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“LORD, NOW LETTEST.

THOU THY SERVANT—”

“While the college broke into applause and

haggard Seniors, bogn too soon, gazed wanly
at the pulpit, the one-major arrived, and:to
the much disputed cra of change was added
an academic symptom. Sa‘vation has come,
according to ,campus conversation! More
definitely interesting is this step in the his-
tory of the Undergraduate Curriculum Com-
mittee. Organized almcs: two years ago at
President Park's suggestion, the committee
prepared a comprehensive report on the
curriculum, in which a single major with
correlated electives was urged. “Of course
the adoption of the new system is: not the
outcome of this suggestion, but noteworthy
is the fact that-an important reform desired
by an undergraduate committee was also
championed by the Faculty.









“SAY WHAT YOU MEAN, AND
MEAN WHAT YOU SAY”
Are we suffering arom healthy dissatis-
faction, or have we got a downright in-
~~ feriority complex? :

On all sides, and inside, we hear a great
deal of conversation on one absorbing topic,
namely, that American education is going
to the dogs Mr. John Jay Chapman finds
the situation encouraging only because “it
cou'dn’t he worse.” Last Sunday we
were told here that learning in college now
was comparable to. eating in an automat
put in your nickel and get’ out your philoso-
phy. Intelle-tua! expansion is being cramped



















~ college life, as it is behind so many other
kinds of life today. :

A certain amount.of system and form is
accepted to make living easier; perhaps we
have gone too far iq our ‘systematizing.. But
is the situation “so.-bad that it can’t be

worse ?””. se

Those who came to college expecting to
be able to learn and think, and those who
-s-t out to learn and think under the system
established—have they failed? If so, let
St reak .out of their own experience,
and give some proof and meaning to the
accusations which kave gone before.













keeping should be substituted for Latin,
or ‘that stenography should walk hand:
wn hand with Major History of Art.
be it from us to wish to.kow-tow to tech-
nicalities; but, perhaps if we did attempt
some of this radical and sacrilegious study
of the practieal, our wild and _ thoughtless

about.

|n favor of the live theory.

‘rentleman,

by system. .The spirit of business is behind }-

‘Far

sencration, which is doomed ‘to ruin the
world anyway, might step into the traces
with a little mage idea of what it is all
But thet who are We ‘to judge
yetween Princeton and Yale?



ARISTOCRACY IN CRIME



Romance ss a vital issue with the editorial
board of the Coirece News. We find our-
se:ves entirely unable to agree as to whether
romance is dead or living: That we should
still think anything wor.h the fighting for
seems to some of us a clinching argument
avor of But if more

our souls may be saved, only through. the

ing large association meetings,
defend our action in this affair on any other
grounds than those,
some dime, people

attend these meetit

may be mentioned your reference to the
chapel

‘xpression of ourselves, Although we. feel}
hat there may be some wisdom in abolish-
we do not

f efficiency, since, for}
ve been unwilling. to
s, At least we have
frankly faced a reece which has- been
winked at for some ti In this connection

ystem, It is not’ necessarily because
we claim that we are reaching “a high level
of intellectual independence” that we “are
simply recognizing the fact that people do
not go to chapel, If we have anything at
ull to’ be proud of, it is not the fact that
we have left little “sacred or untouched”
Sut that we have shown enough respect for
our predecessors to lay aside those things
which. were “sacred” to them, but which
time has made us lose interest in.



arguments are needed, we offer you Ger&ld
the Gentleman, as a modern successor to
the romantic glamor of the highwayman
No mere cop-killer, but a scholar and a
he has earned the respect and
idmiration of colleagues and captors alike.
xy his elezance, his .courtesy, his perfect
command of language, just as did the
masked highwayman who kept the rules of
the game. Thousands of ‘peop'e who read
every day with equanimity of executions for
murder will feel genuine regret when Gerald
Clapman is hanged. And if he must die
he dies best by the noose; for even though it
is, as. he says, not a graceful death, it is
the death that awaited his brothers who
rode out, wrists ru Hed, pistols gleaming, to
dare fortune on the highroads of E oan



£5 FOR AN EPITAPH



Epitaphis are the latest hobby of the Lon-
don Spectator. You can get £5 for a good
advance on Hefiry Ford, Jack Hobbs or
Albert Einstein; but most interesting are
the lines on the long dead. The Ape-man
of Taungs, whose fossilized skull was found
not long ago by Professor Raymond Dart,
called forth enough philosophic souvenirs
for all his family and fellows. For ex-
ample one finds:.
“Here lies, a prey to scientist and priest,
Of apes the greatest, of mankind the least,
Australopithecus, unmoved: to find
Llimself a proper study of mankind.”
A sniall boy of eleven enjoys writing these
moribund ditties. Master Mcllardy sent the
follow inge:
“Upon this knoll, ’neath Afric skies,
~ Poor Australopithecus lies. pe
‘By Ape-men mourned, the Ape-man. dies.
When Advent’s blush gives glad surprise,
And. Michael’s trump its summons cries,
Will Australopithecus rise ?”
In the opinion of the Spectator the best
epitaph was this neat statement of progress:
“Speechless, with half-human leer,
Lies a hidden monster here:
Yet here, read backwards, beauty lies,
And here the wisdom of the wise.”

Personally we are glad there are no mod-
ern Grays writing elegies on the “paths of
glory leading to the grave” and the “short
and simple annals” of the anthropoid.

“







SUING THE PRACTICAL.






less thoroughly discuSsed, —






We observe that in a recent intercol-
legiate debate, in which the whys and
eae res of madern education were

es the Yale téam accused sealed
evoting too much of her scholas-
ong ts which belong

(The editors do not hold themselves re-
sponsible for the opinions expressed in this
column.)

In reference to a letter from three ‘alum-
nae concerning — the editorial entitled
“Change, ” our object is not to defend that
article in-all respects,. but rather to attemp‘

attitude of the present under; raduates. A

to answer the criticisms made about the

Nor car we agree” that ~our~changes~arey-
always due to a disregard for former under-
graduate experiments. ‘We do not-claim any
monopoly on originality. In fact, it is often
the success or failure of these former at-
tempts which urges us on to-ours. The Lan-| 4
tern, prompted by the realization that it is
not living up to standards held by former
hoards, has made. definite attempts to re-
organization. Varsity dramatics grew out
of the feeling that, though they had failed
in*the past, the disappearance of class feel-
ing and the intense interest in dramatic pro-
duction for their own sake as artistic ven-
tures, might warrant another attempt. In
thus ignoring class factions, the community
is hecoming more one; and the chance “to
acquire a sense of social value” is given
wider range and greater prominence.

Perhaps we do goto extremes in the
enthusiasm and excitement which is bound
to accompany anything we are doing at the
moment; yet we wonder whether there is any
other way to discover* the Golden Mean:
which you recommend to us, than by giving
our ideal a’ full fling atleast once,-And
surely in college we are given the best
chance to do this! :

ELaing Lomas, ’25.
Juan~ Grecory, °25,



BOOK .REVIEW



Ferdinand Ossendowski, New York; Hen-
ry Holt and Sons, “Shadow of the Gloomy
Kast,” : ;
Prejudiced against Russia, as the author
uf stich a morbid and. vitrolic book must be,
Ossendowski still contrives. to give ts, some-
thing of the mysterious heart of this Ori-
ental land, His book is curiously formless.
ofily a group ‘of lurid and «fragmentary
glimpses at the most sinister aspects of Rus-
sian life and Russian nature—superstition,

lence, madness and fiendish degeneracy. Less
terrifying by their actual statements than by
their gloomy, horrible suggestions, these dis-
jointed chapters reveal a powerful, observ-
ant and imaginative mind so wrought upon
by Tzarist and Bolshevik ignorance and
terror that it is completely blinded to any
redeeming and wholesome elements in the
incomprehensib'e Russian nature. His con-
viction of the fundamental hopelessness of
the Russian situation is revealed in the final

the Slavs as they might a tribe of sav



from barbarism.
Ossendowski’s style is vivid





least we are






nently convincing.



devil-worship, black magic. murderous vio--

chapters, when he advises Europe to ee

ywski’ is vivid, ingefoaive
and sincerely impassioned. ButMis lurid]

melodrama and his blindly one-sided view
of the Slavic temperament prevent the book
‘rom being completely effective or perma-

BIRTHDAY OF THE RED SHOES
AND THE BLUE GROTTO
Hans Christian Andersen’s ‘birthday,
April 2, was last week celebrated by the
New York Branch of the American Scan-
danavian Foundation, Gladly we remem-

Ber the man who filled intense hours of

childhood with the pjeasure and sorrow
of the adventures of the “Red Shoes” and
the “Wild Swans” and the “Bundle of
Matches.” These stories and others have.
their own immortality from their reflec-
tion of “that which is most elementary in
human nature.” As George Brandes has
said; “They depict that life which existed
in tHe first period of the human soul, and
thus reach that which lies deepest with
all peoples and in all lands.” (Creative
Spirits of the Nineteenth Century.) And
so the author is characteristic to a certain.
extent of the Romantic thought of his
Yearly nineteenth century“(he was born in

child in Denmark.”

Norman , Gani in Siren Land, has
pointed out that “to Andersen belongs: the
merit of drawing the attention of Europe
to the beauties” of the Blue Grotto, in
his “Improvisatore.” | “He sang the
praises of the Blue Grotto of Sicily to a
generation reeling with emotionalism.”
Working in Rome on this book of great
import, Andersen became a kind of part-
ner of Thackeray’s by .being (as Henry’
James put it) “incomparably’ benevolent to
a languid little girl.” This was Edith
Story for whom. Thackeray wrote The
Rose and the Ring. How much one
wishes that there were a picture of Ander-
sen, in all his incomparable benevolence;
to place beside Dickie Doyle’s illustration
for Locker’s poem on Thackeray's kind-
ness, where the great man reads to the
little invalid and St. Peter’s Cathedral
looks through the window! . os



“COME AND SEE” TRIPS



(Specially contributed by Mary Rodney,
"24, I. C. S. A. Fellow.)

, “Come and see” trips during spring vaca-
tion are to be regular events from now on,

tunate enough to be in Boston, New York
or Philadelphia,—and perhaps other cities
will be included by next year,—will have the
opportunity to visit on intimate terms any
of the family welfare, recreational, child
health or psychiatric work in these com-
munities. - This year there will be special
trips for people interested in particular in-
stitutions, in addition to a program of gen-
eral interest. Whatever you.may want most
to see, is yours for the asking.

Those that went on “Come and See” trips
this past week were most enthusiastic. It is

known. and unexplored elements of a com-
munity.

The remainder of this year there will
be some trips to Carson College and other
particularly interesting places, perhaps an-
other to Sleighton Farm. Watch for the
announcement and do sign up. for at least
one interesting afternoon.

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