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THE TWIG
November 7, 1952
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Ten Ways To Get Through College
Without Even Trying
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EDITORIAL STAFF
Editor Doris Perry
Assistant Editor Joan Langle’
Managing Editors Marjorie Blankenship,
Nancy Brown, Becky Calloway
Feature Editor Ann Ipock
Art Editor Ann Bruton
Music Editor Betty Miller
Sports Editor Lorette Oglesby
Columnists Bobbye Rice, Alyce Epley
Reporters Celia Wells, Louise Edge,
Joyce Stephens, Leah Scarborough, Eve
lyn Boone, Georganne Joyner, Ruth
Jeanne Allen, Nancy Hall, Barbara White,
Betty Smith, Pat Eberhart, Mary Whis-
nant, Betty Hockaday
Typists Joyce Phillips, Janne Dawson,
Mary Ann Casey, Joyce Brown
Faculty Sponsor Dr. Norma Rose
BUSINESS STAFF
Business Manager Venetia Stallings
Advertising Manager Shirley West
Advertising Staff.-Mary H. Askew, Barbara
Bullard, Becky Barnhardt, Martha Snow,
Barbara Propst, Sara Mangum, Peggy
Bennett
Circulation Manager Janis Witherington
Entered as aecond-class matter October
December, and January.
Twio is the college newspaper of Meredith
CoUege Kalelgh. North 'Carolina, and as such s
of the three major publications of the Institu-
tion the other two being The Acorn, the literary
maeazine and The Oak Leaves, the coilege annual.
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nf the Southern Association of Colleges and
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AmeriMn As^daUon of University Women,
rife mStltuuSn ll a liberal arts member of the
National Association of Schools of Music.
Subscription Rates: $2.45 per
1. Bring the professor newspaper
clippings dealing with his subject,
bring in clippings at random. He thinks
everything deals with his subject.
2. Look alert. Take notes eagerly. If
you look at your watch, don’t stare at
it unbelievingly and shake it.
3. Nod frequently and murmur “How
true!” To you this seems exaggerated.
To him it’s quite objective.
4. Sit in front, near him. (Applies
only if you intend to stay awake.) . . .
5. Laugh at his jokes. You can tell.
If he looks up from his notes and smiles
expectantly, he has told a joke.
6. Ask for outside reading. You don’t
have to read it. Just ask.
an unfavorable impression if the rest
of the class has left and you sit there
alone, dozing.
8. Be sure the book you read during
the lecture looks like a book for the
course. If you do math in psychology
class and psychology in math class,
match the books for size and color.
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7. If you must sleep, arrange to be
called at the end of the hour. It creates
9. Ask any questions you think he can
answer. Conversely, avoid announcing
that you have -found the answer to a
question he couldn’t answer, and in
your younger brother’s second year
reader at that.
10. Call attention to his writing. Pro
duce an exquisitely pleasant experi
ence connected with you. If you know
he’s written a book or an article, ask in
class if he wrote it.
We aren’t the only ones who are in
terested in the political world. In a
straw vote taken recently at Columbia
College, Columbia, S. C., Ike defeated
Stevenson. Greensboro College also
sponsored such a vote. At Furman de
bates on the presidential candidates
were held.
While our Playhouse is holding
nightly practices for “The Heiress,” the
Carolina Playmakers are working on a
drama of matricide, “The Pink Circus.”
Students at Elon are getting ready to
present “January Thaw,” a comedy.
WHAT WE BELIEVE
Baptists believe that:
1. There is one God, holy, omnipo
tent, omnipresent, omniscient, creator
of heaven and earth. Father of man
kind, and in whom there is neither be
ginning nor ending. , , u
2 Jesus Christ is the Son of God, who
was born of the virgin Mary; that he
was like unto man in all things per
taining unto the flesh, but without sin.
He w'as crucified, buried, rose again,
now dwells on the right hand of God
the Father, and will come again to
judge the quick and the dead, receiving
unto himself the souls of the- saved.
3. The Holy Spirit of God searchs the
heart of man and makes him powerful
unto righteousness and obedience.
4. Man is sinful by nature and needs
the redemption of God.
5. Man is saved by repentence and
personal faith in Jesus Christ as Lord
and Saviour. r r -xu •
6. On personal confession of faith in
Jesus Christ as Saviour the redeemed
shall be baptised by immersion into the
fellowship of the church.
7. A church is a fellowship of bap-
tized believers. The church is a sover
eign body and for governing herself
looks unto none but God the Father and
the will of the congregation. The
church’s mission is to nurture the
spiritual growth of her members and to
evangelize the world.
8. The church is to observe two ordi
nances, (1) baptism by immersion, and
(2) the Lord’s Supper^ These ordi
nances are not sacraments thus neces
sary to salvation, but are symbols of
the experiences of faith and salvation.
9 The church and state are to be for
ever separate. All matters pertaining
to religion are the sole prerogative of
the church; and matters pertaining to
the state are the. prerogative of the
civil magistrates. . ,
10 The Bible is the divinely inspired
word of God and as such is their infal-
“Have you ever had a wild desire to
scream in the library? Or jump up and
down on the dining room tables? Or go
to class barefooted?” asks the Alabam
ian of Alabama College. In ari effort to
raise money for various charities, Ala
bama College is letting its students ful
fil all their “wild desires” — for a
price. They make a contribution; to
charity and do what they please.
Maybe you hate to go through the
rigamarole of registering, but suppose
this happened to you. A South Dakota
State College coed tells of her exper
ience during registration. It seems that
things were going smoothly until she
stepped into an especially long line.
After a two hour wait, she reached —
the men’s washroom.
And here’s a new idea for yearbooks.
Ohio State’s 1953 yearbook will be
heard as well as seen. In each annual
there will be a fifteen-minute phono
graph record of some of the sounds
most familiar to Ohio State students —
the chimes, the marching hand, school
songs, and excerpts from speeches by
campus leaders.
The Corn Huskin’ Bee was great fun, ■
wasn’t it? The faculty are always good i
for a laugh. Really, though, I think
they’re very good sports. If I had a
whole string of letters behind my
name, I don’t know but what I’d be a
bit priggish about it!
We surely enjoyed having Dr. Har
ris back again, and we hope she 11 be
coming often. The thing Dr. Harris is
famous for on 2nd Vann is her
“Positively NO ADMITTANCE” sign.
Though Dr. Harris’ door is nearly al
ways open, whenever this foot-long sign
with its thick black letters frowning
upon you sat forbodingly upon her
chamber door, there was no need to so
much as deliberate entrance. The sign
seems to favor her scowl, but it lacks
the quick smile that follows. By now I
think you get the idea.
Adele Buening’s heart has been
pinned for almost a year but just lately
the object of her affections has decided
that a pinned heart must be guarded
also — but ask Adele for the details
of an intriguing way to receive a
guard!
Lost: Sonnya’s gold earrings; if any
one knows their whereabouts please in
form her. (I want to borrow them!)
A Saint Mary’s student has these
mealtime impressions:
“The seven thirty cow bell . . . drag
ging footsteps in the cold gray dawn
. . the damp walk under the covered
way . . . steam rising from the pipes in
the yard . . . mixed reactions from let
ters received minutes ago . . . new-born
orange sunlight reflected slantwise on
quiet eyes and lips, peaceful from re
cent sleep . . . creaking steps . . . girls
hurriedly finishing letters lined up by
the rail . . . pepless good morning . . .
half an orange.
The siren . . . hunger drawn faces . . .
hilarious laughter springing from re
lieved tension . . . post mortem of morn
ing’s classes . . . bright sunlight of mid
day . . . creaking steps . . . mad rush by
screen doors . . . chairs sliding . . . hot
Six o’clock bell . . . tapping of heels
on brickwalk under covered way . . .
freshly bathed girls in hose . . . lassi
tude of late evening . . . dull throbbing
tiredness . . . peaceful glow of sky just
without the sun . . . rehash of after
noon’s accomplishments . . . dread of
night’s work . . . more lady-like ascent
of creaking stairs . . . flourescent glare
of indirect lights . . . grace . . . hot
doughy rolls.”
Maybe we ought to start a tradition
like this one.
“It is said that if. a Wellesley College
girl walks her beau around the lake and
garden three times without proposal,
she has a perfect right to push him in
the drink.” The garden was designed
by a math professor whose love was
thwarted for a president of Wellesley
(the presidents there are always wom
en).
Cheer up, freshmen! You think YOU
have worries, but do you know that our
coast line is being eroded at the rate of
two feet a year (or is it two inches?)
Anyway, it’s awful because in another
300,000 years we could have a major
catastrophe like maybe we’ll lose New
Jersey altogether! Or if that doesn’t
happen, there’s, always that spreading
desert in Maine to aggravate us. How
would you like to have to drive camels
instead of Cadillacs? Or picture a date
for a Drive-In Theater . . . it’d be just
my luck to get parked behind a Camel
taller than m.y date’s. Maybe that
doesn’t strike your worry wart, so con
sider the fact that the earth is still mov
ing gradually away from the sun so in
about three or four trillion years we
might all freeze to death!
lible guide and rule in all matters per
taining unto faith and practice.
11. The best witness to faith is
through the stewardship of life where
in Baptists support home and foreign
missions, denominational schools and
colleges. Baptist churches and publica
tions, and regard their labors as a
Christian vocation.
• 12. They are conscience bound to at
tend regularly the services of the
church, to pray for its work, and to sup
port the entire mission of Christ with
their talents and possessions.
DEAR AUNT SUSIE . . .
Dear Aunt Susie,
Well Founders’ Day has come and
gone with all of its great significance.
I’m sure everybody’s heart swelled
when the seniors marched down the
aisle to the rich strains of the Dedica
tion Hymn. But the thing that I will
remember most is going into the au
ditorium late one afternoon before
Founders’ Day and hearing the chorus
going over their selections for the pro
gram oh Founders’ Day. I guess Miss
Donley took them qver .one little
phrase at least six times. It finally
sounded perfect, and even more beauti
ful there in the late twilight than in it’s
“official presentation.” I really don’t
think that the chorus gets enough cred
it. Most everyone takes it as a matter
of course that on every possible occa
sion the Meredith College Chorus will
come forth with it’s usual perfect se
lections, without realizing all the hard
work that goes behind that perfection.
I have something of the greatest im
portance to ask you; that is, whether or
not to be a hypocrite. I know that
sounds foolish, but here’s my problem.
I’ve reached some sort of stage in my
so called “development” where I ques
tion in my mind almost every thing my
teachers say. I know that sounds imper
tinent, but I can not discipline my mind
enough to keep these questions away.
I know from past experience that if I
voice my opinions too loudly and ask
too many questions I get a curt nod,
period. But Aunt Susie, I feel that I
must speak up; that if I just sit there
and don’t say anything I’m not being
true to my self, and in a way I’m even
cheating myself. What should I do? Do
NEWS FLASH! Dr. Johnson has fin
ally confessed that she’s not a walking
dictionary! We suspected as much when
we couldn’t find a copywrite date any
where. Speaking of Dr. Johnson, I seem
to recall that her pet peeve is not being
called by her double name. Conclusion:
Should the occasion arise, never say
“Lynch Johnson.” It’s Mary-Lynch, of
course!
I’m going to compose a book on HOW
TO GET THAT FACULTY LOOK. The
first chapter will be entitled “Late en
trances to dining halls must be grace
ful and matter-of-fact.” The second
chapter is entitled “Unlimited Chapel
Cuts,” while the third will be con
cerned with “The Cannady Class Prob
lem.”
you think its worth a better grade to
keep my big mouth shut?
It was wonderful seeing Dr. Harris
the other day. You remember I told you
about her in my last letter. She made
the best speech about school spirit. I
think she’s come closer to hitting the
real thing than anybody else so far, and
there’s been a lot of that sort of thing
since we did away with Palio. Some
how Dr. Harris seems to know exactly
how the girls feel.
Well Aunt Susie, I better close now,
and go pick up my current torch, which
is a result of the above mentioned “big-
mouthness.” A friend brought me this
snatch of verse the other day.
I told my heart that all was bright.
That time alone would make things
right,
I told my heart that love had not
died.
My heart answered that I lied.
Some consolation.
Love,
Evalina