THE COLLEGE NEWS The College News | Published weekly during the college year in the ie a ae ee ELISABETH GRANGER, '17 Business Manager . VIRGINIA LITCHFIELD, '17 CONSTANCE M. K. APPLEBEE ELEANOR DULLES,'17 NATALIE McFADEN, '17 MARIAN O'CONNOR, '18 K. A. HOLLIDAY, '18 E. HOUGHTON, '18 GORDON WOODBURY, '19 Assistant Business Managers MARY STAIR, '18 - FRANCES BUFFUM, '18 Subscriptions may begin at any time ‘Subscription, $1.50 Mailing Price, $2.00 Ratered ‘as ber 26, 1014, at the Sham Rappancer oe x NOTICE The next number of the “News” will come out on January 10th. The Tyranny of Numbers There is a peculiarly elusive and at- tractive form of selfishness, sometimes called commonsense, which tries to de- prive the minority of anything that the majority does not want. Water polo is the most frequent victim of these at- tempts. selves from the pleas of their captains, who are “sure they catch cold” and yet do not refuse to play, try to stir up public opinion so that it shall be abolished not only for themselves but for those who enjoy it, who feel it is a beneficial sport. An athletic cup is not the most impor- tant thing in College. Let classes be beaten if necessary, but those who win and those who lose can find real sport in water polo. It is a more important thing for every one who wants a chance in ath- letics to have it than that the types of games played here be limited to the few that the majority or the élite wish to sup- The “News”, to stand for democracy, variety, and indi- Those who can not protect them- port. for its part, wishes vidual commonsense in sport. What’s the Use? 1920, in the course of time, will prob- ably be a Senior Class. Yet the future is always uncertain. It is therefore unsafe to predict that the popular strains of “they were the class that stopped campus night” will then have given way to the refrain, “they were the class that was voted fresh”. It is impossible to assert that bath towels on the gym will. then be a more significant symbol of high valor than: toothbrushes in the grass. It would be a lively imagination, indeed, that could venture to conceive of the “Vandal Song”, at 1920's Senior orals, as an alumne curi- osity. cold print. Let us stick to the present. How re- spectfully the Freshmen get off the side- | walks! ‘To the Alumne: We are taking this opportunity to ap- peal to the alumnz for more subscrip- tions to. carry on. the “News”. “News” has been running for two and a half years and this fall it became neces- | This certainly shows | sary to add a page. that it fills a real need, unifying College interests and keeping everyone in touch with what is going on. these reasons it should be of especial in- terest to the alumnez and we ask for your co-operation. As nearly all the faculty and undergraduates already the only way we can increase our circula- tion is through you. The Editors Note.-Send subscriptions M Stair "18, Pembroke East. K to LETT ERS TO THE EDITOR The editors do not hold themselves responsible . for opinions expressed in this column) Perhaps these statistics from the rec- ords of the Health Department may in- terest your nameless anti-water polo correspondent. During last winter, of the 144 students who had colds, 49 were water polo players, 95 were non-water polo players, or, of the water polo players in College 38 per cent had colds, of the non- players in College 46 per cent had colds, Furthermore it is a noticeable fact that the infirmary cases before Haster requir- ing excuses from academic work, diag- nosed as “Tired”, “Nervous”, are not as a rule water polo players. Yours truly, Constance M. K. Applebee. To the Editor of the “College News”: Probably the College is aware of some of the recent escapades of a group of the Class of 1920, and also of the fact that the Class of 1919 officially voted the Class of 1920 as “fresh”, I should like to say that the letter written by 1919 to 1920, in- forming them of our action, was sent in an entirely friendly spirit, and I would especially like to acknowledge the ex- ceedingly sportsmanlike and _straight- forward reply received from 1920. I sin- cerely hope this incident has left no hard feeling and has been to the good of all concerned. Mary E. Tyler 19 (Pres.). To the Editor of the “College News”: Maybe there are some people who enjoy spending their five periods of exercise swinging Indian clubs, dancing, or mak- ing a stab at fencing in the gymnasium, but, surprising as it may seem, there are others among us who enjoy “taking a hot bath with soap” and having real exercise in the pool twice a week. May we sug- gest that those weaklings who haven’t sense enough to dry their hair by the ex- cellent hairdryer, cover their heads before leaving the gym and .avoid traditional colds. Constance Hall ’17, Marian O’Connor ’18. SLANG INGENIOUSLY EXPRESSIVE Enlivening as Poetry Even “for those who are too refined to think, it must be evident that the tech- nique of vividness in slang is the same as that in poetry”, according to an article in the New Republic last week. “Of course, like all poetry that becomes es- tablished, it loses its original vigor and comes to be used automatically and with stale perception. ‘Muff’ and ‘Hunch’ are as ingeniously fitted into the mechanics of social life as any words. ‘Bluff’ and ‘Crib’ and ‘Flunk’ are entirely practical’. Much of slang is as vivid as Shake- speare, the article asserts, and reminds one of Falstaff. Professors should warn their pupils, not against slang, but against the deadness of habitually using expres- sions without discriminating as to their Such flights of fancy are not for | The | We feel that for subscribe, | fitness. ' | A NEW OUTLET FOR DISCUSSION | Problems outside of College are to be | | discussed at the meetings of a group of | | undergraduates eager to discuss social, | | political and other important topics of | the day. These meetings are to supply | the long-felt need of some to increase | their knowledge and’ critical power in | vital issues. Any one interested may /come to these meetings, which will be held every Friday night after dinner in 56 Rockefeller. The informal discussion | | will not be limited to set topics. This new movement is not under any Association and is not to be definitely or- ganized. The plans for such a meeting were formulated after a long and inter- ested discussion with the College Settle ment secretary, Miss Baldwin. Although the C. S. A. has fostered such clubs in | other colleges, it has only been a stimulus in this case and is not responsible for the | club i IN PATRONIZING ADVERTISERS, PLEASE MENTION ROSEMARY MAY BE ENDOWED - ‘Former Pupils Plan: to Purchase School aa ‘Tothe Editor ‘of the “College News”: = | ees Sr ee oe ee “S Headed by'a committee called the Cen- tral Organization Committee of the Rose- mary Purchase Fund, former Rosemary | — pupils are campaigning to raise a fund for the purchase of the School and to change it, under the Connecticut law, from a private corporation to a semi-pub- lic educational institution. The commit- tee has secured an option to purchase the School, officially appraised at $247,198, for $150,000. $3,000 has already been col- lected. Rosemary Hall, a well known boarding school for girls in Greenwich, Connecticut, is at present a private corporation with capital stock owned by the headmis- tresses, Miss Ruutz-Rees and Miss Lown- des. Under their control it pays no divi- dends and turns its profits back into the improvement of the plant. It is to make permanent this type of administration, which future headmistresses might not wish to continue, that the Rosemary Pur- chase Fund was organized. If the change is made, the School will probably be con- trolled by a Board of Trustees chosen from its former pupils. In explaining the plan to Rosemarians the pamphlet which has been sent them says: “This is by no means a new idea in the educational world, but if the plan succeeds, Rosemary will stand among the pioneers in this form of government for girls’ boarding-schools in the United States. It is obvious that a school of the proposed type, so organized that it can bring financial profit to no one, inspires a measure of confidence and secures a permanence impossible under private ownership. 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