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May Day
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May 5th
Volume X
MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N. C., MAY 1, 1931
Number 23
NEW BAPTIST STUDENT UNION
LEADERS ARE TAKEN INTO OFFICE
Auditorium Is Scene of
Beautiful Installation
Service Sunday
One of tlie most impressive
Baptist Student Union installa
tion services ever hold at Mei’e-
dith was given on Sunday
evening, April 26, at 6:30 o’clock
in the college auditorium.
The services began with an or
gan prelude played by Juanita
Hinson. Then followed the in
vocation by Dr. J. Powell Tucker
after which the audience sang the
Doxology. The old. and new
B. S. U. Council members en
tered dressed in white, the old
members carrying lighted candles
and all took their place on the
stage, wJiich was beautifully
decorated with white dogwood
and tall cathedral tapers. Miss
Madeline Elliott then read the
Scripture—“Let your light so
shine before men that they may
see your good works and glorify
your Father which is in Heaven.”
Mary Currin, the outgoing
B. S. U. president, gave her words
of farewell in which she thanked
her co-workers for their splendid
work during the year. She tlien
lighted Elizabeth Stevens’ the
new B. S. U. president’s, candle
and extinguished her own and
gave the new president her
regalia. Elizabeth Stevens then
})ledged lierself to carry on the
work whicli liad been so well done
dui-ing the year. She then in
stalled the B. S. U. officers ^Yhich
arc: Elizabeth Jenkins, first vice
president; Kathleen Young,
second vice president; Margaret
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Mrs. Cooper Hostess
. To Seniors At Dinner
A lovely five-course dinner was
given in honor of the Senior
Class on April 30, when Mrs.
Cooper was hostess at a semi-
formal dinner. The two club
dining rooms were beautifully
decorated in the rainbow colors
'vith pink candles in green holders
on each table.
As the Seniors niarched in,
half of them went to one dining
room and half to the other, find
ing their places at the special
tables by means of attractive
little place cards. A delightful
five-course dinner was then served
beginning with a delicious fruit
cocktail and closing with rainbow
ice cream and cake.
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Miss Sarah Briggs, Editor of
The Acorn, Which Wa^
Judged- the Best College
Magazine
Miss McConneirs Talks
Bring Warm Response
Ships, bones, stardust, and
thistle-down made for Meredith
a part of a really different and
memorable week-r-a week o£
golden days. These, together
with a “regular fellow,” just the
“realest” sort of person any one
could wish—came to Meredith
through Miss “Dick” McConnell,
associate south-wide Baptist
student secretary. “Ships of
Personality” was Miss McCon
nell’s first chapcl talk. In this
she told of the old sfea captain
who considered the worst thing in
tlic world a derelict ship that
“wan’t coming fi^m nowhar’ and
wan’t going nowhar’.” Miss
“Dick” herself once had an ex
perience with a sliip wliose en
gines went dead. The “ker-
chug” was gone, the ship was just
floating and the least wave could
sweep it hero or there. To Miss
“Dick” the worst thing in the
world is a derelict student, ^\’ho
isn’t coming from anywhere or
going anywhere but is tossed here
and there by the least wave of
thought—a student with no
“chug-chug.” From this she de
veloped the tliought that prayer
in the life of eaclx individual
means a goal ahead—a port to
whicli it. leads each one. She il
lustrated this with tlie story of
a star athlete, “Big Boy,” in one
of the big Southern colleges, tell
ing how prayer came to mean
something in his life, his quarter
back’s, and to have a part in his
football game. The shortest
prayer in the world, “Oh God,”
DUKE MUSICAL CLUBS
HEARD AT MEREDITH
The Duke University Musical
Clubs, under tlie auspices of the
Senior Class of Meredith, ap
peared in the college auditorium
on Tuesday evening, April 21.
These three musical organiza
tions include the Symphony Or
chestra of thirty pieces, the Jazz
Orchestra, and tiio Men’s Glee
Club of tliirty voices. The Duke
Clubs have made tours into West
ern and Eastern North Carolina
and Virginia this year, all of the
trips being highly successful.
The Glee Club has won the state
musical contest for two years in
succession and has also won the
Southern Intercollegiate Musical
contest one year.
The program was highly en
tertaining and varied enough to
appeal to every one. It included
such selections as “Unfinished
Symphony” (Schubert), ren
dered by the Symphony Orches
tra; “The Crusaders” (Prath-
eree), given by the Glee Club;
some close harmony numbers by
the quartet; popular numbers by
the Duke Blue Devils; and violin
solo selections by Jack Tannen-
baum.
Mr., J. Foster Barnes is direc
tor of the Glee Club, while G. E.
Leftwich, Jr., better known as
“Jelly,” is leader of the Sym-
piiony Orchestra as well as the
Duke Blue Devils. The entire
concert was a pronounced suc
cess, and the audience was es
pecially enthusiastic over the
clever musical arrangements and
• comedy skits given by “Jelly”
Leftwich and his boys.
, Following the concert the
Seniors entertained the members
of the entire clubs at a delightful
reception in the rotunda, wliich
was lovely in its new furnishings
and artistic flower decorations.
May Day to be Observed
Tuesday, May the 5th
Observing May Day on Tues
day, May 5, at 4:4i5, Meredith
will have Kathleen Durham
crowned as its Queen of the May
at the usual place in the amphi
theatre. Before the Queen is
crowned, tlie combative dance
between Winter and Spring must
take place and Winter must be
conquered. The Queen is then
crowned by the victorious
Spring. Sarah Briggs, Mere
dith’s poet laureate, has written
the prologue in wliicli the theme
of May Day is explained. The
dances , this year will be Nor
wegian, Irish, Spanish, Dutch,
(Continued on page three)
‘ACORN” WINS FIRST PLACE IN
COLLEGE MAGAZINE COMPETITION
(Continued on page /our)
Everett Couch, of State Col
lege, Who for the Past
Year has Been the Effici
ent President of the N. C.
C. P. A.
Gifford Cordon Speaks
To Meredith Students
Meredith was fortunate last
week in having Gifford Gordon,
noted Australian, speak at
cliapel. First he brouglit greet
ings from Australia, or what is
better known to us as the land
of Uncle Bim. Showing that the
customs and habits of speaking in
America were quite different from
those in Australia he entertained
tlie audience by relating some of
the amusing things that hap
pened to him when )ie first came
to America. He often found it
necessary to make apologies for
unintended oft'enses. vHe gave
assurance that these apologies
often acquired a good deal of
energy and tliat all Americans
would have the same trouble
vshould they visit AustraUa.
Mr. Gordon then turned his
talk into a more serious channel
and spoke on the subject “In De
fense of American Youth and
Proliibition.” He stated that
pi'ohibition was not the cause of
the present-day drinking situa
tion and that it was even woi-se in
tlie pre-prohibition days. His
country, which is wet, has the
same ills as America. He con
tinued “When I have looked into^
the faces of hundreds of thou
sands of Hi-Y and Girls llc-
serves. Girl Scouts and Boy
Scouts, and other fine boys and
girls of America’s high schools
and colleges, and when I have
talked to thousands of them per
sonally I want you to know that
I have the gx'eatest confidence and
faith in the youth of your land.
(Continued on page four)
Duke Chosen As Meeting
Place for N. C. C. P. A.
Next Year
The North Carolina Collegiate
Pj’ess Association concluded its
three-day session Saturday
morning, April 25, after voting
to meet next year at Duke Uni
versity and electing a student of-
that institution, E d av a r d
ihomas, of Greenville, as presi
dent to succeed E. G. Couch of
State College.
Otlier officers elected for next
year are: Ruth Kennedy of Mon-
cure, representing Mereditli
College, first vice president;
Powhatan Conway, of Hender
son, Ky., representing Davidson,
second vice president; Dorothy
Edmondson, of Charlotte, repre
senting Queens College, secre-
tary, and James Creech, of Flor
ence, S. C., representing State,
treasurer.
The Meredith College Acorn
took first place among the maga
zines submitted. Sara Briggs of
Raleigh was editor of the winning
publication with Madeline Maye
of Asheville, business manager.
N. C. C. W. took first prize in
tlie newspaper contest with their
publication, T/u? Carolinian,
edited by Betty Brown of
Greensboro, witli Frances White
of Clayton, business manager.
The Technician of State College
won second, with The Chronicle
of Duke University third.
Tlic Duke University Chanti-
ch'cr took first place in the year
books submitted. Tliis publica
tion was edited by J. C. Haines
(Continued on page four)
Cornell Alumni Secretary
Speaks at Meredith
Mr. A, J. Ashbury, field secre
tary for the Cornell Alumni,
spoko at Meredith Wednesday
evening, April 22, to the Cornell
Ahmmi and the school faculty
and students interested in the
University. He told about the
changes being made in tlie build
ings on the campus and stated
that at present there are about
3,500 students enrolled., He also
mentioned the s}>lendid athletic
equipment of the school, as well
as the developing law school
which has called for the new
building which ho described. The
lecture was followed by^a general
discussion with tlie Alumni at
which time the speaker answered
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