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COMPULSORY VACATION

Thanksgiving and--a_ breathing
space of four days are almost upon
us. We look forward to the vaca-

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tion with joy and are inclined to

MISS KING

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is a cholee representative collection” “of
his works,. among them fine and

-1famous paintings owned in New. York,
| but when~one looks at his work. in com-

Laie to that of the others, “one. illu-
sion permanenty dispelled,” for hé

‘|should not be placed in the category

with the other three; in his quest ‘for
the exotic and.in.his.laborious work,
he is still not a great artist. Of the

| other three, Seurat was a minor -artist,

just as among poets there are minor
poets Whom we may take: more to our
hearts than the major poets; his land-
scapes are serene and stable; his paint-

_|ing is ultimate in its own little way,

and he has a quiet curious technique;
his most famous thing is a landscape
depicting the hot. shade of mid-sum-
mer, and the sketches in color taken,
fo® this are on exhibit. The work of
Cezanne covers nearly all of his life;

‘there is the great canvas, “Boy with a

Skull,” that’ has the qualities of the
Venetian masters, tactile values put
also finality of apprehension—a thing
done, completed and left; there is the
great Nude, a man in a loin ‘cloth;
there is the “Harlequin,” with the im-

_wish that_such_respites-were. longer + plication- of -Picasso’s work; there “are

and more frequent. Imagine then
the feelings of those of school age
‘in Chicago who are facing the pros-
pect of two months of vacation—
December and January. What a
splendid opportunity to build snow.

forts, have snow fights and go sled-

ding! These children certainly~do
not ‘appreciate the: fact. that all the
teachers_in Chicago public schools
are being given compulsory leave

~ Without pay, that their schools are

falling -far behind other schools

throughout the. country, that Chi-
- cago’s educational system is receiv-
ing-a-blot-which.will-not-soon.be-re-|.

moved. It: seems incredible that a
city of Chicago’s size and wealth
should . allow such a_ testimonial
against its efficiency and competency
to go down in its history. Are there

not enough prosperous. ‘citizens by |-

whom the name of Chicago has al-
ways been respected and admired to

‘wipe out such”a pernicious deficit ?

Only such an act can reinstate the
educational board and the public
schools to solvency and a desired
esteem in the eyes of the nation.

THANKSGIVING
Thanksgiving is coming. We
walked down Chestnut Street dur-
ing théweek-end and found turkeys

in the ascendéncy, and Sunday
Skeezix and Skippy started on their
annual gobbler chase. Just why the
\College took this joyous occasion. to
serve roast beef we don’t know. We
can only: hope that the fowls will
appear en. masse (in mess) on
Thursday. - Personally we = shall
whet our appetites with an aperitif
of Chaucer, gorge ourselves with
“Men and Machines,’ and come
back ‘to recuperate.

“A Merry Christmas to all and
to all a good Knight.’

‘Bluffing’
- Out_of one hundred University. of Cin-
* Cinnati students who recently took'a spe-
cial examination. composed of qtiestions

 

 

which hat no -ariswer,-half- of thenr bluffed ==

46.58 per cent. or more. Some bluffed
their way through 81 per. cent. of the ‘ex-
which asked. for fictitious

books, and identification of certain al-.
leged passages in Shakespeare.
The same examination, given to fifty-

eight non-college men and women chosen |.

at random showed that the bluffing score
of this group was only 25 per cent. This
leads a-well-known writer to declare that
“our educational system trains to dis-
honesty and pretentiousness.. . . .”
Perhaps he is right, but nevertheless we
still defend bluffing. There is something
to it that savors of a reliant, do-or-die,
fighting spirit that seems commendable in
youth. Students on the whole know that
bluffing is wrong, yet they often resort
to it because of a notion that instructors
sometimes give some credit for “attempts”
at_ariswering exam. questions..__I{—they.
are ingenious enough in bluffing, some
“Gnstructors may respect ‘their genius
to give it consideration.” And
then bluffing always produces some amus-
_ Gng material for sec small talk.—The

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paintings with masses of earth as well
as those with masses of muscle, and
one of the landscapes in which trees
are growing out of rocks and are cleav-
ing them is of an unusual type and
one not often seen; there are little
water-colors that look as though he
had died and gone ta heaven and were
painting from there; there are still-
lifes, Such as apples and nges on a
rumpled table.cloth, that are the dull-
est of works in reproduction and have
to be seen to be understood, but when
one sees the partioning of space and
the application of what the physics
laboratory niakes one apprehend of
volume, one realizes that all the cubists
have put into their painting they have
wrenched from the old. mechanistic
system; lastly, there are four self-por-

traits in whose differences of technique

one sees how differently Cezanne put
on paint at’ different times. Of the
paintings by Van Gogh “L’Arlesienne”
is the most famous of all; it is perfectly
static—its colors: are interesting, from
deep blue to blue-green ‘to green-yel-
low and to yellow-red—and the near-
est comparison in an _ enamel, — but
though it. is opaque.as_ is enamel, it
has not its flame. It does not matter
if he paints people with green hair
and yellow flesh, for it is only a ques-
tion of key; among his landscapes is
a paintimg composed of green sky,
mauve mountains and yellow earth, as
strong a piece of beauty as seen any-
where; in “The Ravine” he gives the
tortured semblances of things; he can
represent the experience of torrid heat
in the leafless south and communicate
it likewise to you; the paintings of
Van Gogh are full of unrest and pain.

All these artists agonize to fight
their way back: from illusion to verac-
ity in the apprehension of things, from
the age of insincerity of formulae. ‘The
responsibility somehow is ours for the
ugliness of aspects, and complete ab-
sence of any content of which any
artist could make use.

 

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The leaden sky arched low over the
sodden hockey field as the Fighting
Faculty went down in utter rout ‘to
the Valiant Varsity Crew. The last
camera man. snapped the teams in bat-
tle array, the players adjusted their
headgear. and the
whistle. blew, and-the game was- on.
“Ground sticks, ground sticks, ground
sticks, shoot!” (Time out while this
little manoeuver is elucidated.) At 1&st
the circular sphere gets into play and

rushed” on _ side,

is instantly snapped up by a dashing
White Wing (who plays inner). A
brilliant ‘advance eulminates in a first

purity is gone forever. Onward’ they!
surge tg the circle, and with’a final
gathering of.-energies the globe is
rushed into the cage. The cheering
section, in spite of a season’s training
to the contrary, is surprised into a
lusty

“Gaudite vi omnia, |

Plaudite Bryn Mawr Faculty.”

The ball returns to the centre, ex-
citement running high. Another bully
and the desperate Varsity captures the
leather apple and gathering momentum
rush forward, only to be repulsed by
the stalwart defen€e. Again and again
they are rebuffed, but at last with a
cagy, little dodge, the wing eludes her
pursuers, and thé pill is swallowed up
by the goal. Loud applause greets Dr.
Schrader’s achievement.

At this point the pomme de terre is
replaced by: a new orb, glistening
white, anda second street cleaner joins
his fellow White Wing. A new fierce-"
ness suffuses the Faculty, and Bryn
Mawr’s valiant fullback falls before

however, and the game is resumed.

noble struggle under the very shadow
of the goal posts and andther score is
chalked up to Bryn Mawr. _ Fiercely
the battle rages (particularly on the
Pright wing), and Varsity piles up ‘its
score.

When the ze nS has become fala:
tinct in the ‘gathering dusk, the whistle
blows and the game is over. As the
final cheers die away, a dejected
Faculty rounds up its shattered weap-
ons. and departs for tea.

 

We showed this article to Cissy for
her O. K. and she was thrilled by signs
of Faculty-Student competition. She
saw in the idea a vista of future im-
provement for the Faculty. In -fact,
on this impulse she has persuaded
Lot’s Wife to work on a little sched-
ule which will be ready after Thanks-
giving. The idea.is to open the classes
in body mechanics, mental hygiene,
and diction to those of the Faculty who
need them most.
ment is shown, they will be allowed to)
compete with the undergraduates at
large at the end of the season. ry

 

INDEPENDENCE HALL

 

Continued from Page One

one side, a lantern above. There-are
only a few groups, and they succeed
remarkably in bringing a unity of im-
pression to the visitor.

ers up the odds and ends of history.
There is a model of old Christ Church
and a part of the pew of George Wash-
ington; there is a room of ship~ and
stage coach models; and there is a
fine Indian room where beads, scalps,
tom-toms, and Indian tools appeal
vividly to. the imagination. And
finally, be sure to see the collection of
scientific instruments and Benjamin
Franklin’s insulating ,stool with its
short glass legs. .

If you~ have had. time to persist
through it, all, or, better still, if you
have. been interested to return again
and wander at leisure, you cannot
avoid catching some of the spirit which

.|the Independence Hall group sym-

bolizeg. You will be able to see more
vivid the days when the Liberty Bell
rang out to Congress, and. be-wigged
and «b€-powdered gentlemen. stepped
from their gallant coaches. You will
be able to follow them within the doors
to Halls’ where; against the clean
beauty of white paneled walls,. they,

down for the Faculty, and its virginal| *-

the attack. She is- picked -up— by it, |

The line wavers and breaks, and Var-|
sity again drives down the field. Af.

If sufficient improve-|'

the fast OF the |

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“I can remember when the
Ladies (God bless them!)
used to wear hoop-skirts’ to
the Class ‘Hop’; 7

paises

“when nearly every male student
‘wore sideburns and carried a cane;

“when the annual Sleigh Ride was

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A Ye sea ne TE ERB i lS RTC

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Yes, and we can remember when
College Meny used to work labori-
ously and lengthily over letters to
folks. back home!... But that has.
been eliminated by the Telephone. :

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