October 31, 1947
THE TWIG
Page Three
Sports o/ the
By B. J. JOHNSON
The hockey tournament sched
uled for this week has been post
poned because of the Palio
practices. The play-off between
the Astros and Phis and the Big
Sisters and Little Sisters will
begin the second week in No
vember. The special attraction
the hockey players are looking
forward to is going to Chapel
Hill next Tuesday to play the
U.N.C. co-eds. In the mean
while, practices are still being
held on the hockey field at
5:00 p.m. on Tuesdays, Wednes
days, and Thursdays. Come on
out and keep in shape!
Last week-end, October 22, the
equitation group went on an
overnight ride to Crabtree
Creek. If you don’t know just
how wonderful it is to live the
“carefree out-door life,” of cook
ing meals over a fire, and sleep
ing in some vacant corner, then
just ask the “rough-riders” who
went. These campers include
Elaine Boggess, Betty Jean John
son, “Marty” Davis, Peggy
Patrick, Marianna Morris,
“Frankie” Rightmyer, Roxie
Bonniville, Frances Ricks, Betty
Jean Hedgepath, Anne Boykin,
and Mary McCoy.
Have you heard about “Bril-
liantine’s” (Ellen Goldston) get
ting four bulls-eyes all at once
in archery class?
Have you heard about Miss
Cunningham’s new sport in
which she instructs the players
“to dribble the field down the
ball?”
Here is a “p.s.” to Mr. Martin.
Don’t be surprised if you find
the top covering the water reser
voir broken through some bright
morning, for some of Meredith’s
swimming “enthusiasts” are
really anxious for that swim
ming pool!
DINING HALL IS SCENE
OF CORN-HUSKING BEE
Meredith students and faculty
members went appropriately
clad in gingham dresses and blue
jeans to the annual corn-husk
ing bee, which was held on
Saturday, October 18. The gala
occasion began with dinner in
the dining room and later moved
out into the court. The tables
were centered with fruit and lol
lipop mounds and an orange
candle supported by a paper
covered bottle. Each place was
marked with one of six colors
designating the group which
every person was to join. As
dinner progressed, a sing-song
contest was held with represent-
aitves from each class participat
ing. Shirley Powell, Phillis Har
rington and Harriet Ashcraft
walked away with a victorious
title for the Junior Class. Judges
for the contest were Miss Baker,
Miss Grimmer, and Mr. Wilmot.
Adding to the musical air of the
festival were members of the
folk dance club who gracefully
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performed to the tune of “The
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Leatherman at the piano.
After dinner everyone joined
in the folk dancing held in the
court. About four rounds of
musical merry making proved to
be enough, and the breathless
group gladly reclined on the
dining hall steps to witness those
popular contests, hog calling,
chicken calling, and corn shuck
ing. Each class and the faculty
was represented by two par
ticipants. Dr. Canady and Dr.
Campbell proved to be the best
hog callers; Sylvia Currin and
Elaine Saunders of the Freshman
Class, the best chicken callers;
and Idalia Oglesby and Marianna
Morris of the Junior Class, the
fastest corn shuckers. The proud
victors received a stick of pep
permint candy. Judges for these
contests were Mr. Prince, Mr.
Gragan, and Miss Cunningham.
As has been previously men
tioned, the students and faculty
members were divided in
couples, one of which was
dressed as a lad and the other
as a fair lassie. The prize for the
most originally dressed couple of
the faculty went to Mrs. Coving
ton and Mrs. Egerton, while the
most originally dressed student
couple was Marjorie Tripeer and
Virginia Bowman.
To bring to a close the gaiety
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Amherst College
Experimenting
Amherst, Mass—(I.P.)—Am
herst College announces that
the new freshman class this fall
will begin a new experimental
curriculum of which the basic
feature will be a core of subjects
to assure a well-rounded liberal
education.
Freshmen will be required to
take three two-year sequence
courses—in English and the
humanities; in history and the
social sciences; and in mathe
matics and the natural sciences.
There will be no attempt at
specific vocational training.
Every student will be required
to do sufficient work in each of
the three basic fields to share a
common interest with all of his
fellow students, and to have a
broad knowledge from which to
select a specific field for special
ization during his last two years.
The “laboratory approach,”
hitherto associated primarily
with scientific study, will be ap
plied to courses in history, the
social sciences, language and
literature. This will combine the
customary classroom procedure
of lectures and discussions with
“laboratory” or “seminar”
periods for small groups.
In announcing the changes
President Charles W. Cole said:
“The emphasis of the new course
will be on training men to think
well and clearly, to be critical
in their approach and to be flex
ible in their technics.”
“Boards of Visitors”
Go To Union College
Schenectady, N. Y.— (I.P.) —
Union College has called on a
group of the nation’s top busi
ness men, educators, and scient
ists for help in maintaining a
“healthy practicality of objec
tive” in its education of young
men who must solve the prob
lems of the postwar atomic age.
President Carter Davidson
recently announced the estab-
STABLE PERSONALITIES
BY DORIS LEE
of the evening, everyone joined
in singing various “hill-billy”
and folk songs. As a last token
of fun, members of the Athletic
Association distributed peanuts
to the crowd, which shortly
afterward disassembled with
merry hearts and gay voices.
GIRLS! This is it
Now You Con Hove Your Whole Week's
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in Just Thirty Minutes
Returned to you sweet smelling and Damp Dry
While you knit, visit, or wait in the comfortable Launderette lounge.
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STATE
Starts Sunday, November 9
For An Entire Week
"FOREVER AMBER"
In Technicolor
Starring
LINDA DARNELL
CORNEL WILDE
RICHARD GREENE
Did you know that some of
Meredith’s most outstanding
personalities are not to be found
in a classroom, but in a stable?
That’s right, the outstanding
personalities are horses who may
have never read a book or writ
ten a term paper, but who have
made a lasting impression on the
hearts (and perhaps on other
less aesthetic parts of the body
as well) of many Meredith girls.
The first of these personalities,
by virtue of size, is Major. In
spite of his being so big. Major
is a “scaredy cat,” who is afraid
of noises and hates to be left
alone. He is a very sociable
creature, but is addicted to mass
hysteria. If the other horses are
excited. Major just must get ex
cited, too.
Cinnamon is Major’s opposite.
He is an antisocial animal, who
doesn’t bother the other horses
and doesn’t want to be bothered
by them. A typical “lone-wolf,”
he is calm and imperturbable.
The only thing which has been
known to interest him for any
length of time is a dirigible
which flew over the pasture re
cently. Cinnamon spent the bet
ter part of an afternoon craning
his neck to watch the peculiar
flying thing.
The youngest of the horses is
Montgomery Alabama, son of
Alabama, who mimics h i s
mother’s habit of holding her
ears straight back and drooping
her bottom lip. Montgomery is
a typical spoiled brat who will
let himself be admired, but won’t
give his admirer the satisfaction
of knowing that he is at all in-
lishment of a series of “Boards
of Visitors” composed of scient
ists, business men and educators
to serve as auxiliaries to the col
lege trustees on policy, cur
riculum, personnel, and equip
ment for each of the college’s
major departments. The Boards
of Visitors will offer counsel and
suggestions for improvement to
trustees, department heads and
the college administration.
Thirty-one men have already
accepted invitations to serve on
the Boards of Visitors for
physics, psychology, English,
economics, and chemistry. These
five departments are to serve as
an experimental group to
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AMBASSADOR
Today and Saturdoy
KATHARINE HEPBURN
ROBT. WALKER
PAUL HENRIED in
"SONG OF LOVE"
Sun.-Mon.-Tue.
RAY MILLAND
MARLENE DIETRICH in
GOLDEN
EARRINGS
Wed.-Thur.-Fri.-Sat.
TYRONE POWER
— in —
"NIGHTMARE
ALLEY"
Welcome Students!
Take Your
Afternoon Walk
to
WILMONT
PHARMACY
FOUNTAIN SERVICE
DRUGS
COSMETICS
We’re
Famous
for
Football
Fashitms
Be a winner at every game
in clothes from
IN RALEIGH ITS
rASElORS
terested in her. He delights in
plaguing his mother by nipping
at her until poor Alabama is ex
asperated to the point of kick
ing. But even a well placed kick
won’t discipline a son like Mont
gomery Alabama.
The keynote to Gene’s person
ality is just plain cussedness. Jo
Gene must always have his own
way, and if his rider wants to
trot around the track when Jo
Gene wants to pick daisies in
the field, then picking daisies is
what both horse and rider will
do.
Tommy is the most curious of
the horses; he has even learned
to lift the bar of the gate. Tommy
is very persnickity about get
ting his feet wet and very prissy
in his walking. Tommy believes
himself to be a natural-born
leader with a mind of his own.
He won’t associate with common
horses and when out riding he
must always be at the front of
the group.
Dolly is big, white, sway-back,
and nervous. Once she was so
frightened by laundry flapping
from a passing truck that she
ran off the road and up a ditch
bank with an equally frightened
Miss Cunningham on her back.
Emily is the temperamental
member of the group, while Vel
vet is the argumentative type.
Caroline is noisy and talkative;
she loves to converse with any
one who will listen to the queer
sounds she makes.
If you haven’t met any of these
outstanding horse personalities,
come out to the white barn on
the far west side of the campus.
Interviews are always available.
Organization of
Chess Clubs Begin
Here is news for all who play
chess. A club has been organized
on the State College campus for
intercollegiate competition by
those interested in the game. If
there are enough girls interested
in forming a Meredith club, a
tournament will be arranged
with the State College Chess
Club. The boys at State have
offered their aid in the organiza
tional details.
If no club is formed at Mere
dith, individual games can be ar
ranged. There is also the pos
sibility that Meredith girls can
join the State club. If anyone
is interested, call one of the boys
below for further information.
Jack Davis and Ernest Coltan
will make all arrangements for
either individual games or
tournaments. Jack’s address is
216 Hillcrest St., telephone
2-2720; Ernest’s is Box 4325
Berry Dormitory, telephone
9363.
Dance of The Hours
Part I and II
BOSTON “POPS” ORCHESTRA
Victor Record No. 11833 $1.08
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
Part I and II
BRAILOWSKY
Victor Record No. 11-9330 $1.08
Because
Bluebird of Happiness
JAN PEARCE
Victor Record No. 11-9007 $1.08
C. H. Stephenson
Music Co.