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THE TWIG
' November 23, 1935
Published Siioeeklj/ ew the OiRcial Ot'pan of the Student
Body of Meredith College
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Sita^crlpHon Price... — fl.60
IDEALISM OF YOUTH
All idealism is not ideol! If in the end you arc defeated by
your ideal, you may be sure you have followed the wrong one.
Someone has said that a good way to to test an ideal is to ask this
question of one who has lived his life: “Would you be willing to
choose the same ideal you have followed if you could re-live your
life?”
Some ideals bring regret and bitterness into one’s life; a true
ideal always brings comfort and happiness. Twenty years ago
democracy was set up as the ideal for thousands of young Ameri
cans. Today Germany, Italy, and other powerful nations arc
setting up another ideal which is as false as that of yesterday.
All over the world men and women are being brought to the point
where they are willing to die for the “Cause,” since this has be
come the purpose of their lives. We must be careful to dis
tinguish between the true and false ideal.
How futile it is to put all one’s faith and hope in a finite,
destructive ideal! After such an ideal has failed the individual,
it leaves liim bitter and remorseful. This condition is often dif
ficult to overcome. Youth must not follow a blind, shallow causc
If he is to triumph over the material things of life.
What a great impetus is a great ideal! Youth must choosc and
follow an ideal that will hold true to the end, that will bring
satisfaction and power into his life. Much thought and con
sideration should go into the selection of such a dynamic motive.
'^I'licre is an old Greek adage tliat says,
Life is the gift of nature; but beautiful
living is the gift of wisdom.
Tlie real ideal is tiic Christian one. In God man can put all his
faith, and know that his ideal can never defeat him. Today, as in
ages past, men and women must lift up Christ and His principles
as their only Ideal if they M'ould be victorious. We must always
vemembor that the world of tomorrow is tiie ]>roblem of youth
todav.
AN OPEN FORUM
Students at .Meredith are beginning to reali»:c that the)' can
and must take some definite stand on the questions tliat arc
troul>ling the AV'orld today. History classes arc unavoidably be
coming centcr.s of discussion for current affairs. Talk of Peacc,
liie It?ilo-Kthiopian situation, current economic problems are all
beiug ai'gucd pro and con by most of the thinking students.
It is unfaif, however, to confine such interesting debate to the
classroom, where coniparatively few can profit b}' it, so it has
been suggested tliat a bi-monthly Open Forum for directed dis-
’ussi(m of cuiTcnt affairs be instituted on our campus. Twice a
month interested students and faculty members could meet in tiie
rotunda, or some t>thor such convenient place, and under the direc
tion of one of that number, or of some outsider, a resume of the
news of the ])revious weeks cnild be given and comments made.
Kxcellcnt opportunity for impromptu as well as prepared debate
would be {)fforcd. Stiident.s would be given training in dij’oction
of tlieir o))inions, as well us in fjrniation about what is going on in
the world.
In almost every leading country except our own youth as a
group has taken a definite stand on the questions of today. Per-
liaps their stand is sometimes the wrong one, but at least they arc
being positive about it. Since we are the ones who will i)c af
fected most by the outcome of our present day situations, wo
sliould bo the first to find something to believe in, and to back that
thing with all our strength.
An Open Forum sucli as lias been suggested might easily become
the rno.st [)opular institution on our campus. Let’s have it I K. S.
Club News
ClasslcAl Clnb
The Helen Hull Law Classical Club
met Friday, November 8. The program
was about Horace, a Latin poet, whoao
two thousandth birthday anniverBary
Is being celebrated tbls year. Talks
were given on his life and passages read
from his work.
liJttle Theatre
Mrs, B. H. E. Price and Dr. Helen
Price honored the Little Theatre at tea,
Thursday afternoon November 14, at
their home. Active, associate, and
honorary members of the club, together
with its patronesses and the social deans
of the college were guests of the oc
casion.
Colton Gni^lish Club
The regular meeting of the Colton
English Club waa held Friday, Novem*
ber S. Miss Nell Battle Lewis spoke
on "Writing a Column In a Newspaper."
She Is well-known through her column
in The News and Observer.
The Stndent Leagrae of Woni*u Voters
The Student League of Women Voters
met in the Rotunda Wednesday, No
vember 13. There were several very
Interesting discussions about the mem*
bors of Mr. Roosevelt’s cabinet. Open
Forum was held after the program.
Eleven new members were added to the
club. The club is planning to have as a
gueat speaker A. J. Maxwell, Commis
sioner of Internal Revenue.
I'he Harber Biologf Club
At the first two meetings of the
Barber Biology Club the endocrine
glands were discussed. At both meet
ings four girls discussed various glands.
'}[om« Economics Club
On November 15 the Home Economics
Club held its first meeting. The topic
for the programs this year is "Home
Economics in Relation to the Com
munity.” The club has decided to send
a basket of food to a certain colored
family as its Thanksgiving project. It
la to help this family throughout the
rest of this school year.
Meredith Represented at
Baptist State Convention
Daydreaming
Representatives of Meredith who at
tended the annual caiiveiition ol the
North Carolina Baptists in Asheville,
November 12-14, brought back an In
teresting report of the pt'oceedinga.
Dr, Brewer, Miss Biggera, Mr. Hamrick,
and Dr. Freeman were present at the
convention.
One o£ the meetings which should
be ot especial interest to Meredith stu
dents was the Wednesday afternoon
session, which was held at Mars Hill
CollQBe, At that time a tllsciisslon on
the general subject of Clirlatlan educa
tion was lield. Each collog’e belonging
to the system that la provided by the
Dnptist State Convention made its re
port and appeal to the convention. Dr,
Charles Brewer Introduced Mr.a Gordon
Maddrey, president of the Meredith
College Alumnae Association, who
talked hi behalf of Morodith. The
nther Institutions were represented
either by their presidents or by sorao
either mombor of their faculty. It was
agi’eed by all that that waa the heel
presentation of Christian education that
had ever been given at a meeting of the
Convention.
Another item of Interest to Meredith
was the meeting of the alumnae of the
college. The alumnae ot the Asheville
chapter were hostesses to the group,
which was made up ol forty-nhie alum
nae, Dr, Brewer, and several other
guests. Matters of interest were pre-
Fientod at the meeting by the Asheville
Chapter, the president of the associa
tion, anil Dr. Brewer,
C
Sink or Swim
By KATE COVINGTON
By meandering on all fours I almost
sneaked out of chapel one day last week.
But just as I was ci’awllng over what
turned out to be a Faculty Member, my
conscience (or was it the Faculty Mem
ber?) smote me, and I made a remark
able retreat.
That was the morning the swimming
pool project was announced. Mary
Johnson said It would be a simple thing
to knock off the dome of the adminis
tration building, turn it upside down,
fill it with water, and dive off Venus.
I can’t think of dainty sprites sailing
around those chandeliers in water-
wings! To save me I don’t know what
she plans to do about all the top win
dows. I tried to make Mary Johnson
draw me a diagram, but when I opened
her notebook I found an Examination
we'd made one day:
Ques: How much Is a little bit?
Ans: Some, but not much.
Ques: Draw a diagram of the eye
showing Caesar’s march through the
Ohio Valley. (Drawing was below).
Ques: Where is Greeco?
Ana: Who cares?
Ques: What was Atalanla’s Race?
Ans: Editorial in the Atlanta Con
stitution.
Ques: Who wrote Suhnlittite Sweet
heart?
Ana: William Makepeace Thacke
ray.
Ques; Identify: Hoover.
Ans: Hoover is like when you clean
your rugs.
There were some more but it began
to dawn on me that we were really
going to get a swimming pool, so I
listened. (Some had already gone home
for their bathing suits. I think.)
People were making speeches and
everybody was beaming and I expected
any minute to see a few enthusiastic
souls doing the American Crawl up and
down the aisles.
A loud distorted whispsr back of me
purported that we’d probably have to
wear long black droopy apparatus to
swim in, while another suggested prac
ticing in the reservoir. I heard some
body say in awed admiration for her
Idea, "Why not have the swlmming pool
down In the grove?” I am expecting
to see her with an ax or a saw lumber
ing out any day now. Another sug
gestion (too, too divine) was to en
large the fountain out in the court Still
another was to sUoot the hose down
in the rotunda and use that. It waa
told to me that one mentally efficient
Junior thought It would be clevcr to call
the new pool the “Hellespont." Some
body subdued her, howevei'.
Chapel waa almost over now—at least
we were on that verse about the cypres
ses guarding its rest, and I was trying
to think what claas I had next. But,
to save me, the only thing in my mind
was a. question Mary Johnson had just
written in my notebook:
"If a man could swim to New York
in thlrty-flve minutes at eight milea
an hour and to Apex in six hours at the
same rate, what difference would it
make?”
Ah, Youth.
Slate Art Museum Sought
By N. C. Art Society
The Nqrth Carolina Stale Art Society
will hold its annual session here in
Raleigh on. Thursday and Friday, De
cember 5 and 6. The Society meets at
the same time that the North Carolina
Literary and Historical Association
dooa.
The Art Society la “an incorporated
orRaiilZQtion for promoting the appro-
cilatJon and encouragement of art In
North Carolina.'* Although the exact
program for the 1935 aession has not
been announced, there are before the
Society three major projects which are
generally known. These projects are:
(1) Continued support of the coopera
tive program with the State Department
of Public Instruction by which prints
are supplied, to the Bchnols of the state.
(2) Definite action for securing a
State Art Museum.
(3) Exhibits and lectures.
In the past the 'Society has helped
make the study of art appreciation poa-
Bible by furulahing prints of famous
pictures to more than seventy-five
schools In the state. The State Plan
ning Commission has approved tlie
proposed State Art Museum. Mr.
Jonathan Daniels, who is chairman of
the committee appointed for this proj
ect, expects to take definite steps soon.
Pageant To Be Presented
By Societies December 17
2n The Court of Kinff Arthur, a
Christmas Pageant, will be presented
by the Phi and Astro Societies Tues
day night, December 17, at eight
o’clock in the auditorium, The pageant
Is being directed by Miss Hthel Eng
lish with the cobperatlou of the so
ciety presidents, Dorothy Dockery and
Christine Adams, The dramatization
will be enacted as Katy Sams reads
the story. Music will be furnished by
Frances Morrla, Dorothy Lowdermllk,
und Mae Marshbanks.