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THE TWIG
May 6, 1949
Hello Everyl)ody! Years Ago
‘Did You Ever See Such a Sight”
The Twig is starting out on a new
year with high hopes and bright new
plans that, if followed, will make it
what claims to be ‘‘Newspaper of the
Students of Meredith College.” It is the
usual thing for an editor to set down the
policy of his paper in his first editorial,
and therefore, I shall present to you, the
students to whom this paper belongs,
the policy of the staff for the coming
year.
It shall first be our aim to fill each
issue with just as much news that is
“new” news as possible. It is an under
standable fact that with only two issues
a month there is always a deficiency of
up-to-the-minute news that papers
which are published more often are able
to use. However, we shall try to fulfill
to the best of our ability that desire of
the student body.
We desire in the coming year to have
more student participation in the
articles written. It is hoped that through
our Letters-to-the-editor column we
will be able to air the grievances, ideas,
hopes, aims, goodwishes and thoughts
of the students. This is to be your
column so please take advantage of it!
Remember, however, that it is also a
policy of this paper to print no slander
ous, libelous, or otherwise unjustified
material. If it’s true and if it’s justified,
we will print it!
When last year’s staff came into office,
their policy was “To do all within our
power to be accurate in our reports,
fair in our judgments, constructive in
our criticisms, and motivated by the
highest and best interests of the student
body, and to create real interest in each
other through every new issue of this
paper.” The new staff feels that they
can’t do any better than to live up to
this policy and, therefore, we adopt it
as ours. To love, honor, and obey until
a newer staff do us part.
Let us say in closing that we are
looking forward to this new year with
high hope, lots of new ideas, and plans
that would almost frighten you. Really,
as our columnist put it “We’re mighty
proud to be here.”
A Time for Thought
As we entertain these highschool
seniors as prospective students of
Meredith here this week-end, now is an
excellent time for all of us to make an
honest appraisal of ourselves as college
students and of our college as an institu
tion of higher learning. The oldest of
us is not too many years out of high
school; stop and ask yourself the
question, “Have I really developed and
widened my horizon over the years
since then?” These highschool girls on
our campus have been and are consider
ing an important investment in their
future in choosing a college to attend;
let us ask ourselves, “What has
Meredith to offer them?”
Many of us feel what we laughingly
call “old” in comparison with our guests
and feel the contrast between the inter
ests and attitudes of our highschool
days and those of now; yet, this feeling
is entirely natural, for college is an
important factor in the maturing of any
individual. But ask yourself the ques
tion, “Have I outgrown some of my
highschool habits and developed more
attitudes and practices, or have I only
added another set of equally immature
actions and attitudes since coming to
college?” If so, you are missing out on
an important value of your all-too-short
college years.
Meredith is known as a Christian col
lege, whose high ideals and purposes are
supposedly reflected in its graduates. As
we show our guests around the campus
and tell them what is in store for them
if they come to Meredith next year, how
many of us will measure up to theirs and
others’ ideals and ideas of what a Mere
dith student should be and do, now and
after graduation? Think it over. Will
you, honestly, be any different because
you decided to come to Meredith?
A Job Well Done
The job was often thankless, and
tiring, but they gave their all to it. They
faltered at times but kept going forward
toward higher and better goals; always
keeping before them their ideal—to
satisfy their readers to the best of their
ability. To the outgoing Twig staff we
would like to say THANK YOU!
By Barney Schettler
Years ago. May Day was held in the
grove. The year that Harriet Rose was
president of the A.A. the theme of May
Day was Mother Goose.
In 1931 the menu for the freshmen-
junior breakfast was apples, bananas,
pigs-in-the-blanket (roasted by the fair
hand of the freshman class for their
sisters), rolls, doughnuts, and coffee.
In 1926 Wake Forest stole the march
on State and started decorating the
water tower for the first time with the
numerals of the Sophomore class, but
Dr. Brewer, the Meredith President at
that time, revealed that State had al
ready asked for permission. A com
promise was effected with two sets of
numerals on the tower—one in gold and
black and the other in red and white.
Later the sophomore class threw a party
to thank her brother classes for the
honor.
Most of the stores gave a ten per cent
discount to Meredith students, and one
could get a permanent for two, three or
four dollars and a finger wave for
twenty-five cents.
In 1923, the girls for their Saturday
night date had a choice of Glenn
Hunter in Puritan Passions or William
S. Hart in Terrible Tolliver plus a
Sunshine comedy with a coy reminder:
Playing hands is out of style
Meredith girls are young and mild,
But on Saturday night we’re never
late
To greet a man from N. C. State.
Lest We Forget in 1924 or 1948:
That summer holidays begin the
26th.
That bobbed hair is not out.
That Saturday night is “Date
Night” for most of us.
That we want a man who will give
us an Easter corsage.
That you cannot “hold” a parlor.
That we must pass two out of five
subjects.
That Miss White inspects on
Tuesday and Friday.
That Sophomore English is not an
elective, yet.
That straight hair may be made
curly by judicious applications
of heat.
Neighborly News
By Sue Page
Some say that in Spring a young
man’s fancy changes but, according to
this poem in The Technican, there just
isn’t any hope.
Ode To My Slide Rule
Women are babbling all the time.
Of dates and drinks and dresses.
Which wouldn’t help at all when I’m
Computing strains and stresses.
My slipstick conquers without a doubt
Whole hosts of sines and surds.
And helps me work in peace without
An avalanche of words.
Slide rules are always accurate.
Women never so;
And though they’re not affectionate
They never answer “No”!
So hence with women’s wanton ways
With eyebrows, lips and curls.
My little log-log decitrig
Is worth a dozen girls!
To the Daily Tar Heel we send our
thanks for the following (matter-of-
opinion ) joke: Sign on door of Hill Hall
Music building:
“Bach in ten minutes”
Then there’s the Appalachian’s com
ment :
First man: “Terribly sorry your
buried your wife yesterday.”
Second man: “Had to. Dead you
know.”
Don’t leave yet! There’s more to come.
“Why the tooth brush in your lapel?”
“It’s my class pin—I go to Colgate.”
Texas Ranger.
Have you heard about the little moron
who thought that a mushroom was a
place to pitch woo?
“If you refuse me,” He swore, “I’ll
die.”
She refused him.
Sixty years later he died.
The Twidet
By Synonomous With Mud
“We print last week's news on Friday”
New boss, new name, same old rot—
we’re hired again; heaven knows how!
Fashion Notes: Check the attractive
resort styles up on third-floor porches.
'I here seems to be a strong trend toward
white, two-piece jobs. If you have an
old-style gym suit you are all set for a
beach-coat. One chick had a beautiful
pink-tan halter on—got it for her birth
day. Vogue never looked like this.
Crime News: Watch for the blackmail
wave. Certain individuals should have
been on the other side of the camera.
Roxie 'Valias has not yet apprehended
the thief who took her call-down cards.
Sorry detective work. Time you turned
in your S-G-Man badge, chum.
The Funnies: Today we feature
Barbara Ballenger—need we say more?
More.
Dorothy Dix: Dear D. D. I am going
to get married very soon, tomorrow in
fact. Should I date other men before
the wedding?
Love,
Duz
Dear Duz: In your case it is all right.
“Duz does everything.”
Society News: Many thanks to Dr.
Lillian Parker Wallace who entertained
the Day Students at a fine party last
Satdee afternoon.
Serious Thought: If you think Mere
dith College needs a drama department,
speak up about it.
IKOLVrS
OMEK
Dear Donna,
They tell me it’s quite a job—this
column writing! Do you really have to
get up some mornings at 6:30 to work
on it? Is is true that an amazing number
of alarm clocks have lost their alarms
because a columnist got desperate and
threw them at the wall? Do roommates
actually threaten to move in with some
body else if you don’t stop beating it out
on the typewriter and then crumple
paper enough to make anybody’s nerves
snap? Surely it isn’t so that columnists
have to sit up some nights ’til the wee
small hours and drink coffee to keep
awake?
Gee, I don’t know whether I can do
it or not! In the first place, my alarm
clock lost its alarm my freshman year
when I threw it at the dining hall bell
(and missed); in the second place, my
roommate won’t move out, ‘cause I dont’
cwn a typewriter; in the third place,
toffee doesn’t keep me awake! I guess
111 just have in invent something new
so I can be a typical columnist.
All kidding aside, it’s not going to be
easy to keep up the swell job that you’ve
done, but I sho’ am mighty proud to be
here!
Love,
Carolyn.
What the bride thinks as she enters
the church: Aisle, Altar, Hymn.
Old Maid
Well, as one dog said to the other dog,
“I gotta flee!”
Appalachian.
have to say is what we want to hear.
Don’t disappoint us again.
Your Editors.
There was a “buzz” on this campus
Sunday, and most logically it came from
the Bee Hive. It was not a buzz from
students enjoying their “awfternoon
tay” but it was really the buzz of bees!
They came flying over and saw the
sign that says “Bee Hive,” and said to
themselves “Boy, this is it.” So—in they
flew, and when time came to open
Sunday afternoon, the bees were
angrily buzzing against the windows
and there was a little note on the door
that said something to this effect. “The
Bee Hive will not be open today on
account of the bees.”
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Dear Student body:
Do you know that feeling that you get
when you go to your P.O. Box and find
it empty? Well that’s just how I felt
when I saw the basket in the publica
tions room empty—not one tiny letter.
So—if you won’t write to me then I’ll
write to you and make a plea. If you
have read the editorials, you know that
it is part of our policy to express the
views and opinions of the student body
and make the Twig truly a “newspaper
of the students of Meredith College.”
Because of this part of our policy, the
staff decided that it would be a good
idea to publish a “Letters-to-the-editor”
column in each issue.
If you had been at the press conven
tion, you would have appreciated this
opportunity as we do. There were ever
so many colleges represented that had
such rigid controls on the college news
papers that the student body or editors
dared not speak their views. Our
Meredith delegates smiled at each other
and sat up a bit higher in our chairs.
We were proud of the fact that our
faculty and administration appreciated
our views and opinions enough to let us
speak. Our plea is that you take advan
tage of this opportunity. We refuse to
publish any material that isn’t true and
any criticisms that aren’t justified, but
give us your letters and let us decide.
Remember, too, that we are asking
for critical letters only. Any thing you
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Carolyn Covington. Columnist
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