Kaieisrh, R C.
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Exams Are
Over I
THE TWIG
Attend The
Study Classes!
Vol. IV
Meredith College, Raleigh, N. C., February 6, 1925
No. 10
Reception Given for Seniors and
Friends by Dean of Women
MISS COVINGTON ENTKETAIN8 SENIORS, EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
ANII SEVERAL FRIENDS IVITII A RECEPTION
Tbe members of the Senior Class
received, with much pleasure, some
days ago, this invitation.
In honor of
TUR SiSNiOK Class of Mekeditii Colleob
Miss Covington
WirX BB AT IIOMB
ON WEDNEaUAY, THE TWENTV-EIGHTII OF
Januaj{V fhom 8:30 till 10:00
College Pabloiis, Raleigh
North Carolina
A second invitation was given each
Senior to send to—(as the poets say!)
—her “Young man." The guests were
met by Elaine Goode and Blanch
Stokes, two of the several juniors who
were assisting the hostess, and were
presented to Miss Covington, to Miss
Carrol and to Miss Vlrgie Harvllle,
president of the Senior Class.
On the table in the hall stood a most
charming miniature Ecnior. A doll
about two feet tall was dressed in the
dignified cap and gown, and—tlie usual
badge of scholarship—horn-rlmmed
spectacles!
In the bank blue parlor, an eager
group continually surrounded the table
where fortunes were being told. The
future of each, who sough't to know,
was skillfully and—without doubt—ac
curately, foretold.
After all the guests had arrived,
numbers were drawn to see who were
to he partners for the contest. When
each one had found his partner, a
slip of paper with this legend on it,
was handed each couple:
1 A spoony couple.
2 Sweet sixteen.
3 Something to adore.
4 Can’t be beat.
5 Keeping Lent.
6 Maid of Orleans.
7 Music in the air.
8 Cold regions.
9 Root of evil.
10 Paradise lost.
11 Pleasant quarters.
12 Made between young people.
13 Goes to waste.
14 Something used in erasing.
15 Something used in serving.
16 It rains.
17 The coveted goal.
The solutions of the puzzle were
suggested by various objects placed
around in the different rooms. A
boiled egg was what “can't '.-e beat,”
an umbrella was the correct answer
for “Keeping Lent,”—some “bones”
were the “Paradise Lost”—and the
others were equally original.
Three couples tried for the prize;
the one to draw the lucky number was
Miss Blanch Dellinger. Miss Covlng-
t^on made a most appropriate speech
of presentation, and after the prize
was awarded. Miss Martha Livermon
and Prank Trantham were asked to
come forward and receive the booby
prize.
Delightful refreshments, consisting
of block ice cream in yellow and
orange {the Senior Colors) and
cakes were served by the Juniors who
were assisting the hostess. The old
but still expressive "a nice time was
had by all" does not adequately tell
what a lovely time each Senior had
at Miss Covington’s party.
LOVE
Love is like a trunk—if you don’t
check it in time, you have to express
it! Love is what tempts a man to tell
foolish lies to a woman and a woman
to tell the fool truth to a man.
Love is misery sweetened with
imagination, salted with tears, spiced
with doubt, flavored with novelty and
swallowed with your eyes shut. ,
Love Is only an episode In a man's
life, but the entire history of a woman’s
life. —The Loy.
THE CYNICS
Eric Stuart: Ho, hum, there is
nothing new under the sun.
Sturrock: You’re right; and there
Is an awful lot of old stulf pulled off
under the moon.—The Gateway.
MAKE IT >VORTll WHILE
Prof: I take great pleasure In giv
ing you 81 in Math.
Stude: Aw, make it a 100 and en
joy yourself.—Orange O^ol.
“And do you really love me?”
“Yes,” said the young doctor. “The
mere sight of you, Isabella, sots up
violent cardiac disturbances, superin
duces dryness of the palate, epiglottis
and larynx and brings on symptoms
of vertigo.”—Ex.
PRIZE OPEN TO
ALL STUDENTS
ONLY SOUTHERN COLLEGES CAN
COMPETE FOR PRIZES
OFFERED
Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 31.—The Com
mission on Inter-racial CoGperation,
with headquarters in this city, an
nounces the offer of three prizes of
one hundred dollars, fifty dollars, and
twenty-five dollars respectively, for
the three best orations or essays on
race relations, submitted by students
In Southern white colleges during the
present school year. The only condi
tion of entrance of any oration or es
say is that it shall have been delivered
on some public college occasion this
year, or published in a college maga
zine. The contestants are free to
choose any phase of the general sub
ject of race relations and to treat it
as they see (it. The purpose of the
contest is to encourage study and dis
cussion of this subject among college
students.
Letters announcing the offer are go
ing out to the presidents of all the
colleges in the thirteen rSouthern
states, including Oklahoma and Ken
tucky. For the information of Inter
ested students, the Commission is get
ting out also a statement embodying
full particulars as to the contest, with
suggestive topics and reading list.
TOPICS FOR THOUGHT AND
DISCUSSION
1 The success of the Twio.
2 The Honor System at Meredith.
3 State Legislation.
4 The importance of the study
of the classical languages.
5 The relation of music to life.
6 Constructive and Destructive
Literature.
7 Efficient College Curricula.
8 Well-rounded students’ activities.
9 The importance of reading good
literature.
10 The kinship between the fine
arts.
THOUGHTS
There is no
Experience
In our mind
That can
Send blissfully
Exhilarating thrills
Down one’s
Spinal column,
Waft the spirit
On tbe magic
Wings of
Ecstacy,
Send tbe
Blood tingling
Through one’s
Veins,
Give one
A renewed
Belief in the
Sunshine
of life,
As having exams
In the past
And spring
Near at hand.
MISS PARKER TALKS
ON CUBA IN Y. W. A.
VESPER SERVICE MADE INTER-
ESTING BY TALK ABOUT CUBA
At the Vesper Service Sunday Miss
Janie Parker of the music faculty told
of her visit to Cuba during her Christ
mas vacation. Since she d'id not visit
the places of interest to the usual
run of tourists her talk was especially
interesting to her audience. Not many
tourists care to visit the ugly little
Baptist Mission. And yet the color
and gayety of Cuba did not escape
Miss Parker. Columbus called it the
land of beauty, and so it remains to
this day. Everything in Cuba is bril
liant—the birds, the houses, the auto
mobiles. There were many things
which seemed strange to people from
other lands; no women were seen on
the streets—only men were in evidence.
The women keep out of sight. Instead
of the one-way system of streets the
vehicles In Cuba go any way the fancy
of the driver takes them, left side,
right side or middle, straight or
across, Miss Parker stopped at a hotel
which was supposedly American, and
where English was spoken, but to her
the jargon sounded like Babel.
Miss Parker’s talk was most inter
esting and all those who heard her
went away with a feeling of thankful
ness for having come to Y. W. A.
Societies Give Plays Written by
Advanced Composition Class
“rHE HOUND PUP” PLAY OF
MOUNTAINEERS GIVEN BY
PH PS.
The members of the Phillaretian
Literary Society were pleasantly and
undeservedly surprised Saturday
night, January the thirty-first, by the
presentation of a one-act play written
by our long-admired prodigy, Leone
Warrick. We have often remarked
and always recognized her literary
ability, but we had never seen it
publicly and so substantially demon
strated.
The play was entitled “The Hound
Pup”—a very appropriate name, as
the hound pup played a very Import
ant and amusing part. The author
drew most of the characters from
real life, and as a result the two old
brothers, who had not spoken to each
other for twenty years, were well-
drawn as two very real irascible old
men. The writer knew the people and
country which she presented and,
therefore, knew whereof she wrote.
All of the parts were well played
and highly appreciated by the delight
ed audience, whence one could hear
every few seconds an explosive
chuckle or irrepressible giggle, as
some one was reminded of a similar
person she knew.
The characters were as follows:
Miss Dealinger (a settlement work
er) Ruth Trnesdell
Rev. Mr. Weston (a local evangelist)
Crys Davis
Dempsey Bailey (a grizzled mountain
eer who has a long-standing grudge
against his brother, Marcus)
Leone AVarrick
Marcus Bailey (Dempsey’s mild-man-
nered younger brother
Winnie Rickett
Also several men and women, guests
at the party.
The major part, Dempsey Bailey,
played by the author, who thereby
added more laurels to her crown,
showed an unusual understanding and
humorous interpretation of the old
man's character. Miss Denlinger,
played by Ruth Truesdell, is an elder
ly, tactful, sympathetic settlement
worker. The part was played very
well in a dignified, poised way. Rev.
Mr. W^eston, whose part was taken by
Crys Davis and acted with feeling,
very akin to reality, was a typical,
far-sighted, chicken-loving country
preacher. Marcus Bailey, played by
Winnie Rickett in her always delight
ful manner, showed a timidity and
humility uncommon to man. The men
and women and children, played by
various and sundry of our other stage
celebrities, displayed a keen zest for
the well-known game, "going to Je
rusalem,” and furnished the audience
with some minutes of childish excite
ment.
Dempsey Bailey is a natural product
of the Ivills of Western North Carolina,
and so is his brother, but Dempsey
resembles more the stern and un
changing surroundings of his neigh
boring hills. Long ago the two
brothers quarrelled over the fencing
in of some land and because of the
fact that Marcus refused to give to
Dempsey one of his hound pups “to
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ASTROTEKTONS PRESENT CLEVER
PLAY BY MARGARET
WHEELER
A most attractive poster outside
the dining room door attracted tbe
attention of the Astrotektons on Sat
urday morning to the play that was
to be given in their society that night.
The feature of the poster was tbe
sketch of a beautiful blonde. Below
it were the words: “The Prettiest
Girl”, a one-act play by Margaret
heeler. This play was written for
the class in Advanced Composition
and was recommended to the Society
by Dr. Julia Harris.
The crowded society hall attested to
the confidence and interest the mem
bers had in their fellow society mem
ber’s ability and the enthusiasm witb
which the play was received strength
ened this sentiment.
The story was not at all impossible.
Indeed the fact that it could happen
in most any college community added
to the interest of it. It was spicy
and humorous. The acting was good.
The only fiaw was the fact that tbe
point of the ending was slightly mis
interpreted. The plot is as follows:
A college boy, Fred, who was most
successfully impersonated by Miss
Rath Janet Sikes, had fallen desper
ately in love with a girl whom he
had only seen one time in a railway
station. He had discovered that she
was a student at a neighboring insti
tution, and had written her a letter,
addressing it to “The Prettiest Girl
at Pembroke College.” In the mean
time he had given his room mate,
Dick, no peace. Her dreamy eyes
were the sources of topics for conver
sation almost constantly. Dick, who
was himself engaged to a pretty girl,
was naturally inclined to become im
patient with his friend at times but
finally agreed to accompany him to
Pembroke College where he was a fre
quent visitor, to look up "The Pret
tiest Girl."
The climax came when the “Pret
tiest Girl” arrived on the scene. Dick
triumphantly appropriated her and
the love-sick Fred was quite disillu
sioned to discover that his girl of the
station was his room-mate fiance.
Miss Ruth Leary In golf-knickers
made quite a hit as the modern col
lege boy and Miss Margaret Cone
Tucker, one of the most beautiful
girls at Meredith was quite as beauti
ful in her role of the “Prettiest Girl
at Pembroke.”
Another feature of tlie Society
meeting was the presence of two of
the former presidents, Mrs. Dave
ViinSant, formerly Beulah Rowland,
president in 1922-1923 and Nell Ben-
thull of the class of ’24. Each of
the presidents made a short talk and
reoelved a hearty ovation from the
society at large.