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"The New Russia’
By Dorothy Thompson.
Miss Thompson, who in private life
is Mrs. Sinclair Lewis, ‘is. one the
‘foremost: newspaper women 4nd for-
eign correspondents ift the United
States today.. The greater part of this
book appeared originally as a series
of articles in The New York Evening
Post, and is in-main a familiar enough
story to those who read books on
Russia. f

Especially noteworthy are the chap-
ters in which Miss Thompson. speaks
of the systematic “hate campaign” car
ried on by the Soviets against the en-
tire outside world. This is “compar-
able with nothing ever seen in a coun-
try in the time of peace.” The hatred
of the capitalist is inculcated in chil-
dresffrom the earliest infancy in every
school, and with such relentless. zeal
and system, that if is really impressive.
All school subjects have invariably
this purpose, all songs taught to the
‘children (and quoted in part by Miss
Thompson) are intended to kindle the
flame of hatred.. The children may
grow up ignorant—for in the author’s

“collective ignorance’—but they must
be good - -revolutionists.

A’ further development in the educa-
tion of, the children as good revolu-
tidnists is the practice of banishing all
knowledge which cannot be reconciled
*with the Marxian materialism. Every
lesson, no matter what the subject,
triés to bring the pupil closer to the
practical problems of the state admin-
tation. Geography, history and sci-
ence’ are all taught only as they apply
td the Soviet ‘system. Is it surprising,
then, that the ideal i in their edtcational
system is ‘not the development of the
individual “as we find it in most coun-
tries, but the development of the group
aga unit in’ the government? * The
_ alms and purpose of the Soviet govern-
“ment aré-so-embedded in the_minds._of
the children that this minority govern-
miént is rapidly gaining a_real hold on
the ‘people.

The statistics which the author gives
on the™'conditions of ,the schools and
general education hardly support the
Soviet” claim that the masses are ‘being
educated. The primary ‘schools havé
idtbed det only 3 per cenit., ‘although
the number of pupils has increased 39
per cent. since 1914. The ‘number of
these j institutions ‘has actually decreased
since 1920. ” Secondary educational: in-
stitutions | are less numerous than be-
fore the revolution—94 per ‘cent. of the
pre-war number—with 139 per cent. of
the pre-war ‘pupils. The universities
make a better showing: on “paper, but
for many the name is absolutely a
thisndmer. “One’ Such institution was
established for the dispersement of
knowledge to Negro porters from
America! It is true, though, that in a
budget, which is half the budget under
the old regime, the expenditure is 68
per cent. of the pre-war allotment for
education. However, the Russian
school system, with all its cree is to
~“the author, “are “most ex anu tHe

_Mmost_revolutionary. of all Russian eX
periments, because the world cannot
be fundamentally affected by a change
in the ownership of Russia’s coal
mines, but it can he prafoundly shaken
by a change in the mental and emo-
tional contents of an entire people, par-
ticularly if part of the new content is
a mé€ssianic belief in the world mis-
sion.”

The open avowal of atheism in Rus-
sia and the support which it has re-
ceived by the government is one of the
enigmas of.communism to the outside
world. It. is interesting to note that
Lenin has taken-the place of Christ
in the minds of the people and that
the. collective group or mass is their
God. It is necessary that the people
have some emotional outlet; so this
cult of Lenin-worship has been , con-

sciously fostered by the government.
Most significant, too, is the already
beginning idealization of Lenin. A
new mythology has sprung up around
him, which is being vigorously denied
by the government, but the tendency is
there among the peasants. . Those who
seek to justify this new faith predict
that it will die out once its purpose is
fulfilled, but considering that, the pur-.
pose of the revolution is international,
one cannot: help but feel that the
chances of the cult dying’ out are small.

The chapter on “Lame Eros” uses
novels and short stories as a_back-
ground instead of government. statis-
tics, Out of these stories plus her own
contacts, the author has come to the
conclusion that both men and women
dislike the freedom of Russia’s, mar-
riage laws and that out of the new}.

code is growing a fear and hate of
| man by woman and of woman by man.
The

_| the experimental-stage,is-very vividly



“emancipation” of women, she
fears, has only sterilized them. She
tells” us that “in‘the matter of sexual
morals Russia is more * confused: than
‘the heretically discussed younger gen-
eration in America.” Yet she has a
vague suspicion ‘that a new type of
comradeship is growing up’ and that
from the confission - —s finer
may come.

The immensity. of the. whole project
and the fact that everything is still in

impressed on the reader.



Miss ‘Kingsbury in Russia ;
Two American social research experts,
Professor Susan Kingsbury, of Bryn
Mawr College, and Dr. Mildred Fair-
child, who are now spending six months
in Russia to study the position of- women
in the new Soviet economy, have just
returned to this city after a month’s
trip to Nizhni Novgorod, Stalingrad and
Rostoff, where, they said, they received
good | impressions of the industrial and
economic progress. .
“I would not call it a comfortable
journey,” said Professor Kingsbury, “be-
Cause part of the time we traveled ,on
hard (third-class) wooden benches on
the trains, and the Volga River boat’
service was disorganized by low water.

Slept on Tables at Dock.

“At Nizhni Novgorod | the restaurant
and bedding suddenly disappeared’ from
the boat, having been seized in lieu of
taxes by the authorities. from the private
concessionaires, So we had nothing but
ted and black bread’ for twenty-four:
hours. At Kazan Wwé spent the night on
tables at a dock awaiting the boat, and
almost everywhere the sanitary arrange-
ments were worse than primitive.

“But we were imimeiisely’ struck: by
the eagerness of local authorities to help
our ifivestigation. There was no _ at+
tempt at concealment or obstruction, On
the contrary, they showed naive pride
at what sometimes seemed only moderate,
achievement. On the other’ hand, every-
where 'thére was an atmosphere of intense
activity and ‘of much being done, which
compares ares with the United
States. ©

e“For instance, the -metallurgic works
at Nizhni Novgorod has buildings of
real beauty and a magnificent “House of
Culture’ for the workers with a theatre
arid club rooms. The agricultural and
machine plant at Rostoff has one of the
finest’ factory buildings to be seen any-
where, with an arched roof ‘and an ar-
rangement of ‘glass panels providing’ dif-
fused’ light. It i° admittedly ‘more
expensive than. the typical” modern
Américan factory being erected by the
Kahn firm at Stalingrad for tractors, but
it is ‘more effective and I: imagine more
atenceri to work in. Mi

‘Find Zeal at Stalingrad.
“Stalingrad is a town of extraordi-
nary interest because it is being rebuilt
almost from the ground up. No Ameri-
can ‘boostets’ could surpass the Stalin-
graders in civic enthusiasm. Situated at.
the junction of the projected_Volga-Don
canalwo*-Usnezad—will be the-Soviet’s
Detroit,’ the residents assert proudly, and
the huge new commercial buildings for
the workers are already in the course of
construction.”

The A'merican engineer Calder in
charge of the tractor plant found the
Russians, good and energetic workmen,
although, he. said, one-had to show them
everything but that once they understood
they remembered, and the buildings are
advancing even faster than was pro-
jected, the American educators reported.

From Samara Saratof« the American
women visited villages. and - colleétive
farms. They saw no signs of “class
war,” but noticed everywhere along the
trip the better appearance of collective
farms, with their wide and regular fields,
as compared with’ the narrow “strip
farming” of individual peasants, still
common .in Russia though it Mas. been
obsolete in Western: Europe for hundreds
of years.

Visited “Grain, Factory.”

South. of _ Rostoff they visited’ the
Gigant “grain factory,” where: 80,000 hec-
tares (197,600 acres’) are sown to winter
wheat, although the estiimates called for
only 65,000 hectares. The Gigant is
completely mechanized and 7000 “work-
ers”—the word peasant is: not used—are
housed in attractive buildings roofed with
colored tiles.

j at is impossible to draw a conclu-
sion. from so ffitrried,a trip,” hae!
Kingsbury._.coneluded, — “bit saw
enough to prove the pr "of the
stories that the Russian economic effort
is largely wasted or confined to limited
areas for ‘show. window’ purposes. sg

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"Ney € Graduate Library

Since the bookcases in Radnor Hall
were left practically bare after the un-
dergraduate books had: been removed,
Dean Schénck suggested: to the grad-4
uate students that a” committee be set
to work to draw up a list of books
which would serve as: the foundation
for a hall fibrary.. Such a committee

chairman and a tentative list of books
has been put in the hands of the
librarian. As it will not be possible to
purchase all the volumes at once with
the money at hand, the dictionaries will
be acquired first.. The new edition of

ready been given to the graduate hall,
and Dear Schenck expressed the hope
that perhaps standard editions:of more
of the ‘books on the list might be do-
mated by. otheds. Miss Donnelly, as

‘chairman of the New Book Room Com-

mittee, thas. promised that the overflow |
of new fiction will be divided between
Radnor Hall and the Common Room
in Goodhart. : Series
The list of the Graduate Book Com-
mittee is as follows: nag
Encyclopedia Brittanica, 14th ‘edition,
Webster’s New. International (or the
New Standard) Dictionary; Roget's
Thesaurus, — Clifton and ~ Grimaux,
French and English Dictionary; Muret-
‘Sanders’ German and English Diction-
ary; Velasquez’ Spanish and English

Liddell and Scott’s Greek Lexicon,
Hoate’s Italian and English Dictionary,
'Baldwin’s ‘ Dictionary of Philosophy
and Psychology, Strong’s Bible Con-

cordance, ‘Gayley’s Classic _ Myths,
World Almanac, Chambers’ Book of
Days, Henley’s . Twentieth Century

Formulas, Stedman’s Medical Diction-
ary, Reinach’s Apollo, Cambridge His-
tory’ of ‘English: Literature, Cambridge
History of American Literature, Brew-
er’s Readers Handbook and Dictionary

|of Phrase and. Fable, Granger's Index|

to Poetry and Recitations, Stevenson’s
Home Book of. Verse, Bartlett’s
Shakespeare Concordance, Lippincott’s
Biographical Dictionary, ‘Who’s Who
in America, Who's Who, Lippincott’s
Gazetteer, Times Survey Atlas, Shep-
herd’s Historical Atlas,’ Low and Pull-
ing Dictionary of English History,
Ploetz Manual of Universal History,
Cambridge Modern History, Harper’s
Dictionary of Classical Literature and
Antiquities, Oxford Books- of -Verse—

Countries, _Kobbe Gustav Complete
Opera Book, Passy-Hempel, French
Dictionary, Petit Larousse - Ilustre,
Bediet-Hazard—Histoire Illustres de la
Litterature Francaise. »



.*
College Reforms and Reformers
Recently the pages of magazines in this
country have been flooded with articles
offering suggestions for reforming the
colleges and universities. Most of these
articles have attacked the methods of

instruction and “student indifference.”
The would-be reformers : seem to have

ever ; higher ‘education Has been popu-
Llarized. to sych an extent that the modern
student body represents nothing more
than a typical cross-section of the Ameri-
can community. few generations ago
all college students came from families
With a cultural background, excepting
a few individuals who sought a college
education because pf an inherent desire
for knowledge. ;

In sharp contrast is the modern stu-
dent body, which consists to a great ex-
tent of individuals where only: qualifi-
cations for a scholastic career, are the
‘ability -to pass a perfunctory entrance
examination or the. possession of an eas-
ily-obtained high school degree. We
Americans are notorious, for our lack
of interest in the cultural aspects, of life;
the average college. student reflects this
national tendency away from culture to
a marked degree, The petty social ac-
tivities of the week-ends, fraternities and
athletics attract. by far the greater. por-
tion of the. undergraduate’s interest.

As an inevitable result of the modern
system of mass education, the college
student body is characterized by an inert
sort- of mediocrity. Before any really
effective reform can be accomplished in
higher education, we believe that one of |}
two things is necessary—that ‘rigid en-
trance requirements be established, or
that the rank and file of American citi-
zenry adopt an active interest in cultural
affairs —Daily Tar Heel.



ine energy and enthusiasm of the local
authorities who are not only trying to
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was appoifted with Belle. Beard .as%

the Encyclopedia ‘Brittanica has al-|.

Dictionary, Harpers’ Latin Dictionary,

English, Spanish, Latin, . Greek, ¢tc.,.
Baedeker Guide Books to All European |

lost sight of one significant fact; how-,

‘} year, forthe first time, a sonnet’ of his

CAREY

re
. Continued from .Page One
“Let us for a moment bring the whole
question down to our own experience and
sphere . of interests. How can we: de-
velop a sound point of view. toward this
Cult of Self-Expression ? Ignore it we
cannot if we would. It speaks ‘to -us

school and claims us through the exam-
ple of our friends. It cries ‘aloud from
the pages of the novels we read and

whispers subtly through the ‘New’ ‘psy-
chology.

An Important Issue in College.

“Moreover, it comes as a particular
‘issue to the college student, man or
‘woman. She spends four of the. most
important years of Her life in isolation
from the World. At a time when her
emotions are perhaps most difficult to
handle, she is plunged vicariously into all
sorts of * experience. Apart from the
reading she does for her own pleasure,
the literature included in her courses is
not limited by her own experience. It
is-no small wonder that she feels a de-
sire to know at first hand the many .emo-
tions about which she constantly reads.

“Natural as is this point of view, it

‘may perhaps be summed up in the fact
that one slips into a certain general atti-
tude, or even into actual conduct, which
does not make for pleasure or peace of
mind. Here, I believe, lies the great
weakness of the Cult of Self-Expression :
it does not really bring what it claims to
bring—either the highest self-develop-
ment or the greatest happiness.

“In the first place, it gives us no clear-
cut philosophy which we ‘can judge as
either good or bad. Under its cover hide
any number of present- day tags and
catchwords : sophistication, individualism,
and other fine phrases. By claiming
these as our own we are able to sur-,
round ourselves with an interesting at-

ourselves.
asked Alice. ‘Well,’ answered the Mock
Turtle, ‘there was Mystery—Mystery,
ancient and modern.’ Always. men have
felt the pull of the unusual, so that they
fare especially prone to catch hold of a
doctrine which makes them seem to
themselves - ‘and their fellows mysterious
or sophisticated. When, we look at the
doctrine from a detached point of view,4
we find too often that it is simply a
cloak for oar own laziness . or “ super-
ficiality.-

“Granted, ‘however, that this is not
always true: that the individual ‘may

genuine way of ordering his life. Even
then it has its dangers. It is apt to lead
us into an emotional realm that very
few laymen know well eriough to be able
to handle adequately. Like many other
sensationalists in history, in our anxiety
for expérience we are willing to try any-
thing, without the faintest regard as to
where it will lead us. The plain fact
is that we are not animals, and if we
insist on acting like animals we may
manage it for g while, but sdoner or
later our other instincts—which are in-
cidentally, equally strong—will rise “up
and plague «1s. There we have the basis
for. the complex or even the neurosis,
which we have a tendency to scoff at,
but which we simply cannot disregard as
a real danger in our highstrung, mechani-
cal age.. Ask any psychiatrist what is
the cause of the majority of emotional up-
sets.which are becoming more and more
common. He will tell you that it is the
fact that the individual tries to cut loose
from his training and his instinct for
being decent to other people—tries to cut
loose but cannot quite get away with it.
A complete animal never has these diffi-
culties, nore has the complete angel; it
is only Man, who has not. the sense to
recognize that he is a mixture of the two
and that he cannot entirely aha one or
the other.

“We may not, of course, be bold
enough to experiment, but still may hold
this individualistic point of view. Here
again the result is dangerous—although
the danger is not so active. We sink into
a fion-social, fossile existence, concen-
trated on ourselves and our own feel-
ings, careless of what others are think-
ing and doing. This in many’ ways, I
think, is worse. It has nene of the ele-
ments of interest and daring that are. in
the other—and certainly it_is no less like
an animal.

“I suppose one of the most ardent
experimenters in sensation who has ever,
lived was Oscar. Wilde. I discovered last

which moved me profoundly and which
says this whole thing far better than I
could ever do. It is ‘called Helas!

‘To drift with every passion till my soul



through the mouth of the progress we}.

is not without its dangers ; dangers Which

mosphere and_to. deceive everyone, eyen|.1:
‘What else had you to learn?’|

think clearly and use this doctgjne asa].



"31 ahd ’33 Victorious.
, in Class Hockey
1931 defeated 1930 in their first
match on Thursday, November 9, the
finalscore being 5-1. The Junior for-
wards, and particularly Blanchard, did
some pretty playing, although the
game on the whole was not spectacular.
The liné-up was:

¢

1930 1931
BUUIVOR 6 66 cc oes Pe Wii vacives Totten
UL ee Sere R. Fel Nrarar aya Moore
WU ik wk Coaeae oc. F..... Blanchard
Longstreth........ | Ge Sea rargrargee Waples

AN. sss scccseees GL, W....- pees Turner
Gordon... rVeheres Wer ML: 6 hace Findley
MEO 6s k6 Nc ieee O. Mics wens Tatnall
MO occ ceeuss oS ee eee Doak
+ aL UCIGUR Taare wer ee ees Snyder
Dickerman........ BA Bivvy oe ic OR Baer
Parkhurst....-.s3..; eae eae Thomas

Substitutes—1930: Taylor for Dean,
Hancock for Gordon; 1931: Benham for
Findley, Findley for Thomas, Thomas
for Doak. Goals—1930: Stix; 1931: ©
Blanchard, 3; Ps at Moore. Total— |
1931, 5; 19380, 1. ‘

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The Freshmen had an easy victory
over. the Sophomores in their first class
hockey game on Thursday, November
7. Their forward line worked well to-
gether, Longacre and Remington mak-
ing spectacular plays and being ably as-
sisted by the rest of the line. Their

Sophomores, and the whole Freshman
team made an excellent first showing.
The Sophomore backs were kept hard
at work, and the playing of Stonington
at right half was particularly reliable.
Gill, as goal, made a number of good



stops. The line-up was:
1932 1933
ree Leidy
ern Longacre
» Remington
Ree veaave Helmer
Ralston........+.L. W........ Bronson
Stonington..... sua Bbe: Bheveveseans om
OMe bees CaceiGh Mell tscacks ollier
Reinhardt........ we Eats css Harriman
Balis..,.......... R. Beeson ee cies Grasal
MOWR + issceeaens ee Bowditch
De Gb s biataeekis ct ee ag
Goals—1932: Bernheimer; 1933-Rem-

ington, 8; Collier. Total—1933, 4; 1932,



can_play,
Is jt for this that I have given away °

Mine, ancient wisdom and austere con-

trol?

Methinks my life is a twice-written scroll
Scrawled oyer.on some boyish holiday
With idle te for pipe and virelay,

Which do but mar the secret of the

whole. :

Surely there was a time I might~have

trod
The sunlit heights, and from life’s dis-
sonance _*

Struck one cléar chord to reach the ears

of God:

Is that time dead? lo! with a little r

. I did but touch the honey of romance
And must I*lose a soul’s inheritance?’

“This is no theorist or preacher speak-
ing. It-is a man who has tried it’ and
knows, who recognizes that by letting
loose the animal in him he has lost
that part of himself for which he really
cares the most.

N

“What is the answer? Can we by
taking thought, discover what good
things we may take from this movemenrit ?

revolt makes its contribution to the
mighty stream of convention that repre-
sents the experience. of Man. But we
have only one life to lead and cannot
afford to waste it on trends that have
in them no elements of® soundness or
permanence.

Decision Is Safest Guide.
‘“Perhaps the safest guide is to take
thought and decide what kind of a per-
son we really: want to be. We must do’
this if our lives are to show any order,
or any ‘intelligent development. One can
drift only a certain amount without set-
tling into grooves which lead us where
we do really want to go. We cannot
play with fire without showing its ef-
fects. If,~however, we know what we
are working towards, we can then choose
from the current trends what we think
will contribute to that end. If we have
a Spirit of detachment and a sense of
humor about ourselves, we shall be able
to see when our expériment is a failyre.
Then we shall have to have enough géur
age and sense of humor to abandon it,

p

“I believe, myself, that we can trust
the experience of the race. One of ‘the
great contributions of Christianity to the
religious faith of mankind is the doctrine
of self-forgetfulness. The man who sold
all he had to buy a pearl of great price
is symbolic of a great principle that today
is too often scouted. What shall.it profit
a man, said Christ, if he gain the whole

sation—and lose his own soul? These
words are identical with Oscar Wilde's,
and represent, I am perfectly convinced,
the most essential factor in human =



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backs. were successful _in_opposing-the-———

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world—pleasure, influence, money, sen- |