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THE TWIG
December 14, 1951
Crooking Tradition Renewed:
To Stimulate Class Spirit
By ANN IPOCK
Wanted: By the Seniors and
Sophomores. One Crook. If a
sophomore finds the crook
please notify a member of the
senior class as soon as possible.
Must be found by the night of
the Christmas banquet. Ur
gent!
Start looking all you seniors
and sophomores, for the crook
is back in hiding. In case you
were wondering if someone had
been shot or if our xaithful
George is with us once more
when you heard that minor A-
bomb explosion on the porch of
Jones the other day, put your
mind at rest. It was just that the
crook had been found by Betsy
Cannady and thq juniors were
celebrating.
Before 1 go any farther, let
me explain that the crook is not
a person who steals your home
made cookies or your algebra
problems! It is just a long white
shepherd’s crook given to the
Meredith senior class of 1906 by
Miss Carolyn Phelps to increase
school spirit, and has been the
source of rivalry between the
junior and senior classes for
,many years. The class that pos
sesses the crook on the final day
of the contest is victorious. The
reason that most of us have not
heard of the crook before is that
this custom was brought to a halt
some years later by the faculty
because class rivalry became too
intense. However, it was brought
back in 1926 and again stopped
in 1946. Now in 1951 the crook
has once again been put to use.
In the early days of the crook,
it was hidden by the seniors at
the first of the school year, and
the juniors were given the whole
nine months to find it. Since at
tendance at Meredith has in
creased so much, a time limit
has been set. When we returned
from Thanksgiving, the juniors
found that the crook had been
hidden by the seniors, and they
had until the night of our Christ
mas banquet to find it. And so
they did! Way ahead of schedule.
The crook is back in hiding, but
this time it was hidden by the
juniors who challenged the
seniors to find it. Maybe by the
time you read this article, some
lucky senior will have found the
crook, and the cycle will have
begun again.
On the night of our Christmas
banquet, the crook will be
brought forth. If the seniors do
not have the crook in their pos
session, the crook will wear the
senior class colors, but with a
black bow placed there in
mourning for the seniors by the
juniors. If it is in the possession
of the senior class, it will wear
the junior class colors for the
seniors will present it to the
juniors. Next year, the new
senior class will once again chal
lenge the juniors. So gals, get
Dusy and find the crook! Not
many more “looking” days are
left!
Rabbi Philip Fried of Raleigh
recently gave members of the
Freeman Religion Club an intro
duction to Orthodox Judaism.
Rabbi Fried, formerly of Pal
estine, spoke briefly of the new
nation being built there now.
Also he reminded those attend
ing of the long history of Juda
ism and of the contributions that
this religion has made to others.
He mentioned specifically that
the idea of a day of rest orig
inated with the Jews, although
it has become a part of many
other religions. Furthermore, the
idea of cleanliness of food is a
basic one in the Jewish religion.
The rabbi also pointed out the
Orthodox Jewish ideas of marri
age and divorce. Since marriage
is a religious ceremony, the Jews
believe that divorce also should
be of religious concern, not
merely a civil matter.
Book Review
ESSAY COEEECTIOIS MAKES USE OF SATIRE
NATIONAL BRIDGE
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COLLEGIATE CONTEST
Meredith is one of the more
than three-hundred invited to
compete in the 1952 National
Intercollegiate Bridge tourna
ment. Louis D. Day, Jr., of the
University of Pennsylvania, is
chairman of the National Inter
collegiate Bridge tournament
committee.
Only undergraduates are eligi
ble to play in the duplicate con
tract bridge event for the title
and trophy. A preliminary round
will be played by mail in Febru
ary, and the sixteen highest
ranking pairs will meet for the
face-to-face finals at the Black-
stone Hotel in Chicago on April
18 and 19, with their expenses
paid by the Tournament Com
mittee.
In last year’s Intercollegiate
tournament, which was won by
the team from Washburn Uni
versity, 1,264 students repre
senting 158 colleges in forty-
two states played in the round-
by-mail. To insure representa
tion of all parts of the country
in the finals, the country is di
vided into eight zones, with two
pairs from each zone qualifying
for the finals.
The National Intercollegiate
Bridge tournament committee.
“The Indiana Home,” by Lo
gan Esarey, R. E. Banta, Craw-
iordsville, Indiana, 1947, 150 pp.
What interesting classes Pro
fessor Esarey must have con
ducted at Indiana University!
“The Indiana Home” is a collec
tion of six essays on Indiana life
during the early history of the
state. Dr. Esarey, a native of In
diana, spent most of his life
studying, teaching, and writing
Indiana history. Ihe essays were
found in rough draft among the
late professor's papers. He never
intended them to be published;
Out how fortunate we are that
they were!
The book not only contains en
lightening information as to the
nardships, difficulties and fun of
the early inhabitants of the
Hoosier state, but it also has
subtle satire hidden in just the
right places. Here is an example:
“Sycamores stood up like aristo
crats among the other trees and
like aristocrats, they were use
less to man and beast.” Another
example of satire is used in
connection with Wpishing the
sheep’s wool. At first this task
was done by the women and chil
dren; “when it came to be strict
ly a man’s job, a machine was
invented to do it.”
Professor Esarey’s vivid de
scription of pioneer life makes
us feel as if we are bystanders
looking on at this fascinating
pageant of history. The plants
were divided into different
classes of people. I have already
mentioned the aristocratic syca
more; the mulberry bushes were
for the proletariat. Esarey’s de
scription of the few villages
where the poor folks dwelled is
very amusing. In speaking of the
chickens, he says, “For six
months in the year the chickens
made ceaseless war on the gar
dens and while not so serious as
the Civil War which followed, it
caused even more neighborhood
strife. One of the dark questions
which still remains unsolved is
why a person’s chickens never
did scratch up his own garden.”
Professor Esarey intended his
essays for the delight of children.
which supports the event so that
there is no cost to the competing
colleges or the players, is a group
of college alumni and officials
interested in developing contract
bridge as an intercollegiate sport
in which men and women can
compete on an equal basis. The
committee for 1952 includes:
Louis D. Day, Jr., director,
Houston Hall, University of
Pennsylvania; Charles D. Owens,
manager. Associated Students,
University-of Washington; Lloyd
M. Vallely, manager, Purdue
Memorial Union, Purdue Uni
versity; Foster M. Coffin, di
rector, Willard Straight Hall,
Cornell University; Mrs. Chris
tine Y. Conaway, dean of women,
Ohio State University; Kenney
L. Ford, alumni secretary, Kan
sas State College; Nelson B.
Jones, director, Faunce House,
Brown University; Donald R.
Matthews, director of alumni af
fairs, University of Florida.
The committee requires that
the approval of the dean or
a corresponding authority be
granted before a college can be
regarded as officially entered in
the tournament.
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By BETSY CANNADY
Alpha Psi Omega held its semi
annual initiation service in the
hut December 10. Seven girls—
Potsy Averre, Patsy Bland, Dott
Miller, Beth Morgan, Sally Mas
sey, Jean Pace, and Fay Walker
—were rewarded for their untir
ing efforts in little theatre work
by becoming full-fledged mem
bers of this national dramatic
fraternity. The initiation service
was both challenging and inspir
ing, and it will always be re
membered by each girl who ex
perienced it. We hope that the
organization will continue to
grow as it has in the past year.
The Little Theatre’s fall pro
duction of four one-act plays was
received with enthusiasm by the
audiences on both Friday and
Saturday nights. This was the
theatre’s first experience with
one-act plays, and those partici
pating enjoyed the novelty.
Without the great efficiency of
the stage crew in changing the
props between the plays, they
could not have been nearly so
successful. Many of the girls who
worked in the plays received
but adults as well thrill to the
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enough points to add to those
they already had to be eligible
for Alpha Psi membership. Many
others gained entrance into the
Little Theatre.
One of the plays, “The Mouse
trap,” was given at St. Augus
tine’s, December 7. The school
was giving a program which con
sisted of skits and other one-act
plays to raise funds to send two
Negro girls to college and to help
raise interest in the establish
ment of a Teen-Tavern for the
young people of the section.
Meredith’s play was received
better at St. Augustine’s than it
was here.
Several members of the Little
Theatre have participated in pro
grams in clubs and churches
throughout Raleigh.
By the way, have any of you
met Harvey? He’s the big white
rabbit who made such a hit at
the Raleigh Little Theatre. I
hope that all of you saw him,
as I did, when he walked across
the stage. This play proved the
versatility of the members of the
Raleigh Little Theatre group.
Everyone who saw the play
seemed to enjoy it.
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