May 23, 1958
THE TWIG
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Living Through the Freshman Year
By PEGGY RATLEY
Now that May 30 is practically
here, we freshmen can look back
on those first weeks of school with
a wise, all-knowing smile. How
different that is from the half-
hysterical view we took of fresh
man year during those initial col
lege days when we felt at times
that all the world had suddenly
caved in upon us. Does anyone re
member that eventful day in Sep
tember when Mother and Daddy
left their little darling for the first
time at the mercy of the wide, wide
world? We turned around to face a
sea of so many new people that we
knew we could never begin to learn
all their names, but we suddenly
realized that it wasn’t that difficult
— we had already mastered the
name of the girl across the hall!
We had no idea of the perils and
pitfalls of college life though, until
we began that rather incidental duty
of attending classes, and the fact
dawned on us one raw, cold morn
ing that maybe those chapel speak
ers who joked about getting back
out into the civilized world were
right — we were too confused to be
sure. The months between Christ
mas and Springtime dragged pain
fully by. The misery of getting up
on cold mornings to go to French
or biology was unbearable. And the
food! Those meals which had
seemed so appetizing and varied in
September were Just one more trial
to be borne until we could feast on
home-cooking — Mother’s home
cooking — again. And worst of all
was the borrow of having to look
at those same dead faces of our
roommates every morning of the
year. If only we had the peace and
privacy of our room at home.
But that was last week. Now we’re
but a few short days away from
finishing our freshman year. The
world is bright again! Algebra prob
lems and history maps weren’t
nearly so bad as they seemed; the
cafeteria food has a new zesty
flavor. And goodness, how we will
miss our irreplaceable roommates!
We lived through it! »
^^Summer Is
Icumen In”
By MARY ANN BROWN
Summer vacation is coming —
SOON — and Meredith girls are
making furious plans — to cram
into three short months enough
good times, good food, sleep, and
. . . work to last through the nine
long months of school.
Some students are seriously in
terested in finding jobs, and these
industrious creatures spend hours
carrying on voluminous correspond
ences with unemployment agencies,
newspaper want-ad departments,
and friends of friends of friends who
might be looking for someone to
tutor their small son in multiplica
tion and division.
Another group here is also in
terested in finding work, but of a
different sort. These girls would like
to be something like roving infor
mation centers on the French
Riviera or assistant switchboard
operators in a New York office full
of handsome, eligible, rich, young
men. This group wouldn’t mind
tutoring, either — if the son in ques
tion were, say, about twenty-two and
unattached.
The engaged set does not pro
vide a very interesting area for ob
servation. All they can think about
is getting married and living happily
after (so who said this wasnt’ in
teresting!).
Then there are those girls who
are planning to further their scho
lastic education — by summer
school or correspondence. Some of
them are ambitious; some of them
are looking for something to do;
and some of them are fighting the
battle of hours and quality points.
Of course, some girls are really not
so interested in summer educational
plans as they wish professors to be
lieve. They collect reading lists and
project advice, but they don’t really
intend to lose sleep getting anything
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play bridge . . .
clean out your closet . . .
make a list of books “to be read
during the summer,” ha! ha! . . .
sunbathe . . .
write letters . . .
wash all your clothes so you can
take them home clean . . .
sleep . . .
catch up on all of Charlie Brown’s
latest adventures . . .
keep others from studying so you
won’t be the ONLY ONE WHO
FAILS.
done. Word to the wise: professors
have long memories and have been
known to ask for progress reports.
Last, but not least, are those girls
who plan to loaf and who don’t
mind telling you so. They are going
to come back to school in the fall
tanned, and well-fed, and without
circles under their eyes from getting
up too early in the mornings (let’s
just not discuss when they plan to
go to bed).
If all these plans are carried out,
it might be a good idea not to do
anything you wouldn’t want spread
around Meredith next fall; ’cause
from the looks of things, there’s
going to be a Meredith girl just
about anywhere and everywhere
you look. It seems as if everyone
is grimly determined to have an en
joyable and (ahem) profitable sum
mer. Knowing us, we most probably
will do just that.
Congratulations, Seniors!
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the Meredith Seniors
MEREDITH’S RECORD
MAXIA
By SUSAN LEWIS
If you have seen much of
Meredith College, you have some
idea of the mania which has in
creased rapidly in the past year on
the campus — the mania for record
collecting. Two definite areas, the
dorms and the post office, are evi
dences of the widespread epidemic.
A look in the little postal box
windows at the end of each month
reveals better than every other box
containing a bulletin from the Co
lumbia Record Club. A glance at
the number of 12" thin packages
delivered to the college postal sta
tion confirms the theory that Mere
dith boasts a musically-inclined (or
at least interested) student body.
One need not accept the fact sim
ply on the evidences found in the
post office, however. The real proof
is to be found in the dormitories,
which abound in musical sounds
and, specifically, in the rooms of the
mania victims. There, better than
55 per cent of the rooms contain
record players of various descrip
tions, and each of these rooms con
tains an average of seven to eight
long-playing albums and around
twenty-five 45 RPM records. (This
conclusion is based on a survey
made on an average hall on this
campus. On this hall, two rooms
were found to contain over 100
“45” records, and one had a total
of 247.)
Instrumentals and popular vocals
(listed in the Listening and Danc
ing category in the Columbia Rec
ord Club) head the list of choice
in LP albums. Jazz and Broadway
musicals and motion picture albums
vie for second place in the students’
buying choice. Proving that today’s
young women are capable of ap
preciating something in the musi
cal realm besides rock-and-roll,
classical music enjoys an unusual
popularity on the campus, with one
in every six albums being of the
classics.
Those not fortunate enough to
own a record-player have a radio
in order that they may not be de
prived of the latest platters. Several
of the “have nots” on the hall sur
veyed are saving to buy a hi-fi set
in the near future and succumb to
the affliction taking its toll on
campus.
Meredith is, indeed, a victim of
the mania for collecting records, and
— oh, excuse me, I’ve got to check
the mail to see if my album has
arrived.
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WEEK ENDS AT "FOREIGN"
COLLEGES
The discussion of the college
dance in the last paper provoked
thought about another collegiate
phenomenon—the practice of spend
ing week ends at “foreign” colleges.
The trouble involved is consid^er-
able, but apparently the end result
is worth the struggle. Great fun is
had by all.
From the Meredith end, the prob
lem begins with defining a week
end. People planning to visit the
“foreign” college always wish to
depart on Thursday afternoon and
return early on Monday. The rea
soning behind this desire is sound—
such timing keeps class-cuts straight
with one cut in each class. Unfor
tunately, Meredith authorities do
not follow the reasoning but rather
say, “A week end is a week end is
three nights.’ So, one must choose
between Thursday and Sunday
night. That is most frustrating.
Next comes the question of what
clothes to take. There is always a
dance in the vague background of
the plans; in fact, the dance is the
excuse for the whole week end. Un
like local dances, it is of minute im
portance and serves merely as a
logical explanation for taking a
week end. Even so, the dance idea
makes it necessary to take an eve
ning dress which will be crammed
in the trunk of some boy’s car and
crushed into the space around the
spare tire, wrenches, and suitcase.
For there is your suitcase, another
crisis. Should you take two pairs of
bermudas? Should you take a cock
tail dress? Is it going to rain? (Of
course it is, so take the raincoat.)
With the packing settled, there
is nothing to do but wait for de
parture. While you are waiting, you
can remember the items that you
forgot to pack and run to the third
floor to get them. You can con
sider the two quizzes on Monday
and two unwritten term-papers due
Tuesday. The images in your mind
become so gruesome that the ar
rival of your week end escort is the
only thing which saves you from
complete hysteria.
GOING HOME
By JUDY SCAGGS
Well, fellow Meredith students,
the time has come once more for us
to clean out our rooms, pack our
clothes, and head for home. For
some it may be for the last time, but
for others — well, Meredith Col
lege will see them once again next
year.
Only those who have been at
Meredith College at this time of the
year before know the real job we
have before us. Let me give a brief
run-down of what’s ahead.
When the day to go home arrives,
you will find that although you’ve
been packing things for a whole
week, you still haven’t gotten every- ,
thing ready. You will begin to won
der where everything came from
and why you bought that black
skirt in the first place. You will
find cans of soup and bottles of
shampoo which are easier to throw
or give away than to pack. As you
look around the room that last day,
you discover things which have been
lost since the first day you came to
school, things which belong to the
girl across the hall, and things which
should have been thrown away a
long time ago but were always kept.
You will take a last look in your
closet (very careful not to get into
it because one never knows when
a mouse might scamper out) and
find that everything is gone except
several hundred coat hangers which
you know the girls will need next
year!!
After you take your last look
around — trying hard to remember
if you have gotten everything and
remembered the things which you
are supposed to do —(leave the
room clean, store your chest of
drawers for next year, take your
key to Mrs. Whilden, sign out on
S. P. — oh, so many things to re
member!!) — you will finally say
good-bye to your room, to Mere
dith College, and to a school year
which has been filled with happi
ness, sadness, and class assignments!
May I wish everybody good luck
on her packing and a happy vaca
tion!!
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