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PAGE TWO THE T W 1 0 May 22, 1937 Published Biiceekly as the Offloial Organ of the Stuclent Body 0/ Meredith College Fbascbs Tatum Editor DonoTiiY LowDERMiLK Associote Editor Maby Mahtin Associate Editor Jessig Curbin Managing Editor KATiiwajN' MrrxiBir. Managing Editor Bktty Parker. Managing Editor Maky Jane LrsDLBY Business Manager Carolyn CniTCiiE». As«stont Business Manager Sadie Massey Art Editor Dorothy Greene. Feature Editor Evelyn Lassiter, Typist Lucy NEnvELL Typist Reporters Maby Stewaut Virginia Counoil Jean Liohtfoot Bbbb Dickenson Caboi.yn Andrews Nora Binder Ghraldinb Totttx Iris Rose GinsoN Entered as second-class matter October 11, 1923, at Postofllce at Raleigh, N. C., under Act of March 3,1879. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, authorized October 11, 1923. fiubscription Price $1.60 Editor's Note: It is with much enthusiasm that the new staff takes over the publishing of The Twio. We appreciate the confidence placed in us and sincerehf hope that we may not fall short of your expecta tions. We hope that when you read your paper yon will read it with the idea that it is the medivm for the expression of your ideas and your aciirilips. and that you will feel free to express your opinion in-tho columns of your college newspaper. WHAT GAIN? Witli the coming of the closc of the present school year many tif us stop to ask ourselves the questions, “What have I ac- conijiHsliccl cluriiTg the past few months? What have I received from daily contact with the faculty and students? What do I have to show for the time I’ve spent here?” We ])robably began the year with manj' enthusiastic plans for activities, and set a higher goal than we have realized. It is nothing to regret if we have not attained standards we set for oui'solves if wc liave i-eally tried to attain them. It is not unusual to overliear comments made to the effect that one has received little from her school life. But if you investi gate, you usually hoar such statements made by those who have put nothing into their college life. Tlie passive element in our college group is the reason for tlie lack of the longed for college s])irit. Wc are not paid dividends from bonds we have not bought and paid tlie price for. There are classes we complain of being boring, but it is probable that if we analyze the situation we will find that wc have contributed nothing to the class. It is possible that we liave sat on tlie back seat, figuratively speaking, and accepted without question, because it takes too much effort to question, tlie ideas of others. How many of us are willing to let others do our thinking for us. The various activities on the cam])us moan little to us if wc have lent no aid in making them active activities. Do we liave anything to show for our year’s work besides gi-ades, and notebooks, such as they are. Grades are only extei’nal and are of little value in making life adjustments. The idea that grades are the only determinant of achievement is a false one, and one we had better forget if that is the single aim towards which we are work ing. If we have learned anything about how to live in a co operative group, we have made a great advance. If m'c have leai'ned to make our own decisions, or have learned to form our own opinions, and draw our own conclusions, we have made a good deal of progress since the beginning of the yeai*. “QUIET HOUR” One of the rules with which the student body is not in sympathy is that regarding “quiet hour” on Sunday afternoons. It seems to me that to expect students to abide by this regulation is asking a little too much. It would seem that the aim of a normal college life would be not to make it in such decided contrast to the life of the average college student at home, and I am sure that no girl is required to remain in her room for two hours on Sunday afternoon. When this ruling was made, no doubt it was worthwhile and practical. But one thing many fail to realize is that this is a changing world, rules made for students of even a decade ago ai’c not applicable to the student body of today. I am not advocating abolisliing the rule just because it is not enforced, but because it is an impractical and unreasonable one. ''WHENCE DEPARTED SPIRIT” Listening to the recent comments of several people on the campus, we have been led to wonder if that some thing usually referred to as "Meredith Spirit" has not either departed from the campus completely or else been 80 Individualized as to be hardly recog nizable. It has been obvious to quite a number of the students lately that interest in school activities is decid edly on the wane. We have wondered at the cause of this decrease and have not been able to And a definite solution. We have made several interesting spec ulations which we pass on to you for consideration. The neglect of the sports program by the majority of students has caused considerable worry among those espec ially interested in sports. It seems quite probable to us that an answer might be found lu the maxim “compe tition makes the game more interest ing.” If this saying be true, then it la no wonder that student attendance at basketball games, and other such ^ames, is so small, for who can get excited over one class playing another, or who wants to side with one dormi tory against another. In a school as small as ours where everyone knows everyone else, there is. little class feel ing and consequently, almost complete indifference to interclass contests; Why can't Meredith play St. Mary’s or Peace? Such inter-school contests not only would tend to produce a now sadly lacking feeling of friendship or even acquaintance among these schools and us but also would tend to stimu late feeling for our own school. In regard to the lack of interest and activity in the literary societies on our campus, we have again been led to ponder upon a cure for the inattentive ness shown them. It seems to us that more competition again would be lielp- fui. When there are only two societies and every girl in the school is expect ed to join one or the otlier of the or ganizations, there is naturally little to arouse rivalry.' Perhaps a third such society would enliven the situ ation. Tlie fact that the terms Astro- tekton and Phllaretlan mean nothing to people outside the radius of Mere dith (and little to those within the college, except as a source of enthusi asm and a who-can-spend-the-most-con- test at the first of school) tends to de stroy interest while one is a student and completely annihilates any society feeling after graduation. Why not use the societies as a sort of “new ground” for the discovery and development of talent along the lines of declamation, debating, and so forth. Still another neglected organization on our campus is the Baptist Student Union. At the recent installation serv ices, there were a very few girls pres ent. Participation in such services as tlie BSU holds is really a more per sonal and vital matter to the students than any of the others. After all, nc one can take another’s place in mat ters of religion. It does not seem fair to say that only those attending the various meetings of BSU organizations are interested in religious activities. Yet one is inclined to ask what the rest oC us substitute for these meet ings, and whea, or if, we satisfy our needs for sudi contemplations and studies as our religious activities offer All of this supposition gets us no where. It ia entirely up to us as the students of Meredith College to revivr the interest in campus affaira. We offer you these observations now that you may think 'upon them during the summer months. It is the earnest wish of the staff of Tiiis Twio that each stu dent will return next fall with a re newed determination to take part in campus life and a zest for really liv ing a well-rounded life while at Mere dith,—M. M. President for a Doy 0y SADIE MASSEY Ian I INCIDENT IN MY CAREER OR TALKING THROUGH MY HAT By DOROTHY GREENE I ' I had just been elected 'president of the United States. Of course, my political and social obligations as well as my campaign speeches had kept me pretty busy, so I was quite ready to go off on a Ashing trip and rest for a while before I ousted my rival can didate from the White House. And then—something happened. On the wharf I met a crowd of re porters and photographers, and after I had spent fully ten minutes in smil- ng jovially and waving gaily first my right hand and then my left, and after I had nearly fallen off the dock twice because I was obliging enough to put one foot in my yacht and the other in mid-air as though I was on the point of setting out—or in, I spied a reporter from Tnn Twco. She was exceedingly well-mannered (Meredith girls always are!) and so hadn’t shoved herself up to the front. And partly because I liked the way one of her curls hung over her ear, and partly because she had a nice nose, but mostly because she came from my Alma Mater, I decided to grant her a special inter view. Wherefore we went down into my cabin and I fortified myself In prep aration for her to start firing—and guess what she asked! She asked, “How much of Meredith do you remember?” Well, I hadn’t been out of school so long, in my own estimation (just thirteen years, for thirty-five is the youngest you can be to run for Pres ident although Congress had consider ed making an exception of my case ten years before, but the bill was blocked In the House of Representa tives). I said, “I remember lots. But the thing I recall most clearly is the girl’s radio across the court. It saved our having to turn ours on.” She said, “Ob yes! I think the same girl is there now, only she doesn't ever get the program we want.’’ I said, “I would complain to the management, that gross thoughtless ness.” Sympathy Tliv liieiHbors «f THK T\Vl(j KttiiT wish to tixtoiiil to llnico KHvhln hi tli« du»tli uf her fallior. She said she thought so too. Then we started on another track. “Do you remember the telephone?’’ she asked. “Dear me! the telephone. I never got ti call—except sometimes, and then I wasn’t in and didn’t have a nickel to call back.” “How about the mail boxes?” I beamed upoa her my most delight ful smile (the one my admirers call the Gandhi Grin) then I bragged a bit. “I memorized our whole hall’s ?Jox numbers and combinations.” She took notes diligently. Then she was so much impressed with tills that she asked for a picture of me, not tiie regular newspaper cuts such as those of George VI or Einstein or Jolin D. Rockefeller, but something more personal like those of Clark Gable and Nelson Eddy in The Mod ern Screen. So I gave her one of my baby pictures. She got up to go, so I could leave New York in time to eat supper under the Statue of Liberty. At the door she turned around and smiled one of those Meredith “personality” smiles. “What is your dearest memory of Meredith,” she asked. “Plums,” I said with an ecstatic ex pression. “Canned plums and grits.” DR. HUBERT POTEAT IS SPEAKER AT ANNUAL STUDENT G. BANQUET The annual student government ban quet was given at the Woman’s Club, Friday evening, May 17. Both the old and new members of the Meredith and Wake Forest Student Councils were present. Instead of the usual toasts that are heard at banquets, jokes and riddles were given by members of the coun cils. Bill Stanbock, president of the Wake Forest Student Government As sociation for 1937-1938, presided. Dr. Hubert Poteat was the speaker of the evening. His subject was “Stu dent Governnieut.” The origin of stu dent government and pre-student gov ernment days at Wake Forest were included in his talk. Dr. Poteat advo cated student government and pointed out that student government had made great progress since Us beginning. After tile banquet there was a tbd* utev party.
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