MEREDITH'STATE
SOPHMORE PARTY
THE TWIG
MEREDITH-STATE
SOPHMORE PARTY
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Vol. V
Meredith College, Raleigh, N- C., FEBRUARY 26, 1926
No. 13
’29 Royally Entertains ’27
Valentine Banquet given by Freshmen
AUTISTIC liECORATIONS, ELABO
RATE MENU ANI> TALENTED
ENTERTAINERS MAKE OC-
CASION BIO SUCCESS
"The Freshman Glass at home to the
Junior Class in the dining hall at 8
o'clock, Saturday evening, February
the thirteenth, nineteen hundred an I
twenty-six.”
Bach Junior read this invitation over
at least twice to remember every bit
ol it, and then set about counting the
time which should pass before the sur
prise should come.
At last Saturday night was here—
and with it there was a surprise sure
enough when we reached the dining
hall—the spirit of St. Valentine had
surely been before us. The entire place
was lighted with tall red candles, and
the color scheme of red and white
was ably carried out from the roses
upon the tables and the hearts at each
corner, to the tiny place cards.
Soon dainty waitresses with aprons
made of red hearts appeared and the
following menu was served:
Entree
Salad Course
Ice Course
During the salad course we were
shown that the Freshmen possessed
real talent. Vivian Freeman gave a
humorous reading which was very
entertaining, after which we saw a
chorus from Broadway itself, the
strange thing being that we were able
to recognize them as Lois Newman,
Annette Boney, Pauline Powell, Josie
Moore, Hazel Hauser, and Marie Wil
liams. Margaret Jones then sang in
her own charming way, ‘Cindy."
Every one who was present said that
Edith Waters has never “done the
Charleston” any bettor than when she
concluded the entertainment with a
solo dance.
No banquet can be complete without
toasts and we surely had these—toasts
with real meaning. A telegram full
of greetings to our odd classes for the
Valentine season from Miss Carroll
gave an atmosphere for toasts. First
of all Pauline Newton gave a toast to
the Juniors to which Odessa Ainette
responded with a wish for our own
Freshman class. The toast given by
Vivian Lupton to the deans was re
sponded to by Mias Diggers in her own
sweet way. Miss Welch our dear
Dietitian was toasted by Louise
Craven. Last but not least came the
toast to the spirt oC the odd classes,
given by Clarissa Poteat. This spirit
seemed to increase as gathering at
opposite ends of the dining hall the
two classes gave hearty yells and
songs.
Surely the usual saying, “Wo had a
fine time time” is quite Inadequate to
express our feelings and we must
say that
“If a thousand miles we’d travel
On a thousand different lines,
We’d find no girls lilte the dear old
girla of 1929.”
ENGLISH CLUBS HAVE
JOINT MEETING
MISS NELL KATTLE LEWIS
Sl'EAKS TO MEREDITH AND
STATE ENGLISH CLUilS
SOUTHERN LITERATURE SUBJECT
OF DISCUSSION
At a joint meeting of the Meredith
and State College English Clubs,
Thursday night, February llth. Miss
Nell Battle Lewis gave an interesting
discussion of Southern Literature of
the present. She did not deal with
literature alone, for it cannot be con
sidered alone, so the talk was made
doubly interesting because of the po
litical situations and conditions of
the country that she mentioned.
Defeat usually results in a defense
mechanism and the South did this
after the Civil War and is Just emerg
ing from this period now. The first
literature was that of glorification,
which came after the Reconstruction.
Thomas Nelson Page, presented a pic
turesque South with all of its charm.
Joel Chandler Harris was not a true
Romanticist of this period, but was
not entirely realistic. A dialogue be
tween these two was read which show
ed clearly that they considered the
South In a romantic and picturesque
rather than a refl’stic mnnner.
Thei’e are some writers now who
try to see the South as it really is.
Miss Ellen Glasgow, of Virlginia, sud
denly burst into realism In Barren
Ground. This book deals with people
who work and live a hard life and it
is impressive because of the truth in
it. It is the most Important realistic
novel that has come out In this period.
Francis Pemberton Gaines another
realistic writer, wrote Southern Plaii-
laliov. which is extraordinarily pictur
esque. John Donald AVade is noted
for his biographies. Paul Greene is
the first realist of North Carolina in
play writing: he has changed the view
point in regard to negroes, which is
an important result of the new realistic
movement. .Iiilla Peterkin and Devoes
Haywood are native Southerners who
also ure presenting the new view point
towards negroes. The presence of a
critical attitude in the South is a very
healthy sign.
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MEREDITH TO HAVE
NEW SPORT
IIASIIUALL «K1N« 1NT1U)1)1'CE1>
The property of Meredith College
has doubled and trebled its value in
the last few days, and the poor trus
teos are heselged and stormed with
fabulous offers for this terrestlal treas
ure. Why? A mine has been dis
covered upon it! Yes, sir! For the
other day a certain enterprising young
liuly found upon the grounds on the
west Hide of dormitory D—a diamond,
huge, mammoth, beautiful, and flaw
less! Weight: several tons; size,
roughly eighty-two feet per facet;
color, a beautiful dusky, dark gray
shading Into an orange-tan. Impossi
ble, you say? Not at all.
PROF. J. H. LATANE GIVES
INTERESTING LECTURE
ON LATIN AMERICA
OUR POLICl TOWARD SOUTH
AMERICA
VIVID DESCRIPTION 01' THE
COUNTRY
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Professor John H. LatanS of Johns
Hopkins University made a very in
teresting address to the Meredith
faculty and students last Saturday
morning on Latin America. He said
that our foreign policy is in three
departments: South America being the
base of the triangle. He clearly
brought out the fact of the application
of the Monroe Doctrine in this coun
try. This doctrine has saved South
America from the fate of Africa and
Asia: one application of it was at the
time Great Britain, Germany, and
Italy intervened in Venezuela. Al
though all of our polices in South
America are not connected with the
Monroe Doctrine, it lias proved to be
very successful. The other two poli
cies which Professor Latane mentioned
are the policy of isolation toward Eu
rope and the policy of cooperation in
the Pacific. The policy of the Mon
roe Doctrine is the most used of any.
Professor Latanfi said tliat many
people have erroneous ideas of South
America. If we look at it through the
Caribbean Sea, we see the great race
problems, disorder, and strife. All of
this is not true of South America;
that country has been freer from war
in the last hundred years than any
country in the world; South America
is the most peaceful country on earth.
The west coast of South Ainerica
was described by Professor Latane
first, in a very interesting way. He
said that on part of the west coast
there is never any rain at all. The
snow-capped Andes and the cold cur
rent keep the winds from being moist.
There are very few ports on "^he west
coast because of tho Andes mountains.
The coast is formed mostly of sand-
dunes and is very desolate looking.
A very curious thing about this coast
is that there are millions of huqe
l)irrts there. They fly in great flocks,
close to tho water, and often dive into
the water for fish. South Chile is a
very beautiful country and the vege
tation is similar to that of California.
Lema is another interesting place
which Professor LatanS described. He
said that the trees and vegeiation
there are very beautiful and the
houses and walla are made of mud.
The massive buildings were described
and many other interesting facts con
cerning Lema were related by Pro-
I'essor Latane.
“The east coast of South America."
stated Professor Latan6, “is more mod
ern than the west and the cities are
similar to the cities of the United
States.” He said that Buenos Aires is
the largest city on the oast coast and
has great packing houses. It is simi
lar to Paris and has many palatial
roaidences. All of the cities are clean
and beautiful and have practically all
the modern conveniences except coal.
Tho grealoat newspaper plant In the
world is in Buenos Aires; the news
papers have a great amount of world
DOWS, but they contain nothing at all
about tho United States. The families
on the east coast generally have great
estates which they never part from.
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Senior Class Presents “Three in One”
Annual Senior Entertainment Big Success
MRS. T. W. BICKETT
SPEAKS TO MEREDITH
STUDENTS
RACE PROBLEMS DISCUSSED IN
Y. W, SUNDAY NKJHT
One of the most enlightening and
interesting talks we have had this
year was enjoyed Sunday night when
Mrs. T. W. Bickett talked to us on
the race question. Leaving out all
other races, she took up chiefly the
negro, aud our responsibility in help
ing him to prepare himself to meet
the problems of life, and to take his
p;ace as an intelligent citizen.
She Jiientioned the fact that men
were still working on this problem,
which as yet lias been unsolved. She
told of the conditions that existed in
many of the negro schools of today,
and of the inefficiency of their teach
ers aud equipment. There are three
solutions that have been suggested in
regard to the negro problem. The
first is that they should all be sent
back to Africa, from whence they were
captured and sold Into slavery: sec
ond, they should be sent to some coun
try and organized into a settlement of
their own; and third, which is the
most improbabio and disagreeable one,
is to allow them to remain in our
midst, and be permitted gradually to
be swallowed up by and merge Into
the white race. Men are divided in
their opinions on tills question. There
are those who think the negro should
be allowed equal rights with the
whites, socially, economically, and in
tellectually. There are others who
think the negro should be given a lair
chance to develop himself, and yet be
kept in his place. Then there are
those who think either way, or as the
crowd thinks.
Mrs. Bickett concluded by aay:n:5
that tho results of our efforts, and the
solution of the problem is known only
by God, and that our part is to use
Christian principles, and the teachings
of Jesus in our relations with the
negro, and leave the rest to a Higher
Power, who can solve all problems.
STUDENT VOLUNTEERS
HOLD JOINT MEETING
DUKE, STATE, WAKE I'OKEST AXD
MEIIEDITII Ri;i*RESENTi:»
3IR. W. ('. IIUCKABEE, LEADEIJ
On Tuesday evening, February IG, a
group of thinking students from Mere
dith, Duke, Wake Forest, and State
met for a friendly discussion of prob
lems and difficulties related to each
specific member of the group and all
in general. These were the students
who have surrendered their lives to
God tor service beyond tho seas, mem
bers of the inter-denominational stu
dent volunteer movement.
Mr. W. C. Huckabce of Duke led the
discussion for the evening and present
ed many worthwhile principles to the
group. He said that after thinking
over the matter for some time, that he
had come to this conclusion, namely,
MUSH AL PRO(iRAM OF SENIOR
TALENT
ORIGINAL ONE ACT FLAY “Al’l’LE
SAUCE” AND NEOKO 3IINSTKEL
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Black laces, apple sauce and stiffiy
starched pants graced, or probably dis
graced, the stage of the new auditor
ium in the first big student event at
new Meredith. In appreciatioii of the
precedent established by the sister
class of '24, the class of ’26 presented
three attractive features to a most
enthusiastic audience the evening of
February 20th.
The first of these was a musical, in
which the budding "geniuses” of the
Senior class made the most severe of
critics present admit that Meredith
would not be unrepresented on the
Metropolitan stage in future years.
Especially deserving mention were
the numbers presented by Miss Leone
Warrick.
Bernard Shaw would have blushed
with shame in thinking of his plays,
had he witnessed the performance of
the delightful one-act comedy, which
followed the minstrel. Grandma’s
pantry has never been as full of ap
plesauce as this threo-scene, one-act
play. Miss Jessie Huff as Peggy, the
“lollapaloosa” of a fiapper, with all
the arts and graces belonging to that
species of animals, made quite a hit
with the male contingent of the audi
ence with her kind of apple sauce. It
was the apple siiuce of the beautiful
lilizabcth Anne, Irene Edwards, that
made a hit with the young preacher.
Miss Bernice Hamrick, as Rev. John
Brooks, was quite the typical young
“sky" just out of college, full of zeal
for Ins work as \vell as of bashful ad
miration for the ladies.
By the end of the play the audience
was keyed up for the main feature of
the evoning. the negro minstrel, which
concluded the program and convinced
those present thiit Senior dignity had
been quite discarded. Old negro melo
dies, latest jazz songs, soothing love
songs nuulo their appeal with the uni
form background of black and white
and conventionally, “broHght the house
down with applause.” The four end
men. however, would have foolc'd any
one who dared to think they had never
seen Charleston or Alabama. No one
know more dancing stops than the two
men from Charleston, Elaine Goode
and Mary Yarborough, Appreciation
of this was shown I>y a number of
encores. The two premier end men,
Katherine Cooke and Margaret Wheel
er, were typical southern negroes in
fun-making. Margaret Wheeler looked
the part of “Henry Brown, the hottest
man in town” which she sang equally
ns realistically. Katherine Cooke was
quite a coon from the sole of her
dainty feet to the top of her little
kinky head, which, was well displayed
In her negro brogue and strut. It was
Bernice Hamrick, as interlocutor who
maintained most worthily the tradi
tional dignity of tho Senior class. A
most fitting climax was brought to the
minstrel by Mr. Sherwood Brockwell
ns Sophia in a special dance and song,
The success of the minstrel was
due largely to the direction oT Mr.
Sherwood Brockwell whose interest
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