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Vol. II
Meredith College, Raleigh, N. C., December 1. 1922
GLEE CLUB GIVES
CONCERT IN CARY
AIHM5AUS IX FIKST 0)>01iUT OF
TIIK SLASOJf AS TAUT 01’
' CHAU'l'AUQUA
On Tuesday night, November 22, the
Glee Club made Its first appearance
of the season under the auspices of
the patrons ot the Cary High School.
The program was composed of solos,
duets and unlcjue songs. A most en
joyable part oE the concert was sev
eral guitar selections. This onter-
tainnient beiug the opening feature of
tlie Home Ghaiitauciua, there was a
good number of town people who at
tended as well as faculty and students
of the High School.
After the coucert the ladies of Cary
showed their appreciation to the mem
bers ot the Glee Cluh by giving an
informal reception for them iti the
library of tho school.
GODS REASSEMBLE
ON MOUNT OLYMPUS
»EW MEMRKUS IMTIATJHH AT
FIJlST MLETING OF CLASSICAL
CLUB
After completing business upon earth
among mortal men during the sum
mer months, tho gods and goddesses
(the charter menjhers of tho classical
club) reassembled November 14, to
hold council upon Mount Olympus.
Pallas Athene, Ruth Uivermou, was
master of covomouies. Mercury. Mabel
West, flew to earth and swiftly re
turned to Mount Olympus, bringing
Into the assembly, one at a time,
eighteen new members. After a word
of welcome from the patron goddess
those were enrolled, according to their
grades on their classical subjects,
either in the Senatorial, or Equestrian
01‘der. These groups are subject to
change each month.
Bach of the gods and goddesses intro
duced himself—Minerva, Uuth Llver-
mou; Venus, Tura Thompson; Ceres,
Ruth Yelvington: Bacchus, Clara Mae
JosBup; Zeus, Lela Cobb; Diana, Janie
Britton; Hebe, Marie Horn; Juno,
Daphne Owens; Apollo, Elizabeth Ken
drick, and Mara, Alice Lowe. The
Senators and Equestrians were privl-
legd to select the god or goddess whom
they wished to follow.
Thereupon the meeting was con
verted Into feasting and revelry, while
Bacchus, the god of wine, and Hebe,
tho cup bearer, served nectar and am
brosia, the food of the gods.
WOMAN AS PORTRAYED
IN MODERN FICTION
Ml{. Sl'UAltT KOnEIlTSOy i)V X. C,
STAl’E Ol>EJfS PH0GUA5I OF
>K\V I'lNGLlSH CLUIl
•‘Novels portray either the present
or past social life of the people,” said
Mr. Stuart Robinson,' of the State Col
lege English Department, addressing
the English Club November 16. Haw
thorne and Cooper are standard au
thors in an earlier period who deal
with tho past social life, while Mrs.
Wharton's Age of Imioccnce and Her
gcsheimcr’s Three Black Pennic*.? deal
with the present social life.
The women of former times were,
as Kipling says, "Juat women,” but
today thoy are more than that, for the
change iu women’s lives produces a
variety of types of women now por-
tj'ayed in navels. The heroine of for
mer times was unmarried at the be
ginning of the story, but finally mar
ried at the conclusion. Modern iictlon
opens with a married horoine and
usually ends In an opposite manner.
"Tliero are two types of writers,"
further stated Mr. Robertson, "flrBt,
thoso who draw pictures of home life,
and sccond, those who draw pictures
but Inject criticism.” Kathleen Nor-
rias and Fannie Hurat both draw a
picture of family life. Wllla Cather
Is better than Kathleen Norrlss be
cause she has feeling but does not allow
It to run into aentimentalism. She is
not loyal to the South, and although
southern born, she is not a southern
writer. These are clever writers cleal-
ing with home life, but the characters
are too ordinary.
The second type of authors, those in
jecting criticism, is shown in the works
of Hergesheinier and Booth Tarklngton,
who are alike clever in satire and
show ability of writing. There is evi
dently .something striking about .Vui?i
is/j'cct for it has shaken tho country
like Uncle Tom's Cabin. Carol, repre-
.sentlng the new type ot woman, pro
tests against her kind of living. Bab
bitt is funny reading. It la the story
of a man and his wife who live in a
bungalow just like hundreds of other
such dwellings. Sinclair Lewis pro
tests against the form of life wo are
living. He attempts, and In a large
measure proves, that there is not
enough Individuality among the people.
H. 6. Wells is best in business today.
He is a man of real imagination and
creative ability. Galsworthy also shows
real ability. Barrie and Kipling are
now in the backgroiind. while // Wiw-
(Oontimed on page .j)
PRES. POTEAT LECTURES
TO STUDENT BODY
HliJtEDlTY 'I’HK Sl'lMKli: OV A
SElUJiS OF TIIKLE
LECTU15ES
“Every living thing has protoplasm
in it; that is the reason they are alive.
Likewise all people hiwe protoplasm
in them,” alarmed Dr. William l.onis
Poteat, president of Wake Forest Col
lege, to a large audience Tuesday eve
ning, October 20, in the first of a series
of three lectures on “Heredity.” This
locturn formed a basis for the two fol-
lowijig lectures.
“Whether you like it or not you are
akin to all that lives, not merely the
humbler members ot the vegetable
ingdom as well; we nil derive physic .1
life from the same source,” he declared
after explaining that protoplasm is
the substance of life.
Ho further explained that while pro
toplasm may be analyzed chemically
very easily, it is so complex in fonn
that a chemist has never or may never
reproduce It. To illustrate this com
plexity of form, he cited the replica of
the statue of Venus de Milo standing
at the end of the hallway of the col
lege. Ho said that If you should take
he statue and shatter it into fragments
and put them in a sack, you would
still have all the chemical elements
together with the lime carbonate of
which the statue was composed, but
would not have the architectural fo3-m
which makes the Venus de Milo.
Discussing briefly the similarity of
the protoplasmic properties of irrila-
bility, ccntrfectiUty, and respiration in
both unicellular and multicellular or
ganisms, Dr. Poteat turned to the prop
erty of reproduction to which he de
voted most of his address. After dis
tinguishing between sexual and non-
sexual reproduction, division without
union, Dr. Poteat traced tho process
of division In splrogyra, the fern and
the fish, beginning, however, with the
reproduction of tho miicelled^organism,
the amcBba. In this way he showed
how a new animal or plant is made.
This lecture was somewhat technical,
because It formed the necessary basis
for the other two lectures, but It was
so illumined throughout with varying
Illustrations that the most unscientific
mind could grasp the moaning and be
pleased with it.
Heredity determines our nature; our
Inborn gifts and passions; it decides
the limitations or boundaries beyond
which we cannot go, “stated Dr. Poteat
fOontinucd on paoe -iJ
No. '6
CHEMISTRY CLUB HEARS
CAPTAIN GEORGE COX
FOlOIKIt I'l'l'IL OF iUTK. CUJUli
SPJ’AKS OX 1{ELA1']0> UK’I'WEliN
CflKMlSTRY AM> KLECTKICll’Y
The Curie Chemistry Club, at Its reg
ular meeting, .Monday, November 20,
was fortunate Jn having as its speaker,
Japtain George Cox, professor of Elec
trical Engineering at the State College.
Capt. Cox has worked with .Madam
Curie in her laboratory in France and
ho spoke delightfully of his experience
there.
Contrasting the French and American
student he said that ihe French lay
special emphasis upon dclail, while the
American student Is for quatiiity.
Capt. Cox spoke cbleHy of Ihe Elec
tronic Conception of the Atom and
showed how the electron had made all
sciences one.
The barriers which once existed be
tween Physics. Chemistry and lliology,
setting apart each as a separate and
distinct subject, can no longer exist if
the electron be accepted as the starting
point of each.
Ho spoke more particularly of the
relation between Chemistry and Elec-
triclcy as illustrated in the bulb used
In Radio Telephony.
The Club focls much indebted to
Capt. Cox for his inspiring talk. He
iias kindly consented to give a con
tinuation ot his lecture at an early
date.
The entertainment oommitte^aerved
ice cream and cake at the clo.se of the
program.
TEA nOOM Ol’EXS
Remember, girls, the Meredith Tea
Room is still open every Tuesday and
Friday from 4:30 to 6:30. Save up
your money and come over to visit us.
We appreciate your patronage. We
hope that we can make enough money
to send onr delegates to the Blue Ridge
Conference next summer without any
other help except the Bazaar, which
will be hold about the middle of De-
cember—and we can do It if you will
co-operate.
Help us take care of the kitchenette
by cleaning it up and putting tho
dishes away after you h-ave finished
cooking. Remember thoy must not be
taken to your rooms, but thoy are for
everybody to use In the kitchenette.
I kissed a girl,
I got the oollc
Say now. how could I know
The rouge she used contained carbolic?-
How could she treat me so?