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THE TWIG
March 14, 1936
Published Biweekly as the OUicial Organ of the Student
Body of Meredith College
Pauline Pbiiry Editor
Kathbrinb SituronD Associate Editor
Mary Fort Carroll Business Manager
ISABEx Ross Assistant Business Manager
Kate Mills Suiter Assistant Business Manager
Martha Messenger Managing Editor
Fraboes Pittman Managing Editor
Mart Johnsom MacMillan Managing Editor
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Catherine Johnson Typist
Heilen Hilliard Art Editor
Kate Covington
Ethel Knott
Adelaide Harris
Grace Betts
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Reporters
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Charlotte Wester
Lillian Poe
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Subscription Price $1.60
THINK FIRST
At this time every student’s interest and attention is turned toward
election of officers for tlie year 1936-’37. Nominations arc now
being made by the Nominating Committee, and are to be voted
upon by the student body in the near future. We want to remem
ber several things as we proceed with elections. Last year an un
usually good spirit was shown throughout the elections, and Me
want to maintain that same quality of good sportsmanship. We
want to keep out all kinds of politics, and use some real common-
sense as well as sane I’easoning. What we arc after is the best girl
for the place to be filled. Let’s not allow grudges or petty feelings
to blind our better sense of judgment. The girls you elcct to office
this spring are the ones who will direct and lead the activities of
next year. Look ahead! Think before vou act and think before
you vote.
A REPLY
Not only is tlie article appearing recentl}' in the Old Gold and
Blade, under the headline “Authorities to Purge Meredith of Smart
Girls,” a piece of rank misinformation, but a violation of newspa^^er
ethics as well.
The front page ])iece made the startling statement that Mere-
ditli girls were accusing the faculty of underhand methods in dis-
cijilining students for the violation of certain of tlie social rules—
and that the campus was in an uproar over the “sudden violent
purge of offenses.”
If the Old Gold and Blade cliooses to wax critical of a neighbor
ing institution’s system of student government, that is quite witliin
its perogatives, but it is something else when it comes to printing,
under tlio heading of “news” information received from such
obvioush- prejudiced quarters. Saturday-afternoon-drugstore-chat-
tcr can scarccly be considered the “reliable source” that the Old
Gold and Blade claims it.
The action taken by tlie INIcreditli student council was at its
own instigation and not at that of the faculty—in fact, the latter
knew notinng of the liapj^enings until informed of them by the
council itself.
Nor was tlie campus in an uproar (at least, not until tlie Wake
Porest sheet appeared with its startling accusations). There arc
always a few students in any school M’ho speak unwisely of matters
they know little al)out. But even a very youthful newspaper re
porter should be able to discern tlie difference between idle gossip
and a so-called “uproar.”
No system of student government is entirely witliout its faults,
but the one at Meredith is definitely not “a pretense at a democratic
school government and a pu])pet beliind wliich the faculty acts.”
The student council ofl^cials arc elected by the student body with no
interference from the faculty and they function in the same manner.
The council prides itself on its cooperation with tlie faculty, but it
is ridiculous to state that the latter i)ody ever “forced” it to do
anything with which the students wore not in full accord.
The Old Gold and Blade evidently does not value its reputation
for veracity vcr^' highly if it makes many such misstatements of
fact as this one. No newspaper worthy of the name will allow the
desire to be sensational and amusing cause it to overstep the bounds
of absolute truth. K, W. S.
Open Forum
The Open Forum is a dei)artvient for
stiulent sentiment. The articles printed
do not necessarily con/onm to the opin
ions of the members of the staff.
Dear Ewtor;
You wouldn’t believe the hectic life
day students have to lead! It’s just one
mad scramble from six-thirty in the
morning—oh yes, several of us do man
age to roll out of bed at that ungodly
hour; we have to catch the bus for an
eight-thirty—until eleven or twelve at
night. I guess you people who aren’t
or who have never been day students
are simply getting ready to sneer:
"Oh, she’s exaggerating. Girls that
live in the dorms are just as busy as
day students—more so since day stu
dents usually make it a point to Ignore
all extra-curricular campus activities."
Well, this is by way of apology lor
us day students who seem so indiffer
ent to everything that goes on at Mere
dith, after classes. We aren't really in
different at all—we’re just as interested
(or would lilce to be) in the inter-class
basketball games, the friendly rivalry
of the Phi’s and Astro’s and the activi
ties of the various clubs as any of the
rest of you. The reason we seem to lack
enthusiasm is that actually we’re lead
ing double lives. Now, don’t misunder
stand me; I don’t mean anything im
moral. I simply mean that instead of
going at the beginning of the year from
the world of home and all that entails
to the entirely different world of col
lege as you resident students have done,
we have each dny to make adjustments
ill these, our two worlds. When we ar
rive on the campus in the morning it
Is rather hard to focus immediately our
entire attention on the college activities,
but I think you’ll admit that as a whole
we succeed just about as well in our
classes as most of you. It’s after classes
that we fall down. The minute we leave
the campus In the afternoon, our other
unrelated world claims us. There are
things that have to be done at home
as well as outside social activities
which shouldn’t be neglected. These, as
well as the actual covering of the dis
tance between town and Meredith, make
a trip back to college after classes some
thing of a hardship no matter how much
we may icant to come bade for a meet
ing, or a game, or play.—G. B.
CLUB NEWS
Clnssicnl Club
The Classical Club met Friday after
noon, March 6, with Katy Sams, presi
dent, presiding. Catherine Canady was
In charge of the program, which con
sisted of Greek and Latin mythology.
The following girls took part In the
dIscuRdlon: Betty Kickllne, Norma Rose,
Kate Mills Suitor, and Helen Rivers.
Itnrbei- Biology Club
The Barber Biology Club will hold
its regular meeting on Friday evening,
March 20.
liilci'iintionnl lUilatloiis Club
The International Relations Club met
Monday evening, March 9, in the Ro
tunda with Dorothy Dockery, president,
presiding. Mataline Nye and Ruby Bar
rett, delegates to a recent meeting of the
I. R. C. In Rock Hill, South Carolina,
gave a report of tlie convention.
CoUoii l^ngllsli CIiil)
The regular meeting of tlie Colton
English Club was postponed from March
13 to March 20, at which time the fac
ulty will have charge of the program.
It Is rumored the faculty is going to
give a play. All members and sopho
mores are cordially Invited.
ATHLETIC AMAZONS
BrHE^EN HILLIARD
m
Mataline Nye and Ruby Barrett
Attend IRC Concention
Mataline Nye and Ruby Barrett rep
resented the Meredith International Re
lations Club at the annual Southeastern
I. R. C. Convention held at Winthrop
College, Rock Hill, South Carolina,
from Februa:ry 27-29. The conference
Is the largest I. R. C. conference in the
United States.
A varied and interesting program in
cluded noteworthy speakers, such as
Dr. Frazier of U. N. C., Dr. Fisher of
New' York, Dr. Kurtz of Austria, and
Miss Heminway Jones, the division of
the Carnegie Endowment for Interna
tional Peace. Round table discussions
and free expressions of tiie delegates
revealed many different views on pres
ent world status. Peace and neutrality
were main topics of thought and con
sideration.
N. C. Home Economics Clubs
Meet In Raleigh March 20-21
The Meredith College Home Econom
ics Club win be hostess to the Student
Home Economics Clubs of North Caro
lina at the annual meeting here Marcti
20-21.
The Home Economics group will
meet at the same time as the North
Carolina Education Association. The
meetings will be held at Hugh Morson
High School,
Henrietta Castlebury, president of
the Meredith club and also of the
North Carolina Clubs, will preside. She
will welcome the delegates, who will'
come I'rom the high schools and col
leges of the state. The delegates will
stay on the Meredith campus.
The Friday night session will be a
joint banquet with the State Home Eco
nomics Association. The speakers have
not been announced yet.
Lingering Pickle
I By KATE COVINGTON
Fumbling through Mary Johnson’s
books the other day I came across a
portrait of Benjamin Franklin convert
ed into a fair likeness of Love’s Armor
Untarnished or Napoleon at His Wit’s
End. I was moved to such a great ex
tent that I set forth In quest of her, and
we wandered down to the art studio
together. (Hand in hand.) (Friends to
the last.)
We had just succeeded In eating up
the shadowy area of a fruit study when
an instructor glamoured slowly (but
flrmly) over to us and spake In iambic
pentameter lines that we were a menace
to society. Whereupon we tried to look
undaunted as we embarked to far re
gions to study art by remote control.
There are no professional modelers
in the studio, but occasionally by per
suasion, flattery, bribery, or force, un
suspecting specimeng of humanity are
dragged out, quartered, and drawn.
Where we stood we got glimpses of my
own roommate being an armchair and
a scarf. She was pretty good as an arm
chair (chintzy and sprlnglsh), but as
a scarf I was frankly disappointed. In
another corner was somebody being a
zenula blown by the wind, while neai’by
we got visions of a snow-capped moun
tain which was nothing less than a
rather acrobatic freshman who runs
around loose most of the time. It gave
us the same sinking feeling that we
got upon discovering that the scenes
for some of the famous wars are laid
in peach orchards out from Hollywood.
We wandered into another room that
made such a nice Impression by recog
nizing the portraits that the budding
young artists asked us (with what we
took to be enthusiasm) to remain. So
we stayed and remarked about etchings,
ginger ale, trailing arbutus, and the
slave trade of 178S—until tenderly re
moved.
"We’d like to brush up on our art,”
Mary Johnson spoke hesitatingly like
love in bloom, whereupon they set us to
work at a long bespattered table in front
of an interpretation of Sunset at Even
tide or Street Life In Bermuda, cleaning
blackened pen points. From where I
was, I got a bird’s-eye view of a bust
of Moses witli iiorns, some petunias
with astlinui. and something that looked
like a dead goldfish.
Wo stayed until wo had brushed up
on everybody’s art In the studio, and
then tried to sneak out alluringly.
Somebody saw us, liowever, and we
heard one of those big heart-rending
voices tolling, "Hey you! Come back!
I’m going to let you all pose for me!
You’ll love It—it’s a piano with . .
Out of sight, out of mind.