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TABLE OF CONTENTS

LITERARY— All the Riders Pass Me By (Poem) 1 2 Marriage Ceremonies — Man and Beast_________

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EDITORIALS— Swimming

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SEMINARY NOTES .— > ALUMNI NOTES____ COLLEGE NOTES ___

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EXCHANGE ____ :____

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ATHLETICS____ ____ LOCALS _____________

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THE BLACK AND RED Volume XXXIII.

Watertown, Wis., April, 1929

Number 1

Enter ed at the PostofTicc at Watertown. Wis., ns second class matter under Act of Marefh 3, 1879. Published monthly. Subscription, One Dollar.

ALL THE RIDERS PASS ME BY 1 stand against a frothing sky, And all tlie riders pass me by: The purple riders of desire.

Whose horses’ hooves strike shattered fire, Whose garments, lovelier than a name, Whip and whirl on winds of flame; And sacred riders, clad in weeds Whiter than their milk-white steeds, Riders in whose sunken eyes An everlasting questing lies.

The tragic riders pass me by On horses of 1)lack with a crashing cry; They flee upon their madward way The baying hounds of yesterday.

Gently pass but pass no less .The gallant steeds of happiness.

Whose riders on their paved path Know joy with joy for an aftermath.

And very softly, shod with fleece, Pass the quiet steeds of peace;

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1 Their riders wear upon the way A sure investiture of gray.

The sunlight sinks on plain and butte, Splashed with glory is the sky; And still beside the road am I, Unmounted still, irresolute.

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MARRIAGE CEREMONIES It is a highly interesting study to observe with what queer formalities and ceremonies a marriage is performed among differ­ ent races, especially the semi-civilized. Everyone who looks upon marriage as a state instituted by God himself, will not try to jus­ tify the ceremonies which surround a marriage today in any other way than to say that they were added from time to time, differing according to the characteristics of the different peoples, in order to make the ceremony of marriage more solemn or more dignified.

The evolutionist, however, has attempted to explain them in quite another manner. He maintains that the name of that useless ap­ pendage, the “best man,” suggests that he is a relic of the marriage by capture in pre-historic times, that he was the strong-armed warrior who assisted the would-be groom in carrying off his bride.

He believes that the wedding ring symbolizes the fetter with which the bride was bound, and that the honeymoon corresponds with that space of time in which the captor had to hide his prize from the kinsmen of the bride until their consent had been gained. These explanations sound plausible enough, but they lack the support of historical proof and seem to have been invented to bolster up a shaky theory. Some of the customs connected with the marriage ceremony had their origin so far back in a forgotten past or among such obscure tribes that it is impossible to trace them back to their source. Others, however, can with reasonable certainty be traced to their very beginnings.

According to the evolutionists marriage by purchase succeeded marriage by capture. The pursuing father gradually learned to mitigate his wrath upon being offered cash, horses, cattle, land, or other equivalents. This kind of marriage undoubtedly existed at one time, because it is still prevalent among the Chinese and cer­ tain Mohammedan tribes. Perhaps the most perfect systeiu of mar­ riage by purchase was that of the Babylonians and. Assyrians.

Twice a year they assembled all girls of marriageable age in the 2

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space before the temple and sold them to the , highest bidder. Consequently, a method lia(l to be devised to dispose of the unattrac­ tive ones. To this end all the sums which had been received from the sale of the handsome girls were turned over to the unattractive ones as a counter-attraction. Thus every girl caught a husband, some 1)y beauty, and some by money. No woman had the right either to refuse or to choose her husband.

Among the An^lo-Saxons the women did not obtain the privilege to choose or lo refuse tlieir husbands until the ninth or tenthcentury. They were often betrothed already as children, the bride­ groom's pledge of marriage being accompanied by a security or “wecl，” from which we have our word "to、ve(l” in its present sense.

Part of the wedding always consisted of a ring placed on the mai­ den's right hand, where it was religiously kept until transferred to the left hand at the later nuptials. Then, also, were repeated the marriage vows and other ceremonies, out of which those now pre­ vailing have grown. At this final ceremony the bridegroom put each of the bride’s left-hand fingers in turn, saying at the ring the first *'in llie name of the Father” ； at the second “in the name of the at ilic third *'in the name of the Spirit”； and at the last “Anien.” That the third finger of the left hand should be finally chosen for the ring also had a significance. It was supposed in ancient times that an artery ran from this finger directly to the heart. After the placing of the ring the father gave his new son one of his (laughter’s shoes as a token of the transfer of authority which he liad effected. The bride was often made to feel this change by a tap or a blow on the head given with the shoe. The husband on his part took an oath to use his wife well. If he failed to do st), she might leave him. He was. however, allowed a con­ sidcrable license by law. He was bound in honor ‘‘to bestow on his wife and apprentices moderate castigation.” An old Welsh law any part of the perdecides that three blows with a broomstick son’s body except the head” is a fair allowance. Another provides that the stick be no longer than the husband's arm nor thicker than his middle finger. Prior to the seventh century a wife might at any time be repudiated for being- either silly, passionate, luxurious, deformed, rude, habitually drunk, gluttonous, very garrulous, quar­ relsome, or abusive.

To eat maize pudding from the same plate, or even to eat in any way together, is a widely distributed marriage ceremony. In Bra­ zil a couple may be married by drinking brandy together; in Japan, bv so many cups of wine; in Russia and Scandinavia it used to be one cup of both. The joining of hands is common to many parts of the world. To sit together on a seat while receiving friends, or to have the hands of each tied together with grass, or for a woman

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to tie a cord of her own twisting around the waist of the man, con­ stitutes marriage in one part or another. In Australia a woman carries fire to her lover’s hut and makes a fire for him. A Loango ncgress cooks two dishes for her bridegroom in his own hut. In Croatia the bridegroom boxes the bride’s ears. In Hungary it was a custom, up till a short time ago, for a groom to give the bride a kick after thq marriage ceremony in order to make her feel her subjection. The servitude of the bride is clearly indicated every­ where, as well among civilized as among uncivilized peoples.

A Jewish marriage cereni ony is picturesque. The bride dresses 111 pure white satin and faces the bridegroom under the matrimonial baldachin. After the ritual has been read, a cup of consecrated wine is presented to the bride and groom to be sipped. Then comes the address from the officiating rabbi, who closes by tak­ ing the glass of consecrated wine in his hand and pronounc­ ing the seven prescribed benedictions. Once more bride and bride­ groom taste the cup, after which the groom places it on the floor and crushes it to atoms under his feet as a symbol that the mar­ riage must last until the fragments can be united.

Although Catholic and Greek churches have made marriage a sacrament, and although most marriages amon^ confessors of other Christian creeds are performed by an officiating clergyman, never­ theless many of the merely social customs that surround the Chris­ tian ceremony have their roots in the pagan past. Even after the triumph of Christianity marriage for a long time continued to be a purely secular matter. Christianity, however, gave back to marriage its religious character, but only by slow degrees. At first C hristian couples pairing off together asked for the blessing of their pastor.

The custom of an ecclesiastical marriage became more and more general, until finally in 1563 at the Council of Trent, it was made binding on all Catholics. To mark! the importance and validity of a betrothal, the Council of Trent declared cladestine betrothals to be null and void and prohibited marriage during certain periods, such as the seasons of Advent, Lent, and Whitsuntide. The bride’s wreath is a Christian substitute for the gilt coronet all Jewish brides wore. The bride’s veil is the modern form of the “flammeuni,” or large yellow veil which completely enveloped the Greek and Roman bride during the marriage ceremony. The color, which now is always white but in former times could also be red, is sup­ posed to represent the integrity and purity of the bride. The wed­ ding cake undoubtedly had its origin in the Roman “confarreatio,” a form of marriage, the essential features of which were the eating of a cake made of salt, water, and flour by the couple, and the hold­ ing of three wheat ears by the bride, which was symbolical of plenty. It was intended to express the hope that the newly mar4

f，mu ried pair may always be supplied with an abundance of the good things of life. In ancient days wheat was sprinkled upon the head of the bride with the same intent. At present this custom is super­ seded by the scattering of rice upon the bride and groom as they leave the house after the reception.

Although in some communities of the United States a wedding is not considered genuine unless each traditional ceremony has been observed with the utmost accuracy, nevertheless there is a tendency today to break away from all traditional rites and ceremonies, and to make marriage a simple transaction executed by a justice of the peace. That this tendency is in harmony with an age that is im­ patient not only of meaningless ceremony but also of moral ties and obligations, can hardly be denied.

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MAN AND BEAST In his dealings with wild animals it has always been man's goal to protect such animals as are useful to him and to kill those that harm his person or property. He has gone about this work in many ways and has accomplished great things in some instances and has been utterly disappointed in others. His great desire to hunt has brought him much harm, especially so in those cases where he has killed off whole species of animals that were a source of food and clothing, to him. There arc still some among us who recall the vast herds of buffalo that roamed about on our western prairies.

Those herds, consisting of thousands, feeding on rich plains, fur­ nished many Indian nations with food and hides. Coyotes and wolves fed on l)ufTaloes and in turn furnislied the Indians and the pioneers with hides. Hut where are these “thundering herds”?

They have been wantonly slaughtered by man so that very few remain. At some ])laces their bleached bones cover whole acres of land. A few of these lnilTaloes are still to be found in zoological gardens and game reserves protected l)y the government, In much the same way the zebras，antelopes, giraffes, and ostriches are de­ creasing in Africa. The seals that once covered the shores of Alaska and northern Canada must lie protected by severe laws to keep men from killing them off completely. One example of this ruthless slaughter will show how careless we are in preserving our wild animals. In the year 1803 eight hundred thousand sealskins were offered for sale in Unalaska, of which number seven hundred thousand were burned in order to keep up the price of the remain­ der. Government reservations are set aside in various parts of the country to keep the species from dying out entirely. The price 5

of a seal hunter's license is set so high by the government that only few hunters can afford one. Some birds have also been killed off with the same thoughtlessness, In New Zealand eleven varieties of large birds like the ostrich have been wiped out by the spears, arrows ,and firearms of man. Some believe that whales are decreasing in number. From the year 1850 to the year 1880 over three hundred thousand whales were killed. Such slaughter is all the more serious because the whale gives birth to only one young at a time and does this not even yearly.

But in the same degree man has helped to increase the numher of animals useful to him. So we can trace the various wild horses all back to some original source. Many descended from horses let loose by governments, or from those that broke away from settlers. The number of wild horses roaming the pampas of South America and the steppes of Russia and Siberia is esti­ mated in millions. Very likely many of the wild horses formerly roaming our prairies also came from those brought over by traders and settlers. This is easily understood since these animals multi­ ply much faster when they can run around wild than when they are in captivity. The wild cattle of South America have brought about a complete change in the animal world of that continent. As these cattle increased in number, thellamas, antelopes, and deer were driven back since the newcomers ate the same food in greater quantities. Many bugs and worms that fed on the (lung, of these cattle followed them. Birds that in turn fed on the bugs and worms also followed, and again birds of prey that fed on smaller birds and on dead animals followed these. In this way the increase in the number of eagles, vultures, and hawks in the Americas can be traced to the increasing number of cattle.

The introduction of strange animals can also change the plant world of a region. Spanish sailors had an old custom of setting goats loose on islands in order that shipwrecked people might have a means of sustenance. But these goats ate all the shrubs and aftergrowth in the forests of such islands so that they became bar­ ren places as soon as the old trees were gone. No animal is so effi­ cient in keeping down second growth trees and shrubs as is the goat. In this way the island of St. Helena has become a rocky, barren place, whereas it once had rich forests. On the island Juan Fernandez the Spanish tried the same thing, but their enemies turned loose dogs on this island in order to antagonize the Spanish sailors. The dogs soon killed off the goats by preying on the young, helpless kids.

Dutch sailors often turned pigs loose much in the same way that the Spanish turned loose their goats. In California the in­ creasing number of wild pigs nearly spelled annihilation to the rattlesnakes. But when the settlers began to hunt wild boars for 6

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their tables, the number of snakes again increased. The English did not have much luck with their cats in Ascension Island. Rats had fled to the island from stranded ships and had multiplied to such an extent that they became a pest. On the southern and the western coasts of the island were to he found thickly populated hatcheries of sea birds. Especially did the rats prey on the eggs and the helpless young birds. But the cats, that were intended to destroy the ever increasing- dangerous rodents, also preyed on the birds instead of chasing the rats. So efficient were cats that for a time Ascension Island had only one kind of bird, the snipe. An­ other glaring- example is the English sparrow, which was imported to destroy the caterpillars in this country. But the sparrow pre­ ferred wheat to worms and has become the farmer’s enemy instead of his friend.

Many attempts have been made to import game birds and wild animals. Attempts to raise the kangaroo in Germany have been fruitless. The attempts to raise foxes in England have been more successful. The home of the carp is Asia: the home of the rainl)ow trout, America. But where are these fish not to be found now ? Honeybees and bumblebees have also been carried from one land to another. The honeybee was taken along for its honey, but the bumhlebce was taken for the work of carrying clover pollen from flower to flower. A farmer that does not run across bumble­ bee nests docs not figure on a crop of clover seed.

Plants have been brought from one country to another by ships, sometimes on purpose and on other occasions against the intentions and will of the sailors. Many weeds have been carried from one continent to another by seed that stuck to a bale of merchandise or to the heel of a sailor's boot. And in turn animals and birds that feed on these plants or their seeds will naturally assemble where they find food.

Insects have also made long trips. Whenever they found their new homes pleasing, they were inclined to stay. The potato bug, whose home was originally in Colorado, has spread over wide tracts of land. The tapeworm has travelled to many parts of the world from its original home in northern Germany. The Hessian fly was brought to America in 1776 by the mercenaries and has become a nuisance to us. The common Europ ean cootie has become a cosmopolitan so that any one who desires his company can make his acquaintance. Fleas, bedbugs, cockroaches, and moths have been brought to this country by immigrants and traders.

In like manner we could point out many examples how man has destroyed whole species of animals and has encouraged the propa­ gation of others sometimes purposely and again without being aware of the fact. o. n.，，3i.

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SWIMMING With the coming of warm weather, swimming is again coming into its own at Northwestern. Swimming as it is pursued at our institution offers an excellent opportunity for getting' physical recreation but little chance of learning and mastering the finer points of the art. The rock-studded and mud-covered bottom of the Rock river has not an especially inviting aspect for those who wish to learn to swim, nor is the necessary twenty-minute hike to the city limits pleasing on a hot day. Those who swim for the love of the sport notice the total lack of diving facilities except during September, when the municipal bathing beach offers access to a springboard. These are conditions which cannot well be altered.

But the ''swimming hole” has advantages which counterbalance its shortcomings. The fact that there one is removed from the systemized, business-like atmosphere of an up-to-date beach prob­ ably has its relaxing psychological effect, since we live under a strict routine in the dormitory. The “beach,” a grassy incline about fifty yards wide and several hundred yards long allows one to in­ dulge in running and leaping to his heart’s content. The modish basking in the sunshine is considered very healthful. In regard to swimming in the sense of mere propulsion on the surface of the water, one makes the best of it and enjoys it.

Since swimming is left entirely to the individual at Nortli8

western, it would be well to advise those who clo any considerable amount of swimming to set a goal they wish to attain. Thus the beginner might put his efforts to learning enough of the art to enable him to cross the river. The swimmer who can stay above water with ease might attempt to perfect his stroke or to learn new strokes. For, if one puts an amount of time into the sport, he should satisfy himself that he is progressing.

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參nnmarg Um/.ug! I'mzug nadi Thicnsville! Wie vicl hoeren wir nicht in dicsen Tagcn davun reden! In don vergangenen Wochen sind wir (lurch allcrlci einauder widersprechende Geruechte beunruhigt worden. Bald hicss os, wir ziehen in nacchster Zeit nach Thiensvillc uni, bald wurdo unsere Freude wieder gedaempft durch die Kmulc : Wir ^'dien nocli lan^c nicht. Nun sind wir allgemach skeptisch ^cwordcn. Wcnn uns jetzteiner fragt, wann wir umziehen, so sagen wir : Wir w.iweii’s nicht. Zu dcr Erkcnntnis haben wir uns nun cndlich (liirchgcruug.cn.

Und docli, wer in den lctztcn Tagen durch die Halien des Sem­ inars ^estrichon ist, dcr hat hemerkt, class ein Wechsel im Anzug ist. Kine gewisse I'nruhc sclnveht ueber dem Seminar, ein Gefuehl, class wir hier koine l)leil)cndc Stactte me hr liaben, hat sich unser bemacchtigt. Imucih jeden wird es schwer, sich auf die Hosen zu setzen, uni in allcr J<uhe zu ergrueiulen, was derm eigentlich Realisnius odcr Nominalismus sei. Nur (lie Mystik erregt bei manchen nocli Inieressc.

Unter solchen Zustaenden sind die Glieder der ersten Klasse bedauern. Sie hahen jetzt besonders viel zu tun mit Abgangsarheiten, Thcsen, Predigten. Dazu kommt noch das Schreckgespenst der Schlussexamina. Und nun immer die Stoerimg!

Dass es wirklich ernst gemeint ist mit dem Umziehen, erkennen wir daran, dass die Bil)liothek bereits abgebrochen ist, die Buecher verpackt und die Regale nach Thiensville gebracht worden sind. Gleich nach Ostern erging ein Aufruf an die Studenten, ihre Zerstoerungswut an der Bibliothek auszulassen. Alle Buecher, von den wertvollsten theologischen Schriften bis hinab zu den Buergerkriegsakten, alles wurde von (len Gestellen genommen und in Kisten gepackt. Die Studenten draengten sich foermlich herzu, um den Buechern diesen letzten Ehrendienst zu erweisen. Emsig arbeiteten sie, und in kurzer Zeit waren die Gestelle leer, die Waende 9

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kahl unci oecle. Ja, nieclerreissch ist iminer leicht, aber hernach wiecler aufbauen! Das wird eine Arbeit sein.

Dieser Umzug, wie verschiedentlich beruehrt er doch (lie Ge­ mueter cler Studenten! Manche sind missmutig darueber, class sie den Vorzuegen der Grossstadt entzoge werden. Andere verlassen mit schwerem Herzen diese Hallen, in denen die Geister der A linen wehen, diesen Ort, cler ihnen zur Heimat gcworden ist. Noch andere nelimen stoisch vorlieb mit clem, was kommt, richten ihr Auge auf die Zukunft und meinen, die Erloesung naht. Endlich gibt cs auch solche—man darf das nicht verhehlcn—(lie sich sehnen nach der stillen Zurueckgezogenheit cler vorstaedtischen Villa Tliiensville, wo sie, der Welt entrueckt, in ruhiger Abgeschiedenheit ilircn Idcalen leben koennen.

Trotz der Unruhen, denen wir in letzter Zeit ausgesetzt sind, ist unter uns die strenge Zuclit immer aufrecht crhalten wonk'n.

Nicht wenig hat in dieser Fruehlingszeit ein gewisser Verein dazu beigetragen, uni die Studenten in den rechtcn Balmen zu haltcn, uni es ihnen zu erleichtern, bei der Arbeit zu lileiben trotz dcs schoelien Welters. Es ist das ein gewisser Verein, ueber (lessen Ursprung niemand etwas Gewisses weiss, der aher von Jahr zu Jahr sich erneuert. Genug, er ist da, und er crfuellt semen Zweck.

Mancli ein Leser wird wissen. class (lie Rede ist vom Junggcscllcnverein, unter uns gewoehnlich “bachelors’ clul)” genannt.

Nacluleni der Verein fast ein ganzes Jahr latent j^eweson war, erfuhr er kurz vor Ostern ploetzlich wieder einen Aufschwung und entfaltete eine lobens'verte Taetigkeit. Uehelstacnde wurden zurechtgesetzt, cine grosse Anzahl neuer Kandidaten wurdc in (lie Geheimnisse des Vereins eingeweiht und mit den Haupt^ruiulsactzen desselben vertraut gemacht. Die erste Anfordcrung; an cm Mitglied ist unbedingter Zoelibat in Worten und Geberden. Die strengste Aufsicht und Zucht werden geuebt (lurch geg.enseit.ige l^ewachung. Dass unter der grossen Zahl der Proselytcn sich ctliche finclen wuerden, die der Bruderschaft unwuerdig sind, stand zu erwarten, und ihre Schmach kommt nicht auf das Konto des Vereins. Es war Sachverstaendigen von vornherein klar, dass solche Herren wie Redlin und Lemke sich auf die Dauer nicht halten koennten. Und die Erfahrung hat die Befuerchtung als berechtigt enviesen. Sie sind ex. Jedes Vergehen, das an den Tag kommt, wird naemlich nach strengem Inquisitionsverfahren oefFentlich geruegt und (lurch Ausschluss aus clem Verein bestraft, um cin aljschreckendes Beispiel fuer etwaige leichtfertige Mitglieder zu setzen.

Um nicht den falschen Eindruck zu er\vccken,\als ob alle Stu­ denten die Gabe haetten oder die noetige Selbstzucht uebten, (liesem 10

Vercinc anzugehoern, so muss erwaehnt werclen, class wir I eider noch einen anderen Verein unter uns haben,—horribile dictu—den Frauenverein. Es ist ja so im Leiden, die Menschen fallen von einem Extrem ins anclere. Docli bat der Verein dieses Jahr nur sclten ein Lebcnszeichcn von sich gegeben. Vielleicht stirbt er bald ganz aus.

Es waerc noch zu bemerken, um alien Studenten gerecht zu werden, class etliclie ueber dies Vercinswesen erhal)en sind. Sie ziehen (lie goldcnc Mittelstrass und kuenunern sich niclit um unscre La])paiicn. Docli oh ill re Stcllung inimer aus Ueberzeugung fliesst, oder oh etwa Unistaende sie dazu noetigen, das ist noch immer (lie Frag^e.

Ks tut cincMii aufrichti^cn died des Junggesellenvereins von Herzen well, (lass ilmi die traurige Aufgahe wird zu berichten, class cin frucliercs Mit^licd misers Vcrcins sich desselben gaenzlich unwuerdi^ gc/.cij^t hat. Ks ist (las unscr I lerr I\istor Gotthold Zimmermann aus Sprinir \ alley, Wis. Am 3. April nahm cr den verhaen^nisvollcMi Schrilt. I'.r verheiratete sich. Und swares wieder einmal (lie so^enunnte Sellwiei^crn 1 u11er des Seminars, die cine ihrer Toechlcr deni 1 Icrni Ziivmimimiiii aiivcrti.aiit.e.

ICs wacrc hierl>ci nodi auf einc paracloxe Ersclieiming aufmerksam y.w machcn, ucIkm* (lie* sich cin Psychologe verge1)lich den Kopf zcrbricht. Ks ist clas die* "I'alsaclie, (lass sich bci cler Training mehrerc haclidors in i>ood slandin^ cinstcllten. Das Interesse war allcrdin^s rein ohjektiv.

Die warmo Son tic reizt und loekt ins Freie. Die dumpfen Zinuncr koenncMi uns niclit mehr den ganzen Nachmittag fesseln.

Dcr alto Sp()nti.iel) crwaclit wieder. Die tennis courts sind wieder in Stand geset/.t: baseball ,^'ilu andern die noetige Erholung. Manager Drews i ist cifrig an tier Arlieit, um der Mannschaft etliclie Spiele zu sichern. Die Spieler bedauem lcider das Fehlen ihres linken Benjmninitcn. Doch ist sonst reichlich Material vorhanden.

Die erste Klassc ist mit Mitgliedern, die in Milwaukee und ^nit?cgencl wolincn gesegnet. Herr Schmeling- und Herr ]VIahnke habens beidc gewagt, ill re Klassengenossen zu einem Diner einzuladen. Merkwuerdigerweise soil Herr Fischer im letzten Falle sich recht frueh ini Seminar eingestellt haben.

An Sonntagen amtieren (lie Studenten jetzt im neuen Seminar als guides, odcr vielmehr als Langsstreckenlaeufer. Der Rekord ist bis jetzt drei Runden an einem Nachmittage.

Hen. Voecks hat am 21. April Zimmergenossen und sonstige Freunde in seinem Vaterhaus Zll Appleton heherbergt. Bei der Gelegenheit hat er es fuer weiseerfundeh, seine car—nota bene eine 11

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Chevi e— mitzubringen. Er muss naemlich seine Buechcr nach Thiensville bringen. . .

Am 28. April findet die vierhunclertjachrige Gcdaechtnisfcier des Katechismus stall. Mehrere untcr uns haben ihre Stimmen dazu hergegeben, in deni Massenchor mitzusingen. Die Feier wird ，im Milwaukee Auditorium abgehalten werden.

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JVKlll —Rev. Waller Gutzke, ’17，and Mrs. Gutzke, Comm. '20，of Marshfield. Wisconsin, spent several days of early April in Watertown, visiting Mrs. Gutzke’s parents, Dr. and Mrs. Ott. —Prof. Martin Sprengling, Ph. D., ’94, is collating; tlic various photostatic manuscripts of the Syriac Bible at the University of Chicago. The Chicago University Press intends to put out a criti­ cal text of the Peshitto, which, however, may require twenty years to prepare. ―We announce the marriage of Rev. Gotthold F. Zinimerniann, ’25, of Spring Valley, Wisconsin, to Miss Eleanore Bohlmann of Milwaukee. The ceremony took place in Milwaukee, April 3. 一At the annual conference of the Association of Wisconsin Col­ lege Presidents and Deans held in Milwaukee, March 21, Prof. E. E. Kowalke, ’08, was elected president of the association.

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—Tlie announcement of the engagement of Prof. Waldemar Heidtke, *20, of Fond du Lac, to Miss Angela Ruedebusch in the February issue of the Black and Red has been characterized as untrue. We wish to retract and to beg pardon for the error in in­ formation which caused the insertion of the item.

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—The class of ’26 held a reunion in Milwaukee shortly before Easter. On March 26 August Frederking, '26, who is a student of theology at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis ,visited Northwestern. 一On March 27, Prof. C. L. Schweppe, *12, of Dr. Martin Luther College, New Ulin, preached a noonday Lenten sermon in the Metropolitan Theatre in St. Paul, Minnesota.

On March 24, Prof. E. C. Kiessling preached in the Saginaw, Michigan, Auditoriuni, at the joint service of five Saginaw congre­ gations.

规t桩饬达 April, the montli of showers, .\pril, green huds opening up. ^ April, announced by the chirp and trill of returning birds. The season of green lawns, greener than ever because of the white win­ ter devoid of life preceding it. It is then that the world about us, showing signs of returning- animation, clothes herself in new garb.

And now to the functions of this department: The Philomaihcan gave the play, “The Dying Poet,” a fantasy in five scenes by I'rof. K. C. Kiessling, on the eighth of March.

The j)lot revolved about a rich man with aspirations to become a playwright. His lack of contact with real life, the life of the worka-day world, hindered him. Approached by Alae, who offered her assistance, Branting upon her advice, feigned death. Leaving a dum­ my to be interred in his stead, he left all his wealth behind to start life anew with hard work. A night on a park bench, however, showed him his folly. Here complications set in and the action moved rather fast. We find that he is again in possession of his wealth. In the fifth scene the audience is told that all this had been a dream, an inspiration to Branting. Though the death scene 13

was a bit strained, the acting in general was good. This was perhaps the best program arranged during the season. The cast: Archibald Branting, widower and 'voulcl-1)e playwright Wm. Schweppe ...Ruth Behl ing Veante, his daughter .......Otto Engel James, his butler---------------...M. Volkmann Mrs. Hicks, his cook ----------Doctor and two assistants.

Undertaker and two assistants .E, Raasch, A. Reich, Ti. List flpM-… 八 minister ffc.

A lawyer ...... .............. K. Vertz ..A. and W. Lehmann Two street urchins ---------..............M. Volkmann Mrs. Matille, widow -------____ ____ H. Oswald j son ______ _____ L. Zoar Alae, minor Greek goddess .

Critic, Prof. A. Sitz On March sixteenth the Phi Gamma Rho presented the fol­ lowing program : .Original Dollars for Touchdowns A. Reich Ciro Pinsuti “The Sea Hath its Pearls” S. Romberg “Auf Wiedersehen” _______ Mixed Chorus Original Wholesale Suicide W. Paustian Hartman Baritone solo, “Wiederkehr” W. Raabe O. Henry Reading, “After Twenty Years” A. Schwerin ..............Wolfe One act play, “Where but in America” Mr. Espenhayne …•■••Hugo List Mrs. Espenhayne .M. Volkmann Hilds,------------_.H. Guetzlaff Mr. Reich took up the arguments advanced by many of our better periodicals today concerning the deplorable state of inter­ collegiate football. Mr. Paustian’s talk relating to proper diet was instructive. By giving facts generally unknown he made his part of the program highly interesting. He showed that he was conversant with the matter and that he knew his subject. The play was hardly a success. Lack of a plot and lapses in the action nul­ lified the unquestionably good acting. Prof. E. Kiessling acted as critic.

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They have arranged very interesting entertainments, more inter­ esting than in past years. The regrettable feature is that about a third' of the membership of the two societies was not given an op­ portunity to appear during the regular season while others had three, many two appearances. Since the object is not to enroll a membership large enough to insure an audience, attendance being compulsory to members, it would seem that more should be given a chance to develop or show their talents.

The societies have decided to present a series of one-act plays with Shakespeare's “The Taming of the Shrew” as the piece de resistance on the eleventh of June.

On the evening before the I^astcr recess, March 21, our musi­ cal organizations gave the following1 concert: I. March, “Militaire” ................. .............. .

Unfinished Symphony in B minor .......

Franz Schubert Band. Prof. G. Westerhaus, Director .......... Gretchaninoff IT. The River S. Coleridge-Taylor Viking Song Mixed Chorus. Prof. A. Sitz, Director ..Paul Lincke III. The Glow Worm Quartette: Schewe, 1st tenor, P. Heyn, 2nd tenor.

O. Engel, 1st bass, A. Buenger, 2nd Bass. ___ John Kaula IV. Sans Souci (Overture) ............... ............. ...... Joh. Strauss Schatz-Wal/.er (From the Gipsy Baron) Victorious Legion March -__ ________ Julius S. Seredy Orchestra. Prof. W. Herrmann, Director ___ Otto W. Richter V. Sacngermarsch ____Franz Schubert Die Nacht .… .........Richard Kountz The Sleigh (a la Russe) The Sword of Ferrara . ..Fred. Field Bullard Male Chorus. Prof. C. Bolle ..... Sinding VI. March Grotesque Piano Solo. Theodore Otto Franz Schubert VII. Moment Musicale ........................... .

March, “Barnum & Bailey’s” Favorite ____K. L. King Band A full house, partly attracted by the band’s new concert uni­ forms, was present. The concensus of opinion seemed to be that the band and the quartet deserved the most credit.

On the fifth of April the mj^sic lovers hereabouts were again given an opportunity to hear the"world-renowned Rhonnda Welsh Male Glee Singers under the direction of Prof. Tom Morgan, But the vast spaces of empty chairs only confirms our opinion that the people of this vicinity are not in accord with our policy of bring15

s ing the better musical organizations and artists here. Still, they will go to Milwaukee or to Chicago to hear the selfsame ones at advanced prices. Is it to be seen in the "big city” or to have their name appear in the home-town paper as among the socially active?

This group, who appeared here several years ago, proved that they had versatility. Sacred selections, informal and humorous pieces, and those of more serious nature were rendered with the same ease. Perfect directing and timing made it a pleasure to listen to them. The audience was captivated and held by their brilliance. Solos, duets, quartettes and choruses rounded out the evening's entertainment. In all they rendered twenty-five selec­ tions. The best of these were "Hallelujah Chorus,” “Gloria,” **Gypsies’ Laughing Song,” “Harlech,” and “Italian Salad.” Of the solo­ ists Hadyn Thomas, a baritone, gave the best account of himself.

The director was very generous with encorevS. On the first Saturday in April a horde of barbarians descended upon the refectory and ravaged the larder. Yes, the Black and Red saff had its annual banquet. Several courses of toothsome and tastily prepared dishes fell prey to ravenous and bottomless appetites. Nicely browned chicken, mashed potatoes, fruit, nuts, biscuits and dessert disappeared in summary fashion. To Mrs. Rohde and her assistants goes the credit for the success of the first part of the evening. After that, cigars and cigarettes were lit and “speeching” commenced. Von Haden gave the new staff pointers on how to run a large college paper. La'vrenz’s failures were aired and Oswald’s lineage traced. Hamnicn was voted the honor position of the evening. Letters were presented to the grad­ uating members of the staff. A walk through town to finisii the cigars closed an enjoyable incident in our college career.

Thus far only two programs have been given by the classes in the Vesuvius club rooms. The Frosh gave “Too Many Doc­ tors/' a comical play. The Sophs had three short plays, of which the last was rich in laughs. It still remains for the Juniors and the Seniors to put theirs on.

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A new volume and a new editor tor each department: that’s what every April hriiiys with it in the history of publishing “The Black and Red.” A now editor, very green in his field, is taking over the lask of conducting this exchange column for the new year.

And whatever of praise or of scorn exudes from him during the first few months should l>e considered as coming from a man with little experience. It is easy enough to tender destructive criticism blit not half as easy to offer constructive criticism. Accept then, in this my first issue, my humble efforts and don’t be too hard on me with any comebacks. ''Capital Chimes” of Capital University is to be congratulated on its recent “Spectator Issue.” It clearly shows what can be pro­ duced in a college literary magazine if students are willing to co­ operate with the editorial force. Especially interesting were “The Death of Christopher Marlowe/' “Blue Shutters” and the several beautiful poems by Miss Fehl.

In his article, “The Modern Theory of the Plane Earth,” which appears in the March issue of “The D. M. L. C. Messenger” the author strikes a question which has been the subject of contro­ versy for many years. Although he is a firm believer in the plane earth theory, his proof is not convincing and he would have to answer many of our questions satisfactorily before we would desert our old theory, that the earth is a sphere.

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An article that every thinking student should read is “The Plight of the College Lit” in the March issue of “The New Student. Frederick Gutheinr, a senior at Wisconsin University and editor of the “Wisconsin Literary Magazine,” mentions some of the dent.” Frederick Gutheim, a senior at Wisconsin University and faults of the present college “Lit” and their remedies. One sen­ tence is especially worth noting: The writers of the college literary magazine should seek to find in their own lives the dramatic, the genuine, the unusual, the exciting. It is there that they shall see the comedy, the tragedy, the futility, the value of college life in both its academic and social aspects.

Another article in the same issue, “Sex Education and the Failing Function of the Colleges,” is perhaps a bit strong, but never­ theless contains more truth than is often admitted.

Milton 14; Northwestern 26 Oil March sixth the varsity squad enjoyed its last trip of the season to Milton. At all stages of the first period, both teams had excellent team work, and led their attacks so rapidly that even the referee complained that he found difficulty in following the ball.

Luckily, Northwestern managed to score a good lead over their o-nonents in the first half, for the second found them in a miserable slump out of which they were unable to proceed until the very last minutes of the game. During all this time Milton was still playing that fast game of the first half and repeatedly threatened to cli18

I minish our lead of eight points. Northwestern, however, finally resumed a lively offense and again scored in rapid succession, depriving Milton of all chances to avenge that decisive defeat, which they had received here a few weeks prior to this.

F.G. F.T. P.F. Northwestern— F.G. F.T.P.F. Milton— 2 2 Stevens, r. f........... 3 1 3 r• f • ---2 2 2 2 Agnew, 1. f.

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1 3 Pless,c.-„ 2 0.4 Dc Long, r. g......... 0 Kettcnacker, r. g. 1 .0 1 2 1 Walsch, 1. g.

1 Blumenthal, 1. g. -3 .0 1 1 Mackdanz .1 0 0 Sayre ...........

Referee: Holmes. Substitutions: for Northwestern, Krueger for Witt, Schwerin for Stuhr, Mackdanz for Kettenacker, Raasch for Blumenthal. For Mil Ion, Sayre for Walsch.

Northwestern 58; Seminary 25 After our preparatory team lia(l defeated the Winnebago Acad­ emy 30-7 in a very slow preliminary, Northwestern closed its bas­ ketball season on Nlarcli ninth in one of the neatest drubbings ever administered in our The seminary team began to score by virtue of an excellent lonjj shot and played a fast, hard game for llic first minutes t)f play, i)iit they soon weakened and showed a lack of ii(x、essai，-V stamina to keep pace with their strong o|)ponents. Nortluvestcrn lime and again and apparently with lit­ tle dilTiculty i)cnetratc(l the Seminary defense for short easy shots, l>ut nevcrtlielcss failed to score. During especially the sec­ ond half, Northwcslcnrs olTcnsc worked so perfectly that nothing could check tlicin. The Seminary, however, broke through once more for several successive baskets, but it was again a matter of only a few minutes. The spectators were soon only interested in how many points our team actually could score.

F.G. F.T. P.F. Northwestern— F.G. F.T. P.F. Seminary一 3 2 Witt, r. f.

-7 0 0 Zilz, r. f.... ……-4 Stuhr, 1. f.

—3 0 1 3 0 Hoeneckc, 1. f. ……4 Pless, c...... .....2 0 7 2 Lenz, c....

Kettenacker, r. g'. 1 0 2 0 1 Eckert, r. g.... —…0 Blumenthal, 1. g... 3 0 1 1 4 Voecks, 1. g.— Harke -…

0 0 1 1 0 0 Voigt _______ Schwerin 0 Rutz____ 0 1 0 Heyn __ 2 1 0 Mackdanz 0 3 1 Officials: Sachs and Schewe. Substitutions were numerous.

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our running guard, who occasionally pierced the opponent’s de­ fense for timely field goals, and our fast forward Witt with his good floor work. Looking over the material that will remain with us another season, we have Captain Pless, the most consistent play­ er of the team and the only man who was both an excellent defen­ sive and offensive player. This statement is verified by the fact that he was our high scorer this year and that his opposing centers only managed to score a very meagre number of baskets against him throughout the entire season. Furthermore, Kettenacker, our stationary guard, was the main prop of our guarding system this year and now, since he has assumed the additional duty of captain, • gives promise of still better work. Early in the season Stuhr changed his position from guard to forward, which probably wasn’t a very wise move after all, for Stuhr nevertheless plays a 1)eUd game in the original position. Rutz, moreover, played both forwarc and center as occasion demanded. With, furthermore, such prom­ ising reserves as Froehlich, Harke, Krueger, Raasch, and Schwerin, we can surely look forward to a successful season next year.

Coach Kleinke has advanced the history of our basketball an­ other step. Considering his experience, we will readily concede that Coach Kleinke has accomplished some very laudable work, the effects of which will be noticeable for several years.

Statistics of the Season Minutes Plavcd F.G. F.T. Total P. Pless (c).... ...41 474 19 101 24 Witt _____ •一-30 317 10 70 23 Rutz _____ 6 5 227 17 5 Stuhr ____ ■」3 436 10 36 10 Blumenthal 18 5 41 440 28 Kettenacker 7 3 17 35-8 35 Raasch ___ 2 6 10 158 5 Schwerin ...

5 3 13 106 4 Harke ___ 34 3 Krueger …— 8 5 21 124 2 Heyn ____ 2 5 26 0 Mackdanz ..

— 2 0 4 51 3 * On March 22, the preparatory team, coached by Blumenthal, played Lutheran High at Milwaukee. The preps led at the half 10-6, but.i!i spite of a well-played and hard-fought game, they were s?on trailing and were unable to regain their former advantage.

The final score was 15-20.

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This, provided the weather grants us our necessary practice, will enable us to look forward to a powerful nine in spite of the fact that only five lettermen are back, namely Captain Sachs, Blumenthal, Fritze, Kneiske, and Leersen. As to who will be in the box score, it is hazardous to venture an answer, for most positions are quite evenly contested. For instance, three Sophomores, Froehlich, Raasch, and Schewe are all in a hard struggle for the catcher’s position; equally uncertain are third base and field positions. Blumenthal and Leersen will again solve our pitching problem. Cap­ tain Sachs will without doubt occupy his old position at first. For the other positions we will quietly observe the interesting race until the team has been selected.

Until now Coach Eickmann has found great difficulty in arranging a schedule. Lake Forest already has a filled schedule and Concordia has dropped baseball: therefore games with these two teams arc impossible. We,'however, still expect that Milton will again take up baseball and that Whitewater will follow the example.

Furthermore, we look forward to games with the Seminary and with River Forest. Our present schedule, though very incomplete, is as follows : April 30.—Luther College here.

May 8.—Armour Tech there.

May 25—Armour Tech here.

Another man in our midst has risen to fame. For several days Herr Engel had been treading the traditional clouds with a mam­ moth smile on his face. After a few heart-rending prayers to get 21

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him to commit the secret to us, it was finally revealed that the Hon. Otto for the second time within four days had become uncle.

Rushing the uncle business, we should say. ’Tis unnecessary to mention that the gentleman from Ixonia is as proud of the wee coddling youngsters as Kaspar is of his voice.

Oncei upon a time, in a nice long, romantic Easter vacation, a great big he-man was walking down a certain street of the great, great big city of Watertown—(cries of, “can the chatter”！ Yes, we’ll be merciful). To be more exact, Vic Schultz was taking a walk. His merry, Easter-vacation-peace-with-the-world disposi­ tion inspired him to begin flirting with a bunch of little boys. But the youngsters, drawn to their new play-fellow by that magnetic personal appeal which has long confounded the philosophers, clung to the altruistic Mr. Schultz with astounding- adhesion. During： the remaining days of the vacation they followed him, up the street, in his room，out of his room, hither and thither. Room 87 became a veritable kindergarten, Magister Schultz lecturing to and train­ ing his newly adopted pupils in wood-carving, playing games, mar­ bles, and other fine arts. What price glory!

During the Easter recess A. Nicolaus lost part of himself in the hospital at Plymouth—his tonsils, or something- (we jud.^c that most people would prefer the “tonsils” to the something”）.

Those two smokestacks, Sturm and Fat Meyer, claim the honor of being the first to surround themselves with Rock river this swimming season. The first casualty was Mr. Bergfeld. “La­ pis” had evidently been reading- those “How to Get a Beautiful Skin” books, for he transferred a huge mass of river mud to his rotund physique. The mud, however, was obstinately inclined, and the chagrined Bathing Beauty, when he got back，had to resort to soap, water, and a change of clothes.

Oil April 3, Struck and “Muscle Shoals” “Hie” Erich Schultz celebrated this season of balmy spring by a trip to Milwaukee.

Struck, his countenance shining with goodness, consistently averred that the sole object of the trip was lo purchase some Greek books.

The Monseigneurs Raasch, Martin, Eberhart, and Hinuenthal are our authorities on walking conditions between Minnesota Jet. and Juneau in April 1 weather. These four men have blood-stirring stories to tell of deep snow, heavy suitcases, punk roads, and on the used-to-be joke: “Ho'v long is four miles?”一but their epitheta oraantia are not in conformity with the dignity of our paper.

On April 2 (remember the date .for next year, boys!) Kascli celebrated his birthday—or did the Freshmen celebrate it during that forcible meeting in chapel ?

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we could give the astonishing news that,"as yet, Sexta has not had a single baseball revolution, excepting, of course, the countless lit­ tle skirmishes that last for five minutes every five minutes. Its first captain to be elected, Mr. Schwartz, has not yet been im­ peached, detlironcd, or kicked out. Yes, times are not what they were.

The night of Saturday, April 6, was a hectic one indeed. Thun­ der crashed, lightning1 flashed, and students smashed一all the rules of dignity and good behavior. Besides, there was the Black and Tlie new staff was heard singing the song, Red staff banquet.

“We’re here because we're here: we don't know why—et cetera.”

As a result of the usual liibcrnation of thirty (more or less) students in the dormitory during the Easter free clays, several votes of thanks arc in order. To our tutor Shanks, who struggled val­ icntly to suppress the unbricllcd outluirsts of our lively set; also, to Mrs. Rolule. The Thirty (more or less) report that the “eats” were indeed worthy of a])prol)ation. “Steer was in the heyday of delight (luring tliat chickc*n dinner meal.

At first \vc were ^oinj^ to cite Kngel's belated after grace meals as another proof llial the food was excellent. But later it developed that Konks only got. there nil time once during the entire vacation; hence the extra sessions.

Shades of the ancient Capurnalia! That certain table notor­ ious thn»u<?h()ut the dining hall for its consumers of food pulled call (n “liot one.” On April 8, at that table, the what wo usual evening meal was emhclHshcd by a bounteous supply of onions and limhurger cliecsc. "Phe rest of us expostulated among each other in vain. Th.it night a self-inflicted revenge tortured the epicureans. All evening a steady shower of imprecations fell upon the heads of the terrible eight: Huenger complained that he was forcibly ejected from six different rooms; Red Goetz and Kurt Kneiske were seen making frequent round trips along the hall.

On Saturday, April 6, we of the dormitory were pleasantly sur­ prised by a visit from Clarence Machgan. ex. ’35. All the data that we could scare up concerning his well-being is that (1) he is solder­ ing milk cans down in Fort Atkinson, (2) that he has ordered a new Ford, and (3) that he is still single.

Lest a novice in this column, and a Freshman at that, be accused of abusing privileges^ no much, let us end this business right away.

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At last, the longed for Easter vacation! There were no social activities. Everyone was too glad to get home and too busy other­ wise to consider that side of life. The Easter bunny seemed to have been good to all of us. As there was no opportunity to display the finery on Easter most of the girls had to defer that pleasure until the following Sunday.

We thought Katharine Gormley had forgotten to return. Iiowever, she allayed our fears by appearing the next day.

The fashion of long hair is becoming quite popular among the co-eds, but one of the staunch supporters, “Pinky” Volkman surprised us when she came back with her hair cut.

“Mully” Mutchler, a former student, spent her vacation in Watertown. While here she visited some of her old friends at Northwestern. She also entertained her former associates by giv­ ing a party.

We all waited patiently for Arbor Day for pleasant and neces­ sary reasons. The rooms looked dull and were due for their an­ nual cleaning. The Freshman girls had been warned to prepare a delicious menu. They , did it.

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Alice Bentzin has been quite busy these days selling tickets for the many entertainments.

Lucile Steffen was maid-of-honor in the first post-Lenten wedding.

Ruth Behling spent a week-end at Columbus, Wisconsin.

The athletes have suffered because there have been no gym classes.

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“Lolly” Lueck visited relatives in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.

Jane Carroll went to Madison for most of her Easter vacation and the following week-end to Chicago.

Irmgard Dornfeld’s condition is improving, and we look for­ ward to a complete recovery.

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Help, this isn't the Freshman number. *' * 本 Rossin (beginning： to read a latin sentence) : “Hie”一 Vertz: “Apricot?” * * * f All ye who know. (Schultz sleeps in class after the evening of the Welsh concert.)

Prof.: “Nim guck mal den Hans an, gestern Abend hat er aber ganz anders ausgesehen.” * * * Jack (translating Greek) : “Ich habe noch keine Kinder.”

Prof.: “Na, na.u 氺本本 Wife: “I wish I could sing, badly.”

Hubby: “You do.” 本氺本 Prof.: “What is an octogenarian?”

Hoyer: “A horse doctor.”

Foolish question No. 768321.

Stude: uNorb, are you going home over Easter vacation?”

Norb. P. ： “No, I guess I’ll stay here and practice on my trombonc.” 氺

Prof.: “Was blieb nach dem Feuer von dem Hause uebrig?”

Andy: “Die Fensterhoehlen.”

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i Adventures of Mr. Brush: In America—Mr. Brush.

In France~Monsieur Brush.

In Germany―Herr Brush. "

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Cop: “Oh, I see, a sort of vacuum cleaner.” * * * Farmer: “What are you doing in my apple tree?”

Steer: “Believe it or not mister, I fell out of an Aeroplane.”

“Who is that one man in the blue coat, dear?”

“He’s the umpire, darling.”

“And why does he have that funny wire thing oil his face?”

“To keep him from biting the players.”一Sel.

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LITERARY— For One Not Brave Enough (Epjtaph) — —.---- -

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The Piazza del Duomo of Pisa.

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Hidden Romance —^-----------

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If. I Were King (Poem)— —:….

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Mother’s Day

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THE BLACK AND RED Volume XXXIII.

Watertown, Wis” May, 1929

Number 2

Entered at the Postoffice at Watertown. Wis , as second class matter under Act of March 3,1879. Published monthly. Subscription, One Dollar.

EPITAPH For One Not Brave Enough Here lies who, though he said that he Determined ever to be free, Was guided everywhere he went By custom and by precedent; A man of whom but this was said: “He had strange notions in his head”； Wherefore his living justified “Hie jacet” long- before he died.

M. F. “STRANGE INTERLUDE” Eugene O'Neill is indisputably the outstanding figure of the “American Theatre，” if we may speak of such. He has produced a score or more of plays, of which the recent drama “Strange In­ terlude” is his supreme achievement. It has been fav-Drably reviewed by numerous eminent critics. George Jean Nathan in “The American Mercury” speaks of it as “A drama not surpassed by any that Europe has given us in recent years and certainly by none that has been produced in America.”

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much human blundering and unhappiness” they set aside the ac­ cepted and conventional codes of morality and adopt the ancient hedonistic principle, making the happiness of man the criterion of right and wrong, of moral and immoral. “Being happy, that’s the nearest we can ever come to knowing what’s good! Being happy, that’s good! the rest is just talk” epitomizes their ethic. In pur­ suit of this happiness deeds are committed more or less clandes­ tinely which no legal code would condone and before which any exponent of an idealistic system of morality would stand aghast.

All qualms of conscience and repugnance to crime, the last ves­ tiges of impressions left on the soul by the implanted inhibitions of their formative years, are subordinated by this principle of hap­ piness, the determining factor in all their behavior, as expressed in the dictum of one of the principle actors “We must all be crooks where happiness is concerned一starve or thieve!

This quest for happiness is not, however, extremely indivi­ dualistic, by no means entirely selfish. Enormous self-sacrifices of individual happiness are made on the altar of the happiness of fellow men. In fact the principle character, Nina Leeds, in accord­ ance with the conviction that “to kill happiness is worse murder than taking life” practices extreme self-abnegation to ensure the continued happiness of her husband, a man inferior to her, that type of man that always looks several years younger than he is.

For him she sacrifices her peace of mind.

A morbid note of despair and ineffectualness permeates the whole drama. Nina’s yearning and hectic striving for happiness is the dominating note of the work. Things beyond her control, things of which she had no previous knowledge, such as the heredi­ tary taint of insanity in the blood of the Evans line doom all her efforts to attain that happy state she so ardently desires, and no wholesome solution is forthcoming. A sense of the utter futility of all her feverish striving for happiness ultimately possesses her.

No longer does she long for the positive joys of life; too long and too arduously has she followed this phantom, this ignis fatuus. The chase has left her weary and exhausted, desirous only of the nega­ tive pleasures of security and quiet, of escape and rest. “Peace!” she says, “Yes, that is all I desire. I can no longer imagine happiness.” Such an existence now holds the same appeal and charm for her as do the drowsy and soothing hours of evening, in which tli.e cares and turmoils of the day seem wholly irrelevant and which with its poppylike and enervating virtues invites to forgetfulness and peace, for the weary laborer—a state in which all extremes, all that appeared garish and misfitted is suffused and blended in an harmonious whole, loses all its harsh outlines in the mellow haze and golden glow of evening.

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It is the philosophy of a decadent and exhausted race, of a race unable to face reality and to endure “the whips and scorns of time.” The vigor of mind arul 1)ody whose happiness lies i111 the exercise of its capacities and in achievement is lacking.

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THE PIAZZA DEL DUOMO OF PISA The Piazza del Duomo is tlie glory of Pisa. It is situated in the northwest corner of the city just inside the ancient walls. In the Piazza stand the cathedral, the Baptistery, the “Leaning To'vcr. and the Campo Santo. These structures are built entirely of marble. The Piazza del Duomo is best known for its famous cam­ panile or “Leaning To'ver.”

The cathedral or Duomo was begun in 1063 and completed in 1118. It was built to commemorate a naval victory of the Pisans over the Saracens at Palermo. It is in plan a Latin cross. The Roman basilica type is predominant, hut some influence from the domed churches of Constantinople is apparent. The style of archi­ tecture is central Romanesque. The white marble of the cathe­ dral is varied with stripes of black and red. The sixty-eight pil­ lars along the side isles are the spoil of ancient Greek and Roman ruins. The cathedral is crowned by an elliptical dome over the crossing of the nave and the transepts. From the nave of this ca­ thedral hung the lamp which Galileo observed, leading him .to the invention of the pendulum. Externally the finest part of the build­ ing： is the west front, with its four ranges of superposed arcades and its three noble portals. This facade rivals that of any cathe­ dral in all Italy.

A short distance to the west of the cathedral stands the bapt.stery which was completed in 1278. This, too, was built in cen­ tral Romanesque style of architecture, hut was marred by the ad­ dition of Gothic details in the next century. This circular baptis­ tery is one hundred feet in diameter, and is covered with a cone-sur­ mounted dome one hundred and ninety feet high. In the interior the most interesting features are the octagonal font and the hexa­ gonal pulpit, both l)y Nicola Pisano.

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A short distance to the south of the cathedral stands the cam­ panile on “Leaning Tower.” It is a round tower built to harmonize with the church in style. The tower was begun in 1174, but was not completed until nearly two hundred years later, 1350. It was not uncommon to build the bell tower a short distance from the church at this time. The walls of the tower are thirteen feet thick at the base and half as thick at the top, and are constructed entirely of white marble. The first story is surrounded by a row of semicircular arches supported by fifteen columns, and above this rise six galleries with thirty columns each. The eighth story is of much smaller diameter than the rest of the tower, and has only twelve columns. The top story contains seven harmonized bells, the largest weighing six tons. The tower is one hundred and sev­ enty-nine feet high, and leans nearly fourteen feet out of the per­ pendicular.

It appears that the first architects, Bonanno and William of Innsbruck, either intended that the tower should lean, or-ancl this is more likely, that the tower took this position in the early s tage of building and was then continued in an obligue position, The foundation has the same circumference as the rest of the tower, and is only ten feet deep. The first settlement was noticed when the tower had risen to only thirty-five feet. After that an attempt was made to rectify the building by making slight additions on the leaning side. After the third gallery above the ground story had been completed, the work was suspended for many years. The additions in each gallery on the south side are easily noticeable in a photograph.

The top gallery is easily accessible by a stairway of nearly three hundred steps inside the wall. Galileo dropped heavy objects from the top of the campanile to demonstrate to the students and professors of the university the falsehood of the Peripatetic dic­ tum :that heavy objects fall with velocities proportional to their weights. If we were to mount the tower the inclination would not be noticeable while climbing the long stair way; but, if on reachingthe top, we should go over to the edge on the south side, and look down we should readily notice it, and most likely be seized by an uncomfortable feeling. If we look to our right we see the cathedral and a bit farther the Baptistery. Still farther our eyes fol30

low the Arno winding to the blue sea. To the south of the tower we see the old city on the north bank of the river and the new city on the south, with the two principal streets running parallel to the river on either bank. Some distance to our left beyond the walls we see the city of Carrara, famous for its many marble quarries, nestling in the Apuan Mountains.

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HIDDEN ROMANCE Among other quaint objects of former times that are being obliterated by the tide of this fast-changing, “reforming” age is : the ferry. The few ferries that still exist in hidden nooks of this country are no longer necessities, but have become relics of disap­ pearing conditions. But somewhere in the northwestern part of Wisconsin a small river cuts through between miles of low, scraggy, tangled woodland, and over that river passes a genuine ferry. It is not a relic, but functions day and night for those few people whose business takes them across there. For ten to fifteen miles above ancl below that ferry no bridge hovers over the swirling river.

Much more of an ancient object than the ponderous, wooden, water-worn boat is the ferryman. Hut that is ahead of our story一.

We drove for miles along a two-track road so narrow that the. woods and fields constantly threatened to close in on the trail just ahead and devour it. Finally the l)leached river shore, the stream busily, steadily flowing onward, and the ferry, all at the same moment rolled into view.

The ferryman, whose paintless, tiiml)le-down，rheumatic shack was on the opposite hank, had seen the car. His front door, the only one, banged sharply, and the old fellow ran to the ferry with his peculiar hobbling run. His shrivelled hands worked frantically to loose the tie-rope. It seemed that he did everything on the run, as if somebody’s life depended upon his getting over to the other side in record time. Perhaps he felt it his duty to compensate, as ifr in. apology, for the irksomely slow movement of the huge boat.

In spite of his energetic poling it scarcely seemed to be in motion as it plowed across. Finally, in landing, his haste reached its highcst point. He scampered here，pulled a rope there, released a hook somewhere else, revelling in the perfection of his landing, as if that >yere life’s most delicate art.

The first thing about the man’s appearance that surprised US was.. his age, •一. which was evidently great in spite of his unusual agility. His skin was an unending network of wrinkles, dark brown, like tanned leather, so that in his face and neck only the nose, the 31

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bright little eyes, and the shrunken mouth showed any resemblance at all to a human face. As soon as we got within earshot he began to talk, in his peculiar Norwegian accent, raising his voice at the end of concluding words, drawling out certain syllables and bring­ ing others to a short jerky conclusion.

“Hello, Quilling, nice day for fishing, eh?” Then a high pitch­ ed, cackling laugh. “Yeh, I caught tree pike from the boat this morning.” Then while adjusting the ropes which stretched from the ferry to the heavy cable up stream: “The curr-rant Jiz so dog­ gone fast neow. ’S bane that way all spring all read-dy. I allays am scared a’ that cable. ’Taint ever bust-ed since I’ve been hee-rr, but some day meb-bee it will.” Then, as he again grasped the pole, he added significantly, “She’s going prretl-ty slow neow to?.”

We took the hint and made use of the long poles which evidently were lying there so that customers might help Mike “pole her across.” Mike’s customers always lent a hand, because if they didn’t it .would take half an hour to cross.

The old fellow was still in a perpetual state of activity. Sud­ denly he dropped his pole, hustled over to his treasure box along the side of the ferry, and pulled out an ancient fishing rod with the bait dangling from the end. ''Hey, Quilling, I got something to show you. I made a new bait last week. She wor-rks foine too. The pike hev been hittingher prret-ty steady right a-long. He exhibited the home-made minnow with the same proud, excited enthusiasm that a child shows over some newly bought toy.

One of our companions was a clergyman who was, in his quiet way, interested in human nature. It was his business to understand men. He abruptly broke into Mike’s lively oration on fisliing tackle and ferryboat improvements with the startling direct querry, “Jacobson, don’t you ever get tired of this lonesome work ?

Are you happy here?”

Mike looked puzzled. First it was the “Jacobson” that sur­ prised him. Nobody called him that; it was always, “Mike, Mike, Mike.” Then the sudden question about a subject that Mike would call “deep.”

Happiness ? He never stopped to think about that. Far too busy. Didn’t exactly know what it meant. He stammered parts of sentences to that effect in a vexed tone.

For a few moments his loquacity was entirely shut off. He picked up a pole and shoved energetically, as if he must work off the effect of the question.

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I ferry—for thirty years, and then only a day's visit to a place of 1000 population; that he had never seen a larger city than that all his life and had not the slightest desire to do so. “Hoy strange, how romantic this man is! How apart from the corrupting sweets of civilization!” thought the minister.

Suddenly a car appeared at our landing, honking noisily.

Abruptly, violently Mike came to life: “Hey, stay off that land-ing!

Can’t yean see there’s a car wants to get off? Go back! Back!”

Wild gesticulations, frantic shouts!

Someone in the car rolled up a window, put his head out, and yelled, “Say, can't you hurry up a little!” He had not heard Mike’s forcible orders above the honking of the horn.

Mike simply became frenzie(l. His excited signals became more and more dramatic, until finally his strained, high-pitched voice made his demands known to the driver. He obeyed, for men seem to obey Mike naturally.

During our landing, the mass of tanned leather wrinkles scampered about in ever increasing- haste. Since Mike seemed so ut­ terly immune to the pleasures and vices of this world and existed alone in a shell of his busy activities, the clergyman believed that lie would also he indifferent to such a flighty enjoyment as money.

Therefore he confidently asked Mike, 4<What do we owe you, Ja­ cobson ?,f The old fellow had evidently 1)een waiting for that. His answer was one of those glib speeches that we know have become mechanical by long and unvaried use : “Oh, anything yeou want— anything. You see, the lect-le I get from the coun-ty ain’t half enough. so I got-to ask something. But I always leeve it up to the person who goes across. Mack-lean ev-ry time he crosses, pays me feef-ty cents—but I don’t make any-one pay more than a quarrter.

The minister gave him fifty cents, hut a smile of disillusion­ ment played at the corners of his mouth. Another bubble had burst.

G. R. ON DOORS .Did you ever think of a door as more than a mere lifeless thing of wood or metal, that you push aside in the hurry of your quest for other things ? Take up a picture of Rheims Cathedral, or, in fact, any of the beautiful old cathedrals and look at the door and doorway. These are to the lower part what the towers and tur­ rets are to the top. They are the face, picturing the expression of the entire building, and yet, who among us ever thinks of a door 33

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Doors were known in very early times. The doors in Egypt and Chaldea were pivoted instead of hinged. The doors of Balaivat (Assyria) were made of bronze with historic scenes pictured on them. Although our word for door is derived from the Greek thura, we have no certain idea of what Greek doors were like, for none have been preserved. Still one finds frequent mention of doors in Homer. The doors in Solomon’si temple were made of olive wood and fir (1 Kings VI: 31-36), carved with figures of Cherubinis and palm trees, and covered with gold. The only existing example of Roman doors are those of the Pantheon. Though the doors of St. Sophia at Constantinople are very beautiful, per­ haps the most beautiful of all are those made by the Italian artists, such as Michael Angelo. The period of Louis XV produced a highly decorative door. Examples of beautiful doors in this counare those of the capitol at Washington and of St. Bartholomew’s in New York.

Anyone who must visit many houses has a wonderful chance to observe the characters of doors. Such a person may not realize how much influence the appearance of the door he is approachinghas on him. Some impress by their grandeur, others scem to welcome one, still others have an air of aloofness. I wonder if busi­ ness men fully realize what influence the appearance of the entrances to their establishments has on their customers; bow much the people are drawn or rejected by the outward appearance of the building and especially of the door and doorway, r, for my part, have often formed a dislike for a place on account of the appearance of them. The doorway is the face of the building-.

Haven’t you often, justly or unjustly, formed a dislike for a per­ son on account of the expression on his face?

We find frequent references to doors in literature. Christ says, “I am a door.” He means He is the passage to Heaven. Those that pass into Heaven must pass through Him. Writers from early times used doors as a picture of a division between two extremes, certainty and uncertainty, grief and joy, present and future, and the like. And isn’t this just what a door is, a division between two things ? You may swing this division aside and the one merges into the other, but as soon as the door swings back the old division is re-established.

You stand before a door which you have never entered before.

Things that are about you, you may see, feel and try to understand, but beyond the door lies uncertainty, the future. Only by swing­ ing aside the division can you make an end of the doubt. After you have passed through a door several times, you know just about what lies beyond it. Then the door is not a barrier for the mind.

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This, however, is not altogether true. Things may have changed beyond the door. Perhaps you may meet the unexpected there.

We find writers comparing time and life to many things. Per­ haps life can be compared to an unending row of rooms with closed doors. As man travels along he opens one after the other. Always the door before him closes him off from the future. He cannot know what lies beyond the next door or the next. Perhaps misfortune, joy, death; he can find out only by opening the doors.

The room he stands in, which is for him the present, he may ex­ amine if he wishes, but few do. Those who do are hailed as great men. Most of us rush blindly on, always eager to see what lies be­ yond the next door, until we come to the last one and find ourselves suddenly rushing into the arms of death. We have the present and the future. The past remains. As man travels along he leaves the doors behind him open. He may look back to the rooms he has passed through, but he may never return through them. Those nearest him are quite clear and distinct, but as they recede they be­ come more and more obscure, until they fade into the distance.

Yet it is worth while lo look back. Like the ancient cathedral and temple doors that are carved with figures of rare beauty and meaning; so are the doors that have opened behind us, the doors of the past in our own life and the life of our race. He who be­ holds and understands them will not be bent on plunging through those that lie ahead. The meaning of the past and present will charm him. When he opens the doors of the future he will take with him the heritage of the past. He will know the symbol of the door.

R. E. K., ’32.

IF I WERE KING “If I were king.” How many times By men is not this wish expressed!

How many a beggar oft has wished The will of heaven might be transgressed— And he become a mighty king With riches, honor, pride and fame, And power greater than the sun.

That men might shudder at his name.

Now most of us have sometimes been, In youth or any other age, Inclined to wish to leave our own And mount anon the kingly stage.

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You pictured it a stage of bliss, Of leisure, ease, and happiness, But you've been taught and you hnve thought How with it too comes wretchedness.

For then you’d miss the laughs and tears This humble life in many ways Can give to you. But most of all perhaps You'd miss your College Days!

A. P.

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THE PLAY After the presentation of llie three one-act plays, Morley’s ''Thursday 】£veiling,” Bell’s ''Thread of Scarlet” and Rostand's “The Romancers, on April 17, a group of people was overheard discussing the evening’s entertainment and to all appearances they were well pleased. Opon leaving, one of the group called to the others saying, “And don’t miss the Shakespearean play they’re put­ ting on June 11” Last year the literary societies presented Gold­ smith's “She Stoops to Conquer." The venture was entirely new, but we are fairly certain that everyone was willing to call it a success. The realization of a like success depends to some extent up­ on our patrons, and therefore we should like to see every seat occu­ pied, for the pleasure of our audience and the encouragement of our players.

“The Taming of the Shre'v” is perhaps the only one of Shake­ speare's dramas with a direct moral. At first thought then one may shrink from anything didactic; if there should rise in us a desire to be taught, we should not go to the theatre, but to church or school. We attend the theatre to be entertained. Neither can we point out any specific examples where henpecked husbands have gained even a jot from this play, except perhaps a sickly wish to try the methods of Petruchio, and no one has attempted them oftener and with such disparaging fiascos as McManus’ “Jiggs.” Nor 37

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Letting all that aside, however, we can say with assurance that there is many a laugh in the “Shrew” and that its presentation will afford an evening’s pleasant entertainment.

The plot which is very well outlined, is merely this: Baptista, a wealthy Paduan has two daughters, Bianca the younger, a popular type,,and Katharina, her sister, a shrew. Petruchio, a young man from Verona hears of her beauty and determines to marry her. Going to her father he asks for the hand of his “mild daughter,” woos her, praises her sweet eloquence when she refuses to speak, compliments her singing voice when she rails, says she looks as “sweet as spring­ time flowers” when she frowns, calls her Kate. Although she refuses his ring he orders a wedding feast, saying she would gladly become his wife. And so she would. Baptista was glad to be rid of her.

On the appointed day Petruchio comes in soiled, wrinkled riding clothes, is dusty, unshaven, plods noisily into church, swears so boisterously at the altar, that the priest drops his book, and when the clergyman stoops to pick it up Petruchio tumbles him down again. After the ceremony he takes Kate, not to her home, but to his own rooms. Oil the way he rides on a horse which resembles nothing closer than a hat rack, she on a jaded mare. When she wishes to eat he throws the meat away and scolds the cook for its poor dressing, so that she fairly dies for hunger. When pretty gowns come in for her from the tailor, she is overjoyed, but he sends the dresses back as unfit. Iiis bridal bed he finds unfit to lie in, so the pillows fly here, the clothes there and the bride wakes that night. He calls the moon the sun, the sun the moon and bids her agree. After several days when he feels she is fairly tamed he walks with her for miles to her father’s house. On the way he addresses an old man as “pretty maiden” and asks his wife to do so too. At Baptista’s there are gathered Lucentio, newly married to Bianca, and Hortensio, the husband of a friend to Bianca. When all of them laugh at Petruchio, because he had got a shrew for a wife, he makes them a wager of one hundred crowns, that his wife is a wife in the real sense of the word. So Lucentio first sends his page to “desire” Bianca to come to him, but the page returns saying that Bianca was too busy and refused to come. Hortensio then sends the page to “entreat” his wife to come. She thought there must be some silly joke in the air and if her husband wished to see her badly he could come to her. Lastly, Petruchio sends his page to “commend” Katharina to come. She comes, makes obeisance，. and asks his desire. He then tells her to get the other women, which she does. His next wish is to have her speak to the company on a wife’s duties to her husband. His will is done.

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There conies a time in the lives of most normal women when by a desire to become a man’s wife, and good tliey are gripped _ Baptista’s spoiled daughter was no exception. Only a man of Petruchios mould could have brought about the metamorphosis. The fantastic novelty of the idea, the remoulding of a woman’s char­ acter, especially a character of this type, pleases us immensely.

Often one hears of a good and virtuous woman exercising her mfluence upon a worthless chuff, a praiseworthy thing indeed, but how much more novel is not the transformation of a wild scolding Xanthippe into a mild, lovable housewife? Petruchio takes her, so to speak, by storm. He is dilTerent from the coddling, crawling, cooing and perfumed beaux she commonly sees on their knees be­ fore her sister Bianca. Here is a man who says “do” and it is done, “come” and she comes. Petruchio with his absolute care­ lessness and disinterestedness for everything extraneous to his purpose, with his self-will, his airs, his whims, is a delightful peronage.

The “Taming of the Shrew” is a play within a play. It was presented before a drunken tinker, the butt of a joke by which he was made to believe that noble blood gurgled in his veins and that the play was in honor of him.

Shakespeare’s play is an adaptation of an older play of 1594, the author of which is unknown. As we have it, it appeared first in the folio of 1623 and was written not later than 1598. On the title page of an edition of 1631, now in Boston, there are printed these words, "A Wittie and Pleasant Comedie.” They are no ex­ aggeration. The play’s the thing.

R. MOTHERS DAY On May 12 we , again celebrated one of our commercialized holidays, Mother’s Day, the originator of which is Miss Anna Jarvis • of Philadelphia. A year after her mother’s death, 1907, she invited a friend to remember with her the anniversary, and revealed !lie plan to her comrade to make this a public event, no doubt see­ ing an easy road to fame. Through her efforts she interested many clubs and societies and influential men of various vocations. Already in 1908 Philadelphia observed its first Mother’s Day. The idea now spread rapidly; many states and even England adopted . it. In May, 1913, a resolution was passed by both the Senate and the House of Representatives to make the second Sunday in May a National holiday “dedicated to the memory of the best Mother in the world, your Mother” and to be observed “through some dis'tinct act of kindness, visit, letter or tribute to show the remem39

brance of the mother to whom general affection is due.” Many de­ nominational churches observe this holiday; the public schools usu­ ally celebrate it on the preceding Friday. The badge of the day is a white carnation, but a red one, if the mother is still living.

The observation of this day may originally have been perfectly in order, but the American business men, true to the spirit of the times, converted it into a commercial proposition. Nothing, not even the love that one has to his mother, is sacred against the mighty dollar. The florists, the sweet shops, the book and drug stores annually expend large sums for advertisements, doing every­ thing in their power to keep up a good business, and in ' return enjoy a large income. Then, furthermore, there are special services -_ this day conducted by those popular “we thank Thee” ministers, on which become meaningless and often sacreligious as the Memorial Day services of today. Possibly the most disgusting thing of the entire affair are the cards for this occasion with their rhythmical verses filled with “gushing” sentiment and emotion.

W. SEE GERMANY Most of us have a desire to visit Europe some time or other.

We think about it and talk about it, we make big plans, but when the money matter conies up, everything is quiet. We are afraid to think of it. But the truth is, that one can make a few weeks* trip to Germany for about $350. Our steamship accommodation would be Tourist Third Class, otherwise known as Student's Tours.

The round trip fare is around $180. Last year about 100,000 teach­ ers, college students and professional people went that way.

The majority of us would visit the homes of our grandparents.

But where after that? That question the tourist agency in New York City solves for us. It is called the “German Health Resorts” and is situated on West Fortieth Street. Not only do they arrange tour for groups, but they help the individual in planning an itinerary to see the most of Germany in i his allotted time. Thus they offer suggestions and quote prices, all free of charge.

Train fare in Germany is much cheaper than in the United States. A good comparison is the distance of 406 miles from Berlin to Munich. The second class railway fare is $11.05, the third class $7.00, whereas here the fare would be 15.15. Of course there is an additional charge for sleeping accommodation as well as for transportation on express trains.

A few more details about Germany are in place. The German Railroad Company is the world’s greatest railway enterprise. One of the world’s finest trains is its Rheingold Express. Germany has 40

the most advanced airplane service, namely, the Lufthansa. The cheapest air trip in the world is to be had in Germany at Bad Ocynhausen, Westphalia, where for five dollars a passenger can fly over half of Germany in about three hours. But transportation is cheaper there than here. Thus in the least time and with less money one can readily visit Germany’s medieval towns, its great art centers, magnificent cathedrals, romantic* castles, modern cities, and its in­ ternational spas. One should not fail to visit some of the health resorts, or spas. Many of them are situated in the most scenic part of Germany, the Rhcinl.and. One of its most delightful resorts is Kreuznach in the valley of the Nahe, a twelve minutes’ ride on the Paris Express from Bingen on the Rhein.

In pondering al)out a trip to Germany we should keep in mind the small amount of moneyv needed, and also the recreational and educational value derived from it.

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Twenty-Ninth Annual Concert WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 1929 8.00 P. M. Northwestern Auditorium ADMISSION 50c Ticket reservation, June 4 Bittner & Tetzlaff’s

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Wir freuen uns schon auf unsere Osterferien. Leider sind sie etwas verspaetet, aber ueber solche Kleinigkeit setzen wir uns hinweg. Wenn uns nur die Ferien bleiben!

Fuer Unterhaltung waehrend der Ferien ist bereits gesorgt.

Wir sollen umziehen helfen. Wie, wobei, wie lange, das wissen wir nicht. Aber helfen sollen wir.

Wir werden wohl in naechster Zeit von den alten Raeumen Abschied nehmen. Ob wir die Gelegenheit festlich begehen werden, ist noch nicht entschieden. Doch hat man die Befuerchtung ausgesprochen, das alte Gebaeude koenne solch eine Feier nicht mehr ertragen.

Man hat schon dafuer gesorgt, dass wir vor Sonnenstich auf dem neuen Seminar sind. Baeume und Straeucher wanderten schon wochenlang nach Thiensville hinaus. Vor kurzeni hat Herr Mahnke einen Lastkraftwagen, alias truck, kommen lassen, der eine ganze Ladung transportierte.

Es wird einem aufmerksamen Leser auft'allen, dass bei uns in diesem Monat scheinbar wenig passiert ist. Die Beobachtung ist ganz richtig. Unsere ganze Taetigkeit laesst sich naemlich in einem Wort zusammenfassen: Exegese. Wir stehen mit der Exegese auf, wir gehen mit ihr schlafen. Ueber Nacht sind wir Exegeten geworden. Wenn da nicht etwas Tuechtiges herauskommt; dann ist wahrlich an uns Hop fen und Malz verloren.

Ja, sogar bei Tisch will uns die Exegese nicht aus dem System.

Wenn einmal miser Speisemeister einen seiner enigmatischen Orakelsprueche fallen laesst, so erschallt so fort von alien Seiten das Losungswort: Exegese!

In Memoriam: Der bachelor’s club geht mit Riesenschritten dem Untergang entgegen. Er ist dabei, sich selbst vernichten.

Vor kurzeni hat er wieder etliche Glieder von sich hinausgetan, und zwar gerade solche, die Saeulen des Vereins gewesen waren.

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Am 29. Mai wird sich die Verteilungskommission versammeln.

Das muss man erlebt haben, um zu wissen, was das eigentlich sei.

Bei dieser Gelegenheit kommen Verterter aus aller Herren Laender, sehen sich unsere erste Klasse an, hoeren manches ueber sie und faellen dann das Urteil ueber einen jeden. Das ist claim immer ein besonderer Tag fuer 1111s alle. Fuer uns “kids” ist es ein Freudentag.

Wir haben gewoehnlich die Stunden frei, bekommen allerlei fremde Gesichter und allerlei Groesscn zu sehen. Est ist unsere Neugierde an diesem Tagc besonders regsam. Wo mag wohl dieser, wo jener hinkommen! Auch ist der Umstancl nicht ausser Acht zu lassen, class wir immer ein Festcssen haben. Das wissen wir natuerlich zu wuerdigen.

Aber die erste Klasse! Fuer die ist dieser Tag nicht geracle ein Festtag. Er ist wohl fuer manchen der becleutendste Tag, den er noch erlcht hat.Es soil sich entscheiden, wo er sich zum ersten Mai versuchen soil im Leben, wo er zum ersten Mai seinen Mann stellen muss. Das ist nicht ein lcichter Schritt, und manch einem klopft das Hcrz besonders stark an diesem Tag. Den ganzen Tag muessen die Kandidaten ihre Zeit abwarten. Unruhig sind sie auf ihren Zimmern oder spazieren in den Hallen auf und ab, jeden Augenblick eines Rufs vor den Reichstag gewaertig. Endlich im Laufe des Nachmittags wird ihnen dann gesagt, wo sie hin sollen.

Und dann kann auf ein paar Stunden keiner aus den unteren Klassen an das Telephon.

Am 4. Mai erlitt unser baseball team in Watertown eine empfindliche Niederlage. Northwestern besiegte uns im ersten Spiel dieser Saison. Zum grossen Teil war es wohl Scliuld unserer fans, dass wir uns die Schlappe zuzogen. Es waren nicht viele Seminaristen zugegen. Da ist unser Hausvater, Herr Bretzmann, zu loben, der (lurch seine Gegenwart die Spieler anspornte. Auch (la.rf man nicht die paar patriotischen Studenten vergessen, die sich beim Spied einfanden. Herr Kuske war sogar doppelt vertreten.

Die Herren Maaske, Rekow und Reuter waren bei Gelegenheit dieses Spieles auch in Watertown. Fuer sie war es eine besondere Leistung. Schon am Freitag waren sie losgefahren. verirrten sich gch Bristol und wurden sogar bis nach Illinois hinein verschlagen. fanden sich aber schliesslich wieder zurecht und kamen mit Herrn Reuters Hilfe wieder auf die rechte Spur. Es zeigfte sich 43

naemlich bei ihm eine eigentuemliclie Anziehungskraft nach deni Norden. Dass er partout clurch Fort Atkinson musste, sieht sehr verdaechtig aus.

Herr Rekow soil vor deni grossstaedtischen Treiben in Watertown ganz baff gewesen sein. Er hat so etwas nocli nie gesehen.

Am 5. Mai amuesierte sich Herr Blume damit, dass er in Illi­ nois lustfahrtete. In Evanston und Lake Forest machte er Abstecher, um die betreffenden Anstallen zu sehen. Wozu er so einsam in der Welt umher fahren will, kann auch keiner verstehen.

Seit laengerer Zeit hat Herr Professor Henkel krankheitshalber seine Vorlesungen einstellen muessen. Das war fur uns ein grosser Verlust, weil seine Stunden einfach ausfielen. Es hatten noch nicht alle gepredigt, und auch sonst batten wir unser Pen sum nicht vollendet. Das werden wir ini Herbst nachholen mucssen. Es ist unser Wunsch, dass er bald genesen moechte.

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—We announce the engagement of Rev. Wynfrecl Westendorf, ’24, of Clare, Michigan, to Miss Esther Schewe of Milwaukee.

—On May 1, John Kaddatz, Comm., ’26, of Watertown, was mar­ ried to Miss Anita Heide also of Watertown.

—Rev. Benjamin Schlueter，’00，of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, spoke before a gathering of ten thousand in the Milwaukee Auditorium on April 28. The occasion was the services held in observance of the four hundredth anniversary of the publication of Luther's small catechism. Two services were held, one in the afternoon and one in the evening1. German and English addresses were given at each service. Two choruses of one thousand six hundred voices each and the fifty-piece band of Concordia Teachers' College, River 44

Forest, Illinois, provided music. Rev. Philip Koehler, ’09, was chaplain at the afternoon service. Northwestern alumni who served on the committee in charge of the anniversary observance are Rev. Otto Hagedorn, J91, Rev. Herman H. Ebert, ’85，and Rev. John Jenny, ’81. 一On April 30, St. Paul’s congregation at Tomah celebrated the forty-second anniversary of the ordination of Rev. Glaeser, ex.，87.

Rev. Mittelstaedt, *98, of Wonewoc, Wisconsin, spoke on the occasion. 一On April 25 Rev. Cares, ’21，of Town Herman, Wisconsin, was married to Miss Leona Falck of Iron Ridge. 一Prof. Walter Schumann, ’12, preached at the distric meeting of the Walther League held at Appleton, May 11.

—Rev. Edward Zell, ’08，Mishicott, Wisconsin, called at North­ western on April 24. 一Rev. Plenning, ’18, of Iron Ridge, who underwent an operation in Milwaukee shortly after Easter, has recovered. 一George Rosenhaucr, ’28, Norman Gaucrke, ’28, Gerhard Schlueter, ex. '29, and Herbert Martin, ex. ’32, students at Wisconsin Uni­ versity, appeared on the campus recently. 一Heinz Bluhm, ’28，lias been appointed to an assistantship in German at the Wisconsin University, where he is a student.

ALUMNI MEETING called to order by the Rev. O. Kuhlow. The The meetingminutes of the previous meeting were approved as read. Next in order was the election of officers for three years, with the follow­ ing result: The Rev. E. B. Schlueter, President; Prof. W. A. Schu­ mann, Secretary; Dr. J. H. Ott, Treasurer. The president-elect now took the chair. Fifty-eight members of the society responded to the roll call. The gra duation class of 1928 was admitted into membership, as were also the following: the Misses Alma Greinert, Cora Borgenhagen, Alice Kuhnke, Lucy Lehmann, Marie and Ruth Nommensen, Dorothy Heil, Mr. Herman Meyer, and Dr. Raymond Stark.

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This report, after having been audited by the Professors E. Wendland and T. Binhammer, was adopted as read.

During the past year the society lost six members through death. The Reverend Hans Roller Moussa, long president of the society and an indefatigable worker for Northwestern College, was sorely missed in the alumni meeting. The Pastors Karl Gausewitz and Christian Sieker, Prof. Adolph Baebenroth, Mr. Adolph Sieker and Mr. Oscar Griebling have also gone to their eternal rest. The society honored their memory by rising. Furthermore the secre­ tary was instructed to extend the sympathy of the society to the respective widows and also to Mrs. W. Moussa.

Dr. J. H. Ott and the Reverend F. Stern, members of a cornmittee appointed in 1926 to study the needs of the college relative to new buildings, presented an informal report. In the discussion that followed the Reverend A. Baebenroth of Milwaukee encour­ aged the erection of a library building. The motion was carried that the Reverend E. Benjamin Schlueter become a member of the committee of 1926. He was also instructed to consult the Board of Trustees of the College on a building progr：am.

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1 Seminary. The speeches of the jubilee classes followed. The Rev­ erend A. Baebenroth, 78, related some interesting reminiscences of his college days. So also members of later classes. The secretary was instructed to inform the class of 79 and hereafter all golden jubilee classes of their anniversary.

The younger members of the faculty and the alumnae of Wa­ tertown and vicinity were requested to arrange a banquet on the evening of the next Commencement clay, June 13, 1929. Prof. T. Binhammer was appointed chairman of the banquet committee.

Adjournment followed.

Walter A. Schumann, Sec’y.

NOTICE: MEETING OF THE ALUMNI SOCIETY On Commencement Day, Thursday, June 13, there will be a business meeting of the Alumni Society in the gymnasium after the baseball game.

Walter A. Schumann, Sec’y.

CALENDAR OF COMMENCEMENT WEEK As an inchoative toward u fixed schedule for Commencement Week and that alumni may at a glance see the calendar of events arranged for this year's commencement, the program is here recapitulated : Junc 11, 8.00 P. M.—The Northwestern Players will present “The Taming of the Shrew'* by Wm. Shakespeare. The pres­ entation will be given in the auditorium.

June 12, 8.00 P. M.—The musical organizations of Northwestern College will present their annual concert in the auditorium.

June 13, 10.00 A. M.一Commencement exercises in the auditorium.

June 13, 2.30 P. M.—Baseball game on the campus: Northwestern vs. Alumni.

There will be a meeting of the Alumni Society in the gymna­ sium after tthe baseball game.

June 13, 6.30 P. M.—The Alumni Society will have a banquet at the Green Bowl on Oconomowoc Avenue. All alumni and alumnae (this includes their wives, husbands or lady and gentlemen friends), are cordially invited. An interesting program of short speeches and musical numbers is being arranged. Price per person will be one dollar.

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On Tuesday, the sixteenth of April, the college grounds were given their annual cleaning. The days selected previous to : this . had proven disappointing to students and faculty because of rain.

The grounds were not quite dry, but the grass was at that stage where further delay would have been detrimental.

The band began the day with the customary music in the tri­ angle. The preparatory students raked up the leaves and hauled them away. The Frosh, who were to put the ball diamond into playing shape, had the greatest difficulties because of its wet con­ dition, even though they hauled drier ground on it. The Sophs had but one tree to cut down, while the Juniors supervised in gen­ eral or “worked” in the commissary department. This same C. D. distributed the lemonade and sandwiches at 10:30. Those Seniors who got up, watched the others, listened to the phonograph or helped the co-eds eat their lunch.

In the afternoon the Sophs planted their class tree. Speeches by some of the more prominent members of the class held the spec­ tators spellbound. Following that, the annual inter-class relays were run off. The Junior team beat the Senior entry, the pre-race favorites, by a fair margin.

After several weeks of training and practice, the Northwestern Players offered an enjoyable evening’s entertainment with the pres­ entation of three one-act plays on Wednesday, the seventeenth of April. Drama has at last gained a foothold here, and all indica­ tions point to its continued success. Talent has been developed in 48

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The first of the three offerings was Christopher Morley’s Thursday Evening” directed by Martin Franzmann. The plot concerns a newly-wedded couple whose future felicity is in danger be­ cause of seeming incompatibility. This is avoided by the two mothers-in-law, who happened to be visiting them at that time.

Each of the mothers—in a prearranged conversation, spoken so that the “mismated ones should overhear—appears to forsake her child. The husband then shields his wife and comforts her, while she leans on him for support. The cast: ____ Hilton Oswald, ’29 Mr. Gordon Johns Margaret Schmeling, ’29 His Wife..............

Mrs. Johns, her mother-in-law, Mildred Volkmann, *32 Marie Hilgendorf, *31 Mrs. SchefField, her mother This was followed by J. J. Bell's “Thread o’ Scarlet,” the best of the series, regarding acting and plot. It was coached by Elmer C. Kiessling. Butters, Migsworth and Smith are discovered in an inn discussing the hanging of one of their neighbors, Jacob Forge, who had been convicted of murder on circumstantial evidence, a thread of a scarlet scarf on his coat. Butters, who had been on the convicting jury, appeared wrought up over the incident, because of the probability of the victim’s innocence. His actions, to­ gether with the hail and the lightning, visible from the window, have an eerie effect. Not until Breen, a friend to Forge who had threatened to find the true murderer, enters the inn with the stolen mbney and the scarlet scarf of the murdered man, does the solution present itself. In the last sentence Butters accuses Breen of having robbed his safe, and so admits himself the murderer. The players were: Migsworth ___________ Oscar Naumann, ’31 .....Edward Knoll, ’32 Smith-Village Tradesman Butters ______________ Alvin Reich,，29 Landlord of Inn ______ .......Jack Dahlke，，31 .......Ernst Kuehl, ’29 A Traveler Sauer, *29 The final selection, “The Romancers,” by Edmond Rostand, was also directed by Elmer C. Kiessling. The combination of elaborate stage decorations, the old costumes and the lighting made this colorful and pleasing in mechanical detail. Two neighboring fathers, Bergamin and Pasquinot, would like to see their children marry each other. To stimulate an interest and a desire, a wall is erected between the two estates, and each is forbidden to see the other. This is all Percinet and Sylvette, the children, need to bring them together. They meet frequently at the wall. The fathers 49

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Musicians ---Theodore Otto Cornelius Trapp, ’31 Erwin Buchert，’32 Harold Wranke，’31 Ample opportunity is being given students of Shakespeare to witness some of his plays and impersonations of his characters this year. “The Merchant of Venice,” given in Milwaukee in January, and Mr. Southern’s impersonations, in April, were the first two.

On April 30，at 9.30 in the morning, Mr. Henry Witte, pupil of Alfred Ayres, gave scenes from several of Shakespeare's plays.

The events leading to the murder of the king were depicted from “Macbeth.” Antony’s speech from “Julius Caesar” followed. This was, perhaps, a bit overacted. His last selection, was Jacques’s “Seven Ages of Man” from “As You Like It.” Mr. Witte was at a slight disadvantage because of the condition of the stage.

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We are always glad to receive “The Collegian” of St. Joe’s College. Your literary department is good, sports are not over­ emphasized and there is plenty of local flavor to make the magazine interesting. Let us hope that we may look forward to still more excellent numbers.

The “College Chronicle” of North Central College is a newcomer in our list of exchanges. We are glad to read of your triumph on the running track, but we also like your editorial page, It shows that some men at your school are doing some thinking. am referring especially to your editorial of April 30th: “The Salt’s Savor in which you express the opinion that the college aduate is a man who should “try to stem the flood of society in s blind movements and turn it toward intelligently directed goals.”

We note with pleasure the interest shown by Capital University in the presentation of Shakespeare's ''Twelfth Night.” According to “ “Capital Chimes” the “atmosphere” for the play was perfectly arranged including even “the pit with its rabble and the galleries with the gentry, with the cries of the orange girls mingling with those of the tobacco sellers or the card players and jugglers wrang- • ling among themselves.” In the words of the college paper <fthe actors brought out the comedy parts exceedingly well and the audi­ ence was actually shaking with laughter at a Shakespearean play.”

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ance and the highways are filled with students “hitching rides the subject comes up for discussion in many college papers, whether The Marthis inexpensive mode of travel should be allowed, quette Tribune” calls attention to the hazards incurred by such practices. The paper states: “There is always the danger of beinggiven a lift by some irresponsible driver who cares little about the protection of his guest or who may even be incapable of driving a car in safety.”

Some joker has proposed a license for hikers costing $5.50.

•Various states have passed laws against this “hitchhiking” prac­ tice and in several states laws to that effect are still pending.

Against this the “The Diddnsonian” protests : “When it becomes a ' for a clean-cut, intelligent, honest college boy to ask a pass­ crime ing motorist for a lift, as a means of getting to his home and par­ ents for a brief vacation period, then it is time to question the dis­ cretion of the legislative bodies.”

If any student is interested in Old Heidelberg (“am Neckar und am Rheine”）he should read the article by Miss Johnson in the April issue of “The New Student.” It brings to you a breath of student life and activity in a very old German university town with its stories and its traditions that are hundreds of years old.

Also, do not miss the editorial “Abolish Intercollegiate Ath­ letics.” No matter what your opinion on this subject, you should read the article; it is excellent and timely.

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This is the first time Luther College has appeared on our schedule. They in all respects were polished baseball players, exhibiting that skill with which they recently trampled over two Big Ten teams, Michigan and Northwestern U., in overwhelming scores.

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Stolen bases—E. Olson, Brendal 2, Luther, Landc.

Strike outs—Leerssen in seven innings 4, Aase 11.

Base on, balls—Leerssen 3, Blumenthal 1, Aase 1.

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Captain Sachs doubled and thereby drove the first two runs over the plate; he himself came in soon after on an error. Only once more could our team manage to drive in another run, in the fifth. Seminary occasionally showed teeth, vaulting out some very good drives, but all danger was effaced by some able, nearly errorless, support.

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Strike-outs—Blumenthal 7; Fischer 5.

Base on balls—Blumenthal 4; Fischer 0.

Hits—Blumenthal 5; Fischer 7.

Umpire—Schewe.

Since our last report three games have been added to our schedule. We shall play Milton twice, but as yet no definite time has been agreed upon. We still have: Armour Tech., May 8—there.

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The fact that track is new—in our circles at least—will prob­ ably do much to create interest in the sport. College baseball teams are gradually disappearing, and since track is the next best form of intercollegiate athletic competition during the spring months it would be well to begin developing talent for such future use.

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The excellent quality of the latter’s speech had been noised about for some time (a few of the fellows read it beforehand), and the expectation were not abused. “Doc” quoted freely from Shelley and other great poets—including himself. Surely none of us shall ever forget that remarkable interpretation of the word “Sophomore :” the Greek “Sophos” (wise) and the English “more.” Of all the classes on Arbor Day the Juniors were the most popular.

They served lunch. But everyone in the student body expressed his pity for the hard-working Seniors. Poor fellows, Arbor Day certainly does cause them such fatiguing exertion and no end of anxiety and mental strain.

A new feature added special lustre to Arbor Day this year.

That feature was a relay race up and down the gridiron of the four fastest men from each class. After an imperfect first race, the Juniors won the event against good competition, and the Freshmen were not more than a block behind. Alas, they dropped the baton.

The glow of a powerful Renaissance Movement can be per­ ceived within the walls of our dormitory.Indued with one of those unaccountable, almost spontaneous waves of revolutionary passion, a group of budding scientists among our “preps” have once more revived the theory that the world is flat, and not round. After the shades of night have fallen and the Preps have gone to rest, among excited little groups gathered together in the halls, in the (lining hall—yes, even in the study rooms during the time for work, the learned debates are raging. Judging from some of the start­ ling1 statistics that are being flashed to the front, our prodigies in science have carried out some spectacular scientific experiments in secret midnight laboratory sessions. We suddenly find that the accumulated scientific knowledge of all ages has been overthrown; that the great scientists are “all the bunk;” that our faithful old sun has suddenly shrunk in size—many such startling facts are being revealed by these young scientific experts.

On Sunday, April 28, Amos Schwerin was host to his mother and other friends.

Sunday, April 21，Le Roy Ristow received a visit in the dor­ mitory by his brother, sister, and his parents.

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the exhilarating influence of a year-old freedom from the bonds of prep-dom, are taking full advantage of their right to smoke.

Yes, they are sporting brand new pipes. It’s a pity for the clear country atmosphere of Watertown, isn’t it?

For years those students who enjoy swimming have had no equipment save that which nature provided—a sunny hillside, a muddy, stone-covered river bottom, and the water of Rock river itself. Now a pier with a diving- board is to be built (by “Al” Eberhard and his committee) at the expense of all those having natatorial inclinations.

The esprit dc corps of the dormitory received a most severe setback recently. On the night of April 25, 1929, Mr. Gerhard Geiger, Quarta, ignoring all precedent and endangering the nervous equilibrium of many students, calmly and deliberately “went out.”

Even at that, it was not a regular spree. He simply attended a lecture by Rev. Dallmann at St. Luke’s church. “We thought there was a catch to it somewhere,M you’ll say.

Sunday, April 28, Rev. Machmiller, former minister at Mani­ towoc, visited Kreie, Hallemeier and Struck, all from Manitowoc.

“Sandy” informed us with a big smile that Reverend Machmiller was a veritable Santa Claus, overloading the boys with apples, and other dormitory delights.

Frex Roth had a week's “vacation.” He had his tonsils and adenoids removed in St. Mary's hospital, April 22.

At the time of this writing H. von Haden is spending weary clays and nights in the sick room. It is believed that he has a blood clot in his lung.

Here comes a Quintaner from over hill and dale with an arm­ ful of plants; he meets another going in the opposite with a basket and a knife; in the washroom may be still another washing dirt from the roots of plants; and in the study may be several more pressing something very delicately—the Quintaners are botanizing.

All of Room 2一Lenz, Han Schultz, and the two Paustian brothers一 celebrated the last week-end of April at Sam Lenz’s ranch. It was called “ranch” rather than farm, because there was •e— a bronco. The boys asserted that they worked hard out ther. watching them milk. But they expressed themselves most enthu­ siastically^ about the cooking of Sam’s mother. Wally said that lie “fixed” the piano while he was there—that is, he took it apart and finally managed to get it together again somehow.

1 lie military interests of Northwestern College were representecl at the annual Dress Parade Exhibition of the cadet school at Delafield, April 21, by Baumann, Krueger, Raabe, and “Gil” Al­ brecht.

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Church of Fort Atkinson.

A. Reich and Norbert and Walter Paustian went to Juneau, Sunday, April 21. Norbert observed a belated Easter celebration by eating eight eggs for breakfast. The three had such a pleasant time that Wally was roundly abused in the most flagrant terms when he insisted that he must be back by 7:00 sharp.

This otherwise unpleasant chilly spring weather has at least been good for something. It has helped put a good deal of zest into spring football. The players have up to the present time been devoting themselves to the so-called “fimdanientals,” and they are eagerly anticipating the scrimmages which are to come. Jim Schae­ fer, who has been interested in making spring- football a success both this year and last, issues the opinion that the prospects for next fall are buch better than might be expected from the large number of men graduating. “That’s what they always say,” you will retort. “Just wait and see,” is the best possible reply.

Tertia is now passing through the formative stage of prepara­ tion for its four years as an organized collegiate body. And what fun they are having! Their class color, black and white, was chosen peaceably enough, but then a mesh of technicalities tangled them all up. The ears of a hearsay audience have listened with horror to such things as reversed motions, impeached committees, repealed measures, passionate public debates, and more passionate private ones. Slam, bang! The meeting goes on. In the midst of a vote on some motion or other “Fat” Nommenson is said to have struck upon the brilliant suggestion that the class ought to have sweaters this year. Another history forming proposal was to have the class number, a nice big *33, on the back of the sweater.

Cheer up, Tertia, the rest of the classes have passed through the same state of chaos.

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We’ve hardly left the Terminal-----Cuddle in my chair— And with a punch into my ribs The “con” requests my fare.

I do not see the signals flash, My thoughts flit far away As though the dreary night we dash With “Rapid Transit” sway.

I dream of Greek and Hebrew forms And Kant’s philosophy, Of Luther standing up at Worms And hard geometry.

And while my head bobs to and fro, The “News” drops from my knee— I fail to see her giggle so, The girl across from me.

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C.: “Why is love like a potato?”

E.: “I don’t know, why?”

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DAS PFERD Das Pferd heisst darum Pferd, 'veil man damit rumpferd. Unser Milchmann sein Pferd ist weiss und heisst Fritz. Fritz heisst darum Fritz, weil es so frisst. Das Pferd hat eine Haut. Die Haut heisst darum Haut, weil man immer draufhaut.

A. “Joe bought the little lady a machine of her own.

B.: “Packard，Lincoln, or Ford?”

A.: “Maytag.” 氺* 丰 Barber: “Is there any particular way you want your hair cut?”

“Jack”： “Yeh, off.”

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Senior (posing for photo) : to?”

Photographer: "Ten dollars a dozen. Now look pleasant, please.”

Konks: “Did you make this pudding from the cook book?

Maxima Bertha: “Yes.” Konks: No wonder, I thought I could taste the covers.”

ARE WE ALL INVITED? Hans Schultz rips the month of April off the Calendar.

Prof, (shaking hands with him) : “Schon wieder ein Tag naeher der Hoclizeit.”

SO THEY SAY Rouge is what makes a girl look nice when she doesn’t use any.

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Watertown, Wis., June, 1929

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Entered at tlhe Postofficc at Watertown. Wis . as second class matter under Act of March 3.1879..Published monthly. Subscription, One Dollar.

ENGLISH ORATION Carl Lawrenz, ’29 AMERICA，S DEBT TO LORD SHELBURNE The happy home and realm ot activity of most of us has been in those parts of the Union not included in the United States of the Declaration of Independence. Still, our states are no inferior appendage. The great territorial expanse from the Alleghanies to the Pacific alone could make the United States fit for its peculiar functions. As a mere coastal strip the United States could never have become the formidable herald of popular government, social equality and religious freedom. Without their healthy applica­ tion in the Middle West these very principles would soon have died.

In the puritanic air of New England real religious freedom could not thrive, nor social equality among the landed gentlemen of the South. Without the leeway of a vast territory America could not persistently have served as an asylum for the dissatisfied and op­ pressed of the old world. Through its extension from coast to coast America became the land of new necessities, which stimulated creative and inventive genius, brought forth or highly developed the railroad, the telegraph, the telephone, and the automobile.

Through the great natural resources of the West it has become the land of unparalleled opportunity and prosperity.

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Before the clash of arms he advocated conciliatory measures .Even after the Revolutionary War he still entertained hopes of establish­ ing some bond of union. When independence was inevitable and a treaty was to be made, he thought it more advantageous for Eng­ land to gain the confidence and friendship of the colonies than petty advantages at the price of continued enmity. In his terms of peace he desired to leave no seeds of future strife. Shelburne believed that through a friendly exchange of commerce England could ob­ tain more than by reserving fretting monopolies on fisheries and fur trade.

Such enlightened principles towards colonies were indeed rare, but they alone could dissipate the great difficulties faci our infant, aspiring nation. The surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown had ended the hopes of subjugating the American colonies for the English. We had won the war with the help of France and Spain, but our station as an independent nation was still unrecognized.

We had to negotiate with England for boundaries and resources which might make us her future rival. The English were in no desperate condition forcing them to make such concessions .Their dignity and spirit had received a blow by the American success and an exaggerated idea of the consequences to the empire pre­ vailed. Nothing justified sanguine hopes. The suave speeches of the French agents persuaded Congress to trust again in France and to order the peace commissioners to make no peace with England without the advice and concurrence of France.

The peace negotiations at Paris began in the spring of 1782 under Franklin, Jay, and Aclams. They soon perceived that the French Government had played the dissembler. Despite all his courtly assurances to the American cause the French minister had obviously gone into the war only to humiliate England. Even at court the chivalrous enthusiasm for the cause of liberty had abated.

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over England’s discomfiture hut looked with great displeasure upon the establishment of a nation based upon rebellion of colonists against the divine right of kings. These two nations, former al­ lies. now agreed to restrict the United States to a coastal strip and wished to keep her dependent on the alliances and policies of her stronger neighbors. Until the autumn of the same year the nego­ tiations made little progress. The Americans refused to negotiate except on equal footing as an independent nation. Vergennes maintained that independence was an article of treaty and necessarily could not precede it. Tl lay in his interest to postpone British recognition of independence to keep America in war for Spain, which still hoped to get Gil^rallar. These Bourbon nations looked upon the United States as a means of bartering their own advant­ ages, as but a pawn wherewith to complicate their game of diplo­ matic chess.

In the meantime Shelburne had succeeded Rockingham as Eng­ lish prime minister. Through a secret agent Vergennes shrewdly disclosed to Shelburne the desires of France in respect to boun­ daries and independence. rI'he action became known to the Americans. They immediately appealed to the English ministry, remind­ ing Shelburne that Great Hrilain looked not only for suspension of hostilities hut for new confidence and friendly commerce. Shelluinie accepted the force of tlu* American argument. It expressed his own principles. The resolution and honesty of the comrmssioners had impressed him before. Rejecting the proposals of the Bourbons, defying opposition at home, he definitely adopted a policy of favoring the Americans. He proposed to treat with America as an independent nation. On account of the obvious duplicity of France, the American agents felt free to disregardjjie The resolution of Congress and to treat separately with England.— — negotiation consumed some time. Shelburne jealously pursued English interests hut never on narrow principles or at the sacrifice of future good-will. The Preliminary Articles as a final pact of agreement gave us our cherished boundary of the Mississippi, generous fishery rights, and equitable terms regarding debts and loyalists.

On December 5, 1782, Shelburne laid the articles before Parliament. A storm of displeasure broke both upon him and his arti­ cles. The ministry was doomed. Lord Shelburne was called a Borgia, a Cataline and every other term signifying treachery. Lord Powys sardonically remarked that as a good Christian he had given t!ie Americans not only his coat hut his cloak also. The new Coali­ tion Government could, however, not induce the Americans to yield anything that tjiey hacl won. After long months of negotiation on September 3, 1783, the Preliminary Articles were accepted as a final 1 reaty of Peace between England and the United States.

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Since the Treaty of Paris the United States has slowly stepped alongside England as a great world power. There are, however, obvious signs that the present relation between them is not one of friendly competition but hostile rivalry. The tension in AngloAmerican relations is indeed thought a dominant issue in interna­ tional politics. Still it would be of little gain for us to break up the fine structure of the British Empire, or for England to cripple our financial network. On both sides there is obviously need of men like Shelburne who would fairly analyze the problem and try to obviate differences by mutual concessions instead of outwitting" and hoodwinking each other at disarmament and naval treaties.

GERMAN ORATION Hilton Oswald, *29 Die hohe Bedeutung von Luthers kleinem Katechismus fuer den christlichen Religionsunterricht

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Das wollen wir naeher betrachten.

Der hohe Wert des Katechismus liegt zunaechst in seiner Vollstaendigkeit; derm in ihm haben wir eine unuebertreffliche Zusammenfassung dessen, was den christlichen Glauben ausmacht.

Vollstaendigkeit 1)ei solcher Kuerze, wie 'vir sie im Katechismus haben, ist von nicht geringer Bedeutung fuer den Religionsunter­ richt :denn der Schueler eignet sich das Wesentliche des Christenglaubens so um so leichter an. Der Katechismus ist gewissermassen eine Kleine Bibel; denn er enthaelt alles, was zur Seligkeit zu 67

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B. (las Treiben der Biblischen Geschichte unterlassen. Nein, der Katcchismus will nur das Skelett cles Unterrichts bilclen, zu clem die Biblische Geschichte gleich Fleisch und Blut hinzukommen muss, ii m dem Zoegling die im Katechisnms kurz angegebenen Lehren an Beispielen zu erlaeutern und zu veranschaulichen.

Obgleich der Katechismus cine solche Fuelle christlicher Lehr­ en enthaelt, so ist er doch hei allc dem sclir kurz gefasst, aher (loch wiedcrum nicht so kurz. (lass iliin wegen der Kuerze irgend ein wesentlich Stueck femte. Ks ist ersichtlich, class cliese Eigenschaft einen grossen Wert fuer (k*ii Untcrricht liaben muss; (lenn schon wegen der Kuerze wird der Wortlaut aeusserst leiclit memoriert werden und wegen der ausserordentlichen Fuelle des Inhalts der Worte wird der Schueler leiclit einen Begriff gewinnen von dem. was der Christenglaube ist. Zu (Icmii kommt noch die besondere Klarhcit des Ausdrucks. Als cclucr 11 err unci Mcister seiner Sprache drueckt Luther die Wallrheiten der Schrift in sehr klaren und unmissverstaendl ichen Wort on aus, sodass der Katechismus aucli geracle deswegen zum vorlrcfflichsten Lehrbuch fuer den Religionsunterricht wird. Der Katechismus schliesst also den Bal­ last der dogmatisclien Aiisdruccki' so viel als moeglich aus und will, statt in (lie Theologie einzufuchren, mir das kurz und klar ausdruecken. was den In halt evan«clisclien Glaubenslel^ens ausmacht.

Hamit begnue^te sicli Lmhcr aber noch lange nicht. Dazu kommt noch cine Anordnung der verschiedenen Hauptstuecke, die nicht zu uebersehen ist. Diese Onlmuig folgt dem Heilswege und stellt gerade so den Zusammenhan«; zwischen den Gliedern von se'ibst her. Gar vortrefflich folgen aufeinander Gesetz, Evangeliuiii，Gebet，Sakramente, Beichte, oder, in anderen Worten, Suende, Gnade, Dienst und Anbetmig i wahren Glauben. Das hat auch se*ne hohe Bedeutung fuer den Unterricht; der Lehrer kann naemlich wegen dieser feinen Ordnung. den Fragen der Schueler nacli dem Zusammenhange gar leicht und besonders zufriedenstellend entgegenkommen, und der Schueler wird deswegen das Ganze um so leichter memorieren, behalten und verstehn.

Ob'yohl die eben angefuehrlen Eigenschaften irgend eineni Buche ein langes Leben sichern wuerden, so sind sie es doch nicht allein, die den Katechismus zu eiiiem so vortrefflichen Buche fuer die christliche Schule machen, das seinen Wert vier hunclert Jahre behaupten und alle Schulbuecher ohne Ausnahme ueberleben konnte -Je laenger und eingehender man Luthers Enchiridion oder Handbuch, d. h. den Katechismus ，studiert, desto besser kann man seinen grossen Wert erkennen und begreifen, warum es sich so Jange gehalten hat und noch liaelt. Der Katechismus enthaelt keine Spur von polemischem oder apologetischem Stoff, obgleich

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Sodann merken wir aber noch eine Eigenschaft des Kleinen Katechismus, (lie wir alle, die ihn auswendig gelernt lialien, wohl niclit uebersehen konnten. Es ist der Schwung, clie Kraft, das Lel)endige in der Sprache, der Luther sich bediente. Jedes Wort passt wie ein gehauener Stein in den Bau hinein, und ein schoener Ausdruck folgt deni anderen auf fast poetische Weisc, sodass das Ganze einem Gedichte nahekommt mit seinen Hebungen und Senkungen. Wem von uns ist das nicht schon beim ersten Erlernen der fuenf Hauptstuecke aufgefallen, und wer von uns hat nicht die Worte' beim Aufsagen derselben fast gesungen ? Gewiss, wir ahiiten es damals vielleicht nicht, wie gewaltig diese Eigenschaft des Katechismus uns beim Memorieren zur Hilfe kam und uns die Sache leicht machte. Fragen wir uns einmal, 'varum wir den Kate­ chismus, den wir seit dem Konfirmandenunterricht vielleicht sehr selten wiederholt haben, mit Leichtigkeit ziemlich genau liach dem Wortlaut reproduzieren koennen, waehrend wir anderseits Lieder, die wir des oefteren singen, immer wieder vergessen. Haben wir es nicht zum grossen Teil Luther zu verdanken, der uns durch seine vorsichtige Wahl der Worte und Ausdruecke im Katechismus einen Schatz gegehen hat, den wir fast nicht vergessen koennen ? Vergegenwaertigen wir uns z. B. die Erklaerung zum ersten Artikel, wo es heisst: “Kleider und Schuh, Essen und Trinken, Haus und Hof, Weib und Kind, Acker, Vieh und alle Gueter mit aller Notdurft und Nahrung des Leibes und Lebens reichlich und taeglich versorget, wider alle Faehrlichkeit beschirmet und vor alien! Uebel behuetet und be'vahret; und das alles aus lauter vaeterlicher, goettlicher Guete und Barmherzigkeit, ohne alle mein Verdienst und Wuerdigkeit; des alles ich ihm zu danken und zu loben und dafuer zu dienen und gehorsam zu sein schuldig bin. Das ist gewisslich wahr.”

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Wer will deni Reforniator das nachmachen, geschweige clenn verbessem! Wir merken da sogleich einen seltsamen Schwung, teils durch alliterative Zusammenstellungen 'vie “Haus und Hof,” "Notdurft und Nahrung des Leibes und Lel)ens,” teils durch \yohlklingende Ausdruecke wie aus lauter vaeterlicher, goettlicher Gucte und Barmherzigkeit,> verursacht, der seinen bleibenden Ein(Inick auf das Gedaechtnis des Lernenden macht.

Wir hal)en also gesehen, wie Luther es uns erleichtert hat, die Grundlehren der Sell rift zu unserem geistigen Eigentum zu machen.

Nun wollen wir kurz betrachten, was den Katechismus fuer den Scluieler, und uns alle als Schucler, so anziehend macht. Die Antwort liegt nicht weit. Es ist ohne Zwei fel der evangelische Charakter, der sich durch das Gauze zieht. Sogar in den zehn Geboten Icpmrnt dieser Zug deutlich zuni Vorschein, wo man ihn am wenigsten erwarten wuercle. Luther stcllt die Gebote nicht als Gesetz eines strengen Gottes und Hcrrn bin, sondern bei ihm sind sie Massregeln, deren Erfiidliint*： 1>ci dem wahren Christen aus Gottesfurcht und Liebe spriesst. vcrneutestamentlicht, so zu sagen, das Gesetz durch die Worte: “Wir sollen Gott fuerchten und liel)en,” die er an die Spitzc der Erklaerung eines jeden Gebots setzt. Uebrigens kann man aucli liicr den vertraulichen Ton des ganzen Katechismus merken, wenn Luther sagt: **Wir sollen,” “Ich glaul)e," “Gott will uns dam it locken.” Ini ganzen Religionsunterricht wird der ganze Zug dadurch persoenlich statt allgemein, so(lass nicht nur (las Vorstellung sk*ben in liewegung gesetzt wird, sondern auch (las Gefuehl erre^t und der Wille zum Handeln angespornt, also der ganze Mcnsch gctroflfen wird.

Nacli Envaegung aller dieser Eigenschaften kann man wolil begreifen, was fuer eine hohe Bedeutung der Katechismus fuer den christlichen Religionsun teiTicht huben muss ,und man muss erkennen, class er fuer den Zweck unentbehrlich ist. So spricht auch ^r- Re.u von dem Katechismus und dem Unterricht: “Je mehr der Unterricht die Eigenart des Kleinen Katechismus bewahrt und wiederspiegelt, desto evangelischer und paedagogisch richtigerjvvird sein; und das tut er am iDestcn ,wenn er von An fang bis Encle nichts anderes als ene Entfaltung der im Wortgehalt des Kleinen r Katechismus ausgesprochenen Fuelle evangelischen Glaubenslebens sein will/' Moege der Katechismus ferner leben und seinen segnenden Einfluss auf den christlichen Religionsunterrich ausueben, wie er es in den vergangenen vier hundert Jahren get an hat.

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OSCAR HAMMEN—-OscarWest Bend, Wisconsin President of the class; Presi­ dent of the student body; Black and Red Staff 3, 4; President of the Athletic Board; Football 1, 2, 3. 4, Capt. 2, 3; Phi Gamma Rlio.

“Nurture your mind wilh great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”

WILLIAM SACHS—“Bill” Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin Vice-president of the class; Football Manager 4; Baseball 1, 2, 3, 4, Capt. 4; Orchestra; Band; Phi Gamma Rho. “If lie lias any..faults he lias left us in doubt”

NOR HURT PAl'STIAN— “Norb” West Salem, Wisconsin Secretary-Treasurer of the Class; Football: Band: Or­ chestra, Vice-prcsiflent: Phi Gamma Rho. "A genial disposition brings its rich rewards."

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EWALD BLUMENTHAL— “Abie” Milwaukee, Wisconsin Basketball 3, 4; Baseball 1, 2, 3, 4; Band.

"For him light labour spread her wholesome store.”

ARTHUR DOBBERSTEIN— ”Dol)bic” Watertown, Wisconsin "Take my Latin and yo me only a half”

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A L B R RT K B E R H A RT—*' A r ' Brownsville, Wisconsin Football: Band; Phi Gamma Rho. "A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute’’

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WILBUR GOETZ—“Red” Riga, Michigan Philomathean.

"Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.”

HRRBKRT vonHADEN— “Herb” Tomah, Wisconsin Editor of the Black and Red: Basketball: Philomathean.

"Behold a monarch and again a monarch/1

KURT KNEISI<E—“Itcir Lannon, Wisconsin Baseball 1, 2, 4; Football; Phi Gamma Rho. “Careless of all other fame, I leave behind me a good name”

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F.RNST KUEHL—“Patsy” Mound City, S. D. Chorus; Philomathean.

Ein froehlich Herz macliot ein froehlich Angesicht,”

KDWIN KUKRSCHNKR— “Eddie” Watertown, Wisconsin My glance, it makcth the mos to quail !M

CARL LAWRKNZ—•*SUvcrs" Lomira, Wisconsin Associate Editor of the 15lack and Rod: President of the Phi (ilamnia Rho. “It is better to be small ami shine than to be a，i<l cast a shado

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ALVIN LEERSSEN— “Shanks” Loman, Minnesota Athletic Board; Football 2, 3, 4, Capt. 4; Baseball 2, 3, 4; Phi Gamma Rlio, “A most magnificent and massive sp ectacle of human happiness

HUGO LIST—“Ham” Augusta, Wisconsin Chorus: Mixed Chorus: Sec­ ret a r}- Philomalhcan.

“Jove lias no lcisuc to atteu，l to little things.”

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ARNOLD MACKDANZ— “Micky” Hutchinson, Minnesota Basketball 2; Chorus; Band : Phi Gamma Rho. ‘We two arc to ourselves a crowd.”

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GERALD MARTIN—“Gerry” Brownsville, Wisconsin Football 2, 3，4; Basketball Manager; Band, Drum Major; President Vesuvius Club; Phi Gamma Rho. “A clear fire, a clean hearth and the rigour of the game.”

FRITZ MILLER—**Friu Hoskins, Nebraska Band. ''Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies and *tib sure he will."

HILTON OSWALD— “Hilscli” New Ulm, Minnesota Black and Red Staff 4; Ath Ictic Board ; Basketball; Bascb、a:.l Manager; Band: Phi Gamma Rho. Ivuehn ist (las Muehen Ilcrrlich tier Lolin,”

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WALTER PAUSTIAN一 “'Vallie” West Salem, Wisconsin President of the Orchestra; Chorus; Philoniathean.

"The more one knows of him ihc better one likes him.*'

HENRY PUSSKHL— "Heinie” Saginaw, Michigan Chorus : Philoniathean.

"As thrifty with his words s the Gael is with his gold.”

ALVIN RKICM—•Tuffy'* Marshfield, Wisconsin Phi Gamma Rho. “Action, action, action, reac­ tion and counteraction:**

ALFRED SAUER—“Lady” Winona, Minnesota President of the Philoma­ th can :Football 3, 4: Chorus, Vice-president ,* Mixed Chorus.

“The desire for immortality is not selfish.”

PHILIPP SAUER—"Phi 1" Winona, Minnesota Football 4; Chorus: Pliilomathean.

'Avast lads, give me a place, to stand and I will move the world.”

GKRHARD SCHAEFKR— “Jim” Iron Ridge, Wisconsin Football 2, 3, 4; President of Male and Mixed Choruses ; Orchestra: Vice-President of the Phi Gamma Rho. Nothing Rrcat was achieved without tliusiasm.”

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ARTHUR SCHAUER—“Art” Watertown, Wisconsin Philomathean.

“Such stores as silent thought bring arc mine•”

MARGARET SCHMELING— “Marg” Watertown, Wisconsin President of Co-eds: Black and Red Staff 4; Mixed Chor­ us ;Philomathean.

“Tis winsomcncss ancl wit combined in one frail worujui•”

WILLIAM SCHWEPPE— ••Speck” St. James, Minnesota Vice-president of the Band ： Football 3, 4: Philomathean.

“Devout as a hermit, studious as a monk, plump as an abbot.”

LOUIS VATER—“Lou” North Freedom, Wisconsin Chorus; Philomatliean.

“For three may keep a coun­ cil, where twain are away.”

HERBERT WITT—"Goose” Norfolk, Nebraska Basketball 4; Baseball A; Philomathean.

"Fling away ambition : by that sin fell the angels/'

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New Ulm, Minnesota Phi Gamma Rho: Band Chorus: Mixed Chorus.

"An epitome of all that is pleasant in man.”

CLASS OFFICERS Oscar Hammen, President William Sachs, Vice-President Norbert Paustian, SecretaryTreasurer CLASS MOTTO Respice Fiiiem CLASS FLOWER Snapdragon

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THE PASSING OF THE LATIN SPEECH ■-

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When our alumni get their programs for the commencement ceremonies on the morning of the thirteenth, they will be surprised to find that the ten minutes of Latin oratory have been clone away with and that the third speaker does not appear on the program.

This year has been a year of revolution, and several old institutions have fallen under the stress of circumstance. First came the military company, and now that fair old custom of the Latin speech on the commencement program. It will seem very strange for many graduates lo miss it, especially for such as have faithfully attended the affairs year after year; for such the convention was a necessary part of the occasion. And although people perhaps sat for a few minutes gazing intently at the speaker to see how he looked in cap and gown, or how his delivery was, or even to follow, yet they soon began to feel a bit uneasy, changing position numerous times, cross­ ing legs from side to side, shuffling with the feet or gazing at this person or that; nevertheless, there was always a certain amount of pleasure in the thing, the pleasure afforded the uninitiated in the 81

:Belt j sound of a foreign tongue, and that derived by those who have studied the language from books only and here were given the chance to hear it in continuous recitation, which gives the tongue life. Who will deny that the Latin speech did not ackl a certain amount of cultural tint to the program ?

The question arises why it was dropped. This reason ancl that is advanced. The methods of Latin study in American colleges is the cause. In former years much stress was put upon the brutal memorization of rules, gender verses, (for who of us does not re­ member how he swallowed such ditties as this from Ostermann— Mueller?

Masculini generis sincl die Woerter all auf nis.

Unci mensis, orbis, sanguis, fons Collis etc.); how we pored over column upon column of idiomatic phrases, gulped down rules and exceptions to rules, besides the necessary vocables and other paraphernalia. Although we worried through the courses, we do not regret our study. But when we reach the college we experience a change::we are plunged into Roman literature. Rules and syntax become a liazy remembrance of bygone (lays; surely we use those we have learned unconsciously, and yet the necessitv of producing a fluent translation outweighs all else. There is nothing in literature comparable in interest to translating. The language takes on life wen read in context. There is, however, a tendency in the colleges to drop more ancl more the word “construe :and of Latin composition, that is, the writing of papers in Latin, little or none remains in the colleges. The method of exten­ sive instead of intensive reading of the classics is preferred. Which course is ， • the better depends most likely upon the purpose in view.

Nevertheless, this lack of composition in the college is perhaps the primary cause for the passing of Latin from the actus this year.

BEACH IMPROVEMENTS In our April number appeared an editorial entitled “S'vinimin琴It recounted the conditions, facilities or lack of such, the scenic beauty of the beach, the cheap and healthful ultra-violet treatments, the relaxation from the nervous ancl strained atmos­ phere of dormitory life, the exercise for the swimmer. There is, however, one sentence in the otherwise very trustworthy writing which is crass falsehood. The author writes, “Those who swim for the love of the sport notice the total lack of diving facilities except during September, when the municipal bathing beach offers

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access to a springboard.,J That is not true, but we would not have anyone think that we wish to impute a lie to G. A month ago his remark was only too correct, however much an untruth today.

Through the interest A. Eberhart takes in wood-working, through his efficiency in that field, and through the financial aid of students interested in watersports the beach or “swimmin’-hole” boasts a neat and substantial diving apparatus, a diving tower about eight feet in height and a spring board, rubber matted.

It is what swimmers have wanted for some time, and now that it is there, it is hoped that so much of the child or the Vandal has left people that they exercise care and consideration in the use of the apparatus. So often one strikes people who, although they have an almost holy reverence for their own property, care not a wit for that of the commune, treating it with a disrespect perfectly in harmony with their characteristic selfishness and absence of cul­ ture. The equipment is substantially, but not indestructably built.

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The great aim of the earth’s population today is to make the world a better place to live in. Many people think they have accomplished much in this world. They have, too. When one stops to think of the inventions, discoveries, and triumphs of science and engineering, any protest ought to die on one’s lips. But, one may ask, “Is everything really so perfect and in order as it appears to be?” Every person would not immediately answer. At length he would be forced to admit, “No, things are not what they ought to be. Something is wrong somewhere.”

The newspaper headlines confirm this answer adequately.

About all the newspapers contain besides the sports, editorials, and comic sections is one entanglement of fraud, bribery, and embezzle­ ment after another. On the front page one sees in boldfaced type the words: Robbery，Murder, Gang Slaying. It is an actual fact that many newspapers could not exist if the news of these felonies did not stock them. But on the other hand, the papers are giving1 the public exactly what it cares to read.

Closely allied with the crime movement is the total disrespect of all authority.

Prohibition became a law.

The reformers saw that too many crimes were committed and put the blame on alcohol. The prohibitionists, therefore, planned to eliminate al­ cohol and thereby make this a nation of virtuous water drinkers.

They take our good Christian liberties and attempt to make us a just and upright people. How far they have succeeded one need not ask. Matters are perhaps worse than they were before. Be83

fore prohibition most people were satisfied with wine and beer, and that in moderate quantities. To-day the common refreshment is pure denatured alcohol that has been redistilled. If one great law is broken, the next one topples over so much more easily.

Matters are becoming more and more complicated in this world from day to clay. This demands an increase of responsibility on the part of the individual. It is a lack of responsibility that causes people and nations to fall. People no more care to work hard for what they get. Everybody (lees from drudgery and looks for the positions in the world. They forget that hard work is the only road to happiness and peace. But to-day the installment plan is in vogue and people can easily live beyond their means. There is no solid foundation and the roof is bound to fall. Reformers see all these evils but they go aliout reforming them in the wrong way. They salve the eruptions and leave the seat of the evil un­ touched.

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GERMAN It is really surprising how little interest is taken in German, Outside of the classroom very little German is spoken. Why ? Is feel like it because German is so difficult? Or do most , t students i ‘，„e«i throwing up their hands in despair, saying: r\\\r, wjiat s ' I'll never be able to get that stuff anyway. It s all a waste o ，meThose of you who feel that way, lend me your ears for just a few minutes. German is not so difficult. Many peop e learned to speak German within two years, although they were n exceptionally gifted. And their teachers were not so much at norne 111 • their field as the professors who teach German at Northwes eri.

How did they do it ? They took an interest in their work ana were not afraid to spend a few extra hours on their German. wanted to learn the language and did not give up until they a succeeded. You, too, can learn German. All you nave to ao 1 say to yourself about ten times each clay: “Faulheit lass los, o e ich brauch Gewalt!”

Gennanisnota T^ble- read and un^stand German means that a new field is open to yo . pxoerienced see, and experience things that you never heard, sa')’’ ‘ One can before. You will understand the German people ) . |an_ not fully understand a people without a knowlec , Lesguage. You will become better acquainted wlt>、1 bv? read­ sing, Goethe, Schiller, Kant, and other famous Germans by ^ ing them in the original. In most of the universi ie 84

scientists and philosophers are studied in the original. 1 hese uni versities require a thorough knowledge of German as a prerequisite for a higher degree.

It is worth one’s while to study German merely to be able to read and understand the wonderful German hymns and the German Bible. No translation, no matter how carefully made，will ever give you what the original has to offer.

German is like a bank; the more money you deposit, the more you can draw and the higher will your interest be; the more con­ scientiously you study your German, the more interesting will it become and the more you will enjoy it. Open your account now •T. C. D.，，31.

ARTIUM BACCALUAREI We’ve studied Latin, we’ve studied Greek, Dabbled in history and rhetoric.

We’ve slipped through this and stumbled through that; And many a pearl has eluded our gat.

The midnight oil was burned full long.

Yes, many a time till chanticleer’s song.

We’ve nodded and yawned o’er papers and books From musty and dusty library nooks We’ve juggled Hebrew, with its flock of forms, Memorized poems, psalms, precepts and norms; Mathematics for some little short of a curse, For others a blessing has been, if not worse.

Be all that as it may, we’ve studied and learned, Are sophisticated, perhaps philosophically turned.

We’re Bachelors of Arts, and 've’ll have men know After all the weary process, we’re glad it is so. i;

Editor’s Note: The editor feels that an apology to the poet is in place, as well as a word or two in appreciation of the venture.

To the poet, because his work appears on this page and not in the literary section. He will understand our position better if he will please to remember that the Black and Red has always been a con­ servative paper, and that its present editor, however incapable lie may feel, still clings to the old conservatism, in so far that despite the lack of the Latin oration he confines the June literary pages to the printing of the commencement speeches, thus makingf those pages holy ground; and therefore, any other material will, despite its deserts, necessarily be banned and all intrusion of this sanctum be considered gross sacrilege.

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Of the reader he expects a full acceptance of the ditty on its liter­ ary merits. He will not be gainsaid; he will not have the poetic value of the endeavor contested or even questioned; he begs to be considered sole critic and prides himself a connoisseur of the best pot-verse. Besides, lie speaks ex cathedra and is, as all editors, unerring in his judgments, infallible in his ideas. The writer is undoubtedly an up and coming poet along the lines of Edgar Guest or any other of the modernistic literary luminaries. His work is rare, rare with a double stress and some strain. Modernistic \ve say he is. At first glance one notes how cubistic the poem is in form. He might have given it llic shape of a mortar board, a tree, a diamond or a zig-zag, but instead, he has chosen the simple geo­ metrical lines of a cube. There are purity and staidness in that simplicity. But we can’t stop there, for a deeper consideration, a finer dissection is necessary for appreciation. A source of greater pleasure to the bookworm is the mcihod by which the poet works up to the catastrophe, reminding us for all the world of the strophe and antistrophe of the chorus in Greek tragedy, except that the necessary monotony of classical forms is avoided by a varied num­ ber of verses in the strophe, which has exactly twelve, whereas the nntistrophe, if one may term it so, has but the last four. The ques­ tion may arise why the poet has not made a sonnet of it, for he has stated his theme, unravelled it, and carried it to a close. The fact is. he tells us, that every line is so intricate a part of the whole that to remove one, or to merely change a word would be to ruthlessly destroy the symmetrical and harmonious concaenation of the piece.

As has been shown, the whole comprises but twelve verses and yet how many-sided they are: here are hints of the epic art of Homer and Virgil, the atmosphere of the Greek tragic trio, the wit of Lucian, the wisdom of Plato, the poignancy of Catullus, the pepl)er and zest of Martial, the elegance and loftiness of Horace, and although there are intimations of all these, the poet has gulped from his own Hippocrene and straddles his own Pegasus, although it is a.s yet only a colt. There are thoughts which we should take as the signs of a germinating satirist and we might say here that before tjje printer's ink was dry, wishes came in from far and wide that the rising poet’s Muse might not die in the bloom of youth.

Furthermore, we should like to point out to the reader the beauty and flow of the rhythm, the depth of thought, the keen mtli 1^ viv¥ness of the imagery obtained by characteristic words, ^ hidden thought, the charming grace and airiness with '\nich the poet has decked out his witty couplets and last of all the modern breath of verse freedom they exhale, tempered with a whiff 86

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of conservatism. It will also be noted that there are but very few instances where the writer has strained his thought for the sake of the rhyme. The dissection and analysis of a few verses will reveal their subtle artistry. As regards measure, we have here the **rocking-horse” kind, the first line of the couplet going up and the sec­ ond down, not altogether unlike Hebrew parallelism. About tech­ nicalities we care little; however, let us point out the wisely variegated metrical arrangement, the iambic quatrameter in the first line, the first two feet being separated from the last by a caesura preceded by a feminine half-line. As the second verse of the coup­ let is somewhat difficult to classify technically, suffice it to say that the greater part of it is dactylic in nature, the rest being so subtly twisted as to defy hasty analysis. All in all this variety of rhythmic construction prevents monotony. The alliteration is not overdone and adds zest to the verse; in the third for example we have five or six dental sounds, in the third from the end three “f” sounds. We said that the verse was sensuous. We have in mind of course the conjuring power it has over our imagination, its cun­ ning in calling up pictures by the use of suggestive words. In the first verse they call up farragoes of vocabularies, dictionaries, com­ mentaries, texts, papers, grammars; the second needs no comment, the third and fourth are characteristic pictures of most students in whiff ol* kerosene and some phase of study. The next brings snuffed wicks, although a figure of speech; the sixth connotes an old English barnyard, for in America we say rooster. In the sev­ enth “nodded” and “yawned” are the happy, discriptive words.

The word “musty” in the eighth is a very sensuous word with a lively appeal to the olfactory nerves, while the vei.li “juggled” in the following verse conjures India up, with its whirling dervishes, jugglers, fakirs and other freaks, whereas the word “Hoc reminds one of the pastoral scenes on the Plains of Moab or of herdsmen under the Cedars of Lebanon. The next couplet contains reference to the paradisaical curse, “In the sweat of thy brow, shalt thou eat thy bread.” The last verse merely denotes the finished product, the Artium Baccalaureus. Someone has said that it takes two to make a poem一the versifier and the trained reader. As the editor \vith all compliments pronounces all readers trained, this automa­ tically becomes a poem. It might be intimated that if there is a desire to chant the thing, the poet would like it done in the comn.ion metre. He prefers to remain unknown, but should his iden­ tity be discovered, he begs the public to consider his preference of hard-boiled eggs to raw, and for fruit, oranges or bananas to to­ matoes.

•In our opinion, and we repeat, we speak ex cathedra, there is no line which would not merit quotation in the bon-bon of society.

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Had it been written a little above a century ago Napoleon would have carried a copy of it beside his “Werther” on the Egyptian campaign. Frederick the Second would have placed it among .the leaves of his “Candide.” But alas, they died too soon to enjoy.

The editor feels that the above is hardly an adequate appreciation; he might have taken the gem verbatim, growled his “fee, fi, fo, fum” over it, torn it joint from joint, and perhaps have written a book on each. However, the faith he places in the good taste and judgment of his readers would prevent that; a thorough study will open to the interested new fields of thought and new views and will serve to supply what this brief note lacks.

Eine Peri ode in der Geschichtc naht sich clem Ende. Eine neue Zeit ist im Aufstieg. Es its eigentlich ein trauriger Gedanke, class Wauwatosa niclit melir das l)cdeuten soli in unseren Kreisen, was es bisher bedeutet hat. Der Geist, der von hier ausging, wire! er auch im neuen Seminar eine Wohming finden? Das neue Gel)«*ieude wird neue Zeiten sehen. \\Tcrden wir ' dort das Werk unserer Vaeter weiterfuehren ? Wird dicser Ort, so wie das Gebaeude aeusserlich, auch innerlich in den einzelnen Personen ein Bekenntnis des Evangeliums bleiben? An clem iestzuhalten, was auf uns gekommen ist, das wird unsere : \u fgabe sein.

Endlich haben wir (lie hinge Zeit der Ungewissheit hinter uns.

Am 30. Mai trat die Verteilungskommission zusammen, und am folgenden Tag schlossen wir. Am Montag faengt das Umziehen niit Gewalt an. Zunaechst werden die Buecher der Bibliothek unci unsere eigenen transportiert werclen, dann kommt das Mobiliar der Professoren an die Reihe und am Mittwoch schliesslich die Kueche. Sobald wir fertig sind, koennen wir nach Hause gehen.

Auch ein Umstand, der daza beitraegt, class die Arbeit munter fort fliesst!

Dann stehen uns die Ferien bevor. Ferien, welch ein Spott!

So nianch einer unter uns ist wohl im Sommer mehr angebunclen al.s sonst. Da heisst es zunaechst arbeiten, urn sein Brot zu verdienen . und ein wenig zu eruebrigen fuer das folgende Jahr. Ferner jst die Sommerzeit ja dazu angetan, class man sich frei nimmt.

Unsere zukuenftigen Amtsbrueder wissen dann immer unsere Gegenwart und unsere Freiheit auszukaufen. Ist ja auch ganz schoen.

Sonst bekaeme man auch gar zu wenig Uebung im Predigen. Nur yon ferien fuer uns kann dabei kaum die Rede sein. Und doch ist keiner unter uns, der diese Zeit nicht herbeiwuenscht, und es ist 88

wohl kauni einer, der nicht mit schwerem Herzen daran denkt, class es vielleicht der letzte Sommer sein wird, den er noch als freier Mann verbringen kann. ^ Mit der ersten Klasse steht es anders. Sie sind der Schulzeit entwachsen und koennen nie wieder Schueler sein. Das ist ein Fortschritt und zugleich ein Gedanke, der einen traurig stimmt.

Sie treten jetzt ins Leben. In kurzer Zeit werdeii sie wie die Spreu vom Winde in alle Richtungen verwehl werden, un sere Studiengenossen, mit denen wir Jahre lang Freud und Leicl geteilt haben.

Wir sagen ihnen Lebe'vohl und wuenschen ilinen Glueck auf ihreni Wege.

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Am 17. Mai, an einem nassen, unwirtsamen Nachmittag, kam zwischen Northwesterns baseball team und deni unsrigen eine zweite Schlacht zum Austrag. Dieses Mai trugen wir unter der Leitung (les racheschnaubenden Fischer einen g：lacnzenclen S.eg davon. Das score, 6-5, und die elf innings koennten andeuten, class die Schlacht (loch ziemlich gieichniaessig war: aher der Schein truegt. Unsere Spieler hatten die Sachlage immer in der Hand.

“Bunts” und "squeezed plays” arl^eiteten wie geschniiert, und Fehler waren trotz des Regens durchaus nicht haeufig.

Am 26. Mai liessen sich mehrer Seminaristen in Racine sehen.

Mancbe, die sich vorgenommen hatten. da zu sein. faiiden sich nicht ein. Was war es nun, das cliese Herren in Racine anzog ?

Man feierte dort das Gedaechtnis des Katechismus, und da die Kapelle unserer Alma Mater bei der Festlichkeit mithalf, konnten etliche unter uns sich nicht enthaltcn, der Feier lieizuwohnen. Die Feier am Vormittag soil sehr erhebend gewesen sein. Dem mag sein, wie da will. Davon koennen wir nicht mitreden. Aber das Konzert am Abend von der Northwestern Kapelle und deni Con­ cordia Chor mit der Ansprache des Herrn Professor Kowalke war der Muehe wert, nacli Racine zu fahren, Leider soil Herr Redlin sich bei dieser Gelegenheit den Magen verdorl)en haljen.

T£s ist eine merkwuerdige Erscheinung, dass jetzt gegen Ende des Jahres auf einem Mai scheinbar alle cars bei uns •’haywire” ge.lieii. Jetzt, wo ein jeder sich voller Erwartung darauf vorbereitet, seine Heimreise anzutreten,—nun bekommen unsere cars die Mucken. Eine nach der anderen muss sich zum Seminar ziehen lassen.

Glueck sind immer noch genug heile cars vorhanden, die diesen Dienst le.sten koennen. Man verliert allmaehlich alles Zutrauen zu unseren Kannen. (Man moege die Ausdruecke verzeihen, von unseren cars laesst sich eben nicht auf Hochdeutsch reden.)

Nun hoert die Weltgeschichte auf.

In der letzten Woche komml wahrhaftig unser Sam Lemke auch noch mit einer car an.

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Selbst seine Zimmergenossen wissen kaum, class er noch da ist.

Zur Zeit, da dieses geschrieben wird, stehen wir in der letzten Woche des Seminarlehens. Ks hat sich (las Seminar in ein Soldatenlager vcrwandelt. Die Studentenschaft ist in squads eingeteilt, «m die Arbeit in Angriff zu nehmen, die noch in Thiensvillc vor deni Iiinzug getan werden muss. Eine squad bestehl aus nur, vier o(ler fucnf ^lann. Da gibt es allerlei zu tun. Mehrere Tage lang waren ctliche hinaus, um (lie Bibliothek, die Kapelle und andere Raeume anzustreichen. Da uelit sicli, wer da Lust hat, in der Malerei. Ob's Kunst ist ocler nicht, was wir zustande bringen, darueber erlauben wir kein Urteil.

Am 18. August, so gcht das Geruccht, wird das neue Seminar eingeweiht werden. Wir Studenten werden freilich nicht alle da sein, aber darauf komml's nicht an. Das Gcbaeude ist ja (locli die Hauptsache. I3ei der Gelegenhcit wird ein Massenchor unter der Leitung des Professor Maas singen. Dass wir nicht mitsingen koennen, soil man als grossen Nachteil empfinden.

Und mag das Sellreiben ruhen auf etliche Monate.

Aut" Wiedcrsehen in Thicnsville!

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—Among those receiving degrees from Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Ind., are three former students of Northwestern College. . Miss Irene Bolte, ex f27, and William Schultz, ex ’29，finish the Liberal Arts Course. Marcus Toepel, ex ’30, did his work in {h'e School of Pharmacy. Miss Nina Pautsch, ex '27, finished the Liberal Arts Course last February and has since been acting as as­ sistant instructor in the Department of Mathematics at the Uni­ versity.

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―Albert Kauber，ex ’27, has finished a teachers’ course at Capi­ tal College, Columbus, Ohio. Arm in Rohde, ex '31, has finished a course in chemical dentistry at the University of Chicago.

—On May 28, Roland Hilleniann, ’25, tutor at Northwestern Col­ lege, underwent an operation for an inner goitre at St. Mary’s Hos­ pital in Watertown. 一Among alumni who visited Northwestern recently are : Prof.

Otto Hoenecke, ’90, President of the Michigan Lutheran Seminary at Saginaw; Henry J. Brandt, *16, who is an attorney in St. Paul, Minnesota; Rev. Adalbert Westendorf, *16, of Saginaw, Michigan; Rev. Karl Krauss, *18, of Lansing, Michigan; Prof. E. R. Blieferniclit, President of the Dr. Martin Luther College at New Ulm, Minnesota; Prof. Karl Sievert, ex ’19，of Northwestern Lutheran Academy, Mobridge, South Dakota; and Rev. S. Baer, ex ’17, of Zeeland, South Dakota.

—Rev. Theophilus Voges, ’21，of Morganville, Minnesota，has accepted a call to Huilsburg, Wisconsin. ―We announce the marriage of Rev. Arthur Gentz, '22, of Pow­ ers, Michigan, to Miss Ida Hansen, also of Powers. The ceremony took place on May 9. The couple spent their honeymoon at the home of the groom’s parents in Juneau, Wisconsin.

JMcmariant A year ago, on the thirteenth of June, the class of 78，celebrated its fiftieth anniversary. Of that class ;• there remained Rev. A. Baebenrotli， Rev. A. Bendler and Rev. H. Schultz, the first two of Milwaukee and the last of Faribault, Minnesota. This year only two of seven who g raduated in • 78 remain. The Rev. A. Bendler, .. for thirty-five years pastor of St. Matthew's congregation, Milwaukee, died Sunday, June 2.

Early this Spring the pastor trav­ elled in Europe and Palestine as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. A. Thews, who returned earlier, leaving their children under the tutelage of the min­ ister. On May 22 the latter returned to America with the intention 91

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of visiting Niagara Falls on the return to Milwaukee. In New York, however, the pastor suddenly took sick and was taken to the Memorial Hospital in Buffalo, where he died. Complications set­ ting in upon an illness long believed to be cured are given as the cause of his death.

The Rev. Bendler was born October 31, 1858, in Johnsonville, Sheboygan County. After attending the parish school there, he entered Northwestern College. In 1878 lie began his theological studies at the St. Louis Seminary but completed them at our Sem­ inary. Three years in the pastorate at Galesburg, 111., were followed by seven in Burlington, Wis. Since 1890 he has faithfully served the congregation in Milwaukee. The Reverend Mr. Bendler was married twice, first in 1881, his wife being Miss Anna Allerniann. The children of this marriage are dead. His second wife, now his widow, was Wilma Kees of Burlington. The deceased leaves his two sons, August of Los Angeles, Erich of Milwaukee, a daughter, Mrs. Arthur Halboth, and a brother, William, of Chi­ cago. The funeral took place Friday, June 7, from St. Matthews.

Interment was made in \Vatcrtown, Wisconsin. The minister was well known in Lutheran circles as a very good speaker, Students of Northwestern are especially thankful to the pastor for his untiring efforts as a member of the building committee for the gymnasium. Our gymnasium is one of the fairest in the state.

The enjoyment and benefit derived from it is voiced by students many times, whether it be in their enthusiasm over a game, about a concert or a play. What would we do without the auditorium?

Our concerts, our plays, our athletics above all— —is not their center the auditorium ? It was he who was instrumental in inducing his congregation to begin the St. Matthew’s fund, which now totals nearly five thousand dollars. Rev. Bendler has shown himself an excellent alumnus, for through fifty-one years his love and interest for his alma-mater did not wane.

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Few ocurrences of the past month are of enough importance to merit much attention. Occasional trips by some of our organiza­ tions broke the monotony of an otherwise dreamy month. On May twenty-sixth the band accepted an invitation to play at Racine, at the Quadricentennial Celebration of the publication of Luther's Catechism. Several selections were given at the morning service.

That same evening the band, under the direction of Prof. G. A. Westerhaus, and the Concordia College Glee Club, Prof. Karl Markworth director, gave a concert in Memorial Hall. Northwestern's musical offerings included Offenbach’s “Orpheus,” Schubert’s “Un­ finished Symphony” and Rossini’s well-known Overture "William Tell.” President Kowalke, who acompanied the band, gave an ad­ dress. Those who made the excursion were enthusiastic over the reception and the entertainment.

Fort Atkinson, where the chorus had given the musical num­ bers for the Walther League convention some weeks ago, was host to various of our organizations on the twenty-eighth. The follow­ ing programme was given in that city’s recently dedicated Memorial Hall at 8.15.

I. “Marche Militaire” Franz Schubert “William Tell” (Overture) Rossini Band—Prof. G. Westerhaus, Director II. “Sword of Ferrara” Frederick F. Bullarcl “The Sleigh”（a la Russe) Richard Kountz __ Chorus—Prof. C. Bolle, Director III. “Sans Souci” John Kaula “La Czarina” • Ganne Orchestra—Prof- W. Herrmann, Director 93

f ^Mhxtk ^ 抑衣 | Sinding IV. Marche ‘‘Grotesque’’ Piano Solo―T. Otto Franz Kayser V. “O Gruesst sie mir” F. E. Starke “Siberia” (a Lament) Chorus—Prof. C. Bolle, Dir. John Strauss VI. “Scliatz-Waltzer” S. Edm. Chenette “Slippery Success”（Trombone Solo) Orchestra—Prof. W. Herrmann, Director Paul Limke VII. “Glo'v Worm” Anonymous “Volga Boatman Quartette—Alf. Schewe, 1st Tenor Paul Heyn, 2nd Tenor O. Engel, 1st Bass A. Buenger, 2nd Bass J. Offenbach VIII. “Orpheus” ----Sousa "Stars and Stripes Forever’’ (March) Band—Prof. G. Westerhaus, Dir. IX. The College Song The band still has trips to l’》ro'vnsville and to Juneau before the completion of the year.

As has been intimated, the past month has been rather sleepy.

This is always the best time of the year. Though the work piles up more and more before the exams, one does not give it all the attention it perhaps deserves.下lien, when the exams are over, one concludes they were not so nuicli to be feared after all.

This is the period we are in now. The afternoons are too hot to study and the evenings too nice. Instead, we interest ourselves in the fortunes of the baseball team, swim every day, “琴row” a deep tan, play at tennis, golf or anything our fancy or inclinations dictate—in fact, anything to try to forget the inevitable examinations. The Juniors spend hour after hour completing the stage for the play, concert and graduation.. The cast for “fhe Taming the Shrew” puts on the finishing touches for the presentation in • June.

CAST OF CHARACTERS Lucentio, son to Vincent:o, suitor to Bianca. Disguised as Cambio, Bianca's teacher of Latin .......-Alf^d-^a^ Tranio, Lucentio’s man, disguised as Lucentio ----- Gerald i ar Alice Bentzin Katharina, the Shrew daughters to Baptista Bianca Mildred Volkmann ..William Schweppe Bap^a. a rich gentleman of Padua an old gentleman, suitor to Bianca . ____ Carl Lawrenz Hortensio, suitor to Bianca. Disguised as Licio, ...Kurt Kneiske Bianca’s music master Biondello, servant to Lucent io .Kenneth Vertz 94

Petruchio, a gentleman of Verona, suitor to Grumio, Petrucio’s man ----------------- -----Curtis, Petruchio’s housekeeper ------------Nathaniel Philip Joseph Servants to Petruchio Nicholas Peter A Cook A Tailor A Haberdasher

...Hilton Oswarld ...Edward Knoll __ La Verne Zorr Oscar Naumann Rudolf Otto Milbert Siegler Albert Sippert Arno Witt Alvin Leerssen Siegfried Fenske Albert Sippert

lCrnst Kuehl A Pedant, induced to disguise himself as Vincentio Vincentio, an old gentleman, a merchant of Pisa … …George Rowe Three Musicians Erwin Buchert Hugo List Alfred Schewe New surfaced tennis courts being put in a l)oon to our tennis enthusiasts.

It is at this time that one becomes reconciled to Watertown.

Its tall shade trees, broad boulevards and neatly cut lawns make it a town of beauty—that is, beyond the scorching Main Street.

One of these beauty spots is our own college park. The high leafy trees blend into the more stern appearance of the buildings. The beds of blooming bushes and flowers punctuate the large park.

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Hundreds of michvestern college and university students who were planning to work this summer on the Great Lakes ore carriers have been disappointed by the decision of the Lake Carriers Association not to hire any college students this summer. The vessel operators declared, according to the Ohio State Lantern, that the "greatest pests” they have encountered at the opening of navigat ion were the young men who wanted to sail for the summer and would then leave in September to return to school. The ship­ ping season is at its height in September and the departure of the “college sailors” to their football or studies disrupts the personnel of ships at a time when it is almost impossible to hire real sailors to take their places.

—New Student.

The plea of Professor Stanley E. Swarthley for comfortable ami inviting college libraries has been answered in the specifications of a.t least one new library building. Librarian H. W. Leach of Lehigh University announces many improvements in the new library building. Most interesting of these is the students’ housing room. This room will be fitted up as a club room with easy chairs, floo〔 lamps, and ash trays. Here will be placed the best books of all times, both classic and modern works. It will be the only room where students will be allowed to smoke. Another valuable innovation will be the small cubicles near the windows, each with a 98

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Apparently widely circulated reports that Marquette Univer­ sity will not accept women students next September, are mischievous rumors, the Rev. William M. Magee, S. J” president of the university, stated Wednesday. The policy of Marquette University on co-education has not been changed, Father Magee stated. Women will be permitted to register in the university, as heretofore.

—Marquette Tribune.

A golf course is .being constructed for the use of the students of Leland Stanford University.

Instead of the customary “hissing” and “booing,” Yale stu­ dents expressed their dislike for certain vaudeville acts by “jang­ ling” alarm clocks at the actors.

With the qualifying rounds completed, the all-golf tournament will be played May 18 for the championship of Luther College.

The trophies are being shined up and will be presented to the win—College Chips. ners immediately after the tournament.

Immanuel Lutheran College, of Greensboro, North Carolina, is celebrating its 25th birthday this month, and the entire issue of the school paper is dedicated to the presentation of the past history, the present glory, and the golden hopes for the world. Immanuel was opened at Concord, on March 3, 1903, with five students. Soon, because of the increased enrollment, the school was moved to Greensboro, North Carolina, where it is now situated. Immanuel is one of the sixty-four acredited high schools for Negroes in North Carolina. Since 1927 the school offers, in addition to the regular high school branches, instruction in home economics for women, with a specially trained teacher in charge. The institution, being supported by the Lutheran Church, concerns itself with re­ ligious instruction as well as with the secular branches. In addi­ tion to its high school work, Immanuel offers a year's normal course for the preparation of Lutheran parochial school teachers, and a three years’ course in theology.

C. H. Hjaimer Nelson, managing1 editor of the Daily Cardinal, University of Wisconsin student publication, resigned his position.

In a letter tendering his resignation, Nelson charged that “high handed methods” of the student-faculty board of control had de­ stroyed the morale of the staff. The paper, he charged, had be­ come a “childish and amateurish piece of work, not representative of student opinion and thought.”

Allen Tenny and Charles S. Williston, night managers, also resigned from places on the staff.

The Shakespearean play, “Richard III,” is to be given on the Saturday of Commencement by the dramatic club of Beloit Col­ lege.

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A tew errors at a critical time turned a possible victory into defeat.

Although Northwestern collected one hit more than their opponents, they could not force in the necessary runs to tie or overtake the lead of the Chicagoans which they had cinched in the sixth. North­ western scored once more in the seventh, but continued to trail be­ hind a one point lead. Both teams remained scoreless throughout the last two innings. Armour Tech showed an unusual ability in placing their hits over a close right field fence for two baggers; six of their eight hits landed there.

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4 0 0 1 0 1 Anderson, rf — ...301210 Kasch, 3b _____ 3 12 0 11 Weldon, cf____ ...3 0 0 1 0 1 Fritzc, 2b ........... 4 112 2 1 Stehno, p_____ .211001 Leerssen, p ____ 4 1 0 0 4 0 Link, c_______ 3 1 0 9 0 0 --------------------- Yount, c------------ .0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 37 6 9 24 11 4 Simpson, p..... .

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Struck out by—Leerssen 6, Stelino in seven innings 9, Simpson in one in­ ning 1.

Bases on balls off—Leerssen 5, Stehno 1.

Batters hit by—Stehno 1.

Hits off—Leerssen 8, Stehno 9.

Northwestern 5; Seminary 6 May 17. During intermittent showers. Northwestern played off its second contest of the season with the Seminary, who showed Northwestern considerable improvement since the first game. drove their first run across in the second, but found it tied in the fourth. During the seventh and eighth innings the Seminary col­ lected one and two runs respectively. Not to be outdone, our men found the necessary three runs in the eighth to put the match on equal basis again. Not until the tenth was there a change in the box score when Seminary gained a one-run lead. In our half of the tenth Kasch again tied the score by driving out our first circuit clout of the season. Hope blossomed anew, when immediately af­ terward the bases were loaded with only one man deposed, but we were forced to retire without scoring. In the eleventh Hoenecke drove in Albrecht for the winning run.

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Struck out by—Blumenthal 9, Fischer 7.

Bases on balls off.—Blumenthal 2, Fischer 3.

Hits off—Blumenthal 10, Fischer 12.

Umpire—Schewe.

Milton 2; Northwestern 19 On May 22 Northwestern with victorious batting easily turned back the Milton students, who have independently taken up base­ ball until their school can finance another sport. Our nine ran riot against the pitcher. Walsh, and drove him off the mound in the first when collecting; three consecutive triples. Before retiring Northwestern gathered a total of twelve runs and thereafter scored repeatedly. They also exhibited some good defensive plays, of which possibly Witt’s two catches of long drives were outstanding.

Coach Kleinke gave all three pitchers, Leerssen, Blumenthal, and Heyn, an equal opportunity to occupy the mound. Fritze, Sachs, Blumenthal, and Kneiskc with his two triples stood at the head of the hatting list.

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Bases on balls off—Blumenthal 1, Heyn 3, Walsh 3, Stevens 5.

Hits off—Blumenthal 4, Heyn 1, Walsh 4, Stevens 13.

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Hits off—Leerssen 7, in iy3 innings, Blumenthal 8, Heyn 2.

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Northwestern 9; Milton 7 A return game with Milton was played on our diamond on May 28. In every respect Milton staged a well-played combat and only with difficulty were they set back in defeat. Our nine started scoring in the third by scheduling two runs. Milton, however, scored a run in the fourth and four more in the sixth by virtue of Shaders homer with the bases loaded. This lead was effaced, how103

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ever, when our men drove four runs across in the sixth, but Milton again tied the score in the seventh. Blumenthal now gained a two run, lead for us by swatting out a long drive for a home run with Kneiske on base; after Hellmann’s single had forced Heyn in, our nine retired with a margin that proved sufficient to conquer our opponents, although they did threaten to stage a ninth inning rally and acquired one more run. Both team showed great hitting strength, collecting ten hits each.

Captain Sachs was unable to appear in the lineup on acount of a bad knee, which he received in the Armour Tech game.

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Batters hit by—Stevens 2， Double plays—Shadel to Stokstad.

Struck out by—Blumenthal 8, Stevens 8.

Bases balls off—Blumenthal 1, Stevens 2.

Hits off—Blumenthal 10, Stevens 10.

Umpires—Schewe, Sachs.

Northwestern 16; University Extension 9 June 1，the University Extension of Milwaukee, appearing on oyr schedule for the first time, easily fell before the Northwestern nine. None of the pitchers proved particularly difficult for either team, both getting numerous hits. This high score also resulted from loose support quite equally divided between the two teams.

Northwestern remained tallyless for only two innings, the fourth and seventh. At no time throughout the long tussle of three hours was there a doubt as to the result of the game. Our batsmen drove out one hit after the other and soon secured a lead that was im104

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Batters hit by—Heyn 1.

Base on balls off—Heyn 1, Miller 9.

Hits off—Leerssen 8，Heyn 5, Miller 14.

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There’s no denying it now. Spring is here, and a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of—fish, and other things. The other day a pair of cooing pigeons flew down upon the window-sill of room 55. Jack Dahlke cast a wistful look at them, sighed gently, and said, “A message for me?” Our sympathies, Jack.

“Hang on, I’m going V' is Sydow’s slogan as lie chugs along at 40 or 50 in his Whippet. Haven’t you seen it yet? Then watch the cars coming along Main Street and when you see one which sags heavily on the lefthand side you can say to yourself, “That’s Fat.” Some of the fellows conjecture that the machine was pur­ chased in Chicago, because there is a sawed-ofit rifle in the back part of it, but others maintain that it is only a matter of self-defense against these pesky motorcycle cops.

The humdrum of daily baseball practice was broken for a time by a clash of tongues between Blumenthal and Nommensen.

The latter thought he was getting “Abie’s” goat, but in the end it was Fat’s” nanny which was captured, for he washed a couple of windows as a result of the battle.

Teacher Schultz and Mr. George Stobb of Wayne, Michigan, visited Alfred and Gerhard Peters on May 26. They also renewed acquaintances with their former classmates of New Ulm who are now at Northwestern.

On May 9 Elmer Gentz went home to function as “best man” for his brother’s wedding.

On Memorial day, Westphal did not go home for the holiday.

Somewhere an old saying states that there are three great events in nearly every man’s life: his birth, his first cigarette, ancl his death. On Whitmonday Louie Vater, who had long since lived 107

through the first event, finally tried the second, and as a result the third.^too, nearly happened. The first “pill” tasted good, Louie thought. Immediately he tried a second. No\v he becomes a rav­ ing maniac the moment anyone suggests smoking a third. **Ouch!—Look out for those shoulders! You Dummkopf, get your paws at a distance! This sunburn is driving me crazy,”一 such cries are arising" from many of the reddened throats of our swimming' populace. Every day Helios does his mighty work of roasting a gang of mixed preps and collegiates at our “beach.” The new pier has also done its share in luring new victims to the muddy waters. The day that Harkc broke the diving board was nearly a fatal one for him. Such a list of flagrant invectives as was at­ tached to Arthur’s fair name would pull any man down to his grave in pure shame.

Yes, the call of the Old S'vimmin’ Hole is a mighty call in this hot weather. If you should ask a certain group of fine Freshmen how they found the water during the afternoon study period of May 27, you will most likely notice a book or a stray shoe flying in the general direction of your head. ‘•Nevermore，’’ quoth the fine, fiierv Frosh.

The class of，32, when it was organized, established a new system of things in regard to class officers. The class decided to lay asicle the usual custom of electing their officers for all four collegiate years and will have an election at the end of every year. As a result of the election on Monday, May 27, the next year’s Sophomore ofificers are: Armin Schultz, president; Henry Meyer, vicepresident; Arthur Harke, secretary-treasurer.

On Memoial day, "Fritz" Roshen, last year a Quintaner, accompanied by his sister Esther, visited Roger Melendy and Ralph Lemke, his former class-mates.

May 21, the Tertia class celebrated its season of organizing by havii t a banquet. “Fat” Nommensen was easily the “life of the Party.J, His joke about the Scotchman and his nickel caused the spilling of much water by laughter-trembling classmates. The hearts of the revelers palpitated with joy at the cute little toys which were presented to everyone. Professor Kiessling, the cha­ peron, has been walking the floor every night with the pair of twins that he acquired in this manner. . On the same day seven Freshmen, who were desirous of les­ sening the unnatural swelling of their pocketbooks, treated them­ selves to a supper at the Main Cafe. When the seven began the process of eating they were at a loss what to do about etiquette in such polite society. Finally they unanimously selected Arno Witt as their model and closely followed every move he made. Every­ one who made a mistake blamed it on Witt, and in a few moments poor Amie was in a most embarrassing position. At the end of 108

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May 30，the four Schultz brothers received a visit by their parents and several relatives.

Pless visited George Rosenhauer, ’28，who is attending the University at Madison. He most enthusiastically stated thjit he had a fine time. One of the things the fellows saw was the State Track Meet of the high schools of Wisconsin.

“Bob” Meyer and Jack Dahlke have invented an entirely ori­ ginal contest, eating gravy bread sandwiches. Dahlke won the victory (the number of sandwiches which Jack surrounded is doubt­ ful), but he was not in the condition to enjoy the sensation of a conqueror.

We've got the dope on “Patsy” Kuehl now for sure. Amid the cheers of his room-mates and others, the gentleman bought shaving lotion for himself. He also bought a fresh package of cigarettes.

All semester he has subsisted on one package—l)y getting* it refilled one by one from the supply of his fellow-smokers. But the pack­ age had become so worn that he had to get a new one. And the last piece of scandal about “Patsy” is his “new” forty-dollar Ford.

The bets are on whether it will hold together until June 13, but the odds are seven to one against the “lizzie.”

On the night of May 31, the Tertia class organized. They had decided to elect officers three times: for the Freshman year, for the Sophomore year, and for the Junior-Senior years combined.

Their first set of officers are: Roman Biesman, president: John Radloff, vice-president; and H. Kuhlow, secretary-treasurer.

The morning of June 1 found the Tertia class represented 100 per cent in bed at 6.15. But about three-fourths of them lay awake from 6.00 on in order to enjoy the new privilege with a mind unpolluted by the sweet anaesthesia of sleep.

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Prof.: "Vertz, I never can tell whether you’re just chewing gum or talking all the time.”

Vertz: '*Es kann beides sein.

Sweet Young Thing: ''Will )YOU help me get my car started ?

Big Boy: “Gotta crank it?”

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A certain well-known business man who is noted for his quietness, was in a Pullman smoker. When the general pest, wellknown for his inquisitiveness, approached him and attempted to start a conversation with this question: “How many people work in your office?f, “Oh,” replied the quiet gentleman, getting up and throwing his cigar away, “I should say, at a rough guess, about two thirds of them.” ' ••I’se for a five-clay week. How 'bout you, Sam ?

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Im Gericht Richter: “Sie sind verurteilt zehn Dollars zu zahlen, im Unvermoegensfalle zwei Tage Gegaengnis. Haben sie lioch etwas zu bemerken?”

Angeklagte (schwerhoerig) : “Wie，bitte?”

Richter (lauter): “Ent'veder zehn Dollars oder zwei Tage Gefaengnis. Ob Sie noch etwas zu sagen haben?”

Angeklagter: “Dann moechte ich doch schon lieber um die zehn Dollars bitten.”

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“I wonder why the Mediterranean is so blue?

“You’d be blue, too, if you had to wash the shores of Italy every day.’•’

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Our grandma says that the average American family consists of 3.6 persons. Papa knows who the six-tenths is. 氺氺氺 There are meters of accent.

There are meters of tune, But the best of all meters Is to meet her alone.

“Lucky I met you, old man. Can you lend me five dollars ?

“Haven’t a cent with me.

“And at home?”

“They are well, thank you.” 氺氺氺 <4My uncle Henry died and left all that he had to an orphan asylum.

“What a wonderful philanthropist! What did he leave?”

“Eleven kids.”

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LITERARY— Boy (Poem) The Massacre of St. Bartholomew— 113 The Figurine

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THE BLACK AND RED Volume XXXIII.

Watertown, Wis” Sept,, 1929

Number 4

Entered at the Postofficc at Watertown. WIs., as second class matter under Act of March 3,1879. Published monthly. Subscription, One Dollar.

BOY I lia'…known little of life— A very little....

I have seen Sunsets grow red, and I have felt The night-wind blow upon me.

I have seen rain-wet lilacs, And I have heard the liquid note of the lark.

The wind have I loved, And lonely, storm-swept places: The shattered pine on the hill— The muddy stream in the valley.

I have seen Blue flags among grasses; And I have heard Frogs singing in the marsh at night.

I have walked in the moonlight, And sunlight have I drunk like wine....

But I have known grief, And I have seen the great tree Rot from the roots.

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Only love, only love Has not yet found me; But I have seen the lake Caress the sands in a windstorm, And I have heard the brook Kissing the stones fare-well.

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THE MASSACRE OF ST. BARTHOLOMEW, AUGUST 24, 1572

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In 1560 France was in a turbulent state. The king, Francis II., was too weak and too young to rule. In his stead ruled the queenfs two uncles of the house of Guise. The Hugenots were growing from a mere religious sect, which had suffered its persecutions in patience, to a political party. At the head of the Hugenots was Gaspard de Coligny, Admiral of France, a soldier through and through and an intelligent and trustworthy man. Among those who looked upon the control of power by the Guises as an infringe­ ment upon their own rights was Catharine cle* Medici, the mother of Francis. To her uncontrollable love of power there was added her quick intelligence and her Italian disregard for scruples in gaining her ends.

Francis II. died in December, 1560 and was succeeded by his brother Charles IX., a boy of ten years. Catharine assumed the regency and the Guises were thrown out of power. Her position was by no means easy. The Guises and the Bourbons, a branch of the royal family, watcher her jealousy. She attempted to secure a balance of power between her enemies by granting the Hugenots limited toleration. This act embittered the Catholics and brought grumbling from the Protestants, who were dissatisfied with the remaining limitations. Sharp words between the two sects led to conflict and excesses. One of these, the Massacre of Vassy, 1562, put an end to hesitation. The Hugenots took up arms against the Catholics. The period from 1562 to 1598 may be regarded as one long war, although eight wars are distinguished. The Hugenots gained nothing from the first two but after the third, in spite of the fact that they were beaten in the field, they were given very favorable concessions in the Peace of S. Germain, 1570.

The Hugenots were full of suspicions and regarded the concessions made by the peace as a snare. They gave no friendly reply 113

to the overtures which Charles IX. made. Charles, however, pro­ posed an alliance which, had it been completed, promised to calm the bitter feelings nursed both by Catholics and by Protestants.

Through clever exploiting of a number of marraiges he hoped to satisfy both religious sects and at the same time to strengthen his kingdom.

But the policy of Charles was by no means satisfactory to the Queen Mother, Catharine dt Medici. She determined to be rid of Coligny and a half dozen other leaders of the Hugenot Party.

Assassination, she believed, was the surest and safest course.

In 1571 Coligny came in contact with Charles. The king was fascinated by the Hugenot leader, who preferred war in Holland against Spain to civil war in France. And meanwhile the Queen Mother tried to recover the control over her son. Charles hesitated to enter the war; he was a prey to many suspicions and could not reach a decision. Coligny warned him that he must choose between a toreign and a civil war. Catharine was alarmed. She began to lay plans for ridding herself of the admiral. She brought Charles back into her control after a very stormy interview by showing him that she knew all of his plans.

Catharine de’ Medici and her favorite son, the Duke of Anjou, planned the murder of Coligny. But the bravo who was hired to do the work only wounded him. Charles was enraged. The Hugenots remonstrated in arms. Charles was entirely in the hands of his mother. She told him that she and Anjou had planned the murder. She pointed out to him that the Hugenots were ready in arms to avenge their leader: that the Catholics had determined to choose a leader and were ready to fight; and that the admiral’s recovery would be the signal for another civil war. The Duke of Anjou, whose account of the affair is extant, tells that “at last we _ carried our point, and were aware instantly of a sudden change and strange metamorphosis in the King, who came over to our side. If before he was hard to convince, now he was hard to restrain. He rose, bade us be silent, and with a face of fury, with great oaths (after his sort) said that as we found it good to kill the Admiral, he wished it too; but that with him we must massacre all the Hugenots in France lest one should be left to reproach him afterwards.”

The next day, Sunday, the 24th of August, St. Bartholomew’s pay, was decided upon. Between one and two o’clock in the morn­ ing a signal was given by a church bell and the massacre began.

The Duke of Guise at once dispatched Coligny. There is an account, which may be credited, that the assassins fell upon the adniiral in his room, wounded him mortally, and attempted to throw jiim from the window; when he caught hold of a column with his left arm, he was mutilated and hurled into the court below where 114

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By daybreak the work was nearly done. The dead lay every­ where. Corpses were dragged through the streets and flung into the Seine. Later in the day Charles expressed his approval of the massacre by going through the streets of Paris with a bright retinue. That night Paris witnessed the greatest spectacle of retri­ bution by murder since the proscriptions of Sulla. Debtors mur­ dered their creditors; grudges were paid off with the dagger. Law and order were suspended. The feeble central authority could not put an end to the ghastly deed. The massacre lasted several days * Paris and throughout the greater part of France. Here and in there in the provinces a commandant refused to let murder and chaos reign but such acts were rare.

How many people lost their lives cannot be definitely saidOne man puts it at ten thousand in Paris, and in all forty thousand ; another says seventy thousand; a third, who exaggerates, says a hundred thousand. Conservative estimates state that two thousand fell in Paris and twenty thousand in the provinces.

Charles of course tried to shift the blame for the crime upon the Guises and the populace. But later he look the blame upon himself. He declared that Coligny had made a slave of him and hinted at a Hugenot conspiracy to assassinate him. There was no foundation for the charge. The people and the press made a hero of the king.

But Charles, in accordance with his changeable nature, soon tired of the praise. He was broken in mind and spirit. Some eight days after the massacre, deep in the night, he called for his brother-in-law, Henry, King of Navarre. When Henry reached the king’s chamber, he found him standing on the floor. Charles feerishly declared that screams and cursing and sighs had wakened hini. Henry listened and he too believed that he heard strange noises coming from the streets. Men were sent out to see whether there was a fresh uprising of the mob. They returned with the repoort that all was quiet in the streets but that the air was filled with strange sounds like those on the day of the massacre.

The blame of the great crime does not rest with any single person.but with all who were connected with it. The party of Catharine de’ Medici carries most of the guilt. They planned the murder of a few of the Hugenot leaders and the Parisian mob made a general massacre of it. Catharine’s evil spirit prompted the whole 115

thing. Her character was such that she dragged the whole court with her in her indifference as to the means she used to gain her ends. She wanted to be rid of Coligny’s influence over the king, so that she could control him undisturbed. The blame due to Charles IX. is bound up with his faults of character. His brutal manners and his lack of moral strength made him a prey to the bad influences of his mother and the court. He was pulled into the massacre against his will and as soon as it was over he was filled with bitter remorse. The victims are not altogether free from blame. The whole period from 1562-1598 was filled with chronic sputterings of violence on their part as well as on the part of the Catholics. Although they wanted only what was right, freedom to worship as they saw fit, they demanded it in a way so thoroughly arrogant that compromise was impossible; and they made it clear that if they were to come into power, the Catholics would not be able to live peaceably with them.

St. Bartholomew’s night was the signal for the fourth civil war. The reaction caused by the massacre brought a third party, the Politiques or Moderates, to the front and the Hugenots, whose principles remained even though their leaders were lost, joined the ranks of the Moderates. The court took up the war reluctantly, for war was a confession that they had gained nothing by the massacre.

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Jolly chap. I understand, quite some way in his day. Of course, nowadays there isn’t much call for his stuff. Still five pounds ...

He made this..........Sir George Armitage made this.”

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HeM have to get rid of this funny old duck somehow— The old gentleman had gripped the figurine tightly and with a quick movement of his pliant wrist had hurled it at another of Sir George Armitage^ groupes—a large one. done in bronze— which stood just at the entrance to the next aisle. As the china clattered noisely against the bronze, the old gentleman rocked glee­ fully on his .toes. “Five pounds! Five pounds! Where’d I get five pounds?” he cackled. “A man sold his soul for five pounds.

Five pounds—’’lie lurched forward. He lay there still, harmless, quite dead.

One of the mob, which had gathered一an old man of possibly the same age as the deceased—informed them simply, in a hushed, awful voice, “That man—That man. That, you see, that was Sir George Armitage!”

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“AGNES BERNAUER” ALS EIN DRAMA DER GLEICHEN BERECHTIGUNG Den Stoff, den Hebbel in seinem Drama “Agnes Bernauer” verarbeitete, hot ihm das tragische Schicksal der Augsburger Baderstochter gleichen Namens，die am 12. Oktober 1435 durch Ertraenken in der Donau hingerichtet ward, 'veil sie eine heimliche Ehe mit dem Thronerben von Bayern eingegangen war. Ende 1851 trat Hebbel mit diesem Werk vor die Oeffentlichkeit zu einer Zeit, da Deutschland noch erregt war von den revolutionaeren Gedanken 117

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Gleichberechtigt sind sie alle, das heisst die Hauptpersonen der Handlung: der alte Herzog ICrnst, der junge Herzog Albrecht, sowie auch Agnes, der Engel von Augsburg. Werden sie aber hartnaeckig aut ihrem Recht bestehen, so muss das Staatswesen in die Brueche gehen.

Wir haben also in “Agnes Bernauer” ein Beispiel zu der Form der gleichen Berechtigung, (lie Hebbel in seinen spaeteren Dramen mit Vorliebe gebrauchte im Gegensatz zu der althergebrachten Form der Schuldtragoedie. Nun wollen wir darauf achten wie er den Gedanken der Glefchbercchtigung in diesem Drama durchgefuehrt hat.

Der junge Herzog Albrecht ging nach Augsburg, um dort an einem Turnier Teil zu nehmen. Da begegnete er der wun^erschoenen Agnes Bernauer, der Tochter eines armen Baders. Sie war eine solche liebliche Jungfrau und hatte eine solch angenehme Persoenlichkeit, class der junge Herzog sich sogleich in sie verliebte und sie um ihre Hand bat. Agnes Bernauer lehnte zunaechst den Antrag ab; denn sie erkannte zu gut, welche boese Folgen eine solche Verbindung nach sich ziehen koennte. Albrecht wollte aber nichts davon hoeren, und trotz der Ermahnungen seiner Freunde, die die politischen Folgen eines solchen Schrittes wohl erkannten, und obgleich der Vater schon eine Gemahlin fuer ihn ausgesucht hatte, naemlich (lie Prinzessen von Braunschweig, heiratete er Agnes doch und huehrte sie auf seine Burg zu Straubing. Der Vater hatted diese Ehe mit der Prinzessen von Braunschweig zu dem Zweck verabredet, dass endlich die vergeblichen Kaempfe und Streitigkeiten aufhoeren moechten. Diese dauernden Streitigkeiten zwischen den Fuerstenhaeusern waren eine grosse Gefahr fuer das Herzogtum Bayern; haette der Sohn nur getan, was der Vater bestimmt hatte, so waeren alle diese Gefahren beseitigt gewesen, und das Land waere zur Ruhe gekommen. Der junge Herzog dachte a.ber nicht an das Wohl des Staates, denn fuer ihn war der Staat em abstraktes Ding und von geringer Bedeutung. Er betont sein gutes Recht so zu handeln: “Worauf sollte Gott die Welt gebaut haben, wenn nich auf das Gefuehl, was mich zu dir zieht und dich zu mir?” Deswegen liess er auch die Prinzessen von Braunschweig entfuehren und vermaehlte sich mit Agnes. Diese Ehe versetzte nun den Staat in eine gefaehrliche Lage; denn der Fuerst von 118

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Da der alte Herzog nun sahe, 'vohin dies fuehren wuerde, suchte er schnell einen Ausweg, indem er seinen Sohn enterbte und seinen Neffen Adolf zum Thronfolger ernannte. Das war keine leichte Sache fuer den Vater, aber er musste es tun; denn der deutsche Adel haette Agnes niemals als eine Herzogin anerkannt.

Sofort haette es einen Aufstand gegeben. Herzog Ernst war also bereit seinen Sohn zu opfern, aber das Schicksal nahm das Opfer nicht an, denn der Junge Adolf starb bald darauf, und das Herzogtum war wieder ohne Erben. Wass sollte er nun tun ? Nun befand er sich wieder in einer kritischen Lage. Es gab nur einen Ausweg, und der war schrecklich. Agnes und Albrecht mussten getrennt werden—aber wie sollte das gemacht werden ?—Sein Kanzler Toerring machte den Vorschlag, dass man Agnes heimlich entfuehre und sie dann in einem Kloster verstecke. Dieses aber Hess der edle Sinn des Herzogs nicht zu, denn das wuerde nur eine ungesetzliche Verbindung mit der Prinzessin von Braunschweig zur Folge haben—Der einzige Ausweg war clieser:—Agnes musste sterben! — Dies wurde sogleich beschlossen; Herzog Ernst unterzeichnete das Todesurteil, under Beschluss wurde sofort ausgefuehrt. Waehrend Albrecht von seiner 13urg abwesend war. nahmen die Gesandten des Herzogs Agnes ge fan gen und stuerzten sie in die Donau. Das war das tragische Ende der wunderschoenen Agnes, die keine Schuld hatte als die ihrer Existenz, dass sie (lurch. ihre fast ueberirdische Schoenheit das Herz des Herzogs gewonnen, dass sie den Mann, den sie liebte geheiratet, und class sie nun am Ende sich vor den Richtern weigerte, ihre Ehe dadurch zu entehren, dass sie sieh fuer eine erzwungene erklaerte. Ihre Ant wort war: “Ihr bringt euer Opfer nicht so weit, dass es sich selbst befleckt.”

Nun koennte man die Frage stellen : Wer hatte denn eigentlich Schuld an diesen • Handlungen ? W er war ini Rechten一Al­ breclit Oder sein Vater, der Herzog ?—Nun diese Frage zu beantworten muss man die Sache von z'vei verschiedenen Gesichtspunkten betrachten, erstens vom Gesichtspunkt des Sohnes und dann anderseits vom Gesichtspunkt des Vaters. Dann kann eiii jeder fuer sich selbst sein eignes Urteil faellen. Wenn die demokratisch Gesinnten die Verhaeltnisse ansehen, dann nehmen si sogleich ohne Zweifel den Sohn in Schutz. Sie verdammen die Handlung des Vaters als ganz ungerecht und unmoralisch. Das ist leicht zu verstehen, denn die Demokratie tritt stets fuer das Recht des Xndividuums ein. Sie sagt, dass alle Menschen mit gleichem Recht geboren sind, und deswegen hatte Albrecht auch ganz Recht, die zu heiraten, die er liebte, wenn sie auch von einem niedrigen Stande kani. “All men are created equal,” ruft die demokratische Sinnes119

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Vom Gesichtspunkt des Herzogs und cles damaligen Staates ist die Hinrichtung von Agnes aber auch gerechtfertigt, derm nach den damaligen politischen Gesetzen hatte das Individuum gar keine Bedeutung. Der Staat war alles. Darum hatte auch Herzog Ernst vollstaendig Recht in seiner Handlungsweise, denn sein Pflichtgefuehl gegen den Staat verlangte es von ihm. Im an fang tat Ernst das Aeusserste, was ein Individuum leisten konnte, um die schauerliche Hinrichtung zu verhindern, aber alle seine Bemuehungen waren umsonst. Das Reich waere in Stuecke gegangen und Buergerkriege waercn sofort entstanden, wenn es nicht Agnes beiseite geschaft und in dieser Weise den Sohn wieder auf rechte Bahn gefuehrt haettc. Wie schon gesagt—das Individuum hatte gar keine Bedeutung—Wie herrlich und gross, wie schoen und edel es immer sei, immer musste es sich zu der Zeit unter alien Umstaenden der Gesellschaft beugen. Das waren eherne Gesetze, die nicht mit einem Schlage umgestossen werden konnten. Wenn wir ims nun in die Lage des Herzogs denken, muessen wir bekennen, dass er auch im Rechten war.

So zeigt uns also der Dichter, wie die drei Hauptpersonen in iliren Handlungen von ilircm individuellen Standpunkt aus gleichberechtigt sind, und zugleich sehen wir, wie die Tragik daraus entsteht, class diese Gegensactze aufeinanderprallen. Und von der Wucht dieser Tragik wird auch der alte Herzog niedergedrueckt, denn er steht am Ende vor uns als ein gebrochener Mann, der ein schweres Tagewerk hinter sich hat, der nun lebensmuede seine Ruhe im Kloster sucht.

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It was only a broken, crushed remnant of the former me that the relentless sweep of water now seized and thrust along at break­ neck speed, whither I knew not. My fright-bleared eyes saw huge hard things, mountains of things, swirling along in the flood. They crashed into me, submerged me in the gurgling waters, tossed me into the air. Then, abruptly, the very substance underneath dis­ appeared, and huge, black, bottomless holes, innumerable cavities, passed under me. I shuddered. Were they graves or the pits of hell?

Suddenly I was flung against a wall, and the motion of my course was shifted. I was whirled round about dizzily in a circle— once, twice, three times—and each swing pulled me nearer to those fearful black holes. I closed my eyes, rolled myself up into a ball, and gave up all hope.

Then came the greatest surprise of all. A shift of the whirl­ ing waters cast me forth from the jaws of those dismal holes, hurled me far and high upon a steep hillside. I clung to that surface; I clung though the wall was steep and slippery and hard. I began to climb, but, oh, how painfully, how slowly! Centuries> passed, and I reached the top of the wall. My whirling brain had just enough order in it to tell me that I was safe. Safe! My heart leaped for joy beneath those crushed and mangled ribs.

I suppose by this time you, O reader, have conjectured who I am and what is this strange tale of mine. Yes, most clever thinker, you have guessed correctly. I am an ant; perhaps I should say only and ant. But ant I am, and I had recklessly wandered into that dread chasm so horribly depicted in ant mythology — —the kitchen sink.

ATLANTIS Was there ever an. Atlantis ? This question is not only asked today, but has been the topic of argument in times past. Plato has written, geologists have argued, and history has said nothing about it. What was it supposed to have been?

It was supposed to have been a huge island, yes, even a continent lying between the mainlands of Europe and America just northwest of the north African Coast. Plato states in his “Timaeus” and “Critias” that it was the seat of a highly civilized peo­ ple who at one time conquered the entire Mediterranean basin with the exception of Athens, who later subdued them in a naval battle.

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It seems highly improbable that the civilization of America, especially that of Central and South America, should so nearly re­ semble that of Egypt, both in its art and masonry, unless the immi­ grants had come to the Americas by some direct route, that of the most probable and easiest, namely, Atlantis. It hardly seems pos­ sible that these people came through China and over the Bering straits, because the civilization found there, although even at that time a very high one, bears no resemblanc to that of the American Indian. Did they not use the sign language which can be related to none other than the Egyptian hieroglyphics? Was not a pyra­ mid built at Cholula, Mexico, which resembles Khufu’s structure in shape and masonry ?

These are not the only proofs or theories, or whatever they may be called.

In 1923 the Western Union telegraph company startled the world. Searching- for a lost cable which had been laid certain spot twenty-five years before, they sounded the depths at the exact spot and found to their astonishment that the ocean bed had risen to a height of almost TWO AND ONE-QUARTER MILES. This shows volcanic disturbance in the bed of the At­ lantic. Could not Atlantis have sunk beneath the waves through a similar accident ? To further this theory geologists have sounded the ocean bed of the coast of Northern Africa and southern Europe and found that the Atlantic is practically at its shallowest between Northern Africa and America. Plato states that a mountain range lay on the north side of the island and a green plain on the south.

1 l)e peaks of the former mountain ranges are now thought to com­ prise the Azores.

Schliemann, who dreamt of Troy and unearthed it, also had a firm conviction of the existence of Atlantis. What shall we say about it? Did it go down in the flood? Could it not have been Eden as well as Mesopotamia ? Couldn’t the Ark have floated from there and been grounded on Ararat ? And couldn’t Noah then have settled in Mesopotamia ? These questions are all to be answered, but who can answer them ?

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I ANTIC AND ANTIQUE Mr. Hardcastle, in Goldsmith’s “She Stoops to Conquer,” drawls his typically English preference for conservatism in the lines: “And I love everything that’s old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine; m any .people have a passion for old things. And indeed they are quite justified in liking old customs, conventions, styles, and manners, if these are good and honorable.

Who could venture to deny me the privilege of wearing a coat of ring-mail and a sheet metal helmet on Main Street, Watertown, in Madison, Fond du Lac or Milwaukee, if I chose to do so? Who dares demand that any peaceful citizen desiring to wear a powdered wig, a lace-cravat, a cocked hat, or even a cod-piece, remove it?

Surely one might through such eccentricities receive inquiries as to the “where” of the masque ball or attract a long line of pathological psychologists itching for an experiment to one’s heels. But that neither adds nor subtracts from the object in view. Again, show me the man who would force a severe old spinster to sew an eightinch hem in her skirt, to remove her leg-o-mutton sleeves, her choker, her bustle, or one of three petticoats if she chose to wear them.

With others this passion is not so pronounced. One would never see them wear even a pair of English walkers. And yet they delight in delving into old things; they admit, nay, even affirm the fascination in relics; and enjoy the aroma of moth-balls far more than the insence from the priest’s censer; they cherish anti­ quated garments, dresses, papers, books, and mill-dewed remnants.

The writer has recently heard of a carpenter who enjoyed houseshingling for this very reason. For thus through the rafters he could see a variety of pleasant objects, an old baby buggy, perhaps woven with many scrolls and having an embroidered or crotcheted umbrella, empty whiskey bottles, trunks crammed with old pictures, ruffled dresses and games; here a toy fire department, there a teddybear, whose excelsior protruded sadly from various parts of its little yellow frame, dolls with amputated arms and legs or heads, tar­ nished oil lamps with florid globes, an Empire settee, two or three old Chippendale chairs with red plush upholstery, old magazines and books. Books. That brings us to our subject.

While rummaging through a heap of heterogeneous rubbish, we discovered a stray copy from Neely’s Tourist Library. But when Mr. F. Tennyson Ne'ely, publisher, 96 Owen Street, London, placed number 36 of his series, “The House of the Seven Gables,” on tpe shelves o.f his emporium his mind clid not have the same con­ ception of “tourist” that we have. Upon reading that word he most likely thought of straw suit cases, wooden coaches and hackneycabs, whereas when that word is mentioned to people of 1929 there 123

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The volume before us has not yet reached the half century mark, although it bears that appearance—yellow, crumbling pages, a broken back, a torn title page and a faded cover. Indeed, when its ink was still fresh it must have presented the appearance of one of those famous Horatio Alger IBooks we occasionally find on Woolworth counters for ten cents, or on the bargain counters of village drug-stores for fifteen cents the copy, or two for a quarter.

Upon opening the cover we find an advertisement of Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly. The magazine is priced at twenty-five cents per month, and a premium is offered with each subscription.

Promises of vast improvements and new features are printed in bold-faced type. A new serial story is to follow the “Catspaw,” which latter will end shortly. The “Special” is most interesting.

One need but mention this publication, namely, the Neely Tourist Series, ancf a specimen copy of the modern Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly, with Illustration Premium List, will be sent for ten cents, with a Beautiful Colored Art Plate (12 x 30 inches), “A Yard of Pansies or A Yard of Poppies/* for twenty cents, stamps or coin.

For information regarding the body of the book, Hawthorne’s sto % we refer the reader to any senior of the college, n the inside of the back-cover a special offer for a limited time is proffered the readers of this book. “For thirteen trade­ marks from the outside wrappers of either laundry size of Dobbin’s Floating-Borax, or. laundry size Dobbin’s Electric Soap, or twenty tra?e marks from the small size Dobbin’s Floating-Borax or Dob­ bin s Electric Soap, will be given a portfolio entitled BEAUTIFUL PARIS” This superb work of art is in twelve portfolios, sixteen pages, 13% x 11 inches, in each portfolio. Photographs full-page size that c?st $100,000. Nothing like them in the world. A fascinating history of a remarkable people, and a pictorial representation of tjje most splendid city of the earth. No house should be without the full set of twelve portfolios, [two hundred and forty wrappers o[ the small size] and until the edition is exhausted, they will be 緊ven. absolutely free to users of Dobbin’s Electric and Dobbin’s Floating Borax soap, etc., etc. In sending for Portfolios, always specify which number you received last. They were imported to be given for twenty and forty wrappers, but for a limited time, we reduce them to thirteen and twenty wrappers, as above. A handsome case bound in cloth, with gilt letters to hold the twelve port124

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We believe we are also in a position to answer that modern flapper, who, when her grandfather deplored the sad lack of blushes in today's feminine youth, and p raised them in the women of two or three decades ago asked: ,4But Grandpa, what did you say to them?” Evidently “grandpa” did not tell them anything else than flaming youth does today. Here is the secret—Laird’s Rose Blush for cheeks, sent by mail on receipt of twenty-five cents or postage stamps. Furthermore, there is Laird’s Bloom of Youth; the the­ saurus of school-girl complexions. The Secret of Beauty. **Act­ resses, Opera Singers, Society—Ladies, and in fact every lady de­ sires to be considered handsome. The most important adjunct to perfect beauty is a clear, smooth, soft, and beautiful skin. Ladies afflicted with Tan, Freckles, Rough or Discolored Skin and other Blemishes should lose no time in applying this old established and delightful toilet preparation.

It will immediately obliterate all such imperfections and is per­ fectly harmless. It has been chemically analyzed by the Board of Health of New York City, etc.一take nothing else. Price, seventyfive cents per bottle.”

Such is this interesting little volume, gem from the later years of the Victorian Age.

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“DONO” Spectators were somewhat surprised last June to see members of the class of ’29 doff shirts and grab pick and shovel; various conclusions were reached by the uninitiated and those too modest to ask what all this physical exertion of the workers meant. If it was not gold, coal, iron, lead or China, they were seeking, what else could it be—the lost funnel of knowledge? Deep, and deeper sank the diggers. At last only shovelfulls of red earth hurled into the air bore proof of the delvers. If the quest were for treasure troves, why did Captain Kidd empty such “circuitous’ methods 1 Why did he not dig a rectangular pit and sink his booty and the “tellers of no tales” into that; why dig in a semi-circle? To tell you out and out, to avoid all this wordy circumlocution—the process exciting our wonder was the excavation for the base of a new semi­ circular bench of white cement which the seniors were planning to present to the college as a gift. The thirteenth day of June came, commencement came, the new bachelors left the alma mater and the new settle was not yet there. However, this fall we were pleasantly surprised by the new gift. The half-circle is about eight feet in diameter, and the back-rest about two feet high. The seating space is on the inside of the periphery. Two classical masks $re prominent ornamental features. The new philosopher’s throne is placed south of the auditorium, and faces the north dormitory.

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Because this method has not proved entirely satisfactory to the larger universities a new method is being tried. This is the third stage, a stage which introduces the individual student as the center, making him a partner in learning to the professor, allow­ ing him to sit at a table with the professor and a limited number of fellow students to discuss English, Latin, Physics, not as any department of study, but to discuss them all at random, letting one subject lead up to the other. It tries to bring that word, democ­ racy, into learning—not a freedom in choosing the subject, but placing those of equal learning ability in a class by themselves一 thus giving the brighter student a more rapid chance for advance­ ment. The idea in itself is a good one but I think we should not call it a new idea, let us rather call it a reproduction of the “schools” of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle in so far as the method of teach­ ing goes, and should the method work out as well as those “schools” did, it should prove to be a good one.

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} Abbetmeyer and Mary, nee Bosse. In 1873 the family immigrated to America, settling at Courtland, Minnesota. The next year the Abbetmeyers removed to Nicolett, Minn. Here the demised re­ ceived his grade-schooling and confirmation, after which he en­ tered Northwestern, receiving his degree from the college in 1888.

Several months of teaching at Kirchhayn, Wisconsin, followed. In the autumn of 1888 he entered the Lutheran Seminary at Wauwa­ tosa, and after completion of his studies in 1890 received a call to East Farmington, Wisconsin. His next charge was at St. Paul, Minnesota, where he attended the university. From St. Paul he was called to the pulpit at Baltimore, Maryland; while here he at­ tended Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Abbetmeyer next occupied a position as professor of English at Concordia College, St. Paul, where he taught for eighteen years. In 1900 he took his degree of Dr. of Philosophy from the University of Minnesota. The subject of his thesis is “Old English Poetical Motives derived from the Doctrine of Sin.” Last year the deceased held a professorship in the English department at the new Lutheran Valparaiso University.

In the spring of this year he was called to Northwestern, and ar­ rived here on Commencement Day. On June 28，Dr. Abbetmeyer suffered a severe attack of pneumonia; death followed on the 16th of July. He is survived by his wife Mathilda, nee Meckelburg: four daughters: Mrs. Elmer Week of Chicago, Mrs. Karl Hauser of Milwaukee, Mrs. A. Selke of Dickinson, N. Dak., and Miss Mildred Abbetmeyer of Milwaukee.

The funeral was held July 19. The Rev. J. Klingmann and the Rev. G. E. Bergmann officiated. Interment took place at the Oak Hill Cemetery.

Dr. Abbetmeyer was known not only as a minister of thej church and as a teacher but also as a writer of Lutheran literature.

Some of his works are: “The Pastor in the Sickroom，’’ “Sermons on the Catechism,” “A Prayer Book,” “Lutheran Forms for Sacred Acts. 二” He also compiled our Liturgy ancl Agenda.

Miss Irmgard Dornfeld, 1914-1929 Last fall one saw among the coed students a very friendly little girl with long brown curls and brilliant eyes. A pleasant smile was never lacking. Her whole disposition was one of life, friendliness and pleasantry. Thus she was popular and well liked by all who were acquainted with her, ancl was also known as an exemplary student.

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Last February she was suddenly stricken with a severe illness, which after long and patient suffering on her part, was finally closed by death on June 18, at St. Mary’s Hospital in this city.

Funeral services were held from St. Mark's Lutheran church, the Rev. J. Klingmann delivering the German, and the Rev. W. Eggert the English sermon. The pallbearers were five Northwes­ tern students: Roland Schauer, Waldemar Thurow, George Nie­ mann, Herbert Fleischer, Martin Kacklatz, and a cousin Carl Thurow. The flower girls were four coeds: Ruth Bruesehoff, Dorothy Groth, Eleanor Stern and Arline Schumann.

The deceased is survived by her parents, the Reverend and Mrs. E. Dornfeld, a sister, Mrs. J. S. Uetzmann of Picketts, Wis., and three brothers, the Rev. A. C. Dornfeld of Marshfield, Adal­ bert Dornfeld, Lutheran Seminary, Thiensville, and Martin Dornfelcl, of this city.

Prof. Wm. F. Henkel, 1868-1929 Wilhelm Friedrich Henkel was horn in the province of Bran­ denburg, July 2, 1868. hi 1882 he came to America and for a year made his home in Norfolk, Nebraska. He then enrolled at North­ western College and after his graduation in 1889 acted as assistant instructor tor a year. He received his theological education at the seminary in Milwaukee. From that time until 1912 he worked ir. the ministry, holding1 charges at Wamvatosa, at Maple Creek, Wis­ consin, and at Morrison, Wisconsin. In 1912 he accepted a call to a professorship at his alma mater, which he held eight years. In 1920 he was called to the theological seminary at Wauwatosa, where he taught until his death.

In June, 1892, Professor Henkel was married to Miss，Emeline I3raun. Professor and Mrs. Henkel had one adopted son, Otto.

Last April a stubborn stomach disorder took a turn for the worse and Professor Henkel was forced to discontinue teaching.

Various attempts to find relief met with no success and the profes­ sor died on July 5. Burial services were held in Milwaukee, on July 8, Rev. John Brenner preaching the sermon. ,The deceased is survived by his widow, his son and his daugh­ ter-in-law, two grandchildren, two brothers, and a sister.

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—Prof. M. Sprengling, Ph. D., *94, of the University of Chicago, has gone to Anatolia with Prof. Von cler Osten to purchase a Semetic library. Since the inhabitants of the Asiatic country do not rec­ ognize the value of a bank draft, the party, traveling by Ford, finds it necessary to carry its money in gold.

—We announce the marriage of Rev. Walter Kleinke, ’24, to Miss Lorain Bartell; of Rev. Roland Hillemann, ’25, to Miss Grace Holzhueter; of Mr. Harold Schumann to Miss Gertrude Fleischer, Comm. ’25; of Mr. Edwin Faber, ex ’30, to Miss Mildred Volkmann, ex *32; of Mr. Rudolf Timmel, ex. *29, to Miss Evelyn Yaeck, ex. ’30; of Rev. Reinhart Bittorf, ’26, to Miss Martha Kuske; and of Rev. W. Westendorf, *24, to Miss Esther Schewe. 一We announce the birth of a son to Rev. and Mrs. Alvin Baer, *21, and the birth of a daughter to Prof, and Mrs. Gustav Westerhaus, ’08.

—Prof. W. Heidtke, *20, of Winnebago Lutheran Academy, Fond •du Lac, Prof. E. Kiessling, 917, and Martin Franzniann, ’28, attended at the University of Chicago during the summer months. Prof.

W. Schumann, ’12, Prof. E. Wendland, f06, and Prof. A. Sitz, *09, attended the summer session at the University of Wisconsin.

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Just my luck! The perversity of things. Here Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m supposed to write an exchange column and there are no exchanges in sight.

Evidently the editors of the various college magazines are still wondering how they can make their first issue most palatable to their student readers. "Po be sure, the Wisconsin Anti-Tuberculosis Association has had the kindness to present me with a copy of their Crusader. Now, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not putting any blame on the W. A. T, A., but I really could not find a bit of college news in their pamphlet, although I assure you that I tried hard. All this means that you simply wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get any exchange news this month. I wish that would be all that.it meant to me. But the editor insists that I write a. column. Well, I suppose the editor is right as all editors are, since the freedom of the press was established.

The question has often been asked : what constitutes the makeup of a good college paper? To lay down any set rules by which every paper that concerns itself with college life, must abide, would only start an argument that would never be settled. Perhaps the best thing that we could do is this: 1. To find some of the things that are wrong with college papers. 2. To mention a few of the better college papers and to show in which way they excel. 3. To see whether we cannot draw profit from their example in respect to our own Black and Red. The greatest fault of most college papers is their over-emphasis 0 . athletics. They seem to have copied the daily newspapers in this respect. The front page of any college or university periodi132

cal teems with news about coming athletic contests, with reflections on past events, with prospects for the next season and all the rest of the “sports-dope.” Now athletics have always been an impor­ tant phase of college life and should be. But to over-emphasize them, to carry them so far as to push the most important part of the college education into the background is a mistake. That this is actually being done is a fact. For verification consult America’s “quality magazines.”

A second fault of the American college publication is the dearth of literary and editorial columns and sometimes the utter lack of both. I feel sure that in every school there are students who are intelligent men and women and who are able to express intelligent ideas and opinions on the things that go on about them. That would give their paper plenty of local flavor without precluding the chance to expand their ideas to things of more general interest.

Then we might go on down the register and condemn what we do not like about certain people’s way of doing things. We wish, however, to show, now what we like about certain people’s way of doing things. A s one of the papers of the better sort I should like to mention “Stuc ident Life.” It is not strictly a publication of one college, but might well be taken as an example of 'vhat college papers could produce in a literary way. Most of its editorials and articles are excellent. It does not concern itself with athletic events and has no local color; but that would be quite impossible, since it is not published by one certain college or university, Another publication which is very good is the “Daily Cardinal,” published by the University of Wisconsin. Some of the editorials are really brilliant. There is plenty of local color and the athletics are not over-emphasized. About the same things can be said about the St. Joseph’s “Collegian.” They surely have some budding poets down there. If you don’t believe it, take a peek into their literary column.

Since we are so willing to find fault with other college papers let us look at our own Black and Red. Who can deny that few contributions are voluntary and are only given grudgingly because perhaps it is a particular person’s “turn to write.” Don’t you think we could freshen our literary department up a bit? And could not the editorial column be made a battle-ground for brilliant little arguments ? Why not, did you never think of that ? You’ve per­ haps heard all these admonitions before; but isn’t it true that most students think that the staff is there to do all the work? Isn’t it your paper just as well as the staff’s? Don’t feel that you don’t care what becomes of thQ paper, because you’ll most likely be just the one to kick if the issue isn’t “any good.”

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眶TICS BASEBALL Oil the afternoon of commencement day our baseball nine closed their season by playing the Alumni team. Northwestern, facing their own coach, Mr. Kleinke, on the mound, found difficulty in collecting hits and were unable to break a 3-3 tie, which occurred early in the game, until the last of the ninth. The final score was 4-3.

The lettermen for the season were Captain Sachs, Fritze, Cap­ tain-elect, Blumenthal, Buchert, Hellmann, Heyn, Kasch, Kneiske, Leersen» Raasch, and Witt.

FOOTBALL Shortly after our return approximately thirty candidates en— tered a strenuous football practice under the leadership of Coach Kleinke and Captain Haefner. Usually we found oiir problems in the backfield, but this year, however, we find an oversupply there.

Finding the line, especially the ends, weak, some of the extra fulls will be shifted to strengthen these positions. Besides our letternien of last year, we have some very promising new material as for instance Bill Fischer, a 208 pound fullback, who will however assunie a line position. Furthermore there is Witte, full of fight, 134

something we need. So all in all with such experienced fighters as Baumann, Bergfeld, Engel, Froelich, Heyn, Rutz, and Schultz in the line and such competent men as Captain Haefiler, Fritze, Kettenacker, Raasch, Schwerin, and Stuhr in the backfield, the out­ look for this season is very good, in spite of the fact that only a small number of students are out to represent our college on the football field. This may sound like an old line, but wait and see.

The following schedule has been arranged : Sept. 28—Beloit, there.

Oct. 5—Milwaukee Normal, here.

Oct. 12—Lawrence, here.

Oct. 19―Whitewater, here.

Oct. 26—Open.

Nov. 2—Lake Forest, there.

Nov. 8~Milton, there. _ Coach Franzmann, with thirty-four men in his charge, is moulding the preparatory team into shape. At this writing two games have been scheduled for the preps, the first on October 18 with Lake Mills at Lake Mills, the second with University Exten­ sion of Milwaukee, on October 26, but until now it has not been agreed upon where this game will he played.

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Hans Schultz enjoying a walk when two is excellent company and three’s a crowd.

Struck (with a ferocious look on his visage) crashing upper135

cuts and left hooks into the inoffensive atmosphere of the gymna­ sium.

—and familiar sounds: Kaspar’s “hearty” laugh.

Kasch : “Anyone got a cigarette?”

Sippert: “Who’s going out tonight?”

Eckert: “The Preparatory Department will appear on the gridiron immediately after dinner.”

Kettenacker: “I’m going to sign you up for the smoking club.”

C. Trapp: “I’m going to be out for supper.”

Do any of you new students want to take “Doc” Peters: piano or organ lessons ?

The first week of school has been enlivened by the usual num­ ber of “fakes” to trick the new students. One Sextaner, for in­ stance, condescended with the utmost innocence to go over to Dr. Ott’s home to get the key for the sun dial. A more original idea was the campaign for subscribers to the “Daily Northwestern,” a paper which never did exist in this college. By using a copy of the Oshkosh paper of the same name as a bait, editor-in-chief Koeh­ ler, sport and society editor Struck, and comic writer Bergfeld man­ aged to obtain twenty-five subscribers, ranging from Sextaners to Juniors. Editor Koehler wishes to announce that his victims may call for their twelve cents in room 68.

Cop” Bleiclnvelil has l)een a man of mystery ever since school began. Every afternoon he vanishes from the campus in a most puzzling manner. All questions elicit only the vague and gener­ ally doubted reply that he has been planting strawberries. Call in the detective force, please.

A Tragedy in Three Scenes Scene 1. Setting: Train entering Watertown.

Time: Morning of September 3, 1929.

“Lusch” (sleepily): “Well, are we here already?”

(The train has stopped.)

Addie (still more sleepily): “Nah, they’re only switching around a little.

Scene II. Profound snores, clatter of train.

Conductor: “Oconomovvoc! Next station, Oconomo'voc!”

Lusch (waking up) : “Blank, blankety, blank!’’

Addie (also waking up) : “Ditto.”

Scene III. Setting: The two heroes are making a delayed rush for a return train to Watertown.

Addie and Lusch (in unison): “Absolute silence.”

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Every eligible man was out for football practice the first night.

The captain, Robert Fuge, gave his squad a stiff workout, which signifies that the team means business this year. The players showed remarkable zeal in trying to master the fundamentals of the game. If this spirit of things continues to flood the campus we can be truly optimistic concerning the prospects for Sexta’s football team. . « . „ Nearly a week after the official opening of school Hic_” Schultz came dribbling around to join his classmates. It is said that he spent the last week looking for the golf balls which he lost during the summer. .

Our eccentric friend Harold Guth has evidently not lost one scintilla of his exclusive temperament. In the autumn of his Tertia year he abruptly quit school, you will remember, and he has been in northern Wisconsin ever since. This fall he again enrolled on the first day and promptly broke relations on the same clay. He returned to northern Wisconsin.

The victim of one of the first serious accidents of football practice this season was _‘Slim” Baumann. He was forced to spend day in the infirmary when an injury to his leg resulted in a hemor­ rhage. The injured limb is now recovering, however.

A state law has been passed which concerns nearly every sludent at Northwestern, namely that all hitch-hiking, or “shagging,” is prohibited on penalty of $10.00 for first offense. Since nearly all of us have at some time or other used this means of travel, it is perhaps worth while to mention the new law here.

Among the more unusual occupations of the students during the summer recess was that of Paul and Luther Schliesser. They acted as caretakers in a feeble-minded home. Paul wishes to announce that, on the grounds of his experience along that line, he will give a mental examination free to anyone in the building af­ flicted with insomnia, lovesickness, lack of appetite, or any other mental disease. Paul has great confidence in his knowledge and skill because he cured his dachshund this summer.

By the time this issue is published the green caps will be bobbing up here and there on the campus. The “Freshies will evince their general attitude of condescension by “buttoning” to the Sophomores for eighteen days. At present the Sophomores are ftendishly gloating over the near-future assertion of their “superiority.”

Let us offer a libation to the Sextaners for the delightful enter­ tainment they have given us in these first weeks by their naive con­ ceptions. The other day one of these solemn-faced entertainers de­ cided that he would have to exercise his lips by whistling- in order to increase his eating efficiency.

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Teacher: “When did Edward Krueger make his famous mud puddle swim?”

Johnny: “He performed the feat during the heavy rain of Sep­ tember 9, 1929, and a complete change of apparel followed.”

Teacher: “And the result of that?”

Johnny : “He hung a sign above his door which read: "Swim­ ming lessons— —Cutie Krueger. Office hours, any rainy day.”

“Doc” Peters, by authority of his position as monitor in room 27, has issued a few unprecedented decrees for his roommates. No person shall, during study hours, visit with the three “preps” who have been intruster to his shielding care. If any person feels it absolutely necessary to transact business with one of these “preps,” he must state his mission to the monitor and ask the monitor’s: leave to speak to the person, very briefly, and outside of the door.

No report of sedition or bloodshed has as yet been recorded.

We were greeted by many new coeds this year, although the total enrollment does not equal that of last year. The new coeds are :Mirna Albrecht, Margaret Breitzmann, Catherine Coogan, Elizabeth Faber, Gladys Hallet, Bernice Kieck, Lucille Kohlhoff, Lillian Lutovsky, Eugenia Meyer, Inez Nienow, Adele Nommensen, Myrtle Paap, Elaine Schimmel, Margaret Stern, Lillian Trapp, Viola Vorlob. Mrs. T. M. Lewis is doing special work here this term. ， Much can be； said of our former coeds. Margaret Schmeling, *29, has duties as principal at a school in Madison. We extend our wishes for a successful year! Leona Priem, Marie Hilgendorf.、 今lice Dierker, and Catherine Gormley are studying at the Univerof Wisconsin. Mildred Volkmann became the wife of Edwin Faber, and Evelyn Yaeck, who discontinued her studies here a year ago, was married to Rudolph Timmel. Hearty congratulations, and best wishes for their happiness!

L^Verne Zorr entertained at her home for Mrs. E. Faber.

Many of Mrs. Faber’s classmates attended.

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Katherine Gormley paid us a visit recently.

Our new secretary and treasurer, Gertrude Wendland, is very busy collecting money and clearing the coeds of any debts.

Everyone is looking forward to an enjoyable and busy year.

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Golf club secretary: “I say, you know you simply musn’t drive off from in front of the box. You can drive from as far be­ hind it as you like, but you mustn’t drive from in front of it!’’

Kaspar: “Drive! this is my fourth stroke.” ♦ 氺氺 Prof.: “We’re all asleep today again, what’s the matter?”

Stude: “Yes, there are even flies on Schwerin.”

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Inexperienced market delivery boy: “Have they an account here?”

WASSER 1ST LIEBE (Wer’s nicht glaubt, kann’s lesen) Der Liebesgott heisst Amor; umgekehrt heisst er Roma; die Stadt Roma heisst auf Deutsch Rom; Rom rueckwerts geschrieben wird Mor (Mohr). Kin Mohr ist naemlich ejn Neger; Neger umgekehrt wird Regen, und Regen ist Wasser; also ist Liebe, Wasscr. 氺

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I completely lost my memory for a while. I know I have had dia­ betes and acute indigestion, besides gastritis, rheumatism, lumbago, and neuritis. I don’t know how I pulled through it. It was tlii hardest spelling test I’ve ever seen.

And now that have whistling golf balls which notify the owner where they are hidden, why not apply some such idea to the elusive collar button.

BREAKING IT GENTLY There came a hurried knock at the door and a voice made itself heard through the letter box.

Open up, Mrs. O’Malley—open up!”

Mrs. O’Malley opened the door quickly. On the steps stood her neighbor, crying softly.

“Oi’ve come to tell ye yer ’usband has met with an accident, Mrs.“O’Malley,” she wailed sadly. . <4Ah, to be sure, an’ phwat is ut now?” cried the other, anx­ iously.

“Och, the poor man was overcome by the heat, darlin’.’’

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‘Yis,. yis,” returned the bearer of the news earnestly. man fell into the furnace o, the foundry.”

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Daselbst erhob sich grosse Not, Viel Steine gab’s und wenig Brot.

Ein Wald verhindert bald den Weg, Die Kaempfer sind gar mued und traeg, Zur Ruhe gehen sie zur Nacht, Aus Blaettern wird ein Bett gemacht.

Doch einer graebt ein Loch gar tief, Dass er darin fuer immer schlief; Demi er hat sich schon besinnt, Dass man ihm morgen tot da find.

Doch als er noch beim Graben war.

Da stiess er auf was sonderbar, Er holt es raus, schnell wie der Blitz Er find’t, es ist ’ne Kiste “Schlitz” Und nun vergeht ihm Schmerz und Gieht Er ist freudig, bis der Tag anbricht.

Er ist niemals gestorben Er lebt darinnen noch heut Er hat vom “Schlitz” erworben Reclit schoene Freudigkeit.

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THE BLACK AND RED Volume XXXIII.

Watertown, Wis., Oct., 1929

Number 5

Entered at the Postoffice at Watertown Wis , as second class matter under Act of March 3, 1879. Published monthly. Subscription, One Dollar. _________

AUTUMN Ah, summer that I. have love(l, Impatient rover, I scarcely knew that you had come And now you are over....

White winter will come With his crystal hush And the river will be dumb Under snow and slush.

Ah, summer, you have grown old From your birth.

The oak leaf yearns for the cold Arms of earth.

Far upon a cloud-breast soaring The last birds go....

A harsh wind from the north sky roaring Woos the snow.

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RALPH ROISTER DOISTER The underlying cause for the revival of “real” drama over against ecclesiastical, is the renewed study of Greek and Latin play­ wrights, especially of Plautus, Terence, and Seneca. It is gener­ ally accepted that the play bearing the above title is the first mod­ ern English comedy and that its author was Nicholas Udall.

The playwright was born in Hampshire, circa 1504. In 1520 he was admitted to Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he took his A. B. in 1524. In the same year he was elected Probationer Fellow of the College. Here his learnings were decidedly Lutheran. In 1533 the pretty Anne Boleyn had the opportunity to be honored by verses composed by the young Fellow in collaboration with a certain John Leland. The next year he became headmaster of Eton, with the comfortable salary of £ 10 per year, approximately $50, or $25 a semester, or $12.50 a term, to speak in 仓toil’s style.

But the reader must not forget that the assumed multiple of fifteen will more truly express the relatively greater purchasing power of gold then than now. Edward Arber says, “In addition, however, he received twenty shillings for his “livery,” ami other small sums, as for obits (i. e. attending masses for the dead) and for candles and ink for the boys.” In 1537 he became Vicar of Braintree, which post he resigned in ’44. His intimate acquaintances with the “spleeny Lutheran,” Queen Anne, and with the Princess, after wards known as Bloody Mary, were of great advantage to the Lutheran vicar. From 1542 to 1545 lie was engaged with Mary and others in translating Erasmus’ ^Paraphrase of the New Testament” into English. The preface to “John” contains an interesting： account of the education of girls of the higher social class of his time. Disregarding its pertinence here, let us quote it: “ It is now no news in England to see young damsels in noble houses and in the courts of princes, in stead of cards and other instruments of idle trifling, to have continually in their hands, either psalms, homilies, and other devout meditations, or else Paul’s Epistles, or some book of holy Scripture matters; and as familiarly both to read or reason thereof in Greek, Latin, French, or Italian, as in English.”

Edward VI had strong Lutheran tendencies. Mary, his suecessor in ’53, remembered her coworker in the “Paraphrase,” and he stood high in her favor throughout his remaining years. In 1555 she appointed him master of Westminster School, which posi­ tion he held until she re-established the monastery there. His ap­ pointment, his dismissal and his death apparently occurred within two years.

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copy, now at Eton, has no title page, it is quite certain that Udall wrote the play. External as well as internal evidence seems to point to that. We know him to have been a diligent student of Plautus and Terence and an able playwright. In 1534-35 he issued from the Augustinian Monastery in London a tract called, “Floures for Latine Spekynge selected and gathered out of Terence.” Both Plautus and Terence receive honorable mention in his prologue.

The designation of the acts is in Latin, thus: Actus j., Scaena j. Stage directions appear in both English and Latin, as e. g.: uMadge Mumble crust, spinning at the distaffe. Tibet Talk apace, sowying. Annot Alyface knitting.” Many of these names, it will be noticed, are characteristic of peculiar qualities. The rimed couplet is used throughout, and the rhythm is halting.

The whole comprises five acts, in accord with the “Poetics” of Aristotle and the “Ars Poetica” of Horace; the fourth act, however, has eight scenes. That Udall was strongly influenced by the Romans is plainly seen in the very first act, in the charzicter of Matthew Merygreeke. We are reminded of the lamenting Parasite, Egasilus, in the first act of Plautus’ ''Captivi/* as he stand be­ fore the gate of Hegio. Truly, this sponging'* —— at the board of the rich was a popular Roman custom, and in the Greek cities in the “toe of the boot/* Petronius Arbiter tells us, this syncophantic parasitism was entirely in vogue.

Roister Doister is a character of wealth, wealth in braggadocio, airs and gold, who, If any woman smyle or cast on hym an eye, Up is he to the harde eares in loue by and by, And in all the hotte haste must she be hys wife.

He, too, can sing, “Tis joy that T long for, The beauty of women, Their ardent caresses, The love in their eyes.

After Merygreeke’s soliloquy on his merry sinecure life and his characterization of Roister Doister, the Nimrod of women, that worthy personage enters in a state of morbid despair, Come death when thou wilt, I am weary of my life.

I am sorie God made me so comely doubtlesse, For that maketh me eche where so highly fauoured And all women in me so enamoured.

Truly, ja man so favored commands a position of advantage. ^ But he must」have the aid of Merygreeke, who grasps the opportunity to flatter his patron and finally consents to try his skill. The re144

mauling scenes of Act I are taken up by Roister’s profession of love for Mistress Christian, not to her but to her maids, for where is there a better medium in such affairs than a maid. An early version of the “Spinning Song” in four verses appears here. The ditty is sung by three maids. Lack of space permits us to reprint only the first verse: Pipe mery Annot Trilla, Trilla, Trillarie Worke Tibet, worke Annot, worke Margerie.

Sewe Tibet, knitte Annot, spinne Margerie Let us see who shall winne the victorie.

The second act opens with a soliloquy of Dobinet Doughtie, page to Roister Doister. in which he tells how he must run night and day with notes to Widow Custance; whereas the young woman has strictly forbidden her nurse to accept any of the billet-doux.

Nevertheless, all of the servants of the wooed have been bribed by the ardent wooer; in fact, the menials, especially the women, whom he has promised change of dress daily, if he should marry Dame Custance, all look upon Roister as the new master.

In the third act we have the climax, the fulcrum upon which the whole plot is poised—a letter. To be sure, Merygreeke has been busy. What fatal steps have not letters, especially billet-doux, hastened, of what woes have they not been the immediate causes ?

How many things can’t one say in letters, which would be impudent were we facing the addressed, and which we afterwards regret?

Roister wasn’t a scholar. He hired a scribe to express his ecstatic and burning love in writing. The original is given here: Sweete mistresse, where as I loue you, nothing at all Regarding your richesse and substance: chiefe of all For your personage, beautie, demeanour and witte I commende me vnto you: Neuer a whitte Sory to heare reporte of your good welfare.

For (as I heare say) suche your conditions are, That ye be worthie fauour: Of no liuing man To be abhorred: of euery honest man To be taken for a woman enclined to vice Nothing at all: to vertue giuing hir due price.

Wherfore concerning mariage, ye are thought Suche a fine Paragon, as nere honest man bought.

And nowe by these presents I doe you aduertise, That I am minded to marrie you: In no wyse For your goodes and substance: I can be content To take you as you are: yf ye will be my wife, Ye shall be assured for the time of my life, I wyll keepe you right well: from good raiment and fare, 145

Ye shall not be kept: but in sorowe and care Ye shall in no wyse lyue: at your owne libertie, Doe and say what ye lust: ye shall neuer please me But when ye are merrie: I will bee all sadde When ye are sorie: I wyll be very gladde When ye seeke your heartes ease: I will be vnkinde At no time: in me shall ye muche gentlenesse finde.

But all things contrary to your will and minde Shall be done otherwise: I wyll not be behynde To speake: And as for all they that woulde do you wrong, (I wyll so helpe and maintayne ye) shall not lyue long.

Nor any foolishe dolte shall cumber you, but I, I, who ere say nay, wyll sticke by you tyll I die.

Thus good mistresse Custance, the Iorde you saiie and kepe.

From me Roister Doister, whether I wake or slepe, Who fauoureth you no lesse, (ye may be bolde) Than this letter purporteth, which ye haue vnfolde.

From the promises contained in the above excerpt, we may readily gather that Ralph Doister would be the acme of ideal husbands; surely, a woman could not refuse beauty, wealth and such elilegant qualities, such a complaisant disposition ? And yet the letter played irreparable havoc with his courtship; needless to say, he was in roiled spirits, and had he possessed a more energetic makeup, the poor scribe would have met with the end of his earthly existence: Yes, for although he had as many lilies As a thousande widovves, and a thousande wiues As a thousande lyons, and a thousand rattes A thousande wolues, and a thousande cattes, A thousande bulles, and a thousande calues, And a thousande legions divided in halues He shall neuer scape death on my swordes point Though I shoulde be torne therfore ioynt by ioynt.

Merj^greeke had played his trump. The letter C. Custance had received was this one: (It will be noticed that the trick lay in the perversion of the punctuation.)

Sweete mistresse where as I loue you nothing at all, Regarding your substance and richesse chiefe of all, For your personage, beautie, demeanour and wit, I commende me vnto you neuer a whit.

Sorie to heare report of your good welfare.

For (as I heare say) suche your conditions are, That ye be worthie fauour of no liuing man, To be abhorred of euery honest man.

To be taken for a woman enclined to vice.

Nothing at all to Vertue gyuing hir due price.

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And nowe by these presentes I do you aduertise That I am minded to marrie you in no wise.

For your goodes and substance, I coulde bee content To take you as ye are. If ye mynde to bee my wyfe, Ye shall be assured for the tyine of my lyfe, I will keepe ye ryglit well, from good rayment and fare, Ye shall not be kepte but in forowe and care.

Ye shall in no wyse lyue at your owne libertie, Doe and say what ye lust, ye shall neuer please me, But when ye are mery, I will be all sadde, When ye are sory, I will be very gladde.

When ye seeke your heartes ease, I will be vnkinde, At no tyme, in me shall ye muche gentlenesse finde.

But all things contrary to your will and minde, Shall be done: otherwise I wyll not be behinde So speake. And as for all them that woulde do you wrong I will so helpe and niainteyne, ye shall not lyue long.

Nor any foolishe dolte, shall cumbre you but I. I, who ere say nay, wyll sticke by you tyll I die, Thus good mistresse Custance, the lorde you saue and kepe, From me Roister Doister, whether I wake or slepe.

Who fauoureth you no lesse, (ye may be bolde) Than this letter purporteth, which ye haue vnfolde.

ACT IV. Custance’s betrothed, Gawyn Goodluck, is coming. Such is the news brought by Sym Suresby, his pag：e. The crowning- in­ cident of Roister’s next visit to the bouse of his beloved was his near bodily ejection from that edifice. But Doister was a man of martial spirit, and undaunted by his ill success as Romeo, and the obstinacy of his Juliet, he returned in a coat of mail cap-a-pie to force her to consent to a marriage. However, when he saw the scullery maids pitted against him with spits, his courage melted and his legs accomplished an escape.

ACT V. Sym Suresby had heard Roister’s vow of love for Custance, and had faithfully informed his master Gawyn, who, being a staunch believer in Livy and his “varium et mutabile semper femina>, idea and the precept, “ne credite feminis,” could not trust his love immediately. Had he lived a few centuries later he might have been heard sobbing in Verdi’s strain, “Oil, 'vie so truegerisch.”

But the misunderstanding was soon removed and Ralph Roister Doister and Merygreeke both received and accepted cordial invi­ tations to the wedding-.

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RADIO It is and has been popularly expressed that the radio and the “movies” will supplant the stage and the concert room where these come in contact with our educational and recreational sides of life.

That their growth has been phenomenal no one can deny; but that they will do as above mentioned is doubtful and improbable.

The radio’s threat is not very alarming. Radio has undoubt­ edly been a boon to many. To those who live far from larger cities and to whom the joys of music and the mysteries of opera are for­ eign, it has been a welcome addition and has assumed a prominent place in life’s routine. People residing in or about the greater communities become equally interested in the broadcasts. Con­ sequently, when the symphony orchestras, the bands, the pianists ami other soloists, prominent speakers, and the operas are billed for appearance in their towns, they wish to see the artists who have entertained them. Their interest has been aroused by the radio.

After having actually heard—O, let us say, a symphony orchestra, the deficiencies of the radio become evident. The most apparent, perhaps, is the human element. To see how the director gives the compositions their various shadings, to see and hear the various sections of the orchestra respond to his will gives one in­ finitely more pleasure than merely listening to the same selections over the radio. In the latter case it becomes a mechanical thing, a thing hard to attune one’s self to emotionally. The different musical colorings between pianissimo and fortissimo are readily distinguishable and easily noticed. But there is an absence of the vibrant life and animation that is present in the rendition when one is present. .

Ever since the inception of the cinematograph its advocates jiave maintained that in i)ut a few years spoken drama would meet it? demise. The art of acting as typified by the legitimate theater will not be relegated to the scrap-heap. As a matter of fact, it has gained new impetus in recent years.

There are few colleges and high schools in this country which are not represented by a “little theater” or some kindred associatioiL The larger institutions bo'ast of several. Cities too small be included in the itinerary of the “road companies” are supplied stock companies who remain in residence during the season, thus cutting expenses. The recent formation of acting “guilds” 148

and “players” has been beneficial to the stage’s well-being. These groups select only the best plays and present them regardless of cost and previous popularity. This is possible because of the reputation some of them have acquired and because they can readily sell subscriptions in advance, having the repute for giving only the better vehicles of theatrical expression.

As with the radio, the chief shortcoming of the Hollywood art is its lack of the human factor. The art of the playhouse is truly dimensional, while that of the “movie” is flat and empty, though it has perspective. The spectators actually see and Hear the perforiners in the former. In the latter, even considering- the “talkie^,” there is a certain lack of the intimate contact one is aware of in attending and witnessing a play.

There are many other arguments for the superiority of the Thespian art of the boards. The producers of moving pictures have, in the main, failed miserably in their choice of subject, They have evinced preference for insipid, vapid plots. This maiy be caused by economic reasons, but it is not helping the producers in their “fight” with the true histrionic art.

THE DAWN OF THE WICKED Twilight An hour Ionlg ere the stars are lit When owls awakee with wailing shrieks, When woods and waves breathe faintly, When gay-plumed birds their journeys cease And all men fain would sleep.

Bank Night Silvery, glittering stars dance out In merriment to help the moon.

The owl, annoyed, mourns soulfully While bright birds drowse near waves so mute And sleep enshrouds the weary. :

Night of Slumber Woods, winds, waves, beasts and man Throughout the earth indulge in sleep, Forgetful of anguish, turmoil and care.

Through all the earth? Men?—Nay, For there’s the figure of a stately one.

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Restless Night Queenly Dido fears dark shadows. 亇he ghastly Sycheus beckons一 She humbles her imposing height; Has she broken her binding vows To wed a travel-maddened mortal!

Dawn Flickering, waning stars depart—Aurora rushes out Winds and waves play hide-and-seek, And birds seek heaven’s misty dome.

All men are happy—all save Dido, For whence comes peace of a shattered pledge?

Catherine Jean Coogan.

L. S. S. AND C. The state of Illinois has twenty-six penal and charitable insti­ tutions, of which two are for the feeble-minded. The more important of the latter two is situated in Lincoln, Illinois, and is called the Lincoln State School and Colony. Although it is primarily an institution for the feeble-minded, it is also on the order of a re­ formatory, a state school, as is shown by the name. On June first, the institution had 2,511 wards, and prospects are good for a bigger and better enrollment after the building projects are completed.

Lincoln itself is a city of some fifteen thousand. Situated on three railways and the Mississippi Valley Highway, it is easily reached. The institution is in the southermost part of the city, immediately on the highway, occupying a space of two large city blocks.

It has numerous buildings. The main part is 1 called Center, the name being appropriate on account of its situation, ih巧 the doctors’ and clerks，offices. Two wings are connected with ie center. North Wing and South Wing, for boys and girls respec­ tively. Then there is a Recitation Hall, a chapel, a gymnasium, numerous garages and barns, a miniature fire department, a butc er shop, a laundry, a number of buildings where “bright boys ana girls are kept, as, Elmhurst, Honor Home, Forest Home, and Lo 1 tage for Boys.

If mention is made of the buildings, they are designated by their initials, as，E. H.，H. H., F. H. and .so forth .An . engine room, a carpenters’ shop, a brush shop, a paint shop, a tin shop, a bakery, and a few kitchens are also there, besides two wellequipped hospitals. In short, the institution is a small community.

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This summer, permission was granted by the state to erect eleven buildings on the farm. The overseers intend to remove the boys to the farm and keep the girls in the city. In years past they put the boys and girls together in the play-ground, thinking that mixed company would encourage decent and polite conduct, blit the experiment was a gross failure. Now the slogan is, the farther apart, the better.

Some of the inmates are not so difficult to handle as others, in proportion as they are more or less feeble-minded. In North and South Wing especially the attendants have the most trouble, because these inmates are not so helplessly feeble-inincled as. they are mean. The majority are picked off the streets in Chicago, Peoria, and Springfield. Many of these boys have served jail sentences, but because they proved to be too great a drain on the county treasury they were sent here. Once in the colony, they have a difficult time to get out, a release entailing tedious court proceedure.

In the Boys’ and Girls’ Cottages, on the other hand, are kept the really feeble-minded patients. A most pitiable sight are some of them. They sit all day, some quietly, others continuously mov­ ing or beating their heads. Many must be forced to go to meals.

The inmates are of the queerest kind. One has no sweat glands and is therefore covered with hideous, greyish scales. Another walks like an ape, body bent forward with swinging arms. He has a small narrow head with cropped hair. He cannot talk, but he understands a little English. On his right leg are grooves made by chains, grim souvenirs of his days as “ape-man” in a circus.

Added to all this is a peculiar habit of wrapping up his night gown into a “baby,” which he carries around. Another habit of his is to begin to dance when he hears music, especially organ music, be­ cause as an “ape-man” lie used to dance.

In the invalid-wards of the two hospitals, of which one is for the men, the other for women, are found sights which will not readily be forgotten. Many are bed-ridden because their bodies are stretched into the queerest contortions. Their legs or their arms are bent to one side, their head always turned' up, or they are otherwise deformed.

The patients are well cared for by the staff of doctors. Once a week they receive a physical examination, are bathed a few times in the week and are as well clothed as can be expected. A number of the patients learn various trades, as plumbing, brick-laying, bak­ ing and so forth. Some become quite accomplished, but these are gen­ erally orphans who have been put there by a heartless guardian.

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There are at present two “special” cases there. That is, these two instances have a few advantages over the rest. They both have a mentality over normal. Being above normal is as bad as being subnormal. The one is constantly jumping around, never quiet.

Both have the killing instinct and must be carefully watched. The younger, a child of eight, has the mentality of a fourteen-year-old.

Life in a certain way is more interesting there for them than at home. Once a week the saner ones attend private dances, another time they see a show, on a third night they hear a band con­ cert, and on Sunday they attend divine services.

Christmas, Easter, and July the Fourth are days to which the patients look forward. On this last Fourth of July there were games, races, and concerts all clay. At night there was a large dis­ play of fireworks. During- the course of the day 7,000 ice cream cones, 7,5CX) sandwiches, 384 dozen cup cakes, 420 gallons of iced tea, 280 gallons of ice cream were distributed, besides candy, chew­ ing gum, and cigars.

As most people know, politics plays an important role in Illinois.

To get into any state institution one must be recommended by a state official. Each governor places his own men in charge of the institutions; thus, four years is about the length of stay for a super­ intendent. At the L. S. S. and C. they are always doctors. The last superintendent was especially well liked because of his un­ assuming way, and his readiness to help any one in anything. His farewell banquet had more of a mournful than joyous spirit. supplies, Whenever any supplies are needed, as carpenter _ plumbing supplies, necessities for the Drug Room, they are boiight from Illinois firms if possible, to keep the money in the state, The drug and medical bill alone is yearly in the neighborhood of three thousand dollars.

Students work there during the summer as attendants, athletic instructors, or Drug-Room Assistants, and when the time has come to leave, they breath a sigh of relief, because it is most difficult work to watch and teach the inmates. One does not handle normal persons; therefore they must be treated differently. They are not to be beaten. The committee or party that issued that order were mere theorists, because that is, after all, the only way to keep order.

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FLAPPER “The world is going to the dogs.” This is what the older gen­ eration says when it views with alarm the many radical changes of the present generation. The older generation always talks of the “good old days” in contrast to the present age, popularly called the jazz-age. The modern girl, or flapper, especially, has been an ob­ ject of severe criticism to her elders. Let us briefly consider the flapper.

The flapper came in the wake of the automobile, the movie, the World War and woman suffrage. As a result of these she has obtained a freedom of which her mother or grandmother never dreamed.

It is true that in the matter of outward appearance a great change has taken place in the last two decades. The flapper wears her hair bobbed, and uses the aid of lipstick, powder, and rouge to increase the attractiveness of her facial features. Instead of wear­ ing dresses reaching to the ankle and sweeping the streets, the flap­ per wears sleeveless, low-necked dresses, reaching only to the knees, which give her perfect bodily freedom and are much more health­ ful than her mother’s or grandmother’s dresses were. Although her feet are sometimes abused by wearing high-heeled shoes, we should remember that the feet of her female ancestors were also abused by the shoes which were then in style.

The standard of conduct too has changed in the last few de­ cades, especially after the World War. The flapper does not think it wrong to go to parties or to other festivities without a chaperon, nor does she hesitate to be an all around good “sport.” But in one respect the morals of the flapper have improved over fhose of the former generation. She is more frank than they. The modem girl does not try to conceal anything, but openly discusses any prob­ lem of life which she has to face. This often shocks the sensibili­ ties of the comparatively large number of Victorian souls that have outlived the prim queen who represented their mental attitude. Yet it need not do so. For beneath her laudable frankness, in her in­ nermost heart the girl is just the same as she has been in the past.

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anlt drinking are two justified accusations brought ag ainst the modern ts of drinkiing bootleg whisgirl. Everybody realizes the bad effects key. As for “petting” and “necking,” are they not merely different words for the age-old actions of former times? Dyeing the hair, which is popular at the present time, is not worse than the hair used in the elaborate hair-dressing of former years; nor is getting a sun tan worse than the abnormal bathing suits of a few years ago which excluded the sun entirely.

The modern girls, besides, have a very important advantage over their mothers, and this is in respect of education. Most flap­ pers at the present time have at least a high school education, while many have the opportunities of attending a college or university.

This is one reason for the lack of understanding between the flapper and the older generation. The mother, not having had the oppor­ tunity for higher education, cannot understand the feelings and actions of the flapper. Therefore, instead of being her friend and adviser, she merely shakes her head and laments 'the shortcomings of the present generation. However, one thing lacking in the edu­ cation of our modern “sister” is the knowledge of the art of cook­ ing and sewing, two very important factors in making married life happy and successful.

Although the flapper usually receives a higher education and probably enters upon some career or other, yet she usually only continues in her career to enable her to support herself until she can marry comfortably and possss a homee of her own. Most flappers, after their marriages, are just as faithful wives and moth­ ers as their own mothers were, even though some may continue their career after their marriage. _ This then is the flapper. Is she worse, better, or on the same level, with her mother and grandmother ? We should like to 3ay she is just as good, if not better. Yet the question is not an easy one to answer. It may be that the passing years, bringing, as we hope, a closer acquaintance with the flapper, may make us change our present opinion.

W. H.

MEDITATIONS ON A FRIDAY NIGHT Twenty-one hours of grace!

Vague, terrible premonitions of impending tortures excite heart and soul of him who is to be initiated. Dread rumors of in­ conceivable brutalities, of agonized shrieks, of fiendish torment, 'ave darkened the sun for five weeks, and now the Freshman waits almost eagerly, yet fearfully, for the curtain to rise, that he may see his adversaries in their true ghostlike forms.

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Not many hours have passed since the envoy of the club mili­ tant delivered a series of grim commands, the first bei.ng“Go thou and make thee a paddle; of bass-wood shall: thou fashion it, making it one cubit in length, and the breadth thereof shall be of five fin­ gers. With sandpaper shalt thou smooth it, lest perchance the roughness give offense to one who thinks to use it.” The second command read: “Be thou at hand tomorrow night at the outer por­ tal of our conclave, stripped to the waist, wearing only a pair of cast-off trousers, and bearing in thy hand the lethal weapon which thou hast fashioned.”

My name also was pricked; to me also were these commands issued. As other hearts sank before the mocking eyes of this emissary from infernal regions, so also did mine.

In fancy I can see most vividly our group of five led under a series of smoke-stained arches into an open rectangle, brilliantly lighted. I see a great gathering of spectators hushed by our ar­ rival and delighting in our timid approach to the arena. I can even detect the foul odor of decayed fruits and vegetables heaped up before an audience eager to throw something at somebody.

A priod of great tension follows while the blindfold is being removed; they are waiting for something—anything that smacks of the unusual, the horrifying—to take place. Nor are they dis­ appointed.

As the unrepentant sinner on his deathbed visualizes all the horrors of perdition in a fraction of a second when he beholds the stony features of his Father Confessor before him, so I, and with me four others, see in a moment of time all the agonies that must be endured in the hour that lies before us, when the blindfold is raised and we meet the malevolent grin of our persecutors with our lifeless eyes, protruding from fear and the uncertainty of what is to come. Let us pass over the scene that follows.

Having survived the first ordeal, a second confronts us. We must visit the graves of the departed, or go to the abode of some unchained spirits pining for company im a certain deserted house at a great distance from the quick.

As've stumble along at any time after midnight, bent on our respective missions, and racked with pains, both of physical suf­ fering and of mental anguish, we try to image what our destination may hold for us of the grisly and unfathomable, having realized Only too well the relentless nature of a committee empowered to vex us. This second trial over, four years of pleasure lie before us: our demons lose their sinister aspects and mingle with us in good cheer. But when this joyful anticipation of the future is overshadowed by the dark haze of trials so close at hand, Vesuvius once 155

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The clock has struck twelveâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;only eighteen hours of grace!

J. R.

EXPERIENCE Ah, I have known a passionate swift grief Like that of sobbing,wind, and that of sighing breath; But now I know The sorrow of the falling leaf And the slow, stern mystery of death W. F.

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Some say it is education, others refinement. And the smart student calls it sophistication. It is none of these, and it is all of these.

A simple, necessary Freshman may be cultured, And the high and mighty Senior may have nothing more lo show for his labours than a half yard of sheep skin. Ergo, you don’t necessarily acquire culture with a B. A. And there are men and women who at school were “sharks” for knowledge and became stoop-shouldered anemics behind their books—ideal students of course—who are as far from being cultured as a flapper is from being a lady. Hence. knowledge is not culture. A woman may• be able to invite her guests according to Mrs. Beeckman, serve dinner according to the Ladies Home Journal, play bridge according to Whitehead, and still be blissfully ignorant of any form of culture. Consequently, re­ finement is not culture.

Culture is not the thing acquired, but the will to acquire, in short, it is a desire, a thirst, a longing. And its object is truth, wis­ dom, knowledge. It is an attitude toward life. A constant desire for a complete knowledge of man and nature, a noble and sincere effort to expand spiritually, and the will to attain perfection in mind and soul, these constitute that correct attitude toward life which is culture. Naturally, this presupposes sincerity.

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Thus we might epitomize culture as a sincere desire for selfimprovement, spiritual and mental.

F. LOCAL STATIC: The enthusiast, who yelps, “C’mon gang, show your College Spirit.

The chronical cynic who constantly revives and laments old stand­ ard deplorable situations of the campus.

The tradition worshiper who carries on the somewhat shady legends of famous graduates.

The classroom guffaws.

Co-eds* room at recess.

Loud mouthed floor monitors at 6.15 a. 111. .

The naive boors who burst into bedlam as soon as the bell rings for free periods.

The sophs who still croak 4<Button froshM; and the frosh who can not give up the brave habit of hanging their green caps near the tutors’ table during meals.

Soprano voiced sextaners singing in the halls.

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velli having participated in the games, but we imagine that if he did he played a foxy, clever game.

Giovanni De Bardi, an important Florentine newspaper man， wrote as follows in 1580: “The Calcio is a public game played be­ tween two groups of young men on foot, not armed, who playfully • compete in making a ball, by means of their feet, pass outside of a certain line back of the opposite group. The ball is mediocre in size, filled with wind, and the game is played purely for thei honor of winning.”

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ALUMNI ―We announce the birth of a son to Rev. and Mrs. A. Dornfeld, ’19, of Marshfield, Wisconsin; and we beg to announce that through an error the baby born to Prof, and Mrs. G. Westerhaus, ’08, was chronicled in last month’s issue as a daughter. The baby is a boy.

Alumni may be interested in knowing that a son was born to Rev. and Mrs. Richard Mueller of Arcadia, Wisconsin. Rev. Mueller acted as tutor at Northwestern during 1927 and 1928.

—Rev. Rudolph C. Horlamus, ’24，has moved from Rising City, Nebraska, to Broken Bow, Nebraska. He was installed at the lat­ ter place on August 25.

—Rev. G, Bergemann, 85, president of the Wisconsin Synod, has returned from a month’s trip to California. Rev. Bergemann and Rev. C. Buenger, ’94, of Kenosha, Wisconsin, preached at the seventy-fifth anniversary which the St. Mark’s congregation at Watertown celebrated on October 13.

—Among those alumni who attended the football game on Oc­ tober 5 were Rev. Charles Toepel, ’09, Manitowoc, Wisconsin; and Prof. Erich Falk, ’19, of Lutheran High School, Milwaukee.

—Former students of Northwestern who are continuing their education elsewhere are Alfred Peters, ex ’32, now attending at Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Ind; Oscar Hammen, J29, at­ tending at Wisconsin University; George Philips, ex ’33，who is in the experimental college under Dr. Alexander Meikeljohn at Wisconsin University; Victor Lehmann, ex ’33, Roland Schauer, ex ’33，and Gerhard koepsell, ex ’33，who are attending at Dr. Martin Luther College at New Ulm, Minnesota; and Theodore Otto, ex ■•: ’33, who is studying medicine at Marquette University.

—Among alumni who were seen on the campus recently are Rev. A. Gentz, ’22, of Powers, Michigan, who was at the home of his parents in Juneau, Wisconsin, for the baptism of his nephew; Rev. Edward Zell, '08, of Mishicott, Wisconsin; and Hilbert Dahms, ex ’30, who is a law student at Valparaiso University.

—We learn that a number of alumni have been trying with ill success to establish the whereabouts of Arnold Brandt, ex ’22. Mr. Brandt is at present working in Milwaukee, and the most reliable 160

information at hand states that he has been in Milwaukee for the past several years.

IN MEMORIAM Robert Paul Wolff, Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri, died October 3, 1929, at the Lutheran Hospital of cerebro-spinal meningitis at the age of twenty years, two months, and six days.

He is the son of Rev. Robert F. F. Wolff, ex ’01，and Alma nee Krueger, Cambridge, Wisconsin. Services were held at St. Louis, Cambridge, and Slades Corners. Interment was at the Slades Corners Lutheran Cemetery. The following pastors officiated: Rev. Palmer Janke, Fort Atkinson, Prof. Victor Bartling, Milwau­ kee, Prof. John Fritz, Dean of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, and Rev. Edmund Sponholz, Slades Corners. William Hillmer，presi­ dent of the Concordia Student Association, spoke words of sym­ pathy.

Robert Paul is a graduate of Concordia College, Milwaukee, and is known to many students of Northwestern College.

參pmitmtrg Notra Weit vom Getriebe der Welt, vom Laerm und Gedraenge der Grosstadt, vom Hasten und Treiben der Menschen, abgelegen, klein und scheinbar bedeutungslos liegt miser neues theologisches Sem­ inar. Es ist losgetrennt von den bedeutenden Ereig^iissen der Zeit, es nimmt keinen Anteil an dem, was die Welt bewegt. Es laesst wenig von sich hoeren, die Welt weiss kaum, dass es da ist. Und doch，'vie eine Stadt, die auf einem Berge liegt, nicht verborgen bleiben kann, so wird auch der Einfluss dieser Anstalt in die Welt hinausgehen. Von hier aus sollen Jahr fuer Jahr Leute in die Welt gesandt werden, die das einzige Mittel besitzen, das unsere morsche, faule Zivilisation erneuen kann, das dem jaehen Verfall der Sittlichkeit, dem allgemeinen Unglauben Einhalt tun kann. Hier sollen Maenner ausgebildet werden, die, wie Paulus zu Athen, furchtlos und ueberzeugt der weisen Welt entgegentreten koennen mit der Botschaft vom gekreuzigten Christo. Sie sollen den gToben, verzagten Suendenknechten die Gnade predigen.

Dazu gehoert aber voellige Aufopferung seiner selbst. Entsagung aller irdischen Wuensche, tuechtige Ausbildung, fleissiges Studium. Wie der groesste Prediger aller Zeit nicht gleich nach 161

I seiner Bekehrung in die Welt hinausging, sondern Gott ihn erst der Welt entrueckte und ihn in seine Schule nahm, wie Paulus drei Jahre lang in Arabien sich ganz dem Studiuni der Schrift widmete, so muessen auch wir erst vorbereitet werden.

In der heutigen, oberflaechlichen Zeit ist das besonders noetig.

Wo ist denn ueberhaupt noch Bildung zu finden? Alles ist veraeusserlicht. Die Liebe zu allem Guten, Schoenen, Edlen wird in den Kot getreten. Verzerrte Bilder, sentimentale Musik, haessliche Moden, schlechte Manieren, das betet man an. Und werâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s am schlimmsten treibt, der ist der Held, dem klatscht man Beifall.

Das kann nicht ohne Einfluss auf das Christentum bleiben. In gleichem Masse -\vie der Geschmack an allem Edlen dieser Welt verdirbt, so entartet er auch, wo es sich um geistliche Dinge handelt.

Wer hat denn lieutzutage noch Zeit, sich mit ewigen Gedanken ab* zugeben ? Das Auto, das Kino, das Radio, Sports, allerlei Vergnuegungen nehmen ja alle unsere Kraefte in Anspruch. Wir sind immer in Aufregung, kommen kaum zur Besinnung. Wie kann dahei das Christentum gedeihcn?

Wie ist es mocglich, dass einer, der das Schoenste, was es gibt, erfahren hat, die Liebe Gottcs in Christo Jesu zu uns verlorenen Suendern, wie kann der so verkotnmen ? Wir, (lie wir Leiter in der Kirche sein sollen, duerfen uns nicht von dem modernen Geist hinwegjeissen lassen. Wir muessen unseren Geist fuellen mit allem, was schoen und cclel, was blcibencl und e'vig ist auf geistigem und geistlichem Gebiet. Dazu gchoert Zeit, Ruhe.

Die liaben wir hiei. in Thiensville. Keine aechzende Strassenhahn, kein Getriebe der Menschen stoeren uns hier. Wie Paulus in der Wueste Arabiens koennen wir tins ungestoert der Theologie widmen. Da heisst es. vicles Gelernte wieder verlernen, manche Schwachheit zu ueberwinden suchen. An der schoenen Natur, den Fluessen, den Waeldern, den Fluren koennen wir unsern Geist und imser Herz erfreuen: in der reinen Luft, der hellen Sonne, auf dem grossen Spielplatz haben wir Gelegenheit unsere Goerper zu staehlen, damit wir nach drei Jahren, an Leib und Seele genesen, kraeftig und mutig wieder in die Welt hinauskoennen.

Alles dies bietet uns Thiensville. Wenn wir diese Gelegenheiten und Vorzuege unseres neuen Wohnorts nicht in unserer Studienzeit wahrgenommen haben, so sind wir untreu gewesen.

Am 19. September fand die Eroeffung des Seminars statt. Es war eine interessante Gruppe neuer Studenten, die sich eingefunden hatte: Aus Watertown, Milwaukee, St. Paul und St. Louis waren Neulinge gekommen. Zusammen mit den Veteranen belief sich die Zahl der Studenten auf 64, wohl die groesste Zahl in der Geschichte 162

imsers Seminars. Eine grosse Anzahl Pastoren wohnte der Eroeff-. nungsfeier bei.

Das Sicheinleben in die neuen Verhaeltnisse ging wider Erwarten glatt und schnell ab. Junge Maenner in unserm Alter sind ja ueberall bald zu Hause. Neue Ordnungen, neue Regeln, durch das neue Gebaeude bedingt, wurden aufgestellt. Und bald hatten wir uns eingelebt. Wer nun Thiensville besucht, ist ueberrascht durch die liaeusliche, heimische Atmosphaere, clie schon in dieser kurzen Zeit geschaffen wurde.

Traditionen aus der aschgrauen Vorzeit, manch ein uralter Usus wurden ins neue Gebaeude hinuebergepflanzt. Jenes alte bewaehrte Amt der Blitzableiter hat sich auf dem neuen Seminar durchgesetzt. Mag es wettern, mag es donnern und blitzen, unsere Blitzableiter sind immer bereit ihre Pflicht und Scliulcligkeit zu tun.

Auch einen Seminaresel gibt es nocli. Wenn nur das Tier sich nicht totschleppt mit seiner Last von Schriften auf dem weiten Weg von Milwaukee nach Thiensville!

Ein Amt, das an Verantwortlichkeit gestiegen ist, ist das des Generalpostmeisters. Er muss jeden Tag mehrere Mai in die Stadt, um unsere Post zu holen und unsere Briefe abzuliefern. Der Briefwechsel ist bemerkenswert in die Hoehe gegangen. Das liegt in der Natur der Sache, denn wenn das Telephon seinen alten Gebrauch haette, so waeren wohl manche unter uns bald bankerott.

Da muessen die Briefe herhalten, und unser Postmeister muss darunter leiden. Dieses hohe Amt bekleidet unser Herr Louie. Die Wahl scheint sehr gut getroffen, denn es muss unser Postmeister gefeit sein gegen alle etwaige Verirrungen, kurz, er muss das Herz auf dem rechten Fleck haben. Und das Zutrauen haben wir zum Herrn Vater.

Auch das Amt des Speisemeisters wurde aufrecht erhalten.

Letztes Jahr hatten wir das Glueck, einen unter uns zu haben, der die Kueche nach innen und nach aussen kannte, ja sie war sein Lieblingsaufenthalt. Das macht ihm keiner so bald nach. Doch mussten wir notgedrungen zur Wahl vorschreiten. Der Speisemeister stellt naemlich die Verbindung z'vischen dem Coetus und der Kueche her. Er ist unser Mittler. Es kommt zum Beispiel vor, dass unser Brot keine Krusten an den Enden hat. Da hat unser Speisemeister die Pflicht, auf taktvolle Weise unsern Baecker darauf aufmerksam zu machen, dass doch jeder ordentliche Laib Brot auch Enden hat. Dieses Amt bedarf ungemein grosser Vorsicht und Nachsicht, Hoeflichkeit und Diplomatic. Deswegen haben wir auch bis jetzt noch keinen gefunden, der fuer dies Amt recht faehig ist. Zeitweilig haben sich schon mehrere als Speisemeister versucht. Aber immer wieder gibt es Resignationen, Suspensionen, rutzi-putzi Absetzungen. Doch geben wir die Hoffnung nicht auf, 163

auch fuer diesen Posten endlich einen tuechtigen Mann zu finden.

Nun aber laesst sich denken, class die neuen Verhaeltnisse auch neue Aemter erforderten. Das becleutendste unter diesen ist wohl das des gamewarden, Hier in der Wildnis ist eine solche Person natuerlich sehr noetig. Er hat zu entscheiden, welche Tiere gejagt werden duerfen. Open season was declared on flies. Diese Bestien sind scheinbar alle mit uns von Milwaukee nach Thiensville uebergesiedelt. Wir konnten uns kaum ihrer ervvehren. Das tap fere Schneiderlein im Maerchen haette hier seine Haende voll gehabt,— immer sieben auf einen Schlag.

Der gamewarclen hat besonders an Sonntagen seine Haende voll. Da muss er zusehen, dass Besuch nicht die alte Regel uebertritt: Don’t feed the animals.

Es soil sogar vorkommen, class Wild—zumal Gaense—sich in unser Wohngebaeude hineinwagt und uns in unserm Studium stoert.

Man sielit also, dies Amt hat seine Berechtigung.

Eine alte Einrichtung ist im neuen Gebaeude geschwunden.

Jene laestige Person, die immer unsern tiefsten Schlaf stoerte mit einer berausfordernden Anfdringlichkeit und Autoritaet, die uns jeden Morgen die Ohren vollbimmelte und noch gar frech wurde, wenn wir ihm nicht bei scincm zweiten Kommen hoeflich zuvorkamen,一der Bimmler ist jetzt aus der Welt geschafft. Jede Abtcilung im Wohngebaeude hat jetzt ihren eigenen Bimmler, oder auch nicht. Manche unter tins sind eben so puenktlich, dass sie morgens ohne jede Aufinunterung', aus freien Stuecken und sogar frueher als noetig, aufstehen. Soil einen wundern, ob’s im Winter so bleilicn wird.

Wir haben schon viel Besuch gehabt in der kurzen Zeit, in der wir hier sind. Manchmal ist’s Neugierdo und pure Langeweile, die Lcute hieraus treibt, urn (loch einen Anhaltspunkt fuer eine Ge­ baeude, Interesse am Eigentum der Synode. Manchmal ist es auch rein Interesse an den Insassen der Anstalt. Manch einer will uns einmal gerne besuchen. Das erkennen wir an und sind dafuer dank: bnr. Doch sei hiermit bekannt gemacht, dass wir Sonntags frei haben. Wenn jemand uns besuchen will, so waere es geraten, sich vorher anzumelden.

Am S. Oktober stellten sich die Herren Pastoren Gieschen und Schlavensky um die Mittagszeit bei uns ein. Sie machtea auf der Durchreise einen Abstecher, um die alien Kameraden zu be. gruessen. Beilaeufig nahmen sie mit uns eine Mahlzeit ein, um die cafeteria Einrichtung- im Esssaal mitzumachen. Doch mag ihr Besuch um die Mittagszeit auch anders zu erklaeren sein, sie gehoerten letztes Jahr zu den “hungry five.”

Der Sport nahm unter uns seit __ wir in Thiensville sind einen bemerkbaren Aufschwung. Hier haben wir Raum, uns zu bewegen.

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Die helle Sonne, die reine Luft, die reizende Landschaft locken foermlich ins Freie. Ein jeder wird genoetigt diese Vorzuege zu gemessen.

Diesen Herbst liaben wir unser Interesse auf indoor baseball gewandt. Jede Abteilung des Wohngebaeudes wird durch eine Mannschaft verterten. Ein Turnier wurde arrangiert, das bis zum Ende Oktober dauern soli, um die Meisterschaft zu entscheiden.

Unser Sam Lemke freut sich ganz unbaendig ueber den grossen Spielplatz. Fast jeden Tag kann man ihn im JFreien sehen. Er laeuft sich foermlich die Hacken kaput auf unserer grossen Farm.

Es heisst, er habe Hoffnung auf ein track team im Fruehjahr.

Tennis courts liaben wir noch nicht, aber der Verein ist eifrig bei der Arbeit sie in Stand zu setzen. Die Unkosten muessen wir leider selbst tragen. Doch ist unser Interesse an diesem Sport stark genug, um alle Hindernisse zu ueberwinden.

Gegenwaertig ist das Interesse aller Studentcn gerichtet auf das grosse gesellschaftliche Fest unter uns, das nur einmal im Jahr kommt, das keiner sein Lebtag vergisst, auf den Abend, an dem Geselligkeit, Festessen, Reden, Musik, Schauspiele im Schwange gehen, auf das Fest genannt “Der gemuetliche Abend.” Die Feier ist fuer den 25. Oktober angesagt.

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to somewhat alter this order of things. Consequently our mode of life is measurably changed this year. The time for arising and breakfast remain as formerly. What was the first class period be­ fore, is now a period devoted to study. Two fifty-minute classes follow this. Then comes a short recess, succeeded by two more classes. Dinner-time still remains as it was, at twelve-thirty. The last recitation is at two. All five classes are of fifty minutes. The remainder of the afternoon, from two-fifty to six o’clock, remains for outside activities. This is almost an hour more than was avail­ able in previous years.

To obtain the opinion of the student body regarding this change a straw vote was taken and some of the expressions noted.

It might be mentioned that only students who had attended at least two years were permitted to vote. The others would hardly be in position to be familiar with the workings of the former schedule.

Eighty-nine votes were cast—there were some who were not in their rooms when this editor made his round. The question asked was, “Do you prefer the new schedule to the old?” 76% of the students asked, or sixty-eight of them, did think it the better.

Only twenty-one preferred the old method. Some interesting feat­ ures were noted. The “Frosh，” for example, were the only class who gave the old system more support than the new, eight votes to seven. The Juniors, who have but one afternoon class during the week, were the only class which unanimously noted for the new.

Of the preparatory classes, Tertia thought the old more suitable thiui the present method.

The most prevalent factors for the acceptance of this year’s change were the added times for athletics and organizations in the afternoon and the opportunity for review or study in the morning and after dinner. The fact that the classes were split somewhat, also was important. Most were of the opinion that Wednesday afternoon should remain free as in other years. One note of interest is that the classes with the more difficult afternoon periods polled a large vote for the last year’s schedule. This is more or less verified by the Juniors’ unanimous vote.

Last spring- it had been mentioned that the students would be a little more alert, mentally, in the afternoon after a longer inter­ mission. This does not appear to be so, by remarks made.

This poll . was taken only from students within the dormitories.

Those who live or board in town were not included because of lack of time to see the majority of them. Several of the “town students” affirmed that for them the new arrangement was not so very de­ sirable.

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We are very sorry to hear that the best of liberal college pa­ pers， “The New Student，’’ has been discontinued. When all others failed “The New Student” was always able to help us out with the latest news of what was going on in the educational world. It is hardly necessary to mention all the good qualities of this publication as that was done in last month’s issue.

Here's another piece of bad news. The Spectator1 issue of the .

"Capital Chimes” (Capital U.) has been discontinued. We quote, “Aside from the financial consideration it became apparent last year that this magazine was no longer appreciated by the student body either as a medium for expression of others’ literary ability or as an opportunity for expression of their own talent.

And I thought we were the only school where interest in the school paper is on the decline.

We wish to congratulate Miss Olive Brossow, a graduate of Northwestern College, Ashland, Wis., because of her ability as a writer. Miss Brossow was a winner in the essay contest recently conducted by the American Mercury.

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Our friends at New Ulm are complaining of the lack of a football team at their institution. They think that “something ought to be done about it.” Interesting isn’t it? They want it and some of us are disgusted with it.

The “Springfield Concordian” has appeared in a new and very pleasing format. A standard cover page has been adopted. The publication has decreased in size and has taken on more pages. A literary section has been added to give members of the student body an opportunity to contribute articles.

That’s all the new I could gather for this month. Not all of our old exchanges have as yet put in their appearance. By next month we shall have considerably more material.

Beloit 25; Northwestern 0 Beloit, September 28. Northwestern dropped its first game— played in a steady, light rain—to Beloit chiefly on account of fre­ quent fumbles. During the first quarter our boys chose to punt as soon as they received' the ball; Beloit scored one touchdown, how­ ever. During the next two periods, Northwestern gained consider­ ably in fight and plunge and by virtue of good gains by Kettenaclcer through the line and by Stuhr around the ends penetrated deep into the opponent’s territory, but just when in striking dis­ tance, Northwestern would fumble. Although this disconcerted them a great deal, yet Northwestern fought hard to the very last.

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This opening game, however, showed that our back field is consider­ ably stronger than it has been for some time. Witt and Buenger, in their first attempt at intercollegiate football played very good parts at end and guard respectively.

Lineups and summaries: —Beloit Northwestern— ......Carney Naumann_____ …•-„ ICnick Schultz_______ ........Shedd Bergfeld _____ •1. g .... Germann —c. __ Fessler 一 r. g•一 Buenger--------___ Kinnel ........ Stipe r. e Fritze---------___ Baker Stulir -——.

—g. b •— .....Bottind Haefner (c)— —e. h ... Williams Schwerin ___ Mosenbrink Kettenacker __ •—f. b Substitutions for Northwestern: Witt for Naumann, Baiimann for Schultz, Siegler for Kettenacker, L. Schliesser for Baumann, and Froehlich for Heyn.

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Northwestern 7; Milwaukee Normal 25 Watertown, October 5. Northwestern found itself unable to meet the onslaughts of Milwaukee Normal during the first half.

Already in the first minutes of play the Normalite plungers carried the ball through the line of the second team for their first touch­ down. Even after the first team entered the battle there was no change noticeable. Milwaukee Normal found little opposition in the line and scored repeatedly, totalling 19 points in the first half.

Everyone was anxiously looking for the usual Northwestern fight, but it just wasn’t there.

During the second half, however, the Black and Reds instilled hope and enthusiasm in their disheartened fans. Immediately in the first play Stuhr circled the right end for 35 yards and followed up in the second for 20 yards and the touchdown. Kettenacker made good the attempt for the extra point. Throughout this entire half Northwestern not only gained yard after yard but opened an aerial attack which was indeed a pleasure to witness, completing five passes for a gain of 90 yards. Milwaukee Normal, however, 169

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Buenger . ____ Pouc Koestling ... Schroeder L. Schliesser ___ Enters Siegler___ q. b— ..... Klemme Rossin____ r. h ___ Kreinz Raasch ___ …丄b.

Substitutions for Northwestern, Haefner (c) for Schwerin, Heyn for Froehlich, Schultz for Buenger, Bergfeld for Bruns, En­ gel for Koesting, Baumann for Martin, Witt for Schliesser, Fritze for Kuhlow, Stuhr for Ziegler, Kettenacker for Raasch, Schwerin for Rossin, Kascli for Biesmann, Froehlich for Heyn, Buenger for Schultz, Koesting for Baumann, Naumann for Witt, Haefner for Kettenacker, and Rossin for Schwerin.

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6—25 0 6 ___ 13 Milwaukee Normal Northwestern 6; Lawrence 26 Watertown, October 12. Northwestern bowed to Lawrence in a game played much better than the score may indicate. The Vik­ ings were unable to penetrate our line for any considerable gains after the first minutes of play in which they collected three first downs. After the first period the ball was still resting in the cen­ ter of the field; neither team had progressed any. In the middle of the next quarter, however, Northwestern suffered a very unfor­ tunate break, a fumble in the very shadows of the goal-posts. Here Lawrence found its first touchdown and also made good the kick for the extra point. Fritze’s excellent punting was a chief factor in holding the Vikings at bay. Engel, Schultz and Heyn repeatedly broke through Lawrence’s line and threw the ball-carriers for losses.

The Black and Reds went into the third period lacking that stubborn resistance heretofore shown. This gave Lawrence two opportunities to carry the ball across in this period, and in both instances it could have been easily avoided, had only the backfield supported its line properly. The opening of the final quarter found the Vikings in possession of the ball in a threatening position. It 170

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Substitutions for Northwestern: Buenger for Bergfeld, Rossin for Kasch, Haefner (c) for Kettenacker, Naumann for Schwerin, Buenger for Baumann, Rossin for Kasch, Witt for Naumann, Froehlich for Heyn, Schliesser for Buenger.

Touchdowns for Northwestern, Stuhr; for Lawrence, Fischel 4.

Officials: Referee, Huegel; umpire, Dyer; head linesman, Davis.

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reached the 18-yard line. Captain Gentz at center played superb ball and also suceeded' in blocking three punts. Coach Franzmann was highly satisfied with his boys. ―Jefferson High N. C. Preps— _________Schiesl 1. e --------- R. Raital O. Lemke — ____ Heilemann M. Lemke 1- S ________Robisch Gentz---- --•...... r. g.__ ________ Clough Wollen........ ______ G. Raital Schroeder •— ________Doering R. Lemke. _______ Spangler Knoll .......... .....q. b ........ Messman Fredericks .. ........Furbringer Schewe___ r. h Reuschal f.f Substitutions for Preps: Throw for Knoll, Kaye for R. Lemke, Lcye for Bolle, Wollen for Gentz, Piepenbrink for Wollen, Sturm for O. Lemke.

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of ejaculations rises from the excited breasts and then bursts into vociferous guffawing and shrieks of highest glee. There in the center of the gathered people, surrounded by an impenetrable mass of dull smoke, stood Ikey Weyland, innocently smoking his cele­ brated pipe.

If you have seen a Freshman looking for an old pair of trou­ sers with a seat not worn too thin, If you have noticed in the morning, sly smiles on the lips of upper classmen— And sly winks at the expense of some sleepy-eyed Freshman, If you have found a Freshman with a forlorn look on his coun­ tenance searching for a not too heavy inch board, If you have heard a multitude of incomprehensible sounds is­ suing forth from downstairs on some Saturday evening, If you have stumbled upon a Freshman frowning in a nervous troubled manner at a calendar which tells him the number of days until a certain fateful Saturday— Then remember that this is the Initiation Season for the Ve­ suvius Club.

This same Vesuvius club now boasts of a new davenport and a radio. The davenport was simply crushed with popularity from the first day. Its center is already sagging perceptibly, and a host of smokers point the accusing finger at Fat Schewe, and Fat blush­ es innocently.

“All Sextaners out for football practice right away!’’ announces Coach Nommensen, and in a flash the entire gang is scampering about on the campus. The prospects for the Sexta team, about whose welfare we have always been solicitous, have been enhanced a hundred fold since the team has acquired the servics of Mr. Nommensen as coach.

Authentic reports of a revolution in Room 27 have reached our ears. At the time of the last issue of this paper the high magistrate (so-called monitor) “Doc” Peters was holding sway over his sub­ jects with absolute tyranny. But in the earlier part of October a violent uprising crushed the power of the tyrant, The two consuls, Nicolaus and Weyland, jointly claim the right to exercise the powers of auspicium and imperium in their little empire.

Several Seniors went to see “The Strange Interlude1 * in Milwaukee, this week.

Mr. Robert Muller of Claremont, Minnesota, visited Hugo Fritze at the college and other friends in and about Watertown dur­ ing the week of the Milwaukee Normal game.

Birthdays have sprouted out among the Tertianers during the month of October like onions in the springtime. On October 7, for instance, there were five vacant chairs in the dining hall and i

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five Tertianers were in “Eps” Schewe’s room joyously feasting in honor of his birthday.

It was just one of those cold mornings at 6.10. All the alert preps were in their rooms, washed and dressed, but the usual num­ ber of sleep lovers were now hurrying into the washroom to beat the 6.15 bell. One of these was a Sextaner with the nocturnal shades still lingering in his eyes, Mr. D. Hahm. He hurriedly threw water, soap and washrag and all in a mass upon his face, shut his eyes, and reached for his towel. But lo―where his towel should have been hung the bottom half of his pajamas! The ab­ sent-minded youth made a bee-line for his bedroom with the gleeful howls of his fellow preps ringing in his ears.

On the day our football team went to Beloit, the same adven­ turous spirit that inspired Columbus to penetrate the dusky fogs of the Atlantic surged through the breasts of a few of our students.

Two preps, Teske and Frcdrichs, led by this lust for conquest, arrived at Beloit in time for the game by that unreliable process called “shagging.” But the fates turned Kasch and Harke back at Janes­ ville. When they reached Jefferson on their return journey they resolved to make the best of things by seeing the county fair. But this best of things turned out not any too good, for the adventurers were forced to encamp on the grandstand until morning. A cold, irritating drizzle continued throughout the night and persisted in leaking through the roof at all points. Kasch lived up to his repu­ tation for being- able to sleep anywhere and at any time by snoring gently nearly all night. But Harke vvas not so versatile. His sole comfort was to trot stiffly lip and down the tiers of seats endeavor­ ing to keep warm.

The black night air weighs down heavily upon the college dor­ mitory. Darkness and Quiet are the joint monarchs over the halls, bedrooms and vacant study rooms. Sleep has laid its slumberous charm upon every living being. Suddenly a fearful noise. It is not a cry, not a roar, not a groan. A dozen odd sleepers rise up in bed blinking wildly. In bedroom 92 four students jump to their feet simultaneously. A hollow thumping sound follows, and, pron­ to. the other unearthly outburst is broken off. A dozen odd forms once more recline wearily, muttering dire imprecations against the snoring propensities of a certain Mr. Buch, alias “Foggy” (derived from the well known foghorn.)

Mr. Otto Fredrichs and son came from Tomah, Wisconsin, to see the Milwaukee Normal game and to visit Howard Fredrichs, Quarta.

A new student has enlisted into our army. Adelbert Maas of Concordia College, Milwaukee, joined the Freshman class on Oc­ tober 9.

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I A typical Northwestern College symposium. “Cutie” Krueger and “Slim” Baumann jointly celebrated their birthdays on Septem­ ber 19, by acting as hosts to the Juniors at Shubert’s Restaurant.

No symposium could exist without speeches, and this one certainly existed fully. The most inspiring oration seems to have been a German masterpiece rendered extemporaneously by Mr. Vertz. The business meeting consisted of one transaction—Hans Schultz was unanimously elected consoler for the lonesome cow which has been disturbing the peaceful night air with its dismal bellowing.

The professional football game of September 22, between the Chicago Bears and the Minneapolis Marines lured many students to Madison. Those who attended were Fritze, Schwerin, Pless, Kettenacker, and all of room 90—Eckert, Buenger, and Albrecht. Ec­ kert innocently confessed that it was the first football game he ever paid to see.

“Button Frosh!” was the most familiar cry on the campus dur­ ing the first twenty days of October. It was a cry of triumph for the Sophomores but one “full o£ sound ancl fury” for the Freshmen. Every time a “Freshie” stepped forth from the recitation building or dining hall he was sure to be greeted by a band of cruel-hearted Sophomores outside of the door. The safest thing to do was to fasten his finger to the top of his cap and dash for the nearest building.

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Lucile Stephen, who is teaching at Beaver Dam, again this year, visited us while she was enjoying a vacation of several days which the fair afforded.

Margaret Schmeling is working hard, but she enjoys her work very much.

We girls alternate having a Christmas party one year and a Hallowe’en party the next year. This year the girls will have a Hallowe’en party on October 30. Arrangements for entertainment and refreshments have been left to Gertrude Wendland and La Verne Zorr and their committees.

Catherine Coogan and several other industrious girls cleaned house one day. We girls were forced to walk in backwards so that that feeling of straingeness —— which is caused by a new environment would not completely overwhelm us. We prophesy great things for these girls as housekeepers.

Glenna Rasmussen thinks that there are several very mean girls in our group. A little dog which she had been entertaining the other day, was speedily removed in spite of her remonstrances.

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Around collecting jokes one night I came to______________ Here’s what he had to offer.

“Asking me for jokes is like asking me to take the bones out of sliced milk soup.”

“Say, Gardge, what kind o’ cigar is you all smoking?”

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It is now 7.35 o’clock.”

Radio: “This is W— — Saved It was necessary for taxation purposes to decide on which side of the Canadian and United States border a farm, which an old lady 176

anil had just purchased, actually lay. Surveyors finally announced that the farm was just on the American side of the border.

The old lady smiles with relief.

“I’m so glad to know that,” she said, “I’ve heard that winters in Canada are terribly severe.”

Prof.: “What kind of people need not fear apoplexy?”

Innocent Quartaner: MThe dead people.”

Doctor: “A few leaves of lettuce without oil, a cracker and a glass of orange juice. Stick to that and your weight will come down.”

Nommensen: “Fine, doctor, but do I take them before or after meals.

Prof, (in engineering class) : “What is a dry dock?”

Student: “A physician who won’t give out any prescription.” 本 * How Should He Know?

“Speed” :“I sold my Livy XXII, today.”

Warnke: “What for, we haven’t had it yet, have we?” 氺 * The old practice of kissing the bride received a jolt at a recent wedding. A guest was asked if he had kissed the bride.

“Not lately,” he replied. * * * One of the coeds to another: “Is Sippert an auctioneer?”

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Prof.: “What is 2x plus 3y?”

Sextaner: (no answer).

Prof.: aThen what is 2 boys and 3 girls?”

Sextaner：- “Five children.” 氺 * Konks (arrested for speeding) : “But, your Honor, I am a college boy.”

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i Teacher: “Johnny, can you tell me what the connecting link is between the animal and vegetable kingdoms?”

Johnny: “Yes, ma’am, it’s hash!” * 本 I’d tell you more, but you’d only laugh at them.

FLY PSYCHOLOGY A fly quite dumb Sat on my nose To crawl and hum There,I suppose.

I brushed it off— Quite gently, too— It came right back To hum anew.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

LITERARY—

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To An Old Idealist (verse) ■

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Queen Liliuokolani, Last of Hawaiian Monarchs-------

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“St. :Nick”______________

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The Octagon House----------

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Today is Tuesday-----------

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Black Cats and the Like----

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November Tragedy----------

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Day Moon (verse)-----------

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Do We Appreciate the River?

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Ebony Maid (verse) ______

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ALUMNI NOTES — SEMINARY NOTES

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COLLEGE NOTES .

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ATHLETICS_____

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THE BLACK AND RED Volume XXXIII.

Watertown, Wis., Nov., 1929

Number 6

Entered at the PostofRce at Watertown. Wis , as second class matter under Act of March 3,1879, Published monthly. Subscription , One Dollar.

TO AN OLD IDEALIST Age fits you like a garment Graceful and lovely.

You are as fair as a dark pool Holding moonlight to its breast: As lonely ... as mysterious.

Serene and calm are you As some fall day When the corn has been husked and stored, And cider has been pressed from the wind-fallen apples; When the frost has lit the maples with his taper, And mellowed the red haw.

You are like an autumn day When the last asters are fading on the hill ； When the fields have been ploughed, and the world Lies dreaming*in a cob-webbed haze Under the sun.-..

Firm are you as the weather-beaten bluff: Firm as the wave-washed bluff Which walls the river—but you are old. • • • You are bent by life— Bent as a tree is bent in the wind: Shattered as the wind is shattered on a hill.

Wm. Faber.

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QUEEN LILIUOKALANI, LAST OF THE HAWAIIAN MONARCHS It so happened that our family was in Hawaii al the time of the death of the last Hawaiian monarch, Queen Liliuokalani. In the summer of 1917 my father took me to see the queen. She was old, yet erect, of a queenly stature. My father had been there be­ fore, therefore, probably, they chatted freely. She seemed to be a very kind woman, and among other things she asked how I would like to live in her palace, where there were so many beautiful birds and flowers and such wonderful furniture. I said I would like that very much; thus she promised me that she would have me with a few other officersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; children to stay at the palace for a few days during my Christmas vacation. But there was something in the atmosphere that foreboded a strange event. When we left, she said it would not be very long before she would be taken to her reward. Death was already beckoning her.

Some weeks later, in November, she was dead. Her body was removed to the royal church, where she lay in state a week. She was laid before the altar in a casket of very rare and costly wood.

The casket weighed between 1500 and 1700 pounds. The steel frame inside the wood accounted for its wci^lit, which made the bearers stagger. Around the casket a guard of honor from the army, navy, or marines stood watch. There were alternately Hawaiian men and women on both sides of the casket* with kahilis (long poles with large fans of feathers on top and now covered with black). These kahilis they slowly, rhythmically waved back and forth over the casket, chanting all the while. Their chanting was something indescribably weird, something1 that made one sense a barbaric custom, as they began in a low murmur and rose in an ever increasing crescendo until the air was filled with it. The wailing together with the scent of the flowers surely lent the scene a barbaric setting. This they kept up night and day during the week. Whenever other natives came into the church they joined in the chanting.

On the last Saturday though, the death chant was not so quiet and gentle. This day was the last time the Hawaiian people were to have their queen with them. Others were admitted, but immediately upon entering one felt that the Hawaiian people should be left alone with their dead. Therefore we did not stay long, But the death chant! Something so wild, unnatural and weird as to stun the senses. It began as a shriek, a protest against some in. visible power, and ended as it began. It was a feeling of despair and lonesomeness as if everyone had forsaken them.

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I very effectively placed on the casket, around it, and over the altar.

There were wreaths there from many foreign countries together with those from individuals. The demand for flowers was so great that the florists could not fill all the orders.

That evening the casket was removed to the throne room of the palace. There it rested upon a pall of yellow velvet (yellow 'vas the royal color) to which were fastened fan-shaped affairs of rare and sickly colored feathers of an Hawaiian bird. Since the advent of the trader and missionary these birds have become extinct.

They were generall small, and each bird probably had only two or four of the precious feathers. Lofty kahilis stood watch around the casket, while at the head and feet stood tabu sticks, signs of royal rank. No one but the mourners and the guard of honor were ad­ mitted. Services were to be held the next morning at ten.

Sunday morning an army officer took me along with him into was seated beside an Hawaiian in whose the room of the palace, eyes tears occasionally gathered. He began to relate to me how noble a queen she was, and how the watch had stood beside the bier throughout the night. They were motionless save for the continuous movement of their black -plumed kahilis which drooped and rose in langorous rhythm over the queen. He explained that they had been for centuries the symbol of supreme authority. Above the windows were crossed spears, surmounted by gilded crowns, symbols of royal office.

There was the dais, where the throne chair stood, but above them instead of the crown, was the haughty screeching American eagle. Upon the walls were likenesses of former rulers.

As it was drawing near to ten, native chiefs and chieftainesses slowly walked in and placed themselves near the head of the casket.

Younger descendants, wearing their capes of scarlet (red was the color of the warriors) and yellow (the royal color), stood at intervals around the chamber. There was again that inexpressibly weird and sad wailing. My friend related vividly how in the dim past the ancients of the old Hawaiian tribes echoed their grief around fires in misty forest dells when a chief had died, The cries of the old women, who had seen the rise and fall of the Hawaiian monarchy, rose high and shrill. Wild, eery, piping, it pierced the ai.r with that note of a burden too heavy to be borne. As the sounds ; â&#x20AC;˘ died down from time to time, the chants of prayers were heard sung by white-haired men who also remembered other days.

By ten oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;clock all places were filled. Besides the Hawaiian mourners and territorial officials there were present representatives of Congress together with those of other nations. Suddenly the wild sounds in the room were hushed by the deep diapason of the Slowly the people organ. Services lasted less than an hour.

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marched out behind the casket, which when it appeared in the doorway was met by a salute of cannon. A whole battery had taken position on the grounds to fire minute guns. Everywhere were uniforms. Immediately after the crash of cannon the strains of the “Star Spangled Banner” were heard in the distapce played by an army band. Torches were lit and the bearers placed them­ selves ahead of the catafalque. To the catafalque were fastened two long ropes. By means of these ropes white-clad native Hawaiians pulled it to the mausoleum.

The sidewalks were packed with people. Everywhere there was some one taking pictures of the long procession which was made up of all the military and naval forces on the island, infantry of the regular army and of the national guard, cavalry, field artil­ lery, marines, naval detachments, and bronzed Japanese marines clothed in white and with round straw hats. Three men, walking in front of the catafalque, carried the royal decoration on pillows.

Following the catafalque were the conveyances of near relatives of the queen, members of Hawaiian royalty and numerous other offi­ cials.

As the catafalque was brought to a stop ancl the casket lifted to the supports over the crypt, the wails of the mourners took on fresh volume and rose shrill under the palms. Of all the old men and women who walked the long distance under the blazing sun not one dropped out of line, although many seemed near exhaustion.

From these white-haired natives rose that harrowing forlorn sound of grief. When the casket was lowered the weird cries swelled to a wild note of despair which was taken up by the throngs outside the grounds.

The exercises were over in a short while. The soldiers quickly marched away, leaving the weeping natives with their queen, the last of the monarchs of Hawaii.

P. S., *30.

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Do you believe in Santa Claus ? “But,” you will say, is not your question entirely premature? There are still nearly twentyfive shopping-days till Christmas.” Yet, I maintain that my ques­ tion is quite timely. Perhaps the “jolly old elf” has not slid down Gimbel’s chimney or the Boston Store’s or Field’s in Chicago yet, but surely, his sleigh is loaded by this time, and “Donner and Blitzenw and the rest of the reindeer eager to descend upon us; and then, is it not possible that I might anticipate the Woolworth win­ dow reminder of “St. Nick”？ What hinders? To such of us who 182

have outgrown the age of the bed-time fable, and now realize that the tie and socks Aunt Minnie sent “with Santy” are identical with some we noticed in the five and ten cent store, Santa Claus is a memory of joys and disappointments. Perhaps you were not disappointed when you got a new pair of shoes instead of the electric train of your hopes, or the dress instead of that “mamma-doll” in the toy-shop window ? Letting all that aside, Nicholas has a grip­ ping history, a complicated development in popularity.

Near the end of the third century after Christ there was born to a wealthy merchant, Epiphanes of Parara, Lycia, and his wife Johanna a baby. They christened it Nicolaus, which is derived from the two Greek words “liike,” victory, and “laos,” people.

Strange tales are told of the child. In his infancy he observed the fasts of Wednesdays and Fridays, so the legend says, and refused to nurse on those days. The presbyters were astounded at his wis­ dom and knowledge of the holy writings. As a mere youth he be­ came Bishop of Myra, the harbor of which Paul entered Dn his fourth journey. How grand the young bishop must have looked in the cathedra! Although we do not find him chronicled among the bishops present at the Council of Nicea in' 325, he was most likely there to denounce the heretic Arius. He died on the sixth of De­ cember 345 ( ?) and was buried in the crypt of his church. In 1087 his bones were stolen by Italian merchants, who perhaps wished to increase their trade by making Bari with its shrine a place of pil­ grimage. The legends which follow below are translated very freely from the Latin of the "Legenda Aurea,” the “Golden Le­ gends,” biographies of the saints, written by Jacobi a Voragine, the translation of which by William Caxton was one of the first books printed in England.

“An impoverished nobleman had three pretty daughters, whom he thought to send forth to prostitution in order to free himself fro^n debt. One night as they were huddled together weeping over their impending fate, the young presbyter threw a bag of gold through a window into their midst. This endowed the eldest and permitted her to marry a nobleman; after a few days Nicholas repeated the gift and the second married a wealthy' gentleman; the same did he for the youngest.”

Various Italian galleries contain pictures representing scenes this legend. The conventional symbol of the pawnbroker, [he three golden balls, is thought to take its origin ih the three bags of gold. Perhaps it is as the critic John Macy says: “ it may be that the bankers and brokers wished to give sanctity and djSpity to their business and so adopted the generous Nicholas as |jjeir heavenly protector.” It does seem paradoxical, however, that the Saint should have been the patron of the tribe of Shylocks 183

f whom the Messiah whipped and tumbled helter-skelter out of Solo­ mon's Court.

Strangely enough, he was deemed in the Middle Ages and far into modern times the patron saint of tars and deckswabbers. When Peter the Great built his ships, he had a vigil lamp and an ikon of St. Nicholas put into every one.

Very likely Robin Hood and his merry green jackets endeav­ ored to crouch under his protecting crozier; one can easily image the puffing Friar Tuck calling upon Saint Nicholas for aid in the next pilfering, for even the thieves and medieval lawyers claimed him.

He was also the saint of school-boys and of the "Joe-Collegiates” of the Dark Ages. The “Golden Legend” tells the story of two boys who, returning from school, were taken by a farmer and his wife, and quartered and pickled; St. Nicholas restored them.

We said that he was the patron saint of pawnbrokers and mon­ ey-lenders. “Once upon a time a man borrowed of a Jew a great sum of money, and swore upon the altar of St. Nicholas, he would pay it back very soon. As time wore on and the Christian still kept the money, the Jew demanded payment. The man insisted he had paid his debt. Court-proceedings followed. Now the Chris­ tian was a subtle cheat. He bought a hollow staff and put the gold into it, and while he took his oath that he had given the Jew his due, he handed him the staff and swore he had given him more than he owed. He then bade the Jew return the loaded staff, and quite unsuspectingly the latter did so. The Jew lost the case. On his way home the Christian became very tired and sank to sleep by the roadside. In the inky night a carter did not see him and ran over him, breaking the staff together with many bones in the swindler’s frame. The first to run up was the cheated Jew, who, when the people urged him to take his gold, refused and vowed to become a Christian if the man were raised from the dead by St. Nicholas’ charismata. The dead man arose and the Jew kept his vow.

However much the thieves tried to crouch in the shadow of his crook, he does not seem to have enjoyed their worship, as sure­ ly he must have been pained at their profession. The above tale and the following bear witness thereto. “A certain Jew who saw Nicholas perform miracles had a wooden image of the bishop made, and put it in his counting-house. Soon after, he set out on a long journey, but before he left he commended his hoard to the care of the ikon with bitter threats to whip it, should anything' happen to his coffers. During his absence the thieves rifled them. In anger the returned banker scourged his image of St. Nicholas, according to his promise. Then a wonder occurred. A vision of the Holy 184

One of God, who had taken the beating upon himself appeared to the robbers as they fell to dividing the spoils, saying, ‘Why am I so sorely beaten for you? Why do I suffer such pains? See ye my body, how livid it is: see, it is stained with the red blood!

Carry back this booty, or the anger of God the Almighty will thun­ der upon you/ And the thieves : 4Who art thou, that thou shouldst command us?’ He said, ‘I am St. Nicholas, the minister of Christ, whom yonder Jew so cruelly punished,’ In great fear the thieves returned to the Jew. told him their story, begged his forgiveness, returned the full pillage and became honest burghers, whereas the Jew became a child of God.” “But,” you say, "why all this irrelevant material, why all this padding; what has all this about the Bishop of Myra to do with the modern American Santa Claus?” Very much, the Bishop of Myra is Santa in the making. The modern name is mtrely a corruption of Nicholas. Pronounce the words fast and stress the first slightly.

If he was boy-bishop, the children’s bishop, why did he not remain a boy-bishop for us? That is not a simple question, but let me ask, “Is it not age which loves children, which understands, sympathizes and appreciates them; is it not "grandpa** who takes the child on his knee and gives it nickels?”

Those who have read M. M. Dodge’s “Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates,” will rememher how not Santa Claus, but the real St. Nicholas appeared at Mynheer van Gleck’s on the eve of the fifth of December, decked out in his full regalia, his crozier, his mitre, his beads, his embroidered stole, and maroon cope, His functions apparently are the same as those of Santa, Fill each empty hand and basket, ’Tis thy little ones who ask it.

So we sing. so we sing, Thou' wilt bring us everything The sixth of December is St. Nicholas’ Day in Italy, Switzerland, Holland, Belgium and Germany. When the Reformation came and Luther translated, “Du sollst Gott deinen Herrn lieben, and Ihm allein clienen，” and Melanchthon wrote in the Apology to the Augs­ burg Confession of 1530 that biting and vigorous Article XXI, on the worship of the Saints, the worship of St. Nicholas, which had become a cult with children of that time, waned more and more in Germany, so that finally St. Nicholas' day became identified with Christmas, and the black-gowned ministers began to preach that the “Christkind” is the real bringer of gifts. Macy gives us anothe.r interesting suggestion here. He argues by analogy. The coming of the Reformation is somewhat analogous to the coming of Christianity into the German forests to the pagan Wodan wor185

t shippers, in so far that it is a change. The good spirit and his elfish helpers disappeared more and more with the falling- holygroves, and the church, in order not to become too crass and arouse undue antagonism, substituted for it St. Nicholas, just as the Lutherans dethroned the saint and enthroned the “Christkind.” The pagan German and Scandinavian religions and mythology are very similar. In German myths we read of gigantic, furry creatures known as “Waldgeister,” many of them good spirits who helped man. Then we pick up Dr. Moore’s poem, which begins some• thing like this, “Twas the night before Christmas,” and read, “He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot.”

There’s no red flannel here. Dr. Moore’s is the Scandinavian idea of “St. Nick” retaining a tinge of the old paganism. The reindeer, too, is Scandinavian, for the Saint’s wayfaring in those countries necessitated the reindeer. Even today in America children are told that Santa lives at the north-pole.

St. Nicholas embarked with the Dutch for New Amsterdam.

The English and the Germans borrowed the idea, so that we now have neither saint nor Christkind,” who brings gifts to most American homes, but a makeshift in the person of a reel-faced, jolly old man, who wears a white-beard and encases his rotund body in red flannel and shiny black oilcloth. It always did seem strange when Santa came with all those toys that we prayed, not to him, as we should expect, but to the newborn Messiah.

L. Q. R.

THE OCTAGON HOUSE ,The city of Watertown has many interesting- dwellings, Especially do we find many peculiar old ones north of Main Street— iow and homely structures of smoky, yellow brick, built so close to. the street that one can stand with one leg in their parlors and with the other on the sidewalk; houses having narrow, mulligned windows with faded green shades drawn; tin roofs, and here and there a German adage in the gable or on the upper door-sill. They arouse our interest; and yet, the one which must engage our interest most intensely seems to hold itself aloof from those humbler places an.d is not in that section. It is the octagonal house on Richard's Hill, south-east of the college. One is told that it is very old, and one’s first thought is that it must have been a fort at one time, so tall and forbidding are its old brick walls, so commanding is its position on the top of the hill. Today this massive pile has a 186

lonely, cold and forbidding appearance. About 1875, however, one might have seen the estate in a more lively aspect. Trees, shrubbery, ivy and flowers surrounded the tall mansion with its encircling red verandas. Children played about the green lawns, carriages drove up, maids bustled hither and thither, music and gaiety brightened the rooms. To the west of the house were the stables and granaries. To the east on the slope of the hill was a pleasant frame house. It stands there yet today, and has but recently been repaired and has received a new coat of paint. Below that, on the river-banks ,stood a saw-mill, and the old “Rough and Ready” flour and grist mill, the name of which recalls the date of its begin­ nings, the presidency of “Rough and Ready” Zachary Taylor.

John Richards, lawyer. came to Wisconsin in 1836. In 1854, nearly seven years before the Civil War and over a decade before Northwestern University opened its doors, one might have seen load upon load of brick lumbering over the Watertown Plank Road from Milwaukee. The waggoner might have answered your “quo vadis” to the effect that he was bound for Watertown. Every brick used in the construction of buildings on the premises was brought from Milwaukee. Richards owned the saw-mill and the flour-mill already mentioned, Every foot of lumber used in the house was sawed in that mill.

Today one pulls the same bell-wire that the first visitor pulled three-quarters of a century ago. The door creaks and we are greet­ ed by a kindly, aged woman. Anna Richards Thomas, daughter of the builder, who refers us to her son, William, the present chate­ laine of the estate. Why did Mr. Richards build such an odd, big, fifty-seven-room house ? The reader will remember that it was built at a time when the new and wealthier settlers vied with one another in novelty and splendor. The rooms of the first, second, and third floors are eleven, ten, and nine feet high respectively, thus making the whole from ground to top, including the tower, about forty-five feet in height. Every wall is built of brick; much of. the wood used is bass. We are surprised that the rooms are not triangular throughout, but the larger ones are either nearly square or rectangular; small off-rooms, store-rooms and bed-rooms make up those sharp corners. At present only two stories are used, and the floors of these arc carpeted. The third story was formerly used by mill-hands. In the center of the house is a nearly square h^ll into which all of the larger rooms open. A circular stairway )vith a railing consisting of hundreds of thin spindles runs way up into the cupola.

In the living room there is a white marble mantle with brass fittings. The horse-hair upholstered furniture is cherry or ma­ hogany and of the type called “fiddlebone”； it was brought from 187

Massachusetts. Heavy lace curtains deck the long French windows, and from the ceiling hangs a profusely decorated brass lamp. The now smoked and faded wall-paper with its lavish designs must once have been thought luxurious. Among the pictures which leave their impression on one’s memory is a large steel engraving of Charles I, his family, and Van Dyke at Hampton Court, This pic­ ture has been valued at more than five hundred dollars.

We are led into a large room used for storage, and here we see the first piano played in Watertown, a heavy horizontal Gilbert, built of dark mahogany; it retains a rich, mellow tone, doubly sweetened* by the stillness and vastness of the room. On one of the walls hangs a singular colored-glass picture of the prodigal son in Medieval costume, with the subscription: “He would fain have filled his belly with the husks which the swine did eat.”

The dining-room in the north-east section is inviting. Its wood-work is white, its wall-paper a flowered old-rose. In the cen­ ter above the long table with the stiff-backed chairs about it hangs another of those quaint brass and procelain lamps.

In one of the bed-rooms is a peculiar cast-iron stove brought

by Mrs. John Richards from the East. It has a door at one end, in which to push the two-foot chunks of firewood. From both sides a horse-shoe-like chimney about two feet high carries the smoke into a single pipe. On the calcomined walls are candle-holders.

In this room is to be found a bedstead with high and unwieldy posts of cherry wood. Its “springs” of crossed ropes must at least have been decidedly more comfortable than the old iron slats we slept on in the dormitory in by-gone years.

On the third floor Mr. Thomas has a room of relics, which, among others in the mansion he hopes some day to present to the Wisconsin Historical Society for future generations to enjoy. In this sunny little room with its plasterless ceiling is an old cradle, a crude desk used in the flour-mill, a little table remaining from the time of Mr. John Richard’s bachelorhood, various old mill sup­ plies, a chain used in surveying the old Watertown plank-road, sand-blotters, wooden mortars and pestles, a candle-mould, snuffers, candle-lanterns, powder-horns, brass kettles, yokes, Indian weapons, books, and among these a Latin grammar of 1835, a Le Brun’s “Telemach” of 1827, a copy of Lucian’s Dialogues, literally trans­ lated in 1816, a length of leather garden-hose seamed with copper rivets.

From the cupola we can see far and wide. We now descend the time-worn steps. For every floor there is running water, to be had from faucets in the hallway. Running water seventy-five years ago was an unusual thing. It is told that Mr. Richards once asked an Indian what he considered the most important of all the inven188

tions of the “pale-face.” The Indian replied: “Your running wa­ ter.

The kitchen is on the ground floor. In it is a huge Dutch oven of brick which holds nearly two dozen loaves of bread; there is co­ pious space to roast a whole pig.

In the cellar is the “vapor furnace,” which, although it’s now filled with junk, once supplied the little castle with most of its heat. It is built of brick, and used cordwood as fuel. Running through the center of the cellar is an eighteen-inch square hewn log, nearly sixty-feet long, In the wine-cellar—how it must have looked fifty years ago—one can now see only empty bottles, pre­ serves, and a few crude clay jugs stamped “Herzogtum Nassau,” and containing cider, a whiff of which sets one’s salivary glands into rushing action, and a gulp of which would twist a veteran toper into the shape of a pretzel.

Such is the atmosphere of this enchanting building, that after we jingle its bell and enter its dusky hall, all seems to change. We look twice to see whether some goblin has not changed our hat for a beaver and draped our shoulders with a great-coat in place of our topcoat. We seem to hear the sound of rustling hoopskirts and the steps of someone coming to make us a curtsey. No, these grand old houses aren't all fictions, as Hawthorne’s “House of the Seven Gables”； some are realities in our midst.

L. G. R. TODAY IS TUESDAY Dorothy and Glenn were high-school students, had been highschool students for two years. But they had been friendly enemies tor a much longer time. From the time when they were first able to toddle they had been matched against each other and had in a happy, carefree way been trying to silence each other with verbal thrusts to which there could be no comeback. If the words of one were nonsense, the other must answer them nevertheless^ whether with nonsense or with coherent thought was immaterial. Fine irony and wit were esteemed by both sides. Their high-school days were but a development of the time when they stood facing each other at home, one on each side of the fence.

“I don’t like you, said Dorothy with solemn infant emphasis, “I don’t care; I don’t like you either,” said Glenn as their mothers laughed at the spectacle. .When they attended the elementary school and sat across .the aisle from each other, the difference, merely a difference of opinion, kept growing. Nature had placed them against each other and 189

the teacher had placed them across from each other in the classroom. In those days Glenn made faces at Dorothy, since such practice is childish. But the girl did not respond with more and funnier faces. When she became exasperated, she said, quite char­ acteristically, “You make me sick.” ‘‘Go to the doctor then,” ad­ vised Glenn.

The boy was happy in this retort, when he asked her the next day whether she was still sick, her answer could never silence him.

If she answered “no,” he proceeded to make faces gleefully; if she said “yes,” he asked whether the doctor had been unable to help her. So she did not answer. After the first time he had used this unanswerable thrust, Dorothy no longer tried to answer, Instead she said, “All right,” and thereby admitted that no answer was to be forthcoming. But even by admitting defeat in this way she silenced Glenn, for who can answer the meaningless statement of a nonsensical “All right”?

In high school they tried with more concentration to silence each other.

“Do you think you’ll ever amount to much, Dorothy?” he asked as they were going side by side to their mathematics class.

“Don’t ask me that now,” she said. “We have math next and math is unphilosophical and cold-blooded. Have to get into a pro­ per mental attitude.”

“Why won’t you answer my question?” lie persisted.

“Don’t be odd, Glenn,” she begged.

“Oh, I’m not feminine,” he assured her as they passed into the classroom.

After this period they went to another room to learn United States history.

“Dora,” said Glenn, “'vliat do you know about history?n As quickly and as brilliantly as a flash she answered, “Columbus discovered America in 1492, and-so-on.

“Oh，climb a tack,” he said impatiently. <(l mean— “I understand there’s no enlightenment forthcoming from an attempt to climb a carpet tack;” she interrupted.

“All right,he conceded. “But what about enlightening me on this history?”

“Did you ever try studying history?” she inquired innocently.

“Yes, I did once, if that answer satisfies,” he admitted with a laugh.

“Had you stumped there,” Dorothy reminded him, echoing his laugh.

“Admitted,” conceded Glenn. “I imagine that’s pretty grati­ fying to Dumb Dora.”

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“No'v, Gloomy Glenn, don’t be like that,” she said roguishly as they passed and entered the class-room.

After the history class they went together to their French recitation.

“Ho'v do you like French?” Glenn asked the girl.

Reminds me too much of your Sta“Don’t,” she decided, comb” “And of your own cold cream at home,” he added. “Well, when we get married, we’ll go on a honeymoon to Marseilles and you can get some information on garlic and fish.”

"When we get married and go on a honeymoon,” she informed him succintly, “there won’t be any Marseilles.”

“Heaven and earth shall pass, you know.”

“Don’t blaspheme, Glenn,” Dorothy gently rebuked.

“I’m innocent of the charge,** he protested.

“Then don’t be odd,” she commanded uncertainly.

“All right,” he agreed; but Dorothy felt that her attempt to get Glenn stuck had been baffled.

After the French period Dorothy said to Glenn, “Now you run along like a good boy to your football.”

“And you go home to your mama and help bake those cookies,” he ordered.

“Wrong,” chided Dorothy. “Going to fry doughnuts. Sinkers.

Sinkers ?M queried Glenn. “I’ll be over tonight and we’ll study history.

Got to study math,” answered the girl. “Now you go and make a touchdown.”

“Disagree,” said the boy, “Going to make two of them.”

But they studied history that night; as regards the touchdowns, suffice it to note that Glenn’s intentions were good.

This was a typical clay for the two friendly enemies. You say they were shallow? The point is granted. Would you have them to be heavy-hearted ? That would be unnatural. If they went to extreme in mutually sharpening their wits on the other’s offerings it must be remembered that had they not done so, they would inevitably have gone to other extremes in whatever they did, for their make-up demanded that they do what they did. They only followed the path of least resistance; and they were young. _ Glenn was in no way considered effeminate because he kept company with Dorothy. Who among the students could give a disparaging esti­ mate of the girl, and was he not a good end on the squad ? He was JLot a lost sheep without Dorothy nor was she dependent on him.

They were merely innocent children full of the joy of living.

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were also made up of such days, filled with them, and still neither admitted being vanquished. Both could still retort and if Dorothy was silenced, Gleen was silenced almost as often. He had just a slight advantage, which as he grew older would have developed, as it was nature’s endowment of the average superior genius, had it been possible for such a shallow practice to go uninterrupted into later life. Finally they must both outgrow it, but as yet they had no thought of such an eventuality.

And so in May, Glenn and Dorothy went to the annual Junior picnic. It was a happy day and the girl was in her brightest mood.

She parried Glenn’s thrusts until he could no longer find words to throw at her.

“Is this a plot against me?” he asked hopelessly.

“Yes, pure deviltry,” she answered.

“Where did you learn that word?” Glenn wanted to know.

Dorothy laughed and answered evasively : “The imps of Erebus in awful conclave stood.

While his Satanic Majesty the mandate gave, That forthwith all the powers of Tartarus On Gloomy Glenn be trained to plague the luckless fellow.”

“Hark ye, hark ye,” he proclaimed; “unpoetic woman bursts into verse.”

“Who says women are impoetic?” she demanded.

“Shaw .says so,” he retorted.

“Oh, Granny Phipps said that in English class,” she accused him.

'Which doesn’t charge matters.”

“Today is Tuesday,” Dorothy said absently.

“Which still says nothing,M Glenn maintained.

“And for that reason tomorrow is Wednesday.M uOf course. The calendar says your right, Dora.

“Well, then, for the same reason yesterday was Monday and a week ago was Tuesday and a week from now will be Tuesday, again. So there.”

“You win, Dorothy. I can’t answer anything like that.

There’s nothing can be said about it at all. It's just so. I’m beat.”

“Told you so, Gloomy Glenn,” she answered hesitatingly.

“Well, let’s bury the hatchet then and not throw any more wise cracks at each other,” Glenn proposed. “You won anyway.5* “Yes, let’s bury the hatchet,” she agreed, “But where ? In your wooden head?” she asked naively.

“No, no, no,” he assured her. “You’d be in danger of flying splinters.”

A. G.,，30.

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BLACK CATS AND THE LIKE Superstitious practices prevail wherever man exists. They were found among the ancient Egyptians, among the Greeks and Ro­ mans, among the ignorant blacks of Africa, and among the Indians of the Americas. They still exist among the highly cultured peo­ ples of the present day.

One of the numerous superstitious beliefs among the ancient Egyptians consisted in placing a scarab in the clothes of the Egyp­ tian when he was buried. This scarab, by its mere presence, would be the vital factor in the resurrection of the dead Egyptian. Among the Greeks and Romans superstition is also evident in their religion. A common superstitious belief in their religion was that of Faking the auspices. The blacks of Africa and the Indians of the Americas had witch-doctors, who were the instigators, through their potent powders and weird actions, of witchcraft in general among the races.

The highly cultured and well educated peoples of today retain, although in varied forms, many superstitions of the middle ages.

These indeed vary from those of the ancients, for the “highly in­ tellectual” man of today deems their practices foolish. He cannot, however, perceive that he has and observes practices which are even more foolish.

In a group of a thousand students at a university only two per cent stated that they held no superstition. Some of the great men whom we admire had superstitious beliefs which to most of us seem ridiculous. Peter the Great of Russia would not cross a bridge on account of a superstitious belief. Napoleon dreaded black cats. Sir Walter Scott would not venture near Melrose Abbey at night because of his belief in ghosts.

And what of our enlightened age? Even the highly educated frequently cling to silly superstitions. To break a mirror is to bring on seven years of bad luck. Many people who firmly believe this popular superstition do not realize how it originated. Super­ stitious beliefs of all kinds were prevalent during the middle ages; During this time people attempted to foretell fortunes by means of mirrors, They believed that bad luck and good luck travelled in cles of seven years. It so developed that when people sought to retell their future by means of a mirror and in so doing broke the mirror they shattered any good luck which might have been present or coming to them with the mirror. .

Friday, the thirteenth, sends a chill through many hearts, It is a day which is more unlucky than any other because both Friday and the number thirteen are very unlucky.

Thirteen is one of the numbers which occur most often in sup­ erstitions. Ancient Scandinavian folk lore contributes one belief 193

for considering it a number of ill repute. The number of demi-gods in Scandinavian mythology was twelve until Loki, the evil minded, joined them. The people believed all their woe originated in him.

Small wonder then that the number was dreaded by these people.

Thirteen, however, was regarded as an evil number long be­ fore the time of Scandinavian mythology. An authority states that the number thirteen was regarded as evil for the following reason: Whenever the ancients transacted business and tried to divide num­ bers into thirteen, they found that it was only divisible by one and itself; consequently they regarded it with disfavor. In time it was regarded as a number bringing about bad luck.

Black cats have always been symbolic of bad luck. The popu­ lar belief is, if a cat crosses your path and you in turn cross the cat’s trail you shall encounter bad luck. According to the belief of scholars this superstition originated in Egypt. Pasht was con­ sidered the goddess of witches. She lived in cats. The insignia of evil is black. . Thus the black cats were acknowledged homes of evil witches. To cross the black cat’s path meant to put yourself in the power of the witches.

A horse-shoe is a sign of good luck. Many people really be­ lieve that statement. This belief originated a long time ago. At that time horseshoes were not so smooth and rounded as they now are. It originally resembled the two uprights and the lintel of the door. This resemblance gained for it the belief that it was a good omen. At the season of the Passover, Jewish door posts and lintels were stricken with blood. This had been a good sign for the Jews in Egypt. The horse-shoe was representative of this arch which the blood formed; consequently it became a token of good luck.

One old superstition has been handed down to us not as a super­ stition, but merely as an involuntary word of well wishing. Carlo Signonia, an Italian historian, relates that in the pontificate of Gregory the Great a great pestilence broke out in Italy, Violent sneezes were symptoms of the disease. Gregory issued an edict announcing that whenever anyone sneezed any person near him should call out, “God bless you” (Gesundheil). This was done. .

People began to believe that the words themselves where a magic charm which cured one from the sickness and in that way they turned it to a superstitious belief.

There are innumerable other superstitions, most of which have origins similar to those which I have treated.

E. W. IC, *32.

NOVEMBER TRAGEDY It was late in the afternoon when Miss Plinie set out for home.

The day had been very trying for her, and as she walked along the 194

deeply rutted road an empty longing welled up into her consciousness. The wind, cold with the promise of winter, howled through the stark tree-tops, and seemed, with its dagger-like blasts, to pierce through the meager protection offered by her shabby cloak to her shrinking flesh, and to rob her frail body of what little life it pos­ sessed. Emotion had dried from the brain of Miss Plinie many years ago, but now, as she faltered along the road, a dim sugges­ tion of self-pity crept into her mind, and a small spark of hope was kindled and fanned into being by the rushing wind. In the semi­ darkness, the world seemed suddenly to have grown empty and cruel—more cruel and empty than usual. Distraught by an unut­ terable dismay and loneliness, the old woman pulled her tattered black shawl more closely about her thin shoulders and resolutely tried to forget that she was facing starvation.

Perhaps tomorrow she could get work—some sewing, or she could take care of children—she could no longer be particular!

But as this thought half formed in her mind, she recalled how she had tried all day to earn a little money and had failed. She was too old to work; too old to act as a nurse. No other work was open to her.. The women who had formerly employed her now told her that they were dissatisfied with her work. What could one expect when one’s hands were knotted with neuralgia?...

As she left the shelter of the buildings and came to the open stretch of road, the wind 1)ore down on her with renewed violence.

There was a stinging burn to be felt in its ruthless strength, and the scattered ice crystals which found their being in the frigicl air, bit into her tender face. She almost cried aloud when the first violence of the wind came upon her. Later, she became so numb that the cold no longer mattered.

When, finally, she reached her house, she was exhausted. But even then there was no rest. She must build a fire. A leaft flut­ tered against her face as she went to the shed to get some wood. is like that,” she though;—“a leaf blown in the wind” .An unutterable sense of helplessness came upon her. “In the spring the leaves are necessary to the tree,” she muttered; ‘jn the fall the !ree casts the leaf aside.” She gathered some dry pieces of kindling into her shawl. Then she entered the house.

While she waited for the fire to get a hold on the kindling, _ a flood of reminiscences came upon her: her school days, her fathers death (how still and peaceful he had looked lying in his coffin), he.r courtship, her growing poverty, her great illness. In those few minutes she lived over her entire life, and she paused to ponder upon her lover, Hugh, and she remembered how happy she was him; but the thought of his death shortly before the marriage robbed her of her transient delight.

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1 She remembered how she had dreamed of the time when she would be a great lady; when she had almost known the fulfillment of her dreams, and then, with the approach of the Civil War, how she had lost both her lover and her fortune.

Reluctantly she bestirred herself to add heavier wood to the fire, and to fill the small squat tea-pot with water from the rusty waterpail. (She had to break the ice before she could complete her task.) The room was becoming warm now, and in the fast gather­ ing gloom Miss Plinie’s spirit seemed to take on a new life. “Life is like a leaf,” she muttered to herself, her small eyes bright with tears; “life is like a leaf!’’ She rocked herself gently in the large, old fashioned rocker which she had brought from her former home.

“Youth clings to the tree of life, but Age cannot cling. There is no longer the desire to live in one so old as I. Youth has its future to look forward to: Age has only its heart-sick memories—at least such age as mine.”

The hissing of the tea-pot announced the fact that she must add the tea-leaves. Slowly she set about her work—the simple preparation of her frugal meal. . . . She still had bread enough, and tea, and sugar. That was indeed a comfort. But what would she do when this was gone? She could not work any more; charity she would not accept....

As she returned to her dreams, sitting beside the stove which had become red-hot, a strange feeling of comfort and satisfaction stole over her. She could not work—then, since she had no money with which to buy food, she could not eat. She would一 Miss Plinie could not bring herself to accept the thought. No, she must hold to her life. “ ‘The Lord giveth ... the Lord taketh away* .... ‘In the midst of life.

There will be a way’.” she cried, softly to herself; “there will be a way. He will provide!

‘The Lord is my shepherd. ... I shall not ... . want’;’’ She sank back into her chair, and her open eyes watched through the lpng night while the fire went out, and the wind out­ side died down, and the water in the pail became darker and darker, and finally crystalized into silent ash-grey iice...

Wm. Faber.

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DAY MOON The slow moon, (Who had sat pale and patient all afternoon At the feet of day, While her favorite, the sun, wooed her) Followed day into the west, Not knowing that night, With her soothing arms and Moist, sweet lips, Awaited him.

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DO WE APPRECIATE THE RIVER? The majority of the student-body does not realize how for­ tunate we are in having a river so near at hand. This natural g^ft is a great source of physical exercise and consequently of health.

If the river were not here, we should be forced to take our exercise in a stuffy gymnasium, at least during the winter months, and rather than do that many would not exercise at all and as a matter of course become sluggish in body and mind. The chief exercises derived from the river are swimming and skating, although one might mention canoeing and boating.

Swimming is probably better than any other exercise. In this activity every limb and muscle must do its share in order to keep the body above water, and to move forward. Not only do the mus­ cles profit by swimming, but the respiratory organs will be strength­ ened. Since the students have their own swimming-place outride the city limits, those who are able to swim should take anyone who takes no exercise and cannot swim along and get him interested in the sport as soon as the weather permits next spring.

During the winter months the river again comes to our rescue and gives us skating. It does not make use of every muscle in the body as does swimming, but it is far better than to stay in the building day after day and watch the world from the inside. What we need is our own warming-house, but as it is now, we haven’t 198

much to complain about, since the city sponsors several houses.

Last winter we had very little skating due to the heavy snow-fall.

Of course, this was no excuse for permitting the snow to pile up, since the city spends several hundred dollars each winter so that the snow may be kept off the ice and the ice made smooth. Again, those who are able to skate should urge the rest of the students to learn. Why spend all your free time in the building or gymnasium, when you can take your irecreation under the free sky and derive such benefits as fresh air and sunlight ? The Creator has given us these gifts, let us learn to appreciate them.

H. F.,，30.

BOOKS In books “we converse with the wise, as in action with fools/* That is, if we know how to select our books. “Some books are to be tasted. others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digestedall these groups forming no doubt, an infinitesimal portion of the oceans and cataracts of ink in which the world is daily bathed and poisoned and drowned.

Durant, “Francis Bacon”

Alas for man, how vain are all his cares, And oh, what bubbles his most grave affairs.

Persius, Satire I

EBONY MAID There’s a maid who pines for me (Doth your envy stir?)

Fairer than a swan is she; Naught can rival her.

Silver, lilies, privet, snow All must yield her pride.

(Now your jealous thoughts, I know, Tend to suicide.)

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She by whom my heart is sway’d (Still your angry fright.)

Is a black but comely maid Darker than the night.

An^ or cricket, pitch, or crow These are not so black You’ll consent to live, I know; Put that halter back!

[Trs. Pott & Wright.]

To the shades of the Elysian Fields we send our hearty thanks for the above spicy little ditty. Thank you, Mr. Martial!

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ALUMNI

―We announch the birth of a son to the Rev. and Mrs. Martin L. Buenger, ’21, of Caledonia, Wisconsin; the birth of a daughter to the Rev. and Mrs. Otto Eckert, ’20, of Hemlock, Michigan; and the birth of a son to Mr. and Mrs. Schnecker. Mrs. Schnecker was Miss Bolle, Comm., ’25.

—We announce the marriage of the Rev. Paul Kuske to Miss Leona Zier. ―The Rev. Alforns Engel, *25, has moved to Pardeeville, Wis­ consin, at which place he was installed on November third.

—Recent visitors of Northwestern included the Rev. R. Lederer, ’10, Green Bay, Wisconsin, Karl Falk, ex. *31, and Robt. Falk, ex. ’26. 一Several alumni attended the football game at Lake Forest, Ill­ inois, on November 2. The Rev. Charles Buenger, J94, of Kenosha, Wisconsin, the Rev. William Lehmann, *19, of Libertyville, Illinois, the Rev. Walter Hilmer, ’13，and the Rev. William Huth，’16，of Kenosha, and Mr. ?Iclniuth Schaefer, '17, of Kenosha, were present.

Several alumni, whose names we were unable to learn also saw the preps play at Lake Mills, Wisconsin, on October 25.

—The Rev. Prof. A. Pieper, 76, and the Rev. Prof. J. Meyer, ’93, of the seminary at Thiensville, preached at the services at St. Mark’s congregation, Watertown, on November third, which commemorated the publishing of Luther’s catechisms.

• 一Prof. Kiessling, ’17, spoke at the Walther League rally held in Watertown, on October twentieth.

—Prof. Alfred J. Sch'veppe, ’15, has handed in his resignation as dean of the University of Washington Law School, After the taking effect of his resignation on January first next, he will be • associated with the firm of Me Micken, Ramsay, and Rupp, lawyers, in Seattle.

—Prof. George W. H. Shield, W, of Los Angeles, California, last summer conducted a course in methods of teaching mpdern lang^iages at the University of California, and at the University of Southeern California. Professor Shield is a supervisor of schools *n southern California working in fifty-four schools scattered about in an area of a thousand square miles.'

—The Rev. August Frederking, *26, who finished the course at the. Concordia Theological Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri, last spring, is stationed at Palm Beach, Florida.

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Am 1. November wurde Prof. Brenner eingefuehrt. Es war eine erhebende Feier. Wieder hatte sich eine grosse Anzahl Pastoren eingefunden, so dass unsere Kapelle voll war. Nach gemeinsamem Gesang hielt Prof. Pieper eine Ansprache, der er die Worte in 2. Tim. 2 zu Grunde gelegt hatte: “So sei nun stark, mein Sohn, durcli die Gnade in Christo Jesu. Und was du von mir gehoert hast durch viele Zeugen, das befiehl treuen Menschen, die da tuechtig sind, auch andere zu lehren.” Bei der Einfuehrung und Vereidigung amtierte Pastor Brenner aus Milwaukee. Danach richtete Prof. Brenner ein paar Worte an die Versammlung ueber Joh, 15, 16: “Ihr habt mich nicht erwaehlet, sondern ich babe euch erwaehlet und gesetzt, dass ihr hingehet und Frucht bringet und eure Frucht bleibe; auf dass so ihr den Vater bittet in meinem Namen, dass ers euch gebe.,> Nach vierstimmigen Gesang der Studenten sprach Prof. Meyer den Segen. 本本幸 Wir haben dieses Jahr die Gelegenheit zu beobachten, 'vie Aemter entstehen und Traditionen werden. Ein Amt muss aus den Verhaeltnissen herauswachsen, die Not muss es ergeben. Am Anfang des Jahres trafen wir allerlei neue Einrichtungen, schufen neue Aemter, machten neue Regeln und glaubten fuer alle Beduerfnisse gesorgt zu haben. Es hat sich aber herausgestellt, dass wir noch etwas versaeumt hatten. Im Lauf der Zeit hat sich gezeigt, dass unsere elektrischen Uhren nicht ganz zuverlaessig sind. Nun wollte ein jeder der Not abhelfen, indem er die Uhren nach seiner eigiien setzte. Das geht natuerlich nicht unter so vielen. Schliesslich nach vielem hin und her wurde ein official timekeeper crwaelilt, der jeden Tag nach den Uhren sehen soil. Wenn jetzt die Uhren nicht stimmen, so kann man doch wenigstens einem die Schuld geben.

Es hat sich ferner herausgestellt, dass wir nicht ohne tourist guide unt art exhibitor fertig werden koennen, besonders waehrend der Woche. Das Amt hat ein gewisser Student mit raffinierter Unverschaemtheit an sich gerissen, und wir muessen ihn ruhig gewaehren lassen. Wir haben nicht das Herz, ihn abzusetzen.

Da eben von einem “art exhibitor” die Rede ist, waere es wohl angebracht, unsere Freude ueber den Kunstsinn in unit 3 auszudruecken. Wer an Kunst Interesse nimmt, mag sich beim Herrn Mittelstaedt melden. Er wird sich gerne die Muehe geben, kurze Vortraege ueber seine Kunstsammlung zu halten.

Man sagt, dass Touristen an den Kunstwerken ihre Freude haben.

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I ^Math ^:Hdj nen. Wer das bezweifelt, frage nur den Herrn Wackerfuss.. Er hat vor kurzem einen Brief bekommen,〔lessen Adresse auf irgendeine unerklaerliche Weise voellig ausgeloescht war. Und doch kam der Brief zum Seminar. Als bekannt genlacht wurde, class ein anonymer Brief erschienen sei, meldete sich Herr Wackerfuss und identifizierte seinen Brief. Das soil ihm einer nachmachen!

Die Zahl der Stuclenten nimmt immer noch zu. Es sind jetzt unsere 65, Herr Martin Zilz hat sich wieder eingestellt. 氺 * Man wird verzeihen, wenn ein Ereignis, das laengst vorueber ist, wieder ans Licht gebracht und etwas naeher beleuchtet wird.

Es its das ungefaehr so, als wenn man die Sonntagszeitung am Dienstag liest,—aber man muss doch etwas zu schreiben haben.

Nun mag’s losgehen. _ Es handelt sich um den “geimietHchen Abend.” Es war am 25.

Oktober abends um 6 Uhr, als eine bunte Gesellschaft von Studenten sich versammeltc. Allerlei Trachten und Kostueme waren zum Vorschein gekommen. Da gab es Juden, Neger, Chinesen, Doktoren, Priester, cowboys, ja, manche waren bis in die Puppen verkleidet. Nach cinem kurzen Marsch ging*s in den Esssaal, wo ein Komitec ein ganz eklatantes Festessen bereitet hatte. Das Essen wurdc in Gaengen serviert. Nach jedem Gang gab es Reden oder Musik. Ein Quartett gab ein paar Stuecke zum besten, und ein Trio spielte die Wei sen clef verschiedenen Staaten, die auf dem Seminar vertreten sind. Beim Spielen der Melodie ihres Staates mussten sich die Vertreter desselbn erheben. Das brachte natuerHch den alten Provinzialismus und Staatenneicl zum Vorschein, aber wir waren in so guter Stimnning, dass wir sie uns (lurch nichts verderben Hessen.

Nach dem Bankett gab es wieder einen Marsch. Ueber Stock und Stein, bergauf und bergab, ueber Fluss und Wiese ging's im Gaensemarsch. Dabei hatte einer das Unglueck, ins Wasser zu fallen. Als die ganze Brueclerschaft sich unter einem Baum versammelt hatte, schuettete ploetzlich Frau Holle ihr Federbett aus.

Ein Regen von Gaensefedern fiel aus dem Baum auf die Studenten. ~ Dann war’s aber genug.

Nun ging*s zurueck zum Wohngebaeude, und die eigentliche Unterhaltung nahm ihren An fang. Alles zu erzaehlen, was da . vorkam, waere zu weitlaeufig. Allerlei Schauspiele wurden aufgefuehrt, ein Blaschor von 6 Spielern lieferte vorzuegliche Musik. Das ?ben envaehnte Quartett erschien nochmals. Nicht zu vergessen lst gemeinsame Singen von deutschen Stuclenten und Volksliedern. ^us voller Brust erschallten die alten, herrlichen Lieder, so dass die Grundfesten des Gebaeudes erbebten.

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Telegram kam von Morrison. Herr Lemke drueckte sein Bedauem aus, dass er nicht mit uns feiern konnte, und wir moechten doch so gilt sein, ihm von den Weintrauben etliche aufzuheben. Auch der Mayor von Thiensville sandte seine Glueckswuensche. Ja, irgendwie liatte Dr. Hugo Eckener in Deutschland von unserer Feier Wind bekommen, und da er gehoert hatte, dass wir noch das Deutsche pflegen und mit Vorliebe bei unserer Feier deutsche Lieder singen, konnte er sich nicht enthalten, er musste auch seine Gluecks­ wuensche senden,—Beilaeufig waeren die Leser vielleicht interessiert zu hoeren, dass Dr. Eckener versprochen hat, bei seinem naechsten Flug mit dem Zeppelin uns in Thiensville zu besuchen. Er hofft an unserm Turin ganz gut ankern zu koennen.

Das war der gemuetliche Abend. Es 'viirdeii zu guter letzt noch Bilder genommen. Man wollte unser Bild sogar im Journal Gar zu haben, aber unsere Bescheidenheit Hess das nicht zu. schnell war der Abend erflossen, und wir mussten uns vertagen. In unserer Erinnerung wird der gemuetliche Abend weiterleben. 氺 氺 * Jeder Leser, der nicht Englisch kann, wird entschuldigen, dass sich der Schreiber im naechsten Absatz der englischen Sprache bedient. Wer nicht versteht, was da gesagt sein will, mag irgendeine Zeit bein ihm um Exegese anfragen. Da der Schreiber noth nie ein deutsches Fussballspiel gesehen hat, nimmt er sich die Freiheit, englisch zu schreiben. Doch er hat noch eine bessere Entschuldigung. Da der Schreiber anderwaertig beschaeftigt war, war Herr Patsy Kuehl vom Coetus beauftragt worden, einen deutschen Bericht ueber das Spiel fuer die Seminary Notes zu schreiben. Aber Herr Kuehl hat sich blamiert; er hat sich ganz und gar als unfaehig erwiesen. Als wir ihn um seinen Bericht fragten, gestand er ein, ihn zerstoert zu haben. Dar war wohl weise von ihm, denn der Manager, Herr Voecks, berichtet, dass Patsy mehr des Managens bedurfte als das team.

Also wir duerfen englisch schreiben. Kleine Ungenauigkeiten moege man uebersehen, denn wir schreiben nur von Hoerensagen.

For a long time rumors have been afloat this fall that we would have a football game with Northwestern of Watertown, and the experts had it that we would trounce our time-honored opponent, because the nucleus of Northwestern’s team of last year had come to our camp. Slowly but confidently our players had conditioned themselves for the great event, the homecoming game for the sem­ inary boys. Many of us had planned on a glorious outing for that day. The tentative date for the game was October 25. Then the disappointment: the official report that there would be no game with Northwestern.

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?你 JITcuk 咖 for their pent-up energy. They cast about for a worthy team to play. Through some political pull they managed to schedule a game with that world-famed amateur team, the Cedarburg Alumni, of whom “every one’s a star,” including the waterboy.

The game was scheduled for November 2. An air of expecta­ tion pervaded the dormitory on the eve of the game. All necessary appendages were elected, no detail was neglected. The following officials were elected by the student body: Voecks, manager; Patsy Kuehl, reporter for the Seminary Notes, and trainer; Hellbusch, doctor; Iiaar, representative of the bachelor’s club; Zilz, referee; Hoenecke, umpire.

Finally the time for tlie game was at hand. The Northwestern Tigers of Thiensville Seminary and the Cedarburg Alumni took the field. When our boys appeared they received an immense ovation from the crowd in the grandstand. It was an imposing spectacle, reminding one of the classics played at Soldier’s Field.

Among the noted personages reported to have been at the game are Caesar Sabrowsky and Tuffy Reich, Associated Press re­ porters ;Johnny Mittelstaedt, photographer for the Sunday Jour­ nal, and Quinn Ryan of W G N broadcasting the game. Among the elite in the grandstand were the Mayor of Thiensville, the Mayor of Cedarburg, and the sheriff of Ozaukee County.

Now for the game itself. The first quarter was fairly even, the ball seesawing up and down the field until it landed at the quarter on the 10-yard line. From there our boys easily pushed it over for the first touchdown at the beginning of the second quarter. From then on began a series of marches down the field; that first touch­ down seemed to have taken the heart out of our opponents. The half ended with the score at 12-0. The third quarter is marked by End ruins the completion of a 25-yard pass, Sauer to Martin, brought another touchdown. The most spectacular play of the game occurred in the last quarter when Martin intercepted a pass and ran 60 yards for a touchdown. Cedarburg’s frantic efforts at passing in the last minutes of play were ineffectual. The final score was 30-0.

Touchdowns for the Seminary: Martin 2, Sauer, Strohschein, Westendorf.

Busiest man of the day: Doctor Hellbusch.

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The fall season, the cooler weather, and the longer evenings bring us to the realization that the concert and play season is again opening. The regrettable feature is that none of these are to be sponsored in Watertown. Continued financial reverses impressed the college authorities with the fact that attractions of this nature are not given the support they should receive. Other organizations hereabouts have not the initiative or the foresight to present them.

Such groups should be more in a position to back these offerings due to their business and social connections.

The surprising thing is that nothing is done about it. A town of some ten thousand population, draining, besides, the country-side and smaller communities for miles about, should evince more life in this respect. One hears much concerning Watertown’s “cul­ tural achievements,” but aside from such offerings as Northwestern gives, nothing of merit is produced, excepting some presentations by the high school. Occasionally some mediocre stock company, Chautauqua or medicine show drifts into town, but these are a glar­ ing proof of what is lacking.

Several years past the college has brought numerous wellknown and talented performers to Watertown, with several set­ backs. Elman and Kreisler, Salvi, Schumann-Heink, Tony Sarg, the Marine band and the Navy band, the Rhondda Walsh Male Chorus, the Ukrainian National Chorus, St. Olaf’s Choir, the Min­ neapolis Symphony orchestra; these and others of international as well as national note have appeared in our auditorium at various times. How a vicinity that has had an opportunity to witness and hear these artists can lapse into the present lethargy is surprising1.

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selections on the phonograph and the programs arranged by the radio-casting stations. Here the intimate contact with the artists is lacking and much of the music itself is missed, due to imperfec­ tions in the apparatus reproducing the music.

Again一in music we want not only mechanical perfection, we demand life. Are we content with selections on a reproducing piano on a stage ? No! We demand an artist to supply that de­ sired something — call it soul 一 that is so essential to real appre­ ciation, to true understanding of the spirit with which the composer has imbued his masterpiece. This we find only in the personal appearance of a good artist. 氺

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It has been decided to present the first literary meeting of the season sometime during the first or second week of December. All programs will be held in the gymnasium. A new stage is being assembled for this purpose. Its dimensions will be twenty feet by ten feet. It will stand somewhat over two feet above the floor.

The acoustics in the gymnasium being better than in the chapel, better productions should result. The seating capacity is also greater.

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■ Carthage College Conservatory has organized a quartet which will represent the college on a ten-day tour the last of November or beginning of December. A tour has been arranged which will coyer approximately one thousand miles throughout southern Illi­ nois. Our best wishes for a successful tour.

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“The Collegian” is with us again with the same wealth of cheer and the same splendid literary department that delighted us dur­ ing the last year. Especially interesting is the editorial on the pur­ pose of an exchange column in a school magazine. The writer states, among other things, that “the exchanges have the dignity of comment and knocks that proceed from the opinions held by school journals.” We enjoyed reading “La Petite Fleur** and uAutunin.” We shall always enjoy reading “The Collegian” and hope that there may be still better editions in the future.

Lawrence College recently dedicated its new Alexander Gym­ nasium which is a remarkable addition to the college plant. To judge from photographs the new gymnasium is a splendid buildi "ga The new building is to give further impetus to the Denney sport for every man program.

“The Round Table” of Beloit College takes occasion, in a re­ cent article, to set down its editorial policy. To judge from the na­ ture of the editorial the paper must have been bitterly criticised, especially for its “alleged humor,” which has been called “insulting to the intelligence of a sixth grade child.” This the writer meets with the caustic reply that “inasmuch as we are a year older we may be able to qualify for the seventh grade this year.” But he goes on to state that “in any event we shall endeavor to temper with a slight amount of intelligence all that appears in our columns. Perfect sobriety we abhor, cleverness we envy.” Whether the criticism was warranted or not, we certainly like the editor’s outspokenness. Wonder at whom this dig was directed. “We do not belong to the Rotary, Kiwanis or Booster clubs and we sin­ cerely believe that the paper’s function is not to serve as advertising' literature for Beloit College but as a paper for Beloit students and faculty.” What more should one expect of a school paper than that it truly represents the spirit, the traditions, and the principles of the school ?

—Some time last month Wheaton College dedicated the New Lawson Field. An editorial remarks, in part, that its ^dedication to clean sportsmanship and for the upbuilding of the kingdom is reassuring of the fact that the spiritual growth of the college is parallelling the material.” Also that “our God is not just a God of the Cloister and prayer group but that he enters into every wholesome Christian activity?”

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Northwestern 0; Whitewater 18 October 19, Watertown. Northwestern fell to Whitewater Nor­ mal in a contest in which Northwestern threatened occasionally but failed to muster enough punch to score. The Normalites crossed the goal-line once in the opening period by virtue of a pass, In the next period Northwestern was marching along nicely when Schwager of the Quakers broke loose and' skampered behind good interference for (32 yards and the second touchdown. Rossin was indeed a luminary in this half for the locals, plunging through the heavy but slow line repeatedly for gains.

In the third period Northwestern held and permitted no change in the score. In the last quarter, however, a long pass completed

by Janescik was responsible for Whitewater’s third and last touch­ down. All attempts for extra point failed. Witt at end played a brilliant style of ball, recovering two fumbles, while Heyn played equally well at center.

Northwestern 0; Lake Forest 32 Lake Forest, November 2. Lake Forest downed Northwestern with the highest score made against the Black and Reds this season, but nevertheless Northwestern did not play ragged ball except pos­ sibly in the last quarter. Lake Forest in the initial • plays carried the ball deep into our territory by end runs and passes, but then Northwestern held and started a counter march. Thus the first quarter ended. In the second, however, a long pass netting lat least 30 yards brought Lake Forest within a few yards of the goal209

line. In several plunges the ball was over; the extra point was also made. Northwestern responded with good gains, but could only bring the ball up to the four-yard line, where a fumble messed things up. In the third period Lake Forest gained an additional marker. In the final quarter they collected two more touchdowns, the last of which was scored after the game had been called—play in motion.

Fritze, Rossin, and Stuhr played a stellar game on the offensive making noteworthy gains by end runs and passes. Heyn again played exceptionally well on the defensive and hindered the op­ ponents greatly by his frequent tackles. Fresacki, the life of the Lake Forest eleven, featured by sensational runs and gave his team­ mates a decided advantage. 一Lake Forest ―Rostkowski ___ L. E...... ............ Olsen ___ L. T.._ ____ Eashaw L. G.— ............. Mayer •_C. _______ Burk R.G. .........Johnson R.T...........Hernly R. E.„ ______ Kunz F. .... Luttinghaus L. H. ...........Parker R. H. .........Ferzacca Q. Substitutions for Northwestern: Buenger for Engel, Naumann for Witt, Witt for Naumann, Engel for Buenger, Kasch for Haef­ ner, Buenger for Baumann, Haefner for Kasch, Froehlich for Heyn, Schwerin for Fritze, Kuhlow for Rutz, Naumann for Witt.

Northwestern— Witt_____ Engel Bergfeld Heyn__ Schultz _ Baumann__ Rutz______ Haefner----Rossin------Fritze------Stuhr_____

Northwestern 6; Milton 19 Milton, November 8. In the final game of the season the Northwestern eleven suffered defeat at the hands of Milton. North­ western threatened occasionally but then somehow would lose the ball. Milton made its own breaks by blocking- punts. The contest opened in an exchange of punts in which Milton gained ground, for Fritze was too rushed to get off his usually good punts, but nevertheless the Black and Reds offset this by good returns. Neither team had pierced into striking distance until late in the second period when Milton uncorked a long pass that brought them up to Northwestern^ five yard zone. In several line plunges they made their first touchdown. The half ended with Milton still holding the edge on punts, but there was still no reason to think that the battle was decided, an interesting half remained. On the first play 210

after the kickoff Milton returned the ball for a neat gain of 60 yards and annexed another touchdown. Milton soon found North­ western before their last white line ready to push the ball over; twice Northwestern did this and twice they fumbled in such a hope­ ful minute only to forfeit all chances of victory. In the opening of the fourth quarter Milton had reversed the charge and were rest­ ing on the one yard line, but Northwestern braced and held them for four downs. The Black and Reds punted out of danger, but Milton completed a long pass and were back on the original oneyar(l line ready to annex another touchdown, which they did. This time the attempt for the extra point proved successful. On the first play after the next kickoff, Kasch after catching a pass ran 65 yards behind perfect interference on the part of Baumann, and crossed the goal line for Northwestern's only touchdown. North­ western on receiving the kickoff again penetrated deep into Milton territory, but an intercepted pass on the 10-yard line foiled all of Northwestern’s hopes of scoring. Both teams now fought an even battle to the finish. The Black and Red line played excellent ball throughout the entire game. Witt, left end, received a fractured leg on the second last play of the game and also of the season, Cripps, right half, starred for Milton offensively, and Bottorf, right guard, defensively.

Northwestern— 一Milton Rutz_____ R. E Engel____ -R. Wixom R. T Buenger — ___ Bottorf R. G Heyn_____ C. Bergfeld__ ___________ Babcock __ ______ G. Wixom L.T Witt_________ .......----- ___________________Whitford Rossin_______ •• ••„R. H.•-… _____________ Cripps Kasch----------____________ Kelling Fritze________ ___F. B_____ __ _________—一- JBenke Stuhr ________ .......... ................. Sayre Q.B 0 0 0 6—6 Northwestern— Milton— 0 6 6 7—19 Substitutions for Northwestern: Liesner for Kasch, Schwerin for Liesner, Raasch for Schwerin, Baumann for Witt; for Milton:.

Stewart for Bottorf, Parks for Babcock, Stevens for Kelling.

Officials: Referee, Huegel (Wisconsin); umpire, Hancock (Wisconsin) ; head linesman, Agnew (Wisconsin).

Northwestern Preps 6; Lake Mills 12 Lake Mills, October 18. The preps held the heavier and pow­ erful Lake Mills team scoreless during the first period and were 211

1 still fighting an even battle in the second, when a long pass brought Lake Mills deep into prep territory, ready to rush over. The at­ tempt for the extra point was unsuccessful. The preps now resorted to the air; the pass from Knoll to Leyhe was successful and closed the first half with a tie score 6-6. Lake Mills opened the third quarter with a haltless march and after collecting four consecutive first downs annexed their second touchdown. In the final quarter the preps again opened an aerial attack which brought them to the 15-yard line, but here they fumbled with only one minute to play. Captain Gentz was the fire of his team throughout; Frede­ ricks and Schewe again were responsible for large gains around the ends.

Northwestera Preps 7; University Extension 13 Milwaukee, October 26. The preps immediately opened a successful aerial attack which brought them to the 20-yard line, but here the M. U. S. line tightened and forced the preps to lose the ball on downs. The young Black and Reds now recovered a, fumble on the 25-yard line, but lost it again on an intercepted pass.

The preps also opened the second period with a bang by smearing their opponents for 30 yards in the first three plays. Reuschel, prep fullback, now skampered through the line for 60 yards and the first touchdown of the day. Bolle was called upon to kick the extra point and did. Shortly thereafter the M:.U. S. recovered a fumble and marched to the2 20-y ard line when the half ended, After an even exchange of punts at the opening of the third period, Sacrilluci returned a punt for 70 yards, warding off tackier after tackier as he approached the goal-line. He also made the extra point. Extension now recovered another fumble and then Parsons followed with a 25-yard run and another marker. The fourth quar­ ter was an evenly fought battle, neither team threatening at any time. The game ended in midfield and was in every respect inter­ esting and undecided to the very close.

Northwestern. Preps— Bolle__________ O. Lemke______ M. Lemk爸_____ Gentz (c)______ Wallen________ Schroeder _____ R. Lemke_____ Knoll_________ Schewe________ Thurow_______ Reuschel_______

—University Extension —L. E------M. Graves ____ Fromm —L. T•….—■ __ Fleischer ____ Wilbur c. ______ Vogt R. G „ Kutchinson R. T —Vandernelde ~ R. E.___ ____ Parsons __ Sacrilluci -R. H___ F. ......Hood (c) 212

i 0 7 0 0— 7 Northwestern— 0 0 13 0—13 University Extension— Touchdowns: Reuschel, Sacrilluci, Parsons.

Officials: Referee, Regan (Marquette); umpire, Driggit (Mich­ igan State Normal); head linesman, Daley (Dartmouth).

Northwestern Preps 38; Lutheran High 0 Watertown, November 9. Coach Franzmanns preps smothered Lutheran High here with the decisive score 38-0. Lutheran High was unable to repel' the vicious running attack of the preps except in the third quarter, when they held the local boys scoreless. The preps completed 14 first clowns and completed 7 passes, while the visitors hardly pierced the prep territory.

The preps found their first touchdown on a recovered fumble near the goal line. Rcuschel, plunging fullback, carried the ball across for the first marker. In the second period Kaye and Schewe by virtue of good open-field running annexed two more touchdowns.

All attempts for the extra point failed. In the third quarter the Lutheran High line settled down to some real football, doing good defensive work, and permitted no change in the score, The fourth quarter was a big one for the young Black and Reds; they scored three more times. Reuschel and Schewe annexed two markers on long runs after which Bolle successfully kicked the extra point, while Leyhe, substitute for R. Lemke, added another on a pass.

Kaye, Reuschel, and Schewe of the prep back field featured in their open-field running; the line functioned well both offensively and defensively. Since this is Lutheran High’s first year of football they possibly deserve more credit than the score would show. They showed good sportsmanship throughout.

Lutheran High Northwestern Preps—Bolle___ ,______ .…L, E..„. __ L. T___ ______________ Stade O. Lemke______ 二■L..G: = ______________ IClatt M. Lemke_____ ___ C. ___________ Behrens Wallen____ —R. G.— ___________ Koepsell Schroeder —.

R.T. R. Lemke —.

—R^E…… __________ M. Klug ____________ Wilde ______________ Tonn Reuschel __________ F. ___________ Winkler Schewe------------------ ...L. H. __________ Ulichney Kaye_____________ .R: H. 6 12 0 20—38 Northwestern Preps一 0 0 0 0— 0 Lutheran High— Officials: Referee, Binhammer (Northwestern) ; umpire, Klein213

ke (Northwestern) ; head linesman, Falk (Lutheran High). Touch­ downs, Reuscliel (2), Schewe (2), Kaye, Lyhe.

BASKETBALL Although Coach Kleinke had every reason to be downhearted at the result of his efforts on the gridiron, yet he worked persistent­ ly to put out a winning team apparently undiscouraged by repeated defeats. He will also assume the coaching of the basketball squads and can practically start where he left off last spring, for only two men were lost to the team through graduation. To surmise what the team will look like so early in the season, would not only be unjust to latent material, but would be very much subject to error.

Two games have been arranged before our Christmas recess, • namely: Concordia, December 14, here.

Beloit, December 19, there.

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Writer of this column, “making rounds” in the dormitory: “Any locals in this room?”

Sextaner, nervously raising his eyes from a textbook : “Who?” Kaspar, Pape, Bleichwehl, and Warlike spent the week-end of November 2 at Warnke’s home in Kingston, Wis. The gang claims credit for a valiant raid on the chicken farm, four plump chickens perishing as victims of the invasion.

The Sexta class held a meeting on November 5 which was a paragon of perfect order. Much of the credit is due to G. Peters, the Junior in charge. No windows or doors were broken, and there was only one fist fight during the entire meeting.

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1 Believe it or not—Harke, L. Schliesser and R. Schwartz went swimming October 27.

On November 9 A Schewe and K. Vertz visited at Mishicot, Wisconsin, Mr. Vertz’s home town.

November 2 Nicolaus Tertia, went home on an enforced va­ cation because of a broken arm.

One of the most serious injuries of the football season fell to the lot of “Bandy” Siegler. One afternoon in practice he twist­ ed his knee very badly and was forced to use crutches for some time thereafter.

A chicken dinner seems to 1)e an unfailing magnet for North­ western College students. October 20 the church dinner at Oak Grove attracted Eckert, Kasch, Buenger, Schwerin, Gentz, Stuhr, and Oscar Forbeck.

The gentlemen confess that they did full justice to their appetites, especially Eckert and Kasch, who had to walk about ten miles on the upmarch. After dinner Eckert over­ heard one lady remarking to another, "There were some boys from Northwestern here too. And did those boys pack it in! They ate, and then they started all over again.”

Three innocents abroad :—On the night of the “Prep” foot­ ball game against Milwaukee University Extension, Kaye, M. Schwartz, and M. Toepcl undertook to wrest a night's sleep from the turmoil of mighty Milwaukee. They stormed the bulwarks of the railroad station with almost no* effort. But scarcely had they settled down to their conquest of the nocturnal shades when the conductor stepped into the scene. “Where are you boys going?”

Toepel faltered, “Why,―er一a—nowhere.” But Kaye rode for­ ward as the royal Prince Victorious. He quickly interposed, “We’re going to Watertown.” The conductor withdrew from the fray, satisfied: “Oh, that’s all right. That train doesn’t leave until morning.” And the battle was won “FVex” Roth seems to be positively determined to set a world’s record for black eyes, He started the month of November with a brand new shiner.”

At this writing, the measles have claimed two victims in the dormitory, Orval Kreie, ’32，and Lester Heller, Sexta. Both boys are confined to the sick room.

The Sock Exchange Boxing, something new at Northwestern College, started Mond?y，November 4. Twelve prospective pugilists were out the first night, and more are expected after the closing of the football season. Oliver Witte, who has charge of the squad, cites as his prom­ ising material Roth, and A. Schultz, Quinta.

This one is on “Bandy” Siegler. As he and Sippert were strolling down Main street one time, the sign “Anniversary of Light” 215

caught their attention. Mr. Siegler searched his memory, but in vain. Finally he turned to his companion for solution, “Say, who is this Mr. Light anyway?”

Oil the evening of October 30, just as the girls’ Hallowe’en party was beginning to take form, those two golcl-dust twins, the Weyland brothers, were overheard solemnly discoursing to each other on the absolute necessity of going over to the “gym” to search for their lost wrist watch. Both debaters staunchly upheld the af­ firmative side of the argument.

On this particular morning every member of the Sophomore Latin class was bent studiously over his book as the professor stepped into the room. Everything seemed calm and serene, but that very fact would suggest that something was amiss. And there was. On the top of the desk second from the front sat a huge dog, gazing peacefully about the room. Every student slyly screwed one eye up to the professor, expecting some expression of violence.

But the joke was deftly turned upon the class. The professor smiled and quietly remarked that he was glad to notice at least one in­ telligent looking member in the class. A sound of spasmodic laughter filled the room, and the inoffensive animal was ushered out of the door.

Everyone said she had a good time, and so passed the co-ed party. Betty, Faber wrote a ghost story for the occasion and told it the way that kind of story should be told. Dorothy Heil, ex. ’27, was our only guest and she told us that she enjoyed the party very much.

Jeanette Glaus had to discontinue her school work. She is keeping house and taking care of her mother, who is ill.

A group of the MprepsM have organized, calling their club “The Carbonari dlub.” Julia Knispel is the president, Dorothy Groth, vice president; Ruth Mayer, treasurer; and Glenna Rasmussen, sec­ retary. The girls meet every Wednesday afternoon一any place out of doors. The sign of this club is a red taschentuch, as Glenna mformed us. Gertrude Wendland, who is the only collegiate member, may remain a member as long as she behaves herself. Glenna stressed this last statement.

October 17, a group of girls helped Hertha Notbohm celebrate her birthday by entertaining her at a wiener roast.

Betty Jaeger and Glenna Rasmussen spent a week-end in Mil­ waukee. A football game tempted them there.

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The “preps were loyal to their team, attending the games played at home and away.

November 7, Eleanor Stern celebrated her birthday by going to Milwaukee for the day. Dorothy Groth accompanied her.

Hertha Notbohm has been advised by her doctotr to rest from her studies. We hope that she will soon be well enough to return.

If you can’t laugh at the jokes, laugh at the effort.

Guide (at ancient castle): “This is the moat. Are there any questions you would like to ask?”

Tourist: “Yes, how could a fellow get one of those in his eye?” 氺

Mose and Sandy each had $2,000 to spend on a car. Mose spent His on a Packard, Sandy, his on a Ford! One day when Mose had a breakdown, Sandy came rolling by in his Ford. They met the next day and a dialogue proceeded as follows: Mose: Sandy, what was that rattling noise I heard when you drove by yesterday?”

Sandy: “That was the $1995 I had in my pocket!”

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What does a cat get when it crosses a desert ?

“Sandy Claws.” * * * That’d Be Wasted Energy Gentz: “I’d better check these studies off, or I’ll study them again tomorrow.' 氺

Ask the' Tutors!

A new student approaches Naumann, “Say, what are some of the excuses for coming late to the dining hall?” *

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Prof.: “Give proof that the world is round.”

Sextaner: “When a ship leaves a harbor the bottom falls out first.” *

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Proof “Daddy, I just killed five flies, two male and three female.”

“How do you know that that’s what they were?”

“Two were on the writing table and three on the mirror.” 氺氺* Prof: 'Versetzen heisst: ‘to put into pawn’.

Heier, was heisst die Uhr zu versetzen?”

Heier (aufwachened) : “Die Uhr zurueck zu schieben.” 本

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A.: “Where do you work?”

B.: “I’m a pilot in a soap factory.”

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Konks: “Thesd garage men certainly can ruin a car.

Schmalz: “Why, what’s the matter?”

Konks: “Why, my car used to hit forty m. p. h. Then I let them put in a new speedometer, and now I can only get twentyeight out of her.” 木

Prof.: “Why was the Emperor Claudius weak in character?”

Kluess: “He couldn’t speak correct English.”

The 69th Chapter of Matthew “Folks,” said the colored minister, “the subject of my sermon this evenin am ‘Liars.’ How many in de congregation has done read the 69th Chapter of Matthew?M Nearly every hand in the audience was raised immediately. “Dat’s right,” said his reverence, “you is just de folks I want to preach to. Dere is no 69th Chapter of Matthew.”

How much do you care to bet that I won’t get more jokes from the student body after I’m graduated from this ‘job，than I do now!

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LITERARY— Roads and Streets (verse)-----

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Aus der Fruehen Geschichte Watertowns — 224 Ascending Pike’s Peak.................... 226 ___ 229

EDITORIALS— Our Imagination________ ___ —

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On a Distant Prospect of Graduat­ ing from College_____________ 231 ALUMNI NOTES_____

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COLLEGE NOTES ____

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EXCHANGE __________

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ATHLETICS__________

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LOCALS _____________ COED NOTES ________ HUMOR_____________

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THE BLACK AND RED Volume XXXIII.

Watertown, Wis., Dec., 1929

Number 7

Entered at the Post office at Watertown. Wis , as second class matter under Act of March 3, 1879. Published monthly. Subscription, One Dollar. «

ROADS AND STREETS Roads and streets Are like persons Winding in and out Going— Just why or where They do not seem to know Or care for anything but — going.

Newly paved streets Are like business men In clean white shirts And four-in-hand neckties.

Old paved streets Are like old men and women With kind wrinkled faces And wistful expressions.

Dirt roads are like Temperamental persons, Laughing one day with the sun Ancl weeping the next with the rain, Only to laugh again When the warm breathing* wind Has dried up the puddles.

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FRUEHER Die Flammen haben schon den groessten Teil des hoch卜ge_ tuermten Wurzelhaufens verschlungen; bisweilen schlingt sicll jedocli noch eine wuetende Flamme aus der gluehenden Masse empor, und peitscht den Himmel, in den, vor wen iger als einem halben Jahrhunderte, die stolzen Fichten ihre gruenen Kroenen streck ten, deren Wurzeln sich jetzt wieder in ihre ureigenen Elemente verwandeln.

Wir setzen uns au( eine Holz-schleppe nieder, Onkel und ich, und schauen auf (las Feuer; lauern zwar auch mit etwas Ungeduld auf den Laut der Glocke, die uns zum Abendessen einladen soli.

Der alte Franz, unser Heifer bei dem herbstlichen Klaeren, stoisch 'vie sonst, lehnt sich gegen einen Baum und steckt sich seine Pfeife an. Dann faellt ihm wiecler etwas ins Gedaechtnis, und er erzaehlt uns eine Geschichte aus seineni frueheren Leben.

“Vor so etwa drei-und-vierzig Jahren sah es liier ganz anders aus,” beginnt er. Irgenchvo in dieser Umgegend, wenn ich mich nicht irrfi, stand die grosse Fichte, siebeii Fuss im Durchmesser.

Mit dem Baume hatten wir unsere Zucht—konnten ihn einfach nicht faellen. Saege blieb hacken, ehe wir halb durch waren; mussten endlich mit der Axt der Sadie ein Ende machen.”

“Und gefroren hat uns, es war zum Gotterbarmen. Was wir da zusammengeflucht haben, ist nicht nachzusagen.”

“Die Kaelte dauerte auch eine gauze Zeitlang. Waelirend dieser Zeit hatten wir es in einem Sinne auch recht gut; da war nicht viel Schnee, gerade genug fuer unsern Z'veck, wir nalimen uns unsere gemuetliche Zeit beini Arbeiten, und—das Essen war fein.”

“Na ja，dann wurde es mit der Zeit wieder waermer, fast wie Fruehling1. Ich sagte dem alten How eiiies Tages—er hatte damals die Aufsicht ueber uns—Mange wircTs nicht so bleiben; in ein paar Tagen kriegen wir Schnee.1 Er glaubte mil* nicht. Aber der Schnee kam doch, wie ich geprophezeit. Tag und Nacht schneite es, bis wir • alle Hoffnung auf ein Aufhoeren cles Schneiens verloren. Und dann hatten wir schoenes Wetter die ganze uebrige Zeit.”

“Die Tannen wurden damals noch vier Fuss von der Erde abgeschnitten一heutzutage ist es fuer uns nicht mehr so bequem; aber nichtsdestoweniger mussten wir gewoehnlich noch etliche Fuss Schnee von der Oberflaeche wegschaffen, unci uns zu gleicher .Zeit einen Platz zum stehen festtreten um die Baeume, die zu faellen waren.”

“Bei solchen Beschaeftigungen geschah es oft, dass uns Saege, Axt, Keile, ocler was wir nich sonst bei der Arbeit gebrauchten, entkam. Wenn wir dann lange genug suchten, oder suchen 'voll221

ten, so liessen sich die Sachen gewoehnlich wieder finden, da sie in den meisten Faellen nur in den tiefen Schnee gesunken waren.

Ini allgemeinen. gab es wenig Malheur; man lebte und schaffte immer so munter fort von Tag zu Tag.” “Eines 丁ages，aber, vermissten vvir eine Bindkette und konnten sie trotz alles Suchens nicht wieder entdecken.

Ein jeder bruellte seinen Naechsten an, er muesse wissen, wo sie zuletzt gelegen habe; niemand wusste. Es fing auch schon an zu daemmern, und uns alien war kaum zumute lange nach Arbeitsstunden im dunkeln Tannenwalcle umherzustreifen, um eine lumpige alte Kette zu suchen. Doch, die Kette musste zum Vorschein kommen. Alter How tobte sowieso oft genug wegen geringerer Sachen; Liederlichkeit konnte er ueberliaupt nicht leiden, obwohl er selbst kaum cm Exempel fuer uns war. uNa gut, als uns das Suchen uelDer war, und wir soeben bereit waren nachzugeben, da erschicn, zu unserm Gluecke, ein alter Quartiergenossc auf der Staette. Es war (ler alte Julius Luennemann, der mir einmal selbst in allem Vertrauen gestanden hatte, er sei um Mitternacht geboren, verstaende sich deshalb auch im Uebernatuerlichen l)esser als wir andern. Als clieser nun alles erfahren hatte und ein paar Sekunden darueber nachgedacht, fiel ihm ctwas ein, und er hegann in seinem pommerschen Dialekte: *Lat ma，’ lat, Junges，（le Kaed lett sich fimie; wit von liier is’ s’ nich, \ Wir wunderten uns all7Aimal ueber seine Recle, und waren nicht ein wenig ncugierig zu selien, was er vielleicht tun moechte.

Da befahl uns Julius, uns rings auf Baumstaemme niederzusetzen, die Pfeifen anzustecken und gelassen zu rauchen—aber j a nicht zu sprcchen; er 'viierde uns unsere Kette an ihre Stelle her besorgen.

Wir trauten ihm. und taten 'vie uns geboten war.”

“Indessen hatte sich ein heftiger Wind erhoben; Ungedulcl packte uns, aber wir blieben dennoch da sitzen 'vie gehorsame Kinder. In wenigen Minuten, hoerte man ein furchtbares Getoese weiter hin im Walde. Es kam naeher, wurde lauter. Wir erscliracken foermlich. Im lialben Augenblicke war es auf uns. Eine menschliche Gestalt, soviel war zu bemerken，kam angeflogen, war£ etwas mit grosser Hast in unsere Mitte und verschwand.一Es war die Kette.”

Die Geschichte ist Zll Ende, die Glocke laeutet; wir nehmen unsern Weg heimwaerts.

“Ein eigentuemlicher Mann,” sinne ich so auf dem Wege, “einfaeltig und eigenwillig; glaubt nicht einmal, class die Erde kugelfoermig ist; und doch一mit ihm verschwindet ein Geschlecht, eine Art von Menschen, die es versteht eine Geschichte zu e.rzaehlen•” J. R.，，33.

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WATERTOWN GEESE “Haha，so those are the famous Watertown geese,” and peals of laughter floated frfmi that California car. Our poor, featherless geese were being laughed at again! double Goose feathers are expensive. Mother always gets crop though. She strips our geese every summer. As soon as the hot days come, and Mr. and Mrs. Goose begin to clutter up the yard with the feathers they shed, mother takes each one over her knees and plucks his fine plumage. Some people think it is cruel, but it is not. The fowls are thankful to be rid of such heavy clothing in the warm weather, and besides, the feathers soon grow out again.

“Fine feathers make the bird.” Yes，but there is nothing quite so funny as a flock of live geese without feathers. No wonder the Californians laughed. But Watertown is not famous for geese of that kind.

It’s the stuffed goose Watertown is famous for—the thirtypound goose with a four-pound liver. The chief aim of fattening the geese is to enlarge their livers. Goose-liver pie is a rare deli­ cacy, and it is for this reason that the liver of the stuffed goose is removed, packed in sealed jars, and shipped to New York hotels.

Stuffing geese originated in Alsace. Marshal de Saxe ruled over the province of Alsace. He had in his employ a cook named Close. When the Marshal went to live in Paris, Close refused to work for his successor and became a pastry cook at Strassburg.

To stimulate trade, he concocted new dishes, one of his inventions being pate de foie gras—a goose-liver pic. This became popular and created a great demand for goose liver. The peasants struck upon the method of stuffing the geese for the purpose of enlarging their liver.

Watertown is a town of many Germans, who along with other customs brought this one also from the Fatherland. Hence the famous Watertown stuffed goose. The late Dr. Whyte, however，believed that “stuffing geese is an ancient custom. In the tombs of the sacred bulls in Egypt, which are four thousand years old, I have seen carved on the walls a pictorial representation of the same process which made the Watertown farmer famous.”

(Progressive Magazine, December, *27.)

In the fall, the farmer takes his geese off the pasture, pens them in a stall, and gives them as much grain as they desire. These are known as the stall-fed geese. About November first the far­ mer selects the biggest of his flock, and the forcible feeding, known He makes a as stuffing, cramming, or noodling, is soon to begin. 一 putty-like paste of barley, rye, and wheat flours. Then, by the use 223

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Now he is ready for the feeding. He takes a bucket of noodles and a pail of hot water, and goes out to the goose pen, where he sits on a box, takes the g oose between his knees, dips a noodle into the hot water, holdss the goose’s head in one hand, and with the other introduces the noodle into the bird's mouth, and gently pushes it down its throat. For the first three days the goose gets three noodles every four hours, during the night as well as in the day­ time. Some member of the family must stay awake to do the feeding. Two or three weeks later the goose eats thirty to thirtysix a day. One man can stuff thirty-five geese an hour.

The pasty noodles- make the geese very thirsty and they must be given much water. A twenty-five pound goose will drink two gallons of water a clay, and after the second week of feeding the bird is too heavy to move and sits at the drink trough from one feeding to the other. The bird gains from ten to twelve pounds in twenty-five clays, and in three weeks to twenty-five days the stuffed bird is “ripe” for killing.

Dressing the birds is almost as technical as stuffing. To kill the bird the farmer inserts a sharp knife at the base of the bird’s skull. It cannot be picked dry, and neither can it be scalded, be­ cause its skin is too tender. It must be placed in a cloth over a steaming boiler, and steamed until the feathers can be smoothed off without abrading the skin. It is then singed over an alcohol flame and hung in a cool place over night. Next day, the farmer packs the stuffed geese in boxes and barrels for shipment.

Of the stall-fed geese three hundred thousand pounds are exported annually from Watertown, and of the stuffed, fifty thousand pounds are shipped out. Ten years ago, three times that many were sent out, but stuffing geese is tedious work and the younger generation does not take to it.

L. N. L.

AUS DER FRUEHEN GESCHICHTE WATERTOWNS Aus der Zeit vor 1836 ist wenig oder gar nichts Bestimmtes von der Gegend bekannt, in der spaeter Watertown erbaut wurde.

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Der erste Ansiedler von Watertown, Timothy Johnson, kam im Herbste des Jahres 1835 nach Racine. Von da aus wanderte cr dem Westen zu und erreichte im Januar, 1836, den Rock River, nicht weit von Wisconsin City, dem jetzigen Janesville. Dann ging er nach Rockford, Illinois, um Lebensmittel zu kau fen. Nachdem er zurueckgekehrt war, wanderte er noerdlich den Rock River entlang und errichtete eine kleine Blockhuette ungefaehr zwei Meileii suedlich von der Stelle, wo spaeter Jefferson gegruendet wurdc.

Waehrend Johnson in dieser Blockhuette wohnte, machte er lange Streifzuege durch die Umgegend. Auf einem dieser Streifzuege entdeckte er, was spaeter bekannt wurde als Johnson’s Rapids und jetzt Watertown ist. An beiden Ufern des Flusses wuchsen damals rote Zedern, Eichen, Ahorne, Ulmen und Eschen, welche gewiss einen tiefen Eindruck machten auf den einsamen Wanderer.

Waehrend er aber von seiner Huette weg war, kamen Indianer und stahlen alle seine Lebensmittel, so dass er in eine ziemlich lin­ angenehme' Lage versetzt wurde. Im Juni, 1836, ging er nach Mil­ waukee, wo er ein Joch Ochscn und einen Wagen kaufte, sowie auch einen neuen Vorrat von Lebensmittcln. Er kchrtc mit clrei Kameraden zurueck. Waehrend des Sommers hacktcn sie sich einen Weg nach Johnson’s Rapids, wo sie dann ctliche Blockhuetten errichteten. Im Herbste desselben Jahres holtc Johnson seine Faniilie von Milwaukee. Die Reise war hoechsl bcschwerlich infolge der schlechten Wege und des kalten Wctters unci liahni ungefaehr clrei Monate in'Anspruch.

In demselben Winter (1836-37) kamen cinipfc Ansiedler von Milwaukee mit ihren Familien nach Johnson’s Rapids, der Fluss wurde gedaemmt, und eine Saegemuehle errichlet. Die Maenner beschaeftigten sich meistens mit Ackerbau odcr mit dem Betrieb der Saegemuehle. Obgleich sie sich selber Korn, Kartoffeln und Bohnen zogen, so mussten sie dennoch wenigstens ihr Mehl von Milwaukee holen trotz der schlechten Weg'e und des unverschaemt hohen Preises. Im naechsten Jahre waren Lebensmittel sowie auch Geld knapp, unci so lebte man zum groessten Teile von Fischen, die man mit leichter Muehe in grosser Menge im Rock River bekommen konnte.

In dieser Zeit veruebten die Indianer manchen Diebstahl an den Ansiedlern. Als einstmals ein Indianer eine Taschenuhr gezu stohlen hatte, beschlossen die Ansiedler, an ihm ein Exempel _ . statuieren, und so der Geschichte endlich ein Ende zu machen. Sie bildeten daher einen Kreis, streiften dem Indianer die Kleider ab und schlugen ihn umschichtig mit einer Peitsche. Obgleich sie Gerechtigkeit mit Barmherzigkeit milderten, so hatte dieses docli

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die erwuenschte Folge; denn seildem geschah es nur hoechst selten cinnial, (lass etwas gestohlen wurde.

Im Jahre 1841 eroeffneten Luther und John Cole den ersten Kaufladen in Watertown; es war ein ncues Gebaeude an der Ecke von Main und der zweiten Strassc. In diesem Jahre wurde auch ein Teil der Stadt in Lottcn ausgelegt. Um 1850 waren die Strassen aber noch recht erbaermlich, ja im Regenwetter waren sie fast unpassierbar. Bei trockenem Wetter waren sie auch nicht allzu gut, denn as standen noch vide Stump fen darin, die noch nicht ausgerodet worden waren, und ueberall lagen Bloecke und Holzkloetze umher. Obwohl man gcwoehnlich zu Pferde oder zu Fuss reiste, so konnte man dennoch hier und da einen Wagen sehen. Ueberall sah man Maenner von rohem, hartem Aussehen, halb nakte Indianer, ungekaemmte Knabcn und dann und vvann eine voruebereilende Frau. Unter diesen Einwohnern waren auch etliche deutsche Einwanderer. Die Haeuser waren zum groessten Teilc aus Steinplatten hergestellt worden, aber etliche waren trotzclem recht nett und anstaendig.

Bis zum Jahre 1855 batten sich die Zustaende in Watertown acusserlich und innerlieh in merkwuerdiger Weise gebessert. Man hatte die Strassen ausge1)essert, so class sie wenigstens passierbar waren. Auch hatte man (lie Wasserkraft benutzt, Muehlen zu treiben; die Stadt hatte damals schon eine Saegemuehle, drei Mahlmuehlen und ctliche Fabriken, unter anderen auch zvvei Ziegelfabriken. Im Grossen und Ganzen hatte die Stadt ein wirtschaftliches und gedeihliches Aussehen. Die meisten Haeuser wurden nun aus Backstein gebaut, der zwar in Watertown gemacht worden war, aber dennoch dem von Milwaukee gleichkam. Auch im Geistlichen war Watertown wo hi versehen, denn es waren schon zu dieser Zeit sieben Kirchen, unter diesen aber keine lutherische. Schulen dagegen gab es nur sehr wenige, und cliese waren nur klein, und ihre Lehrer wurden nur aufs kuemmerlichste erhalten.

So ist trotz geringen Anfanges almaehlich die Stadt herangewachsen, wie sie nun da steht, modern und nett.

W. L. D.,，33.

ASCENDING PIKES1 PEAK Time—The evening of July 3, 1927.

Place—Manitou, Colorado, the gateway to Pikes Peak and its world-renowned, scenic wonders. .Characters—Mr. Charles Housmann, a clever young enter­ tainer of Denver, Mr. Arnold T. Walther, great grandson of the Dr. Walther, also of Denver, and the writer. Surely two finer companions couldn’t have been found.

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Manitou is a beautiful, lively, little city adjoining her larger sister-city Colorado Springs. In summer Manitou is as lively and full of people as it is desolate and empty when winter claims it.

Pikes Peak raises itself to the lofty, snow-capped height of 14,108 feet standing a silent, watchful guard over the sister cities. But let us forget winter for a while. This is the evening of July third and the three of us want you to see the sun rise on July fourth from the topmost point of Pikes Peak with us.

There are three usual ways to ascend the mountain, namely by automobile, by the “cog” and by the horse-back lip the Burrow Trail. There are a few more methods of ascent though. People have and still do climb up by means of the Burrow Trail. Others unable to procure horses, are obliged to use Rocky Mountain “canaries” (donkies). Not so good; I’ve seen them in action. We chose the most primitive but more interesting, scenic, and romantic method—horseback.

Early in the evening we made arrangements with a hostler for horses and guides. The hostler at the same time informed us that if we left Manitou at eleven o’clock that night, barring accident, we should reach the summit of the Peak about daylight. After this information we went back to the cabin we had rented and discussed things until eleven o’clock. One of the guides went back to the cabin with us and told us many interesting stories and among them the history of the Burrow Trail.

At eleven o’clock we finally left with the two guides that the hostler had furnished us. It might be more literal to say that they left with us. It was so dark that we couldn’t see the heads of the Horses we rode; no stars, no moon, just thick, heavy, Stygian, inky darkness. An uncanny feeling of insecurity prevailed, It is uncanny and disconcerting to ride along on something one can feel but cannot see, shrouded in darkness on a very narrow trail. One doesn’t know just how close to the edge of the trail one is or how far from the ground. Your head seems to be sticking up through the clouds and the rest of your body and the horse down bejow somewhere, probably near the ground, but you’re not sure. The only reassuring thing about that ride was the glow of an occasional cigarette up ahead. I don't know why, but we didn’t talk much.

Before we reached timberline (about 9,000 feet) we were occasion­ ally able to see the faint outlines of tree tops silhouetted against a sky of gray clouds. The tree tops seemed so close that one wanted to reach out and touch them, although one knew that they must be twenty-five feet or more away. At one-thirty o'clock we reached the halfway house, a log cabin structure that was very old and not very sturdy looking. We didn’t stop there because we had .already lost much time. The second guide left us at this point and 227

^z3iiixtk ^ IHeZl went back alone. At that time I wouldn’t have traded places with him for anything I can think of. After .. that we moved along a little faster than we had been going previously. Getting lost had become a habit but in spite of that we finally reached timberline and shortly afterward a seemingly timid, gray dawn broke through the blackness of a night that seemed reluctant to succumb to the inevitable. We were cheated out of seeing the sunrise from the summit of the Peak, but we were able to get a clear, unobstructed view from an elevation of about 11,000 feet. Since clouds are essential to a really beautiful sunrise on Pikes Peak, the setting was perfect, the heavier clouds having disappeared with the darkness of night. Daylight and the sun came swiftly after the lingering dawn. We could see the rays of sunlight reflecting from the clouds in a shimmering variety of beautiful, mellow colors before we actually saw the sun. As the sun approached the horizon and gradually became visible, those mellow colors gradually became brighter. By the time the sun had risen above the horizon and bathed the mountain side in its friendly glow of warmth, the whole sky was flooded with a maze of 1)oth bright and soft colors that were blended together so beautifully as to defy description. When the sun went on toward its zenith, creeping farther and seemingly higher up into the sky, these colors gradually faded into a deep red and were again absorbed l)y their creator, the sun.

We reached the top of the mountain at six forty-five o’clock and being as hungry as the proverbial bear, we immediately had breakfast. The breakfast was served to us at a restaurant located on top of the mountain. It was the only house there, although there were several other buildings scattered around upon a rather flat surface comprising approximately a hundred square yards. We were imposed upon to the extent of two dollars and twenty-five cents each for our breakfasts.—“Nuff sed!”

Coming down the mountain was much more pleasant. Between Charles Houseman’s comments to his horse, “Get along there now.

I mean it now,” and “It’s a good thing you’re parents can’t see you now.” By his ever ready wit and humor, taking pictures, and racing with one another to different points along the trail, we made the time and miles pass swiftly. We arrived in Manitou at twelvethirty o’clock very nearly exhausted after having spent more than thirteen consecutive hours in the saddle.

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REVENGE Winter, you bluffer!

Like an Assyrian bully You hurl your blasts incessantly, Freezing my nose And cutting my lips, Trying to make me think you cruel.

Poets call you cruel; To me you are only human.

Your architecture is sublime; Yet when you tire of it, You melt your masterpiece, Erasing it to paint a simple picture.

You wake me with mad bellowing notes, But so do you croon sweet lullabies.

Winter, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re just a stage manager.

Painting, my face, pinching my nose, Frosting my hair a hoary-gray, Or turning me into a ghost Clothed in a sheet of snow.

You love to scare me By waiting for me at the corner And then shrieking at my surprise Like a giggling girl Unable to suppress her laughter.

No, Winter, you're not inhuman, But you make me feel like struggling.

The laurel tree defies you; So shall I, whistling loud as you.

For eighteen years you have slapped my face; Now I shall let my scarf beat against you.

C. C.

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OUR IMAGINATION The dictionary defines imagination as the creative faculty. It consists in taking parts of our conceptions and combining them into new forms aiul images more select, more striking, more de­ lightful, or more terrible than those of ordinary nature.

Let us take into consideration especially the last result: com­ bining our conceptions into new forms and images, more terrible or worse than those of ordinary nature, and apply it to ourselves, A common example : the meals. Did it ever occur to you that the most of us who find fault with the meals do this by our imagi­ nation, by taking only parts of our conceptions and combining them into new forms and images worse than the things actually are in reality? Sometimes we come out of the dining hall and say: “Such a meal! Let's go down town to get something to eat，’’ all the while knowing that our stomachs are filled and that v/6 could not eat a meal if we did go clown town. Or, we go into the dining hall and see what is on the table and think it to be a pretty good dinner, until we get to our own tables and hear someone say: “What do they expect us to eat: what did we come in here for?” and another says something else in disparagement, Then our opinion is suddenly changed and we too imagine that the dinner is poor. Thus our imagination has taken the upper hand in us.

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Because we stay in bed mornings instead of getting up when the bell rings is only due to our imagination. We only imagine that we can’t get up in time. We don’t get any more rest after we have been awakened at the usual time. That extra half hour or hour doesn’t do any good, rather it docs harm. It weakens one’s character.

And so it is with so many other things in our lives. Let us use our imaginations in the right way and see how often we use them in the wrong way. And having realized that, we will be able to make our own sermons to ourselves, better than I could do in this article, and live up to them besides.

A. C. B.,，33.

ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF GRADUATING FROM COLLEGE Do students at Northwestern College work hard enough ? I should say they do. During the last two years Northwestern has undergone a great change. Its course is more complete than it was. By that I do not mean that new subjects have been added to the curriculum, but that the subjects are treated more thoroughly than before. We are gradually arriving at that stage, at which all .subjects are treated as thoroughly as they are at other colleges.

This means, of course, that the students have more work.

And not only do we treat the subjects as thoroughly as other schools, but we are also required to carry more subjects. We must carry from five to eight subjects, while at other schools not more than four are permitted.

Allow me to give a brief account of how my time is, or rather ought to be, spent. My case, of course, is a bit different from the rest. During the last two years I was working. Perhaps I should say employed outside of school, since I am doing nothing1 if not work at present. Naturally it would be hard to get down to study­ ing after going two years without doing any of it. But this is the way in which I spend* my time, at least, theoretically.

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卜 ^Math make a composition presentable from five to twenty hours, or more, must be spent on it, depending on the nature of the assignment.

But that is not all. Wc have the daily period to prepare for. Fully an hour can be spent in preparation on Freshman English” every clay. It seems we are not only to learn to write as fluently 'as Shakespeare did, but to avoid all the mechanical mistakes he made as well.

On Latin, iii which I am weakest, I spend at least three hours every day. It is surprising how much a person can forget in two Then there are years. On German an hour must be spent.

German compositions which take up more time than clo English compositions. History also keeps me busy for at least an hour and a half every (lay. Being slightly gifted in the line of mathe­ matics, I clo not have to spend much time on that. If I had to spend an hour or two on mathematics, as some students do, I surely would suggest a new calendar in which the day would have twenty-five hours or more—but I probably wouldn’t have time even to suggest it at the rate I’m going now.

In summing up, let me add the time which I must spend in study. Latin, 3 hours; German, 1 hour; English, 1 hour; History, V/t hours: Mathematics y2 to 1 hour. Taking four of these daily, for I have only four periods a day, I find that I ought to spend from six to eight hours in study. Every time I do not spend that much time on the subjects, I must face some instructor or other with that fearful feeling- that I am unprepared. If it isn’t a fearful feeling (for he may not call one me) it is still a very wicked feeling.

Am I not dissembling? T wonder whether the instructor ever sus­ pects—or does he understand—from experience ?

Besides the six to eight hours I must spend a lot of time on compositions and reports. This also keeps me from reading the books that I'm supposed to read. Of course, I’m not here to clo extensive reading, but I ought to be able to find a little time for it anyway.

In addition to all this, everyone is required to take some sort of exercise. This takes up about an hour and a half of the day.

How can one find time for anything else. Surely those must have bee” the heroes of a great, never-to-be-recalled age who, as some reminiscent Senior will tell you, had romances which lasted from the Freshman to the Senior years, and required at least a tri-weekly tr.yst lasting from three to five hours during that period. Where did they find the time ? Not that I yearn for such a trying state of romance. That time could be used more profitably in many other ways. I didn’t come back to college to shirk. I learned a good lesson during the last two years. That is the reason I’m back at schooli But, nevertheless, I hope that the amount of 232

work required of a Freshman may not be increased. Kipling once said: “Genius is the infinite capacity for work.” I should almost like to say: “To get a B. A. degree means to have the infinite capacity for work.”

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The Rev. Walter Pankow, '12, was installed at New London, Wisconsin, taking the place of the Rev. Adolph Spiering, ’81, who resigned after thirty-six years of work at that place. ―After traveling in the Middle West, the Rev. Roland Hillemann, ’25，visited his friends at Northwestern on December third and fourth. He is recovering rapidly from a second operation for goitre that he underwent late in November. 一Herbert Von Hadcn, '29, is at present selling radios in Mil­ waukee, Marvin Schoenwettcr, Comm., ’29, is selling radios in Beaver Dam. —Gerhard Pape, ex. ’30, who is at present teaching in Kenosha, visited at Northwestern recently. Walter Koeller, ex. ’31, of Mil­ waukee, visited Kenneth Vcrtz on December first. 一Carl Reul, ex. J31, is at present working in Milwaukee.

Am 8. Dezember gab cs bei uns eine weitere Einfuehrung.

Herr Professor Lchninger hat sich eingefunden, und es ist jetzt endlich unsere Fakultaet wieder vollzaehlig. Die Einfuehrung fand dieses Mai Sonntag nachmittags statt, damit Freunde der Anstalt der Feier beiwohnen koennten.

Nun werden alle Faecher unsers Studiums in vollem Angriff genommen. Die freien Stunden, die ein Student ja imnier hoch schaetzt, werden jetzt in Anspruch genommen sein. Wir werden Versaeumtes nachzuholen haben, so dass wir uns in den naechsten Monaten tapfer an die Arbeit halten muessen.

Wer eine Ahnung von _ Der Winter ist bei uns eingekehrt. _ sibirischer Kaelte bekommen will, mag uns in Thiensville . besu. chen. Vom Norden blaest der Wind, eisig und grimmig. Mit aller Gewalt stuermt er auf unser Gebaeude ein, und da es ihm zu widerstehen wagt, heult er vor Wut um die Ecken, bis er das Tor findet, aus dem er entflieht und dann weiter braust nach Thiensville zu. Das mag sich nicht so gefaehrlich anhoeren, aber es komme einmal einer abends, von zu Hause zurueckkehrend, mit 234

Gepaeck beladen, auf der Station an. Der wird uns zustimmen, class es nicht gerade angenehm ist, den Marsch zum Seminar zu machen. Hat doch neulich einer seine Ohren verfroren auf dem Wege!

Schnee haben wir nocli nicht viel gehabt. Doch haben wir uns sclion auf den Nolfall vorbereitet. Wir erwaeblen jedes Jahr einen Schneekoenig, der das Schneeschaufeln beaufsichtigen muss.

Letztes Jahr war es ganz natuerlich, da wir einen Winter unter uns batten, class wir ihm das Amt uebertrugen. Ein Jahr aber ist reichlich in diesem Dienst, und so mussten wir eine neue Wahl treffen.

Es sage nur keiner: “What’s in a name?” Als wir uns nach eiiieni Mann umsahen, der diesem verantwortlichen Amt gewachsen waere, hatte einer den klugen Einfall, (lass Herr Kuehl der zweckmaessige Kandidat sei. Das leuchtcte uns alien ein. Waere Herrn Kuehls Name nicht so offenbar fuel* dies kalte Amt geeignet, er waere wohl nicht gewaehlt worden. Sein Name Israelite ihm ein Amt. Der Schneekoenig wird seine Haende voll haben. Wenn der Wind vom Norden weht und unsern Hof mit Schnee bestuermt, muss er seine Mannschaft ins Freie rufen und dem Unheil zu steuern suchen. Freiwillige, die bercit sind, sicli aits Liebe zu ihrem Koenig zu op fern, wird es wohl herzlich wenige geben.

Der Winter hat einen Wechsel in der koerperliclien Uebung, im Sport mit sich gebracht. Dieses Jahr konnten wir wohl fruelier als je zuvor schlittschuhlaufen. Unser Teich am Fusse des Seminar huegels ist gerade gross genug, class man sich auf ihm .mit Schlittschuhen bewegen kann. Als am 2. November der Teich genuegend gefroren war, machten sich mehrere unter uns auf, das li\s zu probieren, Es ist noch beinahe besser als in Washington Park, Sour grapes!

In unserer freien Zeit beschaeftigen wir uns jetzt hauptsaechlich mit Korbball. Unsere Tumhalle eignet sich vorzueglich fuer dieses Spiel. Wir stehen in der Erwartung einer erfolgreichen Saison. Es meldeten sich auf Captain Voecks’ Aufruf etwa 17 Mann, um sich zu versuchen. Unter diesen sind viele erfahrene und tuechtige Maenner, die mit der ersten Mannschaft spielen koennen. Auch wird es ein zweites team geben.

Es ist dafuer gesorgt worden, class ein jeder, der Lust hat, Korbball spielen kann. Es wurden 6 Mannschaften mit je. 7 Mann zusammengestellt, die zweimal (lie Woche spielen, um eveiituell zu konstatieren, welche Mannschaft die Meister sind. Das Tuniier ist jetzt in vollem Gang und erregt allgemeines Interesse.

Es zeigt sich bei den Spielen immer einer, der einen an Jim Corbett erinnert. Er spielt in der schwarzen Tracht eines Ringkaempfers, seine Augen geschuetzt durch ein ungeheures Geruest.

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Er fliegt auf dem Boden umher, als gelte es sein Leben. Wenn er cinnial nicht so eifrig spielt un(l sich ein wenig Ruhe goennt, werden wir vielleicht feststellen koennen, wer diese interessante Persoenlichkeit ist.

Es waere wohl hier angcbracht, unserm Schreiner, Herrn Eberhart, gegenueber unsern Dank auszudruecken. Er zimmerte die backboards in unserer Turnhalle. Den Herren Vogel und Hoenecke sind alle diejenigen Dank schuldig, die unsern Korbballspielen beizuwohnen gedenken. Die erwaehnten Herren haben Baenke gebaut so class wir und unsere Besucher bei den Spielen nicht zu stehen brauchen.

Es herrscht unter uns schon Iange der Weihnachtsgeist. Die Luft ist voll davon, es gibt kaum erne Ahteilung- im Wohngebaeude in der nicht dieser odcr jener eine Weihnachtspredigt schreibt. Ge­ genueber von uns kommt es manchmal vor, class einer in Ekstase geraet. Mitten in der Studierzeit erschallt zuweilen aus voller Brust in kraeftigem Bass : “Ihr Kinderlein kommet” oder sonst ein altes Weihnachtslied. Wir sehen nach, was das wohl bedeuten mag. Richtig! Herr Redlin schreibt auch eine Weihnachtspredigt.

Es fangen dieses Jalir unsere Weihnachtsferien recht frueh an, am 13. Dezember,一dank dem Katalog. Vide wollen zu Weihnachten prcdigen unci haben so genuegend Zeit sich vorzubereiten.

Andere werden ihren finanziellen Schwulitaeten abzuhelfen suchen.

Es gibt ja geracle vor Weihnachten ueberall etwas zu tun. Und wer sonst nichts besseres zu tun hat, hilft seiner Mutter mit dem Weihnachtsgebaeck.

Hier wollen wir die Gelegenheit wahrnehmen, alien Lesern ein froehliches Weihnachten zu wuenschen.

Carved in the stone above the imposing front of the General Post Office Building in New York City we read the words: ^Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.” That our mail-carrier does full justice to this heroic inscription is evident from the following poem that was contributed by a friend of the Seminary Notes.

OUR MAIL-CARRIER (In Memoriam L. C. V.) Face forward slowly he trudges Right into the cold northern gale, While with aching fingers he clutches And struggles to hold fast his mail.

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With desperate courage he plunges, He passes the southermost gate, He reels, and he stumbles and lunges; Yet he smiles at his turbulent fate.

He sets his jaw as he scurries To round that most frigid of curves; On the road to the tower he hurries With frost piercing hard at his nerves.

As he nears the portal triumphant With his nose and his cheeks shining red, The wind has no sport with his derby, For he wears not a hat on his head.

At length he enters the archway, That funnel of wintery blasts, And faithfully thence dispatches Billets-doux to the poor outcasts.

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The 1929-30 literary season opened on Saturday evening, the 1)y seventh of December. A well-balanced program was arranged _ fir. Will mar Wichmann, the master of ceremonies. After a brief introduction by President Ristow of the Philomathean Society the band played two selections. Their first was R. B. Eisenberg’s "Scorpio/* This was followed bby Steel e’s “Rapasz Band.” The band played at a more distinct advantage than it did when liter237

aries were held in the chapel due to the greater size of the auditor­ ium, where all literary programs will be given this year.

Mr. Elmer E. Koehler, the next to appear, gave the auditors his impressions of Watertown. He included many characteristics of our adopted home that apparently are true. He stated in his “Watertown—A Unique City” that the locality has many unusual industries, that it abounds in numerous peculiar characters and that its much-vaunted culture of former years is in the doldrums.

Mr. Bruns’ recitation of the “Squaw Dance was ably supplemented by his fiery and descriptive actions. Mr. Paul Schliesser concluded the musical part of the evenmg. He gave a good account of himself at the piano with Verdi’s “Rigoletto.” As encore he played “The Riff Song,” a selection from the popular “Desert Song.

Many of us have hobbies with which to entertain ourselves.

Mr. Trapp prefers “clialk-talking.” He gave several of his “talks” which were enthusiastically received by the assemblage. Not until he hacl made a second, shorter appearance did the applause sub­ side. Miss Faber’s “Doric’s Christmas” was a good original speech.

Due to unavoidable back-stage disturbances she was made rather nervous, but she did not permit this to cause her much trouble.

To conclude the program, P.eple’s “The Girl,” a one-act play, was gfiven. Mr. V. Schultz acted well as Frederick Cawley, a • bachelor. Mr. W. Pless ably took the part of Bob Connel, Cawiey’s rival. Krebs, Cawley’s valet, was played by Mr. Vertz, who succceded remarkably well in portraying his part.

In order to present better programs, the critic gives his criti­ cisms during a rehearsal this year instead of waiting until after the program as formerly. The critic for the evening was Pro­ cessor W. Schumann.

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when an entire clothes closet was lined with past issues. The “Sligonians” are placed in a readable fashion and lined up according to the age of the paper. All pages of each single copy may be seen. The Freshman issue of the “Sligonian” is used as a border of green around the usual white and black issue. 一(Sligonian, Washington Missionary College.)

As we glance through the “Capital Chimes” 've are again for­ cibly reminded of the lack of artistic entertainment in the city of Watertown, or rather at our own school. A short time ag;o Werenrath sang at Capital University to a large audience and on December 6 the students had the opportunity to hear Mr. Josef Lhevinne, the noted Russian pianist. There must be a reason why we are deprived of privileges of this kind. Is it that the people of Watertown cannot appreciate anything better than a common “movie” or a cheap vaudeville; is it because the business men of this town refuse to furnish the necessary backing; or is it the fault of the school ? The last can hardly be the case, because no one can blame anyone for not promoting a thing, of which he knows that he may expect a serious deficit. This whole discussion is hardly material for an exchange column but it is a subject that should interest every student. Something ought to be done about it.

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It will perhaps interest some students to read the article in the Special Sports Edition of the Carthage Collegian (December 2).

This article gives figures which show that football is the most hazardous of sports. The report is submitted by the Carnegie Foundation and may therefore be considered autllentic.

We have just received the Marquette Journal, a quarterly, and we’ll admit it's “not bad.” We feel sure that it would l)e worth every student’s while to read at least some of the articles and poems. ^re shall not recommend any special piece of work; the whole journal is an examine of what can be produced in a quarterly. It also brings to our mind the idea that it might he better for us if we published a quarterly instead of a monthly magazine, There would be more times to write the articles and there would be more material to choose from. We feel sure that many of the articles in our own Black and Reel could be greatly improved if the student were given time to do his best. Since a quarterly would necessarily have to contain matter of purely literary character, it might then be necessary to publish an extra paper in which sports and college activities could be set clown. But why should that be impossible?

Surely it is at least worthwhile to think the matter over. Let’s hear your opinion about it.

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BASKETBALL Coach Kleinke has spent several weeks drilling the more elementary parts of basketball, watching the progress ancl merits of the individual candidates to award the best of them the black and red suits soon. He has a decided advantage over last season, for he is no longer thrown into a field where he cannot feel at home, and after a year’s experience he has practically the same men to work with, whose capabilities and methods of play he is acquainted with.

Captain Kettenacker has- shown in these few weeks that he is prepared to take as much of the scoring proposition upon himself as one might justly expect of him. It’s more than a pleasure to see his stalwart frame flying down the floor with the impetus of a stampeding herd and crowning- nearly every attempt with a basket.

Together with the efficient candidates Heyn, Raasch, ancl Stuhr he will, shoulder the guarding responsibility. The center position is agajn well taken care of; Pless, the high scorer of last year, will again occupy this position. What we said of him last season一a good shot and a good guard—still holds true. Rutz will again _ relieve him when the strain is too great. When it conies to for­ wards, however, we’re treading on unsafe ground. Harke, Kasch, Krueger, Martin, and Schwerin are the candidates, but they are so evenly matched that it is difficult to decide whom to give prefer­ ence. At present, however, Harke and Krueger occupy these posi241

tions. We regret that Rossin has been shelved, temporarily at least, by football injuries.

Apparently some players haven't begun to realize of how great value training is to any sport or to any team. To see some players run over to the store at recess for pastries and candy bars is more than a little disgusting. To hear others remark that they’ve finally 尺iven up smoking now, after three weeks of supposed training is even more distressing. Furthermore, a proper amount of sleep is absolutely necessary to regain the muscle tissue used up in practice and games. We hoped that these men who wish to represent Northwestern in every contest played, had finally realized what they owe to their school and to their teammates who do abide by strict training rules—and the majority of them do. Training does require will-power and a certain amount of manliness; or must we merely regret that they arc lacking?

Northwestern's schedule for the season is the following: December 14.—Concordia, here.

December 16.—Milwaukee .Normal, there.

December 19.—Beloit, there.

January 10.—Carrol, there.

January 15.—Lake Forest, here.

January 22.—Milton, here.

February 1.一Seminary, here (tentative).

February S.—Concordia, there.

February 12.一Milton, there.

February 17.一Lake Forest, there.

February 21.一Seminary, there (tentative).

February 22.—North Central, there.

February 26.—Milwaukee Normal, here.

March 8.—Carrol, here.

This order, however, is not permanent as yet. The two Milton games may be interchanged and Ripon may enter another game.

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One of the world’s great labors that Eurystheus of old forgot to assign to Hercules was to extort a few “locals” from the stu­ dent body. The last time the writer made rounds was on a Wed­ nesday evening. In every second room the monitor was “not in."

Eleven rooms had only the vaccination event to suggest. Most rooms had nothing at all. About 99 per cent of all contributions came from a half-dozen wide-awakes who actually think about the sign on the bulletin board in their spare moments. All honor to them.

Thanksgiving is in the past with all its : *'I didn’t like the cranberries,” and “I couldn’t eat sherbet on a l)et,” or “Boy, did I ever eat!” At such times we see whence this phrase has sprung: •The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.”

The home of Rev. Schultz in N. Milwaukee was liberally blessed with college students during the week-end of November 30.

There were Fritze, Kettenacker, Krueger, Baumann, Leyhe, and our our four Schultz brothers. In addition, Koehler and von Haden, *29, paid a visit in the afternoon.

Harold Eckert was called home November 26, on account of the illness of his sister.

“The Miracle” at Milwaukee Auditorium drew a fair number of students to its call and stirred up a good deal of comment among our circles. We’ll all lament with the editor of College Notes the indifference of the city of Watertown, to cultural entertainment.

Wanted: A few basketball stars. If found please notify A. H. Witt, captain of the Sophomore basketball team. (The captain reports that he has a squad of five teams, but sometimes one or the other member of the teams is not out for practice because lie 243

must mail his laundry. One of these five teams persists in coming out for practice after 13 of the 27 minutes per week have gone by.)

The Sexta German class this year can boast of the newest, the most original, and the most effective system of education on the market. A fine of one cent is imposed on every Sextaner who speaks English instead of German in class. The revenue is col­ lected by that vest-pocket edition of the Sieglers, Oscar H. How can anything Init the highest success be expected from a system which dangles before the mind of the student a vision of one Wrigley’s Spearmint after another flitting into oblivion?

A familiar sight on these cold and sleepy winter mornings: The 6.15 bell is just on the verge of ringing and all the preps in the washroom are rubbing their countenances in vigorous haste to beat Time and Fate. Then some little Sextaner strolls upon the scene rubbing his eyes and innocently inquiring whether the six o’clock bell has rung yet. (We’ll keep tactful silence about the collegiates who come strutting in at about 6.29.)

And now that Fenskc has started a fencing class we can soon expect to see: Bau-mann taking up carpentry, “Andy” Froelich developing a perpetual laugh (similar to the one Kasch has), the Schlicsser brothers becoming locksmiths, Marcus Fleischer prac­ ticing the butcher trade, and “Konks” Engel sprouting wings.

“Frex” Roth will no doubt turn crimson, “Hermes” will journey to Flanders to cultivate the poppy gardens, Kasch will fall heir to a rich legacy, Kreie will develop a stentorian voice, Schewe will go into the barber business, Frei-tag will be campaigning for an occa­ sional day off, and Witt will of course become a celebrated court jester. Some of us are evidently going to be left out of the hall of fame entirely.

What ho!—Philosophers and future college professors in our niidst! Some of the preps are learning the rudiments with a rapid­ ity that almost amounts to genius. For instance, one evening E. Dobratz with admirable absent-mindedness picked up his clarinet case and was well on his way to shag water with it when a fellow student compassionately aroused him.

And then there was the collection of old clothes for the Indians. Those who were chosen to do the gathering are to be cited for their sagacity, their personal bravery and unparalleled zeal.

“B?b” Meyer took off his shirt and left it on his desk while he ex­ ercised in the gym. When he returned the shirt was gone, and it was only after assiduous searching that he discovered it buried among the common collection of contributed apparel. Courageous heartss were required of the collectors whenever they encountered someone who indignantly demanded to know who was going to 244

take up a collection for them. On the whole, however, the move­ ment was successful.

At this time there have been two more cases of measles, that well-known children's disease, among our number. Schwenzen of this city is enjoying them at present, and Kuhlow has just returned from a session of nearly three weeks at his home in Jefferson.

There seems little reason to fear—or hope for—a measles epidemic befofe Christmas. However, the city of Watertown is being overrun with smallpox, and all students have been required to be vac­ cinated. One evening the entire mass of flaming youth assembled in chapel with uprolled sleeve to go through the ordeal.

Our sturdy “Hie” Schultz did not “go over so big” that evening. Other­ wise, a good time was had by all.

Concerning Freshmen Kopiske, a Freshman who lives in Watertown, has been forced to discontinue his school work because of a nervous breakdown.

A revival of learning, a burst of humanism, a fresh enthusi­ asm for Livy has sprung up among the Frosh since the professor introduced “Missus Hannibal.”

The redoubtable Mr. Nommensen has contracted a habit of arriving in the class room about thirty minutes late. He says it’s because of a sore toe, but we rejoice to suspect that it is a hidden form of purest altruism. Who knows what could happen to some of our professors if everyone in the class chanced to be precisely on time some day? “Fat” evidentlly believes in the ounce of prevention and has nobly sacrificed hi niseif to tthe good cause.

And then there was “Eps” Westphal. After he had returned from a week-end holiday with a severe cold he was wondering whether it wouldn’t be a good idea to vaccinate for colds too. And the just-mentioned Mr. Nommensen would no doubt be in favor of extending the idea to sore toes as well.

Biesman, the presidential bell-hop of the “Freshies,” considers it his particular duty to let the professors know when the bell rings. They say that his announcements not infrequently involve an argument.

And now, bona fortuna to everyone for the holidays!

do-Eh Note.

Hertha Notbohm, who has been at home because of ill has returned to us.

Margaret Schmeling, *28, visited us one morning. She is very busy at this time directing a play.

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Alice Dierk'er and Marie Iiilgendorf, home from the Wiscon­ sin University for the week-end, were seen at the presentation of the first literary program.

We have been told that Anita Geweke has discontinued her studies because of ill health. We wish you a speedy recovery, Anita.

“Oh，my arm!” and many more such cries of pain are heard since we’ve all been vaccinated.

The Co-eds of Northwestern wish you all a Merry Christmas.

mean an unintentional joke.

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O Chemists, please investigate And drop me just a line!

I’d like to know what carbonate, And where did iodine? 氺

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A Question of Rates Science Prof.: “What can you tell me of nitrates?”

Dumb Student: “They are much cheaper than day rates.” 木

Prof.: “You cannot sleep in this class.”

Eps.: “I know it. I’ve been trying for the last half hour.”

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Beautiful lady visiting: “Could you please tell me how many boys study here?”

Bingo: “All of them, lady•” 氺氺氺 Porter: “Miss, is yo’ train coming?”

Passenger: “My man, why do you say “your train” when you know that the train belongs to the company?”

Porter: “Dunno, miss. Why do yo’ say ,mah man’ when yo* knows ah belongs to mah wife?** 氺氺本 Stuhr: “Did you know that I was a blacksmith in a restau­ rant last summer?”

Dob: “How’s that?，， Stuhr: “I wag shooing flies.” 氺氺氺 Dob: "When I was in the picture show last night a pretty girl came in and sat right down on my lap.”

Stuhr: **What did you do?”

Dob: “I stayed for two shows.”

Scotch to Irish: “"Wires were found under a building at Glas­ gow, which proves that the Scotch had telegraphy before 1492.”

Irish: “That’s nothing. In Dublin there’s a building that has no wire below it, which proves that Ireland always had a wireless.” ，Lady: “I want a dress for around the house.”

Windy: “How large is your house, madam?”

Mary (very pathetically): “And do you have reindeer in Canada ?

Maas (quite soothingly) : “No, darling, it always snows.

Freshies Excluded “Really, some persons are so dumb that if there would be a tax on brains, the government would owe them money•，’ * * Buecher Professor (Zum Herrn Buch) : “Mr. Buch wird lesen.”

Voices in Rear: “Lesebuch!”

“What, a New City?”

New student (unpacking) : “I’m a little stiff from unpacking.”

Resting: “Where did you say you were from?”

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Prof.: “Are you chewing gum?—bring it here!”

Gieschen: “Wait, I’ll give you a fresh stick.” +

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A Willing Professor There must be some mistake in my examination Gorder: mark. I don’t think I deserve an absolute zero.”

Professor: “Neither do. I, but it is the lowest mark I allowed to give you.” 丰 * * “Anybody here seen Mr. Fugit?”

A man went into a drug store to buy a fountain pen. TIVe clerk told him to try it out, so lie wrote “Tempus Fugit” several times. Then the clerk asked him “How do you like the pen, Mr. Fugit?”

Martin: “What are you doing with that shovel ?’’

Gensmer: “I have two girls, and I must dig up another fel9

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Martin : “y\n(l what are you doing with that fan?”

Gensmer: "'In case I can’t find a fellow, I have to give one of the girls the air.” '

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Kuhlow: “I know a fellow who was admiral of the army.”

Schwartz: “How’s that possible?”

Kuhlow: “He was at the head of the kitchen vessels.”

Late as Usual!

Every time the door opens Busewitz walks in, five minutes late. men.

If you are asked who committed this folly, say “The Fresh-

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January 1930

TABLE OF CONTENTS

LITERARY— Clouds (a poem) _ My Favorite Poem A Night of Fun —

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A Sonnet on Death---------- ----

256

A Youthful Romance________ — 257 258 Sea (a poem)................... .........

Raising Money For the Church

258

EDITORIALS— The College Student and Com­ petitive Sports__________ ALUMNI NOTES

262 — 264 264

COLLEGE NOTES

268

EXCHANGE ___ ATHLETICS ___ LOCALS _______

— 272

COED NOTES —

281

HUMOR________

281

274 — 279

THE BLACK AND RED Volume XXXIII.

Watertown, Wis., Jan, 1930

Number 8

Entered at the Postoffice at Watertown、Wis , as second class matter under Act of March 3 • 1879, Published monthly. Subscription, One Dollar.

CLOUDS O cloud of heaven, what are you soaring there?

A visioned vap’rous sprite of living air?

A phantom player on thy stage of polished sky, That acts the role of mortal life, though never doomed to die?

Behold the storm-cloud as it surges forth, Raging, towering, whirling, from the bleak, cold North.

It cows the peaceful landscape into trembling fright; With shaggy claws it tears the sky and cleaves it left and right.

Sometimes I see a face in such a cloud, Whose voice, like thunder, bellows harsh and loud.

He holds aloft a mighty fist, belches fire, And smothers human kindness in his foaming blood-blind ire.

But now a soft and lingering cloud appears, Flows smoothly, like a girl in dancing years, Across the polished stage, ancl pours her joyous heart Into her smiling, tiptoe-leaping, graceful actress’ part.

Does not a watching gall’ry breathless pause And start a robust round of full applause ?

Does not an artist somewhere gaze with awe-struck eye And clench his hands and long to be this spirit of the sky?

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Again a form appears upon the stage: A sage old cloud, whose head is grey with age; He ponders long and gazes deep into the sky.

Before his face a braggart and a simpering fool pass by.

Off in a corner sneers the cynic’s face As scurrying merry wisps in joyous pace Come tripping in and seem to have no other care Than pouring gladsome wordless melodies into the air.

At last upon the spotless arching blue Alights the cloud of hope in pure-white hue Of gliding swans. The gleaming, rising folds delight the eye And lift the soul from earth to soaring, dreaming realm on high.

But why go on to speak about the sight Of those remote ethereal sons of light ?

The sky, is but the far reflection of my soul, A cold blue mirror where the thoughts of men uncovered roll.

G. Rowe, *32.

MY FAVORITE POEM One often hears the expression, “That’s my favorite poeip.”

Some persons insist that a certain poem or poet is their favorite, but at a different time they may be just as sure that some other poem is their favorite. I am not ready now and shall never be ready to pick my favorite poem. It would be just as though one should ask me, “What is your favorite food?” I have dozens of favorites. Some of them are my favorites when I am very hun­ gry, others when my hunger is nearly appeased, some when I eat breakfast, others when I sit down to dinner. Thus one might ask, “What is your favorite color, or musical composition.”

It all depends on the occasion, on the mood, and, in the case of food, on the physical condition. A person may have a favorite poem for sadness, one for despair, one to suit his loneliness, another for joy, ambition, exaltation, and still another for love. He might, in fact, have several favorites for love because the number of poems on that topic is legion. Thus only a man of one-sided nature can have a favorite poem. The cynic might have his, but even he would have difficulty in choosing it. The poet who came closest to expressing such a man’s own mood would be his favorite.

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This exwrites sad poetry and is liked by the same person, plains also the vast difference in the poetry of the same poet, according to the mood in which he wrote. Therefore only a poem which contained all the emotions could at all times be our favorite, and even then we should pick out those parts which suited our R. K.，32.

A NIGHT OF FUN “Hurry up, gang! The rest are up ahead,” cried Joe. “It took you girls long enough to get ready.”

“There you go again, Joe, always harping on the girls and their grave errors,” scolded Belle.

“Yes,” said Mabel, “you’ve always got to pick bones with some poor girl. You never can get along with them.”

"And he can’t get along without them either,” came from Bob. “Don，t we always see him together with some one of the fairer sex?”

“A'v，cut out the comedy, and let’s move along. The boys up ahead want to go away out to Hospital Hill. That’s too far; Jenkin's hill is just as good,” said Joe. “You’re? right,0 cried several.

••We’re out to toboggan, not to go hiking.

“Let’s rush it and make ’em go ’long with us. It’s more fun if we all go sliding at the same place.”

“C’mon，girls, if you want a ride, jump on the toboggan.”

Gaily laughing the four girls almost simultaneously stepped on.

Hardly had their feet touched the toboggan, when the boys gave a jerk. With shrieks the girls flew into the snow in every direc­ tion, some headlong, some otherwise. What a sight! Tickled to the bone the boys helped the surprised girls, scolding and laugh­ ing, to their feet and brushed the bulk of the snow from their clothes and faces.

Soon they were on their way again. The boys had just received their reproof and were now pondering;—but not about the scolding, for they well knew its worth. They were planning the next trick with which to tease them. In but a few minutes they had overtaken the other group.

“Hello, gang!”

“Hello, everybody!’’ ^Where^ Irmf “Too ill to go out.”

“Swell evening, isn’t it?”

“It’s a peach.”

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"Not too cold, ,n, nice moonshine.”

"Hospital Hill ought to be fine tonight.” , “Oh，no doubt, it is, Bill. But we’re not going so far,” said Belle.

“We aren’t? Oh，yeali?”

“No, 've’re going to Jenkin’s!” resounded several of the girls* voices.

And Bob, Joe, Herb, and Art voiced the same. So in a jiffy both group彡 were agreed to go to Jenkins5.

Upon their arrival there, they lost no time at all in breaking in a track on the newly-fallen snow. Like a shot the first eight went down surrounded 1)y a cloud of loose snow. They did not travel so far; but oh! how they felt. What a thrill to be out to­ bogganing again! Isn’t it a grand and glorious feeling getting such a steady flow of snow in your face that you can hardly get your breath? and then you (unexpectedly, of course) hit another bump? Slowly they arose and freed themselves of the snow they had collected on the way down. During all this time the group on the top of the hill jubilantly cheered and waved at the success of the first trip down. Now they seated themselves and were about to sail down. They did not eat so much snow, but otherwise had as much fun.

The boys performed the task of pulling* up the toboggans, which, however was made quite agreeable by their jolly, frolicsome companions.

Again and again they sailed clown the track at top speed each time adding a foot or two to the lower end. But just riding clown the same way on the same track was getting' somewhat monoto­ nous, especially for the boys, who were used lo rougher stuff. No danger created any thrill for them here. The barbed wire fence off to the left could easily be avoided. And it was no trick to steer past the lone tree standing to the right of the track they had made. Even if they came close to one of these obstacles, the bright commands of Art, who was steering the toboggan would immediately send them sailing on past the danger. A mere “Lea3 Left!” or “Lean right \f, would do it.

Bu.t the boys craved excitement, and they would have it. So wasn't it just like Bob that .on the next trip down he should stick his feet out on the sides, permitting them, just to skim the surface of $he snow. What gasping and coughing that did create! Those, mainly girls, sitting behind him were caught in a blizzard. As may well be imagined this created quite a lively scene when the to­ boggan finally came to a stop at the bottom of the lane and served to rouse the spirits still higher.

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shout from the leader. All knew that this meant danger ahead.

So, of course, not one of them hesitated to obey the command. In­ to the deep, soft snow they rolled. While the toboggan swerved from the track they had made and a few rods below sideswept into a fence post, Mabel buried her face deep into the snow; Joe- rolled on nearly to the bottom of the hill; and the rest formed an odd spectacle as they, all snow-covered, labored with hands and feet trying to stop and to keep their heads above the snow. In a mo­ ment the boys scrambled to their feet. They were eager for this chance to assist their favorites out of their difficulty. The look of surprise of the girls when they realized the prank the boys had played on them only served to heighten the merriment.

They had been out here tum1)ling in the snow for nearly five hours. The thermometer was 20 degrees Fahrenheit—just right for tobogganing. But as time passed the merrimakers became chilled through. Had it not been for that, they would never have noticed that it was already nearly two o’clock. But as it was, they felt that they had enough of fun and sport for one time.

The march home was not a slow, leisurely one; every one was anxious to keep his blood in circulation till he could reach his warm room. Not even the saying of good night between the couples took as long as one might expect.

After the boys had left their partners, they dashed off for their cozy homes, too. Four of them roomed at the same place. After they had warmed up and rehearsed the evening’s highlights, they went to bed. Bob was soon off in slumberland,一and then in dreamland. "Lean left!—ugh, ugh,—look here—pull—roll off— wliat a scream you are—c’mon, Ted, a little—good night, Betty— please just one一ou!—what’s the slap for?—Here he moaned and rolled over. But also his three roommates rolled over — with laughter.

Wait until morning! Bob and Betty will hear enough of this.1 “Poor Bob! And had you been there after the sandman had strewn his grains about you might have heard nearly the same dream-con fessions from Bob’s three roommates.

H. M. ’32.

A SONNET ON DEATH We suffer myriad deaths before we die; A myriad times we bear the deadly thrust Of hatred, malice, envy, or mistrust, Both from ourselves and others. Friends put by, 256

The tongues of men that flay with unjust lie, Love lost or cooling, shining hopes that rust, The innumerable griefs that grind our hearts to dust— Is after these mere death hard to defy?

Yet all of these, which end with earthly breath, And death itself, the end of our endeavor, Are merely symbols of a graver death Whose bonds no one on earth or heaven can sever No, none but Christ, who expiating saith : “He who believes shall not taste death forever.”

Martin Dornfeld, ’32.

A YOUTHFUL ROMANCE “Way back, when you were ten, I was eleven or so.” Like most boys, I have always been bashful as far buck as I can remem­ ber. So it was when I met June—, an officer’s daughter on the steamer “George Washington.” Her mother was taking： her over to France, too, where they would meet her father again.

The “George Washington was the ship used by President Wilson for his trips to and from E il rope. Tt was a large and ma­ jestic steamer, which, as I was toiklT our government had taken from Germany. We hacl a fair caliin on tlic. main deck: most of the passengers were officers’ families, also goiiig. over to France, June and I, with a few other children played on the first deck, This deck was not completely enclosed, but was only surrounded by a railing. Behind the cabin-part of the deck was piled a large number of rope stairs, which formed large coils. In the center of each coil was enough space for one of us to hide.

One evening right after supper when no one was walking the decks a number of us played hicle-and-go-seek. The person who was “it” had to stay at the bow of the ship and count.

Since neither June nor I was “it,” we went together to the rope coils to hide. But instead of hiding in the coils she watched the one side of the deck while I watched the other. As soon as she saw the girl who was “it” coming toward her side of the deck, she started to run toward my side, and as she turned my corner she called .to me to follow her quickly. But then she tripped, rolled to the rail­ ing and before I could realize the danger or think what I was about her feet went overboard and I was at her side pulling her back on deck and helping her to a deck chair. Then I sat down beside her, holding her hand and rubbing her arm while I kept telling her that everything was all right. She had had such a scare that at

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first her face was white and she could only stare. Then tears came to her eyes and she began to cry on my shoulder. That was too much for me. I looked into her watery eyes and said, “Please don’t cry.” Something unexplainably strange took hold of us and our eyes came slowly closer until they squarely met. Then we kissed. We were both startled and blushed. She quickly came to herself and ran into the hallway to her cabin.

I saw her in the dining hall the next day, but I could only catch her eye once. Nor had I any opportunity to speak to her during the next few clays, but could only catch her eyes—then she would blush. On the third day she told me that her mother was going to let her have a birthday party and asked if I could come.

So the next afternoon I went to the party as her partner. Af­ ter some entertainment the partners were arranged at the table and I was seated next to her. The party was a perfect success, I assure you.

A few days later our boat arrived in the harbor at Brest, France. She left on the first tug for the docks. We had* no opportunity to say good-1 )ye until she passed me on the way to her tug-boat and wIicmi the tug- left, she waved her handkerchief a long time—goocl-hyc forever.

L. G. S.,，32.

SEA You arc nil things beautiful to me: The sun, in blinding splendor is not more; Nor can the white moon gleaming on the shore Compare with you! You are, O misted Sea, —(Storni-macklencd, beating in the dawn your lore Of mournful grievances, your wild decree, Your challenge to the heavy heart, pain-sore To drown his woes within your depths; to be Forever dirged)—you are all that a man Can need when friends have left and sore beset He seeks the Lethe offered by the tan Sea shore, wave washed, wind swept; tries to forget A sudden grief: a pain of blenching fears; A shattered dream; sorrow too deep for tears.... .W. Faber.

RAISING MONEY FOR THE CHURCH ‘Won’t you, please, give me a handkerchief ?M asked a young girl at a public gathering. In the course of the day she had suc•258

ceeded in soliciting—it sounds better than begging — sixty-five handkerchiefs from friends, acquaintances, and strangers. She was well satisfied with the wonderful work she had done. Some of the handkerchiefs were “real nice ones,” as she said, and she was sure that she would make “lots of money." Is there anyone who would not pity the young child, when the logic of that wonderful success began to reveal itself in the letters which were sent to the members of the congregation a month later stating, “We are to hold our sale the fifth of next month”?

The next step taken for the success of this church sale was the selling of tickets. The “women workers" of the congregation began a house to house drive. One of these women had barely left a residence, when I heard the lady of the house remark, “I didn’t want to buy any ticket at all.” .

“Then you didn’t have to!” I corrected her.

"But I did have to, or take the alternative of being spoken of as unfriendly, and ungenerous, and—Oh, well, it was really the only thing to do; but it makes me angry just the same.”

Does not this selling of tickets seem rather out of keeping with Christian courtesy, to say the least ?

This matter of making money by the various devices named in the church news columns of denominational papers is very inter­ esting from a business point of view. A single instance serves well to illustrate many experiences. A so-called Ladies’ Aid gave a box lunch. The women were each to prepare a lunch sufficient for two persons; the men were each to buy a box or basket and eat it with the woman who had provided it. One woman prepared a very tasty lunch, which cost her, basket and all, two dollars. She put the cost on it, as she had been instructed to; and because it was so expensive the committee thought best not to increase the selling price. So the basket was marked two dollars for the sale.

It happened that the husband bought his own wife’s basket, and, course, he paid the two dollars for it. Undoubtedly he was imbued .with joy and felt a fluttering somewhere between the itch under his hat and the tickling under his soles, when he heard that he should share his two-dollar lunch with his own wife. .My mathematics may be very much at fault, but it was sur­ prisingly clear to me that this man had given four dollars to get two, in the form of two sandwiches, two pickles, and two pieces of eY „ food，concealed in a simple cardboard box, embellished with f ollar a.nd ninety-nine cents worth of “cute” paper. However, ie \了as quieted by his wife, who explained to him that all was given tor the benefit of the church. But was it? No, indeed. It would e somewhat less than two dollars that the church would get, be259

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rw^no^ cause there are always expenses attending these money-making occasions.

Once, while a friend and I were riding along an avenue in Milwaukee in a street car on a Sunday morning, we noticed on the front of a church, dose by the door, through which, the congrega­ tion members were passing in to morning service, a large sign in red and black letters on a white background: Cake and Apron Sale on Thursday Evening Entertainment Refreshments It was printed so plainly and so prominently that wc could read it while passing on the car. My friend remarked: “I’ve always supposed that the church believed ‘man cannot live by bread alone，’ but it seems to find a surprising dependence for its own life in cake.’’

We all enjoy church suppers, and most of us eat cake, and be­ lieve in aprons, and pincushions, and rag-bags，and all the rest of the things with which the last fifteen years, more or less, of church sales have made us familiar—in their proper places. But does it not seem that these tilings are being made all too prominent in the affairs of the church ? Aside from the fact that sales and suppers almost invariably cost nearly as much as they profit, and so often fail at the very point where they are popularly believed to succeed, they certainly demoralize the best spirit of giving toward the church. The church must have money, and the people might to give it; yes, more than that, they should be influenced and encour­ aged to do so with delight, and directly to the treasury of the church, and not compelled or expected, as in so many instances they are, to pass their money along through a complex of channels which diminish it.

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To the thorough-going student of a people’s literature a study of that people’s art is a necessary complement. The characteristic atmosphere, the Volksgeist, of a type of mankind is expressed in its literature and its art. They are the visible exhalations of its soul, reminding one in this particular figure very much of the old Gothic pictures where the words men spoke were encased in a cloud or a scroll issuing from the throat of the speakers. Objects succeeding one another, or whose parts do so in time are actions and thus fit subjects for poetry or prose; succession in time is the pro­ vince of the poet, co-existence in space the sphere of the artist.

No one will deny, however, that there is a very intimate associa­ tion between the arts of poetry and the portraying arts, as the exexpressional channels of the folk-soul.

Prof. Oskar Hagen of the state university in the first of a series of lectures here pointed out very concisely this truth in a pleasing example. Comparing Greek and Italian architecture with the Gothic he showed the rhythmic equality and dissectability in the first as comparable to the precisely measured hexameter rhythm of the Odyssey, “Andra moi evvepe Mousa Polytropon hos mala polla,” in contrast to the ruder, more natural wildness of the Germanic fragment, the Song of Hildebrand, “Ich hoerte das sagen, Dass zum Kampfe rufend, allein sich traten Hildebrand und Hadubrand zwischen zwei Heeren, Sohn und Vater.”

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Students interested in the further study along these lines may find material in the college library. Some excellent books on the subject of art are: Springers, “Kunstgeschichte”一five volumes; “Gescliichte der deutsclien Kunst” by Dohme, etc., five volumes; Seemans “MeisterbilderMax Osborne, “Geschichte der Kunst;’’ Dehio, “Kunstgeschichte in BildernGatteschi, “Restauri della Roma Imperiale;” and numerous smaller works in English and German.

THE COLLEGE STUDENT AND COMPETITIVE SPORTS In the last year much has been written and said about college, athletics. One of the oldest schools in the United States, Harvard, has already dropped all competitive sports except one. Many of the smaller schools in the east are thinking about dropping all in­ tercollegiate games. In the middle west this reaction has not yet set in, although we find a school such as Chicago University bar­ ring all students with an average below 85 from all competitive athletics. All these radical changes have a reason and a purpose.

Whether or not they arc justified, we shall see.

All forms of exercise should benefit a student in two ways.

First, they should relieve him from mental exertion and secondly they should build up a healthy body. Competitive sports accom­ plish neither of these. In the professional way that college ath­ letics are played today, much l)rain-'vork is needed. One must know how to play a man on every different play, besides remembering the complicated signals.

Much intensive practice is needed. All this surely does not give the mind the rest it requires.

Practice is over and the student sits down at his desk to study.

Before long his mind will be drifting off into some phase of the game of tomorrow. Probably he catches a pass or probably he “gets even” with a fellow who played foul with him the year be­ fore. In this way the evening passes and ve*y little studying is done. Is one to condemn the student for this ? No. that would be unjust. It is only natural that he should do this. The next day he plays “for all that is in him.” The game may end in a de­ feat. What a shame! He will never forget that pass he missed.

It would have won the game. This is no longer play blit work.

It is true, without a goal, play would be uninteresting. After the game is over, however, if the results are unfavorable, they should b.e forgotten. In competitive sports this is almost impossible. Be­ sses this worry, the body is entirely exhausted and probably even crippled. The former over-exhaustion is one of the worst things for the body. If one add to this a broken limb the body is rather 262

weakened than strengthened. Perhaps these kinds of sports build up muscular bodies, but hardly sound and healthy bodies.

These are some of the reasons why college sports are being dropped. Sports are no longer play but work. A student cannot give full attention to his studies and at the same time take part in them. They hamper the educational process. When both the student and professor see these facts, competitive college athletics will be a thing of the past.

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ALUMNI —Prof. Ralph D. Owen, ’05, of Temple University, Philadelphia, recently published a book on “The Principles of Secondary Education.”

—Born to Mr. and Mrs. Victor W. Thierfelder, ex ’23, a son, on December 16. 一The Rev. W. Gieschen, ’26，visited at our school, Tuesday, January 7.

—Oscar Hammen, ’29，who is taking a course in history at the University of Wisconsin, visited Northwestern on the same day.

—Gerhard Schluetcr, ex ’29, is at present teaching in one of the high schools in Milwaukee.

—Prof. E. C. Kicsslin^, ’17, preached at the school dedication at the Rev. J. Bcrgholz's ('97) congregation in La Crosse, Wisconsin, January 5.

—The Rev. Max Stern, ’20, formerly of Plum City, was installed at Neosho, Wisconsin, December 15. The Rev. R. Hillemann, ’25, has received the call to Plum City.

The Rev. Roy Vollmers，’16, formerly of Bemis, South Da­ kota, was installed at Geneva, Nebraska, on December 1.

—The Rev. H. Schultz, 78, of Faribault, Minnesota, who was practically blind, has recovered with the aid of a surgical operation the partial use of his sight.

—Prof. W. Schumann, *12, took care of the congregation at Markesan, Wisconsin, during the holidays.

务pmmarjj NdJps Am 3. Januar nahm unsere Schule wieder ihren An fang. Schon am Tage zuvor stellten sich die meisten Studenten ein. Merkwuerdigerweise erschien eine Chevie schon gegen Mittag an jenem Tage, und zwar gerade eine, die vom fernen Westen kam. Dass nichts 264

Besonderes das fruehe Eintreffen des betreffenden Studenten erforderte, ist genuegend bezeugt. Es ist vvohl wieder einmal ein Beispiel, an deni wir lernen koennen, class cler gute Wille auch Wege findet, wenn’s auch weit ist, dass einer, der Schwierigkeiten . zu ueberwinden hat, oft noch frueher das Ziel erreicht, wenn er sich die Muehe macht, als einer, der es leicht hat. Viele von uns, deren Heimat nicht weit entfernt ist, kamen erst spaet zurueck.

Es ist eigentlich merkwuerdig, 'vie das eine Bestreben eines Studenten bei der Rueckkehr nach den Ferien immer dies zu sein scheint, moeglichst kurz vor der Eroeffnung' in cler Schule zu erscheinen. Das mag man ja als eine Angewohnheit aus den Kollegejahren erklaeren, aber immerhin eine Tatsache ist es. Man sollte meinen, dass die Studenten in den langen Ferien sich genue­ gend mit ihren Eltern unterhalten haetten, so dass sie sich frueh aufmaclien koennten. Aber nein, geradc am letzten Abend snuss man noch so lange 'vie moeglich zu Hause sein.

So kam es wolil, class auf der letzlen Interurban—die leider frueher ablaeuft, als man erwarten koennte—sich zelin Studenten fanden. Sie waren in heiterer Stimniung, vergnuegt, als ging's auf Ferien. Unser “Dad” batte seine Unkosten, uns alles nach Thiensville zu befoerdern. Wir wiesen den Schaffner, als er von uns Fahrgeld verlangte, ganz einfach auf ihn. Wozu hat er auch sonst semen Namen ?

In Thiensville angelangt zog unsere kleine Schar ueber den Berg, durch das Pustloch, unci bald war sic nach alien Ecken und Enden des Wohngebaeudes zerstreut. Noch an dem Abend ging： das gegenseitige Besuchen, Glueckwuenschen “nocli nachtraeglich,,?

Ausfragen ueber Heimfahrt, Ferien und wer weiss was, los. Am selben Abend wurde man mit dem Erzaehlcn noch garnicht fertig.

Das dauert gewoehnlich noch einen ganzen Tag1，bis man sich 'yieder an einander gewoehnt hat unci clie Unterhaltung allmaehlich Iangweilig wird. Und dann encllich hat man Ruhe, endlich kann man die Ferien als ueberwunden an sell en und sich auf seine Arbeit besinnen.

ArbeiJ:! Was ruft nicht das Wort fuer Vorslellungen in uns wach! Die letzten Monate dieses Schuljahres liegen vor uns. Flier vjele unter uns sind sie die letzten. Noch einmal, und auch nur dies eine Mai, haben wir die Gelegenheit, unsere gfanze Zeit ungestoert d?m Studium zu widmen. Wir haben, abgesehen von unseren Studi.en，keine Pflichten, keine Sorgen, kein Sichabmuehen mit allerlei Kleinigkeiten des Lebens, keine Geschaefte, die unsere Kraft, unser Sinnen und Denken in Anspruch n ehmen. Was ausserhalb unserer Studien unser Interesse beansprucht, geschieht nur zur Erholung und zur allgemeinen Aus*bildung, zur Foerderung un265

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seres Lebens—unci Menschenkenntnis. Ich rede vom Ideal. So sollte es mit unserer Arbeit beschaffen sein.

Und wahrlich diese letzten paar Monate_ja, fuer einen jeden unter uns sind es nur ein paar Monate, verfliessen doch die drei Jahre iimmer zu schnell—diese paar Monate sollten wir auskaufen..

Wie gross ist nicht das Gebiet, auf dem wir uns 1)ewegen. Wie unerschoepflich, unermesslich die Gelegenheiten, sich zu vervollkommnen. Da ist noch so viel von dem Noetigsten, das wir nicht wissen. Und vor uns in absehbarer Entfernung liegt unser Lebensberuf. Ein ernster hciliger Beruf, vor_clessen Verantwortlichkeit einem schaudert. Werden wir tuechtig sein, unsern Posten auszupfuellen ? So vicl an uns liegt, wollen wir nichts versaeumen, das uns fuer unsere Arbeit tuechtig machen kann.

Unsere erstes Bestreben, wenn wir nach den Ferien zurueckgekehrt sind, ist immer n cue Beamten fuer den Term in von Weihnachten bis Ostern zu wael'len. Da wkd das Alte abgesetzt, und dann 'vircl fast alles neu vom Praeses hinab bis zum Dreckinspektor. Einc aufregende Zeit, diese Zeit der Wahl.

Wir leben noch in der Zeit der guten Vorsaetze, der New Year's resolutions. Wahrsclieinlich war es in einem Ausflug von Reue und mit clem Vorsatz der Besserung, class unser werter Praesident des bachelors’ club, Herr Lee Sabrowsky, die Herrschaften zusammenrief und ihnen einc ernste, eindringliche Rede liielt ueber die Notwendigkeit und die Verdienste des Vercins in unserer Zeit des Feminismus. Zu gleicher Zeit setzte der Praesiclent den neuen Mitgliedern—den alten schadete die Mahnung natuerlich auch nicht —auseinander, was die Bedingungen des Vereins seien und was die Pflichten der einzelnen Glieder. Die Rede ging uns alien sehr zu Herzen. So sehr, class es jetzt den Anschein hat, als ob der Verein in diesem Jahr wenig Arbeit liaben wird.

Es ist naemlich der eigentliche Zweck und die eine grosse Aufgabe dieses Vereins, die unwuerdigen Glieder nach strengem Verhoer von sich hinauszutun.

Es ist gerade diese schonungslose Strenge, die (las Interesse cler Mitglieder wachhaelt und den Verein vor dem Verfall bewahrt.

Doch nun ist die Frage, ist die Lebenskraft des Vereins so gross, class er sich in Thiensville durchsetzen wird? Wir leben hier so abgeschlossen, (lass sich selten die Gelegenheit bietet, Aergernis zu geben.

Ein frueheres Mitglied, das letztes Jahr mir nichts dir nichts hinausgeworfen wurde, und das vor kurzem als “answer tb a maid­ en’s prayer” gebrandmarkt wurde, hat wiederum Aufnahme in den Verein gefunden. Mit solchen Leuten sollten wir uns eigentlich nicht abgeben. Doch mag er sich gebessert liaben.

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len. Am 14. Januar erschien Herr Pastor Mahnke ganz unangemel (let im Seminar. Es war einem unverstaendlich, was ihn bei Wind und Wetter nach Thiensville verschlagen hatte. Endlich kam’s heraus. Er war einmal bachelor, und will es nicht laenger sein. Er engagierte ein Quartett und einen Organisten, die bei seiner Hochzeit musizieren sollen. Genaueres ueber die Hochzeit koennen wir nicht berichten, da sie zur Zeit, da dieses geschrieben wird, noch nicht stattgefunden hat. Der 18. Januar ist als der Hochzeitstag festgesetzt. Herr Mahnke hat die herzlichsten Glueckwuensche seiner alten Brueder cles bachelors’ club und der uebrigen Studenten.

Wir hatten anfangs Januar imseren ersten Schneesturm. Herr Kuehl konnte bei dem besten Willen den Schnee nicht aus dem Hof heraushalten. Es stuermte einen ganzen Tag, und der Schnee tuermte sich in langen Baenken urn das Gebaeude. Die eine Tuer des Lehrgebaeudes war gaenzlich zugeschneit. Das war ganz in­ teressant fuer uns, die wir nicht hinausmussten. Aber es gab reichlich zu schaufeln fuer die, die das Los traf. Die cars, die nicht durch die Kaelte aus dem Hof verdraengl worden waren, sahen aus wie Eskimohuetten in Alaska. Wir waren auf einen Tag von Welt abgeschnitten. Man musste dabei unwillkuerlich an Whittier’s “SnowBound” denken.

Am Sonntag, den 12. Januar, spucrten wir immer noch die Laehmung des Verkehrs infolge des Schnees. Und so hatten wir Gottesdienst i n unserer Aula. Dazu stellten sich die Professoren mit ihren Familien, die Studenten und das Kuechenpersonal ein.

Herr Professor Pieper hielt einen exegetischen Vortrag ueber das Sonntagsevangelium.

In den Wintermonaten ist auch uliter uns die gesellige Zeit.

Freitag abends sind wir nach altem Iierkommen bei den Profes­ soren willkommen. Es melden sich immer mehrere auf einmal an und statten den Professoren einen Besuch ab, der wenigstens fuer uns immer hoechst interessant uncl( lehrreich ist.

Unser Seminar wird bald beruehmt. Der Tintenfleck an der Wand ist schon da,—da fuer kann Herr Vogel buergen. Nun braucht pur noch ein Luther unter uns aufzustehen, und eine neue Wartburg ist fertig. Aus Herrn Vogels Exegese ueber den Tintenfleck hin­ ter seinem Pult geht nicht hervor ob’s Fleisch und Blut war, worn it er es zu tun hatte, ocler ob’s wie dazumal ein Teufel war.

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獅■多 The filial literary event before the annual Christmas recess was given on the thirteenth of December under the auspices of the Phi Gamma Rho with Mr. Bleicluvehl as master of ceremonies and Prof. A. Sitz as critic. Though the program was well balanced there was much to be criticised in the individual appearances.

The orchestra, under the direction of Prof. W. C. Herrmann, opened the evening’s entertainment with two selections: O. Metra’s overture, “The White Queen,” and Wm. Nassjmn’s march, “Connecticut.

In rendering these selections the organization came up to better standards of playing than it has in the past year and showed considerable improvement. The only discordant note was the bass drum, which, however, was not due to the able drummer’s inability, but to the fact that the drum was shade out of tune and perhaps needs replacement.

This was followed by Mr. Kaspar’s original address, “O.n Lib­ eral Arts in the Colleges and Universities.” Before continuing we wish to compliment him on his loud speaking. This was the only speech the writer, who occupied a seat in the rear of the auditor­ ium, could distinctly hear. Mr. Kaspar related the aims the vari­ ous courses he enumerated sought to achieve.

Mr. W. Dobratz’s original German speech, “Aus dem Deutschen Hexenleben," was not distinguishable or audible in the rear of the auditorium. Since the hall is vastly larger than the chapel where meetings were held in other years, those who appear must make more of an attempt toi speak so that all can hear them. The exertion required is not too great and the gain in the satisfaction of being understood is sufficient reward.

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silli’s “Triplin’ Sax” and played it very well. As encore he selected Saxophobia, one of Rudy Wiedoeft's creations. This was also good, but evinced insufficient practice on the cadenzas.

The same judgment passed on the delivery of the previous speaker also applies to Mr. Heyn in his monologue, “Bacillus Gelotis alias Risionis,” which was evidently very humorous, for those in front saw fit to laugh quite lengthily at some of his remarks and actions.

Edward Knoblock’s one act play, “My Lady's Lace,” was the closing number. In this the characters took pains to make them­ selves understood and a good play resulted.

Miss Coogan acted as Moeder Kaate. Antje was played by Miss E. Schimmel. Her father, Mynheer Cornelius, was portrayed

by Mr. Kettenacker. Mr. Dornfeld personated Junkheer Jan Van der Bom. Instead of devoting1 space to telling the action of the play, we shall now criticise the audience. When one attends a play one must distinguish the private identity of the actor himself from his audiences have never histrionic character. That is a thingsuceeded in doing, but it is essential m order to enjoy fully the actions and incidents the playwright puts therein. Perhaps it is because our institution has a small enrollment and everyone knows nearly everyone else, even to their peculiarities. There is a total lack of what one might perhaps term "aesthetic distance.” Those who take part in these plays are probably somewhat responsible themselves for this condition in not taking the character they as• sume to a greater degree.

With Mr. Fenske, master of ceremonies, arranging the Pliilomathian Literary Society’s program, the first meeting after the resumption of classes took place on Saturday evening, the eleventh of January. Prof. E. Kiessling acted in the capacity of critic.

The quartet first sang “Those Pals of Ours” by BrownGreaton-Cole. As encore they picked an American melody, “The Levee Song,” perhaps better known to those of us who have worked on railroad and highway gangs as “I bin workin’ on the railroad.

A debate, “Resolved: that the Santa Claus myth should not be dropped," followed next. Mr. Pape and Mr. Radloff upheld the af­ firmative. The Messrs. W. O. Wichmann and H. Meyer took the negative. The details being too numerous to enumerate, we shall not mention them, but will add that those who were present, wondered what effect the debate had on the “Kids” sitting in the first two rows as well as some sitting further in the rear.

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A forty minute version of Wm. Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Niglit” brought the evening to a close. Two years ago the vogue of act­ ing Shakespeare in modern dress was at its height in New York, Vienna and London, and it is still being experimented within vari­ ous sections of this country. It was in this method that the play was enacted. The following' were the members of the cast: Gladys Hallett Maria ........ ___ Arno Witt Clown ____ .Alice Bentzin Olivia ....... .George Rowe Malvolio -N. Ehlert Fabian ......Hans Schultz Sir Toby -Otto P. C. Engel Sir Andrew Plays finally appear to lie accepted in the order of things here.

Now that most of us know the mechanics and build-up of a play through class study and acting, why not have someone write a play to be acted liy the students. It would afford a splendid oppor­ tunity to learn more of them. Many colleges and universities give such plays written by the students themselves. Someone might even surprise the editor-in-chief of this publication and voluntarily give one to be put into the Literary column. We have poems and articles, why not an ocasional short play?

Writers of editorials looking for material can no longer avail themselves of the subject for setting up our tellescope as material.

It has been housed in the attic of the dormitory. A large hole has been cut into the roof and a special room built for it. As soon as we have clear evenings our amateur astronomers can take advant­ age of the opportunity to observe the stars and the conste!lati.ons at close range. When the long hoped for library is built, this piece of equipment will most likely find quarters better suited to it.

The instrument was purchased toward the close of nineteen twenty-three for two hundred dollars taken from the fund donated

by Mr. Theodore Fathauer. The donor, who is now in the wholesale hardware business, attended this institution in the early eightles. Duty charges and transportation nearly doubled the cost, for the instrument was purchased in Italy, where its former owner made several important discoveries among the variable stars.

If the interest shown in astronomy by students in the past years may be taken as a criterion, the acquisition of the telescope and the possibility of its more frequent use will be greatly appre­ ciated. On spring and fall evenings there have been as many as twenty and thirty atop the piano rooms, learning what they could of the locations of various stars and constellations.

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Another thing we note with appreciation and pleasure is the series of six lectures on art to be given by Dr. Oskar Hagen. The first of these was presented on the ninth of January at the Classic Theatre in the afternoon. The individual lectures are to be given on successive Thursday afternoons.

Dr. Hagen introduced his first lecture, “The Nature of Gothic Art as compared to the Art of the Latin Race in Architecture, Sculptor and Painting,n with the remark that to understand clear­ ly the peoples of the past we must study their art, for in art we discover expressions of their ambitions, hopes and desires.

Since standards of today’s art cannot be applied to the art of the periods previous to it, we must reform the ideals of the past. Keep­ ing this in mind, it is evident that it is of great advantage to have someone versed in the standards of the past to assist us in finding what the older artists, wished to express in their works.

Since we have taken as much space as we can with a clear con­ science, we will not enlarge upon the subject. Anyone who lis­ tened attentively certainly left that afternoon with a clear concep­ tion of the characteristic differences of the Gothic and Italian arts.

The lecture was a good preparation and introduction to further pri­ vate study for anyone interested in the subject. The speaker supplemented his talk with slides, showing an example of what he wished to demonstrate in the one type of art next to an example from the other. We look forward to the other five lectures with expectation.

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As we are nearing the end of our term as Exchange editor we take occasion again to raise a cry for that perfect college or uni­ versity publication that most likely will never put in its appear­ ance. It seems a perfect waste of time and a subject for ridicule that the various schools of the country should go on month after month, week after week, publishing magazines, papers and quar­ terlies that show a lack of expression of school spirit (not the rah, rah stuff), such a lack of good literary material, such overattention to athletics, that one almost despairs of ever finding a magazine or publication that is everything a good school paper should be.

Perhaps you will say that you have heard this before; perhaps you have. But you may sense some of the writer’s indignation when you consider that month after month he must wade through the material that is offered in some thirty odd college and university publications just to find a few interesting news items and perhaps one or two literary items that are worth while. While it is hardly expected that this outburst will change the situation much, it may perhaps start something.

The article on the typical Lutheran Student, as found in the December issue of the D. M. L. C. Messenger, is certainly not very flattering. The investigation was made by “impartial experts” of Columbia University, but we can hardly believe that the finding of these gentlemen are very accurate, although, as stated in the article, every institution but one was visited and a thorough in­ vestigation made of the financial and physical condition of the col­ lege plants.

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We especially object, in our case, that the student is said to attend classes only eighteen hours a week; that only twenty hours a week are devoted to the preparation of class work and, mind you, only three hours a week are devoted to religious activities. Per­ haps with the investigators the CONNOTATION of the word activities is restricted to actual religion classes, but every student at Northwestern knows that we spend considerably more time per week on religion than that. The same thing is also true with the time devoted to classes and to studying.

As regards the statement that athletics is a favorite activity, we might perhaps admit that; but if the gentlemen think that the American Magazine, Literary Digest, Saturday Evening Post, and Cosmopolitan are some of the favorite magazines, we invite them to take a look into our reading room.

The article also states that “the housekeeping of none of the men’s dormitories was of commendable or even relatively passable character.”一*‘The investigators are somewhat in doubt as to the value of chapel services, where men climb to their seats and smoke their cigarettes until the moment of opening prayer. At some of the schools, nevertheless, the chapel services gave evidence of high idealism, serious purpose, and a spirit of worship which is probably as fine as might be found on any campus in the land.”一Take a look at yourself, Northwestern! How would you rate?

We take occasion to rejoice with The Alumni Echo of the Lutheran High School at Milwaukee, because 1929 has been a year of signal blessing for Lutheran High. Among other successes 'vere the largest enrollment for the school on record, a remarkable forward stride • in the field of athletics and the- adoption of a policy of accrediting. Our best wishes for your further success.

A fine little paper which has put in an appearance on our exchange table recently is the Sligonian of Washington Missionary College at Washington, D. C. While the literary department is wholly lacking, the character of the news items, and especially the editorials, put it in a class above the ordinary college paper. The spirit of the students seems to be sincere, yet lighthearted, and there seems to be a reverence for and a companionship with the teachers that is not often found elsewhere. We especially liked the edi­ torial “Our Platform/5 wherein the writer shows the correct atti­ tude of the students toward their faculty and the attitude of the faculty toward the students. We should like*to see you have a literary department, Sligonian; we feel sure that it would be a success.

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With only eight minutes of play remaining, Pless, who had been spared until then because of an injury, was called into action and immediately the turning point of the contest set in. Concordia gained no further opportunities to score and Northwestern steadily compiled the decisive lead of fifteen points.

Stuhr and Harke were the high scorers for the Black and Reds with eleven points each, whole Captain Kettenacker and Raasch starred at guard. Krause was the outstanding man for the visitors both offensively and defensively.

Concordia presented a scrappy team throughout, while North­ western flashed good teamwork in their short, snappy passes and sure shots, which were the important factors in securing the vic­ tory.

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With the opening of the second half, however, the tide changed.

Northwestern veritably took their opponents off their feet by their swift attack. Pless now easily outjumped his behemoth opponent, whom Rutz had tired through close guarding during the first half, so that the center plays could be set into motion and then Stuhr found the loop freely. When the Normalites called time out to curb the rampage six minutes after play had been resumed, they found an 18-18 tie. After a few minutes of hard struggle and repeated change of leads, Martin was substituted into action. Immediately he dropped two beautiful shot's through the net that gave Northwestern a permanent lead. The Black and Reds now re­ sorted to a very successful stalling game and occasionally whipped the ball the full length of the floor to an open man to tie up the victory more safely.

Although Pless did not figure in the scoring- game, yet he was a great aid in offsetting the early lead of the Normalites. Stuhr showed accuracy in shooting with 12 points. Raasch and Heyn played stellar ball at guard, while Gother and Van Horne were the luminaries for the Milwaukeans.

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Northwestern continued to display that same loose game and succeeded in gaining： only one field goal throughout the entire second half. Coach Kleinke frequently called upon his strong reserves to put his machine into working order, but things just would­ n't click. Beloit, on the other hand, improved considerably and steadily increased the margin in the score. L. Bottino was the outstanding man of the game by close guarding and by sinking long shots from any angle of the floor.

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Northwestern, however, opened the second period with a de­ cided improvement in their defensive game, but still failed to make good their opportunities to score. The Carroll quintet managed to gain only eleven additional points to Northwestern’s seven. With four minutes left to play the Carroll seconds look up the fight, but Northwestern easily held them scoreless and started to whittle the large margin down a trifle.

Pless played an exceptionally good guarding- game restricting the dangerous Vander Mulen to one basket during the entire second half. Vander Mulen and Hinckley of Carroll were the two fastest men that Northwestern has met for a long time.

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At midway the Black and Reds had grabbed the neat lead of 17-7.

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There was also a preliminary in which the Preps, led by Gentz, easily defeated the Johnson Creek High School by the decisive score of 28-10. Johnson Creek, however, did not, as the score may indicate, play a ragged game, but fought hard and at times showed that they are capable of playing a much closer game. The Preps showed up better than many possibly expected, for they were only organized a very short time, but then to acount for the smooth playing, we mention that Fischer supplied the brains of the team l)y assuming the weighty position of coach.

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A unique Christinas cheer was imparted to the Dobratz broth­ ers this year—a case of measles for each of them. Waldemar re­ ceived his the day after Christmas and Everett broke out the very day he was to come back to school. Richard Stiemke, Tertia, came down with the same Christmas cheer a few clays after recitations has been resumed.

The unfortunates who were not able to go home for the Christmas season were Rutz, Roth, Victor Schultz, Sippert, Raasch, Heier, Robert Meyer, and George Wallen. The feature attraction in the way of dormitory entertainment during this time was a spec­ tacular sleeping marathon. The outstanding contestants were “Frex” Roth, veteran of many a strenuous battle, and “Speed” Sippert, a sort of dark horse. “Frex” obtained the honors for individual high scoring by sleeping until 2 p. m. one day. But the sparkling find, Sippert, maintained a steady pace throughout the entire two weeks to win the long distance award.

Another piece of excitement was a chimney fire over in the din­ ing hall the evening of Christmas day. It has been suggested that Old Man Santa got stuck in the chimney, but since it was the night after Christmas Eve we can’t see what he was doing there.

Unless it was to supervise some of the “Christmas swapping” that always follows his first visit.

Many were the students who returned late afteT the holidays, but it is a really remarkable achievement that everyone somehow or ^ other managed to get back before the excursion rates expired.

Strange, isn’t it? To a certain Sextaner, Strauss, goes the medal fon submitting the most naive, and at the same time the most ori­ ginal, excuse. He told his professors that he thought school started on Monday.

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In one of those mighty pre-season class basketball struggles Quinta vanquished Sexta 46-2. Krubsack and Geweke were high point men for Sexta, each netting a total of one free throw.

Ralph Lemke visited with Roger Melendy in Mundelein, Ill­ inois, during part of the holiday season.

Our redoubtable German band has at last found an appropriate name for itself, “Die Wacht Am Rhein.” If you don’t believe in the name just try to sleep while they are practicing. They have also selected a director, Herr Adalbert Hellmann. Kindly address all letters for engagements and contracts to the Herr Hellmann.

Speaking of music, Ed. Kaspar talks with high praise of the astonishing talent shown in his bedroom at night. Sir P. Rahn is the master groaning-saxaphonist. Geiger the younger talks in his sleep beautifully, to the bass accompaniment of Geiger No. 1.

Kaschinski shows his genius to the best advantage in impersonat­ ing an aeroplane motor. Kaspar himself is director (but without the swallow-tail coat). That still leaves Bergholz for substitute and Jack Dahlke for stage director. Haefner is the appreciative audience.

We can well he proud to have with us such an unsophisticated “prep” as a certain Mr. Gilbert, who, when he heard someone re­ peat the phrase “dominus vobiscum,” sincerely thought it meant “dominoes, wo bist du.”

Mr. Gerharcl Peters, whose fortunes as monarch of room 27 have always been a matter of concern to us, is once more in full command. He has recently issued an imperial edict against the improper slang terms used by most of us. “Raising cain,” for in­ stance, is positively taboo in room 27, and “creating havoc” is the substitute expression recommended by the Doctor.

Oliver Witte’s father, Rev. L. A. Witte, and two sisters drove some three hundred miles from Cornell, Wis., to get Oliver at the beginning of the holiday recess.

Cornie Trapp says he believes in Santa Claus. One morning shortly before school closed for Christmas he found a new, shining trombone on his desk, and no Maecenas in sight. He later discovered that it was a donation from the band.

Some more vacation notes concerning those who stayed, at the dormitory most of the time:_Sippert and Raasch had their usual call as dishwashers over in the refectory, while “Vic” Schultz func­ tioned as chef. Mr. Sippert paid a short visit to “Sunny” Woldt, ex ’33，who lives in Jackson, Wis. For the Christmas dinner, Schultz and Sippert were invited to the Bentzin home and R. Meyer and Roth to Frank West’s residence.

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(En-iEii Nfltm Without a doubt, everyone here enjoyed her vacation and is looking forward to a busy new year.

Vivian Engel made a longer journey than any of us. She went to her home at Stockton, Minnesota.

Those who visited friends or relatives in Milwaukee were: Gertrude Wendland, Glenna Rasmussen, Ruth BruesehofF, and Ruth Mayer. Ruth, however, divided her time between Madison, Oconomowoc, and Milwaukee.

Adele Nommensen visited in Lake Mills.

If the Sophs are so wise, why don’t they pull more jokes? * 本 氺 .Prof: “The German word ‘Schwein，is derived from the Latin word ‘suinus.’ ’’ Student: “Is that also where ‘chop suey’ comes from?” 氺氺氺 I just found out from Schliesser what makes cream cost more than milk. He said the smaller bottles are harder for the cows to fill.

H. Meyer: “Did any of your relatives receive any great honors?” :Meyer: «Yes, I was named after my great grand­ father.

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Said Kasch to Kaschinske.

The Coach gave Batzlaff a letter, but he forgot to mail it.

Armin says honeymoon is that part of a girl’s life that comes between the lipstick and the broomstick. 氺氺氺 Kreie writes home for money! “Papa, send me a nickel, no you'd better send me a dime instead, it weighs less in the mail.” 氺

Thurow : “I’ll bet I can tell you what the score of our game with Carroll is going to be before it starts.”

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Oh no, said Willie, “I’ll not hurt them, I’m carrying them by the stems.”

Tutor: “Run up to see if Wichmann is in.”

Sextaner (returning) : “Wichmann says he isn’t in.” 伞* 氺 • The coach was standing with his wife near the clothesline.

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“Hark (Y)e,” Said the Kreie(r) One day . I saw Kash Kaschinske his Buch to Heier a Trapp.

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lovely Heyn. There the Geiger Struck up a piece from one of the Schultz Victor records. Kasch got a Hagedorn in his finger, and it took lots of Gatz to pull it out. Then on the way back the Trapp got stuck in the Rutz. . The horse Peters out trying to pull it through. A nutty Fisher was sitting on a Fenske near by, Resting his line out into a mud puddle.” “For Kreie-n out loud,” Kasch yelled out, “can’t you do something?”

“G (ee) !” Geiger said, “you don’t have to get Witte. And cut out the Schwerin.”

Finally getting it out, they started for downtown. There they ate some Hahm and eggs. The Geiger ordered some shoes from A Lederer, while Kasch bought a good Maas of Rossin-en. Going on they saw a Zimmerman, discussing a house with a Baumann.

As they approached home, the sky got all Schwartz and Roth, and a terrific Sturm broke out.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

LITERARY— Die Drei Bewahrungsmittel Deutschlands Im Dreiszigjaehrigen .284 Kriege ___________________ 287 On Jazz --------------------------Two of a Kind; Scenes from Pas­ …289 toral Life----- -------------Schools of Sparta and Athens The Constitution of the U. S.

EDITORIALS— Dormitory Ethics...................

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The Study of Philosophy, etc.

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Critics..................... ............

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Museums________________

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ALUMNI NOTES SEMINARY NOTES

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COLLEGE NOTES ..

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EXCHANGE ______

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ATHLETICS______

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LOCALS CO-ED —

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HUMOR

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THE BLACK AND RED Volume XXXIII.

Watertown, Wis., Feb, 1930

Number 9

Entered at the Postoflice at Wntrrfown. WIs , ns second class matter under Act of March 3, 1879. Published monthly. Subscription, One Dollar.

DIE DREI BEWAHRUNGSMITTEL DEUTSCHLANDS IM DREISZIGJAEHRIGEN KRIEGE In etlichen Schriften Gustav Frey tags werden uns die Wirren des dreiszigjaehrip;cn Krieges geschildert. Die Geschichte, “Die Doerfer und ihre deistlichen,” handclt auch von diesem Kriege und zeigt uns dann besonders, welche Kraefte dazu dienten, Deutschland und ein cleutsches Volk 'vaehrend einer solchen Verwuestung zu bewahren.

Freytag beschrcibt uns zuerst die Doerfer vor dem Kriege.

Sie waren (lurch Graeben, Mauern und Hecken wohl beschuetzt.

Nur an den Hauptstraszen waren Tore, welche jedoch des Nachts geschlossen wurden. Der Kirchhof war oft durch eine besondere Mauer befestigt, so dasz er einen letzten Zufluchsort bildete. Die Bewohner dieser Doerfer waren im Durchschnitt wohlhabend. Ob、vohI noch eine ziemliche Anzahl Bauern ihren Lehensherren grosze Steuern bezahlen muszten, waren cloch viele schon freie Eigentuenier ihres Guts. Ihre Haeuser sahen zwar schaebig aus, aber inwendig waren sie gemuetlich eingerichtet. Das Land war fruchtbar und brachte den Bauern ein reiches Einkommen. Sie zogen Vieh, Schafe, Gaense, Getreide, Flachs, Waid, Trauben, Hopfen und vieles andre. In Thueringen allein brachte die Waidernte alljaehflich ueber drei Tonnen Gold ein. Die Schafe brachten gute Wolle, so^ dasz deutsches Zeug ueberall wertvoll war. Der Bauer war nicht .ein Gelehrter. In den Werkstaetten wurde ueber seine Dumm284

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heit Spott getrieben. Dennoch war er ein ehrlicher und charakterfester Mann. Von den Verhaeltnissen in fremden Staedten und Laendern wuszte er auch sehr wenig; denn er kam nur selten aus seiner Gegend heraus und hatte auch keine taegliche Zeitung. Um es kurz zu sagen, Deutschland war um das Jahr 1618 ein reiches Land.

Allmaehlich ging dann das Schrecken des dreiszigjaehrigen Krieges los. Des Sonntags in der Schenke hoerte der Bauer von dem Kriege in Boehmen. Bald kamen Fluechtlinge, die allerlei Grausamkeiten berichteten und bei den Bauern Obclach such ten.

Diesen folgten Diebe, die sich heimlich Huehner und Schinken wegholten. Bald kamen Leute und pluenderten die Hoefe am hellen Tage; sie brauchten Gewalt, uebten Schande, brannten, mordeten und zerstoerten alles. Mit fast zauberischer Spuerkraft suchtensie das vergrabene Geld des Bauern auf. Es wurde immer aerger.

Die Knechte, die den Bauern jahrelang- treu gedient hatten, liefen fort und zogen mit den Raeubern. Weil)er und Kinder verlieszen die Maenner und zogen mit. Endlich bandeten sich die Bauern' zusammen und raubten und toeteten selber. Sie wurden aberglaeubig und meinten, allerlei Zeichen am Himmel und in der Natur zu sehen. Die Buerger muszten sich in Suempfen, Waldschluchten und Hoehlen verstecken. Die Reichen zogen in die Groszstaedte, wo sie sicherer waren. Das Land wurde wild. Vieh, Getreide und Obst gab es nicht mehr. Seuchen brachen aus. Leute verhungerten, fraszen mit den Hunden vom selben Leichnam, ja toeteten und aszen ihre eignen Kinder.

Man musz fragen: '*Wie ist denn ueberhaupt ein deutsches Volk uebergeblieben?” Es waren clrei Kraefte beschaeftigt, die mit groszem Eifer gegen die Verwuestung； arbeiteten. Diese Kraefte waren die Liebe des deutschen Mamies zu dem vaeterlichen Acker, die Bemuehung der Obrigkeit und vor alien der Eifer des Dorfpfarrers, katholisch so wohl als protestantisch.

Der Bauer wusste sehr wenig von der Welt auszerhalb der eigenen Dorfflur. Er wurde dort geboren, er war dort aufgewachsen, und dort wollte er auch sterben. Immer wieder kam er aus seinem Versteck hervor und versuchte den veruebten Scliaden wie­ der auszubessern. Er suchte das letzte Getreide fast Kern fuer Kern zusammen und saete es heimlich ein. Was er noch an LebensDazu mitteln hatte, muszte er an heimlichen Stellen verbergen. _ gebrauchte er alte Kraeber, Saerge und Totenkoepfe, und doch wurde es ihm oft gestohlen. Bewaffnet bis an die Zaehne begleitete er oft sein letztes Zugtier auf den Acker und war bereit, mit den Raeubern um das Tier zu kaempfen.

Von der Residenz aus kuemmerte sich die Regierung1 durch die Beamten um das Wohl der Doerfer. Die Acktenschreiberei 285

wurde nur in den aergsten Zeiten unterbroclien und immer wieder aufgenommen. Eingaben und Kosten—aufstellungen wurden stets eingefordert, und “mancher Schullehrer, der zugleich auch Gemeindeschreiber war, machte seine Rechnungen, waehrend der Schnee in die ausgeschlagenen Fenster hineinwehte, und die Gemeinde um Durch diese Rechnungen Schutz in den Wald geflohen war. wurde der Einzelne an die Ordnung des Staats gebunden.

Am meisten hat aber der Dorfpfarrer dazu beigetragen, die Gemeinde und dadurch das deutsche Volk zusammenzuhalten. Wo die Kirchenglocken gestohlen waren, rief der Pfarrer seine Ge­ meinde mit der Trommel zusammen. Wo die Kirche niedergebrannt war, versammelte man sich in Scheunen oder im Waldversteck, ringsumgeben von dichten Tannen. Wenn es nicht sicher war, laenger als cin paar Minuten eine Versammlung zu halten, so hatte man nur Gcbetstunden. Man muszte sich mit dem Gevvehr oder dcm Schwert in der Hand zu diesen Verstecken schleichen.

Wachen wurden waelircnd des Gottesdienstes aufgestellt.

• Die Pfarrer liabeii liaeufige Aufzeichnungen gemacht, von denen wir selir vicl uel)ei. den Krieg- zu wissen bekommen. Ein junger Pastor muszte die Gemeinde versorgen, Schule halten, die Cantorstelle versehen und als Tageloehner sein Brot verdienen.

Denn in i seinem Euklid stcht folgendes geschrieben: “Zwei Tage gedroschen im Hcrbst. Eineii Tag im Holz gearbeitet. Zwei Tage gedroschcn in Januar. Einen halben Tag; geschnitten. Vier Hochzeitsbriefe geschrieben. Item einen halben Tag Hafer gebunden, Von einein andren Prediger hoeren wir, dasz er von Soldaten gefangen und zuni Musketier gemaclit wurde. Einst blieb er als Soldat krank am Wachtfeuer liegen, miter seinem Aermel anderthalb Pfund Pulver. Die Flamme erreichte den Aermel und verbrannte ihn zur Haelfte; die Pulvertasche blieb unversehrt. Als er aufwachte, fand er sich allein im verlassenen Lager ohne einen Pfennig Geld. Da fand er in der Asche zwei.Thaler. Mit diesen ging er nach Gotha. Auf dem wege wurcle er halbtot von einer alten Frau aufgenommen und ins Bett gelegt. Die Frau war eine Pestwaerterin, und das Lager ein Pestbett. Doch cler Pastor blieb vor der Seuche bewahrt. Fast mit fatalistischem Glauben und mit unaufhoerlicher Anstrengung arbeiteten diese Diener des Worts.

Einer muszte den Kelch seiner Kirche verkaufen um Brot zu bekommen. Da bekam er Gelegenheit, eine adlige Leiche zu begraben. Dies hielt er fuer ein besonderes Glueck, 'veil er dafuer einen Reichsthaler bekam. Einst klagte er einem Nach bar sein hartes Los. Diesei. meinte, er wuerde sich bald etwas besorgen, wenn er in solcher Lage Stecke.

Da sagte der Magister: “Mein Gott 'veisz schon Mittel; ehe ich sollte Hungers sterben, eher mueszte ein 286

reicher Edelmann sterben, damit ich wieder Geld zu einem Viertel Kom kriegte.”

Gregor Ewald war Pfarrer zu Koenigsburg. Ini Jahre 1632 wurde er von Soldaten gefangen und beraubt. Als ein goldner Ring nicht vom Finger wollte, haetten die Soldaten beinahe den Finger abgeschnitten. Sie besannen sich aber und zogen nur den Ring mitsamt der Haut ab und forderten fuer cliese Gnade tausend Thaler. Unter all diesen Verfolgungen wank ten die Pfarrer nicht, sondern sie warteten ihres Amts und taten viel dazu, das deutsche Volk zu bewahren.

Oscar Naumann.

ON JAZZ The range of human thoughts and emotions greatly transcends the range of the symbols man commonly employs to express them.

He may express his immediate thoughts or feelings in the form of language or signs, but will encounter difficulty in attempting to express his more remote emotions by this means. Man, conscquently, has had recourse to a remarkably different method. He . has combined his thoughts and feelings with his subtle imagination so as to suggest that which there was no means of directly express­ ing in language. This ingenious power with which God has endowed man gives rise to the art of the musician, which has right­ fully been termed the purest, the noblest and most universal of arts.

Music from times immemorial has been a favorite theme of poets. One refers to it as “the food of love,” another as “the speech of angels,” still another as “the heavenly maid，” and a fourth as “the sweet companion of labor.” Longfellow calls it “the uni* versal language of mankind.” I believe that the poet who said of ■ music that it “washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life” expresses precisely what the function of radio music should be in our daily routine of life.

Someone, writing about an orchestra, once began thus: “A noise arose from the orchestra, as the leader drew across the intestines of the agile cat the tail of the nobile hoss.” Although these words have been somewhat bluntly uttered, yet they repre­ sent the general truth that people often see more at a concert than they hear. For do not many people attend a concert given by a famous artist to enable them to boast later that they have seen the artist in person rather tlian to derive musical entertainment or en­ lightenment irom the concert? One often undergoes a relative experience while listening to a radio in the presence of a number of otiher persons. A good classical musical number which sends one 287

into transports of rapture will often leave another person cold and bored. Upon the first thump of syncopation, however, this person will begin to vibrate like a jellyfish. It will not do to pass over this striking phenomenon, haphazardly attributing its cause to our idiosyncrasies or the result of our poor taste, for if we examine it more closely and analyze such an obvious lack of appreciation we shall find it almost invariably due to the lack of a proper musical training.

All music consists of three fundamental elements: rhythm, mel­ ody, and harmony. Rhythm appeals to the feet, melody to the heart, and harmony or technique to the intellect. In jazz music rhythm is the predominating element.

If the statement is true that the characteristic atmosphere and spirit of a people is expressed in its art, then I believe that the jazz music of today represents the unique spirit prevailing in our age, and that it will live as an exponent of our age for future gener­ ations. We are living in a mechanical age and have become a “nation of mechanics” at the expense of art. Speed is one of the most characteristic things about us, which has effected an accelera­ tion in almost every phase of life, a restlessness, a love of change, a craving for thrill which history has not seen heretofore. I believe that all these idiosyncrasies of the American people have been incorporated in jazz and that it has been rightfully called “the folkmusic of the mechanical age.” It is from this point of view that •I wish to consider jazz music.

In a preceding paragraph I have designated jazz as music that appeals to the feet. It is a quite natural tendency for one to keep time to a strain of snappy music, whether one is listening to Sousa march or a jazz selection. It is a kind of reflex action that requires little or no mental effort. There is no disgrace in keeping time to music, but, after all, it must be admitted that it does not prove much about the appreciation of music. The Indian of old produced the same effect on his tomtom, and any child that strikes the anvil in a blacksmith shop in rhythmic succession produces the same effect. Fortunately, however, we can readily emerge from their primitive stage of musical appreciation with the help of a little instruction and by remaining in contact with good classical music either by playing some instrument or by intelligent listening.

We can in this manner cultivate a sense and taste which will con­ tinue to grow. In an analogy this process might be thought of as functioning in a manner similar to that of osmosis in physics. To pass from this primitive stage in music appreciation where noth­ ing can satisfy but jazz to a stage where one can understand and enjoy the gems of classical music is indeed a crisis in music appre288

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In theory I believe that all jazz that remains within the sensi­ ble boundaries of music and is not merely a “course conglomera­ tion of cheap, artificial vulgarities,” which is commonly passed off as music and hailed with acclamation in dance halls, is harmless and may be used to serve a good purpose. If indulged in to excess, however, it may produce the fatal result of making one a slave to rhythm. All those who have been thus enthralled in the labyrinth of jazz will remain cold in regard to all other music. Classical music will find no more response in them than in a corpse.

The true appreciation of music comes through the threefold channel of rhythm, melody, and technique which are so closely dove­ tailed that an accurate dissection is practically impossible. Every piece of music that lives for any length of time is of this character.

The music of such masters as Bach, Beethoven, Brahms or Wagner has lived because of their ingenuity and dexterity in combining these three elements to express what they wished to say. This is the reason that the compositions of such great artists can endure constant repetition without growing commonplace. They will mean more to an intelligent listener every time he hears them. A jazz tune, on the other hand, where the one element of rhythm predom­ inates, is a very flighty thing which will readily grow vapid and stale with repetition.

Otto Engel.

TWO OF A KIND; SCENES FROM PASTORAL LIFE Where two young brothers get along peaceably with each other, there seems to be something wrong with their nature. But one seldom hears that they do. Ernest and Edgar were no excep­ tion to the rule. Ernest, a boy of 12, mul Edgar 10, had shown fromn early cchildhood that they were closely attached to each other w hen in a fight. Perhaps the only lime they were not quarreling when together was either in their sleep or in cliurch. Ernest being the older was, of course, intent on having his rights. When the two claimed something, it often resulted that Edgar won out by his crying. But Ernest never yielded without giving' him a box on the head as a remembrance. Edgar could truly say that Ernest “gave him a pain.”

Whenever there \vas an errand to be done Ernest yelled in an authoritative voice: “Well, Edgar, didja hear that? Get moving!”

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But he did not let Edgar get away with things so easily. He usually found occasion to make him do as he wished when the two were watching the cows. Although at first on friendly terms a quarrel arose soon enough. A cow happened to go beyond her grazing limits, and it was no question for Ernest who should get her back. Edgar, of course, was to do it.

"Go get that cow, Edgar.”

“Aw, why don’t you?” Edgar asked in a complaining voice.

“Wliy don't you? Fll sliow yuh!” Ernest yelled. “Hazy hum, don’t do nothing all clay and now don’t even wanna watch the cows.

Hurry up, before I'll poke yuh one!”

In fact Ernest himself shunned work whenever possible, but in his opinion he did ten times, yes, even twenty times more work than Edgar. Still Edgfar did not go.

“Say，kid, are you gonna go?” which was more a command than a question. “Don’t think I’ll go,” he added. “Let her f?’ where she wants to. Hoy, will you get it if she eats some corn The cow was nearing the cornfield. Ernest, however, walked away, but not without turning; around now and then to utter further com­ mands and warnings.

“I won't do it! Ernest, come back here!” Edgar cried with a shrill, pitched voice, but to no avail. Nevertheless, he ran after the cow crying often at the utmost. Ernest showed liis concern in: ’‘Ba'vl，go ahead, bawl, see if I care.”

By this time the cow was wrapping her tongue around the young tender corn. Ernest seeing it, yelled with the air of an army lieutenant: “Hurry up, there kid, and get that cow outa that corn before I come and help yuh yet!” uAw, shut up. See if I'll get her next time.”

A hand to hand fight between the two had a deal of humor in it. Ernest apparently won a hasty victory, for the battle had no sooner begun than Edgar stopped to cry and feel of his sore spots.

The second stage of the battle was yet to come. Ernest made mat­ ters worse by asking: “Well, howdo yuh like it? I’ll show yuh get smart with me.”

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Teasing one anther with some girls’ names was another way of creating anger. Ernest’s older brothers had teased him and now he satisfied himself in doing1 the same to Edgar. A Jewish girl, “Nannie Jew,” as they called her, was the most popular until a little negro girl, “Cootchie” came to the vicinity. These names alone, if repeated enough, brought forth screams from the teased as if he were in the greatest pain or fear. When Edgar would not do a favor for Ernest, at once would roll out: “Well, Cootcbie, how's Cootchie? Huh, Cootchie? Do it for Cootchie, wouldn’t; yuh, Cootchie? All right ootchie, Cootchie, Cootchie!” The loudest cries would rend the air just to call the mother's attention.

“What’s the matter now again?" the mother asked.

"He's always calling me names!” Edgar answered with tears rollinj? down his cheeks.

She threatened to whip Ernest unless he stopped teasing. Er­ nest defensively replied : “Well, didn't the boys always call me ‘Nannie Je'v’？ ’ This answer brought a laugh from the mother and a blush to Ernest’s cheeks.

One could always pick out the coats they wore in the winter.

The trade mark was a shining right-armed sleeve. It received its gloss from continual wiping- of the nose.

It was futile to leave any cookies, doughnuts, or candy in their reach. No matter where their older sister hid them, she found no more than half when she went to get them. But not only the two younger were guilty of this: their older brothers had the same weakness—and still have!

It is a relief for the mother when the two are off to school.

But the same scenes are re-enacted when they return and will be until they grow up.

E. Froehlich.

SCHOOLS OF SPARTA AND ATHENS The word “school’1 is derived from a Greek word meaning rest, spare time, leisure. At first glance that might lead one to believe that the Greek boys and girls had one grand picnic during their school days.. A closer look at their education reveals a different story. .

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from the moment of his birth to his death. The minute a child was born it was examined by state officials. If the baby was strong and healthy, it was given back to its mother, but a sick or crippled child was mercilessly killed. The healthy child stayed by its mother until the age of seven when it was given entirely into the hands of the state. Here the youngsters were grouped together into “packs” over which a “paidonomos,” superintendent of boys, ruled with an iron hand. Their food consisted of barley meal, cheese, and black broth. On holidays a little meat was added. They had to go l)arefoot all the year round, be satisfied with one garment for winter and summer. Their bed was a bundle of reeds. All this was part of the Spartan boy’s school.

At the head of every class was a young man over twenty who was called “eircn，” which only means that the youth had reached the age of twenty and was qualified to be at the head of a group of boys. The first thing the Spartan schoolboy had to learn was discipline. The “eiren’s” word was law. There was no back talk.

Pity the boy who would venture to snub the “eiren” or the “paidoliomos.” He did not get anything as easy as sweeping" a few rooms or window washing. A good Hogging was his punishment. For good measure he was sent out to get supper for the “pack.” This was not easy. If they wanted chicken or duck, they had to steal them. If a boy returned empty handed or if he was caught steal­ ing, he would get another flogging for his clumsiness.

Much time was spent in a gymnasium. Here the boys boxed, wrestled, swam, and did their setting-up exercises. Everybody had to be doing something. Idlers were pushed out with not too gentle a shove. In the gymnasium was a sign which read: “Strip or with­ draw.” This was strictly enforced.

Fighting was always encouraged. If the young boys did not begin a fight by themselves, the older ones wouldd stir up a quarrel among them. Somebody got a black eye or bloody nose every day.

At times organized battles took place on a field encircled by a stream. Over this stream were two bridges. The “captains” of the opposing sides would draw lots for the best bridge. Then each would rush over its bridge to the field. Now the fun began. It was just a little worse than our football. They would kick, bite, pull each other's hair, even tear one another’s eyes out to drive the opposing side into the water.

Oh, yes, they had examinations, too. These usually took place at mealtime when the entire “pack was together. The boys were called upon to answer questions such as: “Who is the best of the grown-ups ? What is the best hold to keep a man down ? Which is the more effective, a right or a left hook?” Their answers had 292

to be short and concise. If they failed to answer a question, they were punished by a bite in the hand.

In spite of all their fighting these Spartan youths had maidenlike manners. They kept their hands under their coat, spoke only when spoken to and then so softly that they could hardly be heard.

They were as modest as girls. Very seldom would they look up from the floor.

When a young man had reached the age of twenty he entered a camp where he remained until his sixtieth birthday. At thirty he was classed as a man, became a member of the highest class of society, the “Honioioi,” or equals, and was allowed to marry, The girls were by no means neglected. Their mode of life was similar to that of the boys. Their training, however, consisted merely of gymnastic exercises. Some of the S])artan women were famous for their health and beauty.

Education at Athens was different from that at Sparta. Athen­ ian education was a symmetrical development of body, mind, and imagination, a training of character and good taste. It was for boys only, girls were kept at home. For the boys of Athens there was a primary and a secondary course which consisted of reading, writing, arithmetic, learning to play the seven-stringed lyre, sing­ ing of songs of lyric poets, which they incidentally had to learn 1)y heart. However, most of the time was spent in developing their bodies in a scientific wa.y by wrestling, l^oxing, jumping, and throw­ ing the discus and the javelin.

From fourteen to eighteen they took the secondary course.

Here they studied elaborate mathematics, literary criticism, nat­ ural history, science, laws and constitution, and philosophy, Between the ages of eighteen and twenty they received their military training. This course was later dropped and supplanted by a higher course of philosophy and literature.

Each wealthy Athenian boy had his “paidagogos，” a boy lead­ er, who would not lose sight of him for a minute. The apaidagogos” or pedagogue was a mixture of nurse, footman, chaperon, and tutor to the boy. Some were good, some bad. Occasionally one \vould find a boy of high rank with a bad accent in his speech, or slightly intoxicated on some festival clay, because of the negligence of the tutor.

Girls in Athens lived in seclusion. Their names were not men­ tioned among the boys either for praise or blame. The place for the Athenian girl was in the house. She grew up to be a regular “Hausfrau” skilled in weaving, cooking, and household manage­ ment.

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J. C. Dahlke.

THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES One hundred and fifty-four years have passed since our fore­ fathers declared their independence to the rest of the world. Not until thirteen years later did they have a stable form of government. The Declaration of Independence was made in 1776, and the United States Constitution did not go into effect until 1789. What was that group of commonwealths in the meantime: One nation or thirteen ? They were like a mass of stone and sand without the cement to bind them into a unified reality. During this time the Continental Congress was in power, but it governed simply by com­ mon consent; that is, it had only such powers as the states gave it.

About 1785 it became evident that there must be a stronger bond to bind the states together in order to keep them from falling per­ manently apart. To prevent this catastrophe and to revise the Ar­ ticles of Confederation, which gave the Continental Congress such few powers, a national convention was called in Philadelphia.

From May until September this convention sat behind closed doors in Iivlependence Hall. Fifty-five of the best men of the states were there, The men resolved to make a new Constitution instead of amending the old articles. This was a bold step, because the states had told them only to amend the Articles of Confedera­ tion. Hence some of the delegates feared that the states would reject their work, hut the majority stood by Washington in his asser­ tion, “If to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disap­ prove, how can we afterwards defend our 'vork.” So these far see­ ing men prepared our great Constitution, which was later ratified by the states.

The constitution provides for a legislative department, which consists of the House of Representatives and Senate; an executive department, which consists of the president and his cabinet; and a judicial department, which consists of federal judges and courts.

The legislative, executive, and judicial functions of govern­ ment were vested in three separate bodies of public servants in ortier that each might be a check upon or a counterbalance against the others. The Constitution makers greatly feared the tyranny of a king, after they had succeeded in throwing- off the yoke of George III, and they considered the principle of checked powers essential to the protection of individual liberty, Therefore the president was given the veto power over legislation passed by Con­ gress ;Congress was given the right to impeach the president, 294

judges, and other civil officers: and the courts were allowed the power to declare unconstitutional all laws enacted by Congress and signed by the president.

As time goes on and opinions change, our Constitution can be amended so that it will suit the needs of the time. Whenever cer­ tain great questions arose like slavery, women's suffrage, prohibi­ tion, etc., our flexible constitution allowed us to make amendments to meet our needs or changes in opinions. Some seem to be for the better; others for the worse. 丁iius our government can always be keeping up with changing conditions and changing opinions on great questions.

The system of federal government in the United States retains the advantages of local self-government for the states as well as secures the strength which results from union. For instance, if the peace of Texas should be disturbed by Mexican invaders, Texas could depend upon the assistance of the remaining forty-seven states for defense. .

During these one hundred and fifty-four years, how many na­ tions have changed their forms of government! Dynasties have sunk into oblivion; war has changed and decreased the possessions of many nations. New nations have arisen; others have fallen; and others have merged together like our trusts and corporations.

Europe has been a continual scene of war and confusion. Revolts, anarchy, and almost every form of government have been tried there.

Europe is still a huge doubt and is far from being stable. People fear that war may break out any minute. The Far East has also been a scene of continual disturbances. It is like a huge erupting volcano, a scene of continual upheavals. The government of Eng­ land has changed from a powerful oligarchy to a republic, which possesses the outward forms of monarchy but the inward demo­ cratic reality. During these same one hundred and fifty-four years, France has been stubbornly aiming to be a republic. It was foiled so often that it seemed as if its aim was only a distant mirage.

Three times it obtained its desired goal, and after the third attempt it has finally preserved it, after having sunk back into military despotism, monarchy, and imperialism between the first and third republic.

Through all these changes, upheavals, and revolutions, this vanguard of all nations still stands in the fore. None of its essen­ tial features has changed, but its significance has sunk deeper into the hearts of the citizens, who are conscious of their duties and privileges. This nation has prospered and has grown from a little helpless child into a huge brotherly man. Its resources are an object of envy to almost all nations.

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Now there are forty-eight states and over one hundred and twenty million people. But the great law embodied in the constitution means the same now as it did when the states were few and the population was small. As long as the people do not lose interest in their wonderful heritage and observe their duties and privileges as citizens, it will always be, as Lincoln dynamically expressed it, “A government of the people, by the people, and for the people.”

Here every man is a king, czar, or emperor with his home as a little kingdom.

I hope I did make the impression that the Constitution alone has made this country, the great country, that it is. It is only an instrument that God has chosen to 1)less a chosen people. It was his plan to make this country what, it is, and if he had not willed it so, neither our Constitution nor any other instrument on earth could have placed our com itry in the fore, for in Romans chapter thirteen, verse one there is written, “Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God : The powers that be are ordained of God.” According to this verse, the Consti­ tution is only an instrument of God used by Him to bless or punish as He see fit.

Albert Sippert.

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DORMITORY ETHICS Every organization of mankind has its ethics, either codified or uncodified. There are civil, gubernatorial，religious, social, high­ way, fraternal, parental, and other mentionaljle ethics in the various phases of man’s activities. Ethics is an essential feature of every organization, and many uncodified practices of ethics are respected by the mere consideration of one man for another.

Are students excepted from ethics? Are they so privileged that no consideration for ethics is necessary ? According to the actions and indifference that some students show to their fellow students, it almost seems to be so. A dormitory houses a large group of students under a supervising head; yet among themselves they should develop some code of ethics toward each other. But all in all it seems as if certain students do not believe in an ethical code. How often must a student suffer from the boorish actions of his fellow students! For instance, shouldn't a boy that is study­ ing earnestly receive some consideration from his neighbors ? Ma)rbe he has a very difficult day ahead of him or even a very difficult week ? Every minute that he can spare is necessary for him to ac­ complish his work. A roommate and a few of his friends may burst into his room and begin a boisterous conversation without even giving the slightest consideration to the nerves of the studious person, whose thoughts may be concentrated on some difficult sub­ ject that required unbroken silence. Even if it is in the afternoon 297

when there are no study hours, shouldn't the rights of that student be respected, if for no other reason than mere courtesy? In some adjoining room a group of students may enter into a game bf. "transom" ball by trying to throw a tennisball through the tran­ som. In this way not only the students in the adjoining rooms are disturbed but also those that are a floor below. Our rooms are not sound proof; therefore one should take into consideration every disturbance that he may cause. We have a very good gymnasium, and acording to the definition of “gymnasium” it is a building des­ ignated for athletic purposes. Why not use the proper building for athletic exertions ? It certainly would please the majority of students. Another student may get a “bright” idea and begin strumming on a banjo, uke, guitar, etc., without the slightest thought to his roommate. May1)e the student is too timid to tell his tormentor that the racket is making him mentally uneasy and almost upsetting him.

Do not think that these unethical characteristics of some students can be solved by calling a student-body meeting to draw up a code of ethics. The solution is much simnler. Remember that you are also a student and that there are certain actions of your fellow students that you dislike and that may even cause you uneasiness. Observe your own actions; maybe you are committing the same faults unconsciously. Why not try to be fair and square with your fellow students ? Boorishness and discourtesy have never been appreciated.

Albert Sippert.

THE STUDY OF PHILOSOPHY, HISTORY, AND THE CLASSICS IN GERMAN The study of the classics in an almost foreign language has been a much debated question for the past five years. The majority school in the past three years of the studenrs that enrolled at has a very meager knowledge of German, some in fact lack the fundamentals of the language entirely. Yet these students in their college career are required to study the classics and almost every other subject through the medium of the German language. The idea of the institution to promote the study of German and hence to turn out students well-versed in German is a very good ideal, but on the other hand absolutely impracticable. The whole system results in students riot knowing either the subject studied in German, nor the German language, which is used as the medium, From my own experience I can truly say that it has been im­ possible for me to do justice to either subject. When I enrolled as 298

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Likewise the student of the college department is required to study logic, phychology, history, and religion also in German.

The student is supposed to understand the language so well, that he can express himself in any subject. The terms dealing with logic and psychology are sufficiently difficult for the average American student in his mother tongue without attempting to acquire a gen­ eral knowledge of these subjects in the German language. The language used by all the students is the English language exclu­ sively. If one were askecl to explain a certain logical expression lie would find himself at a complete loss because of the unwieldy German terms. It would be absolutely impossible for him to explain the term in English, because most of the German idiomatic expressions are very difficult to translate. _ Another very good reason for dropping the German language as a medium for the classics arid also for other subjects lies in the fact that many students continue their education at some university, where upon entrance only a reading knowledge of the Greman language is required. I know of an instance where one of our best graduates in recent years entered a certain university and soon found that the extensive work in German in the field of other sub­ jects had been all for naught. This particular student then had to build from the foundation upwards clue to the lack of English idioms. Our school today, with the exception of a few other col­ leges, is the only school that requires such extensive work in Ger­ man. In a few years the German language will no longer hold that preeminent place in our school and even not in our church. It is true, we do not wish to see the German language perish completely, because all the writings of our church are written in that language. Dr. Luther, the man who reformed the church, w$s a German, and in order to have a clear conception of the conditions prevailing in our church at his time, and also in order to be able to judge the conditions of our time in a logical, but Christian man­ ner, we must be able to read Dr. Luther’s works in the original.

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CRITICS An article in one of our late numbers prompted me to write this. I shall not mention what the criticism was, but it showed utter lack of knowledge on the part of the critic as to the subject he ridiculously criticised. The word critic is derived from the Greek word meaning “able to discuss.” That means that the critic is one who is skilled in that particular phase in which he is inter­ ested and then passes a judgment. Of course, we are all more or .less rash in some of our verdicts, but before we put them into print, let’s have thought them out and not allow them to be read as veri­ table truths. It would be a wise idea to stay with the age old, but still good, adage: “Schuster, blcib bci deinem Leisten!”

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In the Greek language the word “museum was applied even to groves in which the Muses were worshiped. Later on the word was used to designate places of study, schools, lecture-halls, and libraries. Museums were the clubs of the old philosophers-. But since a place of study must have material with which one can busy oneself, it was found advisable to gather such material, and it was for this reason that the Museum of Alexandria was founded by the Ptoleniys ii、296给.C. This museum was housed in a part of the royal palace in Alexandria. It was mainly a library, in which thousands of books were open to the use of men interested in all branches of learning. Men of science and letters from all parts of the Roman world gathered here and formed the first great univer­ sity. Later on other things were put into this museum, such as works of art, natural specimens, and curiosities, which were placed there either for preservation, for study, or for exhibition.

At the present time there are very many museums in existence.

Some are known the world over, others are of interest to certain people only. Nearly every State, every large city, and every university has its museum or collection of curiosities. Many people 300

have gone so far as to make private collections. The thought probable never occured to some that every college has a museum of its own, and a very unique one at that. Every college dormitory is more or less a temple of the Muses. It is the cradle of many libraries, the study of philosophers and critics, a repository for many curio collections. In looking over these articles one can see the various stages of a student s life. The younger boys collect harmless things like stamps, matchboxes, posters, plants, or insects.

Others litter their rooms with pipes, cigarette tins, empty bottles, hats, pennants, license plates, “easy”-chairs，paintings, photos, lampshades, initiation paddles, and many other things. One stu­ dent has a loving cdp, another a set of steins, a mounted animal, or a costume from some foreign land. Each of these articles has a long story connected with it. Probably some one has a sword pre­ sented to a great-grandfather by some king, or a badge of honor his father received in a war. One of the most interesting things seen in our building lately is a female tarantula with a brood hatched last December and a wel) spun mainly 1)y the young spiders.

To those who live in the dormitory and see these things from day to day they are nothing above the ordinary. But any one not acquainted with student life would find many objects of interest in any dormitory.

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ALUMNI —We announce the wedding of the Rev. Theopil Mahnke，’26, to Miss Irene Heidtke of Milwaukee. The ceremony took place on January 18, at Milwaukee.

—Our tutor, the Rev. Werner Franzmann, ’25, sustained a rup­ tured leg muscle while playing basketball on February 5. He was confined to the sickroom for several days and is at present limping about on a cane.

—Mr. Ben Kimple, cx '27, is studying at Yale University, having earned a scholarship at the University of Nebraska.

—After the semester examinations at the University of Wisconnumber of former students visited at Northwestern. Waldemar Daslcr Acad.，28, Herbert Martin Acad. ’28, Norman Gauerke, ’28, Hugo List, J29, and Oscar Hamnien，’29, students at Madison, were seen on the campus.

—The Rev. George Kobs, ’15, was installed at Markesan on Jan­ uary 19. 一An interesting publication comes from Adelaide, Australia, where Prof. C. F. Graebher, '82, has completed twenty-five years of service as director of Concordia College. This institution ob­ served its twenty-fifth anniversary last September. It is interest­ ing to learn that there is a college so much like our own so far away. The publication of the student-body, the “Brown and Go!d,M affords an intimate picture of the life at their school. Of especial interest is the cricket team, probably because we clo not play the gam e ourselves nor do we know much about it here in America.

Gyirmastics are stressed more at the Australian school than at Northwestern; that is but to be expected since they are four or live hundred miles closer to the equator than we, and for this reason do not skate in the winter. The “Brown and dold，’’ an annual, corner out in December instead of in June: the school year, it seems, runs from the middle of February until December.

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g^mittarg Nntrs Es ist Freitag abend. Die Voegel sincl zum grossen Teil ausgeflogen, nach Hause, zu Freunden unci Bekannten, oder wer weiss wohin. Oede und leer sind die Zimmer. Selbst unser zuverlaessiger Spatz hat sich aus deni Staube gemacht. Maeuschenstill ist es in unsrer Klause. Die Gelegenheit muss man wahrnehmen.

Heute muessen die Seminary Notes werden.

Ueber den Monat Februar waere da wohl zu schreiben. Gluecklicherweise gibt es einige Ereignisse, die diesen Monat auszeichnen.

Die wollen wir kurz erzaehlen.

Etwas Ungewoehnliches war (las Geschichtsexamen am 7. Februar. Es war das das erste seiner Art in cliesem Jahre, und es erregte daher allgemeines Aufsehen. Sclion etliche Wochen vor dem E xamen, so geht das Geruecht, erhob sich zum Erstaunen seiner Zimmergenossen ein gewissenhafter Geschichtler in aller Fruehe, nachdem er sich kaum zur Ruhe gclegt hatte, und studierte eine Stunde lang vorm Fruehstueck seine Geschichte. Er hat sich durcli diese Heldentat den Ehrentitel “Red the early Riser” erworben.

Aber zur Sache. Ein Geschichtsexamen hatten wir, das wir alle mehr oder weniger glaenzencl beslanden. Bei manchen machle sich leider der Individualismus etwas stark gel tend oder gar der Indifferentismus. Aber das lag wohl in clem Zeitgeist der be­ ll andel ten Periode.

Ein weiteres Ereignis, das fuer den Monat Februar charakteristisch ist, war das Singen misers Studentenchors in der Jerusalemsgemeinde in Milwaukee. Unser Chormeister, Herr Albrecht, hatte sich alle Muehe gegeben, die Lieder einzuueben. Schone vor Weihnachten lag eine Einladung vor, der wir erst jetzt Folge leisten konnten. Wir sangen im deutschen und im englischen Gottesdienst. Herr Professor Pieper predigte im deutschen Gottesdienst ueber den 130. Psalm.

“Es hat alles sein Gutes,” wuerde Herr Reuter sagen. So auch unser Singen in Milwaukee. Einerseits haben wir mehr Lust zu ueben, wenn wir ein bestimmtes Ziel verfolgen. Anderseits bietet eine Einladung uns Gelegenheit unter die Leute zu kommen. Das ist ja fuer einen theologischen Studenten in gewissem Masse so noetig und segensreich wie das Studieren selbst. Wer nicht seine Zeit kennt und mit den Leuten umgehen kann, die er spaeter im Amt bedienen soil, wie soil der ein treuer Haushalter werden, der einem jeden seine Gebuehr gibt ? Diese Faehigkeit, mit Leuten umzugehen, muss man wie so manches in der Jugend lernen. Auch hat 303

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unser Singen den weiteren Vorteil, class die Leute lernen, sich fuer clem alten Adam das Handwerk verderben.

Wir haben unter uns auch faule Leute, wenn man sie so nennen darf. Wenigstens gibt es eine Anzahl Studenten, die ganz besonders menschlich sincl, die einen alten Adam an sich haben, der sich darin kundtut, class sie sich nicht zum Fruehstueck aus dem Bett machen koennen. Nun aber hat unsere Matrone eine Weise gefunden, einmal die Woche cliesen alten Adam zu uebervvinden.

Sie laesst uns jetzt jeden Dienstagmorgen Pfannkuchen auftragen.

Und siehe da, unsere Langschlaefer sind alle am Tisch. Das heisst dem alten Adam das Hand werk verderben.

Vor kurzem wurde uns ein Piano geschenkt. Herr Voigt hatte zu Hause eins, das er entbehren konnte, und hot es uns an. Seitdem haben wir uns re Abendandacht* im Esssaal, da wir ein Piano dorthin bringen konnten.

Da wir ei)en von Moebeln reden, wollen wir uns herausnehmen, auf den Mangel in dieser Bezieliung in unserm lounge room aufmerksam zu machen. Das Jahr neigt sich bereits dem Ende zu, die Wintermonate sind bald vorueber, und unser lounge room, der einzige Saal, in clem wir uns gemuetlich und gemeinschaftlich unterhalten koennen, ist nnr duerftig aiusgestattet. Falls einer dies liest, der das Herz tuer uns auf dem rechten Fleck hat und uns gerne sein Wohlwollen mit der Tat beweisen moechte, der melde sich bei Zeitcn und am rcchten Ort. Doch wollen wir nicht vergessen zu erwaehnen, dass jemand uns bereits ein davenport, etliche Stuehle und Teppische geschenkt hat, so dass eine Ecke cles lounge room schon wohnbar ist. Dafuer sind wir clankbar.

Es waere wohl kaum ein Jahrgang der Seminary Notes vollstaendig, wenn man nicht ueber kurz oder lang von den Schnurrbaerten reden wuerde. Das haben wir bis jetzt unterlassen, weil wir uns vorgenommen hatten, die Schnurrbaerte aus dem Black and Red herauszuhalten. Auch hatte nur hie und da einer eine solche Monstrositaet veruebt. Doch in den letzten Wochen haben die Schnurrbaerte verheerend um sich gegriffen. Es ist eine Schnurrbartepideniie unter uns ausgebrochen- Es waere vielleicht geraten, wenn wir uns alle impfen lassen wuerden. Sonst haben wir noch bald alle das ekelhafte Gewaechs unter der Nase.

In einer solch gefaehrlichen Zeit kann unser baby-face Thiele sich gluecklich schaetzen. Er meldet mit grossem Stolz, dass er schon einmal die Woche rasiert, obâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s noetig ist oder nicht.

Kurze Nachrichten cles letzten Monats: Herr Pastor Shiley hat uns anfangs Februar beim Abendl^rot ueberrascht.

Herr Vogel behauptet tobogganing sei in der Tat ein anregender erbaulicher Sport.

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Herr Haar Cedarburgiensis bringt es immer noch fertig, ohne Wissen seiner Zimmergenossen, auf ganz unerklaerliche, mysterioese Weise, wie ein deus ex machina, das Seminar zu verlassen.

Herr Blume ist Vakanzpastor in Kenosha.

Die Herren Hellbusch und Kuehl wurden trotz unverschaemten oeffentlichen Vergehens vom bachelors' club freigesprochen.

“Unsinn, du siegst,. .

Vor einiger Zeit wurde in der Isagogik (lie Frage aufgeworfen, wann am fruehen Morgen der Hahn zum ersten Mai kraehe. Es war auffallend, dass Herr Norbert Paustian, Herr Westendorf und ein Unbekannter diese Frage aus clem Stegreif beantworten konnten. Die Erfahrung bleibt cloch der beste Lehrmeister.

Ein paar Worte waeren noch ueber basketball zu sagen. Wir haben zwei teams, die ungefaehr einmal (lie Woche sich mit fremden Mannschaften messen. Wir hahen bis jetzt eine Anzahi Niederlagen, aber auch ebensoviele Siege zu verzeichnen. Es waere zu weitlaeufig, die einzelnen Spiele aufzuzaehlcn und auch nur fluechtig zu beschreiben. Doch waere zu’ bemerken, dass wir recht stolz sind auf unsre Turnhalle. Wir haben l)ei manchen Spielen, wie z. B. gegen die lutherische Hochschule, eine ganze Reihe Besucher aus Milwaukee, die ganz gut in der Halle Platz finden. Gegenwaertig sind wir gespannt auf das Spiel gegen Northwestern, das am 21. Februar hier zum Austrag kommt.

Wir halten auch immer noch (lie Einrichtung der intramural teams aufrecht. Was clen Spielen an klassischem basketball mangelt, waegen sie auf an Sturm und Kampfeseifer. Wenn man aus so einem Spiel mit heiler Haut hervorgeht, kann man sich gluecklich preisen.

Wer sich nicht auf dem basketball floor betaetigt, ha.t sonst Gelegenheit, sich das Genick zu brechen. Am Berg hinter der Aula haben etliche begeisterte Studenten ein toboggan Bahn errichtet.

Am Fusse des Berges, wo die Bahn ueber den Bach gelegt ist, gibt’s einen jaehen Absatz, so dass die Waghaelse auf dem toboggan in clie Luft geschleudert werden und mit aller Wucht wieder auf die Erde zurueck kommen. Trotz wunder Knochen und steifer Ruecken gibt es immer wieder welche, die sich der Gefahr aussetzen.

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响况^ J The Northwestern College Literary and Dramatic Societies Announce

Ferencz; Molnar’s Romantic Comedy Success “THE SWAN IN THE AUDITORIUM May 23, 1930 Remember “She Stoops to Conquer"' and i(The Shrew'

By the time this appears in print we will all have recovered from the hectic semester exam week. Those who had made solemn resolutions to devote considerably more time to study because of poor marks will have forgotten them. For some the week was a nightmare, for others a welcome vacation. Statisticians would find ample opportunity for compiling data on the number of cigarettes consumed and the quantity of coffee, tea and cocoa brewed during the period of stress and strain. Since our scholastic salvation lies ahead, it does not pay to think too much of the past, except as an example according to which to regulate our future endeavors. The 306

various room and table “set-ups” and “feeds,” at least, were a pleas­ ant aftermath; especially to those fortunate enou&h not to have high or low averages.

The second important occurence of the past month was the completion of Dr. Oskar Hagen's series of six Art lectures. We are including a brief resume of the last five, the first having been in­ cluded in the previous issue.

The second lecture treated of the forerunners of Duerer, Gruenewald, and Holbein. These artists of the fourteenth and fif­ teenth centuries were not opposed to nature as their predecessors had been. They held that landscape, light and space should be represented as they actually were. Symbolism and great decora­ tion began to lose their influence. With the inception of landscape painting, crude as it was, more attention was paid to detail. In portraiture the individual took on a greater importance, though there was a lack of emotion. Towards the close of the period realism became so strong that form sank entirely into the back­ ground.

The third lecture was on Duerer. His importance consisted in the fact that he created one unified northern school which entered into competition with the southern or Italian group. He gave his people ideals of art on which they coulcl fall without the inference of southern art concepts. His was a narrative intimate style in which clarity and detail were stressed in an unpretentious manner.

He emphasized the emotional side in his works and spoke in lines, and in terms of light.

The following speech was devoted to Gruenewald, the great colorist of German painting. This painter was not as many-sided as Duerer, but concentrated on sacred stories. He shunned the ideal of form for that of clarity. Idealism had about, by that time, completely disappeared. He was unsparing of the body and the head in his representations. To obtain the rhythm and mood of the picture he portrayed things in an extraordinary way； for ex­ ample, figures were not always in proportion to each other. This was done deliberately for the sake of expression. He found rhythm not only in movement, but also in the use of his colors. Though differing from Duerer in feeling and in ideas of the purpose of art, these two, nevertheless, he united mutually in visual clarity..

Holbein, the next subject, completed Duerer's attempt to raise German art. His forte was plastic clarity and realism. Cool cal­ culation is evident in his compositions. His was the genius of a great stage director. He never sacrificed subject and form for emotional content. In his pictures diagonals, horizontals, curves and angles were used extensively to unite the details. Diverging from Duerer in portraits, he did not load and charge the lines with 307

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In his last appearance, Dr. Hagen treated with the “little mas­ ters” of German art. These are so termed because of the size of their paintings, not because of the quality. They are Lucas Cranach, Hans Baldung and Albrecht Altdorfer. These later German painters wished to indicate their message in human emotion. It was just in this that Gothic expression was opposed to the Italian. They manifested the atmosphere or “Stimmungf” of their work, with the rules of composition only serving to achieve this end. Because the other artists failed in this, the Gothic and German art was severely criticised by them in different countries and periods. This element led German art to moods and manners alien to southern art. Now landscape and light took a predominant position. Landscape meant everything because mood meant everything. Gothic Art wants to be experienced by vision, not touch, so it expressed the atmos­ pheric mood without interrupting lines in the fusion of colors. They finally came to think more of light and dark spots than of tangible lines, and an immaterial expression resulted. In some paintings individual figure is distinguishable.

The literary program for Saturday, January the eighteenth, was arranged 1)y Mr. Fleischer. Professor Sitz was critic.

The first speaker to appear was Mr. Gatz, who had selected <4Mephistoles and Satan, an original speech, as his topic. Mr. Rossin next recited the poem, “Leitfaden fuer Heirathslustige.

This was followed by “Die Wacht am Rhein” and several other musical selections, interspersed with humorous skit, played by the German band under the musical and technical supervision of its able director, Mr. A. C Hellmann.

Mr. Naumann’s original German speech, “Die Flagellanten,” gave an insight into the life during the middle ages. Mr. H. A’leyer’s musical talk (at least we’ll call it that for lack of a better term), “Sing Hit, was based on a book of musical selections of that name written by the late Prof. Reuter of New Ulm. The last number was a play. Missed lines and mediocre acting tended to lessen the interest of the audience. The vehicle was “The Killer,” by Albert Cowles. The cast included Mr. Schwerin as the 308

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The next literary was presented by the Philomathean with Mr. Fritze as master of ceremonies. The Chorus opened the evening with two selections, Prothero’s “Song of the Marching Men” and Wick’s “Happy are we tonight.” The start of the second of these was faulty, due to ill timing.. Mr. Schoeneck gave a good acount of his elocutionary abilities in his recitation of J. R. Lowell’s poem, “The Courtin’.” Mr. Peters followed with an exhibition of his technique at the piano. Mr. Rutz explained several technical phases of poetry in his speech, “A Few Thoughts on Poetry.” This was followed by a humorous play, “A Stolen Prince,” the brain child of D. Totheroh. Professor Kiessling directed the play.

■ The characters: ............Albert Sippert Long Fo, little son of royal cook---- Wing Lee, his little sister....................... Miss Gertrude Wendland Miss Eugenia Meyer The Royal Nurse.......................... ......... ______ Adelbert Heilman Hi Lee, a poor, but honest fisherman Li Mo, his wife...................................... ........ Miss Lillian Trapp Joy, the little prince who was stolen__ ...................Oscar Siegler The Executioner__________________ ............Rudolph Schwarz .Henry Baumann The Chorus______________ _______ ___ Lester Bruns Two Soldiers of the Royal Court .

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On the fifth of February the Phi Gamma Rho presented an un­ usual and singular type of program. Mr. J. Meyer, the master of ceremonies, arranged one in which all but one number were a series of slides. The slides dealt with Wisconsin and its beautiful scen­ ery- Northeastern, southeastern and central western (along the Mississippi and St. Croix rivers) portions of Wisconsin were shown and explained by the lecturers, all three of whom spoke loudly and clearly and introduced enough humor to somewhat dispell the monotony. The lecturers were the Messrs. Armin H. Schultz, Dahlke and L. Bleichwehl. Miss Nienow gave a vocal solo, “Wake Up/* which demanded an encore. Lastly, the audience was asked to sing “America.”

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February was very well arranged and was presented to the largest audience of the year. The band rendered two selections, ^Lustspier* by Kelar-Belar and “Stars and Stripes Forever” by Sousa.

Most of us have heard the Marine band pplay the latter, and some have heard Sousa’s banc! play it. That is why, although it was well done, there seemed to be something lacking, a certain snappiness, which becomes apparent when a comparison is made with either of these bands. Mr. Fenske next gave an interesting, humor­ ous speech on •« Conversation.M Phone conversation, “bull sessions and tete-a-tete all were dissected and examined.

A clarinet solo by Mr. Warnke, student director of the College band, followed. He did Goldman’s arrangement of “My Old Ken­ tucky Home” very well. He was accompanied by Mr. P. Schliesser at the piano. ‘The End of the Moonlight March” served as en­ core. Mr. L. Schliesser gave the history of St. Valentine’s day and its meaning in the various stages of history.

To close, a play by Professor Kiessling was given. Entitled “The Faraway Fiancee or “The Long-distance Lovers,” it treated of an American millionaire who had fallen in love with a German girl while visiting- that country. Fair enough. Due to tlie simi­ larity in i names between this girl and her sister, namely Elsa and Elsbeth, he wrote to the older daughter of Herr Bottmar. After a year in America he returns to claim the girl he has seen but two days, for their relationship had ripened to love through correspondence. The discovery of the mistaken identities of the girls and the subsequent mysterious marriage in which everything turns out quite right take up the greater portion of the action.The cast gave some of the best acting seen here this season on our literary programs. The love-sick Kollman and the domineer­ ing, temperamental Elsbeth were the best of the group of six good actors. Those having parts in the presentation were: Herr Bottmar .............................

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Contrary to expectations the college publicatiorTs of the last month contained a wealth of really good editorials. There was, of course, the usual editorial with a variety of notions, sage and otherwise, as to the merits of final examination week. Perhaps the exanimation week had the benefit that it brought home to some of the writers of the editorials the fact that they coulcl still think if they wanted to—but that is only a supposition. Take the editorial.

The ‘:He-Ed” in the Red and White of Immanuel Lutheran Col­ lege. It considers the expression, “Boys will be boys in a new and interesting light. At the same time the writer believes that the goal of the ideal “He-Ed” will never be attained.

The “High Hat” by the editor of Stoutonia treats an old prob­ lem that is found on almost every campus—snobbishness on the part of some students and an inferiority complex on the part of others. He stresses the fact that at his school (and who knows at how many others) perhaps nine-tenths of the students are from small towns and that, if they don’t know yet that they are but “one infinitesimal unit on an infinitesimal earth,” it is high time they found it out and acted accordingly.

In the January 21 issue of the Capital Chimes our attention was aroused by several editorials. The article “Why Not” which gives some good reasons for specializing in a certain subject of learning is of such quality that, although it is not entirely convincing：, it cer­ tainly causes one to think seriously about the matter. We heartily agree with the writer of “The Noble Experiment,” especially since 311

we received on the same day a copy of The American Issue in which the fallacious and intolerant ideas of the drys are set forth.

Perhaps the outstanding editorial of the issue is the article, “One who quit—and quitters.”

I should advise every one who has the chance to read the edi­ torial “College Spirit or the Spirit of the College” in the Milton College Review. If the article really expresses the ideals and sent­ iments of Milton, then I should say: “Good for Milton, they’ve got the night idea.” The article is especially interesting in so far as it depicts the sad state of athletics at Milton. Then read what Milton feels about it and then think of conditions up here. Perhaps by that time things will begin to dawn on you and—well, read the article.

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In the second half, however, Northwestern rested upon its laurels for approximately five minutes,' while the Milton quintet steadily whittled the margin down to five points. Finally the Black and Reds began to function for a few minutes, ran up a neat lead that stifled all of Milton’s hopes of victory. For the remaining time, however, Northwestern laid down the weapons of war and did practically nothing.

Milton had all their strength concentrated in that flashy guard, Stevens, who without doubt laid claims to high honors of the night by his fast floorwork and as high scorer of the game with 12 points to his credit. Captain Kettenacker and Harke played a spirited game for Northwestern.

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•_1 0 0 Heyn, c.— 5 7 12 13 5 11 Referee, Kumerew (Stout Institute). ; : NORTHWESTERN 37; SEMINARY 21 Watertown, February ,1. After Coach Franzmann's fighting aces had defeated the Seminary seconds 17-15, Northwestern also downed Coach Voeck’s squad. Both teams entered the fight on fairly even terms, advancing the ball quickly, but cautiously. Harke scored first with a lift shot, but then Hoenecke repeated the little act for the visitors on the next play and tied the score. In the last few minutes of the half the Black and Reds ran wild, acquiring a 17-8 lead at midway.

In the second period, however, the Black and Reds still played ^ put nevertheless held an undisputed lead throughout.

At first the visitors, dreading defeat at the hands of former schoolmat^s, mustered up enough strength to check Northwestern, but not for long, for seeing the victory unquestionably in the hands of the locals the Seminary weakened, while Northwestern proceeded to finish the game with a spectacular scoring exhibition. North313

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NORTHWESTERN 22; WHITEWATER NORMAL 24 Watertown. February 3. Northwestern allowed this thrilling game to slip out of their hands, after they in reality had won it.

To say it was an exciting, nerve racking contest throughout is put­ ting it mildly. Nortliwcstcrn opened the scoring battle with a pot shot. Then Whitewater tied the score, forged ahead, but soon trailed behind the scrappy Black and Reds 17-10 at the half. Even now it was very apparent that the result of this contest was undelerniincd, that the opponents could play a better style of ball.

With the opening of the second half, the Normalites entered the game just as speedy as in the previous minutes, but found the loop several times in rapid succession to mark up an 18-18 tie after only five minutes had passed. It was fast work. Northwestern no weallecl time out to curb the opponent's scoring streak and in fact did so. "J'lio Black and Reds found a field goal to break the tie, but soon thereafter that uneasy tie was back again. Three times Northwestern took a two point lead in the last minutes of play, only to be placed on equal scoring terms soon after. Approxi­ mately three times before the final gun, the Normalites broke the tie with a pot shot and held this lead by a beautiful stalling game, which gave an exciting close to an even more gripping contest.

Jaycox and Schwager gained much credit for the Normalites, while Pless and Captain Kettenacker, combing in many startling plays, exhibited excellent floor'vork and stood high in the local scoring list.

The preliminary started out to 1)e a close game between the seconds and preps, but the seconds found it impossible to find the loop after six meagre points and trailed throughout. 21-6 was the final score.

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NORTHWESTERN 27; CONCORDIA 25 Milwaukee, February 8. Coach Kleinke’s squads snatched a thrilling victory from Concordia College by a small lead of two points, which were so important in the previous contest. In the early stages of the game, Northwestern quickly garnered a very comfortable lead. It in every respect looked as if the Black and Reds would have an easy time administering a very decisive defeat, but Concordia closed the gap considerably soon after. Then the Northwestern quintet again came through with several baskets and held a seven point margin 21-14 at the sound of the first gun.

Concordia, however, staged a powerful comeback in the sec­ ond half holding the Black and Reds at a standstill and very successfully forging ahead after only seven minutes of play. Concordia relied chiefly on their long underhand shots and found the loop freely. Not yet was Northwestern able to start functioning.

Concordia on the other hand steadily gained the long end of the fight and led 25-21 for a time. Very timely Martin and Harke, Northwestern forwards, each scored a free throw and then Harke dropped a lift shot through the net bringing the game to a 25-25 tie, which remained unbroken for five exciting minutes, Both teams, rushed and overanxious to bag the game, missed shots, which ordinarily would have been sucessful. With only two min­ utes remaining, Martin whipped an overhead shot through the net, which spelled victory for Northwestern.

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NORTHWESTERN 42; LAKE FOREST 38 Lake Forest, February 17. Northwestern took a brilliant vic­ tory from the fast Lake Forest quintet on the Chicagoans’ home court and required an overtime period to accomplish it. Lake For­ est presented an extremely fast offense and steadily compiled count after count to lead 22 to 10 at midway. It was fast work that took the Black and Reds off balance. In addition to the large margin in the score, Captain Kettenacker left the floor on personals in the early stage of the game.

In the second half Northwestern came back with an offense fully as lively as Lake Forest’s, which snatched victory out of ap­ parent defeat. For the greater portion of the final period, both teams fought an even battle. Lake Forest still had an eleven-point lead chalked up against the Black and Reds, when with ten minutes to play Northwestern, led by Harke, unleashed an unprecedented scoring attack. After the Black and Reds had garnered five bas­ kets in very rapid sucession the margin in the count was whittled clown to one small point. After Lake Forest had now taken time out to halt the scoring storm, Harke dropped another lift shot through the net to place Northwestern in a one-point lead for the first time in the entire contest, and now only two minutes remained.

In this time, however, On% Lake Forest center, scored a free-throw to tie the count. At the sound of the final gun the score still rested at 38-38.

These next five minutes were a game in themselves. Both teams played a very close game and threatened frequently, After three minutes had already elapsed Pless whipped a beautiful long shot through the net to break the tie. Immediately thereafter a pot shot by Rutz, forward, placed the victory firmly in the hands of Northwestern.

To point out any number of men on either team as heroes of the night would be very unfair, for every man that entered the court during this contest gave his very best. It was an unusual exhibition of masterful play on the part of both teams.

FG FT P Northwestern (42) FG FT P Lake Forest (38) •_„0 0 2 Harke, f 9 1 0 Sabosky, f — Rutz, f ..

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Heyn, c .0 0 1 Raasch, g 0 15 8 15 17 8 14 Referee, Glick (Chicago) ; umpire, Mohr (Chicago).

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Watertown, February 12. Northwestern took another victory from the Milton quintet, which, however, was lamed considerably by the loss of their guard, Stevens, who figured so strongly in the previous meeting of these two teams. In the first ten minutes the Northwestern first string men ran up a large count before the vis­ itors scored and then gave way to the substitutes until the close of the period. At the half the Black and Reds held a 27-9 lead.

With the opening of the second period the regulars again rcsumed play, but the reserves were again substituted into action af­ ter ten minutes had elapsed. Thus the second half was in all re­ spects a mere repetition of the first. Although the game was very unevenly contested and therefore unexciting，yet the good team­ work and clearcut plays of the Black and Reds stimulated a great deal of interest for the local fans. In spite of the fact that Milton suffered a crushing defeat, yet they surely took it with a smile.

The preps also did not have much of a battle in triumphing over the Winnebago* Academy of Fond chi Lac in the preliminary.

The final count was 26-10. Kleinke was the outstanding' player for the Academy.

FG FT P FG FT P Milton— Northwestern一 .0 4 2 Harke, f ____ 3 2 Stewart (c) f 0 2 2 .•一-0 0 2 Boyd, f .......

0 2 _-.-4 0 Pless, c_____ 1 Anderson, c ............. 0 0 0 Kettenacker (c) g ….2 1 2 Wixom, g 2 Stuhr, g ___ ...4 4 1 Werfal, g 2 0 2 Schwerin, f ... i 0 1 Coon, f 2 2 0 Krueger, f ― ~3 0 1 Clark, c ... .2 0 0 Heyn, c____ 6 7 12 .0 Raasch, g .■"0 Martin, g — 0 0 Froehlich, g______ .0 0 1 22 9 12 Referee, Levis (Wisconsin).

PREPS 19; JOHNSON CREEK HIGH 18 Johnson Creek, February 7. Coach Fischer’s preps very nearly fell before the Creek quintet, the same men over whom the preps easily won in a preliminary played on the local court. The young Black and Reds trailed until a few minutes before the half, when Captain Gentz tied the score with a free throw and a field goal.

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The exams arc all over! Of course everyone knows about that, hut 've’ll pour forth the sigh once more, because it sounds good to all of us. We did sweat a great deal during that week and uttered lamentations over the dire cruelty of the fates, but no nervous 1)reakdo\vns have been reported.

Something- has been missing here of late. Most of us have noticed it, but perhaps we couldn’t say exactly what it was. Ever since the second semester began there has been something in the atmosphere that's not the same. Oh, yes! It was Kascli’s laugh.

That illustrious destinctive laugh. Indeed, Paul discontinued school right after the examinations and he took his laugh along to Toledo —unfortunately. By the way, a classmate got a letter from the departed son recently. He said he almost had a job once, blit the man didn't happen to need a clerk just then.

The first few (lavs in February were crowded with birthdays.

February 2, R. Schwarz; February 4, William and Betty Faber; February 5, L. Schliesser. The four celebrated together on one grand occasion.

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never to work the thirteenth problem in any mathematics class and not under any circumstances to do any studying on Friday. He says he observes these rules most conscientiously.

Speaking of Scotchmen, have you ever noticed that Kluess quit class basketball? One clay when the Quinta manager passed out the usual chewing gum between the halves Kluess got only half a piece. Straightway he handed in his suit to the manager.

One fair evening our tutor Mr. Franzmann held a discourse with one of our “Sophies.” “Yes, you may have permission this evening, but this is the sixth consecutive night you’ve been out.

You can’t go to literary society tomorrow evening.” Accordingly, our obedient friend took the young lady to the show instead.

It has happened! It has happened again ! That’s the second time now that Geiger the Elder went to the show. It was on a Friday evening, when the Disraeli picture was on. As the eremitical young scholar stepped down the hall with his coat and hat on ,four students fainted sheer into oblivion. A few others stand­ ing by had the presence of mind to run for some water immediately, and that averted a total disaster. Somehow, nobody seems to know who were the chaperons for the hilarious venture, and Geiger him­ self won’t tell.

Tobogganing is a cruel, rough sport. It is made for heroes and great men only. Just recently there was a fearful accident in­ volving one of our collegiates. It seems the “Steuermann” lost control, the toboggan tipped oved, and every one went his own in­ dividual way. Mr. Otto Engel got into a quarrel with a certain rock lying on the roadside. The rock won the argument at the expense of “Konk’s” left knee. The latter’s recovery was rapid and fortunate, however. The first clay after the accident he used crutches, the second day only one crutch, the third day a cane, and on the evening of the fourth day—By the way, how many times did you go out this month, Konks ? .

After the semester examinations a certain Sextaner called “Li­ lacs” went home for the week-end. He returned several days late, nursing a cold. But later on another factor gradually leaked out.

He had strongly contemplated quitting school here and attending high school in his home town. The boy is clever—you see, just at that time his high school happened to be shut down on account of measles.

Do you know “Werner’s Worries?” They are the so-called “B-squad” of collegiate basketball. And they are a rough _ wild bunch of worries at that. Whenever the coaches of A or B squads scrimmage with the players, they usually manage to play with the wild ones. But one evening the “B” coach, Mr. Franzmann, turned renegade and played against them. In a few moments he had a 319

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Quinta vanquished Sexta in a hockey game recently, 4-3. The features of the strife on that warm and slushy day were a mysteri­ ous moving of the goals during play and a pair of wet trousers by Messrs. Kuglcr and Sturm.

One of the big events of the month was the game with Con­ cordia at Milwaukee, Febrimry 8. About twenty-five students mi­ grated to the scene and nearly went wild (luring1 those last few minutes of the game. Most of the rooters and many of the players remained in Milwaukee for the week-end.

This is the Junior number and so it might be proper to give an exact definition of a Junior. “八 Junior is any one who still gets a kick out of being hall monitor.” Or: “八 Junior is he whom the preps adore.”

What every Junior knows: The numl)er of free periods on his schedule.

The glories of being monitor.

How to light a cigarette lighter—with a match.

The name and address of at least two feminines in Milwaukee.

Most of the Greek alphabet.

When dinner and supper begin. (We won’t mention breakfast.)

How to cram for exams.

What a prep is and what he’s good for.

271 dates—historical and social, assorted.

Oln-IEb Nfltps.

Who is your Valentine or whose Valentine are you? The “prep” girls had a big box, all covered with white crepe paper, red cupids and red hearts, in their room. Into this box lacy Valentines were dropped which were delivered on St. Valentine’s Day. It seems that the girls did more skating this month than ever before. Vivian Engel, at any rate, has been so tired and stiff that she had some difficulty in ascending the stairs.

Members of the famous Carbonari Club now wear big red let­ ters. The club must be prospering.

We are very proud of the fact that there is one in our midst who can sing for us. We all enjoyed Inez Nienow’s songs very much. The girls have enjoyed appearing in plays, too.

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Consolation Don’t worry if your job is small And your rewards are few; Remember that the mighty oak Was once a nut like you.

Now, if “Had” never had what “Has” has, what has “Had had? You should know!

Jack tells us in explaining his.slides that Grandad's just a big bluff. ’

Professor (on Horace) : “It isn’t always what a mail writes but what he omits that makes things interesting.”

Schwerin: “So it is with my examination papers.”

Prof.: “Womit pfluegt man?”

Sextaner: “Mit dem Aeroplane.”

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“Why didn’t Noah take two kinds of each animal into “He did, didn’t he?”

“No, they all came in pairs but the worms !”

How’s that?”

“They came in apples.”

Now that we’ve found the etymology of auditorium!

Audio—(Lat.) to hear.

Taurus—(Lat.)—. Draw your own conclusions ! 氺木氺 C. freezes his ears: “Boy，but they burn, What does it say on that Vaporub jar about frost-bites?”

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Prof.: “He said a woman could say enough in one language/* Schwerin: “Do we have to put that down?”

Prof.: “No, you’ll learn that by experience.”

Has: “I saw the statue of Venus.”

Big Shot: **Venus who?”

Has: “Venus de Milo, the lady without the arms.”

Big Shot: “Oh，yes, I know; say do you know when it comes to eating, you’ve got to hand it to her,” Big Shot writes home to his dad: “I’m one of the big guns at college.”

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Watertown, Wis.

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WATERTOWN, WIS.

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We offer a variety of the Finest Baked Goods that can be made TRY OUR “PRINCESS BREAD” The bread with the homemade flavor ALWAYS THE BEST We Recommend

“BOSTONIAN” Loeffler & Benke Floral Shop 10 Main St.

Phone 649

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Watertown, Wis.

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LITERARY— Four Sonnets--------------------------- .324 “Coming Events Cast Their Sha­ dows Before”.............................. .326 The Moslems in Spain....... ......... .. —328 Dirge (Poem)-------------------------

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Clothes Make the Man ................... .330 The German and Swiss Settlements of Pennsylvania-------------------- .332 Too Far (Poem) —一•••—--------------- .334

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THE BLACK AND RED Volume XXXIII.

Watertown, Wis” March, 1930

Number 10

Entered at the Postoflicc at Watertown. Wis., as s ccond (class matter under Act of March 3. 1879. Published monthly. Subscription, One Dollar.

FOUR SONNETS I Once God was with me, and I surely knew That He was with me: tor His massive hand Was on my stubborn neck-bone, and a strand Of His strong hair brushed past and touched me too.

And suddenly my shining soul, that stood A shaft of stubborn steel against the sky, Leaned, twisted, melted quite before His eye.

And lay, a pool of anguish, for His good.

Before His shaping hand could place the clay And form the mould wherein my soul should run.

That shimmering pool congealed and shrunk again Beneath the pattering of a doubtful rain, And humbled at His mighty feet it lay, Yet stubborn still as when lie first begun.

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Once tinkling madrigals and wreathed ways Were much and were enough; and when they failed, I sought out God again, and gently He Walked with me through the garden of the days, Till, walking, I beheld the sea—I sailed, A helpless sailor on a hopeless sea.

III Now drifting flotsam on a troubled sea, Though taken by its curious green and grey I lift exploring hands that haply maWith threads of prayer draw God a in to me.

For even here He sometimes, seems to be, Beyond the next wave and the next ahvav, Enrobed with spume and haloed round in the spray; And twisting waves speak of Him whispcringly.

At night when sheeted waters lightly sway Beneath the moon’s impersonal bright glance, A splendor not their own fire-tips the 'vaves.

And then I think it may be God that laves In that cool glory His great countenance For men’s fresh adoration on the day.

IV What course I take, what lonely ports I touch, What headlands in my sailing I shall pass What choked-up Arctic seas, what green morass My keel traverses cannot matter much— Whatever world's-edge shall behold my sail Whatever days of danger be my lot Or days of idle peace—it matters not, Because I know some day with glorious wail The storms of God shall lash me in their rage, Shall furiously howl my howling down, Shall take my sails with quick relentlessness; And God’s afflatus, that is half caress And half a blow, shall lift me ere I drown M. Franzmann.

And blow me to a final anchorage.

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“COMING EVENTS CAST THEIR SHADOWS BEFORE” (Class Prophecy) (Note: When it was first decided upon to run a class prophecy in this Senior Number, arrangements were made to employ a reliable method of looking into the future thirty-five years. The well known Russian scientist.

Dr. Ivan Pctrovilch, agreed to take care of this detail.. In his party, which was just at this lime on the eve of beginning its experiment in an effort to reach the absolute zero, Dr. Petrovitch included one man who was to tabu­ late the prophecy. To write at any length concerning the equipment, etc., of the party were tedious, but the writer gives a short description of the bizarre and terrible sensations experienced as a member of Dr. Petrovitch’s party.)

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It is cold, very cold. It is so thoroughly cold, that from all about us there comes continually the sound of objects freezing through and through. From the walls of our stone cave here in Siberia under the Aurora there keeps falling a shower of crystals.

They drop with a swish, swish that is unearthly and terrible. The sound is magnified by the 44hard, dull bitterness of cold” to the pro­ portions of a roar, and the acoustics of the cavern make it sound hollow. It comes from above us, from every side, from under our very feet. Turn whichever way we will, it is behind us, before us, and always very close by. The whirr and the rattle is awful. To us it means that the numbing frigidity, which is approaching the absolute, is beginning* to disintegrate the walls of our cave. The hope of escaping with our lives becomes fainter and fainter.

But the banner of science must be advanced. There is not a man in our party of twenty who has not agreed to send the temperature to the absolute zero or to die in the attempt. As the meter approaches the mark, the chief discomfort, this disconcerting noise which even made us think of the future, is lessened to a resonant drone, then to a muffled hum—a mere but fitting background for the great battle fought by the scientists who always and always search for the unknown and unknowable. The beams from our searchlights become ashy and hueless. Then for an obscure but seemingly endless moment, when no one believes that there is a future but only a misused past, reigns midnight—thick, murky “darkness that may be felt,” the dead of primeval night. Slowly, ponderously, slowly returns a form of half light, the frozen dawn of another world. The absolute zero is reached! What a sensa­ tion. Atomic motion has ceased; the material no longer exists.

Only the wind continues to function. And as it flits hither and thither with an increased speed of thought, it begins to command powers beyond those that are human, powers that bridge the gap between the present and the future. It sees the men who will carve a mark in the history of the world.

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Kettenacker is successor to the famous jeweler, Paddy ?Tickmann.

As a rule his watches run forty minutes 1ml sometimes they balk at fire engine—-Hello, thirteen minutes. Koehler has developed Crassus, ho'v’s everything on the fire department. Hans Meyer is a speaker, as great a speaker as the world knows. His meek little wife and his twelve children listen daily to his sermons on the evils of glim chewing. As a recreation Mr. Meyer still sticks by his old hobby o£ interpreting Bach. Pape keeps a nation warm in winter by selling woolen flannels. In the summer lie keeps them .’hot” on a bridge game.

The prophecy is somewhat vague concerning Pless. He seems to be an organist and at other times he drives a submarine. Frankly, I do not understand it. Ristow is a history professor. Too bad that he 'von’t: be alive when the world realizes tlie worth of the things accomplished by his contemporaries. Ris­ tow would be the man to teach this history. Roth has developed into an international peacemaker. He is engaged in pacifying the outlying regions, Liberia, Saturn, and Mexico. Rutz is a dema­ gogue. He gives political speeches and puts them over with a bang.

He is a better soap-box orator than any ring-master in a circus.

His success, however, was brought about in great part by Mn Schliesser，who manufactures the soap boxes that he uses. Hie Schultz has realized his life’s ambition. His name is in “Who’s Who.” Probably I should not mention that he sneaked it in as a

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printer’s devil. Harold Schultz has invented a humming machine.

With it he makes the photographers’ business hum day and night.

Struck was arrested for speeding and reposes in jail. Hence he is not in this prophecy but we can feel safe in predicting great things for that young man. Wichmann comes along three blocks behind the crowd with his newly invented soft pop-bottle. He was bat­ tered to a pulp so often when he made a rank decision as referee of a basketball game that he can hardly keep up with the crowd.

The last time he suffered this dignity he had a brainstorm and in­ vented the new pop-bottle.

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THE MOSLEMS IN SPAIN After the great prophet, Mohammed, had been banished from his native city because of his radical doctrine, he returned to the same city that four years previously would not tolerate his heresy and converted his fellow-citizens with amazing rapidity. Every­ where in the nation his religion struck root and now his scores of converts set out to force the entire world into their faith by threat of the sword and death. They thus soon came in contact with the universities of the East. They did not exploit, ignorantly destroy, the culture that they stumbled upon as the barbaric Teutons did to the great Roman world, but rather assiduously absorbed all the learning- that they possibly could find and became tinctured with Greek philosophy and thought. Soon thereafter a great schism occurred among the followers of Allah. The more conservative element had once more gained power and now banished their radical brethren, among whom there were many talented, highly educated men. These sought refuge among their fellow countrymen in Spain. Once more Africa poured forth hordes of Mohammedans who crossed over into Spain and then climbed the Pyrenees ancl invaded France, threatening to give Europe the oriental stamp of their mysterious, cold civilization. On one Saturday afternoon in 732，however, Charles Martel shattered their plans before the gates of Tours and decisively pushed them back behind the Pyr­ enees, thus rescuing Europe forever from an undesirable influence of the Orient.

It was here in Spain that they formed a high standard of liv­ ing, developed a skillful agriculture by means of irrigation, built universities, erected cities after a modern plan and rendered contri­ butions to the field of learning that the remainder of the world was unripe to accept for centuries to come. Although many of their productions were known to the world before, yet they were mostly 328

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Practical people as they were, they commenced to apply chem­ istry to the practice of medicine, explaining the functions of the human body and the cure of its diseases. Nor did their surgery lag behind. We hear that a certain Albucasis performed opera­ tions, using the knife without hesitation. While the Moor trust­ ingly relied on the prescriptions ancl operations of his doctors, the European peasant stricken with illness hied to shrines and expected a miracle to cure him. If any one was afflicted with insanity in Spain, he was skillfully treated to restore his mental faculties, but on the other side of the Pyrenees the insane were scourged, scorched, often beaten to death, to drive the evil spirits out of them. The poor European, however, was not to blame for such ignorance. The pope, the supreme sovereign of things temporal and spiritual, ty­ rannically controlled the thought of all the Christian countries and thus stifled all individual initiative and inquiry, declaring any one who presented something new in contradiction of the established truth, a heretic possessed of the devil and forcing him to pay for his folly with his life at the stake. Italy, France, Germany, and England were in the darkest of the Dark Ages.

The Spanish Moor also erected cities known for their universities, public baths, aqueducts, paved and lighted streets. The Hos­ lem sovereigns justly looked with contempt on tile dwellings of the ruling barons of the Christian countries, who lived in chimney­ less and windowless stables, constructions which did not excel the wigwam of the American Indian. In addition to this, the Euro­ pean beyond the Pyrenees did not possess the slightest idea of cleanliness and sanitary conditions. They were often bedecked with lice and vermin and thus often fell prey to contagious diseases and epidemics and, what was worse, they were hopelessly ignorant how to check them. For seven hundred years to come there was not a public lamp in London and no paved street. Whoever stepped over his threshhold in Paris, the future city of fashions, might sink over his ankles in mud.

In Spain we find the schools teaching geography from globes, while all the remaining countries still, very religiously, asserted the flatness of the earth and continued to do so for centuries to come.

Although the rest of Europe did adopt the Arabic system of notations by nine digits and the cipher, the elements of Algebra and Euclid’s Geometry, yet Christian Europe could have had ad­ vancements in physics for the taking for which she waited patiently for a Newton to come, of whom Pope writes in his couplet.

Nature and Nature’s laws lay hid in night; .God said, “Let Newton be,” and there was light.

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In the great universities at Cordova, Granada, Toledo, and Seville, there were large libraries filled with lexicons, encyclopaedias, his­ tories, and dictionaries, one of which was sixty volumes in length with illustrations of each word. That this work was so extensive will not surprise us if we consider that the Mohammedans had, as we are told, 5,000 expressions for the term “sword” alone. But also here the remainder of Europe was too immature to accept these benefits until years later when the individual again came to his right. Then the European Christians, however, after slow and tedious effort, accomplished what existed in splendid form among the Spanish Moslems.

Although this by no means exhausts the attainments of the Spanish Moslems—the pendulum clock, the compass, the culture of the silkworm, the manufacture of silk and cotton garments, the manufacture of paper and leather, the introduction of new garden and orchard fruits, the Spanish love songs, from whence the Ger­ man minnesingers started, all these and more were not referred to —yet it will clearly show that the lamp of learning was shining brightly in Spain, while the rest of Europe was groping in the Dark Ages and could have been illumined had she chosen to have it so.

Wichmann, '30.

DIRGE Cover her gently, cover her tenderly Who lies there so narrow, so silently, slenderly; Kiss her dead eyes and close them tight— She will no longer be needing the light; Burn six tall candles, and watch by her side: Remember, remember her pain and her pride!

Cross her slim hands upon her white breast...

She will have peace now, she will have rest.

Wm. Faber.

CLOTHES MAKE THE MAN................ effeminate! Since 4004 B. C. man has added approximately ten pounds to the weight of the original fig leaf. The ancients wore as much as was necessary. Modern man wears as much as is nec­ essary and enough besides to carpet an igloo. “Omnia mecum 330

porto’’ seems to be the slogan of the well dressed man of today.

How much of a man’s clothes is compatible with his needs ? We shall limit ourselves to the inhabitants of the temperate zone. Two pounds of underwear will undoubtedly preserve the most aenemic invalid at a temperature as low as ten degrees below zero. Even an Eskimo would spurn flannels. In addition to this, shoes and stockings, a shirt, coat ancl trousers, and an overcoat or rain coat, as the occasion demands, should complete the attire of any healthy man. The fact that we wear more today shows that man is either a fop or an invalid. The origin of such articles as vest, tie, and spats, belies the theory that they were added as necessary to man’s comfort. It is striking that the American “sheik” never realizes until recently the need of protection for his exposed (?) ankles.

Now every “drug store cowboy” is wearing spats! The tie is a modern remnant of the cravat, worn in the 17th century. Origin­ ally it was part of the uniform of a body of Austrian troops, called Croats, or in French, Cravates. The cravats worn in the court of Louis XIV would supply the 20th century flapper with enough ma­ terial for a party gown. The pattern was more suitable for the surface of a wedding cake than for a man’s shirt front. The modern tie, with its wallpaper design, is certainly no improvement. As regards comfort, ask any man about his first attempt at fitting a tie into a stiff collar! Efficiency in tying a bow-tie correctly is the result of many months of maddening practice. Concerning the vest, there is really only one good reason for wearing it, namely, a dirty shirt front. It is the homeliest part of a man’s dress, ancl the addition of cigars, fountain pens, Eversliarps, ancl watch fobs gives it more the appearance of a bargain counter than of an artide of dress.

In point of weight, the “weaker” sex wears niuch less clothes than the mighty male. In point of design, a man is as vain as a girl with her first fur coat. If you don't agree, explain the purpose of such dress features as: the hat band, necktie, tie pin, colored shirts, coat lapels, sleeve buttons, clouble-breasted ancl pinch-back coats, cuffs and pleats, ties and spats, pocket ’kerchiefs and canes.

It is apparent then, that comfort is only a secondary motive in the design of man’s clothes. Since we do not wish to reform the existing styles, we must adapt ourselves to convention, and make it a point to be as comfortable as circumstances will permit. The greatest comfort lies in being at ease. But only then are we at ease，when we know that our dress is neat ancl, above all, incon­ spicuous.

The selecting of proper clothes is an art. By the proper or improper application of this art a man shows us whether he is i a gentleman or a fool. “De gustibus,” says the fool. “There should 331

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anil be a law,” says the gentleman. Both are right. Nevertheless, when one views some of the sartorial atrocities committed in the name of good taste, one is tempted to agree, that there ought to be a law. Some of the grosser specimens should be arrested for disturbing the peace.

Clothes make the man, but only in so far as they are in har­ mony with his personality. The hobo wears rags, and the gentle­ man of society wears a full dress suit. Both are correctly dressed.

We don’t expect the professor to dress like a cheer leader, and the enamoured youth doesn’t call on his true-love in a cassock. might say that it is reConcerning the dress of women markable how successful woman has been in carrying out the price purpose of licr dress—to attract the opposite sex—with so little material!

Finally, permit us to quote the sage Polonius in support of this much debated axiom, that “clothes make the man “Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy:

FOR THE APPAREL OFT PROCLAIMS THE MAN,..

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Siegfried H. Fenske.

THE GERMAN AND SWISS SETTLEMENTS OF PENNSYLVANIA To write about the Germans in colonial times would neces­ sarily be a topic of rather wide scope, there being colonies in New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, Georgia, Louisiana, North and South Carolina, and even as far north as Main and Nova Sco­ tia. The German and Swiss settlements of Pennsylvania, though, were far more numerous and important than those of any other states and were about in the center.

The first Germans arrived on the “Concord” October 6, 1683, and founded Germantown, near Philadelphia. They were German and Dutch Mennonites from Crefeld and Kriegsheim, who came after their noble and learned leader, Pastorius, had received a land grant for them. These had come over on account of religious per­ secutions, which was the main factor of all immigration. The other cause was a social or material one. Central Europe was dev­ astated by war and foolish princes with luxurious courts.

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By far the greater majority of Germans were poor, but in a few years’ time through very hard work and perseverance they be­ came more or less well-to-do. The services of many Germans up­ on their arrival here were sold in payment of their fare. Such men afterwards were called reclemptioners. The English ship-owners charged exorbitant rates, and kept the emigrants in Holland until their money was spent. The poor people then were forced to borrow from the ship owners. The ship owners used to send Germans in a luxurious fashion throughout their country to induce their countrymen to emigrate and also get rich. Those men were called “Newlanders.”

The best land in Pennsylvania belonged to the Germans. While the English and Scotch-Irish usually followed the river, thus les­ sening the labor of clearing, the Germans' and Swiss would plunge into the dense forests, thinking the heavier the growth, the better the soil. Nevertheless, the German fields yielded more than those of the others, German cattle gave more milk, and they had the stoutest horses. How much the Germans thought of their horses is seen in the proverb: “Weiber Sterbe isch ka Verderbe! Aber Gaulverrecke, cles isch e Schrecke.’’ [A woman's death is no loss, but to lose one’s horse is calamity.]

Having cleared his field the German would build a huge barn, then his home. That was also very large. In regard to horticul­ ture Dr. Benjamin Rush wrote: ^Pennsylvania is indebted to the Germans for the principal part of her knowledge in horticulture.”

They planted only according to the phases of the moon. Some even consulted the stars when a child was born. Not only were the Germans hard workers, but also hard drinkers. Yet Benjamin Rush, the father of the Temperance Movement, wrote that the Pennsylvania Germans are not addicted to drunkenness.

The intellectual interests of the old Germans were mostly of a theological nature. They even wrote hymns. In 1730 Benjamin Franklin published a book entitled “Goettliche Liebe unci Lobes容ethoene.” The first Bible to be printed in America was German.

After three editions an English text appeared in Philadelphia in 1782. Next to the Bible in importance were the almanacs, ^reposi­ tories of superstition”一describing when to sow, reap, shingle the roof, cut the hair, bleed, and a host of other things. In time news­ papers came to the fore. Some exist today.

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ant. With each church the Lutherans and Reformed had schools from the beginning. In some places there were schoolmasters be­ fore ministers. The people willingly bore the trouble and expense of importing ministers from Germany that they might thereby secure men of learning and regular ordinationw Muehlenberg recom­ mended that the ministers be able to speak Latin fluently, in order to be able to communicate with the English clergymen—that shows what the pioneers demanded of their pastors. In colleges and uni­ versities there was hardly any interest.

The Germans were very religious and sincere. . The two im­ portant confessions were the Lutheran and the Reformed. People of the latter were from Switzerland and the Palatinate, the former mostly from Wuerttemberg. There seemed to be perfect harmony between them. Probably the earliest Lutheran church was founded at Falkner’s Swamp in 1720. The two outstanding men were : Muehlenberg of the Schlatter of the Reformed and Henry Melchoir Lutherans. The question of English services was agitated even at that time, but they eventually dropped it. As1 time went on the English part of the church would split or else join other churches.

The Moravians were the Indian missionaries—Post, Spangenberg, Nitschman and Zeislierger, the “John Eliot of the West.,> But the French and Indian War practically ended their work.

What the Germans did in the War of Independence has always been underestimated. Their two generals were Nicholas Herkimer, the hero of Oriskany, and Peter Muehlenberg, a friend of Wash­ ington. The body-guard of Washington were Pennsylvania Germans. The heroine of Monmouth, “Moll Pitcher,” was a Penn­ sylvania German. Ludwig, the honest baker for the Continental army was a German and his grave can still be seen at Germantown.

These Pennsylvania Germans were later in the van that conquered the West. That fact is proved by distinctly German names as these: Hoover [Huber], Garver, Landis, Brubaker, Stauffe, Bowman, Funk, Lick, and Yerkes. This movement in the New World can be compared to the Voelkervvanderung of the fourth century.

Besides, if the Germans had not that Wanderlust they would not have left Germany so readily.

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The ear of human cannot hear at all The song of flower petals as they fall; Nor can it mark the beating of a wing Nor the soft chimes the rosy hare-bells ring.

Man cannot solve the mystery of the leaf Nor grow accustomed to the suddenness of grief: So there are many things which are Too far from stunted reach of manâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; â&#x20AC;&#x201D;loo far For ear to hear, for human eye to see; Man can but guess what these things be!

The simple mind of human never knows The sudden deft precision of a rose, Win. Faber.

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ON READING NEWSPAPERS Our reading-room is supplied with a well balanced assortment of daily newspapers. The list varies in quality and quantity from the New York Times down to scandal sheets and the four-page dailies. In such a mass of material there is certainly much that is of value. It is an opportunity for students to find what is best in the world of newspaper journalism. But do we avail ourselves of the accommodations ? If one can rely on circumstantial evidence to any extent, one need but glance at the reading-tables just after students have left the room for meals. The majority of sheets are left opened on pages which hardly reflect the attitude of the sup­ posed enlightenment of college students.

If the attempt to go beyond the jumble of statistics and bally­ hoo, of the sport-sheet requires too much effort, the reading-room ought to he converted into a gymnasium. Used as a form of relaxation the comic strip admirably serves the purpose; but when sophisticated under-graduates have formed a natural tendency to read .nothing but these things, the “heavier” departments of the newspapers are obviously unnecessary adjuncts. In that case a substantial saving could be effected by replacing the entire set of papers with an assortment of strictly light reading material and perhaps arrangements might even be made with the Tribune, the Journal or the New York Times to send us only their sport sections.

That could not only be a stroke of economy but it would also not­ ably improve the appearance of the room and take the daily burden from the waste-basket.

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IN MEMORIAM Twenty-eight years of loyal service were quite suddenly brouglit to an end in the death of one of Northwestern's most dutiful servants — Mr. August Breutzmanu. Known as “Breutzy” to students for nearly three decades, to alumni of nearly four generations he was always their friend, bade everyone a pleasant time of the day, and stoutly maintained that the secret of his spryness was due to his connections with younger men. When addressed in German Mr. Breutzmanu always insisted on the familiar “du,” and felt somewhat slighted when the more polite “Sie was used, saying that that term raised him from student levels. Parents will remember him as nearly the first person they met when they brought their boys. He sold them the mattress and guided them through the college property from gar­ ret to basement. It was he who kept many a homesick student from leaving, he who preserved not a few lonesome boys for the Lutheran ministry later by a smile or a kind, encouraging word when lie noticed thoughts of home engraved on the newcomer’s face.

Mr. Breutzmann, a well-known resident of the community, died Tuesday, March 4, in a Milwaukee hospital, following an attack of pneumonia, which set in after an operation. He was born in Pommerania, Germany, May 28, 1861, and came lo this country in 18S5.

Until his marriage with Miss Bertha Zenke in 1887 he worked as a farm-hand near the city and then moved to town. For ten years he was employed by the Gorder Fuel Co” and twenty-eight years ago he became janitor of the College. Besides his wife he is sur­ vived by one son, E. C. Breutzmann of Milwaukee. The funeral was held Friday, March 7, in St. Mark's church, the Rev. Mr. Klingmann officiating. Burial took place at the Lutheran cemetery. The pallbearers were six upper-classmen.

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ALUMNI —We announce the birth of a daughter to the Rev. and Mrs. Paul Pieper, ’09. of Milwaukee, on February first.

—Prof. Frederic Ernst, who attended at Northwestern in 19071910, will direct a summer course in French at the Pennsylvania Slate College during the July and August session.

—Prof. J. ICisclmeycr of Milwaukee, who was graduated from the normal course of our institution in 1881, recently made a trip through Italy and Germany. Prof. Eiselmeyer wrote a long article on his journey which appears in the “Volksbote,” a pamphlet that is printed in Linz on the Danube once every two months. It is too had that the professor's article is not available to more people, be­ cause lie surely lias the knack of putting a worthwhile thing into inlcrcslin.q- form.

—The Rev. Gustav Krause of Tomahawk, Wisconsin, ’22，vis­ — ited at Northwestern, recently.

—Herbert Von Haden, *29, is at present a teacher at Meyer’s School for Stammerers in Milwaukee. 一The hand wishes to express its appreciation of the “boost” the alumni gave them when they appeared in concert in Milwaukee.

—Carl Selle, ex. ’31, is attending at Columbia University, New York. He is majoring in English.

—George Rosenliauer, ’28, took his master’s degree at Wiscon­ sin University, majoring in physical education, 一The Rev. Adalbert Westendorf, ’16, of Saginaw, Michigan, has received a call to a professorship at Northwestern College.

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Wie bald doch der Mensch sich an neue Lagen gewoehnt! Das alte Seminar wird uns iminer eine traute Erinnerung bleiben, aber es ist doch nur eine Erinnerung, ein Stueck der Vergangenheit.

Nun haben wir aus der ersten Klasse auch bald das ietzte Jahr hinter uns. Bald wird auch unser Klassenbilcl eine Nische finden unter den Bildern unserer Vorfahren, in the hall of fame. Man wird bald auch an unserm Bild staunend unci kopfschuetleJncl voruebergehen. Merkwuerdig! Sollten wir wirklich schon so weit sein wie unsere Vaeter?‘ Mute wcrden, wenn man daran Es will einem fast schwer denkt, dass unsere Studienzeit bald zu Ende ist. Die frohen Jahre des Studentenlebens sind vorbei, wir koennen sie nie wieder zurueckrufen. Freunde, die uns in den langen Jaliren teuer geworden sind, muessen wir bald alle verlassen, in alle Welt wcrden wir hinausgehen, der eine hierhin, der and ere dorthin. Es ist ein jaeher Wechsel fuer uns aus sorgenlosem Studentenleben in das verantwortungsvollste Amt, das es gibt. Aus (lem Kreise der Bekannten treten wir in die Fremde, aus stiller Zurueckgezogenheit in. die bewegte Oeffentlichkeit. Solche Gedanken sind clazu angetan, einen ernst zu stimmen.

Derartige Gedanken steigen wohl zuweilen bei uns auf. Doch merkt man bald an diesem, bald an jenem, class er sich im Stillen nach dem Ende sehnt. Das ist auch ganz natuerlich. Was waeren wir auch fuer Maenner, wenn wir uns ewig mit Studieren zufrieden geben wollten. Der jun^e Mann will Beschaeftigung, er will sich im Leben betaetigen. Nach langen Jahren in der Scluile mit nur wenig praktischer Betaetigung, verlangt es einen taetig ins Leben zu greifen, selbst ein wenig von der Arbeit zu tun, die um uns alle beschaeftigt. Die Theorie wird endlich langweilig, wenn nicht die Praxis dazu kommt.

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Sollte uns da nicht docli angst und bange werden ? Koennen wir freudig userm zukuenftigen Beruf entgegen gehen, wenn wir an die Welt denken, die von jeher Christi Feindin war, an die Christenheit, die lau und satt geworden ist; wenn wir merken, 'vie wir selbst kraenkeln an clem Geist der Zeit?

Nein! Wir wollen nicht die Flinte ins Korn werfen, wir wol­ len nicht den Mut sinken lassen. Freilich, wenn wir auf uns selbst sehen, so liaben wir keinen Halt. Kaeme es auf unser Wollen oder Lau fen an, so waere alles vergebens. Doch wir wissen, dass wir es nicht sind, die es tun. Der Herr ist mit uns, sein Evangelium ist die Kraft, die auch fernerhin wirken wird, 'vie sie von Anbeginn ge'virkt hat. Das ist unser Trost.

Mag： auch aeusserlich unser Erfolg nicht glaenzend sein, mag auch der Ilaufe sich von uns wenden, wir wissen, dass wir Segen lml)en werclen. Den Einzelnen wollen wir nachgehen. Die welche Gott in seine Schule genommen hat, die er sich ganz im Stillen zubereitet hat, an denen haben wir unsre Arbeit. Mag auch das Bild sonst schwarz sein, mag es scheinen, als wuerden wir vielfach vergebens arbeiten, wir haben eine Verheissung, an die wir uns klammern, das Wort des Jesaias: “Das Wort, so aus meinem Munde gcht, soil nicht 'vieder zu mir leer kommen, sondern tun, das mir gefaellt und soil ihm gel ingen, dazu ichs sende.”

Wenn wir dies alles bedenken, so koennen und sollen wir mit Freudigkeit der Dinge warten, die da kommen sollen. 伞氺 氺氺 本氺 Viel Neues gibt es nicht zu erzaehlen. Man koennte wohl erwaehnen, dass die Fruehjahrsluft bei uns weht. Wer uns im Win­ ter bedauert hat, mag uns jetzt beneiden. Es ist schoen hier auf dem Lande. Die Zugvoegel kehren nach und nach zurueck. Aus den Wiesen toent ihr Lied zu uns herauf und dringt zuweilen sogar bis in die Klassenzimmer. Das Panorama nach Norden zu, Wald, 340

Bach und Wiese, erfreuen miser Herz. Ueberall um uns, wo man auch hinschaut faengt alles an zu leben, zu spossen und zu gruenen.

Unser Ornithologe, Herr Wagner, hat hier ein weite Gebiet fuer seine Forschungen.

Dass manche bei dem schoenen Fruehj ah rswetter lange Spaziergaenge untemehmen, kann man ihnen nicht verdenken. Wenn aber an mondhellen Abenden dieser oder jener sich bis an Lake Michigan verirrt, dann wird man docli neugierig.

Herr Rupp predigte vor einiger Zeit in Waukegan. Uel^ung macht den Meister.

Unit 3 hat nun einen Beichtvvater. Herr Voecks hat sich mit den Pflichten desselben bekannt gemacht unci will nun praktizieren.

Doch hat er bis jetze herzlich wenig zu tun behabt. Selbst seine Zimmergenossen trauen der Sache nicht.

Es war zwei Wochen lang ein medicine show in unserer Stadt.

Dass die Quacksalber sich in unser aufgeklaertes Nest hereinwagen konnten, ist auch wunderbar.

Am 12. Maerz wurde in Pastor Schaefers Kirche ein Kirchenkonzert gehalten. Ausser den Herren Baumann und Lemke, die sich in dem gemischten Chor ihre Sporen verdienten, sang ein Studentenchor von etwa 20 Stimmen. In einer wohklurchdachten Rede erinnerte Herr Professor Lehninger an den grossen Schatz, den wir in unserm lutherischen Kirchenliecl besitzen, und forderte uns auf, ihn ja zu pflegen in Gemeinde—und Choigesang.

The Northwestern College Literary and Dramatic Societies ANNOUNCE

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Mr. \V. Fischer gave the first selection, a humorous speech en­ titled ..Washington’s Sense of Humor.” The following presen­ tation, the German Band, Mr. Iiellmann wielding the baton, proved popular with the audience. As encore, this group gave a number featuring a liass solo by the incomparable Mr. R. Kettenacker, and this too was enthusiastically received.

Mr. M. Fleischer, who is interested in art in its various phases, chose "Architecture as an Autobiography of Civilization.” Taking and explaining the varioils types of architecture, especially those of the past, he showed that in these one could read the temperament and ideals of the people who had constructed the different objects under consideration.

George Bernard Shaw’s “The Man of Destiny” closed the evemng\ This vehicle requires the best of acting to keep the attention of the audience. Amateurs can not give such a play all the attention it requires. As a result there was some monotony, If the intention was to give a taste of Shaw, there are a number of plays better qualified for our purposes than this one. Considering the difficulties of the drama, the acting was very fair. The cast: Erwin Froelich Napoleon ........ . .Miss Ruth Ibisch The Lady-------Herman Giesclien Quiseppe _____ ...Herbert Resting The Lieutenant The band invaded Milwaukee on the twenty-second of Febru342

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ary and gave a concert on Sunday afternoon. Professor Westerhaus and his charges were greeted by a packed house, an audience that filled every available seat in the A. L. A. auditorium. Re­ marks overheard after the concert indicated that our organization had made quite a favorable impression. The quartette, the Messrs.

A. Schewe, P. Heyn, O. Engel, and A. Buenger sang a few numbers.

The program by the Philomathean on the evening of the sev­ enth of March was well balanced. Mr. Pless was master of cere­ monies.

The orchestra opened with two selections: “Beneath the lovvthatched Roofs,” a serenade by Adam Geibel, and K. W. King’s “Sir Henry.” Mr. H .T. Pape:next spoke on the modern advertising methods and meaia in hhis original speech, “It Pays to Advertise.” Miss Gertrude Wendland next rendered two poems, “The Ballad of the Oysterman” from O. W. Holmes’ pen, and the humorous Scotch dialect-piece “Imph-m” of anonymous origin. Mr. George Barthels played a violin solo, Mendelssohn's “Spring Song.”

As encore he gave “After the Ball.” Mr. Barthels was accom­ panied by Mr. Don Schwartz. Mr. Radi off then gave “The Holy Fehm, a speech concerning middle-age Germany and a secret so­ ciety with a judicial character. The subject was interesting and unusual, but the speaker did not make much of an attempt to be heard plainly.

The last number was a play written by Mr. M. Franzmann. The acting in it was exceptionally good, but the acting was not of so great importance as another phase of the play. The interesting thing was the way the author portrayed the mood through the use of the five figures who represented evil. The low lights of the candles reflected from the black bodies of the group and the soft singing of the quartette also assisted in achieving this, but the main thing was the handling and formation of these five figures. Many in the audience did not quite get the significance in this. The whole thing was an experiment and was about the best thing the writer remembers having seen in the weekly meetings since plays were introduced here several years ago.

That is what should be done more. The “Little Theater” and the various college and university organizations should experiment more than they do. That, we should say, is their natural field.

They should experiment in stage-settings, methods of acting and in the other departments in the art of the theater—for there is an art to it. The “Good Mail” and the five figures are especially to be commended with the author. The players: 343

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Here we are writing our column for the last time and we don’t know whether we should be sad or happy. In our ten months as Exchange Editor we have had a chance to get a look into the cam­ pus publications of a number of schools. What we have found there was in general not very good; but sometimes we have found good things, things that we enjoyed and for those good bits we were thankful. The question has often entered our mind whether it is wise or not to have an exchange column at all. That question is hard to answer and I shall not attempt to do so, but I do feel that we should always continue to exchange publications with other schools. In that way we are enabled to know just how students in other schools act, what their likes and dislikes are and how we can profit by good example or take warning of bad) examples. We do not feel that during the year we have written this column as it should be written, we rather feel that the man who is taking up 344

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The Marquette Journal, a quarterly, is always a welcome vis­ itor on our exchange table. The latest issue is even better than the previous ones. We were especially interested in the article by Mr. Rice, “Whither the theatre?” Mr. Rice feels that “the road, the grand old institution, which brought the illusion and beauty of the theatrical arts into every section of the country, is admittedly dead.” Instead, "the day of the Little Theatre, the Community Playhouse, the semiprofessional actor and the local playwright, is about to brighten from its rosy dawn to the stronger light of glis­ tening noon.” We also enjoyed the short story <4Devil Plays with Shrive Night** and the article, which must have been written by a thinker: MAnimated Encyclopedias.”

In a recent issue of the Spectator we find a resume of Mr. Kreie’s article, “The College Student and Competitive Sports.”

Since there was no comment on the article, we do not know whether the Spectator agrees with Mr. Kreie or not; but we are glad that they think it worth while to read the article and even to print it.

It should stimulate other students to exert themselves in contribut­ ing to the material that fills the pages of our Black and Red. Perhaps some of us have even given that very excuse; “A'v, nobody reads it anyway On February fourth the Dramatic Art Class of Milton College successfully presented "Right You Arc If You Think You Are1* by Pirandello.

Amusing, but nevertheless quite true, is the editorial ‘•Reconiniejidations” in a recent issue of the College Chronicle. It is an jirt.icle that should not only be read l)y persons about to graduate: it .is perhaps of more value to those whose graduation is still a thing of dim future. For, as the old proverb says, forewarned is一.

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In the opening minutes of the second period, Seminary pro­ ceeded to play that same cautious game, advancing the ball up to the Black and Red defense, and then, when their teammates could not break loose, passing it back deeply into their territory. They soon, however, changed their mode of play and took the aggressive. Northwestern now returned the rushing attack and brought the score to a 22-22 tie after nine minutes of fast playing. From now on the Black and Reds spurted ahead rapidly and soon held an undisputable lead. The Black and Red quintet performed their work so nearly as it should be done, that it is difficult to give pref­ erence to any'individual player, except the guards, Captain Kettenacker and Stuhr. possibly, who seemed to be everywhere on the floor to intercept passes and to hold the dangerous scorer, Hoenecke, 346

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Witt and Kasischke led the Seminary attack with four field goals each.

Both for the good work of the referee, Zilz, and for the won­ derful hospitality of the Seminary students Northwestern expresses its appreciation and thanks.

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Naperville, February 22. After their victory at Thiensville, Northwestern was repulsed by North Central of Naperville, by a 34-24 score. North Central started to score and managed to maintain a six point lead, until Heyn was substituted into action at cen ter for Northwestern. For a short time he played an excellent game and relieved the situation immensely 1)y sinking two field goals and one freethrow. Northwestern, with only a half minute to play, overtook their opponents and led with one point, but then Massier completed a pot shot in the last seconds to have his team lead 16-15 at the half.

Already in the opening minutes of the next half, the North­ western quintet seemed dead on their feet, failing to pierce the North Central defense, which was very close because of the small court. During the greater portion of this period, the score fluctuated repeatedly, but no team ever gained a lead greater than two points. Just now when their usual fast attack could have bagged the game, the Black and Reds were noticeably slowing up. Becoming excited as to the result of the game, Northwestern resorted mostly to long shots, which already was a bad move, but then even failed to follow up for the rebound. This also broke up the Black and Red defense and from now on North Central filtered through for lift shots. It was only in the last minutes that North 347

Central outplayed their visitors to run up the final ten-point margin. Manning and Massier forwards, figured strongly in gaining the reward of victory for North Central.

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Northwestern 28; Milwaukee Normal 14 Watertown, February 26. Milwaukee Normal bowed before the Black and Reds for the second time this season, this time by the rather decisive 28-14 score. The Normalites, represented by their second team, were very soon unable to keep pace with the fast North western quintet and trailed '13-2. Then the Normalite regu­ lars entered llio fight, hoping1 that their opponents could be outscored by a fresli attack. A nip-ancl-tuck battle, however, ensued in which the locals gained three points, while the visitors only col­ lected one. Normal held the short end of the 16-3 count at the half, having collected all their points by gift shots.

To start the second half. Coach Kleinke entered his seconds, but when the Normalites steadily gained, before the reserves could start functioning, lie took no chances to allow the game to slip out of his hands and again placed his regulars on the floor. Both teams worked the ball hard and guarded closely for the remaining time. Every point scored was duly earned. Northwestern, how­ ever, gradually regained its early lead as the contest drew to a close. Although the Normal ites had some hard luck in their shoot­ ing the first half, in the second they were allowed only a few shots, for Captain Kettenacker and Stuhr covered their men perfectly throughout. Furthermore, Pless played his usual good game at center, holding- his rangy opponent scoreless and collecting ten points himself.

Gothar, Normal forward, was the life of the visiting team, standing1 high in their scoring list with seven points.

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Although the second half is known to be "Whitewater’s win­ ning period, the Normalites soon lost all hope of victory. for Northwestern was just as active as they were in the start. The Black and Reds gained all their baskets on fast, clear-cut plays that took Normal off balance just long enough to allow the player 349

to get the ball off—an interesting spectacle even for a biased fan.

Northwestern functioned with clocklike regularity, all the plays working smoothly. Rutz, Northwestern forward, again played his consistent floor-game letting his opponents know that he was there every moment of the battle. Stuhr played superb ball at guard and was the only regular to play nearly an entire game, losing only one minute, when the coach substituted him back into action in the place of Captain Kettenacker, that he might earn a much desired extra basket.” Trait and Sturtevant did valuable work for the Normal quintet.

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Throughout the first half Northwestern exhibited a stellar style of play to chalk up a comfortable lead of seven points 15-8 against their opponents, a situation which Carroll only realized once this season, when they battled with Wisconsin.

Immediately in the second half, however, Carroll presented an offense which was a pace faster than that of the previous period.

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before, they soon canceled the Black and Red advantage by longshots. This was chiefly the work of the guard, Clarkson, who surely possessed an uncanny ability in finding the loop from the center of the floor. Within nine minutes Carroll brought the game to an 18-18 tie and forged ahead soon thereafter to lead for the re­ mainder of the time. ' Although Northwestern seemingly crumpled • before this onslaught, they found themselves very soon thereafter and repeatedly threatened to overcome the small margin in the score. Not until the sound of the final gun was the game decided and then Northwestern fell short of victory by four points.

Captain Kettenacker played an unusually close guarding game holding the “slippery” Hinckley to two field goals, while PI ess and Heyn were outstanding in allowing “stretch” Van der Meulen the same number of baskets. Never before in this season have these two stars of Carroll been checked so well. Pless furthermore played a superb offensive game with three field goals. Clarkson and Goerke played valuable roles at guard for the Carroll team.

This contest marks the passing of the three veterans, Captain Kettenacker, Pless and Rutz, who donned the Black and Red for the last time Saturday night.

In the preliminary, which aroused very little interest,- Kenosha Lutheran High fell before Coach Fischer’s preps. Although the game started out to be evenly contested, the score being 2-1 in favor of the preps at the close of the first quarter, the preps soon compiled point after point to win 22-9.

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Team Average: 30.20.

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These three men have played in the varsity squads for four years, as long as Northwestern has taken up inter-collegiate basketball.

Although Northwestern loses the nucleus pf a winning team, they will nevertheless have the lettermen, Raasch, who was elected to succeed Kettenacker as captain, Harke, Stuhr, and the other promising reserves, Krueger, Heyn, Froehlich, Schwerin, Martin, and Schultz on the court to make next year’s season another suc­ cessful one.

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A burst of excitement, a flurry of cheers. The Carrol game. was near. For several days Carroll hung in effigy from a tree on the campus. Later on we found out that Carroll was dead in only one respect―dead shots for the basket. The night before the great event a pep meeting raged up Main Street. Three collegiates and all the preps were at hand to stir up a little interest in the game. And then Saturday night—were we disappointed with the result ? Anyone who roamed the streets with an open eye afterwards would almost think we had won an overwhelming victory.

The end of the Carroll game marked a kind of Romance Move­ ment among the basketball players. Old pipes were hauled out, ancient nocturnal sessions were resumed, old habits of every sort were polished up and rejuvenated. A basketball captain was also elected. The duty of purchasing the La Palinas and keeping the team well oiled next year fell to “Chubby” Raasch. Mr. Ketten­ acker, captain for this season, says he gained about 15 pounds since 353

the final game. Have you ever noticed how baldheaded he has be­ come since the basketball season started ?

The Sextaner is a distinct species. Sometimes he is an abused creature of fearful insignificance when viewed from the lofty emi­ nence of, say, a Quartaner or a Tertianer. He suffers much, he endures much : but he also feels much. If you prick him, does he not bleed? If you tickle him, does he not laugh? And if you wrong him, will he not revenge ? Aye, he will, and has, revenged.

Every Sextaner, rising with the tide of insurrection, has armed himself 'with weapon known as a Sextaphone. It is a musical instrument, purchasable at the (lime store, capable of emitting a rasping wail that would make the Harpies themselves blush with Sextie’s toes is simply blown at shame. Whosoever treads on with that tone-blasting piece of tin. Straightway the enemy falls back in horror. The Sextaphone is said to be a more effective in­ strument than the machine gun.

An undeniable sign of spring is the rejuvenating activity in and about the buildings. The barracks, too, has been equipped with wood foundation.

At this writing Roger Melendy is confined in the sick-room with inflammatory rheumatism. After having spent a week there he resumed classes for one day, but was then forced to return to the infirmary.

At the Whitewater game, March 1, Room 90 was perfectly rep­ resented. Eckert, Buenger, and Albrecht all made the trip to help form ;i Northwestern rooting section.

Tn this age of champions and championships we students must also produce our kings, crowned or uncrowned. In the noble field of bon-ami and soap-suds, commonly called window-washing, Hagedorn, Quarta, claims the laurel wreath all for himself. He has purged and chastened every neutral window in the building and is now well on his way over the second round. His heart beats strong and his wind is sound as he surpasses all contestants in his idealistic drive for purity.

Edward Knoll, who was a Freshman last year, came from Mil­ waukee to see the Carroll game, returning on the followinig Sunday afternoon. He was forced to discontinue his academic work during this year, but plans to return to Northwestern next September.

On Sunday, March 9, A1 Maas made his usual week-end mi­ gration to Milwaukee. But the wires must have got crossed some­ where, for the flaming youth was back by three o’clock Sunday afternoon. His roommates innocently inquired why he was so late in getting started for his visit.

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OI0-E& NoIfb. We have some talent among the Preps also. Julia Knispel, in her performance as leading lady in St. John’s play “Home Again,” drew a full house. So that’s where the general migration of stu­ dents was headed for.

Catherine Coogan and Alice Bentzin were given the privilege of appearing with the Mantell players in Macbeth.

Margaret Schmeling, ’29, who is teaching in a Madison gradeschool, successfully staged a play recently.

Alice Dierker and Lucy Lehmann were seen at the Carroll game, It was good to see Alice and Lucy, those inseparable friends together again.

Our biggest interest at this time is the tryout for parts in “The Swan.” The girls are taking a great interest in this and the large numbers of girls’ parts in the play stimulates the interest.

Ruth Ibisch, who had never before appeared in a play, took part in Shaw’s “十he Man of Destiny.” The Co-eds are very proud of their new actress, for she surely did well.

Thanks to H. Schulz ust saw Cleopatra,v l Pompey, the old geezer.

That may be all O. K., But wait till Julia Caesar.

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Wait and See When wc asked Pape what a Senior was, he answered, “A Senior is a fellow who sleeps on Arbor Day, but wakes up in time for lunch•” 1-Iic: “Professor，have you a hobbyP” Prof.: “Das ist eine Gewissensfrage.”

Ade: “Er hat jetzt ein ‘hobby’!”

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Four Courts make one Lifer. : “Can you give me an example of a commercial appli­ ance used in ancient times?”

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Cop: “That’s one thing about Skeezix Fenske; he always looks up to a fello'v.” 本 氺 C—: “This dictionary hasn’t even ‘halitosis，.，， Oscar: “Then it must be a good one.” 氺

The tutor asked Schoeneck ancj Kaschinske not to ask for per­ mission to go out for two weeks. Now he has ‘Rope’ wondering if that means that they have unrestricted privileges. 七* 木 Prof.: “Das weibliche Geschlecht hat viel frueher Verstand als das maenliche; so weit naemlich das Weib Verstand haben kann.”

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It is an established fact that an ox cannot stand red. that is why ‘Steer’ and ‘Roth’ never agree!

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Will do your pressing for you at any time during the day, but in the evening I press my own suits.

G. Struck.

Now that my time expires as joke editor, I’m still in doubt as to what that green box in the first floor hall of the recitation ljuilcling is used for. The editor says it has its aesthetic purposes, for it covers an unpainted space on the wall.

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INDEX OF VOLUME XXXIII “Agnes Bernaucr" als cin Drama der Glcichen Bcrechtigung—W. Pless....ll7 All the Riders Pass Me By (Poem)—M. Franzmann ••+'• .............---- .r_ 1 12, 44, 90, 131, 160, 201, 234, 264, 302, 338 Alumni .

America’s Debt to Lord Shelburne (Commencement Oration)— 64 123 Anlic and Antique—L. Ristow .................. —.. ... ...... ...... .226 Asccjicling Pike's Peak—O. Witte —---------------------18, 52, 99, 134, 168, 209, 241, 274, 312, 346 Athletics -------- -------------------------------------------------Atlantis—C. Trapp ________ _______________________ 224 Aus dcr Fruehcn Geschichtc Watcrtowns--W. Dobratz .142 Autumn (Poem)—Wm. Faber ........ ...................................

193 Black Cats and the Like—E. Kaspar …… …----------------_____ 112 Boy (Poem)—Wm. Faber Campus and Classroom (Humor) . 25, 59, 109, 139, 176, 217, 246, 281, 321, 355 -329 Clothes Make Ihc Man—S. Fenske Clouds (Poem)—G. Rowe -----------24, 138, 175, 216, 245, 281, 320 13, 48, 93I, 165 , 206, 237, 268, 306, 342 College Notes ........ .................. ...... .

Coming Events Cast Their Shadows Before—A. Gatz 294 Constitution of the United States, The―A. Sippert -------------- Dawn of the Wicked (Poem)—C. Coogan-------------------------------197 Day Moon (Poem)—Wm. Faber --------------------------------------------.219 Die Drei Bcwahrungsniittel DeutsclVlancis im Dreisigjaehrigen 284 Die hohe Bedeutung von Luther's Kleinem Katechismus fuer den Christlichcn Religionsunterricht (Commencement oration)一 .67 H. Oswald ------ — Dirge (Poem)―Wm. Faber Editorials----------------------….17, 51, 97, 132, 167, 207, 239, 272, $11，344 Exchange _______________ Experience "(Poem)—Wm. Faber _____ 284 February Number ----------ai6 Figurine, The—Betty Faber .-153 Flapper~W. Hoepner ----125 For An Album (Verse)―W. Faber ------------------------------------27 For One Not Brave Enough (Epitaph)—M. Franzmann------.324 Four Sonnets—M. Franzmann ------------------------------------------221 .332 German and Swiss Settlements in Pennsylvania—P. Schliesser 31 Hidden Romance—G. Rowe -----------Humor—vicl. Campus and Classroom 35 If I Were King (Poem)一A. Peters — ..............91，128, 337 In Memoriam ................................. .....

252 January Number ---------------------------•—64 June Number______________________

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1 21, 55, 10(5, 135, 172, 214, 243, 279, 318, 353 Locals-----150 L. S. S. and C.—P. Schliesser -----------------5 Man and Beast—0. Naumann -------- ----------.324 Harch 2 Marriage Ceremonies一O. Engel--------------- .113 Massacre of St. Bartholomew, The—A. Gatz Meditations on a Friday Night—-J. Radloff .328 Moslems in Spain, The—W. Wichmann … …

My Favorite Poem—R. Kaschinske-----------254 Night of Fun, A—H. Meyer................ ...........

179 November Number ------------------------------.194 November Tragedy—W. Faber .....................

186 Octagon House, The—L, Ristow -------------142 October Number On Doors—R. Kaschinske

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120 Pandemonium—G. Rowe ......................... ... ........ ........................ ..........

180 Queen Liliuokolani, Last of Hawaiian Monarchs—P. Schliesser 148 Radio—E. Schultz — 258 Raising Money, for the Church —M. Dornfcld 143 Ralph Roister Doister—L. Ristow — —..… .229 Revenge (Poem)—C. Coogan -------------220 Roads and Streets (Poem)—C. Coogan 291 Schools of Sparta and Athens—J. Dahlke .258 Sea .(Poem) —W. Faber----------------------Seminary Notes.......................................... 9, 42, 88, 161, 202, 234, 264, 303, 339 …—112 September Number............ .......... ..............

256 Sonnet on Death, A—M. Dornfcld _____ 182 “St. Nick”一L. Ristow ....................... ..

27 "Strange Interlude”一O. Hammen ..…—… …

179 To An Old Idealist (Poem)—Wm. Faber 」89 Today is Tuesday~A, Gatz ...... ...............

•—334 Too Far (Poem)―Wm. Faber______ .....

289 Two of a Kind—E. Froelich ....... ........... .223 Watertown Geese—L. Lutowsky ___ .....

257 Youthful Romance, A—L. Schliesser ___

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A Young Man’s Fancy— Lightly turns to interpreting Spring in terms of clothes. He is aided in this by Curlee Clothes which are ever in tune with the mood and the mode. Superbly tailored in lighter weight fabrics the CURLEE line for Spring takes front rank in the style parade. If you would be in step with style then step in now and see our new Spring line!

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AT THE BRIDGE

Wm. Qorder Co. COAL, FUEL OIL, WOOD, COKE Sewer Pipe —AND—

Building Material 608 MAIN STREET

TELEPHONE 33

OTTO F. DIERKER, M. D. EYE, EAR, NOSE AND THROAT EYE GLASSES FITTED

OFFICE, 312 Main Street

WATERTOWN, WIS.

Young Men’s Choice

CARL F. NOWACK

The new W. L. Douglas oxfords are exactly what the well dressed young man will want for spring— they arc reasonably priced, smartly styled, and extra well made.

We think they represent just about “the last word" in fine shoe making.

Furniture and Undertaking

KALIEBE，S 616 Main St.

PARLOR CHAPEL UP-TO-DATE EQUIPMENT 313 Main Street Mrs. T. B. Rau, Lady Assistant Phones 54; Residence 51

STOP AND EAT AT THE

Bridge Inn Excellent Food at Moderate Prices GOOD COFFEE Always Open

Phone 307-J

We have the hunch for your light lunch

107 W. Main St.

Watertown |

THE OLYMPIA M. SALLAS, Prop. :

Northwestern Delicatessei?

“The Place for Goodies”

A. POLZIN Ice Cream, Candies Cigarettes, Groceries 1207 Western Ave. FOOTBALL,

and all kinds of SPORTING GOODS at

ICE CREAM MIXED CANDIES LIGHT LUNCHES

205 Main St

BASKETBALL

Salick’s JEWELER

1-3 Main St.

Always look your best—you owe that much to yourself. Clean clothes will do it by having them cleaned and pressed when attention is needed.

Repairing and Alteration OUR Specialty

Tietz Cleaners & Dyers Phone 620

110 Second St.

SHOE SHINE SETS

YOUNG’S Marble Barber Shop

39c

MEYERS

SHOE STORE I "Watertown

101 First Street 345-J

Star Lunch Restaurant Meals and Lunches REGULAR DINNER from 11:00 to 2:00 Tables for Ladies

WM. SCHUBERT, Prop.

411 Main Street JAEGER MANUFACTURING CO. (Incorporated) Manufacturers of SASH, DOORS, INTERIOR FINISH AND STORE FIXTURES Telephone 1022 1109 Ninth Street

Watertown, Wis.

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