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THE COLLEGE NEWS





The College News

| Published weekly during the college year in the
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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

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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

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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



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| 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. In the case of Rosemary, the
former pupils are convinced also— that,
under this form of control, they can best
perpueuate the ideals in pursuit of which
the School has been developed, namely:
Standardized college preparatory work,
interscholastic athletics, and student self-
government”,

Choir Feted on Annual Rounds



The Choir, led by H. Harris '17,
ploughed its way through the snow last
night to sing Christmas carols, according
to time-honored tradition, at each house
on the campus. The start was made at
eight o’clock and at twenty-five minutes
past ten, having stopped at the Deanery
and Penygroes for refreshments, the last
carol was sung under Pembroke Arch.





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