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THE TWIG
April 25, 1936
Published Biweekly as the Official Organ of the Student
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PARAGRAPHICS
■ Next Year the “proctor system” will be discarded and a new
one will take its place. We think the new plan a great improve
ment over the old one. In t!ie first place, it is difficult for a girl
not on the student government council to give call-downs. We feci
that the house president and two house vice presidents who are on
the council can more efficiently maintain order tlian non-council
members, wlio do not know just what business takes place at the
regular meetings.
Last year wlieii we learned that the library was to be open on
Sunday afternoon Ave were quite pleased and enthusiastic. This
year two or three girls go to the library on Sunday afternoons,
and the others scarcely know that such a place exists. The students
were certainly justified in voting to close the library on Sunday
for next year. The librarians and student assistants should be
commended for their faitlifulness during tlie past year.
J)0 YOUR PART
In a few more davs tlie new officers for next year will take up
their tasks. Tiiero is a responsibility to be assumed and a duty to
be performed for cach one of them; however, the success of the
task does not lie within the officer’s power alone but in the co
operation of every member of tlie student government. Respon
sibility is a sacred trust to which one should be loyal. We have
faith that the i^irls we have elected to lead us M’ill be loval to their
trust and to their ideal.
Not only do the officers have loyalties, but likewise each one of
us. We are much more likely to be conscious of the loyalty we owe
our class, society, or team tlian to the ideals of tlie college. On
May 2 and 3 all of us will be given an opportunity really to take
our part of the responsibility in making Hospitalit}' Week-end
a success. This will give us a chance to show some loyalty to our
school. It will not be any trouble to stop and speak to our visitors
as we meet them in the hulls or on tlie campus. Tliey will appre
ciate your showing thorn the grounds and buildings and telling
them something about iMeredith. Our college has a reputation for
having a fi’iendly atmosphere — here is a chance for us to pi*ove
ourselves wortliv of such a Jiame.
V •
Emerson has said that “nothing great was ever achieved with
out cntliusiasm.” If we want to make Meredith a better colleffc
or if we \vant to see some imi>rovements, we must show some en-
tliusiasm. It would be hard to tell just what could be done if each
of us took to heart another statement of Emerson: “The manly
part is to do with might and main what you can do.”
AXNOUNCEMENT
From now until the end of this semester all articles for The
Twig will be assigned to those girls who are interested in becom
ing members of the staff. If you would like to be a reporter or
typist for The Twro, please see either Katherine Sluiford or the
editor of this paper as soon as possible. Assignments for the next
issue will be made on Thursday, April 30.
GOOD NEWS
Iti the last issue of the Old
Gold and Blacky we were glad
to note a change in the policy of
the paper to be carried out by
the ne\v staff, with Archie Mc
Millan at the head. In an edi
torial the following statement
was made: “No personal attacks
will be made in an effort to put
out a readable sheet.”
It is hoped that “The Colonel
Bom’s” will not carry any more
attacks against Meredith after
the issue of April 18. This year
it seems as though certain staff
members of the Old Gold and
Black have taken a peculiar de
light ill slandering our school.
Perhaps some of you remember
the scathing article, appearing
on the front page, M’liich told
how Meredith girls M'ere being
“|)urged.” We thought that kind
of thing liad about ceased when
another article appears carrying
news about the “Western Jun
gle.” We do not like to think of
our scliool as a “prison,” nor of
our dean as a “warden,” as Mr.
Godwin implied in his column.
At any rate, we are glad to
learn that from now on ^Meredith
will be referred to in a ffentle-
O
manly way by our friends at
Wake Forest.
Hands Across the Table
By RUTH ABBRNETHY
Colleges and High Schools
Stage Peace Meetings
ApDi-oxiniately 500,000 college and
high school students left their class
rooms Wednesday to participate in the
third annual demonstration against
war, sponsored by the American Stu
dents' Union.
Prominent among the universities
joining In the peace movement was
the University of North Carolina at
Chapel HUI. Over 1,000 of the 2,000
students there were enrolled In the list
of under graduates In sympathy with
the movement.
The demonstrations were carried out
with little disorder. Minor disturb
ances occurred at Lawrence College,
Appleton, WIs., Tulane, Temple and the
University of Kansas, but on the whole
the programs were peaceably con
ducted.
As a part of a two-year “emergency
peace campaign,” several thousand hom
ing pigeons were released from the
Washington Monument. They carried
peace messages from Mrs. Roosevelt
hack to the cities from which they
were sent.
The largest demonstrations were
held In New York City. Nearly 13,000
young people Joined In the so-called
‘‘strike against war." Other colleges
and universities taking part in the
day’s activities were: Cornell, Vassar,
U. ot Chicago, Dartmouth, Syracuse,
Jolms Hopkins, Rollins College, Mt.
Holyoke and others.
JANIE ALLGOOD PRESENTS
GRADUATING RECITAL APRIL 24
(Continued from i>age one)
Miss Caroline Biggers, and Miss Hazel
Clarke.
Those who assisted In serving at the
reception were: Christine Adams, Haze)
Boswell, Ann Bradsher, Ruth Nowell,
Dorothy Dockery, Lisette Allgood, Isa
bel Ross, Stuart Weatherspoon. Rachel
Bradsher, Ruth Pender, and Catherine
Winstead.
i
m
Such Sublime Superiority
By KATE COVINGTOM
.1*1,
Sympathy
Memljors ot the Twin staff extend
sympathy to Gwendolyn Kester, of Wil
mington, N, C., In the death of her
father, and to Grace Porter, of Rock
ingham, N. C., in the death of her
father on April 14.
Mary Johnson gazed noisily at
spring looming over the horizon and
said, “You know who wasn't glad to
see the prodigal son returnin’?'’ I
smiled with tender emotion and re
plied, ‘‘His one brother, of course.”
"No, the fatted calf.” She rolled over
carelessly and unearthed a nine-leaf
clover which she'd been cherishing for
the last twenty minutes.
A sophomore looking like “I am mon
arch of all I survey” strolled across
the court, with two obedient freshmen,
having queer raiment attached to their
persons, tagging behind. Hearing a
rumble, Mary Johnson eyed them.
“0 scintillating soul-satlsfying su
periors, we silly self-sickening simple
tons do salute such sublime superior
ity,’' said a freshman dismally.
“They had to measure the court with
pencils this morning before breakfast,”
Mary Johnson said.
“Goat court tonight," whispered a
salmon-colored individual.
I remembered the previous year and
punched Mary Johnson.
“My lotus blossom,” I quoth, “I have
a dim recollection of having once
stepped upon a floor that was beautiful
In cleanliness If not grace and statue.
Let’s ”
“If you're getting homesick ”
“No, dear heart. What I mean Is—
would that I could summon you fresh
men with one of these glint-of-steel-
bnrning-ln-her-eye looks and bid her
sweep my dusty domain. After a year,
even a floor ”
“Yeah, me too,” said Mary Johnson.
“Shall we—er—mingle with—er—our
—fellows?” I suggested, looking sig
nificantly over at a sturdy band of
sophs gamboling on the green.
“Now, be subtle,” cautioned she.
“You know, a work of art is nearing
its beginning.
“We might stop this sad creature
and with our lordly voices ”
“Yeah, we might,” replied Mary John
son, “she’s only the faculty.”
I peered around a white stone bench
and saw a couple of little docile num
bers moving the heavens about for
their commanding uppers.
“I believe these two are just the
ones to get Involved with,” I opined.
I looked as undaunted as I could
under the circumstances and by and
by we had them cornered.
"Say it," I commanded.
“Say what?” she queried with a lit
tle more animation than niy fond an-
tIclp&tlonB had designed.
“Soul-satlsfylng sllly-er-sollloquy—
I floundered, while Mary Johnson bee
tled her brows and looked like the
world Is too much with us.
“Come with me." She said It with a
hard, cold voice, and I expected Instant
obedience. The dear rats budged not.
“Do you know what happens to fresh
creatures?” Even nry sweet disposition
could be duly tried.
“Certainly," was the reply.
Mary Johnson writhed a little and I
writhed a little.
“Will you or will you not accompany
us, my blithe gliio?” I decided to be ^
very lender. After all, being juniors In •
the presence of freshmen, we were
practically tottering.
••No.” They were balky.
‘Dear, dear. Loving kindness and
azure skies ain’t got a chance." Mary
Johnson stopped being diplomatic and
tied her shoe string, which had been
dragging all morning In the dirt.
I punched Mary Johnson unerringly
so she’d look cold and unbending. She
can do It with better results.
Strange to say, they suddenly began
to laugh.
I turned red with anger. Mary John
son snapped her lips together. We stood
alarmingly silent.
Then Mary Johnson said coldly, “Re
port to goat court tonight. That’s all.
You may go." We waited for them to
retire cringing, but they didn't stop
laughing or anything. Then one stepped
up and said:
“Honestly, It was funny. You were so
sure it would work. We know "
Oh, dear, thought we, they knew all
the time whnt class we were In.
“We know,” she continued, “■you've
l)een going tiu-ough the same thing we
have. We fresiimen,'' she spoke com
radely, and linked her arms In ours,
“must stick together.”
Philosophical Society
Holds Meeting At Duke
Dr. Florence Hoagland, Dr. Helen
Price and Dr. Mary Lynch Johnson
will attend the second annual meeting
ot the North Carolina Philosophical
Society at Duke University today.
The morning program which will be
presided over by Dr. A. C. Reid, is on
The Retations of Psychology and Phi-
losophy. The discussion will be led by
Dr. William Stern of Duke University
and Dr, G. F. Dashlell of Chapel Hill.
The afternoon program, presided over
by Dr. Alban.Wldgery of Duke Univer
sity, will be on The Philosophy of the
State. The discussion will be led by Dr.
W. E. Hocking of Harvard and Dr. H.
von Beckerath of Chapel Hl)l and Duke.