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4 THE TWIG JfEUHDri’lI FUOM \m UNTIL 1913 (Continued from page one) ly dignified. I wanted to tell them that wasn’t half as much ftm as the way their predecessors used to do, but I feared they’d look upon me from theiv auperior height and say, "We have evoluted!” I rather think they have grown used to the senior dignity now. for they don’t use the parlors for ciasa meetings so often; and if I weren’t al ways busy when they’re meeting. I think I’d peep, Just to see it they have gotten so they’ll sit cross-legged on Mr. Boomhour’s desk. Things were so happily haphaza' rt those first years. Consider, for in stance, the course of study of one alumna for that first year in tlie llKht ()£ the present arrangement. It would be one course in Academy IV, two in Freshman, one in Junior and one in Senior! I fear our whole Senate would faint if a student were to make a re quest for such a course now. At least. Miss Colton would rock with amuse ment Mr. Boomhour would chucklp, Dr. Vann would look grieved. Miss phelps would exclaim, Mr. Hagedorn would wax facetious and Miss Smith would insist on having the floor. Did I hear some of you asking what the Senate has to do with it? How funny! Why all the faculty don’t meet once a week for a whole evening to “talk about the girls” as they used to do; but the heads of departments meet for an hour and a half once a mouth to consider the business of the institution. And tiiey have voted to call themselves a Senate. See? Happy haphazard times! We didn’t have a Lady Principal who kept onicG hours and refused to see the girls at any other time. In fact, we had no Lady Principal at all; we just got per mission from the matron any time. As things are at present, if one doesn’t see the above named officer at the prescribed time she had almost rather do without a thing than to run the risk of hearing, "You should have come during office hours.” But occasionally some very brave person will put on n bright smile, enter the ofRce with an apology for coming at the wrong time and explain that hers is sut'h an ex ceptional case, etc. If she hears a yes, she probably makes a leap for the door, fearing lost the verdict be changed. Sometimes one only dares send a mos sage by the maid if it is out of oflice hours. How many of yon remember just such e.xperiences? You probuljly wonier now that you could have stood so hiiliingly outside the door, but his- tr.ry repeats itself and girls arc con- tinuiug to do so. Happy hapluiiJard tlme.s! Some times they “happed” the wrong way. I remember having to do down town to nmtch a spool of tliread and stayed five hours bccause all of us had to shop together with a chaperon. And the girl who wanted u paper of pins had to stay as iong as the girl who bouKht two hats, a coat suit and a pair of shoos. J3ucause, forsooth, one couldn’t come home until the chaperon came. We all walked together with a teaohc-r when taking our exercise and we went to church with a teacher and we actually visited with a teacher. Now wo are all honorable men except for a tew benighted delinquents who insist on being late tor chapel and for meals. The President oC the Stu dent Government Association is more of an autliority on college equity and law than is any teacher in the institu tion, and it is into her ear that a transgressor pours out her confession. I think Charles Dudley Warner would have been pleased with the simple life of those early years. How many of you remember the first socloty receptions to the new girls? For re freshments the Astrotektons served scuppernong grapes which one of their members had brought from her father’s vine. The Phllaretians, scorning to be so much of the earth earthy, and lemembering their motto, "High think ing and plain living,” refused to serve anylhing in the way of refreshments, but gave their best program for the en tertainment of the guests. Now, if you gii-ls of that first generation were to appear at Meredith on the evening of a reception, you would see young ladies dressed in their silk evening gowns, high heel pumps, silk stocking^, long kid gloves, and all these things despite admonitions of simple dross for school girls from one who got lu;r training in those dimly distant simple times. Are some of you saying, "Has every thing changed? Are none of the old landmarks left whereby we might recognize the scene of so many of our fcxperieucea?" Oh, yes, Mrs. Norwood still murders sleep with her heels and Gospel Hymns and accuses every girl who begs for her healing ministration of having sat on the ground. Dr. Dixon-Carroll throws back her head, raises her chest and declares that every single solitary girl who wishes to be a healthy animal must drink four gal lons of water a day, take an Ice cold bath every morning and a hot one every night, and forgets whether it i.? tour times or nine times that she has had diphtheria. Miss Young still shakes her forefinger at her classes and feels that she deserves a martyr’s crown when a student confuses chcv(iii.r, eheveux and chapeaux. Miss Poteat still laments the architectural blunders made in building Main Build ing. The psychology classes atili have trains ot thought and apperceptions and psychological moments, though they do noi always recognize them. The English classes still write themes and even rewrite them on occasions Tile girls still go to recitations without knowing anything at all about any thing connected with the lesson—ac cording to their own statements. And Donnis still struts around the premises at the openings as if nothing could go on without him. Now, dear alinnnae, if you would understand all the growth and develop- nienc of your Alma Mater, the admoni tion of one member of the faculty would be. “Read the catalog. Ob serve the classified lists of students, the spacing, the type, the color ot the cover and especially the summaries.” And it is true that if all ot you hud always done this we should have boeu spared the spectacle of two of yiu coming hack that second year ex pecting to graduate in the spring—ex pecting this because you had over looked the fact lliat besides the pre scribed work, you had to do fifteen hours of elective work. But a bettor way is for you to come to the college and see for yourselves. And be sure that although many of the old familiar faces may bo missing there mMU always be a hearty w'elcome from The One W7io lSlayn Ov. MJ.SS MW AT (Contlnui'd from paye one) been so long in growing, and I still keep the keenest Interest in the wel fare of the college. Meredith has cer tainly made remarltable progress in the last few years and has, I am sure, a splendid future before her. My very bost wishes to all of you. Hklen H. Law. wifAT :tri:]{i:i>rni has meant wo.han’s missionary union (Continued from page one) dlth. Meredith College solved the problem of leadership for our Woman’s Missionary Union. Not only today are we receiving the benefits of training our young women in Christian thought and activity, but the College is our hope for future leadership. This brief sketch would be Incom plete without the roll of those who have gone from the College to our foreign mission fields, a roll that is our joy and pride: 1902—Sophie Lanneau, Soochow. China. 1903—Maude Burke (Mrs. C. K. Dozier), Fukuoka, Japan. 1904—Laura Cox, Mexico. 1905—Bell Tyner (Mrs. T. N. John son), Shanghai, China. 1907—Foy Johnson Willingham (Mrs. J. S. Farmer), Japan. 1907—Pearl Johnson. Shanghai, China. 1909—Leila McNeill Memory (Mr?. H. H. McMillan), Soochow, China. 1915—Alda Grayson, Lalchow-Fu. China. 1917—Rosa Hocutt (Mrs. J. C. Powell), Oyo, Nigeria, Africa. 1919—Celia Herring (Mrs. Gordon Middleton). China. 1919—Katie Murray. Cheng-Chow, China. 1921—Mattie Macon Norman (Mrs. Philip White), China. The story of their work done in the Master’s name and for the coming of His Kingdom will perhaps never be told, but the record is written on the hearts and lives of the people in dis tant lands and is imperishable. Only the names of those who rendered outstanding service can be recorded here, yet there is a full realization that the students who have gone out from the doors of our College and given themselves in service In their own homes and communities have made a large and valuable contribution (o our Woman’s Missionary Union, and we would acknowledge our indebted ness to them. May the same spirit of sacrifice, the deep and abiding interest in the great work ot world evangelization, be with the student body in the coming years, that there has been in the past! Mits. WESI.KY N. JONKS, President W. M. Union. WHAI' is HATTIE IIEKKINR DOING I (Continued from page Ihrce) iugs for the robins to tug at so valiantly, and to swallow with chesty pride. My memory of concerts, student and other, at Meredith still partly guides me when I buy a record for my victrola, and the fact that I played basketball makes me appreciate the swiftness and precision of the Tar Heel cagers. Helping to manage the Junior breakfast to the seniors must have in fluenced me some today when I In sisted in a committee meeting that there should be no wasting of time in the approaching meeting ot the North Carolina Conference for Social Service. I made some friends in col lege; I wish I had made more, but surely the practices in contacts there have helped me to make some since. And 80 here I am arrived at the end, di'awing the most platitudinous of mor als: that any lesson well learned in college is of use afterwards. For liv ing life after college is just like living it in college, only it has grown more and more abundant. Hakkiet L, HiiimrNO, ’13. LEARN THE PIANO IN TEN LESSONS ti;noimjan,io oit MANDOLIN IN VIVE LESSONS Without nerve-racking, heart breaking scales and exercises. You are taught to play by note in 1‘egular professional chord style. In your very flrst lesson you will be able to play a popu lar number by note. Sbxd I'ou rr on Ai’i-iiovAr. 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