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THE COLLEGE NEWS





IN PRINT
Huxley Gives Denunciation

Of Superficial Living
In New Book



by Patricia Platt °45

Aldous Huxley’s' Time Must
Haye a Stop is a little more bizarre
than its predecessors, but has not
lost their scalpel touch. It has a
few of the accepted qualities of
the novel, and a spattering of re-
ligion, metaphysics, and pornog-
raphy. In it Huxley grapples with
the problems of human existence
as with an octopus, and can give
his readers all shades of sensation
from falling down a pit to aes-
thetic rapture. Time Must Have a
Stop has: more heart in it than
Huxley’s early cynical works, and
that is both its strength and its
weakness.

Plot

The plot concerns a_ golden-
haired youth of seventeen, with the
face of an angel, and practically
no character at all. By the end he
has developed a character—through
seduction, cheating and the sight
and sense of human suffering. This
is the deeper theme, trimmed with
brilliant and brittle denunciations
of the superficiality of life. Alle-
gorical in tone, Time Must Have
a Stop never descends to the realm
of everyday life. Huxley’s moral-
istic invective is an_ intellectual
fire, bright but not hot.

Transition

The theme of transition from
sensual to spiritual values paral-
lels Huxley’s own shift of inter-
est, particularly in the direction of
life after death. Time Must Have
a Stop is, pethaps, the most super-
natural of all Huxley’s novels.
Parts of it cannot fail to baffle the
reader. Eustace Barnack, the
hero’s uncle, dies early in the book
after leading a life of utter self-
indulgence. Every chapter there-
after is punctuated by glimpses of

his consciousness as he struggles
for his individuality against the
light that is knowledge of the good.
It is a bold stroke that verges on
the ludicrous, and reveals that for
Huxley the right and good are
present only in nonentities.

Formless Rebellion

As a novel, Time Must Have a
Stop is chaotic, static, fantastic,
and intellectually over - balanced.
As a manifestation of human in-
tellect it is awe-inspiring and rath-





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Past Election Years
Surpass °44 in Spirit

Continued from page 1
unseen bystander.” The Farmer-
Labor candidate, accompanied by
“his” five wives, maintained a
calm aloofness from the otherwise
riotous proceedings, saying’ only,
“by this series of wives we solve
the servant problem.”

1932, in addition to the election
proper, intruded the problem of
the 18th Amendment. on the poli-
tical conscience of the campus. Of
263 people voting in the campus
straw vote, 249 declared them-
selves in favor of some action on
the amendment varying from
referendum to repeal, which re-
ceived the majority of all votes
cast. President Park expressed
her concern with the inadequacies
of both parties, and declared her
intention of voting Socialist.

1936 and 1940 saw the usual
rallies, clubs and discussions, 4nd
the News carried Willkie and
Roosevelt columns in its pre-elec-
tion issues. In 1936 it offered sta-
tistics on the tendency of students
to follow family customs in poli-
tics: Most Republicans, daughters
of business men, bankers, scien-
tists and engineers followed
dictates of papa.
daughters were not so sure of
themselves. The Roosevelt fac-
tion derived most of its strength
from the daughters of professors,
writers and publishers. Lawyers,
doctors and ministers were about
equally distributed among the
two parties. Straw votes, taken
for each election, have given the
Republicans a large majority
the campus,

the
Democratic

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Scrubwoman

Little did the college know it
was letting itself in for a bonus
when it charged one Denbigh Soph-
omore the regulation $10 fee for a
late change in the registration of
courses. Completely dollarless,
said Sophomore bemoaned her
fate to the smoking room at large,
claiming that she would have to
resort to scrubbing floors to pay
the fine. Denbigh’s spirit rose to
the occasion: ten one-dollar bets
were quickly laid, and she was
challenged to scrub the floors of
the Dean’s Office itself. In full
view of all the betters, the Dean’s
Office was scrubbed from Mrs.
Grant’s door to the desk of the
very surprised Miss Doiialdson.
The fine has been paid, but it is
rumored that the charwoman’s
union is about to file suit against
Denbigh.
Imaginative War Workers

The UVAP asked for campus
enthusiasm in registration days
last week, but it hardly expected
the Non-Reses’ turnout, which add-
ed two completely new depart-
ments of work to the schedule. One
group hinted mysteriously — that
while others might be content with
bandage-rolling and other such
prosaic pursuits, they were en-
gaged in secret work at the Phila-
delphia Psychological Institute. It



Plans for Germany
Reviewed by Robbins

Continued from Page 2

splitting up industrial strength.
The New Republic considers yet
another course of ev@nts: .
1. Complete defeat.

2. The possibility of civil war
within the Nazi group.
3. Restoration of laws and

structure of the Weimar Repub-
lie.

4. Army of occupation. ,

5. The encouragement of local
governments. e

6. Necessary feeding.

A less severé poliey is proposed
by the London Economist, which
stated that German economy can
not be upset and that annexation
would not work. The danger here
is that Germany might actually
benefit from the war, by being
from the beginning economically
superior to the occupied coun-
tries.

Feeling in other quarters favors
the division of Germany into
zones of occupation with Russia,
Britain, and the United States
each having a specific zone.

took a Non-Res Junior really to
astound the registration board,
however, by stating that she loves
chickens, and firmly believes that
the raising and care of chickens is
vital to victory. The UVAP drew
another ‘carefully ruled line, and
headed a column “Poultry.” An
announcement is expected to ap-
pear soon asking all Non-Reses to
refrain from giving the rest of
the college inferiority complexes
by counting unhatched chickens.
Post-War Planning

One of our ’44 alumnae, working
in the Pentagon Building, with an
eye to the post-war world, pro-
poses that a large commemorative
plaque be placed on the famous
edifice, reading: “Washington Slept
Here.”

Miss Speer Will Talk
On Students in China

Continued from page 1 ©

Speer was put under Japanese
guard after Pearl Harbor, and
spent six months in an internment
camp before obtaining passage
back to the United States on the
Gripsholm’s second trip. She ar-
rived home early in December,
1943.

Bryn Mawr Alumna

Miss Speer is an alumna of Bryn
Mawr College, A.B., 1922, and re-
ceived her M. A. from Columbia
University.



Political Clubs Plan
Campaign Activities
Continued from page 1

those who will vote at the polls
and on absentee ballots. Several
speakers are to be provided by
the Council of Republican Women
of Pennsylvania, sponsors of the
club, and open discussion meet-
ings are planned.

In the opposing camp, plans are
as equally imposing. At an or-
ganization meeting of Roosevelt
rooters on Tuesday night, Helen
Poland ’47 was elected chairman
of the club and coordinator of the
different activities.

Heading the. group of workers
for congressional candidate
O’Rourke of Delaware County is
Marie Wasserman 45. . Chief job
of the campaigners will be door-
bell-ringing in the county (which
begins opposite Haverford Col-
lege) to persuade forward-look-
ing voters to help defeat the Pew-
McClure machine candidate, Wol-
fington.

Other active Democrats will
work in Philadelphia for the Inde-
pendent Voters for Roosevelt, or
for the Political Action Commit-
tee. Joan Vitkin ’47 is enlisting
aid for the PAC, 736 Widener
Bulding. Muchvclerical work can
be done by students working from

8 to 10 in the evening.

The Democratic Campaign
Committee of Lower . Merion
Township will establish a _head-
quarters, possibly in Ardmore,
where students will do campaign
work. Students of ting age

who live in the Philadelphia area
may act as poll-watchers to pre-
vent “ghost-voting.”









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