December 12, 1952
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EDITORIAL STAFF
Editor - - Doris Perry
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Managing Editors Marjorie Blankenship,
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Music Editor Betty Miller
Sports Editor Lorette Oglesby
Columnists Bobbye Rice, Alyce Epley
Reporters Celia Wells, Louise Edge,
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Circulation Manager Janis Witherington
Christmas holidays are drawing near,
and the news from other colleges is
sprinkled with Christmas plays, carol
ing, and the like. Yet it seems that
many schools (Meredith included) are
even getting ready for spring. Yes, May
Courts are being selected. The lucky
G. C. gal is Sara Fonville.
grades, “Variety is the spice of life.’
The Davidson boys participated
whole-heartedly in the Red Cross Blood
Drive December 10-11. Not a bad idea
for all of us to consider.
Bobbye's
Banter
Speaking of queens, Sullens College
has just elected a candidate for the Ma-
son-Dixon Debutramp Club. Is it an
honor?
Getting back to Christmas, the Sa-
lemites have just officially opened their
Christmas season with their participa
tion at Winston-Salem’s traditional
Moravian Candle Tea, which was held
from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m., December 3-6.
The main purpose of this tea is to open
the historic Brothers’ House, across
from Salem Square, to the public.
The Elon choir presented its twen
tieth annual performance of Handel’s
Oratorio, “The Messiah,” on Sunday
evening, December 7. On the following
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday (Decem
ber 12-14), the singers will present this
oratorio five times during their annual
pre-Christmas tour of eastern Virginia.
On Sunday morning, December 7,
the Greensboro College glee club left
for its seven day winter tour of the
state.
Mars Hill has had a recent addition to
the student body. Her name is Susie C.
Kim, and she is from Seoul, Korea.
Nineteen-year-old Susie plans to be in
America six or eight years, and two of
these years will be spent at Mars Hill,
where she is taking a pre-medical
course.
Campbell students really have rea
son to celebrate. By January 1 their
new $140,000 gym will be ready for use.
The building, which has a seating ca
pacity of 2,000, will not be complete in
every detail, however.
To close this column here’s a little
poem taken from a November issue of
the Elon newspaper. Maroon and Gold.
I’m sure it applies to each and every one
of us during this Yuletide season.
Wake Forest students may or may
not have reason to celebrate. Mid-se
mester grades were just issued, and to
quote one fellow as he looked at his
“Now that a candidate has won
(Your choice or mine
And you’re content or I’m content.
And everything is fine.)
Let’s get to earth again.
Cool bloodstreams that are popping.
In lesser heart strain that is known
As our Christmas shopping.”
Entered as second-class matter Octo^r IL 1923,
of at RdlcijSh, N. C., under Act of March
at Hiirinff the months
^P^blished‘S^T-monthl^ ‘'S‘AprT and
of October, November, February, Marcn.^April, and
December, and January.
done the greatest thing that can ever
be done for us. He has died that we
might live.
Tub Twio Is the college newspaper of Meredith
College Raleigh, North Carolina, and as such is
of the three major publications of the institu-
don-^the otheTtZ beiAg The Acorn, the literarv
mamzine, and The Oak Leaven, the college annual.
Meredith College is an accredited senior liberal
arts college for women located in the capital city
of North Carolina. It confers the Bach^or Arts
__ j Rnrhelor of Music degrees. The college
offers majors in twenty-one fields including music,
art business and home economics.
since 1921 the institution has been a
of the .Southern Association Colleges and Secon-
rtnrv Schools. The college holds membership in
The Association of American Colleges and the
North Carolina College Conference.
VT^rrdlth College are eligible for membership in
Jhe A^rlcarr Association of University Womem
The institution is a liberal arts
National Association of Schools of Music.
If you are not a Christian, why not
surrender your life to God and become
a member of His church and kingdom?
If you are already a Christian and feel
that you haven’t given your all, do so
this Christmas.
You ask if there are not other ways
in which we may give to God. What
about giving money in and above the
tithes, and giving our talents in time
and service? What about doing all our
work a little better?
read the Christmas story together and
share the thankfulness we all felt with
those we loved best. And that Christ
mas dinner! That delicious baked hen
(we called it turkey) that was such a
golden brown and the fresh tenderloin
that haunted us all afternoon, because
we just couldn’t eat any, were nothing
compared to the trimmings that went
with them.
So now it’s Christmas time again. For
the most part it will be a merry Christ
mas for us; yet think once or twice dur
ing the holidays that there are those for
whom Christmas will not be so merry,
even in our own country. Sometimes I
think God must get a bit discouraged
with his images. Here we are commer
cializing Christmas, thinking only of
who got what from whom. Oh sure, we
know that Christmas is the celebration
of the birthday of Christ, but it seems
to me that the fact is sometimes pushed
back — way back — in our minds, and
other concepts of Christmas to the fore
ground in, our thought. Read ‘ Christ in
Christmas” elsewhere in this issue.
Required concerts, next topic. I’m not
trying to shift the reasons for poor con
duct at the concerts, but I know I could
keep a lot quieter and less restless if
something were done about the heat.
It’s really very uncomfortable to have
to sit in a hot, stuffy place and try not
to annoy other people with your
squirming. Couldn’t we please have the
heat turned on about half an hour later
than it has been previously? Heaven
and winter help the chorus when they
give their Christmas program in that
furnace! Having many things better
which I could have done, I devoted some
portion of my free time to composing
verse which you might find interest
ing;
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THOUGHTS ON CHRISTMAS
By Members of The Twig Staff
What Are You Giving God for
Christmas?
Still too much to put in your present?
Can’t afford it right now? All right, you
decide what it will be. Maybe you’ll
conclude that you won’t give anything,
not this Christmas. No need to worry
about that present. Say it’s silly — I
guess it all depends on who the most
important person is in your life. But
we do usually give to the person or thing
we love and live for, don’t we?
Nancy Hall.
We always went caroling on Christ
mas Eve and came home to find hot
chocolate waiting for us. Oh, how cold
it was that night — and that , reminds
me — we go caroling here at Meredith
too. Well, that quiet moment is over
and I come back with a jolt to the bustle
about me. I think, though, from that
moment spent in quiet thoughts, I have
a deeper appreciation for the blessings
we enjoy and understand more deeply
the joy to man on that first Christmas
night so.long ago.
Leah Scarborough.
A girl that sits in class today
Right next to me just writes away
And half asleep tho’ I may be
I cut my eyes to better see
And spy as plain as words can be
“I love Jim” and “Jim loves me.” ,
I think, my soul, asleep I’ll fall
If upon me he does not call
But if he does, O, me is woe
I’ll have to answer “I don’t know.”
For Dr. Cannaday
Christ in Christmas
Are you giving God anything for
Christmas, or have you in your hur
ried shopping forgotten Him. Most of
the time we give presents to the family,
to our friends, and to someone whose
name we have drawn in a certain
group. Does that mean we don’t give
God a gift because we don’t care or love
Him enough? Oh yes, we do love Him,
but when it comes to giving Him a
gift _ well, that’s a different thing,
you say.
Why should we give Him something?
It isn’t necessary, is it? Do other peo
ple do this each Christmas? We never
hear them talking about their gift to
God. But God loved us so much that He
gave His only Son to save us. In turn,
Jesus gave His life that we might live
and live more abundantly. Remember
the song, “I Gave My Life to Thee ?
What have we given to Him?
What can we give? We can’t get Him
a necktie or a pretty handkerchief.
That’s absurd, of course. Yet, there is
something we all can give if we want
to The gift doesn’t have to involve
money, but it may cost us something
nevertheless. It may mean sacrificing
something we cherish very much. Jesus
gave His life for us; why can’t we give
our lives to Him? Is that too hard. Is
it even possible to show enough grati
tude to someone who has, say, saved
vour life from drowning? Wouldn t
you always feel indebted to that per
son’ You can’t give your life to that
person for what he has done to you,
but you can give it to Jesus. He has
Christmas Joys
“Joy to the World! The Lord is come.
Let Earth receive Her King.”
To and fro ’fore class he goes
You’d think a cramp was in his toes.
No wooden chair will he abuse
He never heard of said chair’s use
Except if therein student sits
And writhes and squirms with fidget
fits
Poor victim of precarious station
Now must hear interrogation
Which will no doubt induce complexes
She did not know her y’s and x’s.
What Is that strange warmth and
glow that brightens all our faces and
even our voices when someone says,
“Just five more days and we’ll be home
for Christmas”? What is the magic of
those wotds? Is it just that we’ll be
home? I don’t think so, for we go home
at other times too; but it’s that we 11
be home for Christmas. No other sea
son is so dear to us with its joys and
festivities. In reality the true joy of
Christmas lasts throughout the year,
but we especially rejoice at God’s gift
to man now.
We here at college early turn our
thoughts to, “How shall we decorate
our room for Christmas,” and we bustle
about in a flurry of activity of gifts and
bright bells and ribbons until in some
quiet moment we pause to think of the
true significance of Christmas and why
we have it at all.
The month of December has rolled
around once again and with it has
brought the wonder of another Christ
mas. Signs of this glorious day are
everywhere. Strains of “Silent Night”
and “White Christmas” drift through
the halls . . . the crackling of tinsel and
the rustle of wrapping paper . . . scarlet
ribbon . . . the tantalizing smell of fresh
ly baked fruit cake . . . holly berries
and mistletoe . . . misty Christmas tree
lights twinkling though the windows.
All these and many more are signs that
the birthday of Christ is near. Yet, stop
just a minute. True, these are signs of
Christmas. But what is the true sign of
Christmas? Surely there is something
more to it than exchanging gifts and
eating plum pudding!
My little cousin is always pulling
these on me; “Bobbye, do you know
why not even a mouse was stirring on
the night before Christmas?” At this
point I have learned it is better to say,
“No, Why?” “Well, for heaven’s sake,
have you ever seen a mouse big enough
to hold a spoon?” He may be president
some day, with a brilliant mind like
that.
Guess that’s Sbout all I can rattle
off now — have a Merry Christmas and
happy holidays, and get all the term
papers, books, and required readings off
while you’re home, because exams are
hot on holiday’s heels.
What can you do to make Christmas
merrier for someone else?
Then perhaps in that same quiet mo
ment we think back over Christmases
past to all the things we did. It all be
gan with trudging through the woods
and searching for a big green cedar tree
that would fit into our living room.
Once the tree was set up, it did look so
lonesome until we trimmed it and fin
ally spread gifts underneath. In other
parts of the house holly and ivy ap
peared, and those holly berries were so
convenient for sneak attacks when sis
ter wasn’t looking. I remember how the
family gathered on Christmas Eve to
Christmas spirit may be defined in
one little four-letter word. Love—Love
for God and for our fellow man no mat
ter what color or nationally he might
be.
Scholastic Goal
(From the Varsity News, University of
Detroit)
We all know Christmas Day has been
set aside as the day of celebration for
the birthday of Christ, but how many
of us know that this true spiritual cele
bration is being over-shadowed by
man’s desire for material things.
Let’s remember as we sit around the
fire with our loved ones this Christmas
Day to thank God for his bountiful
blessings. Let’s put Christ back into
Christmas.
Ann Ipock.
I serve a purpose in this school
on which no man can frown—
I quietly sit in every class
and keep the average down.
(From The Carolinian)
Now I sit me down to sleep.
The lecture is long; the subject’s deep.
If he gets through before I wake,
Somebody kick me, for goodness sake.
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