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THE TWIG 3 ^tubent SUCCKSS KOASTEUS Success Is great. The ideal of each Meredith student is succcss, we are Quite sure, 13ut, what kiud ot succcss? Well, judging from our couversatlouB, I fear an outsider would tliluk that our nnibltiou was nothing hi^^hev thnn a date. “Who have you got a date w.’tU Saturday night?” “Is he cute?” “Where 1b he from?” "Oh please do get him to bring along a fellow for me.” These exclamations are heard in the library, on the halls, at the tabled and even In the class-room. Now, sirla, everytjody is not inter ested in your date. If he be not cuto to me, what cave I how "cute" he be? So please let’s be timid, yes, timid ahoul our love affairs, and at least let the freshmen think that we as upper classmen have an ideal higher than a Saturday night dato. I’lIJi ALMA JlATEJt Just what do wg do at Meredith that gives you the greatest thrill? I can tell yon somothinpt that never fails to give me a thrill and that is hearing the student body sing “Alma Mater.” But, do you know it gives nio n queer feeling to sec any number of glrlB reach for a iioiig book to turn to 5)35 when Dr, Brewuv aunoiintos 'that we will sing our college song. I wonder whiit visitors think, lint asidu from wbat they ihink, aren't you ashamed for even the girl who is slt- Ung next to you, to know that you do not know the words to yuur own rollege song? Even Freshmen are not to be oxciised for this, for the training fliissQS at the first of the year gave tbnni a chance to learn it. It seems to mo unpardonable in an upper claaanian for her not to have had pride enough to have somehow ac-tiiiired the wonis to “Alma Mater" durinj; the lime siio has i)een at Meredith. There Is patriotism and paLriotism, as well as different phases of college •spirit, but the kind of spirit we want at Meredith is the kind tbai i-aii sing "Ainia Mater" without a sign of a song book in sight, and get a thvi’l from every stanza, Homember to learn the words at onro if you don’t know them, and don't over be guilty again of using a song book to sing our beautiful ‘‘Alma Mater!” this were practised so many things would not be unretraceably lost. They may be little things, but after all they are not yours and each one of us has lived long enough to learn tiuit little things arc important. In some cases borrowing is nearly necessary, but In many more cases it is uunecesaary. Many mothers do not approve of their daughters borrowing and loaning their clothes. This un necessary liabfl Is not always sanitary, and is even forbidden In many places. You wouldn’t dare walk in a gir.'s room and borrow something without her knowing it. would yon? Such things as this happen, regardless of the Inconvenience thus Involved. In ninety per cent, of eases of borrowing. It is simply the result of a terrible habit formed. You got ready to clreas and decide that nothing you have suits you. Conseciuently you go borroAv a friend’s dress or hat. Because it works one time you try it another time, and another. And thus unconsciously this popular habit is formed. )> HORKOWIXi “Neither a borrower or a lender be. For a loan oft loseth both itself and friend.” Shakespeare, In hia infinite wisdom, must have had a vision of Meredith College with Its nunierous borrow ings and loans. And wo all know that It is very seldom that borrowing ac complishes any good. Moreover, if bor rowing ever does do any good, It over balances the evil done by such a dread ful liablt lieing formed. One of th5 rcaulLs of borrowing is that the thing borrowed is not always returned Of course you would not dare borrow a girl’s dresB and keep It, but I am re ferring to smaller iirti:luK Kuoh as glasses, and can-openers for instance. In some cases It Is ahsolutely Impos sible to keep a hammer or some sira- Har article. We mean no harm by doing so but it is simply due to our t’areioHsnesa and lack of thought. When we got Lhrough wllh the artlc'.o borrowed we say, “I'll take tlial ham mer back to ^lary. tonun-row,” W(; all know that Mary, In many instanceH nc'ver sees her hammer again, l)ecnnse there are so many things to elnim cinr thoughts, that wo forget. It would be nnudi hotter to tako lime to return the liammer, or whatever It happens to ho the instant wo get through using it. If OX T« SOCIKTY Did you go to Society last Saturday night? It was the llrst regular meet ing, and did yun enjoy it? Clir.s, let's make onr Society mean more. What we get from it will be only according to what we pul In It. As the roll was called last time there were so very many with no response. Was your’s one? If so, you missed a treat. Onr society programs are planned with a great deal of time and thought on the part of some one, and It help.s llial '"aoniBone'’ 'so much to Ree that her labors arc appreciated. So let’s aid the president and program committee by oxir presence and help when we are needed. Then the help that we give will not be all llie helping done. We shall be benoftfed onrsolves. We want to make our society one of the most vital parts nf our college life. Wc want to make It live! We want the aim of the society, namely, to de velop the mind along the line of clear and tiuick thinking, along the literary lino, and other arts to be realized. College iSelnS Annabel Abbott, Mary Allisnn, Eliza beth Purnell and Katherine Cooke spent the w’eek end in Franklluton. lUith Leary spent Sunday out in town. Mamie Howard was in Smithfleld Sunday. Amanda and Marlon Allen were the week end gues’ts of Mr. and Mrs, D. F. Foot or Wake Forest. Oeraldine Gower, Helen Atkinson Linda Hassell and Mildred Poole spent Sunday in Clayton. Violette Goodwin was at home for the past week end In Washington, N. C. M;ss Helen Anderson and Virginia Htlghly from N. C, C. W. visited Mere dith lajst week end In the interest of tile SUident Friendship Fund. Dot MclJrayer and Frances Cherry spent Sunday in Raleigh, the guests of Miss Mary Biggs. Mrs, J. M. Butler of St, Pauls spent the week end with her daughter Grayce. Ola Gibbs, Elsie Shipp, Sara Lee Taylor and Mary- Wray spent Sunday in Durham. Mary Sue Pruette and Virdell Mathews spent the week enil with Mrs, E. A. Williamson at her home on Club Boulevard in Durham. Mary Moss was in YonnggvlUe last Sunday. Iona Daniel and Ruth Currin spent Sa’turday and Sunday in Heuderaon. Mary Currin, Kathleen Holland, Lui'y Tayior and Sallie Poele were in Dunn last week end. I’anline Patton, Prances White and Rachel Wilkinson spent Sunday with Miss Dorothy V'iuin in Haleigh Lena Mae Williams was at home hi Chapel flill Sunday, I’earle Rrewer and Naomi Wilson spent the week end iu Holly Springs, Charles E. "Wlilttle, President of Og den College in Kentucky, is but 23 years of age. The “boy president" was 13 years old before he saw a railroad, and at 19 was graduated from Yale. Talk about alumni loyalty, hero’s a case that merits attention, A member of the class of 1650 recontly estab lished a Bcholarship at Harvard. He was William Stoughton, who died 223 years ago and left the school some land. Irregularities in management have delayed tho scholarship fund from the income until last year. Trust the college student to set tho pace. Michigan Aggies a year ago ceased branding calves. They run an Ink-roller over the calves’ noses and take nose prints. No two prints over are alike. Hazel Baity .ind Kalbcrine Nuoe were in Oxford Sunday, ( I’JML niEMlSTMV ( Ll'll KNTKK- TAINEI) HY LKni'RK (Cnnlinucil p'om vagc t) and the substances that arc colloids, such as starch, glue and gelatine. Graham thinks all chemical reac tions take place in a co'.loldal »oaitiun. Colloids form the fundamental struc ture of plants and animals. Cells, blood serum, sap, the processes of di- ge.stion and the internal secretions are all collrids. Rubber, silk, wool, dextrin and artificial silk are colloids. Colloidal chemistry is the cbcnils- try of finely divided mass, ju^ so it is not a live solution, Cnihjids are very small particles, about 50 mo'ecules. To make a colloidal suluUon mure staple it is necessary to add an L'tnulsifying agent such as soap. Colloidal chemistry is used in moat all phases of life, the astrononicrs nse It to discover what the tails of comets are made of. and the chef uses It In making some of his most tempting dishes. At the conclusion of Mr. Sullivan’s talk delicious ice cream and cake was served. Annie Lou Weeks. Emily Hilliard. Ruth Best, Virginia Byrd. Mary and Maude Bowers, Emily Cheek, Lucille Jones. Lucy Knight, and .Tessamine Oldhatn spen't the week end at their respective homes. Martha Livermon was in Norfolk for, Sunday. Mary Fowell. Josey and Martha Powell spent Sunday with Martha’s aunt in Raleigh. Annie Harris. Novella Kendrick, Alma Kendrick and Catherine Bobbett were in Louisburg for the past week end. Flora Cavenaugh was with Mrs. J. M. Hi'itt in Benson Sunday. Julia Cooke spent the week end at her homo in Stautonsbnrg. A proposal to subscribe $8,000 to erect, a bronzn slatue of a bulldog on the Yale campus, made by Herbert M. Howon. class of '73. former minister to Venezuela, was turned down emphatic ally by 21 out of 25 class secretaries to which the proposal was made. Several Chinese students at Colum bia took advantage of the sudden pop ularity of the game "Mali Jong” and earned more than college expenses by tutoring New York society people in playing the game. A Chinese youth once came all the way from China to enter the Rice In stitute at Houston, Texas. Ho had expectcd to find an agricultural school devoted to the study of rice culture, whereas the institute In reality is a university with $13,000,000 endowment from William Marsh Rice. .J.*,,.—» I EFIRD’S CAROLTNA’Si T AROEST CHAIN OF ONE-PRTCE DEPARTMENT STORES In 1922 the Univei-sity of California, at Berkeley, had 14,367 stndcnts. the largest enrollment of any American school, Tho College of the City of New York was second with 13,744; New York University third with 12,- 254. Highland College, in Highland, Kan sas. with 20 students, had the smallest enrollment In 1932. In tho United States there are CIS universities, collegea and professional schools. Fifty ot them are in Now York State, 4S in Pennsylvania and 40 in Ohio, Texas, the largest State, has 20, WE APPRECIATE YOUR PATRONAGE WE SELL IT FOR LESS Alumnae I3y BtiiKi. Cakkoi.l Sijc;jinia. ’07 At one-thirty on a January Sunday morning, while the live bairns slept, my husband and I tiiiished “If Winter Comes.” Little need for church that day: we bad experienced our Sabbatic exaltation. For days I pondered on the IragedicB of life, the Mabels, the Marks, the compensations of love. HiKh .Hnks aal Low Jinks gossiped in my kltchcn. The billows of a White Goods Sale were about to overwhelm me when Strachey threw me a Victorian Life line. and won my grateful thanks for so timely a rescue from that Lingerie Ocean. Victorian royalty dined with us thrice daily lo the delight of hus band and children who pronounced them really human. Victoria and Al bert abbreviated our menus and service that week, but they were so delighted at our enchantment that none of us noted any culinary deliniiuencles. Our stock ciuestlon: Wbat kind of educallun for these live children? In February we (!/{; of we = husband) read appreciatively Yeoman's "Shackled Youth.” It continues to furnish ma terial for private and public ratioci nation. and inspires me to go on teach ing my children. It also led me back to sojourn In Plato's Republic, I picked up the from porch of baby's book house—Cicero’s Orations, tugged down from the attic. Hands dropped the broom. I sal down for tw'o hours in the Roman Senate, Ciccro rein carnate with Catalliie before me. Which experience sent me next to Racine’s “Athalie" to discover whut French I had forgotten in this decade of house and bnhies. Shnll [ ever fnrgRt thfit wonriftrful March week with "Maria Chapde- liilne?" Such t-ourage seals my soul's Ups against complaint at any of life's wildf rness hardships. Barrie's "Cour age'* strengthened these high resolves. I liungererl for The Everlasting Yea, and through my marked “Sartor Re- sartus" Carlyle thundered again to my depths, T-amh charmed me with two es,says. and Thackery set me to think ing on Snobs. • Came May with—but you have a sample of my reading year, about half and half ancients and moderns with plenty of poetry. We had rare even ings with Epictetus and Marcus Aure lius. Goethe, Wells. Tarklngton, Can field, I)e Morgan. Shakespeare, Ibsen, Rjornson, Ample classic readings with the chlklrcn. Complete reading of CM Testament. Friends ask: How can these things be for one who is^cook. housekeeper, wife, leacher. mother, and takes her part in church and civic life? I reply: Rei-reation stores power; inspiration releaso.s il. Books are my recreation iuul my Inspiration, YOU ARE WELCOME AT ALL TIMES Sample Shoe Store Shoes and Hosiery 218 S. WILMINGTON ST. Shoes of Today with a touch of Tomorrow .\1{.MISTI('I-; l>.SY IMMMJH.V.M Mr.'S- .VT V. w. c. sunvicE (Vnnllnucd froyn page 1) the ensuing months have in store for us. lie that as It may. however, though (lut nafiims war and coaso uol wtrife amou}!- Ibomw'lvos. there Is a ih-iu'C, "nut as ilk' world .uivca il” whldi is swoi't beyond niero words. Ilf at poai'o with ibo Mastin'; be al lu-are with yourself and tho oxtc’rnal bappon- ings are hoistcrons, Ibe hearl is stilled iind lit rohl. The beautiful and soft strains of "My l^i'orr 7 L'a\'c With ’i'tin.” lingered in ihe mind and I'onsclouaness with a swoet lendernesa that will be as an inspiration during the week.
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