contempt
for sham: "They have a love for
reality in religion."
Because of this receptive atti-
tude, he considers widespread reli-
gious projects on the college cam-
pus well worth while, if administ-
ered to both personal and social
needs. "I believe strongly in the
*Y' groups," he announced, but
expressed regret at the tendency of
some of them to forget personal
needs. He thinks the new preach-
ing missions to the campuses, with
their direct appeal by powerful
personalities to the individual stu-
dent, should bring great results,
reaching among the rest those
young people from non-Christian
homes.
According to Dr. Alston, "The
young people are the bright future
of the church," and he is eager to
continue his progressive campus
work. Already he looks ahead to
summer projects in Oklahoma and
Texas.
Blackfriars Elects
Seven New Members
Blackfriars chose seven new
members during its fall try-outs
recently: Alice Adams, Shirley
Armentrout, Eugenia Bridges,
Ruth Crisp, Nell Echols, Marian
Franklin, and Gertrude Betty
Jones.
At the last meeting Mary Anne
Kernan read a play, and plans were
discussed for Mrs. Moonlight, the
play to be presented on November
twentieth.
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Sporting
Jean Jean
Morrison Morrison
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Took great care of her weight
T bough she was only a Hottentot/"
(Gosh!) Well anyway, the idea
is this: that A. A. launched last
week a very healthy project which,
in our weigh of thinking, offers a
definitely promising means for
controlling pounds. Ah, yes
this is our plan: (and note how to-
tally different it is from the Os-
borne theory) begin your day with
the usual 8 glasses of water, drink-
ing it swiftly before you grab a
Kleenex and dash down to break-
fast; as you approach the table,
gaze with utter unconcern at the
stacks of crisp hot waffles (which
finally made their glorious come-
back last Sunday with the syrup
pot and sausage ummm) ; quiet-
ly trim two ("to take up to your
roommate"), and leave the table
with a grin, if you like. On your
way up the stairs, carefully un-
wrap the two prize waffles (so's
not to jar them out from under
the butter), and then, as though
oblivious to what you are doing,
devour them with deliberate mas-
ticatory sweeps, remembering all
the while the two cups of black
coffee you didn't drink at the
table the moment before. You
should be, gustatorically speaking,
quite satisfied.
But you aren't. Having reached
the top step, you are suddenly
aware of an arresting apple-rition.
And you are apple-solutely power
less when your better self (the
"roommate" for whom you have
been so thoughtful) a-rests a
greedy hand upon one of the nec-
tared spheres in the tempting bas-
ket. Yes, you buy an A. A. apple.
And when you have eaten this de-
lect-apple fruit, you realize that
because of its abounding store of
vital vitamins so conducive to
vimmy vigor, alas you are no
longer beset with hunger. This is
the point of success in our theory.
At the close of day you realize you
have attended only one meal, and,
what's more, have put at least five
M. D.s out of business (counting
up the five APPLES you have en-
joyed at intervals all during the
day).
Now isn't that a delicious plan?
And we bet we feel healthier than
Miss Osborne would feel if she
were here now, because her diet
was not as successful as ours will
prove to be. We appreciate the
confidence you have in us, too.
Just eat those A. A. APPLES and
we guarantee your class will be
winning the hockey games and
swim meets in no time! And the
gym scales will flatter you to in-
credulity. A consistent diet of this
invigorating vegetation, and by
spring time, a May Day puff will
blow you a weigh!
Speaking of hockey games and
swim meets, don't you agree with
us that the sophomores are inclined
to be extremists on the subject of
winning? Last Friday they
splashed through to victory vs.
Dr. Alston Meets
All Presbyterians
The Presbyterian students of
Agnes Scott had the opportunity
of meeting Dr. Wallace Alston,
Religious Week speaker, at an in-
formal reception given in his honor
Thursday, November 11, in the
day-students' parlor in Main. Mr.
Alston gave the plans for the
Presbyterian Youth Conference on
World Missions which is to be held
December 2 8 to 30 at the First
Presbyterian Chruch of Atlanta.
Dr. and Mrs. William V. Gard-
ner and Miss Carrie Lena McMul-
len, of the First Presbyterian
Church; Dr. and Mrs. O. R.
Flinn, and Miss Alice Rivers, of
North Avenue Presbyterian
Church; Miss Mary Bailey Wil-
liams, of Druid Hills Presbyterian
Church; Dr. and Mrs. D. P. Mc-
Geachy and Miss Mary Crawford,
of the Decatur Presbyterian
Church, were also present.
Qerman Club is
To Enact Story
Hans and the Golden Goose will
be the fairy story dramatized by
the German Club at its meeting
this afternoon at 4 o'clock in the
Murphey Candler building. Jean
Austin, Mildred Davis, Martha
Foster, Mary Elizabeth Galloway,
Emily Harris, Jeanne Matthews,
Frances Norman, Irene Phillips,
Evelyn Sears, Elise Seay and Mary
Pennell Simonton will take part in
this play.
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Betty Coed and the Duchess of
Windsor have something in com-
mon the Duchess's wedding
dress. Adaptations of the gown
the former Wallis Warfield wore
when she married the abdicated
King of England have gone to col-
lege with a bang.
the freshies in hockey, and only
the night before they had splashed
with gusto and Forman and Milner
right through three able classes to
victory in the swim meet. It must
be a hangover from the stunt
night. Anyway, we heartily en-
dorse their spirit.
I Well, with brownish leaves fall-
ing, and APPLES and BIG
APPLES to think about, we are ap-
proaching the first hurdle, exams.
But don't fret. A. A. will take care
of you. Just work hard, play hard,
and eat APPLES. You can't fail.
''With discreet apologies to A.
A. Milne, a poet himself.
Luscious Big Apples
Are for Sale by A. A
In drama, it's "Mrs. Moon-
light"; in towels, it's cannon;
in contraltos, it's Nickels; in
Florida, it's Miami; in history,
it's Davidson; in ping-pong, it's
Fite; in coffee, it's cream; in
Rebekah, it's APPLES; in In-
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APPLES. In fact, it's APPLES
everywhere. Luscious, BIG
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purchaseable, all for the paltry
coin: an humble nickel per core.
Really, we've never seen such
elorious APPLES as stem are.
We think you'd best crag yours
with haste. Why, bite time you
get there they may all be gone;
but juice wait A. A. will core
over in a wink and replenish
this supply of nature's nectar:
A. A. APPLES.
Sophomores Nose Out Fresh, 4*3,
As Seniors Trounce Junior Team
Sophomores Win
Swimming Meet
The sophomores were the victor-
ious class by a large margin in the
swimming meet held last week on
the night of November 11. They
led with 3 8 points, followed by the
freshmen in second place with 2 8
points, and the juniors third with
8 points. The seniors accumulated
6 points.
The diving events excited appre-
ciative applause from the gallery
of fifty, as Chalmers gained first
place with 27.4 points to her
credit. Healey was second with
17.6. Forman and Burks ranked
close behind, tying for third place
with 16.2 points.
Poetry Club Meets
With Miss E. Laney
Miss Laney was hostess to the
Poetry Club at its regular meeting
on Tuesday night, November 9th.
Shirley Armentrout, Mary Wins-
ton Crockett, Jane Guthrie, Eloise
Lennard, Elise Seay and V. J. Wat-
kins read.
The Poetry Club is planning to
begin at its next meeting a discus-
sion of the different forms of
verse, which the members will at-
tempt to use in their writing.
A brain institute which will
make Washington the world capi-
tal for the study of the brains of
animals and humans is being es-
tablished at Georgetown Univer-
sity.
Last Friday in the hockey game
the sophomores defeated the fresh-
men by the score of 4-3, and the
seniors defeated the juniors by the
score of 4-1. The teams were very
well matched against each other,
both as to skills and supply of
players, and for this reason the
games they played were unusually
exciting to the grandstand.
The first game, between the
freshmen and the sophomores, got
off to a slow start. However, in a
few dribbles the playing pepped up
as Salters shot the first ^oal. After
the next bully a long dash by her
team down the half field to the
freshman goal gave Salters oppor-
tunity for a swift second goal,
bringing the score to 2 points for
the sophs. The game suddenly be-
came quiet again.
The second half of this game be-
gan with fast shots. The freshmen
shifted teams and began a nice re-
covery of some of their lost points,
as Bell shot their first goal. After
a brief time-out for the sophs, the
freshmen again scored, this time
by Bell. And so the game closed,
the score for the sophomores, 4-3.
Grandstand applause was strong
for Milner's excellent playing, as
well as for Hance's and Wimp-
fheimer's snappy defense.
With two more or less handi-
capped teams, the seniors and the
juniors began their game. The jun-
ior line-up was not complete dur-
ing the entire game, nor were there
any substitutions handy. But by
the second half the senior team was
complete, with two extras for sub-
stitutions on hand. This abound-
ing strength early brought the
score over to the senior ranks, as
Erwin shot a glorious goal, follow-
ed by two of Coit's dependable
points. After a grinding struggle
at the senior post, Dryfoos scored
the lone junior point.
After the next bully the play
rapidly shifted toward the junior
goal post. Thompson made a
smooth point, counted invalid be-
cause the time keeper's whistle had
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sounded the end of the half. The
score stood at 4-1 in favor of the
seniors. The darkness and the bitter
coldness made it difficult for the
grandstand to appreciate possible
good plays in the last half.
The line-ups for these games
were:
Sophomores (4) (3) Freshmen*
Francis R.W.__Willstatter Butt (1)
Armentrout--. I.R.__Kendrick Bell (2)
Brinton ( 1 ) ___C.F.__Dunn Hance
Salters (2) I.L.__Woolfork Wimpfheimer
Murlin L.W Benefield Vaughn
Griffin R.H.__Cates Lee
Milner C.H G. Moffat Henry
Graham L.H.__Sams Patterson
Watkins R.B.__ Lancaster Woodard
Phillips L.B.__B. Moffat Wallen
Cass GoalRichardson O'Nan
The freshmen entered two different
teams, the first team listed playing - the
first half with the following substitutions:
Jester for Cates, Fisher for Kendrick, Ash-
burn for Moffat, and G. Slack for Wool-
fork. There were no subs the last half.
Sophomore subs were: Williamson (1)
for Salters, Forman for Murlin, and Eyles
for Francis. The second half of this game
was lengthened from ten minutes play to
15 because of the great number of fresh-
men subs entered.
Seniors (4) (1) Juniors
McKay R.W Flynt
Erwin (1) I.R Benson
Coit (3) C.F Moses
Thompson I.L Dryfoos (1)
Brown L.W __
Allison R.H Doty
Blackshear C.H Jones
Rodgers L.H Redwine
Chalmers R.B McMullen
Young L.B Campbell
Douglas Goal Kenny
Substitutions for the seniors were : Smith
for Chalmers, and Merrill for Thompson.
The referees were Miss Wilburn and Miss
Mitchell. Scorer was Scotty Wilds and
timekeeper was Hutchens.
For the benefit of young fathers,
the University of California has
completed a schedule of baby's
crying habits which may enable
parents to arrange their away-
from-home programs. After the
first month there is a 4-month
lull when father may safely stay at
home. After that there is about a
year when baby's vocal cords get
plenty of exercise.
Remember folks at Thanksgiv-
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from the
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No. 8
A.S.C Picks
E. McMullen
As Delegate
Junior Will Accompany Coit
To N. S. F. A. Session
In December
Defeats Mary Whetsell
In Open Forum last Thurs-
day, the student body elected
Emma McMullen, Junior rep-
resentative on the Executive
Committee, as the delegate to ac-
company Laura Coit to the N. S.
F. A. Convention in Alberquerque,
New Mexico, during the Christmas
holidays.
Agnes Scott has been an active
member of the National Students'
Federation of America for several
years, sending two delegates to
each convention. Alice Hannah
and Ann Worthy Johnson attend-
ed last year's meeting.
N. S. F. A. is an organization of
the student councils of American
colleges and universities. Its main
problem is to help them make a
good job of their task of student
government. In carrying out this
aim, it concerns itself with curri-
cula, the betterment of student
welfare, and world peace. Its
weekly report may be found posted
on the Current History bulletin
board in the library.
Oxford, Cambridge Debaters
RONALD V GIBSON
GONVILLE & CAIUS COLLEG8
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JAMES A. BROWN
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Front Row
By Jane Guthrie
HINDENBERG LINE: Japa-
nese drive west after sudden col-
lapse of Soochow, key-point of
China's "Hindenburg line." The
new Chinese line made up of 130,-1
000 troops stretched 3 5 miles from
north of Soochow to Kiangyin.
Japanese troops drove towards it
northeast of Shanghai, attacking it
from three points. After all night
bombardment 40,000 Chinese
troops retreated from Soochow in
what has been called "one of the
most amazing captures of an im-
portant city in the annals of war. '
Defeat is attributed to the panic
which spread when a few Japanese
in hooded rain capes gained en-
trance to the city and hoisted the
Japanese flag.
War office reports total casual-
ties in the Chinese war 16,048
Japanese dead and 145,470 Chinese
killed.
FARM LEGISLATION: Agri-
cultural committees in both houses
show economy impulses in Con-
gress session and agree to 5,000,000
dollar limitation in cost of the pro-
gram. House committee votes
down reviving old processing taxes
for the purpose of financing the
year's program in part. Cotton
acreage control movement to be
included in general farm bill dis-
cussion.
PROBE: Roosevelt asks Federal
Trade Commission to investigate
"Monopolistic Practices" blamed
for the present high cost of living.
DOLLAR FOR DOLLAR: Re-
construction Finance Committee
announces intention of spuring
home construction by investing
dollar tor dollar with building ma
terial supply companies and other
private business interests. These
organizations will be authorized to
raise money for low rent homes
and apartments for persons of
moderate incomes. Sale of bonds to
be guaranteed by Federal Housing
Administration.
String Ensemble
Plays in Chapel
The Agnes Scott string ensemble,
under the direction of Mr. C. W.
Dieckmann, professor of music,
presented in chapel Saturday, No-
vember 20, a program consisting
of two concertos, one by Handel,
the other by Greig: "Come Sweet
Death," by Bach, and "Clair de
Lune," by Debussy. The First
Movement of the Handel concerto
was written in such a manner that
the massed tones of the organ and
piano contrast with the string in-
struments of the orchestra. Nell
Hemphill played the solo part of
the First Movement of the Greig
concerto for the piano and Tommy
Ruth Blackmon played the solo
part of the Handel concerto for
the organ.
Dr. Robinson Gives Tea
Dr. Henry A. Robinson, profes-
sor of mathematics, gave a tea
Tuesday afternoon, November 16,
from 4:30 to 6 P. M. at his home
for his mathematics classes. Mrs.
Robinson received the guests with
her husband. Miss Leslie Gaylord,
assistant professor of mathematics,
poured.
Two English
Debaters to
Meet A. S. C.
Mr. J. Brown, Mr. R. Gibson
Arrive December 8
Grand Dutchess Marie is
To Lecture Here in March
May -Day Contest
Opens This Week
Scenarios For Annual Fete
Are Due December 13
Scenarios for May-day, annual
spring fete created and produced
by Agnes Scott students, are due
Monday, December 13, Anne
Thompson, chairman of the com-
mittee, has announced. The scen-
ario contest begins this week, and
the winning plot will be chosen by
the committee.
The skits may be either original
creations or adaptations of classi-
cal myths. Persons interested in
entering the contest are advised to
consult the bulletin board in the
gym for suggestions. Entries may
be turned in to Anne Thompson
or to any member of the May-day
committee.
Last year an adaptation of Mil-
ton's famous masque, Conius, in-
spired the winning scenario.
Glee Club Will
Offer "Mikado"
Cousin Of Late Czar Plans
To Compare Old, New
Regimes
As representatives of the
Oxford Union Society and the
Cambridge Union Society, re-
spectively, Mr. James A.
Brown and Mr. Ronald V. Gibson
will arrive in Atlanta Wednesday,
December 8, to engage in debates
with Emory University and Agnes
Scott College.
The debate with Emory on
Wednesday night will be on the
question, "Resolved: That the ab-
solute veto of the Supreme Court
is an anachronism."
On Friday night, December 10,
the Englishmen will meet Mary
Frances Guthrie and Margaret
Hopkins in the Gaines Chapel at
Agnes Scott at 8:30 o'clock on the
question, "Resolved: That the
power of the trade unions has in-
creased, is increasing, and ought to
be diminished." Following the de-
bate there will be a reception hon-
oring the debaters in the Murphcy
Candler Building.
The cast for the coming oper-
etta, Gilbert and Sullivan's "Mik-
ado," to be presented by the Agnes
Scott Glee Club, was announced
last week as follows:
The Mikado, Gene Traber or Lc-
land McKay; Nanki-Pooh, Edwin
Everitt; Ko-Ko, Dick Smoot;
Pooh-Bah, Jack Bagwell or Walton
Bobo; Pish-Tush, Don White;
Yum-Yum, Ruth Tate or Caroline
Armistead; Pitti-Sing, Virginia
Kyle or Emily Underwood; Peep-
Bo, Jane Moore Hamilton or
Betty Kyle; Katisha, Amelia
Nickels or Jane Moses.
Chorus of School Girls, Nobles,
Guards and Coolies 5 0 voices.
There are to be two presentations
of the operetta, played by different
casts.
The story centers around Nanki-
Pooh, son of the Mikado of Japan,
and Yum-Yum, his sweetheart.
Yum-Yum is to be married to Ko-
Ko, her guardian, who is Lord
High Executioner, so Nanki-Pooh
{Continued on page 3, col. 3)
Irresistible Book Exhibit Invades Holiday Funds as
Literati Fall Prey to "Yaks," Winnie-The-Pooh
By Julia Sew ell
What a cruel and unfeeling
thing it is to exhibit books just one
month and ten days before Christ-
mas, when those souls who are
meager in pocket and literary in
nature are most a prey to the wiles
of publishers and the giddiness of
the holiday spirit. How is it possi-
ble to resist the impulse to look at
them, that impulse which starts
the fatal chain that leads to des-
truction first the browsing, next
the choosing, then the yearning,
and finally the acquiring with
monev which should have been
spent on a much-needed umbrella
or a Christmas present for Aunt
Gussie?
The proper thing to do when one
first begins to browse (assuming,
of course, that one has no will-
power whatever, and no conscience
about Aunt Gussie) is to look out
the old favorites and admire them
in their new holidav dresses.
Among the special ones in this
special exhibit is a Compleat Ang-
ler in the Cameo Classics with
charming illustrations in the sev-
enteenth century manner.
Next one moves to the recent
fiction, which one has yearned to
read, but seldom been able to, be-
cause of pressing scholastic activi-
ties. There is the much talked of
And So Victoria, and that poignant
little story Of Mice and Men.
There are the favorites of the past
year: Of Lena Geyer and Drums
Along the Mohawk. The most in-
teresting of all the biographical
books, at least to a lover of non-
sense, is the Letters of Lewis Car-
roll to His Child Friends, in which
he reflects to a small girl who has
apologized for not writing him
sooner: "Do you think I'd call my-
self naughty, if I hadn't written to
you, say for 5 0 years? Not a bit!
I'd just begin as usual, 'My dear
Mary, 50 years ago you asked me
what to do for your kitten, as it
had a toothache. Perhaps the tooth-
ache has gone off by this time if
not, wash it carefully in tasty
pudding, and give it 4 pincushions
boiled in sealing wax, and just dip
the end of its tail in hot coffee.' "
In the line of appearance, be-
havior and the art of living, one
finds Orchids On Your Budget, by
Marjorie Hillis, in the chapters of
which the author asks belligerently
"Well, who isn't poor?", then anx-
iously, "Can you afford a hus-
band?", then hopefully, "Almost
balancing the budget," and finally,
in despair, "When you're really
Broke."
The perfect place to end a
browse is the childrens' book sec-
tion, just as the perfect place to
end a long Christmas shopping trip
is the toy department. The old
favorites which are always with us,
and which are with us especially in
this exhibit, arc Mother Goose, il-
lustrated by Kate Greenaway in
her inimitable quaint English
manner, and Winnie the Pooh
(Continued on page 3, col. 5)
Arrives Friday, March 25
Her Imperial Highness, the
Grand Duchess Marie, of Rus-
sia, will be presented on the
evening of Friday, March 25,
by the Lecture Association of Ag-
nes Scott College, according to
Miss Emma May Laney, adviser
for the Association, in a lecture on
the general topic, "Russia the
Old and the New," contrasting
contemporary Russia with pre-
war Russia.
Perhaps no one could be in a
better position to present this con-
trast than Grand Duchess Marie,
since she herself was a member of
the royal family before they were
deposed by the Russian Revolution.
She is cousin of the late Czar
Nicholas of Russia, one of the
last of the Romanoffs, and daugh-
ter of the Grand Duke Paul,
brother of Alexander III, next to
the lasr of the Russian Czars.
Grand Duchess Marie also is relat-
ed to the English royal family
through her mother, the daughter
of King George of Greece. At the
time of the Bolshevik uprising
twenty-one members of her imme-
diate family were assassinated, the
only ones escaping being Marie and
her brother, Grand Duke Dmitri.
In 192 8 Grand Duchess Marie
came to America to live, bringing
with her only "a suitcase, a type-
writer, a guitar, and the first
rough draft of her book," the
"Education of a Princess," which
tells of her life from the luxury of
the Russian court to the hardships
of exile. From 1929 until the suc-
cess of her book allowed her to
give herself entirely to writing and
lecturing, she was fashion consul-
tant for a New York dress making
house. At the present time Grand
Duchess Marie resides in this coun-
try as a "successful business wo-
man, author, and lecturer."
Blackmon Heads
Food Committee
The food committee for Rebekah
Scott and White House dining
rooms has been selected. Tommy
Ruth Blackmon and Catherine Ivie
are representatives from Rebekah
Scott and Betsy Kendrick is
the White House representative.
Tommy Ruth Blackmon is chair-
man of this committee and each
member is required to give her a
written report of complaint and
suggestions about the food every
month. These reports go to Miss
Scandrett, who talks them over
with the dietitians.
Team Debates
Anti*Lynch Law
At the meeting of Pi Alpha Phi,
on Thursday night, November
eighteenth, Margaret Douglas and
Ernestine Cass debated Hazel
Hirsch and Jean Austin on the
question "Resolved: that the Fed-
eral Anti-Lynching Law should be
passed."
Last Friday night Katherine
Fatton and Mary Louise Dobbs de-
bated the Atlanta Law School, and
on December tenth Margaret Flop-
kins and Mary Frances Guthrie
will debate Oxford.
2
THE AGONISTIC
The Qualities of Leadership
(Following is the speech which Professor Philip David-
son presented at the Mortar Board announcement program
last spring.)
One hundred and eighty-one high school students
were asked to select an athletic captain and to give
reasons for their choice. One girl was almost unani-
mously elected and seventy-seven different reasons
given for her choice; these ranged all the way from
"she has some pretty white enameled teeth" to "she
is honest and impartial. " The students clearly felt
this girl's leadership without being able to define its
qualities, a difficulty we all face. In defining the
qualities of leadership, we must remember that they
depend upon the kind of leadership in mind. Two
forms may be roughly distinguished representative
leadership and creative leadership. The representative
form consists in executing the expressed will of the
group, whereas the creative formulates the will of the
group along essentially new lines. It appears when a
personality becomes the propulsive force for a new
value or complex of values. The values may be orig-
inal, or they may be older ones infused in a new area,
but in either case, their adoption by a group means an
essential change of direction on its part. These values
may be socially desirable or socially undesirable, but
the highest type of creative leadership stands for the
highest values. There have been examples of leader-
ship which pandered to the worst in the national
taste, and steadily, dangerously lowered the level of
popular discrimination; all too frequently such lead-
ers have had apparent success, but their motives have
been insincere, their methods unscrupulous, and their
aims unworthy. There have also been magnificent
instances in human history of the finest type of crea-
tive leadership. Christ still stands as the supreme
example, and even in our own day we have felt the
dynamic force of great leaders. They do not always
achieve immediate success but the failure is not real.
Even Woodrow Wilson's greatest enemies are forced
to admit that in spite of the apparent failures of 'the
League of Nations, Wilson's ideals of international
cooperation are still the criteria by which we judge
the acts of nations.
Such then is the essential of creative leadership
the union of a compelling personality and a compul-
sive idea. Granted that we have on this campus the
potentialities of such leadership, and we do, how
best can it manifest itself in the life of the college?
We believe that the ideals of this institution, em-
phasizing as they do spiritual and intellectual values,
stand unchallenged as principles of human conduct,
and the first task of leadership here is to inculcate
them in the student body. The question faces each
student at the outset, does your work enrich or im-
poverish the values held by your associates? Does it
point them toward higher, finer goals? In each
campus activity, the first task is to lay down clearly
the principles upon which it is to function, to select
methods in keeping with these principles, and to
evaluate constantly the results obtained. There will
be doubts and uncertainties, of course, but the
doubts usually arise either because the question at is-
sue does not clearly relate to the principles, or be-
cause the principles themselves are not clearly stated,
but if the principles are broadly grounded, it will be
a trivial question indeed which does not have some
definite relation to them.
But the real test of your creative leadership is after
you leave this college. We believe that the ideals of
this institution hold as true for life after college as
they do here, and you thus have an opportunity to
infuse into another area the values you have ac-
quired here. But it will not be easy; here you work
under the most favorable conditions, with the power
of an institution behind you, there you work alone.
If your leadership is truly creative, you will not be
discouraged and you will not fail; you will do your
work in confidence and hope, secure in the knowl-
edge that leaders whose purposes and plans are nobly
conceived, solemnly dedicated, and faithfully ex-
ecuted, cannot fail.
Alumnae Follow Bent
Of Marriage, Careers
Marriage or career take your choice. That seems
to be what most of the Agnes Scott Alumnae seem
to be doing, anyway. From the latest reports, how-
ever, those who choose the more settled life of a
housewife seem to hold the majority.
Maria Duncan, cx-'3f, was married to Dr. Gordon
Reginald Pole, ceramics engineer with the TVA at
Wilson Dam, on June 23, at a lovely home wedding.
Betty Parker, ex-'3 5, is now Mrs. Edward Breeden
Liles, of Washington, D. C., where Ed holds a posi-
tion with the Reconstruction Finance Corporation
and attends law school at George Washington Uni-
versity.
Esther Henderson, cx-'3 5, is now Mrs. Joseph L.
Henraham and is living at Charleston, S. C, where
Joe is a member of the staff at Citadel. Virginia
Rubel, ex-'3S, married Harvey Haslip Jones on July
24. Harvey is a Sigma Nu from the University of
Tennessee and is working at the Hiawassec Dam un-
der TVA.
l)e Agonistic
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Subscription price, $1.25 per year in advance. Single copies, 5c.
1937
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1938
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Life Like A Many-Colored
Dome
Finally, we would remind ourselves of the thirteenth-
century scholar who sold his coat to buy books, and
shivered in the cold that he might burn his last candle
at the shrine of learning.
As complacent freshmen we impressively assured our un-
startled English professors that we came to college "to learn
to live." After four years of learning to live we would like to
modify our statement, and say that we came to college "to
learn."
Truth lies all around us like white light, and so goes un-
perceived until a many-faceted prism breaks it down into its
several colors. This is the purpose of our education a con-
tinual breaking-down and a combining.
Is it not interesting to note that Rousseau's novel Emile
inspired the radiant Shelley's Prometheus Unbound; and that
the same book moved Pestalozzi, a humble Swiss teacher, to
evolve a system of instruction which revolutionized educa-
tion? Is it not good to know: that the ancient Romans built
aqueducts because they didn't know water seeks its own
level; that Nazism and its leader sprang full-panoplied from
a beer garden ; that bees have evolved organized labor and a
share-the-wealth plan; that Coleridge wrote Kubla Khan in
an opium dream; that modern astronomers can cock a tele-
scope and estimate how much the universe weighs ?
The ever-abundant source of the knowledge we seek is read-
ing. At Investiture, Assistant Professor Leyburn said, "It is
the sheer pleasure of reading books which I covet for you" ;
and it is this pleasure that thinking men have coveted
throughout all ages of civilization. For books are the speak-
ing reservoirs of the best man has thought and done since he
began to walk uprightly and lift his face to the sky.
It is from books that poets from Chaucer to Elinor Wylie
have gained their vision of intellectual beauty, have ap-
proached the throne of reason, and explored the measureless
corridors of the mind. In books, we, too, have glimpsed in-
tellectual beauty; with Edna Millay we have "heard her mas-
sive sandal set on stone" ; with Wordsworth we have viewed
the peace that comes with the "philosophic mind."
With book exhibits, with the DuBury book award, with
our new library and its miles of stacked shelves, with our
aware and well-read faculty, with the place that learning is
accorded on our campus, we at Agnes Scott have an environ-
ment peculiarly congenial to the enjoyment of the pleasures
of reading. We must suit books and their delights to our
mental palate now, or forego them forever.
It is a matter of choice how we shall spend the four irre-
vocable years allotted for our education. Whether we shall
perceive what the best minds of the past have thought about
man, his world, and the God he worships, or shall ruffle the
mere surface of our intellect with the cluttering busy-ness
which we classify as "activities," is a decision which we must
make individually. It is a matter involving values and criteria.
But, above all else, we covet the serenity born of wisdom,
the inner peace that comes with understanding. For in edu-
cation lies the brightest hope for a heart-sick and bewildered
mankind : we shall know the truth and the truth shall make
us free.
The Time Has Come
By way of postscript, we might remark that exams, which
loom ominously near, should be taken with a good, stiff grain
of salt. "The mills of the gods grind," but students shouldn't.
Quite Really
The evening of December 10 will find two genuine (but
debatable) English accents in operation at Agnes Scott. Re-
solved: That all who are interested in seeing an Irishman and
a Scot help Brittania to rule the waives should attend.
Hortense Jones
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Jane Guthrie
Mary McCann Hudson
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Tax-Burdened Business
Appeals to Congress
Government is Rumored Ready to
Lighten Industrial Taxes
At Special Session
By Mary Anne Kernan
Business, weighed down under tax burdens, with
outstretched hands and an earnest appealing face is
asking Congress for a boost. The legislation re-
quested by the President and for passage of which
the special session was called has been neglected for
a time while business is under consideration. There
is a strong sentiment suggesting that the Federal
government is ready to materially lighten taxes on
business and transfer the reins of economic recovery
from government expenditures to business planning.
Program Hidden
While President Roosevelt's four-point program of
farm, wage-hour, reorganization, and regional plan-
ning legislation is hidden deep in the recesses of sub-
committee rooms, many Congressmen are agitating
for tax revision to help business. This they consider
essential to a speedy recovery from the "slump of
1937," which is very effectively described by pic-
tures and graphs in Life of November 22. The main
points in the proposed program are repeal or revision
of the undistributed profits tax, the capital gains
tax, and the capital stock tax. Senator Bailey, of
North Carolina, vehemently championed this pro-
gram: "No man is going to invest his money ... in
a situation in which he does not know that his title
will be protected and his rights of possession will be
preserved." This may be all very true, but the flex-
ibility in definition of "rights of possession," which
may or may not include social responsibility, must
be admitted. Certainly, as Roosevelt has suggested,
the burden of business may need to be lightened, but
this does not mean that business and particularly
large enterprises should not share to a very large ex-
tent in the support of government. Undistributed
profits should after all serve a more socially benefi-
cial purpose than mere accumulation; if business is
not willing to clinch its profits among those who
made them, government must step in and through
taxation distribute this money where it is needed.
Pressing Subject
Although this seems the most pressing subject of
Congressional consideration, there are others in both
House and Senate. At the beginning of this special
session there were several bills ready for both
houses which had been passed by the other. Those
measures passed by the Senate and ready for the
House are: Wages and Hours, Child Labor, Wheat
Crop Insurance, Safety-at-Sea, Food and Drugs Re-
vision, McCarron 70-car Train Act, and Condemna-
tion of Sit-Down Strikes. The measures passed by
the House and awaiting consideration by the Senate
are: Anti-Lynching Bill, Federal Reorganization,
Six Presidential Secretaries, Bankruptcy Revision,
Natural Gas Regulation, Civil Service for Postmas-
ters, and the Salary Publicity Repealer.
Anti-Lynching Filibuster
In both houses the measure first on each list is be-
ing discussed at present. The Anti-Lynching Bill
has furnished southern oratory with an ideal subject
for filibustering. Senator Connally, of Texas, went
so far as to say the bill is "a product of long-distance
reformers" whose slogan is "turn our gangsters loose,
turn our racketeers loose, hut for God's sake, civilize
those Southerners." The bill does not seem to be
provoking serious consideration; it is simply a cur-
tain raiser before the really important reform meas-
ures requested by Roosevelt. In the House the Wages
and Hours Bill is on its way out of the Rules Com-
mittee, tax revision is being actively worked on by
the Ways and Means Committee, and farm crop con-
trol measures are being considered in the Agricul-
tural Committee.
Unanswered President
It seems unlikely that any of the President's re-
quested measures, except perhaps farm legislation,
will be attended to at this special session. Tax re-
vision and budget balancing will require more care-
ful consideration than is possible immediately. Sen-
ator Harrison, chairman of the Sen&te Finance Com-
mittee, says that in order to raise additional money
for the proposed budget either a sales tax or a lower-
ing of income tax exemptions will be necessary. The
latter, we believe, meets with probably more general
approval on account of the numerous state sales
taxes.
Congress is faced with important legislation;
whatever it does may be calculated to affect a great
number of people very vitally. Whether it will take
a step backward in taking responsibility from busi-
ness or whether it will progress in advisable and nec-
essary social reform measures remains to be seen.
THE AGONISTIC
3
Group of 133 Alumnae Trek
To Campus for the Week-end
Former Students Reunite To
Renew Contacts At
Agnes Scott
To the student body, Alumnae
Week-end meant sausage and cof-
fee for lunch. But to the Alumnae
themselves it meant much more
renewing their youth with squeals
of "Oh, hello, I'm so thrilled to see
you! You old darling, what are you
doing here?" to old classmates
whose names they couldn't quite
remember, although they sat in the
third seat from the end in Bible
class; or, even more frequently,
"Why, you don't look a day older
than when we dressed up together
for Little Girl's Day!" all the
while counting wrinkles and chins.
Then of course they enjoyed ex-
claiming "Why didn't we have
these when I was here!" Of the
new library and the transformed
Murphey Candler Building, as well
as "You know, it really hasn't
changed a bit" at the sight of Ella
and Mary Cox. They enjoyed
nudging each other and smiling
reminiscently at the sight of the
harried freshmen scampering to
hand in their Friday themes, and
the sound of the 10:15 A. M. train
chugging by during the chapel
speech.
Of the entire registered group of
133 Alumnae on the campus, there
were many recent graduates whom
the present students remembered
well such as Mildred Clarke, Lita
Goss, Jane Thomas, Ethelyn John-
ston and Sarah (Nichols) Judge.
Many "big sisters" of girls in
school now were here for exam-
ple, Mary Elizabeth Galloway's
sister, Annie Laura; Jane Moore
Hamilton's sister, Elinor; Jane
Turner's sister, Sarah; Eleanor
Rodger's sister, Margaret; and
Anne Thompson's sister, Julia.
All of the graduates seemed to
be happy in their present work,
and they were unanimously en-
thusiastic over the things they ac-
quired at ye Alma Mater. It was
interesting to discover that accord-
ing to Dr. Robinson's census of
1929, 62 per cent of all Agnes
Scott graduates are married. Of the
professional women, over one-half
are teachers, with those in secre-
tarial work next in order. The rest
are engaged in every profession
open to women, from Archaeology
and Architecture through Zoology.
Nelle Chamlee tells glowing tales
of the celebrities among the Alum-
nae, from Marian Sims, the author,
and India (Hunt) Balch, the first
woman to teach surgery at the
University of Virginia, to Mary
Lamar Knight, who holds the dis-
tinction of masquerading so clev-
erly as to be the only woman ever
to witness a "guillotining" in
France.
Meet Yonr Friends at
Cox's Prescription Shop
Between Paramount and Grand
Theatres, Atlanta
The
CURB SERVICE
61 North Avenue
Alumnae Have
Benefit Bridge
Luck played no part in winning
a new dress, six pairs of hose, a
radio, or a crystal glass set at the
Benefit Bridge, sponsored by the
Atlanta Agnes Scott Alumnae As-
sociation in Rich's Tea Room last
Friday afternoon, November 12.
Everyone was assured of winning
some delightful and useful prize.
And, while the "Bridg-e-teers
were playing, they could select
their winter wardrobes with the
greatest of ease, as the following
lovely Agnes Scotters paraded be-
fore them in the latest creations:
Jane Moore Hamilton, Caroline
Carmichael, Nell Pinner, Kay Ken-
nedy, Anne Wheaton and Jean
Dennison.
Art Club Elects
Seven Initiates
Campus Artists Assist In
Wills Exhibit
Pen and Brush Club selected
seven new members in its fall try-
outs: Susie Blackmon, Helen
Brown, Frances Castlcberry. Doro-
thy Lazenby, Ruth Slack, Doris
Tucker and Glenwyn Young. Mar-
tha Dunn, a freshman, was eligible
for membership, but will have to
wait until the new quarter to be-
come a regular member.
Last Thursday afternoon, the
club helped Mrs. Mary Motz Will
to arrange the collection of water-
color paintings which she exhibit-
ed on Friday and Saturday in the
museum of the library.
Writing Club Elects
Baty, Montgomery
Evelyn Baty and Sophie Mont-
gomery were the two new mem-
bers chosen by B. O. Z., creative
writing club, in its fall try-outs.
B. O. Z., with Miss Preston as ad-
visor, is one of the most active and
helpful clubs on the campus.
At the last meeting, on Friday,
November fifth, Nell Allison,
Giddy Erwin and Jane Guthrie
read. Hortense Jones and Carol
Hale, hostesses, served pears and
bananas on a silver platter, and
cookies and candy.
Mortar Board at Agnes Scott
The Agnes Scott chapter of Mortar Board includes: Jean Barry Adams, Elizabeth
Blackshear, Jean Chalmers, Laura Coit, Mildred Davis, Mary Lillian Fairly, Anne
Worthy Johnson, Hortense Jones, Winifred Kellersberger, Eliza King, Primrose Noble,
Anne Thompson, and Virginia Watson.
Books Invaded
Shopper's Fund
{Continued from page 1, col. 4)
cropping up this time in a big new
book, The Hums of Pooh, taken
from Pooh's coreless humming mo-
ments in Winnie the Pooh and The
House at Pooh Corner, and set to
music.
Among the new childrens' books
are Ezekiel, by Elvira Garner, the
story of a little pickaninny in
Sanford, Florida. Munro Leaf's
Story of Ferdinand has come again
this year, as no one can resist the
meditative bull who would rather
smell flowers than fight toreadors.
The most uproarious book of all is
Why Is a Yak?, by Le Grand, in
which the author makes the reader
wonder all the way through just
why a Yak is.
And now the unfortunate visitor
to the book exhibit knows that she
is doomed, for Lewis Carroll's Let-
ters must (at the expense of Aunt
Gussie and a few others) find its
way into her pocket, and a Yak
will surely find himself in a certain
little boy's Christmas stocking, and
Pooh will undoubtedly hum his
way in somewhere on Christmas
morning.
The Sphinx has had its face
"lifted,?" and now, for the first
time in 3,600 years, the entire fig-
ure is visible above the sands.
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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
Blackfriars Hold
Monthly Meeting
"Six Who Pass While The
Lentils Boil" Is Presented
Six Who Pass While the Lentils
Boil was the title of the play pre-
sented by Blackfriars at its meet-
ing on Tuesday night, November
sixteenth. In this tale of the six
people who entered the life of the
small boy left to watch the beans
cook, the characters were portray-
ed by Shirley Armentrout, Jane
Dryfoos, Georgia Hunt, Kay Ken-
nedy, Jane Moses, Evelyn Sears,
Mary Pennell Simonton, and Kay
Toole.
During the business session, ush-
ers were chosen for Mrs. Moon-
light, the play which Blackfriars
presented on Saturday, November
twentieth.
A civil engineer, 39 years old,
who decided he should have been a
doctor, has enrolled at Tulane Uni-
versity for the six-year medical
course, including a year of pre-
medicine, four of medicine and one
year as interne. He entered the
school as a junior in the arts and
sciences.
Mortar Board
Has Program
Dr. McKinney Will Discuss
Service At Program
Of Recognition
Dr. Mary Anne McKinney, of
the Biology department, and who
has only recently returned from
teaching in a medical school in In-
dia, will be the speaker at the an-
nual Agnes Scott Mortar Board
recognition service which will be
held Friday, November 26, in
Gaines Chapel. Dr. McKinney's
subject will be based on service.
Dr. McCain will introduce Mary
Lillian Fairly, president of the lo-
cal Mortar Board chapter, and
after telling something of the his-
tory of Mortar Board, she will in-
troduce Dr. McKinney.
This recognition service is a very
old tradition with Mortar Board.
The alumnae members of Mortar
Board will be in the processional
and recessional.
England's Russian population
numbers 67,925. Of these, 31,496
are males and 36,428 females.
Qlee Club Will
Offer "Mikado"
(Continued from page I, col. 4)
resolves to kill himself. At this
point the Mikado tells Ko-Ko that
if he does not execute someone
within the month, he must cut off
his own head. Nanki-Pooh, who
has disguised himself, consents to
be executed, provided that he can
marry Yum-Yum a month before-
hand. Ko-Ko agrees. Then the
situation is complicated further by
the discovery of a law which pro-
vides that if a man is beheaded his
wife must be buried alive. This
tangled state of affairs is hilarious-
ly straightened out in the best
Gilbert and Sullivan manner, dur-
ing the second act.
The operetta is to be directed by
Mr. Lewis Johnson and accompan-
ied by Mr. C. W. Dieckmann.
Serologic tests for venereal dis-
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students at universities by Dr.
R. A. Vanderlehr of the Public
Health Service. Discovery of the
diseases would not be a basis of re-
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THE AGONISTIC
Sporting
When exams begin you ought to
be healthier than usual simply
because of A. A.'s colossal health
program. We're not sure of all the
plans yet, of course, but as far as
we can tell there will be number-
less prizes,"' each offered in differ-
ent fields. For example, for in
stance take for example the con-
test for water drinking, for exam-
ple. The girl who drinks the larg
est number of glasses (filled with
H2O!) will rate some appropriate-
ly fetching prize. We hope your
ambitions along this line will not
be quenched. A "glass of water"
has its equivalent in twenty swal-
lows from the nearest fountain
so you see it's not such a flood to
have to drink for health's sake.
You should take at least one eighth
before breaking fast.
And then there's the prize for
you who sleeps the most, not to
mention the one for swimming the
greatest distance. The contest for
walking the greatest distance is
probably the most exciting. The
gym department is planning to
measure the exact distances be-
tween various popular points on
the campus and near the campus.
From all indications we gather
that exam days ought to be fun,
n'est-ce pas? Every day there will
be recreational facilities available
in the gym shuffle board, ring
tennis and badminton. Of course,
there's always the ping-pong court
in M. C. building, and we'll ask
Mutt if she'll sort of well, show
you how to play. Y'know she's
considered an fA-pert (but perhaps
her comeback will come back with
the ping-pong tourney in the off-
ing)-
During exam week one or two
of the nights will be scheduled for
dancing in M. C, too, with A. A.
in charge. And then one of those
days there'll be a Big Apple class
(remember the famous truckin'
class Miss Dozier taught us back in
1936?).
Last Saturday the A. S. C. cam-
pus was visited by about twenty
coeds from "G-e-o-r-g-i-a." Hot-
tentots and coeds divided into three
teams and staged a brief tourna-
ment on the hockey field just be-
fore lunch. Members of the board
and faculty escorted ^ this gay
bunch to lunch late in Rebekah.
Their long navy gym "costumes"
and their new brown hockey
sticks impressed us most, not to
mention their hockey.
And last Wednesday the tennis
doubles championship went to two
hard-playing sophomores, Mary
Nell Taylor and Ellen Stuart, who
battled Roberta Ingles and Ann
Fisher and a bitter breeze. The
match was played at three with
the sunshine fading and the
"breeze" rising, and considering
the weather, was very well attend-
ed. Numerous blankets were there,
and if you watched closely you
could just tell people were under
'cm they sometimes moved. But
the artists on the court didn't
wear blankets. We figured they
were awfully cold, 'til we saw
Taylor take her sweat shirt off.
Out there in all that gale, too.
Four, to be more precise.
Health Campaign Freshmen Give
Qets Underway
Frances Robinson, Chairman,
Appoints Managers
For the exam week health cam-
paign the managers for the dormi-
tory wings and cottages have re-
ceived appointment by Frances
Robinson, chairman. They are as
follows: Giddy Erwin and Jane
Jones for second and third floors
of Rebekah respectively; Anne
Enloe and V. J. Watkins, second
and third floors Alain; Ann Henry,
Mary Brainard Bell, and Nellie
Richardson, first, second, and
third floors Inman; Freck Sproles,
Boyd; Polly Ware, Gaines; and
Martha Zellner, White House.
These girls will be in charge of the
charts on each floor.
Scientific Club
Initiates Eight
Chi Beta Phi Sigma, national
honorary undergraduate scientific
sorority, initiated eight new
members at its last meeting; Kath-
erine Brittingham, Jean Codding,
Helen Friedlander, Emily Harris,
Cora Kay Hutchins, Phyliss John-
son, Frances Robinson and Mary
Ellen Whetsell. Elizabeth Skinner
was in charge of the initiation.
After a business session, during
which the date of meeting was
changed from the first Monday to
the first Tuesday of each month,
refreshments were served.
Teachers Entertain
Episcopalian Students
The Episcopalian members of
the Faculty entertained the 41
Agnes Scott students who belong
to Episcopal churches at a tea on
November 10 at the Anna Young
Alumnae House. The guests of
honor were Bishop and Mrs. Mi-
Kell and Mr. and Mrs. Holden.
Program for
County Poor
Thanksgiving Project Of
Bible Class Includes
Gifts Of Food
The Freshman Bible Class of
Agnes Scott College made visits to
the County Homes for the Poor on
Sunday afternoon, November 21.
In observance of the Thanksgiving
season, the class carried baskets of
food to the inmates of both the
white and negro institutions. The
class members held a Thanksgiv-
ing service at the County Home
for white people and later met
with the negroes for hymns and
prayers.
In addition to the food offer-
ings, every member of both homes
received a gift which was provided
for by the contributions of the
class during this quarter.
The arrangements of the
Thanksgiving project were in
charge of Grace Walker and Mary
Scott Wilds. Dr. McCain is the
class teacher.
Outing Club Has
Alabama Jaunt
Talladega, Alabama, was the des-
tination of the Outing Club re-
cently when four faculty mem-
bers and six students drove over on
Saturday afternoon to enjoy hiking
and camping. Miss Wilburn, ad-
visor for the club, and Misses
Mitchell, McCalla and Blanche
Miller, accompanied Adelaide Ben-
son, Lucy Hill Doty, Jeanne Mat-
thews, Ursula Mayer, Virginia Sut-
tenfield and Mary Frances Thomp-
son.
On Saturday night the group
hiked up a mountain, and Sunday,
another hike led them to a C. C. C.
camp. They returned home Sun-
day night, after a strenuous but
successful trip.
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knitted dress. Not too severe so that it looks
like the class room but made with classic
simplicity so that you can let yourself go
with gay accessories and frivolous scarfs.
These same dresses worn at once will make
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Outing Club Will
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Club To Use New Outdoor
Stove For Cook-Out Hike
Martha Long, of the Outing
Club and in charge of building
the new outdoor stove on the A. S.
camp site, has reported that the
stove is almost completed. Mem-
bers of the club are doing the work
themselves in free afternoon time.
The plan of the wood and gravel
structure is borrowed from a
Rhode Island Girl Scout Camp at
which the stove proved very effi-
cient and successful this past sum-
mer. The project, entirely free
from pecuniary costs whatsoever,
should be finished by the time the
club has completed its plans for
the first cook-out hike, sometime
within the month of November.
Debating Club
Initiates Two
Pi Alpha Phi, debating club,
initiated Jane Witman and Hazel
Hirsch at its meeting on Thursday,
October 2 8, in the Murphey Cand-
ler building. While impersonating
teachers, the two new members
conducted an open forum on the
question of: "How Is More Where-
fore Than Why, and If So, Why
Not?" Several of the old club
members were called upon also to
give points and impersonations.
Refreshments and a social hour
completed the evening.
Sophomores Win
Swimming Meet
At the season's second swim-
ming meet this year, held last
Monday night at 8:30, the sopho-
more class won first place with a
total of 27 points. The seniors ran
second with 18 points; the fresh-
men, third with 1 1 points; and
the juniors, fourth, with 5 points.
In the five separate events, the
sophs took first place in the 40-
yard dash free style; the seniors
took first place in the 20-yard
dash, back crawl, and in the tan-
dems for form (by Thompson and
Brown); and the freshmen took
first honors in the 20-yard dash,
breast, and also in the diving event,
with Burks scoring highest.
The swimming club demonstrate
ed formation swimming, all of
which was greatly enjoyed by the
full gallery. The last event was a
"king pigeon" contest, in which
all the swimmers joined.
Miss Wilburn, Miss Mitchell and
Miss B. Miller acted as judges.
Miss Haynes was clerk of course;
Miss Gaylord, and Ola Kelley were
score recorders, Lettie McKay was
announcer, Alice Cheeseman was
runner.
The swimming department was
very pleased with the swimming
exhibited in this excellent meet.
The performers show evidence of
good strong swimmers for next
spring's athletic innovation at
A. S. C: Water Polo.
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VOL. XXIII
AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1938
Z115
No. 10
Front Row
By Jane Guthrie
ENCORE: Socialist Leon Blum
becomes premier for the second
time. Retiring Premier Camille
Chautemps and Edouard Daladier
decline the job. Radical-Socialist
Georges Bonnet is unable to find
necessary support to form a gov-
ernment. The two preceding Peo-
ple's Front governments have been
supported only by Communists,
Socialists, and Radical-Socialists.
Blum seeks the support of all fac-
tions for his new government from
the communists on one extreme to
the Centrist followers of former
Minister of Finance, Paul Reynaud,
on the other.
READJUSTMENT: Japan's ob-
jective "pacification" of eastern
Asia undergoes major readjust-
ments. Recognition is withdrawn
from the Central Chinese regime.
Japanese diplomats are instructed
to explain Japan's intentions in the
war on China. Premier Prince
Fumimaro Konoye plans to clarify
the new China policy and urges
nation to courageously face long
conflict. Prominent industralist,
Hachisabura Hirado, is made sup-
reme advisor to the Peiping gov-
ernment.
SHOWDOWN: Prolonged fili-
buster against the anti-lynching
bill enters its tenth day. Adminis-
tration men hint that pressure will
be brought to end the prolonged
oratory and continue President
Roosevelt's program. Night ses-
sions, major weapon against fili-
buster, may be used to force the
showdown in which the Anti-
Lynch bill will either be shelved or
passed.
Dr. Bigelowe Comes
To Atlanta Feb. 1
Professor Maurice A. Bigelowe,
of the Biology Department in the
Teachers' College of Columbia
University, who has recently been
appointed Educational Consultant
for the American Social Hygiene
Association, will be in Atlanta the
week of February 1 for a series of
lectures and forums. Professor
Bigelowe will bring with him sev-
eral hundred lantern slides on
heredity, environment, eugenics,
and reproduction, which are in-
cluded in social biology in Colum-
bia University.
Dr. Florence Swanson says she
hopes to be able to arrange for Dr.
Bigelowe to speak at one Agnes
Scott chapel program during his
stay in Atlanta and to hold one in-
formal evening discussion forum
with a group of the students and
faculty.
Brilliant Young Artist to Give Illustrated Talk
On "Pictures are Like People" Here Tuesday
S. C. Is Only Institution
In South Where Ede
Will Appear
"What Is Beautiful in Art and
Why?" is one of the topics which
Mr. H. S. Ede will discuss in the
lecture on "Pictures Are Like
People," which he will deliver here
January 25 at 8:30 P. M. Under
the auspices of the Public Lecture
Association, Mr. Ede will illustrate
his talk with colored slides.
The handsome - young artist and
author, who is assistant curator of
the Tate Gallery in London, is
well-known in England as a stu-
dent and critic of modern paint-
ing. He began life as an artist, but
took up the official work he now
does in order to support his family.
Mr. Ede will be in America only
during the months of January and
February; Agnes Scott is the only
place in the South where he will
appear.
One critic has said of Mr. Ede's
lecture: "His own words are like a
musical accompaniment to the
pictures, and the whole evening
gave one the experience of some-
thing vivid, complete and extra-
ordinary beautiful."
108 Freshmen,
Dates Attend
County Fair
Horse-Racing, Movie Stars
Add To Carnival Mood
Gay booths and enthusiastic (if
effeminate) barkers transformed
the Bucher Scott gymnasium into
a colorful county fair last night,
when Mortar Board entertained
108 freshmen and their dates in a
most festive carnival mood.
Enterprising guests indulged in
a little roulette, horse-racing, nail-
hitting, or bingo. After the pre-
liminary contests there was a floor
show in which the great maestro,
Georgia Hunt, presented such
dancing stars as Jane Moses and
Carolyn Forman and such radio
celebrities as Jean Barry Adams,
Nell Hemphill, Emma McMullen,
Mary Leukel, Shirley Steele, and
Irene Phillips. The climax of the
evening's entertainment was a
grand march proceeding from the
gym to the Murphey Candler
Building where refreshments of ice
cream, angel food cake, and mints
were served.
The Dates Committee for the
party was composed of Lib Black-
shear, Babbie Adams, and Jean
Chalmers. The entertainment was
planned by Ann Worthy Johnson.
'Savage Messiah" Wins Fame
For Well-Known Tate
Curator
Mr. H. S. Ede
Blackfriars
To Present
'Pygmalion'
G. Shaw's Delightful Defense
Of Phonetics To Come
On February 19
Savage Messiah, a biography of
Henri Guadier - Brzeska, has
brought to Mr. H. S. Ede, Agnes
Scott's first lecturer of the year,
much of the fame which the young
artist now enjoys.
It was Mr. Ede's first book and
presented to America two almost
unknown personalities a great
sculptor and, judging from this
book alone, a great biographer.
The Book-of-the-Month Club
chose the book several years ago.
In addition Mr. Ede has written a
book on Florentine Drawings of
the Quatro Centro, and a number
of his articles have appeared in
Burlington Magazine.
Admission prices for Mr. Ede's
lecture here next Tuesday are:
Rates for students seventy-five
cents for reserved seats, and fifty
cents for unreserved seats; rates
for general public one dollar for
reserved, and seventy-five cents
for unreserved.
Shakespeare
Inspires Skit
For May-Day
Erwin, Thompson, Matthews
Adapt "Midsummer
Night's Dream"
Fairy-Like Play Pleases
Dr. J. R. McCain Goes to Chicago
To Attend National Conferences
President J. R. McCain left
Monday night for Chicago where
he is attending meetings of the
Association of American Colleges,
the Natibnal Conference of
Church-Related Colleges, the Pan-
Presbyterian College Union, and a
committee of the American Coun-
cil on Education. Each of these
meetings will be held at the
Stevens Hotel.
The general theme of the twen-
ty-fourth annual meeting of the
Association of American Colleges,
which meets tomorrow and Thurs-
day, is "The Colleges and Public
Life." Dr. McCain was president
of this association last year and is
at present on the nominating com-
mittee. Mr. Stukes is also attend-
ing this session.
Today Dr. McCain is attending
the National Conference of
Church-Related Colleges, which
has as its general theme "The Con-
tribution of Church-Related Col-
leges to Civic, Cultural and Reli-
gious Life."
Yesterday he attended the first
annual meeting of the Pan-Presby-
terian College Union.
"The English do not speak
their language and will not
teach it to their children,"
says the cryptic George Ber-
nard Shaw in his preface to his de-
lightful Pygmalion which Black-
friars will present, under the direc-
tion of Misses Frances K. Gooch
and Carrie Phinney Latimer in the
Bucher Scott Gymnasium on Sat-
urday night, February 19.
The play, which is written in
Mr. Shaw's most scintillating style,
has as its theme the value of phon-
etics in the English language. Mr.
Higgins, a phonetics professor, at-
tempts to improve the diction of a
poor girl who sells flowers on the
street to such a degree that he will
be able to pass her off as a duchess.
The trouble he encounters in mak-
ing good his attempt and the com-
plications that are involved as a
result of his success help to make a
very interesting story peppered
with amusing and dramatic inci-
dents.
The cast of characters, which
has not yet been definitely decided
upon, is to be made up of the fol-
lowing: Eliza Doolittle, Elizabeth
Cousins; Clara Eynsford Hill,
Helen Moses or Margaret Hopkins;
Mrs. Eynsford Hill, Shirley Steele;
Mrs. Pearce, Mary Anne Kernan or
Kathleen Kennedy; Parlor Maid,
Evelyn Sears; Mrs. Higgins, Mary
Anne Kernan or Kathleen Kenedy.
The male cast will include
Messrs. Jimmie Jepson, Marion
Camp, Cyril Smith and others.
Coit, McMullen
Attend Annual
Student Meet
N. S. F. A. Convention Meets
At Alburquerque, N. M.
Dr. Rhodes to Speak
On 'Evolution, Bible 5
Professor R. C. Rhodes, of the
Biology Department at Emory
University, and an ordained Meth-
odist minister, will speak in chapel
January 21st on the subject "Evo-
lution and the Bible." On Sunday
night, January 23rd, he will con-
tinue this discussion at Vespers. It
is hoped that he will also speak at
Vespers the following Sunday
night.
During the Christmas holidays,
Laura Coit and Emma McMullen
represented Agnes Scott at the
13 th annual convention of the
National Students' Federation of
America which was in session on
the campus of the University of
New Mexico in Alburquerque.
One hundred twenty-three dele-
gates were present as representa-
tives from seventy-five colleges.
The subject of major interest
considered was, of course, Student
Government. They concluded here
that college student government
associations should increase the
scope of their activities by touch-
ing in a legitimate and coopera-
tive way all phases of campus life
and activities.
The conference endorsed the
National Youth Administration
and disapproved the cutting of
N. Y. A. funds. They also repu-
diated compulsory R. O. T. C.
N. S. F. A., on the question of
peace, favors an army and navy
adequate for the defense of our
own country, our territorial pos-
sessions exclusive of the Philippine
Islands, and for keeping European
nations out of South America.
Oberon, Titania, and the ir-
repressible Puck will weave
their magic spells in the Ag-
nes Scott dell the second Sat-
urday in May, bewitching not only
hapless lovers but also the campus
community in a version of
Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's
Dream, which has been adapted by
Giddy Erwin, Anne Thompson,
and Mary Matthews for the annual
May Day pageant. In a meeting
last week the committee heard a
talk by Dr. George Hayes on the
moon-lit, fairy-like drama, and
selections from Mendelssohn played
by Nell Hemphill.
The Committee includes: Anne
Thompson, chairman; Bunnie
Marsh, business manager; Mary
Matthews, scenario; Ruth Tate and
Helen Moses, dances; Marjorie
Rainey and Eloise Lennard, cos-
tumes; Tommy Ruth Blackmon
and Hayden Sanford, music; Nell
Scott Earthman and Penn Ham-
mond, properties; and Helen Kirk-
patrick, publicity. The faculty ad-
visors are Miss Torrance, Miss Ley-
burn, and Miss Prettyman. Miss
Eugenia Dozier will direct the pa-
geant.
The Committee, in spite of the
present bleak weather, feels that
spring is not far behind, so work
is definitely in progress for the fete
which is to be held on May 14.
The May Queen will be elected
during the last part of this month.
Reception Is Given
For Day Students
The day students of Agnes
Scott and their parents were en-
tertained at a reception given for
them by Mortar Board on Saturday
afternoon, January 15. The guests
were received in the Murphey
Candler Building from 4:30 to 6
o'clock by President McCain, Miss
Scandrett, and Mary Lillian Fair-
ley, president of Mortar Board. The
other members of Mortar iBoard
acted as hostesses while the mem-
bers of the President's Council
served.
The reception is a traditional af-
fair given each year so that the day
students' parents might have an
opportunity to meet the members
of the Agnes Scott faculty.
Registrar S. G. Stukes Collects
Information Concerning Seniors
Among the most important of
Registrar S. G. Stukes' numerous
activities on the campus is assembl-
ing data concerning seniors which
would be of interest to prospective
employers. Originally confined to
students expecting to pursue busi-
ness or professional careers, this
practice was later extended to
cover all members of the graduat-
ing class, an alteration which
proved valuable when the late de-
pression caused unusually large
numbers, with many older alum-
nae, to seek positions.
Information collected and filed
by Mr. Stukes includes: the num-
ber of credits in different subjects,
a report of extra-curricular activi-
ties, and testimonials from five
persons, three of them connected
with the college. This permanent
record, as well as a list of grades,
is available whenever references
are desired. Since many firms and
schools apply directly to Agnes
Scott for assistants, some grad-
uates are placed immediately in
this way, while in many other
cases the record is instrumental in
helping girls to gain positions.
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THE AGONISTIC
Over Campus Network
With the holidays behind them, students are try-
ing to get the most possible out of campus life again.
At Mount Holyoke a new gym class is waking ev-
erybody up to the possibilities of winter. Skiing is
being taught for the first time; the most important
people there now are those who have mastered the
art. Later when there is a little more skill shown,
there will be inter-class competition.
Skill of another kind is being shown at A. & L
College in Kingsville, Texas. The director of the col-
lege choir had been looking for a first soprano for
sometime when he happened to hear Betty Farn-
worth's lusty yell to her roommate, a half block
away- It sounded promising to him so he put her to
practicing scales, and now she sings in the choir
she'd never sung a note before!
Of most interest are two letters in the Public
Opinion column in the Mount Holyoke News, writ-
ten by several girls who had attended the Student
Christian Movement which met during the holidays
at Oxford, Ohio. One of the letters mentions the
outstanding speech of Dr. T. Z. Koo, a Chinese
Christian. It states, "Our fascination with his na-
tive dress and light staccato speech change to pro-
found respect for this man, whose face lit up with
exquisite radiance when he said he knew he should
'Love His Enemies.' If a man can see his country in-
vaded, his dear ones endangered, and still look with
love upon the people causing such affliction, why
should we smugly support boycotts, spread alarmist
propaganda and do other things which only accuse
anti-Japanese sentiment, in itself contrary to our
deepest desires for world peace?"
The Texas Christian Lass-O offered a review of
1937 headline hits. Among the important events
listed were: The early rising of students to listen to
the coronation of King George, and the heated argu-
ments held over the Duke of Windsor; the Big
Apple; and the sudden wave of student resolutions
to become nurses after the bombing of the Panay.
(&l)c Agonistic
"Life With Mother"
Proves Gay Reading
CLARENCE DAY "LIFE WITH MOTHER"
Alfred P. Kuopf New York and London 1937
(Reviewed by Giddy Erwin)
In Life With Mother one finds that "marvelous
characterization, gentle wit and vigorous good sense
combined with , gaiety" inevitably associated with
the works of Clarence Day. This series of delightful
sketches is vibrant with the same quality that made
Life With Father a sparkling addition to America's
humorous prose rather than merely "another best-
seller." It shows that Day like Dickens had the
ability to portray his lovably eccentric father and
mother with such tenderness and humor that his
parents are able to take their place beside Mr. and
Mrs. Micawber among the most charming charac-
ters in literature.
Alumnations
Mildred Clark, '3 6, has succeeded so well in poetry
that she is approved by the New York Times! Her
latest sonnet to be accepted by the Times is "New
Teacher."
Eloisa Alexander, '37, studies and works and
works and studies. Now she is studying retail in
New York and working in the china and glassware
department at Wanamaker's.
"Even Stiff Hall isn't so bad once you get used
to the perfume, and dissecting is quite interesting,"
is Betty Willis', '3 7, opinion of her work in medicine
at the University of Virginia. The boys don't rib
her too much for being a girl, she says.
The latest news, which perhaps hasn't quite got
around the entire campus is the recent marriage of
Edith Merlin, '3 6, who is now in New York.
Other holiday matrimonial interests are the mar-
riages of Sarah Turner, '3 6, to James C. Ryan, of
Delavan, Illinois, December 2 8, in Atlanta; and on
the same day the marriage of Virginia Williams, '3 6,
to Henry Pierce Goodwin, III, of Greenville, South
Carolina, also in Atlanta.
Frances McDonald, '3 7, who majored in Biology,
naturally preferred a doctor. Anyway, she married
Dr. Leland Moore Thanksgiving afternoon in the
Emory Theological Chapel.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
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1937 Member 1938
Pissocided Golle&ide Press
What Price War?
Japan sinks the Panay, nationalists capture shattered
Teruel, and the pulse of youth catches the rhythm of the war-
drums. The American Student Union splits on the issue of
a national peace policy and, after heated wangling, repudi-
ates the Oxford pledge to refuse to bear arms for its country.
The right hand of the world knows what the left is doing, but
pretends it doesn't; nations do not walk softly, but they
carry very big sticks.
Failure of the students to agree on the issue which has
long harassed our elders indicates that idealistic intentions
are often exploded by our spontaneously combustible emo-
tions. The Union's repudiation of the pledge it had adopted
is a backward step; and we believe that progress is not
achieved through retreat. We must present a united front
to the world, standing firm in our reiteration that imperial-
ism and peace are incompatible and the latter is desirable
at any cost.
Establishing world peace will be a series of adjustments,
compromises, and readjustments; peace is costly, but not
nearly so expensive in warm young lives or cold hard cash
as war. Having taken a stand for peace, we cannot accept
organized butchery as the intelligent solution to any diffi-
culty. The road to peace does not lie through the inferno of
war.
Big Business Spuirms
As President Attacks
Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made On
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever" but the power of
distinguishing the beautiful from the mediocre is a rare and
wondrous quality. Next Tuesday evening Agnes Scott stu-
dents will have an unparalleled opportunity to learn the basic
principles of artistic discrimination when Mr. H. S. Ede lec-
tures here on "Pictures Are Like People."
One topic Mr. Ede will consider will be "What is Beautiful
in Art and Why" ; and few people today are better qualified
than this brilliant young artist to answer such a question.
Not only is his discrimination based on an intimate knowl-
edge of the great masters of the past, but also his own work
has brought him universal recognition as an eminent critic
of modern art.
Realizing that movies, lipstick, and chewing gum are basic
necessities of life and are, therefore, indispensable, we yet
feel that fifty cents and an evening invested in an illustrated
lecture on modern art will pay dividends and are not without
value in their own aesthetic way.
The muse of painting has been curiously neglected in the
American educational system. Our people are surprisingly
ignorant of the masters and their great works, which are the
graphic history of a nation's culture. An enlightened critic
is like the Roman sculptor who loved a statue so deeply that
he brought it to life. To those ignorant of the elements of
art, pictures say little other than the obvious; but to the
initiate they speak with a thousand flaming tongues.
Let us remember that our Lecture Association cannot exist
without our support; let us realize that artistic appreciation
requires just as sensitive and well-equipped an imagination
as artistic creation.
We shall look for you Tuesday night.
Full of Bluster
Intelligent Southerners must blush in discomfiture to view
the circus which their senators have been staging as they
employ that time-honored device, the filibuster, to prevent
the anti-lynching law. With strong arm and mighty lung
these florid Quixotes have risen to avenge this "insult"
leveled at the gracefully decadent Old South.
These model statesmen stagnate the process of govern-
ment, while such important measures as the wages and hours
bill gather dust and are lost. The voluble orators may pre-
vent the passing of the bill, but they cannot alter the fact
that mob violence and murder are essentially crimes, and
must be dealt with as such.
One representative of the sunny South has valiantly de-
clared that he must "save the South for the white gentle-
men" ; and the rest of the country queries cynically, "What
gentlemen?"
Hortcnse Jones
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By Mary Anne Kernan
Tuesday, January 11: The door of the White
House office opens and a friendly smile greets the
first visitor.
"How do you do, Mr. Sloan. Won't you sit
down?"
"No, thank you, Mr. President. I uh-well, I'll just
stand up."
And business has been shifting uneasily on its feet
in the presence of government since then and is
likely to feel no more comfortable today at the sec-
ond White House conference of the Business Ad-
visory Council. While the federal government, led
by the able baritone of the president, has been sing-
ing "We want cooperation, etc. . . . between govern-
ment and business," business has awkwardly and dis-
cordantly responded, "If you want cooperation, you
had better do it yourself."
The conference of five business leaders with Mr.
Roosevelt last Tuesday and the similar meeting of
forty-six today may accomplish something 1 construc-
tive. At present, however, it seems likely that no ef-
fective cooperation will be allowed by business un-
less government makes the majority of the conces-
sions. Many administration leaders view the meet-
ings as preliminary steps in the establishment of a
rehashed NRA under which industrial and business
leaders will confer with government officials to
work out, according to the New York Times, "A
self-policing system without the extreme punitive
measures of the old NIRA." The presence of Don-
ald R. Richberg, former NRA leader, at the confer-
ence last Tuesday gave significance to this view.
Whatever its aims no indication of accomplish-
ment was evident after the conference. Alfred P.
Sloan, acting as spokesman for the group, said, "Ail
of us agree we have a better understanding of each
other's problems out of which we are sure will come
closer cooperation in meeting the difficulties of the
moment." Such innocuous, amiable statements as
this show the indefinite nature of actual negotia-
tions. It seems probable that, as many have sug-
gested, business and industry are holding out for
some assurance from the government either of re-
vision of repeal of the capital gains tax and the un-
distributed profits tax before it makes any promises.
The New York Times contends editorially that "the
primary need (in the present slump) is the encour-
agement of the capital goods industry" and that this
demands revision of the taxes mentioned. Opinion is
sharply divided, however; Maury Maverick, of Texas,
representing one of a large group, spoke recently on
the radio in fierce opposition to the repeal of these
taxes. The publication of Ferdinand Lundberg's
America's 60 Families has also aided the opposition
in pursuing the "soak the rich" policy.
Great importance is thus attached to the confer-
ence of today, both on account of the number of im-
portant men present (among them will be Gen.
Robert E. Wood, president of Sears, Roebuck and
Company; Clarence Francis, president of General
Foods Corp; Clay Williams, chairman of the board
of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, and Paul W.
Litchfield, president of Goodyear Tire and Rubber
Company) and because of the national interest in its
outcome.
We Think
REPORTERS: N. Allison. E. Baty, M. Chafin, M. L. Dobbs, M. L. Gill, E. Hutchens,
C. K. Hutchins, R. Hurwitz, F. Lee. P. Noble. M. L. Ratliffe, A. Reins, H. Solomon,
S. Steinbach. V. J. Watkins. L. Young. D. Weinkle. M. Merlin, A. Enloe. R. Drucker,
J. Saltens. H. Sanford. P. Heaslitt. J. Moseley.
BUSINESS STAFF: H. Hirsch. N. Echols. J. Flynt. F. Abbot. M. Oliver, H. Lichten.
(Editor's Note: The We Think column is conducted for the
purpose of giving an outlet to student opinion. The staff is in
no way responsible for what is printed in this column and it is
by no means to 1>e taken as the editorial opinion of the paper.)
We think the Agnes Scott girls are on the whole
dead, disinterested in vital matters, and lacking in
spirit. We have always thought that college grad-
uates are supposed to become leaders in their com-
munities, but we don't see how Agnes Scott girls
who don't even care enough about what's going on
to read the news unless its handed to them on a pre-
pared bulletin board, a silver platter, so to speak, arc
going to lead anything.
Agnes Scott has an industrial group to study and
discuss labor conditions. There arc about 500 girls
in the school; 14 attended the first meeting. "Not
interested," some answer, but Agnes Scott should be
interested.
Agnes Scott debated an English team and an
Australian team on subjects that arc of the utmost
importance. A very few heard the debates although
they were held on the campus and only a minimum
of energy was required to attend.
We think every girl should begin to take part in
the organizations with off campus interests that Ag-
nes Scott already provides. We also think Agnes
Scott as a whole should take more interest in world
affairs and devote chapel time to them. If other
girls agree, let them write to this column.
The editors invite answers to this vehement
thinker. What do you think about Agnes Scott and
the scope of her interests?
THE AGONISTIC
3
Miss Smith Visits
G. S. W. C. Festival
Associate Professor Florence
Smith, of the history department,
attended the twenty-fifth anniver-
sary celebration of G. S. W. C. in
Valdosta Friday night where she
represented Agnes Scott at dinner
and in the procession. Distinguish-
ed speakers at this celebration in-
cluded Dean Mildred Thompson of
Vassar College and retiring presi-
dent Wooley of Mount Holyoke
College.
Dr. D. H. Ogden, a patron and
former trustee of Agnes Scott and
father of Esthere, a junior here,
represented the college Tuesday at
the inauguration of Dr. Rufus
Harris, a former Georgian, as pres-
ident of Tulane University.
Clubs Meet Thursday
Ambitious Agnes Scotters Pen
Firm Resolutions for New Year
The infant New Year is now developing- adequate motor
capacities to keep pace with his sensory, mental, and percep-
tory abilities (shades of Child Psych) and is beginning to
move along even faster than the old year did. In fact, some
astute scholars have already begun
to write 193 8 on letters in one at-
tempt! Therefore it is wise, before
things go any farther, to take time
by the lock-jaw, so to speak, and
to hear the New Year's Resolutions
of some of our loyal seekers after
learning.
Many of the girls on the campus,
unfortunately, possessed foresight
enough not to make any resolutions
this ^year. Elise Seay, for example,
stated vehemently that she was
constitutionally opposed to them
(but perhaps she needs an amend-
ment). Of those girls who did
succumb to resolutitis, however, it
is interesting to note a strong Jer-
vey influence. "Dusty" Hance
and Grace Ward earnestly resolved
to lose five pounds each; Eloise
McCall and Gary Home are def-
initely "off" sweets until the next
time; Nancy Willstatter takes the
prize by resolving to petition next
fall for a lady who teaches "how to
get men" rather than merely "how
to be charming."
Romance plays a large part in
many of this year's crop of resolu-
tions. For instance, "Mickey"
Warren is determined not to string
anybody along in 193 8; Margaret
Lipscomb promises to let her Bill
come more often than the first of
the month; Anne Thompson re-
solves not to burn Ben's eggs after
the first ten times.
Soaring to intellectual heights,
many Campus Characters have
made impressively academic resolu-
tions. Jean Austin is determined to
discover a scientific method for
extracting six hours of Bible 205
reading painlessly, while Jean Mat-
thews resolves to do six hours of
this reading in two hours, in ac-
cordance with Daylight Saving
Time; Eleanor Hutchens, forsooth,
will endeavor full privily to adopt
her Jargon to the language of chiv-
alry for the benefit of English 211;
Ann Worthy Johnson's resolution
is two-fold: to sleep and to grad-
uate (although the two are inher-
ently contradictory) ; Kitten Ful-
ton in her own German way earn-
estly desires to live Faust and fur-
iously (when she's Goethe go, she's
Goethe go!) .
The faculty, too, have made
quite imposing resolutions. Mr.
Robinson, during 193 8, will not
henceforth skip over more than
ten steps in each problem. (His
class, incidentally, has resolved not
to hold any more "sit-down"
strikes) ; Mr. Hayes will hence-
forth assign only four Shakespeare
term papers per quarter, each to be
a short one of only 5000 words;
Miss Jackson plans to join the
A. A. U. W.; that is, if she feels
that she can attend a few of the
conferences without having to
leave tests for her classes; but Mr.
Raper has the most exalted resolu-
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If you heard strange sounds
emerging from the Murphey Cand-
ler building on the afternoon of
Thursday, January thirteenth,
they were the result either of the
Spanish club's indulgence in child-
ish games, or the Cotillion club's
"truckm* on down."
At 4:30 the Spanish Club met
for a social hour, with songs and
games and refreshments prepared
by Adele Haggart. At 5:30 Helen
Kirkpatrick, Eloise Estes, and,
Nelle Scott Earthman were host-
esses to the Cotillion Club.
tion of all he intends to plant
watermelon rinds in his front yard
to help the Soil Erosion problem!
Under the heading of miscellan-
eous comes several other interesting
resolves, such as that of Martha
Long to learn to be a good golfer
(even if she doesn't yet know
which end of the caddy to drive!) ;
Mary Wells McNeill will devote
this year to the task of keeping
Sara McCain awake in library; and
Frances Norman and Tommy Ruth
Blackmon both resolve to contract
larger scars in their next bus
wreck to get more sympathy
they must know that what Amer-
ica needs is a good five-cent scar!
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Social Lights
A week-end of perfect weather
and lots to do brought several visi-
tors to the campus. Nancy Moorer
returned to attend the Med dance
Friday night where Agnes Scott
gathered en masse: Julia Porter,
Bee Merrill, Betty Aycock, ex-'39,
Miriam Saunders, Callie Car-
michael, Alice Comer, Shirley Ar-
mentrout, Grace Tazewell, and
Eloise Leonard. The S. A. E.
Formal claimed others; among
them Charlotte Golden, Jane
Luthy, Jane Moore Hamilton,
Anne Wheaton, and Jane Jones.
Saturday afternoon Aileen
Shortley, leaving the door to the
phone booth open, was heard to
gurgle estastically, "Oh honey, are
you here!!!" which was the prelude
to a lovely week-end spent with
friends (?) from the home-town.
Mary Mac Hudson was minutes
hours late, Saturday night.
Her date followed the maid around
anxiously. Finally in desperation
Leola turned around to ask him to
have a seat but he had disap-
peared. Later, after looking under
all the tables in the parlors, and be-
hind all the doors, Miss Hudson
went home wondering who had
told her that all men were suckers
anyway.
January 14, the day of birth-
days. Tommy Ruth Blackmon
grinned a little extra grin when
she opened the lovely manicuring
set Wilmer sent her. Anne Thomp-
son sighed over Ben's newest pic-
ture; Laura Coit bragged about the
cedar chest her family gave her;
while Evelyn Baty and Marie
Merritt lugged home enormous
boxes from the mail room.
Dr. Roberts Speaks
To Science Club on
Socialized Medicine
Dr. C. W. Roberts was the
guest of Chi Beta Phi Sigma,
science fraternity, on Thursday
evening, January 13, when he
spoke at the open meeting of the
group. His subject was "Concern-
ing the problems of Socialized
Medicine."
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Address Meetings
Miss My ra Jervey Gives Tips
On Charm at Personality Clinic
You are vain if you have corns on your feet ; you are simple
if you over-pluck your eyebrows ; you are an idiot if you say
you can't stop biting your nails there are among the frank
if unflattering "tips" which Miss Myra Jervey, head of the
designing department at Stephens
College, revealed in the school of
charm which she conducted here
last week. The vivacious brunette
Agnes Scott alumna discussed in
lectures and private conferences
the niceties of make-up, dress, and
coiffure for the benefit of our en-
thusiastic seekers after "that inde-
finable something."
Miss Jervey has spent three
years at Stephens, where she teaches
in the art department, operating a
"personality clinic" and a dress
shop, and helps each girl to choose
a make-up and wardrode suitable
to her.
The young charm expert was
graduated in 1931 from Agnes
Scott, where she majored in his-
tory a fact which has aided her
greatly in her costuming. As an
undergraduate here, Miss Jervey
was: costume manager of Black-
friars, assistant editor of Aurora,
president of Glee Club, and a
member of Poetry club, Pen and
Brush and German Club.
Miss Jervey disapproves of diet-
ing for working people; but holds
that a one-day liquid diet is good
once a week.
P.S. We keep our waffjes!
Agnes Scott's exchange stu-
dents are finding themselves in
great demand as guest speakers
this year. Tami Okamura and
Therese Poumaillou spoke at
the meeting of the Agnes Scott
Business Women's Club January
13. Tami will tell of the changes
in the spirit of the Japanese social
life, while Therese will contrast
our states with the French prov-
inces. These students, along with
Ursula Mayer, will be the guests
of honor at the Rotary Club of
Marietta, Georgia, Friday, January
28. Each will speak describing
some phase of life in her native
land.
B.O.Z. Holds Meeting
B. O. Z., creative writing club,
read .and discussed three original
stories at its meeting on Friday
night, January fourteenth. Carol
Hale, Mary Anne Kernan and
Sophie Montgomery read, and Eve-
lyn Baty and Sophie Montgomery
served.
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When you want advice, go to the seniors,
of course! And the class of '38 knows
it's Fleece coats. And h knows, besides,
that the place to get them is MANGEL'S.
When their is a buzz of activity and
everyone is flying hither and yon, you'll
know that eventually you'll meet them at
MANGEL'S selecting a camel's hair or
other kind of a fleece coat or a new silk
frock or suit, some lingerie or hosiery
. . that's campus gospel. How do you
know? Just ask any member of '381
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THE AGONISTIC
SPORTING
The first basketball scrimmage
of the winter as you may have
noted, has been omitted in the ac-
counts on this venerable page.
(What an editor! but won't she
be surprised to see how we are de-
fying her herd) So to make up
for this pusillanimous discrepency,
we have jerked a sheet of scrappy
notes from the press box Yes!
and dash it! If we aren't going to
publish it in black and white. It's
p'hapsa mad thing to do, but we
trust your enjoyment will make
this mutiny worth while.
This about the junior-senior
game: King what a guard . . .
foul. Garner . . . goal, of course
. . . Thompson retaliates . . . one
goal . . . Thompson repeats . . .
Laura would! . . . and did . . . goal.
Cheering section of three . . .
Thompson again . . . drat! (We
take it the press box is for the jun-
iors, n'est-ce pas?) Flynt . . . rah!
a goal . . . Erwin . . .ha! blocking!
Steele throws herself down again
. . . Steelie blocking . . . and no
substitutes! . . . Blackshear . . .
goal! . . . Blackshear . . . ditto . . .
drat; . . . Garner . . . goal; bless
her! End half . . . 21-14 seniors.
Second half . . . Garner missed
. . . headline . . . Flynt flits and
fouls . . . Mrs. Rob. and Ann in
gallerie . . . Miller and McKinney
. . . Jackson missing . . . find out
why . . . Boy what a game! . . .
Erwin hollers . . . drole playing . . .
Erwin passes to juniors . . . Strug-
gle and juggle; goal by that won-
derful Thompson.
And so on to the end and the
score 32-27 for the juniors. (Ray
f'th' press box!)
On th' itherrrr-r-r side o' th'
page, this: Fr.-Soph. game . . . Mil-
ner .. . oboy ... 1st goal . . . Dyer
free goal . . . tech on Steinbach . . .
Excell. passing sophs . . . Milner
lifts ball in basket . . . Slack; med-
itate on goals more . . . Moses; hold
that ball! . . . Forman . . . goal . . .
end of grand pass (from Milner to
Slack to Forman) . . . end half;
18-14 sophs.
Sec. ha' . . . Bell . . . goal . . .
Benefield personal . . . Dyer . . .
goal . . . Bell missed . . . Milner . . .
at last . . . free by foul (she fought
Eta Sigma Phi
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Ten new members joined the
classical students who make up the
membership of Eta Sigma Phi, hon
orary Greek and Latin fraternity,
on Monday, January 10. They were
Ruth Ann Byreley, Myrl Chafin,
Mary Elizabeth Chalmers, Carolyn
Forman, Georgia Hunt, Eleanor
Hutchens, Jane Moses, Henrietta
Thompson, V. J. Watkins, and
Louise Young.
After the initiation, the club
adjourned to the Candler Hotel,
where they held their annual ban-
quet. The speaker, Miss Anabelle
Home, from Girls' High School in
Atlanta, chose as her subject
"Ovid," and spoke entertainingly
of the poet's colorful life and
works. Other guests were Miss
Lizabell Saxon and Miss Ruth
Thomas, graduates of Agnes Scott.
Miss Steadman Talks
At K. U. B. Meeting
Miss Margaret Steadman, feature
writer for the Atlanta Journal,
will speak at the K. U. B. meeting
this afternoon at 4:30, in the Mur-
phey Candler building. Miss Stead-
man is a most interesting speaker
and a writer of wide activity.
Among the suggestions which she
will give the journalism club will
be some information on the writ-
ing of leads for feature stories.
for that!) . . . Mutt planning to
call a personal soon . . . Slack . . .
goal . . . great rejoicing . . . Game:
30-20 sophs! Comments: Wilburn:
"very good games ... . evenly
matched . . . Those winning had
punch to put it over . . .";
Mitchell: "Ditto ... for first
game . . . Better than expected";
Steele: Speechless. Well . . . and so
that's that. Dash it! No more
lead . . .
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Glee Club Offers
Mikado In April
Mr. Lewis Johnson To Direct
Brilliant Opera
The Agnes Scott Glee Club, un-
der the direction of Mr. Lewis
Johnson, will present the Gilbert
and Sullivan opera, the Mikado,
April 1 and 2 in the Bucher Scott
gymnasium.
Leland Mackey, Edwin Everitt,
Walton Bobo, Richard Smoot,
Don White, Bill King, Ruth Tate,
Caroline Armistead, Virginia Kyle,
Emily Underwood, Jane Moore
Hamilton, Betty Kyle, Amelia
Nickels, and Jane Moses, are tak-
ing the leads in the opera.
Evelyn Wall is the accompanist.
The cast is packed by one of the
best choruses in years. The Mikado
was given with great success in
1934.
Sophomores Trounce Seniors
As Frosh Nose Out Juniors
Scoring 5 5-19 the sophomores
defeated the seniors in the second
basketball game of the season Fri-
day night, after which game the
freshmen defeated the juniors nar-
rowly, 31-30. Both games were
thrillingly rough.
In the senior-soph game the
sophomores led from the begin-
ning, Milner scoring first. Black-
shear's shots scored the seniors' ex-
cellent plays. The sophomores'
passing was amazing. The for-
wards showed ease and confidence
in passing, which, by thoughtful
plays, usually won points. Moses
and Crisp made fine individual
plays, Crisp being particularly
graceful.
Fernand Brossard
Presents Guignol
A bit of France itself came to
the chapel last Monday at 4:30,
when Fernand Brossard, a guigno-
list on the S. S. Normandie, pre-
sented his guignol, a performance
most nearly like our Punch and
Judy shows. The guignol originat-
ed in Lyons, and is a very popular
entertainment with the French
children, who see it often in the
Luxembourg gardens.
Public telephone booths are
easy to find in England. They're
painted red and set out on the
sidewalks.
Meet Your Friends at
Cox's Prescription Shop
Between Paramount and Grand
Theatres, Atlanta
Clubs Announce Tryouts
Thursday, January 27, is the day
set to try out for Pi Alpha Phi,
debating society. Those wishing to
take part should see the back bul-
letin board in Buttrick Hall.
Poetry Club has chosen Febru-
ary first as the last day on which
to submit poems for tryouts. The
club also will sponsor a contest to
select three poems to appear in an
anthology of college verse.
During the freshman - junior
game Dyer and Garner starred.
Garner's magnificent shot from
mid-court won cheers. Jones and
Flynt demonstrated excellent for-
ward ability, Steel starring as
guard. The closing score, 31-30,
evidenced keen competition be-
tween the teams.
Accidents hit a new high. Mc-
Kay was carried to the infirmary
with blistered feet. Noble also suf-
fered blisters. Steele suffered gen-
eral damages. Flynt suffers disa-
bility the rest of the season be-
cause of a right arm injury.
Line-ups for these games were:
Seniors (19) Sophomores (55)
Bl'kshear (12) F. Slack (19)
Noble (4) F. Eyles (4)
Thompson (3) F. Milner (28)
King G. Crisp
McKay G. Thompson
Young G. Moses
Substitutes: Coit for seniors,
and Salters and Forman, sopho-
mores.
Juniors (30)
Garner (16)
Flynt (6)
Dryfoos (2)
MacGuire
Hamilton
Steele
Substitutes: Jones for the Jun-
iors. Referees: Miss Wilburn
and Miss Mitchell.
Freshmen (31)
F. Dyer (16)
F. Bell (6)
F. Behm (9)
G. Steinbach
G. Wilds
G. Cates
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Honor
Week
Nominate
May
Queen
VOL. XXIII
AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1938
Z115
No. 11
Students to Nominate Queen
Of May Tomorrow, Friday
Signed Ballots Must Be Put
In Box In Lobby Of
Buttrick
Tomorrow and Friday will see
the popular nominations for the
May Queen who will rule over the
festivities when Agnes Scott pre-
sents Midsummer Night's Dream,
on May 14. Anne Thompson,
chairman of May Day, has an-
nounced that students may place
their nominations in a box which
will be placed on the table by the
radiator in Buttrick lobby, and be-
side the box voting cards which
must be signed to be counted.
The May Queen is chosen from
the senior class. Any girl who re-
ceives fifteen votes is nominated,
nominees defeated in the final vote
being automatically included in
the court. Election of the queen
from the preliminary candidates
will be the week following the
first balloting.
Front Row
By Jane Guthrie
AIR-RAID: Perpignan, France,
gets its first aid raid of the war as
14 Spanish Insurgent planes attack
important railroad center, Puigcer-
da, on French frontier, and drop
eleven bombs on French soil. Hut
sheltering to mobile guards wreck-
ed. No fatalities in France; 30 per-
sons killed in Puigcerda. Prefect of
Pyrenees-Orientales orders aircraft
batteries from Paris immediately.
Formal French protest expected
after an investigation.
MONGOLIAN MENACE:
Railroad from Peipeing to Paotow
is key to Japanese control of more
than half of North China.
Through this 600-mile line Rus-
sian supplies are shipped to China.
Renewed reports come that Outer
Mongolian republic, established un-
der Russian influence, merged with
China at outbreak of war. Japa-
nese troops in this little known re-
gion of North China are few and
scattered. Outer Mongolians are
said to be strengthening defenses.
A long finger points to North
China as the next no-man's land
for hostilities.
HITLER ON SINAI: Nazis
now have a new set of ten com-
mandments. Set forth recently in
a German newspaper, they were:
1. Der Fuehrer must be thy
model.
2. Thou shalt obey the party
leaders as they are carrying out
Der Fuehrer's orders.
3. Thy life belongs in the fu-
ture to thy party, which is thy
spiritual and mental home.
4. National - Socialism alone
gives truth over all life.
5. Our adversary never is right.
If he were he would be a national-
socialist.
6. Thy party colleague is thy
comrade.
7. Help thy compatriot. Be his
friend, advisor, and helper.
8. Don't forget that as Der
Fuehrer's soldier thou hast no
rights, only duties.
9. Conduct theyself as a model
to thy fellow-German, just as
Der Feuhrer is a model to thee.
10. Der Fuehrer's old guards
must be thy example in thy duties
to the party. Be true as they were,
fight as they fought and sacrifice
as they did.
Local Colleges
Sponsor Civic
Organization
The Institute of Citizenship,
sponsored for the first time by
Emory, Georgia Tech, and Agnes
Scott, will meet on the three cam-
puses February 14-17. The first
meeting will be at Emory Monday
night and each college will be the
scene of three meetings.
Agnes Scott will be hostess from
Tuesday evening, February 15, to
Wednesday afternoon, February
16. The Tuesday night program
is to be a joint meeting of the In-
stitute and the Georgia Phi Beta
Kappa Society. The programs at
Tech will complete the confer-
ences.
Hale Announces
Aurora Contest
Prizes Will Be Given For
Best Literary Creations
Carol Hale, editor of the Aurora,
campus literary magazine, an-
nounces plans for the 1937-3 8
Aurora contest. The judges will
be chosen later, and prizes will be
given for the best short story,
poem, special article and one act
play. This is the first year a prize
is offered for the best play. Also,
this year there will be separate
judges for each type, instead of one
judge for all types.
Last year the winners of the
contest were: Short Story
"Flood," by Jane Guthrie; Poem
"To One I Know," by June Mat-
thews; and Special Article "Fear
Death," by Isabel McCain.
In the April issue of the Aurora
will be published the best essays
written by the freshmen that the
editor has received.
Featured in the next issue of the
Aurora, to appear in two weeks,
will be a poem by Dr. Schuyler
Christian, in accordance with the
staff's custom of publishing some
faculty contribution each month.
A.S.C. Campaigns to
Help Cure Paralysis
"Buy a button to help cure
infantile paralysis" is the slogan
of the members of the Industrial
group of the campus Y. W.
C. A., who are backing the
campaign in Decatur. During
the week beginning January
24, girls will be in the lobby
of Buttrick to receive contribu-
tions of any amount. The
money will go to the Warm
Springs Foundation, and will
be presented on January 31, the
President's birthday.
Honor Is
Theme for
This Week
Student Government Tries
To Freshen Ideas On
Honor System
Talks Given In Chapel
Seniors Elect Blaekstone
As Agonistic Contest Begins
Juniors Work
Out Plans for
Class Banquet
February 19 has been chosen as
the date of the Junior banquet,
one of the outstanding social
events of the year, and Mary Hol-
lingsworth, president of the Junior
class, has announced the following
committees to work out the plans
for it:
Dates and Invitations: Helen
Kirkpatrick, Chairman; Callie
Carmichael, Jeanne Flynt, Marie
Merritt, and Esthere Ogden.
Entertainment: Jane Moore
Hamilton, Chairman; Hayden
Sanford, Martha Marshall, and
Flora MacGuire.
Place Cards: Lou Pate, Chair-
man; Kitty Caldwell, Cary
Wheeler, and Catherine Ivey.
Y.W.C.A. Picks
Quarter Theme
This week, as announced by
Student Government, is Honor
Week. Its purpose is to freshen our
ideas on the honor standard, both
personal and in relation to all the
campus, and to revitalize our inter-
est and loyalty toward the stan-
dard.
Tuesday, Y. W. C. A. put on a
program in chapel. Martha Long
spoke on "Honor As An Abstract
Quality." Thursday Dr. Christian,
representing the faculty, will speak
on "Honor in Character Develop-
ment and Training for Citizen-
ship." Friday, two students, Caro-
lyn Forman and Mary Ellen Whet-
sell, representing the student body,
will speak on the phases of the
honor system as especially applied
to the campus, with its significance
in social regulations and academic
matters. On Saturday Dr. McCain,
representing the Administration,
will talk on "Honor in the Devel-
opment of the College" the
changes produced through the
years by the honor system.
Robert Speer Will Conduct
Week Of Services
Brown Is Business Manager;
Dr. Christian, Ames,
Fox Judges
The annual Agonistic contest
will begin on February 2, with the
senior edition, headed by Elsie
Blaekstone, editor, and Martha
Peek Brown, business manager.
The junior, sophomore, and fresh-
man editions will follow on the
three successive Wednesdays.
The three judges who have been
selected thus far are Lulu Daniel
Ames, who was editor of the Ago-
nistic in 193 5-36; Dr. S. M.
Christian, the faculty judge, and
Henry Fox, editor of the Madison-
ville (Texas) News and a well-
known young southern journalist.
Two other judges will be decided
upon in the near future.
Anyone who has paid her budget
may work on the class papers, ex-
cept regular staff members who
received their positions through
popular election. Other staff
members may work in departments
other than their own.
"Does Christ Stand the Test As
A Foundation for Our Faith" has
been chosen as this quarter's
theme for Y. W. C. A., according
to Winifred Kellersberger, Presi-
dent, and several important speak-
ers have been invited to speak on
this subject.
The first of these speakers is Dr.
Robert E. Speer, who will conduct
a week of religious services, Feb-
ruary 8-13. Dr. Speer has held
the position of head of the Foreign
Mission Board of the Presbyterian
Church of the United States.
April 5, Mr. Albert Stuart, from
St. Michael's Episcopal Church in
Charleston, S. C, will talk on the
subject, "Cross and Crucification."
Some unusual vesper programs
have also been planned. On Janu-
ary 30, Mr. Lewis H. Johnson, in-
structor in voice, will talk on reli-
gious music. On February 6 there
will be a deputation from Brenau
who will be in charge of vespers.
Mr. Ede Expresses
Calla Lilies
Yen for Coca-Cola, Spirituals,
in Informal Interview With Reporter
By Giddy Erwfn
"The first thing I want to do,"
proclaimed Mr. Ede, as he cozily
folded himself up on the porch
steps of Ansley and propped his
chin on his hands for a long win-
ter's chat, "is to correct an erron-
eous impression about myself. I am
no longer connected with the Tate
Gallery. In fact, I am now among
the unemployed delightfully so.
My prime object in life at present
is raising vegetables and flowers in
my garden in Morocco. Yes, it's
quite wonderful to have time to
live and to think. Of course, I
might write another book if I find
a subject!"
Then, launching into a discus-
sion of modern art, he proclaimed:
first, that art in general was only
for artists, not for laymen. Mod-
ern art in particular, he declared,
has become too self-conscious and
too technical. Most moderns es-
pecially the sur-realists rely on
the pre-Raphaelites for inspirations.
(Here he interrupted himself sud-
denly at the appearance of a rattl-
ing T-model on the highway, to
ask, "Why do people in America
ride in cars with their feet dangl-
ing out the window?") But, back
to art again: He approves Mirot,
Picasso, and, strangely enough, of
Walt Disney. "Disney has a truly
artistic conception of space and de-
sign," he protested that is, his
original works do. Singleness of
purpose and expression of true
emotion are, to him, the sine qua
non of real art. He does not be-
lieve that art should be photo-
graphic. "When one sees a tea-
cup," he explained, his blue eyes
sparkling and grey hair blowing in
the wind, "one should not think
merely 'There is a tea-cup!' but
one should look for the thought
behind it.
On the subject of women, Mr.
Ede makes an encouraging charm
expert, for he maintains that any
woman can be beautiful, since
graceful movement is beauty.
Laughing suddenly, the artist
lapsed into merely a very charming
man, as he exclaimed, "I am deep-
ly sorry that I have no scandal to
confess it would make such a
good story!" Becoming more per-
sonal, however, and displaying a
delightful sense of humor, he ex-
pressed a liking for: Katharine
Cornel, Gone Wit Jo the Wind (al-
though he thinks that it is too vis-
ual to be a great work of litera-
ture), his garden, Dickens, his two
daughters (Mr. Ede's, not Dick-
ens), and calla lilies. His two
prime ambitions at present, are to
taste a Coca-Cola and to hear a
genuine negro spiritual.
Campus Poets
Publish Verses
Jones, Hale, Sears, Watkins
Submit Work
Poems by Hortense Jones, Carol
Hale, Evelyn Sears, and Violet
Jane Watkins have been submitted
to the University Post Publishing
Company to be printed in The
193 8 Book of College Verse, vol-
ume one of which will be devoted
to Southern student poets.
The request for the poems of
three students was sent to Dr.
George P. Hayes, head of the Eng-
lish department, by Miss Dorothy
Garrett, an editor of The 193 8
Book of College Verse. The re-
sults will be known by April 1.
The tentative date of publication
is April 1 5, 193 8.
Organizations Will
Sponsor Contests
Miss Preston Will Decide On
Winning Work Here
The Agonistic, the Aurora, and
B. O. Z. are sponsoring a short
story and play contest in which
all the college students are invited
to enter.
The Story Contest is an annual
contest which Story Magazine
conducts. Each college is allowed
to submit two stories, and Miss
Preston will decide which ones will
be entered from Agnes Scott.
Story Magazine selects the prize
winners out of all those submitted.
The Play Contest is conducted
by State Teachers' College in Cape
Girardeau, Missouri. This is a Na-
tional College Playwriting Contest
and each college may submit two
one-act plays; the only require-
ment is that the play must be
about an American subject. The
first prize is fifty dollars and the
winning play is presented at the
annual play festival.
2
THE AGONISTIC
Agnes Scotters Enjoy
Graduate Studies
In France
tye Agonistic
Gregnoble, France, was the scene of a jolly Agnes
Scott reunion last summer at the lovely villa of Miss
Margaret Phythian, who is on leave of absence from
our French department. Associate professor Louise
Hale, Martha Elliott, '34, and Margaret Hansell,
'37, were the guests of Miss Phythian, who is work-
ing for her doctorate.
Margaret Hansell studied at Gregnoble last sum-
mer, while Martha Elliott is now at the University
of Lyons on an exchange fellowship. Diplomatic is
what one would call Mary Virginia Allen, '3 5,
another Agnes Scotter in France. Having graduated
from the University of Toulouse, she has applied for
the position of secretary in the American consulate
and has been promised the first opening.
Another graduate of Toulouse is Thelma Rich-
mond, '34, who now teaches French in Clarkston,
Georgia, and is looking forward to a position in the
French office of the Coca-Cola Export Company in
New Jersey. Mary Sprinkle, '31, who finished at
Gregnoble, now works in the foreign book section
at Macy's in New York. Catherine Printup, '37, who
feels a yen to join Agnes Scotters that have com-
pleted their studies in France, has applied for next
year's exchange fellowship.
It looks as if we're swinging back into an age of
experiment with college students as the chief experi-
mentors. At Harvard University, five scientists ex-
perimenting with the human brain, have found
through the use of electricity, that the brain goes to
sleep in sections. They say "If your brain were elec-
trically lighted it would look like the successive
winking out of lights in an office building."
At Florida State College for Women, the Florida
Flambeau reports the first solo flight of the first stu-
dent aviatrix. The first experiment of a different
sort was held December 15 at Florence State Teach-
ers' College. A religious forum of Protestants of all
sects, Catholics and Jews, held to "analyze and allay
the prejudices existing between the three faiths was
presided over by three outstanding leaders of the
three branches of religion. Students showed their in-
terest by filling the huge auditorium to capacity.
Most of the colleges, being on the semester system,
are grimly steering into exams. Of all the many
lists of practical advice to follow during the "boning
period," the jobnsonian from Winthrop, turns psy-
chological with this bit of snappy advice:
"When you can't study another minute go out
and run races and yell or scream but don't sit and
read; and be sure to wear your best looking dress to
the exam for the psychological effect."
"Ezekiel" Entrances
Youngster and Sage
Ezekicl, Elvira Garner, Henry Holt and Co., N. Y.,
1937, $1.50 /
"All America is laughing over Ezekicl." Originally
intended for children, this little book has made such
a hit with older people as well that the cover bears
these significant words: "Ages 6 and Up."
Ezekicl lives in Sanford, Florida the author lives
there too with his Mammy and his Pappy and his
little sister, Emancipation, and his brother, LiF
Plural, and the baby Assafetida, and the dog, Augus-
tus. Ezekicl has many happy adventures in his south-
ern home, and enjoys life to the fullest. One day, the
whole family went to town to the fair. They had
cotton candy and rode on the merry-go-round, and
Assafetida was almost sold by the auction man. And
then Ezekiel and LiF Plural and Emancipation and
Augustus and Assafetida in "de HI' ole cyart" went
digging for buried Spanish treasure. That wasn't
very successful, but E/ekiel didn't care. He sang a
song about it:
"Us gwinc home to we all's house,
Don't want no Spanish gol',
Brer Owl, he skeered us all so bad,
list let' hit in de hole."
One of the most engaging things about "Ezekicl"
are the do/ens of tinv ink sketches by the author.
Though Mrs. Garner belongs to the "can't draw"
school, her careless drawings have movement and
character, which greatly increase the charm of the
book. "You, every bit as much as the children, will
love this little darky and his joyous adventures in the
South."
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
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Entered as Second Class Matter at Decatur, Georgia.
Subscription price, $1.25 per year in advance. Single copies, 6c.
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1938
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In Search of Truth
We have noticed in the student press a growing demand
that colleges wake up and justify their existence by teaching
their graduates practical subjects which will enable them to
make a lucrative living (the sine qua non of modern civiliza-
tion).
Student journalists clamor loudly for training in the arts
of getting along and the sciences of formulae for success.
They even raise querulous voices at the gates of the academic
holy of holies where Phi Beta Kappa is enshrined, instructing
those black-robed high priests to bestir themselves along use-
ful and practical lines.
The vehement young writers are not to be blamed. They
feel the breath of greedy depression and ominous war hot
upon their cheek. But they have lost sight of the egotistic
nature of pure truth. TVuth reveals itself for its own sake-
devouring lives and fortunes to move heedlessly forward. Yet
where it goes progress follows. Truth sought for. any pur-
pose other than itself loses its potency.
We cannot hitch our scholars to a cart and bid them pull ;
they must be free to wander their own devious paths un-
bridled. For to harness a horse it is first necessary to break
his spirit. We must not hand our intellectual genuises straw
and bid them make bricks, when their minds are full of vis-
ions of great castles.
Of course, the application of truth is a good and necessary
thing, but it is not the task of the scholar. He seeks out
truth ; it is for the opportunist to see its practical value and
apply it in our industrial and materialistic age. The intellec-
tual man goes his unmapped way impelled by an ungovern-
able curiosity to know not to use.
A liberal arts college is its own excuse for being. It does
not profess to teach its students how to make a living, it does
not claim even to teach them how to live; but it does main-
tain that they will not go empty away.
Honor Like a Shield
This is honor week a week of rededication, of renewing
old vows and revisiting old shrines. Mr. Webster has defined
honor as "magnanimity, contempt of meaness ; self-respect* ' ;
and these descriptions indicate that it is not so much a trait
as an attitude.
Honor is not a costume to be donned on state occasions and
left off the rest of the time. It must be eternal and all-en-
compassing a sort of mental chastity held inviolate. Living
up to an ideal calls for a greatness of soul, and often involves
much unpleasantness. No one enjoys the nasty task of tale-
bearing. We have not the courage to report persons who vio-
late the code which we yet rigidly enforce upon ourselves.
The trouble lies in the fact that we are looking at the mat-
ter purely from an individualistic viewpoint a sort of this-
for-you-that-for-me attitude. We have lost sight of the fact
that we, as freshmen, signed a pledge to support Agnes
Scott's honor system. Our code must be applied to all stu-
dents a sort of criterion against which all our activities are
checked if it is to be effective. We are either completely
honorable, or we are dishonorable.
Are you your brother's keeper?
May Pop
Since spring first walked through English lanes, a festival
of gaity and color has been held to welcome the first blos-
soming of May a fete designed especially to celebrate the
arrival of that gracious month. It is, then, with some misgiv-
ing and confusion that we find that our May Day celebration
has been delayed until May 14. It is not so much the break-
ing of tradition we deplore as the discourtesy we are forced
to accord May by delaying her welcome until she has spent
half her too-short time on the earth.
Moreover, if the fete is delayed until the fourteenth, it will
be just one week too late to be included in the Silhouette a
fact which, though it may not disturb the lower classes, yet
brings a heart-rending cry from the seniors. We want our
May Day in our annual.
What is the matter with May 7?
Hortcnse Jones
Editor
Jane Guthrie
Mary McCann Hudson
Associate Editors
Mary Frances Guthrie
Marie Merritt
Assistant Editors
Elizabeth Skinner
Make-up Editor
Elizabeth Kcnney
Asst. Make-up Editor
STAFF
Elizabeth Blackshear
Business Manager
Esthere Ogden
Advertising Manager
Giddy Erwin
Feature Editor
Mary Wells McNeil
Asst. Feature Editor
Mary Anne Kernan
Current History
Elizabeth Warden
Book Editor
Francis Castleberry
Jeanne Redwine
Alice Reins
Eugenia Bridges
Circulation Managers
Alice Cheeseman
Sports Editor
Mary Reins
Exchange Editor
Jeannette Carroll
Alumnae Editor
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REPORTERS: N. Allison. E. Baty. M. Chafin. M. L. Dobbs, M. L. Gill, E. Hutchena,
C. K. Hutchins, R. Hurwitz. F. Lee, P. Noble, M. L. Ratliffe. A. Reins. H. Solomon,
S. Steinbach. V. J. Watkins. L. Younr. D. Weinkle, M. Merlin, A. Enloe. R. Drucker,
J. Salter*. H. Sanford. P. Heaslitt. J. M.^eley.
Southern Senators Lead
Oratorv Marathon
In Filibuster
By Mary Anne Kernan
The oratorical marathon of the season is on;
southern senators are well out in front showing en-
durance and activity not usually associated with the
south. The anti-lynching filibuster has constituted
the only activity of the honorable Senate since Jan-
uary 5. Availing themselves of the traditional
speech-making privilege of senators, southern mem-
bers have been courageously endeavoring to save the
fair name of the south whose spotless reputation
would be sullied beyond all recognition should a fed-
eral anti-lynching law be passed.
Certainly there are arguments for and against the
bill. Obviously however these are not being presented
by the filibusters. No one would object to a sensible,
intelligent debate on the Wagner- Van-Nuys Bill; it
is the spectacle of supposedly mature men acting
childishly stubborn and selfish, more interested in
the interests they represent and the votes they must
hold than in the actual merits and defects of sug-
gested legislation. Those who oppose the bill on in-
telligent grounds say that the federal law would in
no way solve the problem of mob killings, since it
would probably mean the substitution of police kill-
ings for actual lynchings and would emphasize racial
lines. It is easy to see how the white southerners
might resent a federal law which in effect here
would mean the protection of the Negro, who might
begin to feel that the government was definitely
championing his rights. This combination of self-
confidence on the part of the Negro and open re-
sentment from the whites would perhaps increase ra-
cial antagonism. Opponents of the bill say also that
great progress has been made in reducing lynchings
and that if the present methods are continued and
the states are induced to assume responsibility the
problem may be solved rather soon. On the other
hand those in favor of this federal legislation urge
that a uniform law is necessary to stop mob violence
as is the strong arm of federal justice, since this is so
much of a sectional problem. The southern states, it
is pointed out, would not assume responsibility and
consequently the federal government would have to
step in. Certainly most people agree that lynchings
must be stopped, but many base their opposition to
the legislation simply on the reduction of lynchings
in the past. In considering the statistics only the
bare fact of eight murders last year is deemed im-
portant. However one must not overlook the impor-
tance of the mob whose members after all must be
hurt more by participating in such activity than is
the murdered man.
Anti-Lynching legislation is a question of impor-
tance, both on account of the number of people af-
fected and on account of the community situations
out of which lynchings arise. The Wagner- Van-
Nuys Anti-Lynching Bill demands more serious and
sane attention than the oratorical antics of the sen-
ators promoting the mid-winter filibustering mara-
thon.
We Think
BUSINESS STAFF: H. Hir*ch. N. Echols. J. Fl;
er. H. Licht
(Editor's Note: The We Think column is conducted for the
purpose of giving an outlet to student opinion. The staff is in
no way responsible for what is printed in this column and it is
by no means to be taken as the editorial opinion of the paper.)
The youthfully cynical expression which appeared
in this column last week has perhaps some justifica-
tion, certainly it has the virtue of provoking an an-
swer. We admit it may be uncomfortable to live in
a graveyard, since according to last week's writer the
campus is dead, but we would remind her that the
dead will bury the dead and no miraculous power of
resurrection is hers.
However we think that the quadrangle is not
EzekiePs "valley of dry bones." There are people
here who are quite alive and aware of current trends
in government, politics, art, and science. And if it
takes a silver-plated Current History bulletin board
to inform the general college public of world events,
why not be thankful for an organization that pro-
vides this and for people who read it (yes, people
who read it). This is only one of the agencies de-
voted to broadening the general outlook of the
campus. The Aganisfic, the Aurora, Student Gov-
ernment, Y. W. C. A., and even chapel speakers are
frequently blest with an interest in world affairs.
We think, contrary to last week's writer, that
Agnes Scott girls are not dead. There are a certain
number here, as in the general run of any commun-
ity, who are too self-centered to become interested
in matters external to the campus. However, there
are hopeful signs of an awakening among a number,
and it remains the duty of those who see the need to
further arouse this interest, not by over passionate
"We Thinks," but by direct contact with students
and faculty and cooperation with specific organiza-
tions.
THE AGONISTIC
3
Freshman Y. W.
Cabinet Leads
Work Projects
Group Directs Handicraft,
Dramatic, Personality,
Book Hobbies
Freshman Y. W. C. A. groups,
under the leadership of Louise
Musser, president of the freshman
cabinet, are now functioning in
their respective fields. Besides
forming the various clubs, the cab-
inet as a whole is sponsoring the
distribution of the Upper Room.
The book i group, headed by
Louise Sams with Miss Ellen Doug-
lass Leyburn as faculty sponsor,
meets twice a month to discuss a
living poet or novelist. Tuesday,
January 11, Edna St. Vincent Mil-
lay was studied.
Jeanne Flynt advises the drama-
tic group, of which Jean Dennison
is freshman head. The girls are
now preparing a play to present at
Easter vespers.
The handicraft group, led by
Elizabeth Skinner and Martha
Dunn, has begun knitting and is
principally interested in sweaters.
The industrialism group, spon-
sored by the Y. W. C. A. as a
whole and led by Mildred Davis,
met with the Atlanta industrial
group at the Y. W. C. A. Monday
night for dinner, followed by a
joint meeting. Professor Arthur
Raper spoke at the club's first
meeting.
German Game
Entertains Club
A. K. Fulton Gets Genuine
Nordic Game From Aunt
A game straight from Germany
entertained the members of the
German Club at their meeting on
Wednesday, January 19. Anna
Katherine Fulton, president of the
club, received it from an aunt who
lives there and who sends her from
time to time various candies and
games that are typically German.
The club this year is trying to give
its members an idea of modern
German customs.
Adams, Cheeseman,
Steele Present "A
Good Woman"
Alice Adams, Alice Cheeseman,
and Shirley Steele were the Black-
friars taking part in A Good Wo-
man, the one-act farce presented at
the meeting on Tuesday, January
18. During the business session,
plays for the rest of the quarter
were discussed, and the question of
a Greek play, The Trojan Women,
of Euripedes, considered.
Plans are being completed now
for Pygmalion, which is planned
for the night of the Junior Ban-
quet, February 19.
During the year 1936, Canadian
fishery experts reached the high-
est point since 1931, with a total
value of $25,358,000.
Come To
ELITE TEA ROOM
For Good Food
211 E. Ponce de Leon Avenue
Meet Your Friends at
Cox's Prescription Shop
Between Paramount and Grand
Theatres, Atlanta
nes Scotters Interview Wardrobe Mistress,
Doorman, and "Regular Fellow" Maurice Evans
By Giddy Erwin and Eleanor
Hutchens
Crown jewels of Richard II
draped over oxfords with run-
down heels . . . stone pillars of gray
velvet and cigarette stubs on a
linoleum courtyard . . . bedraggled
beards and legible autographs . . .
pearl-bedecked sleeves and Ballan-
tine Scotch. This constituted a
post-ludicrous setting to Rich-
ard II.
A Sheakespearian cast (more
properly, downcast), no longer
glamorous and looking decidedly
un-Elizabethan, milled about dodg-
ing autograph hunters and falling
scenery. The treacherous Boling-
broke and martyred Richard chat-
ted amiably over the afternoon's
performance. The heart-broken
queen laughed with her maids-in-
waiting. One royal desire motivat-
ed the royal assemblage to go and
get a royal hamburger.
Mrs. Nelligan, the wardrobe
costumes. Mr. Evans, she said,
manipulated his flowing robes more
gracefully than any other actor she
had ever costumed. In his dressing
room, she pointed beamingly to the
myriad of pearls in his golden
sleeves and the well-concealed zip-
per in his black velvet robe, ignor-
ing the pint of Ballantine Scotch
on the shelf and the green tonic on
the dressing table.
Mr. Evans himself, in *a green
and red checkered bathrobe, pluck-
ed his English beard in a friendly
manner. Blond, thirty-six, and
unmarried, he responded in a rich,
mellow voice to all questions. (Yes,
Hamlet is his favorite role.) Hav-
ing played a variety of roles, in-
cluding Napoleon and Romeo (to
Katharine Cornell's Juliet), he has
chosen Richard II for his tour be-
cause of its immense popularity
with the hardboiled New York au-
diences. After Richard II he will
play Henry VIII. A very un-star-
like person off-stage, he is ex-
mistress, fluttered about rescuing tremely popular with the rest of
the company. Emmett Rogers
termed him a "regular fellow."
Rogers was the clean-cut young
man who played Hotspur the role
played by Nell Echols' brother in
the New York production. The
doorman, in high "spirits" (or vice
versa), told glowing tales of his
adventures in the theatre, especial-
ly of the time he carried Tallulah
Bankhead to her taxi and quote
the doorman "After she got
through with me I wouldn't wash
my face for three days!"
James ' Harker, a self-termed
spear-carrier, described the morn-
ing fencing and lute lessons in
which Mr. Evans joined the rest of
the company informally. He also
told of the time when the front
curtain was raised before a hushed
audience, only to disclose the royal
throne being tardily lowered in the
background. But the best tale of
all was that of the occasion on
which Mr. Evans, sweeping majes-
tically on to the stage, tripped over
his sleeves.
Alumnations
Annie Lee Crowell, former pres-
ident of the class of '39, is now at-
tending Vanderbilt University in
her home town. As you can imag-
ine, she was rather disappointed
when she came all the way to At-
lanta October 30 to see Tech de-
feat Vandy, but Agnes Scott was
glad she came to the college.
Lillian Grimson, '3 6, has not
been heard of or from directly but
a Tech boy who lives in Argentina
reports that he goes over to
Buenos Aires right often to date
Lillian and that she is doing good
work in the "Y" there.
Here is a thrilling life for you.
Helen (Handte) Morse, married in
June, is enjoying being the wife of
an aviator. She rides horseback and
the waves at Coronado, California,
taking life easy. She is so far away
because Jack is attached to the
U. S. S. Ranger station at San
Diego.
Ethelyn Johnson, '3 6, has be-
come blissfully vague about herself
and her plans. She quit work in
June, spent three weeks in mid-
summer in Canada and, thereafter,
shuttled back and forth between
Atlanta and Dalton, Georgia,
which place she insists is far more
interesting than Canada.
A.S.C. Appears
In Associated
Press Columns
Agnes Scott has broken into the
national press! The following ar-
ticle recently appeared in a col-
umn conducted by the Associated
Collegiate Press:
Chaperones at Agnes Scott Col-
lege are going streamlined. A group
from the senior class have been
chosen by the Student Government
Association to "keep an eye on the
young folks'."
According to the freshmen, the
ideal chaperone will be a senior
who is attractive but not too at-
tractive pretty perhaps, but nev-
er beautiful, who has an abundance
of sympathetic understanding but
not too much enthusiasm, who talk
when there's a lull in the conversa-
tion between the girl and her date,
who will enter into the fun but
who will never, never, under any
circumstances be more witty and
attractive than the bright young
thing she is chaperoning.
Students are hopeful, but there's
the indisputable fact that date
that is, boy plus girl plus chaper-
one, equals the well-known eternal
triangle.
Unless, of course, boy friend
brings along another man to sort
of even things up.
Quotable Quotes
WALTER BALLAD OPTICAL CO.
DISPENSING OPTICIANS
Three Stores
105 Peachtree Street (Clock Sign)
Medical Arts Bldg. (382 Peachtree St.)
Doctors Bldg. (480 Peachtree St.)
ATLANTA, GA.
"I expected to find a great vi-
tality in your students. I believed
that there would be more horseplay
and even a certain amount of vul-
garity, but I do not find this to be
true . . ." Professor Lavouroado,
visiting French instructor at the
University of Buffalo, thinks Am-
erican college students are "spoon-
fed."
"In college the students must
acquire a measure of idealism for it
will serve him later . . . you must
learn to think also for others as
well as for yourself." Judge Sam
Street Hughes tells Michigan State
College students that they must
prepare themselves for civic lead-
ership.
"Horatio Alger and pulp maga-
zine literature creates in the youth-
ful mind a false idea of success, a
belief that it's easy to 'marry the
boss' daughter hence youth at-
tempts a disastrous short-cut to
happiness." Merle Curti and Good-
win Watson, two Columbia Uni-
versity teachers college professors,
blame adolescents' reading matter
for their dissatisfaction with life.
Miss Gaylord
Will Conduct
European Tour
Swimming In Mediterranean,
Monte Carlo Visit
Are Included
"All ashore that's going ashore"
will sound no ominous note for
Assistant Professor Leslie Gaylord
and her Europe-bound party when
the "S. S. Aquitania" sails from
New York on June 18. No, those
lucky souls will merely lean on the
rail and frantically wave their new
handkerchiefs at no one in parti-
cular, while the common herd of
landlubbers shuffle ashore.
These innocents who plan to go
abroad will have moonlight nights
at sea, and interesting people to
enjoy them with (last year they
had the Yale Glee Club, en masse,
and in spite of the law of aver-
ages it might happen again!).
Four exciting days in Paris, a
dip in the blue Mediterranean at
Nice, and a fling at the casino in
Monte Carlo and their European
tour will have begun gloriously!
Then comes sunny Italy, where
Miss Gaylord, who went to the
University of Rome for a year, has
many friends and can show the
girls a side of Italy that tourists
ordinarily are not privileged to see.
Switzerland, Germany, Belgium,
and Holland are next on the itiner-
ary, after which our travelers will
descend on London to view
Windsor Castle, art galleries, and
fog. A night spent in a quaint inn
beside Loch Lomond (they'll take
the high road) is also in order be-
fore the wanderers, bearing mem-
ories of a golden summer and a
myriad of souvenirs, will board
the "Franconia" for home.
N.S.F.A. Officer
Addresses Exec
Arthur Northwood, president of
the National Student Federation of
America, visited the Agnes Scott
campus last Wednesday during his
tour of southern and western col-
leges. He was entertained at din-
ner by the Executive Committee,
after which he spoke to the Com-
mittee in their meeting. Mr.
Northwood, who is a graduate of
Princeton, has for the past year
been president of N. S. F. A. After
presiding at the annual congress in
Alburquerque, he began his tour.
Among the colleges which he visit-
ed were the University of Southern
California, Stanford, Mills,
L. S. U., Tulane, Sophie Newcomb,
Agnes Scott, and Emory.
CATRIA
eicomes
Agnes Scott Girls
An Organization Specializing Exclusively
in the production and Serving of Whole-
some Foods
189 Peachtree, N. E.
4
THE AGONISTIC
Seniors, Sophs are Victors in
Spectacular Basketball Skirmish
In the third basketball game of
the '3 8 season last Friday after-
noon the seniors scored victorious
over the freshmen, 26 to 25, fol-
lowed by a victory for the sopho-
mores over the juniors, 3 2 to 20.
Following this year's mode, the
games were rough and often care-
less.
During the first half of the jun-
ior-soph game commendable plays
were few. Slack and Steele, how-
ever, did excellent work in for-
warding and guarding, respective-
ly. The sophomores gained the
first two goals, only to meet a
turn in the tide as the juniors made
an effort to retaliate. But the
junior spirit soon lagged as Gar-
ner, suffering an injured ankle,
failed to build the score. The
points, standing at 7-2 at the quar-
ter's end, tallied 17-4 in favor of
the sophs at the end of the half.
The second half presented much
the same situation for the juniors
of rising and falling luck. At one
time the score stood 22-16, show-
ing a fair gain for the juniors.
Glee Club Admits
27 New Members
During try-outs held recently,
the Glee Club received the follow-
ing new members: Martha Behm,
Henrietta Blackwell, Jeannette
Carroll, Alice Cheeseman, Jeanne
Davidowitz, Jean Fairly, Elizabeth
Furlow, Sam Olive Griffin, Ester
Hillhouse, Marguerite Ingly, Betty
Kyle, Dorothy Lazenby, Marcia
Mansfield, Sara McCain, Eloise
McCall, Grace Moffat, Isabel Mon-
cur, Pattie Patterson, Schelle Par-
ham, Alice Reins, Mary Reins, Jane
Salters, Jean Slack, Harriet Stimp-
son, Lillian Schwenche, Gay Swa-
garty, and Mary Scott Wilds.
Natural Dance Class
To Present Program
On Thursday night, February 3,
at 8:00, in the Bucher Scott Gym-
nasium, the advanced class in nat-
ural dancing will present a colorful
program of dances with Miss Doz-
ier and Miss Haynes. This will
climax extensive work in group
dancing done by the class all
through the fall months. The col-
lege community is cordially invited
to attend. By special permission
students may bring dates.
The star Arcturus is 11,000,000
times farther away from the earth
than the sun.
Nail-head trimmings in cowboy
style are being used on some of
the smarter handbags.
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Slack and Milner continued to play
a definite drawback to the junior
team, however. The game ended at
32-20 in the sophs' favor.
The senior-freshman game was
an unquestionable surprise. Dur-
ing the first quarter the freshmen
were markedly dominant over their
opponents, closing that period with
a 14-6 lead. And though the half
ended at 20-12 for the freshmen,
the seniors, as Thompson later re-
marked, had "got the hang of it,"
and determined to regain the score
the next half.
The third quarter found the sen-
iors with 18 points against the
freshmen's 22, a gain which thrill-
ed the gallery. As the end of the
half neared and the score tied,
24-24, the teams were really fight-
ing the limit. But the freshmen,
after losing their confidence, had
let fear take its place, and their
defeat was inevitable. Three min-
utes before time whistle the seniors
had gained the two winning points
and the rest of the game was spent
in guarding them. This skirmish
was probably the year's most spec-
tacular.
The line-ups:
Outing Club Has
Enjoyable Hike
Tuesday, January 18, was the
prettiest day of the year, according
to those who went with the Out-
ing Club on its supper hike. A
warm twilight was the setting for
lots of good food and a grand
walk.
The Outing Club will hold its
tryouts soon, which are preceded
by four classes for training in out-
door life. Those interested should
see Jeanne Matthews.
Students Begin
Posture Drive
Seniors (26)
Blackshear (12) F)
Coit (6) F.
Thompson (8) F.
Merrill G.
King G.
Robinson G.
Freshmen (24)
Dyer (10)
Bell (4)
Behm (10)
Steinbach
Dennison
Wilds
Substitutions : Young, seniors ; Bene-
field, Oliver, freshmen.
Juniors (20) Sophomores (32)
Garner (8) F. Slack (12)
Dryfoos (4) F. Milner (18)
Jones (8) F. Salters (2)
MacGuire G. Moses
Hamilton G. Forman
Steele G. Thompson
Substitutions: Eyles, Sledd, sophomores.
Referees: Miss Miller and Miss Mitchell,
with Miss Wilburn substituting for Miss
Mitchell in the third quarter due to a
painful knee injury of Miss Mitchell's.
The United States Department
of Agriculture estimates that in-
sects destroy about 10 per cent of
all crops produced.
On Mondays and Wednesdays,
from 3:30 to 4:30 the I. G. room
in the gymnasium is open for any
students interested in advice on
posture and corrective exercises for
posture faults. This past week the
I. G. classes visited some of the
physical education classes with the
purpose of observing how Hotten-
tots "carry themselves. Miss Jer-
vey's visit to the campus recently
has aroused a great interest in sit-
ting, standing, and walking well.
Those students noticed this
week for good walking, carriage
are: Jacqueline Hawks, Hazel
Hirsch, Ellen Stuart, Shirley Arm-
entrout, Emily Underwood, Peggy
Willis, Sarah Rainey, Carolyn For-
man, Cary Gene Ashley, Lelia
Carson, Nell Echols, Annie Hous-
ton Newton, Amelia Nickels, Gay
Swaggerty, Betty Jean Wallin,
Margaret Ingley, Aileen Shortley,
and Marjorie Boggs.
SPORTING
AHA!*
Last week
We visited the Diving Class O!
Phlash!
Bea and Anne teaching.
Splash!
Giddy diving so she said.
Calls it a frog lunge
Only
One in captivity.
(Fortunately!)
Also
Giddy dives feet first.
She always keeps her head
About her,
T
Know.
Giddy gal, that!
The College Community must
Remember
The new A. A. Guest Admission
Tickets.
They're available in P. Ed Office.
Speaking of
Ice
Don't you think people could quit
E>ousing
Miss Mitchell
In Life Saving Class?
Well,
See you in Social Dancing Class
Tuesday
N'est-ce pas?
Aha!
*Free werse. (Copied right by spt
ed, 1938, A. S. C.)
"We cannot afford to let the
accident of birth cripple the edu-
cational opportunities of youths
of promise. Our colleges and uni-
versities must extend their tap-
roots until they reach all classes of
society." Harvard's President
James Bryant Conant justified
Harvard's new policy of awarding
more and bigger scholarships to
promising students.
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A college for women that is widely recog-
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interesting character of its student activities.
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VOL. XXIII
AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1938
Z115
No. 12
J. Chalmers
To Preside
At Banquet
Costumes, Limericks, Songs,
And Dances Celebrate
Founder's Day
Dance to Follow Banquet
Time will be turned back a cen-
tury and a half at Agnes Scott on
Tuesday, February 22, when the
student body observes its annual
holiday to commemorate the birth-
day of George Washington Scott.
The traditional Founder's Day
Banquet, to be held in the dining
room of Rebekah Scott Hall at 6
o'clock, will be the peak of the
day's celebration. George Washing-
ton, impersonated by Jean Chal-
mers, and Martha Washington
Joyce Roper will preside over the
festivities, at which the following
eighteenth century characters will
be present: Paul Revere, Mary Lil-
lian Fairly; LaFayette, Primrose
Noble; Daniel Boone, Giddy Er-
win; Betsy Ross, Mary Venetia
Smith; Patrick Henry, Eliza King;
Benjamin Franklin, Virginia Wat-
son; and Lord Cornwall is, Laura
Coit. Each of Washington's be-
wigged and be-satined contempor-
aries will introduce himself by a
short limerick at the banquet, to
which all of the seniors and board-
ing students are invited. The soph-
omores will respond in song to the
senior limericks.
After the banquet the entire col-
lege community is invited to the
annual Founder's Day dance in the
gymnasium, which is to be spon-
sored by the Cotillion Club. Flere
all of the historical personages
with the exception of Daniel
Boone will dance the traditional
Minuet.
Third Aurora Issue
To Appear Next Week
The third issue of the Aurora
will be published next week, ac-
cording to Carol Hale, the editor.
The prose contributions will in-
clude Nell Allison's short story
Laurels to Love, and an article en-
titled Manners of Women in the
Eighteenth Century , by Nell
Hemphill. The Invited Guest, a
play by Mary Ann Kernan, will be
an interesting feature,
views by Giddy Erwin and Eliza-
beth Blackshear will also appear.
The poetry collection will in-
clude To A December Leaf, by Mr.
Christian; Jane Guthrie's Ballad of
An Old Hunter, and Campus Sun-
set, by Cora K. Hutchens.
Which Will Reign Over May Day?
Three Are
May Queen
Candidates
Grace Tazewell, Kay Ricks,
Myrl Chafin Lead
Nominations
Pictured above are Grace Tazewell, Myrl Chafin and Catherine Ricks, nominees for May Queen.
Authority Speaks
On Social Hygiene
Dr, Maurice Bigelow, of- Colum-
bia University, an authority on the
various aspects of social hygiene,
spoke to a group of the students
and faculty last night in the chapel
on the subject "Social Hygiene as
it Pertains to the Youth of To-
day." He touched on heredity,
venereal diseases, and the social hy-
giene movement.
Wednesday afternoon, February
2, Dr. Bigelow will lead an open
discussion of the various young
people's organizations in Atlanta.
He will also speak in chapel Thurs-
day on the subject of "Education
As It Prepares For Marriage and
Family Life."
J. Sewell, Flynt Head
Jr. Agonistic Staff
At a class meeting last Thurs-
day the Junior class elected Julia
Sewell and Jeanne Flynt as editor
and business manager, respectively,
of the Junior Edition of the Agon-
istic. Julia has chosen as her editor-
ial staff the following girls:
Book re- , Douglas Lyle, Cora Kay Hutchens,
Alice Cheeseman, Henrietta Black-
well, Jean Bailey, Flora McGuire,
Mutt Fite, Jane Moore Hamilton,
Kay Kennedy, Mamie Lee Ratliff,
Esthere Ogden, Mary Wells Mc-
Neill, Elizabeth Furlow and Helen
Moses.
Intangible Resources Theme
Of Citizenship Institute
"The Development of Intangi-
ble Resources" will be the topic of
the meetings of the Institute of
Citizenship on the Agnes 6cott
campus from Tuesday night, Feb-
ruary 15, through Wednesday aft-
ernoon, February 16. Dr. Francis
P. Gaines, President of Washing-
ton and Lee University, will ad-
dress the joint meeting of the In-
stitute and the Georgia Phi Beta
Kappa Society at the Tuesday eve-
ning program.
A round table discussion on the
subject, "Do Georgia's Colleges
Fulfill the Needs of Her Citi-
zens?" led by Rufus C. Harris,
President of Tulane University,
will feature the meeting on
Wednesday afternoon, T. Guy
Woolford will discuss our colleges
from a business man's viewpoint.
Other meetings are to be held at
Emory University and Georgia
Tech. The presidents of the three
colleges will serve as co-chairmen
of the Institute.
The Agnes Scott Student Com-
mittee for the Institute will be
composed, of Eliza King, Jean
Chalmers, Hortense Jones, Mary
Ann Kernan, Alice Reins and
Eleanor Tyler.
J. Dryfoos
To Direct
Mardi Gras
"it
Pays To Advertise"
Theme Of Festival
On Feb. 26
Is
King and Queen to Reign
The annual Mardi Gras celebra-
tion at Agnes Scott will occur on
Saturday night, February 26, in
the Buchcr Scott Gymnasium un-
der the direction of Jane Dryfoos,
junior class manager. After the
presentation of the four class
kings in the chapel on the evening
of February 18, voting during the
following week will determine
which king with his secret bride
will reign over the festival.
The theme selected for this
year's celebration is // Pays to Ad-
vertise. Each organization on the
campus will enter floats illustrat-
ing the central theme, and prizes
will be awarded for the most beau-
tiful and the most original. A
masquerade ball will follow an
elaborate program of entertain-
ment.
Junior committee heads appoint-
ed by the director are: writing,
Douglas Lyle; publicity, Alice
Cheeseman; decorations, Adelaide
Benson; food, Sara McCain and
Mary Wells McNeill; restaurant,
Cary Wheeler; and rnusic, Mitzi
Sanders. Class chairmen for Mardi
Gras are Giddy Erwin, senior;
Peggy Willis, junior; Frances Ab-
bott, sophomore; and Julia Mc-
Conncll, freshman.
J.Chalmers, G. Erwin
Plan Senior Opera
Jean Chalmers, as general
chairman, and Giddy Erwin, as
chairman of the writing com-
mittee, will direct the Seniors in
formulating plans for the Senior
Opera, to be given early in May.
Further details regarding this
important and amusing event
will be announced later, after
committees have been chosen
and the exact date for the pres-
entation selected.
A.S.C., Emory Give
Play for Meeting
The Georgia Chapter, of the
American Association of Teachers
of French will meet at Agnes Scott
College February 12. The after-
noon meeting will be held in the
Armistead Seminar room in the li-
brary, and dinner will be served in
the Rebekah Scott dining hall.
After dinner the members will see
Deval's Toraritch which is being
presented by students of Emory
and Agnes Scott at Emory.
The speakers of the afternoon
meeting will be* Dr. Sidney L. Mc-
Gee, of Georgia State College for
Women; Mrs. J. C. Kincaid, of
Girls' High School of Atlanta; Mr.
Claude Chance, of the University
of Georgia, and Miss Helen Carl-
son, of Agnes Scott. Mr. Charles
Loridans will speak in French.
Black fria is Select
Cast for "Pygmalion'
Blackfriars announce that the
following will make up the cast of
Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw's
modern and novel comedy, which
they will present on Saturday
night, February 19, in the Bucher
Scott Gymnasium:
Elizabeth Cousins, Helen Moses,
Shirley Steele, Mary Ann Kernan,
Kay Kennedy, Evelyn Sears, Rich-
ard Joel, Tom Wesley, Jack Bodcn-
hamcr, Udo Thran and John
Houck.
Final Voting This Week
In spite of freezing weather last
week, far-sighted Hottentots, anti-
cipating the warmth and gaiety of
May, nominated Myrl Chafin,
Catherine Ricks and Grace Taze-
well to hold sway over May Court;
and to grace the presentation of
the adaptation of the enchanting
Midsummer Night's Dream in the
May Day dell on Saturday, May
fourteenth.
All three nominees have appear-
ed in May Court in previous years.
Catherine, whose home is in Jack-
son, Mississippi, was a member of
the Court her freshman and sopho-
more years. Both Myrl, of McDon-
ough, Georgia, and Grace, who
comes from Norfolk, Virginia, at-
tended the May Queen last year.
This year all three girls will be in
the Court; for all those receiving
enough votes to be nominees for
Queen automatically become mem-
bers of the Court. \
The final votes for May Queen
will be cast tomorrow and Friday,
February 3 and 4. Ballots are to
be placed in the boxes on the table
in Buttrick lobby. Students are
urged to vote for one of the nomi-
nees and to remember that unsign-
ed votes do not count.
The May Day Committees,
headed by Anne Thompson, have
already started to work on dances,
costumes and music in order that
the pageant might be even more
colorful and effective than in pre-
ceding years.
Dr. Robert E. Speer
To Conduct Services
Dr. Robert E. Speer will inau-
gurate the series of talks to be
sponsored by the Y. W. C. A. on
"Christ As the Foundation of Our
Faith" by a week of services, Feb-
ruary 8-13. In his capacity as
Secretary of the Foreign Mission
Board of the Presbyterian Church
of the United States, until he re-
signed to devote his time to preach-
ing, Dr. Speer travelled extensively
throughout the Christian Missions
in Persia, India, China, Korea and
Japan. He was formerly president
of the Federal Council of Churches
of Christ in America, and in 1927
was Moderator of the Presbyterian
Church, U. S.
Swimming Club to Present
Annual Pageant March 1
Pirates, mermaids, bull-frogs,
whales, eels, and the entire United
States navy will take possession of
the Bucher Scott Gymnasium on
the night of Tuesday, March 1,
when the Swimming club presents
its annual pageant. According to
plans just released by Director
Virginia Milncr, the pageant this
year will depict in watery fashion
the manner in which the gallant
Prince of Whales, after being
caught on the line of little Wally
Wharf Eel, defies the disapproval
of his Frog Parliament led by the
hairless Stanley Bald One to win
his Ideel.
The scenario for this production
is being written by a committee
composed of "Patty" Patterson,
chairman; Alice Cheeseman, and
Giddy Erwin. Other committee
chairmen selected so far arc: Scen-
ery, Jane Moore Hamilton; Cos-
tumes, Nell Echols; Music, Esthere
Ogden; Publicity, Bryant Holsen-
beck; Lighting, Henrietta Thomp-
son; and Formations, Carolyn For-
man.
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THE AGONISTIC
Among the New Books
The Arts, Hendrik Willem Van Loon, Simon and
Schuster, N. Y., 1937, 677 pp., $3.95
Van Loon has written another "story" book; in
the tradition of The Story of Mankind, The Story of
the Bible, and his more recent Van Loon's Geography
is this latest work, The Arts. It is a comprehensive,
intelligent, lively survey of the world of art, con-
taining both historical and critical material. "The
Story 'of Pai/ting and Sculpture and Architecture
and Music as well as the so-called Minor-Arts from
the days of the caveman until the present time" is
the avowed scope of the book.
The Arts is a volume written for that vast num-
ber of people who are capable of response to the
beauty of art both by observation and participation.
It is not for artists but about artists. An artist, says
Van Loon, is not one who, according to the old
Chinese story, "has touched the hem of eternity" and
whose artistic expression results in humility before
the presence of the eternal for which he has been
striving. This rather is his conception of the artist,
as stated in the prologue: "Man, even at his proudest
moments, is a puny, helpless creature when he com-
pares himself to the Gods. For the Gods speak unto
him through creation. Man tries to answer, he tries
to vindicate himself, and that answer that vindi-
cation is really what we call art." The artist, then,
is one who sees the beauty of moonlight on stiH
waters and answers God with a Claire de Lime.
This interpretation of art is one of the important
and provocative opinions expressed in The Arts.
These opinions in addition to the genuine informa-
tion, presented so attractively that the reader cannot
resist even facts, contribute much to the book's ap-
peal. The fundamental facts of dates and places are
there, but the memorable ones are those little oddi-
ties of "firsts" and "beginnings," such as these: that
the drum, as still found in the South Sea Islands, was
the first of all musical instruments; that the oldest
picture of man, "engaged in his customary practice
of killing his fellow-men," was actually discovered
by a four-year old child wandering in a cave; or that
the beginning of our modern orchestra was in the
improvisation of the jongleurs while waiting for their
dinner in the kitchen of an inn. There is an aston-
ishing variety of information within the 700 pages
of this book; in sixty-three chapters Van Loon man-
ages to cover very generally, of necessity, art from
prehistoric man to Debussy. He gives the greatest
part of his attention to music and painting, not,
however, to the exclusion of the other arts.
The entire book has the charm of Van Loon's
style; it is lively, colloquial, painlessly informative,
and often delightfully humorous. The Arts is written
by a man amply qualified for his task (William
Rose Bcnet calls him an "inspired amateur") ; he
plays in an orchestra, draws, etches, and, of course,
writes. Besides his facile good-humored style, the
author's copious illustrations contribute to the inter-
est and usefulness of the book.
The Arts has as its purpose the stimulation and
education of those people who believe in "a world
that shall create beauty out of the sheer joy of being
alive." It is a book that will be a most satisfying re-
lief as well as a gentle inspiration after the natural-
ism and psychology of the modern novel and the dis-
turbing realisms of social and political writing.
Agonistic
We Think
(Editor's Note: The We Think column is conducted for the
purpose of Riving an outlet to student opinion. The staff is in
no way responsible for what is printed in this column and it is
by no means to be taken as the editorial opinion of the paper.)
Most of the boarding students have responded to
the suggestion that dressing for dinner brightens
your outlook on life and gives a better impression of
the college to visitors in the dining room. Most of
them too realize that this does not mean alternating
each night between your only two good dresses. A
clean face, combed hair, and the scarf you wore yes-
terday morning instead of the one you wore to lunch
today help to make dinner a pleasant occasion, where
you can forget for the moment that you have to get
back to the library at 7 o'clock.
Dressing makes you feel and act just a little nicer,
and having taken "the trouble to dress," you feel
that you may as well go on and make dinner an occa-
sion, with the result that that half-hour brings you
a little nearer to "The development of a charming
personality with such qualities as attractive appear-
ance, poise, and dignity . . ."
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. . . To Your Virtue, Knowledge
"Seek the good things of the mind, and the rest will either
be supplied or its loss will not be felt/' Bacon.
Realizing that "our best equipment is a store of funda
mental knowledge," we would make this a plea for the ac-
quisition of knowledge by which we do not mean an accu-
mulation of disjointed, incoherent facts which mark the
pedant, but rather a broad and intelligent comprehension of
the verities. Without knowledge, growth is impossible. Ig-
norance inevitably relegates its devotees to a rut in which
they plod on, wondering why life is so drab and monotonous
If we would be alert and vital members of society, col-
lege students whose opinions carry weight, we must necessar-
ily lay the foundations for our opinions in fact. Without
exact knowledge, our opinions constitute idle speculation. In
all our agitating about our stand on various questions w T e
must take into consideration the light that we have on the
given subject. Too often we air our views ( most vociferously
on questions about which we know the least. How can we in
telligently give expression to our views on labor conditions,
housing plans, or race relations until we know the sociological
bases for the problems, or the workings of the League of
Nations until we understand its historical background?
Are we letting our extreme busyness prevent us from be
coming educated from seeking knowledge, the sum mum
bonum of our college lives? Activities are important and
valuable in so far as they harmonize with and contribute to
our quest for knowledge. The ability to choose wisely between
the relevant and the irrelevant, between the genuine and the
shoddy imitation, characterizes the earnest seeker for truth.
The knowledge which we are seeking should include both
the. pure and theoretical and the practical and applied lest we
should become "strangers to our own research" and be un-
able to apply the knowledge which we have obtained to the
improvement of ourselves and the benefit of others.
Why all this emphasis upon knowledge? For the simple
reason that all our actions are dependent upon it. If we don't
know the problems that exist, we can't solve them. If we
don't fully comprehend what opportunities are open for us,
we can't grasp them. If we don't thoroughly understand
other people, we can't be as sympathetic toward them as we
should. If we don't clearly see the vileness of hypocrisy in
any form, we can't wholly appreciate the beauty and value of
sincerity. Above all, knowledge is self-propelling. Knowledge
seeks knowledge.
Gas Masks or Test Tubes?
While across the sea rage fierce battles which have as their
bloody outcome the destruction of thousands of lives, it is
comforting to witness the ceaseless efforts of some of our
eminent leaders to preserve and beautify lives. We at Agnes
Scott are privileged to have with us this week Dr. Maurice
Bigelow, of Columbia University, who is chairman of the
American Social Hygiene Association.
The fact that the association which he represents held
similar meetings in over one thousand cities and towns in
observance of the Second National Social Hygiene Day is
indicative of the growing desire of our elders to face facts
and give youth constructive aid and advice, and reveals a
fortunate abatement of the tendency to beat around the bush
and conceal vital truths.
A further manifestation of the humanitarian outlook on
life which is in decided contrast to the ego-centric viewpoint
prevalent in some parts of the world is the work of Dr. Vic-
tor Heiser who is to speak at Emory University next week.
He is one who has alleviated human suffering in all parts of
the world. After leaving the Philippines, where he was direc-
tor of health, Dr. Heiser started a leper colony on the island
of Culion, now the largest in the world. More recently the
noted doctor and lecturer began a study of the transmission
of yellow fever in Central Africa.
Both of these prominent doctors are widely experienced
and can give us information on fields of endeavor of which
most of us are unfortunately ignorant.
Elsie Blackstone
Editor
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Associate Editor
Margaret Douglas
Make-up Editor
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Feature Editor
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Current History
Jean Chalmers
Sports Editor
Frances Castleberry
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Alice Reins
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Circulation Managers
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Club Editor
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Society Editor
REPORTERS: E. Warden. N. Hemphill, A. Reins. V. Watson, J. Roper. L. Young.
R. Hurwitz. E. Cousins. B. Merrill. A. K. Fulton. M. A. Green, M. Chafin, P. Noble,
F. Castleberry. W. Kellersberger.
BUSINESS STAFF: E. Robinson, B. Merrill. E. Little.
Roosevelt Asks Congress
For Navy Increase
As Wars Rage
"It is an ominous fact that at least one-fourth of
the world's population is involved in merciless de-
vastating conflict in spite of the fact that most peo-
ple in most countries, including those where con-
flict rages, wish to live in peace, " says President
Roosevelt, as he asked Congress for a 20% increase
in the Navy building program and a strengthening
of all national defenses. It is ominous indeed when
Japan, already breaking under the weight of a
$1,800,000,000 war budget, answers that if the
United States increases her armaments beyond the
treaty strength, she will have to do so, when all
Europe speeds up the already breathless pace of its
armament programs, and when the meeting of the
council of the League of Nations hardly makes a
front-page new*s story.
With only three major power members Great
Britain, France, and Russia who settle most impor-
tant questions "out of court," the League becomes a
mockery, and the nations of the world retrace their
steps from the principles of collective security and
real international justice to international cliques in
which rugged individualism is the dominant note.
After three months, the League merely repeats the
October resolution of the Assembly denouncing
Japan as an aggressor nation, and it is reported that
balked in the council by Poland, Great Britain,
Frances, and Russia have agreed to extend financial
and economic aid to China, without League approval,
if necessary.
The United States continues its policy of neutral-
ity, but in the meantime, relations with Japan be-
come more and more strained. Notes of protest are
sent from the State department, and the tension in-
creases with the report that a Japanese soldier has
slapped the face of an official of the American con-
sulate in Nanking, when he tried to rescue a Chinese
woman who was being mistreated. Pending further
investigation, U. S. Ambassador Joseph C. Grew in
Tokyo informs the Japanese government that its
soldiers are invading property "flying the American
flag."
The Washington sequel to such affairs is the Pres-
ident's request that Congress increase the Navy, at
a cost estimated by officials at $800,000,000, and in-
crease anti-aircraft, the reserve Army, and ammuni-
tion. All this "because of the piling up of added land
and sea armaments in other countries, in such man-
ner as to involve a threat to world peace and
security. "
And so the world prepares for peace by increased
armaments a polity dangerously like that of wars
to end war and one in line with the current senator-
ial method of hurling books and insults to avenge the
honor of the South. Must we go back to 1914 and
1917 to learn all over again the lesson that force
never settles anything? As trite as that may sound,
we must say it again and again until the truth of it
penetrates through the noise of shells and guns. Let
the whole world fight Japan, and what is settled ex-
cept that Great Britain and the United States have
the strongest navies and that Japan will reenter the
race as soon as she is physically able? Nations have
never yet honestly tried the method most of them
use in internal affairs; they have never sincerely put
aside their guns to consider impartially war-provok-
ing conditions, which should be corrected. There has
been much talk about the League, about "collective
security'* and world peace; but armament programs,
individual reservations, and uncompromising nation-
alism are better indicators of the true attitude of the
members of the world society take, and let the
other party do the giving.
An honest consideration of facts and a willingness
to recognize the truth, even at the expense of some
"giving," must, of its very nature, do more good
than years of fighting. Is it not possible for nations
to grow and build on the experience of past mistakes?
And is it not wise when history proves the failure of
one method to try another, honestly and sincerely,
without our tongues in our cheeks and our guns in
our hands?
We can no longer look on preparedness as a means
of preventing the horrors of war. Already it is tak-
ing its toll, in the deaths from munitions explosions.
Around 400 killed in an explosion in Italy's largest
munitions factory, at Segni, another 400 civilians
blown up by an explosion in Madrid, scores killed in
Paris and the list grows.
Add to these the dead in China and Spain, and
think whether there is any sense in war, war which,
because it is self-perpetuating, war which leaves a
nation with little but its "national honor," murder
which must destroy all basis of self-respect. Perhaps
time marches around instead of forward, and we are
returning to the point where "the guarantee of our
national boundaries" and "keeping our place among
the nations of the world" make us forget such simple
things as warm, red blood and human hearts.
THE AGONISTIC
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Pi Alpha Phi Debating Club Announces
Complete Program For Spring Season
Teams to Meet Five Colleges on Variety of Subjects;
Keener Interest is Noted by Dr. Hayes;
Schedule Unusually Full
Pi Alpha Phi is completing its
schedule for the most active sea-
son of debates which the club has
had for many years. Dr. G. P.
Hayes, faculty advisor of the
group, is pleased with the enthu-
siasm which the students of this
year have displayed for intercol-
legiate debating and anticipates an
increasing interest on the campus
as a whole.
A team consisting of Mary
Louise Dobbs and Katherine Pat-
ton will meet Erskine College on
February 2 5 on this campus to dis-
cuss the question: "Resolved, that
the N. L. R. B. should be empow-
ered to enforce arbitration of all
industrial disputes." This team
will debate the same question in
Athens with a team from the Uni-
versity of Georgia on March 3. A
return debate with Erskine at Due
West is arranged for April 7 with
Jean Austin and Jane Turner rep-
resenting Pi Alpha Phi.
Agnes Scott will debate the At-
lanta Evening School in Atlanta
on March 30, taking the negative
of the question: "Resolved, that
this house condemns the Neutral-
ity Act." The team will consist of
Mary Louise Dobbs and Margaret
Hopkins. A return debate with
the Atlanta Evening School will
occur on April 6 with a team con-
sisting of Mary Lillian Fairly and
Mary Frances Guthrie, which will
support the affirmative of the
same question.
The annual dual debate with
Sophie Newcomb College will be
held on April 8. The negative
team, consisting of Mary Lillian
Fairly and Mary Frances Guthrie,
will go to New Orleans; the af-
firmative team, consisting of Mary
Louise Dobbs and Margaret Hop-
kins, will meet the Newcomb team
in the chapel. The neutrality ques-
tion will be the subject of the de-
bate.
Reporter Seeks
Campus Opinion
On Ede Lecture
Aware of the purpose of the
Agnes Scott Lecture Association to
keep the student body conscious of
the trends of thought active in the
_ outside world,
9^3
I
the inquiring
reporter set
himself the
task of find-
ing out the
general re-
sponse of the
campus to H.
S. Ede, art
lecturer, who
the campus on
confesses himself
was brought to
January 2 5. He
amazed at the degrees of approval
and disapproval discovered but be-
lieves heartily that the lecture has
stimulated campus thought on art.
The most prevalent idea among
those who heard Mr. Ede's lecture
is neatly expressed in Miss Florence
Smith's summary of her reaction:
"I understood what he said but not
what he meant." Miss Louise
Lewis was quite pleased with the
lecturer as an
inter esting
and informa-
tive presenta-
tion of the
modern way
of seeing art
which stresses
the impres-
sionistic trend.
Many stu-
dents expressed delight in the
beautiful language with which
Mr. Ede phrased his criticism,
impressed by the spiritual emphasis
which was placed upon art
throughout. Others acknowledged
that the art which pleased the
(Continued page 4, col. 3)
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THE STYLE CENTER OF THE SOUTH
"Dormy" Daze: After exten-
sive roow-ination, ye Calumnist
offers a few choice Candid Cam-
pus shots angled in the different
"dorms" In Inman, Grace and
"Scotty" (that interwoven pair)
keeping Nell, Babbie, and the
other senioritas baffled by their
wierd antics . . . "Wimpy" stand-
ing guard over her bear, which
Patty, Dusty, Frankie and the
other hall-mates are un^iwably
fond of . . . Ella Muzzey and
room-mate Virginia Hickman
heaving pillows.
In the Cottages: The Ary
Trio (two Ms and a C
get it?) trying to make their
Gaines balance their losses (Plea
Woodman, spare that Trio!) . . .
Also, Mutt taking time off from
the Ping Pong tournament to Fite
rats in Boyd (no reflection on
Flora, Emma, and Millie!) ... In
Main, great excitement over two
major operations one, the re-
moval of Susie Blackmon's and
Mary Winston's bathing-beauty-
before-the-new-"lights" rule . . .
The other, the removal of a bottle
from Eleanor ("always-a-dull-
moment") Hutchens' little finger,
performed by Doctor Swanson
with the hilarious assistance of
"Mef" Francis and room-mate.
Rebekah Rambles: Two Day
students (?) have been keeping
things lively in Rebekah one
is that walking Nonsense An-
thology, that Anomaly of orange-
skirt - with - blue - and - white -
blouse fame in other words,
that aptly named Cheeseman,
famous for her lilting songs
rendered (render meaning to tear
apart) at all hours, as well as for
her "fireside chats" in the office
upon the phony invitation of
"Ern" Robinson . . . The other is
the Milner's daughter (Virginia,
not Marianne) who adds variety
to life by recapitulating after a
somersault over the couches in the
lobby, to find her heels in the face
of an amazed art professor! . . . In-
cidentally, she is likewise responsi-
ble for the joke-oj '-the -weak (or
vice versa) : "This water runs off
my back like water off a duck's
back," said the duck.
Simpering Similes: To Sel-
ma Steinbach's observation that
Mary Wells McNeill "laughs like a
machine gun," we'd like to add the
following ditto "Fouch" Brin-
ton's laugh sounds like water
glurking out of a stopped-up bath-
tub . . . Grace Moffett's is like
ginger ale . . . Steeley's reminds us
of turning a corner unexpectedly
. . . and Callie Carmichael's sounds
like climbing stairs.
Philosophobia : The only way
to gain immortality at Agnes
Scott is to leave a napkin-ring
with your name on it!!
Physical Education Department Gives
Annual Dance Recital On Feb. 3 In Gvm
Haynes, Dozier Direct Dance Club Program; Pres-
entation to Include Variety of Folk Dances,
Waltzes, and Solos
Social Whirl . . .
But definitely! Social life at
Agnes Scott is suddenly more in-
teresting. Things are happening in
the outer, more exciting world,
and Agnes Scott is looking in on
the fun . . . Anticipation runs high
over the Tech mid-terms where
Jan Garber will provide the swing,
especially with advance notice that
three of our own Hottentots will
parade in the Pan-Hellenic lead-out
on Friday night . . . One of Tech's
notorious Sigma Chi charmers
found his solution in dividing the
honors for the dances, so Sara Lee
will go on Friday and Virginia
Hickman will go on Saturday. We
think Jack is on a spot . . . Anoth-
er masculine two-timer got his
dates mixed. He was so enthralled
and befuddled with freshman
loveliness at the Mortar Board par-
ties that he asked for more dates
than he had nights and Lib Bar-
rett and Mary Bell are wondering
what next . . . Carolyn Alley is
just settling down from an excit-
ing week-end at the mid-winters at
the University of Tennessee . . .
Frances Butt is still telling tales of
wonder about Auburn last week-
end . . . Our little Nell is quite a
heroine for the French play Tov-
aritch, but we think Bob Pendley
(Continued page 4, col. 4)
The Physical Education depart-
ment will present its annual dance
recital to the campus and friends
on Thursday, February 3, in the
Bucher Scott gymnasium under the
direction of Miss Harriet Haynes
and Miss Eugenia Dozier. Featur-
ing particularly the members of
the Dance Club, the presentation
will include both group and solo
dancing and a variety of waltzes,
folk dances, and interpretations.
The directors have striven to
present the dances which are con-
sidered most beautiful and popu-
lar. By request, Marjorie Rainey,
Joyce Roper, and Nell Hemphill
will repeat the Dance of the Three
Graces, arranged last spring for the
May Day presentation of Covins.
Miss Dozier will present as a solo
performance Rezesda, an interest-
ing Moorish dance featuring finger
cymbals. Miss Haynes will present
two solo performances, The Dance
of the Happy Spirits and Hungar-
ian Dance.
Students who will appear in the
group dances include: Cary
Wheeler, Vera Marsh, Ruby Mae
Laney, Eugenia Bridges, Nell
Hemphill, Joyce Roper, Susan
Goodwyn, Betty Auberry, Helen
Moses, Helen Kirkpatrick, Sarah
Thurman, Virginia Tumlin, Eliza-
beth Furlowe, Marjorie Rainey and
Mary Matthews.
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THE AGONISTIC
SPORTS
Fire and dynamite blazed forth
Friday night when the seniors and
juniors clashed in that basketball
fight of fights which ended with
the seniors on top, 2 5-20. As the
last quarter drew near the closing
minutes, the spectators got wilder
and wilder as the seniors got cooler
and won the game with the same
amazing fight-hardest-at-the-fin-
ish spirit which snatched in last
week's victory for them over the
freshmen. The sophomores piled
up a higher score in a less spectac-
ular game which finished with
them 44-14 over the freshmen.
The senior- junior game got off
to a fumbling start with a great
many inaccurate passes and drop-
pings of the ball. Thompson began
the scoring by dropping a nice free
shot in the basket. The juniors, led
by Garner of the good faking and
feinting passes, soon got ahead and
held the seniors with a three point
lead until the last of the half when
a senior goal brought the score up
to 12-11. The third quarter found
the ball travelling from one end of
the court to the other too quickly
for much scoring to be done; but
the juniors got their lead and ended
the period 16-13.
Then action really was let
loose, and a battle royal resulted.
Jane Jones had piled up entirely too
many junior goals, so Lib got mad
and made five gorgeous goals dur-
ing the last four minutes of play.
Robinson and 'Liza were mean-
while doing neat work of guarding.
The game was extremely close dur-
ing a few tense minutes when the
teams took turns making goals,
with first the senior rooters and
then the junior section screaming
their lungs out. But when it was
all over, the seniors had won, in
spite of Steeley's swell guarding.
Something happened to the
freshmen, and their strength was
not up to what they showed
against the seniors last week. The
team was evidently crippled by
two of its best players, Dyar and
Steinbach, having been hit by this
sudden wintry blast and getting a
wee g(c)old in the nose. What
with having to face the sopho-
mores, whose Ruth Slack seemed
unable to miss the goal at all, they
didn't have much chance and play-
ed almost the whole first quarter
without scoring. (They'll prob-
ably rally and take sweet revenge
next week.)
Behm broke the non-scoring jinx
with a last-minute goal. Milner
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After this month Agnes Scotters
will have no excuse whatsoever for
burning up steaks, being ignorant
of the names of all trees and flow-
ers roundabout the campus, or al-
lowing a friend (or acquaintance,
for that matter) to drown or bleed
to death. Why? Because the ever-
popular Outing Club is holding
classes in outdoor cooking and fire-
building, nature study, and first-
aid every Tuesday afternoon in
February for those who would join
the club.
The little blue poster and its
seven little Outing Clubbers has
attracted so many for try-outs that
already twenty-six have signed up
for classes. It looks as if in
the near future the club will sim-
ply have to subdivide and have
such smaller clubettes as the
"flaming firebuilders" and the
"capable cooks."
and Slack, however, continued to
make the goals, and Ruth Crisp,
with that easy-going-pass-inter-
cepting ability of hers, kept inter-
fering with the freshmen, so the
half ended with the sophomores
well in the lead, 28-4. The sopho-
mores pulled it up to 14-34 at the
end of the third quarter, but the
sophomores finally took the eve-
ning, 44-20.
Long Gives Results
Ofl aval y sis Drive
As a result of the campaign
conducted on the campus last
week by the Industrial group of
the Y. W. C. A. under the leader-
ship of Martha Long, ten dollars
were received to contribute to
the Warm Springs Foundation for
fighting infantile paralysis. Mr.
Bowen, of the Bowen Press, was
chairman of the Decatur Commit-
tee, with which the campus com-
mittee was affiliated.
CAMPUS OPINION
ON EDE LECTURE
{Continued from page 3, col. 2)
speaker was too strange for their
personal appreciation and felt that
his explanation of its appeal to him
was inadequate. One art student
admitted herself well pleased with
the lecture as giving the most suc-
cessful explanation of modern art
which she had expressed.
The picture most inducive to
further thought was that of the
"great old girl," whose photograph
was shown in contrast to the art-
ist's representation. No one seems
quite sure what to think of it. One
felt that the sketch was a better
indication of personality, whereas
another vehemently announced
that it would take two years for
the impression to become clarified.
Social Whirl . .
(Continued from page 3, col. 4)
blushes too becomingly during
practice. Charlie has a word for
that . . . Mary Lou Dobbs and Bet-
ty Jones are yawning and little
wonder there is, considering the
wee, small hour of the morn they
got home last Friday night after
the celebration of the Atlanta
Evening School . . . We wonder if
the Doodle Bug is sure yet whose
voice he heard when Freda Cope-
land handed the 'phone to her
friend . . . Genevieve Baird had
stars in her eyes on Saturday for
the charming young Birmingham
M.D. who travelled halfway across
two states to see her. The stars
were still there at Sunday supper
with the Emory Delta Tau Deltas,
but they didn't guess why . . . We
stop to give Bunny Marsh sympa-
thy these days she's worried about
Dick's Aunt Trudy, who got a
letter of sweet sentiments that
Dick had written to her (Bunny)
and accidentally put in the wrong
envelope. We hope Aunt Trudy is
broadminded or that Dick was dis-
creet.
CLUBS
Stanley Hodges, dance director
for Paramount Studios in Holly-
wood, spoke to Blackfriars, drama-
tic club, Tuesday, February 1. At
the same meeting a play entitled
Folloivers was presented by Eu-
genia Bridges, Nell Echols, Mar-
garet Hopkins and Betty Jones.
Ruth Crisp was stage manager.
Pi Alpha Phi admitted five de-
baters as a result of try-outs held
Thursday night, January 27. New
members are Anne Henry, Marjorie
Merlin, Patty Patterson, Arlene
Steinbach, and Doris Weinkle.
El Circulo Espanol will have
winter try-outs at which the
freshmen are eligible to take part,
on Thursday afternoon, February
3, at 4:30. The regular monthly
meeting of the club will be held
on Thursday afternoon, February
10. At that time the meeting will
feature an address and appropriate
songs.
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VOL. XXIII
AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1938
Z115
No. 13
Y. W. C. A. Proposes Break
With National Organization
Students Vote Feb. 15th
To break an organizational link
of thirty-two years' standing, the
Young Women's Christian Associa-
tion of Agnes Scott College has re-
quested the approval of the stu-
dent body for its plan to become
ail independent campus Christian
Association. The Vote to determine
this change will take place on
Tuesday, February 15, during
chapel.
The proposed plan for dissolving
membership with national Y. W.
C. A. and for reorganizing into the
Agnes Scott Christian Association
was the subject of a panel discus-
sion in chapel on February 5.
Winifred Kellersberger read the
new constitution which the organ-
ization will adopt if it receives the
approval of the membership of the
present Y. W. C. A. The new
name and the changed composition
of the cabinet were the most im-
portant alterations made.
To unite religious organizations
on the campus and broaden the
scope of the Christian Association,
the new cabinet will include, beside
the regular four elected officers
and chairmen of various activity
groups, five subchairmen from
groups never represented on the
cabinet before. These will be repre-
sentatives from the Bible Club and
the four largest denominational
groups on the campus, Baptist,
Methodist, Episcopalian, and Pres-
byterian. These cabinet members
will be elected by the girls of their
denomination and will serve the
purpose of furthering their church
interests in their own denomina-
tional groups.
Dr. J. R. McCain expressed his
(Continued on page 4, col. 2)
Choruses Work
On The Mikado
In addition to the Agnes Scott
chorus in the Gilbert and Sullivan
opera Tloe Mikado, to be presented
April 1 and 2, there will be a
group of Columbia Seminary stu-
dents and some members of the Al-
berta Summer Opera Company,
Mr. Lewis Johnson announces.
Mr. Johnson has organized a new
choir, composed of approximately
thirty members, which is now
working on sacred numbers for an
Easter program to be presented in
Chapel.
On Friday evening, February 4,
the special chorus sang at the Sec-
ond Ponce de Leon Church in At-
lanta.
E. Hutchens, F. Abbott
Edit Sophomore Aggie
At a class meeting Thursday,
February 3, the sophomore class
elected Eleanor Hutchens editor,
and Frances Abbott business man-
ager of the sophomore edition of
the Agonistic. The ' editorial staff
is as follows: Louise Hughston,
Betty Alderman, Evelyn Baty,
Mary Lang Gill, Georgia Hunt,
Anne Enloe, Eva Ann Pirkle, Mar-
garet Hopkins, Joan Brinton,
Grace Ward, Lucille Scott, V. J.
Watkins, and Eloise Lennard.
Phi Beta Kappa to
Elect Members
First Elections For 1937-38
Will Be Announced At
Joint Meeting
The first Agnes Scott elections
to Phi Beta Kappa for 1937-38
will be announced on Tuesday,
February 15, at 8:00 P. M., in
Bucher Scott Gymnasium. At that
time Francis P. Gaines, president
of Washington and Lee University,
will address a joint meeting of the
Institute of Citizenship, the Phi
Beta Kappa Chapters of Agnes
Scott, Emory, and the University
of Georgia, and the Alumni Asso-
ciation of Phi Beta Kappa.
On Wednesday morning, Febru-
ary 16, at 10:30 A. M., a second
part of the Institute of Citizenship
will be held in the Chapel, at
which time Rufus C. Harris, presi-
dent of Tulane University, will
lead a round table discussion on the
subject, "Do Georgia's Colleges
Fulfil the Needs of Her Citizens?"
On Wednesday afternoon the
third part of the Institute at Agnes
Scott will be held in Gaines Chapel
at 3:00 P. M., at which time T.
Guy Woolford, president of the
Board of Directors of the Retail
Credit Company, will deliver an
address on "The Business Man
Looks at Our Colleges." After
(Continued on page 3, col. 3)
Dr. Heiser Speaks
At Emory Tonight
Dr. Victor Heiser, author of An
American Doctor's Odyssey and
"private physician to the world,"
will lecture tonight at 8:30 o',clock
in the Glenn Memorial Chapel at
Emory University.
Dr. Heiser, as an emigration of-
ficial, was sent to Europe to report
on emigration to America, visited
Egypt in order to study plagues,
and studied Canadian emigration
problems. From 1903 until 1915
Dr. Heiser was chief quarantine of-
ficer and director of health for the
Philippines, and until 1934, when
he retired, he was director of the
international health division of the
Rockefeller Foundation.
Dr. Heiser has devoted most of
his study of diseases to leprosy and
yellow fever. He founded what is
now the largest leper colony in the
world on the Island of Cuilon.
May Day Queen
MYRL CHAFIN
Dr. R. Speer
Leads Week
Of Services
'Significance of Christ's Life
To Us" Forms Theme
Of Chapel Talks
Conferences are Available
"What the . Resurrection of
Christ Means to Us," will be to-
morrow's subject in the third of a
series of chapel talks by Dr. Rob-
ert E. Speer, who is conducting re-
ligious week at Agnes Scott, Feb-
ruary 8-13.
The theme of Dr. Speer's five
addresses presented each morning
this week under the sponsorship of
Agnes Scott Y. W. C. A. is
"Christ As the Foundation of Our
Faith." His subjects yesterday and
today were "What the Earthly
Life of Christ Means to Us," and
"What the Death of Christ Means
to Us." Friday he will speak on
"What the Lordship of Christ
Means to Us." His topic for Sat-
urday will be announced later.
The chapel period has been tem-
porarily lengthened for these pro-
grams, beginning at 9:45 A. M. in-
stead of the usual hour of 10:00
A. M. Dr. Speer has been speaking
at the North Avenue Presbyterian
Church, in Atlanta, every evening
since his arrival in Atlanta on Feb-
ruary 6. These services, beginning
each evening at 7:45 P. M., will
continue through Friday.
Dr. Speer has served as Secre-
tary of the Foreign Mission Board
of the United States, president of
(Continued on page 4, col. 3 )
Students Choose Myrl Chafin
As Queen of May Day Fete
Blaekfriars Choose
Lead for Pygmalion
Richard Joel, Of Atlanta,
Will Be Featured In
Masculine Role
To play the leading masculine
role in the production of George
Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, on
February 19, Blaekfriars has se-
cured Richard Joel, a former mem-
ber of the University of Georgia's
Thalian - Blaekfriars. Richard
played the part of the Bronte sis-
ters' father in the Georgia presen-
tation of Moor-horn, which Blaek-
friars also put on here last spring.
He played the part of the bishop in
the recent production of The
Bishop Misbehaves, in Atlanta.
In the Emory presentation of
The Last of Mrs. Cheney, to take
place February 24, in the Glenn
Memorial Auditorium, Miss Carrie
Phinney Latimer, of the Agnes
Scott Spoken English Department,
will have a part. The lead in this
play will be taken by Susan Falli-
gant, another former member of
the University of Georgia Thalian-
Blackfriars. Susan was one of the
Atlanta girls who went to New
York to take tests for roles in the
movie of Gone With the Wind.
She also played the lead in the At-
lanta Federal Theatre production
of Rachel Crother's Mary the
Third, given last spring, in which
Agnes Scott's Jeanne Flynt had a
part.
Chorus Takes Part
On A.S.C. Program
A special chorus, led by Mr.
Lewis Johnson, sang over WSB on
the regular Agnes Scott program
Wednesday afternoon, February 2.
The members of the chorus were:
Jane Moore Hamilton, Amelia Nic-
kels, Jeanette Carroll, Annie Hous-
ton Newton, Virginia Wood, Vir-
ginia Kyle, Betty Kyle, Nelle
Chamlee and Emily Underwood.
The chorus impersonated the
Agnes Scott Glee Club in one of
the series of skits representing col-
lege life, presented once a week
over WSB. The alumnae who take
the parts of four Agnes Scott
girls in these skits are Betty Lou
Houck Smith, Carrie Phinney Lati-
mer, Frances James, and Edna Lee.
Grand Duchess Marie, Next Lecturer Here,
Has Led Tragic and Adventurous Life
From the Russian Imperial
Court to a dressmaking shop in
Paris was the course of fate for
the Grand Duchess Marie of Rus-
sia until she came to America.
Since 1928, this exiled princess has
been making a place for herself
here, first as a fashion consultant
and a business-woman, then as an
authoress and lecturer. She is now
making a lecture tour of the Unit-
ed States, and will speak at Agnes
Scott college on Friday, March 25,
under the sponsorship of the cam-
pus Lecture Association.
During the Bolshevik uprising,
twenty-one members of the Grand
Duchess' immediate family were
assassinated, while only she and her
brother, Grand Duke Dmitri, es-
caped. Among those assassinated
was her father, the Grand Duke
Paul, brother of Alexander III, the
next to the last of the Czars of
Russia. She is a cousin of the late
Czar Nicholas of Russia. Her ma-
ternal grandfather was King
George of Greece, and Queen Marie
of Roumania is her first cousin.
She is related to the royal family
of England.
Since that day in the fall of
1928, when Grand Duchess Marie
first brought her suitcase, type-
writer, and guitar into America,
she has not returned to Russia; nor
does she expect to return.
The book whose success brought
the Grand Duchess fame and for-
tune, "Education of a Princess,"
was in its first rough draft when
the authoress arrived in America.
It was written partly in French
and partly in Russian, and told the
story of her life and exile and
work. She wrote her second book,
"A Princess in Exile," directly in
English. Her success with these
books has made it possible for all
her time to be devoted to writing
and lecturing.
Her Imperial Highness will
speak on "The Old Life and the
New" when she visits Agnes Scott.
Rivals Will Be On Court
From a group of three girls
previously nominated, the student
body on Friday, February 5, elected
Myrl Chafin to rule over the May
Day festival, which will take place
May 14. The other nominees,
Grace Tazewell and Catherine
Ricks, will belong to the May
Queen's court, the other members
of which will be elected later.
Myrl, who was a member of the
May Court last year, and who
gained honorable mention in the
beauty section of the Silhouette,
will rule over the adaptation of
William Shakespeare's Mid summer
Night's Dream. She will represent
Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons.
A member of Blaekfriars for
four years, Myrl has taken part in
a number of plays. Her freshman
year she was a member of the
chorus in a performance of "The
Libation Bearers" of Aeschylus.
Her sophomore year she had a lead-
ing part in the choral readings
from Midsummer Night's Dream,
given at the Atlanta Dogwood
Festival. She played in A. A.
Milne's Mr. Pirn Passes By, Roberta
Winter's Bridal Chorus, and Alice
Jerstenberg's Playing the Game.
Scandrett Will
Speak Feb. 1 7
"Measuring Your Life by Your
Standards," will be the subject of
a talk by Miss Carrie Scandrett on
Thursday, February 17, in chapel.
This program will be sponsored by
Student Government.
On Friday, February 18, Cur-
rent History Forum will present
Mr. Walter Paschal, of the Atlanta
Journal and WSB, who will speak
about America's relations with
South America.
The Reverend Albert Stuart,
from St. Michael's Episcopal
Church in Charleston, South Caro-
lina, will speak for the Agnes
Scott Y. W. C. A. on April 5. ^His
subject will be "The Cross and the
Crucifixion." The association is
trying to get Dr. T. Z.i Koo, well-
known Chinese Christian worker
and speaker, to talk at the college.
A. S.C. Alumnae Hold
Banquet February 22
While Agnes Scott students
hold their annual Founder's Day
Banquet on February 22, at six
o'clock, in Rebekah Scott, Agnes
Scott alumnae will give theirs at
seven o'clock at the Atlanta Ath-
letic Club. This entertainment is
sponsored by the Atlanta, Decatur,
and Business Girls' Alumnae Clubs,
and all the Agnes Scott alumnae
and husbands of alumnae are in-
vited.
The speaker of the evening,
Rabbi David Marx, will be intro-
duced by Miss Eunice Ball, presi-
dent of the Business Girls' Club,
who will preside. Dr. J. R. McCain
will also speak. Other speakers,
will be Mrs. Jack Palmer, president
of the Atlanta Alumnae Club, and
Mrs. Claude Lammers, president of
the Decatur Alumnae Club.
Chairmen of the committees
which will arrange for the dinners
are Mrs. Jennie Hall Lemon, Mrs.
Ralph Pate, and Mrs. Claude Lam-
2
THE AGONISTIC
An American Doctor's Odyssey
"Adventures in Forty-five Countries" is an im-
posing and perhaps ambitious-sounding subtitle for
a book, and yet, all who have read An American
Doctor's Odyssey will agree that Dr. Victor Heiser,
who will speak at Emory tonight, fulfilled the prom-
ise contained in those words, and described just that
in the work which tells the story of his task and,
rather incidentally, of his life. Born in Johnstown,
Pennsylvania, in 1873, he was a victim of the flood
at sixteen, lost his family, worked as a plumber, car-
penter, and student of mechanical engineering, ul-
timately deciding to become a doctor. He had a long
and remarkable medical career behind him when he
took up the work for the Rockefeller Foundation
and became, in the truest sense of the phrase, "pri-
vate physician to the world." He literally ministered
to thousands and set up health organizations from
Hawaii to Abyssinia, which today care for the health
of millions, and through hygiene are making the peo-
ple happier, stronger, and more capable of work and
self-support.
Dr. Heiser's book has been out for some time, but,
while in 1936 it was a novelty and a discovery to
find that medicine and an accurate account of
stamping out diseases such as leprosy, cholera, black
plague, smallpox, on a large scale could be supremely
interesting and even romantic and adventuresome
reading, today and after today it is not impossible
that An American Doctor's Odyssey will become a
thrilling, primary source document of a really won-
derful period in the history of world medicine. Dr.
Heiser has achieved in the story of his life not merely
an autobiography of momentary interest told with
even astonishing humor, or merely a travel story cov-
ering many countries and experiences, but a non-fic-
tion tale of high adventure and glowing success. And
yet, these adventures are not conveyed to his audience
as having been sought and experienced by any demi-
god, but by an ordinary doctor with an interest in
wholesale medicine rather than in private practice. It
is only after having finished the book that, looking
back over the multiplicity and magnitude of the
things accomplished, the reader realizes what an ex-
traordinary energy and will was demanded for such
a task. The man possessing that energy and will is
the man who will lecture at Emory University this
evening.
Minnie Meddler In
Scholarwood
(With apologies to Fidler)
REBEKAH SCOTT: Settin Around (Dining
Hall, munching cold toast). Idol Chatter: Bee
Sexton's new fraternity pin is simply Carl-ossal . . .
Momentary Madness: To star Grady Clay and Suz-
anne Bellingrath in a fashion show . . . One word
description of little Allison: Nell-icious . . . Nom-
ination for the most high-hat: Sabic Sloan's rust
creation . . . Private Yen: To count the names in
Bumstead's date book for the last ten years . . .
Height of something-or-other: The Tech "invite"
to the Junior banquet, who is six-feet-seven . . . Sad-
dest case on record: Mitzi Sanders, who almost went
to church with Jan Garber . . . Discovery of the
Century: A Presbyterian who never heard of Walter
Dickson . . . Frantic Urge: To gather Peggy Willis,
Bunnic Marsh, Sara McCain, Mickey Warren, Eloise
McCall, Jane Witman, Ginger Tumlin, Elizabeth
Shepherd, Ruth Ashburn, Dusty Hancc, Mary Bell,
and others of the lovelorn into one dormitory, and
leave the rest of the campus in peace.
The juniors, highly banquet-conscious, are consid-
ering the matter of dresses. When Mary Wells Mc-
Neill, Bunnie Marsh, Kitty Caldwell, and Sara Mc-
Cain compared notes, it turned out that all four had
chosen white. Eleanor Hall can't think of any
flower that won't clash with her peculiar shade of
blue-lavender. (N. B. to Emory, Tech, Oglethorpe,
and the Seminary orchids go with everything!)
Farthest and nearest dates: Adelaide Benson's from
Pennsylvania; Kitty Caldwell's from the Seminary.
Giddy Erwin's coftcc last Sunday was a howling
success, but it was Giddy who did most of the howl-
ing when she discovered that she had left the dish
rag in the coffee dripolatcr, and all the now-con-
sumed liquid had filtered through it.
Agonistic
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
Owned and published by the students of Agnes Scott College.
Entered as Second Class Matter at Decatur, Georgia.
Subscription price, $1.25 per year in advance. Single copies, 5c.
1937
Member
1938
Fbsocfcrfed Golle&ide Press
Descent into the Maelstrom
We, as students, have been accused of being narrow-minded
and self -centered, turning our eyes inward and pursuing our
own little paths without regard to the broader ways of the
world. And yet, it seems as though we do just the opposite
that we try to be a part of every kind of movement and ac-
tivity which goes on both on and off the campus. In our ef-
forts to avoid being a set of egotistical females set apart from
the rest of the world on an isolated plot of ground, we rush
into every kind of activity, regardless of whether we are
really interested in it or whether we actually have time for it.
The list of regular organizations and clubs on the campus
is of appalling length. There is Student Government, Y. W.
C. A., Athletic Association, Blackfriars, Current History
Forum, Pi Alpha Phi, K. U. B., B. 0. Z., Poetry Club, French
Club, Spanish Club, German Club, Eta Sigma Phi, Pen and
Brush Club, Chi Beta Phi Sigma, Outing Club, International
Relations Club, Bible Club, Citizenship Club, Glee Club, Cotil-
lion Club, besides such time-demanding publications as the
Agonistic, the Aurora, and the Silhouette. In addition to
these organizations, there are always other events happening ;
at the moment there is in progress a rapid succession of im-
portant happenings the Agonistic contest, the Junior Ban-
quet, Founder's Day, and Mardi Gras, followed almost imme-
diately by examinations.
These are events only on the campus, while those happen-
ing off the campus, in the case of many of us, take up even
more time. There are the social affairs in Atlanta to attend
to, friends and events in home towns to keep up with, not to
mention church and club affiliations outside the college.
For the dramatic-minded there are plays to be seen and
participated in, for those interested in languages there are
meetings of clubs in Atlanta, for those interested in religious
questions there are conferences, for those interested in music
there are concerts and lectures. In fact, for every interest on
the campus, there are countless interests off it.
It is difficult to say what should be done about this over-
whelming number of interesting but time-consuming activi-
ties. We would surely not desire to limit our interests to the
college alone, as we would then become those egotistical, iso-
lated females we abhor. And yet, on the other hand, if we
center all our thoughts on events beyond the campus, where
would be the use of going to college at all ?
It seems logical that we begin with the campus activities
and work outward. In the first place, if the many girls who
belong to innumerable clubs would limit themselves to mem-
bership in the one or two in which they are most interested,
they would find themselves drawing more value from these
very few concentrated interests than they had formerly from
so many diverse ones.
In the second place, the traditional events of the year,
which have become rather unwieldy in their proportions,
could be modified within the bounds of moderate effort and
expenditure. Tradition is all very well, and is something a
college cannot do without, but it can be retained with less
frantic worry and wearying work than is being lavished on it
at present. The Freshman-Sophomore Stunt and Mardi Gras
can be just as effective and as hilarious, without the endless
effort of innumerable girls, who work unceasingly, to the
detriment of their constitutions and their classes. These ac-
tivities can be returned to their original simple state, in which
fun and merriment were unshadowed by worry and fatigue.
In the third and last place, we as students should stop a
moment in the midst of this whirl of activities, to con-
sider just what it means to us and just what value we derive
from it. Perhaps it seems selfish and uncooperative to con-
sider merely one's own personal profit, but what advantage
is it to the Class, that intangible but ever greedy spirit, to
expend unceasingly one's energy and thought ? Is it not bet-
ter to allow more time to each girl to develop her own tastes
and personality, than to sink them in continual effort for
the Class? Would not the Class profit more from the develop-
ment of a group of girls free from the petty worries of in-
numerable committeeships, and able to pursue their own in-
terests ?
It would be profitable to think on this matter which con-
cerns us at the present time, in order that we may find some
solution for a problem which confronts every college girl.
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REPORTERS: Adelaide Benson, Amelia Nickels, Hayden Sanford.
Von Bloinberg's Marriage
Is Cause of Present
German Crisis
The disapproval of the army officers of Field
Marshal Werner von Blomberg's marriage to Erika
Gruhn was stated to be the cause of the present gov-
ernment crisis. However, although there is objection
to von Blomberg's marriage to a blond masseuse
whose father is a carpenter, the real tension in the
crisis is the conflict between the party and the army
leaders.
Hitler is using this crisis as an opportune time to
hasten the consideration of the German state and
Nazi party as identical. Since the resignation of the
war minister, Hitler has recalled his envoys from
Vienna, Tokyo, Rome, and London; this fact is sig-
nificant when it is realized that he has indicated no
successors. In addition, the Nazi leader has decreed
the following stringent measures: (1) He has taken
direct control of the army, saying in his decree:
"Henceforth, I, personally, will exercise direct com-
mand over the entire armed establishment." (2)
Next, he has created a secret cabinet for the direc-
tion of foreign policy. (3) Significantly, he has
summoned the Reich parliament to meet in Berlin,
February 20, for what may be a startling announce-
ment of international policy.
Considering this present crisis and the subordinate
mysteries that occurred the week before, it is very
disturbing to think what the outcome may be.
We Think
(Editor's Note: The We Think column is conducted for the
purpose of giving an outlet to student opinion. The staff is in
no way responsible for what is printed in this column and it is
by no means to be taken as the editorial opinion of the paper.)
There can be no argument but that the break with
the national Y. W. C. A. is now a seeming all-advan-
tageous one. The student body this year and next
will, being an understanding part of the movement,
support it wholeheartedly. They will eagerly send
delegates to the Y. W. C. A. conventions; they will
keep in touch with the Y. W. C. A. movements; and
they will use the extra money for local activities. But
what of the student bodies three and four years from
now? Will they see the wisdom of spending fifty
dollars sending delegates to a convention where they
will have no vote and no speaking influence? Will
they keep interested in movements with which they
have no connection? Suppose the money were spent
to further missionary work like Alice Hannah's. Will
the student body year after next, never having
known her personally, consider her other than as
another name to be contributed to? Will the stu-
dent body, worst of all, realize the lessened strain on
the budget and reduce pledges, thus turning the
$180 to the channels of candy bars, gum, and choc-
olate sodas?
Turning now to the revised organization and new
constitution. There is a provision for sub-chairmen,
to be selected from the four largest denominations.
These will undoubtedly be Baptist, Methodist, Pres-
byterian and Episcopal. But what of the other de-
nominations on the campus? What of the Catholics,
the Unitarians, the Quakers, the Jews, the Luther-
ans? Will they not feel excluded from an organiza-
tion that provides for four denominations and no
others? Suppose that some year the Catholics, say,
should outnumber the Episcopalians by perhaps one
member, who then would be represented? There
could be conflict and hard feelings on either side.
Within the group of four denominations too,
would there not be a grave danger of developing sec-
tarianism and over-organization? Would not denomi-
national divisions interfere with unity of purpose?
Specifically, .the Baptist Student Union is a very
strong and active organization. In such representation
on the cabinet one or the other of the associations
must necessarily yield somewhat to the other. Which
would it be? Furthermore, if ever there should arise
an issue on which the two unions differed in opinion,
they would be almost forced to separate.
Because Agnes Scott is by and large a Presbyterian
school, it is but natural that the majority of students
should be Presbyterian. Then if the cabinet is largely
Presbyterian would it not be superfluous to add an
extra chairman to represent a denomination already
present in overwhelming majority?
This is not a blind issue to be passed without ques-
tion. Miss Hale spoke for it in chapel, but not all
the faculty is in favor of the change. Eliza King
spoke for it, but not all the student body agrees. Dr.
McCain approved it, but certain members of the ad-
ministration admit its defects. Perhaps, even on the
cabinet, there arc those who see beyond the present
years to the time when the true intent of the change
may be forgotten. Regardless of its/ merits, there is
much to be said against it we think.
THE AGONISTIC
3
Gallery-ites Interview Gainesville "Grandmother;
Are Repelled by Irate Doorman at Brother Rat
CLUBS
Day Students
Boast Glorified
Room in Main
Poor Relation Becomes Lady,
Relives Glorious Past
In Present Day
For many years now the lower
Day Student Room in Main has
been reminiscing, like a faded old
lady, over its hey-day in the past,
and desiring to show this new gen-
eration of rooms in Buttrick and
the library a thing or two. It has,
however, been the "poor relation,"
so to speak, of all the other old
rooms, and has been treated ac-
cordingly. It has been the scene of
poppings in and out for mail and
mad dashes for the telephone, of
locker-slammings and hasty lunch-
and-study combinations. It has
been the abode of ragged telephone
books, old AgonisticSy ants, and oc-
casional half-starved cats.
It has been completely neglected,
no one has ever thought of its day
of glory, over twenty-five years
ago, when it served as a dining hall
for the academy. Then its fire-
place boasted a roaring fire, and
its china closet, now hidden behind
a row of lockers, was filled with
crockery and castor sets.
Now, a quarter of a century
after its "day," the old room has
come out in a new burst of glory.
It has been swept and cleaned, its
windows have been adorned with
new green-striped curtains, its
tables topped with green marble
linoleum, its hard old chairs dec-
orated with green flowered cush-
ions and back covers. It has ac-
quired a new cabinet, and, best of
all, it has been presented with ten
new arm chairs upholstered in
green.
The climax of the room's glory
came last Thursday afternoon,
when it was the scene of a tea, an
actual come-and-go, four-to-five
tea. It vied with its superior, the
upper day students* room, in deh-
ciousness of refreshment and exclu-
siveness of company. In it were
served Russian tea, cookies, and
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Mary Ella Perry Confesses
Desire To Play Part Of
Scrub-Woman
All was quiet in the peanut gal-
lery; 'twas in the last scene of
Brother Rat, when we gathered up
our chocolate bars, green mints,
and one program and stealthily
stole to the stairway. The big mo-
ment was at hand, so to speak.
While the curtain was going down
and the fifty-five-centers were
practically falling over from ex-
citement on the bloated plutocrats
below, we "mashed dadly," as
Jac Hawks would say, down the
thousand and one steps to the stage
door.
The smiling stage-doorman told
us to go right on up, which we did
without much urging. The first
person to be seized with fervor was
Miss Claire Hazel, who took the
part of Joyce in the play. (We
ask you who wouldn't with that
many "snazzy" males in the cast.)
Brother Rat is Miss Hazel's first
play, and it is also the first for
some of the other young players, all
of whom are twenty-three and un-
cheese crackers, and to it came not
only illustrious day students and
privileged boarders, but special
people like Miss Scandrett, Mr.
Cunningham, Mr. Davidson and
Mr. Stukes. Truly the old room re-
lived its youth, and is again an
honored and respected member of
the college community.
der. Miss Hazel took dramatics at
Queens Chicora College and then
studied in New York. Her home is
in Bennetsville, South Carolina,
which is forty miles from Florence,
the Mecca of all poor tobacco
farmers just in case you didn't
know.
Miss Mary Ella Perry, who took
the part of the grandmother in
the play, is also from the south. We
were positive that everybody that
the tornado left in Gainesville was
there to see her. There's nothing
like home town folks. But never
fear, we battled through the heat
of friends and put in our little
questions. You can't keep a good
Agnes Scotter back, whether her
aim be Miss Perry or food at after
dinner coffee.
PHI BETA KAPPA TO
CHOOSE NEW MEMBERS
(Continued {ram page 1, col. 2)
his address, discussions on this sub-
ject will be given by William E.
Mitchell, vice president and general
manager of the Georgia Power
Company; Arch Avary, assistant
vice president of the First National
Bank; and Kendall Weisiger, per-
sonnel director of the Southern
Bell Telephone Company.
Poems wanted for New Poetry
Anthology. Plays and Fiction
also considered. Address: Dept.
I, Editor, 62 Grand Central An-
nex, New York, X. Y.
Miss Perry has been in New
York for seventeen years, and be-
fore going there she taught drama-
tics at our sister college, Brenau.
It was with a twinkle in her eye
that she told us how she got the
theatre people interested in her by
applying for the job of usher, rath-
er than that of actress. Finally she
was given a part, and since
then she has been in many plays.
When questioned as to what hgr
favorite part was, Miss Perry rue-
fully admitted that her secret am-
bition was to play funny old scrub-
women, but that unfortunately the
casting office thought her too dig-
nified.
As she turned to speak to her
friends again, we asked the door-
man if he could find us one nice
young actor to whom we could ad-
dress a simple question or two. The
answer was "No" but definitely.
So we trudged meekly out the door
and in the general direction of
home.
t the regular meeting of Chi
Beta Phi Sigma February 3 at 7:00
P. M. in the Murphey Candler
Building, Dr. Schuyler M. Christ-
ian led a discussion, based upon
his slides, about ancient science.
The entire college community was
invited.
The new members of Pi Alpha
Phi were initiated at its regular
meeting in Mr. Dieckmann's stu-
dio, February 3, at 7:00 P. M.
Cotillion Club met Thursday
afternoon, February 3, in the Mur-
phey Candler Building from five
to six, with Anne Thompson, Bee
Merrill, Susan Bryan, and Jeanne
Flynt as hostesses.
Professor John A. Strausbaugh,
professor of Spanish at Emory Uni-
versity, will speak to the Spanish
Club at its regular meeting Thurs-
day afternoon, February 13.
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THE AGONISTIC
Juniors Beat Freshman 30-14 Reli io ^ speaker
In Great Basketball Comeback
With a score of 30-14, the Juniors made a great comeback in the
basketball game Friday afternoon. Garner started the ball rolling in
the first half minute of the game with a goal for the Juniors. With
Dyar and Behm's sharing in the honors for the Freshmen, as well as
Scotty's nice guarding, the Juniors
played a cautious game. Jane
Jones, playing the best game she's
played this season, was instrumen-
tal in helping the Juniors bring the
score to 22-10 at the half.
The second half started smooth-
ly with Behm shooting a beautiful
goal from the middle of the court.
However, the Juniors got their
fighting spirit up when they lost
Garner, and had to play one man
short. The final score was 30-14
in favor of the Juniors.
In the Senior-Soph tilt, Thomp-
son and Brown played a snappy
game, despite the close guarding of
Crisp. While the Sophomores, with
the usual good playing of Milner
and Slack, not to mention the very
fine shooting of Montgomery, con-
tinued to keep a clean slate for the
season, besides beating the Seniors
with a 45-36 score.
The line-ups were:
Juniors (30) Freshmen (14)
F.
F.
F.
G.
G.
G
Dyar (12)
Bell
Behm (2)
Steinbach
Wilds
Cates
Benefield, for Fresh-
Garner (8)
Jones (15)
Dryfoos (7)
McGuire
Steele
Hamilton
Substitute
men.
Seniors (36) Sophomores (45)
Thompson (19) F. Milner (17)
Coit (6) F. Slack (16)
Brown (11) F. M'tgomery (12)
Merrill G. Thompson
King G. Crisp
Young G. Moses
Referee: Keller; Umpire, Miller.
The sketch of Dr. Victor Heiser
at the head of the book article on
Page Two was adapted by Mary
Wells McNeill, staff artist, from
one on the jacket of Dr. Heiser's
book, An American Doctor's
Odyssey.
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Eleven Members Are
Admitted to K. U. B-
As a result of tryouts held
Wednesday, February 2, K. U. B.,
tne campus Journalism club, ad-
mitted eleven new members. Those
admitted are Carrie Gene Ashley,
Sabine Brumby, Mary Evelyn
Francis, Louise Franklin, Caroline
Gray, Penn Hammond, Sara M.
Lee, Gene Slack, Mary Scott Wilds,
Caroline Willis, and Jane Witman.
Y. W. C. A. PLANS BREAK
WITH NATIONAL GROUP
(Continued from page 1, col. 1)
approval in the panel discussion on
last Saturday morning. He stated
that the chief reason for remaining
in the national organization has
been that Agnes Scott could be of
service to the larger group. He
added that since the Agnes Scott
Christian Association would con-
tinue to send delegates to national
conferences and work in coopera-
tion with other similar student or-
ganizations, he thought "we have
everything to gain and nothing to
lose by making this change."
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AGNES SPORTS
Emory - Agnes Scott
Produce DevaVs Play
Miss Wilburn informs your reporter that plans for the Water Pa-
geant are coming along Grand. Try-outs for the parts were held
Monday night. And take it from one who knows it is well worth
anybody's time . . . Ann Thompson talked on First-Aid at the first
meeting for Outing Club try-outs.
If anyone has any tin cans, please
save them for these outdoor girls;
lots will be needed . . . Chalmers
and Hamilton are making plans to
attend the A. F. C. W. conference
at Tallahassee, May 14-15 . . . Side-
lights of the B. B. Game "Crack-
shot" Blackshear lending her moral
support to the game Friday from
the sidelines! . . . Ann Worthy
rooting for 'L-i-z-a . . . Steely's
well-pleased with the out-come . . .
Who was the mysterious male on-
looker in the balcony? . . . P.S.
Plenty of room in the balcony for
any loyal supporters . . . Column
missing Cheeseman wit.
Dr. Robert E. Speer
NOTED SPEAKER GIVES
WEEK OF SERVICES
(Continued from page 1, col. 3)
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Christ, in America, and the Mod-
erator of the Presbyterian Church,
U. S. He is the author of "One
Girl's Influence," an inspirational
biography of Louise Stockton An-
drews, widely read and loved by
young people.
While here Dr. Speer is available
for group conferences with stu-
dents.
Taking part in the Emory-Ag-
nes Scott production of DevaPs
Tovarich on Saturday, February
12, in the Glenn Memorial Audi-
torium at Emory, will be Nell
Allison, as the Grand Duchess;
Mr. Eugene Harlepp, as the Grand
Duke; Mr. Strozier, as Charles;
and Therese Poumaillon, as his
wife. Jeanne Flynt, Mary Reins,
Hazel Solomon, and three Emory
students will make up the cast.
The performance will complete
the program of the meetings of the
American Association of Teachers
of French at Agnes Scott on the
afternoon of February 12.
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VOL. XXIII
AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1938
Z115
No. 14
Atlanta Business Men Speak
On Employment Advantages
Woolford, Mitchell, Avary,
Weisiger Tell Of Outlook
For Colleges
Talks Follow Discussion
The four business men most in-
fluential in placing Agnes Scott
graduates in Atlanta positions,
spoke this afternoon at 3 P. M. in
Gaines Chapel on the subject,
"The Business Man Looks at Our
Colleges." From their personal ex-
periences as employers these prom-
inent business leaders gave the ad-
vantages of having as employees
college graduates and non-college
graduates. The speakers were Arch
Avary, assistant vice president of
the First National Bank; William
E. Mitchell, vice president and
general manager of the Georgia
Power Company; Kendall Weisiger,
personnel director of the Southern
Bell Telephone Company; and T.
Guy Woolford, president of the
Board of Directors of the Retail
Credit Company.
This discussion followed one of
similar scope held this morning in
Gaines Chapel on the subject,
"Do Georgia's Colleges Fulfill the
Needs of Her Citizens?", led by
Rufus C. Harris, president of Tu-
lane University; Marvin Pittman,
president of South Georgia Teach-
ers' College in Statesboro, Georgia,
and J. R. McCain.
Mardi Gras Plans
Floats, Floor Show
Cary Wheeler will be in charge
of reservations for tables at Mardi
Gras on Saturday, February 26.
These tables may be reserved for
twenty cents in addition to the
one cent admission fee, which in-
cludes the charge for the spectac-
ular float parade, the grand march,
and floor show. Students are ad-
vised to make early reservations.
The festival will be a masque-
rade, and all are urged to come in
costume. Mardi Gras will be over
in time for those planning to go to
the Emory dance to do so.
Jooss Modern Ballet
To Dance in Atlanta
Miss Carlson
Makes Report
Of Conference
To Lead Founder's Day
Georgia Teachers Of French
Discuss Aim, Results
Of Instruction
Last Saturday afternoon Miss
Helen Carlson, acting assistant
professor of French at Agnes
Scott, made a report to the Geor-
gia Association of French Teachers
concerning the language confer-
ences which she attended in Chica-
go during the Christmas holidays.
The group to which Miss Carlson
spoke was especially interested in
her account of the panel discussion
carried on by the American Asso-
ciation of Teachers of French,
which gave a view of the country
as a whole regarding the aim and
the results of the modern language
teacher. Other speakers were: Dr.
Sidney L. McGee, of Georgia State
College; Mrs. J. C. Kincaid, of
Girls' High School in Atlanta; Mr.
Claude Chance, of the University
of Georgia; and Mr. Charles Lori-
dans.
Dinner was served Saturday
night in the Rebekah Scott dining
hall. After dinner, the members
of the association went to the
Glenn Memorial Auditorium at
Emory to see Deval's Tovarich,
which was presented by Agnes
Scott and Emory students, under
the direction of M. Roger Harlepp,
of the department of French at
Emory.
Phi Beta Kappa Names Six
In First Election of Year
Pageant Heads
Choose Leads
Of Water Fete
Milner, Roper, Kennedy, And
Hunt Preside Over Frogs,
Goldfish, Navy
The Jooss Modern Ballet, a
blending of the theatre and the
dance, will be the offering of the
Atlanta Concert Series tomorrow
night at 8:30 in the Fox Theatre.
This ballet, which is founded upon
classic dance traditions modified
by modern feeling, worked in some
obscurity until it attained an en-
tertainment and artistic value un-
usual in its scope.
Kurt Jooss, a Dutchman, has
combined the lighting, costumes,
and other effects of the theatre
with musical adaptations by Critz
Cohen, once conductor of the local
theatre in a small German town;
he thus has produced an unique,
internationally known dance group
whose dramas are comprehensive to
every audience.
The feature of the performance
will be the prize-winning "Green
Table. ,, Other numbers of the pro-
gram include: "A Ball in Old
Vienna, " "Ballade," and "The Big
City."
J. Chalmers Picks
Opera Committee
Members of the writing com-
mittee for the Senior Opera were
named Monday by Jean Chalmers,
general chairman. The committee
will be composed of Giddy Erwin,
Nell Hemphill, Elsie West, Hor-
tense Jones, and Jane Guthrie.
Joyce Roper will be assistant chair-
man. Other committees have been
tentatively appointed and will be
announced.
The writing committee and the
chairman, chaperoned by Miss
Haynes, are planning a retreat next
week-end to work in solitude on
plans for the opera. Tryouts for
parts will be held soon, after which
the cast and the sub-committees
will be announced.
Jean Chalmers and Joyce Roper,
who as George and Martha Wash-
ington, will preside at Founder's
Day exercises on February 22.
Pamphlet Gives
Digest of Plan
For Exchange
In a recently published pam-
phlet of the Institution of Interna-
tional Education, the plan for the
international exchange of students
was summarized as follows:
"In return for fellowships
granted by American colleges and
universities to si 1 nts from Aus-
tria, Czc , France, Ger-
many I : ly, Spain and
Switzerland, znese countries offer
equivalent grants to American
students. The fellowships in the
majority of cases cover board,
room and tuition, and the students
bear the cost of travel and inciden-
tal expenses. In some cases an ad-
ditional cash stipend is granted to
the exchange student.
"It is customary for the accred-
ited American colleges and uni-
versities which cooperate with the
Institute by offering fellowships or
assistantships for the foreign stud-
ents to remit tuition and provide
free room and board. In some
cases a fraternity or sorority takes
the student as guest, or a national
society or group raises funds for
this purpose. Occasionally a cash
stipend is given in addition, for
vacation and incidental expenses."
The hope was expressed by the
Institute that the plan would be-
come more widely used than at
present, since student exchange is
a large factor in the promotion of
good will between nations, especi-
ally at present when divisive na-
tionalism and aloofness from other
countries are being stressed.
As a result of the tryouts for
the water pageant to be held
March l, the committee chairmen,
headed by Virginia Milner, an-
nounced last night the selection of
the following leads: radio an-
nouncer, Joyce Roper; Prince of
Whales, Virginia Milner; Wally
Wharf-Eel, Kay Kennedy; and
Stanley Bald-one, Georgia Hunt.
The committee also chose those
who are to take part in the group
swimming. The goldfish are to be
Ruth Slack, Betsy Kendrick, Grace
Moffat, Betty Waitt, and Sophie
Montgomery; the mermaids, Anne
Thompson, Patty Patterson, Vir-
ginia McWhorter, Peek Brown,
Jane Moore Hamilton, and Betty
Alderman. Those selected as mem-
bers of the Frog Parliament are
Beryl Healy, Sabine Brumby, Doris
Weinkle, Arlene Steinbach, Therese
Poumaillou, Anne Martin, Doro-
thy Lazenby, Giddy Erwin, Doro-
thy Peteet, Nina Broughton, Betty
Kyle, and Katherine Patton.
The members of the swimming
club are to take the parts of the
Grecian swimmers; Gentry Burks,
Jean Chalmers, Anne Worthy
Johnson, and Gene Slack, those of
the Hawaiian divers. The Life-
Saving class will represent the
United States Navy. Mary Ellen
Whetsell, Ursula Mayer, and oth-
ers from folk dancing class will
perform Mexican dances.
E. King to Attend
Conference Feb. 5
At the regular meeting on Mon-
day, February 5, student govern-
ment chose Eliza King as the nom-
inee from Agnes Scott to go to the
Washington Conference for the
World Economic Cooperation, to
be held in the latter part of
March. N. S. F. A., having voted
at the Albuquerque conference to
continue affiliation with this cam-
paign, has a quota of 2 5 delegates.
The delegates are to be chosen
from nominees of student govern-
ment councils all over the United
States.
Institute of Citizenship, State
chapters, Alumni Are
Present
Initiation Rites Friday
Announcement of the election
of six seniors to the Georgia Beta
chapter of Phi Beta Kappa was
made last night at the joint meet-
ing of the Institute of Citizenship
with the Alpha chapter of the Uni-
versity of Georgia and the Gamma
chapter of Emory. Those elected
are:
Elsie Blackstone
Jean Chalmers
Mildred Davis
Eliza King
Elise Seay
Zoe Wells
The initiation ceremony will be
held Friday afternoon at 5:20
o'clock in Mr. Johnson's studio.
After the initiation the Phi Beta
Kappa members of Columbia Sem-
inary, Emory, the Agnes Scott
Alumnae and faculty, and the new
members will be entertained at a
banquet at the Anna Young Alum-
nae House. There will be no guest
speaker; following the banquet
the group will attend the last in-
terclass basketball game of the sea-
son in the Bucher Scott gymna-
sium.
D. Weinkle To Head
Next Class Edition
Doris Weinkle as editor, and
Grace Walker, as business man-
ager, will edit, the freshman Ago-
nistic, which appears next week.
Doris was editor of the prize-win-
ning Girls' High Times in Atlanta,
and Grace, business manager of her
high school paper.
Doris has chosen the following
staff: Beatrice Shamos, associate
editor; Louise Franklin and Elaine
Stubbs, make-up editors; Sara Lee,
Ella Murphy, Freck Sproles, fea-
ture editors; current history, Mar-
jorie Merlin; Book editor, Betty
Jane Stephenson; Jean Dennison
and Arlene Steinbach, sports ed-
itors.
Taj Mahal, Persia, Pyramids Figure
In the Life of Dr. Robert Speer
Moonlight on the Taj Mahal,
Peshawur in the Punjab, thieves
selling European loot in Indian
markets, fifteen hundred miles
through Persia on horseback, mice
in elephants' ears, drowsy camels
beside the Great Pyramid, deserted
royal palaces in the jungles of In-
dia all the glamour and charm of
the Orient is old news to Dr. Rob-
ert E. Speer, who conducted a
group of religious services at Ag-
nes Scott last week. In his work
on the Foreign Missions Board of
the Northern Presbyterian Church,
Dr. Speer has circled the world
twice, has visited China, Japan,
Korea, the Philippines, India, Siam,
all the countries of the Near East,
and has sailed all the way around
South America. Since his retire-
ment last fall from active work on
the board, Dr. Speer has been an
encyclopedia of interesting facts.
He knows from personal experience
that the Taj Mahal by sunlight or
moonlight is a romantic vision;
that muleback journeys over the
Andes are not comfortable; and al-
though camels are cushiony, the
best ride of them all is on the back
of an elephant. Elephants are
afraid of mice and little dogs be-
cause dogs run under them and
mice can get in their ears. Travel-
ing with missionaries is convenient
and safe, and opportunities for ob-
serving local color are more than
plentiful. Palestine has more varie-
ties of flowers than any other
country in the world and is a gar-
den of paradise in the spring. It is
possible to pick seventy varieties
of wild flowers without moving
from one's scat on the grass be-
neath the oak of Abraham near
Hebron. And above all, Dr. Speer
knows what a very queer feeling it
is to find one's clothes and pen-
knives being cried for sale in the
gaudy bazaar of a small railway
station in the sunny hills of India.
Just ask Dr. Speer!
Miss Rannells Speaks
On Retail Store Work
"Don't take a job because it's a
job; consider first what the job is
going to do for you," advised Miss
Frances Rannells, when she spoke
to a group of the Agnes Scott girls
Friday, February ll, about the
opportunities in a department
store for a college graduate.
Miss Rannells, who is head of
the Training Department at
Rich's, urged that the applicant for
a job consider the congeniality of
the surroundings before she ac-
cepted a position. "Employers,"
she continued, "expect a certain
amount of industry, loyalty, inter-
est, and initiative in your work."
After explaining the organiza-
tion of department stores, Miss
Rannells talked about the openings
in the field of retailing, and point-
ed out that if you ever expect to
advance in a store, it is first neces-
sary to begin by selling merchan-
dise. In closing, she asserted, "No
job is a dead end if you continue to
grow in it."
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THE AGONISTIC
<&l)e Agonistic
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
Owned and published by the students of Agrnes Scott College.
Entered as Second Class Matter at Decatur, Georgia.
Subscription price, $1.25 per year in advance. Single copies, 5c.
1937 Member 1938
ftssocideci Gollegcite Press
Eleanor Hutchens
Editor
Louise Hujrhston
Associate Editor
Betty Alderman
Evelyn Baty
Assistant Editors
Mary Lang Gill
Make-up Editor
Georgia Hunt
Anne Enloe
Feature Editors
Eva Ann Pirkle
Book Editor
Margaret Hopkins
Current History
STAFF
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Sports Editor
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Lucille Scott
Alumnae Editors
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Club Editor
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Betty Ball Embry
Society Editors
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Exchange Editor
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Business Manager
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Advertising Manager
REPORTERS Shirley Armentrout, Jeannette Carroll, Mary
Winston Crockett. Mary Louise Dobbs, Mary Reins, Jane Salters,
Hazel Solomon, Polly Heaslett.
BUSINESS ASSISTANTS Irene Phillips, Bryant Holsenbeck.
Edith Stover, Ernestine Cass, Mary Evelyn Francis, Betty
Jean O'Brien.
Post No Bills
Agnes Scott is proud of her new library,
proud of her magnolias, proud of her "cam-
pus beautiful" why not keep them some-
thing to be proud of? Why is our campus lit-
tered with bits of paper, orange peel, and
candy wrappers, despite the efforts of the
janitors? The alumnae contribute time and
money each year toward the care of a gar-
den for us; but we ungratefully drop trash
in the flower beds and throw paper into the
pool. The administration has hopefully
placed trash cans in strategic positions all
over the campus; but we thoughtlessly ig-
nore them and play paper-trail along the
walks. The lobby of Buttrick, which greets
our visitors, is as messy as a kindergarten.
And the mail room at 4:20 looks like the
morning after New Year's Eve. Why can't
we throw our drug store ads and campus
slips into the trash basket beside the table?
And then there are the campus bald spots.
Where feet have worn way the carefully
planted grass to save a couple of steps, po-
lite little "Please" signs now appeal to our
better , natures without seeming to order us
peremptorily off the grass. It speaks ill of
our better natures that no grass is growing
around those signs. For the sake of avoiding
two extra steps, we are marring our campus.
A beautiful and pleasing environment, kept
so by our own cooperation, can instill some-
thing into our character and sense of well-
being that we could never get in surround-
ings made ugly by carelessness and neglect.
Visitors compare our grounds with those of
nearby colleges, which are spotless, and we
suffer by the comparison. So, in their eyes,
we are judged inferior in other ways. Are
they right?
For A Better Understanding
In spite of the present ignorance about the
National Student Federation of America, it
is through this organization that nearly all
the policies of our student government are
determined. The N. S. F. A. is the only basis
on which students, through their college and
university governing organizations, can get
together to bring about a uniformity in the
limitations and powers of students, and to
take stands on national and international
questions. Here at Agnes Scott, however, the
general tendency has been to accept merely
with pride the work of the student govern-
ment, without any attempt to understand
why or through what means it has brought
us such advantages as the cut system and
new social regulations, and has made clear to
us the ideals of other students. We have
thought of ourselves as being isolated and
independent from other colleges; yet, in the
past, and particularly during this year, the
affiliation with N. S. F. A. has been of in-
valuable service.
Through the questionnaire given in the
weekly bulletin sent out by N. S. F. A., each
student government organization learns of
the problems elsewhere. It then gathers all
available data about a particular problem
from experience on its campus. Thus is
formed the coordinating network which
makes possible not only developments limited
to campus life but also arrangements for stu-
dents desiring to study in Europe, affiliation
with the other youth organizations, and con-
tacts with state and national governments.
Germany Watches Rumania's King
After Resignation of Goga Cabinet
In our world of deep-seated international entanglements and secret
politics, distance counts little in the importance of foreign upsets. Then
certainly Rumania's drastic activities deserve some close observation.
Germany is herself vitally interested in what King Carol, of Ru
mania, is trying to do, for the resignation of Premier Octavian Goga's
cabinet has changed the relationship of Rumania and the Reich. As soon
as the news was rumored abroad German foreign experts on Rumanian
affairs were asked for their interpretation of just what effects all this
would have on Berlin policies.
The final downfall of Goga's minority cabinet was hastened by the
decision of the Rumanian Judicial Committee that the royal decree of
January 22, whereby the citizenship of Rumania's 750,000 Jews was
called into question, was a violation of the Constitution's equality clause.
When we consider that this was not the first anti-Semitic measure that
Goga's ministry had used, we realize how important that verdict of
"Unconstitutional!" was. Hitler, too, has ideas about anti-Semitic leg-
islation.
With the fall of Goga and his anti-Semitic regime, King Carol II
stepped more definitely into public view with his fast-becoming-hack-
neyed cry of "dictator." The government became formally a "royal
military dictatorship," all politics were completely banned, Patriarch
Miron Cristea, president of the holy synod of the National Orthodox
Church of Rumania, became premier, and, incidentally, complete
dominion of the country was vested in King Carol. As leaders change,
policies change and policies affect Germany and Italy in this case.
Goga's government was, besides being anti-Semitic, semi-Fascist.
More and more he leaned toward friendship with Italy and Germany.
If, as many suspect, that was a factor in his removal, then certainly
Carol will see to it that the new regime behaves better. Already the
cabinet formation is of "center" and "liberal" groups, so that an or-
der suspending party activities would seem to be directed against the
Fascist-inclined Iron Guard group. The enthusiasm of both Christian
and Jew toward the new government speaks well for its success. Perhaps
King Carol is seeking only to "rectify injustices and mistakes of the
past." Perhaps he found his only weapon in assuming dictatorial powers.
We can only speculate on the outcome, but certainly the whole situa-
tion is full of importance to the world.
Novel Shows German Conditions
Lost Heritage, Bruno Frank, Viking Press, 1937, $2.50.
The conditions of the German Republic from its beginning in 1919
until 1937 are presented very clearly by this novel which deals for the
most part with the loss of freedom and livelihood by the liberal schol-
ars, the loss of life, of property, and of civil rights by the Jews, and the
adjustment of the nobility to their new positions. These conditions Mr.
Frank has learned to appreciate from actual experience and observation.
The revolting horrors that occur where "an alien tub-thumper
could pile up mountains of corpses and declare himself unchallenged
law-giver to the nation," and where thousands of prisoners were "in
daily anguish behind electrically charged barbed wires," are made more
repulsive by their contrast with the calm and restfulness of England,
where "the flowers on the hawkers' trucks at the street-corners spread
their perfume abroad" and where the parks "assume an emerald sheen."
Short, terse sentences give a tone of harshness to the scenes laid in Ger-
many while such expressions as "hundred-languaged galleries of the
spirit" give a tone of quiet and rest to the scenes in England. By such
vivid descriptions and by quotations from telegrams and from procla-
mations, Mr. Frank shows his familiarity with the actual conditions un-
der which his characters develop.
These characters represent the various types of individuals found
in Germany today. Ludwig, prince of Saxe-Camburg, represents the
nobility who opposed the Republic; Rotteck is the typical liberal
scholar who refused to yield voluntarily to Hitler's control of education;
the proud, independent, and lovable Wetzlar and his equally proud, more
lovable, and beautiful daughter, Ruth, are representatives of the Jews
who have suffered under Hitler's rule merely because they are Jews. The
persecutions of these people in the midst of terror and uncertainty form
the body of the novel.
Language, plot, and characters, however, are subordinate to the
background of contemporary history, and are used only to present the
confusion of Germany, the ruthlessness of Hitler, and the suffering of
his opponents. The real value of Mr. Frank's novel lies, as the author
intended, not in the particular sufferings of his characters, but in the
ucid picture that he gives of the upheaval in Germany since Hitler's
rise to power.
Students Become Feet Conscious
The colleges of today have suddenly become feet conscious. Every-
one is complaining about the inconvenience of them and the expense in-
volved in keeping them well shod. A student of Converse complains:
"Oh, how can I be attractive
And laugh, and keep on flirting,
Now that my heart is torn to bits
And my new shoes are hurting?"
In the Johnsonian, of Winthrop College, however, we see that:
"Feet are highly necessary things. How would shoes keep their
shape or get warm on cold mornings without feet?
"Feet are necessary to the hole-proof sock business and poetry. And
what else would one fasten his sore toes to?
"Feet are a very appropriate finish for the human leg. One might
study and study for ever so long and not figure out a leg terminal that
would look more natural and appropriate than a human foot.
"Imagine a hand at the end of your leg; or a face! One sees in-
stantly that it practically has to be a foot. Feet are necessary to chiro-
podists in business. What else would a well-trained chiropodist do, after
he had taken a course in chiropping, if people had not feet?
"And think of the corn-plaster foundaries that would be defunct if
there were no feet!
"Yet, if one had not feet, one would have no kick coming!"
We Think
(Editor's Note: The We Think column is conducted for the'
purpose of giving an outlet to student opinion. The staff is in
no way responsible for what is printed in this column and it is
by no means to be taken as the editorial opinion of the paper.)
What is college for? I had decided after study-
ing and writing essays in freshman English that at
a liberal arts college one learned not just superficial
facts, but really developed intellectually. And how
to develop mentally, how to really think, when all
our time is taken up with preparation of lessons to
be recited verbatim to a professor who could give us
supplementary knowledge of real interest if he had
the time? When a student has six or seven subjects,
it is impossible for her to delve into the fascinating
little by-paths of each. How can she look up mod-
ern novels mentioned in English class, and study
Greek excavations, and read all the good current his-
tory magazines, and perform psychology experi-
ments, if she expects to prepare her regular lessons
well and receive any of that spiritual and social de-
velopment so important at the college age?
The remedy for scattered and ineffectual activi-
ties is concentration on one or two fields, and I be-
lieve that the remedy for scattered and ineffectual
studying lies in the concentration found in the real
quarter system. Some suggest studying just one sub-
ject for six weeks and thus completing it with a
thoroughness and opportunity for individual, cre-
ative interest impossible under our present system.
Another plan is the one used by most colleges pro-
fessing to have the quarter system, that of taking
two or three subjects for one quarter, five days a
week. Even if only two subjects were taken, we
would complete six courses by the end of the year
just as we do now.
The five day week would be a distinct advantage.
I believe that not many of us really want to shirk our
lessons, but sometimes we simply have to break away
and take a time for recreation which should be given
us and is not. A Saturday afternoon holiday is no
concession whatever when there are classes on Mon-
day, for if those of us who do not study on Sundays
take advantage of Saturday, we find ourselves ill-
prepared and exhausted on Monday morning. Sunday
is not a day of rest even when we do not study or
go out in the afternoon, for Sunday School and
church, dinner and vespers fill the day almost com-
pletely. We need more time for real intellectual ac-
tivity. Then we could reap the full benefit of this
opportunity of ours. And we need z Monday holi-
day. It would eliminate much of the very prevalent
Sunday studying and make life a lot nicer besides.
How about it?
Ubi Sunt
The Latest: Wayve Lewis, '37, was married the
night of February 10. She's helping the Alma Mater
to maintain its high marriage rate.
Isabel McCain, in Chester, S. C, has acquired a
car named Peggy. Going our way, Isabel?
Is there a doctor in the crowd? You bet your life!
Betty Willis is at the University of Virginia study-
ing medicine.
Julia Thing, the Ideal Agnes Scott Girl of the
Class of '37, is taking a sectretarial course in Wash-
ington, D. C.
Faxie Stevens, '37, was married last week at her
home in Huntsville, Ala.
Lucille Cairns is studying law at the University
of Florida in Gainesville. Says it's easier than Agnes
Scott.
Mary Jane Tigert, '37, is studying to become an
architect. Maybe she'll design the next Greater Ag-
nes Scott building!
THE AGONISTIC
3
Recent Phi Beta Kappa Announcement
Brings About Faculty Reminiscence
Inquisitive Reporter Relates Characteristic Experi-
ences As Mr. Holt, Miss Gilchrist, Miss
Torrance Describe Receiving Key
Sympathetic beams from many of our faculty members at the an-
nouncement made last night of the first elections to Phi Beta Kappa
for this year led this inquisitive reporter to ask some of them how they
felt when their names were read from the roll of honor.
Mr. Robert Holt graciously turned aside from his typewriter
and, leaning back in his swivel chair, replied: "How (long
pause) How did I feel? Why, I
thought somebody was goofy! I
was convinced that all men are
subject to error." At the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin, where Mr. Holt
was elected (he didn't say when),
the Phi Beta Kappa announcements
were made through the student
press. He hadn't seen the paper,
so that evening during the college
prom when all his fellow students
congratulated him for his new
honor, he slated them up as
"goofy" with hardly a second
thought. But the next morning
when his old Latin professor called
him aside to offer felicitations, Mr.
Holt began to be convinced that
he really was entitled to one of
those hard-won keys.
Miss Philippa Gilchrist, who as
an alumna was elected in 193 6,
was generously helping a puzzled
young chemist with a filtration ex-
periment when she was confronted
with the same question. "Oh good-
ness, it was a surprise, but I just
don't know how to express my
other emotions."
"Why, I was so excited I didn't
know what to do," was Miss Cath-
erine Torrance's reply, when asked
concerning her feelings. Miss Tor-
rance was elected an honorary
member to the Beta chapter at Ag-
nes Scott in 1927, the first anni-
versary of its organization. She had
planned not to go to chapel the
morning that the announcement
was to be made, but after persis-
tent persuasion by a faculty mem-
ber who was carefully concealing
his knowledge of the honor unsus-
pected by her, she went and ex-
perienced "the most exciting thing
that can happen to a person."
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Margaret Lentz, Patty Patterson,
and Jane Salters were the three
new members chosen by Poetry
Club from the promising group of
would-be Sapphos who tried out.
These poets made their debut in an
atmosphere of cookies and Petrar-
chan sonnets at the club's last
meeting, on Tuesday, February 8.
Mary Louise Dobbs and Kather-
ine Patton will uphold the nega-
tive when Agnes Scott debates
Erskine College, of Due West,
South Carolina, on Wednesday,
February 2 5. Pi Alpha Phi invites
the college community to attend
this discussion of "Resolved: that
the National Labor Relations
Board should be empowered to en-
force arbitration of all industrial
disputes."
Nine new members have been
chosen by Chi Beta Phi Sigma, na-
tional honorary undergraduate
science fraternity, which elects
students outstanding in the basic
science of math or in the other
sciences offered here. They are:
Dorothy Graham, Mary Frances
Guthrie, Mary Hollingsworth,
Helen Kirkpatrick, Helen Lichten,
Lou Pate, Olive Rivers, Mary
Eleanor Steele, and Ann Watkins.
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Washed the Bathtub? . . . But
Main has also reaped a PERMAN-
ENT benefit, as Georgia finally
got around to her annual visit to
the beauty parlor . . . We wonder
why a certain Tech man's Sigma
Chi pin appears perennially on the
campus; year before last it was
Jane Carithers; last it was Kay
Jones, and now it's turned up
again . . . And there's a new frat
pin in the day students ranks, too;
ask any Greek 201 student . . .
Anyone who wishes to have a
sweater laundered and delicately
perfumed may see Pixie Fairly on
second floor Rebekah . . . What
prominent sophomore was incrimi-
nated by Miss Dexter's statement
concerning the nondescript, 'illegi-
ble penmanship of one member of
her class? Evidently her form an'
style were all right . . . Royalty
really reigns (English 211 please
note alliteration and assonance)
around here; last week it was
"Who's May Queen?", and this
week it's "Who's King of Mardi
Gras?" . . . And then there's the
senior who met a junior com-
ing in from the President's Ball
and naively asked, "What or-
ganization is your date the pres-
ident of?" . . . And wasn't Ernie
clever to use the dentist, or
some such professional man, as her
excuse for going home the same
week-end her brother went home
from Sewanee and took with him a
crop of young blades! . . . Primmie
seems to be dentist-minded, too,
these days, especially since she has
been having her dental work done
at the "Dental College Clinic" . . .
. . . Pity the poor Aggie reporter
who went to interview a faculty
member on her feelings when she
was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and
was nonplussed to find that the
aforementioned instructor was
NOT a member of the renowned
organization!
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Goings On
Inscriptions, Names, Dates of Past
Enchant Explorers of College Tower
Black Cat Contest Winners, Student Government
Officials, Despairing Sophomores Carve
Records Of Former Attainment
"We will tell our sad story, for tomorrow we die. We've been beaten,
starved and locked in the dungeon. Only these walls know our fate.
. . . Through the ages to come, our spirits will visit here at midnight,
the thirtieth of May . . ."
It may have been the despairing cry of a sophomore the night be-
fore an English Literature exam; perhaps it was only a sudden ex-
pression of fancy on the part of
some romantic freshman. But no
matter what the origin of the
above inscription may be, it cer-
tainly adds a flavor to the already
enchanting atmosphere of the Ag-
nes Scott tower.
All along the walls, from the
fourth floor up, the narrow wind-
ing stairs to the belfry, are in-
scriptions of all kinds: "Class of
'31 won black cat two times"
(more power to them) expresses
traditional pride in the capture of
the famous little animal. "Christ-
mas Day, 1918: Davis" seems to be
the most pathetic of them all.
Exactly why the door has been
opened, no one knows. It is rumor-
ed that some of the servants use
the tower for shooting pigeons and
that it has been opened recently
for that purpose. But it will be
closed again soon and then will re-
echo the toll of the old class bell
and the laughter of girls who
climbed the tower years ago to
write their names on the dusty
walls.
With Tech mid-terms over, and
Emory's not here yet, you would
expect a little peace and quiet
around these parts, but you find
Agnes Scott girls as gay as ever.
Jane Moses' seems to have enjoyed
every minute of her sojourn up at
Sewanee, since she didn't even take
time out to sleep. Up at Davidson,
doing those fancy Carolina steps,
we find Lois Sexton, Giddy, Vir-
ginia Hickman, and Laura Coit.
And Babbie and Ellen Little took
time out for a little high stepping
themselves at Chapel Hill. The
week-end found the Franklins and
Boots Moore at Dalton, visiting
with Carolyn Alley, who, inci-
dentally, did so well for her-
self up at Tennessee the other
week that Tennessee has plans
of coming down here. And
speaking of doing well, Agnes
should have been proud of her
Scott girls at the Phi Delta Theta
formal last week. Making inroads
on the stagline .there were Lib Bar-
rett, Frances Butt, Susan Bryan,
Carolyn Forman, Charlotte Gol-
den, Jane Moore Hamilton, Julia
Porter, Aileen Shortley, Ruth
Slack, and Anne Wheaton.
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THE AGONISTIC
The senior and sophomore teams
triumphed Friday afternoon in the
last interclass basketball game of
the season, keeping the sophomore
record clean and pulling the sen-
iors up to second in ranking for
the season.
Contrary to custom, the junior-
sophomore game began first, with
three quick goals by the sopho-
mores before Garner sank one for
the first junior score. Swift play-
ing by the sophomores chalked up
five more goals, after which Jones
made the second basket for her
team, starting a junior comeback
which tied the score in the begin-
ning of the second quarter. The
sophomores resumed their offensive
to end the half 22-18 in their
favor. With the help of Alilner's
ability to drop the ball into the
basket, and in spite of Blackshear's
lusty cheers for the juniors, the
blue-clad team efficiently piled up
a 61-36 victory in the last half,
and remained unbeaten for the
season.
After three goals by Blackshear
and Thompson during the first
few minutes of the senior-fresh-
man game, the freshmen staged a
prolonged rally and apparently had
the game sewed up at the end of
the half. The seniors, however, re-
membering that this was the last
game for most of them, thrilled
the onlookers by a systematic re-
covery in the last quarter, which
was climaxed by a goal in the last
half minute for a one point vic-
tory.
The sophomores have sustained
their unbeaten record in all com-
petitions for the year, coming out
well in the lead for the basketball
season. The seniors follow with
three victories and as many de-
feats; the juniors take third place
with two games won and four lost.
Basketball Players
Reveal Eccentricity
lolling On Floor, Signals,
Jumping Among Antics
We wonder why: Moses and
Steele prefer rolling on the floor to
more noble means of locomotion
. . . King's arms Jook like wind-
mills . . . Ernie always does a toe-
dance on the center line . . . Behm
holds up two fingers when she is
to receive the ball . . . Montgomery
always points to where she is going
before she starts . . . Scotty didn't
break her glasses when she fell
down . . . Blackshear pulls down
the cheers . . . Thompson does so
much jumping.
And how: Behm and Garner
can shoot baskets from the center
line . . . Bell gets so flat on the
floor . . . Milner can always lift
the ball into the basket . . . Steeley
intercepts balls around the knees
. . . Dyar makes a goal on a half
twist . . . Crisp intercepts all
passes . . . Miss Mitchell would get
along without her knee band to
pull up and down.
The player making the most
scores this year is Virginia Milner,
with 61 goals to her credit out of
93 trials. Using an overhand throw
impossible for her shorter oppon-
ents to guard, the tall sophomore
has made almost two-thirds of her
team's total score for the season.
Ruth Slack, another sophomore, is
second with 39 goals out of 112
shots.
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Milner, Steele Go
To Convention
Virginia Milner and Mary
Eleanor Steele will represent Ag-
nes Scott at the annual meeting of
the Georgia Athletic Federation
for Women to which Wesley an
College, in Macon, Georgia, will
be hostess on March 4 and 5. Anne
Thompson is the secretary for this
organization, and Frances Roane,
of Georgia State College for
Women, at Milledgeville, is presi-
dent. The convention, whose aim
is to increase the interest and co-
operation in the various athletic
associations of Georgia schools,
will be composed of delegates from
Agnes Scott, G. S. C. W., La-
Grange, Shorter, Statesboro, G. S.
W. C., University of Georgia,
Wesleyan.
Among the panel discussions un-
der the general topic of competi-
tion will be some suggestions for a
health program, by the University
of Georgia; ideas on intermural
competition, by Agnes Scott, and
on inter-collegiate competition.
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Jean Chalmers and Jane Moore
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tary of the Agnes Scott Athletic
Association, will lead discussions
at the Southeastern Conference of
the Athletic Federation of College
Women, to be held April 17 and
18 at the Florida State College for
Women. The conference, one of
the four A. F. C. W. conferences
this year, will not be held on the
Florida State campus, but at the
college camp.
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VOL. XXIII
AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1938
Z115
No. 15
Mortar Board to Sponsor
New Course on Marriage
Dr. Swanson, Dr. Raper To
Act As Faculty Advisors;
Ten Lectures Planned
Meetings To Be Informal
To fill the long felt need of ed-
ucating for marriage the senior
class, 63 per cent of whom usually
marry each year, Mortar Board,
headed by Mary Lillian Fairley, is
sponsoring a course on marriage
and family, which will begin
March 24 with the new quarter.
Dr. Arthur Raper, acting profes-
sor of sociology, and Dr. Florence
Swanson, campus physician, will
act as advisors for the course,
which will consist of ten lectures,
one to be given each Friday at
four o'clock.
Dr. Raper is to deliver the first
two lectures on "History of Mar-
riage and Family as Social Institu-
tions" and "Courtship and Mar-
riage from a Social Standpoint."
Dr. Swanson will speak the third
and fourth weeks on "Anatomy
and Physiology" and "Courtship
and Marriage from a Physical
Standpoint."
Speakers from outside the cam-
pus are to give the next three lec-
tures. Dr. Amy Shappell will discuss
"Birth Control and Pregnancy";
Mrs. Arthur Raper, "Motherhood,"
and Miss Leila Denmark, "Care of
Children." The program for the
three weeks following includes a
discussion of "Marital Adjust-
ment" by Dr. Raper, "Motherhood
and Careers," by Mrs. Frances
Craighead Dwyer, and "Budget,"
by a speaker to be chosen later.
Introducing a note of informal-
ity, Mortar Board has arranged to
have the lectures in Murphey
Candler Building.
High School Students
Vie for Scholarship
Girls from high schools of more
than thirty states will, on March
4, try out for $700 and $500
scholarships in the annual competi-
tive examinations. Judges will sel-
ect the winners, seventy-five per
cent from the results of three ex-
aminations, and twenty-five per
cent from personal qualities and
participation in school activities.
Nelson Eddy Conies
At Crucial Time
Proving the old saying that
everything comes in threes is the
fact that Nelson Eddy, in per-
son, exams, very muchly in per-
son, and Yes, My Darlin* Daugh-
ter, fresh from Broadway, ar-
rive during the same week.
When Nelson Eddy sings "Ah,
Sweet Mystery of Life," how lit-
tle he'll know how that applies
to the minds of A. S. C. girls.
Alumnae Unite
To Celebrate
Founder's Day
Dr. McCain Makes Address
To Alumnae, Students;
Skit Presented
While Agnes Scott girls sang
their Alma Mater at the end of
the annual Founder's Day broad-
cast yesterday, alumnae from Los
Angeles and New York to New
Orleans and Tampa joined in. More
than 75 groups in all parts of the
country, wishing to celebrate the
day so important to them while in
college, sponsored celebrations in
honor of George Washington
Scott.
The radio program, which was a
feature of all celebrations, includ-
ed a talk by Dr. J. R. McCain and
one by Miss Daisy Frances Smith,
president of the alumnae associa-
tion, who also read a greeting
from Dean Nanette Hopkins, ab-
sent from the broadcast for the
first time in many years. Carrie
Phinney Latimer, assistant in the
Spoken English department, and
Betty Lou Houck Smith, '3 5, pre-
sented a five minute skit showing
recent Agnes Scott changes, es-
pecially those that regard social
regulations.
Miss Llewellyn Wilburn and Al-
berta Palmour spoke at the Augus-
ta founder's day program, planned
by Eugenia Sims, '36. The alum-
nae in Baltimore, Charlotte, and
Chattanooga celebrated with
Founder's Day teas and those in
Lynchburg, New York, and Mis-
sissippi State with dinners.
AGNES SCOTT'S LOVELIEST
Dr. McCain Clarifies Vague Ideas
Of Students on Y.W.C.A. Program
Doing away with much of the
misunderstanding prevalent on the
campus during the past two weeks,
and clarifying several hitherto
vague ideas, Dr. J. R. McCain
Saturday discussed in chapel the
proposed change in the relation-
ship between Young Women's
Christian Association and Agnes
Scott religious life. Dr. McCain's
explanations of the responsibility
of the administration in making
changes of this nature and of the
procedure to be followed by the
students came at a time when the
campus was alive with small and
large groups engaged in debates
and lively discussions over the ad-
vantages and disadvantages of a
partial break with the national or-
ganization.
To supply the students with a
background knowledge of the Ag-
nes Scott Y. W. C. A., Dr. Mc-
Cain described the president's giv-
ing of the first charter in 1906,
Dr. Gaines' grant of a new charter
in 1926, and his own granting of
the present charter in 1928. As far
as he knows the Agnes Scott chap-
ter is unique in that it is the one
religious organization for an en-
tire campus and in that member-
ship is voluntary.
If the active members of the
Agnes Scott Y. W. C. A., which
includes all students participating
in interest groups or pledging
monthly contributions, should, by
a two thirds vote, decide to form
the Agnes Scott Christian Asso-
ciation, two changes must be made
in the proposed constitution, read
in chapel by Winifred Kellersber-
ger three weeks ago. The purpose
of the association should be so
stated as to apply directly to Ag-
nes Scott, and the membership
must continue to be voluntary so
that any affiliation with the na-
tional Y. W. C. A. may continue.
Girls Elect
May Court
For Queen
/
Committee Makes Selection
Of Twelve Based On
Popular Vote
Two Are Maids-of-Honor
Members of May Court are : Front row, left to right, Kay Toole. Alleen Shortley.
Myrl Chafin (queen), Carolyn Alley. Susan Bryan; second row, Marjorio Rainey, Kay
Ricks. Grace Tazewell, Zoe Wells ; third row. Jane Moore Hamilton, Amelia Nickels. Jean
Dennison, Martha Marshall, Adelaide Benson, Jean Barry Adams. Norton's Studio.
Original Class Skits Reveal Identity
Of Nominees for Mardi Gras Kings
Floats, Uncensored Costumes,
Entertainment Planned
For Celebration
With but three days left to vote
for King of Mardi Gras, Agnes
Scott is the scene of colorful and
extensive campaigning by each of
the four classes, eager to have its
nominee reign over Mardi Gras Sat-
urday night. The candidate who
obtains the greatest number of
votes, costing one cent each, will
automatically become King and re-
ceive the privilege of selecting his
Palmour Plans Dav
For Atlanta Seniors
To acquaint high school stud-
ents with the college and the girls
on the campus, Agnes Scott will
play hostess to about 200 seniors in
Atlanta schools on March 4. The
day's program includes tea in the
Murphey Candler Building, exhibi-
tion swimming, and supper around
a campfire.
Alberta Palmour heads the com-
mittee planning the day. Her as-
sistants are Barbara Lee Murlin,
Laura Sale, Helen Klugh, Alice
Reins, Dorothy Peteet, Douglas
Lyle, Jean Dennison, Zoe Wells,
Ruth Slack, Catherine Farrar,
Jane Smollen, Ruby Mae Laney,
Jeanette Carroll, and Elizabeth
Davis.
The girls invited include repre-
sentatives of Druid Hills High,
North Avenue Presbyterian,
Washington Seminary, Decatur
Girls' High, Atlanta Girls' High,
Avondale, Sacred Heart, Fulton
High, Russell High and North
Fulton. This is the first time Ag-
nes Scott has invited seniors of all
schools to come at the same time,
for previously, each high school
had its own special day.
own queen from his own class. The
defeated kings, with their chosen
queens, will compose his court.
Campaigning began last Friday
night in the chapel when each class
introduced its king by presenting a
skit. Amid screaming, clapping,
and singing, the freshmen brought
forth Ann Fisher, surrounded by
barkers and penny shows. The
sophomore king, Henry VIII, alias
Jane Moses, made her entrance ac-
companied by six wives who at-
tested to the fact that she "would
satisfy."
The juniors' skit, which was a
search for a perfect king, intro-
duced three dilapidated monarchs
representing other classes and end-
ed with the discovery of perfect
King Amelia Nickels. The seniors
satirized the whole "It pays to ad-
vertise" idea of Mardi Gras in their
skit, "Grime does not pay," star-
ring King Ola Kelley.
Performers, the nature of whom
is kept secret, and a series of floats,
representing all classes and organi-
zations on the campus, will enter-
tain the winning king and his
court. In order that the girls may
wear uncensored costumes, no vis-
itors from off the campus may at-
tend Mardi Gras.
Selected by the student body as
the most beautiful and poised at
Agnes Scott, fourteen girls will
compose the court attending the
queen, Myrl Chafin, in the annual
May Day Festival on May 12. They
are seniors: Jean Barrie Adams, Zoe
Wells, Marjorie Rainey, Susan
Bryan; juniors: Jane Moore Ham-
ilton, Aileen Shortley, Kay Toole,
Martha Marshall, Adelaide Benson,
Amelia Nickels; sophomore: Caro-
lyn Alley; freshman, Jean Denni-
son. Grace Tazewell and Kay
Ricks, previously elected, will act
as maids-of-honor.
Nominations Made Monday
Nominations were made in chap-
el last Wednesday, when each girl
was allowed to submit twelve
names. The May Day Committee,
headed by Anne Thompson, con-
sidered the nominations and made
final selections, based on the popu-
lar vote and the appearance of the
group.
This is the third year that
Aileen Shortley, Kay Toole, and
Kay Ricks, will appear in the May
Court. Susan Bryan, Jane Moore
Hamilton, Martha Marshall, and
Grace Tazewell attended the queen
last year.
Two in Beauty Section
Jane Moore Hamilton and Zoe
Wells were two of the eight girls
selected by G. B. Petty, of Esquire
Magazine, to appear in the beauty
section of the Silhouette last year.
Jean Barrie Adams, Susan Bryan,
Aileen Shortley, Kay Toole, and
Grace Tazewell were runners-up.
Tryouts for positions in the cast
of Midsummer Night's Dream, the
play which will form a part of the
festival, are to take place this
afternoon. Members of the danc-
ing classes will also take part in the
entertainment.
Coit to Direct
Open Discussion
Girls Boycott Emory,
Avoid Vaccinations
Notice to Tech, Oglethorpe, and
Columbia Theological Seminary:
Agnes Scott unofficially de-
clares boycott on Emory boys.
Since Dr. Florence Swanson an-
nounced that due to the case of
smallpox at Emory, all girls vis-
iting Emory campus or seeing
Emory students must be vac-
cinated, many decided to give
the "absence makes the heart
grow fonder" idea a try.
Girls May Put Suggestions
In Buttrick Ballot Box
Student Expression Week cul-
minates tomorrow with an open
discussion based on the questions,
criticisms, and suggestions dropped
in the ballot box placed in Butt-
rick. A week devoted entirely to
student opinion is in line with stu-
dent government's attempts this
year to make its work more demo-
cratic and to allow more girls to
take an active part.
Laura Coit explained the pur-
pose of the week in chapel Thurs-
day and showed that the desires of
the students are given attention by
the fact that the new social regu-
lations this year are a result of
opinions given in last year's ballot.
In order that there may be better
relations between the various fac-
tions on the campus, student gov-
ernment will show the logic behind
any questionable policies.
Student government received the
idea for a program featuring stu-
dent expression at a convention in
New Orleans last year. Similar ac-
tivities already exist at Florida
State College for Women in Talla-
hassee and several other southern
colleges.
2
THE AGONISTIC
Among the New Books
Christopher Marloue, John Blakeless; William
Morrow and Co., N. Y., 1937; S3. 75.
The expression, Elizabethan England, usually
evokes a definite impression although one's knowl-
edge of the period is vague, as if it were a scarlet
patch in history between grayer periods. We still
feel the surge and vitality of life under Good Queen
Bess and sense something of its adventurousness and
gorgeous pageantry. It w r as an age when men were
eager to taste all of life and savored its beauty with
keen appreciation. In his new biography, Christo-
pher Marloue, John Blakeless gives the reader a
chance to taste the fascination of that period and,
making skillful use of scanty material, goes far to-
ward enlightenment of one of its most colorful char-
acters.
Among all the brilliant array of poets, explorers,
and courtiers Kit Marlowe, in his brief and turbu-
lent career, seems the fittest embodiment of that age
of restlessness. Even the meteoric course of his life
seems a symbol of the passion and fire of the man.
Born in sight of Canterbury cathedral, a cobbler's
son, he soon left behind his artisan inheritance to go
to Cambridge. There he gained the proud title of
gentleman with his Master's degree and also a dubious
reputation with his school. And after he left Cam-
bridge in 1587, he was to know London only six
years until he met an abrupt death in a tavern brawl.
How inadequate is a mere statement of his life to
reveal the inner quality of Marlowe's mind and the
lasting impression he made upon his period and upon
literature since. In an age of versatility he was no
exception. " the foremost playwright of his day,
he was also a valued secret agent of the Queen's gov-
ernment. The author of exquisite lyric verse, he was
a ruffling bravo before whom the police quailed."
He had as intimates men of every rank of society.
Among the higher in renown was Raleigh, "a hand-
some, hasty, stout fellow, very bold and apt to af-
front." Among the little world of writers and act-
ors he had as friends and sometimes envious rivals,
Thomas Kydd, Robert Greene, and Thomas Nashe.
Almost certainly he helped along his way "that ris-
ing young man from Stratford." In London's un-
derworld he had acquaintances of less happy repute:
"Frizer, the swindler (who was to be his murderer) ;
Poley, the spy; and Skeres, the cutpurse."
All through his life runs one recurring theme his
quenchless longing for the unattainable. This long-
ing produced some of England's most beautiful
poetry but left him "a constant unrest, unhappiness,
a profound dissatisfaction with the scheme of things,
at times an angry and bitter contempt." He seemed
to be driven into "wild, perilous freedom and for-
bidden speculation, to a philosophy of revolt against
the state, against morals, against God Himself."
No dramatist has written plays more personal in
feeling. Marlowe expressed his own nature in three
of his characters, each of whom fell because he tried
to gain the impossible; Tamburlaine who tried to
conquer the world with war, Doctor Faustus who
tried to conquer it with intellect, and Barabas who
tried to conquer it with gold, all expressed Mar-
lowe's own urge to achieve that beyond his reach.
Even if he did long for things not within his grasp,
his very efforts were to shape the course of English
drama and poetry. The most original poet of his
age, Marlowe exerted immense influence on all of
his immediate generation of writers and their suc-
cessors. Shakespeare, of course, was the most impor-
tant to feel the power and beauty of "Marlowe's
mighty line."
But it is not only Marlowe's influence that is im-
portant, but his best poetry ranks with the most
beautiful in our language. No one who has ever read
his lines on Helen, or the soliloquy of Faustus, or the
exquisite clarity of his Passionate Shepherd will ever
forget the unique thrill of their first reading.
We sec then how little availed the murder in the
tavern at Deptfond. Still today the mind of Chris-
topher Marlowe makes its passionate appeal to all who
will read.
As We See It
Miss MacDougall explained that biologically a fe-
male is merely a male plus. It just goes to show you
that women can make more out of one rib than men
can out of eleven.
He's a round steak that thinks he's porter house.
Wc read of a monkey who recently wandered into
a motion picture theatre in Bombay and behaved
exactly like a human being except that he didn't cat
peanuts during the performance.
Anthony Eden resigns from his position in Eng-
land; Hitler, broadcasts his "defend the* public free-
dom" plan; Agnes Scott offers a course on, "Educa-
tion for Marriage." Again big news comes in threes.
Poll of popular opinion reveals Charlie McCarthy
idol of twentieth century. Birds of a feather flock
together.
Headline in morning paper states that large crowds
are now shouting, "We want Eden." Humanity has
fruitlessly made tl
Adam and Eve.
lat plea ever since tl
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Sauce for the Goose
In his address last week, Dr. Rufus C. Harris, president of
Tulane University, expounded the idea that it is the duty of
American universities to instill in their students the doctrines
of Democracy and that it is the duty of each professor to
teach his subject in the light of Democratic principles. But
it seems to us that such a course would defeat its own pur-
pose. By inculcating in the student principles of Democracy
to the necessarily partial exclusion of other ideas, the in-
structor would make not a liberal, Democratic individual, but
a prejudiced, intolerant one, for a true conception of Democ-
racy comes only with an impartial view of it, or at least with
some knowledge of its opposing forces.
Charles Wm. Eliot, former president of Harvard Univer-
sity, in his definition of the educated man, said, "he is to be
a man of quick perceptions, broad sympathies, and wide af-
finities." Certainly the idea of indoctrination cannot be re-
conciled with Eliot's conception of education w T hich is the
same as that generally held by the American university. For
a man of "broad sympathies" is not a man whose scope of
knowledge has been colored by one principle. Our colleges
would take a long step backward were they to substitute for
the scientific method of obtaining knowledge, this method of
selecting and emphasizing information so that all may unite
to prove a certain point.
Then too, why should whole masses of knowledge, com-
monly known as truth, timeless and limitless, be colored by
something as ephemeral and transient as ideals of govern-
ment? How can we argue that the principle of indoctrination
is good when applied to an ideal we happen to admire, but
despicable when practiced by European governments? We
consider it wrong for Russian schools to stamp Communism
on the minds of their students ; wrong for Germany to sway
her youth by Nazi doctrines ; wrong for Italy to instill Fas-
cism in the very being of her subjects. Why, then, is it right
for us to preach Democracy in schools where students are
too immature to interpret it with a correct sense of values?
We believe that the theory of indoctrination in the Ameri-
can university is wrong, not only because what is wrong for
others cannot be right for us, but because in its over-eager-
ness to achieve, it defeats the purpose it has set for itself.
Coming Into Our Own
Because we believe that American youth should be a force
in the government and because we believe that it should be
vitally interested in affairs pertaining to itself indirectly as
well as directly, we commend and heartily approve the Youth
Pilgrimage for jobs and education to be held in Washington
March 10-12.
Agreeing with the sentiment Dr. McCain set forth in his
speech last week that the responsibility of a college is not
limited to its student body but that it extends to all the peo-
ple of its community, state, and nation, particularly in mat-
ters pertaining to education, we are gratified to find that
this year's American Youth Congress will concern itself,
rather than with college problems, the following startling
facts about educational conditions in general :
(1) One-fourth of the teachers in the United States are
forced to feed, clothe, and shelter themselves and their fami-
lies on two dollars a day or less.
(2) Nearly one-half of the adults in the United States
have not finished elementary school.
(3) College graduates number but three per cent of the
country's adult population.
(4) No educational facilities whatever are provided for
approximately 2,750,000 children in the United States.
With these facts in mind, the youth of the nation will con-
sider how best the country can be made to understand the
services of education and teaching and how best legislative
bodies can go about remedying the existing conditions. Pre-
dicting that the work of the Youth Congress will be effective
to at least some degree, senators and legislators from all
parts of the country have requested copies of their findings
and recommendations.
It is unfortunate that Agnes Scott examination week comes
during the time of the pilgrimage, but although we cannot
have actual representatives in Washington, we can give our
support to any resolutions adopted and we can begin work-
ing at home on the educational system of Georgia, which is
practically in a class by itself below that of other states.
While those who make our laws are willing and even
anxious to consider the opinion of youth, college students
have great opportunities of becoming a real force in national
affairs. We of Agnes Scott approve an American youth
movement that will be a step toward making this potential
power a reality and we wish to be a part of it.
Doris Weinkle
Editor
Beatrice Shamos
Assistant Editor
Louise Franklin
Elaine Stubbs
Make-up Editors
Ella Muzzey
Society Editor
STAFF
Sara Lee
Frvck Sproles
Feature Editors
Grace Walker
Business Manager
Betty Jane Stevenson
Book Editor
Francis ("astleberry
Marjorle Merlin
Current History Editor
Jeanne Redwlne
Alice Reins
Eugenia Bridpex
Circulation Managers
Arlene Stein back
Jean Dennlson
Sports Editors
REI'ORTKRS : V. Williams. tt. Slack. M. Oliver. A. Harvey. C. Grey. I. Mancur. L. Sale,
R. Summon. M. Ineles. S. Self. F. Ellis.
BISINKSS ASSISTANTS: M. Bell. X. Wimphfeimer. D
M. Watkins. A. Martin. C. Rhodes.
R. Brodie, C. Morgan,
Hitler's Austrian Policy
Greatly Threatens
World Peace
Hitler's acquisition of Austria for Nazi rule seems
absurdly simple. He merely invited Chancellor Kurt
Schuschnigg of Austria to his country home for a
"friendly conversation. " While there, the two rulers
decided that perhaps it would be best for the Aus-
trian cabinet to include one Nazi to control the
country's security, and another Nazi to determine
foreign policy, in addition to settling certain other
points between them in Hitler's favor.
The only discord in this harmony of friendly re-
lations was Hitler's threat that if his terms were not
accepted, the German army would invade Austria.
Schuschnigg was given three days by the generous
Nazi dictator to decide whether Austria should be-
come Nazi or should be no more. Schuschnigg's de-
cision was that Austria should adopt the aforemen-
tioned measures. So easily has Hitler become the
dictator of Austria! Yet even he probably did not
expect the complete acceptance of his action by the
western powers. France, England, and Italy, all of
whom have a vital interest in Germany's growth of
power and who formerly considered themselves the
protectors of Austria, have taken no move to check
Hitler. In England, however, a crisis has arisen
which is said to be splitting English sentiment
throughout the country.
Up until Hitler's recent work to capture Austria
for the Nazis, the English had felt that all Hitler's
startling moves were justified. His right to remili-
tarize the Rhineland and his right to require com-
pulsory military services from the Germans were all
accepted by England as a just repudiation of the
Versailles Treaty, which the Allies admit now was
unfair to Germany. Hitler's most recent action, how-
ever, moves beyond that justification. Hitler has
never possessed the jurisdiction of Austria which he
now demands. His obtaining control of his helpless
neighbor was a distinctly aggressive act.
The present struggle in the British cabinet is be-
tween Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and For-
eign Secretary Anthony Eden. Mr. Chamberlain de-
sires to compromise with Germany and avoid con-
flict even at the expense of a colony. Mr. Eden, on
the other hand, feels that Germany has been in-
dulged far too much already and that further com-
promise will lead to further audacity on the part of
Hitler. The climax of the English controversy was
reached when Eden resigned from the cabinet Sun-
day. With him resigned Viscount Cranborne, Eng-
land's leading under secretary. Many feel that
Eden's resignation gives free reign to the Pro-Ger-
man forces in England and that all further actions
will favor a compromise with Hitler.
We Think
(Editor's Note: The We Think column is conducted for the
purpose of giving an outlet to student opinion. The staff is in
no way responsible for what is printed in this column and it is
by no means to be taken as the editorial opinion of the paper.)
Believing that college would be more valuable to
us if we could read more efficiently, we ask that a
reading course be given next year. As freshmen, a
great part of our time is spent pouring over periodi-
cals for English research papers and long 'biographies
for history and biology parallel work. Judging from
the reports of upperclassmen, we may expect to spend
more and more of our effort on this type of work
as we become sophomores, juniors, and seniors.
If we could learn to read more rapidly and to
select at a glance the important points in a mass of
material, much valuable time might be saved and
much more would be gained from the reading. Miss
Gaylord has told us many times in algebra this year
that our main trouble is being unable to read and
to digest what we read. We realize that what she
says is the truth and we, earnestly wishing to do
something about our need, feel that this type of
course is the best remedy.
Since a reading course would be a tool course, and
one as valuable as those now given to freshmen, wc
think the course should be offered especially to first
year students. Such details as credits and number of
hours would have to be worked out, but we believe
students would feel compensated even if no credit
were given.
A reading course is not an entirely new idea. An
extensive program for improving the reading ability
of the students of the University of Kansas is being
undertaken by the educational department of that
institution in cooperation with the college of liberal
arts. The course is being given there because stu-
dents felt a need for it and asked for it.
The fact that Mortar Board is sponsoring, with
the approval of the administration, a new course on
"Education for Marriage" is a favorable sign that
Agnes Scott is willing to give us what we need and
want. Since we know of no other organization, as
Mortar Board, to which wc may appeal, we directly
ask the administration to give us this reading course
that we do need and want. There is no point in going
through college with a leaking fountain pen. Why
not fix the leak the first year?
THE AGONISTIC
3
Delayed Letters To A. S. Girls Describe
Stirring Deeds In Chinese Struggle
No Personal Misfortune, Loss Of Cherished Belong-
ings, Make-Shift Clothing, Scarcity of Food
Can Daunt Missionaries
Oscar, Inman Waiter,
Weds Clevie's Sister
Girls who have wondered at
Oscar's recent preoccupied be-
havior will be interested in the
following announcement: "Rev-
erend Henry Chandler requests
the honor of your presence at
the marriage of his daughter,
Mary Oneta, to Mr. Oscar Ran-
dall on the evening of Saturday,
February 26, nineteen hundred
and thirty-eight at eight-thirty
o'clock at the home of the Rev-
erend Henry Chandler."
It is interesting because Oscar
is one of our favorite waiters
and the nephew of White
House's head waiter and because
Mary Oneta is Clevie's sister.
Socialites Enjoy
Active Week-end
By China Clipper, personal messengers, and smuggled un-
censored letters, Agnes Scott girls whose families are now
living in the war torn China, receive inside news of the con-
fusion and tragedy prevalent in districts invaded by Japanese.
Serving as doctors, missionaries, and teachers, the parents
of Louise Young, Nell Allison, and
Emma McMullen are in the midst
of the fighting.
Guns shooting and bombs fall-
ing within thirty feet is an every-
day experience of Emma'tf father,
who is now in Hangchow.
Nell Allison's family, whose
home town (as Nell says) is Kiang-
yen, have" sought safety on a house-
boat in a canal not far from Shang-
hai. Upon hearing that the Jap-
anese were about to attack, they
left their home in Kiangven so
hastily, only a few belongings
might be gathered together and
many cherished and valuable fam-
ily heirlooms were left behind. The
Allison's Chinese cook remained in
the house until it was hit by a
bomb, when he, realizing nothing
more might be done, fled for his
life.
Young Cares for Asylum
Louise's father took care of an
insane asylum in Soochow, which
is about 50 miles from China, un-
til Christmas, when he received a
safety pass from the Japanese to
visit his wife in Shanghai, and could
not obtain a pass back to Soochow.
Before he left, however, he had to
take all of the patients out of his
hospital since being near both a
highway and a railroad, it was a
target for bombers. He was forced
to bring personally all the patients
to their homes because coolies wete
afraid to risk traveling about. One
man had to be pulled 25 miles in
a rick shaw because he would over-
turn any boat taking him directly
across a canal to his home. Shortly
after the hospital was emptied, two
of the main buildings were set on
fire and three pianos were seen
being thrown from the windows.
Messages Tell of Hardships
Messages to all three girls tell of
the peculiarity of the food eaten
now, the necessity of wearing make-
shift clothing, and the scarcity of
writing paper. Emma's parents are
living almost entirely on Chinese
vegetables. Nell's family report
that they are unrecognizable be-
cause of the layers of clothing
necessary to keep one warm on a
houseboat, and Louise's father has
no clothes in Shanghai except a
suit with baggy pants and turtle
neck sweater, knitted for him by
the Chinese nurses in a refugee
camp. All letters received are writ-
ten in tiny handwriting on thin
onion skin paper.
Louise, Emma, and Nell worry
little over their parents' presence in
China, for, as Emma said, "They
have been through wars before and
they are a great moral support to
the stricken Chinese." The com-
parative regularity of mail coming
from China is to a great extent re-
sponsible for preserving their peace
of mind. Mail going to China from
America, however, seems clogged
up at some point. Nell's family has
received no word of her since Sep-
tember, Nell has stopped writing
frequently quite understandably,
it's no fun writing to no one.
Phone DEarborn 4205
JOSEPH SIEGEL
"Dependable Jeweler Since
1908"
Diamonds - Watches - Jewelry
Silverware
111 E. Court Sq. Decatur, Ga.
Last week-end A. S. C. was well
scattered around the countryside,
with Charlotte Golden at Colum-
bus, Ga., attending the Junior
League Ball; Carolyn DuPre, Mary
Reed Hendricks and Eleanor Rog-
ers at LaGrange visiting Margaret
Dodd and going to the Cotillion
dance; Mickey Warren week-ending
at Toccoa, Ga. (what happened we
haven't heard yet) ; Suzie Belling-
rath at home in Montgomery, Ala.,
and Kay Oates at
Wee Faculty
Tales
Only a "T" Difference
Miss Wilburn met a meat chop-
per fresh-come to Atlanta, who
wanted to know where the institu-
tion for the art of Butchering was.
She found out later he meant
Bucher Scott!
Patients or Patience
Patients or Patience
Dr. Swanson is in a quandary.
When her numerous admirers insist
upon calling her during office
hours, shall she hold suitors or
patients? Our advice is . . . aw, you
know what our advice it!
Lectures (?)
Miss Scandrett was nonplussed
when going through "sign-out"
slips the other day. It seems that
Dr. Christian was taking two
girls to a lecture in Atlanta the
girls signed out date Dr.
Christian purpose lecture.
What Miss Scandrett really wants
to know is who did the lecturing,
Dr. Christian or the girls?
Cue-
Ask Miss Scandrett about the
first time that she met Dr. David-
son. (Be sure, however, Dr. David-
son isn't around.)
No Problem
Dr. Robinson asked one of his
classes that if there were five boys
and five girls in a room, what
was the probability of their being
seated boy, girl; boy, girl; etc.
Sweetwater, The class thought and thought,
Tenn.; Grace Tazewell and Caro-
line Armstead left Monday for
Newnan, while Callie Carmichael,
Mary Ellen Wetzel, Mary Hollings-
worth, Carrie Wheeler and Julia
Porter left the same day for Fay-
etteville, Alabama.
Last Friday night at the A. T. O.
dance, Flossie Ellis, Margaret Nix,
Mary R. Hendricks, Sue Goodwyn,
Annette Franklin, Beverly Cole-
man and Marjorie Boggs were
among those who dazzeled the stag-
line . . . and ran off with a fra-
ternity necklace.
Visitors on campus last week-
end included: Mrs. Adams (of Bab-
bie) and Mrs. Little (of Ellen),
and Mrs. Ashburn (of Ruth).
Pennsylvania lent us a few of its
debaters for a few days who, it
seems, were determined to get the
most typical southern gals they
could find. As a consequence they
turned to the freshmen. Those of
the typical class were Lib Barrett
and Val Nielson.
Gentry Burkes is at home in
her vooviy where she will remain
during the period of the Carolina
dances, due to the absence of the
"note of approval" which should
have come in from Mrs. Burkes last
week . . . but didn't! . . .
applying all the rules they knew
and finally gave up. Dr. Robinson
then told them that it was no
probability at all, it was a cer-
tainty.
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in "Little Dec"
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Sandwiches, Drinks and
Cosmetics
Miss Gooch Danseur
Funniest event last week was
Miss Gooch dancing Freck Sproles
around in Spoken English to get
Freck in the mood for a poem.
Honesty to the Nth
In a recent quiz the answers to
which were known by almost no
members of the class, one student
handed in a blank sheet of paper,
carefully pledged. A more extraord-
inary course of action was offered
by a Friend. He suggested that she
should have written on the paper,
"I regret very deeply that I could
not pledge this test, but I saw two
other girls with blank papers, and
I copied theirs."
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Old Diary Reveals Scott's Impression
Of Early Decatur; "Nice Little Village"
Descendants Of Scott Give Picture Of Character
In Tale About War Between The States;
Name Him Unconquerable
"It is a nice little village. The people are more interested
in church and school than in anything else," wrote George
Washington Scott in his diary after passing for the first time
through the Decatur where he was later to found Agnes
Scott College. Ever since the time Scott, then in his early
twenties, first saw Decatur while
on a horseback trip from Pennsyl-
vania to Florida, his life and the
progress of Georgia, especially At-
lanta and Decatur, were bound
closely together.
Descendants Now Here
Louise Sams, Mary Scott Wilds,
and Nell Scott Earthman, descend-
ants of Scott now in the college,
are able to give a picture of him
that only a member of the family
might know and one that is en-
lightening to students whose
knowledge is limited to the fact
that Agnes Scott celebrates his
birthday every February 22.
That Scott refused to be defeat-
ed even in small matters and that
he always found a way to get
around opposition is shown by an
incident related to Louise by her
great aunt. When Scott's mother
extracted a promise from him and
his brother, John, that they would
stop engaging in their customary
violent arguments over the War
Between the States, Scott had such
strong feelings he could not remain
still, but took paper and pen and
after writing exactly what he
thought, handed the written argu-
ments to his brother.
Scott Elected Governor
Scott received election to the
governorship of Florida shortly
after the end of the war, but, as
his family can tell, actions of the
carpetbaggers and Federal troops
prevented his being sworn into of-
fice. Not until Scott had made
helpful discoveries concerning a
phosphatatic rock fertilizer in Sa-
vannah, and built the old National
Bank Building, the first skyscraper
in Atlanta, did he move to Deca-
tur, "a nice little village," and one,
he must have thought, suitable for
the home of Agnes Scott College.
Announcement Jars
Faculty's Prestige
The truth comes out. Dr. J.
R. McCain, in his talk to the
student body in chapel Saturday,
revealed that the he-men of the
faculty once belonged to the
Agnes Scott chapter of the
Young Women's Christian As-
sociation. Further threatening
the masculine reputations of the
males of the faculty, was an
observation many students made
at the recent Phi Beta Kappa
announcement. When the audi-
ence rose and began sounding
the alma mater, the men joined
in and ardently sang to Agnes
Scott as the "love of their girl-
hood."
Music Societies
Honor Macdowell
For the benefit of the lovers of
Edward Macdowell, the Georgia
Music Association sponsors this
week a musical festival in his honor.
Every afternoon at five o'clock
at the student Art Building, the
student clubs of Georgia, compos-
ed of musicians sixteen to twenty-
six years old, will give programs
which include Macdowell's piano
and violin compositions and groups
of nis songs.
On the evening programs, be-
ginning at eight-thirty, Macdow-
sonatas and one concerto
ill
will be played. These artists' con-
certs are open to the public free of
charge, as are the afternoon pro-
grams. The collection that will be
taken is to be a contribution to
Mrs. Macdowell for her philan-
thropic work with the colony at
Peterboro, New Hampshire, the
haven for American creative art-
artists of all kinds.
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For further information, address
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THE AGONISTIC
Talks by Scandrett, Paschal
Interest A.S. Student Body
News Commentator Relates
Experiences In Mexico;
Condemns Isolation
"Isolationism is silly," explained
Walter Paschal, of the Atlanta
Journal, in his speech in chapel Fri-
day, on Mexico and her relations
with America. Mr. Paschal, who
has recently returned from travels
in Mexico and South America, first
explained how Communism and
Fascism, not being content with
the areas they already possess,
reach out as an octopus and try to
grasp new lands.
Then proceeding to give some
conception of conditions in Mexi-
co, Mr. Paschal told of his personal
experiences on its one main high-
way and of the thrills received
from being escorted by Indian boys
and finding coca-colas in the midst
of the desert. An avalanche of
small boys descending upon one's
car is overwhelming at first, but
experience teaches that the children
can be very useful as guides.
According to Mr. Paschal, the
Mexico of today has practically
broken away from the church to
which it was a slave for many
years. Most of the people are now
backing Cardenas, who won his
support by personal ability and in-
tegrity. His principal measures deal
with regaining home control of the
natural resources, which are 70 per
cent owned by outsiders, and re-
turning the great personally owned
lands to the small farmer.
A. A. to Decorate
Ping-Pong Room
Girls and their dates will soon
have bright pillows and new cur-
tains to look at in the Athletic As-
sociation recreation room in Mur-
phey Candler Building. Mrs. A. L.
Durrat, who decorated the Stu-
dents' Activities Building, will help
in refurnishing the recreation room.
The plans so far are to have a
new ping-pong table (which is al-
ready being made) , curtains to add
color, and new cushions to add
comfort. The Athletic Association
will also buy new games for peo-
ple who have not yet learned the
knack of the table-tennis back-
stroke and silver plaques may take
the place of the banners adorning
the walls.
Burson's Shoe Shop
Suede Polish All Colors
307 E. College Ave. DE. 3353
COME TO
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Compliments of
KING
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COMPANY
East Court Square
Decatur
Miss Scandrett's Talk Gives
Standards For Living;
Presents Challenge
"Shangri-la is not good, for
when a person lives there long he
cannot stand the outside world,"
asserted Miss Carrie Scandrett in
her talk to the student body in
chapel Thursday. Miss Scandrett's
speech, which student government
planned last fall as part of its
February program, concerned liv-
ing up to one's standards and ap-
plied specifically to the campus
the theoretical ideals of honor and
spiritual values expounded during
honor and religious weeks.
According to Miss Scandrett,
there are three types of standards:
those which are set for one, as cus-
tomary social regulations, those
which one sets for others, and
those which one sets for himself.
Of the three, a person is least like-
ly to live up to the last. In many
matters it seems simple to have no
higher standards than the intellec-
tual one of some students who
would be ashamed to answer the
question, "Do I do my best or am
I delighted to pass?
Outing Club Plans
Stone Mt Picnic
The Outing Club and its guests,
members of the faculty, will hike
to the top of Stone Mountain
Thursday afternoon, February 24.
"We're going to let the hardy ones
climb the mountain, and leave the
others at the foot to cook the sup-
per," says Jeanne Matthews, presi-
dent of the club.
Miss Llewellyn Wilburn, faculty
advisor; Miss Frances McColla, and
Miss Blanche Miller, faculty mem-
bers, will each invite a student to
go with them. The other members
of the club will take members of
the faculty as their guests.
Brown Jug Tournament
To Take Place Friday
Bringing the basketball season
to an amusing close and providing
the school with fun and hilarity,
the annual brown jug tournament
will take place this Friday at 3:30
P. M. Groups entering teams in-
clude the dormitories, cottages,
faculty, alumnae, Decatur day
students, and Atlanta day stu-
dents. Each team will present an
introductory skit before the games.
Varsity Beat Sub-Varsity
In Walk-over Friday Night
Last Roundups
To bring about a closer relation
between the religious organizations
of the Georgia colleges, the Agnes
Scott Y. W. C. A. is sending dele-
gates to Wesleyan, Brenau, and
Emory. February 20, a delegation
from Emory University presented
vespers at Agnes Scott, and Febru-
ary 13, Brenau students led a serv-
ice in the chapel.
Agnes Scott and Emory fresh-
men will debate some question con-
nected with the Philippine situa-
tion on April 20 at Emory and on
April 22 at Agnes Scott. The Ag-
nes Scott team includes Marjorie
Merlin, Pattie Patterson, Ann Hen-
ry, Arlene Steinbach, D. Weinkle.
In its recent tryouts Spanish Club
admitted Marguerite Ingley, Nell
Pinner, Grace Elizabeth Anderson,
Marjorie Gates, Frances Woodall,
, Hazel Solomon, Betsy Banks, Mary
Nell Taylor, Martha Watkins.
Tales told by a bench warmer at the varsity-sub-varsity
game.
Stills: Sophs still cheering for the sophs although the cheering section
had moved to the gallery; Garner still playing with
her shoe stuck up with sticking plaster.
Interruption: Dog on the court! Has definite will
of his own. Even Miss Mitchell with her pleas and
enticing smiles can't lure him. Ah, little girl with
"it" comes along and he follows her off court.
Balancing: Steele and Crisp continually imitating tight rope walkers
with gymnastic feats extraordinary.
Sunday Clothes: But the juniors and seniors seem
spuffed up over being allowed to wear in a big game
the cute freshmen and sophomore suits instead of
their own long drawers.
Breaking Into the Neu/s: Wonder how Jane Moore
Hamilton will feel if that most inconsiderate pho-
tographer prints the picture he took of her lying on the floor in ;in
awkward position, to say the least?
Flowers: A nose-gay to Slack for her clean game. That foul she
[ i made was her first in ages and ages.
Fit of Hunger: For the orange slices periodically
Tf\~ f*^V passed to worn out players. "Root-toot-tooting" is
)Jj\ ^oL- quite wearing too.
Case of Home-sickness: For the freshman, "Big
apple, little apple, Suzie Q." The sophs yell without
Groups of girls all over the cam-
pus gathered last night to listen to
the broadcast 5 of the National Stu-
dent Federation of America. Art
Northwood, outgoing president of
N. S. F. A. who recently visited
Agnes Scott, presented a review of
recent campus events.
reason. Why can't the frosh?
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Best of Luck To
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and Freshmen
DECATUR WOMAN'S
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Accompanied by Miss Virginia
Gray, the freshman Y. W. C. A.
cabinet will have its retreat at
Camp Smyrna February 27. The
program will include a discussion
on "The Relation of the Y. W. C.
A. Cabinet to the Class," and a
forming of plans for the year.
Battle Excites Interest Of
Onlookers In Spite Of
Final Score : 63-17
At no point seriously threatened
with defeat, the varsity basketball
team defeated the sub-varsity Fri-
day night with a score of 63-17.
Although the game opened slowly
with neither team seeming to work
systematically, action picked up
decidedly in the second quarter.
A. Thompson started the scoring
by making a foul shot. Garner
made the first goal for the varsity
and A. Thompson followed with a
field goal, making the score equal
for the first quarter. The varsity,
however, continued to pile up
points with Milner and Slack play-
ing their unbeatable games. In the
second quarter the sub-varsity
staged a comeback, and for a very
brief time it looked as though they
might gain the lead; but the var-
sity settled down and the half end-
ed with the score 29-13.
With Milner, Blackshear, and
Slack dropping the ball into the
basket regularly, the varsity had
everything its own way during the
last half. An unusually large num-
ber of fouls made by both teams
slowed the game considerably. A
series of varsity goals toward the
end of the game made the final
score 63 to 17 in favor of varsity.
Line-up :
Sub- Varsity (17) Varsity (63)
Behm Slack
Dyer . Milner
A. Thompson Garner
Wilds Moses
H. Thompson Hamilton
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VOL. XXIII
The Agonistic
AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1938
Buy
Lecture Ticket
ZUS N6. 16
HER IMPERIAL HIGHNESS
Tickets for the Grand Duchess Marie's lecture will be on sale March
23, 24, 25 in tne lobby of Buttrick.
Front Row
By Jane Guthrie
Stall:
Styrian Nazis stage legal demon-
stration to "wake up" Anti-Nazi
Vienna. Their march on the city
is stalled by Austrian troops. Graz,
"Nazi Capital of Austria," is ringed
by Austrian army. Two-day armis-
tice arranged with government at
Vienna. Arthur Seyss-Inqwart, ap-
pointed by Hitler, is invited to par-
ley. Austrian villages boast of
being 100 percent Nazi and urge
union with Germany. War fund
openly collected by Nazi govern-
ment.
Poll:
Anthony Eden resigns in protest
against British cabinet's foreign
policy. Chamberlain takes his place
with plans for "arrangement with
Italy." Poll taken /later shows 88
percent of voters oppose Chamber-
lain's "let's talk" with Mussolini.
Commons support Prirne Minister.
Threat :
Premier Chautemps threatens to
resign in 1 5 days unless new labor
code to quell industrial unrest is
enacted. About 7,000 labor con-
tracts expire this week. Premier's
downfall and labor troubles are cer-
tainties unless new code voted
speedily.
Spy:
Red-haired German woman, Jo-
hanna Hoffman, United Spates ar-
my sergeant, and private are ar-
rested and accused of selling mili-
tary secrets abroad. Discovery said
to prelude sell-out of Panama
Canal Zone, Atlantic seaboard de-
fense and navy ship yard plans.
Guard thrown around Mitchell
Field, United States army air base,
to prevent further theft of air corps
secrets. Russia, Germany suggested
as "unnamed European power" in-
volved in the plot.
{Continued on page 3, column 3)
Guthrie, Ogden
Attend Press Meet
Meeting in connection with the
annual Georgia Press Institute at
the University of Georgia in Ath-
ens, February 2 5-26, delegates from
college publications throughout the
state attended the annual conven-
tion of the Georgia Collegiate
Press Association. Agnes Scott was
represented by Esthere Ogden and
Mary Frances Guthrie, assistant
business manager and assistant edi-
tor, respectively, of the Agonistic.
Speakers featured on the conven-
tion program were Mr. Gilbert P.
Farrar, typograph expert who re-
cently re-styled the Atlanta Jour-
nal; Mr. W. T. Anderson, editor of
the Macon Telegraph; Mr. Ernest
Rogers, radio news editor of the
Atlanta Journal; Prof. Raymond B.
Nixon, of Emory University; and
Prof. Willett M. Kempton, of the
University of Georgia.
At the conclusion of the two-
day conclave Warren Duffee, edi-
tor of the Emory Wheel and presi-
dent of the G. C. P. A., announced
the plans for the association's spring
convention, to be held at Brenau
College, Gainesville, April 29-30.
Agonistic Adopts
New Headline System
In keeping with the most mod-
ern trend of newspaper presen-
tation is the system of "flush-
left" headlines which the Ago-
nistic is using for the first time
this issue. John Allen, editor of
Linotype News and authority on
make-up, has said of the new
plan: "These heads are here to
stay, being easier to write, easier
to read, and easier to set up."
Roval Exile
To Speak
Here in March
Grand Duchess Marie
Will Lecture On
"Old Life And New"
Discussing- "The Old Life
and the New," her Imperial
Highness the Grand Duchess
Marie will appear at Agnes
Scott Friday, March 2 5, under the
auspices of the Public Lecture As-
sociation.
Cousin of the late Czar Nich-
olas of Russia and one of the last
of the Romanoffs, the Grand
Duchess Marie has never returned
to Russia since the Russian Revolu-
tion and never expects to return.
Twenty-one members of her imme-
diate family, including her father,
were assassinated in the Bolshevik
uprising, Marie and her brother,
Grand Duke Dmitri, being the
only ones to escape.
The Grand Duke Paul, father of
the Grand Duchess, was the
brother of Alexander III, next to
the last of the Czars of Russia.
Through her mother, who was the
daughter of King George of Greece,
the Grand Duchess is related to the
English royal family. Queen Marie
of Roumania is her first cousin.
In the fall of 1928, the Grand
Duchess Marie arrived in America
with a suitcase, a typewriter, a
guitar and the first rough draft of
the book which, published later un-
der the title "Education of a Prin-
cess" (Viking Press) , was to win
her fame and fortune. "A 'reverse
English' success story," according
to her publishers, "her first book
told how she went from the luxury
of the Russian Imperial court
through the hardships of revolu-
tion and exile, to a dressmaking
shop in Paris, where she gradually
found a new life for herself in a
democratic world. In 1929 she be-
came fashion consultant for a New
York dressmaking establishment, a
job which she held until the success
of 'Education of a Princess' made
it possible for her to devote all her
time to writing and lecturing."
"Education of a Princess" was
written half in French and half in
Russian but the Grand Duchess'
second book, "A Princess in Exile,"
was written directly in English.
Drama Council
Holds Play Contest
Offers Prize For Best
Skit About Peace
A first prize of $200.00 is being
offered by the Religious Drama
Council for the best one-act play
on the subject of Peace. The other
awards will be: second prize,
$100.00, donated by Samuel
French; third prize, $50.00, offered
by the Religious Drama Council;
and fourth prize, a bronze medal,
donated by Samuel French.
The contest is to open March 1,
1938, and close on July 1, 193 8.
The plays must be suitable for pro-
duction in churches by children,
young people or adults. The play-
ing time must not exceed one hour.
The judges will be chosen from
leaders in the professional theater,
educational drama and peace or-
ganizations. The prize winning play
will be submitted to Samuel French
for an offer of publication. For
further information and a copy of
the rules, address: Religious Drama
Council, 71 West 23rd St., New
York City.
Hemphill, Thompson Rule
Fairy Court in May
May Day Committee Chooses Cast
Of Annual Spring Festival
Nell Hemphill as Titania and Anne Thompson as Oberon
will rule the Fairies in the May Day Dell, May 7, when "A
Midsummer Night's Dream" is presented. They were selected
for the leading roles as a result of tryouts which were held
Wednesday, February 23.
Grand Duchess Offers
To Autograph Books
Book lovers and autograph
collectors will hail with pleasure
Associate Professor Emma May
Laney's announcement that the
Grand Duchess Marie will auto-
graph copies of her book when
she appears here March 25.
Students may order one-dollar
editions of The Education of a
Princess through the campus
book store.
Dr. Boland Speaks
On Medicine
Dr. Frank A. Boland, of Atlanta,
president of the Southern Medical
Association, spoke in the chapel
Friday afternoon on the "History
of Medicine." He used biographi-
cal sketches as the substance of his
lecture, saying that when you know
the lives of the men concerned, you
know the history of the medical
profession. The lives reviewed
ranged from Aesculapius, the son of
Apollo and the first man of impor-
tance in the art of medicine, who
was killed by Jupiter because of his
skill, down to Georgia's own Craw-
ford W. Long, the first physician
to use ether as an anesthetic, and
the famous Mayo brothers of our
own day. The lecture was illus-
trated by lantern slides.
Dr. Boland came to Agnes Scott
through the efforts of Dr. Florence
Swanson, and his lecture took the
place of Dr. Swanson's weekly
sophomore Hygiene classes, although
the whole college community was
invited to hear him.
Other members of the cast were:
Theseus, Nell Scott Earthman;
Philostrate, Jane Moses; Hippolyta,
Myrl Chafin, the May queen;
Egeus, Mary Anne Kernan; Hermia,
Ruth Tate; Lysander, Eleanor
Deas; Demetrius, Shirley Armen-
trout; Helena, Helen Moses; Bot-
tom, Jane Guthrie; Puck, Nell Al-
lison; Solo Fairy, Helen Kirkpat-
rick.
There will also be groups includ-
ing rustics (Fleete, Sneeze, Quince,
etc.), torch bearers, and attendants
on Oberon and Titania. Members
of the May Court will attend Hip-
polyta.
The cast was chosen by the May
Day Committee, assisted by Miss
Dozier, Miss Haynes, and Miss Wil-
burne.
Pi Alpha Phi
Debates Erskine
On Friday evening, Feb. 2 5,
Katharine Patton and Mary Louise
Dobbs of Agnes Scott debated Oli-
ver Carmichael and Jack Massey of
Erskine College, Due West, S. C,
at an open meeting of Pi Alpha Phi
which was attended by a large part
of the college community. Agnes
Scott upheld the negative side of
the question, Resolved: that the
National Labor Relations Board
should be empowered to enforce ar-
bitration of all industrial disputes.
After the debate, which was non-
decisional, an informal reception
was held.
The Agnes Scott team will de-
bate at the University of Georgia
on the same subject on March 3.
James W. Johnson Visits A.S.C.;
Will Read Poetry Tonight
Speaks On "Negro's Contribution
To American Culture"
Today saw the arrival on the
campus of a distinguished poet and
professor of literature in Fisk Uni-
versity, James Weldon Johnson.
Mr. Johnson spoke in chapel at the
regular morning worship service on
the subject: "The Negro's Contri-
bution to American Culture.*' To-
night at 7:30 he will read some of
his poetry in the chapel.
James Weldon Johnson was born
in Jacksonville, Florida, graduated
from Atlanta University with an
A.M., has an honorary degree of
Doctor of Literature from Howard
University, and has taught school
and practiced law in Jacksonville.
He has served consulates in Vene-
zuela and Nicaragua, and for four-
teen years was the secretary of the
National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People.
He has published more books
than perhaps any of the other
Negro writers. He is the author of
"The Book of American Negro
Spirituals," 'The Book of Ameri-
can Negro Poetry, ,, "Along This
Way," "Fifty Years and Other
Poems," and "God's Trombones."
From the last comes that great
poem of "Creation," in which
"This Great God,
Like a mammy bending over her
baby,
Kneeled down in the dust,
Toiling over a lump of clay
Till He shaped it in His own
image;
Then into it He blew the breath
of life,
And man became a living soul."
It is necessary to read the whole
poem to get the entire picture, a
picture which grows on you from
the moment when "Darkness cov-
ered everything, blacker than a hun-
dred midnights down in a cypress
swamp," until the final word of
"Amen".
James Weldon Johnson also com-
posed the hymn, set to music by
his brother, which has now become
the National Negro Anthem.
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THE AGONISTIC
SPORTING
By Alice Cheeseman
Administration
Reveals Plan
For Buildings
A glimpse into the crystal yields
hints of the momentous activities
which will accompany the semi-
centennial Agnes Scott celebration
in 1939-40, and we glean a pre-
view of:
The erection of a new dormi-
tory to replace White House and
the cottages. This edifice, which
will be located between Inman and
Science Hall, will also contain a
dining room large enough to ac-
commodate the whole school. The
dormitory will be named for Dean
Nannette Hopkins.
A combination auditorium,
chapel, and recreation hall to be
situated just west of Buttrick. The
building will be named for Theo-
dore Presser, but the auditorium
will take the name of Dr. F. H.
Gaines, first president of Agnes
Scott.
Compilation of a gigantic
Agnes Scott directory which will
classify 7,000 alumnae according
to: maiden names, married names,
geographic location, and classes.
German Club to Enjoy
Playlet Today
One Must Marry, or Einer Muss
Heiraten, for benefit of the German
students, will be the play presented
by the German Club this afternoon
at 4:30. Cora Kay Hutchens, Ruth
Kaplan, Irene Phillips, and Nell
Pinner will display their histronic
ability in this production.
One if land . . . two if by sea
. . . But we doubt 'f in the Aggie
this column'll be . . .
. . . after a four week vacation
. . . with clever class editors pinch-
hitting the whole . . . it's as hard
to get back on the job as it is to
apportion Corky's 72 bobby pins to
her 37 curls twice a week at two
pins each . . . each curl.
Well ... so much for dicldling
and wasting space . . . let's talk
about that hilarious Brown Jug af-
fair ... in the first place, the skits
were remarkable. The girls from
Main kept forgetting something,
but we remembered the Maine.
And the team from Inman turned
out to be a ballet chorus in tennis
shoes. The Atlanta day students
revealed in a delightful manner the
heretofore dark secret that . . .
well, they have "lights" indefinite-
ly. The team from Decatur and the
cottages gave us a painful glimpse
of Miss Wilburn and Miss Haynes
and Miss Mitchell's knee forty
years from now. And then the fac-
ulty ... in its present above par-
fect condition . . . confessed in
verse:
Root-i-toot-toot! Root-i- toot- toot!
We're the teachers of this institute!
We can teach . . and we can . . etc."'
But we can't play basketball!
Well ... so the A. D. S. team be-
lieved what this . . . and so did
everybody else. But . . . what, with
their slick three-cornered pass from
Miss Miller to Miss Carlson to Miss
Wilburn and into the basket, and
also with Miss Mitchell handling
Miss Milner . . . there were very few
goals they missed. This game ended
in the day students' favor, 22-20.
At this point these players met the
team from Inman which just the
moment before defeated Main 8-6.
This final game ended in the score
18-6 with the coveted "little Brown
Jug" going to the demons, the
day students. (The combination of
Milner and Dyar and Garner settles
any game!)
Here are the Brown Jug results
in the familiar tablet form . . . and
as Giddy might add, here, don't
take it too seriously. We were only
choking. But next year help your
end of the campus win that little
jug-
First Round:
Main defeated Decatur D. S. and
Cottages, 14-0.
Atlanta D. S. defeated Rebekah,
21-10.
Second Round:
Inman defeated Main, 8-6.
Atlanta D. S. defeated the Fac-
ulty, 22-20.
Finals:
Atlanta Day Students defeated
Inman, 18-6.
We met Ad Benson on the third
floor the other night gowned in
blue sport pajamas. Her brown
eyes laughed as she began telling us
all about the Outing Club's facul-
ty-student hike to Stone Mountain.
We decided that even steel blue
eyes like ours would have ironed
out any difficulties with the world
and cast away our troubles to
chuckle conspicuously on such a
merry, sporty occasion.
To begin with, there were more
cars than were necessary to conduct
a comfortable hike. Never before
has this situation existed in Outing
Club. And then, the steaks were
tender. Yes, Ad said they were ab-
solutely, inmi-steak-ably tender.
More than that, there was nothing
spilt the whole afternoon ... no
sand sprinkled into the frying pans
... no cafe drooling into the fire,
etc. And the steaks really got done.
"And, O, yes . . . the onions . . .
they were grand ... I ate a whole
pan by myself!" Ad-ed Benson.
"Miss Laney about walked our"
legs off . . . Miss Harn, a close sec-
ond . . . Miss Mitchell completely
forgot she was going 'til almost
time to go." And so . . . they had
to take Miss Mitchell chez elle pour
swap her high heels and silks for
suitable hiking clothes. Miss Hale
was reminded at the eleventh hour
and her reaction was, "Supper hike
. . . oh, I thought that was last
week!" But she decided to go again.
We can't wait to be members of
this Outing Club. Tryouts are still
in progress. And it will put us put
a great deal if they reject our hum-
ble efforts with Boy Scout knives
and Klondike beds and tin cups!
. . . There's only one way out of
this! Re main I
"Please excuse here; but to get
down to the point: our pencil
broke.
Granddaughters Club
Plans Banquet
The juniors, with their banquet
and men and tux, have nothing on
the Granddaughters Club, for that
social organization, composed of
girls whose mothers attended Agnes
Scott, will have its annual banquet
in April. Plans are being completed
now at the meetings, as the girls
knit and gossip and sip Alumnae
House tea.
Art Club Announces
Spring Tryouts
Artists and models are now in
demand at Agnes Scott. The Pen
and Brush Club has announced to-
morrow as the last day for tryouts
to be submitted to one of its offi-
cers: Jane Wyatt, Jane Guthrie, or
Henrietta Thompson. The tryouts
will be judged at the regular meet-
ing tomorrow afternoon.
DUKE UNIVERSITY
SCHOOL OF NURSING
DURHAM, N. C.
The Diploma of Graduate Nurse
is awarded after three years and
the Degree of Bachelor of Science
in Nursing for two additional
years of approved college work
before or after this nursing course.
The entrance requirements are in-
telligence, character and gradua-
tion from an acceptable high
school; preference is given for one
or more years of successful college
work. The tuition is $100 per year
which includes all cost of mainten-
ance, uniforms, etc.
Catalogues and application
forms, which must be filed before
August first for admission Sep-
tember thirtieth, may be obtained
from the Dean.
Prince of Whales
Wins Wally
In Fishy Pageant
Last night at 8:30 the Physical
Education Department presented
its annual water pageant. The
theme this year was the romance of
Wallis Wharf -eel and her Prince of
Whales, David Wins-her.
Participating in the comedy
were such characters as mermaids
and gold fish, a parliament of green
oil cloth frogs who, led by Stanley
Bald-one, became "hopping mad,"
Grecian torchbearers armed with
red celophane and flashlights, Ha-
waiian divers in flowered suits,
Mexican dancers in brilliant dresses
and finally, a U. S. navy fleet of
sails and sailors.
Virginia Milner took the role of
Edward, playing opposite Kay Ken-
nedy, as Wally. Georgia Hunt was
Stanley Bald-one. Joyce Roper an-
nounced the "spashes" Winchell
style, supported by a trio of sing-
ers. Henrietta Thompson obtained
some splendid effects with colored
lights thrown from various angles.
Next quarter the swimming de-
partment looks forward to a season
of water polo.
Outing Club, Guests
Scale Stone Mountain
Faculty members erased any
doubt that the Outing Club might
have had about their ability to
climb mountains when the club and
its guests scaled ,Stone Mountain
last Thursday night. Except for a
few helpful souls who stayed below
to keep fires, the entire group
scrambled and slid through an op-
posing wind to reach the top.
Guests included Miss Helen Carl-
son, Miss Louise Hale, Dr. Mary
Anne McKinney, Miss Emma May
Laney, Miss Harriettc Haynes, Miss
Elizabeth Mitchell, Miss Philippa
Gilchrist, Miss Ellen Douglas Ley-
burn, Miss Muriel Harn, and Miss
Leslie Janet Gaylord.
Miss Gray Will Speak
To Bible Club
Africa, with all its unusual cus-
toms, will seem a bit more real to
the Bible Club after it hears Miss
Virginia Gray speak at its meeting
next Monday. The meeting will be
at 4:30 in the Murphey Candler
building and all are urged to come.
Miss Preston Will
Entertain B.O.Z. Friday
B. O. Z. is one of the few clubs
to have the privilege of two meet-
ings in succession in faculty homes.
Mrs. Christian W. Dieckmann, who,
when at Agnes Scott, was president
of B. O. Z., was hostess to the writ-
ing group on February 11, and
after Jane Guthrie and Carol Hale
had read, the members stayed for
a social hour.
Next Friday, Assistant Professor
Janef Preston, of the English De-
partment, will entertain the club;
and Evelyn Baty, Hortense Jones,
and Julia Sewell will read.
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King Soph I Wins Crown
At Gay Mardi Gras
Agonistic, B. O. Z. Win Awards
In Parade Of Floats
With King Soph I, better known on the campus as Jane
Moses, and his Queen, Jane Luthy, ascending the throne,
Mardi Gras progressed with all the pomp and gaiety of old
New Orleans, as the Junior Class, under the direction of their
chairman, Jane Dryfoos, presented ,
the traditional mid-winter celebra-
tion. Attending the reigning mon-
arch, who was elected by popular
vote, was a court composed of the
kings of the four classes with their
chosen queens: King Ola Kelly and
Myrl Chafin for the seniors, Amelia
Nickels and Jane Moore Hamilton
for the juniors, Shirley Steele and
Emma Jean Mitchell for the sopho-
mores, and Anne Fisher and Martha
Dunn for the freshmen.
Prize Floats
Chairman Dryfoos announced
the two prize winners among the
floats entered by all the campus or-
ganizations. The prize for the most
beautiful was won by the Agonis-
tic, representing "Evening in Paris."
Their float was lovely in blue and
silver and featured Eugenia Bridges
reclining on a blue platform sprink-
led with silver stars. The prize for
the most original idea carried out
was awarded to B. O. Z. Their
float represented a pullman berth,
complete with its "Quiet, Please"
sign, with a "real, live" kitten re-
posing in "sleep like a kitten" in a
C. and O. pullman berth. The
peaceful kitty was propelled by a
genuine, jolly, black pullman por-
ter.
The judges, Dr. Christian, Miss
Carlson, and Miss Leyburn, asked
that the statement be made that,
although there was no prize offered
for the most humorous float, hu-
mor has its own reward especially
when humor is as cleverly executed
as it was in the Silhouette float,
representing Texaco and adorned by
a miniature fire truck, merrily
driven by Georgia Hunt in her us-
ual role as fire chief. Her make-up
almost put Ed Wynn in the back-
ground.
Colorful Parade
Among the floats receiving hon-
orable mention were: Student Gov-
ernment's Dutch windmill scene,
complete with tulips and a little
Dutch maid, for Old Dutch Clean-
ser; the sophomore class' "Say It
With Flowers," drawn by Lutie
Moore as Mercury and decorated
with an old-fashioned garden in
which sat a colonial maiden, Jean-
ette Carroll, being wooed by Sara
Lee as her young lover; and the en-
try of Pen and Brush Club, which
was a reproduction of the Outdoor
Advertising Company's "Blue Boy."
Jane Guthrie, in blue satin and
plumed hat portrayed Gainsbor-
ough's masterpiece. Receiving hon-
orable mention for the most clever
were the Bible Club's Metropolitan
Life Insurance Company's "Yours
for Life," in the form of Methusa-
lah, and the senior class' float, "The
Skin You Love to Touch" the
sjieepskin.
Meet Your Friends at
Cox's Prescription Shop
Between Paramount and Grand
Theatres, Atlanta
Poems wanted for New Poetry
Anthology. Plays and Fiction
also considered. Address: Dept.
I, Editor, 62 Grand Central An-
nex, New York, N. Y.
Colleges Offer
Fellowships
To Seniors
Agnes Scott graduates are eligi-
ble for many fellowships which are
offered each year to members of
the graduating class and alumnae.
These fellowships range from $300
to $1200. The applications for the
majority of them are due by March
first.
There is a $500 fellowship, the
Quenelle Harrold, offered by Mrs.
Thomas Harrold, of Americus,
Georgia, to a senior or an alumna
who has not been out of the college
longer than two years, and who is
well qualified for research.
Among the well known colleges
and universities offering fellow-
ships are: Radcliffe, University of
California, New York University,
Syracuse University, University of
North Carolina, Duke, Vanderbilt,
Mt. Holyoke, Bryn Mawr, Univer-
sity of Virginia, Harvard, Univer-
sity of Chicago, University of
Michigan, and Breadloaf School of
English, Breadloaf, Vermont.
Marie Merritt Wins
Letter Contest
Marie Merritt won the three dol-
lar prize offered by Eta Sigma Phi
for the best letter written to a clas-
sical author showing a knowledge
of his work and age, and entertain-
ing to the reader. The letters were
read at the meeting of the club on
February 14.
J Barefield Portrays
Richard II Here
Richard II again appeared before
Agnes Scott students last Friday
when Jack Barefield, from the Fed-
eral Theater of Atlanta, appearing
under the auspices of Blackfriars,
portrayed the famous scene in
which the king returns from Ire-
land. Mr. Barefield was introduced
by Harry Lee, also from the Fed-
eral Theater.
Freshman Issue
Concludes
Paper Contest
Agonistic Will Award
Cup In Chapel
After Spring Holidays
With the publication of the
freshman edition last Wednes-
day, the annual Agonistic con-
test reached its culmination.
The editors and business managers
of the four class issues were, re-
spectively: Elsie Blackstone and
Martha Peek Brown, senior; Julia
Sewell and Jeanne Flynt, junior;
Eleanor Hutchens and Frances Ab-
bot, sophomore; and Doris Weinkle
and Grace Walker, freshman.
The judges in this contest are:
Lulu Ames, editor of the Agonistic
in 193 5-36, who is now doing
newspaper work in Texas; Henry
B. Fox, editor of the Madisonville
(Texas) Netvs; Miss Rhoda Ellison,
faculty advisor of the Huntington
College Paper in Montgomery, Ala-
bama; Dr. S. M. Christian, the fac-
ulty judge; and a member of the
Critical Service Bureau of the Asso-
ciated Collegiate Press. The cup
will be awarded to the winning
class in an Agonistic chapel after
spring holidays.
The Agonistic contest has been a
tradition at Agnes Scott for eleven
years. Last year it was won by the
present senior class with Carol Hale
and Joyce Roper as editor and busi-
ness manager, respectively.
Front Row
(Continued from page L col. 1)
Convoy :
Russian planes carry American-
made trucks to rush Spanish Loy-
alist reserves to Gallego sector. In-
surgent assault surprises Eastern
Loyalist army. Rebel deserters de-
scribe growing discontent among
Italian troops who believed they
were being sent to Ethiopia instead
of Spain.
Roosevelt's
proposed tax revision bill on Con-
gress program for this week. Meas-
ure introduced this week, debate
scheduled today. Same coalition in
Senate of conservative Democrats
and Republicans, who killed court
bill, expected to fight the tax re-
organization measure.
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Agnes Scott Will Celebrate
Semi-Centennial
Entire School Plans To Honor
Fifty Years Of Growth
Honoring 50 years of growth and development, an entire
year of celebration will mark the semi-centennial anniversary
at Agnes Scott in the session of 1939-40. The Lecture Asso-
ciation will offer some of the most noted speakers of the
.country free of charge, including
outstanding women as well as men.
The festivities will begin with
alumnae week-end, when a group
of prominent graduates will be
present. Then announcement of
honors in January or February,
probably in connection with Phi
Beta Kappa elections; the Founder's
Day banquet; and an exceptionally
elaborate May Day, giving some
history of the college, will continue
the program. Commencement Day
will be the culmination of the cele-
bration, when the college hopes to
secure a very outstanding speaker.
Two other committees are plan-
ning an exhibit of historical docu-
ments relating to the history of
Agnes Scott and a plan for inter-
esting students and alumnae in
writing a poem for the occasion.
Although the plans are still in-
complete, Mr. S. G. Stukes, Regis-
trar, promises a year of exceptional
advantages.
Glee Club Names
Complete Cast
Of "Mikado 9
While all Agnes Scott music lov-
ers eagerly await the presentation of
the Mikado, they are discovering
many interesting facts regarding
the operetta and its cast. The Glee
Club has chosen an opportune time
for an appearance of the Mikado,
which, althougii it is in its fifty-
second year of presentation, is more
popular this year than ever before.
This year's casting of the Mikado
offers another source of interest.
The male chorus is one of the larg-
est ever used in an Agnes Scott op-
eretta being composed of about
twenty-four men, ten of whom
were in the Mikado which was pre-
sented here four years ago. Many
of the leading voices are familiar
also. Eugene Traber is again to be
the Mikado, while Leland Muchey,
a newcomer to the Agnes Scott
campus, will relieve him in one per-
formance. The leading tenor role,
Nanki Poo, will be sung by Edward
Everitt, who took part in the pre-
vious production; while Dick Smoot
and Jack Bagwell will be cast as
the same characters which they por-
trayed before. Smoot is to play the
comical role of Ko Ko, the chief-
high executioner, and Bagwell sings
as Pish-Tush.
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with young men taking part in The
Mikado to relieve the monotony of
practice. After singing around the
piano, and playing several games, in
which the girls (on their knees)
serenaded the boys, the group had
coffee and. cookies and marshmal-
lows toasted.
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THE AGONISTIC
Editorial
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ures
March 2, 1938
Vol. XXIII. No. 16
Eugene Lyons Descsibes
Disillusion of Russia
"Assignment in Utopia" Eugene Lyons; Harcourt,
Brace & Co., Inc., N. Y., 1937; $3.50.
"When Eugene Lyons went to Moscow to be chief
correspondent for the United Press, he was an ardent
Communist sympathizer, convinced that a new world
was in the making. This is the vivid story of the
bitter struggle between his ideals and the grim reali-
ties of Soviet life. Dorothy Thompson says: 'Of all
the books on Russia written by Americans, this seems
to me the most important, and the most moving.' '
The chance to live in Russia, the hot-bed of Com
munism, was beyond the wildest dreams of Eugene
Lyons. But the illusion was soon clouded.
The longer Mr. Lyons lived in Russia, the more his
dreams of an ideal society were shattered. He saw
farcical trials of men charged with counter-revolu
tion actions; he saw the Five Year Plan railroaded
through; he saw Russian life in all classes regimented.
The shortage of food became acute, but food exports
were used to meet foreign trade obligations, while
millions of people were literally starving to death.
Peasants were suddenly and mercilessly transported
by the train-loads to Siberia or Central Asia, to serve
as cheap labor, which could be easily replaced by
many more train-loads when they succumbed to ex
posure and starvation. Taxes were raised so high as
to be unpayable by the lower classes. Actual torture
was practiced. And so on each new revelation of
Russian Communism was worse than its predecessor.
In conclusion, the author says: "I left Russia con-
vinced that man's greatest task is to defend the basic
concepts of freedom and respect for life . . . Ulti-
mately, the Russian experiment will be judged not
by the goal of a full belly, but by how much free-
dom, self-respect, justice, truth, and human kindness
it has brought into the world."
Whetsell, Johnson, McGuire
Speak on Honor System
Mary Ellen Whetsell, Ann Worthy Johnson, and
Flora McGuire were sent as a deputation of Student
Government last week to speak at the Decatur High
School. Speaking on honor and the honor system,
they formed the first of a series of deputations
planned in the spring Student Government program.
Any students who are interested in going on a depu-
tation are asked to apply to Student Government.
As the culmination of its February program, Stu-
dent Government conducted a student expression
ballot last week, asking for suggestions, criticisms,
and opinions from the students. Of the large num-
ber of ballots which were handed in, several were
taken up in a student meeting Thursday. Student
Government is considering every ballot, with a view
to taking advantage of practical suggestions.
Y.W.C.A. Delegates
Attend Leadership Meet
Last Saturday and Sunday, Sophie Montgomery,
Mamie Lee Ratliff, Douglas Lyle, and Miss Hale went
as representatives from Agnes Scott Y. W. C. A. to
an Area Leadership Meeting in Atlanta.- Representa-
tives from all other women's colleges in Georgia were
also present. Reports on the National Assembly were
given and panel discussions of it followed.
The Sophomore Y Cabinet is going right along
with its every-other-Monday-night open discussions
of Sexual Relations. The discussion is led by Wini-
fred Kellersberger, who had a commission on the same
subject at Blue Ridge last summer. The next open
meeting will be March 14, and everyone is invited
to come and discuss particularly sophomores.
And the Freshman Y Cabinet is having a retreat
at Camp Civitania, a Girl Scout Camp situated some-
where between here and there. Bert Palmour and
Ruby Hutton are going along as chaperons and the
discussion of the cabinet on its relation to the rest
of the freshman class will be le*d by the always-on-
the-spot-with-thc-right-word Miss Gray.
At the last meeting of the Industrial Group, Louise
Hughston gave a very interesting report on a talk
which Miss Lucy Randolph Mason delivered at At-
lanta University. Miss Randolph worked for John
Lewis in the CIO. The talk was of organized labor.
Mildred Davis climaxed the meeting by a resume of
a luncheon talk made by one of the members of the
Citizenship Institute.
Too Dear for the Whistle
We note with interest the momentum which the disorgani-
zation campaign is gathering in student circles. At Stanford
University the executive committee has asked for a constitu-
tional amendment limiting the number of extra-curricular,
activities one person can engage in. The student senate at
the University of Minnesota recently passed a detailed ruling
governing participation in activities. The University of
Southern California has been the scene of an agitation for a
C plus academic requirement for student officers.
These widespread movements are particularly interesting
in view of the great drive for unlimited student freedom
which the past decade witnessed. In its revolt against author-
ity, its clamoring for self-government, initiative, and liberty,
college youth has assumed control of every possible phase of
its campus life. Does the present rising demand for limita-
tion and restraint indicate the backward swing of the pen-
dulum ?
We think that this tendency toward voluntary restraint
may be interpreted in two lights. In the first place, coming
as it does from student leaders themselves, it represents
a recognition on their part of the hard at times, grueling
work involved in major campus offices. A student body can
be an exacting task master, and every coveted honor has its
full measure of werk.
Publications, especially, give their executives the problem
of getting an education and conducting a business enterprise
at the same time. Demands for salaries show that running
a newspaper, magazine, or annual is regarded not as an honor,
but a chore. That the salary demands have usually been
granted proves that administrations agree.
In the second place, students, although they pipe lustily,
are beginning to think they paid too dear for their whistle.
The long battle for student rights being over, they have
paused to take stock of their much-vaunted spoils, unlimited
activities, and are wondering if they are not more than a lit-
tle hollow. The added activities absorb more of their too-brief
college years, and invariably their academic work suffers.
Have we sold our birth right for a mess of pottage?
The growing demand for limitation of participation in
extra-curricular activities does not mean that students have
repudiated their projects. It rather indicates their desire to
experience a complete college life. We wish to develop our
abilities through outside activities, but we do not wish to
relinquish our claim to the title "student".
We, at Agnes Scott, have a point system for the regulation
of campus activities. It is not designed to add to our smug
pride ovei* our amazing versatility, but to effect a distribu-
tion of offices, a sane allotment of time. We can reap most
abundantly from our college life if we turn aside from the
broad, aimless fields of dissipated energy to the conscien-
tious, faithful cultivation of a tiny plot.
Let us not insult many divinities by proffering broken and
fitful bits of tapers ; let us rather burn our candle completely
before a chosen shrine.
Fit Subject for Drama
With the Orient and Spain still racked by war, with Ger-
many mobilizing her troops, with England shuffling her for-
eign relations portfolio, the Religious Drama Council could
hardly find a more ironic time to announce its Peace play
contest.
The chairman of the council writes, "There are causes of
peace just as there are causes of war; there is a cost of peace
just as there is a cost of war. It is to stimulate thought and
action on this subject that we are sponsoring the contest.
Drama is a means not only of reaching people, but also of
stirring them to action. We hope through this contest that
we may take a step forward for peace."
We can only add that we fervently hope so too.
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England Takes Lime-Light
As World Watches
Eden-Chamberlain Tilt
By Mary Anne Kernan
England has stolen the show from Japan; bombs
may fall and people perish, but the Eden-Chamber-
lain tilt is still the biggest news of the fortnight.
When Captain Anthony Eden, Britain's handsome
and popular Foreign Secretary, resigned his important
cabinet position late last month he provided excel-
lent material for diplomatic speculation and probable
action. The dramatic resignation of Eden and Cran-
borne, the Under-Secretary, on account of a funda-
mental difference with Prime Minister Chamberlain
over foreign policy has caused no small degree of
unrest among the nations of the world and with
excellent reason.
The break which has occurred is tremendously sig-
nificant because of its effect on future foreign pol-
icy. Eden stood for "frank reciprocity and mutual
respect" in the conduct of foreign affairs; he cham-
pioned the League of Nations and represented one of
the few European statesmen who believed policy
could be founded on principles and ideals. Chamber-
lain, on the other hand, stood for a policy based on
immediate demands with principles adjusted to the
situation; observers have delighted in representing the
Eden-Chamberlain disagreement as a conflict between
idealism and realism in the decision of foreign policy.
The truth, however, probably lies nearer the opinion
of Harold Nicolson, Laborite leader and famous biog-
rapher: "The point at issue is whether our foreign
policy is to be conducted on a basis of expediency or
principle."
Immediate Cause
Apparently the immediate cause of the break was
the disagreement over British policy in regard to
Italy. Chamberlain wished to open conversations at
once with a view to coming to a speedy agreement.
Eden insisted on some guarantee of faith from Italy,
specifically of withdrawal of volunteers from Spain,
before negotiations be undertaken. Chamberlain,
Eden charged, with yielding to Italy's taunt of "now
or never" in his precipitant arrangements. Accord-
ingly, rather than be forced to carry out a policy
which he opposed, Eden resigned his post shortly
after Hitler's vehement and threatening speech fol-
lowing the virtual political annexation of Austria
by the Nazis. For the moment, certainly, the Fascist
powers seemed to have the victory. Germany fear-
lessly laid down its plan for the control of Central
Europe and the return of its lost colonies and Italy
rejoiced that with Eden gone she could dictate terms
to Britain.
However, it now seems likely that the basic reason
for Eden's resignation was not altogether Italy but
also Japan. In his speech before Commons he said 1 ,
in explanation of his resignation, that the fundamen-
tal difference with Chamberlain had been "on one
of the most important decisions in foreign policy
which did not concern Italy at all." Chamberlain in
his defense did not elect to answer this point. Rumor
has, of course, been rife, but the most plausible ex-
planation is that Chamberlain, who is notably pro-
Japanese and anti-American, has made an agreement
with Japan to protect the British sphere of influence
in Hongkong, thus nullifying the informal union of
the United States and Great Britain on Far Eastern
policy.
Eden has stood for union of the democracies
against the dictatorships rather than conciliation of
the Fascist powers. In line with this policy he read-
ily favored agreements with France and America, but
advised more cautious action in regard to the Fascist
countries. "It is with the great democracies of Eu-
rope and America that our national affinities must
lie," Eden said in his speech before his Leamington
constituents last Friday.
France Worries
Whatever the ultimate reason for Eden's resigna-
tion, it is certain that Europe will not soon forget.
France is frankly worried over the possible action of
Viscount Halifax, Eden's successor. Austria is strug-
gling bravely to maintain her independence, but she
can expect no support from England even in the form
of protest to Hitler. The rest of Central Europe can
no longer look to England and the League for pro-
tection. The United States is not at all pleased over
the present events in England. Germany and Italy
seem to be the only smiling faces in Europe today.
Already negotiations between Italy and Britain have
been started with a promise of withdrawal of volun-
teers from Spain. Although Commons continues to
challenge the constitutionality of Halifax's appoint-
ment apparently the change is secure and John Bull
must settle down to "realism" in foreign policy.
Won't You Come
To See Yum- Yum
The Agonistic
And Take A View
Of Nanki-Poo?
VOL. XXIII
AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1938
zus
No. 17
Leads in The Mikado
Virginia Kyle, Caroline Armistead, and Betty Kyle don the colorful
kimonos of Japan for their roles in The Mikado, which the glee club will
present Friday and Saturday night. Toni Newton, Emily Underwood,
and Jane Moore Hamilton will play their roles the alternate night.
Photo Courtesy Atlanta Journal.
Front Row
By Jane Guthrie
Stand In: Field Marshall Gen-
eral Herman Goering, Number 2
Nazi, and Hitler's right-hand man,
declares Jewish purge of Austria.
In a plebiscite campaign speech be-
fore 50,000 Austrians, he outlines
a vast public works program,
promises probe of Schuschnigg's
"fake" ballot, and announces,
"Vienna is not a German city be- (
cause 300,000 Jews live here.
Vienna must become German
again. The Jew must know we do
not care to live with him. He
must go."
Spanish Drama: Spain takes
the center of the stage as* France
falls in with British policy of non-
intervention in the revolution, and
Nationalist forces crack the fam-
ous "Lenin Line." Loyalists re-
treat rapidly and end of the war is
prophesied with General Franco as
the master.
Freak Storm passes along
northern edge of Decatur. Citi-
zens describe it as a "small twister"
with hail, a high wind, and no
damage. First report of the storm
came from an unindentified resi-
dent who telephoned to the fiaper
that, "A cyclone passed about 15
minutes ago."
Legal Liquor: Dry for 22
years, Georgia holds her first legal
sale of liquor in Albany County.
Six Georgia counties vote for sale
and distribution of liquor under
new county option law. Fulton
goes to the polls today to decide
whether to follow the lead or not.
Intimate Co-operation with
Japan is the aim of China's new
Tokoyo-sponsored "reformed gov-
ernment." Inauguration ceremon-
ies are held in Nanking, headquar-
ters of the new republic. General
Hata, commander-in-chief of Jap-
anese forces in the Yangtze valley,
says of the step, "The Japanese
army will never relax in its efforts
to chastise the old influences
standing in the way of the devel-
opment of the new regime."
Speech Convention
Meets Here
The Ninth Annual Convention
of the Southern Association of
Teachers of Speech met in Atlanta
and will continue in session until
April 2, with headquarters at the
Henry Grady Hotel. Mi$s Frances
K. Gooch, head of the Spoken
English department of Agnes
Scott, and the advanced Spoken
English students of the college will
have parts on various programs
during the convention.
During the first three days of
the convention a debate tourna-
ment is being held in which many
southern colleges and universities
are taking part.
Tomorrow afternoon there will
be an informal poetry tea, at which
Jeanne Flynt will read dramatic
poetry and Susan Goodwyn will
read a group of sonnets. On Thurs-
day evening there will be a pro-
gram of choral speaking. Agnes
Scott will be represented at that
time by a group of second, third,
and fourth year Spoken English
students.
A state groups' luncheon will be
held on Friday, April 1, at which
time extemporaneous readings of
scenes from "Gone With The
Wind" will be given. Agnes Scott
will also be represented in these
readings. On Friday night there
will be a banquet at which Gilbert
Maxwell, distinguished poet, will
read his own poetry, and Miss Nan
Stephens, an alumna of Agnes
Scott, will discuss the possibilities
of folk drama.
The remainder of Friday and
Saturday will be given over to var-
ious papers and discussions. On
Friday afternoon Miss Gooch will
discuss the relation of English and
American festivals of poetry and
drama.
The general theme of the con-
vention is "Progressive Leadership
In Southern Speech Education."
New Course
Is Begun
On Marriage
Ten-Week Course
Begins With Lecture
By Dr. A. Raper
Last week on Thursday
afternoon, March 24, the new
"marriage course" for seniors
was officially begun with a
lecture by Dr. Arthur Raper on
the "History of Marriage As An
Institution." The course will con-
tinue throughout the Spring quar-
ter, one lecture being delivered
each week.
The program which has been
planned for the ten-week course
offers an interesting group of lec-
tures and discussions on problems
pertaining especially to the social,
biological, and economic problems
'connected with marriage life. A
number of lectures will be given
by guest speakers from Atlanta,
while other discussions will be led
by Dr. Swanson and Mrs. Raper as
well as by Dr. Raper from our own
campus.
The second discussion on "Ana-
tomy and Physiology" was con-
ducted by Dr. Swanson last Fri-
day. The remainder of the course
will consist of the following pro-
gram:
April 1, "Courtship and Mar-
(Cont'd page 3, col. 1)
Wisdom Wins
Prize in Snapshot
Contest
With a dormitory scene show-
ing students hard at work, Mary
Madison Wisdom carried off the.
first prize of three dollars in the
Silhouette's annual snapshot con-
test, which closed March I. Mutt
Fite's study of time marching on
and V. J. Watkin's candid shot of
people streaming out of chapel
brought their photographers two
dollars each.
With 110 snapshots entered in
the contest, judges Virginia Wat-
son, Elsie West, Adelaide Benson,
and Shirley Steele had a difficult
time reaching decisions.
The contest was sponsored by
the Silhouette to stimulate inter-
est in photography and to get rep-
resentative pictures of student life.
Several other snapshots besides the
winners are to be used in the an-
nual.
The Mikado Will be Given
Friday and Saturday
Glee Club Presents Operetta of Japan
With Cast of Over 80
All the color of Japan and the infectious humor of Gilbert
and Sullivan will be combined in the Glee Club's presentation
of "The Mikado" this Friday and Saturday, April 1 and 2, in
the Bucher Scott Auditorium.
Series of Debates
Begins Tonight
During the next few weeks Ag-
nes Scott is to enjoy a series of in-
tercollegiate debates beginning to-
night, March 30, in Atlanta, with
a debate betwee^i representatives of
the Atlanta Evening School and
Agnes Scott. Margaret Hopkins
and Mary Louise Dobbs will up-
hold the affirmative of the ques-
tion: "Resolved: That this House
condemns the Neutrality Act."
On April 6 Pixie Fairly and
Mary Frances Guthrie, represent-
ing the negative of the same ques-
tion, will debate the Atlanta Eve-
ning School here. On April 8 a
dual debate on the same subject
will take place at Agnes Scott and
at Sophie Newcomb. Pixie Fairly
and Mary Frances Guthrie will de-
fend the negative at New Orleans
while Mary Louise Dobbs and Mar-
garet Hopkins represent the af-
firmative here. The speeches will
be limited to ten minutes, and
there will be one five minute re-
buttal by each team, those of Ag-
nes Scott to be given by Fairly and
Hopkins.
Thursday night, April 7, in Due
West, S. C., Jane Turner and Jean
Austin will debate at Erskine the
question: "Resolved: That the na-
tions should agree to sever trade
relations with an aggressor nation."
Katherine Patton and Jean Austin
will represent the affirmative of
the same question in a debate with
Hampden Sydney here on April 14.
Later Lelia Carson and Esther
Byrnes will represent Agnes Scott
in debate at Mt. Berry College. The
Freshman debates are not yet
scheduled but will follow shortly.
"The Mikado" is Gilbert and
Sullivan's most popular comic
opera. The glee club is under the
direction of Mr. Lewis H. Johnson.
The cast for the opera includes:
the Mikado Leland Mackay and
Eugene Traber; Nanki-Poo Ed
Everitt and Marion Bullard; Ko-
Ko Dick Smoot; Pooh-Bah Jack
Bagwell; Pish-Tush Don White;
Yum-Yum Caroline Armistead
and Toni Newton; Pitti-Sing
Virginia Kyle and Emily Under-
wood; Peep-Bo Jane Moore Ham-
ilton and Betty Kyle; Katisha
Amelia Nickles and Jane Moses.
Dick Smoot will be remembered
as the Duke in last year's operetta,
The Gondoliers. The cast will be
supported by a chorus of sixty peo-
ple.
The hero of this delightful opera
is Nanki-Poo, the son of the
Mikado, emperor of Japan. While
disguised as a wandering minstrel,
he falls in love with Yum-Yum,
the ward of Ko-Ko, the Lord High
Executioner. The tale of poor
Nanki-Poo's efforts and difficul-
ties in winning his love offer an
evening of rollicking fun.
Group Will Visit
Offices of Journal
The Atlanta Journal will be host
to a group of Agnes Scotters next
Saturday when K. U. B., journal-
ism club, makes a trip through its
plant. There will be ample oppor-
tunity to see all phases of the
work, for the Journal will be busy
with the Sunday paper.
International Day is
Celebrated by Banquet
In celebration of "International
Day," the Mission Interest and the
World Fellowship Groups of
Y. W. C. A., with Millie Coit and
Kathryn Patton as chairmen of the
groups and co-chairmen of the
celebration, planned and carried
out an "International Banquet" in
the two campus dining halls last
night. Both the banquet and the
chapel program given Tuesday
morning were for the purpose of
making students more conscious of
the foreign influences on our
campus.
Sarah McCain and Kitty Cald-
well acted as chairmen of the dec-
orating committee. Each table was
decorated to represent a different
country, and at the head of each
sat a girl who has come to Agnes
Scott either directly or indirectly
from that country. All these girls
wore colorful native costumes.
Collaborating with this commit-
tee was the program committee,
with Evelyn Baty as the chairman.
The same skits were presented in
both dining halls, and had as their
hero Uncle Sam with all nations
gathering around him in peaceful
unity.
Mary Hollingsworth represented
Uncle Sam in White House, and
Giddy Erwin in Rebekah Scott.
The different girls representing
foreign countries were: China,
Julia Lancaster, Nell Allison,
Louise Young, and Emma McMul-
len; Korea, Millie and Laura Coit;
Japan, Tami Okamura and Sophie
Montgomery; Africa, Winifred
Kellersberger, Miriam Bedinger,
Mickey McKee, and Miss Virginia
Grey; India, Dr. McKinney;
Hawaii, Betty Waitt; Mexico,
Janet McKim; England, Betty
Jones; Ireland, V. J. Watkins;
France, Therese Poumaillou; Ger-
many, Ursula Mayer; and Spain,
Miss Melissa Cilley.
The menu also carried out the
international idea, with Hamburg
steaks, Italian spaghetti with
American cheese, English peas,
Brussels sprouts, German dark
bread, international salad, Ethio-
pian ice cream, French pastry, and
Russian tea.
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THE AGONISTIC
SPORTING
Well . . . now that exams, etcet-
eras, are past history ... we can
congratulate those talented girls
who won A. A.'s "how-to-be-heal-
thy-though-taking-exams" prizes
announced in chapel last week.
Miss Harvey, we just don't see how
you did it! Over one hundred
glasses . . . tsk! . . . and in a mere
week(!). O, but we heard what
you said about having so complete-
ly wrecked your health in perform-
ing this feat that you are afraid
it's ruined ton jours! We offer
our sincere sympathy . . . and
thoroughly agree with you that
generally life's a tankless job. It's
just a question of "tub or not
tub," and in your case we wouldn't
blame you if you hadn't. Hoot
mon! we tip our glasses t'ye.
And mony's th' congratulation
we extend t' you, Miss Telford.
Exams are always so interesting
and stimulating. That's why we
can't see how you could consider
such an extensive sleeping project.
But that Morpheus chap is so fas-
cinating! He simply puts heroes
like Shakespeare and Plato and Mo-
liere in the dark when it comes to
stealing a girl's heart away. He'll
do it every time the rogue! But
ain't he cute, Miss Telford?
Jo Cates, we think you deserve
a whole new pair of shoes for tak-
ing such a sturdy interest in the
fine art of the hike . . . though
taking exams. You were very sen-
sible to have recognized the neces-
sity of a balance of activity be-
tween head and foot . . . congra-
tulations. And we hope you over-
worked neither!
And then there's Julia Mosely.
At most any hour she could be
seen dashing to or from the gym
... or else chugging gayly up and
down the pool . . . whistling while
she swam. And if there'd been any
prizes for diving she probably
would have taken those too. That
is . . . those Giddy left. Ah . . .
full many's the time the pool was
refilled after one of Gil-fiddy's
(an) aesthetic leaps! Oyes . . .
Miss Erwin definitely has a flare
for the H-jO.
(Ho hum . . . isn't the pun an
exquisite institution? Oh you
think it's all wet, do you . . .?
Hmm!) '
Well now, about HEALTH
WEEK. April 5 another Miss
Health will take her place among
those other Misses Health, who
have devoted their entire lives to
the business of thwarting the med-
ical profession. The last two years
the distinction has gone to fresh-
men . . . for obvious reasons. And
so, the question at hand is whether
. . . etcetera . . ., but all this inde-
cision will be eliminated next
Tuesday night when we all gather
in the gym for this annual parade
of amazons, and see that adorable
little cup that Forman has now
awarded t'anither student whose
posture, carriage, and eye-ear-nose-
and-throat condition, etc., are
nearest perfection. Each campus
organization will parade a candi-
date, and, of course, the judges
will have "a hard time deciding"
again on THE one Miss Healph.
But*3'0// be sure you're there to ap-
plaude your specimen . . . you've
no idea how much better (and
healthier) you can make her feel
. . . just by being there with your
usual glad hand and smile.
And while you're in the gym
. . . in case you haven't noticed . . .
take a good look at that glorious
floor! We were almost afraid we
wouldn't pay attention whole-
heartedly the other night to the
fascinating Duchess . . . because
we knew we'd be worrying about
basketball next year on such a
bright floor. The floor and the
ball will be the same color . . . and
then we enjoy looking at such a
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Senior Class
Prepares to Give
Annual Opera
Committees Compose
Songs and Dances
Of Rare Quality
Every member of the present
senior class is planning to take
some part in the senior opera which
will be presented May 7 in the
Bucher Scott auditorium. Com-
mittees have been busy since about
February, Jean Chalmers, director
of the senior opera, announced last
week.
The opera has already been writ-
ten by Giddy Erwin, Hortense
Jones, Nell Hemphill, Elsie West,
Joyce Roper, Jane Guthrie, and
Jean Chalmers. The songs for the
annual production are now being
composed.
Immediately after the presenta-
tion of the Mikado, which is being
given under the direction of Mr.
Johnson, the seniors will begin re-
hearsing for their "stupendous, col-
ossal, super-gigantic opera." The
only information that is given out
by the secretive composers is that
there will be a great many innova-
tions which will surprise the audi-
ence.
floor . . . it's just plane pretty,
n'est-ce pas? We'll be falling all
the time just to sit on it. Dash it!
Nobody'll ever win any games!
Oh well. Next year (and the
sophomores) will take care of it-
self.
Here's just a word of congra-
tulation to Milner on her recent
election to next year's presidency
of G. A. F. C. W* She and Doty
represented A. A. at the confer-
ence at Wesleyan, and brought
back to our board meeting an in-
teresting report of happenings and
ideas gathered from the program
and the delegates. Anne Thomp-
son is the retiring secretary of this
conference. And another Hotten-
tot "who made good" for A. S. C.
was last year's tennis champion,
Mary Kneale, '37, who held the
presidency for 1936-37. Well . . .
we're certainly proud of ye, Mil-
ner!
* Georgia Athletic Federation of
College Women. (Ahem!)
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Student Elections
To Be Thursday, Friday
Elections of next year's officers will be held tomorrow and Friday in
the chapel, when the student body will vote on the Committee and pop-
ular nominees for each office.
The president and secretary of the Lecture Association and the chair-
man of May Day appear on the ballot for the first time this year. These
three nominations were made by the faculty-student lecture committee
and the May Day committee respectively. Anyone wishing to withdraw
her name from the* posted nominations is asked to see Laura Coit, chair-
man of the nominating committee, by March 20. -
POPULAR
NOMINATIONS
Student Government
President Emma McMullen,
Mary Ellen Whetsell, Jean Bailey.
Vice - President - Mary Ellen
Whetsell, Emma McMullen, Jean
Bailey.
House Presidents Rebekah
Scott: Mary Hollingsworth, Flossie
Wade, Jean Bailey, Millie Coit;
Main: Kitty Caldwell, Mary Hol-
lingsworth, Jean Bailey, Flossie
Wade, Flora MacGuire, Millie Coit;
Inman: Mary Hollingsworth, Mil-
lie Coit, Flora MacGuire, Kitty
Caldwell.
Student ' Treasurer (Senior)
June Harvey, Lou Pate, Flora Mac-
Guire, Mary Hollingsworth, Jean
Bailey.
Student Treasurer (Junior)
Polly Heaslett, Ruth Eyles, Caro-
lyn Forman, Lucile Scott, Lutie
Moore.
Student Recorder Jean Bailey,
Cora Kay Hutchins, Henrietta
Blackwell.
Day Student President Helen
Kirkpatrick, June Harvey.
A. S. C. A.
President Douglas Lyle, Millie
Coit, Maimie Lee Ratliffe.
Vice-President Mamie Lee
Ratliffe, Millie Coit, Douglas Lyle.
Secretary Sophie Montgomery,
Katherine Patton, Grace Ward,
Ruth Slack.
Treasurer Katherine Patton,
Grace Ward, Sophie Montgomery,
Betty Alderman. ,
Silhouette
Editor Adelaide Benson, Aileen
Shortley, Cary Wheeler, V. J.
Watkins.
Business Manager V. J. Wat-
kins, Adelaide Benson, Aileen
Shortley, Jane Drvfoos.
Advertising Manager Nell Pin-
ner, Mary Eleanor Steele.
Aurora
Editor Julia Sewell, Mary
Frances Guthrie, Cora Kay Hutch-
ins, Douglas Lyle.
Assistant Editor Louise
Hughston, Betty Embry, Mary
Winston Crockett, Evelyn Baty.
Business Manager Mary Eleanor
Steele, Jane Moore Hamilton, Hen-
rietta Blackwell.
Agonistic
Editor Mary Frances Guthrie,
Marie Merritt, Julia Sewell.
Associate Editor Marie Mer-
ritt, Mary Frances Guthrie, Cora
Kay Hutchins, Alice Cheeseman.
Assistant Editor (2) Eleanor
Hutchens, Evelyn Baty, Mary
Reins, Penn Hammond, V. J. Wat-
kins.
Business Manager Esthere Og
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Athetic Association
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Alice Cheeseman, Flora MacGuire.
Vice-President Jane x Dryfoos,
Jane Moore Hamilton, Shirley
Steele, Alice Cheeseman.
Secretary Virginia Milner,
Carolyn Forman, Ruth Slack,
Fouche Brinton.
May Day
Chairman Helen Moses, Mary
Matthews, Bunny Marsh.
Lecture Association
President Kay Kennedy, Mary
Hollingsworth, Kay Toole.
Secretary-Treasurer Elizabeth
Kenny, Aileen Shortley.
COMMITTEE NOMINATIONS
Student Government
President Mary Ellen Whet-
sell.
Vice-President Emma McMul-
len.
House Presidents Rebekah
Scott Hall: Flossie Wade; Main
Hall: Kitty Caldwell; Inman Hall:
Mary Hollingsworth.
Secretary Henrietta Thompson.
Treasurer Carolyn Forman.
Student Treasurer Lou Pate.
Student Treasurer Ruth Eyles\
Student Recorder Jean Bailey.
President Day Students Helen
Kirkpatrick.
A. S. C. A.
President Douglas Lyle.
Vice-President Mamie Lee
Ratliffe.
Secretary Sophie Montgomery.
Treasurer Betty Alderman.
Silhouette
Editor-in-Chief Adelaide Ben-
son.
Business Manager V. J. Wat-
kins.
Assistant Business Manager
Nell Pinner.
Aurora
Editor Julia Sewell.
Assistant Editor Mary Wins-
ton Crockett.
Business Manager Mary Eleanor
Steele.
Agonistic
Editor Mary Frances Guthrie.
Associate Editor Marie Merritt.
Assistant Editor Evelyn Baty.
Assistant Editor Mary Reins.
Business Manager Esthere Og-
den.
Assistant Business Manager
Hazel Hirsch.
Athletic Association
President Jane Moore Hamil-
ton.
Vice-President Jane Dryfoos.
Secretary Virginia Milner.
Treasurer Ruth Slack.
May Day Chairman Helen
Moses.
President Lecture Association
Kay Kennedy.
Treasurer Lecture Association
Elizabeth Kenny.
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Grand Duchess
Addresses
Student Body
Lecture Association
And Faculty
Entertain Royalty
As their second presentation of
the year, the Student Lecture As-
sociation brought to the campus
last Friday night Her Imperial
Highness, the Grand Duchess
Marie of Russia. Amidst the gen-
eral furore created among the girls
by a visitor of royal birth, the
Grand Duchess proved to be a
charming person, with her gracious
manner, her lovely appearance and
her delightful Russian accent. The
members of the Lecture Associa-
tion had her as their guest in Re-
bekah Scott dining hall at lunch,
and the History Department gave
a dinner in her honor at the Tea
House that night.
Using as her subject "The Old
Life and the New," the Grand
Duchess gave a resume of her life
from her birth during the reign of
Czar Alexander III to her present
life as a lecturer and journalist.
Her descriptions of the court func-
tions in Moscow during her girl-
hood were most colorful, and she
portrayed her relatives and friends
today as being pathetic and some-
times destitute exiles. She express-
ed the desire and dimly formed
plans of the younger exiles to go
back to Russia and to rebuild it
and reestablish the old glorious re-
gime after the collapse of the pres-
ent system, which they do not ex-
pect to be very enduring. She end-
ed her talk with a sincere expres-
sion of her best wishes to the
young generation in facing the
problems of the world and in help-
ing to build a new civilization.
Marriage Course
Is Begun
(Cont'd from page 1, col. 3)
riage from the Social Standpoint,"
Dr. Raper.
April 8, "Courtship and Mar-
riage from the Physical Stand-
point," Dr. Swanson.
April 15, "Birth Control and
Pregnancy," Dr. Amy Shappell.
April 22, "Motherhood," Mrs.
Arthur Raper.
April 29, "Care of Children,"
Dr. Leila Denmark.
May 6, "Marital Adjustment,"
Dr. Raper.
May 12, "Careers for Married
Women," Mrs. Craighead Dwyer.
May 20, "Budgeting for the
Family," Miss Clara Lee Cone.
The "marriage course" has
created a great deal of interest on
the campus. It is not a required
course, nor is any credit received
by those attending the classes, but
the enthusiastic response made by
all the seniors seems to indicate
that Mortar Board has introduced
the most popular major of the
year.
If fence posts are split, the
staples may be driven into the
heartwood and will stay longer
than when driven into the sap-
wood.
Russian Princess Declares American and English
Reporters to be Impertinent, Confusing
Poems wanted for New Poetry
Anthology. Plays and Fiction
also considered. Address: Dept.
I, Editor, 62 Grand Central An-
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Reclining Princess-like in a
wicker chair in one of the small
date parlors in Main, the Grand
Duchess Marie was as gracious in
receiving her interviewer as if she
were in one of the palaces of her
youth receiving a visiting Duchess.
Deftly flicking the ashes off her
cigarette with a slim, be-ringed
hand which has done everything
from writing best-sellers and de-
veloping photographs to nursing
soldiers and making dresses, she re-
sponded eagerly to all questions re-
garding her hobbies and dislikes.
'T think with me photogra-
phy is an illness, " she mused, with
her delightful accent rolling
around the word photography.
"My brother and my son they
love it, too," she added later. Then,
launching into a description of her
photographic ventures for the past
year and a half, she described her
journey through twelve countries
of Europe and Asia, during which
she acquired two thousand nega-
tives, taken with three cameras of
different sizes. Her pet camera is
one she bought in Germany,
which, she explained with ges-
tures is large, with many gad-
gets, and hard to carry around. She
spoke of India as "the photogra-
pher's paradise," and is eager to
transmit the beauty of that coun-
try to others.
Her plan is to compile a book
consisting principally of illustra-
tions "Travel books with many
words are such a bore," she com-
mented, "unless the author is a
genius" telling pictorially the
story of her travels. (Yes, she saw
the Duke and Duchess of Windsor
while abroad was at the same
house-party with them while in
Austria, in fact.)
Of the political situation abroad,
she said that things in Austria were
strangely quiet when she was
there, but that trouble seemed to
be brewing then in Roumania. In
answer to the question, "What
would probably be Russia's reac-
tion to a European war?" she re-
plied, "Russia is definitely afraid
of war, and would stay out as long
as possible, for it would endanger
the System. You see, the System is
not popular with all Russians; and
the authorities are afraid that if
they mobilized armed troops, an
uprising enforced by arms
might result." However, she feels
that no war is imminent, since
England is determined to prevent
it.
Back to the subject of pet likes
and dislikes, Madame praised Helen
Hayes as the greatest living Ameri-
can actress, and thought that Tov-
arich (have you ever heard a gen-
uine Russian pronounce Tovarich?
it's delightful) was the most
charming play of its season. Her
pet abhorrences are candid camera
fiends and reporters (here the in-
terviewer cringed somewhat).
"Yes," she emphasized, "reporters
are so impertinent especially
those in England. And those in
America confuse one so they al-
ways ask foreigners what they
think of Americans even before
the poor foreigner has seen one
American man!"
Of all the interesting things
that she has done in her life and
of all the lecturing, writing,
photographing, and traveling ac-
tivities in which she is engaged at
present the Grand Duchess thinks
that radio is the most exciting. She
hopes some day to go into it as a
permanent field that is, if she
does not have to appear too often.
"Radio is the best means of com-
munication with the true thoughts
of people," she explained. "There,
the people in the audience are like
a shadow; and in their letters they
are not afraid to express their hon-
est opinions. It is truly stimulat-
ing."
Students Will Recite
Choral Readings
At Speech Convention
Eight budding dramatic genuises
were admitted by Blackfriars in its
recent tryouts: Elizabeth Barrett,
Florence Ellis, Caroline Gray, Ann
Mapother, Isabel Moncur, Ella
Muzzey, Laura Sale, and Freck
Sproles.
After long weeks of practice,
the day is at last at hand when the
Spoken English students will give
their choruses from The Trojan
Women, a play by Euripides. The
girls will recite before the south-
eastern convention of the Associa-
tion of Teachers of Speech tomor-
row night.
Facts About Georgia
Georgia's tobacco won first
prize at Paris Exposition.
First Agricultural Experiment
Station in the world Savannah,
1733.
Long- staple cotton first grown
in Georgia.
Cotton first planted for com-
mercial use in Georgia.
Meet Your Friends at
Cox's Prescription Shop
Between Paramount and Grand
Theatres, Atlanta
Chi Beta Phi Sigma
Welcomes Eight
At an initiation ceremony on
Thursday night, March 24, Chi
Beta Phi Sigma, honorary science
fraternity, received eight new
members: Dorothy Graham, Mary
Hollingsworth, Helen Kirkpatrick,
Helen Lichten, Lou Pate, Olive
Rives, Mary Eleanor Steele, and
Ann Watkins. Membership in this
national organization for under-
graduates is based upon outstand-
ing work in the basic science of
mathematics or in the other phases
of scientific study.
N. S. F. A. broadcasted its
fourth program of the "campus
comment" series Tuesday night
from 10:15 to 10:30 over the
NBC Blue Network. The subject
of the discussion was "Why Fra-
ternities?"
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Sears Will Entertain
Poetry Club Soon
Dinner in an apartment dining
room and a meeting afterwards in
a real home will vary the usual
program of Poetry Club when it
meets on April 12 at the home of
Miss Norine Sears, who is the aunt
of Evelyn Sears, president of the
club. A large number of members
is expected to attend.
Keep the sow and pigs in clean
dry quarters. Filthy quarters are
responsible for nearly all pig ail-
ments.
Agnes Scott
Contributes $100
To Red Cross
Collections On Campus
Are Estimated As
5-109? of County Total
Approximately $100 has been
collected on the Agnes Scott
campus during the recent Red
Cross drive, according to Dr.
Henry A. Robinson, chairman of
the Agnes Scott division. This
contribution is estimated to be
from five to ten per cent of the
total collection which will be
made in DeKalb county. Dr. Rob-
inson compliments the members
of Agnes Scott, especially the
faculty, for their generous response
to this cause.
Nine New Members
Join Outing Club
After thorough training in what
to do for a broken leg, and what
not to do for a well-cooked steak,
nine girls are ready to take their
place with those Amazon moun-
tain-climbers and fire-builders
known as the Outing Club. The
group includes Mary Virginia
Brown, Ernestine Cass, Ruth Eyles,
Mary Evelyn Francis, Ruth Kap-
lan, Elizabeth Kenney, Ella Hun-
ter Mallard, Henrietta Thompson,
and Peggy "Willis.
Four classes were given in prep-
aration for the examination taken
by the candidates: one on first aid,
taught by Anne Thompson; the
second on campcraft, fire build-
ing, and cooking, with Virginia
Suttenfield and Mary Frances
Thompson as instructors; the third
on the subject of week-end trips,
conducted by Miss Llewelyn Wil-
burn; and the fourth, a nature
study tour led by Miss Blanche
Miller.
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Agnes Scott College
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THE AGONISTIC
Editorials
features
March 30, 1938
Vol. XXIII. No. 17
Over Campus Network
Thumbing through collegiate papers we find the
comment of a psychology professor from the Uni-
versity of Georgia refuting what we hear so often
about cramming for exams. He says, "Ability to
cram is one of the most valuable assets of life. To
be able to learn a large amount of material quickly
and accurately is necessary for success in any field."
He adds, however, crammed material doesn't stick.
A present event of interest is the contest carried
at Salem College. Each girl contributes a picture of
some boy friend and prizes are awarded for the
"prettiest boy, the boy with the most character in
his face, the boy with the best smile, and the hand-
somest he-man."
M. Courtois Speaks
To French Club
Do you want to know something about the Pays
Basque? Or the Pyrenees? Then just talk to some-
one who attended the illustrated lecture by M.
Charles Courtois, who was presented by the French
Club on Monday afternoon at 4:30. M. Courtois is
the representative of the S. S. Normandie in Atlanta,
and was responsible for bringing to Agnes Scott the
guignol presented in the winter. After the program
the members enjoyed a social hour.
The French Club has presented a particularly at-
tractive series of programs this year, varying them
from the inspirational Christmas service and carol
singing to the cleverly staged Tovarich, presented in
February for the French teachers in Atlanta. Miss
Louise Hale, one of our own professors, started
things off with a lecture and pictures about her tour
in Europe, showing an appreciation sadly lacking in
Les Femmes Savants, the play by Moliere presented
at the next meeting, and starring Agnes Scott and
Emory. At the charming guignol the grown-ups
were overcome by the peculiarly life-like antics of
the puppets, and the children all on the front row
made no effort to hide their glee, but loudly
warned the hero about the policeman and the dog
about the robber.
French Club plans to announce spring tryouts
soon and urges all who are interested to watch for*
the posting of regulations.
Abbe Children Write Book,
Create Literary Stir
"Around the World in Eleven Years," Patience,
Richard, and John Abbe, Frederick A. Stokes Co.,
N. Y., 1936, $2.00.
"The book by children that's set grown-ups
agog!" This book has created almost as much sensa-
tion in the literary world as "Gone With the Wind."
Patience, John, and Richard are the children of
James E. Abbe, well-known photographer, and Polly
Piatt, formerly of the New York stage. The family
has traveled gypsy-fashion through all of the princi-
pal countries in Europe and America, spending from
a few days to a year or more in each, living in shacks
and palaces, speaking several languages, getting
themselves "on a spot," and always coming out on
top. .
This account of their travels, written mostly by
Patience, age twelve, begins with her birth in Paris.
It takes them through France, Austria, Germany,
Russia, and England, where they met everybody
from Stalin to Alexander Woollcott. "It is no mere
objective record of events; it is an astonishingly apt
critique of manners, morals, and reputations and of
the Abbe family as well, for Patience is no respecter
of persons!" The comments on people and places are
delightfully full of a charm and naivite which only
a child could give, and plain straight-forward state-
ments no self-respecting person would dare make.
Then the Abbes came to America. They stopped
in New York, Chicago, where they attended the
World's Fair, and then started west. They spent the
summer in a shack on a Colorado ranch, where the
authors were as alert to things around them as they
were in Berlin or Moscow.
Happily Ever After
Last Thursday and Friday saw the first meetings of the
marriage course which Mortar Board is sponsoring for the
seniors. The enthusiastic attendance at the classes evidences
an attitude which would have been viewed with scorn two
decades ago by militant woman who was forsaking the cradle
in order to rule the world more directly. An ardent cham-
pion of woman's rights would have dismissed as hopeless any
female so degenerate that she attended a course on marriage.
Woman's expanding horizon offered too many new worlds to
conquer and the hearth represented only bondage.
But our generation is not so. We cannot ignore the facts
of the drastically declining birth rate, the waning moral in-
fluence of the home and family, and the congested divorce
courts where every three minutes a marriage .made in heaven
is dissolved facts which offer evidence that the time is
some where out of joint. Furthermore these facts are par-
ticularly pertinent to students, for statistics show that every
day we spend in college increases our chances of being di-
vorced.
Understanding these rather disillusioning truths, college
men and women all over the country have asked themselves
what lies behind the difficulties of the American home, and
what can be done about it. The results of their questioning
are seen in numerous clinics, seminars, and courses in mar-
riage! Frank, practical studies of courtship, marriage, and
morals in their physical, psychological, and economic as-
pects are now offered in countless institutions of higher
learning throughout the country.
We have become intellectually immodest for we shame-
lessly admit that we are thinking realistically of marriage
a confession which would have scandalized our grandmoth-
ers. Hussies that we are, we wish to understand the prob-
lems that we will meet in marriage, and to learn how we may
solve or if possible avoid them.
We assert that love, by itself, cannot insure a successful
marriage. Too often we have seen couples who left the altar
entranced, later enter the divorce court falsely avowing im-
morality, so eager are they to get rid of each other. We be-
lieve that constructive teaching could have avoided many of
these misfortunes.
So we welcome our course in marriage. We may not be so
overtly successful as our aggressive, crusading predecessors
but perhaps we shall be happier.
The Body Politic
Close upon the heels of nominations have come the usual
rumors of "politics". They always come. They are never
true. Accusations hover in the air, and voices are hushed.
On all sides we hear that dormitories, clubs, cliques, classes,
boarders, and day students are "politicking" ; that everybody
is coercing everybody else.
It is our opinion that elections at Agnes Scott are particu-
larly clean. Glances through newspapers of colleges where
factors such as fraternities, salaries for student offices, and
traditions of open mud-slinging complicate elections, reveal
how very fortunate our policies are.
What the cynics decry as "politics" is usually only good,
healthy discussion of relative merits. It rrjay be true that a
few individuals make themselves obnoxious in their political
ardor but they are very few, and are viewed with disap-
proval by the student body in general.
It would, indeed, be a dead campus where student nomina-
tions were gently ignored until they were voted on with mag-
nanimous silence. As for the matter of persuasive coercion,
to borrow the words of a realistic Agnes Scotter: "Them as
don't know should be. persuaded."
The Agonistic
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
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Entered as Second Class Matter at Decatur, Georgia.
Subscription price, $ 1.25 per year in advance. Single copies, 5c.
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Editor
Jane Guthrie
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REPORTERS: N. Allison. E. Baty, M. Chafin, M. L. Dobbs. M. L. Gill. E. Hutchens,
C. K. Hutchins, R. Hurwitz, F. Lee, P. Noble. M. L. Ratliffe, A. Reins, H. Solomon,
S. Steinbach. V. J. Watkins, L. Young. D. Weinkle, M. M<rlin, A. Enloe, R. Drucker,
J. Salter*. H. Sanford, P. Heaslitt. J. Moseley.
Hitler Adds Austria
To German Reich
With Little Opposition
By Mary Anne Kernan
Austrian history is at an end; with the definite
accomplishment of Anschluss early this month Aus-
tria with its millenium of glorious and romantic his-
tory merged its identity in that of the German
Reich. Without powerful opposition, smoothly, al-
most casually Hitler added Austria to Germany.
That this is only the beginning of further changes
seems likely. Poland threatening Lithuania has re-
stored diplomatic relations between these countries
a move undoubtedly inspired by Germany's action.
Czechoslovakia coming under the influence of Kon-
rad Henlein's Sudeten German party seems destined
for the fate of Austria. Italy appears unperturbed by
presence of troops at the Brenner Pass and last week
Joseps Beck, Foreign Minister of Poland, and Count
Ciano, of Italy, conferred, indicating perhaps a ten-
dency of Poland toward a realignment with the Fas-
cist powers. France, bound to Czechoslovakia by
treaty obligations, has been too busy with internal
difficulties to make* any statements of particular
significance. Spain is again in the midst of an es-
pecially intense struggle in the civil war. England
has come forward and magnanimously offered to
fight for England, France, and Belgium, but not for
Czechoslovakia. Most of these statements and actions
seems to be calculated to obtain German friendship
or certainly to avoid open enmity. No European
country, as yet, has offered to courageously and
openly oppose Hitler's momentous action and further
threats in Central Europe.
TRIUMPHAL ENTRY
The triumphal entry of Hitler into Vienna dra-
matically signalized the end of Austria and the
height of Der Fuehrer's success. "In this hour I re-
port to the German people this greatest achievement
of my life. As Leader and Chancellor of the great
German nation, I declare to history the entrance of
my native land into the German Reich. To Germany
and its newest national unit, to the National Social-
ist party, to the armed forces, Sieg Heil." With
mechanical precision the flawless plans of the Third
Reich had been carried out, Dr. Seyss-Inquart as-
sumed the place of former Chancellor Kurt Schuss-
nig, thousands of Austrians became political refu-
gees, and numerous Jews in Vienna were set to work
scrubbing the Dolfuss crosses of the Fatherland
Front off the sidewalks.
Almost immediately Herr Hitler, with audacious
finality, announced a plebescite for April 10 to de-
termine Austria's approval of Anschluss and demon-
strate this to the world. Goebbels, in referring to the
Austrian annexation, said, "We don't talk of what
we intend to do we go ahead arid do it." Austria,
he said, came gladly to the fold of the Reich because
of the large German element Jn her population;
"Germany, thereby, guarantees President Wilson's
right of self-determination, once so bombastically
proclaimed but later refused." The United States
may well express approval of the theory but not the
method of German application.
WORLD SILENCE
Whatever world opinion is on the German situa-
tion no one is saying much very loudly. There is a
.general diplomatic bashfulness on the part of most
European countries in assuming the leadership of the
opposition. England logically should furnish this,
but Chamberlain has, as yet, made no important
move in that direction. It has been suggested that
Europe today is in much the same position that it
was in 180 5-7 when every country was wondering
which one should stop Napoleon; one by one the var-
ious nations were defeated until England finally step-
ped in to stop the Napoleonic conquest. The great
complexity of diplomatic relationships of the various
countries to Germany almost defies analysis, but the
important facts of the complete end of the Austrian
empire and the tremendously increased power of
Germany and Hitler will remain major historical de-
velopments of the century.
BUSINESS STAFF: H. Hirsch. N. Echol
M.
N. S. F. A. Publication
Discusses A. S.C. Cuts
In a recent issue of the Weekly Reporter, official
N. S. F. A. publication, a page was devoted to an
explanation of the Agnes Scott cut system as a model
for the consideration of other colleges. The Reporter
is sent out weekly to the campus of every member
college in N. & F. A. Future issues will carry articles
about our student program this year, including the
projects of honor week, deputations, student expres-
sion ballot, and the information program.
Hear
Neutrality Debates
VOL. XXIII
The Agonistic
AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1938
Hear
Vocational Lectures
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No. 18
Mortar Board, A. S. C A.
Sponsor Vocational Week
Science, Art, Writing, Economics
Will Be Discussed Here
A number of interesting speakers have been secured for
the vocational guidance course which is to be offered April
11-15 by Mortar Board cooperating with the Social Service
Group of A. S. C. A. Martha Long is chairman of the Social
Service Group, and Eliza King,
Hortense Jones, and Mildred Davis
are on the committee from Mortar
Board.
Tuesday, April 11, Mr. D. B.
Lasseter, head of the N. Y. A. of-
fice for Georgia, will speak in
chapel on the general subject of the
fields now open to college students.
In the afternoon from 4 to 5 Dr.
Mary Ann McKinney will talk es-
pecially to those interested in
Science.
On Wednesday, April 12, Miss
Whitmore, an art representative
sent out by the Carnegie Founda-
tion, will speak in chapel. Miss
Margaret Rogers, from the Scott
Forman Publishing Company, will
lead a discussion that afternoon for
those interested in the general field
of writing or publishing.
Miss Jeanne Davis, who former-
ly taught economics and sociology
at Agnes Scott, will talk on Social
Service Thursday, April 13, at the
chapel period. She has just return-
ed from Russia, where she studied
social conditions. Thursday after-
noon Dr. Swanson's sister, Miss
Ruby Swanson, who is connected
with the Children's Bureau in
Washington, will speak on the
fields open for women in govern-
ment.
Friday, April 14, Miss Annabelle
Home, from Atlanta Girls' High,
will talk in chapel on teaching.
During the week the Social
Service Group is planning to have
a bulletin board in the library with
information about the fields in
which Agnes Scott alumnae are
now working. There will also be
other material on vocational guid-
ance furnished by Atlanta Business
and Professional Women's Club.
Bunny Marsh, who is in charge of
the library arrangements, is also
planning a display of books on
vocational guidance for that week.
A committee from the Social
Service Group with Selma Stein-
back as chairman, will also go
through the activity sheets handed
{Cont'd on page 3, col. 1)
Math Society
Meets in Atlanta
Last week on Friday and Satur-
day the Southeastern Section of the
Math Association of America held
its sixteenth annual meeting in At-
lanta. While the meetings were
open to anyone interested in math-
ematics, the association itself is
composed of mathematic teachers
from colleges of the South.
Friday afternoon the convention
was opened with an address by Dr.
W. P. Parker, of Pyengyang,
Korea, who spoke on "Some As-
pects of the Teaching of Mathe-
matics in Japan and Korea."
Among the many other lectures
given by outstanding leaders in
the mathematical world, an inter-
esting address on "Eighteenth Cen-
tury Mathematics" was delivered
by Professor W. W. Rankin, who
was formerly on the faculty of
Agnes Scott 'College and is now
teaching at Duke University;
while Dean R. P. Stevens, of Geor-
gia, spoke on the vital question of
"New Georgia High School Re-
quirements in Math."
Friday evening an informal din-
ner was given in honor of the
guest speaker, Dr. F. D. Murna-
ghan who delivered the two most
important lectures of the meeting
on "The Value of the Basic Ideas
of Arithmetic and Algebra" and
"Finite Deformations of Elastic
Solid," is an authority on relativity
and has the singular honor of hav-
ing received his Ph.D. degree in
mathematics at perhaps the earliest
age of any mathematician in Am-
erica.
Dr. Henry Robinson, who was
preceded at Agnes Scott by Dr.
Rankin, is Executive Secretary-
Treasurer of the Association and
has a very responsible position in
making arrangements for the pro-
grams and details of the conven-
tions.
Youth Groups From Fifty
Nations to Convene at Vassar
Gathering at Vassar College on
August 16th for a nine day ses-
sion, delegations of youth groups
from more than fifty nations will
meet to discuss international af-
fairs and "to develop mutual un-
derstanding between the youth of
different races, different religions
and different opinions" in the
furtherance of world peace. Study
and discussion will be conducted in
four Commissions, which provis-
ionally will deal with the follow-
ing: The Political Organization
for Peace, The Economic Organi-
zation for Peace, The Economic
and Cultural Status of Youth and
its Relation to Peace, and The
Ethical and Philosophical Bases of
Peace.
In addition, a group of leaders
of delegations will meet to consider
the "International Role of Youth,"
while other special meetings will be
held for different categories of
delegates. Those from Church,
Student, Labor and Farm organiza-
tions will confer on the special
problems of each, while in geo-
graphical divisions, Mediterranean,
American, Far Eastern, Central
European, African, etc., delegates
will investigate particular regional
questions. Education, health, un-
employment, child labor, military
training and juvenile delinquency
are also among the topics to be dis-
cussed at this Congress.
The United States Sponsoring
Committee includes outstanding
people in many fields, such as Dr.
Homer P. Rainey, Dr. John Nevin
Sayre, Dr. Stephen Duggan, Dr.
Philip S. Bernstein, Professor Clyde
Eagleton, Senator Gerald P. Nye,
Representative Caroline O'Day,
Dr. Raymond L. Buell, Professor
Charles G. Fenwick and many
others. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt
has accepted an invitation to greet
the delegates at their first meeting,
and a resolution, asking for the re-
cognition of the World Youth
Congress as an importance peace
project has been introduced in
Congress.
Mortar Board
Chooses
Twelve Girls
Miss E. M. Laney Speaks
On Scholarship
At Chapel Service
With the traditional cere-
mony, the retiring chapter of
Mortar Board made the an-
nouncement of the new chap-
ter in the chapel Saturday morn-
ing. Mary Lillian Fairly intro-
duced Miss Emma May Laney, who
made the address on the subject of
scholarship. She cited the great
importance of scholarship in Ag-
nes Scott as compared with the ex-
tra curricular activities.
Mary Lillian announced the
newly elected members, and as they
came forward, the old members
presented them with their scrolls
of membership. The names were
read as follows: Jean Bailey, Ade-
laide Benson, Mildred Coit, Mary
Frances Guthrie, Mary Hollings-
worth, Jane Moore Hamilton,
Douglas Lyle, Emma McMullen,
Marie Merritt, Mamie Lee Ratliff,
Mary Ellen Whetsell, and lastly,
the new president, Amelia Nickles.
Amelia, who is from Decatur,
has been very active in Y. W.
C. A. work and in the Glee Club.
She served on the Freshman Cabi-
net and was president of the Soph-
omore Cabinet last year. This
year she has served as treasurer of
the Y. W. Both this year and last
she has sung a leading part in the
opera produced by the Glee Club.
Her new office as president of
Mortar Board will be a full time
office, in accordance with the new
ruling announced last week.
Jean Bailey is from Atlanta, and
has been elected as Student Re-
corder for the coming year. . She
has also been prominent in the
French Club and in Blackfriars.
Adelaide Benson, from Jackson-
ville, Florida, is the Kodak Editor
of the Silhouette and has just been
elected Editor-in-Chief of that
publication for next year. She is
the Secretary-Treasurer of the
French Club and is a member of
the Outing Club.
Mildred Coit is from Richmond,
Virginia, and has been very active
in Y. W. C. A. work since her
Freshman year, when she was pres-
ident of the Freshman Cabinet.
Last year she was on the Y Cabi-
net as World Fellowship Chairman
and this year she has been Mission
Interest Chairman.
Mary Frances Guthrie is the
newly elected Editor of the Ago-
nistic. She is from Louisville, Ken-
tucky, and has worked with the
Agonistic every year, having been
(Cont'd on page 3, col. 1)
Clubs To Elect
Officers By April 21
In order that all clubs may have
efficient officers and all girls hold
the positions to which they are
most suited, the president's council
announces that all elections of club
officers must be made before
Thursday, April 21. Girls may ac-
cept positions with the reservation
that they may give them up if they
are offered other offices they pre-
fer. .
The council has appointed a
committee to draw a new constitu-
tion. Any clubs wishing to com-
bine are advised to do so before
election of officers and to submit
the new arrangements to the coun-
cil.
New Mortar Board
Photos by Norton Studio.
Newly-elected members of Mortar Board are: Jean Bailey, Adelaide
Benson, Millie Coit, Mary Frances Guthrie, Jane Moore Hamilton, Mary
Hollingsworth, Douglas Lyle (not in picture), Emma McMullen, Marie
Merritt, Amelia Nickles, Mamie Lee Ratliffe, and Mary Ellen Whetsell.
New Officers Are Chosen
By Students For Coming Year
Student officers for the year 1938-39 were elected on last
Thursday and Friday, Mary Ellen Whetsell, Douglas Lyle
and Jane Moore Hamilton were made the presidents of Stu-
dent Government, A. S. C. A,
Students May Go
To Work Camps
The American Friends Service
Committee will open six work
camps in various sections of the
country. Open from June 24th to
August 19th, they will provide an
opportunity for a selected group of
college and university students to
study at first hand the underly-
ing economic problems of the area
in which they are working and to
seek the means by which these
can be worked out before they lead
to violence. The students will
work on some community project
of social significance involving
physical labor. They will not only
work with the people in the com-
munity, but they will discuss the
existing social and industrial prob-
lems with employers, union repre-
sentatives, employees, and civic
leaders.
Organized on a cooperative basis,
each camp will be under the lead-
ership of a director, usually a
member of a university faculty,
and those who attend will take
part in group discussions on ques-
tions peculiar to that area. Lead-
ers from the local community,
from the region and from govern-
mental and private organizations,
will be drawn into these discussions
so that the students may share the
benefits of their practical experi-
ence in the problems as well as hear
different viewpoints.
Assisted by a dietician, all stu-
dents will share in the cooking and
dining room duties and will care
for their own living quarters. Liv-
ing is maintained on a very simple
basis and the camp fees are set at
a minimum of $50 for the sum-
mer. Some scholarship aid is avail-
able for well-qualified persons who
would otherwise be unable to at-
tend.
, and A. A., respectively, the
three major organizations on the
campus. The editors of the pub-
lications are Mary Frances Guthrie
for Agonistic, Julia Sewell fpr
Aurora, and Adelaide Benson for
Silhouette.
Other officers of Student Gov-
ernment are: vice-president, Emma
McMullen; house presidents, Flos-
sie Wade for Rebekah, Kitty Cald-
well for Main, and Mary Hollings-
worth for Inman; secretary, Hen-
rietta Thompson; treasurer, Caro-
lyn Forman; student treasurer, Lou
Pate; junior student treasurer,
Ruth Eyles; student recorder, Jean
Bailey; president of day students,
Helen Kirkpatrick.
Mamie Lee Ratliff is the vice
president of A. S. C. A., while
Sophie Montgomery will serve as
secretary, and Katherine Patton as
treasurer.
Ann Watkins was elected the
business manager of Silhouette and
Nell Pinner, the assistant business
manager.
The assistant editor of Aurora is
Mary Winston Crockett, while
Mary Eleanor Steele is the business
manager.
Other members of the Agonistic
staff are Marie Merritt, associate
editor; Evelyn Baty and Mary
Reins, assistant editors; Es there
Ogden, business manager; and
Hazel Hirsch, assistant business
manager.
Jane Dryfoos is the vice presi-
dent of A. A., while Virginia Mil-
ner is the secretary, and Ruth
Slack, the treasurer. The chairman
of May Day is Helen Moses.
Kay Kennedy and Elizabeth
Kenney are president and treasurer,
respectively, of Lecture Associa-
tion. The junior- sophomore, and
freshmen classes will nominate
their respective president, vice-
president, secretary, and treasurer
in chapel on Thursday morning,
April 7. The elections of these of-
ficers will be held on the following
Saturday in class meetings after
the chapel program.
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THE AGONISTIC
Tennis Players Give
Exhibition Match
Mary Nell Taylor, tennis
manager, has announced a rare
treat for tennis enthusiasts on
the campus tomorrow. Bill
Moore, Atlanta City Champion
and Number two player of the
Georgia Tech team; Red Hill,
number four player of Tech's
team; Dot Vogal, who played
here last year, and Elizabeth
Mitchell, of our own campus,
will play an exhibition match
on the gym courts tomorrow,
Thursday, afternoon at 3:30.
The college community is invit-
ed to witness the games.
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The South's Sweetest Singers
The Emory University Glee Club will appear in concert at the Glenn
Memorial Auditorium tomorrow night.
Assisted by Miss Minna Hecker,
coloratura soprano, the Emory Glee
Club will present its annual Atlan-
ta concert in Glenn Memorial
Auditorium at 8:30 o'clock Thurs-
day night, April 7. Price of all
tickets will be 50 cents.
Closely following the program
used with unusual success on its
winter tour to Washington, D. C,
the club will feature its original
arrangements of Negro spirituals
for which it is internationally fam-
ous.
Variety will be the keynote of
the program, according to Direc-
tor Malcolm H. Dewey. Represen-
tative selections from English,
Welsh, German, Italian, and Rus-
sian composers will be rendered.
A new feature of the program
will be the musical adaptation of
Alfred Noyes' 'The Highway-
man, " prepared since the winter
tour for the Atlanta concert and
for a concert given last Tuesday
night, March 29, under sponsorship
of the Atlanta music club.
During its two-day stay in
Washington, while on tour, the
Glee Club gave concerts on the
stage of the Capitol Theatre, at the
Shoreham Hotel, and on the NBC
red network over Station WRC.
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Dr. Young- Speaks
At Bible Club
Dr. Herrick Young, of Persia,
noted traveler, expert on current
affairs, and member of the North-
ern Presbyterian Foreign Mission
Board, lectured on "Religious Con-
ditions in Persia Today" to the
History of Religions class Monday
morning. "The gradual but now
practically complete discard of
veils for women and the appear-
ance everywhere of the Ahuri-
mazda winged symbols instead of
the Mohammedan Crescent," Dr.
Young averred, "are but two of
the many evidences of the tremen-
dous decline of Islam in Persia.
This decline is due to the opposi-
tion from the government and the
fact that Persians have long resent-
ed being conquered by the Arabs
and being forced to accept Mo-
hammedianism. Although not fos-
tered by the government nor ac-
cepted by the majority of the peo-
ple, two ancient Persian religions
are being practiced by hundreds of
people in Persia today. Zoroas-
trianism, a non-proselyting reli-
gion, the mystical worship of
Ahuri-Mazda, and Mithraism, es-
poused by students as a modern
cult, are growing in importance;
while Christianity has gained a
firm foot-hold in Persia.
Dr. Young spoke Monday after-
noon to a joint meeting of the Bi-
ble Club and the World Fellowship
Group, his^talk being signally her-
alded by four distinct and co-ex-
isting announcements on the bulle-
tin board!
After the meeting, Bible Club
elected as officers for the coming
year Jac Hawks, president; Beth
Paris, vice-president; Jane Salters,
secretary; and Jo Cates, treasurer.
Did You Know
Agnes Scott became a college in
1906. Before that it was an insti-
tute.
At first all pupils were day stu-
dents.
Boys used to be enrolled here.
We have four alumn/.
The college catalogue used to
state that girls were required to
wear high-top shoes and flannels.
When Miss Hopkins suggested
that we organize a student govern-
ment, the students especially the
seniors objected strenuously, on
the grounds that they had all the
privileges they wanted and that
they didn't want any responsibili-
ties.
Most students used to go home
without having taken the final ex-
aminations in the spring, thus los-
ing credit for the term's work.
They answered all objections with
"But we're not going to teach!"
Miss Hopkins remedied this situa-
tion by offering the privilege of
late lights to all girls who got
enough credits to become seniors
thus our coveted "senior lights"
originated.
Formerly there were no athle-
tics. When mild calisthenics were
introduced, all the mothers wrote
in asking that their daughters not
be forced to take the horrid stuff.
Juniors used to embarrass seniors
by stealing their caps and gowns
before they had worn them, so
Miss Hopkins instituted a simple
service at which the seniors first
donned their academic robes; and
from that ceremony oun Investi-
ture has developed.
The stunt was suggested by Dr.
Sweet to replace a rather drastic
form of hazing known as "scratch-
ing it out." The underclassmen
took Dr. Sweet's suggestion to
stage a "battle of wits rather than
a battle of fists."
Emory Pictures
Are Exhibited
Artistic photographs of scenes
on the Emory University campus,
shot by photographer Ted Leigh,
'3 8-M, of Emory, will be on dis-
play in the exhibit room of the
Agnes Scott Library during the
next week.
WALTER BALLARD OPTICAL CO.
DISPENSING OPTICIANS
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105 Peachtree Street (Clock Sign)
Medical Arts Bldg. (382 Peachtree St.)
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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
Senior Opera is
Opus of Genius
Members of the Senior class, un-
der the direction of Jean Chalmers,
tried out Tuesday night for parts
in the forthcoming Senior Opera,
which will be presented May 7 in
the Bucher Scott gymnasium audi-
torium. The opera, the name of
which has not been yet disclosed,
will go into rehearsal immediately.
This great opus is the product of
the genius of Giddy Erwin, Hor-
tense Jones, Nell Hemphill, Elsie
West, Joyce Roper, Jane Guthrie,
and Jean Chalmers. The cast will
be announced later.
Blackf riars Give
Play, Reading
With the presentation in its club
meeting last night of Joint Owners
in pain y Blackf riars added one
more success to its recent numer-
ous activities. Taking part were
Nettie Lee Greer, Let tie McKay,
Helen Moses, and Ann Mapother.
Last Thursday night, March 31,
the choral reading group gave its
two selections from The Trojan
Women at the Convention of the
Southern Association of the Teach-
ers of Speech, which was meeting
in Atlanta. The whole play is being
prepared for spring performance.
King, Hollingsworth
Report To Forum
Reporting a good time and lots
of fine suggestions, Mary Hollings-
worth and Eliza King spoke to the
Current History Forum on Tues-
day, March 29, about the South-
eastern International Relations
Conference held at Vanderbilt
University. At the next meeting,
on April 12, the group will elect
its new officers. It is also complet-
ing plans for the annual Peace Day
on the campus.
Seven Girls To Read
Poems Tuesday
When Poetry Club meets next
Tuesday, April 12, at the home of
Miss Norine Sears, aunt of the
president, Evelyn, seven girls are
scheduled to read their poetic fan-
tasies: Myrl Chafin, Carol Hale,
Cora Kay Hutchins, Hortense
Jones, Margaret Lentz, Jane Salters
and Evelyn Sears.
Neutrality Debates
Begin Tonight
With the excitement of elec-
tions over, Agnes Scott settles
down this week to a series of ver-
bal battles, sponsored by Pi Alpha
Phi debating society.
At 7 o'clock tonight, as part of
the club's program, Mary Lillian
Fairly and Mary Frances Guthrie,
upholding the negative of the
question, "Resolved: that this
house condemns the Neutrality
Act," will oppose a team from the
Atlanta Law School.
Friday, at 8:30 P. M., in the
chapel, the Agnes Scott affirma-
tive team, composed of Mary
Louise Dobbs and Margaret Hop-
kins, will debate the same question
against Newcomb College.
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New Student Officers
Above are Jane Moore Hamilton, president of the Athletic Associa-
tion; Douglas Lyle, president of the Christian Association; Mary Ellen
Whetsell, president of Student Government; Jane Dryfoos, vice-presi-
dent of A. A.; Emma McMullen, vice-president of Student Government;
Mamie Lee Ratliffe, vice-president of A. S. C. A.; Adelaide Benson, ed-
itor of the Silhouette; Mary Frances Guthrie, editor of the Agonistic;
and Julia Sewell, editor of the Aurora.
C^rol Hale Enters
Storv Contest
y
"As the River Runs," by Carol
Hale is the story submitted in the
Story Contest by Agnes Scott stu-
dents. This contest is sponsored
annually by Story Magazine for
college students.
Carol is outstanding in literary
circles on the campus, being editor
of the Aurora and a member of
B. O. Z. and poetry club. Mrs.
Frank Sewell, Mrs. C. W. Dieck-
mann, Miss Virginia Prettyman,
and Miss Janef Preston judged the
contest. Story Magazine selects the
winners from all manuscripts sub-
mitted.
Mortar Board
Chooses Twelve
(Cont'd from page 1, col. 3)
Exchange Editor and Assistant
Editor. Her Freshman year she
took the lead in May Day and was
also on the honor roll. She has
taken much interest in debating
and is now Vice President of Pi
Alpha Phi.
Mary Hollingsworth is from
Florence, Alabama, and is President
of the Junior Class. She has also
served on the Y Cabinet and in
the recent elections was elected
House President of Inman for next
year.
Jane Moore Hamilton, from
Dalton, Georgia, has just been
elected President of the Athletic
Association, of which she formerly
held the office of treasurer. She
has been on May Court the last
two years and is, at present, Vice
President of Cotillion Club. Her
Sophomore year she was Class Ed-
itor of the Silhouette and was
Secretary-Treasurer of the class.
Douglas Lyle, from College
Park, is the newly elected Presi-
dent of the Agnes Scott Christian
Association. She has been on the
Honor Roll and is, at present, Sec-
retary of the Y. W. She is a mem-
ber of Spanish Club.
Emma McMullen, whose home is
in China, is Junior Representative
on Student Government and was
Sophomore Representative last
year. She has just been elected
Vice President of Student Go^ern-
ment for next year. She is a mem-
ber of the Archery Club.
Marie Merritt is from Clarks-
dale, Miss., and is the new Asso-
ciate Editor of the Agonistic. She
has been on Honor Roll for two
years, and is the National Secre-
tary of Eta Sigma Phi. This year
she has been Assistant Editor of the
Agonistic and Secretary of K.
U. B.
Mamie Lee Ratliff is also from
Clarksdale, Miss., and is the Music
Chairman on the Y Cabinet. She
is the newly elected Vice President
of A. S. C. A. She has been on
Honor Roll for two years, and last
year she played in the Georgia
Piano Ensemble. She is also a mem-
ber of K. U. B.
Mary Ellen Whetsell, the new
president of Student Government,
is from Columbia, S. C. She is Sec-
retary-Treasurer of Cotillion Club,
and has been on Honor Roll both
her Freshman and Sophomore years.
This year she has served as Trea-
surer of Student Government.
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Alumnations
Ifs and Examples
If you have the intellectual
ability of Marion Harrold, ex'-3 8 ( ,
you may complete your course in
three years. Marion received her
degree from Florida State College
for Women in June, 1937. She
spent last summer in Blue Ridge in
connection with the Yale Divinity
School conference grounds and
graduate school and now is study-
ing at Yale proper in New Haven,
Conn.
// you desire to know anything
about interior decoration, you may
ask Ellen McCallie, ex-'3 8, who
finds her course in that field in
May at Parson's in New York.
// you are interested in becom-
ing a successful executive follow
in the footsteps of Frances Steele,
'37. She has been appointed di-
rector of the National Youth Ad-
ministration in the La Grange dis-
trict which includes some eight
counties. Frances made such a
grand showing in Columbus that
she was selected for their position
over several older people.
// you would enjoy "chumming
with the Socialites" report for two
papers in Rockfbrd as Frances Wil-
son, '37, does. Yet, she seems to
think the society work reminds her
of Agnes Scott lectures! She
writes: "I actually talked to Mrs.
Roosevelt and got my picture
taken, but not with my arm
around her as it was with Carl
Sandburg!"
Rain Increases
Cotillion Guests
With unique invitations and at-
tractive refreshments, Jean Chal-
mers, Jeanne Matthews, Primrose
Noble, and Frances Robinson
scored a hit as hostesses at Cotillion
Club on Tuesday, March 29. It
seems that the downpour increased
attendance, for each member was
sure no one else would brave the
elements from Rebekah to the
Murphey Candler.
Campus Envies
Granddaughters
A real banquet in the Alumnae
House; a group of handsome dates;
The Mikado afterwards how the
rest of the campus envied the
Granddaughters' Club Saturday
night! Attending this festive af-
fair were Caroline Armistead,
Caroline Forman, Florence Ellis,
Martha Marshall, Jeanne Redwine,
Louise Sams, Gene and Ruth Slack,
Mary Nell Tribble, and Marv Scott
Wilds.
New Officers
Cite Way
To Success
Sleep, Ketchup,
Folk Dancing Bring
Victory At Polls
This little gem might well be
entitled "How to disperse a crowd
in one easy question," for some-
how the successful candidates dis-
appeared like "bobbie" pins when
accosted by the interviewer with,
"To what do you attribute your
recent success at the polls (an im-
poll-ite question, nicht wahr) ?"
Anyhow, some snakes like Jane
Moore Hamilton, Julia Sewall, Kat
Patton, and Henrietta Thompson
were too, too elusive; and Ann
Watkins was rendered so speech-
less (even in her white, red-trim-
med pajamas perfect costume for
an interviewee) that she was per-
mitted to escape.
But there were some people
whom we didn't even have to ask.
For example, we instinctively
knew that Helen Moses was made
Day chairman because of her as-
sociation with Flynt (Spanish heel-
clicker supreme) and Cheeseman
(the Castanet's -Delight poor
fish!) in their Dance of the Three
Dis-Graces. Then, according to
Mary Wells McNeill, Kitty Cald-
well's success goes back to the fact
that she always avoids eating the
outer portion of her doughnuts
(We editorially doughnut un-
derstand it, either). Mary Hol-
lingsworth explains Mary Ellen's
success on the basis of her folk-
dancing classes; her own success,
she affirms, is due to her affilia-
tions with the Government as
"rep" to IRC conference, Uncle
Sam at the W. F. Banquet, etce-
tera. Flossie Wade's inspiration to
success is the beaming picture at
her pillow (you should see Craig in
his two-dollar frame) ; while Em-
ma's is the eleven Hours of sleep she
got Sunday night. Jean Bailey in-
sists that the foundation for her
election as Student Recorder has
been laid in her habit of putting
ketchup on lettuce, cauliflower
and anything else needing color,
and Carolyn Foreman is positive
that her "explosive" nature won
her her Secretarial position. Amelia
attributes her success to carrots,
Vocational Week
Interests School
(Cont'd from page 1, col. 1)
in by the students and will send
notices of certain of the lectures to
those who they think would be es-
pecially interested.
Monday, April 10, a group from
the freshman cabinet will conduct
the vocational tests which are
given every year.
while Ad Benson divides honors be-
tween Grape-nuts, Pepsodent, and
Kaffee-Hag ("a matter of do or
diet," to quote a campus half-wit).
Her "room-mate's ennobling in-
fluence" is Marie Merritt's modest-
ly - asserted inspiration, while
"Mary Pharr" insists that the suc-
cess of both of them emerges from
that Guthrie initiative in the ap-
pendectomy epidemic (We s'pose
that since then everything has
been coining out swell!). Kay Ken-
nedy explains her Presidency of
Lecture Association by her ability
to sit on her long hair to the de-
light of the celebrities.
The new "Y" officers accost-
ed en masse by our question re-
sponded heroically. To quote
"Doug" Lyle (complete with
Napoleonic stance), "All that I
yam I owe to my mother;" Mamie
Lee accredits "my red hair, true
sign of genius"; and Sophie mur-
murs "my nondescript, unintelligi-
ble voice."
Those A. A. officers who failed
to escape reportial talons likewise
replied with due heroism. "All
my success I owe to the A. A.
Health Weeks," majesticizes Jane
Dryfoos. Virginia Milner attri-
butes hers to "my daintiness and
lack of longevity which has always
enabled me to slip unobtrusively
into offices. Then, my Argumen-
tation Course this fall , completed
the good work." (Incidentally, we
foxed Ruth Slack by deducting her
reason ourselves it's her amazing
ability to "keep her exigesis consis-
tent" in Bible 205 without ever
slacking!) But that's all right,
folks the editorial staff agrees
that everything evolved the way it
did because 'twas April Fool's
Day!
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THE AGONISTIC
Agnes Scott College
Decatur, Ga.
THE AGONISTIC
Sditorials ~~ features
April 6, 1938
Vol. XXIII. No. 18
Over Campus Network
Through all the college newspapers this week we
see a new note a realization that spring is here. At
Denton, Texas, an appeal to appreciate the beauty of
unmarred green lawns is made in this unique way:
Attention Geometristes! Given: Spring, a beautiful
hilly campus, and 24 hundred pairs of hurrying feet.
To prove: A straight line is the shortest distance
between two points, provided a beautiful lawn isn't
one of them.
At the University of Alabama, spring means
"year-book consciousness, " especially in relation to
the beauty section since Tyrone Power, the screen
idol, was the judge of their representative beauty
pictures this year. In his acceptance we find his
idea of beauty summed up: "... it is practically
impossible to judge a person from a photograph
which leaves out so much of one's personality that
means so much in true beauty."
We Think
(Editor's Note: The We Think column is conducted for the
purpose of giving an outlet to student opinion. The staff is in
no way responsible for what is printed in this column and it is
by no means to be taken as the editorial opinion of the paper.)
We think that it looks as if, Agnes Scott is turn-
ing into an Agricultural College or a school for
farmers' daughters; or else, the Agonistic is being
transformed into a farm journal. Things have
reached a rather bad state when paragraphs about
fence posts and "pigs quarters" are used to fill up a
column, the first part of which is occupied by an ar-
ticle concerning the recent visit of the Grand Duch-
ess Marie to our campus.
We think the recent writer of this column may
have been correct in saying that Agnes Scott girls do
not take enough interest in the affairs of the world
about them, but we do not think her ideas about the
proper interests would include items in our paper
about fencing and keeping our pigs in pens free from
filth.
We think a college paper is supposed to be repre-
sentative of the college, so please let's keep our be-
loved Agonistic a paper worthy of representing one
of the finest and best known women's colleges in the
United States.
(The editors acknowledge a justified criticism
and without attempting to offer excuses would
like to explain that a last-minute shift in make-up
gives one the rather choiceless choice of borrowing
a "filler" from the printer or leaving a blank in the
paper. And after all a pig may look at a duchess!)
Story Of Native Life
In Spanish Town Is Popular
"The Life and Death of a Spanish Town," Elliot
Paul, Random House, Inc., N. Y., 1937, $2.50.
With Spain in the eyes of the world as it is now,
this book of a few months ago has attracted much
attention in the literary world. The author prefaces
it with this comment: "I believe it will interest
American readers to know how Fascist conquest and
Communism and anarchist invasions affect a peace-
ful town. By a town I mean its people. I knew them
all, their means and aspirations, their ways of life
and thought, their ties of blood, their friendships. I
loved them and their animals and the shadows of the
trees that fell on their houses. They divided their last
pesetas and red wine and beans and gay spirit with
me. I got away from their island, and they did not.
This book is a debt I owe them."
The book is a story of native life in the little town
of Santa Eulalia, on the island of Ibiza off the Span-
ish coast. Life in the little town was one of peace
and quiet and freedom to do those things one wanted
to do and not to do those things for which one had
no taste. "Nature furnished labor for those who
needed it and food for those who did not." The
climate was such that very few days was it necessary
to close the doors of the cafes. Men lived out-of-
doors nearly all their waking time. When the Fas-
cists descended and the former peaceful life abruptly
ceased. What happened in those terrible days makes
one realize a little of what happens on the other side
of the water while we sit securely on our continent.
And On Earth Peace
April 27 is National Peace Day a day when students will
have an opportunity to join the rest of the nation in wor-
shiping at the shrine where the olive branch threatens to
wither.
This is the first and fundamental law of nature to seek peace and
to follow it. Thomas Hobbes.
To plunder, to slaughter, to steal these things they mis-
name empire; and where they make a desert, they call it
peace. Tacitus.
Yet there we follow but the bent assigned
By fatal nature to man's warring kind:
Mark! where his carnage and his conquest cease
He makes a solitude and calls it peace!
Lord Byron.
An end to these bloated armaments !
Benjamin Disraeli.
'Tis startin' a polis foorce to prevint war . . . How'U they be ar-rmed?
What a foolish question. They'll be ar-rmed with love, if coorse.
Finley Dunne, of the League of Nations.
Peace cannot be kept by force ; it can only be achieved by
understanding. Albert Einstein.
Though not a "peace-at-any-price" man, I am not ashamed to say
I am a "peace-at-almost-any-price" man.
Sir John Lubbock.
Peace is the healing, the elevating influence in the world.
Woodrow Wilson.
The time of universal peace is near:
Prove this a prosperous day, the three-nooked world
Shall bear the olive freely.
William Shakespeare.
Where there is peace, God is.
George Herbert.
How beautiful upon the mountain are the feet of him that bringeth
good tidings, that publisheth peace. Isaiah.
The high contracting parties solemnly declare in the names
of their respective peoples that they condemn recourse to
war for the solution of international controversies, and re-
nounce it as an instrument of national policy.
Article I, Pact of Paris.
Yielding Place To New
With this issue, the present Staff of the Agonistic offers
its final journalistic effort. It has ben our aim to' delineate
in these black and white columns a silhouette of life at Agnes
Scott, and to point a finger along worthwhile lines of student
activity and opinion. Taking final inventory of ourselves, we
realize with horror how far short of our aspirations we have
fallen, how much we have left undone.
Our blindnesses you will overlook, our mistakes you will
excuse for they were unintentional. And to those of you
who have disagreed with our sincere if vehement champion-
ing of disorganization, peace, and learning in the liberal arts
college, we can only say with Carl Sandburg, "Give us this
day our daily opinion and forgive us the one we had yester-
day."
At any rate, it has been fun. And so we retire with a sigh
three-fourths relief and one-fourth regret.
The Agonistic
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
Owned and published by the Btudenta of Agnes Scott College.
Entered as Second Class Matter at Decatur, Georgia.
Subscription price. $1.25 per year in advance. Single copies, 5c.
Member A. C. P., G. C. P. A.
Hortense Jones
Editor
Jane Guthrie
Mary McCann Hudson
Associate Editors
Mary Frances Guthrie
Marie Merritt
Assistant Editors
Elizabeth Skinner
Make-up Editor
Elizabeth Kenney
Asst. Make-up Editor
STAFF
Elizabeth Blackshear
Business Manager
Esthere Ogden
Advertising Manager
Giddy Erwin
Feature Editor
Mary Wells McNeil
Asst. Feature Editor
Mary Anne Keroan
Current History
Elizabeth Warden
Book Editor
Francis Caatleberry
Jeanne Redwine
Alice Reins
Eugenia Bridges
Circulation Managers
Alice Cheeseman
Sports Editor
Mary Reins
Exchange Editor
Jeannette Carroll
Alumnae Editor
Evelyn Baty
Club Editor
REPORTERS: N. Allison, E. Baty, M. Chafin. M. L. Dobbs. M. L. Gill, E. Hutchens,
C. K. Hutchins, R. Hurwitz, F. Lee, P. Noble. M. L. Ratliffe, A. Reins. H. Solomon,
S. Steinbach, V. J. Watkins. L. Young, D. Weinkle. M. Merlin, A. Enloe, R. Drucker,
J. Saltera. H. Sanford, P. Heaslitt, J. Moseley.
Rearmament Is
Policy Of Nations
By Mary Anne Kernan
Pacifism is now not far from militarism; no
longer is it possible for a staunch liberal to lose his
status by favoring rearmament. The present choice
of isolation or collective security as the solution to
the problem of peace and war makes it impossible to
follow simply the ideal of peace without an intelli-
gent method for its attainment. Japan has forced the
abondonment by England, France and the United
States of the Washington Treaty of 1922. The Lon-
don conference which has been in progress since De-
cember to decide whether Japan has been violating
the Naval Treaty of 1936 ended last week in the an-
nouncement that the old treaty limit of 3 5,000 tons
on battleships would be revoked since Japan is al-
ready exceeding this.
The famous escalator clause has been invoked and
the nations of England, France, and the United
States busily go to work building 42,000 ton or
larger ships with 18, rather than 16 inch guns. The
United States is limited in the size of her battleships
by the size of the Panama Canal and so may not
build over 42,000 tons; this cultural lag may not be
altogether a disadvantage. Rearmament is actively in
progress and no longer can its advocates be derisively
called militarists or sadists. Armament for peace is
different from armament for war. The entire busi-
ness of building up navies may be simply a technical
machinery for the establishment of peace.
Armament is the inevitable answer once one has
adopted the policy of collective security. If interna-
tional agreements are to mean much today they must
be expressed interms which the world understands.
Whether we like it or not, big navies and efficient
armies speak louder than the "good neighbor" policy,
at least to the dictators of the world. Collective
security may have as its object economic weapons in
preventing war, but to be effective these must be
backed up by military weapons.
The obvious consequence of this proposition is
that if present defenses are inadequate they must be
increased. And so it is that the present-day liberal
may easily and quite logically, though perhaps pro-
testingly find himself in the position of favoring the
current $549,227,842 naval appropriation of the
United States. England is rushing building of new
battleships since the definite abandonment of the
3 5,000 ton limit and the United States has increased
the size of those already under construction. France,
however, is trying to maintain the old limit, hoping
that no other European country will exceed it; con-
tinuance of the status quo is her objective.
Collective security seems more likely to succeed as
a policy for the conduct of foreign affairs than does
isolation, which is a distinctly selfish and perhaps
less constructive policy. Opinion, however, is not at
all in agreement in the U. S. over this question. In a
recent program of America's Town Meeting of the
Air, Dorothy Thompson and Sherwood Eddy spoke
for collective security, while Senator Gerald P. Nye
and Norman Thomas spoke for isolation. There is
room for much intelligent division of opinion, since
both policies offer difficulties. Now that neutrality
legislation is generally held to be ineffective in any
form, the current choice of methods of insuring
fentpeace seems to be between isolation and collec-
tive security, with rearmament an inescapable part of
the latter. Practical pacifism is forced to allow a
certain amount of preparedness, which while visibly
suggesting war, may result in peace without war.
N. S. F. A. Commission Advises
Adoption Of New System
The N. S. F. A. commission on stimulation re-
cently suggested that students consider inauguration
of the cooperative system to solve some of the more
pressing economic needs of their campus. Since the
inauguration of this system in 1933 on its campus,
the cooperation association has saved its members
about $60,000 at the Un iversity of Washington. The
system makes it possible for students to cut costs and
at the same time raise living standards.
BUSINESS STAFF: H. Hirch. N. Echola, J. Flynt, F. Abbot. M. Oliver, H. Lichten.
Faculty-student conferences for the purpose of
ironing out difficulties between students and in-
structors are becoming increasingly popular in col-
leges all over the country. At Agnes Scott this need
is supplied by the Administrative Committee, which
is made up of the president of the college, the dean,
the assistant dean, the registrar, the college physician,
an appointed member of the faculty, the president of
student government, the vice president, secretary,
and treasurer of student government, and a senior
delegate elected by the Executive Committee.
Think
For Peace
The Agonistic
3-
Work
For Peace
VOL. XXiii
AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1938
Z115 No. 19
-Cut Courtesy Atlanta Constitution.
Junior Class Is Winner Of
Agonistic Contest
Julia Sewell
Edits Winning Paper
In chapel Friday morning Hor-
tense Jones, retiring editor of the
Agonistic, presented the Agonistic
cup to the Junior Class, winner of
the annual contest. Julia Sewell,
editor of the Junior edition, ac-
cepted the cup for the class. Jean
Flynnt served as the business man-
ager, and other members of the ed-
itorial staff included the following
girls: Douglas Lyle, Cora Kay
Kutchins, Alice Cheeseman, Hen-
rietta Blackwell, Jean Bailey, Flora
McGuire, Mutt Fite, Jane Moore
Hamilton, Kay Kennedy, Mamie
Lee Ratliff, Esthere Ogden, Mary
Wells McNeill, Elizabeth Furlow,
and Helen Moses.
The four class papers were
judged on the basis of make-up,
news stories, editorials, and fea-
tures. The judges were Lula Ames,
a former editor of the Agonistic;
Dr. Schuyler Christian, faculty
member; Mrs. Fred Kildow, chair-
man of the Associated Collegiate
Press; Henry Fox, editor of the
Madison ville, Texas, newspaper;
The editors and business man-
agers of the other three editions
were Elsie Blackstone, editor, and
Martha Peek Brown, business man-
ager, for the Seniors; Eleanor
Hutchens and Frances Abbott, for
the Sophomores; and Doris Wein-
kle and Tine Gray for the Fresh-
man paper, which won second
place.
German Club
Chooses E. Harris
Jones, Merritt
To be Delegates
At G.C.P.A.
Hortense Jones and Marie Mer
ritt will represent Agnes Scott at
the Georgia Collegiate Press Asso-
ciation convention at Gainesville
this week-end, April 29-30. Bre-
nau, which is located in Gaines-
ville, will have a large share in the
entertainment of college journal-
ists who will assemble from all
parts of the state.
Friday afternoon the visitors
will be welcomed by Dr. Pearce, of
Brenau, after which there will be
speeches on "Improving the Col-
lege Weekly," and "Modern Jour-
nalistic Trends." The entertain-
ment for the day will consist of a
reception during the afternoon,
and a banquet and dance Friday
night.
Saturday morning, Marcus Bart-
lett, of WSB, will talk on the
"Radio As A Phase of Journalism."
The remainder of the morning will
be devoted to round table discus-
sions of editorial problems, busi-
ness problems and yearbook prob-
lems.
German Club held its regular
meeting on Wednesday, April 20,
in Lupton Hall. At that time Em-
ily Harris was elected president of were
the club for next year. The other Harriet
officers chosen were Cora Kay Treasurer.
Hutchins, vice-president; Nell Agnes Harvey were admitted to
Pinner, secretary; and Elinor Tyler, the club as a result of recent try
treasurer. outs.
Mrs. Charles Whitmore
Lectures On Prints
Pen and Brush Club was very
fortunate in having as its guest
speaker at its last meeting Mrs.
Charles Whitmore, an art repre-
sentative from the Carnegie Foun-
dation. Mrs. Whitmore used as her
subject, "Prints, Lithographs, and
Etchings." After the talk, new of-
ficers of the club were elected for
the coming year. Those elected
Mary Reins, President; and
Stimson, Secretary and
Alice Cheeseman and
admitted
College Has
Anti-War
Program
Emory, Tech, Agnes
Scott Join N.S.F.A. Move
For Observing Peace Day
On April 27, the Current
History Forum, Student Gov-
ernment, and World Fellow-
ship Group will sponsor a
National Peace Day on the Agnes
Scott campus, in cooperation with
the national movement led by
N. S. F. A. Emory University and
Georgia Tech will aid in the pro-
gram to be put on.
The committee from our
campus is composed of Ann
Worthy Johnson, Katherine Pat-
ton, and Eliza King. Jimmy Irion,
of Emory, and Ted Thornton, of
Georgia Tech, are representing the
Christian Associations and Inter-
national Relations Clubs of their
respective campuses.
Sunday, April 24, the organiza-
tions sent representatives to Sun-
day Schools and Young People's
groups of the Atlanta and Decatur
churches. As a return courtesy the
Atlanta and Decatur high school
students have been invited to visit
the Agnes Scott campus Wednes-
day afternoon and night.
Wednesday morning in chapel,
Miss Ellen D. Leyburn read
parts of Edna St. Vincent Millay's
play, "Aria Da Capa." In the aft-
ernoon from 2:30 to 4:00 there
will be three discussion groups:
"Politics and Peace," led by a stu-
dent from Emory University;
"Agencies of Peace," led by a rep-
resentative of Georgia Tech; and
"Economics and Peace," led by
Eliza King,, of Agnes Scott. Six
topics will be discussed under this
group: "Economic Conditions in
Europe," by Mary Anne Kernan;
"Economic Conditions in North
(Cont'd on page 2, col. 1 )
Seniors To Present
Charmin' Play
Wheaton, Guthrie Have Leads
In Seniorpolitan Opera
N. S. F. A., Press
Convene At
Vanderbilt
The Southern Federation Con-
vention of N. S. F. A. held its an-
nual convention at Vanderbilt Un-
iversity, in Nashville, April 21-23.
The Southern Federation Conven-
tion, which is a regional division of
N. S. F. A., holds its conferences
every spring.
This convention takes up the
more specific and practical prob-
lems of the college campus such as
Orientation, Honor Systems, Ad-
ministration of Student Govern-
ment, Broadening Scope of Student
Government, Stimulation of Stu-
dent Government, and N. S. F. A.
itself. Bill Aycock, a graduate of
the University of North Carolina,
is president of Southern Federation
Convention. Laura Coit is secre-
tary, and Kenneth Crosby, of the
University of Mississippi, is treas-
urer.
The convention is made up of
two divisions Women's and
Men's. The two groups meet sep-
arately unless discussing problems
that are similar to both groups,
for the social side of the confer-
ences or for lectures. This confer-
ence meets each year with the
Press Association. The delegates
this year from Agnes Scott were:
Mary Frances Guthrie and Esthere
Ogden, of the Agonistic; Ade-
laide Benson, of the Silhouette, and
Mary Ellen Whetsell and Emma
McMullen, from Student Govern-
ment.
Davis, King Announce
Plans For Graduate Study
Straight from third floor Rebekah we have the latest news
about those two Quenelle Harrold scholarship winners, Mil-
dred Davis and Eliza King. Here in this startling interview
they bare their hearts and tell all.
MGIldred, who plans to do grad-
uate work at Columbia University,
said to us in a tearful little voice,
"Tell my public that I shall prob-
ably lower Agnes Scott's marriage
percentage by accepting the schol-
arship, for men just don't marry
girls who do graduate work. But
I am not afraid; I am going to run
the risk anyway." Even from the
first Mildred has maintained this
attitude of bravery. When Dr.
Davidson told her she had won the
scholarship, she was holding six
root-beer bottles in her arms and
believe it or not she didn't drop a
one.
If Mildred is unable to take the
scholarship, Eliza hopes to use it in
work at the Institute of Public
Affairs in Washington. At this in-
stitute the Rockefeller Foundation
is giving apprenticeships in gov-
ernmental work to young people of
America. These apprenticeships
consist of work in various depart-
ments of the government and a
chance to study at the American
University. Even if she does not we will say, "Such is life."
get a chance to use the scholarship,
Eliza hopes to get one of the ap-
prenticeships.
Alas, tragedy hovers in the
background and there by hangs a
tale. When El iza was in Washing-
ton at the International Relations
convention, she talked with some
of the important people connected
with the Rockefeller Foundation.
After the group had discussed the
subjects which one just must have
to do work at the Institute of
Public Affairs, Eliza smilingly vol-
unteered the information that she
had taken Economics. One of the
gentlemen present asked who was
the author of the textbook she had
studied. She could see the color of
the book, the cover of the book,
and even the size of the print, but
could she remember the author's
name? No, no!
After that "break" Eliza says
she settled back and had a good
time for all hopes of impressing
anyone had long since flown. If
you will permit us to philosophize,
All the glamour of old Spain
and young Ferdinand will lend
color to Charmin' or the Oper-
rackct gyp-see?, the annual pro-
duction of the Seniorpolitan Opera
Company which will be presented
Saturday night, May 7. The opera,
which is written and produced
each year by the senior class, is un-
der the direction of Jean Chalmers.
The cast of Charmin' includes:
Anne Wheaton as Charmin'; Jane
Guthrie as Don Whoosis; Primrose
Noble, Mr. Bones; Myrl Chafin,
May-kill-'er; Giddy Erwin, Am-
aryllis; Mildred Davis, Maye Daye;
Martha Long, Innkeeper; Ern Rob-
inson, Mosquito; Kat Brittingham,
Mercy Me; Gina Watson, Hot
Homing; Regina Hurwitz, Soldier;
Lettie McKay, Fate Motif; Ann
Worthy Johnson, Ferdinand; Eliza
King, Mother of Ferdinand; Nell
Hemphill, Lib Blackshear and Jean
Barrie Adams, Three Old Crones;
Mary Ann Kernan, Miss Hooch;
Elsie West, Mr. Right; Jane Tur-
ner, Miss MacGoogle; Virginia
Suttenfield, Mr. Haze.
Dancers are: Pixie Fairly, Mary
Elizabeth Calloway, Mary Nell
Tribble, Kay Ricks, Sara Corbitt,
Louise Bailey, Sue Bryan, Ellen
Little, Grace Tazewell, Jean Aus-
tin, Bee Merrill, Mary Smith, and
Margaret Morrison.
Choruses are: Julia Telford,
Elizabeth Warden, Frances Castle-
berry, Frances Lee, Elizabeth Skin-
ner, Edna Ware, Mary McCann
(Cont'd on page 3, col 1.)
Cut Courtesy Atlanta Journal.
Eliza King
Mildred Davis
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THE AGONISTIC
SPORTS
The first water-polo game of
the season started off with a bang
as Cheeseman, heroically tossing a
life-preserver to Pattie Patterson,
hit one of the lights, narrowly es-
caping dark consequences. The
four faithful swimmers who show-
ed up (three mermaids and Alice
the Goon) splashed hopefully
about until Milner, fresh from the
golden wedding, appeared, drawing
loud cheers from the excited audi-
ence (both of us). There being a
noticeable shortage of players, Mil-
ner attempted to draft Giddy into
the game. "I can't wait," said the
Erwin Eel. "That's O. K.," re-,
plied Milner, "it's too deep for that
anyway." All seriousness aside,
water polo is not a drippy game as
some people seem to think. Both
members of last week's audience
agreed that it is well worth the
watching, even in the embryonic
form in which it was then pre-
sented. NEXT week, there will be,
not an exhibition, not a golden
wedding, but a GAME. The pub-
lic is requested.
Peace Program
{Continued from page 1)
and South America," by Alice
Reins; "Trades Agreements," by
Elizabeth Blackshear; "Colonies As
An Economic Problem," by Eliza-
beth Furlow; "Armaments As An
Economic Problem, by Elinor Ty-
ler; and "Foreign Exchange," led
by Mary Lillian Fairly. After the
discussion groups there will be a
lecture.
Wednesday night at 7:45 the
leaders of the three groups will
give a summary of their discus-
sions, after which Rabbi Marx, of
Atlanta, will speak on "The Stu-
dent and Peace." After this lec-
ture Student Government Associa-
tion will give a reception in Mur-
phey Candler Building.
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Fifty Take Part
In Exhibitions
Approximately fifty Agnes
Scott girls took part in demonstra-
tions before the meeting of the
Southern Association of Physical
Education for College Women on
April 22 at the Athletic Club in
Atlanta. The tennis exhibition, di-
rected by Miss Helen Driver, of
the University of Wisconsin, con-
sisted of a series of drills by sixteen
girls in the courtesy stroke, the
volley, the rally, the serve, and the
forehand and backhand drives.
The swimming demonstration, in
which the principals were Ann
Thompson, Virginia Milner, and
Bee Merrill, was in the form of a
class, demonstrating the different
strokes, analyzing form, and cor-
recting methods.
POTATO CHIPS
SURPRISE CHALMERS
The outgoing A. A. Board enter-
tained its president, Jean Chalmers,
at a surprise birthday luncheon in
Murphey Candler Building Satur-
day. The only information given
out to the press was that the main
dish consisted of potato chips. In
order to insure the honoree's pres-
ence at the function, the Board
was forced to get her campused
over the week-end.
A. A. Sells
Lost Goods
At Auction
The A. A. Auction, with Jane
Dryfoos officiating) was held last
Thursday, accompanied by many
happy reunions of owner and
property. Some prize bargains,
much to the disguest of the auc-
tioneer: one "very fine" raincoat
for a dime, an Eversharp pen for
fifteen cents, and a slightly worn
umbrella for a nickel. A certain
L. Coit, a bit confused, was de-
tected outbidding herself by fif-
teen cents for a raincoat.
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the Degree of Bachelor of Science
in Nursing for two additional
years of approved college work
before or after this nursing course.
,The entrance requirements are in-
telligence, character and gradua-
tion from an acceptable high
school; preference is given for one
or more years of successful college
work. The tuition is $100 per year
which includes all cost of mainten-
ance, uniforms, etc.
Catalogues and application
forms, which must be filed before
August first for admission Sep-
tember thirtieth, may be obtained
from the Dean.
Convention
Opens Here
The Southern Association of Di-
rectors of Physical Education for
College Women had its fourth an-
nual meeting in Atlanta last week.
Miss Llewellyn Wilburn, Associate
Professor of Physical Education at
Agnes Scott, presided over the con-
ference, which lasted from Tues-
day through Friday.
On April 19, the conference had
its opening session at Agnes Scott.
Included in this initial program
were reports of long term study on
phases of physical education for
women, an informal luncheon at
East Lake Country Club, talks on
physical education by prominent
women in the field, a business ses-
sion, tea at Agnes Scott, and a din-
ner meeting at the Biltmore Hotel.
Classes Choose
New Officers
Wheeler, McConnell,
Crisp Are Presidents
Officers of the classes who have
been elected for the coming year
are: Seniors President, Cary
WTieeler; Vice-President, Mary
Wells McNeill; Secretary-Treasur-
er, Flora MacGuire. Juniors
President, Ruth Crisp; Vice-Presi-
dent, Mary Lang Gill; Secretary-
Treasurer, Mary Evelyn Francis;
Executive Members, Polly Heaslitt
and Harriet Stimson. Sophomores
President, Julie McConnell;
Vice-President, Helen Klugh; Sec-
retary-Treasurer, Ann Henry;
Executive Members, Frances Breg,
Nancy Gribble, Jean Dennison.
Approximately 80 per cent of
higher education is co-education.
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THE AGONISTIC
3
Senior Opera
(Continued from page 1)
Hudson, Louise Young, Alice
Reins, Tommy Ruth Blackmon,
Kathryn ' Peacock, Laura Coit,
Helen Rodgers, Jane Turner, Elsie
West, Mary Ann Kernan, Ola
Kelly, Margaret Douglas, Jeanne
Matthews, Martha Alice Green,
Peck Brown, Bee Sexton, Martha
Beatty Sloan, Josephine Bertolli.
Chairman of the committees
are: Joyce Roper, Stage Manager;
Virginia Suttenfield, Properties;
Gina Watson, Costumes; Jane
Wyatt, Scenery; Julia Telford,
Program; Eliza King, Publicity;
Mary Ann Kernan, Business Man-
ager; Margaret Morrison, Dances;
Elizabeth Cousins, Make-up.
The story of Charmtn* and
That's No Bull is a soul-stirring
version of the eternal triangle, in
Taking a few minutes off be-
tween rehearsals for the senior play
at North Fulton High School,
Suzanne was willing and eager to
answer any questions her inter-
viewer was able to think of, in
what she flattered us by calling
Date Brings Kaulbauch
1939 Freshman Scholarship
When one is preparing" to go to a dance, is there anything
nicer than to have your date arrive bearing a corsage?
"Yes!" says Suzanne Kaulbach, of Atlanta, winner of the
1939 full tuition scholarship to Agnes Scott. "My date came
in bringing a letter from Dr. McCain, and well, the contents
just bowled me over. I couldn't believe I had won the scholar-
ship. Mother said I was so hilarious that I threw my arms
around my date; but, somehow, I don't remember just what
happened!" Moreover, it was her father's birthday, and he
was in Chattanooga on business; so a long distance call to
tell him about the great event made the perfect birthday
present. (Moral : when in doubt as to what to give your Dad
for his birthday, just win a $700 scholarship!)
off
"being interviewed by the press."
Such a thing was especially thrill-
ing to her, since going into jour-
nalism is her pet ambition. Furth-
ermore, she doesn't expect to stop
at mere journalistic writing, but
she hopes to do some short stories
and even novels later.
But being literary is only one of
Suzanne's characteristics. After all,
she was elected "Most Versatile"
in her high school this year, so we
wouldn't be surprised at anything.
And sure enough her activities
there have been many and varied.
She is a member of the French
Club, the Latin Club, and the
Chemistry Club, and is a leader in
the Dramatic Club, being cast as
one of the leads in the senior play.
Then, she has been on the rifle
team for three years, and this year
was manager of girls' basketball.
But with all these clubs and
things, how can anyone find time
to study? Well, we gather Suz-
anne must be pretty good at tak-
ing competitive exams but she
says the exams weren't so terribly
hard, except for the one on his-
tory; and she was sure she had
flunked that. "I never thought
I'd make it," she said, "but going
to Agnes Scott is really an exciting
prospect. I've already picked out
my roommate, but the dean
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Kellersberger Conducts
Installation Service
Setting a new precedent for the
installation of members of the
Christian Association, the old cab-
inet installed the new in a chapel
service April 18. Winifred Kellers-
berger, the out-going president,
conducted the service as the mem-
bership crosses were awarded. The
new officers are: Douglas Lyle,
President; Mamie Lee. Ratliff,
Vice-President; Sophie Montgom-
ery, Secretary; Katharine Patton,
Treasurer; Jane Moses, Chairman
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Griffin, Missions; Louise Hughs-
ton, Christian World Community;
Millie Coit, Spiritual Life; Betty
Alderman, Publicity; Caroline
Gray, Social; Henrietta Blackwell,
Y. W. C. A. Representative.
Winifred's outgoing speech was
based upbn Matthew XXVI: 7- 13,
which deals with the woman who
poured ointment on Christ's feet.
Douglas* talk was centered around
a picture found on an issue of the
Upper Rootn of Christ pointing
out to a disciple his duty. She
interpreted the picture as a re-
minder to each Agnes Scott stu-
dent of his personal duty to follow
Christ's teachings in practical,
everyday tasks. The freshman and
sophomore Christian Association
cabinets escorted the members of
the school cabinet.
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THE AGONISTIC
Agnes Scott College
Decatur, Ga.
THE AGONISTIC
Editorials
features
April 27, 1938
Vol. XXIII. No. 19
Collegiate
Review
Pax Vobiscum
Atlanta and Agnes Scott have the privilege of at-
tending concerts and road shows sooner than the
average college town. Miss Cornelia Otis Skin-
ner recently presented her "Wives of Henry VIII"
at Mount Holyoke. Theatre-goers will remember
that Miss Skinner presented that series of monologues
last year, as well as "The Wives of Charles II" this
season. Golschmann, that charming Russian con-
ductor of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, came
to Atlanta before "going West" to State Teachers
College in Florence, Alabama, and T. S. C. W. in
Denton, Texas. He must be a human sort of a per-
son, despite all his success, for he drew a caricature
of a long-armed conductor for a sleepy little boy, ac-
cording to an interviewer in The Lass-o, T. S. C. W.
paper.
At Mercer University there is a "college charac-
ter" almost equal to our Ella. He is Uncle Lee Battle,
who recently celebrated his seventy-third birthday.
He came there as the dining chef, but recently was
transferred to work on campus grounds, where he is
in closer contact with the students. Last year's edi-
tion of the Caudron, the Mercer yearbook, was de-
dicated to him in appreciation of his long years of
work.
TO THE EDITOR
Dear Editor:
I see from the last copy of the Agonistic that you
didn't have enough to fill the pages with news about
the campus.
I should like to say that you and the reporters
aren't paying any attention as to what is going on.
There was an all-Southern Speech Convention in At-
lanta last week-end and about a dozen Agnes Scott
girls went in (some each day) as pages. It was a big
thing and those who went in not only had a pleasant
time, but they learned a lot, too.
Then there was a Poetry Tea on Thursday after-
noon at which time Jeanne Flynt and Susan Good-
win represented Agnes Scott in the reading of
poetry, but with one other girl from Georgia, they
represented the State of Georgia at this function.
There was a luncheon on Friday at which Myrl
Chafin represented the State of Georgia as well as
Agnes Scott College in reading a selection from
"Gone With the Wind." This was no small occa-
sion.
And there was a program of Choral reading in
connection with the Convention on Thursday eve-
ning at the North Fulton High School. Seventeen
Agnes Scott girls with Miss Latimer gave two of the
choruses from "The Trojan Women," by Euripides.
The same ones who gave them in chapel last week.
Those who were in this program think it was an im-
portant event for the campus.
Besides all this Miss Gooch was on the Convention
Program. She gave a paper or made a speech about
English Festivals in contrast to American Festivals.
As she went to all the Festivals in England last
Summer she ought to know a lot about them.
It seems to many of us that the Agonistic staff
should keep their eyes open and know what is really
happening about the campus. Then you wouldn't
have to embarrass us about articles about pig-sties
and garbage and such things.
Yours sincerely,
One-of-the-Pages.
(Editor's Note: We suggest that the indignant
Page keep her own eyes open. The Agonistic gave 9
inches on the front page of the edition for March 30
to a detailed account of this convention.)
DR. JORGE ROA
LECTURES AT
AGNES SCOTT, EMORY
Dr. Jorge Roa, Professor of Social Science at the
University of Havana, and his traveling companion,
Dr. Juan B. Kouri, Surgeon of the University of
Havana Medical School, were guests on the Agnes
Scott and Emory campuses from Thursday, April 14,
until the following Sunday.
Dr. Roa spoke in chapel on Friday night on
"Europe, the South, and Latin America." In his
speech he pointed out that in the early days Euro-
pean countries sent their civilization and culture to
the Latin American countries first, and that those
countries have absorbed and changed them to meet
their needs. In view of the background which these
countries have had. Dr. Roa said that instead of
looking toward Europe so much, the Lmited States
should turn its attention toward the twenty-one
Latin American countries, with special emphasis on
the furthering of cordial international relations along
political, professional, business, and cultural lines.
With the continued threat of a widespread conflagration
in Europe and the Far East and with the consequent danger
of the United States' being entangled in such a conflict, we
students of America this week reiterate our firm assertions
against war.
That we are adamant in this movement for peace is evi-
denced by the united action being taken today by student
groups throughout the country. These actions are not to be
considered a sign of youth's traditional radicalism and eager-
ness. They are a sign of our serious determination to strug-
gle with a most insidious foe and to have our struggle de-
fiantly upheld by the peoples of the world.
For this reason campus programs today will not be the
wild flag-waving, sensational war-booing affairs of former
years. They will be the sober but purposeful campaigns to
guide thinking America toward concentrated action for
peace.
In the discussions throughout this Day of Peace the fact
will be outstanding that students want and are working for
peace. Our policy today is slightly changed from that of
previous years. No longer are we devoutly upholding the
Oxford Oath with its repudiation of war under any condi-
tions. The isolation that this policy requires is an impossible
course to follow in this world of close association with other
nations through trade and commerce.
Today we believe in defending our country; but only for
this reason would we engage in war. We disapprove of col-
lective security and the use of economic or military sanctions
which but increase warfare without the assurance of future
peace. Therefore we advocate the strict observance of neu-
trality in all foreign policies of this country. It is only by
such a principle protected by an adequate defense program
that peace will be secured for this country.
Increased participation of students in peace drives are a
definite contribution toward our ultimate goal. We have only
begun our struggle. The outcome whether victory or de-
feat depends on how concentrated our action is. We must
think and work together for peace now.
Paper Hanging
In this, the first issue of the Agonistic by the staff of
1938-39, we desire to voice our acceptance of the responsi-
bility that has been placed upon us by the College.
It shall be our aim to record accurately the activities of
the different groups on the campus, to arouse intelligent at-
tention to campus issues and problems, and to direct such
attention by open and just comment. We thus shall endeavor
to create an admirable loyalty to this College and to all that
it means to each of us.
We shall not be blind to what is discreditable and acknowl-
edge only the laudable at Agnes Scott. But, believing that
true loyalty comes only from the frank recognition of what
is good and what is not good, we shall face the wrong and
strive to correct it. It is only by thus attempting to remedy
a situation that progress can be brought about. Those coun-
tries that silence any movement to reform or change, that
kill freedom and initiative, are the unprogressive nations of
the world. A cultured civilization demands liberty.
For this reason, therefore, we shall reserve for the Ago-
nistic the right of approbation and of condemnation of phases
of student life on this campus. We shall then be following
the channel of truest service to the school, to its alumnae,
and to its present and future students.
We are not thus delegating to this paper the power to
delve into every difficulty, to solve every question. We shall
not forget the limitations imposed upon us by our lack of
knowledge on certain issues. But in order that this organ
may not become a lifeless part of this school, that it will be
vitally connected with alert student thinking, we ask for
freedom, not to destroy, but to improve. Indeed, stifling
freedom of speech is hanging the press and destroying it for-
ever.
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Current History
Chamberlain's Web
Of Alliances
Sets European Pace
The enthusiastic popular reception of the Easter
agreement between Italy and England is welcome
demonstration of the desire in Europe at least
among the people for good will, and the delight
shown equally and effusively by Ciano and Perth at
the Chigi Palace in Rome on April 16 seems to indi-
cate the sincere mutual wish of the British and Ital-
ian governments for preservation of European peace.
So far, Chamberlain's policy of separate parallel
agreements in which only two governments take
part (instead of the former practice of group al-
liances arrayed against each other) has received the
backing of public approval, but its actual success
must hang in the balance until events can determine
the outcome.
Germany insists that the stability of the Rorne-
Berlin axis has not been disturbed at all by the new
Anglo-Italian agreement, claiming that the Italian
reception of the annexation of Austria was sufficient
proof of its strength. Popular opinion in Germany
is ready to accept an Anglo-German pact on condi-
tion of fair play, and trusts Hitler for the interpre-
tation of what's fair and square.
The French and Italian governments, in pursuance
of the Chamberlain policy, are now making prepara-
tions for a pact to settle questions that relate specifi-
cally and solely to their respective nations. Premier
Daladier and the Conservatives are definitely turn-
ing France away from its Communistically-based
leaning toward cooperation with Russia and Czecho-
slovakia and are turning toward anti-Communistic
Italian concord, leaving Russia alone and resentful.
With plans at work toward a web of individual
alliances between the four European powers, Cham-
berlain hopes for a lasting settlement of international
problems. If there were diplomatic accords between
Germany and Italy, England and Italy, France and
Italy, Germany and England, and France and Eng-
land, so long as mutual satisfaction remained pretty
well balanced, an untangling process in preparation
for war would be difficult. And Europe is optimis-
tically hoping that such satisfaction may be found.
While this attitude prevails in Europe, England,
through Chamberlain, dominates the continent, un-
pleasant though such a fact may be to the European
dictators.
Whatever else may have been effected by the
Anglo-Italian pact, it is certain that friction has
been removed from some potential danger spots in
Arabia, Africa, and the Mediterranean. England's
promise to do its best to secure recognition of the
Italian Empire (Ethiopia) in the approaching meet-
ing of the League Council may succeed in destroying
another barrier of international ill-feeling by bring-
ing about League-wide resignation to an accom-
plished fact.
The "joker" played by the Italian government and
undisputed by Chamberlain leaves Spain to Musso-
lini's mercies until the "end of the war"; for the
Non-intervention Committee is sure to do nothing
before Mussolini has had ample time to complete the
struggle. The situation is placidly accepted by
France, which now has nothing to lose by Franco's
victory and perhaps something to gain. Russia can
do nothing to prevent it and Germany still has her
finger in the pie. Both Germany and Italy affirm
that they want no territorial gains in Spain. They
wish merely to prevent a Communistic government;
and Germany wants more favorable trade relations.
The Anglo-Italian pact is revolutionary in its dip-
lomatic method, and the new style it has set may be
a major factor in making future history. To its
European supporters it is an inspiring promise of
something better in international relations; to its op-
ponents it is another step into the whirlpool; to the
world in general it offers something new to think
about and upon which to base new hopes.
"Impressions of Emory," a collection of 32 photo-
graphs by Ted Leigh, an 7mory Medical student, are
on display in the library.. The pictures have been
here for almost a week, after being on display in the
Emory University library.
Leigh's series of pictures on animated advertise-
ments were published in Life magazine last summer.
Many of his artistic photographs have been published
in Atlanta papers and in the Emory Alumnus,
Graduation exercises each June represent an annual
turnover of approximately $20,000,000 in direct ex-
penses.
The University of Wisconsin summer session cur-
riculum will include 1,000 courses of study.
Attend
May Day
VOL. XXIII
The Agonistic
AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1938
See
Charmin'
Z115 No. 20
Coit Will Install
New Exec Members
Old and New Presidents
Will Give Messages
The Student Government Installation service will be held
Saturday, May 7th, in Gaines Chapel. The service will follow
the traditional ceremony of the old and new members of the
Executive Committee making up the procession. The old
members will wear robes and the new members white
dresses.
Laura Coit, the outgoing presi-
dent, will give a short message and
present Mary Ellen Whetsell, the
new President, with the gavel, the
symbol of authority, thus installing
her as President. Mary Ellen offers
the oath to her committee, after
which she gives a short message.
The following Monday night the
new committee meets and takes
over its new duties.
The outgoing committee is
composed of: Laura Coit, Presi-
dent; Ann Worthy Johnson, Vice-
President; Jean Bailey, Secretary;
Mary Ellen Whetsell, Treasurer;
Zoe Wells, Day Student Represen-
tative; and Mary Lillian Fairley,
Tommy Ruth Blackmon, Nell
Hemphill, Eliza King, Emma Mc-
Mullen, Hat Stimson, Kitty Cald-
well, Henrietta Thompson, Ruth
Slack, Frances Breg, and Jean
Slack.
The new committee is made up
of: Mary Ellen Whetsell, Presi-
dent; Emma McMullen, Vice-
President; Henrietta Thompson,
secretary; Carolyn Forman, Treas-
urer; Helen Kirkpatrick, Day Stu-
dent Representative; and Jean
Bailey, Mary Hollingsworth,
Flossie Wade, Kitty Caldwell, Hat
Stimson, Polly Heaslett, Nancy
Gribble, Frances Breg, and Jean
Dennison.
Agonistic
Plans Prizes
For Staff
The Agonistic has recently an-
nounced a plan whereby its staff
members will be awarded. Accord-
ing to this plan, the girl on the
staff who does the best news re-
porting, the girl who does the best
work in her own department, and
the girl on the business staff who
does the best work in that field
will be awarded prizes of $5 each.
These awards will be announced at
the Agonistic luncheon next year.
The awards will be based on the
work done on the Agonistic begin-
ning with the first issue next year,
and will replace the Agonistic key
which is no longer in existence.
The judges of these awards will be
the editor, associate editor, two as-
sistant editors, business manager,
and advertising manager.
PAPER HOLDS
TRYOUTS
Tryouts for reporting
on The Agonistic will be
held Thursday, May 5,
through Monday, May 9.
Members of any class
may submit news stories
or features on campus
topics. Place all tryouts
in the news basket in the
new Agonistic room in
the Murphey Candler
Building by 6 P. M. Mon-
day.
Editors
Pick Staffs
Guthrie, Benson, Sewell
Select Outstanding Girls
Following general elections on
March 31 and April 1, the three
college publications announced
their staffs for 193 8-39 this week.
Mary Frances Guthrie as Editor-in-
Chief, assisted by Marie Merrit as
Associate Editor, and Mary Reins
and Evelyn Baty as Assistant Ed-
itor will head the Agonistic.
The editorial staff is composed
of Elizabeth Kenny, Copy Editor;
Mary Louise Dobbs, Assistant
Copy Editor; Alice Cheeseman and
Mary Wells McNeil, Feature Ed-
itors; Anne Enloe and Georgia
Hunt, Assistant Feature Editors;
Eleanor Hutchens, Sports Editor;
Jane Salters, Current History;
Jeannette Carroll, Alumnae Ed-
itor; Selma Steinbach, Club Ed-
itor; Hazel Soloman, Exchange
Editor; Mary Lang Gill, Head Re-
porter.
The business staff, with Esthere
Ogden as Business Manager and
Hazel Rirsch as Advertising Man-
ager, is composed of Nell Echols,
Jean Flynt, Frances Abbot, Helen
Lichten, Molly Oliver, Margaret
Wells.
The Silhouette has been instrust-
ed to an excellent staff under the
leadership of Editor Adelaide Ben-
son. Other officers of the annual
are: Feature Editor, Aileen Short-
ly; Kodak Editor, Emma Jean
Mitchell; Assistant Kodak Editor,
Caroline Gray; Faculty Editor,
Hadyn Sanford; Sports Editor,
Frances Abbott; Club Editor,
Shirley Steele; Assistant Club Ed-
itor, Betty Moore; Organization
Manager, Marjorie Boggs; Photo-
(Continued on Page 2, Col. 2)
Mortar Board
Sponsors
Music Week
Chapel Programs
Include Solos,
Chorus Numbers
Music Week is being observed at
Agnes Scott by music programs.
Beginning on Tuesday morning,
May 3, and extending through
Friday morning, May 6, under the
sponsorship of Mortar Board, the
chapel programs will consist in en-
tertainment by the Special Chorus,
the College Choir, the String En-
semble and several solo performers.
Ruth Tate, president of the Glee
Club, is in charge of this program.
On Tuesday morning, the pro-
gram was in charge of the Special
Chorus and included such light op-
eratic numbers as "Winds of the
Sea," "None But the Lonely
Heart," and "Italian Street Song."
The program on Wednesday con-
sisted of some personal composi-
tions of Mr. Christian Dieckmann,
Professor of Music. Mr. Dieck-
mann himself played several num-
bers, and Tommy Ruth Blackmon
played, including "Allegro Scher-
zando," a number from her organ
recital of April 20. Mrs. Stukes
sang one of Mr. Dieckmann's com-
positions and Miss Virginia Wood,
a soprano and an alumna of Agnes
Scott, was also on the program.
Thursday morning a group of
sacred selections will be sung by
the College Choir. The String En-
semble will play on Friday morn-
ing, when there will also be sev-
eral solo pieces at the piano and
organ.
Three Clubs
Sponsor Speaker
Dr. Fred W. Ingvalstad
Will Lecture Tonight
Under the auspices of the. Inter-
national Relations Clubs of Agnes
Scott, Tech, and Emory, Dr. Fred
W. Ingvalstad, from the United
States Department of Education,
will speak tonight in the chapel on
the subject of the breaking up of
the British Empire. Dr. Ingvals-
tad, who spoke at Agnes Scott on
Peace Day, conducts forums
throughout the country, and in
the summer visits various foreign
countries. The time of his address
will be announced on the bulletin
board.
Play Leads in "Charmiri'
Above are Jane Guthrie and Anne Wheaton who, as Don Whoosis
and Charmin', will head the cast of the opera to be presented May 7 by
the Seniorpolitan Opera Company.
Agonistic Will Honor
Retiring Staff Members
Merritt Is Planning Luncheon
For May 14 At Hotel
The Agonistic will be hostess to the senior members of the
old staff at a luncheon at the Candler Hotel on Saturday,
May 14. Marie Merritt, who is planning the luncheon, aided
by Alice Cheeseman and Mary Reins as a committee in charge
of table and
seating arrangements,
promises an amusing program, al-
though she is unwilling to disclose
its features.
Honorees will be: Hortense
Jones, Jane Guthrie, Mary Mc-
Cann Hudson, Elizabeth Skinner,
Elizabeth Blackshear, Giddy Er-
win, Mary Anne Kernan, Eliza-
beth Warden, Frances Castleberry,
and Alice Reins. The banquet will
celebrate this year both the work
of the retiring staff and the instal-
lation of the publication in its new
quarters in the Murphey Candler
Building.
Charmin' With Don Whoosis, Amaryllis
Brings Romance and Rhythm
Saturday night is the night for which the true lovers of
music have been waiting for lo these many months. 'Tis the
night when golden notes shall fill dear old Butcher Scott
Gymnasium and literally knock the dust off the seats in the
balcony. Ah ! 'Tis the night when Seniorpolitan Opera Com-
pany gives to a jazz mad world the inspiring arias of
"Charmin'."
The superb cast in the very pink
of condition and accompanists
Louise Young and Primy Noble de-
clare word of honor that each
member can and will change keys
six times per song. Their ability
along this line is nothing short of
phenomenal.
Nonetheless soul stirring are the
husky voice and flashing eyes of
Charmin', who lures romantic Don
Whoosis away from the girl he
left behind. However, their ro-
mance does not run as smoothly as
one would hope, for that debonair
demon Amaryllis appears upon the
scene and immediately the eternal
triangle dominates the situation.
Miss Goudylock Saffold Erwin,
who so dashingly portrays the part
of Amaryllis, spent the week-end
within the seclusion of the infirm-
ary where she tenderly nursed a
cold in hopes that it will give her
voice an appealing huskiness.
Meanwhile, her room mate, Jean
"Pavlova" Austin, has been spend-
ing weary hours seeking to perfect
still further that complicated
dance routine of which only she
and the other dancers in the opera
are the masters. Unfortunately Mr.
Johnson's studio is beneath the
young dancer's boudoir, and the
other day after casting many ap-
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Eta Sigma Phi Has
Delegates At
National Convention
The annual convention of Eta
Sigma Phi, the national Greek and
Latin fraternity, met in Columbus,
Ohio, April 21-24. The delegates
from Agnes Scott were Miss Tor-
rance and Miss Stansfield, repre-
senting the faculty, and Marie
Merritt, Zoe Wells, and Evelyn
Baty, the student delegates.
The forty-four visiting delegates
who represnted seventeen chapters
from various parts of the country
were greeted on April 21 by the
chapter of Ohio State University.
Among the outstanding fea-
tures of the program planned for
the convention was a talk on
"Appius Claudius" and a very in-
teresting play presented in Latin,
"Muscipula." Agnes Scott is
fortunate in having one of its dele-
gates, Marie Merritt, who has been
serving as national secretary for
the past year, elected first vice-
president for the coming term.
Dexter and Omwake
Presented Papers
At Conference
Miss Emily Dexter and Miss
Catherine Omwake attended the
Southern Society for Philosophy
and Psychology Conference at
Knoxville, April 15 th and 16th.
Miss Dexter, who has just fin-
ished serving a one year term for
another person, was made a mem-
ber of the Council for three years.
Miss Dexter and Miss Omwake
gave papers at the society, the
former giving "Personality Traits
of Conservatives and Radicals,"
and the latter, "The Ability to
Wake at Specified Times."
There were only three women
speakers at the meeting.
Jackson Takes
Prominent Part in
Biennial Conference
Dr. Elizabeth Fuller Jackson, of
Agnes Scott, took a prominent
part in the seventh biennial con-
ference of the South Atlantic Sec-
tion of the American Association
of University Women, of which
she is director. The conference was
held April 22 and 23 at Hunting-
ton, West Virginia, and had as its
theme "Responsibility for Educa-
tion Education for Responsibil-
ity."
On April 22, Dr. Jackson pre-
sided over a round table discussion
of international relations and the
arts, and at dinner she spoke on
"The Un iversity Woman's Respon-
sibility to Women." On April 23,
she presided at the luncheon.
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THE AGONISTIC
SPORTS
Lo, the poor sports writer! Fre-
quenting the gym in hopes of
gleaning a little athletic news, she
is tossed out on her ear, charged
with unethically attempting to
play Winchell and spy on Senior
Opera. Actually, she never even
got close enough to detect the
Taint of the Original. Neverthe-
less, she generously admits that
she has never been thrown out of
a better one.
Trucking rears its ugly head in
the golf tournament. About a
dozen contestants were delivered to
Main in record time last Thursday,
having prevailed upon the country
club gardener to haul them over.
May Day practice in the gym
... J. Guthrie prances in at the
head of what is professionally
termed The Bottom Group ... all
barefoot . . . Nell Hemphill, as a
whatchacallit in flowing flit cos-
tume, tries to console the weeping
Bottom . . . Bottom is determined
to be inconsolable . . . "Go get
him, Marjorie!" sicks Miss Dozier,
addressing a youthful sprite . . .
Little Allison and Ann Thompson
have a set-to ... so many bare feet
and nary a splinter . . . much snic-
kering and feeling silly . . . look at
the sissies with socks on . . .
Thompson and Hemphill dash out
to center and forget where to go
. . . Such is May Day on the twen-
ty-ninth of April.
Whetsell,McMullen
Give Report
Of Convention
Mary Ellen Whetsell and Emma
McMullen, president and vice-pres-
ident, respectively, of Student
Government for 193 8-39, gave re-
ports in Chapel of the Southern
Federation of College Students and
Press Convention, which was held
at Vanderbilt University.
Thursday, April 28 th, Mary El-
len reported on the social side of
the convention and Emma, the
business side. This convention was
the Southern and Southeastern re-
gional division of N. S. F. A.
Mary Ellen was elected president
of the Women's division of this
Southern Student Federation,
which will hold its convention at
The Citadel, in Charleston, next
year.
At the first formal meeting the
delegates were welcomed by the
Mayor of Nashville, the deans at
Vanderbilt, president of Student
Government at Vanderbilt, Carl
Heinkle, football star, and Bill Ay-
cock, president of the convention.
They enjoyed several banquets,
luncheons, a dance and sightseeing
tours.
The men and women met separ-
ately for the discussion groups.
The topics discussed were "Admin-
istration of Student Government,"
led by Mary Ellen Whetsell, of
Agnes Scott; "Technique of Presi-
dency, " by Landis Shaw, of Van-
derbilt; "N. S. F. A. and the
Campus/' by Mary Dyer Teague,
of Mississippi; and "Revitaliza-
tion of Student Government," by
Elizabeth Robertson, of Texas
State College for Women.
The convention resolved to in-
vite S. L A. S. G. to meet with
them in Charleston next year, and
to send minutes of the meetings
to every women's Student Govern-
ment Association in the South.
The new officers elected were:
President, Kenneth Crosby; Secre-
tary, Elizabeth Robertson; Treas-
urer, Jim Joyner. Bill Aycock, of
Chapel Hill, N. C, was elected
President of the Southern Region
of N. S. F. A.
Archery Team Will
Go To Tourney
The team which will represent
Agnes Scott in the ninth annual
Women's Intercollegiate Tele-
graphic Archery Tournament will
be chosen sometime this week, Miss
Mitchell has announced. The
tournament will be held during
the week of May 12-19; a Colum-
bia round will be shot, and the re-
sults telegraphed to tournament
headquarters.
Last year, Agnes Scott ranked
fourth in 101 teams entered from
colleges throughout the country.
Los Angeles Junior College, whose
team shoots the year round, won
with a score of 492, the highest
score ever officially recorded in
the tournaments. Lou Pate, of Ag-
nes Scott, shot in Class A, which is
a score of over 42 5.
B. S.U. Council
Installs
New Members
Following an inspirational talk
by Mr. Solon Couch, Atlanta
B. S. U. director, the new members
of the Agnes Scott B. S. U. coun-
cil, with Cary Wheeler as presi-
dent, were installed at the regular
Monday night vesper services.
The other members of the coun-
cil are: Ruth Crisp, first vice-pres-
ident (membership chairman) ;
Mary Reins, second vice-president
(devotional chairman) ; Jeanne
Flynt, third vice-president (social
chairman) ; Louise Hughston, re-
cording secretary; Mary McPhaul,
corresponding secretary; Eloise
Lennard, treasurer; Marie Merritt,
publicity chairman; Freida Cope-
land, representative for Baptist
Student Magazine; Ann Fisher,
president of Atlanta Sunday School
Class; Mary Virginia Brown,
B. T. U. representative; Mary
Allen, president of Decatur Sun-
day School Class; Eugenia Bridges,
music chairman; Dr. Henry A.
Robinson, faculty advisor.
Chi Beta Phi Sigma
Sponsors
Dr. Caldwell, Educator
On Tuesday evening, May 17,
at 7 o'clock in Gaines Chapel, Dr.
Otis Caldwell, a former professor
of botany at the University of
Chicago, and a well-known educa-
tor, will speak to the college com-
munity on "The Place of Science
in the Field of Education."
Publication Staffs
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grapher, Flora MacGuire; Class
Editor, Mary Wisdom; Art Editor,
Beatrice Shamas; Business Manager,
Ann Watkins; Advertising Man-
ager, Nell Pinner; Business As-
sistants, Carolyn Alley, Mary Bell
Weir, Catherine Ivie, Lutie Moore,
Mary Elizabeth Moss, Val Neilson,
Helen Klugh, Helen Lichten, Mary
Frances Sproles, Mary Scott Wild.
The Aurora staff, headed by
Julia Sewell, will be composed of
Associate Editor Henrietta Black-
well; Assistant Editors Mary
Winston Crockett and Louise
Hughston; Editor for Freshmen
Betty Ball Embry; Reviewers
Betty Jane Stevenson and Doris
Weinkle.
Taylor Becomes Agnes Scott' s
Number One Tennis Player
Fisher Is Defeated In Finals
Of Spring Tournament
Mary Nell Taylor became Agnes Scott's Number One tennis
player last Friday afternoon as she won over Ann Fisher in
the finals of the spring tournament, 6-0, 6-2. Dr. Davidson
acted as referee as the red-haired sophomore, showing beau-
tiful form and control, systematically defeated her freshman
opponent in a match lasting only an hour.
Taylor, serving, gained
the first
point as Fisher chopped the ball
into the net. The first two games
went to Taylor, and Fisher did not
score until the third, when she be-
gan to pick up speed and give her
opponent a harder game. High
point of the set was a series of
well-placed yolleys by Taylor from
the center of the court during the
fourth game. She won the set,
6-0, in spite of Fisher's fast drives
to the rear of the court. In the sec-
ond set Taylor captured the first
game with a, miraculous shot from
the net after recovering one of
Fisher's unexpected cuts. Fisher
then won her first game of the
match in a series of long, low
drives. Taylor took the next three
The sixth, a game of pro-
rallies and hard-fought
fell to Fisher. Taylor won
two games for a 6-2 set.
The new champion started play-
ing tennis four years ago as a soph-
omore in high school. She had play-
ed only one singles tournament be-
fore this year. Miss Mitchell has
been her only instructor. She is
the first player on record to win
the championship as a sophornore.
games,
longed
points,
the last
Clubs Elect
New Officers
With the year fast drawing to a
close, all the clubs on the campus
have selected their new leaders for
the coming year. The following
clubs elected their officers at spe-
cial meetings for that purpose.
B. O. Z. will be led next year by
Henrietta Blackwell, president, and
Sophie Montgomery, secretary and
treasurer.
Virginia Kyle has been elected
president of the Glee Club. Other
officers of this organization are
Jeanette Carroll, vice-president;
Betty Kyle, secretary and treas-
urer; Toni Newton, publicity
manager; and Sara McCain, librar-
ian.
The officers of Current History
Forum will be Elinor Tyler, presi-
dent; Elizabeth Furlow, vice-presi-
dent; and Jane Salters, secretary
and treasurer.
Spanish Club will have as its of-
ficers Sarah Thurman, president;
Nell Pinner, vice-president; Mary
Virginia Brown, secretary; Mar-
guerite Ingley, treasurer; Lillie
Belle Drake, social chairman; and
Toni Newton, music chairman.
French Club recently initiated
six new members as a result of its
recent try-outs. Those girls admit-
ted were: Betty Jean O'Brien,
Anne Ansley, Claire Wilson,
Frances Breg, Grace Moffat, and
Elizabeth Davis. At its last meet-
ing the following officers for next
year were elected: Jeanne Flynt,
President; Betty Alderman, Vice-
President; Ruth Kaplan, Secretary;
and Grace Moffat, Treasurer.
The Tatling
Spectator
Time marches on (an hour ahead
of itself ) ! that's agreeable to most
everybody, but there are two peo-
ple on the campus who just can't
get accustomed to these "fast
times" Miss Erwin and Miss
Guthrie. After an "acey" game of
bridge in Main Saturday night,
these two young "trumps" "spad-
ed" their way home at midnight
anticipating a "hearty" welcome
upon their return to Rebecca (and
to bed). But no! They found the
doors to Rebecca "clubbed" up for
the night. So these two "deuces"
(pardon, all for sake of pun) after
waiting in vain for Mr. Jones to
come "bye" findly made a "grand
slam" on the front door this was
Father Time's biggest trick of the
evening.
Conditions have come to such
that "Mitch" has resorted to in-
carceration of her culprits or at
least that is what Polly Heaslett
thought when she found herself
locked up in the equipment room
in the gym. After futile efforts
for a get-a-way, she remained in
such a condition until "Little Miss
Abbott" (partner in crime) peti-
tioned the gymnastic department
for release of one Miss Polly who,
after an indefinite solitary con-
finement, was in a very hazy con-
dition.
N. B. Can someone give Miss
Penn Hammond any information
as to the requirement for try-outs
to Granddaughter's Club?
The last meeting of Poetry club
was held at the apartment of Miss
Norine Sears at 1050 Ponce de
Leon Avenue. Dinner preceded
the meeting. At the meeting the
following officers for next year
were elected: president, V. J. Wat-
kins; and secretary and Treasurer,
Mary Winston Crockett. Cora
Kay Hutchins, Mary Winston
Crockett, and Jane Salters read
their own poetry.
At its regular monthly meeting,
K. U. B. selected as its officers for
the coming year: Evelyn Baty,
President; Rebecca Drucker, First
Vice-President; Eleanor Hutchens,
Second Vice-President; and Louise
Hughston, Secretary and Treas-
urer. Following the election of of-
ficers Tine Gray talked on Sunday
magazine sections, and Elsie West
read Jack London's "Getting Into
[Print" to the club. s
May Day
Production
Progresses
Kirkpa trick Announces 125
Dancers Besides Cast In
Midsummer Night's Dream
Helen Kirkpatrick, of the pub-
licity department for May Day, re-
ports that May Day promises to be
a great success under the able lead-
ership of Anne Thompson. With
"Midsummer Night's Dream" as
its theme, it is to be presented May
6, at 7:3 0 P. M., Jane Dryfoos and
Elsie West being in charge of the
lighting effects.
The dances, which include 125
girls, besides the main cast, are un-
der the direction of Miss Harriette
Haynes, Assistant Professor of
Physical Education, and Miss Eu-
genie Louise Dozier, Instructor in
Physical Education, with Helen
Moses acting as chairman of the
dancing committee.
The program, is divided into
three acts. The scene of Act I is
laid in the palace of Theseus, where
Jane Moses, as Philostrate, Nell
Scott Earthman, as Theseus, Myrl
Chafin, the May Queen, as Hip-
polyta, Mary Anne Kernan, as
Egeus, Shirley Armentrout, as
Demetrius, Eleanor Deas, as Ly-
sander, Ruth Tate, as Hermia, and
Helen Moses, as Helena, appear.
Act II takes place in a wood near
Athens, where we see Nell Allison,
as Puck, Helen Kirkpatrick, as the
Solo Fairy, Anne Thompson, as
Oberon, Nell Hamphiil, as Titania,
Shirley Armentrout, as Demetrius,
and Jane Guthrie, as Bottom. In
the final act, at the palace of
Theseus, appear Jane Moses, as
Philostrate, Mary Anne Kernan, as
Egeus, Nell Scott Earthman, as
Theseus, Myrl Chafin, as Hippoly-
ta, and the Torchbearers, Heralds,
Lords, Ladies, Mortals, and Fairies.
The members of the court also are
in the first and third acts.
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School Tries
New Exams
On Seniors
Under the direction of President
J. R. McCain and Dr. Samuel
Guerry Stukes, experimental com-
prehensive examinations are to be
given this year to Mortar Board
members of the senior class. Each
of the girls will take a two hour
written exam covering her major
subject, and a two hour oral on
general information. Mortar Board
members have been given two
days' extra cuts and are excused
from regular senior exams in con-
sequence of the work involved in
preparing for the comprehensives,
which, however, will not influence
their grades or final standing in
any way. Arrangements for these
examinations, which will be held
during senior exam week, have
been in the hands of a committee
composed of Dr. Philip Davidson,
chai rman; Mr. Robert B. Holt,
and Miss Mary Stuart MacDougall.
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
THE AGONISTIC
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The sweet young things on the campus certainly sponsored
a back to nature movement this past week-end. Dancing defi-
nitely took second place and hayrides ruled supreme.
Among the ones who are still
plucking the hay out of their hair
are those who went on the A. T.
O. hay ride on Saturday night:
Miriam Sanders, Carolyn Forman,
Mary Bond Utterback, Snooks
Moss, Mary Nell Tribble, Ernestine
Cass, Polly Ware, Sabie Sloan,
Susan and Marion Phillips, and
Hunter Malard. At the Sigma Chi
hay frolic were: Susan Goodwin,
Kay Toole, Carolyn Alley, Sophie
Montgomery, Catherine Ivie, Mary
Venetia Smith, Eloise Lennard,
Jane Moore Hamilton, Mary Caro-
lyn Lee, Toni Newton, Frances
Abbott, Bee and Lois Sexton, Jane
Jones, and Marion Franklin.
Another bevy of out-door girls
were those at the S. A. E. party at
Jere Wells' country home: Martha
Marshall, Mamie Lee Ratliff, Vir-
ginia Neilson, Dusty Nance, Helen
Jester, Frances Butt, Elizabeth
Barrett, Florence Ellis, Betty Jean
Wallin. And seen on the Phi Delta
Theta affair were Lucille Scott and
Emily Underwood.
Dancing wasn't left entirely out
of this week-end, for the Theta
Kappa Psi tea dance had a number
of Agnes Scott girls there: Caro-
line Carmichael, Cary Wheeler,
Elizabeth Shepherd, Grace Taze-
well, Bee Merrill, Eloise Lennard,
Annette Franklin, and Ruth
Slack. And dancing at the Stan-
nard Club Saturday night were
Jane Dryfoos and Helen Moses.
In further looking around this
past week one might think that
the Dean's Office had declared
Parent's Week. Catherine Rhodes'
mother arrived on Thursday, as did
Frances Abbott's mother. Mrs.
Golden came up from Columbus to
see Charlotte on Wednesday, and
Mr. and Mrs. Embry drove all the
way from Evanston, Illinois, to see
Betty Ball. Anne Thompson and
Marjorie Boggs were thrilled over
visits from their fathers this week.
Agnes Scott
Alumna Writes
Biography
Miss Louise Ware, a former Ag-
nes Scott girl, has recently pub-
lished the biography, The Life of
Jacob RHs. Miss Ware graduated
in 1917; she was an outstanding
student during her undergraduate
days, being a member of HOASC,
the college society for campus
leaders which preceded Mortar
Board on the college campus. After
being graduated she was connected
with the Family Welfare Society
in Atlanta. She later received her
M.A. degree at Columbia and will
soon receive her Ph.D. She has done
social work in Brooklyn, and at
present she teaches sociology and
economic history at Adelphi Col-
lege on Long Island.
The Life of Jacob RHs is Miss
Ware's first book and has been
highly acclaimed by the critics. It
deals with the life of a young Dane
who comes to America penniless,
is unable to find work, and suf-
fers severe want. He finally be-
comes a police reporter and later
reformer, lecturer, and writer of
books. He fought slums in his role
of reformer and successfully advo-
cated public parks and better hous-
ing conditions. Theodore Roose-
velt called Riis "New York's most
useful citizen."
Senior Opera
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pealing glances heavenward, he was
forced to dismiss the sight singing
class three minutes early; he could
not compete with the tapping rhy-
thm of dancing feet. For truth it
has been rumored that Grace Dug-
gan is wondering if for the price of
a small jura Jean could be per-
suaded to practice from one-thirty
to two-thirty on Mondays,
Wednesdays' and Fridays.
That same desire for perfection
which Miss Austin so diligently
displayed has been shown by all the
cast, including little Ferdinand,
who, we have no doubt, has spent
long hours in the Alumnae Garden
smelling the roses just to get into
the spirit of the thing. His mother
suggests that little Ferdinand's
life history be read in order that
his part in the opera may be better
understood.
With such a cast, such romance,
such bull fights, and such heart-
rending death scenes the success of
Cbarmin' is assured.
Chi Beta Phi Sigma
Elects Hutchins
For New President
At a recent meeting of Chi Beta
Phi Sigma, the following officers
were elected to serve for the com-
ing year: president, Cora Kay
Hutchins; vice-president, Jeanne
Codding; treasurer, Elizabeth Ken-
ney; recording secretary, Dorothy
Graham; and corresponding secre-
tary, Emily Harris. After the elec-
tion of officers, plans were made
for a picnic which will be held on
May 5 at Stone Mountain, to
which all club members and fac-
ulty of the science department are
invited.
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Hottentots
Abroad
Since the juniors recently won
the Agonistic cup for the best
publication, they should be inter-
ested in knowing that Lulu Ames,
'36, one of the judges, is doing
very successful work as editor of
the Farmer's Banner, official organ
of the Texas Agricultural Associa-
tion. Until June, Lulu will per-
haps commute between Bryan,
where she lives, and Waco, where
the Banner is printed. Then she
will move to Waco. Before begin-
ning this work, Lulu toured the
Rio Grande Valley with her boss
and "discovered grapefruit and
commercial lemons put forth as
pretty and as good smelling blos-
soms as do oranges; all three varie-
ties combine to make the air heavy
with their fragrance in the Tip of
Texas."
Another illustrious journalist is
Alice Chamlee, '36, who is spend-
ing two nights and lots of daytime
out of each week editing the so-
ciety page of the Cherokee Ad-
vance. Alice has a license for life
insurance now and is doing busi-
ness on a big scale.
While Alice and Lulu seem
happy enough, Virginia, Evelyn
and Augusta prefer singing their
cares away to pounding them out
on a typewriter.
Virginia Wood, '3 5, is doing solo
work at the First Presbyterian
Church in Atlanta. She sang at a
Grieg program presented by the
Decatur Woman's Club, March 6,
and did some of the Peer Gynt
suite.
Evelyn Wall, '37, is studying
hard these days learning her part in
another opera which will be given
at Chatauqua, N. Y., this summer.
She has a new job as organist at the
First Baptist Church in Decatur.
Augusta King, '36, recently re-
signed as N. Y. A. administrator
in Columbus and left for New
York to study voice.
Dr. McCain Speaks
At Athens
Dr. J. R. McCain, president of
Agnes Scott College, delivered the
address for the University of Geor-
gia's eighth annual Honor's Day
program this morning at the Uni-
versity's chapel period. His subject
was "Testing."
This service is for the recogni-
tion of Phi Beta Kappa and Phi
Kappa Phi members, the upper five
and ten per cents of all classes, the
upper three per cent of the senior
class, and individual prize winners
and organized groups.
Mortar Board
Begins Work
At a meeting of Mortar Board,
held last week under the supervi-
sion of the old Mortar Board mem-
bers, Marie Merritt was elected
Vice-President; Mildred Coit, Sec-
retary; Mary Hollingsworth,
Treasurer; and Jean Bailey, His-
torian. Amelia Nickels had pre-
viously been appointed President
by the outgoing members.
At this meeting some of the
plans for next year were discussed,
including the National Convention
of Mortar Board, which is to be
held in June at Evergreen, Colo-
rado, near Denver, Colorado. This
convention is held every three
years, and is attended by the presi-
dents of Mortar Boards from col-
legs all over the country.
Taxis, Criminals, Sailboats
Enliven Trips
Three Conferences Attract
Hopeful Delegates
There has been a glorious myriad of conferences of late!
F'goodnoo soo ... we don't know which one to begin telling
you about!
Well . . . there was the Benson-
Guthrie - Ogden - Whetsell - Mc-
Mullen conference at Vandy. And
it will be a long time before we
forget how the porters "unpacked
the bags" . . . especially the Whet-
sell luggage . . . and how one of the
poor girls, Esthere, we believe, was
forced to pack all the other poor
girls' bags in a split hour to save
the hotel bill! We'll remember too,
that side-splitting picture of the
luggage-laden taxi literally stuffed
with the A. S. C. conference-corps
tearing through Nashville to a
meeting. It seems this was Miss
Guthrie's contribution to the
"practical" side of the "fun at the
conference." She misunderstood
something somewhere . . . and so
everybody had to stuff herself into
this one taxi and suffocate as rap-
idly as possible toward the conven-
tion's first convenement.*
But we heard most of this in
chapel last week.
And then there was another
conference, the Baty-Merritt-Wells
jaunt northward to the Latin con-
vention. Miss Torrence and Miss
Stanfield accompanied the girls,
and it's a good thing, too. For ex-
ample, the first night of driving
ended only after a search of six
hours for a respectable, acceptable
lodging place for the rest of the
night, it being then after 11:00
o'clock! This was in Kentucky
. . . bloody Breathitt County, to be
specific . . . and in THE cafe our
delegates "chose" they were con-
fronted with an amazing situation
. . . a man, precisely. Well now,
don't misunderstand. This man
was a horrible criminal. He had
just made his escape from some-
where or other . . . this being the
place well known for criminals and
such . . . and there he sat, right at
the very elbows of our girls, most
likely contemplating any number
of awful things to keep himself
busy. And of course, that was the
main reason the girls were fidget-
ing. How did they know he wasn't
apt any second to hoist a hambur-
ger and slam it down on top of
their heads! Non modo pablum
erat tristum, sed etiam restaurant
erat worsum! Furthermore, bad
homo puellas nostras frightenavit!
Meet Your Friends at
>
Cox's Prescription Shop
Between Paramount and Grand
Theatres, Atlanta
Shortley, Luthy, Nielson
Head Cotillion
Cotillion Club has elected the
following officers to serve for the
coming year: Aileen Shortley,
president; Jane Luthy, vice-presi-
dent; and Val Nielson, secretary
and treasurer.
Committees Discuss
Regulations,
Formulate Policies
The last quarterly meeting of
the Administration Committee will
be Wednesday afternoon, May 4th
The Administration committee
takes up any matters of policies
that relate to Student Government
and the Administration such as
the cut system and Social Regula-
tions. At this meeting the commit-
tee will draw up the findings of
the year; report on how everything
has worked this year, such as the
new lighting system and senior
chaperonage; and bring up new
policies.
The committee is composed of:
the president of the college, Dean,
registrar, physician, one faculty
member and the president, vice-
president, secretary and treasurer
of Student Government and a sen-
ior representative.
And so perhaps they are glad to be
alive in spite of spring fever.
Another conference well repre-
sented for us Hottentots was the
Chalmers-Hamilton A. A. affair in
Tallie-hassie. The girls had to
chuckle when they said, "It's the
worst place to get to and to get
out of!" After the snail dash to-
ward this land of moss and palms
in a crowded bus in which they
held somebody's baby part of the
time, and the rest of the time
fought the accusation that they
were school teachers, Jean and Jane
Moore received gracious accommo-
dation out of the school's camp
nearby. (Such a camp as is the
envy of us Hottentots!) They
swam in the beautiful lake and rode
in the sail boat. They made about
six excrutiating trips to and fro be-
tween meetings . . . excrutiating
because of the unbecoming coop-
eration of a road "full of pot-
holes. They generously sympa-
thized with the poor girls from
Duke, and especially those from
Kentucky, who were so sunburned
they had to go to bed! And
speaking of heat, they fumed
around a little in the discussion in
which the subject of inter-colleg-
iate sports was boiling. Jane Moore
says this was not just another con-
ference. It was full of good ideas,
and she feels with the rest of us,
that a great deal of excellent guid-
ance for next year was gained
from these discussions and contacts
with other girls' problems and
methods.
:: Tn which Editor Guthrie glean-
ed the notion that she should be
remunerated at the rate of about
$500 annual salary . . . and, at
that, this is cheap pay for editing
a paper!
Flynt Is
New President of
Blackfriars
At the last meeting of Black-
friars on April 19, Chaucer's
Pardoner's Tale was presented,
with the following girls taking
part: Elizabeth Cousins, Ruth
Crisp, Joyce Roper, Laura Sale,
Jane Turner, and Ola Kelley.
After that presentation, officers of
Blackfriars for the coming year
were elected. They are as follows:
Jeanne Flynt, President; Mary Pen-
nel Simonton, Vice - President;
Margaret Hopkins, Secretary;
Evelyn Sears, Treasurer; Helen
Moses, Costume Chairman; Geor-
gia Hunt, Properties Chairman;
Nell Echols, Publicity Chairman;
and Nettie Lee Greer, Program
Chairman.
On April 20 try-outs for "The
Trojan Women," Blackfriars' next
play, were held. The following
cast of girls has been selected thus
far: Pallas Athena, Mary Anne
Kernan; Hecuba, Elizabeth Cou-
sins; Helen of Troy, Myrl Chafin;
Cassandra, Jeanne Flynt; and An-
dromache, Helen Moses or Jean
Bailey. Miss Carrie Phinney Lati-
mer will be leader of the chorus,
and the other members will be
Mary Anne Kernan, Susan Good-
wyn, Ola Kelley, Shirley Steele,
Evelyn Sears, Alice Adams, Mary
Pennel Simonton, Jeanne Redwine,
Ella Muzzey, Elizabeth Barrett,
Florence Ellis, Joyce Roper, Marian
Franklin, and Jean Bailey or Helen
Moses. The soldiers of the cast will
be Alice Cheeseman, Jane Dryfoos,
Shirley Armentrout, Ruth Crisp,
Georgia Hunt, Laura Sale, and Isa-
bel Moncur.
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THE AGONISTIC
Agnes Scott College
Decatur, Ga.
THE AGONISTIC
Editorials
ures
May 4, 1938
Vol. XXIII. No. 20.
Pi Alpha Phi
Concludes
Debate Season
Pi Alpha Phi, Agnes Scott debating society, has
just completed one of the most interesting and suc-
cessful debate schedules of its history. This year, by
means of added debates, a larger number of girls
than in former years were able to participate in the
club's program. This not only made debating more
interesting for the Agnes Scott debaters themselves,
but also for the rest of the college community.
By enlarging, too, the number of schools that the
college debates, opportunity was given to increase
fellowship and good will with other institutions.
Among the schools which the Agnes Scott debaters
met in the 1937-3 8 session were Oxford and Cam-
bridge Universities, of England; the University of
Melbourne, Australia; the University of Georgia;
Hampden Sydney College, Virginia; Emory Univer-
sity; Erskine University, S. C; Newcomb College,
La.; and Berry College, Georgia. Since debating is
the only intercollegiate competition in which Agnes
Scott students are permitted to engage, the impor-
tance of this activity is more clearly realized.
One of the last of this year's clashes was on April
14, with Katherine Patton and Jean Austin uphold-
ing v the affirmative of the subject: "Resolved: That
the United States should agree to sever trade rela-
tions with aggressor nations," against a team from
Hampden Sydney. And on April 20 and April 22,
the Freshman team met the Emory Freshman Debate
Squad. On the Agnes Scott campus Arlene Stein-
bach and Marjorie Merlin upheld the affirmative of
the question, "Resolved > That this House approves
the Tidings-McDuffie Bill for the freeing of the
Philippines." At Emory, Doris Weinkle and Ann
Henry spoke for the negative side of the same ques-
tion. The Freshmen debate at Agnes Scott, the first
decision debate in several years, was won by the /Ag-
nes Scott team. In the debate with Berry College at
Mount Berry, Georgia, on April 2 5, Esther Byrnes
and Lelia Carson demonstrated their wit and ability
on the subject of the proposed armament extension
program of the United States.
Pi Alpha Phi, under the direction of Professor
Hayes, is planning to have decisions rendered at most
of its debates next year.
TO THE EDITORS
Dear Editor:
It seems that a great many students are indignant
over the fact that the college has passed the regula-
tion forbidding girls to go around the campus with
rolled-up hair exposed, and that bandanas can not be
worn to dinner. But who is to blame for this new
rule being passed? Certainly not the college!
Just where is all the self-esteem Agnes Scott girls
supposedly have? Has it "gone with the wind?" We
are old enough to have some pride in the way we
look, and yet we go to class and meals in dirty white
shoes, wrinkled dresses, and hair either stringy or
rolled up in a lot of ugly "hardware."
Unless we improve rapidly, next year the admin-
istration will be forced to impose even more rigid
rules about our appearances. Shall we "perk-up" be-
cause we want to, or because we are forced to?
Visitors on the campus must have a bad impres-
sion of Agnes Scott girls. The situation has become
so bad that when one of us breaks down, takes a
bath and puts on a fresh dress she is asked, "Where're
you going?" or "Who're you dating tonight?" If
Emory or Tech should drop over in the middle of
the day our famous marriage percentage would drop
like the '29 market crash!
AN ARDENT REFORMIST.
G. S. C. W. STUDENTS
EARN MERIT HOURS BY
TAKING TOUR OF EUROPE
Wanted: Merit hours! The faculty of G. S. C. W.
has at last figured out a method whereby the student
may easily earn merit hours a trip to Europe will
do the trick. The administration is actually offering
credit to all those who tour with Dr. S. L. McGee,
head of the French department, who will supervise
the trip. This course is the first of its kind to be of-
fered there, and will be accepted as credit for a de-
gree as well as credit toward the requirements for a
Teacher's Certificate. The tour will be in the form
of an artistic and literary pilgrimage to the principal
countries of western Europe. Another unusual fact
about the course is that no exam papers or term
papers are required.
The Time Has Come
Editors of the Agonistic, their staffs, and student bodies
of Agnes Scott have long been troubled by the name of this
paper. At the press conventions our delegates are constantly
being embarrassed by references to the paper as the "Agnos-
tic" a mistake that is most easily made by people outside
the College, but not so easily borne by us within, especially
by the Agonistic staff.
In its formal correspondence, particularly, this newspaper
is given the "know nothing" name. Over 75 per cent of the
mail that is sent to the Agonistic comes with every possible
spelling of the name except the right one. Furthermore, the
majority of the students here, including juniors and seniors
even, do not know the meaning or significance of the name-
plate. And those who do know it probably found out indirect-
ly through reading Milton's "Samson Agonistes" in English
211.
For these reasons, we propose to do away with the present
name of the paper and to choose a more suitable one. Some
sentimentalists may revere tradition too much to approve of
a change. But they should realize that a tradition is not to be
admired merely for its long-standing, but for its intrinsic
value. A custom that has no value in itself should be replaced
by something better.
This is no startling move on our part, as several editors of
the Agonistic in former years have felt the need for a change.
And it was their hope that in a few years the step could be
taken. We of the present staff, believing that the time has
come for the desired action, put it up to you, the students
of this College and the owners of this paper, to make the
move. We await your decision; may it be a thoughtful and
unprejudiced one.
Where Honor is Due
During the past four weeks elections have been made of
the students who will serve in the different organizations,
staffs, and clubs throughout the coming year. One thing,
especially, should be noticed about those girls who have been
so honored they are not only a representative, but also a
varied group. No cliques hold the majority of the positions;
instead, these leaders come from many different groups of
girls and represent the various interests of the campus.
This may not seem so unusual to many of us here. But to
some of the College's earliest graduates and to many of the
student bodies and alumni of other schools this fact is es-
pecially noteworthy.
We at Agnes Scott are saved from the rule of a few which
is responsible for a great many of the evils prevalent on other
campuses. By our Point System we are able to prevent any
single group's domination, and so insure a more efficient
direction of student activities. As we strengthen and improve
this system, we are making firm the foundation of one of the
most democratic and uncorrupt governmental systems exist-
ing in American colleges and universities today.
The Gala Week-End
At last it is here the gala week-end. With the May Day
festival this Friday night and the rollicking Senior Opera
following on Saturday night, a period of fun and frolic is
in the offing.
From advance notices, we believe that May Day this year
is going to be especially entertaining. In addition to the
usual brilliance of the costumes and charm of the dancers will
be added the unusual grandeur of a highly dramatic produc
tion, Shakespeare's "Midnight Night's Dream," presented in
an enchanting place at nightfall.
We need give no advance sales talk for the Senior Opera
the seniors have more than seen to that. In fact, they prac-
tically promise that their "Charmin' " will surpass all the
glory of its predecessors.
Both groups have worked hard, and all that is needed to
make their productions a success is the complete support of
the student body. This is our fun. Let's be there and enjoy it.
The Agonistic
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Current History
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Current History
Peace Of Europe
Depends On
Reich-Czech Problem
A wireless from Berne, Switzerland, to the New
York Times reports that it is on the Reich-Czech
situation, hanging like a spider from the tangled web
of European diplomacy and testing with its weight
the strength of each strand, that the peace of Europe
depends. German inhabitants of Sudeten, Czecho-
slovakia, the predominantly German area, seem to be
more extreme in their desire for annexation than the
Germans of Germany, who feel that Hitler, the
wonder-worker, will eventually secure the Sudeten
district by the magic of diplomacy and without war.
Since the bloodless annexation of Austria the people
in South Germany have been won over from an in-
different attitude to enthusiastic support of Hitler.
What the exceedingly popular Fuehrer will do
concerning Czechoslovakia is extremely significant
in regard to the London-Paris agreement, which is
not without its awkward elements. The French al-
liance with Russia and Czechoslovakia was reiterated
by Bonnet on April 27; and the government of
Czechoslovakia has submitted a memorandum to the
English and French delegations stating that the
country is willing to do whatever France and Eng-
land may suggest. These two acts place England in
a difficult position. Chamberlain has even gone so
far as to say that Great Britain might not be able to
stay out of a war in Central Europe. Although Eng-
land is extremely unwilling to be allied with Russia,
an agreement with France implies such a state. Be-
sides, the premier has to live up to his former state-
ment that England is not "indifferent" to the future
of Czechoslovakia. However, it is the opinion of the
British government that military aid from the out-
side to the beleaguered country would do no good
because the chief struggle will be eternal.
The English government wants France to estab-
lish friendly relations with Italy by all means and, if
necessary, by any means. The subject of restoration
of friendship with Italy is the first item of the
agenda of the Anglo-French conference, and is es-
pecially emphasized by Great Britain. The fourth
point concerns relations with Germany. French
approval is * desired by the British government
before Chamberlain begins his overtures to the Hit-
ler regime. Although the attitude of the British
government is antagonistic to the German system,
England is in no mood to run the risk of war and is
ready to make a great effort for reconciliation with
Germany.
The United States enters the European web
through Germany's new policy of seizing Jewish
property, some of which belongs to American Jews.
If Hitler pursues his present plan to the extent of
taking over American goods, he will be breaking the
existing consular treaty which safeguards the prop-
erty rights and commercial activity \ of American
citizens in Germany. The treaty states that "their
property shall not be taken without due process of
law, without payment and just compensation."
However, another angle can be seen when one con-
siders that many of the American Jews owning prop-
erty in Germany were originally German citizens,
who used German money and methods to secure
German wealth, then became naturalized Americans
and brought their credit with them to the United
States. The situation in which the State Department
finds itself is as awkward as any other national posi-
tion in present world affairs.
The new Irish settlement gives the Free State the
power to protect itself, and thereby a hope of even-
tual complete Irish independence. This step was de-
layed for a time because of the British fear that Ire-
land might be secured as a submarine base against
Great Britain. The smiles of the representatives of
both governments at the conclusion of the pact give
evidence that such a fear has been dissipated. As a
part of the treaty Ireland has agreed to pay England
10,000,000 pounds. Here again the United States
enters the picture; for Representative Donald
O'Toole, of New York, is urging the President to
demand that England give the United States the
10,000,000 pounds received from Ireland as payment
on the war debt of $4,365,000,000 which Great Bri-
tain owes us.
Neutral or not neutral, the United States has a
finger in the international pie and cannot help draw-
ing it out sticky.
"Hope springeth ever in the senior's heart. At
Columbia University the average 193 8 senior expects
to be earning $5000 yearly five years after gradua-
tion."
Work Away
Slave Away
VOL. XXIII
AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 1938
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No. 21
Alumnae Association
To Entertain Seniors
With Two Teas
The Agnes Scott Alumnae Association will honor the
senior class with two teas, one Wednesday, May 11, and one
Thursday, May 12. About forty-five seniors have been in-
vited to each. The teas will be held at 4:30 in the Anna
Young Alumnae House.
In the receiving line will be
Miss Daisy Frances Smith, presi-
dent of the Alumnae Association;
Mrs. D. B. Donaldson, alumnae
secretary, and Mrs. L. G. Baggett,
chairman of the entertainment
committee. Assisting on Wednes-
day will be Mrs. James Halver-
stadt, Miss Eloisa Alexander, Mrs.
Leland Moore, Mrs. Jack White,
and Miss Nelle Chamlee. On
Thursday Miss Ruby Hutton, Mrs.
Eustace Bishop, Mrs. L. N. Hut-
chinson, Miss Jane Blick, and Miss
Nelle Chamlee.
The entertainment committee
includes Mrs. Sam Cooper, Mrs. J.
M. B. Bloodworth, Mrs. W. W.
Anderson, Mrs. Henry Newton,
Mrs. Dan Sage, Miss Marjorie Car-
michael, and Miss Carrie Phinney
Latimer. The entertainment com-
mittee will assist both afternoons.
Dr. McCain to Speak
At Colleges
Dr. J. R. McCain, president of
Agnes Scott, will deliver the com-
mencement addresses of several
colleges here in the South.
On the morning of May 30, he
will address the graduates of Con-
verse College, Spartanburg, S. C,
on the subject of "The Ideals of a
Woman's College."
On the night of May 30, he has
been asked by Dr. B. E. Greer,
president of Furman University,
Greenville, S. C, to make the
commencement speech to the Fur-
man seniors. The next morning,
May 31, he will address this year's
graduates of Catawba College,
Salisbury, N. C.
At Furman and at Catawba, Dr.
McCain will speak on "Testing,"
showing "How needful it is that
scholars unite and cooperate in the
efforts that will be needed and
that will thus be most fruitful."
Sophs Will
Entertain Seniors
The annual Sophomore-Senior
luncheon will be held Saturday,
May 21st, at one o'clock, accord-
ing to the announcement made by
Carolyn Forman, president of the
sophomore class. The place has
not been decided yet.
The committees for the lunch-
eon are: Place Frances Abbott,
chairman, Emily Underwood, Har-
riet Fuller, Eleanor Deas, Ruth
Slack, Charlotte Golden, Louise
Sullivan; Transportation Edna
Lewis, chairman, Mary L. Dobbs,
Bryant Holsenbeck, Mary E.
Leavitt, Penn Hammond, Betty
J. O'Brien, Virginia Milner; En-
tertainment Lutie Moore, chair-
man, Eloise McCall, Shirley Steele,
Eleanor Hutchens, Jane Salters,
Louise Hughston, Mary Matthews,
Ruth Kaplan; Place Cards Betty
Alderman, chairman, Henrietta
Thompson, Mary Reins, Martha
Zelner, Julia Moseley, Mildred
Joseph, Susie Blackmon; Decora-
tions, Nell Pinner, chairman, Mar-
gie Boggs, Grace Ward, Lucille
Scott, Lib Davis, Jane Luthy,
Frances Morgan.
Miss Torrance
Gives Tea In Honor
Of Greek Majors
Miss Catherine Torrance, Pro-
fessor of Greek, will give a tea at
her home on Clairmont Avenue,
Thursday afternoon, May 12, in
honor of the Senior Greek Majors:
Laura Coit, Myrl Chafin, Gwendo-
lyn McKee, and Edna Ware. The
guests will include the Senior Latin
Majors and all the students of
Greek.
Seniors Disclose Plans
For Next Year
Once upon a time last week an editor said to a feature edi-
tor, "What . . . yes, what . . . are the seniors' plans . . . uh-
huh, plans . . . for next year?" This amazing interrogatory
attack practically capitulated, editorially speaking, the poor
child right square into the yawning debris receptacle before
which she was leaning with the admirable intention merely
of depositing a bit of dentyne (period)
But she was able very gracefully
to re-establish her accustomed
poise, after a brief poise . . . and so,
pulling herself up to her full
height and squaring her jaw with
unde-filed determination (and no
jaw-king, either) she charged the
brigade of chorines alighting from
the SENIOR SPECIAL 205, de-
railed at the gym. She fired the
question, the answers to which she
jotted down in the following man-
ner:
Elsie West . . . going home and
get acquainted with family for a
change. Joyce Roper, "I'm con-
centrating on one man now . .
she said, as she turned to explain to
several snickering maidens, "... to
get a job." This statement capable
of numerous interpretations. Mar-
tha Long mumbled something
about real study in Germany . . .
from August to August ... no
foolin' around. The pride and
jaw-y of the Erwin family admit-
ted, "I'm gonna be a hangover at
Davidson next year . . . and then
I'd like to be a newspaper cub re-
porter ... if they can bear it. Of
course it's grizzly work . . . but
you needn't be quoting me." (It
took a paw-se or three to recognize
such an ambition . . . but it looks
as though she should be a growling
success in its pursuits!) It has been
rumored also that Miss Zerwin
plans to comb her hair again next
year, as well as tq begin extended
treatments for the probably cor-
rection of her onychophagy. This
amelioration will in all probablilty
place success at her finger tips. At
(Continued on page 2, col. 1)
Seniors Prepare for Week-End
Of Graduation Activities
Seniors Plan
Class Day
Turner Announces
Program for June 5
Jane Turner, president of
the class of 1938, has an-
nounced completed plans for
Class Day, June 5. At four-
thirty in the afternoon, seniors and
sophomores, the latter carrying
the traditional daisy chain, will
walk in procession to the May Day
Dell. There the senior class history,
written by Elsie West; the poem,
written by Hortense Jones; the
will, by Jane Guthrie; and the
class prophecy, composed by Giddy
Erwin, will be read with appropri-
ate ceremonies, including songs
sung by each class in honor of the
other.
At the completion of exercises
in the Dell, the sister classes will
march up the driveway toward
Buttrick, and the events of the
day will close with the formation
on the quadrangle of the letter "S"
for seniors and sophomores by the
daisy chain which the younger
class has carried.
Lyle Reports On
Convention
To end this year's report of
conventions attended by Agnes
Scott students, Tuesday, in chapel,
Douglas Lyle, newly-elected presi-
dent of the Agnes Scott Christian
Association, reported on the Fif-
teenth National Y. W. C. A. con-
vention which she attended at Col-
umbus, Ohio, April 21-29. The
representatives included 300 busi-
ness, professional, and industrial
women and girls from local chap-
ters, besides the delegates to the
three student conventions.
At the convention it was decid-
ed that religion and democracy
would be stressed in Y. W. C. A.
work throughout the next two
years. Among the speakers were
Dr. John B. Thompson, of Okla-
homa University; Miss Margaret
Bondfield, minister of labor under
Ramsey MacDonald; Dr. Paul
Douglas, of the University of Chi-
cago; and Miss Ruth Woodsmall,
of the World's Council at Geneva.
This convention was a follow-up
of the student convention, at
Miami University, Oxford, Ohio,
which Sophie Montgomery attend-
ed at Christmas.
English Department
Judges Books
Entered in Contest
On May 13, members of the
English department will judge the
book collections of students enter-
ing the De Bury contest. Books
entered must have been collected
in the year from May 15, 1937, to
the time of the contest, and no
collection of less than fifteen
books may be entered. The award
will be made to the person who
has the best selection of books and
who shows the most thorough
knowledge of these books. The
prizes for the winner is twenty-
five dollars, which she will be ex-
pected to use for cultural purposes.
Program Includes Luncheons,
Address, Blackfriars' Play
With graduation exercises taking place this year on Tues-
day morning, June 7, Agnes Scott seniors have a busy week-
end in store for those last few days.
Saturday afternoon, June 4, the
series of graduation activities will
begin with the Trustees' Luncheon
for the Alumnae and Senior Class.
Later in the afternoon the Alum-
nae Association will hold its an-
nual meeting, and that evening
Blackfriars will entertain the col-
lege community with a presenta-
tion of Euripides' Trojan Women.
The baccalaureate sermon on
Sunday morning will be delivered
by the Reverend Stuart Nye Hut-
chinson, D.D., of East Liberty
Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania. Senior Vespers will
be held directly after supper on
Sunday evening, followed by the
Alumnae Open House at 6:30
P. M.
Agnes Scott alumnae will have
their big day on Monday, June 6,
with a luncheon planned for reun-
ion classes at 12:30, and that night
a reunion dinner for the class of
'37. At four o'clock of the same
day the seniors will have their
Class Day Exercises. The evening
entertainment will consist of a re-
cital by the Department of Music.
(Continued on page 2, col. 4)
Juniors Plan
Banquet
On Friday night, June 3, the
members of the Junior Class will
entertain this year's graduating
class at the traditional Junior-Sen-
ior Banquet. The place, which has
not yet been announced, will be
decided upon by Amelia Nichols,
Ruth Allison, Esthere Ogden, and
Mutt Fite.
Other committees which are
working out plans for the banquet
are: Transportation Helen Lich-
ten, chairman, Catherine Farrar,
June Harvey, Alice Sill, and Gin-
ger Tumlin; Favors and Place
Cards Eunice Knox, chairman,
Cora Kay Hutchens, June Harvey,
Lelia Carson, and Alice Adams;
Decorations Dorothy Graham,
chairman, Flossie Wade, Mary Pen-
nell Simonton, and Jane Moses;
Dates and Seating Flora Mac-
Guire, chairman, Mary Frances
Guthrie, Evelyn Sears, and Mamie
Lee Ratliff; Entertainment Jean
Bailey, chairman, Helen Moses,
Henrietta Blackwell, and Hattie
Mina Reid.
Dr. Hayes to Present
Q uenelle-Harrold
Debating Cup
On Friday, May 13, in chapel,
Dr. George P. Hayes, Professor of
English and Debate Coach at Ag-
nes Scott, will present the Quenelle
Harrold Debating Cup to the
member of Pi Alpha Phi, forensic
society, who has done the best de-
bating during the present school
year.
The cup, which has been award-
ed for fifteen years, was won last
year by Brooks Spivey, '37.
The meeting of the debate club
last week was under the direction
of the new officers: Margaret
Hopkins, president; Lelia Carson,
vice-president; Mary Louise Dobbs,
secretary; Ernestine Cass, treasur-
er; and Eugenia Bridges, social
chairman.
Agonistic Gives
Luncheon May 14
Merritt Completes Plans;
Duffee Guest Speaker
The guest speaker at the lunch-
eon to be given May 14 for the
senior members of the old staff of
the Agonistic will be Mr. Warren
Duffee, of Atlanta. Mr. Duffee is
the ex-editor of the Emory Wheel
and this year's chairman of the
Georgia Collegiate Press Associa-
tion. He will speak on the subject,
"New Trends in Journalism and
How They Affect College Stu-
dents of Today."
Plans for the luncheon, which
will be held at the Candler Hotel,
have been made by Marie Merritt,
assisted by Alice Cheeseman and
Mary Reins. The members of the
editorial, reportorial, and business
staffs will attend.
Lecture Association Makes
Annual Financial Report
Mildred Davis, treasurer of the Lecture Association, makes
the following financial report for the lectures held on the
campus this year:
Expenses for H. S. Ede Lecture:
Mr. Ede $200.00
Ads, tickets, etc 39.00
$239.00
Received from ticket sale 214.25
Deficit $ 24.75
Expenses for Grand Duchess
Marie's Lecture:
Grand Duchess Marie $500.00
Ads, tickets, etc 24.70
Total $524.70
Received from ticket sale 369.55
Deficit $155.15
Expenditures
Advertising* $ 19.07
Mardi Gras Float.
.50
Receptions 10.49
Silhouette 25.00
Tickets 8.30
Correspondence 10.34
Servants 6.00
Rental of Lantern 7.50
Dinner 2.00
Fees to Lecturers 700.00
Total $789.20
Income
Budget $215.34
H. S. Ede's Lecture 214.25
Grand Duchess Marie's
Lecture 369.55
Total Income $799.14
Expenses 789.20
Balance on Hand $ 9.94
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THE AGONISTIC
SPORTS
May Day has come and gone,
and all sports ceased together. If
only Mutt would start a ping pong
tournament to liven things up.
The sophomores, now that the
season is safely over, are modestly
pointing out the fact that they
have won every athletic contest
during the year except golf and
archery: tennis doubles and sin-
gles, hockey, basketball, and swim-
ming (although in the latter they
were hard pressed by the redoubt-
ably G. Erwin, member of the sen-
ior swimming team) .
Numerous Hottentots have
turned to jobs at camp as a means
of whiling away the weary hours
this summer. Camp Highland will
claim Virginia Milner, Ruth Eyles,
and Lucy Hill Doty; Henrietta
Thompson and Carolyn Forman
will favor Montreat; Jean Chal-
mers will go to Camp Nakanawa;
Ruth Slack to Toccoa; and Emma
MacMullen to Graystone.
Spring physical examinations
are in progress this week. What
freshman came supplied with exam
book and fountain pen?
As we were saying oh, for a
ping pong tournament!
Senior Plans
(Continued from page 1)
least without it she can expect lit-
tle mundane emulation.
Jean Chalmers reports uncertain.
"Most anything from digging
ditches to W. P. A. (We Piddle
Around) ... in fact any job
which doesn't require term papers
. . . Having taken 16 hours of edu-
cation I have decided not to
teach." Castieberry: Plans depend
on somebody's else's plans . . .
Robinson: Plans doubtful, improb-
able . . . but will be at home;
"come up to see me sometime."
Elise Seay remarked, "Though it's
no news by now, Mildred and I
are still planning to go to N. Y.
together to study at Columbia . . .
among other things." Jeanne Mat-
thews has won the Biology Fellow-
ship here at school for next year,
and so Jeanne will be with us on
the campus. She added, "Also I
expect to study at Emory, and
chaperon all my friends whenever
they like."
Laura Coit was snagged in the
act of darning some stockings. She
muttered through the knotty ole
thread, ". . . wait 'til I decide . . .
well, there can't be two weddings
in the same family at the same
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Davidowitz, Hamilton,
Dryfoos, Zellner, Moffat,
Sloan Seek Places
Six players will enter the round
before the semi finals this after-
noon in the golf tournament at
Forrest Hills Country Club; the
seventh, Carolyn Forman, has al-
ready advanced to the semi finals
by default. Jane Moore Hamilton,
Betty Sloan, Jane Dryfoos, Grace
Moffat, Martha Zellner, and Jean
Davidowitz will play off their
matches this afternoon.
The only upset so far in the
tournament has been the defeat of
Martha Long by Martha Zellner.
The lowest score to date is forty-
eight for nine holes, made by Jane
Moore Hamilton in her match with
Anne Fisher. This is the lowest
score ever made in an Agnes
Scott player except Judith Gracey,
'37, who was champion for the
last two years. The closest match
of the contest is Betty Sloan's vic-
tory over Mary Hollingsworth by
one stroke on the last hole.
time . . . and Mildred beat me to
it ... so I've decided to take care
of Dr. McCain's garden for him.
Anne Kernan revealed that she is
planning to study Library this
summer in Louisville, Ky. . . . and
to go next winter to Emory Li-
brary School. We tightened on
Alice Reins for a minute and she
had to confess, u . . . probably be
teaching ski-ing in the first grade
... or something like that."
But there is a certain faction of
the senior class which represents
about one-eighth of it, and also
which represents the very bride
and joy of this institution . . .
namely, the allison-sextet-saye-
thompson - lipscomb - foster -
morrison - kellersberger - skinner -
rainey faction. This is a very
luckie . . . and a very love-ly fac-
tion. They like photographs and
rings and flowers and phone-calls.
Also there is no doubt as to their
plans. "Wedding bells are breaking
up this old gang . .
A. S. C. Team Enters
Archery Meet
Three of the team of eight stu-
dents who will represent Agnes
Scott in the Women's Intercolleg-
iate Telegraphic Archery Tourna-
ment have been chosen, Miss
Mitchell announced last week; the
remaining five will be announced
tomorrow. Lou Pate, Emma Mac-
Mullen, and Henrietta Thompson,
who have assured themselves places
on the team by outstanding abil-
ity, are the shooters already select-
ed. The tournament, in which col-
leges throughout the country are
entered, will be held from May 12
through May 19.
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This teaching of grammar
school children seems to be no easy
job for our Hottentots, or perhaps
it is what they do after teaching
hours! Ida Lois McDaniel, '3 5,
even longs for the easy Agnes
Scott days after a typical day of
her present life (what encourage-
ment for the '3 8 class!) After
worrying about her first graders
all morning, she dashes to various
schools to teach spoken English
and music. "One play used to seem
a hard enough job in Blackfriar
days, but trying to keep seven go-
ing at one time is real work."
Maybe Ida Lois could give Shir-
ley Christian, '36, some good ad-
vice. Shirley is soon to become a
school teacher, and will teach four
classes in English (seventh and
eighth grades), direct the school
music, lead the glee club, and as-,
sist in dramatics, at Girls' Prepara-
tory School in Chattanooga, Tenn-
essee. However, she is expecting
some good times before the drud-
gery of summer school and teach-
ing really begins. Vacation began
for her March 7, when she headed
for Atlanta, Mobile azaleas, New
Orleans, and Monroe. Then she left
Natchez on her way to New York,
planning stopovers both trips with
the Peter Marshall's, in Washing-
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Athletic Association to Have
Annual Banquet May 18
The Athletic Association will hold its annual banquet this
year on May 18 in Rebekah Scott dining room, when the re-
tiring board members will install their successors and the
last athletic awards of the year will be given.
Bee Merrill, chairman for the banquet, has announced that
all those students who have shown interest in athletics dur-
ing the year will receive invitations.
The chief feature of the pro-
gram will be the formal installa-
tion of the new board by the old.
The presidency will pass from Jean
Chalmers to Jane Moore Hamilton;
the vice-presidency, from Ern
Robinson to Jane Dryfoos; the of-
fice of secretary, from Jane Moore
Hamilton to Virginia Milner;
treasurer, Jane Dryfoos to Ruth
Slack; social chairman, Bee Merrill
to Mary Eleanor Steele; publicity
manager, Alice Cheeseman to
Eleanor Hutchens; posters man-
ager, Frances Castieberry to Freck
Sproles; song leader, Let tie McKay
to Mickey Warren; outing chair-
man, Jeanne Matthews to Ernes r
tine Cass; swimming manager,
Virginia Milner to Beryl Healy;
Mary Nell Taylor will be tennis
manager again; archery manager,
Lou Pate to Nellie Richardson;
hiking manager, Lucy Hill Doty to
Mutt Fite; basketball manager,
Mary Eleanor Steele to Scotty
Wilds; hockey manager, Joan
Brinton to Jane Jones.
A. S. C. A. Chooses
Hale, Christian,
Carlson Sponsors
Members of the Christian Asso-
ciation cabinet recently selected
Miss Louise Hale, Dr. S. M.
Christian, and Miss Helen Carlson
to serve as their faculty sponsors.
They are to serve, respectively,
one, two, and three years. In
former years each cabinet member
has had a personal advisor; the new
plan, however, is expected to bring
a closer coordination.
Miss Hale has worked with the
cabinet in previous years, but Dr.
Christian and Miss Carlson are
new to the work. They met with
the cabinet for the first time at the
spring retreat Sunday, May 1, held
at Mr. Eugene Gunby's place, near
the Chattahoochee river.
Senior Activities
(Continued from page 1)
Tuesday morning, June 7, will
be the .last and most important
day. Friends and relatives of the
seniors will assemble at 10 o'clock
A. M. for the graduation address,
which is to be delivered by the
Reverend R. Lincoln Long, D.D.,
of Collingwood Presbyterian
Church, Toledo, Ohio. The con-
ferring of degrees will follow the
commencement address.
Granddaughters' Club
Elects Officers
The officers of Granddaughters*
Club for next year, who were
elected at a special business meet-
ings are: president, Martha Mar-
shall; vice-president, Mary Mc-
Phaul; and secretary and treasurer,
Ellen Stuart.
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THE AGONISTIC
3
Members of Agnes Scott Faculty
Plan to Spend Summer
In Europe
Tours over Europe, motor trips in the United States, club
meetings, and lectures are the summer plans for some of the
members of the Aggies Scott faculty.
Miss Leslie J. Gaylord is plan-
ning to take a number of girls to
Europe. She and her party will
sail June 18 from New York on
the S. S. Aquitania and will visit
many countries in Europe. While
they are in France they will visit
Paris, Cherbourg, Avignon, and
Nice. In Italy they will visit
Pisa, Rome, Florence, and Venice.
They will tour important cities
and sites of interest in Switzerland,
Austria, Germany, Belgium, Hol-
land, England, and Scotland.
Miss Florence Smith will be one
of fifty American delegates chosen
to attehd the International Law
Program sponsored by the Carne-
gie Foundation, which is to last
for five weeks at the University of
Michigan in Ann Arbor. Miss
Smith remarked that one of her
friends was delighted for her to
participate in this program for she
thought that Miss Smith was be-
coming "dubious about the exist-
ence of international law in view
of the present day situation."
Miss Melissa Cilley's summer
plans will take her to Portugal,
where she will be a member of the
faculty at the historic University
of Coinbra at Portugal. Miss
Cilley will give a course in modern
languages at the university, where
she has taught for a number of
summers.
Mr. Arthur Raper's summer
plans, as he says, "will take him all
over the country." He is planning
to be at the Duke University Pas-
tor's School, the Students Confer-
ence at Blueridge, the Berea Na-
tional Congress of Hi-Y, and the
meeting of the Delta Cooperative
Farm Association. Then after he
attends the Montreat Ministers
School, he will take his family for
a two week's vacation to Florida.
After his vacation in Florida, he
plans to lecture at the University
of New York. Indeed, his plans
will "take him all over the coun-
try."
Miss Virginia Prettyman will
spend two months abroad. She
plans to sail June 16 for a two
months' vacation in England and
Austria.
Miss Narka Nelson, Miss Mar-
tha Stansfield, and Miss Janef
Preston are planning to spend the
summer months on this continent,
Miss Nelson in California, Miss
Preston in the mountains of
North Carolina, and Miss Stans-
field in Florida.
Although Miss Louise Hale
hasn't decided upon her plans for
the summer she is sure that she
will study and "do a lot of read-
ing."
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On Monday, June 6, the newly-
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custom, the Mortar Board tea will
be held in the Alumnae Garden
immediately following Class Day
exercises.
Amelia Nickels, president of the
chapter, has announced the follow-
ing committees: Decorations
Arelaide Benson, chairman; Jean
Bailey, Mildred Coit, Douglas
Lyle, Marie Merritt, and Jane
Moore Hamilton. Refreshments
Mary Hollingsworth, chairman;
Mary Frances Guthrie, Emma Mc-
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Remember well and bear in mind May 20th because on
that day class rooms will be filled with the loud noise of
pages being turned by the members of the back row, people
shall stumble blissfully over mobs while gazing at pictures,
and people shall sit motionless
the library held by an interest no
text work ever inspired, for May
20th is the day the Silhouette
comes out. You may get your copy
at the Silhouette room in the Mur-
phey Candler Building when the
great day comes and may again
have the pleasure of assuring
yourself that you really look like
"that."
However, there will be many
@G alaD anting (^Gal
With May- Day and Senior Opera in first place this week,
the first cheers should go to all the budding young artists
who made the week-end so much more enjoyable to the whole
college community anrJ all the very welcome visitors. It
would be futile to even try to mention all the mothers, fath-
ers, and fifty-seven other varieties of sunshine spreaders
who added to the general happi-
ness one had only to look at the
beaming faces to tell the ones who
wanted you "to meet my folks
they're right over here!"
Even though first honors are
awarded to campus activities this
week-end, Emory got an honorable
mention for its usual fine Inter-
Fraternity dance Saturday night.
Some of the girls wowing the stag
line were Juka Porter, Mary Nell
Tribble, Jane Jones, Catherine
Ivie, Florence Ellis, Marian Frank-
lin, Zoe Wells, Elbise Lennard,
Marguerite Ingley', Rebecca Mc-
Ree, Mary Louise Dobbs, Lillian
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Masonic Temple Building
Phone DE. 3322
Swencke, Anne Wheaton, Tommy
Ruth Blackmon, Sara Lee, Ruth
Slack, and Lib Barrett.
Sharing honors with Inter-Fra-
ternity (and Senior Opera) was
the Beta Kid Party. Among the
rattles and rompers you might
have seen Susan Goodwyn, Mette
Williamson, Ella Muzzey, Jeanne
Flynt, Lucille Gaines well, per-
haps the others were too well dis-
guised to be recognized.
Friday night one of the reasons
for the quick changes from flow-
ing May Day costumes into
"something more comfortable"
may have been the Sigma Nu
dance. Shirley Armentrout, Susan
Goodwyn, Dorothy Graham, Ruth
Tate, Miriam Sanders, Snooks
Moss, Mette Williamson, and Dot
Debele were found adding to the
galaxy of girls there. ,
Meet Your Friends at
Cox's Prescription Shop
Between Paramount and Grand
Theatres, Atlanta
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After Shows
Peachtree and Ellis Sts.
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pictures besides your own, for this
year four hundred and forty-seven
girls had their pictures made. Us-
ually the number is not so large.
As there was no art work done this
time, the entire annual is composed
of photographs. Five hundred
snapshots were turned in, and two
hundred of the best ones were used.
These pictures help to make up
one of the most interesting fea-
tures which is a snap-shot calendar
depicting the events of the year.
The club section is also in snap-
shots and these harmonize with the
rest of the Work.
The new Silhouette has school
life as its theme and the copy,
which is written from a news an-
gle, carries out this idea. The
Press Conference at Chicago last
fall inspired its members with the
determination to go home and
write copy that somebody would
really read. We pass this fact on as
a tip to be remembered when you
get your annual.
On the subject of such intimate
little details as who is in the beauty
section and who is not, Gina Wat-
son just "won't talk." But if your
feminine curiosity is eating your
heart away we will tell you this
much. The senior members of the
staff receive their copies of the
Silhouette at the banquet given
the night before the annual makes
its official debut. Perhaps you can
get one of those superior beings to
give you a peep ahead of the rest
of the school.
The senior class gift at Tarleton
Agricultural College this year is a
neon sign for one of the campus
buildings.
College and university students
compose 15 per cent of the youth
of the U. S. of college age.
Don't Forget Your Friends
at Graduation
Woman's Exchange
Go to
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For Your Needs
Sycamore St.
THE ELITE TEA ROOM
Next to Home This is the Best
Place to Eat
Strictly Home-Cooked Food
211 E. Ponce de Leon Ave.
Decatur, Ga.
Thompson's Restaurant
Try Us Once
110 Atlanta Ave. Decatur
Taylor's Prescription
Shop
Corner Peachtree and
Cain Streets
WA. 2897 Atlanta
Open All Night
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THE AGONISTIC
Agnes Scott College
Decatur, Ga.
THE AGONISTIC
Editorials
features
May 11, 1938
Vol. XXIII. No. 21.
Around
The Campuses
Now that June is quickly approaching, a college
girl's thoughts naturally turn to marriage and all
that. Students at Florida State reversed the situation
by finding out, by means of a questionaire, what
type men they would not marry. Drunkards,
egoists, loafers, and men lacking in a sense of humor
received first places. Inferiority whether mental,
social, or intellectual, would prove a serious handi-
cap, according to the results of the questionaire.
Looks were not mentioned except by one girl who
admitted that she would not marry a curly-headed
blond. She would prefer someone who was "tall,
dark, and handsome."
In the Bull of the Woods column of the Univer-
sity of Alabama newspaper, the author remarks that
"with threats from the profs warning us to put the
pressure on because the final exams begin in a week,
things have quieted down hereabouts so much, you
can hear the radio in the next fellow's room blasting
away."
The juniors at Alabama College no longer sleep
peacefully. Day and night they are preparing them-
selves for the ordeals of Crook Week, during which
time the present class of seniors test their knowledge
of campus facts. Anyone who fails to pass her exam-
ination will be reprimanded severely by the senior
class as a whole. Every junior must know the infi-
nite details of campus history before the seniors will
be certain that their younger schoolmates have earn-
ed the right to be called "seniors." Examples of the
questions are: Where do you find a visible record of
College Night winners? Account for a grassy plot
near an abandoned fountain. They will also be re-
sponsible for knowledge of the class which gave the
first dance, and the first occasion on which they, as
seniors, may wear their caps and gowns. To show
that their hearts are in the right place, the seniors
admit that the correct answers may be found in the
library.
At Immaculata (Penn.), about eighty-five per
cent of the girls on the campus have four eyes
(glasses to you) and use them all or at least part of
the time.
TO THE EDITOR
Dear Editor:
One of the most desirable aspects of Agnes Scott
we, as students, feel, is the fine relationship between
students and faculty, the high plane on which it is
held, and the interest which each has shown in the
other. We do appreciate, probably more than is evi-
dent, the fact that the faculty members take a per-
sonal interest in us, as individuals and as a group,
and that they do criticize us. It is because we be-
lieve this relationship is so fiije and valuable that we
feel justified in bringing into the open a condition
which, because it is so prevalent among the student
body, we feel may threaten this relationship the
fact that one member of the faculty through her
criticism, and more specifically her manner of criti-
cism, is doing more harm than good and often valu-
able criticism is lost.
In her criticism of everything, the effect has been
to antagonize people and make them lose confidence
in themselves rather than to help them. Even the
sages can benefit from criticism, but is there not a
limit to everything? Her interest in our work and
school, we know, prompts her criticism, and for that
reason we appreciate much of it and are perfectly
willing to consider it in the light of our own convic-
tions, but we are human and some of us more sen-
sitive than others and the manner of criticism can
sometimes hurt us far more deeply than we believe
she realizes. She is an understanding person and can
sympathize with the troubles and ambitions of stu-
dents, and we do not believe she would ever hurt us
intentionally. But if we are losing our self-confi-
dence due to the brusqucness of her manner and her
outspoken method of criticism, we believe that we
would really benefit from her criticism were it more
tolerant and more sympathetically offered.
We do make mistakes, of course, and want faculty
criticism, by all means; but could we not think over
our mistakes together rather than be crushed under
the all-powerful domineering demands and criticism
of one who we really believe has our interest at heart.
We are very anxious that the faculty will under-
stand the spirit in which this is lritten, for we are
not criticizing an individual but a method of hers
which we believe we can see from a different angle
from that from which she can, for we understand
the effect on us and that in the end is the thing of
concern to both of us. We sincerely hope that it will
be accepted in the spirit in which it is written.
Wake Up and Think
The last issue of the Agonistic contained an editorial pro-
posing that the name of this paper be changed. The editors
did not expect that this recommendation would be a bomb-
shell in our midst, since the need for the change is clearly
evident. They did, however, think that there would be a
reasonable interest in the move.
Such has not been the case. With the exception of a few
girls who have been specifically broached on the matter, there
has been no comment from the students. The natural assump-
tion is that Agnes Scott girls are so indifferent to such a
change and its effects that they have no opinion on the ques-
tion either one way or the other. Or perhaps this indicates
that they have no interest in their newspaper and in its ef-
forts toward improvement. If this is true, then it would be
better to do away with the paper entirely and to save the staff
its hard, un-remunerated work.
We do not want to think that this is the reason. Instead,
we believe the fault lies in the fact that Agnes Scott girls
simply do not trouble themselves about those things which
do not immediately concern them. What interests them not
deeply interests them not at all.
That this is the fact is known by the student body's calm
acceptance of the movement to establish the Agnes Scott
Christian Association. Most of the girls would have cast their
votes for the change at the first mention of it, with but pass-
ing thought as t) the points involved, pro and con. It was
only when a few alert persons began an intelligent discussion
of the matter that the rest of the students were aroused to
thoughtful consideration.
We know that this lackadaisical attitude is not caused by
an unintelligent group of students. What is to be deplored,
it is caused by a group that has ability but not energy. Our
sluggish natures are overpowering our agile minds.
Agnes Scott is not the only school being overcome by in-
ertia and lack of initiative ; there are many others in the same
condition. Still this does not excuse us from censure. Rather
we are more to be blamed. We have existed under this casti-
gating stupor long enough now is the time to throw it off
and waken ourselves to active interest in what is happening
about us.
Grand Finale
The Administration this year is experimenting with one
of its many plans for the improvement of the scholastic
achievements of its students. As has been recently announced,
the members of the 1937-38 Agnes Scott chapter of Mortar
Board will be given comprehensive examinations on their
major and minor subjects in the coming examination period.
They will not take examinations on their class work of this
quarter. The committee making the arrangements further
states that these comprehensive tests are not in any way to
effect the grades of those examined.
This plan hints of the time when comprehensive examina-
tions will be a condition for graduation from Agnes Scott.
The merit of such a requirement must be acknowledged, re-
gardless of the general reluctance of students to submit to
the extra work entailed by these examinations. We do need
the force that will make us assimilate and absorb the facts
that we have been collecting throughout our college years.
And, as aiding in the preparations for this step, the mem-
bers of Mortar Board are to be particularly praised. Their
part is not easy, by far. Being examined on work that one
has studied often too hastily several years earlier is not alto-
gether enjoyable even when the examination has been antici-
pated for four years. How much more unpleasant it is when
one is given but a few months' notice. And, although the
grade that is made will not alter the girl's standing, still the
faculty examiners are bound to have their estimation of the
girl's work influenced to a certain degree.
This final work of the retiring local Mortar Board chapter
is truly commendable. It comes as a notable climax to the
services that these girls have been rendering the school.
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Current History
* *
Ingvolstad Discusses
Britain's Crack-Up
From Six Angles
In his discussion here last Wednesday night on the
question, "Is the British Empire Cracking Up?", Mr.
Fred W. Ingvolstad, of the U. S. Department of
Education, developed the subject from six points of
view the English military power, the foreign eco-
nomic policy, the diplomatic policy, the relation of
Great Britain to her majority groups, the population
decline in England, and last and most significant
in Mr. Ingvolstad's opinion the future handling of
the submerged groups in the Empire as they emerge.
Those who feel that the Empire is falling apart
because of the decline in England's militarism agree
that the British Empire was built up by military
force and that it cannot continue without the sup-
port of a strong militaristic policy. They regard such
developments as the Oxford anti-war pledge (by
which millions of English young people have sworn
never to engaye in war) as signs that the empire will
not be able to hang together very long. The direct
anti-war attitude of Australia, Canada, and India
augur ill for the future. In the opinion of others this
relaxing of military force shows the innate strength
of the empire since only a strong government could
afford to submit to such internal agitation without
reactionary efforts.
The foreign economic policy or lack of one
which England is pursuing with regard to her forced
withdrawal from Mexico and Brazil is interpreted by
some as a sign of weakness; and her passive accept-
ance of the terms of the Oliver Pact, which was
drawn up by the British possessions in order to secure
more British trade, has made many people think that
the mother-country is rapidly losing control over
her daughters now that they are too big to be
spanked. It is thought by some that the moving of
increasing numbers of industries from Engand to
Canada will have a bad effect on the empire, because
industrial centers eventually become financial cen-
ters and financial centers eventually become politi-
cal centers. All these facts however are interpreted
by some to show the elasticity of the empire and the
farsightedness of its government.
Many think that the attempts of the London gov-
ernment at European "inter-reconciliation" reveal a
definite weakness; and it is a certain fact that a
cloud has passed over England's shining reputation
on the continent for shrewd diplomacy. Is England
"bowing to dictators"?
The manner in which Great Britain is dealing
with her "majority" groups (it would be a "minor-
ity" group problem anywhere except in England,
where the subject groups, like India, far exceed the
"majority" in size) also connotes to certain people
that the empire is weakening. Last year England sent
word to India not to send in the $600,000 fund,
which has been an annual Indian contribution to the
British navy just in time to prevent India herself
from refusing to send it, perhaps? Does Great Britain
fail to keep order in Palestine because she fears the
Arab Mohammedans? There are millions of Moham-
medans in India and Egypt. Mussolini has been set-
ting himself up as defender of the Mohammedan
faith lately, offering to send 850 Ethiopians to
Mecca gratis this year, and telling the Arabs what
he would do if he had the Palestine mandate. Last
year in an Arab parade in Palestine a picture of Mus-
solini was carried eleven feet behind a likeness of
Mahomet the Prophet. Besides this, Ireland has been
practically distating to London recently without
getting a spark. Ireland must be called "Erin" in
the House of Commons. Ireland must be dealt with
by the League of Nations directly and not through
London. Ireland must be able to protect herself and
to declare war independently of England. Is this
farsightedness on the part of the English govern-
ment, or is it weakness?
Those who may have narrowly escaped with their
lives in crossing the street in front of Buttrick will
be interested to find out what the girls at Mount
Holyoke have done about the traffic situation. From
now on their College Street will be pedestrian's para-
dise, much to the disgust of the type of stop-and-go
driver pictured in the Shell Gasoline ads. "Pedes-
trians actuated" lights have been installed at the
busiest crossings, and now all a student has to do is
to press a button before leaving the sidewalk. Im-
mediately a red light goes on and stays on for the
length of time it is supposed to take to cross the
street.
(totmntrnttent lEMitatt
EXTRA
VOL. XXIII
The Agonistic
AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 1938
EXTRA
Z115 No. 22
Dr. Hutchison is
Baccalaureate Speaker
Sunday morning, June 5, at 11 o'clock, the 1938 Baccalau-
reate service was held in the Bucher Scott Gymnasium for
the seniors of Agnes Scott. Rev. Stuart Nye Hutchison,
D.D., of the East Liberty Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh,
Penn., made the principal address of the occasion.
Dr. Hutchison is well known in
collegiate circles, being a trustee of
several colleges and seminaries. He
is also known for the books he has
written, The Soul of a Child, The
Voice Within Us, and Holy
Ground, being a few of his religious
works.
Mr. Lewis H. Johnson, teacher
of voice at Agnes Scott, directed
the College Choir, accompanied by
Mr. C. W. Dieckmann, teacher of
organ and piano at the College, in
the music of the program. "How
Beautiful on the Mountains," by
Harker, and "Unfold Ye Portals,"
Gounod, were the selections render-
ed by the choir.
Seniors, Sophomores
Attend Breakfast
On Monday morning at 10:00
o'clock at the Athletic Club, the
seniors gave the sophomores a
breakfast, at which Louise McKin-
ney Hill, the small class mascot,
was the honor guest. The various
committees for the breakfast were:
transportation, Regina Hurwitz
and Bee Sexton; decorations and
place cards, Ola Kelly and Elsie
West; and invitation, Hortense
Jones and Carol Hale.
Dr. McCain
Announces
Final Awards
As the conclusion of this year's
honors, Dr. J. R. McCain, presi-
dent of Agnes Scott College, an-
nounced at the Commencement
Exercises this morning the follow-
ing awards:
The Hopkins Jewel, to the ideal
senior Nell Hemphill, Petersburg,
Va.
The Collegiate Scholarship, to
the student with the highest gen-
eral proficiency, Jane Salters, Flor-
ence, S. C, with honorable mention
to Lou Pate, Newbern, Tenn.
The Quenelle Harrold Fellow-
ship, to the senior well qualified
for research and with promise of
leadership, Mildred Davis, Orlando,
Fla.
The Rich Prize, to the freshman
with the best scholastic record of
the year, Sabine Brumby, Atlanta,
Ga., with honorable mention to
Betty Jane Stevenson, Atlanta,
and Mary Bon Utterback, Louis-
ville, Ky.
The Laura Candler Medal, to the
sophomore, junior, or senior mak-
ing^ the highest advance for the
year in mathematics, Lou Pate,
Newbern, Tenn.
The Morley Mathematics Medal,
to the sophomore or junior doing
the most original work in' mathe-
matics, Eva Ann Pirkle, Atlanta*',
Ga.
Piano Scholarship, to Ida Jane
Vaughan, Jenkins, Ky.
Voice Scholarship, to Virginia
Kyle, Huntingdon, W. Va.
Spoken English Scholarship, to
Jeanne Flynt, Decatur, Ga.
De Bury Book Award, to the
student with the best collection of
books during the year, Mary Ann
Kernan, with honorable mention
to Ann Worthy Johnson, Deland,
Fla.
Graduation with High Honor,
based on the 4-year record:
Elsie Blackstone, East Point, Ga.
Mildred Davis, Orlando, Fla.
Eliza King, Columbia, S. C.
Elise Seay, Macon, Ga.
Zoe Wells, Decatur, Ga.
(Continued on Page 3)
Mr. Dieckmann
Wins Music Prize
At a recent convention of the
Southeastern Division of the Amer-
ican Guild of Organists, Mr. C. W.
Dieckmann was awarded the prize
for composing the best instrumen-
tal musical selection of the year.
The district convention, which is
held every two years, alternating
with an annual convention, was
held this year at the Florida State
College for Women in Tallahassee,
Florida, on May 9-10.
Mr. Herman Siewert, organist of
the Knowles' Memorial Chapel at
Rollins College, presented the
award for Mr. Dieckmann's selec-
tion, Adora et Devote. Mr. Dieck-
NEWS GUIDE
Baccalaureate Page 2
Semi-Centennial Page 4
Class Prophecy Page 5
Class Poem Page 5
In Retrospection Page 6
CLASS HISTORY
Epic of the Race of Man
By Jane Guthrie
Prologue
This is the May Dell primeval,
The murmuring parents and soph'mores,
Bearing their chains, and in garments
White, indistinct in the sunlight,
Sit like martyrs of eld, with faces sad and prophetic;
Loud from its steely pathway, the deep-voiced neighboring street car
Squeaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the historian.
Ye who believe in seniors that hope, and endure, and are patient,
Ye who believe in the beauty and strength of a student's devotion,
List to a four year tradition, still sung by the fathers of the school;
List to a tale of Success in Agnes Scott College home of the happy
and brave!
Fite the First
Backward, O Backward, Time in thy flight,
Make me a Freshman just for tonight!
We Freshmen came down like sheep from the fold,
And our shoulders were gleaming with purple and white;
Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green,
We with our suitcases at sunset were seen;
By the streets of old Decatur,
By the big magnolia trees,
Stood the school of Agnes Scott,
Daughter of George W. Scott,
Dark around us rose the towers,
Rose the roofs of dormitories,
(Continued on Page 3)
Dr. Long Addresses
Graduates
College Chorus Sings
At Forty-Ninth Commencement
The forty-ninth commencement program of Agnes Scott
College took place this morning, June 7, at 10 o'clock in the
Bucher Scott Gymnasium. The address of the occasion was
delivered by Rev. R. Lincoln Long, D.D., pastor of the Col-
lingwood Presbyterian Church in Toledo, Ohio. Dr. Long- is
the father of one of this year's graduates, Martha Long.
The commencement processional
Graduating Class
Leaves Will
By Elsie West
We, the graduating class of Ag-
nes Scott College ("winter home
of Emory University") on this the
sixth day of June in the year nine-
teen hundred and thirty-eight An-
no Domini, being mentally satur-
ated with academic lore, feeling
ourselves recklessly benevolent, and
wishing to leave to posterity a
permanent and enduring token of
the profound affection we have
for our beloved Institution, do
render and here set forth this docu-
ment our last will and testament:
To Agnes Scott College, "a col-
lege for women that is widely rec-
ognized for its standard of work
and for the interesting character of
its student activities," a college
which is within the 5 cent street
car zone from the heart of Atlanta,
a college which is a college, we
leave what more could be desired?
So be it, WE leave!
To those who would profit by
the voice of experience, whether
they aspire to succeed in business
or the home, we would bequeath
the secret diet, by which formula
(Continued on Page 3)
Archery Team
Gains First Place
The Agnes Scott archery team
won first place in the Southern
District and placed nineteenth
among colleges throughout the na-
tion last month in the annual
Women's Intercollegiate Telegraph-
ic Archery Tournament, it was an-
nounced recently. Led by Louise
Musser with a score of 421, the
team headed the thirteen - state
Southern District with a total score
of 2,629.
The team representing Agnes
Scott in the tournament, chosen
for outstanding performance in
archery during the past year, was
composed of: Louise Musser, Lou
Pate, Henrietta Thompson, Emma
McMullen, Betty Robey, Virginia
McWhorter, Virginia Milner, and
Jacqueline Hawks.
was led by the sophomore class, sis-
ter class of the seniors, with the fac-
ulty and seniors following. The
music of the program was fur-
nished by ' the college chorus, who
sang "The Year's at the Spring,"
by Mrs. Beech, and "Dawn," by
Pearl Curran.
At the conclusion of the address,
Dr. J. R. McCain, president of
Agnes Scott College, announced
the collegiate awards for the 1937-
3 8 session. After making the dedi-
catory prayer, Dr. McCain confer-
red the degrees upon the seniors.
The recessional brought the exer-
cises to a close.
Phi Beta Kappa
Elects Four
New Members
Elizabeth Blackshear, Hortense
Jones, Mary Anne Kernan, and
Anne Thompson were elected to
membership in Phi Beta Kappa in
the election held by the Agnes
Scott chapter last Thursday after-
noon, June 2. Dr. J. R. McCain,
newly elected president of the local
chapter, announced their election
in chapel on the next morning,
June 3.
The other new officers of the
Agnes Scott Phi Beta Kappa Chap-
ter, in addition to Dr. McCain, are
Miss Emma May Laney, vice-presi-
dent; Miss Muriel Harn, re-elected
secretary; and Miss Martha Stans-
field, treasurer. Members of the
senior class who were elected to
Phi Beta Kappa in the spring elec-
tion are: Elsie Blackstone, Jean
Chalmers, Mildred Davis, Eliza
King, Elise Seay, Zoe Wells, ,and an
alumnae, Mrs. Quenelle Harrold
Sheffield, of Americus, Ga.
WINS AWARD
Alumnae Honor Seniors
At Open House
Alumnae open house was held in
the alumnae gardens Sunday, June
5, at 6:30 p. m., in honor of the
seniors and their parents.
Mrs. L. G. Baggett was chair-
man of the entertainment, having
as her assistants Mesdames Philip
Fry, S. I. Cooper, J. M. Bloodworth, |
W. W. Anderson, Henry Newton,
Dan Sage, and Misses Nell Cham-
lee and Carrie Phinnie Latimer.
Assisting Mrs. Baggett in receiv-
ing the guests were Mrs. D. B.
Donalson, Miss Daisy Frances
Smith, Dr. J. R. McCain and Miss
Carrie Scandrett.
Margaret Hopkins, winner
of the Quenelle Harrold Cup
for excellence in debating
during the 1938-39 term.
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THE AGONISTIC
New Alumnae Officers
Courtesy Atlanta Constitution.
Ann Worthy Johnson and Eliza King, whom the seniors
elected as their class secretary and life president, respec-
tively.
Dr. Hutchison Delivers
Baccalaureate Address,
"Adventure of Faith"
Baccalaureate Sermon Text
Delivered Sunday,
June 5
Four thousand years ago a young
man, having completed his years of
preparation, turned his face out to-
ward the unknown future. Of the
problems and perils before him he
knew but little. All that he was
certain of was that over there to-
ward the setting sun was a land of
promise of which God had assured
him.
The record announced the com-
mencement of his life-work in
these words: "And he went out,
not knowing, whither he went."
It is a far call from Abraham in
the twentieth century before
Christ to America in the twentieth
century after. But youth, in its
hopes and dreams, its temptations
and problems, is the same always.
You, of this graduating class,
are moving out toward your future
in what John Fiske called a critical
period of American history. Years
ago on the day the speaker grad-
uated from Princeton Seminary he
received a letter from a classmate
of his father's. They had graduated
in the early sixties, when the coun-
try was entering the Civil War. In
his letter he said: "How different
everything seems now from what it
was when your beloved father and
I turned our faces out from those
classic halls at Princeton. Clouds
and darkness were about the na-
tion. We knew not what lay be-
fore us. Some of us were to march
with the boys in blue, and some
were to wear the grey. Some of us,
too, were to pay the last full meas-
ure of devotion in those awful
years that lay ahead. You can
thank God, my boy, that those
days are past."
Once more the nation is in the
birth throes of a new day, and we
go out not knowing whither we
go. But we firmly believe that the
God who in the sixties was guid-
ing America to a new and better
day is still leading on.
There are three lights bv which
ev^ry great soul from Abraham
until now has charted his course
as he moved out into the unknown.
The first is the light of faith.
What is faith? It is risking some-
thing on an uncertainty. We live
by faith. There is no other way.
You are planning the work of to-
morrow. How do you know there
will be any tomorrow? You don't
know. You are walking by faith.
You cannot enter the employ of
another with a promise of salary,
without faith. You cannot consult
a doctor and take a prescription
he gives you without faith. Think
of the young woman who stands
at the marriage altar and says to
the young man beside her: "I take
thee for better, for worse; for
richer, for poorer; in sickness and
in health, till death us do part,"
what a sublime expression of trust
it is. Faith enters into every con-
scious act of existence. It is bound
up with the warp and woof of life.
And this in spite of the fact that
they in whom we trust so often
fail us.
The Christian religion asks that
we repose the same trust in God
that we give so unquestioningly to
our fellows.
This is not always easy. God is
outside the ken of our physical
senses. We cannot see, or hear, or
touch Him, and, therefore, He is
not readily demonstrated to the
reason. It is here that faith enters.
It is a kind of sixth sense that en-
ables us to know God.
We cannot conceive of anything
in the world more helpless and in-
adequate than a life which has no
religious faith. It is always sad to
see a blind man, who all his days
must grope in the dark trying to
touch something on which he can
lean. But what of the soul who has
no sight of the Father of Heaven,
who cannot see or feel or know the
love of God, to whom life is naught
but a blind alley with nothing be-
yond it?
This life of ours is like a dwell-
ing with three stories. From the
lowest we can see the material
world about us. There are five
windows in this lower story, senses
we call them, through which we
look out. We cannot see very far
from this level and yet there are
many who never rise above it. They
live in the sphere of their senses.
Their only thoughts are, "What
shall I eat, and what shall 1 drink,
and wherewithal shall I be
clothed?"
On the second story of this
dwelling of ours is the domain of
the mind. There are the windows
of the intellect through which we
can see the glorious achievements
of human life and thought in the
past and the present.
From these windows you have
been looking during your years of
study. What wonders have unfold-
ed themselves to you there. You
have caught the vision of freedom
from Esdraelon and Thermopylae:
Bannockburn and Gettysburg. You
have touched the brush of Raphael
and the chisel of Michael Angelo.
Yqu have heard the symphonies of
the masters of music. You have
revelled in the riches of literature
and have been stirred by the teach-
ings of philosophy and science.
But there are many things which
cannot be seen from this second
story, without which your lives
will be sadly incomplete, and you
must come up still higher into the
realm of the spiritual, where are
the windows of faith.* You have
deep questions of life that trouble
you. Don't try to answer them
from where you stand. Come up
higher. There, through the win-
dows of the soul, you can see be-
yond the mists to the very city of
God.
The second light by which. to
chart our course is Hope. A mod-
ern painter has pictured hope in a
fine way. Down in a coal pit a
miner is digging in the dirt and the
darkness, and this is his task day
after day, year after year.
Hopeless! you say. Yes, if you
see nothing but what surrounds
him in that mine. But the painter
looks beyond that scene. He pic-
tures what the man sees through
the eyes of his hopes. There are a
vine-covered cottage, and a smiling
wife, and little children coming
forth to meet him when the work
of the day is done. He sees the
welcome home and the peace and
joy of the fireside. From the des-
pair of monotony and weariness he
is saved by the hope that wells up
like a never-failing spring in his
heart.
This hope, so necessary to facing
what is before us, is not possible
apart from Christian faith. Hope-
fulness is not, as we sometimes con-
ceive it, a matter of a cheerful dis-
position alone. Life brings so many
disappointments and disillusion-
ments that sooner or later the most
sanguine temperament will give
way before it, if it is founded on
nothing deeper than feeling. Dis-
position is not the basis of hope. It
is faith in God. If you have no
Christian faith, your hope will not
long survive the severe tests that
life puts upon it.
It is hope that rekindles the fire
of enthusiasm in the ashes of fail-
ure.
After the graduation of Stone-
wall Jackson at West Point he be-
came Commandant of the Virginia
Military Institute in Lexington.
There was a time, we are told,
when he was about to resign be-
cause of his inability to enforce
discipline. The cadets were so un-
ruly in the class room and the bar-
racks that he could not control
them. But he did not give up. He
had failed, but hope did not die.
He felt that the God. to whom he
prayed was leading him on.
Then came the war and in a few
months Stonewall Jackson had be-
come one of the most famous dis-
ciplinarians of modern times. Not
since the days of Cromwell had
warfare known anything to com-
pare with the iron discipline of
Jackson's Valley Brigade. It was
DEDICATION PRAYER
(Given in behalf of the Senior
Class by the President of the
College just before the diplomas
were delivered.)
Our Fatljer, in the quiet of
this moment, may our thoughts
be drawn from aught else and
be centered 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 pres-
ence the way their feet may go.
Sanctify the choices they are to
make. Open their eyes that they
may see Thee beckoning from
the low 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 rep-
resented, 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.
the greatest asset of the Confeder-
acy until the peerless leader fell at
Chancellorsville. On the very field
where he had failed he won his rrtost
conspicuous success because he
never lost hope.
Yes, hope is a light which you
will need in the days that are ahead
and it is kindled at the altars of
Christian faith.
The third light on the pilgrim's
way is Love. Perhaps you recall in
George Eliot's "Daniel Deronda"
the old Jew who said to Daniel:
"Always bind love to duty." He
was saying what Jesus taught in
His parable of the foolish virgins.
They were going to a wedding feast
and took their lamps to light them
on the way. But they took no oil
and by and by the lamps went out
and they never reached their desti-
nation.
Love is a light that will make all
your path bright, but you must re-
plenish it constantly or it, too, will
go out.
There is a young couple on their
wedding day setting out together.
How brightly the light of love
shines on their pathway. But life
for them contains no serious pur-
pose. They do not bind love to duty
and the light goes out.
How often this is true of our im-
pulses to do good. We see suffer-
ing and need and our hearts over-
flow with love and sympathy. But
we do not answer the call. The
impulse dies within us and the light
of love grows dim and fails.
Young men and women come
into our churches. They are stirred
with holy longings. Their love for
Christ is very warm and real. But
they make no sacrifice and under-
take no service for Him, and the
light goes out. They have not
bound love to duty.
In the biography of Henry
Drummond is an incident that lives
in my memory. Drummond was at
the time associated with Edinburg'
University. One day he received a
letter from a student which was
filled with agnosticism and unbe-
lief. He went that evening to see
the young man and failed to make
the slightest impression on him.
One day, a short time after, as
he looked out over the students in
his lecture room he saw the man
who had written that letter. He
was sitting beside an American stu-
dent. As the boys filed out he
stopped the American and asked if
he knew the man who had been sit-
ting beside him. "Yes," was the
reply, "and he is the reason I am
here. You know I finished my work
months ago, and was about to sail
for home, when I found out that
my friend next to me in the dis-
secting room, while he is a man of
brilliant mind, has no Christian
faith. I thought it over and de-
cided to stay and see if I could win
him. A year more or less will make
little difference in my life and it
may mean everything to him."
Three months passed and the end
of the year had come. Before the
students in Edinburg separate to
go out into all parts of the world
they have a communion service to-
gether.
Mr. Drummond was in the pul-
pit. He looked out over the con-
gregation of students. There sat the
young American and by his side
was his friend. They were taking
the sacrament together. He had *
won his man.
"I never saw that American stu-
dent again," said Drummond. "But
I met the other man a little while
after, and asked him what he was
going to do with his life." "I am
going out to India as a medical mis-
sionary," was the answer.
Those two young men had bound
love to duty. They had kindled a
light that would shine more and
more.
Young women of the graduating
class, as you go out from the shelt-
ered halls where you have been so
happy during these years, into the
busy, crowded ways of life, our
prayers and hopes go with you.
If the high ideals for which our
forefathers \ind foremothers con-
tended so earnestly are to continue;
if America is still to be a Christian
nation, depend in large measure
upon its women.
You are going out to take your
places among the leaders of the wo-
manhood of this land, and of its
manhood, too. Yours is a solemn
responsibility. May the God of
your mothers be your God, and
may these lights which He set for
you, Faith in God, Hope that will
not accept defeat, and Love, bound
to duty, never go out.
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SCHOOL OF NURSING
DURHAM, N. C.
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is awarded after three years and
the Degree of Bachelor of Science
in Nursing for two additional
years of approved college work
before or after this nursing course.
The entrance requirements are in-
telligence, character and gradua-
tion from an acceptable high
school; preference is given for one
or more years of successful college
work. The tuition is $100 per year
which includes all cost of mainten-
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Catalogues and application
forms, which must be filed before
August first for admission Sep-
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from the Dean.
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THE AGONISTIC
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Class Will
(Continued from Page 1)
individuals have been diminished
by tons daily, through dining ex-
clusively upon the edible fruitage
of a large perennial herbaceous
tropical plant, otherwise known as
the banana.
To the coming generations of
Hottentots, those ambitious seek-
ers after truth, knowledge and vir-
tue, we leave the reality of "The
Greater Agnes Scott" when son-
atas and concertos are no longer
emitted from Main Hall, when
plaster falleth not on the heads of
them who peacefully sleep, and
when the chapel will be sound
proof enough to spite the morning
Locomotive!
More specifically than the afore-
mentioned, we do allot and be-
queath the residue of our talents,
charms and possessions to the fol-
lowing worthy survivors:
I, Laura Coit, in an endeavor to
leave the most symbolic emblem of
my executive authority, do be-
queath one pair of Enna Jettick
corrective shoes to Mary Ellen
Whetsell that she may step into
them, putting her "sole" in her
work.
I, Nell Hemphill, having be-
stowed senior lights, special per-
missions, and maternal advice upon
the heads of scores of freshmen, do
herein bequeath my room (number
44) to Mary Hollingsworth, that
she may hereafter shelter the home-
sick, comfort the flunking, and
"make hay" with those who make
it!
I, Grace Tazewell, being direct-
ly descended from the renowned
General F. F. V. Blueblood of Vir-
ginia, do leave to Mutt Fite classi-
cal ability to rush to the maximum
number of places in the minimum
length of time on only two legs.
I, Eliza King, do bequeath to
the Encyclopedia Brittanica, Who's
Who for 193 8, and Dr. Zilch's
Current Almanac my infinite rep-
ertoire of knowledge, that bound-
less aggregation of scholarship and
information ranging from the mar-
ginal utility of wages to a good
cure for hay fever.
I, Giddy Goldylocks Erwin, do
bequeath my infallible gift of gab
to one who so conscientiously ri-
valed, but consistently failed to
subdue me that cheerful little
earful, Georgia Everhart Hunt.
I, Jean Matthews, having en-
dured recent "losses" do bequeath
(if found) such tonnage as may
be useful to Freck Sproles, provid-
ing the recipient be under proper
guardianship until she comes of age
to receive her inheritance.
I, Elsie Blackstone, Bachelor of
Arts, Honor Roll, Phi Beta Kappa
and Eta Sigma Phi do bequeath
my genius for super-cultivation of
my cerebral hemispheres to Sarah
Thurman, that no latent gray mat-
ter may become atrophied at Agnes
Scott where knowledge is virtue.
I, Pixie Fairley, being a cher-
ished member of the senior class
a fact which is positively undebat-
able do will and bequeath what-
ever I've got that other people
haven't got, to whomsoever in fu-
ture generations so desires to be
the life of the party.
I, Jean Barry Adams, beloved,
adored and wooed from Main to
Miami, do bequeath my first salary
check to the Associated Florists
and Gift Shops of the Atlantic
(Continued on Page 4)
Meet Your Friends at
Cox's Prescription Shop
Between Paramount and Grand
Theatres, Atlanta
See You Next Year
GILL CLEANERS
Class History
(Continued from Page 1)
Rose the shining steps of Main;
There the wise and aged Sponsors,
Greeted us with books in hand.
Led us off to registration,
Led us off with resignation.
Many things the Sponsors taught us,
Of the signing in and out,
Showed us teachers and celebrities,
Showed the broad white road to fame.
Garbed in dresses snowy white,
From our high school graduation night
Like gleaming shapes we floated by,
Dead-pale before the faculty reception,
'Til our blood was frozen slowly,
And our eyes were darkn'd wholly,
And our ears were tired from straining
For the introductions mumbled lowly.
A simple Child,
That lightly draws its breath,
And feels its life in every limb,
What should we know of Mortar Board
parties?
Trailing clouds of perfume did we come
From Inman, which was our home.
Our hearts lept up when we beheld
The lines and lines of men;
So was it when our lives began;
So is it now we are women;
So be it when we shall grow old, or let
us die!
But alas,
When the stags at eve had had their fill,
Where danced the moon on Buttrick's rill,
And deep their fond farewells had made,
In the Parlor's dim lamp-shade,
Away they sprang with a whoop and a
noisy din,
And none of those men came back again!
Life was real, Life was earnest,
And books were not its goal;
So to the stunt we turned
We were the masters of our fates,
We were the captains of our souls!
Oh, and proudly stood we up,
Our hearts within us did not fail;
We looked into the footlight's glare
And told our Mar's Confection tale.
They never fail who die
In a great cause; the papers may have
Featured our defeat; the Soph'mores
May have tasted victory sweet,
But still our spirits walked abroad,
Our heads were bloody but unbowed!
Then one morning after,
While we nodded, nearly napping, sud-
denly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping rapping
at our chamber doors.
" 'Tis exams," we muttered, "tapping at
our chamber door
Only this and nothing more."
Ah, distinctly we remember it was in
the bleak December
And each unopened book wrought its
ghost upon the floor,
Eagerly we sought our books vainly
sought to borrow
Some increase for knowledge knowledge
for the morrow.
Then, blue books to the right of us,
Blue books to the left of us,
Questions in front of us,
Volley 'd and thundered!
Not tho' the freshmen knew
Some one had blundered
Into the valley of exams we strode.
Ours not to make reply
Ours not to reason why
Ours but to do and die,
And we done it!
Fite the Second
Out of childhood into Sophhood
Now had grown we thirty-eighters,
Skilled in all the craft of cramming,
Learned in all the lore of hunting,
In all youthful sports and pastimes,
In all woman's arts, deceptions.
And our ears had grown accustomed
To the bells!
To the loud alarum, class, and 'phone
bells,
To the wrangling,
To the jangling,
Of the bells
Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells
Of the clamor and the clangor ef the
bells!
Many storms we braved in that year,
Many storms in old Decatur,
Came the greatest one in thirty moons,
Swept upon us in our terror;
Since we were youths,
Such sheets of fire, such bursts of horrid
thunder,
Such groans of roaring wind and rain, we
never
Remember to have heard; man's nature
could not carry
The affliction nor the fear.
And the old magnolia tree died!
It was a charm lady,
And she stopped one of three.
"By thy youthful figure and sparkling
eye,
Now wherefore stopps't me?
The dining room doors are opened wide,
And I must hasten in;
They're doughnuts I bet; the table's set:
May'st hear the merry din."
She held us with her sparkling eye
We Soph'mores stood still,
And listened like three year children;
The charm lady hath her will.
Carrots, carrots, everywhere,
And all the boarders did shrink;
Carrots, carrots, everywhere
And tons of water to drink!
She was a phantom of delight was the
charm lady
When first she gleamed upon our sight;
A dancing Shape an Image gay,
To haunt, to startle, and way-lay.
But now we see with eye serene
The very pulse of that machine;
No being breathing thoughtful merit
But a healthy animated carrot!
Of that great year the event in main
Came in the form of the daisy chain
Wee modest crimson-tipped flower,
Thou's met us in an evil hour;
For we maun crush among the stoure
Thy slender stem;
To spare thee now is past our pow'r,
Thou bonie gem.
Such is the fate of artless maid,
Sweet flow'ret of the rural shade!
By collegiate custom old betrayed, and
guiless brain:
Till all yes, all are soiled and made into
a daisy chain.
Ev'n thou who mourn'st the daisy's fate,
That fate is thine no distant date;
Stern seniors' class day presses on,
Full on thy bloom,
Till forced to pick from dark 'til dawn,
Shall be thy doom!
Fite the Third
Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote
The droghte of March hath perced to the
roote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licour
Of which vertu- engendred is the flour;
Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgri-
mages,
And soph-mores for to seken straunge
strondes
To feme halwes of the Junior year;
Brick in the crannied wall,
We put you into the library.
We put you there, cement and all, with
our money
Little brick but /'/ everyone could see
How our class almost won the campaign
Then they should know how our library
came to be.
Our hair is grey, but not with years,
Nor grew it white
In a single night,
As men's have grown from sudden fears.
But silvered from the bloody fights,
Waged upon the numerous opera nights;
For ours has been the fate of those
Who rode the street cars clad in evening
clothes.
Clap, Clap, Clap,
In thy grey plush seats, Oh Fox!
And we would that our tongues could
utter
The thoughts that arise in us.
O, well for Kirsten Flagstad
When she shouts as the piano plays!
O, well for the Eddy lad
As thousands with a note he slays!
And the concert series go on
To their haven over the hill;
But O for the scenes of the Ballet Russe,
And the sound of a voice that is still!
Clap, Clap, Clap, from our box
In thy grey plush seats, Oh Fox!
Blow, Bugle, Blow, set the Junior Banquet
sighing,
And answer, picoloes, dying, dying,
dying.
The hand bell tolls the knell of parting
day,
The bloss'ming Juniors wind slowly down
the staircase;
Beside them plod the patient dates their
weary way,
And enter in with martyred, smiling face.
Tears, idle tears, we know not what they
mean,
Tears from the depth of some divine
despair
Rose in the heart, and gathered to the
eyes,
When we watched the orchestra departing,
Just as the second course was starting.
Fite the Fourth and Last
Four years we grew in sun and shower,
The teachers said, "Oh, lovelier flowers
On earth will never fail;
These maidens by our precepts stayed,
Our efforts have repaid, and we have
made
Ladies of them all!
They have been sportive as the fawns
In their sports upon the lawns,
The floating clouds their motion lent
As they in May Day gracefully bent.
And beauty born of murmuring sound
In songs from Senior Opera found
Shall linger long in every ear,
Although, alas, despite our careful vigil,
It still bears the taint of the original!"
Thus the teachers spake the work is
done
How soon our little race was run!
We go, and leave to thee
This heath, this calm and quiet scene;
The memory of what has been,
And never more will be.
Epilogue
Quoth the raven, "Nevermore!"
Dr. McCain Announces
Finlal Awards
(Con t inued from Page I)
Louise Young, Soochow, China.
Graduation with honor, based on
the 4-year record:
Elizabeth Blackshear, Atlanta,
Ga.
Jean Chalmers, Atlanta, Ga.
Laura Coit, Richmond, Va.
Hortense Jones, Atlanta, Ga.
Mary Anne Kernan, Atlanta, Ga.
Anne Thompson, Richmond, Va.
Jane Turner, Atlanta, Ga.
AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE
DECATUR, GA.
A college for women that is widely recog-
nized for its standards of work and for the
interesting character of its student activities.
For further information, address
J. R. McCAIN, President
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THE AGONISTIC
Matthews Receives
Science Key
Jeanne Matthews, for excel-
lence in science, for promise in
scientific fields, and for general in-
terest in Chi Beta Phi Sigma scien- |
tific association, was awarded the
honorary science key in a special
chapel program on Friday, May 20.
The key is an annual prize, given
by the national Chi Beta Phi Scien-
tific Association to each local chap-
ter for presentation to the most
outstanding student of science.
Class Will
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Coast, that they may not be forced
into bankruptcy at the termination
of my local residence.
I, Lettie McKay, do bequeath
my diminutive statue to Suzanne
Bellingrath that she may hereafter
"be facilitated in getting through
"tight spots."
I, Mildred Davis, do leave my
unrivaled powers of "concentra-
tion" (Shhh!) as a permanent
and unchanging endowment to the
college library, that my spirit may
enrich the term papers and exami-
nations of students for ages to
come.
I, Tommy Ruth Blackmon, su-
per-"organ"-izer, do bequeath the
college chapel organ to Mr. Dieck-
mann to^ "console" him in his de-
clining years.
We, Winifred Kellersberger,
Elizabeth Skinner, Anne Thomp-
son, Bee Sexton, Samille Saye, Mar-
jorie Rainey, Margaret Lipscomb,
Nell Allison, Martha Foster and
Margaret Morrison, zealous to up-
hold the matrimonial ideals of Ag-
nes Scott, do bequeath to our alma
mater 12% of the traditional 60%
of diamond rings!
I, Ellen Little, having neither
spare time nor spare tires, do be-
queath my most treasured, and
likevise obvious possession, that
rippling, drippling bit of efferves-
cence, that interminable and im-
measurable gift of laughter, this
joy of living ("joie de vivre") to
Laura Thomas that she may be an
endless and spontaneous source of
mirth to all humanity.
I, Jane Turner, having guided
America's Greatest Shoe Values!
Jeanne Matthews
the senior class through Littles
Girl's Day, Investiture, and up to
the point of this memorable and
timely occasion, do herein bequeath
to my .successor, Cary Wheeler,
the challenge to "carry-on" next
year but of course within the
bounds of propriety!
I, "Henry" Roper Ford, feeling
duly remorseful over the prospect
of relinquishing my established
reputation as a campus landmark,
would blushingly delight in taking
the very coat of paint off my
back for a friend in need, but since
Mary Nell Tribble's trail of glory
has taken the limelight, I have
nothing to bequeath but a rattler or
two for the class mascot!
All the remainder of our estate,
real or imaginary, not specifically
allotted including odd hair pins,
flunk slips, mouse traps or what
have you we do will and bequeath
to the local charities, to be in the
custody of Sam Olive Griffin un-
til legally distributed to deserving
and needy applicants.
In witness whereof, we hereunto
subscribe our name and set our
seal this the sixth day of June in
the year of our Lord nineteen hun-
dred and thirty-eight.
(Signed) Elsie West, Testator.
Witnesses:
"Skinny"
Mary Cox
Miss "Darty"
Rebecca Drucker last week re-
ceived the journalism prize offered
by K. U. B. for the best work dur-
ing the year as a member of the
club. K. U. B. has as its purpose
the publicity for Agnes Scott in the
home-town papers, and through its
members it keeps these papers in-
formed of any honors which come
to the students here.
Special Programs
To Mark Semi-Centennial
College Will Celebrate
Throughout Year
By Dr. J. R. McCain
In September, 1939, Agnes Scott will be fifty years old. It
started as Decatur Female Seminary, with two regular teach-
ers and sixty students of grammar grade level (including
five boys). It was operated in a rented building (half of our
present White House) which stood on the site now occupied
by Main Building. The entire assets of the school were com-
posed of a subscription list of five thousand dollars ($5,000)
which had been promised by various members of the Decatur
Presbyterian Church.
From that very simple begin-
Six Students
Receive Awards
At Athletic Banquet
Six students and one class were
honored at the Athletic Associa-
tion banquet on May 18 with the
final athletic awards of the year.
The golf cup went to Jean Da-
vidowitz, freshman, who defeated
Carolyn Forman in the finals of the
tournament held at Forest Hills.
Letters, awarded to students hav-
ing 1,600 points in athletics, were
won by Virginia Milner, Jane
Moore Hamilton, Emma McMullen,
and Carolyn Forman.
Original Waffle Shop
Restaurant
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very
ning has developed the Institution
which we now call Agnes Scott
College. It is the story of the
growth of the Institution that we
wish to depict and to celebrate dur-
ing the year 1939-1940.
A very able committee has been
appointed by the Board of Trustees
to work out the details of the cele-
bration. Professor S. G. Stukes is
the chairman, and the other mem-
bers are: Mr. George Winship, Mrs.
S. M. Inman, Mr. J. J. Scott, Miss
Louise McKinney, Miss Llewellyn
Wilburn, Professor Philip David-
son, Miss Carrie Scandrett, Mrs. D.
B. Donaldson, Mrs. Crawford F.
Bennett, Mrs. Sam Inman Cooper,
and Mrs. J. F. Durrett. The com-
mittee has authority to add to its
membership other people who can
be of service and to arrange for the
whole program of our Semi-Centen-
nial period.
While detailed plans have not
yet been announced or perhaps
even worked out, the general idea
of the celebration has been tenta-
tively adopted. It is felt that in-
stead of having one big day or week
for the program, it will be wiser to
distribute the proceedings over a
considerable period.
Possibly in the spring of 1939,
the College Community may have
some celebration of the event itself
and may possibly undertake some
specific campaign toward the ob-
jectives to be met. At Commence-
ment in 1939 there will probably
be some features relating to the
program, though these are likely to
be of a preliminary character.
At the opening of college in the
fall of 1939, there will doubtless be
opportunity for certain emphases.
In connection with the Homecom-
ing plans of the Alumnae about
Thanksgiving time, there will
probably be other activities. On
Founder's Day, February 22, there
will doubtless be special speakers
and perhaps a pageant. It is thought
that the May Day program in the
spring of 1940 may center around
the Semi-Centennial. Possibly the
climax of the whole program may
come at Commencement in 1940.
As to how any of these exercises
may be arranged, the committee
has not yet made announcements.
The Board has not yet formulat-
ed definite campaign plans. It is
uncertain what definite figure may
be set for this. So far in its his-
tory, Agnes Scott has never lost a
campaign after arranging for an-
nounced objectives; and we would
prefer to seek for a smaller sum
than to fail in full attainment.
We are hoping that the Semi-
Centennial will mean a great deal
of happiness and satisfaction for
all who are now connected with the
Institution as well as for those who
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1958 to Find Senior Class in
Varied Occupations
By Giddy Erwin
It was in New York in the
spring of 195 8. In the midst of
skimming, whizzing, stream-lined
traffic, baffled pedestrians were
making valiant attempts to ward
off the advances of an apparently
inebriated red Satan on four wheels
driven by two hat-clutching, mid-
dle-aged women..
"For heaven's sake, Joyce,"
gasped the non-driving woman,
whose pink hair clashed violently
with the crimson car. "Why did
you insist that we come to this
convention in Little Henry?"
Joyce looked hurt. "I'm sorry,
Gina. I just thought it would give
us that collegiate atmosphere again
after all these years!"
"That's a good point! What is
old Elsie doing these days?"
"Hadn't you heard, Gina? She's
president of the Elsie West Greet-
ing Card Firm, and I hear she's
really making a go of it."
"Oh, that's wonderful! Couldn't
we look her up now before the con-
vention begins? But, I forgot! I
don't know her address."
Thus began the search of the
ages (search is life, I suppose). Vir-
ginia Watson and Joyce Roper were
determined to find Elsie. There
was to be no West for them until
they succeeded.
Sitting in Henry in the middle
of Broadway with high-powered
cars streamlining all-around them,
the first thing that struck their
eyes was a green sign Weir and
Whitner Expert Psychopathic
Ward. Naturally, there was a good
chance that Elsie would be here, so
the two girls leaned Little Henry
up against a lamp post and dashed
inside. To their amazement, there
were Mary Belle Weir and Lydia
Whitner in third-dimensional spec-
tacles and Weir-ing black gowns
examining a patient. Furthermore,
who should the patient be but
Gladys Sue Rogers? It seems that
she had become Dr. Davidson's sec-
retary after graduation in 193 8 and
had been helping him compile his
book on the American ^Revolution
ever since. The strain had finally
made her succumb. All of the
ladies were still talking over old
times when Laura Coit came in for
her regular daily treatment. As
president of S. P. U. S. N. O. T.
W. S. A. S. Society for the Pre-
vention of Unnecessary Letters in
the Name or Organization to
Which Students Are Sent she had
to have constant attention. None
of the women knew where Elsie
lived, but Laura said that she dis-
tinctly remembered reading an ac-
count in Hortense Jones' yellow
sheet, The Tawny Tattler, of El-
sie's departure for a trip to Ireland
to get atmosphere for her St. Pat-
rick's Day cards. There was a
chance that she might be coming
in on the Europa. (At any rate,
the-Eu-rop-a would be worth hang-
ing around!)
Gina and Joyce scuttled into
Little Henry and headed for the
Battery as straight as possible in
Henry's condition. When they got
to the wharfs, they of course real-
ized that someone had already
"stacked the dock," and they were
on the point of demanding a new
deal when they spied the Europa
herself nosing into place. Among
the crowd that they coud discern
lilting down the gangplank were:
that international charm expert,
Peek Brown; Jo Bertolli, who was
returning from picking up the
pieces in Spain; and those two Ag-
nes Scott Amazons, Helen Rodgers,
the Olympic hockey champion,
Meet At
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and Regina Hurwitz, queen of the
ice skates. They could hardly see
the last two for the crowd of au-
tograph fiends, but when the mob
had cleared away somewhat they
recognized two additions to the
group, Martha Alice Green, dippy
diplomat to France, and Nelle
Scott Earthman, clearer-upper of
International Relations. In the
background, Nancy Moorer and
Grace Tazewell were trying to
slink by unnoticed in their black
nun's robes. However, out of all
the chase, Gina and Joyce noticed
one thing everyone seemed to be
moving in the same direction.
When they eagerly asked where
everyone was going so fast, people
looked at them as if they had been
Rip Van Winkle. It seemed that
the mass movement was to the new-
est Jean Chalmers production on
Forty-Second Street a musical
comedy this time, very hi-de-ho
and risque, appropriately called
"the Perfect '3 8."
This sounded like an ideal place
for Elsie to be, so Gina and Joyce
sauntered forth again in Little
Henry. Oddly enough, all along
the way, they encountered remind-
ers of their old classmates. First a
brilliantly-lighted restaurant sign
struck their attention; and after in-
vestigating, they found that Gwen-
dolyn McKee had donated her edu-
cation in the classics and her ex-
perience in Eta Sigma Phi to run-
ning a Greek restaurant. Several
blocks further, the strains of "Re-
joice, Ye Pure in Heart" lifted out
over the heavy traffic and they
dashed into the Broadway Taber-
nacle to discover Bee Merrill, the
great revivalist, opening her meet-
ing with hymn 301. Around the
corner they encountered still an-
other surprise a German saloon
run by Martha Long and her hus-
band to which Ursula was gracious-
ly lending local color. Kat Brit-
tingham and Ern Robinson were
warbling torch songs at the jernt
next door; but Gina and Joyce had
to resist the temptation to stay and
listen.
When they finally reached the
theatre, it was almost time for the
performance to begin. The audi-
ence was in a dither of expectation,
for it was another Jane Guthrie-
Carol Hale concoction, guarantee
of perfect plot manipulation. Fur-
thermore, those incomparable com-
posers, Tommy Ruth Blackmon,
Nell Hemphill, and Primmie Noble
had written the lyrics. (It was
even rumored that the girls had
written the songs in bed at least
the orchestra was using sheet mu-
sic.) At any rate, the scenery was
designed by that famous Castle-
berry-Zoe Wells - Suttenfield - Zoe
What Corporation and the audience
was appropriately agog at the rise
of the curtain. Myrl Chafin's
sword-swallowing number was the
hit of the show, although she had
to share honors with those Wahoo
Warblers, Lettie McKay and Lib
Blackshear, and that violent violin-
ist, Kitten Fulton.
All in all, the show was a huge
success although a bit tainted
and Gina and Joyce were thrilled
Just call the Express
Company. Without any
extra charge to you they
will send it to . . .
to have witnessed another Chalmers
spectacle, although they had not
found Elsie yet.
They were milling madly through
the mill after the show when they
heard an excited conflict of famil-
iar voices. Above the chatter came
the strain of Babbie Adams' voice
subduing the others with the choice
morsel: "Have you heard that
Louise Bailey, Sara Corbitt, Mary
Elizabeth Galloway, Mary Nell
Tribble, Kay Ricks, and Pixie Fair-
ly were so inspired by their own
cigarette dance in our Senior Opera
that they opened a cigarette fac-
tory immediately after graduation?
I hear they're still at it in Win-
ston-Salem, North Carolina."
Plowing over to the cluster of
Agnes Scott alumnae, Gina and
Joyce were thrilled to see a group
of the Mammoth Matrons of the
class in New York on a lark to for-
get their cuckoo husbands. Espe-
cially in evidence were Martha Fos-
ter, Winifred Kellersberger, Eliza-
beth Lawler, Margaret Lipscomb,
Margaret Morrison, Marjorie Rain-
ey, Samille Saye, Bee Sexton, Lib
Skinner, Anne Thompson, Sue
Bryan, and Mary Venetia Smith.
Babbie's bid to superiority over the
others was the fact that she had
been married twice. She had found
her husbands, it seems, after look-
ing high and low in fact, the
shortest boy at the Seminary and
the tallest boy at Carolina. Jean
Austin, too, had an extra bid to
fame, as she had married a G-Man
and had been sent with him back
to her Alma Mater several times to
investigate the sale of degrading
love magazines among the students.
Finding that none of the gals
knew of Elsie's whereabouts, Gina
and Joyce decided to try Coney
Island. The first thing they saw
upon entering Luna Park was a
pair of somewhat disconcerted feet
waving wildly out of the rolling
barrel. It ended that these belonged
to none other than Genevieve Baird,
matron of the Baird Orphanage.
As a matter of fact, she had fifty
of her charges with her at the mo-
ment; so Gina and Joyce moved on
rather quickly. They were immedi-
ately attracted by the noises of the
side-show barkers, whose barks
seemed worse than their bites.
Imagine their amazement when they
discovered that the Yowling Yodel-
lers were those two spoken screech
primer dummies, Lib Cousins and
Mary Ann Kernan! Lured into the
first of the side shows by the Ker-
nan-Cousins Diaphragmic Distor-
tions^ they were even more amazed
to find as the first thing on the
program a dance of down-and-out
chorus girls Eliza King, life presi-
dent of the class, was the leader in
her Charleston Act, and close be-
hind her were these matter-over-
mind mumblebrains, Mildred Da-
vis, Elise Seay, Louise Young, and
Elsie Blackstone. As they them-
selves said, it wasn't very uplifting
work except for the feet but,
after all, "a girl has to live!"
Outside this show, they bumped
into those two famous scientists,
Ann Worthy Johnson and Jeanne
Matthews. After Ann Worthy ex-
plained to them her new patented
method for effecting cures by
teaching the patients bull fighting,
and Jeanne had protested that nat-
ural dancing was much better, the
four began cruising around the
park together. They rode first on
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None but the moving heart can
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Of joy that while it quickens turns
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The soul uprooted from a quiet
, place
Must feel the aching bliss of last
delight.
Yet hoarded happiness cannot deny
Doubts that with the dwindling
/jours increase:
Where find a light, what answer to
a cry?
None but the seeing spirit makes
its peace.
Here have we found a wall against
the wind.
Here a shelter from the shuffling
seas;
And yet the ocean's spindle must
rescind
Its giant web even from the
Hebrides.
Life's the sweeter for its ebb and
flow;
The sands are run, the waters
shift, we go.
the Dipsy Doodle, a peculiar,
wheeled contraption which was
literally turning all New York up-
side down in its up-and-coming
way, and which had been invented
by that ace of mechanics, Helen
Friedlander. They alighted from
this "one-good-turn-across" an-
other ride and wandered on to the
next attraction, where Daredevil
Douglas, Demon of the Deep Dives,
was stunting through the air with
the greatest of ease. To speak
plainly, this speed demon was none
other than that stunt pilot, Mag
Douglas. They were still gazing in
wonder at her aerial antics, when a
series of pistol shots broke forth
behind them and they looked back
to see a crowd congregating. Fol-
lowing the mob, they discovered
that the root of all the excitement
was none other than Two-Gun
Tucker from Texas (Doris Tucker
to w you) whooping things up in her
own way. It seemed that she'd be-
come a second Annie Oakley; and,
as a matter of fact, she could tell
you herself that "Mighty Oakleys
from little Annies grow!' "
But time was twiddling by, and
Elsie's residence was as yet to be
unearthed; so co-presidents Watson
and Roper told the other women
good-bye, and trundled back to the ,
metropolis. On a sudden impulse
they decided to drive down into
Greenwich Village. "You know
Elsie always threatened to adopt the
Bohemian life, any way," com-
mented Joyce, as Little Henry Ford
joggled them down Seventh Ave-
nue. Of course, in the maze of the
streets and shops and houses in
Greenwich Village, Elsie was no-
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THE AGONISTIC
Agnes Scott College
Decatur, Ga.
THE AGONISTIC
Sditoriah
features
Vol. XXIII. No. 22.
June 7, 1938
M. Maurois
To Lecture
In March
Andre Maurois, noted French
novelist and biographer, will lec-
ture here next March 3 0th, accord-
ing to the announcement of Miss
Emma May Laney, faculty adviser
of Lecture Association. Having
lectured in America at Yale and
Princeton about ten years ago, M.
Maurois returns for his second tour
in America to give only fourteen
lectures.
Andre Maurois is the author of
Ariel'. The Life of Shelly, a best
seller in two languages and three
countries. This book alone estab
lished his reputation among modern
biographers. His most important
works since Ariel have been biog
raphies of Englishmen, The Life of
Disraeli, and Byron. He also wrote
several novels, Bernard Ouesnay,
Climats, and The Weigher of Souls,
in addition to some miscellaneous
works.
French. At Princeton, where he
lectured as the first incumbent of
the Meredith Howland Payne Lec
tureship in French Literature, he
was seen as "the keen and sensitive
type of Frenchman, a man whose
appearance and every gesture ex
hibit a nervous, driving vitality
leashed by a sympathetic under-
standing and yet scholarly mind/'
Sponsors Are Named
Emma McMullen, Vice President
of Student Government and direc-
tor of orientation for the 193 8-39
session, announces that the follow-
ing upperclassmen will serve as
sponsors for the freshmen and trans-
fer students next year:
Anne Ansley, Mary Louise
Dobbs, Nettie Lee Greer, Bryant
Holsenbeck, Jane Knapp, Mary
Elizabeth Lcavitt, Mary Matthews,
Betty Jean O'Brien, Eva Ann Pir-
kle, Louise Sullivan, Mary Nell
Taylor, Emily Underwood, Eloise
Weeks, Anna Margaret Bond, Sam
Olive Griffin, Mary Carolyn Lee,
Mary Allen, Ruth Syles, Ruth
Slack, Mette Williamson, Alice
Adams, Betty Auberry, Eunice
Knox, Beth Paris, Lou Pate, Penny
Simonton, Mary Hill Oatley, Kath-
erine Patton, Charlotte Golden,
Nell Pinner, Eleanor Hutchens,
Susie Blackmon, Polly Ware, Eve-
lyn Baty, Jeanette Carroll, Anne
Enloe, Annette Franklin, Mary
Lang Gill, Margaret Hopkins,
Georgia Hunt, Mildred Joseph,
Ruth Kaplan, Sara E. Lee, Sophie
Montgomery, Boots Moore, Grace
Ward, Ernestine Cass, Caroline
Alley, Carrie Gene Ashley, Mary
Virginia Brown, Rebecca Drucker,
Lutie Moore, Mary McPhaul, Vir-
ginia Milner, Betsy Banks, Jane
Luthy.
(Ibp AgnntHttr
Agnes Scott College Student
Newspaper
Vol. 23 Tuesday, June 7 No. 22
Published weekly during the
school year, except during examina-
tion periods and holidays by the
students of Agnes Scott College
and entered as second class matter
at the Decatur, Georgia, Post Of-
fice. Member A. C. P', G. C. P. A.
Offices:
Room One, Back Gallery, of Mur-
phey Candler Student Union Bldg.
Subscription:
$1.25 per year in advance.
Editor Mary Frances Guthrie
Business Manager Esthere Ogden
In Retrospection
Sept. 21 Agnes Scott once again "wel-
comes her daughters home."
Sept. 23 Classes begin, and we settle down
to the long, long grind.
Sept. 25 The reception where Frosh meet
Faculty in grand style.
Oct. 1 Twenty-seven girls make 1936-37
Honor Roll.
Oct. 3 Ellen Little starts student budget-
eering.
Oct. 9 Ultra sophomore night club, "The
Top Hat/' gives premiere opening for
freshmen only.
Oct. 16 The Sophs capture the BIG
BLACK CAT.
Oct. 25 Our rules are streamlined 31 sen-
ior chaperones being the result.
Oct. 27 Publication heads form press coun-
cil.
Mortar Board gives Hallowe'en party for
sophomore boarders and dates.
Nov. 1 Agnes Scott is hostess to Southern
University Conference.
Nov. 5 Seniors revert to type on Little Girl
Day.
Nov. 6 Miss Leyburn makes Investiture
address as seniors are capped.
Nov. 9-13 Dr. Alston delivers series of ser-
mons during Religious Week.
Nov. 14-21 The Library is filled with excit-
ing new books for Book Week.
Nov. 17 Mortar Board sells first College
Christmas Cards.
Nov. 19-20 Graduates return for Alumnae
Week-End.
Nov. 19 Mortar Board recognition service;
Dr. McKinney speaks on "Service."
Nov. 20 Blackfriars gives fall production,
"Mrs. Moonlight."
Nov. 25 Thanksgiving Holiday with foot-
ball, turkey, and dance.
Dec. 1-8 All's quiet EXAMS!
Dec. 10 Agnes Scott debates team from
Oxford and Cambridge Universities on
trade union question. Mary Frances
Guthrie and Margaret Hopkins uphold af-
firmative.
Dec. 11 We play Santa Claus to needy tots
of Decatur.
Dec. 12 Mr. Johnson presents College
Choir in effective Christmas Carol pro-
gram.
Dec. 17 No more days till vacation; we dis-
sipate till Jan. 4.
Jan. 1 We all resolve not to put off our
term papers until the week before exams.
Jan. 7 Agnes Scott meets the University
of Melbourne, Australia, in a debate on
the N. L. R. B.
Jan. 10-15 Miss Jervey reforms us at per-
sonality clinic.
Jan. 15 Day students and parents are hon-
ored by Mortar Board.
Jan. 17 Under auspices of the French Club,
Fernand Brossard presents his Guignol.
Jan. 18 Mortar Board introduces fresh-
men to "eligible young men of Decatur
and Atlanta" at County Fair in gym.
Jan. 25 Lecture Association brings Mr.
H. S. Ede to speak on "Pictures Are Like
People."
Jan. 25-29 Honor Week, sponsored by Stu-
dent Government.
Jan. 28 Maurice Evans charms us in
"Richard II" at the Erlanger.
Feb. 5 We elect Myrl Chafin our 1938 May
Queen.
Feb. 8-13 Dr. Robert E. Speer preaches at
daily chapel program.
Feb. 14-17 Institute of Citizenship, spon-
sored by Agnes Scott, Tech, and Emory.
Feb. 15 Christian Association replaces
Y. W. C. A. on campus.
Phi Beta Kappa announces its new mem-
bers: Elsie Blackstone, Jean Chalmers,
Mildred Davis, Eliza King, Elise Seal, Zoe
Wells.
Feb. 19 The juniors have real men plus
corsages at junior banquet.
Blackfriars presents "Pygmalion," by
George Bernard Shaw.
Feb. 22 Founder's Day with banquet, min-
uet, and Cotillion Club dance.
Feb. 23 A. S. C. unofficially boycotts Em-
ory during smallpox scare there.
Fourteen campus beauties are chosen for
May Court.
Feb. 26 Jane Dryfoos manages Mardi Gras
fete with theme of "It Pays to Advertise."
The Agonistic wins prize for most beauti-
ful float.
Mar. 2 The Agonistic adopts modern
(streamline) typography.
James W. Johnson, distinguished negro
poet, lectures here.
Mar. 4 We entertain for 200 Atlanta High
School girls.
Mar. 9-16 Exams upon us again.
Mar. 16-22 Time out for Spring Vacation.
Mar. 24 Chi Beta Phi Sigma selects eight
science students for new members.
Mortar Board initiates ten-week marriage
course for seniors.
Mar. 25 L e c t u r e Association presents
Grand Duchess Marie in talk on "The Old
Life and the New."
Mar. 31-Apr. 1 Student elections for 1938-
1939.
Apr. 1-2 Faculty and students attend
meetings in Atlanta of mathematical and
scientific associations.
Glee Club gives "The Mikado."
Apr. 2 Mortar Board chooses twelve jun-
iors; Miss Laney speaks on "Scholarship."
Agnes Scott speech students take part in
convention of Speech Association.
Apr. 8 Dual debate with Newcomb College,
New Orleans, on the Neutrality Act.
Apr. 11-15 Vocational Week, sponsored by
Christian Association and Mortar Board.
Apr. 18 Winifred Kellersberger installs
new Christian Association cabinet.
Apr. 19-22 Miss Wilburn presides over
opening session here of Southern Associa-
tion of Physical Education Directors for
College Women.
Apr. 21-23 Whetsell, McMullen, M. F.
Guthrie, Benson, and Ogden attend N. S.
F. A. and Press Convention at Vanderbilt
U. ; Whetsell is elected head of women's
division of student government.
Apr. 22 The junior class paper, edited and
managed by Julia Sewell and Jeanne
Flynt, wins The Agonistic cup.
Apr. 23 Mildred Davis wins Quenelle Har-
rold graduate scholarship; Eliza King is
named alternate.
Apr. 27 We celebrate National Peace Day,
cooperating with Emory and Georgia
Tech.
May 3-6 National Music Week with musi-
cal chapej programs.
May 6 May Day with "Midsummer's Night
Dream," given under floodlights at night.
May 7 Laura Coit installs new executive {
staff of Student Government.
The seniors give their colossal opera,
"Charmin'," with Anne Wheaton in title
role and Jane Guthrie as dashing hero,
Don Whoosis.
May 13 Dr. Hayes awards Quenelle Har-
rold debate cup to Margaret Hopkins.
May 17 The Silhouette is released; all les-
sons are neglected.
May 18 A. A. banquet with presentation
of awards and letters.
May 20 Jeanne Matthews wins scientific
medal.
May 26 The seniors elect Eliza King for
their life president.
May 27-June 4 Final exams finish us.
June 4 Trustees' luncheon for graduates of
1938.
Blackfriars gives Euripides' "Trojan
Women."
June 5 Baccalaureate sermon by Dr.
Stuart Nye Hutchison.
Alumnae Open House.
Senior Vespers.
Whereupon the sophomores forever more
hate daisies.
June 6 Senior-Sophomore breakfast.
Senior class day ; the sophs (what's left of
them) produce their wilting masterpiece
the traditional daisy chain.
Alumnae Day. Capping of juniors.
Mortar Board tea for seniors and their
parents.
The longed-for moment, book-burning.
Recital by Department of Music.
June 7 Commencement address by Dr. R.
Lincoln Long.
Conferring of degrees.
Announcement of awards and honors.
Class Prophecy
(Con tin ite J from Page 5)
where to be seen. However, a
quaint sign inscribed "Ye Olde
Sheldon Second - Hand Shoppe""
caught their eye and they decided
to enter. Sure enough, it was run
by Little Nell and Charlie, and was
full of all sorts of odds and ends to
be swapped or bought (from an
odd Mr. Jones, a night watchman,
whom they were willing to swap
for anything, to a much-used May
Day Dell, which would swap for
nothing) . While Gina and Joyce
were looking over the collection of
second-hand writings-in-annuals on
display, who should bob in but
Professor Mary McCann Hudson?
They were quite impressed to get
a glimpse of her, for her lectures
on Chaucer at Columbia Univer-
sity had come to rival the criticism
of John Livingston Lovee's. Mary
Mac was able to tell them nothing
about Elsie; but she did tell them
of the noble accomplishments of
those two Shakespearean scholars,
Julia Telford and Elizabeth War-
den, who had delivered one hun-
dred lines of Shakespeare memory
work before a packed house every
night since a certain examination
in 193 8. 'T was unbelievable!
Rejuctantly leaving this shop,
Joyce and Gina began steering
Henry the Ford up the next street.
Suddenly Henry's eyes blinked and
he* rared back on his haunches. It
dawned upon them that they had
almost run over something. Hop-
ping out of the car, they recog-
nized Jane Wyatt and Frances Lee
with artists' easels, easel-ly occupy-
ing half the street. They were
drawing sur-realistic pictures to il-
lustrate Elsie's greeting cards.
Gina and Joyce shrieked at the
news. They could hardly restrain
themselves long enough for Jane
and Frances to tell them about the
firm that Ellen Little was its
treasurer, to keep the members pay-
ing their budgets, and that Frances
Norman and Eloise Estes were her
assistants. Frances and Eloise had
learned Dr. Robinson's method of
calculating by the law of probabil-
ity, and could approximate the
number of orders. Ola Kelly, inci-
dentally, was in charge of phone
calls for the firm. She had been so
used to handling them all her life,
it seems, that it was convenient for
her to slip into the job some
phone, eh keed?
Following Jane's and Frances' in-
structions, Gina and Joyce finally
found Elsie's office. They burst in,
and all three began greeting each
other excitedly. Suddenly their
effusive greetings were interrupted
by a cracking, clattering sound
on the street below. Dashing to
the window, they spied Alice Reins
and Kitty Peacock ace advertis-
ers for Campbell's Tomato Soups,
hauling Little Henry away. t
"Ahoy, there!" Joyce yodeled,
quite un-middle-agedly. "Where
do you think you're going with'
that car?"
"Oh, it would make such a
beautiful Tomato Can on wheels,"
shouted Alice and Kitty. "We
wanted to offer it a job advertising
Campbell's Soups."
Joyce looked at Gina and Elsie
questioningly. Gina nodded; "I'd
let him take the job, Joyce; they
probably need cans of good car-
acter!"
Elsie added in her demented
couplet manner:
"All his classmates have a job
if he didn't, 't would be a
sin;
Besides, if he works for Camp-
bells, they won't get his
wind!"
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