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AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1937 NO. 9

VOL. XXII 

Milton's "Comus" to be Given religious speaker DeiiniSon and Gilroy Chosen 

As Play for May Day Festival "v As Candidates for Beck Award 

Presbyterian Church Mr. G. Harrison Wills

Sorcerer, Nymphs, Fair Ladies Fellowship Will Be Given To 
of Famous Masque to Form Celebrates Founding Bequest to Colleges Student of Agnes Scott, 
Colorful Spectacle Tech, or Emory 

A pageant celebrating the diamond Agnes Scott received a share in the 

Committee Makes Selection Decision To Be Made Soon

jubilee or seventy-fifth anniversary of estate of the late Mr. George Harrison, 
the founding of the Presbyterian publisher of law books in Atlanta; Mr. 

Milton's famous masque Co nuts The academic council of the facul¬

church will be presented in the Bucher Harrison, after giving certain per¬ 

will be presented on May Day, the Scott gymnasium on Monday, Janu¬ sonal bequests, directed that his estate ty has chosen Lucile Dennison and 
committee, headed by Eloisa Alexand¬ ary 18. Dr. D. P. McGeachy, pastor be divided among Agnes Scott, Geor¬ Nellie Margaret Gilroy as the Agnes 
er, decided at a meeting last Friday. of the Decatur Presbyterian church gia Tech, and the First Presbyterian Scott candidates for the Beck scholar¬ 

and a trustee of Agnes Scott, wrote church of Atlanta.

A fascinating pageant telling of a ship, which is awarded annually to a 

the pageant which is an excellent de¬ Mr. Harrison's interest in this col¬ 

great sorcerer's plot against the hap¬ student of Emory, the University of

lineation of life seventy-five years lege began years ago when he and 
piness of innocent beings, Com us has ago. Miss Frances Gooch, of the his father gave a scholarship loan fund Georgia, or Agnes Scott. The win¬ 
proved a successful performance from spoken English department, will di¬ of $1,000 for his sister, a Vassar grad¬ ner will be announced late in Janu¬ 
its very first presentation at Ludlow rect students of Columbia Seminary uate. ary by the committee of selections. 
and Agnes Scott, who will participate The scholarship provides a maxi¬

Castle in England, in the year 1634. 

in the pageant. mum sum of two thousand dollars

Its final scene of a village May cele¬ A.S.C., Emory are 

annually for graduate study in a uni¬

bration makes it especially appropri¬ 

Delegates Speak To Present Play, versity in America, or in other 
ate for the occasion of May Day. countries subject to the approval of 
There will be some necessary Of Problems at "Le Cid," Thursday the board. It may be held for as long 
changes in the text of the masque, as three years. The candidates must 

N.S. F. A. Meeting Dr. Benjamin Lacy be citizens of Georgia and members
such as the omission of the spoken 

The French club at Agnes Scott 

of the present senior class or alumni 

passages, leaving merely the colorful To Speak During College will cooperate with that of 

of two years standing or less; their

After hearing the student discus¬

spectacle itself. Emory University in presenting Le 

colleges must be Georgia institutions

sions at the twelfth annual Congress Religious Week 

Cid, by Corneille, tomorrow, January

The main characters of Comus are that have chapters of Phi Beta Kappa

of the National Student Federation 

14, at 8:00 p. m. This presentation is

to appear as follows: Comus, a sorcer¬ and standards approved both by the

of America, Alice Hannah and Anne 

in honor of the 300th anniversary of

er of the forest; the Attendant Spirit, Dr. Benjamin R. Lacy, president of Southern Association of Colleges and

Worthy Johnson concluded that 

the first production of this play of

who opposes Comus; Sabrina, a water Union Theological Seminary in Rich¬ Secondary Schools and the Association

Agnes Scott does not have the prob¬ 

Corneille, who is considered by many

nymph; and the Lady and her two mond, will present a series of ad¬ of American Universities.

lems which face most schools. They 

the leading tragedian of the French

brothers, lost in the wood. In addi¬ dresses in the Gaines chapel during the as The Committee of Selections bases

report that, contrary to most 

theatre.

tion to these are the attendant train religious-emphasis week which will be¬ its decision upon literary and schol¬

campuses, Agnes Scott has already es¬ 

The role of the heroine, Chimene,

of Comus, shepherds, and village folk. gin January 19 under the auspices of astic ability and attainments; person¬

tablished its fundamental policies; its 

will be played by Mile. Suzanne

The May Day committee in charge the Y. W. C. A. On its winter re¬ ality and character; leadership and in¬

chief need at present is an active in¬ 

Audrain, French exchange student

of the program are, faculty members. treat, Sunday, January 10, the Y. W. at terest in others; and physical vigor

terest in national and international af¬ 

Agnes Scott. Other Agnes Scott stu¬

Miss Eugenie Dozier, Miss Llewellyn C. A. cabinet completed its plans for as shown by interest in outdoor sports

fairs—an interest which is stimulated 

dents who will take part in the pro¬

(Continued on page 4, column 3) the week, which will center around or in other ways. Distinction in

organizations the S.

by such as N. are Jane Turner in the role

duction

Dr. Lacy's speeches. character, personality, and intellect is

F. A. 
of Elvire, confidante to Chimene;

Alice were In addition to his talks in a length¬ the most important requirement for

College Officials and Anne Worthy the 

Julia Thing, as L'Enfante; and Wini¬

ened chapel period each morning dur¬ the decision. The scholarship is fur¬

representatives of Agnes Scott at the 

fred Kellersberger as Leonore, confi¬

ing the week of January 19-23, Dr. nished by a fund left for that pur¬

Attend Convention congress, which was held in New 

dante of L'Enfante. The male leads

Lacey will be available for private pose by Mr. Lewis Beck, former pres¬

York City from December 2 8 to Jan¬ 

will be taken by Emory professors, 

uary 1. The School of Commerce of conferences with students concerning ident of Beck & Gregg hardware 

Dr. J. R. McCain, president, and with M. Roger Harleppe, who was for¬ 

New York University was official personal problems and questions. store in Atlanta. It was offered for 

Mr. S. G. Stukes, registrar, will at¬ merly of Strassbourg and who is now

Anyone desiring to take him to din¬ the first time in 1934, when Virginia

host of the convention.

tend the twenty-third annual conven¬ ner in the Alumnae tea house in a visiting professor of French at Heard, '3 3, won

Among the many outstanding or it.

tion of the Association of American Emory, playing the role of Rodrigue,

the dormitory may make arrangements Lucile Dennison is president of the

speakers at the congress were: Dr.

Colleges, which will meet Thursday the hero, who is known as "Le Cid"

for this privilege through any cabinet day students and treasurer of Pi Alpha

Walter Kotschnig, of Smith and

and Friday, January 14 and 15, in because of his brave deeds in the Span¬

member. The college will bear the Phi; Nellie Margaret Gilroy is presi¬

Mount Holyoke Colleges, who spoke

Washington, D. C. The theme of the ish war against the Moors. Mr. 

on Peace; Dr. Ralph Harlow, of Smith expense of the visitor's meals. dent of Pi Alpha Phi, social service

lession will be "Contributions to Lib¬ Strozier, also of the Emory faculty,

Discussion groups with the fresh¬ chairman of Y. W. C. A. and feature

College, who discussed the value of

eral Education in the College." Dr. will play the part of the father of 

American college education; and Dr. man cabinet and with the Y. W. C. A. editor of the Agonistic. Both are

McCain is president of this organiza¬ Rodrigue. The other roles will be

cabinet and morning watch conducted honor students.

Homer Rainey, director of the Ameri¬

tion. taken by French students of the Uni¬

for the college community by Dr.

can Youth Commission, who spoke on 

versity.

Besides reports, discussions, and Lacy are other items on the schedule

the faults of modern liberal education. 

This joint meeting with Emory on Sophomores Elect

program the

speeches, the for con¬ Delegates to the conference were as-for religious-emphasis week. 

the occasion of the play will take the

vention features a tea, a dinner, a To introduce the plans for Dr.

(Continned on page 4, column place the of New Y.

round table discussion, and a tour of 
1) 
Lacy's visit to the Agnes Scott cam¬ of regular meeting the W. Cabinet 

French club, which customarily meets

the Federal Bureau of Investigation as pus, Eloisa Alexander, Laura Coit,

Eta Sigma Phi Plans on the first Monday of each month.

the guest of J. Edgar Hoover, direc¬ Mary Lillian Fairly, and Betty Hollis To offer new positions of leader¬ 

Means of transportation will be

tor. gave impressions of the speaker and a ship and training in Y. W. C. A.

Initiation For Five furnished for all those desiring to at¬

Officers and members of the Wash¬ summary of the purpose and history work at Agnes Scott, the sophomore 
ington chapter of the Association of of the annual week of religious inter¬ tend this performance of Le Cid. class elected a cabinet of seven mem¬ 
University Women will be the official Five new members are to be initiated est at Agnes Scott in a chapel program bers last Friday. Amelia Nickels was 
hostesses at the tea, which will be held into the Agnes Scott chapter of on Tuesday, January 12. Thompson, Thiemonge chosen chairman. The members of 
at the national headquarters of that Eta Sigma Phi, national honorary Dr. Lacy is remembered as the pas¬ the cabinet are as follows: Henrietta 
organization. Latin and Greek fraternity: Mary tor of the Central Presbyterian Represent Freshmen Blackwell, June Harvey, Jack Hawks, 

Many prominent educators will Virginia Farrar, Rebecca Lee Love, church in Atlanta from 1919-1926. Eunice Knox, Flora McGuire, Amelia 
speak at the convention, among whom , Marie Merritt, Rachel Kennedy, and He has received degrees from such Henrietta Thompson and Julia Nickels, and Mamie Lee Ratliff. The 
are: Albert Mansbridge, president of Alice Hannah. The initiation will institutions as Davidson College, Ox¬ Thiemonge will represent the fresh¬ three sophomore members of Y. W. 

the World Association for Adult Edu¬ take place tomorrow at 5:00 in the ford University, Hampden-Sydney man class on student government, as C. A. cabinet, Millie Coit, Douglas 
cation; James B. Conant, president of parlor in Main. College, and Duke University. the result of recent elections. Lyle, and Gary Wheeler, will be in¬ 
Harvard University; Jonas Lie, presi¬ Following the initiation there will be Class officers, elected just before cluded in the meetings and work of 

dent of the National Academy of De¬ a banquet in the Alumnae house at Christmas holidays, are Ruth Slack, the sophomore cabinet, making a

Miss MacDougall Goes

sign; Meta Glass, president of Sweet which Dr. Preston H. Epps, head of president; Ruth Crisp, vice-president; membership of ten. The new cabinet 
Briar College; and Harold G. Moul-the classical department at Furman To A.A.U.W. Meetings and Carolyn Forman, secretary. will begin work immediately. 
ton, president of the Brookings Insti¬ University, will speak. The subject of 

To Award Fellowship

tution. his address will be Virgil. 

Miss Mary Stuart MacDougall, pro¬

Field Secretary Plaits Parties 

fessor of biology, will leave next week 
for Washington, D. C., where she is

For Entertaining High Schools 

An amendment to the student gov¬ the holidays. These nominations,

to attend the meeting of the fellow¬ 

ernment constitution by-law 4, af¬ along with those of the nominat¬

ship committee of the American As¬

Miss Alberta Palmour, alumnae field terian; Henrietta Thompson, Girls fecting the dates of nomination and ing committee, will be posted the 
secretary, has announced the names High; Barbara Lee Murlin, Druid sociation of University Women. The election of school officers will be following Monday, March 29. Elec¬ 
of the girls who will plan the en¬ Hills; Ruth Slack, Decatur High; purpose of the committee is to award brought up tomorrow in Open Forum. tions will then take place Thursday

tertainment for a series of parties to Catherine Farrar, Avondale; Lucile fellowships to college women through¬ According to the constitution, nom¬ and Friday, April 1 and 2. 
be given in February for Atlanta Dennison, president of day students. inations and elections are to take The nominating committee favors

out the country. The meeting will

high school students. The representa¬ Last year each school was enter¬ place the second and third weeks in the adoption of this amendment, feel¬

take place January 22, 23 and 24.

tives of the different high schools are tained separately, whereas in former March; since the adoption of the quar¬ ing that it is better for the welfare 

years students from all the schools The report of scientific results sent

as follows: Ellen O'Donnell, Sacred ter system, examinations and spring of the students to have the elections 
Heart; Jeanette Carroll, Russell; were entertained on one afternoon. by Miss MacDougall to a recent scien¬ holidays come on those dates. The after examinations rather than to 
Winelle Myers, Fulton; Virginia Mil-This year three separate parties will tific convention in Atlantic City was proposed amendment will be to the have them immediately before. Also it 
ner. North Fulton; Bryant Holsen-be given, each on a Friday afternoon, read before the convention and pub¬ effect that popular nominations be is not necessary to have them so early,
beck, Washington Seminary; Penn and will include two or more high lished in the current issue of the An¬ made on Thursday, March 2 5, two since school ends later than it did 

Hammond, North Avenue Presby¬ schools. atomical Survey. davs after the students return from last year. 


THE AGONISTIC 

Lloyd Douglas' "White Banners" L nited Workers' Strikes

<ll)c ^gotnistic 

Charms, 1eaches, Lplifts Reader Hurt Automobile Industry 

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. 
1936 Member 1937 
Plssocided GoUe&iafe Press 

STAFF 
Laura Steele Kathryn B. Wall 
Editor-in-Cbief Business Manager 
Frances Carv Elizabeth Blackshear 
Associate Editor Advertising Manager 
Jane Guthrie Mary Lib Morrow 
Hortense Jones Frances Belford 
Mary McCann Hudson Nell Hemphill 
Assistant Editors Circulation Managers 
June Matthews Frances Wilson 
Make-Up Editor Current History 
Ruth Hertzka Pauline Moss 
Assistant Make-Up Society Editor 
Nellie M. Gilroy Jean Chalmers 
Feature Editor Sports Editor 
Mary Frances Guthrie Cornelia Christie 
Exchange Editor Club Editor 
Mildred Davis Elizabeth Warden 
Book Editor Alumnae Editor 
Editor, Associate Editor, Enid Middleton, Mary 
King, Editorial Council 

The Honor System Again 

It seems that most Agnes Scott students feel 
that honesty is an individual thing and no more. 
We are inclined to look after our own honesty 
and there let the matter rest, as Carlyle: "Just 
be sure that you are an honest man and there 
will be one less rascal in the world." The great 
majority of students, asked if they approved the 
double honor system, said they signed the pledge 
to report dishonesty in others only because of 
compulsion. Is such an attitude justifiable, and 
if so, why do we continue to sign a pledge which 
we refuse to keep with the same integrity which 
we adopt toward our own honesty? 

Few students are actually faced with the 
problem of reporting or failing to report a serious 
offense of another student, but all of us 
are faced with it theoretically. All of us are 
faced with the possibility of such a problem, and 
unless we face it in advance, when we are called 
upon for action, in all probability we are in¬ 
clined to compromise with our own standard. We 
require less of others than of ourselves. 

If real sympathy for the other student were 
the cause of this attitude we might admire the 
student who refused to report another. It is 
not sympathy, however; it is indifference. Real 
sympathy would find the knowledge of another's 
dishonesty unpleasant, but would consider the 
reporting of it a necessary means of correcting 
the condition. Reporting would cease to be the 
unpleasant task it is and become an indication of 
kindness and care for another's welfare. 

Student government has repeatedly expressed 
its sympathetic interest in every student's prob¬ 
lems and its policy of dealing with all cases 
kindly and understandingly. If the student body 
ceased to look upon student government as a 
group of severe judges who mete out dire penal¬ 
ties to pale offenders and began to cooperate 
with their elected representatives, as a group 
better fitted to deal with these cases than in¬ 
dividual students, the double honor system would 
become something more than a tradition and a 
distasteful part of Agnes Scott life. 

But there is still another consideration to be 
taken into account. The double honor system 
if effectively supported would make us realize 
our responsibility as "our brother's keeper." But 
in addition to this, it would make us more care¬ 
ful of our own honesty. The student who signs 
the present pledge and does not report any in¬ 
fraction of the rules of Agnes Scott is just as 
dishonest as the violator of these rules. She is 
not only guilty of not helping a fellow student 
to correct a fault, but also of not being true to 
her own pledged word. Again, a student not in¬ 
clined to be too strict with herself is tempted 
to be dishonest in comparatively trivial matters, 
though she be strictly honest in more important 
instances, if she feels that others share her 
opinion against reporting. In other words, if 
we begin to excuse others, we are inclined to 
lower our own standards and excuse ourselves 
as well of slight lapses in honesty. 

The very fact that students feel hostile to¬ 
ward a part of the pledge tends to make less 
significant their "Pledge" appearing on exam¬ 
ination blanks. Faculty opinion is pretty clearly 
on the side of the double honor system. But it 
is the student body which must make the honor 
system effective in upholding the ideals of Agnes 
Scott. It is the student who makes the word 
"Pledge" significant or insignificant. 

White Banners, by Lloyd C. Doug¬ 
las; Houghton, Mifflin Co., 193 6, 
$2.50; reviewed by Cornelia Coleman. 

Once in a lifetime one may come 
across a book at once charming, prac¬ 
tical, and uplifting. Lloyd Douglas' 
latest novel, White Banners, effective¬ 
ly combines all three qualities. The 
same delightful style and skilful 
characterization which endeared this 
author's two former novels, The Mag; 
nipcent Obsession and The Green 
Light, to the public, are to be found 
here in no less degree. A deep human 
interest pervades the whole. One lives, 
' acts, breathes, the life and experiences 
of each person presented. A universal 
appeal is made by the practical solu, 
tions of problems. The reader may 
' make a direct application to himself in 
each instance, and find the result alto-
j gether satisfying and profitable. A 
book should be judged mostly by its 
; power to transport the reader to a 
| higher plane of thinking and feeling. 
This transportation is successfully ac¬ 
complished by the introduction and 
I interpretation of Philip Raymond's 
i theory of conduct as set forth in the 

life and works of the devoted Han¬ 
nah. 

The character of Hannah makes an 
indelible impression on the mind and 
the heart. Her spiritual strength is an 
outgrowth of the love she bore to the 
' memory of Philip and his method of 
j accomplishing any purpose without 
strife. Her faith in him and in his 
j belief enables her to endure misfor! 
tune, disaster, and heartbreak. It was 
because of this power that she realized 
a happiness few have ever known. 
Through twenty-five years of service 

Editor's Note: This column is conducted in

order that students may express freely their

opinions about campus affairs. The staff does 

not assume responsibility for articles appear¬

ing here. 

We think (at last) that something 
! should be done now about a cut sys-
l tern at Agnes Scott. For ar least 
| three years now, there has been talk, 
j talk, talk about a cut system, and 
| from all appearances, that's all any-

i body is going to do for the next three 
years. 

| Everybody—students and faculty— 
agrees that the present system of ex¬ 
cuses should be replaced by some sys¬ 
tem which is fairer to the entire stu¬ 
dent body, and students especially 
feel that a new system should allow 
some freedom in attending classes. As 
the system is now, day students have 
a distinct advantage over boarders, 
even those few who feign a headache 
every now and then in order to catch 
up on sleep in the infirmary. It seems 
to us that there exists in our activi¬ 
ties "a most ingenious paradox." As 
far as assignments and understanding 
of material studied are concerned, we 
are expected to do comparatively ma¬ 
ture work, we are supposed to develop 
an appreciation of aesthetic values, we 
are supposed to "grow up"; and yet 
we are treated rather like irreiponsible 
children in being forced to attend all 
classes, except when we are sick or 
when we go through a long process 
of getting excused, usually lor a visit 
to the dentist. A cut system would 
eliminate all these technicalities and 
save trouble for students and for those 
in the dean's office. 

For a long time, students could nor 
agree on a plan to submit to the 
faculty. Those endless and often 
pointless discussions in Open Forum 
proved that it was impossible for the 
entire student body to come to a 
unanimous opinion about the cut sys¬ 
tem; for this reason, it was considered 
expedient for the question to be taken 
up by the students most interested in 
it, those composing the N. S. F. A. 
discussion group. Last fall, this group 
drew up and submitted to the faculty 
what we considered to be a fair and 
intelligent cut system, providing for 
a cut for every hour for underclass¬ 
men and unlimited cuts for upperclassmen 
meriting all their work. The 
faculty has made no statement, either 
of acceptance or rejection of this plan. 

We think that we are being entirelv 

to the Ward household she guided By Margaret Watson 

their affairs with an unswerving de¬ 

Sit-down strikes, folded-arms strikes, and 

votion. To all with whom she came 

lying-down strikes sound as if the labor unions

into contact, she gave something of 

are adding calisthenics to their other activities,

her strength, her very self. 

In White Banners we find an in¬ but they are seriously making their greatest ef¬ 

tangible sweetness penetrating each fort to organize all the workers in one of the 

page, which both encourages the read¬ 

nation's biggest industries—the manufacture of 

er and rewards him for his task. One 

automobiles and accessory parts. Since General

learns in truth that not to fight back 

Motors is the largest company, the United Auto¬

and not to enforce rights is the surest 
: 

way to win in any battle. What is mobile Workers' Union is concentrating on bet¬ 

more, "the personal power generated tering the conditions of the workers there and 

by this passive attitude toward antag¬ is meeting with strong opposition from the of¬ 

onisms" gives an inward happiness 

ficials of the corporation.

that is everlasting. 

l The United Automobile Workers' Union is a 
part of John L. Lewis' Committee for Industrial 

Librarian Speaks 

Organization, and has been suspended from the 
American Federation of Labor for allying with

Of Oldest Devices 
the C. I. 0. However, the C. 1. 0. is wealthy and 
influential in Washington, and the United Auto¬

Miss Edna Ruth Hanley, librarian, 

has prepared the following article on mobile Workers are probably better off with it 

two more printers' devices on the li¬ i than with the American Federation of Labor. 

brary wall: 

I Under the leadership of Homer Martin, their 
Peter Schoeffcr and Johann Fust 

! president, the workers are striking for shorter-

The first printers' device to be used 

hours, more pay, and the right to bargain col¬

in a printed book was that employed 

lectively. Also they want the reinstatement of

by Peter Schoeffer and Johann Fust 

in the Psalter printed at Mainz in \ union members whom they consider unjustly dis¬ 

August, 1457. This was the earliest charged, seniority rules for promotion, and a 

book to contain the place and date of 

j workers' board to advise and consult with the 

printing and the first with the name 

j management about labor's problems. In asking

of the typographer. The device 

for shorter hours the workers say the strain of 
used by Fust and Schoeffer shows two ! mass production is too great to enable them to 

shields suspended from a branch. The 

stand a long working day; they also complain 

arms on the sinister are those of 

of the monotony of doing one little thing all 

Schoeffer, and the two objects in the 

day. In reply the company officials say that 

saltire on the dexter shield may be the 

wages are higher than ever, hours shorter, work¬ 

arms or work of Fust. 

ing conditions good, and that they will not turn 

Bemadinns Venetus de Vifalibus 

over the plant to the workers according to their 

The device of the orb and cross 

demands. 

used by Bernardinus Venetus de Vi-

More than 50,000 men are out of a job because 

talibus in Venice in 1 500 is one of 

they are striking or the plant has been closed 

the best of its kind. The vine orna¬ 

to prevent a strike. The General Motors Cor¬ 

doubt reference

ment no has to the poration has sixty-nine factories in fourteen 

name, Latin, vifis, a vine, vitalis, of 

states, and unless a settlement is soon made, fa-

life. 

j vorable to the workers, union officials say they 
will call a general strike. 

reasonable in asking for such a cut 

| The Works Progress Administration in Wash¬ 

system. Any student of college age 

ington says that strikers can get on relief, and 

and intelligence, and particularly those 

! the 500,000 members of the C. I. O. pay enough

at Agnes Scott, should be able to 

| dues to keep their treasury full, so workers ap


judge whether two hours of continu¬ 

| parently won't suffer. But the automobile in


ous work on one at par¬ dustry was brisk

subject a j will—it enjoying a business

ticular time would be worth more to 

until the strikes, and the company will have to

her than one hour spent on history 

settle quickly to take advantage of returning

parallel and another hour in math i 

prosperity. It is unlikely that the workers will

class, or whether she could afford to j 

get all their demands at once, but the power of 

miss certain classes to attend certain j 

union has been demonstrated, and they will gain

meetings, for example of the annual ! 

something.

Citizenship Forum at Emory, interview 

a lecturer, or go to the Mardi Gras 

celebration. We do not feel that a "It Can't Happen Here" 

week of cuts a quarter is too much to 

ask for freshmen and sophomores, and To the age-old strains of "Ring Out the Old— 
by the time a student has junior stand¬ Ring in the New" many on the campus have de¬ 
ing and is meriting all her work, she clared rather definite and imposing resolutions 
should be able to do more or less as for 1937. Since, however, most individuals show 
she pleases. We think that the ma¬ some reluctance in admitting their aspirations to 
jority of students would use this pri¬ do better, it would seem legitimate for one to 
vilege intelligently and discreetlv, and speculate upon the probable nature of some of 

indeed, each student would probably these rules of conduct. 
feel more of a personal responsibilitv For instance, it is pretty likely that some¬ 
for her academic activities and do bet¬ 

where in his list Mr. Davidson included a firm 
ter work. Certainly it would be fairer purpose to throw less chalk about his class¬ 
than the present system, and it would rooms, nor would it be too impossible for Brooks 
allow for more initiative and would Spivey to have promised herself and her long 
be more challenging to the individual suffering professors that at least one of her 
student. As usual, there would prob¬ usual five-term papers this quarter will be less 
ably be a few who would take advan¬ than sixty pages in length. One wonders wheth¬ 
tage of such a system, but the entire er Giddy Erwin resolved to participate in one in¬ 
student body should not be forced to ; telligent conversation this year sans the help of 
suffer for a small minority. Further-[ her very expressive hands, especially the one 
more, college is the place for such j which she dangles so skillfully. One is inclined 
people to develop mature judgments, to hope, especially if one is a student of the 
and without responsibility and oppor¬ classics, that Miss Latin Smith resolved, for the 
tunities for choice, this is impossible. ! sake of economy in regard to fugiting tempus 

Of course, we want a cut system as and the midnight oil, to permit students to read 
soon as possible; it seems logical rKal good translations from now on. It is just barely 
we should be able to have one by the possible that Miss Jackson greeted the New 
third quarter of this year, but even Year with a resolution to indulge her history 
if it could not be put into effect 301 class henceforth in true-false and comple¬ 
until next year, we think some defi¬ tion tests rather than the usual hair-raising and 
nite action should be taken now. If chill-producing ordeals. Bigger and better night¬ 
the faculty do not approve of our j mares with white elephants replacing the age-
plan, it is only fair that they tell us j old pink octopus is a safe guess concerning An¬ 
their objections and suggest a plan that j nie Lee Crowell's aspirations, while Dot Cabiness 
would be acceptable to them. ; probably has resolved to resort to longer, louder, 

Other colleges seem to have been and more effective screams. The library, not to 
able to work out effective cut systems, : be outdone by other aspirants, has resolved to ob¬ 
and we see no reason why Agnes Scott I serve an open door policy in the future, where¬ 
with its small student body, distinct¬ by both front doors will remain unlocked or one 
ly above the average in intelligence, : in particular will be barred with consistency. 
cannot put into effect, now, a cut sys¬ Probably one of the most earnest resolutions 
tem as much above the average in was from the heart of a well known alumna who, 
standards and efficiency as our honor because of repeated experiences in 1936, is de¬ 
system. termined to stick to her own tooth brush. 


THE AGONISTIC 

Swarthout and Martini Open Girls Invade Business World;

Amateur Journalists 
Commend High Honor

All-Star Series Here Friday Find Gay Divorcees, Detectives 

Paid Home-Town Girl 

The following personal ap¬ 

peared in Somnwrs Hill Outlook, 

published by some ten-year-old 

Cartersville boys who received a 

typewriter and hectograph for 

Christmas: 

This paper is glad to here about 

a Cartersville girl who is now going 

to school at Agness Scott Colleg, 

Miss Ann Worthy Johnson, being 

sent from her school as a delicate 

to a Natinal Student Convention 

in the Victoria Hotel in the big city 

of New York. She is a cousin of 

Harvey Howell who rote this ar¬ 

ticle. 

History Professor

* 

Visits in Florida 

Associate Professor Elizabeth Ful¬ 
ler Jackson, of the history depart¬ 
ment, made a tour of Florida during 
the Christmas holidays, visiting ten 
branches of the American Association 
of University Women, in her official 
capacity as director of the Southeast¬ 
ern division of that organization. Miss 
Jackson spoke to several of the chap¬ 
ters and had conferences with the ex¬ 
ecutive boards of others. 

On Monday, December 21, Miss 
Jackson was present at a meeting of 
the executive board of the Orlando-
Winter Park branch, which she ad¬ 
dressed on the subject of the national 
convention of the A. A. U. W., to 
be held in Savannah, March 15-18. 
On Saturday, December 26, Miss 
Jackson was guest of honor at a 
luncheon given by the St. Petersburg 
branch, where she spoke on the sub¬ 
ject of study programs. That eve¬ 
ning she met with individual mem¬ 
bers of the Saratoga branch to dis¬ 
cuss their local problems with them. 

Miss Jackson attended a member¬ 
ship tea given by the Tampa branch 
on Sunday, December 27. The fol¬ 
lowing day the Miami Beach branch 

gave a luncheon in her honor and in 
the afternoon she spoke to them on 
the activities of the A. A. U. W., and 
the challenge of the convention. On 
Tuesday Miss Jackson met with the 
executive board of the West Palm 
Beach branch where she conducted a 
clinic on local A. A. U. W. problems. 
On New Year's day she attended a tea-
dance and bridge given by the Or¬ 
lando-Winter Park branch. 

On January 4, Miss Jackson was 
guest of honor at a luncheon given in 
Ocala by the executive boards of the 
Ocala and Gainesville branches. That 
evening she discussed local problems 
with the officers of the Jacksonville 
branch. 

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On the morning of December 19, 
1936, several Agnes Scotters descend¬ 
ed upon the firm of Davison-Paxon 
and Company to try their hands at 
playing the role of the working girl. 
How they fared, what they made, and 
how much they saved, are only a few 
of the questions which they have been 
asked since the reopening of school. 
And from their answers have sprung 
curious tales of diffident men shop¬ 
pers, gay divorcees, house detectives, 
and suave floor-walkers. 

Kitty Jones tells of an interesting 
experience which she had one busy 
morning along about 10 o'clock. A 
slim, dark woman walked up to the 
jewelry counter and asked to see some 
cigarette cases. Kitty, with a newly 
acquired nonchalance began opening 
drawers and pulling out boxes. After 
a time, both the supply and Kitty 
having been well exhausted, the wom¬ 
an left, followed closely by two men. 
And it was with great surprise that 
Kitty learned later that her difficult 
customer was a professional thief and 
her escorts, the house detective and a 
policeman. 

Nell Allison, working in the lingerie 
department, had her share of excite¬ 
ment, too. She had just made a sale 
—a three piece pajama suit of silk 
patterned with small gold cigarettes. 

"Very chic," Nell had said just at 
the right moment and the customer 
had agreed and bought it on the spot. 
But a few minutes later the bill of 
sale came back from the office with a 
question beside the name of the pur¬ 
chaser. Nell asked the woman if by 
any chance she could have made a 
mistake in signing . . . The woman 
thought for a moment and then said, 
"Oh, I know—I've been divorced since 
I placed my charge account here. Now 
let's see—what was that name . . . ?" 
And Nell says that it was actually 
several minutes before the woman 
could think of her former name. 

But sooner or later in these inter¬ 
views the subject always comes around 
to the section manager — those tall, 

Tennessee, Cuba Scenes 

For Faculty Holidays 

Mr. C. W. Dieckmann drove to 
Nashville with his family to play at 
the wedding of Nancy Tucker (ex'
3 8) on December 29. While in Cuba 
during the holidays, Miss Elizabeth 
Mitchell attended the Auburn-Villanova 
football game in Havana. 

"California 

Ramblers" 

to be had 

Only at Allen's 

"California Ramb¬ 
ler" suits possess 
the interesting de¬ 
tails that so aptly 
reflect Hollywood. 
Beautifully tailor¬ 
ed, they meet the re¬ 
quirements of the 
College Girl. 

$19.95 

Second Floor 

good-looking men who walk majestic¬ 
ally up and down between the coun¬ 
ters, stopping at times to sign, with a 
flourish of their fountain pens, an ex¬ 
change slip or two and who are 
brought mysteriously into view by 
tapping on a plate of chimes with a 
little rubber hammer. 

It seems that on the first morning 
of work Josephine Larkins was set 
down in the midst of the chaos 
known as first floor and told to find 
her section manager. You'll know 
him when you see him she was 
told. He's tall and has a white 
carnation in his button hole. How¬ 
ever, the only difficulty about 
this lay in the fact that all the sec¬ 
tion managers were tall and all wore 
white carnations. By the process of 
elimination, Josie says, she managed to 
locate her manager and begin work. 

Kitty Jones, put in the same situa¬ 
tion, rushed around madly for some 
time. Half way down a crowded aisle 
she was surprised to hear a deep voice 
behind her say, "Good morning—" 
Turning around she saw a fat old 
man. Kitty started on with her head 
in the air when the voice came again, 
"Why don't you speak to me, young 
lady?" This time Kitty said she was 
really annoyed and that she gave him 
a very freezing "Good morning" and 
started to walk on again when the 
man, to her horror, caught her elbow 
and said, "May I help you, young 
lady? I'm Colonel Paxon." 

To speak now of the practical side 
of the question. Do you make enough 
to pay for your time? is the question 
asked many times. Boarders who 
worked at Davison's and stayed at the 
college say that you break about even. 
That is, you make enough money to 
pay for your meals and car fare with 
a little left over for Christmas pres¬ 
ents. Day students, however, earned 
this Christmas on the average of $9, 
depending of course on the number of 
hours worked a day. 

All were paid twenty-five cents an 
hour but if you sit down with paper 
and pencil and figure it out, it doesn't 
take long to see that the actual profit 
came in experience and not in wages. 

Meet Your Friends at 
Cox's Prescription Shop 

Between Paramount and Grand 
Theaters, Atlanta 

Gladys Swarthout and Nino Mar¬ 
tini, two of the most popular of the 
Metropolitan stars, will appear in At¬ 
lanta twice in a joint concert, open¬ 
ing the all-star concert series in the 
Georgia theater, January 15 and 16. 
Miss Swarthout, often called the best 
dressed singer in America, and Mr. 
Martini are both distinguished stars 
of concert, opera, radio, and more re¬ 
cently of motion pictures. Their pro¬ 
gram will include several duets chosen 
from the most famous roles. 

The opening of the all-star pro¬ 
gram has been delayed this year, be-

Miss Cillev Talks

* 

To Language Club 

Miss Melissa Cilley, assistant pro¬ 
fessor of Spanish, attended three mod¬ 
ern language conventions during the 
Christmas holidays. The first, that 
of the Modern Language Association, 
was held at the College of William 
and Mary; most parts of the United 
States and many sections of Canada 
were represented. 

Miss Cilley also attended the con¬ 
vention of the South Atlantic Modern 
Language Association at the Univers¬ 
ity of Richmond, where she was on 
the committee of reporting. Twelve 
southern states were represented at 
this conference. 

At the last convention, that of the 
American Association of Teachers of 
Spanish, held at Duke University and 
at the University of North Carolina, 
Miss Cilley spoke of "Summer Festas 
and the National Holidays in Portu¬ 
gal." According to Miss Cilley, one 
of the highlights of this convention 
was the message sent by Josephus Dan¬ 
iels, ambassador to Mexico. He ad¬ 
dressed his message to the teachers 
of Spanish, mentioning particularly 
the value of the Spanish language tnd 
literature from a cultural viewpoint, 
with special reference to the close re¬ 
lationships between the eighteen South 
American republics and the United 
States. 

Friday Games Open 

Ba sketball Season 

Interclass basketball competition be¬ 
gins this Friday afternoon, when the 
seniors play the juniors and the fresh¬ 
men play the sophomores. The game 
will take place in the gymnasium at 

3:3 0 instead of the scheduled 7:3 0. 
Practices have been going on for 
the past two weeks under the direc¬ 
tion of the following class basketball 
managers: senior, Frances Gary; ju¬ 
nior, Ola Kelly; sophomore, Jane 
Moore Hamilton; and freshman, Vir¬ 
ginia Milner. 

Palmour Takes Trip 

Miss Alberta Palmour, alumnae field 
secretary of Agnes Scott, left Monday 
to make her annual tour of the im¬ 
portant cities of South Carolina. Each 
year Miss Palmour makes several trips 
visiting various sections of the near¬ 
by states to speak to high school girls 
about the college. On this trip she 
expects to visit Anderson, Greenwood, 
Abbeville, Laurens, Clinton, Winnsboro, 
Camden, Hartsville, Florence, 
Marion, Sumter, Manning, Columbia, 
Spartanburg and Greenville; she will 
return to the college January 22. 

BOWEN 

cause of inability to secure a suffici¬ 
ently large auditorium. The remod¬ 
eling of the Atlanta auditorium, at 
which all of the programs were to 
have been presented, will not be com¬ 
pleted until March. 

Mr. Marvin McDonald, manager of 
the series, has arranged to present the 
first three concerts of the series in 
the Georgia theater. Since the seat¬ 
ing capacity is about half as large as 
is necessary several programs will be 
repeated on consecutive evenings. 
Season tickets have been sold to 
Agnes Scott students at the special 
rates of $5.00 and $6.00. This will 
include, in addition to this first con¬ 
cert, Colonel de Basil's ballet Russe 
at Monte Carlo, February 25; Law¬ 
rence Tibbett, baritone, March 19; the 
St. Louis Symphony with Vladimir 
Golschmann, conductor, and Albert 
Spalding, violinist, as soloist, March 
3 1; the Philadelphia Symphony Orch¬ 
estra, Eugene Ormandy, conductor, 
April 21; Kirsten Flagsted, soprano, 
spectacular and sensational in her re¬ 
cent debut with the Metropolitan 
opera, will bring to a close on May 
1 the sixth season of the all-star con¬ 
certs. 

BOZ 
BOZ will meet this Friday at 7 

p. m., in the Y. W. C. A. room. Giddv 
Erwin, Hibernia Hassell, Carol Hale, 
and Jean Bailey will read, and Jane 
Guthrie and Nell Allison will be 
hostesses. 
Pen and Brush 

The Pen and Brush club will hold 
its first meeting of the New Year 
tomorrow night at 7:30 o'clock in 
the Murphey Candler building. The 
new members of the club will be ini¬ 
tiated at this time, and the members 
will sketch a model which is a part 
of the club project for the year. 

Pi Alpha Phi 

The next meeting of Pi Alpha Phi 
will be held tomorrow night at 7:00 
o'clock in Miss Gooch's studio. There 
will be a debate by members of the 
club. 

K.U. B. 
K. U. B. will meet this afternoon 
at 4:3 0 o'clock in the Murphey Cand¬ 
ler building. Harlee Branch Jr., an At¬ 
lanta lawyer, will speak on "Libel 
Laws." 
Black,friars 
Blackfriars will meet on Tuesday 
evening, January 19, at 7:00 o'clock 
in Miss Gooch's studio. The club is 
sponsoring a one-act play contest, 
open to everyone. The plays are due 
February 1, and may be put in the 
Aurora box in Buttrick hall. 

Alumnae Give Bridge 

For Anna Young House 

The Atlanta Agnes Scott club will 
sponsor a benefit bridge Saturday, 
January 16, at Rich's tea room. Betty 
Lou (Houck) Smith, '36, is general 
chairman. The bridge is being given 
to raise money to help refurnish the 
Alumnae House. Students interested | 
in attending can make reservations at j 
the alumnae office. Prices are fifty 1 
cents a place, $2.00 a table. 

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Faculty Attend Fraternity Gives Health Teachers Professor Goes 
Various Meets 
M iss Gooch Honor Goto Washington 
To Convention 
Conferences Draw Professors of 
Three Departments 
Miss Frances K. Gooch, speech di¬ 
rector, was honor guest of the na¬ 
tional fraternity, Zeta Phi Eta, and 
Miss Llewellyn Wilburn, associate 
professor of physical education, and 
Dr. Marv Sweet, resident physician, 
Mr. Christian Will Speak 
Southeastern Meeting 
To 
co-authoress of the constitution andConventions and lectures are occu¬ 
by-laws during the annual conventionpying a large place in the interests of Buffet Supper, Trips.of the National Association of Teach¬the faculty during the winter quar¬ 
ers of Speech, held at St. Louis, De¬ Make W eek-Endter. Mr. Henry Robinson, professor 
cember 31.of mathematics, attended meetings of InterestingThe constitution was to control thethe American Mathematical Society 
new division of the American Edu¬and the Mathematical Association of cation Theatre Association, which is Girls who went home for the week¬ 
America in Durham, N. C., during a coordinate branch of the national end were: Mary Willis to Augusta,
the holidays; he is southeastern secre¬ federation. Work and experimenta¬ Ga.; Frances Steele to Anniston,
tary-treasurer of the latter organiza¬ tion on the different phases of speech 
Ala.; Julia Porter to Covington, Ga.;occupied the major portion of thetion. Mr. Robinson read a research 
round table discussion, Miss Gooch and Elizabeth Skinner to Augusta 
paper to the Mathematics Colloquium taking an important part in subjects Ga. 
of Georgia Tech on January 18 and under her instruction at Agnes Scott. Charlotte Newman's mother and 
will lecture to the Branch Army father visited her the first of the week. 
School in Atlanta on January 20. Mrs. Groves spent the week-end 
Mr. Arthur Raper, acting professor with Sara. 
of sociology, spoke at the Civitan club Joe Allen's sister visited her this 
of Atlanta on January 12 and will week-end.Nancy Lee Richardson, ex-'32, hasspeak on January 21 in Milledgeville 
transferred to the Principia School in Dot Platt of Columbia, S. C., and 
at the G. S. C. W. chapel. He ex¬ St. Louis, Mo. Rosa Wilder of the University ofpects to spend ten days of February Mary Stipe, ex-'3 8, is attending South Carolina were visitors here forin Florida, where he will speak of 
Emory University this year.the Florida Missionary chain program. the week-end. 
Hortense Norton, ex-'3 8, has re¬Miss Catherine Torrance, professor Jane Moore Hamilton and Marlise 
turned to St. Mary's School in Raleigh,of Greek, is to attend the American Torrance went to a buffet supperN. C., which she attended beforeAssociation of University Women con-I Sunday night at the Delta Sigmacoming to Agnes Scott.vention, which will take place at Sa¬ 
Betty Lee Anderson, ex-'3 8, is at House, Dental College.vannah in March, and a meeting of the 
the Vanderbilt School of Nursing.Classical Association at Nashville in 
Theo Elmore, ex-'36, was marriedApril. | "COM US" IS CHOSEN 
to Sledge Tatum Newsom on Novem¬ FOR MAY FESTIVAL 
DELEGATES REPORT ber 7, in Montgomery. 
(Continued from page 1, column 1)
N. S. F. A. MEETING Emily Gower, ex-'}6, was married 
Wilburn and Miss Harriette Haynes,in November to Gene P. Summers of(Continued from page 1, column 2) 
Atlanta. of the physical education department;signed to commissions on various sub¬ 
Helen (Scott) Tierney, '3 3, has a and Miss Catherine Torrance, Missjects of vital interest to the college son, Lewis C., Jr., born in September.student, and after several private ses¬ Ellen Leyburn, and Miss Louise Mcsions 
there was an open hearing for Kinney. The student members are 
each commission, attended by men ex¬ than they have received to date. Eloisa Alexander, chairman; Anne 
pert in each field. "We, therefore, recommend the Thompson, business manager; Julia 
Alice Hannah, who was secretary j following: Sewell, scenario chairman; Kathleen 
of the Commission on Religion, says of j "We recommend that the executive Daniel, Frances Steele, Jane Turner, 
its discussions, "We found that the j committee set aside a sum of money Hibernia Hassell, and Marjorie Rainey, 
usual system of compulsory chapel at-i in its budget to take care of infor¬ costume committee; Ruth Tate, June 
1tendance tends to disintegrate and demation 
to-be sent out to women's col¬ Matthews, and Helen Moses, dances; 
tract from the full religious life on \ leges concerning women's activities in Tommy Ruth Blackmon, Jean Kirk-
the college campus. The Agnes Scott college, the place of women in social, patrick and Hayden Sanford, music; 
chapel system was considered by the j political, and economic life, to repre¬ Charline Fleece and Bunny Marsh, 
commission almost ideal." ! sent NSFA on women's bodies, and publicity; Jane Wyatt, posters; and 
1"In the Commission on the Honor that one woman executive be made Cecelia Baird, Nelle Scott Earthman, 
System," Ann Worthy reports, "I responsible for the conduct of these and Flora McGuire, properties. 
found the same thing to be generally matters." The committee wishes to express 
true. Most of the problems brought ; Mary Jean McKay, of Florida its appreciation for the following 
before the commission had already State College for Women, was elected scenarios submitted in the contest: 
been solved here." vice-president for next year, and will The Dryads' Kiss, by Fannie B. Har¬ 
The report of the Commission on , head the women's division of the ris, Florence Lasseter, and Mary Jane 
the Honor System recommends that I southern NSFA. Tigert; A Mexican Fiesta, by Kath¬ 
each school define its system on the ' The next annual congress of the leen Daniel; On An English After¬ 
basis of two divisions, academic and NSFA will be held at the University noon, by Edith Belser and Michelle 
social, and that it be student formed, of New Mexico. Regional confer¬ Furlow; and Marie and the Silver Nut¬ 
student controlled, and student en¬ ences are scheduled to take place in cracker, by Ann Worthy Johnson, 
forced. Academically, the system is the spring. Eliza King and Virginia Watson. 
defined as an undertaking of the studenfts, 
individually and collectively, 
JOIN THE CROWDS ATneither to give nor receive help in 
examinations, or in any other work 
that is to be used by the instructor 
as the basis of grading. Socially, the s & w 
honor system is an undertaking of the 
students to observe and abide bv the FOR THE BEST OF FOODS 
attended the conference of College 
Hygiene which was held in Washing¬ 
ton from December 2 8-31. This con¬ 
ference, which meets every five years 
and is attended by instructors from 
many United States colleges, took 
place in Wardman Park Hotel. 
Miss Barker Is Author 
Of Book on Libraries 
newest possessions is a copy of Librar¬ 
ies of the South, by Tommie Dora 
Barker, '10. The book is the result of 
Miss Barker's five-year study of south¬ 
ern libraries. 
Reporters 
Reporters include: Nell Allison, 
Alice Cheeseman, Giddy Irwin, Nell 
Hemphill, Carol Hale, Cora Kay 
Hutchins, Sarah Johnson, Douglas 
Lyle, Frances Lee, Regina Herwitz, 
Julia Sewell, Mary Willis, Mamie Lee 
Ratliff, Selma Steinbach, Anne Purnell, 
Marie Merritt, Alice Reins, Myrl 
Chafin, Louise Young, Mary Frances 
Kennedy, Henrietta Blackwell, Mary 
Primrose Noble, Mary Reins, Evelyn 
Baty, Eleanor Hutchens, Hazel Solo¬ 
mon, V. J. Watkins, Mary Louise 
Dobbs, Virginia Hill, Eloise McCall, 
Louise Houghston, Mary Lang Gill, 
Eugenia Williams, Grace Duggan, and 
Jeannette Carroll. 
Business assistants are: Rachel Ken¬ 
nedy, Florence Little, Jessie Williams, 
Jane Dryfoos, Jane Carithers. 
Mr. Schuyler Medlock Christian, 
acting professor of physics and as¬ 
tronomy, will attend the southeastern 
meeting of the American Physical So¬ 
ciety in Chapel Hill, N. C.. at the 
University of North Carolina. At 
this convention, held February 19 and 
20, Mr. Christian will probably make 
a brief address concerning his summer 
school work at Harvard for the past 
three years. 
At present Mr. Christian has in 
process of publication in the Journal 
of the American Chemical Society two 
papers dealing with scientific work. 
Alumna Teaches Here 
Miss Virginia Prettyman, '34, re¬ 
turned to the campus last week to 
take her place as temporarv assistant 
in the English department, during the 
illness of Assistant Professor Preston. 
While a student at Agnes Scott, Miss 
Prettyman took an active part in stu¬ 
dent activities. She was a member of 
Poetry club and BOZ, and editor of 
the Aurora. 
Favo rite Sayitii*s 
Mr. Gillespie: The threefold pur¬ 
pose is: 
Mr. Wright: Sooner if not later. 
Mrs. Sydenstricker: Have you 
looked at the context? 
Miss Gooch: Breathe in an idea. 
Mr. Stukes: Let me repeat. 
Mr. Davidson: Prc-cisely! 
Mr. Raper: Breadlines and million¬ 
aires. 
Mr. Hayes: So-o? 
Miss Florence Smith: This is a 
curious situation. 
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"We believe that the NSFA can 
do more for college women than has 
hitherto been attempted. We feel 
that women could be a more integral 
part of the organization, and that this 
would strengthen the NSFA's contribution 
to the community; we believe 
that women's colleges and self-gov¬ 
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VOL. XXII 

Blackfriars 

:nt

Will Prese 

fSpring Dance' 

Play Follows Junior Banquet 
On Saturday Evening, 
February 13 

King Appoints Committees 

Blackfriars Dramatic Club will pre¬ 
sent its next play, Spring ^Dance, by 
Phillip Barry, immediately after the 
junior banquet on Saturday night, 
February 13. The banquet is given 
each year in honor of the junior class 
and their dates; the Blackfriars' play 
is an annual feature of entertainment 
at this time. 

Eliza King, general chairman of the 
banquet, has announced the follow¬ 
ing committees: Dates—Jane Turner, 
chairman, Sue Bryan, Jean Barry 
Adams, Elizabeth Blackshear, and 
Nelle Scott Earthman; invitations— 
Dixie Woodford; entertainment — 
Mary Smith, chairman, Alice Reins, 
Anna Katherine Fulton, and Marjorie 
Rainey; decorations and seating ar¬ 
rangements—Ola Kelly, chairman, 
Goudyloch Erwin, Beatrice Sexton, 
Margaret Morrison, Genevieve Baird, 
Samille Saye, Jean Chalmers, and Vir¬ 
ginia Watson; place cards — Jane 
Guthrie, chairman, Jane Wyatt, Zoe 
Wells, and Eloise Estes. 

Spring Dance, which will follow the 
banquet, is especially well-suited to 
the occasion. Its setting is in a girls' 
college where the sorority girls have 
invited their best beaux down for the 
spring dance. The plot centers 
around the attempts of the students 
to catch a man for one of their friends. 
Miss Frances K. Gooch, head of the 
spoken English department, will di¬ 
rect the play; she will be assisted by 
Miss Carrie Phinney Latimer, of the 
spoken English department. 

Candler Building 

Has New Curtains 

New draperies and chair covers, se¬ 
cured through the money left by last 
year's senior class, as a gift to be used 
at the discretion of Dr. J. R. McCain, 
president, were added to the main 
room of the Murphey Candler build¬ 
ing Friday, January 15. These 
draperies and chair covers conform to 
the Jacobean architectural design of 
the building. 

An advisory committee consisting 
of alumnae assisted the members of 
Mortar Board, who have been given 
supervision of the building, in the 
selection of the material used. The 
draperies and covers are of a fine linen 
texture of Jacobean design, with the 
draperies hung on beautifully curved 
wrought iron rods. This committee 
also advised as to the furnishings of 
the club rooms. It is planned to spend 
the hundred dollars received from the 
surplus fund of the student budget 
on lamps, tables, and other furnish¬ 
ings for the building. 

Through the aid of Miss Emma 
Miller, matron, Mortar Board secured 
some used furniture which the mem¬ 
bers refinished Saturday afternoon for 
use in the building. 

Dr. McCain Addresses 

Convention in Macon 

Dr. J. R. McCain, president of 
Agnes Scott, will discuss the finan¬ 
cing of colleges through difficult 
times at the convention of the Asso¬ 
ciation of Georgia Colleges, held in 
Macon Friday evening and Saturday 
morning, January 29-30. Mr. S. G. 
Stukes, registrar, who is on the state 
high school commission for accredit¬ 
ing high schools in the state, will ac¬ 
company Dr. McCain to the con¬ 
vention. 

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1937 

Lecture Association Dr. McCain Presides at Meeting 

To Present Sandburg 
Of American College Assembly

At College Anril 13 

As president of the Association of dent of Wesleyan University in Con¬

Noted American Poet to Read 

necticut, and vice-president of the

Famous Work to Tune American Colleges, Dr. J. R. McCain, 
association for the term ending this

of Own Guitar president of Agnes Scott, presided 

January. Following the resignation of 

over its twenty-third annual meet¬

Carl Sandburg, America's "most Dr. Robert Kelly, Dr. Guy E. Snavely,
truly native poet," will lecture at ing, the most largely attended in the 

of Birmingham-Southern, was elected 
Agnes Scott on April 13 as the sec¬ history of the organization. The con¬ executive secretary. Dr. McCain gaveond in the series of outstanding fig¬ vention, held in Washington, Janu¬ a report which was a tribute to the 
ures whom the student lecture asso¬ retiring secretary.

ary 14-15, assembled representatives

ciation is bringing to the campus this The theme of the convention was

from nearly 5 00 outstanding Ameri¬

year. Mr. Sandburg will present his "Contributions to Liberal Education 
"synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits" can colleges and universities. in the College." Among the dis¬ 
to the accompaniment of his famous Dr. McCain is the second southern¬ tinguished speakers on the programguitar. er ever elected president of the asso¬ were Dr. Albert Mansbridge and Dr. 

Born in Galesburg, Illinois, in 1878, ciation, the largest of the many col¬ James B. Conant. Dr. Mansbridge, who 
Carl Sandburg grew up among the lege associations in America. He had is president of the World Association 
scenes of quaint folk lore and vital already served as vice-president and for Adult Education, London, and 
life which he later depicted for the member of the executive committee. former member of the Royal Com¬ 
world in his inimitable poetry. At the The new president for this next year mission on the Universities of Oxford 
age of thirteen he left school and be¬ is Dr. James L. McConaughy, presi-and Cambridge, talked "The Col¬

on 
gan roving. Later he worked his way leges of Oxford and Cambridge"; Dr. 
through Lombardo College in Gales¬ Conant, president of Harvard Uni¬

Alumnae Arrange

burg. He saw active service in the versity, spoke on "The American Col¬ 
Spanish War, and during the World lege." Other speakers were William

For Annual MeetWar he represented a newspaper syn¬ Ernest Hocking, Harvard University;
dicate in the Scandinavian countries. Meta Glass, president of Sweet Briar

Here March 5-6

Among Mr. Sandburg's best-known College and president of the Ameri¬ 
works are Potato Face, Tlx American can Association of University Wom¬ 
Songbag, Good Morning, America, Prominent educators, including Dr. 

en; Jonas Lie, president of the Na¬ 
Rootabaga Pigeons, Chicago Poems, Harmon Caldwell, president of the tional Academy of Design; andUniversity of Georgia, and Dr. J. R.

Smoke and Steel, Corn Huskers, and Charles Judd, University of Chicago.

McCain, president of Agnes Scott,

his arresting new volume, The People, Dr. McCain and Mr. S. G. Stukes, 

Yes. He is working the will be guest speakers during the

now on sec¬ who accompanied him to the conven¬

alumnae week-end, which will be held

ond part of his comprehensive study tion, met with fourteen alumnae in

Friday and Saturday, March 5 and 6.

of Lincoln, which will be a sequel to Washington on Friday afternoon.

The general theme of the session will

"Abraham Lincoln — The Prairie 

Years." 

be the arts and sciences. 
The program for the week-end in¬ 

Thomas Will Give 

cludes such interesting features as a

Woman's Club Has 

display of etchings by Mary Wallace Next Concert Here 
Kirk, '11; a luncheon at which Dr.

Cornelia Skinner 

McCain will speak; the dedication of 

John Charles Thomas, famous bari¬

the Armistead Memorial room and of 

Cornelia Otis Skinner comes to the tone, will appear Monday, February

the Hearon Memorial room in the Ag¬

Atlanta Woman's Club Thursday, 

nes Scott library; and a musical pro¬ 1, as the second artist presented in 

of the most orig¬

January 21, in one gram by the string ensemble under the the Atlanta concert series. Mr.

inal and delightful of her performanc¬ 

direction of Mr. C. W. Dieckmann. 

Thomas is a well-known star of

es, The Wives of Henry Vlll. This 

Other speakers are: Professor R. B. 

radio, opera, and musical productions.

six-part solo drama of Tudor Eng¬ 

Holt, of the chemistry department,

land has been received enthusiastically He studied voice at the Peabody

who will discuss recent developments

from London to Los Angeles. Rich¬ 

in the field of science; Dr. William G. Conservatory of Music, and made 

ard Lockridge in the New York Sun 

Perry, of the Georgia School of Tech¬ his debut as Passion in the Savage

has said of Miss Skinner, "few crowd¬ 

nology, who will speak on the modern 

Company's production of Every

ed stages better worth

are watching novel; Dr. Haywood J. Pearle, of 

Woman. He later starred in Love

than that on which she walks." And 

Emory University, who has as his sub¬ 

Edwin Schallert, of the Los Angeles Letter, Peasant Girl, Apple Blossoms,

ject, "The Treaty of Versailles in Re¬ 

Times, has proclaimed this "her finest Dr. will and other musical plays.

trospect." Caldwell speak

and most individual achievement." 

on "Trends in Modern Language." Mr. Thomas has appeared with the

Tickets are on sale at Davison-

Royal Opera in Brussels, with the 

Paxon's for the two performances— 

Metropolitan Opera Company, and

Parties Planned

a matinee and an evening perform¬ 

with the opera companies of Phila¬ 

ance, beginning at 8:30. 

delphia, San Francisco, Los Angeles,

By Mortar Board 

and Chicago. He began his concert 
Miss Myra Jervey, '31, tours in 192 5. 

The Agnes Scott chapter of Mortar 

Atlantians were given the oppor¬

Visits Here Saturday Board will entertain the boarding

j tunity of hearing Mr. Thomas or

freshmen at a series of parties in the 

Lawrence Tibbet, who will appear in 

Miss Myra Jervey, '31, stopped at Murphey Candler building from Jan¬ 

a concert in March. 

Agnes Scott Saturday on her way uary 26 through January 29. 
to Ocala to the extension school of Two members of the chapter will 
the University of Florida, where she be hostesses to about twenty-five girls March 5 Set As Date 
is to give a two-weeks' lecture course each night. The hostesses are: Tues¬ 

Of Competitive Tests 

on the principles of dress. For the day, Julia Thing and Mary Jane 
past two years Miss Jervey has been Tigert; Wednesday, Eloisa Alexander 
in the clothing and grooming depart¬ and Frances Gary; Thursday, Laura The registrar's office is completing 

ment at Stephens in Columbia, Mo. Steele and Isabel McCain; Friday, plans for the annual competitive ex¬ 

In this month's Readers' Digest Alice Hannah and Marie Stalker. aminations which will be given March 
there is an article by Miss Jervey, Some juniors and seniors will assist 5 to high school seniors who want 
condensed from one published in in the entertainment with some of scholarships to Agnes Scott. Appli¬ 

cants from other cities will take the

McCall's last summer. A recent the alumnae members of Mortar 

Progressive Education magazine car¬ Board as chaperones. This custom of exams under the supervision of their 
ries an article on problems in per¬ introducing the freshmen to young local high schools; while applicants 
sonal grooming that was also written men was begun last year. from Atlanta and vicinity will be the 
by Miss Jervey. In June of this year guests of Agnes Scott while they take 

them.

Miss Jervey will talk to the clothing Isabel McCain to Head 
division of the national convention 

One-hour examinations in three 
of home economics departments, to State Y. W. Conference ■•ubjects—English, a language, and a 
be held in Kansas City. At Georgia University general elective—will be given. A full 
scholarship for one year ($700) will 
be awarded the contestant receiving

Emory Presents Play 

The state Y. W. C. A. conference 

the highest rating, and a scholarship

is to be held this year at the Uni¬ 

for $5 00 will go to the runner-up.

The Emory Players will present versity of Georgia, from March 19


The decision will be based 75 per¬

Booth Tarkington's comedy, "The 21, according to Isabel McCain, pres¬ 

cent on the examination papers, and

Man From Home," Friday, March 5, ident of both the Agnes Scott and 

2 5 percent on the personality of the

in Glenn Memorial auditorium. the state Y. W. and Y. M. C. A. 

applicant and her interest in high

The story deals with the attempts Dr. R. A. Schermerhorn, of At¬ 

school activities.

of an American heiress to get a titled lanta, and Dr. Arthur Raper, of Ag¬ 

Last year 200 girls took the exam¬

husband, and is a sophisticated draw¬ nes Scott, to lead two of the dis¬

are inations with Evelyn Baty, of Birm¬

ing-room comedy. The cast has not cussion groups. The inspirational 

ingham, winning the $700 scholar¬

yet been announced. speaker has not been selected as yet. 

ship. ^ 

NO. 10 

Dr. 

Ben Lacy 

Ar rives for 

Chapel Talks 

Y.W.C.A. Brings Noted Speaker 
To Campus To Conduct 
Religious Week 

Has Personal Conferences 

Dr. Benjamin R. Lacy, president of 

Union Theological Seminary, arrived 

at Agnes Scott Tuesday morning to 

begin his series of chapel addresses 

which are the chief feature of relig¬ 

ious-emphasis week, being sponsored 

by Y. W. C. A., January 19-23. 

During his five-day visit on the 

campus, Dr. Lacy is holding morning 

watch, discussion groups, and per¬ 

sonal conferences with Agnes Scott 

students. Each night he is speaking 

at Central Presbyterian church in At¬ 

lanta. 

Following the week of services, Miss 

Carrie Scandrett will summarize Dr. 

Lacy's addresses in a discussion at ves¬ 

pers, Sunday, January 24. 

Charm Expert is 

Guest of College 

Miss Elizabeth Osborne, prominent 
woman's charm consultant of New 
York, will be the guest of Agnes Scott 
during the week of February 9. Two 
public addresses, one in chapel and one 
in the evening, and personal confer¬ 
ences will fill the schedule of her 
week on the campus. 

Miss Osborne, who has successfully 
visited Smith, Mount Holyoke, and 
many other leading women's colleges, 
plans to spend the greater part of 
her visit in personal consultations. In 
these private sessions she will give ad¬ 
vice to students concerning problems 
of grooming, clothes, voice, make-up, 
posture, skin, and hair. The fee for 
a fifteen minute talk with Miss Os¬ 
borne will be fifty cents. 

Y. W. C. A., Student Government, 
Athletic Association, Cotillion club, 
Mortar Board, and the charm group 
are sponsoring Miss Osborne's appear¬ 
ance here, while the sophomore cab¬ 
inet of Y. W. C. A. is in charge of 
the details of the program. 
A. A. Starts Drive 
For Good Posture 

Curved backs and slumped shoul¬ 

ders will have no place on the Agnes 

Scott campus the two weeks begin¬ 

ning January 25, for the Athletic As¬ 

sociation is launching a drive for good 

posture. The drive is part of the A. A. 

health program for the year. 

Girls with good posture will be 
marked by physical education in¬ 
structors with purple and white tags. 
Tags will be taken away, however, 
if their owners are seen slouching 
across the campus or bending over 
books in the library. 

Posters are already broadcasting the 
coming event, and announcements 
will be made in chapel next week. 

Founding Celebrated 
By Colorful Pageant 

A pageant celebrating the seventy-
fifth anniversary of the founding of 
the Presbyterian church was presented 
in the Bucher Scott gymnasium Monday 
night. The pageant was written 
by Mr. D. P. McGeachy, pastor of the 
Decatur Presbyterian church, and was 
directed by Miss Frances Gooch, head 
of the Spoken English department at 
Agnes Scott. Agnes Scott repre¬ 
sentatives taking part were Marie 
Stalker, Georgia Hunt, Betty Lou 
Houck Smith, '3 5, and Miss Louise 
Lewis, of the art department. 


THE AGONISTIC 

(tttyc ^^KgontstiC 

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. 
1956 Member 1937 
Flssocided Goliesiote Press 

STAFF 
Laura Steele Kathryn B. Wall 
Editor-in-Chief Business Manager 
Frances Gary Elizabeth Blackshear 
Associate Editor Advertising Manager 
Jane Guthrie Mary Lib Morrow 
Hortense Jones Frances Belford 
Mary McCann Hudson Nell Hemphill 
Assistant Editors Circulation Managers 
June Matthews Frances Wilson 
Make-Up Editor Current History 
Ruth Hertzka Pauline Moss 
Assistant Make-Up Society Editor 
Nellie M. Gilroy Jean Chalmers 
Feat u re Editor Sports Editor 
Mary Frances Guthrie Cornelia Christie 
Exchange Editor Club Editor 
Mildred Davis Elizabeth Warden 
Book Editor Alumnae Editor 
Editor, Associate Editor, Enid Middleton, Mary 
King, Editorial Council 

Official Ends Honorary Term 

The expiration of Dr. McCain's term as pres¬ 
ident of the Association of American Colleges 
means the end of a period in which he has made 
himself felt and heard in all parts of the coun¬ 
try. In his capacity as head of the association, 
Dr. McCain has presided over regional and na¬ 
tional conferences from which have come echoes 
of the effect that his sincerity, directness and 
simplicity have had upon his hearers, who con¬ 
sider him an innovation among educational 
speakers. 
Since his election last January, Dr. McCain's 
activities as president have included attending 
meetings of the executive committee in Febru¬ 
ary, April, and November, representing the as¬ 
sociation at the Harvard Tercentenary in Sep¬ 
tember, and presiding over a series of regional 
conferences taking place in October in Mississip¬ 
pi, Colorado, and Indiana, and the national con¬ 
vention held this month in Washington. He has 
made talks, some of which have been published, 
on such subjects as "College Cooperation," and 
"The College Teacher." 

Think Before You Vote 

Voting on motions that were made in Open 
Forum last Thursday will take place next week 
in chapel, when the student body decides 
whether it wants to make possible a better 
handbook by having an editor elected, to lessen 
confusion by having nominations and elections 
take place after spring holidays, and to have 
the final decisions in the election of the editors 
of the Aurora and the Agonistic by putting them 
again on a popular basis. 

In the case of dates of elections, an amend¬ 
ment to the student government constitution by¬ 
law 4 has been proposed, to the effect that pop¬ 
ular nominations be made on March 25, two days 
after the conclusion of spring holidays, and that 
these nominations be posted, along with com¬ 
mittee nominations, on March 29; elections will 
then take place April 1-2. This amendment was 
necessitated by the coming of the second quar¬ 
ter examinations at the usual time for nomina¬ 
tions. and was favored by the nominating com¬ 
mittee because it feels that it is better for the 
welfare of the students to avoid the confusion 
immediately before examinations. An amend¬ 
ment to by-law 7, that class elections take place 
immediately after school-wide elections, has also 
been proposed, and will be voted on tomorrow. 

After these matters have been considered, the 
motion that the editors of the Aurora and the 
Agonistic be selected in the same way that other 
officers are chosen will be voted upon. In both 
cases, the editors, according to plans adopted as 
experiments last year, can be elected by the 
combined vote of the editor and business man¬ 
ager, or staff, with the student vote meaning 
nothing more than a futile indication of its 
choice. This year's heads of publications, after 
considering a board, rejected the idea, feeling 
that we should have no responsibility in the 
election of editors other than that entailed by 
the indication of our choice through the commit¬ 
tee nominee. Also we believe that the students 

A.S.C. Library A.ccjllires Movie ! Nebraska Tries New Plan 
Nebraska last week became the first state in 

Version of 'Romeo and jnliet 

the union whose legislature meets as one body. 
This reform, suggested in almost every state at

Book, Attractive With Pictures, non version the

picture follows 

some time in recent years, was brought about

Reveals Careful Work of 

Shakespearean text, and with what 

through the perseverance of Nebraska's veteran

Adaptation consideration the author was treated 
in order that none of his spirit or his United States senator, George W. Norris. Ac¬ 
'A Motion Picture Version of Shakes¬ 

beauty would be lost, yet that the cording to him, the defects of a bicameral legis¬
peare's Romeo and Juliet," Random play might be successful as a picture. lature are that politicans could escape responsi¬

House, 1936, S2.00. At the end of the scenario are com¬ 

bility by "passing the buck" to the other house;

ments on the production by actors 

that the real work was done in committees of

Anyone who has seen the screen and members of the staff. From these 

five or six members, whose decision could be in¬

version of Romeo and Juliet or who 

short sketches we learn what problems 

fluenced if two were bribed; and that lobbyists

i is interested in screen technique, will this group faced and how they went 

rather than the second house really provided the

; enjoy this book. Ideally, one should about solving them—from cutting the 

"checks and balances" of the government.

read it before attending the produc-3050 lines of the play to a reasonable 

Arguments in favor of the new unicameral 

, tion, for the information concerning 

number for the screen production, 

form are economy of operation, and responsibil¬

| costumes and setting and the dif¬ 

without losing anything necessary, to 

ity. Both of the results are achieved by the small

ficulties encountered in producing the costuming the cast according to paint¬ 

number of legislators now elected. In place of

■ 
picture will make him more appreci-ings of the period by such masters 
as 100 representatives and thirty-three senators,

, ative of these factors as he sees it. Yet, 

Botticelli, Benozzo, Gozzoli, Cara-

there are only forty-three legislators. For their

reading the book afterwards, he real


paccio, Bellini, Era Angelico, and 

salaries a lump sum of $37,500 has been set

! izes why this first screen version of 

others. The entire staff and 

aside, to be divided equally among them. They

| a Shakespearean tragedy is successful. 

worked hard to make the production 

will no longer receive additional pay for extra

The book divides itself into two as artistic, as representative of the 

sessions. Their responsibility will be greater be¬

parts, which are in turn divided. Af-time, and as Shakespearean as pos¬ 

cause the scarcity of their members will put each

j ter a short introduction on the pic-sible. The last section of the book con-1 one more in the public eye.
! turization of the play, by Irving sists of "A Preliminary Guide to the I

: The idea of a unicameral legislature is not new

Thalberg, producer, and a foreword to 

Study and Appreciation of the Screen 

to the United States. Georgia, along with Penns¬

the play, by William Strunk, Jr., of 

Version of Shakespeare's Romeo and 

ylvania and Vermont, provided for only one

; Howard University, appears Romeo 

Prepared by Max J. Herzberg house in }ts original constitution during the 

j and Juliet as Shakespeare gave it to 

pnman y to be distributed among the American Revolution. In more recent years gov-

us. The rest of the volume is devoted 

secon ary sc oo s of the nation, but | ernors have recommended the unicameral form,
i to facts about the screen production. o interest also to everyone who sees j constitutional conventions discussed it, and legis-
Immediately following the original t epicture. • iatures rejected it where it was not forced on 

play is the scenario, including limited 

e vo ume is attractively bound, j them by the initiative of the people, as in Ne-

filming directions. A comparison of 

.l ustrated wuh scenes from the photo-. braska. At present, about eighteen states have

I the two shows how carefully the mo-

P ay, an one m very readable print. suc]1 bjiis pending. New York, New Jersey, Ohio, 
ut it seerns to me t at many more Arkansas, and Kentucky in particular are study-
Alumnae Describe peope wi e content to read it m jng the Nebraska plan. Reforms of many state 

rarJ\ r rowlt ^ 11

European Scenes ^ ' u . ffenJ constitutions depend on its success or failure,

than will have or desire to have a copy 
of their own. The interest in reading 
Recent news from ex-Agnes Scot-the facts about filming the play lies 

Gone But Not Forgotten

' ters in France and Germany tells of chiefly in the period immediately pre¬ 
ceding or following the showing of the

fascinating sight-seeing tours and Not only were Paradise Lost and Loves' La¬

production. So, the most of us will

novel surroundings. Judging from bours misplaced in days of yore, but even now

read it now, and then return to our 

j their enthusiastic letters, there is still in this modern era with its fine instruments for 

own copies of Romeo and Juliet, 

recovering lost radium, its G-Men for capturing

; time and place for enjoyment in thrilling to its lines without forget¬ 

lost criminals, and its personal columns for re¬

! Europe in spite of troubled political ting the many memorable scenes from 

covering dogs, husbands, and knitting needles,

the picture, but also without caring

conditions. 

articles and objects are frequently disappearing.

to go again into the facts of pro¬

; Mary Virginia Allen of the class of For instance, even the most detecting minds were

duction.

i '3 5 spent Christmas in the lovely old and still are baffled at the rather unexpected dis¬

(This book is to be found in the

[ German city of Stuttgart at the home appearance of a very necessary line from the

Agnes Scott library.)

i of Lucie Hess, former German ex-back page on the Agonistic last week. Anyone 
1 old cities of Aries and Les Baux in

! change student at Agnes Scott. With knowing its whereabouts, by the way, should 
true German heartiness they enjoyed notify the much embarrassed and highly mysti¬

the famous country of Alphonse

a round of theatre-going and con-fied editor.

Daudet's tales. Here she was im¬

I certs, taking time, nevertheless, to There are those also who are concerned over 
talk over old times at Agnes Scott pressed by the "mistral"—the tearing the lost, strayed, or stolen Phi Beta announce¬ 
| "until we got nearly homesick," Lucie wind that Daudet describes, saying ment for which a reward of membership in same 

writes. is

that it was unlike any other wind she iffound. A wide search for these

Mary Virginia tells of seeing Paris articles has been conducted with the result that

had ever felt. Les Baux is in unshaded,

from "Notre Dame to the Zoo," ex-every barrel on the campus labelled "Private, 

a

j claiming over the Sainte-Chapelle and steep country, with narrow streets, Do Not Look In" has been confiscated—but to 
j the Chatres cathedral, feeling the ex-quaint hotel where everyone huddled no avail. It was felt by the posse that in the 
. citement of practice air-raids over about the one stove, and a little church hunt the twelve members of BOZ whose dough¬ 
| Paris, and making many French and where every chair cost twenty francs. nuts were gluttonously consumed by the re¬ 
I German friends. In Toulouse she per-A very impressive ceremony took maining six might also be recovered; the prize 
. suaded the caretaker to let her climb place here, during which there was for this capture is to be a coffee be-soaked (al¬ 
i a fragile old tower dating from medi-the offering of a lamb by shepherds ready dunked) doughnut. Speaking of food, 
! eval times, in order to look over the before a priest who held a sacred doll. there is the little matter of the disappearance 
\ old-fashioned roofs of the city. Christmas day was spent in Aries, of several generous handfuls of onions which 
Janet Gray of '36 left the Ecole, where, in triumph, they "celebrated formerly beautified the campus green. The sus¬ 
i Normale des Institutrices at La Ro-| Christmas by taking a room with a pects are a group of Muse Invokers including 
chelle, a French coast city, to go south | bath." Piggy Wheatley, Henrietta Blackwell, Lucile 
l to Nice, where she and Marcelle Cap-. From Aries the party went to Dennison and others who when last seen were 

patti, last year's French exchange stu-I Marseilles, and thence to Nice. In the reclining upon the above mentioned vegetable 
! dent, enjoyed a gay Christmas togeth-rugged mountains over Nice, they discussing the rather appropriate subject of 
' er. Janet has the position of part-scaled the dizzy heights over narrow "Romeo and Juliet." If the onions in question 
j time instructor in English, in addi-1 mountain paths that, as she explained, are returned, hamburgers will be furnished. 
; tion to her studies. jkept her heart in her mouth. One is inclined to wonder whether or not some 

Most colorful of all is the story told , Back in Toulouse Miss Phythian has soul too timid to complain has missed a coat


; by Miss Margaret Phythian, assistant | taken up skiing, as a challenging hanger, since a group of freshmen became con¬ 
professor of French at Agnes Scott, j sport. Her ski suit is complete with vulsed with laughter last week when Betty Willis 
who has been studying this year at | bright cap and mittens, but she seems strolled across the campus in all her presidential 
| the University of Grenoble in Toul-to have found the skis themselves dignity in a raincoat from which the hanger had 

ouse. Immediately after reaching tricky, complaining, "I'm sore from not been removed. 
' Europe last summer, Miss Phythian | sitting down so often and so violently, An object which the entire faculty and most 
, joined a party of ten for a three but it is the surest way of stopping of the student body sincerely wishes has been 
j weeks' tour in Germany, with a young when you get going too fast!" Winter lost is a certain horn which stubbornly refused 

German as guide. They discovered in Europe would seem to be very to stop blowing for at least fifteen minutes Sat¬ 
' Germany in a delightfully novel way active and carefree. urday and which incidentally revealed in many 
closed to most tourists, keeping in the instances the reaction of the college professor 
small towns and entering the homes 1 Because of the menace of colds at to an unexpected crisis. Said Dr. Raper in a 
of their guide's friends as much more Mount Holyoke College, a "Cold moment of exasperation "It looks as if anybody 

! intimate guests than they could i Club" has been formed, whose mem-with any intelligence could slip a piece of wire." 
otherwise have been. Although the ; bers sit together in the dining room, Piped a voice from the back row, "Oh, but it's a 
people seemed happy and prosperous, i with a special waitress (also a suf-lady." 
a tenseness in the very air suggested ferer) to serve them. Speaking of ladies one may be sure that Annie 
the war shadow, and Miss Phythian Laura Galloway lost her equilibrium the other 
tells of seeing miles of camouflaged 
!
; The average freshman of the class day in applied psychology when Miss Omwake 
trucks. She found the new roads of 1940 of Mount Holyoke College is explained that the "He" to whom Miss Gallo¬ 
built by Hitler delightful for travel seventeen years and eleven months— way had been referring in her report was the 

In Stuttgart she was entertained by almost eighteen years. Four years ago mother of eleven children. 

would prefer having more authority in the man¬ Mr. Hess, Lucie's father, who con¬ the average age for the freshman was With so many articles lost it would seem that 
ner of choosing the editors, and that the editors, ducted them personally to Heidelberg. sixteen years and nine months. The the best plan of recovery is to wait until next 
in turn, would like to know that the student She spent Christmas vacation tour¬ depression is thought to be the rea¬ week in Open Forum when everything will be 
bodv is back of them. ing France, speaking especially of the son for this large difference. brought up. 


THE AGONISTIC 

Agnes Scott Has

Library Rules, Trashbaskets, Pencil Sharpeners,

Dr. McCain Writes 

Interesting Past

Salient Articles Cut Systems Occupy Open Forum Through the Ages 

With Wells,Co-eds

About Education Records of Open Forum for the The secretary records that the re¬ request for a cut system. It appears 

past eleven years reveal, among other quest "will be granted in the fall." first in a report "respectfully sub¬ 

High-Top Shoes, Flannels, Were

University Women's Magazine things, that evolution is a slow proc¬ She does not say which fall. The de¬ mitted by Ellen Douglas Leyburn," 

Features of Institute

Commends Recent Paper ess. There have been requests for velopment of interest in trashcans has asking for "optional attendance of 

Before 1906

As Outstanding everything from clean napkins to been more gradual. There was first classes for juniors and seniors." It 
smoking on the campus and there are a modest request that they have cov¬ was decided that the cut systems of Agnes Scott became a college in

An article stating that "one of the 

some favorites which reappear an¬ ers over them, then a bolder demand other schools would be investigated 1906. Before that it was an institute.

outstanding papers at the annual 

nually. The library seems always to that they be painted, and finally the before any action was taken. But the All pupils at first were day stu¬

meeting of the American Council on 

have been a source of legislation. climax last year with the suggestion following month "the chairman an¬ dents.

Education last May was the discus¬ 

There are such motions as "that that there be one under every bush. nounced that Mr. Stukes would not Boys used to be enrolled here.

sion of 'Cooperation in Southern Col¬ 

Requests for pencil sharpeners were make his report on the data he had

leges', by J. R. McCain," appeared in something be done about the noise in Round House was formerly a well, 

at first very specific, "A pencil sharp¬ collected on the cut system as this from which the college drew its water,

the October issue of the Journal of the library," and "that a committee 
the American Association of Univer¬ be appointed to consult the librarian ener in the mail room in Buttrick." material was adverse to the cut sys¬ supposing that well-water was extra¬ 
sity Women. about problems in the library," and Then, feeling perhaps that they had tem." In another meeting the same ordinarily pure. Later it was discover¬ 
This discussion, published in the been asking too much, the petitioners year they "talked again about a cut

the simple request, eloquent, in its ed that several cases of typhoid were

July Etlucational Record, is concerned modified their request to, "Pencil system" but nothing further was

restraint, "that something be done due to the water.

with Dr. McCain's belief that our sharpener in Buttrick." And finally 

done and two years later they tried to state

great advances in education in this about the library." the plea became simply "Pencil sharp¬ The college catalogue used 

country may be achieved in the field it again, appointing a committee to that girls were required to wear high-

Teachers who keep their classes ener." 
of cooperation among schools and col¬ after the bell rings have their place The questions of lights, meal tick¬ discuss the matter. The next year, top shoes and flannels. 
leges. He stresses particularly the in the records, too, and the secretary ets, and times to town come up otten they appointed another committee When Miss Hopkins suggested that 
seriousness of the problem of develop¬ for 1930 seems to have felt very and term papers of course we have and the next year they got excited we organize a student government, 

the students—especially the seniors—

ing higher education in the seven strongly on the subject for she re¬ with us always. There are recorded about smoking on the campus, and 

southeastern states of North Carolina, cords with emphasis: "Motion that indignant requests that teachers must nothing more was said about cuts objected strenuously on the grounds 
South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Ala¬ faculty be asked again to dismiss announce them two months ahead of until April, 1935, when a definite that they had all the privileges they 
bama, Mississippi, and Tennessee, classes as soon as bell rings." time, that cuts should be given so plan was submitted and was dis¬ wanted and none of the responsibili¬ 

stating the chief obstacles as the race The memorable meeting last year people will have time to write them cussed at every meeting throughout ties. 
problem, poverty, the handicap in col¬ when such weighty matters as pen¬ and that no one should have more the spring and begun again the next Most students used to go home 

without having taken the final exams

lege development caused by such ten¬ cil sharpeners, water fountains, and than three to write in any event. fall. And very much in keeping with 
dencies as the establishment of de¬ trashcans were discussed seems to have These and other issues come up, are the Greek drama idea the matter is in the spring, thus losing credit for 

the term's work. They answered all

nominational schools as mission enter¬ been not without precedent. In Oc¬ discussed, and then forgotten but re¬ like many of Aeschylus' fragments— 
prises rather than educational respon¬ tober, 1928, water was demanded in curring throughout the records like it has no end. It is still being dis¬ objections with, "But we're not going 

sibilities, and the constant draining the library and some of the cottages. the chorus in a Greek drama is the cussed. to teach!" 

Formerly there were no athletics

from the South of the best scholars 

and most promising graduate stu¬ except a little calisthenics; all the 
dents. Miss Hanley Tells Miss Vardell HasJ mothers wrote in asking that their 
daughters not be forced to take the

To improve the educational condi¬ 

Remarkable Roll

Of Printers' Signs horrid stuff.

tions, regional centers are being de¬ 

Juniors used to embarrass seniors

veloped to work out systems of co¬ 

operation. In this connection, Dr. JOHANN VELDENER Granddaughters' Club "Methods in progressive education: by stealing their caps and gowns be¬ 
fore they had worn them. So Miss

McCain speaks of the plan whereby 1. Present your material indirectly, by

The design of Johann Veldener, the Granddaughters' club met on Fri¬ 

Emorv, Tech, and Agnes Scott are examples." To ascertain, for example, Hopkins instituted a simple service at 
first printer at Louvain, Belgium, is day afternoon, January 15, at 4:30

seeking to unify and improve the the class roll of Botany 3 03-b, Local which the seniors first donned their 
work done by the respective institu¬ composed of two shields suspended o'clock in the Anna Young Alumnae Flora to you, Miss Vardell presents academic robes; and from that cere¬ 
tions and to develop graduate work from a branch. This device is copied house. Plans for the banquet were the following key: mony our Investiture has developed. 

discussed. The stunt was suggested by Dr.

which would enable students to take from the work "Fasciculus Tem-

A. Over 30 Miss Vardell 
a strong Ph. D. degree. porum" by Roleivinck, printed in A. Under30 B. Sweet to replace a rather drastic form 
German Club 

c 
Dr. McCain concludes with the 1475. B. With spectacles C. of hazing known as "scratching it 
tatement that "If there may be ef¬ Filippo Giunta German club will meet this aft¬ B. Without spectacles D. out." The underclassmen took Dr. 
fective cooperation in certain cen¬ Second only to the Aides in the ernoon at 4:30 o'clock in Lupton Cot-C. Without shirt_. Suttenfield, Sweet's suggestion to stage a "battle

V. 

ters, if denominational schools will annals of sixteenth century Italian tage. of wits rather than a battle of fists."

C. With shirt 
agree to merge, if the weaker schools printing and publishing stands the c. Blue shirt Matthews, J. 
can be shown that they are not pro¬ house of Giunta, a house which was Poetry Club c. Brown shirt Johnson, A. W. Advice to Girls 
ducing results that will bear the light founded in the latter part of the fif¬ The last meeting of the Poetry club D. Natural curls Hall, E. Keep away from track men; they 
of publication; if these things can be teenth century by two members of was held last night, at 8 o'clock D. Attempted curls Hannah, A. are usually fast. 
gradually accomplished, then the out¬ an ancient mercantile family of Flor¬ in the Murphey Candler building. Jane Never make dates with biology stu¬

(Note: For those who do not un¬

look for higher education in the ence, Filippo Giunta, whose mark has Turner and June Matthews were dents; they enjoy cutting up too

derstand the process of methods in

Southeast will be greatly lightened." been reproduced in the Agnes Scott hostesses. much.

progressive education, "B" refers to

An article on "Colleges for Women college library, and his brother, Lu-The football man is all right; he

the class in general, those members

in the Southeast," in the October cantonio Giunta. Cotillion Club will tackle anything.

with spectacles and without spectac¬

Journal of the American Association In this design two children each The tennis man is harmless; but

Cotillion club will entertain its les being "C" and "D" etc.)

of University Women, deals with with a cornucopia support arms he has a racket.

members at a tea dance tomorrow aft¬ 

some of these same problems present¬ above which is the Florentine lily in 

ernoon, January 21, at 5 o'clock in 

ed above, and continues to discuss in¬ an elaborated form. The Evening Division of the Uni¬

the Murphey Candler building. Helen 

fluences in raising the standards of Filippo Giunta specialized in editions versity System of Georgia has received

Kirkpatrick, Martha Marshall, Jane WEIL'S 10c STORE

national prominence through the out¬

education for women in the South of the classics, and was successful, if 

Dryfoos, and Helen Moses will be 

standing work of its two largest

through such organizations as the not always scrupulous, in the conduct na¬

hostesses. Has Most Anything You Need

Southern Association of College Wom¬ of his business. tional commercial fraternities. 
en, the Southern Association of Col¬ Baty, Eleanor Hutchens, Hazel Solo¬ Pi Chapter of Alpha Kappa Psi and 
leges and Secondary Schools, and the mon, V. J. Watkins, Mary Louise Kappa Chapter of Delta Sigma Pi have 
Association of American Universities. Dobbs, Virginia Hill, Eloise McCall, won first places in their respective ef¬

Reporters EAGER & SIMPSON 

Of the twenty-two colleges for wom¬ Louise Houghston, Mary Lang Gill, ficiency contests for the school year, Corset Shop 
en in these seven southeastern states, Eugenia Williams, Grace Duggan, and 193 5-36. This is probably the first Corselettes -Brassieres, Elastic Girdles,

Reporters include: Nell Allison, Camp Supports

Agnes Scott was the first member of Jeannette Carroll. time in collegiate history that the most 

Alice Cheeseman, Giddy Erwin, Nell CORSETS MADE TO ORDER

the Southern Association of College Business assistants are: Rachel Ken¬ efficient chapters of two leading fra¬ 

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Women, the first of the eight of nedy, Florence Little, Jessie Williams, ternities have been located at the same 

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Hutchins, Sarah Johnson, Douglas

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of three where gradu¬ 

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THE AGONISTIC 

Girls Play Well Y. W. C. A. Will Hold Phi Beta Kappa to Martini Th rills 
Open Forum Tuesday Be Announeed Later 
In B asketball To obtain student opinion and Announcement of Phi Beta A. S.C. Cousins 
suggestions concerning Y. W. C. A. Kappa, scheduled to take place last 

Juniors, Freshmen Win Over 
Seniors, Sophomores in 
First Games 

Exhibiting the speed and enthusiasm 
which promise excellent basketball as 
soon as more teamwork can be de¬ 
veloped, the four class teams opened 
the season Friday afternoon, when the 
juniors defeated the seniors 29-26 
and the freshmen defeated the sopho¬ 
mores 3 8-26. The two games were 
played in the gymnasium, which will 
be the scene of the remaining Friday 
night basketball tifts. 

Playing against tall senior guards, 
the junior forwards proved their skill 
by making up in agility for what 
they didn't have in size. The Blackshear-
Thompson duet showed the 
good results of two years of playing 
together. Elizabeth Blackshear dis-
distinguished herself by dropping in 
some beautiful shots and by getting 
away from the guarding of Frances 
McDonald, who out-lengths her half 
a foot, by quick pivots. 

The junior guards no doubt wished 

that Senior Mary Kneale would stick 

to her position as guard instead of 

turning forward. The seniors, how¬ 

ever, decided after the first quarter 

that they needed some scoring, so Mary 

was switched to the opposite end of 

the court where she made four goals 

within as many minutes. Marie 

Stalker, playing forward, had a neat 

little trick of looking concentratedly 

at the basket and then passing the ball 

sideways to a teammate without shift¬ 

ing her eyes. Marie seemed to aban¬ 

don that subtlety, however, after 

passing the ball too near the ene¬ 

my's hands a few times. 

The sophomore-freshman game was 

so noisy that the building fairly 

shook. Here the Williams sisters must 

receive first mention. Jean, on the 

freshman team, appeared to have no 

end of energy and no end of ability 

to make goals from seemingly impos¬ 

sible positions. The sophomore for¬ 

wards wasted the first quarter of the 

game with erratic goal-shooting which 

resulted from their insistence on try¬ 

ing for goals without pausing a min¬ 

ute to get their balance and aim. With 

the entrance of Elizabeth, however, 

the second of the Williams outfit, the 

score began mounting as a result of 

hers and Mary Garner's good play¬ 

ing. 

Sophomore guarding was fine, es¬ 

pecially that of Estelle Cuddy, but 

with three forwards as consistent as 

Virginia Milner, as good at long shots 

as Ruth Slack, and as fast as Jean Wil¬ 

liams opposing them, their afternoon 

was strenuous. 

Line-ups were: 

Junior Senior 

Blackshear (19) R.F McCain (2)

Coit L.F Gary (10)

Thompson (10)_C.F Stalker (2)

Robinson C.G Kneale (12)

King R.G Taylor

Merrill L.G McDonald 

Total:29. Total: 26. 

Substitutions: Tigert, Thing, Lass


eter. 

Freshman Sophomore

Slack (12) R.F._Carmichael (4)

Williams,J. (14) L.F Garner (10)

Milner (12) _..C.F. Williams,E. (12)

Moses C.G Cudcfy

Thompson R.G Dryfoos

Reins L.G Steele 

Total:38. Total: 26. 

Substitute: Ware. 

Ola Kelly acted as scorer and Mutt 

Fite as time-keeper, Miss Llewellyn

Wilburn and Miss Elizabeth Mitchell 

refereed. 

You Can Come to Us or 
We Will Go to You 

We are as close to you as your 
telephone. 

HARRISON'S 
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Sudden Service 

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on the Agnes Scott campus the 
Association will conduct an open 
forum in chapel next Tuesday, 
January 26. 

Browsing Corner Society News 

Has Latest from 
Those who attended the buffet sup¬ 
Literary Circles 

per at the Pi. K. A. house Sunday night 

Those volumes which are grouped were: Mette Williamson, Strat Sloan, 
on either side of the fireplace in the Lib Galbreath. Gallic Carmichael, 
main reading room of the library, and Mary Hollingsworth, Julia Porter, and 
which are known as the "seven-day" Mary Ellen Whetsell. 
books, form a varied and interesting Estelle Cuddy and Hayden San-
collection. They constitute what ford attended the K. A. dance Sat¬ 

urday night.

might be called the "browsing" cor¬ 
Francina Bass, of Gadsden, Ala.,

ner of the library. Ten long shelves 

and Shorter College, visited Marjorie

may be expected to hold a number of 

Pressly Friday and Saturday.

books, yet the variety of types and 

Isabel Richardson attended a Theta 
subjects included is surprising even Kappa Psi dance at Emory Saturday 
in such a large space. night. 
The collection, comprised of books Marisue Olliver of Athens visited 
Frances Steele Friday; Sarah Lee's sis¬

published principally after 1930, is 

ter and friend visited her this week¬

increased constantly through the addi¬ 

end.

tion of new publications. It includes 

Tommy Ruth Blackmon, Martha 

literature of all countries. There 

are Peek Brown, and Martha Alice Green 
American, English, French, German, 

spent the week-end in Monticello,

Italian, Spanish, and Russian authors, 

Ga., with Ola Kelly; Annette and 

many of the foreign ones in their own 

Marian Franklin went to Swaineslanguage. 
borough, Ga., to attend the weddingAmong the novels there are such 

of Marian's sister, and Geraldine 

recent favorites as George Santayana's Wisenbaker, ex-'3 8, spent FridayLast Puritan, Mary Ellen Chase's Silas 

night with Ruth Tate. 

Crockett, and Thornton Wilder's 

Those who went home for the 
Heaven's My Destination. In the week-end were: Enid Middleton to 
drama there are collections of new Birmingham, Ala.; Selma Steinbach to 

plays, new editions of the old ones, 

Carrollton, Ga.; Sara Gray to Colum¬ 

and some collections of special inter¬ 

bus, Ga.; Annette Williams to Law-

est, such as the two editions of Caro¬ 

renceville, Ga.; Judith Gracey to 

lina Folk plays. Among the poetry 

Augusta, Ga., and Helen Friedlander, 

are English and American anthologies 

Kay Jones, and Jane Carithers to 

collections of Elinor Wylie, Emily 

Winder, Ga. 

Dickinson, Robert Frost, W. B. Yeats 
and Padraic Colum. Biography has a 

Girls May Take

wide range in this collection, includ¬ 
ing Savonarola and Michelangelo, Louis 

"The Upper Room"

Pasteur and Samuel Pepys, Abraham 
Lincoln and King George V, Adolf 
Hitler and Mahatma Gandhi. The use of complimentary copies 

Among the letters there are those of "The Upper Room," a book of in¬ 
of Coleridge, Austen, Byron, Carlyle, spirational daily readings and devoand 
Galsworthy; while there are his¬ tionals, given by Y. W. C. A. to the 
tories of Rome and Sweden, of the students in Rebekah Scott dormitory, 
Anglo-Saxons and the Stuarts. The has brought numerous requests con¬ 
books on art include histories of the cerning subscriptions to this quarter¬ 
sculpture and paintings of different ly issue. Below is printed a coupon 
countries, histories of music, and the to be filled in and handed in with 
story of such men as Beethoven and the money (.05 a copy, $ .20 a 
Gilbert and Sullivan. year) to Winifred Kellersberger, Y. 

In the scientific line there are his¬ W. C. A. worship chairman. 
tories of science, stories of great scien¬ The Upper Room 
tists, books on biology and astronomy. Name 
In philosophy there are books on Plato Home address (if desired 
and Spinoza, and books of modern during summer) 
philosophy. The student of econom¬ 
ics finds books on Soviet Russia, his¬ Number of copies desired 
tories of capitalism, and books on the 
depression and recovery in America. Halls of the buildings at the Col¬ 
One interested in education finds lege of Mount St. Joseph on the Ohio 
books on vocations, on the relation of are now equipped with ink filling sta¬ 
college to life and on the education tions. A penny in the slot will release 
of the negro. ink for a fountain pen filling. 

There are also many miscellaneous 
books, books of criticism, books on Waiting lines at registration have 
correct speech, books on printing, now been completely abolished at the 
books on the history of costume, books University of Florida. Under the new 
on book collecting—in short, books plan, students will be allowed to reg¬ 
on every subject that could interest ister at any time throughout a period 
a reader. of two weeks. 

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 
Saturday morning, has been post¬ 
poned until Friday, January 29. 
The speaker is unable to come be¬ 
fore then. 

Alumnae Groups 

Send in Reports 

Of Recent Events 

The various Agnes Scott clubs scat¬ 
tered over the United States report 
many different activities, both in their 
own interests and those of the Alum¬ 
nae Association. Most of the reports, 
however, come from the southern 
clubs. 

The Atlanta club added to the fur¬ 
niture of the Alumnae House a new 
love seat and lamp for the living 
room. It also gave a shower to replen¬ 
ish the linen closet. 

The Decatur club sponsored the 
Colonial Relics exhibit in Buttrick, 
during Alumnae Week-End last 
spring. During this same week-end, 
it was in charge of the party for alum¬ 
nae children. This club also contrib¬ 
uted to the linen supply. 

The Charlotte, N. C., club was in¬ 
strumental in bringing thirteen high 
school girls to May Day last spring. 
The Chattanooga, Tennessee, club did 
the same for two high school seniors, 
one of whom is now at Agnes Scott 
as a freshman. 

The clubs in New Orleans, La., and 

Jacksonville, Fla., both made linen 

contributions, and that in Tampa, Fla., 

promises to do the same. 

(Condensed from the Alumnae 
Quarterly, November, 1936.) 

Madge York, '3 3 has a job as sec¬ 
retary to Dr. Homer McMillan, who 
is head of the Home Missions depart¬ 
ment of the Southern Presbyterian 
church. 

Dot (Cassel) Frazer, '34, is now 
in Washington, doing research work 
in a laboratory. 

Dot (Dickson) Ripley, '34, an¬ 
nounces the birth of a daughter, Dor¬ 
othy Ann. 

Polly Gordon, '34, spent part of 
October in Bermuda and the West 
Indies. 

Marguerite Manget, '34, was mar¬ 
ried to Richard Warr, of Newnan, 
on November 28. 

Louise Saylor, ex-'34, was recently 
married to Robert Pate Turner, of 
New York. 

Jennie Champion, '3 5, is taking 
a technician course at Emory uni¬ 
versity. 

Virginia (Cheshire) Laugan, ex-'3 6, 
announces the birth of a son at her 
home in Cairo, Illinois. 

Shirley, Laura Winston Steele 
Are Summoned From Box 
By Singer 

If you were at the concert last 
Friday night, perhaps you wondered 
why Mr. Nino Martini kept looking 
upward toward the left of the stage 
and seemed to be singing all his songs 
to one box. Some of the people on 
this occasion, such as the occupants 
of the box themselves, thought that 
perhaps all great singers sang best 
with their heads in that position, but 
other more curious people examined 
the box carefully through their lorg¬ 
nettes and came to other conclusions. 
Which conclusions were confirmed 
when an usher suddenly appeared in 
the box at the close of the first part 
of the program, said a few words to 

the occupants who promptly arose 
with visible signs of flustration and 
followed him out. 

The occupants were none other than 
Shirley and Laura Winston Steele, and 
from here on the story, according to 
these young Agnes Scotters, seems a 

little confused. All that Shirley re¬ 
members is that Mr. Martini really 
asked them to come see him in his 
dressing room (and she has his auto¬ 
graph to prove it). And Laura Win¬ 
ston tells us how the singer, when 
asked if he ever got stage-struck, 
shrugged his shoulders in a very Ital¬ 
ian manner and said, "Sometimes," 
and how he smiled when he told them 
about his "slight toothache," and how 
they had to run to get back to their 
seats before the curtain went up again. 

To these novices, Atlanta concerts 
have proved an unexpected thrill. 
"And we're looking forward to an¬ 
other," they added, "even though you 
have to ride a street car to get there, 
which wouldn't be so bad if there 
weren't so many limousines around 
when you went to get off." 

Ode 

Sheets turned about, or tied in knots 
Midnight meetings, diabolical plots 
The clash of pans—this is the manner 
Of a night's entertainment for Miss 

Alice Hannah. 

Anon. 

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To Vote

Tomorrow 

©I)e ^^onistic 

NO. 11

VOL. XXII AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1937 

K. Printup Will Play Mr. Davis Is Speaker Watson Heads
Dinner, Ball

Junior Class 

Lead In Gay Comedy For Phi Beta Kappa 

Senior Issue 

Begins Plans Planned for 

Given After Banquet Announcement Chapel 
Of Agonistic

February 22

For Carnival Blackfriars' Club Will Present Educational Board Secretary Is 
Play About Man Hunt in Important in Restoration 

Junior, Sophomore, and Fresh¬ 
Colorful Floats To Carry Out Girls' Dormitory Martha Summers, Isabel McCain Of Williamsburg man Editions to Appear in 
Theme of Advertising Are George and Martha Next Four Weeks 
At Mardi Gras Kitty Printup will play the leading Washington Mr. Jackson Davis, secretary of the 
role of Alex Benson in the three-act General Education Board, will speak 

K. Jones Business Manager
comedy, Spring Dance, which Black¬ at the semi-annual announcement of

Festival To End With Ball Function Honors Founder 

friars will present February 13 in the Phi Beta Kappa, which will take place 

With Margaret Watson as edi¬

Bucher Scott gymnasium. The play this Friday, January 29, in Gaines

Featuring a queen, a king, and In powdered wigs and satin, tor, and Kitty Jones, business

will follow the annual junior banquet. chapel.

gay floats, the traditional Mardi Isabel McCain and Martha Sum¬ manager, the senior edition of

Other members of the cast are: Mr. Davis, who is largely responsi¬

Gras will reign supreme at Ag¬ the Agonistic will appear next 

nes Scott during the festive sea¬ Mary Past as Mildred; Marion Camp mers, as George and Martha ble for the restoration in Williams¬ 

Wednesday as the first paper 

as Walter Beckett; Kay Kennedy as Washington, will lead the min¬ burg, is closely connected with the

son beginning Tuesday, Febru¬ published in the annual Agonistic

College of William and Mary in that

ary 2, and climaxing in a colorful cos¬ Miss Rishie; George Downing as John uet which will climax the tradi¬ class contest. The junior, sophomore,

Hatton; Tom Wesley as Lippincot; city. It is especially fitting that Mr.

tume ball on the night of February 6. tional celebration of Founder's Day on and freshman editions will appear on 

Sponsored by the junior class and John Wilson as Buck Buchanan; Eliza¬ Davis be speaker at this service since the following Wednesdays.

Monday, February 22, in commemora¬ 

headed bv Chairman Jean Chalmers, beth Cousins as Mady Platt, Susan the College of William and Mary is 

Five judges, one of whom is Assist¬

tion of the birthday of George Wash¬

Mardi Gras will center around the Goodwyn as Frances Fenn; Lucille considered the originator of Phi Beta ant Professor Annie May Christie,

ington Scott. George and Martha, as

general theme of advertising. Cairns as Kate McKim, and Jeanne Kappa. teacher of journalism at

well as other colonial celebrities were Agnes Scott,

Flynt as Sally Prescott. Parts which The Phi Beta Kappa announcement,

The activities will begin with the will rate the papers to determine the

nominated by the senior council and

presentation Tuesday night of skits in¬ have not yet been cast are Doc Boyd which was previously scheduled for winner of the cup. They will judge

approved by the class.

troducing the class kings, who will be and Sam Thatcher. The men of the Saturday, January 16, had to be post¬ them on such points as news, make-up,
nominated at secret meetings as can¬ play are from Atlanta, Emory, and Co¬ The fete will be marked by a holi¬ poned because Mr. Davis was unable features, and editorials, considering

day and a brilliant banquet to be held

didates for the high position of King lumbia Seminary. to be present at that time. the business management in their es¬

in Bucher Scott gymnasium at six

of Mardi Gras. The committee has Spring Dance is a light comedy 

timates. Last year, the class of '3 8

o'clock. Isabel McCain, as George

also requested the faculty to nominate that ran for two months on Broadway Witness to Tell won the cup for the best paper, edited

Washington, will preside at the ban¬

a potential monarch. Students will last summer. The scene is laid in a 

by Hortense Jones and Frances Robin¬

quet, and will introduce other colonial

vote on that evening and the evening girls' college. The hilarious plot cen¬ 

Of War in Spain son.

whose the

following, each vote costing a penny. ters around the schemes the girls de¬ figures, to brief speeches 
The elected members of the regular

sophomore class will respond with

The King will then choose a Queen, vise to help one of their number, Alex staff are ineligible to work on their 

songs. After the banquet, members of A native of Madrid and an eye-wit¬

whose identity he conceals until the Benson, get her man, namely one Sam 

class editions; however, they may give

the senior class will dance the tradi¬ ness of the outbreak of the Spanish re¬

night of the ball, which will be held Thatcher, a college senior who is about instruction and advice concerning

tional minuet. bellion, Dr. Homero Seris will lecture

in the Murphey Candler building. A to leave on a two years' adventure news problems and financial difficul¬ 

Famous colonials who will appear at Agnes Scott February 9 on his im¬

float parade will accompany the ball, around the world. 

ties. 

one float being entered by each or¬ at the festivities are: Marie Stalker pressions of the struggle, which is 

The senior staff includes, in addi¬ 

ganization, bringing the Mardi Gras as Paul Revere, Alice Hannah as Dan¬ still raging in his country. Dr. Seris 

tion to the editor and business man¬

Professor Visits 

season to a brilliant close. iel Boone, Lucile Dennison as LaFay-is the secretary of a Spanish school for Julia assistant editor;

ager, Thing,

At the masked costume ball, which ette, Lucile Barnett as Betsy Ross, Nel¬ graduate study and a former profes¬

Savannah Meeting Jean Kirkpatrick, club editor; Betty

will feature an entertaining floor lie Margaret Gilroy as Patrick Henry, sor at the University of Illinois. 

Willis, alumnae; Lucile Dennison, cur¬ 

show, tables may be reserved for five Charline Fleece as Lord Cornwallis. The International Relations club 

rent history; Florence Lasseter, sport;

Associate Professor Elizabeth Fuller

cents per person; drinks and refresh¬ Ladies who will dance the colorful and the Current History Forum are Alice Hannah, exchange; Elisabeth 
ments will also be available. Jackson, of the history department, minuet are: Martha Summers, Lucile sponsoring the visit of Dr. Seris, who Espy, feature; Frances Wilson and 

Committees for Mardi Gras arc: visited in Savannah last week in her Barnett, Rachel Shamos, Mary Malone, has been lecturing at various Amer¬ Alice Taylor, society; Mary Jane TiDecorations—
Virginia Watson, chair¬ capacity as regional director of the Frances Steele, Rachel Kennedy, Eloisa ican colleges since his arrival in the gert and Kitty Printup, make-up edi¬ 
man, Mary Anne Kernan, Margaret South Atlantic section of the Amer¬ Alexander, and Mary Lib Morrow. United States this winter. The speak¬ tors; and Brooks Spivey, book editor. 
I.ipscomb, Alice Reins, Martha Peek Their partners will be Isabel McCain, er was in Madrid when the civil war The regular staff will be in charge of

ican Association of University Wom¬

Brown; publicity—Ellen Little, chair¬ Lucile Dennison, Charline Fleece, broke out and remained there until 

circulation. 

man, Giddy Erwin, Frances Castle-en. The purpose of her trip was to 

Marie Stalker, Julia Thing, Kathryn November 16, when he escaped 
berry, Winifred Kellersberger, Jean perfect plans for the national conven¬ Bowen Wall, Frances McDonald, and through the fighting lines and fled 

Dr. Lacy Finishes

Barry Adams; program—Elizabeth Cornelia Christie.

tion of the Association to be held in "o Barcelona, where he embarked for 

Blackshear, chairman, Elsie West, 

Savannah in March. America. Series of Talks

Tommy Ruth Blackmon, Elizabeth 

Dr. Seris was secretary of the Span¬

She conferred with Mrs. Lowry Ax-Queen of May Day

Skinner, Nell Hemphill; floats — 

ish National Research Bureau, owned 

Jeanne Matthews, chairman, Julia Tel-ley, president of the Savannah branch, After completing his week of in¬

and sponsored by the government for 

ford, Lettie McKay, Gwendolyn Mc-and with Mrs. Ben Barnes, an alumna To be Nominated spirational addresses and personal con¬

graduate study, both for Spanish stu¬ 

ferences during religious emphasis

Kee; refreshments — Mildred Davis, of Agnes Scott, who is general man¬ dents and for those of other nations.

chairman, Margaret Douglas, Anne Nominations for the Agnes Scott week, Dr. Benjamin R. Lacy left Ag¬

ager of the convention. Miss Jack¬ 

In connection with his work with this

Thompson, Grace Tazewell, Marv Nell May queen will take place January 29 nes Scott College Saturday afternoon,

son spoke Friday at a luncheon given 

organization, Dr. Seris had under his

Tribble; tables and ushers—Margaret in her honor. through February 2. According to the January 23. 

supervision all the exchange students.

Morrison, chairman, Lydia Whitner, rules for voting, each nomination Dr. Lacy's five chapel addresses 

Tickets for the lecture will be

Martha Long, Mary McCann Hudson. must be signed. All seniors who get each morning from January 19-23 cov¬ 
Mardi Gras, which has long been a Dr. R. Sockman is fifteen or more votes are to be nom¬ twenty-five cents. ered the following topics, in order of 
tradition of Agnes Scott, was discon¬ inees for the queen. their presentation: the perfect presen¬ 

tinued in 1934, but was revived last Speaker at Emory The election will be held from Feb¬ Mortar Board Has tation of ourselves to God, our own 

year by the senior class. Lib Forman ruary 3 through February 5. The girl condition as sinners, the remedy of sin 
and Lavinia Scott were king and queen, Dr. Ralph W. Sockman, well-known receiving the most votes will become Freshman Parties in the form of the cross, immortality, 
an honor which was also accorded minister, religious educator, and au¬ the queen, and the other nominees will the resurrection and our living of 
them in 1933, when they were fresh¬ thor, was the inspirational leader of automatically be members of the May Christ.

Mortar Board is entertaining the 

men. Last year the theme was popu¬ the religious emphasis services at Em¬ Court. Miss Carrie Scandrett summarized

boarding members of the freshman

lar songs, with the language clubs' ory University last week. Dr. Sock¬ these addresses at Vespers last Sunday

class at parties in the Murphey Cand¬

depiction of Lazy Bones winning. man presented both a morning and Author Offers Prize evening.

ler building from January 26th 

an evening series of addresses during During his visit here, Dr. Lacy was

through January 29th. Each night two

the week in the Glenn Memorial audi¬ To College Students entertained at a tea in his honor on

N.M. Gilroy Represents 
members act as hostesses to twenty


torium. Tuesday, Jancary 19, in the Murphey

For Best Book Review five freshmen and boys from the vari¬

A.S.C. at Scientific Meet Others taking part in Emory's re¬ Candler building, at several meals in 
ous colleges in Atlanta and Decatur.

ligious week were Dr. and Mrs. R. H. the dormitories and the Tea House,

Benjamin A. Javits, author of The The following alumnae members of

Nellie Margaret Gilroy will repre Edwards, of Cornell University, who and at a luncheon given by Mrs.

Commomvealth of Industry, has of¬ Mortar Board are chaperoning each

sent Agnes Scott at a scientific con¬ carried on the personal counseling ac¬ Gaines.

fered prizes totaling $750 to college night: Carrie Phinney Latimer, Ruby

vention held in the Baptist Tabernacle tivities of the program. Dr. N. C. To conclude his series of evening

students who give the best answer to Flutton, Frances McCalla, Mary Mc¬

on February 3; she will speak on so¬ McPherson, Jr., delivered an address services at the Central Presbyterian

the question: Is the plan set forth in Donald, Margaret Bell, Lulu Ames,

cial hygiene from the student's point Wednesday to those interested in the Church in Atlanta, Dr. Lacy preached

The Comrnomuealth of Industry a and Alberta Palmour.

of view. Another speaker will be a ministry or any other phase of religion there last Sunday.

sound American program as opposed

student from Emory University. as a life's work. 

to Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin ideas, Mrs. Dieckmann is Winner Again 

or not? Answers must not exceed

Committee Chooses New Table, 

5,000 words, and should be mailed to Of Award for Best Criticism 
Mr. Javits before March 15.

Lamps, for Activities Building 

The awards, which will be made by For the second time, Mrs. C. W. mann con¬

received first place in the

May 1, consist of one prize of $400, Dieckmann has won the prize offered

New furnishings, including a table, forms to the building's Jacobean archi¬ test. Since this contest proved so suc¬

one of $100, and ten of twenty-five by Little, Brown, and Company, pub¬

lamps, and vases, have recently been tectural design. 

cessful, the company announced a sim¬

dollars each. Furthermore, one hun¬ lishers of the Atlantic Monthly, for the

added to the main floor of the Mur¬ 

The Y. W. C. A. has made arrange¬ dollars of will ilar one summer I Am

dred worth books be best review of their prize book of last for the

phey Candler building. A massive, 

ments for draperies of the same mate¬ 

given to the college of the first prize the year. Mrs. Dieckmann reviewed Fox, their best novel of 193 6. Mrs.

rough, oak table, several table lamps, 

rial used in the lobby to be hung in 

winner. The books, which must be Winifred van Etten's I Am the Fox.

and vases for the mantel were secured its room on the main floor; and the either Harper and 
Dieckmann won first place again.

publications of

last week through the aid of the alum¬ room formerly occupied by Poetry Each year the Atlantic Monthly Mr. Dieckmann, professor of music 

nae advisory committee; and smaller Brothers or Macmillan Company, will publishes a $10,000 novel and non-at Agnes Scott, has written an an¬

club and B. O. Z. has been assigned 

be chosen by the college librarian. a

tables and floor Jamps are to be added to the freshmen, who have turned fiction book. Old Jules was the non-them, setting of Blest Are the Pure 

soon. All equipment in the building over to these two clubs their room 
The judges will be Ordway Tead, fiction winner for 1936; last spring in Heart, which is being printed now

in 

has been installed with the supervision the middle front balcony. 
of Harper Brothers; Stuart Chase, the company offered a prize for the by the Theodore Presser Company of 

economist; and the author of the book.

and advice of this committee and con¬ best review of this book. Mrs. Dieck¬ Philadelphia. 


THE AGONISTIC 

Y.W.C.A. is Vital Force on Campus; \ 
Student Movements

(tfyc Agonistic 

Four Groups Do Valuable Ifork Work of A. S. I.. 

PUBLISHED WEEKLY 

Owned and published by the students of Agnes Scott 
College. 
Entered as Second Class Matter at Decatnr, Georgia. 
Subscription price, $1.25 per year in advance. 

Single copies, 5c. 
1936 Member 1937 
Pissocided Golle&ide Press 

STAFF 

Laura Steele 
Editor-in-Chief 
Frances Gary 

Associate Editor 
Jane Guthrie 
Hortense Jones 
Mary McCann Hudson 

Assistant Editors 
June Matthews 
Make-Up Editor 
Ruth Hertzka 
Assistant Make-Up 
Nellie M. Gilroy 
Eeatnre Editor 
Mary Frances Guthrie 
Exchange Editor 
Mildred Davis 
Book Editor 

Kathryn B. Wall 
Business Manager 
Elizabeth Blackshear 

Advertising Manager 
Mary Lib MorSow 
Frances Belford 
Nell Hemphill 

Circulation Managers 
Frances Wilson 
Current History 
Pauline Moss 
Society Editor 
Jean Chalmers 
Sports Editor 
Cornelia Christie 
Club Editor 
Elizabeth Warden 
Alumnae Editor 

Editor, Associate Editor, Enid Middleton, Mary 
King, Editorial Council 

Of)en Forum Voting Calls 

For Careful Deliberation 

If tomorrow in Open Forum you intend voting 
one way or another on the questions facing the 
student body, it would be well for you to remember: 


That the policies which are determined in part 
by your vote are not temporary and unimportant 
things, but will concern you personally and will 
affect the school and its activities now and for 
years to come. 

That the progress which you want to see Agnes 
Scott make and her lack of which you criti¬ 
cize so relentlessly in your bull-sessions can only 
come through your united student effort. 

That the questions settled tomorrow by your 
vote concern the whole student body vitally, the 
change in the date of school and class elections 
affecting the chome of delegates from Student 
Government and Y. W. to the important national 

Chairmen of Industrial, Music, Social Service, World Fellowship 
Committees Lead Students in Spiritual, Recreational, 
Cultural Activities 

If the Y. W. C. A., with its many ' thing from "Rhapsody in Blue" to 
various activities, should be done away j arias from the mighty Wagnerian op-
with on our campus, then, for most of . eras 
us, Agnes Scott just wouldn't be Ag-j * 

There are two secnons

nes Scott, for the work of this or-. to the world 
ganization has helped to give our col-; fellowship department—the world fel.
ege an atmosphere that is peculiarly j lowship committee and the mission in-
hers. Indeed, Y. W. has come to be ! terest group. The former seeks through 
sucha !-i_ r

vital rpart of student life here! 


i . its activities to the cause of
. „ ,. ,

at Agnes Scott that its membership 

as universal on the campus as 
membership in the Student Govern¬ 
ment Association. In order to reach 
its high ideal of helping the students 
"to realize a full and creative life 
through a growing knowledge of 
God," Y. W., headed by Isabel McCain 
and Betty Hollis, has planned a wide 
and varied program of activities, the 
;arry.ng out of which is made possible 
by the various committees into which 
the main organization is divided. 

Student members of Y. W. C. A. 
belong to one of the four leading 
groups: industrial, music, social serv¬ 
ice, or world fellowship. The first of 
these, the industrial, has been formed 
for those girls who are particularly in¬ 
terested in studying at first hand the 
industrial phase of life in present-day 
America, and has as its object the fos-

J tering of "better understanding be¬ 
tween workers and students." This 
committee seeks to realize this aim by 
bringing to its bi-monthly meetings 
leaders of the industrial world, who 

discuss the labor situation and other

pertinent problems of the day, and by 
visiting large factories and plants in 
and around Atlanta. One of the most 
interesting phases of their activities is 
the frequent joint meetings with the 
industrial girls of the Y. W. C. A. in 
Atlanta. Martha Long is in charge of 

j this group this year.

The music group, under the leader¬ 
ship of Primrose Noble, is not only in 
charge of the vesper choir and the 
after-dinner sings on the steps of 
Main, but also sponsors a music ap¬ 
preciation group. Its members meet 
every Sunday night after vespers in 

Room 3 3 in Main, where the beautiful 

conventions in the spring, and the change in the, phonograph and collection of records 

method of electing the heads of the publications j g,ven the college by the Carnegie Mu-
involving the democracy of student voting. ! S1C Foundation are kept. Each pro¬ 

gram is built around a central theme, 
such as the works of a particular com¬ 
Black List to be Posted poser, or a certain type of musical 
composition; all requests, however, are 
Within Next Three Weeks gladly played. Each student is sure to 
find her favorites in the files, for the 

Three weeks from today the Black List will be ; Carnegie collection contains every-
posted containing the names of those students j ?p, 7J~ VyT, 
who have failed to make their second student -* aiUltiO UKaillUra 
budget payment of five dollars and of those who TVi / Ic « u 1 n rt n n 
failed to make their first payment of ten dol-i illits Oil JUJJllll 
lars. Only 108 students have made the second1 
payment, and 152, who have already paid ten dol-j Tamiko Okamura, Agnes Scott's 
lars, still owe the remaining five. As yet the Japanese student, spoke to the jourstudent 
treasurer has received only $509 Of theinalism class Tuesday and Wednesday, 
$1,300 expected; and unless the fee is paid be-; January 19 and 20, on "The Spiritual 
fore February 17, the Black List will contain 152 ; Background of Japan," and "The So-
new names and 56 old names that appeared on j cial Life of Japanese Students of To-
the November List, a total of 208. If this hap-j day." 
pens, almost half the student body will not re-1 Tami pointed out that the greatest 
ceive annuals at the close of the year, can not: contribution that Christianity has 
participate in class athletic contests or in May made to Japan is individualism. In 
Day, and can not belong to organizations receiv¬ regard to the social life, she deplored 
ing money from the budget. the demoralizing effect of moving 

pictures on the Japanese youth; "Be¬ 
cause of unchristian backgrounds," 
Editors Need Cooperation she said, "there are many suicides 

among Japanese youth." 
In Agonistic ( lass Contest 

H.O.Z. Will Have Reunion 
For the next month the Agonistic will be pub¬ 
At A.S.C. Friday Night

lished by members of the four classes, who are 
competing for the cup awarded annually to the, ; 
staff editing the best paper. Five judges, well-, BOZ, the creative writing club on 

t'ie camPus Wl11

known in journalism, will work independently to . have a reunion on 

Frid'7 n'Sh^ Ja"uar>'

evaluate thepapers. 29' " 7 o'clock,

i in the Y. w. C. A. room in Main. 
This contest, which has been conducted ® Among those expected to be present 
past few years, has pro\ed to be of \alue both are t^e presidents 0f the club for the 
for discovering: new talent in journalism and for past three years. Misses Virginia Pretarousing 
class spirit. Since those members of tyman, Edith Merlin, and Elizabeth 
the regular staff who hold elected positions are Espy. Other alumnae who will attend 
not eligible to work on their class editions, there ire: Misses Page Ackerman, Lulu 
will be no unfair advantages for some classes. Ames, Lita Goss, Mildred Clark and 
But the members of the regular staff will be Mi-s. Agnes McCoy, 
glad to help the new workers if they care to con-Betty Hollis and Elisabeth Espy will 
suit with them ; and the new workers will also be hostesses for the occasion, and Virappreciate 
the much-needed co-operation of their ginia Hill, Nell Hemphill, Jean Bailey 
ownclasses. and June Matthews will read. 

j 
| 
1 

1 

i 

sponsor

,,

world peace, by having discussions 
and speeches on the campus, and by 
keeping Agnes Scott in touch with 
other collegiate and national peace 
movements. The mission interest 
group, affiliated as it is with the Na¬ 
tional Student Volunteer Union, is pri¬ 
marily interested in determining the 
conditions of missionary work in the 
world today, carrying out its program 
not only through the missionaries it 
brings to the campus, but also through 
its constant contact with the Agnes 
Scott missionary, Miss Emily Winn, 
whose work in Korea is made possible 
by student pledges to Y. W. Mildred 
Coit and Hibernia Hassell are the stu¬ 

dent leaders of these groups. 

The members of the social service 
committee have been organized into 
four groups. One section visits the 
Scottish Rite hospital one afternoon a 
week to entertain the crippled chil¬ 
dren with stories and games. Another 
group works with the Red Cross, and 
they are planning as their main fea¬ 
ture for this year a series of construc¬ 
tive talks for those girls who are inter¬ 
ested in this type of work. The Syrian 
Chapel group is composed of girls who 
work in the slum districts around the 
state capitol. Some of the members of 
.this group visit in the homes in this 
district on Sunday afternoons, and 
plans are being considered to have oth¬ 
ers work in the afternoons with the 
Girls' club and the Young People's 
League which have been formed at 
the Chapel. Still other social service 
members work with the Girl Reserves 
in Atlanta and Decatur. Nellie Mar¬ 
garet Gilroy, chairman of the entire 
committee, has announced that the 
group as a whole will meet once a 

month to hear authoritative speakers 
discuss various phases of social work. 

Y. W. programs are presented in chapel 
every Tuesday. The theme that has 
been chosen for their programs this 
year is "Christ, the Challenge." 
Other committees of the Agnes 
Scott Y. W. C. A. include the spirit¬ 
ual life committee, headed by Wini¬ 
fred Kellersberger, which conducts 
morning watch and plans worship pro¬ 
grams for various Y. W. services; the 
social committee, under Gary Wheeler, 
which plans the opening teas, the 
annual St. Patrick's Day celebration, 
and the traditional picnic for the 
freshmen; and the publicity commit-i 
tee, with Douglas Lyle as chairman, 1 
that keeps the students on this and I 

other campuses aware of the activities1 Union attitude toward racial equality are not 

of our Y. W. C. A. ! emphasized except in peace work. 
Co-operating again with the A. S. U. and other 
student groups, the N. S. F. A. works in the 
American Youth Congress, which favors liberalStatistics 
I industrial and economic measures, and which 
originated the American Youth Act for student 

By Brooks Spivey 

The days when students automatically fell 

into one of two classes—the "greasy grinds" or 

the "rah-rah" collegians—seem well behind us. 

To testify to a general student awareness of the 

outside world is the existence of national student 

organizations such as the American Student Lhi


ion and the N. S. F. A.—organizations which 

presume as a basis for existence a national bond 

of identical needs and aims between all students 

and a necessity for mobilization to achieve these 

ends. 

Most spectacular of national student move¬ 

ments is the American Student Union. The 

growth of the American Student Union, formed 

just one year ago by liberal students from all 

over the country, has been amazing. Its liberal¬ 

ism forms a unique basis of attraction for stu¬ 

dents convinced of the need for student co-opera¬ 

tion in social improvement. 

The A. S. U. program is non-political and com¬ 

prises four points; Student security, academic 

freedom, peace, and student racial equality, and 

aims at student organization as a means of mob¬ 

ilized progression to student ideals and opposi¬ 

tion to Fascistic regimentation of education. 

The A. S. U. pledges itself to work for student 

security and democracy in education by support¬ 

ing extension of educational facilities, "schools, 

not battleships," and student aid programs such 

as the American Youth Act, co-operative houses, 

restaurants, and social s^crndty legislation. 

The fight of the A. S. U. for academic freedom 

points at trustee and Hearst suppression of in¬ 

tellectual freedom for reactionary motives, de¬ 

fends academic independence, urges labor and 

progressive representation on Boards of Trus¬ 

tees and dedicates itself to educational democ¬ 

ratization. 

Urging vehement student expression against 

war, the A. S. U. opposes militarism in education, 

and supports making R. O. T. C. optional. It at¬ 

tempts to reveal the underlying causes of war 

as economic, imperialistic, etc., and mobilizes 

anti-war action in an annual student peace strike, 

stressing the Oxford peace pledge against war. 

Asserting that racial discrimination in educa¬ 

tion denies democratic belief in tolerance and 

equal opportunity, the A. S. U. opposes racial 

quotas in colleges, Jim Crowism, economic dis¬ 

crimination in funds spent for negro and white 

schools, and segregation as applied to any min¬ 

ority group. 

Most colorful of the A. S. U.'s year's work 
was the sponsorship of the student strike 
against war which united, on April 22, 1936, ap¬ 
proximately 500,000 students in an unprece¬ 
dented peace rally. Cases of violated academic 
freedom were also occasions for mobilized stu¬ 
dent protest. 

The fact that so many colleges in one year 
have set up A. S. U. charters in spite of great 
opposition at times, indicates a strong sentiment 
in certain institut-'ons thot the A. S. U. offers 
something unique to the student movement. 

Work of N.S.F.A. 

In 1925 the National Student Federation of 
America was formed to "achieve a spirit of co¬ 
operation among students to give consideration 
to questions affecting student interests." The 

N. S. F. A. is most active in two fields—interna¬ 
tional relationship of students and situations on 
individual campuses in which the N. S. F. A. 
strongly favors liberally constructed student 
government. Parallels between campus and non-
student struggles as in the American Student 
WOMEN 

Should married women work? This 
question, in a nation-wide survey, was 
answered as follows: 

Total Men Women 

Yes 15.1% 11.9% 18.3% 
No 47.7 53.8 41.7 
No, unless they 

need it 34.6 3 1.4 37.7 
Don't know . 2.6 2.9 2.3 
If they should not work, why not? 
They take jobs that otherwise 
wonId be filled by men 36.2% 

He.ilthier children and happier 
home life if women don't 
work 20.8 

Vi'oman's place is in the home 3 5.3 

Woman's labor is cheap labor 
that brings down the stand¬ 
ard of living 6.9 

Don't know 0.8 
—Fortune Quarterly Survey. 

: scecurity on a more adequate basis than the N. 
j A. 
| The Federation, however, is unique in student 

movements of America because of its interna¬ 
tional connections. It is a member of the International 
Conference of Students for the promo¬ 
tion of international understanding. Planned 
i student tours and international debates are an 
important N. S. F. A. activity. N. S. F. A. co¬ 
operates also with the International Student 

Service in providing for foreign exchange stu¬ 
dents and especially German refugee students. 

: On the whole, N. S. F. A. and the more mili¬ 
tant A. S. U. serve different purposes on the 
campus—the former being more applicable U 
betterment of student government and interna¬ 
tional association, and the latter to student alli¬ 
ance with the non-academic world in militant 
work for a better social and economic order. It 
is this difference in ultimate purpose that has 
permitted the existence of the two organizations 
side by side on many campuses. 


THE AGONISTIC 

Voice of Hannah Descends on Book Droppers Reveal Nerves 

Society News 

Startled Vespers Attendants 

Sara Louise Hearon, Martha Prince, 
The psychologists may classify em¬ tain English professor who on very 

and Louise Commander, all of Con¬

barrassment as a feeling, but to those good authority had undergone some 

verse College, visited Lucile Barnett,

who unexpectedly find themselves in head operation (removing Flamlet, 

an inexplanable predicament it be¬ perhaps), and who in reality was en¬ Jean Kirkpatrick, and Helen Moses 
comes a definite emotion (physical re¬ joying splendid health, but that also this week-end. 
action and all the trimmings). For to make matters much worse, in her Micky McKee's father was here last 

much is excitement she had failed to include

instance, not speculation week, and Mrs. Espy and Frances vis¬ 

necessary to conclude that Alice Han¬ the proper amount of postage, with 

ited Elisabeth.

nah experienced quite an upheaval last the result that the puzzled but 
Thursday night when her vehement amused professor PAID to secure a Those who went home for the week¬ 
crys for Marie Stalker, trailing from solicitous greeting concerning his ill¬ end were: Annette Williams to Law-
Rebekah lobby into the cloistered ness when he had never felt better in renceville, Ga.; Philis Johnson to El-

chapel, furnished rather strenuous his whole life. 

berton, Ga.; Lorraine Guinn to Duck-

competition for Mr. Holt, who was at 

town, Tenn.; Jane Carithers and Helen

the moment praying for voices from 

Friedlander to Winder, Ga.; Jeanette

on high to be heard. One wonders 

Club News 

whether or not Hannah includes her¬ Carrol to East Point, Ga.; Pauline 
self in the "choir invisible." Moss to Royston, Ga.; Susan Good-
Almost as embarrassing as this ex¬ wyn to Newnan, Ga., and Martha

Bible Club 

perience of a would-be member of the 

Bible club will meet on Monday aft¬ Johnson to Lithonia, Ga. Ola Kelly

angelic host was that which Brooks 

ernoon, February 1, at 4:30, in the went to Monroe to attend the wed¬

Spivey underwent last summer, when 

she would have welcomed any relief, Murphey C a n d 1 e r building. Miss ding of Miss Clara Knox Nunnally. 
even if it had been membership in C'Lena McMullen, '34, will be the Annie Houston Newton spent the 
the celestial group toward which Han¬ guest speaker. week-end with Virginia Tumlin in 
nah was evidently aspiring. One can 

Cave Springs, Ga. Grace Tazewell 

well imagine the reaction of the Emily-

Spanish Club spent the week-end in Rome, Ga. Jane

Posted and Marie Rosed Brooks when 

Estes went to Athens, Ga. Rose

she discovered that not only had she The last meeting of the Spanish 
mailed a get-well-quick card to a cer-club was held on Thursday afternoon, Northcross visited Mary Pitner at 
January 21, in the Murphey Candler the University of Tennessee; and Dot 
building. Betty Lou Houck Smith 

Jester spent the week-end with Fran¬

Julia Sewell Has and Jane Clark rendered a musical 

ces Balkom at the University of Geor¬ 

program; the members of the club 

gia. Dorothy Cabaniss and Marjorie

English Editions sang Spanish songs and played typical 

Scott went to Quadrille Wednesday

Spanish games. 

night; and Eloise Leonard and Mary

Among New Books 

Lang Gill attended the formal dance 
Blackfriars at the Psi Omega House Friday night.

A blue and gold leather edition of 

Blackfriars will meet on Tuesday Jane Guthrie, Myrl Chafin, and 

Sir James Barrie's Complete Plays, a 

night, February 2, at 7 o'clock in Miss Helen Ramsey went to the A.T.O. 

red Morocco copy of Chaucer's Com¬ 

Gooch's studio. A play will be pre¬ House, and Mary Venetia Smith and 

plete Poems, and two small pale blue, 

sented by Group 4. Charlotte Golden to the S. A. E. House 

Yates Shepherd illustrated volumes of 

Friday night.

A. A. Milne's When We Were Very 
Among those present at the Forest

Starvation Supper Nets

Young and Note We Are Six, are 

Hill medical dance Friday night were: 

among the thirteen new books collect¬ 

$30.82 For Peace Drive Mary Rogers, Rachel Kennedy, Sue 

ed by Julia Sewell, who won the Rich¬ 

Bryan, Bee Merrill, Gallic Carmichael,

ard DuBury prize last year. Having 

The sum of $3 0.82 was contributed Isabel Richardson, Mary Catherine 

bought all but two in London this 

by the students to the Emergency Matthews, Jane Moore Hamilton, and 

summer, Julia speaks of her books with 

Mary Gillespie.

Peace campaign as the result of a

a caressing accent on "English edi¬ 
tion." The two American copies are "starvation supper" on Armistice Day. 
Andersen's Fairy Tales and Swift's Gul¬ This supper and contribution, under Owed to Anon. 
liver's Travels. 

the leadership of the Y. W. C. A., took 

Barrie, of the blue leather with gold, To colorfully change my name,

the place on the campus of a student

has two other books in the group, Mar-To some day sing a sweet refrain,

"strike" as an expression of the na¬

garcf Ogilvy and a tiny leather Cour¬ To sit upon my hair—my aim, 
age. Barrie and Milne, however, are tion-wide college plea for peace. Huh, well—says Isabel McCain. 
the only writers honored by more than 
one selection. There are a Milton's 
Complete Poems, a Goldsmith's Poems 

BOWEN PRESS

and Plays, a Scott's Short Stories, a 
Shelley's Selected Poems, and in true 

COMMERCIAL PRINTING AND 

English manner a Boswell's Life of 

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Johnson. 
Answering the question of why she 

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simply that she didn't want any, Julia Blotters—Note Paper—Poster Paper 
was enthusiastic about the selections 

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Prevalent Here, Says Archie 

(a la Don Marquis) class after chapel it happened that 
dear mehitibal: about three books were dropped by va¬ 

everybody around here surely must rious students one right after the other 
be nervous or something you have no and there was a pause and then by ac¬ 
idea what excitement can be caused cident of course there was three more 

dropped and this teacher considering

and has been caused by nerves why 
herself a martyr to book droppers or

just the other night as i was crawling 
something stopped the lecture put her

up the stairs to third floor rebekah 

hands on her hips and said well lets all

what do you think i saw i saw our 

drop our books at the same time 

own alice taylor lying in the middle 

this teacher wasn't the only one

of the floor laughing so hard that 

with nerves that week either i heard 
tears were running down her face and one of them say while i was nosing by 
all about her stood the senior basket the door well class we will have that 
ball team with cornelia coleman and yesterday and as i was wandering past 
they were all yelling like everything the american government class the oth¬ 
at that hour 12 o'clock at night and er day i decided to go in as i am afraid 
three proctors and the house president that my knowledge in that field is 
stood there and gave them knocks pretty rusty so i crept in and hid by 
everytime they opened their mouths the waste-paper basket and i heard the 
they still kept on cheering teacher say now class when would the 

but if you had wanted to see a presidential election be if november 
teacher with nerves you should have came in on the first 
been in the zoology class right after well ive got to go down now and 
that chapel where just at the dramatic speak to a friend of mine i was just 
moment of a train wreck described by passing by and saw this typewriter and 
the speaker a psalm book fell off the thought id write you some of the news 
pulpit and made everybody including that has been going around this college 
this science teacher jump well in this in case you dont know what a college 

is or what i am doing here i will ex¬ 
plain to you later in a nether letter 
this is some place to be in for news

Greenhouse 

people around here are so nervous 
something is always happening take 

"I hope that it will be finished be¬ care of yourself and dont get into any 
fore the members of the plant phys¬ difficulties with other cats because i 
iology class have grandchildren." So cant take the time to come help you 
speaks Mr. Runyan when questioned out this time 
about Agnes Scott's slowly-developing best regards to your kittens if you 
greenhouse. havent drowned them yet, 

When complete, this greenhouse will archie 
be a real laboratory for plant study, 
and will boast, in addition to its green¬ 
ery, a fountain, several pools, and a 

HOTEL CANDLER 

cement floor, and will provide a light¬ 
er and better place for students to ex¬ Coffee Shop and 
periment with plants. And even Mr. 

Dining Room

Runyan sees a gleam of hope; the 
work is almost ready for the glass now. 

The Perfect Campus 

f? s "Belong Togethers" 

STRICTLY 

TAILORED 

BLOUSE 

and SKIRT 

each 2.9S 

What a blouse! Short sports 
sleeves, quality crepe, yards 
of stitching and swell col¬ 
ors : beige, aqua, powder, 
white and dusty rose ... 32 
to 38. 

And the skirt ... in checks, 
solids, patterns, one, two, 
three and four pleats . . . 
Extra, extra for now and 
ever afterward. 

Blouses, Skirts 

Street Floor 

RICH'S 


THE AGONISTIC 

Classes Plav 

Close Games 

Freshmen Down Junior Team; 
Sophomores, Seniors 
Fight To Tie 

The junior-freshman basketball 
game, which the freshmen won, 42-37, 
held the spotlight for action Friday 
night and was far superior to the sen¬ 
ior-sophomore 16-16 tie. These two 
games were the second of the season. 

Both the senior team and the sopho¬ 
more team suffer from a lack of for¬ 
wards who can play easily together. 
In spite of Jane Dryfoos' quick scor¬ 
ing in the first quarter and Elizabeth 
Williams' general basketball ability, the 
sophomores just couldn't get started. 
And the seniors, with only one bona 
fide forward, wasted a lot of time 
passing the ball in triangles. The sen¬ 
iors, by the way, could use a little 
help from their class. There was not 
a single substitute available in case 
one of the faithful six had been forced 
to leave the game for fouls or a turned 
ankle. 

The junior-freshman game, however, 
was a fight to the end. Both teams 
are strong and unusually good, but the 
freshmen had a double advantage of 
having the larger players and of catch¬ 
ing the juniors without one of their 
first-string forwards, Anne Thompson. 
Elizabeth Blackshear did a noble job 
of scoring, however, making 26 of the 
37 points, and Primrose Noble deserves 
a flower for her performance. She 
spent lunch hour learning the plays 
so she could substitute for Anne and 
then went in the game playing as fast 
as the best of them. Her one free 
shot couldn't have gone in the basket 
any more beautifully. The guards cer¬ 
tainly held their own. Frances Robin¬ 
son intercepted almost as many passes 
as the freshmen threw, and Eliza King 
and Bee Merrill did some tall chasing, 
keeping the enemy away from the goal. 

But the freshmen were too good 
and finally won. They had trailed 
the juniors 16-20 the first half, but 
after keeping the score almost tied un¬ 
til the very end, they put forward an 
extra effort and dropped in some fast 
goals the last few seconds of the game. 
The freshmen have quite a few good 
players, so substitutions were frequent. 
Forwards Virginia Milner and Ruth 
Slack continued their goal-making, 
and Jean Williams lived up to her 
reputation for spectacular playing. 
Freshman guarding was also good, 
though it could be a trifle less noisy 
and rough. This freshman basketball 
playing is just another example of the 
class' outstanding athletic ability, for 
they have already won a swimming 
meet and have provided upperclassmen 
with serious worries in hockey and 
tennis. 

Line-ups were: 

Senior Sophomore 
Gary R.F Purnell (4) 
McCain (10) L.F Williams (6) 
Kneale (2) C.F Dryfoos (6) 
McDonald C.G Cuddy 
Stalker R.G . Steele, Mary E. 
Taylor (c) L.G Hamilton 

Total: 16. Total: 16. 
Substitutions: McDonald (4), John¬ 
son. 

Junior Freshman 
Blackshear (26) RE Milner (8) 
Coit (4) L.F Williams (22) 
Noble (7) C.F Slack (10) 
Merrill C.G Moffat 
Robinson R.G Moses (c) 
King L.G Heaslitt 

Total: 37. Total: 42. 
Substitutions: Carson, Forman, 
Thompson, Eyles (2), Reins, Ware. 
Miss Elizabeth Mitchell was referee 
and Miss Bee Miller the umpire. 

Vou Can Come to Us or 
We Will Go to You 

We are as close to you as your 
telephone. 

HARRISON'S 
PHARMACY 
Sudden Service 

309 College Avenue 
JUST CALL DE. 0762 

Six Contestants 

Seek Beck Award 

Competing with the Agnes Scott 
candidates for the Beck Scholarship, 
Nellie Margaret Gilroy and Lucile 
Dennison, are Jimmy Tolbert and 
Norman Giles of Emory, and Robert 

G. Stephens and Howard Brandon of 
the University of Georgia. The schol¬ 
arship, furnished by a fund left for 
that purpose by the late Lewis Beck, 
former Atanta merchant, provides a 
maximum sum of two thousand dollars 
annually for graduate study in any 
American or foreign university ap¬ 
proved by the board. The final deci¬ 
sion, to be made within the next two 
weeks, is based upon literary and schol¬ 
astic ability and achievement, person¬ 
ality and character, leadership and in¬ 
terest in others, and physical vigor as 
shown by interest in outdoor sports 
or in other ways. 
Jimmy Tolbert, former editor of the 
Emory Wheel, is a member of Phi Beta 
Kappa, D. V. S., O. D. K., Eta Sigma 
Psi, the Players and A. T. O. He was 
secretary of the Y. M. C. A., member 
of the debate council, publicity agent 
for the Glee Club, and represented the 
graduate school on the Student Activi 
ties Council. He is now teaching in 
Tennessee. 

The other Emory nominee, Norman 
Giles, who has been a laboratory as¬ 
sistant in biology for two years, is a 
member of Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Sig¬ 
ma Iota, Phi Sigma, A. E. U., the 
Honor Council, and Kappa Alpha, and 
is immediate past president of the At¬ 
lanta Bird club. 

Both of the candidates from the 
University of Georgia are teaching 
there now: Robert Stephens is an as¬ 
sistant in history and Howard Bran¬ 
don is an instructor in romance lan¬ 
guages. 

Reporters 

Reporters include: Nell Allison, 
Alice Cheeseman, Giddy Erwin, Nell 
Hemphill, Carol Hale, Cora Kay 
Hutchins, Sarah Johnson, Douglas 
Lyle, Frances Lee, Regina Hurwitz, 
Julia Sewell, Mary Willis, Mamie Lee 
Ratliff, Selma Steinbach, Anne Pur¬ 
nell, Marie Merritt, Alice Reins, Myrl 
Chafin, Louise Young, Mary Frances 
Kennedy, Henrietta Blackwell, Mary 
Primrose Noble, Mary Reins, Evelyn 
Baty, Eleanor Hutchens, Hazel So'omon, 
V. J. Watkins, Mary Lou's; 
Dobbs, Virginia Hill, Eloise McCall, 
Louise Houghston, Mary Lang Gill, 
Eugenia Williams, Grace Duggan, and 
Jeannette Carroll. 

Business assistants are: Rachel Ken¬ 
nedy, Florence Little, Jessie Williams, 
Jane Dryfoos, Jeanne Flynt. 

Valentines and Flowers at the 

Same Old Place 

DECATUR WOMAN'S EXCHANGE 

AND FLOWER SHOP 

College Stands Low 

In S p ell ing Ability 

In as much as the old spelling 
bee is a thing of the past, it is fit-
ping and proper to employ this 
medium to inform much befuddled 
personages that Murphey is spelled 
with an "ey," not "y," Dr. Lacy 
without an "e," not "ey," and Rebekah 
Scott with a "kah," not a 
"cca." 

Miss Hanley Ends 

Notes on Devices 

Miss Edna Hanley, librarian, has 
prepared the following article, which 
will conclude her series of discussions 
of the twelve printers' devices on the 
wall of the library. 

WILLIAM CAXTON 

William Caxton, the first English 
printer, established a press at West¬ 
minster Abbey in 1477, where he 
printed the Dictes and Sayings of the 
Philosophers, which is the first dated 
book printed in England. From this 
time until his death in 1491 Caxton 
was kept busy writing and printing. 

His books have no title-page and 
from 1487 onwards are usually 
adorned with a curious device, consist¬ 
ing of the letters W C separated by 
a trade mark, with an elaborate bor¬ 
der above and below. 

JOHANNES ELZEVIR 

The name of Elzevir has for more 
than two centuries been a familiar 
one to book collectors. These Dutch 
printers of the seventeenth century 
were able to associate their imprint 
with publications of such distinctive 
typographical excellence as to ensure 
for the editions known as Elzevirs, a 
prestige which has endured to the pres¬ 
ent day. Their Greek and Hebrew im¬ 
pressions are considered inferior to 
those of the Aldi and Estiennes, but 
their small editions in 12mo, 16mo 
and 24mo, for elegance of design, 
neatness, clearness and regularity of 
type, and beauty of paper, cannot be 
surpassed. 

The device copied in the Library, 
adopted by the Leiden Elzevirs in 1620, 
consists of a tree, a fruitful vine and 
a man alone, with a motto "Non so¬ 
lus." 

"Kaffe Kalas" is enjoyed every aft¬ 
ernoon by the students and faculty of 
Augusta College. Those funny words 
mean rolls, rusks, and coffee on the 
table. The spread is open to all stu¬ 
dents, and the total cost is what you 
put your hand on first when you reach 
in your pocket. 

Meet Me At 

MINER & CARTER 

DRUGGISTS 

Peachtree and Ellis Streets 

Phone WAlnut 4900 Atlanta, Ga. 

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE 
DECATUR, GA. 

A college for women that is widely recog¬ 
nized for its standards of work and for the 
interesting character of its student activities 

For further information, address 

J. R. McCAIN, President 
Recent Weddings 

Among Alumnae 

Nell Pattillo, '3 5, was married, on 
November 2 5, to Ernest Pope Kendall. 
They are living at Emory University. 

Madeline Race, '3 5, is studying at 
Columbia toward her master's degree 
in physical education. 

Mildred Thompson, '3 5, was mar¬ 
ried to Edgar L. Raven, Jr., on De¬ 
cember 12. They are living in Con¬ 
cord, Ga. 

Margaret Kleiber, '32, was married 
in June to Dr. Richard Lee Jackson, 
of Newnan. He is assistant resident 
surgeon at the Central Dispensary and 
Emergency Hospital in Washington. 

Virginia Petway, '32, has received 
her doctor's degree, and is an interne 
at Strong Memorial Hospital in Roch¬ 
ester, N. Y. 

Dee Robinson, '32, was married to 
John R. Davis, of Dayton and Chat¬ 
tanooga, on December 22. Her sister, 
Frances, '3 8, was maid-of-honor. 

Dot Seay spent part of last summer 
at the University of North Carolina, 
working on her M. A. in history. 

Louise (Winslow) Taft announces 
the birth of Joe, Jr., in Greenville, 

N. C. 
Katherine (Wright) Kren is work¬ 
ing in the children's department of 
the public library in New York. 

Basketball Schedule 

Friday, Jan. 29—3:30 

Friday, Feb. 5—7:30 

Friday, Feb. 12—3:30 

Friday, Feb. 19—7:3 0 

Friday, Feb. 26—3:3 0 

Varsity-Sub-Varsity Game 

Friday, Mar. 5—3:30 

Brown Jug 

Group Offers 

Felloe ships 

Social Science Council Gives 
Awards To Graduates 
For One Year 

In order to aid exceptionally prom¬ 
ising students of the social sciences in 
obtaining research training beginning 
with the first year of graduate study, 
the Social Science Research Council of¬ 
fers for 1937-'3S a number of predoctoral 
fellowships for graduate 
study. Appointments will provide for 
a stipend of S 1,000 plus tuition and 
an allowance for one round trip be¬ 
tween the Fellow's home and his place 
of study, which will be chosen by the 
committee, with consideration for the 
candidate's preference. 

These fellowships are open to men 
and women, citizens of the United 
States or Canada, who have received 
the bachelor's degree or will obtain it 

prior to July, 1937. They are not 
open to graduate students of more 
than one semester's standing. The 
bases of selection will be full academic 
and personal records of the candidates, 
supporting letters from instructors 
qualified to write of the applicant's 
research promise, and written examina¬ 
tions which will be offered through 
the College Entrance Examination 
Board during the third week in June, 
1937. 

Appointments will be for one year, 
and requests for renewals will be con¬ 
sidered on the basis of performance 
during the first period of appointment. 
The closing date for receipt of the 
applications is March 15, 1937. 

Meet Your Friends at 
Cox's Prescription Shop 

Between Paramount and Grand 
Theaters, Atlanta 

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DISPENSING OPTICIANS 

Three Stores 
105 Peachtree Street (Clock Sign) 
Medical Arts Bldg. (382 Peachtree St.) 
Doctors Bldg. (480 Peachtree St.) 

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NO. 12

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1937

VOL. XXII 

Skits Present 

Class Rul ers 

Of Mardi Gras 

Stalker, Kelly, Nickels, Williams 
Will Contest for Throne 
In Balloting 

Floats Planned for Pageant 

Accompanied by a wild burst of hil¬ 
arity the four class kings for Mardi 
Gras were presented to the college 

community in amusing skits in chapel 
last night. Marie Stalker, the senior 
'ting, was presented the key of the 
Royal Society of the Kings of Mardi 
Gras with all the pomp and ceremony 
of an academic procession. "Adven¬ 
ture in Manhattan" introduced the 
junior king, Ola Kelly, accompanied 
by such well-known movie characters 
as Theodora or the gorgeous hcssy and 
the magnificent brute. The identity 
of the sophomore king, Amelia Nick¬ 
els, was revealed in a third original 
skit. The freshman took movies as a 
theme again, as they presented their 
king, Jean Williams, in an interpre¬ 
tation of Romeo and Juliet. 

From these kings the student body 
will elect a King of Mardi Gras to 
rule over the celebration Saturday 
night in the gymnasium. Each vote 
will cost a penny. Voting will con¬ 
tinue until Thursday night. 

Class chairmen were chosen in class 
meetings last week. They are: Mary 
Jane King, senior; Ann Worthy John¬ 
son, junior; Jane Moore Hamilton, 
sophomore, and Mickey Warren, fresh


(Continued on page 4, col. 1) 

Banquet in Gym 

On Founder's Day 

Reverting to a broken tradition the 
annual Founder's Day banquet will be 
held this year in the Bucher Scott 
gymnasium instead of Rebekah Scott 
dining hall. The traditional celebra¬ 
tion will begin with a quarter hour 
broadcast over WSB and will continue 
through the banquet, coffee in the 
Murphey Candler building, and the 
colorful minuet to a formal dance in 
the gymnasium given by the Cotillion 
club. Senior day students will be 
privileged to attend the gala event 
this year. 

Martha Summers, president of the 
senior class, announces the following 
changes among those taking part in 
the festivities: Cornelia Christie will 
appear as Lord Cornwallis and Julia 
Thing as Benjamin Franklin. Alice 
Taylor will be among the colonial gen¬ 
tlemen in the minuet. 

Watson, Chalmers 

Chosen Delegates 

Margaret Watson, president of In¬ 
ternational Relations Club, and Jean 
Chalmers, secretary and treasurer, 
have been elected to represent the 
Agnes Scott club at the Southeastern 
Conference of these clubs held in Au¬ 
burn, Ala., February 19-20. Alabama 
Polytechnic Institute will be host to 
the conference which brings delegates 
from eight states. 

This conference is sponsored by the 
Carnegie Endowment for Internation¬ 
al Peace which sends several outstand¬ 
ing speakers. Round table discussions 
of international affairs are also fea¬ 
tures of the program. The Agnes Scott 
delegates have been asked to be chair¬ 
men of one round table and to present 
papers on the League of Nations and 
the International Labor Organization. 
Professor Philip Davidson, of the his¬ 
tory department, will attend the con¬ 
ference and serve as faculty chairman 
of a discussion group. 

Phi Beta Kappa Sextet 

Courtesy Atlanta Constitution. 
Examining with interest the Phi Beta Kappa key to which they are now 
entitled, are the newest members of the honorary society at Agnes Scott. 
Front row: Frances Wilson, Rachel Shamos Mildred Tilly; back row: 

Frances Cary, Lucile Dennison, and Isabel McCain. 

Phi Beta Kappa 

Elects Six Girls 

Six members of the class of 1937 
were elected to Phi Beta Kappa at the 
semi -annual announcement which 
took place on Friday, January 29, in 
Gaines chapel. They were Frances 
Cary, Lucile Dennison, Isabel Mc¬ 
Cain, Rachel Shamos, Mildred Tilly, 
and Frances Wilson. They were initi¬ 
ated at a banquet Saturday night, Jan¬ 
uary 3 0. 

Mr. Jackson Davis, associate direc¬ 
tor of the Southern program of the 
General Education Board with head¬ 

quarters in Richmond, Va., made the 
address and chose as his subject "The 
History of Phi Beta Kappa and its In¬ 
fluence." It was especially fitting 
that Mr. Davis should be the speaker, 
since he is now president of the Phi 
Beta Kappa chapter at William and 
Mary College, the parent institution 
of the organization. Mr. Davis has 
also helped in many ways in the resto¬ 
ration of Williamsburg, Va., the home 
of the College of William and Mary. 
A good friend of Agnes Scott, Mr. 
Davis has several times visited the col¬ 
lege and has made recommendations 
for grants to the college by the Gen¬ 
eral Education Board. 

The initiation dinner was held Sat¬ 
urday evening at 6 o'clock in the An¬ 
na Young Alumnae House. Among 
the guests were Mr. Davis, Chancellor 

S. V. Sanford, of the University of 
Georgia; President H. W. Cox, of Em¬ 
ory University; Dean Goodrich C. 
White, Emory University; President 
M. L. Brittain, of Georgia Tech; Pro¬ 
fessor J. M. Richards, of Columbia 
Seminary in Decatur; and members of 
the Agnes Scott chapter of Phi Beta 
Kappa which included alumnae. 
Annual Founder's Day 

Broadcast to Alumnae 

Will be February 22 

The Agnes Scott Founder's Day 
Broadcast over WSB on February 22 
from 6:00 to 6:15 p. m., C. S. T., 
will be the twelfth annual program 
since the radio broadcast for the bene¬ 
fit of alumnae was inaugurated by 
Polly (Stone) Buck in 192 5. Alum¬ 
nae, individually and in widely scat-
f.ied groups, will hear messages from 
Dr. McCain, Miss Hopkins, and Mr. 

J. K. On. 
Water Pageant 

Takes Place 

Thursday 

Isabel McCain Is King 
At "Feast of Lanterns" 

A picturesque wedding celebration 
of old Japan is the theme of the v^ater 
pageant, "A Feast of Lanterns," to be 
presented Thursday night at 8:3 0 in 
the gym. The story tells of the search 
of a young Japanese king for a suit¬ 
able bride and the elaborate wedding 
of the king to the princess he finally 
discovers. 

Isabel McCain takes the part of the 
king, and Tami Okamura is to be the 
Japanese princess. The rest of the cast 
includes: Mary Kneale, Marie Stalker, 
Emma McMullen, Julia Thing, Doug¬ 
las Lyle, Bee Merrill, Peek Brown, Ann 

W. John,son, Virginia Milner, Ann 
Thompson, Jane M. Hamilton, and 
Florence Lasseter as water carriers; 
Ann Howell, Nell Hemphill, Barbara 
Holland, and Lettie McKay as royal 
messengers; Ola Kelly, Jeanne Mathews, 
Martha Zellner, Cary Wheeler, 
and Jean Bailey as tumblers, and Jean 
Chalmers, Nell Echols, Carolyn For-
man, Mary Ruth Murphey, and Mary 
Venetia Smith, as divers. 
The pageant is directed by Miss 
Haynes, of the gym faculty, and Bee 
Merrill, school swimming manager. 

Five Seniors Named 

In College Who's Who 

As Campus Leaders 

Five Agnes Scott seniors are listed 
in "Who's Who Among Students in 
American Universities and Colleges." 
Those chosen for their outstanding 
qualities of leadership, scholarship and 
character, are: Alice Hannah, presi¬ 
dent of Student Government; Laura 
Steele, editor of The Agonistic; Isabel 
McCain, president of Y. W. C. A.; 
Julia Thing, president of the Athletic 
Association, and Barton Jackson, edi¬ 
tor of the Silhouette Only one per 
cent of the student boM-is selected 
for the book. 

The directory is published each 
year in March by H. Pettus Randall 
at University, Alabama. The students 
who appear in it are picked by a com¬ 
mittee at the college. On the Na¬ 
tional Advisory Board arc: Dr. George 
Lmg, national president of O. D. K., 
and Thomas Ncblett, president of N. 

S. F. A. 
Four Seniors dominated to 
Preside Over May Court 

Professor Seris 

Lectures Tuesday 

On Spanish War 

The advance ticket sale for the lec¬ 
ture, Experiences in War Time Spain, 
by Professor Homero Seris, will be held 
Thursday morning in the lobby of 
Buttrick from 9 until 12:30 o'clock. 
Tickets will be twenty-five cents. 
The lecture is sponsored by the Cur¬ 
rent History Forum and will be given 
on Tuesday evening at 8:30 in Gaines 
chapel. 

Professor Seris is coming to Agnes 
Scott from Habana, Cuba, where he 
spent the Christmas holidays with rela¬ 
tives after he escaped from Madrid in 
November. Before leaving Spain he 
visited the government strongholds of 
Valencia and Barcelona and became 
convinced of the ultimate victory of 
the Loyalist forces. From his intimate 
knowledge of people and conditions in 
Spain, Professor Seris will be able to 
give a most accurate picture of the 
civil war. 

This lecture tour is under the super¬ 
vision of the Institute of International 
Education in New York City. From 
Agnes Scott Professor Seris will go to 
the University of North Carolina to 
lecture on Wednesday nieht, Febru¬ 
ary 10. 

While on the campus he will be en¬ 
tertained by the Spanish Club at a ; 
tea on Tuesday afternoon. The Cur¬ 
rent History Forum council will give 
a luncheon on Tuesday, and Assistant 
Professor Melissa Cilley, of the Span¬ 
ish department, will be hostess at a 
dinner for Mr. Seris Tuesday night in 
the Anna Young Alumnae House. 

Citizenship Group 

Meets at Emory 

The Emory Institute of Citizenship 
will hold its tenth annual session Feb¬ 
ruary 8-11 on the Emory campus. The 
program will feature round table dis¬ 
cussions and speakers prominent in the 
fields of history and social science. 

Dr. Raymond Leslie Buell, president 
of the Foreign Policy Association and 
editor of several books on modern Eu¬ 
ropean affairs, will speak on "Europe's 
Crisis—the Danger to America." Dr. 
Edward S. Corwin, McCormick Pro¬ 
fessor of Jurisprudence at Princeton, 
will discuss the problems of the Su¬ 
preme Court. He is the author of 
Ticilight of the Supreme Court. 

Dr. Rupert Vance, of the Univer¬ 
sity of North Carolina, will lead a 
round table discussion on "Farm Ten¬ 
ancy and the South." The round ta¬ 
ble on foreign affairs will be led bv 
Francis B. Sayre, a son-in-law of for¬ 
mer President Wilson, at present of the 
State Department in Washington. 

President J. R. McCain and Asso¬ 
ciate Professor Florence Smith, of the 
history department, are on the Ad¬ 
visory Board of the Institute. Com¬ 
plete programs may be obtained from 
Miss Smith or Mr. Stukes' office. 

Faculty and Students 

Subscribe to Red Cross 

A total of $308.16 was contributed 
to the college Red Cross flood relief 
fund by faculty and students last 
week. The faculty subscribed $2 5 9.0 5; 
the students, $3 8.50, and $10.64 was 
made up anonymously. 

Professor S. G. Stukes, chairman of 
the DeKalb county Red Cross organi¬ 
zation, was in charge of campus con¬ 
tributions. Professor Henry A. Rob¬ 
inson helped in collecting. Over 
$3,000 was turned in from the county 
at large to the DeKalb fund, Mr. 
Stukes reported. 

Dennison, Malone, Steele, Wil¬ 
son Chosen as Candidates 
for Majesty 

Voting To Be This Week 

Lucile Dennison, Mary Malone, 

Frances Steele, and Frances Wilson 

were nominated for May Queen by 

the student body in the voting held 

last week from January 2 8 through 

February 1. From these four seniors 

the students will elect a queen to pre¬ 

side over the annual May Day pag¬ 

eant; the other three will automatical¬ 

ly be members of her court. 

Voting for the election of the 

queen will begin the last of this week, 

announces Eloisa Alexander, chairman 

of the May Day Committee. Boxes 

for voting will be placed in the dor¬ 

mitories and the Murphey Candler 

building. Underclassmen in the May 

Court will be chosen by the May Day 

Committee from popular nominations 

to be made later. 

An adaptation of Milton's Com us 

provides the scenario for May Day this 

year. 

Annual Banquet 

For Junior Class 

On February 13 

The annual banquet given by Mor¬ 
tar Board honoring the members of the 
junior class and their dates will be 
held in Rebekah Scott dining hall on 
Saturday night, February 13. Coffee 
will be served in the lobby, and Blackfriar's 
play, Spring Dance, will be giv¬ 
en in the Bucher Scott gymnasium to 
complete the entertainment program. 

Ola Kelly, chairman of the decora¬ 
tions committee, has announced that 
the color scheme will be red and white, 
and that decorations will carry out the 
Valentine motif. Bill Manly's orches¬ 
tra will play during the banquet. 

Members of Mortar Board will serve 
coffee immediately after dinner. In 
the receiving line will be Fannie B. 
Harris, president of Mortar Board, 
Miss Hopkins, Dr. McCain, Eliza 
King, president of the junior class, 
Miss Harnette Haynes and Miss Ellen 
Douglas Leyburn, faculty advisors of 
the class. 

One addition to the cast of Spring 
Dance has been made. John Tillman, 
an announcer at Station WSB, will 
play the part of Sam Thatcher, the 
hero. 

College Entertains 

High School Girls 

The first of the series of parties for 
the high school students of Atlanta 
will be given Friday, February 5, at 

4:3 0, honoring girls from Russell, Ful¬ 
ton, and Avondale high schools. Next 
Friday, February 12, students of 
North Avenue Presbyterian School, 
Washington Seminary, Druid Hills, 
and North Fulton will be guests. The 
third group to be entertained Friday, 
February 19, will consist of students 
from Girls' High, Decatur High, and 
Sacred Heart. 
After a general tour of the campus, 
the students will have dinner in Re¬ 
bekah Scott dining hall and then 
dance informally in the Murphey 
Candler building until time for a 
swim in the pool of Bucher Scott gym¬ 
nasium. 

Miss Alberta Palmour, alumnae 
field secretary, is in charge of these 
parties and will be helped by members 
of the freshman class. 


THE AGONISTIC 

<ll)c Agonistic 

PUBLISHED WEEKLY 

Owned and published by the students of Agnes Scott 
College. 

Entered as Second Class Matter at Decatnr, Georgia. 

Subscription price, $1.25 per year in advance. 
Single copies, 5 c. 
1936 Member 1937 
Fbsocided Goliegiflte Press 

STAFF 
Margaret Watson Catharine Jones 
Editor-in-Chief Business Manager 

Julia Thing Charline Fleece 
Assistant Editor 

Advertising Manager 
Kathryn Printup 

Mary Lib Morrow

Make-Up Editor 

Frances Belford 
Elisabeth Espy Nell Hemphill 
Feature Editor Frances Castleberry 
Circulation Managers

Alice Hannah 
Exchange Editor Frances Wilson 
Al'ce Taylor

Brooks Spivey 

Society Editors

Book Editor 
Jean Kirkpatrick

Lucile Dennison 
Current History Cub Editor 
Betty Willis

Florence Lasseter 
Sports Editor Alumnae Editor 

Reporters: Buchholz, Cairns, Daniel, Jackson, 
Jester, S. Johnson, Little, Moss, McCain, Northcros:'. 
Stevens, Summers. 

Business Assistants: M. Willis, Stalker. 

FREE EXAMINATION BOOKS 

WOULD BENEFIT STUDENTS 

When the faculty said that free examination 
books given out to the students in the examina¬ 
tion room would reflect unfavorably on our hon¬ 
or system, most students were surprised. Their 
surprise reflects favorably on the student body; 
to most of us, free examination books mean the 
elimination of some expense, of the bother of 
getting the books, keeping up with them, and 
having enough on hand during the examination. 
If we do not have to bring our own books into 
the examination room it will be practically im¬ 
possible to bring prepared notes along; there is 
the souvce of the faculty comment, and most of 
the students never even thought of that! 

The primary concern of the students has been 
the expense. Other colleges and high schools 
furnish these books free. Our students are will¬ 
ing to pay what they cost, if necessary; but they 
do not understand why the college should make 
a profit on them. 

Moreover, our honor system is not perfect; 
some girls probably cheat. Those who do, do not 
realize what that act involves; if they can be 
prevented by something that will benefit the 
whole student body we are all for it. 

SCHOLARSHIP AID QUESTION 

CLARIFIED BY DR. McCAIN 

A third statement about scholarships and the 
obligations involved may be superfluous since we 
have no new points to bring out, but we feel that 
the subject will not suffer by repetition. The 
terms of the scholarship contract signed by a 
large percentage of the student body are quite 
definite; in every case the college has fulfilled 
its part of the contract. In those cases where the 
student has flagrantly disregarded her obliga¬ 
tions, Dr. McCain is perfectly right and justified 
in withdrawing scholarship aid. 

In his talk in chapel on last Wednesday, he 
emphasized the fact that all students are equally 
bound by the regulations of student government 
and that the possession of a scholarship should 
not affect the penalty imposed by the executive 
committee. Both he and Alice Hannah, in her 
talk on Saturday, placed the full responsibility 
for the control of scholarships on the president. 
The administration regards the scholarship girls 
as a picked group and expects them to show, in 
all phases of college life, those qualities which 
brought them their scholarships. 

No thoughtful student can fail to understand 
and appreciate the attitude of Dr. McCain and 
the administration. All of us realize that schol¬ 
arships constitute a major problem on the cam¬ 
pus and agree with Dr. McCain that immediate 
reform is necessary. We students think that too 
much scholarship aid is given to girls who need 
no financial help and whose marks do not justify 
a "scholarship". We were glad to hear Dr. Mc¬ 
Cain say that the number of scholarships is to be 
reduced : it seems to us that the problem involved 
will disappear when scholarships are given to 
girls whose need and merit bring appreciation 
of the college's generosity. 

THE FLOOD DISASTER

Review ofRecent Aldous Huxley 
Bv Luc le Dennison 

Book Reveals Philosophical Art 

The flood is no accident. The lingering hor¬ 
rors of death, destruction, and disease which the

Eyeless in Gaza, by Aldous Huxley, j man-made institutions and that to 

Ohio and ^Mississippi rivers pour over their banks

Harper Brothers, 193 6, S2.5 0. I break away from one slavery is but 

in swirling waters are distressing enough. But 

to commit oneself to another. In mid¬ 

the fact that this flood, the droughts of the Mid¬

Aldous Huxley's newest novel, Eye-dle age Anthony's life becomes zeal¬ 

west, the famous dust storms, the growing

.ess in Gaza, follows in the Huxley ously motivated by an overwhelming 

American deserts, the soil erosion, the decreas¬

:radition of unfailing brilliance. It is interest in and conviction of the mer¬ 

ing fertility of the soil are all inter-related parts

a book remarkable for the precise its of pacifism; and short but extra¬ 

of one tragedy—this is awesome.

beauty of its prose, for the depth and ordinarily deep dissertations on pacif¬ 

This, the worst flood in history, is not the re¬

clarity of its philosophical background, ism are interspersed throughout the 

sult solely of an unusually long rainy period.

and for the sensual naturalism of its book. It is seldom that one finds a 

more There was Only 18,000 square

love element. logical defense of pacifism than a flood in 1927. 

The story of the novel concerns this by Aldous Huxley. It sustains miles were covered. Only $236,000,000 was lost. 
people, who, like all their contem¬ interest while offering convincing And it was the worst flood up to that time. Be¬ 
fore it another flood had broken a lower record.

poraries, are "eyeless" in a world of proof of the effectiveness of pacifism. 
glaring foibles and errors. Through Floods were comparatively mild when the Indian

Mr. Huxley's naturalism in Eyeless

their blindness Huxley portravs by worshipped the Mississippi 300 years ago.

in Gaza is somewhat startling. Sev¬ 

contrast the world as he sees it—with Then progress came. We cut down nine-tenths

eral of the descriptive passages are al¬

j its superficialities, its falsified cmo-of the trees and broke up the sod so as to let

most revolting, while the lurid love

! tions, its outworn institutions. Spark-more water run quicker to the river, eroding the

life of the characters is rather dis¬

' ling wit, sage observations, bold out¬ soil without absorbing. We made hats of beav¬

gustingly sensual—sensual, one feels,

line, and clear detail combine to pro-ers, says Mr. Chase, and forgot about dams to

perhaps merely for the sake of sensual¬

j duce a devastating satire on a life slow the river. We straightened its path so it

ism. One presumes, however, that

which we accept through custom could run faster. We pumped the artesian wells,

Mr. Huxley means to infer by his ex¬

rather than reason. The "blind" char¬ dried the swamps. Without reservoirs, we let all

cessive use of such material that man 

acters, through whom the folly of an is inevitably tied to earth by phvsical the rain go to the sea. So, in the summer we have 
over-institutionalized world is uncon


bonds and that the body in disease, dust and drought.

I iciously revealed, are led by Anthony had gone too far. We

lust, or pain is always inescapable even In 1927 we realized we

Beavis, a prominent sociologist, whose 

to the most sensitively and spiritually had disturbed a balance and set the pendulum

ife has been an unending attempt to 

minded. swinging from one extreme of flood to the other

live rationally, ignoring irrational 

The unique design of the book in extreme of drought. The Jadwin plan of ap¬

conventions and institutions and em¬ 

which key dates in the lives and rela¬ proach was inaugurated. Former natural meth¬

phasizing the "free life." Opposite 

tionship of the characters are inter¬ ods of easing overflow and storing surplus were

Anthony is Helen, a young girl of pas¬ 

mingled non-consecutively, although imitated in huge dams, like Boulder Dam and

sionate sensitivity, whose life has been 

at first a little difficult to follow, is Norris Dam, in locks and spillways. Boulder Dam

bitter disillusionment until she meets 

quite fascinating and very useful in held off a flood and its reservoir prevented a

the Communist, whose idealistic devo¬ 

showing different stages of the action subsequent drought in 1935. Reforestation, too,

tion to his cause gives integrated pur¬ 

:n view of other stages, occurring lat-is in the flood-prevention program.

pose to her life. With unfailing clar¬ 

sooner.

:r or The projects to prevent floods are too few and

ity and decisiveness, these characters 

and many others are drawn for the Eyeless in Gaza is so unique, so bril¬ too new to be effective in such a wide-spread 
reader and skillfully analyzed in rela-liant, so beautifully written and so crisis as the present. But if work in preserva¬ 
challenging in its philosophy that it tion of our natural resources, so forcefully urged

ion to their environment, heredity 

and philosophies. makes exceptionally good reading. In by Stuart Chase in Rich Land, Boor Land, con¬ 
Through the writing of Anthony "pite of its extreme sensuality and tinues, there may be hope for progressively 
Beavis in his diary his intellectual de¬ ugliness in spots, it deserves to be smaller and better floods. 

praised for its splendid argument for

velopment and interests are shown. As 

and defense of pacifism in a war-

a sociologist he discusses personal 

A NIGHT AT THE OPERA

threatened world and as such is not

freedom and reaches the conclusion 
after brilliant analysis that man is in¬ altogether insignificant in modern lit¬ 
evitably a slave either to nature or to erature. Among the few occasions upon which the 

nearby metropolitan populace is favored with the 
Alumnae Weddings, assembled loveliness of the campus contingent, 
concert nights rank not the least. The college

Campus 

Honors Announced; 

is admittedly a center of cultural and academic 

Opinion Alumnus Pays Visit attainment but such recognition may become at 
times rather highly accentuated, to the implied 
neglect of the gentler feminine arts. As if to

We can think of no better place to Wynunee McCamy, ex-'37, was 

married on January 17 to Marius An¬ vindicate itself of such an implication the stu¬

bring up the matter of additional 

derson. The wedding took place at dent body turns out en masse on concert nights,
privileges for the seniors than the Wynunee's home in Middleboro, Ken¬ stylishly gowned, charmingly mannered, grace¬ 
senior edition of The Agonistic. After tucky, and the young couple are hon¬ fully girlish. Juliet caps bow to coronation feath¬ 
all, what privileges does a senior have eymooning in Florida. ers; suave satin murmurs to demure chiffon; 
that no one else has? It is true that lustrous velvet flows around rich brocade; and 
she can use lights at her discretion; Announcement was recently made jewelled bags wink at chaste pearls. 

she can come into the dining room of the engagement of Carolyn Cole, The poor citizenry of Decatur returning home 
late without asking permission; she '3 5, to Bruce Gregory of Jacksonville, upon the plebian seats of unchartered street cars 

can talk over the telephone after 

Florida. The date of the wedding has must surely eye with astonishment this lovelylights. However, when one really con¬ not been set. group, captivatingly clustered beneath the un¬ 

siders these privileges they seem un¬ derpass.
important. There really should be 

A'bert Swanton, one of Agnes 

The street car conductor of the Agnes Scott 
some extra privilege to distinguish Scott's mythical alumni, visited the Special, be it painfully confessed, will be faced

this class which in a few months will campus on January 24. Mr. Swanton 

with a different prospect. Just prior to and im¬

be out on its own. 

is living in Birmingham, Alabama. He 

mediately upon the point of his arrival there is

We think it is about time the sen¬ 

expressed an earnest desire to attend a periodic transformation among the gathered

iors were allowed to .stay out with a an Agnes Scott Alumnae meeting in 

goddesses. Smiling serenity becomes turbulent

date unchaperoned until twelve the near future. 

turmoil as the aforesaid ambrosials suddenly de¬

o'clock. They already have permis¬ 

velop some amazing Amazonic instincts.

sion to stay up until twelve or after Evangeline Papageorge, '2 8, became 

Once aboard, however, there is a quick return

so why not stay out until twelve with¬ Emory University's first woman fac¬ 

to feminity, save by a few standing graces who

out having to scare up a chaperon at ulty member to hold the doctor of 

vent most unmaidenly sentiments in highly dis¬

the last minute? We wonder what dif¬ philosophy degree when she received 

gruntled tones. Nevertheless, this minor un


ference being out one more hour with the degree from the University of j 

pleasantness is"graciousiy j^d by the 

a date makes? After taking ani ™ a j- mi fortu


ivrchigan last week. tak A 
Furthermore we think the seniors A B. from Agnes Scott, Miss Papa-and S00n disappears. Then the

virgin voices are sweetly lifted to the strains of

j ought to be allowed to chaperon fresh-george was awarded an M.S. at Emory 

such mellow ballads as "The Man on the Flying

I men. Of course this would not bene-in 1929, and has since worked toward 

jfit the seniors as much as it would the t, a . . . l Tr • • rr-i-Trapeze", "The Prisoner's Song" and other old

her doctorate a| the University of Chi-ifavorites. Thus tempus fugits until the car is1 freshmen, but it really would be help-cago and the Umvers.ty of M.ch.gan lidi srnoothly among the j pedestrians 
; ful. If a freshman doesn't have a rela-during several summers and the 1931-^ 

of peachtree. Its lighteci the 

jtive or some close friend in Atlanta 1932 session. 

assistance of compacts and lipsticks, reveals the

i she is out of luck most of the time, 
! for of course you aren't supposed to ; The Business Girl's Club ofAtlanta * thf ^pus coteries. And 

^ lnt0 the daZZled PresenCe

pick up just anybody as a chaperon, j held its November meeting at Black's of the

mDx D

and it is very rare when you can find * rr c*1 a , i ^DDID.

Corree bnop; Congressman Robert i tt • _ • a i , i ... 
a chaperon on the campus. Then, of Ramspeck was the speaker. Lillian1 HaV1^ appreciated duly all features of the 
course, when you realize that in a few (Clement) Adams, '27, announced!f6"1"? the fair damsels sully

11] t0 b 688 th® 101 thronK with 0ne laHt
months the seniors will be acceptable plans for a class in contemporary lit-1 J01" . n ,1®? 1

bur8t 0f The

chaperons it seems that it would be erature, which is being given on the ! y lo11 .languidly about lamp 
wise to let them go on and practice up campus once a week by Miss Emma! P08 8 a pirouette daintily about the street 

^rner aw

i so they can really do the job well. j May Fancy. Twenty-five members I siting the arrival of their fairy coach. 

Of course the statement that the j arc enrolled in theclass. ' 3.ppGara.ncG, however, they all become 
seniors need some distinguishing privi-! Miss Carrie Scandrett, '24, and Al-j Cinclerellas on a midnight rush. The beseitfed 
'ege is not the real reason for asking berta Palmour, '35, visited the dubs j conductors battle valiantly but vainly. The mob 
for these privileges. There arc these of Augusta, Savannah, Waycross,: cheers from the sidewalk. The faculty chaperons 
and other good reasons for having Asheville, Charlotte, Hendcrsonville, j gutter frantically, and at last the precious cargo 
them and we wonder what are the ob¬ Raleigh, and Winston-Salcm during' ^ safely aboard and transported from Vanity 
jections? November and December. Fair to the haven of its cloistered halls. 


THE AGONISTIC 

rCB-

The social spotlight was focused on 
the campus last week as Mortar Board 
introduced the Freshmen boarders to 
some hundred young men of the town 
at a series of parties Tuesday, Wednes¬ 
day, Thursday, and Friday evenings in 
the Murphey Candler building. 

Going off the campus we found 
Barton Jackson, Marlise Torrance, and 
Ruth Anderson Thursday night at the 
Dental College's Delta Sigma Delta 
dance. And Friday we saw Bee Mer¬ 
rill, Judith Gracey, Caroline Carmichael, 
Rachel Kennedy, and Sue Bryan 
among the guests at No. 1 Fraternity 
Row when the Emory Sigma Chis en¬ 
tertained at a tea dance. Friday night 
Jan Garber was the drawing card. 
Agnes Scotters who heard him were 
Jean Barry Adams, Tommy Ruth 
Blackmon, Ola Kelly, Frances Steele, 

Marlise Torrance, and Nancy Moorer 
with her sister, Mary, who was a week¬ 
end visitor here. Looking in on the 
Saturday night dances we found at 
Druid Hills Barton Jackson and Mary 
Malone, and at the Emory Pi K A 
house the following: Strat Sloan, 
'Mette Williamson, Mary Hollingsworth, 
Gary Wheeler, Caroline Carmichael, 
Lib Galbreath, Marlise Torrance, 
Ellender Johnson, and Mary Catherine 
Matthews. 

Another popular entertainment that j 
night was the Junior League Follies, 
which attracted Jane Dryfoos, Helen 
Moses, Judith Gracey. Saturday, too, 
found the Inman seniors entertaining 
Mary Buchholz at a surprise birthday 
dinner at the Ship Ahoy. 

Still further from Decatur were 
many Agnes Scotters this week-end. 
Eleanor Lewis went to Tallahassee; 
Lois and Bee Sexton went home to 
Bessemer City, N. C, with Eloise 
Donkle and Laura Coit as their 
guests; Jean and Lib Williams went 
to their home in Hickory, N. C.; 
Mary Ellen Whetsell, Adelaide Ben¬ 
son, and Julia Porter to Converse; 
Miriam Sanders, Betty Ann Stewart, 
and Catherine Ivie to Greenville, S. 
C.; Tommy Ruth Blackmon and 
Martha Peek Brown to the latter's 
home in Cartersville, Ga.; Sara Gray 
to Columbus, Jane Moore Hamilton 
to Dalton, Sue Bryan to Reynolds, 
Ga.; and Mary Willis—as usual— 
home to Augusta. 

Returning to the campus we found 
Frances Steele having as a visitor John 
Marshall Green from the University 
of Florida, and Mary Smith entertain¬ 
ing an out-of-towner whose name she 
refuses to reveal. While Aileen Shortley 
went to Sewanee for the dances 
this week-end, Frances Belford's broth¬ 
er came visiting from there. No lon¬ 
ger on the campus is Micky McKee, 
whose parents moved to Decatur. Al¬ 
ways with us, though, are those un¬ 
fortunates (you supply the names) 
who are campused. 

A Quiet Campaign has been 
launched at Mt. Holyoke by the mem¬ 
bers of Community Government. 
Points of emphasis are: Courtesy, con¬ 
sideration of others who wish to sleep 
or study; health, your own and oth¬ 
ers' reaction to excessive noise; law, 
passed because of the first two points. 
Excessive commotion in the halls and 
rooms after 10 o'clock is the main is¬ 
sue in the Campaign. 

DECATUR BEAUTY SALON 
Permanents $3 to $10 
109 Church St. Decatur 

DE. 4692 

Blackfriars 

In Man-hunt 

For Plav Cast 

"Bun, I think maybe he's coming." 

"Who," 

"Sam." 

"So the oaf has finally condescended 
to appear, has he?" 

"I think he has." 

"A major triumph, to say the least." 

"My dear, I tell you, the male is 
changing!" 

"My Aunt Julia used to say, 'For 
what are big men, after all, but only 
little boys grow tall?" 

"I tell you they're different now! 
In just this last year there's been a 
complete metamorphosis. 'Masterful 
but manageable' was my ideal—but 
my dear! Here lately the little 
things absolutely elude the grasp! One 
of the things no girl should forget is 
the nymph-like quality of the mod¬ 
ern male." 

Blackfriars members have expressed 
the above sentiments in their new play, 
Spring Dance, and about the play with 
equal applicability. They hope the 
juniors have not shared these difficul¬ 
ties. j 

There were seven men to be gotten j 
for the cast; they were finally rounded j 
up from Emory, WSB, and the ever 
faithful Old Guard. But for a long 
time a real man to play Sam was as 
elusive as Sam is to be. 

Group Conferences 

With Miss Osborne 

To be Arranged 

Those girls who wish to sign up 
for an appointment with Miss Os¬ 
borne, the charm expert, may do to 
on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. 
Alice Taylor is in charge of arrange¬ 
ments for Miss Osborne's visit which 
will begin Monday, February 8. 

The Y. W. C. A., Cotillion Club, 
Student Government, Athletic Asso¬ 
ciation, Mortar Board, and the fresh¬ 
man charm group are sponsoring the 
appearance of this consultant on 
charm. 

Helpful criticism of clothes, hair 
styles, and personality will be given 
in private interviews by Miss Osborne. 
A thirty-minute interview for six 
girls will cost twenty-five cents. 

Given the opportunity of voting for 
a mythical all-star faculty of ten 
members from all the history of the 
world and from any field of knowl¬ 
edge and work, faculty men and wom¬ 
en of the University of Pennsylvania 
selected: Dr. Albert Einstein, Socrates, 
Plato, Aristotle, a Dr. Vinci, Shake¬ 
speare, Galileo, Newton, Darwin and 
Pasteur. Dr. Einstein is the only liv¬ 
ing man included. 

College students who endure the 
dreary winter, thinking "What's the 
use?" may find some hope in the per¬ 
centage of United States Representa¬ 
tives and Senators who attended colege. 
Despite the fact that Henry 
Ford and Abraham Lincoln and many 
other notable Americans scaled the 
heights of success without benefit of 
college training, the cold fact is that 
of the 441 national legislators who re¬ 
cord their educational privileges in the 
Congressional Directory, 3 5 8 attended 
college. Thus it would seem from the 
recorded facts that one's chances of 
election to Congress are improved four 

to one, if the aspirant is a college man 

or woman.—A. C. P. 

You Can Come to Us or 
We Will Go to You 
We are as close to you as your 
telephone. 

HARRISON'S 
PHARMACY 
Sudden Service 

309 College Avenue 
JUST CALL DE. 0762 

T o Keep Straight 

Each Campus Date 

Thursday, February 4 
7:30—Pi Alpha Phi try-outs in 
Gaines chapel 
8:30—Swimming pageant, Feast of 
the Lanterns, in the gym 
Friday, February 5 

4:3 0—Party for high school stu¬ 
dents 
7:30—Basketball games in the gym: 
Seniors vs. Sophomores, Juniors vs. 
Freshmen 

Saturday, February 6 

7:3 0—Mardi Gras in the gym 
Monday, February 8 
4:3 0—French club meeting in the 
Murphey Candler building. Program 
on Brittany in charge of Elise Seay 
7:00—Chi Beta Phi Sigma initiates 
new members 

7:30—Dr. J. Sam Guy speaks to 
members of Chi Beta Phi Sigma and 
others who are interested 

Tuesday, February 9 

8:3 0—Professor Homero Seris lec¬ 
tures in Gaines chapel on the Spanish 
War 
Chi Beta Phi Sigma 

Adds Eleven Pledges 

Eleven new members will be for¬ 
mally initiated into Chi Beta Phi Sig¬ 
ma, scientific sorority, on Monday 
night, February 8, at 7 o'clock in the 
Murphey Candler building. The pledges 
are: Jean Austen, Regina Hurwitz, 
Ann Worthy Johnson, Ola Kelly, 
Elizabeth Kenney, Jeanne Matthews, 
Frances Norman, Marjorie Scott, 
Aileen Shortley, Elizabeth Skinner, 
and Virginia Suttenfield. 

Following the initiation ceremony, 
an open meeting will be held at 7:3 0; 
Dr. Samuel Guy, professor of chemis¬ 
try at Emory, will speak. Dr. Guy 
was instrumental in the formation of 
the Agnes Scott chapter of Chi Beta 
Phi Sigma in 1933. 

Pronouncing Proves 

Provocative Indeed 

But Perhaps Possible 

In spite of my rough cough and hic¬ 
cough, which had been with me 
through the week, I fixed the dough 
down for the rolls and brought enough 
along with me in the brougham to 
satisfy my doughty old uncle, who 
likes them so. 

Though the drought makes the 
fields dusty, where they plough, we 
came by the lough because we like 
to hear the breezes sough in the 
bough of the tough elm trees along 
the way. It was a slow drive for the 
horse had cut his hough and was 
lame. I was sorry I had bought such 
an one and I ought not to have driven 
him while the roads were so droughty. 
(For pronunciation see page 4, col. 5.) 

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Freshmen Foibles Furnish Fun 

For Those Time Has Taught 

"The tumult and the shouting dies; might follow, gathered her bed clothes 
The family and the friends depart; like an Arab and silently stole down 
Still sad, the lonely freshman tries the hall to the bathtub, where she was 
To cheer us with unconscious art." fittingly discovered next morning by 
one of her aforementioned neighbors.

All of this "lest we forget" the be¬ 
Her roommate, upon having her date

wildered beginner who timidly asked 
announced one night by the maid,

if the Roman numerals I, II, III after 
tripped hastily over to Main, mounted

the dean's title in the signing out book 
the broad front steps, rang the bell,

indicated respectively Misses Hopkins, 
and was ushered into the parlor with

Scandrett and Bell. In the same book 
what she believed to be customary

another innocent calmly signed out 
ceremony.

on the thirty-second day of the month, 
while still a third wrote under the And lastly, there is that patriotic 
church record a single affirmative. soul, who, when asked to pledge her 

paper, wrote fervently: "I pledge my

Then there is the poor creature, 
dlegiance to the flag of the U. S. and

who, unable to enjoy her slumber for 
the rowdy seniors next door ,and un¬ to the republic for which it stands. 
One nation indivisible, etc!"

able to complain because of what 

"The Human Adventure" Unde rclassmen Urged 

To Be DeKalb Feature To Try Out in Debating 

"The Human Adventure," a mo¬ Freshmen and Sophomores, particu¬ 
tion picture of the history of the larly, are urged to try out for Pi Al-
earth and mankind, will be shown at pla Phi, the debating society, tomor¬ 
the DeKalb Theatre Saturday morn¬ row night in Gaines chapel. The club 
ing, February 6, for the benefit of the is anxious to arrange a debate with the 
Fellowship Fund of the American As¬ freshman team of the University of 
sociation of University Women. Florida and have Agnes Scott fresh¬ 

The picture was produced under the men take part. Information about the 
scientific direction of Dr. James H. try-outs is posted on the back bulletin 
Breasted, historian, archaeologist, and board in Buttrick hall. 
Director of the Oriental Institute of Jane Turner and Jean Austen have 
the University of Chicago. It is a been selected to debate a team from 
panoramic review of the prehistoric Wesleyan College later in the spring. 
ages of earth and mankind. 

The first showing of this picture 

Alumnae Member Is

will be at 9 o'clock and the second at 

Y. W. Vesper Speaker
10:3 0. Tickets may be obtained at the 
theatre for twenty-five cents. 
Introducing a new series of Y. W. 
Citadel cadets bemoan the passing C. A. vesper programs, Sara Catherine 
of an old custom, the "detail system," (Wood) Marshall, '36, spoke last Sun¬ 
which has recently been abolished be¬ day night, January 31. She discussed 
cause such a system seemed to involve the general outlines of Christ's chal¬ 
hazing. Formerly a Freshman on en¬ lenge of world citizenship. 
trance was "detailed" a Junior whom 
he served for two years. The stu¬ 

BETTY LONGLEY, Florist

dents—even the Freshmen—are sorry 

Corsages -Designs -Decorations

to see the system go out of existence, 

Mrs. A. E. McCann

for they maintain that discipline and 

Miss Betty Longley

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THE AGONISTIC 

Seniors Win First Victory Candler Building Poise^ Personality? and Pep 

Hopes Augmented 

Over Undefeated Freshmen Result from Posture Drive

By Recent G if ts 

The hitherto undefeated freshman 
basketball team was conquered by the 
seniors, 22 to 21, last Friday after¬ 
noon in one of the most exciting 
games of the season. The seniors, who 
up to that time had no victories to 
their credit, scored the one-point lead 
in the last minute of play. Frances 
Gary tossed the winning goal. 

The freshmen showed their excel¬ 
lent system of offensive guarding and 
succeeded in intercepting many senior 
passes. The closeness of the score 
caused some wild playing and uninten¬ 
tional fouls caught by strict refereeing. 


The junior-sophomore game was 
steadier, and less thrilling. The juniors 
won by a score of 27 to 18. The zone 
guarding technique of Estelle Cuddy, 
sophomore, was outstanding and also 
the work of her teammate, Jane Moore 
Hamilton, who, however, was unable 
to repeat her performance of last week 
and hold her forward opponent score¬ 
less. 

Line-ups were: 

Senior (22) Freshman (21) 
Gary4 R.F Stimpson 
McCain 8 L.F Milner 5 
Kneale 10 C.F Williams 14 
Thing R.G Ware 
McDonald L.G Moffett 
Stalker C.G , Moses 

Substitutions: Freshmen, Reins, 
Slack (2). 

Junior (27) Sophomore (18) 
Noble4 R.F Williams 6 
Thompson 4 L.F Purnell 6 
Blackshear 15 CF Garner 6 
Robinson R.G Cuddy 
King L.G Hamilton 
Chalmers C.G Dryfoos 

Substitutions: Juniors, Coit (4), 
Allison, Castleberry; Sophomores, 
Johnson, Flynt. 

Referees, Miss Elizabeth Mitchell 
and Miss Bee Miller; Scorer, Ola 
Kelly; Timekeeper, Mutt Fite. 

SKITS PRESENT CLASS 
RULERS OF MARDI GRAS 

(Continued from page 1, col. 1) 
man. They will supervise all class ac¬ 
tivities connected with the fete. 

The theme for this year has been 
changed from advertising, as was first 
announced, to movies. In chapel last 
Thursday Schnozzle Durante, Zasu 
Pitts, Greta Garbo, and Mae West an¬ 
nounced their intention of attending 
Mardi Gras. 

The floats and programs will be 
presented before the kings and their 
chosen queens as they hold their royal 
court in the palace of the gymnasium 
decorated in accordance with the mo¬ 
tion picture theme. 

General admission will be five cents 
and tables may be reserved for five 
cents a person. Cake, candy and 
drinks will be sold. 

All guests are asked to come masked 
and in costume. Prizes will be awarded 
to those most cleverly dressed. 

JOSEPH SIEGEL 
"Dependable Jeweler Since 1908" 
Diamonds, Watches, Jewelry, Silver¬ 
ware—Watch. C lock and Jewelry 
Repairing 

All Work Guaranteed 

111 E. Court Square Decatur, Ga. I 

Phone Dearborn 4205 

WALTER BALLARD 

OPTICAL CO. 

DISPENSING OPTICIANS 

Three Stores 
105 I'eachtree Street (Clock Sign) 

Medical Arts Building 
(.382 I'eachtree St.) 

Doctors Bldg. (180 I'eachtree St.) 
ATLANTA. GA. 

Received:

Carnegie Donors 

One ladder back chair 
Handsome table lamps

Give New Books 

Several odd tables 
On World Affairs Two tapestries 
Two Mexican pottery vases 
One branched candlestick 

Twelve new books on foreign af¬ 

Two Chinese brass chop sueyfairs have been given the International bowls 

Relations Club by the Carnegie Foun¬ Wrought iron stands for ivy 
bowls

dation for International Peace. The 

Expected:

club has presented these books to the 

Ivy bowls 

library so that they can be used by 

Y. W. C. A. curtains 
all the students. 
The books this year are: "Sweden— 

Gail Nelson Honored

The Middle Way," Marquis W. Childs; 
"Propaganda and Dictatorship," Har-

By Chi Beta Phi Sigma

wood L. Childs; "A Place in the 
Sun," Grover Clark; "American Di¬ 

The National Board of Directors of

plomacy," B. H. Williams; "Liberty 

Chi Beta Phi Sigma has honored the 

vs. Equality," William F. Russell; "On 

local chapter by asking Gail Nelson,

the Rim of the Abyss," James T. 

Shotwell; "Can We Be Neutral?", Al¬ '3 3, to be a member of the board. She 
len W. Dulles and Hamilton Fish will have the title of Grand Historian 
Armstrong; "Fascism and National 

and her duties will include the col¬ 

Socialism," Michael T. Florinsky; "The 

lection of data on the development of

Spanish Tragedy," E. Allison Peers; 

the organization and expansion of the

"A History of the Far East in Modern 

sorority. This office was created at

Times," Harold M. Vinacke; "World 

the annual chapter convention held

Trade and Its Future," Sir Arthur Sal-

last November in Huntington, West

ter; "What the International Labor 

Virginia.

Organization Means to America," ed¬ 

Miss Nelson was a charter member

ited by Spencer Miller, Jr. 

of the Agnes Scott chapter, which 
was the first sorority chapter; it was 

Hale, Roper Will Head 

organized in 1933. She is now doing 
graduate work at Emory University.

Junior Agonistic Staff 

Carol Hale and Joyce Roper were Baptist Students to Go 
elected editor and business manager, 

To Bessie Tift Retreat

respectively, of the junior edition of 
The Agonistic at a class meeting last 

Baptist students from sixteen Geor¬

Friday. The junior issue in the Agon¬ 

gia colleges will meet February 13 and

istic contest will appear next Wednes¬ 

14 at Bessie Tift College, Forsyth,

day, February 10. 

Georgia, for the annual spring retreat

Other members of the editorial staff 

of the state Baptist Student Union.

are: Mary Ann Kernan, assistant edi¬ 

The majority of the delegates will be

tor; Jane Turner, make-up editor; 

members of local B. S. U. Councils.

Frances Lee, assistant make-up editor; 

Agnes Scott College will be represent¬

Nell Allison, feature editor; Jean 

ed by Gary Wheeler, Sara Lee, Mary

Chalmers, news editor; Giddy Erwin, 

Reins, Anne Pittard, Miriam Sanders,

exchanges; Hibernia Hassell, book edi¬ 

and Sarah Johnson, president of the

tor; Winifred Kellersberger, current 

B S U. on the campus. Dr. K. O.

history column; Ann Thompson, 

White, pastor of the Kirkwood Bap¬

sports editor; and Nell Hemphill, 

tist Church of Atlanta, will be the

alumnae editor. 

P'incipal speaker. The meetings will 
"The referee, umpire, and head lines¬ be presided over by D. D. Hammond 
man must make about 150 decisions of Georgia Tech. 
each game, and the field judge about 

5 0. It simply isn't humanly possible 
Meet Your Friends at

for them to be right every time." Ma¬ 
jor H. L. Griffith, Big Ten football Cox's Prescription Shop 
commissioner, believes they arc right 

Between Paramount and Grand

every time, depending upon the side 
of the field from which they are Theaters, Atlanta 
judged.—A. C. P. 

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AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE 

DECATUR, GA. 

A college for women that is widely recog¬ 

nized for its standards of work and for the 

interesting character of its student activities 

For further information, address 

J. R. McCAIN, President 
Purple and white badges proudly ease and graceful because of good pos¬ 
; worn about the campus the past week ture, also stands the best chance of 
are evidence of the good posture cam-getting a job. 
i paign that the Athletic Association 

"If you would cut a figure

j has been sponsoring to improve the 
In business, sport, or school.

' general posture of Agnes Scott stu¬ 
Just mind the posture precepts.

dents. Miss Wilburn has presented 

Obey the posture rule.

badges to those girls whom she has 
noticed for outstanding and habitual 

Don't thrust your head out turtle-
good posture while standing, sitting, wise ; 
and walking. Don't hunch your shoulders so; 

The complete eradication of spine Don't sag and drag yourself around; 
sitters, shuffle steppers and slump No style to that, you know. 
standers is the aim of this campaign, 
in order to improve not only the phy¬ Get uplift in your bearing, 
sical well-being of students but also And strength and spring and vim; 
their grades, their social poise and No matter what your worries, 
grace, and, eventually, their ability to To slouch won't alter them. 
secure and keep a position. What 
teacher is impressed by the feeble in¬ Just square your shoulders to the 
terest of a slouching student appar¬ world, 
ently unable to hold up her head? You're not the sort to quit. 
How can clothes look nice on a girl 'It isn't the load that breaks us 
with a hollow back and a sunken down. 
chest? The alert, poised person, at It's the wav we carrv it.' " 

PRONUNCIATION KEY

Writer Speaks in Chapel 
(See page 3, col. 3) 

oo—through, brougham

W. W. Chaplin, noted war corre¬ 
spondent, will speak in chapel Friday, o-e—though, dough 
February 5, about newspaper work as aw—ought, brought, bought 
a vocation. Mr. Chaplin, who writes awf—cough 
a column for the Hearst newspaper uf—rough, sough, enough 
syndicate, is in Atlanta for the cele¬ ow—plough, drought, doughtv,
bration of the twenty-fifth anniver¬ up—hiccough 
sary of the Atlanta Georgian. ou—lough, hough 
For the Benefit of 

TALLULAH FALLS 

INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL 

Colleen Moore's 

DOLL HOUSE 

Will Be On Display During 

Store Hours in Rich's Tea 

Room, Feb, 25-March 4 

Admission: 10c for Children Under 

15 and 20c for Adults 

Every Day Except Saturday 

Tea. Roorr. Sixth Floor 

RICH'S 


3Jutttor lExiittxnt 

Pay Your 
Student 
Budget ©I)e Agonistic 
Don't Be 
Black-
Listed 
VOL. XXII AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1937 NO. 13 

Freshmen Win at Mardi Gras 
In Colorful Cocoanut Grove 

Gold Diggers and Good Earth, Blackfriars Present 
Clever Movie Floats, 
Capture Prizes Drama by P. Barry 

Williams and McRee Rule Male Cast in Comedy Shows 
New Dramatic Talent 

"Cocoanut Grove," better known on From Outside 
the campus as the gym, was the scene 
of the Mardi Gras celebration last Sat¬ With appropriate properties and cos¬ 
urday night, February 6, with cos¬ 

tumes contributed by prominent At¬ 

tumes, floats, and program carrying 

lanta firms, and with a cast recon-

out the general theme of movies. Jean 

noited not only from their own mem¬

Williams, freshman class king, who 
was elected ruler of Mardi Gras, and bers but also from Emory, Columbia 
her queen, Rebecca McRee, presided Seminary, and W. S. B., Blackfriars 

over the festivities. They were at¬ will present the hilarious three-act 

tended by a court composed of the 

comedy, "Spring Dance," by Philip

class kings and their queens: senior, 

Barry, 13,

Marie Stalker and Alice Taylor; jun¬ on Saturday, February in 
ior, Ola Kelly and Myrl Chafin; soph¬ the Bucher Scott gymnasium. 
omore, Amelia Nickels and Miriam The members of the cast are: Alex 
Sanders; and freshman, Laura Winston 

Benson, Kitty Printup; Mady Platt,

Steele and Shirley Steek. 

Elizabeth Cousins; Frances Fenn, Su¬ 

The freshman float, "Gold Diggers 

san Goodwyn; Kate McKim, Lucille

of 1937," was awarded first place for 

Cairns; Miss Ritchie, Kay Kennedy;

beauty, with "Smilin' Thru," entered 
by May Day, receiving second place. Mildred, Mary Past; Sally Prescott, 
Mortar Board's "The Good Earth" Jeanne Flynt; Sam Thatcher, John 
won first place for originality and Tillman, of Emory and W. S. B.; Lip-
cleverness, and "Death Takes a Holi¬ 

pincot, Tom Wesley, of Atlanta; Mr.

day," the Agonistic's float, was sec¬ 

Walter Beckett, Marion Camp, of At¬

ond. Eleanor McCants, Nell Echols, 
and Boots Moore, dressed in attractive lanta; John Hatton, George Downing, 
gold suits and hats, took the part of of Emory; Buck Buchanan, John Wil¬ 
the Gold Diggers, and Julia Thie


son, of Columbia Seminary; and Doc 

monge and Lucille Scott, in gold eve¬ 

Boyd, Steve Avery, of Atlanta.

ning dresses, pulled the daffodil


"Spring Dance" is a three-act com¬

trimmed float. Anne Thompson, as 
the groom on the May Day float, and edy, laid in a girls' college. Philip 
Ruth Tate, as the bride, smiled at each (Continued on page 4, column 3)
other before an altar decorated with 
ferns and white candles. "The Good 
Earth" was a literal interpretation of Swimmers Perform 
the title, a float covered with dirt 

Japanese Pageant

with a tiny sprig of spyrea in the mid¬ 
dle, and on the Agonistic float, Death, 
impersonated by Jane Guthrie dressed The wedding of a young king to 
in black and wearing a white false his princess was the theme of the Jap¬ 
face, enjoyed his holiday by reading anese water pageant, "A Feast of Lan¬ 
mystery stories and waving to the au¬ terns," presented in the Bucher Scott 
dience. gymnasium Thursday night, February 

Jean Chalmers, general Mardi Gras 4. Isabel McCain and Tomi Okamura 
chairman, was master of ceremonies played the leads in the pageant, which 
and announced the program, which was interspersed with lantern maneu¬ 

(Continued on page 4, column 2) vers, tight-rope walking, and juggling. 
The cast included water carriers, royal 
j messengers, tumblers, and divers.

Research Bureau Head 
! The physical education department 
Talks To Spanish Club | and the swimming club sponsored the 
presentation, with Miss Harriet 

Spanish literature was the subject Haynes, of the physical education de¬ 
upon which Professor Homero Seris, partment, and Bee Merrill, school 
head of the Bibliographical Research swimming manager, acting as chief di¬ 

Bureau in Madrid, spoke at the Span¬ rectors. 
ish club meeting yesterday, February 
9, in the Murphey Candler building. S Dr. Raper Discusses 

Following the lecture, Miss Melissa 

Agrarian Problems

Cilley, Miss Muriel Harn, and officers 
of the Spanish club entertained Pro¬ 
fessor Seris and Professor and Mrs. W. Mr. Arthur Raper, acting sociology 

C. Salley of Georgia State College for Professor of Agnes Scott College, left 
Women at dinner in the Anna Young Friday, February 5, for a tour of Flor¬ 
Alumnae House. ida on the Florida Chain of Missions. 
Also, the Spanish club gave, in hon¬ Those on the tour are going from city 
or of Professor Seris, a tea. The to city to make a special study of the 
guests included Professor and Mrs. conditions of tenant farming in the 
Salley, Professor J. Gordon Stipe, Pro¬ various sections of the state. This 
fessor John A. Strausbough of Emory problem of tenant farming is one in 
University, and Professor Campoamor which Mr. Raper is particularly inter¬ 
of Georgia School of Technology. ested. 

Charm Expert Emphasizes 

Personality Culture in College 

"College is a training-ground for i all began with two girls whom I 

looks as well as for learning," says helped to become overnight successes. 
Miss Elizabeth Osborne, who is now They disappointed me, however, by 
visiting Agnes Scott to teach its stu-| marrving immediately afterwards, just 
dents, in a brief week of talks and ! as I had prepared them for a good 
conferences, as much as possible about J time. But they seem to be very well 
that elusive quality called charm. satisfied." 

She denies however that charm is Miss Osborne, who was formerly 
actually her subject, for she says we fashion editor of a leading magazine, 
should first speak of the root of which is now engaged in visiting various col¬ 
charm is the flower. "I made up this leges as an adviser on charm and per-

work myself," she explains, "and it (Contiiuied on page 4, column 4) 

Queen of May Day 

L. Dennison 
To Preside 

At Mav Fete 

Students Select May Queen 
From Four Nominees 
In Class of '37 

Announcement on Monday 

Lucille Dennison will reign as 
Queen of the May at Agnes Scott on 
May 7 at the presentation of Milton's 
gay and colorful masque, Comus. 
Mary Malone, Frances Steele, and 
Frances Wilson, other nominees for 
the honor, will automatically become 
members of the May queen's court. 
These four girls were selected as can¬ 
didates from student nominations, held 
from January 2 8 to February 1, in 
which all girls receiving more than 
fifteen votes would be nominees for 
May Queen. 

Lucille has been a member of tbe 
queen's court on May Day since her 
freshman year, when she was the only 
freshman in the court. Last year Mc¬ 
Clelland Barclay selected Lucille as 
one of the eight girls to appear in the 

beauty section of the Silhouette. He 
said of her, judging by her picture, 
"A grand gal to know—a good sport." 
Lucille is an outstanding senior on the 
campus, being president of the day 
students, vice-president of Pi Alpha 
Phi, and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. 
She was recently named as one of the 
two candidates from Agnes Scott for 
the Beck scholarship, which is award¬ 
ed annually to a student of either Em¬ 
ory University, the University of 
Georgia, or Agnes Scott. 

Science Club Enjoys 

Speech and Initiation 

Professor Guy of Emory University 
gave a talk last Monday, February 8, 
at a meeting of Chi Beta Phi Sigma 
in the Murphey Candler building. The 
meeting was a special one particularly 
for the initiation of the new members 
who were recently elected to the so¬ 
ciety. At the conclusion of Dr. Guy's 
speech, there was a short social hour. 

Student Treasurer Plans 
To Post New Black List 
Time and the Black List wait 

for no man. An end has come to 

the many ominous warnings con¬ 

cerning the payment of the student 

budget. Sarah Johnson has an¬ 

nounced that the fatal document 

will be posted Wednesday, Febru¬ 

ary 17. Pay your student budget 

Juniors Issue Invitations 

For Class Banquet Feb. 13 

Announce Names of Escorts;

Professor H. Seris 

Mortar Board Plans 
For 150 Guests

Lectures on Spain 

Valentine's Day Is Motif

Describes Present Condition 
In War-Torn Country 

Latest developments in the plans for

Before Escape 

the junior banquet, already announc¬ 
ed as taking place Saturday night,

Describing the Spanish situation 
from the standpoint of an individual February 13, in Rebekah Scott dining 
who has been recently in the midst of hall, are the announcement of escorts 
the conflict, Professor Homero Seris, for the occasion and further details 
head of the Bibliographical Research about decorations. Mortar Board has 
Bureau of Madrid, spoke last night, invited 150 guests for the evening. 
February 9, in Gaines chapel on "Ex¬ Red and white streamers will hang 
periences in War-Torn Spain." down from the ceiling to the lights, 
His lecture, which was sponsored on each of which will be strung a 
by the Current History Forum and huge red heart. Tables will form a 
the Lecture Association, was concerned "U". Officers of the class are to sit at 
not only with graphic illustrations of the closed end, facing the orchestra 
the present situation in Spain, but also which is to play during dinner. 
with comments on the political and The escorts invited are: Messrs. 
social aspects of the war, which served Charles Montgomery, John Davis, 

to clarify the varied reports and to Jack Tolbert, William Henry Gallo¬ 
define more accurately the issues in¬ way, Kearsley Seldon, Durward Rob¬ 
George Frank Eskridge,

volved. Professor Seris, as a result of erts, Smith, 

Gene Miller, Ted Perry, Bill Carlson,

his observations before his escape from 

Holman Smith, Wellington McCon-

Madrid, is convinced of a Loyalist vic¬ 

nell, Paul Castleberry, Heywood Hill, 

tory. Ben Stuckey, Lewis Harrison, George 
Jennings, Harold Wager, William 
Shelton, Charles Fulton, Martin Spear,

Phi Beta Kappa 

Jack Boyd, Charles Smart, Robert 
Coit, Harris Chewning, Ed Horne,

Elects Officers 

John Howard, Ralph Durham, Jimmy 
Gibbs, John Barwick, Archie Means,

The Atlanta Phi Beta Kappa Alum¬ 

Lowry Davis, Bill Howard, Mac 

nae Association met in Atlanta Tues¬ 

Blumberg, Joel Lawler, James Davis,

day, Februarv 2, to elect officers for 

Bud Lindsey, Tommy Barringer, Owen

the following year and to discuss the 

Tippin, P. T. Bynum, Jim Ward, Ed

Tri-annual Council which will meet 

Elliot, John O'Dell, Oliver Anderson,

in Atlanta in September. Officers 

Fred Allen, Phillips Bryan, Gene Tar-

elected were: Dr. M. L. Brittain, presi¬ 

ben, Leland Jackson, Ben Rose, Clif¬

dent of the Georgia School of Tech¬ 

ton White, Emmett Barlow, Cemp

nology, president; Robert S. Forman, 

Garrison, Bob Pendley, Ray Behm,

vice-president; Mrs. Augusta Skeen 

Julian Way, Henry Earthman, Car¬

Cooper, formerly connected with the 

lisle Robertson, Joe Boyd, Lephon Mc


chemistry department of Agnes Scott, 

Nair, Wiley McGinty.

secretary. Also, the association elected 
a council which included: President 

J. R. McCain, Judge R. B. Russell of Famous Cartoonists 
the Supreme Court of Georgia, and 
Demonstrate Comic Art

Mr. Ross McClarty. 

Cartoons of Blondie, Dagwood, and

Alumnae Entertain 
Flash Gordon constituted the main

High School Guests 

part of the chapel program given Fri¬ 
day, February 5, by Mr. Chic Young

The second of a series of parties 
given annually for Atlanta high school and Mr. Alex Raymond, famed car¬ 
seniors will take place Friday, Febru¬ toonists, who were visiting Atlanta 
ary 12, at 4:30, with guests from along with many other well known 
North Avenue Presbyterian School, 

in celebration of the silver anniversary

Washington Seminary, Druid Hills, 

of the Atlanta Georgian.

North Fulton, and Sacred Heart 

Mr. Joel Harris, of the Atlanta

School. Entertainment for the after¬ 
noon will include swimming and bad¬ Georgian, who introduced the visiting 
minton in the gymnasium, dancing in cartoonists, explained that Mr. 
the Murphey Candler building, and a 

Young's and Mr. Raymond's particu¬

play presented by the Blackfriars. 

lar contributions to the comic section

Dinner in Rebekah Scott and after-

are sent to countries all over the world

dinner coffee will follow. 

and are translated into thirty-two dif¬

Miss Alberta Palmour, who as 

ferent languages.

Alumnae Field Secretary is in charge 
of these parties, and Agnes Scott stu¬ They left directly after chapel for 
dents from the high schools represent¬ the Georgia School of Technology to 
ed will act as hostesses. 

the Georgia School of Technology. 

Emory Institute of Citizenship 

Presents Prominent Lecturers 

I Featuring a four-day series of standing in the social sciences. 
round-table discussions and lectures, Prominent speakers of Monday and 
the Emory Institute of Citizenship is Tuesday included: Dr. Edwin S. Corholding 
its tenth annual session Feb¬ win, of Princeton University, who 
ruary 8-12 on the Emory campus. Dr. spoke on "The Problem of the Su¬ 
Harvey W. Cox, president of the Uni¬ preme Court"; Dr. Thomas H. Reed, 
versity, is chairman of the institute. of New York, who spoke on "The Im¬ 

Held for the purpose of training in provement of County Government" 
civic affairs and of studying various and the "Reorganization of Local Gov¬ 
phases of good citizenship, the insti¬ ernment"; and Mr. Murray Seasontute 
offers a program which features good, of Cincinnati, who discussed 
statesmen and scholars who are out¬ "Responsible City Government." 


THE AGONISTIC 

©l)e Agonistic 

PUBLISHED WEEKLY * 

Owned and published by the students of Agnes Scott 
College. 

Entered as Second Class Matter at Decatur, Georgia. 

Subscription price, $1.25 per year in advance. 
Single copies, 5 c. 
I9J6 Member 1937 
Plssocioted Collegiate Press 

STAFF 
Carol Hale Joyce Roper 
Editor-in-Chief Business Manager 

Mary Anne Kernan Frances Robinson 

Advertising Manager

Assistant Editor 
Martha Peek Brown

Jane Turner 

Ellen Little

Make-up Editor 

Business Assistants 
Frances Lee 

Mary Lib Morrow

Assistant Make-up Editor 

Frances Belford 
Nell Hemphill

Nell Allison 

Frances Castleberry

Feature Editor 

Circulation ManagersJean Chalmers 

Hibernia Hassell

News Editor 

Book Editor 
Giddy Erwin 

Winifred Kellersberger

Exchange Editor 

Current History 
Nell Hemphill Anne Thompson 
Alumnae Editor Sports Editor 

Reporters: Mary Lillian Fairly, Eliza King, Prim¬ 
rose Noble, Alice Reins, Elizabeth Warden, Vir¬ 
ginia Watson. 

Youth Congress Supports 

Passage of A. Y. A. 

The American Youth Act is now more than 

ever before in the public eye because of the prox¬ 

imity of the American Youth Congress. Yet 

with all its immediate significance and direct in¬ 

terest to young people, there are a number of 

our student body who have not the slightest ac¬ 

quaintance with the proposed bill. 

The act itself has as its objective "to provide 
vocational training and employment for youth 
between the ages of sixteen and twenty-five; to 
provide for full educational opportunities for 
high school, college, and post-graduate students." 
These aims are much in line with the purpose of 
the present N. Y. A.; the proposed act, however, 
is a substantial improvement over the N. Y. A. 
in its broadening of benefits and policies. 
The Congress convening in Washington Feb¬ 
ruary 19-21 represents the mechanical organiza¬ 
tion for achieving the speedy passage of the act. 
The concerted effort of the Congress will be a 
march to the White House to present to Presi¬ 
dent Roosevelt a petition signed by over a million 
young Americans requesting the adoption of the 
act. 
No matter what one's first opinion about the 
American Youth Congress may be, he cannot 
deny the fact that it is an articulate expression 
of the youth of America, those in school, busi¬ 
ness, and labor. The eagerness and determina¬ 
tion of American youth united in a common 
cause of urgent need cannot fail to accomplish 
what to some may seem startling results. Per¬ 
haps it is a good sign that in 1937 instead of 
having a march of farmers, relief workers, or 
bonus-seekers, we have the march of American 
youth asking for a fair chance for education, 
employment, and the development of their abili¬ 
ties. 

Regular Quarter System 

Is Students' Objeet 

Four months of experimenting with the new 

quarter system have given us ample time to real¬ 

ize some of its advantages and disadvantages as 

compared with the semester system which it has 

supplanted. Since it was evident last year that 

the student body was in favor of the introduc¬ 

tion of this new system, it is of value to analyze 

the reasons for the dissatisfaction which appears 

to be the keynote of student opinion in regard 

to the present plan. 

The transitional character of this half quarter-

half semester system seems to be the main ob¬ 

jection to the plan. The four-hour classes of the 

quarter courses necessitate more work in one 

quarter than was originally required in one sem¬ 

ester—and yet, we receive only two-thirds the 

number of credit hours for the course. Another 

result of this mixture of two systems is the in¬ 

ability to escape afternoon classes and the diffi¬ 

culty of finding time for preparing for an early 

recitation the following day. 

The ideal plan is not to return to the former 

semester system, but is to adopt as soon as it is 

practical the regular system, with three classes 

five times a week. 

ROAMING 
ALUMNAE 

A little woman with white hair, Agnes Scott's newest alumnae, the 
blue eyes, and an English accent, Miss class of '36, are evidently not content 
to stay home, for their wanderlust has

Amy Chadwick, spoke last Saturday 

carried them to all points of the earth.

to the race relations class about her 

Marie Wagner is living in Manila,

work here in Atlanta in a negro or¬ 

Philippine Islands, while her class¬ 
phanage. Her interest in negro girls mate, Loice Richards, is in New York 
began long ago back in England when City studying at the Katherine Gibbs 
j she saw pictures of "pickaninnies" in Business School. Coming farther 

south, we find Catherine Bates direct¬

: the cotton fields, which farmers had 

ing young peoples' work at the First

j sent to her father, who was a cotton 

Presbyterian Church in Norfolk, Vir¬ 
buyer. She told her father then that ginia, and Elizabeth Burson teaching 

she was coming to America, and that school at Duluth, Georgia. 
I she was coming on her own money. Augusta, Georgia, claims several 
! She did. members of the class. Libby Baethke 

j After attending an American mis¬ is living there with Eugenia Symms 
sion school, Miss Chadwick visited and is taking a technician's course. 
! Spelman College. She was impressed Harriet Reed made her formal debut 
j with the school, but her most vivid to Augusta society at a tea dance 
I impression was of three old army bar-given during the Christmas holidays 
j racks converted into an orphanage at the country club. 
just across from Spelman. There were Louisa Robert, ex-'3 6, has had two 

seven girls in the orphanage who were triumphs recently in addition to her 
about to be turned out, for it was swimming laurels. At the Atlanta 
about to close because of lack of Junior League Follies, in which she 

funds. had a leading role, Louisa was chosen 
Miss Chadwick could not resist the 

"The Perfect American Girl." And 

temptation; she decided to take over she leaves soon for New York, where 
the orphanage herself. Her blue eyes she will have further try-outs for a 
twinkled as she said, "The first thing role in the cinema production of 

I did was to make a beautiful set of 

"Gone With the Wind." 
rules which I tacked up on the wall Other alumnae have been occupied 

with plans for their weddings. Vir¬

and immediately broke." 

ginia Merry, ex-'3 5, announced her

Speaking of each one by name, she 
told of those of "her family" who engagement last week to Robert Har¬ 
have now grown up. One is now a rison Jones III of Atlanta. Margaret 
doctor, one a dietitian in Raleigh, Alston, ex-'37, was married to Paul 
North Carolina. Gertrude, who was 

Refoulte, of Orleans and Paris, France, 
her first little orphan, is now married on January 19. 
to a doctor in New York City. Miss On campus this week-end were 
Chadwick gave her away in the mar¬ some former Agnes Scotters: Betty 
riage ceremony. Little Miriam was also Lee Anderson, ex-'3 8, who is studying 
a very interesting little personage. She in the Vanderbilt School of Nursing; 
made her apperance on the doorstep of Kitty Hoffman, ex-'3 8, who is work¬ 
the orphanage wrapped up in an old ing in Mount Holly, N. C.; Alice 
copy of the Atlanta Journal. Later she Chamlee, who is working for her 
became an excellent pianist. father at Canton, Georgia; and Mar¬ 
Miss Chadwick's orphanage is closed garet Wright, ex-'3 8, who is studying 
now, but her interest in not only her at the University of Chattanooga. 
own girls but also in all negro children 
has never lessened. In spite of her 

The faculty and student body of 

smallness of stature, her heart is large 

Agnes Scott College wish to express

enough to love many more children 

their sincere sympathy to Miss Car¬ 

than the average mother, for she said 

rie Scandrett in the recent death of 

that she always had a "family" of 

her mother.

fifty or sixty. 

Two Volumes of Poetry Appear 

After Deaths of Famous Poets 

Honsman, A. E., More Poems, Al¬ Unpublished Poems of Emily Dick¬ 
fred A. Knopf, New York, 1936, inson, Little, Brown & Co., 193 6. 
$2.00. It is only very lately that Unpub¬ 
lished Poems of Emily Dickinson have

Poems with the subtle and delicate 

been published, and only then because

beauty of A Shropshire Lad and the 

the posthumous fame of the poet

poignant pessimism and the sombre 

made necessary the exhaustive exami¬ 
tone of Last Poems, are those in A. E. nation of the Dickinson family pa¬ 

Housman's recently published More pers. These poems were not written 

Poems. There is a novel and unexpect¬ for publication. They are spontaneous 
expressions of the feelings of an indi¬

ed pleasure in finding these poems is¬ 

vidual. And yet, with all their depth

sued after the author's death. We are 

of beauty, they are simple and straight¬
grateful to Laurence Housman for his forward. 
fine selection from his brother's un¬ Out of this group of a hundred and 
published work and for his sympa¬ forty-nine poems one can find some¬ 
thetic editing of this volume. thing to suit every mood. There are 
All of his poems are short lyrics, gav, bright, and charming little bits— 
many of which leave an impression so such as the one about the flower that 
infinitely satisfying that one is fool¬ grew tired of her incessant visitor and 
ish to try to write about them. They told the bee that she was not at home. 
have what Christopher Morley calls There are tender poems of love, ex¬ 
"the unmistakable look and feel of pressed with a haunting beauty. There 
classics." Such fragile bits of poetic are quiet, yet not sad, reflections on 
expression make one feel that Hous¬ death. And running through most 
man approaches very closely a perfect of the poems there is a note of child¬ 
union of thought and form. The last like faith in God, which finds more 
poem, the forty-eighth, has those qual-definite form in the last few lines of 
I ities which we inevitably associate with the collection. 
Housman's art: It seems that Emily Dickinson must 
have been thinking of these last, un¬ 
published poems when she wrote:

"Good-night, ensured release. 

Imperishable peace, 

"I shall keep singing! Birds will pass

Have these for yours meWhile sky and sea and land 

On their way to yellower climes;

And earth's foundations stand 

Each with a robin's expectation,— 

And heaven endures. 

I with my red breast and my rhymes. 

When earth's foundations flee Late—when I take my place in sum¬ 
Nor sky nor land nor sea mer, 

At all is found; But I shall sing a fuller tune; 
Content you let them burn. Vespers are sweeter than Matins, Sig¬ 
It is not your concern: ner,— 

Sleep on, sleep sound." Morning, only the seed of noon." 

Strong Labor Forces Reach 

New Levels, Demanding 

Bargaining Rights 

"Disastrous Floods in the Labor World"—so 

might newspaper headlines read, now that the 

attention of the public is centered on the General 

Motors strike. Just as the wild Ohio-Mississippi 

continues to rise and destroy the banks from 

which the farmers draw their living, so the labor 

forces of the United States seem, to the capital¬ 

ists, to be rising to a record-breaking height in 

their demand for bargaining rights. 

There are several reasons why the laboring 
class has been able to reach this new high-water 
mark. One is the recent election, which has 
proved that a presidency may rest upon the la¬ 
boring vote. Another is Roosevelt's campaign 
program, which quite frankly promised the sup¬ 
port of the administration in bettering the work¬ 
man's position in United States industry. Still a 
third is the series of steps taken by the govern¬ 
ment to better the status of laborer. 

There is no "perhaps" to the power of leader¬ 
ship displayed in the ex-college athlete and Bap¬ 
tist preacher, Homer Martin. If he is typical of 
the leadership which labor is beginning to find, 
it is almost certain that it will not be long until 
American labor, just as English labor, shall have 
some settled organization for determining poli¬ 
cies and settling just such crisis as these. Under 
the direction of such men, labor seems in a fair 
way to attain the aim of the strike: the settling 
of the unemployment problem. The thirty-hour 
week is one of the strong points in their program 
to realize this purpose. 

Many are claiming that the strike is a labor 
versus labor struggle; for the union is only a 
small minority of all General Motors workmen, 
and the so-called anti-unionist demonstrations 
have been many. But listen to the high-pitched 
voice of a young woman, the wife of a striker, 
as she speaks from the sound-truck used in giv¬ 
ing instructions to the Unionists during the re¬ 
cent fight in Flint, Michigan: "Stop shooting at 
the workers!" she shouted to the police, "They're 
members of your own class!" This does not sug¬ 
gest a struggle among laborers, but rather among 
classes. 

In spite of the fact that it is still undetermined 
what will be the outcome of the conferences— 
which Lewis; George Murphey, of Michigan; 
Green, of the American Federation of Labor; 
and Sloan, president of General Motors, have at 
last been persuaded to attend—we feel that the 
same principle which must work in the preserva¬ 
tion of the soil and control of future floods must 
be brought to bear upon the plans for directing 
and benefitting American labor. In what other 
way can the rights of creative workmanship and 
at least an average standard of living be guar¬ 
anteed to the American laborer? 

Dancers' Devotion 

"When Maria Tagioni, a ballet dancer, left 
Russia for the last time, her belongings were sold 
at auction. Her ballet slippers were purchased 
for 200 rubles. These shoes were then cooked, 
served with special sauce, and eaten at a dinner 
arranged by ballet enthusiasts."—Reader's Di¬ 
gest. 
Educational Experiment 

"Cows attending West Virginia University 
were fed two quarts of tomato juice daily to in¬ 
crease the vitamin C content of their milk. The 
experiment was a dazzling success, except for 
the trifling fact that the milk was unfit to 
drink."—College Humor. 
Soul-Mates Forever 

"Many African tribes believe that a person has 
two souls, one within himself and one within 
some animal, and whatever injures or kills one 
will have a corresponding effect upon the other. 
Not long ago in Virginia an Englishman was 
fined $25 for causing the death, it was claimed, 
of a very fat woman. A few days before she 
died, he had shot her soul-mate—a hippopotamus 
—in the vicinity of the village."—Collier's. 
Startling Statements 

"There are two insults which no human will 
endure; the assertion that he hasn't a sense of 
humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion 
that he has never known trouble" (Sinclair 
Lewis)—"If a woman has been loved, hated, and 
envied, her life was worth living" (Akiko Yanogiuara, 
one of the most talked-of women in pres¬ 
ent-day Japan)—"It is wonderful how much 
news there is when people write every other day; 
if they wait for a month, there is nothing that 
seems worth telling" — "Over 100,000 people 
were injured or killed in bath tubs in the United 
States last year" (Tropolitan). 


THE AGONISTIC 

Boarders Receive Messages 

From Homes in Flood Region 

Relatives in Kentucky Tell of Situation in Flooded Cities; 
Families Unharmed, Suffering Great Privation; 
Relate Odd Experiences 

Although the flood has taken a terrible toll in death and dis¬ 
aster, families and friends of Agnes Scott girls have been singu¬ 
larly fortunate in escaping its worst phases. Now that tension 
has slackened somewhat, they are able to write almost cheerfully 
about the strange things that have happened to them in the past 

weeks. 

"The most striking thing about the 
entire flood scene," writes Jane Guthrie's 
mother, "is the deadly silence. 
Louisville is now a city of utter quiet 
—with no radios, no street cars, and 
few automobiles. The gentle lapping 
of oars seems to have replaced the jolt¬ 
ing, jangling traffic of a month ago." 

Another odd thing is the way in 
which ordinary places of business 
have suddenly been transferred into 
emergency relief units. Mary Frances 
and Jane Guthrie tell interesting tales 
about their father's church in Louis¬ 
ville, which is being used as living 
quarters for many stricken families. 
The people sleep in pews and cat food 
cooked in the church kitchen by vol¬ 
unteers. Every night Reverend Guth¬ 
rie conducts a community "sing," 
during which the refugees are able to 
forget their sufferings and join in 
heartily. 

Paducah Conditions Bad 

In Paducah, Mary Macquot says 
that beauty parlors, filling stations, 
restaurants, and school houses have all 
been made into relief wards. Mary re¬ 
ports that in one exclusive, elite roadhouse, 
refugees are huddled around 
stoves or on improvised cots where the 
orchestra customarily performs, while 
former dancers and society girls— 
whose intentions are better than their 
cooking—serve them soup and coffee. 

An interesting thing happened in 
connection with a Paducah school 
house which is now being used as a 
hospital. It seems that two young 
boys—friends of the Macquots—were 
rowing about in search of adventure, 
when they saw a woman leaning from 
an upper-story window, waving her 
arms, and shouting wildly for help. 
As the boys approached, she begged 
them to take her to a hospital imme¬ 
diately; so they bundled her into the 
boat and began violently paddling to¬ 
ward the erstwhile school house. Imag¬ 
ine their surprise (when within six 
blocks of the temporary hospital) to 
hear a low cry in the bottom of the 
boat and, turning around, to discover 
there a tiny addition to the party! 

Gas, Electricity Stopped 

Even in their own homes, the fami¬ 

lies and friends of Agnes Scott have 

undergone unusual experiences. Al¬ 

though they have not been forced— 

as many have—to move up into tents 

pitched on the roof (a house-to-house 

canvas idea, more or less), their cus¬ 

tomarily calm existence has been 

greatly disrupted. Mary Macquot's 

mother writes that she has been sleep¬ 

ing in the attic with the cats, cob¬ 

webs, and heirlooms. Mrs. Guthrie 

writes that she is cooking entirely with 

gas now, since the electricity has been 

cut off; on the other hand Elizabeth 

Galbreath's mother reports that in 

Frankfort the gas supply has been 

stopped, and she has been cooking 

everything—including meats, vegeta¬ 

bles, and breads—by means of a waf¬ 

fle iron, an electric toaster, and a cof¬ 

fee pot! 

However, the prize tale recounted 

by anyone in the flood district is that 

told by Reverend Guthrie about the 

bell-boy in Louisville who caught a 

fish in the lobby of the Brown Hotel. 

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Third Aurora Issue 
To Appear Next Week 

The third edition this year of 
the Aurora will appear next 
week. The editor, Elizabeth 
Espy, has announced that it will 
include a critical paper, several 
short stories, and several poems. 
Among these contributions of 
the student body and the col¬ 
lege magazine will be: a critical 
discussion of "Ghosts" in Shakes¬ 
peare, by Lucille Dennison; a 
short story, "Next Wednesday 
Afternoon," by June Matthews; 
an Ode, by Evelyn Baty; an¬ 
other short story by Hibernia 
Hassell, entitled "Love is Color¬ 
blind." 

There will be a number of 
poems among which will be 
"Pedlar Rejected" by Virginia 
Hill and a "Sonnet" by June 
Matthews. 

Mile. Decharpin Is 

Visitor On Campus 

Mile. Madelaine Decharpin, who 
holds the title of Mile. Paris as the 
winner of the prix de beaute in a na¬ 
tion-wide beauty contest held last year 
in Paris, France, appeared on the cam¬ 
pus under the sponsorship of the Ag¬ 
nes Scott French club in Gaines chapel 
Monday night at 8 o'clock. Friends 
from Atlanta and Decatur were in¬ 

vited by the club to hear Mile. De¬ 
charpin whose only public appearance 
during her visit in Atlanta was at the 
college. 

Mile. Decharpin was chosen official¬ 
ly by the government as a representa¬ 
tive of the feminine charm and beauty 
of the French people. She is a beauti¬ 
ful young girl of striking blond 
coloring. She spoke in French of the 
international exposition to be held in 
France during the summer and fall of 
1937. Mile. Germaine Johnson, who 
as Mile. Decharpin's companion, is ac¬ 
companying her on an extensive tour 
of the United States, gave in English 
a brief outline of the definite plans 
for the French exposition and of the 
arrangements made for tourists. 

Mile. Decharpin's appearance at the 
college was through an arrangement 
with Mile. Madelaine Groleau of the 
Alliance Francaise in Atlanta. 

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Tree -Wheeling .... 
Rumors have reached us about a 
frantic search by a mysterious stalker 
who interrupted an automobile ride in 
a strange vicinity to peer stealthily 
under every bush along the street. 
We've heard Marie was looking for 
her skates, but how did they get 
there in the first place? Anyway, 
we think a skate in the hand is worth 
two in the bush. 

Curious Conundrum .... 

Certain heretofore dignified fresh¬ 
men caused much gasping and lifting 
of eyebrows in the dining hall when 
they rose from the table and in true 
courtly fashion backed gallantly from 
the room. It has been rumored that 
such surprising behavior completes a 
magic sequence which was begun with 
a wish made over a piece of pie—just 
a case of backing from her royal pie-

Tip To Teachers .... 

Dr. McCain: "I do not keep up 
very closely with members of the fac¬ 
ulty." 

The above, which was actually 
overheard by our prying reporter, we 
pass on to our pedagogical peers. 

Loco Flora .... 

We can't say it with flowers; mere 
words must suffice to depict the har¬ 
rowing experiences of the local Flora 
class in their recent odyssey to Stone 
Mountain: Smtenfield reclined half¬ 
way down the mountain, contemplat¬ 
ing the peak from which she had just 
precipitated, and sighed to herself, 
"Without rubber soles man may not 
defy the law of gravity" . . . Mr. Runyan 
had no nickle—the class got hot 
chocolate; he got algae . . . Ann Wor¬ 
thy, whose jodphurs were contributed 
by a very small person, got awfully 
tired of standing up . . . Even the ride 
home was breath-taking; Miss Vardell, 
official chauffeur, could not drive for 
glancing at that brilliant new bauble 
on her third finger. 

Doughnut Donater .... 

Nell Echols is expressing bewildered 
appreciation to the unknown donor of 
the candle-bedecked doughnut which 
she found in her mail box on her birth¬ 
day. Such an original idea takes the 
cake—and so did Nell. 

Famous Class Words .... 

Miss Dexter: "A child at the crawl¬ 
ing age is nothing more than an ani¬ 
mated mop." 

Miss Smith: "Everyone is here who 

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Phone Walnut 6741 

Tattered Brown Math Book 

Reveals Quaint Character 

Great-Granddaughter of Agnes Scott Gives Book to Col¬ 
lege Containing Signature and Poem On Inside 
Cover Dated November 16, 1815 

Among the donations to Agnes Scott College of the late Mrs. 
Cooper, great-granddaughter of Agnes Scott and granddaughter 
of George Washington Scott, is an old arithmetic book. It has a 
torn brown binding which covers musty pages of mathematics, 
but careless scribblings and careful insertions reveal many facts 

Atlanta Alumni Have 
Banquet For Husbands 

It is with interwoven joy and 
sorrow that we report the fact that 
the husbands of our alumnae have 
become so accustomed to hot, tasty 
meals at home that they have re¬ 

belled against the cold dinners 
which must be served if the alum¬ 
nae banquet is to be in the gymna¬ 
sium as originally planned. These 
same husbands have hinted that 
steaming dinners are often served 
in Atlanta; therefore the banquet 
will be held in Atlanta—thus prov¬ 
ing the sovereignty of husbands. 

Following this change of plan, 
the Founders' Day banquet of Feb¬ 
ruary 22 will be in Rebekah Scott 
dining room with reservations for 
only the boarders. 

is not otherwise occupied." 

Mr. Christian, speaking of color 
blindness of cats: "If you had a red 
dress and met a cat, he would swear 
it was gray." 

Miss Omwake: "Does anyone in 
here have access to a Fortune?" 

Miss Dexter: "The policeman, 
theoretically, is not a friend of the 
criminal." 

Mr. Stukes: "Some of us were just 
born ugly. We can't do anything 
about that. But just remember that 
everybody looks good to somebody." 

Miss Hale: "The reason most people 
wear glasses is to improve their vi¬ 
sion." 

Mr. Raper: "I may be wrong but I 
know I'm not." "They don and pass 
laws to keep mules from talking." 

Taylor's Prescription Shop 
Cor. Peachtree and Cain Street 
Phone Walnut 2897 
Atlanta 

otherwise unknown about its owner. 

While Napoleon rocked the world 
with the endless horror of war, little 
Agnes Irwin sat in a school house in 
Ireland and smilingly contemplated 
the inside cover of her arithmetic book 
which she had decorated more careful¬ 
ly than correctly: 

"Do not steal the book for fear of 

shame 

For under lies tlx owner's name. 

The first is A, a letter Bright 

The next is R in all men's Sight; 

And if her name you chance to miss 

Look underneath and then it is 

Agnes Irwin, Nov. 16th, 1815." 

Or perhaps she blushed to read the 
words with which the boy beside her 
had boldly defied a mathematical 
problem: 

"Anna, my dearest dear." 

It is evident that Agnes Irwin must 
have thought at times about her next 
class recitation, for a half-finished 
sentence on the title page of her arith¬ 
metic book states that something is 
"adapted to commerce of Ireland as 
well as of Great Britain." 

Such inscriptions depict a person 
quite different from the awe-inspiring 
portrait of Agnes Irwin Scott before 
which the freshmen of Agnes Scott 
Institute used to kneel. Would it 
seem queer to suggest that if one 
should study carefully a certain por¬ 
trait in Main building, she would 
probably see something new in the ex¬ 
pression of the face—the key to which 
lies in an old arithmetic book? 

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THE AGONISTIC 

Juniors Lead Basketball Competition Pi Alpha Phi Announces Election

Principals in Plav 
After Defeat of Senior Class Team Of Fourteen New Members to Club 

Freshmen Win Game from Soph¬ 
omores By Close Scoring of 
36-35; Competition Close 

By defeating the seniors 24 to 20 

last Friday night the junior basketball 

team took the lead in the inter-class 

competition. The juniors stayed sev¬ 

eral points ahead all through the game, 

but they had to work hard to keep 

that margin because the senior guards 

were fighting hard and Mary Kneale 

was putting the ball in the goal. 

The freshman-sophomore game was 
closer and more exciting than the 
other, the sophomores winning 3 6 to 

3 5. Meg Garner and Libba Williams 
in the first half did some beautiful 
passing and shooting for the sopho¬ 
mores to pile up the score so that in 
spite of the comeback the freshman 
made in the second half, led by Jean 
Williams' shooting, the sophomores 
kept one point ahead to the end of the 
game. The sophomores were handi¬ 
capped by having no substitutes. 
All the teams seemed a little wild 
Friday night. The forward's shots 
would not go in, and everybody was 
fumbling. There was an unusual num¬ 
ber of personal and technical fouls 
caught by the referees, who were try¬ 
ing to cut down on the roughness 
that resulted from the excitement and 
determination of the players. 

Line-ups were: 
Sophomore (36) Freshman (3 5) 
Garner (16) RF Foreman 
MacGuire (4) L.F Slack 
Williams (16) _C.F. _ Williams (24) 
Steele R.G Moses 
Cheeseman L.G Reins 
Cuddy C.G Montgomery 

Substitutes—Freshman: Milner (7), 
Carson (2), Ware. 
Junior (24) Senior (20) 
Noble (10) R.F Gary (7) 
Blackshear (12) L.F McCain (1) 
Thompson (2) _C.F McDonald 
Merrill R.G Stalker 
King L.G Thing 

Robinson C.G Kneale (12) 

Substitutes—Junior: Chalmers, Kel¬ 
ly. Senior: Kneale and McDonald ex¬ 
changed, Lasseter. 

Referee and umpire: Miss Wilburn 
and Miss Mitchell; Scorer, Lulu 
Ames; Timekeepers: Mutt Fite and 
Mary Johnson. 

Badminton 

Badminton is arousing more and 
more interest on the Agnes Scott cam¬ 
pus. To add to the set which was 
bought last spring the athletic associa¬ 
tion has gotten four new racquets and 
some new birds. Now two games of 
doubles can go on at one time. 

The members of Miss Mitchell's 
class in recreational games Monday, 
Wednesday, and Friday, 1:30 to 2:30, 

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T 
Dr. MacEachern 

Talks in Chapel 

Dr. Malcolm T. MacEachern, of 
the American College of Surgeons, 
spoke in chapel Wednesday, February 
3, on the subject, "Health and Your 
Future." He began his speech with a 
discussion of the great advance of 
medicine in recent years. After com¬ 
mending highly the health program 
which Agnes Scott maintains, he stat¬ 
ed that "organized medicine" is large¬ 
ly responsible for this program. 

The seven real "public enemies," 
according to Dr. MacEachern, are: 
heart disease, cancer, kidney disease, 

accidents, pneumonia, arterial disease, 
and tuberculosis. He explained each 
one of these diseases and stressed the 
care which should be taken to avoid 
them, especially in after-school life. 

Kitty Printup and John Tillman

Dr. MacEachern is one of the sev¬ 
eral surgeons who are lecturing at 
various colleges on these particular dis¬ BLACKFRIARS PRESENT 
eases. The purpose of their plan is to DRAMA BY P. BARRIE 
present to students all over the coun¬ (Continued from Page 1) 

try the necessity of protective meas¬ Barry, the author, is a popular modern 
ures against illness after they have 

playwright who is well able to write

finished school. 

such a play because of his own ex¬ 
periences of college life gained at Yale

Freshmen Win At Mardi Gras 

and Harvard Universities.

In Colorful Coeoanut Grove 
(Continued from Page 1) 

Hill, Hamilton Head

consisted of impersonations of screen 
and radio characters. Betty Boop, Sophomore Agonistic 
Zasu Pitts, Greta Garbo, a Japanese 
movie producer, Fred Astaire, Ginger 

The sophomore class last Saturday,

Rogers, Grace Moore, Martha Raye, 

February 6, elected Virginia Hill edi¬ 

the Boswell sisters, and even Bob 

tor and Jane Moore Hamilton business 
Burns' cousins from Arkansas were manager of the sophomore Agonistic.

imitated on the program. 

Virginia has selected Douglas Lyle and 

The Arkansas cousins also got first Julia Sewell to be her assistant editors. 
place for the most original costumes, During her senior year in high school, 
and Fouch Brinton's costume of a Virginia was editor of the Girls' High 
colonial lady was judged the prettiest. Times, publication of the Girls' High 
Costumes were judged while the School in Atlanta. 
guests danced and during the Grand 
March, which was led by the king and 
queen and the court. Expert Radio Service 

stay to play badminton until they 

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are run out of the gym by the dancing 

155 Sycamore Street

class which follows them. To give the 
enthusiasts a chance to show their De. 1761 A. A. Sterk, Mgr. 
skill Miss Mitchell is planning to start 
a badminton tournament very soon. 

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Dr. G. P. Hayes and Officers Se¬

Club Presents 

lect Debaters After Tryouts 
Tl Bruit Court' In Chapel on Feb. 4 

"Life in Brittany" will be the theme 
of the program which members of the 
French club will present at their reg¬ 
ular monthly meeting this afternoon 
at 4:3 0 in the Murphey Candler 
building. The varied program will 
feature a short play, a moving picture, 
a peasant dance, and folk songs. 

Those taking part in the dance are: 
Jean Kirkpatrick, Mary Ruth Mur¬ 
phey, Primrose Noble, Jacqueline Mc-
White, Nell Allison, Mary Johnson, 
Mary McCann Hudson, and Henrietta 
Blackwell. 

The play, a short comedy entitled 
II Bruit Court, will conclude the pro¬ 
gram. The scene is laid in a -small 
Breton village, and the cast includes: 
The mayor, Jean Chalmers; the con¬ 
cierge, Ellen Little; the milk-woman, 

Mary McCann Hudson; the postman, 
Jacqueline McWhite; the town-crier, 
Sarah Johnson; and the municipal 
council, Primrose Noble, Martha Alice 
Green, Mary Ruth Murphey, Tommie 
Ruth Blackmon, Josephine Bertoli, 
and Jean Kirkpatrick. 

Charm Expert Emphasizes 

Personality Culture in College 

(Continued from Page 1) 
sonality. She adapts her suggestions 
to meet the needs of each separate 
group. "I speak first of physical 
poise," she says, "and then of mental." 

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Pi Alpha Phi elected fourteen new 
members at the tryouts held Thurs¬ 
day, February 4, in the Gaines chapel. 
The new debaters are: Susie Blackwell, 
Eugenia Bridges, Betty Boorstein, Lelia 
Carson, Ernestine Cass, Mary Winston 
Crockett, Mary Louise Dobbs, Nell 
Echols, Margaret Hopkins, Eloise 
Leonard, Virginia Milner, Kathryn 
Patton, Mary Reins, and Evelyn 

Weinkle. 
Those trying out debated on the fol¬ 
lowing subjects: the yielding of Gen¬ 
eral Motors to the striking workers; 
the quarter system versus the semester 
system; and the abolishment of the 
compulsory R. O. T. C. The debat¬ 
ing council and Dr. G. P. Hayes act¬ 
ed as judges. 
Announcement has been made also 
of the arrangement to send a team to 
Macon, Ga., some time in March. 

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"Spring 
al)c ^V^onisfic May Day

Dance" 

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1937 NO. 14

VOL. XXII 

MAID-OF-HONOR

TOASTMISTRESS 

Form Week Wilson Wins

Student Body 

To Follow Up Second Place

Votes to Try 

Charm Week 

In May Court

Revised Diet 

Mimeographed Sheets of Hints, 

Runner-up Accompanies Queen

Miss Osborne, Dr. Sweet Favor Fashion Show, and Skits 

At Festival of "Comus" 

Less Meat and Starch in Stress Charm 

On May Day

New Menu 
Gallic Careless Makes Visit 

Malone and Steele in Court 

Diet Provides 2500 Calories 
As a follow-up of Miss Elizabeth 

Phi Beta Kappa and Glee Club 

Overweight Students May Use Osborne's series of talks and confer¬ 

Show Maid of Honor's 

Basic Diet Containing ences on personal charm which came 

Wide Activities

1200 Calories to a close last Friday, February 11, the 
Agnes Scott Chapter of Mortar Board 

Frances Wilson, one of the three 

In response to recommendations by is conducting a "Good Form Week" 

runners-up for the position of May

Miss Elizabeth Osborne, personality ex¬ during February 16-20. During these 

Queen, will be maid of honor to the

pert, and to the unanimous vote of five days, programs and other activithe 
student body in chapel Friday, the ies are placing a special emphasis on queen, Lucile Dennison, at the per¬ 
food committee is planning striking appearance and campus etiquette and formance of Milton's Comus, which 
dietary changes for the entire college conduct. 

will take place on May 7. The two

Isabel McCain who, in the role of Frances Wilson who received the

community. The new food program, Mimeographed sheets with "hints to

George Washington, will preside at remaining candidates of the four chos¬

supervised by Dr. Mary F. Sweet, will the wise and otherwise" on a great distinction of maid-of-honor to attend

the annual Founders' Day banquet on en in the student nominations from

go into effect as soon as possible for many subjects were distributed among the queen, Lucile Dennison, at Agnes

February 22. 

a trial period of one week, after which the students on Tuesday to call atten-Scott's May Day this year. January 28 to February 1: Mary Ma¬ 
it will continue if approved by the .ion to various points of behavior. lone and Frances Steele, will act as

Industrial Girls

students and the committee. Miss Christie Gives Talk 

Juniors Celebrate members of the May Court. The May 
Caloric Value Adequate This morning, as a part of the Day will announce the

To be Y. W. Guests Committee

chapel program, Miss Annie May At Annual Banquet

The diet to be followed is not a re¬ complete list of the court, after a

Christie, of the English Department,

ducing diet, for it will provide from 

At a supper meeting Monday, March continued and completed her talk of meeting held Tuesday, February 16,

2 5 00 to 3000 calories daily, the nor¬ The annual banquet at which Mor¬

1, the industrial group of the Young the past school year on "Callie Care¬ at which the votes will be counted 

mal amount. The program will omit 

tar Board entertained in honor of the for the ten remaining members.

less." Another feature of the "Good

most heavy foods, starches, all hot Women's Christian Association, head¬ 

Form" program is the fashion show to junior class and their dates took place Artist's "Tops in Charm"

breads, and some meat, particularly ed by Martha Fong, will act as host¬ 

be given tonight during after-dinner in Rebekah Scott dining hall on Sat¬

pork. The diet is based upon the Hol¬ esses to the representatives of the At¬ Frances, whose home is Washington,

coffee in the Murphy Candler Build-urday night, February 13. After the

lywood diet for physical fitness, but lanta Y. W. C. A. ; dinner guests the 
D. C, is distinguished for her versa¬ 

ng. Mortar Board will continue the the proceeded to

with a great deal added, because the tility. Last year, McClelland Barclay

The joint meeting of the girls' in¬ drive with skits on two other chapel Bucher Scott gymnasium where Black¬

Hollywood diet provides only 1100-chose her as one of the eight most

dustrial clubs will take place in the programs during this week. friars presented Philip Barry's play,

1200 calories per day. It is Dr. Sweet's beautiful girls at Agnes Scott, saying

Murphey Candler Building, and will "Spring Dance."

plan to post this diet for the benefit supper and a 
The plans for this campaign have of her, "She is my love—of all the

consist of a social hour 

was

of those who particularly wish to lose been borrowed from the Mortar Board The dining hall of Rebekah girls, I would like to know her most. 
weight, whereas others should eat the 
followed by a period of general dis¬ Chapters of Pennsylvania State Col-decorated in the Valentine motif, fea¬ She is top in charm and personality to

cussion. The industrial girls from the turing red and white table decorations

entire college menu. ege and Pomona University, where me." Frances is one of the six newly

Atlanta association have visited the 

they have been carried out with suc¬ with red crepe paper ladies holding elected members of Phi Beta Kappa,Basic Menu Announced campus coming during the fall, as cess in similar campaigns. the place cards. The tables were ar¬ having made the honor roll through¬

The basic plans for the daily food guests of the Agnes Scott industrial ranged to form a "U". Officers of 

out her career at Agnes Scott, and is 

program are as follows, although these group, for a tea and social hour. Mem¬ the class, Eliza King, president; Jane 

program chairman on the Y. W. C. A.

Emory Sponsors

may vary or be increased. bers of the college group make weekly Turner, vice-president; and Mildred 

cabinet.

visits to the Y. W. C. A. building, 

Davis, secretary, sat at the closed end

Breakfast Peace Campaign 

Outstanding for Activities

meeting every Monday night with the 

of the "U", while at the other end was

Fruit juice or tomato juice 

Atlanta organization. By Mass Meeting Bill Manley's orchestra. She has taken part in class activi¬ 

Eggs (not fried) 

ties, being particularly outstanding in

Members of Mortar Board served

Toast 

the stunts. In the Freshman stunt,

A. S. Students To Hear As a part of the Emergency Peace coffee after dinner. Those in the re¬
Coffee or milk 

a parody of the story of Cinderella, she

Funch Campaign, Emory University will ceiving line were Fannie B. Harris,

Mrs. Latady About Jobs was Sophia, the step-sister, and in the

sponsor on Friday, February 26, a joint president of Mortar Board; Miss Nan-

Fruit salad or vegetable salad 

sophomore stunt, Revere the Soph, she

meeting of college students, a banquet, nette Hopkins, Dr. J. R. McCain,

Baked potatoes 

played the part of "Why", the house

On Tuesday, February 23, Mrs. La¬ and a mass meeting at Wesley Me¬ Eliza King, Miss Harriette Haynes

Fight bread with preserves 

president. Her musical tendencies are

tady, who is the employment mana¬ morial Church. The speakers for the and Miss Ellen Douglas Leyburn, fac¬

Milk 

shown by the fact that she is in the

ger at Davison Paxon's department evening will include Sherwood Eddy, ulty advisors of the juniors.

Dinner glee club, and sang in the chorus of

store, will give a talk at the meeting of well-known author of books on foreign 

the light opera, "The Mikado," in her

Meat (chiefly beef, lamb, or the Applied Psychology class. This and domestic situations; Dr. Maude 

Ad Benson, '39, Speaks

chicken) Freshman year, and in the two per¬

meeting will take place at 11:30 Royden, London preacher, and Bishop 

formances of "Pirates of Penzance" in

Potatoes o'clock in Room No. 3 of Buttrick Paul Kern. At Jacksonville School 

her sophomore and junior years.

One or two 3%-5% carbohydrate Hall. All outsiders are invited as well Students of Emory University and 
vegetables (spinach, etc.) as the class itself, and any students Agnes Scott College will assemble at Adelaide Benson returned MondayOne vegetable with higher carbo¬ who are particularly interested in ob¬ 5:00 in the auditorium on the Emory Isabel McCain Leads

morning from a trip to Jacksonville,

hydrate content (beans, peas, etc.) taining jobs, are urged to be present. 

campus for a joint meeting at which Florida, where she represented Agnes Program to Introduce

Fruit, jello, or ice cream Attendance at the lecture, and a meet¬ Mr. Eddy will give the address. Fol¬ Scott at the annual College Day ating with Mrs. Latady may lead to an the there be Future Chapel Speakers

lowing meeting will a the Robert E. Lee High School there. 
Miss Gooch Lectures opening for a position. banquet, reservations for which may College Day is the only day on which 
A talk by Miss Rannells, who is be made at a charge of fifty cents. representatives from various colleges To announce the Y. W. C. A.

At Georgia Association 

the Personnel Manager of Rich's Inc., At 7:30, Dr. Royden, Bishop Kern, may speak at that high school, and as chapel speakers for the coming month 
is planned, and is expected to take and Mr. Eddy will speak at a mass Adelaide graduated from there, she and to introduce the general subject

Of Teachers of Speech 

place on Friday, February 19, at 2:30 meeting at Wesley Memorial Church, was chosen as the Agnes Scott repre¬ of Y. W. C. A. for the rest of the 
In connection with the series of 

o'clock. However, the arrangements in a connection with the purpose of sentative. She made a five minute talk year, "Christ's Challenge to World 
for the talk are not definite as yet, the Emergency Peace Campaign to the activities, sports, organizations, Brotherhood," Isabel McCain con¬

programs held by the Georgia Associa¬ on 

and will be announced later. build up public opinion against war. and college life at Agnes Scott. ducted a worship program in chapel

tion of Teachers of Speech, in Atlanta 

on Tuesday, February 16. This sub¬

February 12 and 13, Miss Frances K. 

College Community to Celebrate Founder's Day ject is a continuation of the one em¬

Gooch lectured at a meeting at Agnes 

phasized during the first of the year:

Scott on Saturday morning. Her sub¬ 

With Annual Features; Broadcast? Banquet, Ball "Christ's Challenge in Personal Liv¬

ject was the value of records in teach¬ 

ing."

ing Spoken English, and she illustrated 

an Atlanta club. cile Dennison, Charline Fleece, Marie Social obligations and privileges of

her talk with records made at Agnes From the radio broadcast to the 

banquet, to the colonial minuet, and Preceding the dinner, the twelfth Stalker, Julia Thing, Kathryn Bowen Christians will be stressed in the fol¬

Scott by Spoken English students. 

Founders' Day broadcast lowing Joe labor,

The Association held a meeting Fri¬ through the formal ball, Agnes Scott annual will Wall, Frances McDonald, and Corne¬ talks: Jacobs on 

be on the air from 6:00 to 6:15 P. M. lia Christie. February 23; Dean Brazil negro

on 
on WSB. Speakers will include Dr. Other famous colonials taking part education Atlanta,

day morning, February 12, at the Ans-students will carry out the traditional 

ley Hotel, at which there were discus¬ celebration of Founders' Day, Febru¬ in March 2; Dr. 

J. R. McCain and Miss Nanette Hop¬
sions, talks, and demonstrations on ary 22, to commemorate the birthday are: Marie Stalker as Paul Revere, Arthur Raper on race relations, 

of George Washington Scott. kins. Alice Hannah as Daniel Boone, Lucile March 16; and Rev. Peter Marshall on

dramatics and on make-up. At a ban¬ 

At the conclusion of the banquet Dennison as LaFayette, Lucile Barnett facing one's life work, March 3 0.

quet given by the Association at the The banquet, previously announced 

Winecoff Hotel on Friday evening, to take place in Bucher Scott gymna¬ the ceremonies will continue in the as Betsy Ross, Nellie Margaret Gilroy In keeping with this Y. W. C. A. 
sium, will instead be served in Re¬ Bucher Scott gymnasium with the as Patrick Henry, and Charline Fleece theme, Earl Brewer, a student at Em¬

Gilbert Maxwell, the honor guest, read 

bekah Scott dining hall. Isabel Mc¬ minuet to be led by Isabel McCain as Lord Cornwallis. ory University, spoke at vespers Sun¬

some of his poetry. 

Cain, as George Washington, will pre¬ and Martha Summers as George and Additional features of the holiday day evening, February 14. His sub¬

To demonstrate the development of Martha Washington. Those dancing program will be after-dinner coffee ject was "Farm Tenantry the

side. During the time of the dinner in

dramatic art at Agnes Scott, Miss 
on the campus, which the boarders the minuet are, ladies: Martha Sum¬ served in the Murphy Candler Build¬ South."
Gooch invited the Association to at¬ 

mers, Lucile Barnette, Rachel Shamos,

and several day students participating ing and a formal ball given by the Vesper programs in the near future

tend the Blackfriars play, "Spring 

in the program will attend, the alum¬ Mary Malone, Frances Steele, Rachel Cotillion Club. This dance will close will feature as leaders Suzy Andrain,
Dance," by Philip Barry, on Saturday 
nae and their husbands will partici¬ Kennedy, Eloisa Alexander, and Mary the schedule of gala events of Found¬ Tami Okamura, Alpha Hulsey, and

evening, February 12, at the college. Lib Morrow; men, Isabel McCain, Lu¬

pate in the festivities by a banquet at ers' Day. Jack McMichael. 


THE AGONISTIC 

cJ)c 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. 
1936 Member 1937 
Pusocided Collegiate Press 

STAFF 
Virginia Hill Flora McGuire 
Editor Sports Editor 
Julia Sevtell 

Mary Eleanor Steele

Douglas Lyle 

Society Editor

Associate Editors 

Mamie Lee Ratliff

Cora Kay Hutchins 

Club Editor

Make-up Editor 

Jane Dryfoos

Alice Cheeseman 

Business Manager

Mary Frances Guthrie 

Feature Editors Jane Carithers 
Jean Bailey Advertising Manager 
Henrietta Blackwell Mary Lib Morrow 

Book Note Editors Frances Belford 
Helen Moses Nell Hemphill 
Elizabeth Furlow Frances Castleberry 

Current History Circulation Managers 

Reporters: Selma Steinbach, Gary Wheeler, Mil¬ 
lie Coit, Jane Moore Hamilton, Jacque Hawks, 
Mary Wells McNeil 

The Luxury of Study 

Contx-ary to youth's desire, imagination's de¬ 
light, and poet's counsel, there is no wisdom in 
burning one's candle at both ends. It is particu¬ 
larly unintelligent of members of a college com¬ 
munity, for we have professed a desire for study 
as the background of our time. We have wished 
for ourselves the opportunity of living four years 
as students, yet in the midst of those four years, 
or at the beginning, or almost at the end, we have 
forgotten the word "student" except, it seems, 
as it precedes the word "activities". It is in ac¬ 
tivities that we have arrogantly lighted both 
ends of our candle. 

We do not dare to advocate a college with no 
extra-curricular activities, though we venture to 
imagine that such an institution would not be at 
all uninteresting. We visualize it as a colony of 
scholars, bound together, not by an infinite num¬ 
ber of constitutions and meetings, but by the 
understanding and respect that exists among 
persons who are intensely interested in some¬ 
thing, who are sure, as it were, of their destiny. 
Such people would not make of their lives little 
mosiacs, gay, but bizarre, and as disillusioning 
as it may be trival. 

We do not advocate such a college; for we re¬ 
cognize the obvious advantages of student 
groups. We believe, instead, that the individual 
must assume the i*esponsibility of limiting her 
activities, must remember that she has the priv¬ 
ilege, with society's approval, of uplifting study, 
mosiacs, gay, but bizax-re, and, as disillusioning 
as it may be, trivial. 

"Sound of Kumiiii<£ Feet" 

We have long recognized the golden quality of 
those splendidly-suspended intervals that com¬ 
pose silence, but we are newly impressed when 
the lack of those intervals creates disturbance. 
There is a calm restfulness about the daily chapel 
exercises that does not disappear even when im¬ 
periled by improper noises, by continued talking 
and moving of books by those attending chapel, 
and by the walking back and forth that reveals 
itself in sounds from the ceiling; but the noises 
annoy those who wish to participate in the chapel 
program. 

Nor are those, who know not how to observe 

quiet, missing from the vesper program, but are 

evident by the sound of rushing about, forgetful 

of the Sunday evening services. 

The projection of one's noisy self is likewise 

unpleasant in personal encounters. The tea house 

is a place for relaxation and refreshment, but 

not for complete abandon. The Murphey Candler 

Building is even more of an escape from routine, 

but an excessive amount of noise is able to inter¬ 

rupt club meetings. 

The most important place, however, which 

noise has invaded, is the library. A building of 

usual quiet, the library accentuates even small 

noises. The whispers that are not those of the 

wind, are disillusioning to those enthralled in 

study. But the most disconcerting of noises are 

the clicks of heels down the length of the library, 

the "sound of running feet." 

Book 

Hoffman, Malvina, Heads and Tales, 

Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 

1936, $5.00. 

"Have proposition to make, do you 

care to consider it? Racial types to 

be modelled while traveling 'round the 

world." That was the matter-of-fact, 

almost curt message which gave Mal¬ 

vina Hoffman an opportunity that 

even Michelangelo might have envied. 

Because she was one of the most out¬ 

standing sculptors in America, she 

was chosen by Field Museum in 1930 

for the thrilling task of making 

bronze statutes of more than one hun¬ 

dred racial types throughout the world 

for the museum's Hall of Man. And 

because she had courage, stamina, vi


"ion, and a spirit of adventure, she 

accepted and made a success of her 

commission. 

Heads and Tales, as its title implies, 

is her supremely interesting account 

of the works of art she has created 

and the fascinating tales of adventure 

that accompanied their production. 

M:ss Hoffman tells of her early years 

as an artist. She describes her years of 

study under Auguste Rodin, and Ivan 

Mestrovic, her friendship with Anna 

Pavlowa and Paderewski, and her 

work in the Balkans under Hoover 

following the war. Her narration of 

the hardships and sickness she under¬ 

went in the carrying out of her work 

is told in the humorous vein of a very 

sane and unassuming American wo¬ 

man rather than as the life story of a 

suffering genius. She has set forth 

very clearly and amusingly the experi¬ 

ences of herself and her husband as 

they made their way into remote cor¬ 

ners of the world with their strange, 

cumbersome, and delicate equipment 

Atlanta to See 

Colleen Moore 

Dream Castle 

Once upon a time, not so very long 

ago, a little Irish girl dreamed of a 

wonderful castle with golden towers 

and silvery fountains and crystal 

chandeliers and countless other exqui¬ 

site qualities. Within the jeweled walls 

of her dream castle there lived a 

prince, a princess, and all their court, 

reveling in the wonders of their fanci¬ 

ful existence. 

In reality, this little girl's fairy pal¬ 

ace was only a crude doll house made 

out of an old cigar box. But when 

she "grew up" and began to earn her 

own money as Colleen Moore, the ac¬ 

tress, she was able to see the fulfill¬ 

ment of her childhood dream. Now 

in its final perfection Colleen's Doll 

House is being taken around the world 

so that other dreamers may see it too. 

It will be on display at Rich's from 

February 2 5 th through March 4th. 

The admission fee of ten cents for 

children and twenty cents for adults 

is to be used for the benefit of the 

Tallulah Falls Industrial School. 

Nine years have been spent in as¬ 

sembling this fairy castle at the cost 

of nearly half a million dollars. It is 

nine feet square and fourteen feet 

high, and it has eleven magnificent 

rooms, a lofty entrance hall, and a 

magic garden. 

The great central hall has a floor of 

black onyx carved with tiny rose 

vines that wind up the golden pillars 

to the vaulted ceiling two stories high. 

Here on the ceiling are painted the 

fairy folk of Grimm and Hans An¬ 

dersen. Diminutive ivory tables placed 
! about the hall support delicate carvjines 
of other heroes and heroines of 
j childhood. An aerial stairway floats 
1 upwards in two graceful curves. 

To the right of the hall is the living 

room with its murals depicting the 
story of Cinderella. This room, too, 
I has a wonderful floor, one of rose 
I quartz inlaid with gold and bordered 
with carved ivory. It reflects the light 
from the crystal and diamond chande¬ 
lier whose electric light bulbs are 
[scarcely larger than a grain of wheat. 

The furniture here completes the 
. splendor of the room, being made of 
[silver with the exception of the rose-
I wood grand piano. 

Notes 

consisting of cameras, tins of model¬ 

ling clay, and tools. Their Odvssey was 

long, covered much territory, and, 

like all real adventures, was fraught 

with many dangers not the least of 

which was the hostile suspicion with 

which they were regarded by Aborig¬ 

ines on every continent when they 

wished to make "another man" like 

the one posing for them. 

Heads and Tales is an autobiogra¬ 

phical travel book written in a whim¬ 

sical style by a great American sculp¬ 

tress, and has to recommend it, not 

only the qualities of any good non-fic¬ 

tion work, but also the "added attrac¬ 

tion" of offering worthwhile and un¬ 

derstandable information about sculp


•:ure and racial types, supplemented 
by numerous photographs as illustra¬ 
tions. 
Frost, Robert, A Further Range. 

Sandburg, Carl, The People, Yes. 

The newest books of poetry which 

are expected by the library, as well as 

those already received, should afford 

pleasure to poetry lovers, ardent book 

collectors, and would-be poets alike. 

The most interesting of the new ar¬ 

rivals are A Further Range by Robert 

Frost, and Carl Sandburg's The Peo¬ 

ple, Yes. In a review published in the 

Atlanta Constitution, Miss Emma 

May Laney says "The People, Yes by 

Carl Sandburg, is the most American 

book I have ever read. Its sweeping 

rhythm gives us, in 2 86 pages, all of 

America's unrest . . . Entirely different 

is A Further Range. The closeness to 

fact, the whimsical turn, the deep in¬ 

sight of these poems are familiar to 

Frost's readers . . .; they come from 

a man to whom years have given a 

serenity and a wisdom which contrast 

strikingly with the troubled restless¬ 

ness of The People Yes." We know 

Frost; we soon shall know Sandburg. 

But brief mention can be made of 

the other books which follow these 

leaders. There are Frost's From Snoiv 

to Snow, Robert Grave's Collected 

Poems 193 0-1933, and Michael Rob¬ 

erts' New Signatures. There are A. 

E. Houseman's More Poems, Not So 
Deep As A Well, by Dorothy Parker, 
and Edna St. Vincent Millay's Wine 
From These Grapes. 
These and other volumes equally 
fascinating should bring ecstasy to the 
poetry lovers, frenzy to the book col¬ 
lectors, and inspiration to the poets. 

Exchanires 

This Collegiate World (by Associ¬ 

ated Collegiate Press): 

"You can't Park Here" signs on 
the campus of the Catholic Univer¬ 
sity of America are going to be obeyed 
or else! 

Annoyed at the frequent parking 

violations, the Chief of the Campus 

Police Force has listed the following 

oenalties: First offense: Air will be 

let out of one tire; Second offense— 

Air will be let out of two tires; Third 

offense: Air will be let out of all tires. 

Rice Institute males battled for red¬ 

headed women before a recent dance 

—for economic reasons. 

Different prices were set on the 
heads of the co-eds, depending on col¬ 
or, and on the night of the shuffle 
^"hue-determiners" posted at the doors 
judged the hair color of each incom¬ 

ing female. 

Fellows who escorted "Sorrel-top¬ 
ped Susies" got two bits knocked off 
their admission price. Less fortunate 
men who took brunettes got a fifteen-
cent reduction, and the least lucky 
who brought blondes got a ten-cent 
"down." 

The Prince's library, however, sur¬ 
passes all the other rooms in enchant¬ 
ment. Its fireplace is a copper fish 
net, and there are some andirons made 
like bronze anchors. Over the fireplace 
in full relief Captain Kidd directs the 
burving of his pirate treasure. Snails, 
shells, and seahorses lend their shape 

(Continued on page 3, column 2) 

President Seeks Change 

In Federal Court Svstem

* 

A thorough reorganization of the fedei-al court 

system was the demand of President Roosevelt 

in his recent judiciary message which startled 

the country. In order that better justice may be 

secured he has recommended the following 

changes: 

1. That the President should have the power 
to add a judge to any court in which there is a 
present judge who has not retired within six 
months after reaching seventy years of age. 
2. That the Chief Justice of the Supreme 
Court should have the power temporarily to dis¬ 
tribute district and circuit judges to different 
areas to avoid congestion. 
3. That no decision, injunction, or decree on 
any constitutional question should be promul¬ 
gated by any federal court without previous no¬ 
tice to the Attorney General of the United States, 
so that he may be able to present the case of the 
United States. 

4. That there should be a direct and immedi¬ 
ate appeal to the Supreme Court from any in¬ 
ferior coimt which has decided a constitutional 
question, and all other matters should be put 
aside for such cases. 
Obviously, the President hopes to improve the 
courts in two ways. First, by injecting new and 
younger ideas into the conservative opinions of 
the court, he hopes to secure more coopex-ation 
with the progressive ideals of his administration. 
"Little by little," he said, "new facts become 
blurred by old glasses, fitted, as it were, for the 
needs of another genei-ation; older men, assum¬ 
ing that the scene is the same as it was in the 
past, cease to explore or inquire into the present 
cr the future." Secondly, he hopes to secure 
quicker and more effective justice by relieving 
the present congestion of the district and circuit 
courts, and by other "hurry up" measures. 

The results of this move are not surprising, as 
it has brought to a head the bitter constitutional 
controvei'sy of the last three years. First, the 
position of the Supreme Court as a body com¬ 
pletely aloof from political factions is threatened 
and the attention of all is centex-ed on it. Then, 
Congress has been split into two bitterly opposed 
factions which are not divided by party lines. 
Many Democrats and other staunch supporters 
of the New Deal, such as Senator Noiwis from 
Nebraska, are among the opposition. But on the 
other hand, support has also come from unex¬ 
pected quarters. There are constitutional lawyers 
who declai-e such legislation would be an advis¬ 
able move. 

The country is anxiously awaiting the action 
of Congi-ess and the Supreme Court. Will the 
President be able to overcome the worn-out tra¬ 
ditions of a century and a half or will "The Nine 
Old Men" retain their present authority? 

Repertoire Book Suggests 

Coming of" Ballets Busses 

Gray minarets rounded and pointed on top of 
long pink and red and purple buildings against 
a splashy blue ai-e a suggestion of Colonel W. 
de Basil's Ballets Russes, which will come to 
Atlanta for three performances on Friday even¬ 
ing, February 26, and Saturday afternoon and 
evening, February 27. 

The colored structures form the cover of a 

repertoire magazine of the ballet. Inside are the 

pictures of the choreographer and dancers in 

portraits and in the intimate illustrations of 

their ballets. There are scenery and the quite


as-colorful story of the growth of the company. 

Colonel W. de Basil's work has been predomi¬ 
nantly among dancers. Selecting talented and 
trained persons who might, at the same time, be 
responsive to new developments in his ideas of 
choreography, Colonel de Basil chose some chil¬ 
dren who were only twelve years old. Today, 
while his advanced company is making tours, a 
group of children from seven to twelve are re¬ 
ceiving training in Paris for the future ballet. 

Including dancers, painters, composers, and 

conductors, the ballet is an international under¬ 

taking. Although there are a large number of 

Russians, there are also dancers from no less 

than eight other countries, among whom are 

English, Americans, and Japanese. 

One of the most widely-acclaimed of the bal¬ 
lets is "Le Beau Danube", a character ballet 
based on the music of Johann Strauss and on the 
choreography of Leonide Massine. The story of 
a young soldier, a young girl, and a street dancer, 
the ballet treats of love, jealousy, and reconci¬ 

liation. Composed in 1923, "Le Beau Danube" 

has continued to be included in the repertoire, 

delighting audiences, sweeping them into the 

gaity of the Vienna Waltz. 


THE AGONISTIC 

I^Comus" Inspires

Ingenious Students Invent Carrots and Rulers Support 

New Facts 

Though not exactly "The Voice of 
a Thousand People," as one student 
titled her sheet of answers, the recent 

Y. W. C. A. questionnaire gave evi¬ 
dence of the originality of 5 00 Agnes 
Scott students. 
The abbreviations of the associations 
with which Agnes Scott Y. W. C. A. 
is affiliated offered numerous oppor¬ 
tunities for our eager students to im¬ 
provise answers. The W. C. S. F. 
(Women's Christian Student Federa¬ 
tion) was defined variously as "Wo¬ 
man's Christian Suffering Federation" 
and "Woman's Christian Southern 
Federation." N. I. C. C. (National 
Intercollegiate Christian Confedera¬ 
tion) was christened by one the "Na¬ 
tional International Country Council," 
while it drew from another a surren¬ 
der in the hopeless and well-worn 
phrase, "Je ne sais pas." 

A deficiency in the field of geogra¬ 
phy revealed itself in the replies to 
the question of where Miss Emily 
Winn is a missionary. Though her 
station is really Korea, numerous stu¬ 
dents claimed that she carried on her 
work in China, Brazil, Asia, and even 
"Corea." Other dislocations occurred 
in the answers to the inquiry as to 
where the regional Y. W. C. A. con¬ 
ference is held. Though some girls did 
know that "Blue Ridge" was the 
answer, others suggested Emory, Uni¬ 
versity of Georgia, and Nashville. 

Suggestions for chapel and vespers 
were unusually numerous and ingen¬ 
ious. Among the chapel speakers re¬ 
quested were Peter Marshall (especial¬ 
ly), William Lyons Phelps, Dr. Butt-
rick, Walter Pascal, and Ernest Rog¬ 
ers, and "some ministers besides Pres¬ 
byterians." As for vespers, everyone 
shouted for more music and more fa¬ 
miliar songs and some for more lights 
to see these hymns. "More attend¬ 
ance" was another helpful suggestion. 

Bursts of spontaniety hinted at the 
original personalities of the questioned 

CLUB NEWS 
French Club 
The French Club will meet this 
afternoon at 4:30 in the Murphy 
Candler Building. 

German Club 
The German Club will meet at 

6:00 this evening with the German 
Club of Emory. The two clubs will 
have dinner together in the cafeteria 
of the Emory campus, after which 
there will be a meeting which will fea¬ 
ture German songs and games. 
Cotillion Club 

Cotillion Club will meet Thursday, 
February 18, in the Murphy Candler 
Building at 5:00 with Jane Moore 
Flamilton, Catherine Ivie, and Toni 
Newton as hostesses. 

B. O. Z. 
B. O. Z. will meet Friday, Febru¬ 
ary 19, at 7:00 in the Murphy Cand¬ 
ler Building. 
Blicks 

Bowling 

Center 

BOWL! 

For Health's Sake 

Healthful Recreation for 

Ladies and Men at Nom¬ 

inal Cost. 

"Bowling to Tell the Truth, 
Will Retain Your Form and 
Youth" 

For Reservations 

Call 

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I Wealth of Color 
About Y.W.C.A, 
In May Costumes 
ones, and made the returned sheets 
fairly sparkle with interest. When The vast variety of characters in 

asked about vesper music, one girl Milton's elaborate masque Com us gives 
answered, "I like two songs." Explain¬ the May Day costume committee an 
ing why she did not attend vespers, opportunity to revel in rich materials 
another wrote, "I go home almost and quaint styles 
ever)' week-end." One of the strang¬ as well as to wor¬ 
est answers given at all was to the in¬ ry their heads 
quiry, "Are white and colored Y. W. over period cos¬ 

C. A.'s united?" The enlightening tume books and 
answer was, "I'm white." "Barkis is tickle their imag¬ 
willing but I'm not over-anxious" was inations over ap¬ 
the remark which one literary-minded parel for such 
young lady wrote in reference to her outlandish crea¬ 
desire to participate in programs. 
tures as Cosmus' rabble. The whole 

A crowning addition to one sheet panorama of life in the England of 
was a weather forecast, predicting Charles I is represented in the masque,
"fair and warmer." And to finish up with lords and ladies of the court, peas¬

the originality and ingenuity displayed ants, shepherds, and shepherdesses, as 
in these questionnaires, one habit-en¬ well as the supernatural elements aris¬ 

slaved young thing wrote at the bot¬ 

ing from the superstitions of the time 
tom of her page, "Pledge." —Comus and his bewitched rabble, 
the nymphs, and the shades. 
ATLANTA TO SEE DOLL HOUSE 

The young lady, who is the chief 
(Continued from page 2, cohimn 2) figure in Comus, is to be dressed in a 
rose satin gown

for the extraordinary chairs. The book 

with full skirt 

cases are filled with volumes written 

and modif i ed 

especially for the Doll House by such stomacher, wide 
famous authors as Louis Bromfield and laced collar, and 
Hendrick Van Loon. Most of these full sleeves with 

cuffs. She will

books are less than one inch square. 

carry a hat which

Connected to the library by a little 

she loses and her

hallway is the chapel where a golden 

brothers find when they are seeking

organ fills the room with worshipful 

to rescue from the magician Comus.

music played through an elaborate 

These two brothers will wear gor¬

electric system via remote control. 

geous cavalier suits in dull blue and

There are more than a hundred keys, 

dull rose, respectively. Their knee

none of which are more than a six¬ 

breeches will be trimmed with bows

teenth of an inch wide. Facing the 

and their broad collars with lace, while

organ and behind the altar is a mural 

their tall hats will bear the plumes so

of the Holy Night, a faithful copy of 

dear to the cavalier's heart.

Correggio. 

The mother and father of this no¬

By ascending the curving stairway 

ble trio, who receive them at Ludlow

in the central hall, the Prince and 

town after their

Princess reach their regal bedrooms. 

escape from the

That of the Prince is Russian in type, 

evils of the forest,

done wholly in bronze with deep blue 

will be dressed

as the prevailing color. Marble and 

more soberly than

gold are used to decorate his bath. Two 

their children.

golden lions guard his throne-like tub 

The mother will

while two reclining mermaids with 

wear a gown pat¬

scales of pure gold pour water con¬ 

terned like her

stantly from their sea shells. 

(Continued on page 4, cohimn 1)

The Princess' bedroom is light and 
dainty in comparison with the Prince's 

the amazing artistry and imaginative

suite. From the mother-of-pearl floor 

genius of the builders of Colleen 

and the cherubs floating upon the 

Moore's Doll House, but they are suf¬ 

ceiling in a of pink clouds to the

sea ficient to convince the most skeptical

magic spinnet of carved ivory one 

person that here is a real thing of beau¬ 

gets the impression of infinite delicacy 

ty—that the Doll House is truly "the 

and charm. The Princess' bath is in 

most exquisite toy in the world." 

jade with etched glass walls, crystal 
pillars, and silver cupids. 

Outside in the garden are fountains 

Meet Your Friends at

shooting streams of water towards the 
branches of the mother-of-pearl trees Cox's Prescription Shop 
while a feathered nightingale blends 

Between Paramount and Grand 

his notes with those of the mellow 

Theaters, Atlanta 

organ within. 
These are only a few examples of 

Good Food 

IS 

Good Health! 

You Can Depend 

On 

CAKTERIA 
189-191 Peachtree St. 

Renewed Search for Charm 
I 
Carrots Up! scribes Caroline Forman's hair. Quite 

Carrots to the right of ns! appropriate any way. 
Carrots to the left of us! Not even the old graduates could 
What will become of ns no¬ escape the critical eye. Bert was told 

body knows! that since she had not graced her face 
with powder, now was no time to be¬ 
Charm has struck the campus and gin. Alas and alack her beige and 
we just can't understand the things its green dress would look simply stun¬ 

ardent worshipers are doing. My dear, ning on Ruby, who was also in earnest 
pursuit of charm.

if you see Laura Steele suddenly jerk 
Miss Osborne is not only an author¬

while poring over Directed History 

ity on this elusive charm, but she

in the library, you can be sure that her 

knows the cure for Mutt Eire's rheu¬

ruler has done the trick. Now let us 

matism. It seems that Martha has been

undulate our liquid lines over to Butt-

neglecting her spinach.

rick, breathing deeply all the time. 

Pardon us for going Walter Win-

Here we find stately Amelia Nickels 

chell on you, but who was the cour¬

telling interested friends the results of 

ageous male who ventured forth to

her interview. She modestly whispers, 

get the latest dope on charm in spite

"I'm all right," while Alice Taylor, 

of the derision of his fellow profes¬

who is the very essence of charm her¬ 

sors? Dr. Davidson says he has noticed

self, breaches disillusioned sighs, for 

a change in Mrs. Davidson already.

Miss Osborne informs her that she is 

Who knows but what we shall be

flat-chested. 

changed women too, as soon as the gro-

Hark! That must be Hannah swal¬ 

ceryman gets in some more carrots

lowing another word. 'Tis rumored 

and the freshmen get going on their

she will never be a president of a club. 

supply.

That must be the "refreshing" voice 
of Stalker we hear resounding over 
the quadrangle. 

Please note that the glints in Betty 

Meet Me At

Willis' hair are the color of the chapel 
chairs. Who would have thought it? 
"Elottentottish" is the word that de-

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Peachtree 
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AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE 

DECATUR, GA. 

A college tor 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 
10 Day 

Presentation 

The Famous Houbigant 

Pageant of Perfume 

Designed and executed by that young artist, 
Millard Sheets, of "Great Ziegfeld" fame . . . 
displaying relics and museum pieces valued at 
$150,000 ... Six windows and the entire Toi¬ 
letries Department will be devoted to it. 

STREET FLOOR 

RICH'S 


THE AGONISTIC 

Freshmen5 Sophomores Win Read, Write Letters, Badminton Gains Popularity 
Chat With Friends 
Fast Game Vs. Upperclassmen At Y. W. Open House As Tournament Approaches 

A. A. Welcomes Dorothy Fuggitt, 
Prominent Atlanta Ref¬ 
eree, N. A. P. S. Coach 

Again leading the field of inter


class sports, the weekly basketball 

games entertained a few enthusiasts in¬ 

cluding Atlanta high school girls last 

Friday afternoon at 3:30 in the gym. 

With a close score, the freshmen de¬ 

feated the juniors 39-33, and the 

sophomores managed a victory over 

the seniors by one point, the score 

being 28-27. Both games began with 

recklessness, but by the halves the 

playing had calmed considerably. 

In the first half of the junior-

freshman game, Robinson guarded un¬ 

usually well, and Williams again made 

a number of her brilliant goals. Car¬ 

son made one of the neatest baskets 

of the afternoon from the center 

court before the second half. In the 

last half the game was faster and more 

accurate, with Blackshear's playing 

outstanding. This game lacked the 

competition that spectators enjoy, 

there being too much "fight" in the 

freshmen. 

The senior-sophomore game began 

with more pep, but with as much reck¬ 

lessness, as the junior-freshmen game. 

The sophomore guarding was keen and 

confusing throughout to the senior for¬ 

wards. On the other hand the senior 

guarding was loose and defensive. 

Kneale and Stalker took honors for the 

COM US HAS GAY COSTUMES 

(Continued from page 3, column 3) 
daughter's, but in the more somber 
shade of dark purple. The father will 
wear a suit of black trimmed with 
white, in a style slightly less extreme 
than that of his sons. 

The peasant girls and shepherdesses 
who add color and liveliness to the 
sinister activity of Comus, will be at¬ 
tired in the quaint peasant costumes of 
the early seventeenth century. They 
will wear full skirts and black bodices 
laced over white puff-sleeved blouses. 
The committee is still in doubt about 
the aprons and are weighing carefully 
the respective merits of 'kerchiefs and 
milk-maid caps. 

The peasants and shepherds will 
wear rough leggings and long shep¬ 
herds' smocks in dark shades, blending 
with the brighter colors of their part¬ 
ners' skirts. 

The three companions of the lady, 
who protect her from harm and cheer 
her spirits in the dark wood, will wear 
flowing Grecian costumes, as will the 
water nymphs who free the lady from 
the evil spell of Comus. 

Comus' rabble, people whom the ma¬ 
gician has bewitched by making them 
drink from his evil cup, are, by their 
grotesqueness, the most striking fig¬ 
ures in the masque. They will wear 
snake-like costumes of iridescent ma¬ 
terial, long and tight fitting, and on 
their heads will wear the heads of va¬ 

rious animals. In one scene of the 
masque they will carry flaming torch¬ 
es, and in another, sparkling wine¬ 
glasses. 

Comus, himself, the evil wizard who 
endeavors to turn the high-minded 

Taylor's Prescription Shop 
Cor. Peachtree and Cain Street 
Phone Walnut 2897 
Atlanta 

You Can Come to Us or 
We Will Go to You 

We are as close to you as your 
telephone. 

HARRISON'S 
PHARMACY 
Sudden Service 

309 College Avenue 
JUST CALL DE. 0762 

To have a friendly chat with 
one's friends, to hear the latest gos¬

senior team, Williams and Garner for 

the sophs. sip, to get a bite of food, to sip a 
bit of coffee, to read a thrilling

The latter game was close and the 

story, to dream of last night's date,

score shifted rapidly, but the barren 

to enjoy the best of music, to dis¬

balcony offered little inspiration for 

cuss life's ups and downs, to settle

the splendid playing of which all four 

the most perplexing of the world's

classes are capable. Basketball, as a 

problems, to enjoy being in inti¬

major winter sport should attract more 

mate little groups, to have a really

sports enthusiasts on the campus than 

good time in a quiet way on Sun¬

the balcony could accomodate. Here's 

day afternoons—that's what Y. W.

to more substantial crowds, and then 

C. A. open house is for.
to better games! 

It has happened before; it hap¬

Dot Fuggitt has come to the cam¬ 

pens every Sunday in the Murphy 

pus as a professional coach to referee 

Candler Building; it can happen to 

our weekly games. A graduate in 

you.

physical education from California, 
she coaches the three-years-undefeated 

N. A. P. S. team. Her rigid referee-
A. S. C. Publishes
ing introduces welcome stimulation to 
better playing. 193 7 Catalogue 

Atlanta Peace Agencies With three of the year courses to 
be divided into courses of three quar¬

Present Three Movies 

ters each, two to be given in two quar¬ 

On Government Themes ters, and one to be supplemented by 
two additional studies, the new 193 637 
Agnes Scott catalogue has come

For the benefit of the local group 

from the press.

of the United Automobile Workers of 

Astronomy appears as "General

America the agencies and individuals 

Astronomy," "The Solar System," and

which are connected with the Emer¬ 

"The Stellar System;" sociology as 

gency Peace Campaign, presented a 

"Social Problems," "Criminology,"

series of three sound pictures at the 

and "Social Pathology;" and physics

Fulton High School, in Atlanta, on 

as "Properties of Matter: Mechanics,"

Thursday evening, February 11. 

"Sound, Heat, Light," and "Magne¬

Subjects of the movies were varied 

tism and Electricity."

and far-reaching, covering the present 

The biology department will offer

governmental, economic, and peace sit¬ 

plant physiology in two quarters, as

uations in the United States. 

will the English department give "The

The first of the three movies was 

History of the Novel." 

a government picture, called "The 

The two additional subjects appear

Plow That Broke the Plain," concern¬ 

in the Greek department as "Directed

ing the conservation of the soil. The 

Study in Greek Epic, Lyric, or Dra¬

second of the series, an animated car¬ 

matic Poetry" and "Directed Study in

toon, was entitled "Why," and its 

Greek History or Philosophy."

theme was the profit of the munitions 
makers. The third of the pictures, the 

A« S. Club to Entertain

title of which was "Millions of Us," 
was on the subject of unemployment At Bridge on Feb. 22 
and the labor organizations. 

The program was attended by a Members of the A. S. Club will en¬ 
large audience of five hundred people, tertain at bridge for the college on

a 
and Agnes Scott was well represented Monday afternoon, February 22, from 
by seven day students and three teach¬ three to five o'clock in the Murphy 
ers. Candler Building. A general charge 
of five cents will admit all pleasureIf you can wiggle your ears, you seekers to an afternoon of bridge and 

have a little of the ape-man in you, other games, and also to the floor-
says Professor H. R. Hunt of Michi¬ show in which torch singers and dan¬ 
gan State College. Pre-historic man cers will perform.

had to wiggle his ears to sharpen his 
sense of hearing. Muscles employed in 
this action are a definite inheritance With Compliments 
from him. 

LOUIS 
lady to sin by his magic, is so impor¬ ISAACSON 
tant a character that the costume com¬ 

Inc. 

mittee is still debating about his at¬ 

"Furs of Fashion" 

tire. With so much thought upon his 
costume, he will probably be a fearful 
and a wonderful creature, completing 
the pageant of beautiful and grotes¬ 

Gifts For All Occasions 

que, colorful and sinister figures 

Greeting Cards

which will dance into the May Day 
Dell next May, to present that spec¬ 

BINDER'S GIFT SHOP

tacle which delighted the eyes of king 

117 Peachtree St.

and court over three hundred years 
ago. 

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Blotters—Note Paper—Poster Paper 
Office Supplies 

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DISPENSING OPTICIANS 

Three Stores 
105 Peachtree Street (Clock Sign) 
Medical Arts Bldg. (382 Peachtree St.) 
Doctors Bldg. (480 Peachtree St.) 

ATLANTA, GA. 

Similar to Tennis, Ancient Game Sportscraft Company of New York, 
Began in East; Reached are: 

U. S. in 1870's 
An attempted serve, if missed, 
doesn't count as a fault, yet if the 

The coming badminton tournament 

"bird" is touched, a faulty serve is 

on the campus has aroused unexpected 

therefore delivered. 

interest in the history and the method 
of this newly popular game. 

M. Matthews to Edit,
In the Orient, some centuries ago, 
there existed a game similar to this, E. Hutchens to Manage 
which drifted through India by way 

Freshman Class Edition

of enthusiastic English sportsmen into 
England. Here it took the name of 
badminton from Babminton, the seat Elected by a written ballot of their 

of the Duke of Gloucester. In the late class at a meeting held after chapel 
1870's, badminton reached the United Friday, February 12, Mary Matthews 
States, to be appreciated only in the and Eleanor Hutchens will be editor-
east until its recent appearance in ac¬ in-chief and business manager, re¬ 
tive sports. Authorities agree that this spectively, of the freshman edition of 

unusual game now has a firm and per¬ the Agonistic. The paper, the last in 
manent position of popularity in this the series of the class issues, will come 
country, much to the delight of all out Wednesday, February 24. 
who have played it. Mary has announced her editorial 

The equipment of badminton in¬ staff as including, as associate editor, 
cludes a very light, slender racket, a Betty Alderman; as make-up editor, 
feathered ball weighing about eighty Henrietta Thompson; as feature edi¬ 
grams, and called a shuttlecock, and tor, Mary Louise Dobbs; for current 

a raised tennis net. history, Louise Hughston; for clubs, 
The rules are similar to those of its Mary Reins; for book-notes, Evelyn 

sister sport, tennis. The court is much Baty; for alumnae, Margaret Hopkins; 
smaller, though marked like a tennis for society, Frances Hampton; and 
court. Enthusiasts of the game find for sports, Ruth Eyles. 
it easy to adapt tennis rules and scor¬ Mary graduated from the Girls' 

ing, but a thorough review of the High School in Atlanta, where during 
rules is desirable. Some of the most her senior year she was president of 
important rules in the way of "knotty the student body and literary editor 

points," included in a badminton of the school paper. Eleanor is from 
pamphlet published by the General Huntsville, Ala. 

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VOL. XXII AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1937 NO. 15 
Eight Players Glee Club Will

Future Attractions and Distractions 
Make Varsity Give Operetta 
In Basketball 

On March 26 

Four Sophomores Make Team; 
Two Freshmen, One 
Junior, Senior 
Nickels, Lasseter Take Leads in 
Lively Venetian Drama 
On March 5-6 
To Meet Sub-Varsity Mar. 2 Atlanta Soloists Have Roles 
Receiving recognition for outstand¬ 
ing work in basketball this year are 
the following members of the varsity 
team, chosen Tuesday, February 23, 
by the varsity council: forwards— 
Elizabeth Blackshear, Jean Williams, 
Elizabeth Williams, and Mary Evelyn 
Garner; guards—Estelle Cuddy, Marie 
Stalker, Jane Moses, and Mary Eleanor 
Steele. Members chosen for sub-var¬ 
sity team are as follows: forwards— 
Mary Kneale, Virginia Milner, Anne 
Thompson, Primrose Noble; guards— 
Alice Taylor, Polly Ware, Frances 
Robinson, and Jane Moore Hamilton. 
Members of both teams are chosen 
for their skill, interest in the game, 
good sportsmanship, and team work. 
At the last regular game on Friday 
night, February 19, members of all 
four teams voted for six girls who 
were not on their team for varsity. 
Then the varsity council, composed of 
Misses Llewellyn Wilburn, associate 
professor of physical education; Elisa¬ 
beth Mitchell, assistant in physical 
education; Elizabeth F. Jackson, asso¬ 
ciate professor of history; Blanche 
Miller, instructor in biology; Frances 
Wilson, and Marie Stalker, voted on 
them finally. 
On Tuesday night, March 2, the 
varsity and sub-varsity teams will 
play the final game of the season, ex¬ 
cept for the "brown jug" contest to 
be held March 5. Miss Frances Keller, 
from the Y. W. C. A., will referee 
the game. 
Mr. Raper Speaks 
About Exploitation 
"We have failed to apply the Chris¬ 
tian rule of 'Do unto others as you 
would have them do unto you,' " said 
Mr. Arthur Raper, Professor of Sociology, 
when he spoke in chapel yester¬ 
day. His talk on "Christ's Challenge 
in Economic and Social Life" was one 
of the features of Y. W. C. A.'s pro¬ 
gram for this year. 
In his discussion Mr. Raper empha¬ 
sized the white race and exploitation. 
One of his main topics was the ex¬ 
ploitation of natural resources. "We 
are taking out of the land more than 
we put into it," he said. Among other 
things that white people are using for 
their own gain are: ideals, places, peo¬ 
ple, and time. The wealthier nations, 
especially, are selfish about their ad¬ 
vantages, and refuse to help one an¬ 
other. They are even exploiting the 
exploiters, by which he means that 
there is extensive use of the "soak the 
Sir Herbert Ames 
Speaks to Atlantans 
Lecturer To Talk On Current 
Events At Emory, Tech, 
Agnes Scott 
Sir Herbert Brown Ames, noted au¬ 
thority on present social and economic 
conditions, will visit Agnes Scott 
campus March 24-25. During his 
stay here he will conduct discussions 
on current events in history classes 
and will talk in the evening in chapel. 
He has had experience in interna¬ 
tional affairs as First Treasurer of the 
League of Nations, 1919-1926, and is 
a former member of the Canadian 
Dominion Parliament. Since 1929, 
Sir Herbert Ames has been connected 
with the Carnegie Endowment for In¬ 
ternational Peace as a lecturer. 
During the week March 22-29 he 
will visit the various colleges in At¬ 
lanta, lecturing at Emory, Georgia 
Tech, and Agnes Scott. The subjects 
of his talks have not been announced, 
but will probably be on some phase 
of social and economic conditions. 
Miss Carrie Scandrett 
Attends Meet of Deans 
Miss Carrie Scandrett, assistant 
dean, was in New Orleans February 
17-20 at the National Convention of 
the Association of the Deans of Wom¬ 
en, one division of the American 
Council of Guidance and Personnel 
Associations. The theme of the con¬ 
ference was Looking Toward a Perma¬ 
nent Youth Adjitstmcnf Program. 
There were discussions of every 
phase of student life, but Miss Scand¬ 
Honor System 
Will be Topic 
For Assembly 
Miss C. Scandrett, Dr. A. Raper, 
Barnes, King, Carithers 
Will Speak 
General Meeting March 5-6 
In a new kind of open forum which 
will last two days, March 4-5, student 
government will sponsor a general dis¬ 
cussion of the double honor system. 
Alice Hannah, president of student 
government, says that the meetings 
will give members of the faculty and 
of the student body an opportunity 
to express their opinions. 
Miss Carrie Scandrett, assistant dean 
of the college, and Dr. Arthur Raper, 
acting sociology professor, will speak 
on the value of the system in the eyes 
of the faculty. Margaret Barnes, Eliza 
King, and Jane Carithers will give 
short talks discussing the student's 
opinion on the subject. After these 
speakers have presented their ideas, 
questions or opinions for and against 
the system will be brought up from 
the floor. 
Although the college handbook 
tests in the fall asked for opinions and 
suggestions on the subject, this meet¬ 
ing will be the first open forum held 
for a general discussion of the present 
honor system, and Alice hopes that 
through the participation of the whole 
campus, student government will re¬ 
ceive ideas for improving the system. 
A duke and a duchess, two roman¬ 
tic Venetian gondoliers, and a new 
queen will visit Agnes Scott on the 
stage of the Bucher Scott gymnasium 
on Friday evening, March 5, and Sat¬ 
urday, March 6, when the glee club 
under the direction of Mr. L. H. John¬ 
son will present "The Gondoliers," a 
Gilbert and Sullivan opera. The glee 
club's choice this year is considered 
the best of all of Gilbert and Sulli¬ 
van's light operas. 
The girls taking the leading parts 
on Friday or on Saturday are: The 
Duchess of Plaza-Toro, Amelia Nick¬ 
els; Casilda (her daughter), Florence 
Lasseter and Jane Moore Hamilton; 
Gianetta, Ruth Tate and Betty Lou 
Houck Smith; Tessa, Virginia Kyle 
and Mary Alice Newton; Fiametta, 
May Day Aspirants Caro'ine Armistead; Vittoria, Jane 
Moses; Giulia, Virginia Wood; and 
Try Out for Comus Inez (nurse), Evelyn Wall. The male 
characters are: The Duke of Plaza-
Committee Judges Will An¬ Toro (a Grandee of Spain), Richard 
nounce Characters for Mask Smoot; Luiz (his attendant), Edwin 
by J. Milton Everitt and Gene Powell; Don Alhambra 
del Bolero (the Grand Inquisi¬ 
Aspirants to May Day careers as tor), Eugene Traber and Leland 
Mackey; Marco Palmieri, Paul Over-water nymphs, shepherd and shepherd¬ 
bey; Giuseppe Palmieri, Walton Bobo 
esses, tumbling clowns, dancers, Co¬ and Don White; Antonio, Jack Smoot; 
mus, or a lady, met in the gym yester¬ Francesco, Edwin Everitt. 
day afternoon at 4:00 o'clock to try Last summer five members of the 
out for these parts in the adaptation cast went to Chautauqua, New York, 
of Comus, a mask by John Milton. with Mr. Johnson to see dress rehear¬ 
The members of the May Day Com¬ sals and the actual performance of 
mittee, with Eloisa Alexander as chair¬ "The Gondoliers" there. The party in¬ 
man, were judges in the tryouts and cluded Amelia Nickels, Mary Alice 
will announce the characters as soon Newton, Evelyn Wall, Betty Lou 
as they reach a decision. Houck Smith, and Jack Smoot. 
Among the leading roles in the per¬ (Continued on page 4, column 2) 
formance are: Comus, with his crew; 
attendant spirit, afterwards in the Professor Returnshabit of Thyrsis; the lady; Echo; the 
lady's two brothers; Sabrina, leader of From Florida Tour 
the nymphs; and the lady's father and 
mother. The cast also includes a 
Dr. Arthur F. Raper, acting pro¬group of clowns who do tumbling acts. 
fessor of sociology, returned Thurs¬A large group of dancers will com¬ 
day, February 18, from a ten dayprise Comus' rabble, shapes and shad¬ 
tour of Florida with the Florida Chainows, water nymphs, shepherds and 
of Missionaries Assemblies. Dr. Rapershepherdesses. The dances for the fes¬ 
spoke on the subject of farm tenancytival have been arranged by Ruth 
and race relations in Clearwater, Tam¬Tate and June Matthews. 
pa, and Tallahassee. At Tallahassee 
he spoke to an Interdenominational 
Noble Inaugurates New State Wide Young People's meeting. 
The Florida chain of Missionary As¬
Plan For Campus Sings semblies has for the past sixteen years 
been bringing missionaries from for¬ 
Inaugurating a new plan for cam¬ eign fields to speak in Florida, and it 
pus sings, Primrose Noble, chairman is only recently that home missionar¬ 
of the music committee of Y. W. C. ies have been included in these tours, 
A., has announced that every Friday which last about a month. 
night there will be a sing after ves¬ There were about ten others on the 
pers in the Murphey Candler building. same tour as Dr. Raper, the most 
rich" policy. 
If this dissension among the mem¬ 
bers of the white race does not cease, 
according to the speaker, the race will 
be annihilated by floods, droughts, 
and other distressing conditions result¬ 
ing from exploitation. 
rett was most interested in the prob¬ 
lems of the sophomore year, mental 
hygiene, and the abrupt change in cur¬ 
riculum between high school and col¬ 
lege. Among the speakers was Thom¬ 
as F. Neblett, a member of the Na¬ 
tional Advisory Committee. 
S w i m m ers Attend 
Annual Conference 
Attending the third annual Aquatic 
Conference of the South, Anne 
Thompson, Bee Merrill, Miss Harriette 
Haynes, assistant professor of 
Campus sings have previously been 
held in front of Main building, in the 
day student room in Main, and in the 
chapel. The Murphey Candler build¬ 
ing is a more convenient location since 
there are a piano, many chairs, and a 
great deal of room. 
prominent of whom are: Miss Muriel 
Lester, founder of Kingsley Hall, East 
London; Mrs. Induk Pak, director for 
fifteen years of woman's movement in 
Korea, and graduate of Wesleyan Col¬ 
lege; Dr. Herrick B. Young, of Teherian, 
Iran (Persia). 
I. McCain, M. Summers Preside 
physical education, and Miss Elisabeth 
Mitchell, her assistant, spent February Gondoliers, Princes, Duchesses 
Over Founder's Day Festivities 
18 through February 20 at the Uni¬ 
versity of Alabama. The purposes of Invade Agnes Scott Stronghold 
the meeting were to foster good 
Isabel McCain, presiding as George 
Washington over the Founders' Day 
banquet held Monday night in Rebekah 
Scott dining hall, appropriately 
decorated with red candles, hatchets, 
and cherry trees, began the program 
by introducing his dear wife, Martha, 
with the following verse: 
"To Edward VIII from Adam 
Almost every man has had 'em— 
But no wife is so fine 
As this Martha of mine. 
Folks, I present the madam!" 
After the audience became acquaint¬ 
ed with Martha, George thus intro¬ 
duced his famous contemporary, La¬ 
fayette: 
"Lafayette, our friend from France, 
Becurled, perfumed, (pause) with 
satin pants. 
When we all proved skittish, 
You routed the British— 
Now, save us from the ants." 
Lafayette, alias Lucile Dennison, re¬ 
plied: 
(Continued on page 3, column 2) 
sportsmanship and to encourage closer 
cooperation. 
The conference was divided into 
two programs: administration and 
student. On Friday night Miss Haynes 
spoke on the subject Swimming Clubs. 
On the same program Anne Thomp¬ 
son made a talk on Swimming Clubs 
from a Student's Point of View. 
Among the other features of the 
program was an open discussion of the 
possibilities for a federation of swim¬ 
ming clubs. 
The Agnes Scott campus will be 
greatly excited on March 5-6 when 
the entanglement of the love affairs in 
The Gondoliers unravels to a dramatic 
and highly entertaining conclusion. 
In the opening of the operetta, two 
jovial gondoliers select their wives 
from a crowd of pretty girls by a 
plan of chance, and laugh their way 
off. Then the Duke, Duchess, and 
their daughter appear. The Duke re¬ 
veals his purpose for coming to Ven¬ 
ice, namely, that his daughter as a 
child was betrothed to the Prince of 
Barataria and, because the King is 
dead, is the legitimate queen. Great 
is the maid's sorrow, for she secretly 
rhares a love with her father's aide. 
The Grand Inquisitor, responsible 
for the young Prince's kidnapping, 
had put him in the hands of a noble 
family, where he became confused 
with the family's son, and now only 
the foster-mother can identify him. 
While someone is sent to find her, two 
(Continued on page 4, column 2) 


<'1936 Essay An tiua l" Presents 

Strike Decision

(Ll)c ^Kc^onistic 

Work was resumed last week after the "sit-

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Educated Balance-Scales 

Our college life is a balance-scale which has 
student activities on one side and studies on the 
other. If balanced skilfully, the pans of the scale 
will swing in harmony; but, if one pan is over-
heaped, one side of the scale will become too 
heavy for the other. We try to balance its pans 
skilfully. We wish to establish the harmonious 
relationship between studies and extra-curricular 
activity. Therefore, realizing that our studies 
cannot be tampered with, we must select activi¬ 
ties which will demand our interest and develop 
our talents but which will not outweigh our stu¬ 
dies in value. 

In order to select the outside activities which 
will be most agreeable to our scholastic program 
an intelligent understanding of the workings of 
all the organizations on the campus is necessary. 
We should be able to comprehend the relation¬ 
ships that exist among the various organizations 
on the campus. But do we have this understand¬ 
ing? Recently the Connecticut College for Wom¬ 
en decided to include the enlightenment of fresh¬ 
men in its program of student activities. It was 
proposed that a special meeting be held for this 
purpose at the beginning of the year to acquaint 
the freshmen with the workings of the clubs on 
the campus. The student body of George Wash¬ 

ington University was recently presented with a 
program for the organization of undergraduate 
activities that included in its purposes "explor¬ 
ing the function of student activities in their re¬ 
lation to university development and in their con¬ 
tributions to the development of the life of the 
student body." 

If we could thoroughly understand the aim of 
each organization on the campus, if we could 
judge, somewhat, the extent of its success in 
realizing this aim, if we were able to intelligent¬ 
ly consider the part each organization might play 
in the development of our own interest, if we 
could determine to some extent, the relationship 
that would exist between each activity and our 
studies, then we could come nearer to determin¬ 
ing that ideal balance between studies and extra¬ 
curricular activity that makes for the most de¬ 
sirable college experience. 

Youth's Future 

A prominent American writer, in giving ad¬ 
vice to his daughter on a proper attitude of mind 
for youth today, stated that he really believed 
that the greatest creations in every phase of 
man's work are yet to come. If we accept his 
idea, the college student of today may forget 
that "youth has no future" and make one. 

Whether this encouraging father had a basis 
for his supposition or not, if we realize that what 
he meant was that we need an ambitious, enthus¬ 
iastic attitude, we will be capable of great crea¬ 
tions. The advice given to old Miss Hepzibah in 
Hawthorne's House of Set en Gables may easily 
apply to us in our youth. This wise counsel is: 
"These feelings will not trouble you any longer, 
after you are once fairly in the midst of your 
enterprise." 

Erich Q. Walter. 193 6 Essay Annual. ately notice: Oscar James Campbell's 

Scott, Foresman and Company, Chi-"Twain Versus Clemens," in honor of 
j cago, Atlanta, Dallas, New York, the Mark Twain Centennial, and El¬ 
j There is a little book—about five mer Davis' "The Imperfect Vagner


by eight inches—on the right hand ite." 
side of the fireplace in the library; "Power," a discussion of C. C. Fur-
little book which no one has ever , nas of the possible use of solar energy, 
taken out. It is covered with tan ! and "Docs Civilization Still Need Re-
cloth, and its gold letters on the out-j'-igion?" by William Ernest Hocking, 

side read "1936 Essay Annual." When 
we open it, we see that it is "A Yearly 
Collection of Significant Essays, Per 
sonal, Critical, Controversial, and 
Humorous." Turning another page, 
we find that the author, Erich A. 
Walter, of the Department of English 
at the University of Michigan, has 
chosen the material according to that 
definition of an essay as "any piece of 
non-fictional prose which definitely 
reflects the personality of its author, 
and which can be read at a sitting of 
two hours or less." Here, then, is a 
collection of the best in essays for the 
past year. Our interest is aroused now 
and we turn to the table of contents, 
which we find divided into seven 
parts. 

The first is called "America and 
the World," and includes four essays. 
One that is particularly interesting 
now is "Government by Law," 
Charles Howard Mcllwain's discussion 
of the Constitution. He ends with a 
real challenge: "Our problem, today, 
in a word, is to make needed changes 
in the laws, but always to keep them 
law." 

The second division bears the uni¬ 
versally loved title, "People and 
Places." Here the outstanding essay 
covers scarcely two pages. It is Wal¬ 
ter Lippmann's restrained, yet effec¬ 
tive, praise of Jane Addams, she who 
blended "sympathy with distinction." 
Hers was a life of noble democracy, 
stooping to help, yet never losing sight 
of the things above. 

"The Arts" come next. Two of the 
six essays in this group we immedi-

G. Maxwell Shows 
Taste for All Arts 

The fact that Gilbert Maxwell fid¬ 
dles, and reads While Rome Burns (by 
Alexander Woolcott) in no way marks 
him as a modern Nero. In fact, this 
prominent young poet kindly received 
three visitors from Agnes Scott re¬ 
cently, talked to them at length on 
poetry, and read several selections 
from his next book. 

He told of his friendship with Er¬ 
nest Hartsock and Edna St. Vincent 
Millay, and of his admiration for Ar¬ 
chibald MacLeish. On his table was 
a group of poetry collections by such 
prominent modern writers as Countee 
Cullen, Elinor Wylie, Lawrence Hope, 
and Alan Seeger. 

As a judge in the Aurora's literary 
contest last year, he saw much of Ag¬ 
nes Scott's writing ability. In discuss¬ 
ing the Aurora he said, "I really be¬ 
lieve that the Aurora is the best col¬ 
lege literary magazine I have ever 
seen." One reason for this very com¬ 
plimentary remark is that he thinks 
that the form of both the short stor¬ 
ies and the poems is unusually good. 
And speaking further on the subject 
of verse forms, he said that such stu¬ 
dent organizations as B. O. Z. and 
Poetry Club are helpful to young 
writers because they offer opportuni¬ 
ties for practice and experience in the 
technicalities of literary work. 

Mr. Maxwell also believes that any¬ 
one engaged in any kind of artistic 
expression should be interested in and 
know something about the other 
fields of art. For example, his work 
is poetrv; but he knows something of 
painting, music, and drama. In his 
sitting room he has a painting of a 
negro barber shop on Auburn Avenue, 
which was a personal gift from the 
artist himself, Harry Lee, of Atlanta. 
Mr. Maxwell laughingly described his 
musical career, which consisted of 
violin study and efforts at playing a 
piano. The music proved painful to 
neighbors but beneficial to the rhythm 
of his verse. 

He read several selections from his 
next book, which will be a study of 
the South. 

i compose the section devoted to 
j Science and Religion." 

Probably the fifth division will be 

the most popular of all, for in its five 

essays we find "Humor." Every 

movie-goer will delight in "The Ar


liss Menace," in which Robert Sellmer 

laments the fact that all historical 

characters will look alike to the young¬ 

er generation's mind, if George Arliss 

continues to portray so many of the 

well-known heroes. 

The sixth section is concerned with 

"The Press" and includes Paul Hutch-

inson's "Why Blame It On the Pa¬ 

pers?" and Stanley Walker's "Our 

Trivial Press." Mr. Walker defines 

our newspaper problem thus: "The 

problem, it would seem, is partly of 

finding some way of presenting cool 

facts in more orderly fashion, and 

partly of getting away from the stig¬ 

ma of special pleading and unreason¬ 

able and exaggerated partisanship . . ." 

The last group is especially inter¬ 

esting to us as college students, for 

its subject is "Education." Christian 

Gauss gives us something to think 

about in his "Why Don't College 

Graduates Stay Educated?" He sug¬ 

gests that perhaps the college grad¬ 

uates were not educated in the first 

place, not trained for a cultural ideal 

or a feeling of responsibility. His idea 

that we must get rid of our complac¬ 

ency before we can have any real ad¬ 

vancement is worth our consideration. 

After presenting this stimulating 

array of essays, the author adds a fit¬ 

ting conclusion, "A Bibliography of 

Outstanding American Essays Pub¬ 

lished in American Periodicals: March 

1, 193 5 -March 3 1, 1936." Thus he 

ends one of the most delightful and 

carefully chosen collections available 

today. 

Alumnae News 

Sarah Nancy Cook, '3 5, of College 

Park, Ga., married Herbert Hadley 

Thompson on December 3 1, 193 6. 

Helen Handt, '3 6, is teaching in 

Greenwood, S. C. 

Mildred Chandler, '3 6, is teaching 

English and French in Grantville High 

School, Grantville, Ga. 

Loice Richards, '3 6, is teaching in 

New York City at the Katherine 

Gibbs School. 

Elizabeth Perrin, ex-'37, was re¬ 

cently elected to Cap and Gown, sen¬ 

ior honor society, at the University of 

Tennessee. 

Gertrude Lozier, '36, will be mar¬ 

ried on March 27 to Mr. Leonard Neal 

Hutchinson of Atlanta. 

F xclianges 

Looking around we wonder if the 

Hottentots have been meddling in 

more than a mild form of magic. 
jSome of our fellow students are either 
: not with us as much as we imagine, 
| or are in several places at one time. 
; Campus comment from Mary Bald-
I win College in Virginia informs us 
1 that Hannah spent the week-end at 

home and that J. Guthrie is out of j 
i town. And a Sullins professor, M. | 
Gilchrist, was an honor guest at the . 
.January birthday dinner party. 

Speaking of professors, Mr. Hayes, j 

■professor of psychology at Mt. Holy-j 
oke, is interested in music and is the j 
third ranking tennis player of New j 
England. Could Dr. Hayes of Agnes' 
Scott be deceiving us? 
The "Johnsons" have a word for it. 
New members of the Y. W. C. A. \ 
cabinet at Winthrop are Sara Johnson, ; 
interest group, and Mary Johnson, so¬ 
cial service. Ann Johnson of Wahon, 
Massachusetts, was a visitor on the 
campus during January, whde Ann 
Thompson is a freshman member of 
the Bancroft social committee. 

Flint, Michigan, without a decisive victory on 
either side. The strikers yielded their principal 
contention that the Committee for Industrial 
Organization should be accepted as sole repre¬ 
sentative of all the employees in collective bar¬ 
gaining; but the company consented to confer 
with the C. I. 0., and for six months only with 
the C. I. 0., about laboring conditions in the fac¬ 
tories on strike. 
The G. M. officials gave permission for work¬ 
ers to wear union insignia and to discuss union 
affairs on their own time on company premises; 
the unionists agreed not to solicit members there. 
Conferences on the details of the settlement have 
begun between officials of both sides. The prin¬ 
cipal demands of the strikers are: a plan for ar¬ 
bitration boards to settle employees' grievances, 
seniority rights, a 30-hour week and a 6-hour 
day, a maximum speed for production, the rein¬ 
statement of all employees "unjustly dis¬ 
charged," and the adoption of a straight hourly 
rate of pay. Already a tentative agreement con¬ 
cerning arbitration boards has been reached, but 
none of the details have been made public. 
Leaders of the strike are jubilant because for 
the first time a union has won recognition on a 
company-wide basis from the corporation which 
produces 45 per cent of all American automo¬ 
biles. Nevertheless, G. M. officials succeeded in 
maintaining their refusal to bargain exclusively 
with the C. I. 0., and thereby retained open shop 
—which to some observers means failure of the 
strike. 
This was the first important application in 
this country of the "sit-down technique," and 
the courts have yet to prove their power to force 
evacuation on the grounds of trespassing. The 
strike was also the largest yet conducted under 
the Committee for Industrial Organization, which 
was suspended last year from the American Fed¬ 
eration of Labor for organizing workers by in¬ 
dustries instead of along craft lines. The partial 
success of the General Motors strike is breeding 
predictions of a clash imminent between the two 
labor organizations. 

Delta Farm Project 

Hillhouse, Mississippi, which is located in the 
heart of the Delta farm region, is the scene of a 
new experiment in co-operative farming and 
looks toward the replacement of the tenant sys¬ 
tem as a possible solution of the planter-tenant 
controversy in Arkansas and other southern 
states. Under the direction of Sherwood Eddy, 
national Y. M. C. A. leader, author, and social 
worker, this 2,138-acre project was begun last 
March. 

The first members of the community were 
twenty-four families, nineteen of which were 
negro. The development has of necessity been a 
slow one, including a system of supervised farm¬ 
ing which will eventually include all industrial 
activity. 

At the present time the farm is held by a group 
of five trustees. They include Reinhold Neibuhr, 
John Rust, Sherwood Eddy, William R. Ander¬ 
son, and Sam H. Franklin, Jr. The local admin¬ 
istration is intrusted to a council composed of 
five elected members, of whom not more than 
three can be of one race. 

The plan under which this Delta Co-operative 
Farm is operated is new in southern farming, 
and, since it is still subject to development, its 
success cannot yet be determined. 

Perhaps it's the continuous rain, or perhaps 
it's just the "Spring in the air," at any rate the 
present campus vogue seems to be feuds. These 
feuds as yet are not as violent as the one between 
the Martins and the Coys; but, who can tell, lit¬ 
tle undercurrents sometimes head into big riv¬ 
ers; so it is best that these controversies become 
well known. 

Undoubtedly, the most easily "sensed" feud is 
the Science Hall pungent-odor controversy. Mr. 
Runyan, associate professor of biology, informed 
Mr. R. B. Holt, professor of chemistry, that his 
olfactory nerves rebelled against the smell of hy¬ 
drogen sulphide coming from his laboratories. 
Whereupon Mr. Holt replied that the smell of 
the embalming fluid used by the comparative an¬ 
atomy classes was enough to drive everyone from 
the building. Advice: Don't go "nosing around" 
to try to settle this feud! 

Then, alas! Miss Osborne left behind the 
means of a feud, uncharming though such an af¬ 
fair is. It is the meal-time feud between the fat 
and the lean. Because of their appetites the fat 
are not content with lean alone, but must eat the 
fat prepared for the lean ; whereas the lean, fear¬ 
ing they will soon be fat, eat not the fat pre¬ 
pared for them, but instead the lean, cooked for 
the fat. Settlement: separate meals with fat for 
the lean, and lean for the fat. 


THE AGONISTIC 
Hottentots Reveal Ideal Age Faithful Freshmen Finish; 
To Inquisitive Interviewers Saerificinof Seniors Smile 
Majority of Students Favor Carefree Life of Younger 
Faculty Members Differ in Their Opinions; 
Mr. Robinson Selects Zero 
Years; Lack of Carrel Space, Work of Binders Baffle Freshmen; Fulton's 
"College Life" First in Race; Miss Hanley 
Ignores Rush 

Amusing and surprising have been

Ponce de Leon, it seems, had noth¬ statement that she would choose to be The day the freshmen add "finis" 
ing on Agnes Scott students in his de¬ one thousand so she could be an ar¬ Society News to their last research paper will see the experiences. Some got side-track¬ 
chaeological discovery. And Mr. Hen¬ three groups of happy people—the fac¬ ed, like Jane Knapp whom her friends 

sire for youth. When approached with 

ry A. Robinson knocked all rhyme and ulty, the upperclassmen, and the fresh¬ found reading an article called "Fac¬ 
the question, "What age would you reason out of any answer. "Because," Parties in Atlanta claimed Mary men themselves. The faculty and sen¬ ulty Husbands." The freshmen stumb¬ 
like to be all your life, if you had to he explained with a mathematical Reed Hendricks, Carolyn DuPre, and iors will again have access to the car¬ led into trouble in their last papers, 
choose?" half the students sighed for smile, "a person must be zero age to Myrl Chafin, who went to the A. T. rels and second tier of books; the however, for many of the periodicals 
bygone days. Strange to say, only stay the same-forever." O. formal dance at Tech on Satur¬ freshmen will have passed one of the were at the binder's. When she dis¬ 
three out of thirty favored "sweet six¬ day; Bee Merrill and Mary Venetia milestones in their progress towards covered that the magazine most neces¬ 
teen." June Matthews reflected Vir¬ Smith, who went to the A. K. K. those coveted first two letters of the sary to her had been sent off, Henri¬ 

Sleepy Heads Miss

ginia Milner's view as well as her own dance at Emory, Saturday; Sue Bryan, alphabet. etta Thompson immediately set out 
when she said, "Sixteen is young who went to the A. T. O. affair at for the Carnegie Library where she

Oranges on Diet 

enough to have fun and old enough Emory. Strat Sloan went to the S. A. heard, "I'm sorry, the Yale Review

Balls, Basketball 

to have privileges." But Alice Han¬ E. house at Tech, Sunday, and to the that you want is at the binder's." 
Agnes Scotters Go Hollywood

nah liked sixteen because she could swimming party given by the O. D. Fill Gvm Floors Edith Stover was seen madly search¬ 
"go barefooted and not be dignified." With New Breakfasts D.'s, Saturday. Mette Williamson, ing for a certain book in the stacks. 
Many girls emphatically endorsed Minus Grits Charlotte Golden, Marlise Torrance, Beauties Show Brawn in Sport; "I've got to find that Literary Di¬ 
the "ages of no responsibility." Laura and Kay Kennedy went to the quad¬ Stunts Share Stages gest," she moaned. "I didn't finish a

"Tinkle, Tinkle." (That's in Re-

Steele expressed her desire to be six rille dance given by the Tech Gamma With Plays joke in it yesterday." And one bright

Phi Delta's at Peachtree Gardens,

months old so she would never have bekah Scott.) "Jangle, Jangle." Were Agnes Scott College a com¬ pupil spent two afternoons looking for 

Wednesday.

to write another history paper. Ruth (That's in White House.) Chairs plete community in itself, it could a certain volume which had been lost 
Slack chose ten because there are no scrape while girls with apologetic I-have a no more ideal community house two years. There is really a race to 

worries connected, and Charline Fleece Several girls spent the holiday at than the Bucher Scott gymnasium. the library to get those five precious

just-got-up-two -minutes -ago -and


echoed this sentiment, adding that at other schools. Mildred Joseph went to That building is used for everything copies of Fulton's College Life. One -time -to-wash-my-face in Spartanburg,

ten one never worries about "such didn't have -Converse College S. from a "mess hall" to a ballroom. The day Anne Ansley was lucky enough to 

C.; Adelaide Benson visited at the

things as whether dinner is ready." expressions sit down to breakfast. only thing it lacks, in fact, is a big, get one, but every time she started to

University of Florida; and Mette Wil¬

Childish Capers White doors swing open and a long open fireplace. read someone punched her and said,

liamson, Jane Luthy, Nell Pinner,

Jane Moses preferred eight years line of triumphant waiters descend First, there are the ordinary uses, "Anne, is that Fulton's?" Finally

Mary McPhaul, Ellen Stuart, and

old. "It's this way," she confided, "I for whic h the basement harbors the Elizabeth Davis saved the day by

upon the tables bringing to each per¬

like to chase dogs and chickens." An¬ Martha Summers went to Athens to swimming and individual gym classes, printing: "I have a Fulton. It is 

son an orange—a whole orange—two

toinette Sledd agreed with Jane, be¬ the University of Georgia. The Mid-and for which the main floor is filled promised to three people." She pinned

halves of orange. Sleepy expressions Winter Dances at Davidson were at¬

cause at eight Antoinette "still be¬ at one part of the day with grim bas¬ it on Anne's back and Anne finished 
lieved in Santa Glaus." Pride prompt¬ are gone now. Agnes Scott is going tended by Rebecca McCree. ketball players, then with dainty nat¬ her work in peace.
ed the answers of Martha Summers Hollywood and this is the beginning. ural dancers, and finally with rhyth¬ As for Miss Hanley, who considers 
and Lucile Dennison, who wanted to Roommates, too sleepy to drag them¬ 
J. Thing entertained M. L. Mor¬ mic tap dancers. that the freshman class has done un¬ 
be four because "girls are so cute and row, D. Jester, and P. Wheatley; C. The gym was a "mess hall" when, usually well, research papers have not

selves down to a breakfast, were made DuPre, F. Morgan and M. Reed; F.

sweet then." after the first hike this year, the girls claimed her time. Only a pet fern and 

to feel that they had missed something Robinson, P. Noble; A. Howell, P.

Mickey Warren said, "Seventeen is had to eat there because of rain, and a stray yellow Persian kitten have 

grand." Harriet Fuller, too, bubbled by not being on hand at this momen¬ Fairly, H. Hassell, J. Austin, M. Doug¬ 

also during the junior banquet. It is done that. 

tous inauguration of the Hollywood las, G. Erwin; M. A. Green, T. R.

over with the joy of being seventeen. the auditorium for Blackfriar's plays.

"I'm having so much fun now," she diet. Blackmon and M. P. Brown; C. A. G. 

Mardi Gras, with all its glamour, is 
declared. Marie Stalker defended sev¬ Meals have become interesting Tazewell; C. Carmichael, J. Porter, celebrated in the gym. There, fresh¬ Eat and Drink 
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MIRROR of SPORTS 

Defeats Seniors 

For Championship 

Sophomores Overcome Juniors 
To Win Second Place 
in Basketball 

Winning from the seniors with a 

score of 3 8-3 0, the freshman team 

became the champion basketball play¬ 

ers of the four classes Friday night, 

February 19. The sophomores also 

defeated the juniors in an overwhelm¬ 

ing victory of 43-11 which leaves the 

sophomores in second place. 

The first quarter of the sophomore-

junior game was slow because of many 

pauses for free shots won by fouls on 

both sides. In the second quarter, the 

sophomores played fast enough to 

make up for the first, and carried the 

juniors off their feet. Meg Garner's 

long goals were particularly notewor¬ 

thy. 

The freshmen played their usual 
good game with some very pretty 
passes, but the seniors offered plenty 
of competition to keep the game live¬ 
ly. Virginia Milner made numerous 
goals, scoring 22 points. 

Miss Frances Keller, secretary in 
charge of health education at the Y. 

W. C. A., and recognized as one of 
the best referees in Atlanta, refereed. 
The game between the varsity and 
sub-varsity teams will be played Tues¬ 
day night, March 2. 

Line-ups were: 
Freshmen (38) Seniors (30) 
Milner (22) R.F. Gary (1) 
Williams (12) L.F. McCain (9) 
Carson C.F. Kneale (20) 
Ware R.G. Stalker (2) 
Moses L.G. Summers 
Moffett C.G. McDonald 

Substitutions — Freshmen, Slack 
(4), Reins; Seniors, Taylor. 
Sophomores (43) Juniors (11) 

Williams (18) R.F. Noble (3) 
Garner (22) L.F. Coit (2) 
Carmichael (1) C.F. Blackshear (4) 
Cuddy R.G. King 
Steele L.G. Allison 
Cheeseman C.G. Robinson 

Substitutions—Sophomores, Purnell, 
Hamilton. j 

Referees, Miss Frances Keller and ■ 
Miss Bee Miller. Scorer, Mutt Fite. ; 
Timekeeper, Kathryn Patton. 

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Pi Alpha Phi met with its new 
members February 18 at 7:00 o clock 
' in the Murphey Candler building. A 
debate on the proposed change in the 
i Supreme Court was given by Mary 
: Frances Guthrie and Esther Byrns. 
The initiation of new members was in 

| the form of debates in which each of 
i the girls had to represent a faculty 
! member. 

j The Blackfriars will have a meeting1 March 2, at which group L headed by 
Kathryn Bowen Wall, and group 11, 
headed by Caroline Carmichael, will 
1 present short plays. The plays to be 

presented by groups I and II respec; 
tively are: "A Woman of Character" 
j and "The China Pig." 

At a meeting of the Pen and Brush 

club on Thursday, February 18, the 
members sketched Betty Ann Stewart, 
! dressed in a taffeta evening dress and 
| a blue velvet cape. The club is plan-
I ning to have a talk on art given by 
Mi^s Louise Lewis and to hike to sev¬ 
eral places that the members wish to 

sketch. 

B. O. Z. will meet Friday night, 
February 26, at 7:00 o'clock in the 
Murphey Candler building. Giddy Erwin 
and Hibernia Hassell will serve. 
Gondoliers Invade 

Agnes Scott Campus 

{Continued from page 1, column 5) 
gondoliers rule in pompous state. Sud¬ 
denly, one day, the Grand Inquisitor 
appears to announce the Queen of Barataria. 
He also expresses his feeling 
that one of the gondoliers is the king. 
The horrified wives gasp. Who is mar¬ 
ried then? 

The gondoliers, the Queen, and the 
wives start to discuss the curious sit¬ 
uation. The foster-mother appears at 
the critical time to disclose the true 
king as the Duke's aide. The Duke's 
daughter and the aide are united as 
the King and Queen of Barataria, 
much to the relief of the two puzzled 
gondoliers and their pretty little wives. 

Agnes Scott Glee Club 

Will Present Operetta 

{Continued from page 1, column 5) 

Mr. Johnson says that the soloists 
this year are the best group he has 
worked with since they include the 

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Members of the local Alpha Delta 
chapter of Eta Sigma Phi enjoyed the 
reading of two interesting papers on 
classical subjects at their monthly 
meeting on Monday, February 15. 
Miss Narka Nelson, assistant profes¬ 
sor of Latin, read a paper entitled 
"Dux Femina Facti," which told in 
an entertaining and enlightening way 
of the part played by famous women 
in Rome, particularly during the days 
of the Republic. Laura Steele then 
read an article in which the influence 
of the famous legend of Orpheus and 
Eurydice was traced in subsequent lit¬ 
erature, art, and music. 

Secretary of (/n itan 

Talks on Citizenship 

' Captain Arthur Cundy, of Biri 
mingham, Alabama, International Sec-
J retary of Civitan, spoke informally in 
| chapel Thursday, February 18, on the 
! subject of citizenship. He particular¬ 

ly stressed the importance discipline 
plays, not only in military life, but in 
! every-day life. 

| Captain Cundy continued his speech 
by asking a senior why she came to 
J college. Next, he pointed out Ann 
Worthy Johnson, who replied that she 
j came to college to learn how to earn a 
living. That answer, though wrong, 
is, according to Captain Cundy, the 
one generally given by students. "You 
come to college," he said, "to learn to 

live." 

He then spoke about the process of 
becoming a citizen of the United 
States, and pointed out that most na¬ 
tive-born citizens did not know the 
facts required of a foreigner. He il¬ 
lustrated his point by asking the audi¬ 
ence some of the questions asked him 
on his citizenship examination. 

tenor voice of Paul Overbey and the 
baritones, Walton Bobo and Don 
White. Richard Smoot, who takes the 
comic part of the Duke, has appeared 
in similar roles in former operettas on 
the campus. 

High School Girls 

With Annual Party 

Students From Decatur, Atlanta 
Girls' High Participate 
In Swimming 

That Agnes Scott has a definite 
charm for Decatur and Atlanta Girls' 
High is proved by the fact that about 
80 of them braved the rain Friday, 
February 19, to tour the campus and 
become acquainted with the various 
activities. Miss Alberta Palmour, Hen¬ 
rietta Thompson, and Ruth Slack 
planned the entertainment. 

After Douglas Lyle, assisted by a 
few freshmen boarders, served punch 
and cookies in the Anna Young Alum¬ 
nae house, the guests made a tour of 
the campus under the guidance of 
Mary Elizabeth Leavitt, Jane Knapp, 
Katherine Patton, and Caroline For-
man. From 4:30 until 5:00 o'clock 
they were entertained in the gym by 

a swimming and diving exhibition 
given by Carolyn Forman, Ruth Slack, 
Mary Johnson, Virginia Milner, Ann 
Worthy Johnson, and Nell Echols. 
Marie Stalker acted as master of cere¬ 
monies of the exhibition, after which 
a few of the' guests took a dip. 

From 5:15 until 6:00 o'clock the 
visitors entertained themselves in the 
Murphey Candler building by dancing, 
and playing ping-pong or pool. Be¬ 
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is nevertheless .much coveted. 
Last year, the Faculty-Alumnae team 
won it. 

According to Ellen Little, president 
of the Tennis Club, there will be two 
singles tournaments this spring. Be¬ 
sides the usual school tournament, 
there will be one between the members 
of each class. The best players from 
each class will be allowed to partici¬ 
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Registration for spring sports will 
be held March 4, 5, and 6. The sports 
to be offered are archery, riding, golf, 
tennis, swimming, and May Day prac¬ 
tice. The new courses will begin after 
spring holidays. 

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VOL. XXII AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 1937 NO. 16 
Trial System Noted Speakers9 Art Exhibits, Musicales May Court is 

Of Class Cuts Feature Sixth Annual Alumnae Week-End Selected for 

I n aug urated Etchings and Concert Illustrate Alumnae Revisit Campus For Annual Fete 
"Arts and Sciences" Annual Reunion On 
As Theme March 5-6

Administration Grants Privilege Committee Names Girls From 
After Students Agitate Nominations Made By

An art exhibit, an illustrated dis¬ Alumnae will return to the campus

For Ten Years Student Body

cussion of etchings, and music by the this Friday and Saturday to observe 
Agnes Scott string ensemble are added the sixth annual alumnae week-end,

Plan Outlined By Faculty Dancers Chosen by Try-outs

features of alumnae week-end which which features this year such promi¬ 
help carry out the theme "The Arts nent guest speakers as Dr. Harmon 

After nearly ten years of student At a meeting yesterday afternoon

and Sciences." The art program in¬ Caldwell, president of the University

agitation, the administration has the May Day committee completed the

cludes an exhibit to be held on the of Georgia; Dr. William Gilmer Per¬ 

adopted—as an experiment for next selection of the members of May Court

third floor of the library, containing ry, professor of English at Georgia

quarter—a cut system, the plan for and the cast for the presentation of

works of Miss Louise Lewis, instructor Tech; and Dr. Haywood J. Pearce, Jr.,

which was outlined by a faculty com¬ John Milton's Comus, to be given on

in art at the college, and both a dis¬ professor of history at Emory. Talks 

mittee consisting of Dean Nannette Saturday, May 4.

cussion and display of etchings by by Professor Robert Holt, of the 

Hopkins, and Professors Lucile Alex¬ The following girls were chosen for

Miss Mary Wallace Kirk, past presi¬ chemistry department, and Dr. J. R. 

ander, Mary Stuart MacDougall, Rob¬ the court: Eloisa Alexander, Susan

dent of the Alumnae Association. McCain; exhibits of art works by

ert Holt, Philip Davidson, and S. G. Bryan, MyrI ChafinUJane Moore Ham¬

Miss Kirk, a trustee of Agnes Scott, Miss Mary Wallace Kirk and Miss 

Stukes. Following is the committee's ilton, Rachel Kennedy, Martha Mat;


has studied etching in New York un¬ Louise Lewis, of the Agnes Scott art

recommendation, adopted by the fac¬ shall, Nancy Moorer, Mary Reins,

der well known teachers and has her department; dedication of the Armi


ulty on February 23: Aileen Shortley, Alice Taylor, Grace 

own studio in her home. Her special stead and Hearon memorial rooms in 

Tazewell, and Kay Toole. They were

I. That students on the honor roll subject is the tumble-down negro cab¬ the library; a program by the string 
selected by the committee from nomi¬

be given the privilege of unlimited in of the south, now rapidly disap¬ ensemble under the direction of Mr. 

nations made by the student body.

cuts except that class attendance is 

pearing. Since her home is in Ala¬ C. W. Dieckmann; and the perform¬ 

Mary Malone and Frances Steele were

required at the last meeting of each bama, she has been able to get her ma¬ ance of "The Gondoliers" by the glee 

automatically included in the court as

class before, and the first meeting af¬ 

terial from real life. The paintings of club form a part of the program. Mrs.

DR. HARMON CALDWELL a result of having been nominated for

ter, a holiday. Excuses for absences 

Miss Lewis to be exhibited are done in C. W. Dieckmann is general chairman. 

—Courtesy Atlanta Journal May Queen. Attended by the court

on these days will be granted only 

various media of water color, oil, and Dr. Caldwell, who comes to the col¬ 

and by Frances Wilson, maid of honor,

(1) upon presentation of a physician's 
tempera. The subjects range from Committee Plans Program lege for the first time as a speaker, 

Lucile Dennison will preside

certificate of illness lasting a week or as queen

landscape to still life. Miss Lewis's will talk on Saturday from 11:30 to 

over the festival.

more, or (2) for other providential 

latest work will be shown here for the Members of the committee on ar¬ 12:3 0 on "Trends in Modern Legisla¬ 

The members of the cast were se¬

reasons. 

first time. rangements for alumnae week-end are: tion." Since he was dean of the law lected on the basis of try-outs heldHonor students who take cuts at The string ensemble, which is un¬ Misses Lucile Alexander, Florence school at Georgia before being presi¬ last Tuesday. Those included are:
times mentioned above (unless ex¬ der the direction of Mr. C. W. Dieck-dent, Dr. Caldwell is particularly well-

Smith, Carrie Scandrett, Louise Girar-Comus, Charline Fleece; the lady, June

cused automatically) lose the privilege mann, professor of music at Agnes deau, Annie Lloyd Liggin, Lulu Ames, fitted to speak on a subject that is so 

Matthews; attendant spirit, Ruth

of unlimited cuts. Scott, is made up of fifteen members 

Alice McDonald, Kenneth Maner, and pertinent at the present time. Tate; the lady's two brothers, Marie

II. That all students be given the from the faculty and student body. 
Mesdames E. K. Davis, B. R. Adams, Both Dr. Perry and Dr. Pearce have Stalker and Anne Thompson; Sabrina,

privilege of one cut per credit hour Among others, the ensemble will play 

H. G. Edwards, W. B. Matthews, Ar-spoken on former alumnae week-end leader of the nymphs, Helen Moses;
per quarter in each course, with the two familiar selections, The Swan by 

mand Hendee, W. E. DuPre, C. D. programs; they are returning this year the lady's father and mother, Julia

following exceptions: Saint Saens, and the intermezzo from 

Fowler, J. A. North, Richard Seaborn, by special request. Dr. Perry, talking Thing and Martha Summers; Echo,

(1) Students on the ineligible lists Cavalleria rusticana, by Mascagni. Nell 
F. L. Walker, and C. W. Hamilton. on "The Modern Novel," will speak Kathleen Daniel; young ladies, Nell
for freshmen and upper classmen. Hemphill, accompanied by the string 

from 11:30 to 12:30 on Friday; and Hemphill, Joyce Roper, and Marjorie

(2) Students whp have been offi¬ ensemble, second piano, and organ, 
Dr. Pearce, with his subject "The Rainey.

Judges to Award

cially warned regarding their acade¬ will play the first movement of Schu¬ 

Treaty of Versailles in Retrospect,"

mic work. mann's concerto. 

will speak from 10:30 to 11:30 on

III. Every absence shall count as a The art exhibitions will be open Agonistic Prize Forum Will Treat
Saturday.

cut except that excuses shall be accep¬ from 9:30-3:30 on Friday, and 9:30


T o Best Edition Professor Robert B. Holt, head of Of Honor System

ted : 1:30 on Saturday. Miss Kirk will give 

the chemistry department at Agnes

(1) Upon presentation of a phy¬ her lecture on "Etchings" Friday from 
sician's certificate of illness lasting a 10:30-1 1:30. The string ensemble Copies of the four class issues of the Scott, will talk Friday morning at The time for the general discussion
9:30.

week or more, or will play Saturday morning from Agonistic were mailed last week to the of the double honor system, scheduled 

(2) For other providential causes. 10:00-10:30. Students are invited to five judges who will base their deci¬ to take place March 4-5, has been 
Attendance is required at the last attend all these programs. sions on news stories, features, editor¬ Mary Kneale Will changed to March 5 alone. Alice Han¬ 
meeting of each class before, and the ials, make-up, originality, and busi¬ nah, president of student government, 
first meeting after, a holiday. Excuses ness management. The judges are Mr. Preside at Meet will preside over the forum to be held

Speakers on Peace

for absences on those days will be John E. Drewry, director of the Hen¬ at a student meeting during the chapel 
granted as above. Students who take ry Grady School of Journalism, Uni¬ period Friday morning.

Here for Program Mary Kneale, as president of the

cuts at these times will automatically versity of Georgia; Mr. William T. Mr. Arthur Raper, acting professor

Georgia Athletic Federation of Col¬

lose the privilege of the cut system. Wynn, of the English department at of sociology, will express his opinion

lege Women, will head the athletic

Attendance at a regularly scheduled Outstanding speakers, including the Georgia State College for Women; of the system at Agnes Scott; and

conference of that organization at the

(Continued on page 3, column 3) Miss Maud Royden, Bishop Kern, and Mr. John D. Allen, professor of jour¬ Margaret Barnes, Eliza King, and Jane

Dr. W. A. Smart, appeared in a series nalism at Mercer University; Mr. Ray¬ University of Georgia, March 5-7. 
Carithers will discuss the students'of lectures sponsored in Atlanta by The theme of the convention is to be

mond B. Nixon, professor of journal¬ opinion. These talks will be followed

Mr. Davidson Has the Emergency Peace Campaign Fri¬ "Stimulants in Athletics", and will

ism at Emory University; and Miss by expressions from the floor both for

day and Saturday, February 26 and feature discussions on such subjects as

Annie May Christie, assistant profes¬ and against the system. Since this will

Essay in New Book 27. recreational games; tournaments and

sor of English and instructor in jour¬ be the first open forum held for aFriday afternoon at five-thirty, Dr. nalism at Agnes Scott. meets; value received from national 

general discussion of the present honor

Professor Philip Davidson, of his¬ W. A. Smart, of Emory, spoke at the conferences and sport camps; and

The annual class contest, conducted system, students are especially urged

tory, has written an essay on Claude first meeting, which was held on the evaluation and analysis of one's own

during the month of February, closed to participate.

Flalstead Van Tyne, to appear in a Emory campus. He also spoke at the college W.A.A.

last Wednesday with the publication

book of essays on American historians meeting on Friday evening, which was Anne Thompson and Jane Dryfoos

of the freshman edition, headed by Di . McCain Addresses

which the University of Chicago press held at the Wesley Memorial Church, are Agnes Scott's representatives from

Mary Matthews, editor, and Eleanor

is publishing. and at which Miss Maud Royden, of the Athletic Association, and will be Ministerial Assembly

Hutchens, business manager. Editors

Mr. Van Tyne, a Pulitzer prize win¬ England, and Bishop Kern were also in charge of the discussion of the value

and business managers of the other 

ner, was head of the department of featured speakers. Bishop Kern spoke received from national conferences and

papers were: senior, Margaret Watson Dr. J. R. McCain addressed the

history at Michigan from 1903 until again at a meeting held Saturday. 

and Kitty Jones; junior, Carol Hale sport camps. Baptist ministers Monday at their

1930, the year of his death. He wrote Sherwood Eddy and Dr. Sam Frank¬ Other colleges sending delegates to

and Joyce Roper; and sophomore, Vir¬ monthly meeting at the First Baptistfive books on the American Revolu¬ lin, who were scheduled to speak at ginia Hill and Jane Dryfoos. the conference will be G. S. W. C., Church in Atlanta. He discussed plans

tion; the last one, which appeared in these meetings, were unavoidably pre¬ G. S. C. W., Statesboro, Shorter, Wes-

The Agonistic cup will be awarded for cooperation between Emory and

193 0, won for him the Pulitzer prize. 

vented from attending. the editor of the winning paper as soon leyan, University of Georgia, and Agnes Scott and other educational 

Southwestern.

as the decisions of the judges are re¬ unions around here.

Glee Club to Give 44The Gondoliers a 

ceived. Last year the cup was won by 

Mary Jane Tigert and Laura Coit

Hortense Jones, editor, and Frances

Against Gay Venetian Street Scene 

Robinson, business manager, of the 

To Attend Convention at Converse

sophomore edition.

Beautifully painted, realistic scen¬ The dazzling Italian costumes to be 
ery of a Venice street, colorful cos¬ 

worn by the entire cast, consisting of Mary Jane Tigert and Laura Coit ent, and discussion groups are to be 

tumes, gay Spanish dances accompan¬ 

Elections Schedule will be the representatives of Agnes

5 5 people, were obtained from Van held on various college problems. The

ied by castanets are outstanding fea¬ 

Scott at the convention of the South¬

Popular nominations—March 2 5.

tures of The Gondoliers, famous Gil¬ Homes', in Philadelphia. The folk ern Intercollegiate Association of full program has not yet been an¬ 
bert and Sullivan light opera to be dances, planned by Miss Eugenie Do-Posting of popular and commit¬ nounced.

Student Government to be held at 

presented by the Agnes Scott glee club zier of the physical education depart¬ 

tee nominations—March 29. Converse College, Spartanburg, S. C., Last year the convention was held 

under the direction of Mr. Johnson in ment, are a gavotte and the cachuca. 

Elections—April 1-2. on March 2 5-27. Mary Jane has been here during the spring holidays, and 

the Bucher Scott gymnasium Friday Those taking part in the former are 

asked to lead a discussion of the scope Adelaide Stevens, president of student

and Saturday at 8:30 o'clock. The Amelia Nickles, Tony Newton, Paul Nominations of class officers and 

of student government, and is now government at Agnes Scott, was vice-

scenery, which is unusually artistic, Overby, and Walton Bobo; in the lat¬ student government representatives 

making a survey of the subject. president of the association. Constance 

was designed by Mr. Glen C. James; ter, Rachel Kennedy, Tony Newton, 

—Saturday, April 3. The theme of the conference is stu¬ Kennedy, of Randolph-Macon, was

and among the unique and interesting Ruth Tate, Frances Steele, and Eliza¬ a liberating force.

Flections—Thursday, April 8. dent government as elected president for this year and will

properties is a real gondola. beth Warren. 

Many prominent speakers will be pres¬ preside over the convention. 


<tl)c ^c^onistic 

PUBLISHED WEEKLY 

Owned and published by the students of Agnes Scott 
College. 

Entered as Second Class Matter at Decatur, Georgia. 

Subscription price, $1.2J per year in advance. 
Single copies, 5c. 
1936 Member 1937 
Fbsocided GoUeeide Press 

STAFF 
Laura Steele Kathryn B. Wall 
Editor-in-Chief Business Manager 
Frances Cary Elizabeth Blackshear 
Associate Editor Advertising Manager 
Jane Guthrie 

Mary Lib Morrow 

Hortense Jones 

Frances Belford 

Mary McCann Hudson 

Nell Hemphill

Assistant Editors 

Frances Castleberry 
June Matthews Circulation Managers 
Make-Up Editor 

Frances Wilson 

Pauline Moss 

Current History

Society Editor 

Jean Chalmers

Nellie M. Gilroy 

Sports Editor

Feature Editor 

Cornelia Christie

Mary Frances Guthrie 

Club Editor

Exchange Editor 
Mildred Davis Elizabeth Warden 
Book Editor Alumnae Editor 
Editor, Associate Editor, Enid Middleton, Mary 
King, Editorial Council 

Committee Nominations 

Reveal Careful Thought 

When nominations are posted March 29, the 
nominating committee will probably feel itself 
the most unpopular group on the campus. Its 
nominations, although posted at the same time 
as the popular, will have been made long before, 
since the committee has been meeting for the 
past two weeks. 

The committee realizes that, as always, the 
school will be surprised at some of the nomina¬ 
tions made, and in many cases will criticize the 
committee—perhaps to the extent of accusing 
its members of such unfairness as personal prej¬ 
udices. WTat many in the school do not seem to 
realize is that it is the group on this committee 
that actually has worked with the girls eligible 
for positions and therefore it is this group that 
knows which ones have been most efficient and 
cooperative. The fact that a girl may be very 
popular with her class is no reason why she 
should be the one best suited for an office in 

some organization. 
So the list as it appears on March 29 will indi¬ 
cate the individual choices of the committee; it 
will in no way limit the student voting, which is 
scheduled to take place the following Thursday 
and Friday, April 1-2. All officers of major or¬ 
ganizations are elected by popular vote from a 
ballot carrying the names of both popular and 
committee nominees. 

Cooperation Should Not 

Stop With Chapel Skits 

The familiar jingle "We need cooperation, we 
need cooperation," has become so much a part of 
the Agnes Scott repertoire that it is sometimes 
questionable whether we ever realize that the 
word "cooperation" has any significance outside 
of its use in the lyrics of stunts and chapel skits. 

For all of us, however, the establishment of 
the cut system is an excellent chance to prove 
that we do realize that cooperation, like charity, 
begins at home,—with each individual one of us. 
After years of petitions and requests, we have 
finally been granted the privilege of cuts—as an 
experiment. The one and only way we can keep 
it is by cooperating in using it wisely and judic¬ 
ially. 

For day students, cooperation begins at home 
also in such matters as not piling books and 
lunches on the radiator in the lobby of Ruttrick. 
Of course, most of us may not even notice it, as 
we rush upstairs just a second before the last 
bell, but to visitors a straggling mountain of 
books and packages is not a sight calculated to 
leave a favorable impression of our college. 

For boarders, cooperation can begin in consid¬ 
ering others and not receiving phone calls after 
lights, remembering that to the students who 
are aroused from their much-needed sleep the 

THE AGONISTIC 

Campus Activities Center Around 

I. L. O. is Helpful to 
Friday Dances and Club Meetings 

International Labor 

Many Students Go Home Groups Hear Plays, Talks 

By Jean Chalmers 
Strangely enough, the League of Nations,

Those present at the dances Friday Blackfriars 
which most people admit has not done its best

night were: at the Phi Chi Formal— Blackfriars met last night in Miss 
Cooch's studio. Group 4, directed by work so far, receives a lion's share of publicity,

Frances Steele, Cary Wheeler, Rachel 
Kathryn Bowen Wall, and Group 1, whereas its sister organization, the successful

Kennedy, Callie Carmichael, Eliza¬ 

directed by Carolyn Carmichael, pre¬ 

International Labor Organization, is compara¬

beth Galbreath, Eloise Estes, Bee Mer¬ 

sented plays. 

tively unknown among college students. The lat¬

rill, Mary Venetia Smith, Betty Ayter 
was included as Part XIII in the Treaty of

cock, and Isabel Richardson. At the In¬ International Relations 

ter-Fraternity—Mary Hollingsworth, The last meeting of International Versailles, but since that time has come into an 
Kay Toole, Mary Catherine Matthews, Relations club was held yesterday existence entirely independent of the treaty or 
Lucille Cairns, Ruth Slack, Aileen afternoon in the Murphey Candler 

the league. For eighteen years the 1. L. 0. has 

Shortley, Julia Porter, Frances Wil¬ building. Margaret Watson and Jean 

been furthering the cause of world peace by im¬ 

son, Jane Guthrie, Myrl Chafin, Susan Chalmers reported on the conference 

proving international labor conditions and bring¬

Coodwyn, Strat Sloan, Mette William¬ held recently at Auburn, Alabama. 
son, and Nancy Moorer. At the A. ing about more satisfactory relations between 

T. O.—Ann Purnell. K. U. B. employers and employees. 
Girls who went home for the week¬ K. U. B. will meet this afternoon at In June of 1934 the United States, gathering
4:30 in the Murphey Candler build¬
end were: Grace Ward, to Auburn, all its international courage, agreed to join the

ing. Miss Fancher will speak on "Fea¬

Ala.; Jeanette Carroll to East Point, 

1. L. 0. in spite of the fact that the organization
ture Articles."

Ca.; Susan Coodwyn to Newnan, Ca.; 

was vaguely connected with the League. For the

Sarah Gray to Columbus, Ca.; Mary 

Chi Beta Phi Sigma sake of opponents of the League, however, it

Frances Kennedy to Crovetown, Ca.; 
Annette Williamson to Lawrenceville, The regular meeting of Chi Beta must be said that such a step in no way endan¬ 
Phi Sigma was held on Monday night,

Ca.; and Mary Willis to Augusta, Ca. gered the United States' aloofness in regard to

March 1, in the Murphey Candler

Bee Merrill and Mary V. Smith went the League, for the 1. L. 0. is in no way connect¬

building. This was a closed meeting

to Reynolds, Ca., to spend the week¬ ed with it except in a sincere determination to

at which reports were given by the

end with Susan Bryan; Mary Eleanor bring about international peace and good will.

student members.

Steele and Lois Ann Walton spent the The United States now has an opportunity to co¬ 
week-end in Elberton,-Ga., with Phylis operate with other nations in bringing about such

Cotillion Club

Johnson; and Emma McMullen, Mil¬ labor reforms as: payment of wages adequate

Cotillion club will entertain its

dred Coit, and Martha Peek Brown to maintain a reasonable standard of life; adop¬

members at a tea dance tomorrow

spent the week-end in Americus, Ca., tion of an eight-hour day where it has not al¬

afternoon, March 4, from 5 to 6

with Martha Marshall. Suzie Audrain ready been obtained; and adoption of a weekly

o'clock in the Murphey Candler build¬

went to Alabama College. rest of at least twenty-four hours.

ing. Jean Chalmers and Frances Rob¬ 

By recognizing differences of climate, habits,

inson will be hostesses. 

Paul Overbv To Be economic opportunity, and industrial tradition,

j 

the 1. L. 0. is trying to raise working standards

Pi Alpha Phi

Handsome Hero In in backward countries so that these lesser na¬

The next meeting of Pi Alpha Phi 

will be held tomorrow, March 4, at tions may compete with their more progressive

Operetta March 5-6 

7 o'clock in the Murphey Candler neighbors without taking advantage of workers 
in order to make profits.

building. Frances Belford, Margaret

Neither a picture nor a description 

Douglas, Hibernia Hassell, and Jane

of the typical tall dark and handsome 

Carithers will debate. 

hero, but a real one, in the guise of College Security Aet 
Paul Overby, will appear on the Ag¬ 
nes Scott campus, March 5 and 6, in Telegrams Arrive 

The more sensitive element of the campus,

the operetta, The Gondoliers. Twenty-

those spirits who have always been motivated by

On Founder's Day

seven other men form a supporting 

the selfless ideal, are deeply ashamed of the ego¬

cast. 

istic attitude of the student body which has been 
A preview of some of their enlight¬ Telegrams from alumnae living in displayed in nearly every open forum for the

all parts of the United States were

ening remarks, sung either by tenor, past eleven years. They are humiliated because 

sent Miss Hopkins on Founder's Day

baritone, or deep bass voices, gives an in their eager desire for personal privilege un¬

after the broadcast of the Agnes Scott

idea of the spirit of the production. feeling souls have for lo these many years agi¬

radio program. Among those sending

Says Giuseppe, the leading man tated for a cut system—not for the entire college

messages were Shirley Christian, Dean

fplayed by Paul Overby), "What's a community, mind you, but just for the students.

McKoin, Helen Handte, and Ad Ste¬

bachelor? — a mere nothing — he's a If the professorial contingent whose attitude has 

vens, all of '3 6; and Miss Mildred

chrysalis. Fie can't be said to live; he been somewhat akin to that "of patience on a

Hooten, former assistant in the library.

iust exists." And Dick Smoot, in the monument, smiling at grief" will forgive said sel¬

Alumnae wired greetings from Lit¬

role of the Duke, sings in his tenor fish aspirants, the formerly mentioned sensitive

tle Rock, Mobile, St. Petersburg,

(and remember the scene is laid in element will do all within its feeble power to

Lynchburg, and West Point, Missis¬

Venice), "But owing, I presume to an realize a similar system for those who have been

sippi. Many alumnae clubs in various

unusually wet season, the streets are overlooked and mistreated.

cities met to hear the program, on

'n such a condition that equestrian It is with such philanthropic and idealistic

which Miss Daisy Frances Smith, presi¬

exercise is impracticable." motives that a system is herein formulated, a

dent of the Alumnae Association,

While Marco (Don White) in his system which will not only make life's fitful

Miss Nannette Hopkins, Dr. J. R. Mc¬

rich baritone gives his opinion of mar¬ fever in this veil of tears less irksome for the de¬

Cain, and Mrs. S. G. Stukes took part.

riage: "What a delightful institution positories of wisdom but will also make abundant

Groups sending telegrams included

marriage is! Why have we wasted all living more possible for the partakers of knowl¬

the alumnae clubs of Athens, Birming¬

this time? Why didn't we marry ten edge. In the first place a cut system especially

ham, Charlotte, Chicago, Columbia, 

years ago?" designed for the faculty would greatly relieve

Millbrook, Wetumpka, Montgomery, 

the nervous strain which would be the inevitable

Jack Smoot, well-known to all of Richmond, Staunton, Lexington, Troy, 

result of the system if operating solely in student

Agnes Scott, adds much to the pro¬ Greenwood, Jackson, Waycross, and 

circles. Under the proposed change faculty mem¬

duction with his deep bass; while Pro¬ Blackshear. 

bers would no longer have to hope and pray that

fessor Robinson emphatically states The Atlanta and Decatur alumnae 

none of their pupils would show up for classes,

that he and the two other faculty observed Founder's Day with a ban¬ 

for if some of the too eager students appeared,

members taking part in the light opera quet at the Capitol City club. Mrs. 

the possessors of new rights could promptly dis¬

will promptly flunk any student un¬ Claude Lammers, president of the De¬ 

miss them. Some fun, eh what? On the other

der them who misses seeing The Gon¬ catur club, presided; and Mrs. W. L. 

hand such a system would enhance higher moral

doliers. Adams, president of the business girls' 

integrity among students for no longer would it

club, and Mrs. Crawford Barnett, 

be necessary to hope that the teacher was sick

president of the Atlanta club, gave 

again today— oh, not sick really, but just enjoy¬

brief messages of welcome. Professor

Reporters ing a long-needed rest. The system would pro¬

Phil ip Davidson spoke on "Govern¬ 

vide for unlimited cuts for those teachers who

ment and Pursuit of Happiness."

Reporters include: Nell Allison, give long assignments and outside reading, and 
Alice Cheeseman, Giddy Erwin, Nell who ask very annoying questions concerning the

Beck Veliowship is

Hemphill, Carol Hale, Cora Kay lesson. No cuts at all would be given those who 
Hutchins, Sarah Johnson, Douglas A ictirded to N. (Ales draw interesting pictures on the board, who 
Lyle, Frances Lee, Regina Hurwitz, never get to the lesson or even to the subject in 
Tulia Sewell, Mary Willis, Mamie Lee Norman Giles, a senior Em the allotted class period, and who encourage eat¬

at 

Ratliff, Selma Steinbach, Anne Pur¬ ing and sleeping in class. As is true of the stu


ory University, has been awarded the 
nell, Marie Merritt, Alice Reins, Myrl Bcck fellowship in accordance with | sjstem, special exceptions to the above rules 
Chafin, Louise Young, Marv Frances the decision of the committee, which been made. Unlimited cuts for all faculty 
Kennedy, Henrietta Blackwell, Mary met Saturday, February 27. Mr. T. K.' members the entire week before and after holi-

Primrose Noble, Mary Reins, Evelyn days are required. In view of the rather bother¬

Glen, chairman of the committee, an¬ 

some nervous strain inevitable, compulsory cuts

Baty, Eleanor Hutchens, Hazel Solo¬ nounced the award, which is made anmon, 
V. J. Watkins, Mary Louise to a graduate of Agnes Scott,! ^ ^ necessary the day a test is to be an-
Dobbs, Virginia Hill, Eloise McCall, Emory, or Georgia. nounced and the actual day of the ordeal. 
Louise Floughston, Mary Lang Gill, Other candidates for the scholar-j The responsibility for the success of this plan

Eugenia Williams, Grace Duggan, and j ship were: Lucile Dennison and Nel-'depends Upon faculty and students, for unless 
JeannetteCarroll. ; |je Margaret Gilroy, from Agnes Scott; they cooperate some morning a professor is gO


jangling of the phone sounds every bit as annoy¬ Business assistants are: Rachel Ken-! Robert G. Stephens and Howard Bran-; ing to walk in and find—oh, horror of horrors— 

ing and as unpleasant as the strident clanging nedy, Florence Little, Jessie Williams, : don, from Georgia; and Jimmy Tol-i oh, cursed spite—a class eagerly awaiting him-— 
of an alarm clock so early in the morning. Jane Dryfoos, Jane Carithers. i bert, from Emory. ' or vice versa. 


THE AGONISTIC 

Hearon, Armistead Memorial Rooms

High School Seniors to Undergo Visitors are Invited 
Competitive Examinations March 5 To Attend Open House To be Dedicated in New Library*/ 

Scholarships of $700 and $500 

Plans Formed For

Are Awarded Each Year 
For Best Papers 

Candler Building 

One hundred ninety-five high 

The work of two alumnae, Mrs.

school seniors from twenty-one states 

Samuel Inman Cooper and Mrs. T. 

will compete on March 5 for the $700 

Frazer Durrett, who have planned the 

and $500 scholarship awards given an¬ interior arrangements of the Murphey 
nually by Agnes Scott College. Each Candler building, is being explained 
this week to organizations having of¬

aspirant must take three examinations 

fices in the building. After having

on the following subjects: English; 

consulted an adviser about the Jacob¬ 

a choice of Latin, French or Spanish; 

ean style of the former library, Mrs.

and the elective, algebra, science, or 

Cooper and Mrs. Durrett selected the

American history. 

draperies and had them made and 

Friday the seniors from the Atlanta Since that time they have ac¬

hung.

and Decatur high schools will take the 

quired for the building lamps, tables,

examinations and have lunch on the 

and vases that conform to the archi¬ 

Agnes Scott campus. Elsewhere ex¬ 

tectural style. All these furnishings, 

ams will be given in local high schools 

with the exception of the Y. W. cur¬

from New Mexico, Michigan, Maine, 

tains, have been paid for by money

Texas, New York, New Jersey to 

available from funds at the college,

those in Georgia and neighboring 

including a sum from the budget sur¬ 

states, according to Professor S. G. 

plus.

Stukes, who is supervising the exams. 

Since all purchases have been made 
Twenty-five per cent of the awards with the view of permanency, theyis based upon the individuality of the have been expensive. It is therefore 
student, while the other seventy-five necessary for the various organizations 
per cent is based upon the results of to decide whether they will help buy

the competitive examinations. This is the same kind of draperies for their 
the fifth year that these scholarships rooms and so make it possible for Mrs. 
have been awarded. The first winner Durrett and Mrs. Cooper to continue 
of the seven hundred dollar scholar¬ 

their work. The students themselves,
ship was Norma Lee, who entered as a having neither the time nor the experi¬
freshman in 1932. Others who have ence to decide on the furnishings, are 

received first place are Frances Gary voting merely to back the alumnae in 
'37, Eliza King '3 8, Cora Kay Hutch-

their decisions. 

ins '39, and Evelyn Baty '40. The 

winner of the sixth annual contest will 

Emory Gives Play,

be announced this spring. 

"Man From Home" 
Foot Contest Held By 

Colorful flowers, a fountain that

Athletic Association 

actually plays, a stucco house which 
isn't stucco, and a stone wall which

The student whose feet are judged 

isn't stone, will make up the Sicilian 

most nearly perfect on the campus 

setting of Booth Tarkington's The 

will receive as an award a pair of 

Man From Home, which the Emory

shoes donated by the gym department. 

Players, assisted by Miss Carrie Phin-

The contest began Monday and is being 

ney Latimer, of the Agnes Scott Spok¬

sponsored by the Athletic Association en department, present

English will 

as part of the year's health program. 

in the Glenn Memorial auditorium at

The shoes to be given the winner are 

8:30 Friday evening, March 5. 
now on exhibition in the gymnasium. 

Marcus Bartlett will play the male 

Miss Llewellyn Wilburn inspected 

lead as Daniel Pike Yoorhees, attorney-

feet Monday and Tuesday afternoons 

at-law. Opposite him, Edith Strick¬ 

and will announce the champion this 

land will take the feminine lead in the 

Friday. The winner of the shoes will 

role of Ethel Granger-Simpson, a 

be one who has strong longitudinal 

spoiled heiress who is looking for an 

and anterior arches and who does not 

English title. Miss Carrie Phinney

pronote the ankles when walking. She 

Lati: ,er will play the role of Madame 

will have toes which have not been 

de Champigny.

crowded by short and narrow shoes, 

Other members of the cast are: Pete 

for the Physical Education depart¬ 

Lamas as Monsieur Le Blanc, Jack Til


ment stresses the wearing of low-

ford as the Earl of Hawcastle, David 

heeled, well-fitted shoes on the cam¬ 

Ponder as Georgeopolis, Hugh Embry 

pus. 

as Horace Granger-Simpson, Baxter 

This contest for good feet is a pre¬ Jones as Ribiere, Eddie Gazelle as 

lude to the final health contest to be Mariano, Speights Ballard as Carabin


held in April, when "Miss Health" for iere, and George Copeland as second 

Agnes Scott will be chosen. Carabiniere. 

Good Food 

is 

Good Health! 

You Can Depend 

On 

"v25 ^ 

CAFETERIA 

189-191 Peachtree St. 

In Physical Education 
Campus Sagacity Alumnae To Officiate Friday At

The Physical Education depart¬ 

Ceremony in Honor of

ment is inviting the college com¬ 

Rivals Aristotle Former Professors

munity to attend its "open house" 
which is being held today. The 

Marking the removal of their tab¬

schedule of gym classes which are During the past week the campus 
open for the visitors' inspection is: has been alive with profound remarks lets from the present Murphey Cand¬ 

9:00 a. m.—Advanced tap-danc¬ —remarks that would give Aristotle ler building, the dedication of the 
or Gertrude Stein an inferiority com¬
ing. Armistead Memorial Room and the 

10:30 a. m.—Folk-dancing. plex. Because of the democratic spirit 
Hearon Memorial Room will take place

11:30 a. m.—-Tap-dancing. of this publication, discrimination in 
in the Library Friday afternoon at

1:3 0 p. m.—Finals of badminton the matter of recognition will be 
tournament. avoided by the omission of names. A 1:30. Miss Daisy Frances Smith, presi2:
30 p. m.—Intermediate nat¬ certain history teacher who often of the Alumnae Association, will pre¬ 
ural dancing. finds herself or the class or more often side. 
the world itself in a "curious situa¬

4:30—Dance club. Mrs. C. W. Dieckmann will reread 

tion" recently made this astounding 

two memorials written to the former 
revelation — "Von Hindenburg lived English and history professors at the 

on and on until he died." Vieing for 

time of their deaths. The tablets, given

Banquet is Given 

first honors also was a similar remark 

by former students, were in the Eng¬ 

By Granddaughters made by a certain student of the "to-lish and history rooms on the first 
be or not-to-be" controversy. His sug¬ 

and second floors of the old library,

gestion, "Notice how many friends of 

now the student activities building,

The members of Granddaughters' 

yours will go mad because of love or 

where were housed the private collec¬

club and their dates will be enter¬ 

religion—I have had friends of my 

tion of books left the college by Miss

tained at an informal banquet Fri¬ 

own—," provoked his fnuch surprised 

Hearon and Dr. Armistead.

day, March 5, at 6:30 o'clock in the 

students to answer in the words of 

alumnae tea house. After coffee, 

Horatio—"Those are wild and whirl¬ 

Industrial Girls are

which will be served by Mrs. D. B. 

ing words, my Lord." 

Donaldson and Miss Nelle Chamlee, 

That statement which has aroused Visitors on Campus

alumnae secretaries, the girls and their 

the most sentiment was the one made 

dates will attend the light opera, 

recently in chapel by a certain presi¬ The industrial girls club of the At¬

The Gondoliers, to be presented by 

dent of student government—a re¬ lanta Y. W. C. A. met with the Agnes

the Agnes Scott glee club in the Bucher 

mark profound in its disillusioning Scott group on Monday, when Mr.

Scott gymnasium. 

intent—"Your father is just another Arthur Raper, acting professor of

The chairmen of the committees are: 

man to somebody else." sociology, spoke on current industrial

Caroline Armistead, date committee; 

problems. Following the talk, Isabel

Margaret Douglas, decorations com¬ 

Secretary Returns McCain led a discussion group.

mittee; and Mary Nelle Tribble, 
seating committee. Kathleen Daniel is 

Miss Alberta Palmour, alumnae field

president of the club. 

secretary, returned last week from a 

WEIL'S 10c STORE 

trip through South Georgia. She vis¬

CUTS INAUGURATED 

ited Eastman, McRae, Statesboro,

(■Continued from page 1, column 1) Has Most Anything You Need

Swainsboro, Fort Valley, Hawkinsville,

test is mandatory except for illness. 

Abbeville, and Macon.

Absence counts as a cut but the ab¬ 
sence may be excused by the Dean on 
a physician's certificate. 

Absence from each laboratory period 
shall count as two class cuts. 

You re Sure To Find Your Favorite

Note: Students on the ineligible list 
will continue under the present excuse 
system. 

TOILET GOODS

Students must make reports of ab¬ 
sences at the Dean's office as soon as 
possible after the absences. Full in¬ 
structions will be given later. at 

For the present the cut system does 
not apply to the physical education 
department. 

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THE AGONISTIC 

Miss Jackson Will "Cottage" Team Captures Little Brown Jug Professor Speaks 
Speak at Meeting On Salt Solutions 
In Traditional All-Union Basketball Meet 
Several Professors Make Plans Duke and North Carolina Are 

To Attend Convention 
In Savannah 

Miss Elizabeth Fuller Jackson, asso¬ 
ciate professor of history, and director 
of the South Atlantic section of the 
American Association of University 
Women, will give the opening address 
of welcome at the meeting of the As¬ 
sociation in Savannah, March 15-18. 
The convention, held twice yearly, is 
a national one, and attracts delegates 
from all the principal colleges of the 
country. This year all the available 
hotel space has been reserved for the 
fifteen hundred delegates expected. In 
addition to Miss Jackson, other Agnes 
Scott faculty members attending will 
be Miss Narka Nelson, representing 
Western College of Ohio, and probab¬ 
ly Miss Lucile Alexander, Miss Mary 
Stuart MacDougall, and Miss Cather¬ 
ine Torrance. 
The theme for the conference is 
"Education: The Foundation for So¬ 
cial Organization." At the opening 
meeting, Mrs. Ruth Blue Bonds, gen¬ 
eral convention manager, and cousin 
of Lettie McKay, a junior here, will 
preside. Among the noted speakers 
during the three days will be: Dr. 
Morse Cartwright, of the American 
Association of Adult Education; Pro¬ 
fessor William Hocking, from the 
philosophy department of Harvard; 
Dr. M. S. Fisher, of the social science 
department at Sarah Lawrence Col¬ 
lege; Mr. Frank Bane, executive di¬ 
rector of the Social Security Board; 
Mrs. Helen Lynk, a lecturer at Vassar, 
and co-author of the book, "Middletown"; 
Mrs. Mary Beard; Dean Gildersleeve, 
of Barnard; Dr. Marian Tolbert; 
Dr. Mary E. Woolley, President 
of Mount Holyoke; Dr. Meta Glass, 
president of the Association, and of 
Sweet Briar College. 

Ballet Russe is 

Vivid Spectacle 

Springing white skirts and splashy 
reds and blues and yellows; delicate 
music and swift, vibrant arrange¬ 
ments; and movements that ranged 
from the twinkling toes of "The 
Dance of the Little Swans" to the 
comic swaying of the "Snob," filled 
the Georgia theater Saturday evening 
as the Ballet Russe gave the last of its 
three Atlanta performances. 

"The Swan Lake," to the music of 
Tschaikowsky, was a typical Russian 
ballet, and its outstanding beauty 
seemed to be in its group movements. 

"The Fantastic Toy Shop" was a 
delightful contrast which presented 
the "Can-Can" dance and the dance 
of the "Poodles," which were particu¬ 
lar favorites. 

The concluding number was the 
lovelv "Aurora's Wedding," of which 
probably the most artistic of the dan¬ 
ces was "The Blue Bird," presented 
in shaded blue costumes by Tatiana 
Riabouchinska and David Lichine. 

Blicks 

Bowling 

Center 

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For Health's Sake 
Healthful Recreation for 
Ladies and Men at Nom¬ 
inal Cost. 

"Bowling to Tell the Truth, 
Will Retain Your Form and 
Youth" 

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20 Houston, N. E. 

The little Brown Jug will 

spend this year in possession of 

the "cottages" as a result of Fri¬ 

day's basketball games in which 

the team from Boyd, White 

House, and Gaines defeated 

teams from the other dormitor¬ 

ies, faculty, and day students. 

Red, yellow, blue, and white 

flashed from all corners of the 

gymnasium, for the teams were 

garbed in every style of gym 

suits known to modern man. 

Each group had its own style 
of introducing its members to 
the spectators. Girls from Main 
dormitory strolled in eating car¬ 
rots, which have so recently 
come into their own on the cam¬ 
pus. The Rebekah team, draped 
in flowing silks which are ordin¬ 
arily the property of the dance 
groups, tripped in while Hannah 
played a bit of spring music. 
The day students went Rebekah 
one better and wore spring flow¬ 
ers (jonquils) in their hair while 
they gracefully waved their 
scarfs (bath towels). The sig¬ 
nificance of the broom episode 
is still elusive. The athletes from 
Inman and the cottages sang 
songs which had a style all their 
own, and the faculty brought up 
the rear of introductions with a 
woe-begone tale of how they 
were doing well even to be there. 

Preliminary games had to be 
played two at once on the small 
courts, so confusion was much 
in evidence for an hour or so. 
Rebekah defeated Main 12-4 and 
the cottages defeated Inman 286 
in the first round. The girls 
were so unaccustomed to playing 
on the small courts that they fell 
over each other every time any¬ 
one tried to make a goal. Half 
the time, the ball was out of 
sight underneath a pile of hu¬ 

Turner, Austin Debate 

Wesleyan Team in April 

Jane Turner and Jean Austin will 
represent Agnes Scott in a debate with 
Wesleyan on Friday, April 23, at Wes¬ 
leyan. The subject is "Resolved, that 
the extension of consumers' coopera¬ 
tives would contribute to public wel¬ 
fare." 

Agnes Scott will defend the affir¬ 
mative side of the issue. The debates 
are to be ten minutes each, with a re¬ 
buttal of five minutes. 

This will be the first time in sev¬ 
eral years that Pi Alpha Phi has sent 
debaters to Wesleyan; two years ago 
the two colleges met in a debate on the 
Agnes Scott campus. 

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manity. Helen Carson, however, 
playing for Inman, thrilled the 
spectators with her long shots, 
and Laura Coit, on the cottages 
team, did some of her best play¬ 
ing. 

The faculty -cottages game 
turned out to be practically a 
fight. Last year the Brown Jug 
was carried off by none other 
than the faculty. Their team was 
somewhat crippled Friday, how-

i ever, because Dr. Sweet refused 
to allow Miss Wilburn, even if 
she is head of the physical edu¬ 
cation department, to play. The 
teachers were going strong, 
however, and were a serious 
threat to their underlings. It 
was very queer to hear Miss 
Mitchell, when she wanted to 
pass the ball, shriek out "Miss 
Haynes, here!" Miss Mitchell 
was in there trying to do triple-
guard duty on her half of the 
court, but even she and Miss 
Haynes couldn't keep the Wil¬ 
liams sisters away from the 
goal, so the cottages won 25-18. 
Meanwhile, the day students 

Mr. Runyon Plans 
Garden of Local 
Wild Bulbs, Ferns 

"We want a real wild flower gar¬ 
den, filled with spring blossoms and 
ferns," said Dr. Ernest Runyon, ex¬ 
plaining the latest project of the bot¬ 
any department. The plan concerns 
the garden plot which has been laid 
out in front of Science Hall, and 
which will be filled with plants native 
to this vicinity. 

Although soil has been brought, 
stone steps laid, and a few bulbs 
planted, the real collection of flowers 
has not yet been begun. Dr. Runyon 
says the plants may be obtained from 
two sources: from nurseries (in so far 
as nurseries sell wild flowers), and 
from field trips made by the local 
Flora class (in so far as they do not 
violate state conservation laws). 

Alice Hannah is student chairman 
of the wild flower garden project. 

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were defeating Rebekah 16-8, 

with Virginia Milner and Mary 

Evelyn Garner making the 

points. 

When the cottages and day 
students met in the finals, the 
two teams looked lost out on the 
! wide expanse of territory, for 
the large court could at last be 
used. This was the third game 
for the cottages, but the team 

didn't seem tired, and it proved 

its ability by defeating the day 

students 30-22. 

Line-ups were: 

REBEKAH MAIN 

Kneale (4) R.F. MacGuire (2)

Thompson (12) L.F. Purnell (2)

Noble (2) C.F. Johnson 

Stalker C.G. Steele 

Taylor R.G. Cuddy

Gary L.G. Hamilton 

FACULTY INMAN 

Vardell (8) R.F. Carson (2)

Miller (4) L.F. Slack 

Carlson (6) C.F. Guinn (4)

Haynes C.G. Moses 

Mitchell R.G. Moffett 

Dyer L.G. Montgomery

DAY STUDENTS COTTAGES 

Flynt (4) R.F. Coit (20)

Garner (20) L.F. Williams, E. 27 

Milner (12) C.F. Williams, J. 36 

McDonald C.G. Armentrout 

Reins R.G. Ware 

Thompson L.G. Crisp

Miss Bee Miller, Miss Elizabeth 

Mitchell, Mary Eleanor Steele, and 

Jane Moore Hamilton acted as ref¬ 

erees. Mary Alderman and Mutt Fite 

kept time. (Goals indicated are total 

number each girl made for all games.) 

Economics courses are more popular 
than any other courses given at the 
University of California. A survey 
shows that economics has reached a 
new high in schools throughout the 
country. 

Co-eds of the University of Wiscon¬ 
sin use enough lipstick annually to 
paint four large size barns, according 
to recent estimations. 

BOWEN 

Joint Hosts At Meet 
Of Physicists 

Professor Schuyler Christian, head 
of the physics and astronomy depart¬ 
ment, gave a report on "Electrical 
Properties of Salt Solutions" at the 
physics convention which he attended 
last month. The convention was a 
joint meeting of the Southeastern sec¬ 
tion of the American Physical Society, 
the General American Physical Soci¬ 
ety, and the American Association of 
Physics Teachers. The hosts were Duke 
University and the University of North 
Carolina. 

Agnes Scott is particularly interest¬ 
ed in this convention because the 
Southeastern section of the American 
Physical Society was begun here, with 
Emory's assistance, three years ago 
after Dr. Arthur Compton was pre¬ 
sented in lecture on our campus. 

The chief theme of the convention 
was "The Internal Structure of the 
Nucleus" which is the fundamental 
interest of present day physicists. Con¬ 
nected with this theme was the sub¬ 
ordinated theme, "Methods of teach¬ 
ing to help people appreciate physics." 

Dr. McCain Delivers 

Founder's Day Speech 

Dr. J. R. McCain, president of Ag¬ 
nes Scott, will deliver the Founder's 
Day address at Randolph-Macon on 
March 12; he will speak on "Our 
Job." Randolph-Macon was founded 
in 1891, two years after Agnes Scott, 
and was started as a college, whereas 
Agnes Scott was a grammar school. 

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VOL. XXII 

Students are 

To Have Cuts 

In Gym Work 

System Will Be On Same Basis 
As That Used In Other 
Departments 

Honor Group Is Announced 

Cuts in the physical education de¬ 
partment will be on the same basis as 
in the other departments of the col¬ 
lege, that is, three cuts a quarter for 
the three hour course in physical edu¬ 
cation. 

Unlimited cuts will not be given 
those students who made the honor 
roll, unless they have also satisfied the 
requirements for an honor group in 
physical education. This honor group 
requires courses in swimming and 
dancing, a grade of B or above in 
posture, good feet, (a student with 
weak arches will be able to make the 
honor group, if the gym department 
is convinced that she is trying to im¬ 
prove the condition of her feet), and 
a grade of B or above in physical edu¬ 
cation courses taken the year before. 

If a student on the ineligible list is 
doing a very good quality of work in 
the department of physical education, 
she will have the privilege of three 
cuts. However, any student not doing 
satisfactory work in physical educa¬ 
tion may forfeit her privilege of gym 
cuts. Slips are to be signed when cuts 
are taken just as in regular classes and 
placed in a box in the waiting room 
outside Miss Wilburn's office. 

Those students who have satisfied 
the honor group requirements are: 
juniors-—Ruth Tate, Anne Thompson, 
Elizabeth Blackshear, Martha Peek 
Brown, Laura Coit, Ann Worthy 
Johnson, Ola Kelly, Ellen Little, Bee 
Merrill, Frances Robinson; sophomores 
—Mildred Coit, Jane Moore Hamilton, 
Helen Kirkpatrick, Douglas Lyle, 
Flora McGuire, Helen Moses, and Har¬ 
riet Von Grimp. 

Miss Jackson is 

A.A.U.W. Officer 
Miss Elizabeth Fuller Jackson, asso¬ 
ciate professor of history here, was 
elected regional director of the Ameri¬ 
can Association of University Women 
at the convention held March 15-18, 
in Savannah, Georgia. Miss Jackson 
has for some time been acting in this 
capacity. 

Mrs. Ruth Blue Barnes, general 
convention manager and an alumna of 
Agnes Scott, presided over the con¬ 
vention, which was opened with an 
address of welcome by Miss Jackson, 
representing the South Atlantic sec¬ 
tion of the organization. 

Sectional meetings were held to con¬ 
sider adult education, international re¬ 
lations, social studies, and arts. Many 
prominent speakers presented various 
current problems, and afterwards the 
meetings were opened to discussion. 
Dr. Marion Talbot, founder of the A. 

A. U. W., spoke at an informal din¬ 
ner of the South Atlantic section. 
About three hundred members were 
present. 
Miss Smith is Present 

At Classical Assembly 

Miss Lillian Smith, professor of 
Latin at Agnes Scott College, attend¬ 
ed a meeting of the Classical Associa¬ 
tion of the Middle West and South 
Thursday, March 25, at Nashville. 
Members of the convention, who in¬ 
cluded teachers of the classics in col¬ 
leges and high schools from Michigan 
to Louisiana, were entertained by a 
banquet and lectures from well-known 
authorities in the field of the classics. 

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 1937 

Canadian Peer

Athletic Board Junior Winners 

Gives Program Visits College 

Sir Herbert Ames Gives Series

Thompson, Dryfoos Make Re¬ 

of Lectures On European

ports; Thing and Thompson 

War Situation

Get Athletic Letters 

Sir Herbert Ames, the first "world

Reports of Agnes Scott's representa¬ 
tives at the Georgia Athletic Federa¬ treasurer" and a former member of 
tion of College Women and the award the Canadian Parliament, was visitor 
of athletic association honors were the 

and lecturer on the Agnes Scott cam¬ 

main features of the chapel program 

pus the latter part of the week.

Friday, March 26. 

Wednesday morning he spoke to the

Anne Thompson reported on the 
activities of the conference, including international law and relations class on 
college discussion groups, study groups, Mr. Baldwin's Dilemma." Wednesday 
and games. She summarized various 

night he lectured in Gaines chapel on 

suggestions made by the delegates as 

the subject "Does German Rearmament

to individual recreation, team games, 

Necessarily Mean War?" Thursday

and mixed competition. 
Jane Dryfoos gave the purpose, morning, when he addressed the Euro¬ 
function, and organization of the G. pean history class, his topic was "The 

A. F. C. W. and the National Ama¬ Bubbling Cauldron of Central Eu¬ 
teur Athletic Federation. This year rope." Saturday he spoke to them 
was the eighth session of G. A. F. C. about the Polish Corridor. His lectures 
W., an association among state college all contained a hopeful note concern¬ 
athletic clubs founded by Miss Llew¬ Above are Joyce Roper and Carol ing the European war situation. 

ellyn Wilburn, the head of Agnes Hale, business manager and editor of Sir Herbert has had long experience 
Scott's physical education department. the junior Agonistic. in public service as a member of the 
Athletic letters were awarded to Montreal city council, representative 
Anne Thompson and Julia Thing. Vir¬ Juniors Receive in the Canadian Parliament, honorary 
ginia Milner, manager, received the secretary -general of the Canadian 
basketball banner for this season in Agonistic Award Patriotic Fund during the World War, 
behalf of the freshman team, of which and the financial director of the treas¬ 
Jane Moses was captain. It was an¬ For C1ass Issue ury of the League of Nations. He is 
nounced that Virginia had been chosen now on a lecturing tour sponsored by 
to represent the freshman class on the Carnegie Endowment for Inter¬

Repeating its success of last year,

A. A. board. national Peace.
the junior class won first place in the

Julia Thing, president of A. A., pre¬ 

annual Agonistic contest; Carol Hale

sented the suggestion that the consti¬ 

and Joyce Roper were editor and busi¬ Psychology Teachers

tution of the association be changed 

ness manager of the prize-winning pa¬

to put the vice-president in charge of Complete New Book

per. The senior edition, edited by

all recreational activities instead of one 

Margaret Watson and Kitty Jones,

sport. 

placed second; and the sophomore, ed¬ Miss Emily Dexter, associate pro¬ 
ited by Virginia Hill and Jane Dry¬ fessor of psychology and education, 
Soloist, Orchestra foos, came third. assisted by Miss Katherine Omwake, 
Three of the five judges gave first assistant professor in the same depart¬ 
In Concert Tonight place to the juniors; the other two ment, has just completed the tempor¬ 
placed the senior edition first. Judges ary copy of her book, Introduction to 
in the contest were: Mr. John E. the Fields of Psychology. The book is

In Atlanta's first presentation of a 

world renowned soloist and an inter¬ Drewry, director of the Henry Grady a result of nine months preparation 
nationally famous orchestra simultan¬ School of Journalism, University of and is to be used as a supplement to 
eously, Albert Spalding will appear in Georgia; Mr. William T. Wynn, of the the introductory psychology course 

concert with the St. Louis Symphony English department at the Georgia given on the campus. It contains thir¬ 
Orchestra at the Georgia Theatre this State College for Women; Mr. John teen chapters, each dealing with a dif¬ 
evening at 6:45 and 9 o'clock. The D. Allen, professor of journalism at ferent field of psychology. An order 
Mercer University; Mr. Raymond B. for fifty copies of the book has been

two performances are necessary to ac¬ 

placed by a

commodate all who hold tickets to this Nixon, professor of journalism at Em¬ college in South Carolina, 

ory University; and Miss Annie May and several of the leading publishing

program of the All-Star Series. 
The featured part of the concert Christie, assistant professor of English companies have also requested copies. 
will be Spalding's playing of Bruch's at Agnes Scott. 
Concerto in G minor, Opus 26. Other Last year Hortense Jones and Fran¬ Benches, Flowers 
selections will include: Bach's Toccato 

ces Robinson were editor and business 
in D minor, Prelude to Wagner's "Lo¬ manager of the winning paper. Improve Garden 
hengrin," Tschaikowsky's Overture-
Fantasia, "Romeo and Juliet," Debus-

Directors Headed 

To provide a more spacious and at¬

sey's "L'Apres-midi d'un Faune," and 

tractive background for parties and

the Polka and Fugue of Weinberger's By Miss Wilburn 

to add to the enjoyment of the com¬

"Schwands, the Bag-Piper." 

munity, the alumnae are sponsoring 
Miss Llewellyn Wilburn, associate the improvement of Agnes Scott's

Group Honors Miss Dexter 

professor of physical education, was alumnae garden. Worked from plans 

elected president of the Southern As¬ created by Mr. W. L. Monroe, Atlanta 

Associate Professor Emily Dexter, sociation of Directors of Physical Ed¬ landscape architect and nurseryman,
who is well-known for her work in ucation for College Women for the the garden will have in it stone bench¬ 
psychology and philosophy, was elect¬ 1937-3 8 and 193 8-39 terms. The es, new oval beds of flowers, and 
ed a member of the Council of the Southern Association is a division of gravel walks. 
Southern Society for Philosophy and the National Association of Directors The committee which is in chargePsychology at a meeting of the society of Physical Education for College of the project includes: Mrs. Foote 
held in Columbia, South Carolina, Fri¬ Women, of which Agnes Scott is a Brawley, Mrs. Robert Holt, and Mrs. 
day and Saturday, March 26-27. member. 

S. G. Stukes. 
Carl Sandburg, Next Lecturer at Agnes Scott, 

Writes Poetry from a Varied, Interesting Life 

By Virginia Hfll included the varied occupations of ing in Porto Rico for eight months. 
Carl Sandburg, who writes of the milk-wagon driver, barber shop porter, Here he met the friend who persuaded 
many people, has himself lived the scene shifter, and truck driver in a him to go to Lombard College. En¬ 
brick yard. At seventeen, in freight rolled there from 1898 to 1902, he

lives of several men. So great has his 

and baggage cars, the boy set out for earned expenses "tutor,

poetry been that each of the numer¬ his as bellous 
mere facts has gained significance the west, where he worked in wheat ringer, and janitor of the gymnasium," 
and color, so that a bare outline of his fields, washed dishes in hotels, helped and was at the same time captain of 
experience is fascinating. carpenters, and went from house to the basketball team and editor of the 

Born at Galesburg, Illinois, January house painting stoves for food. When monthly magazine and the annual. 
6, 1878, of Swede parents, he was first he returned to Galesburg, he made After graduation, Sandburg travel¬ 
Carl Johnson, until his father, both¬ himself an apprentice to a house ed, selling films for Underwood and 
ered with the frequent mixing of pay painter. Underwood, and then went into news¬ 
envelopes in his railroad gang, went At the outbreak of the Spanish-paper work in Milwaukee where he 
to court to have his name changed. American War, Sandburg became a married Lillian Steichen in 1908, and 
The subsequent boyhood of Sandburg soldier, joining the infantry and serv¬ (Continued on page 4, column 1) 

NO. 17 

Gilroy, Spivey 

Will Debate 

At Newcomb 

F. B. Harris, M. L. Fairly, Will 
Speak Here in Dual Meet 
On April 16 

Wesleyan Debate April 23 

Agnes Scott's varsity debating team 
will meet that of Sophie Newcomb 
April 16 in a dual debate on the sub¬ 
ject, "Resolved: that Congress should 
be empowered to fix minimum wage 
and maximum hour laws for indus¬ 
try." Nellie Margaret Gilroy and 
Brooks Spivey will go to the New Or¬ 
leans college to uphold the affirmative 
side of the question; while Fannie B. 
Harris and Mary Lillian Fairly will 
remain at Agnes Scott to take the 
negative. 

Each debater will speak ten minutes, 
and each will have a five-minute re¬ 
buttal. This debate will replace the 
traditional triangular debate in which 
Randolph-Macon usually participates. 
The Virginia college was unable to en¬ 
ter this year because the date conflict¬ 
ed with her schedule. 

Pi Alpha Phi will also send debaters 
to Wesleyan on Friday, April 23, for 
a debate on the subject, "Resolved: 
that the extension of consumers co¬ 
operatives would contribute to public 
welfare." Jane Turner and Jean Aus¬ 
tin will defend the affirmative side of 
the issue, giving ten-minute speeches 
and five-minute rebuttals. 

This will be the first time in several 
years that Pi Alpha Phi has sent de¬ 
baters to Wesleyan; two years ago the 
two colleges met in debate on the Ag¬ 
nes Scott campus. 

Awards Given for 

Study in London 

Miss Frances Gooch, head of the 
spoken English department, has been 
appointed to give twelve scholarships 
to the Central School of London. 
These scholarships are awarded by Miss 
Elsie Fogarty, a distinguished British 
educator. 

The awards include tuition for six 

weeks and are equivalent to about sev¬ 

enty-five dollars. They are to be 

awarded to those having a certain 

amount of college training and a defi¬ 

nite interest in speech. The American 

Drama League, which sponsors the trip 

to the Central School of London, pro¬ 

vides the round trip expenses, which 

are about $597, from New York to 

New York. 

More than half of the scholarships 
have been awarded but others are to 
be had by application. Girls interested 
in the award are requested to see Miss 
Gooch. 

I. McCain Presides at 
State Y. Meet at Athens 

With Isabel McCain presiding, the 
annual spring conference of the stu¬ 
dent Y. M. C. A.'s and Y. W. C. A.'s 
of Georgia met at the University of 
Georgia March 19-21. Over one hun¬ 
dred delegates were present. 

Among the Agnes Scott students 
who attended the conference was 
Alice Hannah, president of student 
government. She was one of the stu¬ 
dent speakers on the subject, "Christ¬ 
ian Dynamic for Life," which was the 
theme of the conference. Primrose No¬ 
ble, Millie Coit, and Julia Moseley also 
went from Agnes Scott. 

New officers for next year elected 
at the conference are: president, James 
Webb of Emory University; vice-
president, Margaret Garbutt of G. S. 

C. W.; secretary, Ed Vinson of Tech; 
treasurer, Joe Quillian of Piedmont. 

THE AGONISTIC 

4Theatre Street9 is Delightful Story


(U)c Agonistic 

Tamara Karsavina, Ballet Dancer

Of 

PUBLISHED WEEKLY 

Owned and published by the students of Agnes Scott 
College. 

Entered as Second Class Matter at Decatur, Georgia. 

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Current History

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Feature Editor 

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Club Editor

Exchange Editor 
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Book Editor 

Alumnae Editor 
Editor, Associate Editor, Enid Middleton, Mary 
King, Editorial Council 

Buy Lecture Tickets Early 

With the announcement of Carl Sandburg's ar¬ 
rival at Agnes Scott on April 13 comes the re¬ 
minder that the Lecture Association always ap¬ 
preciates it if students will buy their tickets 
early. These tickets will be on sale in the lobby 
of Buttrick Saturday, April 10, from 8:45 to 
12:30; and Monday and Tuesday, April 12 and 
13, from 8:45 to 12:30 and from 1:30 to 3:00. 
Student prices are 75 cents for reserved seats 
and 50 cents for unreserved; general admission 

is $1.00 for reserved seats and 75 cents for un¬ 
reserved. 

Vote Tomorrow 

Spirited discussions in Buttrick, at the table, 
and in the dormitories proclaim that the nomi¬ 
nations for student officers next year have been 
posted. These nominees have been selected both 
by the student body as a whole and by a special 
committee composed of the present officers of 
the various elective campus organizations. Per¬ 
haps right now you are trying to decide whose 
name to put on your ballot when you vote 
tomorrow and the next day. Some of the can¬ 
didates you know; some you don't. In many 
cases you may even feel unqualified to decide 
and may ask others for their opinions. Inevita¬ 
bly you will hear some criticism certainly of the 
committee — and perhaps of the popular— 
choices, as having been made not according to 
capability but according to individual likes and 
dislikes. Remember, however, when you con¬ 
sider the candidates, that the members of the 
nominating committee, in suggesting girls for 
the various offices, are not trying to dictate to 
you in the matter. Their nominees merely repre¬ 
sent those whom the majority of the group—as 
individuals who have worked side by side with 
these eligible students—have found peculiarly 
fitted for certain positions, just as the popular 
nominations indicate the preferences of the ma¬ 
jority of the students. 

Plan for Open Forum 

Sometime within the next two weeks Student 
Government will lead in an open forum a discus¬ 
sion concerning the rules and regulations that 
are not now clear to the students. A committee 
composed of members of Student Government 
has once or twice in the past years undertaken 
a survey of all regulations in an effort to clarify 
them to the students. This year a committee 
composed of three members will make the sur¬ 
vey, and, in addition, the students themselves 
will have the opportunity to introduce from the 
floor a discussion of such misunderstood rules as 
those concerning the number of dates allowed 
each week and the proper way of signing out for 
Sunday dinner. No changes can be made during 
the forum, but the rules that are brought up will 
be submitted by Student Government to the 
dean's office for further consideration, that may 
lead to changes. Because of the apparent misun¬ 
derstanding of the rules it is of great importance 
that students familiarize themselves with the 
present regulations before the discussion period. 

The fortress of my heart can storm; 

Gay, Novel Story of Hard Work My art alone there reigns. 

Set in Picturesque Days There are charming pictures of her 

of Old Russia home life in St. Petersburg, as it was 

then called. Although her father had 

THEATRE STREET the position of mime and first dancer 

By TAMARA KARSAVINA at the Imperial Ballet, the family was 

so needy that they were not always

(Reviewed by Hibernia Hassell) 

possessed of the two handkerchiefs,

These reminiscences of Madame Kar¬ 

like those which went to make little

savina make one of the most delightful 

Karsavina's first lovely dress. He, like

and novel books ever written about 

so many actors, was determined that

the theatre. To make it more remark¬ 

his daughter should escape that calling.

able, she wrote it in English herself, 

On his side was the old "Dovniasha"

although there was a time when she 

who never changed her opinions, even 

was dazzling London with the fact 

after her mistress became a shining

that she could buy a pigskin bag and 

name in Russia. She was sure that

boast that it was made of "real pork." 

the ballet dancers were all made soft

It is a gay and buoyant story of 

by a rule which ordered that by stages

hard work, set in a scene very strange 

their bones should be broken. The

and picturesque to us, the splendid 

mother was the heroic figure of the

building called Theatre Street, in St. 

family, keeping it together by varied

Petersburg, where the ballet learned 

practical devices; it was because of her

and still learns its art. It had always 

that the child was allowed at last to

been Karsavina's grand ambition to 

face the examiners.

be graduated in Theatre Street, and un¬ 

After she had passed all the mental,

til she met the man who later became 

moral, and physical requirements to en¬

her husband, she kept this little verse 

ter Theatre Street, Karsavina devoted 

always before her: 

herself to six years of rigid convent 
No rhymes of languid poets, life, and danced herself from the 
No melting sighs of swain, brown frock to pink and from pink 

to white. 

Life in Theatre Street, despite its 
Miss Mary W. Kirk rigour and hard work, was full of hu¬ 
mor and incident. It was a rule in 
Visits Agnes Scott the school that everybody must "adore" 
someone, and as Karsavina does not 
seem to have been very good at ador¬ 

Back on the campus several weeks 

ing, the girls picked out a new master 

ago for alumnae week-end was one of 

for her, whom she at once obediently

Agnes Scott's most distinguished 

"adored." To prove her devotion, they

alumnae, Miss Mary Wallace Kirk, of 

dared her to drink glass after glass of 

Tuscumbia, Alabama. Interested in art 

very tepid water until she was sick 

from her childhood, Miss Kirk took 

and couldn't hold anymore. 

up etching as a favorite pastime, and 

A third of the book is devoted to 

is now well known in the South for 

Theatre Street, and there follow many

the lovely work that she does. She de¬ 

pages about the famous Marinsky

scribed the involved process of making 

Theatre, where we see her in brilliant 

the etchings, which closely resembles 

pictures dancing her way to the stars. 

that of engraving. When asked where 

What the ballet meant in those days in 

she found her subjects, she replied that 

St. Petersburg is shown by these 

she took them from her own commun¬ 

words: 

ity: the barn in the back yard, the 

"To obtain a seat, a petition to the 
negro cabin just outside town, the Chancery of the Imperial Theatres had 

tumble-down shack of the tenant far¬ 

to be filed . . . the seats were handed 

mer. Such subjects, she said, are "in¬ down from father to son." 

timately a part of the Southern envi¬ In the remaining third of the book, 
ronment," and possess the "lowly when Diaghileff appears, the days of 
charm of the life that is lived in splendor begin, with his bringing of 

them." Miss Kirk finds the contacts jhe ballet to Paris and London to 

which she makes with various people charm the western world. This is fol¬ 
while sketching very interesting and lowed by the return to St. Petersburgenlightening. Usually, those to whom to be among her people in the days of 

she speaks are delighted to have her the revolution, when her own servant 
use their house or farm for a subject; is one of the searchers of the house 
only occasionally does she meet oppo-to house committee; then comes Kar¬ 
savina's thrilling escape from Russia, 

A few of Miss Kirk's etchings are where the much-changed Theatre 
now in the alumnae house on display. Street in some form still goes on. 
Among them are such titles as "Aunt (Tamara Karsavina appeared in the 
Frankie's Cabin," "Trees in Winter," Russian Ballet when it came to At¬ 

"Tenant House," "Richard's House," lanta this spring, on the All-Star Con¬ 
"Old Stone Cabin," "Baptist Hill." cert series.) 
The last was taken from a scene 
through her bedroom window, and 
was praised by a small boy of six be¬ Reporters 
cause "it is like it is; they always have 
trash in the yard." Reporters include: Nell Allison, 

Alice Cheeseman, Giddy Erwin, Nell 
Hemphill, Carol Hale, Cora Kay

Exchanges 

Hutchins, Sarah Johnson, Douglas 
Lyle, Frances Lee, Regina Hurwitz, 
The University of Washington is Julia Sewell, Mary Willis, Mamie Lee 
placing blackboards and chalk in the Ratliff, Selma Steinbach, Anne Purdormitory 
phone booths for those who nell, Marie Merritt, Alice Reins, Myrl 
doodle" while they talk. Chafin, Louise Young, Mary Frances 
Kennedy, Henrietta Blackwell, Mary 

An Atlanta ticket agent telephoned Primrose Noble, Mary Reins, Evelyn 
the administration of this college re¬ Baty, Eleanor Hutchens, Hazel Solo¬ 
cently in search of some one who could mon, V. J. Watkins, Mary Louise 
interpret Japanese. A Japanese who Dobbs, Virginia Hill, Eloise McCall, 
wanted to buy a ticket to some place, Louise Houghston, Mary Lang Gill, 
he thought, but he couldn't speak Eugenia Williams, Grace Duggan, and 
English. Jeannette Carroll. 

Business assistants are: Rachel Ken¬ 

An "electric eye" detects late-com¬ nedy, Florence Little, Jessie Williams, 
ers to physics classes at St. Thomas Jane Dryfoos, Jane Carithers. 
College. Even while the professor's 

Permanent jobs for college grad¬

back is turned, a person can't slip in 

uates are now being offered in greater

undetected, for he must cross the light 

numbers than in the prosperous years

beam, and when he does, a gong clangs. 

of '2 8 and '29, says Herbert Williams,

—(ACP.) 

director of the placement bureau at 
Cornell University. Not only are per¬

| Phlegmatic, crunch, flatulent, caca


manent jobs becoming more available

' phony, treachery, sap, jazz, plutocrat, 

now but many employers are hiring

j gripe, and plump are the ten most un


undergraduate students for summer

| pleasant words in the English language, 

employment, with the idea of train¬

! says the National Association of 

ing them for permanent positions

Teachers of Speech.— (ACP.) 

after graduation.— (ACP.) 

Roosevelt's plan for reorganizing the Supreme 

Court started a battle which has been raging for 

six weeks now. The president proposed that one 

new justice be added to the bench for each of 

those who reach the age of seventy, and that the 

latter be allowed to resign if they see fit. 

Upholding his proposal to the people of the 

country by radio, the president said that we must 

be ready to meet the crisis, similar to that of 

1929, which is threatening in a year or two. 

Roosevelt claims he objects not to the institution 

of the court but to its personnel which is, he 

says, "fearful of the future." He objects to the 

policy-making decisions of the court, and declares 

that branch of the government has set itself up 

as a super-legislature. It has been claimed by 

supporters of the president that the efficiency 

of the court would be improved by increasing its 

size. The chief justice himself replied to this. 

He defended the present court's efficiency by 

showing that the bench is not behind in render¬ 

ing decisions on cases in its docket. 

Those who oppose the suggested program are 

not only the administration's usual opposition— 

the conservatives—but also a vociferous group 

of liberals who have previously supported Roose¬ 

velt. They alarmedly attack the president for 

thinking he alone knows what is for the coun¬ 

try's good. Even the liberals are afraid of in¬ 

creasing the executive's authority, lest the na¬ 

tion's traditional freedom be endangered. Most 

of the opposition witnesses called by the Senate 

judiciary committee believe a change should be 

made, but that it should be made by amending 

the Constitution, thus giving the people of the 

country a chance to pass on the plan. Roosevelt 

promised before the election to use the amend¬ 

ment method, it is claimed. Now the president 

says amending is too slow a process, and he will 

resort to it only if his present plan fails. 

The Literary Digest calls the court reorgani¬ 
zation program the "Great Issue of 1937." The 
terminology seems apt, because feeling runs high 
throughout the country on the subject. There 
is at stake a part of our government which is 
unique. In no other nation can the will of the 
representative body be overridden by the courts. 
The defense which this conservative body af¬ 
fords existing institutions seems to some Ameri¬ 
cans to be a bulwark against the establishment 
of a dictatorship here, while others feel equally 
sure that it retards the progress of the country. 
Which group will triumph is still very doubtful, 

Agnes Scott Girls Make 

Names for Themselves 

Juliet's "What's in a name? A rose by any 
other name would smell as sweet" was evidently 
the sentiment of many last week in the popular 
nomination of student officials. Quite a number 
of artistic souls, following the Shakespearean 
tradition, sacrificed a more prosaic accuracy in 
regard to spelling for the sake of a higher truth. 
As a result of their endeavors many victims 
found themselves with new and sometimes quite 
euphonious names. Much variety was to be 
found in the rendition of Amelia Nickels' sur¬ 
name. Among those submitted were Nickols, 
Nichols, Nilkols, Nicklas, and Nicholas. Winifred 
Kellersberger, also, was the subject of much orig¬ 
inality. Those new spellings bestowed upon her 
name included Winifried, Winefied, Kellersberg, 
and Kellsbarger. Callie Carmichael was another 
name frequently mutilated with such variations 
as Kelly and Kitty and with one ballot marked 
simply Callie. The name of Virginia Watson, 
known affectionately as "Gina," was presented 
with curious interpretations such as Jhinna and 
Jenner which, by the way, seem phonetically 
more correct than the spelling upon which she 
now insists. Interesting, too, were attempts to 
make Hortense Jones' name more individual. Al¬ 
though such efforts as Hortentz and Hortence 
Joner were presented, by far the most compell¬ 
ing was Hawkins Jones. Others who did not es¬ 
cape this creative streak in those possessing the 
franchise were Cora Kay Hutchins, who was 
twice blessed with the name Cora Kay Kitchins; 
Jane Guthrie, who was newly christened Jane 
Gurthie and Gutherie; and Jane Dryfoos, whose 
name spelled by some, Dryfus and Dreyfoss 
while others prefer Dyptoos. Among other mu¬ 
tilations were to be found Carol Hale's name 
spelled Carrol Hail, Hibernia Hassell spelled Hybernia 
Hassey, and Laura Coit spelled Laurra 
Coyote. 

There were those, however, who so strongly 
felt the impulse of "What's in a name" that they 
didn't even bother to change the spelling, sub¬ 
mitting their own preference in its place. The 
result of one such motivation was the classic ex¬ 
ample—the ballot which simply read—"Mary-
Alice Newton's Sister." 


Sir Herbert Ames Reviews 
Life of Many Eventful Years 
Famous Lecturer Names College Audiences, Switzerland, Canada 

As Preferences and Terms United States Best 
"Foreign" Residence 

By Jean Chalmers His traveling companion is Michael, 
his Irish chauffeur, of whom he is

"I am six feet one, will be seventy-

very fond. According to Sir Herbert,

four my next birthday, and have two 

Michael takes care of him and the

feet and two hands," is the short and 

family as if he were one of them. Late¬

pointed description of himself given 

ly Michael is always found reading his

by Sir Herbert Ames, former treasurer 

copy of "Gone With the Wind." Sir

of the League of Nations Secretariat, 

Herbert has not found time to read

who stayed on the campus last week 

the novel yet, but he says that he

and lectured at various schools in At¬ 

knows that Michael can be discovered

lanta and Decatur. Agnes Scott is one 

any time of day curled up in the au¬

of twenty-five colleges at which he 

tomobile with the book. He is now

is lecturing on his present southern 

reading the pages describing the fight¬

tour. 

ing around Decatur and has spent

Hostesses at the alumnae house, 

most of his time locating the places

where Sir Herbert stopped, claim that 

mentioned by Margaret Mitchell. He

the first night the distinguished vis¬ 

even left Sir Herbert long enough to

itor arrived, they heard a very noisy 

visit the Cyclorama and remain

clatter upstairs and upon investigation 

through two lectures there.

found that Sir Herbert had rearranged 

Before May 10 Sir Herbert will visit

all the furniture. His explanation of 

schools in Florida, Georgia, North and

this procedure was that he always had 

South Carolina, and Virginia. He says

to move beds and tables in hotel 

he is "working north with the spring"

rooms, because they were never placed 

and on that date will end up in Wash¬

to suit him. 

ington, D. C. He finds that students

A Canadian by birth, he prefers 

and faculties of colleges and universi¬

the United States as the best "for¬ 

ties are the most interested in world

eign" country in which to live and 

affairs today and consequently more

makes his home in Boston, Massachu¬ 

enjoyable to talk to than any other 

setts. In Europe, however, Sir Herbert 

audience.

chooses Switzerland as the most desir¬ 
able home. Praising it he said, "The 

Emory Professor Talks

scenery is beautiful, and the climate, 
with the exception of two months of To Chi Beta Phi Sigmathe year, is delightful. The people are 
the best educated, from top to bottom, 

Dr. W. B. Baker, professor of biol¬

in the world. They have a splendid 

form of government, honestly admin¬ ogy at Emory University, will speak 
at a meeting of Chi Beta Phi Sigma,

istered. The only drawback is that the 

the honorary science society, on "Re¬

cost of living is high, but one gets ex¬ 

search in the South," Monday, April 5,

cellent service, even in the small ho¬ 

at 7:30 o'clock. The college commun¬

tels." Sir Herbert lived at Geneva, 

ity is invited. The lecture will be pre¬

the seat of the League, for six years, 

ceded by a closed meeting of Chi Beta

and has revisited the country several 

Phi Sigma at 7 o'clock.

times in his European travels. He add¬ 
ed that, when he travels, he always 
arranges to have the New York Times Miss Emma May Laney 
sent him wherever he may be so that 

Lectures to Alumnae

he can get full international news, us¬ 
ually so sketchily published in papers 
abroad. Associate Professor Emma May 

On his vacation, when he has one, Laney is delivering a series of lectures 
Sir Herbert "takes to the woods." His on contemporary poetry to a group of 
favorite pastime is catching salmon 

about twenty alumnae, who meet

and trout on a fly rod in the Canad¬ 

every Monday night in the Anna

ian streams. "My wife and I have a 

Young Alumnae House. This project

cabin," he said, "in the mountains 
seventy-five miles north of Montreal is sponsored by the business group of 
on a lake a mile long. At night the the Alumnae Association. 
only protection we need is mosquito 
netting." 

Phi Beta Kappas in moving pictures 
Miss Alberta Pa/moitr are Franchot Tone from Cornell Uni¬ 
versity and Eric Rhodes from the 

Miss Llewellyn Wilburn 

University of Oklahoma. 
Return from Florida 

You Can Come to Us or

Miss Alberta Palmour, alumnae field 

We Will Go to You

secretary, and Miss Llewellyn Wil¬ 
burn, of the physical education de¬ We are as close to you as your 
partment, have returned from a trip telephone.
through Florida, having visited Mi¬ 
ami, Coral Gables, West Palm Beach, HARRISON'S 
Lakeland, Lake Wales, Haines City, PHARMACY 
Plant City, Orlando, Winter Park, 

Sudden Service

Winter Garden, and Gainesville. Miss 

309 College Avenue

Wilburn contacted the alumnae in 
these cities while Miss Palmour visited JUST CALL DE. 0762 
the various high schools. 

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 
Agonistics of Past Disclose

Club News 

Features ofFaculty History

Chi Beta Phi Sigma 
At the last meeting of Chi Beta 

Sixteen Years Ago Articles in College Weekly Told of Activity of

Phi Sigma the following new officers 

Student Officials Who Are Later to Become 

were elected: president, Elizabeth 

Professors at Agnes Scott

Skinner; vice-president, Jeanne Mat¬ 
thews; recording Frances

secretary, According to the Agonistic of 1921, turned promptly at the ringing of a

Norman; corresponding secretary, 

which is as far back as the records go, bell.

Elizabeth Kenney; and treasurer, Ola 

the year was very interesting. Miss

Kelly. The garden at Westlawn was a

Janef Preston, a member of Hoasc, 

source of pleasure to the faculty; in

contributed an article to the Silhou¬ 

Pen and Brush fact, the Agonistic (usually referred

ette; Miss Carrie Scandrett was a re¬ 

to as "Aggie"), reported that the

Pen and Brush club met last Thurs¬ porter and a freshman representative 

"bunch of white figures" seen in this

day night in the Murphey Candler on the executive committee; and lights 

garden on a Saturday were Miss Alex¬

building. Miss Louise Lewis talked on went out at 10 P. M. Miss Martha 

ander and Miss Hale with new rakes;

Leonardo da Vinci, and the members Stansfield was a member of the latest 

Miss Lillian Smith with a trowell,

of the club continued their sketching. organization at Agnes Scott, "what 

and Miss Lewis with a mattock.

is known as Pi Alpha Phi which, 
Poetry Club being very freely translated, means On February 7, 1922, Miss Scan¬ 
'honor to whom honor is due'." Miss drett was elected president of the

Poetry club met on last Tuesday in 

Alexander was made head of the sophomore class; in March she became

the Murphey Candler building. Eve¬ 

French department and was the first secretary of Student Government. Her

lyn Sears and Shirley Armentrout were 

Agnes Scott graduate to take an M.A. senior year she was president of Stu¬

hostesses. 

degree from a large university within dent Government, a member of Hoasc, 
a year's time. Miss Harn came from and named one of the most popular

Blackfriars 

Salem College to teach Spanish and seniors. Also on May Day in 1924 Dr. 

meet Tuesday

Blackfriars will on German. McCain was inaugurated as the second 

night, April 6, at 7 o'clock in Miss 

president of Agnes Scott.

Library rules for that year stipulated

Gooch's studio. The play production 

that the building be closed at 1:3 0 From an article in a 1930 Agonis¬

class will present "Ever Young," di¬ 

P. M. on Saturdays. No books could tic comes the news that Mr. Davidson
rected by Lucille Cairns. Those tak¬ 

be taken out overnight before 9 P. M., began his career as a banker, Miss

ing part in the play are Lena Sweet, 

and not more than three reserved books

Dorothy Lee, Marie Stalker, and Joyce Harn wanted to be a trained nurse, 

could be taken for the week-end. and Miss Haynes did social work until

Roper. 

During the day, reserved books could she taught the children to crochet 
be used only two hours at a time, and backwards. A bit of news dishearten¬

BOZ 

never more than three hours in a day; ing to the seniors who are about to

BOZ met last Friday night in the 

at the end of a period for which a begin work on their opera comes from

Murphey Candler building. Hortense 

book was reserved, it was to be re-the record of the following year.

Jones, Henrietta Blackwell, Douglas 

Writes the reporter: "Miss Haynes lis¬

Lyle, and Mary Anne Kernan read. 

Botany Students Visit tened for a goodly space the other

Giddy Erwin and Hibernia Hassell 

night to what she believed was senior 

were hostesses. Two Carolina Gardens 

opera practice only to come to the 
sudden and disconcerting realization 
German Club Miss Blanche Miller and Miss Mary that she'd been reveling in the mellow 

German club meets this afternoon Vardell, of the biology department, ac¬ warble of a rooster." 

at 4:30 in Lupton cottage. companied five members of the local 
flora class on a visit last week-end to 
the gardens of Charleston, South Caro¬

Fashion Note BAILEY BROTHERS

lina. The group, including, in addi¬ 

SHOE SHOP

tion to the instructors, Ann Worthy 
Carl Sandburg, the last of the trou¬ Johnson, Eleanor Hall, Alice Hannah, 142 Sycamore St. 
badours, appears in any society wear¬ Jeanne Matthews, and Virginia Sut-

Decatur, Ga.

ing heavy shoes with clumsy bulldog tenfield, visited the Cypress and Mag¬ 
toes. nolia gardens. 

New Imported Lingerie 

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with fine handwork 

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THE AGONISTIC 

Wheeler Elected Society

Committee9 Popular Nominations Posted 

B. S. U. President 
A combination of Easter and the

For School Voting Thursday and Friday 

new cut system took away much of 

The Baptist students of Agnes Scott 

the campus this past week-end. Girls

Popular Nominations Y. W. C.A. |

College have selected the following Committee Nominations went away were: Carolyn Alley

who

Student Government President — Winifred Kellersberger,;

girls to serve on the Baptist Student Student Government 

to Dalton; Carrie Gene Ashley to El-

Jean Barry Adams.

President—Laura Coit. President—Laura Coit, Ann Wor¬

Union Council next year: president, 

Vice-President—Ann Worthy John¬ thy Johnson, Mary Lillian Fairly, Vice-President — Jean B. Adams, | lentons; Betsy Banks to Sherwood; 

Gary Wheeler; enlistment chairman, 

son. Winifred Kellersberger, Primrose No¬ Lucille Barnett to Sumter; Edith Bel-

Jeanne Flynt; social chairman, Eu¬ Eliza King.

House Presidents — Rebekah Scott, ble, Martha Long. ser to Sumter; Mary Virginia Brown

genia Bridges; devotional chairman, Vice-President—Ann Worthy John¬ 
Ruth Crisp; secretary, Catherine Ivie; Tommy Ruth Blackmon; Main, Mary 
son, Laura Coit, Mary Lillian Fairly. 
Secretary — Mildred Coit, Douglas to Raleigh; Susan Bryan and Mary

Lillian Fairly; Inman, Nell Hemphill. Lyle, Amelia Nickels.

treasurer, Frances Virginia Brown, Venetia Smith to Reynolds; Rachel

Secretary—Jean Bailey. Secretary — Emma McMullen, Jean 

Treasurer — Mildred Coit, Amelia

publicity chairman, Alice Reins; Campbell to Mansfield; Caroline Car¬

Treasurer—Mary Ellen Whetsell. Bailey, Flora MacGuire, Mary Ellen

magazine chairman, Mary Reins. Nickels, Douglas Lyle.

Student Recorder—Eliza King. Whetsell. michael to McDonough; Laura Coit to 
The new council will be officially Day Student Representative—Mary Athletic Association

Treasurer—Jean Bailey, Emma Mc¬ Converse and Montreat; Mildred Coit

installed, together with those of the President—Anne Thompson, Fran¬

Anne Kernan. Mullen, Mary Ellen Whetsell. to Americus; Annie Lee Crowell to

other Atlanta colleges, at the annual ces Robinson, Jean Chalmers, Bee

Handbook Editor-—-Mildred Davis. 

House President, Rebekah — Mary Americus; Rebecca Drucker to Mc


banquet in May. Meanwhile, construc¬ Merrill.

Student Treasurer—Ellen Little.

tive plans are being made for the B. Lillian Fairly, Eliza King, Tommy Cormick; Jane Estes to Gay; Michelle

Student Treasurer—June Harvey. Vice-President — Anne Thompson,

Ruth Blackmon.

S. U. work for next year. Fire Chief—Mary Past. Frances Robinson, Bee Merrill, Jean Furlow to Birmingham; Jane Moore 
Sarah Johnson is the retiring presi¬ House President, Main—Mary Lil¬ 

Chalmers, Ellen Little. Hamilton to Dalton; B. Hollard to

Y. W. C. A.
dent. lian Fairly, Eliza King, Mary Past. 

Dryfoos, Newnan; Mar)' Hollingsworth to Cov


President—Winifred Kellersberger. Secretary—Jane Caroline 

Vice-President—Primrose Noble. House President, Inman — Nell Carmichael, Jane M. Hamilton. ington; Martha Johnson to Coving-

Y. W. Plans Conference Hemphill, Mary Lillian Fairly, Eliza ton; Phyllis Johnson to Elberton;
Secretary—Douglas Lyle. Treasurer — Caroline Carmichael,

King. Katherine Jones to Winder.

To be Held on Campus Treasurer—Amelia Nickels. Jane Dryfoos, Estelle Cuddy, Emmy

Student Recorder — Martha Long, Winifred Kellersberger to Mt. Ber¬

Lou Turck.

Athletic Association 

Virginia Watson. ry; Betty Ann Stewart to Winchester;

President—Jean Chalmers. Agonistic

The Agnes Scott Y. W. C. A. cabi¬ Day Student Representative — Zoe Mary Jane Tigert to Converse; An¬

Vice-President—Frances Robinson. 

Editor—Hortense Jones, Jane Guth¬

net is making plans for a conference 
Secretary—Jane Moore Hamilton. Wells, Jean Chalmers, Mary Anne Ker¬ nette Williamson to Lawrenceville; 

to be held on the campus April 22 and rie. Mary Willis and Judith Gracey to Au¬

nan, Jane Turner.

Treasurer—Jane Dryfoos.

23. The program will include three Associate Editor (2)—Jane Guth¬ gusta; Ernestine Cass to Greenville;
Handbook Editor—Mildred Davis,

discussion or seminar groups with Agonistic rie, Mary M. Hudson, Hortense Jones. Polly Ware to Greenville; Ola Kelly

Virginia Watson, Joyce Roper.

prominent outside leaders and several Editor—Hortense Jones. Assistant Editor (2)—Julia Sewell, to Monticello; Kathleen Kennedy to 
inspirational talks by a visiting minis¬ Associate Editor—Jane Guthrie. Student Treasurer (Senior)—Ellen Mary F. Guthrie. Winchester; Frances King to Newnan;
Associate Editor — Mary McCann Little, Ola Kelly.

ter. Josie Larkins to Philadelphia; Martha

Business Manager—Elizabeth Black-

Hudson. Student Treasurer (Junior)—Ade¬ Marshall to Americus; Julia Porter to

shear. 

SANDBURG COMES HERE Assistant Editor — Mary Frances laide Benson, June Harvey, Amelia Covington; Jeanne Redwine to Fay-

Assistant Business Manager — Jane

Guthrie. 

Nickels. etteville; Evelyn Sears to Mansfield;

Carithers.

Assistant Editor—Marie Merritt.

(Continued from page 1, column 4) Fire Chief—Mary Past, Goudyloch Elise Seay to Macon; Frances Steele to 

Business Manager—Elizabeth Black-Silhouette

where, from 1910 to 1912, he served Erwin, Sara B. Sloan. Anniston; Florence Wade to Cornelia;

shear.

as secretary to the mayor. It was in Editor — Virginia Watson, Elsie Selma Steinbach to Carrollton; Eliza¬ 

Assistant Business Manager -— Jane West, Mary Smith.

1917 that he joined the staff of the beth Skinner to Mt. Berry; Mary Nell

Cabinets Present

Carithers.

Chicago Daily News, leaving the next Business Manager -— Joyce Roper, Tribble to Toccoa; Catherine I vie to 

Silhouette

year to be a correspondent from Nor¬ Mary Smith, Ellen Little. Greenville; Ann Purnell to Spartan-

Easter Programs

Editor-in-Chief—Virginia Watson.

way and Sweden, but returning to be¬ Advertising Manager — Jane M. burg; Dorothy Cabaniss to Columbus;

Business Manager—Joyce Roper.

come the editorial writer. Hamilton, Ann Watkins. and Grace Tazewell to Emory.

Advertising Manager — Ann Wat-Easter sunrise and vesper services

Carl Sandburg's publications began Aurora Those who attended dances were:

kins.

with a private pamphlet entitled In presented at Agnes Scott last Sunday, Editor—Carol Hale, Nell Allison. Sigma Chi dance, Wednesday night: 
Reckless Ecstacy. In 1914 he won the Aurora March 28, were under the supervision Assistant Editor — Julia Sewell, Mary Venetia Smith, Bee Merrill, 
Levinson prize for his Chicago and Editor—Carol Hale. of the freshman and sophomore Y. W. Douglas Lyle, Caroline Carmichael. Frances Wilson, Ellender Johnson, Ra¬ 
published in 1916 his volume, Chicago Assistant Editor—Julia Sewell. Business Manager—Ola Kelly, Nell chel Kennedy, Gretchen Bubenzer, and

C. A. cabinets. A sunrise service at
Poems. Since then Sandburg's works Business Manager—Ola Kelly. Allison. others. A. T. O. dance, Thursday 
have included his well known poetry, 5:45 a. m. in the Murphey Candler night: Bee Merrill, Mary Venetia

building was a project of the sopho¬

his compilation of ballads in The French Club Has Smith, and others. S. A. E. dance Sat¬ 

more cabinet. The program included Freshman Class

American Songbag, his series of Roota-urday night: Bee Merrill and Cornelia 
baga Stories for children, and his biog¬ Ten New Members Easter hymns to the accompaniment Whitner. Pi K. A. dance, Saturday

of piano and violin; a Scripture read¬ Honors Juniors

raphies. night: Gary Wheeler, Ellender John¬

ing by June Harvey, and a solo by

Today Sandburg, who is the father son, and Frances Wilson.

The ten new members of the French Amelia Nickels.

of three girls, lives in Harbert, Michi¬ The freshman class is giving a treas¬ 

gan. That is, he lives there when he club, who were admitted to member¬ The vesper service given in the cha¬ ure hunt for the junior class tomor¬ 

ship in the organization following the

is not on one pel by the freshman cabinet featured row afternoon at 5 o'clock. Commit¬ DECATUR BEAUTY SALON

of his frequent lecture 

regular spring try-outs, presented two a tees entertainment

play, "The Light in the Window," for the party are:

tours. 

original plays on campus life as part by Dorothy Clarke Wilson. Members Permanents $3 to $10 

— Henrietta Thompson, chairman,
It is of his appearance on these tours 

of their initiation ceremonies at the 

of the cast were Julia Thiemonge, Marjorie Boggs, Grace Ward, Penn 409 Church St. Decatur

that Harry Hansen writes: "When 

March meeting of the society. The 

Frances Hampton, Mary Dixon, Vir¬ Hammond, Mildred Joseph, and Mary De. 4692

Carl Sandburg talks to you, he seems 

new members are Evelyn Baty, Suzie ginia Milner, Jane Moses, Ruth Slack, Reins; refreshments — Carolyn For-

to have a bit of a stoop, to lean for¬ Blackmon, Sara Joyce Cunningham, 

Katherine Patton, and Ruth Eyles. man, chairman, Anne Enloe, Lorraine

ward as he speaks; but before an au¬ 

Rebecca Drucker, Peggy Everhart, 

Mary Winston Crockett led the serv¬ Guinn, Gary Horne, Barbara Lee

dience he stands erect and seems much 

Jeanne Flynt, Ruth Kaplan, Douglas 

ice, while Harriet' Stimson, Henrietta Murlin; invitation — Frances Hamp¬

taller than he is." Meet Your Friends at

Lyle, Carolyn Myers, and Julia Thie-

Thompson, and Evelyn Baty acted as ton, chairman, Shirley Steele, Lib Da¬

His voice gives a significant quality monge. 

committee chairmen for music, stage, vis, Rebecca Drucker, and Ruth Kap¬ Cox's Prescription Shop

to his poetry. Mr. Hansen says: "His Following the initiation, there was 

and costumes. Joyce Roper directed lan.

rich, deep monotone and he Between Paramount and Grand

voice is a presented a program on Paris, featur¬ 

the production of the play. Misses Carrie Scandrett, Helen Carl¬

draws out his words slowly, which ing the works of the famous Parisian, Theaters, Atlanta 

Candlelighting vespers at 10:00 p. son, and Blanche Miller have been

heightens the effects of his reading." Saint-Saens. To carry out still further 

m. in the Agnes Scott chapel was the asked to chaperon the party.
This poetfy that Sandburg reads, the theme of the program, pictures 

Good Friday observance sponsored by

this poetry that has arisen from a and posters of monuments and other 

the sophomore cabinet.

spirit much-lived, but forever wistful, well-known landmarks of the French 
much-thought, but never irreverent city were attractively displayed. 

The first educational endowment in

enough to be irrevocably certain of 

America included the gift of three

his thoughts, this poetry of a nature 

Miss Dexter Makes Talk milk cows.—P. C. Blue Stocking. 

Good Food

different from other poetry of his day, 
this is the poetry of modern America. A

Miss Emily Dexter, associate pro¬

Of it, Newton Arvin writes: "In the 

fessor of psychology and education,

midst of sharper and sharper conflict 

IS

speaks today to the Girl Reserve ad¬

between the principle of subordination Blicks 

visers of the Y. W. C. A. in Atlanta.

and the principle of equality, this 

Her subject is the "Psychology of the

poetry is an eloquent and sometimes a Bowling

Adolescent Girl."

passionate reassertion of the dignity, 

Good Health!

the fortitude, and unwcariable creat-

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VOL. XXII 

Science Meet 

Is Attended 

By Faculty 

Papers Read By Mr. Runyon, 
Miss MacDougall; Speaker 
Is Dr. Carl Fritsche 

Eleven From A.S.C. Present 

Several members of the Agnes 
Scott faculty attended the fifteenth 
annual meeting of the Georgia Acad¬ 
emy of Science April 2 and 3 at the 
Georgia Experiment Station in GrFfin. 
Mr. Ernest Runyon, acting as¬ 
sociate professor of botany, read a pa¬ 
per on "Leaf Deficit"; and Miss 
Mary Stuart MacDougall, professor 
of Biology, presented by title, "Cytological 
Notes on Chlamydodontidae." 
The rest of the biology depart¬ 
ment, consisting of Miss Blanche Mil¬ 
ler, Miss Frances McCalla, and Miss 
Mary Vardell were also present; Miss 
Emily Dexter and Miss Katherine 
Omwake represented the psychology 
department; and Mr. Henry Robin¬ 
son, Miss Phillippa Gilchrist, Mr. 
Robert Holt, and Mr. Schuyler Chris¬ 
tian also attended the meeting, which 
was the first to be held at the Geor¬ 
gia Experiment Station. 
The program included a joint meet¬ 
ing of those interested in science from 
an organic viewpoint and of those 
working with the inorganic elements; 
separate meetings, where papers were 
read to each group; the annual ban¬ 
quet, at which Dr. Carl B. Fritsche, 
the director of the American Farm 
Chemurgic Council, was the guest 
speaker; and a business meeting of the 
Academy, which is a closed corpora¬ 
tion made up of a limited member¬ 
ship. 
(Continued on page 4, column 1) 

Senior Opera is 

Planned for May 8 

Under the direction of Lucile Dennison, 
plans for the senior opera are 
advancing, with the appointment of 
Florence Lasseter as assistant director 
and of the chairmen who will head the 
various committees. The opera will be 
presented on Saturday evening, May 8, 
at 8:30 in the Bucher Scott gymna¬ 
sium. 

Lena Sweet will serve as lighting 
manager. Settings will be directed by 
Lucile Barnett; while Mary King will 
be in charge of the properties. Frances 
Steele will design the costumes, and 
Mary Lib Morrow will plan the dan¬ 
ces. Kitty Jones and June Matthews 
will act as joint chairmen of the pro¬ 
gram committee. Mary Malone will 
handle the publicity of the produc¬ 
tion; and Cornelia Christie will be in 
charge of the tickets. The chairmen 
will appoint their own committees. 

Nellie Margaret Gilroy is head of 
the writing committee. The other 
members are: Julia Thing, Alice Han¬ 
nah, Laura Steele, and Isabel McCain. 

Last year the senior opera was 
"Phoughst," in which Augusta King, 
Loice Richards, and Adelaide Stevens 
played the leads. The opera is an an¬ 
nual event staged by the senior class 
to raise money. This year the money 
will be used for the class gift. 

Blackfriars Society-

Admits Ten Members 

The following girls were admitted 
to Blackfriars, campus dramatic club, 
after try-outs held last week: Alice 
Cheeseman, Evelyn Sears, Shirley 
Steele, Winston Steele, Nettie Lee 
Greer, Georgia Hunt, Jane Moses, 
Margaret Hopkins, Jane Dryfoos, and 
Sara Beaty Sloan. 

NO. 18

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 1937 

Agnes Scott To Send 

Carl Sandburg Will Lecture Dr. J. Tigert 

Five To New Orleans 
On Poetry Next Tuesday Night To Speak at

Convention, April 8 

Tickets Will Go On Sale Saturday, April 10; Reception To Be Graduation 
Student Government, Publica¬ Given Following Lecture 

tions, Will Be Represented 

Carl Sandburg will discuss his lege community is invited to at¬

At Joint Meeting Father of Mary Jane Tigertideas about poetry next Tuesday tend. Will Address Seniors At 

Meeting in New Orleans for the night when he comes to Agnes Tickets are to be on sale in Annual Exercises 
second time in three years, the third Scott as the second lecturer pre¬ Buttrick lobby Saturday, April 
combined convention of the Southern sented this year by the Lecture 10, from 8:45 to 12:30; and 

Is Well -Known Educator 

Federation of College Students and Association. Sandburg will illus¬ Monday and Tuesday, April 12 
Press representatives is scheduled to trate these ideas by playing and and 13, from 8:45 to 12:30 and Dr. John J. Tigert, president of the 
open in the Roosevelt Hotel at 12:30 singing on the guitar. from 1:30 to 3:00. Student 

University of Florida and father of

Arriving here from Milledge-prices are 75 cents for reserved

p. m. on April 8 and continue until 
Mary Jane Tigert, will address the

the afternoon of April 10. Agnes Scott ville on Tuesday afternoon, the seats and 50 cents for unre¬ 

poet will remain at the college served ; general admission is senior class at the commencement ex¬

will be represented at the conference 

by Laura Coit, president of student for his lecture that night and $1.00 for reserved seats and 75 ercises on June 8. 
by Alice Hannah and Laura Coit, will leave the next morning for cents for unreserved. Dr. Tigert, who has been head of 
president and newly elected president Charleston. He is to be enter¬ The Lecture Association, the University of Florida since 192 8, 
of Student Government; Ann Worthy tained at a reception immediate¬ which is responsible for bring¬ is a well-known American educator. 
Johnson, vice-president; Virginia Wat¬ ly following his lecture; the col-ing Carl Sandburg to Agnes A graduate of Vanderbilt, he is the 

Scott, has for its student mem¬

son, editor of the Silhouette; and Hor-first Rhodes scholar from Tennessee 
tense Jones and Elizabeth Blackshear, bers Charline Fleece, president; and a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

193 7-38 Chapter

editor and business manager of the Frances Wilson, Mary Jane Tig¬ Among the offices he has served in 

ert, Nell Hemphill, Anne Purnell, are

Agonistic. Tulane University is host. those of president, in 193 5, of the

To be Announced

The convention will meet as four Mary Malone, Jane Turner, Mar¬ Southeastern (Athletic) Conference, 
distinct groups except for opening garet Watson, Zoe Wells, and and member of the executive commit¬

By Mortar Board 

and closing sessions, meals and social Martha Moffat. Faculty repre¬ tee of the Southern University Con¬ 
functions. The four divisions are: sentatives are Associate Profes¬ ference. Prior to his presidency of the 
men's student government, women's The 1937-3 8 chapter of Mortar sor Laney, Associate Professor university he was United States com¬ 
Board, national senior honorary so¬ Hale, Assistant Professor Chris¬

student government, college newspa¬ missioner for education. 

ciety, will be announced Saturday, tie, and Professors Stukes,

pers, and college annuals. 

April 17, in the Gaines chapel. Pro¬ Christian, and Davidsoh.

The program for the session includes 

fessor Philip Davidson of the history

business meetings, talks by student, Seniors Invited 

department will speak on leadership,

faculty, and guest speakers, a ban¬ 

Activities Hall

which is one of the three ideals of

quet, a dance, and other entertain¬ To A.A.U.W. Meet 

Mortar Board. Following his talk and

ments. Among the prominent speak¬ 

To be Dedicated

the announcement of new members,

ers will be Lyle Saxon, famous New 

The Atlanta branch of the Ameri¬

the active chapter will sing the ode;

Orleans author, and Mayor Robert S. 

can Association of University Women,

the entire school will join in the sing¬ Dedication of the Murphey Candler

Maestri of New Orleans. The conven¬ 

composed of about 15 0 active mem¬

ing of the Alma Mater. building is scheduled to take place

tion was held last year at Memphis, 

bers, will meet at 3:30 in Gaines

Fannie B. Harris, president, stated April 19 at 4 o'clock; the program 

Seniors

that the new members were elected will include a brief address on the life chapel on April 21. are invit¬ 

B. S. U. Members ed to attend the meeting and the tea
last month from the junior class. They of Charles Murphey Candler, given by 

were chosen the basis of the three a friend of to be given afterwards in the Murphey

on Mr. William D. Thomson,

Attend Retreat Candler building.

ideals: scholarship, leadership, and Mr. Candler's, and a prayer of dedica¬ 

service. tion to be offered by one of the trus¬ Associate Professor Elizabeth Ful¬ 

A group of eighteen Baptist students Members of the present chapter of tees. ler Jackson, regional director of the 
from Agnes Scott attended the annual Mortar Board are: Eloisa Alexander, The late Charles Murphey Candler, Association, will speak on the general 
spring retreat of the Atlanta Baptist Frances Gary, Alice Hannah, Fannie for whom the student activities build¬ question of fellowships, the theme of 
Student Union held at Camp High¬ B. Harris, Isabel McCain, Marie Stal¬ ing is named, was for forty-seven the program, and Professor Mary 
land, March 27-2 8. They left from ker, Laura Steele, Julia Thing, and years a trustee of the college. Chair¬ Stuart MacDougall, member of the 
Rebekah Scott Hall at one o'clock Sat¬ Mary Jane Tigert. man of the executive committee and fellowship committee of the A. A. U. 
urday and returned late Sunday after¬ of the committee on buildings and W., will discuss the awarding of fel¬ 

noon. Students from Georgia Tech, grounds, he drew up the charters for lowships.

Y. W.C.A. Selects
Emory University, Georgia Evening this school as the Decatur Female Members of the Agnes Scott facul¬ 
School, and the Georgia Baptist Hos¬ Seminary, the Agnes Scott Institute, ty who belong to the A. A. U. W. are,

Cabinet Members

pital also attended, making a total of and finally, Agnes Scott College. in addition to Miss Jackson and Miss 
150 delegates. MacDougall, Miss Catherine Torrance, 

The representatives came into At¬ Headed by Winifred Kellersberger, 

Miss Lillian Smith, Miss Narka Nel¬

Students Of Speech

lanta for Sunday morning services at president, and Jean Barry Adams, vice-son, Miss Edna Ruth Hanley, Miss 
the First Baptist church. Study cour¬ president, the 1937-38 Y. W. C. A. To Go To Nashville Lucile Alexander, and Miss Phillipa 
ses and recreation were enjoyed at the cabinet is composed of Primrose No¬ Gilchrist. Miss Jackson and Miss Nel¬ 
camp, and devotional talks were given ble, program chairman; Martha Long, son, representing Western College of

Several members of the Spoken Eng¬

by several prominent speakers, among social service chairman; Mildred Davis, 

Ohio, attended the A. A. U. W. con¬

lish department of Agnes Scott will

industrial group chairman; Mary Hol


whom was Miss Mary Nance Daniel, vention held in Savannah last month. 

who spoke in chapel today. lingsworth, social chairman; Mamie attend a convention of the Southern 
Association of Teachers and Workers

Agnes Scott girls who attended the Lee Ratliff, music chairman; Mildred 

in Nashville, Tennessee, April 22-24.

retreat were: Louise Hughston, Gary Coit, spiritual life; and Julia Moseley, New Officers on Campus

The representatives will give a play,

Wheeler, Kitty Jones, Alice Reins, publicity. Henrietta Blackwell and 

To be Installed Soon,

Mary Reins, Sarah Johnson, Ruth another girl, as yet undecided upon, some choral reading, and some solo 

reading while there.

Crisp, Catherine Ivie, Jeanne Flynt, will be chairmen of the world fellow¬ Taking Over New Duties

Those taking part in the play,

Anne Pittard, Sarah Lee, Sarah Groves, ship and missions group. 

Achillc's Heel are: Betty Lou Houck

Martha Johnson, Eugenia Bridges, 

Smith, Kathryn Printup, Jeanne Flynt, The new administration of the vari¬

Nelle Chalmers, Virginia Brown, 

Dr. Robinson Will ous organizations on the campus is

Elizabeth Cousins, Jean Bailey, and

Mary Virginia McPhaul, and Tommy soon go into effect.

Hugh Embry of the Emory Players. to The installa¬

Ruth Blackmon. Dr. Robinson, facul¬ 

Speak at Meeting The play will be given Thursday tion of the new officers of Y. W. C. 

ty advsier, also attended. 

A. will be April 18. They will work
night. 

with the old officers before and after

Professor Henry Robinson, head of Friday and Saturday nights will be 

Agnes Scott To Fast this date and will assume full respon¬

the mathematics department, will at¬ devoted to poetry. The members of 

sibility next fall. The freshman cabi¬

tend the annual meeting of the south¬ the cast of the play with some other

For Peace Campaign 

net will continue to operate as before.

eastern section of the Mathematics Agnes Scott girls will give choral 
Association of America in Nashville readings. Kathryn Printup will do The new officers of Student Gov¬ 
Agnes Scott will take part in a on April 16 and 17. Mr. Robinson, some solo reading. ernment Association will be installed: 

national peace program sponsored by May 1. The new committee begins

who has been secretary and treasurer On Saturday night, April 17, the 
the Emergency Peace Campaign on of his section and the publicity di¬ entire program will be given for Ag¬ work next week with the old commit¬ 
April 22. The campus program will rector since 1933, planned the pro¬ nes Scott students in the gymnasium. tee and will take over the entire re¬ 
be under the direction of Mildred 

gram and contacted the speakers for sponsibility next fall. 
Coit, World Fellowship chairman of the meeting, which will be attended There will be an athletic banquet in

Dr. McCain is Appointed

the Y. W. C. A. by approximately 250 mathemati¬ May for the formal initiation of the 
The main feature of Agnes Scott's cians. Dean R. D. Carmichael from To Social Security Board new officers of athletic association. 
program will be a fast which will be Illinois will be the guest speaker for They will begin real work in the fall 

observed during the lunch period. At 

the occasion. Among the twenty-As a member of the newly organ¬ of next year.

that time a guest speaker will address 

eight research papers to be presented ized social security board, Dr. J. R. The last two issues of Aurora this 
the college community on the subject is Mr. Robinson's "A Case of Planar McCain will serve on the committee year will be issued under the direction 
of world peace. Motion." The object of his paper is from DeKalb county. All the coun¬ of the old staff, assisted by the new 
As another feature of the program, "to determine what curve a circle ties in Georgia have similar commit¬ one. As is customary, the new staff 

Eliza King will speak in Atlanta 

on must roll upon in order that some tees consisting of five members each. of the Agonistic will begin work with 
the subject, "Does United States fixed point in the plane of the rolling The board will not begin to function the next issue, to be published the lat¬ 

legislation point to a defensive of¬

or circle traces out a circle in the plane until assistant members can be ap¬ ter part of April. The old staff will 

fensive policy of armament?" 

over which it glides." pointed. edit the commencement edition. 


THE AGONISTIC 

(£lt)C Agonistic 

PUBLISHED WEEKLY 

Owned and published by the students of Agnes Scott 
College. 

Entered as Second Class Matter at Decatnr, Georgia. 

Subscription price, $1.25 per year in advance. 
Single copies, 5 c. 
1136 Member 1937 
Plssocided Golle&ide Press 

STAFF 
Laura Steele Kathryn B. Wall 
Editor-in-Chief Business Manager 
Frances Cary Elizabeth Blackshear 
Associate Editor Advertising Manager 
Jane Guthrie 

Mary Lib Morrow 

Hortense Jones 

Frances Belford 

Mary McCann Hudson 

Nell Hemphill

Assistant Editors 

Frances Castleberry 
June Matthews Circulation Managers 
Make-Up Editor 

Frances Wilson 

Pauline Moss 

Current History

Society Editor 

Jean Chalmers

Nellie M. Gilroy 

Sports Editor

Feature Editor 

Cornelia Christie

Mary Frances Guthrie 

Club Editor

Exchange Editor 
Mildred Davis Elizabeth Warden 

Book Editor 

Alumnae Editor 

Editor, Associate Editor, Enid Middleton, Mary 
King, Editorial Council 

Lecture Association Asks 

Early Purchase of Tickets 

The old adage about experience should prove 
very helpful next Saturday, Monday, and Tues¬ 
day when the tickets for the Sandburg lecture 
will be on sale. Perhaps the people who sat in 
window's, stood, or were turned away from the 
door at the Stuart Chase lecture will remember 
to buy tickets early this time. Certainly we can¬ 
not expect Lecture Association to be able to pre¬ 
pare adequately for us if we do not respond to 
their request for cooperation in this matter. It 
seems very little more than ordinary courtesy 
and appreciation for an organization which 
brings so many distinguished persons to the cam¬ 
pus to let them know in advance what size au¬ 
dience they may expect. 

The committee not only provides unusually in¬ 

teresting speakers but has been able to offer the 

lectures to students at surprisingly low cost. Al¬ 

though student tickets are practically one-half 

the rate for outsiders, the association centers its 

attention on the campus in an effort to encour¬ 

age intellectual interests among students. With 

all of the many extra-curricular activities at Ag¬ 

nes Scott there are really only two that are pure¬ 

ly intellectual—debates and lectures. These two 

highly deserve the support and enthusiasm of 

the whole student body. Lecture Association 

will greatly appreciate your buying tickets for 

yourself and friends Saturday, Monday, and 

Tuesday, April 10, 12, and 13. 

Lack of Self Control is 

Evident on the Campus 

Already this year we have spoken of the neces¬ 

sity for student cooperation in such matters as 

talking in the library and keeping the campus 

clean. But with cooperation evidently offering 

little appeal as a plea, we are forced to use a 

more personal argument and request individual 

self-control and discipline. The increasing amount 

of disorder in the library and the daily proof of 

carelessness about the appearance of the campus 

make us doubt that we do have self-control and 

wonder whether, after all, we have come to Ag¬ 

nes Scott to be educated. 

If we would each ask ourselves the question, 

"Is this what I should like to see myself doing?" 

it is probable that we should go to the Murphey 

Candler building instead of to the library to do 

our talking, and throw our trash in the waste 

paper basket instead of on the library floor or 

the campus, and stop disregarding the morning 

chapel service. Through such self-control we 

should earn the gratitude of those who wish to 

study in quiet or to enjoy the beauty of the cam¬ 

pus. And certainly we should begin really to be 

educated—one of our aims, we say, in coming to 

college. 

Eat More Paivpaivs" Is Poet's Motto 

In Campaignfor Neglected Fruit 

By Margaret Watson Family rivalry is also responsible 

A poet endeavoring to make people for Sandburg's enthusiasm—it supplies 
appreciate paw-paws is something an ulterior motive to spur the poet on. 
closely approaching, if not really His brother-in-law is Edward Steichen, 
something new under the sun. Carl the famous portrait photographer, who 
Sandburg is the poet, conducting a has just been elected president of the 
vigorous campaign in behalf of this American Delphinium Society; greater 
hitherto neglected fruit. The humble pawpaw promotion followed immedi¬ 
pawpaw tree grows throughout the ately. Eat-more-pawpaws is the slo¬ 
Southern states, and Mr. Sandburg is gan, and Carl Sandburg, author of the 
growing it with success on his farm in book The People, Yes, is doing his part 
Michigan. It is a distant cousin of to make them say yes and boost the 
the widely publicized papaya of Flor¬ pawpaw. 
ida, Hawaii, and points East. Pawpaw Georgians could do so with ease be¬ 
is one of those words which sound fa¬ cause the pawpaw is one of its oldest 
miliar to most people and which can inhabitants and seems to grow almost 
be identified by very few; some think anywhere. The tree ranges from ten 
it's an animal, and to others it means to thirty feet in height and has big, 
a pet name for one's father. But not broad leaves, half as wide as they are 
for long will The People continue in long. It blooms in the spring, and the 
such abysmal ignorance; Carl Sand¬ flowers are dark red and about two 
burg with characteristic energy and inches across. The fruit gets ripe in 
activity intends to change all that. In the autumn; it is sweet and shaped 
a recent interview he said, "First, my like a banana. 
fellow-workers and myself wish to im¬ 
prove the breeding of the pawpaw, and 
second, we are definitely making plans 

Exchanges

to make America conscious of this de¬ 
licious fruit." One of these fellow-
workers is Lloyd Lewis, of Illinois, au¬ Being tested on current events, a 
thor of Sherman, the Fighting Prophet. freshman English class at the State 
According to Mr. Sandburg, Lewis is Teachers College in Alpine, Texas, 
chairman of the Pawpaw Growers As¬ gave the following answers to the 
sociation Board. question: "What is 'Gone With the 

Wind?' " 
Dust. A modern phrase meaning

Miss Gooch Reads 

"lost or thrown away." An expres¬ 
sion farmers use referring to their 

Drinkwater's Plav 

crops. Gulf gasoline. 
Cadets at John Tarleton College 
have rebelled against paying out money

Miss Frances K. Gooch, head of the 

to have their washing done. To elimi¬

department of Spoken English, read 

nate the expense of "nine cents a shirt" 

John Drinkwater's play, "A Man's 

they are going to give a play, and 
House," last Wednesday afternoon at with the proceeds from it they intend 
the home of Mrs. John M. Slaton. to buy a washing machine. 
When women graduates of Grinnell

Miss Gooch was presented under the 

College marry, they stay married. Sta¬

auspices of the Woman's Auxiliary of 

tistics released from the alumni office 

St. Luke's Church. 

show that only one divorce has oc¬ 
curred since 1930. 

Emory Glee Club to 

The Art club of Alabama College 
is offering a twenty-five dollar prize

Appear in Concert 

for the best design of a flag symbolic 
of the college.

The Emory Glee Club, of Emory 
University, will give its annual At¬ Main reasons why students go to 
lanta concert this evening, April 7, at certain universities, as found by a 

curvey taken at the University of Ne¬

8:30 o'clock in Glenn Memorial Au¬ 
braska by Dr. S. M. Corey, professor

ditorium, Dr. Malcolm H. Dewey, di¬ 

of educational psychology:

rector, announced this week. Agnes 

Recommendation of high school 
Scott girls who wish to buy tickets teachers and administrators. 
are asked to see Nell Hemphill, third Proximity of the university to the 
student's home.

floor Rebekah. 

Family influence.

The Emory singers, only recently 

Economy.

returned from an extensive winter 

Availability of desired courses. 
tour that took them through Florida, Influence of friends. 
will be making their final public ap¬ "Of the seven students who gave 
'influence in athletics' as their reason,"

pearance of the season and their only 

says Dr. Corey, "five rank in the low¬

public evening concert in Atlanta 

est psychological test and none in the 

since last spring. 

highest." 
The season just ending, described by —Associate Collegian Press. 
Dr. Dewey as one of the most success¬ 
ful in the club's 20-year history, has 

Professor Gets

included the annual Christmas Carol 
program of the "South's Sweetest National Honor 
Singers" and numerous appearances 
during the ten-day Emory Centennial 

Miss Katherine Omwakc, assistant 
celebration, in addition to the winter professor of psychology and educa¬ 
tour. tion, has recently been elected to the 
Highlight of the Florida trip was list of American Women, comparable 
the club's appearance before a full to "Who's Who in America." Miss 
house at the Miami Biltmore Hotel in Hopkins, Miss Torrance, Miss Harn, 

Coral Gables. Concerts in six other Miss Dexter, and Miss MacDougall 
Florida cities were also included on the were put on the list in 193 5. 
2,000 mile jaunt. Miss Omwake is co-author with 

The complete program for tonight's Miss Dexter of a newly published 
concert, as announced by Dr. Dewey, book, Introduction to the Fields of 
is as follows: Psychology. 

1. a. Minuetto, Scarlatti; b. Maid¬ 
en Fair, O Deign to Tell, Haydn. Marv V. Allen Receives 
2. a. Great and Glorious, Haydn; 
High Academic Honors

b. Tenebrae Factae Sunt, Palestrino; 
c. Hospodi Pomiloi, Lvovsky; d. Pil¬ 
grim's Song, Tschaikowsky. Mary Virginia Allen, '3 5, who was 
3. Two Guitars, Gypsy Melody awarded a French government fellow¬ 
(Violin Solo). ship to the University of Toulouse 
4. Negro Spirituals, Selected. for this year, has received the certifi¬ 
5. a. Away to Rio, Sea Chantey; b. cate of etudes superieures. Mary Vir¬ 
L'Heure Exquise, Hahn; c. O Caesar ginia was one of the nine foreign stu¬ 
Great Were Thou. dents who passed the final examina¬ 
6. Daniel, Enders. tions and one of the two who won 
7. Alma Mater. honors. 
American Labor Streamlined 

By Margaret Watson 
The suggestion to reduce the acreage of dis¬ 
cussion of the president's Court Plan is also pro¬ 
posed for application to the sit-down strikes. In 
spite of the continued viewing with alarm by our 
orators and writers, the strikes, to many people, 
are now on a par with tree-sitting contests and 
dance marathons. Lawyers for each side still 
flounder around in technicalities involved in this 
conflict of workers and property rights, the 
workers sit. and the owners fume. 
In the earlier days of union organizing, strikes 
were violent and were bloodily quelled by hired 
thugs. Labor leaders were rabble-rousers, un¬ 
educated, and rather on the thuggish side them¬ 
selves. By a gradual process sometimes hindered 
by growing pains, the American Federation of 
Labor developed into a respected and influential 
body. It is a rather loosely joined federation of 
many unions organized on the basis of crafts. In 
recent years there have been no particularly vio¬ 
lent upheavals until John Llewelyn Lewis of the 
bushy eyebrows and militant ideas organized his 
Committee for Industrial Organization. The Com¬ 
mittee started with the United Mine Workers 
Union which has almost 1,000,000 members; it 
is trying to join together all workers and secure 
collective bargaining rights, supervised by union 
leaders, for them all. Its different basis for or¬ 
ganization and vigorous efforts to attain its aims 
have caused the American Federation of Labor 
to "sever relations" with those unions allied with 
the Committee for Industrial Organization. 
The committee's sponsorship of sit -down 
strikes began when automobile industry owners 
would not comply with the demands of the Unit¬ 
ed Automobile Workers' Union. These strikes 
are financed by the dues C. I. 0. members have 
paid, and they have cost no small sum. 
It has adopted the methods of its arch-enemy 
—big business. Bright young'college men, tech¬ 
nical experts, statisticians, skilled orators and 
organizers are employed to meet employers on 
their own ground and lure more employees into 
the fold by the most improved modern methods. 
They use the radio, movies, and printed matter 
of every description. Workers who are war vet¬ 
erans are encouraged to wear their uniforms or 
caps when doing picket duty and gain other vet¬ 
erans' support. Intelligent, well-educated speak¬ 
ers make talks to women's clubs and other civic 
organizations on behalf of the C. 1. O. Experts 
gather information to enable union leaders to 
match the arguments of industry leaders. One 
writer calls it "streamlining the labor front." 
Whatever the method and results may be, the 
present activity is making American labor more 
conscious of itself as a separate class and a force¬ 
ful political unit. 

Cass and Alice Hannali 

A haven of rest and unsophistication that 
would rival Bob Burns' Van Buren or Judy Canova's 
Unadilla is Miss Hannah's city (if it could 
be called such with a population of 900) of nativ¬ 
ity—Cass, West Virginia. In this thriving me¬ 
tropolis the main center of business is to be found 
in the general store which includes, of course, 
the usual filling station, drug store, post office, 

bank, millinery, grocery, jewelry, hardware and 
furniture departments. The most scenic spot in 
the community is what is commonly known as 
the cow pound—a vacant lot behind the city jail 

(on a street which like all of the others has 
never been blessed with a name) where stray 
cows are confiscated until a fine is paid by the 
owner. Through political pull, however, both the 
sweet milk and the buttermilk cows of the Han¬ 
nah family have thus far escaped such degrad¬ 
ing humiliation. The tranquility of the spot is 
insured by such happenings as the closing of the 
phone office at 9 p. m. and the pulling of the 
main light switch at 10 p. m. (that is, when elec¬ 
tricity is low). The sole train that visits these 
parts goes up at noon and leaves after lunch in 
this era of prosperity. In the days of the depres¬ 
sion, however, so seldom was a railed vehicle to 
be seen that once everybody got up at three 
o'clock in the morning to see a freight train 
descend upon the hamlet. Of much interest is 
the county newspaper, a sheet which is artistic¬ 
ally decorated with front page advertisements 
and with such screaming headlines as "Fox 
Sighted Last Week in Hannah Alley" or "Deer 
Seen At Ridge On Dirty Street." 

But by far the most intriguing fact concern¬ 
ing this community is the custom of having 
flower girls at all funerals as well as weddings. 
Miss Hannah has, however, by exhibiting cow¬ 
ardice and poor citizenship and by hiding under 
the bed as a result of these unadmirable atti¬ 
tudes always escaped participation in such pro¬ 
ceedings. In spite of these peculiarities, how¬ 
ever, Cass according to its chief press agent, 
Alice Hannah, is a wonderful place—especially 
to go barefooted in. 


THE AGONISTIC 

Election Winners Carl Sandburg is Great and Versatile Author Classes to Vote 
Willingly Explain Of Poems, Stories for Children, and Biographies On New Officers 

Recent Successes 

Weak Arches, Seven Sneezes, 
Environment, Heredity, 
Vie For Honors 

Because of the surprising scarcity of 
baby-kissing and cigar-giving in the 
recent election everyone is asking the 
candidates to what they attribute their 

success. Did they take correspondence 
lessons because people laughed when 
they sat down at the piano? Did they 
read books on how to win friends and 
influence people, or did they receive 
notes from Marie Rose instructing 
them in the development of personal¬ 
ity? Though each of them (remem¬ 
bering the truest test of woman's 
worth and the surest sign of noble 
birth) in answering these queries mod¬ 
estly asserts that she had nothing to 
do with her election, upon being duly 
pressed she confesses that perhaps there 
was some event or some attitude which 
had its influence. Thus, Laura Coit 
explains her success in terms of weak 
arches, while Ann Worthy Johnson 
thinks that she must have been a vic¬ 
tor because, in the words of Oliver 
Goldsmith, (page Miss Leyburn) "I 
am a happy spirit; there is no harm in 
me." Zoe Wells is confident that she 
has attained merely because she gets 
along "zoe" well, while Douglas Lyle 
heartily declares that she owes it all 
to Ipana tooth paste. Slightly differ¬ 
ent is Hortense Jones' explanation; 
leaning toward the heredity side in the 
age-old controversy, she has decided 
(after much self psycho-analysis, of 
course) that she is the new Agonistic 
editor because her mother read the 
papers before she was born. A strict 
adherent of the environmental school 
is Pixie Fairly who is confident that 
she was triumphant because she not 
only goes to breakfast every Sunday 
morning but also she dropped her 
alarm clock at the beginning of school 

(the moral of which still remains to 
be seen). According to Eliza King of 
the blond locks, the sure way to be¬ 
come a successful candidate is to take 
Bible 205 before Bible 101. On the 
other hand, her roommate Gina Wat¬ 
son would advocate sound and undis¬ 
turbed sleep in the presence of one's 
guests as a certain means to popularity 
and hence election. 

Carol Male's individual and inter¬ 
esting habit of always sneezing seven 
times in a row is, according to her in¬ 
terpretation, the sole reason for her 
majority vote, while Jean Barry Ad¬ 
ams replies in an inevitable tone—"I 
owe it all to the avoirdupois gained 
during my college career—in spite of 
Osbornean treatments." In answer to 
the question to what she attributes her 
success Winifred Kellersburger mod¬ 
estly declares—"I haven't discovered 
the reason for my election, and even 
my best friends won't tell me!" 

64Moor-Born" Given 

By Blackfriars 

A tragedy centered around the life 
of the Bronte sisters is the theme of 
Moor-Born, to be given May 22 as the 
third and last presentation of Black¬ 
friars for this year. Kathryn Printup 
will take the part of Charlotte; Kath¬ 
ryn Bowen Wall, of Emily; and Eliza¬ 
beth Cousins, of Anne. 

The male cast has not yet been de¬ 
cided upon, but those who will prob¬ 
ably take parts are Gilbert Maxwell, 
Marion Camp, and Ira Lykes. 

BAILEY BROTHERS 
SHOE SHOP 

142 Sycamore St. 

Decatur, Ga. 

Compliments of 

MORGAN CLEANERS 

403 Church St. DE. 1372 

By Virginia Hill 
A survey of the works of Carl Sand¬ 
burg can give little of their spirit, 
while one or two of his poems read 
can suggest almost everything; for 
Sandburg is so inspired a person, so 
much imbued with whatever it is that 
imbues him, that Sandburg is always 
present, not as a single, singing man, 
but as a great impersonal, living soul. 
Being that, he is, of course, versatile. 
Though all of his works are essentially 
poetry—whether or not he intends 
them so—he has written, besides his 
poems, a series of Kootabaga Stories 
for Children, and biographies. 
The names of his poetry books are 
interesting: Chicago Poems, 1916; 
Corn Huskers, 1918; Smoke and Steel, 
1920; Slabs of the Sunburnt West, 
1922; Selected Poems, edited by Re¬ 
becca West, 1926; The American 
Songbag, ballads, 1927; Good Morn¬ 
ing, America, 1928; Early Moon, 
poems for children and some lyrics, 
1930; and The People, Yes, 1936. 
The profound combination of the 
most vulgar America with the most 
exquisite dreaming, of what Sandburg 
calls "the synthesis of hyacinths and 
bisquits," has come from a poet who 
appears to be as nearly unconscious 
as a poet can be and still remain a 
creator." He is a creator, though, who 
has written: 

Curves of fire, the rough scarf women 
dancing, 

Dancing out of the flues and the 
smokestacks — flying hair of 
fire, flying feet upside down. 

who has seen: 

An undertaker humming a lullaby and 
throwing his feet in a swift 
and mystic buck-and-wing, and 
now you see it and now you 
don't. 

Sandburg is the lover of all and the 
sufferer for all: 

Finders in the dark, you Steve with a 
dinner bucket, you Steve 
clumping in the dusk on the 
sidewalks with an evening pa¬ 
per for the woman and kids, 

Reporters 

Reporters include: Nell Allison, 
Alice Cheeseman, Giddy Erwin, Nell 
Hemphill, Carol Hale, Cora Kay 
Hutchins, Sarah Johnson, Douglas 
Lyle, Frances Lee, Regina Hurwitz, 
Julia Sewell, Mary Willis, Mamie Lee 
Ratliff, Selma Steinbach, Anne Purnell, 
Marie Merritt, Alice Reins, Myrl 
Chafin, Louise Young, Mary Frances 
Kennedy, Henrietta Blackwell, Mary 
Primrose Noble, Mary Reins, Evelyn 
Baty, Eleanor Hutchens, Hazel Solo¬ 
mon, V. J. Watkins, Mary Louise 
Dobbs, Virginia Hill, Eloise McCall, 
Louise Houghston, Mary Lang Gill, 
Eugenia Williams, Grace Duggan, and 
Jeannette Carroll. 

Business assistants are: Rachel Ken¬ 
nedy, Florence Little, Jessie Williams, 
Jane Dryfoos, Jane Carithers, Jeanne 
Flynt. 

CARL SANDBURG 

you Steve, with your head won¬ 

dering where we all end up—Finders 
in the dark, Steve; I hook my 

arms in cinder sleeves; we go 

down the street together; it is 

all the same to us; you Steve 

and the rest of us end on the 

same stars; and we all wear a 

hat in hell together, in hell or 

heaven. 

Being great in love of man, he is 
great in his knowledge of the hope of 

It is early, 

I shall yet be footloose. 

Sandburg knows his destiny. Be¬ 
neath it he hopes to become "the great 
nail holding a skyscraper through blue 
nights into white stars." 

It is from these white stars, perhaps, 
that Sandburg took his stories for chil¬ 
dren; or perhaps from the three girls 
whose father he is. Whatever the in¬ 
spiration, the results are "vigorous and 

Alumnae News 
i 
Helen DuPree Park, ex-'37, has 
moved to Decatur and is planning to 
resume her studies here next fall. 
Gregory Rowlett, '36, will be mar¬ 
ried on April 21 to Henry Sheip 
Weidman, in Tampa. 
Gertrude Lozier, '3 6, was married 
on March 27 to Leonard N e a 1 
Hutchinson, of Decatur. 
Shannon (Preston) Gumming, '30, 
announces the birth of a son, Fair-
man Preston, on March 4. 
Gary Strickland, ex-'37, was mar¬ 
ried to Jesse Reid Horne, of Vienna, 
Ga., on January 29. 
Augusta King, '3 6, is the new head 
of the Youth Administration in Co¬ 
lumbus. 

That there has been a growing interest 
in recent years among American 
students in summer study abroad 
is illustrated in an announcement from 
Exeter College, England, of a summer 
course especially designed for Ameri¬ 
can students. The course is offered 
during the latter part of July and the 
month of August, and covers a special 
study of the English language and con¬ 
temporary English life. 

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 
For Coming Year 
subtle and merry." Sandburg, telling 

his stories, is said to be like an over¬ 

Freshmen, Sophomores Elect 

grown little boy. Sandburg, writing 

Executive Members For 
them, must be the same; for the fan¬ Next Year 
tastic adventures on the prairies are 

as if he had lived them. The blowing Officers for the upcoming senior, 
away of the Village of Cream Puffs, 

junior, and sophomore classes were

"the light little village on the upland 

nominated Saturday and will be voted

corn prairie many miles past the sun¬ 
set in the West," is plausible. It was on Saturday in chapel. 
tragic to Sandburg, too, for he lets Nominees for president of the senior 
the village wave high up on a string, 

class are: Ola Kelly, Jane Turner,

then return after the wind is through 

Anne Thompson, and Mary Anne Ker-

playing with it. 

nan. For vice-president, Anne Thomp¬

Sandburg is not too trivial in these 

son, Jane Turner, Martha Peek Brown,

stories. If he were, children would not 

like them. "They are told," writes Elise Seay, and Ruth Tate are nomi¬ 
Grace Conkling, "in rhythmical prose nated. Elsie West, Mildred Davis, 
as highly organized as Mr. Sandburg's 

Hibernia Hassell, Primrose Noble, and 

poetry. Very often they are poetry 

Mary Anne Kernan are nominated for 

. . . Rhythms carry the mood and fas¬ 

secretary-treasurer.

cinate the ear . . . They have the pre¬ 

The upcoming junior class has nom¬

cise folk quality of many lives lived 
and much wisdom gathered and spent." inated: for president — Jane Moore 

This same quality of "many lives Hamilton, and Mary Hollingsworth; 
lived" enabled the writer of poems for vice-president—Adelaide Benson; 
and children's stories to become a biog¬ for secretary-treasurer — Ruth Mur¬ 
rapher. The comments of his Abra¬ phy, and Harriette Von Gremp. Junior 
ham Lincoln: The Prairie Years, may nominees to the executive committee 
be summed up, as in one instance: are: Emma McMullen, Flora McGuire, 
"The first volume of this huge work, and Cora Kay Hutchins. 
it seems to me, comes close to being 

Nominated as president of next 

a masterpiece; the second is less good, 

year's sophomores are: Katherine Pat-

and in parts, indeed, very bad." The 

ton, and Eleanor Hutchens. Marjorie

explanation of this is that Sandburg 

Boggs, Polly Heaslett, and Frances Ab¬

is "a poet rather than a psychologist." 

bot are up for vice-president. Ruth

He loved the young Lincoln, rising 

Crisp, Carolyn Forman, Penn Ham¬

from the earth, as hard as the earth, 

mond, and Lutie Moore are running

as teeming as the earth. He did not 

for secretary -treasurer. Sophomore

understand as well the older Lin¬ 

nominees to the executive committee

coln, the man who had left the earth 

are: Henrietta Thompson, Julia Thie


and become, not the essence of all men 

monge, Ruth Slack, Carolyn Forman,

of the earth, but an individual person¬ 

Ruth Crisp, and Lutie Moore.

ality. Sandburg tells unsparingly the 
facts of the shrewd man, but he does 
not quite comprehend them. 

Change Is Made 

It is the first book, then, that es¬ 
tablishes Sandburg as a biographer of In May Day Dell 
Lincoln and as a man very like him. 
"He gets dignity into it and a fine 

Improvements the

flavor of simple poetry." in seating ar¬ 

rangement in the May day dell will

Even to describe his biographies, the 

enable 1300 spectators to see the May

word "poetry" is used; for Sandburg 

day pageant this year. The slope lead¬

is the poet. It is the poet that his 

ing down to the dell has been terraced,

friends find him. Sherwood Anderson, 

and the bleachers can now be placed

one of them, writes: "In Chicago news¬ 

each at a height of six inches above

paper local rooms he is spoken of as 

John Guts . . . The poetry of John the other, thus enabling every one in 
the audience to see the performance

Guts doesn't interest me much . . . As 

more easily.

for the other Sandburg, the naive, 
hesitating, sensitive Sandburg—among Within the near future a sidewalk 
all the poets of America he is my leading to the dell will be laid between 
poet." the library and the gymnasium. 

Anthem Published 

Meet Your Friends at

Mr. C. W. Dieckmann's anthem 
for mixed voices, Blest are the Pure in Cox's Prescription Shop 
Heart, was published last week by the 

Between Paramount and Grand

Presser Publishing Company; it was 

Theaters, Atlanta

chosen from a long list of composi¬ 
tions waiting for publication. 

Good Food 

IS 

Good Health! 

You Can Depend 

On 

CAFETERIA 
189-191 Peachtree St. 


THE AGONISTIC 

Quenelle Harrold 

Award Not to be 

Given This Year 

No Quenelle Harrold award will 
be made this year since the rates are 
so low that interest on $10,000 would 
amount only to about $3 5 0, whereas 
formerly it amounted to over $600. 
The award will be made next year in¬ 
stead. 

Mrs. Thomas Harrold, of Americus, 
Georgia, established the Quenelle 
Harrold Foundation in honor of her 
daughter, who was graduated from 
Agnes Scott in 1923. The income 
from the $10,000 she contributed 
finances a fellowship each year for a 
senior or an alumna of not more than 
two years standing. The award is 
made on the basis of qualifications for 
research and promise of leadership. 

Classical Group 

Sends Delegates 

Frances Gary and Zoe Wells will 
represent Agnes Scott at the national 
convention of Eta Sigma Phi, honor¬ 
ary Latin and Greek fraternity, to be 
held at Birmingham-Southern Col¬ 
lege, Birmingham, in the latter part 
of April. 

The Agnes Scott chapter of Eta 
Sigma Phi will meet on Monday, Ap¬ 
ril 19, to elect officers for next year. 
Term papers for Latin 203 will be 
read, and the official delegates to the 
convention will be appointed. 

SCIENCE MEET IS 
ATTENDED BY FACULTY 

(Continued from page 1, colttmn 1) 

Dr. Fritsche's talk concerned the 
discovery of industries which can 
profitably be introduced into the 
South and which will thus broaden 
its economic resources: 

(1) Since the discovery that 
slash pines, from which paper can be 
made, will grow in the South in 25% 
of the time it now takes the spruces 
used in the northern paper industry, 
paper manufacturing is peculiarly 
fitted for the South. 
(2) The Rayon industry will pros¬ 
per in the South because of the per¬ 
fecting of a practical method of ob¬ 
taining starch, which is the basis of 
rayon manufacturing, from agricul¬ 
tural products grown by southern 
farmers. 
(3) Oils for paints will no longer 
have to be imported from China 
since botanists have learned that the 
tung tree from which the oil is taken 
will grow in the southern states. 
(4) "Agrol," a process of fermen¬ 
tation of agriculture products to 
make a fuel comparable to the inor¬ 
ganic fuel, gasoline, has been in¬ 
vented. 
Miss Dexter, associate professor of 
psychology, who is a member of the 
committee for awarding the Phipps 
and Bird prize, will meet with the 
rest of the committee to render the 
decision. The award is made for the 
best research paper presented at this 
meeting. 

The University of Illinois reports 
only one per cent of its co-ed grad¬ 
uates are old maids. Eighty per cent 
marry within three years after grad¬ 
uation and 18 per cent within the 
next three years. 

Compliments of 

W. W. BELL 
You Can Come to Us or 
We Will Go to You 

We are as close to you as your 
telephone. 

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PHARMACY 
Sudden Service 

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Club Meetings 

Are Interesting 

German Club 
German club met on Wednesday 
afternoon, March 31, at 4:30 o'clock 
in Lupton cottage. Two letters from 
Lucie Hess were read, and a part of 
the German Easter service was given. 

Bible Club 
The last meeting of the Bible club 
was held Monday afternoon in the 
Murphey Candler building. Dr. Pat¬ 
rick H. Carmichael of Columbia 
Theological Seminar)' spoke to the club 
on "Religious Education." 

International Relations 
International Relations club met 
yesterday afternoon in the Murphey 
Candler building. 

French Club 
The next meeting of the French 
club will be held on Monday after¬ 
noon, April 12, at 4:30 o'clock in the 
Murphey Candler building. A pro¬ 
gram on one of the French provinces 
will be presented and officers for the 
coming year will be elected. 

Glee Club 

The Agnes Scott College glee club 
presented a musical program at the 
Pattillo Memorial Methodist Church 
last Sunday morning. 

BOZ 

Try-outs for BOZ are due Monday, 
April 12, at 6 P. M. Requirements 
for try-outs may be found on the bul¬ 
letin board in Buttrick Hall. 

Spanish Club 

Spanish club will meet on Tuesday 
afternoon, April 13, at 4:30 o'clock 
in the Murphey Candler building. An 
exhibition of Spanish manuscripts, cos¬ 
tumes, and other things which are 
characteristic of Spain will be shown. 
New officers for the coming year will 
be elected at this time. 

Pi Alpha Phi 

The next meeting of Pi Alpha Phi 
will be held tomorrow night, April 8, 
at 7 o'clock in the Murphey Candler 
building. Jean Barry Adams and Nell 
Hemphill will debate against Frances 
Norman and Ernestine Cass. 

Cotillion Club 

Cotillion club met last Thursday 
afternoon in the Murphey Candler 
building. Mary Venetia Smith, Susan 
Bryan, Bee Merrill, and Martha Peek 
Brown were hostesses. 

Chi Beta Phi Sigma 

The last meeting of Chi Beta Phi 
Sigma was held Monday night at 7 
o'clock in the Murphey Candler build¬ 
ing. Dr. Baker of Emory University 
spoke on "Research in the South." 

HOTEL CANDLER 
Coffee Shop and 

Dining Room 

Alice Taylor announced her engage¬ 
ment to Ensign Robert Wilcox, U. S. 
Coast Guard, Sunday, April 4. The 
wedding is to take place in June. 

Dancing this week: Frances Wilson 
attended the dances at the University 
of Virginia last week-end. Marjorie 
Scott went to Quadrille Wednesday 
night, and to the Intra-Fraternity 
dance at Georgia Saturday night. Grace 
Tazewell also attended the Georgia 
dance. Caroline Carmichael, Rachel 
Kennedy, Mary Gillespie, Aileen Shortley, 
Martha Marshall, Grace Ward, 
and Gary Wheeler attended the O. D. 

K. formal Friday night, and Frances 
Steele, Jane Moore Hamilton, Caro¬ 
line Carmichael, Rachel Kennedy, and 
Strat Sloan attended the Phi Chi 
dance Saturday night. 
Week-enders: Carolyn Du Pre, Mary 
Reed Hendricks, Frances Morgan, Shir¬ 
ley Steele, Mary Simonton, and 
Eleanor Rogers went to Brenau for 
the week-end. Annie Lee Crowell vis¬ 
ited Martha Marshall in Americus, 
Ga. Margaret Currie, Eloise Donkle, 
Gary Horne, Beatrice Sexton, and Lois 
Sexton spent the week-end in Besse¬ 
mer City, N. C. Annie Houston New¬ 
ton visited Virginia Tumlin in Cave 
Springs, Ga. Others going away were 
Fannie B. Harris to Rome, Ga.; Betty 
Ann Hubbard, Marjorie Scott, and 
Grace Tazewell to Athens, Ga.; Vir¬ 
ginia Johnson to Turin, Ga.; Kay 
Jones, Jane Carithers, and Helen Fried-
lander to Winder, Ga.; Mary Frances 
Kennedy to Grovetown, Ga.; Martha 
Leipold to Barnesville, Ga.; Ellen Lit¬ 
tle to Gainesville, Fla.; Judith Gracey, 
Mary Willis, and Elizabeth Skinner to 
Augusta, Ga.; Frances Abbot to 
Barnesville, Ga.; and Josie Larkins to 
Conley, Ga. 

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Students Attend Two Agnes Scott 

BirminQham Tea Professors Will 

Speak to Groups

A group of five students from Bir¬ 
mingham attended a tea there Satur¬ 

Two members of the faculty, Mr.

day given by the Birmingham Alum¬ 

Arthur F. Raper, professor of sociol¬ 

nae club in honor of high school 

ogy, and Mr. Philip Davidson, profes¬ 
seniors. Julia Thiemonge, Carolyn sor of history, will attend conventions 
Forman, Enid Middleton, Sophie Mont¬ at which they will be featured speak¬ 

gomery, and Evelyn Baty motored to ers. 
Mr. Davidson is to talk to the Geor¬

Alabama with Miss Elizabeth Mit¬ 

gia Federation of Women's clubs on

chell; Miss Carrie Scandrett, assistant 

"Cordell Hull and South American 

dean, and Miss Alberta Palmour, 

Reconciliation" at Macon on April 14. 
alumnae field secretary, were also On April 16 Mr. Raper will speak to 
present at the tea. the Georgia Educational Association 
in Savannah and on April 21 to the 
Southeastern Congregational churches 

Mr. K. Weisiger Will 

in Jacksonville, Florida. Recently he 
presented a paper at the Southern

Discuss Personality 

Sociological meeting in Birmingham, 
the title of which was "Gulleys and 
Mr. Kendall Weisiger, personnel di¬ What They Mean." This evening he 
rector of the Southern Bell Telephone will speak in Aberdeen, Mississippi. 
Company, will speak on "Enlarging 
One's Personality" at 7:45 o'clock Fri¬ Mrs. Alma Sydenstricker 
day evening in Gaines chapel. His 

Lectures on Pearl Buck 
talk is another in the series on the At¬ 

lanta Public Forum. 

Mrs. Alma Sydenstricker, professor 

As a part of the Atlanta Public of Bible, discussed the life of Pearl 
Forum discussion, Assistant United Buck at the Atlanta Agnes Scott club 
States Attorney I. K. Hay spoke on meeting on March 30. Mrs. Buck, au¬ 
"Law Enforcement" last Friday night thor of such best sellers as The Good 
in the Gaines chapel. He stressed par¬ Earth, Sons, and The Exile, is Mrs. 
ticularly liquor and counterfeiting. Sydenstricker's niece. 

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Fast 

For Peace

For Peace 

(T!)c ^Vc^onistic 

VOL. XXII AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 1937 

New Chapter of Mortar Board 

Peace Fast Will be Observed; 

Miss Leyburn to Make Talk! 

A. S. C. Joins National Drive; 
Service Dedicates

Thirteen Students Speak 
In City Churches 

Murphey Candler 

During the luncheon period on 

Building April 19 

Thursday Agnes Scott students will 
observe a fast to demonstrate their en¬ 

Mr. William D. Thomason Gives

thusiasm for the Peace Program spon¬ 

Address; Musical Program

sored by the Emergency Peace Cam¬ 

By Agnes Scott Choir

paign. Miss Ellen Douglas Leyburn, 
instructor in English, will give an ad¬ 

In a simple program, consisting of

dress in Gaines Chapel at that time. 

Agnes Scott in this observance joins an address, music, and prayer, the 
students in colleges and universities Murphey Candler Building for student 
throughout the United States in show¬ 

activities was formally dedicated on 

ing their interest in the cause of peace 

Monday afternoon, April 19, at four

and in the principles of the campaign. 

o'clock. The main feature of the pro¬

No solicitation will be made on this 

gram for the occasion was an

campus, but an opportunity will be address, 

"Hon. Charles Murphey Candler" by

given to those who wish to contribute Pictured above are the newly-elected members of Mortar Board: Jean Barry Adams,

Mr. William D. Thomason. Following Elizabeth Blackshear, Jean Chalmers, Laura Coit, Mildred Davis, Mary Lillian Fairly, Anne

to the campaign. All students wish¬ Worthy Johnson, Hortense Jones, Winifred Kellersberger, Eliza King, Primrose Noble, Anne

the speech, the college choir gave a Thompson, and Virginia Watson.

ing to participate in the fast are re¬ 

brief musical program, and a dedica¬

quested to sign up on the bulletin 

tory prayer by the Rev. Mr. Richard

board in Buttrick. 

P. Patterson Wins
Orme Flinn closed the exercises. Press Heads

Another phase of the college peace 
program will be a series of talks which Murphey Candler, for whom this First Scholarship 
students will make in Atlanta church¬ building was named, died about two Elect Staffs 
es this week. On Thursday night, years ago, having served on the Board 

Brumby, Atlanta, Places Second;

April 22, Eliza King, '3 8, together of Trustees of this college for more For 1937-'38 Applicants From 24 States 
with other students from colleges in than forty-six years. It is especially 

Enter Contest 

the environs of Atlanta, will make a appropriate that this building be 
talk on peace. named for him, because in the build¬ Agonistic, Aurora, Silhouette 

Pattie Patterson, 419 Clement Ave.,

Emory and Agnes Scott will have ing of it the first construction com¬ Editors, Business Managers 

Charlotte, N. C., a senior in Central 

charge of the programs of various pany failed, and it fell to him as chair¬ Name Assistants 

High School of that city, is winner of 

Baptist, Presbyterian, Methodist, and man of the Committee on Buildings 

first place in the competitive exami¬ 

Episcopal young people's meetings. and Grounds to supervise its construc¬ The editors and business managers 

nation for this year which was held 

On April 2 5 the girls who are to speak tion afterwards. Mr. Candler was very of the three campus publications, the 

on March 5th; Sabine Brumby, 1101 

are: Brooks Spivey, Nellie Margaret active in the operation of the college. Agonistic, the Aurora, and the Silhou¬ 

St. Charles Place, Atlanta, Georgia,

Gilroy, Alice Hannah, Marie Stalker, ette, have chosen their staffs for the 

senior at North Avenue Presbyterian

Martha Long, Hibernia Hassell, Prim¬ 1937-38 session. Following an Agnes

Newcomb Debates School, won second place. In award¬ 
rose Noble, Flora MacGuire, Gary Scott tradition, the Agonistic ing the scholarships, which are $700

new 
Wheeler, Esthere Ogden, Lelia Carson, With Atmes Scott staff has already assumed its duties, and $5 00 respectively, seventy-fiveand Mildred Coit. and the new Attrora staff will edit the 

percent of weight was attached to the 

last issue of this year. The Silhouette 

grades of the examinations and twen¬

A simultaneous debate was held Fri¬ staff will begin work next year.

Blackfriars to Give ty-five percent to personal qualities,

day night, April 16, between Agnes The Agonistic editorial staff headed 

activities in school and community,

by Hortense Jones, editor, is as fol¬

Convention Plays Scott and Sophie Newcomb at the two and the like. It happened this year

lows: associate editors, Jane Guthrie

colleges on the subject, Resolved: That that the awards go to those who made 

and Mary McCann Hudson; assistant 

the highest grades. Two hundred and

Blackfriars Dramatic Club present¬ Congress Has the Right to Regulate 

editors, Mary Frances Guthrie and 

twenty-three applicants from schools

ed two plays and a selection of choral Minimum Wages and Maximum Hours 

Marie Merritt; feature editors, Hiber¬ states the com¬

in twenty-four took

readings last Saturday night in the 

Laws for Industry. This debate re¬ nia Hassell and Giddy Erwin; current 

petitive examination.

Bucher Scott Gymnasium. The plays 

placed the annual triangular debate history editor, Mary Anne Kernan; 

Winners of the $700 scholarship

were Achilles' Heel by Carolyn Pierce 

book editor, Elizabeth Warden; society

with Randolph-Macon, Sophie New¬ for the past four years are Frances

Dilliard and Ever Young by Alice 

editors, Mary Venetia Smith and Bee

comb, and Agnes Scott. Gary ('37), Eliza King ('38), Cora

Guerstenburg. 

Merrill; exchange editor, Mary Reins; 

Kay Hutchins ('39), and Evelyn Baty

Those taking part in the first pro¬ Brooks Spivey and Nellie Margaret 

sports editor, Alice Cheeseman; alum¬ 

('40).

duction, a folk play, were: Kitty Gilroy composed the Agnes Scott af¬ nae editor, Jeannette Carroll; club edi¬ 

Printup, Elizabeth Cousins, Jeanne 

firmative team, which went to New tor, Eugenia Williams. 

Flynt, Jean Bailey, Betty Lou Houck L. Coit to be Officer

Orleans. Fannie B. Harris and Mary The business staff of the Agonistic

Smith, and Hugh Embry. 

is composed of Elizabeth Blackshear, In Student Federation

Lillian Fairley, campus negative team,

The choral readings which followed 

business manager; Jane Carithers, ad¬ 

were Song for Saint Cecelia's Day by debated here against the affirmative 

vertising manager; Frances Castleber-

Laura Coit, incoming president of

Dryden; The Two Listers, anonymous; team of Sophie Newcomb, Charlotte 

When I Was One and Twenty by A. (Continned on Page 3, Column 4) student government, was elected sec¬

Hawkins and Dorothy Barker. Mary 

retary of the Southern Federation of

E. Housman; Velvet Shoes, Elinor 
Frances Guthrie was the alternate for

Wylic; and Daniel Jazz, Vachel Lind¬ Turner to Head Seniors; Student and Press Representatives, 

Agnes Scott. which held its sixteenth annual con¬

say. Readers were Joyce Roper, Jean 

Forman Sophomore Head

Bailey, Elizabeth Cousins, Kitty Print-Mrs. Peter Marshall, '3 6, the presi¬ vention in New Orleans April 8-10. 
up, Jeanne Flynt, Susan Goodwyn, dent of Pi Alpha Phi debating society Laura took an active part in the stu¬ 
and Carrie Phinney Larimer. last year, presided over the debate. Elections were recently held for dent government round-table and 

Ever Young, another one-act play, next year's class officers. committee work of the conference. 
had for its cast the following girls: Instructor Writes Paper Those elected for the incoming The Federation will hold its session 

Myrl Chafin, Frances Steele, Lucille senior class are as follows: Jane Tur¬ next year in Memphis. 
ner, president; Anne Thompson, vice

Cairnes, and Mary Past. Kitty Printup 

"The Translations of the Mottoes 

president; and Mary Ann Kernan, sec¬

also gave a reading, "Ben Jonson En¬ 

and Quotations in the Rambler," a Davidson Band to

retary-treasurer.

tertains a Man From Stratford" by 

paper by Miss Ellen Douglas Leyburn, 

The incoming sophomore class offi¬

Edwin Arlington Robinson. Play Here April 27

instructor in English, is to be pub¬ 

are:

Achilles' Heel will be repeated dur¬ cers Carolyn Forman, president;

lished in the Review of English Stu¬ 

Penn Hammond, secretary-treasurer.

ing the Convention of the Southern 

dies, an English learned journal. Miss The nominations for the sophomore The Davidson College Band of for¬

Association of Teachers of Speech 

Leyburn did research work on this ty pieces will give a concert here in

vice president are Polly Heaslett and

which meets on April 22-24 in Nash¬ 

paper last summer. the Bucher Scott Gymnasium on Ap¬

Frances Abbott.

ville. The choral will also be given. 

ril 27 at 8:15 p. m. The musicale will 
be sponsored by the House Decora¬

A CALL TO FAST

April Y.W.C.A. Conference 

tions Committee of the Alumnae As¬

Youth Peace Creed: We recognize the increasing threat 

sociation, of which Mrs. Granger Han-

Postponed till INext Year of war and accept our responsibility for creating and sup¬ 

sell is chairman.

porting an aggressive peace policy through a nation-wide 

The three local clubs of the Alum¬

The Agnes Scott Y. W. C. A. Con¬ demonstration of solidarity for peace. 

nae Association, the Atlanta and De


ference, scheduled for April 22-23, By fasting on strike day we will: 

catur clubs and the business girls'

will not be held this year, according 

1. Meet the criticism that the Peace Strike is a prank to club, will help sponsor the band and 
to Isabel McCain, president. Circum¬ 

avoid class work. will serve coffee at the reception which

stances required that the date be 2. 

Dedicate the funds ordinarily used for one day's food will be held in the Alumnae House

changed to a time when it would be 

costs to strengthening the peace cause. after the concert. The Davidson bandimpossible for the speakers to be Testify, by this voluntary denial of our bodily needs, that also played here last year under the 

present. However, the Y. W. C. A. 

s are 

auspices of the Alumnae Association.

dedicated not to the military machines

plans to conduct a similar conference of the world, but to efforts for world peace. Tickets for the concert will be sold 

next year. 

for thirty-five cents. 

llltllllMMMIIIIMMIIII 

NO. 19 

Mortar Board 

Gives Scrolls 

To Thirteen 

Professor Davidson Makes Talk 
On Leadership Qualities 
Of Girls Elected 

Members Are Versatile 

Comprising one of the largest 
groups ever to be elected at Agnes 
Scott, thirteen juniors received their 
Mortar Board scrolls when Fannie B. 
Harris, who presided over the exer¬ 
cises held in the chapel Saturday, Ap¬ 
ril 17, announced the 1937-3 8 chap¬ 
ter of the national honorary society. 

The girls who received the honor 
are: Jean Barry Adams, Elizabeth 
Blackshear, Jean Chalmers, Laura 
Coit, Mildred Davis, Mary Lillian 
Fairly, Ann Worthy Johnson, Hor¬ 
tense Jones, Winifred Kellersberger, 
Eliza King, Mary Primrose Noble, 
Anne Thompson, and Virginia Wat¬ 
son. 

Jean Barry has held several positions 
on the college Y. W. C. A. She was 
president of the Freshman Y cabinet, 
the music chairman of the Y. W., the 
treasurer of the Y. W., and the vice 
president of that organization for the 
next school year. Elizabeth is an 
Honor Roll student, a member of the 
varsity hockey squad, and the new 
business manager of the Agonistic. She 
has also served as the president of the 
sophomore class and as the advertising 
manager of the Agonistic. 

Jean, recently elected to be the pres¬ 
ident of the Athletic Association, has 
been active as the junior student treas¬ 
urer, the sports editor of the Agonis¬ 
tic, and the secretary-treasurer of the 
International Relations Club. Laura's 
activities have varied from being the 
house president of White House, a 
member of the varsity hockey team, 
and an Honor Roll student to her new 
position as president of Student Gov¬ 
ernment. 

Mildred won the Collegiate Scholar¬ 
ship for this year. In addition to this 
honor she has been the vice president 
of Eta Sigma Phi, and she will edit 
the handbook for next year. Mary 
Lillian is especially outstanding for 

(Continued on Page 3, Column 1) 

Threat of Narcotics 

Revealed in Chapel 

Lecturing in chapel Friday morn¬ 
ing, Mr. E. A. Rowell presented a 
startling picture of the threat of nar¬ 
cotics to America today. Mr. Rowell, 
an authority on the illicit drug traf¬ 
fic, has spent some ten years in inves¬ 
tigating it. He is now engaged in 
making for the government a four 
year survey of narcotics in relation to 
crime, prostitution, white slavery, and 
other evils. 

The trade, which he terms "the 
largest illegitimate underworld crime 
business on the whole globe," is high¬ 
ly organized for production, selling, 
and extension, according to Mr. Row¬ 
ell. He demonstrated ingenious meth¬ 
ods by which opium, cocaine, and 
other dangerous drugs are smuggled 
into the United States and distributed. 

He stated also that the use of nar¬ 
cotics is not simply a habit, but a 
disease. Lack of the customary drug 
produces suffering great enough to 
make addicts commit any crime which 
may bring money for obtaining relief. 
Once procured, the drugs are taken in 
various ways, some Oriental in origin, 
some originated here. 

In conclusion Mr. Rowell declared 
that eighty per cent of American drug 
addicts acquire the habit before they 
are twenty-five; consequently, the 
menace is directed chiefly against peo¬ 
ple of high school and college age. 


THE AGONISTIC 

<ttyz Agonistic 

PUBLISHED WEEKLY 

Owned and published by the students of Agnes Scott 
College. 

Entered as Second Class Matter at Decatnr, Georgia. 

Subscription price, $1.25 per year in advance. 
Single copies, 5 c. 
1936 Member 1937 
Plssocided GoUeeside Press 

STAFF 
Hortense Jones Elizabeth Blackshear 
Editor Business Manager 
Jane Guthrie 

Jane Carithers 

Mary McCann Hudson 

Advertising Manager

Associate Editors 

Frances Castleberry

Mary Frances Guthrie 

Vera Marsh

Marie Merritt 

Jeanne Redwine

Assistant Editors 

Alice Reins 

Giddy Erwin 

Circulation Managers

Hibernia Hassell 

Alice Cheeseman

Feature Editors 

Sports Editor

Mary Anne Kernan 
Current History Mary Reins 
Exchange Editor

Elizabeth Warden 
Book Editor Jeannette Carroll 
Question 

Alumnae Editor 
Marks Eugenia Williams 
Society Editors Club Editor 

Born to Gas Masks 

Throughout history men and women have tes¬ 
tified to their convictions by voluntarily deny¬ 
ing themselves their basic necessity—-food. By 
fasting they have forfeited immediate values in 
order to assert their convictions about greater 
values. Tomorrow we join the other students 
and youth organizations all over America in a 
national peace fast—a concerted, sincere testi¬ 
mony of our conviction of the sinfulness and fu¬ 
tility of war. 

We are seeking to develop, in ourselves, a gen¬ 
eration which will be immune to the intoxicating 
fever of brass bands, and which will steadfastly 
refuse to take up arms against fellowmen. We 
deny the charges of spineless cowardice and dis¬ 
loyalty to our country. It is not that we are the 
less Americans, but the more human beings. 

The world has scarcely wiped the blood from 
the last war off its boots; yet it has plunged 
headlong into an armaments race which pres¬ 
ages a war unrivaled in horror by any previous 
conflict. Gas masks are provided for children 
even before they are born. The whole earth 
bristles and glints with the sleek, steel efficiency 
which modern science has perfected for the 
game of slaughtering humanity. These who ad¬ 
vocate rearmament assure us that the way to 
get peace is to prepare for war. We can only 
answer them that the best way to get to heaven 
is not to prepare for hell. 

It is, then, with sincere ardor that we take 
part in the national peace fast. The rapidly de¬ 
veloping war crisis in the world imposes upon us 
a duty to think clearly, to act courageously. No 
legitimate technique can be too dramatic to em¬ 
phasize the urgency of this issue nor too com¬ 
manding in terms of personal self-discipline. Let 
us, then, firm in our purpose to uproot this 
wholesale butchering, war, fast for peace. 

A Statement of Policy 

In accordance with Mr. Davidson's statement 
in chapel that creative leadership must clearly 
define its ideals, the new Agonistic staff, as it 
assumes its duties, would like to outline its pur¬ 
poses in order to get the fullest cooperation in 
its work. In the task of building a newspaper 
and making it breathe, we have certain very 
definite aims. 

The first is to make the paper an organ of the 
student body—filled with student news, activi¬ 
ties, and opinion. We ask your cooperation in 
giving us your news, but even more we ask for 
your opinion (about any subject—on or off cam¬ 
pus) through the now almost defunct column, 
We Think. Does no one think at Agnes Scott? 

Our second purpose is to cooperate with the 
administration and with the heads of other or¬ 
ganizations in sponsoring any progressive move 
which they may undertake. We shall seek to de¬ 
velop a socially intelligent student opinion, with 
special emphasis on peace, academic freedom, 
and social justice. 

The third and last aim which we have set our¬ 
selves is that of making the Agonistic a history 
of the development and progress of Agnes Scott. 
Our news may not be news in the strictest sense, 

Advertising Work Youth Prepares for Peace 

_ Interests Alumna 

The stirring beat of drums and the appeal of 
"During the last 25 years, hazing vigorous propaganda which formerly summoned 
on

has been disappearing from colleges. Agnes Scott, reading the papers youth to war are now being replaced by serious 

Mondays, can look with pride upon

This is due largely to the fact that talk and thoughtful planning for peace by the

the Rich's ads, because they are writ¬

students are devoting their energies to 

ten by one of her own alumnae. Helen younger generation. The United States Peace 
other activities and have little time 

Ford of the class of '3 6 is now in the Committee has announced important plans for a 

for such trivialties." Raymond E. advertising department at Rich's and nation-wide observation of demonstrations for 
Manchester, dean of men at Kent writes the ads for the Monday papers. 

peace. This committee includes most of the im¬ 
State University, students Interests of other alumnae have be¬

thinks are portant student groups in the United States,

involved a romantic

almost past the prankish "Rover-boy" come in more such as the youth section of the Emex-gency

way. Mary Summers, '3 5, sister of

days. 

Peace Campaign, N. S. F. A., Y. M. C. A., Y. W.

Martha Summers, '37, has announced 

"No great civilization ever has de¬ her engagement to Dr. Curtis Lang-C. A., and Fellowship for Reconciliation. These 
veloped leisure and lived. There are horne, professor of psychology and various groups are uniting in a concerted expres¬ 
few, if any indications, that America assistant registrar at Emory, while 

sion against war. 

Willie Lou Sumrall, '36, is now Mrs.

will be any exception. Given leisure, 

An immediate and enthusiastic acceptance by

Jack Peugh and is leaving for Califor¬

man will go to sleep—that is, he will youth of the plans and ideals of the Committee

nia in June, where her husband is anlet down, get soft, become an onlook¬ officer in the Coast Guard. is ux-ged in its forceful statement of ci-eed: "We 

er, cease to be vigorous and thus lose recognize the increasing threat of war and ac¬ 
initiative." New York University's 

cept our responsibility for creating and support¬

Dr. Jay B. Nash, professor of educa¬ 

Headlines 

ing an aggressive peace policy thi-ough a nation¬

tion, believes America will perish if 

wide demonstration for peace."

people don't adopt hobbies. Of the Past 
Tomorrow, April 22,

"There are two broad avenues to has been designated as 

the day for decisive and impressive indication

follow—the avenue of escape and the 

Three years ago this week Alberta of a vigorous student sentiment for peace. The

avenue of fulfillment. The man who 

Palmour, then president of student United States Peace Committee has suggested a

follows the avenue of escape does not 

government, was elected treasurer of strike against war, in which the cooperation of

come to terms with life at all. He 

the Southern Intercollegiate Associa¬ colleges and youth groups is asked. This form

either loses himself in activities fever¬ 

ish but unsubstantial, or falls into tion of Student Government. of demonstration will be tremendously effective 
Two years ago this week The on certain campuses, while mass meetings, i-al


lethargy. Those choosing this path 

are not adults." Greater Agnes lies, and parades may be more suitable to other

Scott campaign ended

real Cocooned—ad¬ 

with a total subscription of $24,-campuses. Whatever form the demonstration

ults take a spurring from President 

741.12, which far surpassed the origi¬ may take, the purpose is the same; it is to be an

Harry M. Wriston of Brown Univer¬ 

nal goal of $15,000. audible pi'otest against war.

sity. 

One year ago this week Agnes Scott This large genei'al pui-pose has several parts 
participated in a national peace dem¬ consisting of specific demands or statements of 
Symphony Offers onstration with a chapel program at policy. The main divisions of the primary ob¬ 
which Sarah Catherine Wood spoke jectives ai*e: the demand that colleges and uni¬ 
Atlanta Concerts and Loice Richards played taps. versities be demilitarized through passage of the 
Nye-Krale amendment, opposition to the pro¬ 
posed billion dollar war budget for the United

Concert enthusiasts at Agnes Scott 

Reporters States, recognition of the validity of the Oxfoi'd 

were looking forward to the appear¬ 

pledge, defense of civil rights and academic free¬ 

ance on the Atlanta All Star Concert 

dom as a safeguard against Fascism, and the re¬

Reporters include: Nell Allison,

Series of the Philadelphia Symphony 

solve to keep America out of war.

Alice Cheeseman, Giddy Erwin, Nell

Orchestra under its new conductor, 

Hemphill, Carol Hale, Cora Kay With these definite aims in view the United

Eugene Ormandy. 

Hutchins, Sarah Johnson, Douglas Student Peace Committee is asking the coopera¬

There were double concerts on 

Lyle, Frances Lee, Regina Hurwitz, tion of the youth of America in successfully

Tuesday night, April 20, one at 6:45 

Julia Sewell, Mary Willis, Mamie Lee demonstrating its concern in the problem of pre¬

and the other at 9 o'clock. Two en¬ 

Ratliff, Selma Steinbach, Anne Pur-venting war and its conviction that a united ef¬ 

tirely different programs were ren¬ 

nell, Marie Merritt, Alice Reins, Myrl fort of this kind has actual value. The results

dered. 

Ghafin, Louise Young, Mary Frances of tomorrow's activities are yet to be seen, but 

The first program listed "Jesus, Joy 

Kennedy, Henrietta Blackwell, Mary the fact of sincere consolidated effoi't on the part

of Man's Desiring," Bach-Cailliert; the 

Primrose Noble, Mary Reins, Evelyn of young America to voice its ai'dent protest

Brahms' "Symphony in D Major, No. 

Baty, Eleanor Hutchens, Hazel Solo-against war cannot be overlooked. This expres

2," three poems for orchestra on tra¬ sion

mon, V. J. Watkins, Mary Louise of public opinion is important; the efforts 

ditional Aramic Hebraic themes, by 

Dobbs, Virginia Hill, Eloise McCall, of the United Student Peace Committee merit 

McDonald and Shite; and "Firebird," 

Louise Houghston, Mary Lang Gill, the attention of all those interested in the estab-

Stravinsky. 

Eugenia Williams, Grace Duggan, and lishment of peaceful relations among the peoples 

The second program offered "Ov¬ Jeannette Carroll. of the earth. 
erture to Freischutz," Von Heber; Business assistants are: Rachel Ken¬ 
Beethoven's "Symphony in A Major, nedy, Florence Little, Jessie Williams, 
No. 7;" and "Pictures At An Exhibi¬ Jane Dryfoos, Jane Carithers, Jeanne Agnes Scouting 

tion," Moussorgsky-Cailliert. Flynt. 
Although somewhat handicapped by the fact 
that they were unable to procure the microphone

Life History of Laughter is Theme 

employed at the Carl Sandbux-g lectui'e (it seems 
that the talented troubadour has hired it perma¬

Fo r St imulating Series of Essays 

nently to furnish his accompanist) ye faithful 
Scouters at in to

"In Pursuit of Laughter," Agnes The magnificent period of Eliza¬ Agnes are present a mood 

broadcast choice items from our low-down-laden

Repplier, Houghton Mifflin, N. Y., beth's reign is the exciting force in the 

campus. The most delightful episode seems to

drama; it is the first step in the "si¬

193 6. Reviewed by Mary Jane King. 

be that one in which senior-opera author Nellie

lencing of laughter" and, therefore, in

In Pursuit of Laughter is a stimu¬ Margaret Gilroy was musically benefiting ves¬

the "pursuit of laughter." The English¬

lating series of essays with a strong man at dissolution of the pers with her philosophical song, "Purity Always

the guilds

continuity which binds them into a Pays," until she discovered x-atlxer abruptly that

and the beginning of modern indus¬ 

sort of history, delightfully irresistible Dr. McCain disapproved (of the song, of course).

trial life finds himself questioning for 

history because it is a chronoligcal and The newest mecca for the Agnes Scott four

the first time his belief that "life is 

accurate account of the life, death, hundred is the mystic den of Mrs. Framshon, the

worth the living." Against a reaction 

and subsequent pursuit of laughter; ir¬ fortune-teller on Washington Street. According

against such questioning he first be¬ 

resistible because it is presented with to her predictions, both Ellen Stuart and Mai'y

gins the pursuit of the lost art of 

a real understanding of the comic Bucholz will be married within a year; Nelle

laughter. But each succeeding genera¬

spirit and is immersed in the life of Pinner has not yet met her first mate, although

tion, though it brings its jesters— 

the people of each age it depicts. The thex-e's smooth sailing ahead; and Annette Wil¬

Charles II, Hogarth, Sheridan, Sydney

author has all but written a drama—a liams will take an exciting trip this summer.

Smith, Hood or Artemus Ward—onlytragi-comedy paradoxically enough— heightens the tragedy that laughter We'll admit we're not up on Robert's "Rules of 
whose hero is the Englishman. "can never be again." Order" (page V. J.), but, madam chairman, we 
In the bright morning of his youth, And so the drama has no climax; would like to raise the following questions: What 
the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, for it will never have an end. "Ever freshmen were heard rendering "Moonlight and 
the ring of his laughter echoes in "in and always the ill-organized pursuit Shadows" to certain juniors at 12:45 the other 
every hole and corner where human goes on: midnight? (Must have been trying to sing like 
life exists." Plague, and poverty, and the Boydies!) Were they the same ones who 
war, and ignorance, and oppression are I cry a reward for yesterday, wanted to put the frog in the bath tub—all in the 
all alike powerless to silence his laugh¬ Now lost, or stolen, or gone astray, interests of science, of course? Who is the au¬ 
ter; not even the medieval church for With all the laughter of yesterday." thor of the mysterious letter received by five 
all its efforts succeeds in doing so. For juniors recently elected to prominent positions? 
laughter has nothing to do with any Have you seen Martha Long and her long friend 
of these; it is the "will to live" found¬ No better explanation of the mod¬ fold tlxemselves into his Austin? Have you un¬ 
ed on the belief that "life is worth the ern mental attitude of insecurity and raveled the mystery surrounding Mary Winston, 
living." The devil of the Middle Ages hard seriousness can be found than Annie Lee, Margaret, and the others at Eugenia 
was a fascinating fellow who "conde¬ here—no clearer pointing of the way Williams' weird house party? 
scended to play fantastic pranks in the toward recapturing "the stoutness of Spring shots: Martha Leipold in eulogistic 

but it is selective—a week-by-week record, care¬ law courts and monasteries." And human composition" which enables ecstacies after D. C.'s visit . . . Miss Harn look¬ 
fully and accurately kept for future reference, of "God was not the irritable Deity of man not in spite of but because of suf-ing for four-leaf clovers . . . Martha Moffett in 
the more important aspects and events in the John Knox." Laughter was the veryjfering to believe that "life is worth a fever over Carl Sandburg's remark that she 
life of our college. thread of which life was woven. the living. looked like a figure on a Grecian vase. 


THE AGONISTIC 

Delegates to N S. F. A. Conference 
PRESS HEADS ELECT 
NEXT YEAR'S STAFF Alumnae Entertain 
In Deep South Had Gala Week-end 
Hannah, Blackshear, L. Coit, Jones, Johnson, and Watson Tell Of 
Social Flashes (Continued from Page 1, Column 3) 
ry, Alice Reins, Jeanne Redwine, and 
Vera Marsh. 
Senior Class With 
Teas, April 15,16 
Ferry Boat Rides, Chicken Gumbo, Aisles Of 
False Teeth, And Dances 
Virginia Watson, editor-in-chief of 
the Silhouette, announces her staff as: The Agnes Scott Alumnae Associa¬ 

It seems that our delegates to the 

N. S. F. A. Conference in New Or¬ 
leans last week-end learned a little bit 
about everything from Chaucer to den¬ 
tistry. Laura Coit, on the train going 
down, met up with a delightful old 
man who recited passages from Chau¬ 
cer and talked in many different lan¬ 
guages, and who turned out to be Dr. 
McBride, professor of English and dean 
of the graduate school at Tulane, soon 
after her arrival. 
Gina Watson made an interesting 
acquaintance, too. He was a delegate 
from Nacodochus (?) Texas, one 

Bugger Red by name, and thought the 
girls from "Mary Frances Scott, so 
civilized." Hannah, however was much 
too busy exploring the hotel to talk 
to anyone. Her room was on the 
twelfth floor and she spent her time 
riding up and down on the elevators. 
"They don't have things like this in 
Cass," she explained. 

Hortense—it must be her nose for 
news—was surrounded by reporters at 
the convention dance. Later she was 
seen riding the ferry back and forth 
across the Mississippi—whether over¬ 
come by the reporters or by the beauty 
of the river, no one knows. 

Ann Worthy and Lib concentrated 
on the favorite foods of New Orleans. 
They sampled the chicken gumbo, the 
pralenes, and drank black coffee, and 
even brought back a loaf of pumper¬ 
nickel with them which they divided 
in the Terminal Station. 

Besides these various activities, they 
all inspected with great interest the 
displays of the dental convention held 
in the same hotel. They walked up 
and down aisles of false teeth, accept¬ 
ed dentyne and tooth paste samples, 
and overheard such phrases as "notice 
the delicate tracings on this upper 
plate, sir," ... or "and then I gave 
her a little more gas and . . ." etc. 

All in all, the delegates agree that 
the convention was a great success 
and when Laura, Gina, Ann Worthy, 
Lib, Hannah, and Hortense say so, it 
must be so! 

MORTAR BOARD GIVES 
SCROLLS TO THIRTEEN 

(Continued from Page 1, Column 5) 
her debating, being a varsity debater 
and a past vice president of Pi Alpha 
Phi debating society. She is to be the 
new house president of Rebekah Scott. 

Ann Worthy has held such offices 
as those of the sophomore stunt chair¬ 
man, the secretary of the French Club, 
the treasurer of Student Government; 
and she has just been elected to serve 
next year as the vice president of Stu¬ 
dent Government. Hortense, the new 
editor of the Agonistic, has been the 
president of the Poetry Club, a mem¬ 
ber of BOZ, and an assistant editor of 

the Agonistic. She edited the winning 

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Blackfriars Elect 

Cousins President 

Eight new officers assumed their 
duties in Blackfriars as a result of 
elections which were held on April 6. 
They are: Elizabeth Cousins, presi¬ 
dent; Mary Anne Kernan, vice-presi¬ 
dent; Myrl Chafin, secretary; Caro¬ 
lyn Carmichael, treasurer; Jeanne 
Flint, publicity chairman; Mary Fen¬ 
nel Simon, program chairman; Helen 
Moses, costume chairman; Alice 
Cheeseman, property chairman. 

As a farewell gesture, the old board 
presented a skit, after which the new 
members were initiated. Today the 
new officers will be installed, and the 
group which is going to Nashville will 
present the play which is to be given 
there, "Achilles' Heel," by Carolyn P. 
Dillard. 

paper in the Agonistic contest her 
sophomore year. 

Winifred's activities have included 
being a sponsor, a member of the Poe¬ 
try and Granddaughters' Clubs, and 
the president of the Y. W. C. A. for 
next year. Eliza has been the presi¬ 
dent of the junior class, a member of 
the Silhouette staff, the chairman of 
the junior banquet, and the new stu¬ 
dent recorder. Primrose has served as 
a Y. W. cabinet member, as one of the 
junior hockey squad; and she has re¬ 
cently been elected to be the president 
of the French Club. 

Anne has been prominent in ath¬ 
letics, having served as the treasurer of 

A. A., and as the business manager of 
May Day. She is a member of the var¬ 
sity hockey and the sub-varsity bas¬ 
ketball squads. Virginia, the editor of 
the Silhouette for next year, was the 
president of the Outing Club, and a 
member of Sophomore Commission. 
Prior to the announcement of the 
elections, Professor Davidson, of the 
history department, gave a talk on 
leadership, "The Union of a Compell¬ 
ing Personality and a Compulsive 
Ideal," in which he discussed the lead¬ 
ership qualities of girls elected to Mor¬ 
tar Board. 

(Being the inside dope on all social 
activities of the week as reported by-
two anonymous campus snoopers.) 

On the moonlight night of Friday 
the sixteenth, our little Nell ascended 
the steps of Rebekah Scott and whis¬ 
pered a deep dark secret to only three 
people. And the next morning the 
whole campus knew that Nell was en¬ 
gaged to Charlie. Congratulations, 
Nell! 

Certain members of the sophomore 
class, including Susan Goodwyn, Anne 
Purnell, and Tony Newton, turned 
pirate last Thursday evening and at¬ 
tended a dance at Peachtree Gardens 
in patent leather boots, pink pants, 
and everything. 

Other sophomores and some juniors 
were seen flitting at the Pi Kappa Al¬ 
pha formal at Tech. While Ann 
Thompson, Bee Merrill, and Frances 
Wilson seemed to be getting their 
share of punch at the Emory A. K. K. 
formal. 

For some unknown reason everyone 
decided to take advantage of their cuts 
this week-end and as a result the cam¬ 
pus was almost forsaken. Phyllis 
Johnson took Estelle Cuddy, Lois 
Walton, and Hayden Sandford home 
with her. Tommy Ruth Blackmon 
and Margaret Hopkins went to Gaines¬ 
ville. Enid went to Birmingham to at¬ 
tend the dances and Mildred David 
went with her. 

The only other outstanding event 
that needs clearing up is that New 
Orleans trip . . . but we'll leave that 
to your own snooping. 

Economics courses are more popular 
than any other courses given at the 
University of California. A survey 
shows that economics has reached a 
new high in schools throughout the 
country. 

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feature editor, Elsie West; assistant 
feature editor, Aileen Shortley; photo¬ 
graph editor, Ellen Little; faculty edi¬ 
tor, Ola Kelly; athletic editor, Eliza¬ 
beth Williams; art editor, Jane Wyatt; 
kodak editor, Adelaide Benson; 
assistant kodak editor, Flora Mac-
Guire; class editor, Marjorie Boggs; 
organizations editor, Hayden Sanford. 

The business manager of the Silhou¬ 
ette, Joyce Roper, is assisted by Ann 
Watkins, advertising manager; Fran¬ 
ces Robinson, Martha Peek Brown, 
Mary Hollingsworth, Catherine Ivie, 
Emily Underwood, Nell Pinner, Jane 
Luthy, and Sara Lee. 

The editorial staff of the Aurora 
has not yet been completed. It now 
consists of Carol Hale, editor; Nell Al¬ 
lison, associate editor, and Julia Sew-
ell, assistant editor. 

The business manager of the Aurora 
is Ola Kelly, and her business assist¬ 
ants are Grace Tazewell and Caroline 
Carmichael. 

The University of Illinois reports 
only one per cent of its co-ed grad¬ 
uates are old maids. Eighty per cent 
marry within three years after grad¬ 
uation and 18 per cent within the 
next three years. 

tion entertained the members of the 
senior class at tea on April 15 and 16 
at 4:3 0 o'clock in the Alumnae House. 

Mrs. L. G. Baggett, chairman of the 
entertainment committee; Miss Daisy 
Frances Smith, president of the asso¬ 
ciation; Mrs. D. B. Donalson, execu¬ 
tive secretary, and Miss Lulu Ames, 
'36, received. 

The senior class was divided, some 
members coming on Thursday and 
some on Friday. Those alumnae who 
assisted in the entertainment Thursday 
were Helen Ford, '3 6, Jane Blick, '36, 
Kathryn Bishop, '3 6, Gertrude (Lozier) 
Hutchinson, '36, Vella Marie 
Behm, '3 5, Mary Summers, '3 5, Mar¬ 
garet Ridley, '3 3, Nell Chamlee, '34, 
and Alberta Palmour, '3 5. The alum¬ 
nae who served Friday were Virginia 
Williams, '3 6, Mary (Vines) Wright, 
'3 6, Ruby Hutton, '36, Frances James, 

'3 6, Sara Kathryn (Wood) Marshall, 
'3 6, Betty Lou (Houck) Smith, '3 5. 

As a conclusion to the reception, 
Miss Ames, Miss Chamlee, and Miss 
Palmour gave talks on the meaning 
and the function of the Alumnae As¬ 
sociation. 

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE 
DECATUR, GA. 

A college for women that is widely recog¬ 
nized lor its standards of work and for the 
interesting character of its student activities 

For further information, address 

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DATE GETTING 

INTEREST . . . 

You don't have to stand in any line 
at any window to get this interest. 
When you are wearing MANGEL'S 
prom clothes you are sure of that 
extra heart beat value. In this collec¬ 
tion are dance frocks that have the 
definite spot light quality and yet 
this is coupled with real purse con¬ 
sideration. It seems mighty easy 
to interest "Him" in MANGEL'S 
prom clothes. 

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185 PEACHTREE ATLANTA, GA. 


THE AGONISTIC 

Judges To Select Bible Club Elects Chalmers Aiinounees New Board; 
"Miss Health" In 

L. Young President Formulates Plans for 1937-'38 
This is a friendly column. An in¬ 

formally explanatory column of sports 

information, purposing to forecast, to 

review, and to comment on current 

and coming activities of the athletic 

world as we see it. Here we shall ad¬ 

vertise tournaments, announce games 

and meets, as well as praise and en¬ 

courage deserving teams and individ¬ 

ual athletes. And, as the ambiguous 

title, Sporting, indicates, we mean to 

enjoy our busy little column—and we 

hope you will. It's all just for fun. 

Today the campus is concentrating 
on May Day, exactly seventeen days 
in the future. Miss Haynes and Miss 
Dozier are drilling rabbles and shep¬ 
herds, Mrs. Blodgett is tearing yard 
after yard of brilliant cloth into cos¬ 
tumes, the financially handicapped 
participants are searching—frantically 
—for the dollar bill due, and May 
court is already beginning to primp. 

But right now—this afternoon at 
3:00—on the gym courts there will be 
a tennis exhibition in which Mrs. E. T. 
Cohen, Mrs. Dorothy Vogel, Mrs. T. 
Berge, and Mrs. M. Pollard will play. 
These women are representative of the 
city's best tennis artists, and they 
bring to the campus an excellent ex¬ 
ample of a fast, smooth game. 

And as we speak of tennis, let us 
urge those in the current tennis tour¬ 
nament (who are still a bit backward 
about playing off matches) to be alert 
to their duty—play off your games in 
a peppier fashion and you'll.help El¬ 
len make the tournament peppier. And 
then, as a tender tribute to Stalker, 
don't you think we can find some¬ 
body to play off Mutt in the current 
(!) Ping-pong tournament? But on 
second thought, that's a rousing, 
speedy contention — and we'd better 
not rush it too much. We'll get Mutt 
excited. 

And now tonight the annual health 
contest will attract us to the gym at j 

7:00. All the contestants, each repre¬ 
senting a campus organization, have | 
arched their feet and brushed their 
teeth for the competition. Last year 
Jane Dryfoos was chosen "Miss 
Health," and her two predecessors 
were Helen Handte and Nell White. 
Here's to "Miss Health" of 1937! 
Being tested on current events, a 
freshman English class at the State 
Teachers College in Alpine, Texas, 
gave the following answers to the 
question: "What is 'Gone With the 
Wind?' " 

Dust. A modern phrase meaning 

"lost or thrown away." An expres¬ 

sion farmers use referring to their 

crops. Gulf gasoline. 

The Art club of Alabama College 
is offering a twenty-five dollar prize 
for the best design of a flag symbolic 
of the college. 

Good 

Contest Tonight 

Tonight at 7:30 in the gym the 
members of the physical education de¬ 
partment will choose the healthiest 

girl in A. S. C. from a large number 
of representatives in the annual health 
contest. Girls elected from the four 
classes and all the campus organiza¬ 
tions will be judged according to 
points allowed on posture, feet, car¬ 
riage, and general health condition, 
and the contestant highest in score 
will be "Miss Health." 

For the senior class, Judith Gracey 
and Martha Summers; junior class, 
Primrose Noble and Ruth Tate; fresh¬ 
man class, Ruth Slack and Ruth 
Crisp; day students, Kitty Printup 
and Nell Echols; Athletic Association, 
Mary Kneale, Estelle Cuddy, and Alice 
Taylor; Student Government, Emma 
McMullin; Y. W. C. A., Frances Ab¬ 
bot and Jean Barrie Adams; Mortar 
Board, Julia Thing; Eta Sigma Phi, 
Nell Allison; Chi Beta Phi Sigma, 
Aileen Shortley; Bible Club, Ruth An¬ 
derson and Penn Hammond; Citizen¬ 
ship Club, Nell Scott Earthman and 
Horence Little; International Rela¬ 
tions, Jean Chalmers and Alice Tay¬ 
lor; May Day, Anne Thompson; Silhouette, 
Jane Moore Hamilton and 
Bee Merrill; Aurora, Grace Tazwell; 
Agonistic, Mary Reins and Frances 
Steele; French Club, Tommy Ruth 
Blackmon and Margaret Hansell; Ger¬ 
man Club, Emily Harris; Blackfriars, 
Dixie Woodford; B. O. Z., Douglas 
Lyle; KUB, Joyce Roper and Elsie 
West; Cotillion Club, Catherine Ivie; 
Glee Club, Frances Steele and Flor¬ 
ence Lasseter; Lecture Association, 
Martha Moffett; and for Poetry Club, 
Evelyn Sears. 

Classics Club Reads 

Papers at Meeting 

Eta Sigma Phi met in the Murphey 
Candler Building Tuesday afternoon, 
April 20, at 4:3 0, to choose the offi¬ 
cial delegates to the national conven¬ 
tion in Birmingham and to elect offi¬ 
cers for next year. 

The program, consisting of papers 
written and read by members of the 
club, included: "Some Phases of Re¬ 
ligion in Virgil" by Sarah Johnson, 
"Dido and Medea" by Kathryn Bowen 
Wall, and "Prominent Women of the 
Aeneid" written by Enid Middleton 
and read by Mary Jane King. 

Meet Your Friends at 

Cox's Prescription Shop 

Between Paramount and Grand 
Theaters, Atlanta 

Food 

Miss Ingram Speaks At K.U.B.; 

P. Noble Heads French Club; 
Other Clubs Meet 
The Bible Club officers were the 
first to be elected this year. On Mon¬ 
day, April S, Louise Young was elect¬ 

ed president; Myrl Chafin, vice-presi¬ 

dent; Mary Past, secretary, and Millie 

Coit, treasurer. The Bible Club will 

begin the year by presenting a pro¬ 

gram at the Sunday vesper service 

with "Bible Study" as the subject. The 

two talks will be made by Sara Beatty 

Sloan and Carolyn Forman. 

Those who passed the Murphey 
Candler building Monday, April 12, 
about five o'clock, heard French songs 
being sung by the whole French Club 
and especially by the newly-elected 
officers. To a keen ear, the voices of 
Primrose Noble, president; Jeanne 
Flint, vice-president; Adelaide Benson, 
secretary, and Betty Alderman, treas¬ 
urer, were heard with a "presiding" 
accent. 

The Pen and Brush Club found in¬ 
spiration for their art in the lovely 
garden at the home of Zoe Wells, 
where they held their meeting on Ap¬ 
ril 21. 

Miss Ingram, from Rich's, will 
speak to K. U. B. in their meeting to¬ 
day. 

The Cotillion Club, in their new 
spring frocks, danced with spring 
rhythm at the tea, April 15. The hos¬ 
tesses were Nancy Moorer, Rose 
Northcross, Marjorie Scott, and Dor¬ 
othy Cabaniss. 

Reports of N. Y. A. projects from 
Wabash College feature the white¬ 
washing of the gym. The whitewash¬ 
ing is admittedly non-political. 

—N. S.F.A. 

Co-eds of the University of Wiscon¬ 
sin use enough lipstick annually to 
paint four large size barns, according 
to recent estimations. 

Emory and \\ eslevan 

To Debate Agnes Scott 

Pi Alpha Phi forensic society has 

made arrangements for debates to be 

held this week between some of its 

members and two Georgia colleges. 

Tonight the society will conduct a 
duel debate between its freshmen neg¬ 
ative and affirmative teams and those 
of Emory University in Atlanta on 
the question of labor unions. The af¬ 
firmative team of Agnes Scott, com¬ 
posed of Kathryn Patton and Mary 
Louise Dobbs will face the Emory 
negative team at Emory, while Agnes 
Scott's negative team, composed of 
Margaret Hopkins and Ernestine Cass, 
will remain here to oppose the affir¬ 

mative team from Emory. 

Friday night Jean Austin and Jane 
Turner, upholding the affirmative of 
the question of consumers coopera¬ 
tives, will meet the Wesleyan College 
team at Wesleyan in Macon, Georgia. 

The Evening Division of the Uni¬ 
versity System of Georgia has received 
national prominence through the out¬ 
standing work of its two largest na¬ 
tional commercial fraternities. 

Pi Chapter of Alpha Kappa Psi and 
Kappa Chapter of Delta Signa Pi have 
won first places in their respective ef¬ 
ficiency contests for the school year, 
193 5-3 6. This is probably the first 
time in collegiate history that the most 
efficient chapters of two leading fra¬ 
ternities have been located at the same 
university. —Evening Signal. 

N. B. 
Daylight saving time will go in¬ 
to effect at Agnes Scott Saturday 
night, April 25. The clocks will be 
set up one hour. 

Cuddy To Manage Basketball; 
MacGuire To Head Hockey; 

H. Carson, Tennis 
Staff Includes 12 Members 

Jean Chalmers, the incoming presi¬ 
dent of the Athletic Association, has 
announced the A. A. Board for the 
session 1937-3 8. The new members in¬ 
clude: Estelle Cuddy, who will man¬ 
age basketball; Flora MacGuire, hock¬ 
ey; Virginia Milner, swimming; Caro¬ 
lyn Forman, hiking; Helen Carson, 
tennis; Adelaide Benson, Outing 
Club; Bee Merrill, social; Mary Past, 
singing; Lou Pate, archery; Frances 
Castleberry, posters; and Alice Cheese-
man, publicity. 

These girls, in cooperation with 
Jean Chalmers, president; Frances 
Robinson, vice president; Jane Moore 
Hamilton, secretary; and Jane Dry¬ 
foos, treasurer, will lead the associa¬ 
tion next year and will further the 
purpose of A. A., that of encouraging 
wholesome participation in seasonal 
sports. 

Cadets at John Tarleton College 
have rebelled against paying out money 
to have their washing done. To elimi¬ 
nate the expense of "nine cents a 
shirt" they are going to give a play, 
and with the proceeds from it they in¬ 
tend to buy a washing machine. 

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VOL. XXII AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 1937 NO. 20 

Class Presidents For 1937-'38

Agonistic Will Give Luncheon Hannah, Perry 

For Retiring Staff Saturday Have Leads in 

Senior Opera

J. Guthrie, Chairman, Plans For 
Coit Will Preside

Entertainment To Be In 
Alumnae House 

At Installation of Annual Senior Performance Of 
Burlesque Opera Will Be 

Both Staffs Are Invited 

Student Officials Given May 8 

Members of the new Agonistic 

L. Dennison Is Director
Alice Hannah, Outgoing Student

staff will entertain the retiring 

President, Will Talk At 

staff at the annual press lunch¬ Alice Hannah, "Mezzo -So¬

Chapel Service 
eon, which will be held in the prano," and Mary Erneste Per¬ 
ry, "Dramatic Soprano," will be

Anna Young Alumnae House on Sat¬ Saturday morning in Gaines Chapel 

the hero and heroine of the

the new officers of the Student Gov¬

urday, May 1, at 1:3 0 o'clock. Jane 

senior opera, to be given in the Bucher

ernment Association will be formally

Guthrie is chairman of the luncheon. 

Scott Gymnasium, Saturday evening,

installed by the new president of the

Her committee includes: Mary Mc-May 8, at 8 o'clock. The rest of the

organization, Laura Coit. As part of 

Cann Hudson, invitations chairman; cast includes Frances Wilson, Marie

the ceremony, talks will be made by 
Mary Anne Kernan, finance chair¬ Alice Hannah, the out-going presi¬ Stalker, Margaret Hansell, Mary Alice 

Newton, Mary King, Mary Jane Ti-

man; and Alice Cheeseman, place dent, and Laura Coit. 

gert, Julia Thing, and Sarah Johnson.

Those officers who are to be in¬

cards chairman. 

Seniors taking part in the choruses

stalled are as follows: Laura Coit,

The guest list for this annual cele¬ are as follows: Frances Gary, Frances

president; Ann Worthy Johnson, vice


bration includes both the old and the 

Belford, Annie Laura Galloway, Flor¬

president; Mary Lillian Fairly, house

new editorial, business, and reportorial ence Lasseter, Evelyn Wall, Edith Bel-

president, Rebekah; Tommy Ruth

staffs. The 1937 staff included: ser, Jessie Williams, Rachel Kennedy,

Blackmon, house president, Main; Nell

Laura Steele, Frances Gary, Jane Guth¬ 

Katherine Maxwell, Florence Little,

Hemphill, house president, Inman;

rie, Hortense Jones, Mary McCann 

Martha Summers, Mary Johnson, Jane

Jean Bailey, secretary; Mary Ellen

Hudson, June Matthews, Nellie Mar¬ 

Estes, Martha Head, Wayve Lewis,

Whetsell, treasurer; Eliza King, stu¬

garet Gilroy, Mary Frances Guthrie, 

Faxie Stevens, and Margaret Watson;

dent recorder; Zoe Wells, day student

Mildred Davis, Pauline Moss, Kathryn 

while those in the dances to be given

representative; Mildred Davis, hand¬

Wall, Elizabeth Blackshear, Mary Lib 

Courtesy of Atlanta Constitution. are: Alice Taylor, Betty Willis, Mar¬

book editor; Ellen Little, student

Morrow, Frances Wilson, Frances Cas-Pictured above are Jane Turner, Mary Hollingsworth, and Carolyn Fonnan, presidents of jorie Scott, Dorothy Jester, Ora Muse,

treasurer, senior; June Harvey, stu¬ the upcoming senior, junior, and sophomore classes, respectively.

tlebury, Jean Chalmers, Cornelia 

Vivian Long, Sarah Johnson, Kitty

dent treasurer, junior; and Mary Past,

Christie, Elizabeth Warden, Enid Mid-

Daniels, Mary Kneale, Mary Willis,

fire chief.

dleton, Mary Jane King, and the re¬ 

Association Gives Barton Jackson, Lucille Cairns, Mary

Rev. ERiot is

porters. The 193 8 staff includes: Tomorrow night the committee 

Gillespie, Martha Johnson, and Enid 

Hortense Jones, Jane Guthrie, Mary will go on a weiner roast. Miss Carrie Financial Account 

Middleton. 

McCann Hudson, Mary Frances Guth¬ Scandrett will speak to the group. T o Preach to 

That the light opera is dark with 

rie, Marie Merritt, Mary Anne Kernan, 

The Lecture Association, headed by pathos, "grim with weeping and wail¬ 

Giddy Erwin, Flibernia Hassell, Eliza¬ 

Davidson College Senior Class a faculty committee of six: Associate ing and gnashing of teeth, and full of 

beth Warden, Elizabeth Blackshear, 

Professor Laney, chairman, Associate germs and daisies" were the only hints 

Jane Carithers, Frances Castleberry, Band Plays Here writing com¬

Professor Hale, Assistant Professor forthcoming from the

Graduating Class Helps Choose

Bunny Marsh, Jeanne Redwine, Alice 

Christie, and Professors Stukes, Chris¬ mittee as to the subject matter of the

Baccalaureate Speaker

Reins, Alice Cheeseman, Mary Reins, 

The Davidson College Symphonic For First Time tian, and Davidson, has the following comic opera. The title will be an¬ 

Jeanette Carroll, Eugenia Williams, 

Band, hailed by critics as one of the financial report to make: nounced Monday, May 3. 

and the reporters. 

nation's outstanding college musical Paid for Stuart Chase lecture-$3 5 0.00 The burlesque, a traditional per¬

Exercises To Be On June 6 

Received from ticket sale 3 39.80 formance of the senior class presented

organizations, appeared in concert last 

the night of May Day, has been writ¬

Wall, Printup, Cousins night at the Agnes Scott Gymnasium 

The Reverend Mr. William E. 

ten this year by a committee headed

under the auspices of the Atlanta and Elliot, Jr., pastor of the Druid Deficit $10.20 

To Portray Brontes Paid for Carl Sandburg by Nellie Margaret Gilroy. Lucille

Decatur Alumnae Clubs of Agnes 

Hills Presbyterian Church in 

lecture $225.00 Dennison is director of the opera and

Scott College. The concert marked 

Atlanta, will preach the bacca¬ 

the second appearance of the band on Received from ticket sale 320.50 Florence Lassiter is assistant director.

Kathryn Bowen Wall, Kathryn 

laureate sermon to the graduating

Printup, and Elizabeth Cousins will this campus, the group having played class of Agnes Scott College on June $ 95.50

take the leading parts of Emily, Char¬ to a highly appreciative audience here Dr. Sewell Presents Talk

6 in Gaines Chapel. 

Expenditures

lotte, and Anne, respectively, in Moor-last year. 

For the first time the members of 

Here on Math Research

Born, a play presenting several dra¬ The band, composed of fifty splen¬ a senior class have been given the Advertising $21.72 
matic incidents from the lives of the didly trained college musicians, has Flowers 6.95

privilege of choosing the speaker, and 

Receptions, etc. 115.10 Dr. W. E. Sewell, mathematics in¬

Bronte sisters to be given on May 22 the distinction of being the first or¬ Mr. Elliot received the majority vote. 

Silhouette 20.00 structor at the Georgia School of

by Blackfriars. Marie Stalker as Tab¬ ganization of its kind in the south. Since his coming to Atlanta six years 

Tickets 3.80 Technology, was entertained on the

by, a maid, Mary Anne Kernan as In addition to appearances on the Da¬ ago, Mr. Elliot has kept in close con¬ 
Martha, Marion Camp as Kev. Bronte, vidson campus, the group has been tact with this college, and has spoken Chase deficit 10.20 Agnes Scott campus on April 20 by 

with one exception, complete the sup¬ presented in regular broadcasts over here several times in chapel periods Paid for lectures 575.00 Dr. Henry A. Robinson, professor of 
porting cast; the person to portray the Columbia Broadcasting System and at vesper services. mathematics. 

Bramvell has not yet been chosen. Total $652.77 Dr. Sewell at that time spoke to the

and over outstanding radio stations at Ministers who have delivered the 

Income advanced mathematics class on his re¬

Moor-Born is the last of the three weekly intervals for the past several baccalaureate address in the past two 

Budget $159.17 cent research work. During the past

plays presented by Blackfriars this years. It has also been in great de¬ years have been Rev. Wallace Alston 

year. The winner of the cup awarded Chase 3 39.80 eighteen months he has done more re¬

mand for concerts throughout the and Dr. Frank Crossley Morgan, in 
the member making the best perform¬ south and has appeared this year be¬ 1935 and 1936, respectively. Sandburg 320.50 search work in the field of mathe¬ 
ance of the year, will be announced fore audiences in more than fifteen matics than any other one person. 
immediately after the play. Carrie cities. $819.47 Dr. Robinson and Dr. Sewell were 

Austin, Turner Debate

Phinney Latimer ('36) won the cup Expenses 652.77 fellow students in graduate school be¬

The concert at Agnes Scott was one 

last year; Myrl Chafin received hon¬ of the outstanding engagements on Atlanta Law Students fore Dr. Robinson began his work as 
orable mention. Cash on hand-.$166.70 a professor.

the band's third southern tour. 
At the meeting of Pi Alpha Phi 
May Day Plans Presentation of debating society on Monday evening, Y.W.C.A. Cabinet for Coming Year 
April 19, at 8 o'clock in the Murphey 

Was Installed by W. Kellersberger

Candler Building, the Atlanta Law

Milton's Comus Saturday9 May 8 

School met this college in a debate on 
the question of consumers coopera¬ The installation of the 1937-3 8 Y. candle ceremony. As she read an ap¬

Plans for this year's May Dav pro¬ Marjorie Rainey. 

tives. Jean Austin and Jane Turner W. C. A. cabinet comprised the Ves¬ propriate verse each new member

duction, Comus, by Milton, scheduled The committee in charge of the 

represented Agnes Scott, upholding per Service Sunday, April 18. Offi¬ lighted her candle from the flame of

to be given on May 8 at five o'clock program are: faculty members, Miss 

the affirmative of the question. cers for the coming year who were in¬ her predecessor, symbolizing service

in the May Day Dell, are nearing com¬ Eugenie Dozier, Miss Llewellyn Wil


stalled are Winifred Kellersberger, rendered by the outgoing cabinet and

pletion. Dress rehearsals will be held burn, and Miss Harriette Haynes, 

president; Jean Barrie Adams, vice-opportunity for service given the new.

May 5 and 7 at 4:15 p. m. Arrange¬ and Miss Catherine Torrance, Miss El¬ Students Here Discuss 

president; Douglas Lyle, secretary, and In the inspirational talk which fol¬

ments have been completed for the len Douglas Leyburn, and Miss Louise Present Honor System 

Amelia Nickels, treasurer; those mak¬ lowed, the recently elected president,

flowers, and most of the costumes McKinney. The student members are: 

ing up the rest of the cabinet are Winifred Kellersberger, emphasized

have been made. The music will in¬ Eloisa Alexander, chairman; Anne 

The present double honor system Primrose Noble, program chairman; the importance of Christ in the inner

clude a great deal of that which Hen¬ 

Thompson, business manager; Julia 

was under discussion by the students Millie Coit, mission interest; Martha life of the individual, and the bound¬

ry Lawes wrote for the original. Sewell, scenario chairman; Kathleen 

in an open forum on Thursday, April Long, social service; Mildred Davis, in¬ less resources of faith in Him.

The members of the cast are: Daniel, Frances Steele, Jane Turner, 

22, during the chapel period. The dustrial group; Mamie Lee Ratliffe, The retiring cabinet, headed by Isa¬

Comus, Charline Fleece; the lady, Hibernia Hassell, and Marjorie Rainey, 

student meeting was presided over by music; Flenrietta Blackwell, spiritual bel McCain, president; Betty Hollis,

June Matthews; attendant spirit, costume committee; Ruth Tate, June 

Alice Hannah, president of Student life; Mary Hollingsworth, social; vice-president; Louise Young secre¬

Ruth Tate; the lady's two brothers, Matthews, and Helen Moses, dances; 

Government. In opening the discus¬ Julia Moseley, publicity; Katherine tary; and Jean Barrie Adams, treas¬

Marie Stalker and Anne Thompson; Tommy Ruth Blackmon, Jean Kirk


sion, she said, "Honor applies to every Patton, world fellowship; and Laura urer, includes Nellie Margaret Gilroy,

Sabrina, leader of the nymphs, Helen patrick, and Hayden Sanford, music; of our social

phase college life, and Coit, ex-officio. Millie Coit, Gary Wheeler, Hibernia

Moses; the lady's father and mother, Charline Fleece and Bunny Marsh, 

otherwise." Expressions from the Isabel McCain, retiring president, Hassell, Frances Wilson, Douglas Lyle,

Julia Thing and Martha Summers; publicity; Jane Wyatt, posters; and 

floor followed her introduction, in gave a brief talk, passing on the Y. W. Primrose Noble, Martha Long, Fran¬

Echo, Kathleen Daniels; young ladies, Cecelia Baird, Nellie Scott Earthman, 

Nell Hemphill and Joyce Roper, and which opinions both for and against C. A. challenge to the new cabinet, ces Abbott, Amelia Nickels, Winifred

and Flora McGuire, properties. 

the system were heard. after which she presided over the white Kellersberger, and Alice Hannah. 


THE AGONISTIC 

ill)c Agonistic 

PUBLISHED WEEKLY 

Owned and published by the students of Agnes Scott 
College. 

Entered as Second Class Matter at Decatur, Georgia. 

Subscription price, $1.25 per year in advance. 
Single copies, 5 c. 
1936 Member 1937 
Plssocided GoUe&ide Press 

STAFF 
Hortense Jones Elizabeth Blackshear 
Editor Business Manager 
Jane Guthrie 

Jane Carithers 
Mary McCann Hudson Advertising ManagerAssociate Editors 

Frances Castleberry

Mary Frances Guthrie 

Vera Marsh

Marie Merritt 

Jeanne Redwine 

Assistant Editors 

Alice Reins 
Giddy Erwin Circulation ManagersHibernia Hassell 

Alice Cheeseman

Feature Editors 

Sports Editor

Mary Anne Kernan 

Mary Reins

Current History 

Exchange Editor

Elizabeth Warden 
Book Editor Jeannette Carroll 
Alumnae Editor

Question 
Marks Eugenia Williams 
Society Editors Club Editor 

REPORTERS: N. Allison, E. Baty, M. Chafin, M. L. 
Dobbs, G. Duggan, M. L. Gill, N. Hemphill, L. 
Houghston, E. Hutchens, C. K. Hutchins, R. Hurwitz, 
F. Lee, E. McCall, P. Noble, A. Purnell, M. L. 
Ratliffe, A. Reins, H. Solomon, S. Steinbach, V. J. 
Watkins, M. Willis, L. Young. 

BUSINESS ASSISTANTS: J. Dryfoos, J. FLYNT. 

Your Brother's Keeper? 

The open forum on the honor system reopened 
a question which has long been the source of 
much student discussion and dissent. We believe 
that the cause of the irritation lies not in our 
honor system itself, but rather in the fundamen¬ 
tally fallacious terminology, "double honor sys¬ 
tem." 

Honor can never be "double"; it has a singlegleness 
of purpose, concept, and scope which is 
all-inclusive. In seeking to make our honor sys¬ 
tem effectively extensive, we have placed an un¬ 
fortunate emphasis on a doubled honor, imply¬ 
ing that it is composed of two separate entities— 
either of which we can omit without incurring 

dishonor. 
This misconception has arisen from our well-
meant attempts to impress upon ourselves a two¬ 
fold responsibility: First, for our own honor, and 
second, for that of our fellow students. These 
two phases do not—as the term "double" im¬ 
plies—denote two separate systems of honor; 
they, rather, represent the complete application 
of one system—and without that extensiveness 
our honor is no longer honorable. 
No one enjoys the unpleasant task of tale¬ 
bearing. We are inclined to claim that each 
girl's honor is personal and subjective—her own 
affair—and, consequently, is of no concern to 
us. How many of us will admit that these fine-
sounding phrases are merely excuses (which 
somehow do not excuse) for our own cowardice? 
We have not the courage to report persons who 
violate the code which we yet rigidly enforce 
upon ourselves. We cannot face the possible un¬ 
popularity which might result. 
Instead, we rationalize our cowardice with in¬ 
dignant expostulations about "a higher code of 
honor to our friends." There is no higher, no 
lower, no double code; honor is one—unlimited 
and indivisible. Broken up, it loses its signifi¬ 
cance. We do not see that when we lower our 
standards as they are applied to our fellows, we 
render valueless our own adherence to those 
standards. 
The trouble lies in the fact that we are look¬ 
ing at the matter purely from an individualistic 
viewpoint—a sort of this-for-you-that-for-me at¬ 
titude. We have lost sight of the fact that we, 
as freshmen, signed a pledge to support Agnes 
Scott's honor system. Individual codes are, there¬ 
fore, submerged in and transcended by the in¬ 
stitutional code, which must be applied to all 
members of the institution if it is to be effective. 
The matter resolves itself to that question 
which evasive man has flung at a grieved Divin¬ 
ity throughout all time: "Am I my brother's 
keeper?" The answer has infallibly been "Yes." 
We are as genuinely responsible for our fellows' 
honor as for our own. Nor does this truth con¬ 
stitute a separate supplement of honor; it is an 
inherent part of the system to which we have 
pledged our support. Honor cannot be split into 
double codes. We are either completely honor¬ 
able, or we are dishonorable. 

Reports of a work holiday on May 
26, a May-Day Child Health program, 
an "old time fiddlers' convention," 
and a public square dance, make of 
the Skyline Farm News, which is ed¬ 
ited and printed by and for the people 
of cooperative farm community in 
Jackson County, Alabama, an inter¬ 
esting and unusual paper. 

The story of the Spring Festival 
(which will take place on the work 
holiday) recounts a program which 
includes pie-eating contests, Softball 
games, races, a may-pole dance, high 
jumps, and a tug o' war. The evening 
will be taken up with an open air pub¬ 
lic square dance. 

The paper also reports the activities 
of a community N. Y. A. library, a 
local theater, a baby clinic, and week¬ 
ly first-aid classes, all of which are 
operated and participated in by mem¬ 
bers of the community. At a recent 
community rally the director of the 
Sand Mountain Experiment Farm Sta¬ 
tion at Crossville, Alabama, spoke on 
the sociological advantages of home 
ownership, soil conservation, and land 
building. 

Editorials on "Scientific Farming," 
"Home Ownership," and the "Need 
for Christian Homes," show the pro¬ 
gressive and mature interests of the 
young editor of the paper. 

Headlines 

Of the Past 

Three years ago this week Martha 
Skeen, representing Agnes Scott, won 
first place in the reading contest of 
the Poetry Festival held in Birming¬ 
ham. 

Two years ago this week the race 
relations class and Professor and Mrs. 
Arthur Raper, and Assistant Professor 
Katherine Omwake visited the Tuskegee 
Normal and Industrial Institute. 

One year ago this week student gov¬ 
ernment officers were installed when 
Adelaide Stevens officially presented 
the gavel to Alice Hannah in chapel. 

Among the Agnes Scott alumnae 
who will be married in the future are 
Marjorie Tindale, '34, and Grace Rob¬ 
inson, '3 5. Marjorie will become Mrs. 
Loven Joseph Clark and her marriage 
will take place May 16 at the Peachtree 
Road Presbyterian Church in At¬ 
lanta. Grace will wed Howard Wynn 
in June. 

Norwegian Soprano 

Closes Opera Season 

Kirsten Flagstad, probably the 
greatest living soprano, will bring to 
a close the sixth season of the all-star 
concert series of Atlanta when she ap¬ 
pears at the Georgia Theater on Fri¬ 
day and Saturday evenings, April 30 
and May 1, at 8:30 o'clock. The Nor¬ 
wegian prima donna has received wide 
acclaim since her debut at the Metro¬ 
politan Opera House two seasons ago. 

Until three years ago, Miss Flag-
stad's concerts had been limited to the 
Scandinavian countries entirely. Her 
singing at a festival in Bayrueth in 
the summers of 1934 and 193 5 won 
for her the leading soprano roles in the 
Wagnerian operas at the Metropolitan. 
Since then her concert appearances 
have been a succession of triumphs. 

With the close of the season comes 
the announcement of the concerts for 
next year. The Atlanta All-Star Con¬ 
cert Series will present Rosa Ponselle 
in October; Yehudi Menuhin in No¬ 
vember; Lily Pons in January; the 
Joos European Ballet in February; 
Nelson Eddy in March; and Josef 
Hofmann, soloist, with a symphony 
orchestra in April. 

"I do not regard college as an in¬ 
tellectual filling station where you 
can go to take on a certain number of 
gallons of education." DePauw Uni¬ 
versity's President Clyde E. Wildman 
explains that a trained mind, respect 
for others, social imagination and 
ability to discriminate between the 
values of life comprise a college edu¬ 
cation. 

"Americans adore me, though I 
have insulted them for their own 
good as long as I have been writing." 
A modest statement from England's 
George Bernard Shaw to the Univer¬ 
sity of North Carolina's Prof. Archi¬ 
bald Henderson. 

"Is it not better preparation for 
American citizenship to solve prob¬ 
lems of governmental regulation of 
industry or credit buying than it is to 
solve problems concerning equilateral 
triangles?" Dr. J. Stanley Grey, psy¬ 
chologist at the University of Pitts¬ 
burgh, believes Pythagoras, Horace 
and the Babylonians should be shelved 
in favor of social studies for high 
school students. 

South Carolinian Novel Po rtrays 
History of Old Plantation Family 

"The Tides of Malvern," Francis 
Griswold, Grosser and Dunlap, 1930. 
Reviewed by Elizabeth Furlow. 

The heavy scent of magnolias, the 
deep blue of a Carolina sky, the beau¬ 
ty of a plantation—these are the fac¬ 
tors which combine to give the peace¬ 
ful background of Francis Griswold's 
novel of South Carolina, the "Tides of 
Malvern." "The Tides of Malvern" is 
the intriguing and ever-absorbing 
story of the Shelden family. Its clannishness 
and pride, its gentility, its 
humaness, its passionate loves and sor¬ 
rows—all are portrayed with a reality 
which holds the reader spellbound. 

Each character is individual, a sep¬ 
arate and real person, but each has an 
indefinable something which is Shel¬ 
den. Gilbert, the founder of the fam¬ 
ily and builder of Malvern, we 
see not only as a proud, earnest 
youth, but later as a responsible 
head of a family. Then, finally, he is 
the venerable and beloved patriach 
whose life slips peacefully away one 
April day, even as he is watching his 
spirit being renewed in the "Spring" 
of his grandson's life. After his death 
it is his third wife, the invincible old 
Eliza, who rules the family and directs 
the destiny of his favorite great¬ 
grandchild, Mark. She sees in him the 
spark of a Shelden and does all she 
can to mold it and develop it before 
she leaves him, to rejoin her beloved 
Gilbert. 

From then on, the history of the 
family progresses. Each generation is 
seen in the earnest and idealistic hopes 

of its youth, their fulfillment or dis¬ 
appointments in middle life, and final¬ 
ly the stark, beautiful phase of old 
age. Each generation has its loves and 
sorrows, its fears and delusions—but 
each one finally triumphs because of 
that invincible something that is 
Shelden. 

This essence of the Shelden family 
is exemplified by the old house at 
Malvern. The beautiful Georgian 
mansion is inextricably bound up with 
the life of each member of the fam¬ 
ily. It represents the high hopes of its 
builder, Gilbert, and the ethics of its 
last owner—Hugh. 

Behind this story of a family is the 
story of a nation. The history of Caro¬ 
lina and the United States is followed 
from Colonial days to the present. 
Each important phase is the back¬ 
ground of some crisis from which the 
family comes out, triumphant. 

The style of the author is admirably 
suited to the story. The atmosphere 
of peace and quiet is well conveyed 
by his beautiful presentation of plan¬ 
tation life. In lovely descriptions he 
shows each phase of the beauty of 
Carolina—smooth waters and clear 
nights, spring with its jasmine and 
magnolia. 

"The Tides of Malvern" is a novel 
indeed worth the while of those who 
are interested in Carolina and its his¬ 
tory and life. It would be enjoyed by 
those who like stories of a family with 
its joys and sorrows, its heartaches 
and hopes. But most of all, it would 
appeal to any who love beauty. 

Spain Makes World History 

By Mary Anne Kernan 

Another "first" has been written in the his¬ 
tory of war and peace. A blockade of neutral 
ships and men is surrounding Spain in an at¬ 
tempt to prevent the shipment of munitions and 
volunteers to either side in the civil war. This 
is the first time that such extensive internation¬ 
al cooperation has been carried out in an attempt 
to stop a conflict. The borders of Spain, both 
coastal and inland, are outlined by patrols of 
ships and officers authorized to inspect for con¬ 
traband all ships, trucks, automobiles, etc., en¬ 
tering Spain. 

The plans for this procedure, known in inter¬ 
national law as an effective blockade, were made 
by the International Non-intervention Commit¬ 
tee and went into effect April 20. This organi¬ 
zation of 27 admittedly neutral European na¬ 
tions has as its purpose in this new development, 
according to the Christian Science Monitor, "to 
confine forcibly a war within stated geographic 
limits." This object, certainly commendable in 
itself, is especially important because it repre¬ 
sents the first definitely constructive action 
which the Committee has taken since its forma¬ 
tion early last fall. 

Although there has already been some criti¬ 
cism of the blockade, its purpose and general 
regulations seem to be sound. British, French, 
Italian, and German ships comprise the coastal 
blockade, with around 60 ships stationed at 
strategic points along the Atlantic and Mediter¬ 
ranean. The land frontiers are being patrolled 
principally by officers of the nations participat¬ 
ing. There are at present some 265 officers from 
the English, Danish, Dutch, Swedish, Belgian, 
and Turkish armies assigned to watch the French 
and Portugese borders, as well as Gibraltar. 

A number of control ports where ships sailing 
for Spain are asked to call and declare their cargo 
have been established in the North Sea, along 
the French coast, and the Mediterranean. At 
these ports neutral observers go aboard and 
check the cargo, sailing with the ship if neces¬ 
sary. However, the only course in case contra¬ 
band is found is for the observer to report such 
illegality to the government of the offending 
ship. Further action naturally is not possible un¬ 
der the limitations of the Committee. 

Whatever the limitations of this plan and 
whatever inefficient features there may be, the 
blockade is significant as a decisive and possibly 
a progressive step in the effective control of a 
civil war threatening to become international. 
The International Non-intervention Committee 
of 27 interested European nations has finally 
made an important and unique move; it is to be 
hoped that this action will hasten the conclusion 
of the Spanish war. In any case the blockade is 
memorable as the first of its kind in the history 
of international cooperation. 

We Think 
(Editor's Note: The We Think column is for the purpose of tfiv


inpr an outlet to student opinion. The staff is in no way responsible

for what is printed in this column and it is by no means to be taken 

as the editorial opinion of the paper.) 

On last Thursday during the lunch period 
around 250 students maintained a fast in conse¬ 
cration to the principle of peace and in militant 
expression against future wars. There were 
many who understood and more who hoped that 
the money which the college saved by the fast 
was to go to the Emergency Peace Campaign for 
use in peace education. Inexplicably Agnes Scott 
refused so to donate the money, thereby profit¬ 
ing itself by the sacrifice of half its population 
for what it apparently regards as an unworthy 
cause. 

As far as appearances can be judged it would 
seem to us that Agnes Scott is either hostile or 
indifferent to the idea which led the fasters to 
deny themselves. The inconsistency is self-evi¬ 
dent. Obviously an institution dedicated to the 
education of young women for useful service in 
the community can hardly regard war or the 
war spirit as conducive either to the health, hap¬ 
piness, or usefulness of such young women. If 
women do not yet have to fight in our wars, at 
least they are not also apart from the grief, the 
disillusionment, the spiritual wickedness,-the 
financial depressions that follow war. 

Agnes Scott's action in refusing to give the 
money to the campaign is just as inconsistent 
with the college's proudly Christian principles. 
The idea of passive Christian organization has 
of late years been supplanted by a conception 
that organized Christianity exists in part to fur¬ 
ther through organization the means of making 
active the principles of Christ. As we see it, the 
first of these principles is the sacredness of hu¬ 
man personality encompassed by the love of a 
universal God. Surely any institution which 
seeks to train young women in the principles of 
Christ in giving even passive support to war, 
denies the essence of its leader's message. Sure¬ 
ly such an institution cannot consistently fail to 
give strong support to peace activities and the 
actual attainment of peace on earth, good will 
to men. 


THE AGONISTIC 

Over Worked Seniors Give Opinions Mysterious Missives on Telepathy 

Social Flashes 

Of Funniest Events Of Four Years 

(Being the inside dope on all social ac¬

tivities of the week as reported by two 

anonymous campus snoopers.)

Hilarious Tales Of Fidessah's Cat-skins, Toothbrush Mix-up, 
First Fire Drills, Medicine-Flavored Fudge 

Make Senior Girls Chuckle Dogwood . . . spring fever . . . late 
hours . . . this was a gala week-end, 
Seniors already depressed by term featuring the Emory spring dances,

Federal Theatre's

papers and rejected job applications, two formals at Tech, and several vis¬ 
seemed to find another burden this itors on the campus. Everybody was

Project Sponsors

week when they were called upon to lucky who had a chance to swing to 
answer the question, "What is the the music of Carl Ravell's band, and

Contest for Plays

funniest thing that has happened since harken to the warning of the torch-
you have been at Agnes Scott?" For singer that "the love-bug will bite 
some strange reason, this question in¬ The immediate inception of a col¬ you if you don't watch out!" 

variably brought a gloomy and harrass-legiate playwriting contest under the The gayest freshmen were seen to 
ed look to the face of the questionee. joint sponsorship of the WPA Federal wax cool and far-awayish when the 
Many of the victims answered with Theatre Project and its newly-formed strains of "In a Sentimental Mood" 

Florence Lassiter, "The funniest thing National Collegiate Advisory Com¬ floated out amid the blue and yellowis that I can't think of anything fun¬ mittee was announced today by Hal-streamers; and even the most stoical 
ny that has happened!"; or with Fran¬ lie Flanagan, national director of the of the seniors perked up and stomped 
ces Wilson, "I know lots of funny project. to the tune of "Goon-a-Goo!" Strat 

things, but they are unfit for print." The contest is a feature of the com¬ Sloan sported a giant-sized bow in her 
However, after much earnest mittee's campaign to stimulate stu¬ hair, and Barton Jackson, having rolled 

thought, some seniors came through 

dent interest in the American drama. up her bangs, had to take a Shakes¬ 

triumphantly. Brooks Spivey thinks 

Other plans call for the establishment peare book along to prove she wasn't 

Fidessah's saving the cat-skins from a

of a central college play bureau and freshman. 

biology lab to make a fur coat takes Virginia Caldwell celebrated by

student sponsorship of Federal Thea¬

first honors; while Nellie Margaret tre productions. having her mother down for the 
Gilroy gives top ranking to the occa¬ week-end, along with a young male

Any regularly enrolled student in

sion upon which Laura Steele called delegation from Center College in

an American college may submit an

Mr. Stukes "Mother." Alice Hannah Danville. Mary Nell Tribble's mother

original full-length script. There is

says the funniest thing she has heard was also nurse

on hand to daughter's

no restriction of theme but the direct

on the campus was the mix-up in broken ankle through a strenuous

observation of contemporary Ameri¬

which Bert Palmour inadvertently ap¬ 

week-end.

can life will be preferred.

propriated Miss Laney's toothbrush. Visiting from the University of 
Also she feels that our retiring editor The WPA Federal Theatre guaran¬ South Carolina Jimmy Thomas 

should again receive honors for the tees a production of the prize winning 
were 

(to see Mary Ellen Whetsell) and

play for at least one week. However,

valiant way in which she defended Dorothy Platt.

if attendance warrants, the run will

her barricaded room against the en¬ 
trance of Margaret Bell, on the as¬ be extended. The usual WPA Federal 

sumption that Marie Stalker and Isa¬ Theatre rental rate of fifty dollars a University Women 
week will be paid the winning play¬

bel McCain were staging the attack. 

wright. Convene at A. S. C.

Frances Steele gives a hilarious ac¬ 
count of the way in which Frances Judges of the contest will be Mrs. 
Balkom was deceived into wrapping Flanagan; Hiram Motherwell, chair¬ The annual meeting of the Ameri¬ 
her head in wet towels, rolling herself man, Play Policy Board, Federal Thea¬ can Association of University Women 
in a drenched blanket, and throwing tre Project; Francis Bosworth, direc¬ was held at Agnes Scott on Wednes¬ 
her tennis balls out the transom tor, Play Bureau, Federal Theatre day, April 21, at 3:3 0. 
when the first fire-drill was held Project, and two representatives of After the conduction of the busi¬ 
her freshman year. Kathryn Bowen the National Collegiate Advisory ness, which included the election of 
Wall chuckles reminiscently over the Committee to the WPA Federal Thea¬ officers for next year, the programtime Brooks Spivey was going to a tre Project, to be announced later. presented. Miss Elizabeth Fuller

was 
reception in the tea house, but entered Scripts must be submitted to the Jackson, who is chairman of the Fel¬ 
the wrong door and was greeted by a Education Section, WPA Federal lowship Fund Committee, spoke on 
cordial "So nice to have had you, my Theatre Project, 122 East 42nd Street, the history of fellowships and ex¬ 

dear," as she was walked politely out. New York City, by September 1, plained the difficulty in choosingEnid Middleton still laughs when she 1937. Further details are available at eleven out of 108 applications for fel¬ 
recalls the incident in her freshman the same address. lowships. Miss Mary Stuart MacDoug


stunt when, dressed as a page, she all is chairman of the National Com¬ 
knelt to the queen and found herself mittee of Fellowship Awards. 
muttering the blessing. M. Elliott, '34, Wins Following the program the groupMarie Stalker gives first place to met in the Murphey Candler building

French Fellowship

Lucile Barnett's rendition of "Lady for a social hour. 
Looey Filloo" at four a. m. in the lob¬ 
by of Rebekah when six girls were Through her application throughtrying to sleep on the couches there. 

Agnes Scott College, Martha Elliott of 8x10 Portrait $1.00

However, Julia Thing offers the most 

the class of 1934 has been awarded a 

Other Work in Proportion

delightful contribution as she recounts 

fellowship to the University of Lyons

•—-with mixed chuckles and sighs—the DIETZ STUDIO

in France. 

time she and a group of girls flavored 

Martha, who double-majored French 148 Sycamore Ave. Decatur, Ga.

their chocolate fudge with Absorbine 

and English in college, took her mas¬ 

Jr. instead of vanilla—and ate it! ▼ 
<r ▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼

ter's degree in French at Columbia 
University in 1936. While at Agnes

J. Seivell, C.K. Hutchins Scott she was president of the French 
Are Admitted to BOZ Club and a prominent figure in vari¬ Picture Framing" 
ous French plays. During the past 
year she represented Agnes Scott at Mother's Day Cards

Julia Sewell ('39) and Cora Kay 

the annual banquet of the Alliance

Hutchins ('39) were selected from 

Francaise in New York City. GIFTS

the thirty girls who tried out for 
BOZ, the creative writing club on the 

NOVELTIES

campus, at a meeting April 2 3 in the TAYLOR'S PRESCRIPTION 
Murphey Candler building. 

SHOP 
ART AND FRAME

Cor. Peachtree and Cain Sts. 
SHOP 

Phone 2897 Atlanta, Ga. 

Bowling 

Center 
AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE 

BOWL! 

For Health's Sake 

DECATUR, GA. 
Healthful Recreation for 
Ladies and Men at Nom¬ 
inal Cost. 

A college for women that is widely recog¬ 
"Bowling to Tell the Truth, 

nized for its standards of work and for the

Will Retain Your Form and 
Youth" interesting character of its student activities 

For Reservations 
For further information, address 
Call 

WA. 5622 J. R. McCAIN, President 

20 Houston, N. E. 

Confuse Bewildered Recipients 

Such puzzling letters have recently equally strange letter. Typewritten 
found their way to Agnes Scott that and decorated with pictures of bicy¬ 
neither the college postoffice nor cles, it read: 
those receiving the strange missives Dear Sir or Madam: Faculty and 

Students:

can solve their mystery. One of the 

Illustrations show my six-speed,

letters was mailed from the Federal 

long-distance bicycle built to

Penitentiary and was addressed to 

your measure and guaranteed to 
Jean Chalmers, Laura Coit, Winifred fit. 
Kellersberger, Ann Worthy Johnson, Please be careful to follow in¬ 
and Gina Watson by a picture of them structions exactly so your mount 
cut from the paper and pasted across will fit perfectly as you want 
the front of the envelope, just above every comfort and efficiency for 

many long and successful tours:

"Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Geor¬ 

gia." The letter read: (1) Stand in your stocking 
Telepathy proven and made feet with distance exactly 12 in¬ 
profitable. ches between them and measure 
Will be given the world via the exact perpendicular distance 
radio. You are invited. from the bones on which you sit 

Girls, I am a little confused on to the floor. 
the association—I think though (2) Stand in a corner and 
the fact different hair arrange¬ measure from finger tips along 
ments and different clothing in the wall with both out¬

arms 
your photograph is significant in stretched to fullest extent. 

that it refers to an item I read (3) State your sex. 
that I believe was written by Dr. (4) State your weight with 
De Ovies. If I kept his item I clothing. 

can't find it . . . (5) State sex of bicycle. 
Nellie Margaret Gilroy and Brooks (6) If you are ordering a tan¬ 
Spivey received a similar missive with dem, give above data for each 
the letter "E" engraved on the top rider in detail. 
left hand corner of the stationery. The 
letter began with the exact words of Seniors Enjoy Third in 
the above: 

Series of Alumnae Teas

Telepathy proven and made 
profitable. 
Will be given the world via The third in the series of teas given 
radio. by the Agnes Scott Alumnae Associa¬ 
You and your boy friends are tion for the members of the senior 
invited. class took place on Wednesday after¬ 

"Ace" is significant in that it noon, April 21, at 4:30 o'clock in the 
refers to the "Buick" ad—the Alumnae House. The other two teas 
lead is yours with this act to play. were given on April 13 and 16. 
I can't be bothered with bridge The entertainment, as arranged by 
but anyway that reference is to Mrs. L. G. Baggett, general chairman, 

A. C. Edmonds and the San Fran¬ included talks by Miss Daisy Frances 
cisco Bay bridge. The latter in¬ Smith, president of the association; 
formation came from the per¬ Miss Alberta Palmour, alumnae field 
sonal columns of the Atlanta secretary; and Miss Lulu Ames, '3 6. 
Constitution. The alumnae of the classes of 1936 
Hortense Jones was surprised by an and 1937 served. 
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• • CU&aKtfja • • 


THE AGONISTIC 

A. A. Will Sponsor • Carolyn Forman Long, Johnson, Dryfoos, Forman 
Final Swim Meet Named Healthiest Are Victors in Golf Round 
Girl at Aunes Scott

CD

At 8:00 sharp Thursday night in

From a long row of high arches, 
the gymnasium A. A. will sponsor the

white teeth, shiney curls, and strong 

Thing Wins Second; Entrees

final swimming meet of this year. A

backs all dressed in graceful bathing Are Judged On Posture,
varied program and a representative

suits, last Wednesday night there Walk, Health 
group of swimmers will present exhi¬

emerged a little girl whose excellent 
bitions of all grades of swimming and Jane Dryfoos Awards Cup

physical condition earned for her the 
diving, ranging from elementary to

title "Miss Health"—a reward for 

Once again the freshman class

the most advanced sorts. Miss Mitchell

careful living. Little Miss Forman re¬ 

proved that its girls are the healthiest

will demonstrate the crawl.

ceived the little silver cup from the 

Members of the swimming club and in the campus when, in the health

dashing Dryfoos and had her picture 

members of this season's swimming contest held last Wednesday night in

taken the next day. The next day was 

classes are to Bucher Scott Gymnasium, 

Carolyn

expected participate.

"fast-for-peace day." And Caroline 

Forman, representing the Pen and

The college community is cordially in¬

had her picture taken with a quart of 

vited. Brush Club, was awarded the first

milk and an apple, which made the 

prize for the healthiest Agnes Scott

bystanders a mite uncomfortable. But 

student. Second place went to Julia

Spanish Club Has

aside from this complaint against her 

Thing, representing Mortar Board.

inconsideration for hungry pacifists, 

Exhibits:. Chorus

/ Those who tied for third place were:

there is no other grudge against Lib's 
baby sister; we heartily congratulate Sings At Banquet Ruth Slack, Miss Freshman Class; 

you, "Miss Health." Ruth Tate, Miss Junior Class; Kitty 
The newest tournament on the Printup, Miss Day Students; and Jud¬

Spain in miniature came to Agnes 

campus to vie with the mad dash of ith Gracey, Miss Senior Class.

Scott on Tuesday, April 13, when the 

ping-pong is the golf tournament. After being introduced by Frances

Spanish club viewed sixty Spanish ex¬ 

Robinson, the chairman of the Health

And it is going off with admirable 

hibits and several of its members who 

Week, the twenty-eight contestants,

zip at Forrest Hills with a round ev¬ 

were garbed as picturesque senoritas, 

representing various campus organiza¬

ery Tuesday. Judith Gracey, defend¬ 

and enjoyed real Spanish food. Offi¬ 

ing champion, is busy against the tions, walked before the judges. Miss 

cers for the coming year elected at

competition, which is certainly of a Wilburn, feet; Miss Haynes, posture;

this meeting of the club are: Jose¬ 

keen sort. You'll find the tally of Miss Mitchell, walk, and Dr. Sweet,

phine Bertoli, president; Elsie Black-

scores near by. There is planned a con¬ general health, were the judges. Fran¬

ftone,, vice-president; Louise Bailey,

solation flight in which the losers in ces McCalla acted as the scorer.

secretary and treasurer; and Martha 

The cup was awarded to Carolyn

the first round will play. Personally 

Peek Brown, social chairman. 

we'd find that divinely consoling— by Jane Dryfoos, '39, last year's Miss

A special chorus from the Glee 

Health.

even though we don't know what sort 

Club sang at the Civitan Banquet in 
of flight a consolation flight is. Miss the Candler Hotel on April 19; and All those competing in the contest 
Wilburn claims it's an accepted term were: Miss Senior, Judith Gracey;

at the dedication of the Murphey 

Miss Junior, Ruth Tate; Miss Sopho¬

in the golf world. 

Candler Building on Monday, the 

And as to this tennis racket—the Glee Club gave several numbers. more, Mary Ruth Murphy; Miss 
exhibition games last Friday can't be Freshman, Ruth Slack; Miss Student

Mr. Sams, of the Georgia legisla¬ 

Government, Emma McMullen; Miss

matched (!) for pep and style. Mrs. 

ture, spoke at the Current History

Coyne and Mrs. Vogle illustrated to Y. W. C. A., Jean Barry Adams; Miss

Forum Tuesday, April 27. The Citi¬ 

Athletic Association, Ellen Little;

the congenial knot of Hottentots 

zenship Club had charge of the pro¬

leaning on the bank that a singles Miss Bible Club, Nell Echols; Miss 

gram. 

as Cotillion, Catherine Ivie; Miss Ger¬

game can be tricky and skillful Agnes Scott was well represented at 

man Club, Emily Harris; Miss Poetry

well as fast. And Mrs. Pollard and 

the Eta Sigma Phi convention in Bir¬ 

Mrs. Berge gave a like illustration of mingham by Frances Gary, Zoe Wells, Club, Evelyn Sears; Miss May Day, 
excellent form and speed in a doubles Anne Thompson; Miss Lecture Asso¬

official delegates, and Marie Meritt. 

ciation, Martha Moffett; Miss Chi

match with the aforementioned ladies. 

Recently elected officers of Eta Sig¬

And we all learned so much at these ma Phi are: president, Elsie Black-Beta Phi Sigma, Aileen Shortley; Miss 
Silhouette, Jane Moore Hamilton;

games. Representative of this fact, 

stone; vice-president, Nell Allison; 

Miss Blackfriars, Dixie Woodford;

there was Mutt, a pending champ her¬ 

recording secretary, Marie Merritt; 

Miss Glee Club, Frances Steele; Miss

self, avidly gathering pointers to im¬ 

treasurer, Frances Lee, Pylonos, and 

French Club, Tommy Ruth Black-

prove her ping-pong game. (Mutt's 

Miss Narka Nelson, advisor. 

mon; Miss Agonistic, Mary Reins;

got the right spirit.) All in all the 
afternoon was a pleasant help to ev¬ Miss Aurora, Grace Tazwell; Miss K. 
Fellows who honk horns in front of U. B., Elsie West; Miss Day Students,

eryone, and we thank A. A. for mak¬ 

ing possible the experience. sorority houses, who ignore opinions Kitty Printup; Miss Eta Sigma Phi, 
And now if you missed that treat, of girls qualified to give them, and Nell Allison; Miss Pi Alpha Phi, Mary 
who wear dirty cords or neckless W. Crockett; Miss Pen and Brush,

don't under any circumstances over¬ 

sweaters without ties are the peeves Carolyn Forman; Miss International

look the swimming meet tomorrow 

of co-eds at Oregon State College. Relations Club, Jean Chalmers; Miss

night in the gym. This meet will be 

Mortar Board, Julia Thing; and Miss

the final aquatic contest of the year 

Citizenship Club, Nell Earthman.

and it will be quite worth your while. There may be no connection in 
Of particular interest will be Miss items but in the 1937 Summer Session 
Mitchell's exhibition of the crawl, catalogue of the University of Wis¬ 
which will precede events of advan¬ consin under "courses for Men and 
tage for intermediates and beginners Women," the first course listed is 
as well as diving for the advanced "Social Dancing" and the second, 
swimmers. Anyone now taking swim¬ "First Aid to the Injured." 

Jacobs

ming is free to enter these events. 
There's a good reason why we 

Hitch-hiker W. W. Westbrook, a

shouldn't miss this meet: next year, 

student at Louisiana State University,

Milner vigorously declares, there is to 

got quicker service than he expected. 2 for 1 Sale

be activity along the lines of water 

Four airplane salesmen picked him up,

polo; to get water on the brain (and 

took him to the airport and whisked

perchance on the knee) this early is 

him to New Orleans in 20 minutes. 

All This Week

of distinct advantage. At least the 
plan isn't all wet as far as Milner is 
concerned—her cause has been sight¬ HAILEY BROTHERS 
ed, and it is to put water polo "on the SHOE SHOP 
map." Jacobs has served 

142 Sycamore Street

And so, we'll sec you at the swim¬ 
ming meet. Decatur, Ga. 

the South 

The girls at Berca College, in Ken-| 
tucky, are either poor or they don't \ successfully for 

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hold hands or kiss in the dorm "par-1 
lor." They are allowed to entertain; Permanents S3 to S10 

58 years.

three times a week from the hours ot ■ 


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six to seven. If caught hand-holding 

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they arc fined $10, and if caught os-j 
dilating, they are fined $25. 

You Can Come to Us or 

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We Will Go to You 

We are as close to you as your : j Wrapped In Special Gift Packages 
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JUST CALL DE. 0762 

Dr. C. Clewell Gives 

Employment Advice 

Many seniors qualified to hold po¬ 
sitions fail to land them because they 
bungle the first interview with their 
might-have-been employer. 

For this reason, Dr. Clarence E. 
Clewell, director of the University of 
Pennsylvania's placement service, and 
his assistants advise seniors what not 
to say: 

"I am willing to accept any job 
you offer me. 

"Explain what you have done, can 
do and want to do. Should the ques¬ 
tion of salary arise, do not respond 
that you are willing to work for prac¬ 
tically nothing, for the employer will 
judge you worthy of no more. State 
the minimum wage acceptable." 

Some other suggestions for over¬ 
coming negative impressions are 
these: 

"Sincerity, modesty and good man¬ 
ners are most essential. Avoid per¬ 
sonal inquiries and crude curiosity, 
such as attempting to read corre¬ 
spondence or other papers lying on the 
interviewer's desk, listening to his 
telephone conversation or interrupting 
another speaker. 

"Look the interviewer in the eye 
while conversing; sit erect; be alert, 
pleasant, consistent and determined, 
but do not take too much of his 
time." 

Gracey, Fite, Moses Compete; 
Tennis Tournament Is 
Nearing Finals 

In the spring golf tournament being 
played at the Forrest Hills Golf 
Course, beginning April 20 and con¬ 
tinuing into May, the scores after the 
first round stand as follows: 

Judith Gracey, defending cham¬ 
pion, drew a bye. 
Martha Fite and Helen Moses, by 
default. 
Martha Long defeated Flora Mac-
Guire, 4-2. 
Mary Johnson defeated M. L. Fair¬ 
ly, 5-4. 
Jane Dryfoos defeated Virginia 
Cofer, 5-3. 
Caroline Forman defeated Eliza¬ 
beth Galbreath, 5-3. 

The last round played in the cur¬ 
rent tennis tournament has advanced 
the following players to the fourth 
round: 

Ruth Slack, who will meet either 
Frances Steele or Lorraine Guinne; 
Julia Thing and Caroline Forman, 
who are matched in this round; and 
Mary Nell Taylor who will meet 

either Ruth Tate or Mary Knealc, the 
defending champion. 
Promptness is still urged in meeting 
these matches. 

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May Day Senior Opera 
Saturday 
(Hk ^Vgonisfic 
Saturday 
VOL. XXII AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 1937 NO. 21 

Opera Leads

College Entertains Rotarians Senior Class Will be Honored 

With Luncheon in Rebekah During Commencement Week 

June 4 Is Named As Date Of

200 Members Of The Atlanta 

Hannah Installs

Sophomores Fete Commencement Week's

Club Dine With Students, 

Official Opening

Inspect Campus 

Senior Class With 1937-'38 Student 
Juniors Will Give Banquet

Mortar Board Has Program Luncheon May 29 Officials On May I 

With the meeting of the Board of

Agnes Scott entertained between 

175 and 200 members of the Rotary Miss Hopkins, Dr. McCain, Class Outgoing Executive Reviews Trustees scheduled for Friday, June 4, 
Club of Atlanta at a luncheon on Sponsors To Be Escorted Year's Work; Coit States and with the annual party for the 
New Policies children of the Alumnae to take place

Monday, May 3, in Rebekah Scott din¬ By Hostesses 

on the same day in the quadrangle.

ing hall. After a blessing by Winifred 

The installation of the new officers Commencement Week for the class of

Kellersberger, Mortar Board presented The annual luncheon given for the 

a brief program, consisting of the of Student Government on Saturday, 1937 will be officially opened at Ag¬

members of the senior class by the 

May 1, in the chapel, began with the Scott.

whole group's singing of "America"; nes 

sophomore class will be held on May processional, in which the new Execu¬ On that night the junior-senior

an address of welcome by Ruth Slack; 

29, with the time and place yet to be tive Board entered with the outgoing banquet will be held, and at noon on

introduction of the visitors by Eliza 
King; the Sunshine Report by Annie decided by the business managers for members. The assembly remained Saturday the seniors and alumnae will 

standing while Alice Hannah, this

Lee Crowell; songs by a special chorus; the luncheon. Contrary to tradition, be feted at a luncheon given by the 

a discussion of the Club by Nellie year's president of Student Govern¬ trustees. Saturday night the Glee Club

the luncheon will be enlivened by a 

ment, led in prayer, after which all will repeat its performance of "The

Margaret Gilroy and Joyce Roper; and 

surprise program. Senior Class 

a skit by Alice Hannah and Mary joined in a hymn. Gondoliers," a Gilbert and Sullivan 
Erneste Perry. Dean Nannette Hopkins will be es¬ Alice Hannah, in her message, ex¬ operetta. 
For a number of years, the Agnes corted by Annie Lee Crowell, sopho¬ Is to Present pressed the appreciation of the Execu¬ The program for Sunday will in¬ 
Scott daughters of Rotarians have more class president, and President J. tive Committee for the cooperation of clude the baccalaureate sermon, which 

been invited to the Club once during the students, administration, and fac¬ will be delivered by the Rev. Mr. Wil¬

R. McCain, by Douglas Lyle, vice-Annual Opera
the year to take lunch and to present ulty. "We, the Committee, have en¬ liam E. Elliott, of the Druid Hills

president of the sophomore class. 

a program. This year, the members, joyed our work," she said. The main Presbyterian Church of Atlanta, and 

through Mr. George Winship, an Ag¬ There will be special escorts, also, for part of her speech was an elaboration the Vesper Service, which will be con¬

Perry And Hannah Take Leads 
nes Scott trustee and chairman of the the senior and sophomore class spon¬ of the points that she used last year. ducted by the Seniors. After vespers

In "La Tragic Ardor"; 

program committee of the Club, sors, Miss Leslie Janet Gaylord and In closing, she urged the students to Dean Nannette Hopkins will be hos¬

Dennison Directs

agreed to accept the invitation of the Miss Louise Hale, and Miss Martha be active in Student Government and tess at a reception for the parents and 
College to return the visit. Crowe and Dr. Robert B. Holt, re¬ to observe individual honor, and friends of the senior class. 

Evelyn Harris, president of the Ro¬ spectively. Each senior will be the in¬ Production To Be May 8 thanked again the administration and The sophomore class will begin the 
tary Club, is the son of the late Joel vited guest of a certain sophomore. faculty for their advice and help. The activities for Monday by giving a 
Chandler Harris, writer of "Uncle Sophomores appointed to serve as "La Tragic Ardor," written and di¬ desire of this year's committee she ex¬ breakfast for the seniors. On Monday 
Remus" stories, and an inhabitant of business managers for the occasion rected by the senior class, will be pre¬ pressed as one "to maintain the ideals afternoon will come the senior class 
Atlanta. Another son, Joel Chandler are: Jane Dryfoos, chairman; Adelaide sented by the Seniorpolitan Opera of the College," intellectually, physic¬ day exercises with the reading of the 
Harris, Jr., is state governor of the Benson, Jane Carithers, Lib Galbreath, Company Saturday night, May 8, at ally, and spiritually. class history, the last will and testa¬ 

Georgia Rotarians. Mary Frances Guthrie, Elizabeth ment, the class poem, and the class

Laura Coit, newly elected president,

8:30 in the Bucher Scott gymnasium. 
prophecy. Then, too, the traditional

Wheatley, Caroline Carmichael, Helen repeated the pledge to uphold the aims 

Kirkpatrick, and Charlotte French. The production is under the direction carrying of the daisy chain by the

of Agnes Scott, and received the presi¬

Tazewell, Davis Head 

sophomores and the planting of ivy

The transportation committee is of Lucile Dennison. dent's handbook and gavel from the 
Lecture Association composed of: Mary Hollingsworth, The cast includes: out-going president. She then installed will be followed. 

After a program for the seniors by

chairman; Carolyn Myers, Catherine the other members of the new Execu¬

I'm-ille—Mary Ernest Perry.

Farrar, Cora Kay Hutchins, Helen tive Board: Ann Worthy Johnson, students of the Spoken English De¬ 

The new student representatives for Ah! Men—Alice Hannah. 

partment on Monday night, the sen¬

Lichten, Betty Aycock, Amelia Nick¬ vice-president; Mary Lillian Fairly,

the Lecture Association that were an¬ 

iors will hold the annual book-burn¬

els, Martha Foster, Harriette von Bess Fren—Mary Alice Newton. house president, Rebekah; Tommy

nounced last Thursday, April 29, are: 

Gremp, Emily MacMorland, Ann Pit-Count Meout—Margaret Hansell. Ruth Blackmon, house president, ing of their unpopular textbooks. The 

Grace Tazewell, president; Afildred 

graduation exercises will take place on

tard, Virginia Cofer, Elizabeth Fur-Ou-la-la—Frances Wilson. Main; Nell Hemphill, house president,

Davis, secretary-treasurer; Ola Kelley, 

low, and June Harvey. Inman; Jean Bailey, secretary; Mary Tuesday, June 8, with Dr. John J.

senior representative; Anne Purnell, Poppa—Marie Stalker. 

Tigert, president of the University of

The following make up the decora¬ Ellen Whetsell, treasurer; Eliza King,

junior representative; Martha Moffett, Smith Brothers—Julia Thing and

chair¬ and Mary Jane, a

tions committee: Jean Bailey, student recorder; Zoe Wells, day stu¬ Florida father of 

sophomore representative; Elizabeth 

Sarah Johnson. senior, as the speaker.

man; Mary Rogers, Esthete Ogden, dent representative; Winifred Kellers¬

Blackshear, publicity chairman; Jane 

Virginia Hill, Ruth Anderson, Alice Two undivulged characters—Mary berger, president, Y. W. C. A.; Flora

Turner, day student representative; 

Cheeseman, Sarah Thurman, Helen Jane King and Mary Jane Tigert. MacGuire and Emma McMullen, jun¬

and Zoe Wells, poster chairman. These Evelyn Wall Will

Moses, Flora MacGuire, and Mary ior representatives; Ruth Slack, Julia

students compose an advisory commit¬ Music for the performance will be

Frances Thompson. Thiemonge, and Henrietta Thompson,

tee of the Lecture Association, which furnished by the Plaster Planks, with Give Vocal Recital

Those on the place cards commit¬ sophomore representatives.

is the faculty organization responsible 

tee are: Betty Auberry, Mamie Lee Guy Lumbago and a torch singer. In her speech, Laura expressed the

for bringing such speakers as Edna St. 

Mary Evelyn Wall will be present¬

Ratliff, and Elizabeth Williams, The story of "La Tragic Ardor" is hope that "Student Government isn't

Vincent Millay, Sir Arthur Willert, 

edin a

chairmen; Grace Duggan, Mary Fen¬ "La Li¬ run," for it is a "thing to live," de¬ vocal recital by Mr. Lewis H. 

Robert Frost, Thornton Wilder, Ar¬ based on Verdi's Traviata." 

Johnson in Gaines chapel on Friday

nel Simonton, Selma Steinbach, Emmy pending for its source on two groups:

thur Compton, Stuart Chase, and Carl brettos and refreshments will be sold. 

evening, May 7, at 8:30 o'clock. She

Lou Turck, Evelyn Sears, Lou Pate, the students as the individual force

Sandburg to the campus. The prices for tickets are: fifty cents, will be assisted by Virginia Wood and

Emma McMullen, Mary Eleanor Steele, and the Executive Board as represen¬

Associate Professor Emma May 

reserved and box seats; thirty-five accompanied by Alice Hannah. The

Florence Wade, Betty Anne Stewart, tatives of the student body.

Laney, chairman, stated that the Lec¬ 

Catherine Caldwell, Dorothy Graham, cents, orchestra seats; and twenty-five program is as follows: Duet, "Quis est 

ture Association appreciated the stu¬ 

Mary Elizabeth Moss, and Josie Lar-cents, balcony. Homo" (Stabat Mater), Rossini; Aria,

dent body's response to its request for Biology Staff Makes Tour 

"Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix" (Sam¬

kins.

suggestions and will try to arrange the 

son et Delila), Saint-Saens; "O Ces


lectures for next year accordingly. Glee Club Gives Operetta 

Under the conduction of Alice Sill, sate di Piagarmi," Scarlatti; "Sapphis-

In last week's Agonistic the state¬ Poetry Club Admits Four 

'39, the members of the Biology De¬ che Ode," Brahms; "Nur wer die Seb


the spent

ment that Association On Saturday night, June 5, the Ag¬ partment of Agnes Scott recently nsucht kennt," Tschaikowsky; "Sun¬

$115.00 for receptions should have 

As a result of Poetry Club's spring nes Scott Glee Club probably will went on a tour, inspecting the green¬ set," Russell; "In the Luxembourg

read $15.00. 

tryouts, which were judged Friday, again present "The Gondoliers," the houses of Alice's father, who is a hor¬ Gardens," Manning; "Morning 
April 3 0, four girls were admitted to Gilbert and Sullivan operetta given ticulturist, and the lovely wild flower Hymn," Herschel; "Clouds," Charles;
Dr. R. L. Long Stresses the organization. These new members early in March. This performance of¬ garden of her mother. The biological "Iris," Ware; "Song of the Open," La 
Need of TLinkers in are: Mary Winston Crockett, Cora fers another opportunity for Gilbert staff also saw the many types of iris Forge (Miss Wood) ; "When I Have 
Kay Hutchins, Eloise Lennard, and and Sullivan or Paul Overby enthusi¬ of which Alice's brother has made a Sung My Songs," Charles; "Persian 
Modern World Today Vera Jane Watkins. asts to hear this operetta. specialized cultivation. Serenade," Ware; "Minor and Major," 

Spross. 
Speaking from the viewpoint of a 

Gaiety, Color Will Distinguish May Day Costumes 

distinguished minister who is vitally Former Librarian of

?? 

interested in the work of young peo¬ For Presentation of Milton's Masque uComus Agnes Scott Visited 

ple and who has visited many colleges 

Campus Last Friday 
over the country, Dr. R. L. Long, pas¬ All the beauty and glory of the ear¬ amusing. clad dark,

forest are in mysterious, 
tor of a Presbyterian church in To¬ ly seventeenth century, all the variety These widely separated factors lend flowing robes. The little stars which Mrs. Robert McCreary, nee Geneledo, 
Ohio, and father of Martha and splendor of the time of Charles I, themselves to gorgeous and varied cos¬ come out at twilight wear pale blue vieve White, former librarian of this 
Long, '3 8, addressed the Agnes Scott that time of the height of cavalier tuming, and the resulting spectacle is silk sprinkled with silver stars, and college, visited on the campus last 
sentiments and tastes, that last out¬ colorful and glittering. Leader among Sabrina on her nymphs, the spirits of Friday and Saturday, April 30, and

students in chapel Friday, April 30. 

burst of glory before the advent of the different group of spirits in the the stream, are costumed in shimmer¬ May 1. Mrs. McCreary was enter¬ 

He stressed the need of the modern 

the sober, stern Puritan rule, are rep¬ masque is the attendant, or guardian ing and blue green. Echo, who mocks tained at dinner in Rebekah Scott din¬ 

world for thinking, since a rich intel¬ resented in John Milton's Comus, spirit, who appears, now as a heavenly the call of mortals lost in the wood, ing hall on Friday evening by Dean 
lectual background adds to contacts, which is to be the subject of the Ag¬ being in loose, shimmering sky robes appears in soft yellow chiffon. Nannette Hopkins, and after dinner 
human experience, and the Bible mean¬ nes Scott May Day festival of 1937. of rainbow silk, now as a humble shep¬ Comus, the wicked magician who coffee was served in her honor to a 

In this masque are blended varied ele¬ herd in sober brown. The three com¬ haunts the forest and entices mortals group of friends in the Alumnae Tea

ing not discernible by those who have 

ments—the natural and the supernat¬ parisons of the wood wear softly col¬ to destruction with his fatal cup, House by Miss Harriette Haynes, as¬ 
not been "transformed by the renew¬ ural, the good and the evil, the high ored, flowered garments, and the wears a green and cream shepherd's sistant professor of Physical Educa¬ 
ing of their minds." and the low estates, the serious and the shapes and shadows which haunt the (<Continued on page 3, column 3) tion. 


THE AGONISTIC 

<^l)c Agonistic 

PUBLISHED WEEKLY 

Owned and published by the students of Agnes Scott 
College. 

Entered as Second Class Matter at Decatur, Georgia. 

Subscription price, $1.25 per year in advance. 
Single copies, 5 c. 
1936 Member 1937 
Plssocided Golle6ide Press 

STAFF 
Hortense Jones Elizabeth Blackshear 
Editor Business Manager 
Jane Guthrie 

Jane Carithers 
Mary McCann Hudson Advertising ManagerAssociate Editors 

Frances Castleberry

Mary Frances Guthrie 

Vera Marsh

Marie Merritt 

Jeanne Redwine

Assistant Editors 

Alice Reins 
Giddy Erwin Circulation ManagersHibernia Hassell 

Alice Cheeseman

Feature Editors 

Sports Editor

Mary Anne Kernan 

Mary Reins

Current History 

Exchange Editor

Elizabeth Warden 
Book Editor Jeannette Carroll 
Alumnae Editor

Question 
Marks Eugenia Williams 
Society Editors Club Editor 

REPORTERS: N. Allison, E. Baty, M. Chafin, M. L. 
Dobbs, G. Duggan, M. L. Gill, N. Hemphill, L. 
Houghston, E. FIutchens, C. K. Hutchins, R. Hurwitz, 
F. Lee, E. McCall, P. Noble, A. Purnell, M. L. 
Ratliffe, A. Reins, H. Solomon, S. Steinbach, V. J. 
Watkins, M. Willis, L. Young. 

BUSINESS ASSISTANTS: J. Dryfoos, J. FLYNT. 

A Year of Experiment 

After a year of experiment with the quarter 
system, we feel in somewhat of a position to take 
stock of our observations, to determine what we 
consider the advantages and disadvantages of 
the plan. 

We believe that, in general, students approve 
of the new system. We are highly pleased over 
the fact that exams come before our Christmas 
and spring holidays, leaving us free to enjoy our 
days of respite. We also feel that taking two-
hour exams three times a year is not so devas¬ 
tating as taking three-hour exams twice. Fur¬ 
thermore, we have found that three divisions of 
our year have eliminated the deadening slump 
which used to accompany the last interminable 
month of each semester. 

However, we have met certain disadvantages, 
too—disadvantages which we feel could be reme¬ 
died. The source of the trouble seems to lie in 
the hybrid nature of our plan. We understood 
that the standard quarter system consisted in 
taking three subjects which had classes every 
day. Our plan of taking five or six subjects 
three or four times a week seems to necessitate 
more work without actually giving more credit. 

We consider the "fourth" afternoon classes a 
bane and a blight. We personally can perceive 
little good in an hour in which an over-worked 
teacher tries to get response from a sleepy and 
frankly unprepared class. Furthermore, after 
those afternoon classes, we do not have time to 
prepare for the next class which comes on the 
following morning. 

Another source of irritation lies in that old, 
old sore, the interminable term papers. We real¬ 
ize that in this matter the long-suffering faculty 
is as tired of hearing our hue and cry as we are 
of raising it. Perhaps we are lazy, but we find 
it strangely difficult to be intellectually curious 
or academically interested in one paper, when 
there is fifteen to twenty-four hours' reading to 
be done on each of three or—in extreme cases— 
four other papers. 

We appreciate the fact that the majority of 
the faculty has been so lenient and cooperative 
in this matter. Some have given us cuts; some 
have let us hand in our papers at times less busy 
than the end of the quarter; some have even let 
us read and report orally, eliminating the writ¬ 
ten paper. However, there are a few of our 
teachers whom we do not consider to have coop¬ 
erated ; for example, the one who increased the 
number of term papers required in one of his 
year courses from two to three. That we do not 
appreciate! 

We believe that the inauguration of the regu¬ 
lation quarter system, in which we would take 
three courses a quarter, would help the term-
paper situation. Then at least we could have 
only three papers a quarter. 

We. of course, realize that this year has been 
one of transition. But transition implies a prog¬ 
ress to something different. In light of that fact, 
we do not understand why the catalogue for next 
year does not provide for any changes in this 
sort of hybrid hash which is our quarter system. 

Pearl Buck Paints 

Father's Portrait 

Editors of college publications 
would make excellent archeologists if The Fighting Angel, Pearl Buck. 
judged by their digging up of pecu¬ 

| Reynal and Hitchcock, N. Y., 193 6. 

liar characteristics of students on their 

Reviewed by Louise Young.

campuses. 

I "You might have seen him walking

At Florida State College for Wom¬ 

! along the street of any little Chinese 

en, the big problem is this: whether 

, village, a slightl)' stooping American.

the side seams of the students' skirts 

; I have a picture of him in Chinese

should be split as a result of hoisting 

clothes, his large American feet in

their legs over the fences that have 

Chinese shoes which made Chinese

recently been placed on the campus or 

women laugh as they cut the soles.

whether they should continue to be 

But the Chinese shoes, the Chinese

trail blazers. Students had previously 

| rose, the little round black Chinese

proved their thrift in saving time and 1 

hat with its red button—none of

footwear by self-made paths across 

these made him look in the least 

corners and grassy plots. Now, be¬ 

Chinese. The spare, big-boned frame,

cause of the far-sightedness of certain 

the big, thin, delicate hands, the nob¬

officials who can visualize a net-work 

ly shaped head with the large features,

of paths covering the grounds in the 

the big nose, the jutting lower jaw,

future, fences are daily being con¬ 

the extraordinary pellucid blue eyes,

structed across the most popular 

the reddish fair skin and slightly curl¬

trails. 

ing dark hair—these were purely and 

The Auburn Plainsmen reports that 

simply American." 

after scribbling three pages during an 

This is the Fighting Angel, the 

exam, a weary Marquette student de¬ 

father of Pearl S. Buck. He was made

cided to prove that his teachers do not 

of the strong, unbending mettle of

read exam papers. He, therefore, de¬ 

which warriors are made. "God's will

voted the remainder of his five-page 

led him along the line of battle all his

article to a description of a basketball 

life. He waged continual war—bat¬ 

game. He received an excellent grade. 

tle and skirmish, but no retreat." 

Women at the University of Cali¬ 

The "Fighting Angel" is the twin

fornia, Los Angeles, are more fashion¬ 

book of "The Exile," in which Pearl

ably dressed than those on any other 

Buck, with a loving hand, paints the 

campus, explains a noted style author¬ 

picture of her mother. One can hard¬

ity, because men at the university fre¬ 

ly love the Fighting Angel because

quently date girls in Flollywood. 

he did not seem to desire love, but one

Corn-husking and hog-calling were 

can hardly help admiring him. He was

featured at the "hick" dance of the 

burning with the zeal of God to con¬

freshman class at Southern Methodist 

vert souls and save them from Hell-

University. Boys had to pay an ad¬ 

fire.

mission of one cent for every inch 

His life was one fraught with dan¬

they measured around the waist. 

ger. There was the time when he was 
caught by bandits: 
Forum Honors Alumna " 'Weren't you afraid?' we inquired 
of him. 
" 'There was,' he admitted, 'a nasty

At the last meeting of the Poetry 

moment when one of the young ban¬

Forum of Atlanta, Sunday, May 2, 

dits had a knife at his stomach and

Agnes Scott was well represented. The 

honor guests were was making unpleasant screwing 

mo¬

the winners of the 

tions. But it was certainly very nice

monthly contests of the past year 

afterwards,' he said. 'They sat so nice¬

sponsored bv the forum, and among 

ly and listened—they were really very

these was Mildred Clark, '3 6. 

nice men, in spite of their unfortunate

The weddings of two other alum¬ 

calling.' " 

nae should be of interest to the stu¬ 
dent body. Peg Waterman, '3 5, who 
was a statistician in the Bell Labora¬ 
tory, is now Mrs. Meredith O'Hara We extend deep sympathy to 
and is living at 3 00 N. Euclid Ave¬ 

Marie Stalker in the recent death 

nue, West Field, N. J. Gregory Row-

of her brother.

lett, '3 6, was married to Henry Shiepweidman, 
April 21, in Tampa, Fla. 

England Prepares for Traditional 

Spectacle of Coronation Ceremony 

By Mary Anne Kernan ever, the rumors of the marriage of 
Mrs. Simpson and the Duke of Wind¬

England is ready for her first coro¬ 

sor on May 12 and the recent publica¬

nation since 1911; everything is in 

tion of a book about the former King

order for the traditional spectacle of 

by Geoffrey Dennis, chief of the Doc¬

the crowning of King George VI and 

ument Service of the Secretariat of the

Queen Elizabeth. Outwardly all seems 

League of Nations, are sufficient to

calm; the Duke of Norfolk has ap¬ 

cause a certain nervousness in diplo¬

proved all plans for the procession and 

matic and political circles. The for¬

ceremony. Excitable English horses 

mer King Edward, as stated in Cur¬

have become accustomed to blaring 

rent History, "was the only monarch

bands and waving flags, the Earl Mar¬ 

of his time who had attained an abso¬

shall has specified the proper dress for 

lute popularity." There is perhaps

peers and peeresses, stands have been 

still doubt as to all the reasons for his

erected along the six mile procession 

abdication, the first voluntary one in

line. Westminster Abbey has been ren¬ 

English history.

ovated, and the English people are 
thoroughly prepared to crown their England is deeply concerned with 
new monarchs properly. the future of her nation. It is essen¬ 

tial to her best interests that the Simp¬

The procedure followed will be the 

son affair be disposed of as quietly as

traditional coronation service presided 

possible, that the new king and queen

over by the Archbishop of Canterbury 

be accepted whole-heartedly, and that

who will preach the sermon and ac¬ 

that policies of the government, under

tually crown their majesties. 

the probable leadership of Neville 
The importance of the coronation Chamberlain be judiciously formulat¬ 

to the British Empire is tremendous. 

ed and executed. While the United 
The existence of a king whose life States with a business-like attitude,

from birth to death is simply one long 

opens a museum of "Wally's" life at 

traditional ceremony, seems now to be 

her old home in Baltimore, England

the only tangible thing uniting vari¬ 

prepares to crown the successor of an 

ous parts of the Empire and Common¬ uncrowned king.
wealth in a common allegiance. Par¬ King George himself has, of course,
liament and the Cabinet no longer 

provoked numerous comments. Aside 

have any real control over the Domin¬ 

from rumors of epileptic fits and pos-j

ions. For this reason it is important 

siblc mental incompetency, the opin-\ 

to the security of England that some ions of him seem complimentary. In 
bond of unitv be preserved among the 

the long run it does not really matter 
widely scattered parts of the Empire. what his health or I. Q. is as long as j 

This is especially necessary because George VI is willing to wear the pur-j 
of the recent uneasiness caused by the pie and ermine of the hereditary mon¬ 
abdication of Edward the Eighth. On archy. The coronation is important as 
the surface the stir created then seems a symbol of the force uniting the 
to have quieted considerably. How¬ British Empire. 1 

We Think 

(Editor's Note: The We Think column is for the purpose of piv


ing an outlet to student opinion. The staff is in no way responsible

for what is printed in this column and it is by no means to be taken 

as the editorial opinion of the paper.) 

(The editors are gratified and somewhat breathless at 

the response to their request for student opinion. Not 

only an answer to last week's "We Think," but also an¬ 

other statement from the author of the original article, 

answering criticisms she has heard of her stand, found 

their way to the Agonistic box this week.) 

In this column last week the college was severely criti¬ 

cized because the money which was saved bv the peace 

fast was not given to the Emergency Peace Campaign. 

It is a pity that student opinion is often synonymous 

with student ignorance. Some of us who have a more 

thorough insight into the whole situation feel that it is 

only fair to students and to the administration to present 

the facts as we know them. 

In the first place, the author said "it would seem that 

Agnes Scott is either hostile or indifferent to the idea 

which led the fasters to deny themselves." As a matter 

of fact, one of the greatest incentives on the campus to¬ 

ward any efforts for peace has been the support given by 

the administration and faculty. It was in recognition of 

this cooperation that Miss Leyburn was asked to make the 

talk for the lunch meeting. It was a "college" fast and 

some of the faculty were present. It was because they 

were vitally interested in peace that the administration 

allowed the fast and meeting to take place at all. 

We would also like to question another charge. "Agnes 

Scott" was charged with pocketing the money saved by 

the fast, and "thereby profiting itself by the sacrifice of 

half its population for what it apparently regards as an 

unworthy cause." Is there not a little confusion in the 

mind of the author between a capitalistic business enter¬ 

prise run for profit, and a college run for the service of 

the students? The college "makes" nothing from the 

students. Whatever money was not given to the Emer¬ 

gency Peace Campaign was certainly used elsewhere for 

our benefit, not to increase the pay checks of Dr. Mc¬ 

Cain or the faculty. 

Of course, even if the money had been given to the 

cause suggested, the amount would have been negligible. 

Lunch is a light meal; even if no one had eaten, the 

amount would have been small. As it was, the entire 

kitchen had to function, and only a small cost in food 

was saved. 

As a matter of fact, the real reason the college did not 
see fit to give the money is because of just such suppers. 
Complaints from mothers about enforced starvation have 
actually come to the college. Although it is a pity, it is 
true, that some students (not administration officers) are 
hostile to peace, and choose to complain outside of things 
they lack the courage to vote against. 

The administration explained its position satisfactorily 
to those of us who went to ask them if the donation 
could be made. If those who are so ready to criticize had 
been so ready to understand the whole situation, the fast 
would have been much more effective, and dissatisfaction 
on the part of students and administration would not 
have been aroused. 

In answer to certain criticisms that have reached our 
ears concerning our last week's "We Think," we think 
that for the sake of clarity, some amplification, although 
tedious, may not be amiss. 

These criticisms seem to us to rest on two unfortunate 
misconceptions. The first is that the article meant to as¬ 
sert that the administration is in purpose hostile to peace-
activity. On the contrary, the article meant that the 
administration had in action failed to practice its high 
ideals and to guard against inconsistency. 

The second misconception is that student gratitude for 
permission to fast should place any criticism in bad taste. 
If such opinion infers that censorship is so well enforced 
at Agnes Scott as to be practically self-imposed we would 
neither disagree nor relieve the students themselves of re¬ 
sponsibility for so anaemic a condition. We cannot see 
that truly-conceived gratitude for a granted right of 
self-expression relieves us either of the duty of critical 
estimate of the college's actions or deprives us of the fur¬ 
ther opportunity of expression of such estimates. And 
no true gratitude can blind us to the fact that an educa¬ 
tional and Christian institution is inconsistent in falling 
back before the courageous sacrifice which we are not 
ignorant that peace expression demands. 

We, the music students of Agnes Scott College, think 
that our school should give a major and minor in music 
as well as in other subjects. A survey of the music de¬ 
partments of other colleges has been made; and it was 
found that every standard woman's college in the United 
States, with the exception of one, gives a major and minor 
in music. The one school that does not give a major does 
give a minor. In all these colleges music is treated as any 
other college course, and may be chosen as a major under 
the same rules. The courses in Theoretical Music arc open 
to all students without regard to previous musical knowl¬ 
edge; they count toward the B.A. degree and arc subject 
to no separate tuition fee. At Wcllcslcy College, there 
are as many as fifteen three hour courses given in music. 
They have twelve music teachers, four of whom teach 
theory only. It is the same at Vassar; and at Mt. Holyokc, 
eleven courses are given with three out of their seven 
music professors teaching theory alone. 

We think that Agnes Scott, with the high standards 
which she upholds, should realize the low place which 
she occupies in the very important field of music and 
should do all in her power to improve the appalling con¬ 
ditions of the music department here. It is probably not 
realized that several of our outstanding students are being 
forced to leave Agnes Scott in preference to a school 
which allows a major and minor in music. 


Boisterous Pranks Of Naive Freshmen Emory Players to Outing Club Enjoys Trip Newspaper Pictures 
Arouse Gales Of Laughter in Dorms Give Mystery Play In accordance with their custom, Cause Excitement 

Inman Hall Runs Wild With Hilarity Over Peculiar Pie-Beds, 

Rated by the New York Times as

Fishpond Fights, Vesper Voices, Alarm Clock 

"an uncommonly light-footed mystery

Alarums, And Plaintive Pleas 

with originality," "Whistling in the 
When confronted by the same question which the seniors were Dark," the latest production of the 
asked last week—"What is the funniest thing that has happened Emorv University Players, which will | 
during your Agnes Scott career?"—the freshmen were as baffled be given on Friday night, May 7, at 
as their predecessors. However, their humorous incidents were a 8:40 in the Glenn Memorial Auditor¬ 
ium, promises to be a thrilling and ex¬

great deal more boisterous in nature 

citing play.

than those of the seniors. Perhaps this 

Faculty to Teach, 

The leading characters in

indicates a subtle difference in the the play 
tastes of the two classes—or maybe it are Wally Porter, a crime novelist,

Travel in Summer 

played by George Downing; and Toby

is just a discrimination between high 

van Buren, Wally's fiancee, played by

comedy, low comedy, and farce (page 
Mr. Hayes). A range of activities wide as their Myrl Chafin of A~nes Scott's Black-
The inimitable Georgia Hunt (alias interests and varied as their personali¬ friars. 
Miss Hopkins) was discovered in a ties will occupy members of the Ag¬ 

GAIETY. COLOR WILL DISTIN¬ 

corner of the library reading Emily nes Scott faculty this summer. GUISH MAY DAY COSTUMES 
Post; consequently, her first reply to Dr. Arthur Raper, Acting Profes¬ 

(Continued from page 1, column 4)

the question was, "Oh, indeed! It sor of Sociology, is planning a crowd¬ 
ed program. He will take his family garb to distinguish his evil self from

would be a breach of etiquette for me 
to tell you the very funniest thing to the beach in the early summer, teach the unsuspecting lady. In his own 
that has happened, so I'll have to graduate courses at Atlanta Univer¬ character, he wears a gorgeous, sweep¬ 

think of something else!" Then in a sity, and spend the month before col¬ ing silver cloak lined with scarlet. 
library tone of voice interspersed with lege opens in making an observation Comus' grotesque crew are clothed in 

hushed giggles she described the de¬ tour of government resettlement proj¬ bright, garish colors with collars and 
lightful effects upon Hazel Solomon ects. He plans to travel through the cuffs of silver, while upon their heads 
of a pie-bed manufactured by Ann dust bowl, taking an estimate of the are the weird heads of animals, with 
Enloe, Helen Carson, and herself. value of rural rehabilitation work. which their yielding to Comus' temp¬ 

Shirley Armentraut's funniest inci¬ Miss Carrie Scandrett, Assistant tation has endowed them. 

dent was likewise rather boisterous, as Dean, is chaperoning a group of Ag¬ The mortals in the spectacle include, 
she gave a hilarious account of the nes Scott girls on a European tour. first of all, the lady, guarded by the 
time that Eleanor Lewis, Jean and When interviewed, she gave all credit attendant spirit, enticed by Comus, 
Lib Williams pushed each other into for the idea to Mary Jane Tigert and frightened and cheered by the bad and 

the fishpond to the mutual delight of Alberta Palmour, who, she said, was good spirits, she makes her way 

everyone concerned. the originator of it. through the forest. A lady of rank, 
Miss Narka Nelson, Assistant Pro¬ she wears a gold satin gown with tight

Evidently, Eloise McCall is a prac¬ 

fessor of Latin and Greek, although waist and long,full skirt. The dress

tical joke lover, too, for her humor¬ 

she remains on this continent, will be is trimmed with broad white satin col¬

ous contribution was a description of 

almost equally far from Decatur, for lars and cuffs, and the lady carries a

the way in which a practical joke 

she intends to spend her vacation at gold satin bonnet with long ribbons.

turned out to be impractical to Mickey 

La Jolla, California. La Jolla, situated The two brothers who accompany the

Warren and herself. It seems that one 

near San Diego, is an ideal place for lady on the way to meet their father

night Eloise and Mickey playfully im¬ 

the holidays, according to Miss Nel-and mother at Ludlow town, wear rich

planted alarm clocks set for 3 A. M. 

suits in different colors, trimmed with

on the outside window ledges of sev¬ 

wide, white, lace-edged collars and

eral rooms on first floor Inman. The 

M. L. Fairly to Preside cuffs. The father wears a like suit of
alarms went off in proper fashion, but 

gray, and the mother is clothed in 

Eloise and Mickey have not seen their Over '38 Mortar Board 

rose satin, with lace edged collar, 
clocks since that day. while her cap is of white lace. 
Eleanor Hutchens chuckled as she The newly elected members of the The rustic characters in the spec¬ 
193 8 chapter of Mortar Board held tacle are numerous. The shepherdesses

told of something that happened in 

their first meeting last Wednesday

Vespers. Everybody was quiet as Mr. 

night in a joint session with the 1937

Holt prayed for a "voice from heaven 

members. Five officers for next year LEARY'S PHARMACY 
to direct us in our ways," when sud¬ were chosen. They are: president, 

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denly Hannah's voice sailed down Mary Lillian Fairly; vice-president, 

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Anne Thompson; secretary, Eliza

from somewhere on third floor Rebe-

King; treasurer, Mildred Davis; and Decatur, Ga.

kah! Ernestine Cass was equally sur¬ 

Quarterly editor, Hortense Jones.

prised when she got a telephone call 
from Miss Jackson one night. In a 
plaintive voice Miss Jackson asked 
that Ernestine tube the maid in Main 

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to come and unlock the day student 
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the Outing Club of Agnes Scott and 

For "Famous" Girls

the Appalachian Trail Club of Decatur 
went together on their annual all-
day trip in the mountains of north According to Ruby Laney, Jane 
Georgia on Sunday, May 2. 

Turner, Carolyn Forman, Mary Hol


lingsworth, and Marjorie Boggs, the 
who dance on the village green at the old adage that "It pays to advertise" 
return of the wandering trio, wear still holds true, after all! Each of these 

dresses of shimmering silk in blue, girls was inspired to reach this conclu¬ 
pink, green, or yellow. They have sion by interesting events that have 
puffed sleeves and square necks, and happened in connection with their re¬ 

the skirts are looped into panniers cent appearance in print. Ruby Lanwith 
bunches of real flowers tied with ey's adventures began last week when 
gauze ribbon. The tumblers, or clown¬ she hailed rather unceremoniously

was 

ish jesters, wear suits of dark green by the Atlanta Journal snooping re¬ 
with enormous collars and cuffs made porter. It seems that he wanted to 
of strips of different bright colored know if she was acquainted with a 

materials. Their caps are dark green "good, inexpensive hobby that is real¬ 

and close-fitting, with vari-colored ly different." 
cockades. Their garments are hung 

"My hobby is," smiled Ruby, "col¬

with bells at every possible point, and 

lecting beautiful pieces of cloth. I've

their antics are much enlivened by the 

been doing it since I was a child." 

gay jingling. The three sets of May 

"If I can just get a piece of real

Pole dancers dance in circles around 

Chinese silk and a scrap of bark cloth

the flower decked pole, and each set is 

from the South Sea Islands, I'll be

dressed differently. The girls of the 

happy."

outermost group wear yellow dresses 

Imagine Ruby's thrilled surprise the

with blue-dotted white panniers, while 

next morning when she was called to

their partners are dressed in yellow 

the day student telephone to hear a

smocks with blue collars and bows. 

sweet voice say, "I read about your

The girls of the next group are cos¬ 

hobby in the paper, my dear; and I've

tumed in bright colored skirts with 

a piece of Chinese silk I want you to

peplumed blouses in a variety of prints. 

have."

Their caps match their skirts and tie 
in the back with saucy bows. The No less interesting was the experi¬ 
boys of this group wear brown knee ence of Jane Turner, Carolyn For¬ 

trousers and brown coats with large man, and Mary Hollingsworth. The 
white collars. In the innermost group, day after the pictures of the three 
the girls have full green skirts with class presidents appeared, each girl re¬ 

bright appliqued flowers, black laced ceived an anonymous grinny, glary 
bodices, and white blouses. Their caps cartoon from an Emory medical stu¬ 
are white lined with the pink of their dent. 
skirt flowers. 

In this lavish presentation of Mil¬ 

Compliments

ton's Comus, one may find, if not the 

of

philosophy of the spoken version, cer¬ 
tainly all the beauty and variety of WEIL'S 
that first presentation at Ludlow Cas¬ 10c Store 
tle, 1634. 

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DECATUR, GA. 

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interesting character of its student activities 

For further information, address 

J. R. McCAIN, President 
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and "merit" them all— 
for there is no substitute 
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THE AGONISTIC 

Seniors Register K.U.B. Elects Four 'Broadway Revue, Impromtu Speeches 
For Instructing, As New Officers Divert Agonistic Luncheon Guests 

Commerical Work

Down the long, long trail a-winding 
A Monday night ago. 

Ten active girls and Mutt— The seniors are being faced by 
A-hiking we did go. many important questions these days. 
Oh! Besides examinations and engagements 
and graduation, there is the question

Yes, yes—to Coffee Hill with a cof¬ 

of what to do next year. Most of

fee pot and buns trailed these wealthy 

them are busy laying plans and decid¬

girls (wealthy to the extent of 20 

ing what they really want. About

cents—which hindered so many) and 

fifty have registered with Mr. Stukes

Miss Wilburn. Hot dogs, apples, 

and talked over prospects of jobs with

equestrian-angels, and remarkable cof¬ 

him. Of these, sixteen want to go in¬

fee were enjoyed by all, not to men¬ 

to the business world, and fourteen

tion the simple mathematical riddles 

listed business as their first preference

—enjoyed by all but Pussy, and which 

and teaching as their second. There 

we won't even mention for Pussy's 

were twelve who declared their pref¬

sake. However, the most delectable 

erence for teaching only. These num¬

events were rather obscure—because 

bers are significant and seem to mark

they happened at the old country well 

a trend in employment. Up until re¬

when Flora and a companion fetched 

cent years, a majority of the graduat¬

the water for the coffee — and 

ing class who wanted jobs registered

brought the well up in the bucket. 

for teaching, and there were very few

Likewise ludicrous was the enthusias¬ 

who preferred business. During the

tic pup following Mef and the same 

past few years things have been

companion Flora was ashamed of. The 

changing. At present many Agnes

pup was enjoying the synthetic scents 

Scott graduates work with the Retail

of sauer-kraut and condensed milk 

Credit Company and Southern Bell

while the two hungry, haggard hikers 

Telephone in Atlanta. Others have

labored vainly to throw his cute little 

gone into some phase of advertising.

trail. A very funny sight to see. 

Only one girl wants to do social 

Right under our aquiline noses is the 

service work, because the field for this 

event of the year—May Day. This 

has become much smaller since the 

very day there's a big rehearsal and 

government has stopped much of its

everybody's going. (Most everybody's 

relief funds. Four girls are hoping to

in it, n'est-ce pas?) And here's a tip: 

go into some kind of church work,

if you want to be in style on this 

preferably of a secretarial nature.

Comus set—in fact, if you want to be 

Two members of the senior class

popular at all down there—you'd bet¬ 

have rather individual ideas of what 

ter have your costume ready and your¬ 

they hope to do next year. One is

self inside it. Anything else will be 

still holding to her ambition of four

inappropriate and completely scorned, 

years standing. She wants to be an 

no matter how chic or new. Comus 

archeologist and do research work in

Fleece is slinging a mean stick in May 

the Indian Mounds below Macon.

Day Dell, and everybody's stepping to 
his tune. But, y'know, as the story 

National Classics Society

goes—"it Matthews nothing to June," 
and when she smiles her pure and Honors Marie Merritt 
wholesome smile, Comus is crushed 
and he Fleece. 

In the thirteenth annual convention 

And, now, before we leave you— of Eta Sigma Phi, honorary classical 
let us ask you: if you hear anything society, held in Birmingham, Ala., 
about the A. A. banquet, please let us April 22-24, Marie Merritt, treasurer-
know. To be a great big affair, it has elect of the Agnes Scott chapter, was 
the most obscure details available, vie-chosen national recording secretary of 
ing with those of the ping-pong tour¬ the organization. She will fill the du¬ 
nament, which, for some obscure rea¬ ties of this office at the 193 8 conven¬ 
son, has become unusually quiet of tion in Columbus, Ohio, and will act 

late. Yes, just recently. What's the also as a member of the national ex¬ 
matter Stalker? —O, we're so sorry; ecutive committee during the coming 
you did ask us to remind you to pep year.
it up a bit, didn't you? We just for¬ 
got. 
And, O, yes, Stalker, accept unfath¬ 
omable gratitude for assisting us with CANDLER HOTEL 
the mite of verse at the top there. And 
Mutt fo'gives all. She knows how dif¬ 

Coffee Shop

ficult meter can be sometimes. 

and

Meet Your Friends at 

Cox's Prescription Shop 
Dining Room

Between Paramount and Grand 
Theaters, Atlanta 

Good Food 

IS 

Good Health! 

You Can Depend 

On 

25 ^ 

CAFETERIA 

K. U. B. elected the following as 
officers for the coming year: Eliza¬ 
beth Blackshear, president; Evelyn 
Baty, first vice-president; Elsie West, 
second vice-president; Marie Merritt, 
secretary-treasurer. Birmingham seems 
to be "the winner" in the K. U. B. 
contest: Evelyn Baty and Enid Middleton 
tied for the five dollar prize 
awarded for the best article written 
to the home-town paper about the ac¬ 
tivities of some student. Miss Chris¬ 
tie, the faculty advisor, awarded the 
prize. 
Fifteen girls went with Betty Hollis 
Sunday, April 26, to the woods be¬ 
yond Clairmont on a Freshman Y. W. 

C. A. retreat. 
All the members of Bible Club were 
present at the last meeting of Bible 
Club of this year, which was held in 
the Murphey Candler Building Mon¬ 
day, May 3, at 4:30. Dr. J. R. Fancher 
was the speaker. 
Cotillion Club, with Nell Hemphill, 
Frances Abbott, Charlotte Golden, and 
Grace Tazewell as hostesses, entertains 
tomorrow, May 6, in the Murphey 
Candler Building. 
Following is a corrected list of the 
Eta Sigma Phi officers which was in¬ 
correctly given in the last issue: 
Prytanis, Zoe Wells; Hyparchos, Elsie 
Blackstone; Grammateus, Nell Alli¬ 
son; Epistolographos, Mildred Davis; 
Chrysophylax, Marie Merritt; and Pyloras, 
Frances Lee. 

Professor Entertains at Tea 

Miss Catherine Torrance, Professor 
of Greek, will give a tea at her home 
on Clairmont Avenue on Friday, May 
14, in honor of those seniors who are 
Greek majors or minors. The guest of 
honor for this year's tea will be Dr. 
Gertrude Smith, acting head of the 
Greek department of the University of 
Chicago, who will visit with Miss Tor¬ 
rance for several days. 

Those who attended the Agonistic 
luncheon Saturday are still talking 
about the peculiar behavior of three 
very dignified seniors when called up¬ 
on for impromptu speeches. After 
several minutes of enthusiastic shouts 
for the retiring editor, Laura Steele 
rose and said simply, "The editor has 
retired . . ." La belle esprit, Nellie 
Margaret Gilroy, overcome by hunger 
or timidity offered these few words, 
"Having been duly fed ... I have 
nothing to say." And June Matthews, 
when called upon, actually crawled 
under the table and stayed there for 
the rest of the time. 

However, members of the new staff 
showed no such cowardly hearts. Hortense 
Jones waxed poetical and gave 
this toast to her predecessor: 
"An editor who was named Laura 

Asked for stories on time, to her sor¬ 

row; 

The reporters in chorus 

Responded, 'you bore us;' 

We'll get them in on tomorrow!" 

Marie Merrit followed suit with 
this toast to Kathryn Bowen Wall: 
"Hear the plight of Kathryn Wall; 

Aggie stock has had a fall; 

Harper's Bazaar Holds 

Snapshot Contest to 

Discover Style Tastes 

Eager to know what college girls 
think about fashions in general and 
college fashions in particular, Harper's 
Bazaar is staging a contest, closing 
June 18, for the best snapshots of col¬ 
lege fashions. These snapshots will be 
printed in the August issue of the 
magazine, and the winner will be 
awarded an Eastman Kodak Bantam 
Candid Camera. The next four prizes 
are Kodak Vallenda Candid Cameras. 
There is no limit on the number of 
snapshots that may be submitted by 
each student. 

Even this manager's good business 

head 

Couldn't keep Aggie from being 

well-read!" 

Mary McCann Hudson toasted 
Frances Cary with: 
"Frances Cary 

Quite contrary 

Tell how your paper appears 

With features cute 

And columns astute, 

But alas! It has no ears!" 

And Mary Frances Guthrie, not to 
be outdone, turned to June Matthews 
with this: 
"Roses, commencement, and June 

Can't make up for the lack of this 

boon; 

A big bold Bodoni 

Whose count isn't phonev 

That's all that Matthews to June!" 
The last of the entertainment con¬ 
sisted of a Six Star Revue direct from 
Broadway. Its three acts consisted in 
a burlesque tap number by the "Love 
Boyds," Hassell and Erwin; a French 
torch singer from Paree, Suzy Audrain; 
and a dramatic interpretation of 
the Highway Man (with sound ef¬ 
fects) by Stalker, Kneele, and Taylor. 

Dr. Christian Will Study 

At Harvard Universiiy 

Dr. Schuyler M. Christian, Profes¬ 
sor of Physics and Astronomy, will 
spend the summer at Harvard Univer¬ 
sity, continuing the study of electri¬ 
cal properties of solution which he has 
pursued during the past three sum¬ 
mers, as research assistant to Professor 
Grinell Jones. Their most recent find¬ 
ings have just been published in the 
Journal of the American Chemical 
Society, the article being entitled: 
"The Viscosity of Aqueous Solutions 
of Electrolytes as a Function of the 
Concentration. V. Sodium Chloride." 
Mrs. Christian and Sarah will ac¬ 
company Mr. Christian to Cambridge. 

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COMMENCEMENT EDITION 

SENIOR

SENIOR 
ISSUE

ISSUE 

<ri)c Agonistic 

NO. 22

VOL. XXII AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 1937 

Rev. W. M. Elliott, Jr., Speaks Dr; McCain Awards Dr. J. J. Tigert Discusses Place 
Commencement Of Women in Past and Present 
At Baccalaureate Ceremony 

Honors 

Delivered by

Delivered by J. J. TIGERT

W. M. ELLIOTT 
DR. J. J. TIGERT,

REV. W. M. ELLIOTT, JR., The principal awards of the forty-

Pastor, Druid Hills Presbyterian eighth commencement exercises were President, University of Florida, 

Gainesville, Fla., on Tues¬

Church, Atlanta, on as follows: 

day, June 8.

Sunday, June 6. The Hopkins Jewel, in honor of Miss 
Nannette Hopkins, given to Julia 

"Love gilds the scene and -women

Text: "David served his oivn gen¬ Thing, of Asheville, N. C. 

guide the plot."—Sheridan.

eration by the tvill of God."—Acts Collegiate Scholarship—Full tuition, 

13:36. given to Mildred Davis, Orlando, From the inception of human rela¬ 
Can you imagine anything finer Fla., for the second time. Honorable tions man's welfare, from the cradle 
than that being said about anybody? mention for Miss Elsie Blackstone. to the grave, has depended upon wo¬ 
Is there anything you'd rather have Rich Prize — Fifty dollars from man. True manhood, great and gen¬ 

some historian say about you? You Rich's of Atlanta for the freshman erous, has always acknowledged this 
see, David served his generation. Lie making the best record: fact. There is scarcely a towering fig¬ 
did not merely pass through it. He Given to Eva Ann Pirkle, Atlanta. ure of history who does not attribute 
made his own peculiar contribution Honorable mention: Antoinette Sledd his success to woman—either to 

to it. Edna Ferber, in her novel Cim-and Florence Sledd. mother, wife, sweetheart, or friend. 
arron, makes one of her characters Art Scholarship — Given to Jane Naturally, the mother comes in for 
say that some people make the world, Wyatt, Easley, S. C. the lion's share of acknowledged cred¬ 
and the rest just come along to live in Piano Scholarship—Given to Nell it. Lincoln and Lee, the two transit. 
How is it with you graduates? Hemphill, Petersburg, Va. cendently great figures of our Civil 
Are you going to serve your genera¬ Voice Scholarship—Given to Vir¬ War period—the former in civil af¬ 
tion, or are you just going to live ginia Kyle, Charleston, W. Va. fairs, the latter in military affairs— 

in it? Are you sincerely wanting Speech Scholarship — Jeanne Flynt, by strange coincidence made almost 
Decatur, Ga.

to put back into life a little more identical statements. Said the Great 

Richard DeBury Book Award—Eliz¬

than you take out? Emancipator, "All that I am and all 

abeth Warden, Decatur, Ga. owe to

One thrills at the thought of what that I ever hope to be, I my

Laura Candler Prize in Mathemat¬

the thousands of young people grad¬ •—Courtesy Atlanta Journal. sainted mother." Said the illustrious 

ics—Mildred Tilly, Decatur, Ga.

uating this summer from college Leader of the Gray, "All that I am, I

Morley Medal in Mathematics—Lou

could mean to this generation. Minds -Courtesy Atlanta Journal. owe to my mother."

Scribe Draws Up Pate, Newbern, Tenn.

well disciplined, tastes and apprecia¬ It is true that man, in his baser mo¬

Graduation With High Honor— 

tions heightened, skills developed, ments, may forget the source of his

Will for Seniors Based on full college record: Class Looks Back

idealism running high—my soul! if life, happiness and success, and in his

I (Continued on page 2, column 3)

we could harness all that, think what selfishness may sometimes perpetrate

On Eventful Past

it could mean! By Laura Steele the grossest atrocities even upon wo¬ 
It may be that some of you have We, the senior class of Agnes Scott man. Nero became the symbol of all

College Receives

no thought of serving your genera¬ By Lucile Dennison and that is hellish and foul by ruthlessly

College, in this the year of our Lord,

tion. You expect to feed on it; to Mary Elizabeth Morrow taking his own mother's life. The

nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, be¬ Resignations of

squeeze out of it all the sweetness you fradty of man sometimes leads him 

can. You intend to cash in on your ing of sound enough mind to receive Whereas we eighty-five remain the 

to vaunt his own self-sufficiency and

Four Professors sole survivors of four years of intense

college training and be a private suc¬ the approbation of the faculty for pass his failures to the shoulders of

strain and activity;

cess. Most of you, however, believe graduation, being of skeptical enough the weaker sex. Adam inauguratedthat opportunity creates responsibil¬ Resignations of Miss Louise McKin-Whereas we stand black robed, clear

mind to suspect their unanimous agree¬ this vogue in the Garden of Eden. 

ity, that he who has freely received ney, professor of English; Dr. Mary eyed, with daisies in our hands eager When upbraided for his sins, by his

ment, and being of disposing enough

should freely give, and so, you have Sweet, resident physician and profes¬ to meet the world; 

Creator, he replied: "The woman 

made it the ruling passion of your mind in accordance with this agree¬ sor of hygiene; Mrs. Lucy Goss Her¬ Whereas it is customary for those (Continued on page 3, column 1)
life to serve well your generation. ment .to join the Alumnae Association, bert, instructor in chemistry; and approaching the cross roads of life to 

But this you cannot do effectively do make this our last will and testa¬ Miss Mary Vardell, instructor in biol¬ indulge in tearful reminiscences; 
until you have ascertained what your ment, hereby revoking and annulling ogy, have been announced by Dr. Mc¬ Whereas we wish to perform our New Regulations 
generation supremely needs. You will Cain, to go in effect this next term. last service to those who follow in

all others, by us heretofore made. 

agree, I think, that it does not need Miss McKinney, who is retiring from our foot-steps; To be in Effect 

1. We desire and direct that our 
more mechanical devices. We have active service, will be professor of 

Therefore, we, the class of 1937, 

more of the scientific means of living memory be preserved in a decent, English emerita; her work is to be Senior chaperonage on dates, revised

Christianlike manner, provided we do taken over by Miss Virginia Pretty-
hereby dig up and divulge our past 

now than men know what to do with. that we may be shining examples of under-classman social privileges and ex¬

not stumble on the footstool at Com¬ 

man. Dr. Sweet will be professor of

Dr. Halford Luccock says that we what to be, or not to be. We hereby tension of time limit for dates at night

mencement tomorrow. 

hygiene emerita and will serve here in

might well rewrite our Stevenson rattle our skeletons at you. Let us from 11:00 to 11:45 are some of the 

num¬ 2. We desire and direct that our an advisory capacity. Taking her place

thus: "The world is so full of a consider in true historical fashion the more important regulations made at

spirit of humanitarianism, guided by as resident physician, and acting as

ber of things, I'm sure we should all record of this class politically, eco¬ the final meeting of the Administra¬

Alice Hannah, be remembered through associate professor of hygiene, is Dr.

watch out lest they cave in on us and nomically, socially, and culturally. tive Committee, May 24. 

our recommendation that the next Florence L. Swanson, staff physician

smother us." No, our generation does Before spending the night off cam¬

Our political development has been

Greater Agnes Scott campaign contain at the Pratt hospital in Baltimore for

not need more things, but it is starv-pus a student must have filed in the

accomplished under the administration

provisions for the housing of the lean the past three years. Dr. Swanson took

(Continued on page 4, column 1) Dean's office an invitation from her

of two capable leaders—Isabel McCain

and hungry cats which roam at will her bachelor's degree at the University 

hostess, preferably in writing, but if

and Martha Summers, who remains

through Rebekah Scott. of Washington and her medical degree as 

Phi Beta Kappa our life president. We were early necessary, by telephone to the Dean's

More specifically, we, the individ¬ at the University of Oregon. 

office.

ual members of the class, do bequeath Miss Mary Walker, '3 6, is to fill the forced to combine as a party to meet 

Recognizes Five the traditional two party system of Juniors and seniors may ride to and

the following: vacancy left in the chemistry depart¬ 

Freshmen vs. Sophomores. Our astute from a destination unchaperoned with

I, Eloisa Alexander, do give and be¬ ment. 

and wily opponents tried to win us a date until 11:45 p. m. every night

queath to Winifred Kellersberger my Miss Martha Crowe, instructor in

Announcement of the election to 

over by proposing a bill for alleviating except Sunday.

Phi Beta Kappa of Elizabeth Espy, unsuppressed desire to go to sleep dur¬ French, is taking a year's leave of ab¬ 
June Matthews, Enid Middleton, Julia ing Mortar Board meetings. sence; her place is to be filled by Miss the suffering of the lower classes— A limited number of seniors will be 

that well known N. R. A. bill, No chosen as chaperons. They may chap¬

Thing, and Kathryn Wall was made in I, Frances Belford, do give, be¬ Virginia Gray, a graduate of Agnes 

queath, and devise to Mutt Fite and Scott. Since her graduation, Miss Ratting Allowed. But we continued eron only on dates.

chapel last Friday. Professor Philip 

unappeased a struggle which reached Students may return from dances

Davidson, president of the local chap¬ Flora McGuire the air they let out of Gray has studied at the University of 

my tires. Illinois, for past its climax in the contest for the Black Saturday night until 12:30. Sen¬

ter, made the announcement. and the three years on 

Initiation of the new members was I, Michelle Furlow, and I, Faxie has been teaching at a mission school Cat. The product of our innocent and iors and juniors may return with dates. 
(Continued on page S, column 1) in the Belgian Congo. {Continued on page 5, column 4) Freshmen and sophomores must be

held Saturday; afterwards there was a 

chaperoned.

banquet in the Alumnae Tea House. 

No allowances will be made in time 

Gi/roj, Being En Route to Vie in Olympic Games, 

limit, such as the extra twenty min¬ 
Pate Scores 427 utes from Atlanta or five minutes 

Discloses Fates of Her Daring Fellow Classmates 

| from Decatur, but time limit will be 

In Archerv Event 

set definitely each week and students 
By Nellie Margaret Gilroy length, Wright-ous in eloquence, and graduate! Don't let delusions of fail¬ will be expected to return at the exact 
as unique as the new 3 th dimension ure (see Conklin, Introduction to Ab¬ hour specified.

The Agnes Scott College archery Dearest "Try-try-again": 

special chapeau which I hear Miss normal Psychology, for a comparison

team placed fortieth in the eighth an¬ Through that exceedingly effective Freshman and sophomore social 

Jackson has substituted for that most and contrast with delusions of perse¬ privileges have been revised along a

nual inter-collegiate telegraphic tour¬ though rather undependable process of 
nament entered by eighty-eight college the grape-vine method it has come to celebrated headgear which in another cution and grandeur) consume you. graduated system, privileges increasing 

day proudly bore the fifty-seven vari¬ Look to the past for inspiration to go each quarter.

teams this spring. Lou Pate led the my attention that you are at present 

eties and which constituted the moti-on.

Agnes Scott team with a national A faced with grave disaster—that like 

vating force for one of the most heart¬ Surely vou remember the case of

rating score of 427, the highest score America, according to all of the debat¬ Seniors Elect Summers

rending arias ever formulated by the Anna Brooks Spivey, the girl who al¬

that has ever been made on the cam¬ ers and chapel speakers of 1934-35-36 

human soul. Perk up, old deah, in ways attended receptions via the back And King as Officers

pus; Frances Cary and Emma McMul-and 37, you are in peril—My dear, 

spite of the double quarter system, in door and who is now having said pain¬

len were given C ratings with scores just because your teachers insist upon 

spite of Miss Smith's dismal diagnosis ful affairs conducted throughout the

of 312 and 319 respectively. The cutting their classes, don't give up the Martha Summers was elected life 

of your case—that yours is a curious countrv in her honor as the celebrated

other members of the team are Eliza¬ ship. As to your other worries, I am president of the senior class and Mary

situation, be confident with her that author of a 160,000 word volume, the

beth Davis, Winifred Kellersberger, confident that your term paper on "to ! King, secretary, at a recent class meet¬ 

as is true of the problems of history, first installment of a serial fascinat¬

Mary Rogers, Aileen Shortley, and Es-see or not to see" or "what price tele¬ ing. Martha has been president for the 

both ancient and modern—it will work ingly titled "Wake Up and Write a

tclle Cuddv. vision?" is going to be Brooksonian in past two years.

itself out. Of course you're going to (Continued on page 2, column 1) 


THE AGONISTIC 

Engagements are Annonneed 
At Annual Trustee Luncheon 

<ll)c Agonistic 

Laura Steele Editor-in-Chief Kathryn W'ai.l Business Manager 

Frances Gary June Matthews Enid Middleton 
Editorial Staff 

Rachel Kennedy Mary King 
Advertising Solicitors 

Assistants 
Frances Wilson, Sarah Johnson, Alice Hannah, Cornelia Christie, 
Ruth Slack, Mary McCann Hudson, Caroline Carmichael, Letty 
McKay. 

Visitors From Many States 

Attend Commencement Events 

The stream of Commencement vis¬ J. T. Barnett, from Jonesborough, Ga. 
itors began to trickle across the cam¬ Monday came Mrs. P.. F. Kirkpatpus 
Friday when Mr. and Mrs. G. H. 

rick and Jean's sister, Mrs. A. M. Hen¬ 

Cairns, of Gainesville, Fla., arrived for 

derson, from Anderson, S. C.; Mrs.

Lucille's graduation; and Mrs. J. I. 

Harry L. Watson, Louise, and Eliza¬

McCain, of Due West, S. C., came for 
her granddaughter, Isabel's. Saturday beth, from Greenwood, S. C.; Mr. and 
saw Mrs. R. B. Belser, of Sumter, Mrs. M. E. Perry and Mary's aunts, 

S. C.; Mrs. T. M. Espy, Frances, 
Mrs. J. H. and H. A. Dorsey, and her 

Robert, and Collier, from Dothan, 

cousins, Elise and Geraldine Dorsey,

Ala.; Mrs. U. H. Hannah, Mary Ann, 

from Nashville; Mr. and Mrs. A. S.

and Margaret, from Cass, W. Va.; 

Richardson, from Washington, Ga.;

Mrs. Victor Hollis and Jame, from 

Mrs. L. H. Gary, Mary, Henry, and

Sautee, Ga.; the Buchholzes from 

Frances' aunt, Mrs. W. N. Miller, from

Gainesville, Fla.; Mr. and Mrs. A. G. 

Greenville; Dr. and Mrs. R. M. Ken¬

Estes, of Gay, Ga.; Mrs. Royston Jes¬ 

nedy, of Newberry, S. C.; Mr. J. Paul

ter, of Lynchburg; and Mrs. J. Paul 

Stephens, of Augusta; Mr. and Mrs.

Stephens, of Augusta. 

Neill G. Stevens, of Huntsville, Ala.,

Sunday the stream increased in vol¬ 

with Faxie's brother, Neill, and her 

ume as the following parents and 

friend, Martha Moore.

friends of graduates arrived: Mr. and 

Tuesday the stream of out-of-town

Mrs. F. P. Gracey, Sarah Bright, and 

visitors thinned as only Mr. and Mrs.

Robert, from Augusta; Mr. and Mrs. 

W. M. Furlow, of Albany, Ga., and
C. M. Britt, from Asheville; Mr. and 
fathers arriving at the last minute—

Mrs. J. H. Morrow and Jimmy, from 

Dr. Tigert, Mr. Kirkpatrick, and Mr.

Albemarle, N. C.; Mr. and Mrs. H. H. 

Jester—arrived.

Willis, Hugh, Cornelia, and Alice, 
from Culpepper, Va.; Mr. and Mrs. Commuters for graduation events 

W. L. Johnson and Sarah's grandmoth¬ throughout the week-end included not 
er, Mrs. W. T. Johnson, Sr., from only Atlanta friends and relations but 
Washington, Ga.; Mr. and Mrs. B. B. also Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Johnson and 
Jackson, from Charlotte; Mrs. J. J. Ben, of Lithonia. Mrs. O. F. Wilson, 
Tigert and Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Tigert, Frances' mother, came from Rockford, 
Jr., coming from Miami; Mrs. W. T. 111., to see senior opera and May Day 
Belford, Lee, Robert, William, and and remained here for commencement. 
Harold, from Savannah, as well as She has been commuting ever}' day 
Frances' aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. from her room on South Candler. 

last (to use a phrase that is fit for a

Prophet Foresees 

king) by a sheer force of will plus the 
Future Surprises gentle but firm persuasions of a legi¬ 
timately annoyed gym department,

(Continued from page 1, column 4) 
grappled with the deep, learning the 
Term Paper" or "How to Influence back stroke in fifteen minutes, I would 
Professors with a Sixty-Page Dis¬ not be pursuing the brilliant aquatic 
course." Fler popularity is said to career that has since been mine. As 
equal that of that exponent of charm you know, I've been all wet ever since, 
and personality. Miss Alice Taylor, and now, as a result of my endeavors, 
whose admonition to consume more I am spending this week representing 
and better radishes, a reported retalia¬ America at the Olympics in Istanbul, 
tion to her lively competitors—the ad¬ the name of which Laura Steele, the 

vocates of raw carrots — are daily now renowned torch singer whose ren¬ 
bringing her in more fan mail than is ditions of "Good News" and "That's 
delivered to Mary Perry, the Garbo of the Sweetest Story Ever Reported" 

our era—the woman whose cough, have made her the toast of Broadway 
like the shot at Bunker Hill, has been —a real and threatening rival to that 

hot-cha harmony team—the sisters of

heard 'round the world, and to Dotty 

the frying pan, composed of Michelle

Lee, the Marie Rose of modern jour¬ 

Furlow and Faxie Stevens, whose in¬

nalism—the one upon whose altar the 
aspirations of young hearts are poured terpretation of the "Star-bangled Ban¬ 

ner" as it was originally produced in

out and the one who because of the 
fifty-seven calls that were never re¬ the humble beginnings of the pair on 

third Rebekah is so stirring that even

ported to her, knows the unfeeling 
knocks of the hard cruel world. And Annie Laura Galloway, the frivolous 

tears

to what does Miss Spivey attribute her dolly, is moved to tears, which 

would be more profuse only by the

success—not to cocoa malt, not to 

wheaties, not even to correspondence addition of the equally lyric voice of 
lessons but simply to the fact that she one Isabel McCain, who is quite fre¬ 
accomplished her irksome duties and quently the star attraction of 1'opera 
comique (for pronunciation of which

graduated fully conscious that all good 

take French 257)—as I said before in¬

things must come to an end—even 

terrupting myself with the comment

term papers, believe it or not. 

upon contemporary civilization—I am ;

My truest test of woman's worth, 

in Istanbul, the name of which Laura j

my surest test of noble birth almost 

once defined on a European history!

prohibits me from adding the personal 

touch here, but I do feel that an ap¬ test as "the Sultan of Morocco"— 

preciation of my own predicaments which only goes to show that even the i 
will aid vou in taking the bull by the great have had humble beginnings. j 
horns or whatever you do with the ex¬ To get back to the point, if any, I, 
ceedingly nasty things. Surely you j as a result of my aquatic endeavor in j 

realize the fact that it was the last j that trying week of May 28-June 8,! 
week of my college career that put me; 1937, am now having a wonderful 
where I am today. As Lincoln would time here at the Olympics. My trip on 
say, all that I ever was or ever hope1 the way over was most interesting. My 
to be I attribute to my swimming. | first experience with the ocean brought ! 
Had I not, after four years of dreaded; a frequent companionship and hence 
phobias and obsessions concerning pink mutual admiration society between 
octopi and wicked Syllabi (not the me and the ship's doctor—Dr. Willis, 
Bible 101 variety, however), at long an individual whose hair was the color 

DR. McCAIN awards 

COMMENCEMENT HONORS 

(Continued from page 1, column 3) 

Frances Gary, Greenville, S. C. 

Lucile Dennison Atlanta, Ga. 

Elizabeth Espy, Dothan, Ala. 

Isabel McCain, Decatur, Ga. 

Enid Middleton, Birmingham, Ala. 

Pauline Moss, Royston, Ga. 

Kathryn Printup, Atlanta, Ga. 

Rachel Shamos, Atlanta, Ga. 

Mary Fairfax Stevens, Huntsville, 

Ala. 
Mildred Tilly, Decatur, Ga. 
Frances Wilson, Rockford, III. 
Mrs. Kathryn Bowen Wall, Atlanta, 

Ga. 

Graduation With Honor—Based on 

full college record: 

Louise Faye Brown, Atlanta, Ga. 

Anne Cox, Atlanta, Ga. 

Charline Fleece, Atlanta, Ga. 

Nellie Margaret Gilroy, Atlanta, Ga. 

Sarah Johnson, Washington, Ga. 

June Matthews, Atlanta, Ga. 

Mary Elizabeth Morrow, Albemarle, 

N. C. 
Brooks Spivey, Atlanta, Ga. 
Laura Steele, Atlanta, Ga. 
Martha Summers, Atlanta, Ga. 
Julia Thing, Asheville, N. C. 
Senior Honors—Based on the record 
of the session 1936-1937 only: 
Frances Gary, Greenville, S. C. 
Ann Cox, Atlanta, Ga. 
Lucile Dennison, Atlanta, Ga. 
Elizabeth Espy, Dothan, Ala. 
Nellie Margaret Gilroy, Atlanta, Ga. 
Sarah Johnson, Washington, Ga. 
Jean Kirkpatrick, Anderson, S. C. 
June Matthews, Atlanta, Ga. 
Enid Middleton, Birmingham, Ala. 
Pauline Moss, Royston, Ga. 
Isabel McCain, Decatur, Ga. 
Rachel Shamos, Atlanta, Ga. 
Brooks Spivey, Atlanta, Ga. 
Laura Steele, Atlanta, Ga. 
Mary Fairfax Stevens, Huntsville, 

Ala. 
Julia Thing, Asheville, N. C. 
Mildred Tilly, Decatur, Ga. 
Frances Wilson, Rockford, 111. 
Mrs. Kathryn Bowen Wall. 

of the chapel seats and who was fre¬ 
quently to be seen scurrying about the 
decks with coathangers as yet unremoved 
from her sweater. One of the 
happiest of my boat experiences was 
my acquaintanceship with four very 
delightful maiden ladies whose com¬ 
mon bond seemed to be some bitter 
cynicism involving the opposite sex. 
These rather thwarted 1 individuals, 

who, although they became such close 
friends with me that I was soon quite 
nonchalantly calling them Charline, 
Mary Alice, Margaret, and Frances 
Mac, never revealed the source of their 
complexes to me, but from casual con¬ 
versation guided by my prying spirit 
and analytical mind, I gathered that— 
oh horror of horrors—I don't know 
whether I should make such a damn¬ 
ing revelation to one so young and undisillusioned—
they, to use the language 
of the streets, had been jilted. Pitiful 
to relate, I found out later from the 
ship's gracious hostess, Nell Scott, that 
this trip was their last mad fling be¬ 
fore retiring to a nunnery to exhibit 
their grief and therein to devise a suit¬ 
able vendetta. 

Sharing my interest and curiosity in 
these derelicts of humanity was the 
representative of the southern division 
ofthe A. A. P. A.A.U.W.,the 
American Association for the Preven¬ 
tion of the American Association of 
University Women, Miss Mary Jane 
Tigert, who except for occasional un¬ 
intelligible mutterings concerning V. 

J. and Robert's Rules of Order, had 
quite a gay time entertaining all of us 
in parties, a custom she retained from 
her college days when she once in her 
hospitality went so far as to entertain 
an idea for the editor of the handbook. : 
What some people will do for popu-j 
larity's sake! At one of these frolic-1 
some affairs, I had the occasion to meet1 
a real blue-blood, my deah, an honest-' 
to-goodness one of the old nobility—| 
Count Me In, no other than the direct 
descendant of Ah-men's famous rival. 
Count Me Out. As charming as his! 
talk of the gondoliers and moonlight 
and the scent of fresh Italian flowers 
was that of his wife, a former Miss 
Sarah Johnson, whose interest in the 
President's recent efforts to balance 
the budget was extraordinary. From | 
The following engagements and 

marriages were announced last Satur¬ 

day at the trustees' luncheon: 

Faculty 

Mary Linda Vardell, to Ellison 

Smythe, of Lexington, Virginia, on 

August 12. 

1926 

Helen Hermance, to William James 

Kilgour of Winston-Salem, June 11. 

1930 

Alice McDonald to Al Barton Rich¬ 

ardson of Atlanta, June 26; Raemond 

Wilson, to Hardin Craig, Jr., of Stan¬ 

ford, Cal. 

1931 

Ruth Peck, to William Anderson 

Smith, this summer. 

1932 

Judy Blundell, to Eric Adler, of 

New York City, in June. 

1933 

Catherine Happoldt to Jimmy Jep


son of Decatur, in July; Sarah Hew¬ 

lett, to William Thomson Johnson, in 

June; Jura Taffar, to George Cole, of 

Decatur, June 19; and Eugenia Nor


ris, to Robert S. Hughes, of Greer, S. 

C., in August. 

all I could gather, the Count goes in 

for gold diggers, since he seems to 

have been quite enamoured of one Dot 

Jester, another exponent of pecuniary 

interests—a girl who now, in the face 

of the failure of her European trip as 

far as practical results go, is setting 

up, they tell me, a rival establishment 

to Lloyds of London, employing as 

her chief accountants the mathemati¬ 

cal, logarithmical Florence Little, Eu


la Turner, Jessie Williams, Mildred 

Tilly, and Jane Estes. 

The romantic atmosphere for the 

party was set by the count and by 

beautiful aesthetic dancing rendered 

by the renowned Martha Johnson and 

Ellen O'Donnell, of the Ballet Russe, 

whose talents along the lines of grace 

and poise were first exposed in a dar¬ 

ing daisy chorus of which they were 

both an integral part. A counter-act¬ 

ing air of the intellectual was fur¬ 

nished by the presence of Mary Willis, 

the eminent Shakespeare scholar, who 

is, by her startling research in the 

Elizabethan material, fast prompting 

the critic to exclaim, "Who was that 

guy Stoll, anyway?" 

Stimulating discussion which re¬ 
sulted almost in blows was instigated 
by Edith Belser, the proud possessor of 
intellectual curiosity who insisted that 
Hamlet was suffering from manic-de¬ 
pressive psychosis. The quarrel be¬ 
tween the scholar and the psychoanalysist 
was soon settled, however, by the 
intervention of a citizen of Cass, West 
Virginia, who, because she, at the ten¬ 
der age of seniorhood in college, was 
told by a charm lady that she could 
never be president of her club, decided 
to compensate for this by giving her 
life to the field of international coop¬ 
eration. Accompanied by an expert on 
conversational Spanish, Mary Lib Mor 
row, and Evelyn Wall, a student of 
French, Miss Hannah was planning to 
tour the countryside of Europe, mak¬ 
ing the hills resound with her cry of 
"we need cooperation." 

Not only were the people in the 
boat interesting but some of the fa¬ 
cilities, particularly the library, were 
certainly gratifying. The keepers for 
the sanctuary of the spirits were two 
charming girls, Rose Northcross and 
Dot Cabiness, who, it is said, from 
their early college days, showed an in¬ 
satiable love for such procedures as 
keeping chairs in place, collecting fees 
from glaring and insulted individuals, 
dusting books, and above all keeping 
the tranquility of the spot intact. So 
eager are the two to maintain a spirit 
of neatness that they have improvised 
a system whereby all coats and lunches 
must be kept in the outer cloak room 
and to see that this rule is effective 
they have employed the services of 
Katherine Maxwell, another intense 
lover of library technique. 

My deah, you'll never guess whom 
I saw down in the annals of the library 
whose walls, by the way, were painted 
either by Leonardo da Vinci or the 
immortal Lucile Barnett, I couldn't 
decide which. Whom should I behold , 

1934 
Johnnie May York, to Douglas 
Rumble, of Atlanta, June 26. 

1935 
Grace Robinson, to Howard Wynn, 
of Avondale Estates, in June; and 
Mary Summers, to Dr. Curtis I.anghorne, 
of Emory U., June 3. 

1936 

Bazalyn Coley, to Clyde Howard 

Myatt, of Atlanta, this summer; Helen 

Handte, to Lt. Jack Morse, of the Air 

Corps, U. S. N., June IS; and Mary 

Walker, to William C. Fox, of Atlan¬ 

ta, July. 

1937 

Charline Fleece, to James Haver


stadt, of Atlanta, July 10; Margaret 

Hansell, to James Potter, of Atlanta, 

no date; Mary Alice Newton, to Eus¬ 

tace Bishop, of Decatur, October; and 

Alice Taylor, to Ensign Robert Wil


cox, U. S. Coast Guard Squad, June 

19. 

193 8 
Jacqueline McWhite, to Joseph B. 
IJames, of Gainesville, Fla., June 8. 

but two old friends of college years, 

Frances Cary and Rachel Kennedy. 

Frances, unencumbered with social 

reports, strangely enough, was fairly 

reveling with unholy glee in a dust 

covered economics document. So chal¬ 

lenged had she been by the compelling 

statistics of Mr. Wright's course that 

she had resolved at all costs to give 

her life to the study of the psycholog¬ 

ical and statistical business cycle in¬ 

volved in the scientific manufacture 

and consequent sale of fingernail pol¬ 

ish to deaf and dumb people. Her ex-

roommate sat near her desperately out¬ 

lining a lecture on "How to Look and 

How To Be Looked At" which she-

was planning to give the ship's wall 

flowers missionary society meeting to 

be held in the stateroom of Mary 

Kneale, a pitiful little invalid who was 

going to Europe in order to regain the 

fortitude that was hers before she 

roomed with Marie Stalker. 

Equally as thrilled was I when I 

found that the book of the week on 

display was The Aurora—So What? 

published by the famous Kittv Jones 

Corporation and written by Elizabeth 

Espy, a poet who puts Millay and Rob¬ 

inson in the class with senior opera 

lyricists—a poet whose letters to her 

friend, Mary Buchholz, a rising trans¬ 

lator of such stirring phrases as "Whan 

that Aprille with his shoures sote," 

etc, will rate with those of the Keats 

and Shelley collections,—letters over 

which Mary Johnson, who invariably 

wept during the reading of tragic-

books in freshman English, will shed 

gallons of tears. 

Well, I suppose you think that the 
boat must have sunk or something, 
but I really did get to the Olympics 
after so long a time. I was not sur¬ 
prised to see that Fannie B. Harris, an 
efficiency expert of the first order, 
was managing affairs quite beautifully 
with the help of Margaret Watson, 
who in her publicity endeavors, seemed 
to spend much time calling down 
curses upon that tribe of humans 
known as photographers and her most 
efficient journalistic co-workers, Cor¬ 
nelia Christie, Enid Middleton, and 
Martha Head. 

Really, "Try-try-again," you would 
have been thrilled to the very marrow 
if you could have seen the ability, the 
skill and the spirit which the partici¬ 
pants showed in the actual games. 
Cecelia Baird was a most graceful 
sprinter, while the football of hale and 
hearty Frances Wilson and Enid Mid¬ 
dleton certainly equalled their mental 
gymnastics of college days. The game 
of hopscotch which Lena Sweet played 
was nothing short of phenomenal while 
Julia Thing's dexterity at Tiddlcdiwinks 
was breath-taking. Isabel Rich¬ 
ardson, without the slightest display 
of effort, captured all honors in the 
field of fast talking and Lucile Denni¬ 
son surpassed all her competitors in 
her loudness and longncss of laugh. 
The climax of the spectacle occurred 
when amid wild cheers from the teem


(Continued on page 5, column 3) 


THE AGONISTIC 3 
Speaker Attributes Leadership in Home, School, Church to Women 

(Con/initvil from page 1, column 5) 

whom Thou gavest to be with me, 
she gave me of the tree, and I did 
eat." 

It is true that poor Eve passed her 
responsibility to the serpent, but this 
did not excuse the ungenerous ego¬ 
tism and cowardice of Adam in at¬ 
tempting to place his own sin upon 
the Creator and the woman who had 
been given him as his helpmate. 
Strickland Gillilan has said: "Ego¬ 
tism is the anesthetic that nature 
gives to deaden the pain of being a 
fool. The most egotistical man that I 
ever heard of was the man who sent 
a telegram to his mother on his birth¬ 
day congratulating her." 

In our modern life we commonly 
recognize the home, the church, and 
the school as the most important un¬ 
its in our social order and welfare. 
By nature, temperament, and every 
other condition, woman has borne the 
major responsibilities of making, pre¬ 
serving, and enriching the home. She 
has not always been able to control 
the size of the family, the place or the 
resources which shall be available for 
homebuilding, but nevertheless she 
has gone, usually without complaint, 
about her tasks to give, to protect, 
and to foster the life of her offspring. 
But woman's responsibility has not 
been discharged alone in the home, 
the most elemental of our social in¬ 
stitutions, but in America she has 
borne and bears more and more the 
major burden of responsibility for the 
church and the school. It is a matter 
of common observation and com¬ 
ment, attested by ministers, clergy¬ 
men, and churchgoers everywhere, 
that women are the most numerous 
and constant attendants and partici¬ 
pants in church activities. 

Women Lead Education 
The dependence of the school upon 
woman is evidenced on the one hand 
by the character of our teaching per¬ 
sonnel, and on the other hand by the 
kind of cooperation which the school 
gets from the home. Of nearly a mil¬ 
lion teachers in the schools of Amer¬ 
ica, five-sixths of the elementary 
teachers and two-thirds of the secon¬ 
dary teachers are women. As a usual 
thing the mother is much more inter¬ 
ested in the progress, condition, and 
results of the children's education 
than the father. The sum total of in¬ 
formation concerning a c h i 1 d's 
schooling which the father often pos¬ 
sesses is limited to the fact that the 
child is in school. Some fathers know 
more about the education, habits, and 
character of the chauffeurs who drive 
their cars than they do about the 
teachers who teach their children. 
Some things might be said in extenua¬ 
tion of the father in that he is gener¬ 
ally absorbed in the great task of 
commercial or professional pursuits, 
whereby the sustenance of the home, 
the school, and the church is pro¬ 
vided. Not infrequently absorbed in 
the exciting and stimulating game of 
making money or pursuing the will-
o'-the-wisp of public fame and power, 
the father and the husband is indif¬ 
ferent to the claims that our funda¬ 
mental institutions legitimately have 
upon him. 
In the last years, the problems of our 
institutional life have become more 
difficult and complex. All institu¬ 
tions have been subjected to the ne¬ 
cessity of readjustment amid acute 
and changing social and economic 
conditions. Consider the home, for 
example; one of my age can recall a 
very different kind of home from 
that which is common in America 
today. In the American home of for¬ 
mer days, it was unusual when the 
family did not all sit down together 
at mealtime and the absence of one 
member was always keenly felt. In 
the evening, father, mother and chil¬ 
dren gathered about the fireside, 
where much old-fashioned dogma 
was dispensed and children were gen¬ 
erally anchored in the security of pa¬ 
rental influence. Today, it is seldom 
that a family of any size is found 
seated simultaneously either at the 
table or in the evening by the fireside. 

The glory of the great white way, 
the lights of the cafe, the lure of the 
motion picture, the speed of modern 
living, have all conspired to disrupt 
the old-fashioned American home. 

The church also has suffered in the 
changing social and economic order. 
The motion picture, in the large city 
especially, allied with the automobile, 
the golf course, and other diversions 
has conspired to undermine attend¬ 
ance upon the church and has con¬ 
verted a day, which was formerly 
quite meditative and sometimes almost 
lonesome, to one of great social activ¬ 
ity and even noise and confusion. The 
peaceful Sabbath, inherited by the 
American from his British ancestors, 
is being converted into the conti¬ 
nental European Sabbath of pleasure 
and activity. 

Schools Face Crisis 
Finally, the school finds itself fac¬ 
ing serious problems in a rapidly 
changing society, though it has not 
suffered in the same proportion as the 
home and the church. In recent dec¬ 
ades school attendance has multi¬ 
plied at a greater rate than at any 
similar period of our history and re¬ 
markable strides have been made in 
many directions. But the future of 
the school is eternally and intermit¬ 
tently threatened because of funda¬ 
mental difficulties in financing. In 
times of abundance, extravagance 
does not run to schools. In periods of 
depression and retrenchment, invari¬ 
ably the schools are the first to feel 
the pinch of economy. 
Let me suggest how American wo¬ 
men can be helpful amid such trying 
conditions. It is futile to expect that 
the old conditions will return. The 
old American home will never come 
back. The world will not stand still. 
We are faced with constantly new 
problems of adjustment. The auto¬ 
mobile and other modern inventions 
have had serious and deleterious ef¬ 
fects upon our social and moral order 
but they are here to stay until science 
and discovery supersede them with 
something still more efficient. There 
are three avenues through which wo¬ 
men may attack the manifold evils 
that now beset us: 
First, by organized effort. 
Second, by full exercise of their 
political and property rights. 
Third, in some instances, by enter¬ 
ing upon commercial, professional 
and public careers. 
Those women who happen to be 
wives or mothers need not abandon 
their primary obligations to the fam¬ 
ily or seek careers if they are to con¬ 
tinue as influential in the present sit¬ 
uation as they were in the old-fash¬ 
ioned home, but they must needs pool 
their efforts. In the readjustment 
which is taking place, it seems to me 
that we shall have to organize to 
make the community of the future 
as safe as was the home of the past. 
The world has been shrinking so fast 
in recent decades that it is now 
smaller than some of the larger na¬ 
tions were at one time, and the com¬ 
munity is relatively a smaller unit 
than was the home in the old social 
order. The formation of various wel¬ 
fare and civic organizations by wo¬ 

men, men, boys and girls can make 
the community as wholesome and safe 
as was the home in days gone by. 
Those evils and forms of vice which 
are a menace to social welfare have 
become highly organized. Witness 
the rapid rise of rackets and the wide¬ 
spread growth of crime. 

Let me illustrate by the motion 
picture. The average person gets 
nearly ninety per cent of his knowl¬ 
edge through the eye. The celluloid 
film is probably the most powerful 
agency for social education which has 
yet been devised. Had it been used to 
inculcate morals and portray only de¬ 
sirable and finer elements of life, it 
is impossible to estimate what its 
beneficient effect upon society would 
have been. It is reported that the 
weekly attendance at the motion pic¬ 
ture theatres of this country is sev¬ 
enty-five million. Of this number, 
fifteen million are children. Through 
personal contacts with leaders in the 
motion picture industry, I can say 
that it has been a definite policy of 
the producers that interesting and 
well made motion pictures shall not 
be available to schools, churches and 
clubs. It is apparent to all thoughtful 
persons that pictures which have been 
available to the public oftentimes 
have tended to break down the moral 
sanctions, undermine respect for the 
marriage tie, and exert unwholesome 
influence in many directions, not to 
speak of the actual suggestion of 
crime. There have, of course, been 
pictures which have made powerful 
appeals in behalf of the better in¬ 
stincts. Unquestionably, they have 
done much to improve an apprecia¬ 
tion of the beautiful and occasionally 
we see and hear a picture sermon as 
eloquent as ever has been delivered 
from a pulpit. Unfortunately, the 
salacious and destructive type has 
been more general. Perhaps, the re¬ 
sponsibility for this rests finally upon 
the American people and a failure to 
patronize the better things. 

Movies Show New Taste 
One of the results of the highly or¬ 
ganized nature of motion pictures is 
that all theatrical entertainment is 
now national. At a time, when the 
stage was occupied by stock compan¬ 
ies and traveling troupes, a different 
type of show was found in the large, 
congested centers and in the small 
communities. Many of the latter 
never had shows at all. Now the peo¬ 
ple living in the most remote ham¬ 
lets and wide-open spaces are fed 
upon the same entertainment pabu¬ 
lum as the densely populated areas 
along Broadway, or in the Bronx, or 
Harlem. 
Under the system of blockbooking 
and blind selling, owners of theatres 
and exhibitors have little opportunity 
to make a choice of pictures. They 
are required to contract for the pic¬ 
tures before they are made. Block-
booking and blind selling have been 
made illegal in Great Britain. Under 
the system now in vogue in the 
United States exhibitors must accept 
blocks of pictures in toto and sight 
unseen. If rejected, they are faced 
with cut-throat competition. The de¬ 
plorable situation has been consider¬ 

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE 
DECATUR, GA. 

A college for women that is widely recog¬ 
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For further information, address 

J. R. McCAIN, President 
ably improved recently by organized even in the unprogressive parts of 
effort. In many towns and communi¬ Europe and Asia. 

ties, women's organizations, particu¬ Statistics on elections reveal that a 
larly, have undertaken to pass upon very small minority of the women 
the type of pictures which are exhib¬ who have the right, ever exercise the 
ited there. Obviously, if a sufficient suffrage. In many elections, the num¬ 
number of communities taboo pic¬ ber is not over five per cent of those 
tures of a peculiarly obnoxious type, eligible. One readily appreciates the 
the time will come when pictures reticence with which some women 
which have been made to appeal to who have been sheltered from the 
elements in certain localities will not crudities and disillusionments of pub¬ 
be forced upon every community. lic life approach the ballot box and 
This is only one of many fields in other public responsibilities. The 
which organization is gradually being strongest argument for women's right 
met by organization. to vote was that it would purify the 

ballot and elevate the plane of public

Helpful Clubs Increase 

service. Under the methods now 

The neglect of schools is being ef¬ used, unless the mass of home-loving 
fectively approached through organi¬ and idealistic women overcome their 
zation. Fifteen years ago, the national repugnance to participation in public 
membership of the Parent -Teacher affairs, the comparatively small num¬ 
Association was less than one hun¬ ber of vicious and unworthy women 
dred thousand. Today, this organiza¬ will serve to pollute rather than pur¬ 
tion alone numbers considerably more ify the ballot. Ignorant and unedu¬ 
than a million and there are few lo¬ cated women are today wielding a 
calities in which it is not actively at¬ larger influence than those who have 
tempting to improve school condi¬ education and intelligence. There is 
tions. This year, the public schools no more important suggestion than 
of Florida are receiving nearly twice that women graduates overcome 
the financial support which they have whatever aversion they may have to 
previously received from the state. plunging in politics and public af¬ 
There is a deepened public interest fairs and form the habit of regularly 
and concern for the schools. Organi¬ voting in local, state and national 
zations like the American Legion, elections. 
which have actively sponsored the 

Women in All Fields 

cause of the schools have collaborated 

I have called attention to the fact

with the Parent-Teacher Association, 

that some women will exert influence

women's clubs and other organiza¬ 

by entering upon commercial, profes¬

tions in bringing about this improved 

sional and public careers. This does

situation. There is no hope for our 

not necessarily mean that home mak¬

schools that shines brighter than the 

ers will be less devoted to the quieter

increasingly effective efforts of bod¬ 

and equally important tasks in the

ies of women whose love, loyalty 

family. An increasing host of women

and devotion to childhood will not 

are entering the commercial and pro¬

permit their being sacrificed on the 

fessional pursuits. It is probable that

altar of greed and selfishness. 

a still larger percentage will become 
Woman has hardly begun to real¬ their own bread-winners in the yearsize the new power which has been that are ahead. They have now en¬ 

given to her. The dawn of the modern tered some of the most exacting and 
era found her practically without most hazardous vocations. They are 
political, professional or property not retarded by hard work or danger.

rights. Woman's suffrage, first estab¬ Whether we approve or not, they have 
lished in New Zealand and Australia, been drawn into these pursuits both 
has now spread over northern Europe, because of economic pressure and be¬ 

England and the United States. The cause no doubt of the love of inde¬ 
conquest of the ballot was accompan¬ pendence and adventure. In aviation 
ied by professional recognition and they are playing a prominent part.

vastly enlarged property rights. Wo¬ Speaking, a year ago, at the com-
men became active for new liberty 

(Continued on page 6, column 1) 

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THE AGONISTIC 

Spivey, Printup Given State Classical Group

Seniors9 Alumnae, Faculty are Guests 
Debating, Acting Cups Meets at Agnes Scott 

Awards made recently for the best 
debating and individual acting of the i 
year include the Quenelle Harrold cup ! 
given to Brooks Spivey, varsity debat-, 
er and secretary of Pi Alpha Phi, and 
the Claude S. Bennett cup to Kathryn ; 
Printup, former president of Black-1 

friars. I 

Rev. Elliott Talks 

(Continued from page 1, column 1) 

ing for the right kind of persons. 
More than young people who are 
wanting to Jo something for the 
world, it needs young people who are 
willing to be something in the world. 

Let me try to describe the kind of 
person this generation needs. To begin 
with, this generation needs persons 
who are willing to be and do more 
than society demands of them. Peo¬ 
ple who acquiesce in things as they 
are, who accept the status quo do not 
serve their generation; they only live 
in it. We need young people today 
who do not merely reflect public 
opinion, but create it; young people 
who will say with the delegates to the 
Jerusalem Conference: "We believe in 
a Christlike world. We know of noth¬ 
ing better; we can be content with 
nothing less." 

Jesus was constantly emphasizing 
the necessity for this kind of person. 
Listen to Him: "Whosoever shall 
compel thee to go one mile, go with 
him two." "When ye shall have done 
all the things that are commanded 
you, say, We are unprofitable serv¬ 
ants; we have done that which it was 
our duty to do." That is to say: re¬ 
spectability is not enough; for re¬ 
spectability is simply conformity to 
conventionalities—adopting the pre¬ 
vailing standards of goodness and 
service and never going beyond them. 

There is a story connected with the 
British landing at Gallipoli which il¬ 
lustrates what we have in mind. On 
one of the barges being used by the 
landing party were two chaplains, one 
a Wesleyan, the other a Roman Cath¬ 
olic. As the men on the barge disem¬ 
barked and were wading to the shore, 
one of them was shot down. The 
Wesleyan started to go to his assist¬ 
ance. His fellow chaplain sought to 
dissuade him, saying, "You must 
not think of it. It is sheer madness. 
You are going to certain death." 
But the Wesleyan broke away from 
the other's grasp. "I have got my or¬ 
ders," he said. "They came from a 
higher command than yours." Ah, 
that is what we need: people who 
are taking their orders from a 
"higher command" than the con¬ 
temporary conscience; who are com¬ 
pelled, not from without, but from 
within. 

The people who have really suc¬ 
ceeded in making this a better world 
have had to obey unenforceable laws. 
There was Frances Willard. She lived 
and worked in a day when a woman's 
entrance into public life met with 
sharp disapproval. She had to face 
daily the cheap and vulgar criticisms 
of low-grade politicians and the hate 
of the brewery-controlled press. But 
her marvelous courage carried her 
through all hardships and dangers, 
and she dealt the legalized liquor traf¬ 
fic a blow from which it will never 
wholly recover. Did the social con¬ 
science of her day demand that of 
Miss Willard? One thinks about 
Frances Willard in a day like this 
when many college women are drink¬ 
ing whiskey just because it happens 
to be respectable and within the law. 

And there was Jacob Riis saying, 
"I cannot sleep for the burden of the 
city's children with their hunger for 
play and their playground only the 
street, beset with danger to body and 
soul." Did Riis' public demand that 
of him? There was William Booth 

At Social Events on and off Campus 

The Georgia State Committee on 
the Present Status of Classical Educa¬ 

The members of the graduating 4:00 by the Decatur Agnes Scott Club Lillian Smith did the entertaining, tion, a branch of a National Commit¬ 
class of 1937 were the guests of the for the children of the alumnae. Other having as her dinner guests at the tea tee appointed by the Classical Associa¬ 
sophomores at a luncheon on Saturday, interesting events were the reunion house Latin majors and the one minor. tion of the Middle West and South to 
May 29, at the Druid Hills Golf Club, luncheon yesterday for the Institute, Saturday, May 29, at the tea house study the situation and suggest im¬ 
and on Monday, June 7, they returned and the classes of '15, '16, '17, and again, the English majors wined and provements in methods and curricula, 
this courtesy by entertaining their '18; and the dinner last night for the dined their ten professors. held its first meeting recently at Ag¬ 
sister class at a breakfast held at the classes of '34, '3 5, and '36. Festivities were delayed through the nes Scott College. Professor Catherine 
Atlanta Athletic Club. The seniors, Professors on the campus have en¬ next week 'till Wednesday, June 2, Torrance and Assistant Professor Narin 
the morning and early afternoon tered the social spotlight recently when the end of exams was celebrated ka Nelson are on this committee. 

on Friday, June 4, enjoyed a class pic¬ through dinners given for them by by Spanish majors at noon; history ma¬ 

not do more for the world is just that

nic at Glenwood Springs, and were seniors majoring in their departments. jors with Miss Jackson and Mr. and 
that night honored by the juniors at French majors started the procession Mrs. Davidson at the Tavern at 6:30, He does not have enough dedicated 

personalities in whom He can richly

a banquet at the East Lake Country by dinner at the Tavern Monday, May by a Latin dinner at the Candler Ho¬ 
Club. 24, for Misses Alexander, Hale, Crowe, tel, and Psychology at Peacock Alley. live and through whom He can do 

His mighty work.

One of the most interesting events and Carlson. The same place Tuesday Thursday found the wind-up of Chem¬ 

majors a sentence in the Book of

There is

of the commencement week-end was night received mathematics ists at the Tavern at noon, and Soci¬ 

Judges which, translated literally,

the children's party given on the and professors as its guests. The tables ologists and Biologists at the Frances 

Quadrangle on afternoon at were Wednesday when Miss means: "The spirit of Jehovah clothed

Friday turned Virginia in the evening. 

himself with Gideon." God always 
to read and write, and to love God. carries out his gracious purposes in 
Where on Finally, this generation needs per¬ from it than the fragrance can be sep¬ every generation through men and

the statute books of Geor¬ 

sons who possess a vital Christian arated from the flower. Our generation

gia will you find a law that requires women like ourselves. "Only through 

that of anybody? These people went faith. Our present-day secularism and needs college graduates to whom reli¬ men does he speak to men; dumb 
materialism are threatening to engulf gion is no academic affair, nor a mere

"the second mile" because the world must He be apart." 

needed what they had to give. us. There is, however, one heartening set of theological dogmas, nor a God clothed himself with Moses 
fact: multitudes of people seem to be vague emotionalism, but who can say and delivered the Israelites from 
growing of humanistic these and mean He himself

If I have strength, I owe the service tired their such words as them: Egypt. clothed with 

of the strong, philosophy. Their "mounting mood "I know Him whom I have believed." David and compacted the Hebrew 
of self-confidence" has collapsed, and "O God, thou art my God." nationality. He clothed himself with

If melody I have, I owe the world a 

song. they are discovering that they cannot I am pleading today for real faith. Paul and gave the Gospel to the Gen¬ 
go on without a stalwart faith in Spiritual uncertainty will not help tiles. God clothed himself with

If 1 can stand when all around my 
post are falling; God. our confused, baffled and "fed-up" Luther and broke the fetters of a cor¬ 
generation. There is a striking sen¬ rupt Papacy from Europe. He

If I can run with speed when needy Dr. Henry C. Link, in his book, 

tence in James Gray's ncvel, Shoul¬

hearts are calling, The Return to Religion, says that clothed himself with John Wesley

der the Sky, which all of us need to and George Whitfield and saved 18th

And if my torch can light the dark of years ago he ran across a line in one 
any night, of Ibsen's plays which has never es¬ take to heart. The story deals with century England from spiritual bank¬ 
the emotional problems of two young ruptcy. He clothed himself with

Then, I must pay the debt 1 owe with caped him. "Without a fixed point 
living light. outside myself," exclaims one of married people. They had failed to William Wilberforce and stopped the 
make a go of their marriage, and as slave trade. He clothed himself with

the characters, "I cannot exist!" Dr. 

they were parting the husband said, Mary Slessor, a little factory girl in

In the second place, this generation Link says that when he first read that 
needs persons who are morally inde¬ he thought, "What infantile non¬ "Our shared doubts have been the Aberdeen, and brought love and sal¬ 

only thing we had in common. They vation to Calabar. God clothed him¬

pendent. The average modern Ameri¬ sense!" But now after endeavoring to 

were not enough." Shared doubts are self with Elizabeth Fry and minis¬

can is a slave to the tyranny of the help hundreds of people as a practical 

never enough. We must have shared tered to the women prisoners at New¬

crowd. And one is made to feel today psychologist, he thinks it is not "in¬ 

beliefs. gate. He clothed himself with Jane

that he must do what the crowd does fantile nonsense" at all, but the most 

I am not forgetting that doubt is Addams and brought hope and cleans¬

however wrong or however stupid it needed kind of reality. 

normal for most college young people. ing to neglected Flalstead Street. Great

may be. Douglas Woodruff says that 

When Thackeray was writing Van¬ I have myself passed through that social changes come, when they do

most Americans do not mind dying, 

ity Fair he wrote in a note to his "storm and stress period" of academic come, through personalities who know

for that means joining the great ma¬ 

mother, "What I want to make is a life. There was a time in my senior God, and have felt the "mighty ordina¬

jority. Chester T. Crowell wrote an 

set of people living without God in year when my faith seemed to col¬ tion of the pierced hands." My heart's

article in 1931 in which he said, "In 

the world," and then he added these lapse. But the point I'm making is desire and prayer to God is that each

New York City if 'everyone's buying 

significant words: "only that is a that we must go beyond our doubts. of you graduates might leave these col¬

it'—whatever it happens to be, and 

cant phrase." Of course it is! Man Skepticism must not be allowed to lege halls saying,

though the price is too high and the 

is the "upward-looking creature." He become the dominant and permanent

goods worthless—then, 'you gotta.' 

"shall not live by bread alone, but by mood of the soul. Doubt must not be Almighty Lord, with one accord,

If smallpox were reported to be quite 

every word that proceedeth out of the allowed to settle down into confirmed We offer Thee our youth,

the fad of the moment, I can easily 

mouth of God." unbelief. We may come in our And pray that Thou would'st give us

imagine New Yorkers standing in 

mental and spiritual pilgrimage to the now,

long lines, each waiting for his packet 

Doubting Castle but we do not The warfare of the truth.

of germs, and saying sadly, 'You I must have God. This life's too dull 

without, need to build ourselves a home there,

gotta.' 

and go on living in it. It is time our Let fall on every college hall 

What Mr. Crowell says is happen¬ Too dull for aught but suicide. 

college trained young people had The luster of Thy cross,

ing in other realms is certainly hap¬ What's man got 

pressed home to them the fact that That love may dare Thy work to 

pening in the moral realm. To live for else? I'd murder some one 

agnosticism and cynicism are no balm share 

The world needs desperately young just 

for Gilead. Our age is sick with doubt And count all else but loss. 

people who know how to say "No" to see red blood. drink

To I'd myself now. It needs faith—radiant, con¬ 

anything and everything that is 

blind drunk quering faith! Here is the attitude Our hearts be •iled, our spirits

morally wrong or that in any way 

And see blue snakes if I could not we must all win: "Lord I believe; help schooled 

cheapens personality. If our genera¬ 

look up thou mine unbelief." Alone Thy will to seek,

tion is to have any moral stamina at 
And see blue skies bear God God has a work to do for our gen¬ And when we find Thy blessed mind,

and

all, it must have more men and 

eration and the only reason He does Instruct our lips to speak.

speaking through

women who possess an unconsenting 
conscience; who are not for sale; who The silence of the stars. 
will do right though the planets fall. 

Have you of the graduating class If, in the midst of all our brazen j 
any rock-ribbed moral convictions, paganism, there is this growing hun¬ 
and have you the courage to be true ger for God, then the person who 

Good Food

to them? Have you the nerve to be would serve effectively this generation 
different—to stand alone against the must go fortified with a first-hand ex-j 
moral drift of this age? If you have; perience of God in Christ which he can 
if you are not the easy victims of share with his fellow-men. Our day | 

IS 

every moral fad, you are prepared to needs young people who have some! 
serve this generation. great beliefs, who know how to pray,1 
and to whom God is a personal, realis-! 

If you can go to church when all tic fact. An unreal faith blown to you 
about you from your father's time will not suf¬ Good Health! 
Are going anywhere but to the house fice. It must be a faith that is person-; 
al and individual; not something bor¬

of prayer; 

rowed, but something possessed. It

If you can travel straight when others 

must be a faith so intimately your very You Can Depend

wabble 

own that you can no more be parted

And do not seem to have a righteous 
care-. On 
If you can face the surge of things 
about you Congratulations 
And keep your moral balance in life's 
whirl, DECATUR BEAUTY 

SALON 

then, you are the kind of person this 
generation needs. 

gathering up the broken human frag¬ 
ments from the slum streets of Lon¬ To My Friends at Agnes Scott Compliments of CATtTtRIA 
don What Act of Parliament ever ROM IE COOPER DECATUR TIRE AND 
asked that of William Booth? And 
there was Martha Berry getting to¬ 
gether a little group of illiterate 
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THE AGONISTIC 

Class Poem

Graduates Designate Heirs I Members of Class of '37 Say 
For Treasured Possessions SONNET History is Made at College 

(ConUntied from [nige 1, column 2) 

Stevens, do give and bequeath, provid¬ 
ed we do not decide to go on the stage, 
our ability to perform as a singing and 
dancing team to Giddy Erwin and Hibernia 
Hassell, whose progress as tap 
dancers we have noted this year. 

I, Nellie Margaret Gilroy, do give, 
bequeath, devise, and defy anyone to 
take mv aquatic agility at swimming 
the length of the pool, provided that 
at this time in the year of our Lord, 
193 8, there is no senior whose gradua¬ 
tion is threatened by inability to swim. 

I, Mary Elizabeth Morrow, having 
found five birthdays an insufficient 
and unsatisfactory number for an Ag¬ 
nes Scott senior, do give, bequeath and 
devise, the bequest to be in effect in 
the year of our Lord 1940, the date 
of February 29 to Emmy Lou Turk. 

I, Fannie B. Harris, do give, be¬ 
queath, and devise to Mary Lillian 
Fairley the presidency of Mortar 
Board and all that goes with it, in¬ 
cluding my unknown admirer, John L. 

I, Florence Little, do give, and be¬ 
queath to Mary Nell Tribble, Grace 
Duggan, and Henrietta Thompson my 
perfect feet, hoping that they will les¬ 
sen the number of crutches on the 
campus next year. 

I, Isabel McCain, do give, bequeath, 

and devise to the Spoken English de 

partment my original pronunciation 

of vital and title as "vite-al" and 

"tite-al"; I also give, bequeath, and 

devise one meeting every Monday. 

Tuesday, and Wednesday nights, and 

two on Sunday, to be apportioned 

among the junior class and the sopho¬ 

mores, should there be any of these 

meetings to spare. 

I, Mary Erneste Perry, do give, be¬ 

queath, and devise to Caroline Arm! 

stead, in the event that she partici¬ 

pates in senior opera, my bare black 

feet which created such a sensation in 

the death scene this year. 

L Mary Jane Tigert, do give, be¬ 

queath, and devise to my successor, 

Ann Worthy Johnson, V. J. Watkins, 

to be used exclusively for reference in 

procedure in Open Forum. 

I, Alice Hannah, do give, bequeath, 

and devise to my successor, Laura 

Coit, the tradition for presidents of 

student government to live in room 9, 

second floor Rebekah; I also bequeath 

and devise to said Laura Coit all the 

furniture in said room, with the hope 

that she can get in there too. I fur¬ 

ther bequeath to said Laura Coit my 

ability to stand on my heels with my 

feet crossed when leading chapel. 

I, Betty Hollis, do give, bequeath, 

and devise unto mv successor, Jean 

Barry Adams, Inman Dormitory to be 

cared for as she sees fit. I also give 

and bequeath unto Jeanne Flynt and 

Julia Telford approximately 45 0 

chapel slips to be collected at the door 

every Saturday morning. 

I, Martha Summers, do give, be¬ 

queath, and devise to Catherine Ivie 

my ability to receive red roses on or¬ 

dinary occasions. I also give, bequeath, 

and devise unto Jeanne Matthews the 

12,5 03 flies that I counted in Genetics 

this year. 

I, Kathryn Wall, do give, bequeath, 

and devise unto Primrose Noble my 

unused cuts in Latin prose; I also give, 

bequeath, and devise to next year's 

Latin prose class, provided there is 

one, my translation of Alice in Won¬ 

derland and King Edward's speech. 

I, Brooks Spivey, do give, bequeath, 

and devise to the library all my term 

papers to fill the empty shelves so de¬ 

plored by an Atlanta paper; in the 

event that there are any left over they 

may be given to the Emory Univer¬ 

sity library. I also bequeath to Jean 

Chalmers and Mary Anne Kernan my 

unused conferences in directed history. 

I, Betty Willis, being possessed of 

glowing red hair the shade of the 

Highest Prices in Town 

THREADGILL'S 

By Elizabeth Espy 
chapel seats, do give, bequeath, and Treading calmly the quiet colonnade 
devise to Ann Watkins all my blue Of cloistered years, sweet in the Muses' 

shade

dresses, hats, and shoes, they being the 

(Patterning youth's bright wonder

color Miss Osborne finds wrong for 

with their own) 
Pillared with triumph, from the stub¬ 

I, Dorothy Jester, do give, bequeath, born stone 
and devise my refreshing interest in Of failure hewn, now 'mid the gen¬ 
secrets I shouldn't know to Hortense tle hum 
Jones, feeling that, as editor of the Of eager voices, steadily we come, 
Agonistic, she will need to be conscious Pausing to look long down that col¬ 
of every rumor. umned aisle 

I, Frances Gary, do give, bequeath, Of misty memorable days, and smile. 
and devise to Carolyn Forman, pro¬ So now the dear sequestered way is 
vided she still takes Latin, my ninety done. 
footnotes for a ten-page paper; I also Its arch above our heads, here in the 
bequeath my puns to Alice Cheese-sun, 
man, with the provision that she not Shelters our unaccustomed eyes to 
overuse them; I also give, bequeath, stand 
and devise to someone, preferably an The sudden splendor of the strangeacrobat, my ability to take two classes new land 

at the same time. Whose unsure paths our ready feet 
I, Elizabeth Espy, and I, June Mat¬ must know. 
thews, do give, bequeath and devise to Serene we come, serenely let us go.
English majors all our right answers 
in nineteenth century, contemporary 

We hereby constitute and appoint

poetry, European classics, and Shakes¬ 

Nelle Chamlee the sole executrix of 

peare. 

this, our last will and testament, and

I, Annie Laura Galloway, and I, 

we expressly confer upon her power

Jessie Williams, and I, Katherine Max¬ 

to publish in the Alumnae Quarterly

well, do give, bequeath, and devise to 

news of our future activities, so that

Frances Lee, Gwendolyn McKee, and 

we may be perpetuated in the memory

Virginia Suttenfield, the tract of ter¬ 

of this our meeting place for the last

ritory between Atlanta and Decatur 

four years.

known as the Decatur carline. (Signed) 

The Senior Class,

I, Margaret Watson, do give, be¬ 

Laura Steele, Scribe.

queath, and devise unto Elizabeth 
Blackshear one wisdom tooth, guaran¬ Signed, sealed, declared and pub¬ 
teed to ache most persistently for two lished by the senior class of 1937 as 

days before every modern European its last will and testament, in the pres¬ 
history exam; I also give, bequeath, ence of us, the undersigned, who with 
and devise unto said Elizabeth Black-

no hesitation subscribe our names 
shear the comforting knowledge that hereto in the presence of said testators, 
after they had signed their names

time and patience will remove the pain. 

thereto, and at their special instance

I, Rachel Kennedy, and I, Kitty 

and request, and in the presence of

Jones, and I, Mary Gillespie, do give 
bequeath, and devise to Jane Carithers, each other. 
Ola Kelly, and Joyce Roper our suc¬ This seventh day of June, 1937. 

Misselaney

cess in getting ten inch ads from peo¬ 
ple who never advertise. E. Fuller Bull 

The Soles of I'mille and Ah-men

I, Julia Thing, knowing that she is 
afraid of this and yet wishing to leave 
with her a most vivid memory of my¬ FUTURE FORESEEN 
self do give, bequeath, and devise to (Continued from page 2, column 5)
Elizabeth Wheatley my happy uncon¬ 

ing multitude Marie Stalker finally

cern at being late everywhere; my gig¬ 

staged her ping pong tournament, the

gle, which I treasure highly, I shall 

prize for which was won by Judith

take with me wherever I may be. 

Gracey, who insisted upon her natural

I, Marie C. Stalker, do give, be¬ 

right as defended by Rousseau to use

queath, and devise to Jane Moses, 

a golf club instead of the usual paddle.

knowing that she will make the best 

Occupants of the peanut were,

of it, the "C" and all the accompany¬ 

among several thousand others, Ora

ing letters of the alphabet which go 

Muse and Vivian Long, who, from the

to make up my middle name. 

rumors found in the Decatur Molly

I, Mary Kneale, and I, Alice Tay¬ 

Jones Gazette, were enjoying a rather

lor, and I, Mary Johnson, do give, be¬ 

Bohemian existence

queath, and devise to Anne Thompson sort of while 

working jointly on the Chemistry of

the guardianship of the A. S. C. club, 

English or the English of Chemistry—

hoping that she will realize the trust 

or, maybe, it was Greek. Whatever

put in her to continue alone such a 

the nature of the outcome, the two

worthy organization. 

harbor a desire for it to be published

I, Barton Jackson, do give and be¬ 

by the meticulous hand of Mary King,

queath to Tony Newton and Frances 

she tear away

Norman my task of collecting six nap¬ provided can herself 

from her imitation appearances. Sit¬

kins from every new arrival, and my 

ting near them I noticed Kathryn

post at the door of Rebekah lobby. 

Bowen Wall, who is evidencing an

I, Frances Steele, do give and be¬ 

ability to combine marriage and a

queath unto my successor, Ruth Tate, 

career. K. Bowen is the founder and

one Gilbert and Sullivan opera to be 
presented next year. (Continued on page 6, column 4) 

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(Continued from page 1, column 4) 

untutored minds, He Came, She Saw, 
He Conquered, was no match for the 
scintillating stunt of the Sophomores. 
Undaunted, the next year we returned 
to try again and were triumphant 
against the protegees of our former 
rivals through the merits of our mas¬ 
terpiece, the riotous, rollicking, and 
rare "Revere the Soph." We demon¬ 
strated our appreciation of the aid of 
our allies, the Seniors, in our party 
battles by taking part in their Investi¬ 
ture Ceremony, and by sacrificing our 
lily white hands, our good disposi¬ 
tions, and two nights of sleep in the 
fabrication of their daisy chain. At 
the end of our third year of trials, re¬ 
ward came in the form of Mortar 
Boards to nine who had showed devo¬ 
tion to the planks of our platform. 
With our own Investiture we reached 
the position of greatest importance. 
During our supremacy the fury that 
reigned in the forum (including the 
flinging of books by the most charm¬ 
ing of people) brought many progres¬ 
sive achievements—the most notable 
of which was that through the exer¬ 
tion of all our powers we persuaded 
the faculty and administration to pass 
the cut system, a triumph that has 
been a boon to the carefree and a trial 
to the conscientious. It is with a feel¬ 
ing of regret that upon the reception 
of our diplomas we are to retire from 
the political scene of A. S. C. 

Among all the petty balancing of 
class budgets one brilliant period of 
economic activity stands out in our 
career. Our Junior Chocolate and 
rummage sales were insignificant be¬ 
side our stupendous accomplishment in 
the building campaign of our Sopho¬ 
more year in which we made the 
largest pledge of any class. The class 
of 1937 looks with maternal pride on 
many a brick in the new library. Turn¬ 
ing from brick work to bridge work 
many Agnes Scott seniors have recent¬ 
ly gone on the gold standard, assisted 
by certain local dentists. 

Our social history has been varied 
and profitable. During the day we 
knocked the ball, threw the basket, 
and conquered the waves with such 
dexterity that we have merited four 
members of the tennis club, hockey 
and basketball championships our 
freshman year, and the athletic ban¬ 
ner our Sophomore and Junior years. 
In the afternoon we have graced Alum¬ 
nae and A. A. U. W. teas, class tea 
dances, and picnics. But our real his¬ 

COTTON is 

tory has been made at night. As Soph¬ 
omores we made our debut at the Mor¬ 
tar Board parties where we were intro¬ 
duced to Atlanta's eligible young men. 
To provide for the resulting increase 
in our popularity we were granted the 
new and progressive privilege of rid¬ 
ing unchaperoned until time limit and 
of having more social engagements a 
week. The social event of the next 
year was the long awaited junior ban¬ 
quet with all its formality and excite¬ 
ment, Mortar Board again being our 
hostess. We cleverly and generously 
delegated the revived Mardi Gras to the 
succeeding class so that we enjoyed the 
event doubly because we had avoided 
the accompanying labor. We were 
thus enabled to give Founder's Day 
our undivided attention, producing a 
masterpiece of colonial atmosphere. 
Our butterfly careers have ended in a 
flurry of functions, formal and infor¬ 
mal, to which we have gaily flitted 
these past two weeks. 

We have distinguished ourselves 
along cultural lines, compensating our 
lack of quantity, numerically speak¬ 
ing, with our quality. We made a 
brilliant beginning when our Freshman 
English placement tests averaged high¬ 
est of all Georgia colleges. We were 
threatened with comprehensives, but 
that cloud passed, and we basked in 
the glory of our victory in the class 
Aggie contest. History repeated it¬ 
self when our journalistc efforts again 
directed by Laura Steele and Kathryn 
Bowen Wall brought another triumph 
our Sophomore year. In the quiet and 
beauty of the new library we were 
stimulated to further mental endeavors 
which resulted in the election of eleven 
of our members to Phi Beta Kap¬ 
pa, and the whole class attained the 
intellectual achievement of having 
taken more exams than any previous 
class—not because of our unquench¬ 
able thirst for knowledge but as a re¬ 
sult of the imposition of the new quar¬ 
ter system. Our final contribution to 
the cultural development of this col¬ 
lege was the sweet and solemn opera 
La Tragic Ardor, which gave a melo¬ 
dic representation of the model life of 
a maid and a man in a pastoral scene 
where lambs gamboled amid the daisies 
and charm-lady carrots. 

Time marches on and since present 
conditions are chaotic and future de¬ 
velopments uncertain we leave their in¬ 
terpretation and documentation to fu¬ 
ture volumes (and volumes in the 
best traditions of Brooks Spivey) which 
we hope to contribute to the archives 
of history. 

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THE AGONISTIC 

Noted Educator Emphasizes Miss M. Phythian Famous Aquatic Star Meets 
W9 t ri • wr 11 Wins Fellowship

r

omens Intmence 111 World Sister-Graduates on Voyage 

(Continued from page 3, column 5) : 

mencement of the Florida State Col¬ 
lege for Women, I mentioned the ' 
possibility that women might be 
found in the trenches in future wars. 
Since that utterance, this possibility 
has been realized and women are now I 
in the trenches in Spain. ; 

More education and higher stand¬ ;
ards are constantly being demanded 

i

for success in the professions. In the 
business world, the college graduate 

! 

was once regarded with contempt. 

;

This situation has changed. Business 

j

and professional success are now gen¬ 

|

erally built upon training and educa¬ 
tion. Reliable statistics indicate that 
the college graduate has a thousand 
chances to succeed where the unedu¬ 
cated has but one. Under these con¬ 
ditions it is fortunate that women 
now have opportunities which are 
practically on a parity with men. In 
spite of certain prejudices and dis¬ 
criminations that exist, educational 
facilities for women have developed 
in a most extraordinary way. College 
education in America was first offered 
to women about a hundred years ago. 
All state universities excluded them 
until Michigan admitted them in 
1870. Mclver, in North Carolina, 
established a separate state institution 
for women which was comparable to 
the better institutions for men. Edu¬ 
cational opportunities for. women on 
the higher level have developed so 
rapidly through coeducation and the 
establishment of institutions designed 
exclusively for women that there are 
now more higher institutions open to 
women than to men and the numbers 
of men and women enrolled in our 
colleges and universities are approxi¬ 
mately the same. It would be super¬ 
fluous to offer statistics and argu¬ 
ments to show the rapidly enlarging 
fields into which college prepared wo¬ 
men are going. The proportion of 
women attending college, listed in 
Who's Who In America, has been rap¬ 
idly increasing and we find college 
trained women attaining prominence 
in considerably larger numbers than 
those who have been denied this op¬ 
portunity. A study published in The 
Scientific Monthly indicates that col¬ 
lege education is much more impor¬ 
tant for the success of women in cer¬ 
tain vocations than in others. For 
example, larger numbers of women 
succeed as artists, actresses, and musi¬ 
cians without college training than in 
most other callings. The author of 
the study concludes that education is 
constantly increasing in its impor¬ 
tance for the success of women and 
states "that women of the future will 
find it more and more difficult to 
compete for a place among the emi¬ 
nently successful without a thorough 
college training as a background for 
their work." 

This is not a time to be dismayed 
bv the enormity of the difficulties 
and the complexities of the problems 
that confront us. It is undeniable 
that millions of persons in this coun¬ 
try are without employment and 
other millions arc on relief rolls. Col¬ 
lege graduates arc numbered among 
both. A careful estimate of the situa¬ 
tion and the study of economic cycles 
would indicate that we are on the eve 

Compliments 

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Peachtree & Fllis Sts.. Atlanta, Ga. 

Miss Margaret Phythian, assistant j 

fContinued from page 5, column 3) effects of such a purge upon posterity.

of great economic activity which will 

•professor of French at Agnes Scott | 
Speaking of posterity, the most

possiblv transcend the high mark of 

i College, has been awarded a fellowship i 

present president of the Association for 

heartening sight that I beheld while in

the last decade. Bank deposits have ! by the General Education Board and 

the Extinction of the Latin Language,

increased many billions of dollars in ! an extension of her leave of absence to this far country other than the fish 

a co-worker with Rachel Shamos, who

continue work on a Ph.D. degree at net with which they finally dragged

the last year or two. During one 
the University of Grenoble at Tou¬ is figuring out mathematically and me out( but of course, that is another

month recently automobile produc¬ 

louse, France. chemically a la test tube fashion the 

story—a rather gruesome one in fact)

tion reached a new all-time high level. 
was the presence of a portion of the

The output of steel has increased 

| that the Twentieth Century would than one-fifth had finished grammar 

more fortunate 67' c—of Martha

from about 15% during the depres-| provide the real test of our experi-school; about one in twenty-three had 

Summers with her brood of potential

sion to as high as 75% capacity i ment in government, when the cheap finished high school; and only one 

architects and life presidents, of Ann

within the last year. We can all see | lands were gone and the social and ec-out of a hundred had graduated from 
the awakening that is taking place in ! onomic pressure increased in intensity. college. The crime bill of this coun¬ Cox, who reads Darwin's Origin of the 
the building trades. All signs point ! He ended with a pessimistic predic¬ try is still about five times the cost Species to her five-year-old and who 
to a new era of industrial and eco-tion: "America, like Rome, will be of schools. Further, we are told that is encouraging her four-year-old to 
nomic prosperity. destroyed by vandals, but the vandals, the legitimate expenses for crime, 

draw Protozoa instead of the usual 

The gravity of our social and poli¬ will not come from without, they such as courts, police, prisons, et 

Baby Ray pictures, upon which Moth¬

tical situation is a challenge to ability will come from within, bred from cetera, are supplemented by an enor¬ 

er Bettv Hollis stubbornly insists, and

and a special opportunity for those your own institutions." mous illegal levy made upon us by 
last of June Matthews, who not only

who are willing and able. It is true It is true that criminal activities in racketeers and other elements which 
that we have suffered disillusionment this country have reached a propor¬ amounts to 25% of our living costs. is the proud producer of a stirring 
and ideals of democratic government, tion beyond all other civilized nations Yes, we have grave problems which novel but the equally proud possessor 
peace, and law are being shattered or and that local agencies have displayed give pause to thoughtful and patri¬ of a house in Charlotte with a fence 

violently tested. Fascism and Com¬ a strange incompetency in meeting otic Americans but we have faith and other little things running around 

munism, twins in tyranny, very the situation, but all law-abiding citi¬ that the dauntless spirit of our people it. 
largely overspread Europe. Unques¬ zens will take great courage from re¬ can and will meet these obstacles. Well, "Try-and-try again," I sup¬
tionably, heroic battles will have to be cent occurrences. The success of the Great opportunities and able leader¬ pose that I have pretty well exhausted 

fought at these points on American Federal Government in rounding up ship develop in critical times. The ob¬ you with this prattle but I would like 
soil. Lord Macaulay prophetically conspicuous public enemies and prac¬ stacles which faced the founders of to, in true Aesopian fashion point a 
described present conditions in a let¬ tically making a clean-sweep of the the Republic were greater than those moral — my sweet, prosperity has 
ter which he wrote to a friend in kidnapers lends hope that such rack¬ that confront us today. Imagine the turned that elusive corner. In my en¬ 
New York nearly a hundred years ets as kidnaping can be destroyed. prostration of the Southland follow¬ tire travels, I did not meet a single 
ago. He described Communism and It is interesting to note that the war¬ ing the War between the States. In-school teacher. 
other forms of dictatorship that have den of Sing Sing Prison recently comparably, our possibilities are Having reached a dramatic climax, 
arisen. He gave an accurate picture stated that about half the criminals greater than ever and conditions are I now maintain a longed for silence. 
of the domestic difficulties now con¬ who have been confined there left better today than they were in some Love, 
fronting this country. He predicted school before the sixth grade. Less other critical eras. N. M. 

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The Agonextra 

L. Coit Welcomes 
Freshman Class 

For Government 

Hello, there. Freshmen, and other new 
students! 

Student Government wants to wel¬ 
come each one of you new students 
to our campus. We are as thrilled over 
meeting you and getting to know you 
as we hope you are over being here. 
We've thought about you before you 
ever reached the grounds and won¬ 
dered what you would be like. Now 
we are looking forward to finding 
out. We want you to look us over 
too, and feel that we are really your 
friends, ready and anxious to help you 
and know you. 

We are interested in you both as a 
group—our freshman, and also as in¬ 
dividuals with potentialities to enrich 
the life on the campus, as well as your 
own personalities. Our life here is 
four-fold: spiritual, mental, physical, 
and social. We each want to grow in 
all four ways, to be worthy of our 
name, an "Agnes Scotter." 

In case you hadn't realized it, you'll 
soon be a member of Student Govern¬ 
ment Association yourself, with a 
right to express your own ideas and 
thoughts. We want you to feel that 
you are a part of Student Government 
and discover our purpose, ideals, and 
work. We are here not to guard and 
punish, but to understand and help 
you. 

We are sincerely happy that you 
are here with us. 
Laura Coit, 
President of Student Government 
Association. 

Alumnae Greet 

Class of 1941 

The Agnes Scott Alumnae Associa¬ 
tion extends heartiest greetings to the 
new students who are entering Agnes 
Scott. We trust that this will be a 
most delightful and successful year in 
your college life; we, as alumnae, are 
ready to do all in our power to make 
it so. The Alumnae House, its guest 
rooms, the tea room, the garden, are 
all at your disposal. The alumnae on 
the campus are your friends, and are 
eager to convince you that there's no 
better life to be lived than that of a 
college girl, until you get around to 
the alumna stage! Luck to you! 

Day Students Receive 

President's Welcome 

Dearest Hottentots: 
If you've managed to recover from 
Monday's hectic sessions—and I'm sure 
(?) you have by this time—won't you 
stop for just one more moment while 
we send you greetings from all our 
day students? We are glad to have 
every one of you here. 
Do remember that we shall be glad 
to do anything in the world we can 
to help you; don't fail to call on us. 
Zoe Wells, 
President Day Students. 

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1937., 3 $ 

For Freshmen Only 

The Spirit Walks 
A Dormitory Drama in One Act 

The setting is in Freshmen Hall. 
The time is midnight drear. 
The character is Freda Frosh, 
Homesick and filled with fear. 

Freda (trembling): 
I'm lying in this strange new bed, 
Upset by all I've seen. 
I'm scared of learned pedagogues, 
I know they must be mean. 
I'm scared of rules I must obey 
And all sophomore demands. 
I'm scared of teas where I must 

shake 
That endless row of hands. 
I'm frightened silly at the thought 
Of handbook tests and such. 
I wish that I were safe at home, 
I don't like college much. 

(Enter slowly and vaguely spirit of 
Agnes Scott.) 

Freda (continuing soliloquy — still 
trembling): 
What is this strange phenomenon, 
This ghost within my room? 
I can't seem to distinguish it 
From all the dark and gloom. 

Spirit of Agnes Scott: 
I heard your moans and mumbling 
And I have come to say 
That every Freshman feels like this 
On registration day. 

It's just the newness of it all 
That makes you feel afraid. 
When you have been here several 

days 
Your fears will be allayed. 
You'll love the learned pedagogues; 
They're human just as you. 
And don't be scared of Sophomores, 
Next year you'll be one too. 
Don't let these rules and handbook 

tests 
Cause you to groan and gasp. 
And please remember rows of hands 
May hold a friendly grasp. 

Freda (not trembling any more): 
I wish you'd tell me who you are, 
I cannot see your face; 
But since you've come this college 

seems 
To be a different place. 

Spirit of Agnes Scott: 
I have no hands, nor feet nor face. 
Spirit's all I've got. 
I'll haunt you always with the 

phrase, 

"WELCOME TO AGNES SCOTT!" 
The curtain falls with sombre flop. 
This stirring act is through. 
But give us one more bow to say 
We're glad that you're here too. 

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow 

Wednesday, September 22: 

10:00 A. M.—Opening exercises in 
the Chapel. 
11:00 A. M.—All Freshmen meet in 
Chapel. President McCain's talk. 
Moving pictures shown by Miss 
Wilburn and Miss Palmour. 
8:00 P. M.—Musicale—Chapel. 
Thursday, September 23: 
8:00 A. M.—Classes begin. 
10:00 A. M.—Chapel. 
4:30-6:00 P. M.—Y. W. C. A. tea 
—Alumnae Garden—Formal. 

6:45 P. M.—Vespers in the Chapel. 
7:00 P. M.—Dancing in the Gym. 
Friday, September 24: 
8:00 A. M.—Classes. 
10:00 A. M.—Chapel. 
6:45 P. M.—Vespers in the Chapel. 
10:00 P. M.—Floor party in Inman. 
Saturday, September 25: 
8:00 A. M.—Classes. 
10:00 A. M.—Chapel. 
8:30 P. M.—Reception in Murphey 
Candler Building. 
Sunday, September 26: 

9:30 A. M.—President McCain's 
Bible Class for Freshmen. 
10:00 A. M.—Church. 
3:00 P. M.—Tour of Atlanta. 
6:00 P. M.—Vespers in the Chapel. 
7:00 P. M.—Djscussion of Stunt, 
Inman Lobby. 
Monday, September 27: 

4:00 P. M.—Handbook classes for 
Day Students-"-Murphey Candler 
Building. 
5:00 P. M.—Day Student discussion 
of Stunt. 
6:45 P. M.—Vespers in the Chapel. 
9:30 P. M.—Handbook classes for 
boarders in dormitories. 
Tuesday, September 28: 

4:00 P. M.—Handbook classes for 
Day Students—Murphey Candler 
Building. 
4:30 P. M.—Alumnae tea for new 
students. 
9:30 P. M.—Handbook classes for 
boarders in dormitories. 
Local Ministers Inaugurate 
Agnes Scott 1937-,38 Term 

The opening exercises of the 49th 
session of Agnes Scott took place in 
Gaines Chapel this morning, Septem¬ 
ber 22. President J. M. Richards, of 
Columbia Theological Seminary, de¬ 
livered an address, and Chairman J. K. 
Orr, of the Board of Trustees, wel¬ 
comed the students. Miss Daisy Fran¬ 
ces Smith, President of the Alumnae 
Association, gave the welcome address 
to the new students from the former 
students of the college. 

Ministers from the Decatur church¬ 
es who took part on the program 
were: Dr. Folding, of the Christian 
Church, who read the scripture; Dr. 
Moncrief, of the Baptist Church, who 
led in prayer; and Dr. McKibben, of 
the Methodist Church, who gave a 
welcome address to the college com¬ 
munity. The glee club concluded the 
program with several musical selec¬ 
tions. 

Y.W.C.A Cabinet' 
Explains Purpose 

Of Organization 

A sincerest welcome to the new stu¬ 
dents! 

Many times during the harumscarum 
rush of these first few days 
many of you will wish for the magic 
gift of the wishing ring. You could 
wish yourself straight through Mr. 
Tart's office and down the line in no 
time at all! And you could wish your 
room into perfect order with all the 
trunks in, the curtains up, the rugs 
down and the trash out! But there is 
no wishing ring. 

And yet—for this your first year at 
Agnes Scott, we would make for your 
three wishes, because many a wish— 
though called a wish—is more than a 
wish! 

The first is for Personality—that in 
living from day to day with other 
girls, strong and ambitious, as you 
are, you will unconsciously grow into 
a richer character, with a finer per¬ 
ception, and a more sincere under¬ 
standing. 

The second is for Purpose. "With¬ 
out a fixed point outside myself I can¬ 
not live." And so, this wish is that 
you may search and discover in Living 
one integrating end toward which all 
your effort knowingly or unknowing¬ 
ly, is bent. 

And last of all, having discovered 
yourself, your Personality and the one 
great Purpose to become the standard 
of decision and action, there is the 
wish that you will find the Power. 
And Power comes from only one 
Source—an invincible faith in Christ 
as Savior and Master of all that you 
are! 

So there are our wishes for you— 
ideals—yes! But what is life without 
them? 

The Cabinet. 
Young Women's Christian Association. 

A. A. Foretells 
Fun for Frosh 

Dearest Freshies: 

This is a wide open letter to tell 
you that A. A. would like to hug each 
one of you individually, to say "How¬ 
dy!" and "we're awfully glad you 
came!" But we'd have a little trouble 
doing that, so we're just sending this 
note to the Agonistic, hoping the kind 
editors will help us greet you. 

Last year, like all other years at Ag¬ 
nes Scott, was so much fun that we've 
about decided it's impossible to do any¬ 
thing but enjoy a year here. All the 
girls of A. A. (and you are a member 
too, don't forget) are putting heads 
together and planning lots of good 
times. Hikes, outdoor suppers, swim¬ 
ming, hockey, and basketball just be¬ 
gin to hint at the happy days we'll 
have. And that ping-pong table we 
acquired last year isn't losing any of 
its popularity. 

They are all yours, so come on out 

and play with us. 

Sincerely, 

Jean Chalmers, 

President of Athletic Association. 


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VOL. XXIII AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1937 NO. 1 

Phi Beta Kappa Delegates Class Hopes Rise Editors, Business Managers 
Elect Dr. McCain to Senate As Annual Battle To Go to Press Convention 
Over Cat Begins 

Jones, Blackshear, Watson, 
Roper Plan To Go To 

Mr. Davidson Also Honored; 

September Council is Freshmen Keep Plans Secret; Nine Proves Lucky

Honor Fraternity Chicago Meet

in Atlanta 

Sophomores Work For 

For Three Classes

Gives Invitation "Poor Seniors" 

45 States Are Represented Study Course to be Given

In Winning Honors

To Mortar Board Behind guarded doors freshmen 
Dr. J. R. McCain, president of and sophomore committees work Virginia Watson, editor, and 
Agnes Scott College, was elected on the stunt which each class Nine is a lucky number for Joyce Roper, business manager, of

Mortar Board, Mary Lillian

senator of the Phi Beta Kappa hopes will bring home the Black the three upper classes; and the Silhouette, and Hortense Jones,

Fairly, president of the local

Senate, and Professor Philip David¬ Cat. The excitement caused by the these same classes have proved editor, and Elizabeth Blackshear,

chapter announced recently, has 

son, head of the history depart¬ approach of the contest on Satur¬ their spirit of cooperation by business manager, of the Agonistic,

been invited to join the National

ment, was elected member of the day, Oct. 16, is shown in a series sharing equally the glories of will represent Agnes Scott at the

Association of Collegiate Honor

nominating committee, at the an¬ of rival pep meetings which has the Honor Roll. Dr. McCain sixteenth national convention of

Societies. Mortar Board is the

nual meeting of the Phi Beta roused the campus lately. announced that for the first the Associated Collegiate Press,

first women's society to be so

Kappa Council in Atlanta in Sep¬ time in the history of the school which will be held in Chicago

honored. With its sixty-seven In spite of the tradition of 

tember. The Senate is the execu¬ the same number of girls in each October 14 to 16.

college chapters, Mortar Board sophomore victory, Chairman Hen¬ 

tive and legislative body of Phi class attained distinction.

is one of the largest of the sen¬ rietta Thompson, while admitting With a program headlined by

Beta Kappa; it makes the rules un¬ Henry Goddard Leach, eminent

ior women's honor societies. "hopes," refuses to make predic¬
der which memberships are tions. Interviewed recently, she editor of The Forum magazine,
granted, and recommendations as 

made this statement, "We are real¬ and Howard Vincent O'Brien,

Honor List is

to which institutions shall have news-making editorial columnist

ly working hard to give the seniors 

charters. At the present time 124 Two Alumnae victory for a for the Chicago Daily News, dele¬

a graduation present, 

Read Friday by

colleges and universities have Phi because they didn't win that Black gates will attend a real short course 
Beta Kappa Chapters. Senators From College in newspaper, magazine and year¬

Cat, and last year—-well! Inciden¬ Dr. J. R. McCain 

are elected for a term of six years, tally, we want to win for our¬ book business and editorial man¬ 
and there are 24 members of the Attend Forum 

selves." agement. 

senate. The nominating commit¬ Twenty-seven students received

Patty Patterson, chairman of Some of the famed journalists to 

tee, to which Mr. Davidson was academic recognition when Dr. J. 

Agnes Scott College was among the freshman stunt, revealed her appear on the program include

recently elected, is composed of 9 R. McCain announced the honor 

the more than 150 leading Ameri¬ greater confidence or slighter ex¬ Curtis MacDougall, editor of the

people. For the second time in its roll for the 193 6-37 session Friday

can schools, colleges and universi¬ perience by declaring that her class National Almanac and Yearbook;

history the Phi Beta Kappa Coun¬ morning: Class of 1938: Elsie 

ties represented at the New York means to "win the Black Cat and George Brandenburg, Editor and

cil met in the South, and there Blackstone, 308 Bryan Avenue,

Herald Tribune's Seventh Annual make merits the first quarter, as Publisher staff writer; John E. 

were representatives from all but East Point, Ga.; Jean Chalmers,

Forum on Current Problems, to be last year's freshmen did not do." Drewry, director of the University

three states in the Union. Dele 839 Penn Avenue, N. E., Atlanta,

held October 4 and 5 at the Wal¬ She added that half the class is of Georgia School of Journalism;

gates were sent from each institu¬ Ga.; Mildred Davis, 448 E. Gore

dorf-Astoria Hotel in New York composed of high school valedic¬ Kenneth E. Olson, director of the

tion having a chapter of Phi Beta Avenue, Orlando, Florida; Hor-

City. torians, annual editors, and student Northwestern University School of

Kappa. tense Jones, 47 Anderson Avenue, 

Journalism; O. Fred Wittner, New

Delegates, appointed at the re¬ government representatives for Atlanta, Ga.; Mary Anne Kernan,

whom winning the contest should York publicist; James N. Krohne,

quest of Mrs. William Brown Me-1172 Briarcliff Place, Atlanta, Ga.;

offer few difficulties, especially Chicago advertising writer; G. D.

loney, forum chairman and editor Eliza King, 1813 High Street, Co¬ 

as with the backing of their twice Grain, publisher of AdvertisiftS

Front Row of "This Week," were follows: lumbia, S. C.; Elise Seay, 370 Col¬

victorious sister class. Age; Frant Olsen, advertising

Alumnae, Mrs. James Edward lege Street, Macon, Ga.; Anne 

Mount and Miss Pauline Gordon, Finally, Patty disclosed that she manager of the Sheaffer Pen Com¬

Thompson, 3410 Chamberlayne

and Henrietta good friends pany; Harry C. Baldwin, of Na¬

BROTHERHOOD OF NATIONS? both of New York City. are re¬ Avenue, Richmond, Va.; Louise

gardless of the rivalry concerning tional Advertising Service, and

With a Spain that has not quite "The Second Discovery of Young, Soochow, Ku, China.

which they temporarily united to many others.

succeeded in exterminating itself, a America" is the general theme of Class of 1939: Emily Harris,

say, "May the best man—or stunt Delegates to the convention will

Japan and China that have not this year's forum. Of particular 1432 Beecher Street, S. W., Atlan¬ 

be entertained by Dusty Miller,

quite succeeded in exterminating interest to students was the first ta, Ga.; Cora Kay Hutchens, 142 8 

famed Indiana publisher, and the

each other, an accusing Russia, a and third sessions, on the morning Donnelly Avenue, S. W., Atlanta,

Four New Workers music of A1 Diem.

glum England, a silent United and evening of October 4, which Ga.; Marie Merritt, Clarksdale, 

States, and a Germany and Italy was devoted to problems of youth Join Agonistic Staff Miss.; Mary Ruth Murphy, 102 

that smile at each ither much too under the sub-topics, "A Genera¬ Watt Street, Hot Springs, Ark.; School Elects

tion Finding Itself" and "Youth's

ostentatiously, the world today Lou Pate, Newbern, Tenn.; Mamie

Skinner, Kenney, McNeil and

seems to offer but slim hope to the Explorations." Lee Ratliff, Sherard, Miss.; Sarah "R e p'' Groups

Baty Are To Fill Vacan¬

promoters of world peace. The second session on the after¬ Thurman, 944 Euclid Avenue, N.

cies Left On Staff

INTERNATIONAL LAWLESS¬ noon of the first day was given to E., Atlanta, Ga.; Virginia Tumlin, To New House 
NESS a discussion of "The Status of a Alabama Street, Cave Spring, Ga.;

Four people have been appointed

As to which particular match Free Press in the World Today." Mary Ellen Whetsell, 1327 Rich-

to the staff of the Agonistic to fill

will set off the conflagration that The October 5 program presented land Street, Columbia, S. C. The Student Government in¬

the vacancies left by staff mem¬ 

stalled Wednesday at chapel a

will constitute the next world war, an afternoon session on "Some pro¬ new 

bers who did not return to school Class of 1940: Evelyn Baty,

Agnes Scott students have diverse posed Changes in Government" method of governing the students 

this year. The new appointments 1229 N. 26th Street, Birmingham,

opinions. Mary Lillian Fairly, vet¬ who board. Formerly proctors,

and an evening session, the fifth are Elizabeth Skinner, make-up Ala.; Polly Heaslett, 1403 Suther¬ elected popular

by nomination,

eran of many debates, finds that and closing one, on "The State of 

editor; Elizabeth Kenney, assistant land Place, Birmingham, Ala.; Em¬

the greatest threat to peace lies in War Throughout the World." maintained order in the dormi¬ 

make-up editor; Mary Wells Mc¬ ma Louise Hughston, 300 S. Church

the disregarding of international tories. Now the members of the

Authorities of national and in¬ Neil, assistant feature editor; and Street, Spartanburg, S. C.; Eva

law, as evidenced by the submarine Lower House, elected by commit¬

ternational importance at each Evelyn Baty, club editor. Ann Pirkle, 26 Rogers Street, At¬

warfare in the Mediterranean. tee nomination and popular vote,

session addressed audiences of 3,000 At the student meeting Satur¬ lanta, Ga.; Mary Cox Reins, 223

Along this same line, Carol Hale, will replace the proctors, and will

to 3,500 persons, representatives W. Cambridge Street, College

perpetrator of Aurora, thinks that day, October 2, Esthere Ogden was be called representatives or "reps"

of the country's organized women elected the assistant business man¬ Park, Ga.; Jane Salters, 317 S.

the greatest war threat arises from for short. Eleven "reps" have been

and youth. 

ager of the Agonistic. {Continued on page 5, col. 4)

the refusal of the world's leading selected from Rebekah Scott and 
nations to uphold the League of Main dormitories, and White 
Nations. She states that by disre¬ House. Representatives from Rebe¬

Agnes Scott Book-Collectors are Invited to

garding the League Covenant and kah are: Samile Saye, Eunice Knox, 
the court decisions, the world pow¬ Mary Wells McNeil, Kitty Cald-

Compete for 1937*38 DuBury Book Award 

ers have rendered ineffective the well, Florence Wade and Mary 
most promising agent for peace. Penel Simonton.

All Agnes Scott students inter¬ quality of the books and by the prompted to start the contest be¬

FASCIST YOUTH SPEAKS "Reps" from Inman will be

ested in book collecting are eligible owner's understanding of their cause of an incident which occur¬

Ann Worthy (Open Forum) elected as soon as the freshmen be¬

to compete for the Du Bury book contents. red in Philadelphia. A professor of

Johnson relates an encounter with come better acquainted with each

award of twenty-five dollars for 3. No collection of fewer than Bryn Mawr asked permission of 

a young Italian who was extolling other.

fifteen books will be considered. Mr. Edward Newton, a book col¬

the best collection of books made

the glories of war. It gave, he 

between May 15, 1937, and May 4. There are no restrictions as lector of that city, to show his The members will meet quarter¬

claimed, a barren Italy her only 

1 5, 1938. The regulations of the to type of books which may be col¬ books to some of his students. Mr. ly with Ann Worthy Johnson,

hope for natural resources. Further¬ 

award are: lected. The collector is urged to Newton reluctantly consented and chairman of the Lower House. The 

more, it offered golden opportuni¬ 

1. Books acquired as gifts may follow her own interests in one or was so impressed by the interest house presidents are chairmen of 
ties to youth, and it was a glorious 

be included in the collection. It various fields. and intelligence of the girls in the the committees in their respective

calling. 

5. It is expected that the win¬ books that he offered an annual dormitories and will call meetings
HUMAN NATURE will be assumed that all books en¬ 

tered, whether acquired by pur¬ ner will use the award for intel¬ prize of fifty dollars for the best at their discretion.

One Agnes Scotter finds that 

chase or by gift, represent the lectual enrichment: for purchasing collection. The "rep's" duty is to try to cor¬

the greatest threat to world peace 

books, music, pictures; for attend¬ The award at Agnes Scott takes rect problems in the dormitories

taste of the owners.

lies in humanity. Jean (Come-to


2. The award will be made to ing musical and dramatic perform¬ its name from Richard Du Bury, and to maintain order. She must
the-A-A-rally) Chalmers thinks 

the book-owner who, in the opin¬ ances or lectures; or in some like one of the first known book col¬ present not only her ideas but those

that each nation's desire for supre¬ 

ion of the judges, has shown the way. lectors. The first year Miss Virginia of other students. In this way stu¬

macy as opposed to equality might 

most discrimination in the selection Miss Louise McKinney, Professor Prettyman, now a teacher in the dent government can learn the

precipitate war. She claims that it 

Emeritus of the English Depart¬ English Department, won the opinions and ideas of the entire

is just individual, aggressive selfish¬ of her books. Each collection will 

ness carried to the mass degree. be judged by the number and the ment of Agnes Scott College, was award. boarding faction. 

65961 


THE AGONISTIC 

®l)e Agonistic 

PUBLISHED WEEKLY 

Owned and published by the students of Agnes Scott 
College. 

Entered as Second Class Matter at Decatur, Georgia. 

Subscription price, $1.25 per year in advance. 
Single copies, 5c. 

1937 Member 1938 

PUsocided GoUe&ote Press 

STAFF 
Hortense Jones Elizabeth Blackshear 
Editor Business Manager 
Jane Guthrie Esthere OgdenMary McCann Hudson Advertising ManagerAssociate Editors 

Frances Castleberry

Mary Frances Guthrie 

Vera Marsh

Marie Merritt 

Jeanne Redwine

Assistant Editors 

Alice Reins

Elizabeth Skinner 

Circulation Managers

Make-uj) Editor 

Alice Cheeseman

Elizabeth Kenney 

Sports Editor

Asst. Make-up Editor 

Mary Reins

Giddy Erwin 

Exchange Editor

Feature Editor 
Mary Wells McNeil Jeannette Carroll 
Asst. Feature Editor Alumnae Editor 
Mary Anne Kernan Louise Hughston 
Current History News Editor 
Elizabeth Warden Evelyn Baty 
Book Editor Club Editor 

REPORTERS: N. Allison, E. Baty, M. Chafin, 

M. L. Dobbs, G. Duggan, M. L. Gill, N. Hemp-
hill, L. Houghston, E. Hutchens, C. K.. Hutchins, 
R. Hurwitz, F. Lee, E. McCall, P. Noble, 
M. L. Ratliffe, A. Reins, H. Solomon, S. Steinbach, 
V. J. Watkins, L. Young, D. Weinkle. 
BUSINESS ASSISTANTS: J. Dryfoos, J. Flynt. 

Agonistic Launches 

Dis-organize Drive 

Agonistic, in its original meaning, is an ad¬ 
jective applied to one who wrestles. We deem 
it, therefore, not inappropriate that we set 
ourselves to struggle mightily with a prob¬ 
lem which has long knotted many an acad¬ 
emic brow. We refer to the over-organiza¬ 
tion which is prevalent, we believe, not only 
at Agnes Scott, but at other cplleges through¬ 
out the country. 

If organization was the genius of Rome, it 
is the disease of America. It has become a 
national habit to "start a little club" for any 
and all purposes. There were at Agnes Scott 
last year: twenty-three clubs, four publica¬ 
tions, five associations and three honor so¬ 
cieties. These include: two clubs devoted to 
creative writing, three language clubs, four 
clubs for sports, four current events clubs, 
and a journalistic club and a (presumably) 
journalistic newspaper, which are in no way 
connected. 

We would be the last to deny the benefits 
of these organizations; indeed, we think they 
add much to the cultural and social life of 
our campus. But we believe that they are 
complements and not purposes of college. We 
are s'till so unenlightened that we think edu¬ 
cational institutions exist for the pursuit of 
learning. But we have heaped our lives in a 
kaleidoscopic structure of committees, coun¬ 
cils, boards, and meetings, that Miss Leyburn 
once termed "a clutter of activities which we 
are pleased to call our service to the college"; 
and scholarship has become a thing that 
lucky girls get to pay their tuition. 

Headlines Of the Past 

Three years ago this week Agnes Scott had 
a booth at the Fair, the freshmen and sopho¬ 
mores elected stunt chairmen Frosty Brown 
and Barbara Hertwig, and Lecture Associa¬ 
tion announced the coming of Edna Millay to 
Agnes Scott. 

Two years ago this week Agnes Scott had 
a booth at the Fair, stunt chairmen Ann 
Worthy Johnson and Anna Margaret Reipma 
were elected, and building improvements re¬ 
sulting from the Greater Agnes Scott cam¬ 
paign were begun. 

One year ago this week Agnes Scott had a 
booth at the Fair, stunt chairmen Jane Dry¬ 
foos and Marjorie Boggs were elected, and 
Dr. G. H. Buttrick, Mrs. Grace Overton, and 
Dr. W. T. Thompson spoke at Agnes Scott as 
representatives of the National Preaching 
Mission. 

Freshmen Find 
Alumnations 

Timely Hints 

In Press While the present Agnes Scotters 
are settling down to their new 
To the come study routines and at the same time

freshmen these 

becoming feverish over the antici¬

timely hints from the first issues 

pated stunt night and Investiture,

of various college newspapers: 

the members of the 1937 class are

From the Florida Flambeau of 

progressing rapidly in various

Tallahassee: "The hardest thing for 

ways.

the average freshman to realize is 
that college professors do not stand Most of the girls are still pur¬ 
over the lazy or indifferent stu¬ suing the way of learning. Eloisa 
dents with clubs to keep them go¬ Alexander is way up at New York 

ing. The matter is entirely up to University; Margaret Hansell spent 
the individual—whether he makes the summer abroad studying at the 
or breaks. Don't hold the delusion University of Grenoble and is now 
you can bluff with little or no teaching English in the high school 
work . . . Take pride in your col¬ at Lawrenceville, Ga. Mary Malege 
and your college will take lone is going domestic by attend¬ 
pride in you." ing the cooking school at Exten¬ 

The Salemite advises: "Don't sion School of the University of 
follow the crowd too closely or Georgia system. 
sooner or later you'll be lost in it." Isabel McCain is still an indus¬ 
And the Colonnade of G. S. C. W. trious, determined young lady.
adds: "If I were a freshman I'd After attending the Progressiveknow my world, because things of Demonstration School at Emory 
vast significance are happening in this summer and finishing a busi¬ 
the world today. I'd keep up with ness course at Crichton's in Atlan¬ 
world affairs because I would then ta, she is now Director of Religiousbe in a position to comprehend Education for the Purity Presby¬

their meaning." 

terian Church in Chester, S. C.,

Queer results were found at the and assistant to the pastor, Rev. 
registration of the University of John McSween. It is bad to tell 
Alabama, says the Crimson and 

this on Isabel, but it seems all of 
White. "A backward glance at her experience and training did not 

registration oddities reveals that 

keep from letting the mimeograph¬

several girls were signed up to take 

ing machine "stutter" when she 

military training, and a boy with 

tried to get out the Sunday bulle¬ 

one arm was put in a typing class." 

tins not long ago.

But something even more unusual 

Laura Steele, ex-editor of the 

is happening at Mount Holyoke 

"Aggie" chose Emory for the sum¬ 

College. The students there have mer and becoming

course is now 

written a prophecy about whither 

"commercialized" at Crichton's 

we are drifting, to be sealed up for 

(Continued on page 6, col. 1)

a hundred years. 
Constitutional Day at the Uni¬ to safeguard our lives and privi¬
versity of Alabama proved the leges. On this constitutional anni¬ 
student body to be of this frame versary year let us go on record as 
of mind: "We firmly believe that recognizing in this man, not a de¬ 
Mr. Roosevelt has the best inter¬ stroyer, but one of the noblest pre¬ 
ests of this country at heart. We servers of the values of our Ameri¬ 
are confident that he will continue can democracy." 

Return to Religion Offers 

Solution to World Crises 

"The Return to Religion," Hen¬ 
ry C. Clink, Macmillan Co., New 
York, 1936, $1.75. Reviewed by 
Julia Telford. 

Of Dr. Henry C. Link's recent 
book entitled The Return to Reli¬ 
gion Dr. William Lyon Phelps 
says: "The finest book on practi¬ 
cal psychology I have ever read. 

Every American ought to read it." 
The book was probably the most 
popular in its field during the year 
of its publication. This was due 
partly to the fact that it is, in a 
sense, an autobiography. Dr. Link 
was reared in a strict Methodist 
home, but the higher education 
which he received at a large eastern 
college left him a "complete and 
powerfully fortified agnostic." At 
the age of thirty-two he was recog¬ 
nized as one of America's foremost 
scientists. As director of the Psy¬ 
chological Service Center of New 
York, he has examined and advised 
approximately four thousand indi¬ 
viduals in the past fifteen years. It 
was through his experience with 
the problems of these people that 
he came to realize the importance 
of religion in the development of 
personality. He found from the re¬ 
sults of one project that individ¬ 
uals who attended church had bet¬ 
ter personalities than those who 
did not. With such facts before 
him, Dr. Link himself returned to 
the religion which for twenty years 
he had scorned as the "refuge of 
weak minds." 
The theme of the book is the de¬ 
velopment of personality through 
the process of extroversion. In the 
first part Dr. Link discusses, in 
connection with the brief account 
of his return to religion, a number 
of the cases which influenced him 
to emphasize the importance of re¬ 

ligion in personality development. 
Introversion was the chief cause of 
the social, economic, and domestic 

problems of his clients, and only 
by the process of extroversion did 
these individuals find the happiness 
which they desired. 

In the last half of the book Dr. 
Link points out several sources of 
introversion in our modern world. 
He is convinced that too much 
stress is laid on social planning and 
not enough attention is centered 
on the individuals who make up 
the social order. He considers ex¬ 
tensive education which continues 
the period of absorption and delays 
the process of acquiring extrovert 
habits, another vice. The desire for 
wealth has a similar effect, for the 
effort to get without giving tends 
toward introversion. If the indi¬ 
vidual is to live an abundant life 
he must center his attention out¬ 
side himself. 

Dr. Link sums up the basis for 
his contention in the following 
paragraph: 

"My return to religion, as an invidual, 
is not important; but the 
discoveries of scientific psychology 
which influenced me are. In spite 
of the great benefits which the 
physical sciences have bestowed on 
mankind—a longer life, a more 
comfortable life, a life more free 
from physical pains, and a life 
filled with an infinite variety of 
interesting objects and educational 
experiences, there is no evidence 
that individuals are happier, that 
families are more united, that gov¬ 
ernments or political bodies are 
wiser, or that nations are less likely 
to go to war." A universal return 
to religion, which has too long 
been crowded out by science, is the 
only solution for the present crises 
among individuals and nations. 

Foreign Wars Blast 

Summer Pleasures 

Spain Fights On; Japan and China 
Clash; Italy and Germany 
Oppose Communism 

History takes no vacation; it recognizes no 

holidays. Least of all is there a cessation of 

world activity during the summer months; it 

seems more likely that some of the most sig¬ 

nificant events occur while diplomats and 

senators are wearing straw hats. This sum¬ 

mer saw the opening of the Sino-Japanese 

war as well as the first anniversarj'' of the 

Spanish Civil war, to say nothing of the Su¬ 

preme Court fight and the prevalent labor 

struggles of the C. 1. 0. and the A. F. L. 

From our present perspective the most im¬ 

portant occurrence of the summer is the 

Sino-Japanese war. The struggle assumed 

the nature of open hostilities with the ex¬ 

change of shots at the Marco Polo Bridge 

near Peiping on July 7. Blame for the firing 

of the first shot has not been placed; that is 

relatively unimportant since observers be¬ 

lieve the war almost inevitable. H. W. Cham¬ 

berlain writing in Current History, calls the 

war "Asia's irresponsible conflict." He at¬ 

tributes the clash to the coincidence of a 

movement of outward expansionism in Japan 

with a period of intense nationalism in China. 

A large part of Japan's expansionism cer¬ 

tainly is the result of the pressure of her in¬ 

dustrialists. Japan actually exports much 

less than she imports and is dependent on the 

outside world for most of her raw materials. 

Thus it is expedient that she dominate the 

Asiatic market so that she may maintain 

economic security. China, on the other hand, 

is not willing to make the concessions that 

Japan demands and consequently hostilities 

have resulted. As in any war affecting two 

important nations others have become in¬ 

volved. The Chinese army has been aug¬ 

mented by 250,000 Communists, thus rather 

definitely allying it to the U. S. S. R. Japan, 

however, is known to have made important 

diplomatic agreements with Germany. On 

account of her citizens and investments in 

China, the United States is also involved. 

Marines and battleships are stationed at 

strategic points for the protection of Ameri¬ 

can citizens and property. The state depart¬ 

ment has not yet formulated a particularly 

virile policy as far as the Far East is con¬ 

cerned. 

The Sino-Japanese conflict has in general 
overshadowed the other events of the sum¬ 
mer. The Spanish Civil war, however, showed 
new developments, with the piracy situation 
growing directly out of it. Italian submar¬ 
ines, it is charged, attacked British ships in 
the Mediterranean. This is not without basis 
when one considers the rebel position, but 
the entire incident has been relieved by a pi¬ 
racy patrol which Italy was finally invited to 
join. The familiar opposition of the U. S. 

S. R. and Italy in the Spanish war persists. 
It is highly probable that the Mediterran¬ 
ean affair precipitated the historic meeting 
of Mussolini and Hitler in Berlin. At that 
time a vehement agreement was made unit¬ 
ing Italy and Germany against communism. 
This may be expected to have a definite ef¬ 
fect on the Far Eastern situation. 
Foreign affairs certainly occupied a large 
space in the news of the summer, but the Su¬ 
preme Court fight and the labor disputes 
were scarcely ever off the front page. The 
Supreme Court Bill was introduced, vehe¬ 
mently debated, and finally, following Sen¬ 
ator Robinson's death practically destroyed 
within the short space of two months. Al¬ 
though the court bill seems killed, the pub¬ 
licity for the court has continued loudly. 
President Roosevelt's appointment of Sen¬ 
ator Black to fill a vacancy on the bench and 
the subsequent furore aroused by the accusa¬ 
tions of his membership in the Ku Klux Klan 
has kept the question in the public mind. 
John Lewis has also kept before the public 
eye. In his Labor Day address the active 

C. I. O. leader indicated that a third party of 
farmers and trade unionists would be formed 
in order to accomplish its encls through legis¬ 
lation. Apparently the reconciliation of the 
C. I. O. and the A. F. of L. is no nearer now 
than it has been all summer. 
With this issue the Agonistic puts up a 
more rugged, but (we hope) not less inter¬ 
esting front to the world. We would remind 
the students that this is their paper, and we 
invite their comment, criticism, and ideas in 
the opinion column, We Think. What do you 
think about the cut system, about the stunt, 
about anything? Or do you? 


THE AGONISTIC 

New Members of Faculty 
Collideoscope 
Recount Exciting Stories 

Freshman Fantasies: With mani¬

Hawaii, Africa, India as Well as Native States Fur¬ 

fest flaunting of purple and white

nish Glamorous Subjects of Conversation 

ribbons, much bangling of be-

of New Professors 

stickered baggage, and inevitable 
After conversations with the new members of our faculty, one 

repetitions of "Where are you

begins to realize how cosmopolitan the Agnes Scott campus really is. 

from?" the Class of 1941 has in¬

From such glamorous places as Hawaii, Africa, and India, as well as 

vaded the Agnes Scott campus.

from their native states, the new comers, Dr. Swanson, Miss Gray, Miss 
Cummings, Mrs. Graham, and Dr.' The upperclassmen have smiled 
Mary Ann McKinney, bring excit¬ benignly, as usual, remembering

Pi Alpha Phi to

ing tales. 

smugly the days when they, too, 
Dr. Swanson, the college physi¬ 

Debate England did not know at what hours the 

cian, is adhering to the slogan "see 

mail was put up, or that all visit¬

America first," although she admits 

ors enter and leave from Main

Powers of Trade Unions Will

that it is an ambition of hers to go 

Building, or that the blue card

Be Discussed Here

to Europe. Originally from Mon¬ 

must be in before the Stunt. To

tana, she obtained her B.A. degree 

Agnes Scott College will meet celebrate the arrival of the new¬

from the University of Washing¬ 

the Cambridge Union Society and comers, the Muse has been very

ton and then did graduate work at 

the Oxford Union Society in debate kind (?) and has inspired ye Ag¬

the University of Oregon Medical 

nes Scoute with a masterpiece of

on this campus about the middle

School. For the past three years, 

lyricism—should we say "a syn¬

of November on the question, "Re¬

she has been doing psychiatric work 

solved: That the powers of the thesis of hybiscus and biscuits?"— 

in the Sheppard and Enoch Pratt 

which at this point we wish to dedi¬

trade unions have increased, are in¬

Hospital near Baltimore. As Dr. 

cate to all freshmen in memory of

Swanson says, she has a special in¬ creasing, and ought to be dimin¬ 

the way we have felt. Of course,

ished." Mary Lillian Fairley and

terest in psychiatry. This interest 

we are aware of our deficiencies

Mary Frances Guthrie, ex-vice-as

still leaves plenty of room for oth¬ 
ers, however, which include golf, president and vice-president, re¬ a poet, but remember: Any old 

poet in a storm!:

horseback riding, Kirsten Flagstad, spectively, of Pi Alpha Phi, Agnes 

Scott debating society, will uphold

red roses, and southern accents. Of 

An Elegant Elegy for Ella Fresh¬

Agnes Scott, Dr. Swanson says the affirmative side of the question 

man

that she has never been any place against the Englishmen. 

The engineer tolls the bell of part¬

where everybody is so friendly and These international debates, in 

ing train;

where there are so many healthy which Agnes Scott has participated 

The taxicabs wend slowly to A.S.C.

and happy-looking girls. She also for many years, are arranged by 

The family homeward plods in

admitted that she has one pet aver¬ the National Student Federation of 

dreary rain,

sion, playing bridge. (You "fourth-America and are sponsored locally 

And leaves the world to Sponsors

hunters" take notice.) Finally, by Pi Alpha Pi under the supervi¬ 

and to me.

she announced that her secret am¬ sion of Professor George P. Hayes, 
bition and intense desire is to learn faculty adviser. 

The handbook, with its mass of

the Big Apple. Although she is fa¬ 

University. After teaching for a miscellanies;

miliar with the true Hula dance 

while at the State Teacher's Col¬ Of rules whose "modulations mix

from her experiences in Hawaii, she 

lege in Texas, she went to India to mellifluous,"

is more intrigued with this new 

teach in the Woman's Christian Haunts me till I think I'll go in-

American dance craze. 

Medical College for three years. sania,

Speaking of the Big Apple, Miss Learning the seem

The conditions she describes on the all things that 

Gray of the French department, 

campus there are most interesting. super-ifluous.

announced laughingly, "I have 

Although the majority of the stu¬ 

never received such a shock as is Christian, are course, aesthetic

dent body there Of a deep ap¬

when I saw Agnes Scott girls doing 

many Mohammedans and Hindus. preciation of all that is beautiful 

the Big Apple in the gym. The 

This creates such a racial problem must be acquired by the reader be¬ 

dance is ridiculously like an old fore appreciates the

that there are of necessity three she rhyme,

ceremonial dance performed at tri¬ 

dining rooms to cater to their dif¬ meter, and sense of the above poem.

bal rituals by the wives of chief¬ 

ferent religions. For instance, the In addition to the above piece of 

tains in Africa. They even perform poesy—which is, as Coleridge says,

Hindus will have nothing to do

identical figures such as 'Truck to 

with either pork or beef, and will "The breath and finer spirit of all 

the center and shine,' though of 

not eat anything except fruit with knowledge"—the Muse has blessed 

course the terminology is differ¬ 

people of other religions. The caste with another inspirational "synthe¬

ent." (Now does that curb your 

system of the Hindus of course af¬ sis of hybiscus and biscuits," which 

Big Apple-tite?) Miss Gray is 

fects their relations with other begins as follows: 

originally from Union, West Vir¬ 

races, also. The Sikhs, an off-shoot

ginia, and graduated from Agnes 

of the Hindus, are not so squeam¬ "I wandered lonely in the crowd 

Scott. After obtaining a degree in 

ish; but they have many unusual That floats in organdy in the 

library science at the University of 

things essential to their religion, Alumna Garden" 

Illinois, she spent three years teach¬ 

such as uncut hair (consequently

ing in a missionary school in the 

their beards grow to such a length However, the Muse apparently

Belgian Congo. She liked her work 

that they have to be plaited), a couldn't think of a rhyme for 

there very much, and tells of her 

comb, a sword, a bracelet, track Alumna Garden; and as the author 

experiences at big-game hunting 

pants. All of these things must be couldn't either (you know the old 

and getting stranded in a cannibal isn't one thing

worn by a faithful Sikh. The pe¬ saying—if it it's 

village at night. However, she in¬ 

culiar marriage customs of these an author!), the masterpiece is 

sists that it is a wonderful feeling 

people influence the social life, ac¬ forced to end there. At any rate,

to be back here in the Alma Mater 

cording to Dr. McKinney. the freshmen have survived the or¬ 

again. 

Most of the girls are betrothed deals of registration and curricu¬ 
In the library there are two ad¬ lum-arrangement, and have found

to an unknown fiance by their 
ditions to the staff, Miss Cum¬ families at their birth. They see time to upset the general peace. 

mings and Mrs. Graham. Miss Although lessons are generally con¬

their husbands for the first time 

Cummings was born in Toledo, at the wedding and then only ceded to be the worms in their Big 
( 'do; obtained her A.B. degree at Apple (for further illumination on

through a mirror. If they displease

t..e University of Toledo; and 

their husbands, they are treated the subject page Mr. Gillespie), 

gained her degree in library science the neophytes remain prankful. Ac¬

cruelly both by them and by their 

at the University of Michigan. cording to Martha Moody, Nell

mother-in-laws. In spite of this,

Mrs. Graham is a graduate of West¬ 

says Dr. McKinney, marriage is the 

ern College in Ohio and Columbia 

only ambition of all Indian girls.

University. Although both of these 

On the whole, in making a com¬ MARY'S MENDING SHOP 

ladies upheld the librarian's tradi¬ 

parison of Indian students and Ag¬ 

Alters, RelineS, and Covers

tion of silence, especially in regard 

nes Scott students, she says, "The 

Buttons

to their past history, likes and dis¬ 

Indian girls have almost perfect

likes, both of them admitted that 105 E. Court Sq.

memories; but the Agnes Scott girls

they like the South. 

surpass them in reasoning power."
Dr. McKinney, of the science de¬ 
partment, tells in a most interest¬ 
ing way many unusual customs in 

You're Sure To Find Your Favorite

India. Dr. McKinney's home is in 
Nacagdoches, Texas. She received 

TOILET GOODS

her training at Agnes Scott, Co¬ 
lumbia University, and Tulane 

Modern Fireproof 
JACOBS

HOTEL CANDLER 
EUROPEAN PLAN 

Stores All Over Atlanta 

T. J. Woods, Mgr., Decatur, Ga. 
Faculty and Students See

•/ 

Europe in Blaze of Glory 

Scotch Trossachs, Paris Exposition, English Gar¬ 
den Party, Stratford Dramas, and Alps 
Delight Travelers 

While most of us were spending our time seeking out the coolest 
spots beneath the biggest trees and lazily waiting for something to hap¬ 
pen, some adventurous (and lucky, too, we might add) ones from our 
midst were dashing madly about Europe, leaving the goddess of excite¬ 
ment trailing breathlessly at their 
heels. And yet from the little they

A.S.C. Sponsors 
can be wheedled into disclosing, you 

would hardly know they had been

Exhibit at Fair 

outside our ports. 
But, due to the perseverance and 
Section of New Library is snoopacity of us eager newshounds, 
Depicted in Booth we are now able to inform you un¬ 
informed collegiates on the whole 
Reproducing a section of the truth about the European summer 
new library, Agnes Scott will again of certain faculty members and 
sponsor a booth at the Southeastern students of this dear old college. 
Fair, October 7-16. Alberta Pal¬ First, we'll begin with Miss 
mour, field secretary of the Alum¬ Scandrett's group which included 
nae Association, is in charge of the Miss Mitchell, Bert Palmour, Ann 
exhibit, with Nell Chamlee, assist¬ Worthy Johnson, and Adelaide 
ant alumnae secretary, and Carrie Benson, not to mention some past 
Phinney Latimer, '3 6, as her assist¬ and future Agnes Scotters. Miss 
ants. Send ett was particularly inter-
The corner of the library to be este '. in the guides provided for 
them by the Open Roads Tours.

reproduced will show the fireplace 

The guides, cultured European

and a few of the red and blue leath¬ 

students, conducted visitors about

er-covered chairs. The booth will 

purely for the sake of international

be in the Educational Building, 

friendship and hospitality. In Italy

and Agnes Scott girls will stay by 
it at various times. Last year a one of their guides was a girl who 

had been an exchange student at

dormitory bedroom was repro¬ 

the University of Chattanooga,

duced by the College. 

and during her stay there she had 
men's men created quite a disturb¬ seen Atlanta, Agnes Scott, and 
ance at the floor party. In addi¬ even Stone Mountain. 
tion, Dorothy Debele, Miriam Bed-Budapest, with the Danube flow¬ 
inger, Virginia Hickman, and Ella ing through the city and separat¬ 
Muzzey (no relation to Mussy ing Buda from Pest (really!), and 
Lena, the Fassist gal in town) with the dreamy music of violins 
prophesied many a pie-bed Thurs¬ played by small Hungarian boys 
day night . . Elaine Stubbes re¬ appealed to Bert. Here, too, was 
counts an embarrassing moment one of the major triumphs of their 
when she and Mary Bell were dig¬ trip—after having longed for and 
ging tap-roots in the gymnasium talked about corn on the cob all 
yard, while giggling spectators over Europe but not ever having 
gained the impression that they found any, a Hungarian waitress 
were performing Chinese obeisan¬ (Continued on page 5, col. 2) 
ces . . . "Lib" Barrett and Ann Millikan 
gleefully tell of an experi¬ dear Auld Lang Syne sport cos¬ 
ence which should entitle them to tumes)? . Do you know what

.. 

a medal by the S. P. C. A. To be 

naive freshman made the quaint

specific, they were inspired to leave remark, "The seniors are certainly 
names, telephone numbers, and lip¬ dumb—they've been here for four 
stick imprints on the placards of 

years and still don't know how to 
two Tech freshmen to keep the get to meals on time!" . . . Have 

boys from having their heads 

you heard all the nasal maneuvers 

shaved. . . 

in French conversation, spoken 

Questiana: Did you enjoy fully English, etcetera? . . . And, by the 
the thrills of the Athletic Associa¬ way, do you realize that etecetera 
tion circus—complete from the is one of the most beautiful words 
weight-guessing booth to the in the English language? . . . Final¬ 
trained horse who could truck and ly, has anybody been able to locate 
Susie Q. (not to forget the super¬ the Spirit (certainly not alcoholic, 
natural beauty of Alice" Cheese-we trust) which somebody has ob¬ 
man, Mary Wells McNeill, Martha viously been trying to locat: 
Long, and Georgia Hunt.) somewhere for some vague reason? 

V K 'WV 
CALLTLRIA 

Welcomes 
Agnes Scott Girls 

An Organization Specializing Exclusively 
in the Production and Serving of Whole¬ 
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BILL CLARK'S ORCHESTRA 


THE AGONISTIC 

English Tests New Students Represent Cosmopolitan Group Faculty Plays, 
Are Sent to According to Agonistic Statistician's Report Works During 

Georgia Group 

Educational Testing Board 
of University Uses New 
Mechanism 

The English placement tests re¬ 
cently taken by the freshmen at 
Agnes Scott and other colleges in 
Georgia will be graded by machin¬ 
ery, members of the English de¬ 
partment disclosed. The tests, con¬ 
taining only multiple choice ques¬ 
tions, will be sent back to the Uni¬ 
versity of Georgia's Committee on 
Educational Testing at Athens 
and graded by an electrical mech¬ 
anism which records correct checks 
made with graphite pencil. The 
principle of the machine is that the 
graphite on the test sheets, when 
in the correct place, closes a cir¬ 
cuit, thereby automatically regis¬ 
tering the questions answered cor¬ 
rectly. 

The tests are given this year on 
the basis of diction, usage, and 
spelling. Their purpose is to deter¬ 
mine the strength and efficiency of 
the courses in various high schools. 
Although only the English tests 
are given at Agnes Scott, other col¬ 
leges use tests in several subjects. 
After they are graded, each stu¬ 
dent's rating is sent to his high 
school. The system enables col¬ 
leges to rate high schools and high 
schools to improve inadequate 
courses. 

Professors Plan 

Annual Bacon Bat 

The annual Faculty Bacon Bat 
will be held on Saturday, October 
9, at 5 P. M., in honor of the new 
faculty members, which includes 
Miss Prettyman, Miss Cummings, 
Mrs. Graham, Miss Gray, Miss 
Wall, Dr. Swanson, and Dr. McKinney. 
The host and hostesses for 
the occasion include Misses Carl¬ 
son, Nelson, Nunally, Latimer, 
Hutton, McCalla and Dr. Runyon. 
All faculty members and members 
of the administration have been in¬ 
vited. 

Seniors Announce 

Investiture Plans 

Investiture, one of the oldest 
and most impressive traditions on 
the Agnes Scott campus, will be 
held on November 6 in the Gaines 
Chapel. The speaker, a member of 
the faculty, will be selected by the 
senior class. 

During this ceremony, when 
seniorhood is recognized for the 
first time, each senior, wearing her 
academic gown, will receive her 
cap. 

Presbyterians Are 
Honored At Social 

The Presbyterian girls of Agnes 
Scott College and the Columbia 
Seminary boys were the guests of 
honor at a party Saturday evening, 
October 2, which was given by the 
Young People's Department and 
the Women's Auxiliary of the Decatur 
Presbyterian Church. 

With the program centered 
about a day in school, all those 
present were divided into groups 
contesting in History, Literature, 
Engineering, Art, Botany, and 
Geography. These mental tests 
were followed by an athletic meet. 

The members of the Intermedi¬ 
ate and Senior Department of the 
church served the refreshments. 

"Democracy would be wise if it 
would curb the education of thou¬ 
sands of our present school popula¬ 
tion. ' President James L. Mc-
Conaughsv of Wesleyan University 
takes the other side of the Save-
Democracv fence. 

According to the Agonistic stat¬ 
istician, the 175 new students are 
quite a cosmopolitan group, repre¬ 
senting 23 states, 4 foreign coun¬ 
tries, and 18 colleges and universi¬ 
ties. The tabulations of freshmen 
and transfers per state show Georgia 
heading the list with 79 students, 
South Carolina taking second place 
with 16, and Alabama and North 
Carolina tieing for third with 10 
each. Transfers are from such wide¬ 
ly scattered schools as Northwestern 
University, Sophie Newcomb Col¬ 
lege, and Duke University. 

The new students are: 
Jeanne Allen, Atlanta, Ga. 
Grace Anderson, Tampa, Fla. 
Ruth Ashburn, Winston-Salem, 

N. C. 
Lucille Bach, Jackson, Ky. 
Dorothy Lee Barnes, Macon, Ga. 
Mary Elizabeth Barrett, Gaines¬ 
ville, Ga. 
Rowena Barringer, Florence, S. C. 
Lula Bass, Latta, S. C. 
Miriam Bedinger, Asheville, N. C. 
Martha Jane Behm, New Richmond, 

Ohio. 
Kathryn Benefield, Atlanta, Ga. 
Mary Brainard Bell, Shelbyville, Ky. 
Suzanne Bellingrath, Montgomery, 

Ala. 
Martha Boone, Elkton, Ky. 
Mary Elizabeth Boote, Thomasville, 

Ga. 
Frances Breg, Chevy Chase, Md. 
Ruth Brody, Sumter, S. C. 
Nina Broughton, Hackensack, N. J. 
Sabine Brumby, Atlanta, Ga. 
Gentry Burks, Charlotte, N. C. 
Frances Butt, Blue Ridge, Ga. 
Marion Candler, Decatur, Ga. 
Gladys Carr, Emory University, Ga. 
Josephine Gates, Jackson, Ala. 
Catherine Cocco, Norwood, Penn. 
Harriette Cochran, Atlanta, Ga. 
Beverly Coleman, Eastman, Ga. 
Alice Comer, Eufaula, Ala. 
Freda Copeland, Brunswick, Ga. 
Mary Elizabeth Culver, Culverton, 

Ga. 
Doris Dalton, Atlanta, Ga. 
Jeanne Davidowitz, New York 

City. 
Dorothy Davis, Atlanta, Ga. 
Margaret Deas, Atlanta, Ga. 
Dorothy Debele, Savannah, Ga. 
Eugenia Dennison, Atlanta, Ga. 
Kathryn Donehoo, Decatur, Ga. 
Martha Dunn, Decatur, Ga. 
Ethelyn Dyar, Atlanta, Ga. 
Margaret Eiseman, Atlanta, Ga. 
Florence Ellis, Monroe, Ga. 
Betty Ball Embry, Evanston, 111. 
Ruby Evans, Lithonia, Ga. 
Jean Fairly, Hazlehurst, Miss. 
Margaret Falkinburg, Atlanta, Ga. 
Winifred Finger, Ripley, Miss. 
Ann Fisher, Newport, Tenn. 
Louise Franklin, Marietta, Ga. 
Lucille Gaines, Anderson, S. C. 
Anne Garrett, Atlanta, Ga. 
Grace Goldstein, Atlanta, Ga. 
Ellen Gould, Jacksonville, Fla. 
Florence Graham, Bluefield, W. Va. 
Caroline Gray, Winston-Salem, 

N. C. 
Nancy Gribble, Austin, Texas. 
Agnes Hall, Atlanta, Ga. 
Modesta Hance, Wilmington, Del. 
Agnes Harvey, Laurel, Va. 
Beryl Healy, Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Edith Henegar, Copperhill, Tenn. 
Ann Henry, Macon, Ga. 
Virginia Hickman, Fort Smith, 
Ark. 

Dr. Raper Has Spent 

Interesting Summer 

Dr. Arthur Raper, professor of 
sociology, gave a series of discus¬ 
sions of southern social and eco¬ 
nomic conditions during the Insti¬ 
tute of World Missions at Chautauqua, 
N. Y., this summer. 

Among his other summer activi¬ 
ties was an address on Race Rela¬ 
tions before the Y. W. C. A. con¬ 
ference at Blue Ridge, N. C., and 
an address to the council on a 
Christian Social Order at Lake 
Junaluska; thence back to Blue 
Ridge for the conference on Edu¬ 
cation and Race Relations. 

Esther Hillhouse, Hendersonville, 

N. C. 
Lillie Hogan, Atlanta, Ga. 
Mary Alice Horne, St. George, 
S. C. 
Roberta Ingles, Radford, Va. 
Marguerite Ingley, Sanford, Fla. 
Mary Ivy, West Point, Miss. 
Frances Jernigan, Decatur, Ga. 
Helen Jester, Lynchburg, Va. 
Emma Jane Jones, Albany, Ga. 
Aileen Kasper, Atlanta, Ga. 
Elizabeth Hendrick, Suffolk, Va. 
Helen Klugh, Atlanta, Ga. 
Elzabeth Kvle, Huntington, W. 
Va. 
Julia Lancaster, Taichow, Kiangsu, 
China. 
Catherine Lawrence, Charlotte, 

N. C. 
Dorothy Lazenby, Decatur, Ga. 
Sara Mayers Lee, Danville, Ky. 
Margaret Lentz, Atlanta, Ga. 
Mary Lucile Longino, Sarasota, 
Fla. 
Allie Malone, Atlanta, Ga. 
Marcia Mansfield, Atlanta, Ga. 
Anne Mapother, Norfolk, Va. 
Anne Martin, Marion, S. C. 
Ursula Mayer, Stuttgart, Germany. 
Maxine McAuley, Atlanta, Ga. 
Julia McConnel, Talladega, Ala. 
Janet McKim, Sierra Nevada, 'Mex¬ 

ico. 
Virginia Lee McWhorter, Decatur, 

Ga. 
Anna Louise Meiere, Atlanta, Ga. 
Marjorie Merlin, Atlanta, Ga. 
Ann Millican, Macon, Ga. 
Betty Moffat, Elmhurst, Penn. 
Grace Moffat, Scranton, Penn. 
Isobel Moncur, Webster Groves, 

Mo. 
Martha Moody, Plant City, Fla. 
Elizabeth Moore, Talladega, Ala. 
Catherine Morgan, Guyton, Ga. 
Margaret Murchison, Florence, 

S. C. 
Mary Louise Musser, Charleston, 
W. Va. 
Ella Muzzey, Patterson, N. J. 
Elizabeth Myers, Savannah, Ga. 
Sarah Nicholson, Shreveport, La. 
Valgerda Nielsen, Evergreen, Ala. 
Margaret Nix, Madison, Ga. 
Katherine Gates, Sweetwater, 
Tenn. 
Mary Ball Oliver, Wellesley Hills, 

Mass. 
Betty Jean O'Brien, Decatur, Ga. 
Martha O'Nan, Cropper, Ky. 
Schelle Parham, Decatur, Ga. 
Mary Elizabeth Paris, Jacksonville, 

Fla. 
Sarah Frances Parker, Canton, Ga. 
Pattie Patterson, Charlotte, N. C. 
Dorothy Peteet, Atlanta, Ga. 
Irene Phillips, Woodward, Ala. 
Marion Philips, Atlanta, Ga. 
Marion Phillips, LaGrange, Ga. 
Sue Phillips, LaGrange, Ga. 
Beatrice Piassick, Atlanta, Ga. 
Georgia Poole, Mullins, S. C. 
Therese Poumaillou, Tours, France. 
Sarah Rainey, Asheville, N. C. 
Harriett Reid, Atlanta, Ga. 
Hattie Mina Reid, Madison, Ga. 
Katherine Rhodes, Estill, S. C. 
Nellie Richardson, Rayle, Ga. 
Betty Robey, Decatur, Ga. 
Elizabeth Ann Ruprecht, Gaines¬ 

ville, Fla. 
Laura Sale, Atlanta, Ga. 
Ruth Sammon, Abbeville, S. C. 
Louise Sams, Charleston, S. C. 
Lillian Schwencke, Thomasville, 

Ga. 
Susan Self, Ninety Six, Ga. 
Beatrice Shamos, Atlanta, Ga. 
Charlotte Shepeard, Opelika, Ala. 
Eugenia Slack, Decatur, Ga. 
Eunice Sloan, Shelton, Conn. 
Onie Frances Smith, Ripley, Miss. 
Sarah Smith, Atlanta, Ga. 
Mary Frances Sproles, Charlotte. 

N. C. 
Ann Stansbury, Chattanooga, 
Tenn. 

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Arlene Steinbach, Carrollton, Ga. 
Betty Jane Stevenson. Atlanta, Ga. 
Martha Stone, Kingsport, Tenn. 
Carolyn Strozier, Baxley, Ga. 
Elaine Stubbs, Fort Myers, Fla. 
Shirley Swagerty, Atlanta, Ga. 
Ann Tatum, Opelika, Ala. 
Laura Thomas, Greenville, S. C. 
Dorothy Travis, Hapeville, Ga. 
Tommy Turner, Atlanta, Ga. 
Mary Bondurant Utterback, Louis¬ 

ville, Ky. 
Ida Jane Vaughn, Jenkins, Ky. 
Betty Waitt, Maxwell Field, Ala. 
Grace Walker, Summerville, S. C. 
Betty Jean Wallin, Columbia, Mo. 
Eleanore Walton, Thomasville, Ga. 
Martha Lois Watkins, Cedartown, 

Ga. 
Cornelia Anne Watson, Ridge 

Spring, S. C. 
Doris Weinkle, Atlanta, Ga. 
Margaret Wells, Cincinnati, Ohio. 
Bonnie Westbrook, Ila, Ga. 
Mary Scott Wilds, Hendersonville, 

N. C. 
Frances Williams, Elkton, Ky. 
Virginia Williams, Hamilton, Ga. 
Cornelia Willis, Culpepper, Va. 
Nancy Willstatter, New York 
City. 
Nancy Wimpfheimer, New York 

City. 
Mary Wisdom, Atlanta, Ga. 
Hilda Woodard, Louisville, Ky. 
Margaret Woodhead, Graniteville, 

S. C. 
Anita Woolfolk, Fort Valley, Ga. 
Elsie York, Atlanta, Ga. 
Lessie Young, Atlanta, Ga. 
Statistician Finds 

Football Harmful 

Football makes addled-brained 
stumble-backs of its players. That 
is the indictment leveled today 
against the nation's leading ama¬ 
teur sport by Frank Scully, noted 
author, who attributes his invalidism 
to the drubbing he took in 
school competitions. 

Reporting the results of a survey 
he made of the leading players of 
twenty years ago, Scully declares 
in the current Liberty magazine 
that many of these who weren't 
killed in the World War either 
died from tuberculosis or are now 

addled-brained dim wits. 
"After careful study I have 
come to the conclusion that you 
don't have to be a half-wit to be a 
half-back, but if you are a half¬ 
back long enough you will be," he 
writes. 
Scully relates a meeting with 
Charlie Barrett, former all-American 
quarterback at Cornell and 
captain of the 1916 unbeaten 
team. Barrett was in the last 
stages of t. b., just before his 
death. "He told me," says Scully, 
"that six members of that cham¬ 
pionship 1916 squad have also 
broken down with t. b. Barrett's 
confession was the greatest mass 
indictment of varsity football I 
had run into up to that time." 
But, says the writer, their fate 
was less pitiful than others whose 
brains could not stand the constant 
vicious jarring. He relates the ex¬ 
perience of one Coast champion¬ 
ship team: "Of the three stars in 
the backfield, all named on one 
Ail-American team or another, 

Busy Summer 

Traveling, Teaching, Resting, 
Studying Comprise Chief 
Pastimes 

Realizing that what our faculty 
members do off campus and es¬ 
pecially during the summer is deep, 
dark, and almost secret informa¬ 
tion to most of us Hottentots, the 
Aggie reporters have been digging 
around this past week and unearth¬ 
ing a lot of news for us. 

According to their revelations. 
Miss Laney, Miss Florence Smith 
and Dr. Hayes spent six weeks 
teaching in Hunter College in 
New York, while Miss Bartholo¬ 
mew remained in Atlanta to teach. 

Miss Hanley seems to have been 
quite busy attending a convention 
of the American Library Associa¬ 

tion in New York City, visiting 
friends and working in our library. 
And we are very glad indeed to re¬ 
port that Miss Preston went to the 
mountains and got a lot of much-
needed rest. 

Mr. Dieckmann did some com¬ 
posing at his home in Decatur and 
arranged some pieces for the string 
ensemble. Miss Gilchrist traveled 
to New York and sailed to Bermu¬ 
da. Mr. Johnson, too, went to the 
mountains, and Miss Bee Miller 
sought out Texas. 

Miss Nunnally was here at Ag¬ 
nes Scott except for six weeks in 
Richmond, Williamsburg, Wash¬ 
ington, and other points of inter¬ 
est in that section of the country. 
Mr. Wright reports a rather quiet 
summer spent, for the most part, 
in Atlanta. He carried on the re¬ 
search on which he was working. 
Miss Carlson also did research work 
for two months in the Columbia 
University Library. She spent the 
last month of her vacation in Iowa. 

Miss Cilley was in New England 
for the first part of the summer, 
and for the last few weeks she also 
did research work in the Library 
of Congress in Washington. 

subsequently, one broke his neck 
in his last season and therefore 
missed his chance of becoming 
stumble-back; the second ended 
his football days by walking on his 
heels; and the third was so punch-
drunk from too much football 
that he could see no way out ex¬ 
cept playing more football, either 
as a professional or as an assistant 
coach. 

"A woman's college is not con¬ 
cerned with the war between men 
and women .... The notion that 
women's colleges were designed to 
gear women to fight men is out of 
date." Wellesley College's youth¬ 
ful president, Mildred H. McAfee, 
discusses her hope of training 
young women to take their places 
in society, not militantly, but in¬ 
telligently aware of their responsi¬ 
bilities as citizens. 

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105 Peachtree Street (Clock Sign) 
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ATLANTA, GA. 


THE AGONISTIC 

Frau Mayer, Mile. Poumaillon Tell Agnes Sc otters Choose Various 
Social Liorhts 

First Impressions and Experiences r> Unusual Styles for Fall Season 

Big Apple, Henry, Salads Give 

Exchange Students a 
Surprise 

Two of the most colorful per¬ 
sonalities on the campus this year 
are Ursula Mayer from Stuttgart, 
Germany, and Therese Poumaillou 
from Tours, France. Ursula is 
blonde, rosy-cheeked, athletic, and 
a typical representative of the Hitlerjwgend. 
She talks animatedly 
with an accent and a few gestures. 
She cocks her head to one side when 
thinking—looks straight at you 
while talking. "American cities," 
she began, "are very different from 
those of Germany. How can I ex¬ 
plain it . . . well, first the streets 
are all so wide, much wider than 
ours and much darker and more 
dreary. And the buildings—are 
taller and larger. Your bourses are 
higher and your skyscrapers are 
much bigger. I liked New York 
very much. I came over on the 
Deutschland with fourteen other 
students and we all stayed up to 

watch the sun rise in New York. 
It was beautiful—but I shouldn't 
like to live there." 

From New York, Ursula came 
directly to Atlanta. So far her only 
difficulties have been our southern 
accents and our salads. "In Ger¬ 
many," she said politely but defi¬ 
nitely, "we never put lettuce and 
fruit together." She added in part¬ 
ing, "At first I was a little home¬ 
sick—I have never been away from 
home for more than fourteen days 
—but now I've my room settled 
and the girls are so friendly, and I 
like Agnes Scott very much." 

Therese, small, dark, and poised, 
is as typically French as her fellow 
exchange student is German. She 
answers your questions politely, 
sits with her hands folded in her 
lap, and looks at you with a pair 
of dark inquiring eyes. "When I 
finished the Lysee," she began, "my 
teacher called me in and we began 
checking through a list of possible 
jobs. We spent three hours at this 
—none of the jobs seemed to suit. 
Finally the teacher turned to me 
and said, 'How would you like to 
go to America?' 

" 'Fine,' I said, although the 
breath was almost taken out of me, 
I d like to go.' And so here I 

am." 
Therese did not stop in New 
York City but came on to Atlanta. 

I want to visit it on my way 
back," she explained, "the only 
thing I saw there was the men— 
the legionnaires at the station beat¬ 
ing on the sidewalks with their 
bells. I think New York must be 
very exciting." When asked what 
was the most unusual thing she had 
seen in the United States so far, 
Therese immediately answered, 

'The Big Apple . . . there's noth¬ 
ing like that in France. And there 
is one other queer thing, too. When 
I arrived in Atlanta I thought the 
automobiles were very strange be¬ 
cause the first one I saw was rather 
like a box and bright red. But then 
a girl got out of it and said she 
was to take me to Agnes Scott and 
I realized that is was just . . . well 
... an American custom." 

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"Don't," says Laura, reading us 
Sophomores Will the news fashions out of the hand¬ 
book, "in fact, never get excited— 
Honor Freshmen even if you've just checked in with 
an engagement ring!" So Samille, 
At Top Hat Club being up on the styles, slips in 
sedately without a murmur. This 
rule does not apply to freshmen

"The Top Hat," ultra night club 

and fraternity pins. Advice from

owned by Sophomore Georgia 

editors: Brag while it's stylish.

Hunt, announces its premiere open¬ 

ing on Saturday night, October 9, Alas, times don't change. Only 

the same old good-time round of

at 8 o'clock in Bucher Scott gym¬ 

football, Anak dances, and rush

nasium. The exclusive invitations 

parties. Rain on the Mercer game

have been extended to Agnes Scott 

didn't keep Anita Howard, Mar¬

freshmen only. 

tha Peek Brown, and Elizabeth

They will be escorted by mem¬ 

Blackshear at home. And that

bers of the sophomore class, attired 

night the juniors came out in all

in top hats, white ties, and tails. 

their glory. Jeanne Flynt, Jane

All guests are requested to wear 

Moore Hamilton, Kay Toole, Kay

full evening dress. A further an¬ 

Kennedy, and Sue Goodwin shone

nouncement from the manager is 

at the Anak dance. More advice to

that, as a special treat, many celeb¬ 

the freshmen: Hang on for two

rities will be present to provide en¬ 

years!

tertainment for the occasion. 
with her family, revealed that she 
Teachers, Students See got lost once, but she couldn't be 
inveigled into describing the cir¬

Glories of Europe 

cumstances of what she called "a 
(Continued from page 3, col. 5) dumb thing to do." But she did 

say that they had fun exploring 

promptly brought them some for the Blue Grottoe on the Isle of 

their dessert. Capri and dropping their handker¬ 

Miss Mitchell successfully dodged chiefs from the top of Eiffel Tow¬ 
her interviewer by yelling as she er in a hard rainstorm. 

fled that she had a grand time in One of our new librarianians, 
Europe and that "anything Bert Mrs. Graham, after spending sev¬ 
says is true." Well, we shouldn't eral weeks in Italy visiting some 
doubt about her enjoying the trip, friends, decided that she liked that 

country best of all those in which

especially after hearing about her 

German Roland. And we are told she had traveled. Italy, in her opin¬ 
Bert didn't do so bad herself in 

ion, has the most to offer travelers. 
dancing with a German General, And next in her estimation was 
although, at the time, .she thought Scotland, particularly the romantic 
him just a private on leave and she city of Edinburgh and the Trosalmost 
ruined his feet in her effort 

sachs. 
to give him a good time. In the five minutes between 
Other highlights of their tour, classes we questioned Miss Harn 
as reported by Ann Worthy and about her sojourn in Europe and 
Adelaide, were their attending a learned that she stayed mostly in 
genuine English garden party with Germany and had the pleasure of 
tea and monicles and all that, their visiting with Lucy Hess and Ursu¬ 
dining with a baron and a baroness la Mayer, a former and a present 
at an Italian villa, and their swim¬ exchange student, respectively, at 
ming at Lake Geneva in the shadow Agnes Scott. 
of snow-covered Mont Blanc. 

Miss Gooch and Miss Omwake 
Another of our travelers in the also spent some time abroad this 
Alps was Miss Hale. With Miss summer, but so busy they

were 
Phythian she drove through these that we could not secure an inter¬ 
mountains and over the highest of view with them. We did hear that 

them on a road that had just been Miss Gooch studied at a school of 
opened. The Paris Exposition was drama in London and also that she 
the thing that caught Miss Hale's saw a new Shaw play and several 
fancy. Seeing its lovely, illuminat¬ of the plays at Stratford-on-Avon. 

ed fountains, its grand buildings, But, if their experiences correspondand the Eiffel Tower strung with in any measure to those of the stu¬ 
brilliant colored lights was, to her, dents and faculty with whom we 
like seeing Fairyland. The excel¬ were able to talk, we are sure that 

lent art collection of great master¬ they, too, found Europe in a blaze 
pieces was another good feature of of glory. 
the Exposition. 

Miss Gray was also an enthusi¬ College Librarian Is 
ast over the Paris event, although 

On Leave of Absence 

she had the misfortune to be there 
during the waiters' strike. At Ver¬ Miss Laura Colvin, assistant li¬ 
sailles, sitting in the open-air thea¬ 

brarian of Agnes Scott College, is 
tre and surrounded by eager French on leave of absence this year to do 

peasants, she saw a ballet of the graduate work in Library Science 
French Opera House. at the University of Michigan.
In an unguarded moment, Em¬ She was granted a Carnegie fellow¬ 

ma McMullen, who toured Europe ship. 

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE 

DECATUR, GA. 

A college for women that is widely recog¬ 

nized lor its standards o/ work and for the 

interesting character of its student activities. 

For further information, address 

J. R. McCAIN, President 
By Mary Wells McNeil you take a step. 
Madamoiselles, the time has come To me, hats are every bit in¬

as 
for us to stop and think of clothes, teresting as shoes. The hat of the 
that ever present help in time of 

moment on our campus seems to

woman's trouble! Have you been 

be one of those cute little things

noticing the various and sundry 

that one places gently but firmly

styles around the campus? Yes, I 
know, you are too busy. Well, I on the crown of the head. Kay 
will have you know that I nearly Ricks and Nell Echols are amongbroke my neck the other day I was 

the devotees of this little model. 

so busy looking at Shirley Armen-

Now, if it is allure and glamour

trout's cute multi-colored san¬ 

you desire in a hat, you must fol¬

dals. Speaking of sandals, have 

low Ruby Hutton's and Helen

you noticed Bee Merril's white 
ones? Honestly, the woman must Moses' example and have a veil 
have a very magnetic personality upon your chapeau. 
to keep those things on. They are Perhaps scarfs in themselves are 
the kind that you stick your toes not glamorous but they do their 
in and hope the heel part will be part toward disguising the "tin 
somewhere around, the next time wave" which is designed to put 

waves in newly-washed hair. If 
Chorus Gives Program you have a scarf like Genevieve 
Baird's, you can wrap Edward

At Methodist Church 

VIII's abdication address around 
your head.

As the special feature of the 

Speaking of modern inventions

Young People's Class of the Deca


and progress and stuff, aren't the

tur Methodist Sunday School last 

new dresses with zippers cute?

Sunday, October 2, the Music De¬ 

Three piece suits are quite popular

partment of Agnes Scott gave a 

with the lasses, too. Cally Carmi


musical program. 

chael has a lovely one. Her chief

The Special Chorus sang two 

difficulty seems to be in( deciding

numbers, O Lord Most Holy and 

whether to wear one coat or both

I Shall Not Pass Again This Way. 

when she goes out. The Yankee

A piano solo, Etude in C Minor, by 

portion of the hall says, "Wear

Chopin, was played by Nell Hemp-

only one coat or you will burn up,"

hill. Other numbers, both vocal 

while the Southerners ardently de¬

solos, were Clonds, sung by Amelia 

mand that she wear both or freeze.

Nickels, and A Green Cathedral, 

Three piece suits and dresses are

sung by Jane Moore Hamilton. 

nice, but when buying them, please 
don't make Julia Sewell's mistake.

27 Make Honor Roll 

Poor Julia decided that instead of 
(Continued from page 1, col. 2) paying her student budget right 

away^ she would apply Mr. Sewell's 
Warley Street, Florence, S. C.; An¬ check to her wardrobe. Woe was 
toinette Sledd, 144 Erie Avenue, Julia! After going all the way to 
Decatur, Ga.; Florence Sledd, 144 Atlanta, she discovered that the 
Erie Avenue, Decatur, Ga.; Violet check was made out to the Student 
Jane Watkins, 1402 17th Avenue, Treasurer of Agnes Scott College. 
South, Nashville, Tenn. So, beware! 

Touchdown! 

Touchdown! 

Keep Your 

Own Record 

of the Qame 

Xvith your 

Eastman Camera 

2.98 

The Bullet! And it hits the line squarely every time. 
Scientifically designed to take really good pictures 
.. . l%x2Vfc inches. It's the sensation of the picture-
taking set. 

Cameras Street Floor 

RIC H'S 


THE AGONISTIC 

Last Friday night a gay and col


lossal Big Ring Circus stopped on 
the campus soon after supper. It 
was glorious. 

Greeted by husky barkers and 
warmed by the tremendous swell 
of a swing band, the crowd packed 
the huge tent. Really, there was 
hardly standing room! Side shows 
to the right, side shows to the left 
—"Try-ie yore ski-yal a-yt sin-kin' 
th' cup!" "Madame Palmalena"— 
knows all and tells it at the least 
provocation. The "Guess Your 
Weight" booth realized amazingly 
heavy gains, despite hopes to the 
contrary. The freak booth dis¬ 
closed some of the rarest creatures 
ever seen this side of Inman—a 
brunet bearded lady whose facial 
foliage was glamorously blonde, an 
extremely elongated creature—tall¬ 
est personality in Main, and a sim¬ 
ply huge fat lady. My dear, her 
tonnage was atrocious! The mem¬ 
ory of having seen her will make 
us count three next time we're 
tempted to order a third cheese¬ 
burger! 

After Ringmaster Chalmers and 
Big Apple Expert Merrill succeed¬ 
ed in shouting a few more fresh¬ 
men out of Inman and down to 
the tent, the main show was on. 
A triple trained seal act (best in 
the Rebekah Scott collection), a 
fiercely strong Amazon who could 
heave two immense iron weights 
above her head with almost no ef¬ 
fort, a tumbling bunch of acro¬ 
bats—and so many other stupen¬ 
dous attractions it would take all 
the Aggie space to describe them. 
Well, you should have been there! 

Some of the caged beasts deserve 

mention. We were simply terrified 

at the sight of them. All but one 

was awful. This one, an untrained 

blue checkered monster, reputed to 

be the wildest of its kind ever cap 

tured in Boyd, grew strangely lim 

pid and lifeless as the show pro 

gressed. The trainers were dis¬ 

tressed. They couldn't decide why 

he displayed so little Fite, until 

they noticed that all his favorite 

beverage, kerosene, had spilled on 

the Flora. And you can check us 

on that detail, if you're doubtful! 

Before closing this little chat 

we must include a word of com¬ 

mendation to Bandmaster Castle 

berry, who produced the musical 

hits with graceful gusto, in spite 

of the current odds against her. 

Sometimes, above the din of the 

surging circus mob, you could al¬ 

most hear the soothing swish of 

Castleberry swing. The girl's 

born electrician! 

Alumnations 
(Continued from page 2, col. 3) 
Business College in Atlanta. Julia 
Thing has just finished a business 
course. 
"At home doing one tiling and 
another" is Mary Jane Tigert's sit¬ 
uation. She is waiting until she's 
twenty-one when she will be able 
to enter the University of Florida. 
One of our Phi Beta Kappa's, 
Frances Wilson, has received a 
teaching fellowship at Mt. Holyoke, 
where she is taking her mas¬ 
ter's degree. 
There were quite a few of the 
'37 class who decided travel was 
more interesting than a summer 
school. Louise Brown visited in 
Dallas, Texas; Frances Cary made 

Y. W. Retreat 
Gives Cabinet 

Gay Week-End 

There are week-ends that con¬ 
sist of just another day or two, or 
maybe one "red letter" day. But 
the week-end that thirteen Hotten¬ 
tots and a faculty member have 

just spent at Smyrna will be re¬ 
membered often as this year rushes 
on. Last week-end found the Y. 

W. C. A. cabinet and Miss Virginia 
Gray planning the year's activities. 
Read about it between the dots . . . 
Winifred in "Little Llewellyn" 
(Bert Palmour's pride and joy on 
four wheels) rolling helplessly 
backwards into a funny old mule 
. Thirteen girls and a faculty 
member eating "African" toast 
(every-day toast plus the smoke of 
a kerosene range) . .. . Doug Lyle 
hard at work "taking down what 
other people say" . . . Primmie, 
Grace W., Martha Long all in one 
bed, buried under every coat, blan¬ 
ket, and pillow in the cabin . . . 
Amelia and Mamie Lee arguing 
over who snored the loudest . . . 
Millie sputtering with her mouth 
full of toothpaste suddenly realiz¬ 
ing that the water "just isn't" . . . 
Julia and Henri trudging toward 
the well with arms full of pans and 
pitchers . . . Mildred screwing up 
her hair and blossoming out with 
adorable curls in the morning . . . 
"Cat" and "Bobbie" trying their 
best to secretly rub the soot, off the 
cheese with Winnie's only clean 
towel . . . Everybody out under 
the trees talking and planning . . . 
Singing echo "Taps" across the 
lake under a full moon . . . Thir¬ 

teen girls and a faculty member 
playing, marching, and praying to¬ 
gether for two glorious days . . . 
Another Y. W. C. A. retreat is 

mer in Europe. Sarah has resigned 
a teaching position in the Atlanta 
public schools to become Dr. Ful¬ 
ler's secretary at the First Baptist 
Church in Atlanta. 

As would be expected, many 
alumna are now teachers in vari¬ 
ous towns. Mary Buckholz is 
doing cadet teaching in Miami, 
Fla.; Cornelia Christie is instruct¬ 
ing seventh grade at Cuthbert, 
Ga.; Jane Estes and Barton Jack¬ 
son teach in Chipley, Ga.; Mary 
Gillespie at Donalson, ,Ga.; Martha 
Head and Kitty Jones at Monticello 
High School, Monticello, Ga., 
and they're rooming together. 
There is also Jean Kirkpatrick 
teaching at Beton, S. C.; Florence 
Lassiter at Jefferson, Ga.; Vivienne 
Long has a first grade at Doraville, 
Ga.; while June Matthews is at 
Symrna, Ga., and Marie Stalker at 
the Samuel Inman School in At¬ 
lanta. Both. Mary Jane King and 
Fannie B. Harris are enjoying their 
teaching in Dalton, Ga. Mary Jane 
claims she still misses Virgil . and 
Chaucer in the atmosphere of an 
elementary school; however, Dal¬ 
ton is so full of Agnes Scott alum¬ 
nae that it is possible to talk over 
such matters with sympathetic 
Hottentots. 

We Think 
(Editor's Note: The We Think column is

conducted for the purpose of giving an out¬

let to student opinion. The staff is in no

way^ responsible for what is printed in this

column and it is by no means to be taken 

as the editorial opinion of the paper.) 

We've been thinking for a pret¬ 
ty long while now and we've de¬ 
cided that the time has come to 
mention the unmentionable, to dis¬ 
cuss the lowest of practices—Boot¬ 
licking. What is bootlicking any¬ 
way, and how can it be distin¬ 
guished from common courtesy 
and a sincere desire for friendship? 

Bootlicking has been defined as: 
flattering a teacher in order to get 
a good grade . . . yessing a superior 
to make a good impression ... or 
kotowing to anyone to raise your¬ 
self in that person's estimation. It's 
a despicable habit and, we think, a 
habit so looked down on by stu¬ 
dents today that on many campus¬ 
es it has placed a sort of barrier be¬ 
tween the teacher and student. 

What has happened to the once 
popular custom of Sunday after¬ 
noon open houses when groups of 
students called at the homes of fac¬ 
ulty members to talk with them 
about things outside the classroom, 
and to become better acquainted 
with them? It has been discouraged 
and destroyed by a whispering 
campaign. Today, if a student is 
seen walking with a professor, 
playing tennis with her, calling at 
her house, the word somehow gets 
around and another victim is added 
to the list of bootlickers. 

Agnes Scott professors are se¬ 
lected as much for their ability to 
deal with and understand students 
as for their ability to teach them 
facts from books. It seems rather 
stupid then, on our part, to miss 
one of the greatest opportunities of 
a college education. That of be¬ 
coming acquainted with some of 
the best well-stocked, well-rounded 
minds with which it will ever be 
our fortune to meet. 

Two former students enjoy 
medical work. Wayve Lewis works 
for three doctors and lives in De¬ 
catur, while Betty Willis is fur¬ 
thering her medical study at the 
University of Virginia. 

It seems fifteen Hottentots are 
at Southern Bell in Atlanta, the 
most recent being Nellie Margaret 
Gilroy, Martha Summers, Mildred 
Tilly, Florence Little and Kitty 
Printup. Mildred and Kitty are 
also going to night school. 

Everyone who knew the presi¬ 
dent of student government must 
want to know what Alice Hannah 
is doing. Hannah was a counselor 
at Juliette Lowe Camp for Girls 
this summer and is now attending 
the Assembly Training School in 
Richmond, Va. She has been ex¬ 
cited about a job in a mission sta¬ 
tion in Africa, but is not going 
for a while. 

Then, the May Queen, Lucile 
Dennison, is working in the regis¬ 
trar's office at Emory, where she 
has a two year fellowship. 

Sadness entered several of the 
girls' homes since they left Agnes 
Scott. The student body sympa¬ 
thized with Charline Fleece, now 
Mrs. James Halverstadt, in the 

a more extensive trip by going to 
Europe, and taking the Mediterran¬ 

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Sarah Johnson also spent the sum¬ 
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BOWEN PRESS 

B. S. U. Council 
Enjoys Annual 

Fall Retreat 

The Baptist Student Union 
Council of Agnes Scott College 
had its annual fall retreat Sunday, 
September 19, at Mr. Grady Lee's 
farm near Decatur. The council 

received inspiration for this work 
during the coming year through 
addresses by several Baptist leaders 
carrying out the theme adopted for 
the year: "The Maximum Christ¬ 
ian." The speakers included: Mr. 
Henry Robinson, of Agnes Scott 
College; Dr. Ellis Fuller, pastor of 
the First Baptist Church of Atlan¬ 
ta; Dr. A. J. Moncrief, pastor of 
the Decatur Baptist Church; Mr. 

D. B. Nicholson, state B. S. U. sec¬ 
retary, and Mr. William Hall Pres¬ 
ton, south-wide student leader. 
loss of her father early in the sum¬ 
mer and with Wayne Lewis, who 
also lost her father. The class of 
'37 was deeply saddened by the 
sudden death of Betty Hollis, June 
27, 19371 

Athletic Board 

Chooses Three 

To Lead Work 

At a meeting early in the fall 
the 1937-3 8 Athletic Board chose 
Lettie McKay to be song leader, 
Mary Nell Taylor to manage ten¬ 
nis, and Mary Eleanor Steele to 
manage basketball, filling vacan¬ 
cies left by Mary Past, Helen Car¬ 
son, and Stell Cuddy. These girls 
join the board in getting under 
way a full and exciting program 
for the fall sports season. 

Fouch Brinton, hockey manager, 
has announced the following class 
managers of hockey: Nell Allison, 
senior; Emma McMullen, junior; 
Penn Hammond, sophomore; and 
Ruth Hancke, freshman. The 
hockey season began last Monday. 
Practice hours for each class are 
posted in the gym. 

Virginia Milner, swimming man¬ 
ager, announces three of the class 
managers of swimming. They are 
Kat Brittingham, senior; Esthere 
Ogden, junior; and Bryant Holsenbeck, 
sophomore. 

Good Evening! Weaiher today: Cloudy Thursday 
night and Friday. 

r 

For the first BIG party 
of the season ... 

We've planned to make this the gayest, 
party season for you in years by getting 
ous flock of party dresses we could f 
nicest thing about it all . . . you can 
this small price. Soft, rustling taffeta 
that make them double-duty dresses, 
for you ... in peacock, rose, royal and 

15, and plenty of small sizes. 

OMcre party hocks of loco,

saffin, vtlvef, crept nets,

oil colors. ..12.95 to 25.00. 

junior-deb shop 

second floor 
• 

1295 
the most glorious 
the most glamornd. 
..andthe 
afford several at 
with little jackets 
Certainly a color 
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AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1937

VOL. XXIII 

Current History 

Front Row 

Clubs Combine 

To Form Forum 
By Jane Guthrie 

UNITED STATES: Takes the The Citizenship Club, the Inter¬ 
lead by denouncing Japan as national Relations Club, and the 
"treaty-breaker." Roosevelt s Chi¬ National Students Federation of 

cago speech and Secretary of State s America Discussion Group have 
accusation gratify other European combined their activities on the 
nations. Conference with Nine campus to form a Current History 

Power signatories considered Ad, it Forum. The new organization will 
is rumored, will be held in Wash¬ be known as the Current History 
ington. Definite measures to end Forum, sponsored by the three 
war without war gain popular sup¬ former organizations, with com¬ 
port. bined dues, meetings, and member¬ 

BRITAIN'S ambassador in Wash¬ ships, and with one group of offi¬ 
ington, Sir Ronald Lindsay, asks cers. 
a further statement concerning The first meeting was held 
United States quarantine proposal. Tuesday afternoon, October 12, at 
England hopes quarantining is just 4:00 P. M. in the Murphey Candanother 
word for boycotting and ler Building, with Dr. Philip 
that United States will back her in Davidson, professor of history, as 
interrupting trade relations with speaker. The subject for the day 
Japan. If this plan goes through, will be the Supreme Court and 
75% of Japan's vital supplies will Justice Hugo Black. Monthly 

be seriously handicapped, making a meetings will be held thereafter, 
continuation of the invasion almost open to all those interested. The 
impossible. forum will be instrumental in 

FRANCE joins Britain in asking bringing to the campus speakers of 
United States to unite in negotia¬ merit and in conducting discus¬ 
tions against Japan. GENEVA is sions preparing the student for 
much cheered up by the United citizenship and acquainting her 
States' stand. with affairs of the day. 

ITALY: The press at Rome, dis¬ 
regarding Ethiopia and Spain, pro¬ 

Forum Sponsors

tests that Italy is seeking peace. 
Italy has been invited to partici¬ 

Bulletin Board 

pate with France and England in Chairmen Patterson and Thompson Examine Cat 

—Courtesy Atlanta Constitution.

Three Power conversations con¬ 
cerning Spain. It is said that Italy The Current History Forum is 
will refuse. The reason being that Deep Secrecy Cloaks Plans planning to sponsor a communityGermany was not invited to the 

bulletin board to be placed in the 

tete-a-tete. 

Of Black Cat Committees library at Agnes Scott. The board

GERMANY seems, like Italy, to 

will be for the benefit of the stu¬

have been undisturbed by an¬ 

nouncements from the west. The With only four days left before Costumes—Lucille Scott. dent body and will contain lists of 
Berlin press suggests that the Presi¬ Saturday night, October 16, the Dances—Marjorie Boggs. the most important recent maga¬ 
dent initiate "a genuine investiga¬ freshmen and sophomore commit¬ Stage Manager—Evelyn Baty. zine articles, radio programs, and 
tion into causes, not merely symp¬ tees are completing plans for the Music—Mickey Warren. 

news articles. It will also have 

toms, of present world chaos." traditional Black Cat contest. The freshmen chairmen: 

news clippings and headlines.

Chairman Henrietta Thompson Business Manager—Tom May

JAPAN fights on, ignoring 

The bulletin board is being

says plans are being finished for Turner.

words, codes and pressures. She 

made in the same finish as the li¬

the sophomores under the com¬ Treasurer—Grace Moffat.

agrees to attend the Nine Power 

conference. Expects no sanctions petent direction of her committee Writing—Jean Slack. brary so that it will harmonize 

with the other fixtures. Eliza

chairmen. Patde Patterson reveals Costume—Louise Musser.

and will tolerate none. Meanwhile 

King and an appointed committee

that the capable freshmen chair¬ Properties—Betsy Kendrick.

ammunitions pile up, food is scarce 
and the dissatisfaction of the Jap¬ men have their stunt well on the Stage—Freck Sproles. will have charge. 

way to perfection. Chorus—Mary Scott Wild.

anese citizen increases. 

The sophomore chairmen: Dance—Jean Dennison. Concert Series 
Writing—Sophie Montgomery. Music—Grace Walker. 
Georgia Hunt Plans Program—Mary Reins. Decoration—Edith Henegar. A rtists 
Property—Mette Williamson. Make Up—Marguerite Ingly.

For Fire-Prevention 

Decorations—Ruth Slack. Song Creations—Gay Swagerty. By Mamie Lee Ratliff 
The All Star Concert Series, 
"I am going to stage a good presented by the Atlanta Music

English Debate Tryouts Professor Dieckmann 

fire-prevention campaign," said Club and the Atlanta Philhar¬ 
Georgia Hunt Wednesday imme¬ Publishes Two Songs monic Society, under the manage¬ 
diately after the announcement of Pi Alpha Phi, the Agnes Scott ment of Mr. Marvin MacDonald, 
her election to the office of school debating society, has set Monday, has scheduled for its 1937-193 8

Professor C. W. Dieckmann,

Fire Chief. The winning candi¬ October 18, as the date for its season seven internationally known

head of the music department, has

date was the popular nominee for members to try out for the team groups of musicians; two of the

had accepted two original composi¬

the office left vacant when Mary which will debate the Cambridge greatest prima donnas of the Met¬

tions, an anthem and solo song,

Past, who was elected last spring, Union Society and the Oxford Un¬ ropolitan Opera Company, "Amer¬

for publication by the H. W.

did not return. Mary Nell Tribble, ion Society, of England, about the ica's most popular baritone," the

Gray Company. The former is ded¬

the other candidate, was the com¬ middle of November. Maily foremost contemporary pianist


icated to Mr. Ragan, director of

mittee nominee for the post. The Frances Guthrie will be one of the composer, new and unusual bal¬

the All Saint's choir, at whose re¬ a 

first vote was held October 2. two debaters. let, a master violinist, and a mag¬

quest Mr. Dieckmann wrote the 

nificent symphony orchestra.

anthem, and to his choir. The 

Mr, Stakes Serves on Group Because the Atlanta Series at¬

composition is a unison anthem, 

tracts an audience at each per¬

having as an especially interesting 

people

To Unify Teachers' Training feature an independent organ formance of about 5000 

and because it has the largest sub¬

background. The solo song is a 
Realizing the need of uniform for teaching throughout the South, setting of Rossetti's Uphill. scription of any such series in 
teacher training requirements in the committee made a preliminary America, it is recognized as the 
southern states, the Southern Uni¬ report in December, 1936. Fol¬ outstanding concert series of this

Main, White House,

versity Conference two years ago lowing this report, the committee country. The low prices at which 
appointed a committee to study turned its efforts to urging state Cottages Announce these concerts can be heard is 
the matter and make recommenda¬ departments of education to unify made possible only through the

Lower House Reps

tions for accomplishing it. Agnes their requirements. Week before support of the music-lovers of this 

Scott, ably represented by Mr. last a meeting was held in At¬ section. So popular is this series 
Stukes, is the only woman's col¬ lanta to which all southern states Five girls have been elected to that usually there is a sold-out 
lege boasting a committee mem¬ except North Carolina and Texas represent Main, White House, and house on season tickets long before 
ber. The other members are sent delegates. the cottages in the quarterly the first concert. 

Chairman President Guerry of the In view of the great need for an meetings of the lower house. They The schedule of this winter's 
University of Chattanooga; Chan¬ arrangement allowing teachers to are: Myrl Chafin, from White concerts is as follows, the first 
cellor Butts, of the University of qualify for their profession in one House and the cottages; Ruth three programs being presented in 
Mississippi; Chancellor Carmichael, state, and subsequently follow it Crisp and Georgia Hunt, from the Fox Theatre and the last four 
of Vanderbilt, and Dean Holton, anywhere in the region, it is ex¬ second floor Main; and Ludie in the new Atlanta Auditorium: 
of Duke University. pected that the program proposed Moore and Shirley Steele, from Rosa Ponselle, soprano, Thursday 
After investigating regulations will immediately be adopted. third floor Main. evening, October 14; Yehudi Men-

NO. 2 

Paper, KUB 

Make Plans 

To Combine 

Students May Try Out For 
Club and Agonistic at 
One Time 

One of the first efforts toward 
dis-organization on the campus 
was made at the call meeting of 

K. U. B. on Wednesday, October 
6, when the members voted to 
combine the journalism club with 
the Agonistic staff. 
Under this plan, only one tryout 
will be necessary to become a 
member of K. U. B. or an Ago¬ 
nistic reporter. Those on the Agonistic 
staff this year will become 
members of the K. U. B., and 
those who are already in the club 
may be reporters for the Agonistic 
if they wish. Next year's staff will 
be drawn entirely from the club. 

K. U. B. is the publicity club 
for Agnes Scott. Through its mem¬ 
bers the Atlanta papers receive 
pictures and notices of the day 
students, and the home town pa¬ 
pers are informed when some spe¬ 
cial honor comes to a boarding stu¬ 
dent. At its regular meeting this 
afternoon, at four-thirty, in the 
Murphey Candler Building, Dr. 
McCain will speak. 
Nine Transfers 

Attend Picnic 

Entertaining the nine exchange 
students, Mortar Board gave a 
picnic Thursday, October 8, at a 
clearing two blocks from Agnes 
Scott. Those attending include, be¬ 
sides the members of Mortar 
Board: Hattie Minna Reid, Grace 
Ruderson, Florence Graham, Bunnie 
Westbrook, Sara Nicholson, 
Jean Fairley, Beth Paris and Betty 
Embry. 

Presents i 

of World Fame 

uin, violinist, Wednesday evening, 

November 24; Rachmaninoff, 

pianist-composer, Thursday eve¬ 

ning, December 9; Joos European 

Ballet, Saturday evening, February 

12; Nelson Eddy, baritone, 

Wednesday evening, March 9; St. 

Louis Symphony Orchestra, Vlad¬ 

imir Golschmann, conductor, 

Wednesday evening, March 30;. 

Kirsten Flagstad, soprano, Wednes¬ 

day evening, April 27. 

Rosa Ponselle's program, as she 

opens the season's concerts, is com¬ 

posed of the following numbers: 

Aria "Adieu Forets" from "Jeanne 

d'Arc" by Tschaikowsky; "A 

Pastoral," Verocini; "Marietta's 

Lied" from "Die Tote Stadt" by 

Worngold; "Rispetto" by Wolf-

Ferrari; "Contemplation" by 

Widor; "Ouvre ton Coeur" by 

Bizet; "Addio Del Passato" from 

Verdi's "La Trayiata"; "Chanson 

Bohcme" from Bizet's "Carmen"; 

"My Lovely Celia" by Higgins; 

"Eros" by Grieg; "Fairy Pipers," 

by Brewer; "Soldier's Bride" by 

Rachmaninoff; and "Into tht-

Light" by La Forge. 

Piano solos to be played by 

Stuart Ross, Miss Ponselle's accom¬ 

panist, will be: "Choral from Can¬ 

tata No. 22" by Bach-Kalberine; 

"Organ Prelude in G Minor" by 

Bach-Samaroff; "Rhapsodic in G 

Minor" by Brahms; and "Etude in 

B Minor" by Chopin. 


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THE AGONISTIC 

U. S. A. Declares Japan
Historical Work Depicts

©l)e Agonistic 

Violater of Treaty

44;

PUBLISHED WEEKLY Pageant of the Ages" 

Owned and published by the students of Agnes Scott 
College. 

Entered as Second Class Matter at Decatur, Georgia. 

Subscription price, $1.25 per year in advance. 
Single copies, 5 c. 

1937 Member 1938 
Pissocided GoUe&ote Press 

STAFF 
Hortense Jones Elizabeth Blackshear 
Editor Business Manager 
Jane Guthrie Esthers OgdenMary McCann Hudson Advertising Manager 
Associate Editors 

Frances Castleberry

Mary Frances Guthrie 

Jeanne Redwine 

Marie Merritt 

Alice Reins

Assistant Editors 

Eugenia Bridges

Elizabeth Skinner 

Circulation Managers

Make-up Editor 

Alice Cheeseman

Elizabeth Kenney 

Sports Editor

Asst. Make-tip Editor 

Mary Reins

Giddy Erwin 

Exchange Editor

Feature Editor 
Mary Wells McNeil Jeannette Carroll 
AssL Feature Editor Alumnae Editor 
Mary Anne Kernan Louise Hughston 
Current History News Editor 
Elizabeth Warden Evelyn Baty 
Book Editor Club Editor 

REPORTERS: N. Allison, E. Baty, M. Chafin, 

M. L. Dobbs, G. Duggan, M. L. Gill, N. Hemp-
hill, L. Houghston, E. Hutchens, C. K. Hutchins, 
R. Hurwitz, F. Lee, E. McCall, P. Noble, 
M. L. Ratliffe, A. Reins, H. Solomon, S. Steinbach, 
V. J. Watkins, L. Young, D. Weinkle, 
M. Merlin. 
BUSINESS STAFF: M. Chafin, H. Hirsch, N. 
Echols, J. Flynt, M. Williamson, F. Abbot, M. 
Oliver. 

Union of KUB, Paper 

Will Help Both 

Believing that until we move out of our 
own glass house we cannot heave even the 
tiniest pebble at others, the Agonistic has 
responded to its own dis-organization cam¬ 
paign by entering a co-operative union with 

K. U. B. We believe that the journalism 
club can help us with its technical training 
and with the valuable advice of its able fac¬ 
ulty advisor, Miss Christie; and we hope we 
can help K. U. B. by giving its members an 
opportunity to take a more integral part in 
campus activity. 
We also feel that this union will be one 
step toward remedying the dissipation of 
energy which we think is apparent through¬ 
out our organizations. New members of K. 

U. B. will become at the same time reporters 
for the Agonistic; and in the future, ' the 
paper's staff will be chosen exclusively from 
K. U. B. Potential journalists take note! 
With great satisfaction we also note the 
consolidation of the four current events clubs 
into the Current History Forum. Although 
it would gratify us to claim credit for the 
move, veracity forces us to admit that the 
combination was decided before we published 
our momentous declaration. At any rate, we 
thoroughly approve the plan. 

We Think 

(Editor's Note: The We Think column is conducted for the 

purpose of triving an outlet to student opinion. The staff is in 

no way responsible for what is printed in this column and it is

by no means to be taken as the editorial opinion of the paper.) 

We think we should remember that Thurs¬ 
day night we shall attend the first concert 
of the season, and that we shall be noticed 
there, not as individual music-lovers, but as 
representatives of Agnes Scott. It may not 
be a fair way to do so, but it seems that a 
large group of people in Atlanta judge the 
school mostly by the conduct of its students 
at these concerts. 

Peanuts and chewing gum are fine for the 
fair, but they just don't go with evening 
dresses; candy is nice, but crackling paper 
spoils the event for a great many people; 
singing "How Dry I Am" is fun at camp, but 
is doesn't sound so nice coming from a special 
street car full of girls in evening clothes, rid¬ 
ing down Peachtree Street. 

We think we can enjoy our rides into the 
concerts and intermissions there, and at the 
same time act like fairly grown-up people 
who are accustomed to environments of cul¬ 
ture and refinement. 

Charmed Circles. Hobart G. Chat


field-Taylor, Houghton Mifflin 

Co., New York, 1935. Re¬ 

viewed by Jane Salters. 

Charmed Circles, a recent his¬ 

torical work by Hobart C. Chatfield-
Taylor, is presented to the 
public in the author's foreword as 
not "a treatise, a preachment, an 
allegory, or a propaganda, but 
merely a diversion"—a pageant of 
the ages. To see clearly, one must 
stand before it in imagination as 
"in a French public square during 
the performance of a mistere de¬ 
picting the ways of other days, or 
else in an English street while 
scenes from bygone ages pass by 
on wheels." 

This interesting history of polite 
society and of the social arbiters 
of succeeding ages ranges from the 
Golden Age of Greece to the mod¬ 
ern mechanical and scientific era. 
To each chapter the author has 
given a descriptive title which in¬ 
troduces the theme which he fol¬ 
lows in picturing each age. Thus 
we read of the lofty philosophy of 
the Olympian Age, the republican 
ideals of 'the Patrician Age, the 
pomp and grandeur of the Impe¬ 
rial Age, the fusion of the Eastern 
customs with Western manners in 
the Schismatic Age, the fierceness 
of the Age of Chivalry, the court¬ 
liness of the Age of Minstrelsy, 
the artistic Age of Culture, the 
buccaneering, explorative Age of 
Daring, the refined Age of King¬ 
ship, the voluptuous Wanton Age, 
the saner and more tolerant Hu¬ 
manizing Age, the hospitable and 

Winthrop Students 

• Find New Use 
For Hose 

Looking through the papers this 
week, we find some unique ideas 
incorporated into the campus life 
of different colleges. At Winthrop 
huge boxes are put in each dormi¬ 
tory labelled "Put Your Old Hose 
Here." During the summer two 
of the students visited in a sana¬ 
torium in Connecticut where the 
invalids made rugs out of old hose. 
And so to help the sanatorium they 
brought the idea to their college, 
and the plan has taken like wild¬ 
fire. 

In the Parley-Voo we run across 
an interesting account of plans 
for a Junior-Freshman wedding. 
To formally join the two classes 
in the "holy bonds of friendship" 
the bride, a freshman, and the 
groom, a junior, are to be united 
in a mock ceremony. Bridesmaids 
and groomsmen from both classes 
are chosen by the juniors, and to 
stir up excitement, the identity of 
both bride and groom is kept 
secret until the last. 

The Crimson and White, in 

its editorial column, "Student 

Thoughts," devotes a whole col¬ 

umn to the need of "living up¬ 

stairs." For an introductory ex¬ 

planation there is a quotation from 

A. E. Dimnet's book, The Art of 
Thinking-. "We are all conscious 
of living our moral life, as it 
were, in a two-storied house. 
Downstairs goes on what has been 
too evident a claim to the painful 
label: ordinary. Upstairs we have 
a different outlook and associate 
in better company." The editorial 
continues with this comment: 
"A common form of conserva¬ 
tion on lower levels consists of 
banter and attempts at humor— 
harmless accessories of speech, but 
admittedly tiresome and useless. 
Unfortunately, a great part of our 
conversation among college stu¬ 
dents falls into this category." 

From the Current Events col¬ 
umn in The Huntress comes two 
spicy comments on world affairs: 
"While the Chinese are audibly 

gracious Plantation Age, the weak 
and neurotic Fatuous Age, the rev¬ 
olutionary Subversive Age, the 
strict Victorian Respectable Age, 
and the modern, progressive Chal¬ 
lenging Age. 

Although the author describes 
each age on a different theme, the 
same qualities of human nature 
can be traced from Pericles' Day 
to our own. Though covered up 
under changing names and con¬ 
cealed by altering customs, there 
can be seen the heroism or coward¬ 
ice, strength or weakness, nobility 
or baseness that run through all 
ages, exerting a varied influence. 

In his book the author describes 
in detail the customs, morals, man¬ 
ners, politics, ideals, and philoso¬ 
phies of the polite society of each 
period, revealing plainly the follies 
and foibles, virtues and vices of 
each leading class of society. None 
of these pictures can be said to 
represent faithfully the whole 
view of the age, for it must be re¬ 
membered that Charmed Circles is 
a history of polite society and not 
of the plebian customs of the 
masses. 

The conclusion of the book is a 
plea for the salvation of democracy 
in an age of insecurity—an age 
that challenges the altruistic peo¬ 
ple of the world to their best ef¬ 
forts toward the preservation of 
civilization, "that in years to come 
historians may speak of the Chal¬ 
lenging Age, of which our troubled 
day is but a part, as a renaissance, 
not of the humanities, but of hu¬ 
manity itself." 

A. S. Missionary 
Sends Thanks 

For Donation 

In acknowledgement of their 
gift of $19 to the mission work 
among Korean girls, the Freshman 
Bible Class of last year received on 
October 5 a letter from Agnes 
Scott's own Missionary, Miss Emily 
Winn, of Chunju, Chosen. Miss 
Winn expressed her appreciation 
not only for the financial aid but 
also for the encouragement of her 
Agnes Scott friends. She asked 
that all the girls of the college 
pray for the condition of Korean 
Missionary work, distressingly re¬ 
tarded by the forced closing of 
the Boys' and Girls' Schools, which 
-makes it impossible for the youth 
of Chosen to secure a Christian 
education. 

An excerpt from Miss Winn's 
letter states: "The $19 came to 
about 65 yen and I'm pretty sure 
this is what I'll do with it—pay 
the tuition of 3 high school stu¬ 
dents who have been studying in 
our Girls' School but who are now 
entering the kindergarten course 

(10 yen); use some to help pay 
the expense of one of our Bible 
School graduates while she holds 
Bible classes for a month and a 
half in some of our country 
churches, giving her some New 
Testaments to give to some who 
really mean to study it . . . and 
the rest toward the expenses of 
another former Bible student—a 
girl of unusual gifts and personal¬ 
ity—as she assists a missionary in 
holding Bible classes during the 
next five or six months." Miss 
Winn, who is due to go on fur¬ 
lough next June, added in closing 
that she was "heartily looking for¬ 
ward to knowing all you girls at 
Agnes Scott." 

lamenting the fact that they ever 
invented gunpowder, all Europe is 
wondering if this modern machine 
age is quite the berries after all. 
Members of college fraternities 
are advocating a return to the 
Chaucerian Ideal of Internation¬ 
alism." 

Roosevelt Proposes Quarantine, Sec¬ 

retary Hull Endorses League's 

Condemnation 

By Mary Anne Kernan 

Uncle Sam has at long last pointed the ac¬ 
cusing finger at Japan; for the first time in 
its history the United States has declared a 
nation an aggressor and a violator of specific 
treaties. This latest development in Ameri¬ 
can foreign policy has significant implica¬ 
tions and far-reaching consequences. 

The League has had an important part in 
formulating the most recent policies of the 
State Department. Last week the League 
sent a copy of the Advisory Committee re¬ 
port on the Sino-Japanese situation to Secre¬ 
tary Hull. The Secretary of State replied im¬ 
mediately with an endorsement of the report 
and a direct condemnation of Japan, togeth¬ 
er with assurances of cooperation in the 
speedy settlement of the Far-Eastern con¬ 
flict. This statement was an excellent followup 
to that of President Roosevelt in his Chi¬ 
cago speech in which he recommended a quar¬ 
antine against warring nations as a means 
of terminating the present conflict. Varying 
comments, most of them favorable to the de¬ 
cisive policy indicated, were expressed 
throughout the world. 

PLAIN DIPLOMACY 
Secretary Hull's pronouncement contained 
some very plain language: there was no 
guarded diplomacy in his expression. The fol¬ 
lowing part, for instance, is obvious enough 
to be startling: "The government of the 
United States has been forced to the conclu¬ 
sion that the action of Japan in China is in¬ 
consistent with the principles which should 
govern nations and is contrary to the Nine-
Power Treaty of Feb. 6, 1922, regarding prin¬ 
ciples and policies to be followed in matters 
concerning China and to those of the Kellogg-
Briand Pact of Aug. 27, 1928." 
Treaties, neutrality legislation, League 
provisions—all of these are involved in the 
present attitude of the United States. Under 
the Nine-Power Treaty the United States, 
Belgium, France, Great Britain, Japan, China, 
Portugal, Italy and the Netherlands agreed 
to "respect the sovereignty, the independ¬ 
ence, and the territorial and administrative 
integrity of China." The present reference 
of the State Department to this treaty is the 
first time that it has been invoked. Another 
treaty signed at the Washington Conference 
and also important here is the Four-Power 
Treaty uniting France, Great Britain, Japan, 
and the United States in an agreement to re¬ 
spect the rights of each other in the Pacific. 
The Kellogg-Briand Pact consisted principal¬ 
ly of a denunciation of war as an instrument 
in the settlement of disputes and a recom¬ 
mendation of pacific methods in such cases. 
These, then, are the international agreements 
involved. 

AND THEN THE LEAGUE 
The League provisions deserve separate 
consideration. The famous and much-abused 
Article 16 is the important one here. This 
article, of course, provides for the employ¬ 
ment of sanctions against an aggressor na¬ 
tion. While the United States is not a mem¬ 
ber of the League, Secretary Hull's endorse¬ 
ment of League condemnation and offers of 
co-operation may involve the United States 
in the application of sanctions against Japan. 
If this should happen there would be the 
problem of modifying our present neutrality 
legislation, since the Pittman Neutrality Act 
of 1936 provides for an embargo on the ship¬ 
ment of arms to belligerents, not simply to 
the aggressor. Obviously the embargo and 
sanctions could not operate at the same time. 
In the event of an immediate necessity for 
changing this legislation, the President would 
have to call a special session of Congress 
which might in turn debate until the war 
was over. 

COMPLEX PROBLEM 
The problem is complex and far-reaching 
in its implications. The United States has 
taken an active and significant stand in open¬ 
ly condemning Japan, thus supporting the 
League and several of its treaties while vio¬ 
lating the spirit, if not the letter, of the ex¬ 
istent neutrality legislation. The present 
question seems to be whether to maintain 
strict neutrality by a hands-off policy or to 
actively strive for peace through methods 
such as sanctions. The possibility of an in¬ 
ternational conference to discourage Japan¬ 
ese aggression in China seems quite likely 
now. 


THE AGONISTIC 

Revered "First Lady" Sees

Agnes Scotters Tell About 

Along 

Expansion of Agnes Scott

Vivid Summer Experiences The Colonnade 

Camping, Teaching, Loafing, Sight-seeing Leave 
Gay Memories in Minds of Those Not Going 
On European Tour 

The crackling of camp-fires, the rippling of white-ruffled 
waves, the creakling of hammock-chains, and the roaring of 
train-wheels—these seem to have been the sounds most fa¬ 
miliar to Agnes Scott ears during the past summer. Back 
from three exciting months of 
camping, teaching, loafing, and 

Educators Enjoy

sight-seeing, those Agnes Scotters 
who were not fortunate enough to 

Agnes Scott Tea 

go to Europe (and thus be inter¬ 
viewed last week) recount their 
most vivid experiences of the Library Is Complimented 
summer. These range not only 
from the well-known sublime to 

"Really, your tea is quite Eng¬

the ridiculous, but also from the 

lish," was the verdict of a group

gory to the hilarious. 
of twenty educators from various

Gary Horne cites as her most 

parts of the British Empire, when

dynamic adventure the winning of 

Agnes Scott entertained them at

$100 on Bank Night (and who 

tea served on the library terrace

wouldn't?) Hortense Jones be¬ 

Wednesday, October 6, at eleven 

comes quite animated over the 

o'clock. Members of the faculty

memories of seeing Colorado, New 

were hosts at the occasion, while

Mexico and points West by tin-

girls from Mortar Board served.

can method. She was especially 

The educators are on an observa¬

enthusiastic over using the same 

tion tour of the country, and

tin cup for coffee, soup, stew, 

Agnes Scott was highly honored in

beans, eggs, bacon, and hand-

washing. that it was the only woman's col¬ 
lege in the United States which

Mickey Warren's most unfor¬ 

the group visited. After the tea,

gettable incident was returning 

the guests inspected the library

from a boat-ride to find her family 

and announced that of the several

dredging the river for her body. 

college libraries they had seen

Jane Turner declares that "Having as those of Duke Col¬

(such and 

my sister getting engaged" was 

umbia), Agnes Scott's was the

her most interesting experience. 

finest.

Alice Reins likes to remember 

Most of the educators came

"knitting in a canoe at Ridge-

from colonies in South Africa,

crest." Ruth Caplan recalls most 

with a few from South America.

vividly the anguish of having to 

While the merciless noon sun of a

stay in Savannah while her mother 

hot October day wilted the Agnes

barged up to New York. 

Scott hosts, the guests from South 

Many girls, including Bunny America pronounced the weather 
Marsh, Nell Pinner, Eloise McCall, "perfect."
and others considered "falling in 
love" their most dynamic summer 

Virginia Milner, Lettie McKay,

experience. Samille's most thrilling 

Mary Evelyn Francis, Penn Ham¬

adventure was no doubt saying 

mond, and Virginia Suttenfield

"Yes," from the looks of the ring. 

give of the soda-imbibing, head


"Little Nell" Allison recalls most 

holding, and rail-hanging ):hat

vividly sailing around in a kyack 

prevailed at Camp Highlands the

(one of those canoe coupes, so to 

night that the entire Camp ac¬

speak) on White Lake, North 

quired ptomaine poisoning from

Carolina. 

green-pepper sandwiches. It seems 
Jean Chalmers will never for¬ that Penn Hammond digested 
get her anguish the night she had eight of the said sandwiches and 
to get up enough courage to face infuriated the rest of the camp byher Abbeville, S. C., hostess after remaining well. The one cheeringgiving out of gas—actually!— ray in the entire camp was the 

with a date and waiting for hours clever lass who exclaimed uponfor some kind soul to bring them leaving the infirmary, "Thanks 
home. While she was suffering at loads for your hospitality!"
the thought that Frances' aunt 
would probably scoff at the "old 
gag," poor Frances Castleberry 

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—Across the campus, mingling 

Resume Duties; First Absence in Nine

with the Heaven-scent odor of 
newly-mown wild onions (their Years Grieves All 
best friends really ought to tell 

them!), there floats such an at¬ Being absent for the first time in nine years, Miss Nanmosphere 
of mystery that even nette Hopkins, beloved Dean of Agnes Scott, has extended 
your Agnes Scouter is baffled—al¬ her rest cure for at least two weeks. The revered "first lady" 
though she reahzes that this of the college returned from her vacation and worked so hard 

that her physician advised a brief

aroma wasn't built in a day. This 

rest cure.

mysterious aura is created by the 
combined efforts of the Frisky Miss Hopkins was the first offi¬ 
Freshmen and the Sober Sophs as cial employed by the college when 
they creep about behind sinister Did You Know it was begun as an "Institute for 
expressions murmuring weird epi¬ Presbyterian Young Women"; 
thets—obviously, they're in the and she has served Agnes Scott for 
same Black Category! All this is forty-nine years. She worked the 
in spite of the fact that the Our assistant dean. Miss Carrie first seven years as principal of the 
freshmen and sophs became quite school. During this time she also

Scandrett, took her Ph.D. in per¬

chummy at the fresh-soph party, taught, mathematics among other

sonnel work. For a long time she

Astairing at each other in Top things. When Dr. Gaines came as

has done vocational guidance

Hats, White ties, and tails. President of the young college,

among Agnes Scott students, and

Sidelong Slants:—Georgia Poole Miss Hopkins became Dean, which

is ready at any time to help them

received eight letters in one day post she has held ever since.

in choosing curricula or jobs. 

. . . Margaret Douglas, used to the 

Her duties have included, among

selectly secluded life of Boyd (a 

On the fourth floor of our li¬ other things: placing all room¬

Boyd in a gilded cage, so to speak), 

brary is a museum and exhibit mates, adjusting all hoods and

innocently inquiring if the first 

room in which are displayed a caps at Investiture and Commence¬

House-meeting of Rebekah was to 

number of excellent paintings by ment, and previewing all stunts

be held in Pixie's room . . . Aileen 

Miss Louise Lewis, of the art de¬ and senior operas. One of her

Shortley and Jane Moore Hamilton 

partment. greatest tasks is remembering all

playing tag (or something) across 

the alumnae when they bring their

the Colonnade . . . An innocent 

Associate Professor Emma May children to introduce them to her.

freshman glibly "waiting for her 

Laney has in her keeping what Daily, for years, she has occupied

next class" in what to her was a 

will someday be a priceless collec¬ the first seat of the front row on

sit; known more

nice place to to tion of letters written to her as ad¬ the left side of the chapel.

experienced Hottentots as Dr. Mc¬ 

visor of the Lecture Association by 

Miss Hopkins has watched the

Cain's office . . . Dr. McCain re¬ 

such famous personages as: Robert

cessing all by himself to Hymn school through its growth and the

Frost, Vachel Lindsay, Edna Mil


163 in Chapel . . . "Double" trou¬ development of its traditions. She

lay, Thornton Wilder, and many

ble being had by Peggy Willis and tells with a gentle smile of the

others.

Freshman Lutterbeck; also by 

four men who attended Agnes

Freshman Henninger and Amelia 

the picture to catch the street car Scott during its brief coeducational

Nickels (but, after all, what could 

for Decatur. Imagine the razzing

you expect for your Nickels??) . . . period. She relates how the stunt

she received many moments later

Story of the Week:—Mary Mc-(as a battle of wits) replaced

when Nell, Jane and Ellen saun¬

Phaul has concluded that would-be 

hazing (a battle of fists).

tered to the carline and found her

virtue is futile, after a most pain¬ 

still there. It seems that she had

ful experience. It seems that Mary, 

suddenly remembered that she

Nell Pinner, Ellen Stuart, and 

couldn't have the "twenty-min¬

Jane Luthy were seeing the "Pris¬ 

utes late" privilege if she returned 

oner of Zenda" together, when 

alone. (Author's Note:—All the

Time Limit began to loom over the THEATRES

gals got back before the final time

horizon (If only it had been "Lost 

Limit!!)

Horizon," thought Mary!). The ■ 
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Come grab a stick— 

Your class team awaits yoti 

down on the hockey field in a 
peppy game of sticks next Friday 
afternoon at 3:30. So hurry and 
meet your practice classes and snap 
into good form. With practically 
a whole team of freshman players 
on the field who've had previous 
hockey experience in various pre¬ 
paratory schools, there's a distinct 
challenge to every other class to 
drill its team to the limit for good 
sprinting form and accurate crack 
shots. Miss Wilburn is overjoyed 
to see so much enthusiasm at prac¬ 
tices. She says there are more 
freshmen who have played before 
this year than ever before. Betty 
Moffat, Grace Moffat, Julia Lan¬ 
caster, Ella Muzzen, Nancy 
Wimptheimer, Nancy Willstatter, 
Hilda Woodard and Dusty Hancke 
have all played high school hockey. 

And Golf 
Miss Wilburn also gives a very 
favorable report on the golfing ac¬ 
tivities at A. S. C. While we were 
snooping around the gym—and incidently 
sliding up and down the 
new gym floor (ain't it elegant?) 
—she mentioned that the advanced 
group of golfers were planning a 
visit to one of the popular lighted 
links some night soon. Personally 
we're jealous of such skilled peo¬ 
ple. (You see, we're only in the be¬ 
ginners' class—and we have to 
practice on the bedroom floor, and 
sometimes the lights go out on 
that—right in the middle of a 
putt, too!) 
Miss Mitchell responded crisply 
and concisely to our demand for "a 
statement for the press" about 
archery and tennis. "Both are go¬ 
ing over with a bang and we hope 
it will continue." We're waiting 
for exciting activities in both 
sports, especially in the way of a 
tennis tournament. 
Tournaments 
And as to tournaments we gath¬ 
ered some good news. Attacked in 
the middle of a cheeseburger the 
other night, Mutt—the yet pend¬ 
ing ping-pong champ—confessed 
to plans for a rousing tournament 
in that husky art soon. But Muttsie 
will probably have to shift this 
responsibility, due to her stren¬ 
uous duties as sargeant-at-arms for 
the Worthy Miss Johnson's open 
forum. What with this extra load 
to carry, along with that inflicted 
by Miss Latimer and her cold 
"frankfritters," this poor delecta¬ 
ble star will be forced into quiet 
retirement. And for that, Mutt, 
we suggest the stacks in the li¬ 
brary where you can stay for days 
without once being discovered. Or 
you might try Nell Allison's fire 
escape, which means absolute se¬ 
clusion and divine solitude. Or, for 
even greater solitude (?) you 
might try any one of the fresh¬ 
man pep meetings. 

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Naines Date of 

Yearly Tryouts 

The swimming club has an¬ 
nounced the following dates for 
prospective members to try out: 

Monday through Thursday 
(Oct. 11-14) at plunge period, 
4:30; and Monday through 
Wednesday (Oct. 18-20) also at 
plunge period. 

The list of requirements is ap¬ 
propriately thorough and exacting. 
Those for form include: 

Five lengths of the pool with 
front crawl. 

Three lengths, back crawl. 

Two lengths, side stroke. 

Two lengths, breast stroke. 

Three dives. 

The test for endurance involves 
a half mile (36 lengths) with any 
stroke. For speed and form there 
is the forty yard dash plus three 
racing dives and turns. Life sav¬ 
ing tactics are important, and 
they are tested on three points: 
artificial respiration, three good 
surface dives, and one approach 
and one carry. 

Members of the swimming club 
participate annually in the water 
pageant and represent A. A. in 
such athletic conferences as the 
Alabama Swimming Conference 
held last year, and the sports' day 
program held at the University of 
Georgia last spring, both of which 
included excellent formation 
swimming by the Agnes Scott 
stars. 

Present members of the club are: 
Jean Chalmers, Bee Merrill, Peek 
Brown, Nell Echols, Virginia Milner, 
Carolyn Forman, and Jane 
Moore Hamilton. They are heart¬ 
ily looking forward to the admis¬ 
sion of new members, and they 
urge all sophomores and upperclassmen 
interested in the water 
arts to try for membership. 

Miss Jackson Speaks 
At A.A.U.W. Meeting 

Associate Professor Elizabeth 
Fuller Jackson, of the history de¬ 
partment, recently attended a 
meeting of the Executive Board of 
the North Carolina branch of the 
American Association of Univer¬ 
sity Women. The meeting, held in 
Raleigh, N. C., was devoted to the 
discussion of problems of state ed¬ 
ucation and to the functions of 
committees on improvement. Miss 
Jackson, who is Director of the 

"Home James!" yelled Jane 
Luthy to the Americus-bound bus 
driver this week-end, while Bee 
Sexton gathered a flock of happy 
seniors in her golden chariot and 
delivered them home to the wait¬ 
ing mamas. Sue Bryan gave Cal a 
hint and Reynolds was their desti¬ 
nation. 

But we who sat at home refused 
to sit still—except for Eloise Lennard 
who got so tongue-tied and 
addle-brained that she couldn't 
solve the equation: Chi Phi house 
mother and Phi Chi dance versus 
Phi Chi house mother and Chi 
Phi dance. Callie Carmichael, 

Nancy Moorer, Jean Austen, and 
Mickey Warren learned how to say 
the formula and took the Phi Chi 
dance by storm; while Jane Moore 
Hamilton, Bee Merrill, and Jane 
Guthrie rushed for a rival frater¬ 
nity and presented their pretty 
selves at the AKK dance. 

Kay Ricks left school Saturday 
night with a happy look and a 
stunning costume to make hey-dey 
at the Military Ball. Three hours 
later she returned, looking slightly 
taken a-back. "Nice dance," she 
murmured, "only it ended before 
we got half way down the receiv¬ 
ing line." But at least Governor 
Rivers got to shake hands with 
one of the fair Agnes Scott dam¬ 
sels. 

Rebecca McCree stands by and 
adds charm today at her sister 
Sally's wedding in Trenton, Ten¬ 
nessee. Sally graduated from Agnes 
Scott in '36. Which brings to 
mind that among this year's senior 
class, there are at least four en¬ 
gagement rings worn in public— 
and several summer weddings 
planned rather nebulously. 

South Atlantic section of A. A. 

U. W., gave a report on recent 
improvements in the methods of 
education ranging from kinder¬ 
garten through college. 
Next week Miss Jackson will 
attend the convention of the South 
Carolina branch at Converse. 

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Aurora Contest 

Carol Hale, editor of Aurora, 
has announced the annual contest 
for a design for the cover of the 
literary magazine. Entries will be 
due Wednesday, October 27, and 
a prize of $2.50 will be given to 
the winning drawing. Miss Louise 
Lewis, of the art department, will 
judge the covers. Last year the 
cover contest was won by Jane 
Guthrie. 

Material for the first issue of 
Aurora is also due October 27. 
Students are urged to contribute 
short stories, poems, essays and 
articles for publications. Contribu¬ 
tions, as well as cover entries, may 
be placed in the Aurora box in 
Buttrick Hall. 

The editor has also announced a 
contest extending throughout the 
year, in which prizes will be given 
for the best poem, short story, and 
non-fiction article published in 
Aurora during the year. 

Sears, Watkins are 

Poetry Club Heads 

Poetry Club elected Evelyn 
Sears president, and Violet Jane 
Watkins, vice-president at its 
meeting on Wednesday, October 6. 
At this meeting the club began its 
year's business and arranged the 
regular meeting which was held 
last night. 

Students Make 

Gym Honor Roll 

For This Term 

15 Sophomores and Juniors 
Make Average of "B" 
and Get Cuts 

The physical education depart¬ 
ment has announced the 1937-38 
honor roll in physical ed, chosen 
on the basis of last year's work. 
Those in the group are, in the 
sophomore class: Elizabeth Davis, 
Carolyn Forman, Lorraine Guinn, 

Sarah Lee, Mary Matthews, Nell 
Pinner and Ruth Slack; and in the 
junior class; Jane Moore Hamilton, 
Douglas Lyle, Helen Moses, Betty 
Price, Ailleen Shortley, Sara Thurman, 
Harriet Von Gremp, and 
Peggy Willis. 

Each of these honor students 
made an average of at least "B" 
on her physical education ancj pos¬ 
ture last year. Each has the privi¬ 
lege of unlimited cuts in gym dur¬ 
ing this year. 

History Forum Meets 

The Current History Forum had 
its first meeting yesterday after¬ 
noon at 4:30 in the Murphey Candler 
Building. Professor Philip Da¬ 
vidson, of the history department, 
led a discussion of the Supreme 
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AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1937 
Six Attend !Sophomore "Cutting Romance" Qets Black Cat, 
Press Meet Winning Over Freshman "Appalling Freshella 

VOL. XXIII 

From A.S.C. 

Jones,' Hale, Watson, Kelly, 
Blackshear, Roper Go 
To Chicago 

Famous Journalists Speak 

Six heads of the three student 
publications represented Agnes 
Scott at the sixteenth national 
convention of the Associated Col¬ 
legiate Press, which met at the 
Medinah Club in Chicago October 
14 to 16. Hortense Jones and 
Elizabeth Blackshear were the 
Agonistic delegates; while Carol 
Hale and Ola Kelly represented 
the Aurora; and Virginia Watson 
and Joyce Roper attended from 
the Silhouette. 

The convention studies were 
divided into three groups: news¬ 
papers, annuals, and magazines. 
The newspaper meetings were 
further divided into sessions for 
dailies and roundtables for week¬ 
lies. The program of the conven¬ 
tion included speeches by many 
well-known journalists. 

Mr. Upton Close, prominent 
writer, made the opening address, 
his topic being America's inter¬ 
est in the Sino-Japanese conflict. 
Other features of the program 
were: a tour of the city, a trip 
through the Herald-Tribune, a 
banquet, a dance, and a floor-show 
from the Tallo-Ho room of the 
Medinah Club. 

Front Row 

by Jane Guthrie 
DEADLOCK: At the meeting 
of the Non-intervention commit¬ 
tee in London, Italy offers to with¬ 
draw Italian "volunteers" from 
Spain. French and British hopes 
rise, but fall again as Italy states 
conditions. THE conditions being 
that the same number of volun¬ 
teers must be withdrawn from the 
Loyalist side. The evasion is as ob¬ 
vious as it is clever. Italian volun¬ 
teers outnumber Loyalists six to 
one, and excluding even a thou¬ 
sand members would leave the 
Italians still in the majority. An¬ 
thony Eden's speech is regarded by 
Italy as a threat to reopen the Py¬ 
renees and supply the Loyalists 
with arms. Peace seems farther 
away than ever. And the deadlock 
continues. 
MEDIATION: An American 
Delegation sails today for the 
Nine-Power conference called by 
Belgium to he held in Brussels, 
October 30. Norman H. Davis, 
American Ambassador at Large, 
heads the group as the only offi¬ 
cial delegate. Russia and Germany 
are to be included in the interna¬ 
tional peace conference. Japan may 
or may not accept bid to attend. 
She sees no need either" for peace 
project or for mediation. 
JUVENILE: Like a childrens' 
quarrel is the struggle between the 

C. I. O. headed by John L. Lewis 
and the A. F. L. headed by Will¬ 
iam Green. Both parties seem to 
have forgotten the original pur¬ 
pose of the argument and are now 
fighting apparently for the sake of 
fighting. The C. I. O. offers con¬ 
ciliation on the terms that the 
A. F. L. accept their Industrial 
Union rights. A. F. L. dubs this 
move propaganda, and retaliates by 
sending peace proposal on own 
terms. 
Approximately eight hundred 
people were present to see the soph¬ 
omore class win the Big Black Cat 
in the annual stunt contest be¬ 
tween the freshmen and sophomore 
classes Saturday night in the Bucher-
Scott gymnasium. Henrietta 
Thompson was the chairman of 
the sophomore stunt, "A Cutting 
Romance, or Two Hearts In Three 
Quarters" while Pattie Patterson 
was the chairman of the fresh¬ 
men's "The Appalling Freshella." 

The plot of the winning stunt 
was taken from the story of the 
Martin and Coy feud of old Ken¬ 
tucky. It was slightly changed by 
substituting the freshmen and the 
sophomores for the two families of 
the original story. Jane Moses, as 
Soy Soph, had the male lead, while 
Georgia Hunt was the heroine, 
Flossie Freshie. Nettie Lee Greer 
took the part of Grandma John¬ 
son, who always helped the fresh¬ 
men in time of distress. The sophs 
were: Jeanette Carroll, Frances 
Abbott, Mary Evelyn Francis, 
Mary Elizabeth Leavitt, Ernestine 
Cass and Shirley Armentrout. 
Freshies were: Gary Horne, Susie 
Blackmon, Eloise McCall, Ruth 
Eyles, Virginia Milner, Julia Moseley 
and Hazel Solomon. A quan¬ 
tity of campus idiosyncrasies such 
as freshmen meetings, poached and 
scrambled eggs, fried chicken, 
Robert's Rules of Order, and bat¬ 
tles of wits were added to thicken 
the plot. 

The freshman stunt, "The Ap¬ 
palling Freshella," was a parody on 
the problems of a freshman. First, 
Freshella, played by Lib Barrett, 
was assailed by upperclassmen who 
borrowed her possessions, then 
troubled by books which haunt 
her, and finally was rudely treated 

E. Little, J. Harvey 
Post "Black List" 

Yesterday, October 19, Ellen 
Little and June Harvey, student 
treasurers, posted the "Black List" 
which contains the names of those 
girls who have not paid their stu¬ 
dent budget. These girls will not 
be allowed to participate in the 

activities of Student Government, 
Pi Alpha Phi, Agonistic, Aurora, 
Silhouette, Athletic Association, 

Y. W. C. A., Mortar Board, May 
Day, Lecture Association, or In¬ 
ternational Relations Club. 
Cut System is 

Again Adopted 

i 
Because of the favorable re¬ 
sults of the experiment with the 

cut system in the third quarter of 
last year, the faculty has readopted 
the system at Agnes 
Scott, giving the privilege of cuts 
to the student body this year. Dr. 
McCain states that on an average 
the students took only one-third 
of the cuts which they were priv¬ 

ileged to have. 

Freshmen will not have cuts un¬ 
til the third quarter of this year. 
The only changes in the system 
from last year's is that absence 
from each laboratory period shall 
count as two class cuts; and lab¬ 
oratory cuts may not exceed fifty 
per cent of the cuts allowed in a 
given course. 

by Sophie, who was Janet McKim, 
and Senie, Schelle Parham. But the 
end of the stunt was gay, for Em¬ 
ory Tech, who was Beverly Coleman 
on this side of the footlights, 
claimed Freshella as his own. 
Other characters were played by 
Louise Sams, Martha Watkins, 
Frances Butt, Bitty Waitt, Mar¬ 
garet Murchison, Suzanne Bellin


grath, Rowena Barringer, Lillian 
Schwencke, Nancy Wimpfheimer, 
and Betsy Myers. 

The production of the stunts 
represents four weeks of thinking, 
writing, casting, and rehearsing on 
the part of each class. The com¬ 
mittees of the sophomore class 
were writing, program, scenery, 
property, decorations, costumes, 
dances, music, stage, and cheers. 
Members of the writing committee 
were Sophie Montgomery, Mary 
Matthews, Betty Alderman, Elea¬ 
nor Hutchens, Jane Salters and 
Evelyn Baty. Those on the pro¬ 
gram committee were Louise 
Hughston, Sam Olive Griffin, Bar¬ 
bara Lee Murlin, Mary Elizabeth 
Leavitt, and Louise Sullivan. The 
scenery committee was composed 
of Mary Reins, Mary Clay Price, 
Lillie Belle Drake, Martha Zellner, 
Mildred Joseph and Julia Moseley. 
Mette Williamson, Bryant Holsenbeck, 
Sarah Smith and Anne Enloe 
made up the property committee. 
The members of the decoration 
committee were Ruth Slack, Afargaret 
Hopkins, Harriet Stimson, 
Gary Horne, Rebecca Drucker and 
Sarah Nicholson. Costumes were 
made by Lucille Scott, Elizabeth 
Davis,s Grace Ward, Nettie Lee 
Greer, Joan Brinton, Eleanor Deas, 
Irene Phillips, and Ruth Kaplan. 
Marjorie Boggs, Hazel Hirsch, Sara 
Lee, Sally Parker and Lois Sexton 

Miss Leyburn is to 

Speak at Investiture 

Miss Ellen Douglas Leyburn, in¬ 
structor of English at Agnes Scott, 
has been selected by the members 
of the senior class to be the speaker 
for Investiture, Saturday, Novem¬ 
ber 6, in the Gaines Chapel. The 
class has also chosen its mascot, 
who will be Louise McKinney Hill, 
the grand-niece of Miss Louise Mc¬ 
Kinney, professor emeritus of Eng¬ 
lish. 

On Friday, November 5, the 
seniors will celebrate "Little Girl's 
Day." 

Exams Will be Given 

To High School Pupils 

The three competitive examina¬ 
tions consisting of one on English, 
one on either Latin or French or 
Spanish, and one on algebra, 
American history, chemistry, or 
physics, will be given to high 
school seniors who wish to take 
them on March 4, 193 8. The two 
awards, a $700 scholarship and a 
$500 scholarship will be based 75 % 
on the results of these examina¬ 
tions and 25% on personal quali¬ 
ties and participation in school ac¬ 
tivities. Applications should be 
made for the necessary blanks as 

soon as possible. Winners of the 
$700 scholarship for the past four 
years are Eliza King ('38), Cora 
Kay Hutchins ('39), Evelyn Baty 
('40), and Pattie Patterson ('41). 

were the composers of the dance of 
the eggs. Mickey Warren, as chair¬ 
man of the music committee had 
as her assistants Louise McCall, 
Eloise Lennard and Shirley Armen¬ 
trout. Evelyn Baty was the stage 
manager; Mickey Warren and 
Betty Jean O'Brien were the soph¬ 
omore cheer leaders. 

The freshman class also had 
numerous committees and man¬ 
agers. The business manager was 
Tommay Turner; the treasurer, 
Grace Moffat; the cast manager, 
Elaine Stubbs. Members of the 
writing committee were Gene 
Slack, Harriette Cochran, Vir¬ 
ginia Williams, Ella Muzzey, Sabine 
Brunby and Tine Gray. Those 
on the costume committee were 
Louise Musser, Gentry Burks, 
Betty Moore, Molly Oliver, Marcia 
Mansfield and Virginia Hickman. 
Betsy Kendrick, Ruth Brady, 
Miriam Bedinger, Martha O'Nan,, 
Betty Sloan, Helen Klugh, Frances 
Breg and Allie Malone. The stage 
committee was composed of Freck 
Sproles, Ann Millican, Nina 
Broughton, Winnie Finger, Lucille 
Gaines, Ann Tatum, Dorothy Debele, 
Ann Mapother and Val Neil-
son. Composing the decoration 
committee were Edith Henegar, 
Nita Woolfolk, Onie Smith, Mar¬ 
garet Woodhead, Ann Fisher, 
Nelly Richardson. Jean Dennison 
was chairman of the dance com¬ 
mittee; Marquerite Ingly, Beryl 
Healy and Nancy Willstatter were 
on the make-up committee; Grace 
Walker and Caroline Strozier had 
charge of music; Mary Bell and 
Helen Jester were cheer leaders. 

The cost of each stunt, which 
averages twenty dollars, is met by 
class dues. This year the freshman 
budget totaled a new high, $21.68. 

Mrs. Sydenstricker 

Is Officer Of Club 

For the second time Mrs. Alma 
Sydenstricker, professor of Bible 
at Agnes Scott College, has been 
elected vice-president of the Chautauqua 
Woman's Club of Chautauqua, 
New York. This club is a 
part of the General Federation. 

The president, Mrs. Percy V. 
Pennybacker, was formerly presi¬ 
dent of the General Federation. 
Last year the club had over six¬ 
teen hundred members who came 
from all parts of the world includ¬ 
ing England, Scotland, and India. 

Richard Crooks 

Will Sing in City 

Atlanta Club To Be Hostess 

Making his first appearance in 
Atlanta since he .has been recog¬ 
nized as America's foremost tenor, 
Richard Crooks will give a concert 
Tuesday, October 26, under the 
Atlanta Woman's Club. 

Mr. Crooks began his career as 
a boy soprano soloist in his church, 
then several years later he made his 
debut as a singer with Mme. Schumann-
Heink in Asbury Park, N. J. 
In 1922 he appeared as tenor with 
the New York Symphony Orches¬ 
tra under the direction of Walter 
Damrosch. He made his operatic 
debut on the continent in Tosca, 
Hamburg (Germany) Opera in 

1927 and in this country at the 
Metropolitan Opera House in 
1933. 

2115 No. 3 

Y. W. Budget 
For Session 

Is Enlarged 

Syrian Chapel In Atlanta 
And Class Cabinets 
Receive Fund 

Grand Total Is $1,500.00 

The Agnes Scott Benevolent 
Budget has been arranged with an 
increase over last year's. This year 
more attention is to be devoted to 
providing good speakers oftener 
and the programs promise to be ex¬ 
cellent. The Syrian chapel in At¬ 
lanta and the freshman and sopho¬ 
more cabinets will all receive a 
fund, and the money set aside for 
the all Southern conference at 
Blue Ridge has been increased. The 
grand total amounts to $1500.00, 
and it is further divided up as fol¬ 
lows: 
I.—Our missionary (Miss Emily

Winn) $500 $ 500

II.—Contacts with other asso¬

ciations and student

training:

(a) National Student Council 180
(b) World Student Christian
Federation 25

(c) Training for Service
(Student Conferences) :

1. State Cooperation 15
2. All Southern Confer¬ 
ence (Blue Ridge) 125

3. National Training— 
National Student' As¬

sociation 50

(d) Deputations to other
schools and colleges 50 445

III.—Christian Life on Our

Campus:

(a) Week of Services in
Spring 100

(b) Additional Fund for
Speakers 120 220

1'V.—Syrian Chapel in Atlanta. 50 50

V.—Special Services for

Students:

(a) Student Handbook, Sil¬
houette, Other Printing 100

(b) Receptions for All Occa¬
sions l 50

(c) Committees, Incidentals,
Books, Emergencies 100

(d) Freshman Cabinet 25
(e) Sophomore Cabin.et 10 285 

Grand Total $1500 

L e c ture Qroup 

Picks Members 

The Lecture Association of 
Agnes Scott has elected its repre¬ 
sentatives for the year 1937-193 8. 
Lutie Moore is the sophomore rep¬ 
resentative, and Kay Kennedy has 
been elected representative from 
the junior class. Charlotte French, 
from the junior class, is the new 
assistant publicity manager. 

Grace Tazewell, president of the 
association, is not ready to make 
an announcement concerning their 
speakers for this year. 

Council Meets 

To Decide New 

Year's Policies 

The Presidents' Council, com¬ 
posed of the heads of all classes, 
clubs, and associations on the 
campus, met Monday, October 11, 
to decide its policies for the year. 

"Inactive membership" in clubs 
was approved, thus providing that 
girls who have too many points to 
take part in clubs may be mem¬ 
bers, paying dues and attending 
meetings, but not taking active 
part in the work of the club. 

It was further decided that no 
clubs, except Granddaughters and 
Cotillion Clubs, may admit fresh¬ 
men during the first quarter, al¬ 
though freshmen may visit the 
clubs. 

Other business was the revision 
of the schedules of club meetings 
to avoid conflicts and the election 
of Carolyn Forman, sophomore 
president, to be the secretary of 
the organization. 


THE AGONISTIC 

©t)e Agonistic 

PUBLISHED WEEKLY 

Owned and published by the students of Agnes Scott 
College. 

Entered as Second Class Matter at Decatnr, Georgia. 

Subscription price, $1.25 per year in advance. 
Single copies, 5c. 

1937 Member 1938 
Pissocided Collegiate Press 

STAFF 
Hortense Jones Elizabeth Blackshear 

Editor Business Manager 
Jane Guthrie Esthers OgdenMary McCann Hudson Advertising Manager

Associate Editors 

Frances Castleberry

Mary Frances Guthrie 

Jeanne Redwine

Marie Merritt 

Alice Reins

Assistant Editors 

Eugenia Bridges

Elizabeth Skinner 

Circulation Managers

Make-itp Editor 

Alice Cheeseman

Elizabeth Kenney 

Sports Editor

Asst. Make-itp Editor 
Giddy Erwin Mary Reins 

Exchange Editor

Feature Editor 
Mary Wells McNeil Jeannette Carroll 
Asst. Feature Editor Alumnae Editor 
Mary Anne Kernan Louise Hughston 
Current Fiistory News Editor 
Elizabeth Warden Evelyn Baty 
Book Editor Chtb Editor 

REPORTERS: N. Allison, E. Baty, M. Chafin, 

M. L. Dobbs, G. Duggan, M. L. Gill, N. Hemp-
hill, L. Houghston, E. Hutchens, C. K. Hutchins, 
R. Hurwitz, F. Lee, E. McCall, P. Noble, 
■M. L. Ratliffe, A. Reins, H. Solomon, S. Steinbach, 
V. J. Watkins, L. Young, D. Weinkle, 
M. Merlin. 
BUSINESS STAFF: M. Chafin, H. Hirsch, N. 
Echols, J. Flynt, M. Williamson, F. Abbot, M. 
Oliver. 

An Indictment 

Agnes Scott advertises that she is noted 

for the "interesting character of her student 

activities." However, judging from the stu¬ 

dent attendance at the stunt last Saturday 

night, an outsider might have good reason to 

think that this activity was not considered 

by many of the students as interesting. And, 

in reality, the stunt is supposed to be the 

most entertaining campus program of the 

year. 

Of course, the freshmen and sophomores 
turned out in all their glory. But what hap¬ 
pened to the other half of the junior class 
and where were the seniors for whom the 
sophomores so cleverly won? We do not 
mean to infer that some stayed away on pur¬ 
pose, but rather that, being; not directly con¬ 
nected with the plans of the stunt groups, 
they were indifferent to the whole affair. 
In fact, it seems that the average Agnes 
Scotter is impervious to anything that does 
not pertain to her directly. The general atti¬ 
tude seems to be that anything that is any¬ 
one else's business is none of my business. 

The stunt, however, is not alone in being 
supported so poorly by the non-participants. 
Blackfriars' plays, debates, recitals of the 
Music Department, timely lectures by the 
Lecture Association, and other worthwhile 
activities come in for some of this niggardly 
student support also. 

The Debate Club, for example, has found 
it difficult to secure even a small attendance 
for its public debates. And perhaps the only 
time these debates have good support from 
the student body is when there is the wit of 
the English debaters as a drawing card. 

Students say that they never know any¬ 

thing about the questions being argued, that 

they cannot appreciate the elevated and tech¬ 

nical music of Bach, or that the lectures are 

often too dry. But it seems that the truth of 

the matter lies in the physical and mental 

inertia of most students when they are called 

upon to do something outside of their re¬ 

quired course of study. Unless they are ob 

ligated to attend these extra-curricular ac¬ 

tivities, they manage to find reasons for not 

doing so. 

The usual thing to do after criticizing an 
existing condition is to propose some method 
of reform. But the solution this time does 
not lie within the power of this editorial 
staff. The problem rests not upon just a few, 
but upon each one of us as students inter¬ 
ested in the advancement of our school. Only 
when we all solemnly agree with ourselves to 
be loyal and enthusiastic backers of our cam¬ 
pus activities will we correct this evil and 
encourage a school spirit that is worthy of 
so fine a college as ours. 

Museum to be 

Y.W.C.A Hobby 
"Come and see the new mu¬ 
seum!" That is what we hope you 
will be hearing some time this 
year, and who knows—perhaps 
you will want to be a contributor 
yourself. Of course, there are mu¬ 
seums and museums, but as for 
your own pet museum, nothing 
surpasses that, and here is your 
chance to have your own pet on 

your back campus. This museum 
is the Y. W. C. A.'s latest idea, 
and is to be a hobby group for the 
whole school. The origin of the 
idea is slightly vague but it seems 
to have leaped completely armed 
(like Minerva) from a choice 
trunk of museum material hidden 
in the basement of the science 
building. The museum is to be 
further supplemented by a store of 
African drums, elephant whiskers, 
baskets, et cetera, coming from the 
big black trunk of Winifred Kellersberger. 
"After all," says 
Winie, "I can't carry them around 
all the rest of my life." 

Qlee Club Qives 

Two Cone erts 

The Agnes Scott Glee Club, un¬ 
der the direction of Mr. Lewis H. 
Johnson, has begun its activities 
for this year by giving concerts at 
two conventions. The special 
chorus sang at the southwide con¬ 
vention of the Audio-Visual Edu¬ 
cation Association in the Henry 
Grady Hotel on October 14th, led 
by Mr. Johnson. On Saturday, 
October 16th, a sextet from the 
special chorus sang at Indian 
Springs before the Appalachian 
Trail Club convention. Miss Eve¬ 
lyn Wall was the accompanist. 

The choir, with Mr. Dieckmann 
at the organ, is working on a 
Christmas carol service to be given 
before the holidays. 

It has been announced that Gil¬ 
bert and Sullivan's "The Mikado" 
will be the operetta. Practice 
starts this week, although the 
leading parts have not yet been as¬ 
signed. 

Headlines 

Of the Past 

Three years ago this week Pi 
Alpha Phi announced that it would 
meet the English debaters on the 
abandonment of isolationist poli¬ 
cies. Marion Calhoun and Edith 
Merlin upheld the negative of the 
question, with Brooks Spivey as al¬ 
ternate. 
Two years ago this week the 
Academic Council voted to replace 
the semester plan at Agnes Scott 
with the quarter system, effective 
in September of 1936. 
One year ago this week Mortar 
Board entertained the college com¬ 
munity at a reception to mark the 
completion of the Murphey Candler 
student activities building. 

Vogue Contest 

Is Announced 

For the third successive year, 
the editors of Vogue are announc¬ 
ing a career competition open to 
members of the senior classes of 
accredited colleges and universities 
throughout the country. 

As in the past two years, there 
will be two major prizes, each of¬ 
fering a position, with salary, on 
the staff of Vogue magazine. The 
winner of the first prize will be 
awarded one full year's employ¬ 
ment with Vogue; six months of 
which will be spent in the New 
York office, the remaining six 
months in Vogue's Paris office. A 
second prize of six months on 
Vogue's New York editorial staff 
will be awarded the runner-up. 
Both the first prize winner and 
runner-up will be eligible for per¬ 
manent positions on Vogue's staff 
after completion of their trial 
periods. 

Last year's Prix de Paris was 
awarded to Miss Virginia Van 
Brunt, of Horicon, Wisconsin, a 
senior at the University of Wis¬ 
consin. Second prize went to Miss 
Alice Schultz of Wellesley, Mass., 
a senior at Smith. Besides the two 
announced awards, one contestant 
received a job. 

Invitations cn the Bookshelves 

In these days of books, with new 
volumes appearing at an over¬ 
whelming rate, the average reader 
cannot possibly read all that is 
published, were all of it worth 
reading. Confronted with innum¬ 
erable books in the fields of fic¬ 
tion, biography, history, poetry, 
drama, travel, science, and art, he 
must choose. So, the question 
arises, What shall I read, How can 
one decide which books are the 
most worthwhile. In answer to 
this query, various magazines and 
papers devoted exclusively ■ 
to the 
reviewing of new books, publish 
periodically a list of the books 
which have been "best sellers" in 
the past few months. The follow¬ 
ing list was taken from the "New 
York Times Book Review" and 
shows the most popular books for 
the months of July and August. 

Fiction 

1. The Citadel, A. J. Cronin, 
Little, Brown, $2.50, published 
September 10. 
2. And So-Victoria, Vaughan 
Wilkins, Macmillan, $2.50, July 
27. 
3. Northwest Passage, Kenneth 
Roberts, Doubleday Doran, $2.75, 
July 1. 
4. You Can't Have Every¬ 
thing, Kathleen Norris, Doubleday 
Doran, $2.00, August 20. 
5. The Nutmeg Tree, Margery 
Sharp. Little, Brown, $2.50, Aug¬ 
ust 23. 

6. The Seven Who Fled, Fred¬ 
eric Prokosch, Harpers, $2.5 0, 
August 26. 
7. Gone With the Wind, Mar¬ 
garet Mitchell, Macmillan, $3.00, 
June 20, 1936. 

8. Twenty-four Hours a Day, 
Faith Baldwin, Farrar and Rinehart, 
$2.00. 
9. Storm Girl, Joseph C. Lin¬ 
coln, Appleton-Century, $2.00, 
August 13. > 
10. The Case of the Lame 
Canary, Erie S. Gardner, Morrow, 
$2.00, September 8. 
General 

1. Life With Mother, Clarence 
Day, Knoff, $2.00, August 23. 
2. How to Win Friends and 
Influence People, Dale Carnegie, 
Simon and Schuster, $1.96, Nov¬ 
ember 5, 1936. 
3. On Gilbert Head, Elizabeth 
Etnier, Little, Brown, $2.50, 
July 26. 
4. Orchids on Your Budget, 
Marjorie Hillis, Bobbs-Merrill, 
$1.5 0, June 9. 
5. The Return to Religion, 
Henry C. Link, Macmillan, $1.75, 
March 24, 1936. 
6. Conversation at Midnight, 
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Harpers, 
$2.00, July 21. 
7. Ordeal in England, Philip 
Gibbs, Doubleday, Doran, $3.00, 
August 20. 
8. The Story of Ferdinand, 
Munro Leaf, Viking, $1.00, Sep¬ 
tember 1 1, 1936. 
9. How to Lose Friends and 
Alienate People, Irving D. Tressler, 
Stachpole, $1.49, August 30. 
10. Live With a Man and Love 
It, Anne Fisher, Dodd, Mead, 
$1.50, August 17. 
F. D. Roosevelt Explains 
Special Session 

Of Congress 

President Roosevelt spoke to the people 
again last Tuesday night; completely equip¬ 
ped with fireside, microphone, and his usual 
patient friendliness he explained, almost too 
simply, his reasons for calling a special ses¬ 
sion of Congress. He said in effect, if we 
might paraphrase the current New Deal sa¬ 
tire "I'd Rather Be Right": "Congress take 
a train to Washington. We've got to figure 
out what the trouble with the country is." 

Actually, of course, there are apparently 
valid reasons for the premature session. 
Opening on Nov. 15, only six weeks before 
the regular session Jan. 3, it has five major 
questions to consider, according to Roose¬ 
velt's recommendation. The President's ob¬ 
jectives were stated to be these: wage-hour 
legislation, crop control, governmental reor¬ 
ganization, regional planning, and a curb on 
trusts, with foreign policy also under consid¬ 
eration. 

NO SURPRISE 
The President's proclamation calling for a 
special session of Congress and his talk to 
the nation did not come as surprises to those 
who had been following his movements the 
last few weeks. Arthur Krock, writing in the 
New York Times, comments on the masterly 
publicity build-up Roosevelt has given this 
latest announcement. On his trip through 
the West he made numerous references to 
the necessity for regional planning, some 
form of crop control, an equitable wage for 
all, and, more recently, world peace. The 
President rarely relinquishes an objective, 
but gradually prepares the people for its ac¬ 
complishment. 
Certainly the legislation to be considered 
by Congress is important, but the proclama¬ 
tion for a special session seems a little un¬ 
usual since no emergency was declared. The 
only other such session during the present 
administration was called in the summer of 
1933 during the bank holiday. Apparently 
the President feels that Congress ought to 
get its desks cleared, particularly of his 
cherished proposals, in order to effectively 
tackle taxation and balancing the budget in 
the regular session. Behind all this also may 
be the fact that next spring and summer the 
entire House and one-third of the Senate will 
be elected. Many Congressmen are anxious 
to have the opportunity of doing intensive 
personal campaigning for re-election. As a 
matter of fact, this session of Congress is 
necessary possibly because of the general in¬ 
efficiency of Congress and because of the 
confusion caused by the Supreme Court ques¬ 
tion which retarded the business of legisla¬ 
tion. It is regarded as significant that the 
President made no mention whatsoever of 
the Court in his last speech. The silence was 
impressive, but perhaps not unexpected. It 
is time now to consider things more immedi¬ 
ately concerned with the people. 

AGRICULTURAL NEED* 
Agriculture is at present most obviously in 
need of government aid. While the South is 
faced with the second largest cotton crop in 
its history, 17,573,000 bales according to the 
latest estimate, the President explains the 
need for crop control, prevention of soil ero¬ 
sion, and other activities planned to create a 
"balanced abundance." In regard to this agri¬ 
cultural program the United Slates News 
says: "The aim is to clothe the spirit of the 
invalidated AAA, which still can be felt in 
Washington, with the flesh and blood of 
reality." Wage-hour scales are related to the 
main economic question, since higher wages 
would tend to raise the standard of living. 
Regional planning is likewise related, conser¬ 
vation and efficient use of natural resources, 
certainly a part of this, pertain finally to a 
great many people. The curb on trusts is 
bound up with the wage-hour question per¬ 
haps, and certainly must contribute to the 
"balanced abundance." The plans for gov¬ 
ernmental reorganization are entirely separ¬ 

ate; they are more mechanical and promise 
more efficient government. 
NOTHING OF BUDGET 

This seems to be a comprehensive pro¬ 
gram, yet with all this Roosevelt made no 
mention of balancing the budget, which after 
much stream-lining shows a probable deficit 
of between $400,000,000 and $500,000,000. 
This rather important item is to be left to 
regular session. 

Congress has an intensive program mapped 
out for it. This is perhaps wise in the light 
of the current situation. It is to be hoped 
that the work will not prove too burdensome 
for efficiency and that Justice Black will not 

furnish too great a temptation for oratory. 


THE AGONISTIC 

A.S.C. Teachers Write New Little Sisters at A. S. C 
Along 
Books Soon to be Published The Colonnade Moan Lack of Individuality 

In spite of their many varied 
duties as professors, several mem¬ 
bers of the Agnes Scott College 
faculty have found time to work 
on books which will soon make 
their appearance. For example, 
Miss Dexter and Miss Omwake, 
both of the Psychology Depart¬ 
ment, have completed a book en¬ 
titled "An Introduction to the 
Fields of Psychology." This work 
is already in the hands of Prentiss 
Hall Publishing Company, and has 
been forecast both by this com¬ 
pany and by Macmillan to be quite 
a success in the educational world. 
It is designated to supplement any 
general text in Psychology and 
will be used for the first time in 
the General Psychology courses at 
Agnes Scott in the spring quarter. 

For the past summer Dr. David¬ 
son has been getting ready . for 
publication a volume entitled 
"Propaganda in the American Rev¬ 
olution." This subject is one in 
which Dr. Davidson has been do¬ 
ing research for sometime, so the 
volume promises to be valuably 
authoritative as well as extremely 
interesting. 

In addition to these two books 
soon to appear, Miss MacDougall's 
high school text-book on Biology 
is almost ready for press. Also, 
Miss Christie's work on Bellarp is 
nearing completion. Likewise, Dr. 
Wright's articles on taxation, for 
which he has been gathering ma¬ 
terial all summer, will soon make 
their appearance. The public will 
also see very shortly the results of 
Dr. Christian's research at Har¬ 
vard this summer. 

Two members of the faculty are 

away on leave of absence to com-

THEATRES 

-M

TKI SOUTH'S FINtST 

Now Playing! 
PAUL MUNI in 
"THE LIFE OF 
EMILE ZOLA" 

Preview Saturday Night

11:30 P. M. 
Eddie Cantor 
June Lang, Tony Martin 
Louise Hovick 
"Ali Baba Goes to Town" 

yarammwf 

Now! 

Dick Powell 
Fred Waring and His 
Pennsylvanians 
With Rosemary and 
Priscilla Lane in 

"VARSITY SHOW" 

Swell Tunes and 
College Cuties 

CAPITOL 

Now! 
WILLIAM BOYD in 
"HOPALONG RIDES 

AGAIN" 
On the Stage 
All Southern Revue 

Starts Sunday 

"CHARLIE CHAN ON 

BROADWAY" 

With Warner Oland and 

Joan Marsh, Plus 

8—Big Acts of Vodvil—8 

Atlanta's only vaudeville! 

plete research work. As a result 

In case anyone has been won¬ 

of her study in France, Miss Phy


dering at the strained and slightly 
thian will publish a volume relat¬ baffled expression on the faces of 
ing to the geographical back¬ the Agnes Scott student body, let 

him wonder no longer, for we have

ground of French nbvels. Miss 

found the explanation—it is an in¬

Laura Colvin, in connection with 

evitable result of viewing the 

one of her courses in the Depart¬ 

"proofs" of Annual pictures for 
ment of Library Science of the the first time. In fact, if it is 
University of Michigan, will pub¬ true that the proof is in the pudd¬ 

ing, we personally wish that ours

lish a manual giving instructions 

had stayed there! Seriously speak¬

in the use of the library, with 

ing, the pictures this year are per¬

special attention to this need at 

haps better than ever before; and 
Agnes Scott College. we vote a rousing cheer to both 

In the fields of Music and Art, the Silhouette staff and to Mr. El¬ 
also, the Agnes Scott faculty liott. However, there is still a 
members have been distinguishing great deal of kumor—also room 
themselves. Professor Dieckmann for sjze A inferiority complexes— 
has had accepted for publication in the way most of us look with 
two original compositions, an an¬ our bare faces hanging out full of 
them and a solo song. Miss Lewis, that insipidly vague expression we 
head of the Art Department, has acquire just as the "birdie" is on 
completed quite a number of un¬ the wing. 
usually fine paintings, many of During the past week, however, 
which are on display on the fourth there have been many events stim¬ 

floor of the Agnes Scott College ulating enough to rouse the allegedLibrary. students from contemplation of 
Finally, the mathematical form¬ their own vicious visages. For in¬ 
ulas published by Dr. Robinson are stance, the Stunt—as usual— 
now being used by the United brought to a climax the friendly 
States Artillery Department. Fresh-Soph rivalry in a charming 
way, with both classes offering de¬ 
lightful dray-mers. Also, there's

Picture Shows Work 

the never-to-be-forgotten Ponselle 

Of Community Chest concert, in which a piano-arrang¬ 
ing usher became the recipient of 
overwhelming—though mistaken

Depicting typical scenes from 

—applause, the artiste became her

the activities of its thirty-three 

own accompanist, and the accom¬

agencies, the Atlanta Community 

Chest presented in the Gaines panist became completely con¬ 
fused. The audience, needless to

Chapel October 8 a moving pic¬ 

say, became appreciatively hila¬

ture entitled "Wake up and live— 

rious!

for Others." 
President T. Guy Woolford and 
Leader Harry Summers announced brew Orphans' Home, and several 
that Chest funds are swelled an¬ day nurseries. 
nually by over 46,000 contribu¬ The Chest also does much work 

tors. Of each dollar given, 5 3.9% among the unemployed. Such or¬ 
is used to care for needy children. ganizations as the Y. W. C. A. 
Some of the child, agencies sup¬ classes for unemployed girls, train¬ 

ported by the Chest are: Hillside ing for the blind, and the Com¬ 
Cottages, Atlanta Child's Home, munity Employment Service, giveChild Welfare Association, He-help to society's disinherited ones. 

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For your next beauty appointment 

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Astutely pursuing knowledge on 
our fair campus, there is a small 
group of people who long both day 
and night for individuality. Each 
of them is known as so-and-so's 
little sister. Merely that and noth¬ 
ing more. 

Nellie Richardson, when asked 
if she had a sister who had once 
come here, gazed prayerfully up¬ 
ward and gently murmured, "Not 
one, but four." Sad is the state of 
Nellie and poor Mary Bell, for ex¬ 
perience has taught them that teas 
and receptions bring no joy to the 
heart. Upon such occasions they 
are forced to stand first on one 
foot and then on the other and to 
smile angelically while faculty 
members go into a huddle with 
themselves over whether they look 
like their sisters or whether they 
don't. 

Nothing escapes comparison. 
Everyone tells Mary Ivy that she 
certainly doesn't talk as fast as 
Claire did. Meanwhile, Susan 
Bellingrath asks in a hushed voice 
if they are going to compare 
grades. Jean Dennison fears the 
same fate for sister Lucile made 

Eta Sigma Phi Has 

Five New Members 

Eta Sigma Phij national honor¬ 
ary Greek and Latin fraternity, 
received five new members at its 
meeting on Tuesday, October 19. 
Those elected were: Evelyn Baty, 
Sarah Joyce Cunningham, Mary 
Primrose Noble, Eva Ann Pirkle, 
and Julia Porter. Laura Coit, 
president of Student Government, 
was unable to accept membership 

Small church colleges, by bring¬ 
ing together young men and 
women of the same cultural level, 
are indispensible allies of Mr. 
Cupid. 

Phi Beta Kappa. People are so 
helpful, too. They all smile and 
say, "Oh, I certainly would hate to 
be in your shoes." 

Helen Jester and Jean bewail the 
fact that they have to tell their 
sisters every little thing that hap¬ 
pens, and Jean says that her sister 
can ask more questions about 
things of which she knows abso¬ 
lutely nothing. Axline Stienback 
doesn't have to tell Selma the cur¬ 
rent events of the campus, but she 
has her troubles, too. No one ever 
understands how she can get home¬ 
sick when she has a perfectly good 
sister on the campus. 

Now the saddest of all these in¬ 
teresting cases is that of Grace 
Walker. When you even mention 
the word sister to Grace she starts 
waving her hands in the breeze and 
exclaiming in her Charleston ac¬ 
cent, "Isn't it terrible!" She is re¬ 
membered by the faculty as that 
cute little four-year-old who play¬ 
fully threw sand on the audience 
at the senior play when she came to 
see big sister. In short, our Grace 
is a living example of the fact that 
your sins will find you out. 

B. Ames to be 
Emory Speaker 

Ben Ames, noted European cor¬ 
respondent of the United Press, 
will be the first speaker on the 
1937-3 8 schedule of the .Student 
Lecture Association of Emory Uni¬ 
versity. Mr. Ames' lecture will be 
given sometime early in Novem¬ 
ber. The definite date will be an¬ 
nounced later. 

Other features of the years' pro¬ 

gram include an illustrated lecture 

by Mrs. Martin Johnson, and a 

lecture by Dr. Victor Reiser, 

author of "An American Doctor's 

Odyssey." 

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THE AGONISTIC 

Juniors, Sophs N.Y.A. Will Give

Athtetic Board |A. A. Discusses Outing Club to 
Are Victors in Picks Members\ Over-Organization Visit Mountains Increased Aid 

Hockey Games 

Seniors Need Experienced 
Players; Frosh Offer 
Peppy Combat 

Last Friday afternoon at 3:30 
on a crisp and sunny field the 
first hockey game of the season 
was played with the juniors victor¬ 
ious over the seniors, 3-0, and the 
sophomores over the freshmen, 
4-0. Without a right halfback, 
and with four new players, the 
senior team met the well equipped 
junior team with good courage but 
no points. 

During the first half there were 
such notable individual plays as a 
long dribble by Flynt, and the shot 
for the first goal, by Dryfoos, won 
after a struggle against determined 
senior fullbacks, Johnson and 
Chalmers. Benson scored a third 
point after a slight lull in the 
game. Also in the first half was a 
remarkable dash by Erwin in the 
wrong direction. The score at the 
end of this half was 3-0, in favor 
of the juniors. 

In the second half the teams 
were much slower and more awk¬ 
ward. Neither team scored, and 
perhaps the only commendable 
play was L. Coit's long drive down 
more than half the field's length, 
to a hasty interception by the 
juniors. 

The freshman-sophomore game 
was a thrill to both grand stand 
and coach. Miss Wilburn remarked 
afterward that it was "the best 
initial freshman game we've ever 
had!" 

After a slow beginning the 
freshmen pepped the playing up 
with a good run by Wimpfheimer 
and another by Hance, the latter 
being intercepted by the excellent 
guarding of the sophomores. Willstatter 
played her wing position 
very skillfully. Toward the close 
of the first period, and after a 
half-field dash, Moseley went 
down to the benefit of the fresh¬ 
men, who didn't use this oppor¬ 
tunity for points. After substitut¬ 
ing Muzzey for Wimpheimer, dis¬ 
abled by a sprained ankle, the half 
ended with a double "long corner," 
and a loss of excitement. The 
score stood at 1-0 in favor of the 
sophomores. 

The second half began with a 
near-goal, and exhibited good run¬ 
ning by Forman and Salters, and 
excellent defending by Wilds. Wil¬ 
liamson and Brinton together 
scored three points for the sopho¬ 
mores, and brought the score to 
4-0. A mishap during this half 
resulted in an injured knee for 
Willstatter, Butt substituting. 

The line-ups in these two games 
were as follows: 

Seniors Juniors 
Douglas R.W Flynt 
Merrill I.R Benson (1) 
Coit, L C.F Moses 
Erwin I.L._ Dryfoos (2) 
McKay L.W Coit, M. 

R.H Jane Jones 
Allison C.H MacGuire 
Rodgers L.H Marshall 
Johnson R.B McMullen 
Chalmers L.B Hamilton 
Robinson Goal Kenny 
Substitutions: Doty, Campbell, 

and Shortley for the juniors. 

Sophomores Freshmen 

Eyles R.W Willstatter 

Heaslett I.R. Wimpfheimer 

Brinton (2) C.F Hance 

Williamson (2)1.L Bell 

Forman L.W Vaughn 

Salters R.H Woodard 

Milner C.H Moffat 

Reins L.H Walker 

Thompson R.B Wilds 

Watkins L.B Wallin 

Case Goal — O'Ran 

Substitutions for the sopho¬ 
mores: Montgomery, Moseley, and 
O'Brien; for the freshmen: Muz¬ 
zey, Henry and Butt. 

At an Athletic Board meeting On the much discussed subject 
held October 12, Lou Pate, arch¬ of over-organization on the A. S. 
ery manager, announced the four C. campus, the Athletic Associa¬ 
class managers of archery as fol¬ tion submits this explanation of 
lows: Eloise Estes, senior; Alice its stand on the topic. In an ef 
Sill, junior; Eloise Lennard, soph¬ fort to discourage over-participa 
omore; and Virginia Hickman, tion in the four athletic clubs, 
freshman. Lucy Hill Doty, hiking A. A. has established the follow 
manager, announced that Bea Sex¬ ing regulation: 

ton, senior; Ella Hunter Mallard, 

A student may have active 
junior; and Jane Mases, sophomore, 

membership in only one of the 
are three of the class hiking man¬ 

four campus athletic clubs during 
agers. The freshman manager will 

a quarter of a scholastic year. 
be announced at a later date. 

That is, a student may, during the 

Also at this board meeting 

course of a quarter, be an active

Mary Nell Taylor, tennis manager, 

member in either Swimming Club,

announced the appointment of 
Peak Brown as senior tennis man¬ Tennis Club, Archery Club, or 
ager, and of Elizabeth Kenny as Outing Club; but she may not be¬ 

junior manager. The other two long actively to more than one of 
managers will be chosen later. 

these at a time. She has the privi¬ 
lege of establishing her name on

French Club Admits 

the inactive list of the club she is 
Seventeen Students leaving to become actively con¬ 
nected with another for the suc¬ 
ceeding quarter or quarters.

During the club try-outs last 

This regulation is a strong ef¬

week, the French club chose sev¬ 

fort on the part of A. A. to curb

enteen new members and the Ger¬ 

the tendency at Agnes Scott to¬

man club, sixteen. Those accepted 

ward too much organization. It

by the French club were: Betsy 

is the hope of the association that

Banks, Marjorie Boggs, Jeanette 

this stand is clear to the entire

Carroll, Mary Louise Dobbs, Mary 

body, which constitutes its mem¬

pvelyn Francis, Mary Lang Gill, 

bership.

Hazel Hirsch, Gary Horne, Louise 
Hughston, Eloise McCall, Lutie 
Moore, Mary Reins, Jane Salters, Benson Opens Contest 
Lucille Scott, Hazel Solomon, Har¬ 
riet Stimson, Mickey Warren. The Adelaide Benson, snapshot editor 
new members of the German club of the Silhouette, has announced 
include: Jean Codding, Giddy Er¬ the prizes for the annual snapshot 
win, Mary Elizabeth Galloway, contest. A first prize of $2.50 and 
Cora Kay Hutchins, Phyllis John¬ a second prize of $1.50 will be 
son, Ruth Kaplan, Elizabeth given for the best pictures of cam¬ 

Kenny, Eunice Knox, Bertha Mer¬ pus life. There will be another 
rill, Irene Phillips, Nell Pinner, prize of $2.00 for the best candid 
Evelyn Sears, Mary Pennel Simon-shot which is turned in. The con¬ 

ton, Harriet Simpson, Elinor Tyler, test will last until the beginning 
Florence Wade. of spring holidays. 

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ATLANTA, GA. 

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE 
DECATUR, GA. 

A college for women that is widely recog¬ 
nized for its standards of work and for the 
interesting character of its student activities. 

For further information, address 

J. R. McCAIN, President 
For Students

On October 7 the Outing Club 
met at Jeanne Matthews house for 

220,000 Will Be Helped By

supper. During the evening the 

Youth Administration

members discussed plans for a trip 

In Colleges 
to the nearby mountains in the 
future, and also for putting a fireN Washington, D. C.—(ACP)— 

place on the four acres of land re¬ The National Youth Administra¬ 
cently bought by the college for a tion will spend 20 million dollars 
camping ground. The fireplace during this school year to help 
will be part of the foundation for 220,000 students earn an educa¬ 
a cabin, which the club hopes tion. This is an increase over last 
soon to erect. years allotment of 28 million dol¬ 

lars for 310,000 students.

This land is situated directly be¬ 
hind .the campus, its proximity re¬ Every state will share in the stu¬ 
lieving somewhat the problem of dent aid funds and several special 
chaperonage on overnight and funds have been created. 
week-end hiking trips. The fact College aid allotments now be¬ 
that it is so near the campus, how¬ ing forwarded are expected to ap¬ 
ever, is one of the most frequent proximate $10,700,000. Employ¬ 
objections to this beautifully ment quotas for colleges will be 
wooded strip of land. Dr. McCain about 80,000. 
has mentioned a lake there to make This year, graduate students 

the lot even more attractive to have been eliminated from direct 
Agnes Scott-campers. student aid. A college may, how¬ 
ever, at its discretion, allot a por¬ 

Pop Warner, the "old fox" of tion of its funds to graduate stu¬ 
intercollegiate football, won his dents. 
3p0th victory in 43 years of A special fund of $70,000 has 
coaching when his Temple Univer¬ been set up to aid Negro graduate 
sity team beat Virginia Military students in states which do not of¬ 
Institute, 18 to 7. fer advanced courses for Negroes. 

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t 
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Call Us For Special Delivery 

309 E. College Ave. Decatur, Ga. 

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To keep you snug and warm, now that nights 
are chilly. Tuckstich, long sleeves, high 
necks—pajamas with ski bottoms. The 

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RICH'S 


For 
Your Y.W.C.A. 
Pledge <P)£ Agonistic Budget 

VOL. XXIII 

By Jane Guthrie 

MONKEY WRENCH: Russia 
upsets the Spanish Non-interven¬ 
tion Committee's "Love Feast" by 
announcing her refusal to recog¬ 
nize belligerancy of the Rebels un¬ 
less all volunteers ' are withdrawn 
from Spain. Italy follows this up 
by demanding unanimous support 
of the British plan from all nine 

members before entering agree¬ 
ment. Germany and Portugal back 
her. Russia accuses Britain of 
treating Italy with a "plague of 
Politeness," and reminds the 
members that any delay in the 
withdrawal of volunteers from 
Spain is distinctly to General 
Franco's advantage. 

BUDGET DILEMNA: Roose¬ 
velt's latest budget estimate is 2 56 
millions below his estimate last 
April. This is attributed to the de¬ 
cline in tax receipts, and to con¬ 
gressional profligacy. On the 
other hand, government savings 
are above the April Forecast. 
Monthly expenses have been re¬ 
duced from 274 millions to 200 
millions. But added expenditures 
have wiped out this again and 
leading economists estimate the 
national debt will be 695 millions 
by June, 193 8. Meanwhile Roose¬ 
velt faces a new dilemna. Business 
activity is falling off and the list 
of unemployed will consequently 
increase. If the President acquieses 
in new employment plans the re¬ 
vised budget will be disarranged. 
And if he does not comply, social 
trouble may ensue. 

RED INK: The Japanese cabi¬ 
net has approved reductions of 59 
millions in government expenses 
for the remainder of the fiscal 
year. Her trade balance shows 250 
millions in the red. Commodity 
prices are rising. Taxes are going 
up. Yet members of the Japanese 
Economic League declare, "The 
story of Japan's instability is a 
pleasant fiction of our enemies. We 
no longer are a poor nation." By 
aggression, substition and gold 
mining, Japan plans to meet all 
the problems of the future. And 
where these methods will not 
work, as in the case of the wool 
supply, Japan states she will sim¬ 
ply "do without it." 

Dr. Philip Davidson 

Addresses Council 

History Professor Delivers 
Lecture Series 

Professor Philip Davidson, of 
the history department, is giving 
a series of lectures sponsored by 
the Council ob Jewish Women, 
the first address having been made 
on October 26 at eleven o'clock at 
the Standard Club. He will con¬ 
tinue his lectures on successive 
Tuesdays. 

The tentative program, subject 
to change by the wishes of the 
group, is as follows: 

1. Birdseye view of the situa¬ 
tion in Europe and the relation of 
the states to each other. 2. Bri¬ 
tish foreign policy since 1918 as 
determinant in world affairs. 3. 
Frightened France in European af¬ 
fairs. 4. The role of the Fascist 
states in Europe. 5. The oriental 
complex — Russia, China and 
Japan. 6. The United States as a 
world power—Europe. 7. The 
United States in South American 
affairs, and 8, the United States 
and the orient. 
AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1937 

Blackfriars to Seniors Begin

Publication 

Give Drama Year's Duties 
Heads Form 
November 20 As Chaperones 

New Council 

Chafin, Cousins, Bailey, and Thirty-one Sign Agreement of 
New Responsibility For

Flynt To Act in New 

Blackshear To Give Report 

Students

Play By Levy From Press Group In 
Chapel 

As the result of popular request,

With Myrl Chafin in the title 

senior chaperones have become a

role, Blackfriars, under the di¬ Body Will Decide Policy 

reality at Agnes Scott. The Stu¬

rection of Miss Frances K. Gooch, 

Believing that the interests dent Government Association has

associate professor of English, will 

and aims of their activities been working on the idea since last 

on Saturday, November 20, pre¬ 

are similar, the six heads of spring, and Thursday, October 7,

sent in Bucher Scott gymnasium, 

the three campus publications the student body voted on a list of

"Mrs. Moonlight," by Ben Levy. 

have formed a press council, which senior chaperones which was then

Jeanne Flynt, Elizabeth Cousins, 

will outline and direct, along approved by the Administrative

and Jean Bailey will portray Jane, 

parallel lines, the policy of all three Committee. The seniors whose

Emily and Minnie, respectively. 

issues. Friday morning in chapel, names were approved were re¬

The male characters, some of 

Elizabeth Blackshear will make a quired to sign an agreement to fol¬

which will be played by Emory 

report from the council, speaking low strictly the rules of the col¬

students, have not yet been as¬ 

on the broadening, concrete scope lege and to be personally responsi¬

signed. 

of college life. ble for the underclassman or un¬

"Mrs. Moonlight" is the story 

The council will consist of Hor-derclassmen whom they are chap¬

of a woman, who although she tense editor, and

Jones, Elizabeth eroning.

wished to grow old, could not. The 

Blackshear, business manager, of 

The reason for this innovation is

action starts in 1890 in the days of 

the Agonistic; Carol Hale, editor, that Agnes Scott has been severely

the Gibson girl and passes through 

and Ola Kelly, business manager, 

criticised for permitting her girls

the pre-war period to present day 

of the Aurora; and Virginia Wat¬ 

to impose on people in Decatur and

times. The cast is ordering cos¬ 

son, editor, and Joyce Roper, busi¬ Atlanta by spending the night at

tumes from New York. Three sets, 

ness manager, of the Silhouette. 

their homes or using them as chap¬

one for each of the periods por¬ 

They conceived the idea for the 

erones. The Dean's Office and Stu¬

trayed, will be used. 

council at the national convention 

dent Government feel that

Miss Carrie Phinney Latimer, as¬ which they attended in Chicago, use senior

through the of chaper¬

sistant in Speech, will assist Miss where the excellent work of such 

ones, this imposition will be les¬

Gooch in directing the play. councils on other campuses was sened. 
reported. 

Those seniors who are chaper¬

Sophomores Will 

ones are: Jean Barry Adams, Tom-
Who's Who Lists mie Ruth Blackmon, Catherine 
Be Honored at Brittingham, Martha Peak Brown, 
Seven Students Laura Coit, Mildred Davis, Mary

Hallowe'en Fete 

Lillian Fairley, Anna Katherine 
Organ Gives Honor Rating Fulton, Martha Alice Green, Jane 
Spooks and witches will reign To Campus Leaders Guthrie, Nell Hemphill, Mary Mctonight, 
October 27, when the Cann Hudson, Ann Worthy John-
members of Mortar Board enter¬ The Agnes Scott students in¬ sen, Ola Kelly, Eliza King, Ellen 
tain the boarding students of the cluded in Who's Who Among Stu¬ Little, Jean Matthews, Bee Merrill, 
sophomore class and their dates dents in American Universities and Mary Primrose Noble, Frances 
with a Hallowe'en party at the Colleges this year are Jean Chal¬ Norman, Frances Robinson, Sa-
Murphey Candler building. mers, Winifred Kellersberger, Hor-mille Saye, Elizabeth Skinner, 
The members of Mortar Board tense Jones, Mary Lillian Fairley, Julia Telford, Mary Venetia Smith, 
have divided into groups in plan¬ Eliza King, Ann Worthy Johnson Anne Thompson, Virginia Watson, 
and Laura Coit. Mary Belle Weir, Dixie Woodford,

ning for the party. Jean Chalmers 
is in charge of securing spooks; To be included in Who's Who, a Jane Wyatt, Louise Young. 
Winifred Kellersberger and Vir¬ student must have a combination 

ginia Watson, decorations; Laura of character, leadership in extra¬ 

Students, Dates 

Coit, invitations; Jean Barry curricular activities, and scholar¬ 
Adams and Lib Blackshear, dates; ship to indicate that she is out¬ Are 

Entertained 

Eliza King and Mary Lillian Far¬ standing and an asset to her school. 
ley, food. The hostesses are plan¬ At Open House 
ning games in the different rooms 

Y.W.C.A Sends
of the Murphey Candler Building 

Last Saturday night the Mur¬

in place of the proms of former 

Two to Macon 

phey Candler student activities

years. 

building was formally opened to 
Mary Hollingsworth and Gary girls and their dates, when Mortar 
President Goes Wheeler went last week to a Synod Board held open house for about 
at Wesleyan as Agnes Scott fifty people.
On Convention Y. W. C. A. delegates and spoke at 

Various games were provided for 

a vesper's program on the subject 

entertainment, and hot chocolate, 

Dr. J. R. McCain left his duties of "Persecution in a World of cookies, and candy were served. 
at Agnes Scott Thursday and Fri¬ Struggle." The Macon college en¬ Mildred Davis and Anne Thomp¬
day, October 21 and 22 to attend tertained them at an informal sup¬ son had charge of the entertain¬ 

a meeting of the Southern Associa¬ per. It is a part of this year's ment and refreshments; while Mrs. 
tion of College Activities at Birm¬ Y. W. C. A. program to send dele¬ Emmie Ansley served as chaperone.
ingham and to address the mem¬ gates frequently to other col¬ 
bers of the Women's College at leges. 

Sociology Students

Columbus, Mississippi, at the 
Founders' Day program which was Freshman Y Cabinet 

Go To Copper Hill

held Friday. 

Is Chosen by Class 
On Thursday, October 21, five

May Day Group Has 

The freshman Y. W. C. A. cab¬ cars filled with Agnes Scott So¬ 
inet for 1937-3 8, recently elected ciology 305 students under the

Five New Officers 

by the freshmen class, consists of leadership of Dr. Arthur Raper, 

acting professor of Sociology; Miss

the following girls:

At its recent meeting on Octo¬ Gene Slack, Gene Dennison, Emily Dexter, associate professor 
ber 22, the May Day Committee Pattie Patterson, Grace Walker, of Psychology, and Miss Kather¬ 
chose five new officers for this Mary Scott Wilds, Edith Henegar, ine Omwake, assistant professor of 
year. Miss Ellen D. Leyburn, Miss Tommay Turner, Nancy Gribble, Psychology, left the college for a 
Emma May Laney, and Miss Cath¬ Louise Musser, Miriam Bedinger, trip to Copperhill, Tennessee, to 
erine Torrance will be the faculty Tine Gray, Louise Sams, Martha study the social problem of the 
auditors; Helen Kirkpatrick, the Dunn, Shirley Gay Swagerty and intelligent use and the conserva¬ 
publicity chairman; Mary Mat¬ Anne Garrett. tion of the natural resources of 
thews, the Scenario chairman. These fifteen girls have already the United States. 

Anne Thompson, chairman of begun their duties in directing the They spent three hours in this 
the committee, will announce the Y. W. C. A. projects of the class region of big gullies, where fumes 
Scenario contest sometime around of 1941, under the leadership of from the copper mines have des¬ 
the Christmas holidays. Louise Musser, president. troyed all vegetation. 

Z115 No. 4 

M. F. Guthrie, 
Hopkins are 

Debate Team 

Austin Will Be Alternate 
When Pi Alpha Meets 
Englishmen 

Fray To Be December 10 

At the tryout of members 
of Pi Alpha Phi Debating So¬ 
ciety for a position on the Ag¬ 
nes Scott team meeting the 
Oxford-Cambridge debate team on 
Friday, December 10, Margaret 
Hopkins was chosen by Dr. George 

P. Hayes, faculty advisor for the 
club, to uphold with Mary 
Frances Guthrie the affirmative of 
the question, Resolved: That the 
power of the trade unions has in¬ 
creased, is increasing, and ought to 
be diminished. Gene Austin will 
serve as alternate. 
One of the Englishmen, James 

A. Brown, is an Irishman, and the 
other, Ronald V. Gibson, is a 
Scotchman. The former, represent¬ 
ing Oxford, was educated until he 
was 18 years of age, in Northern 
Ireland, where his home still is. 
Then he went to Germany and 
studied at Heidelberg University 
for several months. For the last 
four years he has been at Balliol 
College, Oxford, reading for the 
Honours degree of Modern History 
and being actively engaged in poli¬ 
tics both inside and outside the 
University as president of the 
University Liberal Club and also 
of the Oxford Union. He' an¬ 
nounces that he intends, as his life 
work, to practice as a barrister. 
Although he was a Scot by birth, 
Mr. Gibson was reared in England. 
He spent a few years in Insurance 
before he went to Cambridge three 
years ago to read for the Econom¬ 
ics Tripos. He, having been 
brought up a Liberal and now be¬ 
ing a moderate Socialist, supports 
an alliance of the Liberal and La¬ 
bour parties and has developed an 
organization in the University for 
this purpose called the Democratic 
Front. He has been president of 
the Cambridge Union Society, sec¬ 
retary of the Socialist Club and 
president of the Union. During his 
residence at Cambridge he has 
maintained his business connec¬ 
tions and intends to spend some 
time on the staff of a London 
daily newspaper before taking up a 
post as Parliamentary Private Sec¬ 
retary. 

Miss Sturdivant 

Speaks at A.S.C. 

Executive Committee Is Host 
To Personnel Worker 

Miss Sarah M. Sturdivant, pro¬ 
fessor of education at the teachers 
college of Columbia University, 
arrived at Agnes Scott today to 
speak to the student body and to 
the executive committee of stu¬ 
dent government, her official 
hosts. 

The executive committee will 
entertain Miss Sturdivant at tea 
this afternoon, at which time she 
will speak to them on the general 
theme of student government as 
an intellectually inspirational 
rather than a penalizing organiza¬ 
tion. 

At the student government 
chapel tomorrow, Miss Sturdivant 
will speak on "How Student Gov¬ 
ernment Trains for Citizenship." 


THE AGONISTIC 

"Island Magic" Holds !

® i 
Gay Charm and Humor! 

"Island Magic," Elizabeth Goudge, Cow


ard-McCann, Inc., New York, $2.50. 

True to its name, this book is full of magic, 

in both senses of the word. There is magic 

in the second sight of Rachell, and there is 

magic in the scenes from the Guernsey coun¬ 

tryside, in storms and wrecks and picnics. 

The story is laid in the Channel Islands in 

the eighties, when the people there lived in a 

world all their own, leading a quiet existence, 

and clinging to the folklore and superstitions 

of the past. It concerns Rachell du Frocq, 

who, through her wonderful gift of second 

sight, managed to save her farm from ruin, 

in the face of censure and ridicule from her 

husband, Andre, and from her friends. 

Of all the characters, perhaps the most 
charming is the eight-year-old Colin. "Colin 
had not the smallest objection to telling lies. 
He liked things to be pleasant and agreeable 
all around, and he had found from painful 
experience that the giving of truthful ans¬ 
wers to direct questions bearing on his re¬ 
cent whereabouts and behavior invariably 
led to unpleasantness. Therefore in conver¬ 
sation he aimed always at giving pleasure 
rather than accurate information, and was 
throughout his life universally beloved." Be¬ 
sides Colin there are four other children— 
Colette, Michelle, Peronelle, and< Jacqueline— 
all as different as they can possibly be. 

"A really charming book, very human and 
humourful, with five of the most real chil¬ 
dren . . . ever met in fiction, and full of the 
most gorgeous descriptions of life in Guern¬ 
sey." 

Innovations Spice 

Routine of College 

Exploring the news of other colleges this 
week we find that Agnes Scott isn't the only 
one that can recognize outstanding person¬ 
alities. In the Emory Wheel Lucille Denni-
son's picture under the headline "Seeks New 
Fields to Conquer," made known the fact that 
another "campus queen" had been added to 
the graduate school at Emory. From the 
Colonnade, we learn that a Golden Slipper in¬ 
stead of a Black Cat takes up all the time 
and worry of'the sophomores and freshmen 
at G. S. C. W. These two classes compete for 
the Golden Slipper by presenting original 
plays, written and directed by members of 
each class. 

At Alabama College, a group of students 
are pursuing culture in a big (and rather ex¬ 
pensive) way. Every third week of the month 
is set aside as Culture Week and during that 
week any lack of courtesy, refined language, 
or lady-like behavior shown by a member of 
the group costs that member a penny and up 
—according to the offense committed. At the 
end of the article, the Alabamian comments 
that that part of the dormitory is fast losing 
its reputation of being the nosiest on the 
campus. It seems that the pursuits of culture 
is highly beneficial. 

From The Triangle we see that the senior 
students are planning to get profits by 
opening the "Jolly Joint" where candy, 
drinks, and chewing gum will be served dur¬ 
ing the day. They even plan to serve dough¬ 
nuts and coffee for the "late breakfasters." 

While seniors may have tijne to run a cam¬ 
pus store, poor freshmen are buried under 
common troubles on all the campuses. At 
the Florence State Teachers College in the 
"Open Forum" column of the paper a fresh¬ 
man makes a wail over certain teachers' 
hobby of having thirty or forty textbooks 
from which students get only vague, scramb¬ 
led facts. She ends her letter with this wise 
remark: "It's easier to take a huge book 
home with you to study than stay all night 
at the library waiting for a book on reserve 

(they're always in use)." 

The most unusual article was found in the 

Flor-Ala from Florence State Teacher's Col¬ 

lege. It announces the request for limericks 

which "May be sung in chapel programs. 

Students and faculty members are invited to 

contribute limericks to be used in this way." 

Two limericks already contributed were 

printed. Imagine a student singing this in 

chapel: 

"There was a young man from Lynn 

Who was so exceedingly thin 

That when he assayed 

To drink lemonade 

He slipped through the straw and fell in." 

(&l)c Agonistic 

PUBLISHED WEEKLY 
Owned and published by the students of Agrnes Scott College. 
Entered as Second Class Matter at Decatur, Georgia. 
Subscription price, $1.25 per year in advance. Single copies, 5c. 

1937 Member 1938 

Pissocided GoUe&iote Press 

Lost Horizon 

"The time has come," we chant with Lewis Carroll, "to 
think of many things." And though we realize that in this 
voluble age many people have said many things many times, 
we yet raise our quavering voice. In spite of (or rather be¬ 
cause of) the fact that nobody reads editorials, we neverthe¬ 
less think that the time has come to speak of many things— 
among them the college student, his world, and what he does 
there. 

It is only through such assemblies as the recent national 
convention in Chicago that we come to realize that there is 
a student world—a whole sphere of activity built in, around, 
and for the pursuit of higher learning. It is an artificial 
state, constantly shiftly in population, lasting only four years 
for the average person, yet withal remaining, on the whole, 
static. 
The attributes of such a world are, of course, determined 
chiefly by its occupants. Students take up a unique position; 
they are social parasites. It is not through any grace or vir¬ 
tue of our own that we are enrolled in Agnes Scott, but 
through the fortunate financial conditions of our families. 
For each girl who sits at one of our library tables, nine otherb 
take up stations behind store counters and at telephone 
switchboards. Not from any personal superiority, but from 
the lot spun out by the three fickle sisters of destiny, we re¬ 
ceive, as birthright, privileges which are denied to nine-
tenths of our generation. 
Moreover, we do nothing lucrative to gain these privileges; 
everything we have or do is paid for by somebody else. How, 
then, justify our existence? Simply on the premise that in 
the future we will repay society for the extra time and money 
it has spent on us. Last year Dr. Davidson pointed out to 
us the need for dynamic and creative leadership; it is this 
that society wants from us—we say it without boast, 
y There is going on in all phases of social life a process of 
crystallization of economic groups. We see this in interna¬ 
tional labor movements and in organizations like the Liberty 
League. It is a horizontal rather than a vertical stratifica¬ 
tion. Youth, too, has its part in this movement; and we find 
the militaristic, dictator-directed young people in Germany 
and Italy, the "New Life" movement in China, the Youth 
Congress in America. 
Only in recent years have students realized this growing 
youth consciousness and taken their place as leaders of the 
movement. They have inaugurated peace demonstrations, ef¬ 
forts toward academic freedom, and work with the National 
Youth Administration. There is growing a definite feeling 
of internationalism, as evidenced by such things as: the sys¬ 
tem of exchange students, the English debates, and interna¬ 
tional youth congresses. 
To the spluttering publicists who have pointed a quivering 
finger and screamed "Red Communism" at what we have 
done, we recommend the memory of our perhaps saner an¬ 
cestors who offered an amused tolerance to youth's rose-col¬ 
ored glasses. 
Perhaps we are a trifle preposterous; perhaps we are ap¬ 
plying feeble matches to rivers. Nevertheless, we dare to 
claim that we are old enough to know what kind of a world 
we want: 
We covet, first of all, absolute academic freedom. Believ¬ 
ing that it is intellectual suicide for a nation to lay over its 
best minds a muffler which derides our claim of freedom of 
speech, we aver that a teacher's classroom is his castle. 
Desiring recognition of the fact that, while we are a part 
of the American people, we are primarily members of the 
human race, we affirm the sacredness of humanity and claim 
the right to live, thus outlawing the wholesale murder in¬ 
volved in war. 
We wish to cultivate the ability to look at facts creatively 
and at ideologies matter-of-factly. 
Finally, we would remind ourselves of the thirteenth-cen¬ 
tury scholar who sold his coat to buy books, and shivered in 
cold that he might burn his last candle at the shrine of learning. 
And what is a liberal arts college but a tempering and a 
mellowing, a loosening and a restraining? 

STAFF 
Hortense Jones 

Elizabeth Blackshear Francis Castleberry 

Editor Business Manager Jeanne Redwine

Alice Reins

Esthere Ogden Eugenia Bridges

Jane Guthrie Advertising Manager Circulation Managers

Mary McCann Hudson

Associate Editors Giddy Erwin Alice Cheeseman

Feature Editor Sports Editor

Mary Frances Guthrie

Marie Merritt Mary Wells McNeil Mary Reins 

Assistant Editors Asst. Feature Editor Exchange Editor 
Elizabeth Skinner Mary Anne Kernan Jeannette Carroll 

Make-up Editor Current History Alumnae Editor 
Elizabeth Kenney Elizabeth Warden Evelyn Baty

Asst. Make-up Editor Book Editor Club Editor 

REPORTERS: N. Allison, E. Baty. M. Chafin, M. L. Dobbs. G. Ducttan. M. L. Gill,

N. Hemphill, E. Hutchena, C. K. Hutchins, R. HurwiU. F. Lee, E, McCall, P. Noble,
M. L. Ratliffe. A. Reins, H. Solomon, S. Steinbach, V. J. Watkins, L. Young, D. Weinkle, 
M. Merlin. 
BUSINESS STAFT: M. Chafin, H. Mirsch, N. Echols, J. Flynt, M. Williamson,

F. Abbot, M. Oliver. 
IA Letter Written by 

A Freshman's Daddy 

(Editor's Note: A freshman's father sent the following letter 

to the editor, and—feeling that it is a sincere tribute to one of

the finest attributes of our Alma Mater—we are printing it.) 

I decided that I would go back to college 

again this year as a freshman and that this 

time I would try a girl's college instead of a 

boy's. 

And I'll tell you what it was that surprised 

and impressed me most. It was the spirit of 

kindness that was everywhere like the warm 

sunshine of the opening day. Kindness es¬ 

pecially to us freshmen! My former experi¬ 

ence at a boy's college was that the poor 

freshmen had to go it alone, find their own 

way with fear and trembling, and be laughed 

at and ridiculed and treated like the tradi¬ 

tional "red-headed step-child." But this time 

I found it entirely different. The kindness of 

kind hearts had prepared for me just the op¬ 

posite kind of a reception—-such a reception 

that, instead of being like undergoing an op¬ 

eration in a hospital or entering a peniten¬ 

tiary, it was one of the most delightful ex¬ 

periences of my life. 

Now in the midst of it all, this spirit of 

kindness was specially focused upon me 

through one whom I know as my sponsor. 

She is an upperclassman who was appointed 

to, shall I say, big-sister me? Well, whatever 

you may call it, what she did was to write me 

a welcome letter before I came; and, when I 

arrived, there she was and she took charge 

of me—directing or guiding me in all of the, 

to the freshmen, unknowns of college life. 

And so the first course that I received 

upon entering this college was one that was 

given to me, not in books, but in persons. It 

was a course in kindness, unselfishness, 

thoughtfulness of others, love for others—■ 


all expressed in kind words, kind deeds, and 

kind faces. And it seems to me that kindness 

is the best thing of all. It meant more to me 

than anything else did in my rather dreaded 

experience of entering college—it made a de¬ 

lightful experience of what I had feared 

would be a most trying one. And I rather 

think that I shall learn no finer lesson in my 

four years here than the lesson of kindness 

which I have learned at the beginning. And 

I have determined to practice it all the way 

through college and through life. 

I am certain that Tennyson was right 

when he said, 

"Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 

'Tis only noble to be good. 

Kind hearts are more than coronets, 

And simple faith than Norman blood." 

Headlines of the Past 

Three years ago this week, the Atlanta 

Civitan Club celebrated "Agnes Scott Day." 

The college special chorus sang for the Civi


tanians, and President J. R. McCain spoke on 

"Extra School Education." 

Two years ago this week, the Bucher Scott 

gymnasium celebrated its tenth birthday 

with an open house. 

One year ago this week, Lecture Associa¬ 

tion announced that Stuart Chase would lec¬ 

ture at Agnes Scott on November 13. 

Looking Backward, We 

Stumble Ahead 

Of the score of students whom we ques¬ 
tioned on the Sino-Japanese war, nearly all 
replied that they didn't know anything about 
it because they don't read the newspapers. 
This self-confessed ignorance reveals the 
crying—or should we say bellowing—need 
for the current events bulletin board which 
has been planned by the Current History 
Forum. 

Dr. Davidson has often explained that we 
study history primarily to interpret the pres¬ 
ent. Thus, even though we master all the cul¬ 
ture and knowledge of the past, we are not 
educated if we have not arrived at an intelli¬ 
gent interpretation of the present. For the 
major events of the world today, discriminat¬ 
ingly chosen and attractively presented, we 
refer you to the current history bulletin 
board in the library. 

If we fix our eyes on the ground we have 
already covered, we can be expected to stum¬ 
ble over the steps in front of us. 


THE AGONISTIC 

Girls Disclose Six Fur-Clad Agnes Scotters Meet TaxUDrivers, Social Flashes 
Deep Desires Musicians in Thrill-Packed Visit to "Windy.City 

After freezing at the Auburn 

Of Childhood 

Last week Agnes Scott added 
six more puffs of hot air to the 

Do you remember what you "windy city" of Chicago when the 
wanted to have or to be most when Alma Mater bade farewell to Horyou 
were a little girl? What was tense Jones, Elizabeth Blackshear, 
the height of your ambition? It Carol Hale, Ola Kelly, Joyce 
seems that most of the fair damsels Roper and Virginia Watson. After 
at Agnes Scott started out with embarking for the Chicago Press 
the desire to be missionaries, and Convention, the six girls, each 
then as the years passed and the wrapped in a swanky fur coat, 
tender age of about ten was (two of 
reached, they decided they had which, by 
rather be great actresses. Bunny the way,
Marsh and Grace Duggan wanted were bor¬ 
to be missionaries to the darkest rowed — a 
part of Africa—emphasis on the la Agnesdark. Helen Moses and Susan 

Scott tra-

Goodwin felt the lure of the foot¬ 

d ition),

lights when quite young, and Net¬ were swepttie Lee Grier said that at one time away by a three day whirlwind 
or another she wanted to be every¬ which seems to have included 
thing from a toe dancer to a mis¬ a delicious mixture of wierd taxi 
sionary. drivers, baffling telephone slugs 

Giddy Erwin after a few mo¬ (not thugs!), the Big Apple, foot¬ 
ments of fluttering contemplation ball games, Kay Kyser, Russian 
came to the conclusion that she Artists, Fred Waring, "Snazzy" 
has always wanted to be a novelist. chums, and "You Can't Take It 
Aileen Shortlcy said that she had With You!" Believe it or not, 
felt that urge, too. Don't tell any¬ the girls actually took time off 
body but Aileen once wrote a from these important activities 
poem in memory of her pet gold¬ to attend over eight stimulating 
fish, Ella, who did a swan dive 
over the goldfish bowl. According 
to the author, the poem was ex¬ 

Along

ceedingly good. 
Although Ruth Slack never The Colonnade 
harbored any desires to be ^ a 
poetess, she did want to teach kin-

Weekly Whopper—The Ironic

dergarden. Kay Toole wanted to 

Tragedy in which heroines Irene

be a surgeon and slice up people. 

Phillips,^Mary Bell, Margaret Bell

From the vicious let us go to the 

and their cavaliers drove gallantly

gentle. Virginia Kyle always 

through a red light in a "do-or


wanted to be a lady. Surely that 

die" attempt to return to the cam¬ 

was a worthwhile ambition. She 

pus before Time-Limit, only to be

also wanted a pink dress, a pink 

arrested by an unsympathetic offi¬ 

car and a pink house. Kitty Cald


cer of the law!

well was Virginia's kindred soul 

News Flash—Jean Austin de¬

because her chief aim in life was a 

cided to be the "clinging vine"

pink hat, dress, and shoes. Eliza¬ 

type, but the vine turned out to be

beth Shepherd did not care 

poison ivy—so she's reverting to

whether her dress was pink but it 

her old poisonality!

did have to be long like the ones 
her mother wore and of course she Silly sallies—Ernestine Cass re¬ 
wanted high heeled shoes to match. ceiving a book-knock for signing 
Shoes played an important par,, in up as attending the "Church of 
Corky Hutchin's life also, for to the Air" . . . Polly Hazlitt receiv¬ 
her mind nothing could be more ing a male visitor who rode all the 

wonderful than red shoes just like way from Albany on a motor cycle 
the ones Mrs. Lyle bought Douglas (No, it's not the "eternal tri-cyevery 
year. cle!") . . . Ellen Stuart receiving 
the unbelievable—a box of candy

Not all the small girlish hearts 
were turned on frills and flounces, from a "blind date"! 
however. Flossie Wade didn't want 
any ole dress. In fact, her dearest Committee o f T e a 
wish was to be a boy and from day 

House Begins Work

to day Flossie's poor mama would 
shake her head and say, "Tsk! Tsk! 
What have I here?" Why that With Associate Professor Emma 
child of hers wore overalls, went May Laney of the'English depart¬ 
barefooted, and even chewed ment and Assistant Professor Les¬ 
liquorice! lie Janet Gaylord of the Mathema¬ 

tics department as faculty repre¬ 
Pen and Brush Club sentatives, and Caroline Armistead 
and Regina Hurwitz as student

Wants all Try-outs 

delegates, the Silhouette Tea house 
committee has begun its year's 
Tomorrow is the last day to work. 
submit try-outs for Pen and 

At its meeting last week, the 

Brush Club, a group organized by 

committee discussed prices and 

the students of the art department 

service. Chairman Caroline Armis¬ 

to stimulate interest in individual 

tead announces that student criti¬ 

art work on the campus. • 1 ry-outs 

cism and opinion will be wel¬ 

may be given to Jane Wyatt, Jane 

comed. 

Guthrie, or Henrietta Thompson. 

Unofficial Traditions (Not 

Modern Fireproof

found in the Handbook, but an in¬ 
tegral part of Agnes Scott life): HOTEL CANDLER > 
The ten-fifteen (A. M.) train EUROPEAN PLAN 
wheezing by during every Chapel 

T. J. Woods, Mgr., Decatur, Ga.
speech. , 

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meetings in three days—which Manager Blackshear will never for¬ 
ought to set up some kind of rec¬ get. It seems that the girls were 
ord! 

tired of being fooled, so they ap¬ 
The round of adventures in 

pointed Lib to be the spokesman at 

Chicago apparently began when 

a drugstore where they wished to 

an ancient taxi driver with a 

use the 'phone. Determined to ac¬

mariner-ish gleam in his eye more 
or less kidnapped Hortense, Carol cept no nonsense, Lib asked the 
and Lib because he was so anxious man in a business-like voice it they 
to show them the colossal new could telephone there. The man 
bridge. He drove them around for answered to the affirmative, but 
miles, spinning yarns of A1 Ca-suggested that they might wish to 
pone's village, Cicero, where the purchase a slug from him. Sus¬ 
street-cleaners had to arm them¬ pecting foul play, Lib declined 
selves with blotters to soak up all with much squelching hauteur, 
the blood; while all this time Ola, only to discover that slugs are the 
Gina and Joyce were at the Medi-sine qua non of phoning in Chi¬ 

nah Club (convention headquar¬ cago! 
ters) tearing half their hair over 

Of all her convention adven¬ 

the whereabouts of their friends 

tures, Joyce recalls most vividly

and the other half over their vain 

the excitement of the Northwest¬ 

attempts to unravel the mysteries 

ern-Perdue game, which was "just

of Lost 

like a movie! She also became quite

Foyers and 

enthusiastic over Kaufman's play,

regis¬ 

"You Can't Take It With You!" 

tration 

—as did all of the girls. The thing

desks and 

that appealed to Ola most was the 

so on. 

monopolization of the floor by all 

The 

the Southerners at the convention 

first im¬ 

dance Fri¬ 

pression of 

day night

the convention," says Carol Hale, 

during

"was the way in which those 

their rendi¬

Northerners looked when they 

tion of the

heard our Southern accents. They 

Big Apple,

were all so nice and friendly to 

to the

Southerners; but I didn't think our 

amuse¬

accent was any funnier than the 

ment of 

queer slang they used. For in¬ 

the Yankees. Hortense and Carol 

stance, everybody was everybody 

were both literally entranced by

else's 'chum' and everything was 

the revolving doors and escalators 

simply 'snazzy.' Also 'scuddly


at Marshall Fields. The others 

wucks' and 'Zip! You said it' were 

testify that Carol and Hortense 

favorite expressions." One bewilder¬ 

spent an entire afternoon during

ing thing about the whole affair, 

the edifying convention running 

as Carol says, was the way in 

up and down and around these 

which all the Agnes Scotters took 

peculiar transportational facilities. 

everybody seriously when they 

Gina's most vivid impressions

were joking and vice versa. An 

are of the dynamic people she met

example of the aforesaid vice versa 

(the powerhouse!), including Fred

is an incident which Business 

Waring and Kay Kyser—who re¬ 
membered going to schoql with her 
Professor Goes brother at Chapel Hill. The most 
memorable person she met, how¬ 
To S.C. Meeting ever, was a Russian artist who in¬ 
quired casually (and just to set 
himself straight) whether "Geor¬

Miss Jackson Conducts Round 

gia was the capital of Alabama or

Table Discussion 

vice versa—he never could remem¬ 
ber which!"

Miss Elizabeth Fuller Jackson 
returned to Agnes Scott on the 
seventeenth after spending several 
days in Spartanburg, S. C., where RIALTO 
she attended the meeting of the 

STARTS FRIDAY, OCT. 29

South Carolina Division of the 
American Association of Univer¬ GARY GRANT 
sity Women. 

FRANCHOT TONE 
An enthusiastic member of the 

JEAN HARLOW 

Association, Miss Jackson took a 
prominent part in the meeting and 
in the activities surrounding it. 

"suzy

Friday night she gave a lecture at 
Converse College on Fellowships, An M-G-M Picture 
A Contribution to Democracy, 

5*= 

For "HIM".... For "HER' 

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game Saturday afternoon, Agnes 
Scott thawed out at the many and 
various dances that night. Gay 
Cinderellas dashing home on the 
stroke of 12:30 were: Julia Porter 
and Sue Goodwyn from the Em¬ 
ory Theta dance; Jane Jones from 
the Chi Phi dance; scores of girls 
from the AKK dance, including 
Freshella Dusty Hants; and the 
usual delegation from the Anak 
affair. 

Meanwhile, the campus was 
alive with color—namely two 
glamorous Auburn buggies, fan¬ 
tastically engraved and loaded 
with uniforms. Pixie Fairley, wel¬ 
coming them into the Murphey 
Candler building, caught the eye 
of Grace Ward's Auburn brother, 
and lo! We see another family af¬ 
fair to add to the list where glow 
the names of: Callie and Nick, 
Nell and Bob, Mary Ellen and 
Barclay, Mary Venetia and Phil, 
and Jean and Paul. 

Bee Merrill's little sister, who 
visitecT her this week, had the sig¬ 
nal honor of "looking exactly like" 
Jane Moore Hamilton, Julia 
Porter, Mary Scott Wilds and, of 
course. Bee. 

Next week-end will see Anne 
Thompson off to the Davidson-
Furman game at Davidson. 

Ursula Mayer Speaks 

To German Students 

Ursula Mayer, the German ex¬ 
change student at Agnes Scott, 
spoke to the German club at its 
meeting on Wednesday, October 
20, about the youth movement in 
Germany. Mrs. Haager, from Liibeck, 
Germany, also gave a short 
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Sporting 

No game. 

No hike. 

It rained. 

P.S. (1) Ruth Slack never did 
return those clothes she misap¬ 
propriated the other day. But she 
needn't think Milner hasn't found
♦ 


them yet. Poor Milner,—why, it 
was excruciating even to think of 
her going to lunch in that 
c-c-cold, wet t-t-towel! 

P.S. (2) Also Excruciating was 
it to see that silly barefoot citizen 
galvanting b'twixt the library and 
Main last Friday night. Supposed¬ 
ly hunting her shoes, she had all 
the earmarks—footprints, rather— 
of being a freedom-of-the-foot ad¬ 
dict, but that is entirely the 
wrong conclusion to have drawn. 
The truth is that Jane Moses had 
"misplaced" the child's shoes, tersonally 
we think Eric should have 
taken an iron hand in the case. 
Members of Classes 

Of Late Years Have 

Interesting Offices 

Juniors and seniors who knew 
the members of the classes of 193 5 
and 1936 will be interested in this 
news which has been received from 
them. 

From the '3 5 group, two girls 
especially have made marked prog¬ 
ress. Mary Virginia Allen re¬ 
ceived her certificate of etudes 
superieuses from the University of 
Toulouse in the spring after taking 
her final exams. She was one of 
nine foreign students who passed 
the exam and one of two who won 
honors. 

Betty Lou (Houck) Smith has 
been playing in the Atlanta Thea¬ 
tre Guild productions and was one 
of the group from the Spoken 
English Department of Agnes 
Scott who attended the Speech 
Convention in Nashville, April 22. 

Congratulations, Mary Virginia 
and Betty! 

Mary Summers was married to 
Dr. Curtis Langhorn of Smithfield, 
Va., last June. Dr. Langhorn 
is associate professor of psychology 
and assistant registrar at Emory 
University. 

Much has happened to the grad¬ 
uates of 1936: 

Lulu Ames, the class secretary, 
has been working at the Decatur 
Clinic for negroes since the middle 
of the spring; Mary Coarnely has 
finished her course at Peterson's 
Business College in Greenwood, 

S. C.; Virginia Gaines worked and 
studied at Emory until August; 
Lita Goss, who taught school the 
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THE AGONISTIC 

Cotillion Adds 2 7; Therese Poumaillon Speaks Virginia Milner 

At French Club; Erwin, Kernan, Entertain B.O.Z. Tells Plans of 

Aquatic Meets 

A talk by Therese Poumaillon, Cotillion Club, the only purely B. O. Z., the creative writing 
French exchange student, and the social organization on the campus, club on the campus, has set No¬ 

Current Swimming Classes

initiation of new members were chose twenty-seven new members vember 1 as the last day for sub¬ 

and Club Should Enter

mitting try-outs. Any essay, short

two parts of the French club meet¬ at its try-outs on Wednesday and 

story, sketch, play, or other form Two Contests

ing on Monday, October 18. Thursday afternoons of last week. 

of literary composition will be 

Therese told of her impressions of The girls, selected from each of the in the

considered selecting new 

The swimming heads have an¬

American girls, and the new mem¬ four classes, include: Caroline members. 

nounced the dates of two swim¬

bers presented original skits of col¬ Armistead, Rowena Barrenger, Giddy Erwin and Mary Ann 
lege life. Associate Professor Frances Butt, Caroline Carmichael, Kernan were hostesses at the last ming meets^or the coming month, 
Louise Hale, of the French depart¬ Alice Comer, Eleanor Deas, Nell meeting. Jane Guthrie, president, the first of which is scheduled for 

ment, also talked. The head of the led a discussion on criticism, and

Scott Earthman, Jeanne Flynt,

French department at Emory Uni¬ Giddy Erwin reviewed some of the November 11. Virginia Milner, 

Mary Hollingsworth, Frances

versity and two of his students work she had in criticism at Col¬ swimming manager, urges all

Jernigan, Jane Jones, Eloise Len-

were visitors at this meeting. umbia University last summer. members of current swimming

nard, Martha Long, Jane Luthy, 

Nell Allison, Mary Ann Kernan 

Jeanne Matthews, Betsey Myers, classes, as well as swimming club

and Julia Sewell read.

Spanish Club Elects 

Val Neilson, Primrose Noble, Mar-members, to begin regular practicejorie Rainey, Aileen Shortley, Ruth

Eight New Members Eastern grid officials will have on the fundamental strokes and

Tate, Anne Thompson, Mette Wil¬ 

to go into training if they expect dives. The meet should give every

liamson, Peggy Willis, Anne 

to work any eastern college games

At its social and business meet¬ swimmer on the campus an oppor¬

Wheaton, Gary Wheeler and Lydia this fall. must produce

They a

ing on Thursday afternoon, Octo¬ 

Whitner. tunity to participate.

physician's certificate attesting

ber 14, El Circulo Espanol re¬ 

The Cotillion Club entertains its perfection of sight, hearing and The second meet will be Novem¬

ceived eight new members, who 

members at a number of tea-general condition. ber 22.

are: Evelyn Baty, Katherine Britt-

dances during the year. This year

ingham, Mary Virginia Brown, 

the group is headed by Mary Vene-

Lillie Belle Drake, Adele Haggart, 

tia Smith, president, and Frances

Janet McKim, Sara Lee, and Annie Good Evening! Weather: Cloudy and 

Abbot, secretary. 

Unsettled.

Houston Newton. 
The program, one of a series BOOKS CLOSE TONIGHTj

K.U.B. Holds Meeting
planned to increase the members' 
appreciation of Spanish art and 

At its first regular meeting,

customs, consisted of a talk by on 

Wednesday, October 13, K. U. B.

Sarah Thurman on some famous 

initiated its three new members,

composers; a Spanish song by 

Eleanor Hutchens, Anne Enloe,

Jeanne Redwine; and selections by 

and Jane Salters, and also those

Jane Clark, a graduate of Agnes 
Scott, accompanied by a former who were elected last spring. 

After the secretary had read the

president of El Circulo Espanol, 

Constitution, setting forth the

Louise Brown. The entire club 

purposes and rules of the club, the

also joined in several familiar 

members repeated and signed

Spanish songs. new 

the pledge to support K. U. B. in 
past year, studied German and all its activities. 
English at Emory. 

Miss Christie, the club sponsor,

Lillian Grimson is away in gave an informal talk, suggesting 
Buenos Aires where she, her sister, various ways of expanding home 
and a friend have an apartment, town news. After a discussion of 
which is lots of fun. Lillian still these suggestions, the club ad¬ 
enjoys her work and claims she'd journed downstairs for a social 
still like to hear from "all the hour. 
Agnes Scotters." 

in France in an automobile acci¬

Augusta King is doing fine in 

dent, June 5. Janet had been con¬

her work as N. Y. A. adminis¬ 

ducting classes in conversational

trator for Columbus, Ga. 

English at a French school, L'Ecole 
Having finished a year at the Normale d'Institutrices, at La 

Baptist Women's Missionary Union Rochelle. 
Training School in Louisville, Ky., 

Catherine Bates attended the

Lois Hart went to Ridgecrest, 

Baptist World Youth Conference.

N. C., to the Baptist Assembly 
ground this summer and is now in 
An athletic young lady is Ann

Johns Hopkins training to become 

Coffee who took to skiing in lieu 

a medical missionary. 

of her beloved ming. She also seeks 
It is deeply regretted that Janet recreation at baseball games and 
Gray was killed near La Rochelle, the zoo. 

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AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1937 Z115 No. 5

VOL. XXIII 

Alumnae Will

College to 
Have Meeting 
Hear l!Noted 

In November 

Theologian 

Former Students Will Have 
"New Emphasis" For 

Y. W. C. A. Asks Dr. Alston Theme Of Meet 
To Conduct Religious 
With "New Emphasis" as its

Week Services 

theme, the alumnae week-end, 
which annually calls scores of

Talks Begin November 9 

former students back to Agnes 
Scott, will get under way Friday

Dr. William M. Alston, di¬ 

and Saturday, November 19 and 

rector of young people's work 

20. The alumnae have chosen an 
in the Presbyterian church, autumn rather than the usual 
will be the guest speaker at spring week-end, because their 
Alma Mater's calendar is less

Agnes Scott during Religious 

crowded in the fall.

week, November 9-13. 

Beginning at 10:30, Friday, Dr.

With his home in Decatur, Dr. 

Mary Ann McKinney, '2 5' of the 

Alston attended Emory University 

Woman's Christian Medical Col¬ 
and Columbia Seminary here and lege in Punjab, India, will give 
then did graduate work at the "Indian Impressions" as her chapel 

talk.

University of Chicago. After¬ 
wards, he was pastor From 10:30 to 11:30, Dr. Good¬

the first of 

rich C. White, dean of Emory

the Rock Springs Presbyterian 

University, will talk on "Cross

church in Atlanta. Dr. Alston 

Currents In the Colleges." 
later became pastor of the Univer¬ 

"New Emphasis In World Af¬ 
sity Presbyterian church in Lex¬ fairs" will be given by Judge Sam¬ 
ington, Kentucky. Two years ago uel H. Sibley, 11:30 to 12:30, fol¬ 

lowed by a luncheon in Rebekah

he delivered the commencement 

Scott. The after-luncheon talk is

sermon at Agnes Scott. 

to be rendered by Registrar S. G.

The speaker last year was Dr. 

Stukes.

Ben Lacy. 

The Alumnae and guests are 
then invited to a book display in 
the browsing corner of the library, 
on exhibit as part of National 
Book Week. 

By Jane Guthrie 

On Saturday, November 20, 
Lost Battalion: The four day the chapel program held at the 
seige of a Chinese warehouse cita¬ usual 10:00 to 10:00 will be con¬ 
ducted by Mr. C. W. Dieckmann

del in Chapei comes to a dramatic 

and the school string ensemble.

climax as China's "Lost Battalion," 

Professor Thomas H. English,

running a gauntlet of machine 

of Emory University, will speak

guns, escapes to safety in Shang¬ 

immediately after chapel on "New

hai's International Settlement. Of 

Emphasis In the Drama and

the 377 members, 200 remain be¬ 

Theatre," and Associate Professor

hind, dead, as defenders of the ci¬ 

Emma May Laney, of the English

tadel in the face of the Japanese 

department, on "Contemporary

"surrender or die" ultimatum. 

Poets and the South," at 11:30.

Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek or¬ 
ders the surrender of a battalion 
"too valuable to spare." And ten Press Council 
minutes later the Japanese Rising 
Sun banner is hoisted over another Report is Made 
affair of "discipline." Chinese bat¬ 
talion to be interned by British in 

"It is up to us, as students, to

concentration camp. 

assure for ourselves that progres-

Sorry: Japan is reported incensed dveness—in our academic pur¬ 
over British interference with their suits, student organizations, and 
"Lost Battalion" victory. Three social life—which will make us a 

more British soldiers are wounded part of the real universe," said 
by Japanese shells—bringing the Elizabeth Blackshear, when she 
total number of such accidents to spoke for the Press Council in 

10. Japan offers apology. And chapel last Friday on the broaden¬ 
British-Japan tension increases. ing concrete scopes of college life. 
Footnote: Italy's offer of safety Elizabeth discussed the nature 
to the grand mufti of Jerusalem, and spirit of the recent national 
sought for arrest by British, seen press convention in Chicago. She 
as another thrust as England in re¬ urged the application of modern 
taliation of her opposition to the business methods to student organ¬ 
Ethiopian conquest. izations. 

Y.W.C.A* Follows New Method 

In Making out Membership Roll 

By Julia Moseley its, and nearly all of the student 
body signed.

This year Y. W. C. A. has fol¬ 
lowed a different method in mak¬ 

The groups that the students 
have joined are: industrial group,

ing out its membership roll. In¬ 
stead of having a mass signing up, social service group, social 

com¬ 
mittee, world fellowship, mission

the Y. W. C. A. cabinet carried 
interest, music and publicity. The

out a plan by which each girl was 
visited and the aim and activities industrial group works a good part 
of the time with the Atlanta In¬

of the year were explained. Activi¬ 

dustrial girls, and at each one of

ties of Y. W. C. A. are supported 

the meetings there will be a speaker

by a budget raised by voluntary 

or a report on some book dealingsubscription and allowance from with industrial problems. The 
the student activities fund. Sign¬ group also goes on visits to factor¬ 
ing up for groups and signing the ies in and near Atlanta. 
pledges were explained in the vis¬ (Continued page 4, col. 3) 

Investiture 

Is to Honor 

83 Seniors 

Miss Leyburn Will Address 
Class; Dr. Fairley To 
Make Prayer 

Service Will Be In Gym 

The college will officially 
express its confidence in its 
upperclassmen Saturday when 
83 seniors will don their aca¬ 
demic caps and gowns for the cradi-

Two Innovations are 

To Mark Investiture 
Two changes will mark In¬ 
vestiture this year. Since the 
Gaines chapel is too small to 
seat the steadily growing In¬ 
vestiture audiences, the audi¬ 
torium of the Bucher Scott 
gymnasium will be the scene of 
the occasion. 
And the traditional capping 
ceremony, fashioned on the 
medieval accolade, will be per¬ 
formed by Assistant Dean Car¬ 
rie Scandrett rather than Dean 
Nannette Hopkins, who is tak¬ 
ing a rest cure. 

tional Investiture service, to be 
held thi$ year in the Bucher Scott 
gymnasium. Miss Ellen Douglas 
Leyburn, instructor in English, 
will make the address of the occa¬ 
sion; while the Investiture prayer 
will be led by Reverend Dr. T. L. 
Fairley, father of senior Mary Lil¬ 
lian. In the absence of Dean Nan¬ 
nette Hopkins, Assistant Dean 
Carrie Scandrett will perform the 
traditional capping ceremony. 

The academic procession, which 
will form on the porch of Inman, 
will be headed by the sister-class, 
the sophomores; dressed in white. 
Little Louise McKinney Hill, class 
mascot and grand-niece of Miss 
Loliise McKinney, Professor Emer¬ 
itus of English, will lead the pro¬ 
cession. 

Investiture, which was orig¬ 
inated at Agnes Scott and has been 
borrowed by other colleges, is one 
of the school's oldest traditions. 
It was begun as a simple service 
expressive of the college's trust in 
its seniors, but the years have 
brought it such added prestige and 
expanded audiences that the chapel 
will no longer seat all the people 
who wish to attend the service. 
Therefore the ceremonies will 
take place in the gymnasium this 
year. 

Agnes Scott to 

Have Book Week 

From Sunday, November 14th, 
through Sunday, November 21st, 
Agnes Scott will be richer in books 
of biography, poetry, fiction, cur¬ 
rent problems, and drama. These 
books, which are lent by Davison's, 
Millers, MacMillian's and Rich's 
for the annual Book Week, will be 
displayed in the browsing corner of 
the library. 

Such titles as The Devil and 
Daniel Webster, The Making of a 
Scientist, Men, Women and Tenors 
and The New Culture of the 
Chinese give intimations that 
many of the more current books 
will be worth investigating. Other 
best sellers are by or about such 
men as Clarence Day, Emile Zola, 
and Edward VIII. 

Educators o f 

H. S.Ede to 
South Attend 
Speak Here 
Session Here 

In JanuaryConference Delegates Visit 
College For Luncheon 

Curator At Tate Gallery To

In Dining Hall 

Be In United States 
For Lectures

Agnes Scott College was hostess 
to the delegates and visitors of the 

Lecturer To Speak On Art

Southern University Conference at 
a luncheon in Rebekah Scott Hall, 

On January 25, 1937", the

Monday, November 1. After 
luncheon the Conference met for 

Public Lecture Association of 
Agues Scott will present Mr.

its afternoon session in the assem¬ 

H. S. Ede, Curator at the Tate
bly room of the library. Dr. Har-

Gallery, London, and a widely-

vie Bronscomb spoke on the Li¬ 

known artist, author, and lecturer,

brary and the Teaching Program 

in the first of its year's series of

of the college and Dr. H. F. Kohl-

lectures. Mr. Ede will arrive in the

man led a discussion of the topic. 

United States early in 193 8 for a

The Southern University Con¬ 
ference held its Monday morning two months' lecture tour under 

the auspices of the Institute of In¬

meeting at Emory University and 

ternational Education. In England,

its Monday evening and Tuesday 
morning sessions in the Biltmore where he is well-known as a stu¬ 

Hotel. N dent and critic of modern paint¬ 
ing, his home is a rendezvous of

President J. R. McCain, of Ag¬ 

nes Scott college is Secretary-artists and people interested in art. 
At Agnes Scott he will deliver a

Treasurer of the Conference. The 

lecture on art appreciation and

presidents and vice-presidents are, 

will illustrate with slides.

respectively, Chan'cellor-Emeritus 

\

J. H. Kirkland, of Vanderbilt The Lecture Association chose 
University, and President H. W. Mr. Ede as the first speaker in ac¬ 
Cox, of Emory University. Thir¬ cordance with the requests made 
ty-eight southern colleges and uni¬ by students last year in the ques¬ 
versities sent delegates. tionnaires. Art was found to be 
most popular among lecture sub¬ 
jects, physchology second. The as¬

Alumnae Give 

sociation has not yet secured a 
speaker for the second topic. The

Radio Program 

third favorite request was for a 
man of letters. James Hilton and 
Agnes Scott's radio program, Pearl Buck have been asked to 
"Three Girls in a Room," is now visit the campus, but no definite 
well under way with its weekly answer has been received yet. Asso¬ 

broadcasts every Wednesday from ciate Professor Emma May Laney9:00 to 9:15 A. M. over WSB. is hoping to secure Sinclair Lewis 
Sponsored by the Alumnae Asso¬ at some time during the year and 
ciation and written by Betty Lou is considering the Grand Duchess 
Houck Smith, the skit includes Marie. However, the only definite 

four characters, representative of engagement is that of Mr. Ede. 
types of college students. Three of 
these are roommates: Peg (Betty 

Emory to Hear

Lou Houck Smith), a junior; 
Pudge (Mary Freeman Curtis), a 

Monologuist o f

sophomore; and Ginger (Frances 
James), another sophomore. Mic¬ 

Note Saturday

key (Carrie Phinney Latimer), is 
a freshman befriended by the 
roommates. Cornelia Otis Skinner will pre¬ 

Typical Agnes Scott students, sent her original "Modern Mono¬ 
the four girls encounter all the logues" Saturday, November 6, at 
usual events of a college year. This the Glenn Memorial Auditorium 
week's adventure was a visit from under the auspices of the student 
Marge, a last year's senior, who di¬ lecture association of Emory Uni¬ 
vulges news of her engSgement. versity. Miss Skinner's presenta¬ 
tions consist of short dramatic 
Dale Carnegie Will sketches which she wrote herself. 
She plans her programs so as to 
Lecture in Atlanta represent comedy, satire, and 

Mr. Dale Carnegie, author of pathos in balanced proportion. 
the recent best seller, How to Win Besides presenting her mono¬ 
Friends and Influence People, will logues, Miss Skinner is also a radio 
arrive in Atlanta today to speak star and an author, having re¬ 
at the Georgia Theatre at 8:30 cently published a book of amus¬ 

P. M. Ticket prices range from ing commentary entitled "Excuse 
$1.10 to $2,00. It, Please." 
Fundamental Requirements for 

Class Standing are Made Clear 

By Mary McCann Hudson 

Now that the first tests of the 
school year have been taken, the 
question of requirements for class 
standing makes itself heard. The 
necessarily complicated system, 
which its makers very patiently 
explain, is based upon the funda¬ 
mental requirement that to grad¬ 
uate, a student must have made at 
least a passing grade on 189 quar¬ 
ter hours, and she must have at 

least a merit grade on 90 of those 
189 quarter hours. To prevent 
overcrowding of work, a freshman 

is allowed to take no more than 48 
quarter hours and no less than 42; 
and advanced students may take as 
many as-51 quarter hours a year. 

To be promoted to the sopho¬ 
more class, a freshman must have 
either (1) at least passed all her 
work, or (2) she must have at 
least passed 30 quarter hours (not 
including physical education) and 
must have merited 15 of those 30 

hours. 
To receive promotion to the 
junior class a student must have 
(Continued page 3, col. 3) 


THE AGONISTIC 

Carl Crow Describes 

A Picturesque China 

"Four Hundred Million Customers," Carl Crow, 
Harper and Bros., N. Y., 1937. Happily called "the 
diverting adventures of an American advertising 
man in China," this book tells of many interesting 
customs and habits of the Chinese people. 

"Carl Crow went to China a quarter of a century 
ago as a correspondent of the United Press. He re 
mained to conduct his own advertising agency there, 
and to meet oriental human nature in many intrigu¬ 
ing guises, all the way from Shanghai debutants to 
the lowly scavengers of the streets. He even learned 
what the Chinese are too polite to say about certain 
Occidental traits." 

One feels, after reading this book, as if he, too, had 
been to China, been barked at by twenty-five Chi 
nese dogs, who disapprove heartily of the Westerner's 
odor, and eaten shark's fins and ancient eggs. One 
of the most interesting traits of the Chinese people 
is their ability to make use of anything and every¬ 
thing—rusty nails, cigarette stubs, buttons, worn-
out horseshoes, old clothing, tin cans, paper, bottles. 
With their native ingenuity, the Chinese salvagers 
are capable of turning the most unpromising article 
into something of cash value. "The harbor of Shang¬ 
hai is not only one of the busiest, but one of the 
cleanest, in the world. On its surface will be found 
none of the flotsam and jetsam of other harbors, no 
broken fruit crates, half-submerged gunny sacks, de¬ 
cayed oranges, and odds and ends of lumber. All 
these valuables are rescued from the harbor by sal¬ 
vage boats that ply about. The crew invariably con¬ 
sists of the owner, his wife, and such children as are 
too young to be usefully employed ashore. The en¬ 
ergies of the entire family are devoted to the rescue 
of wrecks from the sea. It is because they do their 
work so thoroughly that there are no seagulls in 
Shanghai. These useful scavengers thrive on the 
thrifty coast of Scotland, but they would starve to 
death here." 

" 'Four Hundred Million Customers' is an amusing 
study in human nature, of which the 'London Times' 
says: 'An unusual book, because so much of it is 
practical good sense and so much of it is just good 
fun. The reader who wants enlightenment and 
laughter . . . will neglect it to his loss.' " 

Brisk Fall Weather 

Invigorates Colleges 

College students everywhere are taking time out 
to enjoy the spirit of autumn, for at G. S. C. W. the 
whole school is getting excited over the big Hal¬ 
loween carnival to be put on by the school Recrea¬ 
tional Association. Fortune Tellers, Spooks, Music, 
and Food are the big attractions. But at Mount 
Holyoke, Mass., we learn from the Mount Holyoke 
News that students are getting ahead of our season 
by spending delicious week-ends at various nearby 
colleges learning to ski-waltz and cut fancy figures 
on the ice. Perhaps our expert Big Appiers and their 
expert Ice and Ski Waltzers should get together and 
swap knowledge. The traditional Sophomore-Fresh¬ 
men feud is being carried on in a new way at G. S. 

W. C. In their paper, the Campus Canopy, we dis¬ 
cover that the Sophomores have started the hunt for 
the old battered hat of a former president of the col¬ 
lege, by hiding it in some out-of-the-way place on 
the campus. If and when the freshmen find it, they 
will in turn hide it from the sophomores; every 
Thursday from the first of October to the first of 
February is put aside for the hunt. On the last Thurs¬ 
day, the class who knows where the hat is wins 3 
party from the other class. 
One of the most original ideas we've come across 
was found in the Radcliffe News. One of the Radcliffe 
students conceived the plan, of having a pri¬ 
vate bulletin board in her own room. It has become 
one of the popular sites on the campus, for she filled 
it with caricatures of overwhelmed college stu¬ 
dents, baby pictures of her family, a rattle, a cross¬ 
eyed zebra, poems, and a list of Do's. As one of her 
visitors said, "It was an expression of her personal¬ 
ity" (such an expression of personality might be a 
good outlet for the pent-up opinions of modern 
youth). 

In the Howard Crimson is an interesting report of 
recent chapel programs which featured discussions 
on good grooming. It is particularly interesting in 
that Floward is co-ed and that the masculine part 
of the school seemed as interested as the feminine 
part. One of the warnings given the boys was: "The 
biggest insult to modern women is to find her escort 
for the evening improperly attired." The article on 
"Getting Along With Freshmen" was the most un¬ 
usual we found this week in exploring the college 
news. It was in the Salemite from Winston-Salem 
College. It commences by stating that "Freshmen 
are queer people"; after a long explanation of their 
various moods ("modest as a violet, or superior as 
Methuselah") and of how to be sure to let them 
know that sophomores are sacred people, the article 
ends with "but they are human, yet—Freshmen are 
queer people." 

<&l)c Agonistic 

PUBLISHED WEEKLY 
Owned and published by the students of Agnes Scott College. 
Entered as Second Class Matter at Decatur, Georgia. 
Subscription price, $1.25 per year in advance. Single copies, 5c. 

1937 Member 1938 

Associated GoUe&ide Press 

Canned Education 

We covet, first of all, absolute academic freedom. Be¬ 
lieving that it is intellectual suicide for a nation to lay 
over its best minds a muffler which derides our claim 
of freedom of speech, we aver that a teacher's class 
room is his castle. 

—From last week's editorial, "Lost Horizon." 

FOR SALE: Several brands of education, canned and ready 

to serve to students for nine months of the year. 

We realize that this is an exaggeration—probably a gross 
exaggeration; but we nevertheless believe that if certain 
forces now at work are carried to their logical conclusions, 
this statement will no longer be so gross nor so exaggerated 
as you might think. 

We have been old-fashioned enough to believe that the ob¬ 
ject of education is truth—truth approached from different 
angles and interpreted in different fields, but presenting a 
synthesized, unified whole. Such is not the case: in this en¬ 
lightened age a blind spot distinguishes education—a blind 
spot located usually in the touchy region of politics, a region 
seemingly beyond the pale of learning. 

Thus the object of education becomes truth—censored. 
But censored truth is untruth; it cannot be true because it 
is one-sided. We do not agree with the old adage, "The truth 
hurts." Truth hurts only those who try to suppress it. 

We believe that in seeking to bar from American school 
rooms the study of the so-called foreign "isms," we are en¬ 
dowing them with an aura of exciting mystery and are leav 
ing our youth in ignorance which might make them the gulli¬ 
ble prey of indoctrinators. 

Certain publicists (who, by virtue of owning the most 
newspapers, consider themselves the "Voice of the People") 
have filled their publications with accusations and exclama¬ 
tion points that dub everything that piques their fancy as 
"Communism." According to them agitators hide in every 
ink-pot and treachery lurks in every beard. 

Two English students debate Agnes Scott on the supreme 
court—Communism! An eminent sociologist and author lec 
tures on the campus—Communism! Some students attend 
an inter-racial convention—Communism! We congratulate 
Russia on the breadth of scope of her, government. 

A portentious volume entitled, "The Red Network," ap¬ 
pears, purporting to lay the red brand on all the Moscowardly 
fiends in America, and the roll contains so many of our great 
that it is an honor to be included. Among countless others, 
Stuart Chase and Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt find their 
places there. If this be Communism, call us comrade! 

It is time to look with sanity on this whole ridiculous fet¬ 
ish of Communism. The term has been applied so broadly and 
so inconsistently that it no longer has much meaning except 
in sensational sheets which specialize in bug-a-boo. 

At any rate, the whole matter is not important enough to 
merit the limiting of academic freedom. The high profession 
of teaching must not be reduced to a mere parrot-like serving 
of certain selected and carefully censored facts. Educational 
institutions must not bargain the intellectual integrity of 
their teachers for an enticingly dangled endowment from re¬ 
actionary vested interests. 

Again we say that truth to be true must be whole—and 
wholly fearless. 

In Appreciation 

We wish to express our thanks to Miss Laney and to Lec¬ 
ture Association for their choice of Mr. Ede as our first lec¬ 
turer. We feel that the Muse of art has long been accorded 
the most inconspicuous position at Agnes Scott, and we wel¬ 
come the announcement that an eminent authority on the 
subject will visit our campus. 

We also wish to approve the democratic system of allow¬ 
ing the students to designate in what field their interests lie 
as regards their lecturers. Need we add that lecturers come 
to be heard, and that, having asked for an art expert and 
having been offered him, we have entailed certain responsi¬ 

bilities? 
STAFF 
Hortense JonesEditor 
Jane GuthrieMary McCann HudsonAssociate Editors 
Mary Frances GuthrieMarie MerrittAssistant Editors 
Elizabeth BlackshearBusiness Manager 
Esthere OgdenAdvertising Manager 
Giddy ErwinFeature Editor 
Mary Wells McNeilAsst. Feature Editor 
Francis CastleberryJeanne RedwineAlice ReinsEugenia BridgesCirculation Managers 
Alice CheesemanSports Editor 
Mary ReinsExchange Editor 
Elizabeth SkinnerMake-up Editor 
Mary Anne KernanCurrent History 
Jeannette CarrollAlumnae Editor 
Elizabeth KenneyAsst. Make-up Editor 
Elizabeth WardenBook Editor 
Evelyn BatyClub Editor 

REPORTERS: N. Allison, E. Baty, M. Chafin, M. L. Dobbs, M. L. Gill. E. Hutchens,

C. K. Hutching. R. Hurwitz, F. Lee, P. Noble, M. L. Ratliffe, A. Reins, H. Solomon,
S. Steinbach, V. J. Watkins, L. Young. D. Weinkle, M. Merlin. 
BUSINESS STAFF: M. Chafin, H. Mirsch, N. Echols. J. Flynt. F. Abbot. M. Oliver. 
C. I. O. Lays Peace Plan 
Before Irate A. F. of L. 

Two-Year Rivalry May Come To End 
If Fundamental Obstacles 
Are Dissolved 

By Mary Anne Kernan 

The C. I. O. vigorously waved the semblance of 
an olive branch before the irate A. F. of L. last week. 
Phillip Murray headed the C. I. O. committee which 
presented its peace plan to George M. Harrison of 
the A. F. of L. In effect, so most observers say, 
Lewis' organization simply offered to come within 
Green's fold without losing its real identity or sur¬ 
rendering its primary principles. To date, the plan, 
not unexpectedly, has not been accepted. 

It seems possible, however, that the two-year-old 
rivalry might be discontinued if certain fundamental 
obstacles can be cleared. The C. 1. O. is admittedly 
an organization promoting industrial unions, where¬ 
as the A. F. of L. sponsors craft unions. However, 
there seems to be no essential struggle on this point, 
since the C. 1. O. actually did most of its organizing 
among workers who had not been touched by the 

A. F. of L. and whose work was not suited to craft 
unionism. It is a well-known fact that Lewis began 
his labor organizing in the steel industry, progressing 
from there to other major industries. It is not the 
method of organization procedure which constitutes 
the obstacle in the way of labor unity. Personal ani¬ 
mosity in the staffs of both groups if the consolida¬ 
tion is effected is one of the most serious threats to 
peace. As in the case of any merger some authority 
and some control must be given up; neither side is 
willing to risk surrendering the power it now has. 
Men with personal feelings, not abstract organization 
methods, are obstructing the peace maneuvers of la¬ 
bor. In addition to this obstacle is the question of 
the number of members each group may have; in 
numbers rests the ultimate control. The C. 1. O. 
claims 3,800,000 members, who, if given one vote 
each would, it is said, possibly over-ride the A. F. 
of L. or certainly balance it. The estimate of mem¬ 
bership may be greatly exaggerated, but the question 
of the comparative numerical strength of the two 
organizations is another factor standing in the way 
of peace. 
Whatever the obstacles, a peace plan was offered 
by the C. 1. O. to the A. F. of L. It consisted of a 
three point program: 

(1) Organization of mass production, marine, pub¬ 
lic utilities, service, and basic fabricating industries 
workers only on an industrial basis. 
(2) Formation of a separate department for the 
C. 1. O. in the A. F. of L. to be autonomous with 
the sole jurisdiction to organizers workers in group 1. 
(3) Convention of both sides for joint ratifica¬ 
tion of proposed agreement. 
This was the plan, but it will probably go through 
much revision before final acceptance. 

There is a question, of course, as to whether any 
peace plan will be satisfactorily evolved. People on 
both sides seemed hopeful in their recent conventions, 
but The Nation characterizes these gatherings thus: 
"The one at Denver riddled with hatred, spite, and 
indignation; the one at Atlantic City confidently 
assessing its gains and charting the future course of 
organization." The truth of this picture may be 
doubted, but such an atmosphere must have pre¬ 
vailed in some degree. 

Certainly forces outside the two labor groups are 
not particularly active in attempting reconciliation. 
Some time 'ago President Roosevelt summarized his 
attitude with the neat quotation: "A plague on both 
your houses," which very naturally failed to accom¬ 
plish anything constructive. It is extremely difficult 
for a government to keep isolated from internal la¬ 
bor disputes. Secretary Perkins, whose ego received 
a slight shock when she failed to be invited to the 

A. F. of L. convention, says now that she has "high 
hopes" for the success of the peace plan, but is not 
actively participating in the affair. James F. Dewey, 
the Labor Department conciliator, however, has been 
in close touch with both sides. The National Labor 
Relations Board, which has, it seems, been unjustly 
accused of favoring the C. 1. O., can take no defi¬ 
nite part in the peace moves; it exists simply to pro¬ 
tect for labor^ the collective bargaining right. 
Labor realizes that unity is essential for its progress 
and whether or not government help is offered the 

C. 1. O. and the A. F. of L. must agree on some kind , 
of amicable procedure for the future. It seems cer¬ 
tain that the apparent deadlock reached last week 
will have to be broken soon. 

THE AGONISTIC 

Mortar Board Announces Hallowe'en 
Along 
Program on Ghost-to-Ghosts Hook-Up 
The Colonnade 
Station M-u-r-p-h-e-y C-a-n-d-l-e-r B-u-i-l-d-i-n-g 
Broadcasts "Spirited" Party Wednesday 

"Only the brave deserve the 
In Authentic Setting 

fair!"—Upholding this belief as 

'Twas on a ghost-to-ghost hook-up last Wednesday night well as the other one, that "It's al¬ 
that station M-u-r-p-h-e-y C-a-n-d-l-e-r B-u-i-l-d-i-n-g broad¬ ways fair weather when good pals 
cast its Hallowe'en program especially for the Sophomores, get together," many of the stu¬ 
with Announcer Mortar Board spooking. The broadcast be¬ 

dents of Agnes Scott took time to 

gan in the "Y" Cabinet room in 

trek out to the Southeastern Fair

Main (all dates enter and leave 

Spanish Club is 

in Atlanta before it closed last

from Main Building, you remem¬ 
ber) , where with the theme song week. Yep, it was certainly Fair

To Give Comedy

of: "Miss Smith, may I introduce weather for a while out at Lake-
Mr. Jones?," "Miss Twinklebury, 

wood. And, furthermore, only the

"La Fiesta De La Flor" Plan¬

Mr. Throttlebottom," and so on to 

ned For Next Meeting brave deserved the thrills of the

the chorus of "How do you do?," 

ferris wheels and Greyhound—not

the party was "on"! 

El Circulo Espanol is planning a

After each of the clustering, to mention the chill-provoking 
musical comedy, La Fiesta de la

hovering "Blind Dates" had found predictions of ye Madame X, as-

Flor, for its meeting on November

his or her soul-mate, the entire trologist. Margaret Douglas stands 
crowd migrated to the Murphey 11, at 4:30, in the Murphey Cand¬ 

ready to advise against playingCandler Building. There they ler building. The play is based sucker to the Midget Show, a 
were greeted by an eerie-looking colossally stupendous production

upon the Spanish custom of a

ghost who conducted them up the 

flower festival and of the romanc¬ which does not prevaricate when 

dark, spooky back stairs to the 

ing of the young senoritas and it calls itself "The Smallest Show 

main rooms, where myriads of 

their lovers. It is a compilation of on Earth" . . . Mary Wells Mc¬ 

orange-and-black festoons, hang¬ crew

some of the best Spanish poetry, Neill, Corky Hutchins and a 

ing skeletons, pumpkin Jack-'o


arranged and combined with orig¬ of their playmates were enthusias¬ 

lanterns, and grinning cats burst 

inal dialogue by Miss Cilley, the tic over the Greyhound, and also 

into view. Amidst these authentic 

club sponsor. Jeanne Redwine and the Merry-Go-Round music . . . 

Hallowe'en settings, all the sopho¬ 

Tony Newton are the young ladies Pixie Fairly liked the Art exhibit 

mores and their dates became ac¬ 

in the story, and Jane Clark and and the cotton candy (you know,

quainted in an exciting peanut 

Katherine Brittingham are the the pink fluffy variety that looks

hunt, accompanied by much 

lucky young men who seek their luscious but somehow dissolves 

squealing and yelling. Then the 

favor. during the process of being trans¬

crowd split up into four groups, 

ferred from the stick to your face)

The action gets off to a brisk

each of which was conducted by 

. . . Alice Reins preferred the Can¬

start when Jeanne, on her balcony,

an official-looking ghost on a tour 

died Apples and the Kiddie's Per¬

repays the serenades of Jane with a

of the various entertainments—in¬ 

rose and a promise for a date the sonality Show . . . Margaret Lips


cluding a bowling alley, an apple-

comb was swept away by the

next day.

bobbing game, a fortune-teller's 

beauty of a cuddly fur dog won as

booth, and a Hair-Razing drama 

a result of her escort hitting

of Bluebeard and his four dead X-Rays Will be 

something-or-other, probably the

wives. At the fortune-teller's 

barker.

booth all of the girls—especially Given Students 
Betty Embry — learned many 
amazing things about their "tall, Class Rating

Dr. Florence Swanson, physician

dark men" and "long journeys." 

of Agnes Scott, announced last Requirements

In a Little Theatre, constructed 

week that a few of the one-hun¬

for the occasion by Hortense Jones, 

dred and ninety-three tuberculin Are Clarified

the guests were chilled by "Blue¬ 

tests which were given to all fresh¬

beard, or A Close Shave—A Hair-{Continued from page 1, col. 5)

men and transfer students reacted

razing Drammer in No Acts and 

positive. A second injection^ one

Fewer Scenes," presented by the 

at least passed 78 quarter hours

of stronger solution, was given to

Spooken English Department of 

during both of her years here and

all girls whose first test was posi¬

Agony Scott. In this mellow-

she must have merited 27 of those

tive. Those whose second test was

drama, Bluebeard, a gay young 

positive will be required to have an 78 quarter hours out of the 27 

blade, poetically lamented the 

merit hours, at least 18 must have

x-ray picture of their chests made

pathetic fact that he had never 

been made during her sophomore

the second or third week in No¬

been able to keep a wife, while his 

year. She must take 5 1 hours dur¬

vember. Although the vaccine

be-headed brides, who were noth¬ 

ing her junior year.

costs approximately ten cents an

ing more than actual dead heads 

injection, the x-rays will be given To have class standing as a sen¬

hanging by their hair (Moral: Hair 

free by the State Board of Health. ior, the student must have com¬

today, and gone tomorrow) chant¬ 

Dr. Swanson emphasized the great pleted 129 quarter hours of credit,

ed this sad refrain between 

opportunity. at least 54 of which are of merit

speeches: 

grades. Eighteen of those, 5 4 merit 
"We four wives of Bluebeard were Then the party rolled to a climatic hours must have been made duringBut he has killed us dead; close to the strains (You said it!) her junior year; and she must take 
We ain't got nobody of "Down by the Old Mill 51 hours during her senior year.

But we all came out a-head." 

Stream," harmoniously rendered A student who has not passed or 
Finally, after pronouncing that (render meaning to tear apart) by merited enough work to fulfill the 

elegy in sepuchral tones (all the the entire crowd around the piano. requirements for class standing or 
while merrily dodging peanuts As Announcer Mortar Board cannot take enough work to keepsigned off, it was generally agreed up her standing, is not promoted to

thrown by the playful little col¬ 

to be a most "spirited" affair—al¬ the class to which she belongs, but

lege Men!), the heads advised 

though the ultra-dead ghosts were is retained in the one just below 
Bluebeard to use Burma-Shave to paradoxically the life of the party! that class. 
end his troubles. 

After being entertained thus de¬ 
lightfully, the guests enjoyed a BOWEN PRESS 
gastronomical repast of cocoa, 

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facial coating of candied apples. 

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} 

Blackfriars Search for Husband for 

Gay New Production, Mrs. Moonlight 

Wife Flynt, Grandmother Chafin, Scotchman Bailey, 
Son Tilford Get Practice Underway For 
Play Oh November 20 

Jeanne Flynt is looking for a husband. She has a son at 
Emory, and a handsome one, too, who takes after his grand¬ 
mother, Myrl Chafin. But, alas! Where is a husband ? 

No, Jeanne has not just inherited an orphans' asylum. She 
is looking for a husband to appear 
with her in Mrs. Moonlight, the 

Girls Aspire to 

production which Blackfriars is 
planning for November 20. Most

Be Housewives 

of the cast is already chosen and is 
hard at work to make Mrs. Moon¬ 
Domisticity Finds Favor In light the real success that it prom¬ 
Vocational Tests ises to be. There is Mr. Jack Tilford, 
of Emory, whose wife came 
Little Mary took a test, to watch the love scenes at one 
On it she did her very best, practice, but has not appeared 
since. There is Jean Bailey, dis¬

And when the little dear was 

guised under an impeccable Scotch

through, 

accent. There was Jimmy Reeves,

She knew just what she wished to 

of the Atlanta Federal Theatre, 
do—be a housewife! and the drunkard of Moorborn, 
We admit that this feeble at¬ but a production in Atlanta will 

keep him busy on November 20.

tempt at verse shows as well as any 

Let this be a warning to all

vocational guidance test that we 

Agnes Scott boarders and their 

were not meant to be a poetess. 

dates: one young man peeped in on 
But it does mention the word a rehearsal and four girls imme¬ 
"housewife" which is, after all, the diately seized him and forced him 

desired point. Do you realize that to read lines for them. So, beware! 
last year every girl who took a vo¬ Jeanne and her cohorts are out to 
cational guidance test asked to be put on this play at any cost. And 
rated as a social service worker and you know what happens when such 
that this year every girl decided to young ladies are as determined as 
be rated as a housewife? Evidently, they are—Agnes Scott sees a reallysomebody decided that charity be¬ good play.
gins at home. 

Many girls were rated on more 

Faculty Gives to

vocations than one. Jane Whitman 
was given an "A" on law, and a 

Community Chest

"C" on housewife. Fouche Brinton 
made "A" on housewife, and 

The 1937 Community Chest

Eleanor Hutchins, her roommate, 

Campaign has closed on the

made a "C," while Elizabeth Shep-

campus and Miss Leslie Gaylord

pard made "A" on both housewife 

reports that the fifty-three pledges

and teacher. 

she has received amount to

How do you know but what you 

$790.00. The Community Chest 

were born to be an auctioneer or 

supports thirty-three charitable

something. Surely that voice that 

organizations in this section.

Mamma has been trying to calm 
down for so long a time is going to 
be of some, use! Vocational tests 

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tell all, and besides its fun to 
take them. One minute you sit and Cox's Prescription Shop 
ponder over whether you would 

Between Paramount and Grand

rather have been Jane Adams, the 
social worker; Ethel Barrymore, Theatres, Atlanta 
the actress, or Edna Ferber, the 
authoress, and perhaps the next 
minute you ruefully admit that 

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you do like to read True Story 
magazine. Therefore, fear not and Where Agnes Scott can 
be on hand to have your astound¬ find a spot. 
ing abilities brought forth into 102 EL Ponce de Leon Ave. 
the cruel, cruel light next time Decatur, Ga. 
vocational guidance tests are given. 

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AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE 

DECATUR, GA. 

A college tor women that is widely recog¬ 

nized for its standards of work and for the 

interesting character of its student activities. 

For further information, address 

J. R. McCAIN, President 

THE AGONISTIC 

Jane Guthrie

Sophs Defeat Big Apple Rocks Agnes Scatters to Core as 

Designs Best

Seniors, 5-1; | Campus Swings to Tune of Latest Dance Craze 

Freshmen Win ! 

Everybody's learning how to do 
—the Big Apple! Every time— 

Underclassmen Carry Away 

everybody — everywhere — from 

Hockey Honors In 

Miss Haynes' riding class in front 

Fast Games 

of the gym on Tuesday on up to 
third floor Rebekah par 1'heure!

With the very exciting scores, 

Mein word, but it's absolutement

5-1 and 3-1 respectively, the soph¬ 

inescapable! And so, when campus 

omores defeated the seniors and the 

personalities began voicing opin¬

freshmen defeated the juniors last 

ions on the ceremony (under pres¬

Friday in the weekly hockey game. 

sure quite frequently they mut¬

The weather was invigorating to 

tered them where we could hear

the players, encouraging them to¬ them) column

another was born,

ward beautiful individual plays as 

which as usual will divulge the

well as excellently ordered team 

very core of its topic—and in a

plays. 

very apple-tizing manner. 

The first game, between the 

Now when Nell Allison does the 

sophomores and seniors, beginning Huge Fruit, she wants it spiced.
quietly, was suddenly enlivened by We heard her saying, "Boy, I think 
a long dash by McKay toward the it adds spice to life; and it gives

sophomore goal, an interception by 

you a goal in life, when you probBrinton's quick playing, and a ably didn't have one before! (Yes,

long run back down the field for Nell-with-the-diamond said justthe sophomores. During the very that.)
fast playing which resulted, For-

When we asked Miss Mitchell if 

man executed some excellent play¬ 

she considered it good exercise, she

ing in the corner and almost made 

quickly stated that it wasn't as 

a goal. Coit and Milner played 

good as ballroom dancing "consid¬

back and forth with speedy delib¬ 

ering the clothes you do it in."

eration until Coit shot the only 

"The Big Apple is more like a gym

senior goal of the entire game. In 

suit activity!" And we are inclined

the middle of the field following 

to agree with her there.

this goal, the playing became lock¬ 

Mr. Tart has stayed behind his

ed, neither team breaking away, 

little bars so closely he hasn't seen

until Erwin and McKay ran for 

the dance, but he furnished us a

the seniors, with Coit's consistent¬ 

tart opinion from Tech students.

ly good playing aiding them. 

He has heard that Techers at a re¬

When the sophomores intervened 

cent dance voted overwhelmingly

they took little advantage of their 

against the Immense Vegetation.

position, and some seconds lapsed 

But he further advised us that the

before Brinton with Milner's 
steady help shot the only sopho¬ and the ffeshman recovery to the 

more goal in this half. middle field. The half ended with 
From the very beginning of the a fast ball by Dryfoos going back 
second half, the sophomores were down the field, encountering 
out to win. First there was a goal handicapping defense on the part 

by Forman, and after Salter's fine of Scotty Wilds. The score stood 
playing, two swift goals by Brin¬ at 1-0 in favor of the freshmen. 
ton, followed by the fifth goal by The second half began with 
Salters, to bring the score to 5-1 sluggish playing. However as Bell 
and victory for a hard fighting made a goal the spirit changed and 
sophomore team against a senior the teams recovered. Against very 
team minus one player and any poor guarding, Dryfoos made a 

substitutes. / goal only to follow it with a care¬ 
less shot which gave the ball to the

Line-ups for this game were: 

freshmen. The most beautiful pass¬

Seniors Sophomores 

ing witnessed during the entire

Peak Brown _R.W Francis 

Erwin I.R— Salters (1) afternoon was led by Hance down 

L. Coit (1) C.F— Brinton (3) the field to the junior goal. The 
game came to an exciting close
Merrill j I.E.-Heaslet 

McKay L.W._ Forman (1) with a goal by Wimpfheimer, 
making the final score 3-1 for a

Allison R.H Slack 

freshman victory.

Blackshear C.H Milner 

Line-ups for this game were:

L.H O'Brien 
Juniors Freshmen

Johnson R.B Thompson 

Garner R.W Vaughn

Young L.B Watkins 

Benson I.R. W'heimer (1)

Robinson Goal Cass 

Moses C.F Hance

Substitutions: Montgomery, for 

Dryfoos (1) —I.F Bell (1)

the sophomores. 

Shortley L.W Butt (1)

At the beginning of the junior-

Marshall R.H Patterson

freshman game the playing was 

J. Jones C.H Henry
slow, deliberate, and concentrated 

Ivey L.H Walker

at the junior goal post. Because of 

Hamilton R.B Wilds

determined interference, Wimp-

McMullen L.B , Woodard

heimer was not successful in her 

Porter Goal O'Nan

attempts at a goal. The peppy 

Substitutions: Doty and M. Coit

freshman team met strong inter¬ 

for the juniors.

ference by McMullen and Moses, 

For both games the referees

but soon overcame it with a goal 

were Miss Wilburn and Miss

by Butt. Little progress was made 

Mitchell. The time keeper was

after this until Walker shot a 

Eleanor Hutchens and the score

strong ball half the length of the 

keeper was Penn Hammond.

field, gaining an advantageous 
position for Wimpfheimer to at¬ 
tempt a goal. However Moses 
stole the ball, starting a very excit¬ BAILEY BROTHERS 
ing period of shifting plays and 

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There followed another lapse of 142 Sycamore St., Decatur, Ga. 
excitement, broken by Hamilton's 
dash toward the freshman goal, 

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309 E. College Ave. Decatur, Ga. 

older dancers at the Piedmont dancing." And Mary Evelyn 
Driving Club were very much in Francis firmly believes that "if 
it's big enough, the whole school

favor of it. 

will eat it." As we sighed at this

Miss Christie was taken by sur¬ 

and moved on the Jane Moses, she

prise as we attacked her and Miss make a

refused point blankly to

Scandrett together for a faculty 

statement, saying she was afraid

opinion. She admitted no views on 

we'd misquote her. Now isn't that

the subject, having never seen it, 

just like Jane! Stubborn child!

but she did know about it from 

We rejoiced at the delightful

reading the papers. Miss Scandrett 

statement of Winnie Kellersburger

complains that it's "not very 

that this Big Apple contraption is

graceful." And we have to agree 

"absolutely like a tropical African 

to that, too. Just watch it oncp. 

dtfnce!" And when some silly re¬

Miss Wilburn smiled a whole¬ 

porter interrupted the dignified

hearted "I think it's fun!" And 

business procedure (?) Tuesday

she meant it, too. Jeanne 

night at the Athletic Board meet¬ 

Matthews reported that at the 

ing to find how the board feels 

Outing Club meeting the other 

about the B. A., she got more than 

night somehow somebody started a 

she deserved; another unanimous

Big Apple, and Miss Wilburn— 

vote "in favor" to report to us.

and Miss Miller—"were a sight to 

Well now you have it. A. S. C. 

behold!" (Tsk.) 

is very adept at performing the 

"It gives such good exercise," Tremendous Plant and is verybreathed Miss Gooch as we ap¬ fond of it. Also fond are we of 
proached her, "and it looks like an the Little Apple, an admirable lit¬ 

awful lot of fun." And she ex¬ tle echo-re of its big relative. An 
panded this opinion by adding that example that shines is the Ad Ben¬ 
"it can be mutilated," and that it's son version, complete with the 
"not as good diaphram exercise as Benson side kick. 
the waltz, which gives good rhy¬ We've had glorious fun truckin' 
thm in breathing. The Big Apple up to people and shagging down 

produces panting." their Big Apple opinions, and our 

Laura Coit believes it's "just the hopes are that even dumb little 
thing for entertainment on our Susie Q. may enjoy our findings. 
picnics around a bon fire." The re¬ But it took us a long time to com¬ 
tiring Miss Castleberry muttered prehend Amelia's situation. When 
that "it's all right if you're on the she confessed she'd never had a 
outside looking in!" very Big Apple, we soon realized 

It gives Mary Hollingsworth the limit of a Nickel's purchasing 
"something to break the ice of value. 

Bible Club Enjoys

Y/W.C.A. Follows New 
Informal Meeting

Membership Method 
(Continued from page 1, col. 2) 

Marshmallows and graham 
crackers and an open fire were the

The social service group is go¬ 

setting for the meeting of the Bible 

ing to put on programs every Sat¬ on Monday, 1.

Club November 
urday at the Scottish Rite Hos¬ The members discussed the place 
pital for the crippled children, and of the Bible in our everyday lives. 
Under the leadership of Louise

visit the incoming and out-going 

Young, president, the Bible Club

department of the Grady Hospital. 

is planning many interesting dis¬ 

At Christmas time, they will give 

cussions and outside speakers. 
a party for needy children who live 
in Decatur, and deliver Christmas 
stockings at the appropriate time. 
The social committee is going RIALTO 
to have every one of its meetings a 

STARTS FRIDAY, NOV. 5

party, though it will also have 
speakers occasionally. It is rum¬ M-G-M Presents 
ored that this committee also may Josephine Hutehinson 
go on visits to the faculty. The George Murphy 
world fellowship group is going to Cliff Edwards 
discuss world problems and write in 
letters to students in other coun¬ 

"THE WOMEN MEN

tries, and the members of this 
group will be in charge of the MARRY" 
World Fellowship Banquet. 

v as «Wr,' 

CATETERIA 

Welcomes 

Agnes Scott Girls 

An Organization Specializing Exclusively 

in the Production and Serving of Whole¬ 

some Foods 

189 Peachtree, N. E. 

Aurora Cover 

Wins Contest Second Time; 
Cover Will Be Cream 
And Cinnamon 

For the second time in succes¬ 
sive years, Jane Guthrie has won 
the $2.50 prize for designing the 
best cover in the Aurora contest, 
Carol Hale, editor, announces. En¬ 
tries were due on Wednesday, Oc¬ 
tober 27. 

The winning cover is a design of 
the library door, done in cinnamon 
and cream. Jane is president of 

B. O. Z., associate editor of the 
Agonistic, and a member of Pen 
and Brush club, Pi Alpha Phi, and 
Blackfriars. 
Carol Hale has also announced 
the publication date's of the six is¬ 
sues of Aurora for the year. The 
first edition will appear November 
10; the others will be issued De¬ 
cember 1, February 2, February 
23, April 20, and May 11. 

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T>»1 SO'JTH * UNI ST 

Starts Friday 
Eddie Cantor in 
"ALI BABA GOES TO 
TOWN" 

Preview Saturday Night 
11:30 P. M. 
Joe Penner, Parkykarkus, 
Gene Raymond, 

Harriette Hilliard 
'LIFE OF THE PARTY* 

Now 

BARBARA STANWYCK 
and 
HERBERT MARSHALL 

/ in 

"Breakfast For Two'^ 
with 
ERIC BLORE 
GLENDA FARRELL 

Comedy -Laughs 
Romance 

mmm 

CAPITOL 

Now 
"SATURDAY'S 
HEROES" 

With Van Heflin and 

Marian Marsh 
—On the Stage— 
"Midnight Serenade" 

Starts Sunday 
Boris Karloff in 
"West of Shanghai"
With Beverly Roberts 
and Ricardo Cortez 
Plus 
8 -Big Acts of Vodvil -8 

ATLANTIS ONLY VAUDEVILLE! 


Think 
For 
Peace (T1) c ^Vgoni^fic 

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1937 Z115 No. 6

VOL. XXIII 

Class President is Invested 1000 Attend

Dr. McCain 

Investiture

Speaks for 

Publications Of 84 Girls 

Miss Leyburn Makes Talk

Staffs, K. U. B. Members 

On Love Of Books

Meet This Afternoon 

For Class

For Party 

Rev. Fairly Leads Prayer

West Heads Committee 
For the text of Assistant Professor

Dr. J. R. McCain, president 

Leyburn's speech, see page 2, col. 1. 

of Agnes Scott, will talk to 

The pleasures of reading

the members of the Agnes 

and woman's appreciation of

Scott press organization on 
this Wednesday afternoon when books was the subject of the 
the members of K. U. B. and the address which Assistant Pro¬ 
staffs of the Agonistic and Silhou¬ 

fessor Ellen Douglass Leyburn,

ette will meet together in the Mur


sponsor of the class of '3 8, deliv¬

phey Candler building. Dr. Mc¬ 

ered to the 84 seniors who first

Cain will discuss ways in which 
these organizations can cooperate donned their academic caps and 
in making Agnes Scott the ideal gowns at the thirtieth annual In¬ 
college. 

vestiture services Saturday, No¬ 
After this talk the guests will 

vember 6, in the Bucher Scott 

be entertained at a party. Elsie 

gymnasium before an audience of

West is chairman of the food com¬ 

1000.

mittee; other members of the 

committee are: Eleanor Hutchins, The ceremonies began with the 
from the Agonistic; Louise Hughs-academic procession, headed by the 
ton, from the Aurora, and Gary 

faculty. White-dressed sophomores,

Wheeler, from the Silhouette. 

sister-class to the seniors, escorted 
the upperclassmen, who were led 
into the auditorium by their mas¬ 

Front Row 

cot, little Louise McKinney Hill. 

Rev. T. L. Fairly, father of 
POSTPONEMENT: An un¬ 

Mary Lillian, led the Investiture

justified "misunderstanding" 

prayer, after which the audience

the Duke of Windsor to 

joined the seniors in singing their

postpone his trip to the United 
States less than fifteen hours be¬ selected hymn, "Come Thou 
fore the planned starting time. Fount." Assistant Dean Carrie 
The Baltimore Federation of Labor 

Scandrett performed the capping

condemns the Duke's American Assistant Dean Carrie Scandrett caps Jane Turner, president of the senior class, as Jean Chalmers looks on. 

ceremony.

guide and friend, Charles E. 

The program closed with the

Bedeaux as "arch enemy" of labor. 

Mortar Board Dobbs, Patton singing of the Alma Mater and

Queen Mother Mary believes Ed¬ Bugle to Announce 

the recessional.

ward "terribly misguided" in his 

National Head Will Debate

Armistice Silence

plans for studying working condi¬ 
tions in America. A trip to the Visits Campus At eleven o'clock tomorrow Law Students 

morning, November 11, Orders For Rings

"neutral countries" of Europe con¬ a bugle 

will be blown, followed by a two

sidered by exiles while waiting for 

Mrs. F. D. Coleman, of Lincoln, On Fridayxnight, November 19,

minute's silence to commem¬ To Be Sent Soon

"misconceptions" to clear. 

Nebraska, National President of orate Armistice. There will not at 8:15 P. M., Agnes Scott college 

OPEN DOOR: A new peace in¬ Mortar Board, visited the Agnes be a special peace program in, will debate the Atlanta Law 
vitation is sent to Japan by Brus¬ Scott chapter Tuesday, November chapel as Armistice Day comes School over station WAGA in At¬ Juniors and seniors wishing to 
sels conference members. It asks 2. The campus chapter honored her during Religious Week on the lanta. The debate will be on the receive their class rings before 
her to confer with a smaller group at a luncheon in the Anna Young Agnes Scott campus this year. Pi Kappa Delta question for this Christmas should see Aileen Short-
of nations on Far Eastern conflict Alumnae house, at which time year, Resolved: that the National ley immediately. A down pay¬ 
or even with Germany who is not Mrs. Coleman talked to the mem¬ Labor Relations Board should be ment of $3.00 must be made on 

Professor M. Cilley

a representative of the conference. bers about Mortar Board in general. empowered to enforce arbitration the rings, which cost $12.25. 
Norman H. Davis, head of United In the afternoon from five to of all industrial disputes. If any girls want to have their

Is Chosen Speaker

States delegation, urges reconven-six o'clock Mortar Board held open Mary Louise Dobbs and Kath-rings sent to them at home during 
ence. Pertinax in Paris dubs the house to introduce the Atlanta and erine Patton will defend the nega¬ the Christmas holidays they should 
Brussels conference an "abject fail¬ Decatur members to her. Mrs. Professor Melissa Cilley, of the tive side for Agnes Scott against make arrangements now. As soon 
ure because no participating gov¬ Coleman had dinner in Rebekah Spanish department at Agnes Mr. Sidney Shell and Mr. Milton as samples of pins and bracelets ar¬ 

ernment is willing to assume re¬ Scott dining room, and then dis¬ Scott, has been especially honored Allen on the affirmative for At¬ 

rive, an announcement will be 
sponsibilities that could in the long cussed the year's work with the by the South Atlantic Modern lanta Law School. made concerning them. 
run involve it in armed conflict." Agnes Scott chapter. Language Association. She has 

been selected as one of the speak¬ 
ers at the tenth annual meeting of

Student Qovernment Committee 

this association, which will be held An Armistice Day Call 
at Winthrop College, Rock Hill,

Outlines Year's Plans, Activities 

Fellow Students: their international obligations

S. C., on Saturday, November 27. 
Miss Cilley's talk on "Spanish Armistiqe Day on the Ameri¬ —failure that was inevitable as
By Eleanor Hutchins posed in them and whether the 

privileges are used for the express Contributions to Civilization" will can campus must be a signal long as peace treaties rested

In carrying out its new policy of 

open a discussion which will be led for renewed efforts on behalf upon economic injustice. The

announcing all plans to the stu¬ purpose for which they were 

granted. These changes were in¬ by Dr. Sturgis E. Leavitt, of the of peace this year. With a ma¬ immediate task confronting the

dent body, Student Government 

University of North Carolina, in jor war in the Far East, with

last week gave a report of all its fluenced by an unsigned question¬ peace forces of our country and 

which the correlation between

activities to date, and outlined its naire filled out by students and by the Fascist invasion continuing of the world is the pacification

Spanish and other subjects in the

plans for the rest of the year. the help of the administration. The in Spain, American students of the world. But such pacifica¬

curriculum will be considered.

Last spring, aided by suggestions Constitution was revised, with must not despair of peace but tion will be short-lived unless 
from last year's Committee, Stu¬ special attention to needs on the increase their efforts to re¬ far-reaching, long-time meas¬ 

dent Government took a survey of campus. Miss Scandrett strain aggression and keep ures of economic and social jus¬
Social Regulations to see what One of the outstanding new pol¬ America out of war. There are 

tice become its foundations.

changes were needed and where icies to be adopted was that of Receives Honor certain values and potentalities 

The nineteenth anniversary

dishonesty existed. An extensive making the Student Government in American life that war would 

of the end of the first world

a 
ter of life and death to our gen¬ 

and careful study of the regula¬ Association an organization by and Miss Carrie Scandrett, Agnes destroy; therefore it is mat¬ 
war sees what may well be the 

tions of other colleges was made, for the students and an organ for 

Scott's assistant Dean, recently re¬ beginning of the second. In the

eration that the United States

for the purpose of comparison and student expression. As many of the ceived the honor of being elected does not go war. At the present troubled moment there

to 

of bettering our students as possible are to share in of Georgia is no easy, simple road.

system by adopt¬ president the Associa¬ same time we must bring into Above 

ing the good points of other sys¬ the active phases and functions of tion of Women's Deans. This or¬ play on the world scene the all we must remain united be¬ 
Government, such cause we, the students of this

tems. Changes were effected— Student as ganization, composed of represen¬ great power that our country 

have no

some stricter laws and some lenient chapel programs, skits, committees, tatives from various colleges and might exercise for peace in co¬ country, interests 

forums and student meetings. This operation with other nations. which are separate from those

—most of which are on trial this high schools of the state, held the 

year. Their success and continua¬ policy will serve to bring as many election at their last meeting at The wars raging in the world of peace. 
tion will depend on how the stu¬ as possible of the student body into Milledgeville, Georgia, October today are direct results of the UNITED STUDENT PEACE 

failure of nations to observe COMMITTEE.

dents use the increased trust re¬ (Continued on page 4, col. 3) 29-30. 


THE AGONISTIC 

"Plea sures of Reading" is 

Topic of Address by 

Miss Leyburn 

(Following is the speech made by Assistant Professor Ellen 
Douglass Leyburn at Investiture Saturday.) 

In this year when colleges and universities every¬ 
where are celebrating with Oberlin the hundredth 
anniversary of the beginning of college training for 
women and when our own growth is marked by our 
having to leave the chapel for Investiture, perhaps 
it would be appropriate to consider the century of 
progress since the day when men feared that higher 
education would make women desert their babies for 
quadratic equations. But I prefer to discuss with 
you this morning a delight of the mind more inti¬ 
mate than the atmosphere of the chapel and one en 

joyed by girls for hundreds of years before it oc 
curred to them to seek an equal footing with their 
brothers in institutions of higher learning. It is the 
sheer pleasure of reading books which I covet for 
you, a pleasure not dependent upon college training 
—and sad to say, not even fostered by it in many 
cases, for the pressure of being a part of the busy 
college community and of working at books too 
often precludes the conception of them as a source 
of fun. How many college students—and conse¬ 
quently college graduates—there are who deserve the 
pity Nathaniel in Love's Labour's Lost bestows on 
him who has never "fed of the dainties that are bred 
in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath 
not drunk ink; his intellect is not replenished." 

The zest for books has been a peculiar gift of 
women since men first provided books for them to 
enjoy. You remember Ascham's charming account 
of his discovery of Lady Jane Grey's zent for reading: 
I found her, in. her Chamber, readinge Phaedon Platonis in

Greeke, and that with as moch delite as som ientlemen wold

read a merie tale in Bocase. After Salutation, and dewtie done,

with som other taulke, I asked her, whie she wold leese soch

pastime in the Parke! Smiling she answered me; I wisse all

their sporte in the Parke is but a shoadoe to that pleasure, that

I find in Plato: Alas good folke, they never felt what trewe

pleasure meant. 

The daughters of Lady Jane in every generation have 
taken the same exquisite delight in books. In 175 5 
Lady Mary Wortley Montague, as great a devourer 
of the printed page as literary annals give us record 
of, writes to her daughter: 
My dear child, I received two days ago the box of books you

were so kind to send ... I was much pleased to see before me 

a fund of amusement. 
and again of the literary lion of her day: 
This Richardson is a strange fellow, I heartily despise him, and

eagerly read him, nay, sob over his works in a most scandalous 

manner. 
and specifically of the reasons for reading she says:

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so

lasthug. 

At the beginning of the next century, Dorothy 
Wordsworth, busy about mending William's shirts 
and baking William's bread—never dreaming of com¬ 
peting with him in learning—yet tasted with rapture 
the rich feast of books. Her journal is as much a 
record of her reading as of the changes of her Gras-
mere countryside: 
We sat snugly round the fire. I read to them the tale of Cus


tance and the Syrian monarch, in the Man of Lawe's Tale . . .

In the afternoon we sate by the fire; I read Chaucer aloud and

Mary read the first canto of the Fairy Queen. After tea Mary

and I walked to Ambleside for letters . . . Read Tom Jones . . . 

I read a little of Boswell's Life of Johnson. I went to lie down

in the garden . . . Worked hard, and read Midsummer Night's

Dream, and ballads. Sauntered a little in the garden. The

skobby sate quietly in its nest, rocked by the wind, and beaten

by the rain . . . Read part of Knight's Tale with exquisite

delight . . . We spent the morning in the orchard reading the

Prothalamium of Spenser; walked backwards and forwards. 

It seems to me deplorable that we should come to 
think of books in terms of assignments, that in ad¬ 
vancing toward college degrees, we should lose the 
high joy of our less educated grandmothers, the joy 
which most of us have actually felt as children in 
the tales of Uncle Remus or the brothers Grimm. We 
can keep the same spirit of delight, though the ob¬ 
ject of it changes from the Golden Goblin to The 
Faerie Queene, from At the Big House to Boswell's 
Johnson. 

Besides this elemental pleasure of being rapt out 
of ourselves, of just giving ourselves up to the spell 
of books, there are certain peculiar treasures to be 
derived from them. One is that of becoming alive 
to more and more subjects and ideas and finding 
them recurring and wherever we turn in reading. 
And what is education after all but becoming aware, 
but making the mind alert at more and more facets? 
To take a trivial example of what I mean, several 
years ago I was made conscious of the eighteenth 
century addiction to tar water as a medicine because 
my study of Bishop Berkeley had made me know of 
his promoting it as a panacea. After that tar water 
seemed to meet me on every hand. Even as late as 
Dickens it was the nauseous dose administered at fre¬ 
quent intervals to the defenseless Pip. Doubtless be¬ 
fore I had read blindly through quarts of tar water, 
but the good bishop had made me notice his remedy. 
It is an experience you must all have had; and what 
fun it is to recognize in new relations an interest of 
which the awareness is fresh and to increase the num¬ 
bers of such recognition. 

Another related pleasure to be found in books is 
(Continued on page 3, column 2) 

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And on Earth Peace 

Desiring recognition of the fact that, while we are a 
part of the American people, we are primarily mem¬ 
bers of the human race, we affirm the sacredness of 
humanity and claim the right to live, thus outlawing 
the wholesale murder involved in war. 

Another Armistice Day, and the whole world calls for peace 
while it feverishly prepares for war. On the nineteenth anni¬ 
versary of the end of the "war that ended wars" the Spanish 
people have practically annihilated themselves, and Japan is 

busily engaged in snipping China's queue. On the nineteenth 
anniversary of the end of the "war that made the world safe 
for democracy" one dictator, having systematically broken 
nearly every clause of the miserable Versailles treaty, shakes 
hands (perhaps too ostentatiously) with another. The whole 
world joins together to thank the powers that be for the con¬ 
tinuance of peace—and works day and night to arm itself 
before the war begins. 

The next major conflagration bids fair to be a Jack Horner-
in affair; and he who puts in his thumb stands good 
chances of having it blown off. Nevertheless, it appears that 
none of the important thumbs will be withheld. It is doubt¬ 
ful if our civilization can survive another such plum pie. 

What, if anything, can students do? The United Student 
Peace Committee, composed of such organizations as the 
National Student Federation of America, the Fellowship of 
Reconciliation, and the War Resisters League, has sent the 
following recommendations to American campuses: 

1. Keep America out of war by exercising unceasing vigi¬ 
lance against those groups that would utilize the present 
crisis to involve the United States in wars: groups that 
foster compulsory R. 0. T. C. and large military budgets; 
that promote fascism in the United States by the organi¬ 
zation of vigilantes and Nazi groups; that exploit for im¬ 
perialist purposes the genuine resentment of the common 
people of this country against the Japanese military 
clique. In this connection we oppose the extension of our 
naval establishment in the Pacific. 
2. Help the Chinese people in their struggle against Japan¬ 
ese aggression, even though we sympathize with the com¬ 
mon people of Japan in their suffering. To indicate our 
sympathy with Chinese people who are victimized by 
Japanese violation of international law, we should cooper¬ 
ate with those agencies which are providing relief aid for 
Chinese students. 
3. Support the demand for the withdrawal of foreign troops 
in Spain, a demand which the Loyalist government heart¬ 
ily favors. If Germany, Italy, and Portugal refuse this de¬ 
mand, urge our government to extend its present embargo 
to those countries. 
4. Cooperate with the Campaign for World Economic Coop¬ 
eration of the National Peace Conference since economics 
is the basis of world politics and the clue to lasting peace. 
5. Urge that the United States make good her obligations 
assumed under the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact outlawing 
war and act with other signatories of the pact to imple¬ 
ment it as a means of preventing and halting war. 
Perhaps too many and too passionate things have been said 
about peace. Perhaps we have been so assailed by pacifistic 
expostulations and exhortations that we grow resentful at 
the mere suggestion of the necessity for opposing war. For 
our approval, the bunting around the god of war has been 
drawn aside to display his death's head and clay feet; for our 
enlightenment, the brass bands have been silenced to give 
full attention to the screams of the dying; for our enlistment, 
over nineteen organizations have been formed for the sole 
purpose of insuring peace. 

Thus we see that there is no dearth of pacifistic activity. 
What, then, remains? In The People, Yes, Carl Sandburg 
remarks, "Some day they will give a war, and nobody will 
come." It is that for which we work: not for associations, 
programs, and apoplectic speeches; but for a firm resolve in 
the heart of each individual to hate war and love peace; to 
hold sacred the precious entity of human life. 

Having attained that, we shall not fear. Let them give 
their war, nobody will come. 

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jBrussels Conference Fails 

In Allaying Strike 

Of Orient 

By Mary Axne Kernan 

The Brussels Conference which in prospect seemed 

to offer such high hope for the settlement of the 

Sino-Japanese war opened with an almost public ad¬ 

mission of defeat. No workable plan for an attempt 

at settlement was offered by any of the participating 

nations. The 44 representatives of 19 governments 

assembled for the noble purpose of actively produc¬ 

ing peace have abandoned the attempt with only the 

apathetic struggle of a Milquetoast diplomat or the 

acrobatic antics of a fence-straddling politician. The 

conference which purported to be an assembly of 

nations sympathetically but not selfishly concerned 

with the Sino-Japanese war has turned to be simply 

another organization for the alignment of dictator¬ 

ships versus democracies or fascism versus commun¬ 

ism. The signing of the Italo-German-Japanese anti-

Communist agreement, without any very active op¬ 

position, almost precludes the success of the Brussels 

Conference. 

Optimism 

When the conference opened on November 3 

there were several factors for peace giving an opti¬ 

mistic outlook, however. As stated in the New York 

Times these were the facts that: (1) Japan's ma¬ 

terial objectives have almost been gained; (2) a 

long war is not desirable because the Japanese army 
does not wish to drain its resources in China while 
the Soviet Union looms as the ultimate enemy; (3) 
an atmosphere has been created presenting the United 
States as a reliable neutral. It is interesting that in 
spite of the Chicago speech of President Roosevelt 
and the denunciation of Japan from the State De¬ 
partment the United States is still primarily regarded 
as neutral. These statements condemning Japan are 
referred to there as not truly representing the Ameri¬ 
can people. China has, perhaps, less of the feeling 
that the United States is strictly neutral and more 
hopeful that we are partial to her. 

And Difficulties 

On the other side there are indications that point 
to the difficulty of a settlement of the Far Eastern 
conflict through the present Brussels Conference. 
The principal considerations involved here are: the 
announcement of the Italo-German-Japanese anti-
Comitern agreement, the impending establishment of 
imperial general headquarters with a consequent 
declaration of war, and the sustained Japanese press 
attacks against Great Britain. The anti-Communist 
pact was signed Saturday. In this document Japan 
was lauded as "engaged in a hard, Asiatic, anti-Com¬ 
munist struggle." It is difficult to imagine how a 
group of nations professing neutrality can hope to 
settle a conflict when some of its most important 
members are openly partial as Germany and Italy 
seem to be. While the agreement signed Saturday is 
ostensibly a union of nations against Communism 
anywhere, not specifically in Russia, many observers 
believe the alignment represents dictatorships versus 

democracies. For this reason the most active work of 
the Brussels Conference has been in private tcte-atetes 
to determine how far the world democracies 
will go toward joining in opposition to the dictator¬ 
ships. 

Headquarters 
The establishment of imperial general headquarters 
has not yet occurred but it seems imminent. The 
press attacks on Britain are directed mainly against 
the shipment of munitions to China through the 
British-controlled city of Hong-Kong. 
These then are some of the main factors operating 
behind the Brussels Conference. They give the reasons 
for much of its action or inaction. The main diffi¬ 
culty lies in the absence of Japan from the confer¬ 
ence and in the lack of responsible leadership on the 
part of any government. At first there seemed to 
be general agreement that Great Britain and the 
United States would assume active leadership. How¬ 
ever, in the keynote address Norman Davis disclaimed 
for the United States either a plan or leadership. 
Anthony Eden essentially agreed with Mr. Davis 
in desiring peace but presenting no plan for its ac¬ 
complishment. At a subsequent meeting of the con¬ 
ference Mr. Davis suggested a small committee to 
offer mediation to Japan and China, but this pro¬ 
posal hit a snag when France, Italy, and Russia all 
demanded places on the committee. At present the 
conference is loitering along waiting for Japan's re¬ 
ply to the latest conference bid sent to her. This 
bid leaves the way open to her either to finally reject 
outside help or accept one of the plans worked out 
by the conference. 


THE AGONISTIC 

Little Qirls Have French, Spanish, Classical Clubs Present Dramas; Committee Tells 
Of New System

Last Qay Frolic Musical Comedy, Satire, Tragedy Are Offered 

Campus Swarms With All 
Types Of Frisky Children 

With ruffles fluffing, be-ribboned 
hair flying, and goose-
pimpled knees bravely exposed to 
frost-bite, eighty-three little girls, 
accompanied by one Boy Scout, 

took possession of the campus 
Friday. At the sight of the over¬ 
grown children frisking and frol¬ 
icking over the quadrangle, a 
stranger would have thought that 
perhaps Agnes Scott had become a 
Kindergarten for Backward Chil¬ 
dren—but any well-informed per¬ 
son knew that the gaily laughing 
little girls were merely the Seniors 
having their final youthful fling 
before Investiture Service be¬ 
queathed them caps, gowns and 

Senior dignity. 
Among the swarm of children 
jumping rope, playing games, do¬ 
ing the Big Apple, and taking each 
other's pictures, there was every 
imaginable type of little girl to be 
seen, from the old-fashioned kind 
—like Elsie West, frisking around 
in red checked dress and sunbonnet 
with white ruffled pantaloons—to 
the ultra modern kind—like "Bee" 
Merrill, Martha Peake Brown, and 
Ola Kelly, all clad in very short 
dresses with matching bloomers. 
Joyce Roper and Winnifred Kellersberger 
adhered more to the 
quaint, old-fashioned style, com¬ 
plete with middies and bow-tied 
pigtails. "Kat" Brittingham, 
Mary Venetia Smith and Anne 
Thompson sported adorable sunbonnets, 
while Frances Lee, Anne 
Wheaton and Jane Guthrie went 
Scotch in pleated jumpers. All of 
the little girls looked adorable with 
huge bows of every description in 
their haid. Myrl Chafin, Jean 
Austin, Martha Long, Margaret 
Morrison, Elisa King and Primrose 
Noble looked especially attractive 
with their flowing Alice-in-Wonderland 
tresses. However, the hit 
of the day was the Lone Boy Scout, 
Mary Ann Kernan—who with her 
complete equipment was prepared 
for everything, except perhaps the 
swarm of photographers and her 
innumerable Leap-Year proposals. 
With class president Jane 
Turner leading the procession in a 
pink-and-blue Shirley Temple out¬ 
fit, all the children skipped 
through both dining rooms during 
breakfast, singing—a trifle off-
key, perhaps, but with a very 
youthful spirit—"Shoo, Fly, Don't 
You Bother Me!" The playful 
pranks continued bravely despite 
the cold weather until lunch-time, 
when the harrassed Seniors were so 
stiff and exhausted from renewing 
their youth that they foresaw great 
difficulty in kneeling for Investi¬ 
ture Saturday. (Please note that 
due to extreme delicacy, no men¬ 
tion is made of all the gastronomical 
trouble encountered as a result 
of all-day suckers, peppermint 
sticks, and so on.) 
Every Senior will have stories 
galore to tell to her grandchildren 
about the fun on Little Girl's Day; 
but the prize incident of all occur¬ 
red in the All-Senior "Faust" class, 
when Miss Harn joined the rest of 
the "kids" in all-day suckers! 

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El Circulo Espanol Presents 
Musical Comedy With 
Flavor Of Spain 

Tomorrow is the day! El Cir¬ 
culo Espanol is presenting its musi¬ 
cal comedy, La Fiesta de la Flor, on 
Thursday afternoon, November 
eleventh, at 4 o'clock, in the 
Murphey Candler building. Betty 
Lou Houck Smith directed the 
dances, in which Evelyn Baty, Jane 
Clark, Sara Lee, Tony Newton, 
Sarah Thurman and Martha Zellner 
perform the traditional Spanish 
steps. Decorations and costumes 
will add a flavor of Old Spain to 
this tale of two senoritas and their 
lovers, on a festival day of flowers. 

The club cordially invites all 
students and friends interested in 
Spain and its art to attend the per¬ 
formance. 

Teacher Speaks 

Of Book Lovers 

{Continued from page 2, col. 1) 
the stretching of the sinews of the 
mind. Few of us know enough 
phiosophy and physics to under¬ 
stand Eddington's Nature of the 
Physical World; but the effort to 
understand it is exciting mental 
exercise. And such use of the mind 

has the same tonic effect that 
physical exercise has upon the body. 
An even more important satis¬ 

faction which books afford us is 
that of finding in them our own 
experiences intensified and clari¬ 
fied through the expression given 
them by great writers, by men and 
women who before they are mas¬ 
ters in the craft of writing have 
been human beings living through 
much the same situations that we 
live through and who because of 
their gift of speech can unlock 
their hearts in words. When we 
are bewildered by the conflict be¬ 
tween the old and the new in our 
beliefs, Arnold speaks to our spir¬ 

its with: 
Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he

Who finds himself, loses his misery. 
When we are moved by the spir¬ 
it of evening, Wordsworth's: 

It is a beauteous evening calm and free

The holy time is quiet as a nun

Breathless with adoration 
gives expression to what we would 
express. When we are tempted to 
manage other people's affairs, we 
can laugh at ourselves deliciously 
in Jane Austen's Emma. When 
the awful mystery of death con¬ 

fronts us, we can be steadied by 
Emily Dickinson's: 
The bustle in a house

The morning after death

Js solemnest of industires

Enacted upon earth. 
The sweeping up the heart.

And putting love away

We shall not want to use again

Until eternity. 
When we are in love, almost the 
whole range of poetry and fiction 

BOWEN 

Le Cerele Francais To Give 
Moliere Satire On 
Artificiality 

Moliere's satire on the women 
who aspire to the professions, Les 
Femmes Savants, will be the pres¬ 
entation of the French club in the 
Murphey Candler Building on 
Monday, November 15, at 8 
o'clock. Miss Lucille Alexander, 
professor of French, will direct the 
Agnes Scott girls and the members 
of the cast chosen from the Emory 
French club in this delightful play 
on artificiality. 

The cast includes the following 
Agnes Scott girls: Therese Poumaillou 
as Philaminte; Susie 
Blackmon as Armande; Nell Alli¬ 
son as Henriette; Martha Alice 
Green as Belise; Ruth Kaplan as 
Martine; Rebecca Drucker as Le-
pine; Regina Hurwitz as le Notaire, 
and Kitty Caldwell as 
Julien. 
The male characters, who will 
be played by students from Emory 
University, are: Mr. Arleppe as 
Trissotin; Mr. Shealey as Chrysale; 
Mr. McGinty as Clitandre; Mr. 
Pendley as Ariste, and Mr. Felder 
as Vadius. 

is at our command. Perhaps what 
we turn to is John Donne's: 

All other things to their destruction draw,

Only our love hath no decay;

This, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday.

Running it never runs from us away.

But truly keeps his first, last, everlasting

day. 
In almost every shade of emotion 
that comes to us, we have been 
preceded by those who have been 
able to give utterance to feeling. 
And this is one of the fortunate 
ways in which we are the heirs of 
all the ages. 

But the most profound effect of 
reading seems to me to lie beyond 
this recognition of ourselves in lit¬ 
erature. Few of us shall witness 
so noble a nature as Othello's so 
hideously destroyed by jealousy as 
his. We are not to share Orestes' 
fate of being compelled by a re¬ 
lentless destiny to the murder of a 
mother. Yet we are definitely the 
poorer if we have not given our¬ 
selves up to the tragedies of 
Shakespeare and Aeschylus. Milton 
has said that 

A good book is the precious life-blood of 

a master spirit embalmed and treasured 

up on purpose to a life beyond life. 
We live ourselves, we became 
something different through asso¬ 

ciation with the greatest life; and 
this touching of the sources of be¬ 
ing is the best gift that books, or 
that our college, can offer us, for 

Spirits are not finely

Touched but to fine issues. 

Cow-education is the word for 
it, it seems, at Eastern New Mexico 
Junior College. Bossie is helping 
put several youths through school. 
Bringing their cows to the campus, 
they are selling milk to pay ex¬ 
penses. 

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Eta Sigma Phi Opens With 
Classical Tragedy In 
De Luxe Style 

Pyramus and Thisbe, de luxe 
style, entertained the freshman 
classical students at the open meet¬ 
ing of Eta Sigma Phi, national 
honorary Greek and Latin fratern¬ 
ity, on Monday, November eighth. 

Nell Allison was the headstrong 
lover of Thisbe, Mildred Davis, 
and could not be restrained even 
by his own irate father, Primrose 
Noble, or by his beloved's mother, 
Frances Lee. The members compos¬ 
ing the walls of the houses and the 
tomb furnished the appropriate 
Roman atmosphere, while Julia 
Porter and Virginia Farrar made a 
very respective moon and "master 
of ceremonies," respectively. Miss 
Narka Nelson directed the produc¬ 
tion. 

Mrs. Moonlight 

Finds Husband 

With the casting of the remain¬ 
ing male roles for Mrs. Moonlight, 
rehearsals for the current Black-
friars' production are under way. 
Jack Tilford will portray Mr. 
Moonlight; Jimmy Jepson has the 
role of Willie Ragg; Jack Bodenhammer 
will be Percy Middling, 
and Ale Doremus will be Peter 
Middling. Ale Doremus and Jack 
Tilford are from Emory, Jimmy 
Jepson from Atlanta, and Jack 
Bodenhammer from Decatur. 

Mrs. Moonlight is to be presented 
on November 20, with Myrl 
Chafin playing the title role. 

Plan Of Accumulative Penal¬ 
ties Is Being Tried Here 

The Student Government Ex¬ 
ecutive Committee has been work¬ 
ing since last spring on a system 
of accumulative penalties. At that 
time, the Committee felt the need 
for a fairer system, and they of¬ 
fered the students a chance for ex¬ 
pression of their feeling in a ballot 
in which the majority of the stu¬ 
dents favored the proposed system 
of accumulative penalties. 

Under this new system penalties 
are given in relation to the offense 
in most cases, thus making a great¬ 
er variety of penalties. Fewer 
campus penalties are given in this 
system; therefore, campus carries 
more weight, and any infracture of 
a campus penalty is more serious 
than in the previous system. 
Since the factors of relation to 
offense and of accumulation are 
involved, the system is a more 
complex one, and yet, it is be¬ 
lieved to be a fairer one. Although 
it takes more thought and investi¬ 
gation to study the new system, 
the student can see why it is a bet¬ 
ter system after she understands it 
as to its motive, qualities, and 
reasons behind the penalties. The 
present system attains more nearly 
the purpose of a penalty; that is, 
not to punish but to teach ways of 
better living in grou-p life. 
This is a transition year in the 
penalties' system, and this new 
system is subject to change at any 
time by the Executive Committee. 
Records of statistics and the ef¬ 
fects of this system are being kept 
in order to determine just what 
further changes might be needed. 

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THE AGONISTIC 

A. A. to Hold Athletic Clubs Sophomores Triumph Over Juniors;
Sporting 

Three cheers for good ole Tech! 
We wish we could play football 
like that. And three tears for the 
hard fighting guest, Clemson. We 
wish we could see more of those 
elegant uniforms! Last Saturday's 
game was a credit to both teams 
. . . ach! 

Now back to our own campus. 
Every Friday (weather permit¬ 
ting) we have two peppy games of 
hockey played by two pairs of ex¬ 
cellent teams. But we rarely have 
a very peppy grandstand. In fact 
we are boasting to say that we 
never have a grandstand at all. The 
people who fill the wooden struc¬ 

tures out beside the field every 
Friday are members of the respec¬ 
tive class teams—not individual 
spectators who have actually 
walked out from behind a book in 
the library, or deserted personal 
plans for the sole purpose of wit¬ 
nessing good hockey playing—and, 
perhaps, rooting a little to cheer on 
a hopeful team. We sadly lack 
class spirit. And it looks as if we 
also lack the spirit of youth—the 
same spirit that thrills to the crack 
of stick on ball, that yearns for 
bigger lungs to yell for a point, 
that appreciates a well-dressed, 
anxious team. 

Well now, we're sorry we scold¬ 
ed. And aren't you sort of ashamed 
you don't make it a point to come 
to these games? Dr. Robinson al¬ 
ways comes, and so does Miss 
Jackson. They—along with about 
five* PePPy hottentots—consti¬ 
tute the spectating grandstands 
weekly. How your team would 
adore even just one little "rah" 
next Friday from YOU! 

And you can start "supporting" 
your class earlier than next Friday 
if the inclination strikes you. To¬ 
morrow night brings the first big 
swimming meet of the season, fea¬ 
turing speed and form swimming 
and advanced diving by some of 
the best swimmers on the campus. 
The program, headed by Virginia 
Milner and the swimming man¬ 
agers, is described a column or two 
away on this page. Read it and see 
how you like it, and then try to 
spare a half hour tomorrow night 
to see your class swim and dive for 
the coveted swimming banner. 

No more scolding, we promise— 
not even for those immature sillies 
who menaced Rebekah's weak 
hearts and timid souls a few nights 
ago with apoplexy, panic, locomo¬ 
tive ataxia, and possible inflamation 
to the synovial bursa—all by 
turning loose eight of those tor¬ 
pedo-contraptions a couple of 
hours after the midnight hour and 
perfect quietude! (The latest re¬ 
port by Associated Press has it 
that an air squardron bombed the 
bathtub during the A. M. with 
malicious intent, particularly to¬ 
wards one Catherine Ivie.) We 
don't know what to believe. 

Now for a little tidbitty-news: 
The new blue tank suits have to be 
ordered a size larger than the old 
grey ones. Where Mary used to 
hand us a 34 to go swimming in, 
she now hands us a 36. Personally, 
we're afraid it's making us feel 
clumsy—too clumsy. But that's 
all right, the color's flattering, 
n'est-ce pas? And speaking of 

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Just Below the Candler Bldg. 

Swimming Meet Cain Members 

Two of the four campus athletic

Tomorrow night, November 11, 
clubs, Tennis Club and Swimming

at 8:30, the swimming department 
will sponsor the first meet held Club, have announced a number of 
new members admitted this fall

this season. The interestingly 
through the customary bill of try-

varied program demands participa¬ 
outs. Mary Nell Taylor, manager

tion by all the available swimmers 
on the campus, and includes the of tennis, announces the following 
following features: girls are new members' of the Ten¬ 
Forty yard dash, free style; 20 nis Club: Elizabeth Kenny, Ellen 
Stuart, Ruth Slack, Roberta Ingles,

yard dash, back stroke; meddley 
Helen Klugh, Ethlyn Dyar, and

relay (one length breast stroke, one 
Ann Fisher. Initiations will be

back stroke, and one front crawl) ; 
held in the very near future.

diving; and for intermediates only, 
Virginia Milner, manager of

side stroke and elementary back 
swimming, announces the follow¬

stroke for form and a relay the 
ing girls are new members of the

width of the poor. After the meet 
swimming club: Lettie McKay,

there is scheduled a general dip 
Bryant Holsenbeck, Esthete Og


period. And during the program 
den, Virginia McWhorter and Pat-

the swimming club will do exhibi¬ 
tie Patterson.

tion formation swimming. 
The performers will be judged 
according to points which will add Student Government 
into the individual class scores, and 

Outlines New System

so toward winning the aquatics 
banner awarded annually by A. A. 

(Continued from page 1, col. 2)

Judges will be Miss Wilburn, Miss 
Mitchell, and Marie Stalker, '37. close contact with and active par¬ 
ticipation in their government.

At the swimming club meeting 
held last Monday night Virginia During the first part of this 
Milner announced that Gentry year, the three main projects are 
Burks will be the freshman swim¬ the accumulative relative system 
ming manager. Initiations were of penalties, the campaign to fill 
held for the five new members of campus needs, and deputation of 
the club. delegates to other colleges to study 

various methods of government. 
swimming—if you've noticed, the November has been set aside as 
best way to stand in well with 

Information Month, in which three 

your swimming teacher is to 

special chapel programs the in¬ 

"turn-off-the-shower-before -you


cluded. The first, held November 

come-in-to-a-class." You can al¬ 

4th, presented the whole setup of 

most see Milner liking you if you 

Student Government: N. S. F. A.,

show her that consideration. She 

Regional Conference, S. I. A. S. G.,

hasn't a very strong voice, and for 

and Agnes Scott. There will be a 

her to have to talk to a class 

discussion of N. S. F. A. on No¬ 

before all that wet racket is ex¬ 

vember 16th in the Murphey

pecting too much! 

Candler Building from four to five 

This is a personal note to Miss o'clock. All students are urged to 
Wilburn: Could you do something attend; it is guaranteed that the 
about Corky Hutchins? She har¬ meeting will break up at exactly 
bors an unquenchable desire "to five o'clock. The second chapel 
read up on hockey." And before program will be an Open Forum 
we cover the typewriter for on November 18th, in which the 
another ha'fortnight, we have a spending of the Student Govern¬ 
plea for the physical ed department ment budget will be itemized and 
as a whole: Please, could you presented to the students in detail. 
spend more time on little Jean Lights will be discussed, among 
Bailey? She has discovered through other privileges. The delegates to 
the efforts of the spoken English accompany Laura Coit to the 
department that "her head and her N. S. F. A. conference in Alberbody 
are not together." Or should querque during the Christmas hol¬ 

we appeal to the science depart¬ idays will be elected from the Jun¬ 
ment? ior members of the Executive 
* Pure exaggeration. Committee. 

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AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE 
DECATUR, GA. 

A college for women that is widely recog¬ 
nized for its standards of work and for the 
interesting character of its student activities. 

For further information, address 

J. R. McCAIN, President 
Freshmen Barely Beat Senior Class 

Last Friday the sophomores an excellent game for the seniors. 
overwhelmingly defeated the jun¬ In the freshman line-up. Wilds was 
iors, 5-0, and the freshmen defeat¬ outstanding for good defense, and 
ed the seniors, 1-0, in the weekly Wimpfheimer for good passing. 
hockey game. Miss Wilburn ex¬ The last half of this game was cut 
pressed her opinion that the play¬ to ten minutes because of darkness. 
ing is, on the whole, much improv¬ On the sidelines were Atlanta 
Journal photographers, who snap¬

ed over that witnessed in the ini¬ 

ped four freshmen rushing a goal

tial games this fall. She praised the 

defended by junior McMullen. As 

sophomore team for its very excel¬ 

usual the grandstand attendance 
lent work Friday, adding that the was sparce. 

freshmen and the juniors were not The line-ups for these games 

playing up to par, and that the were: 
Sophomores Juniors

seniors suffered because of a team 

Eyles R.W Garner 

shortage, which had to be filled by 

Williamson (1)_I.R Doty 
members of their sister class. Brinton C.F Moses 
Heaslett I.L Dryfoos

During the soph-junior game 

Forman (4) ___L.W Shortley

two goals allegedly made were in¬ 

Slack R.H Marshall 
valid. One, not officially wit¬ Milner ^C.H Jones 
nessed, was made by Brinton with Montgomery __L.H Ivey 

Taylor R.B Hamilton

Milner's help; the other by Wil¬ 

Thompson L.B McMullen

liamson, not valid because of dan¬ 

Cass Goal Porter 

gerous hitting. Cass deserves com¬ 

Substitutions for the sophomores

mendation for good goal keeping, 

—Salters for Williamson; for the

and Dryfoos for a good offensive 

juniors—Hutchins for Porter.

game. A bystander reports the 

Freshmen Seniors

junior battle-cry was "Watch Mil¬ 

Vaughn R.W._ Armentrout*

ner!" to which task the juniors 

Wimpfheimer I.R Erwin 

stuck with goodly spirit, though to Hance C.F Thompsonsmall avail. Bell I.L Douglas 

Benefield L.W Muilin*

Four sophomores came to the aid 

Lee R.H Chalmers

of the seniors for the second game, 

Henry C.H Watkins*

between the seniors and the fresh¬ 

Walker L.H Rodgers

men. Hudson merits comment for 

Scott R.B Robinson

good goaling against the determin¬ 

Woodard L.B Young

ed freshmen. Armentrout played O'Nan Goal Hudson 

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A. S. C. 
VOL. XXIII 

By Jane Guthrie 

EMERGENCY meeting of Con¬ 
gress is called by Franklin D. 
Roosevelt. Four major problems to 
be considered are war, financial 
panic, aid for agriculture or indus¬ 
try, and "extension of the frontiers 
of social progress." Sehator Walter 

F. George of the finance commit¬ 
tee predicts concerted drive at ses¬ 
sion to cut down existing capital 
gains of the federal revenue act. 
The new farm bill scheduled for 
early discussion will not be ready 
for opening, due to dispute over 
assistance to corn growers. Presi¬ 
dent Roosevelt is faced here with 
task of balancing budget, stim¬ 
ulating business recovery, and put¬ 
ting rein on congressional spend¬ 
ing. 
HITLER DEMANDS that the 
colonies Germany lost after the 
World War be given back to her. 
Mussolini agrees. Anthony Eden 
says "maybe." But public opinion 
in England and the United States 
says no. Some say yes because they 
believe the restoration of Ger¬ 
many's former colonies, constitut¬ 
ing an area six times the size of 
the Reich, will satisfy the nation 
and make peace in Europe. Those 
of the negative declare that Ger¬ 
many forfeited all rights to her 
colonies in declaring war in 1914. 
They also maintain the restoration 
would solve neither the population 
problem or satisfy Hitler's de¬ 
mands for food stuffs. 

TOKYO WARNED: Brussels 
conference approves draft criti¬ 
cism of Japan's policy in China 
after Japan's second refusal to 
work with conference. The orig¬ 
inal draft was prepared by *the Big 
Three: United States, Great Bri¬ 
tain and France, with the reserva¬ 
tion that delegations possessing no 
instructions from their govern¬ 
ments could make alterations 
later. Italy's proposal of another 
message to Tokyo is rejected. 
Italy vigorously opposes Chinese 
demand for virtual sanctions 
against Japan. 

WAR NOTES: Some 200,000 
Chinese civilians trapped in Soochow 
by disrupted transportation 
system unable to heed Japanese ul¬ 
timatum to vacate city in path of 
their advance toward Nanking. 
Leaflets dropped from war planes 
warn citizens to flee. Soochow and 
Wusch to be bombed because of 
their "industrial areas in which 
Chinese military supplies are man¬ 
ufactured." 

Daily News Fills 

Board In Library 

Current History Forum Has 
News Bulletin Board 

The new bulletin board which 

has been attracting much attention 

in the reference room of the li¬ 

brary is arranged by Current His¬ 

tory Forum. Clippings from vari¬ 

ous newspapers, including the New 

York Times, and from prominent 

current events magazines supply at 

a glance the most important news 

of the day. The items are changed 

every morning between eight and 

nine o'clock, the board being 

thereby kept up to date. 

A new feature of the board is to 

be a list of books supplied by the 

Carnegie Endowment for Interna¬ 

tional Peace, together with clip¬ 

pings from the jackets of the 

books. It is felt that these will be 

of special interest to all who desire 

to supplement their reading of 

periodicals with wider research. 

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1937 

Religious Week 

Is Observed in 

5 Chapel Talks 

Director Of Presbyterian 
Young People Is Guest 
Speaker Here 

In observance of Religious 
Week, November 9-13, Y. W. 

C. A. brought to the campus as 
guest speaker Dr. Wallace M. Als¬ 
ton, director of young people's 
work in the Presbyterian Church. 
Using as his general theme for 
morning chapel talks, "Growing 
Up In Christ," Dr. Alston spoke 
on the following subjects on con¬ 
secutive mornings: "Jesus and Hu¬ 
man Nature," "Christian World 
Community," "Habit Is The Serv¬ 
ice of the Soul" and "Relevance of 
Christ." This carries out Y. W.'s 
general theme, "Finding My 
Faith." At night, he conducted 
meetings at the Decatur Presby¬ 
terian Church. 
Dr. Alston held personal confer¬ 
ences with the girls and was their 
luncheon and dinner guest in both 
the Tea House and in Rebekah 
Scott and White House dining 
rooms. On Thursday afternoon 
the Presbyterian girls on the cam¬ 
pus entertained Dr. Alston at an 
informal party to give the girls 
an opportunity to meet him per¬ 
sonally. 

As Dr. McCain said in his intro¬ 
duction of Dr. Alston, he is not a 
stranger to Agnes Scott, since his 
home is in Decatur. He attended 
Emory University and Columbia 
Seminary, later doing graduate 
work at the University of Chicago. 
Then he became the first pastor of 
the Rock Springs Presbyterian 
Church in Atlanta, going from 
there to the pastorate of the Uni¬ 
versity Presbyterian Church in 
Lexington, Kentucky, before ac¬ 
cepting his present position. Two 
years ago he delivered the com¬ 
mencement sermon at Agnes 
Scott. 

Y. W. Gives Approval 
Of Sophomore Cabinet 

Last Tuesday night the Y. W. 

C. A. officially accepted a list of 
girls comprising this year's sopho¬ 
more "Y" cabinet. The list in¬ 
cludes: Betty Baty, Sophie Mont¬ 
gomery, Mary Winston Crockett, 
Polly Heaslett, Lutie Moore, Jane 
Moses, Lucile Scott, Sam Olive 
Griffin, Sara Nicholson and Betty 
Alderman. 
W ater Color 

17 i •u"* Wfii 

CxhlDlt Wilt 

Be Displayed 

Mrs. Mary M. Wills Displays 
Paintings Of Georgia 
Wild Flowers 

Collection Is Well-Known 

Mrs. Mary Motz Wills, a winter 
visitor to Atlanta, will exhibit a 
collection of water-color paintings 
of Georgia wild flowers next Fri¬ 
day and Saturday in the museum 
of the Agnes Scott library build¬ 
ing. This exhibition for the pub¬ 
lic will be a feature of the alumnae 
week-end program. 

Mrs. Wills, who is a native of 
Texas, has had her paintings ex¬ 
hibited at the Museum of Natural 
Arts in New York City, Harvard 
University, the University of 
Pennsylvania, the University of 
Georgia, and other educational in¬ 
stitutions. It was at the sugges¬ 
tion of Dr. W. B. Baker, botanist 
at Emory University, that she 
agreed to lend her collection of 
Georgia paintings this week. 

Among the interesting water 
colors is a painting of "The Lost 
Rose" or gardenia of Georgia, first 
discovered by Maftram, the botan¬ 

ist, growing along the Altahama 
River in 1774. 

Qreeting Cards 

To be Sold Here 

Mortar Board Sponsors Proj¬ 
ect For First Time 

This year, for the first time, 
Mortar Board is sponsoring a col¬ 
lege Christmas card. This card was 
designed by Jane Wyatt and will 
be printed by the Rose Printing 
Company. The cards are to be on 
dark purple paper, with the print¬ 
ing done in white, and a silhouette 
of the tower on the front, and 
with a four line verse on the in¬ 
side. There will be envelopes to 
match. Mortar board felt that the 
students would appreciate a card 
distinctly Agnes Scott in design. 

These cards will be five cents 
each, but reductions will be made 
on large orders. Any member of 
Mortar Board will take orders for 
these cards, which will be available 
in about two weeks. 

Dr-J-McCain 

Lectures Over 

0 . w/4^ a 
Station WAGA 
Other Prominent Educators 
Are On Educational 
Week Program 

Dr. J. R. McCain, president of 
Agnes Scott College, made an ad¬ 
dress over radio station WAGA 
November 10 at 6:13 P. M. He 
was one of the speakers during 
American Education Week which 
was observed from November 
7-12. The other speakers during 
the week of these broadcasts which 
were' sponsored by the Atlanta 
Board of Education were: Dr. 
Willis A. Sutton, Superintendent, 
Atlanta Public Schools; Dr. S. C. 
Garrison, President, Peabody Col¬ 
lege, Nashville, Tenn.; Superinten¬ 
dent Jere Wells, Fulton County 
Schools; Hon. E. D. Rivers, Gov¬ 
ernor of Georgia, and Dr. M. D. 
Collins, State Superintendent of 
Schools. 

Dr. McCain spoke on "Our 
American Youth Problem." In his 
address Dr. McCain said the prob¬ 
lems revolve around a few ques¬ 
tions: To whom may youth look 
for guidance? How shall I use my 
time? How may I know the laws 
to obey? How may I have the 
greatest fun? How may I choose 
my life work? May I have a God 
who cares? In conclusion Dr. Mc¬ 
Cain said: "There are many prob¬ 
lems which could be mentioned. 
The ones cited are only illustra¬ 
tions. We believe that youth real¬ 
izes some of the obstacles which it 
may face and that it is meeting 
them better than we did in my 
generation. If the school and the 
church and the home and the na¬ 
tion will have sympathy for young 
people and will cooperate in the 
solving of their problems, we will 
find that there is ahead a better 
and happier day than we have ever 
had." 

Dr. Hayes is to Give 

Lectures for Alumnae 

The Agnes Scott Business 
Women's Club will conduct a lec¬ 
ture course every Tuesday evening 
at 7:43 o'clock in the Anna Young 
Alumnae House. Dr. George P. 
Hayes, professor of English, will 

lead the course, speaking on mod¬ 
ern American, English and Twen¬ 
tieth Centuries. Those attending 
the course will read and discuss' a 
novel every week. 

Student Body Works Toward Purchase of Machine, 
Kitchen Equipment, New Day Student Facilities 

In its campaign to locate and 
fill outstanding needs on the 
campus this year, student govern¬ 
ment has so far decided on three 
projects to present to the student 
body for approval and support. 
These are the sewing machine, 
kitchen, and day students projects. 

After investigating the need, the 
practicality, and the cost of in¬ 
stalling a sewing machine for stu¬ 
dent use, student government of¬ 
ficials took a student ballot, asking 
three questions: (1) Do you feel 
the need of a sewing machine? (2) 
Would you use it? and (3) Would 
you contribute? The response to 
the ballot was overwhelmingly 
favorable, especially among the day 
students. If student contributions 
correspond with chis expression of 

approval, the sewing machine will 
be bought and a room will be ar¬ 
ranged and furnished completely 
for sewing, with such extra con¬ 
veniences as the money collected 
will allow. The uses of the ma¬ 
chine, as suggested by Laura Coit, 
would include repairing clothes, 
making costumes for various ac¬ 
tivities, and heavy sewing for the 
ambitious. Day students would 
find the new appliances conven¬ 
ient. 

The second project under con¬ 
sideration is that of the student 
kitchen. There is need for new 
facilities; a cabinet, a table, china, 
utensils, and perhaps silver bonbon 
dishes. If student support makes 
their purchase possible, these 
things will be bought and a chart 

will be made for signing up for the 
use of the kitchen. Groups of 
girls may make candy or have 
small informal parties, day stu¬ 
dents may cook lunch, teas may be 
held, and dates may be entertained 
on Saturday night. Details of the 
expense of maintenance will be 
worked out later. 

In the third project of the day 
students exclusively will be bene¬ 
fited. Zoe Wells, president of the 
day students, will call a meeting 
for discussion of needs and requests 
for improvements. It is expected 
that there will be a demand for 
more attractive furnishings of the 
day student room in Main. Stu¬ 
dent government hopes to fulfill 
requests as far as contributions will 
allow. 

Z115 No. 7 

A.S. Alumnae 
Will Return 

November 19 

"New Emphasis" Is Theme 
Of Varied Program 
For Week-End 

Reunion Offers Speakers 

The annual alumnae week-end, 
which will call scores of former 
students back to Agnes Scott this 
Friday and Saturday, offers in its 
schedule a series of addresses on the 
theme "New Emphasis." Follow¬ 
ing is the calendar for the two 
days: 

Friday, November 19 

10:00—Dr. Mary Anne McKinney 
speaks in chapel on "Indian 
Impressions." 

10:30—Dean Goodrich C. 
White, of Emory, speaks on 
"Cross Currents in the Colleges." 

11:30—Judge Samuel H. Sibley 
discusses "New Emphasis in World 
Affairs." 

12:3 0'—Luncheon in Rebekah 
Scott. Registrar S. G. Stukes de¬ 
livers speech. 
Saturday, November 20 

10:00—Mr. C. W. Dieckmann 
presents the school string ensemble. 
10:30—Professor Thomas H. 

English, of Emory, speaks on 
"New Emphasis in Drama and the 
Theatre." 

11:30—Associate Professor 
Emma May Laney, of the Eng¬ 
lish department, discusses "Con¬ 
temporary Poets and the South." 
8:30 P. M.—Blackfriars presents 
"Mrs. Moonlight." 
A further feature of the alum¬ 
nae week-end will be the book ex¬ 
hibit which opened Sunday, to be 
on display in the browsing corner 
of the library throughout National 
Book Week. A display of a series 
of botanical paintings of Georgia 
wild flowers will also be open to 
alumnae and their friends. 

Seniors Give Hike 

For Sister Class 

Sophomores Attend Celebra¬ 
tion Of Stunt Victory 

To celebrate the sophomores' 
victory in the Black Cat contest, 
the members of the senior class is¬ 
sued invitations to a senior-sopho¬ 
more supper hike Thursday, No¬ 
vember 11. Since it rained, the af¬ 
fair was turned into a party at the 
Murphey Candler building. After 
eating'hot dogs, apples, marshmallows 
and graham crackers, and 
drinking cups and more cups of 
hot chocolate and coffee, the soph¬ 
omores were entertained by such 
noted personalities as Corny Really 
Orta Skinnem, whom the Hottentotes 
know as Georgianne Wheaton, 
and Bergen and Charlie Mc-
Marthy, played by Myrl Chafin 
and Jane Guthrie. The climax of 
the party was the presentation of 
the silver bell engraved Class of 
1930 by Charlie McCarthy to Hen¬ 

rietta Thompson, chairman of the 
sophomore stunt. Jane Turner, 
president of the senior class, was 
the general chairman of the party. 
Heads of committees were: Anne 
Thompson, of food; Giddy Erwin, 
of entertainment, and Jane Wyatt 
and Jane Guthrie, of invitations. 


THE AGONISTIC 

Exchange Papers Reveal j 

Wide Student Interest; 

The fact that college students do concern them¬ 
selves about international news was impressed on us 
this week, for inexplormg the news, we found sev¬ 
eral articles on current topics in the Crimson and 
White from the University of Alabama we read an 
open letter to Japan. It reminds Japan that "The 
Chinese made'you what you are today, and because 
they refuse to pull themselves from the mire of tradi¬ 
tions, you now stand upon their submerged should¬ 

ers." It also points out that though Japan claims 
Chinese land because of an urgent need for more 
habitation area, she has not moved over into Manchukuo, 
"the first section of land added to the Japanese 
pouch." 

In the Immaculation from Immaculate College, 
Pennsylvania, there was an article on communism in 
Russia. The introduction to the article seems to get 
at the root of the whole thing: 

"There's nothing wrong with Communism, 
But there is something wrong with communists." 
In the Florida Flambeau from Florida State Col¬ 
lege for Women, we find an article summarizing a 
recent lecture given to the professional society in 
education. The lecturer puts much of the responsi¬ 
bility for a peaceful world on the shoulders of the 
future, who have the opportunity to direct and train 
the thoughts of young minds. 
The wide range of student interest was proven 
when we ran across a small reminder in the Mount 
Flolyoke News from Mount Holyoke College, Massa¬ 
chusetts, that a chess club had been started for both 
faculty and students and regular meetings were being 
held. 
Further proof of varied student interest was found 
in the Tech Oracle from Tennessee Tech. A fishing 
expert is to demonstrate his abilities there by casting 
and explaining the art to his audience. 

''Stranger Prince" Excels 

Among Historical Fiction 

THE STRANGER PRINCE 

By Margaret Irwin 

Reviewed by Julia Sewell 

The present demand for historical fiction has 
brought forward a great many admirable works, but 
none is a more true or vivid re-creation than Mar¬ 
garet Irwin's Stranger Prince.. The background of 
the story is England in the turbulent seventeenth 
century, when Charles I and Cromwell came to grips 
for the crown of the Stuarts, and it is painted with 
a vividness and a familiarity with the time that is 

almost startling. 
The story itself is centered about the romantic fig¬ 
ure of Prince Rupert of the Rhine, that impetuous, 
engaging young fellow who came so joyously to fight 
for his beloved uncle, Charles I. The life of Rupert 
is told from the time of his birth, in the war-torn 
barbaric capitol of Bohemia, to the time of his de¬ 
feat by Cromwell, when, as a rather bitter young 
man of twenty-six, he determined to seek a command 
"somewhere beyond the seas," where he might still 
fly the flag of the House of Stuart, and harrass the 
ships of the Lord Protector. 
The character of this boy, who had the unfailing 
charm of the Stuarts without the fatal indecision 
and susceptibility to flattery which characterized the 
later ones, including Charles I, is delineated with 
bold, seemingly careless strokes. And yet, when the 
whole picture is drawn, one sees the care with which 
the artist has created her work. 
Rupert's character, as a soldier and'a man of ac¬ 
tion, completely honest, and as tactless, impatient of 
all delay and supremely loyal to his principles, is set 
against the background of the other characters, equal¬ 
ly well drawn. The picture of Charles, the precise, 
rather pathetic little man who should have been a 
churchman, not a king, and whose character was 
such a queer combination of weakness and nobility, 
is perfect. Cromwell, the gloomy fanatic, tortured 
in mind, yet supremely capable in action, is por¬ 
trayed with a great deal of psychological truth. The 
members of Rupert's family are vivid figures: his 
mother, Elizabeth Stuart, with her untiring energy 
and her never-failing fascination; his elder brother, 
Carl, calm, selfish, cynical; and his younger brother, 
Maurice, honest and impetuous like himself. All the 
foremost men of the time are portrayed: Montrose, 
Pym, Hampden, Strafford, completing a full and 
rich characterization. 
It is very hard to convey any adequate idea of 
this book, it is so rich, full, and varied. One cannot 
handle with words this wealth, for in seizing upon 
what seems the most glorious and outstanding parts 
of it, one soon finds that one has left out equally 
great parts. This story, of the rise of a man and the 
fall of a throne, is simply a masterpiece of writing 
as well as reconstruction which makes one feel that 
the author found her facts not by poring over old 
books and faded manuscripts, but by living in that 
glorious, tragic century herself. 

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Through A Glass, Darkly 

We covet the ability to look at facts creatively and 
at ideologies realistically. 

Realizing that generalizations are generally untrue, we yet 
venture to note that there are, in general, two extreme types 
of college students: the pigeon-holeing factualist and the 
river-scorching visionary. The one gets from education a 
series of neatly-driven nails, hit quite squarely on the head; 
the other, a rather loose-jointed, ill-supported groove along 
which he wishes the whole universe to run. The first fixes 
his microscope on details, denying that there are larger 
things; the second burns with zeal for all-consuming ideals, 
ignoring smaller truths. We understand that Anne Average 
lies somewhere between these extremes. 

After some fifteen years of intellectual exercise, accom¬ 
panied (more or less) by creakings and groanings of mental 
joints, we have acquired an assortment of facts—common 
and garden varieties. The question then arises, how shall we 
view them ? In answering this let us borrow a term from Dr. 
Alston, who spoke one day last week on the need for Social 
Imagination. 

It is that which we covet—the insight which sees through 
obvious facts to their implications and consequences, the 
ability to see that: 

The fact that there is a boom in the sale of scrap-iron may 
mean not only that Tony, the junk man, can buy a Concertina 
accordion, but also that there is being created a whole race 
of life-size tin soldiers, who can be ingeniously blown to bits 
by crusading mankind. 

The fact that there are Germans, Italians, and Englishmen 
fighting on both sides in the Spanish rebellion may imply a 
crystallization of society along class and economic rather 
than racial lines. 

The fact that floods in the East and dust storms in the 
West occur simultaneously, and only after the trees and grass 
have been uprooted may signify that, as Stuart Chase aptly 
remarked, "Americans can sit by a river and watch their 
continent flowing by." 

The fact that Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin may 
have some bearing on the crushing heel which King Cotton 
has firmly set on the neck of the South, subjecting it to ex¬ 
ploitation which has exhausted the land and reduced millions 
of people to virtual peasantry. 

Some broader truth lies behind the fact that: eighteenth 
century Frenchmen tore down a prison, stone from stone, 
with their bare hands; that present day lynchings are not 
reported in the southern white press; that one of the great¬ 
est thinkers of ancient times was forced to drink Hemlock 
by a jealous humanity; that almost two thousand years ago 
a man hung bleeding on a cross because he had the effront¬ 
ery to lead a perfect life, to apply love to living. 

As we would apply social imagination to our facts, so we 
would apply social realism to our ideologies. Let us consider 
the greatest of our idealisms, Christianity. In present day 
Spain, the church has identified itself with the fascistic reb¬ 
els ; in present day Russia religion has been banned only be¬ 
cause the church became a sucking, gorgeously-arrayed para¬ 
site rather than a source of spiritual comfort; in present day 
America the greatest of the modern "robber barons," after 
bargaining away his own honor and that of the railroads and 
ruining countless lives—all in the interest of the almighty 
dollar—yet died a revered old man, honored in Baptist 
churches throughout the country. Can these facts throw any 
light on the waning spirituality of a materialistic world ? 

The church used to give aid to the poor; it has relinquished 
that to the government. It used to be the guardian of learn¬ 
ing; it has relinquished that to the schools. Only its spiritual 
duties are left it, and they must be made practical if they 
are to be accepted by a cynical world. He who has an empty 
stomach does not wax enthusiastic over the salvation of his 
immortal soul. To quote Dr. Raper, "We must fit our actions 
to our ideals, or our ideals will inevitably fit themselves to 
our actions." 

Finally then, we covet the ability to find the originality in 
platitudes and the practicality in dreams. For things are not 
important in themselves, but in their implications; and life 
and living is primarily a matter of attitudes. 

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Dictator at Our Doorstep 

By Alice Reins 

Another dictatorship! And here on our very 
boundary line, so to speak. News of the bloodless 
coup which took place in Brazil a few days ago, in 
which President Getulio Vargas made himself dic¬ 
tator of the first authoritarian state to be moulded 
along European corporate lines in America, comes 
with a sense of surprise, and, shall we say, alarm. 
After enlarging the anti-Communist pact to include 
Italy and thereby establishing in their minds a cer¬ 
tain self-assurance, the totalitarian states turn their 
eyes to the Americas. So far, Brazil has given no out¬ 
ward sign that she has or will join the united Fascist 
front, doubtless because she is still dependent on the 

U. S. as a market for her coffee and other products. 
Generally speaking, it may even seem a mere repeti¬ 
tion of history, for South American civilizations 
have been dotted with dictatorships; yet there arc-
two features of this revolution that are significantly 
different from previous ones of its nature. One is 
that Brazil is the largest country on the continent, 
and consequently exerts a decided influence over the 
other governments; the other is that Vargas abro¬ 
gated the old constitution and drew up a new one 
which establishes a dictatorship indefinitely. 

Fortunately, Vargas' immediate interest is in in¬ 
ternal rather than international affairs, and the ef¬ 
fects of the dictatorship will be first along national 
political, economic and social lines. Politically, he-
wants "to establish a highly centralized government, 
eliminate the traditional rivalry between the states 
of the Brazilian union, prevent petty civil wars, and 
effect a thorough program of internal political de¬ 
velopment." This move to remodel the government 
by curtailing the power of the states is a repudiation 
of the political system which has been in existence 
since the old Empire days. Brazil has had no na¬ 
tional political group until the advent of Fascism 
and Communism; the states formerly marked the 
sole political grouping and jealously guarded their 
autonomy. Economically, Vargas must find a solu¬ 
tion to the coffee question. The prosperity and eco¬ 
nomic independence, so dear to the heart of a dicta¬ 
tor, depends on the ability to maintain domination of 
world coffee markets. He must also "put Brazilian 
finances in order and balance domestic economy, im¬ 
ports and exports in order to resume payments on the 
nation's foreign debt of $760,000,000. Socially, he 
must reform the national education and replace the 
spirit of septionalism, individualism and democracy 
with the appropriate spirit of nationalism, patriotism 
and authoritarianism. When these reforms are ac¬ 
complished and Brazil is made a strictly totalitarian 
state, the fascist powers will doubtless induce her to 
join their exclusive society. 

The recent change was really only nominal and 
probably will continue as it began without any 
bloodshed. The president has actually ruled from 
Guanabora palace as a dictator since the Communist 
revolution of 193 5 which he put down with artil¬ 
lery, and with the army behind him, he has main¬ 
tained power by a continuous state of war decrees 
since that time. He justified his recent step by point¬ 
ing out with amazing unoriginality that the coup 
was necessitated by a threat of armed revolt from 
"regional mobsters masked as party leaders and 
armed to impose their decisions on the nation." He 
assured the world, after the fashion on dictators, 
that the new state was not Fascism but Democracy 
"moulded to Brazilian necessities—a Democracy in 
the modern sense." 

If the object of the new state is merely to combat 
Communism, and upheaval within the country, there-
would be no cause for alarm, btrt it could readily be 
a smoke screen raised by the fascist powers to hide 
the extension of their influence on this continent. 
Three fifths of the population of Brazil are native 
born, the rest is made up of immigrants mostly from 
Portugal, Italy, Spain, Germany, and Japan—each 
one a fascist or pro-fascist country. In the south of 
Brazil, a German Colony has long been established 
with its own schools and other institutions, all sub¬ 
sidized by the Fatherland. Most of the young people 
belonged to the Youth Organizations, Nazi propa¬ 
ganda was circulated and a drilling and espionage 
system established. Against such influences working 
consistently to undermine the government, democra¬ 
cies apparently have no defense at all. The keen fas¬ 
cists seem to be using the same methods in America 
as they are in Europe. They were too weak to attack 
an Anglo-French coalition, so they made trouble in 
Spain and Belgium to detract and divide their vic¬ 
tim's interests. Realizing that England, in conse¬ 
quence of Roosevelt's Chicago Speech is looking to 
the United States to back her, the three powers may 
be giving us warning to stay at home. 

In any event, the recent developments seem far 
more than the traditional Latin American method of 
seizing the political power. It represents the change 
of one of the strongest "states rights" governments 
in the world to a South American version of pure 
authoritarianism—a dictatorship which will without 
doubt draw its inspiration from the domestic experi¬ 
ences of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. 


THE AGONISTIC 

Frantic Reporter Vainly} Seeks 40 New Books Dr. Alston Finds Young People 
Cornelia Otis Skinner Interview Are Added to Most Promising for Ministry 
Attempting to interview Cornelia Otis Skinner is, quite 
roughly speaking, one of the most purgatorial experiences 
A.S.C. Library When asked the secret of his splendid success in Young 
People's Work, Dr. Wallis Alston, speaker for religious week 

that one can undergo. The process, in the first place, is quite 

Miss E. Hanley Announces

complicated. To start things rolling along, one enters a small 

New Arrivals Which

and rather ill-lighted room, from 

Enrich Shelves 

the center of which a small, un but Miss Skinner is not here now. 
shapely black object stares at the 

When she returns she will be rest¬ 

The following new books have

intruder malignantly. In spite of 

ing until her performance tonight. just been received by the Agnes

this lack of co-operation on the 

Perhaps if you would call just be¬ Scott Library according to the an¬

aforementioned small black object 

nouncement of Miss Edna Hanley,

(which, incidentally, is «o/ Miss fore she leaves for the auditor¬ 

ium . . . head librarian of the college:

Skinner's personal maid — but 

Bell, Men of Mathematics; Stag-

merely any available telephone in Later 

ner, Psychology of Mathematics;

its respective telephone booth), 

3:00—Same voice: "Miss Skin¬ 

Kirstein, The Dance; Nye, New

the prospective interviewer grasps 

ner is out. I'm sorry." 

Bodies for Old, Culture Methods

the receiver in a determined man¬ 

Now from all the intricate in¬ for Invertebrate Animals;' Land


ner and asks—not for Miss Skin¬ 

ner, as a ter-mingling of plot and counter¬ reth, Dear Dark Head; Durling,

that is climax to be deli¬ 

plot in this true-to-life drama, two Georgic Tradition in English

cately approached—for the person 

ideas are pre-eminently evident. In Poetry; Groba, The Magic Plant;

in charge of Miss Skinner's per¬ 

the first place, the action springs Digeon, The Novels of Fielding;

formance on the Emory campus. 

from character rather than vice-

Eliot, Collected Poems, 1909


Having been referred to a very af¬ 

versa; and in the second place, one 193 5; Ulter and Needham, Pam¬

fable gentleman who knows noth¬ 

central idea is quite obvious. As to ela's Daughter; Bulliet, Significant

ing about where Miss Skinner will 

the characters in the Valid Vig¬ Moderns and Their Pictures; Belas


stay upon her arrival in Atlanta, 

nette, the major ones may be an¬ co,The Theatre Through the Stage

one then obeys his instructions to 

alysed thus: The telephone is def¬ Door; Franklin, You're in the

call a Mr. Price, who manages all 

initely the aloof, unsympathetic Show; Collins, Studies in Shakes¬

stars who appear in Atlanta. This 

type—especially when Miss Skin¬ peare; Bradley, ed., Shakespeare

gentleman is a bit more satisfac¬ 

ner's secretary furnishes the stim¬ Criticism, 1919-193 5; Peyser, The

tory, as he is able to impart the 

ulus at the opposite end; the inter¬ House That Music Built; Stagner,

facts that Miss Skinner is expected 

viewer's chief trait is persistence; Psychology of Personality.

to arrive the next day, that she has 

while Miss Skinner is shown to be

reservations at the Biltmore, and Demioshkevich, Introduction to 

a very complex character. She ob¬

that all of the papers are usually The Study of Education; Churc¬

viously possesses to a great extent

granted on common interview at a hill, Marlborough, His Life and 

an ethereal quality of elfin elusive-

certain time. However, the city ed¬ Times, Annual Review of Bio¬ 

ness, which is most intriguing (if

itor of the Constitution knows chemistry, v. 6 (1937; Dumond,

not distinctly otherwise). Also,

nothing about the entire affair— Roosevelt to Roosevelt; Col. Salto,

her Garbo-esque desire to be alone

when called—and even goes so far and others, What is Ahead of Us;

is quite interesting. Perhaps, like 

as to inquire who Miss Skinner is, Duncan, Neiv Light on Hebrew

Christabel's guardian spirit, she

when she arrives and why. Having Origins; Coester, Cuentos de la

likes to "peak and pine" (not

been greatly aided by this little American Espanola; Irwin, Angels

mountains and woods, as an Eng¬

tete-a-tete, our prospective inter¬ and Amazons; Bridgman, Heads,

lish 321 scholar would have one

viewer indulges in a cessation of Features, and Faces; Van Laren,

believe). Or perhaps the master¬

activity until the next day. At this Succulents Other Than Cocti;

piece of her monologues is an ul¬

point, the events occur in such a Daves, Table of the Higher Math¬

tra-convincing imitation of a sec¬

rapidly dramatic series, that they ematical Functions; Curti, Peace 

retary chanting the refrain that

would perhaps be better presented or War; Choyter, Troubadours of

"Miss Skinner is resting." At any

as follows: Dante; Brinkley, English Poetry of 

rate, it would possibly be in order 

the Seventeenth Century; East-

The Next Day to suggest ever so subtly that Miss 

mann, Mox, Enjoyment of Laugh-,

10:30 A.M.—Voice from Bilt¬ Skinner change to Camels or Chase 
ter; Mead, Movement of Thought

and Sanborn or Jello "for that

more: 'Miss Skinner has not arrived in the Nineteenth Century;

tired feeling."!

yet." Hatcher, Creator of the American 

11:30 A.M.—Ditto. Novel; Brigart, Postman's Horn; 
12:30 P.M.—Ditto. Some degree of protection Garrath, The Two Mr. Gladstones; 
1:30 P.M.—Ditto. against the virus of sleeping sick¬ Hermann and Goldberg, You May 
ness is afforded by the blood serum Cross-Examine; Robinson, Collect¬
3:30 P.M:—Voice from Miss 
of an individual who had the dis¬ ed Poems; Curti, Bryan and World

Skinner's suite (notice the climatic 

ease in 193 3, Dr. G. O. Brown, of Peace; Bridgman, Constructive

order of events): "Miss Skinner 

the St. Louis University School of Anatomy; Smith, Lettering; Kahn,

has just arrived. She will be rest¬ 
ing until time for her performance Medicine has found. Design in Art and Industry. 
tonight . . . No, it is impossible to 
see her before then. Perhaps if you 

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at Agnes Scott, vouchsafed no concrete reasons: but from 
the very story of his life as a student and later as a minister 
it evident that he has been directly 
guided toward that one the intelligence, wide-awake atti¬ 
challenging field. 

tude, and responsiveness of the 
Having taken his M.A. degree in 

youth of today, Dr. Alston added 

philosophy at Emory University, 

that they are often ahead of the

he proceeded to lay bright plans 

adult groups in sensitiveness to

for a lawyer's career. Meanwhile 
he had the interesting experience of right presentation and contempt 
acting as principal of Avondale for sham: "They have a love for 
Estates High School and of wrestl¬ 

reality in religion."

ing with the problem of the co-ed¬ 

Because of this receptive atti¬

ucation of mill children and chil¬ 

tude, he considers widespread reli¬

dren of cultured homes—as he ex¬ 

gious projects on the college cam¬

pressed it, "both sides of the 

pus well worth while, if administ¬

track." 

ered to both personal and social 

As a young minister at Maxwell 

needs. "I believe strongly in the 

St. Church, Lexington, Ky., Dr. 

'Y' groups," he announced, but 

Alston found his first real position 

expressed regret at the tendency of 

of contact with young people. It 

some of them to forget personal

happened that his church was very 

needs. He thinks the new preach¬ 

near the University of Kentucky 

ing missions to the campuses, with 

campus, and a great deal of student 

their direct appeal by powerful

work naturally followed. Lie 

personalities to the individual stu¬

speaks with pleasure of his associa¬ 

dent, should bring great results,

tion with the Pitkin Club, sponsor¬ 

reaching among the rest those

edbytheY. M.andY.W.C.A.'s 

young people from non-Christian 

—an organization strictly limited 

homes. 

to seventy-five members whose 

According to Dr. Alston, "The

places, when vacant, were eagerly 

young people are the bright future

sought by students in the long 

of the church," and he is eager to

waiting lists. The members chose 

continue his progressive campus

one minister every year to give real 

work. Already he looks ahead to

evangelical messages. 

summer projects in Oklahoma and

From Maxwell St. Church Dr. 

Texas.

Alston was called to a position of 
outstanding importance, that of 
director of Young People's Work Blackfriars Elects 
of the Southern Presbyterian 

Seven New Members

Church. "It's a hard job," he con¬ 
fessed smilingly. He has taken cap¬ 

Blackfriars chose seven new

able charge of all work from In¬ 

members during its fall try-outs

termediates' through Young Peo¬ 

recently: Alice Adams, Shirley

ple's departments, and his duties 

Armentrout, Eugenia Bridges,

include supervision of all vesper 

Ruth Crisp, Nell Echols, Marian

services, Sunday schools, week-day 

Franklin, and Gertrude Betty

religious education, and summer 

Jones.

camps and conferences. Of the lat¬ 
ter there were 80 last year, with an At the last meeting Mary Anne 

attendance of 12,000 young peo¬ Kernan read a play, and plans were 
ple. discussed for Mrs. Moonlight, the 
play to be presented on November

"Colleges," said Dr. Alston, 

twentieth.

"are the greatest unworked places 
possible in modern religious educa¬ 
tion, especially state universities. 

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THE AGONISTIC 

Dr. Alston Meets Sophomores Nose Out Fresh, 4-3,

Sporting 

Luscious Big Apples 

Jean Jean 
Mormon Morrison 
Wetherby Jane DuPre 
Took great care of her weight 
Though she was only a Hottentot.* 

(Gosh!) Well anyway, the idea 
is this: that A. A. launched last 
week a very healthy project which, 
in our weigh of thinking, offers a 
definitely promising means for 
controlling pounds. Ah, yes— 
this is our plan: (and note how to¬ 
tally different it is from the Osborne 
theory) begin your day with 
the usual 8 glasses of water, drink¬ 
ing it swiftly before you grab a 
Kleenex and dash down to break¬ 
fast; as you approach the table, 
gaze with utter unconcern at the 
stacks of crisp hot waffles (which 
finally made their glorious come¬ 
back last Sunday with the syrup 
pot and sausage—ummm); quiet¬ 
ly trim two ("to take up to your 
roommate"), and leave the table— 
with a grin, if you like. On your 
way up the stairs, carefully un¬ 
wrap the two prize waffles (so's 
not to jar them out from under 
the butter), and then, as though 
oblivious to what you are doing, 
devour them with deliberate mas¬ 
ticatory sweeps, remembering all 
the while the two cups of black 
coffee you didn't drink at the 
table the moment before. You 
should be, gustatorically speaking, 
quite satisfied. 

But you aren't. Having reached 
the top step, you are suddenly 
aware of an arresting apple-rition. 
And you are apple-solutely power¬ 
less when your better self (the 
"roommate" for whom you have 
been so thoughtful) a-rests a 
greedy hand upon one of the nectared 
spheres in the tempting bas¬ 
ket. Yes, you buy an A. A. apple. 
And when you have eaten this delect-
apple fruit, you realize that 
because of its abounding store of 
vital vitamins so conducive to 
vimmy vigor, alas—you are no 
longer beset with hunger. This is 
the point of success in our theory. 
At the close of day you realize you 
have attended only one meal, and, 
what's more, have put at least five 

M. D.s out of business (counting 
up the five APPLES you have en¬ 
joyed at intervals all during the 
day). 
Now isn't that a delicious plan? 
And we bet we feel healthier than 
Miss Osborne would feel if she 
were here now, because her diet 
was not as successful as ours will 
prove to be. We appreciate the 
confidence you have in us, too. 
Just eat those A. A. APPLES and 
we guarantee your class will be 
winning the hockey games and 
swim meets in no time! And the 
gym scales will flatter you to in¬ 
credulity. A consistent diet of this 
invigorating vegetation, and by 
spring time, a May Day puff will 
blow you aweigh! 

Speaking of hockey games and 
swim meets, don't you agree with 
us that the sophomores are inclined 
to be extremists on the subject of 
winning? Last Friday they 
splashed through to victory vs. 

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The Presbyterian students of In drama, it's "Mrs. Moon¬ 
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Agnes Scott had the opportunity 

in contraltos, it's Nickels; in

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Florida, it's Miami; in history,

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formal reception given in his honor Fite; in coffee, it's cream; in 

Thursday, November 11, in the Rebekah, it's APPLES; in Inday-
students' parlor in Main. Mr. man, it's APPLES; in Main, it's 
Alston gave the plans for the APPLES. In fact, it's APPLES 
Presbyterian Youth Conference on —everywhere. Luscious, BIG 
World Missions which is to be held APPLES—A. A. APPLES— 
December 2 8 to 30 at the First purchaseable, all for the paltry 
Presbyterian Chruch of Atlanta. coin: an humble nickel per core. 

Dr. and Mrs. William V. Gard¬ Really, we've never seen such 
ner and Miss Carrie Lena McMul-elorious APPLES as stem are. 
len, of the First Presbyterian We think you'd best crag yours 
Church; Dr. and Mrs. O. R. with haste. Why, bite time you 
Flinn, and Miss Alice Rivers, of get there they may all be gone; 
North Avenue Presbyterian but juice wait—A. A. will core 
Church; Miss Mary Bailey Wil¬ over in a wink and replenish 
liams, of Druid Hills Presbyterian this supply of nature's nectar: 
Church; Dr. and Mrs. D. P. Mc-A. A. APPLES. 
Geachy and Miss Mary Crawford, 
of the Decatur Presbyterian 
Church, were also present. Sophomores Win 

Swimming Meet

Qerman Club is 

To Enact Story The sophomores were the victor¬ 
ious class by a large margin in the 
swimming meet held last week on

Hans and the Golden Goose will 

the night of November 11. They

be the fairy story dramatized by 

led with 3 8 points, followed by the

the German Club at its meeting 

freshmen in second place with 2 8

this afternoon at 4 o'clock in the 

points, and the juniors third with

Murphey Candler building. Jean 

8 points. The seniors accumulated

Austin, Mildred Davis, Martha 

6 points.

Foster, Mary Elizabeth Galloway, 

The diving events excited appre¬

Emily Harris, Jeanne Matthews, 

ciative applause from the gallery

Frances Norman, Irene Phillips, 

of fifty, as Chalmers gained first

Evelyn Sears, Elise Seay and Mary 

place with 27.4 points to her

Pennell Simonton will take part in 

credit. Healey was second with

this play. 

17.6. Forman and Burks ranked 
close behind, tying for third place
Betty Coed and the Duchess of 

with 16.2 points.

Windsor have something in com¬ 
mon—the Duchess's wedding 

Poetry Club Meets

dress. Adaptations of the gown 
the former Wallis Warfield wore With Miss E. Laneywhen she married the abdicated 
King of England have gone to col¬ 

Miss Laney was hostess to the

lege with a bang. 

Poetry Club at its regular meeting 
the freshies in hockey, and only on Tuesday night, November 9th. 
the night before they had splashed Shirley Armentrout, Mary Wins¬ 
with gusto and Forman and Milner ton Crockett, Jane Guthrie, Eloise 
right through three able classes to Lennard, Elise Seay and V. J. Wat-
victory in the swim meet. It must kins read. 
be a hangover from the stunt The Poetry Club is planning to 
night. Anyway, we heartily en¬ begin at its next meeting a discus¬ 
dorse their spirit. sion of the different forms of 

I Well, with brownish leaves fall¬ verse, which the members will at¬ 
ing, and APPLES and BIG tempt to use in their writing. 
APPLES to think about, we are ap¬ 
proaching the first hurdle, exams. A brain institute which will 
But don't fret. A. A. will take care make Washington the world capi¬ 
of you. Just work hard, play hard, tal for the study of the brains of 
and eat APPLES. You can't fail. animals and humans is being es¬ 

With discreet apologies to A. tablished at Georgetown Univer¬ 

A. Milne, a poet himself. sity. 
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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 
As Seniors Trounce Junior Team 

Last Friday in the hockey game sounded the end of the half. The 
the sophomores defeated the fresh¬ score stood at 4-1 in favor of the 

men by the score of 4-3, and the seniors. The darkness and the bitter 

seniors defeated the juniors by the coldness made it difficult for the 
score of 4-1. The teams were very grandstand to appreciate possible 
well matched against each other, good plays in the last half. 

both as to skills and supply of The line-ups for these games 
players, and for this reason the were: 
games they played were unusually Sophomores (4) (3) Freshmen* 

Francis R.W.__WilIstatter Butt (1)

exciting to the grandstand. 

Armentrout I.R. Kendrick Bell (2)
The first game, between the Brinton (1) C.F Dunn Hance 

Salters (2) I.L Woolfork Wimpfheimer

freshmen and the sophomores, got 

Murlin L.W Benefield Vaughn

off to a slow start. However, in a Griffin R.H Gates Lee 

Milner C.H G. Moffat Henry

few dribbles the playing pepped up 

Graham L.H. Sams Patterson 

as Salters shot the first goal. After Watkins R.B Lancaster Woodard 
the next bully a long dash by her Phillips L.B B. Moffat Wallen 

Cass Goal Richardson O'Nan

team down the half field to the 

•The freshmen entered two different 
freshman goal gave Salters oppor¬ teams, the first team listed playing the 

first half with the following substitutions :

tunity for a swift second goal, 

Jester for Gates, Fisher for Kendrick, Ash-

bringing the score to 2 points for burn for Moffat, and G. Slack for Wool-

fork. There were no subs the last half.

the sophs. The game suddenly be¬ 

Sophomore subs were: Williamson (1)

came quiet again. for Salters, Forman for Murlin, and Eyles

for Francis. The second half of this game

The second half of this game be¬ 

was lengthened from ten minutes play to 

gan with fast shots. The freshmen 15 because of the great number of fresh¬ 
shifted teams and began a nice re¬ men subs entered. 

Seniors (4) (1) Juniors 

covery of some of their lost points, 

McKay R.W. Flynt 

as Bell shot their first goal. After Erwin (1) I.R Benson 

Coit (3) C.F Moses

a brief time-out for the sophs, the 

Thompson I.L. Dryfoos (1)

freshmen again scored, this time Brown L.W 

Allison R.H Doty

by Bell. And so the game closed, 

Blackshear C.H Jones

the score for the sophomores, 4-3. Rodgers L.H Redwine 
Grandstand applause was strong Chalmers R.B McMullen 

Young L.B Campbell

for Milner's excellent playing, as 

Douglas Goal Kenny

well as for Hance's and Wimp Substitutions for the seniors were: Smith 

for Chalmers, and Merrill for Thompson.

fheimer's snappy defense. 

The referees were Miss Wilburn and Miss 

With two more or less handi Mitchell. Scorer was Scotty Wilds and 

Hutchens.

capped teams, the seniors and the timekeeper was 
juniors began their game. The jun 

For the benefit of young fathers,

ior line-up was not complete dur 

the University of California has

ing the entire game, nor were there 

completed a schedule of baby's

any substitutions handy. But by 

crying habits which may enable

the second half the senior team was 

parents their

complete, with two extras for sub¬ to arrange away-

from-home programs. After the

stitutions on hand. This abound¬ 

first month there is a 4-month

ing strength early brought the 

lull when father may safely stay at

score over to the senior ranks, as 

home. After that there is about a

Erwin shot a glorious goal, follow¬ 

year when baby's vocal cords get

ed by two of Coit's dependable 

plenty of exercise.

points. After a grinding struggle 
at the senior post, Dryfoos scored 
the lone junior point. Remember folks at Thanksgiv¬ 

After the next bully the play ing with gifts and cards 
rapidly shifted toward the junior from the 
goal post. Thompson made a 

WOMAN'S EXCHANGE 

smooth point, counted invalid be¬ 

in Decatur 

cause the time keeper's whistle had 

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sEAYORS 

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important that your footnotes are well made. 
FAN TAN hose, sold exclusively by MANGEL'S, 
is sheerer, longer wearing and brings out all 
the beauty of shapely ankles. They are clear, 
in beautiful colors, of sturdy strength to 
withstand the strain of racing for classes. 
And as for post-campus activities, they are a 
fitting companion to the MANGEL'S dress, 
suit or coat, that is traditionally correct. 
Come to MANGEL'S and you'll see you aren't 
making any faux-pas as far as your allowance 
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HI) e Agonistic

A. S. C. 
VOL. XXIII 

A.S.C. Picks 
E. McMullen 
As Delegate 

Junior Will Accompany Coit 
To N. S. F. A. Session 
In December 

Defeats Mary Whetsell 

In Open Forum last Thurs¬ 
day, the student body elected 
Emma McMullen, Junior rep¬ 
resentative on the Executive 
Committee, as the delegate to ac¬ 
company Laura Coit to the N. S. 

F. A. Convention in Alberquerque, 
New Mexico, during the Christmas 
holidays. 
Agnes Scott has been an active 
member of the National Students 
Federation of America for several 
years, sending two delegates to 
each convention. Alice Hannah 
and Ann Worthy Johnson attend¬ 
ed last year's meeting. 

N. S. F. A. is an organization of 
the student councils of American 
colleges and universities. Its main 
problem is to help them make a 
good job of their task of student 
government. In carrying out this 
aim, it concerns itself with curri¬ 
cula, the betterment of student 
welfare, and world peace. Its 
weekly report may be found posted 
on the Current History bulletin 
board in the library. 
By Jane Guthrie 
HINDENBERG LINE: Japa¬ 
nese drive west after sudden col¬ 
lapse of Soochow, key-point of 
China's "Hindenburg line." The 
new Chinese line made up of 130,-' 
000 troops stretched 3 5 miles from 
north of Soochow to Kiangyin. 
Japanese troops drove towards it 
northeast of Shanghai, attacking it 
from three points. After all night 
bombardment 40,000 Chinese 
troops retreated from Soochow in 
what has been called "one of the 
most amazing captures of an im¬ 
portant city in the annals of war. ' 

Defeat is attributed to the panic 
which spread when a few Japanese 
in hooded rain capes gained en¬ 

trance to the city and hoisted the 
Japanese flag. 

War office reports total casual¬ 
ties in the Chinese war—16,048 
Japanese dead and 145,470 Chinese 
killed. 

FARM LEGISLATION: Agri¬ 
cultural committees in both houses 
show economy impulses in Con¬ 
gress session and agree to 5,000,000 
dollar limitation in cost of the pro¬ 
gram. House committee votes 
down reviving old processing taxes 
for the purpose of financing the 
year's program in part. Cotton 
acreage control movement to be 
included in general farm bill dis¬ 
cussion. 

PROBE: Roosevelt asks Federal 

Trade Commission to investigate 

"Monopolistic Practices" blamed 

for the present high cost of living. 

DOLLAR FOR DOLLAR: Re¬ 

construction Finance Committee 

announces intention of spuring 

home construction by investing 

dollar for dollar with building ma¬ 

terial supply companies and other 

private business interests. These 

organizations will be authorized to 

raise money for low rent homes 

and apartments for persons of 

moderate incomes. Sale of bonds to 

be guaranteed by Federal Housing 

Administration. 

Z115 No. 8

AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, DECATUR, GA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1937 

Grand Dutchess Marie is 

To Lecture Here in March 

Cousin Of Late Czar Plans 

May-Day Contest 

To Compare Old, New 
Regimes

Opens This Week 
Arrives Friday, March 25 
Scenarios For Annual Fete 
Are Due December 13 Her Imperial Highness, the 
Grand Duchess Marie, of Rus¬ 
Scenarios for May-day, annual sia, will be presented on the 
spring fete created and produced evening of Friday, March 25, 
by Agnes Scott students, are due by the Lecture Association of Ag¬ 
Monday, December 13, Anne nes Scott College, according to 
Thompson, chairman of the com¬ Miss Emma May Laney, adviser 
mittee, has announced. The scen¬ for the Association, in a lecture on 
ario contest begins this week, and the general topic, "Russia—the 
the winning plot will be chosen by Old and the New," contrasting 
the committee. contemporary Russia with pre¬ 
The skits may be either original war Russia. 
creations or adaptations of classi¬ Perhaps no one could be in a 
cal myths. Persons interested in better position to present this con¬ 
entering the contest are advised to trast than Grand Duchess Marie, 
RONALD V GIBSON JAMES A. BROWN consult the bulletin board in the since she herself was a member of 

BALLIOL COLLEGE

GONVJLLE & CAIUS COUEGe gym for suggestions. Entries may the royal family before they were

CAMBRIDGE OXFORD 

be turned in to Anne Thompson deposed by the Russian Revolution. 
or to any member of the May-day She is cousin of the late Czar 
String Ensemble committee. Nicholas of Russia, one of the

Two English 

Last year an adaptation of Mil¬ last of the Romanoffs, and daugh¬ 
Plays in Chapel ton's famous masque, Comus, in¬ ter of the Grand Duke Paul, 
Debaters to spired the winning scenario. brother of Alexander III, next to 
the last of the Russian Czars. 

The Agnes Scott string ensemble, 

Grand Duchess Marie also is relat¬

Meet A. S. C. Glee Club Will

under the direction of Mr. C. W. ed to the English royal family 
Dieckmann, professor of music, through her mother, the daughter

Offer "Mikado" 

presented in chapel Saturday, No¬ Mr. J. Brown, Mr. R. Gibson of King George of Greece. At the 
vember 20, a program consisting time of the Bolshevik uprising

Arrive December 8 

of two concertos, one by Handel, The cast for the coming oper¬ twenty-one members of her imme¬ 

the other by Greig: "Come Sweet etta, Gilbert and Sullivan's "Mik¬ diate family were assassinated, the

As representatives of the

Death," by Bach, and "Clair de ado," to be presented by the Agnes only ones escaping being Marie and

Oxford Union Society and the

Lune," by Debussy. The First Scott Glee Club, was announced her brother, Grand Duke Dmitri.

Cambridge Union Society, re¬ 

last week as follows:

Movement of the Handel concerto In 192 8 Grand Duchess Marie

spectively, Mr. James A. 

was written in such a manner that The Mikado, Gene Traber or Le-came to America to live, bringing

Brown and Mr. Ronald V. Gibson

the massed tones of the organ and land McKay; Nanki-Pooh, Edwin with her only "a suitcase, a type¬ 

piano contrast 
will arrive in Atlanta Wednesday, Everitt; Ko-Ko, Dick Smoot; writer, a guitar, and the

with the string in¬ first

December 8, to engage in debates 

Pooh-Bah, Jack Bagwell or Walton rough draft of her book," the

struments of the orchestra. Nell 

with Emory University and Agnes

Hemphill played the solo part of Bobo; Pish-Tush, Don White; "Education of a Princess," which

Scott College.

the First Movement of the Greig Yum-Yum, Ruth Tate or Caroline tells of her life from the luxury of 
concerto for the piano and Tommy The debate with Emory on Armistead; Pitti-Sing, Virginia the Russian court to the hardships 
Ruth Blackmon played the solo Wednesday night will be on the Kyle or Emily Underwood; Peep-of exile. From 1929 until the suc¬ 

part of the Handel concerto for question, "Resolved: That the ab¬ Bo, Jane Moore Hamilton or cess of her book allowed her to 
the organ. solute veto of the Supreme Court Betty Kyle; Katisha, Amelia give herself entirely to writing and 
is an anachronism." Nickels or Jane Moses. lecturing, she was fashion consul¬ 
On Friday night, December 10, Chorus of School Girls, Nobles, tant for a New York dress making

Dr. Robinson Gives Tea 

the Englishmen will meet Mary Guards and Coolies—5 0 voices. house. At the present time Grand 
Frances Guthrie and Margaret There are to be two presentations Duchess Marie resides in this coun¬ 
Dr. Henry A. Robinson, profes¬ Hopkins in the Gaines Chapel at of the operetta, played by different try as a "successful business wo¬ 

a

sor of mathematics, gave tea Agnes Scott at 8:30 o'clock on the casts. man, author, and lecturer." 

Tuesday afternoon, November 16, question, "Resolved: That the The story centers around Nankifrom 
4:30 to 6 P. M. at his home power of the trade unions has in¬ Pooh, son of the Mikado of Japan, 

Blackmon Heads 

for his mathematics classes. Mrs. creased, is increasing, and ought to and Yum-Yum, his sweetheart. 

Robinson received the guests with be diminished." Following the de¬ Yum-Yum is to be married to Ko-Food Committee 
her husband. Miss Leslie Gaylord, bate there will be a reception hon¬ Ko, her guardian, who is Lord 
assistant professor of mathematics, oring the debaters in the Murphey High Executioner, so Nanki-Pooh 

poured. Candler Building. (Continued on page 3, col. 3) The food committee for Rebekah 
Scott and White House dining 
rooms has been selected. ( Tommy 
Irresistible Book Exhibit Invades Holiday Funds as Ruth Blackmon and Catherine Ivie 
are representatives from Rebekah 
Literati Fall Prey to "Yaks," Winnie-The-Pooh Scott and Betsy Kendrick is 
the White House representative.
special exhibit is a Compleat Ang¬ not, wash it carefully in tasty Tommy Ruth Blackmon is chair¬

By Julia Sewell 

ler in the Cameo Classics with pudding, and give it 4 pincushions man of this committee and each 

What a cruel and unfeeling charming illustrations in the sev¬ boiled in sealing wax, and just dip member is required to give her a 
thing it is to exhibit books just one enteenth century manner. the end of its tail in hot coffee.' " written report of complaint and 
month and ten days before Christ¬ Next one moves to the recent 

In the line of appearance, be¬ suggestions about the food every 
mas, when those souls who are fiction, which one has yearned to the of one month. These reports go Miss

havior and art living, to 

meager in pocket and literary in read, but seldom been able to, be¬ Scandrett, who talks them over

finds Orchids On Your Budget, by

nature are most a prey to the wiles cause of pressing scholastic activi¬ 

Marjorie Hillis, in the chapters of with the dietitians. 

of publishers and the giddiness of ties. There is the much talked of 

which the author asks belligerently

the holiday spirit. How is it possi¬ And So Victoria, and that poignant 

"Well, who isn't poor?", then anx¬

ble to resist the impulse to look at little story Of Mice and Men. Team Debates

iously, "Can you afford a hus¬

them, that impulse which starts There are the favorites of the past 

band?", then hopefully, "Almost

the fatal chain that leads to des¬ year: Of Lena Geyer and Drums Anti-Lynch Law

balancing the budget," and finally,

truction—first the browsing, next Along the Mohawk. The most in¬ 

in despair, "When you're really

the choosing, then the yearning, teresting of all the biographical At the meeting of Pi Alpha Phi,

Broke."

and finally the acquiring—with books, at least to a lover of non¬ on Thursday night, November 
money which should have been sense, is the Letters of Lewis Car¬ The perfect place to end a eighteenth, Margaret Douglas and 
spent on a much-needed umbrella roll to His Child Friends, in which browse is the childrens' book sec¬ Ernestine Cass debated Hazel 
or a Christmas present for Aunt he reflects to a small girl who has tion, just as the perfect place to Hirsch and Jean Austin on the 

Gussie? apologized for not writing him end a long Christmas shopping trip question "Resolved: that the Fed¬ 
The proper thing to do when one sooner: "Do you think I'd call my¬ is the toy department. The old eral Anti-Lynching Law should be 
first begins to browse (assuming, self naughty, if I hadn't written to favorites which are always with us, passed." 

of course, that one has no will¬ you, say for 50 years? Not a bit! and which are with us especially in Last Friday night Katherine 
power whatever, and no conscience I'd just begin as usual, 'My dear this exhibit, are Mother Goose, il¬ Fatton and Mary Louise Dobbs de¬ 
lustrated by Kate Greenaway in

about Aunt Gussie) is to look out Mary, 50 years ago you asked me bated the Atlanta Law School, and 
the old favorites and admire them what to do for your kitten, as it her inimitable quaint English on December tenth Margaret Hop¬ 
in their new holiday dresses. had a toothache. Perhaps the tooth¬ manner, and Winnie the Pooh kins and Mary Frances Guthrie 
Among the special ones in this ache has gone off by this time—if (Continued on page 3, col. 5) will debate Oxford. 


THE AGONISTIC 

The Qualities of Leadership 

(Following is the speech which Professor Philip David¬ 
son presented at the Mortar Board announcement program 
last spring.) 

» 

One hundred and eighty-one high school students 
were asked to select an athletic captain and to give 
reasons for their choice. One girl was almost unani¬ 
mously elected and seventy-seven different reasons 
given for her choice; these ranged all the way from 
"she has some pretty white enameled teeth" to "she 
is honest and impartial." The students clearly felt 
this girl's leadership without being able to define its 
qualities, a difficulty we all face. In defining the 
qualities of leadership, we must remember that they 
depend upon the kind of leadership in mind. Two 
forms may be roughly distinguished—representative 
leadership and creative leadership. The representative 
form consists in executing the expressed will of the 
group, whereas the creative formulates the will of the 
group along essentially new lines. It appears when a 

personality becomes the propulsive force for a new 
value or complex of values. The values may be orig¬ 
inal, or they may be older ones infused in a new area, 
but in either case, their adoption by a group means an 
essential change of direction on its part. These values 
may be socially desirable or socially undesirable, but 
the highest type of creative leadership stands for the 
highest values. There have been examples of leader¬ 
ship which pandered to the worst in the national 
taste, and steadily, dangerously lowered the level of 
popular discrimination; all too frequently such lead¬ 
ers have had apparent success, but their motives have 
been insincere, their methods unscrupulous, and their 
aims unworthy. There have also been magnificent 
instances in human history of the finest type of crea¬ 
tive leadership. Christ still stands as the supreme 
example, and even in our own day we have felt the 
dynamic force of great leaders. They do not always 
achieve immediate success but the failure is not real. 
Even Woodrow Wilson's greatest enemies are forced 
to admit that in spite of the apparent failures of-the 
League of Nations, Wilson's ideals of international 
cooperation are still the criteria by which we judge 
the acts of nations. 

Such then is the essential of creative leadership— 
the union of a compelling personality and a compul¬ 
sive idea. Granted that we have on this campus the 
potentialities of such leadership, and we do, how 
best can it manifest itself in the life of the college? 
We believe that the ideals of this institution, em¬ 
phasizing as they do spiritual and intellectual values, 
stand unchallenged as principles of human conduct, 
and the first task of leadership here is to inculcate 
them in the student body. The question faces each 
student at the outset, does your work enrich or im¬ 
poverish the values held by your associates? Does it 
point them toward higher, finer goals? In each 
campus activity, the first task is to lay down clearly 
the principles upon which it is to function, to select 
methods in keeping with these principles, and to 
evaluate constantly the results obtained. There will 
be doubts and uncertainties, of course, but the 
doubts usually arise either because the question at is¬ 
sue does not clearly relate to the principles, or be¬ 
cause the principles themselves are not clearly stated, 
but if the principles are broadly grounded, it will be 
a trivial question indeed which does not have some 
definite relation to them. 

But the real test of your creative leadership is after 
you leave this college. We believe that the ideals of 
this institution hold as true for life after college as 
they do here, and you thus have an opportunity to 
infuse into another area the values you have ac¬ 
quired here. But it will not be easy; here you work 
under the most favorable conditions, with the power 
of an institution behind you, there you work alone. 
If your leadership is truly creative, you will not be 
discouraged and you will not fail; you will do your 
work in confidence and hope, secure in the knowl¬ 
edge that leaders whose purposes and plans are nobly 
conceived, solemnly dedicated, and faithfully ex¬ 
ecuted, cannot fail. 

Alumnae Follow Bent 

Of Marriage, Careers 

Marriage or career—take your choice. That seems 

to be what most of the Agnes Scott Alumnae seem 

to be doing, anyway. From the latest reports, how¬ 

ever, those who choose the more settled life of a 

housewife seem to hold the majority. 

Maria Duncan, ex-'3I, was married to Dr. Gordon 

Reginald Pole, ceramics engineer with the TVA at 

Wilson Dam, on June 23, at a lovely home wedding. 

Betty Parker, ex-'3 5, is now Mrs. Edward Breeden 

Liles, of Washington, D. C., where Ed holds a posi¬ 

tion with the Reconstruction Finance Corporation 

and attends law school at George Washington Uni¬ 

versity. 

Esther Henderson, cx-'3 3, is now Mrs. Joseph L. 

Hcnraham and is living at Charleston, S. C., where 

Joe is a member of the staff at Citadel. Virginia 

Rubel, ex-'3S, married Harvey Haslip Jones on July 

24. Harvey is a Sigma Nu from the University of 
Tennessee and is working at the Hiawassec Dam un¬ 
der TVA. 
Agonistic 

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Life Like A Many-Colored 

Dome 

Finally, we would remind ourselves of the thirteenth-
century scholar who sold his coat to buy books, and 
shivered in the cold that he might burn his last candle 
at the shrine of learning. 

As complacent freshmen we impressively assured our unstartled 
English professors that we came to college "to learn 
to live." After four years of learning to live we would like to 
modify our statement, and say that we came to college "to 
learn." 

Truth lies all around us like white light, and so goes unperceived 
until a many-faceted prism breaks it down into its 
several colors. This is the purpose of our education—a con¬ 
tinual breaking-down and a combining. 

Is it not interesting to note that Rousseau's novel Emile 
inspired the radiant Shelley's Prometheus Unbound; and that 
the same book moved Pestalozzi, a humble Swiss teacher, to 
evolve a system of instruction which revolutionized educa¬ 
tion? Is it not good to know: that the ancient Romans built 
aqueducts because they didn't know water seeks its own 
level; that Nazism and its leader sprang full-panoplied from 
a beer garden; that bees have evolved organized labor and a 
share-the-wealth plan; that Coleridge wrote Kubla Khan in 
an opium dream; that modern astronomers can cock a tele¬ 
scope and estimate how much the universe weighs ? 

The ever-abundant source of the knowledge we seek is read¬ 
ing. At Investiture, Assistant Professor Leyburn said, "It is 
the sheer pleasure of reading books which I covet for you"; 
and it is this pleasure that thinking men have coveted 
throughout all ages of civilization. For books are the speak¬ 
ing reservoirs of the best man has thought and done since he 
began to walk uprightly and lift his face to the sky. 

It is from books that poets from Chaucer to Elinor Wylie 
have gained their vision of intellectual beauty, have ap¬ 
proached the throne of reason, and explored the measureless 
corridors of the mind. In books, we, too, have glimpsed in¬ 
tellectual beauty; with Edna Millay we have "heard her mas¬ 
sive sandal set on stone"; with Wordsworth we have viewed 
the peace that comes with the "philosophic mind." 

With book exhibits, with the DuBury book award, with 
our new library and its miles of stacked shelves, with our 
aware and well-read faculty, with the place that learning is 
accorded on our campus, we at Agnes Scott have an environ¬ 
ment peculiarly congenial to the enjoyment of the pleasures 
of reading. We must suit books and their delights to our 
mental palate now, or forego them forever. 

It is a matter of choice how we shall spend the four irre¬ 
vocable years allotted for our education. Whether we shall 
perceive what the best minds of the past have thought about 
man, his world, and the God he worships, or shall ruffle the 
mere surface of our intellect with the cluttering busy-ness 
which we classify as "activities," is a decision which we must 
make individually. It is a matter involving values and criteria. 

But, above all else, we covet the serenity born of wisdom, 
the inner peace that comes with understanding. For in edu¬ 
cation lies the brightest hope for a heart-sick and bewildered 
mankind: we shall know the truth and the truth shall make 
us free. 

The Time Has Come 

By way of postscript, we might remark that exams, which 
loom ominously near, should be taken with a good, stiff grain 
of salt. "The mills of the gods grind," but students shouldn't. 

Quite Really 

The evening of December 10 will find two genuine (but 
debatable) English accents in operation at Agnes Scott. Re¬ 
solved : That all who are interested in seeing an Irishman and 
a Scot help Brittania to rule the waives should attend. 

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Tax-Burdened Business 

Appeals to Congress 

Government is Rumored Ready to 

Lighten Industrial Taxes 

At Special Session 

By Mary Anne Kernan 

Business, weighed down under tax burdens, with 

outstretched hands and an earnest appealing face is 

asking Congress for a boost. The legislation re¬ 

quested by the President and for passage of which 

the special session was called has been neglected for 

a time while business is under consideration. There 

is a strong sentiment suggesting that the Federal 

government is ready to materially lighten taxes on 

business and transfer the reins of economic recovery 

from government expenditures to business planning. 

Program Hidden 

While President Roosevelt's four-point program of 
farm, wage-hour, reorganization, and regional plan¬ 
ning legislation is hidden deep in the recesses of sub¬ 
committee rooms, many Congressmen are agitating 
for tax revision to help business. This they consider 
essential to a speedy recovery from the "slump of 
1937," which is very effectively described by pic¬ 
tures and graphs in Life of November 22. The main 
points in the proposed program are repeal or revision 
of the undistributed profits tax, the capital gains 
tax, and the capital stock tax. Senator Bailey, of 
North Carolina, vehemently championed this pro¬ 
gram: "No man is going to invest his money ... in 
a situation in which he does not know that his title 
will be protected and his rights of possession will be 
preserved." This may be all very true, but the flex¬ 
ibility in definition of "rights of possession," which 
may or may not include social responsibility, must 
be admitted. Certainly, as Roosevelt has suggested, 
the burden of business may need to be lightened, but 
this does not mean that business and particularly 
large enterprises should not share to a very large ex¬ 
tent in the support of government. Undistributed 

profits should after all serve a more socially benefi¬ 
cial purpose than mere accumulation; if business is 
not willing to clinch its profits among those who 
made them, government must step in and through 
taxation distribute this money where it is needed. 

Pressing Subject 
Although this seems the most pressing subject of 
Congressional consideration, there are others in both 
House and Senate. At the beginning of this special 
session there were several bills ready for both 
houses which had been passed by the other. Those 
measures passed by the Senate and ready for the 
House are: Wages and Flours, Child Labor, Wheat 
Crop Insurance, Safety-at-Sea, Food and Drugs Re¬ 
vision, McCarron 70-car Train Act, and Condemna¬ 
tion of Sit-Down Strikes. The measures passed by 
the House and awaiting consideration by the Senate 
are: Anti-Lynching Bill, Federal Reorganization, 
Six Presidential Secretaries, Bankruptcy Revision, 
Natural Gas Regulation, Civil Service for Postmas¬ 
ters, and the Salary Publicity Repealer. 

Anti-Lynching Filibuster 
In both houses the measure first on each list is be¬ 
ing discussed at present. The Anti-Lynching Bill 
has furnished southern oratory with an ideal subject 
for filibustering. Senator Connally, of Texas, went 
so far as to say the bill is "a product of long-distance 
reformers" whose slogan is "turn our gangsters loose, 
turn our racketeers loose, but for God's sake, civilize 
those Southerners." The bill does not seem to be 
provoking serious consideration; it is simply a cur¬ 
tain raiser before the really important reform meas¬ 
ures requested by Roosevelt. In the House the Wages 
and Hours Bill is on its way out of the Rules Com¬ 
mittee, tax revision is being actively worked on by 
the Ways and Means Committee, and farm crop con¬ 
trol measures are being considered in the Agricul¬ 
tural Committee. 

Unanswered President 
It seems unlikely that any of the President's re¬ 
quested measures, except perhaps farm legislation, 
will be attended to at this special session. Tax re¬ 
vision and budget balancing will require more care¬ 
ful consideration than is possible immediately. Sen¬ 
ator Harrison, chairman of the Senate Finance Com¬ 
mittee, says that in order to raise additional money 
for the proposed budget either a sales tax or a lower¬ 
ing of income tax exemptions will be necessary. The 
latter, we believe, meets with probably more general 
approval on account of the numerous state sales 
taxes. 
Congress is faced with important legislation; 
whatever it does may be calculated to affect a great 
number of people very vitally. Whether it will take 
a step backward in taking responsibility from busi¬ 
ness or whether it will progress in advisable and nec¬ 
essary social reform measures remains to be seen. 


THE AGONISTIC 

Group of 133 Alumnae Trek Mortar Board 

Mortar Board at Agnes Scott 

To Campus 

Former Students Reunite To 
Renew Contacts At 
Agnes Scott 

To the student body, Alumnae 
Week-end meant sausage and cof¬ 
fee for lunch. But to the Alumnae 
themselves it meant much more— 
renewing their youth with squeals 
of "Oh, hello, I'm so thrilled to see 
you! You old darling, what are you 
doing here?" to old classmates 
whose names they couldn't quite 
remember, although they sat in the 
third seat from the end in Bible 
class; or, even more frequently, 
"Why, you don't look a day older 
than when we dressed up together 
for Little Girl's Day!"—all the 
while counting wrinkles and chins. 
Then of course they enjoyed ex¬ 
claiming "Why didn't we have 
these when I was here!" Of the 
new library and the transformed 
Murphey Candler Building, as well 
as "You know, it really hasn't 
changed a bit" at the sight of Ella 
and Mary Cox. They enjoyed 
nudging each other and smiling 
reminiscently at the sight of the 
harried freshmen scampering to 
hand in their Friday themes, and 
the sound of the 10:1J A. M. train 
chugging by during the chapel 

speech. 

Of the entire registered group of 
13 3 Alumnae on the campus, there 
were many recent graduates whom 
the present students remembered 
well—such as Mildred Clarke, Lita 
Goss, Jane Thomas, Ethelyn John¬ 

ston and Sarah (Nichols) Judge. 
Many "big sisters" of girls in 
school now were here—for exam¬ 
ple, Mary Elizabeth Galloway's 
sister, Annie Laura; Jane Moore 
Hamilton's sister, Elinor; Jane 
Turner's sister, Sarah; Eleanor 
Rodger's sister, Margaret; and 
Anne Thompson's sister, Julia. 

All of the graduates seemed to 
be happy in their present work, 
and they were unanimously en¬ 
thusiastic over the things they ac¬ 
quired at ye Alma Mater. It was 
interesting to discover that accord¬ 
ing to Dr. Robinson's census of 
1929, 62 per cent of all Agnes 
Scott graduates are married. Of the 
professional women, over one-half 
are teachers, with those in secre¬ 
tarial work next in order. The rest 
are engaged in every profession 
open to women, from Archaeology 
and Architecture through Zoology. 
Nelle Chamlee tells glowing tales 
of the celebrities among the Alum¬ 
nae, from Marian Sims, the author, 
and India (Hunt) Balch, the first 
woman to teach surgery at the 
University of Virginia, to Mary 
Lamar Knight, who holds the dis¬ 
tinction of masquerading so clev¬ 
erly as to be the only woman ever 
to witness a "guillotining" in 
France. 

Meet Yotir Friends at 

Cox's Prescription Shop 

Between Paramount and Grand 
Theatres, Atlanta 

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Alumnae Have 

Benefit Bridge 

Luck played no part in winning 
a new dress, six pairs of hose, a 
radio, or a crystal glass set at the 
Benefit Bridge, sponsored by the 
Atlanta Agnes Scott Alumnae As¬ 
sociation in Rich's Tea Room last 
Friday afternoon, November 12. 
Everyone was assured of winning 
some delightful and useful prize. 

And, while the "Bridg-e-teers 
were playing, they could select 
their winter wardrobes with the 
greatest of ease, as the following 
lovely Agnes Scotters paraded be¬ 
fore them in the latest creations: 
Jane Moore Hamilton, Caroline 
Carmichael, Nell Pinner, Kay Ken¬ 
nedy, Anne Wheaton and Jean 
Dennison. 

Art Club Elects 

Seven Initiates 

Campus Artists Assist In 
Wills Exhibit 

Pen and Brush Club selected 
seven new members in its fall tryouts: 
Susie Blackmon, Helen 
Brown, Frances Castlcberry, Doro¬ 
thy Lazenby, Ruth Slack, Doris 
Tucker and Glenwyn Young. Mar¬ 
tha Dunn, a freshman, was eligible 
for membership, but will have to 
wait until the new quarter to be¬ 
come a regular member. 

Last Thursday afternoon, the 
club helped Mrs. Mary Motz Will 
to arrange the collection of watercolor 
paintings which she exhibit¬ 
ed on Friday and Saturday in the 
museum of the library. 

Writing Club Elects 

Baty, Montgomery 

Evelyn Baty and Sophie Mont¬ 
gomery were the two new mem¬ 
bers chosen by B. O. Z., creative 
writing club, in its fall try-outs. 

B. O. Z., with Miss Preston as ad¬ 
visor, is one of the most active and 
helpful clubs on the campus. 
At the last meeting, on Friday, 
November fifth, Nell Allison, 
Giddy Erwin and Jane Guthrie 
read. Hortense Jones and Carol 
Hale, hostesses, served pears and 
bananas on a silver platter, and 
cookies and candy. 

Harrison's 

The Agnes Seott chapter of Mortar Board includes: Jean Barry Adams, Elizabeth

Blackshear, Jean Chalmers, Laura Coit, Mildred Davis, Mary Lillian Fairly, Anne

Worthy Johnson, Hortense Jones, Winifred Kellersberger, Eliza King, Primrose Noble,

Anne Thompson, and Virginia Watson. 

Books Invaded 

Shopper's Fund 

{Continued from page 1, col. 4) 
cropping up this time in a big new 
book, The Hums of Pooh, taken 
from Pooh's coreless humming mo¬ 
ments in Winnie the Pooh and The 
House at Pooh Corner, and set to 
music. 

Among the new childrens' books 
are Exekiel, by Elvira Garner, the 
story of a little pickaninny in 
Sanford, Florida. Munro Leaf's 
Story of Ferdinand has come again 
this year, as no one can resist the 

meditative bull who would rather 
smell flowers than fight toreadprs. 
The most uproarious book of all is 
Why Is a Yak?, by Le Grand, in 
which the author makes the reader 
wonder all the way through just 
why a Yak is. 

And now the unfortunate visitor 
to the book exhibit knows that she 
is doomed, for Lewis Carroll's Let¬ 
ters must (at the expense of Aunt 
Gussie and a few others) find its 
way into her pocket, and a Yak 
will surely find himself in a certain 
little boy's Christmas stocking, and 
Pooh will undoubtedly hum his 
way in somewhere on Christmas 
morning. 

The Sphinx has had its face 
"lifted,?" and now, for the first 
time in 3,600 years, the entire fig¬ 
ure is visible above the sands. 

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For further information, address 

J. R. McCAIN, President 
Blackfriars Hold 

Monthly Meeting 

"Six Who Pass While The 
Lentils Boil" Is Presented 

Six Who Pass While the Lentils 
Boil was the title of the play pre¬ 
sented by Blackfriars at its meet¬ 
ing on Tuesday night, November 
sixteenth. In this tale of the six 

people who entered the life of the 
small boy left to watch the beans 
cook, the characters were portray¬ 
ed by Shirley Armentrout, Jane 
Dryfoos, Georgia Hunt, Kay Ken¬ 
nedy, Jane Moses, Evelyn Sears, 
Mary Pennell Simonton, and Kay 
Toole. 

During the business session, ush¬ 
ers were chosen for Mrs. Moon¬ 
light, the play which Blackfriars 
presented on Saturday, November 
twentieth. 

A civil engineer, 39 years old, 
who decided he should have been a 
doctor, has enrolled at Tulane Uni¬ 
versity for wthe six-year medical 
course, including a year of premedicine, 
four of medicine and one 
year as interne. He entered the 
school as a junior in the arts and 
sciences. 

England's Russian population 
numbers 67,925. Of these, 31,496 
are males and 36,428 females. 

H as Program 

Dr. McKinney Will Discuss 
Service At Program 
Of Recognition 

Dr. Mary Anne McKinney, of 

the Biology department, and who 

has only recently returned from 

teaching in a medical school in In¬ 

dia, will be the speaker at the an¬ 

nual Agnes Scott Mortar Board 

recognition service which will be 

held Friday, November 26, in 

Gaines Chapel. Dr. McKinney's 

subject will be based on service. 

Dr. McCain will introduce Mary 

Lillian Fairly, president of the lo¬ 

cal Mortar Board chapter, and 

after telling something of the his¬ 

tory of Mortar Board, she will in¬ 

troduce Dr. McKinney. 

This recognition service is a very 

old tradition with Mortar Board. 

The alumnae members of Mortar 

Board will be in the processional 

and recessional. 

Qlee Club Will 

Offer"Mikado" 

{Continued from page 1, col. 4) 
resolves to kill himself. At this 
point the Mikado tells Ko-Ko that 
if he does not execute someone 
within the month, he must cut off 
his own head. Nanki-Pooh, who 
has disguised himself, consents to 
be executed, provided that he can 
marry Yum-Yum a month before¬ 
hand. Ko-Ko agrees. Then the 
situation is complicated further by 
the discovery of a law which pro¬ 
vides that if a man is beheaded his 
wife must be buried alive. This 
tangled state of affairs is hilarious¬ 
ly straightened out in the best 
Gilbert and Sullivan manner, dur¬ 
ing the second act. 
The operetta is to be directed by 
Mr. Lewis Johnson and accompan¬ 
ied by Mr. C. W. Dieckmann. 

Serologic tests for venereal dis¬ 
ease were recommended for new 
students at universities by Dr. 

R. A. Vanderlehr of the Public 
Health Service. Discovery of the 
diseases would not be a basis of re¬ 
fusing admission to a student. 
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THE AGONISTIC 

Sporting 

When exams begin you ought to 
be healthier than usual—simply 
because of A. A.'s colossal health 
program. We're not sure of all the 
plans yet, of course, but as far as 
we can tell there will be number¬ 
less prizes,"' each offered in differ¬ 
ent fields. For example, for in¬ 
stance take for example the con¬ 
test for water drinking, for exam¬ 
ple. The girl who drinks the larg 
est number of glasses (filled with 
H2O!) will rate some appropriate¬ 
ly fetching prize. We hope your 
ambitions along this line will not 
be quenched. A "glass of water" 
has its equivalent in twenty swal¬ 

lows from the nearest fountain— 

so you see it's not such a flood to 

have to drink for health's sake. 

You should take at least one eighth 

before breaking fast. 

And then there's the prize for 
you who sleeps the most, not to 
mention the one for swimming the 
greatest distance. The contest for 
walking the greatest distance is 
probably the most exciting. The 
gym department is planning to 
measure the exact distances be¬ 
tween various popular points on 
the campus and near the campus. 

From all indications we gather 
that exam days ought to be fun, 
n'est-ce pas? Every day there will 
be recreational facilities available 
in the gym—shuffle board, ring 
tennis and badminton. Of course, 
there's always the ping-pong court 
in M. C. building, and we'll ask 
Mutt if she'll sort of—well, show 
you how to play. Y'know—she's 
considered an ex--pert (but perhaps 
her comeback will come back with 
the ping-pong tourney in the off


■ng)


During exam week one or two 
of the nights will be scheduled for 
dancing in M. C., too, with A. A. 
in charge. And then one of those 
days there'll be a Big Apple class 

(remember the famous truckin' 
class Miss Dozier taught us back in 
1936?). 

Last Saturday the A. S. C. cam¬ 
pus was visited by about twenty 
coeds from "G-e-o-r-g-i-a." Hot¬ 
tentots and coeds divided into three 
teams and staged a brief tourna¬ 
ment on the hockey field just be¬ 
fore lunch. Members of the board 
and faculty escorted ^this gay 
bunch to lunch late in Rebekah. 
Their long navy gym "costumes" 
and their new brown hockey 
sticks impressed us most, not to 
mention their hockey. 

And last Wednesday the tennis 

doubles championship went to two 

hard-playing sophomores, Mary 

Nell Taylor and Ellen Stuart, who 

battled Roberta Ingles and Ann 

Fisher and a bitter breeze. The 

match was played at three with 

the sunshine fading and the 

"breeze" rising, and considering 

the weather, was very well attend¬ 

ed. Numerous blankets were there, 

and if you watched closely you 

could just tell people were under 

'em—they sometimes moved. But 

the artists on the court didn't 

wear blankets. We figured they 

were awfully cold, 'til we saw 

Taylor take her sweat shirt off. 

Out there in all that gale, too. 

* Four, to be more precise. 
Pig'n Whistle* 
TWO LOCATIONS j| 

Health Campaign 

Qets Underway 

Frances Robinson, Chairman, 
Appoints Managers 

For the exam week health cam¬ 
paign the managers for the dormi¬ 
tory wings and cottages have re¬ 
ceived appointment by Frances 
Robinson, chairman. They are as 
follows: Giddy Erwin and Jane 
Jones for second and third floors 
of Rebekah respectively; Anne 
Enloe and V. J. Watkins, second 
and third floors Main; Ann Henry, 
Mary Brainard Bell, and Nellie 
Richardson, first, second, and 
third floors Inman; Freck Sproles, 
Boyd; Polly Ware, Gaines; and 
Martha Zellner, White House. 
These girls will be in charge of the 
charts on each floor. 

Scientific Club 

Initiates Eight 

Chi Beta Phi Sigma, national 
honorary undergraduate scientific 
sorority, initiated eight new 
members at its last meeting; Katherine 
Brittingham, Jean Codding, 
Helen Friedlander, Emily Harris, 
Cora Kay Hutchins, Phyliss John¬ 
son, Frances Robinson and Mary 
Ellen Whetsell. Elizabeth Skinner 
was in charge of the initiation. 

After a business session, during 
which the date of meeting was 
changed from the first Monday to 
the first Tuesday of each month, 
refreshments were served. 

Teachers Entertain 

Episcopalian Students 

The Episcopalian members of 
the Faculty entertained the 41 
Agnes Scott students who belong 
to Episcopal churches at a tea on 
November 10 at the Anna Young 
Alumnae House. The guests of 
honor were Bishop and Mrs. Mi-
Kell and Mr. and Mrs. Holden. 

Freshmen Give 

Program for 

County Poor 

Thanksgiving Project Of 
Bible Class Includes 
Gifts Of Food 

The Freshman Bible Class of 
Agnes Scott College made visits to 
the County Homes for the Poor on 
Sunday afternoon, November 21. 
In observance of the Thanksgiving 
season, the class carried baskets of 
food to the inmates of both the 
white and negro institutions. The 
class members held a Thanksgiv¬ 
ing service at the County Home 
for white people and later met 
with the negroes for hymns and 
prayers. 

In addition to the food offer¬ 

ings, every member of both homes 

received a gift which was provided 

for by the contributions of the 
class during this quarter. 

The arrangements of the 
Thanksgiving project were in 
charge of Grace Walker and Mary 
Scott Wilds. Dr. McCain is the 
class teacher. 

Outing Club Has 

Alabama Jaunt 

Talladega, Alabama, was the des¬ 
tination of the Outing Club re¬ 
cently when four faculty mem¬ 
bers and six students drove over on 
Saturday afternoon to enjoy hiking 
and camping. Miss Wilburn, ad¬ 
visor for the club, and Misses 
Mitchell, McCalla and Blanche 
Miller, accompanied Adelaide Ben¬ 
son, Lucy Hill Doty, Jeanne Mat¬ 
thews, Ursula Mayer, Virginia Suttenfield 
and Mary Frances Thomp


n. 
On Saturday night the group 
hiked up a mountain, and Sunday, 
another hike led them to a C. C. C. 
camp. They returned home Sun¬ 
day night, after a strenuous but 
successful trip. 

[ease 

Mangels, 

If you want to be sure of a bid to all the Fall 
games, then, the first thing that you'll want 
to pick up at MANGEL'S is a little cloth or 
knitted dress. Not too severe so that it looks 
like the class room but made with classic 
simplicity so that you can let yourself go 
with gay accessories and frivolous scarfs. 

These same dresses worn at once will make 
excellent first impressions. They major in 
the princess silhouette which minimizes 
waistlines and makes a maximum of your 
figure. It's as much fun picking out the 
ones that just suit you at MANGEL'S as 
wearing them later at "rush teas" or games. 

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ATLANTA, GA. 

Outing Club Will Sophomores Win 

Complete Stove Swimming Meet 

Club To Use New Outdoor 

At the season's second swim¬

Stove For Cook-Out Hike 

ming meet this year, held last 

Martha Long, of the Outing Monday night at 8:30, the sopho¬ 
Club and in charge of building more class won first place with a 
the new outdoor stove on the A. S. total of 27 points. The seniors ran 
camp site, has reported that the second with 18 points; the fresh¬ 

stove is almost completed. Mem¬ men, third with 11 points; and 
bers of the club are doing the work the juniors, fourth, with 5 points. 
themselves in free afternoon time. In the five separate events, the 
The plan of the wood and gravel sophs took first place in the 40structure 
is borrowed from a yard dash free style; the seniors 
Rhode Island Girl Scout Camp at took first place in the 20-yard 
which the stove proved very effi¬ dash, back crawl, and in the tan¬ 
cient and successful this past sum¬ dems for form (by Thompson and 
mer. The project, entirely free Brown); and the freshmen took 
from pecuniary costs whatsoever, first honors in the 20-yard dash, 

should be finished by the time the 

breast, and also in the diving event,

club has completed its plans for 

with Burks scoring highest.

the first cook-out hike, sometime 

The swimming club demonstrat¬

within the month of November. 
ed formation swimming, all of 

which was greatly enjoyed by the

Debating Club 

full gallery. The last event was a 

Initiates Two "king pigeon" contest, in which 

all the swimmers joined. 

Pi Alpha Phi, debating club, Miss Wilburn, Miss Mitchell and 
initiated Jane Witman and Hazel Miss B. Miller acted as judges. 
Hirsch at its meeting on Thursday, Miss Haynes was clerk of course; 

October 2 8, in the Murphey Cand-Miss Gaylord, and Ola Kelley were 

ler building. While impersonating score recorders, Lettie McKay was 
teachers, the two new members announcer, Alice Cheeseman was 
conducted an open forum on the runner. 
question of: "How Is More Where¬ The swimming department was 

fore Than Why, and If So, Why very pleased with the swimming 
Not?" Several of the old club exhibited in this excellent meet. 
members were called upon also to The performers show evidence of 
give points and impersonations. good strong swimmers for next 
Refreshments and a social hour spring's athletic innovation at 
completed the evening. A. S. C.: Water Polo. 

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