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Volume XIV
MEREDITH COLLEGE, EALEIGTI, N. C., DECEMBER 8, 1934
Niimber 6
STUDENT FEDERATION
OF AMERICA TOMEETIN
BOSTON DECEMBER 28
Catherine Moseley, Ann Brodsher
and Nancy Allen Will Represent
Meredith College
Disarmament and peace, United
States participation in the 1!)36 Olym
pics, the New Deal and Yoiitli, and tlic
reBlraining of students I'l'oni partici
pating in public and political contvo*
versiea are some ol the principal topics
wliicli will be discussed by delegates to
the Tenth Annual Congress of the Na
tional Student Federation oil Anievlca.
which will meet in Boston, December
2S-January 1.
Boston University is to act as host
to the large group ol! student leaders
whicii will attend the Congress. All
ol! the meetings, whicli begin on Friday
and close on Tuesday aCternoon will bo
held In the Parker House. This Is the
llrst time that a meeting ol! the Federa
tion has been held in New England.
J>{ist year the American University at
Washington, D. C., was host to the
Congress.
A delinite program containing the
names ol’ the speakers and the various
topics they will discuss has not yet
been made public. However, the ques-
tlona to be voted on by the Federation
Iiave been sent to the various univer
sities and colleges which are to be rep
resented. These (luestions are divided
into two groups: those relating to cam
pus affairs and those concerning the
public.
In the former group are such ques
tions as. Should undergraduate publica
tions be subject to the censorship of
the student governing council? and,
Should students be restrained by their
institutions from participating in public
political controversies and demonstra
tions as long as they keep within the
public law?
Questions of public interest concern
ing the FERA, the League of Na
tions, and the World Conrt will also be
voted on.
Meredith College will be oindally
represented at the Congress by
Catherine Mosely, Student Government
President; Nancy Allen and Ann Brad-
sher. Student Council members. These
three representatives will attend the
entire live days' session.
Annual Christmas Concert
Given by Meredith Choir
Sunday afternoon, December 16, at
5 o’clock in the College Auditorium,
the annual program of Christmas mu
sic will be given by the college choir,
imder the direction of Prof. Leslie P.
Spelniuu.
The choir will be assisted by Miss
Ragnu Ottersen, Miss Ethel Rowland,
and Dr. E, McNeill I’oteat, Jr., as solo
ists. The Meredith trio composed of
Miss Charlotte Armstrong, violinist;
Miss Pauline Wagar, cellist; and Miss
Aileen McMillan, pianist, will play the
accompaniments for some of the
numbers.
The following program will bo pre
sented:
Organ Prelude, Pastoral Symphony
from the- “Christmas Oratorio”—Bach.
Processional—“Veul Emanuel."
Invocation—Dr. L. E. M, Freeman.
Hymn 83—“O Little Town of Bethle
hem.”
Christmas Oratorio. Part I—Bach,
(chorus parts arranged for women’s
voices by E. Harold Geer,
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Scene From ''The Taming of The Shrew”
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SHAKESPEARIAN PLAY TO
BE PRESENTED TONIGHT
BY LITTLE THEATRE
Literary and Historical
Association Meets Here
The State Literary and Historical
Associatjon held its 34th annual session
in Raleigh Tuesday and Wednesday of
last week. The principal addresses of
the meeting were made by Dr. Douglas
Southall Freeman, editor of the Rich-
viond Ncws-LeaOer and biographer of
Robert E. Lee, President Frank P.
Graham of the University of North
Carolina, and James Larkin Pearson,
Wilkes County poet.
Dr, Freeman, who is the author of
a four volume life of Lee, spoke at the
Hugh Morson High School on Wednes
day night. The topic of his address was
“General Lee’s Association with North
Carolina.” President Graham and Mr.
Pearson spoke on Tuesday evening at
the Sir Walter Hotel.
Historical papers were presented on
Wednesday morning by Miss Mary L.
Thornton, of Chapel Hill, Mrs. Kate L.
McDiarmld, of North Wllkesboro, W. S.
Jenkins of Chapel Hill, and R. D. De-
Mond of Durham.
A notable event of the Wednesday
evening session was the awarding by
Governor Ehringhaus of the Mayflower
Society Cup for the best original work
published during 1934 by a North Caro
linian. The cup was presented to
Dr. Erich W. Zimmermann.
Christmas Greetings
Extended by Dr. Brewer
Let me use this opportunity of. ex
tending to each of you best wishes for
a Merry Christmas and a Happy New
Year. I am hoping that the season will
bring to you anew the story of the
Saviour who came to bring “Peace on
earth, good will toward men,” May we
carry His spirit into the homes and
lives of those with whom we associate
and may each of you discover real liappl-
ness yourself in providing it for others.
CiiAS. E. BiiEWKit, President.
Meredith Trio Presents
Concert November 30
On Friday, November 30, the Mere
dith Trio, composed of Miss Charlotte
Armstrong, violin. Miss Pauline Wagar,
violincello, and Miss Aileen McMillan,
piano, presented the third in a series of
faculty concerts.
The program was as follows:
Trio in D Minor, Opus 49, Mendels
sohn: Molto allegroed agitato; Andante
con moto tranquillo; Scherzo.
Trio in G Major, Hayden: Andante;
Poco Adagio cantablle: Rondo all’
Ongarese;
Trio in C Minor Opus 1, No. 3, Bee
thoven: Allegro con brio; Andante
cantablle con varlazloni; Menuetto
Quasi Allegro: Finale prestissimo.
Interracial Convention
Holds Annual Conference
The sixteenth annual State-wide con
ference of the North Carolina Comis
sion on Interracial Cooperation was
held In Raleigh, Friday. November 30.
The main address of the convention was
delivered Pi-iday evening by Dr. Paul
B. Kern of Greensboro, presiding blsliop
of the tenth area of the Southern
Methodist Church, who stressed the
basic unity of manlclnd. In his address
to the 250 representative white and
negro citizens who participated In the
conference. Dr. Kern said “The funda
mental things in our life belong not to
one racial group or another, but they
are horn Into us by the uniform bond
of a common blood, the blood of our
mutual God.”
Earlier in the day the conference
adopted a notion calling for a stricter
anti-lynching law, and referred the
matter to the legislative committee,,
headed by Dr. E. McNeill Poteat, Jr., of
Raleigh.
Vocal numbers by Negro students was
and outstanding feature of the program.
Most of the morning and early after
noon sessions were consumed by talks
from representatives of welfare activi
ties, and reports.
Dr. Howard W. Odum, of Chapel Hill,
was reelected chairman of the com
mission.
‘Son” Has Pleasant Memories of Meredith
By BRUCE TILLEY
A hug, a slap on the shoulder with
a slender blue-veined hand, and a
merry laugh—that was the greeting
which made me completely at ease with
Mrs. Octavia Scarborough Norwood,
better known to Meredith students as
“Son.” A pair of twinkling eyes laugh
ing at me from a wrinkled face, and a
cloud of snow-white hair—that was my
impression of “Son.”
Seated comfortably In a wicker chair
by the window she was recalling old
times when, as the college nurse, she
was one of the best-lovod figures on the
Meredith campus. As the second nurse
Meredith ever had, “Son" was a pal
to all the girls until she resigned her
position three years ago.
Miss Parker did most of the talking
—"Son” was laughing too hard.
“Do you remember how you would
say ‘oh, the dog’s toe!’ when a girl
would tell you she was sick? And how
you used to give us all castor oil? And
how you would say that there were
only two things that could have made
us sick—sitting on the ground and eat
ing strawberries? And how you used
to call everybody ‘sonny boy’?”
Nodding her head vigorously and
slapping her knees with both hands,
Mrs, Norwood would gasp “yes-yes.”
“Wliere In the world did you get
those expressions 'oh, the dog's toes'
and 'sonny boy’?”
“I don’t remember. I guess I Just
picked them up. My father was in the
Civil War, you know, and when he came
home 1 guess I just picked them up
from him.”
"And do you remember how you used
to stick your head out of the window
when you saw a girl sitting on the
ground and yell ‘sonny boy' get up off
that ground.'? And how when anybody
sat down on your bed you would say
‘Sonny boy, get up off that bed.'? And
how w'hen the building caught on fire
you threw a bowl out of tho window
and ran down the stairs? And what
a time you had during the flu epidcmic
when all the beds were full and Dr.
Dixon made you put the maid to bed
In your bed?”
And “Son” would gaily retaliate with
stories of tho lime when she “looked
out the window and saw a girl walking
out to meet a boy. And I ran down the
stairs and ran to Dr. Vann’s offlce—
that was when Dr. Vann was president
—and told him I had seen a girl talking
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New Members and Sponsors of the
Organization to Be Announced
After the Play
With Susan Emma Sloan as a
shrewish heroine and Mamie Lou
Forney a determined hero-husband. the
Little Theatre will present the David
Gai'rick version of Shakespeare’s
“Taming of the Shrew.” which is in
three acts.
The play is being directed by Dr.
Florence Hoagland, who is being
assisted by Dr. Harris and Dr, Johnson.
After the play the new members who
have been elected into the club will be
announced.
The recently elected sponsors are:
Mrs. J. W. Bunn, Mrs. J. G, Boomhour,
Mrs, B- Y. Tyner, Mrs. C. 0. Abernethy,
and Mrs. Ferris W. Price. All of these
women are interested In the work that
is being done in dramatics at Meredith.
The cast of characters is as follows:
Petruchlo—Mamie Lou Forney.
Katherine, the Shrew—Susan Emma
Sloan.
Baptlsta—Katy Sams.
Lucentlo—Nancy Bunn.
Hortenslo—Ethel Knott.
Pedro—Sarah Coleman.
Blondello—Margaret Kramer.
Walter—Ruby Barrett.
Grumio—Faith Hite.
Nathaniel—Fi-ances Calloway.
Gregory—Margaret Andrews.
Gabriel—Prances Pittman.
Bianca—Elizabeth Davidson.
Curtis—Annie Mae Taylor,
A Music Master—Mary Faye McMil
lan.
A Tailor—Norma Rose.
Maria—Margaret Davis.
Cook—Elizabeth Park.
Pages—Ann Bradsher and liate Cov-
ingtoD.
The play deals with the efforts of
Petruchlo, a gentleman of Veroma. to
tame his petulant wife, Katherine, who
insists upon having her way. The
methods he uses are rough, even brutal,
but are in the end successful.
B. S. U. Sponsors Week
Of World Fellowship
The past week, December 3-9. has
been observed at Meredith as World
Fellowship week. Visitors and Mere
dith girls have helped to present, in
live chapel programs, the idea of fellow
ship with other countries of the world.
The general theme of the program was,
‘•Science has made the world a neigh
borhood but only Christ can make It a
brotherhood.”
The idea forwarded was that in
'Uitnking about differeiil countries,
their needs and Interests, the day
of world brotherhood can be hastened.
World fellowship was observed at Mere
dith in chapel, the programs of which
were put on by tho Baptist Student
Union. On fonr days there were
speakers who had been in the country
about which they talked. On the fifth
day, Saturday, tho program was pre
sented by the college students and was
about the history of tho Lottie Moon
Christmas Offering.
During the week tho following talks
were given: “Burma,” Mr. 0. G. Tllgh-
man of Cary, missionary to Burma,
■'China,” Mrs. Charles Leonard, mis
sionary to China, “Japan,” Miss J. S.
Farmer, former mlsslonery to Japan,
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