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THE TWIG
September 28, 1967
Mtreditk Colle9
September 28, 1967
Our Town
Although we live in Raleigh for nine months out of every twelve, can
we correctly call it our town? We all take advantage of its opportunities
for entertainment and education. We not only go to the Friends of the
College and New Arts concerts, but we also visit the Museum of Art
and the Little Theater. We teach in Raleigh’s public schools, study in
its library, and worship in its churches. Do we, however, only take from
the community and never give to Its general welfare?
Although the new school term has just started, Meredith has already
begun to show the community that it can benefit as much from Meredith
as Meredith students benefit from Raleigh, The administration has of
fered the use of the amphitheater to civic and church groups and has
even planned programs to be presented there. Along the same line, a
student group, led by Betty Duckworth, raised funds for the School for the
Blind by staging a “Vlddles and Fiddles” party. The project proved what
students can do when they becomc aware of others in the community.
However, why wait for the administration or a student leader to act
first? Anyone can participate in the MCA’s project at Dorothea Dix
Hospital or tutorial program for underprivileged students. Many clubs
sponsor similar programs, such as reading tO blind children by Colton
English Club members and entertaining other handicapped children at
Christmas by members of both societies. There are many other oppor
tunities for those who are willing to help.
Meredith may be our colleae, but Is Raleigh our town?
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A Positive Test
It is probable that in the minds of many Meredith students, the term
“Honor Code" has negative connotations. It is the promise, policy, and
for some the problem which must be faced when a major offense (i.e.,
drinking, falsification of college records, or plagerism) is committed, and
little more. When one is personally involved in a breach of the promise
and faces .Tudicial Board action, the Honor Code is very real, but at
other times it may be only a card signed during the freshman year.
This semester, however, we have the opportunity to see the Honor Code
in a new light. With the elimination of chapel checkers, each student will
be confronted daily with the principle of trust under which she agrees to
live at Meredith. The administration, by making chapel attendance records
an individual responsibility, has taken an important step toward making
the Honor Code a positive factor stressed in all areas of life in the
college community. Ultimately, the new chapel policy will serve an im
portant function as a test, for student handling of the new privilege will
reflect the real attitudes toward jhe Honor Code and its implications that
are prevalent among us.
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Letter to the Editor
Coffeehouse for Meredith?
Dear Editor:
While Meredith has much to of
fer her students academically, she
has little to offer them socially.
There is nowhere on or near cam
pus where students can go infor
mally to have a cup of coffee and
talk, with either girl or boy friends.
This problem is especially notice
able if one wants only to “get out
of the dorm for an hour or so”
with a couple of friends; for, where
is there to go? There is nowhere.
True, seniors have cars and can
often leave, but what about the
other four-fifths of the student body?
AGREE OR DISAGREE?
“Don’t try for ‘AV—don’t take
the things in which you can get
‘A,’ for you can Icam them
yourself.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, letter to his
daughter, June 12, 1940.
As we all know, there is nothing
worse than being “stuck” in the
dorm for a week, when all the time
you can spare away from your
studies is an hour or so one night
—^hardly enough time to go down
town. We need a place on campus
where students can go to relax, to
get away from the dorm.
Who can start such a place? The
students themselves can, if they want
to. There is already a group of stu
dents on campus who are interested
in starting a “coffeehouse” — a
place where students with or with
out dates could go without leaving
campus. A possible site is already
on campus — the Hut.
All we need is to know that the
student body as a whole is really
interested — it needs to be done,
and it can be done. We have only
to show that wc really want it and
are willing to work for it.
Lynn Dodge
Dr. lone Knight Publishes
Book About English Sermon
By KATHY BOOTH STEWART
With every new issue of The
Twig or Acorn, Meredith’s hard
working, aspiring authors look with
pride upon their names printed in
bold black type. Those who under
stand this feeling must realize how
much their reaction was multiplied
for Dr. lone Kemp Knight this past
month as she viewed her name in
gold upon the spine of her first
book.
Dr. Knight’s scholarly investiga
tion of the fourteenth century ser
mon, “Reddc Rationcm Willi-
cationis Tue” (Give an Account of
Your Stewardship) was published by
the Duquesne University Press un
der the title of Wimbledon’s Ser
mon. The book, an expansion of the
subject for her doctoral dissertation
in English, has been in development
for approximately ten years. Most
of her research, as a result of her
teaching load, has had to be done
during the summers, which she spent
studying manuscripts at Oxford Uni
versity, ihe University of London,
and the British Museum.
The sermon is noteworthy be
cause of its widespread circulation
from the thirteemh through the
seventeenth centuries, the Middle
English period when literary works
were extremely rare. Dr. Knight in
vestigated all fifteen original maixu-
NOTICE
Mrs. Carolyn Voolo of the Fjig.
lish department has iMen ill during
the summer and will not at present
Ik able to resume her teaching.
She has been lo Ihe Duke Univcr
hospital but Is now at lier
home, 1506 Scales Street, Raleigh.
Anomaly
By GINGER HUGHEY
Dear Freshmen:
AH Meredith students have had
two emotions in common: (1) panic,
a product of the first day of classes,.,
replaced during the third week by
(2) numbness. By now you should
be almost numb, but there Is,
strangely enough, HOPE. After ap
proximately 245 blind dates, fifteen
crash diets (adding eight pounds),
three years of fourth floor rooms,
four semesters of Math 101 at four,
different institutions, three years of
independent reading in the cafeteria
line (finishing only one book out of
the recommended number) and one
summer school session (ending
Math 101), it is possible to attain
the noble status of senior and still
retain some amount of sani^.
Think optimistically and nothing
can possible throw you, except per
haps the twelve hooks strategically
arranged in your closets. Remem
ber that yOu are part of an elite
group, sharing with several million
students the privilege of buying
twenty-three issues of Life for onlv
$1.97.
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scripts (thirteen in English, two in
Latin) and developed her book
around the unusual quality of the
sermon’s content and its remarkable
survivial in eighteen printed editions
by the tijnc of the 17th ccntury. For
the time of Chaucer, such wide
spread knowledge of one particular
sermon is highly unusual.
Its popularity is probably a result
of the persons quoted and literary
references in the text and the talent
of its author, Thomas Wimbledon.
A printed edition of Dr. Knight’s
book has been placed in the li
brary of St. Paul’s Cathedral in Lon
don, where some of the original
manuscripts are preserved. It was
also in the courtyard of St. Paul's,
around 1388, that Thomas Wim
bledon first delivered this famous
sermon.
Dr. Knight’s book, a product of
careful and scholarly research, will
be of great value to students -of
Middle English literature, and will
be circulated) primarily to university
libraries.
THOUGHTS i
ON ^
TRADITIONS
By JUDY KORNEGAY ^
The bewildered freshman, coming \
to Meredith at the end of a lazy
summer, is abruptly confronted by {
orientation, the first bulwark of col- ^ I
lege life, which is chronologically’ i,
Meredith’s first tradition. For those i
who have idled away their last few
months of freedom, it is no mean
chore to begin sandwiching daily
routines into a prepackaged, already
filled-to-overflowing schedule of •
duties and activities.
Before she has time to realize it,
the newcomer has matriculated
(thereby increasing her vocabulary'
by one new word), unloaded and
unpacked her ton of necessities from
home (even though her father sail! *
it could not be done!), gotten hc>'
mail box, and sniffed her way ti'
the picnic supper in the court. Ii
docs not take long to learn her wav '
around campus, and it is a comfon
lo see many secure and confidcn^'
upperclassmen who really do net
seem insulted when asked if the /
are also new.
Getting up early each morninii
to meet counscl groups, taking tests,
and listening to numerous speakers
gives one a real taste of what to •
expect at Meredith. To some it is a
pleasant surprise to learn that the
people with whom they are going to
live and work for the next four'
years are really human. It soon be
comes apparent that college will ol-.
fer much better occupations than
waiting in endless lines and signing
one’s names to innumerable dotted *
linses. As each freshman begins to
visualize the faculty, administration,
and students as a unit working to- ,
ward the same goal, she gains a-
teehng of what it is like to be a real
member of a college community
—the Meredith Community.
The benefits of orientation are far
from limited to freshmen and ex- ■
tend past the three-day introduction
period. Orientation continues ai
regular intervals throughout the year
for freshmen, advisors, and coun
selors. Upperclassmen are re
minded of orientation by constant i
reference to the word on the college: jA
calendar, on posters, and in an-^®
nouncements. By next spring, many
students will be making plans for
next year’s orientation program.
These constant reminders of
orientation can serve two purposes. ,
for every member of the Meredith ' "
Community. While freshmen arc
learning for the, fir?t time what
Meredith is, others can. be reprient-
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