The Twig
Published Weekly by the Student Body of
Meredith College
Stait
Editors-hi-Chlcf
Liihk Pkntox Evei.yn Biudokr
CO.NTRIIIUTOIIS
Mauy M. Joukson Jamik Maunky
AIaKY JjEK CAr.DWELf,
Senior CItiaa
Bkatkicb N’Yr: Katherine Brown
•Junior Clasx
Roth Livermon Gi.ai>vs Leonard
Sniihomirc Vlnss
Frances Cherry, Fivghnuin Class
EDITORIALS
Due to tlie strike which is on among the
printers of the State, the Twig has not ap
peared for two weeks. A break just at
this time was rather an unfortunate occur
ence since our paper is just now in the mak
ing. The girls, however, have maintained
their usual good spirit and have manifes
ted contiimed interest. In this issue our
paper appears for the last time during the
session ’20-21. The staff turns over The
Twig to the 1921-22 board with all wishes
for tlie gi’eatest and best possible success.
Tlie Twig has had fair success in its
course of development—it has achieved a
record of whicli the editors are justly
pvonil. Letters have come in from alum
nae, former membei’s of the faculty and
friends expressing their admiration as well
as their best wishes for the future success
of the papci'. In one section of this issue
^^e are printing' a letter from an alumna
of tlie class of 1911. Read it, and if The
Twig lias impressed you likewise tell us
about it. Enthusiasm and interest are' in
strumental in tlie initial stages of such an
undertaking. Success is dependent upon
them.
Of course, everybody is happy about the
approaching vacation. And even a thought
about returning to school casts a glciorfi on
the horizon. But it is important that each
one have firmly fixed in her mind the
knowledge that she will come back in the
fall. When we get home that idea may
become blurred by the many good times,
the talk of “hard times,” the thought of
independence. But in this day of efficiency
and specialization it is essential that each
one of us be prepared for our careers.
And the best recognized school of prepara
tion is a standard college. Let the re
turn of the students next fall be 100 per
cent. Be loyal to your college, your world,
and yourself.
In their ai’guments against Sunday
Seliool roll-call, the exponents of the honor
system have failed to take into account
liow easy it is to fool your conscience to
suit your purpose. The opponents of Sun
day School roll call claim that the girls will
not only go to Sunday School if tliey are
put on their honor but will want to go.
This has not been proven true by count
less Senior classes whose privilege it was
to go Sunday School and church on their
honor. It has not been proven true by the
under classmen in the short time we have
had the honor system for them. How easy
it is to say on a dismal autumn day,.a cold
winter day, or a lazy spring day, “I’d
like to go to church to-day, but I just don’t
feel like it; I really ought to go to the In
firmary, but I think if I stay in bed this
morning and rest I’ll get better without
bothering ‘Son,” and then the “indis
posed” one settles do^vn to a thrilling
novel, or a magazine, or a back English
tlieme that just must be handed in on Mon
day. And your honor is appeased because
you are really not feeling good—nobody
does after a late Saturday night reception
or entertainment, but it is surprising how
much better you feel by twelve o’clock.
By that time the campus or a lazy prome
nade makes its appeal and you are immedi
ately better.
When the girls do go to Sunday School
iu large groups they feel so unnecessary to
the life of the Sunday School they are just
a bunch of strangers forced on a peaceful
Sunday School, who has to make provision
for them. This attitude on the part of the
girls is not just to tlie churches of the town,
but it is a mighty hard attitude to change.
The girls are I'ight when they say they
like to go to church at home. They have
the feeling of belonging there. It is impos
sible on account of the numbers to make
every girl individually useful hei*e. How
ever unfair it is, the girls are sensitive to
this and consequently in large part, will
not go unless they are made to go. In a
Christian college there should be no hesita
tion in malting girls go to church against
their inclination. There are plenty of
state schools for girls \\'ho are not the
church going kind.
GRAND CONCERT PROGRAM MON-
DAY NIGHT.
Concerto Vivaldi-Nachez
Allegro
Largo
Presto
Ensemble Class
Song
Break 0’ Day Sanderson
Janet Holoman
Piano
Prelude Op. 23 No. 5 Rachmaninoff
Mary Lee Caldwell
Song
Homing Dei Riego
Pauline Patton
Violin
Meditation Coltenet
From the Canebrake Gardner
Andontino : Martini-Kreisler
Margaret Pope
Chorus
Sunset Abt
Piano
Kamennoi-Ostraw Op. 10 Rubinstein
The Trout Shubert-Heller
Nellie Olive
Song
A Spring Fancy Densmore
Annabel Bridger
Organ
Offertoire Dominor Batiste
Carolyn Mercer
Piano
Eigoletto (Paraphrase) Verde-Liszt
Ruth Goldsmith
Song
Bell Song (Lakrae) Delibes
Mi*s. Joe Correll
Chorus
Hail to Thee Smart
Maid—‘ ‘ 0 Madam! the master is lying
unconscious in the hall with a large box
beside him and crushing a paper in his
hand!”
Mistress—“Then my new hat has ar
rived at last.”
Husband—“You never kiss me except
when you want money.”
Wife—“‘Well isn’t that often enough?”
Wife (complainingly)—“You used to
say before we were married that I was a
dream.”
Hub—“You were. A dream is some
thing that one wakes up from and dis
covers that it wasn’t so. ’ ’
In Massacliusetts a man who speaks ten
tongues has just married a woman who
speaks seven.
We arc betting on the lady.
STUDENT OPINION
In Defense of Sunday School Roll Call