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peared in the last News as E. Perkins should
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COLLEGE VERSUS MARRIAGE

With regard to modern problems an-
other item of never failing interest was
recently discussed in a college paper.
The subject this time was “Do College

Women Marry?” Statistics as usual were

- rushed to the-fore_and_it_was discovegtd
that only one-half of the women that
graduate from college condescend to
marry. And why this enthusiasm ovér
single blessedness? For the most part
the cause was laid to the fact that a col-
lege woman cannot be content with a less
highly educated man and, by way of a
vicious circle, a young ‘man, just grad-|.
uated from college, is generally unable
to offer a salary that would provide for
their college standard of living.

The young woman is faged with a
struggle which she has not been trained
to meet. Marriage means for her the
abandonment of all her theories on
Tolstoi and Beethoven for the more ma-
terial principles of kitchen chemistry. The
idea does not appeal. By way of de-
cision she tries a job and finds she is
self-supporting, so marriage becomes a
mere ‘side issue. _

Is college responsible? ‘To quote an-
other college’s comment: “It may be
‘that sO many college women do not
marry because college has trained them
to marry college men, and college has
made those men ineligible.”



LE DERNIER CRI

To relieve the montony of the hitherto
stereotyped college wardrobe comes a
sudden and seasonable innovation. Hunter
College is reported to be following the
lead of at least one Wall Street firm by
blossoming forth with smocks. Nor are
these of the laboratory variety, but rather
are they resplendent in many hues. What
a joy their classrooms must be to the
‘book-blurred eye of professor ‘and student
alike! Gone (or at least hidden). is the

-swarthy sweatshirt. i

Unlimited possibilities immediately be-
come apparent to the practical minded.
For instance, the present blazer system
might be copied with equal results for
the academic world as have ‘already been].
realized in the realm of athletics, Those



obtaining a certain average might be i
s in class colors. nats





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FLATTERING. DR. GRENFELL
The. light-housé keepers and island-
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dwellers on the three #housand twisting
miles ‘of Maine coast that lie between
Kittery Point and Quoddy Head can now,
boast of a mission service which is pat-
terned oa Dr, Grenfell’s system in
Labrador. .A new craft, to replace an
inadequate yacht, is being built on the
model of a dry lobster “smack that has
been running between Boston and Nova
Scotia, ‘The strictly utilitarian lines of
this vessel insure. regular winter cruises
to the three hundred outlying islands and
light stations on the route. The mission
work has grown from one man in a tiny

sloop voyaging uncertainly among a few.

islands, to five paid workers and as many
volunteers giving part time. Church serv-.
ices, emergency operations, school teach-
ing, distribution of clothes and Christ-
mas presents form part of the vital func-
tions of these cruising missionaries.
Through them alone does the island na-
tive come’ into ‘contact with civilization.
If the new craft had been ready last
winter, perhaps “a certain lonely old
woman would not have perished in the
flames of her hut on a deserted island off
"lit Manan, for the doctor would have
seen to it that some companion had been
left to take care of her.



BOOK REVIEW



Lolly Willowes, or the Loving Huntsman
—by Sylvia Townsend Warner; Viking

Press,

Aunts, especially professional aunts, have
perhaps been neglegted in novels; but here
is a new, an immortal aunt. Laura Wil-
lowes, Aunt Lolly, was a professional aunt
in an amateur way, with an income of her
own and secret longings for the country
and Lady Place, the seat of the Willowes
in Dorset. She lived from 1907 at Apsley
Terrace with her brother Henry, went to
church, read the Times and visited the sea-
side with her nieces Fancy and Marian.
War came; so Aunt Lolly wrapped parcels
for the front. One day in 1921 she bought
chrysanthemums in a little shop in Moscow
Road. There were sprays of beech-leaves
with them.

“The great fans of orange tracery seemed
to her even more beautiful than the chrys-
anthemums, for they had been given to her,
they a surprise. She sniffed. They smelt of
dark rustling wood like the wood to whose
edge she had come so often in the country
of her autumn imagination. She stood very
still to make quite sure of her sensations.
Then: ‘Where do they come from?’ she
asked,

So Laura Pawel took the place of
Aunt Lolly. With a little guide book and a

great deal of discouragement of the most}

depressing family kind, she left Apsley Ter-
race and went to Great Mop, to beechwoods
and old: windmills and a strangely nocturnal
village. She lived with Mrs. Leak on the
village street, and strode about the country-
side with her guide book until she threw
it one afternoon into a deserted well; then
she wandered careless of names and histories.
Titus, Lolly’s nephew, and other relations
came to see her; but they ceased to be im-
portant. It was the Loving Huntsman’ s turn
now. *

This book by a young English writer is
not only something new in aunts, but even
something new in Devils. And it is beauti-
fully written.



BRYN MAWR EXAMINATION
IN GENERAL LITERATURE

| ‘Auld Reekie.
The Weeping Philosopher. -
The Laughing Philosopher, :
The Philosopher gf Ferney.
The First, Gentleman of Europe.
The Last of the Tribunes.
“The Merry Monarch.
The Madman of Macedonia. ~
The Royal Martyr. ©
The Inspired Idiot. teeny
The “Ettrick Shepherd..
The Stagirite,
Smelfungus. |
Hobinol.
Gloriana.
Boz...
The Beloved Disciple.
‘The Beloved Physician.
The Angelic Doctor.
. The Father of Medicine.
“The Father of English Prose.
The Father of History.
The Father of: Jests.
The Father of ‘Lies.

III. In what work by what author occur:

Sir Anthony Absolute.
_ Sir. Andrew Ague-cheek.

Abou Ben Adhem.

Rabbi Ben Ezra.

Gungha Din.

Panurge.

Captain Ahab.

Captain Bobadil.

Captain Cuttle.

Mr. Burchell.

Mr. Wardle, ©

Madame Eglantine.

Tom Bowling.

Moll Cutpurse: *

Amelia Sedley. en

Euphemia Clashthought.

Alceste.
Achates.
Houyhnhmns,
Calandrino.
Palamon.
Dulcinea.
Angelica.
Sheherezade.
Sycorax.

IV. Who stood
“like greyhounds in the slips
Straining before the start.”
“beside a cottage lone
And listened to a lute.”

- “in Venice on the Bridge of Sighs.”
“on the bridge at midnight.”
“upon Achilles’ tomb
And heard Troy doufted.”
“ypon a peak in Darien.”
“tip-toe upon a little hill.”
“tiptoe upon the misty mountain-tops.”

‘incessantly on his head?

Who sat
on a mushroom.
on an old gray stone.
on the pallid bust of Pallas.
on Dido’s lap.
High on a throne of aed State...

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To that bad. eminence.

By the waters of Babylon.

among the ruins of Carthage.

at the king’s (Ahasuerus’) gate.
“in unwomanly rags

Plying her needle “and thread?”

Who went -

a-maying.

In happy highways. :

down to Camelot. alee - Ps
across the Sands-of Dee. | es

‘into the mouth of Hell.
round the world in eighty days.
Over. he over dale,
a Seongh. brier.



_ “The wisest, brightest, meanest of man-
kind.” &

“The Law is an'Ass.”

“They order this matter better in France.

“Amerika, du hast es’ besser.”

“Ich bin der Geist der stets verneint.”

“Wer nicht liebt Wein, Weib, . Gesang

_ Bleibt ein Narr-sein Lebelang.”

“Sie kammt ihr goldenes Haar.”

“C’est le premier pas qui coute.”

“Mais ou sont les neiges heme

Revenons a nos moutons.” )

“Que diable allait-il faire dans cette
galere?”

“Rotta e l’alta Colonna e il verde Lauro.”

“Dinanzi a me non fur cose create

Se non eterne, ed io eterno duro.”

“Te donne, i cavalier, l’armé gli amori.”

“Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum

f puto.” ~ bd

“Redeunt Saturnia regna,”

“Abiit, ‘excessit, evasit, erupit.”

“Nihil tetigit quod non ornavit.”

“Noli me tangere.”

“Errare malo cum Platone.”

“Cogito ergo sum.”

“in medias res.”

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VI. Mention six tributes in verse “(not: nec-
essarily complete poems) addressed by
hanie to other poets. Include at least three

names not English.

VII. (a) Mention an author who was be-
headed ; one who was burnt; one who was
killed in a tavern brawl; one who died on
the field of battle; one who was drowned ;
one who died of being himself.

(b) What important works were written
in prison ?

‘(c) Mention some notable hypocrites in
the. drama other than Ejuglish; some
misers; some gulls; some supermen.

VIII. Name as many pieces of great litera-
ture as you can (giving the authors’
names) in which the following historical
characters appear:
Catherine de’ Medici.
Richard Coeur-de-Lion.
Napoleon.

Mary Queen of Scots. .

“IX; Mention” discussions of the-art of
poetry in the literature of: 1. Greece; 2.
Rome; 3. France; 4. Germany or Italy; 5
Elizabethan England; 6. 18th Century
England.

How (briefly) is the function of poetry

— in any of uric

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| NEWS FROM OTHER COLLEGES

Barnard reports a new curriculum to go
into effect next September.

Except for three prescribed courses, all
the work heretofore compulsory has been
classified into three groups and made elec-
tive. One group comprises languages, liter-
ature, and other fine arts; a second group,
mathematics and natural science, and a third
group, the social sciences. In natural sci-

= ence, eight points must be in laboratery ef-
vy
_ merit raised. “ .

fort. To graduate, a student must evidence
ability ‘to’ read at sight French or German
or Greek or Latin. *

introductory to each of the three groups.
Specialization will be avoided as much as
\Possible, according to Dean Gildersleeve :

“In order to avoid too much concentration
and specialization, the faculty feels that
each student ‘should be required to distribute

into the other main divisions of human
thought. It plans to require, therefore, that
each student should take at least fourteen
points of work in each of the three groups
or fields —The New Siadent.

Seciied Hidlindes ounce iene tos
‘movement already existing at Harvard and
Vale, i. ¢, to 3 t a committee of stu-





Freshman work will consist of courses

her work sufficiently to gain some insight