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Page 4, THE PILOT, Tuesday, December 12, 1972 Night In The Middle Ages A Night in the Middle Ages was presented on Thursday. No vember 29. complete with med ieval monks, ladies in distress, princesses, and a jester. The med ieval Christmas Party involved ty pical medieval customs and a dis play of medieval literature. The Night was sponsored by the English Department with contribu tions by the Medieval Literature class and the class in the Struc ture of the English Language. Exhibits featuring the history and development o fthe English Language were provided by the English 353 class. The exhibits in cluded posters and projects con cerning Old English, Middle En glish Renaissance, Authoritarian. Modern English, Comparative, and a collection of old items. There were also posters and pictures concerning fashions in the middle ages, castles, knighthood, medie val crafts, and a brass rubbing done from brass sculpture of Chuacer’s Canterbury Pilgrims. The program for the night in cluded the election of a Lord of Misrule and a Boy Bishop which were medieval party customs. Christmas musical selections were provided by Mr. Bob Decker and the Christmas tree was decorated. These were all part of the Christ mas festivity. One custom which was utilized was the finding of Humanities Course Offered In Spring Beginning in the spring a new humanities course will be offered at Gardner-Webb. The course. Hu manities 401 will cover the period of the beginnings to 1500 A.D. The course is especially impor tant to area teachers in that it can be used to update teacher certifi cates. For further information con cerning the course the director of admission should be contacted. It will be taught on Monday and Wednesday nights from 7 o’clock to 8:20. Three hours credit will be given for the course. The course will supplement three fields; social studies, literature, and the arts. A total of six teachers will con duct the course. Each of the par ticipating professors will represent a different area of the humanities. The professors who will teach the course are as follows: Melvin Lutz, Dr. Furman Hewitt, Dr. Jerry Hill, Allen Setzer, Ernest Blankenship and James Rash. the bean in the gateau des dois and the person who fisds the bean in his cake receives a prize. The program included illustra tions of medieval literature that the English 311 class had been studying. These included medieval drama illustrated by excerpts from “Everyman” which was done with Charlie Brown and Snoopy char acters; a creative dance designed to demonstrate a medieval poem, “A Servant Girl’s Holiday!” a scroll with original rhymes based on the Bestiary, which is a medi eval work defining beasts and birds and illustrating moral and religious lessons; a poster-book in children’s form to illustrate the story of "The Whale” from tha Bes tiary; medieval romance and chiv alry illustrated in the form of "Medieval Love Was” using the contemporary “Love is . . . char acters; medieval songs and chants played on the piano; and a poem set to music from the medieval “Poems of Passion.”, Included in the program was ex cerpts from the "Second Shep herd’s Play.” This is a comical and moralistic farce concerning Mak, who steals a sheep and attempts to disguise his crime by declaring that the hump under the blanket is his new son and not the sheep. The Night in the Middle Ages was a presentation of studies in medieval literature and a Christ mas festival. Scene from "The Second Shepherds Play" which was presented as part of The Night In The Middle Ages held In the Bulldog Room. Participat ing in the drama was (left to right) John Roberts, Charles Llneberger, Woody Wadsworth, Stan Napier, Wanda Haynes, and Beverly Bahakel (not pictured). A Christmas Wish For G-W Students Take Off On Clement C. Moore’s "A Visit From St. Nleholu” Your Happy Shopping Store g, rim ^[Anior Shop boy-cut jeans 6.88 FOR SHOWING THE GIRL YOU ARE I From our new teen world, grett-looking flares with the 0ccent on sleek fit. Purists pick ribless corduroys with double-stitched patch pock ets .. . then change off to bikini-cuts in classic cotton denim with the very-new super-flare legs. Add to the look with boy shirts or skin ny-rib turtleneck'tops. Twat the night before finals, when all through the dorm Not a creature was stirring, not even the "Momi” The books were all open on the desks with care. In hopes that the end soon would be here; The students weren’t nestled all snug in their beds Because visions of test questions danced In their heads. When out on the campus there arose such a clatter. We sprang from our studies to see what was the matter Away to the windows we flew like a flash Turned off the lights and threw up the sash. The moon on the breast of the new fallen dew Gave a lustre of midday to objects below, When what to our wondering eyes should appear But the academic dean and eight tiny reindeer With a little old driver so lively and clean We knew in a moment it must be the dean. More rapid than bulldogs his coursers they came. And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name: "Now English, now Mathl now History, and French! On Science, on Business, on Music, and Physicsl To the top of the porch! to the top of the hall! Now dash away! dash away! dash away, alll" As tensions that before the finals appear When students meet with frustrations, anxieties, and fears Now up to the dorm the coursers they flew With a heart full of happiness and good news too. And then in a twinkling we heard on the ground The prancing and pawing of each little pound. As we drew in our heads and were turning around Into the dorm the dean came with a bound. A Vt'ink of this eye and a twist of his head Soon gave us to know we had nothing to dread. He gave us a smile and proclaimed the word Exams have been canceled! Come back January third. Having made us all happy—this he knows He gives us a nod and out the door he goes. He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle. And away they all flew like the down of a thistle. But I heard him exclaim ere he drove out of sight, "MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHTl"
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