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AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1938

Whetsell Welcomes
Freshman Class

Student Official Asks
Cooperation of New Students

Dear Freshmen,

"Welcome" there is magic In
the word, for it carries with it a
message of friendliness and good
cheer that steals away loneliness
and despair. And so to you, the
class of 1942, I wish to bid you
"Welcome to Agnes Scott."

We are depending on you
to assume your place and re-
sponsibility in our common needs.
Your ideas and suggestions will be
given due consideration, and we
want you to help us make our col-
lege the place for the fulfilment of
all your ideals of college life.

We arc proud of our Student
Government Association and of the
definite part each one of us plays
in it. We are equally proud of our
Honor System, but its success de-
pends upon you and the support
you give to it and to us.

To learn to live honorably and
unselfishly in a community, and to
share in the responsibility of the
government is a part of the broader
education for which we come to
college. We ask of each student
her hearty co-operation.

Sincerely,
Mary Elll n Whltsi-ll,
President of Student
Government Association.

Tea Room Gives
Free Drinks

The Silhouette Tea Room in the
Anna Young Alumnae House is
gjving free coca-colas this week to
the new faculty members and to
the new students.

Mrs. Kerrison, the manager of
the Tea Room, also announces that,
in order to serve the students bet-
ter, she will have free delivery
service to the dormitories at night.
Those girls desiring sandwiches,
ice cream, etc., will be able to
place their orders with the maid in
Main and secure prompt and satis-
factory service.

Freshman
Orientation
Week Begins

Handbook Classes,
Teas, Reception
Fill Calendar

With the opening exercises in
the chapel today, the dizzy whirl
of freshmen activities begins in
earnest. At 4 o'clock this after-
noon, all the freshmen are to meet
in the chapel to hear President Mc-
Cain's talk. There will also be a
musicale in the chapel at 8 tonight.

Thursday will be a full day for
the new students. Library classes
for all day students will be at 9:15
in the morning. At 10:30, after the
chapel exercises, there will be an
English placement test for all
freshmen in Buttrick Hall. Thurs-
day afternoon library classes will
be held at 1:30 for boarders (A-
N) and at 2 for boarders (O-Z).

Thursday will not be all study
for the freshmen, however, for
from 4:30 -6:00, Christian Asso-
ciation will entertain with a for-
mal tea in the Alumnae Garden.
After vespers, there will be a sing
on the steps of Main and later,
dancing in the Murphey Candler
Building.

Friday morning, with the begin-
ning of classes, there will be fewer
outside activities. At 7:00 p. m.,
after vespers, however, there will
still be a hand book class for Board-
ers in the lobby of Inman.

The big event on the calendar
for Saturday is the reception in the
Murphey Candler Building follow-
ed by dancing in the Gym.

On Sunday a tour of Atlanta is
being planned for 3:00 in the aft-
ernoon.

Freshmen Receive Welcome
From A. A. President

Hello Freshmen!

I know you are busy getting ac-
quainted with roommates, making
out schedules, etc., but I just
couldn't wait any longer to tell
you what Athletic Association has
planned.

To start things off right you
just mustn't miss the Athletic Ral-
ly. There's fun by the barrels in
store for you. By that time you
will have decided what sport you
are going to work on. What a va-
riety to choose from hockey, ten-
nis, horseback-riding, archery golf
and swimming.

As winter comes on we move in-
doors with that exciting indoor
sport, basketball. That is not the
only thing, though. All types of
dancing and recreational games are
taught also. As a grand finale for
the winter season we hold a Brown
Jug tournament among the dormi-
tories, and the faculty has a team,
too.

All through the year there are
intcrclass swimming meets; so,

when someone approaches you and
asks if you swim, don't be modest.

The big thing this year is the
G. A. F. C. W. conference to be
held at Agnes Scott this year. This
organization had its initial meeting
here in 1930. To close the confer-
ence there will be a big Play Day.

Since Athletic Association looks
after the health of the students, we
have a health contest to see what
sort of job we have been doing.
You won't envy the instructors
trying to make a choice from
among all those pictures of health.

As school draws to a close, the
gym dept. is in full swing getting
ready for May Day. Soon after
this the yearly program of Ath-
letic Association comes to a close
with the A. A. banquet.

I hope you have now an idea of
the fun in store for you, and I want
to wish you all the luck for a big
year at Agnes Scott.

Sincerely,
Jane Moore Hamilton,

President of Athletic
Association.

Hail Class of 1942!

Kirkpatrick
Officially Greets
Day Students

Welcome Freshmen!

Many of you are probably weary
of hearing so many greetings from
every quarter. However, when you
are a stranger in surroundings
which arc so different from those
to which you are accustomed, a
friendly greeting means a lot. And
so, on behalf of all the Day Stu-
dents, I wish to welcome you to
Agnes Scott.

I hope that you are going to be
happy on our campus and will en-
ter wholeheartedly into all activi-
ties which interest you. We have a
variety of extra-curricular activi-
ties, and I am sure that each of you
will be able to find something
which appeals to you. You will be
given an opportunity to become
familiar with the organizations on
the campus before you select the
ones you wish to join.

The Day Students on the cam-
pus have an organization of their
own through which they may bring
their particular problems. The
plans for the Day Students are not
complete as I am writing this let-
ter. However, they will soon be
ready and will be discussed at a
meeting of the Day Students early
in the session.

I hope that this is the beginning
of a very happy four years for each
of you.

Sincerely,
Helen Kirkpatrick,
President of Day-
Students.

Heaslett Announces
Exchange Hours

The second hand book exchange
is open for the reception of old
books, according to Polly Heaslett,
who is in charge of the exchange
this year. She asks that anyone
having books to be sold bring them
to the book room in the basement.

The sale of the books w r ill begin
Friday morning with hours to be
announced later.

Christian Association Head
Presents Year's Aims

Faculty Changes
Are Numerous

Many changes in the faculty
have taken place this year. Miss
Margaret Phythian of the French
Department has returned after her
two years' leave of absence spent
in studying at the University of
Grenoble, France. Miss Kathryn
Click, formerly of the faculty of
Wilson College, Penn., is a new
member of the Latin Department.
Miss Mildred R. Mell, who has been
a teacher and Dean at Shorter Col-
lege, Ga.j is to join the Economics
Department.

Miss Laura Colvin is back with
her Masters in Library Science from
the University of Michigan. Anoth-
er addition to the staff of the li-
brary is Miss Evelyn Houck, a
graduate of the Emory University
Library School.

Several Agnes Scott graduates
are among the new teaching and
administrative members. Miss
Charlotte Hunter is the assistant
in the Dean's office. Miss Ann
Worthy Johnson, '38, is in charge
of the Book Store and the mail
room. Miss Jeanne Matthews, '3 8,
is a fellow in Biology. Miss Laura
Steele, '37, a former editor of The
Agonistic, is a secretary to the
President.

Miss Jessie Harriss heads the Die-
tetic staff with Miss Mildred Mc-
Elreath as her assistant. Mrs. Mar-
garet Hartsook is assisting the die-
titians. Mrs. Roy Smith is in charge
of the residences.

Alumnae to Entertain
Freshmen at Tea

The Agnes Scott Alumnae Asso-
ciation will be hostess to the new
students at a tea in the Anna
Young Alumnae House on Friday,
September 30, at 4:30 o'clock. The
Entertainment Committee, with
Mrs. Stillwell Robison as chairman,
is in charge of the arrangements.

Lyle Tells Frosh
To Be Fresh

Dear Fresh-women,

Welcome to this college world!
It really is a little world to itself,
you know, with a life all its own.
And you are already an important
part of it. Our little college world
would get in an awful rut if peo-
ple like you didn't come in to wake
it up every September. So go ahead
and be very fresh and green, be real
freshmen! We need for you to be
that way.

In this new world of yours,
you'll discover that there are many
things to claim your interest. In
the midst of it all, you will
want something to keep you on
your feet to keep you from
losing your balance among so
many new forces. The Christian
Association of Agnes Scott wants
to help you find that steady some-
thing to hold on to while you are
getting adjusted.

There are times in college life
when you really need to be quiet
and think. This is one of the things
Christian Association wants to
make possible. We have morning
watch every morning before break-
fast to help each other start off the
day right. We have chapel and
vesper services in which we try to
create a spirit of reverence and
worship. We try to have speakers
from the campus and from outside
who help us all to think more
clearly and live more fully. We
have work that we want you to
help us do in hobby groups, on
committees, on programs, in writ-
ing and publishing devotional
books, in studying w r orld and per-
sonal problems.

We believe you'll be better able
to conquer your new world if
you're a C. A. member. And in the
meantime, go on being very green
freshmen we love you that way.

Sincerely,
Douglas Lyle,
President of Christian
Association.

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VOL. XXIV

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1938

Z115

No. 1

Harrison Hut
To Open
For Students

Descendants of Agnes Scott

-Photo Courtesy Atlanta Journal.

Five great-great-granddaughters of Agnes Scott, for whom the college is named, are
registered here this year: Left to right, Edith Candler, of Decatur; Louise Sams, Charles-
ton, S. C. ; Annie Wilds, Hendersonville, N. C. ; Marie Louise Scott, Atlanta, and Mary Scott
Wilds, Hendersonville. Agnes Scott was the mother of Colonel George W. Scott, founder.

Christian Association Gives
Series of Programs Oct. 2-8

Reconsecration Service Begins
Week of Presentation of Plans

Opening with a reconsecration service on last Sunday night
and continuing through a recognition service on Saturday
morning, the Christian Association of Agnes Scott is con-
ducting a series of programs this week, October 2-8

At the annual candle-lightmg
service Sunday, October 2, at 5:30
p. m., Douglas Lyle, president of
the Christian Association, spoke on
reconsecration, and Jane Moses
sang "The Lord Is My Shepherd."

Tuesday morning in chapel, the
Christian Association presented its
theme and purpose for the year of
193 8-1939 in a talk by Douglas
Lyle. The theme adopted is, "He
came that they might have life
and have it more abundantly." The
new constitution was read, and stu-
dents and faculty were invited to
sign up for membership in the
Christian Association.

Today's chapel speaker, Grace
Ward, chairman of the Social Serv-
ice Committee of the Christian As-
sociation, explained the work of the
various groups of the organization
in relation to the theme of the
abundant life. Groups for upper-
classmen are the Social, Spiritual
Life, Music and Programs, Mission
Interest, Christian World Commun-
ity, Social Service, and Publicity.
Hobby groups for freshmen are the
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Mortar Board
To Hold Retreat

In order to discuss the plans for
their year's service program, the
members of the Agnes Scott chap-
ter of Mortar Board will hold their
fall retreat at the Harrison Hut on
Thursday night, October 6.

Miss B. Miller and Miss Ann
Worthy Johnson will chaperone
the group, which includes Amelia
Nichols, president; Jean Bailey,
Adelaide Benson, Mary Frances
Guthrie, Jane Moore Hamilton,
Mary Hollingsworth, Douglas Lyle,
Emma McMullen, Marie Merritt,
Mamie Lee Ratliff, and Mary Ellen
Whetsell.

Brooks - Brumby
Clash for Honors
Of Black Cat

The attention of the students of
Agnes Scott has been drawn lately
from the European crisis to the
"Battle of Wits" which will be
staged here on October 7, when
the sophomores, with Mary Bell as
commander, challenge the fresh-
men, led by Betty Ann Brooks.

Jean Ashborne, chairman of the
freshman writing committee, will
work with Edwina Burruss, Su-
zanne Kaulbach, Isabelle Miller,
Virginia Montgomery, and Corne-
lia Stuckey; while Sabine Brumby,
sophomore writing chairman, will
be aided by Molly Oliver, Doris
Weinkle, Sara Lee, and Tiny Grey.

Cheer leaders for the freshmen
are Annie Wilds and Gay Currie,
and for the sophomores, Florence
Ellis and Elaine Stubbs.

Others on the different sopho-
more committees are: publicity
and program, Helen Klugh, chair-
man, Jeanne Allen, and Gene
Slack; music, Mary Scott Wilds,
Betty Kyle, and Caroline Strozier;
properties, Elizabeth Ruprecht,
chairman, Susan Self, and Vai Neil-
son; scenery, Betsy Kendrick,
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NEWS GUIDE

Typical Frosh Page 2

New Students Page 3

A. A. Fair Page 4

Class of '38 Page 5

Editorial Page 6

Merritt and Dobbs
Fill Vacancies
On Staff

As the result of recent elections,
Marie Merritt and Mary Louise
Dobbs are taking their places as
Business Manager and Advertising
Manager, respectively, of the Ago-
nistic. Rebecca Drucker has been
added to the editorial staff as as-
sistant copy editor, and Florence
Ellis is a new society editor. The
business staff of the paper is com-
pleted by the following appoint-
ments: Circulation staff, Onie
Smith and Virginia Farrar; collec-
tion staff, Winifred Finger and
Lillian Schwenke; advertising staff,
Betsy Kendrick, Ann Fisher, Edith
Henegar, Beverly Coleman, Martha
Watkins, Martha Dunn, and Laura
Sale.

Mary Matthews will fill the va-
cant post of an assistant editor of
the Aurora, the college literary
magazine. Louise Hughston is the
other assistant editor.

Dr. Graves Is
Honor Roll Speaker

President of Phi Beta Kappa
To Discuss Character

At the announcement of the Honor Roll for the last session
in chapel on Friday, Dr. Frank P. Graves, national president
of Phi Beta Kappa, will speak on "What Is Character?"

Dr. Graves has written numer-
ous books on education, and has
served as professor and dean of
many colleges. He is now president
of the University of the State of
New York, and will be the princi-
pal speaker at the celebration of
the fiftieth anniversary of the
founding of Georgia Tech on Oc-
tober 7-8. Dr. Graves holds M.A.
and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia
University; honorary degrees of
law from Hanover College, Ober-
lin, Hobart, Hamilton University,
Union College, University of Mis-
souri, William and Mary's, Alfred
University, Syracuse, Juanita Col-
lege, Niagara, Fordham University,
Ohio University, and St. Bonaven-
ture College; doctor of literature
degrees from Heidelberg Univer-
sity, University of Rochester, and
Canisius College; doctor of humani-
ties degrees from Colgate Univer-
sity and Tufts College.

In 1925 Dr. Graves received
knighthood from the crown of Bel-
gium, and in 1928 he was appoint-
ed Carnegie professor at the Uni-
versity of Louvain, in Belgium. He
is a former president of the Univer-
sity of Washington and of the Uni-
versity of Wyoming, and in 1927
he received the Butler medal for
educational administration.

Office and Council
Will Make Rules
For Cabin

Conveniently located in the
woods behind the campus, and free
from the disadvantage of distance
which the former college camp at
Stone Mountain suffered, a cabin
is being prepared for student use.
The new camp will be a memorial
to Mr. George W. Harrison, Jr.,
who left Agnes Scott twenty thou-
sand dollars in his will. Originally
built by an alumna of the college,
Miss Frances Kennedy, the cabin is
suitable for afternoon or overnight
parties of campus organizations or
independent groups of girls.

Rules for the use of the camp
will be announced as soon as for-
mulated by the Presidents' Council
and the Dean's office joint man-
agers of the enterprise. A small fee
will be charged for use of the camp
to provide equipment supplemen-
tary to that given by the college.
Among the early improvements
planned is construction of a shelter
for outdoor cooking.

Lily Pons Appears
In Concert

Lily Pons, Metropolitan soprano,
opened the All Star Concert Series
for this year on Monday night, Oc-
tober 3, at 8:30 p. m. Miss Pons
has been popular in both opera and
motion pictures, and a full house
welcomed her on Monday.

Other artists in the series include
Helen Jepson and Nino Martini in
joint recital; the Monte Carlo Bal-
let Russe; Heifetz, violinist; the
Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra
with Eugene Ormandy conducting;
Josef Hofmann, pianist; and Grace
Moore.

Paint, Demi-tasse, Tea Coasters
Make a Startling New Agnes Scott

"Yes'm, this is what I call the NEW Agnes Scott!" So
says Ella and so are we all convinced! Of course it had to
begin some time, but what a pity the freshmen couldn't have
had the privilege of seeing it both before and after! They

would appreciate it all the more,

but certainly that new cheerfully
cream-colored lobby of Inman could
hardly draw any more exclama-
tions of wonder under any circum-
stances. Even Dr. McCain was
heard to exclaim "My, it's rather
yellow !" And then along came
Miss Gooch and diaphragmatically
breathed, "My heavens, it's rather
striking!" And so it is, n'est-ce
pas?

But of all the changes that have
stunned the world since the fall of
the Roman Empire, undoubtedly
the new dining room innovations
are the most appalling from the
ivy on the walls right on down to
the itsy-bitsy coffee spoons. Grace
Ward, the social success of Gaines

Cottage, objects to the sugar spoons
because they are too large to stir
the demi-tasse. And it seems the
iced tea coasters are causing quite
a sensation Mrs. Smith overheard
one of the waiters discussing the
"gliders" with one of the other
boys. And even Rockie Kaplan
says she thought such things were
only used under chair legs.

Can you imagine why the crowds
at the reception were densest
around Mrs. Smith and the new
dietitians? I even heard one grate-
ful Hottentot say she felt mean
giving them just a mere hand-
shake, she wanted to brave the
madding crowd and give them all
"a great big hug." However, the
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Office Chooses
Thirty-Two
As Chaperones

The Dean's office has chosen the
following seniors to act as chaper-
ones for the 193 8-39 session:

Selma Steinbach, Ella Hunter
Mallard, Aileen Shortley, Jane
Moore Hamilton, Cora Kay Hutch-
ins, Cary Wheeler, Catherine Cald-
well, Emma McMullen, Jean
Bailey, Mary Elizabeth Moss, Jane
Jones, Phyllis Johnson, Florence
Wade, Mary Frances Guthrie, Hen-
rietta Blackwell, Mary Pennel Sim-
onton, Adelaide Benson, Lelia Car-
son, Alice Adams, Elizabeth Ken-
ney, Mary Wells McNeill, Tony
Newton, Peggy Willis, Eunice
Knox, Betty Price, Mamie Lee Rat-
liff, Marie Merritt, Mary Hollings-
worth, Dorothy Graham, Kay
Toole, Mary Ellen Whe*tsell, and
Virginia Graham.

These seniors will be able to
chaperone members of the fresh-
man, sophomore, and junior classes
on dates once a week. This is the
second year that such a privilege
has been granted the underclass-
men, and its continuance depends
upon the manner in which the stu-
dents use it.

PAPER HOLDS
TRYOUTS

Tryouts for reporting on
The Agonistic will be held
Thursday, Oct. 6, through
Tuesday, Oct. 11. All students
except freshmen may submit
news stories or features on
campus topics. Place all try-
outs in the news basket in the
staff room on the back gallery
of the Murphey Candler
Building. jR5Qf>5*

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THE AGONISTIC, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1938

American Dancing, Trees, and Hot Breads
Attract French Student

Jeannette Praises Native Land,
Condemns Newspapers

If you hear a rapid stream of conversation and see two
small hands waving excitedly in the air, be not alarmed. Tis
only Mademoiselle Herenger extolling the wonders of la belle
France. Jeannette is never at a loss when the subject is her

land. However, she likes

native

America a great deal and will, with
a little encouragement, go into
raptures over the food. "It is the
what you call hot breads that I like
so."

The one thing about our coun-
try that Mademoiselle does not like
is the newspapers. "They take a
thing so little/' measuring an inch
with her fingers, "and make it so
big," she said, spreading her arms
wide apart. She hastened on to say-
that American dancing was nice
and American trees very, very
beautiful.

When asked if French and

American girls were very different,
she gave a profound "Ah" and an
excited little bounce. After a mo-
ment of deep contemplation the
answer was, "No that ees too hard
a question. I do not know what
to say."

Failing to recall any of the stock
questions that have been asked for-
eign students for the last twenty
years, we took our "American"
language and our lOlx brand of
French home, leaving Jeannette
wailing, "Uh, I have the eight
o'clock class. Every morning I
have the eight o'clock class."

B. S. U. Council
Meets At
Fall Retreat

Dr. Fuller/ Couch
Give Talks

On Sunday, September 17, the
B. S. U. Council of Agnes Scott
held their Fall Retreat at Harrison
Hut, at which Dr. Ellis Fuller, pas-
tor of the First Baptist Church of
Atlanta, and Solon Couch, student
secretary for Atlanta, were guest
speakers. The council members
first turned their attention to the
theme for this year: "Therefore,
be ye ready." After a devotional
by ann Fisher on the subject: "Be
Ye Ready to Witness," Cary
Wheeler, president of B. S. U., dis-
cussed the important events on this
year's B. S. U. calendar. The after-
noon business was closed in time
for a message from Dr. Fuller, who
gave a very inspiring talk on "Be
Ye Ready to Grow in the Knowl-
edge of God."

After supper the council held a
more detailed business session, dis-
cussing the responsibilities of each
B. S. U. officer and her plans for
this year's work. Solon Couch
closed the Retreat with a helpful
and inspiring appeal in his remarks
on "Be Ye Ready to Share Christ
Through the B. S. U."

Those attending the Retreat
were Cary Wheeler, Louise Hugh-
ston, Mary McPhaul, Eioise Weeks,
Mary Virginia Brown, Polly Heas-
lett, Mary Reins, Jeanne Flynt,
Marie Merrit, Eugenia Bridges, Ann
Fisher, Freida Copeland, Ann Fish-
er, Mary Allen; and in addition to
the council members were Dr.
Henry Robinson, B. S. U. sponsor,
and Mrs. Bryan, counselor for Y.
W. A.

Montgomery Leads Class
In Placement Test

Virginia Montgomery, from
China, made the highest score of
fifty-one out of a possible sixty in
the freshman math placement tests
given this year for the first time.

The test that was used was the
same as that given to new students
in nearly every college in Georgia
and in many colleges in several
states.

All of the scores were much bet-
ter than the math department ex-
pected, ranging from ten to fifty-
one, with a median grade of
twenty-eight. This median is ex-
ceedingly high and is expected to
compare favorably with the scores
obtained from other colleges. In all
probability there will be similar
placement tests in the future.

Senior Class Elects
Miss Hunter for Sponsor

At a recent meeting of the senior
class, Miss Charlotte Hunter was
unanimously elected sponsor for the
class, to take the place of Miss Mar-
tha Crowe, former sponsor. Little
Sarah Christian, daughter of our
professor of physics and astronomy,
was chosen as class mascot, and Vir-
ginia Tumlin was elected secretary
of the seniors.

Flora MacGuire was selected to
be in charge of senior dry cleaning
in the cottages and in Inman,
while Elizabeth Kenny and Lou
Pate will have that duty in Main
and Rebekah.

Cabinet Has Chapel

(Continued from Page 1)

Book, Social Service, Dramatic,
Music, and Handicraft Groups.
Students may sign up for these ac-
tivities this week in the old Y. W.
C. A. room in Main.

The benevolent budget will be
the subject of tomorrow's chapel
program. Katherine Patton, the
treasurer of Christian Association,
will read the revised budget and
speak on giving as a part of the
abundant life. Pledge cards will be
distributed.

The culmination of the week's
series will be Saturday in chapel,
when the Christian Association will
receive its members by a recogni-
tion service. This will be led by
the officers and the cabinet of the
Christian Association, who are as
follows: President, Douglas Lyle;
vice-president, Mamie Lee Ratliff,
secretary, Sophie Montgomery;
treasurer, Kat Patton; Music and
Programs, Jane Moses; Spiritual
Life, Henrietta Blackwell; Y. W.
C. A., Grace Walker; Social Serv-
ice, Grace Ward; Christian World
Community, Louise Hughston;
Mission Interest, Sam Olive Grif-
fin; Publicity, Betty Alderman;
Social, Tine Grey; Ex-officio,
Mary Ellen Whetsell.

Teresa Pamies
[s Guest

Teresa Pamies, eighteen-year-old
Spanish high school girl, was the
guest of honor at a tea given Thurs-
day, September 29, by the Spanish
Club. Senorita Pamies, despite her
youth, is in direct charge of thou-
sands of Spanish girls, and is at
present touring America to raise
funds for orphaned children of
war-torn Spain.

Wednesday night, September 28,
Senorita Pamies, with three com-
panions, appeared at Fulton High
School at the showing of a recent
motion picture from the Spanish
war front.

Exec Holds
Discussion Groups

For several weeks Student Gov-
ernment will sponsor discussion
groups for freshmen in Inman lob-
by, on Sunday night at 7 o'clock.
Last Sunday night Mary Ellen
Whetsell spoke on the Honor Sys-
tem.

New students signed the Stu-
dent pledge and completed their
handbook tests last week.

JEANETTE HERENGER.

-Photo Courtesy Atlanta Constitution.

Iturbi Plays
In Concert

Spanish Artist To
Appear in Atlanta

Jose Iturbi, famous Spanish pian-
ist, will be the first artist of the
season for the Atlanta Music Club
when he appears on Thursday
night, October 6, in the auditorium
of the Atlanta Woman's Club.
Iturbi is also noted as a conductor
of intelligence and charm.

The pianist's program for Atlan-
ta includes "The Harmonious
Blacksmith," by Handel; "Chrom-
atic Fantasy and Rugue," by Bach;
"Etudes Symphoniques," by Schu-
mann; "Fantasie-Impromptu" and
"Scherzo in B-flat minor," by
Chopin; "Poissons d'or" and "Feux
D'artifice" by Debussy; and "Rit-
ual Fire Dance," by DeFalla.

There will also be nine concerts
by Atlanta artists during the sea-
son.

New Agnes Scott

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most shocking thing that Freshman
Virginia Stanley noted at the tea
was that the august president of
Student Government was wearing
a bracelet from which were gaily
dangling a pair of dice!

That lovely new ivory rocker in
Mary Fra's and Marie's room is just
too fetching, nicht wahr? What a
shame they happened to be sitting
on the front row at that meeting.
But, then, Cheeseman was sitting
there too, so everyone naturally sur-
mised that she was the culprit!

Just one thing hurts us though.
They say that absence makes the
heart grow fonder, so I guess we'll
continue to love the dear old moose
head in Rebekah lobby in increas-
ing proportion, even though it has
gone the way of all flesh. Ditto the
hat rack in the hall of Main!

Oh, well, life may be boring for
a termite, but there's never a dull
moment for us any more not so
long as going to meals is more fun
than going to town and so long as
such startling things as new brooms
are being introduced into our
rooms!

Baptist Students
Give Party

The Baptist students on the cam-
pus met on the steps of Main last
Saturday night for a combined
tacky party and scavenger hunt.
Jeanne Flynt, social chairman of
the Baptist Student Union, was in
charge, and the First Baptist
Church of Decatur was host to the
group.

175 Freshmen Reveal
Bewildered Minds

To misrepresent an old add-edge, "175 out of 3,000 want
to be cute . . . (Why don't you " and so on) . . . And that's
the theme of this exposition: that 175 out of 3,000 ought to
be cute . . . and they are! The statistics here submitted evi-
dence the fact that these lassies are acceptably "100 per cent
American," clever and intelligent, lady-like in decorum, gra-
cious in manner, and that they are laboriously picked (by
hand) from the hundreds of superior young ladies who fond-
ly dreamt to dwell among our patrician-trodden ways! Just
as you have detected (you clever thing!) these amazing su-
per-beings are freshmen. From the very topmost tress of
the "curling honors" of their heads to the very daintiest toe-
nail of the light fantastic of their "winged messengers" . . .
these girls are delectable and fresh from the country's lead-
ing preparatory institutions.

We oldsters (!) have encountered
the freshmen in many, many pleas-
ant ways during the past few days,
and by now all oi'iis have reached
conclusions in one way or another
that should warm the ear of the
more bewildered of the youngsters.
Here in Scotland a number of years
. . . with new classes with each year
. . . have taught Agnes to look for
two different kinds of freshmen in
every class. The analysis is that
there are the "scared kind" and the
"confident kind." With this reve-
lation in mind we shall examine a
few statements heard about the
campus yesterday. One rhythmic
upperclassman, whose currant ac-
complishment is to nibble no less
than 60 grapes at one nibble, an-
nounces that she doesn't know any
freshmen who aren't funny! (Now,
if you hunt diligently enough you
undoubtedly will find a clue as to

who that upperclassman is.) A
senior, who should know, describes
this year's freshmen as being naive.
Well, there's one thing certain:
they arc very clever. Proof may
easily be found. For example, take
the youngster who insisted that her
history teacher was "B.H." It
seems the course was listed "B.H.
101" and so on, and of course most
of us realize the B.H. stands for
Buttrick Hall!

And then there's the two-fresh-
men-discussion in Inman one day.
One of them explained to the other
just what her situation was. "I'm
living between two seniors . . .",

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Meets for

First Time

Members Discuss
Plans For
Year

The Council of the Christian
Association of Agnes Scott held its
first monthly meeting last night at
7:00 o'clock in the Y. W. C. A.
room in Main. Following a devo-
tional led by Dr. Schuyler M.
Christian, plans for the year's
work were discussed and worked
out in detail.

This Council is a body created
by the new constitution adopted
last spring, whose purpose it is to
integrate the religious forces of the
campus. Members of the council
include the officers and cabinet of
the Christian Association and the
following leaders:

Spiritual Life Sub-chairmen:

President of Baptist Student Un-
ion, Cary Wheeler; President of
Presbyterian Club, June Harvey;
President of Methodist Club, Vir-
ginia Cofer; President of Bible
Club, Jacquelyn Hawks; Chairman
of Devotional Booklet, Elinor Ty-
ler.

Social Service Sub-chairmen:
Hospitals and Clinics, Sara Mc-
Cain; Local Charities, Selma Stein-
bach; Vocational Guidance, Evelyn
Baty.

Christian World Community
Sub-chairmen:

Race Relations, Mary Reins; In-
dustrial, Alice Sill.

Mission Interest Sub-chairman:

Syrian Chapel, Molly Oliver.

Hobby Group Leaders:

Book Group, Anne Worthy
Johnson; Handicraft Group, Jean
Redwine; Dramatic Group, Kay
Kennedy; Social Service Group,
Alice Cheeseman; Music Group,
Jane Moses.

Faculty Advisors: Miss Louise
Hde, Miss Helen Carlson, Mr. S.
M. Christian.

to which the second freshie re-
marked, "Gee, I guess you don't
ever do anything, do you!" Of
course, we've all heard about the
freshman who asked the senior if
she'd ever been campused! And also
about the other one who dashed in-
to class asking where the "English
room" was. And about the one
who was struck plumb phlabber-
gasted over her French placement
test. And then there was the fresh-
man who wanted to know whether
new students take the pledge in
groups of one or five. She looked
perfectly incapable of comprising
a group.

But have you heard about that
freshman who wailed in the middle
of Buttrick's lobby, "But I don't
know what the stunt is . . . what's
it all about?" And so we invited
her to come to the gym the 15 th
of this incoming month . . . and
the secret would be surreptitiously
revealed!

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Dr. Davidson Speaks
At First Meeting
Of Forum

Current history forum held its
first meeting of the year yesterday
at 4 o'clock in the Murphey Cand-
ler Building, a which time Dr.
Philip Davidson .spoke on present
day affairs. A new constitution
was submitted to the club.

The international relations class
will meet every other week from
now on with the current history
forum.

Vogue Announces
Fourth Annual
Competition

Career Contests
Open To All Seniors

For the fourth successive year,
the editors of Vogue are announc-
ing a career competition open to
members of the senior classes of ac-
credited colleges and universities
throughout the country.

As in the past three 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.

Auto-Matic
Reducer Appears

Found! a reducing diet that is
guaranteed to be foolproof. Un-
fortunately, the day of "curves
are in vogue" is gone, and now one
just must be sylph like. Naturally,
those who are on the "plump side"
find it hard to say, "No dessert,
thank you," or "I really don't care
for bread," etc., "especially when
the person next to you is some
skinny little thing who practically
gorges her food, eats bread, has at
least two desserts and doesn't gain
an ounce." But the sure cure has
been found. Only follow these
rules:

1. First, you must buy a
Model Ford.

2. Be sure that you have
least three bad tires.

3. There must be no top what-
soever.

4. If by any chance, there
should be a self-starter on this au-
tomobile, have it taken off imme-
diately.

Further equipment:

1. One piece of tire patching.

2. One jack without a handle.

3. One rusty pair of pliers.

4. Two pieces of hay wire and
grapefruit knife or an ice pick.

Section A (the important one).
Rules:

No. 1. Never put this automo-
bile under a shelter of any kind.

No. 2. Arise at 7 a. m. (or 7:30)
it really doesn't matter just so it
happens to be a rather chilly morn-
ing.

No. 3. Turn the ignition to the
right and pull the spark down.

No. 4. Walk to the front of the
automobile, put your hands on the
crank, then, very suddenly, give
the crank a violent jerk upward.

No. 5. Pick yourself up, as best
you can, from wherever you hap-
pened to fall.

Guaranteed that at the end of six
weeks or maybe a month you'll be
at least five pounds underweight.

T-

175 Freshmen Chosen
Out Of 3,000

New Class Includes Girls
From 37 States and Countries

From the more than 3,000 girls who wrote for literature
or were recommended for admission to the freshman class
this year, the college finally chose real Hottentots, includ-
ing girls from thirty-seven different states and foreign coun-
tries. This enrollment is an increase over the ones selected
last year, and now we are wondering whether superiority in
numbers will mean victory in the Black Cat Contest on Octo-
ber 14.

Freshmen:
Boarders:

Harnett Ayres, Spring Hill, Tenn.
Jean Beutell, Beckley, W. Va.
Ruth McNeill Biggs, Lumberton,
N. C.

Kathryn Louise Blair, Fort Smith,
Ark.

Betty Blake, Miami, Fla.

Mary W. Blakemore, Emory, Va.

Betty Davidson Bradfield, Char-
lotte, N. C.

Elizabeth Lee Brock, Gadsden, Ala.

Lavinia M. Brown, West Union,
S. C.

Martha J. Buffalow, Chattanooga,
Tenn.

Harriet Caldwell, Knoxville, Tenn.
Matilda Cartledge, Williamsville,
N. Y.

Georgia Vaughan Clark, LaGrange,
Ga.

Susan Cochrane, Charlotte, N. C.
Mary Elizabeth Coffee, Fitzgerald,
Ga.

Sylvia Cohn, Moultrie, Ga.
Sarah Copeland, Dalton, Ga.
Jane Marie Coughlan, Jacksonville

Beach, Fla.
Gay Currie, Richmond, Va.
Edith Ailing Dale, Columbia,

Tenn.

Charlotte J. Davis, New York,
N. Y.

Mary P. Davis, Newnan, Ga.
Willie G. Davis, Richmond, Va.
Margaret L. Doak, Dothan, Ala.
Mary Dale Drennan, Fayetteville,
Tenn.

Carolyn Dunn, Donalsonville, Ga.
Susan A. Dyer, Petersburg, West
Va.

Mary L. Elcan, Bainbridge, Ga.
Elvira H. Erwin, Morganton, N. C.
Dorothy C. Estes, Jacksonville,
Fla.

Mary Ann Faw, Westfield, N. J.
Virginia S. Franklin, Marietta, Ga.
Patricia Fleming, Pensacola, Fla.
Ann Gellerstedt, Atlanta, Ga.
Lillian Gish, Memphis, Tenn.
Margery Ellen Gray, Union, West
Va.

Xillian Gudenrath, LaFayette, Ga.
Eugenia Hailey, Hartwell, Ga.
Margaret K. Hamilton, Marietta,
Ga.

Julia Frances Harry, Warm

Springs, Ga.
Doris Elizabeth Hasty, Thomas-

ville, Ga.
Jeanne Marie Heranger (French
exchange student)
Frances Hinton, Oxford, Ga.

Mary Lee Humphries, Louisville,
Ky.

Mary Jane Hutton, Drexel Hill,
Pa.

Kathleen Huck, Atlanta, Ga.
Margaret Hartsook, Decatur, Ga.
Alice S. Inzer, Gadsden, Ala.
Neva L. Jackson, Columbia, S. C.
Elizabeth Ann Jenkins, Hartwell,
Ga.

Miriam Jones, Okolona, Miss.
Suzanne Kaulback, Atlanta, Ga.
May Herring King, Newnan, Ga.
Claire Joyce Lasseter, Montgomery,
Ala.

Jeanne Lee, Lake Butler, Fla.
Ila Belle Levie, Montezuma, Ga.
Caroline G. Long, Maumee, Ohio
Mary Dean Lott, Waycross, Ga.
Wallace L. Lyons, Landrum, S. C.
Jessie MacGuire, Montgomery,
Ala.

Mary Fletcher Mann, Huntington,
W. Va.

Winifred Mansfield, Jacksonville,
Fla.

Lalla Marshall, Charlotte, N. C.

Sara A. Massey, Hahira, Ga.

Edith Rebecca McElwaney, Fay-
etteville, Ga.

Frances E. McGill, Cross Hill, S. C.

Tade Sims Merrill, Eufaula, Ala.

Isabel H. Miller, University, Va.

Virginia L. Montgomery, China

Dorothy Nabers, Greenville, S. C.

Elise Duva Nance, Due West, S. C.

Josephine Elizabeth Nash, Hunt-
ington, West Va.

Louise Newton, Dothan, Ala.

Mary Jeanne Osborne, Atlanta, Ga.

Mary Louise Palmour, College
Park, Ga.

Fan Oliver Pitman, Lake City, Fla.

Ida Claire Purcell, Charlotte, N. C.

Priscilla May Reasoner, Bradenton,
Fla.

Elizabeth Redmond, Birmingham,
Ala.

Martha Elizabeth Roberts, Flor-
ence, Ala.

Mary Robertson, Charleston, S. C.

Betty Robertson, Cleveland, Ohio

Elizabeth Russell, Augusta, Ga.

Barbara San, St. Petersburg, Fla.

Edith H. Schwartz, Sumter, S. C.

Mary J. Eeagle, Lincolnton, N. C.

Eleanor Elise Smith, Marshville,
N. C.

Ruth H. Smith, LaGrange, Ga.
Shirley Anne Emith, Louisville,
Ga.

Rebecca Laura Stamper, Andrews,
S. C.

Here's a Hotshot

for a Hottentot!

Sport
Shop

RICH'S

Third
Floor

Virginia Webb Stanley, Greenville,
Ala.

Cornelia Childress Stuckey, Ex-
periment, Ga.

Mary Helen Stewart, Winchester,
Tenn.

Jane S. Taylor, Baton Rouge, La.
Mary Olive Thomas, Auburn, Ala.
Florence R. Tipton, Dyersburg,
Tenn.

Frances O. Tucker, Laurel, Miss.
Nellie O. Tyler, Anniston, Ala.
Lila Peck Walker, Charlotte, N. C
Virginia Watkins, Clemson, S. C.
Alto Webster, Homestead, Fla.
Olivia White, Huntsville, Ala.
Annie Edmunds Wilds, Henderson-

ville, N. C.
Mary Edmunds Wylie, Glen Ridge,

N. J.

Helen Yundt, Lexington, Ky.
Day Students:

Frances B. Alston, Atlanta, Ga.
Mary Rebekah Andrews, Atlanta,
Ga.

Aileen Barron, Atlanta, Ga.
Betty Ann Brooks, Decatur, Ga.
Eleanor Bryan, Atlanta, Ga.
Edwina Burruss, Atlanta, Ga.
Louise Caldwell, Atlanta, Ga.
Edith Candler, Decatur, Ga.
Anne G. Chambless, Atlanta, Ga.
Elvira Chosewood, Atlanta, Ga.
Betty Lee Clarkson, Atlanta, Ga.
Mae Crumbley, Atlanta, Ga.
Darleen Mae Danielson, Atlanta,
Ga.

Martha Sue Dillard, Atlanta, Ga.
Mary Margaret Evans, Atlanta, Ga.
Dorothy Garland, Atlanta, Ga.
Kathryn Greene, Fairburne, Ga.
Sarah Gregory, Decatur, Ga.
Florine Guy, Atlanta, Ga.
Virginia Ruth Hale, Atlanta, Ga.
Kathleen Head, Atlanta, Ga.
Mary Sue Heldmann, Atlanta, Ga.
Jerylie Hendrix, Atlanta, Ga-
Sara Elizabeth Johns, Atlanta, Ga.
Mary Elizabeth Kirkpatrick, Deca-
tur, Ga.

Mary Tiller Lewis, Atlanta, Ga.
Marjorie McHan, Avondale Es-
tates, Ga.
Betty McConnell, Atlanta, Ga.
Mary McQuown, Decatur, Ga.
Betty Medlock, Decatur, Ga.
Dorothy Miller, Atlanta, Ga.
Nellie Joy O'Brien, Atlanta, Ga.
Polly Raoul, Sarasota, Fla.

Theodosia Ripley, Atlanta, Ga.
Evelyn Elizabeth Saye, Decatur,
Ga.

Helen Schukraft, Atlanta, Ga.
Marie Scott, Atlanta, Ga.
Myrtle Seckinger, Atlanta, Ga.
Dorothy Evelyn Sherman, Atlanta,
Ga.

Marjorie Maude Simpson, Atlanta,
Ga.

Frances Eugenia Spratlin, Atlanta,
Ga.

Jackie Stearns, Atlanta, Ga.
Eleanor Stockdale, Decatur, Ga.
Betty Sunderland, Decatur, Ga.
Margaret Mary Toomey, Decatur,
Ga.

Margaret Eleanor Wade, Atlanta,
Ga.

Dorothy Webster, Decatur, Ga.
Sada Nell Williams, Decatur, Ga.
Betty Jane Williamson, Decatur,
Ga.

Advanced Standing Students:
Boarders:

Charlene Burke, Americus, Ga.

Virginia Clower, Atlanta, Ga.

Lucy W. Howard, Gaffney, S. C.

Harriet Christine Florence, Cedar-
town, Ga.

Carolyn Michaux, Dillon, S. C.

Ann Elizabeth Newton, Forsyth,
Ga.

Margaret E. Ratchford, Sharon,
S. C.

Nina Mae Snead, 231 Jennings

Ave., Greenwood, S. C.
Margaret L. Stixrud, Richmond,

Va.

Day Students:

Frances B. Alston, Atlanta, Ga.
Sue A. Clapp, Atlanta, Ga.
Florrie Margaret Guy, Atlanta, Ga.
Nellie Joy O'Brien, Atlanta, Ga.
Polly Raoul, Sarasota, Fla.
Dorothy Sherman, Atlanta, Ga.
Frances Eugenia Spratlin, Atlanta,
Ga.

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THE AGONISTIC, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1938

Photo Courtesy Atlanta Constitution.

Girls Display Modern Sports Apparel

In the A. A. Fair held last week, the sports style show had a prominent part. Among
those appearing in modern costumes were the four girls pictured above : Betty Waitt, Caro-
lyn Forman, Adelaide Benson, and Mary McWhorter. Other students wore style of former
days.

Peanuts, Popcorn and Pink Lemonade

Induce Agnes Scotters

To Crawl Through Barrel at Fair

Weight Guessing, Bingo and See-saws
Become Rage of Campus

A certain A. A. Fair passed over the campus last week,
leaving in its wake peanut shells, posters, cracker-jack boxes,
sucker sticks, and myriads of red and yellow pennants. Un-
der the leadership of Hamilton and Dryfoos, the fair attract-
ed hundreds, who rushed to be the first through the barrel
at the entrance and complained loudly when the last bugle
4 was sounded by Private Slack

call was sounaeci by
of the Girl Scouts, or somewhat.

Announcing the opening of the
carnival, a colorful parade screamed
over the campus, complete with
horse, as advertised. Barrels of fun
were promised and literally provid-
ed; Dr. McCain crawled through
the entrance with the best of them.

Once inside, splinters and all, the
guests of the Fair were torn from
one intriguing contest to another
throwing balls through hoops, driv-
ing nails, playing bingo, dropping
clothespins into milk bottles, pitch-
ing horseshoes, and so on down the
length of the hockey field. Among
the victims of the merry-go-round
were Miss Haynes and Miss Laney,
who went 'wound and 'wound no
end. A nickleodeon in the center
of the field kept Lambeth Walkers
and such well occupied.

Featured on the midway were a
sports style show and a dance by
the incomparable Moses-Forman
team. La Cheescman conducted the
style show, which told harrowing
talcs of what our mothers wore a-
sporting in the dear dead days. Em-
ma Mc Mullen in particular shocked
the audience by allowing at least
an inch of ankle to show below her
daring tennis outfit. And my
word, those long black bloomers!
There must have been some hot
games of hockey in those days.

Anyhoo, the Fair was remark-
able, for its pink lemonade and its
merry-go-round as much as any-
thing else.

The committee heads responsible
for the various features were:
Booths, Virginia Milner; rides,
Mary Eleanor Steele; food, Mary
Nell Taylor; style show, Mutt
Fite; decorations, Nellie Richard-
son; dancing, Ruth Slack; invita-
tions, Eleanor Hutchens; posters,
Alice Cheeseman; horse (?), Er-
nestine Cass.

Not every football player has to
be coached in his lessons, as well
as on the athletic field. Colorado
University's All- American quarter-
back of last season, "Whizzer"
White, was not only a member of
Phi Beta Kappa, but never dropped
below an "A" in any of his studies.
It is reported that he was known
to study his calculus while
stretched out on a rubdown table
between halves! Now he is a
Rhodes scholar.

Oct.

WEEK'S

CLUB SCHEDULE

B. O. Z. Friday, Oct. 7,
7:30 p. m.

Blackfriars Tuesday,
11, 7:00 p. m.

Chi Beta Phi Sigma
Thursday, Oct. 6, 7:00 p. m.

Eta Sigma Phi Monday,
Oct. 10, 4:30 p. m.

K. U. B. Wednesday, Oct
5, 4:30 p. m.

Presidents' Council Thurs-
day, Oct. 6, 4:30 p. m

A sure cure for business is a
heavy dose of brains.

You can't demand respect;
you've got to command it.

The going becomes more inter-
esting towards the top.

The redeeming feature of the
pawn shop is the ticket.

It takes nine tailors to make ;
man, and one dressmaker to break
him.

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made his last attempt.

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chairman, Ida Jane Vaughan, and
Alice Comer; decorations, Nina
Broughton, chairman, Martha
Boone, Mary Ivy, and Nellie Rich-
ardson; dancing, Jean Dennison,
chairman, and Sue Phillips; cos-
tumes. Gene Slack and Lucille
Gaines.

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Faculty-Varsity Hockey
Game to Be Friday

Men and Maids
Will Clash Here

Strong men and maidens fair
(and, it is to be hoped, square) will
clash this Friday on the hockey
field in the most remarkable (am-
biguous word, remarkable) con-
flict of the season viz., and to-
wit, the faculty-varsity hockey
game!

Large slews of people are expect-
ed, to cheer for both sides; the fac-
ulty will tear itself away from the
amboree and the students will de-
sert the mail room. For here, mes
camarades, is the chance you've
been waiting for: to watch our
erudite mentors hold their own in
action.

Included in the faculty line-up,
which at present is incomplete,
are: Mr. Davidson, Mr. Raper, Ann
Worthy Johnson, Margaret Bell,
Dr. Runyan, and Frances McCalla.
Opposing them, and incidentally
outnumbering them not a little,
will be: S. Montgomery, J. Dry-
foos, J. Jones, J. M. Hamilton, E.
McMullen, I. J. Vaughan, N.
Wimpfheimer, N. Willstatter, M.
Hance, S. Wilds, Mary Bell, V.
Milner, C. Forman, E. Kenny, J.
Salters, and that un-get-byable
fullback, H. Thompson.

So come one, come each; the
mighty struggle begins at 3:30 on
Friday next, in rear of hon. Library.
Make a note of it!

Of the 150,000 seniors graduat-
ed from U. S. colleges and univer-
sities last spring, 12 per cent were
NYA students.

Sports

For Fall Season
Begin

The fall sports season offi-
cially opened Monday as gym
classes met and hockey prac-
tices began.

Classes were started in tennis,
hockey, golf, riding, swimming,
and archery, and the various sports
clubs met to discuss tryouts and
programs for the coming year.

The first interclass hockey game
is tentatively slated for Friday, Oc-
tober 14. Class hockey managers
recently selected by A. A. Board
are: Senior, Elizabeth Kenny;
Junior, Jane Salters; Sophomore,
Ida Jane Vaughan. The Freshman
manager has not been chosen.

Managers of the fall sports in-
clude: tennis, Mary Nell Taylor;
hockey, Jane Jones; swimming,
Beryl Healy; and archery, Nellie
Richardson.

Tennis Doubles Tourney
Starts Next Monday

Play in the fall doubles tourna-
ment will begin on Monday, Octo-
ber 10, Mary Nell Taylor, tennis
manager, announced this week.

All students, especially fresh-
men, are urged to sign up on the
bulletin board in the gymnasium
before Saturday.

Badminton and ping-pong tour-
naments are being planned, to be
held within the next few weeks.

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5

Class of 38 Have Scattered
Into Lines of Leadership
In Business and Colleges

Special college consultant and conductor of all college fash-
ion shows for Davison-Paxon a big name and a big job
but Joyce Roper, '38, is putting it over in a big way ; and so
is her pal, Jane Guthrie, who writes the street floor and col-
lege ads in the advertising department at Rich's.

You should hear these rivals talk.
One day Jane exclaimed breathless-
ly, "Oh, Joyce, I have been so busy
with this Harvest Sale," to which
Miss Roper brilliantly replied,
"Why, dearie, I haven't heard or
read one thing about it!" It's all
in the business, we gather.

On the campus still are Ann
Worthy Johnson in the book store,
Jeanne Matthews in the biology de-
partment.

New York claims quite a num-
ber of Hottentots. Giddy Erwin,
after a summer in the New York
Public Library, has been offered a
continuation of her work and will
reside in Brooklyn this winter.

Carolyn Armistead is attending
Juillard in New York.

Ellen McCaullie and Carolyn
Elliott, ex-'3 8, are rooming togeth-
er there, while Elise Saye and Mil-
dred Davis are earning masters in
Columbia University nearby.

As for the genius extraordinary,
she is still concentrating and get-
ting places fast. "Hard as it is for
mc to realize," Mildred writes, "my
much-dreamed-of year of graduate
study at Columbia is about to be-
gin." After receiving the Quenelle
Howard Fellowship from Agnes
Scott, she received from Columbia
a graduate residence scholarship
providing room and board in John-
son Hall. A very lucky and wor-
thy young lady.

Laura Coit has been busy terch-
ing tennis all summer at Camp
Skyland, N. C, and then getting
Millie all married. She is now try-
ing to make up her mind what to
do this winter between two things
open to her.

September 20, Nell Allison en-
tered Assembly's Training School
in Richmond, Va., where Mary L.
(Pixy) Fairley is also enrolled.

And in the field of Matrimony
Elizabeth Skinner, of Augusta, has
been Mrs. Oliver Anderson since a
beautiful little wedding June 18.
She writes: "It's all so wonderful,
I still see everything through a mis-
ty veil."

Priscilla Lane
Appears At
V. M. I.

Hollywood is helping Virginia
Military Institute become the most
publicized school in these United
States. Its latest publicity stunt is
to bring Priscilla Lane to the Insti-
tute at Lexington, Va., for the
world premiere of "Brother Rat,"
the Monks - Finklehoff comedy
about the school life. As yet, the
release date has not been definitely
set, since the film is still in the cut-
ting room. Directors announce
that "of the approximately thirty
thousand feet of film shot in Lex-
ington, the best shots of activity
on the campus, including the Gar-
rison Review, will be used." Thea-
ter-goers who saw the stage version
of the play at the Erlanger in At-
lanta last year will be glad to learn
"there has been no fundamental
change in the play; situations,
characterizations, major incidents
remain unchanged." This picture
is reported to belong to the mil-
lion dollar class.

Books Include
Science,
Classics

Ranging from Bekker's
"The Story of the Orchestra"
to Roberts' "House That Hit-
ler Built," ninety-four new
books will be available this
year in the college library.
Miss Edna Hanley, librarian,
feels that all the books,
whether old masterpieces or
modern comments on the day,
will be helpful and interest-
ing to students of college age.

Books recently added to the
library collection:

The Folger Shakespeare li-
brary.

Plato Republic.
Weyl Mind and Nature.
Chase The Tyranny of
Words.

Adams Interracial Mar-
riage in Hawaii.

Lodge The Questioning
Mind.

Robinson Old Testament,
Its Making and Meaning.

Goodspeed Making of
English New Testament.

Lyman The Fourth Gos-
pel and the Life of Today.

Porter The Mind of Christ
in Paul.

Braley A Neglected Area.
Dimock Modern Politics
and Administration.

Merriam The Role of Poli-
tics in Social Change.

Sabine A History of Po-
litical Theory.

Neilson Medieval Agrarian
Economy.

Doyle Etiquette of Race
Relations.

Arnold The Folklore of
Capitalism.

Baldwin Business in the
Middle Ages.

Pierenne Economic and
Social History of Medieval
Europe.

McKay The National
Workshops.

Anderson American Gov-
ernment.

Lancaster Government in
Rural America.

Pirenne Medieval Cities.
Binkley The Powers of the
President.

Bell Youth Tell Their
Story.

Caswell & Campbell Read-
ings in Curriculum Develop-
ment.

Piobetta Le Baccalaureat.
Foerster American State
University.

3n iHtottmrtam
Mxbb Uartlja &tattrfu>li>
Mr. I. ft, rr

Fraser The College of the
Future.

Lewis The Rural Com-
munity and Its Schools.

Norton Wealth, Children
and Education.

Corwin Commerce Power
versus States' Rights.

Pierce & Haenisch Quan-
titative Analysis.

Curie Madame Curie.

Audubon Birds.

Mead A History of Wom-
en in Medicine.

Eddy and Dalldorf The
Avitaminoses.

Annual Review of Bio-
Chemistry, v. 7.

Tietz & Weichert Art and
Science of Marriage.

Beard A History of the
Business Man.

Allen Tides in English
Taste, 1619-1800.

Read Art and Society.

Richter & Milne Shapes
and Names of Athenian Vases.

Taylor Of Men and Music.

Bekker The Story of the
Orchestra.

Colum From These Roots.

Young A Southern Treas-
ury of Life and Literature.

Bottome The Mortal
Storm.

More On Being Human.

Ford Portraits from Life.

Wolff Chaucer's Nun and
Other Essays.

Zabel Literary Opinion in
America.

Routh Towards the Twen-
tieth Century.

Parker Milton's Debt to
Greek Tragedy.

Bush Mythology and the
Romantic Tradition in Eng-
lish Poetry.

Parrott William Shake-
speare, a Handbook.

Shakespeare Complete
works.

Sutherland Defor.

Bonnell C. Bronte, G. El-
iot, Jane Austen.

Auden & MacNeice Let-
ters from Iceland.

Mansfield In a German
Pension.

Newman Jonathan Swift.

Tilley From Montaigne to
Moliere.

Rostand Oeuvres Com-
pletes.

Viaud Oeuvres Completes.
Terence Andria.
Livy Books I, XXI and
XXII.

^Galavanting ^Gals

For Good Groceries
GO TO BILL MERRITT

Manager of
ROGERS GROCERY STORE
116 E. Ponce de Leon

The Rockefeller Foundation has
made a grant of $18,000,000 to
American University to bring gov-
ernment employees of Latin-Ameri-
can republics to the United States
for study of our government.

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

There is just no need to try to cover the activities when
the Agnes Scott girls got charitable (?) and helped the vari-
ous fraternities during rush week. But looking at the past

week-end, we'd say the boys
themselves.

At the Psi Omega open house:
Carolyn Alley, Marion and Annette
Franklin, Lutie Moore, Snooks
Moss, Mildred Joseph, Sara Lee,
Grace Elizabeth, and Martha Dunn.
Dancing rated high among the
extra-curricular activities: for in-
stance, the West Point Prep School
dance: Kay Kennedy, Eloise Mc-
Call, Eloise Lennard, Mary Mc-
Phaul, Gary Home, and Nell Pin-
ner; the Emory ATO house dance
Friday night: Snooks Moss, Carolyn
Alley, Mitzi Saunders, Kay Toole,
Patsy Fleming; Emory Sigma Chi
Tea dance: Toni Newton, Jane
Moore Hamilton, Jane Jones, and
Frances Butt; at the Beta Theta
Pi dance Saturday night: Ida Jane
Vaughn, Ann Milligan, Sara Lee,
Ella Muzzey, and Nell Pinner.

Everything wasn't confined to
dancing, however, for at the Phi
Delta House for supper Sunday
night were Julia Porter, Jane Jones
and Keek Newton.

Cheering Tech on to victory at
the Tech-Mercer football game:
Kay Toole, Alice Inger, and Eliza-
beth Shepherd.

Ginger Tumlin and Caroline
Carmichael went home for the
week-end.

And all you people who wonder
why you were left out well, just
wait 'till we get organized!

were still doing all right for

Tacitus Annals, v. 3 & 4.

Haight Essays on Ancient
Fiction.

Theocritus, Bion & Mos-
chus.

Theocritus Late Spring.

Barnes An Intellectual
and Critical History of the
Western World.

Dopsch Economic and So-
cial Foundations of European
Civilization.

Lanciani The Roman Fo-

From Anne to

rum.

Dobree
Victoria.

Quennell Victorian Pano-

rama.

Eshleman
Destiny.

Arragon
the Ancient
World.

Macurdy -
and Some
Women.

Medieval

- Moulders of

- Transition from
to the Medieval

- Vassal Queens
Contemporary

Essays in Hon-

Students Resent
Dismissal
Of Professor

Our forefathers came to Amer-
ica because they knew it to be a
country where one had the right to
think and act as he considered best.
They were oppressed by old world
censoring, and they sought a new
freedom. Evidently the ideas of
freedom of thought have been for-
gotten by the members of the fac-
ulty of Furman University, since
Dr. Herbert K. Gezork, assistant
professor of religious education,
has been relieved of further duties
by the action of the board of trus-
tees in a meeting held in Columbia
last July. Dr. Gezork, who had
been at Furman one year, was dis-
missed for holding opinions differ-
ing from those of some of the lead-
ers of the Baptist denomination in
South Carolina. Appearing in be-
half of Dr. Gezork at the meeting
of the board was a number of min-
isters, students, and laymen." Dr.
Gezork, a native of Germany,
came here in 1930.

New York University is now of-
fering degree-credit courses in safe-
ty education.

or of J. W. Thompson.

Previte Orton History of
Europe from 1198 to 1378.

Roberts House That Hit-
ler Built.

Schuschnigg My Austria.

Lichtenberger Third
Reich.

Freund Watch Czechoslo-
vakia.

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Agnes Scott College
Decatur, Ga.

THE AGONISTIC

Editorials

features

Vol. XXIV, No. 1
Wednesday, Oct. 5, 1938

Educator Says
College Student
Is Living Paradox

When it comes to describing the college man of
193 8, so many and varied are the paragraphic por-
trayals that he is at once a master-mind and a dolt,
a play-boy and a great student. None has so bril-
liantly painted the picture as Kent State University's
Dean R. E. Manchester, who sets the man-of-the-
campus on his pedestal in the following manner:

"The college man is a living paradox. Most people
cannot understand him and those who do, come to
their conclusions by indirect proof. He talks of the
future but worships the past. He is liberal in his
conversation but conservative in his action. He is
radical in his opinions on politics, but elects stand-
patters to the class offices. He demands freedom of
thinking but defends with all his strength the tradi-
tions of his institution. He takes wild stands on re-
ligious theories yet attends college and universities
that are created and maintained by orthodox creeds.
He preaches democracy yet supports the most rigid
campus caste system. He demands that his univer-
sity maintains the highest athletic standards yet in
the same breath also demands a professional football
team. He scoffs at his profs yet defends them stren-
uously when they are criticized. He rebels against
rules but sets up more rigid ones when given the op-
portunity. He hazes the high school graduate who
comes with a boy scout badge on his coat, but he
covers his own vest with medals and keys. He in-
vents and uses the most outlandish slang on the
street, but reads and writes pure English in his room.
He clamors for self government but doesn't want it
after he gets it. He laughs at convention but insists
upon it. He cuts classes the day before a vacation
but comes back three days early.

"You ask, 'What are we going to do about it?'
We are going to praise the Lord that we have him
and that he is just what he is, a walking contradic-
tion of himself."

Like it? We thought you would!

Smith College Teacher
Gives Five Rules
For Rapid Reading

New York City (ACP) At least one United
States college instructor is trying to make life easy
for today's undergraduates.

It's Mrs. Florence C. Rose, director of remedial
reading work at Smith College, who recently gave
the following rules for fast reading to Columbia
University students:

1. Don't pronounce the words you are reading
either audibly or inaudibly.

2. Try to grasp the meaning from the printed
word rather than from the sound of the word.

3. Read by phrases rather than word by word.
Do not look at each word individually.

4. To skim, let your eyes zig-zag across the page,
reading some of the words, not all of them, and slow-
ing down on parts of special interest.

5. Read the topic sentences, the introductory and
concluding paragraph, and points in italics carefully.
Skim the other sections.

New York City (ACP) To remove the bar-
riers to a broad liberal education wruch, as a result
of the rigid requirements of the states, have ham-
pered the training of secondary school teachers a
new five-year program has been organized by Colum-
bia University and its Teachers College.

The new plan, as announced by Dean Herbert E.
Hawks, will provide students with greater oppor-
tunity for the study of the liberal arts, and will en-
able them to work on a broader front when they
enter the field of secondary school teaching.

"Teachers no longer occupy watertight compart-
ments, in which they are restricted to a narrow field
of scholarship," the dean explained. "Rather, they
must be prepared to function in fields other than
those of their greatest interest, and to cooperate in
the administration of the school curriculum as a
whole."

The new program will bring into a new relation-
ship the problem of training future teachers what
to teach and how to teach.

"I wonder if the teachers of speech might not on
occasion be more helpful if th* y taught silence." Dr.
Robert D. Leigh, head of Bennington College recom-
mends the end of large mass gatherings, public speak-
ing and oratorical spellbinding in favor of small
groups of less than 8 or 10 persons. Such speaking I
as is found, for example on the floor of congress is
a mere projection of emotion, he believes.

The Golden Mean

Each fall when we recommence our studies, many of us
silently pledge ourselves in all seriousness to spend more time
in our acquisition of knowledge.

But it seems that no sooner have we made such an avowal
than we find ourselves sucked into a whirlpool of activities
from which we cannot easily escape. And our books are
abandoned, not through choice, but through necessity.

Some sturdy ones may be able to keep their heads and to
choose sanely among the many activities that are clamoring
for their attention. Most of us, however, lack the moral
strength to refuse these invitations. We seem not to realize
that we cannot engage in a multitude of clubs and organiza-
tions without cheating ourselves. Rather we think that we
can join everything and still fool the professor into believing
us the shining light of our classes a difficult feat even for
a person with the IQ of a genius.

We speak to the underclassmen, in particular, who are now
bustling about with excitement over their coming "battle of
wits." It is all too easy when the contest is keen to drop one's
scholastic duties for the activities that are enticing.

The discouraging thing about attempting to advise stu-
dents to use discrimination is that this is one time when ex-
perience seems to be the only teacher. The admonitions of
those who have learned receive but little attention.

And yet this is written with the hope of warning some of
you, at least, against becoming too involved in extra-curricu-
lar activities. Follow, instead, the only way that can ulti-
mately prove satisfactory and pleasant the harmonious
union of part work and part play.

Stop and Listen

Toward the close of the past school year, the Christian As-
sociation presented to the student body a resolution request-
ing quiet in chapel. The desired effect was achieved we re-
membered and followed the suggestion.

However, the summer months seem to have erased all
memory of any previous request. And, as a result, one could
certainly not say that this year's chapel programs have been
quiet.

Not only are we noisy on entering, but also we are so neg-
lectful as to continue our chattering even after the program
has begun. The announcement of the hymn seems to be a
general invitation for open conversation.

That such disturbance is created to a large extent by the
new students who are perhaps still unacquainted with the
former resolution may be true in part; but that they are the
sole offenders is far from true. The whole student body is
guilty.

If for nothing else than sheer courtesy to those conduct-
ing our worship programs, we should stop and listen while
in chapel.

Current History

Hitler Seeks

To Justify Seizure

Of Czechs

Great Sport

Where, oh where, have we had such fun as we did at the
Athletic Association's fair last week! In our opinion, A. A.
provided the most delightful entertainment that has taken
place on the campus for several years. ,

The idea of such a fair in itself was most original; and
through the cleverness of the Athletic Board and its advisors
the whole program was smoothly adapted to the occasion.
Good organization and thorough planning in advance of the
event were quite evident.

Perhaps another reason for our genuine enthusiasm is that
everybody relaxed and forgot his age. Even some of our
most august seniors and faculty members joined whole
heartedly in the fun.

This is the kind of amusement that we all need occasion-
ally. Let's have more of it!

Agnes Scott Type

it was indeed a pleasure to see the great improvement that
came over the student body in its behavior at the concert
last Monday night.

In previous years there have been times when our actions
were far from dignified and quite contrary to the fourth
ideal of the college. And, as a result, people of this vicinity
were given a most unflattering opinion of us. We have heard
that to not a few of them the "Agnes Scott type" connoted
one who thought herself quite above the average but who
really was a loud-voiced, giddy school girl.

Naturally, we felt this to be untrue. To convince others,
however, was rather difficult when they had seen us madly
dashing for street cars and raucously yelling for seats.

It is our hope that this change will be more than an evanes-
cent one that we will continue to follow the dictates of our
better selves.

Czechoslovakia is not yet twenty-one, but under
the leadership of Benes she is determined to hold in-
tact the inheritance which she received from her
Bohemian ancestor through those determined execu-
tors, the Allied Powers. The ancient land of Bohe-
mia, which was ruled by a strong and able family
during the Middle Ages and which accepted the over-
lordship of the Hapsburgs when its own line ceased,
has never been a part of Germany. Hitler may try
to justify last week's implication that Bohemia was
originally German by claims of language identity
and blood kinship. It is true that the Bohemian rul-
ers encouraged German settlement in order to clear
the heavy Bohemian forests and build up the indus-
tries and economic possibilities of the state, but never
has Germany proper actually included the ancient,
distinct territory of Bohemia. Although the natives
have intermarried with the true Germans from time
to time, the Czechs as a whole form a separate blood
group.

U. S. Not Accountable

The United States cannot be held at all account-
able for the quarrel over the Sudeten area. Among
the statesmen who assigned the disputed section to
Czechoslovakia instead of allowing the inhabitants
the right to decide for themselves, only Woodrow
Wilson stood firm to the last for his ideal and reas-
oned for self-determination. The other members of
the committee justify their action on the grounds
that the old Bohemian land forms a natural unit,
having mountain ranges on the north and west and
a centralized river system draining into the Danube.
These factors together with the traditional distinc-
tion between Germany and Bohemia decided the
statesmen on their course.

Sudetens Not Unhappy

Hitler claimed also that Czechoslovakia had
shamefully mistreated the German population and
that at last the plucky spirit of the Sudetens had as-
serted itself to throw off the painful yoke. How-
ever, there was no sign of discontent shown by the
Sudeten people until' Hitler's accession to power in
1933; and authorities prove that the political condi-
tion of the Czechoslovakian minority groups has
been better than that of the minority elements of
any other Central European government. The eco-
nomic state of the Sudetens has been superior to that
of the native Czechs and, moreover, though not
known by the inhabitants, quite superior to that of
the Germans in Germany. 1

Hitler further claimed that the Sudeten people
had expressed a desire for anschluss with the German
Reich after the downfall of the Hapsburg family,
but in reality the wish was for union with Austria,
under whose wing Bohemia had existed during the
life of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

The number of Sudeten Germans who crossed the
frontier into Germany was greatly exaggerated by
Hitler in his message to Roosevelt. The 214,000 re-
fugees actually came within the official total of
50,000.

A Nervous Hitler

President Roosevelt's reply to Hitler's message was
frank and to the point. He stated the general in-
ternational opinion as to who was to blame for the
precarious European situation and made a suggestion
for peaceful settlement of the dispute. In effect, the
American messages offered the German chancellor a
graceful way out of an awkward position. The Presi-
dent proclaimed the unequivocal position of the
United States in the international entanglement and
perhaps satisfied Hitler on that point.

Adolf Hitler, the central figure in the European
political spider web, is said to suffer from insomnia
and frequent nightmares. The presence of the initials
R. R. in unexpected places seems to keep the chan-
cellor nervous. Knowing that the German nation is
not backing him as a unit, Hitler must be more care-
ful than heretofore. The world is asking questions.
Are the nations about to call Hitler's bluff? Is his
stand a bluff, anyhow? Has the Fuehrer gone too
far to back down? Or is there some other answer?

"More marriages are wrecked by college-trained
girls not working and having too much time on their
hands, than by their working." Dr. James McCon-
aughy, president of Wesleyan University, thinks that
it is unfair to force a young wife who could earn
some money for herself, to beg her husband for spend-
ing money.

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VOL. XXIV

The Agonistic

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOB BER 12, 1938

Z115 No. 2

President Names
Honor Students

Girls Are Rewarded
For Good Work

Dr. J. R. McCain, President
chapel Friday morning, Oct. 7,
made the scholastic honor roll

These girls were, in the sen-
ior class, Jean Bailey, Emily
Harris, Cora Kay Hutchins, Vir-
ginia Kyle, Marie Merritt, Lou
Pate, Mamie Lee Ratliff, Sarah
Thurman, Elinor Tyler, and Mary
Elien Whetsell. In the junior class
were Betty Alderman, Evelyn Baty,
Ruth Eyles, Mary Matthews, So-
phie Montgomery, Lutie Moore,
Eva Ann Pirkle, Jane Salters, An-
toinette Sledd, Florence Sledd, and
V. J. Watkins. In the sophomore
class were Sabine Brumby, Mar-
garet Eiseman, Sara Lee, Pattie
Patterson, Beatrice Shamos, Betty
Sloan, Arlene Steinbach, Betty
Jane Stevenson, and Mary Bon Ut-
terback.

of Agnes Scott, announced in
the names of thirty girls who
for the 1937-38 session.

Sophomores Honor
Freshmen At
Kid Party

School Days Is
Theme of Gay
Entertainment

Honor guests at the sophomore
"Kid Party" given last Saturday
night in the gym Were the mem-
bers of the freshman class. Carry-
ing out the grammar-school-days
theme in decorations and refresh-
ments, the sophomores served their
dates lollypops and animal crack-
ers.

"Ring - Around - the - Roses,"
"Reaching for the Apple," and
"Going to Jerusalem" were popu-
lar games of the evening. Special
entertainment for the freshmen
were a dance by Rowena Barringer
and Freck Sproles, a song by Mar-
tha Watkins, and a "Baby Snooks"
act by Nellie Richardson and Eliz-
abeth Barrett.

As a mild form of initiation into
campus life, each freshman receiv-
ed a bib with her name on it, to be
worn around the neck.

Members of the committees in-
cluded: Decorations Sara Lee,
chairman; Peggy Wells, Alice
Comer, and Mary Bon Utterback.
Refreshments Betty Moore, chair-
man; Beverly Coleman, and Betty
Kyle. Entertainment Ella Muz-
zey, chairman; Betty Waitt, and
Tommay Turner.

Guthrie Speaks #
At Meeting of
Journalism Club

K. U. B. held its first meeting of
the year on Wednesday, October 5,
at 4:30 P. M. in the Murphy Cand-
ler Building, with the president,
Anne Enloe, presiding. Mary Fran-
ces Guthrie, editor of the Agonis-
tic, discussed the relationship be-
tween K. U. B. and the Agonistic,
and also Agonistic work in general.
A series of Agonistic chapel pro-
grams, and tryouts for K. U. B.
were planned and discussed at this
meeting. It was decided that all
freshmen interested in journalism
should be invited to the K. U. B.
meeting next month.

Miss Dexter Gives
Lectures At
Alumnae Club

For the first half of the study
course of the Alumnae Study Club,
Miss Emily Dexter will give a
series of lectures on Psychology.
The class, to which the public is
invited, will meet each Wednesday
night at seven-thirty in the Alum-
nae House.

October 5, Miss Dexter spoke on
the "new" Psychology. Subsequent
lectures to be given October 12 to
November 30 are Physiological
Bases for Behavior, Measurement,
Child Psychology, Psychology of
Abnormal Behavior, Psychology
Applied to Law, Psychology Ap-
plied to Advertising, Getting
Along with Associates, and Extra
Sensory Perception (Rhine's Work
at Duke University) .

Miss Louise Lewis will teach the
second half of the course and her
lectures will include the history of
furniture, antiques, modern furni-
ture, and the use of furniture in
interior decorating.

BOZ Is Guest of Sewell

B. O. Z., the creative writing
club on the campus, held its first
meeting of the year at the home of
Julia Sewell on Friday night, Oc-
tober 7. At this time, Henrietta
Blackwell, Sam Olive Griffin, and
Julia Sewell read their original
work.

Sophomore C. A.
Cabinet Includes
Fourteen Girls

First Meeting
Is Held in
Round House

Katherine Patton, who is in
charge of directing and help-
ing the sophomore cabinet
work this year, announced the
results of the class election
and Christian Association
cabinet confirmation for mem-
bers on Thursday, Oct. 6. The

fourteen chosen are: Miriam Bed-
inger, Sabine Brumby, Winifred
Finger, Betty Kyle, Betsy Kend-
rick, Louise Musser, Betty Moore,
Patty Patterson, Cornelia Willis,
Virginia Williams, Harriet Coch-
ran, Laura Sale, Gene Slack, and
Gay Swagerty.

The number of members was in-
creased to fourteen, because the
class is so large that the cabinet
felt that the usual number of ten
was too small for adequate repre-
sentation. The first meeting was
held Monday night in the "Round"
house, which was done over by
last year's sophomore cabinet, and
which the new cabinet will also
use.

Agnes Scott Trustees
Elect Winship
As New Chairman

The trustees of Agnes Scott met
last Tuesday and elected Mr.
George Winship to be their new
chairman. Mr. Winship has been a
member of the Board of Trustees
since 1931. He is a resident of At-
lanta, and is president of the Ful-
ton Supply Co., and the Morris
Plan Bank.

At this meeting the board also
adopted resolutions concerning Mr.
J. K. Orr, the former chairman of
the board, who died recently.

Professors Name Book Fund
For Miss McKinney

By DORIS WEINKLE

For forty-eight years a beloved force in making Agnes
Scott girls eager to read purely for enjoyment, Miss Louise
McKinney received perhaps the most suitable tribute possi-
ble when the English department collected in her honor a
permanent fund of $1,000, the income of which will make
possible the "Louise McKinney Book Award" to be given

annually to the student making the
best collection of books during the
year.

From the time when Agnes
Scott had its early struggles as a
young college in 1889 until the
close of the 1936-37 session, Miss
McKinney acted officially as pro-
fessor of English and unofficially
as friend and instigator of literary
enterprises. Miss McKinney aided
in obtaining the first book exhibit
for Agnes Scott, and in the first
years, when attractive library
books were scarce, she took collec-
tions and secured donations to pro-
vide books interesting and inviting
enough to induce extra reading.

Miss McKinney, besides showing
unusual interest in the girls while
in school, always keeps in touch
with alumnae and their literary
careers. It is to her that graduates
send their publications, for she
takes time to read and criticize
their books and articles. Alumnae,

at the opportunity to give towards
the endowment fund, accompanied
their contributions with these and
similar tributes:

"We who studied under her will
always love her."

"She is indeed a rare person and
one whom we all delight to honor."

"Thank you for giving me the
opportunity to contribute to the
fund. It is a beautiful and most
fitting tribute to Miss McKinney."

Mary Ann Kernan, '3 8, was the
first to win the "Louise McKinney
Book Award." For several years
past Miss McKinney, having heard
of a similar contest sponsored by
A. Edward Newton near Swarth-
more, personally collected annually
a sum of $2 5 known as the Rich-
ard de Bury prize to be used for
cultural purposes by the girl mak-
ing the most discriminating collec-
tion of books.

Dr. Graves Emphasizes
Importance of Habit

Educator Finds Golden Rule
Basis of Character

Recommending the Golden Rule as the most perfect of all
rules "as an ideal for the formation of habit," Dr. Frank P.
Graves stressed the need for cultivation of good habits in his
talk on "What Is Character?" in chapel on Friday. Dr.
Graves, in Atlanta for the Georgia Tech Semi-Centennial on
October 7-8, was the guest speaker at Agnes Scott for the an-
nouncement of the Honor Roll for the last session.

Probably the highest purpose of
the college, according to Dr.
Graves, "is to make men and wom-
en the proper type of citizens."
Since the time of Socrates, or in-
deed, "since humanity began to
think at all," the question of char-
acter has been considered, some-
times mistaken for reputation, or
what we or others think we are,
and sometimes treated as a "sep-
arate, distinct entity," to be exer-
cised by extensive church-going
and charity or by giving one's seat
on the street car to a woman "not
cursed with the fatal gift of
beauty."

Character, however, is "every
thought, every feeling"; it is the

(Continued on page 2, col. 4)

Rival Stunt Chairmen
Reveal Casts
Of Embryonic Dramas

Excited, but noncommittal,
Betty Anne Brooks and Mary Bell,
freshman and sophomore stunt
chairmen respectively, say only
"we've got as good a chance as any-
body" and "we're hoping." Work-
ing in deep secret, both refuse to
give any information except the
cast.

Sara Copeland, Ann Gellerstedt,
and Jane Taylor will take the leads
in the freshman stunt. Others tak-
ing part include Jackie Stearnes,
May King, Pat Fleming, Lil Gud-
enroth, Elizabeth Jenkins, Flor-
ence Tipton, Betty Nash, Mary
Dean Lott, Virginia Stanley.

The sophomore cast includes
Jean Allen and Beverly Coleman in
the leads, and Laura Sale, Nellie
Richardson, Martha Watkins, Dot
Petite, Lib Barrett, Ruth Ashburn,
Beryl Healy, Margaret Wells, Vir-
ginia Williams, Carolyn Strozier.

Hopkins, Merlin
Will Oppose
Irish Debaters

The annual Agnes Scott interna-
tional debate will be held Monday,
November 2 8, when the college
team will meet the representatives
of the Universities of Ireland and
Dublin.

Margaret Hopkins, president of
Pi Alpha Phi debate club and 1937-
3 8 winner of the Quenelle Howard
debating cup, and Marjorie Merlin
will uphold the affirmative of the
question, "Resolved: That the
British Empire has been a menace
to world peace." Arlene Steinbach
is the alternate.

At the first meeting of Pi Alpha
Phi tomorrow night the same ques-
tion will be argued by Marjorie
Merlin and Arlene Steinbach against
Ann Henry and Doris Weinkle in
the first round of the club debate
tournament. Miss Mildred R. Mell,
professor of Economics, will be the
judge.

Plans are being made for a
forensic dual with G. S. C. W. at
Milledgeville, Nov. 5, on the Pi
Kappa question for the year.

Name-the-Paper
Competition Opens

With this issue The Agonistic
opens a contest for a new name
for the college paper. Both facul-
ty and students may submit names,
which should be given to the editor
of The Agonistic, Mary Frances
Guthrie, some time during the
month.

The judges will be Dr. J. R. Mc-
Cain, Miss Carrie Scandrett, Miss
Annie M. Christie, Dr. George P.
Hayes, Mary Ellen Whetsell, and
Mary Frances Guthrie. The name
selected will be voted on by the
student body, and if accepted will
be submitted to the faculty and
administration for approval.

A. A. Board
Selects Class
Managers

Fall Sports Swing
Under Way With
New Leaders

Class managers of the fall sports,
recently selected by the Athletic
Board, will begin their duties this
week as the sports season gets un-
der way.

Managers for this fall are: Ten-
nis, Kay Kennedy, Senior; Helen
Carson, Junior; Ann Fisher, Soph-
omore. Archery, Lou Pate, Senior;
Sarah Matthews, Junior; Louise
Musser, Sophomore. Hiking, Lucy
Hill Doty, Senior; Mary Mac Tem-
pleton, Junior; Gene Slack, Sopho-
more, Ann Gellerstedt, Freshman.
Hockey, Elizabeth Kenny, Senior;
Jane Salters, Junior; Ida Jane
Vaughan, Sophomore. Swimming,
Evelyn Sears, Senior; Anne Martin,
Sophomore.

A, S. Radio Program
Features Campus
Silhouettes

Campus Silhouettes, as seen by a
senior and a freshman, will furn-
ish stories this year for the Agnes
Scott radio program, sponsored
weekly by the Alumnae Associa-
tion on Thursday afternoon over
WSB. During the first program,
on October 6, Dr. McCain spoke
about some of the campus news.

Following the Faculty Silhou-
ettes of the first quarter will be the
Student Silhouettes of the second,
and the Outstanding Alumnae of
the third. Miss Carrie Phinney
Latimer, assistant in the Spoken
English department, will play the
part of the senior guide, and Jeanne
Flynt is to be the curious fresh-
man.

Miss Ellen Douglas Leyburn, as-
sistant professor of English, and
chairman of radio publicity for the
Alumnae Association, is director
for the series.

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THE AGONISTIC, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1938

Students Nose Out Faculty
In Hockey Clash

Spectacular Runs
Enliven Well-Matched Struggle

The student-faculty hockey classic ended in a 2-1 victory
for the students last Friday, in spite of heroic dashes down
the field and desperate defensive work by the professors.

that

Wimpy, using that efficient
Yankee prep-school technique,
snapped into the game in the first
play by taking the ball down the
field into the faculty throats be-
fore the rest of the players had had
time to take their fingers out of
their mouths. Just failing to get
past McCain's inflexible goal-
guarding, she was successful a mo-
ment later in cutting the first
notch for the students. All this
despite Dr. Davidson's frantic ef-
forts as he deserted his post as cen-
ter half and blossomed out as a
wing. i

At this time a new star appear-
ed in the faculty constellation a
veritable meteor, flashing down the
field just behind the ball, ignoring
all would-be tacklers. It was the
faculty left wing, the formidable
Professor Hayes. Narrowly miss-
ing a goal on his first and second
brilliant runs, he later succeeded
in making the first, foremost, and
only professorial score. The half
ended, leaving Dr. Davidson more
than a little bewildered. The rest-
ing period was colored by a demon-
stration of filial devotion by two
young Runyans, who rushed out
upon the field of glory to encour-
age Papa.

The second half opened briskly
with Eyles scuttling almost the
length of the field, to be stopped
by Miss B. Miller several feet from
the cage. The series of long runs
which characterized the entire
game continued as Dr. Hayes
charged through the shrieking stu-
dent defense to give Kenny, at
goal, several nervous moments.
But Kenny turned the tide, stop-
ping the ball on the brink of the
goal and throwing the plunging
Dr. Hayes off balance so that he
made a spectacular three-point
landing in a cloud of dust at the
side of the cage. After this high
spot, there was much haggling over
the ball near the center of the field,
with Miss Hunter completely for-
getting the little custom of keep-
ing one's stick down below one's
shoulder. Dr. Davidson, a bit
wilted, was limping noticeably, but
with a burst of energy tried to
tackle Hance an ill-advised at-
tempt which ended in the second
faculty tumble.

The last few minutes of the
game drooled along with the score
tied, 1-1, until Dryfoos came

There's something new in the
way of clubs a music club at
Converse College. The idea of the
music club was first conceived by
a group of Converse students last
spring, and now the club has be-
come a member of the National
Federation of Music Clubs. The
study this year is to be based upon
modern music. At each meeting
there will be a discussion of the
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through unexpectedly with an anti-
climatical but decisive goal for the
students, a bare second before Alice
(Peter Pan) Cheeseman tooted her
whistle.

And thus was ended the season's
initial struggle on the hockey field.
Interclass games begin this Friday;
wanted: one sizeable cheering sec-
tion, in the worst way.

Line-up for last week's game:
Faculty Students

Mitchell CF Hance

Margaret Bell__RI_Wimp'mer (1)

McCalla LI___Dryfoos (1)

Hayes (1) LW Forman

Hunter RW Vaughn

Davidson CH Milner

McMullen (?)_LH_ Montgomery

Haynes RF Wilds

Miller LF Hamilton

McCain G Kenny

Runyan RH J. Jones

"Soph" Faculty
Entertains at
Bacon Bat

The Annual Faculty Bacon Bat
was held Friday, October 7th, at
five-thirty in the afternoon at the
new Harrison Hut. This picnic is
given each year by the "sopho-
more" members of the faculty for
all faculty families and in special
honor of the "freshman" members.
This year the hostesses are: Dr.
Florence Swanson, Mrs. Sarah
Graham, and Miss Evelyn Wall.
The hostesses state that the Bacon
Bat consists chiefly of eating and
that the guests were treated to
steaks. The outing also gave
the faculty an opportunity to en-
joy Harrison Hut for the first
time.

Miss Home Speaks
To Eta Sigma Phi

Eta Sigma Phi met on Monday,
October 10, at 4:30 in the Murphy
Candler Building, with all fresh-
man Greek and Latin students as
special guests. At that time, Miss
Annabel Home, of the Latin de-
partment of Girls' High School,
spoke. Afterwards an informal tea
was held.

Hop Scotch, Leap Frog
Precede Labeling Ceremony

Impressive in its childlike simplicity was the annual party
given by the sophomores and the freshmen. The Crusaders
themselves could not have been more stirring than the "Going
to Jerusalem" that went on that night. Nor could Noah's
flood have created greater waves of excitement than the bob-
bing for apples at which Stunt Chairman Anne Brooks proved

such a washout. And could those

gals string a line when there was
a marshmallow on the end!

But undoubtedly one of the
most striking features of this kiddy
party was the wondrous display of
costumes. Grace Walker modeled
what the well-dressed Charleston
child should wear (since the flood,
evidently) . Gay Currie was her us-
ual cheerful self in a charming
costume of blue and white checked
gingham. Pat tie (Honor Roll)
Patterson wore an outfit suitable
for the very, very young; while
Hog Calling Florence Tipton look-
ed at least a dignified ten.

Putting away such grammar
schoolish things as Hop Scotch and
Leap Frog and leaving their child-
hood behind them, the Sophomore
Commission suddenly appeared,
heralded by the dimming of all
lights, and the donning of black
robes and white grease paint.
Lighting their way with flickering
candles, they paraded the length of
the room and took their places be-
fore the assemblage, while the
Freshmen groveled in the dust and
lay prone on the floor - in their
fright. Then came the direst slew

of threats ever to be pronounced
on this campus, read by Sophomore
President Julia McConnell, and
ending with the sigh of relief evok-
ed by the N. R. A. (no ratting al-
lowed) rule of the liberal arts col-
lege. As the thrilling climax to
the impressive rite came the label-
ing act, in which ceremony each
Freshman was tagged with her
name printed on a bib and was
sentenced to wear said label for
one week.

Thus was the class of '42 initiat-
ed into another Agnes Scott tradi-
tion. Hurrah for the spirit of '42!

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"ego, the real self"; the "history of
what we have been and the pro-
phecy of what we are to become."
Character is the sum total of all
our habits, both good and bad,
making of us a creature of many
different natures.

"Some earmarks of habit," how-
ever, as set forth by Dr. Graves,
are easier for the layman to com-
prehend than are the scientific
definitions on the subject. Among
these are the spirit of uniformity,
which keeps men and women from
trying the new and unusual; the
facility with which we perform
habitual acts, as seen in the young
man who, awkward at first, soon
is "floating (or trotting) around
the ballroom"; and the propensity
or "tendency to do a thing whether
we will or not, because we have
done it once", illustrated by the
psychology professor who removed
his coat to dress for a party and
then went to bed from force of
habit.

As "splendid capital" or as "a
set of bad debts", our habits mold
our characters. The question of
recognizing the formation of a
good or a bad habit, however,
shifts the emphasis from psychol-
ogy to ethics. Here again, the an-
cients had their theories, often
seeking pleasure as the real end of
life. Some effort, on the other
hand, is surely expected of us in
the "realizing of our divine in-
heritance." Aristotle had his rela-
tive mean, which sought to find
the happy medium between rash-
ness and cowardice in courage;
Emmanuel Kant prefers his cate-
gorial imperative requiring an indi-
vidual to act as if his maxim were
to become "an universal law of
nature"; but it remained for
Christ to give us "the most perfect

Newest Alumnae
Divulge Aims,
Achievements

"Getting in touch with all these
active squirmy alumnae is worse
than trying to catch up with all
the silly items on a scavenger hunt
list!" Those are the sentiments of
Babbie Adams, '3 8.

Babs has been working as assist-
ant society editor of the Charlotte
News since August 1. She "loves it
to death and will be editor as soon
as the present one makes up her
mind to leave." The editorial of-
fice also keeps her busy in city
news, stock reports, weather fore-
casts and informing curious mil-
lions that call daily about the Ger-
man situation or various elections.
Babs stated, "I couldn't get a thing
done for answering the phone the
day of the Georgia election it's
perfectly fascinating work.. Then,
too, I am enjoying teaching Queen's
College Class at our church." Ver-
satile Babs!

With all her busy hours, how-
ever, Babs found time to hear all
the gossip on her classmates.

rule" for the formation of good
habits, and through them, good
character.

Enlivening his serious thoughts
with a wealth of stories and hum-
our, Dr. Graves completely won his
audience. He is distinguished as
the national president of Phi Beta
Kappa, and as the president of the
University of the State of New
York, and holds thirty-three hon-
orary degrees.

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5

Martha Long Writes of Moons, Hamburg, and Pretzels
While Playing German Bridge

Jolly Farewell Group
Discovers Count and Hans

"Oh, my stars and garters !" Martha's forsook her native
territory for the land of waltzes, toys, and Hitler ! Midnight,
August 31 . . . and our own Martha Long set sail on the good
ship "Hansa" for that international beer garden, Germany,
to gain a year's "experience/' scholastic and educational.

The night was drizzly and
drooly, but that atmospheric ele-
ment of dampness thwarted not
the jolly farewell committee which
thronged the pier to give "Droop"
appropriate send-off and bon-voy-
age. Mary Peters, whom we re-
member from Vassar, ' and Mary
Wells McNeill, contemporary Hot-
tentot; Giddy Erwin, erstwhile
same, and "some of the boys from
the house" comprised the commit-
tee, so-to-speak. They report to us
that our little "prune-pulp" strug-
gled aboard laden with a stack of
epistles "a foot high" (not respon-
sible for statistics), four telegrams,
three boxes sweet-meats, box of
hankies, and, too, a bouquet of
flowers!

And once aboard, the commit-
tee and Martha endulged in the ef-
fervescence of ginger-ale and lem-
onade. Furthermore, the thought-
ful group devoured the box of
candy, offering nary a bite to Mar-
tha, so she, the lucky girl, would
avoid appalling mai - de - mer
(which, apropos, she did).

Having refreshed themselves, the
farewell party moved about the
boat and began "meddling in
everybody else's business," in the
tongue of one of the meddlers.
They played hop-Scotch on the
shuffle board diagram and read the
passenger list, finding on the latter
a Count traveling first class, and
another unusual person who is said
to have had some connection with
the late "Hindenberg" craft.

Everybody "jabbered German" and
waved frantically at everybody
else. There was Hans, the sailor,
leaving his weeping wife. And
Hans' friends who shouted above
all other shouts, "Don't forget to
bring my sweater back!" There
were also the tolerant and extro-
verted individuals who hung over
the rail and chatted with Giddy
about the tremendous magnitude of
the craft. It seems the other chat-
ter was invariably named "Ma-ya-
bul," and the dialogue often began
"Ma-ya-bul, ... oh di-yah, this
is a bi-yig bo-wut!"

Very soon this hilarity was
terminated as officials hustled the
committee off this big boat. They
stood on the wharf and shouted
various "warnings" (not describ-
ed) and farewells, much to the
amusement of the two German
youths who were standing by Mar-
tha. And so the Hansa steamed
away, and the committee went
chez ils to wait for the letters
Martha promised to write.

And Martha is as good as her
promise. Thin-papered, foreign
looking letters soon edged their
ways into various Hottentots'
boxes. All of them are good ole-
fashioned long letters, too. To
Caroline, our "little pineapple-
seed," described playing bridge in
German, and loving it. She said
she went to school with Ursula and
had met many of her friends.
"But you have no idea how hard

t^Galavanting ( 2Gals

There can't be any doubt this week-end Tech rates ace
high and will probably keep on rating as long as they have
such swell orchestras ! Just a few of the girls at the Mildred
Bailey-Red Norvo Dances on Fri

day and Saturday were Nell Pin-
ner, Charlene Burke, Keeker New-
ton, Susan Goodwyn, Kay Toole,
Sarah Copeland, Lib Davis, Ruth
Slack, Martha Dunn, Eloise Len-
nard, Ella Muzzey, Snooks Moss,
Martha Watkins, Rowena Barrin-
ger, Frances Butt.

This mass movement out to
Tech went on Saturday afternoon
too Mary Lang Gill, Nell Pinner,
Marjorie Boggs, Marion Franklin,
Lutie Moore, Annette Franklin,
Betsy Banks, Christine Florence,
Elizabeth Shepherd, Callie Carmi-
chael, Frances Abbott, Hunter
Mallard, Martha Marshall, Jane
Jones,\ Helen Moses, Jane Dryfoos,
Marie Merritt, Mary Frances Guth-
rie, Winifred Finger, Lou Pate,
Onie Smith, Hazel Solomon, Doro-
thy Graham, and Florence Tipton
were all there when Tech beat
Notre Dame almost.

Probably those dazzling smiles
come from the Dental School
boosters who attended the Psi
Omega dance Friday night Mary
Lang Gill, Marjorie Boggs, Sara
Lee, Mildred Joseph, Annette
Franklin, Marion Franklin, Lutie
Moore, Grace Elizabeth Anderson,
Snooks Moss, Keeker Newton.

Really lots of things happened
this week-end the Phi Chis had a
house dance ask Betsy Banks,
Mitzi Sanders, Susan Goodwyn,
Lutie Moore, Eloise Lennard, Anne
Nasley; the Emory Pi K A had a

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house dance where Julia Porter,
Catherine Ivie, Winifred Finger,
and Onie Smith had a very gay
time and Tech did so well that
only Helen Jester and Frankie Butt
went out and danced with the
S A E Friday night.

it is to speak always in Ger
man . . ." She confessed that by
the end of the day she is "worn
out," but looks forward to the
time a few months from now
when she will undoubtedly "get
along all right."

She has spoken of the great dif-
ferences between American and
German food. The "hard, hard
rolls which really are wonderful,"
the mid-day meal of "boiled pota-
toes, meat loaf wrapped in cabbage,
and tomatoes" with ice cream
served in loaf form for desert, and
the complete lack of bread with
the big mid-day meal are some of
the more engaging differences. She
described the evening meal, "We
have large, large pretzels, round
hard German black bread, always
wilted lettuce salad, and one hot
dish." At four o'clock everyone
enjoys coffee and "eats the most
wonderful German cookies." These
cookies aren't like ours. They're
made of plum, or apple, and are
cut like pie-slices.

In one letter Martha ejaculated,
"It's awful the way I just sort of
assume you punks will want to
hear all this stuff, but here goes
for Hamburg." And she proceeds
to describe landing at Cuxhaven,
where the band played Deutsch-
land A her Alles and everyone gave
the Hitler salute, and where the
customs ignored her bags. Ham-
burg is "truly gorgeous," "a big
industrial center and very mod-
ern," noted for its Rathans tun-
nel, its Elbe river, and its "new
and beautiful department stores."
The evening she arrived in Ham-
burg Martha and her escort dined
in the beautiful "Asteria," which
has a "soft, brown squashy car-
pet", crystal chandeliers, and "a
wonderful orchestra playing soft
German waltzes." The big win-
dow by their table afforded a fas-
cinating view of the Elbe River
"on which a full moon shone!"

Next morn Martha made prep-
arations to leave for Stuttgart,
Ursula's home. By now she is set-
tled in serious endeavor, finding
only moments here and there to
drop some of us a line. And how
we enjoy the few extremely enjoy-
able lines! Let us hear more o' ye,
Droop! Greetings from one o' th'
punks.

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photographs this year, for the 1939 Silhouette
annual, we hope to have the pleasure of seeing
you in our studio in Atlanta.

For a limited time, we have decided to give each
girl photographed, a beautiful oil color job on one
of her pictures, complimentary.

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Miss Scandrett
Reveals Eventful Career

Celebrities may come and celebrities may go on the Agnes
Scott campus, but none could be nearer or dearer to the
hearts of the girls than is Miss Scandrett. She knows our
college life from the standpoint of both the students and the
faculty.

Before coming to Agnes Scott from Cordele, Georgia, she

had never seen Atlanta. (This

never seen
piece of information was proferred
with a grin.) But the small town
girl made good, and the position of
Freshmen Representative on Stu-
dent Government was only the
first of her numerous honors.

Next came the presidency of the
Sophomore Class, and then her
Junior year brought with it the
position of Secretary of Student
Government. The Presidency of
Student Government the following
year gave a fitting close to a fine
college career.

All these honors were great but
even they paled beside that beauti-
ful letter which was gained by
hard work on the hockey team.
Miss Scandrett admits that the
secret of her success lay in the fact
that the opposing team usually be-
came so tickled at the way she ran
they could do nothing to stop her.
Nevertheless she sincerely hopes the
faculty realizes what a good play-
er they missed last Friday.

After laying aside her hockey
sticks and president's gavel, Miss
Scandrett sought new fields to
conquer and began a study of Stu-
dent Personnel Administration at
Columbia. There she was given a
year's leave to act as assistant dean
at Syracuse University, from which
she returned to finish her studies.

Surely Miss Scandrett must have
gained a Ph.D. in consolation for

no one is better at the gentle art of
consoling homesick freshmen or
sorrowful sophomores who cannot
fin^l a chaperon. In fact, we know
of nothing at which she does not
excel.

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"The tabulation showed," the
survey report said, "that the per-
son working the most hours
studies the most. One student who
works 50 hours in a local dry
goods store, spends 26 hours in
studying. On the other hand, the
girl sleeping 60 hours does no out-
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hours."

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Agnes Scott College
Decatur, Ga.

THE AGONISTIC

Editorials

features

Vol. XXIV, No. 2
Wednesday, Oct. 12, 1938

Letters Discuss
Pros and Cons of
Agonistic Name

The Agonistic has requested some people not con-
nected directly with the staff of the paper to ex-
press their views on the subject of changing the
name of the paper. In this and the following issue
these letters will be printed. Below are the opinions
of Dr. Florence Swanson, college physician; Laura
Steele, editor of the Agonistic during the session of
1936-1937; and Mary Ellen Whetsell, president of
Student Government.

Dear Editor:

Last fall after the first chapel of the school year
when the single sheet entitled "Agonistic" was
handed to me, I was considerably taken aback. I read
it "Antagonistic,'! but couldn't believe that to be
right, so I re-read it several times and finally decided
that the word must be an extremely clever but very
remote derivative of "Agnes Scott.' Under this de-
lusion I enjoyed reading each issue but always with
a secret wish that I could understand its name. When
I asked about it I received no light except that the
name "Agonistic" has been maintained for a long
time. Toward spring I learned the correct meaning,
dimly recalled having heard it once before, thought
it quite nice, but wondered how many other folks
here and elsewhere are or have been similarly bewil-
dered about it. I should think a more easily under-
standable yet unique name could be adopted.

Dr. Florence Swanson,

College Physician.

Dear Editor:

Not having received any letters addressed to the
"Agnostic" for more than a year, I am not inclined
to be particularly concerned about the name "Ago-
nistic" for the college paper. However, I do agree
that it is annoying to have a paper whose name peo-
ple read either as "Agnostic" or as an attempted
clever similarity to the name of the college. Admit-
ting that the original choice was unfortunate, at the
same time, I take a more or less neutral stand: while
I wouldn't object if a sufficiently good and mean-
ingful name replaces this one, I do believe we should
consider the fact that the Agnes Scott paper has
been called the "Agonistic" for years and is, there-
fore, known as the "Agonistic" to alumnae and
friends of the college.

Laura Steele,
Editor, 1936-37.

Dear Editor:

I have been thinking quite seriously lately about
the "pros" and "cons" of changing the name of the
"Agonistic."

To me, one of the nicest and most compelling as-
pects of Agnes Scott is its traditions. We all cherish
old customs and ideas and are rather prone to accept
new ones. However, if, after careful consideration,
it seems that a change would be for the best, I am
heartily in favor of getting rid of the old and find-
ing something new to take its place.

I am not quite sure that the name "Agonistic"
can be called an Agnes Scott tradition; still it is a
name which has for some time been vitally associated
with our life here on the campus. But how many of
us know the true meaning of "Agonistic?" And
how many of our friends do not take one glance at
the paper and say "Agnostic?"

I do not think a change should be made quickly,
nor do I think a new name should be chosen in a
day but 1 do believe that it will be possible to find
another name which will be wholeheartedly accepted
by the college community, and one which will, in a
short while, become a genuine part of Agnes Scott.
Sincerely,

Mary Ellen Whetsell,

Pres. Student Gov't.

"Constantly to prove and improve the power of
the mind, to win by experiment and contact .in ap-
preciation of beauty, to give the spiritual side of man
a chance to expand, whether through formal aspects
ot worship, through the intellectual approach to ul-
timate realities, or through the higher types of social
relationships these are tests which youth owes to
itself." And Yak University's President Charles
Sevmour believes that the college campus is the
world's best testine eround.

Pressing Forward

Once again we confront the question of whether or not to
change the name of this paper. And once again we urge you,
the students of Agnes Scott, to be alert to the situation, to
acquaint yourselves with the facts, both pro and con.

To refresh your memories, we shall re-state briefly the
points that w r e advanced at the close of the last school ses-
sion in favor of the change.

Of primary importance is the fact that in about ninety per
cent of our formal correspondence with people outside the
College the newspaper is referred to as the "Agnostic," a not
altogether desirable title for the oracle of an institution
striving for intellectual enlightenment.

This condition might be partly atoned for if we felt that
the present name had an especial value in itself to the cam-
pus. But we have discovered that the College has not the
slightest conception of the meaning or significance of "Ago-
nistic."

The chief reason voiced in support of the present name is
that the paper always has gone by that title. We are not at-
tempting to debunk tradition; we heartily support many of
those things that are old and sacred to Agnes Scott. But we
do not advocate the continuance of a custom just because it
is a custom. If a tradition has proved itself no longer praise-
worthy, then something better should be sought to take its
place.

We realize, of course, that this move cannot be brought
about without a great deal of work on the part of each one
of us. It would be much easier to follow the line of least re-
sistance to continue the use of the name poorly chosen six-
teen years ago. But progress is seldom achieved without such
effort. Believing that this is the propitious time for under-
taking the needed reform, we bring the problem before you
for serious consideration.

We of the staff are not trying to "railroad" the proposal.
In order to give everyone a voice in it we are encouraging
discussions within these columns. During future open forums
further opportunity will be given for studying the question.

And by means of a contest we will endeavor to find a new
name that will be dignified, original, and durable. If, how-
ever, there is not suggested a name agreeable to the judges,
we shall not advocate the change but shall continue to use
the present title until a better one recommends itself.

We request the aid of the entire College as we begin this
move for the better.

Thirty girls were honored Friday when Dr. McCain an-
nounced Honor Roll for the last session in chapel. The num-
ber of girls attaining the honor, which is based on a "B"
average in all studies, was an increase of three over the
twenty-seven for the session of 1937-1938. Being an honor
student is especially desirable since the cut system has be-
come effective, since this standing carries the privilege of
unlimited cuts.

ASC on Review

Last Thursday saw the resumption of the radio program
sponsored weekly by the College. We note with approval the
improvement that has been made in these broadcasts.

The publicity committee of the administration, feeling that
at the present a different type of program would be more de-
sirable, directed their efforts toward the presentation of
more informative script.

As a result, the programs that will be given this year will
give a most well-rounded and complete picture of life on the
campus here. Through interviews with different administra-
tive officers, faculty members, and student leaders, the radio
audience will hear the interesting features of Agnes Scott.

Those outside our college walls will see more vividly what
is taking place on the campus, while we within the walls will
be afforded an opportunity to know more intimately those
who are making our Alma Mater what she is today.

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.

Mary Frances Guthrie

Editor
Evelyn Baty
Mary Reins

Assistant Editors
Elizabeth Kenney

Copy Editor

Rebecca Drucker

Assistant Copy Editor

Marie Merritt

Business Manager

Mary Louise Dobbs
Advertising Manager

STAFF

Alice Cheeseman
Mary Wells McNeil

Feature Editors
Annie Enloe
Georgia Hunt

Assistant Feature Editors
Jane Salters

Current History

Eleanor Hutchens

Sports Editor
Hazel Solomon

Exchange Editor
Jennnette Carroll

Alumnae Editor

Selma Steinbach
Club Editor

Hayden Sanford
Eloise Lennard
Florence Ellis
Society Editors

Virginia Farrar
Dorothy Graham
Florence Graham
Beth Paris
Onie Smith

Circulation Managers

REPORTERS : M. L. Gill. V. J. Watkins, A. Enloe. M. L. Ratliff, C. K. Hutchins,
P. Heaslett. M. Merlin. D. Weinkle, B. Alderman. J. Witman, M. Fite, L. Franklin,
J. Cates.

BUSJNESS STAFF: J. Flynt. H. Lichten. M. Oliver, M. Wells. B. Kendrick, A. Fisher,
E. Henegar. B. Coleman, M. Watkins. M. Dunn. L. Sale.

Current History

Embittered Czechs
Resent "Chivalry
Of Powers

Czechoslokavia's feelings have been hurt. In her
bitterness toward those nations which she thinks
have deserted her in her worst need, the little twen-
ty-year-old democracy is now, according to G. E. R.
Gedye's wireless to the New York Times on Octo-
ber 5, leaning dangerously Fascist-ward. Moreover,
the Lidove Noviny, a pro- government Czechoslo-
vakian newspaper, has printed the following opinion
of an anonymous army official. "Of necessity our
future policy involves good relations with Germany
a policy we might have adopted long ago had not
the 'chivalrous* Western powers threatened in such
case to disown their alliances with us." Both Berlin
and Rome have strings to pull in Prague. In the new
presidential elections there is a possibility that one of
Konrad Henlein's friends, the leader of the Agrarian
party, will come out on top. The most important
man in the new Czech cabinet, Foreign Minister
Chalkovsky, has served his country in Japan, Ger-
many, and Italy. Five years in Berlin and six years
in Rome (from which he returned this week upon
his appointment to the cabinet) have made him con-
spicuously friendly to Hitler and Mussolini. II Duce
has openly returned the favor. The Czech people
think Chalkovsky may have enough influence with
Mussolini to prevent the division of Slovakia between
Hungary and Poland.

Capture of French Secrets

Czechoslovakia is so angry with France that high
military circles have shown no chagrin over the sur-
render of the plans of the Czech fortifications to
Germany although, as Mr. Gedye says, the fortifica-
tions in the northwest contain "some of the most
closely guarded secrets of the French Maginot line,
which were built in the Czechoslovakian defenses by
French military engineers." Now that Hitler has the
upper hand in Czechoslovakia he has no longer an
obstacle on his southward path "through the Balkans
toward Britain's vital empire communications and
the vast resources of oil and grain of Hungary and
Rumania, which are essential to the prosecution by
Germany of a great war." This prospect was seen
from afar by "the handsomest man in Europe" and
Duff Cooper, who planned their programs and poli-
cies upon the dire possibility. Chamberlain was either
an idealist or a Micawber, but he may yet be found
right.

Benes a "Miracle Man"

Dr. Eduard Benes, the "miracle man" of Europe,
the disciple of the "father of Czechoslovakia," the
only man whom Masaryk thought fitted to carry out
the democratic program and put into practice the
democratic principles upon which the government
rests, and probably the most disillusioned man in
Europe today, gave up his position as President of
Czechoslovakia, having previously received a com-
munication from Hitler threatening the partition of
Slovakia between Hungary and Poland unless such a
resignation should be tendered. His farewell speech
and his letter of resignation read by Premier Syrovy
were spread over the world by radio. The messages
contained no criticism of foreign governmental ac-
tion or lack of it but only the meaningful re-
mark that "history will judge." In both speech and
letter Dr. Benes expressed his feeling that the demo-
cratic and patriotic spirit of the people of Czecho-
slovakia could not be destroyed, and that out of the
present disaster the nation would rise stronger and
more secure than before.

"Not all our future leaders will come from col-
leges, but there will be more college-trained leaders
than in the past, simply because a larger number
and proportion of our young people now go to col-
lege. If they come out with inquiring minds and
a healthy resistance to propaganda, our huge invest-
ments in educational plants will be justified." The
New York Times' editors voice their approval of the
changing higher education.

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VOL. XXIV

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1938

Z115 No. 3

Leads in Stunt For Freshmen

Freshmen Win Black Cat
For Sixth Time

"Fate of Kitty Black" Has Victory Over
"Soph- White and Seven Slumps"

With "The Fate of Kitty Black," a romance of the feud
between the northern sophomore and the southern freshman
for the hand of a southern belle, the class of '42 became the
sixth victorious freshman class in the history of the Black
Cat Contest. The sophomore stunt
with "Soph-White and the Seven

-Photo Courtesy Atlanta Constitution.

Slumps" was received by much ap4
plause, but judges Dr. Davidson,
Miss Hale, and Miss Hunter de-
clared the freshmen winners.

Betty Ann Brooks was chairman
for the freshmen, whose cast in-
cluded Sara Copeland, Ann Geller-
stedt, and Jane Taylor in the leads,
and Jackie Stearnes, May King, Pat
Fleming, Lillian Gudenrath, Eliza-
beth Jenkins, Florence Tipton, Bet-
ty Nash, Mary Dean Lott, and Vir-
ginia Stanley. Gay Currie and Bee
Bradfield were cheer leaders.

The sophomore cast included
Jeanne Allen and Beverly Coleman
in the leads, and Laura Sale, Nellie
Richardson, Martha Watkins, Dor-
othy Peteet, Elizabeth Barrett,
Ruth Ashburn, Beryl Healy, Mar-
garet Wells, Virginia Williams,
and Carolyn Strozier. Mary Bell
was stunt chairman, and Elaine
Stubbs and Florence Ellis were
cheer leaders.

Blackfriars Sponsor
Avon Players

The Avon Players will appear at
Agnes Scott on Wednesday, Octo-
ber 26, at 8:00 P. M., presenting
"The Taming of the Shrew."
Blackfriars is presenting this noted
group of actors, who are the only
Shakespearean players touring the
South at this time.

Last year they were at Agnes
Scott and gave "Othello" before a
very appreciative audience. Every-
one is urged to attend this produc-
tion, which will be at the Bucher
Scott Gymnasium, with admission
prices 40 cents for students and
60 cents for adults.

Frosh Ignore
Black Cat

Fate played a dirty trick on
the Frosh Saturday night. While
the judges were going mad try-
ing to locate the hide-out of the
Black Cat, where should the
noble kitty be but up on third
floor Inman, reposing undis-
turbed on the telephone table.

It seems the cat had been
there all the time without her
true identity being discovered
by the freshmen they thought
her just a black cat!

Emory Presents
Widow of
Explorer Johnson

Mrs. Osa Johnson, widow of
Martin Johnson, noted explorer
and photographer, who was killed
in an airplane accident, will speak
for the benefit of the Atlanta
public at Glenn Memorial auditor-
ium on Friday night, October 21,
under the sponsorship of the Em-
ory University Student Lecture
Association.

Mrs. Johnson, who is at the
present time on a lecture tour of
America, will discuss the adven-
tures she and her husband encoun-
tered on their many expeditions to
Africa, Borneo, the Cannibal Is-
lands of the South Seas, and other
distant lands. She will supplement
her lecture with a moving picture
entitled "J un gles Calling," taken
by her husband during their num-
erous trips.

Mr. Johnson
Admits 50 Members
To Choir

Singers Practice
Cantata/
Atlanta Concert

Fifty students have been tested
and admitted to the college choir,
whose members outnumber those
of last year. Mr. Lewis H. John-
son, director, is well pleased with
his additions, which are as follows:
Mary Blakemore, Martha Buffalow,
Helen Carson, Josephine Cates,
Sylvia Cohn, Charlotte Davis,
Margaret Doak, Caroline Dunne,
Anne Enloe, Catherine Farrar,
Mary Ann Faw, Ann Gellerstedt,
Doris Hasty, Margaret Hartsook,
Kathleen Huck, Laura Jones, Julia
Lancaster, Caroline Long, Suzanne
Kaulback, Jeanne Lee, Mary Dean
Lott, Winifred Mansfield, Ann
Martin, Sara Massey, Rebecca Mc-
Elvaney, Jessie MacGuire, Isabel
Miller, Louise Musser, Elise Nance,
Betty Nash, Dorothy Nabors,
Betty Jean O'Brien, Molly Oliver,
Dorothy Peteet, Marion Phillips,
Priscilla Reasoner, Elizabeth Ru-
precht, Barbara Sands, Edith
Schwartz, Susan Self, Elise Smith,
Virginia Stanley, Caroline Strozier,
Elaine Stubbs, Margaret Thompson,
Martha Thompson, Rebecca Stam-
per, Virginia Watkins, Alta Web-
ster, and Frances Tucker.

The choir has begun to practice
on the annual Christmas Cantata
and for the performance which it
has been asked to give in Atlanta's

new music

hall.

Aurora Offers
Prize For Design

Three dollars will be awarded
the winner of the Aurora Cover
Contest, which closes on Wednes-
day, October 19th. Poems, short
stories, and essays submitted by
that date will make up the first
issue of Aurora. Editor Julia Sewell
says that the first Aurora will be
published around November 1st.

Agonistic Announces
Five Dollar Award

Person Suggesting Best
Name Wins Money

The Agonistic contest to find a new name for the news-
paper got under way last week with the announcement by
Mary Frances Guthrie, editor of The Agonistic, that a prize
of five dollars will be awarded to the person suggesting the
best name.

The rules for the contest are:
1. Any member of the college
community, either a faculty mem-
ber or a student, may submit a

Edgar Goodspeed,
Andre Maurois
Give Lectures

Lecture Program
Begins on
November 10

l

This year, the Lecture Associa-
tion announces an unusually bril-
liant program, beginning on No-
vember 10, with Dr. Edgar J.
Goodspeed, one of the most distin-
guished Biblical scholars in Amer-
ica. Dr. Goodspeed will talk on
'Tour Hundred Years of the Eng-
lish Bible." On March 27, M. An-
dre Maurois, famous French biog-
rapher and novelist, will speak.

Dr. Goodspeed has taught the
New Testament for many years at
the University of Chicago, and
from 1923 to 1927 was chairman
of the New Testament department
there. He will bring an exhibit of
some of the early printing of the
Bible. About two years ago Dr.
Goodspeed lectured at Randolph-
Macon and was considered the most
popular speaker of the year.

M. Andre Maurois is the author
of Ariel, The Life of Shelly and
other works. He has recently been
elected to the French Academy,
and was once knighted by the
King of England.

Attempts are being made to ar-
range a lecture in January, but
nothing definite is announced as
yet.

2. In case a name is suggested
by more than one person, the first
person making the suggestion will
receive credit for it.

3. All suggestions should be
submitted in writing to the editor
of The Agonistic.

4. A person may make more
than one entry.

5. The contest will last through
the middle of November.

6. The decision of the judges
will be final.

As has been announced, the
judges of the contest are Dr. J. R.
McCain, Miss Carrie Scandrett,
Miss Annie May Christie, Dr.
George P. Hayes, Mary Ellen
Whetsell, and Mary Frances Guth-
rie.

Council Meets

Presidents' Council held its reg-
ular meeting on Monday, October
17, at 4:30 P. M. The main fea-
ture of the meeting was a talk by
Miss Scandrett on the problems
connected with student activities
on our campus. Plans were dis-
cussed at that time for coordinat-
ing various programs and activities
in order to eliminate duplication.

Martini
Sings With
Jepson

The famous love duets closing
the first acts of Madame Butterfly
and La Bohemc will be featured by
Helen Jepson and Nino Martini,
Metropolitan Opera stars, when
they appear in joint concert in the
Atlanta Auditorium on Saturday
night, October 22, at 8:30 P. M.
Miss Jepson will be accompanied
by Robert Wallenborn, while Mr.
Martini, who is giving over forty
concerts in America this season,
and who recently was named the
best-dressed opera singer by the
Fashion Guild of America, will
have Miquel Sandoval as pianist.
Mr. Sandoval is known as the com-
poser of the popular "Petite Valse"
and "Danfca."

Miss Jepson's opening selections
(Continued on Page 2, Column 5)

Julius Rosenwald Fund Gives
Fellowship to Southerners

According to recent informa-
tion, there is now available a spe-
cial fellowship for the study of
southern life. This foundation,
called the Julius Rosenwald Fund,
offers fellowships to white south-
erners and to Negroes who wish to
work on some problem distinctive
to the South and who expect to
make their careers in the South.
The fellowships are not restricted
to any special subject or activity
and are open not only to scholars
and scientists but to persons who
may plan to go into the professions
or the fine arts, or into agriculture,
journalism or creative writing,
education, business, or public serv-
ice.

Both men and women, ordinar-
ily not younger than 22 years nor
older than 3 5 years, although ex-
ceptional cases will be considered
on their merits, are eligible for ap-
plication. Candidates must have
completed their general college

course or their general professional
course before making application,
or give evidence of maturity and
preparation which may be regarded
as the equivalent of a general edu-
cation of at least collegiate stand-
ard.

The amount of the awards will
probably average $1,500 for a full
year's work, although the exact
amount will be determined in each
case on the basis of the expected
expenses involved and of all other
factors which enter into the given
applications, including the length
of time proposed.

The Committee on Fellowships
will require full information about
the personal history of the candi-
dates, their education and experi-
ence, and a definite statement of
the proposed study or investiga-
tion.

Applications for fellowships in
the prescribed form must be sub-
(Continued on Page 3, Column 3)

THE AGONISTIC, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1938

Executive members
of Student Govern-
ment are shown
here giving Harri-
son Hut its first
house-warming.

Inspection Tour

Junior and Sophomore Teams Win
At First Interclass Games

By ELEANOR HUTCHENS

The first interclass hockey game of the season ended last
Friday in victory for the junior and sophomore teams over
the seniors and freshmen, respectively

The freshman-sophomore game
began, amid lusty cheers from the
stands, with preliminary haggling
in the center of the field, before
Hance found an opening and took
the ball through the freshman
lines plumb to the edge of the
goal, where it was stopped by
Currie. Drives toward the oppo-
site goal were subsequently made
by Lott and A. Wilds, to be stop-
ped by the sophomore defense.
After that, the ball went up and
down the field so fast that the
spectators' heads looked as though
they were watching a tennis game.
In the mad shuffle, a good stop by
B. Davis and a nice repulse by
O'Nan stood out as strong plays,
while a fall by Sams added to the
informal aspect of the whole pro-
ceedings. Finally, Annie Wilds
hit a long one which was kicked
beautifully by O'Nan and while
we are on the subject, let it be
known that both of those Wilds
women were right in there fightin'.
This play was completed by Tade
Merrill, who caught O'Nan off
balance with a smooth shot into
the cage for the first freshman
goal. 'Twas then, as the bleachers
became hysterical, that the REAL
action began. Positions forgotten,
the freshman team was all over the
field, playing an aggressive and
bewildering game, with C. Davis
in particular getting around con-
siderably as the half ended, 1-0 for
the freshmen.

The freshman line-up was
changed almost completely for the
second half, and the new players
started off full of wim and wigor,
making speed and alertness substi-
tute for lack of experience. How-
ever, the sophomores at the same
time began to notice the game was
NOT turning out to be a push-
over. A determined Vaughan-
Muzzey drive was nipped by the
brick-wall goalie of the freshmen.
Another near-goal for the sopho-
mores was stopped by a Currie
punt; really, the girl should go out
for football. At this point the
sophomore team began to click;
amid cries of joy from the stands,
Hance made the first sophomore
score. Then, with two minutes
left to play, and the freshman
team slightly rattled, derned if La
Hance didn't make another one,
just to show that man in the audi-
ence what she could do when
aroused. Mutt's whistle ended the
game, leaving the score (unless

ye scorer-sports writer miscounted
somewhere) 2-1 for the sopho-
mores.

The junior-senior game got off
to a slow start, the seniors short
two players. Aha, Forman almost
caused a little excitement, but the
ever-bland McMullen held the
line and a good thing, too, since
there was absolutely NO senior
goalie. The game lagged, neither
side making any headway; after
several minutes' quibbling around
the senior goal, with McMullen and
Hutchins both frantically acting
as goal-guards, Forman found an
opening for the first score. On the
next play, the work of neither side
being particularly smooth, Forman
doggedly pecked at the goal until
another score was eked out, ending
the half 2-0 for the juniors.

The next half, with Eyles and
Cass out to even things up, started
off with a goal beautifully ef-
fected by Forman, in the old
"hockey stick" style. A few min-
utes later, the miracle of the game
happened. Wheeler, playing in a
game for the first time in her
young life, made the only senior
goal, thereby saving her class from
a whitewashing. After this feat,
the game became livelier, with
Dryfoos directing every play from
the bench. Stixrud chalked up the
fourth junior notch. From then
on, the game became ragged, con-

sisting of little short hits and re-
pulses, until Forman got loose and
scuttled around left end just before
the whistle, to leave the score 5-1
for the juniors.

Sophomores (2) Freshmen (1)

Vaughan RW Gray

Muzzey RI Webster

Hance (2) ___CF Wilds, A.

Bell LI___ Merrill (1)

Dennison LW Lott

Cates RH C. Davis

Henry CH Brooks

Sams LH Taylor

Wilds, S. RF Currie

Lancaster LF B. Davis

O'Nan G Nance

Substitutes: Freshmen Mar-
shall, M. Davis, Faw, McElwaney,
Coffee, Levie, Newton, Copeland.
Sophomores None.

Juniors ( 5 ) Seniors ( 1 )

Eyles RW C. Farrar

Heaslett RI Benson

Stixrud (1) __CF___ F. McGuire

Carson LI__ Wheeler (1)

Forman (4) __LW

Griffin RH Doty

Milner CH J. Jones

S. Montgomery LH Campbell

M. N. Taylor.RF McMullen

Thompson LF C. Hutchins

Cass G

Chi Beta Phi Sigma
Chooses New Members

Five girls were honored last
week when they were elected to
membership in Chi Beta Phi Sigma,
national honorary scientific so-
ciety. Those chosen were Ruth
Eyles, Carolyn Forman, Polly
Heaslett, Mary Elizabeth Leavitt,
and Virginia Milner. This society
requires merit work in all sub-
jects, including those in the field
of science, and to be elected to it,
a student must be a science major.

Junior Is Delegate

Henrietta Thompson, secretary
of student government, has her
face turned toward the north now,
looking forward to the annual
N. S. F. A. convention, December
27-31. Last week she was elected
by the student body to accompany
Mary Ellen Whetsell to Purdue
University at LaFayette, Indiana,
where the meeting will be held this
year. Mary Ellen and Henrietta
will represent Agnes Scott at a
meeting which will include leaders
of student government from all
over the country. They will dis-
cuss both campus and national
problems.

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For further information, address
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Tennis Club Admits Four
In Fall Tryouts

Out of twenty-five candidates
trying out for tennis club last
week, three freshmen and one
sophomore were selected to fill the
four vacancies in the club. The
names of the new members, an-
nounced last week by President
Mary Nell Taylor, are: Nancy
Wimpfheimer, sophomore; M.
Jones, M. Robertson, and D. Webs-
ter, freshmen.

Last Year's
Graduates Choose
Careers

The three inseparables and last
year roommates have come to the
parting of their ways. Martha
Alice Green (Mops) married John
Earle, of Asheville October 1 at
her home in Harlem, Ga. They will
have an apartment in Asheville for
a month and then move into the
home.

Grace Tazewell, after a wonder-
ful summer at Cape Cod and New
York City, says she will just loaf
along until spring. Plans for June?
Well, no one knows.

While Mops chose matrimony
and Grace remains settled other-
wise, Ola (Kelly) has decided up-
on a career teaching. She is in
Douglasville, Ga., and rooms with
Lib Cousins.

In the review of activities of
'3 8's, our latest Hottentots and
newest alumnae, we find Zoe
(Beauty Section) Wells in Boston
for art school and B(-ertha) Mer-
rill studying law at U. of N. C.

Lib Blackshear is alumnae secre-
tary at North Avenue Presbyterian
School in Atlanta and Anna Cath-
erine (Kitty) Fulton is associate
social worker at Mississippi State.

In 16 years Rensselaer Polytech-
nic Institute's radio station has
given intensive radio training to
more than a thousand students.

According to a University of
Denver survey, the average co-ed
wears a size 14 dress.

A. A. Sponsors
Recreation Night
Bi-Weekly

At last! What to do with the
bored date on Saturday night!
Recreation night, sponsored by the
Athletic Association and the Phy-
sical Education ^Department, will
provide entertainment for two
Saturday nights a month, begin-
ning October 29, to students
WITH or WITHOUT dates.

The gymnasium and the Mur-
phey Candler Building will be open
to all, offering such attractions as
badminton, ping-pong, paddle ten-
nis, deck tennis, horseshoes, shuf-
fle board, and darts. Jane Dry-
foos, general chairman of Recrea-
tion Night, will be in charge of all
arrangements. Faculty and A. A.
Board members, it is planned, will
supervise the games in the two
buildings.

So give that date a chance to
show off his athletic prowess (or
otherwise). You'll both have a
sporting time, no end!

Martini

Continued from Page 1

will include the Invocation from
Handel's Radamisto, Arne's B "Pol-
ly Willis," the Bird Song from
Pagliacci, the garden scene from
Faust, "The King of Thule," and
"The Jewel Song." In English she
will sing songs from Olmstead,
Carpenter, Seymour, and Hage-
man.

"II Mio Tesoro," from Mozart's
Don Giovanni, with selections
from Torelli and A. Scarletti, will
open Mr. Martini's program. Later
he will sing Rodolph's narrative
from La Boheme, and, in English,
songs by Fourdrain, Rachmaninoff,
Hely, and Serrano.

The Creighton University R. O.
T. C. has issued orders that all
members must appear with inch-
and-a-half haircuts.

Eat At Your New

Here's That

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Halt! Who goes here! A real friend Joyce,
who this time last year was sitting in the same
classrooms, boning away in the same library,
doing all the things you're doing this minute.
She's Agnes Scott's Girl Friday at Davison's. She
helps us buy the things you want. She wants to
help YOU! Come to see her in the Iris Lee Bu-
reau or call her at Walnut 7612 at any time!

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THE AGONISTIC, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1938

Hamilton Progresses

From Arabesque to Athletics

By MARY WELLS McNEILL

She's blonde, she's beautiful, she's brilliant, and the name
is Hamilton. You may find her on the hockey field wielding
a stick with the best of them or dancing on a waxed floor
with some fair swain (preferably Joe) and managing to look
like a little thing McClelland Barclay "thunk up."

Yes, from earliest childhood

dancing has been Jane Moore's de-
light, and between you and me and
the gatepost, she once harbored the
ambition to be a dancer on a real
live stage. But fate at best is a
tricky thing. It led our Jane into
the part of Diana in a living arab-
esque. Have you ever tried to
stand motionless in dancing shoes
with arch supporters (due to bad
feet) and at the same time to hold
a bow and arrow gracefully in your
lily white paws? Well, take the
advice of Mrs. Hamilton's little
daughter and don't.

Time went on as time will and
our heroine came to college. At
once she began to follow in the
footsteps of her sister, Eleanor, who
was editor of the Annual and a
member of Mortar Board when at
Agnes Scott.

Jane Moore was secretary and
treasurer of the freshman class
and business manager of its edition
of the Agonistic. Next, she was
costume manager of the sophomore
Stunt and secretary and treasurer
of the sophomore class. In her
junior year, she was secretary of
Athletic Association and is now its
president.

Time has shown that after mem-
bers of A. A. Board have gnashed
their teeth and torn their hair in
an earnest endeavor to discover
her methods of doing things, Jane
Moore in a quiet little voice will
say what do you think of doing
this and so. Everybody looks at
everybody else, sighs, and adnvts
that the suggested thus and so is
just what everybody has been try-
ing to think of for the last two
hours.

How does she do it, you

say.'

Science Book
Lists Agnes Scott
Professors

The sixth edition of American
Men of Science, which has recently
been published, includes the names
of seven Agnes Scott faculty mem-
bers. This book, which gives the
names and short biographical
sketches of American scientists
prominent in the field of research,
is compiled and published every 5-
10 years. The Agnes Scott pro-
fessors honored this year are: Dr.
Schuyler M. Christian, Dr. Phil-
lippa G. Gilchrist, Dr. Mary Stuart
MacDougall, Dr. Henry A. Robin-
son, Dr. Ernest H. Runyon, Dr.
Emily S. Dexter, and Dr. Kathar-
ine T. Omwake.

Also listed is Dr. Laliah Curry
Runyon, wife of our Botany Pro-
fessor, who was awarded her doc-
tor's degree in Zoology and Physio-
logy, and is very outstanding in
those fields.

Dr. McCain Plans to
Attend Regional
Conference

Dr. J. R. McCain, President of
Agnes Scott, is planning to attend
the Regional Conference of the
Association of American Colleges,
of which he was formerly presi-
dent, at the University of Rich-
mond, Virginia, October 21-22.
Dr. McCain will speak at the din-
ner meeting, Friday, October 21,
on the subject, "Pressing Present
Problems of Independent Colleges."

There's Good Food
at

Atlanta's One and Only
MELBA CAFETERIA

Vernon Geyer at the Organ

We don't know, but we love her
because she is never too busy to
stop and chat with us, because she
does the Lambeth Walk with such
marked individuality, and because
she looks better than we do even
when her hair drools, and the lat-
ter, dear friend, is not free will;
it's pure predestination. You either
do or you don't and mostly you
don't.

Southwestern
Applauds Fortitude
Of Day Students

According to The Sou'wester,
"alarm clocks ring early for many
of Georgia Southwestern's one hun-
dred sixty day students, compris-
ing more than one-third of the en-
rollment, for they have chores to
do and miles to cover.

"Long before dormitory students
and their classmates who live in
Americus fling back the covers,
groups who commute from four
nearby towns and communities of
Sumter County are dressing for the
day's routine.

"Thayer Causey, of Schley Coun-
ty, a freshman, covers more mile-
age than any other student and,
consequently, has to get up very
early before five o'clock." His
daily distance is fifty miles.

Agonistic Accepts
Six Reporters

Six embryonic journalists
were added to the reporters
for The Agonistic in the re-
cent tryouts. These girls
are: Lib Barrett, Beverly
Coleman, Julia Lancaster,
Eloise McCall, Susan Self,
and Elaine Stubbs.

Blackfriars
Announce First
Fall Play

Blackfriars met on Tuesday,
October 18, at 7:00 P. M., in Miss
Gooch's studio, with the president,
Jeanne Flynt, presiding. A busi-
ness meeting was held first in
which plans to bring the Avon
Players to the campus were dis-
cussed. At that time plans were
also made for presenting "Stage
Door," Blackfriars' first big play
of the year. It was decided that
try-outs for Blackfriars should be
held on Monday, October 24.

After the business meeting a
play, "Uplifting Sadie," was pre-
sented to the club and others by
the members of Blackfriars* Board
and the play production class. The
cast included: Sadie, Nell Echols;
Lady FitzRoy, Jeanne Flynt; Miss
Clive, Kay Kennedy; Mrs. Gatling,
Evelyn Sears; Mrs. Smith, Jeanne
Redwine; Mrs. Jones, Susan Good-
wyn; Mrs. Cutting, Georgia Hunt;
Mrs. Price, Marion Franklin; Mrs.
Green, Alice Cheeseman; Miss
Blum, Nettie Lee Greer; Mrs.
Splurge, Helen Moses; and Dinah,
Mary Penel Simonton.

QGalavanting QGals

Even with the Black Cat Stunt demanding- lots of attention
this week-end and especially on Saturday night, there was no
let up in the other "activities/' Don't ask how many got con-
fused in signing out but Nell Pinner, Marjorie Boggs,
Eloise Lennard and Val Neilsen
were all at the Phi Chi House
dance Saturday night, while Char-
lene Burke, Marion Franklin, Jean
Redwine, Helen Jester, Marion
Philips, Ella Muzzey, and Grace
Walker attended the Chi Phi House
dance.

Lutie Moore went home to
Barnesville for the week-end and
took Annette Franklin with her.
Nina Mae Snead, Carolyn Alley,
and Kekker Newton all went to
their homes too, but Kekker came
back Saturday in time for the A.
T. O. dance. Others at the A. T.
O. dance were Betty Embry, Kay
Toole, Toni Newton, Mitzi San-
ders, Florence Ellis, Beverly Cole-
man, and Sue Philips.

Penn Hammond, Boots Moore,
Frances Abbott, and Carrie Gene
Ashley went on a steak fry Satur-
day afternoon.

Lillian Schwenke and Frankie
Butt went to the football game at
Emory Friday and had dinner at
the K. A. House.

Val Neilson and Ella Muzzey
went to a S. A. E. buffet supper
Sunday night.

Susan Goodwyn and Edith Hene-
gar attended the Anak Dance at
Tech Saturday night.

Mary McPhaul went to the A. K.
K. House dance Saturday night.

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Hottentots 1 Rooms
Reveal Clever Tastes

By ALICE CHEESEMAN

A brief tour of the campus "residences" yesterday revealed
to our scrutinizing eye a number of striking effects in in-
terior decoration-ing of various Hottentots' rooms. Feeling
very much like cabin-inspectors at camp, we jotted down
notes on many of these "effects." Some, of course, startingly
evidenced brands of inferior decorating which (probably)

were discoursed in one of the vol-

umes of "How to Bother Friends
and Annihilate People."

But we shall confine our re-
marks to those domiciles which
truly are "phantoms of delight"
such as the McGregor suite on third
Rebekah (by number o' 5 6) with
its silhouetted elephant and green
curtains. This suite once housed
the "little ivory chair," that hand-
painted little crate of frivolity
which has now gone the way of all
"hand - painted" little rockers.
(How splintered the McGregor
hopes!) And then for a delightful
job in "coral" and neutral fringe
visit the Hamilton-Shortley room.
It has all the modern conveniences,
including air - conditioning and
ironing facilities. It's practicality
is disguised, however, in deep
initialed spreads and bob-balled
curtains.

Another practical point on the
campus is the third Main room of
Mary Bell, etc., which features
cedar wardrobes beautifully fitted
with towel racks. The most unus-
ual personal "effect" in the whole
community, we found, is Willie's
and Wimpy 's Agnes Scott radio
streamlined, purple, and certainly
original. Dot Peteet's motto is
comfort, no doubt and she seeks
her ideal via the deep hol-stupery
of a compelling divan in her room
in Main.

Down the hall we were cheered
by the airy blue of Dougie's room,
where is hidden her little wicker
sock, etc. basket, at which various
ones find themselves snickering at
times, and shouldn't. Her's is a
pleasing room with a blue candle.
And a propos candles Mary Ellen
has a traditional pair of wall can-
dlesticks in her little red and white
room. When Laura left her post
last year, she handed over to Mary
Ellen, along with gavel and gown,
these sticks which every Student
Government president uses. They
look very wistful now, but for their
carmen colored candles, and so in
contrast to the cup-towels and
terry-cloth pup we found on the
president's bed.

In the humorous line (and who
doesn't enjoy an occasional good
laff even though they may not
"get it!") we like to mention San-
dy the sand man whose silken
grassy tresses and mustache fasci-
nate toute-le-monde in the McCain-
McNeill huddle on third. But there
is probably no one more able to give
an accurate "blow by blow" de-
scription of the exact mechanics of
this toupee than Henri Blackwell!
(Really he's the funniest little
man we've ever seed!)

This grass-and-sand discussion
makes us think of the desert; and
the desert makes us think of Mexi-
co; and Mexico makes us think of
the Kays' room on third, Becky
and frankly, that's a pleasant
thought indeed. Their room is
like a Mexican fiesta even the cur-
tains "rejoice" in a balmy ('til No-
vember) tropic-like breeze! And
we loved sinking into the deeps of
the Navaho rug, too.

The truly beautiful rooms on the
campus are those such as Miss Mil-
ler's in Rebekah, with its bamboo-
rodded curtains, and Miss Cham-
lee's in the Tea House, where there
is a perfect paradise of potted
plants and 200 inch curtains, and,
also in the Tea House Miss Wall's,
which is a beautiful tone of "deep
purple" and a tint of lavendar.

These "jotted notes on people's
rooms" have given only a very
slight glimpse into the homes of
many of our Hottentots, and we
suggest, for full enjoyment of the
clever and captivating effects of
these many interior decorations
(and many more) we suggest a
personal tour. Not only are the
rooms delightful but you may
often meet the people who effected
such delight!

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THE AGONISTIC, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1938

Agnes Scott College
Decatur, Ga.

THE AGONISTIC

Editorials

features

Vol. XXIV. No. 3
Wednesday, Oct. 19, 1938

Faculty, Students
Continue Agonistic
Name Discussion

Believing that the students by now have some in-
telligent conception of the reasons given for chang-
ing the name of the school newspaper, the Agonistic
presents these letters as the conclusion of its effort
to present campus opinion on the subject in this
column.
Dear Editor:

On reading the material in the current issue (Oc-
tober 12) of The Agonistic, relative to the approp-
riateness of "Agonistic" as the name of our college
paper, it occurred to me to see just what one would
find in the dictionary as the meaning of the term.
So I looked in the unabridged Standard Dictionary
in my office, then went to the library with the single
errand of consulting Webster's. (I believe that is as
much trouble as could reasonably be expected of any
casually interested individual and that should prob-
ably be the criterion. Let me hasten to say that I
ajready knew the intent of the term!)

To quote the Standard: "1. Pertaining to trials
of skill in athletics or polemics. 2. Striving for ef-
fect; overdone; strained. 3. Combative; polemic."

To quote Webster's: "1. Pertaining to the clas-
sical agones; hence pertaining to intense strife or con-
test; combative. 2. Strained, for the sake of effect."

Neither volume would reward the search for en-
lightenment with anything justifying "Agonistic"
as the name for a paper, or any other non-athletic
enterprise. Indeed, the major emphasis in both books
is such as to leave the investigator more baffled than
he was by mere ignorance: the terifi seems to stand
for something rather undesirable.

I regret having no constructive suggestions to
make. The fact as to the confusing nature of the
word is not debatable, but since it does not confuse
me, I have no personal objection to it.

Emily S. Dexter,
Associate Professor of Psychology and Education.

Dear Editor:

Since the periodic agitation for changing the
name of the Agonistic has reappeared in unusual
fprce this year, I have considered it seriously, trying
to clarify the issue in my own mind. As I see it, this
is the case, pro and con:

Con Tradition pleads against changing a name
that has been used for more than twenty years.

Pro h A general inertia rather than any feel-
ing of sentiment has preserved the present name.

2. The Agonistic is widely miscalled The Ag-
nostic, a somewhat doubtful title for an Agnes Scott
publication.

3. The word Agonistic does not particularly
please the eye or the ear.

4. The significance of the title is almost un-
known among the students, and is a complete puz-
zle to outside readers, who usually imagine it to be
a remote derivative of Agnes Scott.

Whether the name of the paper be changed or
not, I believe that the question should be fully dis-
cussed within the college community, as an issue
meriting attention and interest.

Sincerely,

Violet Jane Watkins,
President Poetry Club.

Dear Editor:

I am as sentimental as anybody else about hold-
ing on to traditions, but I'm also a hearty advocate
of progressive change. So I agree with what seems
the general opinion that we ought to change the
name of the Agonistic. You've heard all the argu-
ments pro and con, especially pro, so I won't repeat
them.

What I want to say here is that I think some of
our campus-minded students ought to begin using
their initiative to think up some names for us to be-
gin to consider. I believe almost everybody will ap-
prove the change if we have some good substitute
names suggested, so we're wasting time thinking up
arguments for and against the change. Why don't
we get down to brass tacks and do some constructive
thinking? And anyway, doesn't somebody beside me
need that $5.00 prize?

Sincerely,

Douglas Lyle,
President Christian Association.

A "no game" was ruled in the University of Illi-
nois-University of Chicago contest in 1 894 within
21 minutes of the end of the game because Illinois
substituted its coach for a regular player.

Food For Thought

During the past school year a movement was begun to de-
crease the overwhelming number of activities that have
grown up on our campus through successive college genera-
tions.

A little was accomplished toward the ultimate solution of
the problem, but much remains to be done both now and in
the future.

At present several conspicuous changes have been made.
Perhaps the most evident of . these is the regulation allowing
the underclassmen only two weeks in which to prepare their
Black Cat stunts. The resulting necessary simplicity and in-
formality of the stunts prevented the freshmen and sopho-
mores from taking too much time away from their studies.

With this decided improvement in the number of superflu-
ous extra-curricular activities we continue the drive for fur-
ther disorganization. There is duplication in the work of sev-
eral clubs in existence on the campus. Either these groups
should merge and unite their efforts or one activity should
give way to another.

Such a step will not be an easy undertaking, for most of
our clubs feel themselves so important to the College that
they will not be humbled by dissolving their organizations.
If we are ever to arrive at a solution, however, we must turn
from considering only the aim of the group and we must
think of the aim of the individual.

We cannot deny that over half of the students are dabbling
in too many activities. Establishing a maximum number of
clubs to which a girl may belong will relieve the situation
greatly, but simplifying and coordinating the structure of our
clubs will help even more.

The maxim about a jack of all trades applies just as strong-
ly to us college students as it does to people in business
until we limit our efforts to a few activities we will hardly
achieve any measure of success.

Drama Forecast

The coming of the Avon Shakespearean Players, under the
sponsorship of Blackfriars Club, marks the first of the year's
dramatic presentations on the campus. Those of us who saw
these actors produce "Othello" here last winter eagerly
await their arrival.

This is reported to be our only opportunity to witness
Shakespearean drama played in the South this winter. Be-
cause of this and also because the Avon Players are artists
known throughout the country for their ability, we should
make definite plans now to see "The Taming of the Shrew."

The appearance of these actors is another move toward
our cultural advancement and a further aid to our attaining
the mark of the educated person.

Fun For All

One of the long felt needs of the campus will be heeded
next week when the Athletic Association holds its first recre-
ation night.

Students have complained for many years over the fact
that there is nothing to do when one has a date here on the
campus. And, as some have remarked, even the most exciting
date can become dull when it is spent in walking from a date
parlor to Buttrick and back again.

As an initial step tow r ard remedying this situation, the
gymnasium will be opened on two Saturday nights a month.
And under the competent supervision of the Physical Educa-
tion Department and the A. A. Board, there will be well
planned games for all.

Recreation night, however, is not solely for girls with
dates; it is for everyone. And, if we can judge by the hilar-
ity that arose the other night when the A. A. Board members
themselves tried out the games, we predict that you too will
soon be jubilant over the idea.

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Cu rrent History

Americans in China
Pluckily Stick to
Jobs in Universities

Americans are plucky. And the story of Ameri-
cans in China doesn't end with the eighty who took
part in the great mass exodus from Canton Friday,
when, as the Atlanta Constitution reports, 400,000
women and children left Canton after Japanese war
planes dropped leaflets demanding the surrender of
the city by Saturday upon pain of "complete and
thorough bombing."

Canton, partly because of its nearness to Hong-
kong and partly because of its position far south of
the Chinese capital, was the haven for many foreign-
ers during the first part of the war. The railroad
was kept hot by the fleeing civilians who were
shocked into hasty flight from northern China in
the summer of 1937. There was the case of the
American girl on a week-end visit with friends in
Canton who was marooned in the city for the rest
of the summer and had to live three months on the
contents of her week-end bag and some loose change.
The same girl, although given several chances to re-
turn to the United States, stuck by her job in the
University of Kencheng and ever since has been
teaching Chinese and Japanese girls the dancing
technique of Ruth St. Denis and walking technique
as demonstrated by the Chinese epitome of grace,
Anna May Wong.

Educator Becomes Hero

There is an American hero at the head of a Chi-
nese school in a Japanese province today. His work
through the summer of 193 8 has resulted in the
continuance of the school for at least another year.
The Japanese head of the military government de-
clared at the beginning of summer that Yencheng
would open this fall only under certain conditions,
among which were that there should be at least one
Japanese professor; that classes should be taught in
the Japanese language; that each class should open
with the oath of allegiance to the Japanese govern-
ment; and that there should be a Japanese supervisor.
Honor is due to the efforts of President Stuart for
the fact that the University is now actively in ses-
sion, full of Chinese students, and still mainly Chi-
nese-American. Although the city is governed in
great part by scalawag Chinese, the presence of an
actively partisan Chinese majority among the citi-
zens makes military government necessary and at the
same time necessitates concessions such as the
Yencheng arrangement. This situation illustrates
the fact that the Japanese government still has to
go very slowly in its dealings with the Chinese
civilians, who after all, do make up the population
of the conquered provinces. The Japanese interpre-
tation is that the Chinese people are wisely being ac-
customed to Japanese domination by slow but sure
degrees. The Chinese belief is that the Japanese are
too weak to control the provinces effectively and
permanently, and that the patriotic spirit of the
Chinese people will inevitably rise to victory. Thus
it is felt by some that the Yencheng concession is
the wise loosening of reins held firm by the Japanese;
by others, that the Chinese have taken the bits in
their teeth and will soon unseat little cocksure
Japan.

Before it was seen what would be the results of
Dr. Stuart's policy of facing the Japanese band-
master and playing his own tune, many Chinese
thought the best plan would be to move the Uni-
versity into an "un-Japanized" territory; but the
expense and the loss of influence that would ensue,
as well as other factors, kept the American president
from following such a course. Yencheng is not yet
secure, but it has begun its new school term hope-
fully and with confidence in the leadership of its
American President.

Student at Northwestern
Sells Novel Policies

Insuring grades is an old-time insurance business
with go-getting collegians with a flare for finance,
but insurance against being called on in class is some-
thing worth telling you about.

Joseph Higgins, a Northwestern University law
school student, is selling policies to classmates that
pay them seven to one if they are called on in class
but they must know the right answer to the instruc-
tor's question before they win. Insuranceman Hig-
gins has placed a 50-cent limit on his policies, mak-
ing the pay-off limit $3.50.

See Shrew
Tamed

The Agonistic

See Shrew
Tamed

VOL. XXIV

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1938

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No. 4

Agnes Scott Cooperates
With Emory in Lecture Series

McLean Offers Season Tickets to
Agnes Scott at Emory Community Prices

Agnes Scott students will have a special opportunity to
hear the lecture program of Emory for this year, beginning
with Osa Johnson on October 28, according to an announce-
ment by Dr. Ross H. McLean, faculty chairman of the Emory
Student Lecture Association.

Emphasizing the stand taken by Dr. McCain in a recent

talk at Emory, as to "the impor-
tance and the advisability of clos-
er cooperation" between the two
schools, Dr. McLean offered stu-
dents rates to the Agnes Scott
community for a series of out-
standing and varied programs. This
is the first time that the faculty,
administration, and students of
Agnes Scott have been included in
the "Emory community," and have
received season tickets for one dol-
lar instead of the usual two dollars
and a half.

In addition to Osa Johnson, who
will offer her picture, "Jungles
Calling," made with her explorer
husband, Martin Johnson, the pro-
gram will include Bohumir Kryl
and his Symphony Orchestra, ac-
companied by several soloists, on
November 1 1 ; the Coffer-Miller
Players, on December 8 and 9, pre-
senting "The King's Dilemna," a
tale of Henry VIII, and "Shadows
Across the Throne?' the story of
Elizabeth and Mary Stuart; Jona-
than Daniels, editor of the Raleigh,
N. C, News and Observer, son of
the American ambassador to Mex-
ico, and author of the best-seller,
"A Southerner Discovers the
South," who will speak on "The

(Continued on page 2, col. 1)

OSA JOHNSON

Baptists Have
Conference

Seven A. S. C. Girls
Go to Memphis

Seven Agnes Scott students
are planning to attend the Fourth
Quadrennial All-Southern Baptist
Student Conference, to be held at
Memphis, Tennessee, October 27-
30, Thursday through Sunday.
This meeting is the largest Bap-
tist student gathering in the world,
boasting an expected attendance
this year of 3,000 students from
colleges all over the South. Agnes
Scott students at the conference
will include Ann Fisher, Jeanne
Flynt, Cary Wheeler, Mary Reins,
Winslowe Howard, Rebecca
Hogan, and Eloise Weeks.

The theme of the ten sessions is
"My Maximum for Christ." There
will be several inspirational speak-
ers of international fame, includ-
ing Admiral Richard E. Byrd,
George W. Truett, Charles A.
Wells, Mrs. J. M. Dawson, and
Edna Geister, who will discuss the
problems of the world from the
standpoint of the church and
campus.

College Physicians
Give Tuberculin Tests
To Students, Faculty

One hundred and fifty-five stu-
dents and twenty-seven members
of the Agnes Scott faculty took
the tuberculosis test which was
given by Dr. Florence Swanson, as-
sisted by Dr. Sweet. A few posi-
tive reactions have been found, but
all reactions have not been seen as
yet. For those who had a question
of lung involvement in former
years and for those who have a
positive test, the State of Georgia
will give chest X-rays on Novem-
ber 7, for which there will be no
charge.

Miss Jackson Returns
From A.A.U.W. Meeting

Miss Elizabeth Jackson director
of the Sjuth Atlantic division of
the American Association of Uni-
versity Women and associate pro-
fessor of history has returned from
the A. A. U. W. convention held in
Columbia S. C, October 14-H.

Among the important subjects
discussed was that of federal aid
to education.

Miss Gooch
Is New Member of
Zeta Phi Eta

Miss Frances K. Gooch, profes-
sor of English Speech, has been
elected to membership in Zeta Phi
Eta, leading speech fraternity for
women in the United States. Miss
Gooch was initiated as an associate
member of the national organiza-
tion by the national officers. The
initiation took place Saturday, Oc-
tober 22 at Brenau college.

Miss Gooch was invited to join
Zeta Phi Eta last year but was un-
able to attend the initiation because
of illness. Other women outstand-
ing in speech circles in the south
who were initiated are: Miss Caro-
lyn Vance, of the University of
Georgia; Miss Edna West, of G. S.
C. W., and Miss Simonson, of Wes-
leyan.

Avon Players
To Give Play
By Shakespeare

Actors to Present "The
Taming of the Shrew"

The Taming of the Shrew, to be
given here tonight at 8:00 P. M.,
by the Avon Players, includes a
cast who should give a good per-
formance.

The members are as follows:
Lucentio, son of Vinceto, Mr. Mel
Everitt; Tranio, servant to Lucen-
tio, Mr. Harold Selman; Baptista,
a gentleman to Padua, Mr. Jack
Vinson; Bianca, daughter to Bap-
tista, Miss Doris Edwards; Kather-
ine, daughter to Baptista, Miss
Murial Gallick; Hortensio, suitor
to Bianca, Mr. Scott Tennison;
Gremio, suitor to Bianca, Mr. Lee
Parsons; Petruchio, a gentleman of
Verona, Mr. Walter Black;
Grumio, servant to Petruchio, Mr.
Harold Selman; Curtus, servant in
Petruchio's house, Miss Eugenie Du
Bois; Nathaniel, Mr. Jack Benedic;
Gregory, Mr. Andre Lee; Phillip,
Mr. Julian Lucky; Tailor, Mr. Jack
Vinson; Pedant, Mr. Joseph Sel-
man; servants to Petruchio, and
Vincentio, father to Lucentio, Mr.
Lee Parsons.

This company of actors is widely
known and liked at Agnes Scott.
Last year they presented Othello.

Art Club Elects New Officers

At the last meeting of Pen and
Brush Club, the following officers
were elected for this year: Presi-
dent, Adele Haggart; Secretary,
Susie Blackmon; and Social Chair-
man, Dorothy Lazenby. Tryouts
for Pen and Brush Club are due on
November 1.

Presbyterians Give
Friendship Party

The Presbyterian group at Ag-
nes Scott will give a party on Sat-
urday, November 5, at 7:30 P. M.,
in the gym, in order for the Pres-
byterian young people from the
churches in Atlanta to meet the
Agnes Scott students.

The party is to be in the form of
a trip around the world, with each
church representing a certain
country. One hundred seventy-
five people, including the Agnes
Scott guests, are expected.

Miss Hale
Explains Ideal

"Know Thyself" Is
Personality Basis

Miss Louise Hale, associate pro-
fessor of French, and advisor of
many leading student organizations
on the campus, presented the stu-
dent government theme for the
year in chapel Thursday morning.
The theme is the fourth objective
of the Agnes Scott ideal, which in-
cludes the development of charm-
ing personalities.

Miss Hale stated that in her ex-
perience in teaching in a women's
college she had found something
beautiful and graceful in every
girl. She classified the barriers to
a charming personality as external
and internal, stressing the age-old
philosophy of Plato, Know Thyself,
and the value of putting one's self
in the other person's place. In so
doing, she said, any girl can have
a well rounded personality a keen
intellect, a vital spiritual force in
her life, and a charming personal-
ity.

Agnes Scott Entertains
Library Group

College Gives Tea Honoring
Association Members

Among the social events planned for the members of the
Southeastern Library Association meeting in Atlanta Octo-
ber 26-29 is the reception at Agnes Scott on Friday, October
28, when the college faculty and staff will serve tea from 4
to 5:30. Earlier in the afternoon the association will visit
the local libraries.

Book Includes
Miss Preston

Anthology Contains
Poetry of Alumnae

Miss Janef Newman Preston, as-
sistant professor of English, is one
of thirty-four authors included in
an anthology of Atlanta poets
which has just been published. The
book, Atlanta Argosy, was edited
by Mrs. Ruth Suddeth, of Atlanta,
and was designed particularly for
use in Atlanta and Fulton County
schools. The book is being featur-
ed by Rich's Book Store for the
first few days after publication.

The four poems by Miss Preston
are "Portrait of a Girl," "Moun-
tain Storm," "Midsummer Morn-
ing," and a sonnet entitled "There
Is a Little Wisdom." The only one
of these to appear in print for the
first time is "Mountain Storm."

Mildred Clark, Agnes Scott '36,
is included also in the new collec-
tion. Among her poems is "New
Teacher" which has appeared in the
New York Times and has been re-
printed throughout the country.

Other well-known poets includ-
ed in the anthology are Gilbert
Maxwell, Dr. Anderson Scruggs,
Daniel Whitehead Hickey, Minnie
Hite Moody, Margurite Steedman,
and Glenn Rainey.

Nickels Speaks

At Sunday Night Vespers

As the third in a series of Sun-
day vespers sponsored by Worship
Sub-committees of Christian Asso-
ciation, the Methodist group on the
campus discussed "Christ's Abun-
dant Social Life," on Sunday, Oc-
tober 23. Amelia Nickels was the
student speaker, while Bryant Hol-
senbeck led the service.

The next group of programs
will be projects of the freshmen
hobby groups.

Agonistic Presents
Noted Radio Commentator

Inaugurating the first in its series of chapel programs to
make the campus newspaper-conscious, The Agonistic will
present on Friday, October 28, Mr. Ernest Rogers, chief of
The Atlanta Journal's radio-news staff. Both a journalist
and a radio commentator, he will speak on the relation be-
tween the press and the radio in reporting the latest news
of the world.

Dr. McCain Lectures At
Meeting of A. A. U. W.

Dr. McCain attended a meeting
of the American Association of
University Women at Wcsleyan
College, in Macon, Monday night,
October 17. At this time Dr. Mc-
Cain spoke to representatives of
Georgia colleges and universities on
'The Place of the Woman's Col-
lege in Our Educational System/'

Mr. Rogers, a graduate of Em-
ory Universitv. was the founder of
The Emory Wheel, student news-
paper, and one of the charter
members of the famous Emory
Glee Club. After graduation from
Emory, he became a journalist on
a Dublin, Ga., paper, from which
he was taken to the staff of the
Journal and later placed in his
present position of news commen-
tator.

The Atlanta Library Club is en-
tertaining the members tonight at
the Atlanta Biltmore Hotel. The
first general session meeting of the
association will be held at 8:30
P. M., and the reception will fol-
low the meeting. Milton Ferguson,
of Brooklyn, president of the Am-
erican Library Association, will
speak at the Wednesday night
meeting.

The junior members of the as-
sociation will assemble at a lunch-
eon tomorrow at 12:30 P. M., at
the Cox-Carlton Hotel. The South-
eastern Association dinner is to be
held Thursday evening, t 7 P. M.,
at Davison-Paxon's, and Charles H.
Stone, president of the association,
will preside. Jonathan Daniels will
talk on "A Southerner Discovers
the South." A number of noted
guest authors will be introduced.

All library school breakfasts will
be held Friday, October 28, at 8
A. M. at the Biltmore Hotel. Fri-
day evening at 7:30 the associa-
tion will have a book dinner at the
Biltmore, with Miss Helen Harris,
of the Lawson McGhee Library, of
Knoxville, presiding. Association
members will be seated by states.

Dr. McCain Speaks
On Personal
Friendship

"The Abundant Life in Friend-
ship" was the subject of an ad-
dress by Dr. J. R. McCain in
chapel yesterday, October 2 5. The
Christian Association of Agnes
Scott presented Dr. McCain as a
feature of its year's program, the
theme of which was discussed on
October 18 by Dr. William Gard-
ner in a talk on "The Abundant
Life."

Dr. Ferguson Wood will speak
on November 1 as Christian As-
sociation's contribution to Honor
Week. He will discuss honor from
the religious viewpoint.

On November 8, Dr. Philip
Davidson will be Christian Asso-
ciation's speaker as he discusses
"The Abundant Life in World
Friendship." This subject will be
the broader application of the prin-
ciple of personal friendship pre-
sented by Dr. McCain.

AGONISTIC SPEAKER

ERNEST ROGERS

THE AGONISTIC, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1938

Seniors Find Easy Victory;
Freshmen Frighten Juniors

Dryfoos Leads Seniors Against Sophs;
Forman Saves One-Point Junior Lead

By ELEANOR HUTCHENS

An upset and a near-upset provided plenty of action and
surprises for the spectators at the hockey field last Friday,
when the seniors whitewashed the hitherto strong sopho-
mores and the juniors, with characteristic luck, eked out a
1-0 victory from the freshmen.

The seniors, boasting a full team

this time (and a substitute!),
started confidently off, running
through the surprised sophomore
defense as if 'twere no defense at
all. It was noted that Wilds kept
her head and made a good stop, but
otherwise Dryfoos' first goal was
made, so to speak, without blood-
shed. Nor did the seniors let up
after this initial triumph; with
beautiful teamwork and timing the
upperclassmen swept down the
field for two more goals by Dry-
foos, despite good last-minute
work at the goal by O'Nan. Amid
much substituting by the sopho-
mores the half ended, 3-0.

The opening of the second half
found the sophs determined, but
still unable to click. A long, clean
drive by McGuire, straight through
the yellow-clad defense, netted
another senior goal. After that a
near-goal by the sophomores, ac-
companied by some efficient paw-
ing of the ground by Hamilton,
was the only highlight. The game
ended, 4-0.

Seniors (4) Sophomores. (0)

Tumlin RW

Benson RI -

M'Guire, F. (1)CF
Dryfoos (3) -LI

Wheeler L\V

I vie RH

Jones, J. CH

Vaughan

Muzzey

Hance

Musser
_ McConnell

. Cates

Steinbach, A.

Hutchins, C.
McMullen __
Hamilton
Kenny

_LH Walker

_RF Wilds, S.

LF Culver

_G Moore, B.

Substitutions: Seniors Doty;
Sophomores Bell, Henry, O'Nan,
Patterson, Lancaster.

The juniors trotted out on the
field sporting new blue sweaters,
to cope with the rose-clad frosh.
At the starting whistle it became
evident that this was to be a spirit-
ed game, with the freshman pep
and enthusiasm pitted against the
skilled suavity of the juniors. The
customary flashy end runs by
Forman met effective snags in
Currie and Copeland, who proved
harder to get by than the meal-
ticket girl at the dining-room
door. The action center swept
from one end of the field to the
other, with frequent penalty cor-
ners and bullies breaking the

breathless rush. Thompson proved
the usual stone wall, making nice
returns toward the freshman goal.
The Eyles steadiness and the Mil-
ner reach were much in evidence
as the game became less frenzied
and more grim. Wilds II effected
a valiant invasion far into junior
territory, with Milner breathing
down her neck all the way, only
to encounter the inevitable Thomp-
son just before the first scoreless
half of the season was over.

The second half began with both
sides playing an animated game,
the junior defense a bit shaken by
the bewildering freshman tactics.
One freshman drive reached the
edge of their opponents' goal,
where Cass halted a near-tragedy
for her unbeaten team. With two
minutes left to play, a scoreless tie
seemed certain until an nth-sec-
ond goal by Forman dragged the
honor of the junior class out of the
fire as the whistle sounded. On the
whole, the freshmen acquitted
themselves nobly, showing a fire
and spirit equalled by no other
team. The junior defense was
good, but the loss of Williamson
and Brinton has weakened the line
of last year's champions notice-
ably.

Juniors (1) Freshmen (0)

Eyles RW._ McElwaney

Francis RI Webster

Stixrud CF Wilds, A.

Carson LI Merrill

Forman (1) __LW Robertson, M.

Salters RH Davis, C.

Milner CH Hasty

Griffin LH Lott

Taylor, M. N. RF ._ Copeland, S.

Thompson LF Currie

Cass G Nance

Substitutions: Juniors Slack,
Montgomery, Hammond.

Charles Turek paid his tuition at
Washington University with four
bags of silver dollars.

German Club Members
Give Play by Lessing

German Club held its first meet-
ing of the year on Wednesday aft-
ernoon, October 19, at 4:30 P. M.,
at Miss Harn's home on College
Place. The program consisted of
a scene from Lessing's "Minna von
Barnhelm," by Cora Kay Hutchins
and Emily Harris, and the working
of cross-word puzzles by the club.
Refreshments were also served.

Sophomore Cabinet
Assists With
Devotional Booklet

Fifteen newly elected members
of the Sophomore Christian Asso-
ciation Cabinet have kept about
forty-five girls busy during the
past week. The Spiritual Commit-
tee of A. S. C. A. is sponsoring a
new publication on the campus,
"The Daily Devotional Book," and
each girl on the Sophomore Cab-
inet was assigned the job of find-
ing three students who would write
contributions to be considered for
publication in the next issue, which
will come out about November 1.

Chairman Betty Kyle and Secre-
tary Betsy Kendrick have some-
thing exciting up their sleeves, but
they refuse to give any informa-
tion beyond the fact that the Cab-
inet soon will go on retreat to
formulate plans for a successful
1938-1939. Open Forum was
held in Murphey Candler Building
Monday night, at which time Miss
Page Ackerman reviewed Phyllis
Bottome's "The Mortal Storm."

Emory Lectures

(Continued from page 1)
South As I See It," on January 6;
Julien Bryan, March of Time re-
porter, who will speak on "Inside
Nazi Germany" on January 30;
on February 16, Ewart Edmund
Turner, staff correspondent for
the Christian Century during Hit-
ler's rise to power, and an author-
ity on his subject, "The Battle of
Religions in Germany"; Professor
E. Allison Peers, Director of the
Institute of Hispanic Studies of the
University of Liverpool, England,
who will discuss "The Civil War
in Spain" on March 6; and Gene
and Jo, professional magicians, on
April 7.

Mrs. Johnson, the first attrac-
tion, is at present on her second
lecture tour. Her first tour she
continued after the death of her
husband in an airplane crash last
January. Martin Johnson once said
oi his wife, "For bravery and stead-
iness and endurance, Osa is the
equal of any man I ever saw. She
is a woman through and through.
There is nothing 'mannish' about
her. Yet as a comrade in the wil-
derness she is better than any man
I ever saw. . . . When we were in
the jungle, we made a pact. We re-
solved that whichever of us was at
the camera would stick to the cam-
era no matter what happened, until
it became apparent that either the
picture or the life of one of us
must be sacrificed. We kept that
pact faithfully, and once at least
Osa stood by the camera under
conditions that called for the ut-
most bravery and steadiness of
nerve . . ." Both Mr. and Mrs.
Johnson earned the title of bwana,
"white master," which the natives
give to those explorers who are
good shots and who never run
away.

The film "Jungles Calling,"
which Mrs. Johnson will present
on Friday night, October 28, at
8:15 P. M, has been called "the
most thrilling moments from every
film the Johnsons ever made."

Agnes Scott students may secure
their tickets from the book store
for all the attractions, which will
be held in Glenn Memorial Audi-
torium on the Emory University
campus.

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Sports
Miscellany

The badminton exhibition last
Friday night in the gym was a
thing of beauty, no less. The four
experts played the game so snap-
pily, and obviously enjoyed it so
much, that they inspired many to
enter the badminton doubles tour-
nament on the campus. Our best
thanks to Messrs. Lanoue, Mitchell
(yes, he's her brother), Plage, and
Clark and to A. A. and the Phy-
sical Ed Department for luring
them out here.

Alumna Coit

'Twas a pleasant thing indeed to
see Alumna Coit twittering around
on the hockey field ane mair, on
Friday last. She was refereeing,
with Miss Wilburn; rule book in
hand, she let nothing escape her.
Capable center-forward of last
year's varsity (besides other minor
extra-curricular activities), our
Laura came all the way from Rich-
mond to spend the week-end with
us.

Tennis, Outing Club

What would the campus clubs
do without the faculty? Tennis
Clubbers played one day last week
with several of the professors; and
this week Outing Club is star-gaz-
ing of all things with Dr.
Christian.

Hockey Trip

Hockey players are looking for-
ward to a trip to Athens next
month; the University of Georgia
girls have asked us over for the an-
nual get-together.

Golf

Low golf scores, 'tis whispered,
are being consistently turned in by
the following: Dryfoos, Davido-
witz, and Freshman Lucky Wylie.
Mr. Sargent, at Forrest Hills, has
been particularly impressed by the
swing of Jane Jones and Li'l Nell

Recreation Night

The college community is re-
minded to take advantage of Rec-
reation Night at the gymnasium
Saturday night, October 29. It is
being sponsored by the Athletic
Association and will feature vari-
ous recreational games, such as
badminton, bowling, darts, and
ping-pong. Girls are invited to
bring their dates.

Varsity Village will be the name
of a new group of homelike stu-
dent residences at Niagara Univer-
sity. 1

Miss Hunter Will
Talk At Investiture

Gary Wheeler, president of
the senior class, has an-
nounced that Friday, Novem-
ber 11, will be Little Girls'
Day, and that investiture will
take place on Saturday, No-
vember 12, at 11:00 a. m. in
the Bucher Scott Gymnasium.

Speaker" for the occasion will be
Miss Charlotte Hunter, assistant
Dean, and music will be furnished
by Mr. Christian W. Dieckmann
on a Hammond organ. The audi-
ence will be led in prayer bv the
Rev. D. \V. Hollingsworth, D.D.,
pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church, Florence, Alabama, and
father of Mary Hollingsworth.
Little Sara Christian, class mascot,
will be in the processional.

Descendant of Sitting
Bull Attends Mt.
Holyoke College

Mount Holyoke has a distin-
guished student among its ranks
this year. She is Evelyn Yellow
Robes, who came all the way from
the Black Hills of South Dakota,
and the Sioux tribe, of which she
is a member, to enter Mount Holy-
oke this year. She is one of the
descendants of Sitting Bull, fam-
ous Indian chief. Her father, who
received his education at Carlisle
College, was one of the foremost
Indian educators of the tribe. He
was working on a book concerning
the Indians, and had written arti-
cles for the World Book, before his
death, which was brought on by
pneumonia. Asked if her father
would have been chief of his tribe,
and if she were an Indian princess,
she laughed and explained that the
Indian tribal organization is too
democratic to admit princesses and
an hereditary leadership. Instead,
the chief was elected as the bravest
and strongest of the tribe.

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THE AGONISTIC, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1938

Campus Celebrity

French Professor Brings
Distinction to Alma Mater

By ANNE ENLOE

This year Agnes Scott welcomes back to her campus a real
celebrity in whose career she has played a big part. The
newly returned alumna is Miss Margaret Phythian, who has
recently returned to her position as assistant professor of
French, after two years in France studying for her Doctor's
Degree, which, to quote her, she's "just landed."

Miss Phythian is an Agnes Scott-
er of the 32nd degree! She came
here at the tender age of thirteen,
when tfce institution was just a
mere academy. And to quote her
again, she's "been here so long that
she should be put in the class with
Miss Hopkins and Miss McKin-
ney!" After she finished the acad-
emy course, with the marching of
time she was graduated from the
college with a double major in
French and German. The very
next year she returned as a fellow
in those two languages and has of-
ficially been a member of the fac-
ulty ever since.

Then she took her first trip to
France for study at the scene of
action in the French world at the
Sorbonne in Paris. But after a year
the sheltering arms reached out and
snatched her back, and this time
she came as an assistant in the
French department. Agnes Scott
was definitely her home by this
time, but after a few years she just
had to go back to France and get
her Ph.D. (and, incidently, her yel-
low satin robe and cap). Not to
Paris again, but to Grenoble and
the University of Grenoble. She
spent two years there, having re-
ceived fellowships from the Gen-
eral Education Board and, in the
latter year, from the Rockefeller
Foundation.

At the end of that year she was
awarded her Doctor's Degree in
French with the highest possible
honors, and now she has returned
once more to the Agnes Scott
campus to take up her work here.
She has indeed become a campus
celebrity, what with all her honors
from Grenoble and those famous
papers she's had published lately.
Agnes Scott feels very proud to
have back one of her own daugh-
ters bringing with her such dis-
tinction.

Clubs Admit
New Members
Through Tryouts

Annual fall tryouts were held
during the past two weeks by sev-
eral of the clubs on the campus,
and as a result of those tryouts six-
ty-six girls were admitted to vari-
ous clubs.

K. U. B.

K. U. B. admitted six new mem-
bers: namely, Virginia Clower,
Jean Dennison, Catherine Ivie,
Eloise McCall, Betty Jean O'Brien,
and Susan Self.

Pi Alpha Phi

Pi Alpha Phi took in Margaret
Lentz, Louise Musser, Beatrice-
Piassick, and Mary Madison Wis-
dom as a result of its recent try-
outs.

French Club

The fourteen girls who were ad-
mitted to French Club are: Frances
Alston, Sabine Brumby, Grace
Goldstein, Catherine Ivie, Dorothy
Lazenby, Julia McConnell, Bar-
bara Lee Murlin, Ella Muzzey,
Marion Phillips, Betty Jane Steven-
son, Gay Swagerty, Virginia Tum-
lin, Grace Walker, and Nancy
Wimpfheimer.

German Club

New members of German Club
include Martha Boone, Virginia
Clower, Ethelyn Dyar, Virginia
Milner, Marion Williams, and
Glenwyn Young.

Cotillion Club

Cotillion Club selected twenty-
seven new members from a large
number of tryouts. Those selected
were Jeanne Allen, Grace Ander-
son, Harriet Ayres, Lib Barrett,
Charlene Burke, Martie Doak, Lucy
Hill Doty, Caroline Dunn, Flor-
ence Ellis, Mary Evans, Mary Lang
Gill, Margaret Hamilton, Eugenia
Hailey, Penn Hammond, Eliza-
beth Kenney, Sara E. Lee, Douglas
Lyle, Eloise McCall, Tade Mer-
rill, Jane Moses, Louise Newton,
Nell Pinner, Marion Phillips, Sue
Phillips, Julia Porter, Freck
Sproles, and Virginia Tumlin.
Granddaughter's Club

New members of Granddaugh-
ter's Club are Billie Gammon
Davis, Mary Davis, Alice Inzer,
Betty Medlock, Mary Louise Pal-
mour, Fan Pitman, Jane Taylor,
Margaret Thompson, and Annie
Wilds.

A majority of Rollins College
students and faculty members
have voted to abolish football as an
intercollegiate sport.

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out to get more students that "are
conscious of belonging to a class/'

Miss Jackson
Honors Economics
Professor At Tea

Miss Mell Receives
One Hundred Guests
At Alumnae House

Miss Mildred Mell, new econo-
mics professor, was guest of honor
at a tea given on Friday afternoon,
October 21, by Miss Elizabeth Ful-
ler Jackson, at the Alumnae Tea
Room, 4:3 0-6:00. Miss Catherine
Torrance, Miss Leslie Gaylord, and
Miss Florence Smith received, and
Mrs. J. P. Hale, Mrs. J. H. Gilli-
land, Miss Louise McKinney, and
Dr. Mary F. Sweet poured.

Assisting in serving were Misses
Charlotte Hunter, Nelle Chamlee,
Evelyn Houck, Ann Worthy John-
son, Carrie Phinney Latimer,
Emilie Thomas, Jeanne Matthews,
Evelyn Wall, and Margaret Bell.
One hundred guests called during
the afternoon.

Miss Mell and Miss Jackson were
friends for many years before Miss
Mell came to Agnes Scott to teach.
Both are active in the American
Association of University Women,
of which Miss Mell was formerly
Georgia president.

Ballet Dancer
Gazes Bewildered
At Marshal

When the Mordkin ballet per-
formed in Rock Hill, S. C, a John-
sonian reporter saw one of the
dancers who was gazing, bewilder-
ed. The cause was a marshal,
standing straight and proud for the
first time in her new white uni-
form and regalia. He circled
around her and gazed, then stared
and circled around her, and finally
burst out:

"I haf bean eferyvere Russya,
Etallie, Engalan eferyvere. I haf
seen eferyting and tought I knew
all se ansewrs to all de quesves-
tions, but vot I von't know iss:
Vot are you und vot are you do-
ink?"

United States Negro colleges
graduated 2,5 00 students last June.

Co-eds are outnumbered by men
in the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology freshman class by a
ratio of 164 to 1.

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And still more dances but the Sophomore-Freshman Me.
dance was one of the best, and just look at the people wh
helped make it such a good dance (to say nothing of thu
stags) : Julia Porter, Callie Carmichael, Catherine Ivie, Ka.
Kennedy, Mitzi Sanders, Aileen

Shortley, Martha Marshall, Martha
Watkins, Douglas Lyle, Eloise Len-
nard, Toni Newton, Mary Louise
Dobbs, Susan Goodwyn, Sara Cope-
land, Jane Jones, Flossie Guy.
K. A. Dance
The K. A. House dance hardly
had a chance with that competi-
tion, but they rated Lillian
Schwenkle, Freck Sproles, Rowena
Barringer, Frankie Butt, Alice
Comer, Beverly Coleman, Lutie
Moore, and Jvlartie Doak.

Interfraternity Dance

And speaking of competition
the concert kept flocks of people
away from Interfraternity dance
Saturday night, but not Val Neil-
son, Jane Moore Hamilton, Nell
Pinner,* Jean Bailey, Charlene
Burke, Beth Paris, Martha Mar-
shall, Betty Waitt, Frankie Butt,
Helen Jester, Harriet Ayers, Mar-
tha Dunn, Lillian Schwenke, Susan
Goodwyn, Jane Jones, Catherine
Ivie, Marjorie Boggs, Sara Cope-
land, Keeker Newton, Mary Ham-
ilton, Barbara Lee Murlin, Mary
Louise Dobbs.

Tech-Auburn Game

Those at the Tech-Auburn game
Saturday were Weezie Sams, Julia
Porter, Callie Carmichael, Cary
Wheeler, Iflary Hollingsworth,
Mary Ellen Whetsell, Helen Jester,
Scotty Wilds, Frankie Butt, Dusty
Hance, Ruth Brody, Marion Philils,
Lucille Gaines, Lillian Schwencke,
Mary Olive Thomas.

Dusty Hance attended a buffet
supper at the Sigma Chi House
Sunday night.

S. A. E. Hay Ride

Frankie Butt went on the
S. A. E. hay ride Monday night.
Nellie Richardson attended the
Sigma Nu dance and breakfast
Saturday night.

At Anak Saturday night Caro-
lyn Alley, Marion Franklin.
Yale-Michigan Game

Elizabeth Barrett is week-endin -
at Davidson. Caroline Grey is at
tending the Yale-Michigan gam.
this week-end at New Haven.

Exchange Reveals
Rate for Conversation

''Without hurrying and withov
being interrupted you can tal
more than three hundred and fiff
words in the first three minutes
a long distance telephone call. Th .
is the average rate for a telephon
conversation according to telephon
experts. And, if you think yo
can't say much in three" hundrc
and fifty words, what about learr.
ing Lincoln's Gettysburg address '
It has only two hundred and sixty
seven words." The Huntre$> .
Huntingdon College.

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ably well-liked. Jiggs is called Don
Pancho in South America. In Chin
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Agnes Scott College
Decatur, Ga.

THE AGONISTIC

Editorials

features

Vol. XXIV, No. 4
Wednesday, Oct. 26, 1938

Spanish Educators
Were Ahead of
John Harvard

Austin, Texas. (ACP) Contrary to popular
belief the first university in America was not Harv-
ard. Nor was Baylor U. the first institution of high-
er learning west of the Mississippi.

For exactly 8 5 years before John Harvard en-
dowed his dream school in Cambridge in 163 8, some
of the more ambitious Spanish explorers and educa-
tors founded the University of Mexico. This little
school opened its doors in 15 53.

At this time which was very few years after Her-
nando Cortez crushed the tottering Aztec empire, a
flourishing civilization existed in Mexico. Scholars
and writers had begun to come over from the old
world, and the first textbook in philosophy to be
written in America was used in the new university.

This was titled "Recognito Summularum. >> Fray
Alonso de la Veracruz was the author. Veracruz also
wrote two other textbooks for use in the school.
They were "Dailectia Resolutio cum textu Aristo-
telian," logic with an Aristotelian text, and "Physica
Speculatio," an explanation of Newton's law of
gravitation. The first two appeared in 15 54 and the
latter in 15 57. All were printed, one page at a time,
on a crude block printing press which was the most
modern in all Mexico at that time.

Another of the books used was a Latin grammar
by Francisco Cervantes de Salazar, the first rhetoric
teacher in North America. Its title was "Commen-
teria in Ludovici Vives Exercitaticiones Lingua
Latinae." Also appearing in 1 5 54 this book is inter-
esting for the hints it gives concerning the teachers,
their character and grading systems.

Strangely enough though each of these volumes is
nearly four centuries old a copy of each has been pre-
served and exists today in the University of Texas
library here.

TO THE EDITOR

Dear Editor:

We think that by the time a girl has graduated
from a good high school and has become sufficiently
mature to meet the requirements for entrance to Ag-
nes Scott, she should be a lady one capable of up-
holding Agnes Scott's traditions and her ideals for
young womanhood. From some of the things ob-
served on our campus and off of it lately, some
of us are not entirely living up to those standards.
One junior was rather embarrassed recently in trying
to explain to some visitors what was going on when
a burst of hog-calling blared forth.

We think that it is embarrassing, too, for an Ag-
nes Scott girl to hear herself and her schoolmates be-
ing described by the Atlanta matrons in front of her
in the crowds at a concert as "the wildest and row-
diest crowd" she had ever encountered. And we
think that if each of us behaved as nicely and refin-
edly as we dress for going to the concerts, perhaps
our reputation could be restored in the eyes of the
better people of Atlanta as concert going crowds
certainly are.

We think that since we seem to be stamped "Ag-
nes Scott" by our very appearance in Atlanta and
Decatur, we should do everything in our power to
control ourselves and our exhuberance while we are
in public places. Although we may not realize it at
the time we are screaming with laughter in Miner
and Carter's, we are representing Agnes Scott just
as much as we do so at church on Sunday. For what
other means could outsiders have of judging the col-
lege we love so much and are so proud of than to
observe the girls who are her daughters?

We think that since we are a "hand picked" group
of five hundred from perhaps several thousand ap-
plicants, we should make ourselves worthy of Agnes
Scott's good name. Perhaps there could be no bet-
ter manner in which to condition ourselves than to
think often of the familiar words of our late beloved
Mr. J. K. Orr:

"The surest sign of woman's worth,

The highest test of noble birth

Is modesty."

Sincerely,

A Would-Be Lady.

Not Bootlicking

We extend our deepest sympathies to
Miss Louise Lewis in the recent death of
her sister, Miss Nan Lewis.

One of the greatest assets of Agnes Scott, we feel, is the
calibre of its faculty. Most of us realize without having to be
told that the College places especial emphasis on the charac-
ter of the teachers it employs. We are constantly aware of
their excellent qualities as we see them before us in the class-
room and among us in our activities.

How unfortunate it is, then, that we students are not avail-
ing ourselves of our opportunities and becoming acquainted
with our faculty members. Some of the most pleasant, as
well as valuable, moments of our college days are those that
we spend in conversation with these experienced, intelligent,
and engaging persons.

It is not merely for the sake of politeness that we should
feel moved to speak with the teachers at Senior Coffee, re-
ceptions, and other campus functions. It is for our own per-
sonal benefit that we should be so motivated.

This is not meant to be a subtle way of hinting that asso-
ciation with the professors will enable us to make higher
grades. It won't. The gain will scarcely be tangible at all.
But we will gain for ourselves the richest experience and most
ennobling influence that Agnes Scott can offer.

We commonly say that we hesitate visiting the teachers
at their homes or conversing with them on the campus be-
cause we find ourselves unable to leave without a degree of
awkwardness and consequent embarrassment. However, as
one of the faculty quite simply pointed out, the easiest way
to leave is to leave.

If we will only take the initiative, we may be certain that
our faculty will follow our lead. Indeed, most of them will
meet us more than half way.

Your Move Next

The editors had hoped that the letter appearing in last
week's Agonistic would stir at least a few in our midst to
submit names in the contest to change this paper's name.
However, we seem to have been a little ambitious.

To date we have received an embarrassingly small number
of suggestions. Does this mean, then, that the campus does
not care enough about the future of its newspaper to interest
itself in the contest?

In our effort during the past few weeks to discover the
attitude most generally prevalent in regard to the proposal,
we were led to believe that the majority of the students and
faculty favored such a move. The indication now seems to be
that either the change is not desired or the College commun-
ity is indifferent to it.

Surely out of a group that is said to be selected for its in-
telligence and general creative ability there should come a
few good suggestions. And we feel that these suggestions
will come if everyone employs a little of her ingenuity to
that end.

It really should not take a great deal of effort. However,
to aid you, we might give a partial list of the names of some
college newspapers throughout the country. The Purdue Ex-
ponent, The Carnegie Tartan, The Transcript of Ohio Wes-
leyan, The Florida Alligator, The Emory Wheel, The David-
sonian, The Tulane Hullabaloo, Campus Comments of Mary
Baldwin College these are some that should start your
thinking in the right direction.

While we are deeply anxious that the name, The Agonistic,
be changed, we reiterate that the change will be made only
if a praiseworthy name is suggested.

The editors have gone as far as they can in forwarding the
proposal. They rest their case and await your move.

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Current History

Hitler Seeks
French Colonies
As China Loses City

By JANE SALTERS

Kaiser Bill went up the hill to take a look at
France, but Hitler's view takes in other areas. The
Fuehrer is trying to develop a "boarding house
reach" in the direction of the French colonies as
well as a free hand in Central Europe. Without too
much publicity he has in the last week been having
a good deal of exercise in international relations. On
October 19 he offered a guaranty of Franco-Ger-
man peace in exchange for the French Govern-
ment's return of the former German colonies, recog-
nition of the Reich's numerical superiority in war
planes, and repudiation of the Franco-Russian agree-
ment of mutual assistance.

Memel Takes Stage

On the same day Berlin newspaper headlines an-
nounced that "Memel Defends Itself Against Op-
pression." Memel is in Lithuania, the little country
just north of Poland and East Prussia. This phase of
German activity Is a new development in which the
story of the fall of Czechoslovakia will perhaps be
repeated with Lithuania as the victim. Germany
wants the "predominantly German" areas in Lithu-
ania so badly that she doesn't want to risk making
Poland angry (which, being just south of the little
country, might make a very bad neighbor unless
handled tactfully) by objecting to the Polish and
Hungarian claims in Czechoslovakia. This Ruthen-
ian problem sounds simple enough. Carpathian
Ruthenia formerly belonged to Hungary. It is now
the eastern end of Czechoslovakia and is bounded by
Poland, Rumania, and Hungary. Italy and Poland
support Hungary's claims to Ruthenia because Hit-
ler's ability to penetrate eastward would be ham-
pered by a blocking of his pleasant highroad of
Czechoslovakia. The Fuehrer can go straight through
Ruthenia into Rumania, and if Hungary and Poland
close in and take Ruthenia, the road to Rumania
would be blocked. Rumania would be satisfied be-
cause she doesn't want to be penetrated and besides,
she would get the tip end of Czechoslovakia, which
contains thousands of Rumanian citizens.

Lindbergh Wins Star

An interesting sight must have been the decorat-
ing of Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh last week, when
Field Marshall Goering presented him with Hitler's
Service Cross of the Order of the German Eagle
with Star. Goering is Aviation Minister of the
Reich. The occasion was a stag dinner given in
honor of Colonel Lindbergh by Hugh R. Wilson,
the United States Ambassador.

Last Saturday morning the Japanese government
reported the fall of Canton, capital of the province
of Kwongtung. The entrance of the Japanese was
almost unopposed. The hundreds of thousands of
Chinese soldiers were so easily overcome by the small
quick-moving Japanese army that there were wide-
spread rumors of treason among the Chinese civil-
ians. The Constitution stated that "There was little
or no disorder among the 50,000 civilians who re-
mained in the once-teeming metropolis to meet the
invaders. The Chinese stared impassively at the new-
comers. The Japanese, with fixed bayonets, stared
back and Canton was a fallen city." The easy occu-
pation of Canton led hopeful Japanese army offi-
cials to predict an early conquest of Hankow, which
is the only important region left. A memorandum
was sent to foreign representatives in Shanghai ad-
vising the removal of all shipping from their present
position to some point on the Yangtze at least ten
miles above Hankow by midnight Saturday. Accord-
ing to the Journal, General Chiang Kai-Shek,
Madame Chiang, the Chinese foreign minister, and
the former president of the executive council ar-
rived in Hongkong Saturday "to meet the British
ambassador and discuss peace between China and
Japan." The end of Chinese resistance seemed to be

Last week the West Yorkshire Regiments were
ordered to garrison Cavid's Tower, and a battalion of
Northumberland Fusiliers were seen "marching to
Jerusalem" through the Zion Gate. These British
troops and others were responsible for about the 28th
capture of Jerusalem since "King David's historic
exploit." There was no organized resistance by the
Arabs and the British entrance was perhaps compar-
able to the Japanese invasion of Canton. The weather
seemed to be generally unfavorable to defensive war-
fare.

The Agonistic

VOL. XXIV

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1938

Z115 No. 5

Silhouette Receives Only
All American Rating in Class

Editor Watson Praises Staff for Improved
Standing Among College Annuals

Distinguished as being the only annual in its class to re-
ceive All American Honor Rating in the National Scholastic
Press Association 1938 Critical Service, The 1938 Silhouette,
Agnes Scott Annual, attained the highest ranking for the
first time in five years:

Virginia Watson, '3 8, editor of
the Annual, said that she was in-
deed happy to have the work done
by her staff so recognized, especial-
ly since this shows superior im-
provement over the First Class rat-
ing of recent years.

The Silhouette was classed in the
enrollment group of women's col-
leges with less than 5 00 students.
To be ranked at the top of that
class is indeed an honor, as the
group is made up of colleges
throughout the whole country.
Superior Rating
The Annuals are scored by the
Critical Association on editing and
make-up, plan of book, sections of
book, general effects, financial
status and n&echanical considera-
tions. In each of these respects the
Silhouette received superior rating.

The scorebook with allotment of
points is being sent to the editor of
the 1939 Silhouette, Adelaide Ben-
son, for use in the editing of the
next yearbook.

Joyce Roper was the business
manager oi the 193 8 Silhouette.

Who's Who
Chooses Eight

Pictures, Biographies
Will Appear

Eight seniors have
named by 1938-39

just been
editors of

'Who's Who Among Students in
American Universities and Col-
leges" as the outstanding leaders
on the Agnes Scott campus this
year.

These girls who have received
this high recognition are Adelaide
Benson, Jeanne Flynt, Mary
Frances Guthrie, Jane Moore Ham-
ilton, Douglas Lyle, Amelia Nic-
kels, Cary Wheeler, and Mary El-
len Whetsell.

Their pictures and biographies
will appear in this fourth issue,
along with those of approximately
3 500 other students as comprising
"a cross-section of the most out-
standing personalities in America's
undergraduate college life today."
Narrow Selection

The editors of "Who's Who,"
believing that the value of the
book is determined by the narrow-
ness of selection, have ruled that
in no instance should over one and
one-half per cent of the student
body be nominated.

Required qualities for nomina-
tion and final listing are charac-
ter, scholarship, leadership in ex-
tra-curricular activities, and the
potentiality of future usefulness to
business and society. It is the pol-
icy of the editors to make the selec-

(Continued on page 5, col. 4)

Sale of Lecture Tickets
Gets Under Way

Monday,
will go on

November 7, tickets
sale for the lecture on
Four Hundred Years of the Eng-
lish Bible, to be given by Dr. Ed-
gar J. Goodspeed on November 10.
Students of Agnes Scott are allow-
ed seats at fifty cents, unreserved,
and seventy-five cents, reserved.

Dr. Goodspeed is a leading Am-
erican Biblical authority. He has
both written, and helped to edit,
innumerable religious works, which
have been internationally trans-
lated.

Committee Announces Rules
For McKinney Book Award

Girls who haunt second-hand book shops and those who
belong to limited edition clubs will have equal opportunity to
compete for the annual Louise McKinney Book Award of
$25, to be given to the girl making the best collection of
books between May 15, 1938, and May 15, 1939. The com-
mittee on the book award, including Miss Janef Preston,
chairman; Miss Emma Mae Laney, Miss Ellen Douglas Ley-
burne, and Miss McKinney, ex-of-
ficio member, announce the rules
which the contestants must follow
this year.

Contest Rules

1. Books acquired as gifts may
be included. Judges assume that
all books entered whether acquired
by purchase or by gift represent
the owner's taste.

2. The award will go to the
book-owner who in the opinion of
the judges has shown most discrim-
ination in selection of her books.
Each collection will be judged by
number and quality of the books
and by the owner's understanding
of their content.

3. No collection of fewer than
1 5 books will be considered.

4. There is no restriction as to
type of books which may be col-
lected. Collectors are urged to

(Continued on page 5, col. 3) ^ " Cog- >^*^

Educators
Study Campus
Of Agnes Scott

Dr. Fosdick,
Dr. Davis Visit
Schools

Dr. Raymond B. Fosdick, presi-
dent of the General Education
Board and Rockefeller Foundation,
and Dr. Jackson Davis, associate
director of the board since 1933,
are visiting on the Agnes Scott
campus today. Agnes Scott and
Emory are asking for a grant from
the Board to further graduate and
undergraduate work, as part of the
development of the new "univer-
sity center" program. Such a cen-
ter in this vicinity would mean
closer cooperation among the Uni-
versity of Georgia, Georgia Tech,
Columbia Seminary, the High Mu-
seum of Art, Emory, and Agnes
Scott. Agnes Scott hopes to be of
help in increasing interest in the
development of fine arts.

Dr. Fosdick, brother of Rev. Mr.
Harry Emerson Fosdick, of New
York City, has been president of
the Board and Foundation for two
years, and thus has directed the
greatest philanthropist organiza-
tion in the world. He received the
Distinguished Service Medal from

(Continued on page 2, col. 1)

Blackfriars
Give Play

Miss Gooch Names
Cast of "Stage Door"

In announcing "Stage Door" as
the first Blackfriars play, on No-
vember 19, Miss Gooch promises
that the production will be quite
different from the movie of that
name. Although the movie empha-
sized the three parts played by
Katherine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers,
and Andrea Leeds, the stage play
has a great many characters of
more equal importance. Many
clever lines found in the original
were omitted from the movie, and
different interpretations were
given to several characters.

Blackfriars Cast

The Blackfriars cast includes:
Terry Randell, Jeanne Flynt; Olga
Brandt, Lillian Schwenke; Linda
Shaw, Kay Kennedy; Louise Mit-
chell, Jean Bailey; Mary Harper
(Big Mary), Mary Pennel Simon-
ton; Mary McCune (Little Mary),
Laura Sale; Bernice Niemeger,
Helen Moses; Madeline Vauclair,
Ella Muzzey; Judith Canfield,
Evelyn Sears; Ann Bradock, Alice
Adams; Kaye Hamilton, Susan
Goodwyn; Jean Maitland, Nettie
Lee Greer; Bobby Melrose, Nell
Echols; Susan Paige, Elizabeth
Barrett; Pat Devine, Mary Frances
Sproles; Kendall Adams, Kay
Toole; Tony Gillette, Florence El-
lis; Ellen Fenwick, Alice Cheese-
man; Mrs. Orcutt, Georgia Hunt.

Publication Heads
Attend Press Meeting

Bartley, Clapper Address
Cincinnati Convention

The three Agnes Scott publications will be represented at
the seventh annual convention of the Associated Collegiate
Press to be held November 3-5, at the Hotel Gibson in Cin-
cinnati, Ohio.

The College delegation, composed of Mary Frances Guth-
rie, editor, and Marie Merritt, business manager, of The Ago-
nistic; Adelaide Benson, editor, and Ann Watkins, business
manager, of The Silhouette; and Julia Sewell, editor of The
Aurora, will leave tonight for the meet.

Featured on the program of this
convention, which is the only na-

Exec Sponsors
Honor Week

Stimson Presents
Outstanding Speakers

In observing Honor Week, Oc-
tober 31 -November 5, Student
Government Association has
planned a series of chapel pro-
grams under the direction of Har-
riet Stimson, junior class repre-
sentative to the Executive Com-
mittee.

On Tuesday Rev. Ferguson
Wood, pastor of Westminister
Presbyterian Church, opened the
series in chapel with a message on
the general theme, "Honor." This
morning Emma McMullen, vice
president of Student Government,
talked on "Honor From the Ex-
ecutive Point of View." Tomor-
row, Miss Emily Dexter, associate
professor of Psychology and Edu-
cation, will speak on "Psychology
in Honor," representing the fac-
ulty. Friday, Betty Ann Brooks
and Jane Taylor will speak on
"Honor As the Freshman Sees
It." Saturday, Miss Margaret Rid-
ley, teacher at Girls' High School,
in Atlanta, and a former president
of Student Government and mem-
ber of Phi Beta Kappa at Agnes
Scott, will speak on "Relation of
Honor Systems from High School
to College and from College to the
World."

This talk on Saturday will con-
clude the programs in the series.

Art Club Addressed
By Photographer

Pen and Brush Club met on
Thursday, October 27, at 4:30
P. M. The speaker for that meet-
ing was Mr. Roton, an Atlanta
Constitution staff photographer.
He discussed photography and the
problems connected with news-
paper photography, and showed
some different types of cameras.
Miss Louise Lewis poured coffee,
and other refreshments were served.

Mortar Board Honors
Sophomores at Parties

Mortar Board will entertain the
sophomore boarders at two parties,
on November 16 and 17, on the
campus. Young men from Deca-
tur and Atlanta are being invited.

Amelia Nickels, president, an-
nounces the following committees:
decoration, Adelaide Benson, chair-
man; Mary Frances Guthrie; En-
tertainment, Mary Ellen Whetsell,
chairman; Marie Merritt, Mamie
Lee Ratliff; food, Mary Hollings-
worth, chairman; Emma McMul-
len; dates, Jane Moore Hamilton,
chairman; Douglas Lyle, Jean
Bailey.

Forum Discusses
New Wage-Hour Bill

Current History Forum met on
Tuesday, November 1, at 4:00
P. M., in the Murphey Candler
Building. At that time Miss Mil-
dred Mell and Miss Florence Smith
discussed the economic and politi-
cal phases of the new Wage and
Hour Bill, which went into effect
last week.

tional meeting for editors and busi-
ness managers of college publica-
tions, will be speeches by a large
number of nationally known jour-
nalists.

Principal Address

The principal address of the
opening convocation will be given
by Ross Bartley, former Associated
Press White House correspondent;
former secretary to Vice-President
Charles Dawes; and director of
publicity for the Chicago World's
Fair.

The address for the final convo-
cation will be made by Raymond
Clapper, syndicate columnist from
Washington, D. C, and radio com-
mentator.

Some of the speakers who will
lecture on the roundtable pro-
grams of the various convention

(Continued on page 2, col. 5)

Officers Leave
For Meeting

Stukes Speaks at
University Conference

Mr. S. Guerry Stukes will
speak on "Requirements for Teach-
er Training" tomorrow at the
Southern University Conference,
meeting. November 2-3 at Durham,
North Carolina. Dr. McCain, sec-
retary-treasurer of the organiza-
tion, also is attending the meetings.

Agnes Scott has been important
in the organization and adminis-
tration of the Conference, and en-
tertained the members here last
year. The group, composed of
only the stronger Southern colleges
and universities, is trying to raise
the standards of the institutions
through cooperation and commit-
tee work. The General Education
Board has granted $7500 for study
to the committee discussing teacher
training, of which Mr. Stukes is a
member.

Some other talks will include the
president's address, by President
J. L. Newcomb, University of Vir-
ginia; "Protection of Students
Against Mediocre Teaching," by
President T. H. Jack, Randolph-
Macon Woman's College; and "Co-
operative Opportunities in Higher
Education," by President R. A.
Kent, University of Louisville.

NEWS GUIDE

Miss Hopkins

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Radio Address

Page 3

Sports

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Campus Celebrity.

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Editorial

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THE AGONISTIC, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1938

Miss Scandrett
Attends Funeral

Representatives Go
To Hopkins' Burial

The funeral for Miss Nannette
Hopkins, Dean Emeritus of Agnes
Scotc College, took place at 3
o'clock Monday afternoon, October
31, at the old family home of the
Hopkjns family in Warm Springs,
Virginia.

Miss Carrie Scandrett, Dean of
Students, attended the funeral as
the representative of the faculty;
Mary Ellen Whetsell, president of
Student Government, represented
the student body; and Mrs. Martha
Stackhouse Grafton, Dean of Mary-
Baldwin College, was the alumnae
representative.

A blanket of roses, given by the
college, covered the casket, and
floral wreaths were sent by the
faculty, students, and alumnae.

A memorial service is being held
on the campus this week.

Educators

{Continued from page 1 )
the United States Congress, and
the French Legion of Honor
award, for exceptional service dur-
ing and after the World War. He
also has made a study of the police
systems of America and Europe.
Among his books are European
Police Systems, Keeping Our Fight-
ers Fit (with E. F. Allen), Ameri-
can Police Systems, The Old Sav-
age in the New Civilization, and
Toward Liquor Control (with Al-
bert Scott).

Dr. Davis, who made the Phi
Beta Kappa announcement address
here in 1936, has been secretary of
the International Education Board
since 1923, and has shown much
interest in the question of inter-
racial cooperation along educational
lines.

Silhouette Offers
Contest Prizes

The Silhouette is offering prizes
this year in its snapshot contest for
both campus and candid pictures.
The winner of the campus shot, of
any, scene of view on the Agnes
Scott campus, will have a prize of
three dollars and a half, while die
one snapping the best candid pic-
ture will receive two dollars.

All pictures should be submitted
before February to Adelaide Ben-
son, editor, or Mutt Fite, contest
director.

Dr. Wood Speaks
On Honor in
Chapel Program

Dr. Ferguson Wood, pastor of
Westminister Presbyterian Church,
spoke in chapel Tuesday on
"Honor," as one in a series of out-
side speakers presented by the
Christian Association this quarter.
Other chapel programs will in-
clude: "World Fellowship," by Dr.
Philip Davidson, in November; de-
votional program on November H;
Thanksgiving music program on
November 22; and "Sense of
Values'* on November 29, with
speaker to be announced.

Vesper programs, at 5:30 each
Sunday, will be in charge of the
different hobby groups: October
30, handicraft; November 6, book
group; November 13, social serv-
ice; November 20, dramatic; No-
vember 27, music.

Young People
Give Surprise Party

The young people of the Deca-
tur Presbyterian Church gave a
party for the new members of their
department last Saturday, October
29. The party was a surprise hay
ride to the Chattahooche River and
a wiener roast.

Consul Announces
Offer of Tours
In France

French Government
And M-G-M Open
Contest to Students

Ten all-expense tours in Paris
and one of four provinces are be-
ing offered to students of the
United States through the French
Government and Metro Goldwyn
Mayer, according to a letter re-
ceived from the Consul General of
France. To compete, a student
must write a three hundred fifty
word essay on "Why I Should Like
to Visit the Country of Marie An-
toinette." The best essay from
each school will be sent to the New
York judging committee.

The tour includes a week in
France and two weeks in any one
of the four provinces of Loire,
Basque, Savoie, or Cote d'azur. Stu-
dents making the trip will receive
twenty francs a day for personal
spending money while abroad, and
also free train fare to and from
New York, and other incidental
expenses.

The Consul recommended the
Fitzpatrick Traveltalk "Paris on
Parade," made under the supervi-
sion of the French Government, as
helpful in furnishing material for
the essay.

Miss Nannette Hopkins

-Photo Courtesy Atlanta Georgian.

Dean Emeritus Dies in
Fiftieth Year of Service

The sudden death of Miss Nannette Hopkins, Dean Emeri-
tus of Agnes Scott, on last Saturday afternoon, October 29,
at Warm Springs, Virginia, brought to a close the life of one
who, in the words of President J. R. McCain, "has been the
most potent force in the life of Agnes Scott. " Through her
noble influence have grown the high ideals for which the
college is noted today. She was truly an inspiration and guid-
ing force in the life of every loyal Agnes Scott girl who was
privileged to attend the college during the forty-nine years of
her deanship.

This was to have been Miss Hop-
kins' fiftieth year of service, but, throughout their entire four years
at the advice of her physician, the
Board of Trustees felt at phe begin-
ning of this school year that she
should be released from her regular
activities and be elected Dean Em-
eritus, continuing an advisory re-
lationship with the college. Pre-
vious to her death Miss Hopkins
had not been ill; her health had
been unusual, and until the fall of
1937 she had not missed a day
from her work in more than nine
years. She was looking forward
with keen interest to being back on
the campus for commencement
next June.

Unusual Experience

Few people in the educational
history of the United States have
had so unique an experience as she
had. When she began her connec-
tion with Agnes Scott, the school
was just on paper a subscription
list of S 5,000. In its development
from the stages of grammar school,
academy, institute, and finally a
college of high rank, she was at the
forefront leading the improve-
ments. She had arranged the as-
signment of rooms and roommates
for more than 7,000 students. And
what is more remarkable, the ma-
jority of these girls remained room-
mates, at their own requests,

at the college.

She had administered all the so-
cial regulations from the first year
of the Decatur Female Seminary in
1 8 89, when she had to see to it per-
sonally that every girl obeyed the
rules, to the past year, when all de-
tails of student life were regulated
by the Executive Committee of
Student Government.

A Liberal Education
Develops Traits of
Admirable Citizen

"Men and women tempered by
four years of exposure to disinter-
ested scholarship are less likely to
fall victims to mass hysteria, to
coroding personal ambition and to
stupid fashions. They are less apt
to become cranks or disciples of
cranks.'* Northwestern Univer-
sity's Prof. William Jaffe believes
a liberal education makes students
"better prepared to become the
type of citizens our strife-torn
world so urgently needs."

Blackfrairs Initiate
New Members

Blackfriars held its regular bi-
monthly meeting on Tuesday, No-
vember 1 at 7:00 P. M., in Miss
Gooch's studio, at which time the
following new members were ini-
tiated: Louise Musser, Lillian
Schwencke, Gay Swaggerty, Ruth
Brody, Nancy Willstatter Julia
Sewell, Mary Wells McNeill, and
Gene Slack. Following the initia-
tion, a play, "Wisdom Teeth," by
Rachel Field, was presented. The
cast of that play was composed of
Florence Ellis, Jean Bailey, Eliza-
beth Barrett, and Laura Sale, and
was directed bv Miss Latimer.

Press Meet

(Continued from page 1)
groups will be: Dean Kenneth Ol-
son, of the Northwestern Univer-
siety School of Journalism; Charles
Soroka, president of National Ad-
vertising Service; Frederick Noer,
yearbook critic of the National
Scholastic Press Association; and
Paul Nelson, editor and publisher
of The Scholastic Editor.

Entertainment for the delegates
will consist of tours of Cincinnati
and environs, a convention ban-
quet and dance, and the football
game Saturday afternoon between
the University of Cincinnati, con-
vention hosts, and Ohio Wesleyan.

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THE AGONISTIC, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1938

3

English Professor
Speaks On Teaching

Dr. George P. Hayes Addresses
Agnes Scott Radio Audience

(At the request of many of the students and facility, The Agonis-
tic is printing below the text of the address given by Dr. George P.
Hayes, Professor of English, last Thursday afternoon on the weekly Ag-
nes Scott radio program.)

When St. Thomas Aquinas was
offered high ecclesiastical posi-
tions, he refused them saying, "I
could not serve my order better in
any other state than the one I am
in."

Milton announced his aim to be
that of "interpreter and relater of
the best and sagest things among
mine own citizens."

These noble and thrilling utter-
ances express the spirit and aim of
great teachers of the past. But
they only make their full effect
upon those of us who are teachers
if we try in our turn to express,
however inadequately, what the art
of teaching means to us.

First, what is the reward of
teaching? Like the medieval monks
most teachers, when they enter the
profession, take in effect an oath
of poverty an oath which has its
drawbacks certainly but which
also has this great advantage: it
bars out the worldly minded; it
constitutes an assurance that the
teacher aims not at a monetary
standard of success but at other
and higher ends. The impulse to
teach must in the first instance
come from the heart of the indivi-
dual, and it must find its reward
in the realm of the ideal. As T. S.
Eliot said of Charles Eliot Norton:
"To do the useful thing, to say
the courageous thing, to contem-
plate the beautiful thing: that is
enough for one man's life." Why
teach? Because teaching makes
for the good life; for this and for
no other reason.

How does teaching make for the
good life? Here I can speak only
for the teacher of literature. His
materials are books and life: the
two interpenerate. He infuses life
into the literature which he
teaches, and conversely he uses lit-
erature to broaden and deepen his
knowledge of life. The world of
imagination and the world of ob-
jective reality enrich and vitalize
each other. Out of this dual ex-
perience of life and literature may
come, to the truly great student of
both, something like a vision of life
as a whole, past, present and to be:

Old experience (doth) attain
To something like prophetic strain.
Lite is seen in its essentials and

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in terms of its significance and
beauty while knowledge ripens into
wisdom. These are some of the
joys of the life contemplative
which every teacher must experi-
ence for himself to a certain ex-
tent before he can impart any-
thing of value.

The teacher's role is to be hum-
ble and objective. There, far above
him, are the great masters whom it
is his privilege to interpret. Woe
to him if he enjoys hearing him-
self talk! At best he is a limited,
perhaps even distorted, medium
through which past or present
genius speaks. To compare small
things with great, his role is paral-
lel to that of prophet or saint who
seeks to be transparent glass admit-
ting the divine light. He asks him-
self humbly, "How much of Ra-
cine, Chaucer or Homer can shine
through me this day?"

Into such teaching goes the
whole man. Not the mind alone,
but imagination, feelings and spirit
too enter into the creative act. The
entire self is engaged at every
point. With all that he has ever
observed or thought or felt or
imagined or aspired to the teacher
teaches, bringing it to bear upon
the present moment with whatever
power and insight are at his com-
mand. These, as Plato says, are
great undertakings.

Such teaching grows with the
teacher and changes yearly. It ex-
pands with his expansion, and deep-
ens with him in its grasp on life
and letters. It has the vital growth
of the universe. And as the teach-
er becomes more sensitive to beau-
ty and more cognizant of the hu-
man heart, as he gropes more and
more surely toward the light and
pushes back the bounds of the
dark, it is his faith that prejudices
diminish, sympathies broaden,
judgment grows saner and surer,
and we move slowly toward the
time when there will be "daybreak
everywhere."

Nor is the students' part a small
one in this creative act. Their
positive participation is an essen-
tial as are two poles in electricity.
The enterprise is a joint one. Every
teacher knows that many of his
best ideas come to him from the
interchange of thought and view-
point in the classroom, the inter-
locking of spirit with spirit in the
search for truth and beauty. Stu-
dents and teacher stimulate each
other and stretch toward a com-
mon goal. Forward movement is
essential; otherwise the teacher's
viewpoint hardens, teaching be-
comes a mechanical repetition and
life is gone. Teaching can be kept
alive only by constant study and
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course can never be taught in ex-
actly the same way twice. Spon-
taneity, essential to the best teach-
ing, introduces something new
into every lesson. True teaching,
like life, is always a blending of
new and old, of sameness with dif-
ference, of unity with diversity.

In this creative act of the class-
room lies the heart of the liberal
college education. Books one may
read by oneself, and companionship
with one's fellows is equally ecces-
sible to those outside college walls.
But this vital grappling of minds,
mature with immature, and the re-
sulting growth of both is not
found in any systematic way out-
side formal education. Here is the
essence of the educational process
on its academic side. At its best it
exacts every ounce of energy which
a teacher has to give. Whatever is
taken from it and given to. other
activities is so much loss to teach-
ing, however valuable these activi-
ties may be in themselves. Certain
types of research have, of course,
a most enriching influence on
teaching. But it may be questioned
whether the primary emphasis plac-
ed on research in the universities
has not impaired the quality of the
instruction. Hence the ideal of
teaching is often more nearly real-
ized in the small colleges.

We have been analyzing ele-
ments that enter into the experi-
ence of teaching. They may all be
summarized in a sentence. Teach-
ing at its highest is something more
than the imparting of knowledge:
it is action. The teacher is a man
of action his aim is dynamic not
so much to know as to grow and
to do. He is, as Emerson says man
is, a faggot of thunderbolts. The
greatest teachers of my experience
(both men and women) have been
leaders, even more distinguished by
character than by intelligence, in-
citing their pupils to action, trans-
forming them by personal contact
and example. But by action is
meant not physical action alone or
even primarily. I have in mind
first of all, inner action, the life
within, the intellectual, imagina-
tive, emotional life and above all
the ethical and spiritual life of the
individual. For the culmination of
teaching, the apex of the educa-
tional pyramid, is just here, in the
cultivation of the ethical and spir-
itual in man, a cultivation which
calls for the most strenuous form
of action namely the regenera-
tion of the individual out of
which, and out of which alone,
may one day issue the regeneration
of the world.

Many who would admit that the
ultimate objective in education is
the cultivation of ethical and spir-
itual values deny that these values
can be consciously developed, and
so they proceed to ignore them as
practical objectives. Yet the great
religions of the world, with their
elaborate provisions for meditation,
prayer and other exercises, proceed
on the assumption that the highest
values in life may be, to some ex-
tent at least, cultivated conscious-
ly. The element in man which cul-
tivates these values has been called
the ethical will. In view of the
fact that it imposes a check on the
appetites and passions, it is the very
opposite of the will to power,
which is dominant among the Fas-
cist nations today.

What we need at the moment,
when the civilized world is in dan-
ger of breaking up into contending
factions, is some unifying force or
program on the basis of which all
well-meaning groups can unite.
The Neoclassic Age (from the late
Renaissance to the latter part of
the eighteenth century) regarded
the reason as the universal element
which might bring together in
peace and order men in other re-
spects divided. The Romanticists,
on the other hand, exalted feeling
as the common bond of humanity.
Doubtless reason and feeling are
important still. Yet why should
not this age, which is threatened

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Some called home, some
contemplated suicide, some
held prayer meetings Sun-
day night, as the Martians
descended on Agnes Scott
through special news broad-
casts in the radio dramati-
zation of an H. G. Wells
play. A few skeptical souls
remained calm, but what
were they in the midst of
such general hysteria? And
to think we never believed
Buck Rogers!

by various forms of the will to
power, unite on the ethical will as
the supreme element in man which
restrains the passions and the will
to power, and should bring happi-
ness and peace? The traditional re-
ligions of the world already accept
this program. But its appeal should
extend far beyond the bounds of
religion. For as the great scientist,
Einstein, remarks, "The moral im-
perative is not a matter for church
and religion alone, but the most
precious traditional possession of
all mankind." Nor is it merely
traditional: it is a fact of imme-
diate experience to everyone, and
its fruits are the fruits of the
spirit.

To give preeminence to the eth-
ical will, rather than to reason or
feeling, is to conceive of life in
terms of action first inner, then
outer action. Life involves some-
thing like an act of faith. We do
in order that we may know. This
has long been the view of the
church, and this would also seem
to be the testimony of individual

experience confronted by a world
the ultimate meaning of which we
have not learned to understand, yet
a world which may bring us happi-
ness and peace if we form right
habits based on right actions. Life
is a mystery, and therefore we
should be humble; yet the fruits of
the spirit are possible to men lov-
ing-kindness, aspiration, and the
transcending of the individual self.
Life is like a dream, but the path
leads upward. "I will lift up mine
eyes unto the hills."

At this point, in conclusion, we
return to the teacher. His is that
hardest of tasks to be in himself
a nexample, a pattern of the life
which he would have his students
make tei rown. As he looks up
reverently to the great models of
the past and forms, partly from
them, partly from the dictates of
hi sown heart, his ideal of action,
he tries to imitate that ideal, and,
if successful, he becomes in his
turn worthy of imitation.

"No matter what your grades
are, you still have a chance. Grades,
after all, are only an indication of
what a student is learning from
his courses." A. J. Purvis, Adrian
College, gives a condoling pat-on-
the-back to those who never stand
at the head of the class.

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# m T f Photo Courtesy Atlanta Georgian.

Recreation [Sight in Uym

Hottentots with dates and Hottentots without dates had a gala time when the Athletic
Association sponsored Recreation Night for the college community last Saturday in Bucher
Scott Gymnasium.

Upper Classmen Triumph Over
Sophs-Frosh in Hockey Contests

2-0 Scores Bring Victory
After Lively Struggle

Junior Class
Entertains

Classes Celebrate
Frosh Victory

The junior class is honoring the
freshmen with a wiener roast to-
day, Wednesday, November 2,
in celebration of the Black Cat
victory. Both clashes are to meet
on the quadrangle at 5 o'clock, and
from there they will go to Harrison
Hut.

Lutie Moore and Mary Evelyn
Francis, vice president and secre-
tary-treasurer of the junior class,
are working out details of the
party with Eleanor Hutchens,
chairman of the : entertainment
committee, and Carolyn Alley and
Betty Jean O'Brien, invitation and
refreshment chairmen.

Miss Helen Carlson and Miss
Blanche Miller, junior class advis-
ors; Dr. McCain and Miss Scan-
drett, and the judges of the stunt,
Miss Charlotte Hunter, Miss
Louise Hale and Dr. Philip David-
son, will also be guests.

The upper-classmen triumphed equally over the sopho-
mores and the freshmen last Friday in the liveliest hockey
contests to date, each carrying off a 2-0 victory.

The junior-sophomore struggle was spirited from the start,
with both teams fighting hard. Despite this vigorous action,
however, neither team was able to make headway. The en-
tire first half was played on the side of the field defended by
the sophomores, with O'Nan repeatedly turning back junior
efforts at the goal.

organized
there was

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Mary Eleanor Steele, business
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Hammond, Elizabeth Barrett, and
Florence Ellis.

The Aurora will be published
four times this year. The Novem-
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nouncement of the winner in the
cover contest.

Tech Fencing Team

Gives Exhibition

Under the auspices of the
Athletic Association, seven
members of the Georgia
Tech fencing team will give
an exhibition on Thursday
night, November 3, at 7:15
in Bucher Scott Gymna-
sium. Jane Moore Hamil-
ton, A. A. President, will be
in charge of arrangements.

Action became more
during the second half;
still more cagey playing by O'Nan,
and Muzzey was especially on the
qui vive in fishing the ball out of
the melee. After several unavail-
ing attempts, the juniors effected
their most useful play: a swift
drive down the field accompanied
by smooth passing and perfect co-
ordination, ending in a goal by
Stixrud. This lead was augmented
a few minutes later by Forman,
through desperate sophomore de-
fense. The rest of the game was
anti-climactic, characterized by
long shots by Salters and the
steady resourcefulness of Hance.
The sound of the whistle left the
sophomores at the end of their sec-
ond scoreless game for the year, and
the juniors the only unbeaten team
so far.

Sophomores (0)

_R\V Vaughan

,RI Muzzey

_CF Hance

_.LI _ Bell

_LW Dennison

__RH.._. 1 Patterson

XH Henry

__LH Walker

__RF Wilds, S.

Steinbach

(2)

juniors
Eyles _
Taylor
Stixrud
Leavitt
Forman

Moseley

Salters

Montgomery
Thompson

(1)
(1)

O'Brien LF._

Cass G O'Nan

Substitutes: Juniors Slack,
Francis, Carson, Watkins.

Plunging into a fast but disor-
ganized game at the outset, the
seniors and freshmen held each
other in mid-field, giving the full-
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until a swift senior sweep caught
them off-guard and ended in a
goal by McGuire. The freshmen
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spirit, with Hasty and Wilds shin-
ing in particular. The half ended,
1-0.

The second half began with the
freshmen presenting a strong front,
holding the upperdogs back with
admirable firmness. Good form
was exhibited on both sides, the
McGuire sistren preserving the
family honor notably. Robertson
and Webster showed good forward
work, only to meet with the Ham-
ilton defense repeatedly. Play
gradually worked its way down to-
ward the freshman goal, which
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By ELEANOR HUTCHENS

The four hockey teams seem to be better matched this year
than formerly. The championship junior eleven has been
weakened by the loss of Williamson and (if we do say it as
shouldn't) Brinton, but has managed to hold its unbeaten,
untied status to date. The sophomores have excellent ma-
terial, but are taking a little time to work into their old

smoothness and form. Hance, Muz-
chance. A. A. has persuaded the
Tech fencing team to come over
and show us a few pointers (foiled
again), and the idea is for us to be
present. GET IT?

Credit and thanks to Mary Nell
Taylor for arranging the tennis ex-
hibition yesterday. It does our old
heart good to see that ball, which
acts so contrary to our wishes,
soundly whacked for a change. It
was easy to see how the spectators
appreciated the skill of those At-
lanta experts.

About this fencing exhibition
again: in a low whisper we confide
that the gym department is mull-
ing over the idea of installing a
fencing class in the curriculum, IF
we show enough interest Thursday
night!

Loud rang the rafters of the
gym Saturday night as nigh onto
two hundred souls, male and fe-
male, disported themselves at the
first A. A. Open House. With
Mutt Fite in charge, and with
members of A. A. Board directing
the various games, the party start-
ed at 7:30 and broke up reluctant-
ly at 10. Every , game was crowded
to overflowing, badminton and
bowling proving especially popu-
lar. Chinese checkers absorbed the
intellectual contingent, while the
stage struck took to ping-pong.
Jane Dryfoos, chairman for Open
House, plans to continue the en-
tertainment twice a month
throughout the year. Nice work,
A. A.!

zey, and O'Nan have shown up
well in the season's first three
games. The seniors are developing
the strength of their sophomore
days, with a high percentage of
strong players. Their team seems
to possess a confidence and timing
superior to those of the other
classes. Dryfoos, McGuire, Jones,
Hamilton and the child prodigy,
Wheeler, who made a goal in the
first game of her life are out-
standing, but on the whole the
team is practically uniform. The
freshmen (and may we say that
they are our favorite team to
watch), in spite of their three de-
feats, put into their game a life
and sparkle unequalled by their
elders. Their aggressive, informal,
all-over-the-field style keeps their
opponents guessing at first (last
seen wondering vaguely) , and they
have been scored on only once in
the first half. Davis, Webster,
Wilds, and Currie in particular
have been right in there with the
best of 'em. A word for the
cheering section: wrap up and
come on out with us, you sissies;
remember, many are cold, but few
are frozen.

Shades of d'Artagnan! For
something really intriguing, we re-
commend the fencing match in the
gym tomorrow night at 7:15. Most
of us Underprivileged Masses have
never actually seen fencing as it
should be did, and here is our

whistle soon afterward, leaving the
score 2-0.

Seniors (2) Freshmen (0)

Doty RW__ McElwaney

Benson (1) RI - Webster

M'Guire, F. (1)CF Wilds, A.

Dryfoos LI Merrill

Moses, H. LW Robertson, B.

Marshall, M. __RH Davis, C.

Jones, J. CH Hasty

Ivie LH__ Franklin, V.

McMullen RF Copeland, S.

Hamilton, J. __LF Currie

Kenny G Nance

Substitutes: Freshmen J. Tay-
lor, J. McGuire, Ballengee.

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Alumnae Gain National Fame
As Authors of Novels, Biographies

By GEORGIA HUNT

To be familiar with a book is a great asset to one's college
career, but to feel as if you know something about its author
is a more interesting experience.
When you finish Blackberry

you

Winter, the recent novel about the
rise and fall of a Georgia family
(as quoted in the New York
Times' Book Review), you can say
with pleasure and rightful pride
Well, Evelyn Hanna is an alumna
of my alma mater! And when you
glance through the copy of Rather
Personal you can enjoy Lenora
Owsley Herman's autograph on
the fly-page: "In memory of
happy days at Agnes Scott."

When you go to any of the
book stores in Atlanta and see
Memo to Timothy Sheldon, recent-
ly from the press, you can point
with pride to its author as being
an alumna of your own college.
Among other books written by
Marian Sims, author of Memo to
Timothy Sheldon, are Call It Free-
dom and The World With a Fence.

As we look over the collection of
books by Agnes Scott alumnae, we
are especially proud of Miss Mar-
garet T. Phythian's publication, La
Geographic des Alpes dans les
Romanciers Contemporains and
we are likewise interested in Miss
Ellen Douglass Leyburn's publica-
tion, Bishop Berkely; the Quesist.
For these two alumnae are here on
the campus in very intimate con-
tact with us Miss Phythian in
the French department and Miss
Leyburn in the English depart-
ment.

Among other publications which
have come from the pens of Agnes
Scott graduates are Mary Knight's
On My Own, Nan Bagby Stephens'
Glory; Jacob A. Riis, Police Re-
porter, Reformer, Useful Citizen,
by Louise Ware, who is now in-
structor in sociology and director
of Social Work at Delphi College,
and Libraries of the Smith, a Report
on Developments, by Tommie Dora
Barker. There are also among this

Forensic Club
Debates Peace
Of Munich

The regular bi-monthly meeting
of Pi Alpha Phi was held on
Thursday, October 27, at 7:00
P. M., in the Murphey Candler
Building, with the president, Mar-
garet Hopkins, presiding. At that
time, new members were initiated
in the traditional manner. The
second of the tournament debates
was held on the subject, "Resolved,
that this house condemns the
Peace of Munich." The affirma-
tive of that question was upheld
by Eloise Lennard and Virginia
Milner, while Jane Witman and
Susie Blackmon upheld the nega-
tive side of the question. The de-
cision was rendered in favor of the
affirmative by Miss Elizabeth F.
Jackson, critic-judge.

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collection, yhich is found at the
entrance of the Agnes Scott Col-
lege library,, two books by Roberta
Florence Brjnkley, who is now as-
sociate professor of English at
Goucher College. One of. these
books is Arthurian Legends in the
Seventeenth Century, and the other
is a collection of poetry selected
and edited by the author, Miss
Brinkley, English Poetry of the
Seventeenth Century.

These books and the many oth-
ers written by alumnae of Agnes
Scott stamp as a memorial to the
college, and Agnes Scott takes
pride in speaking of her alumnae
as those.

Book Award

{Continued from page 1 )
follow their own interests in one or
various fields.

5. The winner is expected to
use the award for intellectual en-
richment; for purchasing books,
music, pictures; for attending
musical and dramatic perform-
ances or lectures, etc.

6. The winner of any year is
excluded from future competition.

7. Contestants must submit
names to some member of the com-
mittee by the end of the first
quarter.

A similar award, known as the
Richard deBury Book Prize, has
been given four times in the past,
but this is the first time Agnes
Scott has offered the Louise Mc-
Kinney Book Award, which last
summer the English department,
together with alumnae and friends,
permanently endowed as a tribute
to Miss McKinney.

Campus Celebrity

Student Government Head
Plans Scientific Career

By ANNE ENLOE

If you were President of Student Government at Agnes
Scott, what would you consider the most thrilling thing that
ever happened to you? Yes, I thought so but not our Mary
Ellen. >To, the charming Miss Whetsell says the big moment
in her life was when she made Cotillion her freshman year!
In fact she was so elated she had to call home to break the

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frankly, she cried! She cried all
night sle was so scared! And,
confidentially, she says having such
a big position is loads of fun, but
she's still scared!

Another reason for the tears was
the breaking up of the old Holl-
ingsworth-Wheeler-Whetsell room-
ing togetker plan. It just broke
hearts rigLt and left for those three
to separate and speaking of
heart-breaking (and, incidently,
heart-breakers) we're all wonder-
ing what Mary Ellen is planning to
do after she is graduated. Mary El-
len is wondering too, she says. As
for the old "woman's place is in
the home" idea, she says there is
absolutely nothing definite yet.
Maybe she can't make up her mind
who could, with all those dream-
man pictures sitting around all
over her room?

But turning from men to the
really serious side of life, the ex-
secretary of Cotillion says she is
considering some branch of labora-
tory work. (We thought she must
be when we saw those slimy slick
frogs that they send her from home
instead of cakes and Ritz crack-
ers.) Right now she is correspond-
ing with Duke and several other
prominent schools with depart-
ments of Lab. Science. So she will
probably go into that kind of work
for a year or so at least.

Some say that college develops
your talents, but in Mary Ellen's
case, we are afraid her real talents
have been suppressed. In high
school, back in Columbia, S. C,
she was editor of the high school
paper. And she says she really en-
joyed all that journalistic work
very much, but she has learned her
lesson. But she can't decide what
the lesson is she just can't decide
whether her real calling was the
newspaper work or whether she
should have been president of the
Student Council in high school.
What a problem! Do you think she
should resign and try out for the
Agonistic reportorial staff?

No, we think that we just
couldn't get along around here
without Mary Ellen just as she is.
From Exec, on Monday night to
the Cotillion Club tea dances she's

a grand gal, and give us more like
her!

^Galavanting ^Gals

One would expect things to be a little quiet this week-end
with no football game in town. But, oh no, thing's are never
quiet for these cute Agnes Scott gals.

To start things off, Nellie Richardson, Gary Horne, Mar-

jorie Boggs, Mary Lang Gill, Hazel

College Debaters
Speak in Forum

Four girls from Agnes Scott are
going to G. S. C. W., in Milledge-
ville, Saturday, November 5, to
participate in the debate forum
being held there at 4:00 P. M. on
that day. Mary Louise Dobbs and
Lelia Carson are to make up one
team from Agnes Scott, and Ar-
ene Steinbach and Eloise Lennard
will make up the other. The ques-
tion will be, "Resolved, that the
United States should follow a pol-
icy of isolation toward all nations
involved in international or civil
conflict."

There will be a banquet after the
forum, and following the banquet
will be a discussion, in which the
audience may participate.

Who's Who

{Continued from page 1)
tions with the collaboration of
deans and college presidents of the
various institutions represented.

"Who's Who" has as its purpose
to serve as a recommendation to
the business world and as a stand-
ard of measurement for students
comparable to such agencies as Phi
Beta Kappa and the Rhodes
Scholarship Award.

Soloinan, and Nell Pinner went to
the Sigma Pi hay ride Friday night.

Then on Saturday night Nell
Pinner, Kay Toole, Ella Muzzey and
Eloise McCall went to the Chi Psi
House Dance at Tech. Jane Moore
Hamilton, Freda Copeland, Jane
Jones and Toni Newton went to
the annual Sigma Chi Hallowe'en
party on the same night, while
Susan Self and Sara Lee took in the
Sigma Nu party.

On Sunday Mary Lang Gill had
dinner at the Psi Omega house.
Lillian Schwenke, Margaret Mur-
chison, and Margaret Wells went
to the polo game.

Some people felt the homeward
call this week-end, so Annette
Franklin, Hadyn Sanford, and
Betty Redmond went to see Mom,
Pop, and all others residing in
their respective native haunts.

Spanish Club Meets

Spanish Club held its regular
monthly meeting on Thursday,
October 27, at 4:30 P. M. in the
Murphey Candler Building. At that
time plans for the presentation of
"Los Pantalones" at a later date
were discussed, and a few scenes
frm that play were read. It was
also decided that the next meeting
of the club should be a pheasant
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Agnes Scott College
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THE AGONISTIC

Editorials

ures

Vol. XXIV, No. 5
Wednesday, Nov. 2, 1938

Youth Line Offers
Eighty Dollar
European Crossing

The American Youth Line has just announced for
all students a special low fare to Europe in a round
trip for as little as $80. This Youth Line is ex-
pressly for young people and has been organized to
make travel abroad possible for students who can-
not afford the present high rates. It will bring the
rich experience of Europe within the reach of ( most
American young people.

The amazingly low rates are made possible
through the elimination of much of the personal
service demanded by older tourists. Large, airy
dormitories take the place of staterooms, and the
passengers do many things usually done for them by
servants, such as making up their own beds and as-
sisting in serving at meals.

Travel Talks, Sports

There will be eight days of fun on board ship each
way. Life on the Youth ship will be new and unique,
planned to fit the needs of young people. Singing,
dancing, dips in the pool, as well as the various deck
sports, will furnish entertainment. There will be
travel talks, classes, and discussions led by outstand-
ing teachers, to help those who are traveling in
Europe for the first time find interesting places to
visit. Students traveling on a Youth ship will have
the advantage of an exceptionally good fellowship
and a friendly, intelligent spirit.

Take Sixteen, Go Free

The new low rates will make travel in Europe one
of the least expensive as well as most interesting
ways of spending the summer. By traveling simply,
cycling over Europe and staying in Youth Hostels,
many will spend less than $150 from the time they
leave America until they return.

It will take much youthful enthusiasm to make
the trip successful, since there are no commercial
' agents selling the services. Any student persuading
eighteen others to make the trip will have a free
passage, and those who influence smaller groups will
have substantial discounts. The American Youth
Line, 2 Broadway, New York City, will give further
information to those requesting it.

TO THE EDITOR

Dear Editor:

That this is Honor Week we are all undoubtedly
aware by this time, but do we really think of honor
as an essential part of our college life all the time, or
do we confine all thought about honor to this one
week that we have every fall?

Do we ever take the time to think that HONOR
is a thing within us and that the word "Pledge" on
our test papers is only a very small outward manifes-
tation of the inward trait. For Agnes Scott girls, it
can surely be said that honor is within us all it is
a thing born in the kind of girls we take pride in
considering ourselves. It is one of the vital factors
in making Agnes Scott what it is.

The dictionary defines honor as: uprightness;
scorn of meanness, deceit, or unfairness. Surely those
words cover not only our attitude toward our
academic work, but all phases of our college life. Do
we take time to think before we say a biting or
scornful thing that honor means "a scorn of mean-
ness?" Do we think at all times that honor means
"uprightness?" If we do, honor can take its rightful
place in our lives and in the spirit of Agnes Scott.

Our Honor System at Agnes Scott is indeed a
thing that we are all proud of. And what makes
that system what it is? The personal honor of each
girl in her student body. If we are to keep up the
standards set before us in our Honor System, we
must grow in honor as we grow in knowledge and
as we grow in character and personality.

It has been said that college can make or break
one's sense of honor. Let's let our years at college
make our personal honor a thing outstanding in our
personalities, a truly commendable trait for all to
see and follow. As we grow in honor, we grow in
the spirit of Agnes Scott; and as we grow in Agnes
Scott, Agnes Scott grows through us.

Sincerely,

Someone Who Wants Honor
to Be a Living Thing to Her.

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Reduction Demand

As each week comes along, the maze of student activities
seems to become more and more entangling. No sooner do we
finish one campus-wide program than we find ourselves mak-
ing preparations for another. Each club and organization
seems to have annexed to its previous aims the idea of put-
ting on something bigger and better than ever before. Fre-
quent appearance in the campus limelight has become a
watchword. Indeed, it seems ironic that some of those who
have been doing the most vociferous demanding for disor-
ganization are the very ones who are causing the increasing
melee.

In order to do more than merely talk about the ominous-
ness of present conditions, The Agonistic has decided to do
its part by discontinuing the yearly Agonistic class contests.
The editors feel that the student body has not been adequate-
ly remunerated for the time, effort, and trouble that it has
had, of necessity, to put into the contest. The little journal-
istic experience that is gained for any one person through
publishing a class newspaper could be learned much more
easily and intelligently through participation in the journal-
ism club or on the Agonistic staff itself. Need we say that
this move will enable more attention to be paid to our much-
neglected books?

In all fairness, we should state that some organizations are
rising to the occasion and attempting to help straighten out
the maze. The union of the Current History Forujn with the
International Relations class early in the fall was greatly
effective in reducing certain superfluous meetings.

The Christian Association, too, has seen over-organization
in its ranks, and the leaders of this group are now consider-
ing various means of eliminating some of its subordinate
divisions.

Recently, Mortar Board proposed that the week before
each examination period be one during which no organiza-
tion, publication, or club meets, with the possible exception
of the Executive Committee of Student Government. We
all are aware of the advantages that will accrue to the col-
lege community through such a non-activity week.

While these moves will lessen our crowded schedules some-
what, their good points will be counteracted without the sup-
port of the entire college. However trite the expression may
have become, it still has a most pertinent application to us
we need cooperation!

A 11* American Plus

Congratulations of the week go to the staff of the 1938
Silhouette for the distinctive rating of "All American" that
they were awarded in the recent critical service by the Na-
tional Collegiate Press Association.

The fact that the Agnes Scott annual was the onlv one in
its class to receive this rating indicates the full import of the
scoring. An annual is declared AH-American only after the
judges have found it superior in every point of criticism.

This is the first time in five years that our annual has re-
ceived the highest rating, and the progress that is now being
made on the 1939 Silhouette gives promise of a similar recog-
nition for Agnes Scott again.

King's Play

We are particularly fortunate in our being able to witness
a fencing exhibition tomorrow night in the College gymna-
sium by an experienced team from Georgia Tech.

This sport, ancient though it may be, still ranks today as
a most exciting and beneficial pastime. Of late the art of
fencing has been enthusiastically acclaimed by women as an
excellent means of increasing one's agility and grace.

It has been hinted that our Physical Education Department
may start a fencing class on the Agnes Scott campus if a
sufficient number of girls show that they are interested in
the sport. This suggestion should be a doubly effective in-
centive for our attendance at the exhibition.

Vol. 24

l)c Agonistic

Agnes Scott College Student Newspaper
Wednesday, November 2

No. 5

Published weekly during the school year, except during examination
periods and holidays, by the students of Agnes Scott College and en-
tered as second class matter at the Decatur, Georgia, Post Office. Mem-
ber A. C. P., G. C. P. A.

Offices:

Editor Mary Frances Guthrie Business Manager _ Marie Merritt
Room One, Back Gallery, of Murphey Candler Student Union Building.
Subscription: $1.25 per year in advance.

Current History

German Anti-Semitic
Action Causes
Strife in Antwerp

By JANE S ALTERS

Ar.ti-Semitic action in the Reich has been greatly
incre:sed in the last week. The New York Times re-
ported on October 20 that the "Aryanization" of
Jewisli business continues daily. Boycotts against
Jewis.i dealers, great and small, force the owners to
sell out at a loss. On Wednesday Berlin newspapers
announced that five Germans visiting in Antwerp
had been attacked by fifty Jews, and that unless the
Belgian government did something to restrain Jew-
ish elements, unfriendly relations between Brussels
and Berlin might result. The Antwerp paper tells
another story, reporting on the same morning that
city police had charged two German Jews with
knocking down and beating four Germans, but that
no def nite arrest had been made. The Belgian inci-
dent, headlined by some German newspaper "Jewish
Rowdyism in Antwerp," led some papers to declare
that "Germany is strong enough and determined
enough under all circumstances to protect her na-
tionals."

Hitler Cancels Passports

As a phase of the passport inquiry which resulted
in the mass Polish exodus of last Saturday, the Min-
istry of the Interior passed a decree cancelling all
German passports held by Jews, stating that every
person who wished to travel might have his passport
"revalidated by the printing of a big red J across the
front page." England doesn't like to recognize such
passports, and the German secret police are complain-
ing that the decree is discouraging emigration instead
of encouraging it.

Jewish Exclusion Spreads

Other anti-Semitic legislation included the re-
striction of the services of Jewish doctors to Jews
only; and the requirement of a special Jewish medi-
cal sign and special prescription blanks. If the phy-
sician's given name is not distinctively Jewish, the
word "Israel" must be inserted on the sign as a mid-
dle name. The New York Times also stated that the
law forbids Jews "to raise germ cultures, produce
vaccines or serums and conduct exams of blood for
the purpose of diagnosing syphilis."

Palestine Cuts Immigration

Dr. Nahum Goldmann, an important participant
in the World Jewish Congress in America, gave an
address last week in which he outlined the Jewish
situations in eight European countries, stating that
England is the only remaining haven for continental
Jews. In Germany, Italy, Poland, Rumania, Czecho-
slovakia, Hungary, and even in France and Switzer-
land the future is dark. He said that an outbreak of
anti-Semitism must of necessity appear in Czecho-
slovakia because of Hitler's express command and
because of the natural reaction of the defeated na-
tion. The domestic troubles of France, he said, will
give the Fascist element a chance to rise, and its
Italian influence will be anti-Jewish.

The deportation of Polish Jews from Berlin last
Saturday was not imitated by Italy; but there is an
Italian decree which demands the emigration by
March 3 of every foreign Jew who has taken up resi-
dence in Italy since 1919. Even those who have ob-
tained citizenship are required to leave upon pain of
forceful expulsion.

The Polish Jews who were so peremptorily packed
into trains and whisked across the border were im-
mediately put into police custody by the Polish gov-
ernment, which anxiously awaited diplomatic con-
tact with Hitler. Several trainloads of Poles were
kept back in Berlin in expectation of an arrangement
allowing them to remain in Germany by making Po-
land responsible for her Jewish subjects in Germany
in order that they might not be a burden on the land.

The New York Times states in addition to these
facts that the Palestine immigration quota for the
next six months has been cut short 20 per cent. The
whole problem scerns to have no solution.

Marital Note: The director of the Chicago Asso-
ciation for Child Study and Parent Education ap-
proves college "date bureaus" for a new reason: They
help promote wholesome social contacts and are an
agency for reducing the number of divorces in the
United States.

Progress Note: An Alfred University scientist is
working to develop a stingless bee. He has already
produced a bee so gentle he has a hive of them in his
dining room.

Attend
Lecture

The Agonistic

Attend
Lecture

VOL. XXIV

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1938

Z115 No. 6

Library Plans
Exhibit for
Book Week

Will Appear With
Drama, Biography
Children's Books

Agnes Scott Book Week will be
held from November 17 until
Thanksgiving this year, according
to an announcement by Miss Edna
Hanley, college librarian. Books of
fiction, biography, poetry, and
drama will be among those which
Miss Hanley is planning to place in
the main reading room for student
and faculty use, and will be fur-
nished by Miller's Book Store, Davi-
son-Paxon's, Rich's, and Macmil-
lan's.

In addition to a group of chil-
dren's books, which proved so pop-
ular last year, will be such authors
as Stefan Zweig and Anne Morrow
Lindberg. Among the alumnae
writings students will find Evelyn
Hanna's Blackberry Winter.

The library will be open Sunday,
November 20, from 2:30 until
5:30.

Scandrett, Raper
Appear on Program

Dean Pays Tribute to
Miss Hopkins

Dr. Raper and Miss Scandrett
were the speakers on the Agnes
Scott radio program Thursday, No-
vember 3, at 4:45 P. M. Miss
Scandrett paid the following tri-
bute to Miss Hopkins:

"It seems fitting that we should
take the opportunity which the
regular Agnes Scott broadcast af-
fords of speaking to all the alum-
nae and friends of the college about
Miss Hopkins, who herself always
took pleasure in greeting her girls
through this medium. We wish to
pay tribute to her as the embodi-
ment of all that we cherish in
Agnes Scott. She is our strongest
unifying force because she estab-
lished and instilled in each of us
principles of thought and conduct
which we associate with the col-
lege. We can best honor her by
trying to perpetuate the qualities of
which she was the triumphant ex-
ample: her serenity which was the

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College Honors Dean
Emeritus With Memoriam

In memoriam to Miss Nanette
Hopkins, dean emeritus of Agnes
Scott College, who died recently, a
special service will be held in the
chapel Monday, November 14, at 4
o'clock, with faculty, officers,
alumnae, and students of the col-
lege participating.

Dr. J. R. McCain has announced
tentative plans for a devotional to
be conducted by the students, and
for tributes of respect to be read
from each of the four groups. Mr.
George Winship, chairman of the
board of trustees, will preside.

Bible Club Enjoys
Y.M.CA. Speaker

Bible Club held its regular
monthly meeting on Monday, No-
vember 7, at 4:00 P. M., in the
Murphey Candler Building. A short
business meeting was held first, at
which time the recently composed
constitution of the club was read
and voted on by the club. After
a short devotional, an interesting
and helpful talk was made by Mr.
Aubrey Alsobrook, of Emory and
the Atlanta Y. M. C. A. Refresh-
ments were served afterwards.

Seniors Plan
Investiture
This }Week

For Little Girls' Day on Novem-
ber 11 the seniors are planning
their traditional song "Shoo Fly,
Don't Bother Me/' accompanied by
skipping around both dining halls.
Short dresses and ring-around-the-
roses will amaze the freshmen as the
seniors take their last fling before
assuming the responsibilities of ma-
turity.

As speaker for Investiture on
Nov. 12, Miss Charlotte Hunter,
assistant dean, will discuss the sig-
nificance of Investiture in college
life and in life after college. Miss
Hunter is an alumna of Agnes
Scott, and thus can speak both as
student and faculty member.

Mr. Christian W. Dieckmann
will furnish the music on a Ham-
mond organ, and the Rev. D. W.
Hollingsworth, D.D., of Florence,
Alabama, and father of Mary Hol-
lingsworth, will lead in prayer.
Little Sara Christian, class mascot,
will lead the procession.

Newspapers, Alumnae
Furnish Week-End Speakers

Author Evelyn Hanna Will Open
Alumnae Session on Nov. 18th

Evelyn Hanna, graduate of Agnes Scott and author of
"Blackberry Winter," a newly published rival of "Gone With
the Wind," will make the opening address of the eighth an-
nual Agnes Scott alumnae week-end on November 18th.

Miss Hanna's novel has

Sophomores Send
Party Invitations

The Sophomore Commission and
the Sophomore Christian Associa-
tion Cabinet met with Mortar
Board on Monday night to send out
invitations for the Mortar Board
sophomore parties to be held No-
vember 16, 17. Young men from
the various colleges in Atlanta and
Decatur will be the guests of the
organization on these evenings.

Amelia Nickels, president of
Mortar Board, has appointed a date
committee composed of Jane Moore
Hamilton, chairman, Douglas Lyle,
and Jean Bailey.

Britons Defend Empire
Against Hopkins-Merlin Team

The British are coming! This
time they have no red coats and
brass buttons, but are invading the
campus in tuxedos; instead of guns
and swords, they come armed with
information and wit to confound
our debators, and with that same
charming British accent that has
stolen the hearts of so many Hot-
tentots in years past. The long
awaited British debate will take
place in the chapel at eight-thirty
on the' evening of November 18.

The subject of the debate is: Re-
solved, That the British Empire Is
An Obstacle to World Peace. Mar-
garet Hopkins, president of Pi Al-
pha Phi arid winner of the Quen-
elle Harrold debate cup for 1937-
38, and Marjorie Merlin will repre-

sent Agnes Scott. Their opponents
will be William Thomas Williams
and William A. Beers.

Mr. Williams received his educa-
tion at Aberdare, University of
Wales, and University of London.
He is now working on his Bachelor
of Divinity Degree at the Univer-
sity of Wales. He has been inter-
ested in sports and in social and
ambulance work in addition to de-
bating; his interests also lie in the
fields of political and pacifist ac-
tivity.

Mr. Beers was educated at Dub-
lin University, where he received
his Arts and Bachelor of Laws De-
grees. He is several times a medal-
ist in composition, oratory, and

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been

sympathetically received, particu-
larly in the South. It is an intel-
lectual, yet melodramatic survey
of the whole climactic event of the
Civil War, from the cotton view-
point of four generations of a Geor-
gia dynasty.

Other writers who will speak
during the two-day session are
Ralph McGill, executive editor of
The Constitution, on "An Editor
Travels;" Ralph Jones, associate
editor of The Constitution, on
"Letters to the Editor's Desk;"
Herbert Porter, publisher of The
Georgian, on "The Responsibility
of the Press to the Public," and
Tarleton Collier, Georgian, col-
umnist, on "The Columnist's View-
point."

Miss Carrie Scandrett will be
the presiding speaker at a lunch-
eon on November 18. The follow-
ing day the Agnes Scott orchestra,
under the direction of Mr. C. S.
Dieckmann, will be heard in chapel,
and that night Stage Door will be
presented by Blackfriars.

Special Chorus
Will Sing At Meeting

The Special Chorus of Agnes
Scott will sing at a meeting of the
Audio-Visual Education Associa-
tion on Thursday, November 10,
at the Henry Grady Hotel. Their
program will include "Carissima,"
"Echo," "Will You Remember?"
"The Curly-Headed Baby," and
Gianina Mia." This same program
will be given in chapel Thursday
morning.

Noted Bible Commentator
Lectures Thursday

Dr, E. J. Goodspeed is One of Six
To Translate New Testament

Thursday night brings to our campus Dr. Edgar J. Good-
speed whose scholarship is recognized throughout the world
of letters and who is termed a most delightful speaker by all
who have heard him. So enthusiastic is he that his audience

finds itself

Debaters Go to
Milledgeville

Affirmative Side Wins
In Debate Forum

The "ayes" had it last Saturday
when affirmative and negative
teams from five Georgia colleges
and universities participated in a
forum debate at Georgia State Col-
lege for Women at Milledgeville,
and all the affirmative teams were
victors. The subject for the debate
was: Resolved, That the United
States Should Adopt a Policy of
Isolation Toward All Nations En-
gaged in International or Civil
Conflict.

Agnes Scott's affirmative team,
composed of Eloise Lennard and
Arlene Steinbach, won the decision
over the negative team of Georgia
Tech; while our negative team,
composed of Lelia Carson and Mary
Louise Dobbs, was defeated by the
University of Georgia's affirmative
team.

After drawing for sides, the dif-
ferent teams met each other at 4:00
P. M. and continued their clash un-
til 6:30 P. M., when they adjourned
for a banquet given in their honor.
At the evening session there was an
Open Forum discussion of the top-
ic debated in the afternoon. A
dance brought the day's activities
to a close.

thoroughly enthralled
although perhaps not familiar with
many of the technical details of his
subject.

Mrs. Goodspeed, who has always
been deeply interested in Dr. Good-
speed's work, is the daughter of
Mr. Bond, for whom the Bond
Building at the University of Chi-
cago is named. It was on one of
their trips to Europe a few years
ago that Dr. Goodspeed discovered
the famous "Rockefeller-McCor-
mick Bible Manuscript," which
was secured with the financial aid
of Mrs. McGormick and which is
now in the University of Chicago
Library.

Since his retirement as head of
the New Testament Department of
the Divinity School of the Univer-
sity of Chicago, Dr. Goodspeed
has spent his time in lecturing and
in the translating and publishing
of the Apocrypha. He is one of the
six scholars recently appointed to
produce a new translation of the
New Testament, and for the last
few weeks he has been in New

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B.S.U. Entertains
At City- Wide Social

Leaving from Main at 7 o'clock
last Friday night were the twelve
Agnes Scott students who attended
the city-wide Baptist Student Un-
ion at the First Baptist Church in
Atlanta.

Those from Agnes Scott were:
Eugenia Bridges, Georgia Clarke,
Elizabeth Davis, Dorothy Garland,
Alice Inzer, May King, Jeanne
Lee, Sara E. Lee, Sara Massey, Mary
Virginia McPhaul, Anne Elizabeth
Newton, and Mary Reins.

Emory Soloist

World Community
Group Gives Banquet

Program Emphasizes
International Peace

The World Community Group
of Christian Association announces
plans for world fellowship ban-
quets on Thursday evening, No-
vember 10th, in both Rebekah Scott
and White House dining rooms.
Armistice programs, including
skits, songs, and dances, will be
presented.

Mary Reins, chairman of the
World Fellowship Group, requests
that fhose students with costumes
representing foreign countries wear
them. This banquet has been held
formerly on Peace Day in the
spring.

BURTIS PRESTON

KryPs Concert
Is Next on Emory
Lecture Program

Kryl and his symphony orches-
tra will be presented in a concert
Friday, November 11, under aus-
pices of the Student Lecture Asso-
ciation of Emory University, ap-
pearing in the Glenn Memorial Au-
ditorium at 8:15 P. M.

This is the thirty-fourth consec-
utive season of Kryl, and during
this period he has presented over
twelve thousand concerts. The fa-
mous conductor has been called by
the Los Angeles Times, "the most
remarkable cornetist in the world,"
and by the Chicago Tribune, "a di-
rector . . . without peer."

The soloists with Kryl are Dor-
othy Dickerson, coloratura soprano;
Barbara Le Brun, harpist; Florian
Zabach, violinist; Burtis Preston,
baritone.

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THE AGONISTIC, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1938

Healy Stages First
Swim Meet of Year

Swimming Manager Beryl Healy
staged a swimming meet in the
pool of Bucher Scott gymnasium
on Tuesday, November 8. Compe-
tition in any two events and div-
ing was open to all students who
are enrolled in swimming classes
for the fall quarter, and to mem-
bers of the swimming club.

Lecture

Committee

Entertains

Dr. Goodspeed
Attends Luncheon,
Reception

Dr. Edgar J. Goodspeed, emi-
nent archaelogosit and biblical
scholar, who will lecture at Agnes
Scott tomorrow night at 8:30, will
be entertained at luncheon in the
Rebekah Scott dining room by the
student lecture committee. Kay
Kennedy announces nine other
members of the committee: Eliza-
beth Kenney, Ann Enloe, Grace
Ward, Evelyn Baty, Lutie Moore,
Betty Waitt, Val Neilson, Flora
Guy, and Helen Lichten.

At 6:00 P. M. Mrs. Syden-
stricker will entertain at a dinner
for Dr. Goodspeed. Covers will be
laid for eight, including Dr. Mc-
Cain, and the members of the clas-
sical and Bible departments.

Britons

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history, and represented his College
Historical Society at numerous In-
ter-University debates. This young
Britisher was also responsible for
the organization and production of
some forty radio broadcasts from
the Irish Broadcasting Stations dur-
ing the past two years, dealing with
Irish industrial development and
other matters.

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Sophomore-Freshman Hockey
Game Ends in Tie

Juniors Are Again Victorious
Over Seniors With Score 3-1

The two winning and the two losing teams were matched
last Friday at the hockey field in games which resulted in
the first tie of the year and a 3-1 victory for the juniors over
the seniors.

The sophomores jumped into the
offensive against the freshmen
with a drive down the field for a
goal by Bell in the first minute of
play. After this promising start,
however, the game was keyed down
almost to lethargy. Under a cloudy
sky and in air heavy with damp-
ness, the players seemed to lose the
crispness of the first few moments.
Until the half ended, 1-0 for the
sophomores, it was a game of falls
and no teamwork.

Starting briskly off in the sec-
ond half, both teams perked up
considerably. Dennison effected
several notable runs down on right
wing, and the sophomore right in-
ner contributed so much energy to
the game that the usually sleek
Muzzey hair was hanging over the
classic Muzzey forehead in most
unMuzzeylike fashion. Hance, in
spite of her blow in the face dur-
ng the first half, got in her usual
steady work, while Webster at left
inner for the opposition was posi-
tively inspired. An attack on the
sophomore goal toward the end of
the game culminated in the second
freshman score of the year, a nice
shot by Webster, tying the count,
1-1. Both sides exhibited good
playing for the remainder of the
game, with Hasty and Bell shining
particularly. The whistle blew on
the season's first tie, breaking the
losing streak of the freshmen.

The struggle between the upper-
classmen was a smoother and more
animated affair from the start.
Play soon resolved into close fight-
ing near the senior cage, with Mc-
Mullen snagging balls nicely and
Heaslett passing fair. This play
ended in a goal for the juniors by
Slack. The winged feet of little
Forman were much in evidence as
the juniors strove for a second
score, but were driven back down
the field for a goal by MacGuire
as the half ended, leaving the game
1-1.

The second half opened with
good hitting by Slack and Salters
toward the senior deadline. The
rush was reversed, however, and
the brown-bloomered bombers lit-
erally ran over Taylor in a drive
for a score. A beautiful stop by
Cass turned the tide once more,
and the juniors avenged Taylor's
mishap with a goal by Stixrud, un-
tying the score. Good playing by
Jane Jones and Jane Moore (re-
place-all-divots) Hamilton failed
to stop the third successful junior

attack, in which Carson made the
last score of the game.

Line-ups:
Freshmen ( 1 ) Sophomores ( 1 )
M. Gray RW Dennison

Ballengee RJ Muzzey

Wilds CF Hance

Webster (1) LI Bell (1)

B. Robertson LW McConnell
Brooks RH Patterson

Hasty CH Henry

Lott LH Walker

Copeland RF S. Wilds

Currie LF A. Steinbach

B. Davis G O'Nan

Substitutions: Freshmen C.
Davis, J. McGuire, Merrill.
Juniors (3) Seniors (1)

Eyles RW Wheeler

R. Slack (1) RI H. Moses

H. Carson (1) CF F. McGuire (1)
Heaslett LI Dryfoos

Forman LW Tumlin

Salters RH I vie

Milner CH J. Jones

S. Montgomery LH Campbell
M. N. Taylor RF J. M. Hamilton
V. J. Watkins LF McMullen
Cass G Kenny

Substitutions: Juniors Stix-
rud ( 1 ) , Francis, Moseley. Seniors
Doty, C. Hutchins.

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Decatur, Georgia
No Better Hotel in Georgia

Scandrett

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expression of true gentleness; her
sparkling humor, her tireless devo-
tion to her work, her gift of recog-
nizing each of us as an individual,
her giving herself with complete
generosity to us; her perfect impar-
tiality of judgment her courage-
ous upholding of the highest stand-
ards of virtue, faith, and knowl-
edge. To those of us who know
and love her, Miss Hopkins is Ag-
nes Scott."

Chi Beta Siqma
Holds Banquet

Chi Beta Phi Sigma will hold its
annual banquet in honor of its new
members on Wednesday, November
9, at 6:30 P. M., at the Frances
Virginia Tea Room. Those who
will be honored are: Carolyn For-
man, Mary Elizabeth Leavitt, Vir-
ginia Milner, Polly Heaslett, and
Ruth Eyles. Colonial blue and
grey, the colors of the national or-
ganization, will be used in the deco-
rations. Dr. Henry A. Robinson,
of the math department, will be
the speaker for the occasion.

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Sports Miscellany

By ELEANOR HUTCHENS

The first swimming meet of the year, held last night in
the gym, gave promise of much entertainment along that
line to come. Credit goes to Beryl Healey for arrangements ;
to Miss Mitchell, Miss Wilburn, and Mrs. Vogel for judging;
to Miss Gaylord for scoring ; and to Miss Haynes for record-
ing.

Credit Lines

Add unsung heroes: Jane Jones,
who cuts up oranges for the hockey
games; Mutt Fite, of the watches
and whistle for same; members of
the physical ed. department who
referee.

Trembling Champions

The juniors are praying for rain
next Friday. Three of the chief
reasons for the success of the
hockey team are lighting out for
Davidson. For further details, see
your society column.

Net Se mi-Finals

Don't miss the semi-finals in
the tennis tournament this week.
The Klugh-Ingles combination will
take on Taylor and Carson; and
freshmen Brooks and Webster will
have a shot at Fisher and Dyer.

People Came

The most gratifying turnout
since June 7 was witnessed last
Thursday night at the fencing ex-
hibition, where the Tech boys
really showed us something. Four
bouts, with foils and sabers, proved
to be thrilling no end. The dra-
matic effect was heightened by
the masks and white uniforms.
Adele Haggart's brother, Bob, in
particular did himself proud.

Plops and Splashes

The next attraction on A. A.'s
apparently limitless list will be a
swimming meet Tuesday night,
November 15, under the supervi-

sion of Manager Beryl Healy. It
will open to all the college com-
munity and to the parents of stu-
dents. Take a note, and come
down to see those fancy dives and
strokes!

Shuttle, Cock

For the love of creamed Irish
potatoes, play off your match in
the badminton tournament before
Pussy goes stark mad. After all,
what did you sign up for, anyway?

Goodspeed

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York working upon the revision of
this translation.

Earnest Caldwell, Dr. Good-
speed's successor at the University
of Chicago, is a former Emory stu-
dent, who married an Agnes Scott
girl. Mrs. Caldwell, who before
her marriage was Miss Annette
Carter, was a Bible Major. Dr.
Goodspeed has done everything in
his power to help Mr. Caldwell in
his work and he and Mrs. Good-
speed gave Mr. and Mrs. Caldwell
a three month's trip in Europe with
a chance to study in the libraries
there. A man so interested in
young people and so noted in his
field should be an interesting
speaker.

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Blazing Hotel Rouses Press
Delegates from Slumber

By ANNE ENLOE

The great Chicago blaze was a mere flicker compared to
the fire that those Agnes Scott Press Convention delegates
experienced in Cincinnati last Friday night or morning,
rather! 'Twas about five o'clock, so they said, and all were

sleeping soundly (remember that

the first hour after one goes to %jt - i i- i_
. . i , ill i Mane left the convention early and

sleep is the hour when he sleeps the

hardest). So the fire alarms roused
Mary Fa from a dead sleep and she
eventually realized that the hotel
was on fire and that clouds of chok-
ing, black smoke were pouring
through the transom of her room!
So she frantically waked Marie
Merritt, her seemingly eternal
roommate, and suggested that they
make a dash for it. And while
Marie was making a noble effort
to pack their clothes, Mary Fa
seemed always to be running around
wringing her hands and raving,
"What a wonderful feature story
this would make!" They finally
ended up by flying out to the ele-
vator sans all the apparel that Ag-
nes Scott deems conventional, only
to learn from the elevator boy that
the fire was under control and that
they had missed the worst part of
it! Oh, the irony of it all!

The next morning they found
out that Adelaide and Anne Wat-
kins had slept right through all the
excitement and didn't know a
thing about it. But in the mean-
time they had had some adventures
of their own it seems that they
had changed rooms for some rea-
son and had kept the key to the
old room. So after leaving they
found that Anne had left the belt
to her very most-appropriate-dress-
for-a-dinner-engagement - at - the-
Netherland-Plaza up in the old
room. Hence Anne's wild trip back
to the scene of the crime only to
burst in upon a staid and sane mar-
ried couple who were as surprised
to see her as she was to see them.
They gave her a dirty look as she
backed out, but finally broke down
and told her that since they were
just going down to dinner she
could have the room if she really
wanted it! There's another good
story about Anne and the wrong
room (another one), but for that
I'll refer you directly to her. One
hint, however, it has to do with a
mix-up about a Pullman compart-
ment.

You know that Mary Fa and

went on over to Louisville to visit
Mary Fa's family so, as they were
leaving the hotel at the last possi-
ble minute for making the train,
the horrible thought came to them
that they had not paid their bill,
and since they were honorable Hot-
tentots that would never do. So
with the taxi driver champing his
bits at the curb and with the por-
ter literally left holding the bag,
Marie opened her suitcase in the
middle of the Hotel Gibson lobby
and did a customs' officer search
for the Agonistic money (have
you paid your budget?). She final-
ly found it and closed the bag, paid
the bill and left much to the con-
sternation of the lobby-sitters who
had been enjoying it all immensely.

Well, they really did make the
train and arrived in Louisville (at
the wrong station, incidentally) at
the same time that the Guthrie
family frantically-waiting-at-the-
right-station happened to read in
the paper about the terrible fire in
the Hotel Gibson in Cincinnati!

You have probably been wonder-
ing all this time what happened to
Julia Sewell, the other member of
the delegation. Well, poor Julia

N. B., EMORY

(Editor's Note: This space
was reserved for comment on
Emory's publicity work; research
has jailed to reveal evidence of
any such material.)

was so overwhelmed the very first
night that she was hardly herself
the rest of the time. It seems that
after her first meeting adjourned
all the meeters went up to some-
one's room far up in the recesses of
that mysterious hostelry and had
hold your breath highballs! And
they had cigarettes, too! So now
you know the fate of Julia!

They all said they took great
part in all the discussions and
things, but that every time Ad said
anything the whole room would
burst into loud guffaws! Ad de-
fensively explained that it was the
way she said it and not what she
said.

Turning to the serious side
(there really was one) the girls all
say that it was wonderful and that
they learned thousands of things
that will help our college publica-
tions be even better. Our Agonis-
tic was not far behind the Silhou-
ette in receiving praise and was
rated very high. And though they
were traveling on money furnished
by the three publications they real-
ly didn't squander anything, be-
cause when they were hungry the
diner was always closed or else
there just wasn't one on that

tr:iin !

Tech seemed to hold first place in the hearts of Agnes
Scott girls this week-end. On Friday night, the Co-op stu-
dents gave a dance which was greatly enlivened by the pres-
ence of Frances Breg, Lucile Gaines, Lib Davis, Mary Jane
Bannister, Mary Louise Palmour, Annie Wilds, Marcia Mans-
field, Lalla Marshall, Helen Klugh, Allie Malone, and Edith
Henegar. Also on Friday night, the Tech Glee Club gave a
hay ride which Edith Stover, Marjorie Boggs, and Louise
Caldwell attended,

On Saturday night, Carolyn Al-
ley went on the hay ride given by
the Tech chapter of Sigma Chi,
while Grace Ward, Louise Cald-
well, Grace Elizabeth Anderson
and Nell Pinner went to the Beta
dance. Frances Butt went to the

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Ella Muzzey went to the Chi Phi
tea dance after the Kentucky-Tech
football game, which was attended
by Sara Lee and Ida Jane Vaughn.

However, good old Emory is not
to be outdone: Freck Sproles, Lil-
lian Schwenke, and Grace Walker
went on the hay ride given by the
Emory K A's, while Sue Phillips
took in the Phi Delta Theta affair.

As always, some people went
home for the week-end. Anne En-
loe took Henrietta Thompson, Bet-
ty Jean O'Brien, and Mary Virginia
Brown with her. Charlene Burke
took Keeker Newton and Betty
Embry with her and entertained
them with what we hear was one
more swell dance. Peggy Willis
also went home to Virginia for the
week-end.

Mercer Homecoming claimed the
undivided attention of Marian
Franklin, Dusty Hance, and Ann
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By ALICE CHEESEMAN

"Down in the gym" . . . behind her desk, in a quiet chat
with Miss Mitchell, we found Miss Wilburn, the "very pic-
ture of health" and radiant-with-energy, ... we found her
debating whether to schedule "Hockey or Weather" for the
afternoon. Typically optimistic, she chose "Hockey," and,
that dismissed for a minute, she invited us to sit down.

The conversation began with
Miss Wilburn serving: tc I got a
cute letter this morning from Ur-
sula . . ." And we, being (unfor-
tunately) quite unable to return
that with an ace, "Well, shucks, we
did, too!" expertly, though quite
surreptitiously, turned the subject
to Miss Wilburn herself.

She confided that, at the impres-
sionable age of six years, she moved
from Atlanta to Decatur in a car-
riage . . . "it was a long trip," and
she immediately enrolled in Glen-
wood grammar school. She played
dodge ball and hop-scotch, and bi-
cycled or skated over each inch of
Decatur, she recalled. In high
school, still in Decatur, she played
basketball, and acted in a play. She
confessed she couldn't possibly re-
call the most exciting play on the
basketball court but she was cer-
tain every game was most exciting!

And then, high school days well
done, Miss Wilburn came here to
Agnes Scott as a day student
(and she hastened to add that she
didn't miss a thing on the campus
either) .

An outstanding student presi-
dent of A. A., president of Black-
friars, and member of Hoasc, . . .
Miss Wilburn graduated and
promptly enrolled in physical ed.
classes at Columbia. The very
next year after graduating she was
back on the campus assisting in the
gym department. Having earned
Columbia's M.A. in physical edu-
cation, she began teaching in the
University of Michigan. After
this, and after directing the Depart-
ment of Health Education in the
Nashville Y. W. C. A., she came
back to Agnes Scott . . . and here
she is today.

She first took up golf six years
ago. She knits, "if I have a lot of
help!" And here she laughed at
how "the girls on the sidelines"

knitted on a blue suit she made
once! . . . while refereeing. She ad-
Miss Wilburn is exhilaratingly
modern. She likes "planing" now.
Last week she hopped a plane to
Nashville . . . (no, 1tot a conven-
tion) . . . for the game. This ride
was her first up "alongside the big-
dipper," and at first, she confessed,
she was scared . . . then she loved
it, once up. "There's no other way
to travel," she emphasized. And
of course we all believe her, too.

Our chat was interrupted by the
hockey game, and we walked out
on the field all happy and feeling
fortunate that we had talked to
such a Hottentot, one whose ideals
and accomplishments inspire the
admiration and respect of all who
know her. Every word of her pleas-
ant drawl revealed the sportsman
of fineness and sincerity that we
all know and regard so affection-
ately. The campus salutes you,
Miss Wilburn!

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Agnes Scott College
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THE AGONISTIC

Editorials

features

Vol. XXIV, No. 6
Wednesday, Nov. 9, 1938

Peace We Desire

About a month ago it hardly seemed pos-
sible that November 11, 1938, would find the
world in any state other than one of wide-
spread murderous conflict and violent hatred.
We seemed inevitably upon the verge of an-
other "war to end all wars."

And so the comparative peace that wall be
found on this Armistice Day will make our
peace celebrations all the dearer. Such an
unhoped-for postponement of a great con-
flagration makes us all the more vociferous
in our demands for the preservation of the
peace that is America's today.

But no longer do we advocate merely some
form of isolation or neutrality. Now we urge
the broader principle of world brotherhood
and love for all people. For so long as we
continue to harbor ill will against others and
to wish for their punishment, we will know
no peace, either physically, mentally, or spir-
itually.

With our feelings purged of all animosi-
ties, however, we will be better able to guard
ourselves against false propaganda and ex-
aggerated atrocities. We will then face the
problem of maintaining our security with
open and unprejudiced minds. Only with
hatred removed from its nature will the
world ever find the peace it does so desire.

A Richer Self

f 7 know the worker from the drone
I know all save myself alone."
And eke the good wheat from the tare:

So wrote Francois Villon, typical of all of
us who realized, when Miss Hale recommend-
ed "Know Thyself" as the basis of a really
successful, "Fourth Ideal" personality, how
very slight is our knowledge of sfclf. But
what if we do learn to know ourselves? What
will we find inside us?

Student Government is planning its pro-
grams this year in the hope that each girl
will cultivate those habits of character which
will make her find a richer self there at the
end of the year.

Dr. Frank P. Graves told us that charac-
ter is our collection of habits, good and bad.
Those good habits which make our character
strong bring a sense of self-respect, essential
for effective living. The people who have
lost faith in themselves soon find that what
others think makes no difference; when they
can no longer live proudly with themselves,
trying to impress others with good habits
carries a sense of shame deeper than any
profits.

How shall we keep that self-respect? By
consciously forming habits of honor now,
later we shall find them an unconscious part
of our lives. The very self-respect which we
have built up through those habits will be-
come our protection against the forming of
any other less desirable ones. Self-respect
is the outgrowth of real character, of good
habits ; but it is also the basis of those ideals.

Student dovernment is asking the coopera-
tion of the student body in the presentation
of its program to make this a honor year.
We agree to follow its plans, but finally it is
we who shall profit more than any system of
student control. It is our lives which will be
richer through growth during this year.

Robert Frost Tells Students
Possible Subjects for Poetry

"Poems and fireflies. They represent our lucid in-
tervals and glow only for a moment." Poet Robert
Frost, addressing Ohio Wesleyan students, added, on
the subject of what to write poetry about: "I would
say, begin at pleasure and arrive at wisdom. Too
many young poets want to write about philosophy
at first." And Allen Tate of the University of
North Carolina faculty advised literature students
that "Second readings are necessary for a complete
understanding of poetry."

Eliza King Writes

Radio News Programs

Interest Alumna
Relations With Notables

Agnes Scott should really feel
proyd of Eliza King, '3 8, who was
one of the few chosen from a na-
tion-wide group to accept a fellow-
ship as government interne, and
who is doing splendid work in
Washington, D. C.

She is now with the Radio Edu-
cational Project of the Office of
Education and writes: "You have
probably heard some of the pro-
grams 'Brave New World,* 'The
World Is Yours,' 'Education in the
News,' etc. I'll probably do some
of everything research for the
program, 'Audience Preparations,'
such things as how to treat con-
troversial subjects on the radio.
I'll even attend a class in writing
script! It all sounds very interest-
ing and it's a grand opportunity to
learn a lot about a comparatively
new field in public relations. Who
knows some day, I might even be
doing the Agnes Scott radio pro-
gram!

"We have had some interesting
and informative talks by executive
officers of various governmental
departments and agencies and had
dinner at Brookings Institution,
after which the president gave an
address. It certainly is nice to get
to know all the important people.
It's nice, too, to get to know peo-
ple from so many different parts of
the country. I am the only one in
a group of internes from the South;
the boy from Texas says he's a
Southwesterner, which, it seems, is
quite different from a Southerner.
And, of course, their greeting is al-
ways 'How's you all?' Then I ex-
plain that we use the term only in
reference to the plural."

There is always the bitter with
the sweet, but nothing ever downed
Eliza; so, she has mastered the dif-
ficult task of cooking without a
book or too much experience. Help-
ful advice saved the day (and the
roast it seems!) .

Hereby profit, ye Hottentots,
from your worthy alumna's words:

"Washington is coming up to all
my expectations of being a grand
place to live, although I am still in
the orientation stage. I am having
a grand time learning how to cook.
I have an apartment with another
interne from Minnesota. When we
started keeping house neither of us
would claim any knowledge of
cooking but we've done so well so
far that I've about decided that
there's really nothing to it after
all. You should have seen us buy-
ing meat one Saturday. We didn't
have any idea of how much to get,
how long to cook it, or anything
else. Everybody in the store started
giving us helpful hints and with all
those, plus instructions from the
butcher, our first roast was a great
success!"

If you wonder why Eliza is so
progressive and so brilliant, recall
the outstanding record she left
here at Agnes Scott. Besides being
an honor roll student four years,
she made Phi Beta Kappa and held
the offices of student recorder,
vice-president of Mortar Board,
president of Current History For-
um, president of Junior Class, and
Silhouette class editor her sopho-
more year.

It is no wonder Eliza is an
A (alumna) S (super) C (colos-
sal)!

Front Row

By JANE SALTERS

BIG SISTER

Berlin, by declaring that there
must be no common Hungarian-
Polish boundary, pulls the shade
down on the Polish vision of a
"Third Europe" created to "save
the balance of power" and offers
herself as benevolent Big Sister to
Czechslovakia if Little Sister will
promise to play Follow the Leader.

SABOTAGE?

Oakland, California, gets a "tre-
mendously exciting experience"
when the German liner Vancouver
is sunk by an explosion that hints
at sabotage. Investigations reveal
the opinion of the German captain
and crew that the explosion was
"not accidental." The hull plates
in which a hole five feet square
was made were bent inward, show-
ing that the explosion was on the
outside.

NINE POWER TREATY

Tokyo is to "make a statement
of world importance" Thursday
concerning .the Nine Power Treaty,
which Japan considers obsolete. At
the same time Foreign Minister
Hachiro Arita will give an answer
to the United States' protest
against Japan's "arbitrary and ille-
gal" actions against "American in-
terests in China." Tokyo wants to
revise the Nine Power Treaty,
"which is supposed to guarantee
China's political and territorial
sovereignty," and there is possibil-
ity of a reconvocation of the pow-
ers for that purpose. Japan is quite
frank about her plans to rule Asia.

To tke, d!iton

Dear Editor:

We think that since the admin-
istration considers us old enough
and mature enough to be intrusted
with the Honor System, we should
be considered old enough and ma-
ture enough to be intrusted with
our own health to the extent of
having extra light privileges at the
times when it becomes necessary.
By the time this rr hand-pickid"
group of girls reaches their college
age, we feel that they should be
able to judge for themselves as to
how much sleep is necessary for
their health. If a girl finds that
she needs lights for some extra
work and knows that she can either
get along with a few hours less
sleep or can make up for lost time
the next night, then we think she
should be given those lights.

We think that lights mean bet-
ter grades and better grades mean
a better Agnes Scott. We think
also that although extra curricular
activities mean more work, they
also mean better rounded, more
wholehearted girls; and girls of
that kind mean a better Agnes
Scott.

We think that worrying over
grades is more detrimental to the
health of the average girl at Agnes
Scott than the few hours of sleep
she woidd lose if she used lights
long enough to study sufficiently
to eliminate that worry.

Sincerely,
One Who Feels As Most of
the Students Do.

May We Present

Tomorrow night the Agnes Scott Lecture
Association is presenting as its first lecturer
of the 1938-39 college session Dr. Ira R.
Goodspeed, noted biblical authority.

Not only has Dr. Goodspeed won commen-
dation for his translations of and his com-
mentaries on religious works, but also is he
outstanding as an archaeologist. During his
lecture here, he will exhibit some of the an-
cient Greek manuscripts that he has dis-
covered.

Dr. Goodspeed is no less noteworthy as a
speaker. He has appeared on the lecture pro-
grams of many colleges, universities, and
municipal forums. Last year the students of
Randolph-Macon College voted him the most
interesting speaker appearing in their series.

Since Atlanta and its environs offers so
great a number of musical and dramatic en-
tertainments throughout the year, Lecture
Association has as its purpose to provide a
few lectures of intellectual and cultural value
by nationally and internationally known peo-
ple, rather than to give a variety of pro-
grams which are intended primarily for
amusement.

Dr. Goodspeed is being brought to Agnes
Scott for our own especial benefit not for
the particular benefit of people outside our
walls. It is therefore our duty, as well as
our privilege, to avail ourselves of this op-
portunity for enlightenment.

Librarians Reap Big Catch
From Objects Left in Books

Philadelphia, Pa. (ACP) "Shoes and ships and
sealing wax, and cabbages and kings." Almost as
great a variety of objects is found between pages of
books returned to Sullivan Memorial Library.

The biggest catch to date has been a ten-dollar
bill used as a book-mark! "But they wouldn't let
me keep it," complained the almost-lucky circula-
tion attendant.

Stamped and addressed letters often found in the
books are mailed on. Recently one addressed to Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt was discovered.

Some borrowers help future readers by leaving
synopses of chapters. Temple students also display
their artistic ability by filling the pages with slips
of paper bearing free-hand drawings, by "improv-
ing" on pictures already in books, and by carefully
decorating the covers.

Unused theater tickets are another find, but usual-
ly they are discovered too late for use.

Other book-marks: rulers, calendars, clinic cards,
hairpins, paper clips, stamps, four-leaf clovers, paper
napkins and campaign buttons.

Hanging a Frat Pin

Means Life Sentence for Owner

At last the fair ones who proudly display the fra-
ternity pins of their male friends have gained the
protection of the courts! At least they have the pro-
tection of a University of Oklahoma student lawyers'
practice court whose jury ruled that "hanging a pin"
is promise of marriage and the basis for a breach of
promise suit. In its first case on the subject, the jury
awarded damages of three cents to the suing female,
with the side suggestion that the money be used to
write to Dorothy Dix for advice about men in gen-
eral.

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Wednesday, November 9

No. 6

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Alumnae Present
Newspaper Speakers

Special Music, Banquets

Will Complete Two-Day Session

Over two hundred alumnae are expected to return to the
campus Thursday and Friday for the convocation of the
eighth Alumnae Week-End, November 18 and 19.

In order to present a program that will appeal to every-
body, the Alumnae Week-End Committee, headed by Mrs.
Ralph Pate, has invited some very interesting newspaper per-
sonalities who are connected with nearby papers to give the
newspaper slant on certain matters.
Following is the complete pro

gram for the two-day session:
Friday, November 18

10:00 A.M. Evelyn Hanna,
ex-'23, author of "Blackberry
Winter/' will speak in chapel.

10:30 A.M. Mr. Herbert Por-
ter, Publisher of The Atlanta Geor-
gian and Sunday American, will

Club Sponsors Exhibit

During Alumnae Week-End
the Decatur Agnes Scott Club
is sponsoring an exhibit of Pen-
land Hand-wrought Copper and
Pewter and an exhibit of the
Berean Fireside Industries in 208
Buttrick. The articles exhibited
will be on sale for alumnae, fac-
ulty, and students.

discuss "The Responsibility of the
Press Toward the Public."

11:30 A.M. Mr. Ralph Jones,
Associate Editor of The Atlanta
Constitution, will talk on "Letters
to the Editor's Desk."

12:30 P.M. Alumnae will be
guests of the college at a luncheon
in Rebekah Scott dining room.
Dean Carrie Scandrett, '24, will
speak.

Saturday, November 19
10:00 A.M. The Agnes Scott
String Ensemble, directed by Mr.
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Annual Book Week
Features Many-
Interesting Books

Ezekial and Ferdinand will return
to Agnes Scott tomorrow to open
the annual Book Week, held this
year from Thursday, November
17, through Thanksgiving Day,
with the library open on Sunday
afternoon from 2:30-5:00, and on
Thanksgiving from 2:00 - 5:00.
Those who spent all of last year's
Book Week reading about the ad-
ventures of the little bull will wel-
come this opportunity to renew his
acquaintance and to find out about
the new EzekiaVs Travels. Other
children's books will include Mother
Goose, the Maud Peterson series of
illustrated Bible stories, and a group
of Kate Greenaway books popular
fifty years ago.

Miss Hanley announces that she
hopes to have an exhibit of first
editions, and also several alumnae
writings. Miller's, Davison-Paxon's,
Rich's, and Macmillan's will fur-
nish books for the display.

French Club Meets at
Harrison Hut

French Club held its regular
monthly meeting on Monday, No-
vember 14, at 4:30 P. M. at Harri-
son Hut. A picnic supper was en-
joyed by all, and the initiates were
in charge of the program.

Mortar Board
Announces
Hostesses

Sophomores Make
Preparations
For Parties

The boarding sophomores are
donning their best bibs and tuck-
ers for the formal prom parties
with which the members of Mor-
tar Board are entertaining them to-
night and tomorrow night, No-
vember 16 and 17, in the Murphey
Candler Building.

On Wednesday night, for the
sophomores whose names are in the
first part of the alphabet, through
M, the hostesses will be Mamie Lee
Ratliff, Mary Hollingsworth, Jane
Moore Hamilton, Douglas Lyle,
Mary Ellen Whetsell, and Adelaide
Benson. On Thursday night, when
the remainder of the sophomores
are invited, the hostesses will be
Jean Bailey, Marie Merritt, Mary
Frances Guthrie, Emma McMullen,
and Amelia Nickels. The chaper-
ones will be the Mortar Board fac-
ulty advisors, Miss Lucile Alexan-
der, Miss Florence Smith, and Miss
Blanche Miller, and the Mortar
Board alumnae on the campus, Miss
Carrie Phinney Latimer, Miss
Laura Steele, and Miss Ann Worthy
Johnson.

Young men have been invited
from Emory, Tech, Decatur, and
vicinity.

Agonistic Contest Ends

The contest to find a new
name for this newspaper
closes Friday, November
18. All entries must be in
the hands of the editor of
The Agonistic by that date.

Dr. McCain Is
University
System Head

Association Includes
Three Colleges
From Georgia

Dr. J. R. McCain was elected
president of the Southern Univer-
sity Conference, composed of the
forty-one stronger colleges and uni-
versities of the south, at the recent
meeting of that organization in
Durham, N. C. Dr. McCain has
been secretary-treasurer of the
group since its founding in Decem-
ber, 1924, and has been prominent
in the Conference's work to main-
tain higher standard of education
through cooperation of the various
institutions.

Agnes Scott, Emory, and the
University of Georgia are the only
Georgia schools represented in the
association, and only Agnes Scott
and the University have faculty
members on its committees, through
which most of its work is done.
From Agnes Scott are Dr. Philip
Davidson, professor of history,

(Continued on Page 3, Col. 5)

Pi Alpha Members
Entertain British

At Banquet

Hopkins, Merlin Clash
With Britons in
Debate Friday

Arriving on the Agnes Scott
campus Friday afternoon, Novem-
ber 18, the British debaters, Mr.
William T. Williams and Mr. Wil-
liam A. Beers, will be entertained
at several functions before their de-
parture from Atlanta on the fol-
lowing Tuesday.

They will dine in the Rebekah
Scott dining room just previous to
their debate at 8:30 Friday evening
with the Agnes Scott team of
Margaret Hopkins and Marjorie
Merlin on the subject, Resolved:
That the British Empire is an Ob-
stacle to World Peace. A reception
will be given for the debaters in
the Murphey Candler Building fol-
lowing the forensic clash.

On Saturday evening, November
19, the officers and members of Pi
Alpha Phi debate club will honor
the gentlemen from Ireland at a
banquet, after which they will at-
tend Blackfriars' performance of
"Stage Door."

-Photo Courtesy Atlanta Journal.

Blackfriars Prepares

To Open "Stage Door' Saturday

By JULIA SEWELL

The time is any night the past two weeks, the setting the
stage of the gym, the audience Miss Gooch and an insignifi-
cant reporter, the situation rehearsal for Blackfriars , per-
formance of "Stage Door," scheduled for Saturday night.

Th.- scene opens on a stage beau-

Dean Caps Class President

Jean Bailey watches as Miss Carrie Scandrett, dean of students, caps
Cary Wheeler, president of the seniors, at the Investiture service last
Saturday morning.

Miss Hunter Speaks

To Seniors At Investiture

Calling Investiture "the most important and significant
event in a student's college life," Miss Charlotte Hunter, as-
sistant dean, spoke to the senior class at their traditional
recognition service on Saturday, November 12. Miss Hunter
was chosen by the class itself to make the only address of the
occasion, which she saw both as faculty member and alumna.

Discarding Commencement as

Concert Series
Will Present
Ballet Russe

tirully decorated as the main room
of the Footlights Club. In the cen-
ter is an as yet uncarpeted stair
case (Miss Gooch declares that the
illustrious cast sounds like a herd
of horses clattering up and down
it). There is a fireplace, a piano,
several non-existent chairs and,
over the fireplace, a beautiful por-
trait of Sarah Bernhardt which isn't
there.

The play gets off to a good start

with Lilian Schwenke pounding out
Chopin in the approved Russian
manner, Helen Moses asking inces-
sant and annoying questions in the
form of Bernice Niemayer, and
Mary Wells McNeill charming the
diminutive audience as the genial
colored maid (minus both color
and uniform) .

The performance proceeds in a
glowing style (with Willy prompt-
ing furiously) revealing practically
(Continued on Page 2, Col. 4)

The Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo
will be the third presentation of
the All-Star Concert Series, on
Tuesday, November 22, at 8:30, in
the Atlanta Auditorium. Of the
five new numbers which the bal-
let will introduce in Atlanta, two
will be given Tuesday night, "Gaite
Parisienne ,, and "Coppelia."

The scene of "Gaite Parisienne"
is laid in Paris during the 1800's,
and shows the gaiety and the frivol-
ity of the times. The main attrac-
tion of this number is a can-can
dance done to the music of Jacques
Offenbach. The role of the hero,
a happy-go-lucky Peruvian who
has money to burn, is played by
Leonide Massine, the artistic direc-
tor of the unit.

"Coppelia" is interesting because
it is based on the first ballet that
used a doll's coming to life as a
theme. Included in this number is
nearly every member of the troupe.

Outstanding ballet dancers in
the casts are Alexandra Danilova,
Roland Guerard, Lubor Rostova,
and Mare Platoff.

"an obvious feeling of finality/'
she spoke first of the "feeling of
hope and of promise which is so
vital a part of Investiture." Al-
though three years are gone which
cannot be relived, she pointed out,
the seniors yet have two-thirds of
a year of "new, unlived college
days" in which to make friends,
strive toward intellectual attain-
ment, practice graciousness and
temperance.

Like Tennyson's Ulysses, the
senior should be able to say "I am
a part of all that I have met," and
to see that Investiture strengthens
"foundations already laid," and be-
comes the "pivotal point for new
(Continued on Page 3, Col. 3)

Drucker Receives
Prize from K. U. B.

K. U. B. held its regular month-
ly meeting on Wednesday, Novem-
ber 9, at 4:30 P. M. in the Mur-
phey Candler Building. Initiation
of new members was held at that
time. The president, Anne Enloe,
presented a prize of $2 to Rebecca
Drucker for doing rthe best work
with home town news last year.
Refreshments were served after the
meeting.

2

THE AGONISTIC, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1938

when the game seemed securely
tied, a lucky shot by Moseley un-
raveled the knot and snared the
game for the ever-fortunate jun-
iors, 2-1.

Juniors, Sophomores Win
Over Sister Classes

Junior Record Remains Perfect
In Year's Bitterest Game

Spectators at the hockey field last Friday were treated to
the two most interesting games of the season when the jun-
iors eked out a second by-the-skin-of-their-teeth victory over
the freshmen and the sophomores pulled out of their recent
slump to trample the senior team, two players short, under
with a 5-0 triumph.

The freshman - junior contest
hung quivering in the balance
from the first, when the champion
upperclassmen lined up minus
three of their stronger forwards.
Both teams over-anxious to jump
into the offensive, the game began
with much scrambling about on
the freshman half of the field. A
near-goal by the juniors was foiled
by the compact freshman defense
despite Salters' aggressive and accu-
rate work at right half. A sudden
freshman attack opened a hole in
the junior defense for a sensational
goal by Wilds the third freshman
score of the year ending the half
1-0 for her class.

The juniors started off grimly in
the second period, bent on keeping
their perfect record intact. From
this point on, it was anybody's
game or nobody's. Solid stops by
Milner and fast footwork by Lott
and Wilds persisted with no let-up.
Ballengee showed up well on fresh-
man offensive spurts, while O'Brien
got in some neat stick work. Fif-
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Juniors (2)

Heaslett

Moseley ( 1 )

Stixrud (1)

Carson

Eyles

Salters

Milner

Griffin

M. N. Taylor

O'Brien

Cass

Freshmen ( 1 )
RW Faw
RI Webster
CF B. Robertson
LI Ballengee
LW A. Wilds (1)

RH

CH

LH

RF

LF

G

C. Davis
Hasty
Lott
Currie
S. Copeland
B. Davis

Substitutes: Juniors Thomp-
son; Freshmen Nance, M. Gray.

The most hilarious game of the
season began when the nine-power
senior team, minus center half and
right wing, started cheerfully off
against the full-strength eleven of
their sister class. Jones proved to be
the outstanding figure in the
game. Her screams as the ball ap-
proached her cage almost (but not
quite) frightened Hance away
from making the first of a long
series of sophomore goals. The wild-
est game of the year then got into
full swing. All the players caught
the spirit and ran shrieking over
the field, regardless of position.
The half ended in chaos.

Pulling themselves together, the
seniors effected two good drives,
accompanied by the smoothest
passing of the game, only to be
stopped by the capable sophomore
defense. The Bell-Hance passing
machine began to click, and the

day was lost for the valiant but
outnumbered seniors. Bell rang up
the third sophomore score. After a
hard fall in which the beauty-sec-
tion features of Hamilton tore up
the 2 5 -yard line turf, the rest of
the game was indistinguishable.

Sophomores ( 5 )

Vaughan
Muzzey
Hance (3)
Bell (2)
J. McConnell
Patterson
Henry
Walker

A. Steinbach
Lancaster

B. Moore

Seniors (0)

RW
RI
CF
LI
LW
RH
CH
LH

RF J. M. Hamilton
LF McMullen
G J. Jones

Wheeler
F. McGuire
Benson
C. Farrar
Hutchins
M. Marshall

Substitutes: Sophomores Cul-

Stage Door

(Continued from Page 1)

the entire personnel of Blackfriars
as the would-be actresses of the
New York Footlights Club. In ad-
dition are John Tolliver as David
Dingsley, who produces motion pic-
tures but 'whose "soul belongs to
God" (which means to the thea-
ter), our^poet friend, Gilbert Max-
well, as Keith Burgess, a radical
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to writing for Hollywood at the
first opportunity. There are Tom
Wesley as a Nebraska lumberman,
John Houck as another Nebraska
lumberman, our old friend Jack
Bodenhamer as a histrionic hopeful
from Texas, and a dazzling new-
comer from the illustrious fresh-
man class at Emory, George Por-
ter, as a sensitive student at the
New York school of acting.

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Archery club aims to storm At-
lanta tonight, and its members are
quivering with excitement. They-
're going to town for supper, and
afterwards will try their hand at
the new archery range. Hope they
feel at home on it.

Christening

Outing Club christened its new
rustic benches at the fireplace yes-
terday when the faculty club mem-
bers Misses Wilburn, Miller, Mc-
Calla, Matthews, and Johnson en-
tertained at breakfast. Lovely time
was hoo by oo.

Man the Bleachers

Leaves and temperature are fall-
ing . . . winter cometh on apace,
and only two more hockey games.
How about giving these class teams
a little support? The four hundred-
plus slackers who missed last Fri-
day's game have never really lived;
the senior-sophomore classic will go
down in the annals of the sport as
truly remarkable. Just one more
chance to see the Jones-Hamilton
combination in action! One more
time to watch the invincible jun-
ior Juggernauts carry all before
them! Come one, come each!

(George spends his off hours try-
ing to develop that sensitive look.)

The evening closes with refresh-
ment (the pause) served by one of
the gentleman to all actors and
hangers-on (meaning the undeserv-
ing reporter). Then the gentlemen
kindly shut up the footlights in
their little boxes, the actors leap
gracefully from the stage, the
lights are turned out, and the
weary actors wend their way home-
ward till other similar evenings as
a result of which the "entire col-
lege community" will witness a
dazzling performance of Stage
Door Saturday night.

Hockey Players
To Visit University
This Saturday

About fifteen hockey players,
members of class teams, will mi-
grate to Athens on Saturday, at the
invitation of the University Physi-
cal Ed. Department. Among the
more intriguing features on their
program will be: movies demon-
strating hockey technique, a game
with the Georgia girls, lunch, and
a period designated as "recreation. "

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very seriously said, "Ask me about
ten years later."

To conclude a very enjoyable in-
terview we asked her the obvious
question, what she planned to do
with herself, once out of the alma
mater. "Teach Kindergarten," came
the unwavering reply; that . . .
" 'cause I'd be scared of anybody
any bigger . . . and they don't have
erasers in Kindergarten ... to
throw at you, you know." And
right now she's still working on a
correspondence course from the U.
of Chicago ... in "Kindergarten-
ing."

Well, the editor says we've said
enough . . . and there's no space
left for the few customary words
of praise and salute for an ideal
Hottentot, beloved by all on the
campus . . . (but there we go!)
And, besides, just words would
never do any way.

Campus Celebrity

Douglas Lyle Discusses
Many "Suppressed Desires'

By ALICE CHEESEMAN

Recalling that the first week of her life she spent in a hos-
pital dresser drawer, she said further about herself that she
used to bite people! But Douglas Lyle's mother soon broke
her daughter's extremely annoying "biting-habit" she took
to biting Douglas!

And so, a beautifully discip-
lined child, lovable, and devoted to
home and "her mama," Dougie
grew up ... or not exactly "grew
up," but grew older . . . going to
camp and loving horses. "An out-
door girl at heart (but nobody
knows it especially Miss Mitch-
ell!), she spent many a happy day
blowing bugles, setting tables,
teaching girls to ride . . . holding
them on horses . . . and "hearing"
the troubles that annihilate the
young camper's heart.

Dougie's high school days were
busy, too. Voted "most popular"
in the celebrity contest, an indis-
pensible member of student gov-
ernment staff, a wearer of a gold
letter "G," and a newspaper col-
umnist of note (nom de plume,
"Dippy Dora"), she still found
time to characterize an excellent
and very memorable Sir Toby
Belch in a high school production
of Twelfth Night for a state speech
convention.

But to avoid including too many
"high school memories" in the
brief sketch which this should be,
we encouraged Dougie to reveal
her "suppressed desires" (was
there ever a biography sans cela?)
The first one she mentioned was to
be an aviatrix. Once she saved six
dollars for lessons, but she became
discouraged because she needed
about thirty-five to buy goggles,
et cetera ..." 'cause I couldn't
see a cloud if it was coming!" And
then Doug wants to own a horse
of her own . . . "with a whole big
unexplored forest to explore." In
fact, she would like to be a forest
ranger, "the kind that rides on
horses." More than that Dougie
wants a honeymoon like Mr.
Raper's ... in the mountains of
North Carolina, horseback riding
and hiking.

Another and rather questionable
"suppressed desire," for the presi-
dent of Christian Association, at
least, is to be a torch singer . . .
"just for about a week" "But
that's not a very wise thing to say
is it?" she added, rather timidly.
She confided also that some day
she "may write a novel ... as soon
as I grow up!" And as to her phil-
osophy of life, she very slowly and

Alumnae

(Continued from Page 1)
C. W. Dieckmann, will give a musi-
cal program in chapel.

10:30 A.M. Mr. Ralph Mc-
Gill, Executive Editor of The At-
lanta Constitution, will speak on
the subject, "An Editor Travels."

11:30 A.M. Mr. Tarleton Col-
lier, columnist of The Atlanta
Georgia and Sunday American, will
discuss "The Columnist's View-
point."

12:30 P.M. Luncheon in the
Anna Young Alumnae House.

8:30 P. M. Blackfriars presents
"Stage Door" in Bucher Scott Gym-
nasium.

Other members of the Alumnae
Week-End Committee are: Mrs.
C. W. Dieckmann, Mrs. Crawford
Barnett, Miss Martha Crowe, Mrs.
H. Griffith Edwards, Mrs. L. L.
Ferry, and Mrs. Halcombe Green.
Elizabeth Blackshear, '3 8, and Jean
Chalmers, '3 8, are in charge of reg-
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Investiture

(Continued from Page 1)
ideals." The preceding college
years are an archway, not a wall,
and "Investiture should and must
make you aware of the importance
of the days that are still yours at
Agnes Scott."

Miss Hunter emphasized also the
significance of the Investiture
service in the life after college, in
the responsibility of an alumna to-
ward Agnes Scott. She designated
that responsibility as three-fold: to
those who have made Agnes Scott
possible; to the undergraduates and
to their own class; and to the world
in which they will live. Lives of
such people as Dr. Gaines, our first
president, Mr. Orr, and Miss Hop-
kins challenge us "to dare fall short
of what they expected of us."
There is a responsibility too as one
of Agnes Scott's seven thousand
daughters, already "far from the
reach of thy sheltering arms." If
the freshman class is a "picked
group," then the senior class is
even more so, and each student
finds that she must make some ef-
fort to "maintain her place as a
member of this group."

The challenge of the world,
however, is a wider challenge than
the alumna's responsibility toward
her school. She must be "standing
on tip-toe" to reach what is ex-
pected of an Agnes Scott graduate;
to meet the requirements of her em-
ployer; to fulfil the obligations of
her graduate work; to take her
place in the community. As her
final work, Miss Hunter urged the
seniors to "strive to continue your
spiritual and intellectual growth";
to "ask if you are worthy to be her
representative" in any field entered;
and to ask themselves "Do I real-
ize fully what I must give to the
world?"

Poetry Club Meets

Poetry Club held its regular
meeting on Friday, November 11,
at 7:00 P. M. in the Murphey Cand-
ler Building. At that time Miss
Laney read and discussed poems
from a collection of recent works
by Atlanta poets.

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The first and most important place this week doesn't go
to Emory or to Tech but to the Seniors and their families
who deserve especial notice. It was a pleasure to the entire
student body to see and know the families better and we only
hope they will come back again before graduation.

Mary Bell, Ella Muzzey, and
Rowena Barringer went to the Anak
Dance at Tech Saturday night.
Dusty Hance was dancing Satur-
day, too, out at the Kappa Sigma
dance. The Psi Omega dance real-
ly got the Agnes Scott girls for
Mary Lang Gill, Lutie Moore, An-
nette Franklin, Mildred Joseph,
Marjorie Boggs, Eloise McCall,
Helen Klugh, Rebekah Drucker,
Mary Elizabeth Moss were there in
a big way.

Rowena Barringer and Val Neil-
son attended the Chi Phi dance
Tuesday at Emory. The Emory
K. A.'s did all right for themselves
this week Lillian Schwenke, Lib
Barrett and Freck Sproles were
playing around there Saturday;
Frankie Butt and Susan Goodwyn
on Sunday.

Davidson Homecoming brought
out lots of faithful Davidson sup-
porters Ruth and Gene Slack, So-
phie Montgomery, Louise Sullivan,
Carolyn Forman, Grace Moffett,
and Caroline Grey too bad V. M.
I. beat them!

At the Tech-Alabama game
Neil Winner, Lib Davis, Carolyn
Alley, Mary McPhaul, Helen Car-
son, Ann Enloe, Callie Carmichael,
Polly Heaslitt, Julia Porter, Susan

Dr. McCain

(Continued from Page 1)
who works with the committee for
"the protection of students against
mediocre teaching," and Dean of
the Faculty S. G. Stukes, whose in-
terest has been with the committee
on requirements for teacher train-
ing.

Dr. McCain has been active in
educational affairs throughout the
nation for many years.

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THE AGONISTIC

Editorials

features

Vol. XXIV, No. 7
Wednesday, Nov. 16, 1938

Hail, Alumnae

We extend most cordial greetings to the
host of alumnae who are returning to the
campus this week. Seeing them, hearing
them talk of their work, and coming to know
them, we begin to have a greater conception
of the extent of Agnes Scott's contributions
to their lives and consequently to the world.

We welcome them, also, because they are
bringing into our midst some of the most in-
teresting and informative speakers of this
region. Their invitation to us, the students,
to attend the addresses is highly appre-
ciated.

As part of the program for Alumnae Week-
End, Blackfriars dramatic club is to present
its first play of the school year, "Stage
Door." While many of us have seen the play
as a motion picture production, we will still
find much in the performance on the stage
that will be new and changed to us and that
will surpass in many ways the cleverness of
the picture's script.

Continuing at the same time as the alum-
nae festivities is the College's annual book
week. The great interest that similar exhibits
by the library have aroused on the campus in
previous years leaves little necessity for our
urging attention to the books. All that needs
to be said is that we ask the campus organi-
zatons and clubs to heed the call for no ac-
tivities next week sb we may have leisure
time to partake of the richness of this op-
portunity.'

Good Response

With our contest to discover a better name
for The Agonistic nearing its closing date,
the staff wishes to express its satisfaction
over the interest shown by the students and
faculty in the matter. On the whole the cam
pus has answered our plea and become intel-
ligently aware of the particulars of the move
ment.

It has been our policy throughout the
period of the contest to present facts that
are unfavorable as well as favorable to the
proposal of changing the paper's name. And
most of the students who have taken the
trouble to read the various editorials and let-
ters relating to the contest have realized
that the staff is not trying to railroad its
drive. Instead we have been most careful to
give a lair, unprejudiced, and accurate pres-
entation of this campus problem.

Quite a few have recently made the effort
to suggest some of their ideas for the new
name; we are greatly pleased with the num-
ber and quality of the entries. Whether or
not the judges will find among the sugges-
tions one that they deem worthy to be voted
upon by the students, we cannot predict.

Hut we are confident that, since the col-
lege community is cognizant of the deficien-
cies of the present name, the change will be
effected with the suggestion of a highly suit-
able one.

l)e Agonistic

Agnes Scott College Student Newspaper

Vol, 24 Wednesday, November 16

No. 7

Published weekly during the school year, except
during examination periods and holidays, by the stu-
dents of Agnes Scott College and entered as second
class matter at the Decatur, Georgia, Post Office.
Member A. C. P., G. C. P. A.

Offices:

Editor Mary Frances Guthrie

Business Manager Marie Merritt

Room One, Back Gallery, of Murphey Candler
Student Union Building.
Subscrjption: $1.25 per year in advance.

Seniors Heed

Back-To-Youth Call

Scolding "Teechers"
Munch on Apples

Random glimpses at Little Girls'
Day:

Did you ever see anyone that
looked more like Alice in Wonder-
land than Julia Sewell? From her
blond locks right on down to her
white stockings and little black
shoes . . . Cary and Mary and Mary
Ellen just will stick together. Their
dresses were alike except for the
colors . . . The faculty really
wiped up on the apple business
Friday. Mary Ellen presented Mr.
Holt with an especially big one
.... After seeing the picture of
"Teecher" that was artistically
drawn on the board when she en-
tered the room and after being
forced to say, "Children!" in a
remonstrating tone to Aileen Short-
ley and Susan Goodwyn, Miss Om-
wake began under very adverse
circumstances what she termed a
class on a very appropriate subject
Child Psychology .... Adele
Haggart looked more like the doll
a little girl gets on Christmas than
like the little girl herself . . . When
it comes to rope jumping, Marie
Merritt is really a hot number! .
Emily Harris reports that she was
most rudely stared at by strangers
on the street car on her way to
school Friday morning. One nasty
man even said in a loud stage whis
per, "Goshj lookit that lady with
that doll baby!" . . . Maybe he un-
derstood what it was all about
when he saw that cute picture in
all the papers the next morning
. . . Mamie Lee Ratliff's teddy
bear was really record breaking,
and so was Jean Redwine's Donald
Duck . . . And speaking of record
breaking things, what about Em-
ma's hair? And did you ever see
anyone so completely rid them-
selves of their dignity as she did?
Did you see her racing that baby
buggy across the quadrangle with
the aid of her fellow member of
the Executive Committee, Jean
Bailey? . . . And speaking of dig-
nity Amelia was still as gorgeous
and dignified as ever in spite of
her short dress and her doll . . .
There are little girls and little girls,
but the very cutest is still Douglas
Lyle. Wasn't that bonnet the most
fetching thing? And the way she
talked and chewed that gum (at
the same time) . . . And there are
twins in our midst Callie and
Hayden.

Yale Photography
Club Invites
Entries of Prints

The photography club of Yale
University invites all undergrad-
uates of American colleges and
universities to submit prints to the
National Intercollegiate Photo-
graphic Exhibition at the Yale
Gallery of Fine Arts in New Ha-
ven, Connecticut, February 13 to
29.

Entries, which are limited to
four prints per person, must be
submitted by February 1, 1939.
The entry fee is one dollar. The
three best photographs in the deci-
sions of the judges will be awarded
medals, and a selection of 150

Front Row

By JANE SALTERS

On the Up Grade

Until last year various people on the cam-
pus had long felt that debating was beeom-

Frcmc Devaluated

France sees the franc devaluated
as the Daladier ministry works to
stave off threatened collapse of
French economy and French de-
mocracy. The postage stamp tax
goes up to one United States cent.
Coffee drinkers, automobile driv-
ers, cigarette smokers, and powder-
ed noses must help pay for the re-
armament of the nation.

Ghetto Measures

Germany employs almost Ghetto
measures in her new persecution of
the Jews. Public entertainments
are barred to all Jews. A $4,000,-
000 fine must be paid to the gov-
ernment because of the murder of
a German official in Paris by
young Polish-German Jew. Dam-
ages for harm done by Germans to
1,000 Jewish shops last Thursday
in mass demonstrations must be
paid to the government by the
Jews!

Typhoid Mary

New York learns of the death of
Typhoid Mary, "the country's old
est medical prisoner," whose isola
tion "had brought her bitterness at
first and finally resignation." The
woman who had innocently caused
the deaths of many New York citi
zens succumbed last week to
"paralysis and old age."

Methodists Vs. Liquor

Methodists of the South Georgia
Conference hear the proposal of
new prohibition legislation. The
temperance committee reports that
a majority of the citizens of Geor-
gia oppose liquor traffic but that
their opposition is "not militant
enough," and that the will of the
people has been "flouted," their
"mandate betrayed by a conscience-
less legislature."

G. O. P. Strategy

Republicans gain power in the
new election. While the Demo-
cratic party keeps its hold on the
South and gains two other states,
the G. O. P. congratulates itself on
the securing of twelve strategic
states from the New Deal line-up.

Mother Cabrini

America's first saint is beatified
by the Roman Catholic Church in
an impressive ceremony in Vatican
City. Mother Cabrini, the founder
of the "Missionary Sisters of the
Sacred Heart" and the post-mortem
performer of two miracles, came to
America in 1889. She died in 1917,
having completed a remarkable
career of social service.

Georgia Chemistry
Students Fight Fires

Orchid of the week goes to one
of the chemistry classes at Georgia
Southwestern in Americus. In re-
sponse to the first three alarm fire
of the year one in which all col-
lege fire equipment was brought
into play a group of students
proved their ability as fire-fighters.
The principal damage done was the
destruction of a pile of excelsior,
which was perhaps deliberately set
ablaze. Incidentally, these chemical
students received some practical
value from the conflagration, since
they had to recharge the twenty
school extinguishers with soda
water and sulphuric acid.

ing a lost art for Agnes Scott students. The
number of girls who participated in the pub-
lic engagements was each season decreasing
at a disturbing rate. A very few girls were
being called upon to do all the varsity de-
bating.

It is true that these few girls were award-
ed positions on the various forensic teams
because of their ability and not because of
any faculty favoritism. But it is also true
that more students might have shown excel-
lent debating potentialities if the opportun-
ity had been afforded them of representing
the college in its less important debate sched-
ules.

This being the general policy, Pi Alpha
Phi under the leadership of its faculty ad-
visor adopted a somewhat different policy.
Instead of appointing mainly the upperclass-
men to its intercollegiate clashes, the debate
club invited sophomores and freshmen to
take part. And at the close of the year's en-
gagements, there was found to be a decided
increase in the number of girls who have
done varsity debating. Their interest in de-
bating had naturally been heightened too.

This year, again, a large number of stu-
dents will have the valuable experience of
engaging in public debates. Likewise the
college community will be enabled to hear a
greater variety of forensic speakers. Pi Al-
pha Phi, the debaters, the student body, the
College itself all will benefit from this re-
vitalization move.

With the first public debate of this season
being held here Friday night we anticipate
an interesting debate and an interested au-
dience. We are sincerely eager that this up-
ward growth of collegiate debating continue
and that the whole campus will accord to the
art the high and respected place that it by
rights should assume.

NSFA Works To

Solve Campus Problems

Many of us are familiar with the work of student
government on our own campus, but many of us do
not understand the nature of the larger organization
with which we are associated, N. S. F. A.

The National Student Federation of America is an
organization of student councils in American col-
leges and universities. Its purpose is to help these
councils in solving their self-government problems
and to keep them in contact with other campuses
and with broad student problems. To help the coun-
cils in thejr individual problems, the Federation has
a service by which it keeps in touch with each cam-
pus; when new ideas are found which relate to these
problems, the Federation sends the ideas to its mem-
bers. The Federation is especially interested in the
student's relation to the world in which he lives.
Plans British Debate

The work of the Federation is carried on through
an executive committee, of which Mary Jeanne Mc-
Kay, a graduate of Florida State College for Women,
is president. The headquarters are in New York.
Further planning is made in the annual Congress
held each year during the Christmas holidays. Each
member of the Federation may send representatives
to these.

The Federation can be seen in action in its weekly
Reporter," in the international debates which it ar-
ranges, (the British debate at Agnes Scott Friday
night was planned through N. S. F. A.), and in its
travel service, which assists students traveling abroad.
It keeps in close touch with international student
problems through affiliation with the International
Confederation of Students and the International
Student Service, which is aiding German and Aus-
trian refugees.

Miss Smith Is Friend

Now for N. S. F. A. on our own campus. The
vice-president of Student Government and the new-
ly chosen permanent campus friend of N. S. F. A.,
Miss Florence Smith, are the Federation's representa-
tives here. The president of Student Government
and a junior elected by the student body attend the
annual Congress, to be held this year at Purdue Uni-
versity. Through these contacts Agnes Scott is kept
in touch with the program of a national organiza-
tion which may be of helpful service to this campus.

0( -jJt-rtL****

The Agonistic

VOL. XXIV

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1938

Z115

No. 8

Photo Courtesy Atlanta Journal.

Opening Stage Door

Susan Goodwyn, Florence Ellis, Lib Barrett, and Nell
Echols (top to bottom) try to force their way on to the
"Stage Door" set, but Jack Bodenhamer seems opposed to
the idea.

Blackfriars Score New Hit
In Popular 'Stage Door'

By JULIA SEWELL

Under the auspicious circumstances of a cessation of rain,
an extraordinarily full house, and the presence of all the ac-
tors in spite of recently threatened sore throats and lost
voices, the Blackfriars production of "Stage Door" went
down in Agnes Scott acting history as a thoroughly credit-
able performance.

The changes in casting and stag-
ing necessary to the Agnes Scott
production were made with a sub-
tlety which was admirable. To de-
crease the already appalling num-
ber of men necessary to the cast,
the negro man, Frank, was trans-
formed into a colored maid, Fanny.
Between the two colored maids,
Fanny (played by Gay Swaggerty)
and Mattie (played by Mary
Wells McNeill) there was such a
difference in voice, manner, and
(seemingly) intelligence that the
lack of Frank was not felt.

A change in staging which we
deplore a little was the elimination
of the bedroom scene in the second
act. The effect of the crowded
"living three in a room,*' and the
blinders to keep out the glare of
Neon signs was lost, but at the
same time a great many property
complications and a long wait be-
tween acts were done away with.

To the actors themselves too lib-
eral praise cannot be extended. The
lines went off without more than
one or two slips which were ade-
quately covered up, the cues were

(Continued on page 3, col. 3)

Phi Beta Kappa
Senate Meets

Dr. J. R. McCain, president of
Agnes Scott College, will attend a
meeting of the Phi Beta Kappa sen-
ate in New York City, on Decem-
ber 13. At the meeting the sen-
ators will consider institutions
which want chapters of Phi Beta
Kappa. They will also discuss the
possibilities of electing students to
Phi Beta Kappa in schools not hav-
ing local chapters, thus giving
recognition to students with high
scholastic records.

Bible Class Holds
Thanksgiving Service

The Freshman Bible Class held
the annual Thanksgiving service at
the DeKalb County Poor Farm last
Sunday, November 20. At both
the white and the colored divisions
of the Farm the girls gave a devo-
tional service and left baskets of
fruit and canned food.

Students Fete
Decatur Tots
At Yule Party

Steinbach Heads
Group Planning
Christmas Gifts

Agnes Scott girls will again have
an opportunity to play Santa Claus
to the underprivileged children of
Decatur when the Christian Asso-
ciation sponsors the annual Christ-
mas party on Saturday afternoon,
December 10, at four o'clock in
the Bucher Scott Gymnasium.

The Social Service group of the
Association, headed by Selma
Steinbach, chairman, announces
that any student who is interested
may help with the arrangements.
At the party there will be a Christ-
mas tree and inexpensive favors for
the children. Santa Claus, alias
Henrietta Thompson, will distrib-
ute the gifts.

In connection with the party,
students may sign up for the vari-
ous children and fix Christmas
stockings for them. These stock-
ings will be delivered to the chil-
dren's parents so that the needy
tots will find a bit of the Yuletide
spirit awaiting them on Christmas
morning. There will be placed in
Buttrick a poster, on which the
students may sign for the children.

Miss Jackson Talks

At A.A.U.W. Meet

National Board Meets
In Washington

Miss Elizabeth Jackson, associate
professor of History, attended the
Baltimore Branch of the American
Association of University Women
during the week of November 7th.
There she spoke on "Why We
Should Be Proud of A. A. U. W."

From November 8th- 12th she
attended the National Board meet-
ing in Washington. Miss Jackson
is Sectional Director of the South
Atlantic district. She presented
the working rules of the board,
which she had been working on all
summer.

During Examination Week Miss
Jackson is going to speak on
A. A. U. W. in Ashcvillc, Char-
lotte, Greensboro, and other points
in North Carolina.

Classical Association
Meets on Campus

Miss Torrance Heads Local
Arrangements Committee

The eighteenth annual meeting of the Southern Section
of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South
will be held in Atlanta November 24-26. Our own Miss Cath-
erine Torrance, professor of Greek, heads the local committee
on arrangements. Headquarters will be at the Atlanta Bilt-
more Hotel, where all meetings will be held except the one

on the Agnes Scott campus on Fri-

C. A. Selects
New Cabinet

Ratliffe Will Advise
Freshman Group

Fifteen freshmen were selected
last week by Christian Association
to make up the Freshman Cabinet,
a group formed each year to bring
about a closer relationship between
the class and the Association.

The members of the cabinet,
chosen from class nominations, are:
Boarders Bee Bradfield, Gay Cur-
ric, Billy Davis, Mary Lightfoot
Elcan, Mary Anne Faw, Wallace
Lyons, Jessie McGuire, Mary Rob-
ertson, Elizabeth Russell, Annie
Wilds. Day Students Anne
Chambless, Betty Sunderland, Bet-
ty Medlock, Evelyn Laye, Mar-
garet Mary Toomey. Betty Ann
Brooks, president of the class, will
be an ex-officio member.

The first official act of the Cab-
inet will be the conducting of can-
dle-light services in the chapel.

Meeting regularly on Monday
night in the Murphey Candler
Building, the Cabinet wilt elect a
president who will be a member of
Christian Association Cabinet.
Mamie Lee Ratliffe, as vice-presi-
dent of the Association, will meet
with the group and advise them.

Eta Sigma Phi
Initiates New Members

Eta Sigma Phi, honorary classi-
cal fraternity, recently initiated
seven new members. Those honor-
ed were Caroline Carmichael, Har-
riett Cochran, Doris Dalton, Re-
becca Hogan, Haydcn Sanford,
Elizabeth Shepherd and Mary
Ruth Wills.

Agnes Scott Debaters Match
Wits in International Frey

Appearing before a large and interested audience in Gaines
Chapel on Friday night, November 18, Margaret Hopkins and
Marjorie Merlin, representing Agnes Scott, met the British
team of Mr. William T. Williams and Mr. William A. Beers
in debate on the question, Resolved, That the British Empire
is an obstacle to World Peace. Lucile Dennison, '37, was the
chairman of the debate.

As the first speaker of the eve- ~~
ning, Marjorie Merlin presented the
policies of the British Empire that
have aided most to oppose world
peace. Because of limited time she
discussed the subject mainly as it
relates to Anglo-German, problems.

With the statement that since
the beginning of the nineteenth
century the Empire's policy has
been one of selfishness, she pointed
out that Great Britain now controls
one-fourth of the earth's surface.
Further selfishness has been evi-
denced in the nation's trade rela-

(Continucd on page 3, col. 1)

College Choir to Give
Christmas Concert

The Agnes Scott College Choir
will present its annual concert of
Christmas music on Sunday, De-
cember 11, at 4:30 P. M., in the
Bucher Scott Gymnasium. About
one hundred girls, directed by Mr.
Lewis H. Johnson, instructor of
voice at the College, will take part
in the program.

Announcement has not yet been
made of the numbers which will be
rendered in the concert.

day, November 2 5, at 2:00 P. M.

Throughout the meeting forty-
nine leading educators, represent-
ing schools from the Rice Institute
in Houston, Texas, to Columbia
University in New York, will
speak to members assembled from
outstanding Southern colleges.

The following program will be
held on our campus:

1. Grace Albright, Washington
Irving High School, Clarksburg,
West Virginia: "At Haec Studia
Adulcsccntiam Acunt."

2. Clara Janet Allison, Michi-
gan State Normal College, Ypsilan-
ti: "Cicero's De Officiis and the
Social Studies Program."

3. Dorothy M. Bell, Oberlin
College, Oberlin, Ohio: "Valid Ob-
jectives and Methods of Attaining
Them."

4. W. L. Carr, Teachers Col-
lege, Columbia University, New
York: "Vocabulary Burden in Col-
lege Latin."

5. Annabel Horn, Girls School,
Atlanta, Ga.: "Latin in the Mod-
ern Program."

6. Carrie A. Parsons, Pcabody
Demonstration School, Nashville,
Tennessee: "Correlations of Latin
With the Romance Languages."

7. A. Pelzer Wagcner, College
of William and Mary: "Suggestive

(Continued on page 2, col. 1)

Mortar Board

Admits Five Al umnae

Nickels Presides At
Initiation Banquet

Mortar Board received five new
alumnae members into its organi-
zation at a secret ceremony on the
campus last Saturday afternoon,
November 19. The initiates were
Miss Helen Carlson, Miss Char-
lotte Hunter, Miss Ellen Douglass
Lcyburn, Miss Daisy Frances
Smith and Mrs. S. Guerry Stukes.

Miss Carlson, a new member of
the French Department, was made
a member of the Agnes Scott chap-
ter of this national fraternity from
her membership in Cap and Gown
at Grinnell College, Iowa.

Miss Leyburn, Miss Smith and
Mrs. Stukes were welcomed into
Mortar Board because of their
membership in Hoasc, Agnes Scott
honorary service, scholarship and
leadership society which was dis-
solved at the establishment in 1932
of the local chapter of Mortar
Board.

Following the initiation, the
new members were honored by the
organization at a banquet in the
Anna Young Alumnae House. In
addition to the members, two of
the faculty advisors. Miss Lucile
Alexander and Dr. Phillip David-
son, were present. Amelia Nickels,
1938-1939 Mortar Board president,
presided at the banquet.

2

THE AGONISTIC, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1938

Bronze Tablet
Honors Mr. Candler

A bronze tablet for the entrance
of the Murphey Candler Student
Activities building will be unveiled
at a special ceremony on December
12, in memory of Mr. Charles
Murphey Candler, a trustee of Ag-
nes Scott for forty-six years.

Mr. Candler drew up the first
by-laws for the college, and served
as Chairman of the Executive
Committee. His service covered a
period from the founding of Agnes
until his death in 193 5.

McCain, Cox, Brittain

Honor Educators

Prexies Give Breakfast
For Speakers

Dr. J. R. McCain, president of
Agnes Scott College; Dr. Harvey
W. Cox, president of Emory Uni-
versity, and Dr. M. L. Brittain,
president of Georgia Tech, will
give a breakfast Tuesday, Novem-
ber 29, in honor of several educa-
tors who will be guest speakers at
a Symposium of Business being
held at the Biltmore Hotel in At-
lanta, Tuesday night, November
29, under the auspices of the
Southern States Industrial Council.

The honor guests will be Dr.
Harry Everett Barnard, of New
York City; Dr. John James Tigert,
of Gainesville, Florida, and Dr.
Oliver Cromwell Carmichael, of
Nashville, Tennessee.

Dr. Barnard is noted particularly
for having drafted the first State
Pure Food Law and Sanitary Food
Law.

Dr. Tigert, besides being the
father of Mary Jane Tigert, '37
alumna of Agnes Scott, is presi-
dent of the University of Florida.

Dr. Carmichael is chancellor of
Vanderbilt University and was a
Rhodes scholar from the Univer-
sity of Alabama.

Classical

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Procedure for the Teaching of
Latin As a Humane Study," "Re-
port of the Committee on the
Present Status of Classical Educa-
tion. n

After the program the members
will be guests of Agnes Scott for
tea in the Murphey Candler Build-
ing. Dr. McCain, Dean Scandrett,
and Miss Torrance will compose
the receiving line.

Compliments of

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Freshmen Redeem Record
In First Victory

Juniors End Second Season
With Perfect Score Intact

The last inter-class hockey session of the year last Friday
redeemed the no-win record of the freshmen and preserved
the juniors' unbeaten, untied status for the second consecu-
tive season.

The seniors, two players short
again, started grimly off against
the strong freshman eleven deter-
mined to make their last game of
college hockey their best. But the
freshmen jumped into the offen-
sive to take full advantage of their
superiority in numbers; a series of
smooth, accurate passes by Wilds
and Webster swept the ball past
Hutchins, past McMullen to with-
in a few yards of the cage, where a
shot by Gray missed and rolled out
of bounds. Relieved by this unex-
pected deliverance, the seniors took
the ball into enemy territory,
whence they were driven by the
capable freshman defense in spite
of Wheeler's inspired work at left
wing. A few minutes later, the
flashy Wilds II broke the ice with
the first score. On the next play,
taking the ball straight down from
the mid-field bully, the freshmen
rang up their second goal, the shot
being made by some unknown or
overly modest player; close inquiry
failed to extract a confession.
Wilds then piled on another score
before the seniors could so much as
connect with the ball.

The second half started off with
two more freshman scores, by
Wilds and Robertson. The seniors,
hopelessly outdone, nevertheless
played valiantly. Dryfoos and Mc-
Guire an the forward line surpassed
themselves, fighting for every inch,
but were unable to break the op-
posing line for any material gain.
McMullen, the last snag before the
goal, turned back ball after ball
with a sureness which could have
been used to good purpose earlier
in the game. The whistle blew on
a 5-0 freshman victory, their first
of the year.

Freshmen (5) Seniors (0)

M. Gray RW Tumlin

Webster RI Benson

A. Wilds (3) CF F. McGuire
Merrill LI Dryfoos

B. Rob'son (1) LW Wheeler

C. Davis RH Ivie
Hasty CH Doty
Lott LH Hutchins
Currie RF McMullen
S. Copeland LF

B. Davis G

The junior-sophomore clash be-
gan with smoother playing and bet-
ter teamwork on both sides. After
preliminary swapping of control,
Milner came in from the country

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to score with a long shot. More
swapping followed, with Hance ac-
quitting herself nobly as usual and
Patterson doing nicely at right
half. A systematic junior passing-
machine drive ended in a score by
Forman to strengthen the junior
lead as the half ended, 2-0.

The second half continued the
smooth work of both teams; it was
an exhibition of playing by the
book, the result of a season's
grooming. Vaughan at left wing
kept up her speedy, alert work,
which has improved steadily week
by week. Cass, though at her post
as junior goalie she has had little
excitement this season, handled all
her shots capably. The game ended
without spectacular action on
either side, giving the juniors a 2-0
victory

Sophomores (0)

(2)

Juniors
Eyles
Mosely
Stixrud
Heaslett
Forman (1)
Salters
Milner (1)
Griffin
Taylor
Thompson
Cass

Substitutes:

Francis, Leavitt.
Wilds, McConnell.

RW
RI
CF
LI
LW
RH
CH
LH
RF
LF
G

Juniors

A.

Dennison
Culver
Hance
Bell
Vaughan
Patterson
Henry
Walker
Steinbach
Lancaster
O'Nan
Watkins,

Sophomores

Fall Radio Program
Draws to Close
With Faculty Talks

As the fall quarter draws to a
close, the first part of the Agnes
Scott radio program, which fea-
tures members of the faculty, also
draws to a close. The programs,
which have been very successful,
included a talk on November 3 by
Dr. Arthur F. Raper, Acting Pro-
fessor of Sociology; a talk on No-
vember 10 by Miss Leslie J. Gay-
lord, Assistant Professor of Math-
ematics, on the cultural value of
mathematics; a discourse on Ger-
man literature on November 17 by
Miss Murial Harn, Professor of
German and Spanish, and a dia-
logue about new developments in
the field of psychology by Miss
Emily S. Dexter, Associate Profes-
sor of Psychology and Education,
and Miss Katherine T. Omwake,
Assistant Professor of Psychology
and Education, on November 22.

The last two speakers in Decem-
ber, before the end of the quarter,
will be Miss Mary S. MacDougall,
Professor of Biology, and Miss Mar-
garet Phythian, Assistant Professor
of French.

In January the radio programs
for the winter quarter will begin,
and these will feature the students
and their activities on the campus.

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Taylor-Carson
Team Wins
Tennis Doubles

Two expert juniors, Mary
Nell Taylor and Helen Carson,
glorified their class athletic
record last week when they

defeated sophomores Ann Fisher
and Ethelyn Dyar, 6-3, 6-3, in the
finals of the tennis doubles tourna-
ment. Relying on steadiness of re-
turn and accuracy of placement
rather than speed and trick shots,
the upperclassmen wore down their
spirited opponents in two dogged-
ly-played sets.

Dyar served first a flat, easy
ball and gained the first point as
Carson's return was long. The
game continued in the same easy
style, both sides playing cautiously.
Taylor and Carson took the first
two games, their opponents the
third. Play became inspired in the
fourth, when Dyar made the first
spectacular placement of the match
a home-free shot to the alley line
from the net. The first lobbing be-
gan between Fisher and Carson,
ending when Fisher bit and tried to
straighten out. She and Dyar took
the game, however. The juniors
carved out the next two, losing the
seventh after excellent service by
Fisher. Picking up the lead again,
the upperclassmen captured the last
two games of the set, winning 6-3
as Carson took the final point at
the net.

Taylor opened the second set
with a hard service to the alley line,
taking the initial game. The jun-
iors piled on two more games, then
lost the fourth as Fisher nicked the
back line with one of her beautiful
shots. Nice playing by Dyar won
the fifth for the sophomores, but
after this the juniors were not to
be stopped. They dropped only
one more game in the match, to
win 6-3, 6-3 as Dyar's last shot
dropped into the net.

This tournament is the third
won by Taylor in the past two
years; she was doubles champion
last year with Ellen Stuart and
won the singles matches in the
spring. Carson shows beautiful
form, and it is hard to see how
this combination can be defeated
if they stick together.

Cotillion Gives
Holiday Dance

Cotillion Club, campus dance
organization, will entertain the
College community with a dance
Thanksgiving night, 8:30-10:30.
There will be a Grand March, dur-
ing which the members of Cotillion
will be presented, and a Cotillion
lead-out will follow. An orchestra
from Atlanta will furnish the
music.

The officers of Cotillion are:
Aileen Shortley, president; Eloise
Lennard, vice president; Val Neil-
son, secretary-treasurer. Both fac-
ulty and students are invited to
the dance.

Mary Jeanne McKay.
Visits Campus

Friday, Saturday

Popular President
Of N. S. F. A.
Speaks in Chapel

Mary Jeanne McKay, the presi-
dent of the National Student Fed-
eration of America, will be on the
campus Friday and Saturday, No-
vember 25 and 26, and will speak
in chapel on Saturday, according
to an announcement by Mary El-
len Whetsell.

Mary Jeanne is the first girl to
be president of N. S. F. A., having
been elected at the convention in
Alburquerque, New Mexico, last
Christmas vacation.

Mary Jeanne will stop at Agnes
Scott on her way back to New
York, where the S. F. A. headquar-
ters are located, after attending
the Southern Conference for Hu-
man Welfare at Birmingham.

The Executive Committee will
entertain Mary Jeanne at a tea on
Friday afternoon, at which she will
talk informally to the members
about student government.

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3

Noted Author Relates Wild
Career at Agnes Scott

By ANNE ENLOE

Clutching Miss Evelyn Hanna, ex-' '23, from the eager and
gloating alumnae, I asked her to tell me about her own experi-
ences at Agnes Scott. Well, to begin with she came here as
a transfer from Wesleyan, so she was always "in a terrible

mess, all irregular and everything."
And she was sick all the time, so
Dr. Sweet had "to work on her in-
cessantly." But in spite of it all
she had quite a career here and
how!

She had a fervent dislike for go-
ing to classes, especially Spoken
English; so very often, she just
didn't go. But one day she was
strolling across the campus, bliss-
fully cutting her pet hate, when
someone mentioned the fact that
this was exam day in Spoken Eng-
lish and she wotfld be expelled if
she cut it. So she rushed right over
to find that it was an oral exam,
so she made a speech that was com-
parable to the Gettysburg address
absolutely extemporaneously! /

The author of Blackberry Win-
ter was campused during most of
her college career and took great
pleasure in walking all around the
campus, accompanied by one of
her Exec, friends, with one foot on
one side of the hedge and the other
on the other side and daring any-
one to dare her to take the other
foot off! She neglected to mention
why she was campused so much.

Most of her time both in classes
and out she spent reading books
mostly Amy Lowell and Carl Sand-
burg (so she's versatile in her taste
at least!). And she took music too.
But she never practiced and she
very seldom went to her lessons.
In fact, Mr. Dieckmann used to
call upstairs and ask if "Miss Eve-
lyn Hanna was still taking music?"

As to extra curricular activities,
she didn't do any, except write her
sister's Agonistic articles. She did
try out for one club, but she
didn't make it. That was B. O. Z.
However, the article that she tried
out on was published by the At-
lanta Journal and later was quoted
at length in the Literary Tfigestll
It was a simple little sketch about
the Negro Emancipation Day in
Thomaston, the author's home
town. It "was reeking in local
color." In fact, B. O. Z. said it
was too "exaggeratedly over-
drawn." Ah me, what price art?

Our heroine finally flunked
Chemistry under Mr. Holt and
just gave up and went home in-
stead of facing the horror of a re-
exam. She attributed her failure
to Amy and Carl, too!

What did she enjoy most at Ag-
nes Scott? Well, she enjoyed chapel
on* morning. It was when a poet
who was in the war read some of
his poems. She doesn't remember
his name, but she wishes she could.

English Debate

{Continued from Page 1)

tions which have become so unfair
that they are increasing the Em-
pire's trade to the disaster of the
trade of other nations.

She criticized Great Britain's
work in the making of the Treaty
of Versailles by which that nation
managed to attain for herself a key
position on the continent in the
controlling of French and German
policies. As the conclusion to her
speech, Marjorie asked what this
selfish policy of the British Empire
will mean to the future of collec-
tive security and to the future of
dictatorships.

Supposedly upholding the nega-
tive of the question under discus-
sion, the second speaker of the eve-
ning, Mr. Beers, devoted the major
part of his time to pointing out the
difference between American and
British views of Great Britain's
policies. Instead of defending the
Empire's policies in the question of
world peace, he attacked the Unit-
ed States for its lack of cooperation
in collective security.

Mr. Beers said that he refused
either to discuss or to explain the
British foreign policy, which, after
all, would seem to be the main is-
sue of the whole debate.

Margaret Hopkins, in giving the
second speech for the affirmative
side, pointed out this misinterpre-
tation of the question by the nega-
tive team. She then presented in
syllogistic form an interpretation
of the policies previously outlined
by her colleague.

As the first part of her syllogism
she maintained that the Empire
has played a large and important
part in aggression at the making
of the Treaty of Versailles Great
Britain ignored American pleas for
a peace without victors; she refus-
ed to cooperate in rendering justice
to the injured nations. And "Ger-
many has only to consolidate its
position in central Europe to be-
come the most having of the have
nations, with the compliments of
Great Britain."

The rest of her syllogism dealt
with the fact that aggression is to-
day destroying world peace; and
thus Great Britain, as a participant
in this aggression, is destroying
world peace.

Margaret's concluding remarks
were that democracies have lost the
initiative in international affairs
that is most dearly needed today
and that "in a world of brute force
democracies must be prepared to
defend the things they believe in,
just as dictatorships are prepared
to defend what they want."

Mr. Williams, giving the last of
the main speeches, continued the
same line of attack on the United
States that was begun by his col-
league. Enlivening his argument
with the use of several well known
nursery rhymes, he vigorously reit-
erated the fact that America should
cooperate with the League of Na-
tions.

Imagine having a wild career
like that here and then coming
back as a celebrity chased by auto-
graph hounds! That seems encour-
aging for some of us campus cala-
mities and frightfully discouraging
for some of the more virtuous
souls. Well, we still wonder!

Blackfriars

{Continued from Page 1)

picked up quickly so that none of
the acts dragged as they had threat-
ened to do during rehearsal.

Jeanne Flynt, as Terry Randall,
carried off the part of the deter-
mined, vivacious young actress
with a power and understanding
which even Margaret Sullivan
would take notice of. Nettie Lee
Greer was a beautiful and convinc-
ing Jean Maitland, and Susan
Goodwyn, though a little too pret-
ty and healthy, nevertheless ren-
dered a satisfying performance as
the tragic, half-starved Kaye Ham-
ilton. Special praise goes to Eve-
lyn Sears, who gave a very success-
ful rendition of the part of the dis-
illusioned and witty Judith Can-
field even without the aid of those
racy expressions and epithets which
had, perforce, to be dropped from
the Agnes Scott production.

Although the performance of all
the other actresses cannot be re-
viewed for want of space, laurels to
Elizabeth Barrett for her terrifying
realistic scream, to Mary Wells Mc-
Neill for her convulsing portrayal
of a drawling, grinning colored
maid who knows more than she
tells, and to Nell Echols for her
captivating "line" as the very
Southern Bobby Melrose.

Among the gentlemen, Jon
Taliaferro made an excellent David
Kingsley with his steady, comfort-
ing voice and protective air. Gil-
bert Maxwell was the perfect
Keith Burgess, irrepressible, con-
ceited, selfish, and charming. Tom
Wesley, whom we will never for-
get as Mr. Pym and as the evasive
Cockney father in Pygmalion, was
appealing in his character of Dr.
Randall, the old-school doctor who
has lost his patients to psycho-
analysis. Jack Bodenhamer, with
his amused drawl, was a perfect
partner to the kittenish Bobby.
George Porter deserves especial cre-
dit for creating a personality for
the photographer, Billy; and
James Reese, whose performance in
Moonbeam will not soon be for-
gotten, made so much of his scene
as the minor character Mr. Gretzel,
that one felt he had been present
throughout the play.

Mrs. Harvey Newton, an alumna
of Blackfriars, gave a very con-
vincing performance in the role of
the theatrical hypocritical Mrs.
Orcutt, with her pseudo-dramatic
gestures and patronizing voice.

Special praise, is due Beatrice
Shamos, for her portrait of Sarah
Bernhardt, which hung over the
mantel, as well as for her likeness
of Nettie Lee Greer as Jean Mait-
land. The portrait of Bernhardt,
particularly, is not merely a prop-
erty for a play but is a fine piece
of artistic work.

Emory Presents
Noted Players

The Emory Lecture Association
will present the Coffee-Miller
Players on Thursday and Friday
nights, December 8 and 9, at the
Glenn Memorial Auditorium.

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With Thanksgiving practically here, the first thing that
we think of is the annual TKA Thanksgiving breakfast
dance, and just look who's going: Catherine Ivie, Caroline
Carmichael, Marie Merritt, Edith Stover, Charlotte French,
Tade Merrill, Ella Muzzey, Betty
Ann Stewart, Cal Neilson, Martha
Marshall, Mary Jane Bannister,
Ruth Slack.

Another quite popular dance was
the Tech Co-op Club's Masquerade
Ball Friday. Frances Breg, Eugenia
Bridges, Marjorie Boggs, Frances
Abbott, Helen Klugh, Toni New-
ton, Ruth Slack were all there.

It's a question as to whether to
give congratulations or cold serum
to the ones who went to the Tech-
Florida game. The only ones
who will admit they braved the
storms are Julia Porter, Susan
Goodwyn, Catherine Ivie, Elizabeth

Shepherd, Martha Marshall, Sara
Lee, Louise Musser, Ellen Stuart,
Pearl Hammond.

At the A. T. O. steak fry Sun-
day night we see Mary Ellen Whet-
sell, Kay Toole, Adelaide Benson,
Martha Moody, Keeker Newton,
Jean Dennisonfi Jean Allen.

Mary Louise Dobbs and Tommay
Turner were picnicking with the
E. N. O. brothers at Mooney's Lake
Friday evening, while Dusty
Hance, Jane Jones and Ida Jane
Vaughan ate Sigma Chi wieners on
Saturday night at the Chattahoo-
chee river estate of John Brannen.

Miss Jackson Acts As Fuel
Commissioner During War

By MARY WELLS McNEILL

Once upon a time a little girl's papa asked her to have
some pie. She had never tried that particular kind, and she
said she didn't believe she wanted to. Her papa thundered
back, "Elizabeth, do you mean to tell me that you are a

Jackson, and you won't try any-

thing once?" Ever since that mo-
mentous occasion Miss Jackson has
been trying and succeeding in
many things.

When a student at Wellesley, she
was in charge of a Christian As-
sociation House. Wellesley was
followed by days at the University
of Pennsylvania, where she received
her Master's and Ph.D. degrees.
There she also held a Pepper Fellow
in history, one of five fellowships
available to 1,500 women at that
time.

Alas, the government got her
but only to appoint her as Fuel
Commissioner for New England
upon the entrance of the United
States into the World War.
Her plans to work in a Cana-
dian University were cancelled
without her knowledge. And, to
climax it all, every paper she sign-
ed while Fuel Commissioner was
with the signature E. Fuller Jack-
son, for better results were obtain-
ed if people thought she was a man.

After the war Miss Jackson
again became a teacher which

she says has always been her one
ambition. She is director of
the Southeastern District of the
American Association for Univer-
sity Women.

The lady succeeds at everything,
and we give you the exception that
proves the rule. She couldn't quite
make the varsity in basketball.

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THE AGONISTIC, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1938

Agnes Scott College
Decatur, Ga.

THE AGONISTIC

Editorials

features

Vol. XXIV, No. 8
Wednesday, Nov. 23, 1938

More, Please

The telephone problem in the dormitor-
ies is at a crisis. The lines are constantly
busy, and outsiders cannot get in touch
with students until often at least a dozen
calls have been made. This is not an exag-
geration; staggering though it may ap-
pear, it is the truth.

Student Government has attempted to
relieve the situation to a certain degree by
limiting the number of minutes per call
that the phone may be used. But this rule
seems not to have helped at all. The root
of the evil is found in one simple fact
there are not enough telephones.

This problem is particularly acute in the
upperclassmen's dormitory where about
ninety girls have access to but two tele-
phones. It is absurd to think that the sit-
uation can be anything but chaotic when
it is realized that on the average at least
one-half of these girls receive calls daily
from five to six, seven to eight, and ten
to ten-thirty in the evening the only
hours when there is the least certainty to
an outsider of our being in the dormi-
tories.

Nothing can be done to remedy the ill
but to install more telephones. And, while
the administration is seeking to make the
dormitories more livable, it should inves-
tigate this most obvious difficulty. Surely
the time' and the money spent in this cor-
rective move would be appreciated by the
student body.

There should be at least two telephones
on each floor of Rebekah Scott and Agnes
Scott Halls. It is also highly necessary
that one of these telephones in each dor-
mitory be free. This then would remove
the congestion from the free telephone in
the day student's room.

Some of the administration may not con-
sider this problem sufficiently vital to de-
mand investigation, but we deeply feel
that present facilities are unnecessarily
inadequate. When we have friends inter-
ested enough in us to attempt to telephone
and make engagements with us, we would
appreciate their being able to do so with-
out herculean labor.

Brief Respite

The campus has one thing especially for
which it can be thankful tomorrow this
is non-activity week!

For a good many years it has been the
desire of the faculty and student body that
there could be a period during which no
organization or club would function. And,
after much talking and doing little, we
have roused ourselves to cany out the
idea.

This brief respite is to occur during the
week previous to each examination period.
So successful has the idea been thus far
that we may all begin to look forward to
the last few weeks of a quarter with pleas-
ure, not with the usual attitude of grim
foreboding.

Sl)e Agonistic

Agnes Scott College Student Newspaper

Vol. 24 Wednesday, November 23 No. 8

Published weekly during the school year, except
during examinations periods and holidays, by the
students of Agnes Scott College and entered as
second class matter at the Decatur, Georgia, Post
Office. Member A. C. P., G. C. P. A.

Ferdie, Ezekiel

ase Exam Worries

Fireside, Child's Tales
Charm Browsers
By GEORGIA HUNT

With the oncoming of exams
casting its shadow upon our peace-
ful pursuit for knowledge there is
nothing more pacifying than to
settle down in a big leather chair
in front of the fire in the library
and read undisturbed in the tales
of our childhood forgetting the
worries of these present times.

Who is there among us who is
able to resist that fetching even
devastating Ferdinand who perhaps
is the most popular guest of the
Book Exhibit?

And is there any among us who
hasn't been simply fascinated by
Ezekiel? You know about Ezekiel,
don't you? "He lives in Sanford,
Fla., with his sister, Emancipation,
his brother, LiP Plural, and the
baby, Assofetida." Indeed he is a
character and really not so Bibli-
cal after all.

Surely you must have been just
overwhelmed with all Mr. Milne's
books, weren't you? When We
Were Very Young, The Book of
Nonsense and the House at Pooh
Corner (which is incidentally the
favorite of a very favorite fresh-
man) .

This fascination for the simple
tales of the children's world is not
entirely reserved for the freshmen
for this is what I heard an upper-
classman say as she tenderly closed
and laid Barkis on the table: "I
just love it; it makes me feel so
good inside."

But did you know "that anyone
who thinks being safe is being a
sissy doesn't know anything at
all?" Well, that's what I found
out in Munro Leaf's Safety Can Be
Fun. (You remember that Ferdi-
nand belongs to Mr. Leaf, also?)

But the most exciting incident
in my experience in the library in
front of the fire with all these
lovely books was that even in the
less profound volumes of literature
in fact in a child's book of
verses I found some of La Fon-
taine's fables, Cupid and Folley and
The Elephant and the Ape of
Jupiter. And among the exhibit I
found The Songs of Roland, a small
reminiscence of English 211!

But delightful as this "literary
experience" has been we must come
away from the big fire in the li-
brary and start burning the mid-
night oil for exams for from
exams there is no escape not even
in the "tales of our childhood."

Front Row

By IANE SALTERS

Offices:

Editor Mary Frances Guthrie

Business Manager Marie Merritt

Room One, Back Gallery, of Murphey Candler
Student Union Building.

Subscription:
$1.25 per year in advance.

Number of College
Enrollments Increases

(ACP) A new high in college
and university enrollments has been
set this fall with an increase over
last year of 4.8 per cent, prelim-
inary registration surveys reveal.

Increase in college registration in
1937 over 1936 was 3.9 per cent,
but the largest sectional increase
this year was in the South, where
the gain was 5.7 per cent.

Eastern college enrollments have
increased 5.2 per cent and the West
4.3 per cent. Increases last year
were 3.3 per cent and 3.8 per cent,
respectively.

Most colleges and universities
also received a larger number of ap-
plications than heretofore, but
many have set up rigid require-
ments that limit the number of
those accepted.

U. S. PUZZLES HITLER

America's queer attitude toward
the Reich's actions receives amazed
attention in German newspapers as
Hitler recalls the German ambas-
sador from Washington in order to
secure specific information about
that same attitude toward the lat-
est anti-Jewish atrocities. Insistence
was made that the recall was not
permanent and that its sole purpose
was consultation.

JIGSAW SURGERY

Humpty-Dumpty dares to hope,
as the jigsaw skull of four-year-old
Mary Ennis Noonan, of Savannah,
receives widespread publicity and
marks a new step in medical prog-
ress. The skull, not provided with
"normal suture lines which permit
the brain to expand," was broken
and put back in jigsaw fashion by
Augusta surgeons three weeks ago.

JAPANESE JUNKING

Hirohito junks international
treaties concerning China made
since the war especially the nine-
power treaty in a note which
denies "point by point every
charge" in the American note de-
manding "maintenance of the *opeh
door' in China" and delegates all
past principles to the trash can as
out-of-date.

"PINK SUITE"

The "Pink Suite" in the White
House is being prepared for the
use of George VI during his pro-
posed American visit next spring.
The whole second floor on the east
wing, formerly used as executive
offices, is to be given over to the
king and queen and their entour-
age.

HUMAN TARGETS

Propaganda reports that may
contain truth and also may not
bring the United States news of
the execution of 200 German Jews
at the Buchenwald Concentration
Camp and a photograph of Jap-
anese soldiers making use of living
Chinese captives in bayonet target
practice.

Columbia Dean
Says Bright Pupils
Flunk Easiest

"The prospect of failure in Co-
lumbia College is greatest for the
bright student who was quick-wit-
ted enough to 'float' through high
school, doing a minimum of work,"
Dean Herbert Hawkes states ac-
cording to a New York Times
article. "The very bright, able
student who has floated through
high school, doing just enough to
get by and who comes to college
expecting to do the same, is living
in a fool's paradise. If you are
such a student and you know if
you are you had better learn the
habits of application. You can't
get by here on your good looks."
He further advised the students to
realize that they were on their own.

In Your Hands

College newspapers are not published
just for the self-gratification of the staff
members. While the students usually do
receive a great deal of pleasure in their
journalistic work, they do not put out their
paper for any possible personal glory.

The raison d'etre of every legitimate
newspaper is to disseminate news. And
this is especially the aim of The Agonistic.
The staff receives no financial remunera-
tion it does the work gladly as a service
to the College.

Desiring thus to serve the community
in an accreditable manner, staffs during
the past few years have been undertaking
several innovations in the paper. These
progressive changes are still going on, and
it is our desire that they continue until we
can attain the pinnacle of an All-American
newspaper.

At present, however, we are unable to
inaugurate certain of our ideas for im-
provement because of the financial limita-
tions imposed by our budget. The sub-
scription rate pays only one-half the ac-
tual cost of publishing the paper, and so
the rest of the cost must be defrayed
through the advertisements.

This fact would not be so perplexing in
itself were it not that advertisers have
this year decided to decrease the number
and size of their advertisements with us.
They refuse to use our columns so long
as the college community does not recip-
rocate and trade in their stores. Since
these firms are operating as businesses
and not as charitable organizations, we
cannot hope for other treatment from
them.

The only way that the three Agnes
Scott publications can continue to function
is for students and faculty to patronize
those who give us their advertisements.
As you prepare to do your Christmas shop-
ping, buy from the advertisers and state
that you are from this institution.

Without this cooperation we will not be
able to continue our improvements and
strive toward publishing a distinguished
newspaper, magazine, and annual.

Each profession has its special
stone in Brazil. The lawyer is rec-
ognized by his ruby ring, the doc-
tor by his emerald, the dentist by
topaz, while the engineer wears
tourmaline.

AAUW Membership
Is Good Investment

It is time that the students of Agnes Scott and
especially the seniors should know something
about the American Association for University
Women and the fine work that this organization
is doing. Through the A. A. U. W. college women
can continue the study of problems they became
interested in while at college or can join their
branch in worthwhile work covering many fields.

However, all college graduates cannot belong
to this organization. The school to which you
belong must meet with the approval of the Am-
erican Association of Universities and with the
standards of the A. A. U. W. These standards
are high both socially and academically. It costs
the Association about $12 J to investigate an in-
stitution on only questions pertaining to women,
and a periodic investigation of colleges already on
the list is made every five years.

There are four types of members in the
A. A. U. W. Most of them are branch members
who belong to local organizations in towns or
counties. Many are general members who pay
dues only to headquarters and who have no
branch in their community. Cooperate members
are alumnae of eligible colleges or those colleges
themselves. The colleges pay larger dues than in-
dividuals do and therefore receive all literature
free. Associate members are those who have at-
tended an eligible college two years or who, in a
few cases, have attended a college not on the list.
A branch may or may not have associate members,
half-way mark has been reached. The American
Association for University Women is not stand-
ing still; it is progressing more and more each
year, and therefore the small price of membership
is a good investment for any girl who is alive to
the world around her.

GUfrtatmaa

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No. 9

College Sends
Delegates to
Purdue Meet

N.S.F.A. Holds
Annual Congress
At Christmas

Mary Ellen Whetsell, president
of Student Government, and Hen-
rietta Thompson, secretary of
the Executive Committee, will
represent Agnes Scott at the four-
teenth annual N. S. F. A. congress
at Purdue University, Lafayette,
Indiana, December 27-31.

The theme of the congress is
"Student Leadership in Commun-
ity Life," including the relation-
ship of college graduates to civic
and national affairs and to the col-
lege community. The problem of
orientation of the graduate to the
business world will be among the
topics given special attention.

Many prominent speakers have
been asked to confer with the con-
gress. Among them are: Aubrey
Williams, director of N. Y. A.; Dr.
Donald J. Cowling, president of
Carleton College; Dr. Stephen P.
Duggan, director of the Institute
of International Education; Dr^
Homer P. Raney, director of the
American Youth Commission; Dr.
Frank P. Graham, president of the
University of North Carolina; and
Commissioner John W. Studebaker,
of the U. S. Office of Education.

The two hundred delegates ex-
pected to attend will be entertain-
ed in several fraternity and soro-
rity houses. There will be two
dances in the ballroom, a banquet,
and a tea given during the week by
the Student Senate of Purdue Uni-
versity, acting as host.

Hungarian Speaks
To History Forum

Current^ History Forum held its
regular meeting on Tuesday, De-
cember 13, at 4:00 P. M., in the
Murphey Candler Building. At
that time, Miss Agnes Roman, of
the Atlanta Division of the Fed-
eral Reserve Bank System, spoke on
central Europe.

Dr. Christian Gives
Course at Emory

As another step in the plan for
greater cooperation between Ag-
nes Scott and Emory and the ulti-
mate development of a large south-
ern university center in Atlanta,
Dr. Schuyler M. Christian, profes-
sor of physics and astronomy, will
teach a course in the history of
science at Emory.

Open to students in tl^e senior
college only, this course will begin
in the winter quarter at the Uni-
versity.

Dr. Christian first gave this
course at Agnes Scott in the 1937-
3 8 sessions, and it has since then
become one of the most popular
quarter courses on the campus.

Clubs Present

Christmas Program

German Club Gives
Annual Play

This afternoon, at 4:00 P. M.,
in the Murphey Candler Building,
K. U. B. will hold a Christmas
party instead of its regular meet-
ing. Anne Enloe, president of the
club, is in charge of the party, and
she is assisted by Betty Jean
O'Brien and Rebecca Drucker.

German Club will present its an-
nual Christmas play this afternoon
at 4:3 0 P. M. in Miss Gooch's
studio. The title of the play is
"Weihnachtsspiel," and the follow-
ing girls make up the cast: Vir-
ginia Clower, Virginia Kyle, Re-
becca, Drucker, Ruth Kaplan, Nell
Pinner, Marion Williams, Florence
Wade, Martha Boone, Virginia Mil-
ner, Nancy Willstatter, and Molly
Oliver. Refreshments will be
served.

Special Chorus sang traditional
German, French, and Spanish
Christmas carols over radio station
WSB on the regular Agnes Scott
program on Tuesday, December
n/

Poetry Club met on Friday, De-
cember 9, at 7:00 P. M., in the
Murphey Candler Building. V. J.
Watkins and Jane Salters were
hostesses, and Mary Matthews and
Christine Florence read.

Hottentots Play Santa To
Children at Christmas Party

By GEORGIA HUNT

'Twas the week before the holidays and all over the cam-
pus everybody was stirring around especially on last Sat-
urday in the gym, because Santa Claus was going to be host
at a wonderful party for his little friends in Decatur.

And a wonderful party it was!
There were games, red stockings
stuffed with apples, candies and
nuts, a Christmas tree sparkling
with beautiful lights and yes, ice
cream and cake! But best of all
there was dear ole Santa Claus,
jolly and generous as ever.

It was such fun playing London
Bridge Is Falling Down and The
Farmer's in the Dell. And mercy,
how exciting it was trying to find
your way out of the Mystic Maze.
But no! TKat wasn't all the beau-
tiful Christmas Story that Doug
told and the carols which every-
body sang made the Christmas
party even lovelier.

And old Santa was so generous
he gave everybody a beautiful
stocking just crammed with gen-
uine Christmas "goodies" nuts
and oranges and candy walking
sticks. Santa's generosity didn't
stop with* the giving of these hand-
somely stuffed stockings because
on Christmas morning he is com-
ing again to bring each of these lit-
tle fellows loads and loads of beau-
tiful things in fact the very
things they want because at the
party he got to find out everything
that everybody wanted.

So after a wonderful party it
was A Merry Christmas to. all,
and to all a pleasant goodbye.

Mortar Board |Council Announces
Director Talks
At Service

Emphasizing the fact that each
member of Mortar Board must
"contribute something of her per-
sonality" and must have "initiative
and courage," Mrs. Holcombe
Greene, a past president of the Ag-
nes Scott chapter of Mortar Board
and present regional director of J:he
honorary fmernity, gave the prin-
cipal speech at the organization's
annual recognition service last Sat-
urday morning, December 10, in
Gaines Chapel.

Mrs. Greene described the his-
tory of Mortar Board from the
time when it ws a secret society
known as Hoasc, or the Honorary
Order of Agnes Scott College,
down to its twentieth birthday this
year. She told how the title Mor-
tar Board was first used in 1931,
how the first recognition service
was held in 1933, and how today
there are smy-eight chapters of
Mortar Board and over twelve
thousand girls who are members of
the society.

New Honor Regulations

Club Admits
Williams, Brumby

B. O. Z., the creative writing
club on the campus, held its reg-
ular meeting on Friday, December
9, at 8:00 P. M. At that time two
new members, Sabine Brumby and
Virginia Williams, were welcomed
into the club. Douglas Lyle, Mary
Matthews, and Sophie Montgomery
read, and Douglas Lyle and Mary
Matthews were hostesses.

Chi Beta Phi
Convenes

Local Chapter Sends
Five Delegates

The convention of the National
Chi Beta Phi Scientific Association,
which is to be held in Ashland,
Virginia, on December 29 and 3 0,
will be attended by five members
of the Agnes Scott chapter of Chi
Beta Phi Sigma. Cora Kay Hut-
chins, president of the local chap-
ter, is the official representative,
and the following members will
also attend: Emily Harris, Dorothy
Graham, Mary Elizabeth Leavitt,
and Ann Watkins.

Faculty members of the Science
Department wll also be present at
the meetings.

This convention is to be held at
the same time as a meeting of the
American Association for the Ad-
vancement of Science, in Rich-
mond; and there will be an oppor-
tunity for Chi Beta Phi delegates
to attend this meeting also.

Choir Gives Traditional
Christmas Carol Service

The Agnes Scott Choir under the direction of Miss Evelyn
Wall presented the college's thirtieth annual Christmas Carol
service on December 11, at 8 P. M. Mr. C. W. Dieckmann ac-
companied the Choir and played several solo numbers on a
Hammond electric organ.

The traditional Christmas Carol
service began thirty years ago with
the singing of carols by the entire
Academy, but when the Academy
grew into a college the Choir took
over the responsibility of the pro-
gram.

The program Sunday included
the following organ solos: Overture
(The Messiah) by Handel, Noel
Languedogien by Gilmant, and
Pastoral Symphony by Handel.
The carols that were sung were:
God Rest Yon Merry, Gentlemen
(English), Arr. by Manney; O
Jesu So Sweet (German) Arr. by
Bach; While by My Sheep (Ger-
man) Arr. by Spicker; Shepherd's
Christmas Song (Austrian) Arr.
by Dickinson, Jane Moore Hamil-
ton, soloist; Adoration of the
Shepherds (Catalonian) Arr. by
Schindlcr, Virginia Kyle, soloist;
The Holly and the Ivy (English)
Arr. by Dunhill; Traditional Czech
Christmas Carols Arr. by Jaroslav
Kricka (Harkcn to Me Mother
Dear, Strangers Say a King Is Born,
Gloria in Excelsis, Sleep, Baby
Sleep) ; Here a Torch, Jcanette,
Isabella (Provincial Noel) Arr. by
Manney; The Sleep of the Child
Jesus by Cavaert Felton; When the
(Continued on page 2, col. 5)

Oral, Written Comprehensives
Will Follow Special Courses

At a meeting last Thursday night, December 8, the Aca-
demic Council passed on a new plan for seniors desiring to
graduate with high honor. According to this program, no
student may be recommended'* for graduation with the magna
cum laude distinction who has not successfully completed
certain specified honors work, written and oral comprehen-
sive examinations, and the present
requirement of a minimum stand-
ard in grades and a vote of the fac-
ulty.

This plan will go into effect for
seniors in September, 193 9, certain
modifications being suggested for
the 1938-39 sessions.

The formal recommendations of
the faculty follow:
A

1. Any student who has made
the honor roll in any year may be
invited by the head of her major
department to study for honors
during her senior year. The pro-
gram of study shall be arranged by
the head jf the department, but
the student shall carry a minimum
of thirteen hours of course work.
Honors work shall continue
throughout the year, not more
than 3 hours and not less than 2
hours per week.

2. At the completion of this
work, and within two weeks of the
final day of senior examinations,
the student shall take an examina-
tion consisting of two parts a
written examination not less than
six hours long, and an oral not less
than an hour long. The exact time
of the examination is to be set by
the head of the department.

3. The written examination
shall cover the field of the major.
It may consist in part of a labora-

(Con tinned an page 2, col. 1)

Direct Descendant
Unveils Tablet
To M. Candler

A bronze tablet at the entrance
of the Murphey Candler Building
was unveiled Monday at 4 P. M.,
in honor of the late Hon. C. M.
Candler, a trustee of Agnes Scott
College for forty-six years. Mr.
Scott Candler, Jr., only grandson
bearing the Candler name, drew the
veil, and Dr. McCain made a short
address. Dean of the Faculty
Stukes led in prayer.

The tablet bore the following in-
scription:

Charles Murphey Candler
March 17, 1858
August 7, 1935
A Devoted Member of the
Board of Trustees of
Agnes Scott College
For More Than Forty-Six Years

This Building Is
Dedicated to His Memory
In Grateful Recognition
of His
Love and Service

All Star Series Has
Noted Violinist
As Next Attraction

The All Star concert series brings
to Atlanta on December 15
Jascha Heifetz, violinist, to be
heard at the auditorium. For his
Atlanta appearance Mr. Heifetz
has scheduled the Allegro by Moz-
art (from Divertiments in D Ma-
jor) as transcribed by Mr. Heifetz,
the Beethoven Sonata No. 3 in E
flat; Wieniawski's Concerts in D
Minor, and for his final group four
numbers as transcribed by Mr.
Heifetz, "L'Apres Midi d un
Faune," by Debussy; "El Puerto,"
by Albeniz; "Alt-Wein," by
Jodowsky; the "Hora Staccato,"
by Dinicu, and Saint-Saens Intro-
duction and Rondo Capriccioso.

May Day Committee
Judges Scenario Entries

The May Day Committee began
work on the annual pageant this
week with the reading and judging
of entries in the scenario contest,
which closed Monday night. Head-
ed by Helen Moses, the Committee
will select and adapt a scenario in
preparation for practice, which
will begin with the spring quar-
ter.

2

THE AGONISTIC. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1938

Comprehensives

{Continued from page 1)
tory experiment or of a written re-
port on the reading done for hon-
ors.

4. The oral shall cover the ma-
jor subject, closely related fields,
and the minor (when not included
in the related fields). At each oral
examination there shall be present
at least one representative from the
major department, one from the
minor department, one from the
related fields (where not the same
as the minor), and one other per-
son to be named by the head of the
major department subject to the
approval of the Dean of the Fac-
ulty. It is strongly recommended
that the head of the major depart-
ment invite a member of the fac-
ulty in the same department of the
cooperating institutions to partici-
pate in the examination.

5. The head of the department
may recommend the student for
graduation with high honor upon
the successful completion of (a)
the honors work, (b) the written
examination, and (c) the oral ex-
amination. Other requirements for
graduation with high honor remain
as at present (a certain minimum
standard in grades and a vote of
the faculty). No student may be
graduated with high honor who
has not completed the above pro-
gram and who does not have the

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recommendation of the major de-
partment.

6. Students undertaking this
program shall be exempted from
course examinations in the major
subject in the spring quarter. All
other examinations must be taken.

7. It is recommended that the
President appoint annually a com-
mittee of five members, one of
which shall be a member of the
Department of Philosophy and Ed-
ucation. This committee shall have
authority to approve examination
programs and programs of study
for honors. It shall also pass fin-
ally upon all matters of detail aris-
ing under this general program. It
is further recommended that this
committee act to promote coopera-
tion among the departments in
working out a comprehensive pro-
gram of teaching as preparation for
these comprehensive examinations.

8. The above program shall go
into effect for seniors in Septem-
ber, 193 9.

B

The following modifications are
suggested for the examinations for
the sessions of 193 8-39.

L The written examination-
shall cover the major.

2. The oral shall cover the ma-
jor and minor only.

3. The head of the major de-
partment shall furnish the student
with a list of the courses to be
covered on the two examinations, a
brief outline of the subject matter
included, and a list of suggested
readings.

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Sports Miscellany

By ELEANOR HUTCHINS

in
al-

Plans for the annual water pageant to be held during the
last part of February are already under way, in spite of
Christmas and everything. A hand-picked writing committee,
composed of Pattie Patterson, Alice Cheeseman, and Suz-
anne Kaulbach, will endeavor to

surpass the hitherto unsurpassable
Prince of Whales-Wally-eel extra-
vaganza of last year. More water
power to 'em!

Athletic Association did its part
toward relieving the tedium of the
Last Week Before Holidays last
night, with the nickleodeon dance
and the swimming meet. The
dance, a script (five cents
straight) affair, rattled the win-
dows of Murphey Candler Building
from 7 until 8, when les insoucian-
tes trooped over to the gym for
the aquatic contest. This is the
second well-planned meet staged by
Beryl Healey this year, and one of
many diversions in the A. A. get-
away-from-it-all program. Nice
work if you can get it?

freshman gets every morning
her mail box, (d) five points
lowed in archery when an arrow
goes through the target.

6. Posting is: (a) parking a
horse, (b) passing a mark in a re-
lay race, (c) subtracting a number
from your golf score before report-
ing it, (d) rising to the trot in
riding.

Sports I. Q.

L A mashie is: (a) an over-
confident male, (b) a golf club,

(c) a kind of net, (d) a new de-
vice for swatting insects.

2. The difference between a
right drive and a forehand drive is
that: (a) one is the signal for a
left turn, the other for a full stop,
(b) one is effected with a tennis
racket, the second with a hockey
stick, (c) the former is performed
with a hockey stick, the latter with
a tennis racket, (d) one is made
with both hands, the other only
\yith the right.

3. A Columbia Round is: (aj a
term in swimming, (b) a germ in
swimming, (c) a term in archery,

(d) a gem cut in the shape of a
sphere.

4. A lob is used in: (a) cricket,
(b) cribbage, (c) chemistry, (d)
tennis.

5. A let is: (a) a tennis service
which strikes the net but lands in
the correct court, (b) a free shot
in hockey, (c) half of what the

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Emory Will Present
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Jonathan Daniel, author of "A
Southerner Discovers the South"
and editor of the Raleigh (N. C.)
News Observer, will be presented
on January 6 as the next attraction
of the Emory Student Lecture
Series.

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Carol Service

(Continued from page 1)
Crimson Sun Has Set (Ancient
Noel) Arr. by Mansfield; Naz-
areth by Gounod- Warnhurst; and

Silent Night by Gruber.

Those taking part wore : first sopranos
Mary Riee Allen, Harriet Ayres. Henrietta
Rlaokwoll. Martha Buffalow. .Teannette Car-
roll. Helen Carson. Jo Cates. Freda Cope-
land. Jeanne Davidmvitz, Grace Duggan.
Caroline Dunne. Anne Enloe. Catherine
Farrar. AnnV Fisher. Sam Olive Griffin.
Jane Moore Hamilton. Margaret Hartsook.
Suzanne Kaulbaek. Sara Massey. Grace
Moffat. Annie Houston Newton. Molly
Oliver. Jeanne Osborne. Dorothy Peteet.
Mary Clay Price. Isabella Robertson. Laura
Sale; Elise Smith. Caroline Strozier. Gay
Swaggerty. Frances Tueker. Annie Wilds ;
second sopranos Ruth Ashburn. Susie
Rlaekmon. Mary Rlakemore. Sylvia Cohn.
Alice Comer. Margaret Doak. Mary Aim
Faw. Caroline Forman. Lenora Jones. Caro-
line Long. Mary Dean Lott. Julia Lancas-
ter. Winifred Mansfield. Ann Martin. Sarah
Matthews. Sara McCain. Eloise McCall.
Jessie McGulre. Louise Musser. Julia Mose-
ley. Elise Nance. Betty Jean O'Brien, Mar-
lon Phillips, Priscllla Reasoner. Louise
Sams. Lillian Schwencke. Susan Self. Ruth
Slack, Rebecca Stamper, Evelyn Sears.
Margaret Thompson. Alta Webster, Nancy
Willstatter : first contraltos Elizabeth Fur-
low, Ann Gellerstedt. Betty Kyle. Virginia
Kyle. Dorothy Lazenby, Rebecca MeEl-
waney. Isabel Miller. Betty Nash. Louise
Newton. Jane Salters. Miriam Sanders.
Gene Slack. Mary Scott Wilds : second con-
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Florence Ellis. Doris Hasty. Jeanne Lee.
Marcia Mansfield. Jane Moses. Amelia
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Santa s Bag Holds Varied
Gifts for Faculty, Students

By ALICE CHEESEMAN

We been thinking, this being the 'leventh day before
Christmas, . . . and us having not Christmas list as yet ac-
cumulated. There's not anybody who doesn't need something
. . . and it's just that certain something that we want to
think of for each of our friends. Always before such a listing,
of course, we like to philosophize that it's the thought behind
the article that makes the gift . . .
'though some of our gifts may
'pear to be certainly 7/wthoughtly!

Now let's see there's Mr. Dav-
idson. We put him down for an
overcoat and a six week's course in
the Palmer Method (the latter sug-
gested by Proof-reader Footnotes
McNeill). A set of bobby-pins for
Mr. Raper. A neon "Asleep" sign
for Evelyn Sears. A new neck-tie
(!) for Hutchens and a bottle of
. . . well, . . . ! (yo-ho-ho!).

Miss Hunter needs ^ little dec-
orated sign saying that the pretty
blue plaid jacket she wears (on
the br . . . iest days!) is 'completely
and thoroughly interlined and very,
very warm. Anne Enloe . . .
wouldn't she be surprised to get an
electric razor for that blue Anne-
gory sweater. Also we would give
her, sergeant - at - arms - as - she-
is, some glasses to wear on count-
ing votes . . . she has double as-
tigmatism, and sometimes she may
not be on our side!

And then . . . there's Miss Jack-
son. She needs or would like
a new garden for her hat. On the
other hand, Miss Gilchrist needs a
new hat for her garden. Aileen
Shortley and Janie Hamilton,
a "bedside extension" from Bell
Telephone Company ( ! ) , and
some weather stripping. Corky
Hutchins should have a private
key to Science Hall. And prob-

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of us could ever think of for
M. W. McNeill would be a pile o'
pennies, one for each of Sara
Louise's sneezes! (And Sara Louise
never wants it to be ( known that
her middle name is what it is . . .
Sara Louise, you know, .... and
so maybe she would like a new
name. Or maybe Sara Louise would
rather we'd just f'get about the
whole thing. But then, Sara Louise
is nothing to be sneezed at!) n'est-
ce pas?

Now let's see here . . . who've
we left out? Why, of all people
. . . Dougie. We think she'd just
love three more days in Oklahoma
this Christmas! (. . . of course she
would if she could stay that long.)
To Jane Taylor and Suzanne Kaul-
back we'd like to give a nice new
turtl-ie turtle ... to take the place
of Cousin Steve Taylback. Or
could it ever? Margaret Wells . . .
we bet . . . needs another box of
hair curlers. And the senior class
needs a good ole fashioned senior
opera . . . don't we, girls?

Miss Wilburn likes pillows . . .
so we guess we'll put her down for
a pillow this year. And we know
without asking that Miss Mitchell
would like a swell new basketball
season. The quadrangle needs a
new sun dial ... or else a dick to
find ye and auld ane! And speak-
ing of detectives, Miss Scandrett
needs one to guard that magnifi-
cent grey sequin dress.

For Miss Preston we would list
a refrigerating system . . . and
maybe an electric fan. And for her
19th century poetry class

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. . . we'd ask Santa to send a num-
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wrapped, con-length poetry-per-
iods! And for Mr. Hayes, an auto-
matic eraser ... or else a class of
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Jane Moses . . . Mr. Johnson
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Yes . . . it's the thought that
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hesitate to acknowledge the fact).
The particular friend is . . . yes,
you expected it . . . the Guthrie,
editor that she is. We think (or do
we? . . . and we dare you to say a
word!) . . . she needs some decent
feature writers, ones who can
think clearly and consciously, and
with consistent exegises.

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It took a struggle to get the interview, because the object
of all my endeavor is a very popular man and this is the very
busiest time of the y^ar for him. And he is a truly pic-
turesque figure probably the best loved man on the campus !

He is rather old, he says, and '
would prefer that we do not go
into the subject of his age! And
sh! he's a Yankee, for he comes
from the North and still goes back
there to spend all his vacations. But
he's far from being one to bear
the usual Yankee epithet! Even in
the South he rates jam up, 'cause he
really is a popular gent.

From what we could gather
from his modest comments about
himself, he has spent a great deal
of his life doing research into Child
Psychology and that greatest of
natural sciences, human nature.
And he has been most successful;

With all the flurry of Christmas shopping, getting grades
and preparing parents for the worst, the past week has been
pretty full. Even aside from the mass migration out to Em-
ory for the Christmas Carol service Sunday, some of the
girls have been getting around very nicely,
steak

At the Emory K. A. steak sup-
per on Friday night were Lillian
Schwenke, Lib Barrett, Florence
Ellis, Marty Doak, Martha Mar-
shall, Florrie Margaret Guy.

Dancing at the Tech Pi Kappa
Phi dance at the Athletic Club
were Kay Toole, Marjorie Boggs,
Tade Merrill, Ruth Slack, Elsie
York, Frankie Butt, Gladys Carr,
Martha Watkins.

At the Pi K A dance Friday
night were Mary Bell, Louise New-
ton, Lillian Guddenrath, Katherine
Ivie, Julia Porter, Martha Marshall.

Dusty Hance and Edith Hene-
gar spent the week-end with Fran-
kie Butt in Blueridge, Ga. Mary
Bell, Freck Sproles, Florence Ellis
and Lib Barrett attended Open
House at Brenau last week-end.
Charleen Burke and Keeker New-
ton migrated to Auburn. Betty
Embry visited Jane Luthy in Am-
ericus this week-end, and then
Jane came back with Betty to
spend a few days.

Thanks to the Former Students
and May I Have Your Future
Alterations?
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At the Sigma Pi buffet supper
Sunday night were Betty Ann
Stewart, Lucy Hill Doty, Penny
Simonton, and Mary Bell.

At the Psi Omega Hay Ride Sat-
urday night Grace Elizabeth An-
derson, Annette .Franklin, Lutie
Moore, Marion Franklin.

he is recognized all over the world
for his extraordinary work.

Although he has passed the
spring chicken stage of his career,
he is still very active and takes a
great interest in outdoor sports.
His special favorite is sleighing and
his favorite time of year for in-
dulging in it is around Christmas. '

At my first glimpse of him I
knew he must be the type of man
that children love; and he has
proved to be just that. From what
he says and from what others tell
me about him I know that children
are perhaps his major interest in
life. He seems to have heaps of
goodies and toys for his child
friends every time he comes
around.

But children are not the only
ones who love him; we Agnes
Scotters hold him mighty close to
our hearts. He is a grand ole man
and always makes us think of home
and Dad! Dear readers, I present
the man of the hour Santa Claus,
a true Campus Celebrity!

Compliments of

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4

THE AGONISTIC, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1938

Agnes Scott College
Decatur, Ga.

THE AGONISTIC

Editorials

features

Vol. XXIV, No. 9
Wednesday, Dec. 14, 1938

Lights Rules

The students have at last been jolted to
the realization that some change should
be made in the present lights regulations.
One or two late light permissions per
month for underclassmen are entirely in-
adequate, and the rules for junors are not
much better.

The best improvement in the system
would seem to be to grant more permis-
sions with the stipulation that the lights
be used for a stated number of hours only.
This change would then be less injurious
to a student's health; for she would not
be allowed to study throughout the whole
night, as the present rules allow. Further,
the use of lights for a limited time would
necessitate concentrated rather than dila-
tory, study.

For our physical health and for our
mental happiness we need improved regu-
lations. And we shall continue our adam-
ant stand for these privileges until we se-
cure the necessary action.

Editorial Notes

The Aurora has become one of the live-
lier parts of the college community since
its entrance last week with a bright new
cover, increased size, and a new policy. We
register our complete approval of these
changes and have to regret only that the
magazine contained an unfair and unintel-
ligent criticism of the British debate.

To see the joy that our simple party
gave the needy children of Decatur last
Saturday was to see the real Christmas
Spirit.

The telephone situation is still as con-
fusing as ever. Perhaps we were a little
optimistic in hoping that we could move
the Administration to at least an investi-
gation of the problem.

The new requirements necessary for
graduation with high honor are a decided
step toward "Greater Agnes Scott. " The'
sole drawback to the plan is that the pres-
ent members of the Senior Class will have
disturbingly little time in which to pre-
pare for the comprehensives.

While the College Choir does not claim
for itself the title of the "South's Sweetest
Singers," the girls did give a most com-
mendable rendition of Christmas Carols
Sunday night. Miss Evelyn Wall, in parti-
cular, is to be lauded for directing the
chorus with such finesse in Mr. Johnson's
sudden illness.

l)e Agonistic

Agnes Scott College Student Newspaper
Vol. 24 Wednesday, December 14 No. 9

STAFF

Mary Frances Guthrie
Editor

Evelyn Baty
Mary Reins
Assistant Editors

Elizabeth Kennedy
Copy Editor

Rebecca Drucker
Assistant Copy Editor

Marie Merrltt
Business Manager

Marv Louise l>obb
Advertising Manager

Alice Cheeseraan
Mary Wells McNeill
Feature Editors

Anne Enloe
Georgia Hunt
Assistant Feature Editors

Jane Sailers
Current History

Eleanor Hutchens
Sports Editor
Hazel Solomon
Exchange Editor

Jeannette Carroll
Alumnae Editor

Selma Stelnbaeh
Club Editor

Hayden Sanford
* Elolse Lennard
Florence Ellis
Society Editors

Virginia Farrar
Dorothy Graham
Florence Graham

Circulation Managers

Colleges Plan

Christmas Programs

Many Offer Carols;
Tech Wants More Days

Now is the time of the year
when all men, and women too,
think about Christmas, its signifi-
cance, and its interpretation. Each
college is planning to celebrate
Christmas in its own individual
way. Most colleges will offer carol
concerts by the glee club or by
some denominational group.
Among these are Emory Univer-
sity, Florence Alabama State
Teachers College, and Wesleyan
College. Other colleges, such as
Greensboro College, N. C, present
plays dealing with Christmas. Ac-
cording to the Collegian, newspa-
per of Greensboro, "Cricket on the
Hearth" was presented December
8 to awaken "the Christmas spirit
of Peace on earth, good will toward
men." At Georgia State Woman's
College in Valdosta, the Tradition-
al Hanging of the Greens on De-
cember 8 officially opened the
Yuletide season on the campus.
Each year at this time, the senior
class follows the practice of glori-
fying the Rotunda with holly and
good will.

Tech ( boys, according to the
Technique, prepare for the Christ-
mas season by hoping for extended
holidays, so that they may have
the same amount of vacation as is
granted to students at the Univer-
sity of Georgia. The Alchemist of
Brenau informs us of a Christmas
exhibition of imported Oriental
wood-block prints in color, from
the China Art Company of New
York. Davidson and V. M. L are
planning holiday dances and other
celebrations both before and dur-
ing the holidays.

Front Row

By JANE S ALTERS

To Trie fiditon

REPOUTKRS: M. L. Gill. V. J. Watklns. A. Enloe. M. L.
Ratliff. C. K. HutchJns, P. Heaslett. M. Merlin. D. Welnkle.
B. Alderman. J. Wltman, M. Fite. L. Franklin. J. Catea, S.
Lee, C. Willis. P. Hammond. A. Enloe. E. Stubbs. E. McCall.
B. Coleman. S. Self. J. Lancaster. E. Barrett.
BUSINESS STAFF: B. Coleman. B. L Murlin. M. E. Leavltt.
M Watklns. L. Sale. B. A. Stewart, W. Howard. W. Finger,

Dear Editor:

A debate, according to Webster,
is a "contention, a controversy."
It is evident that there is a grojap
represented by a certain campus
publication who has attended one
or two of these word battles with-
out the faintest conception of what
they are supposed to be. Could this
group possibly imagine that -a de-
bate is a convocation for mutual
flattery? Even I, simply an inter-
ested onlooker and not a debater
myself, realize that the first prin-
ciple of argument is direct attack
upon the reasoning of the "oppo-
nent'' (please note the term univer-
sally applied by contending debat-
ers to each other). Not even a
"friendly battle of wits and intel-
lects" can be conducted without a
trace of sarcasm and certain super-
iority of manner. Can you imagine
a forceful speaker timidly ventur-
ing his opinion in all humility and
with apologetic concessions of
every point brought up by the op-
position?

Picture the Englishmen leaving
the recent contest filled with "sur-
prise and bewilderment/' and im-
mediately asking their devastating
opponents please to donate all their
time for the remainder of the
week. We suppose that they were
eager to resume hostilities and
"outright rudeness," but we ven-
ture that the conversation was
hardly "venomous." Can it be

PERUVIAN EFFICIENCY

President Benavidcs, of Peru,
calls upon the two Americas to
work for the goal of unity and "in-
ternational efficiency" without
sacrifice of the political, economic,
or spiritual liberty of the indivi-
dual nations. Progressive demo-
cracy must be organized against
aggressive totalitarianism.

EDEN IN AMERICA

North America hears Eden, of
England, declare that "A modern
democracy must be based upon
racial and religious toleration"
while South America lends an ear
to the Cuban Remos as he voices
America's moral obligation to up-
hold "the principles of racial and
religious tolerance and respect for
human dignity."

NO CHINA DOOR

"China" shuts her door on the
Western world as the Japanese pup-
pet states in the "new China" area
submissively parrot "Asia for the
Asiatics." Is a modern Norman
Conquest under way?

MRS. HAHN'S SON

George Raft, film actor, sends
an airmail special to the twelve-
year-old son of Mrs. Anna Marie
Hahn, a woman executed last week
for murder, to spend the Christmas
holidays as his guest in Hollywood.
If Oscar accepts, he is "to be sent
for immediately."

"SWIFT JUSTICE"

Georgia's first mass /execution
gives "swift justice" to six con-
demned negroes at Tattnall Prison,
where, after a night of spirituals
and prayer, the confessed murder-
ers pay the "supreme penalty"
within less than an hour and a half.

that the Englishmen themselves
understood the traditional spirit of
a debate with its necessary ex-
change of none-too-flattering re-
marks, and that certain people in
the audience missed the entire point
of the procedure? Such would
seem the case.

If the British debaters last year
left with the conviction that it
would be better "to discontinue a
custom supposedly fostering
friendship and understanding be-
tween the youth of the two coun-
tries," why, we wonder, did de-
bater James Brown, of Scotland,
urge Mr. Thomas Williams, of
Wales (so we heard) to "include
Agnes Scott, by all means, in your
itinerary." Do you suppose that he
enjoys encountering "an unfriend-
ly, even hostile, spirit on the part
of the Agnes Scott side?"

Most of us are proud of our de-
baters and the favorable light in
which they consistently appear.
While narrow-minded individuals
continue to air in a publication
views which, even if based upon
fact, would have been much' bet-
ter expressed to the debaters them-
selves or to their advisors, let us
hope that we may never be called
upon to sit through one of their
Pollyanna debates, devoid of all
feeling, humor, and force. We like
spirit and independence don't
make sissies of our debaters!

A Debate Defender.

CHRISTMAS
SEALS

In Excelsis

Sales curves are rising rapidly, over-
the-counter exchanges are steadily ap-
proaching the mark of half a billion
Christmas buying is nearing its zenith.

With all this increased Yule consump-
tion the true Christmas spirit is at N a lower
ebb than ever before. It is with a bored
and punctilious sense of duty that the
American public is purchasing its holiday
gifts.

Current magazines give minute specifi-
cations for a "plush-lined" Christmas with
full suggestions for everything from dec-
orating a surrealist Christmas tree to top-
ping off the Yule dinner with a Madeira-
tasting party.

But not a word points toward the deeper
meaning of the season. It is all beribboned
and sophisticated subterfuge that is a
cloak for what should be the innermost
thought of us all. Christmas has become
just about as artificial for most of us as
the flowers that decorate our most glam-
orous gifts festive frills, no more, no
less.

How transcending it would be if we
could cast aside, but for a moment, the
gilt of our age and return to a simple but
sincere commemoration of the birth 'of a
Babe on a starry night in Bethelem, many
years ago.

Danish Postmaster Sells
First Christmas Seals

As Christmas approaches and the annual sale of
Christmas Seals begins, we recall the interesting
story of where and how the idea of the Christmas
Seal originated.

Back in 1903 in a little village of Denmark, a
postmaster, Einar Holboell, got the idea of the
Christmas Seal as he was sorting the voluminous
Christmas mail. He noticed a
great variety of cheery greetings
going to friends and relatives
and he wondered why these let-
ters could not carry a message of
health that would bring funds
with which to- fight disease.
Out of that thought grew the
Christmas Seal. The king and
queen of Denmark gave patron-
age to Einar Holboell's idea and
in 1904 the first seal became a
reality. Other Scandinavian
countries soon took up the idea
and in 1907 an American woman, Emily P. Bissell,
living in Wilmington, Delaware, read an account
of the Danish Christmas Seal and decided that if
this plan worked over there, it was worth trying
in this country. And so, in the Christmas season
of 1907, Miss Bissell launched the first seal sale.
So successful was it and so enthusiastic was she
over the inherent worth of the Christmas Seal that
she persuaded the American Red Cross, with
which she was closely associated, to try out a na-
tion-wide seal sale in the fall of 1908.

In 1910 the American Red Cross took the re-
cently organized National Tuberculosis Associa-
tion into partnership for the conduct of the
Christmas Seal sale. This partnership existed un-
til in 1920, the American Red Cross, desiring to
concentrate on its own annual membership roll
call, withdrew from the partnership. Since then,
the National Tuberculosis Association has been
sole proprietor of the Christmas Seal in the United
States and each year it authorizes the forty-eight
states and thousands of local committees to sell
the seals and to carry on the fight against tuber-
culosis. More than forty foreign countries have
adopted Finar Holboell's idea and have used or are
now using Christmas Seals as a means of support
for their tuberculosis programs. In the United
States practically all the work of the state and lo-
cal tuberculosis associations is supported by the
annual sale of these seals. By mutual agreement
between the National, state and local associations,
95 per cent of the gross proceeds from the seal
sale remain in the state where the seals are sold.

We are urged to join with the millions of people
throughout the world who are sharing their
Christmas joy with others by helping to fight
tuberculosis. Buy your Christmas Seals today.

Help to Protect
Your Home from
Tuberculosis

Vote On Name
In Chapel

The Agonistic

Vote On Name
In Chapel

yoL. xxiv

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1939

Z115

No. 10

Board Grants $2,500,000 Fund
For Agnes Scott, Emory Plans

Photo Courtesy Constitution.

Presidents Discuss Center

Dr. Harvey W. Cox, left, President of Emory University, and Dr.
James R. McCain, President of Agnes Scott College, discuss the $2,-
500,000 endowment as a step in the development of the University
Center.

Judges Recommend Name,
'Agnes Scott Mirror'

Final Decision Restr
With Student Body

Finding no name submitted by
the students worthy of winning
the prize in the Agonistic contest
to give this newspaper a better
name, the contest judges have
made as their recommendation to
the student body the name, the
Agnes Scott Mirror. This recom-
mendation was made after the
judges had given careful considera-
tion to each of the seventy-five
names entered in the contest.
I Many of these suggestions re-
ceived favorable comment, but
were ruled out became of their usej
by publications of other colleges. >
The judges recommended the Ag- \
ties Scott Mirror for three specific J
reasons:

1. It most clearly represents the
aims of the college newspaper to
give a personal and accurate ac-
count of Agnes Scott news.

2. It has the dignity and distinc-
tion that will make it stand the
test of many years' usage.

3. It will not be easily miscalled
or misunderstood by people out-
side the college.

Those serving as judges of the
contest were: President J. R. Mc-
Cain, Dean Carrie Scandrett, Dr.
George P. Hayes, professor of Eng-
lish; Miss Annie May Christie, As-
sistant Professor of English; Mary
Ellen Whetsell, President of Stu-

(Continued on Page 2, Col. 4)

Dr. Robinson Will
Represent Agnes Scott

Dr, Henry A. Robinson will
leave January 19 for Danville,
Kentucky, to represent Agnes Scott
at the inauguration of Dr. Robert
Lee McLeod, Jr., as president of
Centre College. While in Danville
he will be the guest of his sister,
Miss Laura Robinson, alumna of
Agnes Scott and Associate Profes-
sor of Ancient Languages at Cen-
tre College.

Mortar Board Gives

Last of Parties

Freshmen Meet Young
Men of Vicinity

Tonight will be the last in the
series of parties given by Mortar
Board to introduce Agnes Scott
freshmen to boys from Atlanta,
Decatur, and environs. The first
and second of these parties, which
are held in the Murphey Candler
building, were on Monday and
Tuesday nights.

Committees for the three par-
tics are: Dates, Douglas Lyle,
chairman, Jane Moore Hamilton,
and Mary Ellen Whesell; Enter-
tainment, Jeon Bailey, chairman,
Marie Merritt, and Mary Hollings-
worth; Food, Mamie Lee Ratliff,
chairman, and Adelaide Benson;
Decorations, Mary Frances Guth-
rie, chairman, and Emma McMul-
len.

Blackfriars
Give The
Green Vine 7

Author is Alumna
Of Agnes Scott

At the request of a large New
York dramatic company, Agnes
Scott Blackfriars will give the
world premiere of "The Green
Vine," a mystery play by Nan
Stephens, an Agnes Scott alumna
and author of several plays recent-
ly presented on Broadway. The
performance will be on Saturday
evening, February 18, following
the Junior banquet.

The central figure in the plot is
George Brand, who has just died
when the play opens. His rela-
tives come to attend the reading
of his will, and complications arise
when George's spirit appears vis-
ibly. His spirit so pervades his
house that the relatives feel that
he is present all the time, watch-
ing them and influencing them.

The cast is as follows: Mary
Brand, Helen Moses; Myrtle Brand
Keenan, Evelyn Sears; Peggy
Brand, Margaret Hopkins; Mrs.
Birdie Fuller, Alice Adams or
Laura Wood Sale; Messalina, Julia
Sewell; Cousin George Brand, "Wal-
ter Paschal; Tom Brand Powers,
Tom Wesley; Peter Brand, Marion
Camp. The parts of Geoffrey
Cannon and Japhet Twilliger re-
main to be cast.

Mortar Board Tests
Social Knowledge

Do you know when a girl
should share expenses with her
date, when it is proper to begin
eating at a banquet, or what is
the correct way to hold a table
knife?

If you are rather vague on
these and many other questions
in social usage, be sure to take
the test given by Mortar Board
this Friday, January 20, at 3:30
p. m. in Buttrick Hall.

May Day Selects E. Hutchens
"Orpheus and Eurydice"

As a result of the recent scenario contest May Day this
spring will be built around the love story of Orpheus and
Eurydice, the Greek lovers who were parted by death and
almost reunited by Orpheus' perilous descent into Hades to
bring back Eurydice.

The winning scenario chosen at
a meeting of the May Day com-
mittee on Tuesday, January 10,
was written by Eleanor Hutchens.
Honorable mention went to Hen-
rietta Thompson for her version of
the same story, and to Julia Sewell
for her scenario "The Sleeping
Beauty."

The story of Orpheus and Eury-
dice is that of two lovers, sub-
limely happy until Eurydice dies
of a snake's venom. Orpheus, dis-
traught by grief, charms his way
into Hades by the beauty of his
music, which he plays on a magic
lyre. Once there he persuades

Pluto to let him bring Eurydice to
the upper world again. The only
condition is that he not look back
until the journey is done. Orpheus
complies until the very end, but
finally, unable to restrain himself,
he turns and looks back, only to
see Eurydice move sorrowfully
away. This second grief is too
much for Orpheus, and he dies,
but in death the lovers' spirits are
once more united.

Music for the production will
be by Gluck, and the story lends
itself admirably to unique effects
of lighting and staging.

Members Comment Favorably on
University Center Development

Heartily endorsing the program to make Atlanta a Uni-
versity Center for* the South, the General Education Board
of New York has for the seventh time in thirty years of-
fered to contribute to Agnes Scott, in order that the College
may become a first class institution for service in the South.

According to the proposal, the
Board will give $2,500,000 toward
the minimum of $7,500,000 need-
ed to launch the University Cen-
ter development. Of this total
amount offered, Agnes Scott will
receive $500,000; and Emory Uni-
versity, $2,000,000. Our part in
the campaign will be to raise $1,-
000,000; and Emory will endea-
vor to raise $4,000,000. The full

DR. J. McD. RICHARDS

Faculty Names Phi

Beta Kappa Members

Seminary President
Makes Chapel Address

Speaking oh the general theme
of the importance of true scholar-
ship, Dr. J. McDowell Richards,
president of Columbia Presbyterian
Theological Seminary, Decatur,
Ga., will give the principal address
at the announcement service of the
first Agnes Scott elections to Phi
Beta Kappa for 193 8-39, on Sat-
urday morning, January 21, in
Gaines Chapel.

Dr. Richards obtained his M.A.
from Princeton and from Oxford
University in England, and his B.
D. from Columbia Theological
Seminary. He studied at Oxford
under a Rhodes Scholarship. He is
a member of Phi Beta Kappa,
Omicron Delta Kappa, and Kappa
Alpha fraternities.

Maurice Hindus

Will Lecture

On Czechoslovakia

An authoritative first-hand ac-
count of what is really happening
in Czechoslovakia will be the next
presentation of the Agnes Scott
Lecture Association when on Feb-
ruary 24, Maurice Hindus, noted
writer and speaker, will lecture
here on the subject of "Czecho-
slovakia Watchdog of Man-
kind/'

The third lecturer to appear this
year at Agnes Scott under the
auspices of the Lecture Association
will be Andre Maurois, French
novelist and biographer. Making
only fourteen lectures on this, his
second tour of America, Mr. Mau-
rois will speak here on March 27.

Presidents Visit
Rebekah Dining Hall

The presidents of the six
institutions making up the
University Center group
and the Advisory Faculty
Council of the Center were
entertained at dinner in
the Rebekah Scott dining
hall last night, January 17.

goal is to be subscribed by 1942.

Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.,
chairman of the General Educa-
tion Board, in a recent letter to
President James Ross McCain of
Agnes Scott, said, "I am well ac-
quainted with the importance and
significance of this cooperative
educational enterprise which you
and the other institutions involved
have been working out and feel
with you that it has in it very
great possibilities/'

And President Raymond B. Fos-
dick of the same Board comment-
ed, "We believe that the new plans

(Continued on Page 2, Col. 4)

Hollingsworth to
Head Opera

At a meeting of the senior class
on Saturday morning, January 14,
Mary Hollingsworth was proposed
by the nominating committee and
unanimously elected by the class
to be chairman of the 1939 Sen-
ior Opera.

The committee also recommend-
ed that there be a board of direc-
tors composed of the various com-
mittee chairmen and headed by the
opera chairman. Such a board, it
is thought, will lessen the work
and the responsibility of the gen-
eral chairman and will bring about
greater coordination among the
groups.

Members of the nominating
committee were Cary Wheeler,
Jane Dryfoos, Mary Frances
Guthrie, Amelia Nickels, Jeanne
Flynt, and Mary Ellen Whetsell.

College Sends Delegate

Registrar S. Guerry Stukes rep-
resented the college at the annual
meeting of. the Association of
American Colleges and Universi-
ties in Louisville Kentucky, Thurs-
day, January 12.

Mr. Stukes is a member of the
Association's committee *which ex-
amines and accredits high schools.

2

THE AGONISTIC, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18. 1939

Mortar Board Attends
Installation

Members of the local chapter of
Mortar Board will take part in the
installation of a chapter of this
National Honorary Fraternity at
the University of Georgia Athens,
Ga., Saturday, January 21.
' Mrs. Harold Richards, editor of
the Mortar Board Quarterly, will
represent the National Council of
Mortar Board and officiate in the
ritual of the ceremony.

Guthrie Appoints
Baty, Hutchens,
Reins Apprentices

Believing that some provision
should be made for training mem-
bers of The Agcmistic editorial
staff in the mechanics of a news-
paper, Mary Frances Guthrie, edi-
tor, has announced the appoint-
ment of Evelyn Baty, Eleanor
Hutchens, and Mary Reins as ap-
prentice editors.

In connection with this appren-
ticeship these girls are attending
special newspaper laboratories in
which the editor is giving instruc-
tions in newspaper typography and
composition.

Beginning with The Agonistic
for January 2 5, each of the ap-
prentice editors will gain actual
experience through writing the ed-
itorials and planning the make-up
of one edition. This new plan re-
places the traditional Agonistic
class contests, which have been
discontinued this year due to the
insufficient benefits that accrue
to the students in comparison with
the work entailed.

Hobo Shirt

if the lady-
is a tramp . . .

this gay little
cotton shirt in

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Board Grants 1

(Continued from Page 1, Col. 5)
in Atlanta represent one of the
most significant developments in
Southern education with which it
has been our privilege to be as-
sociated."

The money which Agnes Scott
will receive from the Board will
be used for increased endowment;
and that which Emory will re-
ceive, for a Graduate School. Plans
are also being made by Agnes
Scott officials for the erection of
a new dormitory with rooms for
100 girls and a dining hall and
kitchen for the whole campus.
This dormitory will be named
Hopkins Hall. In addition, a new
science hall and a fine arts build-
ing and chapel will be built.

Although this particular grant
of the General Board of Education
is made just to Agnes Scott and
Emory, the University Center pro-
gram is developing through the
cooperation of these important in-
stitutions as well: Georgia School
of Technology, University of
Georgia at Athens, Columbia Theo-
logical Seminary, University Sys-
tem of Georgia, and High Museum
of Art.

Dr. Phillip P. Davidson of Ag-
nes Scott is secretary of the Ad-
visory Faculty Council of the six
institutions. Other council of-
ficers are: Dr. Goodrich C. White
of Emory, chairman; and Dr. John
L. Daniel of Georgia Tech, vice
chairman.

Judges Choose

(Continued from Page 1, Col. 1)

dent Government, and Mary Fran-
ces Guthrie, editor of the Agonis-
tic.

At the open forum meeting of
Student Government tomorrow,
January 19, in chapel, the student
body will discuss this new name
and vote upon it. If the students
vote in favor of the Agnes Scott
Mirror rather than in favor of the
present name, The Ag07iistic, the
new name will be brought before
the faculty for their approval.

Many Enjoy Evening

At Harrison Hut

Faculty and Students
Join in Playing Games

Hottentots seventy strong gath-
ered at Harrison Hut's open house
on Saturday evening, January 7.
From 7:30 until 9:00 the students
and faculty members enjoyed the
games, songs, open fire, and food.
Dr. McCain served as official ten-
der and members of Outing Club
and Presidents Council were host-
esses.

Presidents Council is anxious
for the student body to avail it-
self of the privilege of using the
hut and announces the following
regulations: as few as five girls
may spend the afternoon there;
after time limit the same number
may use the hut if accompanied by
a chaperon; all arrangements should
be made through the dean's office.

Dr. McCain
Represents College

Dr. J. R. McCain, president of
Agnes Scott, represented the col-
lege on Thursday, January 12, at
the launching of a campaign by
Wesleyan College, Macon, Ga., in
order that sufficient funds can be
secured to buy back the Wesleyan
College plant, which has gone in-
to the hands of the receivers.

At that time Dr. McCain ad-
dressed the many educators pres-
ent on the value of a Christian
liberal arts college for women.

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Juniors, Freshmen Conquer
In Initial Basketball Games

Juniors are Victorious by 51-14
While Freshmen Lead 36-27

The juniors and freshmen drew first blood in the initial
basketball games of the season Friday night in the gym,
worsting the seniors and sophomores before a crowd of more
than a hundred spectators. The juniors swamped their op-
ponents 51-14; the freshmen, leading from the first,
snatched a 36-27 victory from the sophomores.

The junior-senior game began

junior-senior game
fast, play sweeping toward the
senior goal for the first score by
Milner. With the help of Slack's
leaping-through-keyholes talents
Milner made the second goal, eas-
ily dropping the ball in from un-
der the basket. She followed with
goal after goal as the crippled sen-
ior team patiently sought to block
them. Carmichael showed up well
in opposition, making most of the
seniors' fourteen points.

The second half opened with the
juniors' passing system well under
way and working smoothly. Mil-
ner and Slack piled up goals over-
whelmingly as Carmichael saved
her class from contplete white-
washing by accurate shooting
and nice passing. The Thomp-
son-Milner pass, a flat throw al-
most half the distance of the
court, was repeatedly responsible
for junior goals. The game ended
in a technical knockout for the
juniors, 51-13.

The freshmen, with typical en-
thusiasm, rushed their opponents
into the defense with a passing
barrage culminating in a goal by
Webster during the first few min-
utes of play. McElwaney, show-
ing good form and accuracy, made
several spectacular shots. Dyar
proved adept at avoiding the
guarding of the taller freshman
players. But the sophomores lacked
the aggressiveness of the freshman
team, finishing the half with the
ominous score of 22-9.

The fleet freshmen showed add-
ed verve as the second half began.

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and Lorraine

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and passing beautifully. As the
game neared its close the sopho-
mores began to click, but the
whistle blew on a 36-27 freshman
triumph.

Freshmen 3

Sophomores

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Seniors

Milner

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Slack

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Carson

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Carmichael

Moses

SC

Steele

Thompson

RG

Benson

Ware

LG

Doty

Substiutes:

Freshmen Thomas,

Bradfield, Levie;

Sophomores

Self, Kendrick.

Radio Program
Features Special
Chorus of GleeClub

Featured on the Agnes Scott
radio program, Campus Silhouettes,
yesterday afternoon, January 17,
at 4:30 p. m. over WSB, was the
special chorus of the Glee Club,
under the direction of Mr. Lewis
H. Johnson, instructor of voice.

In the broadcast of January 10,
Current History Forum presented
a skit in the form of a discussion
of the Pan-American Peace Con-
ference, held during Christmas at
Lima, Peru. Those participating
in the discussion were Elinor Tyler,
president of the Forum, and Mary
Frances Guthrie and Ruth Slack,
club members. Jeanne Flynt and
Miss Carrie Phinney Latimer ap-
pear in each broadcast to introduce
the different organizations.

The radio script was written by
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3

Campus Co-eds Give Slant
On Agnes Scott Life

By ANNE ENLOE

"Resolved that this house approves of co-education" is the
question the affirmative side of which Bill Elkin wants
to use for his Pi Alpha Phi try-out since he has become at
least a part time member of the Agnes Scott student body
(and he is considering making the race for president of stu-
dent government, too). Of course you know that Bill and
his Emory classmate, George Clary,
are the latest step toward the
"Greater Agnes Scott" co-eds.
Every Thursday they go so far as
to cut a class at their own Alma
Mater to move over to their sister
institution for Dr. Raper's class
and lab in "Race Relations."

The time during that day that
they aren't in class or squiring
one of three or four Hottentots
around, they spend in the library,
the local concentration camp, you
know. Bill says that our library
is much quieter than Emory's, but
that concentration is harder for
him to attain here. Can it be the
architecture, Bill? Both of the boys
wonder why girls always change
their point of vision when they
look at them. Girls just won't
look them straight in the face.

When asked about being in class
with forty girls, Elkin says, "It's
funny as heck!" Dignified Clary
says, "It's a unique experience."
They refuse to sit together in class
and say that the presence of girls
insipres them. In fact, that's the
thing they like most about Agnes
Scott, aside from their intense in-
tests in sociology (you under-
stand). They are of the opinion
that the girls here are attractive,
high type, and intelligent enough
to be interesting. Bill likes the
feminine type congratulations,
Sammie and George likes the
brainy type congratulations,
Sophie Honor Roll Montgomery!

Besides the above mentioned
things, Bill and George like Ag-
nes Scott particularly because of
such things as non-compulsory
chapel attendance, Dr. Raper, whom
they consider a most wide awake
and valuable professor, and the
general atmosphere on the campus.
Our greatest need, according to
them, is more and better hat-racks
in fact, HAT RACKS! Emory's
greatest need is Agnes Scott co-
eds.

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Two Delegates
Give Reports

Thompson, Whetsell
Bring Back Ideas

Mary Ellen Whetsell and Hen-
rietta Thompson returned full of
ideas for the New Year from the
N. S. F. A. convention, held De-
cember 27-31, at Purdue Univer-
sity, Lafayette, Indiana. In a
round of social events and busi-
ness meetings, they came in con-
tact with representatives from nu-
merous colleges.

The theme of the program was
"Student Leadership in Communi-
ty Life." In connection with this
theme, some of the many topics
that they discussed were problems
of student organization, problems
of discipline, and problems con-
nected with the athletic program
of their schools and curriculum.
Each member was appointed head
of a commission. Mary Ellen was
appointed chairman of the Stimu-
lation Committee, formed to dis-
cuss methods of creating interest
among the students in student gov-
ernment work, while Henrietta
took charge of the committee deal-
ing with women's student govern*
ment in small schools. Last April
Mary Ellen was elected chairman
of the woman's division of the
Southeastern Federation of College
Students and Press Representatives,
which will meet at the Citadel in
Charleston, South Carolina this
spring.

In an open letter to the N. S.
F. A. Convention, President Roose-
velt said, "It is my faith that you,
with a high appreciation of the es-
sential nobility of the individual
as your guide in the management
of men, will not only maintain and
preserve our democratic heritage in
the years to come, but will enrich
and extend it in ways that now
can be only dimly foreseen."

Sewell Leads in Club Play

Blackfriars held its regular
meeting on Tuesday, January 17,
at 7:00 p. m. in Miss Gooch's
studio. After the business meet-
ing, a play, "Where But in Amer-
ica," was presented. The cast in-
cluded Julia Sewell as Hilda, Gay
Swagerty as Mr. Espenhayne, and
Ruth Brody as Mrs. Espenhayne. It
was directed by Jeanne Redwine.

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Programs,

Discussions

Dr. John McSween

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For Religious Week

At the annual winter retreat of
the Christian Association cabinet,
held in two meetings January 7
and 8 at the Harrison hut, pro-
grams were planned for the rest
of the present cabinet's term to
carry out the theme of finding the
abundant life in activities im-
mediately around us and in those
of more world-wide interest. The
cabinet also started work on a
series of discussion groups for the
whole student body, definite plans
for which are to be announced
later.

To continue the theme during
the next quarter, after an explana-
tion of national Y. W. C. A. work,
Tuesday, January 17, with Mr. Bill
McKee as (tentative) speaker, Miss
Helen Carlson will talk January
31, about an abundant life in ac-
ademic work, after which follows
religious week, starting February
7 under the guidance of Dr. John
McSween, with whom conferences
also may be arranged. For the
week of February 14, the tenta-
tive plans include chapel programs
and discussion groups on men-
women relations to be led by Mrs.
Morgan. Following that there will
be a series of three programs on
the general idea of an abundant
life in agriculture, probably to be
led by Dr. Arthur Raper, in In-
dustry, and in politics, speakers
for which are not chosen as yet.
The first program after spring'
holidays will be on "The Abund-
ant Life in Service." Programs for
the rest of the year will be car-
ried out by the new cabinet for the
term 1939-40.

Faculty Members
Go to Meeting
In Richmond

The one hundred and third
meeting of the American Associa-
tion for* the Advancement of Sci-
ence and Associated Societies was
held in Richmond, Virginia, from
December 27 to 31. Dr. Ernest
H. Runyon, Miss Frances McCalla,
and Miss Jeanne Matthews repre-
sented Agnes Scott in the interest
of science, and Dr. Henry A. Rob-
inson attended the meeting of the
mathematicians which, after ; the
first day, was held in Williams-
burg. Forty affiliated and associ-
ated societies participated in this
meeting at which over five thou-
sand people were present.

During the day, meetings of
various departments were held, at
which time papers were given,
new discoveries announced, and
problems discussed by the leading
scientists of America, Cuba and
Canada.

The winter meeting of the As-
sociation next year will be in Co-
lumbus, Ohio.

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A somewhat belated Happy New Year to everyone but
it looks this week as if everyone has made a resolution to
stay on our campus rather than off. The A.T.O. house dance
at Emory Saturday night brought out a few: Sue Phillips,

Annie Wilds, Virginia Stanley,
Dot Estes, Florence Ellis, Marion
Phillips, Tade Merrill, Keeker
Newton, Grace Walker.

The S. A. E. formal Friday
night was the reason for all these
young ladies rushing around in the
Biltmore Frankie Butt, Char-
lene Burke, Julia Porter, Martha
Dunn, Helen Jester, Eloise Len-
nard, Florrie Guy, Martha Mar-
shall, Catherine Ivie, Jane Moore
Hamilton, Sara E. Lee, Jane Jones,
Louise Newton, Martie Doak, Car-
olyn Dunn, Pat Reasoner, Sarah
Copeland.

At the Chi Phi house dance Sat-
urday night, Carolyn Alley, Char-
lene Burke, Susan Goodwyn, Row-
ena Barringer and Helen Jester at
the Sigma Chi tea dance at Tech
Friday.

Now about those people who
left here Betty Embry and Nell
Pinner went to Americus to see
Jane Luthy this week end. Lucille
Gaines and Mary Ivy spent the
week end in Anderson attending
the Ring Dance at Clemson. Cal-
lie Carmichael spent the week end
at home in McDonough. Weezie
Sams went to the Black and White
dance at Auburn.

Puppets Come
To Agnes Scott

French Club Brings
Punch and Judy

Fernand Brossard, "Guignoliste"
on board the French line flagship
Normandie, will present Guignol,
a punch and Judy show Wednes-
day, January 18, at 4:30 p. m, in
the chapel. The performance is
free and the college community
and children of the faculty are in-
vited.

The Guignol, French equivalent
of "Punch and Judy," dates back
to the days of the wandering
minstrel. The puppets are made
of wood, plaster, and cloth. M.
Brossard, who has been working
with puppets since he was four
years old, has been with the French
line as official Guignolistic for a
good many years. His "theatre"
therefore, has crossed the ocean so
many times that it has covered
more than 500,000 miles.

What Punch says to Judy
doesn't really matter, for Ferdinand
Brossard is expert at pantomine.
The repertoire of jolly little plays
is both diversified and alive with
human interest. It is all quaint
. . . the miniature stage, the scen-
ery, the marvelously costumed
characters, and the talents of this
ventriloquist, who has dedicated a
life time to making childhood
happy through a medium as old
as France itself.

B. O. Z. Has Meeting

B. O. 2. met on Friday, Janu-
ary 13, at 8:00 o'clock in Main.
Henrietta Blackwell, Cora Kay
Hutchins, and Sam Olive Griffin
read. The hostesses for the occa-
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Sewell, and delicious refreshments
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Agnes Scott College
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THE AGONISTIC

Editorials

features

Vol. XXIV, No. 10
Wednesday, Jan. 18, 1939

No Oligarchy

At the Open Forum in chapel tomorrow
the final step in the Agonistic's drive to
change the name of this newspaper will
come into view. To date we have been
most encouraged by the attitude of the
College community toward the movement.
Many of the faculty have evidenced their
desire to cooperate in our effort to find a
more suitable name, many of the students
submitted entries in the name contest,
and the judges have made an excellent
recommendation for the new name.

Much has been accomplished in the
drive, and we come now to the most im-
portant part of our movement the final
student vote. Since we are definitely op-
posed to any possible attempt to railroad
the new name, the Agnes Scott Mirror,
we urge the students to attend the forum,
to find out our reasons for advocating the
change, and to take part in the discussion.

Railroading results when a few people
are allowed to monopolize a discussion and
prevent anyone's speaking against a move.
It thus tends toward an oligarchy.

The Agnes Scott Student Government
was founded on principles directly con-
trary to such a form of government. It
is based on the broadest democratic prin-
ciples, foremost among which is the right
of every student to express her views. But
these democratic theories are destroyed
when the students are reluctant to par-
ticipate in the Open Forum discussions.

If we are to preserve this campus de-
mocracy and to ward off a campus olig-
archy, we must have greater student dis-
cussion. It is not just our privilege, but
also our duty to express our opinions at
these meetings.

Let us make this the first Forum of the
new year one which measures up more
nearly to our democratic principles.

Editorial Notes

Since the General Board of Education
has given the college so generous a gift
we now have hopes that the Administra-
tion will be able to scrape up a few pen-
nies and equip the dormitories with at
least one or two free telephones.

The first basketball game of the winter
quarter was attended by a fairly large
crowd. However, we should have a much
better attendance. Show your class spirit,
and at the same time get a few thrills
(and laughs) by coming to the next
games.

You may know as much about etiquette
as Emily Post, but we will wager that you
will learn still more if you take the social
usage tests on Friday afternoon.

SI) c Agonistic

Agnes Scott College Student Newspaper
Vol. 24 Wednesday, January 18 No. 10

Mary Francos Guthrio
Editor

Evelyn Baty
Mary Reins
Assistant Editors

Elizabeth Kennedy
Copy Editor

Rebecca Drucker
Assistant Copy Editor

Marie Merrltt
Business Manager

Mary Louise Dobbs
Advertising Manager

Alice Cheesoman
Mary Wells McNeill
Feature Editors

Anne Enloe
Georgia Hunt
Assistant Feature Editors
REPORTERS: M. L. Gill.
Ratllff. ('. K. Hutrhlns, P.

STAFF

.lane Salters
Current History
Eleanor Hutchens
Sports Editor
Hazel Solomon
Exchange Editor
Jeannette Carroll
Alumnae Editor
Selma Stelnbach
Club Editor

Hayden Sanford
Eloise Leonard

Florence Ellis
Society Editors

Virginia Farrar
Dorothy Graham
Florence Graham
Reth Paris
Or.le Smith
Circulation Managers
V. J. Watkins. A. Enloe. M. L.
Heaslett. M. Merlin. I). WcinkJe.
B. Alderman. J. Witman. M. Fite. L. Franklin. J. Cates, S.
Lee. a Willis. P. Hammond. A. Enloe. E. Stubbs, E. McCall,
B. Coleman, S. Self. J. Lancaster. E. Barrett.
BUSINESS STAFF: B. Coleman. B. L. Murlin. ML E. Leavitt.
M. Watkins. L. Sale, B. A. Stewart. W. Howard. W. finger,
L. Schwtnke.

Davidson Admires

History, Sonja Henie

National Council Debates
Popularized History

Dr. Philip Davidson went his-
tory-seeking over the Christmas
holidays when he met in confer-
ence with historians from all over
the country for a meeting of the
American Historical Association
in Chicago. The official stamp-
ing-ground of the Association was
the world's largest hotel, the Ste-
phens, which, according to Dr.
Davidson, is "absolutely tremend-
ous!" In all of its three lobbies his-
torians buzzed in excited disputes
of historical points, dashed around
looking for celebrities, and en-
joyed themselves generally.

A new method of presenting
papers was tried by the Associa-
tion. Whereas formerly three
papers were read in one session and
followed by a brief discussion, in
the recent meeting only one paper
was read at a session, and the re-
maining time was devoted to full
and open, discussion of the paper.
This arrangement gave ample time
for some interesting debating. In
one session, Sidney B. Fay and Ber-
nadotte Schmitt, noted authorities
on the World War, discussed at
length their theories concerning the
origins of the War, and after sev-
eral hours of debate, both stuck to
their original positions.

A session on the cultural re-
lations between the United States
and Europe was interesting. In
the two papers presented, European
Ideas Not Immigrating to Amer-
ica and American Ideas Not Immi-
grating to Europe, the fact was
brought out that, among other
things, the British Civil Service
still remains British, and the Amer-
ican system of education has not
as yet traveled abroad. Revision of
the Crusades and a Study of Abo-
lition also proved absorbing topics.

Something new in history pre-
sentation was debated by the coun-
cil. It was suggested that the As-
sociation sponsor a popularized his-
tory magazine in which history
would be presented in an accurate
but thoroughly entertaining man-
ner. Jokes, cartoons, historical
stories, silly illustrations, etc.,
would be used to bring before the
public the happenings of the not-
forgotten past.

Annually the American Histor-
ical Associatin awards a prize to
the outstanding book of the year,
the book being selected by the
John H. Dunning prize commit-
tee. This year Dr. Davidson was
appointed to this committee of
three, the other two members be-
ing Paul Buck of Harvard, author
of the Pulitzer prixe winner Road
to Reunion, and Viola F. Barnes of
Mt. Holyoke, author of Dominion
of New England.

When asked what his disap-
pointments were, Dr. Davidson
sighed his only regret "that I
didn't go to see Sonja Henie at
Soldiers Field! 0 It was only on the
train heading for Georgia that he
discovered what a silver opportu-
nity he had missed.

Front Row

By JANE SALTERS

Washington Merry - Go - Round
adds a spicy flavor to the news
with its recent statement that the
United States aviation firms have
been of great assistance in forward-
ing the aircraft development of the
Reich by selling planes to the Ger-
mans before the prohibitory laws
of 1933 and 1934 and by selling
"parts and patents" to them sub-
sequently.

Refugees and Relief

Franco's forces make new and
bigger headlines, seize two rich
provinces bordering on Barcelona,
and approach to within 28 miles of
the loyalist capital, sending about
70,000 refugees pouring into the
already overburdened city.

A special Senate committee cuts
the president's relief appropriation
by $150,000,000 and proposes a
plan of uniting all the relief agen-
cies into a Department of Public
Works with a "permanent federal
assistance program" and alloting
funds on the basis of state popula-
tion.

Irish Show a Spark

Irish Republican illegal organi-
zations post notices in Belfast and
Dublin demanding withdrawal of
all British civil and military rep-
resentatives from the island, while
2000 "members of the old Irish
Republican army" declare that the
country will enter into no mili-
tary alliance or cooperation with
England while an "English soldier
remains on Irish soil."
Atlanta Becomes Famous

The General Education Board of
New York grants a total of $2,-
500,000 toward the formation of
a great University Center in At-
lanta, the institutions benefited in-
cluding Emory, Tech, Agnes Scott,
Columbia Seminary, and the High
Museum and School of Art.

To Tnx 6c?iton

Dear Editor:

It seems to me that something
should be done about the price of
meals for guests in the dining
room! I have heard quite a bit of
complaint lately along this line. _

Perhaps one of two plans could
be worked out in order to reduce
the prevailing price of fifty cents
per meal for guests. The first of
these plans would be to have a dif-
ferent price for each meal; for
example, twenty-five cents for
breakfast, thirty-five cents for
lunch, and fifty cents for dinner.
The other plan which might be
adopted would be to sell meal tic-
kets for guests at a special price
of three for a dollar. Either of
these plans would help students
immensely!

Sincerely,

A Thrifty Thinker.

Obcrlin College officials were
astonished not long ago when they
received an enrollment application
"signed with a footprint." It was
the signature of Wesley Cox, 3
days old, son of Budd Cox, Ober-
lin's frosh coach. It was filed
away for reference about eigh-
teen years hence. Campus in Car-
toon.

Garden of Eden

The corner stone of a truly greater Ag-
nes Scott was laid last week when the Gen-
eral Education Board of New York con-
cluded its arrangements to establish a
University Center for the South in At-
lanta.

As Dr. McCain stated, the College is not
ambitious to increase its enrollment and
grow into a large institution. It desires
rather to add to the quality of its work
and to "safeguard its character as a
Christian school of high standing."

With this ideal Agnes Scott is to be a
most important unit in the University
Program and an institution rendering un-
limited service to the South. The College
is to be a foundation upon which the
Emory University Graduate School, the
most pressing need which the University
Center aims to meet, can rest and from
which it can receive strength.

Agnes Scott is nearing the close of her
fiftieth year of service a period in which
the institution has advanced from a weak
and struggling school to a College rank-
ing among the best in high standards of
intellectual work. As we are about to en-
ter the second fifty-year period, we re-
iterate our President's happiness that we
are "in the midst of an educational renais-
sance and an era of good institutional fel-
lowship that would have seemed to our
founders like the Garden of Eden."

Parade of Opinion

By ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESS

DIPLOMACY The humor that seems to
make U. S. citizens less susceptible to hysteria
and mass-ignorance didn't fail to crop out in
this crisis as it has in most others. The laugh
originated when West Virginia University mem-
bers of Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity staged a
"Hitler Party" to which members came costumed
like Hitler. The German press, famed fotr not
being able to take a joke, seriously scorched the
party-goers by calling them "insolent, shameless
and silly." Not to be outdone, they cabled Hit-
ler thus: "West Virginia University students
hereby sever relations with Germany, prosit."

PEACE Far from cloistered have been U. S.
halls of learning during the period of world-wide
unrest that has made the citizens of all nations
wander far from the placidness of Ferdinand the
Bull. Collegians and their teachers are taking an
active interest in the state of the world, and are
becoming more belligerent when it comes to de-
fending democracy.

Chief blow to the passive pacifism that in oth-
er years brought an endorsement of the famed
Oxford Oath ("I won't fight under any circum-
stances") was the abandonment of the oath by
the delegates to the conventions of the American
Student Union and the National Student Fed-
eration of America. Both meetings urged con-
tinued peace education, but both more or less ap-
proved the President's rearmament policies.

Presidential messages on rearmament brought
a chorus of "yeas" from the collegiate press, with
only here and there a scattered "nay." At the
University of Virginia, "College Topics" stated
the case for the supporters of the move like this:

"Pacifism and optimism insofar as world peace
is concerned are admirable under normal condi-
tions, but Utopianlike and thoroughly dangerous
while world affairs arc in their present turbulent
state. We are people who espouse and champion
democracy democracy faces unpredictable
trouble. We are people who espouse and cham-
pion disarmament at the present time, such ac-
tion on our part with the known status of other
powers on the subject, would be suicidal. There-
fore, we must exercise sagacity in the administra-
tion of our government in order tha it prove
itself the ultimate in social and economical gov-
ernment of the human race. We must prepare
for the direct emergency in defense of our stand-
ards and our country."

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Nominate
May Queen

The Agonistic

Nominate
May Queen

VOL. XXIV

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1939 AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA.,

Z115

No. 11

Phi Beta Kappa Chooses Five

Happy, indeed, are these new members of Phi Beta Kappa: front
row, left to right, Marie Merritt, Lou Pate, and Mary Ellen Whetsell;
back row, Sarah Thurman and Cora Kay Hutchins.

Seminary President Speaks
On Oxford Contributions

Dr. Richards Urges Youth to Facs Life
With Right Interpretation of Fact

Dr. J. McDowell Richards, president* of Columbia Semi-
nary, emphasized the contributions of Oxford 'University to
the educational world when he spoke at the Phi Beta Kappa
announcement on Saturday. Dr. Richards was a Phi Beta
Kappa at Davidson, and a Rhodes
Scholar at Oxford and therefore
well qualified to discuss the meth-
ods of the English system.

Before speaking of Oxford's in-
fluence in "Moulding the Thought
and Practice of the American Edu-
cational World," Dr. Richards told
of the growth of the University
from a series of student groups
dating back to the eleventh cen-
tury to its present number of
twenty-one colleges and other so-
cieties and halls. Today this Uni-
versity, which was not planned,
but grew "like the English Con-
stitution," recognizes women stu-
dents on the same status as men,
and is superior to Cambridge in
this respect.

Oxford's contributions tb edu-
cation the speaker named as three.
It gives its students a "sense of
reverence for the past" and of the
"continuity" of the ages, even

(Continued on Page 2, Col. 3)

C. A. Sends Deputation
To Wesleyan College

In answer to an invitation from
Wesleyan College in Macon, Geor-
gia, The Christian Association sent
a deputation team to their cam-
pus, Sunday, January 22. Grace
Ward introduced Evelyn Baty
who talked on "Choosing My
Life's Work;" Amelia Nichels, ac-
companied by Mamie Lee Ratliff,
furnished the musical entertain-
ment.

College Youth Back
Social Hygiene Day

On February 1, National Social
Hygiene Day, five thousand meet-
ings will be held over the U. S.
to show the Legislature that the
youth of America are backing up
the movement for a premarital ex-
amination law.

One of the meetings will be
held here in Atlanta at the Ansley
Hotel. In the morning there will
be an adult meeting, and in the
afternoon at three o'clock, a mass
meeting of young people. Dr.
James E. Paullin will speak on
Syphilis: A Challenge to Youth,
after which there will be a tech-
nicolor movie and open forum dis-
cussion.

A delegation from Emory, Tech,
and Agnes Scott will attend. Ev-
eryone interested should see Dr.
Swanson or Mary Eleanor Steele
for details.

Emory Men Conduct
Vesper Services Here

At the regular college vesper
program Sunday night, held in the
chapel, an Emory deputation pre-
sented the program. Ben St. Clair
lead the program while Eual
Samples spoke and Wilson Morgan
sang, accompanied by John Hut-
chinson.

Colleges Meet
In Macon

McCain Will Discuss
University Center

President J. R. McCain and
Dean of the Faculty S. G. Stukes
will represent Agnes Scott at the
twenty-third session of the Asso-
ciation of Georgia Colleges meet-
ing in Macon, Georgia, January 27
and 28. Dr. McCain will speak on
Saturday morning, discussing the
development of a University Cen-
ter as a means of improving edu-
cation in Georgia.

Officers of the Association are
President Paul M. Cousins, of
Shorter College, and Secretary-
Treasurer, and William D. Hoop-
er, from the University of Geor-
gia. Twenty-three Georgia insti-
tutions are members of the group.

Silhouette Sets
Picture Dead Line

The Silhouette announces March
1st as the dead line for all entries
in the snapshot contest sponsored
by the staff. Adelaide Benson,
editor of the year book, states that
the prizes will be given for origi-
nality of composition and clear-
ness of detail. First and second
prizes of three and two dollars re-
spectively will be presented* for
the two best campus scenes. A two
dollar award will be given to the
student obtaining the best candid
camera shot.

May Queen Elections
Will Open Tomorrow

Box for Popular Nominations
To be Placed in Buttrick Hall

If you don't know who is the prettiest Senior in Agnes
Scott, start looking around today, for this week you will have
an opportunity to help name the May Queen of '39. Elections
i will take place Thursday, Friday,

Begi

Committees

in Work on
Senior Opera

Already making plans to launch
work for the senior opera, Mary
Hollingsworth, chairman, an-
nounces the following committees:
writing committee: Douglas Lyle,
chairman, Julia Sewell, Henrietta
Blackwell, Marie Merritt, Amelia
Nickels, Mamie Lee Ratliff, Mary
Wells McNeill: dancing, Ruby
Mae Laney, Sara Thurman, Helen
Kirkpatrick; costumes, Adelaide
Benson, Mary Frances Thompson,
Dorothy Lazenby, Katherine Far-
rar, Sara Joyce Cunningham; prop-
erty, Katherine Ivey; stage sets,
Jean Bailey, Kay Kennedy, Susan
Goodwyn; directing chairman,
Jeanne Flynt.

Pi Alpha Phi
Broadcasts Skit

The college mail-room was the
scene of the Agnes Scott radio
skit presented yesterday afternoon
by Pi Alpha Phi, in which Mar-
garet Hopkins and Ann Henry dis-
cussed future debates and club
plans. Written by the two repre-
sentatives of the club, the pro-
gram also included Miss Carrie
Phinney Latimer and Jeanne Flynt,
who regularly lead the discussions.

Next Tuesday the three publica-
tions, represented by Mary Frances
Guthrie, Adelaide Benson, and
Julia Sewell, will present a pro-
gram written by Julia Sewell.

Student Vote Installs
New R. C. A. Radio

As a result of the student vote
in chapel Friday, January 20, Stu-
dent Government bought an RCA
Vic tor Radio-Victrola combination
machine to be put in the Murphey
Candler Building.

The machine will be installed
immediately and with its new
records will be used for the first
time at after-dinner coffee Wed-
nesday night.

Mortar Board Gives Tea

The Agnes Scott chapter of
Mortar Board will give the annual
Mortar Board tea for the day stu-
dents and their parents in the
Murphey Candler Building, Satur-
day afternoon, January 28. Mem-
bers of Mortar Board will be the
hostesses.

and Saturday, January 26-28, it
was announced today by Helen
Moses, May Day chairman; the re-
sults of the election are to be pub-
lished in the next issue of the Ag-
onistic.

A nomination box will be placed
in the gym directly under the bul-
letin board, and all students are
urged to vote.

In making the announcement,
Chairman Moses reminded the stu-
dent body that all votes must be
signed; that eligibility ' for May
Queen is Senior standing plus
"looks," plus charm; that the
Queen will be the student receiv-
ing the largest number of votes.
Votes are to be counted by Helen
Moses, chairman, and Miss Eugenia
Dozier, faculty advisor of the May
Day Committee.

Contrary to previous practice, it
does not hold true this year that
any Senior receiving fifteen votes
will automatically become a mem-
ber of court. Among former May
Queens are such beauties as Myrl
Chafin, Lucille Dennison, Naomi
Cooper and Miss Charlotte Hun-
ter, assistant dean.

Chi Beta Phi
Hears Reports
On Convention

The Chi Beta Phi meeting
Thursday night, January 19 was
chiefly concerned with reports of
the national" convention, which was
held during the Christmas holi-
days at Ashland, Virginia. Im-
portant changes in the organiza-
tion resulted from the national
meeting, among which was the in-
corporation of both Chi Beta Phi
and Chi Beta Phi Sigma under the
one name of Chi Beta Phi.

Following the reports, a student
program on "Capital Punishment"
was given. Carolyn Forman and
Polly Heaslett explained the chem-
istry and biology of electrocution
and lethal gases.

Pi Alpha Delegates Go

To Baton Rouge Convention

For the first time in the history
of the club, Pi Alpha Phi is send-
ing delegates to a convention to
participate in a three day debating
tournament sponsored by the Sou-
thern Association of Teachers of
Speech, March 27-30, at Baton
Rouge, Louisiana. Margaret Hop-
kins and Marjorie Merlin, represent-
ing Agnes Scott, will uphold the
negative side of the question: Re-
solved: That the Democratic na-
tions should form an alliance to
preserve Democracy.

On March 30, the debaters will
leave for New Orleans to debate

Sophie Newcomb March 31 in a
decision dual debate on the same
subject. The affirmative side
will be upheld by Mary Frances
Guthrie and Arlene Steinbach at
Agnes Scott against the visiting
Newcomb delegates. The alternate
for both teams is Ann Henry.

On April 10, Mary Louise
Dobbs and Doris Weinkle will op-
pose the varsity of the University
of Florida in a non-decision debate
on the topic of Pump-priming.
The visitors will stop over in De-
catur on their northern tour.

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THE AGONISTIC, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1939

Champion Junior Team
Meets Nemesis, 32-14

Sophomores Take Seniors
In One-Sided Sister Class Scrap

"Down in Rebekah
Hear dat mournful sound;
All de juniors am a-weepin'
Record's in de cold, cold ground!"

Defeated for the first time in two years, the formerly in-
vincible juniors bowed to their sister class in the hottest
basketball game to date in the gymnasium last Friday night,
while the sophomores gave the seniors their second straight
beating with a score of 46 to 14.
senior-sophomore

The senior-sophomore contest
was fast from the start, the first
play ending in a Carmichael-Stein-
bach scuffle on the floor. Stubbs
came through shortly with the
first goal, beginning a back-and-
forth series of baskets by Carmich-
ael and Dyar. The sophomores,
using a neat passing system and ac-
curate shooting, piled up the score
to 16-2 in the first quarter. Fish-
er resumed her bombardment of
the basket, but was less success-
ful because of more careful guard-
ing by the seniors in the second
quarter. Supported by beautiful
teamwork, the soph forwards soon
learned to get around this defense,
doubling their score in the quar-
ter. The second senior score came
when Carmichael completed a free
shot after a personal foul by Stein-
bach.

Dyar made the first goal of the
second period, after valiant at-
tempts by the long-suffering Car-
michael. The seniors took a spurt
forward as Dryfoos scored twice
and Carmichael gained another
point after a second personal foul
on the part of Steinbach. A long,
spectacular goal by Carmichael
was ruled void; Dyar rang up four
quick ones, succeeded by Jones'
two after a Steinbach teachnical
foul. The whistle left it 46-14 for
the underclassmen.

The junior-freshman game be-
gan furiously, Slack drawing first
blood with a neat toss over the
head of her guard. Three fresh-
man goals by Dunn and McEl-

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waney followed, giving them a lead
never broken for the rest of the
game. Disconcerted by the close
guarding of their opponents, the
junior forwards tried wild long
shots which served only to release
the ball from their possession. The
quarter ended 16-6 with a perfect
goal amounting practically to
sleight-of-hand by Webster. She
and Dunn completely dominated
the next quarter, systematically
adding ten points to their score be-
fore the half was over.

Milner managed to get one past
the overwhelming Brooks guarding
for her second and last score of
the game. The crippled Moses,
after an alert performance at
guard, left the game with a twist-
ed ankle. Junior passing began to
click, but too late to turn the
tide. Slack came through with a
long-distance goal, followed by a
similar one from Carson. The
longest pass of the game, a heave
from Brooks to Webster covering
almost the length of the court,
ended in the last freshman score.
The teams rushed into huddles to
cheer a 32-14 frosh victory.
LINE-UP:
Seniors: Forwards Carmichael,
Dryfoos, Carter, Jones; Guards
MacGuire, Steele, Benson.

Sophomores: Forwards Dyar,
Strubbs, Fisher, Bell; Guards
Klugh, Kendrick, Steinbach, Wilds,
Henry.

Juniors: Forwards Milner,
Slack, Carson, Forman; Guards
Moses, Thompson, Ware, Reins,
Forman.

Freshmen: Forwards McEl-
waney, Webster, Dunn, Thomas;
Guards Brooks, Gellerstedt,
Lott, Copeland, Webster, Brad-
field, Wilds.

Mrs. Heege Fetes
German Club

German Club met Wednesday
afternoon at the home of Mrs.
Emil Heege on Avery Drive,
where the refreshments, furnish-
ings, and conversation were all
thoroughly German. The contest
of making German words out of
"Deutschland" was won by Nancy
Willstatter.

Agonistic Lists
Suggested
Titles for Paper

At the request of the student
body, The Agonistic is disclosing
the following complete list of en-
tries in the contest to find a bet-
ter name for the campus news-
paper:

Brass Tacks, The Consensus, The
Quadrangle, The Main Tower, The
Scholar-Gypsy, The Collegian,
Scott's Plaid, Scott's Clansman,
The Outlook, The Scott View,
The Telescope, Advance, The
Round Up, The Newslette, The
Scottlander, The Pioneer, The Scep-
tor, The Pulsator, The Liberator,
The Scottangier, The Angler, The
Reflector, The Outcome, Scott-
ische, The Gist, Minerva's Moods,
Witches' Brew, Aphrodite, The
Spectrum, Students' Forum, The
Jester, Toil and Trouble, Sit Lux,
Bubble Bubble, The Southern
Woman, Lux Australis, Moods and
Phases, The Phillippic, Onlooker,
The Phase, Week to Week, Living,
The Gibe, Panorama, Aggie Forum,
The Squint, The Panic, The Sun-
ny Southerner, The Caldron, The
View Point, The Review, Aggie's
News Review, The Hottentot, The
Aggie, The Scott Tower,' The Scott
Record, Hottentot News, The
Scot, Agnes Scott Spectator, The
A. S. C.-All, The Scott Review,
The Plaid, Collegiate Columns,
The Rostrum, The Clarion, The
Purple and White, The Cloister,
Agnes Scott News, The Compass,
The Reporter, The Colander, The
Record, The Coffer.

Sports Miscellany

By ELEANOR HUTCHENS

Dr. Richards

{Continued from Page 1)
though some of its old statutes
such as forbidding students to car-
ry a bow and arrow seem foolish
to us today. The ceremonies and
famous portraits impress the stu-
dent with a consciousness of being
"the heir of the ages."

The Oxford seal demonstrates
its second contribution: a recogni-
tion that "our learning has been
cradled by religion." The primary
contribution, however, is the Uni-
versity's emphasis on the individ-
ual. At Oxford students "don't
waste too much time going to lec-
tures," but try to master facts and
to interpret them clearly for final
comprehensives. Dr. Richards in
closing urged the students to "face
the problems of today" in the light
of a right interpretation of facts.

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When the presidents of A. A. and Cotillion Club are room-
mates, the natural result is an A. A. dance, we reckon. So
take your nickels with you to dinner on Wednesday night;
A. A. is giving another of those super-super nickelodeon af-
fairs immediately afterward, down

in the gym. Nay, more: 'tis ru-
mored that the machine will be op-
erated without the use of coat-
hangers this time. What will they
think of next?

"Daphnis and Chloe" will be
the title of the water splageant to
be staged by Swimming Club next
month said title being inspired in
some way by the Philadelphia Sym-
phony Orchestra. Tryouts for the
principal parts were held Monday
night; results as yet unrevealed.

Miss Isabelle Randolph, who was
head of the Physical Ed Depart-
ment when the gym was built, will
stop by the old stamping grounds
(ref. natural dancing class) next
Sunday. She teaches in Philadel-
phia these days.

Notes on the Gym Classes:
Recreational games class has now
taken to bowling once a week at
one of the new alleys in Dec. . . .
Bowling is about to become, un-
officially, a majo'r sport; someone
suggested in the last Athletic
Board meeting that class teams be
organized next year. How about
it, Public Opinion? . . . Social
dancing class has mastered* the
Yam, Lambeth Walk, and tango
. . . Have you seen the new cos-
tumes for modern dancing? Color-
ful as a Cheesman poster, no less.
. . . Consternation in the raw
(well, practically) : when Muzzey
tried to take pictures for the an-
nual in natural dancing class last
week. Leap, run, run.

Chicago University

Recognizes

Its 'College Widow*

"University of Chicago word-
technicians have been working for
a long time now on a new Amer-
ican-English dictionary, and they
have come across a couple of facts
that may be of interest to you.
For instance, they have found that
the use of the word 'co-ed' was
first made in 1893, and first got
recognition in the old 'Independ-
ent' in this sentence: 'The fellows
in a body may laugh at the co-eds.
Yet they rarely fail to open or
close a door for them.' The 'Col-
lege Widow' is given recognition
with this definition: 'A college
widow is the unfortunate young
women who, having been the pet
of several college generations with-
out making a single permanent
capture, at last finds herself de-
serted of admirers, and with faded
charms, falls out of sight and
memory'. "

Student Capacities Vary

Colleges are shown to differ
widely in the capacity of their stu-
dents. In one extreme case all of
the students in the sophomore class
of one college ranked lower in an
intelligence test than the dullest
student in the sophomore class of
a superior institution. New York
(ACP).

APPROVAL OF
THE CROWD!

You don't have to go in for any bathing
beauty contest to get the crowd's approval
around this campus. There's not a corny
dress in the whole MANGEL'S collec-
tion at $6.98. It s hard to believe until
you see them. So, alter your class today
take a trip down to MANGEL'S and you'll
be convinced.

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THE AGONISTIC, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1939

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Georgia Tech Fraternity Men
Describe Their Ideal Girl

It is all very well to discuss girls' ideal ; we've read many
such discussions and compared them with our own idea as
to what constitutes a desirable male. Your reporter, how-
ever, decided to turn tables for the benefit of womankind
and to find out just what, if anything, is man's ideal: We
are more interested in that, after all, aren't we?

Your brazen reporter decided,
therefore, to go after the desired
information in the proper (?)
fashion crashing fraternity
houses when necessary.

My first trip was to the Geor-
gia Tech campus, supplying no
end of males. Crashing the S A E
house, I cornered Dillard Mun-
ford, perhaps the most active fig-
ure on the Tech campus. Since he
is the editor of a new and better
Technique, I cannot help but give
his views first place among those
of the mighty Jackets. Hand-
some, with dark, intelligent eyes,
he had an answer to every ques-
tion at the tip of his tongue.

"I would like my lady com-
panion to 'be intelligent." His
statement was terse, precise.

"You'd want her beautiful, of

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"No beauty surpasses that of in-
telligence," he remarked almost
curtly. That held me for a few
moments. Intelligence, intelligence.
Brains calling for brains .

"But tell me more. Must she be
athletic?"

"I would like her to join me in
tennis. And golf, perhaps."
"No other entertainment?"
"There's nothing I enjoy more
than a dance on Saturday nights,"
he confided.

"Your answer, then, is that she
must be intelligent, a lover of
sports, and enjoy dancing. That
is all?"

"Intelligence covers a lot," he
reminded me. "Interesting conver-
sation, love of good books ."

Somehow I felt Dillard Munford
a bit too much for me. He said
what he had to in a few words,
but Oh! so much to the point. Was
I disappointed because I could not
meet his standards? I thanked him
and left the palatial S A E house
to find other interesting prospects.

I thought it would be a good
idea to talk to some one who hails
from distant parts, and so was led
to the Delta Sig house on Wil-
liams Street. Bill Beers, vice presi-
dent of the Delta Sigs and an ac-
tive campus figure, comes from
Panama. He says:

"I like the Southern girls. They
have that certain charm ."

"Just what do you mean by
charm?" I asked.

"Well, they have, for example,
a ready, willing smile for all. They
can put one so much at ease."
"What about dancing?"
"By all means!" His eyes be-
came first gay, then dreamy as he
added slowly: "She must Rhumba
and Tango!"

"Do you want her to be intel-

lgent?

and unselfish,

To be neat,
is sufficient."

I next questioned John Ham-
mond, secretary of the Delta Sig-

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ma Phi. For some reason, I couldn't
leave the house without asking this
husky chap a few questions. An
extremely likable person of some
190 pounds, he is a typical he-
man. Full of good humor and ap-
parently easy-going, his answers
proved interesting.

"She must be brunette, of good
humor, and of at least average in-
telligence," he began. "If I told
you beauty did not count, I would
be grossly misleading you as
have the rest of the boys you ques-
tioned before me. I believe every
man likes a pretty face; they may
not admit it, but it's natural.. A
raving beauty, no; but at least
pretty, or "sweet," definitely
yes. I like sports, movies and
dancing. But though I want her
to join me in all that, I want her
to remain "Feminine." And a good
listener.

I had no more time to round up
other campus leaders, so decided
to call it a day and get after the
boys of another local campus some
other time. I carried my notes to
my room and reviewed their de-
mands. They were:

QGalavanting ^Gals

Mrs. Al Hoyt, came up from
Macon for the week-end, while
Jane Luthy visited Nell Pinner.
Mrs. D. M. Moore came by to see
Boots on her way home to Monroe,
Louisiana. Sara Lee's mother also
paid her daughter a surprise visit
Sunday.

Cotillion Dances

Jane Moore Hamilton, Jane
Jones, Toni Newton, Ginger Tum-
lin, and Catherine Ivie were host-
esses at the meeting of Cotillion
Club on Thursday afternoon, Jan-
uary 19.

With Tech Mid-terms and the Emory formal season lurk-
ing around the very closest corner, each Gal is putting on
her frilliest frock and her sweetest smile trying to impress
some fellow with the idea that She is The One. Among those

seen having a wonderful time at

the K A House Saturday night were
Freck Sproles, Martie Doak, Mar-
tha Marshall, Lillian Schwencke,
and Susanne Kaulbach. At that
same time, Nell Pinner and Dusty
Hance were lustily yelling for
Tech at the Tech-Tulane basket-
ball game.

The Sigma Nu's also chose Sat-
urday night for their steak fry,
which was attended by Marjorie
Boggs, Edith Stover, Betty Waitt,
Susan Self, and Martha Dunn.

In the center of the social spot-
light Friday night was Allie Ma-
lone, who acted as sponsor at the
De Molay Dance, while Ella Muz-
zey, Deezie Scott, and Martha
Dunn went to a dance given by
one of the Atlanta law fraterni-
ties.

Those delightful buffet suppers
which the Emory fraternities give
on Sunday nights are always well
attended by Scott girls. Dusty
Hance and Lib Barrett went to the
one at the Sigma Chi house, while
Frankie Butt, Eloise Lennard, Sara
E. Lee, Elizabeth Jenkins, Weezie
Sams, and Martha Dunn went to
the one at the S A E house, and
Marian Franklin to the Phi Delta
Theta House.

Those seeking entertainment
elsewhere than Atlanta this week-
end were Julia McConnell, Betty
Moore, Jeanne Allen, and Mary
Bell, who went to Talledega, Ala-
bama, while Hayden Sanford, Gin-
ger Tumlin and Charlene Burke
went home.

Ellen Stuart's "little" sister,

For Dec's Best Sodas
Go To

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CAMPUS CELEBRITY

Our Prexie Wins Prize
On Cooking Biscuits

By MARY WELLS McNEILL

When finally cornered and faced with the demand, "tell
all about your past," Dr. McCain solemnly declared he had
led a "very uneventful life." However, after some question-
ing, he admitted having obtained a B. A. degree and an M. A.
in English from Erskine College ; a L.L. B. in Law from Mer-
cer University; an M. A. in History from the University of

Chicago; a P. L. D. from Colum-
bia University in History and Eco-
nomics, and an honorary L.L. D.
from Davidson.

Yes, he did believe he was on the
class football team but was "no
shining light;" he and his cousin
were doubles champions in tennis
but his cousin beat him in singles;
and he debated but got beaten. Also
after leaving Mercer he practiced
law in Spartanburg, South Carolina
for two years and then became
principal of the Covington, Ten-
nessee High School. From 1905
to 1910 he was* principal of the
Darlington School in Rome, Geor-
gia and then became president of
Agnes Scott, which he has been
ever since.

That last bit of information was
given with a "thank goodness that
ends this" expression but it didn't
end anything and after a beseech-
ing request to think hard Dr. Mc-
Cain helpfully suggested that he
had once won a sack of flour at
a cooking school for making the
best biscuits and that his only
hobby was sleeping.

Such has been the "uneventful
life" of one who was editor of the
Erskinia, his college literary maga-
zine; who met his wife on a blind
date; and who, as his niece claims
with a grin, was instrumental in
knocking out her papa's four front
teeth at a tender age.

She must be intelligent, a good
dancer jitterbug or smoothe
and a lover of sports. She need
not be beautiful, tho added assets
may be, (1) a pretty face, (2)
good listener, and (3) sweet dis-
position and "feminine." She may
be blond, brunette, or red-head.
Oh yes! She must be charming!
And good-humored.

In short, girls, eat more fish
(with hopes more grey matter will
develop), improve your dancing,
shut your mouth except to smile,
laugh at anything, and finally, re-
main feminine. If that doesn't
work, wait until leap year.

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THE AGONISTIC, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1939

Agnes Scott College
Decatur, Ga.

THE AGONISTIC

Editorials

features

Vol. XXIV, No. 11
Wednesday, Jan. 25, 1939

Wanted: Name

Last week's chapel discussion on chang-
ing the name of the Agonistic was grati-
fying as proof that the minds of the stu-
dent body are alert to campus problems,
and in particular to the problems of their
newspaper. So long as we continue to
think through questions and to express
clearly our convictions, Agnes Scott will
continue to be a democracy.

The name recommended by the commit-
tee carries the approval of many. The Ag-
nes Scott Mirror expresses the purpose of
the paper to reflect campus news, and at
the same time is dignified and easily un-
derstood by outsiders. The Agnes Scott
News has been suggested; it too has dig-
nity, although it fails to connote the real
policy of the paper.

It has been demonstrated that the Ag-
onistic has been a sufficient source of em-
barrassment for the whole college and of
lowered rating and misunderstanding for
the paper to justify its rejection. No one
knows yet what the new name will be. All
names suggested in the contest appear in
this issue. It is hoped that the student
body will choose from them a name wor-
thy of the college, even though it may not
sound as "cute" as a less conservative one.

What is most important is another in-
terested discussion of the name. The Ag-
onistic wants to please the students and
faculty and to maintain its dignity and
position, but it can do nothing without the
continuation of the cooperation shown in
our last open forum.

Editorial Notes

The new radio-victrola combination is
the delight of the whole student body.
Congratulations to Student Government
and Athletic Association, and may it be
properly initiated into Agnes Scott life to-
night at after-dinner coffee.

Campus
Quotes

Front Row Lights Again

Renting popular books from our library
seems a happy solution of the problem of
keeping up with best-sellers.

The Mortar Board social usage tests
filled a desperate need in our socially-con-
scious lives. We think they should be com-
pulsory.

Journalist Invites University
To Confer Degree Upon Him

Okron, O. (ACP) A South African journa-
list of no mean achievements has "invited" the
University of Akron to confer upon him "an ap-
propriate degree, perhaps in arts, literature,
science (zoology preferred) or philosophy."

The journalist stands ready to remit $2 5 0 to
.$500 to cover registration and other fees, he said.

By ALICE CHEESEMAN

To the less apathetic individuals
in our, college community, the
moment's major question is that
which concerns the name of this
publication. The question, as wit-
ness Thursday's unusually open
forum, has become many-sided in-
deed.

Shall this paper's name be
changed to The Agnes Scott Mir-
ror? Or, if not, to what alterna-
tives shall we turn? Shall we con-
sider a name with "campus per-
sonality," such as The ColonaJc,
The Sundial, or The Tower? Or
shall we bow to tradition and leave
it The Agonistic, inconvenient and
unwieldy as it is from the paper's
point of view?

To quote a few salient opinions:
V. J. Watkins: "The name ought
to be changed but not to a name
like The Mirror. At least there's
the distinction of tradition in The
Agonistic. The name Mirror leaves
us open to a lot of cracks."

Mary Lang Gill: "A newspaper's
name should not be something in-
spiring of spring, and birds and
flowers but a newspapery name
The Mirror . . . just as good, if
not better, than anything else . . .
The paper's name should reflect
the policy of the paper ... as this
does."

Eleanor Hutchens: "The Mirror
is a nice solid name and by the
time the class of '43 has come
around, the campus will see it as a
very acceptable name."

Miss Carrie Phinney Latimer:
"For the sake of tradition, I'd say
leave it The Agcniistic, but for the
sake of the paper give up the
tradition. For a place as steeped
in tradition as Agnes Scott is . . .
prefer leaving it . . . don't like The
Mirror."

Gay Currie: "The Mirror is okey!
It's no worse than The Silhouette."

Miss Charlotte Hunter: "Why
not just plain Aggie . . . for prac-
tical purposes . . . The Agnes Scott
News is better. The cheapest tab-
loid in the United States is called
The Mirror! . . . The kind you just
don't let people see you reading!"

Douglas Lyle: "The Mirror is
not dignified enough! The Agnes
Scott News is better."

Agnes Scott College Student Newspaper
Vol. 24 Wednesday, January 2 5 No. 11

STAFF

J-ane Salters
Current History
Eleanor Hutchens
Sports Editor
Hazel Solomon
Exchange Editor
Jeannette Carroll
Alumnae Editor
Selma Stelnbach

Club Editor
Hayden Sanford
Elolse Lennard
Florence Ellis
Society Editors
Virginia Farrar

Eleanor Hall
Florence Graham
Beth Paris
Onle Smith
Circulation Managers
V. J. Watkins. A. Enloe. M. L.
Heaslett. M. Merlin, D. Welnkle.
Fite, L. Franklin. J. Gates. S.

Mary Frances Guthrie
Editor

Evelyn Baty
Mary Reins
Assistant Editors

Elizabeth Kennedy
Copy Editor

Rebecca Drucker
Assistant Copy Editor

Marie Merrltt
Business Manager
Marv Louise Dobbs
Advertising Manager

Alice Cheeseman
Mary Wells McNeill
Feature Editors
Anne Enloe
Georcla Hunt
Assistant Feature Editors
REPORTERS: M. L. GUI.
Ratllff. C. K. Hutchlns. P.
B. Alderman. J. Witman. M
Lee. C. Willis. P. Hammond. A. Enloe. E. Stubbs, E. McCall.
B. Coleman. S. Self. J. Lancaster, E. Barrett.
BUSINESS STAFF: B. Coleman. B. L. Murlln. M. E. Leavltt.
M. Watkins. L Sale. B A Stewart, W. Howard, W. Finger,
L. Schwenke. Dorothy Graham.

Dear Editor:

It is believed that a state pre-
marital examination law will ef-
fectively aid in wiping out syphi-
lis in Georgia. A bill to this ef-
fect may come before the Georgia
State Legislature this session. The
leaders of Social Hygiene are meet-
ing on the morning of February 1
in Atlanta to discuss the possibility
of getting such a law passed
through the legislature. The youth
are asked to attend a mass meet-
ing at the Ansley Hotel that aft-
ernoon to pledge their support in
this undertaking.

The responsibility of wiping out
venereal diseases will fall upon the
shoulders of the young people of
the nation. This process will be a
long and difficult task, but the
problem of the spread and ravages

By JANE SALTERS

While Franco's northern and
southern forces are believed to be
uniting against Barcelona, while a
new definition of treason makes
traitors of all men and women who
refuse to assist in digging trenches
before the capital, and while food-
stuffs (especially condensed milk)
become the best medium of
exchange, the Loyalists plan a pos-
sible removal of the government
to Gerona, 3 5 miles south of the
French frontier, a position which
adds weight to the unproved ac-
cusation of recent French aid to
the Spanish government.

W. P. A.

The Yugo-Slavian newspaper
Vreme compares Count Viano to
Caesar as the Italian minister on a
week's hunting trip with Stoyad-
inovich, premier of Yugoslavia,
bags seven stags, 54 rabbits, and a
commercial treaty by which Italy-
extends cheap credits to Yugo-
slavian public works and proposes
the establishment of an Italian
bank in Belgrade.

HIRANUMA

Japan's new premier riiranuma,
in his maiden speech before the
Tokyo parliament, announces his
government's purpose of in-
creased coordination of the cul-
tural, economic, and political de-
velopment of China, Manchouluo,
and Japan, and its fixed intention
to realize the goal by extermina-
tion of opposition and opposers,
if necessary.

HITLER

Hitler replaces Schacht, who has
served both as president of the
Reichsbank and as leader of the in-
ternational discussion over the
emigration of the 600,000 remain-
ing Jews, by two men more in
sympathy with the Nazi purpose
and rules all able bodied men over
17, except Jews, into some di-
vision of the enlarged Storm
Troopers organization.

of syphilis and gonorrhea has be-
come so alarming that it can no
longer be ignored. There are ap-
proximately 1,000,000 new cases
of syphilis acquired in the United
States each year. Annually 2 5,-
000 babies die from syphilis before
they have reached their first birth-
day. In Georgia it is estimated
that there are 300,000 persons who
have syphilis. The number of new
cases reported increased from 16,-
155 in 1937 to 24,111 in 193 8 in
this state. Approximately one-
half of the infections are contract-
ed innocently. By this it is meant
that the infection is given to an
innocent marital partner. These
innocent infections also include the
syphilitic babies.

A pre-marital law will prevent
many persons with syphilis from
marrying until they are rendered
non-infectious and this in turn
prevents the birth of many thou-
sands of syphilitic babies. The
spread of venereal diseases must be
checked for the protection of the
present and future generations.

Will Agnes Scott prove her in-
terest in public welfare by attend-
ing this mass meeting of the
youth?

Two Campaigners.

The light problem has bothered many
generations of Agnes Scott students. The
present student body, recognizing the in-
adequacy of the rules as they stand, has
suggested several profitable changes, but
as yet none has been put into effect.
Agreeing to the advantages of applying
the Honor System to lights, the students
still feel that the rules leave much to be
desired.

It is assumed, apparently, that the girls
at Agnes Scott, supposedly possessing
some degree of intelligence, do not have
enough discretion to exercise sanely the
privilege of lights. The students realize
fully the effect of too many late hours on
their mental and physical health, and most
of them are not anxious to stay up and
study. A few more hours' loss of sleep,
however, could hardly be more injurious
than the present plan of omitting meals
and studying in the dim light of early
morning.

Many freshmen and sophomores need
more extra lights than they have; with
the juniors the problem is even more
acute. They carry senior responsibilities,
fill senior offices, take senior courses, and
yet are allowed only one light cut a week.
It is impossible to prepare lessons for
three or more classes, to enter into a few
extra-curricular activities, to have any so-
cial life, and to keep up with world affairs
and outside reading within the few hours
which we have outside classes. Even dur-
ing exams it was impossible to get extra
permission.

The best plan seems to be an increased
number of light cuts, with some of them
limited to a certain hour, and one or more
unlimited. The cuts should be used at the
discretion of the student, even if she has
been out during the evening instead of
studying. The people who study all after-
noon and all night will not need extra
lights. It is the group which is trying to
develop socially and culturally as well as
intellectually, the "fourth ideal" group,
which will need them.

We hope that future student discus-
sions and suggestions will have some
weight and remedy this unfortunate situ-
ation so little typical of a college of intel-
ligent students.

World's Fair Head Offers
Prize for Best Poem

American poets are now offered an opportu-
nity to evince their genius in a nation-wide prize
competition for an official poem descriptive of
the spirit of the New York Worlds Fair 1939,
it was announced by Grovcr A. Whalen, Presi-
dent of the Fair Corporation, and The Academy
of American Poets, which is conducting the con-
test.

The required subject and title of the submit-
ted poem is "The World of Tomorrow," this be-
ing the dramatic theme and inspiration of the
Fair.

Six prizes are to be awarded, a First Prize of
$1,000 and five of $100 each. Duplicate prizes
will be awarded in case of ties.

By the terms of the contest, the submitted
poems must be in the English language, and be
comparatively brief and also consonant with the
spirit of the Fair. In addition to being original
with the contestant, they must not have been
previously published. No contestant may submit
more than three poems. An official entry blank,
obtainable from the Academy at 43 5 East 52
Street, must accompany each entry. Poems must
be mailed to the Academy at 43 5 East 52 Street
not later than March 15, 1939.

Three judges who have been appointed to make
the awards are William Rose Benet, Louis Unter-
meyer and Colonel Theodore Roosevelt.

Last Day
To Vote

The Agonistic

Choose
Your Queen

VOL. XXIV

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1939

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No. 12

Club Picks
'Gondoliers 7 for
Annual Opera

Director Johnson
Announces
Members of Cast

Having chosen the Gondoliers by
Gilbert and Sullivan for its annual
opera to be presented March 30
and 31, the Glee Club, under the
direction of Mr. Lewis Johnson
announces the following cast.
Where there are two scheduled for
one role, the part will be taken by
one person the first performance
and the other the second: Gianetta,
Toni Newton and Jane Moore
Hamilton; Tessa, Virginia and
Betty Kyle; Casilda, Gay Swagerty
and Jeanette Carroll; Duchess,
Amelia Nickels and Jane Moses;
Fianetta, Jac Hawks and Louise
Newton; Vittoria, Emily Under-
wood; Inez, Emily Underwood
and Pattie Patterson; Marco, Paul
Overby and Ed Evert; Guiseppe,
Don White; Duke, Dick Smoot;
Luiz, Ed Everett and Gene Pow-
ell; Don Alhambra, Leland Mac-
Kay.

For the first time in the history
of the club one of the perform-
ances will be presented at the At-
lanta Woman's Club while the
other will be played in the Bucher
Scott gymnasium.

Three Publications

Present Skit

On Radio Program

Broadcasting on the regular Ag-
nes Scott program, The Agonistic,
The Aurora, and the Silhouette
united in presenting a skit about
the work of the three publications
of the campus, Tuesday afternoon,
January 31, at 4:30. Miss Carrie
Latimer and Jeanne Flynt opened
the conversation in which Mary
Frances Guthrie, Adelaide Benson,
and Julia Sewell took part.

Next Tuesday B. O. *Z. and
Poetry Club will present a pro-
gram written by Henrietta Black-
well, Sam Olive Griffin, V. J.
Watkins, and Margaret Lentz. The
skit will represent a joint meeting
of the two clubs.

Dr. McSween

Conducts

ReligiousWeek

Dr. John W. McSween, of the
Purity Presbyterian Church, in
Chester, South Carolina, is to be
the leader of the annual Agnes
Scott religious emphasis week,
starting February 7. He has an-
nounced the following subjects for
the chapel services: Tuesday: "How
to be Happy," Wednesday: "The
Secret of Spiritual Success," Thurs-
day: "Christ's Mission and Ours,"
Friday: "Christian Assurance,"
Saturday: "God's Dynamite."

Dr. McSween will also lead dis-
cussion groups for the students and
have private interviews with ev-
eryone interested. He is to be on
the campus during the whole week,
and conferences may be arranged
with Caroline Gray. Subjects for
discussion groups will be announced
when he finds what are the prob-
lems and chief interests on the
campus.

On Wednesday, February 8,
there will be a reception for Dr.
McSween in the Murphey Candler
building from 5 until 6 o'clock.
All students and faculty members
are invited to come.

Secretary Hopkins is Speaker
At Citizenship Institute

Sponsoring the twelfth annual session of the Institute of
Citizenship, February 13-15, Georgia Tech will be host to
Agnes Scott and Emory who unite annually in fostering these
meetings.

The theme
program this

of the Institute's
year: The South,

Problem or Opportunity? will be
covered in a series of round-table
discussions and addresses given by
a number of prominent speakers,
among them Mr. Harry Hopkins,
Secretary . of Commerce; Hon.
Blanton Fortson, of the Athens
Supreme Court, and Governor
Frank M. Dixon, of Alabama.

Co-chairmen of the Institute of
Citizenship are President M. L.
Brittain of Georgia Tech, Presi-
dent Harvey W. Cox of Emory,
and President J. R. McCain of Ag-
nes Scott, while Dr. Philip David-
son of Agnes Scott, Dr. Cullen B.
Gosrell of Emory, and Dr. Kurt D.
Hartzell of Georgia Tech form
the board of directors of the in-
stitute.

Tyler is Delegate
To History Meet

Elected by the Current History
Forum, Elinor Tyler will represent
Agnes Scott at the 16th Annual
Southeastern Regional Conference
of International Relations Clubs
which will be held April 6-8 at
Williamsburg, Virginia. Delegates
from International Relations Clubs
in colleges all over the Southeast
will attend. The theme of the
conference will be "The Foreign
Policy for the United States."

Eliza King and Mary Hollings-
worth represented Agnes Scott at
the convention last year which was
held at Washington, D. C.

Gill Announces
Committees

Mary Lang Gill, president of the
Junior class announces the com-
mittees for the annual Junior ban-
quet which will be held February
18, in Rebekah Scott dining room.
Following the banquet Mortar
Board will serve coffee in Murphey
Candler Building.

Committees are: Decorations,
Anne Enloe, chairman, Lib Davis,
Nell Pinner, Rebecca Drucker, and
Betty Jean O'Brien; Place Cards,
Henri Thompson, chairman, Mil-
dred Joseph, Mary Reins, Susie
Blackmon; Dates, Marjorie Boggs,
chairman, Mary Caroline Lee, Er-
nestine Cass; Entertainment, Ruth
Slack, chairman, Louise Sullivan,
Annette Franklin; Seating, Eloise
Lennard and Barbara Lee Murlin.
The guests will be Dr. McCain,
Miss Scandrett, Junior Class Ad-
visors, Mortar Board Advisors and
the dates of the Juniors.

Paper Holds Tryouts
February 2-8

Tryouts for Agonistic report-
ers will be held Thursday, Feb-
ruary 2, through Wednesday,
February 8, 6 p. m. News
stories or features on campus
subjects may be submitted.
Freshmen are especially invited
to tryout. All articles should
be left in the news box in the
Agonistic room on the back
gallery of the Murphey Cand-
ler Building.

Dr. Rainey Speaks

In carrying out its theme for
the year, the Peace and World
Conditions Group of the Christian
Association had as its speaker
Wednesday, January 2 5, Dr. Gene
Rainey, professor of English Liter-
ature at Georgia Tech.

Students Nominate
Three for May Queen

Benson, Hamilton, Shortley
Compete for Beauty Sceptre

Ranking- at the top of the Senior Class in regard to beauty
are Adelaide Benson, Jane Moore Hamilton, and Aileen Short-
ley, according to the results of the student body's nomina-
tions last week. Chairman Helen Moses of the May Day Com-
mittee announces that this is the last day for the students to
cast their votes for one of these three girls as the 1939 May

Queen.

Contrary to the ruling of pre-
vious years, the two girls receiv-
ing the least votes will not auto-
matically become members of May
Court, but must be nominated
again along with other May Court
candidates.

Adelaide, the present editor of
The Silhouette, was a member of
the May Court last year, and she
was rated one of the campus beau-
ties in the 193 8 annual. Among her
other activities are membership in
Mortar Board, French Club, Out-
ing Club, and the Senior class bas-
ketball team.

Jane Moore, the president of
Athletic Association, has the dis-
tinction of being honored for her
(Continued on Page 3, Col. 2)

Administration
Revises Cuts

The administrative committee
met on Thursday, January 26, to
consider recommendations of the
Executive Committee of Student
Government. During the meeting
the need of more telephones, the
meal tickets, light cuts, the cut
system, and other matters were
discussed. The committee accept-
ed the recommendation that some
provision be made in the Cut Sys-
tem for giving extra cuts for as
many as three days to those girls
who attend debates or conventions
at which they represent the rol-
lege as a whole.

The cuts will be given only un-
der the following conditions:

I. That the cuts be necessary on
account of illness. If a girl needs
all her quarter's cuts for represent-
ing the college off the campus, as
many as three extra days' absence
for illness at any time during the
quarter in which such representa-
tion occurs should be excused.

II. That such excuses be given
only with the approval of the

(Continued on Page 2, Col. 2)

Blackfriars Presents

'A Dream of An August Night 7

Club Uses Translation

From Spanish by Evelyn Baty

Blackfriars has found it advisable to change the play they
are to present on the eighteenth of February from the mys-
tery, "The Green Vine," to the Spanish comedy, "A Dream
of an August Night," by Martinez Sierra. The play was trans-
lated for the use of Blackfriars by
Evelyn Baty under the supervision
of Miss Cilley. It has all the at-
mosphere of an interesting family
life and is full of clever lines and
unique situations. The play deals
with an author who by mistake
goes into a strange house while
chasing his hat blown away by the
wind. Here he meets a lovely girl
and falls in love with her. The
action of the plot is in working out
the problem to a happy conclusion.
Granville-Barker's translation of
this play ran on Broadway for a
year and a half and was very popu-
lar. The cast includes:

Rosario (the romantic young
tady), Jeanne Flynt.

Irene (the secretary), Evelyn
Sears.

Amalia (an actress), Helen
Moses.

Dona Barbarita, Alice Adams.
Maria Pepa (the maid), Laura
Wood Sale.
(Continued on Page 2, Col. 3)

Pi Alpha Initiates
New Members

At the meeting of Pi Alpha Phi
on Thursday, January 26, at 7:00
p. m. in the Murphey Candler
Building, the following new mem-
bers were initiated in the tradition-
al manner: Jean Beutell, Lavinia
Brown, Jane Coughlan, Mary
Lightfoot Elcan, Suzanne Kaul-
bach, Ida Belle Levie, Mary Dean
Lott, Mary McQuown, Martha
Moody, Jane Taylor, and Mary
Olive Thomas.

A tournament debate was given
on the subject "Resolved that This
House Approves the Putnam Bill,"
with the affirmative upheld by
Margaret Lentz and Mary Louise
Dobbs, and the negative by Mary
Madison Wisdom and Ernestine
Cass. A decision in favor of the
affirmative was rendered by Miss
Leyburn, critic-judge.

Cho ir Sings on
Civic Concert Series

Dieckmann Accompanies
Glee Club on Organ

The Glee Club, with Mr. Dieck-
mann at the organ, presented a pro-
gram of choir music on the Sun-
day Civic Concert series, January
29, at the City Auditorium at 3:00
o'clock. Miss Virginia Wood was
the guest soloist. The program in-
cluded the following numbers:

"Finlandia" by Sibelius, Mr.
Dieckmann.

"God in Nature," Beethoven;
"Incline Thine Ear to Me," Him-
mel; "I Am Alpha and Omega,"
Spainer, the choir.

"Adore te Devote," Dieckmann,
Mr. Dieckmann.

"Quis est Homo" (from "Stabat
Mater"), Rossini, Miss Wood and
Miss Wall.

"How Beautiful Upon the
Mountains," Harker; "Inflamma-
tus" (from "Stabat Mater"), Ros-
sini, the choir, with Miss Wood as
soloist.

"Fanfare," Lemmens, Mr. Dieck-

Mortar Board Tea
Honors Parents

On Saturday afternoon, January
28, Mortar Board entertained at a
delightful tea for the Day Students
and their parents. The primary
purpose of the tea was to give
parents an opportunity to know
the Faculty better and to see some-
thing of the campus.

Members of the Mortar Board,
assisted by the Faculty acted as
hostesses, while representatives of
the Sophomore class served. In the
receiving line were Amelia Nickels,
president of Mortar Board;
Helen Kirkpatrick, Day Student
president; Miss Carrie Scandrett,
and Dr. Ross McCain. Mrs. S. G.
Stukes and Mrs. Philip Davidson
poured tea.

THE AGONISTIC, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1939

Underclassmen Run Rampant
Over Big Sister Teams

Brilliant Team Work, Smooth
Timing Make Spectators Thrill

The two underclass teams triumphed decisively last Fri-
day afternoon over their oldest opponents in two of the best-
played games of the basketball season, leaving the seniors
and juniors definitely behind in the series.
The

sophomore-junior game
started smooth and fast as Fisher
began her brilliant playing with
the first goal. Carson soon retali-
ated with a nicely-aimed throw
from the side. Highlights of the
quarter were a beautifully exe-
cuted play by Slack, a miracle goal
by Dyar from center court and the
perfect timing of the sophomore
forwards. The half left the juniors
trailing, 14-24.

Goals were numerous on both
sides during the second half, but
sophomore teamwork showed up
to advantage against the not-so-
accurate play of the juniors. Fish-
er, playing the most effective game
of the day, led her team in pushing
the score up to 45-29 at the end
of the contest.

Neither team seemed to be or-
ganized during the first quarter
of the freshman-senior game; fouls
were numerous, and unsuccessful
tosses kept the scorer busy marking
misses. The quarter left the score
2-1 for the freshmen. The second
quarter found both sides more pur-
poseful, with the senior guards do-
ing a particularly good job.

The freshmen began to climb
during the second half, and kept
it up consistently. Both the Web-
sters did damage to their oppon-
ents, with nice shooting by Carter
and Carmichael failing to turn the
tide. The game closed on a 34-16

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freshman victory.

Line-ups:

Sophomores Stubbs, Fisher, Dy-
ar, Klugh, Steinbach, Kendrick,
Bell, Self.

Juniors Slack, Carson, Milner,
For man, Ware, Thompson, Eyles,
Salters.

Freshmen Webster, A., Thom-
as, Wilds, Gellerstedt, Copeland,
Brooks, Webster, D., Lott, McEl-
waney.

Seniors Dryfoos, Carmichael,
Carter, Benson, MacGuire, Steele.

Administration

(Continued from Page 1)

Dean's office.

III. That the conferences attend-
ed be among the following:

A. Student Government

1. Southern Intercollegiate As-
sociation of Student Governments

2. Southern Federation of Stu-
dent Governments (Regional N. S.
F. A.)

3. National Student Federation
of America.

B. Athletic Association

1. Georgia Athletic Federation
of College Women.

2. Athletic Federation of Col-
lege Women.

C. Christian Association
National Y. W. C. A.

D. Debates

E. Publications

1. National Collegiate Press As-
sociation.

2. Georgia Collegiate Press As-
sociation.

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The cast for the swimming pageant was announced to a
wading world this week. Virginia Milner and Beryl Healy
will lead the finny tribe as Daphnis and Chloe ; Alice Cheese-
man will portray rosy-fingered Aurora ; Pattie Patterson will

compete with her as Night; Jean-
nette Herenger will be the Devil;
Julia Moseley will provide mischief
as the Imp; and other members of
Swimming Club will interpret
nymphs and spirits of night.

A. A. Has Open House

The second A. A. Open House
rocked the gym Saturday night
from 8 to 10 as the large crowd
attending proved that what the
campus needs is recreation for
dates and dateless over the week-
end. With Jane Dryfoos in charge
and Miss Wilburn as chaperone,
people stood in line to play bad-
minton, deck tennis, shuffleboard,
bowling, chinese checkers, and
bridge. Athletic Board members
supervised the games.

litter Bugs Dance

And speaking of recreation, the
new machine in the Murphey
Candler is packing them in at all
hours especially the jitterbugs
from social dancing class. Now is
the time to start getting your quar-
ter's worth.

Spanish Play

(Continued from Page 1)

Louis Filipe de Cordoba (an au-
thor) , John Winchester.

Don Juan Medina (a ladies'
man), Tom Wesley.

Emilio Castellanos, George
Bland, Jr.

Mario Castellannos, Jack Boden-
hamer.

Pepe Castellanos, Covington
Hardee. M

The characterization of the play
is clean cut and vivid, and Miss
Gooch states that the cast is ex-
ceptionally good. "A Dream of an
August Night" has lines that are
light and fresh and a plot that
moves with a great deal of life and
vividness. It should afford excel-
lent entertainment for the college
community as a whole as well as
the juniors and their dates for the
banquet.

Woodrow Wilson
Knew College Life

Little known facts about Wood-
row Wilson have recently been
brought to light by the Campus
Camera. He was the most col-
legiate of all our United States
presidents, having attended David-
son, Princeton, Virginia, and John
Hopkins. Later he became presi-
dent of Princeton; was offered the
presidency of seven other univer-
sities; received twenty-one hon-
orary degrees more than any oth-
er president did on a purely aca-
demic basis. He also coached foot-
ball at Wesleyan U. and taught at
Bryn Mawr, Wesleyan, and Prince-
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An unusual news story appeared
in the Fall edition of the Scroll of
LaGrange College, describing a
unique part of shoes: "The most
educated shoes which are doing
post graduate work at Georgia
Tech this year. The shoes were first
worn by William Willwright, III,
at Harvard in 1926 and since have
attended Princeton, Notre Dame,
Dartsmouth, Rutgers, M. I. T., N.
Y. U., Cornell, and Northwestern.
With the shoes comes a document
which enumerates some of the tra-
ditions. 'Worn while studying for
an important quiz, and during the
quiz itself, it is almost impossible
to fail; and we hope that future
owners may derive the same bene-
fit from their use as have the past
owners.' Vincent Neisus, the pres-
ent owner says that the shoes will
go to Alabama next semester and
from there to the University of
Kentucky."

Lip-prints Reveal
Characteristics
Of Owner

There is something new under
the sun! Le dernier cri is character
reading through lip-prints, revealed
by the Florida Flambeau ( F. S. C.
W.) Lip-sticked paper reveals hid-
den traits of many curious stu-
dents as they develop a new hobby.
There are seven kinds of lips which
relate the character of the people
who possess that type of lips.
"Type 1 is the 'sweet vagueness'
type which indicates that the own-
er does not have her heart in this
sort of work and that she is also
a girl of better-than-average in-
tellect, strong-willed enough to
forego marital bliss for a career.

"Type 2 is the 'self-confident*
type of lips, whose owner posses-
ses an even temperament, warm
generosity, and is the girl who will
'always get her man.' Other types
denote a big heart, fickleness, ef-
ficiency, appeal, and experience."

Dr. McCain
Speaks on Radio

Under the auspices of the At-
lanta Chamber of Commerce, Presi-
dent James Ross McCain of Ag-
nes Scott will speak over radio sta-
tion WSB at 10:30 p. m., Monday,
February 6. He will discuss the
place of Agnes Scott College in
Southern education.

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^Galavanting QGals

There was a concert last Friday night, but what chance
did Hoffman have when the Emory Meds and the Phi Delts
were competing with him? Some of the girls who were out
at the Piedmont Driving Club at the Phi Delta Theta ban-
quet and dance were Ruth Slack,
Julia Porter, Gene Slack, Marion
Franklin, Elaine Stubbs, Sue Clapp,
Martha Marshall, Martie Doak,
Jane Moore Hamilton, Val Neilson,
Catherine Ivie, Florrie Guy, Lib
Barrett, and Margaret Hamilton.

Med School Dance

Some of the other music lovers
who played hookey Friday night
and attended the Sophomore-Fresh-
man Med dance were Nell Pinner,
Marjorie Boggs, Carolyn Alley, Ai-
leen Shortley, Sara E. Lee, Toni
Newton, Mitzi Sanders, Sarah
Copeland, Susan Goodwyn, Kay
Kennedy, Kay Toole, Adelaide
Benson, Flonnie Ellis, Callie Car-
michael, Eva Ann Pirkle, Martha
Marshall, Frankie Butt, Val Neil-
son, and Jean Bailey.

Stone Mountain Picnic

A little on the frozen North
side for these days but these
hardy souls Emily Underwood,
Betty Jean O'Brien, Sally Mat-
thews, Virginia Milner, and Ruth
Slack went on a picnic at Stone
Mountain Saturday night.

College Dances

Still 1 more dancing Frances Ab-
bott and Annette Franklin went
to a dinner dance Thursday night
at the Biltmore, given by the
alumni of the University of N. C.
while Dusty Hance, Eleanor
Bryan, Barbara Lee Murlin, Char-
lene Burke, and Sarah Copeland
remained loyal to Emory and at-
tended the Sigma Chi tea dance.

Visitors

There was visiting and visitors
this week end Frances Abbott
had Rosa Polhill of Louisville visit-
ing her this week end; Scottie
Wilds and Grace Walker had two
guests from Furman; Mary Dixon,
of Columbia, S. C, visited here.
Helen Klugh did her week ending
in Alexander City, Ala., and Lutie
Moore went home to Barnesville.

Buffet Suppers

Now about those buffet sup-
pers Sara Lee, Nancy Jo Bal-
lengee, Mary Bon Udderback, and
Betty Waitt were out at the Sigma
Nu house Sunday night, and An-
nette Franklin at the A. T. O.
house.

Fancy Dress Balls

Either starting the week end
early or late Mary Ellen Whet-
sell, Sara Lee, and Olivia White are
leaving Wednesday to attend the
fancy dress balls at Washington
and Lee.

Marriage is the life-goal of 96
per cent of the students enrolled
in the Pennsylvania College for
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Pull on Saturday night, February
4, at 8:00 in the Bucher Scott
gym. The entire college communi-
ty is invited. Admission will be
10c.

May Queen

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beauty not only by Agnes Scott/
students, but also by Georgia Tech
and Emory men in their various
publications. She has been a mem-
ber of the 1937 and 193 8 May
Courts and has appeared among
the most beautiful Agnes Scotters
in the annuals for the same years.
She has been outstanding in Mor-
tar Board, the Glee Club, and Co-
tillion Club.

Aileen, Cotillion Club president,
has been voted a member of May
Court during each of her past
three years here. She was also
honored in the beauty sections of
the annuals for these years. Mem-
bership in Chi Beta Phi Sigma, The
Silhouette staff, and Archery Club
has been among her activities.

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Glee Club Admits
New Members

As a result of recent tryouts,
Glee Club admitted eighteen new
members. They are: Harriett
Ayers, Martha Buffalow, Jo Cates,
Freda Copeland, Martie Doake,
Mary Ann Faw, Ann Fisher, Tine
Gray, Margaret Hartsook, Jane
Jones, Jeanne Lee, Betty Nash,
Louise Newton, Molly Oliver, Isa-
bella Robertson, Edith Schwartz,
Virginia Stanley, and Annie Wilds.

Alumna F. Roberts
Writes from Shanghai
Of War Ho rrors

Slowly but surely news comes
from our alumnae throughout the
world. Latest reports on life in
Orient have just come from Fran-
ces (Marnley) Roberts, '21, who
is now back in Shanghai.

"Never believe the stories of de-
struction and horror are propagan-
da," she writes. "After Creels'
book and others on propaganda in
the World War, one can scarcely
believe anything, even his own eyes
are supposed to deceive him. But I
have seen much."

Previous to this latest seige of
the war, Mrs. Roberts and her
husband were teaching in the Uni-
versity of Shanghai. But, as the
campus was made part of the west-
ern defense boundary of the Inter-
national Settlement and classes
were moved to an office building
downtown on Nanking Road, Mrs.
Roberts has temporarily stopped
her university art classes.

"Life," she concludes, "is much
changed under the present system.
Although little damage was done
on our campus, one can look out
the window across the creek and
see complete destruction. The
Chinese sections, (those not in the
International Settlement and the
French Concession) are a "poem of
destruction," as one Japanese writ-
er so ecstatically wrote. Meanwhile
wretched conditions are increasing
in other parts of China. What
about Europe?"

Evelyn Saye Poses for
Pen and Brush Club

The Pen and Brush Club meet-
ing on Thursday, January 26, at
4:30 p. m. took the form of a
sketch class. Evelyn Saye posed,
and the club I members sketched
her.

The mathematics club of Ward-
Belmont has disproved a theory of
long standing that one has a fif-
ty-fifty chance to obtain "heads"
on a toss-up of a penny. The re-
sult of the experiment which was
carried on by the club was that out
of ten times the penny is tossed
up, heads will be on top on an av-
erage of 4.9 times. (The Hyphen,
Ward-Belmont. )

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College Life Thwarts

Editor s Histrionic Ambitions

Benson Resigns Herself

To Life of Interior Decorator

By ANNE ENLOE

Agnes Scott seems to be getting a reputation for thwart-
ing peoples' ambitions. There was Evelyn Hanna who didn't
make B. O. Z., and there was Mary Ellen Whetsell who was
editor of her high school paper and has to be satisfied here
with being President of Student Government. And now we
take up the sad case of Adelaide Benson. She began life in

Jacksonville with the worthy am-
bition of becoming a pre-Shirley
Temple child wonder actress. In
fact, she went so far as to spend
many years studying speech in
preparation for her great career.
Then she came here and couldn't
make Blackfriars! She tried and
tried, and then she sighed and just
became Editor-in-Chief of the Sil-
houette.

And then there was a time, at
about the age of ten, when our
heroine decided that her life work
had to be that of a waitress. So
she planned and planned, and she
may succeed yet because Dr. Raper
says that we all may be working
in the Frances Virginia in another
ten years. Oh, well, they do have
good food there. But, to return to
the subject at hand. Ad changed
her mind again and this time it
was to be a kindergarten teacher.
At the present moment, incidental-
ly, she is planning to go to New
York and study interior decorating.
But who knows?

Adelaide loves boats, and one
time she got drowned! It was at
Jacksonville Beach, and when the
Life Guard pulled her out, she im-
mediately decided she must learn
to swim. (He must not have been
so cute.) But boats are what she
likes best. She gets caught in
storms and can't get in, and she
runs out of gas in the middle of
the St. Johns, but she still loves it.
One time she fell off a Merry-Go-

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broke up the whole carnival. But
she says if you want to know the
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happened to her, kindly consult
Miss Scandrett.

As for the connections that Ad
has with that well known publica-
tion the Silhouette, she only start-
ed working on it last year. And
look at her now! She never ex-
pected to be editor of it and when
she got elected she was not at all
surprised she was completely as-
tonished! And what is more, she
was simply terrified and wondered
if she would ever live through
May, 1939. At this point she
thinks she will and she says the an-
nual will appear in due time and
will contain some of the very
cutest and best features in years.
There is at least one great advan-
tage in being editor of the Silhou-
ette. The publishers take you out
to dinner at wonderful places like
the Rathskellar. And one time the
photographer bought her a Coca-
Cola.

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Agnes Scott College

THE AGONISTIC

Vol. XXIV, No. 12

Decatur, Ga.

^ Editorials ~~ features ^

Wednesday, Feb. 1. 1939

Accent on Us

Next week we shall have on the campus
a man who is a potential influence on the
lives of each of us. Only a potential in-
fluence, because if we ourselves fail to ac-
cept what he has to give, he will come and
leave without benefit to us.

Dr. McSween has proved that he has
something to give us through his work
with young people people of our age in
his region for the past several years. The
titles of his chapel talks indicate that he
has something personal to offer which has
a special meaning for each individual.
"How To Be Happy/' "Spiritual Success"
these surely are topics of importance
and interest to all of us.

For more localized subjects, relating to
us as Agnes Scott students with our own
campus problems and interests, he will
lead small discussion groups. The topics
for these have not been selected, since Dr.
McSween has decided to be with us first
to find out what we actually need.

To help us with our own private matters
as individuals, he offers a personal inter-
view to everyone who requests it. In these
conversations with a man who really
knows whereof he speaks, we can take a
step toward clarifying and straightening
things out for ourselves.

Thus, Dr. McSween will be here to help
us as young people, as college students,
and as persons. His aid and advice will not
be forced upon us; it will rest with us to
reach out and take advantage of what he
brings to the campus.

Editorial Notes

Chapel tomorrow will see the selection
of a name for this paper. The discussion
promises to be interesting, after the ac-
tive concern shown two weeks ago when
the committee presented its choice.

Suggestion for parallel reading on
Citizenship: the "Re-Declaration of Amer-
ican Faith, " from the N. S. F. A. Reporter,
posted on the Library current history
board.

Letters written in by listeners indicate
that the Agnes Scott radio programs are
successfully carrying out their purpose:
to give miniature snapshots of the vari-
ous phases of our campus life.

l)c Agonistic

Agnes Scott College Student Newspaper
Vol. 24 Wednesday, February 1 No. 12

STAFF

Xane Salters
Current History
Eleanor Hutchens
Sports Editor
Hazel Solomon
Exchange Editor
Jeannette Carroll
Alumnae Editor

Selma Stelnbach

Club Editor
Hayden Sanford
Eloise Lennard
Florence Ellis
Society Editors
Virginia Farrar

Eleanor Hall
Florence Graham
Beth Paris
OnJe Smith
Circulation Managers
V. J. WaUcins. a Enloe. M. L.
Hcaslett. M. Merlin, D. Welnkle,
Flte. L. Franklin. J. Cates. 8.

Mary Frances Guthrie
Editor

Evelyn Baty
Mary Reins
Assistant Editors

Elizabeth Kenney
Copy Editor

Rebecca Drucker
Assistant Copy Editor

Marie Merritt
Business Manager

Mary Louise Dobba
Advertising Manager

Alice Cheeseman
Mary Wells McNeill
Feature Editors
Anne Enloe
Georgia Hunt
Assistant Feature Editors
REPORTERS: M. L. Gill.
Ratliff. C. K. Hutchlns. P.
B. Alderman, J. Wltman, M

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B. Coleman, s Self. J. Lancaster. E. Barrett.
BUSINESS STAFF: B. Coleman. B. L. Murlin. M. E. Leavitt.
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L. Scnwenke. Dorothy Graham.

Campus
Quotes

By GEORGIA HUNT

The time-old question of "shall
we eat to live, or live to eat," is
indeed a splendid one for philos-
ophical debate, but as far as the
college community is concerned,
the question takes on a new slant.
Every body agrees that the meals
are splendid but just how much
should we pay for them when we
have guests in the dining room?

Here are quoted from among
members of the student body some
very emphatic opinions:

Sophie Montgomery: "When I
keep the door in the dining room
sometimes I am embarrassed to ask
fifty cents for the meals. I think
they ought to be graded. Fifty
cents is OK for dinner, but twen-
ty-five and thirty cents would be
reasonable for the others. "

Eva Ann Pirkle: "Much, much
too much for boarders and too
much for day students to pay for
breakfast."

Virginia Farrar: "Entirely too
high. Just think what you can
get for breakfast at the drug store,
toast, bacon, an egg and jelly
all for fifteen cents."

Gene Slack: "I have to stay on
the campus about three times a
week for meetings and the price
of the evening meal makes me very,
very unhappy."

Alice Cheeseman: "Well, the
day students got a break as far as
dinner is concerned 2 5c is not
bad but the boarders get broke
when they entertain guests in the
dining room."

The meals are splendid, the din-
ing room management is excellent,
and the students are very anxious
to share these pleasures with their
friends, but they seem to say
"How can we?"

University Heads
Look at Education

"The university must make de-
liberate, conscious attempts to tie
itself into the pattern of American
community life in some meaning-
ful way if it is to justify its place
in the community as an instru-
ment for the protection and ad-
vancement of democracy." New
York University's Dean Ned H.
Dearborn urges higher education
to pay more attention to adult
education.

"Only relatively late in human
history have people been able to
think before they speak and speak
before they act. Most of us still
do it rather infrequently and with
rather indifferent success." Miami
University's Dr. Read Bain believes
we are suffering from "acute but
highly contagious blabitis."

"In the process of Americaniz-
ing our education we have really,
without knowing it, drifted away
from our older American tradition.
Nationalism, even if it is Ameri-
canism, is not liberalism. It very
easily becomes the opposite." Dean
Christian Gauss of Princeton Uni-
versity deplores the decline of the
study of the humanities.

Front Row

By JANE SALTERS

Special trains, ships, and planes
carry condensed milk and typhoid
serum to the earthquake-torn re-
gion in Chile where some estimates
claim 2 5,000 deaths from the
shock and where injuries and dis-
ease threaten the lives of the re-
maining poverty stricken popula-
tion.

AIRPLANES

Roosevelt asks for a $50,000,-
000 appropriation as a beginning
on a $300,000,000 program of air-
plane construction, which is a part
of a $5 52,000,000 defense project
to be completed in two or three
years that is, if the administra-
tion plans are successful!

NOTICE BARCELONA

As bodies of refugees slain by
rebel bombs are heaped on the
Spanish highways, and as Franco's
soldiers capture town after town
from a non-resisting enemy, the
newly organized American Union
for Nationalist Spain petitions the
President for immediate recogni-
tion of the Nationalist government
in Barcelona.

ONE VOTE RELIEF CUT

The first major political battle
of the new Congress sees one sen-
atorial vote defeat the President's
attempt to restore to the $725,-
000,000 relief appropriation a
$125,000,000 cut made by the
House against the advice and plan
of the administration.

INSURANCE REPEATED

The report on insurance abuses
made by Chief Justice Hughes to
the Securities and Exchange Com-
mission in 1906 is found to apply
to modern conditions in exagger-
ated form such evils as gigantism,
rule by a small group, lack of
standard policies, continued pay-
ment on excessive premiums, and
entanglement with outside inter-
ests conflicting with official duty.

Riggs Bends Iron

Harvardman Gordon M. Riggs
claims he isn't the Hercules of
collegeland but he proved he at
least had a Herculean sense of hu-
mor when he made that statement.
In case you haven't heard about
Gordon M., you'll lift your eye-
brows a notch or two when you
learn that he can twist an iron rod
into the shape of a pretzel bare-
handed. Listen to him:

"Of course I do knot up an iron
bar now and then and I have lifted
four men weighing more than 600
pounds, but I don't think I'm
much stronger than the average
college student. I put my fist
through that wall over there, but
the plaster must have been kind of
soft."

Yes, just like that, he wins our
plaster pusher gonfalon!

Honesty Survives

A disciple of Diogenes lives on.
President Jas. C. Kinard of New-
berry College received a five dollar
check from a former student stat-
ing "In payment, with interest,
for a ticket to your 1927 Thanks-
giving Day football game which I
enjoyed through the courtesy of a
missing board in the fence!"
Campus Camera.

Conferee Cuts

The recent modifications of the cut sys-
tem by the administration at the recom-
mendation of Executive Committee seem
particularly wise. In giving cuts for at-
tending certain conferences, the powers
that be are recognizing the fact that these
gatherings are important and meaningful
to us in increasing the benefits derived
from college life.

The girls who represent us at conferen-
ces link us with what is being done in
worlds similar to, but otherwise detached
from, ours. They carry our ideas to other
colleges and bring theirs back to us. They
simultaneously broaden our horizons and
make our influence felt elsewhere.

It is encouraging to note that the signi-
ficance of conferences is being appreciated,
but the granting of privileges for them
places a larger responsibility on us for get-
ting the most out of them.

Parade of Opinion

By Associated Collegiate Press

LAUGH

"Little things are important to little men."
With this quotation from Goldsmith West Vir-
ginia University students entered the second
round of their battle of words with the staff of
Das Schwartze Korps, official organ of Adolf
Hitler's nazi police guard.

When that particular unit of the newspaper
chorus maintained for the exclusive playing of
"Heil Hitler" tunes received the cabled an-
nouncement of the Mountaineers that they were
going to "break off relations with Germany," its
editors called out some new adjectives for their
reply: "The telegram is not very original. Nobody
could expect that the dripping-nosed offshoots of
Babbits who lust for war profits would deal
frivolously with diplomatic relations of two na-
tions than do Jews assembled around President
Roosevelt. Prosit."

To end the second round of diplomatic battle
between the all-powerful, serious -minded journal
of one nation and the fun-loving students of an-
other nation's state university, the W. V. U. stu-
dent newspaper, "Daily Anthenaeum," came back
with this: "You take things too seriously over
there! ... A country than bans Mickey Mouse
and Donald Duck obviously lacks humor ....
And if anyone should feel insulted, gentlemen,
we should; for our cablegram was at least civil,
and in neither of your editorials has the tone been
other than defamatory. . . . Well, we are still
laughing. We hope to be able to laugh at pos-
turings and grimaces always, no matter where
they appear. Heaven help us when we can no
longer laugh!" ^

ADVICE

Long have college newspapers been known for
their frequent breaks into the national news be-
cause of sensational statements they have made
in their columns. More frequent, but far less
known, are their paragraphs of advice to today's
undergraduates. This sound bit of educational
advice comes from the University of Wisconsin's
"Daily Cardinal":

"Now that the time has come again to make
out study lists for the second semester students
would do well to appraise their curriculum, needs
and to determine what they want from their edu-
cation.

"It is a fundamental fault of our educational
system that we do no develop a critical attitude
toward curriculum. Do not blindly accept 'dead-
wood' courses which are no longer relevant to
present life. Investigate the potentialities of
courses from upperclassmen who arc familiar with
them. Don't just choose courses because they
don't come at 8 o'clock. Don't be afraid to 'ex-
pose' yourself to courses in unexplored fields. Be
sure you are getting what you want from educa-
tion!"

4

Religious
Emphasis Week

The Agonistic

Religious
Emphasis Week

VOL. XXIV

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1939

Z115

No. 13

Students Elect
Ad Benson
As May Queen

May Court Members
Will Be Chosen
Next Week

With the student body's election
of Adelaide Benson to reign over
the annual May Day Fete, the as-
sembling of members of the 1939
May Court gets under way.

Adelaide has been a member of
the 1 93 8 May Court and has ap-
peared in beauty sections of The
Silhouette in previous years.

Votes cast for May Queen were
counted by Mrs. Adolf Lapp, As-
sistant Professor of Physical edu-
cation, Helen Moses, and Helen
Kirkpatrick, members of the May
Day Committee.

The committee reports that the
May Queen and her court will be
a part of the fete as they were last
year, wearing costumes in keeping
with the theme of the scenario.

Nominations for the members
of the Court will be made in chap-
el next week, and tryouts for the
leads in the play will be held dur-
ing that same week.

Vocation Literature
Is On Exhibition

The Dean's Office announces
that literature on Vocational Guid-
ance has been placed on the back
bulletin board of Buttrick and on
the tables to the right as you en-
ter the main floor of the library.
These pamphlets and books give
helpful information on the differ-
ent vocations open to women.

Dr. Kracket Talks to Club

Chi Beta Phi held its regular
meeting on Thursday, February 2,
at 7:3 0 p. m. in the Murphey
Candler building. At that time
Dr. Kracket, professor of path-
ology at Emory University, spoke
on the subject of medical technol-
ogy. Refreshments were served
afterwards.

Class Cabinets
Meet Jointly

Freshmen Invite
Tech Council

For the first time since the for-
mation of sophomore cabinet three
years ago, this group is planning a
joint retreat with the Freshman
cabinet for Saturday, February 11,
at the Harrison Hut. Mamie Lee
Ratliff, freshman cabinet advisor;
Katherine Patton, sophomore cabi-
net advisor; Betty Kyle, sophomore
president, and Anne Chambless,
freshman president have made
plans for a discussion along the
lines of "Growing Into An Abun-
dant Life 1 ' and "The Responsibility
of Cabinet Members on the Cam-
pus." Miss Scandrett will go along
as advisor.

The freshman cabinet is to en-
tertain the Georgia Tech Y. M. C.
A. council in the near future.

Bible Club Meets

Rev. H. E. Russell of Rock
Springs Church, spoke on "Hope"
at a meeting of the Bible Club
Monday, February 6, in the Mur-
phey Candler Building.

Student Body Names Paper
'Agnes Scott News'

The Agnes Scott News was voted by the student body to
replace The Agonistic as the name of the college paper, at a
chapel meeting on Thursday, February 2. The new name
will be submitted to a faculty committee for formal approval
and will be put in use after elec-
tions in the spring when the new
staff of the newspaper begins its
work.

Mary Frances Guthrie, editor,
revised a previous motion and sug-
gested a vote among the names
The Agnes Scott Mirror, The Ag-
nes Seott News, and The Agonistic.
The vote was: The Mirror, 3; The
Agonistic, 95; The Neus, 2 19.

The editor states that the staff
is highly pleased over the result
ot the voting and feels that the
student body has chosen wisely.
The great majority of votes that
were cast for the Agnes Scott
Xeus indicates the widespread ap-
proval of the campus in the mat-
ter.

President J. R. McCain, when
informed of the student decision,
expressed his pleasure at the selec-
tion of the name.

Editor Speaks to K. U. B.

K. l\ B. will meet this after-
noon, February S, at 4:30 p. m . in
the Murphey Candler Building. At
that time Mr. James S. Pope, as-
sistant managing editor of the /\/-
luntj Journal, will speak on the
European situation and its connec-
tion with the press. Following the
meeting, ,i reception will be held
tor all freshmen interested
nalism.

in jour-

Methodists Hold
State Conference

Following the theme, "United
Christian Action in a Changing
World," Methodist students of
Georgia held a conference at La-
Grange College, the week end of
February 3-5, 1939, at which
there was a large delegation of Ag-
nes Scott students. Mr. Arthur
Raper spoke Saturday afternoon on
"The Negro and Tenant Farming,"
and Dr. Lester Rumble, pastor of
St. Marks Church, in Atlanta,
spoke on "The Challenge of the
Youth Crusade." Dr. Hornell Hart,
professor of sociology at Duke Uni-
versity was the platform speaker.

Those who attended from Ag-
nes Scott were: Mary Matthews,
Catherine l arrar. Gay Swagerty,
Leonora Jones, Kathleen Jones, Er-
nestine Cass, Elizabeth Barrett,
Florence Ellis, Dorothv Lazenby,
Mary Ruth Wills.

Alumna Fetes Students

Mrs. Holcombe Green, Agnes
Scott alumna and regional director
of Mortar Board, entertained the
members of the local chapter of
Mortar Board at a buffet supper at
her home Sunday night, Februarv

Dr. McCain
Discusses Plan
In Radio Talk

President Recalls
Days of

Compulsory Parasol

Discussing Agnes Scott's semi-
centennial plans and the unusual
phases of life on our campus, Dr.
J. R. McCain, president, spoke over
WSB Monday at 10:30 p. m. as
part of a "Welcome South, Broth-
er" program. Dr. McCain's re-
marks were in the form of replies
to questions about Agnes Scott
traditions and customs.

The recent grant from the Gen-
eral Education Board, the seventh
received, will make up part of the
$2,000,000 to be raised for im-
provements. "Agnes Scott likes to
look forward" said Dr. McCain in
emphasizing the semi-centennial
celebration's taking place as the
college begins its fifty-first year.

"It was a written catalogue reg-
ulation that every girl must put
on flannels when cold weather
came," revealed the president in
speaking of former rules. Over-
shoes and a parasol were also a part
of every student's equipment, but
even so fortified she could "never
go out alone" and had to be ac-
companied by a chaperone even
when going to Decatur. Exercise
came in the form of a walking
procession, led and followed by a
faculty member.

Now athletics are important in
the college program, Dr. McCain
pointed out; even though Agnes
Scott has no intercollegiate athlet-
ics, it does sponsor debating with
England, Scotland, Wales, Vassar,
Randolph-Macon, and other col-
leges and universities. The facul-
ty, trained in more than forty-five
different institutions of learning,
help make the college qualified for
membership in the Southern Asso-
ciation of Colleges, and Universi-
ties, in the Association of Ameri-
can Universities, in the American
Association of University Women,
and in Phi Beta Kappa.

In closing Dr. McCain spoke of
the early enrollment expected this
year probably to include girls from
thirty to forty different states.

Dr. Paul Bryan Speaks
At History Forum

At a meeting of the Current
History Forum Tuesday afternoon,
February 7, at 4:00 o'clock, Dr.
Paul Bryan of the law department
of Emory spoke on the Supreme
Court.

Dr. McS ween Gives
Religious Week Talks

M inister Discusses Rules For
Happiness, Spiritual Success

Opening the week of Religious Emphasis with a talk in
chapel Tuesday morning, Dr. "John McSween, guest speaker
for the week, spoke on the pertinent question: How to be
Happy? His text, taken from John XV, was the immortal

of Christ found in the

C. A. Fetes
Dr. McSween

Emory Group Joins
In Discussion

Honoring Dr. McSween, the
Christian Association has planned
a round of social functions during
the week of February 6-11, at
which the college community may
become better acquainted with
him.

A tea is to be given for him on
Tuesday afternoon from 4:3 0 to
six o'clock in the Murphey Cand-
ler Building. That evening at 7:00
Dr. McSween will meet for a dis-
cussion with the Christian Associ-
ation Cabinet. On Thursday at
8:00 p. m., he will lead a general
discussion in the Murphey Cand-
ler Building, to which the college
community is invited. The coun-
cil of Christian Association will
have a joint meeting with the
council of the Emory Christian
Association Friday night at 8:00
in the Murphey Candler Building
to discuss campus problems with
Dr. McSween.

In addition to these functions,
anyone can have a conference with
Dr. McSween by appointment or
have him as their guest at meals.

Pi Alpha Phi
Alters Debate Plans

Changing former plans made
for debate with Sophie Newcomb
Pi Alpha Phi has chosen Ann
Henry and Arlene Steinbach to
present the affirmative side of the
debate: "Resolved that the democ-
racies should form an alliance to
preserve democracy" when the Ag-
nes Scott-Sophie Newcomb teams
meet here on March 3 1st. Marjorie
Merlin and Margaret Hopkins will
go to New Orleans to present both
sides of the same debate against
Sophie Newcomb on March 3 1.
Mary Lightfoot Elcan, a newcom-
er to Pi Alpha Phi and a fresh-
man, has been chosen alternate.

President Invites College
To Luncheon in Gymnasium

In order that we may discuss TOGETHER the Semi-Centennial
plans of Agnes Scott, and the meaning f or us of the University Center
developments, we wish to have a luncheon for the whole college com-
munity. Hoarders and day students, faculty members and their wives
or husbands, officers and trustees all are invited.

The time: Tuesday. February I t. 12:45 ( 'clock.

The place: Gymnasium.

To avoid a hurried meal or program, we will omit the afternoon
classes and laboratory work.

Each class will sit as a group and will be expected to furnish a
speaker or stunt or BOOg, as Mr. Davidson, master of ceremonies, mav

suggest

This will be one of the most interesting events in the life of the
College, and we hope that all may be present.

Cordialh .

J R MtC UV

promise ot t^nrist lound in
eleventh verse: These things hare
I spoken unto you, that ?ny joy
might remain in you, and that your
joy might he full.

Christ was the happiest man in
human history; His life was radi-
ant, His joy was unbounded. Four
things entered into the happiness
of Christ: His complete faith in
God, a clear conscience, faith in
His fellow men, and loving service
to all mankind.

"True happiness can be found
only in obedience to God's will as
that will is understood by us," said
Dr. McSween in what he called his
first "dogmatic statement." It was
in Christ's obedience that He
found much of His joy in life; it
is in our obedience that we, also,
can find peace and happiness.

In his second "dogmatic state-
ment," Dr. McSween pointed out
that the will of God can be found
only through Jesus Christ. It is
God's will that each of us be saved,
that we be good and that we live
useful lives. "There are three ques-
tions," commented Dr. McSween,
(Continued on Page 2, Column 2)

Sociology Professor
Attends Meetings

During the months of January
and February, Dr. Arthur Raper,
professor of sociology, has attend-
ed or has on his schedule for the
future, six meetings and confer-
ences. On January 9, he attended
the Home Missions Council in Bal-
timore. On January 18, 19, and
20 he conducted Religious Empha-
sis Week at V. P. I. where he re-
lated religion to current condi-
tions.

For the week-end of February 4,
he attended the Methodist Young
People's Conference at LaGrange.
On February 13 he will go to a
meeting of the Georgia Public For-
um at Cordelc, and two days later
to a meeting of the same organiza-
tion in Moultrie. On February 24,
he will go to Carroll ton to the
West Georgia Teachers' College.

On Dr. Raper's spring program
are included trips to Knoxvillc in
March to talk to the- southern
mountain workers, and to the Uni-
versity of North Carolina in April
for a week's work with the Insti-
tute of Human Relations.

Attorney Jacobs Talks
To Group Tonight

Speaking on "The Proposed Un-
ion Between the C.I.O. and the A.
F. of L." Mr. Joseph Jacobs, an
Atlanta attorney, will be the
speaker at a meeting of the Chris-
tian World Community group of
the Christian Association tonighp
at 8:00 o'clock in the Murphey
Candler Building. A group of girls
from the Industrial Girls Club of
the Atlanta Y. W. C. A. have been
invited.

2

THE AGONISTIC, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1939

Freshmen Keep Slate Clean
As Juniors Break Jinx

Sophomores, Seniors Bow,
42-19 und 47-20

The sophomores fell victim to the fourth straight fresh-
man triumph, 42-19, Friday afternoon in the gymnasium, as
the juniors broke their losing streak for a 47-20 victory over
the seniors. The half-way mark in the basketball season
finds the freshmen undefeated, the seniors undefeating, and
the juniors and sophomores on middle ground with two wins
each.

The uppcrclassmen started off
with the sophomores in control,
Dyar sinking the first basket with
her usual accuracy. The ball soon
passed over into the possession of
the fleet freshman forwards and
the deft hands of Dot Webster,
who chalked up the first of her
many scores. The game continued
fast and smooth, the sophomore
guards particularly on the qui live
and Stubbs shooting with custom-
ary steadiness. The freshmen
squeezed in the last goal of the
quarter to lead, 10-6. The second
period found the sophomores shoot-
ing wild over close freshman
guarding. The best scramble of
the year, in which the ball passed
swiftly back and forth over the
center line, ended when Dot Web-
ster effected one of her slippery
getaways to make a goal, leaving
the score 24-9 at the half.

The second half began with the
magic touch of the freshmen and
the poise of the sophomores lost,
both teams "muddling through"
like British diplomats. Comic fouls
were numerous; Gellerstedt acci-
dentally and surprisingly charged
full-force into Bell, and Steinbach
stumbled over the scuttling Web-
ster. The Wilds family distin-
guished itself, Scotty guarding An-
nie. The game took a spurt in the
last quarter as the sophomores
fought with unallayed gameness
despite the heavy freshman lead.
The whistle left it 42-19.

The seniors took the ball first
and were off to a spirited start as
Carmichael scored first against the
juniors. Milner and Slack soon re-
taliated, the latter getting out
from under Benson's guard nicely.
The junior accuracy absent two
weeks returned to the fold tem-
porarily, going astray once more in
the second quarter. Carmichael
came up to par toward the last of
the half, but the score stood 21-10
for her opponents.

Dryfoos shone with several neat
interceptions in the latter half,
rivaled by the vigorous MacGuire
Floor scuffles were much in evi-
dence, Carmichael and Ware going

down fighting and Slack and Mac-
Guire crashing conveniently at
Dr. Swanson's feet. After the
third quarter, with the score 27-16
for the juniors, the game relaxed
into practice throws. The score
piled up quietly to a 47-20 junior
scalping.

Line-Ups:

Seniors Guards, Benson, Mac-
Guire, Steele, Doty; forwards, Car-
michael, Carter, Dryfoos.

Juniors Guards, Ware, Thomp-
son, Reins; forwards, Milner, Slack,
Carson.

Sophomores Guards, Kendrick,
Klugh, Steinbach, Wilds; for-
wards, Fisher, Stubbs, Dyar, Bell.

Freshmen Guards, Brooks,
Lott, Gellerstedt; forwards, D.
Webster, A. Webster, McElwaney,
Wilds.

Referees Miss Wilburn, Miss
Mitchell.

Dr. McSween

(Continued from Page 1)

"which can be asked in this con-
nection: what shall I do with
Jesus? what shall I do with my
life? and with whom shall I link
my life?"

Christ has given us the knowl-
edge o/ an abundant and happy
life by' example, he said in conclu-
sion; the only way we can make
use of this knowledge is to use it.

Dr. McSween, who is pastor of
the Purity Presbyterian Church of
Chester, South Carolina, will be on
the campus all this week and will
be available for private conferences.
Talks have been scheduled for
chapel each morning through Sat-
urday, the remaining subjects be-
ing? Christ's Mission and Ours;
Christian Assurance; and God's
Dynamite.

Jitterbugs
Do the Square

Blistered Hands
Pull Candy

Glimpsed at the Freshman Barn
Dance and Candy Pull: . . . Betty
Ann Brooks being very presidential
and efficient. . . Miss Hunter and
Amelia giving the "Turkey in The
Straw" some real competition. . .
a few genuine Hill Billy outfits
like Scottie's and Tine's ....
and a few just outfits like Rockie
Kaplan's . . . 'Twas the cutest par-
ty we've seen in these here parts in
many a moon . . . The eternal Mutt
with her eternal camera. . . Miss
Haynes (pardon us, Mrs. Lapp)
calling the square dance in a gen-
I uine Tyrolean costume. I guess
dancin' is dancin' and mountains
is mountains all over the world,
eh, Kennesaw? . . . Miss Wilburn
rushing around bandaging up blis-
tered hands after the candy pull-
ing . . . That part of the party re-
minds us Juniors of the old daisy
picking days. . . A Jitter Bug
makes a swell square dancer . . .
Cheeseman and Jane Moses being
very childish with their taffy
jumping rope. And is the floor
in the gym basement a mess? . . .
Men in the dressing room down-
stairs! . . . The generous offer of
"Take some home to your room-
mate, there's just loads!" . . . Give
us more campus parties that are as
much fun as that one. Congratu-,
lations, all you Freshmen who
worked so hard on it!

The University of Minnesota has
opened a "conversation laboratory"
in which students and faculty
members enduct conversations
which are recorded for later study.

Sports Miscellany

By ELEANOR HUTCHENS

First place among Happenings in the Gym this week goes
to the magnificent barn dance and candy-pull staged by the
freshmen last Saturday night. With class president Brooks
in charge and Miss Haynes calling the dances, the gathering
was a high spot in the year's entertainment. Nice going,
nice freshmen.
Outing Club Outing

Extolling the virtues of Harri-
son Hut and Life in the Woods,
Outing Club members straggled in
one morning last week from a
spend-the-night jaunt at the Hut.
Reports of things accomplished:

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Bessie Tift Has
Journalism Class

Records reveal that Bessie Tift
College justly boasts of the oldest
journalism class in the world.
"Back in 1898 when Bessie Tift
was Monroe Normal and Industrial
College, a rather interesting and
entirely new department was
added. The announcement appeared
as:

'Instruction in Journalism a
class will be formed for the ad-
vantage of such young ladies as
may desire to become good writ-
ers. The course contemplates re-
porting, general and specific cor-
respondence, story and novel writ-
ing, literary criticisms, authorships
and much else.'

"The School of Journalism was
established ten years earlier when
the Journalism department of the
University of Missouri, which has
been reported as the oldest in the
world."

Misses Wilburn and Johnson of the
faculty presided at the skillet;
members Doty and Cass washed
dishes; plans progressed for club
tryouts and hikes.

Packed Poolroom

Advice to pageant-attenders:
pack up a supper and get to the
gym early Monday night. Remem-
ber housing problems last year? In-
cidentally, Miss Wilburn says
Swimming Club includes an un-
usually large number of good
swimmers this year.

February Tennis

About thirty-five of the college
community saw Vines win over
Budge in Atlanta Friday night.
"Like something supernatural/'
commented one spectator.

Friday Nightlights

Mid-season basketball sidelights:
Despite its unfortunately clean
slate as to victories this year, the
senior team has its distinctive fea-
tures . . . among them being the
last of the bloomers . . . ano!, of
course, the semicircular canal-less
Floor MacGuire. . . D. Webster
yanks that big ball out of her cuff
seen her when she done it ... if
the other teams had the enthusias-
tic class support enjoyed by the
freshmen, scores might be closer.

St. Mary's University (San An-
tonio) is sponsoring student trips
to the two world's fairs this sum-

Swimming Club
Begins Rehearsals
Of Water Pageant

Rehearsals for the water pag-
eant to be given next Monday by
Swimming Club are now in prog-
ress as last details of lighting and
costumes are being worked out by
the pageant committees.

Adapted from the story "Daph-
nis and Chloe" by Alice Cheeseman
and Pattie Patterson, the pageant
is a dramatization of the struggle
between the youth Daphnis (Vir-
ginia Milner) and the Devil (Jean-
nette Herenger) for the beautiful
Chloe (Beryl Healy). Stunt and
formation swimming will be the
high spots of the entertainment.

The pageant is set for 8:30 Mon-
day night at the gymnasium pool.
Members of the college community
and their friends are invited.

Clubs Present
Radio Skit

B. O. Z., creative writing club,
and Poetry Club united to present
a skit based on a joint meeting of
the two organizations, on the reg-
ular weekly Agnes Scott radio pro-
gram, Tuesday, February 7. Hen-
rietta Blackwell, Sam Olive Grif-
fin, Margaret Lentz, and Violet
Jane Watkins were authors of the
skit.

Next Tuesday Athletic Associa-
tion will present a program writ-
ten by Alice Cheeseman, Jane
Moore Hamilton, and Eleanor Hut-
chens, and representing a meeting
of the Athletic Board at Harrison
Hut.

Every state and 47 foreign
countries are represented in the
Harvard University student body.

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Mt. Holyoke Aids
Refugee Students

Mount Holyoke students, fac-
ulty, and staff have pledged $1777,
coupled with an offer of four
homes in order that German ref-
ugee students may finish this
school year at their institution.
"The Mount Holyoke Committee
on Refugee Students, cooperating
with the Intercollegiate Refugee
Committee and International Stu-
dents Service, plans to accept stu-
dents of the Protestant, Catholic
and Jewish faith." The student
body lias already started a cam-
paign for raising funds.

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THE AGONISTIC, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1939

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Of course, we interviewed everybody but Amelia
cumulating thousands of data anyway .
mates, you know).

Well, to begin with she was born on the Ides of March
. (an ideal, says Mamie Lee) ... a worthy South Caro-
linian, christened by the proud Nickelses Amelia Todd, at
an impressionable age . . . and
reared also into at an early age, the
creature of charm we know today.
Incongruously enough, however,
she quickly proved herself the un-
deniable tom-boy . . . knocked a
little boy's front teeth out once
. . . distressed her mother, who
thought she'd never become "the
lady" . . . and four times broke
her arm skating. Because each
break on Amelia's arms came clos-
er and closer to Amelia, her moth-
er feared the next might actually
be her neck ... so stopped all
skating activity as such.

But as to her younger history,
Doug said at first Mrs. Nickels
prayed and prayed . . . for two
years . . . that Amelia would have
curly hair. When Amelia was
two years old, Mrs. Nickels started
praying that Amelia would have
hair. Amelia's childish curiosity
was simply killing, her mother
thinks. She used to monopolize
every company dinner conversa-
tion the family had . . . and so, got
sent to bed very early!

She was meddlesome, too. One
of her consuming ambitions was
(and is) to drive a big bus. So
once while longing too, too much
to drive a bus, she filled the school
bus with people and toured the
town (of Laurens, S. C.) 'til she
ran into the superintendent . . .
who the next day made a chapel
address on the carelessness of tak-
ing other people's lives in one's
own hands, etc. Amelia didn't go
to chapel that day.

Henri recalls that once in the
seventh grade, when the class was
making lamp shades, Amelia licked
all the glue off the lamp-shade
making tape and got sick. But
Amelia and Henrietta were not
good friends then. In fact Amelia
wasted no hate on that sissie Hen-
rietta; she simply scorned her. And

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what with such scorn upon her
brow, poor Henri was scared . . .
and would cross the street to avoid
the ole meanie!

After being elected the prettiest
girl in the seventh grade, Amelia
went on to greater honors in high
school. She played the piano . . .
mostly Rachmaninoff, and won
the state singing contest her senior
year . . . having begun voice les-
sons at fifteen. Her teacher, Miss
Flora, used to worry so much, too,
because Amelia was a cheer lead-
er of note. Academically she was
also a celebrity. She won the state
Latin contest her junior year. Her
general academic record was such
as to make many mothers unhappy,
Henri contributes . . . and so
Amelia was Salutatorian of her
class.

Well now, about Amelia today.
She has "a colorful personality"
. . . green and blue, her favorites
. . . wears them to suit her "liquid
lines," as charm experts have oft
advised. She hates popcorn. (She
loves Henri now). She prefers
"throwing things" to any other
way of working off fits of anger
. . . and she does get very mad . . .
sometimes . . . though seldom. Her
favorite dessert is apple pie and ice
cream . . . mostly ice cream. She
once pronounced her worst failing
to be procrastination (just in the
Nickels of time!) . . . and added
modestly that perhaps she was op-
timistic too. She likes Katherine
Hepburn; ... is often absent
minded . . . from too long associa-
tion with Henri . . . and she gets
the biggest thrill out of singing
"When I Have Sung My Songs"
. . . just as we get the biggest thrill
out # of hearing her. Her ambition
is to get married . . . her mania,
counting things . . . like farm
house windows and telephone poles.

Well, such is a mere glimmer of
the glamor that is hers. A little
folk's verse has said it:

"If she had a broom straw
Stuck into her hat,
We'd think it was a feather
Nickie's like that!"

Alumnae Enter
Varied Occupations

Medicine and Campfire organi-
zations are only two of the many
fields calling our modern alumnae.
Recent letters reveal a variety of
talents in these big sisters of ours.

Janet Newton, '17, is registrar
at the University of Georgia Medi-
cal School in Augusta, where she
is doing splendid work.

Elizabeth (Marsh) Hill, '20,
having received her M. A. degree
from Emory last summer, writes,
"My thesis, 'The Status of Music
in the Public Schools of Georgia,'
was the first University has
had in that field and I enjoyed pio-
neering." She is the Georgia State
neering. She is the Georgia State
historian for the A. A. U. W., and
is active in her music and Garden
Clubs as well as in the Alumnae
Association.

Virginia (Watts) Beal, ex-'2 5,
is the new executive secretary of

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Sweaters and skirts are not the conventional campus
clothes now; evening clothes are more correct. Take a look
at the dances: K. A. formal Friday night: Martha Mar-
shall, Val Nielsen, Florrie Guy, Barbara Lee Murlin, Martie

Doak, Rena Barringer, Florrie El-

the Atlanta Campfire Girls. She
completed a course at New York
University for executive training
of Campfire Girls, and has been
awarded the Torchbearer rank, the
highest in Campfire, in social lead-
ership and business. Also, Virginia
has received the National Thrift
honor. All these reports of her
work make quite an "honorary
alumnae" of Virginia, and we are
rightfully proud of her progress.

Pat Collins, '27, is one of the
vice presidents of the Georgia
State Society of Washington, which
is functioning quite notably.

Speaker McSween

Gives Expert Courting Advice

By MARY WELLS McNEILL

Who is the personality of the week you say? There is but
one answer. The gentleman is long, lean, and lanky and his
friends call him "Long John." Of course you have guessed by

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never do." Then and there he
arose, walked the nine miles back,
and heard the lady say, "yes."

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He will laugh and tell you that
his height once caused a fight in
church between two small boys.
When questioned after the service
as to what the trouble was, one of
them said, "He says you was stand-
ing on a box behind that pulpit and
I says you wasn't."

Dr. McSween attended Davidson
College, where he played baseball
and was business manager of the

"Davidson College Magazine." Aft- 'an hour before you are here,
er graduating, he went to Colum-
bia Theological Seminary, when it
was still in Columbia, South Caro-
lina, and then studied at the Bibli-
cal Seminary in New York. While
at Columbia Theological Seminary,
he also "took prep Greek and ma-
jored in baseball" at the University
of South Carolina. For several
years he was president of Presby-
terian College in Clinton, South
Carolina and is now pastor of the
Presbyterian Church in Chester,
South Carolina.

Golf and bird shooting are our
speaker's favorite hobbies, but
nearest and dearest to his heart is
Scotland, anybody from Scotland,
or anybody who will talk about
Scotland. He also "loves history
and especially historical biogra-
phies."

As to courting, he is an author-
ity. One summer he walked thir-
ty-five miles to see his girl and
"courted around for four or five
days but she just didn't think she
could be a preacher's wife." Start-

lis, Frankie Butt, Ella Muzzey, Lib
Barrett, Lillian Schwencke, Toni
Alston.

At the Psi Omega open house
Friday night were found: Mary
Lang Gill, Helen Klugh, Penn
Hammond, Sara E. Lee, Annette
Franklin, Mildred Joseph, Snooks
Moss, and Mary James Seagle.

Dances gave way to the Vines-
Budge Tennis Match Friday night,
however. Martha O'Nan, Marg-
aret Woodhead, Ann Fisher, Helen
Klugh, Helen Carson, Carolyn
Strozier, Anne Martin, Polly Tay-
lor, Betsy Kendrick, Helen Moses.

It's brave to even try to cover
the Tech mid-terms, but we did
hear about these lucky young
ladies: Jane Moore Hamilton, Nell
Pinner, Catherine Ivie, Marian
Franklin, Annette franklin, Gin-
ger Tumlin, Grace Ward, Susan
Goodwyn, Louise Musser, Kay
Toole, Ella Muzzey, Mitzi Sanders,
Martie Doak, Florrie Guy, Barbara
Lee Murlin, Carolyn Forman, Lu-
tie Moore, Gene Slack, Ruth Slack,
Martha Watkins, Frances Spratlin,
Adele Haggart, Lillian Guddenrath,
Charlene Burke, Keeker Newton,
Barbara Brown, Lalla Marshall, Eu-
genia Hailey, Alice Adams, Lelia
Carson, Ann Stansberry, Kay Ken-
nedy.

The Chi Phi house dance Sat-
urday night attracted Carolyn Al-
len, Sara E. Lee, Val Nielsen and
Eugenia Hailey, while at the A. O.
formal at the Dental College Sat-
urday night were Mary Lang Gill,
Boots Moore, Annette Franklin,
Frances Abbot, Grace Ward, Gary
Home, Marjorie Boggs.

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Agnes Scott College
Decatur, Ga.

THE AGONISTIC

Editorials

ures

Vol. XXIV. No. 13
Wednesday. Feb. 8, 1939

Stagnant Debris Campus

Quotes

People often refer to a college education
as a narrowing process which carries
young people so deeply into one or two
things that they are unbalanced when they
are graduated. The ideal of a college is
to broaden the student's knowledge and
round out his character, that he may be
able to be a success in life. This ideal can-
not be attained if only the intellectual or
social growth is stressed; it is the three-
fold mental, social, and spiritual develop-
ment that is necessary.

We are prone to attend chapel from
force of habit and not really appreciate
the outstanding speakers who come to us.
Our minds are probably much more active
in a classroom lecture than during a chap-
el talk. If we continue to remain in a pas-
sive state, impervious to the opportunities
for spiritual growth dropped in our laps,
we will remain stagnant in one of the most
important phases of character develop-
ment.

Here at Agnes Scott, we cannot appre-
ciate fully how powerful our Christian As-
sociation is until w r e visit other campuses
and make a comparison. Colleges through-
out the South have praised our system as
one of the best, both in its ideals and its
accomplishments. Perhaps if w r e appreci-
ated more the qualities of our Association,
we would individually take a more active
part in its various meetings and conse-
quently receive larger benefits from it.

This week especially should we clear out
the stagnant debris that is preventing
spiritual growth and become active in the
services of Religious Emphasis Week. In
discussions, at informal gatherings with
Dr. McSween, and especially during his
chapel talks, let us keep our minds alert
that we may mature in this important
line and round out our growth during col-
lege.

Front Row

By JANE SALTERS

Editorial Notes

The annual election of May Queen in
the midst of February weather unites the
campus in anticipation of May Day and
all that it brings. The choice this year
was well made. Congratulations, Ad!

The new movement of the Christian As-
sociation of closer cooperation with pas-
tors ol Atlanta and Decatur churches is a
progressive step which will mean much to
the student body.

The Freshman Barn Dance not only
provided an enjoyable evening for the col-
lege community, but gave a strong proof
of the class spirit of the Freshmen. Their
united cooperation in making it a success
deserves the applause of the whole cam-
pus.

31)e Agonistic

Agnes Scott College Student Newspaper
Vol. 24 Wednesday, February 8 No. 13

Mary Frances Guthrie
Editor

Evelyn Baty
Mary Reins
Assistant Editors

KUzabeth Kemu-y
Copy Editor

Rebecca Drucker
Assistant Copy Editor

Marie Merritt
Business Manager

Mary Louise Dobbs
Advertising Manager

Alice Cheeseman
Mary Wells McNeill
Feature Editors
Anne Enloe
Georgia Hunt
Assistant Feature Editors

STAFF

Jane Salters
Current History
Eleanor Hutchens
Sports Editor
Hazel Solomon
Exchange Editor
Jeannette Carroll
Alumnae Editor
Selma Steinbach

Club Editor
Hayden Sanford
Eloise Lennard
Florence Ellis
Society Editors
Virginia Farrar

Eleanor Hall
Dorothy Graham
Beth Paris
Onle Smith
Circulation Managers

REPORTERS: M. L. GUI. . J. Watkins. A. Enloe. M. L.
Ratllff. C. K. Hutchlas. P. Heaalett. M. Merlin, D. Welnkle,
B. Alderman, J. Wltman. M. Fite. L. Franklin. J. Cates. S.
Lee. C. Willis. P. Hammond, A. Enloe. E. Stubbs. E. McCall.
B. (VuVmnn. S. Self. J. Lancaster. E. Barrett. G. iMi^jian.
BUSINESS STAFF : B. Coleman. B. L. Murlln. M. E. Learltt.
M. Watklna. L. Sale. B. A. Stewart, W. Howard. W. Finger.

By GEORGIA HUNT

The days are gone forever when
every sleepy Hottentot has to turn
out her lights at nine-thirty and
then enjoy a reign of darkness and
quiet. Today all that seems in-
credible to us who are clamoring
for lights and more lights and
even more lights. The Seniors are
apparently satisfied with the light
system they have because they
have lights all the time. But not
so with the Juniors, Sophomores
and Freshmen. "More Lights" is
their cry. Here are opinions, which
seem to express the demand for
"more lights. "

Julia Sewell, senior boarder says:
"I've been a day student so long
that it just seems unnatural to
turn out your lights arbitrarily at
10:30."

Evelyn Baty, junior defender
for "more lights" says: "The sys-
tem for the Juniors is the worst in
the world, because sometimes we
just must have more than one
light cut. The system for the un-
derclassmen is bad enough, but it's
even worse for the Juniors be-
cause they have more responsibili-
ties."

Frances Breg, thoughtful soph-
omore, says: "I like the idea of the
proposed system of having more
cuts and having some of them lim-
ited, because it seems to me that
there are times when routine work
for the next day needs to be done
which can be done in a limited
time."

Bee Bradfield, enthusiastic fresh-
man, says: "The Freshmen ought
to have two limited light cuts a
month instead of one unlimited cut
because then they wouldn't feel
that they had to stay up all night.''

And so the light question goes
on far into the night.

Everyone seems to like the idea
of more cuts, even if some of them
are limited. What about some ac-
tion now?

ChildGenius Ranks
High as Physicist

Without any previous schooling
Herbert Sullivan, 14-year-old child
genius, is preparing to be a mathe-
matical physicist by taking physics,
chemistry, mechanics, and trigo-
nometry at Santa Anna Junior Col-
lege. Although he already has
passed the entrance exam to the
California Institute of Technology,
Sullivan plans to enter Oxford
University in England. Young
Sullivan numbers among his friends
eight of the world's outstanding
mathematicians (A. CP.)

Stetson Discloses
Magazine Preferences

There is a vogue for superlatives
throughout college campuses all
over the United States. Recently
Stetson University students have
reported their favorite publica-
tions: Life, Readers' Digest, and
Fortune. Other widely read pub-
lications, according to the infor-
mation given by James Drake,
head of the circulation department,
are Saturday Evening Post, The
American; while the Atlantic
Monthly, Harpers, and Literary Di-
gest are used most for student as-
signments.

Roosevelt's denial of the recent
statements that a Rhine frontier is
the goal of the United States for-
eign policy is declared by the Nazi
newspaper, Zeitung, to be "a
unique example of political hy-
pocrisy" which does not deceive
the governments at Berlin, Rome,
London, or Paris.
Stepmother Nature

A new siege of floods and tor-
nadoes hits the Tennessee and Ohio
River .valleys, killing sixteen per-
sons, injuring scores, and causing
the threatened city of Portsmouth,
Ohio, to open four flood stations
in order to get rid of excess water.
Peace Disputes

The President claims that the
unchanged U. S. policy is "opposi-
tion to any entangling alliances,"
"maintenance of world trade for
all nations," and "sympathy with
every effort to reduce or limit
armaments," while Senators Logan
and Nye express wishes for repeal
of the Neutrality Law in order to
give FDR a "free hand in shaping
our foreign policy," and Represen-
tative Snyder states that sale of
American built planes to France
will "insure more rapid and effici-
ent manufacture" for our own de-
fense program.
Democratic Scandal

The Washington Merry-Go-
Round predicts the possible fall of
the Democratic party in New
York owing to scandal involving
the New York mortgage companies
and the receivers appointed after
the depression bankruptcies.
Migration in Spain

Premier Juan Negrin's loyalist
government makes its third move
in eleven days as the ministry sets
out from Figueras for a "secret
refuge along the French border"
and refugees "in wild flight" fill
the highways between the most re-
cently bombed capital and the
French line.

Florida Students
Improve Campus
In NYA Shop

One of the most unique build-
ings of the University of Florida
campus is the new NYA work-
shop. There students have a chance
to earn money for their education
by working one hundred hours a
month at thirty cents an hour. In
order to have time for this amount
of work they may not carry more
than twelve hours scholastic work.
"This mecca for manual labor and
mental ability coupled in using a
hammer and saw is a nine-months'
experiment which started last De-
cember. A penchant for making
things and same skill in carpentry
are the requisites for employment
in the workshop.

The work, entirely creative as
regards the workshop, enables stu-
dents to make improvements on
the university that would other-
wise be impossible. Construction
of school furniture and equipment,
articles for boards of public in-
struction and other public agencies
are fashioned by the fifteen boys in
the group."

Gwendolyn McMichael is the
tenth sister of her family to at-
tend Georgia State College for
Women. The lone bi other went
to Georgia Tech. A .CP. Campus
Camera.

S taff A p pro val

The final voting on the name of the
paper last week closed an important chap-
ter in the annals of Open Forums at Ag-
nes Scott. The discussion concerning the
changing of the name brought forth more
individual student opinion than there has
been for years.

Such active participation shows an in-
creasing interest in the college publica-
tions and an individuality of thought that
is desirable on any campus. The new name
will give a dignity and needed significa-
tion to the paper; it will identity the pub-
lication clearly with this campus in the
minds of journalists throughout the na-
tion with whom we come into direct or
indirect contact. The AGNES SCOTT
NEWS is the student's name for their
newspaper and the staff wishes to thank
the student body as a whole for recogniz-
ing it as theirs and giving the problem
thoughtful consideration.

Parade of Opinion

By Associated Collegiate Press

YOUTH

To adult platform-speakers, social workers and
editorial writers in all sections of the U. S., to-
day's youth is the major problem for all thinking
Americans. Countless are the solutions of this
problem offered up in the public press and from
the public platform, with not one of them seem-
ing to "ring the bell" to end the right for the
welfare of youth and the ruling generations of
the future.

But, says the University of California Daily
Trojan, these adults are so concerned with the
conception of youth as a problem that they fail
"to realize thoroughly that they constitute just
as much of a problem to youth as youth consti-
tutes for them, or more.

"There is need for a realization among those
who run the world, that although youth may be
truly a problem, there is a better way to solve
that problem than by working on youth directly.
That way is to work on the economic, political
and social system into which youth steps as it
reaches adulthood, and remove some of the causes
of the problem. Until such time as that is done,
there wil be a constant recurrence of the 'prob-
lem of youth' with each new succeeding genera-
tion."

PROPAGANDA
College newspapers and student organizations
have been bombarded during the last month with
letters from "a Chinese student" asking for sup-
port of the Chinese cause in the current "inci-
dent" with Japan. These letters ask that U. S.
students "send letters to men in key government
positions urging them to make unlawful the sale
or shipment of arms or munitions; and other war
materials to aggressor nations." Surveys of col-
legiate opinion on the Sino- Japanese war indicates
that collegians believe Japan to be the aggressor,
that the U. S. should take the side of war-torn
China.

POLLS

On "ism" teaching: Exactly 88 per cent of the
University of Minnesota students included in a
recent interview said faculty members had made
no attempt to influence them in regard to com-
munism, socialism or fascism.

On radio artists: Temple University students
voted Jack Benny, Charlie McCarthy and the Ra-
dio Theatre as the "most listened to" programs.
Kay Kyser and Larry Clinton were the most pop-
ular dance bands.

On moustaches for collegians: Macalester Col-
lege co-eds voted 95 per cent against them.

On jobs: Cornell University's placement bu-
reau director says facts in his possession reveal
employment prospects in June will be brighter
than they were last year.

On socialized medicine: Tulane University stu-
dents voted 664 to 416 against the idea, with
medical students opposing it by 128 to 24.

A San Diego State College student works his
way through college by working nights changing
the advertising cards in San Diego's buses, street
cars and ferries.

The Agonistic

ROW IN
FIRST

VOL. XXIV

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1939

Z115

No. 14

Shell Crews Race in Buttrick Lobby
For $40,000 Campaign Goal

CAMPAIGNERS

Directors of Agnes Scott's
Semi-Centennial Campaign are Dr.
Phillip G. Davidson (upper pic-
ture) and Amelia Nickels.

College Broadcast

Features A. A.

Hamilton Takes Lead in
Skit by Students

Broadcasting on the regular
Agnes Scott program Tuesday,
February 14, the Athletic Associa-
tion presented a skit written by
Alice Cheeseman and Eleanor
Hutchens, which represented a
meeting of the Athletic Board.
Jane Moore Hamilton, president of
A. A., Mary Scott Wilds, Jane
Moses, Beryl Healy, and Ernestine
Cass took parts.

On Tuesday, February 21, Doug-
las Lyle will speak on the Agnes
Scott program presented by the
Christian Association.

May Court Nominations
Are Closed Today

Don't forget to make your
nominations for May Court today,
Wednesday. The final decision as
to May Court members rests with
the May Day Committee. Monday
in the gym at 4:30 the tryouts for
the main parts in the May Day skit
will be held; the rest of the school
will sign up for May Day after the
principals have been selected.

Dr. Davidson Manages Drive
As Committees Solicit Pledges

The lobby of Buttrick will be the scene of much excite-
ment next week from Tuesday through Friday, Feb. 21-24,
as the shell race, novel extravaganza of the College cam-
paign to raise $40,000 gets under way. Through the ingen-
ious devices of Dr. Philip G. Davidson, campaign manager,
the boats will contend against each other in a huge 'tank,
filled with real water and placed in the center of the lobby.

There will be a boat for each class and for the faculty, but
further details in regard to coxswains and crews of the vari-
ous boats are as yet unrevealed.

The progress of each boat in the
race will be determined by a fac-
ulty member of the Mathematics
Department. Each day during the
race he will compute the percent-
ages, based on the number of
pledges made by each group. Fol-
lowing the chapel services on the
four days, the shells will be moved
up and anchored, according to the
new percentages.

The final results of the race will
be announced in chapel on Friday
morning, February 24th, when
the faculty will chalk the various
pledges on a blackboard before the
entire assembly. The grand finale
to the event will be enacted in
Buttrick, as the winning shell will
float across the finish line.

Working to secure pledges from
every student on the campus will
be the following class committees:

Seniors Cary Wheeler, chair-
man; Helen Kirkpatrick, sub-chair-
man; Elizabeth Kenney, Virginia
Cofer, Mary Wells McNeill, Sarah
Joyce Cunningham,, Caroline Car-

(Continued on Page 2, Column 1)

A. A. Donates
Insurance Fund

Stone Mountain Cabin
Burns To Net $1,000

While the Athletic Association
would not go so far as to condone
arson, still the A. A. Board mem-
bers are exceedingly grateful to
whoever or whatever set fire to the
Association's camp at Stone Moun-
tain recently.

Last week, just as the Board was
considering what amount of money
could be set aside from the organi-
zation's money as a pledge to the
Semi-Centennial Campaign, word
was received that the Board would
be paid $1,000 insurance for the
destroyed camp. Jane Moore Ham-
ilton, A. A. President, proudly an-
nounced to President McCain that
the Board has decided to contribute
the sum to the campaign.

As in the case of money pledged
by other campus organizations, al-
so, the $1,000 will be divided equal-
ly among the four classes, simul-
taneously increasing the pledges of
each group.

The camp, located on the back
side of Stone Mountain near the
lake, was built by the Board about
twenty years ago at a cost of $15,-
000. The money for the camp was
raised through the efforts of the
Board itself.

Students Protest That
"You Don't Want To
Take It With You"

Heading the committees working
for the Semi-Cenfennial Campaign
are Dr. Philip G. Davidson, general
chairman, and Amelia Nickels,
president of Mortar Board and
chairman of the Student Commit-
tee.

Other committeemen are: Fac-
ulty: Dr. Davidson, Miss Blanche
Miller, Miss Emma May Laney, Miss
Helen Carlson, Dr. S. G. Stukes,
Miss Leslie Gaylord, and Dr. Rob-
ert Holt.

Student Committee: Amelia
Nickels, Mary Ellen Whetsell, Julia
Sewell, Adelaide Benson, Flora
MacGuire, Douglas Lyle, Jeanne
Flynt, and Jane Dryfoos.

Publicity: Mary Frances Guth-
rie, Marie Merritt, and Miss Annie
Mae Christie.

Committee on Organization
Pledges: Mamie Lee Ratliff, Jane
Moore Hamilton, Ruth Brody, Ruth
Eyles, and Eloise Lennard.

French Club Studies

Literary Men

Group Selects
Lecturer Andre Maurois

During the months of February,
March, and April, French Club
will sponsor a series of programs
on the three French literary men
most in the public eye at present.
Those included are Jean Giraudoux,
author of Amphitryon 3 8; Andre
Maurois, prominent writer, who
will lecture here in March, and
Jean Giona, whose Chant au Monde
is now widely read in the United
States in the translated version
called Light of the World.

Jean Giraudoux will be the sub-
ject of the program February 20.
At this time there will be a talk
on the general trend of his plays,
illustrated specifically by a short
history of the numerous "Amphi-
tryons," including Giraudoux's
modern interpretation; and by his
adoption of Moliere's Impromptu
de Versailles into Impromptu de
Paris. Jeanne Flynt will give some
readings of outstanding passages of
Am,phrtryon 3 8.

Promise of Holiday

Spurs Pledges

Naturally we are all very
excited over the prospects
of what the $40,000 will
mean to the greater de-
velopment of our Alma
Mater. But we can't deny
that our eagerness is being
spurred on by another lit-
tle matter, too namely,
Dr. McCain's promise of
one whole holiday if we
reach the campus goal.

Colleges Meet
At Tech

Citizenship Institute
Gathers Feb. 13-15

In joint sponsorship of the Insti-
tute of Citizenship to be held Feb-
ruary 13-15; Agnes Scott, Emory,
and Tech convened for the open-
ing address given by Mr. Frank
Graves, Monday night. His subject
was 'The Place of the South in the
National Economy."

Tuesday, February 14, talks were
made on "What Is Being Done
About It," discussing the various
phases of the economic problem in
the South. Speakers were Eugene
O'Brien, Managing Director, South-
ern Power Journal; Hon. Blanton
Fortson, Judge of Georgia; R. t
Maddox, Vice-President of the
First National Bank of Atlanta,
and Henry Reining, Jr., Education-
al Director of the National Insti-
tute of Public Affairs.

"What Can Be Done About It
in the Future?" was the subject of
the discussions on Wednesday.
Among the speakers for the day
were Gov. Frank M. Dixon, of Ala-
bama, and Robert Gregg, President
of Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad
Co.

Members of the faculty of Agnes
Scott are helping with the Insti-
tute. Dr. J. R. McCain is one of
the co-chairmen; Dr. Philip David-
son, a director; Miss Mildred Mell
is on the committee for arrange-
ments, and Miss Florence Smith is
on the Advisory Board.

Banquet Skits
Launch New
Campaign

Davidson, Nickels
Head Co mmittees
For Campus

Launching the good ship S. S.
Hottentot on her $40,000 cam-
paign maneuver, all members of the
College community met in the
gymnasium Tuesday for a nautical
luncheon. In enthusiastic talks
President J. R. McCain and Amelia
Nickels, student chairman of the
campaign, explained the goals of
the drive for money, presenting as
campaign motto: "The Campus
Sets the Pace." Dr. Davidson, cam-
paign chairman, was master of cere-
monies.

Following the talks by Dr. Mc-
Cain and Amelia Nickels, a skit en-
titled "You Don't Want To Take
It With You," was given. The two
acts of the skit were named (with
apologies to Dr. Raper) "The Trag-
edy of Pinching" and "A Preface to
Pleasantry." Members of the cast
were: Faculty, Mary Frances Guth-
rie; Athletic Association, Georgia
Hunt; Agonistic, Evelyn Sears;
Christian Association, Mary Dean
Lott; Student Government, Betty
Ann Brooks; Glee Club, Nancy
Wimpfheimer; Commentator, Mar-
garet Hopkins. A second, and some-
what shorter, skit was given by Bee
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Editor Speaks on
Women Journalists

In connection with its plan to
present to the student body this
year a few men and women who
are prominent in the field of jour-
nalism, The Agonistic will have as
the speaker for the paper's second
chapel program, Friday, Feb. 17,
Mr. Harold Tyler, Georgia News
Editor of the Associated Press.

Mr. Tyler will discuss the work
being done by women journalists
for the Associated Press in this
country and abroad. Marie Merritt,
Business Manager of The Agonistic,
will introduce the speaker.

NEWS GUIDE

Presser Bldg. Page 2

Hopkins Hall Page 3

Ship Talk Page 4

Before and After Page 5

Editorial Page 6

Maurice Hindus Lectures
Friday, February 24th

Maurice Hindus, noted observer
and interpreter of world affairs,
authority on the New Russia, has
this year turned all his great skill
to observing and interpreting inter-
national affairs with special empha-
sis on Czechoslovakia.

Mr. Hindus speaks here the eve-
ning of Friday, Feb. 24, sponsored
by the Agnes Scott Lecture Asso-
ciation. He was sent to Czechoslo-
vakia in June, 193 8, by Doubleday,
Doran & Co., of New York, to
write a book on the country and
the people there. He found the
country a beautiful, humane, civi-
lized country, but with his own
eyes, saw the collapse of everything
humanitarian in Czechoslovakia
civilization. Each day during that
period he spoke once or twice over
a Columbia broadcasting hook-up to
millions of Americans on this con-
tinent. After the crisis Hindus re-
mained there to finish gathering

There is a great depth to Mr.
Hindus' observations and he pos-
sesses a mind that grasps the his-
torical significance of these world
events. In a single lecture he can
give his listeners and readers a bet-
ter understanding of conditions
than can be gained by the reading
of many books.

Maurice Hindus, a graduate of
Colgate and Harvard, was born in
Russia, coming to this country at
the age of fourteen. He is the au-
thor of a book on Russian peasantry
which is regarded as a classic the
world over. He was the first Eng-
lish -speaking journalist who made
a first-hand study of the Russian
peasant after the overthrow of the
Czar.

Miss Emma May Laney is facul-
ty advisor for the Agnes Scott Lec-
ture Association, and Kay Kennedy
is president of the group.

THE AGONISTIC, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15. 1939

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Presser Building Is One
Of Benefits of Campaign

Air-Conditioned Building Will
Contain Large Auditorium

One of the most cultural benefits of the financial campaign
now being carried on by students and faculty will be the erec-
tion of the Presser Building, so named because of a large gift
to Agnes Scott from the Theodore Presser Music Founda-
tion. Housed in this building will be the music, art, and
speech departments of the College and the Gaines Chapel.

The architecture will be the
light Gothic style, in keeping with
the library and Buttrick Hall. But,
so far as effect is concerned, the
building is being designed to be
primarily a church.

On the first floor will be the
Chapel with seating arrangements
for 75 0 people on the main floor
and 3 50 people in the gallery. Cur-
tains will be used on the stage to
add to the religious atmosphere;
and, when it is desired to use the
auditorium for plays and other
non-religious programs, these cur-
tains can be turned aside. 1 his fea-
ture of the Chapel is much like
that of the Glenn Memorial
Chapel at Emory University. The
stage is also to be equipped with
complete lighting effects, and it
will have, a theatrical arrangement
of sets so that the sets can be low-
ered from above and will not have

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michael, sub-chairman; Lucy Hill
Doty, Julia Porter, Florence Wade,
Anne Watkins, Catherine Tvie, sub-
chairman; Jane Jones, Flora Mac-
Guire, Lou Pate, Virginia Morris.

Juniors Mary Lang Gill, chair-
man; Lutie Tyler Moore, sub-chair-
man; Carrie Gene Ashley, Frances
Abbott, Mary Frances Moore, Mar-
jorie Boggs, Carolyn Forman, sub-
chairman; Violet Jane Watkins,
Kathryn Patton, Sophie Montgom-
ery, Anne Enloe, Ruth Slack, sub-
chairman; Henrietta Thompson,
Mary Louise Dobbs, Louise Sulli-
van, Jane Moses.

Sophomores Julia McConnell,
chairman; Martha Moody, sub-
chairman; Elizabeth Moore, Sara
Rainey, Ann Henry, Louise Sams,
Grace Moffat, sub-chairman; Gene
Slack, Mary Scott Wilds, Ella Muz-
zey, Betty Kyle, Florence Ellis,
sub-chairman; Elizabeth Barrett,
Gay Swagerty, Mary Frances
Sproles, Beverly Coleman, Frances
Alston, sub-chairman; Freda Cope-
land, Nina Broughton, Doris Dal-
ton, Rebekah Hogan.

Freshmen Betty Ann Brooks,
chairman; Edith Dale, sub-chair-
man; Margaret Hamilton, Mary
Robertson, Margaret Hartsook,
Jessie MacGuire, Mary Dean Lott,
sub-chairman; Ann Gellerstedt, Su-
zanne Kaulbach, Sarah Copeland,
Virginia Webb Stanley, Betty Med-
lock, sub-chairman; Mary Ann
Faw, Dorothy Webster, Mae
Crumbley, Anne Chambless, Eliza-
beth Russell, sub-chairman; Lillian
Gish, Mary Olive Thomas, Frances
Tucker, Mary Louise Palmour,
Jane Taylor, sub-chairman; Mary
Light toot Sloan, Virginia Mont-
gomery, Ida Belle Levie, Billie
Davis.

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to be put up separately at each
change of scenery between acts of
a play.

The second floor of the building
will have a smaller auditorium
which will have a seating capacity
of 2 5 0. Debates, recitals, and other
programs for smaller groups can
be held here. This auditorium will
also have an organ and a stage.

The rest of the second floor will
be used for studios, practice rooms,
play production laboratories, and
dressing rooms. Other practice
rooms will be in the basement. As
these rooms will be underground
and will have no windows, arti-
ficial lighting will be used.

Furthermore, all of the practice
rooms will be sound-proof, and the
whole building will be air-condi-
tioned.

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are to be made of art glass like

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those in the library and in Butt-
rick, will be hung curtains and
draperies. These will be drawn for
debates and speeches to give the
proper speaking accoustics that re-
quires a deadening surface. For
musical programs the curtains will
be left open to give the necessary
accoustical rebound.

Future Freshmen
Compete for
Scholarships

The annual $700 competitive ex-
aminations sponsored by the col-
lege will take place this year on
March 3, according to an announce-
ment from Dr. McCain. Each high
school student trying out for the
scholarship must take three exami-
nations, choosing either Latin or
French, Chemistry, Physics, His-
tory, or Mathematics and English.
The student rating highest accord-
ing to the basis of seventy-five per
cent upon the examinations and
twenty-five per cent upon general
character and references will re-
ceive the $700 scholarship, and the
next highest will be awarded a
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College Plans
Rehabilitation
Of Buildings

Dormitories Will Be
Remodeled; Gates
To Be Erected

In addition to the plans to
erect the new dormitory and
the Fine Arts building, the
College is considering several
ways to improve present
equipment.

To reconcile those who may not
be so fortunate as to get rooms in
Hopkins Hall, the three present
dormitories will be extensively ren-
ovated. They will be refurnished,
the floors will be done over, and
better bath facilities will be in-
stalled.

In place of the dining room and
Chapel in Rebekah Hall there will
be reading rooms and date parlors,
with perhaps a large sociil room

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like the Day Students' room in
Agnes Scott Hall. The Speech stu-
dios will be kept in Rebekah for a
while, at least.

Several of the cottages now on
the campus will be removed.
Gaines and Ansley will be taken
away, as Hopkins Hall will be
erected on their present site. White
House and East Lawn Cottage will
be removed so that that may be
landscaped. Lupton and Boyd Cot-
tages will still be used for faculty
rooms until the Department of the
Home Building is to be constructed.

As a finishing touch to the cam-
pus entrances made of brick and
stone will be put on the main drives
in front and on the drive leading
to Buttrick.

Miss Lewis Speaks
To Eta Sigma Phi

Eta Sigma Phi held its regular
monthly meeting on Monday, Feb-
ruary 13, at 4:30 p. m. in the Mur-
phey Candler Building at which
time Miss Louise Lewis spoke on
classical art.

Agnes Scott Always

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According to the development plans, Agnes Scott boarders
will profit greatly from the present campaign for one of
larger objectives is to build a new dormitory, Hopkins Hall,
named in honor of the College's first dean, Miss Nannette
Hopkins.

This dormitory will most likely

be an inter-class one, as all of the
dormitories here have been until
the last six years. President Mc-
Cain states, however, that he would
be glad for a student discussion of
the matter. There will be rooms
for about 100 girls, and these
rooms will be arranged according
to the modern suite plan with sin-
gles and doubles adjoining the
baths.

Perhaps the most beautiful fea-
ture to the Hall will be the spa-
cious lobby on the main floor, ad-
joining the dining room. This lob-
by will probably be used for in-
formal Sunday night vesper serv-
ices and for twilight sings.

The dining room is to be the
only one on the campus, since it
will have accommodations for 45 0
people in the main part of the
room. For larger affairs the ad
joining little dining rooms can be
made a part of the main room and
thus seat 150 more people. These
adjoining dining rooms are to be
used at times for small, private
parties.

Round tables for six or eight
people will be used, instead of the
rectangular tables found in the
present dining halls. Plans are also
being made to have breakfast
served in the cafeteria style, so that
students may come when they
choose over a period of several
hours.

Adjacent the dining room will
be an open terrace for teas and

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summer receptions. The first floor,
which will be below the main floor
in the dormitory as it is in the li-
brary, will be for recreational
rooms. Here students can play in-
formal games while waiting indoors
for meals in rainy weather.

The construction material of the
dormitory will be like that used in
the library. There will be the same
kind of stone and brick work, roof-
ing, and vari-colored, rubber-stone
tiles on all the floors.

From the administrative stand-
point, the joint dining room for
the whole campus will be much

Club Holds Meeting

Spanish Club held its regular
meeting on Friday, February 10, at
4:00 p. m. in the Murphey Candler
Building. The program for the
meeting consisted of a Spanish
dance by Jeanne Flynt, followed by
a talk on the situation in Spain by
Dr. Philip Davidson.

Paper Names Five
Reporters

As a result of the tryouts
held last week The Agonistic
has added the following girls to
its staff of reporters: Miriam
Bedinger, Anne Chambless,
Rebecca McElwaney, Jackie
Illma Stearns, and Virginia
Watkins.

more effective as it will enable the
College to have only one kitchen.
Better facilities will thus be se-
cured without additional operating

expense.

It's Match Making Time!

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wood combinations. It's of skirts and
sweaters . . . skirts and blouses ... in
heavenly colors, that the canniest
young ladies are concerned with right
now. Down to MANGEL'S they come,
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THE AGONISTIC, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1939

Arm For Naval Engagement

(Note to the campaigner: In preparation for your task of
contributing to Greater Agnes Scott, you water learn the fol-
lowing nautical terms. They will be of value in "talking ship"
about the boat race.)

L SHELL: a. Second word in faculty motto (they shell not
pass); b. A light racing boat; c. Part of the sailor's swearing
vocabulary; d. Part of the hulk.

2. OUTRIGGER: a. A chill caused by staying on deck too
long in the cold; b. The release lever on a harpoon; c. A project-
ing support for a rowlock; d. The left hind fin of a shark.

3. ROWLOCK: a. An oar support on the side of a boat; b.
Official emblem of the Rho Dammit Rho fraternity; c. A lock
of hair clipped traditionally from the head of the stroke of the
winning crew in the Oxford-Cambridge races each year; d. A
small anchor.

4. OAR: a. A portion of a wild pig; b. An implement for
propelling a boat; c. Part of the chant of the Volga Boatman;
d. A type of barnacle.

5. CREW: a. What the five little peppers did; b. Group of
oarsmen; c. Bird which nests in the top of a mast; d. What the
cockswain did as his boat passed the finish line first.

6. COXSWAIN: a. A fowl kept as a pet by the Boatswain;

b. The man who guides the shell and keeps the crew in rhythm;

c. A small, three-cornered hat worn by oarsmen while practic-
ing; d. Mary's suitor.

7. TILLER ROPES: a. Harness connecting a horse with a
plow; b. Phrase from a traditional seaman's cry, "Sail her tiller
ropes break!"; c. Colloquial name for a sailor's knot used in
lassoing the elusive tiller fish; d. Ropes by which the coxswain,
guides his boat.

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Banquet Skits

{Continued from Page 1)
Mitler, Miss Wilburn, and Ann
Worthy Johnson.

The nautical idea of the lunch-
eon was effectively carried out in
decorations. Entering the S. S. Hot-
tentot (the gym) after crossing the
platform of Pier 40 (the front en-
trance) guests were taken to the
large ship dining room where gaily
decorated tables were laid for lunch.
Life-buoys were everywhere; music
furnished by Harry Hearn's Or-
chestra floated from the quarter
deck (the stage). A large streamer
bearing the motto, "The Campus
Sets the Pace," was stretched across
the top of the gymnasium.

Committee of entertainment for
the luncheon was composed of
Mary Hollingsworth, chairman;
Eleanor Hutchens, Alice Cheese-
man, Mary Wells McNeill, Georgia
Hunt, Miss Mitchell, and Miss Hun-
ter.

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Freshmen Hold Perfect
Record Against Junior Team

Sophomores Score Victory Over
Seniors by Large Margin

The freshmen held their perfect record against a deter-
mined junior team by the skin of their teeth last Friday, in
what goes on record as the best basketball game Miss Wil-
burn has ever seen played here. One goal in the last few
minutes of play dashed junior hopes and sewed up the pen-
nant for their sister class. The
sophomores swamped the "senior"
team made up of members of
three classes 5 3-17.

The sophomore-senior game be-
gan starring Fisher, with several of
her long, clean, never-touching-the-
hoop shots. Both teams were fairly
animated; Carmichael and Dyar
made particularly pretty goals. But
sophomore passing and shooting ac-
curacy piled up the score steadily
to 3 0-6 at the half.

Steele and Klugh showed up well
in the second half, catching the
ball from nowhere and effecting
good passes. S. Wilds, guarding for
the seniors, played well against her
own team. Stubbs and Bell made
nice shots, consistently running up
the score to 5 3-17 at the end of
the game.

The freshmen took things in
hand at the beginning of their
game, with Webster sinking goals
as dependably as always. But Slack
found the magic formula and made
a series of beautiful shots as Car-
son proved too slippery for the
freshman guards. Thompson re-
peatedly snagged the ball in fresh-
man passes, and Milner made a

Turner Speaks, Feb. 16

At eight-fifteen o'clock Thurs-
day evening, February 16, the Stu-
dent Lecture Association of Emory
University will present in Glenn
-Memorial Auditorium the Rev.
Ewart Edmund Turner, the leading
American authority on the German
religious situation. Mr. Turner will
speak on the subject, "The Battle
of Rel igions in Germany." His ad-
dress will be the sixth number on
this year's program of the Student
Lecture Association.

smoothly - executed goal. Dunn
chalked up two for her team, but
on the whole the freshmen were a
bit on the wild side. The half left
the juniors ahead, 14-13.

The second half, of course, was
fought out grimly. A good shot
by McElwaney and a miraculous
goal by Milner, despite Brooks'
careful guarding, put sparkle into
the third quarter. Goals by the
Websters in the last period put the
freshmen ahead for the first time.
A free shot by Milner tied the game
once more; Webster missed a pass,
breaking an otherwise smooth play;
finally another goal put the fresh-
men out in front again. The fresh-
man forwards then "froze" the ball
in close passing among themselves,
befuddling the junior guards and
marking time until the whistle,
which left the game 24-22. This
last device is something to keep an

eye on; it will probably be much
in evidence henceforth.
The line-up:

Seniors A. Wilds, S. Wilds,
Carter, Doty, Steele, Carmichael,
M. O. Thomas.

Juniors Milner, Slack, Carson,
Thompson, Salters, Ware.

Sophomores Stubbs, Bell, Fish-
er, Dyar, Steinbach, Henry, Klugh,
Kendrick, Self.

Freshmen D. Webster, A. Web-
ster, Dunn, McElwaney, Lott,
Brooks, Gellerstedt.

Guest Referee Miss Keller.

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AGNES SCOTT
COLLEGE

Agnes Scott has won the hearty approval and support of all organiza-
tions and individuals that have studied it. The General Education Board
of New York has made seven (7) generous offers of aid. The Carnegie
Corporation of New York, or Mr. Carnegie himself, has made five (5) gifts.
More than twelve thousand (12,000) men and women have contributed for
its development. It is significant that many of these were not able to send
their own daughters to Agnes Scott, but felt that it stands for something
that the South needs.

The College has won the approval of all associations or standardizing
agencies and has as much recognition in this country and abroad as it is
possible to secure.

It now stands at the door of new opportunities for additional build-
ings and endowment, and it is confident that its friends will again assist
it in rendering greater service.

For further information inquire of

President J. R. McCain

THE AGONISTIC, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1939

5

Light on the Subject

Before

After

These maps show Agnes Scott as the campus appears today (upper
drawing) and as the campus will appear with the two proposed build-
ings (shaded parts of lower drawing): 1. White House; 2. Inman Hall;

Agnes Scott Hall; 4. Rebekah Scott Hall; 5. Murphey Candler Stu-
dent Activities Building; 6. Lowry Science Hatl; 7. Bucher Scott Gym-
nasium; 8. The Carnegie Library; 9. Buttrick Hall; 10. Gaines Cottage;
11. Anna Young Alumnae House; 12. Hopkins Hall; 13. Presser
Building.

CAMPUS CELEBRITY

Dr. Davidson Turns Erudition
Into Campaign Money

By MARY WELLS McNEILL

If in the next few days you see something- sailing through
Buttrick and acting like a cross between a flying jinny and
a thrashing machine, think nothing of it. Tis only Dr. David-
son managing another campaign merely that and nothing
more. He is very good at the job, too. In the 1935 campaign,
the theme of which was racing, he helped to build the race

track that was placed in Buttrick
and carved the horses which repre-
sented the teams.

IV. Davidson always has been

interested in doing a great many
things, and when a boy, he did
practically everything from selling
SOftp to working in an ice house.
Jerking soda was t ho one thing he
did not do.

Eventually the time came tor
pursuit of higher education and
young Philip was sent to Sewanee,
where he wore his father's army
uniform in the college R. O. T. C.
fat her weighing about 190
pounds .uul son about 103. After
a month or two. Dr. Davidson got
sick and had to stop school. He

then worked in a bank and later
entered the University of Missis-
sippi, where he graduated at the
end of three years. During those
three years he was president of the
Greek Club, a member of the
"Mississippian" staff, and right end

Juniors Have Annual
Banquet Feb. 18

The Juniors will have their an-
nual banquet Saturday, February
18, at 6 o'clock in Rebecca Scott
dining room. Guests for the occa-
sion are the Juniors' dates. Dr. and
Mrs. James R. McCain, Mr. and
Mrs. S. G. Stukes, Miss Carrie
Scandrett, Miss Charlotte Hunter,
the Junior class advisors: Miss Hel-
en Carlson, Miss Blanche Miller;
Mortar Board Advisors: Dr. and
Mrs. Philip Davidson, Miss Lucile
Alexander, and Miss Blanche Mil-
ler.

on the football team.

After leaving the University of
Mississippi, Dr. Davidson went to
the University of Chicago, where
he received his masters and Ph.D.
degrees. Then, as now, he enjoyed
reading, tennis, and amateur car-
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Extortioners of Yore
Give Tips on Wheedling

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There are campaigns and there are campaigns. One of the
most interesting of which is the money-getting kind. Like
ours.

There have been money-getting campaigns before at Agnes
Scott (not the "Greater Agnes Scott, ,, yet we were building
up to that!). And of the intriguing money-mad-methods em-
ployed then, ... we have heard tell of these :

Back in a 1934 Aggie, during
the lobby "horse race" days, quote:
"Because of the influence of the
campaign it is suitable at present
to have hair cut, furniture pol-
ished, teeth pulled, and portrait
drawn by one's own friends and
real classmates all for the nominal
sum of fifty cents." Manicures
could be pointed out at a dime the
indulgence, and finger waves at the
same price (whose wouldn't!)
Facials were (quote!): "Thrown at

you!" Shoes were whitened or sil-
vered "at the occupant's desire."
And for that fresh and invigorated,
on-your-toes feeling, a massage and
tickle was administered "for the
cut-throat charge of fifteen cents."

Note to freshmen! Inman en-
thusiasts rented, for only a dime
the experience, that marvelous con-
traption, the Ouija board, "with
instructions as to its use thrown
in." Scientific handwriting an-
alysts sprang up on every hand in
Inman . . . and charged a paltry
dime. An aesthetic young student
named Liselotte Roennecke offered
lessons in the engaging art of the
German waltz.

Errant buttons were replaced for
a penny the errant button. Beds
were made for five cents . . . ten
cents for changing the sheets. (But
one mustn't be extravagant.)
Rooms were cleaned (a real luxury
today even) for fifteen cents. For
ten cents more the closets were at-
tacked. Pressing prices stood at
rock-bottom level (sans doute
lacked the iron constitution . . .
no doubt). Also food (not neces-
sarily of the rock-bottom variety) |
was galore, galor-ious! . . . All was
purchaseable "within the confines
of the campus."

Miss Wilburn recalls a rousing
campaign (also money-getting) in
which the initials B. E. F. were
vital . . . meaning, of course, Bene-
fit Endowment Fund. A slender
comedian by name of Peanut Rowe
buggied a pair (?) of triplets about
the dining room, telling a most

soul tearing tale of widowhood and
poverty and need. The triplets
were named B, E, and F; . . . need-
less to say. In one campaign every-
body brought pennies to the table
and were forbidden to laugh at trie
simply-excrutiating skits presented
during the meal . . . penalty being
fine upon fine of pennies (which,
of course, was fine).

And then there was Elizabeth
Flynn, who carved "greater"
Agnes Scott (before and after)
from soap. These excellent models
were on exhibit in Main. Miss
Latimer easily recalls rummage
sales and hunkie sales by her class
. . . during the hobby-horse cam-
paign.

And so few can dispute that
the one way to make any campaign
money-getting is to get on back-
slapping terms with all five hun-
dred and fifty-odd of us . . . and
to trick every available penny away
from its hoarding place, and into
"the pot for Greater Agnes Scott."
It's all a grand and magnitudinous
spirit of group "gold-digging;" . . .
the more money a Hottentot can
wheedle out, the better. With which
we will leave you to everybody's
resources. And begin wheedling.

It has been recommended that
the President of Mortar Board
should be a member of the Nomi-
nating Committee. This motion
will be voted on in chapel on
Thursday.

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THE AGONISTIC, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1939

Agnes Scott College
Decatur, Ga.

THE AGONISTIC

Editorials

features

Vol. XXIV, No. 14
Wednesday, Feb. 15, 1939

No Preventative Blackfriars

The regulation of student activities has
long been a problem on the American
campus. How to provide for a good divi-
sion of the responsible positions among a
great many students and to prevent the
usurpation of the chief offices by a few
students is a matter often argued but sel-
dom settled.

Our predecessors sought to solve the
difficulty here by establishing the Point
System, which aimed at the evaluation of
the different student offices. Members of
the four classes are allotted specific points
and are thus limited somewhat in their
extra-curricular activities.

But, in recent years, we have seen that
this system has not been the preventative
for which it was originally constructed.
While it does limit the number of major
campus positions one girl may hold, it does
not limit the number of minor activities
of another girl. A student, under the pres-
ent rules, may belong to as many as five
or six clubs without exceeding her allotted
points.

The chief weakness of the Point Sys-
tem is that it thus does not encourage dis-
criminate selection and concentrated inter-
est by members of the various campus
groups. As a result, many girls simply
hold membership in the groups they take
little active part in the club work. And,
consequently, they receive little that is of
value from their club membership.

To overcome this deficiency in the
Point System, we should have a rule that
no student may belong to more than three
organizations or clubs. We should center
our time and interest on a few activities
only.

The groups would benefit thus from
having every member an active partici-
pant, and the students would benefit from
receiving a greater opportunity to lead.
For under this rule, the clubs would have
a smaller membership, and new leaders
would be developed.

After all, one of the chief purposes of
our activities is to foster the development
of leadership in the majority of the stu-
dents, not in the minority of them. And
leadership comes largely from being given
an opportunity to lead.

Editorial Notes

When the newspaper of a neighboring
school begins cryptically (and truthfully)
stating that "all Scott dates are late
dates," conditions are getting pretty bad.

Highlight of next week's activities will
be the lecture on Czechoslovakia, Friday
night, February 24, by Maurice Hindus.
Buy your tickets in advance.

I) e Agonistic

Agnes Scott College Student Newspaper
Vol. 24 Wednesday, February 15 No. 14

Mary Frances Guthrie
Editor

Evelyn Baty
Mary Reins
Assistant Editors

Elisabeth Kcnney
Copy Editor

Rebecca Drucker
Assistant Copy Editor

Marie Merritt
Business Manager
Marv Louise Dobbs
Advertising Manager

Alice Cheeseman
Mary Wells McNeill
Feature Editors
Anne Enloe
Georgia Hunt
Assistant Feature Editors

STAFF

Jane Salters
Current History
Eleanor Hutchens
Sports Editor
Hazel Solomon
Exchange Editor
Jeannette Carroll
Alumnae Editor
Selma Steinbach

Club Editor
Hayden Sanford
Eloise Lennard
Florence Ellis
Society Editors
Virginia Farrar

Eleanor Hall
Dorothy Graham
Beth Paris
Onie Smith
Circulation Managers

REPORTERS: M. L. Gill. V. J. Watkins, A. Enloe. M. L.
Ratliff, C. K. Hutchlns. P. Heaslett. M. Merlin, D. Weinkle.
B. Alderman. J. Witman. M. Fite. L. Franklin. J. Cates. S.
Lee. C. Willis. P. Hammond. A. Enloe, E. Stubbs. E. McCall,
B. Coleman. S. Self, J. Lancaster. E. Barrett. G. DuggaJQ.
BUSINESS STAFF: B. Coleman. B. L. Murlln, M. E. Leavltt,
M. Watkins. L. Sale. B. A. Stewart. W. Howard. W. Finger,
L. Sehwenke, Florence Graham.

Give Us Spain

Young Men Stars
Furnish Sound Effects

With the embellishment of such
titles as Senorita, Donna, and Senor,
and with the airy gallantry of
hand-kissing, Blackfriars' current
production, "Dream of An August
Night," transports its audience
to the Spain of a few years
ago. The artistic effect of the play
is at present somewhat marred by
an enormous gap in the scenery ex-
tending across the whole, back of
the stage, revealing such prosaic
objects as gymnasium windows,
boxes and planks. Nevertheless,
though the staging is not all that
could be desired for the moment,
and though all sound effects (vo-
cal and otherwise) are furnished by
the gentlemen members of the cast
not on stage at the moment, the
enthusiasm and vitality of the cast
give promise of an entertaining
program for Saturday night.

Jeanne Flynt, as Rosario, the in-
dependent minded, yet fundamen-
tally romantic young lady, is sur-
rounded by a large family. The
authoritative part of it consists of
Donna Barbita, the ancient, thrice
married grandmother (played by
Alice Adams), and the incorrigible
part of it is made up of the three
brothers: Mario, Emilio, and Pepe
(Ed Coles, Covington Hardee, and
Jack Bodenhamer). Equally a
member of the family is Maria
Pepa (Laura Sale), the privileged
and domineering old servant of
Donna Barbarita.

The hero is a famous novelist,
de Cordoba, played by John Win-
chester (who, incidentally, looks
very Spanish), Evelyn Sears is the
secretary who is about to get mar-
ried, Helen Moses is the tempera-
mental actress, Tom Wesley (of all
people) is Don, the roue, while our
own Mr. Henry Robinson is Wil-
liam, the butler. He says that if he
could use figures when announcing
people he would get along all right,
but that the long Spanish names
simply stump him.

There is some clever coincidence
business in which the novelist's hat
(followed at length by him) blows
into Rosario's window, with en-
suing complications (including the
flying exchange of a slipper and a
hat through the window). Laurels
should be awarded Alice Adams for
her convincingly feeble gait, un-
aided by make-up or costume, to
John Winchester for his marvelous
scramblings in and out of a win-
dow which isn't there, and to Coz
Hardee for his slightly inebriated
rendition of the Toreadors' Song
from Carmen. Some rather inter-
esting properties are a galosh for
the much discussed slipper, and a
very long-suffering hat (belonging
to one of the kind gentlemen in
the cast) which is alternately cast
on the floor, squeezed, thrown into
chairs, and sat upon. The prize re-
mark so far is Jeanne Flynt's.
When John Winchester, her would-
be lover, says gallantly, "May I kiss
your hand?" Jean, looking worried-
ly over her script, says, "I can't
find the place."

By JULIA SEWELL.

Front Row

By JANE SALTERS

The body of the beloved Pope
Pius XI lies in state in the Vatican
while millions of Catholics mourn
his passing, and the cardinals
three of them American hasten to
Vatican City for their solemn task
of choosing from their number a
successor to the late Achille Ratti,
"Apostle of Peace," 261st head of
the Roman Catholic Church.

Greener Pastures

Postmaster General Jim Farley
notifies the government of his in-
tention to resign from his office in
March ostensibly to center his at-
tention on private business enter-
prise, but actually (says Washing-
ton Merry-Go-Round) to concen-
trate on obtaining either the presi-
dential or the vice-presidential
nomination of the Democratic par-
ty, the chairmanship of whose na-
tional committee he retains.

Dictators Condole

Dictators Hitler, Mussolini, and
Franco extend sympathy to the
Vatican for the death of the Pope,
while newspapers in Soviet Russia
and Loyalist Spain give scant at-
tention to the subject and the
Goebbels organ calls the late Pius
XI "Pope of unfulfilled hopes,"
and' "political adventurer."

But Unbowed

Premier Negrin announces that
the Spanish government will resist
to the last the forces of the Insur-
gent government, continuing the
war from the new center, Madrid,
under the military leadership of the
"still undefeated commander-in-
chief," Jose Miaja.

School Money

The Georgia legislature continues
its policy of economy in govern-
ment, while Governor Rivers bor-
rows over $2,000,000 for the long
neglected cause of the underpaid
school teacher.

College Campaign
Brings Offer From
Education Board

Agnes Scott's Semi-Centennial
Campaign, according to a state-
ment by President James Ross Mc-
Cain, was a large factor in bring-
ing, the General Education Board of
New York to make its $2,500,000
offer at this time. The Board felt
such a financial campaign on our
campus would make it most propi-
tious to begin the University Cen-
ter Campaign now.

Previous campaigns undertaken
here in the last ten years also were
of influence. The members of the
Board were quite surprised at the
large number of pledges that the
College had received in these ear-
lier drives.

The Semi-Centennial Campaign
is only related to the University
Center Campaign in that Emory
University and Agnes Scott have
to raise jointly $5,000,000 before
the General Education Board will
make its gift. At present our mo-
tive, Dr. McCain said, is a family
one. The students will feel the
benefits secured by the campus
campaign more than those from the
Board's gift, for the money we
raise will be put into buildings,
gates, scholarships, and general
campus improvement. The money
given by the Board will be used en-
tirely for endowment.

We Set the Pace

$40,000, the campus goal for Agnes
Scott's Semi-Centennial Campaign, seems
an enormous amount of money to most of
us students, and probably to nearly every
one else except Roosevelt. Consequently,
the thought of our trying to raise that
large sum is a little frightening to us at
first.

But, it has been done before, and it can
be done again.

In the last financial campaign here over
12,000 pledges were made a most impres-
sive fact when we realize that only 700
people outside of the alumni made contri-
butions in Yale University's drive to se-
cure $21,000,000. These pledges on the
whole, were much larger in amount than
those received through our own campaign ;
but the greater number of pledges made
to Agnes Scott is of importance in indicat-
ing the widespread influence and prestige
of this College in the South.

We now are being given an opportunity
to gain national influence and prestige
through the General Education Board of-
fer toward the development of the Univer-
sity Center in Atlanta. The condition of
the grant is that Agnes Scott and Emory
jointly raise $5,000,000. The success of
this Center repends to a large extent upon
the success of our Semi-Centennial Cam-
paign.

At the luncheon yesterday we were told
the College's achievements from the stand-
point of academic recognition. Being one
of 15 colleges for women among the 132
Phi Beta Kappa chapters and one of 4 col-
leges for women among the 69 Mortar
Board chapters, our academic status is of
universal renown.

The facts are not so favorable, however,
when we consider the College's financial
rating and general equipment. The com-
parison of Agnes Scott with the seven out-
standing colleges for women in the East
reveals that we are much below their
standards.

The College has challenged us: "Is
Agnes Scott to be just 'a college' lost in
the swarm of others?" Or is she to take
her rightful place of leadership in the
higher education of women in the South?

Our response to the Semi-Centennial
Campaign will also be our response to the
College's challenge. In the light of this,
we cannot fail.

More democracy is seen in this year's
May Day plans; the committee invites all
interested to try out for the scenario
leads.

Parade of Opinion

By Associated Collegiate Press

CHALLENGE That this period of unrest is
being given more than just a "once over, lightly"
by at least some college students it true, but that
the mass of undergraduates is just about as indif-
ferent to it all as are the German leaders to
thoughts of honor and peace is also true. Quick
to get at the bottom of the world's troubles,
Washington and Jefferson College's "Red &
Black" believes that it's about time our colleges
produced greater thinkers. Here's what it says:

"It is recognized that universities with their
public influences and mass production cannot
easily produce great leaders or thinkers. . . .
Colleges are a place of 'credit getting' instead of
independent thinking. ... It is indeed tragic to
watch the average undergraduate slip through
four years of education, without having to think
once during that time. We see the lack of Amer-
icanism on every side. The indolent indifference
of the average citizen is reflected in the college
youth. Colleges unconsciously foster it. The
situation becomes more muddled with each suc-
cessive year, and yet we know not where to turn
for our guidance. We must turn to the college
of today for the men of tomorrow. The college
must in turn realize its responsibility, revise its
technology with the changing times. We need
more thinkers."

KEEP ON
SHELLING

The Agonistic

KEEP ON
ROWING

VOL. XXIV

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1939

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No. 15

Shell '40
Leads in Race;
'42 Is Second

Final Estimate
Will Be Weighed
After Friday Chapel

Twenty natty sailors pulled deep
on the oars and got away to an ex-
citing start as the crew race began
in the lobby of Buttrick yesterday
morning. In the lead at the end of
the first quarter was Shell '42,
freshman entry, manned by four
oarsmen and a coxswain, all gaily
dressed in bright red middies.

Second in the race was the jun-
ior entry, Shell '40, with its blue-
middied crew; and close behind
was Shell '39, veteran senior boat
bearing five orange clad men. Far
in the back came the sophomore
entry, Shell '41, having been re-
tarded, it is thought, by a broken
outrigger.

The faculty shell, I. Q. 90, was
somewhere in the midst of the race
the exact position of the boat be-
ing uncertain due to a dense fog in
the surrounding area.

The positions of the shells are
being calculated daily by Assistant
Professor Leslie Gaylord of the
Mathematics Department. The per-
centages are figured on the basis of
the number and size of pledges
made.

Each day after chapel anchors
are weighed, and the shells race to
a new position. The conclusion of
the race will be on Friday morn-
ing, February 24, after the an-
nouncement of the campaign re-
sults is made in chapel.

Students Select Holiday

When announcement is
made next Friday morning
that we have reached the
campus goal (for we know
we can raise it), a vote will
be taken of the students to
see whether the promised
holiday should be on Mon-
day, Feb. 28, or on March
21, which would add an ex-
tra day to Spring Vacation
this year.

Paper Sends
Chiefs to Meet

Guthrie, Merritt
Goto Athens Friday

Mary Frances Guthrie and Marie
Merritt, Editor and Business Man
ager of the Agonistic, will repre-
sent Agnes Scott at the convention
of the Georgia Collegiate Press As
sociation in Athens, February 24
25.

The program for the opening
day consists of an Open Forum led
by Miss Emily Woodward, who will
direct the initial meeting of the
convention with one speaker from
each of the G. C. P. A. schools
taking part. Colonel Lambdin Kay
and Dr. George Fort Milton will
speak at the banquet Friday night.
Immediately after the banquet the
collegiate journalists will attend
the University's annual Military
Ball in Woodruff Hall.

The meeting Saturday morning
will consist of three one-hour per-
iods of round table discussions. Mr.
Legare Davis, advertising director
of one of Georgia's largest com-
panies, will be among the speakers.

After the adjournment of the
G. C. P. A. at noon the delegates
are invited to be the luncheon
guests of the Atlanta Constitution
at one of the downtown hotels.

Leading Ladies Make-Up

Dancer Helen Moses is completing Romantic Young Lady Jeanne
Flynt's make-up in preparation for Blackfriars' second production of
the year, "Dream of An August Night," presented last Saturday night
in the gymnasium. Photo Courtesy Atlanta Journal.

Dr. Wooley
Will Speak
At June Event

The main speakers for the semi-
centennial commencement exercises
June 3-6 will be Dr. E. C. Cole-
well, Professor of New Testament
at Chicago University, and Dr.
Mary E. Wooley, former President
of Mt. Holyoke College.

Dr. Colewell will deliver the
baccalaureate sermon on Sunday,
June 4, at Bucher Scott Gym-
nasium. It is particularly approp-
riate that he should preach the
commencement sermon, one of the
main events of the semi-centennial
week-end which is a home-coming
for many, since he is a scn-in-law
of the college. He is now a retired
minister.

Dr. Mary E. Wooley is one of the
outstanding educators of the
United States and has been in the
Who's Who of America. The ten-
tative subject of her address on
Commencement Day, June 6, is
'The Development of Education of
Women in the Last Fifty Years."

Other events of the week-end
will be the alumnae luncheon Sat-
urday, June 3, at which Mary La-
mar Knight, of the class of '22
will speak on "The Experiences of
An Alumna." Various classes will
put on stunts at the luncheon, rep-
resenting events in their class his-
tory, and reunion parties will be
held during the remainder of the
commencement exercises.

Winning Class to
Select Name for
Hopkins Lobby

Spurring each class on in its
pledging activities is the announce-
ment that the class making the
best showing (not merely finan-
cial) in the campaign will have the
honor of naming the lobby of Hop-
kins Hall.

The students will be given num-
erous other opportunities for com-
memoration in the Presser Fine
Arts Building. Patrons wishing to
perpetuate the name of a student,
parent, or loved one, may designate
specific pledges for the $15,000 or-
gan, the smaller auditorium (cost-
ing $5,000), a studio (costing $2,-
500), or a practice room (costing
$500).

The general campaign hopes to
include the securing of some en-
dowed scholarship funds ranging
from $1,000 to $10,000.

The four gateways for the en-
trances of the drives may be cam-
pus named also. These gateways
will average $3,000 each in cost.

Grace Moore Sings
On Final Concert

Bringing to a close another con-
cert season, Grace Moore will sing
at the Atlanta auditorium March 1
on the Ali-Star Concert Series
sponsored by Mr. Marvin McDon-
ald. As a member of the Metro-
politan Opera Company, and a pop-
ular motion picture actress, Miss
Moore has achieved national fame.

Included in her program will be:
Aria from "Herodiade," by Mas-
sanet; Aria from DeBussy's "L'En-
fant Prodigue;" Aria from "Mad-
ame Butterfly," and a collection of
lighter numbers.

Campus Celebrates
Founder's Day

Banquet Speakers Take Cue
From Campaign Theme

Songs and verse for the Founder's Day banquet on Feb-
ruary 22 will center around the new campaign theme of "Set-
ting the Pace," according to an announcement by Cary
Wheeler, president of the senior class. Each year the sopho-
mores compose special music as replies to the poems of their
sister class' traditional characters.

Since there are to be two banquets, one in White House
and one in Rebekah, there will be two girls for each part. The
characters are as follows: George Washington, Amelia
Nickel s, Cary Wheeler; Martha Washington, Jane Moore

Hamilton, Aileen Shortley; Daniel
Boone, Mary Wells McNeill, Flora
MacGuire; Paul Revere, Ann Wat-
kins, Adelaide Benson; LaFayette,
Mary Hollingsworth, Jane Dry-
foos; Betsy Ross,- Toni Newton,
Katherine I vie; Patrick Henry,
Mary Ellen Whetsell, Elizabeth
Kenny; Benjamin Franklin, Vir-
ginia Cofer, Flossie Wade; Corn-
wallis, Mary Frances Guthrie, Hel-
en Kirkpa trick.

Following the banquet and
toasts, there will be dancing in the
gymnasium led by colonial ladies
and gentlemen, who, disregarding
all Student Government rules, will
dance together, the stately minuet.
The men taking part in this are:
Amelia Nickels, Cary Wheeler,
Adelaide Benson, Elizabeth Kenney,
Mary Ellen Whetsell, Helen Kirk-
patrick, Mary Hollingsworth, Jane
Dryfoos. Their partners will be:
Jane Moore Hamilton, Aileen
Shortley, Katherine Ivie, Toni New-
ton, Dorothy Lazenby, Sarah Thur-
man, Ruby May Laney, Virginia
Tumlin.

The Skit Committee is composed
of the following members: Kitty
Caldwell, chairman; Henrietta
Blackwell and Mary Wells McNeill.
Members of the Music Committee
are: Mary Hollingsworth, chairman,
Jane Jones and Aileen Shortley. In
charge of decorations are: Penny
Simonton, chairman, Virginia Tum-
lin, Selma Steinbach, Elinor Tyler,
Emily McMoreland. Costume Com-
mittee will be: Toni Newton,
chairman, Adelaide Benson, Jane
Moore Hamilton, Betty Price.

Chapel Skits
HelpCampaign

Prexies Go Nautical
To Back Class Crews

To help the campus "Set the
Pace," and to increase interest in
the drive for Greater Agnes Scott,
student campaigners have presented
a number of chapel skits during the
past week. The first skit was given
Thursday, February 11, in which
the presidents of the classes and
faculty were introduced in a nauti-
cal setting of sailor suits, horn-
pipes, and tubs. Cary Wheeler,
Mary Lang. Gill, Julia McConnell,
Betty Ann Brooks, and Miss Eliza-
beth Mitchell, substituting a tub
for a soap box, delivered campaign
nursery rhymes.*

On Saturday the student body
was both embarrassed and amused
at the continued well-known inter-
ruptions of radiators, noise on sec-
ond floor Rebekah, and disorders of
the organ, during a speech by Dr.
Hayes, which was brought to a cli-
max by a frantic shriek from V. J.
Watkins, that she could stand the
noise no longer. This pointed the
purpose of the skit that condi-
tions will be different in a new
chapel.

(Continued on Page 2, Col. 1)

Special Chorus
Sings for Alumnae
Programs Today

As a special feature of the Agnes
Scott Founder's Day Program,
which will be broadcast over WSB
this evening at 6:3 0 o'clock, the
sextette, composed of Toni New-
ton, Jeanette Carroll, Betty Kyle,
Virginia Kyle, Evelyn . Wall and
Emily Underwood, will sing. Their
program includes "Echo," "Gian-
ina Mia," and "The Purple and
White."

After the broadcast this same
group will sing at the Agnes Scott
Alumnae Banquet at the Atlanta
Athletic Club. Their program at
that time will include "Carissima,"
"Will You Remember," "Sweet-
hearts," "Gianina Mia," "My Cur-
ly-Headed Baby," and "Why." Vir-
ginia Kyle will also sing "Mammy's
Baby" as a solo.

Mortar Board Head
Will Join Committee

The President of Mortar Board
will henceforth automatically be-
come a member of the Nominating
Committee according to the amend-
ment of the Student Government
Constitution voted on in chapel
last Thursday.

Pledges of

Big Organizations

Reach $3,300

Upholding the campaign battle-
cry, "The Campus Sets the Psce,"
the larger organizations were
among the first to announce pub-
licly their pledges in the $40, (TOO
campaign. The total sum pledged
by the large organizations was
$3,300, it was announced Monday
by Mamie Lee Ratliff, Mortar Board
committeeman in charge of organi-
zation pledges.

The division of the total contri-
bution was as follows: Athletic
Association, $1,000; Lecture Asso-
ciation, $500; Silhouette, $400;
Agonistic, $400; Student Govern-
ment, $2 5 0, Christian Association,
$250; Mortar Board, $200. Lou
Pate, Student Treasurer, contrib-
uted the remaining $300 from the
Student Budget Reserve Fund, at
the approval of the Budget Com-
mittee.

THE AGONISTIC. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22. 1939

Alumnae Join
Students in
Celebration

Agnes Scott alumnae all over the
country will celebrate with their
sister Hottentots at special banquets
on Founder's Day, February 22. In
Atlanta the group will meet at the
Atlanta Athletic Club at 7 o'clock
and will hear Abit Nix. Those at
the speaker's table will be Dr. J. R.
McCain, Mr. and Mrs. S. G. Stukes,
Dr. and Mrs. Murdock Equen, Mr.
and Mrs. Harlee Branch, Jr., Miss
Virginia Wood, Miss Carrie Scan-
drett, Frank D. Wood, and Mr.
and Mrs. C. J. Lammers.

Another feature of the Atlanta
celebration will be the special
broadcast over WSB at 6:30 p. m.
The program will present Mrs. D.
B. Donaldson as announcer; Dr. J.
R. McCain, Dean Carrie Scandrett,
Mr. George Winship, chairman of
the Board of Trustees; Mrs. Mur-
dock Equen, president of the
Alumnae Association, and Mrs.
Crawford Barnett, general chair-
man of the Fiftieth Commence-
ment, as speakers; and the Special
Chorus in several numbers, includ-
ing the Alma Mater and "The Pur-
ple and the White."

Sports Miscellany

By ELEANOR HUTCHENS

Little Brown Jug Tournament, how I love thee! Tomorrow
afternoon the climax of the basketball season takes place,
with six campus teams competing: Rebekah, Main, Inman,
the cottages, day students, and faculty. Each team presents
a simple stunt, and costumes run

Dr. Adolpfi Lapp Talks
At oerman Club

German Club had Dr. Adolph
Lapp as its guest speaker on
Wednesday, February 15, at 4:30
p. m. Dr. Lapp's subject for the
meeting was "Goethe's Poems" and
he read some of them along with
his discussion. Virginia Kyle also
sang "Ave Maria" as a part of the
program.

Eloise McCall, Charlene Burke,
and Lucy Hill Doty were hostesses
to Cotillion Club at a tea dance on
Thursday, February 16, from 5:00
until 6:00 p. m. in the Murphey
Candler Building. A color scheme
of yellow and white decorations
and spring flowers was used
throughout.

Dormitory Skit

{Continued from Page 1)
The dormitory skit, given Tues-
day, had as its scene Main dormi-
tory with a never-tiring pianist and
singer in the background. The
faults of the present dormitories
were brought out by Florence Ellis,
an eager student, and Sara McCain,
a loyal Agnes Scotter preparing to
inveigle a millionaire into subscrib-
ing for the campaign.

For the final skit Miss Alexander
will give a talk on the campaign as
a whole, expressing the plans and
ideals for Greater Agnes Scott.

Those on the chapel committee
are Jean Bailey, chairman, Carolyn
Forman, Anne Enloe, Elaine Stubbs,
Suzanne Kaulbach, Emma McMul-
len, and V. J. Watkins.

JACKSON PHARMACY
A Friend To All
in

"Little Dec"

wild. A spy in the faculty camp
reports that big plans are being
made there; there are even rumors
of a practice!

Classes for Outing Club tryouts
are starting, at a date to be an-
nounced by the club. Miss Eleanor
Bonham, Atlanta Girl Scout execu-
tive and an alumna, will teach camp
cooking; Miss Ann Worthy John-
son will have charge of the class oh
planning trips; Misses Miller and

Matthews will conduct nature
study; Ruth Eyles will teach first
aid. The classes, which are in prep-
aration for tryouts, are open to
everyone except freshmen.

WE-CAN-HARDLY-BELIEVE-
IT-OURSELVES ITEM: The bad-
minton tournament is finished!
Roberta Ingles and Ann Fisher
rocked the sporting world by de-
feating Jean Dennison and Frances
Spratlin last week.

Flynt, Adams Compete
For Acting Honors

By JULIA SEWELL

With the encouragement of an unusually large audience,
including a number of juniors, plus dates and corsages, Black-
friars' production of Sierra's Dream of An August Night,
played with great success. Although the present play was
not as generally popular as the earlier production, Stage
Door, which aroused interest through its familiarity and its
unusually large cast, it was never-
theless received with appreciation
and applause.

During the first act of this ro-
mantic comedy about a famous
novelist and a sentimental (though
professedly modern) young woman,
the voices of the actors were not
pitched loud enough, so that the au-
dience had to strain to hear some
of the speeches.

In the actual actjng, Jeanne
Flynt and Alice Adams vied for
honors. Jeanne was charming and
appealing as the girl who wants to
be modern and independent, but at
heart is romantic and idealistic.
Alice was remarkable as the eighty-
year-old thrice-married grandmoth-
er.

John Winchester, as the novel-
ist de Cordoba, looked the part per-
fectly, and made a gallant lover,
although his diction was at' times
so careful as to seem a little affect-
ed. Jack Bodenhamer, Covington
Hardee, and Ed Coles, as the three
happy-go-lucky brothers, were ex-
cellent together, in their light-
hearted, teasing roles. Tom Wesley
did his part as the philandering Don

Juan well, as usual, although it did
not seem to suit him as well as some
of his former roles in Blackfriar
plays, like Mr. Pirn and Mr. Doo-
little. Mr. Henry Robinson, as the
novelist's servant, was greeted with
universal applause.

A lesser part made memorable
through its treatment, was that of
Irene, the secretary, played by Eve-
lyn Sears. Her crisp and polite
finality in dealing with Don Juan's
advances was convulsing. A con-
stant source of amusement through-
out the play was the part of Maria
Pepa, the incurably prying maid to
the grandmother, played by Laura
Sale. The part of Amalia, the dash-
ing actress, was dashingly portrayed
by Helen Moses.

Special credit should go to Alice
Cheeseman and Ado Thron, who
created the very realistic thunder-
storm in the first act. The play
seemed to be thoroughly enjoyed
by the audience as a whole, and
they, as well as Blackfriars, are in-
debted to Evelyn Baty for trans-
lating the charming comedy from
the Spanish.

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Freshman Team Leads Field
In Basketball Series

Sophomores Worst Juniors
In Battle for Second Place

' The last interclass basketball game of the season left the
freshman team undefeated and the sophomores in second
place for the series as the upperclassmen took their final beat-
ing Friday afternoon.

The seniors started out with a
full team against the freshmen, only
to be scored against almost immedi-
ately as A. Webster made the first
goal. The champion team began its
high passing a swift footwork to
run up the score rapidly and sys-
tematically. Highlights of the half
were a lightning kidnapping of the
ball from MacGuire by Webster,
several neat interceptions by Mac-
Guire, and a beautiful shot from
the corner with one hand by Car-
ter. Fast play by the freshmen con-
tinued despite their heavy lead,
showing a sureness and smoothness
in handling the ball that was beau-
tiful to watch. The MacGuires
equalled the Wilds* as sister guard-
ing sister, and Jessie's two goals,
accompanied by cheers from the
freshman stands, ended the half
41-4.

The second half was less spectac-
ular than the first, with wild shoot-
ing by freshmen forwards and hard
play by the overwhelmed but un-
daunted seniors. The score rose to
56-16 at the close of the game.

The sophomore- junior clash op-
ened with a nice pass from Stein-
bach to Fisher. Milner made the
first goal after one and two-thirds
minutes of play, in spite of good
passing and close guarding by her
opponents. The juniors intercepted
desperately to keep the ball in their
forward line, but were unable to
match the neat, short passes which
left the game 19-10 for the sopho-
mores at the half.

In the second

ran their score
Milner broke their streak
a quick shot from the side,
juniors began to smooth out
their passes, but Fisher's deceptive
over-the-shoulder passing kept her
team in control. A beautiful long
shot by Slack ended the quarter,
29-22. The next period found the
juniors guarding carefully, even
holding down the canny Fisher to
some extent. But play on both
sides lagged toward the end of the
game, which left the sophomores
victorious, 37-2 5.

Freshmen: D. Webster, A. Web-
ster, McElwaney, Taylor, Thomas,
Wilds, Bradfield, Brooks, Copeland,
Dunn, Montgomery, Russell.

Sophomores: Fisher, Dyar, Stein-
bach, Stubbs, Kendrick, Klugh.

Juniors: Carson, Slack, Milner,
Thompson, Ware, Salters.

Seniors: Carmichael, Carter,
Dryfoos, Benson, Doty, MacGuire.

Referees: Miss Mitchell and Miss
Dorothy Fugitt.

Poetry Club Holds Its
Regular Meeting

Poetry Club held its regular
meeting on Friday, February 10, at
6:45 p. m. in the Murphey Candler
Building, at which time Pattie Pat-
terson, Christine Florence, Mar-
garet Lentz, and Mary Matthews
read. Refreshments were served
afterwards by Christine Florence
and Mary Matthews.

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Early Musical Cooking Talents

By ALICE CHEESEMAN

She couldn't think of a thing to say. So we had some more
tea and chocolate cookies . . . just waiting*. Lilla Jeanne
Flynt, so named for her grandmother, was gracefully dis-
concerted by just the suggestion of "personality" questions
. . . as in interviews! . . . but by

the second raisin cake she was com
posed . . . and beautifully fluent.

Born on an August 12 in Dub-
lin, Georgia, she met life's earliest
experiences in a Dublin grammar
school . . . and had an ardent suitor
in the first grade . . . (tsk!).

Remember the "Florida Boom"?
Of course, we oldsters do. Jeanne
was down there when it was in full
boom . . . possibly we remember
seeing her when we were down
booming. Well, after the boom
wilted Jeanne and family moved to
Columbus (still in Georgia!) . . .
where Jeanne caught the measles
and couldn't be May Queen in the
seventh grade.

Along in those days Jeanne had
her picture in the paper for the
first time when she placed second
best average in history in tne
county . . . the thrill was superb,
and rightly so. Another thrill . . .
with her brother as director, her,
little sister as general flunky, and
Jeanne as actor the young Flynts
used to put on Easter and Christ-
mas dramatizations. These were in
the living room with the family as
gallery.

No, she never took an "expres-
sion" lesson in her life. But she
took six weeks of music and played
a Chopin number (not chop-sticks)
in a recital.

A remarkable child. And so,
when Jeanne reached high school
she became president of the dra-
matic society. She played basket-
ball. And she was editor of the
school paper, but she got the mumps
. . . and there wasn't any paper.
She and the staff of three boys
never did edit the paper they had
so tediously organized. There was
a play tournament once; too, among
thfe Georgia, Alabama, and Florida
high schools. The scholarship of-
fered for the best individual acting
went to Jeanne. A little later at
Cox College for a year, Jeanne was
elected Most Athletic, as well as
president of the dramatic club.

But only the annals of Black-
friars and the French Club could

tell all about Jeanne today, n'est-
ce pas?. She holds the presidency of
both organizations. She's a natural
on the stage and must have been
born with a script in her hand . . .
as, for 'example, the Federal Thea-
tre has discovered. She has been
on the Federal stage two summers
now. Also for two years she has
been on A. S. C.'s radio skit ... at
first as just a "voice," but now
with a name, "Jean Douglas."

Jeanne fairly sparkled when she
said she could cook mostly pie.
And also sew. She hates for people
to see her cry . . . has no favorite
actor ... likes to see Katherine
Cornell ... is president of her Sun-
day School class and director for
the Young People's Department at
churcK.

Naturally enough, Jeanne's am-
bition is to be an actress y . . "an
actress without any nerves," and to
go to church, too. She hates tem-
perament . . . and the actress type.
She grinned at this point and re-
peated quietly that she wants to be
an actress . . . without the "nerve
complex" . . . a natural. She also
would like to be a student . . . but
isn't the type (she acts the part
well!). A quiet addition to her list
of ambitions was that she - might
ike to be a lawyer.

Jeanne's suppressed desire is . . .
of all things ... to sing a solo
something operatic. But she vows
she'd never get up enough nerve!
In fact she never joined the Glee
Club because of her nerve. (Steel-
like though it is, it always lacked
Flynt.)

After this momentary spell of
tragedy, Jeanne's spirits soon perked
up to themselves . . . as she was
remembering her "pet love," which
is riding the merry-go-round. But
she can't find anybody to ride with
her! She likes to go round and
round and round and . . .

The tea had run out and it was
late. And so we left this young
Dionysus . . . wishing her next play
were nearer.

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Hindus

Knows Europe

Lecturer Learned New
Courting Ways

When Maurice Hindus speaks
here on Friday night, he will bring
with him a store of experiences not
usually familiar to our lecturers.
Mr. Hindus, now an authority on
foreign affairs, came to America as
a Russian immigrant when he was
fourteen. After living in New
York City and on a small up-state
farm, he attended Colgate Univer-
sity and Harvard Graduate School;
then came writing assignments in
the new Russia, and more recently,
in Czechoslovakia, about which he
will speak here.

His new book, Green Worlds,
gives an intimate picture of that
country life so different from his
native Russia, for him a land of
mud and poverty; of a first sweet-
heart and cucumbers as a gift for
her. Here in America people
laughed at him for eating cream
gravy like soup and for not kissing
a girl "when he had a chance. " Yet
they took him into their church
parties and their courting, and he
began to feel at home. His affec-
tion and understanding for his first
boss, Jim, testifies to Mr. Hindus'
sympathy and intellectual percep-
tion; his unprejudiced account of
this America of ours reveals a pow-
er of disinterested interpretation
essential for any authoritative ob-
server of the world today.

Mr. Hindus has not been afraid
to live with the people about whom
he writes, whether the peculiar,
back-to-nature sect of his first ar-
ticle, the Russian peasant, or the
newly upset inhabitants of Czecho-
slovakia.

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The Junior Banquet always
really put everything else in
effort made to show the Jim
around.

The Phi Theta Epsilon Med
dance Saturday night brought out
Adelaide Benson, Martha Marshall,
Rebecca Drucker, Doris Wcinkle,
Marjorie Merlin, Nancy Wimp-
heimer, Eva Ann Pirkle, Callie
Carmichael, Florrie Ellis, and
Jeanne Davidowitz.

Now about that A. T. O. formal
Friday night Susan Goodwyn,
Mitzi Sanders, Tade Merrill, Mar-
jorie Boggs, Sara Copeland, Keeker
Newton, Ruth Slack, Bryant Hol-
senbeck, Toni Newton, Dot Still,
Nell Pinner can all tell you what
a wonderful dance it was.

Another good dance Friday
night was the Sigma Pi formal that
Barbara Lee Murlin, Jane Moore
Hamilton, Mary Bell, Frankie Butt,
Val Neilson, Florrie Guy, Eleanor
Bryan, Carolyn Alley, Elaine
Stubbs, Jeanne Allen, Nellie Rich-
ardson, Penny Simonton all at-
tended.

Friday night seemed popular all
around, and Nell Pinner, Ellen
Stuart, Marjorie Boggs and Callie
Carmichael went out to hear Paul
Whiteman then.

More dancing this time it's Su-
san Self, Dot Peters and Ella Muz-
zey out at the Sigma Nu house
dance.

And also at the Sigma Nu house:
Sara Lee, Mary Bon Utr.erback, and
Betty Waitt for the regular buffet
supper Sunday night with Lib Bar-
rett over at the Sigma Chi's.

Grace Elizabeth Anderson, Mil-
dred Joseph, Frances Abbott, Sara

is a big event, and this week it
the shade. There was a little
iors that other people can get

Lee, and Helen Klugh were all
drifting around at the Psi Omega
open house.

Phyllis Johnson went home to
Elberton and took Mary Eleanor
Steele, Kay Toole, Kay Kennedy,
and Hayden Sanford. Julia Porter
and Sara McCain spent the week-
end in Erskine.

Lyle Represents
C. A. in Radio Skit

Douglas Lyle represented the
Christian Association on the regu-
lar Agnes Scott broadcast Tuesday
afternoon, February 21, at 4:30.
In her speech she described the four
phases of the work done by the As-
sociation on the campus: the activi-
ties, program, purpose, and organi-
zation.

Student Government will be in
charge of the next radio program
on February 28. The skit they will
present was written by' Jean Bailey.
Participants will be Mary Ellen
Whetsell, President of Student Gov-
ernment; Emma McMullen, Vice-
President; Henrietta Thompson,
Secretary; Carolyn Forman, Treas-
urer, and Jean Bailey, Student Re-
corder-

The Dalton (Ga.) Rotary Club
meeting on February 28, will hear
President James Ross McCain speak
on Agnes Scott's Semi-Centennial
objectives. Jane Moore Hamilton
will be guest soloist at the meeting.

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Agnes Scott College
Decatur, Ga.

THE AGONISTIC

Editorials

features

Vol. XXIV, No. 15
Wednesday, Feb. 22, 1939

Front Row Better Support School Spirit

By JANE SALTERS

The Senate military committee
"row over secret proceedings"
brings to light Roosevelt's personal
instructions (over the War Depart-
ment's protests) for a secret de-
monstration of the latest American
development in war planes to a
French military commission, to
whom, it is claimed, no military
secrets have been revealed.

France and Franco

Negotiations continue for peace
in Spain, the French Foreign Minis-
ter Bonnet stating that his govern-
ment, following the decision of
England, will accord recognition to
the Nationalist regime of Franco.
Uraguay and Peru have already
recognized the Insurgent rule, but
the United States bides its time.

Brazil and Nazis

Foreign Minister Aranha, of
Brazil, proposes that United States
citizens colonize the empty spaces
of Brazil in order to keep Uncle
Sam's influence dominant there and
prevent German attempts at Nazi-
fication of the American Republic. >
Aranha suggests further that
colonization would relieve the un-
employment situation in the United
States. It would also ease the minds
of those American cr'>icials who
fear the proximity of German
bombers to the Panama Canal.

Explaining Hainan

France, Great Britain, and the
United States demand an explana-
tion of the Japanese seizure of Hai-
nan, an island off the coast of
South China, and receive the reply-
that the occupation is only a part
of the Chinese blockade and does
not exceed military necessity.

Graves II and No. 1

John Temple Graves, II, in the
opening address of the Citizenship
Institute, calls the South America's
Economic Opportunity No. 1, the
last American frontier, and the
promised land of southern ambi-
tion.

Other Colleges
Launch Drives
For New Buildings

Agnes Scott is not the only insti-
tution that thinks this year is a
good time to launch a financial
campaign, for about 700 of the ap-
proximately 1700 colleges and uni-
versities throughout the nation are
conducting similar drives.

At the University of Illinois, as
a result of recent grants from the
state legislature, work is being
started on the erection of four
buildings with two other buildings
to be constructed soon.

Closer to us we find campaigns
being conducted at Davidson Col-
lege for $1,000,000; at Sewanee
Military Academy for $1,000,000;
at Flora MacDonald College for
$300,000; at Queen's Chicora Col-
lege for $300,000; and at Hunting-
don College, Alabama, for $500,-
000.

Here in Georgia drives are being
made by Wcsleyan University for
$600,000; Mercer University for
$2,000,000; and Shorter College
for $300,000. The University of
Georgia is also increasing its build-
ings through state funds.

Attendance at the Blackfriars play last
Saturday night was very good if you con-
sider the number of outsiders present. But
the attendance was very poor if you con-
sider the number of students present.

If it had not been for some loyal sup-
porters from the Junior Banquet and a
scattering of students from the four class-
es, one would hardly have known that the
play was being offered as a special enter-
tainment for college community.

Such patent evidence of widespread stu-
dent disinterest in campus attractions may
eventually result in the forced discontinua-
tion of these features of our campus ac-
tivities.

If we, for whom the programs are
planned, do not support the activities, how
can we expect people outside the college
to support them?

Friday night the Agnes Scott Lecture
Association will present chiefly for our
benefit the second lecturer of the year,
Mr. Maurice Hindus. If Mr. Hindus were
a speaker of little repute and of doubtful
ability, we would have some grounds for
not attending the lecture.

But he is a speaker of much repute and
of much ability. Furthermore he is to dis-
cuss a subject of great importance to our
own future and to the future of the world.
We cannot stay away from the lecture
without losing much.

It is the pleasure, the privilege, and the
duty of each one of us to hear Mr. Hindus.

Editorial Notes

It's a sure sign of Spring when we be-
gin to preach "keep off the grass." But,
after all, the "Please" signs were put there
for a purpose.

The Brown Jug basketball tournament
between the various dormitory teams be-
gins this Thursday afternoon. How about
a large and lively audience to cheer the
teams on to victory ?

Fate motif, 1939 the Administration
still has made no move to investigate the
telephone melee.

Fifty per cent of those present at a recent
George Washington University sophomore club
meeting were nominated for officers of the club.

N.S.F.A. Offers Students
Identity Card to Cut
EuropeanTravelExpenses

A bulletin from the National Student Federa-
tion of America announces that all students plan-
ning to go abroad this summer should carry an
International Student Identity Card for the pur-
poses of effecting savings in travel, for identifi-
cation, for introductions to students in Europe
these cards are invaluable. For many years stu-
dents the world over have been availing them-
selves of the many reductions obtained with these
cards.

It is further stated that "application must be
made while you are enrolled as a full-time stu-
dent on a regulation form which can be secured
at the NSFA Office. Since it must be signed by
the college authorities, do not wait until you have
left your campus on your summer vacation to get
your card. Write in for the blank NOW and
with it you will receive information^ on the uses
of the card, which is priced at $1.5 0/'

NSFA also announces that a new supply has
arrived from England of The Handbook of Stu-
dent Travel, containing much valuable data on
all European countries, such as where to live, eat,
where student centers are found, etc. It costs
$1.00 and copies can be purchased by mail upon
receipt of proper remittance. Travel Department,
8 West 40th Street, New York City.

School spirit at the usual college means
a group of students, filling a football sta-
dium, loudly yelling for a touchdown, and
proudly singing the alma mater.

But school spirit at Agnes Scott means
the whole student body launching a bold
financial campaign, working with complete
cooperation to forward the drive, and
reaching the set goal with more than sat-
isfactory results.

. This week we are seeing a reaffirma-
tion of each girl to continue this kind of
school spirit here. Faculty and students,
in committee and outside of committee,
have united wholeheartedly in the move-
ment.

Clever chapel skits, auctions and parties
have become the order of the day as the
students have so ardently begun to foster
the campaign. They have not been work-
ing merely to secure money; they have
been working to show their desire to par-
ticipate fully in the attainment of the col-
lege's greater plane.

Today, as we pause in our activities to
observe the founding of this institution,
we honor those who early inspired others
with the spirit of this college. And we
pledge ourselves anew to uphold that spirit
that it may be just as vital a force in the
Agnes Scott of tomorrow as it is in the
Agnes Scott of today.

Campus
Quotes

Parade of Opinion

By Associated Collegiate Press

POLLS

Always interesting are the results of various
polls conducted on college and university cam-
puses. Those seeking to gain further insight in-
to the way the wind of collegiate opinion is blow-
ing will examine with interest the results pre-
sented here:

College of the City of New York, school of
business: President Roosevelt was selected in a
senior poll as the "most outstanding man alive,"
and 85 per cent voted they would not fight in a
war abroad.

University of Michigan: 85 per cent of the stu-
dents favor the lifting of the embargo against
loyalist Spain. At Harvard, 1,300 students signed
a petition asking the same thing.

University of Minnesota: "Students voted 3 to
1 against a third term for President Roosevelt.

At Haverford College: 60 per cent of the stu-
dent body favors the National Labor Relations
Board, and 98 per cent opposed going to war to
maintain the "open door" in China.

At Hunter College: A majority of the students
favor cooperation with other nations as the best
road to peace.

Afternoon programs of "Quiet Hours of Mu-
sic" are provided for the relaxation of students
of Woman's College, University of North Caro-
lina, during examination weeks.

l)e Agonistic

Agnes Scott College Student Newspaper
Vol. 24 Wednesday, February 22 No. 15

Mary Frances Guthrie
Editor

Evelyn Baty
Mary Reins
Assistant Editors

Elizabeth Kenney

Copy Editor
Rebecca Drucker
Assistant Copy Editor

Marie Merrltt
Business Manager

Mary Louise Dobba
Advertising Manager

Alice Cheeseman
Mary Wells McNeill
Feature Editors
Anne Enloe
Georgia Hunt
Assistant Feature Editors

STAFF

Jane Salters
Current History
Eleanor Hutchens
Sports Editor
Hazel Solomon
Exchange Editor
Jeannette Carroll
Alumnae Editor
Selma Steinbach

Club Editor
Hayden Sanford
Elolse Lennard
Florence Ellis
Society Editors
Virginia Farrar

Eleanor Hall
Dorothy Graham
Beth Paris
OnJe Smith
Circulation Managers

REPORTERS: M. L. Gill, V. J. Watkins. A. Enloe, M. L.
Ratllff, C. K. Hutchins, P. Heaslett. M. Merlin, D. Weinkle.
B Alderman, J. Witman, M. Fite, L. Franklin, J. Cates. S.
Lee C Willis, P. Hammond, A. Enloe, E. Stubbs, E. McCall,
B. Coleman, S. Self, J. Lancaster, E. Barrett, G. Duggan.
BUSINESS STAFF: B. Coleman, M. E. Leavitt. M. Watkins,
L. Sale, W. Howard, w. Finger, L, Schwenke, Florence
Graham.

By GEORGIA HUNT

The recent discussion in the
President's Council concerning the
point system has provoked much
thoughtful consideration. Here are
some student opinions:

V. J. Watkins says: "I think
there ought to be some change in
the point system to regulate stu-
dent activities under the present
system. But I do not approve of
unqualified restriction of a student
to participate in three activities
only. There should be an exception
in favor of the honorary societies,
at least."

Ad Benson says: "I, personally,
believe that the point system does
its work in restricting the number
of offices a person may hold, but
I do think that the points should
be so high that a girl would not
be able to hold more than one
presidency. I think it should be
left up to the student to decide the
number of organizations she wants
to belong to. A girl should be al-
lowed to belong to as many clubs
as she wants because she may not
be sure about the clubs she wants
to be a member of when she is a
freshman or a sophomore. But if
she finds out that she has gotten
on the wrong track she can drop
one later."

Jean Bailey says: "I think that

something in addition to the pres-
ent point system should be done to
encourage girls during the fresh-
man and sophomore years to select
fewer major activities so that they
may do better work in them and
get more out of them in their jun-
ior and senior years. The aim of
any such program should be to de-
velop to a greater extent the po-
tential leadership that there un-
doubtedly is on the campus and
which under the present system
lies undiscovered."

Anne Enloe says: "I think that
the present system is failing in so
far as it does not restrict the
monopoly of campus offices. It
seems that limiting the organiza-
tions to three and the offices to
two, excluding honorary societies,
would greatly help in distributing
the activities more universally. It
is only logical that fewer activities
would mean more time, hence more
interest in the ones chosen. Also
it would make our clubs mean
more to us and to the campus.
Every girl here is capable of lead-
ership, else she would not be here,
and to suppress that leadership is
to develop inferiority complexes."

Student UsesSense
Of Humor on Exam

''Joking his way through classes
seems to be the policy of a certain
freshman in the School of Com-
merce at the University of Alaba-
ma. When he came upon a particu-
larly hard question in one of his
mid-term examinations in January,
the student wrote:

" 'I don't know the answer to
this one, but I do know a good joke
that I can write in its place.'
Whereupon he scrawled off a 150-
word yarn, and at its conclusion
wrote: 'I think this ought to be
worth some credit, don't you? God
bless you if you do God bless me
if you don't.' "

Actress Helen Hayes became
Hamilton College's second alumna
this month when she was awarded
a Doctor of Humane Letters.

The Agonistic

NON-ACTIVITY
WEEK

VOL. XXIV

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1939

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No. 16

Students Chalk Up Campaign Results

Photo Courtesy Atlanta Journal.

Amelia Nickels, student chairman for the campaign, and Julia
McConnell, president of the winning sophomore class, gaze with satis-
faction on the $52,202 pledge. The sophomores will have the privilege
of naming the lobby of Hopkins Hall.

Campus Pledges Exceed
Campaign Goal by $12,202

Winship Plans October Campaign;
Building Begins In Fall

Enthusiastically "setting the pace" for the million-dollar
campaign, the campus ended its frenzied drive in chapel
Friday with the announcement that $52,202 had been raised
by the college community a total exceeding the highest
hopes of the leaders, Dr. Davidson and Amelia Nickels. Said
Dr. Davidson with a shake of the head: "I never saw any-
thing like it it was just like a re-

vival.

The Sophomores led the classes
by subscribing $8,122.5 0; the
Freshmen contributed $69 5 8; Sen-
ior pledges amounted to $6815; and
the Juniors pledged $5156. Facul-
ty subscriptions reached a total of
$20,505.50, while the organiza-
tions of the campus pledged $4,-
545.

Commenting on the general
class support, Dr. Davidson re-
marked that no class was the loser.
The Freshmen made a better show-
ing than any preceding Freshman
class in former campaigns. The
work of the Sophomores (who, in-
cidentally, raised approximately
$63 00 between Thursday morning
and Friday) was "positively phe-
nomenal." In its own membership,
the Junior class made an excellent
showing. The Seniors, in addition

(Continued on Page 2, Col. 1)

Council Discusses
New Teaching Plans

On Friday night, March 3rd, the
Faculty Advisory Council of the
University Center will dine in
Rebekah Scott dining hall, after
which there will be a meeting for
the purpose of planning inter-in-
stitutional teaching arrangements.
This council, composed of fourteen
faculty members of the six institu-
tions taking part in this education-
al program, is headed by Dr. Good-
rich C. White, of Emory, as chair-
man. Dr. Philip G. Davidson, of
Agnes Scott, is secretary.

Gallup Expresses

Trust in U. S. Public

Paper Heads Hear
Statistician in Athens

Pointing out that 5 0,000 Amer-
icans can't be wrong, Mr. George
H. Gallup, director of the Ameri-
can Institute of Public Opinion
and founder of the Gallup Polls,
told representatives of the Georgia
Collegiate Press in convention at
the University of Georgia, Athens,
February 24-2 5, that the opinions
of the masses in the United States
are sound and intelligent when
taken as a whole.

Mr. Gallup explained briefly the
methods used by his statisticians in
polls on important sociological,
political, economical, and moral
subjects. By applying the Law of
Probability, the Gallup Polls have
averaged a three per cent error as
compared with the nineteen per
cent error of the Literary Digest
Polls which are based on unscienti-
fic methods of gathering data.

Other speakers of the program
of the Collegiate Press were Mr.
George Fort Milton, president and
editor of the Chattanooga News;
Colonel Lambdin Kay, of the WSB
staff, and Mr. Ralph McGill, ex-
ecutive editor of the Constitution.
Representing Agnes Scott at the
convention were Mary Frances
Guthrie and Marie Merritt, of the
Agonistic.

Miss Jackson
Speaks At
A. A. U. W.

Attending a branch meeting of
the A. A. U. W. at Richmond, Va.,
February 21, Miss Elizabeth Jack-
son, president of the national A. A.
U. W., delivered the address of
the evening. Her subject was
"Our First Responsibility''; she
discussed the modern trends and
changes in secondary education
and challenged the teachers and
parents of the Richmond High
schools to improve the conditions
and meet the needs of the local
schools.

The Richmond branch, one of
the 800 branches in the United
States, is approximately the same
size as the Atlanta branch, with
200 members. Preceding the meet-
ing Miss Jackson spent Sunday,
Monday and Tuesday in Washing-
ton, D. C, doing work connected
with the A. A. U. W.

Andre Maurois
Lectures Next Month

French Academy Member
Includes College in Limited Tour

Andre Maurois, famed French historian, biographer, nov-
elist, critic, and one of the world's outstanding literary men,
will lecture in the Bucher Scott gymnasium on Monday,
March 27, visiting Agnes Scott as one of the few stops on
his United States tour. His subject will be "French Wit in
English and American Humor."

Maurois, paradoxical French
writer about English people, is
probably the most prominent lec-
turer on the American scene this
season. Last July he was elected
to the French Academy, and only
recently he has been knighted by
England for his remarkable contri-
butions to literature. He is a pro-
lific writer, ranging through fic-
tion, history and biography, and in-
cluding not only books, but news-
paper articles for both European
and American publications.

The career of a writer was not
planned for Maurois by his family,
but came as the result of a humor-
ous book, written during and about
the World War. "The Silences of
Colonel Bramble" was an instant
success, and began the series of
great books, such as "Ariel: the
Life of Shelley," "Disraeli," and
"Byron." His books, from the be-
ginning, have been about England
and the English.

As a professor, Maurois has lec-
tured at Cambridge and Princeton
Universities, and also in Switzer-
land and Spain. On his present lec-
ture tour in America he will give
only fourteen lectures, of which
one will be at Agnes Scott.

McMullen Will Speak
At Rotary Meeting

Emma McMullen will speak for
Agnes Scott at an Atlanta Ro-
tarian meeting on March 6. Rep-
resentatives from all the colleges
and universities of this area will
be there for celebration of Inter-
national Student Day. Jeannette
Herenger and Peggy Stixrut will
also be guests of the Rotarians.

Matsumoto
Talks On East

Japanese Asks Aid
For Youth of Orient

Presenting the conditions which
students face today in the Far East
due to war, Mr. Toru Matsumoto,
secretary of the Japanese Student
Christian Association in North
America and a member of the
Committee of the Far Eastern Stu-
dent Service Fund, spoke Tuesday
morning in chapel on behalf of the
campaign to aid students in the Far
East.

Mr. Matsumoto is a native of
Hokkaido Island, which is north of
the main island of the many which
go to make up Japan. He came to
the United States in 193 5 after re-
ceiving his degree from Meiji
Gakuin, an American missionary
founded college in Tokyo. For
three years he studied at Union
Theological Seminary in New York
City where he received the degree
of Bachelor of Divinity.

The Far Eastern Student Service
Fund, which Br. Matsumoto rep-
resented, seeks this year to raise
from students in the United States
(Continued on page 2, col. 1)

Hindus Defends Czechs
Against Chamberlain Tactics

Openly accusing Neville Cham-
berlain of handing over to Hitler
the beautiful, well-disciplined, and
industrious country of Czechoslo-
vakia, Maurice Hindus, authorita-
tive commentator on world affairs,
spoke to an eager audience on Fri-
day night. Mr. Hindus, the second
speaker of the year for the Lecture
Association, is author of well-
known books on the Russian peas-
ant and has spent the last few
months in Czechoslovakia gather-
ing material for his new book
about Central Europe, to be pub-
lished soon.

Upon his arrival in Czechoslo-
vakia, Mr. Hindus thought that his
new book would be "one of the
most cheerful books I ever wrote,"
dealing as it did with a people of
"humanity, decency, and achieve-
ment"; since Munich, however, the
book has become the "saddest book
I ever wrote." The speaker him-

self is of Russian parentage, and
therefore was interested in the
Czechs as another branch of the
same Slav race. He found, how-
ever, that they are alike only in
that both "cut thick slices of
bread."

The Czechs, in contrast to the
Russians, are western Slavs and
possess a reserve, an independence,
a sense of discipline, and a love of
detail unknown to the Russians.
"Their plumbing always works,"
said Mr. Hindus. Their well-kept
farms, complete with modern ma-
chinery, indicated also their posi-
tion as the "Scotch of the Slav
race." Industrious, educated, and
stubborn, they, like the Scotch,
erected monuments to the preacher
John Hus, to educators, and to
only one general, who was also a
liberator.

After trying for three hundred
(Continued on page 2, col. 4)

High School Girls
Take Competitive
Examination

Nearly 15 0 girls from 21 differ-
ent states are planning to take the
Agnes Scott Competitive Scholar-
ship examination in their respec-
tive schools on March 3. The De-
catur and Atlanta girls will take
the tests here at the college.

There are three examinations.
Mr. S. Guerry Stukes, the registrar,
says that French is the popular
elective of the foreign languages,
while algebra and American His-
tory are being chosen by many in
preference to a laboratory science.
English is the one obligatory ex-
amination.

From this group, approximately
60 will enter school here next fall.

Popular Nominations
Will Be March 23

Popular nominations for
campus offices for '39-'40
will be made on Thursday,
March 23, it was announc-
ed this week by the nomi-
nating committee. Election
of officers based on the
popular and committee
nominees will take place
the following week on
Thursday, March 30, and
Friday, March 31.

THE AGONISTIC, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1939

Sports Miscellany

By ELEANOR HUTCHENS

As usual, A. A. urges getting away from it all at intervals
during exams. All equipment for playing games in the gym
will be available to potential neurotics. Guaranteed forget-
fulness of little blue books.

Signing up for May Day is in
order this week, on the bulletin
board in the gym. Requirements:
only one class a week, no cuts, and
a dollar for a costume.

Hindus

-Photo Courtesy Atlanta Constitution.

bination.

Pledges

Pledgers Watch From Bank As Boats Race

Margaret Hopkins and Jeanne Osburne watch the Junior and Freshman boats take the lead as the
shell race moves forward on Wednesday. The sister classes later gave way to the Sophomore-Senior com-

Main Takes Brown Jug
In Basketball Tournament

An inspired sophomore team won the Little Brown Jug for
Main last Thursday afternoon in the gym, just as the sopho-
more boat shot ahead from last place in the campaign race.
The tournament consisted of five games, during which the
Main team defeated the cottages, Inman, and finally the sup-
posedly invincible day students.

With two games in progress at
once, only glimpses of each came

(Continued from page 1)
to the highest per capita average
on the campus, contributed much
of the enthusiasm and leadership
which made this campus campaign
the most successful, generally
speaking, in the history of Agnes
Scott.

According to Dr. McCain, the
larger campaign, headed by Mr.
Winship of the Board of Trustees,
will probably start in October.
Preparations are being made for
the building of Hopkins Hall and
the Presser Building in the late fall.

Matsumoto

(Continued from page 1 )
$50,000.00 for students in the Far
East. This is part of a world-wide
campaign for S 100,000.00 being
conducted by the World's Student
Christian Federation and the Inter-
national Student Service to aid the
students of China.

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to the spectators filling the bal
cony. First round: Faculty vs. Re-
bekah in far court, Main vs. Cot-
tages beneath balcony . . . Miss
Carlson, in peach uniform and
green socks, repeatedly snagging
the ball with one finger . . . Miss
Young keeping the basket hot
with a stream of goals . . . nice de-
fensive work by both teams in
near court . . . halves ending 8-4
for faculty, 0-0 for cottages and
Main . . . Fisher breaks ice for
Main ... she and Stubbs showing
true varsity form . . . Cheeseman
fouling Miss Carlson, to surprise
of both . . . faculty and Main vic-
torious.

Second round: Faculty vs. day
students, Inman shooting at Main
. . . day students scoreless for long
time as faculty begin to look form-
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. . . Main triumphs again, 18-4.

Finals: Main-day students . . .
Main playing third game of after-
noon, day students second ... se-
ries of smooth passes and a Stubbs
basket . . . Muzzey streaking in to
announce the sophomores ahead in
boat race . . . even day students
might as well have thrown in tow-
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years to renew their strength, the
Czechs were faced with the World
War, during which 100,000 men
fought for the Allies; since then
they have had to contend with the
confusion of post-war Central Eu-
rope, a section of mixed peoples,
religions, and languages, all of
whose countries have some minori-
ties. Czechoslovakia, acting upon
Hus's principle that "Human be-
ings are human beings regardless of
race or nationality," treated with
respect and consideration the Jews
and gypsies within its borders,
building for them schools.

Czechoslovakia herself was not
so fortunate, however. When Hit-
ler decided that he wanted to "lib-
erate" a section which had never
belonged to Germany, "no more
than Wisconsin," a section in
which Germans were better treated
than in Berlin, he ignored Musso-
lini's attacks on the Germans, and
called the Czechs his enemy.
Czechoslovakia felt secure, with
her strong arms, her armament in-
dustry, next to Germany's in pow-
er, her food supply, and her alli-
ances with Russia and France, and
guarantees with England for arbi-
tration of disputes. Her very
strength irritated Hitler, however.

The events of the next few
weeks are familiar to all: Benes
forced to surrender the Sudetan-
land, the country's only protection
and fortification; Czechs given
twelve hours within which to evac-
uate the section; continued Ger-
man intervention in the conquered
land; and still no peace.

Mr. Hindus believes that Amer-
ica should help the people of Eng-

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Goes On Air

The Student Government Asso-
ciation sponsored the regular week-
ly Agnes Scott radio program
Tuesday, February 2 8. A skit,
written by Jean Bailey consisted of
an executive meeting of the asso-
ciation played by a representative
committee. Participants were:
Mary Ellen WTietsell, president of
Student Government; Emma Mc-
Mullen, vice president; Henrietta
Thompson, secretary; Carolyn For-
man, treasurer; and Jean Bailey,
student recorder.

Congratulations and a batch of
nice, white uniforms to the follow-
ing, selected last week by the Var-
sity Council:

Varsity

Forwards Guards
Ethelyn Dyar Henri Thompson
Anne Fisher Polly Ware

Dot Webster Mary E. Steele

Betty Ann Brooks
Sub-Varsity
Alta Webster Arlene Steinbach
Ruth Slack Mary Dean Lott

Virginia Milner Helen Klugh

Elaine Stubbs Betsy Kendrick

The varsity-subvarsity game
the last basketball game until
1940 will be played Friday aft-
ernoon in the gym.

land and France with everything
except an army, for actually enter-
ing a war, which he thought immi-
nent, would destroy our own
democracy and regiment the whole
country. As for Czechoslovakia:
"We wanted to sing with the an-
gels, but we must howl with the
wolves," says one writer; but "We
shall live again," say the people.

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THE AGONISTIC, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1939

Campaign Develops
Extraordinary Student Talents

By ALICE CHEESEMAN

"At a campaign booth all things are sold !

Each ounce of elephant costs its ounce of gold "
for the campaign, you know. And all the elephants were
sold, white and all, and all and all, little elephants . . . and B.
O. Z. had trunked up a pretty penny "for the campaign. "
(tuck-tuck!) There was the briny whiff of captured coin out-

side the dining room at high noon
Mondav, when gaily ragged pirates,
hoisting the storied flag pf the
penmanship B. O. Z., called the
auction to the marketing mob.

Aye, and others have hopped the
rail of the good vessel S. S. Hotten-
tot to drop a purse in the pot for
our "Greater Agnes Scott!" Pri-
vate enterprise has flourished in the
last fortnight . . . witness the slip-
pressing-at-8-cents-a-slip venture
in Inman . . . president, Frances
McGill. And also in that neck o'
the woods ( ho!) . - . coiffure-
expert Mary Anne Faw arranges
coiffures expertly for fifteen cents
. . . shampoos and arranges them
for two bits . . . merely. Second
Rebekah knows the thrill of Chi-
nese checkers at five cents the eve-
ning . . . courtesy V. J. Watkins,
resourceful wench!

Perhaps the most breath-taking

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industry in the private line of bus-
iness is the Taxi Service featuring
"thrills and spills" with prexie K.
B. Benefield driving. The hand-
bill posted advises "Avoid the
Rush," but somehow that means
avoiding the taxi altogether. Such
dash. "Ask the girl who's ridden
with us!" But anything goes for
the campaign . . . even wit ha flat
tire.

Another campaign enterprise,
the Granddaughters' Bridge, was
highly successful. Celebrities were
there . . . the Davidson table . . .
the visit from Dr. McCain. The
prizes were every bit as fetching
as the Davison five dollar perfume
ensemble could be, and as useful
as Kress' Kleenex . . . and what's
more the drawing of numbers for

them was as thrilling as a Hoppa-
long Cassidy special itself!

Brown Jug fans met with French
Club ingenuity Thursday after-
noon . . . met with it, were ana-
lyzed with it, were sketched with
it! A nickle across the palm spelled
one's fortune and future by Mme.
Zambino, and the same sum drew
from Mile. Herenger and Mme.
Shamos one's three-minute portrait.

In a delicate angle of the old
guadrangle Saturday morn several
day students, clever creatures,
peddled cake, cookies, and candy to
chapel goers. . . . but please gather
more food next time . . . 'twas de-
licious and scarce,

Well, to look to the future . . .
more money-getting: Christian As-
sociation sponsors a jam session jit-
terbug contest Friday afternoon
and the Senior class sponsors a fash-
ion show Monday evening, com-
plete with raffle of beautiful city-
store prizes. Don't miss these! Ev-
erybody will be there. Which in-
cludes you. Join in the campaign
waltz ... for the jig is not yet up
. . . by a long jump!

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frocks smart for street or
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son.

With real livestock, corn shucks and hay stacks to create
atmosphere the Sigma Chi barn dance Friday night was an
outstanding success. Some of the little country lassies who
attended it were Lib Barrett, Ida Jane Vaughn, Sara E. Lee,
Eloise Lennard, Ducky Copeland,

Margaret Hamilton, Mary Mat-
thews, Rowena Barringer, Jeanne
Allen, Betty Waitt, Frankie Butt,
Toni Newton, Catherine Ivie, Mar-
tha Marshall, Barbara Lee Murlin,
Martie Doak, Julia Porter, Jane
Moore Hamilton, Mary Carolyn
Lee, Jane Jones, Florrie Guy, Har-
riet Ayers, Lillian Sudenrath, Car-
olyn Allen, Sara M. Lee, Martha
Dunn, Ruth Slack, and Charlene
Burke.

Don't these girls ever get tired
of dancing because the house
dances go on forever. F'r instance
Jeanne Allen, Freck Sproles, Car-
olyn Allen, Nancy Jo Ballinger,
Lib Barrett, Jane Jones, Jane
Moore Hamilton, and Betsy Banks
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Saturday night while Mary Bon
Utterback, Susan Self, Betty Wait,
Allie Malone, Martha Dunn, Lula
Bass, and Sara M. Lee were playing
around at the Sigma Nu House
frolic.

Maybe they lifted something the
night before but Betty Waitt,
Susan Self, Sara Lee, and Florrie
Ellis were back at the Sigma Nu
House Sunday night for supper.
Boots Moore, Martie Doak, and
Martha Dunn decided to make
their sandwiches over S. A. E. way
so they attended their buffet
supper Sunday night.

Frankie Butt, Grace Ward, and
Eloise McCall were out at the den-
tal dance Saturday night and
others dancing at the Phi Kappa
Sig dance at Tech Friday night
were Ella Muzzey, Louise Musser,
Grace Ward, Jeanne Redwine,
Charlene Burke, Keeker Newton,
and Betty McConnell were out at
Fort Mac dancing.

Mary Ellen Whetsell went home
to Columbia for the week end.
Alice Comer is attending mid-win-
ter at V. M. I. Beverly Coleman
is spending the week end with Bet-
ty Moore and Julia McConnell at
Talledega.

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By ANNE ENLOE

He's a Tar Heel born,

He's a Tar Heel bred,

And when he dies, he'll be . . .
You know how it goes. Well, that's our Dr. Raper. He was
born on a tobacco farm near Winston-Salem, he grew up
there and then he was graduated from the University of
North Carolina. And that's the very essence of Tarheelism,
that substance which evidently produces the very best of
sociologists.

After boarding school near the
farm, he went on to Chapel Hill,
where he studied history under Dr.
Frank Graham, the present presi-
dent of that pride of the South,
who approached the subject always
from a sociological standpoint.
Perhaps that is where Dr. Raper's
present genius had its very begin-
ning, but that is another story.
Having finished his course at Car-
olina, he went on to Vanderbilt to
take his Master's in Church His-
tory! And there is where the so-
ciology bug really bit.

He tells it this way: one day he
and his roommate were walking
across the campus evidently in a
rather deep and philosophical dis-
course. And the roommate sud-
denly remarked, "I dare you to let's
do our theses on sociology." And
the roommate's roommate said,
"I'll take you up on that!" So
there you are. The thesis was done
in Sociology and then he went
back to Chapel Hill for senior
graduate work. After that to At-
lanta with the Commission on In-
terracial Cooperation, and eventu-
ally to Agnes Scott.

And in the meantime he had
married and had ha'd a honeymoon
in the North Carolina mountains
craggy, just ask any Blue Ridge
enthusiast. Since then the Rapers
have been back to that very spot
for a second honeymoon and are
planning a third. And although

third honeymoons are rare things,
all Agnes Scott girls who know
and love the Rapers think such a
thing could easily work out for
them.

On those trips to the mountains
Dr. Raper has had ample opportu-
nity to put into practice some-
thing he learned in his boyhood.
For it seems that since he was the
third consecutive boy, his family
was rather disappointed and
yearned for a girl. So poor young
Arthur spent most of his youth
washing dishes and doing other
such effeminate chores. But he's a
man's man now, except here on
the campus where he's one of the
favorite men of about five hun-
dred girls!

Debate Club
Continues Tourney

The second round of Pi Alpha
Phi tournament debates came to a
close at the meeting on Thursday,
February 23, at 7:00 p. m., in the
Murphey Candler Building. The
subject for debate at that time was
"Resolved that the United States
should cease to use public funds
(including credit) for the purpose
of stimulating business." The af-
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by Mary Louise Dobbs and Doris
Weinkle, and the negative was up-
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Agnes Scott College
Decatur, Ga.

THE AGONISTIC

Editorials

features

Vol. VVIX, No. 16
Wednesday, Mar. 1, 1939

Front Row

By JANE SALTERS

Representative Maas, of Minne-
sota, proposes abolishing West
Point and Annapolis requirements
for military and naval aviation of-
fices and establishing a separate
national air school like the British
Air Corps in order to get rid of the
unfortunate system by which capa-
ble fliers actively useful to the
service but not trained in these
schools are forced to retire in favor
of "diploma-ed" graduates."

POLISH INDISCRETION

Anti-Nazi demonstration by
students on the day of Ciano's ar-
rival in Warsaw embarrasses the
Polish foreign minister but is ig-
nored by Polish newspapers ad-
vised, it is thought, not to give ac-
counts of the incidents upon pain
of confiscation.

PAPA SAYS "MAKE UP"

Roosevelt asks A. F. of L. Green
and C. I. O. Lewis to appoint com-
mittees to negotiate peace imme-
diately between the rival labor
groups "first, because it is right;"
"second, because the responsible of-
ficers" seem able and ready for a
successful agreement; third, be-
cause the members of both groups
want and need it; fourth, because
the government thinks such a step
"wise" and "necessary."

WALK, DO NOT RUN

Berlin orders the Jews to choose
100 persons daily for exile on two
weeks notice, reports that 240,000
Jews have left the country since
193 3 (the majority going to the
U. S. or to South America), ac-
knowledges (but disparages) an
Anti-Nazi group within Germany
proper.

Stukes Discusses
College Service
For Graduates

What is Agnes Scott doing to
help its students get jobs after
graduation? In a recent interview,
Mr. S. G. Stukes, head of the Agnes
Scott Appointment Service, ex-
plained how they served seniors as
well as alumnae. Each senior who
wishes work after graduation is
asked to turn in information about
herself and to explain in an inter-
view what type of work she wants
to enter. Mr. Stukes contacts prin-
cipal business firms in this section
to determine their needs and sup-
plies the girl for the job.

Some years are better than others
for placement. In 1937 there was
a larger demand for graduates than
the College could supply; last year
all seniors were placed, but there
was little choice. It is too early to
predict what the prospects for this
year will be.

Asked about school teaching as
a "college graduates' ultimate end,"
Mr. Stukes stated that fewer girls
each year are becoming teachers. A
strong trend towards business has
been increasing for several years,
and it is believed that the class of
1939 will continue in this direc-
tion.

In addition to work done for
very recent graduates, the Appoint-
ment Service encourages alumnae
who wish to enter business or to
change jobs, to write the College
for assistance in placement.

Fine Howdy Do

There is no doubt about it the cam-
paign was a grand success, financially
speaking. The goal was reached and sur-
passed with flying colors, and we got
another holiday in addition to the one
promised at the beginning of the drive.
So it seems that we should all be happy
now. But, to be quite frank, many of us
are not.

One of the benefits that we thought
would result from launching the million
dollar campaign on the campus would be a
more unified student body. The necessity
of the complete cooperation of every com-
mittee if the high goal were to be attained
gave promise of the whole college com-
munity's being found together.

Much good, it is true, did result from
the auctions, skits, parties, and other
novel ideas to raise money. But the bene-
ficial effect of these activities was greatly
offset by another element in the campaign
namely, the methods employed to secure
pledges from individual students|

At the root of the whole trouble was the
fact that these pledges were not kept
secret, as many of us had understood was
the original intention. Faculty pledges
were secret, but student pledges were
openly known and discussed.

As a result of this discussion, girls were
boldly asked to raise their original
pledges. Even students who had thought-
fully pledged were accosted that there
might be a personal reason for a student's
not pledging a greater amount seems not
to have deterred the pledge-seekers at all.

To get ahead of another class became
the campaign slogan, not to set the pace
for Greater Agnes Scott.

It will take a long time to renew the
friendships broken during the one week.
Rash actions are indeed costly. May future
campaigns be conducted with more wis-
dom and with greater consideration for
the individual.

Campus Quotes

By GEORGIA HUNT

'Phones! 'Phones! 'Phones! We can't get to
the 'phone! We can't find a nickel! There's a
line a mile long: at the Day Student's 'phone!
Oh, what can we do?

Listen to what Scottie Wilds, '41, has to say
about the present 'phone system: "Well, person-
ally, the 'phones ring- right outside my door dis-
turbing me and my radio each time they ring.
When you want to use the Day Student's 'phone
you practically have to miss a class to do so.
When you can't get to the Day Student's 'phone
it's a iot of trouble trying* to find a nickel so
what we need is more free 'phones or at least
one for the boarders.

Katherine Pattort, '40, says: "It seems unjust
to me and many outsiders that we have to pay
a nickel for each 'phone call. I confess I don't
have any solution to offer except that the Day
Student's 'phone should be left open all day."

Jane Taylor, '42, says: "I think telephones
ought to be like lights, water, and food. That is
they ought to be included in our tuition we
ought not to have to pay extra for them."

Sara M. Lee, '41, says: "As one who has tele-
phone duty, I think that there ought to be more
'phones because outside callers complain about
not being- able to get the number on account of
the busy signal. Girls who are trying to put
through long distance calls can't get the 'phone
when they need it most."

Julia Moseley, '40, says: "The present tele-
phone system seems to me woefully inadequate
because while we can get incoming calls there
is no number of times when we would like to
call people but we just feel as if we can't. It's
not that one nickel on one occasion is too much.
It's , the times when you get the wrong number,
or have to phone several people at once, or the
person you are 'phoning isn't in it's then that
we really need another system. It seems to me
that if we had three other free 'phones besides
the Day Student's 'phone say one in Rebekah,
one in Main, and one in Inman, that that situa-
tion would be relieved. The fact that the Day
Student's 'phone is in such constant use by board-
ers as well as day students and that even with
the two minute time limit there is so long a
waiting line indicates a need for more free
phones."

Yes, each time the 'phone ring-s it seems to
ring" out a call for some kind of change in the
present situation.

Clean Politics

The Spring of each year find the major-
ity of American colleges in the throes of a
hot and furious political war. But such a
battle has not appeared on our campus yet.

We have always taken pride in our stu-
dent elections. For no would-be political
boss has ever found support here suffi-
cient to have any effect on the voting. Nor
has Agnes Scott been the scene of much
political log rolling. On the whole, election
time has had a good and inspiring effect
on the students.

In less than a month, 1939 elections will
begin. If we are to maintain our tradi-
tional high standards in them, we must
prepare now.

Popular nominations will be made the
day after we return from Spring Vacation.
Find out now the various girls who are
eligible from the standpoint of experience
and ebility to hold student offices. Don't
wait until the nomination day to inquire
about people working in the major organi-
zations and on the publications.

There are many forces that could cor-
rupt our elections if we were not on our
guard. We are not immune to the evils of
politics. But we can be immune if we will
endeavor to be intelligent voters.

Editorial Notes

Reserve the night of March 27 for the
Andre Maurois lecture, which promises to
be every bit as good as the recent Hindus
lecture.

Again we are grateful for non-activity
week it's truly a life saver. We hope that
it will become an enduring custom here.

Calling all jitterbugs for the jam ses-
sion Friday. And calling all fashion fans
for the style show Monday. You may think
that the campaign is over but it's not.

Orchids to Main Hall with its fleet of
athletes. That Brown Jug Tournament
was grand sport.

Parade of Opinion

Vanes in the weather of collegiate opinion seem
to be joggling back and forth in a most uncer-
tain manner these windy February days, but the
trend seems to be in the liberal direction so far
as measures are concerned, and in the Republican
direction so far as political procedures are con-
cerned. This sampling of opinion will give you
an idea of which way the wind is blowing on the
college campuses:

From the University of Minnesota Daily: 'The
state of the nation's health must be dealt with
immediately; it cannot await the solution of our
economic problems as a whole. The passage of
the president's health program, calling for exten-
sion of free medical and hospital service and a
national system of disability insurance will at-
tack this one example of social maladjustment."

I) e Agonistic

Agnes Scott College Student Newspaper

Vol. 24

Wednesday, March 1

No. 16

Mary Frances Guthrie
Editor

Erelyn Baty
Mary Reins
Assistant Editors

STAFF

J<anc Salters
Current History
Eleanor Hutchens
Sports Editor
Hazel Solomon
Exchange Editor
Jeannette Carroll
Alumnae Editor
Selma Steinbach

Club Editor
Hayden Sanford
Elolse Lennard
Florence Ellis
Society Editors
Virginia Farrar

Eleanor Hall
Dorothy Graham
Beth Paris
OnJe Smith
Circulation Managers
J. Watklns. A. Enloe. M. L.

Elizabeth Kenney
Copy Editor

Rebecca Drucker
Assistant Copy Editor
Marie Merritt
Business Manager

Mary Louise Dobbs
Advertising Manager

Alice Cheeseman
Mary Wells McNeill
Feature Editors

Anne Enloe
Georgia Hunt
Assistant Feature Editors

REPORTERS: M. L. Gill.
Ratliff. C. K. Hutchlns, P. Heaslett, M. Merlin, D. Weinkle.
B. Alderman, J. Wltman, M. Flte, L. Franklin, J. Cates. S.
Lee. C. Willis, P. Hammond. A. Enloe. E. Stubbs, E. McCail.
B. Coleman, S. Self, J. Lancaster, E. Barrett. G. Duggan.
BUSINESS STAFF: B. Coleman. M. E. Leavltt. M. Watkins,
L. Sale. W. Howard, \V. Finger. L. Schwenke. Florence
Graham.

TWke 6d!iton

Thanks to Campaigners

To the Student Body:

The Campus Semi-Centennial
Campaign is the best I have ever
known at Agnes Scott or any-
where else. Once before, when
times were better, we secured a
larger sum,' but never before have
we come through so many diffi-
culties to such a triumphant con-
clusion.

The raising in three days' time
of $52,202 from a group no larger
and more prosperous than the
Agnes Scott community is a feat
that most people believed impos-
sible. It will help greatly in meet-
ing the offer of the General Edu-
cation Board and in erecting the
new buildings which we need.

Far more important than that,
however, are the other aspects of
the victory. Many people with
whom we will have to deal in the
larger campaign have been pessi-
mists about college students as
well as about matters in general.
They have felt that ideals were at
a low ebb, that cooperation was
lacking, and that generosity and
sacrifice were out of style. The
spirit of the Agnes Scott students
and faculty is the most convinc-
ing reply we can give.

The faith that led to setting a
high goal, the imagination that
planned all details of the cam-
paign, the unselfishness of work-
ers and others both as to money
and time, and the determination
that would not accept defeat
these are values that every girl
and faculty member will remem-
ber and cherish throughout life;
and the knitting together of our
interests and friendships will be
a blessing to all, and especially to
our beloved Agnes Scott.

It is impossible to thank ade-
quately those who have led us so
splendidly. Miss Amelia Nickels
and the other members of Mortar
Board, who began the movement
and worked so well; Mr. David
son, the faculty leader and most
ingenious planner of all details;
Miss Gaylord, who figured the in-
tricate mathematical formula of
daily progress; the team captains
and workers all these will have
a place in the Agnes Scott Hall
of Fame. We thank with all our
hearts each and every one who
participated.

Cordially,
J. R. McCAIN, President.

Trustees Look Forward

To Agnes Scott Students and
Faculty:

If the Semi-Centennial cam-
paign to raise a million and a half
dollars for Agnes Scott College
can be judged by the success of
the campus campaign, it will go
over in a large way and in record
time. Congratulations to Dr. Phil-
ip Davidson, the General Chair-
man, to Miss Nickels, the Student
Chairman, and to every member
of the organization that func-
tioned so effectively. The lunch-
eon meeting on February 14th
was one of the most interesting
and enthusiastic that I have ever
attended and one need not be but
half a prophet to have foretold
success.

The results of the victory meet-
ing this morning must have ex-
ceeded the fondest hopes of every
one present. That you should re-
ceive a subscription from every
student and from every member
of the faculty shows their love
and loyalty to the college; and
that the quota should be exceeded
by more than thirty per cent indi-
cates the amount of sacrifice each
was willing to make.

Your success will be an inspira-
tion to every worker and sub-
scriber in the general campaign
to follow. I am proud to have a
connection with a school that has
a student body and faculty like
Agnes Scott.

GEORGE WINSHIP,
Chairman, Board of Trustees.

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Play

Blackfriars
Present
By Alumna

Dramatic Club Names
Tentative Cast
Of "Green Vine"

Saturday evening, April 22, at
8:30, in the Bucher Scott gymna-
sium, Blackfriars will stage the
world premiere of The Green Vine,
a mystery play, written by an
Agnes Scott alumna, Miss Nan
Bagby Stephens.

Miss Stephens has already had
one success, Rose Aune, which was
produced on the New York stage,
and later,' using this play, she wrote
her negro novel, Glory. For several
years she conducted a popular play
production course at Agnes Scott.
This spring Miss Stephens will re-
turn to her alma mater, to review
the rehearsals of her own play and
make necessary corrections or
changes.

The tentative cast of The Green
Vine is: Helen Moses, Mary Brand;
Evelyn Sears, Myrtle Brand Kenon;
Margaret Hopkins, Peggy Brand;
Laura Sale, Birdie Fuller; Julia
Sewell, Messaliana, and Tom Wes-
ley, Jimmy Jepson, John Winches-
ter, John Houck, and Mr. Andrews
have also been offered parts. Regu-
lar admission will be charged.

College Will Honor
Education Group

As a feature of the national meet-
ing of the Childhood Education As-
sociation which is to be held in At-
lanta the week-end of April 13, the
organization of kindergarten teach-
ers will be entertained at a tea in
the Murphey Candler Building,
Friday, April 13, at 4 o'clock. Ap-
proximately 2 50 teachers from the
meeting are expected to attend the
tea.

Group Honors
Miss Gooch

National Society Elects
Speech Professor

Miss Frances K. Gooch, director
of speech at Agnes Scott, recently
became a member of Zeta Phi Eta,
national honorary dramatic society
which has as its purpose the en-
couragement and stimulation of ex-
cellence in dramatic interpretation
in colleges and universities.

Miss Gooch was initiated in Oc-
tober at Brenau College in Gaines-
ville, Georgia, where the Epsilon
chapter is located. Miss Gooch,
however, belongs to no specific
chapter, but to the society at large,
having been initiated by women
from colleges all over the country.

Hopkins, Merlin Enter Dual
Debate With Sophie Newcomb

College Sends First Delegates
To National Tournament

Contesting in a dual debate with Sophie Newcomb College,
and participating in a national debate tournament at Baton
Rouge, Margaret Hopkins and Marjorie Merlin left Sunday,
March 26, for Louisiana.

The National Debate Tourna-
ment, sponsored by the Southern
Association of Teachers of Speech,
is scheduled for March 28, 29 and
30. This year is the first time that
Agnes Scott has participated in the
contest, in which all the leading
southern colleges are represented.
The tourney will consist of eight or
nine debates.

Friday the Agnes Scott delegates
will leave Baton Rouge for New
Orleans, where they will oppose So-
phie Newcomb in a decision debate,
at the same time that Sophie New-
comb delegates debate Arlene Stein-
bach and Ann Henry at Agnes
Scott.

The subject of the dual debate
with Sophie Newcomb, as well as
of the national tournament, is "Re-
solved, that world democracies

should form an
serve democracy."

alliance to pre-

Miss Nelson Will Talk
At Classical Meet

Miss Narka Nelson, Assistant
Professor of Latin and Greek, will
speak before the Classical Associa-
tion of the Middle West and South,
meeting at Oberlin College on Ap-
ril 7.

This will be the thirty-fifth an-
nual meeting of the association,
whose object is the forwarding of
the classics in education. The sub-
ject of Miss Nelson's paper is "The
Value of Epigraphic Evidence in
the Interpretation of Latin Histori-
cal Literature."

Campus Beauties
Form Grecian Court
For May Queen

As a traditional part of the May
Day Fete, scheduled for Friday
night, May 5, May Queen Adelaide
Benson and her court of fourteen
campus beauties will preside over
the ceremonies. In keeping with
the scenario, which is based on
"Orpheus and Eurydice," the mem-
bers of the May Court will wear
Grecian costumes.

The following girls have been
elected by the student body to
membership in this Court:

Seniors Jane Moore Hamilton,
Martha Marshall, Amelia Nickels,
Julia Porter, Aileen Shortley, Kay
Toole.

Juniors Carolyn Alley, Marian
Franklin.

Sophomores Jean Dennison,
Martha Dunn, Ella Muzzey, Val
Neilson.

Freshmen Anne Chambless,
Jane Taylor.

NEWS GUIDE

Lecture Page 2

Mardi Gras Page 2

Nominations Page 3

Radio Program Page 4

Campus Celebrity Page 5

Editorial Page 6

May Day Cast
Starts Practice
For Pageant

Paris, Moses Take
Leading Roles in
'Orpheus and Eurydice'

Presenting Orpheus and Eurydice
May 5, the May Day Committee
announces the following cast for
the leading roles: Adelaide Benson,
Persephone; Beth Paris, Orpheus;
Helen Moses, Eurydice; Mary
Frances Guthrie, Hades; Alice
Cheeseman, Aristaeus; and Louise
Hughston, Demeter.

There will be 117 girls partici-
pating in the dance groups, besides
those who are members of the
Queen's Court. Faculty children
will take the .roles of the children
in the myth. The following girls
will dance in the pageant:

Furies, Fates, Harpies Dot Laz-
enby, Eloise Lennard, Rebecca An-
drews, Mary Ann Faw, Helen Shu-
craft, Sam Olive Griffin, Sarah
Rainey, Hazel Solomon, Penn Ham-
mond, Polly Heaslett, Laura Sale,
Georgia Hunt, Jane Moses, Betty
Jean O'Brien, Mary Hill Oatley.

Rivers Eugenia Bridges, Helen
Kirkpatrick, Mary Matthews,
Katharine Patton, Sarah Thurman.

Thracian Women Rowena Bar-
ringer, Marjorie Boggs, Virginia
Cofer, Ruth Eyles, Grace Gold-
stein, Mary Elizabeth Leavitt, Em-
ily McMorland, Isabelle Robertson.

Happy Spirits Carrie Jean Ash-
ley, Susie Blackmon, Betsy Culver,
Catharine Farrar, Elizabeth Fur-
low. Mary McPhaul, Mary Oliver,
Eva Ann Pirkle^ Cary Wheeler.

Darius Daughters Jeanette Car-
roll, Helen Carson, Pat Flemming,
Virginia Hale, Margaret Hamilton,
Rebecca Hogan, Betty Kyle, Jeanne
Lee, Ida Belle Levie, Mary Dean
Lott, Isabel Miller, Mary James
Seagle, Ruth Smith, Ellen Stuart,
Louise Sullivan, Mary Reins, N.
M. Toomey, Grace Walker, Mar-
garet Hopkins.

Bachanal Gene Allen, Jean
Beutell, Elizabeth Barrett, Sarah
Carter, Jane Coughlin, Mary Da-
vis, Carolyn Forman, Dale Dren-
nan, Peggy Faulkinberg, Catherine
Ivie, May King, Margaret Lewis,
Virginia Stanley, Harriette Stim-
son, Florence Wade, Grace Ward,
Scottie Wilds.

Nymphs Miriam Bedinger, Le-
lia Carson, Betty Alderman, Sarah
Copeland, Marjorie Gould, Florrie
Guy, Julia Lancaster, Nell Moss,
Boots Moore, Rivers.

Satyrs Sarah Joyce Cunning-
ham, Met Francis, Suzanne Kaul-
bach, Jane Knapp, Mary Louise
Palmour, Harriett Reid, Edith
Swartz, Gene Slack, Ruth Slack,
Annie Wilds.

Children Margy Stukes, Sara
Christian, Ruth and Miriam Run-
yon, Diane Morris, Mary Hamilton.

Tyler Will Attend
History Conference

Elinor Tyler, president of the
Agnes Scott Current History
Forum, will leave for Williamsburg,
Va., on April 5 to represent the
Forum at the sixteenth annual con-
ference of the Southeastern Inter-
national Relations Clubs. The con-
ference, which is to meet April 6-8,
with the College of William and
Mary playing host, has as its theme
this year "The Foreign Policy for
the United States."

International Relations Clubs
from colleges throughout the
Southeast are sending delegates to
the meeting, which will consist of
a series of round table discussions
and lectures given by eminent his-
torians and authorities on current
affairs.

The Gondoliers
Returns to Campus

Glee Club Performs Twice

In Gilbert-Sullivan Light Opera

All the charm and romance of eighteenth century Venice
will return to the campus Thursday night, March 30, when
the Agnes Scott Glee Club, under the direction of Mr. Lewis
H. Johnson, will' again appear in The Gondoliers, a light opera
by Gilbert and Sullivan.

Mortar Board
Names Speaker

Miss Alexander
Discusses Scholarship

Delivering the principal address
at the Mortar Board Announce-
ment services April 8 in chapel,
Miss Lucile Alexander will speak
on "Scholarship." Following the
address the new members for the
year of '39-'40 will be announced.
Initiation of the newly chosen will
take place in Main dormitory that
afternoon and the traditional ban-
quet in honor of the new members
will follow the initiation services
in the Alumnae House.

Membership is based on Leader-
ship, Service, and Scholarship. Mrs.
Holcomb Greene an alumna and
former president of Mortar Board,
spoke at the fall chapel program,
incorporating these three ideals in
her talk. Miss Alexander will dis-
cuss Scholarship since it is a def-
inite standard which all members
must attain and is an important
ideal in the three fold requirements
of the organization.

The performance will take place
in Bucher Scott Gymnasium at
6:30 P. M. On the following night
the group will repeat the opera at
the Atlanta Woman's Club at the
same hour. Tickets for both per-
formances will be on sale in the
lobby of Buttrick all tomorrow
morning.

The cast for Thursday evening
is composed of the following: The
Duke of Plaza-Toro, Dick Smoot;
Luiz, his attendant, Edwin Ever-
itt; Don Alhambra del Bolero, Le-
land Mackay; Marco Palmieri, Paul
Overby; Giuseppe Palmieri, Don
White; Antonio, Charlie White;
the Duchess of * Plaza-Toro, Jane
Moses; Casilda her daughter, Jean-
ette Carroll; Gianetta, Toni New-
ton; Tessa, Betty Kyle; Fiametta,
Jane Moore Hamilton; Vittoria,
Emily Underwood; Giulia, Jacque-
line Hawks; Inez, Emily Under-
wood.

Dancers will be Jane Jones, Flor-
ence Ellis, Lillian Schwenke, and
Annie Wildr. There will also be a
chorus of 40 contadine (flower
girls) and gondoliers, composed of
the following:

Henrietta Blackwell, Martha
Buffalow, Jo Cates, Alice Cheese-
man, Freda Copeland, Margaret

{Continued on page 3, col. 4)

-Photo Courtesy Atlanta Constitution.

Gondoliers and Their Ladies

Jane Moore Hamilton and Virginia Kyle, front row. and Paul
Overby and Don White, back row, will sing some of the leading roles
in the operetta here tomorrow night.

2

THE AGONISTIC, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1939

ANDRE MAUROIS

Maurois Points to Need
For National Sense of Fun

French Lecturer Gives

New Definitions of Wit, Humor

By EVELYN BATY

Nations, like people, need to be able to laugh at themselves,
was the conclusion reached by Andre Maurois when he spoke
at Agnes Scott Monday night on 'Trench Wit, English and
American Humor/' M. Maurois, famous in both England and
France for many biographies and other writings, and re-
cently made a member of the French Academy, came to At-
lanta as his only Southern lecture
in a speaking tour of fourteen Am-
erican cities. His lecture here was
singularly original and entertain-
ing.

<f A sense of humor is never more
necessary than in time of danger,"
asserted M. Maurois, as he began
his lecture by admitting the diffi-
culties of trying to speak in a for-
eign language on so confusing a
subject.

The author devoted the first
part of his discussion to a defini-
tion and examples of wit. Wit he
called a "brushing aside" of serious
thought by calling attention to the
form in which it is expressed; it
may be a reversing of a familiar
statement, or any other clever
way of expression. Outstanding
among the excellent examples
given by M. Maurois was Madame
de Stael: a tactless man sitting be-
tween Madame de Stael, noted for
her wit, and ajiother lady, equally
noted for her beauty, remarked
that he had never sat between such
wit and beauty before; Madame de
Stael immediately said, "Thank
you; no one has ever called me
beautiful before. ,,

Humor is like wit in that it
tries "to say a thing that is too
difficult to say," but differs from
the French gift in its independence
of verbal form. Essentially a pre-
tending "not to know," humor is
inclined to be just a little behind
what is going on, imitating it and
making it appear ridiculous, much
as the clown at the circus imitates
the trapeze artist. Stephen Lea-
cock and Will Rogers both
achieve humorous effect by a pre-
tense of ignorance and simple inno-
cence.

A distinction between English
and American humor formed the
second part of the lecture. The
English, trained from childhood to
hide their natural feelings, take
refuge in understatement and can-
not understand the "recklessness
of American humor." Like all
peoples, the English try to laugh
off their troubles, as M. Maurois
had opportunity to notice when he
was attached to the British army
during the World War.

American humor, on the other
hand, is more a form of overstate-
ment, or at least has been until
lately; now, M. Maurois feels, the
tendency is away from the infer-
iority complex which prompted
overstatement in the first place.
The four periods of American
humor he named as the English-
influenced, the literary abandon-
ment, the great period of Mark
Twain, and the present period of
Robert Benchley, Charlie Chaplin,
W. C. Fields, and Mickey Mouse.
French wit has stayed essentially
the same throughout the evolution
of American humor, and is still dis-
tinguished from the humor of
England and America, although
the present quick and purgent
humor of America tends toward
wit.

In closing, the speaker pointed

Chairman Kaplan Lists
Mardi Gras Heads

Ruth Kaplan, chairman of the
Mardi Gras committees, worked
with Anne Enloe, assistant chair-
man, and the following committee
heads to make Mardi Gras the suc-
cess that it was.

Other committeemen were: Em-
ily Underwood, chairman of tables;
Betty Jean O'Brien, chairman of
decorations; Mary Evelyn Francis,
chairman of refreshment commit-
tee; and Henrietta Thompson, in
charge of lighting. The assistant
chairman was also publicity chair-
man.

out that "there is nothing in the
world more precious" than wit and
humor. Nations and individuals
need to realize that they are not
the center of the universe, that
other nations and individuals have
a sense of humor and a right to
live. The same events are the basis
of tragedy or comedy; the differ-
ence is in our interpretation of
them.

Professor Attends
Psychology Meet
At Durham

On April 5 th, Miss Emily S.
Dexter, Associate Professor of Psy-
chology and Education, leaves for
the Southern Society of Philosophy
and Psychology Convention, which
will be held on April 7th and 8th
at Durham, North Carolina.

The combined hosts at the con-
vention will be Duke yniversity
and the University of North Caro-
lina. The purposes of the conven-
tion, which is held annually, are to
promote a knowjedge of the most
recent discoveries in philosophy and
psychology, a.nd to encourage re-
search work.

Miss Dexter holds a four year
membership on the council of the
convention. There are approxi-
mately three hundred delegates to
the convention but only about
seven delegates are on this council
and membership is therefore an
honor.

Last year she was one of the pre-
siding secretaries of the convention
and also read one of her research
papers.

The Agonistic wishes to correct
a statement made in the last issue.
Miss Elizabeth Jackson is the re-
gional director of the Southeastern
Division of the A. A. U. W., not
the president of that organization.

Federation Convenes Here
On Tenth Anniversary

The annual meeting of the Georgia Athletic Federation for
College Women is to be held here on April 7-8. This meeting,
to be made up of two delegates from each of the. eleven col-
leges in the federation, is the celebration of the federation's

tenth birthday. A birthday party

Furman Complains
About Time
Between Classes

Instead of having to rush to class
and arrive quite out of breath, Fur-
man students now have a fifteen
minute interval between classes.
But they are not satisfied. "When
one considers the apparent joy so
widely expressed by students here-
tofore in receiving cuts, one is
somewhat angered by the new ex-
pression of sadness at not being al-
lowed to attend classes. ** The new
theme song is "Time On My
Hands." Furman students complain
that they do not know when to go
to class, that they have a hard time
building up reserve at breakfast to
last until lunch, which comes at
1:15, that they waste an hour of
precious time a day. Even the
members of the faculty join in con-
demnation of this new system.
Furman Hornet.

and an' outing to Harrison's Hut
are part of the entertainments
planned for the delegates. Ruth
Slack and Beryl Healy will repre-
sent our Athletic Association and
Virginia Milner, as president, will
preside.

Miss Llewellyn Wilburn founded
the Georgia Athletic Federation for
College Women ten years ago for
the purpose of solving the differ-
ent problems which arise in the
Athletic Associations of women's
colleges.

Seniors Name May 5
As Opera Date

On the night of May 5 th, the
class of '39 will present their Sen-
ior Opera. Mary Hollingsworth,
chairman, announces that plans are
in progress to make it one of the
best ever presented.

Upon the completion of the lib-
retto by the Writing Committee,
of which Julia Sewell is chairman,
the parts in the opera will be cast.
Rehearsals are to begin the first
week of April.

Freshman "Rose in Bloom"
Float is Most Beautiful

The Junior Class, under the direction of their chairman,
Ruth Kaplan, presented the annual festival of Mardi Gras
Saturday night. The program began with the procession of
the floats on the road in front of Gaines and Inman, each
float carrying out the theme of book titles.

After the entrance of the king,
Ann Fisher, of the sophomore class,
and her queen, Modesta Hance, at-
tended by the court, composed of
the kings of the four classes with
their chosen queens, Amelia
Nichols and Kay Toole for the sen-
iors, Jane Moses and Ruth Slack
for the juniors, and ^ane Taylor
and Virginia Montgomery for the
freshmen, Chairman Kaplan an-
nounced the two prize winners
among the floats entered by all
the campus organizations. The
prize for the most beautiful was
won by the freshmen class, repre-
senting "Rose in Bloom," a garden
scene featuring Anne Chambless
seated on a green platform border-
ed with pink roses. The prize for
the most original idea went to
Current History Forum, featuring
"Inside Europe." Their float rep-
resented the map of Europe, in the
middle of which stood Ella Hun-
ter Mallard, as Adolf Hitler.

The judges, Miss Muriel Harn,
Miss Narka Nelson, and Miss
Frances McCaula, awarded honor-
able mention for beauty to the
sophomore class, with the float
representing "Heide," carrying
Freck Sproles as Heide, accompan-
ied by a real goat. Honorable
mention for originality went to
K. U. B. which had "The Fighting
Angel." Their float represented a
fighters' ring in the center of
which stood the winged angel Sa-
bine Brumby in boxer's garb.

Chi Beta Phi Sigma received
honorable mention for the best all-
round float. They represented
"Madame Curie."

Chairman Kaplan then appeared
in the role of Professor Quiz to ask
several questions about books.
Douglas Lyle received the prize for
answering the greatest number of
questions.

Betty Ann Brooks with her ac-
cordian playing, and Jitterbugs
Ann Martin and Elaine Stubbs
also took part on the program.

The judges then awarded prizes
for the best costumes. The prize
for the most beautiful costume
was won by Lavinia Brown, dis-
guised as an Oriental lady, and the
prize for the most original was
won by Martha Buffalow, who
represented "Plutarch's Lives."

Flunk Specialist
Favors Shock

Dr. Samuel Stevens, Dean of the
University College of Northwest-
ern, who is a specialist in flunks,
advises students who are headed
for the wretched pit of scholastic
detainments. "When a student is
headed in the wrong direction," he
says, "it takes a shock to bring the
necessary readjustment, and the
flunk often provides just that
shock." '
V. M. /. Cadet.

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McCain and
Stukes Attend
Conference

Attending the annual meeting of
the Southern Association of Col-
leges, at Memphis, Tennessee,
March 27-31, Dr. J. R. McCain
and Dr. Guerry Stukes served on
various committees for the purpose
of furthering higher education.
The theme of the conference is
"Education as an Instrument of
Social Progress in the South."
Since the South has been called the
number one economic problem of
the nation, it is the purpose of this
program to give instruction as to
how education may be used as an
effective instrument in attaining a
more abundant life for the people
of the South.

Dr. McCain is a member of the
Commission on Standards for Ac-
crediting Schools. This year a
change in the standards is to be dis-
cussed and voted on. On Wednes-
day at 1 o'clock over station WMC
Dr. McCain broadcasted, speaking
on the subject: "The Liberal Arts
College in Prospect." Mr. Stukes
served on the Committee on Teach-
er Training.

, The Seniors at Davidson are set
apart from the other members of
the student body by their dignity
and their Senior coats! "The per-
sonification of Esquire's example of
modern collegiate wear may be
seen roaming the campus these
days in the person of any member
of the Senior class.

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3

Popular, Committee Choices
Await Student Elections

The voting to determine the girls who will lead campus
activities for next year will take place in chapel tomorrow
and Friday. Outcomes from both committee and popular
nominations were posted on Friday, March 24, at follows:

COMMITTEE NOMINATIONS

Student Government
President Henrietta Thompson.
Vice-President Carolyn For-
man.

House Presidents Rebekah Scott
Hall: Harriettc Stimson; Main
Hall: Mary Lang Gill; Inman
Hall: Grace Ward.

Secretary Frances Breg.

Treasurer Jean Dennison.

Student Treasurer Ruth Eyles.

Student Recorder Polly Heas-
lett.

Day Student President Mary
Evelyn Francis.

Christian Association
President Katherine Patton.
Vice-President Jane Moses.
Secretary Grace Walker.
Treasurer Scotty Wilds.

Silhouette

Editor Lutie Moore.
Business Manager Nell Pinner.
Advertising Manager Helen
Klugh.

Aurora

Editor Mary Matthews.
Assistant Editor Sabine Brum-
by.

Business Manager Elizabeth
Davis.

Agnes Scott News

Editor Eleanor Hutchens.
Managing Editor Evelyn Baty.
Assistant Editor Gene Slack.
Assistant Editor Elaine Stubbs.
Business Manager Mary Louise
Dobbs.

Advertising Manager Florence
Ellis.

Athletic Association
President Virginia Milner.
Vice-President Helen Carson.
Secretary Anne Fisher.
Treasurer Frances Spratlin.

Lecture Association

President Margaret Hopkins.
Treasurer Mary Virginia
Brown.

May Day

Chairman Eloise Lennard.

POPULAR NOMINATIONS
Student Government

President Henrietta Thompson,
Carolyn Forman, Ruth Slack.

Vice-President Carolyn For-
man, Henrietta Thompson, Ruth
Slack, Polly Heaslctt.

House Presidents Rebekah:
Harriettc Stimson, Polly Heaslett,
Mary Lang Gill; Main: Harriette
Stimson, Polly Heaslett, Mary Lang
Gill, Anne Enloe, Carolyn Forman;
Inman: Grace Ward, Polly Heas-
lctt, Harriette Stimson, Mary Lang
Gill.

Secretary Frances Breg, Jean
Dennison, Anne Fisher.

Treasurer Anne Fisher, Jean
Dennison, Frances Breg.

Student Treasurer Ruth Eyles,
Polly Heaslett, Harriette Stimson.

Student Recorder Polly Heas-
lett, Harriette Stimson, Ruth Slack.

Sophie Mont-
Patton, Sam
Moses, Grace

Gray, Grace

Walker,
Mary

Tine
Scott

Day Student President Ruth
Slack, Betty Jean O'Brien, Betty
Alderman, Louise Sullivan, Mary
Evelyn Francis, Sam Olive Griffin.

Christian Association

President Katherine Patton,
Sophie Montgomery, Sam Olive
Griffin, Grace Ward.

Vice-President
gomery, Katherine
Olive Griffin, Jane
Ward.

Secretary Tine
Walker, Betty Kyle.

Treasurer Grace
Gray, Betty Kyle,
Wilds.

Silhouette

Editor Lutie Moore, Frances
Abbott, Marjorie Boggs.

Business Manager Nell Pinner,
Elizabeth Davis, Frances Abbott,
Carolyn Alley.

Advertising Manager Helen
Klugh, Val Nielsen, Freck Sproles,
Mary Bell.

Aurora

Editor Mary Matthews, Louise
Hughston, Betty Ball Embry.

Assistant Editor Doris Weinkle,
Betty Jane Stevenson, Florence El-
lis, Elizabeth Barrett.

Business Manager Mary Mat-
thews, Louise Hughston, Betty Ball
Embry.

Agnes Scott News

Editor Evelyn Baty, Eleanor
Hutchens, Mary Reins, Georgia
Hunt.

Managing E d it o r Eleanor
Hutchens, Evelyn Baty, Mary
Reins, Georgia Hunt, Anne Enloe.

Assistant Editors Gene Slack,
Elaine Stubbs, Sara M. Lee, Doris
Weinkle, Elizabeth Barrett, Flor-
ence Ellis, Susan Self.

Business Manager Mary Louise
Dobbs, Barbara Murlin, Florence
Graham, Rebecca Drucker.

Advertising Manager Florence
Ellis, Laura Sale, Lillian Schwencke,
Gene Slack.

Athletic Association

President Virginia Milner, Ruth
Slack.

Vice-President Ruth Slack,
Virginia Milner, Mary Nell Tay-
lor, Ernestine Cass, Eleanor Hutch-
ens.

Secretary Mary Scott Wilds,

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Beryl Healy, Mary Bell, Anne
Fisher.

Treasurer Scotty Wilds, Beryl
Healy, Mary Bell, Nellie Richard-
son.

Lecture Association
President Grace Ward, Evelyn

Baty, Anne Enloe, Lutie Moore.
Treasurer Anne Enloe, Grace

Ward, Evelyn Baty, Boots Moore.

May Day
Chairman Eloise Lennard, Mary
Matthews, Boots Moore.

Use of This Issue

Unclogs Student Voting

In order to facilitate the
voting in chapel Thursday
and Friday, the Nominat-
ing Committee requests
that students bring this is-
sue of The Agonistic with
them to the elections. With
the printed list of Commit-
tee and popular nomina-
tions before them, students
will be able to vote more
quickly.

The Gondoliers

{Continued from Page 1 )
Doak, Grace Duggan, Florence El-
lis, Mary Ann Faw, Jane Jones,
Dorothy Lazenby, Jeanne Lee,
Eloise McCall, Grace Moffat, Betty
Nash, Molly Oliver, Pattie Patter-
son, Isabella Robertson, Edith
Swartz, Lillian Schwenke, Gene
Slack, Harriet Stimson, Gay
Swaggerty, Annie Wilds, Mary
Scott Wilds. '

Howard Allison, Marion Bullard,
F. S. Davenport, W. J. Davenport,
Harold Dobbs, Williard Eubanks,
John Floyd, Gordon Gill, George
Hayes, Tom Hicks, John Houck,
Sydney Jones, W. C. Pauley, Gene
Powell, Ernest Runyon, Eugene
Traber, Thomas Turner, Jack
Sands, Charles White, Bruce Win-
ter.

All of the roles will be taken by
the same singers for the perform-
ance Friday night with the excep-
tion of the following:

Luiz, Gene Powell; the Duchess,
Amelia Nickels; Gianetta, Jane
Moore Hamilton; Tessa, Virginia
Kyle; and Fiametta, Toni Newton.

Evelyn Wall is the accompanist.

Berry College
Debaters Visit

Berry Debates Topic
Of Use of Public Funds

A non-decision debate between
Berry College of Mount Berry,
Georgia, and Agnes Scott was the
feature of the Pi Alpha Phi meet-
ing which took place on Thursday
evening, March 2 3, at 8 o'clock.
The subject for debate was "Re-
solved, that the United States
should cease to use public funds
(including credit) for the purpose
of stimulating business." The af-
firmative was upheld by James
Clowvis and Bill Allen, of Berry,
and the negative by Lelia. Carson
and Eloise Lennard, of Agnes
Scott. Rebuttals were given by
Lelia Carson and Bill Allen. There
was a reception following the meet-
ing.

One in every six evening college
students at the University of Cin-
cinnati is a college graduate.

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THE AGONISTIC. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1939

Campus Radio
Programs
Stress Alumnae

Local Graduates Give
Varied Broadcast
Over WSB

Continuing the theme of "Cam-
pus Silhouettes" through the spring
quarter Agnes Scott will broadcast
at the regular hour of 4:30 on
Tuesday. The programs emphasize
activities of the alumnae, and Car-
rie P. Latimer and Jeanne Flynt
will introduce the discussion as
they take the parts of an Agnes
Scott senior and freshman.

The programs for the spring are
as follows: On March 14 Mrs.
Donaldson spoke on the work of
the whole Alumnae Association
and its relation to the campus.

On March 21 Mrs. Ben Wright
Erwin talked on "Publishing." On
March 2 8 Mrs. S. G. Stukes will
sing. April 4th Mrs. Forrest Hill,
head of this district N. Y. A., will
speak on "Government Social
Work."

Miss Page Ackerman, librarian
at Druid Hills, and Mrs. Mary E.
Shelten, librarian at North Avenue
Presbyterian School, will give a
joint program on "School Library
Work" on April 11th.

The broadcast on April 18 th
will present Miss Emma Wesley,
an early graduate of Agnes Scott,
head of the Faith School, who will
speak on the "Profession of Teach-
ing-"

April 2 5, Joyce Roper, Campus
Consultant at Davison's, will
speak.

May 2nd, Evangeline Pape-
george, the only woman in the
Bio-Chemical Department at Em-
ory, will speak on her work.

On May 9th Miss Janef Preston
will give a program on "Alumnae
Poems."

May 2 3, the series will end with
Mrs. Margaret Band Sewell giving
a program on her plays. She is the
author of a number of current
plays, one of the most interesting
being "Spinnet's Spitters."

Akron University students have
a new rating for their professor
h.p.h. (harumphs per hour). They
have given their leather medal to
Prof. Ross Stagner, for his record
of 107 h.p.h. and 16 shifts in one
one-hour lecture.

Believe it or not, but according
to the Florida Flambeau, a F. S. C.
W. student spent fifteen months in
France and in Spain on the total of
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cross the Atlantic and find itself
in another generation or two on
the shores of this new land, so to
speak, because that land has in its
power the intelligence and moral
courage to make itself the outstand-
ing exemplar of those policies of
liberty, of progress and of human
service which alone can save and
develop our civilization." Colum-
bia University's Press. Nicholas
Murray Butler points to the con-
tinued decline of cultural Europe.

Debater Suggests
Skunk Frontier

Collegiate debaters throughout
the world are known for their in-
genuity and their quick-wittedness,
but we believe that the top prize
should go to Louis Dillon, a stu-
dent at Wycliffe College, up Can-
ada way.

In defending the question, "Re-
solved, that skunks should be pro-
tected by law," Argufier Dillon
won the contest by proposing the
animals be used as a part of Can-
ada's national defense. How? He'd
line the borders uith them, making
the use of soldiers unnecessary
and unpleasant!

-Photo Courtesy Atlanta Constitution.

Old Annuals Recall Days
Of Modest Black Stocking

Gym Bids Farewell to Bloomers
As Present Seniors Leave

By ALICE CHEESEMAN

To reminisce on the fashions of yore is to heave a gasp of
relief that, "mercy, times have changed !" And this is so
blessedly true in the gym department.

Par example, the other day we scurried . . . with reverence
. . . through the oldest of the Silhouettes to find, much to our
quiet amusement, that we had good reason to have the afore-
said gasp. It was a 1903 edition,

and the six members of the ten-
nis club made a handsome group
. . . in long sleeved tucked and
puckered shirt waists . . . high
banded necklines . . . floor-length
heavily petticoated "tailored"
skirts. Their headgear was ravish-
ing: big Scotch woolen berets,
posed pancake fashion on the
very top of very "up-done" coif-
furies.

Eleven years later they played
tennis on the front lawn, in full
view of the ole iron gate which
stands there still ... in ankle
length skirts, voluminous middy A
tie - and - kerchief accessories . . .
myriads of tresses? simply myriads!
(on the maidens, of course, not the
gate.)

Another annual, dated 1916, pic-
tured Miss Phythian's class in just
such ankle length skirts and mid-
dies. There was a sketch of a swim-

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ming suit . . . knee length, high
waisted and belted. The swimmer
(?) wore long stockings, laced
shoes, and a cap tied in a bow. The
introductory page to the sports sec-
tion listed perfectly "human" ac-
tivities . . . tennis, basketball, base-
ball, walking, swimming . . . the
list was called the "Physical Exer-
cise Record." But imagine playing
baseball in such an "inhuman" get-
up as a long, dark, woolen, pleated
skirt. Unwieldy, n'est ce pas?

Almost a decade later, in 1924,
Miss Scandrett graduated. And in
the Silhouette that year were "sil-
houettes" marking only a slight
modification of these styles and
customs in the gym department.
Well, we talked to Mrs. Lapp. And
Miss Haynes said that this was her
very first year at Agnes Scott . . .
she remembers distastefully copious
bloomers, pure white, but very un-
wholesome, middie blouses, white
tennis shoes . . . and long black
hose. She continued to describe . . .
"those terrible looking animals" . .
"weird looking bathing suits" . . .
she spoke, in connection with these
suits, of the swimming facilities
. . . in keeping with the styles per-

haps. The pool was like, quote,
"the black hole of Calcutta" . . .
Classes upstairs in the same build-
ing with teachers sending down
messages periodically to quell the
hilarity of the young ladies in the
pool . . . said pool being in dimen-
sion exactly "three strokes down
and two across." Mrs. Lapp, glee-
ful, too, that "times have changed,"
added that "no wonder girls hated
to take gym as they did . . . those
clothes!"

Miss Latimer *s class ushered in
the first "modern" bloomer . . . up-
to-date to the limit. And she said
they were all proud and happy . . .
and greatly relieved! But this
bloomer era is fast waning, and
luckily, too. It was Miss Leyburn
who, witnessing a recent game,
mused that it was more than a dis-
tinct pleasure to see our seniors
exit with what promised to be the
last of the bloomers: egregious, to
say the least!

Atlanta Club Fetes
Rotary Daughters

Dr. McCain requests that
all daughters of Rotary
Club members leave their
names in his office. The
Atlanta Rotary Club is
planning to entertain these
uirls at a meetng on April
24.

Silver Firm
Opens Contest
For College Girls

In this issue of The Agonistic
there is an announcement of a con-
test which is to be confined to
Agnes Scott and a limited number
of other leading women's colleges
in the United States. The contest
is sponsored by Reed & Barton, one
of the finest and oldest silver-
smiths in the country.

The major prize consists of a
hundred-piece service of sterling
silver in the Reed & Barton pattern
of the winner's choice, together
with a beautiful Sheraton silver
and linen cabinet of genuine ma-
hogany. In addition, the Agnes
Scott student submitting the best
entry will be presented with a
boxed set of eight sterling Harle-
quin Coffee Spoons with gold-plat-
ed bowls and exquisitely sculptured
handles, each representing a differ-
ent flower.

To enter the contest, it is only
necessary to pick the pattern you
like best. Then put your name at
the top of a sheet of paper and un-
der this write the name of your
college and your home address.
Follow this with a sentence or two
(as few words as you wish, but not
over fifty at the most), telling in
your own way the reasons for your
choice. Mail it before midnight,
April 21, 1939, to Reed & Barton,
Contest manager, Taunton, Mass.

Here are the ten Reed & Barton
patterns from which your selection
is to be made: Cotillion, Old Eng-
lish Antique, Hawthorn, Jubilee,
Francis First, Colonial Classic,
Pointed Antique, Heppelwhite,
Yorktown and Nancy Lee. You
will find them illustrated in the
Reed & Barton advertising and on
the poster in Buttrick. You may
also examine them personally at
one of the jewelry stores where
Reed & Barton silver is sold, al-
though this is not a requirement.

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THE AGONISTIC, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1939

M. Maurois Praises
Ameiican Poets, Novelists

By ANNE ENLOE

That Edna St. Vincent Millay is the outstanding contem-
porary American poet and that she is "the American Brown-
ing" is the first statement that Andre Maurois had to make
concerning the field of American literature. Following Mil-
lay, he mentioned Robert Frost these two being the finest
in our country today and the ones enjoyed by the greatest

number of people outside America.

As for our novelists, M. Maurois
considers Ernest Hemingway the
very best. "I admire him," he says.
"He is a very good writer." One
objection, however: for Heming-
way the average man does not exist
he seems to have a quality bor-
dering on the unreal. Speaking of
Sinclair Lewis, M. Maurois observ-
ed that he seems to be losing his
popularity in France today. With
Babbitt and Main Street he climbed
to immediate fame, but is grad-
ually decreasing in popularity.
Theodore Dreiser and Erskine
Caldwell surpass Lewis by far, he
thinks.

To the question probably upper-
most in all minds today "What
do you think of the present for-
eign situation?" M. Maurois an-
swers that most Americans have a
mistaken and almost childish idea
of the position of France in the
political turmoil. He says that the
fact that almost unlimited power
has been given Daladier does not
mean that France is losing her
democratic ideals. This is merely
a means of defense for the good of
the country and democracy. Sud-
den decisions must be made and
sudden crises met, else democracy
will be destroyed.

Coming to things closer to us,
M. Maurois says that he is particu-
larly impressed by the great happi-
ness he sees in American college
girls. "But then, they should be
happy. These four years are for
them well, simply paradise!" As
for the work in American women's
colleges, he thinks it seems rather
hard, after having visited Bryn
Mawr, Vassar and Agnes Scott.
In the universities, the happiness is
still there, "but the work seems to
be nil!"

To M. Maurois we are indebted
for an unforgettable campus visit.
He was a visitor of the most
charming personality, a brilliant
speaker, a very gracious exponent
of the French wit.

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Students Make
New Alarm

"At the next sound of the mouse
trap it will be time to arise!" And
with this announcement we bring
you the story of two ingenious
University of Detroit students who
have found a new way to get them-
selves up in the morning.

Inventors Bertrand Farrell and
Don Parro have a new getter-upper
that works something like this:
When the alarm goes off, a string,
attached to the buzzer, allows a
weight to fall on a mouse trap.
This springs a trap, which pulls
two strings. One string jerks the
stopper of the alarm clock, shutting
off the din, and the other jerks
open a switch on the radio. The
radio, of course, has already been
tuned in on a station, that broad-
casts dance music at the students'
rising hour.

Courtois Lectures to
French Club on Maurois

French Club held its regular
meeting on Thursday, March 23, at
4:30 p. m. Mr. F. P. Courtois, of
the French Line, was guest speaker,
and his lecture was on Andre Mau-
rois. All French students were spe-
cial guests at this meeting.

Chi Beta Phi
Admits Seventeen

Seventeen new members were
elected to Chi Beta Phi at their
meeting on Thursday, March 23.
Those honored were Arlene Stein-
bach, Susie Blackmon, Louise
Meiere, Ruth Slack, Dorothy Still,
Freda Copeland, Jean Dennison,
Jeariette Carroll, Emily Under-
wood, Eloise Weeks, Marion
Franklin, Boots Moore, Jane Smol-
len,' Betty Price, Harriett Stimson,
Mary Frances Thompson, and Vir-
ginia Morris.

Miss Laney Talks at Meet
Of Georgia Association

In connection with the program
of the Georgia Education Associa-
tion Miss Emma May Laney, Asso-
ciate Professor of English, spoke
Friday afternoon March 24, at a
meeting of the Georgia Council of
Teachers of English. Miss Laney's
subject was "Contemporary Poets
and the South."

QGalavanting ( 2Gals

Everyone is busy now with elections so why can't we
proudly present some very popular nominations of girls who
really get around?

At the Emory Spring dances : Lutie Moore, Marian Frank-
lin, Betsy Banks, Boots Moore,

Catherine Ivie, Jane Moore Hamil-
ton, Barbara Lee Murlin, Eloise
Lennard, Martie Doak, Sara Cope-
land, Jeanne Allen, Tade Merrill,
Martha Dunn, Carolyn Alley, Val
Nielson, Julia Porter, Sara E. Lee,
Toni Newton, Frankie Butt, Eu-
genia Hailey, Jane Jones, Sara M.
Lee, Martha Marshall, Ruth Smith,
Beth Paris, Jean Bailey, Annette
Franklin, Mildred Joseph, Mary
Bell, Florrie Guy, Charlene Burke,
Keeker Newton, Aileen Shortley,
Lalla Marshall, Mary Evans, Elaine
Stubbs, Lib Barrett, Ida Jane
Vaughn, Jane Taylor, Weezie
Sams, Nellie Richardson, Tommy
Turner, Elizabeth Jenkins, Ann
Gellerstedt and probably millions
of others.

Running for position (?) as sail-
or's sweetheart of the Shipwreck
Ball Nell Pinner, Eloise McCall,
Lillian Gudenrath, Alice Adams,
Susan Goodwyn, Mitzi Sanders,
Gary Home, Kay Kennedy, Betty
Embry, Margaret Wells, Ella Muz-
zey, Alice Comer, and Grace Ward.

The SAE house dance at Tech
attracted Keeker Newton, Jean-
nette Herenger and Susan Good-
wyn.

At the Sigma Nu Buffet Supper
were Sara Lee, Mary Bon Utter-
back, Betty Waitt, Susan Self,
while Florrie Ellis ate dinner Sun-
day night at the A. T. O. House.

Even during spring holidays
these girls were politicking at the
Citadel dances Weezie Sams,
Rowena Barringer, Anne Martin,
Lucille Gaines, Edith Swartz, and
Mary Robertson.

Julia Porter spent Sunday at her
home in Covington; Callie Car-
michael went home to McDon-
ough.

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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

Paper Honors Dreamer

The Drake University student
newspaper is having a lot of fun
with its new "Foundation for Ab-
sent-Minded Professors." Qualifi-
cations for membership are some-
thing like this one pulled by a
Drake professor. He lectured for
one hour to his senior domestic re-
lations on "evidence," a junior class
subject.

Columbia University has a new
course in angling as a part of its
"camp leadership" curriculum.

Stimson Talks

At Vesper Program

Harriet Stimson, teacher of the
Maids' Sunday School Class, spoke
at Vespers Sunday night, March 26.
Her subject was "The Delicate
Sense of Morals That Christianity
Offers." She based her talk on the
contrast between Christ's interpre-
tations of the commandments and
the Old Testament conception, em-
phasizing especially the difference
between the letter and the spirit of
the law as applied to campus life.

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As Committees Rack Brains

By MARY WELLS McNEILL

The essential facts in the life of a young maiden, common-
ly known as Mary Hollingsworth, are as follows, and we as-
sure you that they were obtained with much difficulty one
given between phone calls, another mumbled around a mouth-
ful of thread just pulled from the hem of last summer's dress,
and other given between periods of dispensing information

to inquiring freshmen.

Our heroine's past suppressed
desire-in-chief was to marry a po-
liceman so she too could pick ba-
nanas off fruit stands and not
have to pay for them. Her present
suppressed desire is to put on rub-
ber boots and jump up and down
in a pan of eggs. Tsk! Who would
have thought it?

Fortunately Mary's hobbies are
in a less strenuous vein and her
favorite is lying in the bed and lis-
tening to symphonies on the radio.

life. Every morning she awakes
with the remark, "Cary, guess
what I dreamed last night!" and
our patient Cary always obligingly
says "What?"

At present, during her waking
hours, Miss Hollingsworth is de-
voting her attention to running
the Senior Opera. While the mem-
bers of the writing committee sit
around on beds and glare at each
other and vainly seek to glean one
lone idea from their non-teaming

When a little girl, she liked to play I brains > she P la cidly knits and at

dolls, climb her "pet" tree, and help
her older brother give plays. As
she was too small to act in these
colossal productions, she was
given, much to Rev. Hollings-
worth's embarrassment, the express
privilege of selling tickets to all
the church members who came to
the house.

Time marched on and Mary
grew up and went to high school,
where she was editor in "some
form or another" of the annual for
three years. But during all those
years and to this very day she held
a secret fear of the attic in her
house, for once her brother said
that George Washington was up
there doing something vaguely
known as the "Virginia Reel."
Even now Mary can't sleep up
stairs unless she knows the attic
door is locked.

Alas it is to be feared that the
case of the attic has affected Mrs.
Hollingsworth's little daughter,
for she dreams every night of her

regular intervals demands, "Well,
what have you done?" Such are
the actions of Chairman Hollings-
worth, whose motto is when in
doubt appoint a committee.

Dr. Robinson
Attends Convention

Professor Henry A. Robinson, of
the Mathematics Department,
spent March 24-2 5 attending the
annual meeting of the Mathema-
tical Association of America,
Southeastern Section, in conven-
tion at Charleston, S. C. Dr. Rob-
inson, as Secretary of the Associa-

tion, was in charge
ments for the meet.

of

arrange-

Bailey Gives Luncheon
For Mortar Board

Jean Bailey was hostess to the
members of Mortar Board at a
luncheon at East Lake Country
Club on Saturday, March 25. Miss
Scandrett was honor guest.

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Agnes Scott College THE AGONISTIC Vol. XXIV, No. 17

Decatur, Ga. c 2 . . 7 _ Wednesday, Mar. 29, 1939

^ editorials ^ Creatures ^

Front Row

By JANE SALTERS

Georgia school teachers return

from the state convention to low-
ered salaries but opened schools,
while banks provide funds for the
time being* and Governor Rivers
cuts the budget drastically, drop-
ping 400 state employees and scal-
ing the Education Department's
salaries "below the recommenda-
tions of the economy committee."

Hitler telegraphs congratula-
tions and assurance of support to
Mussolini as the Italian dictator
prepares to celebrate the 20th an-
niversary of the "proud new
Italy" the message describing
Germany as "shoulder to shoulder"
with Italy "against all hateful
and incomprehensible attempts to
restrict the justified will for liv-
ing of our two peoples."

Tokyo's government in Shanghai

turns a cold shoulder to Germany
when Hitler demands Tsingtao
and Kiaochow Bay, former Ger-
man colonies, but Japan offers to
lend the Caroline Islands in the
Pacific until the Reich regains
control of the German colonies
now held by France and Great
Britain.

European danger zones, Hun-
gary-Slovakia, the Danzig area,
and the rapidly being fortified
border of the Polish Corridor
throw off sparks, while Spain, ap-
parently exhausted, calms down
steadily and looks forward to nor-
mal civilian activity under
Franco's rule.

Japan's refusal to join in "un-
conditional military alliance with
Germany and Italy" but her con-
sent to aid the Nazis if attacked
by Russia "without provocation"
are reported by an authoritative
source from Tokyo.

From the Editor

To the Student Body:

Various inquiries have been made
in regard to the new position creat-
ed on the staff of the Agnes Scott
News; namely, that of Managing
Editor.

This office replaces the former
position of Associate Editor, which,
in reality, was little more than a
consolation job for the Assistant
Editor who was defeated in the
race for the Editorship. *

Under the new arrangement, the
Managing Editor will be in charge
of the make-up of the paper, thus
relieving the editor of this ivork
and giving her more time for gen-
eral editorial duties.

This system has been used with
success by many collegiate news-
papers throughout the country ,
and ive believe that it will bring
greater efficiency to the staff of
our own paper and enable them to
give Agnes Scott an increasingly
better paper.

Sincerely,

The Editor.

Students Find Odd
Methods to Earn Money

There arc various ways to earn
one's education. Some students go
about earning money the usual way
by N. Y. A. loans, etc. But oth-
ers employ odd methods, such as
David Bears, Butler University,
who earns as he learns by digging
ditches. Two Texas Tech brothers
lasso bob-cats from horseback and
sell them to the experimental labs.
But the most Utopian method is
found in Los Angeles. There thou-
sands of students at a relief school
are paid to go to school and are
docked if they cut classes.

Nice Work

If the character of the popular nomina-
tions in any way determines the character
of the student elections, then we are con-
fident that the voting; tomorrow and Fri-
day will reach a new standard on this cam-
pus.

Student officials were highly pleased
with the large number of nominations
made. Approximately 75 per cent of the
student body nominated people for the
various offices. While this does not seem
unusual to us, it does seem unusual to elec-
tioneers on other campuses where few
nominations are made voluntarily and
dirty politics hold sway.

Not only were the nominations more
numerous, but also they were more intel-
ligent. Most of the students gave evidence
that they made their choices with thought
and care, trying to suggest the person
really best fitted for each position, not
just filling in the blanks hastily.

Much of this improvement is to be at-
tributed to the fact that the President of
Student Government read out the names
of those girls who have been working with
the groups in question. There was the
danger that this would tend to eliminate
the nomination of people who might be
suited for the positions but who had not
worked on the organization in college here.

Judging from the large number of peo-
ple receiving nominations, we believe that
this danger was avoided to a great extent.
The popular nominations do tally quite
closely with the committee nominations.
But this shows that both are generally
agreed on the people best prepared to lead
our activities next year. It does not mean
that the student body was restricted in its
choices.

So far our elections have been admir-
able ; let's keep them that way to the end.

Editorial Notes

Originality plus was revealed in our
Marcli Gras Fete Saturday night. And the
planning of skits, floats, and stunts uncov-
ered much talent that w T as heretofore
latent and unknown to us.

Don't forget the request of the Nomi-
nating Committee that you bring this
Agonistic to the elections in chapel Thurs-
day and Friday.

The Agnes Scott radio program has be-
gun its third series, the interesting work
of alumnae in various vocations. We are
greatly indebted to Miss Leyburn and Miss
Latimer for the success of this year's
broadcasts.

Agnes Scott College Student Newspaper

Vol. 24

Wednesday, March 29

No. 17

STAFF

Mary Frances Guthrie Jane Salters

Editor Current History

Evelyn Baty Eleanor Hutchens

Mary Reins Sports Editor

Assistant Editor* Hazel Solomon

Elizabeth Kerraey Exchange Editor

Copy Editor Jeannette Carroll

Rebecca Drucker Alumnae Editor

Assistant Copy Editor Selma Steinbach

Marie Merritt C,ub Editor

Business Manager Hayden Sanford

_ * _ , . Eloise Lennard

Mary Louise i Dobbs Florence Ellis

Advertising Manager Society Editors

Alice Cheeaeman Virginia Farrar

Mary Wells McNeill Eleanor Hall

Feature Editors Dorothy Graham

Anne Enloe Beth Paris

Georpia Hunt Onie Smith

Assistant Feature Editors Circulation Managers
KKroKTKKS : M. L. Gill. V. J. W .tkins. C. K. Hutchins.

P. Heaslett, m. Merlin, i>. Weinfcle, B. Alderman. J. Wltanan,
ML Fite, It. Franklin. J. Gates. S. Lee. G. WiliK I\ Hammond.

E. Stuhhs. K. McGall. B. Coleman. S. Self. J. Lancaster. E.

Barrett. G. IMi^an. A. Chamldess. K. McKluaney. V. Wat-
kins, m. Bedinger, J. steams.

BUSINESS STAFF: B. Coleman. M. K Leavitt. M. Watkins.

L. Sale. W. Howard. W. Finger, L. Schwenke, Florence
Graham. F. Ellis.

Your Pleasure

The student attendance at the Andre
Maurois lecture Monday evening was in-
deed excellent. And, while some may have
gone from a sense of necessity, all left
with a feeling of genuine pleasure at hav-
ing heard the noted writer.

Miss Laney and the other members of
the Lecture Association are sincerely to
be complimented on the speakers whom
they have secured for us this year. We
only regret that we cannot have another
such delightful lecture this spring. How-
ever, we approve of the Association's plan
to present a few renowned speakers rather
than a variety of comparatively unknown
ones.

Other entertainments ahead of us this
week promise to be equally interesting
and beneficial.

Tomorrow night the Glee Club will again
give "The Gondoliers." Many of you are
acquainted with this light opera and need
not be told of its amusing libretto and gay
songs.

But you may not know that the cast is
experienced many of the leading singers
having studied the opera at Chatauqua
last summer. Especially has the director,
Mr. Johnson, spent much time there learn-
ing the technical points to the production
of a Gilbert and Sullivan opera. And,
finally, the costumes are designed by a fa-
mous company from the original models.
So, we reiterate, it will be your pleasure
to attend the production.

The remaining major event of the week
is the dual debate with Newcomb College
here on Friday night. The topic is one
particularly vital now to all of us, whether
we are well informed on international law
or not. The reasons for and against the
democratic nations' uniting to halt the ad-
vance of Fascism should be known to each
of us. Without such an understanding we
cannot intelligently face the problem of
maintaining "peace for our times."

Also to be mentioned is the fact that a
decision will be rendered at the debate.
This should make the fray all the more
exciting.

We urge that you show your loyalty to
the college and to your fellow students by
attending both of these attractions.

Parade of Opinion

By Associated Collegiate Press

Reflecting the growing optimism in regard to
jobs. New York University seniors indicated over-
whelmingly that they expected to be earning
$5,000 annually five years after graduation. In-
teresting was the large percentage (78) which
answered "no" to the question, "Have you util-
ized your four years at college to their greatest
potentialities?"

At Drexel Institute, 87 per cent of the stu-
dents voting in a poll indicated that they did not
approve dropping the immigration bars to allow
refugees from totalitarian states to come into the
United States.

Sixty-five per cent of the University of Buffalo
students believe in President Roosevelt's policy of
lining up the democratic nations against the total-
itarian states.

University of Maine students voted with only
a slight majority to favor of the provision to have
war declared only by a national referendum.

Rutgers University seniors voted five-to-one
against a third term for President Roosevelt.

At Case School of Applied Science, more than
two-thirds of the students favor the T. V. A., the
National Labor Relations Board and the social
security and wages-and-hours law.

Approximately 8 5 per cent of the McPherson
College student body has voted against going to
war for the U. S. if the battles are fought on a
foreign soil.

Harvard University has established a radio
workshop to explore new possibilities in the de-
velopment of broadcasting as an art form.

Campus
Quotes

By GEORGIA HUNT

The great event of the year is
here. Elections are right at hand
and, as usual, they bring many
subjects for debate. Are they
democratic ? Are student votes in-
fluenced by committee nomina-
tions ? Are there any helpful sug-
gestions for a new procedure?

Harriet Stimson, '40, says: "I
approve of the present system.
Having the popular nominations
before announcing the committee
nominations keeps the democratic
spirit. The committee nominations
are valuable for people who are
voting for officers in organizations
with which they are not familiar.
I don't think that the committee
nominations limit one's choice be-
cause there have been times when
the committee nominee was not
the final selection."

Louise Musser, '41, says: "I
think the elections at Agnes Scott
are as free from politics as possi-
ble. One thing that makes this pos-
sible is the committee nominations.
This is true because the committee
considers seriously the abilities of
each student before it nominates
a girl for an office. Whereas the
student body as a whole should not
feel that they are forced to vote
for one of these girls, still, at the
same time it guides the thoughts
of those students who are prone to
vote just as their neighbors do.
Also, it is a great advantage to
freshmen who are not well ac-
quainted with the upperclassmen.
I am in sympathy with the com-
mittee nominations."

Aileen Shortley, '39, says: "I
think that student votes are too
generally influenced by the com-
mittee nominations. I think that
the present system is undemocratic
in nature in that the nominees are
selected by a few people, but I
know no better method to let the
student body know just who is
doing the best work and who is
best fitted for each particular posi-
tion. Those who make the selec-
tions are the ones who really know
them and their work."

Louise Hughston, '40, says: "Our
system is undemocratic now be-
cause the committee nominations
have too much influence. This is
because we don't keep well enough
informed about the various activi-
ties on the campus so as to be
able to vote intelligently without
the influence of the committee
nominations."

Alumnae Bring
Honors to College
In Many Fields "

We are still proud of our alum-
nae! Nellie Margaret Gilroy, '37,
who has a fellowship to Western
Reserve in Cleveland, Ohio, in the
school of Applied Social Science,
recently formulated a cooperative-
living plan which will enable the
students to live cheaper and thus
care for one German refugee.

Our organist, Tommy Ruth
Blackmon, '37, is now broadcasting
over the Gainesville, Florida, radio
station and teaching music, too.
Her organ music is really worth
listening to on Sunday night.

Written up in the sports section
of a Baltimore paper for excellent
work in hockey, we find Helen
(Handte) Morse, '3 6. Helen mo-
tored into Baltimore from Anna-
polis every Sunday afternoon for
the open practices held at Friends
School and played with one of the
league teams in the Baltimore Field
Hockey Association. Interclub
League! Since Helen left Agnes
Scott she has played in the athle-
tic conference matches and against
the All-United States touring
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Students Watch for Lumps

The entire college community was dismayed this morning
to find that the large memorial slab just inside the front
gates of the college was missing and that the gates them-
selves were open wide. The unfortunate occurrence (a practi-

mind of a certain near-by univer-
sity) is being investigated with
haste, and those found guilty may
expect their names to be entered
on the Black List of the Unwor-
thy-to- Visit-Agnes-Scott.

The evil deed evidently was per-
petuated in the dim light of early
morn, for it is reported that the
stone was still in its place as late
as two o'clock, when the freshmen
began to return to the campus with
their escorts. Rivaling the loss of
our dear memorial, upon which so
many have wept bitter tears, was
the opening of the gates. Only a
fiend could have desecrated the
campus by exposing it to the curi-
ous stare of the multitude.

It is hoped that the criminal and
his accomplices (he must have
needed one or two men to help him
lift the stone) will confess soon.
Student Government has made no
definite announcement as yet, but
it is rumored that the members
plan to search every room for a
trace of the missing heritage.

Students are urged to watch

Next Lecturer

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interest to the young ladies of our
campus.

This announcement is undoubt-
edly a gigantic thrill to the one
girl who is responsible for the

MERRY
XMAS

whole. As you probably remember,
last spring the students were asked
to mention the names of two out-
standing people whom they would
enjoy hearing this year. The an-
swers received showed the usual
high intellectual standards of our
institution and we are happy to
announce that we have been able
to meet thus with your sugges-
tions. The young lady who set
down the name of our present
celebrity also mentioned another
popular choice, Adolf Hitler,
whom we are unable to bring here
at the present. But we take the
greatest pleasure in bring to you
another man on the hour in his
very first lecture HARPO
MARX.

Student Stumbles
Upon Hot Bed
Of Corruption

(CENSORED)

Mortar Board Holds
Tryouts - 7 Members

Mortar Board, in its spring try-
outs, admitted seven new mem-
bers this week. The usual rigorous
tryout was given candidates for
admission, the more grueling events
including:

1. Standing in receiving line
eight hours, weight placed equally
on both feet, without visible signs
of strain.

2. Making coffee, washing
dishes, and whipping up a cake in
formal dress without damage to
latter.

3. Being kind to alumnae.

4. Bringing about pleasant
meetings between two hundred un-
identified Agnes Scott freshmen
and twenty-five unidentified but
eligible young men.

carefully all crumbs in their beds
and all lumps in yellow pudding.
It is feared that the relic may have
been chipped into small pieces as
a disguise.

End of Season Sale of Poinsettias
Only slightly the worse for wear.
Very finest specimens of the Phy-
lum Splkrmpgoc, Class Aprkxgh,
Genus Ymnpgr, Species Vlmrbcd.
Grown under careful personal su-
pervision. Apply at greenhouse
behind Science Hall, between hours
of 11 P. M.-3 A. M. Credit: 15
quarter hours.

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Next Lecturer
Is Big Shot

As our last, yet foremost, lec-
turer of the year we are presenting
to our public a man who draws the
envy of Emor yand points other-
wise. For several years it has been
the ambition of all leading literary
enthousiasta to hear him. He has
for some time been known to have
possession of the most striking
opinions of our day, yet heretofore
has declined to make them known
to the public. For that reason and
others too numerous to name, we
feel especially honored to have him
with us at this time.

Coming at the same moment
with a renewed triumph through-
out the country, he will review his
latest vehicle and give some de-
tails of his family life with his
three almost equally famous broth-
ers. He will also discuss to some
extent his musical achievements.
All these attractions in addition to
his own unusual and very fascinat-
ing appearance, should be of great

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CLUB REMEDIES WORLD

Cotillion Club met last Monday
afternoon at a quarter to six
o'clock in the seminar room in the
Library. Current events and their
remedies were the topics of dis-
cussion.

Hail, Thou Queen of Beauty!

Above are the Campus Beauties grouped around their leader, the
Ice Queen. They are preparing for the annual Hey Day fete to be
held soon. The scenario this year is a clever rendition of the story of
Flash Gordon and His Trip to Mars.

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Blushing Belles

Ring Hearts

Of GallantlSwains

Agnes Scott was hostess Wednes-
day night at a beautiful dance,
held in the new ballroom. Lovely
music was furnished by the Am-
ory Paces, and guests were invited
from all the nearby schools. Pearl
Nooginhead, general chairman for
the dance, was attired in a chic
model of black wool, which blend-
ed in with her exquisite brunette
complexion. As a special treat for
our own students, the delicious re-
freshments consisted of rare fruits
of various kinds, including pineap-
ple, peaches, pears, and even a few
bananas. The girls displayed their
usual unselfishness, however, and
gave up all their fruit to the
guests.

The loveliest event of the week
off campus was the PQR dance
given last night at winsome Weor-
gia Wech. Clementine Peachblos-
som was a most popular and gor-
geous belle at this charming affair.
Her exquisite titian beauty was set
off by a bright red dress made in
the latest Paris mode. Also lovely
was Miss Petunia Jones,a dream in
a sophisticated model of brown do-
mestic. Many other Agnes Scott
girls appeared at the ball, modest
and pretty as always, and very
popular indeed!

Back Row

Adolf Hitler's note to Chamber-
lain yesterday apologizing for
swallowing up Czechoslovakia was
not at all a surprise to a world who
has seen his doctors force him on
a lighter diet for his health's sake.
The doctors explained that the
Czech mouth-ful 'had too much
oil, grain, and mineral in it to suit
his digestion. Hitler's note said:
"Now that I realize my mistake, I
beg that you who have such a
model government help me to
cough back up all the land I've
swallowed in the past two years.

King Emanuel's campaign in
Italy to get rid of the cumbersome
problem of over-population is
working beautifully. Since Musso-
lini's voluntary resignation which
he based on his desire for a quiet,
simple family life in a secluded
home. The King, instead of con-
tinuing demands for more land in
Africa from France, has conducted
an extended slaughter of the peo-
ple who are "cluttering up Italian
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Kampus Kuotes

To approach the college com-
munity on the subject as to wheth-
er eggs should be served with the
shell or not is to encounter a ques-
tion of rare importance and feel-
ing. These thoughtful statements
manifest the findings of a repre-
sentative group of students whose
opinions are basically intelligent.

A short blonde shrdlshh young
one of the class of '42 says: "I
think the eggs should be scrambled
with the shell because it gives a
consistency to the breakfast that
we get in no other proportions. It
gives a crunch to the breakfast
which generates activity for the
day."

A tall thin brown headed wise
thing of the class of '41 says: "I
definitely approve of the serving
of the shell with the egg because
it affords a glorious opportunity
for the careful examination of the
fuel giving substance (meaning,
of course, in the language of the

Dear Mother:

Since you seem to be the only one who reads my editorials
anyway, I might just as well save time, stationery, and
stamps by making this a letter to you.

First of all, I'd better warn you I'm sending all of my
summer dresses home to have the hems taken up again. I'm
sure this will be the last time you'll have to shorten them,
as they are almost up to my dainty dimpled knees now. I
guess the next Paris style show will have us lengthening
them what a life! Perhaps you'd better use some sort of
zipper arrangement so the hefns can be taken up or down at
a moment's notice.

By the way, I'm a success at last! Yes sir, I'm to be the
husband of the May Queen. Think of it me and all my
wrinkles, circles under my eyes, and wobbly legs, promenad-
ing about w r ith the campus beauty and her court. What's
more I'll even get to sit with them during the Fete.

This is one thing you didn't expect a college education to
do for me, isn't it? But, when the Committee realize what
they have done, no doubt they'll conceal me beneath a mask,
wig, cloak, etc. Otherwise the reputation of the court will
be seriously at stake.

One of the printers, reading that I was to be Hades in the
scenario, said he'd heard editors called lots of names but this
was the first time he had heard one called that. The nerve
of him!

Well, I've written about 250 words so I guess I can stop
now.

Tell the pater that I would love to see a check with his
signature on it real soon. Of course there's no great hurry
(heh, heh).

Love on the run,

Your Favorite Editor.

The substance of things
hoped for; the evidence of
things not seen (we hope).

This Week's Proverb . . .

The Early Worm Gets the Bird

vulgate: food) which renders the
individual more efficient in the
exercises of analytical matters of
the day."

A reminiscing sophistocated
young lassie of the class of '40
says: "I approve of the system of
preparing eggs with the shell be-
cause it reminds me of glorious
days gone forever when girls were
served each day as an integral part
of the breakfast. I says this be-
cause the egg supplements the ob-
vious absence of such a delicacy in
our morning menu. What I mean
is that I miss the grits and I ap-
prove of them in any form.

A tall red-headed indispensible
personnage of the class of '39 says:
"In view of the present situation
throughout the world, it seems to
me that to serve eggs without the
shell is to engage in an extrava-
gance which is most inconsistent
with the economic trend of world
affairs. After all, we must remem-
ber that it is the vogue of politi-
cal activity to swallow not only
the egg but all that surrounds it.
(N. B. Please notice that I refer
to Hitler's consumption and diges-
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Actress Flynt Reveals

Early Musical, Cooking Talents

The personality of the week is definitely that startling
foreign representative of African Hottentots, Professor
Demon Demon (pronounced Dee-moan Dee-moan) who last
Wednesday held spellbound for three hours an audience com-
posed of the members of Lecture Association and some few
souls who had the necessary wampum and nothing else to do.

The professor spoke with dyna-

mic gestures and enthusiastic
"glubs" upon "Stratification
Among the Hottentots," having
himself been a Hottentot for about
65 years. For the sake of the
freshmen who are intensely out-
line conscious at this time of the
year, he kindly divided his lecture
into two parts, one being on "little
Hottentots" and the other on
"Hottentots that are not quite so
little."

After extending such pearls of
wisdom which he sincerely hoped
we would take home and keep in
the conch shell on the library ta-
ble, the professor graciously con-
consumed coffee with all the Hot-
tentots of our little campus. Those
who are authorities upon the sub-
ject were interested to note that
Professor Demon-Demon used the
"Ford Belt Line" method of hand-
ling the receiving line. This
method requires much exactness
and correct timing for one must

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clasp the hand of one maiden and
at the same time glance over the
top of her head and into the face
of the person immediately follow-
ing with a bored "when did you
escape from Milledgeville" look.

Of further interest to those who
attended the reception were the
Professor's comments upon the
manner in which a few persons
with their accustomed ease were
making great inroads upon the
cookie supply. He skillfully con-
trasted their hethods with those of
like persons in other colleges.

At last the true lovers of Hot-
tenton lore could corner their hero
between the fireplace and the vic-
trola and ask questions to their
hearts' content. That is, they
could ask questions after the de-
bating team had asked a few point-
ed ones upon which they had been
thinking for weeks. Nothing
daunted, the Professor answered
them all and even discussed his
favorite hobbies and his ideal
woman. Upon the foreign situa-
tion he could only say in his ex-
citing foreign manner, "Soo is
Loo," which when interpreted
means "Such is Life."

This is Munro Leaf's
Watchbird
Watching You!

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VOL. XXIV

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1939

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No. 18

Mortar Board Sponsors
Marriage Class for Seniors

Continuing a custom which was begun last year, Mortar
Board's Marriage Class for Seniors will begin this week, it
was announced by Amelia Nickels, president. The first lec-
ture will be given on Friday, April 7, and will be a general
introduction to the course by Dr.
Raper, with emphasis on "Court-
ship and Marriage from a Social
Standpoint."

Other lectures and lecturers are
also announced. On Friday, April
14, Dr. Swanson will speak on
"Anatomy and Physiology of Mar-
riage;" and on Friday, April 21,
on "Courtship and Marriage from a
Physical Standpoint." Dr. Amey
Chappell, noted young Atlanta
doctor, will lecture on "Birth
Control and Pregnancy" the fol-
lowing Thursday, April 27. On
Thursday, May 4, Mrs. Raper will
lecture on "Motherhood," and on
Fnday, May 11, Dr. Raper will
lecture on "Marital Adjustment."

Other subjects to be discussed,
plans for which are not definite as
yet, are "Care of Children,"
"Careers for Married Women,"
and "Budgeting for the Family."

All lectures are to be given at
4:30 o'clock in the Murphey Can-
dler Building. Seniors only are in-
vited to attend.

Alumnae Broadcast
Concerning Professions

Broadcasting on the weekly Ag-
nes Scott program over WSB,
April 14, Mrs. Caroline McKinney
Hill spoke on her work as District
Head of N. Y. A. Government
Social Work. Mrs. Hill is an
alumna of Agnes Scott and has
been in Social Work several years.

On April 1 1 , Miss Joyce Roper,
'3 8, Campus Consultant at Davi-
son-Paxon's Department Store in
Atlanta, will speak of her work.

Freshmen
Debate Schools

Socialized Medicine Is
Topic of Debate Series

On Friday, April 7th, at seven
o'clock, the Agnes Scott fresh-
man debaters will defend the nega-
tive of the proposition, "Resolved,
that the United States should adopt
a system of socialized medicine,"
against the debating team from the
Atlanta Law School. The Agnes
Scott debaters who will take part
in this debate are Suzanne Kaul-
bach and Mary Olive Thomas.

On Wednesday, April 12, at
seven o'clock, two other Agnes
Scott freshman debaters, Jean Beu-
tell and Jane Taylor will defend
the affirmative of the same prop-
osition against the Emory fresh-
man debating team. This debate
will be held in the theology chapel
at Emory.

There will be a dual debate with
Georgia Tech on Friday, April 2 8.
Mary Lightfoot Elcan and Jane
Taylor will defend the affirmative
of the above proposition against
the Georgia Tech team at Agnes
Scott, while Suzanne Kaulbach and
Ida Belle Levie will defend the
negative side against the Tech
team out at Georgia Tech. This
will be a decision debate; three
members of the faculty from the
two schools holding the debate will
serve as judges.

Exec Encourages
Free Student Opinion

Conducting a week of student
expression, April 3-8, Student
Government encourages anyone in-
terested to hand to members of the
executive committee criticism pro
and con of its work during the past
year. In order to help the new stu-
dent officials plan for the next
year, a discussion in chapel Thurs-
day, April 6, will be held in which
students will have a chance to dis-
cuss any suggestion brought up.

Students Give
Easter Drama

At the evening vespers on Sun-
day, April 9th, the Freshman Dra-
matic Group will present a one-
act Easter drama, entitled "The
Eyes of Faith," by Mina Maxfield
and Lena Eggleston.

The cast of characters is Edith
Schwartz, Lady Antonia; Jackie
Illma Stearns; Veta, Antonia's
Greek slave; Ila Belle Levie, Sara;
Jane Coughlan, Rhoda; Mary El-
can, Mary of Nazareth; Jane Tay-
lor, Magdalene; Kathryn Greene,
Mary Cleophas; Neva Jackson,
Margaret Hartsook, and Cornelia
Stuckey, Harpies.

Kay Kennedy, leader of the Dra-
matic Group, is directing the play.

Miss Frances K. Gooch and Miss
Carrie P. Latimer are advisers.

Athletic Federation
Will Meet Here

Virginia Milner Presides
At Georgia Conference,

April 7, 8

Noted Musician Is
First Faculty-Artist Visitor

The first Faculty-Artist Visit at Agnes Scott, part of "a
plan for intersectional interchange to stimulate artistic ac-
tivities in college through visits by those who are identified
with college music, drama, poetry, etc.," will be made April
12-15, when Mr. Frank B. Stratton, of Amherst, Mass., ar-
rives to be a guest on the campus.
Mr. Stratton, who has charge of
music at Massachusetts State Col-
lege, Amherst, has received a Car-
negie Grant-In-Aid, and is on leave
of absence this year for study and
travel.

While at Agnes Scott Mr. Strat-
ton will give a formal piano recital
on the evening of April 13, and at
other times will speak at classes
and be available for individual and
group conferences. He expects to
play a "sequence of seven or eight
short informal programs to large
and small groups wherever they
may conveniently come together,
aiming particularly to show the
"essential vitality" of music and
its connection with our daily lives.
Mr. Stratton is bringing with* him
his clavichord, the ancestor of our
present-day piano, which will be of
particular interest and which he
will use frequently.

Both students and faculty mem-
bers are cordially invited to enjoy
Mr. Stratton and all who wowld
like to make appointments or join
small groups to hear him informal-
ly are asked to communicate with
Mamie Lee Ratliff or Mr. Dieck-
mann.

Agnes Scott will be hostess to delegates from eleven col-
leges this week when the Georgia Athletic Federation of Col-
lege Women holds its tenth annual conference here on April
7th and 8th.

The delegates will arrive on Friday afternoon, when they
will be received in Main building and directed to their rooms

on the campus. On Friday night
the conference will have supper at
Harrison Hut and will hold its
first meeting. Wesleyan, Agnes
Scott, and G. S. C. W. will con-
duct the discussion on "Motivation
for Participation in Different Ac- S
tivities in the Athletic Program."

On Saturday morning, "Sports
Day" will be the subject of discus-
sion, led by Shorter, S. G. T. C,
and LaGrange. The last meeting,
on Saturday afternoon, will take
up "Co-recreation in Various
Forms." A short business meeting,
at which officers will be elected,
will close the conference.

Member colleges, which will be
represented at the convention, are
Bessie Tift, Brenau, Georgia South-
western, Georgia State College for
Women, Georgia State Women's
College, LaGrange, Shorter, South
Georgia Teachers College, Univer-
sity of Georgia, Wesleyan, and Ag-
nes Scott.

Officers presiding at this year's
meeting are: president, Virginia
Milner, of Agnes Scott; secretary-
treasurer, Ruth Hall, of Wesleyan;
council members, Mary Redfearn,
of the University of Georgia; Ruby
Donald, of G. S. C. W., and Lucy
Quillian, of Shorter; faculty ad-
viser,^ Mrs. Mary Ella Lunday
Soule, of the University.

Campus Heads

Get Practical Advice

Smith, Gaylord Give
Special Instruction

In order to orient the newly
elected presidents, Miss Florence
Smith, of the History Department,
will talk this week to the newsread-
ers of the various organizations on
parliamentary law. This project
is being conducted so that the
presidents may become acquainted
with the proper procedure for
conducting meetings. Miss Leslie
Gaylord, of the Mathematics De-
partment, will speak to the newly
elected treasurers, instructing them
how to keep their records in order.

In connection with this pro-
gram, a model open forum will be
conducted in chapel this week.

Campus Leaders for ^39-40

Above are (left to right) Virginia Milner, President of Athletic Association; Frances Breg, Secretary
of Student Government; Henrietta Thompson, President of Student Government; Mary Matthews, Editor
of the Aurora; and Lutie Moore, Editor of the Silhouette. Photo Courtesy Journal.

Banks, Hall Win Prizes

The Silhouette awarded the first
prize of two dollars, for the most
unusual picture, to Betsy Banks.
Second prize was presented to
Eleanor Hall for her shot of a
campus view. Helen Carson's
candid shot won third place.

Students
Choose Leaders
In Recent Elections

In student meetings last Thurs-
day and Friday, the following stu-
dents were elected to head campus
organizations and publications for
next year:

Student Government Presi-
dent, Henrietta Thompson; Vice-
President, Carolyn Forman.

House Presidents Rebekah,
Harriette Stimson; Main, Mary
Lang Gill; Inman, Grace Ward;
Secretary, Frances Breg; Treasurer,
Jean Dennison; Student Recorder,
Polly Heaslett; Student Treasurer,
Ruth Eyles.

Christian Association Presi-
dent, Katherine Patton; Vice-
President, Sophie Montgomery;
Secretary, Grace Walker; Treasur-
er, Scotty Wilds.

{Continued on Page 2, Column 4)

Dobbs and Weinkle
Debate Florida Team

p.

Meeting what Dr. George
Hayes, debate coach, terms as
"probably the stiffest competition
of the year," Mary Louise Dobbs
and Doris Weinkle will debate a
team from the University of Flor-
ida on Monday evening, April 10,
in Gaines Chapel. Agnes Scott will
uphold the affirmative of the ques-
tion, "Resolved, that the United
States should cease to use public
funds to stimulate business."

2

THE AGONISTIC, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1939

New C. A. Cabinet CAMPUS CELEBRITY

Begins Work
After Installation

With the transference of crosses
from the former to the new mem-
bers of the Christian Association,
new officers were installed yester-
day morning in chapel. Katherine
Patton, the new president, spoke
following ^ worship service and
brief talk by the outgoing presi-
dent, Douglas Lyle.

Cabinet members were appoint-
ed by a joint session of old and
new officers, several changes be-
ing made in the scope of cabinet
duties.

The two cabinets and this year's
council met jointly Tuesday eve-
ning in Main to close the work of
this year's staff. The new council
will be appointed soon.

Eta Sigma Phi Entertains
Guest Speaker

Mrs. Francis Dwyer, of Atlanta,
will be the guest speaker at the
Eta Sigma Phi meeting next Mon-
day afternoon at 4:3 0 in the Mur-
phey Candler Building. She was
responsible for getting the old Ag-
nes Scott classical society into the
national Eta Sigma Phi. After her
talk, election of officers for the
coming year will take place.

Campus Psychiatrist
Confesses Love for Hawaii

By ANNE ENLOE

Maybe you feel that you're a long way from home, but
think of Dr. Swanson she was born and raised in Troy,
Montana, and grew up among the timber wolves and moun-
tain lions. So imagine how much at home she would feel to
see the wolf at her door ! Instead she has Hottentots on her
trail and Emory boys, too. But she

drills them with psychiatry and
they love it. For besides being the
guardian of the campus health, she
is also a member of the Emory
medical faculty.

But going back to her earlier
days she first made use of the
Viking spirit that she inherited
from her Swedish parents by con-
quering the seven other members
of her high school graduating
class and emerging from the fray
as the victorious valedictorian. She
has a ready explanation for this,
saying that she was so much
younger than the rest of her class
that there was nothing for her to
do but study; she was ignored by
her elders in all other phases of
school life.

By the time she was graduated
from the University of Oregon
Med. school several years later
after having spent two years each

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at Montana State College and the
University of Washington she
had developed both physically and
socially and was able to refrain
from her studies to the extent of
graduating in the exact middle of
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Before reaching the college
stage of her life she had had a lit-
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profession. Her first great ambi-
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the idea fascinated her, but she
decided finally to give up the
glamorous life and be a doctor.
She really decided this when she
was very young and spent much of
her time nursing her ill mother.
Since there was no medical aid
available in the little mining town
where the family lived, she realized
what a wonderful thing it would
be to save lives and ease suffering,
and that decided for her her
future.

Emory is not Dr. Swanson's
first teaching experience. Oh, no.
She taught five years before enter-
ing med. school. She taught
"everything but physical ed., sing-
ing, and art," but chiefly sciences
and math. At Emory she is engag-
ed in teaching the phase of medi-
cine she loves best of all, psychia-
try. And she adds that even after
having taught them she considers
Southern boys almost as nice as
Southern girls.

Dr. Swanson comes to us from
the Shepherd and Enoch Pratt
Hospital in Baltimore, where she
went after having served her in-
terneship at the Cleveland City
Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio.

Speaking of the best time she
ever had in her life, she tells about
the summer she had in Hawaii
combining a visit with some medi-
cal work. Since coming here she
says she has mentioned doing the
traditional dance of the islands
but has been restrained by the
shocked looks on her friends* faces.

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{Continued from Page 1)

Silhouette Editor, Lutie Moore;
Business Manager, Nell Pinner;
Advertising Manager, Helen
Klugh.

Aurora Editor, Mary Mat-
thews; Assistant Editor, Sabine
Brumby; Business Manager, Eliza-
beth Davis.

Agnes Scott News Editor,
Eleanor Hutchens; Managing Ed-
itor, Evelyn Baty; Assistant Ed-
itor, Elaine Stubbs; Assistant Ed-
itor, Gene Slack; Business Manager,
Mary Louise Dobbs; Advertising
Manager, Florence Ellis.

Athletic Association President,
Virginia Milner; Vice-President,
Helen Carson; Secretary, Anne
Fisher; Treasurer, Frances Sprat-
lin.

Lecture Association President,
Margaret Hopkins; Treasurer,
Mary Virginia Brown.

May Day Chairman, Eloise
Lennard.

Mell, Raper Attend

Sociological

Conference

The fourth annual conference
of the Southern Sociological Socie-
ty met in Atlanta on March 31
through April 1. Mildred R. Mell
and Arthur F. Raper, of \ Agnes
Scott College, were on the Com-
mittee of Local Arrangements;
they provided the means by which
others attending the meeting
might visit places of interest in
Atlanta and vicinity.

All meetings, except business
sessions, were open to the public.
At one of the sectional meetings
Miss Mell spoke on "Class Names
As Indices of Cultural Isolation in
the South."

Debaters Rate
Third in Bout

Hopkins, Merlin
Counter Home Defeat

Being rated third in the women's
division of the Southeastern De-
bate Tourney at Baton Rouge,
March 2 8-30, receiving the deci-
sion in one part of the dual debate
with Newcomb College of New
Orleans, and putting up a keen op-
position in the other part of the
dual debate was the record made
by Agnes Scott forensic teams in
their engagements last week.

Margaret Hopkins and Mar-
jorie Merlin, Pi Alpha Phi's first
team to enter the tourney, won
five of their seven debates, losing
to the teams which placed first
and second, Baylor University and
Southern Methodist, respectively.

In the dual debate with New-
comb College, March 31, Margaret
and Marjorie, upholding at New
Orleans the negative of the ques-
tion: "Resolved, that world de-
mocracies should form an alliance
to preserve democracy, were judg-
ed the winners of the fray.

At Agnes Scott on the same
night, Arlene Steinbach and Ann
Henry were defeated by New-
comb's negative team, composed of
Janice Ginsburg and Elsie Field.

Judges of the debate here were
Dr. Arthur G. Fort, Professor
Glenn W. Rainey, of Georgia
Tech, and Professor William B.
Stubbs, of Emory.

Mrs. Cullen B. Gosnell, former
Agnes Scott varsity debater, was
chairman.

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Success Methods Vary from
Baby-Kissing to Violet Cologne

By ALICE CHEESEMAN

Elected they are, and the excitement's over. But not the
thrill. 'To what do you attribute your success?" Is the con-
stant question in the ears of these, the people's choice, your
officers for next year.

With this thought in mind, we the people set out to find
out all the gfecrets, preferably without asking the threadbare
interrogation. And so, when we ~~
met Milner, inching up the stairs
. . . one by one . . . backwards,
with her appendectomy, we didn't
even drop a hint about what we
wanted to know . . . angels forbid
pointblankly putting such a ques-
tion! We just let her run on,
"Well, you see, when I was in the
hospital, I had a chance to kiss all
the babies before anybody else . .

Next, we stopped by Hut-
chens' room to continue this sur-
reptitious investigation. And
there was Eleanor, having whisked
back a lock to accommodate some
nose drops, reclined in meditation
. . . and agony. Oh sniff! She was
miserable. The little radio, too, was
quiet and subdued. Even the little
red barrel was not as bright as us-
ual. Oh bercy, bud she had a code!
With sympathetic, but dampened,
spirits we made an exit . . . and
sneezed very quietly in the hall.

We sat down on the steps . . .
contemplating the infirmary by
now. But "with double shotted
gun and colors nailed unto the
mast," we determined to flag down
from that situation a few of the
other public figures whose success
stories are the "central idea" of
the day. Not a soul came over the
horizon. We were sunk!

This catastrophy stimulated vig-
orous mental actfvity (!), and we
decided to interview these people
who weren't there just as though
we didn't notice . . . very calmly.

Carolyn Forman. Now there's
a fine executive for. you! . . . self-
willed and enthusiastic, she dons
her little red scull-cap for hard
work like Mardi Gras floats, and
for' precise thinking like a Keats'
papers. "She was the first person
I met when I got to Agnes
Scott . . .," Hutchens was saying.

And as for Henrietta Thomp-
son, she's happy about "cam-
pusses," too. We gazed at her pic-
ture on Anne Enloe's mantel until
presently we had no trouble decid-
ing "to what to attribute" Henri's
success: her chin and her platinum
locks, undeniable as they be. Her
philosophy is also worth noting:
when bored stiff, sit graciously and
with quiet demeanor, and sketch

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Henri's present position on the
humble crutch, . . . and decided to
hobble over to Lupton, where we'd
be certain not to find Kat Patton or
Hat Stimson. "Horatio," the
thorough-going, sea-going mammal
pet of Kat's was the greeting com-
mittee, besides Hat herself. Hora-
tio was a bit deflated, and Har-
riette was not at all in-flated about
her success (modest thing), and
so, we were left to our own con-
clusions about Lupton success
stories. Hat undoubtedly owes all
that she is to sight singing, which
has served admirably to bring out
in her qualities for which she had
never even wished, . . . for which
she would never even think of hop-
ing! Gracious sakes! Well, . . .
and Kat's success comes in bottles,
instead of in bar form. She never
leaves the room without a drop of
violet cologne, no matter what the
hurry.

Well, to all the up-coming lead-
ers, congratulations! The campus
salutes you.

Mackie Discusses Europe

Mr. Robert Mackie, general sec-
retary of the World Student
Christian Federation, is to speak in
chapel April 11. His talk will be
on the situation in Europe. Mr.
Mackie is one of the leading Christ-
ian young people in America today.

B. S. U. Spring Retreat
To Be At Mercer

Agnes Scott will be represented
next week-end, April 7-8, when
the State B. S. U. Spring Retreat
opens at Mercer University in
Macon. Among the feature speak-
ers on the program are Dr. W. E.
Howard, pastor of the First Bap-
tist Church, LaGrange, Georgia,
and Mr. William Hall Preston,
Associate Southern Secretary for
B. S. U. Cary Wheeler, Ann Fish-
er, Mary Reins, Eugenia Bridges,
Frieda Copeland, Mary Virginia
Brown, Mary McPhaul, and Betty
Kyle are among those planning to
attend.

Mortar Board Will
Elect Saturday

Addressing the students and
faculty on the general topic of
scholarship, Miss Lucille Alexander,
head of the French Department,
will speak at the Mortar Board
Announcements Saturday in chap-
el. Amelia Nickels, president of
the 1938-39 chapter of Mortar
Board, will read the list of those
elected to the 1939-40 chapter.

On Saturday the new members
will be initiated at a secret meet-
ing, after which they will be hon-
ored at a dinner at the Candler
Hotel.

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Miller, and Miss Jeanne Matthews
leave the campus next week to at-
tend the annual Southeastern Bio-
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held this year at Duke University,
Durham, N. C, on April 14 and
15. Representatives from colleges
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It may be just the lull before a storm really breaks and the
dances fall where they may but at any rate this has been
a rather quiet week.

The K. A.'s did what they
could to relieve the monotony and
gave a "Yachting Party;" some of
the sea-going sailors from out De-
catur way were Susan Goodwyn,
Toni Newton, Charlene Burke,
Margaret Wells, Nell Pinner, Ella
Muzzey, Mitzi Sanders, Martha
Watkins, Ellen Stuart, Emma Mc-
Mullen, Lib Davis, Eugenia
Bridges, Mary Helen Stuart, Flor-
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Mary Robertson, Elizabeth Jen-
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Playing around at the S. A. E.
skating party were Val Neilson,
Marty Doak, Elizabeth Reynolds,
Eloise Lennard, Keeker Newton,
Martha Dunn, Sara Rainey.

Annette Franklin, Catherine
Ivie, Mary Jane Bannister, Mary
Clay Price, Dixie Woodford, all
were out dancing at the Beta Kap-
pa formal Friday night; while Ella
Muzzey, Helen Klugh and Snooks
Moss were out with the Chi Phis.

Elsie York, Penn Hammond,

Doris Dalton and Gladys Carr
went on a weiner roast Saturday
night.

A welcome back to the campus
to Shirley Armentrout who is vis-
iting Betty Embry and Grace Eliz-
abeth Anderson. Marion Franklin
and Ann Millican deserted the local
talent this week-end and attended
Little Commencement at Mercer.

Those ever-popular Sigma Nu's
made their usual quota at the
Sigma Nu formal were Susan Self,
Betty Waitt, Libby Ruprecht, Val
Nielson, Barbara Lee Murlin, Sara
Lee, Mary Bon Utterbach, Jeanne
Allen, and Ida Jane Vaughn and
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supper Sunday night were Betty
Waitt, Susan Self, Mary Bon Ut-
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THE AGONISTIC

Editorials

features

Vol. XXIV, No. 18
Wednesday, April 5, 1939

Front Row

By JANE SALTERS

Chamberlain pledges full British
support of Warsaw in the event of
any action clearly threatening
Polish independence, declares
French support on same basis,
both promises to apply only during
the present period of consultations
in other capitals. Poland, accept-
ing the pledges as unconditional,
informs Hitler that any military
backing of Nazi revolts in Danzig
will be received as casus belli.

France vouches for Britain's
pledge by commercial treaties with
Poland, Rumania, and Yugoslavia,
while Poland and Rumania agree to
modernize their military alliance
by extending it to oppose Ger-
many, thus forming one link in the
"Stop Hitler" movement of anti-
Nazi Europe.

Japan reaches 700 miles south of
Hainan for the seven Spratley
Islands, small land groups of coral
formation half way between Man-
ila and Singapore, and begin activ-
ity at Saipan, an island only 70
miles from Guam, to build a com-
mercial air service to Yokohama.
The Philippines are thus being sur-
rounded steadily by Japanese mili-
tary and naval bases and spheres
of influence.

A secret document now under ex-
amination for authenticity at
Buenos Aires reveals Nazi plot to
annex Patagonia, Argentina's
southernmost province a scheme
denied positively by the Third
Reich.

Negotiations in regard to Cham-
berlain's scheme of surrounding
Germany with a solid bloc of anti-
Nazi machinery draw into the in-
ternational limelight the combina-
tion of England, France, Yugosla-
via, Rumania, Poland, Russia, and
Turkey in earnest consultations of
perhaps extreme historical import.

Undemocratic? Where We Stand

Campus
Quotes

By GEORGIA HUNT

Are interclass dormitories the
thing for Agnes Scott? Will they
help to stimulate class spirit or
will they help to create a deeper
school feeling?

Tine Gray, '41, says: "I think
it's all right to have interclass dor-
mitories, if it's necessary. But it
doesn't stimulate class spirit and
there is no opportunity for enthusi-
astic pep meetings. The present
system of having a few older girls
in a dormitory is helpful. After
all, your best friends should be in
your own class."

Virginia Montgomery, '42, says:
"I like the system as it is now with
a few upper-classmen in the dormi-
tory. Since there isn't much time
to know the members of our own
class, I think that we should not
be all mixed up. Getting to know
the people of our own class seems
to me to be more important."

Eleanor Hutchens, '40, says: "I
think that as long as we have so
many interclass activities and as
long as the classes feel themselves
to be units, as the case is here,
that interclass dormitories would
tend to lessen a spirit which is de-
sirable. Freshmen and sophomores
learn cooperation through class
activities. By the time they are
upper-classmen their activities
concern the whole school so that
juniors and seniors no longeivfeel
sharply separated from each other.
I approve of our present arrange-
ment."

Alice Cheeseman, '39, says: "I
do not approve of interclass dormi-
tories. I think particularly in the
case of freshmen it would be un-
wise because they would have no
chance to know and learn each
other. I think that they should be
together and develop a group
spirit before they go on farther in
their college careers more of this
group spirit is what the campus
needs. So as far as this question
is concerned I say. 'Birds of a
feather should flock together.' "

Since the election last week when the
majority of girls suggested by the nomi-
nating committee were put into office,
there have been many accusations that
the voting was undemocratic. The feeling
has been spread abroad that when the stu-
dent body votes in accord with these com-
mittee nominations, we are losing our
freedom, we are allowing a small group to
dictate our choices.

Such a feeling is completely without
basis. Favoring the committee nominee is
not an act to be frowned upon it is, in
most cases, an act to be praised, and being
guided by the committee's suggestion is
highly desirable.

Perhaps some of us have misunderstood
the purpose and function of the commit-
tee. Primarily, it aims to bring to the at-
tention of the student body the names of
those people who seem best suited for the
various campus offices. It does not at-
tempt to control the elections; it rather
tries to guide them. To form a political
oligarchy is not the purpose of the group.

Nor does the group resemble an oli-
garchy in any way. The members of the
committee are representatives of all the
major organizations on the campus. Thus,
the committee is fundamentally demo-
cratic.

Each nomination is made only by the
unanimous approval of the committee. And
each nomination comes as a result of
thoughtful consideration of all possible
candidates. No committeeman is able to
push through the nomination of a girl
who is unfitted for the given position.

Realizing this, then, we cannot call the
past election undemocratic. The voting
adhered closely to the committee's sugges-
tions, and the voting was open and uncon-
trolled. For a student to vote in keeping
with the committee nominations is not un-
wise. This is not lowering our election
standards; indeed, it is raising them.

Editorial Notes

As founder of the G. A. F. C. W., Agnes
Scott welcomes the organization to the
campus this week-end and wishes the dele-
gates a most successful convention.

Be sure to attend chapel Saturday morn-
ing the new Mortar Board chapter will
be announced then.

The laurel wreath of the week goes to
Pi Alpha Phi and its able debaters. They
gave new glory to the college by their ex-
cellent showing in the Southeastern De-
bate Tournev.

With this issue the Agonistic makes its
final appearance on the campus and pre-
pares to give way to its successor, The
Agnes Scott News. And with this issue,
we who have been serving on the paper
prepare to relinquish our positions to the
new staff.

Before looking to the future, however,
it is good to check up on past aims and ac-
complishments and to see where we stand
now.

The major aim of the editorial staff this
year has been to change the name of the
paper. After several months' persistent
work, we can proudly say that we arrived
at this goal.

Over-organization ranks second among
our editorial drives. Christian Association
has seen its duplication of cabinets and has
reorganized its groups. The points sys-
tem has been thoroughly studied and re-
vised. Club memberships have been lim-
ited to three, and possible presidencies
held by any one girl have been reduced to
one.

There has also been a decided improve-
ment in student awareness to the campus
and its problems. Particularly through the
new Campus Quotes column and open
forums in chapel more intelligent student
discussions have been encouraged. Voting
is on a new plane; debates, lectures, and
plays are receiving better support. We
have awakened out of our mental sluggish-
ness.

In regard to dormitory conditions, we
sadly admit that we have achieved very
little. Student Government is considering
a revision of the present lights system.
But, so far, nothing has been done about
the need for more telephones. Perhaps, if
students continue their demand, an inves-
tigation of the situation will be started in
ten years or so.

Most of all, however, we have tried to
bring improvements to this paper. Trying
to keep abreast of modern trends, we have
continued the stream-lined typography,
increased the feature material, and start-
ed a column for brief editorial comment.

The class Agonistic contests have been
replaced by a scheme for apprentice editor-
ships. And the position of Managing Edi-
tor has been created to divide the previous
work of the Editor.

For the future, the most encouraging
note is the possibility of a six-page paper
each week. Whether or not that goal will
be realized depends upon the student re-
sponse to the silver contest now being
sponsored by the business staff.

We believe that this newspaper is on
the threshold of a greater day. And, hop-
ing that we have contributed something
to this progress, we take our farewell, say-
ing it has been fun!

Sl)e Agonistic p ara de of Opinion

Agnes Scott College Student Newspaper

Vol. 24

Wednesday, April 5

No. 18

Mary Frances Guthrie
Editor

Evelyn Baty
Mary Reins
Assistant Editors

Elizabeth Kenney
Copy Editor

Rebecca Drucker
Assistant Copy Editor

STAFF

J-ane Salters
Current History

Eleanor Hutchens
Sports Editor

Hazel Solomon
Exchange Editor
Jeannette Carroll
Alumnae Editor
Selma Steinbach
Club Editor 1

Marie Merrltt
Business Manager Hayden Sanford

t i t> kk Elolse Lennard

Mary Louise Dobbs Florence Ellis

Advertising Manager Society Editors

Alice Cheeseman Vlrplnia Farrar

Mary * ells McNeill Eleanor Hall

Feature Editors Dorothy Graham

Anne Enloe Beth Paris

Georpla Hunt Oule Smith

Assistant Feature Editors Circulation Managers

REPORTERS: M. L. GUI. V. J. Watklns. C. K. Hutchins.
P. Heaslett. M. Merlin. 1). Wrinkle. B. Alderman. J. Witman.
M. Hie, L. Franklin. .1. fates. S. Lee. C. Willis. P. Hammond.
E. Stubbs. E. McCall. B. Coleman. S. Self. J. Lancaster. E.
Barren. G. Ihurgan. A. Chambless. R. McElwaney. V. Wat-
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BUSINESS STAFF: B. ColemaB, M. E. Leavltt. M. Watkins.
L. Sale. W. Howard. W. Finger. L. Schwenke, Florence
Graham. F Ellis.

By Associated Collegiate Press

Collegians last week continued their vigorous
denunciation of Hitler and his continued drive
against the weaker nations of eastern Europe.
Many urge one plan or another for the formation
of a stop Hitler movement a movement that
most believe is paramount to the continued life
of the democratic nations.

The Oberlin College Review stated the current
position of the college newspaper editorial writers
in this way: "We cannot censure too severely the
weak-kneed bowing and scraping and the magna-
nimous sacrifices of other peoples which the
French and English governments have made. So
long as the desire for peace and our own security
is uppermost in our minds, we can hardly hope
that more will come out of the rumored four-
power conference to stop Hitler than more guar-
antees."

But, as most collegians believe, only time will
tell the future of Europe and of democracy
throughout the world!

Random Notes
From the Pen
Of a Debater

At the time neither of us could
understand why anyone should
look rather amazed at finding two
apparently normal college girls in
heated discussion about the state of
democracy in Lithuania. It was
all extremely serious business. The
newspapers were vitally important.
Our train, which appeared to be
addicted to picking up hitchhikers
every two blocks, was continually
stopping just beside innocent by-
standers reading news eternally
headlined "Hitler . . ." and de-
signed to throw two near sighted
debaters into convulsions. And
then at the most crucial moment
in Europe's history a bridge wash-
ed out somewhere and put even
Hitler on the back page and we
were forced to begin buying the
papers.

Nothing But Water

Louisiana is a strange flat, wet
place. Never will I forget my
damp horror as I looked out the
window of the sleeper one night
and saw, when my eyes finally ac-
cepted it, nothing, nothing but
water. Should I wake Marjorie
and warn her not to "look now but
we're afloat." Ghastly thought.
Trains were so heavy. One could
never depend on their keeping a
reasonable distance from the bot-
tom. And New Orleans was prob-
ably an island anyway.

It turned out to be a canal in-
stead. With houses hunched cur-
iously over the streets and practi-
cally bumping their heads to stare
down at us. We hurried on to
Baton Rouge.

Four Frays Per Diem

Our hotel room looked out on
nothing less impressive than the ex-
panse of the Mississippi and two
oil wells. The ferry boats carried
on all day performance for our en-
tertainment. They needn't have
bothered. Four debates in one day
leaves little to be desired. And just
to add to the fun they had us
change sides every debate. That
was bad. Just as I would be about
to clamp down on a point with a
". . . but we of the . . ." my mind
would run into a maze and leave
me no idea which side I was on
affirmative or negative. Usually
the judge could remember if the
opposition couldn't either.

L. S. U. Mass Production

Louisiana State University im-
pressed us beyond words and
that's chronic with debaters. One
day as we were driving about the
campus we saw a group of build-
ings rather to one side, and asked
a native what they were. He
thought a moment and told us he
thought it was "part of the depart-
ment of sugar chemistry." That's
mass production for you. They
could probably slip all of Agnes
Scott into one quarter course in
argumentation.

The way my work is rushing at
me I feel as though I'd gotten on
another of those one way streets in
Baton Rouge with me in the
minority as to which way the
"one-way" goes. The only thing to
do now is to back up.

By MARGARET HOPKINS.

The Agnes Scott News

VOL. XXIV

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 1939

Z115

No. 19

Above are pictured the ten Juniors whose admission into Mortar Board was announced in chapel Sat-
urday, April 8. Left to right, front row, are Carolyn Forman, Birmingham; Katherine Patton, Abingdon,
Virginia; Ruth Slack. Decatur, and Margaret Hopkins, Gainesville, Florida. Second row, left to right,
are Evelyn Baty, Birmingham; Lutie Moore, Barnes ville, Georgia; Eleanor Hutchens, Huntsville, Ala-
bama; Sophie Montgomery, Hwaian Fu, China; and Jane Moses, Chattanooga, Tennessee. Top right is
Henrietta Thompson, Atlanta.

Leading Juniors Receive
Admission to Motor Board

Records of New Members
Reveal Numerous Activities

Ten juniors received Mortar Board scrolls in the honor fra-
ternity's chapel service April 8 as the retiring chapter,
headed by Amelia Nickels, turned its functions over to its
1939-1940 successors. The campus leaders thus recognized
for service, leadership, and scholar-

ship are: Evelyn Baty, Agnes Scott
Neu/s managing editor for next
year; Carolyn Forman, newly-
elected vice president of Student
Government; Margaret Hopkins,
'39-'40 president of Lecture Asso-
ciation; Eleanor Hutchens, new ed-
itor of the Agnes Scott News;
Sophie Montgomery, vice president
of next year's Christian Associa-
tion; Lutie Moore, editor of the
1940 Silhouette; Jane Moses, rec-
reational chairman on the new
C. A. cabinet; Katherine Patton,
president of Christian Association
for next year; Ruth Slack, presi-
dent of new Mortar Board; and
Henrietta Thompson, recently in-
stalled president of Student Gov-
ernment.

Selection of thfl? new Hoasc
Chapter of Mortar Board was made
before the spring elections and was
based on each student's record of
service, leadership, and scholarship
during her first three years in col-
lege.

Evelyn Baty has served as "Agonistic"
reporter, contributor to "Aurora," mem-
ber French club, president of Freshman
Bible Class, member K. U. B., book editor
freshman "Agonistic," member Eta Sigma
Phi, member Spanish Club, vice president
K. U. B.. "Agonistic" Club editor, member
B. O. Z.. member sophomore Y- cabinet,
and assistant editor of "Agonistic."

Carolyn Forman's record shows her to
have been : member freshman Y cabinet,
member hockey varsity, freshman hiking
manager, member Pen and Brush, member
Swimming Club, member hiking sqaud.
member Tennis Club, member freshman

{Continued on Page 2, Column 1 )

Frosh Debaters
Meet Teams
From Tech, Emory

On Friday evening at eight
^o'clock in the chapel, Jane Taylor
and Mary Lightfoot Elcan will
present the affirmative side of a
dual decision debate against two
freshmen from the Georgia Tech
debating team. The subject is "Re-
solved: That the several states
should enact legislation providing
for complete medical care at pub-
lic expense." Suzanne Kaulbach and
Ila Belle Levie will go to Tech to
present the negative side of the de-
bate. Dr. Davidson, Miss Alexan-
der and Miss Laney will judge at
Agnes Scott, and three Tech pro-
fessors will judge at Georgia Tech.

New Cabinet Members
Plan Retreat

The new cabinet of Christian
Association will have a retreat at
Harrison Hut Saturday, April 29,
to make plans for the work of the
rest of this quarter and for next
year. They will have as their
guests the new faculty advisers,
Miss Helen Carlson, Dr. Philip
Da vidson, and Dr. Schuyler Christ-

Agonistic Gets
First Honors
In ACP Ratings

Paper Gains Position
Among Four Best
In Home State

The 193 8-1939 Agonistic, edited
by Mary Frances Guthrie, has re-
ceived first honor rating among
college newspapers throughout the
nation, according to the Associated
Collegiate Press grading announced
this week.

Topped by only three newspa-
pers of its class in the country, the
Agonistic is listed with twelve
other papers in its division which
achieved first honor rating. This
places the Agonistic among the
four foremost college nswapepers
in Georgia; the Emory Wheel and
the University of Georgia Red and
Black lead with All-American rat-
ing, and the Stormy Petrel , of
Oglethorpe University, shares first
honor rating.

Last year's Agonistic drew a sec-
ond class honor rating/

Rotarians Entertain
Agnes Scott Daughters

The " daughters of Rotary Club
members of Agnes Scott were
guests at a luncheon given by the
Atlanta Rotary Club on Monday,
April 24. The program was furn-
ished by Jane Moses, Cary Wheeler,
Flora McGuire, Mary Bell, Alta
Webster, and the special chorus.
Jane spoke on the subject, "What
(^an We Expect of Rotary," while
Cary told "What Rotary Means to
the Daughter of a Rotarian."

Whetsell Becomes
National Student Leader

Student Federation Acquires
First Woman Officer

While she was detained in the kitchen talking to a major,
Mary Ellen Whetsell was elected president of the Southeast-
ern Region of the National Student Government Federation
of America at a convention held at the Citadel in Charleston,
South Carolina, the week-end of

April 21. She was elected by unani-
mous vote.

Mary Ellen, the first woman
executive of the Southeastern Re-
gion, was last year chairman of the
woman's division of student gov-
ernment for the Southern Federa-
tion. Next year she will attend an
executive meeting in New York,
in order to plan N. S. F. A. work
for the coming year, and to decide
on a location for next year's Christ-
mas' Convention.

Negro Choir Appears
In Recital Here

Christian Association is sponsor-
ing the recital of the negro choir
of the Thankful Baptist Church, in
the Bucher Scott gymnasium
Thursday night, April 27, at 8:30
o'clock. The choir, which is com-
posed of about twenty-five mixed
voices, is to be presented by James
Rudolph Bussex, an employee of
the college. Admission is twenty-
five cents.

Freshmen Plan
Frolic for Class

At a house meeting in Inman the
freshmen planned a Frolic for Sat-
urday, April 28, in order that
boarders and day students might
become better acquainted. All
cottage boarders and day students
are invited to spend the night with
the Inman dwellers. The entire
freshman class will be able to eat
dinner and Sunday breakfast to-
gether. After dinner there will be
a Gambol on the Green, in which
groups strive for a mysterious
prize. While everything else is re-
stricted to freshmen, the Gambol
on the Green at the hockey field is
open to anyone who brings a dime.
Lemonade will be served.

Actress Flynt
Wins Award

Climaxing the 193 8-39 dramatic
season was the announcement Sat-
urday night of the Claude S. Ben-
nett award for the most outstand-
ing performances of the year to
Jeanne Flynt, retiring president of
Blackfriars. The silver cup, which
is given each year by Mr. Bennett
to the season's most talented ac-
tress, was presented by Dr. Mc-
Cain at the close of The Green
Vine. The award went to Jeanne
last year also. Honorable mention
went to Evelyn Sears and to Helen
Moses.

Jeanne, who thrilled audiences
as the heroine of Stage Door and
of Dreant of an August Night, is
one of the most versatile actresses
in the history of Blackfriars. Eve-
lyn, who filled the role of come-
dienne in all three of the season's
productions, has added much to the
comic elements by her dry humor.
To Helen, who appeared in Stage
Door and The Green Vine, goes
credit for two excellent perform-
ances.

In making the award, Dr. Mc-
Cain complimented Miss Gooch
and Blackfriars for a successful
season and "for producing three
such capable actresses."

Emory Faculty Member
Broadcasts May 2

The Agnes Scott radio program
for Tuesday, April 2 5, had as guest
Miss Carolyn McKinney Hill,
alumna of Agnes Scott. Miss Hill,
who is district head of N. Y. A.
social work, talked about her work.

Miss Evangeline Papageorge, a
member of the faculty of the
School of Medicine at Emory Uni-
versity, will be the guest speaker
on the program on Tuesday,
May 2.

Dr. Christian Wins Fellowship
For Scientific Research

Dr. Schuyler M. Christian, pro-
fessor of physics and astronomy,
received announcement Monday of
the award of a fellowship by the
General Education Board for the
summer 6f 1940, to study the His-
tory of Science in the South. The
work will consist principally of an
investigation of records and peri-
odicals at the University of Vir-
ginia, Duke University, the Uni-
versity of North Carolina, Charles-
ton, and New Orleans, with per-
haps visits to the laboratories and
libraries of several other southern

The results expected from the
study are: a survey of what scien-
tific work has been accomplished
in the South; sorne reasons why it
has been so scanty, and the oppor-
tunity for the future of science in
this section. The experiment will
be employed in the teaching of
History of Science, which has been
inaugurated at Agnes Scott and
Emory during the past; four years.

Dr. Christian's achievements in
science have also secured for him a
grant from the Georgia Academy
of Science for an experimental re-
(Con tinned on Page 3, Column 2)

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THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 1939

Mortar Board

(Continued from Page 1)

basketball squad, secretary-treasurer fresh-
man class, member Bible Class, president
sophomore class, treasurer of Student Gov-
ernment Association, member Eta Sigma
Phi. member Chi Beta Phi Sigma, and
winner of hockey stick.

Margaret Hopkins has been active as:
member Pi Alpha ^hi. member Black-
friars, secretary Pi Alpha Phi, member
Industrial j?roup. member intercollegiate
debate team, president Pi Alpha Phi, win-
ner of debate cup.

Eleanor Hutchens has served as : "Ago-
nistic" reporter, business manager fresh-
man "Agonistic." member Eta Sigma Phi.
member K. U. B., editor sophomore "Ago-
nistic," sophomore tennis manager, mem-
ber sophomore stunt writing committee,
publicity manager on Athletic Board,
sports editor "Agonistic," second vice
president K. U. B., member campaign en-
tertainment committee.

Sophie Montgomery has been : member
freshman Y cabinet, member Bible Club,
member sophomore Y cabinet, sophomore
representative on big cabinet, member
sophomore Commission. member choir,
member B. 0. Z., member hockey varsity
chairman sophomore stunt writing com-
mittee, secretary Christian Association.

Lutie Moore has acted as : student gov-
ernment representative, member sopho-
more Y cabinet, sophomore member Lec-
ture Association, member French Club,
member "Silhouette" staff.

Jane Moses has served as : member Glee
Club and Special Chorus, captain class
basketball team two years, basketball var-
sity two years. Proctor, member Black-
friars, business manager freshman stunt,
lead in Opera two years, lead in sopho-
more stunt, sophomore Y cabinet. Christ-
ian Association cabinet member, sopho-
more hiking manager. Eta Sigma Phi,
May Day.

Katherine Patton has been : member
freshman Y cabinet, member Pi Alpha
Phi. member freshman debate team, vice
president freshman Bible Class, member
debate team, member hiking squad, secre-
tary Christian Association.

Ruth Slack's record shows her as : mem-
ber choir, member freshman, sophomore,
junior basketbajl teams ; freshman class
president, freshman Y cabinet member,
secretary freshman Bible Class, stunt cos-
tume manager, sophomore representative
to executive committee of Student Govern-
ment, member Pen and Brush, member
Tennis Club, member Current History
Forum, stunt decorations manager, tennis
instructor, sophomore and junior hockey
teams, member Presbyterian Union, treas-
urer A. A.

Henrietta Thompson has been : member
Student Government Executive Committee,
hockey and basketball class teams three
years, make-up editor freshman "Agonis-
tic." Girls' High representative for High
School Day, sophomore stunt chairman,
member Pen and Brush, member Eta Sig-
ma Phi. member Industrial group, mem-
ber Bible Club, member Current History
Forum, and secretary Student Government
Association.

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Dryfoos Announces
Ping Pong Tourney

Jane Dryfoos has an-
nounced plans for a ping
pong tournament to begin
as soon as possible. All
who wish to compete will
sign up before Thursday,
April 27, on the bulletin
board in the gym, or on the
back bulletin in Buttrick.
Faculty members are en-
couraged to join. The brac-
kets will be posted by
April 29.

Golf Champion
Defends
Top Position

The annual spring golf tourna-
ment is now in progress at the For-
est Hills golf course. Entered in
the tournament are this year's de-
fending champion, Sophomore
Jeanne Davidowitz, and last year's
runner-up, Junior Carolyn For-
man. Former winners of the trophy
are Jule Bethea, '3 2, Betty Lou
Houck, '3 3, Virginia Prettyman,
'3 3, Ella Kirven, '34, Virginia
Wood, '34, Elizabeth Perrin, '3 5,
and Judith Gracey, who held the
cup for two consecutive years, '36
and '37. Winners in the first round
of this year's tournament are: Ab-
bot over Davis, Davidowitz over
Blair, Carson over Gudenrath, P.
Willis over Doty, Broughton over
Estes, Pinner over Utterback, and
Strozier over Witman. In the sec-
ond round, Jeanne Davidowitz
has defeated Frances Abbot.

Livestock Heightens Color
of Dormitory Life

By BETTY O'BRIEN

Livestock is becoming a stand-
ard commodity at Agnes Scott In-
stitute for Young Ladies in the
Valley. Oh, nothing so large and
cumbersome as a "White Mule" as
a "Black Cow" (adv.), but never-
theless, real 100 % livestock in an
unstuffed condition. I refer to the
Easter versions of barnyard fowl.
They come in all shades from "sky-
blue pink" to passionate purple. In
fact, there is one whose name, very
appropriately, is "Deep Purple."
Of course by this time his violent
cyclamen shade has faded into a
somewhat nondescript lavendar,
but his owner loves him just the
same. (According to last reports.)
Then too, there is one little biddy
whose color so suggested the Emer-
ald Isle that his mother (or keeper)
named him by the distinctively
Swedish name of "Patrick O'Con-
nell." Another little Easter token
was delivered in the form of one
large duck, but there was some
confusion when it was delivered by
a Western Union messenger direct
to the Dean's office. However, it
was directed to sign the date list
and admitted according to regula-
tion.

Along with the pleasure accord-

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Alterations?

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ed the recipients of these delightful
little animals, came a few difficul-
ties. There was the time when Miss
Hunter staggered out of her office
after a hard day's work, only to be
confronted by a deep green chick-
en. As a matter of gross under-
statement, Miss Hunter was flab-
bergasted ... in fact, it mowed
her down. Of course, gentle read-
er, the presence of little live
things in one's dormitory is what
one might call disconcerting. Even
in the privacy of one's home, one
is never quite safe. Witness little
"Stupie" Slack, while attempting
to corral her rebellious Blue
Goose, stumbled and fell flat on
her . . . face, right smack into the
fish pool. But she immediately
used her Life Saving Methods, and
saved herself. And anyhow, the
pool is only three feet deep, even
in rainy weather.

By now most of the feathered
pets have disappeared from the
dormitories and have found new
and more permanent homes here

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Phone DE. 3353
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Milner Names
Board Nembers

The new Athletic Association
Board members for the coming
year have just been announced by
President Virginia Milner. Heads
of the various departments are: so-
cial, Mary Nell Taylor; publicity,
Anne Martin; posters, Margaret
Hamilton; swimming. Beryl
Healy; tennis, Ethelyn Dyar; bas-
ketball, Dot Webster; hockey, Ida
Jane Vaughan; archery, Sally Mat-
thews. The president of Outing
Club, who has not been selected
yet, will automatically become a
member of the board.

and there. The next (?) time the
dining room offers a delightful
dish of two-legged meat, beware!
It may be the former light of your
life, set forth as a culinary tri-
umph, under the name of "Pate de
foie gras."

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DINNER 50c

Good Food Is
Good Health

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QGalavanting Q^oials

Could be that all the balmy
spring weather we've been having
lately adds so much to the unat-
tractiveness of studying that great
groups of Agnes Scott girls just
took off and went to some inter-
esting social, functions in spite of
mid-quarter tests. We, however,
are more inclined to mark it all up
to the famed ability of Agnes
Scott to be well represented at
Emory and Tech affairs. Doing
nobly at Interf raternity Friday
night were Catherine Ivie, Jane
Jones, Martie Doak, Eugenia
Hailey, Elizabeth Jenkins, Mary
Kirkpatrick, Edith Stover, Martha
Dunn, Jane Moore Hamilton, Bar-
bara Lee Murlin, Eloise Lennard,
Marian Franklin, Mary Bell, Lil-
lian Gudenrath, Sarah Copeland,
Elizabeth Barret, Eleanore Bryan,
Ann Gellerstedt, Ella Hunter Mal-
lard, Florrie Ellis, Jeanne Allen,
Charlene Burke, Keeker Newton,
Marjorie Boggs, Carolyn Alley,
Martha Marshall, Florrie Guy, Sara
M. Lee, Ida Jean Vaughn, Sara
Rainey, Virginia Clower, Penn
Hammond, and Tommy Turner.

Then too, the spring weather
might be responsible for these out-
door parties such as the ATO
hayride which attracted Pat Flem-
ing, Marian Phillips, Sue Phillips,
Eleanore Bryan, and Lillian

Clubs Elect
New Officers

Eta Sigma Phi

Marie Merritt and Eva Ann Pir-
kle, president and president-elect
of the local chapter of Eta Sigma
Phi, will represent Agnes Scott at
the Fifteenth National Convention
of Eta Sigma Phi at Gettysburg
College on April 27-29.

Recently elected officers of Eta
Sigma Phi are Eva Ann Pirkle,
president; Georgia Hunt, vice pres-
ident; V. J. Watkins, correspond-
ing secretary; Ann Enloe, record-
ing secretary; Ruth Ann Byerley,
treasurer; and Harriet Cochran,
sergeant-at-arms.

Glee Club

Jeanette Carroll, Tony Newton,
Jane Moore Hamilton, Jacque
Hawks, Betty Kyle, Amelia Nic-
kels, Pattie Patterson, Emily Un-
derwood and Virginia Kyle, triple
trio chosen from the Glee Club,
will go to Carrollton, Ga., on May
1st to sing at the State Annual
Convention of the Civitan Club.

A special chorus from Agnes
Scott will sing at a meeting of the
Rotarians at the Capital City Club
in Atlanta on Monday.

KUB

Ann Enloe and Rebecca Drucker
were chosen president and first
vice president of KUB for the sec-
ond consecutive year at a recent
club meeting. Other officers for
the 1939-1940 year are Sara M.
Lee, second vice president, and
Susan Self, secretary and treasurer.

Compliments of
DECATUR FLORAL CO.

Agnes Scott Girls Are
Welcomed in "Little Dec"
at

JACKSON'S PHARMACY

Schwencke; or the Phi Delta Phi
affair which Helen Simpson, Mar-
ian Franklin, and Eloise Lennard
attended.

At the same time, others are
still enjoying the formal season. At
the Scabbard and Blade dance at
Tech Saturday night were Betty
Nash, Mary James Seagle, Nell Pin-
ner, Betty Ann Stewart, and Flor-
ence Graham. Katsy Blair and
Mary Louise Palmour went to a
G. M. A. dance. And a little ear-
lier in the week, the Theta Kappa
Psi med fraternity gave their for-
mal, which Carolyn Alley, Ade-
laide Benson, Martha Marshall,
Sarah Copeland, Marjorie Boggs,
Mitzi Sanders, and Carolyn Dunn
attended. The AKK's made theirs
a sport dance Monday night.
Among those there were Nell Pin-
ner, Aileen Shortley, Florrie Ellis,
Sara E. Lee, and Toni Newton.

Lib Barret went to Gainesville
for the week-end, while Betty
Moore and Julia McConnell went
home to Talladega. Mr. and Mrs.
Embry came to see Betty, Mrs.
Doak came to see Martie, and El-
len Stuart's sister, Mrs. Al Hoyt,
came up from Macon for the week-
end.

As usual, the Sunday buffet sup-
pers at Emory attracted a number
of Agnes Scott girls. At the Sig-
ma Chi house were Lib Barrett,
Lalla Marshall, and Frances Abbot,
while Betty Waitt and Sara Lee
dined at the Sigma Nu house.

Future Hottentots
Plan Visit to
Campus April 28

Prospective students from At-
lanta high schools and those from
surrounding districts will visit Ag-
nes Scott campus Friday afternoon,
April 2 8. They will be entertained
with a tea at 3:30 in the Murphey
Candler Building, where they will
meet various members of the ad-
ministration. The remainder of the
afternoon will be spent in looking
about the dormitories and the cam-
pus, and observing tennis, archery,
and swimming exhibitions. They
will follow up a picnic supper at
Harrison Hut by attending the
May Day exercises.

Christian

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search, to be carried out in the
Agnes Scott laboratory. This fund,
distributed by the Georgia Acad-
emy for the American Association
for the Advancement of Science,
will provide apparatus to continue
a study of the deliquescence of
salts, which Professor Christian
and his students have pursued for
several years.

Delegates Try
Several Modes
Of Travel

For adventure, for education of
all types, and for discovering one's
hidden genius, there's nothing like
attending a student government
and press convention in Charleston.
Just ask Mary Louise Dobbs, Eve-
lyn Baty, and Eleanor Hutchens,
who went by coach, or those pluto-
crats Hazel Solomon and Lutie
Moore who went by Pullman, or
Mary Ellen Whetsell, Carolyn For-
man, and Henrietta Thompson,
who actually went by plane, and
see if all Agnes Scott convention-
ers don't agree that travel is a
wonderful institution.

The train trip was really a reve-
lation, at least to Evelyn, who saw
a Pullman made up (or is it
down?) for the first time, wit-
nessed her first poker game, and
heard her first Geeche. No less
thrilled was Eleanor, who suddenly
discovered she could wiggle her
middle toe without moving the
others.

Even if Mary Ellen and Carolyn
did get a little sick and \Henri's
ears did hurt a little on the plane,
all three proudly remembered to
sociologically gaze down upon the
terracing of the land, the ditches,
and the second growth of pine
trees. Being all alone in a huge
plane from Columbia to Charles-
ton, they felt almost as if they
were riding in a chartered plane,
especially when the pilot gave them
a personal sightseeing tour and ex-
plained the controls.

Mary Louise, Eleanor, and Eve-
lyn arrived in Charleston first and
really were rewarded for prompt-
ness, for while late-comers crowded
into small rooms all around, they
received the choice room of the

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Ex-Editor Guthrie Progresses
From Swamp Angel to Villain

Campus celebrities may come and campus celebrities may
go, and then there's Mary Frances Guthrie. Or probably
you know her better as "Mary Fa," or even as "Fanny Belle,"
the girl who rooms with "Pea Blossom" Merritt. But which-

prefer, she still

ever name you
remains as an Aggie editor never
to-be-forgotten and one who takes
first honors among campus leaders.

Her life story might be called
"How to Progress from Heaven to
Hades in One Short Lifetime."
For that is literally what she has
done. She first began life as a lit-
tle swamp angel down in the Mis-
souri swamplands, and now she is
playing "Hades" in the May Day
fete. Such a fate is one that has
haunted her since her advent here
at Agnes Scott, for whenever there
has been a need for a witch or devil
or any such fiendish character,
Mary Fa has always been "just the
very one."

Whatever she may be now she
still insists she used to be an an-
gel. She even went so far as to play
a harp! It seems that she wanted
desperately to be a great singer,
but her mother finally compro-
mised and let her take lessons on
the harp probably thinking of
her future life. She was quite a
genius, and reached the height of
her career when she played "We
Three Kings of Orient Are" at a

hotel with all the fixin' includ-
ing four beds, a big closet, and full
length mirror. Perhaps a little
overcome by the wonder of it all,
Mary Louise and Evelyn, continu-
ally expecting callers, ran to the
door every few minutes with a
cordial "come in."

Christmas festival!

And then she grew up. And
moved to Kentucky. And got to
be the editor of the high school
annual! As for the school paper
she didn't even give the old thing
a thought. Then she descended on
Agnes Scott with the sole ambition
of becoming editor of the Sil-
houette. But, poor girl, her ambi-
tions were thwarted again. And
she reconciled herself to being ed-
itor of the Agonistic you probab-
ly remember that publication we
used to have.

Now that she's a "has been,"
she's very busy. Doesn't even have
time to go to Senior Opera prac-
tice. (Incidentally, she's playing
another one of those Boris Karloff
roles in that forthcoming mystery
production.) And she doesn't
study, because Dr. Robinson has
been imploring her roommate to
make her study a little. So she
must be thinking about what she
is going to do next year. And that
is going to be teaching high school
math, that is, if she can get a
school. If she can't she says she
will probably come back down to
Georgia and teach just for the fun
of it. On the side she's planning
to coach debating and journalism.

She may feel like a "has been"
and an old shoe, but for the incom-
ing Aggie staff, she is a standard
to be followed and an ideal to be
achieved.

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THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 1939

Agnes Scott College
Decatur, Ga.

Editorials Features

Vol. XXIV, No. 19
Wednesday, April 26, 1939

Front Row

Russia revives the spirit of 1914
in her attempt to secure a renewal
of the old Anglo-Russian-French
Entente against the aggression of
Germany, Italy, and now Japan
her possessions in the Far East ac-
counting for her remarks about
the uselessness of downing aggres-
sion in one part of the world if it
is likely to break out in another.

Increase in French armaments
necessitates added 1 per cent sales
tax burden, increased taxation on
armaments profits, a cut in the
number of state jobs, and an ex-
tension of the working week from
40 to 45 hours; however, bread
and milk are exempted from taxa-
tion, and the French people can al-
ways find comfort in the fact that
the work week in German arma-
ments factories remains 60 hours.

English fleet at Alexandria in
readiness to guard the Dardanelles
and the Suez canal announces
wordlessly the existence of a Brit-
ish guarantee to Turkey similar to
agreements with Rumania and
Greece. While the English are
anxious to publish the news as a
"further deterrent to aggression,"
the Turks fear publicity might an-
tagonize the dictators.

Great Britain negotiates with the
United States for the purchase of
our cotton surplus for storage as
war reserve, while the small con-
tinental states, in reply to the
questionings of German ministers,
admit no fear of German aggres-
sion or of possibility of war; Ru-
mania, a startling exception, re-
marks on the instability of the Eu-
ropean situation, and like Great
Britain prepares for the worst.

Balkan contacts with the democ-
racies in the last few weeks give
rise to expectations of a counter
move by the dictators; hence there
may be important results from the
Germany - Yugoslavia tete-a-tete
scheduled for the near future.

Paper Announces
New Staff

With this issue of The Agnes
Scott News, a newly chosen staff
begins to function. This new staff
is composed of: editor, Eleanor
Hutchcns; managing editor, Eve-
lyn Baty; assistant editors, Elaine
Stubbs and Virginia Clower; fea-
ture editors, Anne Enloe and Geor-
gia Hunt; assistant feature edi-
tors, Doris Weinkle and Betty Jean
O'Brien; copy editor, Rebecca
Drucker; current history editor,
Jane Sa Iters; exchange editor,
Ha/el Solomon; alumnae editor,
Jeanette Carroll; society editors,
Ejoise Lennard and Elizabeth Bar-
rett.

Business manager, iMary Louise
Dobbs, an d advertising manager,
Florence Ellis have not yet an-
nounced their assistants.

As a result of tryouts last week.
Bee Brad field, Virginia Williams,
and Theodosia Ripley were added
to the staff as reporters.

We Have the Floor The News Has Hopes

The interest and attention shown by
Atlantans toward the college "peace depu-
tations" visiting the churches last Sun-
day brings out a peculiar fact : people are
keeping up with what college students
think especially, just now, about war.

There has been much talk of how, in the
last war, the older citizens declared war
and sent the helpless college students off
to fight it. Also of how the generation
still in school during the war became the
wildest and most dissolute group ever to
hold sway in this country. All this is at-
tributed to the fact that the students were
not consulted nor their opinions valued in
the nation's time of stress.

That was, for the most part, merely
talk ; college students then did not feel re-
sponsible for adult problems, did not want
to be consulted very much, and cheered
the loudest when war was declared.

Now that the college student as a type
has changed, and insists on having his
say, the outside world stops for a moment
to listen, remembering last time.

We have our say, now; the responsibil-
ity descends upon us to say something
that the world will find worth listening to.

Campus Quotes

By GEORGIA HUNT

If you feel like an old shoe, the best guarantee
is "to go out of office." Genuine misery seems to
hold all our illustrious out-going campus leaders
in its firm yet melancholic grasp. Mary Frances
Guthrie, former editor of the Agonistic, mourns:
"I feel like an ole shoe nobody loves me or needs
me." (Don't worry, Fannie Belle, that's just what
you think. We have our own opinions. ) *

Douglas Lyle, former president of Christian
Association, says: "I feel like a body walking
around without any sap. I just go around begging
Kat for something to do."

Marie Merritt, former business manager of the
Agonistic, says: "I tell you I just don't know how
it feels to be out of office . . . Fm still hanging
on to the books till the end of this month but Fm
not working on the ads Fm giving the worst job
to Mary Louise. Really, it's fun to have it over."

Jean Bailey, former student recorder, gloats:
"Oh boy, it's wonderful to be out of office. A
thrill just rises in my heart when somebody asks
me if they can use the Murphey Candler Building
and I just gleefully tell them, 'Go to Polly Heas-
lett. Fm no longer the student recorder.' " After
a long silent pause spent in reflecting upon
Wordsworth for an appropriate quotation she con-
cluded: "My Monday and Wednesday evenings
are free, so now I can listen to 'One Man's Fam-
ily'."

Mary Ellen Whetsell, former president of Stu-
dent Government, says: "It's kind of a neglected
feeling. We wquld feel terrible if we didn't have
so much else to do. So after all, work is a bless-
ing."

There's hope for all of these saddened people
because offices can't go on forever. Perhaps they
may find compensating comfort in reflecting that
in another year their successors will be going
through the same desperate experiences. So, "for-
ever and deepest congratulation!"

^Editor's Note: Fire this feature writer.

Six per cent of the college and university
newspapers in the U. S. own their own printing
plants.

Vassar College is expanding its instruction in
the field of primitive cultures.

Enrollment in the weather study course at
Hunter College has increased 40 per cent over
last year.

It seems to be customary for an incom-
ing staff to announce, through its first ed-
itorial, the aims and policies by which it
intends to mould whatever publication it
heads.

The posting of this information may be
for the purpose of letting the reader de-
cide whether he will continue to read the
paper, or it may be to locate the star to
which the staff hitches its w T agon so that
the staff itself can keep its eye on it.
Whatever the motive may be, the AGNES
SCOTT NEWS now runs up its colors and
nails them to the masthead.

This paper during the coming year will
represent and champion GROWTH, in all
its desirable forms, on the Agnes Scott
campus. Any project which furthers such
growth may be assured of support in these
pages.

More specifically, the AGNES SCOTT
NEWS will begin its work at home; that
is, it will strain particularly toward its
own growth. It will carry on the ideals of
good journalism that the last staff fos-
tered so effectively as to reach a nation-
ally high standard. This involves constant
change and development; no good paper
becomes stagnant.

By keeping always in touch with as
many other American colleges as possible,
it will try to contribute toward the inte-
gration of Agnes Scott students with the
student world as a whole. The staff under-
takes the task of reporting student trends
as comprehensively as space and interest
allow; be they goldfish-swallowing or be
they peace movements, the Agnes Scott
campus will know about them.

Thus the AGNES SCOTT NEWS hopes
to be an increasingly significant force on
the campus. The staff, doing its best but
realizing its limitations, invites constant
advice and criticism from the student
body the owners of the paper. For its
reading public is the only medium through
which any publication can hope to mean
anything or accomplish anything.

Parade of Opinion

Always important in indicating the trend of
college thought is a survey of the latest develop-
ments in student organizations. During the past
month four new groups have been formed that
forcefully demonstrate the results of the various
campaigns that have been carried on in the col-
legiate and the professional press.

At the University of Minnesota, students have
formed two clubs for the promotion of American-
ism. The Constitution Club and the American
Club both will campaign for democracy and the
freedoms and rights guaranteed in the U. S. con-
stitution.

At Centre College, in Kentucky, students have
organized an Anti-War Club. An announcement
from the groups says that chapters have been or-
ganized already at Louisiana State, Western Re-
serve, Lehigh, University of Maine, Wesleyan, and
Upsala. Members take an oath that they will not
go to war except to defend our shores. Stated
purpose of the organization is to awaken the
youth of the nation to the proximity of war un-
der present policies and to oppose those policies.

At Villanova College, students have organized
laymen and clergy into a Legion of Justice to pro-
mote the ideal "living wage." Members will not
purchase goods they know to be sweat shop and
non-union made articles. (ACP).

The Agnes Scott News

Agnes Scott College Student Newspaper

//

There are 8,847 foreign students attending
U. S. colleges and universities.

Vol. 24

Wednesday, April 26

No. 19

At Dartmouth College old examinations arc
available to all students in bound files kept in the
college library.

Editor

. Managing Editor
Business Manager.

Eleanor Hutchens
- _ _Evelyn Baty
Mary Louise Dobbs

Reviewer Sees
Green Vine
From Offstage

The backstage viewpoint is
slightly perverted. One concen-
trates on the actors' exits rather
than their entrances, is interested
not so much in their lines as in the
missing of them, and overlooks
story and atmosphere to be eter-
nally grateful to the man in the
sixth row who guffawed at that
line we weren't positive was funny.
In the recent Blackfriar produc-
tion of The Green Vine, the Back-
stage Brigade did themselves proud
with an adequate amount of hand-
wringing and breath-catching.
With this aid joined to the efforts
of the actors themselves, the play
seemed ( at least from the rear
view) to come off quite success-
fully.

Backstage Humor

During the first act Helen
Moses and John Winchester proved
themselves truly great actors by
remaining perfectly composed
when they "opened the window to
let spring come in" and found the
members of the cast not on stage
mercilessly making silly faces and
gestures at them. The actors wait-
ing their cues backstage had a
hard time keeping straight faces
and silent demeanors while Jimmy
Jepson (whose acting career in the
present instance was hampered by
a business trip and an arm opera-
tion) took the wrong cue for his
final exit, and had to go back on
stage to finish his lines.

Aquatic Histrionics

The fish used in the second act
were a general nuisance. They
were very real and odoriferous
fish, and Tom Wesley, their moni-
tor, took great delight in showing
them to everyone at unpleasantly
close quarters. When the play was
over, Tom was seen hunting dis-
consolately for them, insisting that
he was going to have them for din-
ner the next day.

Costume Troubles

Great hilarity was had over
some of the costumes, in particu-
lar Tom's red and gold trousers
for his Faust suit, and the four
foot watch chain which Dr. Bel-
yeu (in the person of Jophet
Twilliger) wanted to display on
the stage in all its glory of length.

Mishaps Behind Scenes

Some few minor tragedies oc-
curred, like Udo Thran'g nearly
electrocuting himself at the light
switches, and Miss Gooch's drop-
ping several boxes at a tense mo-
ment in the third act. On the
whole, however, as Birdie Fuller
was removing her false tooth,
Jophet his whiskers, and Cousin
George his ghostly pallor, the cast
agreed that The Green Vine had
been a lot of fun for them, and
hoped it had been the same for the
audience.

By JULIA SEWELL

The Agnes Scott News

VOL. XXIV

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1939

Z115

No. 20

Recitals Mark
Music Week
On Campus

Hamilton, Newton
Assist Nickels, Kyle
In Concerts

Recitals by Amelia Nickels and
Virginia Kyle, and a concert by
the string ensemble under the di-
rection of Mr. Dieckmann, mark
the observance of National Music
Week on the campus.

Amelia's recital, in which she
will be assisted by Jane Moore
Hamilton, is on Wednesday night,
May 10, at 8:15 in the chapel. She
will sing the "Italian Aria," from
Gluck's "Orpheus and Eurydice,"
and two groups of English songs.
Jane Moore will give one group of
English songs, and together they
will sing a duet from "Aida."

Virginia will be assisted in her
recital Monday night, May 8, at
8:15 in the chapel, by Toni New-
ton. She will sing "But the Lord
Is Mindful of His Own," "Cradle
Song," by de Koven, and with
Toni, "Tutti i Fior," from "Mad-
ame Butterfly."

The string ensemble program % in-
cludes "Vivace," "Air," and
"Hornpipe," by Handel; "Come
Sweet Death," by Bach; "At the
Convent," by Borodin, and "Jesu
Joy of Man's Desiring." Claire
Purcell will present a piano solo,
"Soaring," by Schumann; Grace
Moffat will give "Toccata," by
Dubois, as an organ solo, and Olive
Mae Rives will give a harp solo.

The student body is invited to
attend all of these programs.

Dr. McCain Discusses
Americanism

Broadcasting one of a series of
talks by prominent Atlanta citi-
zens on "Americanism" over
WGST last Sunday, Dr. J. R. Mc-
Cain pointed to "the American
home" as the basis of good citizen-
ship.

"Family life determines future
citizenship," he said, adding that
comradeship and common activities
within the family "even such
simple games as Chinese checkers"
are highly important in building
the American citizen.

Debaters
Conquer Tech

Freshman Contestants
Win Double Victory

Freshman debaters scored a dou-
ble victory over Tech freshmen
Friday night, winning both sides
of a debate on socialized medicine.

Supporting the affirmative side
here were Mary Lightfoot Elcan
and Jane Taylor, who defeated Jim
Jones and Gene Munsford, at the
same time that Suzanne Kaulbach
and Ua Belle" Levie won the nega-
tive at Tech.

In Gaines Chapel, the Agnes
Scott debaters said that the princi-
pal difficulties in the present sit-
uation are the inability to reach
rural districts with medical aid,
and the inability of the people to
pay for medical care.

Their plea for socialized medi-
cine was that it would "be of ben-
efit to the doctors in that they will
have financial security and more
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Photo Courtesy Sunday American.

Furies Griffin, Solomon, Rainey

Hamilton, Nickels Sing Chief Roles
In Senior Opera Production

AMELIA NICKELS

Students Attend
Emory Conference

A group of theology students
who had attended a leisure time
conference and were so pleased
with it that they wanted Emory
to have one too, held such a one on
the Emory University campus
from April 24-2 8. The main pur-
pose of the conference was to teach
students how to put on good rec-
reational programs, especially pro-
grams in connection with church
work.

The Agnes Scott student body
was invited.

Lighting, Costuming Lend
Grecian Setting to May Pageant

Skillful lighting and costuming will bring the atmosphere
of Greek mythology to the May Day Dell Friday night, when
"Orpheus and Eurydice" will be enacted as the annual
pageant.

Cha irman Hollingsworth Reveals Plans For
"O-Me-O And You-My-Pet"

"O-Me-0 and You-My-Pet" is to be the presentation of the
Seniorpolitan Opera Company on Saturday night, May 6, ac-
cording to a special announcement from Chairman Mary Hol-
lingsworth. In the leads of this romantic opera are Amelia
Nickels as O-Me-0 and Jane Moore Hamilton as You-My-Pet.

Completing the list of important
characters are Toni Newton as
Mama Catchimyet; Elizabeth Fur-
low, Dr. .Catchimyet; Callie Car-
michael, Dr. Mightycute; Jac
Hawks, Pridelett; Virginia Kyle,
Joylett; Mary Eleanor Steele, Mr.
Roanes; Flora MacGuire, Dr.
Philip Raves-On; Rachel Camp-
bell, Miss Slick; Kay Kennedy, Miss
Labor; Mary Wills, Dr. Robin-
math; Hattie Mina Reid, Miss
Happ; Doug Lyle, Dr. Days; Jane
Jones, Miss A. A. U. W.

The libretto concerns the feud
between the rival families of
Catchimyet and Mightycute, and
the solving of their problems
through O-Me-O and You-My-
Pet.

Included in the choruses are
Mary Hill Oatley, Mary Allen,
Flora MacGuire, Katherine Farrar,
Snooks Moss, Ginger Tumlin,
Helen Kirkpatrick, Jean Bailey,.
Hayden Sanford, Julia Porter,
Helen Lichten, Sara McCain, Eve-
lyn Sears, Caroline Carmichael,
Mary Wells McNeill, Florence
Wade, Aileen Shortley, Sarah
Joyce Cunningham, Dorothy Laz-
enby, Lucy Hill Doty, Jeanne
Flynt, Kitty Caldwell, Elizabeth
Kenney, Martha Marshall, Cary
Wheeler, Adelaide Benson, Emma
McMullen.

Directing assistants are Jane
Dryfoos and Jeanne Flynt, and
Miriam Sanders and Phyllis John-
son will be pianists.

Preston Reads Poetry

Next Tuesday Miss Janef Pres-
ton, assistant professor of English,
will read some of her own poetry
during the Agnes Scott radio pro-
gram. Her poems have been pub-
lished in several leading magazines.

-Eurydice, Helen Moses, will wear
a floating white robe of heavy silk,
with a bright colored chiffon
scarf trimmed in gold. A head-
dress of gold lame will adorn her
classical coiffure. Orpheus, Beth
Paris, will be dressed in a white
tunic, wide girdle, gold sandals,
and a garland of gold leaves. He
will carry a lyre.

The god of the underworld,
Mary Frances Guthrie, will reign
in a black robe sparkling with
jewels, a glittering wreath, and a
dramatic black beard.

The Court will complete these
scenes of classical splendor, dressed
in flowing robes of orchid, yellow,
rose, and green. May Queen Ade-
laide Benson will be conventional
and distinctive in pure white.

The special music and lighting
effect promise to heighten the
weird drama of the underworld.
Last year, for the first time, the
pageant was at night.

This year's scenario is adapted
from classical mythology by Elea-
nor Hutchens and directed by
members of the physical education
department.

Alumnae Honor
Senior Class at Teas

inform the

enior

In order to intorm the seniors
about the organization of the
Alumnae Association, the alumnae
will entertain them in two groups
at teas in the Anna Young Alum-
nae House, on Monday, May 8, and
on Tuesday, May 9.

Receiving on both occasions
will be Mrs. Murdock Equen, presi-
dent of the Alumnae Association;
Mrs. D. V. Donaldson, and Miss
Nelle Chamlee.

On Monday Mrs. L. G. Baggett,
Mrs. Philip Fry, Mrs. Charles
Sheldon, III, Miss Ann Worthy
Johnson, Miss Nell Scott Earth-
man, Mrs. David Lindsey will as-
sist in entertaining. Mrs. Henry
Newton, Miss Nelle Chamlee, Mrs.
Robert McFarland, Mrs. A. S.
Grove, Mrs. Eustace Bishop, Mrs.
Carl Howard, Miss Jeanne Mat-
(Con finned on Page 2, Column 3)

Torrance Entertains

Miss Catherine Torrance will
entertain the senior majors and
minors in the Latin and Greek de-
partment with a tea May 17.

College Joins
French Publication

Betty Alderman, assisted by
Evelyn Baty and Margaret Hop-
kins, will represent Agnes Scott
next year on the editorial staff of
V/f, new intercollegiate French
magazine published at Yale. The
magazine is seeking for contribu-
tions of interest to students
through representatives in the bet-
ter known colleges of the country.

Sample issues may be obtained
from the Agnes Scott editors for
those who wish to see something
of the scope of the work. Subscrip-
tion rates are reasonable, and will
be furnished upon request.

Of particular interest to our
college now is the series of articles
by Andre Maurois, who lectured
here in March.

KUB Entertains With
Annual Luncheon

KUB will have its annual lunch-
eon May 13 at The Tavern. There
will follow a tour of the Atlanta
Journal plant.

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THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS- WEDNESDAY, MAY 3. 1939

SPORTS MISCELLANY

Tournament Hold Spotlight
In Spring Sports

Spring is turning the young girl's fancy to sports these
days. The long, sunny afternoons are just right for both
spectators and participants.

The three tournaments, ping
pong, tennis, and golf, are well un-
der way. In the golf tournament,
Jeanne Davidowitz, winner over
Abbot in the second round, 2-1;
Helen Carson, winner over Willis,
4-3, in the third round, and Lucky
Wylie, winner over Carolyn For-
man, 4-3, in the third round, are
the remaining contestants for the
trophy.

The tennis tournament is prac-
tically finished, with three more
matches to be played. Mary Rob-
ertson, Ethelyn Dyar, Dot Webs-
ter, and Polly Taylor will vie for
the singles championship.

Jane Dryfoos, who was roped in
on her own tournament, says the
ping pong games will be played off
by May Day.

Friday, April 2 8, the visiting
high school girls witnessed an ex-
hibition of athletic skill in the
gym. Miss Mitchell refereed bad-
minton played by Mary Robertson,
Ethelyn Dyar, Dot Webster, and
Miriam Jones amid flashes of
lightning and roars of thunder.
Downstairs in the pool before the
exhibition, Miss Wilburn, dropping
a phonograph needle in the water,
almost drowned the prospect of
music for the swimmers. Kathleen
Huck dived to the rescue and
brought up the necessary needle,
and in a few minutes the exhibition
began. The swimmers were "lei-ed"
Hawaiians, and swam and dived as
smoothly as fish. Cheeseman
ploughed into the lead in the side
stroke, Patterson won the front
crawl, and Matthews won the back
crawl. Julia Moseley traveled from
end to end of the pool, making
double surface dives under water.
After a circle formation, the swim-
mers gave a diving exhibition,
consisting of straight dives, back
dives, jack knives, and a beautiful
spanker by Cheeseman.

Debate

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regular hours, and to the people in
that they will have the best medi-
cal care at the least expense, and
disease will be prevented as well as
cured."

George Munsford, of the nega-
tive side, stated that socialized
medicine "is a scheme by which the
government looks after the people
at the people's expense." He and
his colleague objected to socialized
medicine in stressing the expense,
and the injury to private practice.
They stated that it would lower
the standard of excellency in the
work of the doctors, and that poli-
tics would enter in.

Judges of the debate here were
Miss Lucile Alexander, Miss Emma
Mae Laney, Dr. Philip Davidson.

Bible Club
Chooses Officers

The following officers, chosen
at a recent meeting, will lead Bible
Club next year: Isabella Robertson,
president; Margaret Ratchford,
vice president; Miriam Bedinger,
recording secretary; Susan Self,
corresponding secretary; Mary
Elizabeth Chalmers, treasurer and
refreshment committee chairman.

Negro Choir Aids

Campaign Movement

Radio Singer Appears
With Performers

Carrying out the campaign mot-
to of the campus, James Rudolph
Bussey, helper in the library, pre-
sented fifteen voices from the ne-
gro choir of the Thankful Baptist
Church Thursday night, April 27,
in a program of popular and semi-
classical songs and spirituals. The
proceeds went to the campaign
and to the Thankful Baptist
Church.

Called back for encores several
times were a small boy and girl,
who sang "I'm Gonna Be a Bap-
tist Till I Die." James Bussey sang
"Sailor, Beware" and "I Love You
Truly." A surprise / feature on the
program was Thelma Lowe, popu-
lar singer of WATL, who offered
"St. Louis Blues" and "I Cried for
You," accompanying herself.

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C. A. Names
Leaders

Heads Plan
Group Reorganization

The new Christian Association
has set for its aim next year the
"making of wider contacts." Be-
ginning the work toward that end,
they have provided new offices for
the council. The head of the rec-
reation group will have the duties
of the former social chairman,
with additional minor duties. Jane
Moses, head of this group, will also
arrange informal campus parties
with students from Emory and
Tech. The Y. W. C. A. and the
Christian World Community
group will be under one chairman,
Louise Hughston. A new type of
publication will be introduced by
the publication chairman, Mary
Reins, while Anne Chambless will
be chairman of Vespers.

The leaders of the offices which
remain the same are: Sam Olive
Griffin, worship; Tine Gray, social
service; Louise Musser, missions;
Betty Kyle, music, and Mary Ann
Faw, publicity.

The council^ officers chosen so
far are: social service, Mary Eve-
lyn Francis; missions, Peggy Stix-
rud; vespers, Mary Faw; Maids'
Sunday School class teacher, Har-
riet Stimson; assistant teacher, Mir-
iam Bedinger; worship, Virginia
Williams; Y. W. C. A. chairman,
Betty Alderman. Lavinia Brown
has charge of the bulletin board in
the mail room.

The faculty advisers are Miss
Carlson, Dr. Christian, and Dr.
Davidson, who has been appointed
recently.

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Huck Regains Needle
From Pool

"It was like hunting for a needle
in a swimming pool," spluttered
Kathleen Huck last week.

Kathleen came up with the
goods when Miss Wilburn, having
dropped a phonograph needle into
the blue depths of the gymnasium
pool, recruited a corps of divers to
recover it.

Soon the Hawaiian music by
which the swimmers were timing
their strokes was once more float-
ing forth from the gym victrola.

Alumnae

(Continued from Page 1)

thews, Miss Jeanne Chalmers will
assist at the Tuesday tea.

During the tea, Mrs. Equen and
Miss Chamlee will explain the work
and organization of the Alumnae
Association.

Freshmen Present
Campus Frolic

The freshman class entertained
with a "Gambol On the Green"
Saturday night, when the frosh led
an invasion of the hockey field to
play "Red Light," "Drop the
Handkerchief," "London Bridge,"
"Farmer in the Dell," and then to
eat cookies and drink punch. All
proceeds are to be applied to the
freshman campaign pledge.

The freshman day students were
invited to spend the night in In-
man, and after the "Gambol," ,the
boarders held a treasure hunt, a
dance, and a "sing" for their
guests.

Forum Names
Jane Salters Leader

Jane Salters was named president
of Current History Forum at a
meeting of International Relations
Class last Tuesday. The class
elected Carrie Gene Ashley vice
president and Betty Jane. Stevenson
as secretary- treasurer.

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New Members
Hold Debate

Following formal initiation
April 2 5, fifteen new members of
Chi Beta Phi Sigma presented dis-
cussions of problems in pseudo-
science before the old members.
Outstanding on the program were:
The Ingrowing Toenail: Its Signif-
icance to the Psycho-Analysist,
Virginia Morris; Curves, Harriet
Stimson; Lines of Force, Boots
Moore; What the Weil-Dressed
Chemist Wears, Louise Meiere;
Does a Chicken Sit or Set?, Mary
Frances Thompson; Cupid, the
Geneticist, Betty Price.

Jeanette Carroll and Ruth Slack
presented the affirmative side in a
debate against Jean Dennison and
Freda Copeland on the subject:
"Resolved, that hydrogen sulfide is
more pleasant than ammonia."

Dorothy Still and Jane Smollen
gave a skit, "Radio Activity."

Outing Club

Admits New Members

As a result of spring tryouts,
Outing Club has invited nine new
members to fulfill "that camping
urge." Those who have been elect-
ed are Polly Ware, Jo Cates,
Frances Breg, Nell Moss, Mary
Mac Templeton, Anne Martin,
Elaine Stubbs, Gene Slack, and
Mary Elizabeth Leavitt. Plans for
next year's activities will be made
as soon as the new president is
elected.

Democracy, Nonsense
Interest Students

Further news from Rock Hill by
means of the Johnsonian: "Just re-
cently we have heard of two classes
of which we were members
classes where the teachers suggest
and the students do the rest. One
of these is Dr. Harris* class in di-
rected reading which meets only
once a week. To the correspond-
ent, this course is the English ma-
jor's dream credit for pleasure, a
chance to read all the things one
has wanted to read from War and
Peace to Winnie, the Pooh. The
other class that sounds like a heav-
en-sent gift is Dr. Fraser's Educa-
tion for Democracy. The class has
elected a chairman to take charge
of the meetings, which are con-
ducted like our well-known bull
sessions."

Sandwich Fund
Finances Building

The first building in the world
to be built on a foundation of
sandwiches will shortly rise on the
campus of Northwestern Univer-
sity. The building is Scott Hall,
new student social center and com-
munity auditorium, to be erected
at a cost of $750,000 as a tribute
to President Walter D. Scott, who
will retire next fall. In a very real
sense it will be built on a founda-
tion of sandwiches, for a $200,000
Woman's Building fund, which
was begun with sandwiches in
1911, has been turned over to the
Scott Hall fund by the Women's
Building Association.

Determined co-eds chose No-
vember 29, 1911, as the first of a
series of "Sandwich Days" on the
campus. On these occasions de-
fenseless male students and faculty
members were persuaded to eat
sandwiches for the benefit of a so-
cial center for women. (The
Lass-O T. S. C. W.)

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WINS ACTING AWARD

QGalavanting ^Gals

Practically every girl who wanted to had a chance to ex-
hibit her loyalty to one of the fraternities at Emory this
week-end. It was Junior College week-end there, and, as us-
ual, Agnes Scott was called upon to help rush the boys from
Oxford and Valdosta. House dances and hay rides were the
main form of entertainment.

Among those at the Phi Delta
Theta hayride were Sara E. Lee,
Fan Pittman, Betty Ann Stewart,
and Mary Helen Stewart; the Sig-
ma Chi hayride attracted Lalla
Marshall, Lillian Gudenrath, Toni
Newton, Jane Jones, Annette
Franklin, Mary Matthews, Eloise
Lennard, Ida Jane Vaughan, Eu-
genia Hailey, Edith Henegar,
Olivia White, Keeker Newton, Dot
Garland, Ann Gellerstedt, Frances
Butt, and Kathleen Head.

In the way of house dance*
Martha Dunn, Jeanne Allen, Mar-
ian Franklin, Sara Rainey, Winnie
Mansfield, Dot Estes, Carolyn
Dunn, and Louise Stockdale were
at the S. A. E. house. Carolyn Al-
ley, Val Nielsen, Louise Newton,
Lib Barrett, and Elizabeth Jenkins
were dancing at the Chi Phi house,
while the Delta Tau Delta dance
was attended by Anne Wheaton,
Mary Bell, Jeanne Flynt, Frances
McGill, and Mary Lightfoot Elcan.
Annie Wilds and Pat Reasoner
were at the KA house; the Pi KA
party attracted Neva Jackson,
Martha Roberts, Edith Dale, and
Katsy Blair.

The med school wouldn't allow
the college to do all of the enter-
taining, so the Phi Chi's gave a pic-
nic, which Ad Benson, Martha
Marshall, Flonnie Ellis, and Lucile
Gaines attended.

Though the quantity of Em-
ory's social life was greater this
week-end than that of Tech, we
can't say that the quality was any
better. At any rate, Sara Lee, Su-
san Self, Martha Watkins, Jeanne
Redwine, Allie Malone, Katsy
Blair, Jean Beutell, Frances Butt,
Virginia Clower, Nina Broughton,
Louise Musser, Mary Bell, and
Frances Abbot reported a marvel-
ous time at the Little Abner dance,
while Nell Pinner, Kay Kennedy,
Betty Alderman, and Mary Eliza-
beth Leavitt thought the same
about the Kappa Eta Kappa steak
fry.

Hair Clipping
Rivals Goldfish
In Making Money

Latest money - making freak
stunt to supplement the gold fish
and phonograph record eating con-
tests of collegians comes from Ohio
State. Last week Ernest R. Tennen-
baum, a sophomore, had his hair
clipped off neatly and smoothly
for a $5 bill donated by his Tau
Epsilon Phi brethern if he'd go
through with the dare. Hair tonic
manufacturers will prosper as
never before if this idea goes the
way of the gold fish gulping con-
tests. (ACP.)

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Jeanne Flynt displays the
cup awarded her for the best
acting of the year.

'And to the Left

Freck Sproles is contemplating
a course on How to Remember
Faces. Graciously escorting an
interested student about the cam-
pus, enlightning her with such in-
formation as "And this is where
the freshmen live," Freck felt that
she was doing her bit on the day
when Atlanta high school girls
were guests of the college.

The escortee nodded gravely at
the proper moments, and showed
especial interest in the library.

But the next day Freck saw her
ex-protegee emerging from a
classroom in Buttrick. And now
Freck is making an effort to
Know the Freshmen Better.

Drucker Will Head
German Group

Rebecca Drucker was recently
elected president of the German
Club. Other officers for the 1939-
1940 year are Virginia Clower,
vice president; Ethelyn Dyar, sec-
retary; Marion Williams, treasurer.

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Alumnae Work
Varies in Type

Education, Matrimony
Attract Graduates

Agnes Scott alumnae are still
proving that they can be successful
in just most any field at all. Here
are a few of our latest celebrity ac-
complishments:

Business:

Julia McClatchey, '3 5, is not
only assistant advertising manager
at George Muse Clothing Com-
pany, but is the originator of the
radio programs for the company.
As the radio personality "Marian-
na," she interviews famous stylists
visiting Atlanta and has acquired
the title of the souths most famous
fashion commentator.

Science:

Dr. Evangeline Papageorge, '28,
was one of two women professors
of Emory University listed in the
biographical directory of leaders in
the scientific world "American
Men of Science." Evangeline is
teaching bio-chemistry at the Em-
ory Med School.

Education:

Lora Lee de Loach, '30, is very
much interested in her teaching at
Crew Street School. She has started
a club for underprivileged girls
modeled on the Boys' Club of At-
lanta. The girls are learning all
types of handicraft. Lora Lee's
home room, the sixth grade, is pub-
lishing weekly a newspaper which
contains cartoons, continued stor-
ies and features.

Social Service:

Lucile (Heath) McDonald, '33,
enjoys doing part of the county
work for the Department of Public
Welfare in Augusta. (With an ex-
ception, she adds: when she has a
flat tire in some remote part of the
country and has to walk several
miles for help or change it her-
self!)

Matrimony:

Annette (Carter) Colwell, '27,
finds married life quite agreeable.
She is so proud of her husband and
justly so, too. Dr. Colwell was ap-
pointed head of the Bible Depart-
ment of the University of Chicago
when Dr. Edgar Goodspeed retired.

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CAMPUS CELEBRITY

Depression Changes

Chemist into Jack-of-All-Trades

By B. J. O'BRIEN

Most of us students merely accept bur faculty as a special
dispensation from Heaven and the Board of Trustees, and
think no more about them. But evidently the General Educa-
tion Board is of a more inquiring frame of mind, for Dr. S. M.
Christian, of our very own faculty, has received a fellowship
from it.

But to get Dr. Christian's view
of the situation, and incidentally, a
little of his PAST! First of all, he
is a reporter's dream of a celebrity
he simply poured out his
heart, spontaneously and without
prompting. Right at the start, he
declared himself to be a man of
thwarted ambitions, a victim of
circumstances it seems to be al-
most a requirement for celebritous-
ness. He studied chemistry for
nine long years, both at Emory
and Hahvahd, but since he grad-
uated right in the teeth of the de-
pression, and chemists came in doz-
ens, he looked elsewhere, and found
there was a dearth of physicists.
So-o-oo, he turned his talents thet-
away, and took up astronomy, too.
This variegated and chequered car-
eer had a theme motive running
through it, however, for it was
ideal training for his present plans.

Dilettante

Dr. Christian very earnestly ex-
plained that he was a jack-of-all-
trades, a dilettante! Since he has
had chemistry, biology, physics, as-
tronomy, zoology, etc., he couldn't
make up his mind what to settle
down to. But, logically, in compil-
ing a history of science, he would
not have to limit himself. So, there
he was. The original inspiration
was furnished in the following
way. During the summer Dr.
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there lives Dr. George Sarton,
"who is, without doubt, the out-
standing authority on history of
science in the world." (Direct
quotation.) So from him Christian
received his incentive can you
carry on from there??

Southern Science

Dr. Christian explained that ev-
eryone in the South was simply
steeped in history, but that science
has been almost a lost art. Of
course that was B. C. before
Christian. Therefore all he has to
do is spend a summer at Duke and
Chapel Hill and then another one
voyaging around L. S. U., Univer-
sity of Alabama, William and
Mary, University of Virginia,
Arkansas, Columbia, Charleston,
Emory and a few other places, un-
til he is supersaturated with the
history of science in the South.
Then he will probably break down,
or effluoresce, as it were, and write
a book. After that, of course, he
can retire on the royalties (our
conviction), and just do nothing
except take his family to the beach.

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from shaded campus
paths to lovely solid
silver, yet most of to-
day's undergraduates
will soon be starting plans for their
own homes. The selection of a sterling
pattern will be among the most im-
portant of many decisions to be made,
for solid silver lasts a lifetime, and
becomes more precious as the years
pass. So study the two lovely patterns
illustrated here, then visit your jeweler
and ask him to show you the wide
range of beautiful designs made by
Reed & Barton. One of them is sure
to appeal to you as the ideal pattern
for your new home the pattern that
will high-light your table for years
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Winners in the Reed & Barton
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this charming motif in a typical
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The gay music, joyous laughter and
rhytl^uc charm of colonial hospi-
tality have been woven into the dis-
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THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS. WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1939

Agnes Scott College
Decatur. Ga.

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Vol. XXTV, No. 19
Wednesday- April 26. 1939

It x s Opera

They say Senior Opera has taken a step
forward this year. It will be fully as fun-
ny as past ones much funnier, say the
members of the cast, who have heard it
repeatedly, over and over, and can still
find it in their hearts to make one of the
choruses give an encore during rehearsal.

But they say, with equal enthusiasm,
that it is not to be a jumble of popular
tunes as of yore. All the airs are from
opera familiar opera and the leading
characters possess two of the best voices
on the campus.

"Just the contrast," they say, "between
the words and the music keeps us con-
vulsed."

The proceeds of Senior Opera go into
the gift that the class leaves to the college
to us, to enjoy while we are here. It
seems good policy to support the produc-
tion, both for selfish reasons and for self-
ish reasons.

CAMPUS QUOTES
Inter-Collegiate Sports
Excite Comment

As Agnes Scott prepares to enter the annual
Women's National Telegraphic Inter-collegiate
Archery Tournament, in which the team shoots
here and telegraphs results to tournament head-
quarters, the old question of inter-collegiate
sports presents itself.

Here are some opinions expressed by students
concerning inter-collegiate activities:

Sarah Matthews, '40, says: "I like the idea of an
inter-collegiate archery tournament because it has
worked up interest in archery.

"As far as inter-collegiate sports are concerned
they would give national recognition to our
sports achievements. On the whole, I don't ap-
prove of extensive inter-collegiate athletics be-
cause they would take up too much of the time
which girls need to give to other campus activi-
ties."

Mary Eleanor Steele, '39, says: "I'm all for in-
ter-collegiate activities, but they do have their
disadvantages. I think they could very easily be
accommodated to Agnes Scott athletic activities."

Callie Carmichael, '39, says: "I think they're
grand, but I don't think they could ever go off
here very well. There are too many athletic teams
here and it would be impossible to carry these
teams all over the country. Nevertheless, I like
the idea."

Lutie Moore, '40, says: "I think they are good.
And I think we could afford to have more inter-
collegiate participation in athletics, especially in
basketball and hockey.

"Inter-collegiate contacts, either personal or in
groups, would be very helpful because they would
naturally lead to worthwhile discussions upon sub-
jects related not only to athletics but various col-
lege questions."

The Agnes Scott News

Agnes Scott College Student Newspaper

Entered a ssecond class matter at the Decatur, Georgia,
post office.

Vol. 24

Wednesday, May 3

No. 20

Editor

Managing Editor

Business Manager

Anno Martin
Sports Editor
Hazel Solomon
Exchange Editor
Jeannetto Carroll
Alumnae Editor
Susan Self
Club Editor
Kloise Lonnard
Society Editor
Lib Barrett
Bw Bradfield
Assistant Society Editors
Ernestine Cass
Circulation Manager
Cates. L. Franklin. M. Gray.
Merlin. E. MeCall. .1. Osborne.

Eleanor Hutchcns

Evelyn Baty
Mary Louise Dobbs

Virginia Clnwer
Elaine Stubbs
Assistant Editors
Rebecca Drucker
Copy Editor
Florence Ellis
Advertising Manager

Anne Enloe
Georgia Hunt
Feature Editors
Bettv Jean O'Brien
Doris Weinkle
Assistant Feature Editors
Jane Salters
Current History
Reporters : B Hradfi. hi. J.
J. Lancaster. S. M. Lee. If.

T. Rlplev. (J. Slack. V. Watkins. C. WillU. J. Witman.
Business Staff: E Barrett. M. S. Dillanl. M. Doak. L. Sale
ML Simps.. n. M. Watkins. A. Wilds.

Alumna Knight

Speaks at Luncheon

Former May Queen
Has Writing Fame

Mary Lamar Knight, '22, former
Agnes Scott May Queen and New
York newspaper correspondent,
now celebrated author of one of
last year's most popular autobio-
graphies, will be the speaker for
the Trustees' Luncheon June 3 in
honor of the seniors and alumnae.

Being Atlanta born and Agnes
Scott graduated, Mary Lamar was
well on her way toward making a
mark in the world; but she went a
bit further she practically cov-
ered the world.

Five years in Paris, China,
Japan, and the United States as
United Press correspondent and
representative of a British publici-
ty bureau gave her the experiences
which make her life so unusual and
interesting. Her experiences in
Paris and her ability to relive them
for other people earned her the dis-
tinguished position as the only
woman newspaper correspondent in
a group of fifteen top-notch re-
porters whose articles were includ-
ed in "We Cover the World," a
series of experiences from foreign
correspondents edited by Eugene
Lyons, and published last fall.

Mary is feature writer for the
New York World Telegram and
has been Woman's Editor of the
Literary Digest. At present she is
working in a publicity bureau for
the Greater New York Fund, New
York's approach to Community
Chest, where she spends her days
planning campaigns and her nights
getting material for more features.

Her latest "position" was that
of a dime-a-dance girl in a New
York taxi-dance hall, where she is
getting first hand information
about that life. Mary writes her
friends in Atlanta that her next
trip will be around the world via
the Poles and that she'll send us all
a chip off an old iceberg.

Additional laurels have been ac-
corded her since the publication of
her interesting life story, On My
Own, which came off the press
last spring. Such sensational inci-
dents as the time her family was
burned out of house and home in
the great Atlanta fire, and her ex-
periences as May Queen at Agnes
Scott serve as an introduction to
hair-raising tales about revolutions
and royalty, murderers and fash-
ion shows, aviators, authors, war-
lords, and even a guillotining,
which Mary witnessed, clad in the
uniform of a hospital interne.

Rainey Suggests Aim of
College Education

"If we should accept the cri-
terion of the number of employ-
ment opportunities that require
college training and limit our en-
rollments in colleges to this num-
ber, we should thereby Have to re-
duce our college enrollments to
about one-half or possibly one-
third of their present size. The
democratic alternative is to admit
all youth into high school and col-
lege who have ability and character
and to recognize that such training
may have values for our democracy
wholly apart from its contribution
to the enhancement of one's earn-
ing power and economic status."
University of Texas' President,
Homer P. Rainey, maintains that
college education should be more
than -job-training. (ACP.)

Front Row

Britain's first peacetime con-
scription bill is formally introduc-
ed in Commons by Prime Minister
Chamberlain, who also informs
the House that negotiations with
Russia for Anglo-Russian alliance
proceed "with all possible dis-
patch/'

Danger Neutrality

Possible German-Japanese-Rus-
sian alliance suggested by P. M.,
of American Peace Society, as ar-
gument in favor of repeal of U. S.
neutrality legislation, the bases for
his statement being the present
German- Jap alliance and Russia's
"power politics," an attempt to
win Germany's friendship.

Axis Grease

Berlin army commander in
Rome is perhaps symbol of Ger-
man attempt to secure definite
military alliance with Italy, while
the famed Brenner Pass is being
steadily fortified on both sides.

Caribbean Vigilantes

U. S. War Department estab-
lishes Caribbean Military Depart-
ment under Brigadier-General Ed-
mund L. Daley in recognition of
the necessity of guarding the Pan-
ama Canal, Mexico, and the Gulf
states.

It's Art

trie c5iton

Editor's Note: Since the NEWS is an
organ of campus expression, we invite and
welcome contributions to this column.
Henceforth, however, only signed letters
will be printed.

Dear Editor:

Gamboling on the Green is quite
the latest thing at Agnes Scott
these days, we notice. And the
kind of gamboling that was done
down on the hockey field Saturday
night is quite all right with us, but
the kind we don't like is that
which goes on all over the campus
all day every day. That is the
complete disregard that so many
people have for the "please" signs
so generously distribiaed.

Our campus is a place beautiful
enough to make us all proud of our
alma mater, but even common
politeness and good breeding should
keep us from so deliberately des-
troying the grass that is so expen-
sive to cultivate and keep up.

The route from Inman to Butt-
rick is long and tedious, we admit,
especially when one is on the verge
of being late for one's class, but
please let's run by way of the walks
instead of walking across the grass
making a bee line for Buttrick.
Anyway, that small amount of ex-
tra exercise wouldn't hurt most of
the people who utilize the grass.

Now, we love our freshmen and
all that, but we feel forced to ad-
mit that they are the worst grass
walker-oners we ever saw. They
have succeeded in cutting a well-
defined path straight to Buttrick
diagonally across the quadrangle
and they literally keep it hot, too
hot for any grass to grow. If they
would apply their wonderful class
spirit to this situation, they could
do something about it quick.

But mind you, freshmen are not
the only offenders. Upperclassmen,
especially the tea-house-bound
ones, do their share.

Let's do something about it, and
here's one suggestion keep off the
grass!

Sincerely,

"Please."

Dress rehearsal of May Day pageant
Monday night gave proof that the dancers
are practically ready for Friday's per-
formance.

Orpheus and his lyre are beautifully
synchronized with the music of the hidden
orchestra, and Eurydice, as a member of
the faculty remarked, is "heartbreakingly
lovely." Those who saw "Midsummer
Night's Dream" last year remember how
effective a night performance it; the un-
derworld scene in "Orpheus and Eurydice"
would be impossible in sunlight. This year,
lighting will be arranged so as to bring
out colors sharply against the green back-
ground.

May Day, improved each year as it is,
is the product of a real, living art wheh

Mrs. Lapp and Miss Dozier represent on
the campus. It is a pure art, since all ex-
presion in the pageant is through move-
ment alone. It is the sole example of its

kind in this community, and has a signifi-
cance to, people outside Agnes Scott; wit-
ness the Atlantans who "have never miss-
ed a May Da v."

May Day does not ask financial support
from us next Friday; students not on the
black list are admitted free. But it asks
that we support the spirit of May Day
one of the few pure forms of artistic ex-
pression on the campus.

We Think So, Too

The Letter to the Editor this week
comes as a welcome bit of copy. No less
than twenty people have requested an edi-
torial on the subject, but inspiration for
effective expression has been lacking.
Now Anne Enloe, who has spent long
hours on the front porch of Gaines shout-
ing "Get off the grass!", has come for-
ward with just the argument needed.
Widespread complaint convinces us that
when we cross the grass we are crossing
public sentiment.

Point System

The Associated Collegiate Press Fea-
ture Service offers the following item as
evidence of a new trend on college cam-
puses :

"CAMBRIDGE, MASS. Participation
by a few individuals in many activities is
being attacked on the Massachusetts In-
stitute of Technology campus by a special
committee which is drawing up a point
system which will limit the number of ac-
tivities in which any one student may be
active. The basis of the plan is a set sys-
tem of points which is allotted for each
activity, and no student may amass more
than a set total during any one year . . ."

So perhaps Agnes Scott is out in front
in more ways than alphabetically.

Parade o Opinion

By Associated Collegiate Press

Firm in their demands for world peace, but
divided in their views as to how the U. S. should
work for it, an estimated 100,000 students held
peace rallies on many college and university cam-
puses last week. Abandoning the "strike" idea of
former years, the meetings this year were quiet
and mild.

The split in views came over the question of
neutrality versus collective security. No figures
are available to tell which opinion drew the larg-
est number of adherents. Despite the many edi-
torials in the college press urging students to face
the facts of the present international situation,
the demonstrations this year drew the smallest
crowds in years.

The Agnes Scott News

VOL. XXIV

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR. GA.. WEDNESDAY. MAY 10. 1939

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No. 21

Officials Name
New Set
Of Sponsors

Group Consists of

Girls from

Both Upper Classes

This week Miss Scandrett, Miss
Hunter, and the old and new pres-
idents and vice presidents selected
the sponsors for next year. Differ-
ent from preceding years, the
group for next year will consist of
both juniors and seniors.

The sophomores chosen were:

Jeanne Allen, Elizabeth Barrett,
Sabine Brumby, Jo Cates, Freda
Copeland, Mary Elizabeth Culver,
Florence Ellis, Peggy Falkinburg,
Ann Fisher, Lucile Gaines, Ellen
Gould, Tine Gray, Beryl Healey,
Rebekah Hogan, Mary Ivy, Aileen
Kasper,, Betty Kyle, Marcia Mans-
field, Anne Martin, Margaret Mur-
chison, Joy O'Brien, Pattie Patter-
son, Sarah Rainey, Elizabeth Rup-
recht, Laura Sale, Louise Sams,
Lillian Schwencke, Susan Self,
Gene Slack, Frances Spratlin, Caro-
lyn Strozier, Elaine Stubbs, Gay
Swagerty, Ida Jane Vaughan, Bet-
ty Waitt, Grace Walker, Doris
Weinkle, Mary Scott Wilds, Vir-
ginia Williams, Cornelia Willis,
Mary Wisdom, Anita Woolfolk,
Glenwyn Young.

Juniors chosen were: Marjorie
Boggs, Bobby Brown, Jeanette
Carroll, Helen Carson, Ernestine
Cass, Rebecca Drucker, Ruth
Eyles, Christine Florence, Bryant
Holsenbeck, Georgia Hunt, Ruth
Kaplan, Mary Caroline Lee, Bar-
bara Lee Murlin, Mary McPhaul,
Eva Ann Pirkle, Margaret Ratch-
ford, Isabelle Robertson, Eloise
Weeks, Frances Woodall.

Dr. McCain Confers
About Music Building

Dr. J. R. McCain returned Fri-
day from a two-day trip to Phila-
delphia, New York, and Washing-
ton. While in Philadelphia, he con-
ferred with the Presser Foundation
about the new Agnes Scott music
building.

Library Offers

New Vocational Data

Mortar Board, in cooperation
with the Dean and other campus
officials, has arranged with Miss
Hanley that our vocational data
be brought up to date. Among
the pamphlets placed conspiciously
in the library will be found infor-
mation on medicine, social service,
store careers, library provisions,
teaching and other work. Also
facts about various special scholar-
ships will be offered.

Remembrance Service

Honors Friends

Tribute to Miss Hopkins
Heads Program

In the midst of commencement
week-end excitement will come a
service of quiet tribute to the
friends of Agnes Scott who have
died during the fifty years of
the school's life. "This year of all
years should be a time for having
such a service," said Dr. McCain,
"since we have lost during this
year two devoted friends, Miss
Hopkins and Mr. Orr."

Held in the chapel at 5 o'clock
Sunday afternoon, June 4, the Re-
membrance Service will feature the
unveiling of a bust of Miss Hop-
kins, sculptured out of Georgia
marble by Steffen Thomas, noted
Atlanta sculptor. It is hoped that
Miss Hopkins' great-nieces, daugh-
ters of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Cal-
ley, of Huntington, West Virginia,
Will be present to unveil the bust.

In addition to this service, the
program will include a tribute to
all the faculty and officers who
have passed on during the college
history, given by Miss Llewellyn
Willburn; special music by Mrs.
S. G. Stukes and Mr. C. W. Dieck-
mann; a poem read by Jean Bailey;
and a short talk and prayer by Dr.
McCain.

Decorations are to be planned by
Mrs. Donald Hastings and Mrs.
Granger Hansell.

Campus Statistics Reveals
Light, Water Rates

How many times have you
walked quite unconsciously across
that big grating-covered hole in
the walk between Buttrick and
Rebekah? Well, did you know that
it is now a transformer station and
used to be the swimming pool in
the old pre-Bucher Scott Gymna-
sium? And that it is one of the
three such stations on the campus,
and all of them have connections
(vague ones to most of us) with
the fact that Agnes Scott's light
bill averages about $5 50 a month.

Did you ever give a researchful
thought to the whistle down at the
laundry that goes sss-ssss-ssss-
woosh! every time you are trying
to write a term paper in the li-
brary? Well, that has not so vague
connections with the fact that we
use about 1,160,000 gallons of
water a month. Incidentally, some
2,700 tons, or 65 carloads, of coal

per year help produce that steam,
and said steam heats the 3 1 build-
ings included in the campus com-
munity.

From 27^00 tons to 90-100
pounds is a big drop, but 90
pounds is about 5 0 chickens and
that is what Rebekah dining room
eats on chicken days, along with
some 75 pounds of potatoes and 16
loaves of bread and 450 biscuits.

Dr. McCain and Mr. Cunning-
ham are most puzzled about that
huge amount of water we use. Dr.
McCain has it mathematically fig-
ured out that it isn't humanly pos-
sible for so few people to drink so
much water or even bathe in it,
and Mr. Cunningham is convinced
that at least half a million gallons
are wasted by such things as let-
ting tubs and basins run over, and
letting a tub full of boiling water
run and then letting it all out.

New Council
Lays Plans
For Next Year

Beginning the progressive pro-
gram of Student Government for
the year 1939-40, new officers of
the organization took a student
ballot last Friday in chapel to de-
termine the thirty senior chaper-
ones for next year. Results are to
be announced after the Adminis-
trative Committee has completed a
revision of the list.

At a meeting held Tuesday aft-
ernoon at Miss Scandrett's home,
the Administrative Committee
made other plans for the year, in-
cluding the questions of lights,
telephones, rules, more lockers for
the Day Student room, and the
purchase of new registration books
for the dormitories.

According to Henrietta Thomp-
son, president, a new compulsory
student budget of $18, which will
include student publications, pro-
ductions of Blackfriars, lectures,
and the operetta, has been propos-
ed. Also the handbook is to be re-
vised in order to clarify point sys-
tem rules.

Newly appointed house presi-
dents of the cottages are: Frances
Breg, Boyd; Betsy Kendrick, White
House; and Martha Boone, Lupton.
The following girls have been ap-
pointed to other duties for
1939-40: Virginia Montgomery,
charge of the sewing room; Jane
Taylor, the kitchen in Murphey
Candler; Betty Ann Brooks, the
victrola; and Martha Boone and
Betsy Kendrick, the book ex-
change.

B. S. U. Installs
New Council

The installation of the council
members of the Baptist Student
Union for the year 1939-40 was
held last week at vespers. The new
members of the council are: Mary
Reins, Polly Heaslett, Mary Vir-
ginia Brown, Mary McPhaul, Sara
E. Lee, Winslow Howard, Ann
Fisher, Freda Copeland, Eloise
Weeks, Eugenia Bridges, Alice In-
zer, and Jeanne Lee.

The B. S. U. members are look-
ing forward to the annual city-
wide banquet which is to be held
at the First Baptist Church on
Thursday, May 11. At this time
the city-wide officers, who were
elected at the Spring Retreat at
Camp Koweta on April 22-23,
will be installed.

Miss Dexter Receives
Science Grant

Honoring Miss Emily Dexter,
the Georgia Academy of Science
recently announced a grant of
money to her for research work in
psychology.

This grant came to the Georgia
Academy from the American As-
sociation for the Advancement of
Science. Miss Dexter has planned
to do her testing and research with
non-college material. She will not
begin this work until data can be
compiled. Because of the nature
of the research, the subject she
will study cannot be revealed at
this time.

Alumnae Office Holds
Homecoming Program

Knight, Colwell, Woolley
Will Speak For Commencement

From the Alumnae Office this week came announcements
of plans for Home-Coming Commencement Week-End, which
will begin on Friday, June 2, and close with Commencement
exercises on Tuesday, June 6. The program, submitted by
Nell Chamlee, resident Alumnae Secretary, is as follows:

June

Classes Lead
Vespers

Walker Heads
Group

The theme of the last four ves-
per services of the year, led by the
four classes, has been taken from
II Peter 3:8-18. The freshmen be-
gan the series with "Be Not Ig-
norant," and the sophomores fol-
lowed with "Be Thou Diligent."
The juniors will continue the series
next week with "Beware." Fol-
lowing tradition, the seniors will
lead the last vesper service of the
year, using as subject "But Grow."

In former years this series of
services has been the best attended
of the year's programs.

Representatives of A. S. C. A.
who attended the Area Leadership
meeting last week-end were Kath-
erine Patton, Louise Hughston,
Grace Walker, and Scottie Wilds.
This meeting, held at the National
Student Council Office in Atlanta,
was composed of representatives
from all colleges in Georgia affil-
iated with the National Y. W.
C. A. Grace Walker was elected
president of the Georgia group.

Tennis Club Entertains
Collegiate Visitors

Four girls from the University
of Georgia and four from Wes-
leyan have been invited by the
Tennis Club to be guests on the
campus on Saturday, May 13.

Sings in Recital

Virginia Kyle, contralto,
whose recital Monday night
opened Music Week on the
campus.

2: Decatur Club Chil-
dren's Party at 4:00 P. M.

June 3: Trustees' Luncheon at
1:00 P. M., Rebekah Scott Dining
Room; speaker, Mary Lamar
Knight, author of On My Own,
and member of class of '27. Gen-
eral Alumnae Association Meeting,
following the luncheon. Phi Beta
Kappa Banquet, 6:30 P. M., Alum-
nae House. The Gondoliers, given
by the Glee Club, Mr. Lewis John-
son, directing, at 8:30 P. M., Bu-
cher Scott Gymnasium.

June 4: Baccalaureate Service,
11:00 A. M., Bucher Scott Gymna-
sium, Dr. E. C. Colwell, Dean of
Divinity School of the University
of Chicago. The Dean's After
Luncheon Coffee, in Murphey
Candler Building, 2:30 P. M.
Service of Remembrance, 4:00
P. M. Open House, 6:30 P. M.,
Alumnae Garden.

June 5: Reunion Luncheons,
Alumnae House, 1:00 P. M. Class
Day, 4:30 P. M., May Day Dell.
1934 and 193 8 Reunion Dinner,
6:30 P. M. Bridal Chorus, by
Roberta Winter, '27, given under
the direction of Miss Frances
Gooch and Carrie Phinney Lati-
mer, '36, with alumnae in all the
feminine roles, 8:30 P. M. (Car-
rie Phinney Latimer and Alice
McCallie, '36, will have same parts
as when seniors.)

June 6: Commencement Exer-
cises, 10:00 A. M., Bucher Scott
Gymnasium; speaker, Dr. Mary E.
Woolley, Mt. Holyoke College.

Rotary Club
Elects Dr.McCain
Vice President

Dr. James Ross McCain was
elected first vice president of the
Atlanta Rotary Club on April 22
at the regular weekly luncheon.

The Rotary Club is a civic or-
ganization, and is composed of one
member from each business or pro-
fession. There are two hundred and
sixty members in the Atlanta Club.
Dr. McCain is the woman's college
representative. Since his election
to membership in 1932 he has ar
tended a rotary meeting each week.

He has been a member of the
Executive Committee for three
years and was chairman of the
Sunshine Committee last year.

Upon taking office on July 3,
Dr. McCain will become supervisor
of the Attendance, Fellowship,
Membership, Hospitality, Music,
Program, Publicity, and Sunshine
Committees. His other duties will
be to attend the monthly meetings
of each of these committees and to
preside when the president, Mr. J.
C. Malone, is absent.

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THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1939

Lecture Group
Reports

Hopkins Lists
Committee for 1939-40

Margaret Hopkins, new presi-
dent of Lecture Association, an-
nounces the following officers of
the association: Mary Virginia
Brown, treasurer; Mary Louise Pal-
mer, sophomore representative;
Betty Waitt, junior representative;
Anne Enloe, Agnes Scott News
publicity; Evelyn Baty, publicity;
Grace Ward, social chairman;
Frances Spratlin, day student rep-
resentative; and Florrie Guy, day
student representative.

Elizabeth Kenney, outgoing
treasurer of the Association, makes
a financial report, as follows:

Receipts
Balance from last year__$ 9.94

Student budget 220.74

Ticket sale 785.90

Borrowed from savings

account 130.00

Total $1,146.58

Disbursements

Lecturers

E. G. Goodspeed $ 150.00

Maurice Hindus 2 5 0.00

Andre Maurois 600.00

Total $1,000.00

Receptions $ 16.25

Silhouette 25.00

Advertising, correspond-
ence, etc. 5 8.75

Microphone 40.00

Total $1,140.00

Total income $1,146.5 8

Expenses : 1,140.00

Balance on hand $ 6.5 8

Stevens College is not the only
school which sponsors tours. Thir-
ty-five students at Ward -Belmont
recently visited Annapolis and
New York and had a yacht cruise
around Long Island.

WEIL'S 5c & 10c STORE
Sycamore Street
Decatur, Georgia

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Clubs Elect
Officers; Members

Virginia Milner and Marjorie
Merlin will oppose Mary Louise
Dobbs and Beatrice Piassick to de-
termine Pi Alpha Phi's number one
debating team. The meeting will
be in Murphey Candler Building at
seven.

Journalism

Betty Jean O'Brien has been
named first vice president of KUB,
filling the vacancy left by the res-
ignation of Rebecca Drucker.
Art

A representative of Rich's De-
partment of Interior Decorating
will address Pen and Brush mem-
bers at a meeting of the club on
Thursday afternoon.
Candler Building. The meeting
begins at 4:30.

The following officers, chosen
at a special meeting of Pen and
Brush Friday will lead the club
next year: Beatrice Shamos, presi-
dent; Patricia Fleming, secretary-
treasurer; Betty Medlock, social
committee chairman.

Writing

Sam Olive Griffin was chosen
president of BOZ and Cornelia
Willis was re-elected secretary at
last week's meeting of the club.

Pattie Patterson, Cornelia Stuc-
key, and Wallace Lyons were ad-
mitted through recent try-outs.
German

Mary Evelyn Francis, Mary
Elizabeth Leavitt, Louise Sullivan,
Betty Jean O'Brien, and Marjorie
Boggs have been selected for mem-
bership in German Club.

"Crisis/' Historical Film
To Show at Rialto

"Crisis," the documentary film
history of Adolf Hitler's absorb-
tion of Czechoslovakia, will open
Thursday, May 11, at the Rialto
Theatre in Atlanta.

Described by critics as "one of
the greatest motion pictures of its
type ever produced," the film viv-
idly illustrates the ruthless German
campaign which culminated in the
treaty of Munich.

Produced by Herbert Kline,
with a commentary written by
Vincent Sheean, "Crisis" tells for
the first time on the screen the
real story of the Czechoslovakia
crisis and presents a stirring eye
witness account of one of the
most epochal events of modern
times.

Fisher Takes Lead
In Golf Match

Progress has been slow this week
in the various tournaments be-
cause of May Day and Senior Op-
era. In golf, Fisher defeated Wylie,
and Davidowitz, Pinner, and Car-
son will play their matches at the
beginning of next week.

Seniors Shine
In Operatic Force

The opening scene of "Amphi-
tryon 3 8" took the closing bow in
Senior Opera Saturday night.
O-Me-O, Amelia Nickels, and
You-My-Pet, Jane Moore Hamil-
ton, reposed on a pasteboard and
cotton cloud bank with their tem-
porarily borrowed anatomy of
flesh - colored cardboard above
them, a fitting end for a modern-
izing renaissance romance. O-
Me-O Mightycute wins fair You-
My-Pet Catchimyet and "coedifi-
cation" in spite of family, faculty
and traffic lights. Virginia Kyle
and Toni Newton as Joylett and
Mama Catchimyet, deserve special
recognition for their singing and
acting.

The mock faculty won two
bows with Rachel Campbell and
Kate starring as Miss Slick, Inc.
Katie even smelled the cabbage
corsage at the psychological mo-
ment. Mary Hollingsworth and
Committees should take a curtain
call for doing an excellent piece of
work.

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Colleges Recognize
Photography
For Credit

"The photography department
of Texas State College for Women,
first in the Southwest, plays an
important part in the history of
the college. When, in 1903, a
small group of people gathered to-
gether to plan the establishment of
the Woman's Industrial College of
Texas, there were full provisions
for the first photography depart-
ment to bring college credit." At
first, leading educators were amaz-
ed or disgusted at the thought of
giving college credit for this sub-
ject. "The first school of photog-
raphy attracted those interested in
photography as a profession, and
led to a three year course in com-
mercial photography that stressed
portrature." Albums crammed
with pictures now serve as a record
of the college history from the
time when girls were loitering
around a dairy barn or raking new
mown hay up to recent years, when
the department was abandoned.
(The Lass-O T. S. C. W.)

Archery Teams Join

Tournament

College Enters
Inter-CoHegicrte Fray

The National Archery Associa-
tion is sponsoring again this year
the Tenth Annual Inter-Collegiate
Telegraphic Archery Tournament.
Colleges with women students all
over the country are invited to en-
ter teams. This year Agnes Scott
has entered two teams, and the
teams will shoot off the official
rounds during the week of May
13-20.

Agnes Scott won in the southern
district last year, and Louise Mus-
ser was high scorer. Each contest-
ant is allowed one Columbia
Round, shooting 24 arrows at 50
yards, 40 yards, and 30 yards, and
the regulation target will be used.
The other competing schools in the
southern district are Texas, Okla-
homa, Arkansas, Louisiana, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama,
Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, Tenn-
essee, Mississippi, and Virginia. The
official scores will be sent by tele-
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Student Sees
Campus WPA

By B. I O'BRIEN

The other day, while leaning out
the lab window to avoid becoming
absolutely asphyxiated, our glance
happened to wander down to the
back of Science Hall, and, to our
great surprise, chanced to fall on
what looked like a W. P. A. work-
er working! i The laborer was
clad in the conventional khaki out-
fit, but was actually digging a
hole a hole, my dear with a
shovel . . . and he was leaning into
it, not on it. . . . Imagine our sur-
prise when it turned out to be none
other than tall, dark, and you-
know-what Dr. Runyon . . . and a
little prank of this hard-working
professor has come to our ears, al-
though somewhat belatedly it
seems as how the good botanist, on
April Foo pardon April first,
placed five count 'em five large
and unmistakable beer steins on the
dean's desk. Some foam, eh
vat?? . . .

Gaines Dress

The Gaines Protective Institute,
or Cottage, gang has decided to
break down and confess that, after
all, onesty is the best policy, or a
rolling stone doesn't lead\ to Rome,
so whereas: they have adopted a
snazzy dress and christened it the
Gaines uniform why boys leave
home. ... It is a cute little two-
piece number with a navy blue
skirt and pretty print blouse . . .
all orders, address Rebecca Druc-
ker, in care of the station to which
you are listening, or write your
name on the back of a stove lid
and send it to your Congressman
. . . eventually, why not now??

Flitting Canine

Laugh-of-the-week!! The star
performer of flit class is now re-
vealed . . . while a breathless and
expectant audience sat listening
and watching patiently in the May
Day Dell, Friday night last, there
came a lovely brown and white vi-
sion of caninity into the center of
the Dell, which paused and wagged
its tail appreciatively. After en-
joying for a few minutes the in-
toxicating rapture of the cynosure
of all eyes, he (the dog) was
whisked off efficiently by the
Hon. Dr. J. R. McC, who dropped
him gently but firmly over the
wall in the front of the library.
The anguished howls of the petit
chien from his leafy prison brought
Dr. Robinmath-son to his rescue,
and the aesthetically inclined ani-
mal was allowed to watch May
Day unmolested . . . e'en the very
dogs fall under the spell of the
May Queen . . . wouldn't you??
Then most folks feel like happy
days are here again . . .

Freshman Sets Pace
In Latest Fad

Harvard may imbibe gold first
by the billion, and the University
of Georgia may claim phonograph
records as their favorite caloric in-
take but our campus sets the
pace! Agnes Scott takes first place
among women colleges in this lat-
est of fads.

Now it happened one night that
Freshman Dot Estes started to the
Tea House and, finding it very
crowded, could control her hunger
no longer; so she calmly went out
into the moonlit garden, with its
faint fragrence of budding roses,
and with the trees trembling in the
breath of the spring night, she
stepped hesitantly to the side of the
lily pond, dipped her finger daint-
ily down into the water for a mo-
ment and ate three tadpoles!

Classical Pageant
Wins Favor

Hades' luxuriant whiskers, the
court's upswept coiffeurs, the Gre-
cian costumes, and a harp in the
orchestra that made the lyre of Or-
pheus a reality, held the top flight
attention in ''Orpheus and Eury-
dice" Friday night. The dancing
of Helen Moses was graceful and
expressive, reaching its peak in her
death scene. Beth Paris and Helen
again drew involuntary applause in
the moving scene of Orpheus'
failure to free Eurydice from the
underworld.

The court, participating as at-
tendants on Queen Persephone,
Ad Benson, was striking in its
simple classical robes and colorful
bouquets.

Blonde, attractive Miss Jo Chap-
man is the only feminine college
basketball coach in the United
States. (Martin College, Tenn.)

"Pop" Warner, of Temple, be-
came so excited during the 26-26
game with Boston College that he
smoked two cigarettes at a time.

Agnes Scott Girls Are
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upon Agnes Scott for May Day-
Senior Opera week-end would have
cramped the style of some of our
belles. However, by skillful manip-
ulation, and clever budgeting of
time, many of them managed to
attend the campus productions,
visit with mom and pop, and also
go to some interesting social func-
tions.

To begin with, about this Beta
Kid Party; it's one of a group of
famous affairs that are given each
year by some of the fraternities.
Nell Pinner, Eleanor Hall, Eloise
McCall, Martha Watkins, Olivia
White, Grace Elizabeth Anderson,
Hazel Solomon, Frances Breg, Su-
san Goodwyn, Mitzi Sanders, Vir-
ginia Clower, Lib Davis, Nina
Broughton, Eugenia Hailey, Sara
M. Lee, Virginia Webb Stanley,
and Frances Butt were there.

The K. A.'s at Emory really did
things in a big way this week-end.
There was a dance Friday night, a
skating party Saturday afternoon,
and after that, a Cheer Wagon
supper.

Among the girls attending one

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The Phi Delta Thetas at Tech
gave a barbecue which Val Nielsen
and Joy O'Brien attended.

Ida Jane Vaughn went to the
banquet that was given as a part
of the Sigma Chi Convention,
which was held here this week-end.

And then more Tech affairs
the S. A. E. picnic attracted Kee-
ker Newton, Jeannette Herenaer,
Mary Bell, and Frankie Butt. Then
the A. T. O.-Pi K. A. outing was
attended by Eloise McCall, Hazel
Solomon, and Ethlyn Dyar.

Another one of those annual
functions is the Chi Phi Blackrock
party. Jane Jones, Sarah Copeland,
Elizabeth Jenkins, Nina May
Snead, and Charlene Burke can
tell you all about it.

Betty Ball Embry went to Am-
ericus for the week-end, and Grace
Anderson dashed to Anderson,
S. C, for a short-but-worth-it visit
there.

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Hailing from Clarksdale, Mississippi, known by home-
towners as the "Golden Buckle on the Cotton Belt," Marie
Merritt is an authority on conventions, on balancing the fi-
nancial end of a newspaper, and on eating doughnuts, which
she admits is the most delicious of all pastimes.

Marie's triumphs started long before she even dreamed of

making Phi Beta Kappa or becom-
ing president of Eta Sigma Phi. In
the fifth grade she portrayed
Mother Earth herself! And soon
afterwards, just to show her versa-
tility in lines other than maternal
ones, she was "Age of Innocence"
in a living picture exhibit. In

scholarship Marie was an "all
A" pupil except for that time
in the second grade when her
report contained one B. Marie
immediately remedies the situa-
tion by erasing the B and re-
placing it with an A, and by
scrawling across the card in red
crayon, "HONOR ROLL." The
real tragedy of the second grade
was Marie's compulsory separation
from her best friend for whisper-
ing and giggling too much. Marie
consoled herself by consuming
bananas all during class.

Music, Debate

In high school Marie practiced
up on the piano so she could play
in the string ensemble here, and
participated in debating so she

could offer Mary Fa Guthrie, her
roommate, some competition. Ac-
cording to Marie, her early debat-
ing training was really effective,
for she has won every argument ex-
cept one (Note: Guthrie's statis-
tics differ on this point).

Conventions

Marie's senior year here has been
a conglomeration of conventions,
honors, and surprises. In spite of
being business manager of the
Agonistic, president of Agnes
Scott Eta Sigma Phi, national first
vice president of Eta Sigma Phi,
pianist for the string ensemble and
making Phi Beta Kappa, she has
found time to go on three conven-
tions. Nothing that happened re-
cently was more amazing than re-
ceiving a letter from an unknown,
lusty sailor on the high seas tell-
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with people, especially girls," and
asking her to write and send a pic-
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THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS. WEDNESDAY. MAY 10. 1939

Agnes Scott College
Decatur, Ga.

Edit

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Features

Vol. XXIV, No. 21
Wednesday, May 10, 1939

Faculty Scatter
For Summer
Activity

On trips to Mexico, California,
New York, Wisconsin, North
Carolina, Florida, and other points
north, east, south, and west, many
of the faculty members will spend
summer vacations this year. Oth-
ers plan summer school teaching or
studying, while others have not
yet made definite plans.

Numbered among the traveling
faculty are Miss Muriel Harn and
Miss Katherine Omwake, who will
go to Mexico. Miss Elizabeth Mit-
chell plans to travel to California
and the San Francisco World's Fair.
Miss Ann Worthy Johnson will go
for the summer months to Wiscon-
sin. Dr. Henry Robinson and his
family will exchange homes with
his sister and go to North Caro-
lina. Miss Elizabeth Jackson will
attend a meeting of the American
Association of University Women
in Denver, Colorado, and Miss
Emily Dexter will spend her vaca-
tion at her cottage in Florida. In
the early part of September, Miss
Llewellyn Wilburn will attend a
hockey camp in Pennsylvania.

Teaching at Hunter College in
New York will be Miss Emma May
Laney and Dr. George P. Hayes,
who also plan to visit the New
York World's Fair.

For summer school study, Miss
Charlotte Hunter will attend Duke
University. Miss Ellen Leyburn
will study at the Folger Shake-
speare Library in Washington,
D. C.

Those teachers who plan to go
home are Miss Margaret Bell and
Miss Margaret Phythian. Remain-
ing on the campus will be Miss
Mildred Mell, Mr. S. Guerry
Stukes, and at Emory University
part time will be Miss Evelyn
Houck. Dr. Phillip Davidson will
make a survey of the problems of
the University Center in Atlanta
by comparing the conditions here
with those of other university cen-
ter cities.

Mrs. Adolf Lapp and Dr. Lapp
have not made definite plans, but
Dr. Lapp will become an American

Nazis Send Literature
To College Critics

Providence, R. I. (ACP) H.
Lane Losey and Thomas O. Paine
have definite proof of the effec-
tiveness of Adolf Hitler's Nazi
propaganda machine.

These two Brown University
freshmen have just received 15
volumes on Nazi culture and in-
dustry because, in a moment of
fun, they addressed a note to Der
Fuehrer telling him how much
they admired him. They particu-
larly commended him for the bril-
liant success of his foreign policy,
but closed their message with a
mild note of censure: "We feel
free to criticize our President, but
we don't want any foreigners to
say anything against him."

In immediate response to their
note, they received five pounds of
literature from Berlin.

Typical line from one of the
books: "Germany is a land of
work! Germany is a land of peace!
Germany is a land of joy!"

Sponsors Learn How

With the announcement of next year's
sponsors comes news that growth is going
on in a factor of college life hitherto un-
derdeveloped here : the sponsor system.

Upperclassmen who will be directly re-
sponsible for the orientation of freshmen
next fall are to be a group thoroughly in-
formed and organized for the work. They
will attend two training classes this
month, will be contacted during the sum-
mer several times, and will meet in Sep-
tember for final preparation. They will
be kept conscious of their responsibility
throughout the year, and will probably
prove the most efficient group of sponsors
in the history of the system here.

Despite this concentrated effort toward
special training, the girls whose names ap-
pear in the announcement are to be re-
garded as only "acting sponsors." Next
year, all old students will be considered a
part of the orientation system. This seems
a far more practicable arrangement than
the old one, which stood on the hypothesis
that one girl could be solely responsible
for the adjustment of half a dozen fresh-
men.

As unofficial sponsors, then, all upper-
classmen are asked to make a conscious
effort toward the edification, by both ex-
ample and direct influence, of freshman
attitudes and general welfare.

This appears as a chance for us to make
a definite contribution toward the future
standing and growth of the college: to
provide it with a class of girls who, hav-
ing been "started off right," will have a
firm footing from which to progress to-
ward a higher and more tangible realiza-
tion of the aims of the college and of col-
lege life.

Tomorrow Takes Years

"The World of Tomorrow" was opened
in New York last week with all the cere-
mony due so huge a venture, by the na-
tion's greatest men, dwarfed beneath the
colossal trylon and perisphere.

Recently the New York Times ran a
series of photographs in its rotogravure
section, taken in 1936 and 1939, of Flush-
ing Meadows, where the Fair is now lo-
cated. The first picture showed a vast
dump heap; the last, a magic city of
streamlined, dazzlingly white buildings.
In three years, from a dump heap, the
World of Tomorrow has been created.

We, not Grover Whalen, will build the
real World of Tomorrow, in much more
than three years' time. It should prove in-
teresting to go to New York and take a
look at his model; we might get some
pointers.

The Asnes Scott News

Agnes Scott College Student Newspaper

Entered as second class matter at the Decatur, Georgia,
post office.

Vol. 24 Wednesday, May 10 No. 21

Eleanor Hutchens EDITOR

Evelyn Baty MANAGING EDITOR

Mary Louise Dobbs BUSINESS MANAGER

Virginia Clower Anns Martin

Elaine Stubbs Sports Editor

Assistant Editors Hazel Solomon

Rebecca Drucker Exchange Editor

Copy Editor Jeannette Carroll

Florence Ellis Alumna Editor

Advertising Manager Suaan Self

Anne Enloe Club Editor

Georgia Hunt Eloise Lennard

Feature Editors Society Editor

Betty Jean O'Brien Lib Barrett

Doris Weinkle Bee Bradfield

Assistant Feature Editors Assistant Society Editors

Jane Salters Ernestine Cass

Current History Circulation Manager

Reporter*: B. Bradfield, J. Cates, L. Franklin, M. Gray,

J. Lancaster, S. M. Lee, M. Merlin, E. McCall, J. Osborne,

T. Ripley, G. Slack. V. Watkins, C. Willis, J. Wltman.

Business Staff: E. Barrett, M. S. Dillard, M. Doak, L. Sale,

M. Simpson. M. Walking, A. Wilds.

Front Row

King George and Queen Mary
received royal send-off as the Em-
press of Australia, under the guard
of three warships, sets sail for Can-
ada and the United States. News
of the Duke of Windsor's broad-
cast is seen to be a possible embar-
rassment to the goodwill tour.

Nazi-Fascist formal political,
military alliance is thought by
France to mean "Macedonia free
state" in Yugoslavia under Italian
political domination and interfer-
ence of Duce in German-Polish
dispute, while Nazis and Fascists
look forward to more stable peace.

Roosevelt shows optimism over
outcome of soft coal deadlock, sees
no reason to prevent adjustment
by collective bargaining; LaGuar-
dia meanwhile urges staggering of
business hours in order to keep
New York's subways going.

Ciano urges Ribbentrop to com-
promise German - Polish quarrel
while Poland, determined to resist
aggression, legislates "exceptional
powers" to President Moscicki and
Vatican representatives confer
with German high officials in the
cause of peace.

British-Turkish "mutual assist-
ance pact" is full alliance against
any disturbance of the status quo
of the Balkans and the Near East.

Gaines Descendant
Weds in Chapel

Sweaters and skirts and school
books in Gaines chapel will give
way early in June to orange blos-
soms and a wedding veil when the
granddaughter of the first presi-
dent of Agnes Scott is married
there. Miss Virginia Ethel Gaines
and Dr. Frederick Barham Ragland
are to take their vows in the Ag-
nes Scott chapel just after the fif-
tieth anniversary of the founding
of the college is celebrated.

Miss Gaines is the youngest
daughter of Mrs. Gaines and the
late Dr. Lewis MacFarland Gaines.
Her mother is the former Miss
Ethel Alexander, prominent in li-
brary circles before her marriage.
Her father was for many years a
practicing physician in Atlanta,
and her grandfather, the late Rev.
Frank Henry Gaines, was a founder
and the first president of Agnes
Scott College. The bride-elect was
graduated from North Avenue
Presbyterian School, and received
her B.A. degree from Agnes Scott
College. She spent a year in grad-
uate work at Emory University,
and is now employed as technician
in the Bacteriology-Pathology Lab-
oratory of the Atlanta Southern
Dental College.

Dr. Ragland is the son of Pro-
fessor Eugene Ragland, for twenty
years actively connected with Boys'
High School as teacher and princi-
pal. Mrs. Ragland is the former
Miss Anne Clyde Ellis, of Meri-
wether County, Georgia. He is a
graduate of the School of Medi-
cine of Emory University, a mem-
ber of the Sigma Pi fraternity, and
has been interning at Grady Hos-
pital for the last three years.

CAMPUS QUOTES

Honor Students
Favor Comprehensives

By GEORGIA HUNT

The idea of comprehensive examinations is
playing a very important part in the curriculum
of many colleges and universities today. Should
Agnes Scott adopt this program of examination
or should she continue as she has in the past?

Sophie Montgomery, '40, says: "The very
thought of taking comprehensives scares me to
death. I don't know enough about the facts con-
cerning them to know whether they are really
effective in summing up and relating the whole
college course for a student.

"If they do this I suppose they are good, but
I think the student should be prepared for it from
her freshman year."

Pattie Patterson, '41, says: "I like the principle
of comprehensive exams because it has a definite
value for the student.

"I don't think the results of comprehensives
should determine the student's record for a de-
gree.

"A great many people might be unable to make
a showing in this type of exam whereas they
would make a much better showing the regular
exams.

"I would like to see them tried at Agnes Scott
as an experiment."

Margaret Hopkins, '40, says: "Since today
more and more emphasis is being put on a more
comprehensive education throughout the country
and since larger universities are adopting com-
prehensive examinations for a great deal of un-
dergraduate work, I feel that it would be a pro-
gressive step for Agnes Scott to give each stu-
dent a broad survey of her attainment."

Eva Pirkle, '40, says: "I think for the school
as a whole they are good, since many of the more
outstanding colleges and universities are using
them.

"If we are going to cooperate with Emory,
since they have comprehensives, it seems that we
would almost have to have them."

Tragedy Stalks Scene
As Actors Sing

Last Saturday night after the curtain finally
closed upon a gleeful murder of opera that must
have caused several well-known composers to
turn over in their graves, the weary seniors wilt-
ed in bunches and seriously contemplated seek-
ing peaceful graves of their own in which to do
a little turning.

Such thoughts were backed by days of work.
The turmoil all began when the writing commit-
tee coyly presented the idea that only real opera
music would be used. Of course it sometimes
takes a Metropolitan star about twenty years to
learn to sing those arias as they should be sung,
but when you have Hamilton and Nickles in the
balcony and Sanders and Johnson at the piano,
the problem really becomes nothing at all. As
for the members of the chorus, they tried every
possible key on every song and then took the one
nobody could sing in order to prevent any show
of partiality.

However, all was not bliss; for tragedy stalked
around at least two pieces of the scenery. After
Mr. Sewell so carefully carved Amelia's and Jane
Moore's "celestial bodies" out of wood and while
Cheeseman and Julia were tenderly holding them
onto the side of the car (much to the dismay of
passing motorists on Ponce de Leon) the wind
decided to get playful. Those poor headless bodies
soared to Heaven and quickly fell to earth in six
or seven pieces. The remainder of the afternoon
was spent by everyone in glueing and pasting
and in murmering "nobody will ever know the
difference when we finish."

At last the night of nights came and much to
the distress of all Mr. Roams, the "mighty gar-
den spy," was discovered behind a piece of scen-
ery with a pretty young Catchimyet perched on
his lap. Everybody tried to ignore the whole af-
fair, but really!

In a little while, Rachel Campbell, who was
impersonating Miss Glick, strolled by. Wesley,
who was moving scenery, took one look and said,
"What you doing back here, Miss Glick?" Upon
a second look, he said, in mild surprise, "Why
you ain't Miss Glick, is you?"

Rachel assured him that she definitely was not
Miss Glick and then hastened on to join the rest
of the milling throng whose one thought was
"room, bed, peaceful oblivion." Well, perhaps a
few brave souls did think "tea house, room, bed,
peaceful oblivion."

By MARY WELLS McNEIL, Guest Artist

COMMENCEMENT EXTRA

The Agnes Scott News

VOL. XXIV

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE. DECATUR. GA.. TUESDAY. JUNE 6. 1939

Z115

No. 22

A Tradition in Pastry

Dr. McCain, Cary Wheeler, and Mr. George Winship preside over
the Trustees' Luncheon from behind the college's fiftieth birthday cake.
The cake, rep resent in g the familiar tower of Main Building, bore the
names of Dr. Gaines, Dr. McCain, and Miss Hopkins. About five hun-
dred alumnae, faculty members, and seniors were guests of the Board
of Trustees at the luncheon.

Dr. Colwell
Gives Sermon

Speaker Uses Christ's
Life As Theme

Dr. E. C. Colwell, head of
the Divinity School at the
University of Chicago, deliv-
ered the baccalaureate ser-
mon Sunday in the Bucher
Scott gymnasium to an audience
which included about ninety mem-
bers of the graduating class.

The theme of the sermon was an
exhortation not to overlook the re-
sources for contemporary living
that come from an understanding
of what Jesus of Nazareth was and
what he said in Palestine at the be-
ginning of the Christian era.

He deplored the fact that Jesus
of Nazareth is often overlooked to-
day. Not only by the unchurched
group but even by the zealous
church member under the influ-
ence of a strong current in Chris-
tian thought.

He stressed Jesus as a gigantic
figure whose works are rigorous in
the extreme; one whose figures of

(Continued on Page 4, Col. 5)

C. K. Hutchins
Wins Science Key

For outstanding work and inter-
est in science, Cora Kay Hutchins
was presented the science key
awarded by the Grand Chapter of
Chi Beta Phi, in chapel Friday,
May 19, Honorable mention was
given Emilv Harris and Mary El-
len Whetse'll.

This medal is awarded annually
to the senior or alumna member of
the local chapter who is most out-
standing in scholarship, scientific
attitude, promise for future to
science, and interest and activity
ui the local chapter. Last year
Jeanne Matthews won the key.

Cora Kay, a member of Phi Beta
Kappa, has served as president of
the Chi Beta Phi chapter on the
campus tor this year.

Class History

By DOUGLAS LYLE

Elegiac Lines

Oh, come thou Muse of Memory,
And give me inspiration !
(This is a classic elegy,
So I must have an invocation).

I weep for our four years of college,
That fled as all time flies ;
They've left us with 1 zest for knowledge
(And circles under our eyes).

Four times each season has rolled past
In merciless rotation

Falls, winters, springs flew by so fast
(But faster flew vacations).

When first we entered learning's hall
In nineteen thirty-five,
A hundred and seventy we were in all
(Just ninety came out alive).

Oh mourn for the tears we shed that fall,
For fears that filled our dreams !

Life could have been sweet in Inman Hall

(But, oh those freshman themes!) i

Oh, gone is that victorious day,
We struggled in competition !
We took the Black Cat in the fray,
(And dared to break tradition !)

From victory we turned to learning
From the knowledge found we drunk
With thirst our intellects were burning
(We thought we were gonna flunk!)

We needed incidental men
Lest we get too intellectual.
So Mortar Board brought gentlemen
(Their efforts were ineffectual).

Oh, sweet to us were elections that spring !
We voted for officers and staff I
We thought that to vote was a glorious
thing.

(But our votes only counted half!)

That June, as seniors floated 'round
In a state that's reached by few men,
We thought then angels in cap and gown.
(We couldn't believe they were human !)

Gone. oh. gone is that f reahman year
When we were blissfully young !
Our illusions will never be quite so clear.
(Nor we be quite so dumb!)

Back we came to school again
After our first vacation.
To dwell within the halls of Main
(And acquire sophistication).

From stones so white and bricks so ruddy
With staU-ly Gothic build,
Arose the newest temple of study.
i,A library on the hockey field!)

Oli life can change within a day!
And beauty and bricks are transient!
Old halls of study were a place to play
And we studied in a mansion.

Oh weep for the day that did confine us
To such important selections:*
We named our fatal majors and minors.
(Pity the committee on elections I)

One glorious gift to us was given :
The privilege of cuts !

At last the thinvr for which we'd striven
(But oh the "and" and "buts" ! >

The luncheon we gave at Druid Hills
In the abysm of time is lost
Gone is that party that gave seniors thrills.
(And gone is the money it cost!*

Oh gone is the brightness of that morning
We plucked the tender daisy !
The daisy chain is withered and gone.
It almost drove us crazy!)

{Continued on Page 3, Col. 4)

Mary Knight
Predicts Peace

"Don't worry about the world;
it isn't in such a bad way. Think
about your own lives and what
you want to do with them," was
the message of Mary Knight, '22,
who spoke at the Trustees' Lunch-
eon in Rebekah Scott Saturday.

Before an audience including
approximately three hundred alum-
nae, ninety seniors, and sixty-five
faculty members, Miss Knight,
who has gained a place in the high-
est ranks of feature reporting, ad-
vised job seekers to do the sort of
work which interests them most.

"If you are doing what you
like," she said, "you will neither
want or need letters of introduc-
tion."

She continued her talk with
stories of her experiences as a re-
porter, saying that her life has
been "terribly happy."

. . And if I ever become blase
enough to be bored with it all, I
hope a large brick or, better still,
a meteor will fall from the heav-
ens and mow me down!" she
laughed, concluding her remarks
about a career which has taken her
over the world.

She was the chief speaker on a
program which included talks by
Mr. George Winship, chairman of
the Board of Trustees, who presid-
ed over the luncheon; Cary
Wheeler, president of the graduat-
ing class; Mrs. Murdock Equen,
president of the Alumnae Associa-
tion; Mrs. (Penelope Brown) Bar-
nett, chairman of the homecoming
week-end; and Dr. J. R. McCain.

The luncheon ended, after a
business meeting of the Alumnae
Association, with the singing of the
"Alma Mater."

American Educator
Reviews Fifty Years

Mary E. Woolley Pays Tribute
To Pioneers in Field

Dr. McCain
Awards Honors

Dr.. McCain announces the fol-
lowing awards for the 193 8-39 ses-
sion:

Hopkins Jewel Amelia Nickels.

Collegiate Scholarship Eva Ann
Pirkle; Honorable Mention
Jeanne Osborne.

Rich Prize Jeanne Osborne;
Honorable Mention Lavinia
Br6wn.

Piano Scholarship Ida Jane
Vaughan.

Voice Scholarship Jeanette Car-
roll.

Speech Scholarship Laura
Wood Sale.

Art Scholarship Beatrice
Shamos.

Laura Candler Mathematics
Prize Lou Pate.

Morley Mathematics Medal
Mary McCulloch Templeton.

Louise McKinney Book Prize
Henrietta Blackwell.

Music Certificates Virginia
Kyle, Amelia Nickels.

( Co n tin ued on Page 4, Col. 3)

Warning

An organization calling
itself "Students Open Road
Travel Association" has re-
cently begun offering Euro-
pean tours in the colleges.
This organization is not
THE OPEN ROAD and
has no connection with it.

It is an honor which is mine
this morning, that of bringing to
you the congratulations, the good
wishes of hosts of college women,
graduates and undergraduates.
They would, I know, have me
congratulate you on the accom-
plishments of these fifty years, the
material achievements represented
in this beautiful campus. They
would also congratulate you on the
devoted service of a half century,
the lives so interwoven with the
history of this institution that it
is impossible to think of the one
without the other; your two great
presidents; the woman who for al-
most fifty years gave to this col-
lege a power of personality rarely
realized; the family whose name
the college bears; the trustees, the
faculty and administrative officers
to whom you are indebted for the
successful accomplishment of that
most difficult of tasks, the devel-
opment of an institution from
school to college. Of all the* gifts
which your fairy godmother has
bestowed upon you, none is com-
parable with the human wealth
which has been yours. May it con-
tinue for the fifty years to come!

It has been my happy fortune to
be present at several birthdays of
colleges for women during these
last years and always I have felt
the lure of the past, felt it, in the
more superficial sense of charm of
quaint costume and quaint cus-

(Continucd on Page 5, Col. 1)

Three Original Hottentots Return

With Tales of Gay-Ninety Commencements

By ANNE ENLOE

With the class of Agnes
Scott '43 soon to arrive on the
scene, the class of '93 may
seem ancient history to most
of the commencement crowds
this year. But to the two members
of that class, '93 is not too far
back to be remembered and remin-
isced about. For the Agnes Scott
graduates of that year are back for
their 46th reunion and are staying
in their very same room in which
they lived as roommates during the
year of their graduation.

Those were the days when all the
west end of Main Building was
part of the chapel, including Mr.
Dieckmann's studio and the old
"Y" cabinet room. The steam
plant, incidentally, was right un-
derneath the windows of the "Y"
room, which like all the rest of
the building (the "most modern
structure of its kind in the state")
was completely carpeted and fabu-
lously furnished in dark oak. As
part of its reputation for being the
latest thing in modern architecture,
Agnes Scott Hall boasted the only

genuine lighting system in Deca-
tur, and all the Decatur citizenry
used to come over at dusk to watch
the institute "light up."

And it must have been at just
about that twilight hour that Mr.
Murphey Candler and another
staunch supporter of the school, a
Mr. Williams, came over to see if
the girls were safe and had every-
thing they needed, for it was far
from ladylike for a lady to order
coal and such smutty necessities.

The year following the gradua-
tion of the first class from the in-
stitute, who were Mary Barnett
and Mary Mack, came an even
smaller class. In fact it consisted
of only one lone girl, another
Mary, this time Mary Neel, who
was, surprisingly enough, valedic-
torian. She actually delivered the
valedictory! But even in those
days, valedictories were no jokes.
Fond parents would deliver their
daughters on the doorstep and de-
mand that she be graduated in a
year, but they were asked to take
the prospective Agnes Scotter, to

some other school, please, for this
was not a finishing school by any
means. Dr. Gaines began to estab-
lish Agnes Scott's scholastic super-
iority as soon as the institute was
well founded, and no girl could re-
ceive her diploma from here with-
out having completed a specific
amount of work, which was im-
possible to do in one year.

At commencement time, a "blue
list" was read, which included the
names of those girls who were fin-
ishing their year's work with "dis-
tinction." Another list was read of
those who had passed. The names
of the more unfortunate members
of the class were subtly and tact-
fully omitted.

So coming back after some for-
ty years is like a visit to another
world to the three Mary's who
were the first three grads. But
they certainly see in the new Agnes
Scott the finest qualities of the old
retained, under the splendid leader-
ship of Miss Hopkins, Dr. Gaines,
Mr. Orr and their successors who
so admirably fill their places.

2

THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 1939

Prophet Sees Future Strife
On 1950 Quadrangle

By MARY FRANCES GUTHRIE

Commencement, 1950. And once again Greater Agnes
Scott was teeming with visitors. Doting parents, self-con-
scious little sisters and brothers, distinguished alumnae all
were there for the gala festivities.

Over on the quadrangle near the sundial, the excitement
ran to a fevered pitch. There, poised on the stone bench and
thickly surrounded by a crowd of students, were two old
grads, Amelia Nickels and Mary Ellen Whetsell. They seemed
to be engaged in some sort of speaking duel, for the more
Amelia waved her arms and shouted, the more Mary Ellen
followed her opponent's example and shouted back.
Unable to interpret the militant

actions of these formerly very good
friends, we (editorially speaking)
accosted a meek-looking freshman
and asked her the why of it all. It
seemed that Mary Ellen and Amelia
were running against each other
for the presidency of the Alumnae
Association. And the race, under
the management of Political Boss
Jane Dryfoos, had become so hotly
contested that the alumnae were
taking the students* votes to de-
cide the election.

Mary Ellen had just tried to
sway the students by promising
them a telephone in every room.
But it looked as if Amelia was
gaining a large following when she
announced that, if elected, she
would launch a campaign to end
campaigns.

The Watkins Poll, which ran
the Gallup Poll out of business
with its minute percentage of er-
rors, stated' in the daily issue of the
Agnes Scott News that it was
afraid to make any predictions.
'Anything can happen," said Poll
Director Ann Watkins, "when
such vital issues as telephones and
campaigns are at stake. "And that
international commentator, Ruth
Albion, agreed, naming this the
greatest presidential campaign
since the turn of the century. In-
cidently, the Agnes Scott News
was really drawing circles around
a certain Wheel since Catherine
Ivie's husband had been made Pro-
fessor of Journalism at Agnes
Scott.

Lab Yields Victims

While we were being taken in
by the wiles of these two presiden-
tial candidates, our attention was
suddenly drawn to some commo-
tion by the Science Hall, that love-
ly building, you know, which Mr.
Ede rated the most beautiful on the
campus 'way back in 1937. Well,
out of that Sanctuary for Scientific
Souls who should come toward us
but Mary Frances Thompson and
Dorothy Still. Of course, our first
guess was that they had been re-
visiting familiar haunts. But, no
they said they had never left the
place. Somehow they had been
locked up in there and had just
been discovered. "You see, ,, they
' explained, "no one goes over to the
Science Hall any more, since Corky
Hutchins and Emily Harris grad-
uated."

Knowing the poor things must
be almost starved, we hurried them
over to Hopkins Hall, where the
Trustees were giving their annual
luncheon. With our usual finesse,
we grabbed the first empty seat
and began stowing away the food.
Half way through the luncheon we
happened to look up from our most
engrossing task, and the first fa-
miliar person whom we saw was
Mamie Lee Ratliff. There she was,
in all of her auburn glory, presid-
ing at the speaker's table as Presi-
dent of the Board of Trustees.
Soon after finishing Katherine
Gibbs' School, she had landed a
soft job as the secretary of dear
old Archibald Mahoney, bulwark
of American industry. Naturally,
she wasn't working for him very
long before he fell victim to her

Southern charms and married her
she always was a pretty smart
gal. And then soon enough after-
wards, the dear man died. So she
became America's richest widow,
and was now in the process of liv-
ing happily ever after.

Redwine Preserves Tradition

After musing for several mo-
ments upon the luck of some peo-
ple, we turned our attention again
to the food. There was something
very strange about the food, too
it tasted exactly as it did long
years ago when we ate in Rebekah.
Curious, we accosted one of the
less formidable - looking people
seated near us. She said that to
prevent the food's losing its tradi-
tional flavor, the Administration
had hired Jeanne Redwine as Die-
titian and Chief Taster of All
Food. And she had certainly been
a wonder, too. She arranged for
the meals to be served a la carte
and at no additional cost to the
students, and she also started the
plan of serving breakfast in bed to
indigent, lazy, and otherwise sen-
iors.

Being thus encouraged, our in-
former continued to give us the
low-down on latest reforms. Those
bouquets of gardening which deco-
rated all the luncheon tables were
the gift of Atlanta's leading flor-
ist, Alice Sill. The College had
made her the perpetual donor of
flowers to Agnes Scott for any and

all occasions.

-

But the dorms were where the
real metamorphosis had taken
place. Under the expert (and ex-
pensive) direction of Interior Dec-
orator Adelaide Benson, such lux-
uries as Venetian blinds and a
Simmons mattress on every bad
had been secured. As the decorat-
ing theme of the boudoirs, Miss
Benson had selected various Adele
Haggart surrealist paintings on the
subject of the joys of college life.

However, three famous psycho-
analysts, Mary Allen, Helen Simp-
son, and Virginia Cofer, were a
little dubious about some of these
"joys of college life." And so they
were analyzing those antiquated
but venerable dormitories, Main,
Rebekah, and Inman, to see the
pernicious effect on the psycho-
neuroses of the students by such
disturbing elements as squeaky
pipes, rings around tubs, and un-
answered telephones.

Library Moves Outdoors

We could have probed our will-
ing locutor about lots of other
things, but the time had come to
disband. And, according to time-
honored custom, we were all in-
vited to inspect the College Li-
brary. There to receive us was our
former cohort, Penny Simonton,
now the dignified Head Librarian.
She conducted us about the build-
ing, pointing out especially the
Reading Terrace, where students
are encouraged to take the refer-
ence books for use. Quoth Miss
Simonton, "Sunning is so good for
the musty old volumes."

This ingenious librarian was also
responsible for instigating the use
of the projecting room for motion
pictures. The current attraction

for that day was the Biology De-
partment's thriller, "Playful Para-
meesia," written by Eleanor Hall
and starring that Broadway and
Hollywood satellite and latest
Academy winner, Jeanne Flynt.
Miss Flynt's next picture will be
"Gone With the Wind," the re-
lease date having been set for
some time within the next six
months definitely. June Harvey
has been supervising the re-crea-
tion of Atlanta locale and atmos-
phere, resorting mainly to frequent
showers and cloudy skies to secure
the desired effect.

Hottentots Trounce Tech

After seeing the seminar rooms
which were being made ready for
use in the very near future, we
sauntered out to the hockey field
to witness Agnes Scott's big inter-
collegiate hockey game with Geor-
gia Tech. The game was already
under way, and the star player of
the Hottentots, Cary Wheeler, had
just scored another goal over the
defenseless Engineers. Also seen in
the midst of the conflict, frantic-
ally trying to block the oncoming
surge of Yellow Jackets, were
Flora MacGuire and Emma Mc-
Mullen, former members of the
Olympic Hockey Team.

In a most crucial moment, one
of the Tech players could stand
the tenseness no longer and grace-
fully fainted away. While several
doctors were attempting to revive
the weakened player, we scanned
the various sections of the new
three million dollar grandstand to
find some familiar faces. By the
way, this stadium is really unique
it has an underground passage
for the street car, which just re-
fused to move its tracks again.

Pate Stumps for Cuts

Well, getting back to the sub-
ject of who's in the crowd, we
spotted a flock of old married
folks: Jeanne Codding, Jac Hawks,
Mary Hill Oatley, Alice Caldwell,
and Rachel Campbell, to name but
a few. Some of them were so ab-
sorbed in looking at the new An-
nual, which had every picture in
natural colors, that they didn't
have time to watch the game. Over
some one's shoulder we got a
glimpse or two of the Annual's
contents. Guess whom it was dedi-
cated to? Assistant Prof Lou Pate,
better known as the teacher who
gets simply furious when any stu-
dent doesn't cut her classes. Little
Lou is also the chief advocate of
the principle of unlimited cuts for
all.

We saw Virginia Morris scramb-
ling about in one section of the
stands, too. She said she was try-
ing to secure some data from the
Agnes Scott sons-in-law so that
Dr. Robinson could compute the
marriage percentage more accu-
rately. The beloved prof had been
neglecting this matter a little since
he entered senility.

Loud yells called our attention
back to the exciting battle before
us, as good old school spirit came
into action. We were a bit un-
easy about the way the students
were shouting so raucously we
had heard somewhere that cancers
often develop from such cruel
treatment of the larynx. But our
fears were calmed when we were
told that every student was equip-
ped with an artificial larynx of her
own. Dr. Jane Smollen, the in-
ventor of these cute little voice
boxes, claims that they are better
than any other brand as they
won't wear out and they enable one
to yell as loudly as he pleases with-
out the slightest harm.

Suddenly the whistle blew; the
first half was over and it was time
for the intermission. To soothe
the savage breasts of the foes, who
were bitterly avenging their wrath

on slices of oranges, the College
Glee Club appeared on the field.
And with Virginia Kyle, the de-
light of Metropolitan Opera fans,
as the guest soloist, the Club gave
a beautiful rendition of "How
Beautiful Upon the Mountain."

Deciding that we could stand
some rest before entering into the
night's activities, we reluctantly
left the stadium before the game
was over our reluctance being
eased in part by the assurance that
.the Hottentots would wipe up with
the Techs. And for a brief hour
or two, all was quiet on the alum-
nae front.

Play Gets Comment

But soon it was theatre time on
the great college way, and we
donned our formals to attend the
annual alumnae play. Alice Ad-
ams, after her stupendous success
in playing the role of an old wo-
man in a former Agnes Scott pro-
duction, had returned to take the
part of Granny in the Alumnae
play for the evening, "Tobacco
Road."

Directing the play was Evelyn
Sears, head of the New School of
Drama; and supervising stage ef-
fects was Kay Kennedy, National
President of the Little Theatre
Movement, Inc. Other notables
working back stage were Mary
Hollingsworth, physicist and elec-
trician, and inventor of an amaz-
ing new stream-lined stop light;
and Julia Sewell, fashionable cou-
tourier and dress modiste, who de-
signed and sewed every costume
for the play in the short time of
one hour and twenty minutes, set-
ting a new all-time record for such
feats.

Needless to say, the performance
simply astounded the community
for various reasons that had best
not be mentioned. As the curtain
fell on the final scene, we joined in
the general stampede to the near-
est exit, only to have a little thing
named McNeill get ahead of us.
However, conscious of her promi-
nence as a tragedian and celebrated
Pulitzer Prize playwright, we ac-
ceded the right of way to her. We
might add that her winning trag-
edy has brought an accelerated rise
in the sales of the Kleenex Co.
Knowing her passion for said com-
pany and its products, we'd say
that she was bribed in writing the
play.

Sanders -Swings Out

And so to that attraction of
attractions the Homecoming
Dance, with the orchestra of
Swingster Sanders and her Mitzi
Moodlers, coming direct from the
Stork Club in New York City to
appear for one night only at Agnes
Scott's new open air dance pavilion
(formerly known as the May Day
Dell). As we passed through the
gates, Catherine Farrar, statistician
of the Roger Babson Institute, who
was selling admission tickets, in-
formed us that the Moodlers were
really Jbringing in the dough, half
of which was to go to the Chris-
tian Association to help pay off its
campaign pledge of 1*939.

We didn't have half a chance at
the dance, what with those solici-
tous Mortar Boarders snaring every
spare stag to introduce to the
freshmen and sophomores. So we
joined the onlookers and feasted
our eyes upon that gay bachelor
girl from Atlantic City, Palm
Beach, and points west, Toni New-
ton, who still managed to be the
Belle of the Ball in spite of Mor-
tar Board tactics. Not to be
downed, cither, were a few mar-
ried folk: respectively, Aileen
Shortley, Helen Kirkpatrick, Cal-
lie Carmichael, Peggy Willis, AND
hubbies.

But came two o'clock, and tired

College Wins
Southern
Archery Bout

Musser Has First
Place with Thompson,
Hutchens Following

Agnes Scott's archery team is
again the winner in the southern
district of the National Women's
Intercollegiate Telegraphic Archery
Tournament. As a result of the
rounds shot in April, Agnes Scott
took first place, with Louise Mus-
ser shooting high score and Hen-
rietta Thompson shooting second
highest. This is the second time
Louise Musser has been high scorer.

Polly Taylor defended her title
as tennis singles champion, and is
the proud possessor of the tennis
cup for the second time. Jeanne
Davidowitz, who also won the
golf tournament last year, defeat-
ed all challengers and will keep the
golf trophy another year.

alumnae succumbed happily to the
charms of the god Morpheus, leav-
ing the rest of the night to their
more energetic sisters, the under-
grads.

It Never Rains

Commencement morning dawned
bright and sunny (as they always
do at Agnes Scott, we hope), and
once again we sought to give honor
to the June graduate, to his high
ideals and his hope for the future.
About us were friends who also had
shared our empassioned dreams and
furthermore had put these ambi-
tions into practice. On one side of
us was Elizabeth Kenney, who
delved into the mysteries of blood
chemistry, opening new fields for
medical research. And nearby was
Elinor Tyler, who achieved fame
by running the day's news around
the top of the New York Times
Building, keeping Agnes Scotters
all over the world informed of lat-
est world events. It's surprising
that she can do this and still have
time to mother her fourteen chil-
dren.

And seated on the very front
row was Dorothy Graham, Presi-
dent of the Retail Credit Associa-
tion, who was out scouting the
senior class for future employees.
Her motto, since becoming a part
of that firm herself, is "Buy Hot-
tentot." She had some pretty stiff
competition, though, because on
the very same row was Kay Toole,
Personnel Director of Macy's (af-
filiated with D. P.'s of Atlanta
N.B., free advertising).

At last here came the academic
procession, headed by those store-
houses of knowledge and fortresses
of wisdom, the faculty. In the line
with the faculty, to receive honor-
ary degrees were Elizabeth Shep-
herd and Snooks Moss, Alternate
Deans of the Atlanta Dental Col-
lege.

Lyle Tells How

And behold the one who was to
give the graduates their final word
of instruction before they entered
into the then doubly cruel, cold
world. Behold, the commencement
speaker, Doug Lyle. From experi-
ence, she told the seniors what they
could do to increase the notoriously
low marriage percentage. In short,
she spoke on the subject, "How I
Got My Man."

Hoping that we old maids of
the alumnae might still have the
opportunity to follow Doug's
strategy, we left the sanctum of
the sweet girl graduate and once
more hit the beaten paths of the
world, ready to work and slave till
commencement time rolled 'round
again.

THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 1939

Seniors Make Bequests
To Sister Undergraduates

We, the graduating class of
Agnes Scott College, being
"aweary, aweary and would that
we were dead," choose to make on
this, the fifth day of June, in the
year nineteen hundred and thirty-
nine, our last will and testament
such as it may be:

To those who go faithfully to
chapel in spite of the fact that
they are not forced to go to chapel
as are girls in other schools, we
leave our beautiful contralto, lyric
soprano, and just plain voices
which are heard to best advantage
when rendering hymn 501.

To the incoming freshman class
who have not yet partaken of such
we will cur share of that food
which the students so fondly call
"yellow goo." May we add that
when the cook feels brave they
will get said goo plain, in saucers;
when he is feeling just a little
ashamed they will get it under the
name of pudding, and when he is
being subtle about the whole thing
they will get it disguised as pie.

Having successfully weathered
four years exposure to knowledge
and being the living examples of
the fact that you can lead a col-
lege student to information but
you can't make him think, we now
wish to bequeath to a few appre-
ciative souls some specific things
that have helped us on our way.

I, Jean Bailey, the living time
table, do bequeath my ability to
live on a schedule and like it to
Rowena Barringer with the sugges-
tion that she not get ahead in her
work, for writing Shakespeare
papers ahead of time is prone to
lose friends for one.

I, Henrietta Blackwell, bequeath
the celestial expression I assume
when singing in the chapel choir to
Gene Slack in hopes that she, too,
will be an inspiration to the front
row.

I, Catherine Mobley 99 5 5/100
per cent right Caldwell, will my
house president's "ssh" to Mary
Lang Gill and my love of the ath-
letic life to Ann Stansbury.

I, Lelia Carson, leave my position
as Miss Jackson's substitute in
freshman history to Jane Salters.
Long may the A. A. U. W. con-
ventions last and often may they
come.

I, Lucy Hill Doty, leave my
charming innocence and I, Sara
Carter, leave my dreamy eyes to
Dusty Hance for the further an-
nihilation of the masculine sex.

I, Sara Joyce Cunningham, wish
to unite with Virginia Farrar in
leaving our soft voices to Virginia
Milner and Betty Ann Brooks
those cheerful earfulls who are be-
loved by everybody.

I, Susan Brooks Goodwyn, will
my famous techniques in wowing
a Tech stag line to whom ever may
be "concerned."

I, Mary Frances Guthrie, glee-
fully will my position as editor of
the Agnes Scott News to Eleanor
Hutchens enough said.

I, Jane Moore Hamilton, be-
queath my ironing board to Caro-
lyn Alley. May she never tire of
deciding who is next in line for
the iron.

I, Cora Kay Hutchins, after due
deliberation with my cohort, Em-
ily Harris, have decided to leave to
Carolyn Forman the joy of bidding
the janitor of the science hall

good-bye each evening, putting
out the lights each night, and re-
moving the cat from amongst the
test tubes all day long.

I, Phyllis Johnson, bequeath my
happy-go-lucky philosophy of life
to Mary Bon Utterbach. If you
lose half your notes on the night
before an exam, don't worry, dear,
for then you will have only half
as much to study.

I, Jane Jones, leave my complete
store of bows for the hair and oth-
erwise to Susan Self.

I, Eunice Knox, leave one pair
of gold-tipped, blue-ribboned
crutches, and one portion of the
stuff of which martyrs are made,
to whomever is interested.

I, Helen Elaine Lichten, leave
my exuberant nature to Miriam
Bedinger.

I, Ella Hunter Mallard, leave my
interest in child psychology and
my love of my youthful relatives
to Miss Dexter.

I, Martha Marshall, with the ap-
proval of my roommate, Jeanne
Redwine, leave our share of the
telephone calls and our ability to
keep a room filled with roses from
ardent admirers to Frankie Butt
and Freck Sproles.

I, Marie Merritt, leave my stingi-
ness with the Agnes Scott News'
money to Mary Louise Dobbs. May
she have the ability to spurn any
ideas Hutchens may have about
six page editions.

I, Helen Moses, will my grace
in dancing to Beth Paris and my
love of chocolate cake to Molly
Oliver.

I, Sara Louise McCain, leave my
hay fever and my simply dynamic
sneeze to anyone who wants to
shattei the plastering of a room or
make a nervous wreck of a room-
mate.

I, Mary Elizabeth Moss, will my
ability to ask detailed questions
that Peggy Willis can't answer to
the future Eddie, Jr.

I, Emily MacMorland, leave my
love of travel folders and army
men to Betty Waitt.

I, Annie Houston Newton,
leave my delightful giggle to V. J.
Watkins.

I, Julia Porter, leave my south-
ern drawl to Nancy Wimpfheimer.

L, Betty Price, will my extra
hours in Bible 205 to Jane Moses.

I, Hayden Sanford, will my
love of candle light and warm fires
to Jane Taylor.

I, Julia Sewell, leave my ability
to sleep all day long to Mr. Jones,
our ever-obliging night watchman.

I, Aileen Shortley, leave my in-
terest in Grady Hospital to all who
fall for "men in white."

I, Mary Eleanor Steele, leave my
favorite song, "The Three Little
Fishes," to all devotees of Kay Ky-
ser.

I, Selma Steinbach, leave one car

Brumby Wins Prize
To Silver Contest

Announcement has recently been
made that Sabine Brumby, sopho-
more, has been awarded one of the
sterling silver prizes in the Reed &
Barton Silver Chest Contest. Sa-
bine's prize consists of a set of
eight Reed & Barton solid silver
coffee spoons, with gold bowls and
a different flower sculptured on
each handle.

The contest was confined to
Agnes Scott and thirty-two other
leading women's colleges in vari-
ous parts of the country. Entrants
were asked to choose their favorite
pattern from ten Reed & Barton
designs and give their reasons.

The first prize, consisting of a
100-piece sterling service and a
genuine mahogany silver chest, was
won by Miss Meredith Stebbins of
Simmons College, Boston, Mass.
The Reed & Barton pattern that
she chose as her favorite was Cotil-
lion, and the prize service was
given in this design.

Class Poem

The poet breathes in many stanzas

forth his lay
Of bitter hurt and pleasure's

keenest urge.
And touches throbbing chords but

for a moment's stay
Before the calmer verses break

with easing surge.
The singer follows every tragic

note with gay
And winsome song; and pure joys

never end
The music's tale. Both are too

strong to play
Unceasing on the hearts of earthly

men.

And artists, who must paint into a

single scene
The moving panorama of a life,
Blend bright with dark into a

whole, between
The two extremes of victory and

strife.

So we, from four full years, in

thought today,
One blended calm and lovely scene

survey.

Cora Kay Hutchins.

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I, Sara-Phi-Beta-Kappa-Thurman,
leave my brain to all second-year
freshmen.

I, Virginia Tumlin, will my
ability to remain true to the same
boy for four years to Sue Phillips.

I, Florence Wade, will one
stuffed black dog in rather bat-
tered condition to Willie Willstat-
ter.

I, Margaret Willis, leave my so-
cial contacts with V. M. I. to Sara
M. Lee.

I, Mary Ruth Wills, leave all my
high-heeled shoes to Helen Carson.

I, Jacqueline Hawkes, leave my
ability to keep a neat room to
Helen Jester, Mary Bell, and Ella
Muzzey.

I, Dorothy Lazenby, leave my
golden curls to Betty Ball Embry,
who I am sure has the soul of a
blonde.

I, Elizabeth Furlow, will my
ability to get my man to the De-
catur police.

We, the Prophet, the Historian,
and the Testator, will our respec-
tive jobs to the three biggest
stooges in next year's senior class.

I have neither given nor re-
ceived aid on this masterpiece, as
anybody with common sense can
tell.

Pledged: Mary Wells, McNeill,
Testator.

Witnesses:

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The third fall came 'round as falls always
do,

And we found a new employment:
We protected the freshmen so tender and
new.

(It's great to be important I)

At the junior banquet our great elation
Brought warm blushes to our cheeks.
Oh, brilliant was table conversation
(We'd been thinking it up for weeks!)

In elections that spring we wei

prosperous
They saw our true worth at last :
All the most important officers
Came from our junior class I

We lived that summer with eager heart,
We longed to show our genius,
We longed to play the leading part.
(In short, we wanted to be seniors 1)

Fall clothed the world in red and brown,
As we came the fourth time back.
And Miss Scandrett clothed us in cap and
gown

Of awe-inspiring black.

The plan for the University Center
Brought hopes of greater joys:
It caused into our class to enter
Two nice Emory boys !

One of our services to knowledge
Was those exam-books blue:
In the book store of the college,
We cut their price in two I

Campaigning for greater Agnes Scott,
Got money stroke by stroke.
We passed the goal by quite a lot.
(And now we face life broke!)

"O-Me-0 and You-My-Pet"
Was our great Senior Opera.
It was true art to music set.
(And what's more it was "proper"!)

Mile. Giard
Comes As
French Student

A Parisian girl is to be the
French exchange student at Agnes^
Scott next year, according to an
announcement from Miss Lucile
Alexander. Her name is Nicole
Marie Henriette Giard, and she
has been working on English at the
Sorbonne.

M. Giard's father is a lawyer
and a member of the Legion of
Honor. Her mother, whose father
is a commander of the Legion and
Director General of Agriculture,
has relatives in America; the ma-
ternal grandmother was born in
Newark. One of the new student's
brothers is a cabinet member in the
French Marines, and two others
are engineers.

It's June of '39 at last

And Class Day now is come

It's hard to belheve four years have passed

Since we were freshmen dumb.

Oh years have flown, and naught's the
same

n the ever-changing order
Four times has Harrisons changed its name
And skirts are four times shorter.

Four years we've haunted the tea house
And loved the colonnade,
Four years we've feasted at wee hours
On some crazy escapade.

Though many things are quite new-fangle
You can always count on one thing:
When they cut the grass on the quadrangle,
You smell onions in the spring!

Gone, gone are those four blissful years !
So as we mourn be gentle!
Seniors stay on the verge of tears
Old age makes us sentimental.

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THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS, TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 1939

Phi Beta Kappa Admits Four New Members

On Friday, June 2, in the Gaines Chapel, Miss Muriel Harn,
Professor of German and secretary of the local chapter of
Phi Beta Kappa, who was introduced by Dr. J. R. McCain, an-
nounced that four seniors had been admitted into this honor
society. These are Jean Bailey, of Atlanta; Virginia Kyle, of
Huntington, West Virginia, and Mamie Lee Ratliff, of Sher-
rard, Mississippi. __

Employment Prospects for
College Graduates Brighten

1939 Report Predicts More
Jobs Than in Two Preceding Years

Minneapolis. Employment pros-
pects for 1939 graduates from
American colleges and universities
are brighter than in the previous
two years, or in 193 3, though less
hopeful than ten years ago, ac-
cording to preliminary results of a
national survey made public here
today by King Merritt, vice-presi-
dent of Investors Syndicate.

Ninety-one per cent of the 146
institutions of higher learning in
the survey reported that 50 per
cent or more of their 1939 grad-
uates would have steady jobs be-
fore the end of this summer.
June, 1938

Job prospects the same as or
greater than those of June, 193 8,
were predicted by 88 per cent of
the schools replying to the ques-
tionnaire.

Ninety-four per cent of the co-
educational and men's colleges ex-
pected 50 per cent or more of their
male graduates to be attached to a
regular payroll within ninety days
of graduation. Eighty-seven per
cent of 108 co-educational and
women's colleges estimated that 50

per cent or more of their female
graduates would be gainfully em-
ployed before autumn started.
Better Prospects

Outlook for positions the same
as or greater than those of June,
193 8, was forecast by 88.9 per
cent of the co-educational and
male universities for their male
graduates this year. Job prospects
the same as or greater than those
of June, 193 8, were predicted by
5 9 per cent of the 108 co-educa-
tional and women's institutions for
their 1939 female graduates.

This employment survey was
started after the Easter vacation,
during which considerable num-
bers of employers always send
their representatives to colleges to
interview prospective employees.

"Promising prospects for this
year's college graduates," explained
Mr. Merritt, "result from an im-
provement in business conditions,
greater efforts on the part of col-
leges and universities to obtain po-
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Awards

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Special senior honors include:
With high honor Emily Harris,
Cora Kay Hutchins, Marie Mer-
ritt, Lou Pate, Mamie Lee Ratliff,
Sarah Thurman, Mary Ellen Whet-
sell; with honor Jean Bailey, Vir-
ginia Kyle; honor roll based on
193 8-39 session Jean Bailey, Em-
ily Harris, Cora Kay Hutchins,
Helen Lichten, Marie Merritt, Lou
Pate, Mamie Lee Ratliff, Sarah
Thurman, Mary Ellen Whetsell.

ing employers are satisfied with
employees recruited from college
campuses.

Employment of Women

"Thirty-one of the 108 co-edu-
cational and women's institutions,
or 28.8 per cent, reported employ-
ment of female graduates this year
would exceed that of June, 193 8,
and 63 schools, or 5 8.3 per cent,
said prospects now were the same
as a year ago. Only 12, or 11.1
per cent, put position prospects as

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Memorial Service Features
Tribute to Miss Hopkins

A remembrance service honoring the builders and friends
of the college who have died in the fifty years of its life was
climaxed by the unveiling of a bust of Miss Nannette
Hopkins, late Dean Emeritus, in Gaines Chapel Sunday

afternoon. Alumnae, students, fac-
ulty members, and other friends
gathered to pay tribute to those
who had major roles in the devel-
opment of Agnes Scott since its
founding as an Institute in 1889.

The service opening with the
playing of Delmas' Reverie by
Olive Mai Rives at the harp and
Mr. C. W. Dieckmann at the or-
gan. Dr. R. O. Flinn gave a pray-
er dedicating the program.

Selections from Pericles and
Shelley's Adonais, by Jean Bailey,
set the theme of the service. Miss
Llewellyn Wilburn, in a tribute to
the deceased, rededicated the col-
lege to the aims of its builders.

"The work they did will live on,
not only in the brick and mortar
of Main Building, but in all the
routine life of the college . . . per-
meated with the faith they had in
building it," she said, recalling the
ideals first set up by the founders.

Mrs. S. G. Stukes sang lt O Rest
in the Lord," accompanied at the

less favorable than in June, 193 8.

"Twenty-eight colleges, or 25.9
per cent, indicated employment
prospects were greater than in
June, 1937. Fifty-nine schools, or
54.7 per cent, thought the present
outlook the same as that in 1937,
and only twelve institutions, or
11.1 per cent, believed that pros-
pects were less than two years ago.

"When compared with 1933, 63
schools, or 5 8.3 per cent, predicted
that present prospects were bright-
er. Seventeen, or 15.7 per cent,
thought chances the same as six
years ago; and ten, or 9.3 per cent,
felt prospects less favorable. In
contrast to 1929, nineteen colleges,
or 17.6 per cent, believed employ-
ment chances now were better; 2 5,
or 23.1 per cent, said job prospects
were the same; and 41, or 3 8 per
cent, stated present prospects less
favorable than a decade ago."

organ by Mr. Dieckmann.

Dr. J. R. McCain, in his presen-
tation of the bust of Miss Hopkins,
gave the history of the bust and
paid tribute to Miss Hopkins as
"the representative of all the wom-
en who have had a large part in
the building of Agnes Scott." Fol-
lowing his talk, Eleanor and Eva
Calley, nieces of Miss Hopkins, un-
veiled the bust, executed in white
marble by Stefan Thomas, Atlanta
sculptor.

Dr. McCain gave the closing
prayer.

Sermon

(Continued from Page 1)
speech are violent, whose ethics
claims perfection, who asks for a
complete devotion to the role of
God, who portrays the benevolence
of God in extravagant terms, and
whose career ends on the cross.

"Those who see this Christ clear-
ly," said Dr. Colwell, "are often
won to an attitude of devotion to
Him, that gives their life an endur-
ing tension . . . between what
Jesus was and said and what we
are. This is the dynamic of the
Christian religion. Those with a
clear vision of Christ also have an
abiding peace. The faith that Jesus
was right makes tolerable the trag-
edy of human existence, both per-
sonal and social."

In conclusion Dr. Colwell urged
the devotion to Jesus that provides
both power for action and strength
to endure tragedy, pointing out
that other bases are broken up, but
this one will not be shaken.

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5

Woolley

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toms, felt it even more in the deep-
er things which make the institu-
tion. Many characteristics of this
college impressed me as I studied
and thought about it; there are
two that seem to me outstanding.
The first is courage. Take as an
illustration the financial hurdles
which it has faced, which it may
still be facing, since it is a college
for women. Perhaps my long ex-
perience as a college executive
makes me peculiarly sensitive to
statements such as: "Until 1910
the institution had no endowment,
but was entirely dependent upon
income from students"; "The Insti-
tute continued to have annual de-
ficiencies, and also felt the press-
ing need of more land and build-
ings"; "But words cannot describe
the anxiety, the care, the responsi-
bility, the constant efforts to econ-
omize, the dismay when making
reports of deficiencies, the plan-
ning from session to session, while
with all he could do the President
saw debt piling up"; "Education
for women was not "then appreci-
ated"; "It was no easy task to grow
from a grammar-grade school to
the level of a college. This process
of discontinuing each year the low-
est grade and adding a higher one
at the top was very disheartening
to some of the students who were
in attendance at that period."
Being a senior "for four consecu-
tive years without being able to
graduate" seems to me to justify
the application of "dauntless" to
the student body as well as to the
administration.

The driving power behind this
dauntless spirit was idealism. I
wonder whether there can be cour-
age of the highest type without
idealism, or the application of
idealism to life without courage.
In other words, it takes courage
to be idealistic. One of the first
things that this college did after it
developed into an Institute was to
formulate an ideal, and during the
years since that day it has been try-
ing to make it a reality. I probab-
ly do not need to remind the alum-
nae and close friends of the college
of what that ideal consisted: a lib-
eral curriculum; a high standard
of scholarship; "all the influences
of the college conducive to the
formation and development of
Christian character." For this
service to us all I bring the grati-
tude of the academic world to
Agnes Scott College.
Gifts of College

During the last half century, the
college has often asked for gifts;
if it had not asked and received
we would not be here today en-
joying this celebration. It is some-
times forgotten that for a half cen-
tury it has also been a giver of
gifts gifts infinitely greater than
any that it has received, generous
as those have been. It is not be-
cause it has received but because it
has given that the educational
world honors this institution. And
what it has to give is peculiarly
needed today.

President Gaines had "become
interested in Christian education,
had been impressed with its great
possibilities for good," so he tells
us in "The Story of Agnes Scott
College." I wonder whether even
he fully appreciated the possibili-
ties for good of Christian educa-
tion?

Bill of Rights

It seems hardly fair at a "festa"
like this to throw a shadow but I
wonder whether we can fully ap-
preciate the need of these possibili-
ties for good in the immediate fu-
ture unless we have also in mind
tne possibilities for that which is

not good. Those of us living near
the New York World's Fair have
been reminded more than once of
the Bill of Rights the right to
"life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness." Today is striking a
blow at that human right.

The right to life. What is hap-
pening is something so incredible
that it is impossible perhaps mer-
cifully impossible for the human
mind to grasp it. Wholesale mas-
sacre of those whose only crime is
that they are in the pathway of
the monster, which we call "power
politics." China, Ethiopia, Ger-
many, Austria, Spain, the Jewish
race, bear incredible testimony to
the barbarism just beneath the
veneer of what we are pleased to
call "Civilization."

The right to liberty. That has
no meaning in the phraseology of
the dictator. Some day the books
will be opened, the lips unsealed,
and the world will know the trag-
edy not only among the victims of
concentration camps and prisons,
but among the nominally free citi-
zens of those states where "every-
thing that is not forbidden is com-
pulsory." Freedom of religion;
freedom of speech; freedom of the
press; freedom of assembly we,
happily citizens of the United
States, take them for granted. To
be deprived of freedom would
mean to our mental and spiritual
selves what being deprived of air
to breathe, would mean to our
physical selves.

The right to the pursuit of hap-
piness. Happiness! What a sardonic
ring that word must have^n the
ears of millions of human beings
in this year of our Lord, 1939. For
them there is nothing left save
stark endurance, endurance to the
breaking point.

There is something very disquiet-
ing in this projection of a Declara-
tion of Rights of the 18th Century
against a background of the 20th
Century. An age of progress, the
development of civilization? I
wonder! Progress, if measured in
terms of flight through the air and
under the sea; of mechanical in-
genuity and devices for speed and
comfort. But what about the de-
velopment of the all-round human
being? Are we in danger of sub-
stituting the ideal of the robot for
that of the full-grown man?
Honor

A "second fundamental of human
living, at which a blow is being
struck today, is honor, as represent-
ed in the sanctity of the pledged
word. "When faith is lost, when
honor dies, the man is dead."
"When honor dies, the nation is
dead." In a day of tragedy, no
tragedy is comparable with the loss
of faith in the pledged word, dis-
regard of the sanctity of treaties.
Disregard of the sanctity of trea-
ties is the child of "power poli-
tics"; the lust for power will
brook nothing in the way of at-
tainment of its end. A recent edi-
torial compares "the pledge with
the performance," in the case of
the Nazi government. The pledge:
"After the solution of the question
of the Saar the German govern-
ment is willing and determined to
accept in its innermost soul the
Pact of Lacarno." (Jan. 30, 1934.)
The performance: On March 7,
1936, Germany remilitarized the
Rhineland zone in violation of the
Pact of Locarno. The pledge:
"Germany has neither the wish nor
the intention to mix in internal
Austrian affairs, or to annex or
unite with Austria." (May 21,
193 5.) The performance: On
March 12, 1938, Germany annexed
Austria. The pledge: "I repeat
here that if this problem (con-
cerning the Sudeten area for
Czecho-Slovakia^ is solved, there
will be no further territorial prob-

lems in Europe for Germany."
(Sept. 26, 193 8.) The perfor-
mance: On March 14, 1939, Ger-
man troops drove into what re-
mained of Czecho-Slovakia and
annexed it. One week later Ger-
many annexed Memel.

In less than a score of years after
the "Nine Power Treaty," Japan
ruthlessly tore to pieces that "scrap
of paper"; in less than ten years
after signing the Paris Pact, Italy
w'antonly invaded Ethiopia. "What
doth it profit a nation if it gain
the whole world and lose its own
soul?" In very truth, "unless there
is faith there can be no human re-
lations."

Adjustment

We might as well confess that
it is not easy for human beings to
live together, not easy in our own
homes; in our social groups; in our
business relations; even in our own
churches. The minute human
beings are brought together in
groups, there begin to be problems
of adjustment. And the very pro-
gress of the age in which we live,
has intensified, made more acute,
these problems. In the first place,
we are neighbors, the world

around. And being neighbors
brings with it the necessity of
being "good neighbors."

Again, the effacing of frontiers
has increased the struggle for a
livelihood, there are no longer the
broad reaches in which to "spill
over." Mechanical devices, ma-
chinery, mass production, mass
distribution, have forced upon la-
bor a new adjustment. Competi-
tion has become more keen, the
struggle of the individual to find
a place for himself, more of a
problem. The increase in the tem-
po of living, the speeding up of
life, has "speeded up" the difficul-
ty of living. The world has be-
come a harder world in which to
live, less poised, less reflective,
more "on edge." In other words,
the human problem has become the
problem of the day in the home, in
the community, in the nation, in
the world.

It is against such a background
that education the education of
women, in this case has its oppor-
tunity. This problem of learning
how to live together is a challenge
to the trained mind. An age in
which the impossible in the scien-
tific world has become common-
place, is not the age in which to say

that human mentality is unequal
to the solution of economic, politi-
cal and social problems. There
must be a "way out," all along the
line! A way out of the contradic-
tion of overproduction and multi-
tudes starving; a way out of the
economic difficulties at the basis
of conflicts among the nations; a
way out of racial antagonisms. Im-
mensely difficult problems, but so
were the problems faced and solved
by the Edisons and Marconis, the
Curies and Einsteins, the hosts of
scientists working miracles in the
laboratories of the world. We take
the incredible for granted every
day; sit at home and listen to
voices from the other side of the
globe with as great ease as if they
came from the other side of the
room; read nonchalantly of voy-
ages through the air in hours
which in the time of our grandpar-
ents, took months and even years.
"Aladdin's Lamp" and "Twenty
Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"
have no thrills for the child of to-
day! The story teller of the Arab-
ian Nights and Jules Verne are
tame compared with what he ac-
cepts as a commonplace.

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MISS MEREDITH STEBBINS

SIMMON S COLLEGE

WINNERS OF SETS OF 8 STERLING COFFEE SPOONS

Miss Eva L. Dills
Hunter College

Miss Anne Humphreys
Smith College

Miss Susan Klaber

Woman's College of Univ.
of No. Carolina

Miss Justine H. Lorman
Univ. of Penn. (Women's)

Miss Floreine Morris
Florida State College

Miss Edith L. Moxley
Skidmore College

Miss Eileen B. Nixon
Hood College

Miss Katherine Noland
Mount Holyoke College

Miss Elva Dawn Outland
N. J. College for Women

Miss Lucy Parton
Sweet Briar College

Miss Elizabeth H. Phillips
Stephens College

Miss Araceli Maria Riera
College of New Rochelle

Miss Helen V. Roberts
Russell Sage College

Miss Leocadia Roszczewski
College of St. Elizabeth

Miss Dorothy Rowand
Conn. College for Women

Miss Lois Simmons

Texas State College for
Women

Miss Gloria Tanasso
Barnard College

Miss Marie Ulmer

Mary Baldwin College

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THE AGNES SCOTT NEWS. TUESDAY. JUNE 6. 1939

Events of Past Year
Pass in Review

Sept. 21 Agnes Scott once again unfolds its portals and a
new freshman class is welcomed.

Sept. 22 The new students and their sponsors get acquaint-
ed at the Alumnae tea.

Sept. N 23 Classes begin, and we all settle down (?) for an-
other long grind.

Oct. 1 Twenty-six girls make the Honor Roll for 1937-1938.

Oct. 12 Chi Beta Phi Sigma honors five with membership.

Oct. 15 And the Freshmen capture the Black Cat again!
This time 'The Fate of Kitty Black" wins for the frosh.

Oct. 29 The whole campus is saddened by the news that
Miss Nannette Hopkins, our beloved dean emeritus, has
passed away at her home in Virginia.

Oct. 31 - Nov. 5 Student government sponsors Honor Week
on the campus with appropriate speakers in chapel.

Nov. 3-5 Delegates Watkins, Benson, Sewell, Guthrie, and
Merritt have an exciting trip to the press convention in
Cincinnati.

Nov.10 Lecture Association presents Dr. Edgar Goodspeed

as its first speaker of the year.
Nov. 11 The seniors regain their lost youth, and have one

last fling with dolls and all-day suckers on Little Girl

Day.

Nov. 12 Miss Charlotte Hunter speaks at the solemn Inves-
titure service.

Nov. 17-24 A log fire and stacks of fascinating new books
make the library a very popular place during Book Week.

Nov. 17 Mortar Board entertains the Sophs.

Nov. 18 Margaret Hopkins, Marjorie Merlin uphold the
Hottentots against the popular British debate team on
the question: "Resolved, that the British Empire is a
menace to world peace."

Nov. 18 Alumnae week-end opens with Evelyn Hanna's
telling us about "Blackberry Winter."

Nov. 19 Blackfriars presents "Stage Door," and scores an-
other triumph.

Dec. 1-8 A deathly hush reigns as exams occupy everyone's
attention.

Dec. 10 Mortar Board recognition services; Mrs. Holcombe
Greene, past president of the Agnes Scott chapter,
speaks.

Dec. 10 The annual Xmas party for the underprivileged

children of Decatur.
Dec. 11 Miss Evelyn Wall directs the 30th annual Carol

service.

Dec. 14 Academic Council announces new regulations re-
garding graduation with high honor.

Dec. 16 School's out! The student body scatters to the four
winds as Christmas holidays roll around again.

Dec. 27-31 Mary Ellen Whetsell and Henrietta Thompson
represent A. S. C. at the N. S. F. A. congress at Purdue.

Jan. 3 Classes begin again, but most of the recitation is ex-
cited discussion of holiday fun.

Jan. 20 We get a marvelous R. C. A. combination radio-
record player in the Murphey Candler building, and jit-
ter-bugging takes the campus with a rush!

Jan. 21 Cora Kay Hutchins, Marie Merritt, Sara Thurman,
Lou Pate and Mary Ellen Whetsell are named by Phi
Beta Kappa.

Jan. 27 Dr. McCain and Mr. Stukes meet with the Associa-
tion of Georgia Colleges in Macon to discuss the pro-
posed University Center. Dr. McCain is elected presi-
dent of the Association.

Jan. 28 Mortar Board entertains with a tea for the day stu-
dents and their parents.

Feb. 2 The "Agonistic" is changed to the "Agnes Scott
News" after much heated discussion of the relative
merits of various names.

Feb. 7-14 Dr. John W. McSween conducts religious week on
the campus.

Feb. 8 Adelaide Benson is named May Queen ! Voting still
goes on for the twelve beauties in the May court.

Feb. 13-15 Agnes Scott and Emory cooperate in conducting
the Citizenship Institute at Tech.

Feb. 14 Hottentots go nautical as Dr. McCain entertains
the student body at luncheon in the gym and the open-
ing guns are fired in the campaign to raise $40,000.

Feb. 18 Juniors shine at Junior Banquet. Blackfriars pre-
sents "Dream of An August Night."

Feb. 22 Founder's Day; a holiday with a banquet and the
Cotillion Club dance as high lights.

Feb. 24 Maurice Hindus speaks on the European situation
with emphasis on Czechoslovakia.

Feb. 24 Campaign closes! $52,002 were raised, and the
Sophomores, after lagging behind all the way, led in
contributions. Dr. McCain declared two holidays one
on Feb. 28, and the other on March 21, to give us an
extra day for spring holidays.

March 8-15 Exams oh, where did the time go second
quarter ?

March 15-21 Spring holidays.

March 20 Margaret Hopkins and Marjorie Merlin uphold
Agnes Scott in a dual debate at Sophie Newcomb college.

March 25 Book titles form the theme for the Mardi Gras
Floats.

Woolley

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There is a curious attitude prev-
alent, the attitude that because
problems in the economic, the po-
litical, the social world are diffi-
cult, they are therefore insoluble.
Suppose that attitude had prevailed
in the scientific laboratory? If it
had, we would be back in the horse
and buggy age; reading by the kero-
sene student lamp. Rather, we
would be traveling by the ox team
and perusing our month old or
year old news by the aid of the
tallow-dip. There is nothing more
difficult to understand than the
mentality which boasts of the pro-
gress made in the mechanical world
but fails to see any hope of pro-
gress in the political and social
world.

At this point, the world prob-
lem becomes the responsibility of
the undergraduate. How are you
preparing yourself to meet it, pre-
paring yourself in the class-room,
in your study of economics and

political science and international
relations; in your acquirement of
facility in languages other than
your own; in history and literature
and art the contributions of the
nations to the culture of the world,
our common heritage. To what
end? You will not all be diplo-
mats that goes without saying
but many of you will have a
chance to help in the training of
diplomats and government offi-
cials, in the home and school and
club and church; you all may have
a part in shaping public opinion,
in directing the course of our pol-
icy as a nation. The citizens of
this republic have not yet begun to
realize the responsibility which
rests upon us as individuals, as well
as members of groups. Suppose
nearly twenty years ago individual
citizens had been informed intelli-
gently with regard to the signifi-
cance of the United States joining
the League of Nations. Would the
action of the Senate have been
what it was? By no means! If we
had not f left an empty chair at

March 27 Lecture Association proudly presents Andre
Maurois, famous French writer, who lectures on humor
and wit.

March 27-30 Pi Alpha Phi claims the spotlight by sending
delegates to a national convention for the first time.

March 30 The Glee Club presents "The Gondoliers" for its
annual operetta.

March 30 Student elections begin in chapel.

April 7-8 Virginia Milner heads the committee as our cam-
pus plays hostess to the Georgia Athletic Federation of
College Women.

April 8 Miss Alexander speaks on "Scholarship" as Caro-
lyn Forman, Ruth Slack, Margaret Hopkins, Evelyn
Baty, Lutie Moore, Eleanor Hutchens, Sophie Montgom-
ery, Jane Moses, Katherine Patton, and Henrietta
Thompson are admitted into Mortar Board.

April 21 Mary Ellen Whetsell elected first woman presi-
dent of the Southeastern Region of the National Stu-
dent Government Federation at the convention held in
Charleston.

April 22 Blackfriars presents "The Green Vine/ 9 written
by an alumna.

May 5 Queen Adelaide and her court hold the center of in-
terest as "Orpheus and Eurydice" is given in May Day
Dell under colored lights.

May 6 Shakespeare and Tchaikovsky turn over in their
graves as the Seniorpolitan Opera Company i gives
"O-Me-0 and You-My-Pet."

May 8-15 Recitals by Virginia Kyle and Amelia Nickels
observe National Music Week.

May 17 Athletic Association banquet, with presentation of
awards.

May 19 Cora Kay Hutchins wins the Chi Beta Phi award

for outstanding achievement in science.
May 20 Everything else stops as the Silhouettes come out !
May 21-June 3 Final exams.

June 1 Phi Beta Kappa announces election of Emily Harris,

Virginia Kyle, Mamie Lee Ratliffe, and Jean Bailey.
June 3 Agnes Scott celebrates her fiftieth birthday with

the Alumnae Luncheon.

Return engagement of "The Gondoliers."
June 4 Dr. E. C. Colwell delivers the Baccalaureate sermon.

Sophs begin to pick daisies!
June . 5 Senior Class Day the limp daisy chain appears and

is carried proudly by its admiring creators.
June 6 Commencement address by Dr. Mary E. Woolley.

Conferring of degrees.

Announcement of awards and honors.

The Asnes Scott News

Agnes Scott College Student Newspaper

Entered as second class matter at the Decatur, Georgia, post office.

Vol. 24 Tuesday, June 6 No. 22

Eleanor Hutchens ' Editor

Evelyn Baty Managing Editor

Mary Louise Dobbs Business Manager

Virginia Clower Betty Jean O'Brien Jeannette Carroll

Elaine Stubbs Doris Weinkle Alumnae Editor

Assistant Editors Assistant Feature Editors S? s ?" 5? lf

Rebecca Drucker j ane Salters E T d,tor

(nnv P j !fftr Jane waiters Eloise Lennard

Cbpj Editor CnrxeM History Society Editor

Florence Ellis A Martin Lil > Barrett

Advertising Manager ^ nno Ma,t,n B ee Bradfield

Anne Enloe ^poris i -.iM-.r Assistant Society Editors

Georgia Hunt Hazel Solomon Ernestine Cass

Feature Editors Exchange Editor Circulation Manager

Reporters: M. Bedingcr, * Bradfield Cates, A. Chambless, L. Franklin, M. Gray,
J. Lancaster, S. M. Lee, B. McCall, J. Osborne, T. Ripley, G- Slack, J. Steams, V.
Watkins C. Willis. V. Williams, J. Witm;:n.

Business Staff: E. Barrett, M. S. Dillard, M. Doak. L. Sale, L. Schwencke, M. Simp-
son, W. Watkins, A. Wilds.

that conference table of the na-
tions, the world tragedy of today
would never have come!

This college is based upon the
ideal of an institution of learning;
it is also based upon the ideal of
Christian College. Its Magna Char-
ta includes: "the Bible a textbook;"
"thoroughly consecrated as well as
qualified teachers;" "all the influ-
ences of the college conducive to
the formation and development of
Christian character;" "the glory of
God the chief end of all."

There is nothing more signifi-
cant or more encouraging in this
troubled day than the emphasis up-
on its need of the spiritual.

Listen for a moment to what
was said at the opening of the
Temple of Religion at The World
of Tomorrow by the president of
the Temple, the president of the
World's Fair Corporation, the
president of the Synagogue Coun-
cil of America, the administrator
of the Catholic Archdiocese of
New York, the general secretary
of the Greater New York Federa-
tion of Churches:

"Here is a reminder that man
shall not live by bread alone.' "

"The New York World's Fair
needed this temple of religion to
round out the story of man's past
and to foretell the possibilities cf
his future."

"Religion must not divide. It
must unite. Here in this Temple
of Religion, men and women of
differing creeds, but of one reli-
gious spirit, shall meet in full,
free, frank fellowship of the
spirit, renouncing racialism, learn-
ing to love the Lord our God with
all our soul and all our mind, and
learning to love our neighbors as
ourselves."

"The whole world struggle in
all its forms today is one of es-
sence, namely, the striving of
man's ego with Almighty God
the conflict between selfishness
and love the tension between
man's pride and God's constraint
for brotherhood. We are called
upon, not so much to dedicate a
building as to re-dedicate our
lives."

"May it happily and speedily
come to pass that all men recog-
nize religion as due homage to
Thee, and the clear guarantee of
their freedom."

"I am convinced that the great-
est safeguard of democracy is a
sincere recognition by its people of
the eternal truths on which all true
religion is based," said the Gover-
nor of New York and the mayor
of New York City added:

"Outside we look forward. In
this temple one looks backward for
inspiration. There is nothing
science can do to improve on the
Ten Commandments or the Ser-
mon on the Mount. That sermon
might well be the guide for those
who have the destiny of millions
of people in their hands. Let us
hope that the teaching of Him who
has been an inspiration for 2,000
years may soon come to realiza-
tion."

It is a difficult world which we
of this generation hand on to you
of the next, but knowing young
people I am confident that the
very difficulty will be a stimulus.
You have a problem to solve ex-
ceeding in importance any problem
ever faced in the history of the
world, to prove that man is not
born "a brute to sink i' the scale."

May you have the high idealism,
the dauntless courage characteristic
of this college for your task.

Mary E. Woolley.