THE TWIG
Vol. VIII
Published Weekly by Students of Meredith College, Raleigh, N. C., October 11, 1928
No. 4
Series of Lectures
Given by Dr.
Everett Gill
MUCH ENTHUSIASM
SHOWN BY STUDENTS
ISTEKKSTING AM) KEXEFlCIAl
IDEAS GIVEN
In a series of intereatlug lectures on
last Thursday and Friday, Dr. Everett
Gill, who is ill charge of Baptist -work
in eastern Europe, presented the situa
tion ol the European field as it is
today.
The first lecture was devoted to a
study of geography. In this study he
gave £our reasons for the Interest of
Americans la Europeans. In the first
place,' they are the same raco aa we.
Secootl, growing out of tiie fli'St, they
have the same civilization that we have,
In the thjril place, Europe is our old
home. Wa'\r.re luorely Europeans liv
ing in another part oC the world. And,
last, Europe Is the second home of
Christianity.
The second lecture of the series was
concerned with the psychology of the
Europeans. Roughly, speaking, they
are divided into three classes and thoii'
eharaoteristlcs vary with these divi
sions. In Nortnoru Europe we have
the group known as the Nordics. They
are the business men, aggressive and
powerful. They, It is Interesting to
note, arc the fighting Christians and
consequently, the missionaries. On the
Mediterranean are the intellectuals and
East of the Adriatic the Slavs, who are
the eniotionals.
The. Bc.ntiny of the Whiia Hacc was
the suggestive title o£ the third ilis-
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Philaretlans Hold
Impressive Installation
Ceremony
SERVICES DIGNIFIED
AND SERIOUS
HEW MEMBEKS DKLrOH'l’E 1) WITH
KEOEl’TIOJS AFI ERWARDS
At nljout seven-thirty o’cloclc, Satiu’-
day night, October the sixth, many
white-clad freshmen eagerly awaited
the coming of the old members of the
Phiiaretian Literary Society to .take
them to the inBtallation service. The
prospective niemhers met in the li
brary before going up to the I’hl Hall,
Aliont sovonty-Lwo now nlembers were
Inatnlled, among whom was Ma
demoiselle Pascalc, onv nnw French
teacher, Dotoro the new mombors
wore Tcccived several old members
were litBlalloil, Avho had not before
been olticially insLallod. Those were
Martha Mcdlln, Ava Woody, Ann
Harris, Leila Knotts, Dorothy Law-
:rence, and Luis Arnette.
'i'lie sorvico was very beautiful aud
dlgnKlcd. The wliltc dresses, soft
lights, and lovely music wero enchant-
ingiy impressive. MIsa Mivry Martin
In Anticipation of
the State Fair
HOPE TO RE
GRANTED HOLIDAY
ST,VTi;.MAKE lOKEST FOOTIJALL
iA3IE SAXE -WKElv
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It is often held by those who claim
to know—that anticipation is always
greater than realization. Some of \is
will agi'ee with this statement and
probably others, on the contrary, will
disagree. At any rale we can account
for the difTiculty of realizing what wc
look forward to by remembering tliat
it is often so high as to he almost un-
attainal)le. Yet how many of ua would
bo willing to lower our powers of im
agination to such a degree that we
could no longer dream of Impossible
happenings? Surely not many of us.
So wo like to stretch our imagina
tions and picturo ourselves nt the big
Slate Fair which Is to be held for the
llrst time on the new preniiaes about
a mile and a half from our campus.
The splendid new buildings which we
can easily see in the distance serve aa
a constant reminder to ua that the week
of October 22d to 27th will soon be
here. We do ao hope we will he granted
a holiday aud all have a big day of It
together. Maybe some of us have not
even Ijeen to such a thing aa a State
Fair in all our life-time. Others of us
have not attended one for several
years and would like to see "what it’s
all about” and how things have
changed. When we went before we
were too small lo “take It all In." Wc
just went to l>e in the crowd and to
ride on all tlie morry-go-rounda and
ferria wlioela until we hadn’t r single
nickel left. Now all of us are old
enough to get some real benefit from
a day at the Fair. Even those who’ve
])een every year since tliey were "kids”
ciin sec aonie things they didn’t see
before.
If we do go, we wonder how we'll
ever get there. Any other time we
could walk and wouldn't mind it, but
this time we want to save all our
energy until wo get there so Ave can
walk and walk and walk until we've
scon iiU wo want to. Then, too, wo
might get run over iu the heavy truflic
if we attenapted to "foot” it, Don’t
you wish we could all go by airplane
and avoid the rush? Well, we'ro got-
Ling a little aiiead of our day. but it
would be fun, wouldn’t it?
And did you know there’s to be a big
football game on Thursday of Fair
week? Well, there is and it's between
Wake Forest and N, C. State! Wonder
where they’ll put all the spectators?
All of us would llko to go.
We've enjoyed this anticipation.
E-Iere's hoping the realization will even
surpass our hopes. Let’s check on fate
for a heuutiful day and a grand and
glorlova time. "Wo just can’t wait,"
B. S. U. Conference to MARS HILL CLUB
be Held at Chowan
INTERESTING PRO
GRAM PLANNED
OFFICERS ELECTED
TW1:NTY GRADUATES
OF THAT SCHOOL
AT MEREDITH
FIFTY .HEREDI'Ilt DELllGATES
EXl»ECTED
Davie Belle Eaton
Wins State Theatre
Tickets
'I’lio Ttli annual S. U. Confcr-
otiec will 1)0 hold nt Chowan College,
ilurfi'ocsboro, N. C., October 19-21,
Botwpon 200 and 250 dolcgafc.s arc
cxpcRtcd.
Tho first sosaion opens Friday
iiighf, October 39 at 7 :15 in tho col-;
logo nuditorium. Tho Chowan Glee
Club will first entertain tho dele
gates with some musical Tiumbers.
Saturdjiy morning Miss Euby Dan
iel will talk on B. S. TT. history.
Thon forums for all will he held
which will deal with the dircct prob
lems of ihe students. These forum
groups will meet in separate rooms
—four of thcni- -and of them each
student may take hia choicc. On
Saturdaj’’ afternoon there will be a
period of about an hour and a half
for plfiy and rccreatioii. The
visitors will be shown arouiid the
cmnpus. Also cfirlior Siiturday af
ternoon there will bo a demonstra
tion B. S. U. council inucting by the
Meredith delegation, and led by
Miss Madalinc Elliott. The Satur
day night session will be given to
Mii-?ions and the closing session will
be held on Sunday icionilng.
Meredith is to tako a big part in
this conferenco 1 It is a groat con
ference for a great cause. The koy-
iioto of the Confcrcnco is: “That I
liiiiy know Him.”
It has been arriinged that bus fnre
will be a trifle considering how far
Murfreesboro really is. The cost of
tho Coiiforcnce will include meals
while at the collego and one dollar
regiHti'fttion. Meredith girls! It is
a great ehancc for you to know whnt
l«i happening at other collcgcSj to
finl out if the problems hero at
iEoredith nre problems nt other col
lege!^, and by hearty cooperating
to go about solving these problems!
.Plans have been mndo for 50
Meredith girls to go. Aro you ono
of them? Are you answering the
calls? Are you giving your best?
The Mars Hill CUib has been or-
ganizpd with the following girls as
oiTlcers;
President—Euzelia Smart.
Seerelary—Sarah Osborne.
Program Cbiiirman—Mary Hamby,
Social Chairman—Mai-y Harris.
The first program was very enter
taining. Lucile Hamby played a beau
tiful piano solo. The main articles in
the Mars Hili paper were re))orted to
the Club i)y Mary Ilamhy. The Club
sang the ilars Hill “Alma Mater."
^r«ch to the joy of the Club, the
president road an invitation to a
picnic from the Mars Hill Chih of
Slate College. Of course, the members
agroeil to accept l.he invitation for
they were glad of this opportunity to
be with their old friends. All the
members enjoyed talking of “them
good old days" with old friends.
Plana for tho year were dlHtniasctl.
The Clnb hopes to be of more service
to its members, to Mara Hill College,
and to Meredith than it has been in
the past. The members of the club are
very happy to have Miss Diggers, llrs.
Cooper and Miss Cooper to guide them.
With their help there can bo nothing
less fhnn a succe.s-sful year.
I’here are twenty Mars Hill girlsj in
Meredith who are trying to live up to
the standards of their Alma Matei-.
Eatrh of these twenty girls has pledged
her loyalty to Meredith and its stand
ards.
DR. GILL INTERVIEWED
GIVES SOMETHIING 01-’
SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC
CONDITIONS OF EUROPE
During an Interview with Dr. Gill,
lie asked that he he allowed lo say
somrtbing of Ihe soi’ial and economic
conditions of Europe. There were
three things espcfinlly in which he ia
parlicnlarly interested; namely, school
system of the Slavs, the place of Big
Business and Labor CnnditionK,
“It is difflcult to generalize.” say.s
Dr. Gill, regunling the scliool systems
of Slavs I'or out of the two hundred
million Slavs that live hetwoon Ad
riatic on the wesi and Pacific Ocean
on the east we have almost evei'y grade
of developmeni. The school systems of
Czecho-Slovaltia, Croatia and Yugo
slavia, lake high rank while those of
backward sections of the Slavic stales
aro coming forwanl as rapidly perhaps
as is possible under existing condi
tions, The Soviets of Russia are ma
joring on education. They are con-
dueling the most colossal experiment
in education, perhaps, of all history
since the days of Julian the Apostate.
While nol openly and olTlcially perse
cuting the various religions—Christian
and Mohnmnipdun, they are seeking to
uproot all religious Iffe and aonti-
nufnls by Iheir i-ontrol over the rising
(C’OHO'jlltCd OH jidiic nivvc)
Nov. 1,2 and 3 are
Important Dates
ANNUAL BARBECUE
OCTOBER 12
GROVE SCENE OF
FEASTING AND FUN
.MES.SIELKS TKJS 'tO BE CEXTEllS
OF A'I”J’1{ACTI0IS'
It's coming! The eats and every
thing else that's good! October the
twelfth Meredith girls will just have
“loads” to eat—this is to be our an*
auiil barbooue.
Tho flvst barbecue was held eight
years ago, or we have had oue ever
since the land where Meredith is uow
situated was purchased. When the
first barbecue was held out here Mr.
W. N. Jones dug the first spade of
earth where our present library
stands.
Next Friday morning when 3 o’cloclt
comes soma littlo pigs are going to .be
piit on a big bed of coals and they are
to stay there until Mr. Pig gets so
brown and crispy that you won’t even
recognize him except when you sink
your favorite tooth into his meat—
and then you’ll want more, I'll guaran
tee it. These Messrs. Pigs will cook
until 5 o’clock and then he will be
turned over to you to continue the
journey. Can you use him? This isn't
all wo have becanso you see Mr. Pig
has all his accessorie.s—you can ima
gine what this will be.
Wlieu these barbecues are given all
the faculty, trustees, and Raleigh
Alumnae aro present—so it is really a
gala occasion. Everybody likes barbe
cue so everybody responds.
Friday is Mr, Pig’s dCbut
In the form of barbecue,
He’ll be there in formal dress
To entertain he’ll do his best.
“Billy” Again Presides
ASTRO INITIATION EN
JOYED BY INITIATED
AND INITUTORS
tilVi-X SKW ME3I«E11S
All day Saturday one could hear
various types of iiueslions coming from
the new girls, and “Billy” staked on
tho campus, wearing the Astro colors,
gave cach something to think about.
As night drew near those who were to
bo initiuteil grew more and more anx-
i(ms, and at seven o’clock the fun
began. Each Aslro, old and new, met,
in an indirect way, and each agreed
that she had had the time of her life.
After the initiation tho girls assem
bled in the hall where a lovely recep
tion was given. Hesta Kitchiu, pres
ident nt tho society, in her cluu-mlng
manner welcomed the gucsis in the
following words:
To each one gathered here tonight
Dr. Brewer. Ahnnnao, Astro’s—old aud
new—
AVe extend with all oiu' hearts and
might—
This sincero greeting “We welcome
yon”!
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