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Hollins University Hollins Digital Commons Hollins Student Newspapers Hollins Student Newspapers 12-19-1932 Hollins Student Life (1932 Dec 19) Hollins College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.hollins.edu/newspapers Part of the Higher Education Commons, Journalism Studies Commons, Social History Commons, United States History Commons, and the Women's History Commons Recommended Citation Hollins College, "Hollins Student Life (1932 Dec 19)" (1932). Hollins Student Newspapers. 69. https://digitalcommons.hollins.edu/newspapers/69 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Hollins Student Newspapers at Hollins Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Hollins Student Newspapers by an authorized administrator of Hollins Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. MERRY CHRISTMAS = VOLUME V HOLLINS COLLEGE, DECEMBER 19, 1932, ' HOLLINS: VIRGINIA NUMBER 7 DR. MARION SMITH HOLLINS IS ADMITIED TO THE ·SOUTHERN CURRENT EVENTS TALKS ON LIFE OF ARE DISCUSSED BY SAPPHO OF LESBOS ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES DR. MARY P. SMITH REVIEWS WEIGALL'S NEW FOUR OF ,. OUTSTANDING BOOK IN INTERESTING All Requirements Have Been Met and the College is Given Full NATIONAL EVENTS MANNER Membership Without Reservation CITED BRIEFLY Dr. E. Marion Smith spoke on the D r. Mary Phlegar Smith spoke on life and works of the Greek poetess, current events in Convocation ,Wednesday • Sappho, at Convocation on December 7th. LAST BARRIERS' REMOVED ON TRANSFER IN AUGUST December 14th. She selected as the basis In reviewing Weigall's new book, Sappho of her discussion four topics of general of Lesbos, she said : "It is not a great interest. Having met all the requirements for in favor of Hollins was the number of American Association of University book, but it is a book which is decidedly The first event she discussed was the admission, Hollins College has been given higher degrees taken by students after W omen, neither of which accepts mem readable, and its , author has made at meeting' of the American Federation of full recognition by the Southern Associa graduation here. In the last five years bers not recommended by the Regional least an interesting effort to reconstruct Labor in Cincinnati this month. This tion of Colleges and Secondary Schools eight per cent. of the B. A. graduates Accrediting Association. -", more fully than has yet been done the union, with a membership of 2,500,000, at the annual meeting of the Association have taken higher degrees in leading The Roa,wke Times, in an editorial life of the poetess, using as his sources at present, is considered one of the most in New Orleans. For many years now universities. As early as 1904, a Hollins on December 2<1, greeted the news of the the one hundred and ninety-one extant important and conservative trade unions Hollins has met all the requirements for graduate finished with distinction at Rad admission thus: fragments of her poetry and scattered in this country. The first policy advocated admission except those of ownership and cliffe and, since that year, Hollins gradu "Although a comparatively small Col bits of information gathered from the by the union is compulsory unemployment endowment. On August 1st, of this year, ates in increasing numbers have taken lege, with an avera~e enrollment of about works of her contemporaries and from insurance, the expense of which would these last two barriers were removed by higher degrees in six colleges and four three hundred and fifty, Hollins easily other Greek and Latin writers." rest entirely on the employers. The state a transfer from private to public control teen univerSItIes. In June, 1932, nine ranks among those Southern educational Sappho was born of aristocratic would have entire control of administering with the necessary endowment. Hollins B. A. graduates took higher de institutions for women which have an parents, at Eresos, on the west coast of this fund. This measure was proposed not D. D. Hull, Jr., Chairman of the' grees. Five of these were awarded by enviable prestige and enjoy the favor the Island of Lesbos, about 612 B. C. as a cure for unemployment, but as a Board of Trustees, Dr. Bessie C. Ran Columbia University, one by Radcliffe able regard not only of the public but of War with Athens broke out in 606 and necessary protection for that portion of dolph, of the Florida State College for College, one by George Washington Uni educational authorities who 'are aware after Sappho's father was killed in one the workmen inevitably unemployed. Women and ,Dr. Marguerite c. Hearsey, versity and two by the University of of the increasingly excellent work it is of the first battles, her mother, Kleis, The second policy advocated by the alumna! members of the Board; and Virginia. doing. In our community Hollins is moved with her four children to Mity union was the endorsement of the five-day Estes Cocke; Dea~ of Instruction, rep Membership in the Southern Associa looked upon with pride and affection lene, on the other side of the Mand. It week and six-hour day. Recognition was resented the College at the meetlng_ When tion will place HnJlios. College on the and the news of the distinction whi, I., has was here, in a city larger and more im shown by this measure oi the fact that they had presented the case of Hollins, accredited list of colleges, and will entitle come to it through admission to the portant than Eresos, that the girlhood unemployment was a permanent, not a the Association voted for its' uncondi it to application for membership in the Southern Association of Colleges -and and much of the later life of the poetess temporary problem. It can be seen from tional membership. American Association of Universities and Secondary Schools has created not only were spent. government statistics, said Dr. Smith, that One of the points brought forward its graduates to membership in the interest but marked gratification." Although Sappho was said to have the number of permanently unemployed been small and swarthy, the afterwards is constantly increased, even in normal famous poet, Alkaios, seemed to find Ye Merrie Masquers Music School Gives Riding Recognized by times, by the introduction of machinery. her attractive, for he wrote many poems The understanding on which this proposal to her. It was probably about this time, , Give Christmas Play Christmas Concert Athletic Association was made, however, was that the wage at the age of seventeen, that Sappho scale should remain the same. herself began to write poet.ry. It is also The Bambino of Santa Maria in A ra- The Hollins School of Music presented 'I In February, 1930, riding was first The next subject Dr. Smith discussed probable that the early lyncal works of I' Ch ' t t gl'ven by . coe J a ns mas pagean , was its annual Christmas Concert, Saturday introduced.?n campus.. A few ~ont~s was that of government economy. Hoover Alkalos had theIr mfluence on her. Y M' . M S d December . I e erne asquers, un ay, evening, December 17th. Of great in- later a petItIOn, requestmg recogmtton m has proposed that reductions in budget of At the close of the war Wlt~ Athen~ , 18th, in the Little Theatre. The pageant terest on this program was the Qt,intette the Athletic Association, was hand1!d in the Federal Government should come Sappho, as a .member . of the anstocratlc was base d on an ancIen. t 'cus t om I'n Rome for piano arid strings, written by Mozelle to the Athletic Board, but due to the wish through a reduction of expenses of public party, was tWIce extled ; once to Pyrrha, fl' Chr' t ff ' bef the . 0 aymg a IS mas 0 er1l1g ore Dalton, a member of the Senior Class of the administration, that riding remain works, a cut in the salary of government a town 111 the mIddle of the Island, and B b' ft ' . t thedral . am mo 0 a cer am qUle ca in composition. This was played by the for at least one year, alone, without any employees, and a cut in the expense of the . aga1l1. to SICIly. It was here. that she c ha peI. A peasanthat , a merc n , a peasant Haesche Ensemble Club with the com- affiliation with the Association, the pet i Veteran's Bureau, which would come ' marned Kerkolas, a very nch merchant . ch'ld d th hl·ppers· fAd woman, t ren an 0 er wors poser at the piano. The entire concert tion was withdrawn. The following year about as a result of the limitation of med o n ros. lay their offerings upon the altar. At was as follows: the Riding Club, proper, was organized, ical services in government hospitals for After the death of her husband, at length a little lame boy comes and tells Cantata : Young Lovell's Bride . • Haesche and a Hollins Horse Show Held success- the treatmen t of disabilities received in about the age of twenty-six, she returned to Lesbos. She no~ had a well-estab- of having met a woman whose voice "was Soloists: Marion Hamilton, Eleanor fully in the spring. The sport will now be service. The state governments are also like the flowing of water in a great foun Schaeffer recognized by the Athletic Association faced wi th the problem of finances. Due to lished reputation as a poetess and was tain." Suddenly, as he spoke, the veil and will be incorporated under the ath Chorus : Three Jolly Shepherds. V oynich the heavy drain on their resources reo known for her brilliancy.