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THE TWIG 3 ^ STUDENT OPINION J "Shall our societies mcot every week or every two weeks?” Is one of the questions which has lately disturbed our peaceful campus. Although It has been decided to meet every two weeks, that is, twice instead of four times each moQth, there are a few aniong us who still aeem to bo wondering why. When we try to Had tho reason for these queries, we find a rather good one. Many of ub feel that the societies give us our broadest opportunity of learning "to do things,” by which we mean the ability to express ourselves among others, besides numerous other unclassified things, which we get to only a limited extent elsewhere. Then they ask, Should the number of meet ings be made less? In reply, others argue that the meetings can never be the best possible, when there is only a week between to plan and prepare the program, and, too, there are a few, in fact, a very few, wlio are not able to be rightly interested when going every week. But however any one of us feels about the matter, now that the change has been made, we are all ready to co-operate and help make our particu* lav society the very best. We realize the important influenee the societies have on our college life, the good they can give us, and now let’s “plunge in” and enjoy all they can mean to us. T. Tolar: ‘‘Oh, Fanny, have you seen the new Technician?” B. Stokes: “Well, who Is he?” THE LATIN TKIAXiJLE When love begins in a Latin class Just throe rows back from front. If all should play, the more fools we Sumus, estes, sunt. I love you, Jean, as you love me And we both love Jack a lot. Which isn’t just as it should be— Amo, amas, amat. That three should love each other so Cannot be right. Ah me! His heart must wander to and fro— Veni, vecU, vlci, 'ITie whole world looks and tongues must wag I fear me quite a bit. 'TIs this I know, we'll sorry be— Ero, erls, erit. When love begins in a Latin class With tiiree hearts in the pot, The stakes are high and all must pass— Amo. amas, amat. —Wru, S. Denham. Misses Esther Martin und Chellie Mae Royal, of Benson, spent the week end at Meredith with Blanche Martin. Mrs. Tucker, of Greenville, and Mrs. Baines, of Spring Hope, were here Sunday afternoon to see their daugh ters, Margaret Cone Tucker and Cath erine Baines. .^rUKPER ESCAl'KS; f^LAUGHTEUS SPEECH Spoken English is so bodly "mur dered,’' and yet the slang and incor rect speech criminals are evident every moment in the day. Who will arrest these? The following item from the Bethel Collegian strikes the keynote of Mere dith’s “Better Speech Club." Judging from the speech of both academy and- college men, we feel that it might be well for them to read the following sentences a few times. "It is I,” not "It's me.” "It Is he," not “It’s him.” "Whom did you say?" not "Who did you say?” "It is some one's else,” not "It’s someone else’s." "The man who came,” not "The man which came.” “Has the bell rung?" not “Has the bell rang?” "The bell rang,” not "The bell rung.” “It looks as though it will.” not "It looks like it will.” “I have ridden,” not “I have rode,” "I believe I shall," not "I think I will.” "I have it,” not ‘‘I’ve got it." “This Is the better of the two,*' not "This Is the best of the two." "He doesn’t” not "He don’t.” Of course you know all this, but why is it then you do not make use of your knowledge? We intend to publish from time to time little lists like the one above. Perhaps they will serve as gentle re minders to you. Let us Introduce bet ter English in the school. Other colleges and schools, too, seem to be awakening to this undeniable but preventive accusation. Tliyh Life says that better speech is their aim for this year. The following list was given the editor as suggested for better speech: “I saw; I did: He doesn’t Be tween you and me; He and I are here; It is I; The bell has rung; About him and mo; I drank the milk. I lay down yesterday; I heard of his going; None of the girls is going; I am as tall as he; He does his work well; Do as I do; This kind; that kind; This book is different from that; It seems as If you are right; Several of us boys and girls.” It has been suggested that we have an Index Expurgatorius which will include not only incorrect sentences, but glaring errors in words. Next week flif/h Life will have a suggested list for this Index. The collection of German marks as a hobby is another form of zero wor ship.—Life. Oh what a tangled web we weave When first we practice to deceive, But when we’ve practiced it a bit Wo make a better Job of it!—Judge. Movie Vamp: "Haven’t you a tighter gown than this?” Tired Wardrobe Manager: “No madam, I’m a costumer, not a taxi dermist.—Ex. * Conductor: “Change for Marietta! Change for Marietta!” Hick Passenger: “Don’t know who the girl la, hut I’ll chip in a dime."— Ex. WAKE FOKESr1 That "a woman always has the last word in an argument,” Is supposed to be a proverbial truth, but we young ladies of Meredith are beginning to wonder. Just as we emerge from the dizzy whirl of discussion and contro versy as to the appropriate location of our new Meredith, and begin to truly think that there is, or soon will be. a "method" after all, in our madness. Dr. Paschal’s campaign for the re moval of Meredith to Wake Forest throws ua back again into fiery dis cussion with cannon-like rapidity. We sincerely appreciate the voiced de sires of the Wake Forest students for our presence upon the northern end of their campus, but could our Alma Matpr voice her sentiments in the diction of her modern child’, we think she’d express it w’ith “I’m not that kind of a girl. Give me city life or none!” It’s all very well for the masculine population of Wake Forest—both civic and collegiate—to picture, in eloquent phrases the social and practical ad vantages Meredith would receive by her removal to their town, but it takes people who have gone to a girls' school to understand and fully appreciate the fact that these suggestions are merely hypotheses—and, sad but true, to realize that they would be most likely to remain so. Wake Forest men are able to spend week-ends in Raleigh as frequently as they find it convenient, but imagine the Meredith which would include such a course in its handbook of rules and regulations! Of course, we’d probably be allowed to shop on certain few and far between days in Raleigh, but the additional expense, inconvenience, and dissatisfaction of such a course evidently has not oc curred to the sympathizers of this plan. Couli we flock over here nearly CH mufi.Hr merely because Kreisler was to play or Sehuman Heink was to sing? Imagine the congestion, the necessary chaperons, the increased expense, and the confusion it would involve. How infinitely easier It Is to choo.se our new clothes or go to see our favorite screen star any afternoon wo fancy instead of that which the "heads that be” decrees. Too, if it is true, as one oi; the fourteen articles state, that the proffered site will be within "easy reach of Raleigh, not more than a thirty-minute run, and practically as near the city as the site at Method,’’ then why do not the socially inclined of Wake Forest have practically the same advantages as those afforded the man of North Carolina State? ‘'Where McCARRON FLOWER SHOP 130 Fayetteville Street FLOWERS FOR ALL OCCASIONS Flovxr Phone 307 Correct Apparel for Women snd 10% Discount In CoUcrje Studeids Meredith College yor Youns ff^otnen Admits only those who have had four years of work in an accredited Higli School Facilities Excellent CHARGES MODERATE For ir^omation or Catalogue write CHAS. E. BREWER President EFIRD’S ■ Carolina’s Largest Chain of One-Priced Department Stores We Appreciate Your P&ijonoge We iScIl it for Less Edwards & Broughton Printing Company PRINTERS, PUBLISHERS SOCIAL STATIONERS STEEL DIE AND COPPER PLATE ENCRA^ERS there’s a will there’s a way," Is another tested suying, and determination isn’t yet a thing of tlie pnst. As to the comparative beauty of the two sites, the one at Method oilers the lovely surrounding country, the possibilities of a beautlfnl lake, the adjacent hard surface road, plus a natural ampitheator, excellent for out door plays, a car line within ten min utes of Fayetteville Street, and more space than a true Meredith girl will ever know what to do with, anyway. We like Wake Forest men—we truly do, bnt we think we'll continue to like them more if we can do so across the space that intervenes be tween their campus at Wake Forest and ours at the Tucker site. "Say, pa.” "Well, my son." "I took a walk through tho cemetery today and read the inscriptions on the tombstones." •‘Well, what about It?” "Where are all the wicked people buried?”—Ex.
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