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KEEP OFF THE GRASS
VOLUME XIX
VIRGINIANS ARRIVE SATURDAY
Kile No.—Z773
NO. 1!7
FARMVILLE, VIRGINIA, WEDNESDAY, -MAY 8, 1940
Anne Cock Is New A. K.G.Officials Debate President To Attend Meet
Stevenson Heads Cotillion Club: PierpontIs Leader
Parker, DeLong, Keck Also Elected
(ioatinjr Rules Are Published
Royall, Hardaway, Purdum Delegates
Anne Cock. Elizabeth Ann ParRuth Lea Purdum. Martha ker. Helen DeLong and Frances Meade Hardaway. and Jane Royall Keck wee elected president, vice- will leave Friday. May 10. to atBoonic Stcv< nson mi Si president, secretary and treasurer tend a meeting of the national to succeed Virginia Policy as presrespectively of the Debate Club at officers and local incoming presi- | ident of the Cotillion Club Wedthe regular meeting last Wednes- dents of Alpha Kappa Gamma, nesday night, May 1. day night May 1. national honor fraternity for Nani\\ Pierpont was chosen Marie Allen, outgoing president leadership, at the home of Mrs leader with Louise Pain'' was elected counselor of the club. E. R. Childs at Pawley's Island. rctaiy-iiiasiiici Anne, a junior from Hampton, South Carolina. Paye Biandon will succeed Esis a member of Pi Kappa Delta, Martha Meade. outgoing presisie Millner as business manager,' national honorary forensic fra- dent of Joan Chcle of Alpha and Mr. M. B. Coyner has been ternity, and was a delegate to the Kappa Gamma, is regional reelected adviser of the club. Boonle Stevenson, new pres- Dixie Forensic Tournament at cording secretary, and Jane is Mr T. A. McCorkle. former ad- ident of Cotillion Club. Winthrop last fall, and to the regional corresponding secretary. viser of the dub was made an Grand Eastern Tournament thus Ruth Lea is the local incoming honorary member' spring, where she won two awards president, Boonic is secretary of her class for after dinner speaking. This group is meeting to fora member of the A C. E. and the Elizabeth Ann also attended the mulate plans for the coming year. house council. Nancy is chairman Dixie and Grand Eastern TourJane. Martha Meade. and Ruth of the service committee of the How the church works with col- naments and was delegate to the I-ea *fll return Sunday. May 12. V \V C. A and a member of H20 Club and Orehesis. She was on the leges and schools was the theme South Atlantic Forensic TournaA A Council her freshman year. of Mr. Charles Edwa.d Thomas.: ment last March and to the naLouise wa- on A A. Council her executive director of the Church tional Pi Kappa Delta convention at Knoxville. Tennessee. She Ls a sophomore year and a member of Society for College Work. PhilaSophomore from Portsmouth and May Court this y< H Paye is incoming president of delphia. Pennsylvania, at a series is a member of Pi Kappa Delta. A. C. E.. a member of the House of lectures to the students at S.' Helen, a Freshman and a memMr. T. Gammaire, American Red ber of one of Farmville's junior Council, and was a member of T. C. Friday. May 3 debate teams has participated in Cioss field representative, will ofPan Hellenic Council this year. Mr. Thomas spoke in chapel at sevcial intercollegiate debates on fer an instructors course at the lie Cotillion Club sponsors 11 o'clock. He addressed the Epis- the campus this winter. college pool from May 13 through two dance- each year and attempts to improve dances here. copal Young People's Fellowship F:ances and Marie both juniors May 18- Fourteen students, from Sprlna Cotillion will be May 18. at 7 o'clock and then led a forum from southwest Virginia are mem- Hampden-Sydney and S. T. C. group for the Y. W. C. A. at 8 bers of Pi Kappa Delta and at- have enrolled for the class and with Dean Hudson playing. Goat Week will be held May 13- o'clock in the Y. W. lounge at tended the Dixie. South Atlantic, have been receiving preliminary 15. The rules governing the invi- which time the social committee and Grand-Eastern Forensic Tour-, Instruction for the past month, Tne course tation of new members are listed. served ref eshments. naments offers an efficient p:< ram All these girls have participated f °f ™}u&™e **!&* '» ■n intercollegiate debating ^u, water safety. The two divisions of in and off the campus throughout |^_e ^.ar:e_.1.1.fe.;s.a^_anTd_ wa" General Rules for Every Day ter Bafety instructorship. In orthe school year. 1—Wear green and yellow stockings der to participate in the group students must be 19 years old and 2—Meet in front of the Colonnade before luin.li and dinner must be senior life savers. The each day. chief purpose of this course is to 8—Wear a yellow ribbon at least an inch wide with Goat give special training for teaching (your name) printed in jrreen inch. Pin securely to the swimming as camp counselo:s. place where you would wear a corsair.1 if you had one. •1- Fix your hair to suit each days cost time. Monday—Haby Dumpliny Dai (make your mother proud) Entries in the Riding Contest 1—Wear a short cotton dress just above the knee. Watch and Horse Show, will be open unthose stocking!—no gaposifl please! til May 12. The event is scheduled for Friday. May 17. at 2 o'clock. 2—Wear a wide sash All girls wishing to attend are ;i—Frilly bonnets with bows under the chin (or chins) Jeanne Hall, chairman; Amy 4—Carry a book of nursery rhymes which are to be read asked to see Nelle White, Lillian Read, secretary: and May Mart German, or May Wertz. to make in baby talk to all Cotillion Chili members, and faculty arrangements for transportation j lett. treasurer of the Sophomore to say nothing of the Horns Department. to Hampden-Sydney where the 5—Learn to sing the following ditty in bab\ talk with pro- show wil be held. Also anyone Commission, will be installed as per gesticulations. Sing to the tune <1 "The -Madame wishing to enter the contest officers Thursday night, at PrayIs . . . " should see one of these girls to ers Other members of the SophoCotillion is a good club make an appointment to ride at least once between now and May more Commission to be installed To this we all agree 12 in order to be classified and wil be Peggy Lou Boyette. Helen We love to greet its old girls assigned a horse. Upon our bended knee. Wiley Hardy. Margaret Misti. Anne There will be classes for every—We love you— one. Those who have never rid- Moore, Sara Wade Owen. Ruth Tuesday—Labor Day den. may ride before May 12 and Palmer, Agnes Patterson. Betty All work and no play enter the beginners' class. Youngberg. Nancy Saunders and That's the slogan for Labor Day Anyone wishing further Infor- Jerry Smith, Walk up tO the old Cotillion girls mation may phone 201W. Miss! May Bartlett will head the And in your own "sweet" way Stella Fox. riding school director. Morning Watch Committee. Peggy any time before six o'clock. Ask them if there's any job Lou Boyette. Prayers, and Agnes You can do for them today. Patterson, chairman of devotions. The Sophomore Commission 1—Dress as some type 01 laborer other than student. sponsored a skit "As Others See •>—Carry a piece of working equipment such as a hammer, Us". Monday night at student screw-driver, plow, axe, sewing machine, etc.—Oh, you body meeting. Those taking part know. in this skit were: Betty Fahr. 3_Be out on the athletic field at 7:00 a. m. for a mass IHarriett Vaden. Nancy NafT. Nor strike against the fence. The roll will be called!! Carry Sara Cline and Martha Whel- ma wood, Eliza Wise, Marjorie appropriate Sighs on sticks. These are to be carried chel will represent S. T. C. at j Nlmmo. Harriette Scott .Elizabeth the annual Southern Student Towasend. Robin Henning. "Chuball day. 4_A sit-down strike will be held in front of I he Colon- Christian Conference in Tallade- by.. Heard, Anne Moore. Shirley nade at 5:80. Please come early and avoid the picket ga. Alabama June 6-13. and Fran- Turner. Betty Boutchard. and ces Rosebro, Lucy Turnbull. Jean Betty Youngberg. line. Moyer, Eleanor Folk, and Nancy Wednesday—Sad-I'an Day Pierpont will represent S. T C. a* 1—Weai- black Blue Ridge, North Carolina. Junf 2—No make-up 8-17. ."{—Nil jewelry The theme of the Y. M C. A 4—Have good jokes on hand for Cotillion members but re- and Y. W. C. A. leader is, "The College Choir with Professor Almember nol to smile for It's gloomy Wednesday. Christian Faith and Contempoiafred H. Strick, director, and Edwin 5—Sintf this mournful tune to "The Worms Crawl In, the neoUl Living". There will be study classes, worship, .eminar C. Cralle. guest soloist, will leave worms crawl out." Farmville Saturday. May 18, for a and forums. I cannot laugh, I cannot grin The conference LS pi tuned for concert torn '.: Virginia. For think of the trouble I would get in members of Student Christian AsSaturday night they will sing at Now I am tired and all worn out sociation in the white colleges in the Suffolk High school. Sunday From pushing this sad foe of mine about. the ten southeastern states, and especially for the office: s and cab- morning they will be guest choir Afterthought: Bring a pair of scissors to the 12^0 meal inet members. Many men and at the Trinity Methodist Church ing in front of the Colonnade on this day. women students who are active in of Smithfleld. and that night they Any little items which you mighl want to buy for these d<>- jthe work of the Christian Asso- will sing at the evening service IngS may he bought at Rosa's. ; elation on their local campuses of the Epworth Methodist Church The aDOVI rule- are confined to the campus. Old girls will join together for this ninein Norfolk, after which they will plea-e remember this and don't cluter up Main Street day period of inspiration and retUtn to Farmville. training
Episcopal Leader To Speak to Students
Red Cross Offers Instructors Course
GOAT RULES
Riding Contest Slated for May 17
Soph Commission To Install Officers; Group Presents Skit
Cline, Whelchel Will Represent Farmville At Alabama Meeting
Choir to Sin*? In Suffolk and Norfolk
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Windham and Petti* Reign Over May Day Fete In Dell Coming Election Topic of Reception Pi Gamma Mu Gives Third of Series The presidential election of 1940 was the topic for discussion ;'t i formal reception of Pi Gamma Mu. honorary social science fraternity, Wednesday night. May 7 in Student Building lounge. Frances Alvis. a senior. Dorothy Rollins, a junior, and Mary Mahone. a senior, presented time phases of the primary political questions facing Americans today. The Effect of a Thiid Presidential Term on American People Irrespective of Part" was the viewpoint Frances discussed. She began by giving a background of former presidential elctions. and situations in which the problem of running for a third term had arisen, and in what ways these foimer situations had been met. She emphasized the fact that there was more than one man in the United States capable of carrying out the executive duties of president. In reporting on the "Possibility of a Democratic Victory" Dot explained that people liked a spending administration and liked to see where their money is going. Roosevelt's administration was the illustration she referred to. In essentials fo: president Dot mentioned that he must be a strong leader, have the ability to choose workers, and the ability for character insight in choosing a good cabinet. Roosevlt embodied these characteristics. Although he has his faults he has been outstanding and people would not consider him for a third term if he had not had something. Mary Mahone in her presentation of "Possibilities of a Republican Victory" gave a picture of the direction the pendulum has swung at previous elections for a Republican or Democratic majority. Mary gave the results of a poll conducted by Fortune magazine which gave Roosevelt a lead with 35 per cent of the votes, and Republican Dewey 14 per cent. "But. she concluded, people of the nation are against a third term by 8 per cent majorlt] Questions brought out in the discussion following the talks ■•rs the effects of war develop Continued on Page 4
Court Presents Colorful Dances "Greet wa-s the feste that daye And ekk the lustj sesson of that Maye Made everyone to be In such pleaMunee That all that Satuulay hasten they and daunce Despite the lack ot sim and warmth on Saturday May Day was a sight to behold Can you ever forgel that spectacular masque as Essie Millner danced the "Halle to the Morne" and opened the gala festivities? Hardly had she disappeared when the "Meeting and Qreel i dancers, gaily attired In purple, white, and pink gored dresses cut over princess lines, tripped by two's an three's onto the green some to dance and some to decorate the Queen's throne with the whitest of dOgWOOd. When all was in readiness for the Queen they disappeared into the lores! and Robin Hood and his band of outlaws ime to style in the Lincoln green huntsman garb ran forth to revel before lhe arrival of the Court. They were soon joined by the coy milk-maides. curtseying and chattering among the group. Hark' to the tingle of hells Ah l he Mor; Kv Dancers In their queer cost limes of black pants and pink and blue jackets, appeared. led by the two hobby horses who immediately entered into a tlwlit lo the delicht of the audience The blast of trumpets quickly brought this exciting event to a dose as the heralds announced the appro-.ih of the Queen and her Court. From eve: ywhere. from behind bushes and trees all the peasants came to witness the crowning. Then from out of the distance, slowly, sedately came the Court — 'our prettiest -never prettier', two by two. All in WDM shade of red--from wine to rose toned in value so as to blend together then gowns styled after the tUnSS—hOOP skirts pulled sieves and lacy collars. Striking in contrail was the Maid of Honor h> r gown of moss green richly outstanding. Last but not least With all the bearmc and accustomed royalty cams the Queen hei white dress standing out agsinsl the green background of tier ai.d hrubbery. Truly a queen was I.ula Windham. From out of the crowd eame that lovable character of English folklore Robin ll'">d and tO hUT Contuttud M 1'aur 4
Glen Cray. Tommy Tucker Featured At \nnle l>lossom Festival Color, gaiety and sn "Id southern atmosphere prevailed over the 17th Annual Apple Bio Bl Pi tival. in Winchester, Virginia, May 1-3 when Senonta Lillian sun.. za. of Wears i crowned of Apple Blossom b) A sistant Secretary oi Btati " i!■ r.•. i-. ,o Qrady Luis I Windham. B. T. C. May Queen i!«40. represented Parmvflls i princ Beneath threatening skies the
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Mary had a plol of (Trass; She walked on ii every day. Now instead of the gTaae, She only baa a bale of bay. Remember all those clever limericks we heard in the dining room last year'.' Well, you'd never think we'd ever heard 'em, from the looks of the newly trodden paths around school. Do you know how many walks there are leading into the building beween Library and student? Try counting them. There are nine! Looks as though they ought to be close enough to any place we want to go. Evidently they aren't though, because one look at those cutting across the campus gives you that idea, anyway. Suiipo.se the grass could speak. Bet they would be a pretty sorry lot. University of N. ('. put up a loud speeder and Whenever anyone was seen walking on the grass it would bleat forth with something like. "Hey. you. down there, get off the grass!" It worked, too. All winter we gazed OUt on that snow (when we were snow bound) and wished for Spring. Well, with its com ing, that age old problem of how to effectively say "Keep
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With onlj two month- until the Tins past Saturday which was nominations of the major parties supposed 1" be a May Day. or BO all eye are mined on who it will die calendar -aid. took on aspects be Roosevelt has decided to be different and so Ol ;. Pounders Day in more ways :emaili- silent as Hum one . Censored, Cen to his intentions Censored. Of running again. Twas good seeing old facesBy t hi- policy Jennie. Jinna. Jennie Belle. Fran. be will maintain etc Twas just as good gazing the respect of on nev\ one-, loo: to Wit: The he European May Court MemberExcellent lignitaries for camouflage . . . Bweetpeas and he U. S. He will OldmaldS to all the lovelies! oe listened to as We wonder ... If Sarah Booth the leader of a Found hersell as vet: if sin-: lock-Oertrude-Allene Overbey can | i at nation, still believed in by hi- home constituents. Had he keep her Chatham-Hampdenannounced that he would not run Bydney relations without "finding ! '■ m u si rained predica- again the European nations would paid little heed to a man ment: if Jan Savin will sooner or I holding office only because his later discover a successor to his term had not expired, Whether •foo-de-roo" singer. Bon-Bon. in tinis his elm! reason for silence Lena Butterworth; if the "two- la doubtful. who have a.-ked four or What Kind of a Platform.' five O. A. O.'s to Cotillion can j He baffles the Republican party. find -olutions or dates for them. With their nominations coming Speaking of Cotillion, we wish before the Democrats they are I hat we could have booked Will I faced with the decision of a platBradley. 'The Boy With the form against a New Deal DemoHorn". Two new songs. 'Beat Ml crat or just a plain old time DemDaddy. Eight to the Bar" and I •Strange Cargo", wee introduced by him the other night and were wowies. Clovvas in the Night . . . The Personnel of Third Floor student, but especially Wood and Scottie. who insist upon having cokes In the wee hours; May Wlnn, null said; the instigators of 'The; Evil-Eye Society": Hoppie and Ebo who are filled with "snoopo-iiy ■ to the nth degree. It seems that Dot Lawrence satisfied with Tommy Ford nowaday- what with the subtle play She's making for S. T. C.'s Lochinvar Lashley . . . That ole "1-2" is much in evidence at the present since it's sp.ing and Finals will soon roll around . . . Who wen the Two Smart Girls who made it to the Chi Phi Partie-v . . . How did "Cossie" decide on her date for Cotillion? . . . The Whitlock-Willis set-up is reaching a potent Stage, while the Mclllwaine-Russell affair is suffering SARA KEBBBB with widow-trouble, to say nothing of the home-town competiDimpled darling of S. T. C. 'five and one-half is the exact number' tion. Betty Hawkins has three Tech Sara is the "trottinest" prom trotmen A-k her about the situation ter of them all—from Navy Balls 'cuz it's veddy up-and-at-em . . . to Fancy Dress. Small, blonde The Kilby must be cooling off for and lovable she is enough to cause i swathed in a yellow coat, a crisis in anyone's vocabulary. arm- included, while watching Tis said that Jan Garber once May Day . . . M. K. Zehmer de- kissed her after she sang with serve- all sorts of po-ies for get- his orchestra as who wouldn't for ting one Buddy Wheatley to trip Sara's melody-laden voice gets the light-and-so-on in the Rec right to the bottom of your heart. Saddy post meridian . . . Tripp As likeable as she is lookable. appeared before Jimmy Saturday Sara's accomplishments are not afternoon in her long black un- limited to the beauty realm alone nerwear . . . Sara Keesee's ]il bid but spread out in the brainy reEarle. looked over the Student gions also Her splendid cooperaBody and made his picks . . . tion, dependability and willingness What about the Five F-N Club i I have made her a valuable with by-claws and red colors? asset to her Alma Mater. Sara is For tear that the following pome a vivacious little girl whose "I will never appear in print any- love life" attitude toward the n is inserted in this col- woi Id has made it a sunnier place yum. The aspiring young pi for those of us who know her.
The more one sees of the teachers of today the more one feels of hope and despair. A large percentage of the teachers are sincere, seeking methods and materials to better themselves and their teaching so that they may give the best possible help and instruction to the hoys and girls they teach. Of these teachers one can he proud, foi they teach the children who will be the leaders of tomorrow. Another group of teachers, for whose pupils one feels sorry, are those who teach entirely bjl hard and last traditional fact learning and repetition. These i re nol the teachers who inspire hoys and girls to think, to do things. Rather, they turn out of their sehools little machines which repeal things much as a phonograph record does. Is such . well-deserving red-head. a teacher harmful to the child? Oh yes. for she carefully kills or curbs any creative impulses not directly connected 'The moon cast it- shadow with the basic Subjects She was hired to teach. Vicious'.' jUpon us. She doesn't mean to be! Hopeless for the teacher for the I And you .smiled At me . . . child? Possibly, for to change them their minds must lie jolted awake, and then they must he trained and disciplin- ii trembled and looked up ed to function even a little. | At you. The group of teachers who give the wrong impression My love Of the teaching profession to the general public, and cause And waited . . . educators, teachers and parents throughout the country Then, softly through io raise their voices in a cry of disapproval, is the group The night composed of just plain "had teachers". "Had teachers Came your soft voice. because they were never meant to be teachers; "had teach- Have ram rum?" DmmivHooin Doin's ers" because they are poorly trained, poorly supervised and chouses i . . Mary Lou's remarkteach school only because they cannot dn anything else. able piano playing, especially fan the parents and educators of the sehool-age chil- Dance With a Dolly" . . . Table dren, fairly and honestlj condemn these so-called teachers I symphony Orchestra comfur trying to teach year after year when we solicit their i of the following: Wents, the patronage anil actually encourage them to try lo improve Mai: Maestro With a fork for a themselves for a profession tor which they are not fitted? baton; Chubby who out-bazookas Would wo permil a quack doctor to perform a major oper- Burn Hi! /a Mai I at the harp: ation upon us? Would we permit a poor dn\er to chauffer Mi Pall VY'i on Dlier, Ihe thleeus about the streets of a hiisv city '.' (!|' course not. we \ a I lie plano team of boogic-U" the Iluii-I: Grail, hot nur welfare too highly. Yet. we who claim to love our Martha tOOtin' U i' ' I . drumi and children more than ours.dves. will entrust them to poorly baat-fuddler extraoditrained, unstable ami corrupt teachers to form the patterns nalre Their rendition i>f Butand lay the foundation for a child's whole life. chlnsky'i Melody In XY 1 7. Minor. it has he.ui proved in hi-ton the world over for countout-Inspiring. Mould prove less aces that a nation cannot i ive its common the tional SS Well BS ridiculous. It's greatest mass of it- people. Therefore, lei us f in if only ask ourselves tins question, "Just how an' the chil- really a I line ■ the ' enter dren of the next generation going to he able to choose w hat is best miles- they know how to think, to read Intelligently, Into il with the right spirit. The appropriate therm n to and to he aide to stand firm upon their convictions, ami where are the.v going lo receive the ueces-arv training
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ocrat. This makes it doubly ha:d for them and puts the Democrats in a much happier situation. They have the advantage of drawing up a platform directed at someone they know, whereas the Republicans must draw up a platform against maybe a New Dealer, then again maybe not. Another Roosevelt tactic in this game of politics is the speaking tour through the Middle West while the Republicans are in Philadelphia nominating. Of course, the president is hoping to draw some attention f:om the Republican Convention and he will naturally succeed. The speeches will be on the subject of conservation. Could it be they will relate to the conservation of the New Deal or F. D. R.? Democratic Aspirants It is likely that Roosevelt could be persuaded to run again and it is generally believed he will since he has allowed the third term talk for two years. But should he refuse to run who would it be? There are Hull and Farley, conservatives. Liberal McNutt, and New Dealers. Jackson and Wallace. The latter would receive the whole-hearted support of Roosevelt and he would probably be glad to see them nominated. But. at present, their hopes are very weak. McNutt bloomed and faded all too soon and at the present seems out of the way. Hull and Farley are the leading aspirants. Hull has received the sanction of the people with his leciprocal trade treaties but his age is against him and Jim Farley is such a good vote-getter for other people it would be a shame to change his job. Amono The Republicans In the Republican ranks is the good looking Tom Dewey—young enough to be saved for another time, some thought, but he is proving otherwise. Already he has crowded Vandenberg into the background. Dewey is going after votes and the chances are he'll get them. Taft, older and more conservative, having lived in the White House once, is his chief rival now—but with Wendell Willkie rising rapidly there could be some shifting. Until Roosevelt decides or rather publicizes what he will do, he will keep the world guessing. He could come nearer holding the Democratic party together than any other man. The Republicans are together. But in this theater of politics, the limelight shifts and different ones play the leading roles at different times. Whom it will spot at the convention we must wait and see.
"Monkeys are the craziest people", terms Lew Lehr. "And people are the craziest monkeys". Who said that? 'Always heard that it was a poor rule if it didn't work both ways—so don't blame me for trying'. Anyhow, paraphrasing the Lehr, people do the craatast things. Yes Siree! And right here on our own campus. For example: Tim McCoy, of Home Ec fame, while striving diligently to vie with the tea room in making biscuts. was veddy veddy perplexed and perturbed when her creations failed to rise. But following ye ole maxim, "If at first they don't rise mix. mix. mix again", Tim with a dash and a mix and a stir, once again put her biscuits in the oven and waited with great expectations for the completion of her great art. "All's quiet in the oven." she thought; and after "Watching the Clock" for a time, she felt with great assurance that the biscuits were done. But alas and alack! Same situation 'guess you think that this is where you came ini. But wait! Remember the climax. Poor disillusioned Tim—she had used sugar instead of baking powder. Take heed, my chillens. "Retributive Justice" Best luck of the week belongs to Nancy Sale. Seems that the young lady proved that a nickel can make another nickel; and from our own coca cola machine at that. Formula: Put one nickel in and turn the handle down and the nickels come out. That's what happened when Nancy was getting her roomie a coke. "I'm Like Erne:son." said Nancy. "I believe in retributive justice". It seems that Nancy had lost a nickel at Longwood that afternoon, and was consequenly denying herself But compensation comes . . Poetic Fever
Not spring fever, but poetic fever seems to be the symptoms prevalent on the campus; what with all the poems we've seen. Noted in an exchange paper from down the Carolina way is this poetic composition We offer it her for the benefit of poetry lovers. Spiing Birds bees, budding trees Cupid's darts, captured hearts Bliss. Nowhere care nor sorrow. Woodland walks, quiet talks Fragrant flowers—golden hours Phooey! History quiz tomorrow
For the Wittiest I nominate Mary K Zehmer. Reason: The other night I saw the Zehmer ambling down the hall with the limping Pie draped on The first book purchased by the her "And who do you all think University of Texas library was a you are?" I queried. "Oh I'm Cain and Pie is disAbel". retorted Mary concordance of the Bible. K Well All Rieht now! Mary's got a little hen Creighton University medical That's feminine and queer. It lays all right when eggs are students and faculty members last year treated free of charge 30.000 cheap. And quits when they are dear. patients.
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By MICKEY BECK With May Day practices taking the spotlight and BO* called "recreation hours" of a large number of students last week, our campus spoils were somewhat neglected. But where there are girls there is bound Lo be play. BO I guess this is one place for such goings-on, don't you? When old man weather cooperated with us, golf and tennis set a new pace and seemed to challenge each and everyone for the anxious sportswomen of the college.
.Jennings, Adams, Mcllhvaine In Run
will he completed this week.
Archery doesn't seem in have been bothered by any outside forces because it has been progressing all right. Nell Hurt and some of the others are steadily trying their bows. "Mow" West and Pat Gibson are looking mighty good nn the tennis courts these days tOO. Maybe they need more competition, who wants to take them on for a set or two? Not t!i The horseshow coining up Friday week, which is being sponsored by the riding club, has given each person whether she is an experienced horsewoman or merely a beginner, a chance to participate and enjoy the privilege. Chappy announced that even she was rather weary after riding all Monday afternoon. Polishing your pace, Chappy'.' Bather Atkinson is really taking the show seriously. I understand she has a new riding habit specially for the occasion !
Congratulations, new Monogram Club officers!! As near to Held and track I can get is in gym class. Now there you can track down some of the fastest runners and highest jumpers you ever saw. I'll tell you more about it when we have a little private tourney of our own.
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Helen Seward was elected to succeed Chlotilde Ja.man as president of the Monogram Club for the coming year at a meeting held Monday night. May 6 Helen McIllwaine, succeeding Helen Jeffries. la the new -ecretary-treasurer. Helen is social chairman of the Athletic Association for the coming year and was manager of archery last year. Helen Mac was manager of minor sports last year and has been on varsity hockey team all three years here, as well as class hockey teams. Her freshman year she was assistant manager of basketball and has played on class volleyball team for two years. She is ping pong champion of S. T. C. Both girls are from Petersburg. New members elected to the club Monday night we:e the following: Martha Roberts. Peggy Hughes. Florence Lee. Corilda Chaplin and Dorothy Johnson. "Marty" is from Norton and has been outstanding in sports at Farmville. She is secretary of the A. A. and plays on varsity basketball squad. Peggy, from Richmond la manager of swimming and is a member of the H20 Club. Flo:ence Lee is a member of class hockey and basketball teams and Is from Hampton. "Chappy", who is from Falling Springs, is publicity chairman for the A. A. and plays on varsity basketball; while Dot. from Suffolk, is the new trea-
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Three girls have reached the finals in the round tobtn singles tournament. The first and second rounds have been completed with the exception of one match to be played between Emil Ellis and Mary Sue Edmonson. The tourney which was scheduled to be completed before, was delayed because of inclement weather. Results of the matches which have been playd off are as follows: Mary Sue Edmonson defeated Pat Gibson 6-3. 6-3. Emil Ellis defeated Petie Barnett 7-5. 4-6, 6-3. Cleo .laiiii.ui defeated Ann Burgwyn 6-1, 6-0. Frances Parham defeated Cottie Radspinner 6-3. 4-6. 6-1. Betsy Jennings defeated Dot Fischer 6-2. 6-3. Ruby Adams de- Don't Parget Mother on feated Fiances Parham 7-5, 6-3. Helen Mclllwaine defeated Cleo MOTHER'S DAY Jarman 3-6. 6-3. 6-4. Kaki Peery forfeited to Helen Mclllwaine. M;i> We Mail Vuur Order, Early The three girls reaching the final round are: Betsy Jennings. Ruby Adams and Helen Mclll-
Thursday old Sol did his best to dry off the tennis courts and so Friday found quite a numlm- out there polishing up their serve lor their next opponent in the round robin tournament which has been slowed down on account of they "ain't" had no time. The first round had not heen Completed Saturday hut the following girls had defeated their first rivals: Ruby Adams, Dot Fischer, Betsy Jennings, "I'etie" Bamett, Mary Sue Kdmonson, I'ai Gibson, and "Mooch" Mcllwaine. With an optimistic viewpoint, good weather, et cetera, we hope that the tennis tournament "It is a test <>( temper, a trial of honor, a revealer of Character." "It is also a cur.- fur care, and an antidote t" worry." I am quoting from David R. Forgan and of course you can't miss the sport in question—GOLF—by all means. Hazel wood Burbank, (). C. Gilchrist, and Sue Owen are just a sample of these quotations, and right here on our campus, too. Golf is an excellent sport, and one which we will enjoy even perhaps when we're old and gray, to say nothing of our "happy, happy collich days." Then too, the I'ro is living up to his candid "Cameramaiiship", (which mean-; WATCH YOUR SWIN'C'i
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l .!..::.i Club Is entertaining The Preshman clan was 11 ■» ■ 111 nib* is tonight, May 8. at a in the Junior class al a we* nle roa " i' LongWOOd Friday. May 3 picnic al i ongwood. Jean Warwick is chairman of at 5:30 p. m. Approximately five entertainment committee. hundred Juniors ami freshmen the Bl ' ■• Barnes and Belly Perry are attended. ting her. Miss Olive Der and Mr. Ray"Dlbby" Shelborne, Betsy Jenmond FI'ITM h advlsera ol the two I and Miss Elisabeth Grudy nings and Mane Thompson are helping Virginia Rudd. thai, man were also presenl ..ii committee
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on Tu< day night, April 30. Helen Walls, .lean Martin. Jean Kappa Delta Pi Will entertain Mover. Kallienne Beaton Helen With a reception May 17 in the Brlggs, [Catherine Burge, Evelyn student Building Lounge. This is Looney and Nancy Qoode Bland an annual affair and Freshmen wei, Jolnl in' ii we al an Infor- and Sophomore girls who are In mal parly given for the members the nppei i,i,ai tile of their classes of Alpha Sigma Tau sorority in .MI receive invitations.
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Presbyterian Y. P. Announce Officers At a candlelight service M:. Holllngsworth Presbyterian minister installed the new Officers '•! the Presbyterian Students Assoclation, Sunday night, May 5. Officers Installed for the coming year are Margie Rice, president; Nancy Dupuy, vice-president and
Hen McLaughlin, secretary. Chairmen of committees are: Carolyn Harvey, visitation: Buff Ounter. church Cooperative; Anne Avers, publicity, and Yates Carr.
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May Day Fete Continued from Paae 1 went I lie honor of crowning the Quei II a the Pea ants bowed before her majesty Then the Court payed tribute to the Queen by presenting a graceful dance for her plea | i As they resumed their places Mm i ■ Danci is gathered, and clapped ami Skipped 'midst the lively tinkling of their bells Then the "Cudgel Bout" with Robin Rood i he victor over the other three contestants and the exciting "Tug o' War" that resulted m a tumble for both sides Robin Hood and hi- band then displayed their skill with their bOWl ami ai rows. A rustling among ihe peasants and I he Garland Dancers m
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A. S. T. pledges entertained fie members Thursday nlghl at eig il o'clock at a buflet party and presented the chapter with a mirror fur the room. As part of the entr.tuinne:r Helen Hoyer sang.
Chesterfield Radio Students Leave School After Scores at Colleges May Day Festivities Saturday After May Day many -indents went home for the week-end. who visited in Richmond wre Ruby Adams. Mildred Owen. Elizabeth Bellows. Jane Saundcrs. Dotty Chapman. Blanche Carper. Ethel Carr. Helen Dawson. Nellie Dawson. Nellie Dodson, Sudie Dunton, Nina Lee Hall. Mary Haynes. Geraldine Hatcher. Peggy Hughes, Kathenne Powell. Muriel Pippin. Mary Harvic, Bobbie Taylo.. Elizabeth Shelburne. Emily Owen. Baylis Kuntz, Hallie Bulman, Helen BriggS, Sue Howell, Marie Stowers, Texie Belle Felts. Dot Fischer. Dorothy Robbins. Anne Stone. Margaret Franklin. Ada Harris. Lois Shorter. Ann Reese Whitlow. Lois Wilkins Grace Wallace and Josephine Newman. Journeying to Roanoke were Elizabeth Summerfield. Frances Ellett. Elizabeth Glasgow. Vi.ginia Alexander. Betty Barnes. Margaret Bowling. Sara Currie. Louise Painter. Margaret Carr. Frances Hoback, Lorana Moomaw.
Polly Keller was the guesl of Louisa Sanfo.d in Newport News. Other.s slaying in that city were Doris Lee and Dorothy Lee Wood. Blackstone attracted Kathenne Burge. Mary Kline Beck. Mat] Ciews. Jane Hardy, Jane Pratt. Marie Thompson and Betty Webb. Anne Billups and Elenora Faison attended a Science Convention in Lexington. Evelyn Pankey Visited Mary Louise Ster.ett there. Ruth Winstead spent the weekend with her sister in Philadelphia. Pennsylvania. Elizabeth Ounter intended dances at Meredith College in Raleigh. North Carolina, while Alice Goode Cahoon visited Elon College there. Dorothy Menefee and Faye Brandon have returned after representing S. T. C. at an A. C. E.
Convention in Milwaukee, consin. Michael Supa. a blind Colgate University student, has been elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
just one day open in the next six months, and that day a Sunday. The Fred Waring "Pleasure Time "broadcast comes over NBC Fred Waring's School SOURS Make stations 5 nights weekly, from Hit With Students: Miller Monday through Friday and I'opulai Glenn Miller is heard over CBS on Tuesday. Wednesday and Among the programs liked best Thursday evenings. by college students today, are Fred Waring's 'Chesterfield Pleasure Time" and Glenn Miller's "Moonlight Serenade". Each offers specialties to please the college DAILY MATS AT 3:45 P. M. generation. Fri.-Sat.. Mas 10-11 Fied Waring's idea of writing ERROL FLYNN new school SOngS to order was in MI/HAM HOPKINS response to petitions signed by thousands of students f:om near"VIRGINIA CITY" Latest News Kvenls ly every American college for an original Waring song. One song Next Mnn.-Tues.. Slav 1.1-14 •ach week is dedicated over the air DBANNA IH'RHIN on 'Pleasure Time" broadcastWALTER PIDGEON selected as tin best quarter hour KAY FRANCIS on the air by the radio editors of "IT'S A DATE" the United States and Canada. Ntxt Wnl -Thur.. Mav 15-16 The Miller prog: am. voted MERLE OBERON America's foremast dance band. GEORGE BRENT has an average age under 25 years —including Glenn Miller and PAT O'BRIEN Larry Bruff. its announcer. MilGeraldtne FttMgeraU ler's popularity with swing devo"'Til We Mett Again" tees everywhere is shown by the Ted Fio Rita and Orchestra fact that he is probably Ameiica's busiest band leader today. He has
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('Mining Flections Continued from Page 1 men) on Roosevelt's chances, why wouldn't the South rally 'round Hull, as he embodies all the South stands for. is Roosevelt being straby holding his answer to | third term, and who will run for the democratic ticket if Roosevelt doesn't ' Marjorie Nimmo. outgoing' House Council President. p:esided. Assisting her on the project eommitiee were Ollie Graham Gilchrist, and Ruth Lea Purdum. Mary Walker Mitchell was In charge of refreshments. Instead of bringing speakers to the campus Pi Gamma Mu this year had receptions every quarter for discussions on national and international affairs and invited faculty members, town people and
students particularly interested peared the May Pole carried by the dancers In yellow and grey. Oreal was the delight of the group BJ the pole was set up in their midst and the traditional dance was given. A an exciting climax the entire/ groups excluding the Queen and her court, gathered in concentric circles and danced the Sellenger's Round. The peasants then dispetsed and the court, this time led by the smiling Queen, walked sedately back into the woods. ' Haile Farewell" by "Meeting and Greeting" group closed the festive occasion
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