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PAGE TWO THE T W I G May, 1, 1937 " ■ e Pnhlished BUceekly as the O^cial Organ ol flie Student Body of MereilUK College Katuertke Shuford Editor Frances Pittman Associate Editor Maby Johnson MacMilt-an Associate ' Editor Kate Mills Suitot: Biisinesa Mavager, .. Helen Hilliard.'... '.'.'.'...AhiiataM Busitiess' Manager Mart Jane Lindley.; Assistant Business Manager Eleanor Edwarps... Managing Editor Frances Tatum Managing Editor Dorothy LownERMrLK Managing Editor Rura Purvis............ - : Typist Ruth ABBatNEraY .....~4.rt Editor Kate Covinoton ..Ffiature Editor . Eva WiCKEn.....;.....;.!..'. Typist Reporters Ethki. Knoit Margaret Gbayson LiixiAN Poe ■ MiIvDrbd Ann GRiToiiEit ^ VinoiNiA Reynolds Annie ELizAnnsrir CoVAftn- Minetta Bakti.ett Jea?i LioiitfooX; DoHoxny-Greun Jane Yet-v^xon Mary Stewart Entered as second-class matter October '11, • 1923, at PostofBce af. / Raleigh, N. C., nnder Act of March'3; 1879*... ; ' 1* ' Acceptance Cor mailing at special rate pif '.{lostage provided for ini Section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, aiithorilzejS October 11, 1923. ^ Subscription Price $1.50 NEW TWIG STAFF "Witli a feeling of regret decicledly tinged with relief, the old staff turns the publication of The Twig.over to a'new one. It has been valuable experience for all those who have cooperated in putting out this year’s Twig and w’e^re grateful for. the op portunity of participating in this campus activity. Although M'e kno^^’ our achie\'cinents to be small, we value the year’s work for the pleasant relationships it has fostered and the fun it has given us. Every member of the faculty and student bodyihave co operated remarkably well in this activity and the staffAis indeed grateful. If the columns of Thk Twig have sometimes waxed a little dull, somewliat foolish, or a trifle vitupei*ative, we beg your for giveness for ourselves, and indulgence for next year’s staff, who will, being human, undoubtedly make some of the same mistakes. We trust, however, that they will not be so numerous. It has not been an uninteresting year, if an uneventful one. Happenings rccordcd in Thk Twig have been of the same order as those of former years, but a few changes have set this apart in some measure. Clnef among them is the bare shadow of a more liberal spirit in regard to social regulations—it is the changing, not of actual rules, but of a rather elusive attitude which is un doubtedly felt by hoj)oful students as well as doubtful faculty members and has been' brought about by a more assertive student council and by changes in the administration. There has been too, a more progressive program adopted as to increasing the student bod}’ for coming years and although manj' violently disapprove of the nmnner in whiclt it lias been done, the fact remains that a more practical view has been adopted. A hockey field has been built (an activity whicli is perhaps not so valuable in itself as in the fact that it shows wliat can be done by an energetic group of students), new courses liavc been added, and some old ones have been eliminated. Not all of those changes meet with the ap proval of both faculty and students, but none can deny that the motion is forward, rather than liackward. Thic Twig is }>roud of the year’s progress Meredith has made, and the old stafl' turns over its duties to the now with the best of v'ishes and the fervent hope that it will see next year even more good come to Meredith than has come in this. The members of the tiew Twig staff arc as follows: Francks Tatum Editor DonaniY Lowdekmit.k Associate Editor Mary M.^nri.x Associate Editor Jessie CuRitix....: Managing Editor KA'niLEVJK MniVK'iT Managing Editor Bbti'y PAHKBit Managing Editor •Mahy Janb Lindi.ky Uusiness Manager CAU01.VN Chitciikk: A.tni.'itant Jhistneii.s Manager Sadie Massey •. Art Editor DoBO'i'iiY Giirkxk Feature Editor Evelyn LAssnmi Typist L'ucY, NE:^VBLL.. Typist Reporters Maky'Stkw.uit 'VllKllxiA Coiixoii. Jean LuHiTiirVi' BhJiiw DrcKENstiM Caimu.yn Am>i;e\vs • Ikik Rose Giiiso.v Nora BiNiiMi Gki;ai.»i.m3 Turri.E ABEETLE*SEYE VIEW OF MAY DAY The beeUes In the grove were par- ttcularly excited. As a matter of fact, they hadn’t lieen able to sleep a wink all ^iiight—but after all, a beetle'al ways iias Insomnia bn the thirtieth day of April in a year that.Just follows Leap Year. , - .. jr. These particular beetles, however, had a particularly good reason' for being particularly excited. Not .only was it May Day, but It was May Day at Meredith, and' to be a beetle In Hie grove when it Is May Day at Meredith Is the apex of a beetle’s para>- dtss. On this particular May Dcy at Msrsdlth there was to be a pavtlcu- Jarly gorgeous May Day festival. A Mother Goose parade—no less—and a Brown May queen. These, beetles had never seen a brown May queen before; so who can blame them for being par ticularly excited. The parade, too, was going to be a i:anagora of parades. One of the beetles who live by. the gym had met one of the beetles who live In the grove half way In the grass circle at the end of the drive and had told the most liantastic tales imaginable about what was going to happen. Little Boy Blue was going to wake up and perforin a dance while he looked for his—er —live stock, and Jack-be-NImble was going to jump over his candlestick— right before everybody, and all of the four-and-twenty blackbirds were going to- be baked in a pie (actually!) and then were going to come hopping out to trip the light fantastic In true black-bird fashion. Besides that, Simple Simon was going to be there, buying pies, and Mary Quite Con trary was going to water her garden, and Jack and Jill were going to go up the hiir, and of course the May Pole dancers we^e going to be there and lots of others too and— Tiie beetle who lived In the grove never heard what was going to happen next, because the beetle who lived near the gym turned up his toes to the daisies and expired. The ex citement had proved too much for his hoavt. The beetles who live in the grove buzzed in anticipation. They even Lorgot to knit their beetling brows (an astounding phenomenon) and they hurried around with most un-beetle- like smiles on their faces. Even the old beetle grand-daddies waxed gay and became as giddy as they had been in their youth. One of them even aspired to crooning Mendelsohn’s I “Spring Song” but gave It up w;hen he discovered that even its own mother wouldn't recognize the tune. The hour approached. The beetles arranged themselves In the trees so they could see everything. The baby beetles’ bonnets were straight. The papa beetles’ shoes were polished. The mama beetles' dresses were starched. And then what happened! Haven’t you heard? Dorothy Green. COMMENTS Elections. . . . The Meredith student body is to be congratulated on the £pirit In which the recent elections have teen conducted. "With the election of ofllcers at other colleges we note much eomplalnt by the students as to “rot ten politics.” The relative quietness of the elections is.not, I think, indicative or an indifferent attitude but is indlc- ;;tlve of an unprejudiced attitude and :t desire on the part of the students Lo eonJuct fair and orderly elections. Lecture. . . . The enthusiastic and favorable comments made by the stu dents In regard to the “required lec- Lure" Friday night is evidence of the truth ol’ the statement made some time ago In Tub Twio that interesting pro grams sponsored by the administration wou!d be appreciated by those attend ing. We are all for more programs of this type... . P.'.vl!oge3'? . . . One of the most dis "I Ahi Beloved ; I Am Beloved " By RUTH ABifikNETHY Alack, Alack By KATE COVINGTO,\ It has not been so long since I read a most remarkable formula for beauty.' A~ well-meaning lady says, “Forget what your looking-glass tells you, but say't'o yourself a dozen times a day, ‘I am beloved.’ No woman who actually believes that she Is Qreclous In the eyes of another can walk un gracefully, or live without charm.” I told this to Mary Johnson and she maintained a definite calm whilst we Ironed It out. In the flrst place, if we stopped the whole of twelve times a day to say, “I am beloved” it. would take a lot of valuable time. Mary Johnson said she would continually lose count and could never be sure at the end of the day whether she’d said it twelve or thirteen times. On the other hand. If you forget once, you’d have to start all over. Twelve times a day for seven days is eighty-four. That means you'd go around saying, “I am beloved” thirty thousand six hundred and sixty times a year, with a few extra thrown in for leap year. If you have ever tried saying something over and over again you remember you came out the wrong end. It’s very likely that if you start out saying, “I am beloved” for sweet beauty's sake, you will end up wltli some such tender phrase as, "Ham's blood.” If "Ham’s blood” can make your step spi'ightly and your hair glow. I’ll have to hand it to the lady. Then, too, it seems a bit weird to wander around muttering something nobody can understand. On the other hand, you can’t very well explain, “I beg your pardon, but I'm just saying a few tender words to myself so I'll get a nice walk and a lot of charm.’’ If you’re taking a trip with friends it would really be rather brazen to interrupt a discussion of landscape to say you were beloved, when it would probably mean nothing at all to them except to make them look at each other with well-felt alarm. Another placc where you'd get Into trouble with such a program would be at home. My grandmother was a dear lady and she used to say, “Pretty is as pretty does.” But even my grand-; mother would be upset if I shot in the house one day murmuring, “I am beloved.” Heaven only knows the steps the other members of my family would pursue. There’s another little phrase of the formula which needs inquiry. That’s' this, “Forget what your looking-glass tells yon,” business. It would... Beem— to me a pretty hard thing to live under the delusion that I didn't have freck les. Anyway. I know I’d take it hard if some day I were to draw forth my compact to touch up my nose a bit and suddenly realized.the blatant truth. It's like the kinds of folks Mary John son studies about who think they're Louis Philippes and Joan of Arcs and George Arlisses. Worst yet, It certainly has all the earmarks of rugged conceit. ' If I were to think I was beloved I would hate for anybody to know about it.. If I loped about gleefully murmur ing anything like that I have an un easy feeling that in less than the nine teenth I'd i)e run out of town. You ought to remember the Golden Rule, whatever you do. How would you like to hear someone awfully close to you panting “I am beloved" twelve times a day, eighty-four times a week, and thirty (hoiiaand six hundred and sixty times a year? Mary Johnson tiled It out on Virginia but some thing went askew and Virginia saw black. I’m perfectly sure Virginia didn't think she walked any better. That's about all. As a last touch I would nice to point out that If I went, around saying it that much I would get as dizzy as anything, and whoever saw anybody look beautiful while reeling? Mary Johnson and I both think the whole thing's, a gag. figuring and childish practices noted on the campus this year Is that of writing on the walls in the buildings which were repainted not so long ago. We keep howling for more privileges, and complaining because we are treat ed like children when our actions in dicate that a great number of us are not grown yet. How can we expect to be treated like people with discre tion when we don’t use any? . . . ' Murals. , . . Much commendation is due EfQe Rae Calhoun, a member of. the senior class, who Is painting the murals In the Senior Parlor, These will do much towards Improving .the appearance of the parlor as., well as being valuable In the portrayal of col lege traditions. ... Town GirlB. . , . This year more than ever the town girls have been Included on the staff of the various publications. This will no doubt lead to an Increased Interest In college activities by'those who do not stay on the ^ampu^ Here tofore the town • girls have expressed the opinion that they felt they did not have an active part in campus affairs.—F. T.
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