MARCH NINETEENTH
THE TWIG
WAKE FOREST-MEREDITH
B. Y. P. I). SOCIAL
Vol. VI
Meredith College, Raleigh, N. C., MARCH 19, 1927
No. 10
State College Wins Over
Wake Forest Debaters
ST«AUGHX A>1) nOCKKS CO>f«I>'E
AK«UJrENT AND PSYCIIOLOOY
TO WIX AT MEltEIHTII
Al l)IEJ*'CE AITKECIATES
HENDERSON AM) WALKER AllLV
DEFEND NEGATIVE SIDE OF
LIGHT WINES AND «EEK
(The Tech7iician)
State College defeated Walce Forest
Saturday night, March 6, in one of the
liveliest debates ever held in the city.
The contest was held in the audito
rium at Meredith College and was
witnessed by several hundred college
students from Wake Forest, Mereditli
and State College.
The contest was opened by C. L.
Straughan, of State College, upholding
the affirmative side of the proposition,
“Resolved, that the Volstead Act
should be modified to permit the man
ufacture and sale of light wines and
beers.”
The afUrmative did not cliallenge
the Volstead Act in all its workings,
but merely the limit to which it is
now operated.
B. T. Henderson and B. W. Walker
produced very convincing reasons for
the negative and not until Dr. Brewer,
chairman of the debate, read the
Judges' decisions did the audience
know how the contest would be de
cided.
All four of the speakers exemplified
in a high degree the altevnatlon be
tween humanness and forcefulness in
delivery manner and argument. This
combination of the so-called Eingllsh
and American debating style is gener
ally regarded as the ideal for the col
lege speaker. Probably the State Col
lege speakers excelled in this respect
as the favorable re-action from the
audience would indicate. One of the
State speakers, H. H. Rogers, of Ra
leigh, was actually interrupted by ap
plause during the coui'se of his speech
when he scored a particularly effec
tive ‘human’ point.
The debate represents the debut of
State College in literary work of this
type with liberal arts colleges of North
Carolina. Open foriim contests have
been held in the past with Duke and
Carolina, but the affair last night is
the first decision contest in which a
technical school competed with a lib
eral arts college in this State.
The Judges for the occasion were:
Chief Justice Stacy, of the North Caro-
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SENIORS WIN GAME
FROM SOPHS
KATHERINE MADDRY
PRESIDENT STUDENT
BODY FOR YEAR 1927-28
ELECTED HY LARGE MAJORITY
STl'DENTS CONGRATULATE HER
The shouting has finally ceased, and
we pause once more to laud the vic
tors! The “champions” really showed
their colors that night. Who hasn’t
heard of the “champions” who for
three years have held the loving cup
for ’27?
We were about to believe there
wouldn’t bo a game. There were
plenty out to witness the contest but
no one could be found to referee. Just
as we were about to lose hope Miss
Miss Katherine Maddry, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Maddry of
Raleigh, North Carolina, a member of
the class of 1928, has been recently
elected president of the student body
for the year 1927-2S. Katherine, com
ing into our midst at the beginning of
her sophomore year, has rapidly won
for herself a place of admiration and
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respect in the hearts of her class
mates. During these two years she
has been most prominent in the col
lege life and activities and her elec
tion as student body president was not
surprising. In selecting Katherine to
fill this position, her school-mates con
ferred upon her the highest honor pos
sible, for no office in our student or
ganization is respected and admired
as is the office of student government
president.
Needless to state, we as members of
the student body feel Katherine is
admirably fitted to fill this position.
Social, patient, broad-minded, we are
prophesying great success for her In
her new position, and for the student
body with her as its lender.
MRS. C. E. MADDRY
ADDRESSES MEREDITH
GIRLS AT VESPER
“PEOPLE 1 HAVE MET”
THEME OF HER TALK
SPEAKER l»ELTOHTED AUDIENCE
Vesper service Sunday evening,
March 13. was one of the most inter
esting and helpful services of this
year. Following the devotional exer
cises led by Odessa Arnette and a
violin solo by Constance Ellis, Mrs.
Charles Maddry gave us a talk, using
as her theme “Glimpses of People 1
Have Seen.” In developing these
characters Mrs. Maddry pointed out
the one main characteristic of each
that should be of great benefit. The
first of these characters was Agnes
MADAME CARO DELVAILLE
“J'HE HASOUE COUNTRY
AND PEOPLE” SUHJECT
DELIGHTS AUlHENCE
Friday, March the fourth, was a red-
letter day in the eyes of Meredith
French students. For several weeks
we had looked forward with eager ex
pectation to the coming of Madame
Caro Delvaille, who is from Paris, and
is now giving lectures In several col
leges of the United States. As this
was her second visit to Meredith she
was given a most hearty welcome.
On Friday afternoon at five o’clock
the more advanced French students
assembled in Miss Allen’s classrooms
where we heard a most interesting
‘couserie’ on “Les Pr6cieuses.” This
term is applied to the highly affected
and exaggerated forms of speech used
in the fashionable drawing-rooms dur
ing a certain period of French history.
The speaker told of the leaders and
most careful observers of this new
language.
In the evening the real lecture was
given, wliich was a discourse on “The
Basque Country and People.” Here
again Madame Caro Delvaille showed
remarkable skill in presenting a sub
ject with which she seemed quite fa
miliar. This lecture was illustrated
with slides of the Basque people, their
homes, and country.
The Basque country is a section in
the southwest corner of France. Here
live a unique people with their own
particular dialect and customs. They
are rather sturdily built, with small
and unusually shaped eyes and long
heads. The short coat-like blouse is
a very .characteristic part of the men's
costume. The women wear long, sim
ple dresses with full skirts and short
waists. Outdoor sports are greatly
enjoyed by the young men. Their
homes for the most pai t are crude and
unattractive. Modes of travel are very
simple.
Many other things were told of
these people, which made the lecture
both profitable and interesting. Mad
ame Caro Delvaille spoke rather slow
ly and distinctly for a foi’eigner, and
so all who heard her were able to un
derstand the greater part of what she
said. Her visit to Meredith will long
be remembered and we shall always
be happy to welcome her back again.
Astrotekton Society
Presents “Green Stockings”
JUNIOR CLASS ELECTS
PRESIDENT FOR
COMING YEAR
MILDIiED ALLEN ALMOST
UXAXIMOUSLY CHOSEN
JUNIOR RECITAL STAGED
IN AUDITORIUM
LARGE XUMHER OF STUDENTS
AND FACULTY ATTEND
OCCASION ENJOYED
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On Monday evening at eight-thirty
o’clock the Junior music students gave
their annual recital in the college au
ditorium. Every number of the well-
balanced and varied program was ren
dered beautifully and artistically. The
audience greatly appreciated and en
joyed the selections and looks forward
with pleasure to the recital of each of
these girls next year. The program
was as follows;
PROGRAM
Andante and Scherzettino Cliamhiade
Isabelle McLeod
Gondoliers Moszkotoski
Geneva Yeargan
Miss Alildred Allen, of Warrenton
has been elected President of the
Senior Class for the year 1927-28. It
is with great pleasure that we an
nounce her election for no member
of the class of ’28 is more lovable or
beloved by her classmates and school
mates than is Mildred. Attractive and
charming with a kind word for all,
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ANNUAL SOCIETY PLAY
i>i:ligiits lauge audience
PLAY A HUGE SU(^IESS
she has been most influential through-
6ut her entire college career and her
friends are many and varied.
Mildred has been on the Twia staff
during the past year, and several
times has served as commencement
marslial. As president of the in-com-
ing Senior Class, we feel she will
portray even greater talents than we
have hitherto discovered. Heretofore
rather reserved and retiring, she will
now be given the opportunity of exer
cising lier executive and creative
abilities and we are expecting great
things of her. Her many friends wish
to congratulate Mildred for the great
honor v/hich has been conferred upon
her.
MISS BROCKWELL
IN RECITAL
Green (itockmys, a comedy in three
acts, by A. E. W. Mason, was presented
by members of the Astrotekton Liter
ary Society in the College auditorium.
Saturday evening, March 12. It was
the f^rst play given by local talent
at Meredith this season.
The story of the play is an un
usually good one. full of action, atmos
phere, comedy, pathos, and other dra
matic qualities. It is essentially Eng
lish. the plot having as a basis the
old English custom which forces the
oldest daughter, if unmarried, to wear
green stockings at the wedding of a
younger sister. Celia Faraday, the
eldest of the four Faraday sisters, has
twice been forced to carry out this
custom at the weddings of her two
younger sisters, Madge and Evelyn.
As the play begins, we find that
Phyllis, the youngest sister, a charm
ing and pretty, but thoughtlessly sel
fish girl of twenty, is engaged to
Robert Tarver, an empty-headed but
attractive young swell. Her father,
William Faraday, will not permit them
to marry until Celia marries, and the
whole family is quite disturbed. Celia,
they say, just isn't marriageable!
Celia, returning from a visit in
Southampton, discovers the intense
feeling the family has concerning her,
and, on the spur of the moment, an
nounces that she, too, is engaged. Led
on by the others, she follows one story
with another. She gives her fianc6
the name of John Smith, colonel, in
charge of a regiment of British sol-
dies in Somaliland, West Africa. The
girls insist on her writing to him, and,
unknowingly to her, the letter is
mailed. For eight months. Celia
reigns supreme in the household. Her
whims and desires must be granted,
and she is beset by many suitors who
seem to have recognized her worth
only after she belongs to some one else.
One morning. Aunt Ida, who has been
“let in” on the secret, has an an
nouncement of Colonel Smith's death
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STAGE UEAUTIFULLY ARRANGED
SINGER DELIGHTS AUDIENCE
(2i'ewn and Observer)
On Friday evening in the Meredith
College Auditorium occurred the gra
duation ifcital of Miss Mildred Louis
Brockwell.
Miss Brockwell possesses a voice of
extreme natural beauty and sweetness
of quality. In addition to her excellent
voice she also has a most gracious way
of presenting herself to her audience.
The reserved legato quality of tone
that was used on the "In the Time of
Roses.” by Reichardt, showed excellent
control of a well placed voice.
A dramatic quality was well dis
played in th e Aria "Vissi d’Arte”
from Puccini’s opera Tosca.
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FRESHMEN MEET JUNIORS
FOR LAST TIME
.IINIORS WIN r.4-S6
The most exciting situation during
the basketball season occurs when
both sides of the contestants have each
won a game, and there is one game
to go. Such was the situation wRen
the Freshmen and Junior teams came
together on March 8.
The Juniors started out in the lead,
with Mary Browning throwing goals
as fast as she could get the ball in her
hands. At the end of the first quarter
the Juniors were far in the lead, but
at the end of the second quarter the
Freshmen team had only six points to
gain to make the score a tie. How
ever. in the last the Juniors regained
the pep they started out with and won
the game 54-30.