January 18, 1952
THE TWIG
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A. A. Stages Class Competition in Basketball
WINNINGTEAMTO
RECEIVE TROPHY
The practice schedule for the
basketball season has been issued
for January. The honorary var
sity team of each class will com
pete for the basketball trophy
which will be placed in the li
brary, along with other trophies.
A miniature basketball will be
presented to each member of the
winning team. Each class will
have six practices this month
and six in February.
The honorary varsity teams
will be chosen from girls attend
ing at least seven of the prac
tices scheduled for her class.
Miss Phyllis Cunningham, direc
tor, will grant permission for
students to practice with an
other team if they are unable to
attend practices in January.
Practices will not be held during
exams.
Students can also earn a pos
sible 395 Monogram points.
These are the possible awards:
honorary varsity, 100; class
team, 100; playing in tourna
ment, 45; attendance at eight per
cent of practices, 50; class cap
tain, 50.
DR. KELMAN SPEAKS
ON PLANT PARASITES
Dr. Arthur Kelman, phyto
pathologist of N. C. State Col
lege spoke to the Barber Science
club January 8.
Speaking on plant parasites
that have influenced the eco
nomic life of different peoples.
Dr. Kelman pointed out how the
ergot of rye brought disaster to
an entire village in France and
how the Late Blight disease of
the Irish potato brought starva
tion to thousands of Irishmen.
According to Dr. Kelman the
coffee rust which affected the
foliage of the coffee tree in Cey
lon caused such a decrease in
production that England, its
chief patron was forced to turn
to tea.
Refreshments were served
afterward.
HUMANITY ON EXHIBITION
(Continued from page four)
Paris. They had to keep up with
the Jones’s!
Amusing Exaggeration
The author’s chapter titled,
“Tippecanoe and Tyler Too!” is
highly amusing. He shows quite
clearly how people take one
small issue of a campaign and
make it a monstrously big ob
ject. After the Democrats had
made a very derogatory state
ment about General Harrison, in
fact they cried “the whig candi
date is a clodpoll, a dunderpate,
and a ninnyhommer—he doesn’t
know B from a bull’s foot!” the
Whigs only said nonchalantly,
with their noses in the air,
“What do we care! Tippecanoe
and Tyler too.”
Much space in the book is
given to literature and the thea
tre. Some of the quotations from
the literature are priceless.
Everything is read from such
third rate material as Charlotte
Elizabeth’s The Wrongs of
Women and Mrs. Sherwood’s
The Drooping Lily, to books by
Washington Irving, James Fen-
SPEED3ALL TEAM
INCLUDES SIX
SOPHOMORES
The speedball varsity which
was announced in chapel last
week consists of six sophomores.
Speedball mixes the elements
of football, basketball and soccer
into a fast and exciting game.
Since it was first introduced to
our campus two years ago by
Miss Phyllis Cunningham^ it has
proved to be one of our most
popular sports.
The eleven members of the
team awarded silver speedball
trophies are: “Salty” Salter,
Blanche Allen Aldridge, Jean
Pace, Bess Francis, Sue Fitz
gerald, Ruth Champion, Ann
Lovell, Catherine and Rebecca
McRacken, Mary Ruth Godfrey
and Kitten James.
Miss Cunningham and B. A.
Aldridge, speedball manager,
chose these girls on the basis of
attendance at practices, interest
and skill.
The opening of the basketball season has brought several veteran players back to the court Although
guarded by “Kitten” James, Mary Ruth Godfrey prepares to make a basket while teammate Sue Fitzgerald
and opponent Mary Jo Isaacs look on.
nimore Cooper and Herman Mel
ville. The Theater ranges from
shows by the “model artists,”
who portray symbolic scenes
such as the first morning of
creation in the Garden of Eden
and usually ends in a riot be
cause of differences of opinion
of the amount of clothing'Eve
should' wear, to Shakespeare,
opera, circuses, and minstrel
shows.
The people enjoyed these di
versions, but also had private
entertainment. Lights, mirrors,
drink, and the choice and best
blood of the city made up the
extravagant parties given in the
forties. Much detail was given
to these affairs in newspapers.
Minnigerode certainly can be
praised for injecting life into
these stone statues of the past,
and presenting them to the gen
eral reader as human beings,
much like himself. His style is
free and easy to read, and his use
of primary sources is extremely
good. Although emphasis was on
life in New York, a fairly good
cross section of life was pre
sented by the author.
The author was born in Lon
don of American parents. He
graduated from Yale in 1910
and served with the American
Red Cross during World War I.
He now is a successful free-lance
writer, and is best known as a
biographer and writes on social
history.
Charlotte Taylor.
UZZLE'S SODA SHOP
Sandwiches ; Hotdogs
Hamburgers and
Delicious French Fries
Open 8:00 a.m. to 10:30 p.m.
A.A. ELECTS BESS FRANCIS
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT
Bess Francis, junior from
Waynesville, has been elected
vice-president of the Athletic
Association. She has been a
member of the A.A. board for
three years and was serving this
year as president of the Mono
gram Club.
The main duties of the vice-
president will be to head Palio,
serving as Town Crier for this
event; to make arrangements for
the Faculty-Student play day,
and to assume the responsibili
ties of president when the presi
dent is absent.
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Freshmen Elect
Two Class Officers
Members of the Freshmen
Class have recently elected two
new class officers to replace stu
dents who did not return fol
lowing the Christmas holidays.
Martha Snow of Raleigh was
elected secretary in the place of
Betty Jane Roberts of Hiddenite.
Becky Calloway succeeds Jennie
Barbour of Dunn as vice-presi
dent.
Wake Forest Y.W.A.
Gives Mission Program
A group of Y.W.A.’s from
Wake Forest College presented
a program at the Y.W.A. gen
eral meeting on Tuesday, Jan
uary 8, in the Hut. Seven Wake
Forest girls and Mrs. Greene,
their educational director, pre
sented a program on “Mission
ary Messages from the Bible.”
Before the meeting, the guests
had dinner with the Meredith
Y.W.A. in the dining hall. The
girls seemed to have many
friends here and a spirit of
friendship between the two
campuses was evident. The
Meredith Y.W.A. has been in
vited to give a program at Wake
Forest during February, but no
definite plans have been made.
Eighty-one members and nine
visitors were present at the
meeting. Third Jones won the
Y.W.A. banner for having the
most members present.
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Sociology Club Hears Speaker
from A. and T. College
Meredith’s Sociology Club met
January 10, at 8:00 p.m., in a
joint meeting with the sociology
clubs of Saint Augustine College
and Shaw University at Saint
Augustine College. The speaker,
R. E. Jones, director of extension
work at A. and T. College, gave
an address on rural sociology. A
social period followed the meet
ing.
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