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Connecticut College NewsVol. 5. ""10. 15.

Price 5 Cents""lEW LONDON, CONNE'CTICU 1', FEBRUARY 13, 1920

THE TEA DANCEGREETINGS FROM 1919

'rile words "Service League TeaDance" have a magic melody for ev-e r-y g-ir-l ' ...-tio has ever been to Conn·ecttcut College. we remember thegay bazaars of the war period-a con-fused ;mpression of balloons and flow-el'S and stl'eaJnCI'S and tovety dancersand naval officers and music that beatin YOur ears tor weeks a.r.erwa.rds-We sigh and say "Them was the happydays" and then we Emile and say, "Butthis will be the happiest day," mean-ing of course, Fetu-uarv fourteenLh,of '_he vear of QUI' Lord one thousandnine hundred and twenty.'fhe Tea Dance this year will lose

some of its bazaar chal'acterislics, ow-ing to the fact that the appeal is nolonger for 'war Rel-et. but it will losenone of its carnival character. Therewf ll not be the usual number of rae-cinating nower-gtrte and cigarette-sellers and candy-vendors to luremen's cnange and their dances, butthere will be dainty Japanese wait-res£.es and the same dashing dancerswhom. we have known before, withthe addition of several new stars; andyou wm dance all afternoon to thestrains of Damf music. Could happi-ness be more complete! The addedfeature this ycal' is the formal danceon the evening of the Tea Dance. ThemU! ic will be by Heaton's orchestra,and lhe whole thing will be iOimpJythe unquenchahle overflow of theo-ayety of the afternoon.e> You'll ha\'e -.0 come-You can't re-sist! It will be in yOU1' memory andin your convel'E"ation morning, nightand noon for weel{s afterwards, andif th"'re is 'any foundation at all forthe anc:ent alHl honQl'able theory ofa woman's love of speech, the great-est tragedy of your life would be tomiss the Tea Danc'" and thus be auto~matica]]y excluded from all campusconversation from now until June.

R. E. S. '21

PROTEST AGAINSTTHE WORD "CRUSH"

"Crush" is a very unfortunate app-ellation for a relationship between twoj,eople which might well be given amore dignified name, if a name it'mustha\'e. "Cru~h" is a "fl'inged" word.-it suggests a var:e' y ot meanings. Itmay be a case of a rather young per-!"on idealizing and woriOhipping someone, usua'ly oluer than himself. Thereis nothing commendable in a youngperson's so under-rating himself orposs"'ss;ng so little individuality thathe can allow admiration to turn intoworship. Rather let worship turn intoadmiration than lose one's own Wen-tib- in the love for another's per-soi-tality. A constant comparison of thehel'o's remarkable virtues with theJOuppo~ed deficiencies of hiS devotedslave often leads the youthful wor-shipper to neglect his own de-yelopment and to Jose confi-dence in himself, very often the herodoes not know of his exalted position,for it' he did. and was really worthyot the admiration he relceived, hewould convince his worshipper thathe was an ordinary person and wouldform a very desirable friendship be-tween them.A "crush" may also be between

young people, who are about the sameage. And in this case, the admiration

A DOUGHNUT GIRL'SACCOUNT OF F,RONT

LINE TRENCHES

Connecticut College has had thepr-iv.t ege of' seeing the battlefield ofthe Great 'war through the eyes ofY. :\1. C. A. speaker-s and chaplainsbut never before last Tuesday, at Con-voca uon. has it had the opportunityor hearing a "doughnut girl's" ac-count of work under fir'e written with-in 5 knometers of the front. Miss'rE"'" Mcfn tyre is a daughter of Co'cne l xrcrntvre of the Salvation Army,and atso a graduate of Mt. Holyoker'ouege: so, for mor-a than one reason,stu den s and faculty gladly assembledto heal' her message.The re rel ling- of her experiences

with her stater, in 1917-1918, as Can-teen workers and nurse, caused heraudience no unpleasant, wincing,though her tales were often halTowingand always vtv.d. 'We found ourselvesnot only mentally watching 1500(loughnuts beIng fried per day and 300double crusted pies prepared to find"the right >ipot" but also kinaestheti-ca.l1y slewing around Dead Man'sCur\'e with shells bursting on all sides.and lumbiing with hel' into dugoutsfOl' sudden refuge.Her tribute to the Amet'ican soldiel'

was emphatic and lOincere. The samespirit of cheering optimism, courage,and !':elf-fol'getfulness that every sol-dier must have felt from contact wi' h::'I-1:ss:\fclntyre, made us feel perhapsthat as college women, we should doa little bit more than our part in help-ing to bring about ~he new !':cheme ofthing!.Vle thought we were tired of hear-

ing war lectures bUl we appreciatethis talk for its relieving penipecUves.Fifty yean, fl'om now we may countoUI'selves fortunate to ha\'e had theprivilege of hearing one of the twofamous Salvation Army "DoughnutGil'ls," whose hero'sm and sacrificewill long' be remembered, e~pec:a]\yby those connected in any way, withthe 26th Division.

K. H. '20

is, as a rule, mutual. Sinc? it is girlsin whom we are interested here. thediscussion will be limited to them. Tnthe case of two g rls car;ng fOr eachother with perhaps an unusualamount of en'husiasm, the relation-ship is naturally going to be intimate.If the girls are normal in every re-spect and have all adequate sense ofproportions, they w:ll without diffi~cully, maintain an intimate, beau!ifulfriendship. But very often girls wholack this sense of the proportions, be-come too intimate, neglect all theirformer friends, and become absorb-ed in each other's personalities. In-variably such a relationship does notlas:. very long-there is a natural re-action and unless the friendship hasbeen based on an intellectuaT or spir-itual basis, there will be a completeseverance of the two 'Concerned. Whenhd'wever, there is such a basis, th'3breach is parched up and more normalrelationship follows.To both of these types of friend-

ship here mentioned, the word "crush"should not be applied. The formerin which the two girls instinctivelyknow how to keep a friendship that

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BROWN UNIVERSITYENTERTAINS

On Prtday night, February 4,. themusca l club of Brown Unjvererty gavea concert to a good sized audience inthe gymnasium.Such vocal agioauon. violin rhapzod-

irrg, and syncopated mandolin madnesswas never before seen Or heard! Theprogr-am of thirteen numbers offereda variety of enter-ta.nment. From thefirst number. a rendtuon of Brownsongs in medley roi-m. given by thecombined clubs, to the final singing ofthe "Alma-Mater" by ',he Glee Club.the audience was k ept up to "concertpitch."The mandolin club, ab'v lead by M.

:\f. Fulton, gave two numbers-In"Mu-stem Scenes from Spain." the playerscleverly mimicked typical Spanishscenes. such as the i;:inging of theSpanish ti-oubador and the marl{edrhythm and swaying of -tie Spanishdancers. It would be we'l for ur man-{lolin c:ub to take some "pointers"from Brown.What's that crouching under the pi-

ana? A convict ?-two of them! Af.-tel' a whispel'ed conversation, oneslumps over The piano, while the otherpicl;;s up a mandolin. Despite theirprison garb. they surely could free theLtt}", jazz tunes and received much ap-p~ause,The credulity of Connecticut Co'1ege

was severely tested by C. H. Pinkham,the "legerdemain" art:st. With thehelp of a red-headed waitel" he show-p(] us how to concoct "Brown stew."After mix'ng "Prohibi~ion," a Etorageegg, and bits of the pro~ram togetherthe mixture was ingnited by a matchand the coyer ot' the pan put on. Thefront }'ows were pleasurably surpris-ed to rec"'ive a shower of "stew" in'he form of mola<ses kis~es. Pin]{-ham vouched fol' his own clevernessand good jokes, so we will take hisword for tt.

A fter the jazz troupe had success~fU'ly demon~tl'atec1 its skill at synco-pat"'d mUf"ic in alJ keys and in all ])0-~it'onf". 8nd the rhythm-loving souJswere sfltiated. ·.he audience was gladto l'sten to the ten 01' solos of W. L.Dewart of Bro'wn.The mandolin club of Brown has

rem'on to be proud of 1\r. :\'1. Sherma-,1,who de'ighted his Iiseners with a re-markably fine yiOl'n !'"oJo.The concert over. chairs were mov-

ed baek, the jazz orchestra appearedI'Inr1 'he rest of tho evening "cut in"danc:ng was in order.

M. P. '21.

AMERICAN GULLIBILITY

It Ls a common saying. atmost amaxim now, that since the time ofP. '1'. Barnum the American peo-ple swallow anything that is told 10them. I would not be as harsh as that.T would Qualify the statement and saythat the American people swallow any-thing the newspapers telt them. Ioon't believe there is an:,'thing quo'eas irritating as to hear someone saywith the most serious air: "Why, it'sa positive fact. I read it in this morn-ing's paper." Or in answer to "Wheredid you hear that stoQ'?"-"It was inthe papers." 'T'hat settles it. No onecan doubt the authentic:ty of the re-port. The newspaper is a sort of su-

'1'0 The Editor of the ConnecticutCollege rcewa:),Iay I express .nrougn your columns

a word of greeting to the class of 1920?Dear 1920:Perhaps more than any of us an-

ticipated every girl of the Class of 1919t'elt with regret, one month ago, that"our" year had gone. We thoughtfoul' br-ief years ago that 1919 was farin the future. But with the passing of.Ianuary we have been making read-justments and with the advent of Feb-rua.ry we can send you of 1920 ahear' y and s'ncel'e greeting.We recall how foul' years ago this

same season, we were looking forwardto your coming to join Us at Connect-icut College. 'we remember the friend-ly rivalries and the jolly good times'we rhink of the sorrows as well asthe JOYS which we shared and we areglad to have had 1920 as comrades.'ro-dav we feel that we would be poorfdenos indeed. if we d=d not rejoi.ceand that you ha\'e the happy monthswith you that "your" year has comebefore you which we enjoyed so shorta time ago. "VVethought then, as themonths went by that we appreciatedthem to the full, but having worked,having seen a b't moro of life sincelast June. we appreciate more thanevel' wha· you have befol'e you of en-joyment, amb:tion and accolnPlish-ment~.We Congl'atu'ate you in your facing

of the future andsenc1 you. dear 1920,a gl'eeting of good will and love.

Loyally yours,Marenda E. Prentis

Fo]' 1919

preme court for the American public,When. will people realize that daily

newspapers are not managed by publicbenefaclors bent only On the enlight~enment of the peopfe? The ownersunfortunately are out far the materialgain just as much as anyone else. Theyturn out the reading matter that willbest suit the minc1s of the people.The!'e is a kind or' circle be ween thepublic and the newspapers. The pap-ers control the publiC mind, and, there-fore, can satisfy the public by thenews that is pr;nted. People do notrealize that mOSt owners of newspap-ers have a ver\' detini·.e object in view.And that obje~t is most often polittcalgain.In every city, town or metropoliS

there is usually a fued between a dem-ocratic and republican paper, This isbecause whichever influences the pub-lic mind most wins poliJically. It isvery obvious then that ·.he news print-ed is apt to bo prejudiced. Politicalspeeches are twisted by reporters somuch that of',en the speaker does notrecognize his own speech, or the wordsare cleverly turned so as to give anentirely different impl'es~ion from thatintended. The democrats read theirown papers and think how futile andfoolish are their opponents, while, onthe Other hand 'he republicans dolikewise. An unbiased newspaperwould, naturally present things as theYare and would make the people thinkfor ·.hemselve~. ::'\I"owadaYs,we are notobliged to think for ourselw~s, ourllewspapers do it for us,The greatest effect that the news-(Continued on Page 4, col, 2)

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2 THE CO ECTICUT COLLEGE NEWS

CONNECTICUT COLLEGE NEWSESTABLISHED r e r e

Issued by tho students or Connecti-cut College every Wednesday through-out the college year, trom Ocrob I

June, except during nud-vears and va-eattcna .

STAFFEDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Fanchon K. Hartman, '20ASSOCIATE EDITORSAlice Gardner, '20Bvetene Taylor, 21Abby Gallup, '21

NEWS EDITORDorothy Matteson, '20

REPORTERSEllen Carr-on, '20

'21'21

Helen Coops, '22Marie Antoinette Taylor, 'IJMh-Iam P. Taylor, '22

MANAGING EDITORBarbara Ashenden, '21

ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITORSArv11la Hctchktee , '20Blanche jrtnesnver. '22BUSINESS MANAGERDora Schwanz, '20

ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGERSHattie Goldman, '21A. Wrcy 'Varner, '22

ART and PUBLICITY EDITORElizabeth WillIams, '20

ASSISTANTtART and PUBLICITYEDITOR

• , , , , , • , , , '21FACULTY ADVISER

Dean NYeALUMNAE CONTRIBUTOR

A lison Hastings

Entered as second class matter atNew London, Connecticut August 5,1919 under act at' March 3, 1879.SubscriPtion price: per year (30

Issues) $1.25; by mail, $1 60,Printed by the Telegraph Company,

New London, Connecticut.Material for the News should reach

the News Editor or be left in theNews Office before 8 a. Tn. on Frlda:r.The name of the writer must accom-pany every manuscript. The articlemay also be signed as the writer wish·es it to be pl'l"nted,

A BALANCE

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Why is it that we sClepractically thesame girls doing e\'erything? 'Thesegirls are always tired and overworked;their ac:ivities seem to be unending.On the other hand there are manymore, one might say the great major-itr, who do nothing at all. Theymight be likened to the background,the fringe of our conscIousness, whilethe others figure as the cen~er at ourattention. ThIs cond:tion on campushas )lOt been unnoticed. \-Ve lamentover it, but do not make any effortsto prevent it, probably because we donot realize tthe harm that results tothe girl who does so much for us,as well as to the g:rl who does nothingoutside of her academic work.Concerning that girl who is inter-

ested in so many acti.\'i ies: it may bethrough her own efforts that she hasbecome one of the overworked. Some-times she is a person who delights inbeing buSY, and In plt:,"ing herselt.She likes to look at :he bulletin boradwith an express-Ion of dismay, andthen turn to you with the sad state-ment: "Four meetings today, bes;desI've been elected Chairman of the En-tertainmen:. Committ"e of my class,and I simply have to learn my part inthe play. Yes, I'm making the dancecards for that affair. and if I possiblycan find time I want-to write an articlefor the :"lews~--" and she talkson, Ot course she Is not obliged to dothem all, but she doesn't know whereto stop. Granted that she has talent

for a number of things, she is SO rush-ed that she hasn't time to gfve her bestand so she eonrerus herself wi h quan-ti- y rather than Quality. Then, too,there Is the girl who Is living up toher reputation; for she feels that shemust be as busy this year as shewas the year before. It is the girlwho has the more highly developedsense of responsibility who really isthe busiest of ali At the last m.nutea girl decides that she cannot carryon her part of' he work, and herneighbor who Is a more reltable girlfe··ls that it is her responstuty to takeever that work In addition to her own,But there are many more r-espon-

sible girls on campus than just thefen' we see on eve rv occasion. Thereare girls, who, if they have not anumber of talents, have one talent,The)" probably would be very glad tohel,p if they were asked to do so. Theymay lack the initiative and personalityfor leadership, but that does not neces-~rily mean that t the y can't fit in anddo their share. These girls can 0.1;-ways add new ideas, for we do not 0.11think alike. There is under this headalso, the girl who lacks self-confidence,she feels that she cannot do any-thing, yet there are really many thingsshe can do whfch do not requireeither talent or eelf·confidence, if shewould only express her willingness byword or action.

It isn't quite fair that the majorityof girls have never had a chance toshow their good qualities. In SOI1H::

way Or other we have acquired anin-dex s~'stem jn which eaeh girl is setdown definitely under one or moreheadS, and some girls seem to haveb.ank cards, '1'he data on many ca.rdsis incomplete, in other cases it is nottrue. If we looked over the index wemight find that there are girls who"lere once cataluoged as "gl'lnds" andwe continue to think' of them as"grinds" even after they have shownan interest in college ac.ivities; thereare others labelled as "funny" andthese poor gIrls are always called uponto do stunts_ It's too bad fOl' them,and it's too bad for us' It would al-most seem as if we didn't have enoughability at Connect.cut College, Oncein a while we hear the remark, "Ididn't know she could do such athing," and usually the gil'l menUoDed is a Junior or a Senior.There is a greater amount of WOI']{

attached to "doing things" than theonlooker realizes, altthough it is fun...nd a part of our education which nlone can afford to miss, One of theadvantages of a small institution isthat every girl can have a chance toshow her individuality. It rests uponall of us to make tbis chance p,l,;;S-ible-to strike a r(ll·fc<.t babn("e be-lWfen those two jyp~s.

Free Speech

The Edi· aI's do not hold themselvesresponsible for the opinions and viewsexpressed in th;s column.

To The Editor of the News:We haVe always maintained that the

biggest and best thing about our Ser'vice League, the thing that makes itmore desirable than a Y. W. C. A., isita breadth 01' vision and scope. If-weadopt the proposed preamble to theConstitution we shaH be denying ourfirst pUl'pose in foundin.g the League.We are narrowing it immeasurablyand contradicting its very life.

For Instance, one of the biggestand neediest fields of service in theworld is India Nearly every kind ofworkers. social service workers, teach-ers, physicians, find it advantageoUsto go to these fields under a MissionBoard, because by ~ doing they a.reassured of reaching the -people. Priv·ileges are de~1re4 to unattached for·eigners_ but workers under MissionBoards have the "Open .sesame' '. Shallthe Service League of Connecticut

COllege refuse to support this works-impfy because the best. way to sup-port it is through a religious orga.ni-aauon t This is only one example ofthe privileges of ser v ice which theproposed pream ble would deny to us.Let us not ne afraid of the word

~'religion." Religion does not meanr.ectartantsm, and a frank acknow-Iedgement of the great truths whichwe all, whether Protestant, Jew orCatbouc. believe these truths that .giveincentive and vnauty to our U\'es andmake Our service an active force,would. Instead of dividing the col1ege.unite it more firmly than ever. TheSor-vice League in adopting th ia pre-amble would not only narrow its scopebut would shut out its vision, with theresutt that in time it would be eithermechanical or stagnant,

R. Smith, '21._--r'o 'J\HE 1~D1'rOR OF TH~ NEWS:From its very name, we would de-

duce that Lhe Service League standsfor service. And here we find at oncethe essence Of all present-day Re-t.gton. No matter what may be ourcreed or sect, whether Catholic, Jewor (jent.Ile, no matter what we mayenumerate as our personal beliefs, inservice we find the common aenomt-nat or that undeenes all our faiths anddenominations, Thus we have as theheart of our Service League tha~which is I.he broades· and biggestphase of humanity, the heart of theHeligion, 1n this adherence 1.0 theideal of service, we uphold the high~est ideals of mankind-a commonsharing o[ our fortunes with a hers,a doing away with eect-distinctions, afree interchange of thought and deed-in brief, a reciproc.ty of interestswhich results only from a clinging LOan ideal such as ,hat embodied in theSet'vlce League.But what would we be do:ng by in-

clud,ng a religious section in ourLeague? To begin with, we wouldbe taking om" broad, all·incluslve pre-sent ideal and narrowing it to fit someparticular sect-for this would be theultimate result. Since the Protestantsare in the majority at college, wewould have to undergo the ,possibilityof the foundation of Catholic clubsand Jewish societies-and this classify-ing of sects would mean the death ofthe Service League. Pessimism,many will call this, but why not lookat the consequences squarely in theface before voting on such a thingas the Preamble_Do we, then, want to sacl'ifice the

fine work the League is at presentdoing? And if so, why? What willbe the benefit to our League of a"I'eligiou:;; section" when its verylife is based upon Religion? Is itthat we fear from some one who doesnot understand, the appellation "pa-gan"? Surely, not that.But no one will say that we have

an unsupplied demand for religiousgroups on campus, The attendanceat the discussion groups is not solal'ge but what any number of per-sons seeking religious 'discussionsmight find room there, One does notnped to point to the at~endance atchapel and vespers and the merensused to obtain it to show that the de~mand does not €'xceed the supply.However, some persons think that

we can do bigger th ings-performgreater tasks and accomplish greaterservices by affiliating ourselves withsome national organization, At theoutset, this bars some of our studentsbecaUSe of their conscientious object-ions. And we have by no means doneall that is within our power here rethome-we have years of work aheadot us here in New London, Let ustherefore, finish our self·im-posedtasks of service here before we searchfor new fields which the discussiongroups might well take over, Andif these groups are too small. then thefact is evident that the students do

not wish, 01' I should say, are notready yet to take on these new fieldsof action.Before voting, then, let us consid-

er well what are out' reasons for ourdecisions. Do we want religious in-dividual sects and creeds which ofnecessity llmi action and the free in-terplay of thought and 'york-do wewant to affiliate ourselves with na ,Lana} organizations-and let us notconfuse this desire for the support oflarger societies with retigions,-or dowe want to retain -,he broad commonnencrurnator of servtce-e-tbe essenceof Relfg.on upon which the ServiceLeague is founded?

Doro thy :\1. Matteson, '20

PAPERS AS ASUBSTITUTEFOR MID_YEAR

EXAMINATIONS

'I'he 'College year is divided into twosemesters. At the end Of each occursa period which is well known to usall. The fir;>,tof these is the dreaded"mid-real's" and the second the "ftn-are." Since college is primarily apeace where one is to be educated andnot a place where one ,;s to be gradedand classified, is there not sometnuurwrong with a sys.em which makes theattamtng of A or B on the br-annuatexams the object of one's efforts d ur-ing the term? it is clear that somesort of test is necessary in order todetermine wh~ch of us are fitLed to t.akeup the study of advanced subjects, Itwould Le too bad to have oUL'classesspoiled by the a.mosphere whichwou:d be created by the presence ofuninterested and incapable student!;;and cel'lain.y the exalnlnation and it:;resulting Ill.ark is a concrete means bywhIch to judge the ilt and [he unfil.Still, we must see that the establishedsystem is not all that could be desireol.Just let us look at the attitude of stu·dents in general concerning exams.At the approach of mid-years COIned

a hush in the normal actIvities of thecollege life, and a period com.prisiug"long hours of cr!:unming, followed bysleepless n:ghts, and days in whichone, tWO and even three exams oftwo hours each are taken. These twohour periods are often pure torture.A certain number of questions whichthe professor judges may be answeredwithin the allotted time are placed be-fore the student. 1 do not doubt thatthe Instructor tries to perfe9tly fall'.I suppose he lool<s a the question andes-imates about what length of timewill be sufficient in which to answerit. But-he knows what the answeris which he expects. The student doesnot. Out of the store of ideas whichshe has assimilated during the termperhaps a perfect torrent may pourinto her consc:ousness in response tothat first Question. She \vants to writewhat is expec:,ed of her, she must, if.she is to make a high grade. She letsher eye glance down the series ofquestions before her and feels that shecan answer them all if only the ideaswhich rise to the su rface can be sup-pressed fOr the sake of the quesUonat hand, 'and will not be lost beforeshe gets to the ones which demandthem in answer. Sometimes they arelost and she stat"es desperate~y beforeher, knOWing that not ten minutes be-fore she had the answer in mind andthat it is there, Oh, if she could only,only think! "What was it? Time isslipp:ng away, there is more yet to bedone, her body is tense, hel' brain isin a turmoil, but she- cannot think.At the end of the two hours she dropsher book upon the desk, leaves theroom, her head pounding, and worsestill her heart heavY ,viith the know-ledge, that she has not done her best.that she has not even done weli andthat her mark will show it,I am sure marks do not always give

a fair estimate of a student's know~

CURRENT EVENTS

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ledge. Often a girl who has done prac-tically no work during the semesterwill cram before an examination andreceive by good luck a high grade,while her room mate who has beeninterested in the subject and attend-e-d her classes eagerly, will. because ofinabilih' to do good work under-nr-atned conditions. produce a poor ex-amination paper. That seems neither[air nor just.Why not abolish the mid-year exam-

ination week, and in its place have anextended period for summarizing theterm's work? At this time have thesteden- prepare a pa pel' tor each of hersubjects which shall be based upon dl-t"Pcting topics and questions providedby the instructor. This paper will cea means of summing up and getting aconnected idea of the subject as awhole. It will rrrobtuae -be facts andideas of the wor-k of that term and,not only that, the student may learnin almost unbelievable amount in thecrenaratton of her paper. She is per-mitted to use books and any kind Ofoutside information. and some of thisnew mater-tal may be absorbed. Shebrings to the tor-e all her own know-rcdce of the subject under natural andlJn!;tt"ained conditions. The result iscoed. She at last has a clear, completenn der'ata n d ing of the mater-ial which socu- has been disconnected. The mat-r-rla l she has gathered is no longer a-;(»'les of ass~gnments, it.is a unified\\·hole. •At the end of t.he second term have

:L ;;imilar period of summation. ThenIHI.\"€ an interim in which all of thef(>~t.ivities of ComlTIenCement occur, ex-,.rept one, the day on which the degreeS;\re conferred. After this period ofl"'lftXation, have final examinations,giving a whole day to each one. Thet'ewill be no need of cJ;arnming, nor Of1he usual accompaniments of exami-nation time, nnr1 the marks necessaryfOJ' grading will be obtained. Ofr'ourse, t.he adop'ion of such a planwould nece::;sitate lengthening- '.he col~'egoeyear somewhat. But would it notllE' quite worth while?

K. L. T. '21

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Democrat'c politics is livening up alittle. The conservative SouthernDemocrats seem to be favoring At--orn ey General Palmer, while severalDemocrats close to the Administrationare favoring ex-Secretary McAdoo forthe Presidency and Herbert Hoover forVice President. It is thoug-ht that thiscomb.na-ton would find favor in thecountry for Mr. McAdoo would appealto organized labor and Mr. Hooverto business men and. women voters.

In the Republican ranks there Is

quite a bit of disturbance as to wbeth-er Major- General Leonard Woodshoutd resign n-om the army to devoten.msetr to the campaign or wail. untilhe is actually nominated. There aretwo opinions expressed on this,-one isthat if he should r-ee lg-n, he would losethe advantage which he now has asan official in the United States Armyspeaking on the question of law andorder. Those who have advised him toresign urge that serious cttmcutueemight come up as they have beforewhere he would be compe'Ied to take adefinite stand on labor and the rightof the United States government. totake extreme measures to put downa labor upheaval.

:\Ial'shaL Fel'd.nand Foch was re-ceived by the l<~l'enchAcademy on Feb-l'uary 5 in the pl'esence of a large andbrilliant assemblage thus becoming an"iITIITIOI·tal."

It is interes:ing to note that theEsch and Cummings railroad biUwh:ch is to come up before Congressin the near future has the anto-strikeclause omitted. This was inserted ill

a panic and is not peculiarly appro-priate to the ra.ilroads. The bill itselfprovides for the return of the railroadst.o private ownership.

'The refusal of Baron KUl·t VonLersner of the demand Of the Alliesthat the Germans charged with crimebe ext;;;dited, while not meetJing withfavor in Germany still doe,s not bringany reproof. It seems to indicate thatthe Germans do not intend to standback of t.he treaty which ~heY signed.QuoUing the 'New York Times: "Thisclause is nothing new in treaty-mak-ing: the world's history shows manycases in which the successful partyhas demanded and received the sur-render of persons alleged by it to havecommitted acts outside of law. Ger~many refuses to carry out the treaty,not because it is unprecedented orbarbarous but because she thinks shecan refuse succeSSfully."

PRACTICAL COLLEGE LIFE

On all sides the current remark isthat college life is not practical. Inotner words, a g.rl spends most of hertime on uieor.es, and 011 the ideal, sothat her wage-earning capacities arenot deve.oped to a high geg'ree by heryeara in college.Such may l.:E ·.he case-but I am not

concerned wholly with wage-eat-Ing'cap-acity. The matertaust I; seems tome, who speak only of money and pow-er, derrved rr om money, have over-rooked an important point in the col-lege git-J'a experiencej namely, the factthat she is becoming a better cl tizen bylearnrng how to live with people.For example, one's room mate in-

tends to become a social worker, andhetO room is filled with ali the presentday literature which affords excellentreacling on Bolshevism, Socialism, orfactory and social problems. Nextcloor, is the blue-eyed dol] type, whostrives fo pl·ofice.ency in aethseticdancing, original and otherwise.'1'he second floor may rightly be cal1~

ed "reporter's row." Rere at weesmall hours, by the aid of the .prover-bial midnight oil came into being reallitel'al'y gems which are to make thename of Connect:cut College famous.Anot.her resident of this gifted house

hopes to accomplish wondrous feats inoriginal piano compositions, and hourby hour come the yeal'ning, storming,nOw Eoft, now loud melodies from thepractice room, while you may ibe readin"'" one of Horace's odes, s·.udylnga ~psyche" lesson or writing a theme.And then, while your gaze rOves

about the stone bedecl,ed landscape,vainly searching for inspiration, thetalented forces of the house combineas if for your very undoing. The pi~ano starts at a terriffic rate of speed,your roommate starts typing a host ofletters for the charities, and meanwhileseveral Juniors tap softly at the door,and asl~ you to bur food for the post-bellum fund.Yet, life goes on, maybe yOU have

learned to write a pl'esentable theme,and maybe you haven't (owing to in-terruption.) But if you ha ....e learned tomeet and beat all these contendingforces with a mild Christian spirit,then surely are you able to meetthe olitEide world with exper:ence.

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DIARY OF AN OLD MAID

April ·12th, 19- I walked milesto-day, trying '.0 get away from myeetr, and same back more tired in soulthan in body. If it were only possibleto get absotuietv outs.de oneself and tobe impartial.The roads grow muddier, every day,

it seems, but the trees are beginningto show a hopeful grey fuzz, and as Ipassed the Hayden place the smell offresh earth brought. back the dayswhen :\la.rt.n, Elizabeth and I used tofollow the plough and Simms wouldsometimes g:\'e us a ride on old greyMollie.A widow has taken the little Gr-ay-

son place for the summer. She's afrail looking p:ece of Dresden ch;nabut \ ei-y pleasant in a shy fashion.Jell")" ran in as we went by and thelittle boy and girl, who s-ern almosttwins, were de'ighted with such a "big"dog.A'Pril 18th. I went over the place

with Simms this morning planning therest of the planting. I might as wellhave stayed at home, tor Simms hadeverv'btnz arranged as it's been forthe past thh-ty years and gently butfirmly vetoed all my foolish sugges-tions. I still have the flower gardensat my disposal, but an imbecile couldplan that.The Lit' 1e 'V~dow at the Grayson

place has come here for (tuiet and toget the children out in the open. Shedoes all the housewOl'lt and mendingbut nothing- for rela....-::ation, and yetshe is happy and seems 'Contented.I atked ,he child!'?n here yesterday;

but thel'e doesn't seem to be anythingin this house to amuse children, a, ~I'

was too damp out of doors for them.:\fy stories all !,<>ll flatj but they enjoy-ed the ice cream and cake which Jan-et made. I decided, when they leftme alone by my fire, that I had failedagain. 'l'her-e seems to be nothing thatI can do any bet~er than anyone elseexcept perha-ps bP.ing dil:agt'eeable.1vIary wrote asking me to come in

to town for two weeks next month.She thinl{s I'm lonesome. Perhap Iam. Of 'Course. I might have somecompany, but they would be bored toextinction and so should I. Afterwardsit would be worse than ever ..May 6th. I've decided to go abroad!

Eight months at home in seven yearsseems as much as I can endure. Set-tling dOwn is imposs'ble when youhaven't anything to settle to. At least

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THE CONNFoCTICUT COLLEGE NEWSI can sit gracefully In a deck chairand be s ar-ed at as that eccentric oldmaid. The Little Widow thinks itmust be wonderful to be able to 1I-a"e1and travel and yet always have ahouse to come back to. It may be,but I .h ink she'd grow tired or beinga rolling stone.

:\fay 15th. The lastparty is speedtrrg fromJanet is pUlling out theerz.

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It wasn't such a bad week-end, forthe weather was clear- and we talkedof books and my trip. At least I've beenkee ping up with books, though I findI'm a bit acid in my criticism. Mytrip furnished plenty of topics andwe kept off the things I'm "queer"on. 'when you get old you need ahobby; it keeps you from thinking andtalking nothings.

Mar-In stopped on Saturday. He'sopening the place for the summer.Arter dinner he asked me to marryhim, It's two years since the lasttime but I'm qui te sure he used exact-ly the same words. For a moment Iwas almost tempted to say yes and seewhat would happen; but though itwould be a change it weutd mean, Inthe end. just one more person todo things for me and to be sorry Ididn't develop my potentialities. Be-sides Janet and Simms would haterucvtng- I dislike the cedars at HaY~den place and the family portraitsdrive me frantic.Life seems to be an endless round

of the same things. If you do thingsyou are discouraged because you ac-complish so little wlth sa much effort;if you don't do things you wonder whatlife is for and where you are going.

June 5th. I stayed three days with:'.1:ar.l'and nearrv went insane betweenthe cats, the children and Andrew. If113 ry enjoys being married to Andrewshe has become a fool as well as a col-orless, worried matron. He is a manwith all a man's abomnable conceitnn ddevol d of a saving sense of humor.Speaking of hu moo r. I've decided thatmine's been 011 a year's leave of ab-sence Since I've been on ship-board it's come back from lil,s extend-ed vacation and I'm actually relishingmy typical companions who range thedecks before me, flirt, dance, gambleand pledge eternal fealty under myvery eyes and who, when we land, willpart to meet no more. Even the chnd-t-en who insist upon playing so nearmy chair that it is swept almost intothe sea during t.heeir wild races, havethe faces of cherubs and annoy menot at all.

There is nothing but grey sky aboveand grey water beneath and roundabout me a few hundred atmoiticcreatures fighting against somethingthey cannot see or undel'stand; andsome persuade themselves that theyahe happ.,· and some that they fight a,v:nning- battle; but all in the end livea lie. It's not a bad lie when you ad-mit that you're not sincere, and it'snot a bad world when you realize thatthe world isn't eyerything in the uni-verse.

I've sent a wireless to the LittleWidow and her two imps to come onthe next boat and we're going to Ve.n-ice and travel and travel and travel!

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PROTEST AGAINSTTHE WORD "CRUSH"

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will last, the application of -hat un-fortunate word. it it gets to their earsmay he the means ot breaking upthe friendship if the girls are guIdedby public opinion rather than theirown consciences. The word "crush"seems to have a stn'ster implicationand coneequenr'v should not be usedunless there is real occasion for itsuse, which is not often.Th's article is a protest against the

use of the word "crush" for whatis a natural and beautiful relationshipbetween g:rls, and which needs neithername nor publicity,

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AMERICAN GULLIBILITY(Continued from Page I, col. 4)

papers have upon the American pub-lic is that of al·ousing -jietr emotions.It is an open secret that this is thechief duty Of a newspaper. In caseof impending war the papers day at-tel' day will print small" notices of the<1PPI'oaching break in internationalreta ttons. These will be followed byfiery speeches of influential men. Be-fore the people realize it they findthern selves at war. The demand of theHearst paper's for war with Mexico inorder '.0 do away with all revolutionin that country is nothing but a de-mand that the United States protectthe thousands of dollars Hearst hasinvested in land there. The peopleof that country are waking up andrNllizing that they themselves are en-titled to t heir own land and natun,l1reso urces.In the caee of strikes one does not

usu allv get a fail' s tot-y of the strike,The employers are given the right ofway in t h e papers. 'rne pubt:c swall-ows the rlistressing details of windowsmashing, of rioting and of generalnrampede OJl the part of the strtkere.But there is often not a tau- statementabout 1 he mllft.a shooting down thestrikers, about the clubbing of thepickets who are doing their duty in apeaceful and or-der-y manner, aboutIhe courage of the strucers' families inuohotdtng the.r cause. As a result thecommon picture of a striker in theminds of the Amer:can public is some-thing between a Bolshevik and a thug;not merely an earnest worker demand-ing his rights in the only way he canerrec'fverv do so.I wonder if many of the Americans

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