Founders'
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Welcome
Day
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Dr. Poteat
Volume XII
MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N. C., FEBRUARY 3, 1933
Number 6
MEREDITH FOUNDERS’ DAY HAS BEEN
AN ANNUAL HOLIDAY SINCE 1912
O ^
Meredith Dormitories Are
Named in Honor of
Meredith Founders
Thouj*li not opened until Sep
teniber 27, 1899, Col
lege really came to life hi 1835.
In that year Tlionms Jfereditli
proposed a motion at the Bap
tist State Convention for the
founding of a college for women.
Tlie motion was defeated then,
and four other times, but it was
reproposed in 1888 by Colonel
Polk and adapted in 1889. Trus
tees and committees were ap
pointed, met, and struggled
against lack of entluisiasm after
the first year for seven years. To
the late 5fr. 0. L. Stringfield,
for whom dormitory “D” is
named, belongs the credit for
making the c(dlege known (>ver
the state before its opening and
for raising tlie necessary money
for building. The work was be
gun in 1896 but difficulties with
architects and difficulties of
other kinds delayed the comple
tion for three years.
When tlie doors were opened
to students on the 27th of Sep
tember, there were more stu
dents applying for admission
than the college could hold, and
a neighboring house had to be
purchased to provide for them.
The enrollment at the end of
that first term was two hundred.
Its highest ix)int was reached
the years just before and just
after the opening of the college
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Former Student Member
of Winthrop Faculty
Miss Virginlj^ Crawford, ^f
Goldsboro and a Meredith grad
uate of 1931, has secured a po
sition as instructor of Sociology
at Winthrop College in Rock
Hill, S. C.
While a student at Meredith,
Virginia was very outstanding
in the sociology department and
in her extra-curricular activ
ities. She was treasurer of Phi
Society, Student Government
Elepresentative her freshman
year, on Oah Leaves staff for
three years. General Secretary
of B. Y. P. U., Chief Marshal of
Phi Society, vice president of
her senior class, and a member
of the International Relations
Club.
Since her graduation at Mere
dith, Virginia has been studying
at the University of North Caro
lina, where she received
master’s degree.
Mrs. Suzanne Steele
Gives Moliere Play
Jlei'edith was fortiinate in
having Mrs. Suzanne Steele, in
ternationally k n o wn artist,
present the famous French play,
“School for Wives” by the over-
popular author Moliere, on Fri
day night, January 27.
Carrying out the theme of
“the cause of youth and love,
and ridiculing the pretensions
of those Avho would use their au
thority to mold the lives of
others,” Mrs. Steele has a one-
wouiaii show the type of per
formance that is achieving great
success in New York just now.
Unassisted save for an attrac
tive background representing a
Paris street three hundred years
ago, Mrs. Steele makes the au
dience forget that only one per-
.son is on the stage; the stage
Is peopled ,wit)i characters. Im
perceptibly, Mrs. Steele makes
the transformation of charac
ter. One gesture, one inflection
of voi(?e turns the trick. And
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Professor J. L. Memory, Jr.
Speaks on News Bureau
Professor J. L. Memory, Jr.,
of Wake Forest College and fac
ulty adviser of the News Bu
reau of that college gave a talk
to-officers of the Meredith Col
lege organizations Thursday
afternoon January 2(» on the
method of organl/Jng a News
Bureau.
Mr. Memory thinks that tlie
News Bureau which sends news
of the college to all the leading
newspapers In North Carolina,
has been able to foster a greater
interest in the college.
Dr. W. L. Poteat
Dr. IV. L. Poteat. president emerilun of
Wake Forest CoUege. Founder.'i’ Day
speaker.
Dr. Harrison Reads
Paper on Folk-Lore
l)i\ Thomas I?. Harrison, pro
fessor of English at State Col
lege, read his paper on FolL -lore
ill HhalceHpeare’s Phiija, to the
C'olton English Club at their
regular meeting Friday evening,
•January 27. at (i :4.'). Dr. Har
rison had previously read this
paper at the meeting of the Folk
lore Society, which met in Ra
leigh in Novembei', and w’as re-
ceiveil there with great interest.
Dr. Harrison stated that the
play of Hamlet alone furnishes
a rich store of folk-lore. He
said that the ghost-folk-creation
in Hfunlet was not the deufi ex
machina but the Impelling force
both within and behind the
scenes, the witches were the
motif in Macbeth, and that the
Pranks of the Fairies might be
a fitting name for
Nighfs Dream. He stated that
Prospero in the Tempest fur
nished a talking moving picture
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DR. W. L. POTEAT OF WAKE FOREST
FOUNDERS’ DAY SPEAKER TODAY
Faculty to Entertain; Alum
nae to Have Broadcast;
S. G. to Give Reception
Spring Semester Began
Thursday, January 26
The s])ring semester of the
school year 1932-'33 o])(*ned
Thursday moi ning, .January 2(1.
i?egistration took place on
Wednesday morning, January
25, from 10 iOO to 1:00 o'clock in
the gymnasium. The day of
registration was a holiday, be
Ing the day after a week of
exams and the day before the
o])ening of the new semester.
There Is a total enrollment
for the semester of three hun
dred fifty-eight regular stu
dents, six of which are students
who were not in Meredith dur
ing the fall semester. The new
girls are: Flora Huffman, Vera
Sexton, Flossie Whitley, Mar
garet Whittington, Jessie Taut,
and Hazel Katherine Wacner.
Fritz Kreisler to Give
Concert at Chapel Hill
Fritz Kreisler, world-famous
violinist, will give a concert in
ilemorial Hall, University of
North Carolina, at Chapel Hill.
Monday, February 27, at 8:30
under the au.spices of the Phi
Mu Alpha Musical Fraternity.
Kreisler is at present making a
concert tour of the United
States, under the direction of the
NBC artists service. New York.
This is one of Kreisler’s many
tours in America. H'e was heard
in Raleigh a few years ago.
Many of the Meredith faculty
members and students are plan
ning to attend this concert.
Tickets may be obtained for the
following prices: |2.50, |2.00,
|1.50, and i^l.OO. Seats may be
reserved by writing to Box (509,
Chapel Hill, N. C.
MISS CATHERINE ALLEN DELEGATE TO CONFERENCE
Miss Catherine Allen, profes
sor of Modern Languages at
Meredith College, attended the
eighth Conference on Cause and
Cure for War held in Wash
ington, B. C., January 17-20.
Aliss Allen gives the following
report:
“This Conference is composed
of delegates representing the
eleven women’s organisations in
the United States. Despite the
depression women from every
state in the Union were present
in large numbers.
The Disarmament Confer
ence, the International Debt
her Question, the Sino-Japanfese
conflict, our relations with
South American’and the Carib
bean countries, causes of the
world-wide depression, and gov-
ei'iiment control of the manu
facture of arms and munitions
of w'ar M’ere the subjects dis
cussed by distinguislied speakers
from our own and foreign coun
tries.
Roundtable discussions and
debates contributed much to the
better understanding of the
questions under consideration.
Every speaker stressed the
point that the general public
and especially the youth of our
land need to be better informed
upon the burning questions of
today.
ilrs. Carrie Chapman Catt,
one of the 12 greatest women
leaders in the United States, has
been the chairman of this Con
ference from the beginning and
its tireless leader. It takes a
100 years to change the public
mind on a great question, Mrs.
Catt believes. Thus it Avill be
given to few of us in this gener
ation to see a change of idea
inaugurated and carried to a
successful conclusion in our
time and it becomes all the more
a privilege to concentrate our
energies upon peaceful measures
for the substitution of war in
the time we have. It was the
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Honoring the thirty-fourth
birthday of ^Meredith College,
Dr. William Louis Poteat, pres
ident emeritus of AVake Forest
College, an author of several re
ligious books, and a i>rominent
and versatile lecturer, addresses
the institution on h^ounders’
Day, February 3, as the cliief
speaker of tlie eleven o'clock
commemorative program. The
speaker was introduced by Pres
ident Brewer who also explained
the histoi'y and the significance
of V’ounders’ Day.
Special music was rendered by
the College ( ’hoir and the Jlere-
dith Trio. With Professor Ty»s-
lle P. Spelman directing, the
choir sang the anthem Hear My
Prayer, by ilendelssolm. The
-Aleredith Trio, Miss Charlotte
Armstrong, violin; JHss Alverda
Rosel, 'cello; and Jliss Alleen
Mcilillan, piano, rendered the
first movement of Beethoven's
sonata In E fiat.
For the benefit of all the
Jleredith Alumnae, a program
will be broadcast over station
WPTF this afternoon from
4:30-5 :00 o\-lock. Mrs. J. Wil
bur Bunn, i>resident of the (Gen
eral Alumnae Association, will
be in charge of the thirty minute
program. The program will be
gin with the singing of the Ahna
Mater, followecl by a talk by Dr.
Brewer, and greeting to the
alumnae by :Mis.s Ida Poteat.
Two selections: Tarn Ye to
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Miss Louise Tessin
Lectures on Art
Miss Louise Tessin, art editor
of the American (''hildhood
Magazine, and representative of
the Milton Bradley Art Com
pany, spoke on Industrial Arts
in the Jferedith parlor on Jan
uary 30 at rt :00 and again In the
evening at 8:00.
Miss Tessin was a pupil of
Professor Cizek of Vienna, and
Is especially interested in art in
schools. She believes that art
is occupying a more and more
important position In the world
of today and so should be more
important in the public schools.
Miss Tessin told of her many
exi)eriences in the schools
abroad, of the methods of teach
ing art in the schools, and the
results. Her illustrations in
cluding etchings, stencils, spat
ter-work, and designs, were most
interesting.