May 20, 1955 THE TWIG Page five \ CAPS AND GOWNS OF DISTINCTION As the tiine of graduation draws near, it would be interesting to be come acquainted with the academic costumes which both our seniors and faculty will be wearing. Since we often wish we knew what color or design stood for what degree, here is a chance to get some idea of what the different gowns and hoods actually signify. The Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Costume, which is recog nized as the authority on all matters pertaining to academic costume, holds to a code, which, since 1895’ has regulated the design or pattern of the gowns and hoods of fully 95 per cent of the colleges and uni versities in this country. With regard to gowns, the dis tinctions set up by the Intercol legiate Code are simple. Gowns for the bachelor’s degree are made of black worsted material and have long, pointed sleeves. Masters may wear either black silk or black woolen gowns, made with a long, closed sleeve with an arc of a circle appearing near the bottom, and a slit for the arm. The doctors’ gowns are black silk with a full, round, open sleeve. They are faced with velvet and have three bars of velvet on each sleeve. The color of the velvet trim may be black or the same color as the velvet, indicative of the faculty, which edges the hood. The black Oxford or mortarboard style cap is worn for all degrees, but only the doctor’s cap may be made of velvet and only doctors or presidents of institutions may wear a gold tassel on the cap. In America the hood is the most outstanding feature of all academic costume. The system established by the Intercollegiate Commission, when understood, enables anyone attending an academic function in this country to distinguish at a glance the bachelors, masters, and doctors, and at the same time recog nize the university which has given the degree. A doctor’s hood is four feet in length, a master’s three and a half, and a bachelor’s is three. The colored lining of the inside of the hood is of the official color or colors of the institution conferring the degree. The outside of the hood is made of black material, bor dered with velvet or velveteen of ' the proper width to indicate the faculty. Following is a complete list of the colors established by the In tercollegiate Code to represent the different faculties or departments of learning: . Agriculture Maize Arts, Letters, Humanities White Business Administration, Commercial Science Drab Dentistry Lilac Economics v Education Engineering ...Orange Fine Arts, Architecture Brown Forestry - Russet Humanics Dark Crimson Laws Library Science I^mon Medicine Pink Inside, Out It was a cold night. Cloudy. No stars. No moon. Time: 11:13 p.m. Place: Meredith College. The sus pect presses against the court wall of Vann Dormitory trying to avoid the glaring spotlights being thrown all over the campus from the top of the fountain. The sirens are wailing, and trusty S. G. Members grab their whips and assemble for the salute to the picture of the Gestapo be fore combing the grounds. The sus pect trembles as she hears the vicious growls of the police dogs. She knows she’ll never escape the all-seeing eye of the S. G. I., so she screams once futilely and flings her self headlong onto a pile of broken coke bottles on the breezeway. She dies. The S. G. Gestapo celebrate joyously by placing a black ribbon on her Annual picture. If you think the above is absurd —you’re right! The story is, but the idea behind it isn’t! What I’m saying is that often members of the S. G. Council are labeled “spies” and the meetings are considered underground activities known only to a select few and understood by scarcely anyone. Well, I, person ally, want it realized that the S. G. Council is working with the student body for the good of that student body of Meredith College — a stu dent body of which they, too, are members and by whose rules they, too, must live. If any of you readers want to ask questions concerning workings of the S. G., just drop me a card in care of The Twig with the following address: Inside, Out. I Music ■ Nursing .....Apricot Oratory Silver Gray Pharmacy Philosophy Public Health..... Salmon Physical Education Sage Science Gol^Blue Social Service v ■ Optometry Nile Green Theology - Scarlet Veterinary Science Oray National Student Congress Will Be Held in August The eighth National Student Congress will be held August 21-31 at the University of Minnesota. Last year more than 700 student leaders from all parts of the couiitiy at tended the congress. In addition to the outstanding American student leaders, there will be this year ap proximately 35 representatives of national student organizations abroad, faculty and administrative personnel, and nationally known personalities present. The theme of the Congress will be “Education for Freedom.” “Free dom in crisis demands superior leadership from every citizen, and the citizen-student has greater re sponsibilities to the educational community and society as a whole,” explains Harry H. Lunn, Jr., USNSA president. “The National Student Congress provides the op portunity for student leaders to gain the perspective of leaders with re sponsibilities that extend from the campus into the national and Ln- ternational community.” Registration is now being ac cepted at USNSA’s national "office from all member and non-member student governments. Each member school will send from one to seven delegates, depending upon the size of the school. Npn-member schools are invited to send official observers to the Congress. All delegates and observers will be elected by their student governments or student bodies to attend the meeting. Seniors Look Ahead To Bon Fire At midnight on Saturday, May 28, the seniors will take the things they disliked the most about school (faculty and buildings excluded!) down behind the Hut where a huge bonfire will be held. After the burn ing (probably amidst cheers), light refreshments will be served. SIGMA PI ALPHA HOLDS INITIATION Initiation of new members into Sigma Pi Alpha, national honorary modem language fraternity, was held in the Hut at 7:00 p.m., Tues day, May 11. LIBRARY BOOKS All library books are to be re turned by May 21, 1955 (to morrow), in order for the librarians to complete their records for the year. Search your room to make sure that you get all the books you have checked out. SCHOLARSHIPS TO BE AWARDED SOON Freshmen, sophomores, and juniors who wish to apply for scholarships for next year may ob tain the forms in Dean Peacock’s office. Selection will be based upon general average and financial need. Notification of awards will be sent early in June. Seniors who wish to apply for one of the two graduate study scholar ships may obtain the forms in Dean Peacock’s office. A THRILL OF A LIFETIME (Continued on page four) lent of a Master’s Degree to our education. What a thrill! What an Investment! For further information on such a trip, write to Robert S. Denny, Chairman Youth Committee of the Bapitst World Alliance, 161 8th Avenue, North Nashville, Ten nessee Class Sponsors For Next Year Chosen MOBLEY'S ART CENTER ' Salisbury Street Happy Vacation lemember Mobley's For Your Art Supplies Class sponsors for the rising Sophomore, Junior, and Senior classes were recently chosen. Dr. Crook will advise the sophomores while Dr. Lemmon will help the juniors. The seniors have again chosen Miss Williams as their spon sor. With the aid of these able faculty members, each class is look ing forward to a prosperous year. SILVER SHIELD TO ADMIT JUNIORS On Society Night of commence ment week end, Saturday, May 28, the Silver Shield will recognize its new members. Chosen on the basis of scholarship, service to the school, and Christian character, six rising seniors will be admitted to our campus honorary leadership so ciety. Following the Society Night pro gram, the Silver Shield will be hos tess at a reception in the Hut honor ing all former members and new members. A special meeting of the society will be held at that time. Choreos Hold Spring Auditions Recently, the Choreos, the modern dance group under the di rection of Dr. Claire Weigt, held auditions for new members. Since at present the group has only nine teen members and several of those will be leaving, between four and six new dancers were chosen in the try-outs. In the fall, more auditions will take place, during which time those girls who did not succeed in making the group this spring, as well as any others interested in modem dance, will be allowed to compete for other available places. Marilyn McArthur and Betsy Greene are the dance representatives on the A. A. Board. ANNUAL AWARDS (Continued from page one) trotekton and Philaretian Societies. Miss Susie Rucker of Shelby, presi dent of the Astrotekton Society, will present the welcome, after which the president of the Philaretian So ciety, Miss Ernestine Cottrell, will deliver the introduction preceding Mrs. Harris’ address. Awards given on Society Night are as follows: Astrotekton Literary Award, Philaretian Literary Award, Athletic Association Awards, Ida Poteat Art Award, Elizabeth Avery Colton Award, Education Depart ment Award, English Award, Sigma Alpha Iota Professional Music Fra ternity Awards, Alpha Psi Omega Dramatic Fraternity and Meredith Little Theatre Award, Kappa Nu Sigma Honor Society Award, Ida Poteat Scholarship, Freshman Citi zenship Award, and Who’s Who Among Students in American Col leges and Universities. The Silver Shield Tapping Ceremony will also be held. The evening will be closed with the singing of the Alma Mater and the recessional. PRINT and PROPAGANDA By ANN CASHWELL To those whose summer occupa tion mainly includes brown limbs on a familiar beach, I maintain that there exists pleasure beyond strict osmotic communication with the sun. Meet William Blake. He is an excellent comrade, and has that wondrous gift of speaking only when looked upon. He is available in com pact size (Songs of Innocence), and his voice is spring incarnate. What would he remark concerning abject lethargy? Folly is an endless maze. Tangled roots perplex her ways. A worthy summer accomplish ment would be to absorb Andre Malraux’s Voices of Silence, a pro found study of art. Is Sartre’s existentialism the disintegrative force that is generally assumed? Payne in Contemporary French Literature, reveals a penetrative in sight into the literary movement in France during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the influ ence of Germans, Russians, and Kierkegaard. Are you sad, despondent, or in ert? Somehow obtain Handel’s “Concerto Grosso” in B Minor. The lively energetic first movement and harpsichord fling would rouse a wet mosquito. May I recommend Carl Orff’s “Carmina Burana,” a group of secular songs derived from medi eval German and Latin poetry? Orff is a contemporary German com poser. In spite of the fact that the Saturday Review once called this a “Rowdy Cantata,” many critics think “Carmina” the greatest musi cal accomplishment of our age. An ovation for Nancy Doherty, who introduced Prokofiev to her youthful students as they created moods with crayons. Would that more educators follow this proced ure. Art would no longer be so es tranged from our society. LEAH SCARBOROUGH (Continued from page four) mer she plans to attend summer school here at Meredith and receive her B.M. degree. Next year, while she is at Peabody working in some field of music, she will receive her Master of Arts. J KRAMER'S "The House of Diamonds" Martin & Salisbury Streets DIAMONDS WATCHES CHINA SILVERWARE Raleigh, N. C. Telephone 8304 Best Wishes for the Future To the Meredith Seniors from MacJOSEPHS I where College Girls who know all the fashion onswers buy their clothes RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA WHERE MEREDITH AND STATE MEET ROYS TODAY THRU SAT "20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA" In Cinemascope with JAMES MASON V y STARTS SU N DAY ^ THE SILVER CHALICE" In Cinemascope with VIRGINIA MAYO ^ PIER ANGELI ^ VARSITY Best Wishes to the Seniors Thank You for Your Patronage in the Past i DRINK DrPeppei DR. PEPPER BOTTLING CO., RALEIGH, N. C.

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