Montreat Anderson College - Agape / Sundial Yearbook (Montreat, NC)

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Page Two THE S U N DIAL Montreat College THE SUN DIAL THE EXECUTIVE STAFF Editor-in-Chief ........................... Sara Kn’OX Faculty Advisor .................... Margaret Wade Literary Editor .................... Margaret Botts Social Editor ...................... Pauline RlBELIN Sports Editor.......................Florence Wardrep Joke Editor Connie Perry Exchange Editor..................... Edna McMillan Alumnae Editor ...................... Rt'TH BRANCH Music Editor........................Kate McChesney Business Manager .....................Helen Turner Assistant Business Manager ......... Grace Flieoner REPORTOR1AL STAFF Freshman High ........................ Mary Bauman Sophomore High..........................Carolyn Frame Junior High ............................. BETTY AVENT Senior High ........................ MARLISE TORRAN B Junior College ..................... Estelle IsENHOUR Helen McCain Senior College................................... Anna Hastings Typists Frances Bowen Ella Wilson McCreight Laura Mae Mincey Ntlle Jackson THE QUESTION OF STUDENT GOVERNMENT Whether we like it or not. the modern institutions of educa- tion regard exclusive faculty government as an archaic practice and are rapidly modifying its use. The aim of the educational system of today is to train young people into men and women who can take their places as citizens of the social, political, and economic world Education must train one to make wise, in- telligent decisions. Therefore, student government is the pre- valent form of government in colleges, and is developing a spirit of citizenship in the students as they exercise the duties of citizens in the school government. The success of student government depends upon every indi- vidual. since each participant must realize his responsibility in abiding by all of the laws for the protection of the group. The students must not consider the student council a “spy system,” but a group of people who are representatives of the student body and are advised by a faculty whose experience helps in making judicious decisions. Let it. then, be impressed upon our minds that we do not have council government, nor faculty government, but student-faculty government, the suc- cess of which depends upon our attitude toward, our coopera- tion with, and participation in its administration. There arc always two groups of people in any organization— leaders and followers. All of us cannot be leaders, and we should accept the fact as a natural conclusion. However, wt can contribute a great deal to our own and group happiness bv accepting our position of loyal and intelligent followers. As followers we have an important duty, which now confronts us. Upon us rests the responsibility of selecting our student lead- ers for next year. As election time approaches, let us cast aside all biased opinions, prejudices, and dislikes. The matter of selecting council members must be devoid of all personal feelings. Should we. for instance, elect a girl just because she is popular, pretty and well-dressed? These things should be counted as mere triHes. while her leadership qualifications arc considered. A council member should be. primarily, a representative of the students. She should be a girl who is above reproach, and who will speak frankly concerning student welfare from a student's point of view. Her ideals should be uplifting and steady. She must be one who will stand determined in what she frankly believes is right until she is shown wherein she is wrong If wrong, she will always admit her mistake. A council member, since she is in such close contact with the students, has many occasions to reprimand them because of some offense. When such times arise, her reproof must always be administered tactfully. Never should a council member enjoy her authority to the point of letting it become arrogant and dictatorial, because such action merely causes resentment on the part of the students. To the student council are submitted the expressions of all student needs, demands, and requests. Together with the faculty, council members decide upon meas- ures to be taken. The girls we select, then, must be ones who;e decisions we are willing to accept as best for our welfare. Only a few prerequisites of the excellent council members have been mentioned, but even these should furnish us some incen- tive to make a careful consideration of the nominees lor next year’s council. After all, girls, we as citizens of Montreat College, are responsible for the kind of government she has. because we are the ones who select the officers. We must make our choices wisely, since if they fail and prove unworthy of the trust put in them, we have none to blame but ourselves. I et us prove ourselves intelligent citizens and select council mem- bers who will organize a government which we shall love to support. --------------o--------------- HONOR ROLL FIRST SEMESTER Those students whose semester average on each subject is not below 90%. make up the honor roll. In the College department the distinguished ones are: Caro- lyn Allan, Margaret Botts. Blanche Hall. Anna Hastings. Sally Knox. Betsy Miller. Lanie Miller, Pauline Rihelin. Eva Sad- ler. Anne Sherrill, Helen Turner, Shirley Turner. Myrtle Wallace, Florence Wardrep. Irene Wright, Man Louise Wicker. In the High School: Isbell Ager, Thelma Bardwell. Bettie Kiser. Edward Maxwell. Louise Maxwell. Marlisc Torrance. RESULT OF POLL The results of the recent poll are listed below. Ties and narrow majorities are indicated: Question Answer 1 Favorite orchestra?—Guy Lombardo. 2. Preference: Blonde or brunette boys?—Brunette. 3. Favorite movie star?—Clark Gable. 4. Favorite boys’ college?—(1) Davidson; (2) Clemson. 5. Intend to marry?—Yes. 6. Profession preferred?—(1) Teaching; (2) Business. 7. Favorite pastime?—Reading. 8. Highest ambition?—Marry and have a happy home. 9 Preference: Faculty or student government?—Tic. 10. Favorite type of music?—(1) Jazz; (2) Popular. Clemson was only six votes behind Davidson, while those who intend to teach outnumbered those who intend to enter business by only nine votes. There were exactly as many votes for student government as for faculty government. Only nine- teen girls do not intend to marry. Thirty-seven prefer jazz, while twenty prefer popular music which is not necessarily jazz.

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3)1 AL Published by the students of Montreat College Volume IX MONTREAT. N. C.. MARCH. 1935 Number Montreat College Dormitory The Junior College Note: The following is part of an article by Dr. Frank I Howard Richardson, published in The As fieri If Citizen: The Montreat Junior College, whose line new administra- tion building was recently begun, is definitely in keeping with the new educational trend in stressing the junior college as its main contribution to the constituency that has supported it in the past. The junior college movement has been steadily gaining in strength, popularity, and recognition by educators since its in- ception. sometime around the change of the century. President Harper, the predecessor of President Hutchins of the Univer- sity of Chicago, is known as the founder of this significant new factor in the preparation of young people for life; and in the third of a century that it has been demonstrating its reason for being, it has gained many enthusiastic supporters among the senior college authorities, John Hopkins University being among the strongest advocates of the new step in the educational (system. Parents and girls who are facing the question of making » choice at the end of the four years of high school, should arefully consider the advantages that a standardized junior College, like the new and enlarged Montreat, offers them as compared with the old-time four-year senior college. Much is of course to be said for having the four years of college all cn the same campus; but the other side of the story, what the girl gets who elects to take the first two (freshman and sophomore) years at Montreat Junior College, well deserves a careful and judicial hearing. In the first place the classes are distinctly smaller at Mon- treat than at the average senior college. 30 being the maximum as compared with an average of 60 in the larger institutions. This means of course that every girl gets a degree of individual attention that is manifestly impossible in the mass production necessary in handling larger groups. Then. too. Montreat will never be allowed to grow numer- ically beyond the point at which it is no longer possible for any student not to be personally known by every instructor. Turning to the student and away from the faculty, we notice a maturing of the junior college student during the two years she is in attendance that is not all paralleled by the fresh- man and sophomore in the senior college or university. Re- sponsibility must be taken quickly in the junior college; for there is not time to await the slow evolution of four years in (Continued on Page 8)

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Montreat College T H E S U N DIAL Page Three NEWS FROM THE SOCIETIES AND CLUBS THE PHILALETHIA LITERARY SOCIE'IT The new Philalethian officers are: president, Inez Tucker; vice president, Charlotte Browder; secretary. Opal Daniel. The Tritonians were guests of the Philalethians at their last meeting. THE DELTA BETA SOCIETY The Delta Betas have elected the following officers: presi- dent, Betty Kiser; vice president. Marlisc Torrance; secretary. Janet Steele. On January 19th the Delta Betas entertained the college literary societies and the faculty at a mock faculty meeting. Believe it or not. but Marlisc Torrance was plenty good as Dean Spencer and led the discussion. If you didn’t see Betty Brown as Mrs. Riley, you missed a good portrayal. Come to think of it. Annette Baker can be quite dignified as Miss Dog- gett. The Delta Betas really gave the faculty a chance to sec themselves as others see them. Note: The staff of The Sun Dial wish to apologize to the Delta Beta society for an article printed in the last issue of the paper. “The Hall of Fame was unofficial, and would not have been printed if the staff had known that the members of the so-called Hall of Fame had not been duly elected by the society as a whole. THE TRITONIA LITERARY SOCIETY Tile newly elected officers of the Tritonia Literary Society are: President, Margaret Gallant; vice president. Anna Hast- ings; secretary, Mary Stowe. YOI NC PEOPLE’S ORGANIZATION Last fall Dr. Sam Glasglow. a friend of Montreal College, and one who is very interested in Young People’s work, offered four copies of his book. “My To-morrow’s Self. to the senior who made the highest average in Bible and to the three juniors who read the greatest number of chapters in the Bible. At a recent meeting of the Young People. Dr Caldwell, pastor of the Montreat Church, presented these books to the I following: Betsy Miller, the senior who ranked highest in her Bible class; Mary Bedinger, Laurie Reynolds, and Sadie H. Woodruff, the three juniors who read the greatest number of chapters in their Bibles during last semester. -----------o----------- ALUMNA VISITS MONTREAT ENROL TE TO MISSION FIELDS Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Stauffacher. outgoing missionarif I to African Inland Mission addressed the student body and town people at the Wednesday evening prayer service. March 6. The enthusiasm of these two young people was contagious as they told of their desire to give the story of “salvation through ! faith to those who had never heard. Mrs. Stauffacher, a former student of .Montreat College, is j sister of our incoming student body president. Peggy Sloop. After leaving Montreat. Mrs. Stauffacher graduated from Co 1 umbia Bible College and from a nurses’ training school in Baltimore. OLD SHOES Old shoes are not worth considering. So some people dis- card them without giving them a second thought. On the other hand, 1 find old shoes extremely interesting. After studying them carefully. I obtain valuable information concern- ing the character of the person who wears them. To a certain degree, the posture and the way a person walks can be de- termined by the way an old shoe is worn. If a person carries himself with dignity and poise, his old shoes will be worn evenly, but if he walks in a careless, unattractive way. his shoes be worn down unevenly. If the shoes still shine in spite of old age. one would be rather accurate in thinking that their owner was one who possessed personal pride. In some cases, broken shoe laces indicate impatience on the part of their owner. When one sees a person wearing old shoes with neatly tied laces, one can almost always be certain that here is a per- son who is not more careful in larger things than just small shoe laces. The happy, and unhappy expressions on some people’s faces are most likely due to the kind of shoes they wear. When a person is wearing old shoes, not really old. but shoes which have been worn about two months, his expression will be, more or less, satisfied and happy, but if one is wearing brand” new shoes, that person’s expression will not be so happy or satisfied. I know this to be practically true from my own experience and from my observations of the expressions on other people’s faces. One day 1 was sitting in a restaurant, idly watching the various types of people who came in. while waiting for my lunch to Ik served. 1 was near the door, which was much to mv advantage, for I could easily see all the people who came in. First, was a middle-aged woman, or so I judged her to he. She was stylishly dressed, with her hair beautifully mar- celled. She walked with a very slight limp, which I would not have noticed had I not been so closely observing her. I glanced quickly down to her smartly shod feet. Her shoes looked as if she had just come from the shoe shop; they were so shiny and tight looking, it was no wonder she limped. If I wore the kind of shoes she did I’d probably hobble around—not just limp. In a few seconds a young couple came in. They looked and talked as if th y had just been married, and they seemed to be so happy. I instantly glanced down at their feet. Both had on nice-looking shoes. They were not old shoes, but they had comfortable looking wrinkles in them. They can afford to give their thoughts to things which are pleasant, because they never have to bother or worry about pinched, hurting, cramped feet. Just about this time, my lunch was served, so I had to put away my observations for a time. When 1 go to classes I. as well as my fellow students. look quickly at the teacher to see if she is in a good humor. If she isn’t, I take a look at her feet—to see what kind of shoes she is wearing. If her shoes arc new and tight, she is pretty apt to be cross, but if her shoes are worn and comfortable, she will laugh and joke with the students. I have found this true in most cases. In all my observations, I have found old shoes a very interesting subject. —II. Branch.