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ELEANOR L. DULLES,'17 SARAH HINDE, ‘17
B. GRANGER,'17 MARIAN O'CONNOR, ‘18
ETHEL ANDREWS, ‘19

Assistant Business Managers
KATHARINE B. BLODGETT, '17
VIRGINIA ps8. LITCHFIELD, '17

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Irresponsible, thoughtless voting is en-
tirely inexcusable in the small meetings
of college. associations when the business
has been aftnounced beforehand and it is
entirely dishonest when support does not
follow the vote through to its fulfilment.
Fifty-seven per cent of the members of
the Christian Association seem to have
endangered the business integrity of the
Association by not supporting the budget
passed unanimously in the fall. Many
can only give small amounts, but no
member should feel herself free from the
obligation to give something. We should
consider seriously the extreme need of all
philanthropic ‘enterprises, especially mis-
sions, at a time of war and we should
consider even more seriously the neces-
sity of living up to our pledges. Are we
failing to keep our promises in every-
thing, are we going to be backward in
giving to the “Garrett Memorial”, to
Bates and to all our undertakings, or is
some interest absorbing a disproportion-

ate amount of our resources? At any

rate we must consider carefully to which
we owe the first obligation and must
realize that we are bound to support what
we vote to undertake.

As elections come nearer and nearer,
we discuss again the question as to which
association is the most important.
Whether we believe that the Christian
Association, in standing for religion, is
more important than Self-Government,
which works for law, or not, we must ad-
mit one thing: The-officers of Self-Gov-
ernment bear upon their shoulders a
greater responsibility than the officers of
any other association. College Chapel,
and the courses on the Old and New Tes-
tament in the curriculum, supplement the
work of the Christian Association; the
Health Department and the Office will
cover any lapse of the Athletic Associa-
tion or of the Undergraduate Association.
Self-Government stands alone, and its
officers, on their own initiative, decide
the gravest matters. Yet in spite of this
fact, the Self-Government elections are
still permitted-to be postponed until after
all the others are finished.

This system might lead, and often has
led, to serious evils. Either the best Self-
Government officers have been given
other positions before’ Self-Government
elections come, or too many of the more
efficient members of the upper classes
have been given no office because opin-
fons differ as to the best person for
Self-Government. Thus the other asso-
ciations suffer from the present methods
as well as Self-Government.

The present order of elections has no
cause for existence except custom, and
custom is not enough excuse for any-
thing.





LETTERS TO THE EDITOR



THE COLLEGE NEWS









Less Than Half C. A. Members Pledge
Ty the Editor of ‘The College News”:

The results of the canvassing done by
the Finance Committee of the Christian
Association this year show that the As-
sociation will have to raise $350.00 more
before April 1st in order to meet its bud-
get. The budget for this year, made up
and approved by the Association, is $1585.
All of this sum must be raised by the vol-
untary pledges of the members except for
$178 surplus from the annual dues after
the running expenses have been paid.
This year the Association has been un-
usually backward in pledging. Of the 334
active members, only 145, or 43.4 per
cent, have pledged anything at all.

The committee is going to canvass this
week and next the mrembers who have
not. pledged at-alf and it is to be hoped
that they 1 find a more generous atti-
tude prevailing. Any further contribu- |
tions from those who have already
pledged something will bring us just so
much nearer $350.00. Since the budget is
made up each fall by the entire Associa-
tion and not by a chosen committee, each
member has a voice in deciding its sizé
and, once it is approved, she must feel

to meet it. The money pledged by the As-
sociation is all sent to answer the needs
of those who are almost completely de-
pendent upon us for support. Surely it is
the duty of each one of us to see that they
are not disappointed.

K. B, Blodgett, ’17.
E. R. Biddle, ’19.



Candy To Be Sold at Plays
To the Editor of ‘‘The College News’’:

Candy will be sold at the “Mikado” and
class plays for the benefit of Bates Camp,
which is in a destitute state financially.
Last year nearly every one contributed
generously, while this year many have
refused to give anything. The committee
hopes to secure the remaining $400.00 by
candy sales and the further canvassing.
We founded the camp and we must sup-
port it.

M. Dodd, Chairman.
RABBI WISE PLEADS FOR :
INTEGRITY OF INDIVIDUAL

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“We ignore too often the significance of
personality”, said Rabbi Stephen Wise,
speaking Sunday night in the Chapel. “I
am pleading with you to-night that you
reverence your own souls. I am pleading
with you for the integrity of the indi-
vidual”.

Rabbi Wise spoke of what he called
the “tyranny of the many”, the thing
which is oppressing the individual. “We
believe too much in the power of num-
bers”, he said. “I can never help regret-
ting that in every tongue with which we
are acquainted there is some maxim such
as this: ‘The voice of the multitude is the
voice of God’”’.

Tyrannies of the Many

There are, Rabbi Wise pointed out, sev-
eral kinds of tyrannies, chief among
which are the tyranny of daily use and
habit, and the tyranny of the dead, “sub-
tle and insidious and almost irresistible
because there is a reverence for those
that were and are not in our presence”.
These tyrannies must be resisted, he said.
“If you yield to the world, if you accept
the commands of the world, if you bend
the knee to the many, what becomes of
your self-revering individual soul?

tain of your own soul. The world cannot

imprison it. I am pleading that your soul
shall be free and unfettered”.

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