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TABLE OF CONTENTS

LITERARY— Governor Coles

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The Desecrators

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West Wind

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Gleanings from the Kit-cat Club

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EDITORIALS— Our Black and Red

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A Year of Retrospection------

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The Misologist’s Error

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SEMINARY NOTES.....................

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ALUMNI NOTES AND FORUMCOLLEGE NOTES AND ANNOUNCEMENT OF PLAY

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EXCHANGE--------------------------

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ATHLETICS-------------------------

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LOCALS —...—-—................. —

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CO-ED NOTES--------------- ------

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THE BLACK AND RED Volume XXXVI.

Watertown. Wis.. April 1932

Number 1

W is., as second class matter under Act of 3, xS79ÂŤ Published monthly. S ubscrription. One Dollar.

GOVERNOR COLES In 1819 a Virginia planter sought a new home in Illinois.

He was an educated, noble, and high-spirited gentleman. He had been private Secretary to President Madison and had been sent on a diplomatic mission to Russia. He was also a personal friend of Thomas Jefferson and President Monroe. Surrounded by his personal property and his slaves on_ two flat boats he drifted down the beautiful Ohio to Illinois. As they drifted down the river, he called his slaves around him one day and gave them all their freedom. They were overjoyed, and with tears of gratitude they thanked the man whose finer nature had revolted against slavery. The man was Edward Coles. Soon after his arrival in Illinois he was appointed Register of the Land Office at Edwardsville. The importance of this office enabled him to make many acquaintances all over the state, and the position helped to prepare him for the part he was to play in the first great conflict of the Prairie State.

At this time, notwithstanding the Ordinance of 1787, Illinois was a slave State. Slavery had been introduced by the French in 1720. These French settlers continued holding slaves, and immigrants from North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee and 1

other states came to Illinois bringing their slaves with them.

These pro-slavery men at different times made an effort to have Congress repeal the Ordinance of 1787，but failed. Many slaves were admitted as late as 1824 and 1826, the excuse being that they were necessary for operating the salt works at Shawneetown. Laws were enacted in the Territorial Legislature protecting slavery, and a slave Code was adopted as severe as that of any slave State. These laws admitted slaves under the guise of indentured servants.

The Constitutional Convention was made up largely of members from slaveholding committees. The only reason they did not make Illinois a slave state was because they knew Con­ gress would not admit the State with a slave Constitution, as that would be in defiance of the Ordinance of 1787. So they made a free Constitution with the avowed determination to amend it later, so as to make Illinois a Slave State.

Shadrach Bond was the first Governor of Illinois. In 1822 the second election was held. The most prominent candidate was Joseph Phillips, then Chief Justice of the State. He was supported mainly by settlers from slaveholding states, who favored slavery, although the slavery question was not made a direct issue of the campaign. Mr. Coles, the opposing candi- ” date, was known to be bitterly opposed to slavery. Thomas Browne was brought out to help Phillips and besides these Mr. Moore appeared as the fourth candidate. Mr. Coles was elected by a small plurality and only through the division of the pro­ slavery men. According to the total votes about three thousand voters might be considered as opposed to introducing- slavery into the state, while about five thousand favored slavery and the adoption of an amendment to the constitution which would legalize slaveholding in Illinois.

The movement to amend the constitution began in 1823 when the Legislature was to pass a resolution whether or not the question of calling a Constitutional Convention was to be submitted to the people in the next general election. Governor Coles expressed his radical views concerning slavery in a mes­ sage to the general assembly, which embittered the Legislature against him. Every means to succeed was made use of by the pro-slavery men. Fearing open discussion they prohibited all debate on the question. The cry of the pro-slavery men: “The Convention or t)eath’’ increased the general excitement Think­ ing they had the required number of members on their side to insure final success, they brought up the Convention Question to be voted upon. At the very last minute member Hansen of Pike County changed his mind and voted against the Resolution.

So it was lost by one vote. The Convention men were so en­ raged over the defeat and so determined to win that they forced 2

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the consideration of an illegal motion to reconsider and passed it. To insure against the deciding vote Hansen was put out and Shaw, who had been defeated in the election, was put in.

The Resolution was passed to hold a Convention to amend the existing Constitution so as to make Illinois a slave state.

The Convention party celebrated this triumph with a wild, defiant and disorderly procession. But Governor Coles did not give up, although the outlook was gloomy. He held a meeting of the anti-convention men, and the first thing they did was to issue an address to the people revealing all the schemes of the pro-slavery men to make Illinois a slave state. Governor Coles 只ot control of three newspapers and himself contributed many forceful articles in support of his position. Through his in­ fluence pamphlets and hand-bills were scattered abroad, and orators were sent all over the state to declaim the truth. He organized opposition everywhere and not only spent his entire salary but contributed largely from his private means. On the other hand the Convention men were not idle, but they kept obscure the real reason for wanting to amend the Constitution.

But throuprh the excellent leadership of the Governor and united efforts of the anti-slaveiy followers, the Convention Resolution was defeated at the polls in 1824, after one of the most bitterlyfought campaiprns in the State’s history.

Governor Coles’ administration covered the first critical period of the State’s history. His entire administration, more­ over, was one of the purest, strongest and most successful the State has ever had. Illinois has fittingly honored Governor Coles by giving his name to a large and important county.

L. Schliesser ’32.

THE DESECRATORS In the form of a scarlet tanager Athena, on the back of an eagle, swooped down out of the blue sky and alighted in a maple tree on the campus of Stanford University. She had come from Olympus to inspect her American temples. Her carrier flew to the ball of a flagpole to await her. .

Beneath the tree two students were discussing school affairs. ‘‘Going to join the Science Club, Bill V1 asked Jim..

4<Sure thing. In an outfit like that I can accomplish some­ thing.”

Athena was pleased. ‘‘A Science Club is a very good thing for their education.” She now flew over to the lecture hall of the Engineering Society and perched on an open window to listen to a lively discussion. It was a joy for her to hear them.

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back to her first perch. The students had left, but others were strolling in small groups along the graveled walk that curved round the maple. Athena listened to the snatches of talk wafted up to her as the students approached and passed her.

“How’d our debate with the Oregon gang come out ?” ‘‘Swell, beat ’em to a frazzle.” 一“How’d you like old man Johnson’s idea of giving his fellows a consultation hour once a week ?M “Great! it gives them greater interest in their work.”

—* *How big is the Astronomical Society by this time “Oh, it has about six hundred and forty members.”一Athena cocked her head in pride. Her American worshippers were faithful!

Contentedly her breast swelled, while she plumed herself with her beak. Yes, her American worshippers were faithful— faith­ ful in this respect.—But how about the other one ? Athena now cocked her head in wonder. Then she flew to many corners of the campus to look for “the other one.” But nowhere could she find it. Sorrow began to slow her heartbeats.

Finally she flew up to the eagle on the flagpole. There for some moments she sat, with her dainty head pulled in, to ffaze over the buildings of the great temple of knowledge. If there were any real evidence of “the other one”, she had not noticed them. Certainly there must be very few, if any.

But perhaps Standford was an exception. Athena decided to inspect another. Thereupon she spoke to the eagle; immedi­ ately they shot off into the blue. High over the Rockies they soared, over Colorado, and then swooped down on the University of Kansas. They alighted on the Administration Building. The eagle stayed there, while Athena fluttered down to the open window of the Faculty Chamber and stopped on the sill. A meeting was in progress.

“Then it agreed, gentlemen, that the Home Economics and the Psychiatry Courses will be placed on the curriculum next, month.”一The news gladdened Athena. “A Home Eco­ nomics and a Psychiatry Course. How eagerly the Americans grasp new institutions for education !’’ Her delicate neck rose in pride. — But she must go to look for “the other one.” First she flew off to the lecture hall of the Lyceum Society. There she listened to arguments concerning a proposed change in athletics. The vibrant interest o£ the speakers made Athena’s pretty feathers tremble. 一But where was “the other one”？ In search of it she flew from one building to another, where at the windows she listened. But neither there nor on the campus did she find it. Finally she fluttered weakly back to the eagle.

There for some moments she contemplated the array of buil­ dings. She cocked her head in amazement. But perhaps this temple also was an exception. She must visit more of them.

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winged away again toward the east till they reached the Univer­ sity of Pennsylvania. _ …

Here again Athena was thrilled by the American spirit.

From the window of a dormitory her eyes were held by the front page of ‘‘The Reviewer.” 一 “New System of Grading will be Adopted,” “Value of Extra-Curricular Activities Doubted,^ “Should Dramatics be Abolished ?” 一 The fruits of a vigorous desire for improvement made Athena hop about in rapture. In this respect her American devotees were by a good margin superior to her European. — But where was ‘‘the other one^?

•Again she flew about to listen to groups of students. Finally she found a trace of ‘‘the other one’’. The discovery was like the breath of a zephyr. But it soon passed away, for Athena could find no more. At last in great sorrow she fluttered back to the fence on which she had left her carrier. Again she sur­ veyed the scene in dismal sadness; at the realization of what she had discovered for the third time she arched her neck in anger. Yet she would examine more of her temples. She spoke to the eagle and he soared to several other colleges and uni­ versities.

But nowhere did she find an example of the true worship of “the other one’’ that she sought. Finally they swooped down on the University of Wisconsin. Here Athena heard of the greatest outburst of the American spirit, the mighty trial in education, the Experimental College. In astonishment her bright little eyes grew brighter aud her tiny frame quivered in ecstasy. “0，the magnificent zeal of the Americans for the practical !’，一But where was “the other one’’？ Now her delicate form of red goi，宮eousness quivered in rage.

•Almost in despair Athena at last rode the winds on her carrier to the east again, till they reached Harvard. There the ea^le dropped down at the edge of a glen. Athena fell off in exhaustion. For some moments she lay with disheveled feathers.

Utter despair had seized her. Then suddenly her wings began to tremble. She listened. Then the red richness straightened in wondering excitement.

Finally Athena hopped across the grass and looked down into the glen. The sight made her eyes grow wide in astonish­ ment, and the sound tickled her nerves to new life. For before her sprawled on the ground or leaned against the trees Messrs.

Holwell, Smith, Morton, and Keller, whose imaginations were being lashed by lines from Shelley’s “The Cloud,” issuing from the mouth of Williams : *'Sublime on the towers of my skyey bowers, Lightning my pilot sits; In a cavern under is fettered the thunder, It struggles and howls at fits.—” 5

Athena arched her neck in delight. “That orbed maiden with white fire laden, whom mortals call the Moon, glides glim­ mering o’er my fleece-like floor—Athena was enchanted.

To one vivid phrase after the other she listened; presently another masterpiece was spoken. Athena plumed herself, while exalted joy at her discovery for a time overwhelmed her former sorrow.

After a half hour she hopped back to the eagle and gave her last command. Now they winged off into the sky back to­ ward Olympus, while Athena’s heart beat more happily; for not all the Americans had cast out of her temples the worship of “the other one”一Appreciation of Beauty.

E. Knoll, ’33 WEST WIND Aunt Hannah, a negro mammy, had braved many a gale and weathered many a storm. For some seventy-five years she had lived in her weather-stained hut on the old plantation. It was her only possession, but it was strong. True, oftentimes the winds had torn shingles from the roof, green with moss, yet it was strong. How many limbs from the trees round about had not been torn down! And these trees had already withstood storms for centuries, before Aunt Hannah had learned their names. They had crowded up to the cabin so far, that they shut out all the sunbeams from her one-room cottage. No, not all! a single ray came through the only window, and that at three in the afternoon.

At this time Aunt Hannah always made it a point to sit here in her rocker. The window had no glass, but then, it was in accord with the room as a whole. There was no rug on the floor, since Aunt Hannah was too poor to buy one. True, it was years ago that she had been freed by her massa and had been given this plot of ground, but it was very little she could earn on the side. In money she could not trust and she did not, for she had none. God was her Staff and Rod. Daily she confided in.Him. She was only a grown-up child; she had a child’s faith. Poverty and old age were hers now, yet she did not fret, N o, she was always cheerful and, when she sat at her window in the afternoon, she found genuine enjoyment in the b irds and the flowers and in her heart praised her ‘‘Lawd’’.

Today she did not see in nature what she was accustomed to see. An uneasiness pervaded her being. Yes, she had felt that way before! Today her glances often rested on the room; on that table, where she had fed her little ones, now long dead; on the bed in the corner; on the open fireplace, in which the wind liked to play. Plates and other dishes were on the side6

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board and “Tabby” at her feet. They seemed different! The old beturbaned woman felt regret in her heart, a sorrow and a longing. Unnoticed even by her, two tears trickled from the corners of her eyes to the corners of her mouth.

At sundown she went out. Everything- was quiet but for the birds and the restless, nistling leaves. The sultry air pressed down upon the country, and it did not take her long to decide to seek the coolness of her only room. Evening came and supper passed. Then Aunt Hannah in her child-like faith prayed to the “Lawd”，her Comfort and Staff. She again took her seat at the window and watched the bluish half-light turning into night. The uneasiness stirred in her again. A dry, keen wind was rising in the West.

At first there were only occasional gusts, but these gave place to a steady wind increasing in velocity. Gleaming light­ ning flashed in the sky. Another storm was in the making.

Soon the wind was howling like mad. There was daylight and then a crash. Bang! The monarch elm before the cabin shook and slowly fell. The old mammy was stunned and even the storm abated somewhat as if Nature herself were weeping for the fallen sire. Then it blew with renewed fury. It tugged at the roof, it tugged at the door, it tugged at the chimney. The cabin shook and quivered. The wind shouted down the chimney and put out the lire. Everything was dark indoors and out of doors. Louder and louder the storm howled as it made its attack on the cottage. But the furies could not take a tight hold on the cabin ; it bent with the wind. Many previous buffetings of equal force had taught it that much.

By this time the dishes were on the floor and bricks were tumbling down the flue of the fire place. But Aunt Hannah sat in her rocker, determined to stick it out with her cabin. When the storm blew too mighty, she knelt and prayed, ' ‘Lawd, dear then Lawd, give me a sign. I won’t leave without a sign.” Just — the door was violently torn open. That was the sign! She slowly arose, grasped her Bible tightly and felt for the open door. Hardly out of doors, she was immediately carried off her feet. The wind gently set her down behind the protecting trunk of the fallen tree. Occasionally, whenever brilliant, blinding lightning flashed, she would look around. She could recognize nothing. Everything seemed unfamiliar. Suddenly the storm went as it had come and left behind itself a sullen silence.

Aunt Hannah kept watch all night. Slumbering giants lay all around her. Not until dawn came, did she dare to look to­ ward her cabin. It was nowhere to be seen. The strong cabin had weathered its last storm. Nothing but plain land was to be seen. Sad, but yet cheerful, with the Bible in her arm and 7

pussy trailing behind, Aunt Hannah left the place, murmuring to herself. ‘‘And I will dwell in the house of ‘de Lawd，forever”.

Harold Wicke___ GLEANINGS FROM THE KIT-CAT CLUB What shall we call this modern age poetry? This age is an age of pragmatism-materialism. Are the modern British poets materialists? Very few are. The echoes of the Great War are now but like a faint whisper in the caverns of modern Parnas­ sus. “The Winged Horse Anthology” calls the age the age “under steam and stone”. But if one looks at this age as a whole, one sees almost more grain fields than factories. Only occasionally is the reader of modern poetry blinded in white clouds of steam and blown against a stone building. Some call the modern British poets “the Georgians”； but by doing thus they omit our great Irish poets, such as Padraic Colum and J. M. Synge. They even omit several of the English bards, such as Alfred Noyes, who is not a member of this group, called “the (Georgians”. So far a name has not been picked that would include all the contemporary British poets.

De la Mare and Masefield are two outstanding poets of to­ day. They are both in the loose group of the Georgians. The former is characterized by his fanciful poems, the latter by his sea ballads.

Walter De la Mare was born in 1873 in Charleston, Kent, of Scotch and Huguenot parents. He received his education at St. Paul’s Cathedral Choir school in London. From 1889 to 1908 he was connected with the Anglo-American Oil Company.

During this time his talents as a poet began to glitter; and in 1904 he received a grant of 100 Pounds Sterling a year from the Privy Purse, which enabled him to devote himself entirely to literary work. His most famous work is a volume of poems, "The Listeners and Other Poems” (1912). His * 'Memoirs of a Midget” (1921), a novel, won for him the famous James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Besides poetry, De la Mare wrote novels and volumes of short stories. His latest product is “The Eighteen-eighties”（1931) • Walter De la Mare’s epithet is “the most imaginative man in England”. In many respects he approaches the great poets of the Romantic Age and sometimes even excels them. He also wrote many poems for children, as William Blake did. Boldly and courageously, as “the Traveler, knocking on the moonlit &ooi%” he probes the land of ghosts.

Quietly he reads what is in the depth of poor Miss Loo’s heart, when she is blankly gazing over her cup of tea. In <4The Tryst” De la Mare unswervingly expresses a “changeless vague of 8

peace’’，a conscious nothingness. Some few mortals can con­ ceive of such an idea, but De la Mare can even put such a subtle thought in real words. For this uncanny splendor Walter De la Mare deserves to be immortalized in the minds of all lovers of poetry.

Where De la Mare excels in fairy-like delicacy, John Mase­ field is a master of the rugged and realistic. This poet of the deep was born June 1, 1878, in Ledbury, Hertfordshire. Always an adventurous soul, he very early subjected himself to the rigid discipline of the sea, rising, however, above its sordities and pitiable aspects. In 1895 he went ashore at New York, worked for some time in a saloon and later in a carpet factory. Ab out 1900 he returned to England. After two years he published the ‘‘Salt-Water Ballads’’，showing the decided influence of the time when all he wanted was “the wheel’s kick and the wind’s song and the white sail’s shaking”. “The Everlasting Mercy” (1911) clinched his fame. “The Widow in the Bye Streets” (1912) and “Daubei，’’ (1912) soon followed. Masefield’s service with the Red Cross during the War softened his style. ^Rey­ nard the Fox” (1919) is written in this new manner. His novel “Sard Harker’’ appeared in 1924. “The Wanderer of Liver­ pool” (1930) is his most recent publication. Something of note in Masefield’s writings is that he magnifies the lives of the humble and obscure and makes living characters of them.

Then, too, he annihilates all reserves. His home is at Boar’s Hill near Oxford, near the homes of Gilbert Murray and of the late Robert Bridges, whom he succeeded to the laureateship two years ago. If you care for some brisk, healthy poetry, read Masefield.

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OUR BLACK AND RED This is the first number of volume XXXVI of the Black and Red, and at the same time the first attempt of the new staff. Now every beginning has its difficulties, and it is but natural that we, the new staff, should take up the reins some­ what .timidly, perhaps reluctantly. But has not each successive new staff for the past thirty-five years had these same misgiv­ ings, these same difficulties to face? And staff members of by­ gone years have overcome this feeling and have, by untiring interest and sincere application, made the Black and Red what it is today. Why, then, should we allow our misgivings to in­ fluence us, to obscure the goal before us? And this our goal, toward which we are to strive, is to equal, or to excel if possible, the efforts and accomplishments of our predecessors on the staff; to edit a Black and Red that reflects our student life and the spirit of the Black and Red. ‘‘Putblished Monthly by the Students of Northwestern College”，we read at the top of this page. Have you, dear fellow-student, ever considered how empty and meaningless this statement is becoming? Instead of being published by the students as a body, the Black and Red is being given over more 10

and more exclusively into the hands of a selected few, the members of the staff. Voluntary contributions on the part of the students are almost unheard of; whenever one wants to get material from a student, one has to ask, almost beg, him to write. Whether this attitude is one of false modesty or one of indifference, it is evident that it is by no means a proper attitude to take toward your College Paper. Under ideal conditions the duty of the staff members should merely consist in selecting and revising the material voluntarily contributed by the student body, not in supplying all the material themselves. The nearer we can approach this ideal, the more time and care will we, the staff, be able to devote to our task, and the result will be a Black and Red that is worth while, a Black and Red that is, above all, your Black and Red. And now a few words to our Alumni. * Contributions to the Literary Department are requested from Alumni,â&#x20AC;? too.

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Friends and classmates of former days will be glad to hear from you, and the staff will welcome and appreciate any interest shown on your part. So let us hear more from the Alumni in the future.

D. A YEAR OF RETROSPECTION This year, 1932, may be defined as one of great retrospec­ tion. Thirteen years have elapsed since the momentous Peace Conference at Versailles. The public mind, in periods of imreconstruction minent wartime danger, and in the ssubsequent _ period, form many innovative ideas. These ideas, logical and illogical, produce a new outlook on life, and also a concomitant influence on everything that the public is associated with.

History teaches that every war leaves its ineradicable influence on succeeding- events. In some cases the wartime effect was transmitted to posterity in its full potency, while at other times it quickly subsided and nearly entered oblivion within a decade.

The American public has nearly completely passed through its period of war delirium, and at this stage is sanely regarding the world events of the last twenty years. At the same time we are beginning to question and reject certain ideas which ex­ militant. spirit of the World War forced upon us. Fitting the amples of this retrospection and reaction may be obtained from things we are all familiar with. I have selected the placing of the war guilt, theVersailles diplomacy, the present-day literature, 11

the present-day theatre, and present-day psychology for my illustrations.

We must always be sufficiently distant from a great event in order to appreciate its full importance and significance. With the passing years public indignation against the Central Powers has mellowed and at present the objective student of history places equal responsibility for the great catastrophe on all the belligerent nations.

The Treaty of Versailles was regarded as a diplomatic masterpiece when it was drawn up and ratified, but now its glaring mistakes are all too apparent. We see that the Treaty, the culmination of well-meant attempts to improve world affairs, is no more infallible than other peace treaties have been.

Immediately after the termination of the great struggle an avalanche of erotic literature appeared. The public, avid for something sensational after being jaded by the war, literally devoured the sexual novels which obliging authors provided for it. Then, as normal sex-interests failed to hold the readers* attention, the authors re-discovered perversion and homo-sexu­ ality. This revived interest for a time, but the public soon resumed its apathy, because the layman grew tired even of pathology.

In the province of the theatre, we see that the love theme is practically extinct. The romantic theme had paramount im­ portance in histrionic productions from time immemorial. Its absence in the outstandingly successful plays of the current season is very conspicuous. As examples I might cite Mourning becomes Electra, which has more to do with hate than war, Reimion in Vienna, which can scarcely be regarded as a romantic idyll, Brief Moment, which is noticeable for the cleverness of its dialogue and its clear striking of the modern note of skepti­ cism and unrest, and Springtime for Henry, which amusingly ridicules the * ‘love of a good woman, ” the shibboleth of romance.

Since the plays • are produced on the principle of supply and demand, it is evident that the playwrights are merely offering what the public desires. The teste of the theatrical clientele is the result of public retrospection on the last thirteen years.

Post-war psychologists plunged the layman into an orgy of psychoanalysis and introspection. Freud’s doctrine ascribed everything from a person’s dreams to his pet annoyances to the sexual urge. A panacea for all psychological difficulty was offered in introspection. Self-contemplation, as expressed in introspection, is the natural enemy of action. After being nourished for nearly thirteen years on psychoanalysis and intro­ spection, the public is becoming weary of being reminded of its psyche. Oswald Spengler maintains that history is an essenti­ ally irrational sequence of events, entirely unaffected by indi12

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vidual will or effort. His doctrine teaches man that action is futile, and that passivity, or Nirvana is the only logical attitude.

But the average person is tired of Nirvana and can find the only solution to the problem in action. It is quite plausible that the newly-assumed action is a tendency toward the traditional stan­ dards of religion and philosophy.

Thus we see that in three fields the productions of the last decade have lost their effect, and that the public is returning to old ideals or seeking new refuges from the systems imposed on it. As we complete our retrospection we turn our minds to the more inviting prospects of what the future holds for us.

Carl Broecker 735 THE MISOLOGIST’S ERROR There is a reaction taking place in our country at present against extensive education. Not only many of the common people, but also students of many educational centers seem to see fit to take part in this reaction. One would not expect uni­ versities such as Princeton, Yale, and Harvard to take part in it. Yet from all three of these universities teams have been chosen several times to debate on the striking topic: “Education, the Curse of the Age.” The popularity of a subject of this kind was evident, according to reports, by the crowded houses where the debates were given. If this topic were publicly discussed in our own circle, I am sure it would be taken up with equal interest. At the first reading of these facts we voluntarily wish to throw up our hands and say with Chaucer: “If golde rust, what will iron do Education is a widely discussed topic, and a joking student once said that education enjoys a universality second only to Ivory Soap or Mr. Wrigley’s specific for jaw-bone culture. Now many people are finding fault with education. Undoubtedly the methods could be improved, and there are some disadvantages for an individual who has made it a point to become educated.

A popular example of such a disadvantage, although not so practical, is the case of the man whose wife kept him awake nights with questioning him about burglars every time she heard the slightest noise. A doctor who was a friend of this man suggested that burglars were silent. Thereafter the man’s wife kept him awake, thinking about burglars everytime it was quiet.

The misologists, as a rule, take their arguments from such im­ probable examples. They disagree with Job, who said, “The price of wisdom is above rubies.” They lose interest in the activites of others and: 13

“In solemn pride they stand aloof And greet each venture with reproof.”

They judge others by themselves and give this advice: ‘‘Be ignorance thy choice where knowledge leads to woe. ”• They quote Solomon, who said, “In much wisdom is much grief, and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow”. They also quote Matthew Prior, “From ignorance our comfort flows; the only wretched are the wise.” They speak of education as some­ thing that thins a man’s cheeks, that takes the color from his eyes----- this great lust of learning, this unaccountable desire to know and understand. They speak of an educated man as : "A wretched man this wre£ched world pursuing, — which still grows worse by age, and older by renewing.”

These are only a few thoughts from their many broad argu­ ments. A lie that is in part a truth is a harder matter to fight.

So it is here, but these are just statements made by students, that have spent much time in the classroom and have had little experience in applying their education to wordly matters. They have become impatient in waiting for the rewards of their labors. To lose sight of an ideal is as easy as lying. They have lost their ideals, and now they undervalue their education. They will first see its value after applying it in conversation with their co-workers in real life. Themistocles well said that “speech was as cloth of Arras opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure, whereas in thoughts they lie but as in packs.” As to the increase of sorrow through learning, we need but remember that the wiser man is certain of being tempted; for the higher the tower is, the more wind blows about it. Much pleasure and honor can come from one’s Gai­ ning, for the illiterate man cannot share in the pleasures of the dilettante nor does he receive any of the honor of the expert.

The object of the school is to make one at home in the world and friends with all which it contains. According to one’s pre­ paration, so will be one’s opportunity. That is the way to suc­ cess in, learning. According to one’s determination, so will o?e’s difficulties disappear. That is the way to happines in lear­ ning. The snapper-up of unconsidered trifles or the sophisti­ cated rhetorician will not make a big impression in this world.

The student who seeks applause is most’often disappointed.

Just why so many people lose confidence in education is summed up in the German poem by Matthias Claudius 一 “Der Mond ist aufgegangen.”

Wir stolzen Menschenkinder sind eitel arme Sunder und wissen gar nicht viel.

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und suchen viele Ktinste und kommen weiter von dem Ziel.

It is wise to make the exhortation of Solomon our motto, where he says, “Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.”

Allen Hoff ’35

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Sad news and joyful the last weeks have offered.

The first of the former was the death of Prof. A. F. Reim at the home of his son, the Rev. Ed. Reim, Forest, Wisconsin.

He died on the morning of his seventy-second birthday. For many years Prof. Reim had taught in Lutheran colleges in Minnesota.

— On March 18 Mr. E. A. Wurster died at the age of 71. He had formerly been Secretary-Treasurer of the Falk Corporation in West Allis.

• 一 Rev. G. Redlin, ’28，and Miss Wilma Loeffler were married at St. John’s Church, Watertown, April 7. The Black and Red wishes our former tutor and his wife a most happy life.

—Among our recent visitors were E. and H. Schultz and Struck. They helped the Young People’s Society of Trinity celebrate a reunion on April 6. Mr. Zilz, ’28, was here on April 7.

—Rev. I. J. Habeck, ’24, of Minocqua, Wis., announces a new permanent resident of his home in the form of 8% lb. Daniel Ernest. 一 Rev. Gutzke ’18, of Marshfield, now has three daughters.

The latest arrived last December.

—During the Easter vacation Prof, and Mrs. Bolle drove to St. Paul; Prof. Huth visited his son in Milwaukee; Dr. Ott called on Prof. Sprengling, ’94, of the University of Chicago.

—For some time Rev. Hilleman of Marshall has been sick; several members of our faculty assisted him in his work. His son was here with his wife and child shortly before Easter.

— Our tutor, Rev. Kremer, assisted Rev. Schaefer of Mil­ waukee during the Easter recess. Prof. Wendland has for some time held services for Rev. Jahnke of Ft. Atkinson at regular intervals.

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t ^ math —Rev. F. Gilbert, a member of last year's graduating class of the Seminary, was here with his wife on March 21.

—Shortly before Easter Mr. Franzmann, ’28，and Miss Bentzin,，31, came to Watertown. Miss Bentzin is now teaching in a mission school near Cleveland.

—John Meyer, 7 30, and Amanda Schultz selected Easter Day for the beginning of their life partnership. Mr. Meyer distrib­ utes wisdom in a Lutheran school of Racine.

— We did not know of Prof. Fleischer’s artistic hand. For proof we invite you to inspect his painting of Christ, at Trinity Church.

— On April 8 Anton Sohrweide, who attended Northwestern during 1924-25, delivered a talk on “Origin and Distribution of Copper Artifacts,” at a joint meeting of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters; the Wisconsin Archeological Society, and the Midwest Museums. The discussions took place on April 8 and 9 in the Milwaukee Museum.

—“The Alphabet: Its Rise and Development from the Sinai Inscriptions”； this was the book of Prof. Martin Sprengling recently published by the University of Chicago Press. The last paragraph of the critic’s review in the January issue of ''Classi­ cal Philology” proclaims the value of the work: <4In the in­ tensely interesting question of the origin and early history of the alphabet we are grateful for every contribution which marks an advance toward the solution of the problem and stimulates others. Sprengling^ scholarly monograph does bothM.—The U. of Chicago Press recently published another work of his, on the ‘‘Scholia’’ of Barhebraeus.

—G. H. Buenger, ex 727, was re-elected Justice of the Peace in Kenosha for the second time.

nutu Perhaps it will be of some avail to remind the students here that this is not a staff column, but their own. Thus far there has not been a flood of answers.— —K. “Is the work of organizations like the League of Nations of no use whatever Vf Any organization of that type can only render temporary benefits. The only instrument it has to maintain peace, at present, is the sword. The employment of such means can never remove an inborn animosity between nations.—0. K. The League of Nations is of some benefit in so far as it 18

I quells minor troubles between the weaker 'members and thus probably prevents wars in which the larger nations m ight he­ nions come involved. It also permits diplomats to exchange opini on various international subjects. But no league will or can ever prevent the larger nations from following their own policies.—W. H. The Sino-Japanese War showed clearly how powerless the League is when two nations decide to fight one another. About the only use I can see for it is that it gives the nations a good chance to squander money on conferences, and that its disarma­ ment question has filled much news space since the war.—H. G. In reviewing the events of the last twelve years, I find that the League has successfully averted several clashes. The Corfu Incident of 1923, which threatened to plunge Italy and Greece into war, and the Bulgarian-Greek rupture of 1925, which en­ dangered peace in the Balkans, have been amicably settled by the League’s intervention. But in the present Sino-Japanese trouble the League is virtually helpless. It is apparent that it has been successful in adjusting disputes between minor powers, but has been unable to force major powers to desist from their imperialistic aggressions. Yet, in general, I am of the opinion that the League has performed valuable service in the improve­ ment of international affairs.—C. B.

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On March 2. the Philomathean Literary Society presented an interesting program. It was arranged by Miss G. Wendland.

Professor Sitz was critic for the evening.

First Mr. L. Schliesser favored the audience with a violin solo, “A Viennese Popular Song”，by Kreisler. Mr. Schliesser certainly upheld his reputation as a good violinist. Although he chose a difficult piece, he played it very well, including the double-stops which constituted much of the piece. As encore he played “Melody in F”，by Rubenstein.

The second number of this program was a debate. It was the only debate given by the literary societies this season. The topic, which had been chosen, was, “Resolved: that the honor system should be adopted at Northwestern”. Two Freshmen, Messrs. Waldemar Thurow and Fred Tiefel, on the aflirmative side, withstood as opponents two Sophomores, Messrs. Oscar Lemke and Victor Tiefel, on the negative. Strong arguments were brought up and proved by the firm affirmative speakers.

Their opponents, however, refuted many of them and added some in their favor. Although very many of the audience con­ sidered the affirmative speeches more convincing and better delivered, the vote of the judges, Professor Sitz and Messrs.

A. Buenger and R. Schoeneck, was two to one in favor of the negative speakers.

Another unusual number, a musical reading, was given on this program. Miss M. Michaelis read “Little Chink ’ by Helen Wing, while Miss E. Stern accompanied her at the piano.

The last number was a one-act play, Confessional” written

by Percival Wilde. Mr. P. Bentert played the part of Robert Baldwin; Miss E. Faber—Martha, his wife; Mr. R. Stiemke— John, their son; Miss G. Rasmussen—Evie, their daughter; Mr.E. i i

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Schewe—Marshall; and Miss L. Trapp—a maid. In general the various parts were well acted. The plot of the play is: Baldwin withstands the temptation of a large bribe to testify that he remembers nothing concerning certain offences of his friend, who is about to be tried for these wrongs. He is almost per­ suaded by the effective arguments of his wife and children to accept the bribe; but the critical situation is solved when Mar­ shall reports that his friend has confessed.

The program on March 9 was given by members of the Phi Gamma Rho Literary Society. Mr. E. Kaspar was Master of Ceremonies.

To open the program the male chorus sang two selections, “Round My Indiana Home’’ by Joe Dunn and “Parade of the Wooden Soidiers’’ by Leon Jessel. Perhaps the cold auditorium was partly the cause of the flatting in the first piece. The male chorus, however, earnestly hoping to do better in the second selection, again tuned its voices and this time, with determined effort, indeed sang very well.

Mr. Armin Schultz chose for the topic of his original speech *'Intercollegiate Sports at Northwestern.” He strongly advo­ cated that, especially on account of financial difficulties, inter­ collegiate sports ought to be dropped at Northwestern and intramural sports practiced exclusively. Special praise was rightly given Mr. Schultz for his excellent delivery.

Mr. R. Kaschinske then f?ave a few facts about Paul Bunyan, as they were told him by his ‘‘Grandpa, who worked with Paul in the lumber camps.” Very frequently Mr. Ka­ schinske moved his audience to hearty laughter by his humorous remarks about “Paul”.

After this humorous number Miss A. Herro gave an inter­ esting reading. Although the selection was well read, the general opinion was that it should have been given a little more loudly.

A play, “The Little Brown Jug” by A. L. Weeks, con­ cluded the program. The characters were: Smith—Le Roy Benzel; Jones—A. Hoff; Robinson—H. Neubauer; and Brown-A. Maas. The play was comparatively short and was well given.

The whole action revolved about the contents of “the little brown jug.” Smith, a prohibition agent, and his lackey, Jones, thinking that the jug contained liquor, shrewdly bought it and then attempted to fine its owner, Robinson. Robinson, however, assured them that the jug contained only vinegar and again be­ came the owner of the jug. After Smith had departed, Brown, the judge, thinking that he understood the whole matter, ex­ pressed his desire for a drink. It was granted him, but what he tasted was—vinegar.

After the program the members of both societies criticized 21

first, as was decided in the meeting after the previous program.

Then the critic, Professor Kiessling, made several supplements to the criticism. He also advocated this new system of letting the students criticize before the professor’s criticism.

On March 15 one of the plays given by the literary societies during this season was by request played before a large audience of Saturday Club members and their guests at Cole Hall, public library. The title of the play chosen was “What Men Live By’’ dramatized by Virginia Church from Leo Tolstoy’s story bear­ ing the same name. A further description of the play was already given in the January number of volume XXXV. A slight change, however, was made in the cast. Ferdinand Weyland took Orval Kreie’s part as the little devil and Elmer Rimpler took Roland Hoefer’s part as one of the children. The characters then were: .Herbert Resting Dorothy Groth .Marcus Liesener Rudolf Weyland .Martin Toepel .Clare Scheblack Elmer Rimpler ■Erwin Weiss .Lorna Hutson Curtis Hotlen .Erwin Schroedcr .Ferdinand Weyland

Simon, the cobbler Matrina, his wife.

Michael, his appirentice____________ Baron Avedeitch,,a wealthy landowner Thedka, his footman________ Sonia Ivanich, a lady of means Bernie —her two adopted children Nikita Anna Maloska, a widow Trofinoff, a debtor____ The Guardian Angel__ A Little Devil...............

The Play was directed by Professor Kiessling.

The final literary program of this season was given by the Philomathean society on March 16. It was an entirely German program in honor of the German poet Goethe, who died just one hundred years ago. This program afforded valuable prac­ tice to those who took part in it, especially those who gave original speeches, to express their thoughts in the German language. Miss E. Faber arranged the program. Professor Sitz was critic.

The quartette composed of Erwin Schewe, Roman Biesman, Harold Wicke, and Arnold Bolle opened the program by singing two selections, “Heidenroeslein” by Heinrich Werner and “Ueber alien Gipfeln” by Kuhlau; the words of both of these songs are by Goethe. Both pieces were well sung.

After this musical number Mr. H. Wicke presented a few of the outstanding events in Goethe’s life. That his memory failed him several times was undoubtedly because he was unaccustomed to give a German speech. It must be said, how­ ever, that Mr. Wicke gave his audience interesting information concerning the life of the renowned German poet.

Several of Goethe^ lyrical poems were very well read by Mr. J. Radloff• His good enunciation and his careful voicing 22

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of the German vowels were praised in the criticisms of students and critic.

In an original speech Mr. G. Niemann related some of Goethe’s love affairs, especially the one with Madame von Stein.

His fluent speaking was a witness of his abilities in German.

A musical selection, “Unter den Linden” by E. Eilenberg, was supplied by the N. W. C. Orchestra. The absence of the clarinets was a severe difficulty with which the orchestra had to combat. Nevertheless, it played the piece comparatively well. As encore the orchestra played “Der froehliche Kupferschmied.”

As the closing number of the program a part of Goethe’s “Faust” was played. The scene was “Auerbach’s Keller.”

The characters were: Frosch______ Brander--------Siebel_______ Altmayer___ Mephistopheles Faust_______

Marcus Liesener Herbert Nommensen Martin Lemke Edward Knoll Erwin Schewe Conrad Frey

The play was directed by Professor Kiessling.

The general op inion in the criticism was that Mr. Liesener’s acting was especially outstanding. Mr. Schewe also performed his difficult part quite well. However, we dare not fail to men­ tion that the others also did well in their respective roles.

If we look back over this season of literary programs, we certainly cannot help noticing a remarkable revival of interest in the work carried on by the literary societies. Although there was no form of competition between the two societies, it is evident that both successfully exerted much effort to attain a higher degree of perfection.

March 15 marked the date of the mid-season concert of this year presented by the musical organizations of Northwestern College. The concert was quite well attended by the local enthusiasts of music and also by a number who had to travel a considerable distance to attend.

First the orchestra, which is in a flourishing condition this .year, played four selections: an overture, “Majestic,” by A. S. Bowman; “Danse Circassienne” by L. Delibe; “Hungarian Dances 7 and 8” by Brahms; and a march, 4 'Regimental Pride,1}

by J. C. Heed. The director of the orchestra is Professor W. C. Herrmann. .

The orchestra was followed by the mixed chorus, which presented two songs, “Dein Herzlein Mild’’ by Brahms, and ‘Come to the Fail，’’，music by Easthope Martin. The mixed chorus seems to be better balanced this year than it has been jnion of many, showed a for the past few years and,j

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marked improvement in its singing. Professor Sitz is its director.

The quartette consisting of Erwin Schewe, Roman Biesman, Harold Wicke, and Arnold Bolle, won special applause from the audience by their singing of “Liebestraum” by Liszt. As encore the quartette sang “Bells.”

A trio of our ablest clarinetists next appeared on the pro­ gram. They were R. Siegler, E. Dobratz, and N. Ehlert, accompanied by W. Dobratz at the piano. The three instru­ ments blended very well; consequently the selection * 'Merri­ ment Polka’’，by Geo. D. Barnard, was played in good harmony.

The trio responded to the extensive applause of the audience by playing “Celebrated Gavotte0, by Handel.

The male chorus under the direction of Professor C. Bolle first presented two chorals by Bach, “How Bright Appears the Morning Star’，and “Now All the Woods Are Sleeping.’’ The other selection was “Landsighting”，by Edward Grieg. The baritone solo in this piece was sung by Arnold Bolle. The male chorus certainly upheld its good reputation.

As the final number of the concert the band played “Inter­ mezzo-Gavotte” by Joseph De Luca; “Morning，Noon, and Night in Vienna，’ 6y F. von Suppe; and ‘‘March, Bravura’’ by C. E. Duble. Professer G. Westerhaus is the director of the band. To conclude the concert the band played “Stars and Stripes Forever，’ in honor of the late march-king, John Philip Sousa. The audience obviously was indeed favorably impressed by the selections presented by the band. rsiiisiaiisaHjH]ssHji]aiaiira)aasis'asiiMK：as«j；K：«VKi«jK««K IHJ IHJ IHJ

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In the Exchange of The Gold and Black of Wake Forest, there is an article of human interest. “Two boys who were majoring in psychology at Duke College equipped, themselves with stop-watches and went to twenty-five rooms and started twenty-five bull-sessions. They introduced any subject for con­ versation which did not include girls. With stop watches they timed the length of time it took the conversation to turn to the feminine gender. In some cases it took thirty seconds, in others sixteen minutes before the subject of women was brought in for the boys’ analysis. The average time it takes a bull-session to start talking about women is six minutes.’’. But that was at Duke, this is Northwestern. In close association with this, the Capital Chimes of Capital University quotes Dean Hawk, “So far as capacity and seriousness are concerned, our young men are by no means in a class inferior to their fathers/, Since our fathers were no more serious than we are, their bull-sessions brought up the same topics. Therefore our grandfathers, did the same, — and so on back to the first Egyptian schools. Dean Hawk also said, “Those who criticize the present generation forget their own youth too easily. ” ‘ ‘The inability of youth in many cases to think constructively is traceable to the indiffer­ ence which is. so common in the world around them and in their own homes.” He concluded, “The main criticism that can be levelled at our youth is that they are not as alive to politics and international affairs as they might be.”

His last statement is doubtlessly true. Nevertheless, there are several articles on politics in the school papers this month.

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I ^Math ^ These are articles written on Socialism, Prohibition, the Japanese conflict, and international peace.

Students of all Colleges seem to favor Socialism. The various articles give definite proof of this. In the Round-Table, of Beloit, much is made of a conference in New York comprised of delegates from fifty-three colleges. ‘‘Socialism is the only satisfactory way out of the economic crisis”. The other three political questions are also discussed at length, but not so much by individual students, as by assemblies as the one mentioned above. So we see that Dean Hawks is correct in his last stateinent, as well as in the others.

Intra-mural sports are gaining in strength in some colleges.

The Milton College Review says m an interesting editorial, “With the ever growing idea of the harmfulness of interschol­ astic combats, Milton’s step toward intramural work where all may take part is in line with the best thought of the time. The competitive urge of intramural sport is not of the straining in­ tensity of interschool struggles, while it is keen enough to afford much zest to the conflict.”

Capital University in its Capital Chimes expresses a thought which applies to our school, ‘ ‘A mere glance at our list of de­ feats for this year and our all-time intercollegiate athletic record will convince anyone of the non-commercialization at Capital.”

Dr. Rufus von Klein Smid, president of the University of Southern California, is quoted by the Round Tale, ' The record low standard of language has been reached on the college cam­ pus. About one half of the 500-600 words with which common laborers are presumed to be endowed, make up the college fresh­ man^ vocabulary. The word “swell” alone is used to describe 4972 situations’’. In connection with this there is a short clip­ ping containing answers of eighth grade students to questions given them by a psychology class. Dynamo produces dynamite; a legacy is an ankle; to be religious is to be fearful. The last was the answer of most school children. This may show the tendencies of early religious training.

The Round Table of March 2, contains an editorial which is extremely outspoken and true. “It seems that in Beloit College there is a great lack of aesthetic and intellectual appreciation.

What Beloit needs now is no more and bigger buildings, not more and better personnel men to attract students to the college by painting tales of athletic prowess and golden social effulgence, but instead a keen and analyzing conscience of intelligent aestheticism.” Later in his article he sums up the evils. “Our lack of appreciation for what is offered to us is easily shown by the small attendance at the exhibitions held in the art hall; by our slight and practically non-existant interest in music aside from the cacophony of jazz, and lastly by our feeble and impersonal 26

discussions of any problem out of the realm of our limited and narrow lives. Our chapel service of late has become a farce; we sleep, we titter, we converse, we draw pictures of Prexy in the hymnals, we do everything but listen to and leai^i from the speaker. In general we are no more than a group of pseudosophisticated, over-estimated mental ostriches, with our heads in a dune of self-induced intellectual blindness. We are afraid to think. This modern generation has more opportunities, more advantages, s, more possibilities, and greater social problems than any other which has ever lived. Civilization is headed to chaos and ruin, and we are the ones who must save it. Let us not fail. In the name of all intellectuality, and culture, let us, now that we are men and women, put aside childish things and think!”

Here is an article especially for the Sophomores. ^Super­ imposing one electric current on another, has led to a method of controlling1 the operation of street lights and electric water heaters by making use of the same service wires that supply the lighting and heating current. The wire actually possesses the ability to transmit simultaneously three or more electric currents of different characters. These currents do not interfere with each other, but find plenty of elbow room within the thin strand of copper.，’ Armour Engineer, Armour Institute of Technology.

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Glass Basketball The class basketball tournaments proved very interesting this year, providing many fast games, and attracting sizable crowds. The Seniors had many dark moments before they finally were certain of the championship. The Juniors, runnersup for the championship, defeated both the Sophomores and FYeshmen in every game, but they fell four times before the Seniors. The Sophomores were the most erratic of the teams, running away with the Seniors in one game, and in the next falling victims to the Freshmen, to give them their only victory of the season. Maas of the Juniors led the scoring with 80 points.

Final Standings.

Games Played

Won

Lost

Percentage

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11 .818 9 2 Juniors......

11 7 .636 4 Sophomores 11 5 6 .454 Freshmen..

11 10 •090 After the class tournaments had been played, a post-season game between the Varsity and the “All-stars”，the pick of the class teams, was arranged. The results of the game did not warrant the excitement caused by it beforehand, for the game itself was of less interest than the mock ceremonies which pre­ ceded it. The Varsity easily showed its superiority to the “Allstars,” but the fact that the latter had never worked together to acquire any team work lessens the glory which goes to the 28

varsity for the victory. It is certain that several of the “Allstars” showed an ability that would have made them welcome additions to the varsity. Both teams missed many easy shots, the “All-stars” making a specialty of losing their gift shots.

All-stars Varsity Player

Player

F.G. F.T. P.F.

F.G. F.T. P.F

14 2 Schoeneck F. 0 0 0 Zimpelmann F. 2 1 0 Schroeder F. 1 0 0 McGowan F. 0 1 Fredricks F. 1 1 0 1 A. Schultz F. F. 0 0 0 Kreie F. 0 0 1 Biesman F. 0 1 0 Buch Raabe C. 0 2 0 1 1 0 Liesener C. Harke C. 0 0 1 0 0 2 R. Lemke C. Nommensen C. 0 0 2 2 Meyer 0 Martin (C) G. 1 0 0 0 G. 0 12 Schewe G. 1 1 2 Hoefner(C) G. 0 1 Scheck G. Witt 2 0 2 G. 0 Gensmer G. Total .4 3 9 Total .7 8 12 Score at half: Varsity 8 ; “All-stars” 2. Free throws missed : Varsity 2; All-stars 10. Referee: W. Schultz. Umpire: C. Frey.

The Quintaners proved easy victors in the preparatory department, coming through the season without a defeat. The Sextaners, contrary to all Northwestern tradition, came closest to the champions, trailing the Quintaners by seven games. The Quartaners and Tertianers came out even against each other, but the Tertianers fell victims to the Sextaners once too often, to give undisputed possession of third place to the Quartaners.

Class Standings 1.000 12 0 Quinta.

12 •416 7 Sexta 12 5 .333 4 8 Quarta 12 .250 9 Tertia.

12 3 The preparatory department followed the example of the Collegiates in choosing an all star team to oppose the Prep varsity. The “All-stars” surprised the “Preps” with an unexpected amount of resistance, allowing the varsity only a three pointz margin of victory. The final score was 22-19.

On Friday, March 18, the “Preps” journeyed to Milwaukee for a game with Lutheran High. The “Blue and White^, play­ ing on their own floor, took revenge for an earlier defeat in­ flicted by the “Preps” at Watertown. The score was, Lutheran High : 33; Preps: 18. This game closed the schedule for the Preps, and the next time we see them most of them very likely will be on the Varsity.

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Hockey March 13 the Northwestern hockey team ended a perfect season by defeating the ‘‘Eastside Blues’’ of Watertown 6-0.

The game was an exhibition of team work throughout, and it showed that Northwestern has a team worthy of the name.

The scoring started after ten minutes of play, when the dimi­ nutive 0. Siegler substituted for R. Siegler and immediately netted the puck for the first tally. In the second period Grosnick started the scoring at the end of a perfectly executed play.

R. Siegler followed with three points in succession. Late in the last period Captain Bussewitz drove home the final tally to make the score 6-0.

All the members of the hockey team, with the possible ex­ ception of Grosnick, star defense man, expect to be back next year, therefore, if the league of local teams, that had been planned for the last season, but dropped because of lack of ice, materializes next year, we have every reason to hope to see the “Red Jerseys’’ win the championship.

Baseball Northwestern will again play inter-collegiate baseball this year and will not join the Watertown industrial league, as it has for the last few years. A schedule of games, including a three game series with Milton, has been arranged, and we are impatiently awaiting the opening dates. Negotiations were started between Wisconsin University of Madison and North­ western for two games to be played in the early part of April.

Because of a “Big Ten” conference ruling, which does not per­ mit its members to play with schools which use Freshmen on the team, these negotiations were dropped, but in the meantime they had caused several forced practices for Northwestern in the icy winds immediately following the Easter holidays.

About twenty-five men are out for the team, and as this number includes nine veterans, Coach Kleinke should be able to develop a strong team. The veterans are Captain Biesman, Koehler, Buenger, Buch, Schewe, Raabe, Nommensen, Schroeder and Ehlert. Of the new material Frey and Witt seem deter­ mined to win places in the infield, while the two open outfield posij^ns are providing ground for contention to almost a dozen candidates, any of whom may make it. The choice will most likely depend upon batting ability.

Baseball Schedule May 4 Milton at Milton ¥A\wau^ee University Extension at Watertown May 18 Milton at Milton June 1 Milton (Undecided) 30

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If possible several games will be scheduled with the Semi­ nary and any other schools in the vicinity, that play baseball.

The spring sports program at Northwestern offers many different forms of exercise for the amusement and benefit of the students. Some of the students, especially members of the Senior class have organized kittenball team.—Coach Hoefner is trying to teach football to about twenty-five enthusiasts.— Several students have already gone swimming, but the ice cakes in the river have kept many out of the water until now. it won’t Se long, before the old swimming hole will again be teeming with swimmers other than the carp. — Golf also finds its friends at Northwestern, and all over the campus one may find miniature shell holes, where someone has been practicing explosion shots. — Milton College has extended an invitation for two tennis matches to be held April 29, and May 14. At present a “ladder” or .‘ranking” tournament is being held, to make the choice of a team possible.

The depression appears to rest rather heavily upon us, especially upon the Local column. Whether the Locals are in the form of frozen assets, and can be thawed out, or whether they are hoarded, it is difficult to ascertain. At least, com­ paratively few results have been forthcoming. The optimistic promise of “Prosperity around the Corner” is perfectly satis­ factory to the room one has just left, but it’s just so much more propaganda to the person who is turning the corner to the next room.

The number of students staying in the dormitory during Easter vacation varied somewhat. The average was perhaps a dozen.

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On Tuesday, March 22nd, the Doctor Martin Luther College chorus presented a sacred concert in the gymnasium. Quite a number of students availed themselves of the opportunity to hear the chorus here and elsewhere. The audience in our gymnasium was quite large, approximately seven hundred peo­ ple being in attendance. A chicken dinner was served by the ladies of the Saint Mark’s Choir on the 22nd. The students remaining in the dormitory during vacation did not permit such an opportunity to pass by, but did full justice to the edibles.

The dinner was served in our college dinning room.

Because of illness Edmund Kaspar has not returned to re­ sume his studies at the time of this writing. It is possible that he will be absent for a month.

“The Rivals” by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, has been selected by the Literary Societies for our final student perfor­ mance this year. Work on the play commenced about the beginning of April. The cast consists of thirteen characters, nine male and four female. The date for the appearance of **The Rivals” has been set for May 20th.

During Easter vacation Adolf Buenger sang with the Semi­ nary quartette at the Davidson theatre in Milwaukee for Noon­ day Lenten services. They sang both on Maundy Thursday and on Good Friday.

A novelty in the form of a professional window-washer has been introduced at Northwestern. For the sum of twenty-five cents Mr. Rimpler, Sextaner, has offered to scrub three win­ dows and two transoms in both bedroom and studyroom. Bon Ami, towels, water and other indispensable equipment are furnished by Mr. Rimpler. The Local column, thus far, has not been an advertising medium. However, we believe that such an invaluable service at such a bargain ought to be brought to the attention of all.

Benjamin Hahm and Herman Gieschen on Saturday, April 2nd, attended the funeral of Mr. Hahm’s grandmother. Mr. Hahm was one of the pall-bearers.

The Junior Class received quite a shock a short time ago when Ed. Knoll handed in his composition on the Blithedale Romance on time. Since this does not appear to be his custo­ mary procedure, it is evident that some of his dates must have been interchanged. Perhaps his calendar had set the date fcr delivering the composition in the beginning of February instead of in the beginning of March.

Adolf Scheck, Room 16, almost had the misfortune of being1 stranded somewhere out in the Bad Lands east of La Crosse when he hiked home for Easter vacation. However, he was afforcded a night’s lodging at the Siegler home in Bangor. Mi\ 32

Scheck, by the way, hails from Stoddard, an ambitious little hamlet south of La Crosse.

Recently, Messrs. Geiger and Zimpelmann celebrated their birthdays. No, they’re not twins. On these occasions their preference for a scholar’s life was admirably evinced at the supper-table. Stacks upon stacks of books were “shagged” in for them by considerate classmates. Mr. Geiger is still missing one of his Greek (??) books. Mr. Zimpelmann came out of the ordeal unscathed.

The Kit-Cat club, an English club founded for the purpose of promoting an interest is the English and American poets of today, and in some of the older English men of letters, was or­ ganized several months ago.

Achilles, a former denizen of Room 24, has finally been exiled successfully. Numerous well-wishing students frequently carried him back to the room as soon as one of the occupants could expel him. No doubt his friends thought that he had strayed away. In due time he was exiled, and recently no attempts have been made to return him to the prestige he for­ merly enjoyed.

“Re占” Biesman has been elected baseball captain for this year. In an election held after Easter “Hans” Martin was again chosen basketball captain.

Practically all students are turning out for some outdoor exercise. Quite a number are taking up baseball, football and tennis; and some are hiking for exercise. The swimming sea­ son is still closed.

Even Northwestern has its experience with transient students. In the beginning of last March a young man from Winona packed his trunk and took the train for Watertown.

He remained here for a day or two and then returned home again. His motives for leaving so soon after his arrival are unknown to us.

Some time ago the candy-machine failed to function pro­ perly. About twenty-five pennies were found in it instead of twenty-five nickels. Rumor has it that one of the fortunate students was so thrifty that he shook the machine after he had received a candy bar for a penny. It is reported that his coin came out again. In this depression one can expect anything.

Others were not so fortunate in their attempts to coax a bar out , of the vender. Exit the candy vender.

Wednesday, April 6, was an eventful day for Mr. Geiger, the Sophomore class treasurer. When he was peacefully ambl­ ing along in a stretch of boggy land, he suddenly came upon a creek, perhaps four feet in width. His companions would gladly have dissuaded him from undertaking to span it, but Mr. Geiger would not lend an ear to their sound advice. He courageously 33

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took the jump and reached the other bank—with one foot. The other, lagging behind somewhat, was immersed in nearly three feet of water. After some delay, he was again ready to proceed.

In the evening of the same day a cowardly attempt was made on his life. Room 16 was quietly pursuing its studies, when suddenly an explosion rocked the room. Very likely a person outside the dormitory tossed the explosive through the open window towards Mr. Geiger* s desk. Luckily for him the egg was smashed approximately two feet behind his chair, As it was, no harm was done. The culprit escaped in the darkness.

The period extending from the vernal equinox to the summer solstice, better known to us as Spring, has arrived again.

This season creates listlessness in some students, whereas the “Wanderlust” seems to “get” others. Some of the Coeds have taken to hiking, others to roller skating, and still others to wheeling baby buggies.

We were indeed surprised to hear of the marriage of La Verne Zorr, to Whitman Schultz which occurred on November 4, at Milwaukee. The marriage was kept secret for five months, but Bernice Kieck still insists she knew it all the time.

Although it’s rather late, we say, “Congratulations.”

Many of our Coeds were among the large audience that attended the D. M. L. C. Choir Concert in our gym on March 22.

On April Fool’s Day many letters were received in the Girls’ Room. In fact, there were so many that Dr. Ott even commented on them by saying, “This is even worse than Valentine’s Day•” Spring brings along with it its parties. Arline Schumann and Lorraine Asmus entertained some students on the evenings of April 2 and 3 respectively.

Tryouts for the annual play were held April 11. A cast has been chosen and. daily practices are being held. “The Rival弓” by Richard Brinsely Sheridan will be presented May 20.

Since the basketball season is over, the girls，gym class has taken to bowling. Considering the small amount of bowling done before, it seems as though we ought to turn out some very proficient bowlers.

Elizabeth Stern had her tonsils removed at St. Mary’s Hospital on April 7.

Adele Herro will leave Watertown on June 1 for New York.

On June 8 she intends to sail from there to make an extended tour through France, Egypt, and Syria.

Our worthy president, Betty Faber, called a meeting recently to inform the Coeds of the different classes of their Arbor Day duties.

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me.

This column may seem funny to others, but it’s no joke for

Censored Author: Yes, I’m doing very well. I make jokes and my wife makes pictures for them.

Painter: With me it’s the opposite. I paint pictures and my wife makes jokes about them.

How did he guess it?

Junior reading: When Strand painted the donkey, he knew what the end would be when he laid the first stroke.

Schwenzen: Sure, the tail.

Modern Romiet: So we shall elope at midnight?

Julio: Yes, darling.

Romiet: And you will have your suitcase ready when I sneak up to the door?

Julio: Sure. Mother is packing it for me now.

Prof.:

Was sind Feldstecher ? Wir lasen kuerzlich von Krimfeldstechern im Krieg.

Weyland: Sergeant.

Student: I shall have to take an anesthetic? How long will it be before I know anything?

Doctor: Now, don，t expect too much of the anesthetic.

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Case for Pension Prof.: The language has changed a lot since I first taught it.

You know, it changes a lot in a century.

Customer: I’ve brought that last pair of trousers to be reseated.

You know, I sit a lot.

Yes, and I hope you have brought that last bill to Tailor: be receipted. You know, I’ve stood a lot.

Prof.: Should I turn on the light or can you sleep better in the dark?

Stud.: I once knew a man who fell off a window sill on the top floor of a ten story building and never hurt himself beyond a few bruises.

Another: How could that be?

Stud: Well, you see, luckily he fell inside the room.

Buss: What would you do if you could play the piano like I can?

Geig: I’d take lessons.

As Was To Be Expected Prof.: How would you spell ichthyopagous?

Stud.: Very poorly.

Customer: I want to get my boy a saxophone for his birthday.

How is this one over here?

Clerk: That one is out of order; it won’t sound.

Customer: Just what I’m looking for: Wrap it up.

“A little bit goes a long way’’，said a Sparrow as he pushed a pebble off the skyscraper.

Friend: This is certainly a good cigar you gave me, old fellow.

Ditto: Shucks! I bet I’ve given you the wrong one.

Baseball Prof.: (after Easter recess): This is the home stretch for the . year. You realize what that means, don’t you?

Martin: In the home stretch you usually slide.

Whoa Ehlert reading in English class: “Good evening, gents,” says I, “Won’t you light and tie your cigars?”

Not The Only One Sign on deserted miniature golf course: Opened by mistake.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

LITERARYA Lost Lake

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A Visit to Mount Vernon

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Before the Days of Flit

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Mr. Clangor

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ED1TORIALSShould Dramatics at N. W. be Continued in the Future ?…….

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Benefits of the Tristate Inter­ collegiate Conference.............

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The Co-Ed Problem at N. W. C.

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Criticism .......................... ..........

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SEMINARY NOTES......................

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ALUMNI NOTES...........................

COLLEGE NOTES AND FORUM

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EXCHANGE---------- ----------------

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ATHLETICS_________________

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LOCALS...—.——...........—”—•

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CO-ED NOTES—.........................

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CAMPUS AND CLASSROOM -

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THE BLACK AND RED Volume XXXVI.

Watertown. Wis.. May 1932

Number 2

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

A LOST LAKE I found the most beautiful lake in the world last summer and so far as I know I’m the only one that’s seen it. I’ll tell you of it, but I wouldn’t tell you where it lies if I could.

It’s a two day hike from Mercer. Mercer is a small resort town in northern Wisconsin and boasts of three stores, a postoffice, and seventeen saloons (the census is not of my taking).

A two-day hike isn’t much to get to a lake like that one but it’s no ordinary hiking. Half of it’s through Cedar swamp and if you don’t know what that means I’ll tell you that in breaking my way through I left all of one jersey, one entire pant-leg- and most of the other, the greater part of a shirt and some good pieces of skin all hanging to the trees in small pieces.

I set out from Mercer one morning without a pack and only six strips of bacon and two chocolate bars in my pocket by way of food and no weapon save a knife whose blade had been badly bent cutting cheese. I’d been planning the hike for some time —a “get lost” hike; and after numerous inquiries I’d found a place that all old-timers steered clear of. It was too easy to get lost, they claimed. Compasses were of no use because of iron deposits, so I’d left mine at home.

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f，| The hike was, of course, a glorious trip but I’ll dispense with most of that. I know you’re as anxious to get to the lake as I am. The Cedar swamp should be brought in, however. I came to it early the second day—still fresh from a sleep on the shore of a small lake, and still wet from a dip I’d taken. I knew cedar swamps and should have had more sense than deliberately head in to it—but it was over-confidence, I think, that prompted the action. The trees were growing so dense that it would have been difficult to get through them alone, but added to this there were practically as many trees on the ground or half way down so that one could scarcely ever see the ground. The ground it­ self was in no way suffering from drought, for wherever I’d slip off one of the fallen tree trunks, scraping my shins in the process, I’d sink over my knees in muck. There were no deer trails or any other game trails to follow—nothing but a monkey or an idiot would have attempted it in the first place, so I jumped from log to log whenever it was possible. But the going was slow. The only way I could tell I was actually making headway was by the string of tattered cloth hanging to the branches.

I battled and fought and scrambled and fell for two hours before I decided to turn back — but I mistook my course and headed off at an angle. I came to a place where a tornado had torn its way through the entanglement. I walked on the fallen logs and followed the path it had cut. The going was easier and I was regaining confidence in myself. I began jumping from log to log, having a glorious time. “This,” I told myself, “is what Tarzan would enjoy,” and tried an especially longjump with the light grace of one who has been swinging through the tree tops all his life—but I missed—. I fell through the tangled branches and ended up in a mud puddle on the bottom.

That’s where I lost the entire pant-leg. It was ripped off clean, as I looked up from where I lay I could see it fluttering in the breeze from a branch above my head.

I limped on with something of the grace of a shell-shocked cow making frequent halts for rest. I happened on a patch of blueberries about noon and finished every one. I drank a little of the swamp water—it’s terrible stuff, worse than cold, stale coffee.

The next three hours were agony — I was wet and muddy from head to foot. I began to feel that it would be a pleasure to lie down in that slimy mess and go to sleep. Then suddenly I glimpsed the crowns of a grove of pine nodding in the breeze.

I almost broke into a run, for I knew that meant high ground.

I found the land all right; high land一dry and covered with forests—beautiful pine forests—trees far apart and the ground covered with a thick layer of needles.

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I just walked out of the last final exam in June. That bracing odor of pitch and not that sweet, almost sickening smell of cedar —the wind soughing through the needles and the constant feel­ ing of something watching you from somewhere, I walked fast, hoping to find a lake on whose shore I might spend the night. I didn’t feel like much more hiking, but no lake presented itself. I made my way to a hill and climbing a tree I searched the surrounding country for signs of water but could see nothing save waving green stretching to the horizon in every direction. I slid down the tree and seated myself on a fallen hemlock to ponder.

Suddenly a Canada Jay alighted on an old stub nearby. It was the first one I’d ever seen in Wisconsin, so I watched it curiously. The interest was returned for a while, then the Jay flew off to the right. I rose and followed the Jay and twenty minutes later I caught sight of water just ahead. I broke into a run, then paused and walked up to it slowly and with reverence, for I’d come upon one of the most beautiful sights I’d ever seen in my life.

A beautiful little lake lay between small hills coverd with stately pine, hemlock, and birch. The water was a clear, deep red一the color of rubies because of the iron in the soil.

I came out on the east bank. The sun was just above the treetops on the other shore. It was late summer and the leaves were beginning to turn. The leaves on the birches and maples near the shore were painted in beautiful yellows and reds and were strikingly set off on that background of dark green of the pine and hemlock.

The surface of the lake was calm. It looked as if there had been a wind which had died down and now the waves had almost been quieted. The picture of sky and shore was reflected off the water and it was difficult to tell where these actually ended and the reflections began. The slight unevenness of the water broke the exact lines of branch and leaf and transformed the whole into a beautiful oil painting.

I sat down on the shore and drank in the beautiful scene.

A porcupine sitting on a log rattled his quills and ambled away with a dissatisfied squeak. A Merganser steered her brood away from my intrusion. Two herons blew up from the bank with a squawk and realighted farther up the bank. A bass jumping at a fly started up a series of ripples that travelled to the shore on every side. I remained quietly watching the scene for a long time. The sun had disappeared behind the trees. The sky was a brilliant red and the trees stood out against it in blackest silhouette. A group of night hawks darted about searching for bugs; sometimes they’d dive, holding their wings stiff, and the air rushing around them produced a sort of thun39

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der that sounded like the growl of some large animal not far away.

Slowly the red faded from sky and water. The entire scene took on a grayish color. A Great Horned owl hooted from some­ where in the distance. Then I arose from my seat and took a plunge into the sparkling water.

I gathered wood and built a fire. My supper consisted of a halfbar of chocolate and two strips of bacon broiled over the coals. I cut some spruce and pine boughs and fixed a rather comfortable bed. But it was cold —. I think it froze that night and I’d have been thankful for a blanket. I kept a fire going all night and huddled as close to it as I could with safety. Every hour or so I’d have to get up and find more wood. My muscles ached and I burned all over from the hike through the cedar swamp, but I was so tired that I could have slept on a school bench. When I awoke next morning the sun’s rays were just touching the tree tops on the other shore. Clouds of mist were rising from the lake. I lay still hoping to see some wild animals.

There on the other shore I saw a doe and it’s fawn drinking.

The doe was up to her knees drinking very sedately, the fawn was jumping about in the water like some woodland sprite re­ velling in its morning dip. I was tempted to join them and would have if I hadn’t been afraid of scaring them.

Suddenly the doe lifted her head and turned toward the woods behind her. The fawn too stopped its sporting and stood close to its mother. I was wondering what was wrong when a beautiful buck and two more does stepped out from the trees.

The buck lifted his antlered head and sniffed the air, then entered the water followed by the does. After they’d drunk their fill th6y turned back into the woods and disappeared leav­ ing the doe and her fawn. What a sight that was while all five deer were standing in the water within fifty feet of each other!

The sun had reached the edge of the lake before the doe and the fawn trotted off into the woods. I arose then and took another plunge into the intoxicating water. That deep, red color-like wine, but it felt a thousand times better. I swam out to the center of the lake. A loon, indignant at my intrusion, rent the morning air with his hideous laughter. I answered back and chased him, but he soon lost me in the distance. I swam back to my fire and before dressing splashed about in the water. A mink ran down to the lake shore, watched me a while speculatingly, then trotted on, evidently deciding I was too big to eat.

After Fd dressed, I rigged up a fishline, and using a grub for bait, I pulled out two half-pound bass in quick succession. I washed them.and rapped them up in some long marsh grass and buried them in the coals. A half hour later I pulled them out; 40

they were ready to be eaten. The head and fins came off easily and the insides rolled out in one solid lump. I salted them with the salt off a pretzel I happened to have in my pocket and, to­ gether with half a bar of chocolate and some lake water, they made my breakfast. So I spent the entire day. I explored every corner of that lake. I found two beaver huts and a fresh beaver dam across the outlet.

But I’ve told you too much already — sufficient to say, com­ ing out I was so badly lost that I don’t know myself whether Fll find the spot again. But it’s somewhere between Mercer and Lake Superior. I，m taking off two weeks next summer and if I don’t find it in that time I’ll take more time. But I’ll find it.

A. Bolle ;34 A VISIT TO MOUNT VERNON A coach rumbles up the long narrow driveway and stops before a great white mansion. “Well, here we are again, Martha; it seems good to be back again after our stay in Georgia.”

“Yes”，came the reply from the coach, :‘there’s no place like home. Now that we’ve returned I believe I’ll have the Ladies’ Aid up for an afternoon of spinning, The voice was that of Martha Washington.

“Well, let’s go in and seat ourselves comfortably before the fireplace/J —But no — Now it is the twentieth century. The glorious days of the 1770’s are gone forever. But the Washington home at Mount Vernon still stands, thanks to the Mount Vernon Society. No more do we see George and Martha Washington entertaining those men who framed our constitution and laid the foundations of our country, but we see an almost endless line of tourists making their pilgrimage to the home of the father of their country. Let us imagine ourselves on such a pilgrimage. . Our bus stops at the entrance to the estate. After a fiveminute walk up the winding driveway, we come upon the man­ sion. The space before the home is called the “BowlingGreen.”

The grass is kept up as well as any golf-club manager would keep up his greens. The home itself is a large, white building with three entrances equidistant from one another. Each window has its green shutters. On each side of the building are arched ways connecting several out-buildings with the home.

There are about six of these out-buildings. _ But let us enter and see how the Washingtons lived. We enter at the door to the left. A long room greets our gaze, It is as long as the house is wide. On the floor (chained off so no one will step on it) lies a rug presented to Washington by Louis 41

XVI of France. The design of the rug is the Great Seal of the United States. On the farther wall hangs a huge picture de­ picting a scene of battle. Immediately below it stands a divan richly decorated. To the left of the door stands the fireplace with its andirons. Two five-branched candle sticks and several bowls line the mantel-piece. But we must be moving on (kindly requested to do so by a caretaker).

We now come to Washington’s library. A large, round table stands in the center of the room. Against the left wall stands a writing desk before which stands a deeply cushioned chair, with a back that slopes downward gradually so that it forms arm rests. In one corner stands a globe. “T*he old world isn’t what it was. Just look at it. Almost all of the paint has come off, and it looks almost like an inflated balloon. You’d hardly know that was to represent this world of ours,，，remarked someone.

The books on the shelf are old and worn. There is an unusually great number of “pi芦skins”.

Now let us look in at the family dining room. In the center of the room, of course, stands a small table. Just large enough for four. The walls are lined with chairs strongly suggestingthe modern trend in dining room chairs. Next to the fireplace (there is one in every room in the home) stands a bust of some noted person. The door is too well guarded or we might be able to find out whom it was to represent. The mantel-piece is lined with many quaint objects. By the way, the Washingtons also had a banquet hall. ， After imagining what might have been eaten in the family dining room, it is relieving to go to the music room. Under a window in one corner stands a stool, a little longer than what we would now call a radio stool. Opposite it stands a harpsi­ chord, upon which lies a flute. Washington is supposed to have been rather adept at playing this instrument. On the mantel­ piece stands the clock whose spring was snapped the moment that Washington died. Strange as it may seem, the old lamp chimney seems to have preceded the oil lamp. For on the table in the corner stands a candle stick and candle completely pro­ tected from the wind by a glass which is very similar to a lamp chimney.

We are now ready to go up the stairs to the bedrooms of the family. The steps upon which we tread are supposed to be the original steps of the home. But, considering the little signs of wear they show after so many tourists have walked upon them, the truth (of this supposition is very doubtful.

Recently we pause to look in at George Washington’s bedroom- The room is very plain. A canopied bed, one chair, a found teble, a bureau and a dressing table make up the furnishHere it is that our country’s father breathed his last.

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i her husband's, except that she had more lace and frills. Nellie Custis, Mrs. Washington^ daughter, had everything in her room that the modern Miss would have. Plenty of chairs, tables, books, bureaus, and other furniture. But look as you may, there is no sign of cosmetics. Perhaps her vanity box has been lost.

We go out upon the veranda and overlook the Potomac.

Ah! what a wonderful view! From one horizon to the other stretches the river. It is no wonder that Washington liked home life as he did.

Can you imagine? Martha Washington’s kitchen was not attached to the house. It formed an out-building immediately adjoining the home. In it stand a large, sturdy table, six chairs, and a bench. One wall is taken up entirely by a fireplace, around which hang a copper kettle, a long-handled fork and spoon, a bellows and a pop-corn sieve. In a cupboard are many copper plates and platters.

In another out-building Martha kept her spinning wheels.

She needed a special house for them, for she had enough to supply the entire Ladies’ Aid of Christ Church. They are of all sizes and shapes. Still another out-building served as a barn.

Here Washingtton’s coach was kept, a large, clumsy thing, which wouldn’t fit into any of the modern garages. Here also were kept Washington’s horses of which he was so proud. In another house are kept relics of the family. Specimens of Wash­ ington^ handwriting, anything from buttons to dental imple­ ments. We can certainly consider ourselves lucky that we live in the twentieth century instead of the eighteenth. Some of those tools would make excellent instruments of torture rather than dentist’s tools. _ Now that we have gone through the home of this great man, let us also pay our respects at his tomb. Down a wooded path we go until we reach the small burial plot. Here, peace­ fully, in a vine-overgrown mausoleum, lie George and Martha Washington, surrounded on all sides by kinsmen. A moment of reverence and we must be on our way. After a short visit to the wharf on the Potomac, we slowly make our way back to the bus.

H. P. G. 733 BEFORE THE DAYS OF FLIT .In the days when the northern section of this state was all virgin forest with many one-man towns interspersed, I, Bill Hopkins, was a doctor with my headquarters at Wabeno. I travelled from one town to another, making the sick well again.

But not many of those Indians, Swedes, and Kentucks got sick; and if they did, they didn’t want a doctor. My territory covered 43

about a hundred miles. I travelled from town to town either per hand-car on the tracks or per pedes through the forest.

Indeed, it was a hard life. Many a night I slept in a depot or crawled into a log-cabin to hide myself from bears, wolves, foxes, and wild-cats. But wherever I slept, there was a certain kind of creature I never could hide from. These creatures were not wild, but shameless. They would not even keep_ their distance . when I left the lamp burning, as other animals up there did.

Those outrageous, shameless beasts finally convinced me that, in order to make that North a better place to live in, one must exterminate each and every one of those — bedbugs. When I found out that this was impossible, I gave it up; and now James McGavin is up there trying liis luck at the game!.

Those certainly were some days. Besides being a doctor, I had the marvelous opportunity of studying entomology. One day I came to a place called Dunbar. A settler invited me to stay over night. I stayed. He gave me the best bedroom in the house. **Ah, here7s where Pll spend a real peaceful night,” thought I. I hopped into my bed. I soon got warm, luke-warm, hot, boiling hot without and boiling hot within. “What, have I a fever ?’’ I jumped out and cooled off. I went back in again, and the process repeated itself. “Is this bed possessed ?’’ Why, of course it was. I lighted the lamp and held my watch. Didn’t see anything for a long time. After I had looked all around for clews, I slyly lifted the pillow. Lo and behold! a whole regiment of bedbugs issued forth and scrambled over to the foot end of the bed. I got hold of most of them separately, squeezed them between the two fingers, and placed the lifeless bodies on the dresses in eighty dense rows. Then I went to bed. In the morning I had blisters and boils all over. My host had the nerve to ask me how I slept. Then I had the nerve to tell him that his bedbugs had shown me quite a lively time. The host took it as a big joke and said, “Ha, did they bother you ? They never bother me. Those in my room all wear glass-slippers with bells on their toes. No, bedbugs amuse me!”__Never did I stay there again.

A few days later I arrived at Goodman; I stormed into the lobby of the hotel. It was a bitter cold night, but the room was warm. The lobby was vacant, with the exception of a brassrim-spectacled man behind the counter. “Hallo, stranger Vf said the clerk with his glasses half-way down on his nose ond looking suspiciously over them. I asked for a night’s lodging.

The lean clerk asked me if I wanted it with or without. “With or without what I demanded. “With or without bedbugs, my friend ! We have a salve here, which we sell to keep them off your body,” he informed me. I asked for the difference in price. But the difference was beyond my pocket-book; so 44

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On another night I hailed into Armstrong Creek. I was pretty tired when I got to the hotel. The clerk told me that he had a full house. Well, I talked him into giving me his private bed-room. He let me have it for a dollar. So I wrote my Bill Hopkins into his Ledger, and followed him to my roost. “Pretty good room,” I thought by myself. The clerk pulled the bed out of the wall all ready made. I dismissed him and made my­ self at home. After having gone through the necessary pre­ parations for going to bed, I blew out the lamp and retired. As usual, I got in at the head end. As soon as I was lying at full length in bed, I got kind of dizzy. My feet were going up and my head was going down. Before I knew it, I was standing on my head in the closet and the bed was in back of me. I wiggled myself around till I stood on my feet. Then I pushed with all my might against the bed, but it was all in vain _I was locked in. It was coal-black within that closet there. I cried for help, but no help came. There I was all through the night. It would not have been so bad; but when the place got warm, the bed­ bugs came marching over my body — whole armies of them at a time. They certainly did have their fun! Oh, the pain and agpny I went through that night is simply indescribable! Tickling, itching, burning! I felt like a living carcass. In that condition, perspiring from head to foot, and feeling the sap of life being sucked out of my body, I waited for what seemed to me several weeks, till I thought it was morning. Then I started to pound on the wall again. Every little while I stopped pounding to listen whether some possible hero was coming along to rescue me. After three or four hours someone did come. It was the clerk himself. He pulled the bed out. Oh, what a relief! I saw day-light again! Then he explained to me why the bed went back into the wall. ‘‘My clear man, you didn’t let the footend catch on the floor. It must first click，’’ the clerk told me.

4'Ah, I forget to make her ‘click’，” I said as I took a deep breath. After I had all my paraphernalia packed up, he wanted to collect a dollar for the night’s lodging. I told him that I didn’t have any rest. And he couldn’t collect.

I’m telling you, I had enough of that bedbug region. That was my last place. When a man can’t be sure of his night’s rest, it’s time to make a radical change. I set up my permanent offi ce at Wabeno, where I could sleep at home. No bedbugs there—at least not in a doctor’s home.

I gave up my itinerary doctor’s profession to James McGavin，my old college mate. I told him of the spicy pine breezes and genial nature of the northern people. I made everything look bright and rosy to him. And he bit! He always had been a friend with hostile inclinations toward me. McGavin took the 45

charge. I hope he enjoys his study of bed-bugology.

(Wet-Blanket’s note: “Dr. Hopkins, your friend, the young Dr. McGavin, happens to be immune to bedbugs, and his practice is growing in leaps and bounds.’’） Ferd. Weyland, ’34 MR. CLANGOR Mr. Clangor is an old friend of mine. I have been inti­ mately acquainted with him for some time, as he has been in my service for the last year and a half. The kind of work he performs you will discover as you read this account. I should like to say a few things about his character before I recount an experience he and I once had.

Mr. Clangor is a quiet fellow and seldom speaks, but when he does, it is for a purpose. His voice is harsh and penetrating; it makes one sit up and take notice.

This friend of mine in several ways resembles Napoleon.

He is short, plump, and domineering. His face is broad. He has no hair on his head. One thing which I like especially well about Mr. Clangor is his unexpected good humor and fidelity.

I have never found a more faithful employee. He never grumbles, and I have never as yet seen him angered. He seems to have a keen intuition as to what is expected of him, because it is seldom that I need to give him any attention or orders. He always performs his duty unfailingly, What more can we ask of an employee?

My friend is an early riser. This often is the cause of serious arguments between us, for he insists that all, including myself, should rise very early in the morning, so that they may have the whole day before them, in which to do their duty.

And in all my born days I have never seen anyone with such a “poker face’’. Never, to my knowledge, has the least hint of surprise or excitement been expressed by his features.

One day Mr. Clanger and I had a rather dreadful exper­ ience. It happend on a fine bright day in August. I said to Mr. Clangor, “What do you say to a day of fishing, old top?，，He nodded his ready assent as usual, and an hour later we were sitting in a small row boat. Each of us was enjoying himself in his own special way. .Mr. Clangor is an ardent admirer of nature. He did not desire to fish, but was content to sit on the seat facing me and to doze in the warm afternoon sun. I told him to keep tab on 46

the time and to notify me at five o’clock, as I had an important engagement that evening in Madison.

I had been fishing for about an hour, when I chanced to glance up into the sky. To my surprise I saw that it was fast becoming overcast with thick, black clouds. My com­ panion and I decided that, if we wished to escape a soaking, it was high time to pull for shore. I had hardly pulled up the anchor and started to row, when the first fierce blast of the wind broke over us. The boat commenced to rock to and fro on the choppy waves. With fear in my heart I pulled at the oars with all my strength, for the wind was blowing harder, and the sky was becoming darker every minute. In my imagination the leaping white-caps became evil spirits snatching at my life with a fiendish joy. My body grew clammy, and a cold chill raced up my back.

This distressing situation did not seem to effect my com­ panion, however; he remained his usual calm self. His bland, round countenance showed not the slightest emotion.

I rowed frantically—the waves surged higher—the wind tore at the blades of my oars—nearly tore them from my grasp as I lifted them—then plunged them too deeply into the waves.

Wham! Oh, the wind has torn my oar from the oarlock—with flying fingers I try to reset it -the wind has it again—finally it is in place. The boat is nearly broadside to the waves—.

4 *Pull, pull or the boat will tip, if the waves strike us broad­ side/* my senses yell into my ears. My strength is fast failingwill I ever get the prow to hitting the waves again?—oh, my weary arms!—how long will this misery last? I prayed to God for strength.

It seemed, to my imagination at least, that Mr. Clangor was for once roused out of his maddening calm. His arms seemed to be gesticulating wildly, and trying to tell me where I should row.

Wave on wave beat against our . frail craft. We were drenched to the skin by wind-driven spray and the downpour of rain. I was fast losing all control of the boat, because of my failing strength. Fear nearly stiffened my limbs, but the desire to live forced my arms to pull the oars with all my might.

My prayer for strength was answered, for at last my oar struck bottom. Ah, what hope and joy surged through my breast!!

We were saved!! I slowly dragged the boat up the bank. My arms felt like dead weights, after that terrific strain on them.

The palms of my hands were one mass of blisters.

I started to sing, thus giving vent to my pent-up emotions.

A sharp clang interrupted my song. The sound grated on my 货ut nerves. I whirled around in dismay, but it was only Mr. Clangor, my faithful old alarm clock. This clock I treasured 47

I" ^math ^:Hea'j very much. It is sitting now before me, as I write this account, still the same old Mr. Clangor only a little more bruised and battered.

Oh, what a true friend is my clock, One hand is gone, another bent; The glass is out, the frame is rent, But still it clangs and goes tick-tock. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Curtis Hotlen.

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SHOULD DRAMATICS AT N. W. C. BE CONTINUED IN THE FUTURE ?

For the past five years dramatics has taken a leading part in the activities at Northwestern. It had its beginning on the literary programs and as a result greatly increased the audience, so that at the present time our programs are attended not only by the students as before but by a large number of visitors.

Dramatics is the main attraction on the programs. When there is no play on the program, an occasion which seldom presents itself, there is at once a falling-off of interest and attendance. .Near the close of the school-year both societies culminate their efforts for the year in the production of a final play.

Among the final plays given so far were: “She Stoops to Con­ quer’’， by Goldsmith; “Taming of the Shrew”，by Shakespeare; “The Swan”，by Molnar; “Pygmalion”，by Shaw; and this year “The Rivals”，by Sheridan, has been chosen. They are all widely known. Prof. Kiessling is our dramatic coach and has been very successful in his endeavors. It is my purpose to at­ tempt to show that dramatics at Northwestern ought to be dis­ continued in order to preserve the principles which this college upholds.

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First let us turn to the arguments that support the contin­ uance of dramatics here. These are indeed very limited. As far as personal benefit is concerned, there is very little of it. All personal gain can be summed up in the overcoming of stage fright and probably a little literary value. These same results can be accomplished in many other ways outside of plays, for instance in debates. Wouldn’t an intercollegiate debating team make a good substitution ? It would indeed be much more beneficial and arouse much more enthusiasm. That would afford practical benefit and and an excellent chance for overcoming stage fright. The argument which has the strongest bearing on the continuance of dramatics is that based on the financial success which is thereby derived. # Well, some may say, other schools have dramatics, why shouldn’t we ? This the nature of the school must decide. And I think the nature and principles of our college do not allow it.

As a preministerial school we are, by practicing： dramatics, caus­ ing a great offense among the people of the Lutheran church.

The argument used, and a very strong one indeed, is that the Lutheran church advises its members to avoid the theatre, and then we here at Northwestern practice that very same thing in dramatics. The outward form may not be looked at as if it were the same, but the principle and idea underlying the theatre is indeed identical. I have been approached on this topic with these arguments several times not only in Watertown but also elsewhere. It is an argument against which a person cannot defend himself, because it is a fact. We of the Lutheran church, instead of setting a good example, do just the very opposite and practice that which causes offense. Should we continue such a practice ? I don’t think that we wish to do that.

Oftentimes it is the nature of the individual play that causes offense, especially the language and certain actions. It is not a very pleasant experience when one is witnessing a play and to the rear of you some older visiting people give a sigh at the language and certain actions in the play. It is only a sign that they have taken offense. But this is not the end of it; such things are then talked about wherever opportunity offers itself and soon it has spread among the public. Then it is hard to erase. This is indeed a sad thing and throws a bad light on our school. In view of these offenses, I think, dramatics ought to be curbed at Northwestern and something else substituted in its place, something more profitable for the school.

Other objections, too long to discuss in this allotted space, that support the discontinuance of dramatics are, “It is too great a waste of time” and “One person cannot properly take another character’s place.” The latter oftentimes influences a man to go wrong. Just this last winter a man that was to play 50

the part of “Judas” in a “Passion-play” committed suicide the night before the performance. The fact that he was to betray Christ affected his conscience to such a degree that it drove him to despair and he then ended his life.

G. Geiger ’34.

BENEFITS OF THE TRISTATE INTERCOLLEGIATE CONFERENCE No doubt most of the readers of this article have heard or read of the new 'Tristate Intercollegiate Conference,” comprising five colleges from three states: Mount Morris College, Mount Morris, Illinois; Wartburg College, Clinton, Iowa; Platteville School of Mines, Platteville, Wisconsin; Milton College, Milton, Wisconsin; and our Northwestern College, Watertown, Wiscon­ sin. It will begin to function with the advent of the basketball season. Football games could not be included, because the schools already had their schedules arranged.

That this conference, of which we are a member, is a great boon to us, I think no one will deny. It is hauling us out of the quicksand we have been struggling in for a number of years, trying to extricate ourselves. It means we are scientists who have just found the elixir of life. It is as if we, lifers in a penitentiary, have been given our pardon, facing the world anew, with different ideas.

Heretofore, our teams, if you will pardon me, were setups for other schools. Why? Mostly because of the attitude of the student body. Most of us here, and those graduated in the last few years, in an atmosphere of “What’s the difference’’， “I knew we’d lose”，etc. A person’s early training is never forgotten. So, as we went from one class to the next, we had those ideas instilled into us. We threw in the sponge before we even started the battle. Teams that were in our class not so long ago, are many good lengths ahead now. For instance, Carrojl, Lawrence, Ripon, and Beloit used to play us, in fact were in a conference with us, the “Little Five”. We’ve played and beaten them. Can we do it now? But, when we have a good team in comparison with other years, it is immediately killed. Take next year, for example. We are losing only one man from our developing football team. Then we are booked to play Ripon, who had a championship team last year and who is now out of our class entirely. .

Probably these conditions would be altered somewhat if students had a freer hand in such things instead of being made to comply with the wish of the faculty. To bring this out in a concise manner, I quote Wendell Brooks PhilTips’ article in 51

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Most parents seem quite willing that their sons and daughters should be thus carefully guarded at college, but they readily let them dance when they come home. Caught in this maze of rules (which even specify that one may not appear in class without a necktie), compelled to attend chapel, herded to church each Sunday, is it any wonder that our more intelligent students came dangerously near to having less respect for the college at the end of their courses than at the beginning?’’ And that is what happens. All appointments are made with the consent of the faculty.

However, playing in a conference with teams in our class, we will have a better chance to win games, a chance to revive the old spirit of one of the oldest colleges in the state. A con­ ference means a championship; it means we play teams of our class. We have created a good-hearted rivalry with two teams of this conference already: Milton, especially, and Platteville, whom we played in football last year, and lost to by one point.

To have Northwestern do its share in this conference, is entirely up to the students. We must inform our new students that the name Northwestern meant something, and will mean something. Art Shires came back, why can’t we?

Let’s go out with the idea of winning the game, and take that championship every year in succession. We have h something to strive for now, so let’s do it! Let it be this, that we forget to razz our teams, players and system, so the new students from now on won’t be handicapped by our experiences.

Let’s give them a chance to make this thing a success. Here’s all the luck in the world to them. How about you?

S.，34.

THE CO-ED PROBLEM AT N. W. C. At first glance it appears that co-education should be dis­ couraged at Northwestern, at least to someone who is not familiar with the school. Co-eds seem to have very few if any advantages whatever. There are no social functions which they can attend. The gymnasium is open to them only one 52

evening a week and until this year they had very little super­ vision in gym work. They have no dormitory—the girls must board with some family in town. There are so few Co-eds attending school here that it hardly seems worth the while to encourage co-education.

But what lies underneath this seemingly obvious proof that co-education is impracticable? Why do some Co-eds still come here and really enjoy coming here even if they do not get the social life which some students seem to regard a necessity to college life? Let us look at the situation a bit more closely.

We know that many students attending this school have fault to find with it. That is only natural. It occurs in every school.

And there are mistakes which might be corrected—there are in every school. But it is not our purpose to pick out every little flaw we can find. Let us pick out the good points instead. It is really much more pleasant and satisfactory. It doesn’t leave one feeling downcast or cross, yes, even discouraged, but it makes one feel happy—glad that one is able to attend a school of this sort.

The first, and most important point should be this: The thought of receiving a Christian education, not merely in the sense of getting religious instruction, although that is import­ ant, but in the sense of getting an education under the super­ vision of Christian teachers. From their attitude—the very way in which they present things—one is led on the right track of thinking. Even if one is not a Lutheran, one cannot help but benefit by going to a school like this. And if one is a Lutheran, is it not the aim of Northwestern to teach the doc­ trines of the Lutheran faith? Is not that the reason for its existence? # Another big reason why many Co-eds attend this school is because one can get a very good college education much more cheaply here than anywhere else. It would have been impos­ sible for many Co-eds to get the education they did without the help of Northwestern. This pertains especially to girls living in town, but it is also true of girls living out of town. They can get comparatively cheap board, their tuition is cheaper, and they do not have the outside activities to contend with, which make up a great share of the expense which one must allow for a college education in most schools. And it cannot be proved that an education at a more expensive school is any better than the one received at Northwestern, provided that one wants the course Northwestern has to offer. It can compete with almost any school in the line of a classical education.

And are we really so isolated here? Don’t we ever have a chance to have any fun? It is true that there are few school functions. The Co-eds have a few parties every year, but 53

I哪 another school would scarcely recognize them as parties. And yet, we manage to have a pretty good time at them if we really want to have one. Many of the Co-eds have private parties which are interesting. There are many things in the line of amusement one can do without the aid of a school. If one goes to school merely for the sake of fun, it would be much more con­ venient to have some club which one could join that specialized in giving parties and social functions of every type. Then one would never have to worry about books and assignments.

Then there are the organizatsons which we can join— which many of us have joined. There is the Mixed Chorus, either of the two Literary societies, and the Orchestra. They provide enjoyment in the line of music, dramatics, and litera­ ture. Perhaps some day we will even have a few Co-eds in the Band, although up to this time it has been a thing unheard of.

As for athletics—it is true, there isn’t much of that. But there are so few Co-eds that we could never think of havin team which would compete with other schools, anyway, those who enjoy it, there is one evening a week in which the gym is reserved for the Co-eds. And this last year it has been under capable supervision. If anyone wants more exercise than is given here, there is always hiking, skating1, swimming, or tennis to resort to. And most of the Co-eds take an interest in at least one of these sports, if not in all of them. Every year we hear of some hiking club that has been formed.

So, after this, if anyone asks you, “Do you like North­ western Don’t start enumerating its faults. Just say, “Why yes. I am thankful that we have such a school in Watertown, and that I am able to attend it.

Gertrude Wendland.

CRITICISM How easy it is to criticize, and again how difficult! It is a natural tendency to depreciate anything which does not run parallel to our own reasoning. There is hardly a person on the face of this earth who cannot criticize destructively, but how few can criticize constructively! Destructive criticism is usually prejudiced, and consequently cannot be fair. Very often it is empty talk and provokes nothing but ill-will. In reality this kind of criticism does very little that is constructive. If there are many faults in a person or thing, most people can see them and will criticize them. But wipe out the faults and every­ thing that underlies them—everything they have criticized: then the fabric will be full of holes. It will no longer hold water. In other words it has become valueless. If the faults could be erased, and new material could be substituted at the 54

咕3^^ j same time, the fabric would continue to be of use. We can accomplish this by criticizing constructively. .

Select any great poetic composition. What so-called critic cannot find a line which does not conform to the rules of versi­ fication? What Bowdlerizer cannot find a line which is too indelicate for the ears of a prim maiden-aunt? How many, however, can improve it or substitute for it a better line?

Either the general run of human beings is maligning something, of which it hasn’t the least conception, or it is just maligning. Not many can enlighten with their criticisms.

Frequently the college paper is spoken of in a derogatory manner. One of the most common slurs cast upon.it is that it is ‘‘a hick paper”. Perhaps it is. But such an expression won’t raise its standard. If yon don’t want such a paper to represent the school, and if you can’t tolerate it in its present condition, why not do something about it? The least you can do is to give your reasons for calling it by such a complimentary name. If — you want to do something useful you might offer something m ■ the way of a p：ood constructive criticism. It will always be highly appreciated and the paper will be benefited thereby.

The same cynical attitude is displayed in speaking of the school at large. This superior, disrespectful defamation of our faculty, course, board, etc. is not exactly commendable.

But it’s being done because it’s the thing to do; because rowing against the current is a rather laborious process. Now, how many of these critics would ever propose a rational plan for improving it or for supplanting our present system?

The majority of the criticisms one hears are prejudiced and the natural result of superficial thought. Any praiseworthy new idea or deyelopement of the first water is greeted with a storm of criticism and protest. Ignorance of the subject in question is the fountainhead of much of it. Such criticism and protest may be compared to that which manifested itself when the first telephone, aeroplane and automobile made their appearance.

Criticism without anything constructive embodied in it is a vain thing. It only provokes and does not enlighten. Very often it lays bare one’s ignorance, instead of one’s superior intelligence. If you must criticize, at least have a reason for doing so; still better, have something to say that is worthwhile. ^.you haven’t any legitimate reason, or anything to say, your criticism will be appreciated much more if it remains unknown.

C. Toppe ’34

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ALUMNI

To the members of the class of 1917: This is the 15th anniversary of our graduation. We hope to see you at North­ western on Graduation Day. The Class Officers.

—Rev. 0. Hagedorn，，91，of Milwaukee, has recently returned from Hot Springs, Ark., where he had been recuperat­ ing from a stroke suffered in February.

—The Central Conference of the Wisconsin Synod had a meeting at Ixonia on April 26 and 27. Many of our professors attended.

—Prof. Heidtke, ’20, of Wauwatosa High School was here on May 1. Other visitors were Rev. Pankow，’18，of ， .New London, Wis.，and Rev. G. Krause, ’22, of Stetsonville, Wis. —The Seminary Male Chorus on their way to Waterloo for a concert April 30 stopped here to watch the game between Northwestern and W. S. 0. E. of Milwaukee. Several of them had seen our school for the first time. (Sorry our boys couldn’t delight them with a victory, but they at least gave them an extra inning.) .

—Prof. Schumann preached for Rev. Harstad of Madison on May 8, and Tutor Kremer at Oconomowoc on May 1.

-—Mr. H. Von Haden, ’29, has accepted a position as pro­ fessor at Evansville High School. Another member of the Class of ’29, Mr. P. R. Sauer, has recently passed his M. A. examina­ tion in English at Madison, and has received the position of Assistant-Instructor at the U. of Michigan.

—Prof. John Whyte, *05, has been made head of the Ger­ man department at Brooklyn College, a branch of the College of the City of New York.

Watertown, Wisconsin, June 16, 1931.

The annual meeting of the Alumni Society was held in the college gymnasium on Commencement Day, Tuesday June 16, 1931, beginning at 2:20 P. M. The president of the society, the Reverend E. B. Schlueter, presided. The minutes of the previous meeting were approved as read. Next in order was the election of officers for terms of three years, with the following results: President, the Reverend E. B. Schlueter, ’00; Secretary, Prof. W. A. Schumann, ’12; Treasurer, Dr. J. H. Ott, ’85. Members present: sixty-nine, representing thirtyseven classes from ’81 to ’29.

The class of 1931 was admitted into membership.

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Dr. J. H. Ott，treasurer, submitted the following report: Receipts .$ 234.00 Dues for 1930—1 Interest for 1930—1 339.00 . 336.80 Equity in bond sold $ 909.80 Expenditures $ 800.00 Architects’ fee....... .

6.05 Stamps and envelopes

$ 806.95 Cash on hand, June 16, 1931 $ 103.75 This report, after having been audited and corrected in one item by Mr. H. Schaefer, the Reverend A. Tacke, and the Rev­ erend F. Stern, was adopted as read.

The Society honored the memory of: Dr. Prof. F. Pieper, ’72, the Reverend E. Fischer, ^6, Mr. W. Hagedorn, ’92，and Prof. M. Wagner, ’08, by rising.

The Secretary was instructed to extend the sympathy of the Society to the family of Dr. Pieper and to the faculty of the Theological Seminary at St. Louis, and to the respective widows and families of the departed mentioned above.

An informal discussion ensued on the library-building matter. The officers of the society were instructed to draw up plans for the raising of money for the contemplated building.

Immediate and active solicitation of money was deemed inad­ visable, however, in view of the general economic situation, synodical debts and otherwise; voluntary contributions are to be put into the hands of one man. The latter was not designated.

Furthermore, all activities relative to the library in general are to await the decisions and recommendations made by the Joint Synod, convening in August, 1931. .

The committee on noontime luncheon, Prof. T. Binhammer, chairman, was requested to arrange a similar luncheon on Com­ mencement Day, Thursday, June 16, 1932.

All business having been completed, adjournment followed at 3:30 P. M. Walter A. Schumann, Secretary.

Notice: Luncheon and Meeting of the Alumni Society On Commencement Day, Thursday, June 16，at noontime, there will be a luncheon of the Alumni Society in the college refectory at thirty-five cents a plate, followed by a business meeting at two o’clock in the gymnsium.

E. Benj. Schlueter, Pres.

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During the past month the students and citizens of Watertown were privileged to hear a series of three lectures on French painting at the High School auditorium given by Dr. Oscar Hagen, art critic at the University of Wisconsin. The lectures were made available by the Hawkins-Straw fund of the public library. Most of us heard Dr. Hagen before, when two years ago he gave his series of six lectures on art immediately preceding and following the period of the Renaissance, and consequently we knew beforehand that time used for attending these lectures would be time well spent. In this group of lectures Dr. Hagen, with the help of interesting slides, contrasted the styles of French painting immediately before and after the French Revolution. The tendency of leaving the flourishing and involved style of the period before the Revolution and returning to the plain and simple style of painting (“back to nature”）was clearly pointed out. The later development of coloring was also shown.

On the evenings of April 13 and 14, the N. W. C. Orchestra played several selections between the acts of a play, “Bertie’s Cave Won]an’’，given by the Young People’s Society of St. Mark’s congregation. The orchestra must have done satisfactory work, because it has already been asked to play for another similar occasion at the same place.

The college park is again in a clean and neat condition; this signifies that the students of Northwestern have had their annual Arbor Day. The day chosen this year was April 14.

I do not find it necessary to describe the entire day, because it did not differ much from the arbor days of previous years, and therefore doing so would be merely repeating what has already frequently been published in the Black and Red. I might mention, however, that several new trees were planted on the cam60

pus; besides the well-known Sophomore tree a few others were set along the driveway near the refectory.

For its first trip this spring the male chorus went to Fort Atkinson on the evening of April 24. In the afternoon of this Sunday aWalther League rally was held there and in the evening the male chorus presented a sacred concert. The chorals sung were arranged as much as possible according to the cycle of the church year. The quartette also sang a selection, which afforded a rest for the other members of the chorus. After the concert a lunch was served in the school for the members of the male chorus. The lunch was much appreciated, especially after a period of rather strenuous singing.

^ormu.

“Is a strong class spirit good for a small college like Northwestern?”

H. H.- Absolutely not. Although class rivalry would raise standards, a strong class spirit also creates foolish animosities that would harm school life, and later life.

A. C. B. No! A strong class spirit is good for no college.

A strong class spirit breaks down the true college spirit, Its motives are selfish; its thought will always be for the class.

“First the class, then the college，” will be the motto.

C. T. —A casual observer of the activities of a school like Northwestern does not see what each class accomplishes for itself, but what the school as a whole produces. A strong class spirit excites too much of the spirit of rivalry between classes to be of any benefit to the whole college. Cooperation is lack­ ing and partiality runs rampant, when the interest of the school should be at heart. Only what the school produces as one body can make for the good of the school, C. H.—No. Strong class spirit leads to division among the students. Each class will be a composite group in itself. Each will work for its own good. We do not want this. A small college needs to be united perfectly: as the slogan goes, “United we stand, divided we fali!”

R. H.—There would be nothing better for Northwestern than to have good, healthy class spirit prevailing. For the lower class to strive for more brilliance, to reason things out with a greater depth of thought, to debate with its predecessors in an attempt to show its superiority, would all make for a higher scholastic standard of the College. But overdoing this in intra-mural sports would certainly tend to destroy the finer qualities of class spirit. If we could keep our intra-mural sports as they are, and fight the tendencies of some students toward the introduction of class rushes and other such nonsense, but raise the finer qualities of class spirit, Northwestern would pro­ duce better students.

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The ruling Spirit of the American colleges has another victim in its clutches. The Calvin College Chimes has an editorial which proves with powerful, sweeping statements that a football team is a most desirable addition to the athletic pro­ gram. “If we could make a good showing one season, players of ability would be attracted to Calvin. ’ ’ The statement of a full-blooded American! “A football team would necessitate the expenditure of a few hundred dollars now, but we should have an eye for the future at which time money would accrue to Calvin from the successes of her football team. ’ ’ Within ten years the College will doubtlessly start a sister college with its immense surplus. After several other such statements, weighed on the same rag-man’s scales, we see the final, climactic sen­ tence: “Why should not Calvin attempt this ‘noble experiment, and thus ‘find her place in the sun’.’’ I am sure that we all hope that she will not burn her fingers in finding' her place.

In the Student Life of Northland College there is a wellwritten travesty, treating on the strict rules of etiquette at meals. A student with his tie crooked is riddled with machinegun slugs; no one is allowed to enroll who has not memorized Smily Post’s latest book; anyone laughing loudly is an outcast.

How fortunate we are that we need no supervision of our manners. . Our inborn, fine, delicate sense of etiquette alone is sufficient to guide us along the correct road to being gentlemen.

Our behavior in the dining hall certainly lends weight to this statement. Our superiors and acquaintances can be justly proud of us.

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The Spectator of Concordia at River Forest relates a de­ plorable condition. The daily hot water supply, because of a leak in the boiler, failed. Now the poor chaps must wash with cold water every morning. ‘ ‘Screams and yells fill the air as the icy water strikes the skin.” “Although they bravely douse themselves with ice-cold water, they shrink from rubbing it in with the shaving brush”. Hence the student body must appear to be a preparatory school for the House of David. Those students are to be pitied. Our opinion is that hot water is a luxury. To judge unbiasedly, we have the better philosophy. ‘ ‘The right or wrong of movie attendance may perhaps be best determined by discovering the general theme, the under­ lying, motivating principle which permeates the screen produc­ tion of to-day. Movies, in general, are permeated with subtle and pernicious principles which tend to corrupt the very struc­ tural unit of society, the character of the individual. The cinema is demoralizing our nation, destroying the sanctity of the home, and encouraging a spirit of lawlessness.” These statements and criticisms are not the mere “ballyhoo” of stern, puritanically religious fanatics, but constitute also the opinion of many noted leaders and educators of our day. Not only the orthodox leaders, but also the modernists, are vehemently denouncing the present-day screen productions. Newspaper editors at times become vehement in their denunciations. Every­ where foresigh ted men are focussing an attack upon the movies because they believe that our future, as a nation, is dangerously threatened by the screen. ‘ ‘The evil thus presented is perhaps a bit unjust. The evils are listed, but the good effects are not considered. The remedy or antidote is given also. A good dramatic club here at Calvin would aptly serve as one solution to the problem. The presentation of discretionally chosen plays would provide a healthful antidote to check the craving of reproachable diversion. Such productions would create a taste for and the promotion of wholesome entertainment.. Much of the talent, which has been latent for want of exercise, would find a suitable avenue for self-expression in this activity. Dra­ matics at Calvin would satisfy a need actually felt not only by the students, but also by many 'yho share our cultural view.

None of the evils are mentioned in this paragraph, but it would seem that the advantages of dramatics far out-weigh the disad­ vantages. .

The Milton College Review classifies the “talkies” in two groups. If the characters break the furniture, it’s comedy. If they break the Ten Commandments, it is a drama.

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BASEBALL Sometime before April 29: The American national sport again is king of the campus.

His prime minister has practically completed the cabinet, and his subjects are anxiously awaiting- the inauguration of what will not be the golden rule, but the diamond rule. Figurative language aside, the baseball team is ready for its initial appearance. Coach Kleinke has been trying- out various combinations in both the infield and the outfield, and he seems to be satisfied that he has made the best selection possible. Scrimmages with the Legion team of Watertown, resulting disastrously for Northwestern, were played on April 16 and 23, which have showed the weakness of the team, so that especial attention might be paid to them. Finally the schedule has been com­ pleted, and now----- .

The complete schedule is: April 30. Milwaukee School of Engineering at Watertown.

May 4. Milton at Milton.

May 7. Milwaukee University Extension at Watertown.

May 12. Seminary at Thiensville.

May 18. Milton at Watertown.

May 27. Seminary at Watertown.

June 1. Milton (undecided) June 11. Milwaukee School of Engineering at Milwaukee.

June 16. Alumni at Watertown.

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Milwaukee Engineers 2; Northwestern 1.

April 30: Northwestern’s baseball team pulled a surprise on every one, including themselves, by opening- their season with an errorless game. Unfortunately it was almost hitless too, which explains the defeat. That the Engineers had to work over time to earn the victory is the only consolation that can be offered to the Black and Red. The game was filled with tense moments, and provided plenty of thrills to the spectators.

For instance, the Engineers several times had men on third waiting for Koehler to weaken and Koehler wouldn’t. Perhaps the most tense moment of all was in the last half of the tenth inning. The Engineers were leading- two to one, there were two outs, Siegler was coming home, Ehlert was going to first and the Engineers’ right fielder was racing for Ehlerfs short fly. The fielder won the race.

Northwestern started the scoring in the second, when Fredericks was hit by the pitcher, advanced to third on an over­ throw at second, and was brought in by Siegler’s hit to right field. The Engineers tied the score in the seventh and made the winning1 run in the first overtime inning.

Northwestern— AB Buch 2b...

4 Schroeder lb. .. 4 Biesman C. (c) 4 Fredericks C. F. 4 Nommensen S. S. 4 Siegler L. F___ 4 Ehlert 3b.

4 Trachte R. F___ 1 Koehler P. 3 Grosnick .

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R Ii E Engineers— AB R H E 12 0 0 0 0 Myscewski 2 B. 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 Reynolds C. F. 3 0 2 2 5 0 10 Kuhlmann C. 4 Oil 1 0 0 Brower S. S. 4 110 0 0 0 Greene R. F. 4 0 10 0 2 0 Masaki 3 B. 4 0 10 0 0 0 Jamake 1 B. 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 Flater L. F. 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 Traiker R. F. 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 Gregor P. 2 8 3 13 0 Hits: Northwestern 3; Engineers 8. Runs: Northwestern 1; Engineers 2. Strike Outs: Koehler 11; Greene 8; Gregor 10.

Walks: Koehler 1. Hit by Pitcher: By Koehler 3; By Greene 1. Umpires: Wendland, Eickman.

TENNIS April 29. The tennis team which had been chosen by the “ladder” tournament demonstrated the wisdom of the choice by turning back the Milton invaders. Northwestern7repre­ sentatives defeated the opponents in six sets and tied the seventh before the rain drove them off the courts. One single match remained to be completed, and two doubles had not yet started when rain began.

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Northwestern Geweke Raabe Schewe Freitag

Milton Score Rogers 6—3; 6—4 Praw 6—1; 6—3 Sare 6—1; 6—1 Babcock 6—6 (incomplete) Trislate Conference Not long ago the student body was agreeably surprised by the news that an athletic conference had been formed. The colleges included in the conference are: Wartburg of Clinton, Iowa; Mt. Morris, of Mt. Morris, Illinois; Platteville School of Mines, of Platteville, Wisconsin; Milton of Milton, Wisconsin; and Northwestern. Since most of the schools have completed football schedules for next year, the conference will go into action with the basketball season of next year. We look forward to some good competition, especially since it was the object of those who started the movement, to include only schools of equal strength. Northwestern has never had athletic relations with Mt. Morris and Wartburg, but the “dope” shows that fairly even matches are to be expected.

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One of the innovations recently introduced is a class “PfeifVerein”. Practically all of the members of the Freshman class have been observed toting a pipe around. It is said that, al­ though the initial outlay for the pipe and its accessories is some­ what more expensive than that for a package of cigarettes, the cost of operating is materially lower.

“Huds” Fredericks went home April 29th to attend a wedding in the capacity of best man. N. B. He attended classes again Monday. ^ Since the Milton-Northwestern tennis match, which was a success as far as we are concerned, an interest has been aroused for the beautification of the grounds around the tennis-courts.

Accordingly the janitors and a few willing students have been busily engaged in pruning, raking, burning, sawing wood, and sundry other tasks. As a result the grounds look one hundred per cent more attractive. Because so much time is taken up by the team, numerous complaints have been heard that too little time on the courts is given to the rest of the student-body. The city courts are open now and will provide more students with an opportunity to indulge in their proclivities for tennis.

The Senior class has had its pictures taken.

A change has been made in the publication of Shrdlu.

Henceforth it will appear as a bi-monthly paper. The new staff has been chosen and it will attempt to carry on the work of editing our prep paper.

On the 7th, 14th, and 21st of April Dr. Hagen, from the University of Wisconsin, gave a series of free lectures at the High School Auditorium. There were three lectures on the phase of French art extending from the period of the French 67

Revolution down to the World War. Several years ago he lectured in the classic theatre.

The first floor was unusually quiet Sunday ni^ht, April 24th.

The reason was that the Chorus was singing at Fort Atkinson.

Sandwiches, cake and coffee were served after the concert.

They were appreciated by all.

The collegiate-body went to the polls some time ago to vote for the assistant managers of the football, basketball and base­ ball teams. The election returns revealed the following: Nico­ laus was chosen assistant football manager, Scheck assistant basketball manager, and Gensmer assistant baseball manager.

Messrs. Resting and Bolle, the representatives of the college on the Times staff, report that they have bean experiencing many difficulties in collecting their college notes. No wonder: Did you ever find apples on a cactus plant ?

Delmar Hallemeyer and Orval Kreie were absent from classes for a few days last month to attend the funeral of Mr. Hallemeyer’s mother.

The Olympic tryouts are being held on the campus. Several world’s records have been broken, but funds are not available for sending the winners to Los Angeles this summer. As it is they will have to rest content with the laurels they have won here and will not have an opportunity to display their prowess in competition with champions from all over the world.

Observing the custom of its predecessors, the Sophomore class had its picture taken last month. Some delay was occa­ sioned when several photographic plates were fogged by the ' brilliant colors displayed. Luckily the sun disappeared behind a cloud for a short time, so that the flaming reds and blues and oranges lost some of their brilliancy and the picture could be taken.

Conrad Frey and Meinhardt Witt went to Milwaukee recently to visit with their fathers, Rev. Immanuel Frey ’10 and Rev. John Witt ’§4.

Sailing appears to be the latest fad introduced into our circle of spring activities. A home-made sail has been attached to Emil Doll’s canoe. Luther Schliesser, by virtue of his pre­ vious experience as a yachtsman, has been demonstrating his ability as a boatswain on some of the yacht’s cruises.

Mr. Relien begs to report that he is still suffering from his sore foot.

At 10:35 A.M. one morning Alfred Nicolaus was contentedly sipping his milk in his rocking chair. For some reason or other the rocker became a bit unruly, and Mr. Nicolaus lost his balance.

He came to Latin class about five minutes late attired in flashy spring apparel.

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The bass violin was hors-de-combat for some time on ac­ count of injuries sustained when it fell from a truck. Now it has fully recovered, however.

The latest hobby to be taken up is the raising of angleworms. Mr. Beckman assures us that they require little care and are extremely docile creatures. If his goldfish were still alive, he might experiment with them and ascertain whether the worms are in the condition to be used as bait or not.

Too late for this month: The Inter-class Bowling Congress meets on Wednesday May 4th. Watch this space next month for particulars.

We all enjoy Spring weather, but with it come colds, stiff necks, and other complications. Among the victims who were seized were Dorothy Groth, Clare Scheblak, Glenna Rasmussen, and Lillian Trapp.

On April 21 the Misses Elizabeth and Margaret Stern, Adele Nommensen, and Herbert Nommensen entertained about thirty students at a wiener roast at the lime kiln. According to re­ ports, a good time was had by all. The best part of the hike seems to have-been the moon light walk back home.

Rev. Gerhard Redlin entertained his former regular German Class at his home on April 24.

Plans are under way for the annual Coed banquet. A definite date has not been set. For further information refer to the June number of the Black and Red. _ The weekly gym class has produced some very proficient bowlers. The girls are going： to try their luck at catching, pitch­ ing, etc.—in other words baseball is their next means of getting exercise. For further information, watch the campus.

On May 3 the yearly election of officers for the Girls’ Rooms was held. Those holding the offices for the coming year are : President—Betty Faber Vice President 一 Adele Nommenson Secretary 一 Clare Scheblak Treasurer—Ruth Fredrick ， Many of the out-of-town Coeds spent Ascension Day at their:homes. A day off seems to be greatly appreciated.

Word of the sudden death of Edmund Kaspar, which occurred on May 5, was a great shock to the Coeds. Mr. Kaspar was well known in our circle, having- been president of the Mixed Chorus of which many of the girls are members. We take this means of expressing our sincere sympathy to the family.

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Friends, students, alumni! Lend me your jokes. here to collect them, not to make them up.

I came

Knoll (after Nommensen has sneezed violently): Remem­ ber that this is an old building and the walls might be rather weak.

I suppose you started at the foot and worked your way up?

No—started at the foot and stayed there—I’m a chiropodist.

How About Traveling Expense?

Postman: Being a postman has its advantages, but you don’t know how it wears out your shoes.

Lady:. I can quite believe it. And especially when you have to bring those letters from abroad.

Frankly Admitted.

Prof.: Gentlemen never write on ruled paper. Of course, I use ruled paper myself.

Striking.

Cityman: Now that you have seen the great sights in New York, what is the first thing that would strike a visitor from the country?

Rustic: One of those pesky motor-cars, I reckon.

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Plus Fixing Tires.

Oily to bed and oily to rise Is the fate of the man who an auto buys.

Or Something Like That.

Prof.: Define ‘‘eclipse of the moon”.

Maas: A natural phenomenon in which the sun gets into the way of the moon.

Right Again Prof.: The map shows this town to have: Ein Tausend Einwohner.

Nommensen: 0, that’s a German map.

Knoll: They would have as many inhabitants in English, wouldn’t they?

Herr Buch schrieb das Hauptwort “Sohn” als “Son” in seiner Arbeit.

Der Professor schrieb: Et tu, Brute.

Candid.

She: You remind me of the ocean.

He: Wild, romantic, restless— ?

She: No. You just make me sick.

Traveled all over the world, eh? Went up the Rhine, I suppose?

Climbed it to the top.

Saw the Lion of St. Mark’s?

Fed it.

And visited the Black Sea? Filled my fountain pen there.

Schwenzen playing golf: Notice any improvement since last year?

Stiemke: You’ve had your clubs shined up, haven’t you?

Prof.: (Addressing medical students): The muscle of the patient’s left leg has contracted till it is much shorter than the right. Therefore he limps. What would you do in such cir­ cumstances?

Student: I’d limp too.

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^ yUxl | Teacher: Can anyone tell me what a buttress is?

Tommy: I know, it’s a nanny goat.

Hoep: Meyer: Hoep: Meyer:

How do you like my composition?

H’m. It could be worse.

(Offended): I hope you will withdraw that remark.

All right, then. It couldn’t be worse.

Owner: Yes, this little boat makes twenty knots an hour.

Landlubber: What a lot of rope you must use. Who unties them all?

A car in the road is worth two in the ditch.

In German class: Was bedeutet Kaefer fangen?

Hoiten: To cut capers.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

LITERARY— Forbidden Fruit English Oration-------------- -------

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In Memoriam.

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EDITORIALS— American and Chinese Civilization

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Dramatics at Northwestern : Pro •…90 On Shooting Profs and other Things 92 ALUMNI NOTES …一■ COLLEGE NOTES… BXCHANGE--------ATHLETICS--------CO-ED NOTES — CAMPUS AND CLASSROOM

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THE BLACK AND RED Volume XXXVI.

Watertown. Wis.. June 1932

Number 3

Entered at the Posioflicr at \V•，“.rtmvn. Wis., as second class matter under Act of March 3. 1870. Publislud ni<、mlily. Sul>Ncriptioii, One I'ollar.

FORBIDDEN FRUIT Fair luscious fruit, immaculate to view, Offering yourself to me and others too With mock humility, Will you deceive, Beguile, and grieve All trusting lovers whom your crimson dew, Conglobulate and welded into unity, Entices ?

How many years from now Your comeliness may still persuade new fools To bow — to sacrifice their conscience At your altar, who should know ?

Or try to learn Just how your art has power to discern What conquers men ?

But doubtless at the dawn of history, When earth’s minutest fly endowed with wings Set out to ascertain your mystery; Did homage to your charms, And found his sting Of no avail in guarding him From death within your ruby cell; 73

A Then you beheld the potency Of blushing treacle and resolved Henceforth to use its blinding sorcery For nobler gain.

So after you had lured a myriad Of lesser mortals to destruction, Your wicked toils were spread fo me — I was to sip your poisonous concoction, And while my lips, still drinking in your mead, Partook of joy, you thought to fling Subduing coils about my heart, And then to gaze at leisure on the pawn Of your contriving.

But do you think I failed to spy, When I perceived, with passion in my soul, A hemisphere concatenate of drops Held forth to me for my good pleasure — Within the shadow of your bowl, Ruling the farther side, Concealed in part, Distasteful in his savor, And with robes Of rusty green masking an evil mien Hard to abide: An ugly creature, Disinclined to start at my approach ?

If, such, as he is wont to add His fetid venom to your fragrant philtre, I should be mad to broach your nectar fountain And withal to swelter in a lewd desire To be the lord of Aphrodite’s fire.

Or do you hold as I In giddy moments try to: that we need Each other’s company to live As God ordained; And that the strife Of virtue and forbidden fruit is all a ruse To gain compassion and delight the muse Of tragedy in fashion quite unfit For Adam’s kind to honor and uphold As rule of life ? 一 That when subjection of my pride Has gone before to pave a way, A noble urge will send me to your side And bid me stay ? 一 Radloff 74

I ENGLISH ORATION Robert Kaschinske Six feet, two inches tall, impressive in appearance with cold grey-blue eyes that looked at one in silent appraisal, a hand­ shake of iron, a manner of cold simplicity: that was George Washington at the height of his manhood. This picture of Washington is well known to all Americans, but in regard to his character there is much diversity of opinion. Historians are divided, some picturing him as a sort of super-human demi-god, others showing him as a slow-witted land baron who was pri­ marily interested in his own gain. Since the historical events connected with Washington’s life are known well enough, in the brief time allotted to me, I shall attempt to picture his character as I see it.

Washington came from a family of obscure English gentry.

His great-grand father came to Virginia in 1657. Here the family rapidly acquired land so that Augrustine, George’s father, was very rich in land and very poor in ready money. He married twice. From his first wife, Jane Butler, he had four children, from Mary Ball, six, of whom George was the oldest.

We know very little of George’s youth and this is not sur­ prising when we consider that he was one of a large family of children, of whom the oldest was supposed . to carry on the family honor and name, The cherry-tree incident, so d^ar to the heart of every young American, was invented by a Rev Weems many years later. It is generally believed that Wash^ ington was well-educated, and indeed ho was if compared with the ordinary working people of the time, most of whom could not read; but to us his education would seem very elementary.

His training as a whole was very practical. Reading of a few practical books, penmanship, and mathematics were the chief courses. Young1 Georjro was especially fond of mathematics and here we see the first traces of the exact and methodical procedure which later was one of his chief characteristics. It is this characteristic which perhaps made him choose surveying, with its exact computation and notation of distances and angles, as a profession.

• But I should say that the greatest quality young Washing­ ton possessed was his driving1 ambition. In a community where the law of primogeniture prevailed, a younger son had need of such ambition, unless he wished to spend his life as a parasite on the grudging1 kindness of an older brother. So we see that Lawrence Washington was sent to England for an education, entered the English army and inherited the family estate. But George early in his life determined to amount to something for himself, he had a longing to shine among the first families of 75

the country; and since land, not ancestors or nobility, was the basis of Virginia aristocracy, Washington early in his life acquired a passion for land. All the money he could earn as a surveyor he used for this purpose, so that at the age of 21 he possessed 1,500 acres. In 1752 Lawrence died, leaving his estate to his infant daughter, and in case of her death, to George. The daughter died very young and so George also became the lord of Mt. Vernon. ， Washington also inherited his brother’s position as adjutantgeneral of the colony. In 1753 Gov. Dinwiddie sent him on that well-known expedition against the French on the Ohio. His remark: ‘‘I have heard the bullets whistle and, believe, me, there is something charming in the sound” aroused criticism and laughter in England. But no matter — Washington had stepped befor the people as a soldier. The future general had budded. Events would bring the fruit. In his military career Washington stood out especially for his matter-of-fact coolness in the presence of danger and his almost stubborn tendency not to admit himself beaten. The latter, I think, was the greatest attribute of the future commander-in-chief.

In 1758 Washington met and married Martha Custis, a widow with two children and an immense fortune, whether for her money or love we shall not inquire here. After the marriage he settled down to the life of a gentleman. Visitors, fox hunt­ ing, and cards took up much of his time, but not at the expense of his estates. Washington was a good business man. His books, in which he noted every item of expense and income, were a marvel of exactness. His shrewdness at making bar­ gains was well known. At one time Henry Lee wished to sell a blooded horse. “I’ll buy him,> Washington said. “Oh no,” Lee said, “you never pay what anything is worth.’’

In 1758 Washington was elected to the Virginia House of Bur­ gesses. Now came the long years of controversy with England before the actual outbreak of hostilities. The fact that Wash­ ington played a very small part in this exchange of theories gives us a valuable key to his character. Washington was never a theorist. We have seen that he was above all practical and methodical. One historian says he was the captain-of-industiy JyPe so well known to us, a “do-it-now” man. Certain it is that he must have become very impatient over the hair-splitting be^veen external and internal taxes. When the bullets begin to fly, we again find him stepping to the front.

Washington as we know was at that time perhaps the richest man in Virginia. Should the Revolution fail he would 10S,ei?i hlUroPei’ty 弓s well as his name and honor, by becoming then induced Washington to join this movement wnen most of the rich men, seeing no hope of success for the 76

ragged Revolution, were becoming Tories ? Here again histo• - find a bone of contention. Some say patriotism and love nans for his country, but others point to Washington's attempt to obtain a commission in the English army and his lack of success.

They refer to the king’s decree that any officer holding a king’s commission was superior to any provincial officer, a blow at Washington’s vanity. These things they say embittered Wash­ ington against the British. We also must remember that Wash­ ington had a large estate and a large import and export traffic and that England was taxing these very things. We can say nothing for certain except that these circumstances must have influenced him to some extent.

The question is often asked, “Was Washington a good general ?” I think it is Irving who says that it would be hard to point to any mistake he made. The fact is we can point to many mistakes. It is certain he was no Napoleon or Frederick, but nevertheless he was the man of the hour. His campaigns were mostly defensive, and in such a position he was at his best. Possessing an utterly stubborn courage, and refusing to give up hope when the cause looked darkest, he did much to keep the Revolution alive. His person helped to keep North and South together and to keep the ragged army united.

After the Revolution Washington went home to Mt. Vernon, still imposing and impressive externally, but grey inside. The long years had taken something from him. And now the presi­ dency. Was Washington a good president ? Again I think he was the type of man events called for. In those days of bitter strife between the jealous states and the central government, which threatened to wreck the work of the Revolution, Wash­ ington’s was especially a stabilizing influence. He represented common sense over against hysteria. ，， As I look at the whole of Washington’s life, I am inclined to agree with a recent historian who says the keynote to his personality was Character not Intellect. This presupposes such qualities as courage, steadfastness, dignity, and honesty, but no great amount of imagination or emotion. Someone has said: Washington did not make history, but history made Washington.

I will not quarrel with him. Washington was needed by his time and his part he accomplished well. , In this the two hundredth anniversary of his birth, despite the caviling of some historians he still is, in the evermemorable words of Henry Lee, uttered in the German Lutheran Church in Philadelphia on the occassion of the Congressional services in honor of the memory of George Washington, “first in the hearts of his countrymen.，’

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LATIN ORATION Lester Freitag THE WALLS OF POMPEII The mere mention of the name Pompeii brings to the mind of everybody one of the direst calamities of all times. In the year 79 A. D” the city was visited by a twofold calamity, the eruption of Vesuvius and an earthquake. For days the moun­ tain poured forth showers of lava, ashes, and stones, until the entire city of 30,000 inhabitants was completely buried under the falling_ masses. When finally the eruption ceased, the houses of the city were completely covered, and only the tops of the highest buildings, such as temples, were visible. No fewer than two thousand persons lay buried below the seething debris.

A few feeble attempts were at once made by survivors to recover some of their treasures, but the endeavors were largely futile. Thus the city lay quiet, as it were, in its horrible grave until 1594, when the first attempt was made to uncover the ruins. However, the work was abandoned after six years.

Another trial was made in 1748, but it too resulted in little success. Systematic excavations were begun in 1861 and have been continued ever since.

We could here make mention of many things of great moment regarding these excavations, but we shall today speak only about the inscriptions. In 1871 three thousand inscriptions, taken from the walls of houses and public buildings, had been gathered and were subsequently published. It is needless to s^y that many more have been added to this number since that These inscriptions are the only reliable information which has come down to us, for all the books of the libraries were destroyed by the ashes in the course of centuries. To present a number of these inscriptions to you now, is the aim of my discussion.

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1 The inscriptions are of two kinds: graffiti—those scratched into the stucco walls of buildings; dipinti—those painted on surfaces with red paint. A strict grouping1 according to contents is impossible. Our classification is made for convenience of presentation.

Humor and Sarcasm In a rather harmless way somebody wrote: “On the sixth day of July in the year 29 A. D., a little ass was born.’’ Chius wrote to his friend and fellow slave: “I heard to my dismay that you died; well then, farewell!” It was no fault of his that Micco had bo、v legs, yet he had to tolerate that an X was placed on the wall of his house with this addition: “Consider the shape of Micco.” When Virgula jilted Tertius, she merely wrote on the wall: “You are too homely for me.” No further answer was required. Ventrio, a man of rank, was thus lam­ pooned: “Ventrio, the Roman knight, was born between cab­ bage and turnips.” A young ball player is thus branded: "Epaphra has no hair on his chin and is no ball player.

Love One wall bore this inscription: “Methe loves Chrestus with her whole heart. May Pompeian Venus be favorable to both, and may they live in peace.” A disappointed lover threat­ ens Venus, the patron of lovers, with a beating: *4Whoever is in love, come. I will break the ribs of Venus with a cudgel and weaken the loins of the goddess. If she can lacerate my tender bosom, why can I not break her head with a cudgel?”

Threats of other lovers are frequently found as: "If perchance somebody desires to annoy my girl, may Love burn him in a desert mountain.n A try sting place is thus marked: "Romula here dallies with Staphylus.M Hospitality A man who had taken his place at the table to enjoy a boiled ham and was disturbed by a casual caller expresses his sentiments in this way: “When a ham has been cooked and when it is placed before a guest, the host does not taste the ham, but licks the pot and the pan.”

Loafing Loafing evidently was customary in Pompeii, which is clear from many inscriptions. C. Julius Primigenius had written his name on a wall. In another handwriting was added: “Why are you loafing here?” Certain places of business were gather­ ing places for idlers. Siritus therefore had a sign of two large snakes painted on the outside wall of his place of business with 82.

this inscription: “For idlers this is no place, keep away, you loafer.”

Pathos On a white wall of a room these words were found: "Fare­ well, Modesta, a thousand times farewell, wherever you may abide.” Another inscription of a lighter vein says: “Victoria, farewell; and wherever you may be, sneeze 'veil.”

Wine

A place of business advertised in this way: “Edone says: 'Here one drinks for one ass, for a double ass the wine is better, for four asses you drink Falemian.’ 1 ' A drinker who already had too much wine scribbled this: Everything1 that everything that is born in wine—everything that—everything that was born at wiiie” That was all his fumes could produce’’• Advertisements Theatre bills, laundry bills, announcements of various kinds are found in lar^t* numbers on walks.

Komnn Post It is interesting tu note here that inscriptions on walls fre­ quently contain lines IVum the leading poets of Rome. Lines of Virgil, Ovid. Propertius, and other less known poets are fre­ quent. However, it is rather strange that no lines of Horace have been found in Pompeii, although he must have been well known there.

That the walls of Pompeii showed great patience to bear all these scribblings was already felt by a critic, who read them and wrote: '*1 marvel, 0 wall, that you have not fallen to ruin.

You bear so many loathsome things of scribblers. .We have taken only a fleeting glimpse at the walls of Pom­ peii, but how important is the message which they bring to us.

Preserved for us through nearly two thousand years, they bear infallible testimony of the daily joy, pleasures, accomplish­ ments, disappointments, and longings of its ancient citizenry.

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North Milwaukee, Wisconsin President of the class President of the student body Black and Red Staff President of the Phi Gamma llho Literary Society Football manager 4 Vice-president of the Band “No post the man ennobles; the man the post.”

OTTO HEIER ‘‘Otto，， Akaska, South Dakota Vice-president of the class Associate Editor of the Black and Red Phi Gamma Rlio, secretary and treasurer 4 Male Chorus “My crown is called content; A crown it is that seldom kings enjoy.J,

‘‘Art，， ARTHUR HARKE Lansing, Michigan Secretary and treasurer of the class Basketball 2. 3, 4.

Phi Gamma llho ‘‘I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with niy heels as nigh or higher than my head. *

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WALTER BATZLAFF Sanborn, Minnesota Male Chorus “Curse on all laws but tl which love has made•”

LESTER FRE1TAG * Milwaukee, Wisconsin Baseball manager 4 "Tis the mind that the body rich.”

HAROLD 1IAEFNER La Crosse, Wisconsin President of the Atl: Board Football 1; captain 2 »Vesuvius *'Reading for tthe mind; ercise for the:body.”

IIAHM ‘‘Benny’’ Wisconsin ddent of the Phi Rho Literary Society ale Chorus rhy modesty’s a candle to thy merit.’’

KASCHINSKE ••Rope” Wisconsin ef of the Black md Red lii Gamma Rho Nowher so bisy a man as he ther、vas.”

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lanitowoe, Wisconsin thletic Board hi Gamma Rho And the best of all ways 0 Ienghthen our days 1 to steal a few hours from he night.”

“Hank” IIENRY MEYER Thiensville, Wisconsin Vice-president of the class 2, 3 Black and Red Staff President of the Philomathean Literary Society Dress-sergeant of the Band Male Chorus Mixed Chorus ''Sonorous metal blowing martial sounds.’’

LUTIIER SCHLIESSER ‘Lute” Lincoln, Illinois Athletic Board Philomathean President of the Orchestra ••A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays and confident tomorrows."

REINHARD SCHOKNECK *.Reiny” Enterprise, Wisconsin Basketball manager 4 Philomathean, secretary and treasurer 4 Vice-president of the Orchestra "No wealth is like a quiet mind.”

CLASS MOTTO : Be Watchful!

CLASS FLOWER : Talisman Rose CLASS COLORS: Kelly Green and Burnt Orange.

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IN MEMORIAM. Edmund William Kasper was born September 25th, 1909, at Oshkosh, Wisconsin. He was the youngest son of Mr. John Kaspar Sr. and his beloved wife, Emma nee Manthey. On October 17th, 1909, he was baptized in Grace Church by the Rev. Christoph Dowidat. In due time he was enrolled in a Christian Day School and on Palm Sunday, 1923, received the rite of Confirmation___It being his earn­ est desire to dedicate his life to the service of his Lord and Master by entering the Christian ministry, he enrolled in the academic department of Northwestern College at Watertown in September of the same year.

After successfully completing the required preparatory course, he en­ tered the collegiate department, but because of illness was compelled to ask for leave of absence during the second semester of his freshman year. During the summer of that year he recovered sufficiently to re­ sume his studies. Since that time he carried on his work without inter­ ruption. However, during the Easter vacation of this year, which he spent at the home of his parents, he was again stricken with a serious heart affliction against which medical science was of no avail. After hovering between life and death for a period of several weeks he succumbed in the early hours of Ascension Day, the 5th of May. The time of his earthly sojourn was 22 years, 5 months, and 10 days.

Those who survive him are : his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Kaspar Sr., three brothers, and two sisters.

His remains were laid to rest on May 8; Professor Schu­ mann officiated at the home and Rev. Schlueter at the cemetery.

The English and the German addresses in church were delivered

by Professors Kowalke and Schumann respectively. The fol­ lowing members of his class acted as pall-bearers: Schultz, Schoeneck, Meyer, Haefner, Heier, and Batzlaff. Had Mr. Kaspar lived until June 16th of this year, he would have received his Bachelor of Arts degree at the Commencement Exer­ cises of Northwestern College. May all who mourn his early departing find comfort in the words of his funeral text, 1 Co­ rinthians 10, 13: God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able.

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AMERICAN AND CHINESE CIVILIZATION Is our civilization so good that it must be spread through­ out the world in the fruise of the famous—or infamous—“white man’s burden”？ A brief glance at some of the outstanding features of American civilization will reveal the truth. I shall 故a'v a comparison between Chinese and American civilization.

The topic is inexhaustible, but a brief survey will bring out my point One of the most important desires of life is the desire for happiness. The American is too materialistic in his conception of happiness. He believes that physical comfort makes for happiness. He is happy only when he has some material object, as a radio, or automobile, or long trip, to enjoy. Happiness of this sort is not permanent; it is evanescent; it wears off. There­ upon he looks for a new and greater material thing, and finding it unobtainable, is made very unhappy. As long as new \ material things are invented, by far the most Americans will not be happy. The American, loyal to his Constitution, pursues happiness, but never overtakes it. Real happiness is scarce.

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卜 ^Math shows that money is not a requisite for happiness. It is evident that the American will never find true happiness by seeking it in this way. Seeking to satisfy his desires, he will alway s fail to reach his goal: for have we not new desires each day?

The Chinese on the other hand seeks his happiness by stressing the spiritual side of life. Food, clothes, and shelter are almost the only materialistic things which matter to him.

Having these, he gets happiness by controlling his inward nature, soul and heart, and not by indulging in his desires.

Happiness to him is satisfaction with what he has. Why must these material "advances” be introduced into a contented country? They are far more happy without them than we are with them. Trains—the iron of the rails is pilfered and turned into useful plowshares by the Chinese. Guns—the iron itself is the only thing of value in a gun. It is used to make knives.

Automobiles and long, swift pleasure rides—where one can see more by walking three miles. Machinery, mass production, newspapers—all have made for the elimination of individuality among us, to mention only one evil product of these necessary evils. Why spread the curse? One divorce for every five marriages—a remarkable advance—on the road to perdition.

In China divorce is very rare. In America children leave their homes to earn their own living. Their aged parents are a bur­ den. In China the parents are eagerly supported in their old age by their children. They delight in making' their parents happy. But what need is there of further examples? The un­ balanced life of the American seems far inferior to that of the Chinese. But nevertheless, we are civilized they are barbarian!

We haye the white man’s burden! No! We should rather beg the Chinese to send missionaries to teach us how to live and to civilize us. .Although many may realize that wc are inferior to . the Chinese, yet, since we are Americans, each individual will say, "Video meliora, proboque, deteriora sequor,n and will struggle and slave for another month to earn the money to meet the in­ stallments on his clothes, house, furniture, and car.

Ralph Hagedorn DRAMATICS AT NORTHWESTERN: PRO For the last five years the two literary Societies, the Phi Gamma Rho and the Philomathean, have presented one-act plays and annually a five-act play. As a rule the short plays were excellent The five long plays, including “The JRivals’’， which we have presented, were masterpieces and written by the most renowed playwrights in literature. Behold Shake­ speare, Goldsmith, Sheridan, Ferenc Molnar, and George Ber90

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nard Shaw! These men are universally accepted as among the greatest dramatists. Their works are literature which reflect and teach us life. A deep knowledge of life, however, is educa­ tion. For this reason we pursue dramatics. The actors certainly must draw some literary value out of such plays. The actor has a wonderful opportunity to apply his inborn psychology in studying the different characters, not only the character of his own part but also of the parts of the other actors. Then the student has the opportunity to get a good vocal training. Much stress is laid on modulation of the voice and clear enunciation.

A student who is inclined to be self-conscious is also here given a chance to gain confidence in himself and overcome his timidity.

Then there is also the wholesome social interest connected with producing a play. Actors, coach, stage committee, managers, artists, and advertising- committee all cooperate. It’s the same as in football and basketball, only that in dramatics the students’ desire to work together is directed in a literary chan­ nel. According to all indications there is no harm in acting. A student at Northwestern could hardly develop permanently into the "vile” character that he may be assuming. We do not lead a life devoted to dramatics. Classes, athletics, and the musical organizations counterbalance all ‘‘staginess’’ and evil spirits that may tend to flow into such a theatrical student’s brains.

Moreover, we arc Christians endowed with Christian liberty, The value of this can be seen in one who does not use his Christian liberty, but eitlKT trembles at the thought of his soul’s damnation if he should show some liberalism, or stands with Pharisaical ostentation and says, “I would never act in a play or go to a movie, even if I had to.” How much better it is to enjoy one's Christian liberty! But still, with moderation.

All good things drawn to the excess turn to evil. Here we must judge for ourselves where to be尽in and where to end.

Now let us take a look at the audience. When one goes to see a play one goes for the purpose of broadening one’s literary scope, or better one’s knowledge of life. If the dramatist represents a segment of life to us, we expect truth from him.

We will temper our criticism if that truth includes occasional harsh language or a kissing scene. Otherwise we will be like the Victorian prudes who insisted on closing their eyes to the harsher facts of life, a thing which went to its extreme in the young lover who could not imagine that his sweetheart should have a digestive system. 一F. R. W. ’34 The writer of the editorial against dramatics in the last Black and Red bewailed the fact that he could “not defend himself” against the '* very strong argument’’ of the ‘‘people 91

of the Lutheran church”，among whom “a great offence” is being caused by dramatics at Northwestern.

Presumably nothing would be so helpful to the writer and convincing to his opponents as an argument from Luther him­ self. We submit such a one in a free translation. References to the original German are appended and may easily be con­ sulted.

“Dr, John Cellarius asked Dr. M. Luther for advice: There is a young schoolmaster in Schlesien who took it into his head to direct and play a comedy of Terence. Many were offended at this, inasmuch as such child’s play out of a heathen poet did not become a Christian .... Then Luther said: One ought not forbid the playing of comedies in school, but permit and allow it for the sake of the boys.

First, because they receive practice in the Latin tongue.

Secondly, because in a play there are cleverly imagined, de­ picted, and presented many characters through whom they may be instructed. . . Yes, they may see as in a mirror how they ought to fill their places gracefully in the outward walks of life.

Besides this, there are described and noted in plays the crafty design and impostures of the villains; also, the business that concerns both parents and young boys, namely, that the parents are to train their children and, when the time comes, urge them to be married, and that the children are to obey their parents and marry. Such things are shown in comedies and they are very good and profitable to know . . . Christians ought not to flee altogether from comedies because there are in them occasional indelicacies and coquetries. If that objection were to hold, we should have to refrain from reading the Bible.

The comedies of the Romans please me well, . . . for their ultimate purpose was to entice away from a dissolute life into marriage.

From the Table Talk. Luther’s Works; Walch edition, XXII，2277; also Erlangen edition 62, 336.

E. C. K. ON SHOOTING PROFS AND OTHER THINGS The noble tendency of professors in all seats of higher learning now and then to depart from their guiding beacons in the form of notebook and scholiated text and to follow tangents that lead an inch or a million parasangs from the matter before the student’s eyes has, among other things, brought a great deal of reproach upon them which it is our aim to mitigate a bit.

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the failing may be a more normal one: that of ignoring the text—shooting we call it. All silly division aside, a man who is to play oracle to an audience of young men and women of varied taste and ability day after day must drive his pupils per­ force to a haven of academic security or he must pour into their intellectual lock-boxes the whole store of his own knowledge, cut, dried, and tabulated. Any deviation from this course, we are told, results in due censure, for the man has shown himself incompetent. But a little research will prove that of ten students nine and a fraction will subscribe to at least one of the above qualificatiens. If their falsity is admitted, it is done generally with a feeling of guilt, a feeling itself engendered by misapplication of the rod.

In the remote past we had occasion to know a young man who was all that a Prince of Wales should not be; at his par­ ents* desire, moreover, he became a college student and was by some even termed a scholar. Sycophant and philanderer by nature, he succeeded in bamboozling teachers, parents, and self alike until he reached that point where a scholastic degree is a thing predestinated. Now a certain professor, waxing bilious one fair day, took it upon himself to rate our young man well for acting in his opinion unwisely. In truth the offense was so trivial that without great fear of exaggeration, we may say there was none. Notwithstanding, the reprimand was# so severe, so overwhelmingly malignant that no one with a moiety of self-respect would have contemplated inviting more like abuse by appearing： on the scene again. Here comes the tragic part of our tale. No sooner had the first shock of barbarian pyrotechnics blown over, than Sirrah Student, who had visited class in the meanwhile like a true Son of Gibeon, openly re­ marked to a companion spirit that, had he been granted this man and his big stick to guide him during the preceeding years of his education, he would now have a firm foundation in the subject taught by him. To comment on the man’- words, we shall borrow from a contemporary by saying that: “in our opin­ ion he would have been what he is no matter what he was,” though, strictly speaking, the slave nature would no doubt have grown ranker. We shall refer to this story again.

When Doctor Johnson advocated reading to one who would be educated, he uttered an evident truth; when he enhanced it with the advice, “read anything，” he was uttering wisdom.

Johnson knew that acquaintance with the works of men even of lesser ability than the reader himself would be beneficial, though it merely spurred the latter to emulation.

From this may be gathered: that volition plays some part in education, that the individual is the creature to be taken in con­ sideration, and that that individual has opportunities for intel93

lectual gain everywhere. Let us note that the student mentioned before failed to detect the omnipresence of opportunity and'beheld it only in the circle of influence lorded over by the big stick.

In considering a professor's task, we bear in mind that his audience is of varied taste and ability. Some like language, others loath it and prefer science or mathematics. Each in­ dividual signifies by his presence in the lecture room a reason for being there. Should there be no enticement for him in the subject-matter treated by the teacher, he oflers, at least, him­ self to be inspired or experimented on. A consummate teacher of small classes realises this and sets about to mark each pupil’s endowments. With the aid of these mental notes, he varies his material and conduct to suit as many as possible of the plastic minds gathered before him and entice them individually to efforts of study for their gain and his own true pleasure.

The big stick falls separately now.

What a tremendous task it must be for an instructor to attain this end at present we can only judge from the numerous failures. But we have not yet considered that ability, or rather lack of it, on the student’s part presents greater woes.

Our student of the former paragraph was plainly unfitted for higher education of any sort. His teacher, bilious or other­ wise, was justly annoyed at more than outward phenomena suggested: lecturing to a stone wall is always disconcerting; to a robot capable of false representation still more so. There must be an uncomfortable feeling in the mind of our worthy professor that one or other of his charges will represent him to his folks—who always interpret the impressions of their pro­ geny with due credit to their sagacity—so monstrously that these will be only too eager to vent their indignation on the professor's head.

A kind of mental reservation allowed us to go far beyond the scope of out title, but if in doing so we succeeded partly in producing, partly in implying reasons why our community wears sackcloth just now, we may be pardoned.

In the face of all our own shortcomings as students, we should begin to wonder how the masters can gaze upon our stolid faces day by day without demoting our respective social positions more than they do; also why they should be loud in their praises of one of a legion who distinguishes himself for his faithful work. Point two dealt with ignoring and exceed­ ing the bounds of text material. When an instructor’s good sense must be coerced by a paper text-book all construction will evidently long have ceased. And when our average student has risen reasonably far above the standard alluded to, though somewhat grossly portrayed, in the foregoing digressions, then 94

we may perchance be entitled to find fault with what now serves to revive and stimulate us in our die-stamped course of studies—the professor's occasional surge into space.

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—Kurt Kneiske, *29 and Mildred Raloff were married on May 9. The Black and Red extends best wishes.

—The rest of the news is chiefly about visitors at North­ western: To see “The Rivals’’ on May 20 there was a goodly number of Seminarians. Others were Rev. C. Buenger, ’94, Rev. M. Buengei，，’21，Rev. L. Kirst，’03, Rev. A. Schultz, ’02, Rev. G. Redlin, ’28, and Rev. 0. Kuhlow, ’99, and Professors Vogel, '28, and Risto'v, ’30 of the Winnebago Lutheran Aca­ demy. (We express regrets for a couple of the Seminary men who intended to see the play but were somehow frustrated in their attempt to丨，each Watertown.)

—Among our recent visitors were Rev. 0. Hagedorn, '91, Rev. R. Horlamus, '24, Rov. C. Siegler, '93, Rev. H. Geiger, ’07, Rev. J. Brenner, *93, Rev. W. Sauer, ’02, and E. Schultz, ’30, H. Rutz, *30, G. Peters, *31, P. Schoenorf, ex '24, and wife.

Rev. Geiger was also at Columbus on May 22, when our Male Chorus gave a concert there. Rene Claudon, ex. ’28, has been in Watertown several times this year.

—In the week of May 22 Tutor Kremer was in Milwaukee for several days. Professor Sitz visited with Rev. Koeniger at Manitowoc over the Pentecost week-end.

—H. Baumann, ’31，preached at St. Luke’s, Watertown, for Rev. Lorenz, on Pentecost Monday.

—A baby girl, Elsbeth Adelaide, was born to the Rev. and Mrs. Otto C. Henning of Sturgeon Bay, Wis” on May 27th, 1932. Rev. Henning is a member of the class of ’23.

—Activities of former students: Vic. Bolle, ex ^l, is now employed by the Carnation Milk Products Co. at Chilton, Wis. —p)uise Thurow, ex ’25, is working in a bank in Waterloo.— Willard Raabe, ex '31, is now traveling in Germany. And be­ lieve it or not, he’ll get his job back when he comes home!—We would appreciate more news from the Alumni.

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On May 8 many students traveled to Oshkosh to attend the funeral services of our departed fellow-student Edmund Kasper.

The mixed chorus, of which Mr. Kasper was president, paid its respects by singing a hymn for the church services. We here also wish to offer our thanks to those coeds and other residents of Watertown who made it possible for so many students to attend the funeral by generously offering the use of their automobiles.

The N. W. C. Orchestra was again engaged to play several selections during a play given at the St. Mark’s auditorium on the evenings of May 12 and 13. The St. Mark’s Ladies Aid presented "The Dust of the Earth,” a drama in four acts, by Catherine Cavanaugh. The N. W. C. Quartette also sang several selections. On May 18 the members of the orchestra were rewarded for their playing there this spring： by a party given by the young people’s society. We (the orchestra) wish to express our appreciation. * This year the four musical organizations again decided to have their picture taken. Last year for some reason or other no pictures were taken. May 13 proved to be a peculiar day foi’ this undertaking. The male chorus, the first of the four groups to cast its image upon the film, had to wait a consider­ able length of time, after it had already been arranged, for a cloud to pass over the sun, since too much light would have spoiled the picture. A short time later the mixed chorus, the last group on the list, was nearly compelled to disperse on of a shower of rain. Although a few drops did already tall, the picture did not suffer in the least u 5of5ssor Kiessling, our able dramatic coach, again added a brilliant success to the list of final spring plays given by the iterary societies when <4The Rivals,” a comedy in five acts, by 96

I Richard Brinsley Sheridan, was in every respect very well staged in our auditorium here on May 20. An excellent cast, which had been carefully chosen, is ahso worthy of much praise.

The cast was: __ Otto Heiei% ’32 Sir Anthony Absolute Captain Absolute, his son | Armin Schultz, ’32 Beverly | Faukland, Capt. Absolute's friend.

Kcinharcl Schoencck, J32 Acres, a country squire Marcus Liescner, ’33 Sir Lucius 0Trigger, a gay, burly Irishman. Adolph Buenger, ’33 Fag, Capt. Absolute's servant Waklemar Thurow, ,35 David, Acres’ servant Adelbert Maas, ’33 Thomas, a coachman Curtis Hotlen, ’34 A Boy Le Roy Benzel, ’35 Mrs. Mai a prop Belly Faber, *33 Lydia Languish, her niire and ward Clare Scheblack, ’35 Julia Melville, Lydia's friend Dorothy Groth, J35 Lucy, Lydia's maid Gertrude Wendland, ’33 The part of Mrs. Mnluprop was very well acted by Miss Faber. Beyond this it is hardly possible to mention outstanding: individual characters, for the parts were exceptionally well played by all.

The stage com mi tire was composed uf Hobert Kaschinske, Herbert Resting, VValU'r Huopner, Walter Schultz, and Everett Zimpelmann. If you think they had an easy task, just ask Mana­ ger Kaschinskc about il. Ralph H?jredorn and Martin Toepel did the electrical work. The artists were Arnold Bollc, Ralph Lemke, Richard Stiemke, John Raabc, and Le Roy Benzel.

The business mana^rci's were Edward Knoll and Henry Meyer.

Tlie follo'vinjr, however, aided them in selling1 tickets: Frede­ rick Tiefel, Allen Hoff. Cierhardt Gilbert, and Harry Klingbeil.

The seating was taken care uf by the Junior Class. Music dur­ ing the course of the iilav was supplied by the N. W. C. Orchestra. ’ The members uf the mnle chorus again enjoyed a Sunday at Columbus with the Kev. Wm. Nommensen’s congregation on May 22. They sang： for the English and German services in the morning1. Then they were greeted with a delicious chicken dinner in the school hall: The afternoon was spent in playing kitten ball. In the evening the male chorus gave a sacred con­ cert at the church. .The N. W. C. Ban:l also has several engagements before this school term closes. They are. however, too late for this issue of the Black and Red. The band again is to march in the parade on Decoration Day here at Watertown. On June 5 it has been asked to play at Iron Ridge: and on June 12 it will play for the St. Mark’s school picnic here at Watertown.

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The Round Table of Beloit complains that football and basketball are too highly eulogized and that track men are not given enough praise for their effort. * 'The boys on the cinder path put forth just as much effort as men in other sports, if not more. In fact, a track man bears the marks of his participation in that sport more surely than a player in any other sport does.

This is especially true of sprinters whose very physiques are warped from the effects of their race.” *'Track is an individual sport. What a man does he must do purely on his own prowess.

Who would have heard of Red Grange, Jack Elder and Carideo. if they had not played with mastei- teams ? How would ••Stretch” Murphy have looked on a third-rate basketball team ? But the men who hold records in track, received no help except advice.”

What might be stressed more in showing the superiority of track, is the intensive training- required. But the Calvin College Chimes goes into the matter of who deserves praise still farther.

••Why should only the members of the varsity and reserve squads, of all those who expend time and effort in advancing the interests of Calvin, be rewarded (with letters and sweaters).

There is little justice in a scheme of awards which fails to recognize all extracurricular achievement save that of an ath­ lete.” The last statement is very true. Rewards in Colleges should be for those with strong minds, not strong backs.

Do college students think ? This common question is ag^a in written about in Calvin College Chimes, but from a new poi . nt of view. Most critics reply to this question in the negative.

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anlt critic’s reply, but explains it. “Too many of us have made cloister out of campus. The analysis of the situation made by outsiders is, however, erroneous. The trouble is the inter­ relation of students’ selves. It is not primarily that college folk have not learned how to think; the tragedy is that college students have not learned how to live. The responsibilities of activities, as organized social life, appearing irksome, the ma­ jority of collegians have steered shy of them. They have no more interest in or are concerned as little about local school affairs than we are about national or international matters. In other words, we are at least thorough going in our apathy.

“It is not enough to say that we have neglected thought — though that be true : we have neglected something more basic than that — ideals. These ideals, which one ought to be able to find at a college rather than any other place on earth, are, to name a few, school spirit, group endeavors, and social project.

A student can live only if he lives in the group. What few stu­ dent groups we see ongajred in Model Assemblies, political ex­ periments, etc., are struggling plants in a desert of smug indi­ vidualism. Students must fit themselves to face the problems of the world by facing： the problems of the campus.”

The Milton College Review of April 15 quotes Superinten­ dent Buell, of Watertown, who spoke there March 11. He said, ••Tliis age is the regime of the vulgar.M He denounced the radio as cheapening the environment of youth with its jazz bands, crooners, and vulgar songs. The majority of movies \vere vile and suggestive. Much literature, especially maga­ zines, is vulgar with the conspicuous ads featuring young ladies smoking cigarettes. Ho suggested that a class in cosmetics be conducted to teach girls how to use them in a refined way.

He also said that it is the duty of the schools to set an example for the right philosophy by teaching the student worth while activities such as athletics (football bull fights —gladiatorial contests—war — * 'right'1 philosophy!!) and music, school papers and annuals, parties, and to develop taste for worthy things.

Many of these statements are only too true : but on some of the less vital points, as women smoking and using cosmetics too crudely, a little less conservatism might be better than utter intolerance. Such women are the butt of much humor, and a hearty laugh brought on by some silly woman’s means of beauti­ fying herself is as good for the health as an apple a day. As for the jazz music, the Calvin College Chimes attempts to justify it. <4The most striking feature of jazz is its rhythm. Jazz is characterized by what is called “cross-rhythm,” i. e., a combi­ nation of two or more rhythms beating simultaneously in one musical theme. The priniative dance of the African savages is an interesting example of cross-rhythm.M An explanation of 101

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this dance is carried out and the motions of the head and arms explained. “In jazz, the cross-rhythmic plan is usually limited to two simultaneous rhythms, easily detected in a rendition of a jazz selection on the piano, in which the one hand of the pianist strums the regular rhythm on the bass chords, while the other hand follows the intricate variations of the broken melo­ dy. The vacillating character of the melodic rhythm sets off by contrast the simple beat which is an expression of our natural rhythmic sense. The melody itself, except for its syncopation, is extremely elementary in character.’’ The author make no attempt to justify the philosophy expressed in the words of the piece, but merely treats the theory of jazz music. The criticism that jazz is adapted too suitably for dancing, is refuted thus: “Dancing is a purely physical expression of a natural psycho­ logical sense of rhythm. Since all musical rhythm is an expression of the same rhythmic sense, the difference between jazz and classical types of music is one of degree, not of essence."

—But the famous, smashing argument, jazz is not classical!

This is also refuted : “It is not; but are we never to break away from the mediaevalism that must have a small group of edu­ cated critics pick the world’s music for us?’’ Rather a weak argument. “Jazz is the result of man’s consistent efforts to get back to simple primitive expression of his individual emotions.”

What a noble aspiration. “A type of music need not be classic in order to live through the ages. Every age has had its folktunes by which the common man gave expression to his emo­ tional yearnings. So jazz has arisen to satisfy the musical thirst of the mass. The mass is indeed the true patron. In jazz one truly hears the voice of hoi polloi. The popular music, a lesser jazz, gives expression to the sloppily sentimental minds of the mass ; in some pieces the wail of a lost, weary jaded generation is readily detected. But nevertheless, college stu­ dents do not belong to hoi polloi, and should therefore under­ stand jazz, but never become slaves, no — not even friends of jazz. :‘If jazz expresses the emotions of one soul even partly, it has justified its existence/* is the closing sentence of this composition. An appealing statement, to be sure, but hardly true.

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Northwestern has rather conclusively demonstrated its supe­ riority over Milton in baseball this year by winning the first three games of the scheduled five-game series. This goes not mean that Northwestern was able to run away \vith Milton; on the contrary, two of their games were extra inning games and the third was close enough to be interesting. In all the games some snappy playing was shown, and best of all, a steaay in­ crease of ability. This last is true especially of the batting, as is shown by statistics. I n the first scrimmage of the season against the American Legion team, Northwestern rnanaged to hit only three times, but in the game with Milton on May lo, 13 hits were pounded out. Nommensen is still leading the bat­ ting while Buch and Biesmann are sharing in fielding honors.

Unfortunately the outfield isn’t living up to expectations, tor it is rather slow; nor has it as yet the redeeming quality of being sure of itself, but we hope that it too will improve with experience.

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as thrilling as one could possibly hope for. u：4. a leading 4-3 until the ninth, when Stockstad of Milton hit a homerun into left field to tie the score. The tie was not bioken until the last of the eleventh when Biesmann hit; adva third, and came home on a slow grounder to snort.

May 18: Milton 8; Northwestern 12. This was the third 103

extra inningg game in five starts. Milton drove in four runs in the last of the ninth to tie the score, but they were . unable • to keep up the pace, and Northwestern made the four points which they gathered in the tenth their margin of victory.

Seminary 5; — NoHlnvoslcrn 1.

On May 12, the Seminary won an easy victory from North­ western. Raasch pitching for the Seminary kept the North­ western hits well scattered, while Northwestern^ stationary outfield did its best to make the game a runaway for the Semi­ nary. All the blame for the defeat cannot be put on the shoul­ ders of the outfield however, for the Seminary players demon­ strated the superiority that comes of experience, earning enough runs to have won the game without the aid of our outfield.

AB Ii R E Northwestern— AB H R E Seminary 4 10 0 Eckert S.S. 4 2 11 Buch 2b.

4 110 Biesmann (C) C. 3 0 10 Witt C. F. 4 10 0 Schroeder L. F. 3 0 0 0 Fritze 3 B. Buengerlb 4 0 0 0 Blumenthal K.F. 3 10 0 4 110 Nommensen C.F. 1 10 1 Liersen L. F. 4 0 0 0 Siegler R. F...... 3 0 0 0 Heyn 1 B. Ehlert 3b.

3 0 0 1 Heilmann 2 B. 3 2 2 1 0 0 0 Schewe S. S...... 4 1 0 1 Froelich C. 3 3 10 0 Koehler P. 4 10 0 Grosnick C.F— 3 0 0 0 KettenackerR.F. 1 10 0 Fredericks R. F. 110 0 Siegler R.F. 0 o—o— 0 10—5—2 5 13 Struck Out: by Raasch 8; by Koehler 8. Bases on Balls: off Raasch 3: off Koehler 0. Two base hits. Heilmann 2.

Umpires: Schewe; Wend land.

Legion 7; — N.W.G. 1.

Northwestern fans, who came to see the annual Memorial Day game beween the Watertown Legion team and North­ western team, were rather disappointed at the poor showing made by Northwestern. The first five innings were close enough, featuring some pretty exhibitions of play, and a home i*un by Buenger : but the latter half of the game was disap­ pointing. It started in the sixth when the Legion brought in the only two runs which they earned, with a base on balls __ and three hits. In the eighth Ehlert made three errors in succession to give the Legion t\vo more runs, and Siegler brought the total to seven by misjudging the fly that should have been the last out of the ninth inning, with bases filled.

An interesting feature of the game was Biesmann’s “peg” 104

to second and third, which stopped practically all base stealing on the part of the Legion. Beisner was outstanding for the Legion in his work at short.

Grossnick, pitching for the Legion, baffled all of the Black and Red men with his slow, roundhouse curves. He allowed only three hits, one of them Buengei^s home run, and the others two singles by Biesmann. The Legion gathered thirteen from Koehler.

TENNIS The Northwestern tennis team played a return match with the Milton tennis team at Milton on May 13 meeting with more opposition than in the first match, nevertheless bringing home the victory. Northwestern won three single matches and one double match.

Northwestern Milton Gewecke 1-6; 1—6 Rogers Raabe Prow 8—6; 1-6;； [6—3 Freitag 6—2; 6—3 Sayre Schewe Babcock 6-2; 6-2 Mendelhall, Nommensen, Rogers, Stevens 6—1; 4-6;l3-6 Freitag, ^Schewe, Crawe, Russel 6—0; 6—3.

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Summer vacation affords a welcome respite both to students from their studies, and to the Local-writer from the Local column. Three months of extracting Locals from a petrified student body is sufficient to cause anyone to long for a vacation.

I^n’t be surprised if you happen upon a blank page instead of Jhis column next year. It will mean that the compiler of the Local column has failed to glean enough material from the 105

windswept fields of student thought and activities to warrant writing up the column.

If anyone is contemplating hitch-hiking to La Crosse he will do well to consider carefully what he is about to undertake.

A number of those who "shagged” to Bangor (approximately 20 miles E. N. E. of La Crosse) for Pentecost and Whitmonday have a tale of woe to relate about the benevolence of traveling salesmen. Raabe came to grief twice. The first time WSchultz was his bedfellow. They slept in a car Saturday night a long way from their objective. Sunday afternoon they did manage to arrive in Bangor. Monday night Raabe and Maas were stranded in Wisconsin Dells. They contrived to obtain a night’s lodging in a pastor's house there. Tuesday afternoon they put in at Northwestern again.

As an encouragement to those with inclinations to hitch­ hike we can report that V. Tiefel and C. Hotlen made the trip to Chicago and return via five rides and a free meal. Likewise Scheck and Wicke hiked to Kaukauna, Witt and Re lien to Ap­ pleton. A score of others hiked to Milwaukee, some of whom were successful, others of whom were not.

The musical organizations, comprising the band, orchestra, male chorus, and mixed chorus, had their picture taken last month. When a few drops of rain began to fall it appeared as if the coeds in the mixed chorus would have their colorful frocks converted into a hotchpotch of colors. But, as if to spite the onlookers, the rain was dissipated.

On May 23rd the Athletic Board, with the assistance of “Fatz” Freitag, repainted the lines on the tennis courts.

After the baseball game at Milton May 18th Nommensen went home to recover from an injury to his head. A baseball struck him and brought about a slight concussion. He returned the following Monday.

Perhaps it’s a bit too late to make mention of the fact, but the college has a number of new park benches. The bright black and red colors contrast well with the various shades of green in the background.

Many students, including the Senior class and the Mixed Chorus, attended Edmund Kaspar’s funeral at Oshkosh.

The Orchestra played for the play “Dust of the Earth” presented by the Ladies，Aid of St. Marks. Hai.ke and F. Weyland assumed the roles of prompters.

R. Kaschinske was called home Saturday, May 21st, on account of the death of his guardian, Mi.. August Manthey.

The Quinta Class went out botanizing： (?) the evening of May 23rd. Tuesday, May 24th, the Quinta class was washing windows. Don’t spend more than four seconds conjecturing.

If you haven’t guessed the reason, pass on to the next item.

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The Prep paper, formerly the Schrdlu, has been endowed with a new name. Now it is designated as Prep Review.

Golf is engrossing the attention of many of us. The usual number of balls and clubs have been lost and broken, of course.

No holes in one have been announced as yet.

The 1932 Bowling tournament has passed into history. The Juniors took first place as was expected. They were trailing twenty pins behind the Seniors at the end of the second game.

Buch’s 204 helped to put them back on their feet again and to win by sixty pins. That the Seniors offered the stiff opposition that they did in the tournament can be attributed in part to the fact that Kreie was alternately supporting them and demora­ lizing the Juniors from his vantage-point at the other end of the alley. The Sophomores took a back seat to the other three classes because they finished up fourth. Schoeneck bowled the high game, 207. A. Schultz had the highest average for three games, 1G4. Liesener, last year’s champion, lost his title to A. Schultz by seven pins. The totals for the classes were as fol­ lows: Seniors 2153, Juniors 2213, Sophomores 1654, and Fresh­ man 1709.

What benefits some students reap from our classical course may be estimated by this example. A member of the Tertia class casually remarked the other day: “That’s like Socrates looking for an honest man with a lantern.”

The Sophomore class had its pictures retaken recently. The pictures taken before weren't satisfactory. Besides the coeds weren't present. This time a whole film was taken so that all possibilities of a failure would be eliminated.

If anyone is skeptical about the merit and fame of the Black and Red let him lend an ear to this. A House on Fleet Street, London, sent a letter to the Advertising Manager of our pub­ lication desiring to know what we charged for advertising space.

Mr. Resting： is expectantly awaiting an order from the House.

The collegiate body met again recently; on this occasion to elect new members to the Athletic Board. Liesener was chosen the representative of the Juniors, the Sophomores supported Raabe, and the Freshmen placed Reuschel on the Board. In this connection we may recall that the Athletic Board and the managers of the football, basketball and baseball teams held their annual banquet Friday evening. May 27th.

In order to tidy up the grounds for the Commencement exercises all available man-power has been put to work on the campus. In addition to the **Deceivers Club”，which has been contributing its share toward the cleaned-up appearance of the la'vn, the janitors have been busy spading up the ground around the trees and beautifying the unattractive spots.

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Since this is the last number of the Black and Red, this will also be the last Coed Notes column. We are very grateful to the Staff for allowing us to print our activities. We hope you have enjoyed reading them as we have printing them.

On Sunday, May 8, the Mixed Chorus motored to Oshkosh to attend the funeral of Edmund Kasper, former president of the organization. The Chorus paid its last respects by singing at the church service.

On May 15 Alida Melcher, a one-time member of the class of ’33，and Edgar Dobratz were united in holy wedlock at Ixonia. We extend our best wishes to them. *'The Rivals” was very well attended by former students.

Among the Coeds who took part in the play were Clare Scheblak, Betty Faber, Dorothy Groth, and Gertrude Wendland. The audience witnessed some excellent acting by the players.

The Green Bowl Tea Shop was the scene of the annual Coed Banquet on the 24th of May. The Tertia girls and Mrs. Elmer Kiessling, instructress of the girls’ Rym class, were guests of honor at the banquet. Adele Herro, Lillian Trapp, and Elizabeth Stern provided the entertainment for the evening.

This is really the only time that the girls all get together, and a most enjoyable time was reported by all.

Miss Gertrude Koehn of East Troy, former member of the class of ’34, spent a week with Glenna Rasmussen and Lillian Trapp, during which time she also renewed old acquaintances.

"Seems good to get back,” says Gert.

Helen Naumann attended a Walther League Convention at Milwaukee recently.

On Tuesday evening, May 31, Mrs. Kiessling entertained the Giles’ Gym Class at her home. The girls appreciated having such a proficient coach in all of their gym activities. The girls this means of expressing their sincere thanks to her for her untiring efforts.

Most of the Coeds are uncertain whether they are coming pack next year or not, but they want to take this opportunity to wish everyone a very happy summer vacation.

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Having a fine time writing this column. Wish you were here--------- in my steacl.

Lawyer: What is your occupation?

Witness: I am a trunk finisher.

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Maas is trying to answer a question: Well, ah j ~" Prof. : My impression is that when a person begins that way not much follows.

Maas: I really don’t know.

Prof. : You should have said that before. Now we have come to that conclusion ourselves.

Doctor: Did you follow my directions and drink hot water one hour before breakfast?

Patient: I did my best, doctor, but I couldn’t keep it up tor more than ten minutes.

SIC? Tutor Kleinke comes upon the scene of a collision between a car and a truck and inquires: “What happened • Gensmer: An accident.

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Peace In Sight Harke: How do you think you’ll get along when we are gone?

Prof. : Well, I’m accustomed to these violent changes.

It Usually Is Prof. : By what name do we call our refutation of somebody’s proposition or argument?

Student: An error. ‘‘ ‘Artford，‘Artford’’，called the conductor.

“You’ve dropped an ‘h' ” said a passenger. ‘‘That’s all right, sir, we’ll pick hit hup hat Hamherst.”

Vincent: Have you a pinchers or pliers?

Eicky: No, I have only a Harper's.

You Can’t Blame Him I had to kill my dog this morning.

Was he mad?

Well, he didn’t seem any too well pleased.

Slow But Sure Is Our MoUo Auto prospect: You have shown me that your new car can travel 90 miles an hour. But will such a car last? > Agent: Don't let that worry you. Anyone who drives 90 miles an hour will not need any car long.

Or Angleworms Knoll: A bird in the hand gathers no moss.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

LITERARY— A Depression Trip

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Up Zion Canyon…….

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EDITORIALS— 121

A Parable SEMINARY NOTES-”一…•…

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CAMPUS AND CLASSROOM

THE BLACK AND RED Volume XXXVI.

Wathrtown. Wis.. Sept. 1932

Number 4

Entered at the Postofticr .u Waiertown .Wis.. second class matter under Act of March 3，1879. P* blishrcl monthly. Su bscription. One Dollar.

A DEPRESSION TRIP Imagine yourself in an automobile passing through a huge artificial cavern, perhaps twenty-five feet wide and about a mile long. The concrete road on which you are driving is not differ­ ent from an ordinary two-lane highway; yet at both sides and above, as you strain your eyes ahead, you see nothing but an unbroken surface of white tiles, shining tiles, a mirror-like sur­ face gleaming- with the beams which it reflects from the hun­ dreds of lights that extend along the sides. You are conscious of the fact that above those tiles there flows a river, a river which divides your native country from a foreign one, the United States from Canada. . .

That picture describes the conditions under which five young men, several of them students of Northwestern College, entered Canada by way of the Detroit tunnel. It is with the hope that some of our experiences will in some way be of use to some future traveller that we are recording a few of them in this sketch.

The exit of this impressive tunnel emerges, of course, at the Canadian customs office. We were surprised at the friendly welcome which was extended us by the customs officials. It 111

was sufficiently plain that we were American tourists and we were thus hurried through with most agreeable speed; that is, we were given no time whatever to change our minds and re­ turn to American soil. Such are the methods of Canadian officials for, you know, American tourists mean money to the foreigner.

With flattered spirits one leaves the customs office and, on leaving, is offered a huge colored windshield sticker, ‘ ‘Visiting Canada”. One buys it, attaches it to the windshield of one’s car, and actually feels that tthat huge poster is something to be proud of. But oh, how one has been tricked! Henceforth one drives a marked automobile; one is to be the prey of innumer­ able sordid Canadians who will advertise all manner of catch­ penny wares by various disagreeable methods. Jumping onto running boards of moving automobiles is a favorite method among Canadian high-pressure salesmen.

Although we did not go to Toronto immediately, I shall describe our visit to that city first, since that part of our tour was the most interesting and instructive. The approach to the city of Toronto from the west is an entrancing one. Already many miles from Toronto one notices the absence of the desert­ ed farmhouses and unproductive acres which characterize the sections farther west. From the city of Hamilton, on the west end of Lake Ontario, to Toronto the highway follows the shore of the Lake. To one side of this highway one sees great estates which create a metropolitan atmosphere long before one approaches the city. Frequent glimpses of the lake do much to enhance the beauty of the drive. As one nears Toronto the beautiful waterfront of the city, extending far out to the right, becomes visible.

It is along this waterfront that the grounds of the Canadian National Exposition, the world’s largest annual exposition, are located. The boundaries of the exposition park include a water­ front a mile and a half long and cover an area of three hundred and fifty acres. The annual exposition lasts for a period of about one-half month; we were fortunate enough to arrive during this time. We had been so impressed by roadside pos­ ters that we immediately made our way to the fair grounds.

The crowds that we encountered flocking to the gates were immense. With no further hesitation we drove up to the main entrance, intending to pay a small fee and drive in. However, we were immediately disillusioned. One of the gatekeepers came to our car, looked at us, and gave us his quick decision.

“Two dollars seventy-five cents,” he declared. We looked at one another in dumb amazement. We had been told that the entrance fee was twenty-five cents a person. Our enquiries brought the information the fee was one and a half dollars for 112

the car and twenty-five cents a person. With indistinct mutterings we turned our car around, took our leave of the gatekeeper, and drove away.

We had driven only a short distance when we saw the foolishness of missing this opportunity to see the Exposition for no other reason than that we did not wish to pay the price of an auto admission. We began to look for a parking^ place.

But again we found that the shrewd extortionate instinct of the Canadians had foiled our purposes. Almost every street had been marked with “No Parking” signs; howevver, b y Payinp either fifty or twenty-five cents, depending upon the prox­ imity of the park, one could obtain the privelege of parking on these marked streets. Again we rebelled; we had refused to pay one and a half dollars for parking; we should also refuse to pay twenty-five cents. There were streets in Toronto where the privilege of parking costs nothing and our next task was to find one of these. This we did only after we had been made very much conscious of the fact that Toronto is by no means a small city, and we were soon within the gates of the exposition grounds. We were most assuredly not disappointed with the pageant that lay before us. Buildings which we could not hope to explore during the short time that we should be there sprawled before us. The value of these palatial structures, each one of them a permanent building of brick, steel, stone, and concrete, is twenty-one million dollars. The buildings con­ tained exhibits from all parts of the British Empire. The gi'eater part of our time was spent wandering about among exhibits of arts, sciences, industry, engineering, agriculture, sport, and many more. Then, of course, there are those mdispensables of a fair: the side shows with all their freaks and monstrosities, the roller-coaster, the grandstand with its shows and fireworks. Altogether, the time which we spent, at the Canadian National Exposition was not lost, and we advise any person who will some day have the opportunity to see this exposition to do so.

• The main objective of most people who travel to the East seems always to be Niagara Falls. It is the Falls that entices them to spend their vacations on the road, it is at the Falls that they spend their money, and it is of the Falls that they ta^k after they have returned home. But there is perhaps no other place in America where one needs to be more careful about spending one’s money than at Niagara Falls. The place teems with parasitic guides and souvenir venders. Suppose that you have just arrived at Niagara Falls. You will not have left your automobile before a uniformed personage has stepped to your car offering you information. You tell him that you do not know much about the Falls, whereupon he will offer to take 113

you about. Do not hesitate to ask him the embarrasing ques­ tion of how much he will charge for his services. In times of prosperity he will answer: “Three dollars.” If asked repeat­ edly he will specify that this is three dollars a person. How­ ever, if your car, baggage, and wearing apparel indicate that the depression has not passed by you, he will with adequate apologies, offer to take you about for one dollar and a half.

Now if you must have a guide, offer him fifty cents in cash and accept his services; of his own initiative he will come no lower than seventy-five cents. However, we advise you to take no chances; after you have refused his offers thirteen times, walk on ; if necessary run away as quickly as possible to some place where he can not readily find you.

Other things which we advise a visitor to Niagara to watch carefully are: do not send your postcards from the Canadian side, since a two cent stamp is required to send a card by w of the King’s mail: do not buy malted milk; a bottle of undilut milk is cheaper; do not, by any means, argue with the guide on Goat Island about the price of an elevator ride to the bottom of the Falls; he has a certain most uncomplimentary name for persons who complain against paying one and a half dollars for this trip.

If you escape all these minor pests, we can assure you that you will not be disappointed in the Falls. However, if you fall into the same errors that we did, you also will find the place so unpleasant that you will perhaps be led to exclaim, with one member of our party: “The Falls are a big Hop.” .

Our experiences at other places, as, for example, the city where all saloons, gum machines, and theatres are locked up on Sunday, are too extensive to describe. Let this suffice that we arrived at Sarnia, the town at which we boarded a ferry for the United States, in due time. Our last experience on the Canadian side was that of being asked to throw coins from the ferry so that the swimmers around the boat might dive after them.

On reentering the United States one of the customs officials startled us with the inquiry: ‘‘And they let YOU into Canada?

Herbert Fleischer ’35.

UP ZION CANYON The Indian name for it is Mukuntuwee which means ‘‘the 系r$at canyon.” Another Indian with a sense of humor called it ‘the canyon from which you come out the way you go in.”

We had accompanied the park ranger to the end of the trail. The canyon walls which lower down had been nearly a mile apart had drawn together to a scant sixty feet and rose 114

almost perpendicularly to 1500 feet. There was no more room in the canyon for both trail and river.

“There is where our hike ends,” remarked the ranger.

Then he added with a smile; “If anyone wishes to continue He’s welcome to do so.’’ It did look inviting. But when he added, “It’s thirty-five miles up and no one’s been more than seven,” it drew irresistibly.

I asked the ranger if he minded my trying it. He looked at me a momentt, “No — go ahead,” he replied, “go hike all you want to.”

So I set off. I splashed through knee-deep water to the first bend. When I could no longer see the group of people at the end of the trail, I removed all my clothing with the execption of my boots and my belt from which I hung my sheath-knife and a note-book clone up in a bandana.

The canyon floor was not entirely covered with water. On the insides of the bends there were usually gravel bars covered with animal tracks. I hiked fast, for I knew it would take some tall hiking： to get beyond the seven miles and back before nightfall. But even at that I honestly believe, that my neckmuscles received as much exercise as my legs, for as I hiked I stretched my neck in every direction so as not to miss a single particular of the glorious scenery.

The walls of the beautiful red and gray sandstone rose sheer to enormous heights and away up, between the two walls, there was just a narrow strip of sky visible. .

There were places where springs would break out of the side of the wall and come tumbling- clown into the canyon. Colum­ bines and ferns had found footing in rock crevices and, living in the spray of the waterfall, formed beautiful hanging gardens.

For the first mile or so I noticed a few human tracks on the canyon floor. A fall of rocks from the side of the canyon blocked the way except for a small opening through which I squirmed—above that point I saw no more evidence of human beings.

There were rather many places like that. A huge slab of rock had fallen from the wall and in falling had broken up, sometimes nearly closing the canyon. There was usually a way to get through, if no other way, by swimming. But occasion­ ally the place would be so narrow and the current so swift that it was impossible to swim. In those places I had to dive and that usually worked. .. .

Water ouzels kept flying up just ahead of me quirting with their tails, and a few times I saw lizards scurrying off the rocks ahead.

Once I heard a rumbling noise that sounded like thunder.

I looked around and found a subterranean waterfall which must 115

have fallen a considerable distance before it splashed into the Virgin River through a small opening in the rock. The water was cold and dear, so I drank some of it.

Corners were so enticing—-1 always expected to run into a deer, a mountain lion or two, or anything else, and the mere fact that they never were there didn’t disturb my faith that I would see them around the next corner.

• Another fall of rocks—a pool covered with bits of driftwood was the only way through. I expected that the pool was about three feet deep—the water was muddy — so I slid down a rock into it. Just at the waterline my heels caught and I went into the pool head-first—and down way over my head—about ten or twelve feet deep—I began to swim and soon reached the other side, though my boots made me feel as if my legs were shackled to some enormous weight. After the first dive I stuck the note-book in my mouth, and it still bears the semi-circular row of teeth-marks. A bit farther on I saw a robin—I don’t see how he could fly out of the canyon—I can’t see either why he should want to. The walls receded again and trees grew in the bottom of the canyon. A small side-canyon to the left smelled strongly of decaying meat — and together with some tracks about the size of saucers—tracks that belonged to some member of the cat-family, undoubtedly a mountain-lion. I con­ cluded that there was a mountain-lion’s lair up in there some­ where. I left investigation for a later date. I picked up a club about three feet long to keep up the old courage, when I felt a shiver run down my spine. From that place on there were cougar tracks all the way.

A bit farther on five Ginnel’s jays started up a racket that I felt would work on the walls of the canyon similarly to the noise of Joshua’s trumpets on the walls of Jericho. The noise • was jarring enough. After they’d stopped, the sound echoed and reechoed up and down the canyon. It was at this place that I saw the sun striking the rock about twenty feet up 一that’s as close as I got to it all day. Again the canyon grew narrower. The rock instead of forming spires and lofty steeples seemed rounded more—in the Baroque style rather than Gothic, The wall didn't slope evenly but in some places hung over or formed cave-like indentations. At one corner I stood about onethird of the distance of the width of the canyon floor from the west bank and looking in every direction I couldn’t see a bit of the sky. I felt that I was in a subterranean passageway. The water splashed over a hundred rapids and made a ghostly gurgling. There was a sort of semi-darkness. Even in the center of the canyon only small bits of sky were visible. I ex­ pected all the while to find the canyon end in a blank wall with the river gushing out from a subterranean tunnel — but instead 116

the canyon again became wider and on some wider curves trees grew on the bottom of the canyon.

The composition of the rock walls seemed to be of a softer material—there were small hollows washed into them and in one I found the nest of a water ouzel!—I was delighted. It was the first one I’d seen. The nest like the oven bird’s and marsh 'vren’s was globular and though built of coarse materials it felt soft inside. It was perhaps eight to twelve inches in diameter and was built above the high water mark, but near a rapid which supplied the cradle-music for the young, I found two more nearby and the remains of a fourth. None of the nests contained eggs. .

I continued on up and in a tree which had evidently fallen from on top, for it was all twisted and smashed, I saw my first varied thrush. He was silent and retiring, but very beautiful.

Then I came to a fork in the stream. Where the two streams joined, the walls had been washed away and formed a sort of amphitheatre about thirty yards in diameter. There was a large sand-bank of fine sand and I sat down to remove the gravel from my boots. My socks were worn out in a number of places and my feet sore. ..

The sand was covered with tracks of deer, mountain lions, birds, and small cat-tracks the size of a house-cat which I learned later belonged to the ring-tailed cat.

I stretched out on the sand bar and gazed straight up. I lay there on my back trying to absorb some of the grandeur of the place- to translate it for my own senses. Those enormous rocks of red and gray sandstone — beautifully carved by the water. And the enormous height to which those walls rose. fifteen hundred feet liadn，t meant a thing, but as I lay there I could realize a little of the immensity by slowly climbing the 'vails with my vision. Then trying to realize that the fringe of green on top, which looked like little more than moss was in reality a forest, which I took to be Western Yellow Pine by the cones that had dropped into the canyon. .# I didn’t know which stream to take; they both looked so inviting. The one to the west was clear blue, while the one to fhe east had a greenish muddy color. The eastern one was larger and the stick I dropped pointed that way, so I went.

The walls were much closer in this canyon. There wasn t a pla?e where two men could not have touched both walls. They rose just as sheer as ever and fully as high. I came to one place where I could touch one wall with my hand and the other with my three-foot club. That was the narrowest it had been.

There were no mountain-lion tracks and very few deer tracks. The river covered the entire canyon floor except for a few small patches of gravel. I was walking in belt-deep water 117

anlt continually, and I frequently came to pools through which I had to swim.

Then suddenly I pricked up my ears. Somehow l was aware of a low thunderous noise. There hadn’t been an instant when the canyon was not filled with the sound of rushing water, but this noise rose above the gurgling and splashing of water.

I increased my gait and rounding a curve I came upon the most glorious sight I’ve ever experienced in rugged scenery.

There directly ahead of me was a waterfall. The walls had drawn close together and the waterfall gushed through the opening. I stood there marvelling for some time. Standing to my belt in water, I could touch both walls with my outstretched hands. Imagine a spot—a cut six feet wide and fifteen hun­ dred feet deep—and this waterfall at the bottom of it! A waterfall—in that dusky nearly subterranean canyon. The roar of the water was terrific, augmented by its own echoes—a full thunderous roar! I felt that I’d discovered the secret entrance to the garden of Eden—something I had no right to gaze upon —and I felt so wonderfully alone in my discovery. ， If that meant the end of my hike I was content to let it be.

I certainly could find no ending which would leave me with a better taste in my mouth. It certainly would not have been defeat to mark the end of my hike with this spot. To scale the waterfall would have been well-nigh impossible and there was no way around. I drank my fill of the beatiful scene and finally turned to go, reluctantly. Every few feet I would turn for a last look.

Perhaps a hundred feet below the fall I came upon a small patch of gravel and on it the imprint of a single deer hoof— headed up! How did he get beyond the falls? He might have come up this \vay by mistake and then gone back walking in water—but still, deer usually know where they are going. I decided to investigate. I headed back up toward the falls.

I searched the west wall—it rose sheer without a break.

Then the east wall—there—it looked like a crack. I scrambled to it over a little gravel mound covered with deer tracks. It was just a small crack, but I squeezed into it and followed it along. I clambered up a hill of shale that had fallen between was only a short passage way but when I emerged from it I was above the falls! I felt like a conquerer.

The cave-in that had formed the waterfall had been merely a huge slab of stone perhaps seventy-five feet high, which had broken free from the wall proper and had moved forward but remained erect. It hadn’t moved far and just enough of its top had crumbled off to form a waterfall.

I felt like a true discoverer—an explorer of distant regions.

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soon have to be starting back. I entertained ideas of hiking all the way through and telephoning from the upper end. I might have done it if I’d known how far I had come or that there was a telephone on the upper end. I hurried and when I figured Fd gone about a mile I stopped, rested and erected a mound of rocks and stuck up my staff or club in the center and tied my bandana to it so I’ll know how far I went when I hike up there again. The water may wash it away in a storm, but i’ll know the place anyhow. I found that the air had turned considerably colder, and that I had to walk fast to keep warm.

I hiked steadily for well over two hours without pause, some­ times even running. I came back on familiar ground and finally to the spot where I’d left my clothes. I pulled on my clothes, rounded the last bend before civilization, and walking on the west bank I crossed the Virgin River on a log to get to the trail on the east bank. Halfway across I noticed the ranger hurling up the trail—I admired and envied a man who could enjoy this spot continually. He seemed to slow his pace when he saw me. I thought perhaps he was coming up here for a lone hike or something- and resented my intrusion. Then I thought if it was to find something he might let me help him.

When I drew up, however, he stopped and turned about, so I walked with him. It was the chief ranger. First thing he said after greetings had been exchanged was: “Did you have a nice hike?’’ I figured it was merely to keep up conversation so I answered: “You bet had a peach!” I was going to tell him all about it but a fountain interrupted me—I drank long and deep.

When I stopped and wiped my mouth he said: Tastes pretty good, eh?’’ *4Mm—I’ll say!’’ I answered. Before I could get started on my hike another ranger came galloping up the canyon on a beautiful black horse. When he saw us he stopped— 'Well, I see you found him!” I looked up surprised—“Found him?

“Yes. You were considered lost.”

“Well, I，ll be—” “We didn’t seem to think there was anything to worry about but一it’s nearly seven and a hundred things might nave happened.” .

I rode back with the rangers and they took me to their headquarters. When we arrived the ranger that conducted the morning hike laughed, **Ha! I told you I wouldn’t a1 been worried if he hadn't come back for two more hours.’’

They asked me all sorts of questions about the hike, I told them of the waterfall. The chief ranger said, ‘‘You must have been in a side canyon, there are no falls in the main canyon.

Did you take the one to the right?”

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‘‘Y*es ” I answered “Well,” he said, ‘‘you hiked about eight miles.’’

“Eight miles?” I asked—“It felt nearer twenty.r, Back at the tent I removed my boots. There were no socks on my feet—the feet were lacerated and beginning to swell • where the skin had been pulled off. I fished around in the bottom of my boot—pebbles, sand, a piece of sock about an inch wide and two long, pieces of thread, shreds of wool—all that was left of what once had been a sock.

We left the next day; so I had a chance to study a map of the park. I purchased one on the way out and I knew immediately upon studying it that I’d made a mistake. The ranger had called the side-canyon the Orderville Gulch. I remembered then a stream coining in from the right not much over a mile from where I’d started. It had only been a small stream so I’d forgotten about it. I sent the ranger a letter describing my hike carefully. I received an answer telling me that in reality my hike had been nearer twenty than eight miles. My ban­ danna, he answered me, would very likely remain where Pd left it until I returned for it. But he told me further that I was not the first one that had seen that part of the canyon.

When the canyon had first been discovered, the exploring party had come all the way down starting at the upper end of the canyon. That was about 1890.

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A PARABLE “No,” said the great man of Wall Street to his guest. “We could never have evolved from creatures so stupid as apes. Let me relate an experience which has convinced me that this state­ ment is true.”

So he, like Munchhausen, began his story.

“While I was once vacationing in Africa, I got lost. After stumbling aimlessly through the forest for a long time, I chanced on the domain of a tribe of great apes. They lived there, eating the nuts of the trees, and were, mind you, perfectly contented.

Not only did that evidence of inferior and uncivilized mentality show itself, but all worked. That was sufficient to remove all thoughts of my own plight from my mind and urge me to at­ tempt to remedy their sorry plight. I selected five of the more_ intelligent apes, and instructed them in the ways of civilized men. They were highly delighted with their lessons in civili­ zation, and, perhaps more on account of that than an apprecia­ tion of the possibilities of the system, determined to put their instruction into practice. An assembly was called, and the oldest of the privileged ones addressed them in this way : *We, 121

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Then I left, and soon found my party. When we returned over the same route a month later, I went over to see how my colony was progressing. And can you believe it! They had returned to their systemless way of living, and all worked, each one for himself and no one received any profit more than was due him.

The leader told me that after the laborers had picked more than they could eat before rotting set in, they laid them off. Even after the laborers had spent all their mala, the select did not need any more nuts, and therefore could not employ them. So they revolted and soon the original system was again adopted.

I solved his problem by suggesting machinery, but he was too obtuse to see the possibilities. ‘‘No, I will never believe that such stupid creatures are our progenitors.}i R. H, ,35

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The annual Luncheon of the Alumni took place on June 16.

Among those present was Rev. E. Pankow, the only living member of the Class of ’72. Rev. Pankow matriculated at Northwestern on the day it first opened its doors for the recept­ ion of studients, Sept. 14, 1865.

— — Prof • Xv« Owen, Ph. D.，’05, of Templeton University, Philadelphia, paid Watertown a visit this summer.

—Rev. 0. Hagedorn, ’91，of Milwaukee, Rev. J. Bergholz, ’97, of La Crosse, and Rev. A. Spiering, (Emeritus), '81, of Des Moines, died this summer.

—Early fall visitors at Northwestern were the following: Rev. F. Gilbert, ’28，Rev. G. Redlin, ’28，Rev. W. Sauer, 902; M. Schoenwetter, H. Haase, V. Lehmann, all ex ’33，and H. Sieker，ex ’29，Rev. J. Gamm，’90，paid a flying visit to the college on Sept. 19. Lehmann is teaching at Madison.

—We have received the following news concernin g Seminary graduate positions: A. Voges is tutor at Saginaw, G. Martin and H. Oswald at Mobridge, S, D.; H. Witt goes to Mullen, Nebr., C. Lawrenz to North Fond du Lac, W. Paustian to Oconomowoc, G. Schaefer to Collins, Wis., Mackdanz to the State of Washington, and F. Miller to McNeely, S. D. 一 Rev. H. Eckert, ’28，has started a mission in South Saginaw. Rev. K. Timmel, ’20, of North Fond du Lac, has come to Watertown to replace Rev. F. Stern, ’07, who has been called to Detroit. Rev. G. Marquardt, ’23, has changed from Hurley to Scofield, Wis. 一 Wedding bells rang out this summer for Prof. V. Voecks, ’27，of New Ulm, and Olga Ulichny; for Walter Ott, ex ，26. and Frances Bentzin, both of Watertown ; and for Rev. W. Zink, ’2号，of Dale, Wis., and Agnes Bi*unquell of Milwaukee. Best Wishes to the three couples from the Black and Red. —We extend congratulations to Rev. M. Raasch，’03, of Lake Mills, who has just celebrated his twenty-fifth year in the ministry; also to Rev. and Mrs. L. Kirst of Beaver Dam, who celebrated their silver wedding anniversary on August 21. .—Eugene Eberle, who attended Northwestern in the ’seventies, is now editor of the Journal of the American Pharmaceu­ tical Association. On October 12 he will receive the Remington Honor Medal at a public dinner at Emerson Hotel, Baltimore.

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the University of Chicago ; and to H. Bluhm，’28, who made his Ph. D. in German at Madison in June.

—Rev. W. Franzmann, ’25，of Coloma, Michigan, is the father of a baby girl, born last June. Rev. A. Engel, ’25, of Pardeeville; Rev. A. Dornfeld, *27, of Richwood ; and Mr. H. Schumann of Watertown are receiving congratulations on their first-born sons. Both Mr. Schumann, who is now a member of the college board, and his wife, the former Miss Fleischer, were commercial students at Northwestern.

—G. Rowe, ex ’32, is teaching at Kewaunee, and G. Rosenhauer, ’28, is coaching football at Carbondale, 111.

A new school term has begun : but the beginning of this new term to a certain extent also directs our thoughts back to the old. We detect a few changes upon the campus from the condition in which we left it last June. —We have mentioned the name of the month June. What does that month remind you of ?

At first we perhaps remember the famous week of final examinations, which is truly a damper to our joy and pleasure in looking forward to that month after winter is past and spring begins to approach. However, far more outstanding in our memories is the time immediately after the examinations, when we were suddenly released from the mental strain of that week. Then we ourselves seemed to experience the freedom and happiness of our park songsters. We were looking for­ ward to the concert on the following day, which was deter­ mined as Commencement Day. Our final concert was exceptionally well attended. No 125

definite admission was charged; a silver collection was taken instead. The N. W. C. Orchestra opened the concert by playing three selections, “The Silver Bell” — Overture — by R. Schlepegrell; “The Wedding of the Winds”一Waltz—by John T. Hall; and March “Blue”，arranged by M. L. Lake. The Orchestra was directed by Professor W. C. Herrmann. The Mixed Chorus, with Professor A. P. Sitz as director, then sang a Czecho-Slovak folk song, “Wake Thee, Now, Dearest^, by Deems Taylor, and “Abendlied”，by Bruno Oscar Klein. The next number of the concert was rendered by one of the mem­ bers of the graduating class. Mr. Luther Schliesser played a violin solo, “Swan Song and Elsa’s Song of Rejoicing’’，by Wagner. E. Schewe，R. Biesmann, H. Wicke, and A. Bolle, who form the N. W. C. Quartette, sang ‘‘The Lost Chord”，by Sullivan, in very good harmony. Mr. Donald Schwarz, our able pianist, then played “Etude in F Major’’，by Chopin. We deplore the fact that Mr. Schwarz is not with us again this year. After a brief intermission, during1 which the silver col­ lection was lifted, Professor C. Bolle directed his group of singers, the Male Chorus, through their section of the concert.

They sang, 4'Carry Me ’Long” by Foster—Necin ; 4 *Auf Fliigeln des Gesanges’’，by Mendelsohn; and “The Mulligan Muske­ teers^, by R. W. Atkinson. To conclude the concert the N. W. C. Band played, “Princess of India’’，by K. L. King ; ‘‘Oberon’’，

by C. M. von Weber; and “Lake Front Park March”，by H. A. Vandercook. Professor G. Westerhaus directed the Band.

For the graduation exercises on the morning of June 16, the Orchestra, both Choruses, and the Band each rendered a selec­ tion. Professor John Meyer of Thiensville, Wisconsin, offered a prayer, and the Reverend E. Benj. Schlueter of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, gave an address. Several hymns were sung by the assembly. The three members of the graduating class who gave orations were Lester Freitag, Robert Kaschinske, and Benjamin Hahm. Lester Freitag gave the Latin oration, “Parietes Pompeiorum,,> Robert Kaschinske the English, “Characterization of George Washington”，and Benjamin Hahm the .German, “Gustav Adolfs Beweggriinde fur sein Eintreten in den dreiszigjahrigen Krieg”.

Thus the school term of 1931—’32 was brought to a close.

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This column must of necessity be short, for no Exchange papers have come yet. The only mail I received was a pamphlet froni the Anti-Tuberculosis Association, which almost humanly resisted all my efforts to extract a bit of college news.; a “Statement to the Voters” by Chappie, which envelope might as well have contained three blank sheets of paper; and a letter from the Red Cross.

Glancing over a few papers which came late last year, I found nothing worth reprinting. Articles, tearful and maudlin to the point of slush, followed one after another. Such articles and ‘‘pep’’ articles are the evils which seem to have usurped the space formerly allotted to articles of real value. It is indeed an occurrence worth recording in a diary, when an original article, well written, appears in any periodical. Why, Encyclo­ pedia articles are even a rarity. Yet there are more students in schools, more people educated now than ever before !

Apropos to this slight tangent my mind skidded on, I might mention the great evil which is doing its best to lower the standard that a college paper should approach—the prominence of sports. Football heroes and football victories are smeared over entire sheets of the paper. This certainly is an error.

Athletics are not the purpose of a college. Therefore they should not be treated as the greatest thing that can clutter a paper. The periodical is there to tell the world what of brain, not of brawn, the college can produce.

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®l]e Will the present form of government in the U. S. endure ?

V. T.—We are headed for monarchism. Comparing the present conditions of our government with similar circum­ stances of past epochs, we can read the signs of the times: economic reverses; the straits of the middle working class, and of the subsequent rich and poor classes; the degradation of rural life; and the fact that the citizens have lost confidence in our present form of government on account of too much poli­ tical propaganda and “Wall Street” influence.

C. B.—I do not believe that the present form of government in the U. S. will survive the century. The complexity of national management, together with the intricacies of international affairs, demonstrate that the present regime is utterly inade­ quate to cope with the problems confronting it. It is difficult to state what form of government will supersede the present, but it is more than probable that a more autocratic administra­ tion, possibly with an oligarchy or a dictator holding the power, will assume the reigns of government.

H, G.—Long live Democracy! Even though the Americans prostrate themselves before European nobility, the greater mass would hardly allow a monarchy. The communists of this country are, almost without exception, foreign born radicals, recently come from foreign parts, who know very little or nothing about the aim and object of a Democracy.

J. V. — A change in government is not desired by the American educated public. The widespread discontent with American Democracy is rising from foreign educated citizens who have been schooled under the shadows of monarchy or radical socialistic governments. The American public still be­ lieves that a democracy pure and simple is the only government befitting a pioneer people.

J. R.—We can only hope that our government will reach that natural stage in the development of an experimental democracy represented by monarchy. In a monarchy so evolved, virile, and supplied with capable and influential advisers, history shows that true democratic ideals can be approached most nearly.

R. W.—I believe that the present political and economic conditions indicate the coming of a great Civil War, a dictator, and then — anarchy. After the luxurious age of the Adoptive Emperors in Rome came anarchy, which continued to the disso­ lution of the Empire. This is just one example. According to the examples of other world-powers, America is on the decline.

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A government can do little to hold an entire nation up when it is itself going down-hill; yet the churches and schools may suc­ ceed in keeping America from hitting the rocks.

R. H. —The idea that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people is rapidly falling into disrepute. The total number of rich men is decreasing, but their individual wealth is increasing. The common people are gradually becoming in­ terested in politics and realizing how corrupt a government can be. Hard times cause people to think. The call of the Muske­ teers, “One for all; all for one,” is replacing the phrase “Sur­ vival of the fittest” or “Survival of the richest.” From these and counties other signs of the times, it is easily seen that De­ mocracy must fall. People are becoming educated, and if we ^ive them a little credit, learning to think. With the ideals of Socialism before their eyes, and with statements which show the ever increasing membership of Socialist party, and in sharp contrast with the rottenness and crookedness of the present regime, how is it possible to change to anything less than to the Socialistic principles ?

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靡感積s FOOTBALL Confidence and competition! These are the words that most aptly describe the condition of the Gosling football squad for this year: confidence in the ability to gain victories, com­ petition for the honor of gaining them for Northwestern. This is truly the most promising squad that has turned out for foot­ ball for many years. The backbone of it is composed of four­ teen lettermen of the 1931 team, for every man of that team is back with the exception of Scheck, a guard. .

This already gives us an experienced man for every position, but the best part about it is that for every varsity man there is either a reserve from last year or a newcomer who has the right to hope, because of growing ability, to be able to displace the veteran from the team. The most promising of the newcomers are Bradke, guard; Schwartz, halfback; and Block, end; 'yhile Bolle and Witt, last year’s reserve end and tackle respectively seem to be on the road to becoming regulars this year. The veterans in the backfield are Capt. Buenger, Martin, Liesener, Schewe and Fredericks. In the line we have the veterans Schroeder and Hotlen, centers; M. Lemke and Raabe, guards; Reuschel, Resting, and Gensmer, tackles; and R. Lemke and Siegler, ends. The entire squad numbers somewhere in the thirties.

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The schedule that has been arranged includes three home games and four out of town games.

September 24___Lutheran Seminary of Thiensville here. __________________Lake Forest there.

October 1. ...............................................Beloit here.

October 8_ Milwaukee State Teachers College there.

October 15 .-Platteville Miners there.

Friday October 21...

Milton here (homecoming).

Friday October 28. ..

Friday November 11 .................. ..... Ripon there.

It should be of special interest to Northwestern’s friends to hear that the admission fee has been reduced to twenty-Sve cents. It is hoped that this reduction will be one of the factors in providing crowds worthy of the type of football games that will be seen on our gridiron this year.

A special invitation is issued to the alumni to attend the homecoming game against Milton on Friday, October 28.

Prep Football The high school department has been less fortunate in its lettermen than the College. Coach Herbert Nommensen and Capt. David Hahm will have to build a team on a basis of three veterans this year. From the appearance of the squad, which numbers 34, they will be rather successful at it. Three games have been arranged and a fourth, with Lutheran High of Mil­ waukee, is tentative. ............... ............ Lake Mills there.

September 23 .............................. Jefferson there.

October 15... .Milwaukee University High here.

October 22...

SPRING SPORTS The theme of Northwestern^ sport program last spring seems to have been rivalry with Milton. Eight matches were arranged in three different sports, baseball, tennis, and golf.

Of the three sports, Milton was able to conquer only in golf.

Golf is a new intercollegiate sport at Northwestern, and only one match was played last year, but members of the team which was composed of Stiemke, Schwenzen, Maas, and Bolle are al­ ready considering the possibility of drawing up a full schedule with neighboring schools for next spring. With a man who shoots as low as two under par on the difficult Watertown course, as Stiemke did this summer, there is no reason why we should not be able to turn out a successful golf team.

Northwestern’s venture into intercollegiate tennis proved an unqualified success, for all three matches, all with Milton, were victories for Northwestern.

Baseball, as usual, was only moderately successful. Of eleven games scheduled, five were won by Northwestern.

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一2 This is the September number. You know what to expect.

A vacancy on the staff, occasioned by W. Hoepner’s failure to return this year, has been filled by R. Bretzmann. He will take over the Campus and Classroom column. Mr. Hoepner has been writing at high speed for the past few weeks to answer all the letters from his considerate classmates. We hope to see “Hoep” back with us next year. .

Thus far the enrollment is slightly over two hundred. This total is not considerably below last year’s. Considering the fact that many schools are suffering substantial losses in their atten­ dance, our attendance is above the average. The Sexta. class is one of the smallest in years. The Freshman class was reinforced by a large number of newcomers so that it has forty-four mem­ bers at the present time. The Junior class has two additions.

Among the late arrivals we find the men from the Dakotas represented. Moser and Hoff chugged into Watertown three days late in Sipperfs Ford. H. Fredericks returned nearly a week late. Adolf Scheck failed to rejoin his classmates. There­ by he has created a vacancy on the Athletic Board and has left a basketball manager’s position open.

W. Dobratz, as you may or may not have observed, has been wearing his class ring again of late. According to all ap­ pearances it allowed no dust to settle on it while it was abroad.

Here’s a man who appreciated Caesar when he had the opportunity. This summer “Olie” Bentert, inspired partly by his love for the classical, partly by his propensity for craftmanship, constructed an excellent model of Caesar’s bridge across the Rhine. The structure received second prize in the Industrial Handiwork exhibition at the Wisconsin State Fair. Recently it was on exhibition in the display window of Sproesser’s Jewelry Store.

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lrWjjHla^K ^ Herbie” Resting and “Foggy” Buch spent most of the summer vacation painting the rooms in the dormitory. Next summer they intend to apply for positions as chefs. They will not permit this hard-earned knowledge to run to seed.

Among the other improvements around the campus are two lengths of new sidewalk and new metal containers for waste paper; and if you have been a very observant individual you may have discerned the delicate, soothing coat of apple-green administered to the board-fence to the east of the dormitory and barracks.

The first victim to pay tribute to king Football this year was R. Siegler. He suffered a sprained ankle during the first few days of practice. As this is being written, he has gradu­ ated from crutches to a cane.

Speaking of the Sieglers: “Ossie” Siegler feels very much put out about the loss of his crown to M. Raabe. Raabe is now recognized as the college’s smallest man in all circles. * • How do you do, dovernoi，.’’ Many students took advant­ age of the opportunity to shake hands with Governor La Follette when he spoke in Turner Hall, September 12. Considerable in­ terest has been arroused in the political campaigns and the coming elections. A straw vote was taken among the collegiates. The Progressive Republican party carried the dormitory by a wide margin. The returns are: Stalwart Republican (Kohler) 6; Progressive Republican (La Follette) 52; Demo­ crat (Fox) 2: Prohibition (Dean) 1; Socialist (Metcalfe) 9, (Hoan) 1. ...

A drive for new members has been instituted in the dormi­ tory by two Vesuvius Club officials, Liesener and Witt. They have succeeded in running down most of the Freshmen and have persuaded a goodly number to join the Club. Twentythree hapless individuals have been inveigled into signing. .The Kit-Cat Club will renew its activities this fall. Author­ ities state that membership has increased, and a full schedule has been prepared for the year.

The old system of monitors has been introduced into the dormitory again. Seniors, Juniors, and a number of Sophomores have been made monitors. The Prep monitors last year ap­ parently fell short of requirements and were suspended.

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“Rejoice, Rejoice, the multitude’s assembled— Why should we concern ourselves?

Why should we concern ourselves ?J, When we try to acquire some “higher education”，we must use correct English and a vocabulary of big and impressive words; therefore when we all come back to school in September, we must put aside our vacation slang and start the new year right—hence the above version of the famous old song —— —• Well, to continue, we’re here and glad of it. It may be all right to be free from text books for a few months, to lie in the sun and feel lazy, to go up north and live for yourself, but when you come down to bare facts, wouldn’t you rather hold a yellow pencil in your hand than a paddle? Of course, the first few months are always in the form of readjustment, but after that —there’ll be another vacation.

Only four of the old co-eds have come back. All the others have found other occupations. Louise Burns is taking a postgraduate course at the local High School. Adele Herro and Anita Geweke have left for the University of Wisconsin. Armed with a B. A.，they expect to enlarge the ranks of pedagogues.

The presumably inseparable Vera and Dorothy Trust Co. has separated. Dorothy has a position with the Platz Studio and Vera spends most of her waking hours there. Eleanor Coogxin is now a news reporter for the Watertown Daily Times. With all that gossip at her finger tips, she would make an excellent fourth at bridge. The collegiate room does not seem the same with ■’ out Lorna Hutson. However, we have one consolation 一 she says that she is coming to visit us often. We sadly need a "Pacificator”.

Our sincerest wishes for happiness are extended to Gertrude Wendland and Walter Bunge. They were married on the 29th of June. .Most of us dream of someday traveling, of sailing the seas, visiting the scenes we’ve read about and seeing the places we’ve studied about. However, few of us are able to do this as early life as Adele Herro has. Adele recently returned from abroad;, for nearly three months she has been traveling1 from one ancient place to another. Jerusalem, Bethlehem, the Cedars 134

of Lebanon, the River Jordan and the Dead Sea, Egypt and its pyramids, its Cairo, Gizeh, and Alexandria — all form a vivid picture in Adele’s mind. And oh, for a repertoire of stories and tales like Adele’s.

Emily Post considers an introduction the height of con­ ventionality; we therefore in all due formality present to you the new members of the collegiate department. The new Freshmen are Helen Arnold, Margaret Krahn, Lorraine Jacob­ son, Melba Wall, Vivian Zimmermann 一 graduates of the Wa­ tertown High School; Elmira Hatzung of Hartford; Gertrude Wuetrich of Columbus; Ruth Heppe of Kewaskum; and Arline Schumann, who has crossed the collegiate threshold. Louise Kusel is a special student. Grace Meyers, who attended North­ western the year before last, is again back. Evelyn Kressin comes to us from the Milwaukee School of Commerce. We hope your year at Northwestern will be a happy and successful one. fioesn’t it seem strange to see Glenna Rasmussen wander­ ing about the campus without Lillian Trapp? Glenna and Lillian lived together for two years, so Glenna feels a bit lost without her shadow; however, we hope we’ll be able to take part of Lil’s place, at least. Lillian is at present working at Pine Lake.

Coming1 down into the girls’ room one of the first mornings of school, it was indeed amusing to watch Clare Scheblack standing on the table putting up the curtains. On the terra firma below was Betty Faber, acting in the capacity of overseer. Because of the unstableness of the table legs and the flexibility of the curtain rods, the procedure was a bit unwieldy and dangerous; therefore, ye Co-eds, in order that we may spare Clare from any more direct causes of sea-sickness, bo careful of the curtains. (You’ll hear this a few more times before the year is over.)

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Did I hear someone say this column is a joke?

Thank you一it’s supposed to be. ♦

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Customer: Have you a Judge?

Clerk: No, but I can give you Life.

Customer: Thanks, but I’d rather have my Liberty. 氺氺氺

When I asked to see her home, she asked me if I wanted to buy it.

Censored “My horse can jump as high as this building.” ‘ ‘Remarkable—flow ’ s that?”

“A building can’t jump.” 氺氺氺

Most people are dissatisfied with their lots these days—even real estate agents.

He: When you bid no trump, do you want me to take you out in my best suit?

Dumb Dora (archly): 0, you big kidder, I’ll bet you ask all the girls that. * * * Customer: Have you a Post?

Drug Store Clerk: What do you think this is,' a lumber­ yard?

Knoll: If you held thirteen spades in your hand, what would you do?

Maas: Buy a farm.

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Voice (from rear): Did he get an answer? ♦

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“The other day I made a grand slam in spades, doubled and redoubled. What do you think of that?,> Dentist: I’d call it a good job of bridgework! 氺氺本

’S Possible A: Look at that star formation up there, it forms a per­ fect W. I wonder if that means anything?

• B: Probably Wool worth is doing some advertising. * A Question of Geography 1st. Sextaner: Where is Hoarding? .

2d Sext. : Must be a small place—I never heard of it.

1st. Sext. : Well, Hoover declared war against it. 氺氺氺

Young Bride (to grocer on phone): I can’t use that maca­ roni you sent me; it’s spoiled. ... .

Grocer: Why madam, I just got it in this morning. It’s perfectly fresh.

Y. B. : Well, it doesn’t look that way—it’s all full of holes.

Prof. : What’s wrong with this comparison, “a house as shaky as a man on crutches?”

Al: It limps.

And Nothing Can Be Done About It. Are you in need of a toothpick?

Do you care for a bit of blotter?

Perhaps you’d like some scrap paper?

• Are you inclined to throw paper wads?

Do you like to whittle matches?

Have you got all your buttons? (literal sense) Whatsoever you may desire, your troubles are over. Seek,. and you shall find it------in the Black and Red “joke” box.

Now, Professor!

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

LITERARY— 136 ©onnet Chicago! Hog Butcher for the World 137 139 The Firefly............

Morris Chair.---- -

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See America First

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EDITORIALS— Music at N. W. C.

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Our Newspapers....

SEMINARY NOTES

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ALUMNI NOTES AND THE FORUM 149 COLLEGE NOTES

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EXCHANGE-------

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LOCALS ........ ........... ............

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CAMPUS AND CLASSROOM

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THE BLACK AND RED Volume XXXVI. March

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CHICAGO! HOG BUTCHER FOR THE WORLD! In the last issue of the Black and Red one of a group of student tourists gave the readers a few lasting impressions of Canada. Here are impressions and experiences a little nearer home. Chicago! And from the outset one must agree with Carl Sandburg when he says that Chicago is ‘ ‘Hog Butcher for the World”. _ . .

Upon first regaining consciousness after entering Chicago, we found ourselves in Cicero bouncing along in a little Chev­ rolet. Suddenly there loomed alongside some sort of monster demanding attention by means of a shrill horn. We were rather dazzled by this ultra-modern creature and awaited the rat a tat tat, of machine-gun fire, but were quite surprised when from somewhere within the depths of the monster a friendly voice informed us that the cap to the gas tank was missing and incidentally that we were “losing gasoline by the quarts’’.

Another interesting thing that we noticed was the mode of travel that quite a number of Chicagoans employ. There was a truck just ahead. It had two occupants in the rear—suppos­ edly employees. At the next stop-light someone else hired him­ self out as a trucker. He looked at one of the shipping- tags on the packages and thereupon immediately disembarked; evidently the truck was not going his way.

Our destination, however, was the stock yards. We had inquired of several citizens how they might be found and the best information any of them had to offer was: “You’ll smell them when you get nearer.” We laughed. They seemed earnest enough in giving this information. One I should judge was acquainted with more of Chicago than his own back yard.

From him we found out that the stock yards were on Fortythird Street. After determining in which direction Forty-third Street lay, we started on our hunt. It was a hunt that to any­ one else except us and Chicago would seem like a rabbit hunt.

Thus our little party hunted the stock yards of Chicago. Fol­ lowing directions we traveled south and then east—at intervals one of the party would stick his nose out of the window to see if he might pick up any trace of the prey. But our olfactory sense aided not in the least—the wind was from the north-east that day.

We got our first glimpse of Armor and Swift Union Stock Yards just two hours after first entering Chicago. The elevated highway led us over the yards to the warehouse and slaughter­ houses of Armour & Company. This elevated road is constructed of wooden beams, seemingly suspended in the air.

The yards were for the greater part empty at this time. As I said, we arrived at Armour & Company first. The next visitors 137

hours were about one hour from then. We then drove just two blocks north to Swift & Company. The guide told us that we could take a trip around the plant in a very few minutes. We missed this next trip because somehow or other one of the gang got so interested in the elevator that he strayed and the next half hour was spent in locating him. We all then took a ride on our friend’s new find; it took us to the third floor of the building. We stepped from the elavator into the visitors’ re­ ception room. These walking tours of the plant are made with guides. A so-callecl trip goes out every thirty minutes and lasts about one and a half hours. This trip is so arranged that those who have no desire for seeing the killing may avoid seeing it.

The run that day was 18,000 cattle, 20,000 hogs, and 15,000 took us up two sheep. From the reception room our guide _ flights of stairs to the observation roof from which we saw the General Offices of Swift & Company and the smoke houses where Swift’s Premium Hams and Bacon are smoked. The slaughter house proper was the next stop.

The "hog- bleeding pail” is just to the left as you enter the building. We looked over the rail and beheld two men in the process of butchering. To the left of us there is a negro that has fifteen or twenty hojrs around him. Just ahead of the negro and his pets is a larjre revolving wheel. This wheel, which is about eight feet in diameter, has chains at three-foot intervals along its circumference. Our negro friend grabs the unfortunate hop： by the hind leg and hooks it to this revolving wheel. After the hog： has made one complete circle on the ferris-wheel, it passes along oil a trolley above the bleeding pail proper. Here the creature’s joy ride ends. On his travels along this trolley Mr. Hog meets one person that makes A1 Capone look like an amateur as far as killing is concerned. The hog butcher! The very unconcerned, nonchalant, and cold-blooded attitude of this man is a sight not to be forgotten. His only tools are a knife and a sharpening steel. His only duty is to stick the hogs as they travel past him. The average kill is seven hundred per hour. After the hogs have been bled, they are soaked to soften the hair and bristles. They are then shaved; that is, they pass through the dehairing machine. The journey is continued along a slowly moving overhead chain, along which the workmen are stationed. Every hog1 gets one cut the full length of the belly. All hogs are then inspected by U. S. Government Inspecters. The places for inspection are the throat glands, the viscera, and the spine. Dressed hogs are placed in the cooling-room for thirty-six to forty-eight hours at a temperature of twenty-six degrees. The first divisions conthe hog into sides, hams, shoulders, and center cuts.

Hams are cured from thirty to ninety days and bacon from twelve to thirty days, according to size. Just thirty-two minutes 138

have elapsed from the time you saw the live hog beingjsuspended on the hoisting wheel until it enters^the cooling-room.

We next pass through these cooling-rooms which are al­ ways kept at a temperature of twenty-six degrees. The capa­ city of these rooms is three thousand sheep, fifteen hundred hogs, and fifteen hundred head of cattle. All meat is refriger­ ated for a period of seventy-two hours. # The sheep and lamb dressing-room has a capacity of eight hundred per hour, the entire dressing process taking about twenty-six minutes.

The beef dressing department is the next point of interest The killing at this time happened to be ‘kosher’. This is not the regular method employed in butchering cattle. The steers are driven to the butchering floor in a stall just above it. A noose is dropped over the steer’s head. A trap-door is opened which causes the cattle to slide down to the butchering floor.

Here the steer is hoisted by the hind leg, the noose is taken off, and the steer is lowered again just far enough that the shoulders touch the floor. The head is then pinned to the floor by means of a muzzle attached to a long handle. The head is stretched and the Rabbi slashes the neck. Immediately the beef is hoisted from the floor and passed along a trolley. It is then inspected and dressed. From the time that the trap-door was sprung up to the minute that the beef enters the cooling-room just thirtyfive minutes have elapsed.

The rest of the trip is spent in viewing： the manufacture of the great number of by-products, the employees’ cafeteria, the experimental kitchen, and the plant laboratory.

• Three million cattle, eight million hogs, five million sheep, and one million calves are dressed annually—sixty thousand animals every day and 120 every minute. The average weight of a steer is one thousand pounds alive, but in dressed form only about 550 pounds. Out of the other 450 pounds 150 pounds of by-products are obtained. The remaing: three hundred pounds are shrinkage. As is commonly said: “Everything but the squeal of the pig is used.” I believe that even that would be used if the pig could be killed before he lets the last squeal out.

Herbert Buch ’33 THE FIREFLY Recall to your mind a calm summer evening shortly after sundown, when you comfortably sat with some friends on the front porch enjoying the mild summer weather. At some time or other your eye surely was attracted by a slight flickering or flashing over the lawn before you. Perhaps you remarked, ‘ ‘Look at the Firefly!” A conversation was then probably be139

gun as to how the firefly can produce these flashes. It is a strange and interesting creature. In our reading of literature we frequently meet with references to the firefly. Perhaps you have never yet had an opportunity to get a close view of this creature and observe how the flash comes directly from the in­ ner part of the rear segment of the body as though it were com­ posed of liquid fire. The scientific name for this creature is the Lampyris.

The Lampyris which we ordinarily see flitting about on mild summer evenings is the male of the species, for he only bears those gauzy appendages which carry him through the air.

When mature, he is not even half an inch long and has a rather long, narrow shape. When not in flight the dark brown body, set off by a pale pink on the lower surface, rests on six legs ; and the wings are drawn up under the wing cases. The female of the species retains the larval shape and characteristics and is perhaps better known to you as the glowworm. An interesting thing is that even the egp：s of this creature are luminous.

The firefly is a carnivorous insect. It preys upon small snails. It is believed that it administers an anaesthetic to its victim, for shortly after the snail is attacked, it apparently becomes absolutely lifeless. It remains in that condition for some time after the attack. It soon returns to life, however, and seemingly does not notice the loss of a very small bit of its body.

The interesting： question concerning1 this firebug which I am now about to answer is, “How does it produce the flashes ?’’ I have heard opinions of a number of people who have attempted to explain this phenomenon. Some said the bug must have a delicate layer of phosphorus or a substance similar to it beneath the wings which it rubs with the rear pair of legs to produce phosphorescence. Those who had already observed that the source of the light is within the body itself were of the opinion that the glow must be the result of some action of phoshponas within the body. These are plausible explanations, because t^e greenish flash exactly resembles the light given off by phosphorus when rubbed in the dark. It has been found, however，that the light is produced by the combination of oxygen jyith a combustible substance within the body, which has been given the name luciferin. The slight combustion effected by this combination is the ultimate cause of the glow. Beside and connected with the luciferin is an air tube, through which the passage of air containing the oxygen can be controlled by the .Lampyris. This explains the fact that the brilliant glow js not continuous. By further chemical reaction the oxidized luciferin is again transferred into its unoxidized state and can be used an indefinite number of times.

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MORRIS CHAIR. “See to it that you remain awake on the job every minute，’’ You never can tell what the manager had instructed me. may happen. You’re responsible for the safety of the guests.”

This business of trying to sleep during the day and keep awake at night was getting on my nerves. I found it difficult to grow accustomed to the change. It was a day in June. All day a passenger plane had zoomed overhead and prevented me from sleeping even one wink. It was one o’clock in the morn­ ing now, and I was very tired. I was employing- every possible means to keep awake. Back and forth, back and forth, I paced across the lobby of the hotel in the manner of one of my pro­ fessors at college. Every time I passed the huge morris chair in one corner of the lobby, I quickened my pace. Once I had seated myself in it I knew I should fall asleep. Now and then I crossed over to the door for a whiff of fresh air. A breeze had arisen and I welcomed the cool gusts of wind that blew into my face. I turned back into the lobby and sat down to read a newspaper, carefully avoiding the morris chair. Soon I found my head nodding. I threw aside the paper and got up. What a fool ever to have accepted a night job! I was disgusted.

The fact that I had had a slight disagreement with the manager did not improve my disposition. I was becoming sleepier every minute. I decided to bathe my eyes in cold water, but even that proved futile. In a short time my eyes became heavy again.

The clock struck two. Five long hours before I would be off duty. I could endure it no longer. That morris chair looked inviting. I decided to steal forty winks. Comfortably settled in the chair, I propped my head on my hand. I closed my eyes.

With a start I sprang up. Back the chair flew. Behind the desk the switchboard was buzzing. And—worst of all—the bell of the cash register was ringing! Anger and fear gripped me. I experienced that well known sensation in the pit of the stomach. I tried to call to the policeman on the beat, but my mouth was dry. My knees were shaking. With a supreme effort I mastered myself and strode toward the desk with an appearance of bravado. I had not heard anyone enter. Who could it be? There was one lone light burning in front of the lobby, and it was dark behind the desk. It was a man. He looked vaguely familiar to me, but I was taking no chances. If tj^e manager should discover I had been sleeping—I could see the man’s fist full of bills and change. My conscience twinged had forgotten to remove the money to the office safe! I d hgve a lot of explaining to do in the morning, that is, if I was S^ven a chance to explain. I’d probably be fired without further ado. There would be little opportunity to secure another job, 4 (

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which meant I would be unable to reenter college in the fall.

That last thought enraged me. .

Picking up a heavy book, I hurled it at the intruder. With an exclamation of surprise he ducked and fled. Close at his heels. I chased after him out the door of the hotel. I couldn’t let him get away. Up the street we ran. Doggedly I con­ tinued the pursuit. Suddenly, for some inexplicable reason, the street lights went out, and I could see but a few feet in front of me. I noticed the stranger would turn around now and then and wave his arms at me, as if entreating me to stop.

Simultaneously he would shout unintelligible words at me. The only word I understood was “manager”. I was puzzled. We were approaching the hotel again. I was gaining on the stranger. Suddenly he crouched low. I could not stop. I stumbled over him and fell. The intruder was reentering the hotel door. I was nonplussed. I picked myself up and followed him inside. As he passed under the front light I received a shock. It was the manager! Now he turned around and glared at me. I assumed the Stan-Laurelian attitude of help­ lessness. That enraged him.

“So that’s your idea of tending to the job? And what’s the idea of chasing me all over creation?’’

So he had come clown to check up on me! And I had chased him out of the hotel! I was sick with dismay. I was as good as fired. I didn’t care. Boy, I was tired! Dimly I could see the figure of the manager towering before me. My senses reeled. I fell. My chin made a perfect landing on the arm of the morris chair ...

My head had slipped from my hand. I opened my eyes. I was ， in a cold sweat. The clock was striking three. I was wide awake now, but my foot was asleep. I hobbled to the cash register. Everything was intact. All was quiet. I gave a sigh of relief.

Just a “midsummer night’s dream.”

R. Bretzmann ’33 SEE AMERICA FIRST—.

“See America First”，besides being an advertising phrase, ought to be the intention of every American that has inclination towards seeing the “hide-aways” of beauty and spots of interest.

I call them hide-aways because some of the most interesting and beautiful gifts nature has given to the world are right in our • . o'Y11 country, within easy reach, but yet so little known and visited, that to the majority of people the forty-eight States are only important economically. And relative to this we may also say, “See your own state first.” The reason? People come 142

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from every state in the union to see the Black Hills and the Bad Lands, while within fifty miles of this grandeur live people who have never seen them.

Thus we may bring South Dakota as an example of beauty unsurpassed, namely the Black Hills and the Bad Lands,, which are equally magnificent. In no other place in the world is there to be found scenery so weird, so fantastic, as in the White River Valley Bad Lands, lying chiefly in southwestern South Dakota, and stretching through northwestern Nebraska into Wyoming1They are the gateway into the Black Hills. In the early day s this part of the country was almost inaccessible. Thus origi­ nated the name Mako Sika: it being the Indian’s version of “bad land”. The Bad Lands are noted for their scarcity of water, while the Black Hills are famous for their many springs of mineral water. Your guides and scouts are very apt in their imagination to describe and explain these curiosities of nature as the process of millions of years. To the scientist this land is undoubtedly an excellent field for investigation and building up of theories.

The really scenic part of the Bad Lands lies between the White and Cheyenne Rivers. Stretching along the White River may be seen the Great Wall; truly so named, for just as New York and Chicago have their skyline, so also do these pinnacles and towers and cathedral-like spires of rock and sandstone in an amazing variety of shapes and forms rear themselves up. high and clear, against the skyline of the West. It is at once grotesque, weird, and beautiful, and may be equalled nowhere on the surface of the earth. Solitude seems to reign over all. heavy and depressing in the death-like stillness of the atmos­ phere. Here one’s vivid imagination may behold what appears to be a city of antiquity, with domes, towers, and minarets.

Here reappear in stronger lines the faint etchings which the lore of the Middle and Ancient Ages has left upon your mind.

In awe and wonder you gaze upon these weathered and for­ saken battlements, finding yourself alone in a bygone age.

Centuries seem to pass before you in silent procession. You 'yould like to and are temped to believe in the evolution of mil­ lions of years, and thus simplify and explain the queer and odd layer-like formations of strata upon strata. But this panoramic masterpiece of painted glory belongs only to the excellent handi­ work of the Almighty, the fact which makes it all the more wonderful and magnificent. Painted indeed, for with the changing of the sun’s rays the rocks take on different hues of color.

But casting off this spell, you stop your motor car in order to examine more closely this form of which you now desire to know the contents. The greater portions of the Bad Lands consist of light-colored, sandy clays and soft sandstones in 143

nearly horizontal strata, and the lower slopes are dazzling in the bright sunlight. The arid climate conditions prohibit any growth. For this reason there is rapid erosion by wind and rains. The peculiar character of these clays allows them to be carved into benches, columns, or pinnacles of clay. The occa­ sional rains cut gullies, which finally attain a depth of from 200 to 400 feet.

Just west of these Bad Lands, and in striking contrast to them, you come upon the Black Hills. Jagged rocks, sudden abysses, magnificent canyons, forests with open parks, undulatinc hills, freaks of weathering and erosion, and encircling ridpes form one mass of disarray and confussion. Winding: un­ ceasingly upwards, higher and hicrher, the highway unfolds a new panorama at every turn, until heated and throbbing, your motor brings you to the top of Harney Peak, 7216 feet above sea-level.

From this vantage-point you behold a vast area of colored landscape, including the states South Dakota, Montana, Wyom­ ing and Nebraska. One-third of the total area of colored landscape of the Black Hills is covered with pines, dense with interlacing vines and undergrowth, broken here and there by rich grazing- land or massive rocks, some smooth, others so jagrjred and pointed, that they give the aopearance of so many needles. Snakelike the highway worms its way through all this, winding： in and out between the rock barriers, sometimes cutt­ ing through and under them. From here we continue on to Lead, famous for its jrold mine, then on to Dead wood, the city that preserves the past in the form of rodeos and celebrations of the Days of ’76, and back by another route to Hot Springs.

Innumerable points of interest in the form of caves, ranches, petrified forests, springs, cascades, and waterfalls hold your interest to the very last.

And all this is right here in America in just one of the many national parks of the West.

Victor Tiefel ’34.

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MUSIC AT N. W. C. Whafs the matter with music at N. W. C. ? It，s all right, —as iar as it goes. Indeed we have several musical organizations whose work is highly commendable. Since music is one ? the chief activities at the College, it receives a considerable amount of attention from the student body, as well as from the g ij Si?aftlve ipterest，however, seems only to carry into the field of dramatics, if I may use that term in connection with music. The various musical organizations are under the direction of able musicians, but their members are not being taught to look much deeper than the part which their own par­ ticular instruments play. Although the mastery of an instru­ ment by each individual member is of much value to the musical organization and also to himself, nevertheless it will not be of much aid to him during his later life when he will be expected to lead a similar music group in his own church, school or com­ munity. I believe that the two-year course in music theory, taught in the Preparatory Department, should be extended throughout the College course; and, that a course in conducting should be instituted. In other words, music ought to be raised from its rank as a mere activity to the rank of a regular sub­ ject.

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OUR NEWSPAPERS Newspapers are not modern institutions. Even the Ro­ mans had a newspaper, the Acta Diurna; the Chinese had the Peking Gazette before Charlemagne’s time. But the newspaper of today differs widely from the old publications. Prima­ rily it is concerned with the reporting and commenting upon general current events. To this, sensationalism, the liberal use of headlines, and personal journalism have been added. Sport and finance are treated at length. Since there is so much that can be written about them that we cannot cover all phases of the newspaper, its work, history etc., we shall have to content ourselves with a sort of comment upon newspapers as a whole.

I dare say that very few Americans, excluding the illiter­ ates and non-citizens, do not read a newspaper at some time or other, and that most of them are fairly regular readers of one. If a newspaper can come into contact with so , many people, it surely can be a powerful agency for spreading doc­ trines and principles. It can do more to mold public opinion than nearly any other single agency in existence. Wouldn’t it be crass stupidity not to exploit such a wealth of power and in­ fluence ? The capitalists have come to the conclusion that it would be. Consequently, we have a newspaper, owned by moneyed-men, which prints all propaganda in their interest.

Nothing to disgrace or slight them is published. Any principle they may espouse, any candidate they may support, any business they may desire to have transacted for their benefit—to all the press must hand its whole-hearted support. Sooner or later its insidious influence brings results ; and results are what the capitalists are striving for. Witness the fall of a dynasty in Wisconsin. If newspaper propaganda and misrepresentation of facts had accomplished nothing1 more serious than to precipitate our country into the world war, it would have besmirched its character sufficiently to stigmatize it for years to come. Con­ gress could never have declared war on Germany in 1917 if the sentiment of the nation had been opposed to it. This opposition the press was ordered to overcome, and it succeeded in doing so.

It nearly achieved its object a year ago in the war that was no war. I am referring to the Sino-Japanese war. The front­ page screamers nearly compelled us to believe that a guerre a outrance was the only possible means of preserving world peace, gany ambitious people remembered that the World War gave birth to over 20,000 millionaires. It is especially in political and 'var propaganda that the press has its greatest influence. All rarely does it lend its support to the cause of common wel­ fare.

Does the press educate and enlighten people ? In order to increase their circulation the newspapers must popularize their 146

wares and follow the tastes of the vast number ofjpeople who can read at all, rather than of those to whom reading means a higher standard of literary and intellectual enjoyment. There is a direct appeal to the lower sentiments. If they must descend to the level of the intelligence of the “hoi polloi’’，it stands to reason that they cannot educate or uplift them to any extent. A school-girl in the sixth or seventh grade is able to understand well-nigh everything that is printed in its columns.

Anything above that standard of intelligence is not educated or enlightened by the writings of this Fourth Estate.

If it were minded to, journalism could be a powerlul moral influence. But it is a child of its time and its reflects the spirit of the times. If the tendency is toward a lower or higher morality, the press represents the lower or higher morality, as the case may be. The popularization of divorce is in a large measure due to the public press. We cannot say that journalism is especially elevating in matters pertaining to morality. It would be better if children were not in the habit of reading the papers. .

Furthermore, newspapers are unreliable. When they exhibit such a remarkable tendency toward sensationalism and exaggeration it would be more expedient to take any “ first edition” or “extra” with a good grain of salt. If the head­ lines say that a fire destroyed a half-million dollars, worth of property, you may safely venture to guess that within a week the estimate will shrink to within half of its former amount.

Such things as unconfirmed reports, popular rumors, and scan­ dal are capitalized.

A few of the assets include the financial and commercial section, want ads, and sometimes the editorial pages and weather reports. The radio has usurped the field of the news­ papers in many respects by broadcasting the latest news flashes, market and weather reports.

The chief object in view when we procure a newspaper (besides whiling away time) is to inform ourselves of happenliqgs and conditions in the world of today. But we canl accomplish this much more readily by reading a current monthly magazine of good standing. In it the most important news items are sorted and summarized. Besides being a time-saver it imparts to us a more intelligible, accurate, and comprehensive account. Instead of being compelled to glean, we are privileged to take grain from the bins with all the straw, chaff, and weedseeds threshed out.

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ALUMNI

It was reported in the September issue that the child of Rev. A. Dornfeld, ’27, of Richwood, is a boy; it is a girl.

Northwestern had many visitors in the past few weeks, among whom were Rev. 0. Toepel, ’12，Rev. T. Voges，’21， Rev. J. Brenner, ’93, Rev. M. Buengei，，’21，Rev. H. Geiger, ’07, and wife, Rev. H. Kirchner, *10; H. von Haden, ’29, Witte, ex ’33, Zilisch，ex ’36, Dahms，ex ’30, L. Mantel, a student here in 1919-20; and P. Heyn, G. Peters, H. Siegler, H. Warnke, E. Krueger, and H. List, all of the Seminary.

Rev. W. Frank, *25, of Hutchinson, Minn., has been unable to preach for some time because of injuries suffered in a recent accident. We wish him a quick recovery.

We congratulate Rev. A. Mackdanz，’29, and Dorothy Zier， of Watertown, who were recently married. Miss Zier was formerly a member of the class of ’32. Congratulations are extended also to Rev. F. Miller, ’29, of Colome, S. D., and Flora Thierfelder of Milwaukee.

Rev. E. Kuehl，’29，is pastor at Crow Rock, Montaana. He has charge of five congregations.— Rev. W. Paustian ,，29, has been assigned to Onalaska, Wis. Rev. A. Mittelstaedt, ’27, of Milwaukee, has accepted a call to Mequon ; and Rev. F. Reuter, *28, formerly a tutor at North­ western Lutheran Academy, Mobridge, S. D., is now pastor at Gary, S. D. Our recent tourist of Europe, Mr. W. Raabe, ex ，31, has recently arrived in his homeland again ; Northwestern had the pleasure of seeing him a few weeks ago.

Paul Schliesser, ’30，has enrolled in the School of Medicine at Marquette University; and E. Schultz,，30, has entered Wis­ consin University.

We congratulate St. John’s Congregation of Wauwatosa on their Golden Anniversary; Rev. C. A. Otto is pastor. A cel­ ebration took place on Sept. 25, with sermons by Rev. H. Halboth, of Milwaukee, Rev. H. Gieschen (former pastor), of Wauwatosa, and Rev. C. Buenger of Kenosha.

Roy Stuhr, ex ’33, is now working with his brother at Winona for the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company.

P. Rosenthal, a former student of Northwestern and a graduate of Wisconsin University, is now in the Corn Husker Machinery business; he is in his father’s office at West Allis.

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Rev. K. Timmel，’20, of Watertown, has been appointed a member of the Northwestern College Board in place of Rev. F. Stern, ’07, who is now pastor in Detroit.

On October 12 Mr. Eugene Eberle, who attended North­ western from 1876-79, received the Remington Honor Medal at a public dinner in Baltimore, “because of his services to profes­ sional pharmacy for a long term of years, also his researches in historical pharmacy, and because of his work in maintaining the Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association with such a literary and scientific standard.” Northwestern also extends congratulations to its former student for his achievements.

®I}e ^0 rmtu "Should Democracy be given another chance?”

T. M.- American Democracy is not standing the test of the present crisis. I see nothing which would warrant giving it another chance. The situation today exhibits the lack of poli­ tical maturity of the mass mind and a want of faith and con­ fidence in the American doctrine. The great cry today is for leadership and action. Democracy has everywhere failed to furnish leaders and has substituted political fraud for action.

H. W.~Democracy is popular sovereignty. This is the only kind of government really suitable to any country, since a state is identical with its citizenry. Therefore give democracy another chance (in the U. S. A. we no longer have true demo­ cracy) to prove itself worthy of existence and name. To do so, democracy must be careful — or rather, the citizen must be careful — that he does not lose sight of its ideals.

0. A. L. — The present economic crisis in this country does not prove that our democracy is a failure. Whenever the citizens of a country begin to acquire wealth and luxuries too easily, a panic is not far off. Every generation is bound to experience some panic and thereby it learns to economize. The character of the people affects general prosperity more than it does legislation, so why not await the return of better times under the present form of government ?

H. B. 一 The times and conditions under our democratic government can be compared to the conditions under a monarchial form of government with a weak king at its head — so let’s just wait for a stronger king.

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For this issue of the Black and Red the amount of material for this column is greatly limited; hence we must content our­ selves with a few general remarks. Our musical organizations have all resumed their regular rehearsals and are striving for improvement.

The band suffered no serious losses through graduation.

We therefore are expecting to have a reasonably good band this year.

The orchestra is practically in the same condition as it was at the close of the last season. The violin section suffered a noticeable loss, but it was quite well reenforced by new mem­ bers. We might therefore hope that the orchestra of ,32-,33 will even surpass the orchestra of ’31-’32, since it can still look for­ ward to nearly a whole season of drill and practice under its able director. During the course of the past year or two I have heard numerous statements of admiration as to the progress and improvement of the orchestra. This ought to be a further incentive for its members to cooperate and strive for better in­ terpretation of music and thus prove the good reputation of this organization.

The chorus has again received a large number of new mem­ bers. It is this year strictly a collegiate organization. During recent years it also permitted members of the Tertia class to join its ranks. Since there are this year sufficient voices in all the sections，the chorus did not ask Tertianers to join. For some reason or other a certain lack of interest seemed to.prevail among many of the members of the male chorus during the past, season. It consequently did not attain that degree of per­ fection which it had enjoyed especially the preceding year.

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and we hope it will prove effective in making the chorus more successful.

The The mixed chorus has also gained in membershi female sections, which heretofore were rather wea were especially strengthened.

I must not fail to mention the male quartet, which is in a flourishing condition. Its members are consistently practicing and are preparing themselves for numerous engagements during the coming season.

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All colleges seem to have as much difficulty in editing a presentable September publication as does the Black and Red. The editorial columns of the various papers invariably contained a trite, lengthy “Hello” to the new students, which however comforting it may be to them, is an eyesore to all other readers; some expressed, besides the former editorial, the usual grim determination to edit a better paper, to devote their columns to politics, arts, sciences, and philosophies — but realize only too well that there will rarely be anything more elevating than “pep” articles in the editorial columns and encyclopedia articles in the literary columns.

To cull out what might be of interest, the Milton College Review, a weekly publication (Milton College is about the size of Northwestern), will now edit its paper every two weeks.

Congratulations. If it now changes from a biweekly to a monthly publication, it might possibly present a very good publication, for there are glimmerings of talent shown occasion­ ally, even now.

The Stentor of Lake Forest College in its issue preceding our football game with them, reminisced, and called to memory the 40—0 defeat two years ago. “Lake Forest earned its victory, considering the fact that it took the combined efforts of ten men to chase the cows off the gridiron before the game. So remembering- those cows, Lake Forest will be there to win, and that’s no bull (sic!).’’ Well, at any rate, we impressed them.

The Luther College Visitor of Wahoo, Nebraska, published an article, the theme of which is notorious as a space consumer 153

I ———JSCT and trite, although it expresses a great truth that peers at us from some corner of every college paper under different titles.

The title this time is **Foreign Views of American Students.”

“College students in the United States are too passive. They accept everything that the teacher or book accepts, aiid reject everything they reject. The outside world, if they notice its existence at all, does not concern them. The problems of government are not their problems. Social and economic ine­ qualities do not arouse their fighting spirit, chiefly because they have no fighting spirit to arouse. They have no independent thought.” This is true. It must be. The Round Table of Beloit has told us that in four consecutive issues. Incidentally, the Round Table is a semi-weekly publication, so it presents sufficient grounds for being excused.

The Calvin College Chimes calls its football players the “Calvin Knights,” because their record has been so black.

Otherwise The Chimes is a good publication. Its literary col­ umns contain articles in which the descriptions of events glow in a manner to make Homer jealous, as «< Cumulous clouds drifted eastward, casting irregular shadows on the checkered plains below,” the opening sentence of “A Western Picture.”

Or this poem : “I looked one day among my things To see, to touch — to let my mind, Go far astray from present strife Without a ffuide sweet memories find.

•* I found amidst my relics old A trinket bright, enchantingly And rarely made. Scarce durst I ope To sate my curiosity.

“A lock, a silver lock of gold Of mother dear! A treasure found !

A year, nay two, rolled back — I heard again that loving sound Of mother’s chiding, happy voice.

Now I can live — again rejoice !”

As it happens, both the poem and the article were writ­ ten by the editor of that column. Which incident proves the statement, that students take no interest in their college publi­ cation, to be quite true.

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細謹:TTCS Northwestern 12, Seminary 6.

On September 24, the Northwestern Goslings made an aus­ picious entry into the current football season by defeating the |jeavy Seminary team, 12-6. Although the game was filled with fumbles and miscues, as early season encounters usually are, it was satisfactory alike to coach and spectator; to the latter because the outcome of the game was undecided until fhe whistle blew, to the former because it showed that the team has the possibilities of being molded into an excellent football machine. Of course there were weaknesses such as poor blocking on the part of the backfield, and sloppy tackling all ,round, but such things are remediable, and will doubtlessly receive the coach’s attention in the near future.

Northwestern started the scoring early in the first quarter.

An exchange of punts gave them the ball on the thirty-y ard li总e. A pass from Martin to Buenger netted 22 yards, and an off-tackle play by Fredericks did the rest. Buenger’s place kick did not score the extra point. The Seminary team tied the score in the third quarter after a pass from Fritze to Heyn had netted forty-five yards to place the ball on Northwestern*s five yard line. Fritze made the touchdown. The extra point was lost: Northwestern scored the winning touchdown in the last period on a pass from Martin to Schewe, after the ball had been advanced to the fifteen-yard line by judicious punting, passing, and running. Buenger，s place kick for the extra point again failed.

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Northwestern Seminary ...................Bolle R. £.

Naumann----.............Gensmer R. T. Engel............. .................Raabe R. G. Bergfeldt....... ............. Hotlen C. Froelich .........

L. G. _____M. Lemke Schultz.......... .............Reuschel L. T. Baumann___ ..........R. Lemke Rutz...........

L. E. ...............Schewe Q. B. Fritze (Capt.) ................Martin Rossin..........

R. H. ........ Fredericks L. H. Heyn...........

Buenger (Capt.)

Goeglein____ F. B. First downs: Seminary 4，Northwestern 13. Penalties: Seminary 3 for 15 yards, Northwestern 3 for 25 yards. Punts: Fritze 9 for an average of 33 yards. Martin 3 for an average of 50 yards.

Score by Quarters: Seminary 0 0 6 0— 6 6 0 0 6 — 12 Northwestern Referee, Binhammer; Umpire, Eickmann; Head Linesman, Wendland.

Lake Forest 27, Northwestern 13.

On October 1 Northwestern suffered its first defeat of the season by losing to Lake Forest 27-13. Perhaps the Gold Coasters would have won the game under ordinary circum­ stances also, but with the type of football displayed by North­ western during most of the game there was no alternative.

They simply had to win. To give you an idea of what took place I’ll just mention some of the more flagrant outrages per­ petrated against the laws of football.

On the kick-off the ball did not go very far. One of our men rushed in but instead of falling on the free ball he waited until a Lake Forest man could fall on it. At another time Lake Forest punted. Our safety over-ran the ball, but instead of letting it go, he jumped up and tried to make a one-handed catch. The ball was only slightly checked, and continued merrily towards our goal until one of the Lake Forest men caught up with it and recovered it for his team. To recount all of the fumbles, errors, and sloppy plays would require a volume.

Of course everything was not so bad as one would think upon reading this. The score indicates that there were some moments of good football. The playing of Reuschel and R. Lemke \vas responsible for some of the bright spots. The dis­ covery, in the second half, that Fredericks could run, was re­ sponsible for the touchdown; and finally, it took until the last 156

minute of play to make us realize that we have some excellent long passes in our repertoire of plays.

Northwestern Lake Forest ....................Bolle R. E. Goodman....... ______ Gensmer R. T. Bonnie........... ................ Raabe Ashton..........

R. G. C. _____Schroeder Crook (Capt.) ..........M. Lemke L. G..

Lutz............... ............ Reuschel L. T•Williams____ _____R. Lemke L. E._ Adams_____ ........... Sche've Parsons..........

Q. B._ ..............—Martin Roberts. .........

R. H. ____ Fredericks Spring...........

L. H._ (Capt.) Buenger Dyer.............

F. B..

Touchdowns: Lake Forest—Spring 2, Dyer and Roberts.

Northwestern—Fredericks 2. Points after touchdowns: Dyer 2, Roberts; Buenger. Penalties: Lake Forest 80 yards, North­ western 30 yards. First downs: Lake Forest 14; Northwestern 8. Passes: Lake Forest completed 3 out of 4 for 60 yards, Northwestern completed 3 out of 6 for 44 yards. Punts: Roberts 7 for an average of 38 yards; Martin 6 for an average of 50 yards.

Score by Quarters.

Lake Forest 13 0 7 7 — 27 Northwestern 0 0 13 0 — 13 Officials: Referee, Wasserman, American College; Umpire, Kelley, Notre Dame; Head Linesman, Peters, Springfield Y. M. C. A. College.

Beloit 25, Northwestern 0 October 8: There isn’t much to say about this game.

According to shower-room gossip they outweighed us, on an average, by more than thirty pounds per man which gives you an idea of what the game was like. One of the high-spots of the garble was the return of a punt by Schewe, who ran through the entire Beloit team with one exception, making a gain of perhaps thirty yards. The game ended with the ball in Northwestern’s possession on Beloit’s one yard line, as the result of our aerial attack. ' Beloit Northwestern Carlson ............Siegler R. E, Kelley ....... Gensmer R. T. Allan (Capt.) ............. Raabe R. G. Wirty ___ Schroeder C. 157

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Kuplie__ Fitzgerald Bloom......

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.............. Resting .............Reuschel .......... R. Lemke ............. Liesener ................Martin ........ Fredericks (Capt.) Buenger

Passes: Beloit completed 3 out of 4 for 60 yards. North­ western cempleted four out of five for 77 yards. Punts: Beloit 6 for an average of 44 yards; Northwestern 7 for an average of 43 yards. First downs: Beloit 19, Northwestern 3. Penalties: Beloit 75 yards, Northwestern 5 yards.

Score by Quarters: 13 6 6 0 — 25 Beloit 0 0 0—0 Northwestern 0 Referee: Huegel (Marquette); Umpire, Miller (LaCrosse); Head Linesman, Wendland (Northwestern).

Milwaukee State Teachers College 14, Northwestern 7.

On Saturday, October 15, Northwestern played its best game of the season up to the present date, although losing to Milwaukee Normal by the score 14 to 7. The game was close throughout, featuring- some moments of beautiful football. The first half was a rather spiritless encounter between the Goslings and the Normal second team, both teams threatening to score but once, each time as the result of a recovered fumble. After five minutes of play in the second half, Coach Kluge of Mil­ waukee sent in his first team to wake Northwestern. Making two first downs, the Goslings advanced the ball to Milwaukee^ 45-yard line. From there Buenger sailed a beautiful pass to Siegler who carried the ball across from the 15-yard line.

Buenger’s place kick was good for the extra point. After this the Goslings weakened, so that Milwaukee, led by Iacallua, evened the score after three more minutes of play, and made the deciding points two minutes after the fourth period began.

Karpowicy made both the touchdown and the extra point. The last ten minutes of the game were filled with passes from both sides, most of which were intercepted. It was during this period that the prettiest defensive play of game was pulled by 1*BingoM, who, starting about five yards back of the line of scrimmage, timed himsef so that he crashed the line just after the ball was snapped and tackled the runner before he could take two steps. Reuschel and R. Lemke played their usual splendid defensive game. R. Lemke had the misfortune to dislocate his shoulder late in the second quarter, so that he was unable to play during the second half.

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F. B. (Capt.) Buenger Penalties: Milwaukee 35 yards, Northwestern 10 yards.

First downs: Milwaukee 13, Northwestern 4. Passes: Mil­ waukee' completed 3 out of 5 for 27 yards; Northwestern com­ pleted 3 out of 7 for 73 yards. Punts: Milwaukee 9 for an average of 38 yards; Northwestern 11 for an average of 44 yards.

Score by Quarters.

Milwaukee 0 0 7 7 — 14 Northwestern 0 0 7 0—7 Referee, Radke; Umpire, Kevenow; Field judge, Driggett; Head Linesman, Dyer.

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October: the month of football games, Vesuvius Club initi­ ations, Indian summer and winter styles.

After the Lake Forest-Northwestern football game at Lake Forest several students took advantage of the proximity of our Middle-West metropolis, Chicago, to spend the week-end there.

V. Tiefel, M. Lemke, C. Hotlen, R. Lemke, and A. Bolle made up the party, or parties, that went sightseeing in the Windy City. A. Bolle maintains that he spent Saturday evening with relatives, despite all rumors to the contrary.

The most popular instruments in the band at present are the bass-horns. Every day six or seven aspirants are develop­ ing their lung-power at the expense of the instruments and the neighbors. Wicke and E. Dobratz are leading the field by a slim margin.

Another attempt has been made to organize a Freshman quartette. T. Mittelstaedt, M. Schwartz, D. Hallemeyer and H. Koehler have taken it upon themselves to represent the class whenever the occasion arises.

Our enthusiastic Green Bay Packer fans, Martin and Oscar Lemke, plus Mahnke, “Olie” Bentert and his Ford, succeeded in making the trip to Green Bay September 25th to see the Packers whip the Bears to a frazzle in a 0—0 tie. They were making good progress on their return journey Sunday night when that bane of night-drivers befell them. Two miles from the next filling-station the engine sputtered and died. The only alter­ native was to push the car the two miles to the station and to pray for the good graces of the caretaker. Their appearance in classes the next day attests to their success.

Koenig, Thierfelder, Werwath, and Luedtke hiked to Hartland to scout for the Preps in the Hartland-Lutheran High 160

School game. They still insist that they walked ten miles from Oconomowoc to Ixonia on their way back.

Tiefel’s Ford, sometimes referred to as the “One Way Ride”，managed to convey a group of Preps to Jefferson, October 7th, for the Jefferson-Brodhead game. Ostensibly they were bent on the same purpose as the aforementioned, but they achieved this end with a good deal more comfort.

And the Vesuvius Club initiations are on again. In connec­ tion with this we might mention the fact that the Smoking Room has purchased a new Philco radio.

Are any of you interested in knowing whether your eye­ sight is normal or not? Here’s a golden opportunity to test it free of charge. Walk into Room 28, pace off two yards from the door, turn around and direct your eyes to the pennant to the right of the door. If you can look full in the face of it without blinking you need not worry about making an appoint­ ment with an eye specialist. .

The occupants of Room 45, including M. Lemke, Kirst, Hallemeyer, and R. Toepel transported themselves to Room 50, formerly the scene of the activities of Mr. Mohrhardt and his proteges. Yet their attachment for their old quarters was so strong that they kept the bedroom across the hall from their old room.

You may wonder what befell Mr. Mohrhardt and his mates.

Mohrhardt is expecting to be pastor of a congregation in the near future. Pitzner, one of his roommates, is now attending Whitewater State Teachers’ College. Nelson has established himself in Mahnke’s room.

Allan Hoff’s mother came up to Northwestern for a short visit, October 10th. On her trip from South Dakota she en­ countered as much as ten inches of snow in certain sections of Minnesota.

The fire that nearly destroyed Ixonia several weeks ago was observed by many college students from the top of Richard’s Hill and from the roof of the dormitory. Several had the good fortune of being able to ride down to see the remains of coalpile and the lumber-yard, if nothing else.

Room 2, the home of the Lehmann and of the Frey brothers, and perhaps of half of the Freshman class, is with conimon consent of all considered to be the most obstreperous in the dormitory. ,,Ein wahrer Kaffeeklatschverein4* is the verdict of the rooms in the vicinity.

G. Geiger has been occupied with mounting his moths and butterflies three hours or more that day. Finally the last one was on the board. A fine array that would be when it was securely stored away in the cases. Yes, there was even a fine amount of the Catocale Relicta, a relatively uncommon moth.

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Mr. Geiger couldn’t refrain from admiring the collection again.

------------ ——(Dashes indicate an inhalation, lapse of time, and the omission of a few words.) Confusion seize all mice and their progeny!

We had our first taste of winter on October 10th. Naturally everyone was at the window as soon as the first flakes were sighted. Some, to confirm their sense of sight, caught a few of the flakes on their hands and tasted them to ascertain their existence.

In some of the western states historical pageants or frontier day celebrations were celebrated this summer. In order to make the scenes appear more realistic, all the men were ordered to raise beards such as were displayed in the 70’s and 80’s.

We wonder whether Iron Ridge is planning such an event for next summer, or if Bradtke is merely sympathizing with the present shaveless depression movement.

The task of beautifying the campus goes on endlessly, so it seems. Several students under the supervision of Professor Fleischer are occupying their spare time with transplanting trees and shrubbery, removing some, pruning here and there, and performing- other tasks allied to these.

During the mild, sunny days of last week we noticed that many of the co-eds felt the，，Wanderlust". This found expres­ sion in a number of ways. Hitch-hikes and wiener roasts headed the list. Glenna Rasmussen and Marie Michaelis hiked to Ma­ dison September 30, and spent the weekend there. On Satur­ day they saw the Marquette-Wisconsin game and Sunday they spent with Anita Geweke at the German House. Vivian Zim­ merman went to Chicago for a World Series game. Evidently she is not a Babe Ruth fan, for her description of him was not very flattering. She’d rather see a tennis match between Will Rogers and Gary Cooper any day. .

Mabel Zimmerman has returned to us. If we wait another week, perhaps all the old students will be back.

Janet Carey, a new Co-ed, has transferred from Edgewood.

There are now eighteen of us. During recess, when all are present, the din sounds like the thunder scene from * Trankenstehi”. The window sills have been converted into divans where the study-weary co-eds can recline. We have a black satin pillow with two rows of ruffles and if this is placed on the Standard dictionary — Presto — a day bed gladdens our hearts.

The ruffles serve as a screen and black is restful to the eyes.

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Even the janitors are trying to help solve the space problem.

The umbrella rack, formerly in the front hall, is now down in our room, directly below the pencil sharpener. It isn’t an un­ usual sight to see three of the girls filling it to overflowing, one in the act of sharpening her pencil, the other two in the waiting line. Climbing in is easy enough, but the difficulty arises when an exit is attempted. It can be turned upside down and used as a table or a cage. On the whole, it is a welcome addition to our furniture.

Real Fans "Well, look who’s here! How did you get in ?”

“Walked!”

“I rode. Think we’ll win ?’’ ‘ ‘Sure, we’ve got a good team this year. —Drubbed the Sem. ” ‘‘There’s Fritz! Hi there, Fritz—is that your sixth Christ­ mas tie V1 “No, only the eleventh.”

"Honest, did Northwestern really win a game V* "Sure, where’s your school spirit ?”

“That referee’s whistle looks like a shepherd’s horn.”

44Yah, but it sounds like Schlagenhauer’s ‘hello’.’’

“Is that supposed to be a kick-off V1 “No, darling, he’s pitching.” ^Why don’t you run ? What do you suppose they gave you the ball for ? All right then, hold that pose.”

“Is this the way they beat the Sem ?”

“Naw, that was a real game!” 二What was the score ?’’

“Oh, about 64—6 or somewhere around there.” ‘‘Well, look at the female Clark Gable. All that’s needed is a horse’s head and a pipe.”

“Say, which is Northwestern’s goal V' “It’s supposed to be the left one.”

“Hello there, Kate, how are you ?”

“C’mon gang, nine rahs for the team and make it loud.”

“What are you doing： to-night?”

“Thought I’d see whether paddling made a ‘depression’ on the Frosh. There’s Teddy — he’li feel it to-night.

“Boy, touchdown, touchdown ! Look at him go! Rah, rah, Northwestern.’’

“Say, pipe down, what’s the matter with you ? That’s Beloit’s touchdown.”

Register grief.

“Well, what is the score ‘ennyhow，？，， “Why, here’s the half already.”

"Also! de leedle Choiman band.”

(Whistling from four corners of the campus.)

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“Uh, huh!” .

“Aren’t those red dinguses cute ? ‘What big ears you have, Grandmama’!”

“Here comes the team back. Get in there gang. Knock ’em low ‘n’ show ’em how V1 • “Locomotive for Northwestern ! Let’s go!”

“When is a nose guard the Great Stone Face ?’’ ‘‘How’s Archibald Douglas1 “Slow, but not so sure !’’

“It is cold out here.M “S’ gonna rain?”

“Now, what’s the score ?”

“Who’s hurt ? Time out.”

11Well, nature in the raw is seldom mild’.”

“That water boy won’t have any water left by the time he gets out there.”

“Hey, Fat, leave that horn alone. We know you’re here.”

Atta boy ! Look at him go!’’

“Good-night, this crowd is about as peppy as a piano recital. Have to get a touchdown before they know you’ve got the tall.”

“Show a little animation, gang. Well, where’s the fire ?

Oh, I see ; the game’s over.” ‘‘‘Peach of a game !’’

“I certainly enjoy a good football game. By the way, 'vhat’s the final score ? Their favor ? S’too bad.”

4'Well, s’long!” iiy

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Friends and students, this column is not a “pillar” of strength ; it needs your support.

Prof, (in psychology class): What would you call a nervous process ?

A1: Walking a tight rope. _

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Wise: So you’re from Sun Prairie ? I suppose you know all the sons from Sun Prairie ? _ Wiser: No, but I know some of the “janes” from Janesville.

Fair And Square .

Prof: What does Chaucer mean when he describes the squire as an being of “evene lengthe”？ Nommensen : He was as tall as he was wide. 承氺氺

I slept like a top last night.

Thafs good.

No, that was bad — I had a headache.

And you slept like a top ?

Yeh, my head was spinning. * « * A Tale of A Monkey What does that pet monkey of yours like about this apple tree branch ?

Ah, thereby hangs a tale. *

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Have you ever read Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea? No. It would be pretty wet, wouldn’t it ?

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What’s the difference between vision and sight ?

My girl is a vision 一 yours is a sight. sjs

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Have you read Deepening Stream ?

That’s too deep for me.

Shallow youth. ❖

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When did you break the high-jump record ?

That was in the “spring” of ’23. ❖ ❖ ❖ Shades of Muenchhausen A violent storm arose. My boat capsized in the middle of the lake. I couldn’t swim a stroke. In vain I tried to climb back on the boat. I struggled futilely in the water.. I shouted for help, but none came. And then I began to cry like a baby. :‘‘You were just about a goner.”

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Prof: A “noise” is always discordant, while a “sound” is pleasing to the ear. Who can give an example of each ?

• A1: Dobratz playing the trumpet would be an example of noise, Schwenzen playing the sax an example of sound. * Prof: Give me an example of a stock phrase.

Voice (from rear): Moo, moo. * * * Prof: (in English class): Name some of the different meters.

Student: Gas meter, water meter, light meter一. 申申

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Way Back Prof: Now, Schoechert, this happened in 1600. Was that A. D. or before that?

Schoechert: I think it was before B. C. ❖

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Rastus, will you tell me something?

What yo* wanna know? ，,, .Well, I know what Whitmonday is, what Ash Wednesday js, \yhat Maundy Thursday is, and what Good Friday is; but I don’t konw what a nut-sunday is. 氺氺*

Maas tells me he can make a sentence out of “cashier•” like this: “Cashier me calling?”

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

LITERARY— 167

Sonnet---------------------------The Hounds of Passion--------

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The Witch’s Track..................

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A Bare Escape..................... ..

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Rennaisseance.......................

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‘‘It hath not yet been proved what we shall be’’.............

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EDITORIALSThe New Season........... .......

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Speaking of Noble Critics

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SEMINARY NOTES

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ALUMNI NOTES AND THE FORUM 183 COLLEGE NOTES EXCHANGE.........

ATHLETICS.........

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THE BLACK AND RED Volume XXXVI.

Watertown, Wis., Nov. 1932

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SONNET Imagine : if a goddess were to choose Us two of all Deucalion’s numerous race, Because she loved us best, and, that her grace In grand munificence might show profuse, Should beckon us from proud Olympic heights To mount on god-lent pinions or degrees, That haply, far from earth’s congeries, We might eternally share Jove’s delights 一 When we at length had gained Olympus’ crest, Unhindered to enjoy each fond request, If at the feet of our fair patroness You humbly knelt, while I, ambition’s thrall, Sought other gain in cold unthankfulness : Could you find heart to cherish me at all ?

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THE HOUNDS OF PASSION (With Apologies to Noble Hamlet)

To love, or not to love: that is the problem : Whether to go to battle and subjugate The throbbing passions of my inmost being, Or to cherish the Eros-arrow in me, And by singing lure her ? To loathe : to hate ; Abscond; and by fell hate to say we kill The yearning and the many tender passions That youth inherits, ’tis an expiration Sincerely to be craved. To loathe, to hate ; To hate: maybe forget: yea, there’s the gibe ; For by hate and loathing what all I could forget When I have drowned my love in Lethe-stream, Oh, give me rest: that’s the reason Why pangs of regret are so inevitable ; For who would bear the stripes and bonds of custom, My foe’s derision, ambition’s thrall, The pan?s of despised love, my la:k of means, The impudence of ruthless men and the jeers That my checked and troublous spirit takes, When I myself could my acquittal make By denying her ? Who would bind himself, To groan and howl under a vow that’s made, But that the fear of Lachesis arises, The unexploited fortune from which none Can ever fly, perturbs the brain And tempts us rather to obey the voice of Lust Than cloister up our doubtful-fated soul ?

Thus reason mocks the thought of love and hate ; And thus the innate voice of sacred rapture Is dampened in the fog of dark delusion, And aspirations to a life of nobler love By this pondering their hopes are cast aside, And prostrate lies the wooer.—Peace, you pangs !

Peace, again I cry! My precious love, on you alone Be all my ardor cherished.

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:^J3lach THE WITCH，S TRACK Whoever has lived among German-Russian immigrants of the more primitive sort will know that there exists among them a very lively idea of the reality of witches and magic. In spite of all the teaching and preaching they have been subjected to, this undercurrent of superstition will probably never disappear from the ranks of the older generation as long as they live.

Take the case of Mr. Puttwil, a patriarch of 75，living in a small village in South Dakota. He is at present normal in every respect and interesting as a companion. There was once a time, however, when the neighbors began to talk about him and crossed over to the other side of the street when they saw him coming their way. Plainly they said to one another, “He is ‘verhext’!” What terror there is in that word only he knows who truly believes in witches. Even people who are already a generation away from the word can sense terrible meaning in it, and I am sure there was enough in Mr. Puttwil’s actions to warrant the application of such a term.

His troubles began when people laughed at him for stutt­ ering. He acquired the queer habit of hesitating whenever he spoke. No one could understand him ; and when he talked, he twisted up his face like a child that is eating pickles for the first time. In spite of this he talked much and only stopped when he bit his tongue or when his chewing tobacco found an exit at the corners of his mouth. The children in the village found it great pleasure to listen to him talk, and soon began to imitate him quite successfully. This made the old man very angry : and since it was useless for him to scold these young jokers, he threatened them by shaking his fists and chasing them.

As time went on, Mr. Puttwil began to weaken under the strain of ridicule ; and he became more childish each day. The neighbors were wondering why there was light in his house all night, but they heard from Mrs. Puttwil that her husband was much afraid of the dark. There were other symptoms of Mr. Puttwil's ailment. He was afraid to be alone and always fol­ lowed his wife around wherever she went. This reminded the school children of “Mary and Her Little Lamb，’’ and they called the two by that title. The more the neighbors thought about Mr. Puttwil’s case, the clearer did they seem to see that he was “verhext”. The advice which any one in that community was able to give Him was as common and general as “cherchez la femme”； for what they said was, 'There is a witch after you.”

Mr. Puttwill sometimes complained to his wife that he was very neryous, and that he heard noises in his head and at times saw glaring eyes stare at him. That is the reason why he was afraid to be alone. He himself was quite sure that someone had bewitched him. He had heard many witch stories while 169

still living in Russia. He knew that it was also possible to de­ fend himself against a witch. But he did not know just how to put a stop to such an act. His dread of the dark and of be­ ing alone only increased from day to day. He could not profit from the advice given him as long as he did not know how to catch a witch.

One day a strange woman stopped at Mr. Puttwil’s house.

She did not tell her name but introduced herself as coming from a neighboring village. She had heard the story of Mr.Puttwirs troubles and had come to tell him how he might relieve himself of the situation. She told him that he was bewitched and asked him whether he did not have anyone in mind who bore a grudge against him or who was not on friendly terms with him. He was to watch such a person: and if he could possibly see that person’s footprints in the dust, he should scrape the dust together, put it into a small cotton sack, and take it home and fasten it inside the chimney. The woman added that the witch would have to suffer from as much heat as was affecting the ground in the chimney, and that she would finally burn up. When the strange woman had given these instructions, she left im­ mediately.

Mr. Puttwil knew of no enemies, but he was very suspicious of some of his neighbors. He decided to follow the stranger's advice; and as he wondered who this witch might be, there was one person that he was especially suspicious of. He remembered that years ago his neighbor wanted to buy a piece of land from him. He had not cared to sell it for the price that his neighbor had offered him. The neighbor’s wife was enraged about this, and she threatened to get revenge for it. She had a bad re­ putation in the community, and Mr. Puttwil was almost certain that she was causing him his misery. She was living in the same town as he was, and he made up his mind to do something' about it. That same evening Mr. Puttwil and his wife went walking. He saw the woman in question just as she was leav­ ing her garden. Here was his chance to get some ground in which her tracks were placed. He told his wife to go back home while he would try to find the woman’s tracks in her garden. He walked through the yard without fear of being seen. He saw an old pail near the back door. He hurried off with it into the garden to fill it with ground. It was now al­ most dark; and when he had decided where she might have stepped, he scratched the pail full of dirt, hoping that some of it might hold her track. Then he hurried home with a feeling more of self-defense than of revenge in his heart.

Mrs. Puttwil was waiting for him at the gate. She did not have much faith in her husband’s plans, but she helped him wherever she could. They got a ladder and set it up against the house. His wife got a grain sack into which they poured 170

the contents of the pail and some binder twine which would hold the heavy sack in the chimney. Mr. Puttwil climbed to the top of the house and fastened the sack inside the chimney. He hurried down as fast as possible, dreading to think of what he had done. He was tempted to imagine some terrible thing happening to him. It filled him with fear to think that he would perhaps make a witch submit to him; or if he should fail, he would probably be molested the rest of his days. He never thought about returning the pail that he had used, and felt rather uneasy when he went to bed.

Early next morning Mrs. Puttwil started a fire in the stove and made a breakfast. Hardly had they started to eat, when some one rushed into the house and into the kitchen. It was the woman that Mr. Puttwil had suspected of molesting him.

She pounced on the old man and abused him with violent language and accused him of designing against her. She talked until she was out of breath. Then Mr. Puttwil, who was all this time in a sort of trance over what seemed to him the sure effect of his magic remedy put his trembling hand n her shoulder and told her to quiet herself. In a solemn voice he announced to her that she must stop abusing him or else she would burn to death. The woman became louder and louder in her accusation. Finally Mr. Puttwil thought that she had learned her lesson. He hastened outside, and the woman fol­ lowed him to see what he would do. She saw him take the ground out of the chimney. She thought that Mr. Puttwil was bewitching her with this material and taking her pail ran off almost in hysterics down the street.

Mr. Puttwil was himself very much excited. He could hardly believe that the little he had done had brought the witch to terms. But so it evidently was, for, miracle of miracles, he found himself rid of his terrible ailment from that day on. He dared now to leave the house without his wife, he could sleep without having the kerosene lamp burning all night, and could speak without stammering. The charm had worked and the power of magic had been proved. .

Of course it never occurred to him that the supposed witch had seen him putting the ground into her pail and that the first object of her visit was to recover it from one who, she believed, had the power of “verhexing” others himself. Nor did it ever occur to him that his cure was evidently imaginary as also his ailments had been. No one is able to change Mr. Puttwil’s idea that he was really in the power of a witch and that the remedy he used was absolutely infallible. Most of his older hearers believe the story just as firmly as he, for I am told that he has repeated it without a single change in detail these forty years.

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I你m A BARE ESCAPE It was five o’clock on a beautiful summer morning. I was enjoying to the utmost those few golden moments of slumber just before the necessity of getting up makes itself felt. The imperative jangling of a bell forced itself upon my dreamy brain, but thinking it to be the alarm clock, I paid no more than the usual amount of attention. I was further aroused, however, by my mother’s voice, in earnest and incredulous conversation. I was by this time fully awake, and demanded to know the cause of all the excitement. My ‘‘kid brother” volunteered the information that a huge black bear had escaped from a place near Mukwanago, that he had wandered all the way to our peaceful village, that he was now setting up head­ quarters in our cornfield, and that the entire village police force, with the aid of several volunteers, was hot on his trail.

Thinking I might be missing something, I scrambled into my clothes and joined an independent search party, consisting of my brother, his friend, and our dog. Our worthy Chief of Police was perched on the top of the fire siren, scanning the surrounding territory through binoculars. We, feeling very brave, and scorning subterfuge of any kind, began to beat through the field, first having armed ourselves with stout clubs.

We tramped miles in that muddy field, the wet corn leaves slithering past our ears and swishing across our faces. Our dog had deserted us in search of bigger game—a rabbit. My brother had scrambled up on the siren to see what he could see.

Consequently there were just two of us left. We had been tramping for almost two hours, and were wet, muddy, tired, and utterly disgusted; so we decided to leave Mr. Bear to his fate and go home to breakfast. I think we were even beginning to doubt the existence of the bear. We were almost home —only one more field to go. Our minds were altogether obsorbed with the prospects of hot food, dry clothes, and chairs to sit down in. Suddenly my companion grabbed my arm: “The?e he is!” I looked. There he was indeed! I stared at him unbelievingly for a few seconds, then turned to look again at the partner of my enterprises. He was disappearing down the field, and frantic shouts made themselves heard “Come on, come on!” I turned again to look at the bear. He was about two hundred feet away, looking at me and calmly scratching his back on a fence post. I decided that he didn’t look so very ferocious, and feeling decidedly weak and shaky anyway decided not to run, but perched myself on top of a fence post and waited. I looked at the bear, and he looked at me. Slowly he ambled over to where I was perched. He sniffed the ground, then he looked at me, and returned to his sniffing. I could have touched his back with my foot, but needless to say, I didn’t 172

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All the rest of that day poor Bruin was trailed. At about six o’clock that night they brought him to bay in a gravel pit.

It was impossible to capture him alive, because he was too fer­ ocious. So the poor old bear was shot; and again I feel free to roam the fields and perch on fence posts without the immediate prospect of being chewed up alive.

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RENNAISSKANGE "Sister members of this great organization/* boomed forth Mrs. Wilkes, ― we aro gathered to call back to earth, the spirit of Timothy Brett and to hear his message to Sarah Dale, his former sweetheart. ’ ’ The chattering and the nervous movements of the women ceased, and the room became very silent. It had been darkened, but the figure of Martha Wilkes, in slippery light blue satin, shone forth in all its splendor. She was built like a prima donna, and the shimmering quality of the dress, only served to accentuate her massive curves. .

Sarah Dale in the position of honor sat at her right. She was fully aware of the sensation she was causing, as she complacently smoothed her dress, and every few minutes gave her hair affectionate little pats. .

• The other women, seated about these two, made clucking noises like so many hens. Evidently they were renovating some ancient scandal, and were all agog to hear the latest develop­ ment in the Brett-Dale affair.

From behind a foliage screen consisting of one large rubber plant, and a few scrubby geraniums, came the heartrending strains of the “Maiden’s Prayer*\ The music might have been [ery moving, if there had been more chords and fewer wheezes, put the boy could not pump up enough steam to carry the organist over the whole piece. Though the effect was somewhat niarred by these asthmatic wheezes, the women still continued to look uplifted and soulful.

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The music ceased, and everyone became quiet. The room grew so still that the heavy breathing of Mrs. Wilkes could be heard distinctly.

Sarah asked her first question. “Timmie, can you hear me, and are you happy?” She was immediately reproved by Mrs. Wilkes. “The idea of calling a spirit a nickname! When they have reached the other world, they deserve the dignity of their full names.” Sarah changed her question by substituting his full name, Timothy Brett.

Mrs. Wilkes’s pen moved rapidly over the paper before her.

She was being prompted by the spirit of Timothy. “Yes,” she said, “Timothy can hear you, and seems to be very happy.”

Sarah’s prominent blue eyes glistened with tears, the cause of which only she knew. Between sniffs, she mnanaged to say, “Well, if he is so happy, how can he possibly bear to see me so down-hearted?”一Sympathetic clucks from all the matrons.

The imposing Martha, speaking for “Timmie”，said in the most surprised tones imaginable, ' 'Sarah, darling, are you really so sad? Tell me why,” That affectionate answer was to much for poor Sarah, who now sobbed aloud. He had never referred to her by anything but ‘‘his woman”，so the term ‘darling’ completely unnerved her.

She quavered, “But ‘Timmie’，”一Mrs. Wilkes turned on her a reproving stare.—“ButTimothy, don’t you remember the time I promised to love only you? You made me swear it on Pa’s old Bible, and now I did it anyway.” .

The gossips by this time were sitting on the edge of their chairs, and one more inquisitive than the others, cried out.

“Did what, Sarah? You don’t mean to teli me you broke your promise?J, Sarah answered in aggrieved tones, “Of course I didn’t. How can I help it, if John wants to marry me.”

“Not John Brestle? Why he’s one of them ‘city slickers’.”

“He’s all right and besides he’s going to get the old home­ stead when his Pa dies.”

Mrs. Wilkes, seeing that the tense and ghostly atmosphere of the seance was disappearing, sharply reprimanded the woman, and then asked Sarah to continue.

“Would you put a curse on me, if I married him? He’d be a good provider and he’s got a big iai，m,” 一 she paused — then, seeing the avid curiosity of the women, she continued speaking, more for their benefit than to Timothy. "Yes, sir, he，s got five cows, a whole coop full of chickens—you know, those white le horns, that lay so good, and two and a half acres of land, we?f maybe not that much, 一 some don’t count, because it ain’t been cleared yet.” As she paused for breath, Mrs. Wilkes, by now thoroughly exasperated at this second departure from the subject, made a valiant effort to regain their attention. She rose, crossed to the screen and whispered something to the 174

organist. After a few preliminary wheezes, slow, sad sounds came from the organ. The low measured beats continued until the whole room hummed like a huge bumble bee. .

One of the keys had stuck, and the poor fellow was haying difficulties. Then they changed and rose in pitch, wailing eerily. Each bar ended in a shuddering sob and every labored note seemed to be its last. ^ The effect couldn’t have been better, if the organist had really meant to play like that.

Sarah’s face paled at their first unearthy notes. The women fidgeted uneasily in their chairs, and even Mrs. Wilkes looked uncomfortable. She called out, * ‘Sarah, Timothy is waiting, you had better continue.” _ Sarah looked abashed, “I was asking you if you would put a curse on me? I really love him, and besides Pm not very young anymore, and this might be my last cjiance.”

Complete silence, — evidently he was either contemplating a crushing reply, or Mrs. Wilkes had suddenly developed vocal paralysis. At any rate, there was no answer. Poor Sarah wrung her hands and nervously dabbed at her eyes. ‘‘Won’t you please say something, or give some sign that you release me from my promise?’* .

More stillness and then a terrific pounding on the door.

The women were too paralyzed to move or speak. Then a gruff voice said, 44Well, if you won’t let me in, I’ll walk in myself.”

The door swung open on its hinges, and a tall and very broad man stood in the opening. His eyes were very blue, and seemed even more vivid in contrast with his deeply tanned skin. You didn’t have to look twice to discover that he was a sailor. ‘ Sarah gave one scream and dropped to the floor. “ It’s Timothy’s spirit- he’s come back to haunt me.” The women, nearly mad with fright, threw up their arms and joined her with wild shrieks. One old spinster shouted “Hallelujah” and made a dash for the nearest window. The queenly Martha, toppling on her throne, landed backwards into the rubber plant, and lay there like Cleopatra in all her glory. The others, still screaming fell on their knees, and covered their faces with hands that shook. .

The cause of all this commotion stood in the doorway with his eyes wide, and a puzzled expression on his face. Looking around the room for some way to escape he suddenly saw Sarah lying on the floor where she had dropped. He just couldn’t believe his eyes. Could this be his Sarah who had screamed somepiing about “Timmie” and haunting? He came closer, stepp思& over the recumbent form of Mrs. Wilkes. It was Sarah.

He reached down and shook her. “Sarah, Sarah, open your eyes and look at me. Don’t you know me, its your Timmie?M Sarah started up and both her eyes flew open. She grasped his hand 175

and pulled herself upward. “Then you ain’t dead, Timmie?”

“Of course Fm not. Do I feel like a ghost?”

“No, but we buried you. Some fisherman found the body, and it looked just like you.” ， Timmie nodded wisely. “Now I know why you didn’t write to me. Well, now that I’ve come back from the dead, let’s start all over again.”

“But you talked to me from the other world,” her ex­ pression changed from bewilderment to anger. “Then Mrs. Wilkes is a liar. She’s got to give me back my money•，’ Both looked toward the spot where Mrs. Wilkes had been lying.

Nothing was there. All that remained of her was a piece of light blue satin hanging in the foliage in the rubber plant.

Clare Scheblack.

“It hath not yet been proved what we shall be.”

Roosevelt has been elected, and with him an army of De­ mocrats ;therefore America will be made safe for “the for­ gotten man.”

But most of us doubt very much that the return of the Democrats signifies the return of Democracy. The present government, that of a virtual plutocracy, will continue. But must it continue ? Let us ask ourselves : “Has Democracy in the United States proved to be a failure It has in several ways. In no first-class country has there been such official waste. In Washington, in New York, and in Paducah, a five-thousand candlepower searchlight is used to examine one room. In order to prove that there is a liberal consumption of alcoholic liquors, the Wickersham committee spent five hundred thousand dollars! So also in most of the large cities from 1929 to 1932 taxes like dandelions flourished.

Another product of our Democracy is a lack of pride in our sovernment. Mr. Johnson’s national fibers vibrate. only at patriotic meetings; from that time to the next meeting they snuggle on his ribs. Otherwise, indeed, his breast quivers very often : ip his business, in his club, and in his city, as a great place to live in, he will prance about. But for his government fe c^n only shuffle. That his civic council chamber is permeated the air of bribery, that his state legislature hall is sur. charged with the gas of group advancement, and that his national senate chamber is thick with the smoke of corruption, ....... this condition does not strike him down with shame.

Another result of Democracy, furthermore, is that over the land has brooded the spirit of official mediocrity. Has any eastern state had from 1832 to 1932 six governors that deserved to be placed in the park on a pedestal ? What percentage of the 176

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hundreds of mayors in Wisconsin deserve the title of “master of the citizens”？ .

Thus we have official waste, lack of pride, and official mediocrity. Thus the garden of America has locusts that destroy, trailing vines that degrade, and incapable gardeners who deteriorate. Yet it is still a garden, for it has several excellent features. , One of them is equality of chance to grow. A glorious characteristic of American life has been the nearly fair distri­ bution of opportunity. From Madison to Lincoln, from Lincoln to T. Roosevelt, and from T. Roosevelt to F. D. Roosevelt,— on the highway running through the whole period stand monu­ ments to men who began in the valleys and climbed to the peaks. Whether a boy began in a jewelry store, or in a saw­ mill, or in a newspaper office, there was no son of a count to snicker at him from the owner’s office in the store, which office by merit belonged to him ; or to order him from the# grounds when he demanded his right to the manager of the mill; or to rob him of the editor’s chair which he should have occupied.

Besides this, the garden of America is also blessed by the sunlight to make the flowers grow. This initiative has taken hold of the American and made him wrestle for victory in the Coliseum of economics. Whether he has worked in a jewelry store, a sawmill, or a newspaper office, he not only was sur­ rounded by chances to fight his way to the manager’s position, but he was also pulled by initiative to grasp those chances.

Then again the garden of America has been freshened by dew. This feeling of freedom has delighted the American through the generations. It has not been, we think, a weak psychological factor in American life. The citizen is not the niler; but he thinks he is, he feels that he is. That emotion tickles the ribs of him who works a nailing machine in a shoe factory, and of him who pumps gasoline at an oil station, and of him who prescribes medicine for a patient. 一 True it is that myriads upon myriads of Americans did not feel that emotion in the last three years. But after eight million radios will have begun to be sold again in one year, then the old exhilara­ tion of freedom will again be expanding the lungs. Thus, then, the brewery worker will not only be given many opportunities to stride forward, and further by a magnetic initiative be pulled forward; he will besides be petted by a delicious feeling of freedom. So also will it be for the doctor with his patient, the AVadhams man at his gasoline pump, and the General Motors scientist in his laboratory. . ^ And with this opportunity, this initiative, and this feeling of freedom (together of course with other qualities not depend­ ent on our form of government), the Americans have produced this great land.

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This land, consequently, is not a miserable failure. De­ mocracy has brought forth unprofitable works, official waste, lack of pride, and official mediocrity; but also good works : opportunity, initiative, and feeling of freedom. But, horrible to say! it has given birth to a monster, which is gradually destroying its mother—plutocracy. This octopus has its tenta­ cles wound obout the city, state, and national buildings. Event­ ually in that grasp they would be squeezed to bits. And why ?

Because, in the first place, the unprofitable works which were mentioned at the same time attack their creator. Another reason is the article of faith that Democracy means only this: a platform, a campaign, a popular election, and so many years for a term. And nothing else. But it is perfectly constitutional to change some elements of our system and introduce new ones without altering the form of government. Must we, for in­ stance, have parties ? Cannot the people make their own plat­ form ? Perhaps it is impracticable. But it hasn’t been tried.

Another change could be this one : let the people cast a rene­ gade out of office at any time during his term. Again, an. im­ provement for the present framework would be a substitute for the amusing Congressional Record and state books: a national paper which would tell you, in six columns, what was done by Congress in the last month, and why each Senator decided as he did ; and likewise a state paper. Yet what is the reason for our condition ?

Interest in the government has not existed. The citizens of New York, Indianapolis, and Paducah have not been anxious about national and state rule. Therefore Mr. Johnson’s mental eye has not seen the mud hidden in the gold brick offered by Senator Campbell. And why has there been lack of interest ?

Many factors may be presented; but we shall consider only one: we have till now been pioneers. In the first hundred and fifty years of our life our mind has been clasped by the phrases: “conquer t^he Indians’’, “cut down the forests for farms’’， “found cities”，‘‘establish state governments’’，‘‘left the Fatherland to begin anew here”； and then “build a public school system’’，“organize labor unions’’，“create the automobile industry^, and “worship the dollar”. And since during that period Democracy nourished those phrases in the brain, they filled the mind to keep out the words * ‘run the. government”. From his ancestors Mr. Johnson of today has inherited that mind. But must he keep it ? .

At present, on the contrary, it seems that he hasn’t it.

But that immediate interest in politics is only an immediate and, besides, a foolish interest, for it is not combined with a know­ ledge of facts. Naturally that is to be expected ; for one can scarcely imagine that voters of the last twenty years have de­ cided according to the party banners under which they paraded, 178

and now have cast their ballots according to convictions arisen from knowledge of facts.

Therefore the phrase, “run the government”, must be made to quiver in their minds continually. The task of course be­ longs to the faithful leaders in public and in private office.

That which burns on their foreheads now must gradually be made to burn on Mr. Johnsons’s in the future. When that is fulfilled, then the husband, interest in government, will kill the adulterer, lack of interest in the government, and will again be united to the wife, Democracy. And then the children, op­ portunity, initiative, and now, knowledge of freedom, — they will again be given to their parents.

Finally, then, when Mr. Johnson is on the street car in the morning on the way to work, when he is in the office at noon, when he sits before the radio at night, then his heart must contract in love for his country, and his conscious mind must tingle with the phrase “run the government”. When that time will have arrived, then at last, 0 ye who now rule by gold, then his Majesty Mr. Johnson, and his Majesty Mr. Lauer, and his Majesty Mr. O’Malley, and his Majesty Mr. Cacetti, — then they all, all will hold the scepter in their capitols, then they all will be exalted by power to reign ! Then Chicago will be theirs, Wisconsin will be theirs, America will be theirs ! Then in their land of America will again be a government “of the people, by the people, and for the people.”

K. THE PEARL I will build a shell about me And all my bitterness.

And no one shall come near me To taunt me with their happiness.

I will build a shell about me, And all my bitterness Like a grain of sand in a mollusk’s shell Will wound and press.

And I shall have a lustrous pearl After many years, For pearls are born of bitterness, And some are angels’ tears. 一 A Coed.

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THE NEW SEASON The season of the literary programs will soon be upon us again, and we will be looking foward to bigger and better pro­ grams. In order to achieve this we must observe several things.

First of all we must strive to make the separate numbers on the program more interesting. A passive interest in the suc­ cess of the various programs will get us nowhere. There must be cooperation in every effort. When asked to give a short talk on a certain subject, don’t reply by saying you’d rather act in a play. Of course you would, so would all of us. It’s much easier to get up before an assembly, together with several others, to act in a play than it is to deliver an address. But by giving one address you can get rid of more of that ‘‘lamp-fever’ than you can in a half-dozen of plays.

The masters of ceremonies should be informed at least a am that month ahead of time so that they can arrange a prograr is unified. But, of course, they should make use of the extra time, and not let it slip by, finally getting down to work on it two weeks before the program is to be presented. Some have even started later. At one time I was asked to speak at a program two days before the program was scheduled. Anyone will admit that two days are hardly enough to produce anything worth while, at least under our conditions, Ample time should be spent on the planning and preparation of a program.

Let’s stick to subjects that are strictly literary. During the last few years there has been much that could hardly be called literary material. Certainly, there is enough material m 180

: : the literary line to supply our needs. When hearing some of the talks last year, I wondered just why the society was called a literary society. .

The play has become an indispensable part of the literary program. In a way you might say it belonged on the progra for through it we see more plays than we might ever read, the past years there have been many good and interesting plays but often we notice a lack of memory work, or clumsiness in ' action. This no doubt is caused by a lack of time for prepara­ tion. In some cases, however, it may be traced to the unwill­ ingness of the character to cooperate with the coach. Perhaps it would aid if all the characters would have their parts memo­ rized before action starts. Then the rehearsals would not be interrupted so often when a character loses his place on the manuscript.

Lefs all go out for better programs, and truly literary programs. Try your best, work hard, and I’m sure our pro­ grams will be truly worth listening to.

G. SPEAKING OF NOBLE CRITICS Quite a number of compositions dealing with criticism have seen birth in our midst during the last years; some have been printed, others, and those not the least artistic of their kind, have been declaimed to enthusiastic audiences. Without giving three reasons for every statement we make, we should like to remark that those who committed themselves most sensibly in criticism are noticeably just the ones who welcome good criticism in return.

A little sympathetic discussion, among students especially, of the merits or demerits of conduct, literary productions, and likes or dislikes of those of us who have a natural bent for questionable pursuits might go a great way to foster improvepient in general, check monstrosities of every complexion, and incidentally stimulate the embryonic idea. A little verbal mail­ ing from time to time, well seasoned with unflattering epithets from those of our own circles usually leaves a fine after-effect and spares us the nuisance of seeking out our arch-enemies when in need of purgative advice. Besides, it is a fine vari­ ation for that cowardly type of critical insinuation that sets the adrenalin coursing full-blast without offering a convenient bounding-board for our just indignation.

And it’s about time some of us get rid of the distorted notion that we can’t criticise an omelette until we ourselves are able with all dignity to lay an egg. If you want to know what we think of you and yours, whether you play a bass-horn or a piccolo, just head down our way, and while we promise to extol the divine fire in your eyes, in terms Hellenic, be assured that the kink in your nose is in for a good drubbing.

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Among our recent visitors, many of whom attended the Milton game, were the following: Rev. M. Buenger, 721, Rev. Ph. Martin, *96, Rev. L. Kirst, ’03，Rev. F. Marohn, ’13, Rev. F. Knoll, ’22, Rev. W. Zank, J16, Rev. L. Koeninger, '13, Rev. M. Stern, *20, Rev. W. Hillmer, ’13, Rev. H. Grunwald, ,24, Rev. G. Krause, ’22，Rev. F. Schroeder，’27, Rev. M. Raasch, ’03, Rev. E. Prenzlow, ’23，Rev. P. Lehmann, ’10，Rev. E. Fredrich, *97; K. Kneiske, J29, M. Rhode and R. Lenz, ex ’33, R. Melendy and M. Albrecht, ex ’34, and A. Scheck, ’34.

Rev. M. Buenger, 521, of Caledonia, was blessed with a baby boy on October 28.

On November 6 Rev. E. Tacke ’19，of Tess Corners, cele­ brated the 75th anniversary of his church. Rev. Carl H. Buen­ ger, ’94, of Kenosha, preached for both services; and a double octet from the Seminary sang for the occasion.

On October 23 a Seminary quartet sang in Oconomowoc at the church of Rev. N. Paustian, ’29, in the afternoon and evening.

Another church to celebrate an anniversary recently was St. juke’s of Milwaukee ; Rev. P. Koehler, ’09, is pastor. Their sixtieth anniversary was celebrated during the week of Oct. 16.

And St. John’s of Trenton, whose pastor is Rev. L. Bernthal，’18, celebrated their thirty-fifth anniversary.

We congratulate Rev. and Mrs. C. Sauer, of Ixonia, who lately celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. Rev. Sauer is a graduate of ’77.

We congratulate also two couples who were recently united in wedlock : Rev. F. Knoil，’22，of Douglas, Ariz” with Eliza­ beth Lee Chambers of Oklahoma City; and Rev. R. Schaefer, ’29 of Collins, Wis” with Lovila Alvin of Horicon.

Two recent graduates of Northwestern achieved high honors last year at Madison. Miss Lenore Geweke，’28, received the Doctor of Philosophy degree in History (Latin and Greek), At present she is collaborating with one of her professors in writing a series of essays on a section of the history of the Roman Empire. — Mr. Hilmar Krueger,，25，also received a Doctor of Philosophy degree in History (German Philology). At present Mr. Krueger is on the faculty of the Milwaukee Center of the University of Wisconsin, teaching Ancient, Medieval, and Modern European History. He is, moreover, working with two 183

others in the editing and publishing of one of the notarial cartu­ laries of the medieval Genoese scribes, that of William Cassinensis, under the title “The Cartulary of William Cassinensis, 1191—1192.” He is also a partial recipient of a grant from the Academy of Learned Societies for the publication of “A Glossary of Medieval Latin Terms of Business,” also based on these same notaries and others now in the possession of Prof.

E. H. Byrne of Columbia University.

What former students are doing : R. Kaye, ex，35，. is now working at the Post Office in Stetsonville; R. Melendy is occu­ pied in a Walgreen Store at Waukegan, 111.; Miss G. Thurow, ex ’28, is teaching school at Waterloo.

®l]e ^ontnt.

“Should public school education in the U. S. be controlled by a central board ?n .

F.R.W. No; education should not be centralized. In nine chances out of ten we would have an inefficient board of control at the head of our educational system, and that board would equalize the qualities of all colleges and universities in the country. However, by having an independent educational board at the head of each college, one is free to attend that school which will most advance one’s talents and aim in life. More­ over, by having a centralized educational system there would be the danger of departing from the arts that make us free-minded.

This cannot be proved, but it lies in the nature of the system.

By analogy: when a man has spent his first thirty years in the Prussian army, his martial complex is determined to have effect on his entire life, including wife and children. Education, in addition, would tend to become a wholesale and retail affair.

In time we would be able to purchase our education in tin-cans.

Again, I say, No.

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The N. W. C. Orchestra this fall quickly wore off the rust 一 which had accumulated during the summer recess and gladly accepted an invitation to Lowell for the evening of October 13.

The Reverend O.W. Koch and his congregation at Lowell asked the orchestra to furnish the music for their church supper serv­ ed on that evening. The orchestra played a considerable num­ ber of pieces during the course of the evening and also greatly enjoyed a chicken supper. Occasionally I noticed a number of people gathered about the platform on which the orchestra was seated. They appeared to be observing something which to them seemed strange and peculiar. I soon noticed that their eves were all intently and questioningly fixed on ‘‘Tarzan，， (Meinhardt Raabe), the smallest member of the orchestra, and, it may be added, the smallest student that ever attended N.W.C. In a brief address on one of the first evenings in November, Dr. Harrington, a member of the anti-tuberculosis association of Wisconsin, refreshed in our minds numerous health rules frequently given us by nurses and health officers during our career in the grades. He gave a short discussion on the work of the association and ended his talk with an earnest plea to the students to do their part in aiding this organization by purchas­ ing Christmas seals. .

I take great pleasure in recording here a much appreciated act of good will and generosity of the faculty and their wives towards the students. On the evening of November 3. the stud­ ent body enjoyed a social evening together with and under the direction of the faculty and their wives. Games were played during the course of the evening, and finally all joined in sing­ ing several well known songs. All the students who attended Northwestern last year undoubtedly remember a similar social entertainment, which followed the Christmas exercises on the 185

evening before school closed for the Christmas recess. Then, however, it was a total surprise to all the students. For some time after, expressions of this kind were heard in the dormitory: “Wasn’t that a pleasant surprise?” or “Boy! I wish they’d pull that oftener.” From this it can easily be imagined with what pleasure the invitation this year was received, and what feeling of gratitude the students consequently bear toward the faculty and their wives.

The literary societies are again beginning to prepare for their season of activity. The members of the Freshman class desiring to join either of the organizations have been equally divided by lot between the two societies. By this method each society has gained about sixteen new members, and the total in each is kept practically equal.

Politics is the subject which is extensively treated in this month’s exchanges. King Football alone controls a greater area. Last month the papers were filled with articles treating 91} football and “hellos” to the new students. This month pol­ itics and football. Next month basketball and retrospections of football. Sir Oracle speaks.

To return to politics, which certainly is a topic which every college paper should discuss, almost every college predicted that Hoover would win the election. In the straw votes Hoover almost invariably was winner, and Thomas, the Socialist candid­ ate was a close second, or at least strongly represented. This is indeed food for thought. Does it show that the student rea186

sons around the corner, or does it show a mental superiority over the average voter ? Does it show that the fickle populace follows the blind impulse to oust a man who was in office when the depression came and who could do nothing to remedy it?

I say nothing of those who voted for Teddy Roosevelt. The very fact that the Socialist candidate received such consideration in the colleges (hoi polloi thinks he is a Communist) surely shows that the student does not follow the rash rushes of the average voters, but in his college, practically cut off from the rest of the world, can judge more coolly and select the right man.

At Calvin College Thomas was represented very strongly in the straw vote. In an excellently written article, some stud­ ent retorts to the common, thoughtless objection to Socialism, that it is at a variance with religion, by surprisingly stating that the old forms of government under which we are, are by far more contrary to the spirit of Christianity than is Socialism.

His arguments in brief are as follows :Christian principles should be applied to every sphere of life. A society which prefers to see its food and raw materials rot, rather than to give them to the needy unemployed, who produced them in the first place, assumes a great responsibility, to say the least. The maldistri­ bution of wealth is encouraged and protected under the present regime. It encourages greed, exploitation of labor, and elimi­ nates moral and spiritual values by shelving Christian principles.

He even says that “Religion is becoming an impossibility under Capitalism, whose spirit kills it.” “Only Socialism, unchrist­ ian in origin, offers a practical program which eradicates social injustice, insecurity, lack of planning, and greed to the extent that it unconsciously applies Christian principles to big and definite problems, it is a reversal of the theory on which our present society rests, namely, that when each man pursues his own interest, all will profit in the end.”

At Beloit College Thomas was also second; JHoover was first. Some statistics in its paper show that Socialism is be­ coming well supported in colleges all over the country, and not only at those colleges from which I have received exchange papers. ‘‘ The Milton College Review asks, ‘‘When is a man a man?” **'Ve college students are here for serious work. Most of us here are at least twenty years of age. We are reaching manhood.

If we cannot take care of ourselves now, we will never be able 卜 If we cannot control our actions we are not of college cali­ bre and should be culled out Many of us are working our waythrough school. Quite a few of us are practically self support­ ing. In other words we are here in all seriousness. We try to cooperate with the authorities even though we do not always approve. of the .... course taken. For those who have not been taking it on the chin from the world—the college is the place 187

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癱di for them to learn to stand on their own feet and to use the common sense and talents the Creator gave them. A rigid set of rules will not serve for the purpose.

College instruction should be broader. We are here to learn how to be good citizens. There are many laws to be obeyed as a citizen too, and there are many problems coming up which have no rule governing them whatever. Why not give us a little leeway to practice on before we really take up life as citizens?”

Why students of Milton!! How shocking! Don’t you realize that no man is able to take care of himself before he has reached the fair forties? To be able to take care of your­ self at the age of only twenty! Why you have lived only onethird of your lives.

The Luther Echo compliments its football squad, which seems to have lost as many games as Northwestern. “The odds against our team are usually quite uneven, and we should feel proud that their undaunted spirit enables them to put up as good a struggle as they do.” This is so striking a parallel to our condition, that it really would be justifiable plagiarism to copy it and apply it to our squad which showed such dauntless spirit, good sportsmanship in defeat, zeal, fervor, and fanatical interest.

The Spectator of Concordia Teachers College expounds Emerson’s remark, that manners are nothing more than com­ mon sense applied to our action. ^Common-sense manners do not mean ‘Be yourself’. For very few people would treat each other with much consideration if they would ‘be themselves’.

To apply common sense to our actions means to hold ourselves in check. It implies that we respect the rights, feelings, privi­ leges, and wishes of the people with whom we associate. And if we do not know how to act, then we must see what the commonsensed people do and follow their example.” Why didn’t he recommend Emily Post for memorization in the first place.

The above is an excellent example of circumlocution.

The Augsburg Echo asks itself if competitive athletics builds up noble characters as well as strong, healthy bodies.

“Competitive athletics, when not entered into in the right spirit, is more demoralizing than uplifting. It does not make for nobility of character to have the athlete go into the sport with but one idea, that of winning, whether by fair means or foul.

Excessive participation in a sport tends to destroy character. ’ ’ 4,Players are told to ‘get’ their man. Some coaches start a hate campaign before a game. Some alleged insult or wrong is used to build up a fierce hatred for the opposing team. All this just to win. Does the value of sports come from the mere winning of a game ? Sports are supposed to teach self-control; how to take defeat with a smile. But how often do we not hear about crooked referees and uncalled fouls ? We take our sports too 188

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seriously. It has become a duty, not a pleasure. It has even become a religion to some.” “Athletics are of great value, but a wrong slant on sports can cause a great deal of harm. Let us strive for a more complete understanding of the word 'sportsWhom the shoe fits"----- . manship,.

“What is more despicable than boasting Vf asks the Con­ cordia Comet. “False modesty,” it replies. “By false modesty is meant the actions of some people who seem to think that modesty is a flat denial of any ability whatsoever. This is a misconception.” Thus the writer eventually proves that this sort of modesty is the most detestable form of boasting con­ ceivable. One rather convincing point he omitted. That is that anyone who, when you praise him for his ability, says, “That was terrible，’’ is flatly insulting you. Such a person is indeed despicable, but I know of one who is far worse. He is the one who is a little fish in a big pond, to use the trite phrase, but when he returns to his native shores, he is the ‘kollitsch’ boy, the intelligentia of the town all by himself, the source of all wisdom, the fount of deep, true humor, the indispensable one, the life of the town, — in short, a microcosm, thei epitome of blatant qualities necessary to impress rustici et rusticae. : A word of genuine praise is due the Calvin College Chimes, not only because it so strongly supports Socialism, but because it has at its disposal students who really are able to write, and do.

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麵I瞧s Plattevillc 27, Northwestern 0.

On Friday, October 21, the Northwestern football team was defeated in an uninspiring game by the Platteville Miners. The spiritless playing of the Goslings, perhaps induced by the long ride, was unable to cope with the plunging： of Captain Solderberg, Miner fullback, so the Goslings fell easy victims to the Miners.

Northwestern only made one serious threat to score. Im­ mediately after the kick-off Captain Buenger recovered a Platteville fumble on Platteville^ 21 yard line. Fredericks took the ball to the one-yard line on an end run. Here the Miners held for downs and afterwards punted safely out of danger.

The game was poorly played and, to Northwestern fans at least, very uninteresting: Platteville Northwestern Loefelholtz............

L. E, ................... Bolle Dobson.................

L. T. ............Reuschel Marcon.................

L. G. ---------- Kersten Marcon................ ................Hoi ten C. McKrea................

R. G. --........... Raabe Wiesen.................. ............. Gensmer R. T. Pretts................... .............-.Siegler R. E. Clark....................

---- ------ Schewe Q. B. Pallard.................. ............Schwartz L. H. Fletcher...............

------- Fredericks R. H. Solderberg (Capt.)

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I Penalties: Platteville 40 yards, Northwestern 20 yards.

First downs: Platteville 16, Northwestern 8. Passes: Platte­ ville completed none out of 2; Northwestern completed 4 out of 6 for 90 yards. Punts: Platteville 3 for an average of 32 yards; Northwestern 5 for an average of 38 yards.

Score by quarters: 7 13 — 27 Platteville 0 7 Northwestern 0 0 0 0—0 Referee, Lange (Harvard); Umpire, Gass (Notre Dame); Head Linesman, Hill (Platteville).

Milton 7, Northwestern 12.

On October 28, the Northwestern Goslings gained their second victory of the season by defeating the Milton invaders in a thrilling homecoming game. The two teams were evenlymatched, and the outcome was decided only when the whistle blew. Both teams displayed some excellent playing, with the edge going to Northwestern as the score shows. A revamped lineup, in which Buenger played right end, Witt left tackle, and Reuschel fullback, showed up very well. Reuschel’s plung­ ing gained ground very effectively for Northwestern. Schewe shared honors with Reuschel, while Stevens and Kelling starred for Milton.

The first touchdown came late in the first quarter on a 37 yard run by Schewe after Gensmer had blocked a punt near the Milton 40 yard line. Buenger failed to convert, Milton tied the score in the second period on a 40 yard pass, Stevens to Kelling, and forged to a one point lead through a line plunge.

The winning- touchdown was made in the third quarter after the ball had been advanced from Northwestern’s 45 yard line to Milton’s 8 yard line. A pass from Martin to Schewe gained the touchdown. Reuschel’s plunge was just short of the line for the extra point. The Miltonites almost won the game in the fourth quarter, twice advancing the ball inside Northwest­ ern^ five yard line. One scoring opportunity was lost on a" penalty and another on downs.

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Bolle L. £).

Johnson. ............... Witt L. T. ........ Kesting Whitford L. G. Palmiter ___Schroeder C. ...........Raabe Grenther R. G. Huml .......Gensmer R. T. Wearfal . .........Buenger R. E. Stevens,. .......... Schewe Q. B. Kelling.. .... ...... Martin L. H. Smith.... .......... Liesner R； H. Yogi-•…

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Penalties: Milton 25, Northwestern 5. First downs: Milton 11, Northwestern 12. Passes: Milton completed 3 out of 8 for 78 yards. Northwestern completed 2 out of 5 for 43 yards.

Score by quarters: 7 0 7 0 0 Milton 12 6 0 6 0 Northwestern Referee, Huegel (Marquette); Umpire, Wendland (North­ western) ;Head Linesman, Landsverk (Carroll).

Kill on 20, Northwestern 6.

On Armistice Day, November 11, the Northwestern Goslings completed their footboll schedule with a thrilling battle against the Ripon Redmen, champions of the “Little Four” Conference.

The game was by no means the “easy victory” that the papers predicted, for it took the combined efforts of the Ripon team, the referee, and the weather-man to defeat the Goslings. Al­ though the thermometer was below the freezing point and fingers were stiff, the main weapon of offense was the pass.

The ground was too hard to allow the cleats of the football shoes to make any impression, so that Northwestern^ speedy backfield could not use its elusiveness to advantage. A side step meant, with very few exceptions, a slip, and according to the new rules, a dead ball.

Northwestern opened the scoring in the first quarter after stopping Ripon and taking the ball on downs on the 25 yard line. On the first play a pass from Martin to Schewe was com­ pleted for a first down. On the next play, another pass from Martin, Schewe received the ball on Northwestern^ 45 ya line, and raced 55 yards for the touchdown with a four man interference protecting him. Buengei^s drop-kick for the extra point was wide. Ripon scored a few minutes later by blocking： Martini punt on the goal-line. A pass brought the score to 7-6 in Ripon’s favor. Both of the other Ripon touchdowns were made in the second quarter, one on a long, run, the other on a long pass into the end zone. A line plunge earned one of the extra tallies. The last half was uneventful, except for some long passes from Martin to Buenger, two of which were caught out of bounds according to the referee. In the last minute of play Schewe received another pass from Martin and ran 25 yards to the goal-line, but the ball was called back and an offside penalty was inflicted.

Outstanding among the stars was Hotlen whose work on the defense earned the admiration of all who saw the game.

Martin's punting and passing was the main feature of the Gosling’s offense. A complete list of the stars appears at the bottom, in the line-up.

This game closed the football careers of six of Northwest192

ern，s men. They are Captain Buenger, Martin, Liesner, Gensmer, R. Lemke, and Maas. Resting, a varsity tackle, who was unable to play against Ripon because of injuries received in the Milton game, will also be lost to the team through graduation.

Northwestern Ripon L. £/.

R. Lemke Runyon........

L. T. Hulka _____ .......--Witt L. G. …Liesner Jankowske.C. __ Hotlen Greco...........

R. G. ...Bradtke Showers___ R. T. Smith.......... ..Gensmer __R. E. ... Buenger Sullivan....... __Q. B. Meyers........ .... Schewe Martin......... ...L. H. __ Martin Schmidt___ Fredericks ...R. H. Holmes____ F. B. ..Reuschel Penalties: Ripon 75 yards, Northwestern 55 yards. First downs : Ripon 14, Northwestern 8. (Exclusive of those gained by penalties.) Passes: Ripon completed 3 out of 10 for 38 yards; Northwestern completed 5 out of 17 for 75 yards. Punts: Ripon 9 for an average of 35 yards; Northwestern 9 for an average of 39 yards (including one blocked punt).

Referee, Snyder (Oshkosh): Umpire, Nudaun (Oshkosh); Head Linesman, Hettinger (La Crosse).

Overheard from a referee: ‘‘The cleanest football game I’ve ever refereedSpoken by a Milwaukee Normal player after the game: “The cleanest bunch we ever played against.”

In the Ripon game 17 passes were attempted out of which five were completed, two called incomplete because an official was careless, and one called back because of an offside penalty.

Does this mean that the Goslings have finally found their element, the air?

Northwestern scored 50 points against the opponents 126.

The Goslings were very fortunate this year, as far as injur­ ies are concerned. The most serious injury was suffered by Schroeder, who received a cracked rib in the Milton game.

Resting had the misfortune to get a blood clot beneath his eye, which kept him from the lineup in the Ripon game. Of smaller injuries the black eye was the most popular，outclassing even the “charlie horse”； at one time every member of the left side of the line, the center, and one backfield man had one.

The schedule for next year has been limited to six games, three of them conference games against Wartburg, Milton, and Platteville Miners. This will prevent a heavy schedule such as 've played this year and give us at least a chance to win half of the games on our schedule.

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Prep Football.

The Northwestern Academy football team enjoyed a mo­ derately successful season under the coaching of Herbert Nommensen. Several of the players showed up very well and will make welcome additions to the collegiate squad in the future.

The men on the football team who expect to graduate from the Preparatory department this year are Hahm, Thierfelder, Werwath, Heller, Koenig, and Stauske.

The record of their deeds: 19 Preps 0 Lake Mills 14 Preps 2 Jefferson Preps 0 Milwaukee University High 0 13 Preps 14 Lutheran High Basketball Schedule.

December 9. Milwaukee Normal at Watertown.

December 17. Carroll at Waukesha.

January 21. Carroll at Watertown.

January 31. Milwaukee Normal at Milwaukee.

February 3. Platteville Miners at Platteville.

February 4. Wartburg at Clinton, Iowa.

February 14. Milton at Watertown.

February 17. Wartburg at Watertown.

February 22. Platteville Miners at Watertown.

February 25. Concordia at Milwaukee.

March 11. Concordia at Watertown.

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Prohibition Doomed! This caption appeared in a London paper after the outcome of the presidential election was known.

No doubt, many of our citizens would prefer to see the Democratic victory expressed in that manner. But, the fact remains that Roosevelt is our next president, and that he polled the majority of votes in the dormitory. The latest figures avail­ able give Roosevelt an edge over Hoover, now a “lengthening1 shadow cast into history’’，by a vote of 32-22. The seed of socialism has also sprouted and grown into a vigorous young stalk. Twelve votes were cast for Norman Thomas. Chappie’s hue and cry against the Red menace was founded on facts. We have a Communist in our own ranks. And, of course, there is the comic-strip addict who in “plain and holy innocence” cast a vote for Happy Hooligan on the Independent ticket.

Coaches Kleinke and Nommensen, and Captain Buenger saw the Carroll-Ripon game at Waukesha, November 5.

The Senior Class, in its zeal for free periods, requested a certain professor to give them an “hour off”. The professor obligingly, though perhaps he was secretly amused, granted their request, but added the stipulation that they write out twenty-five lines for home-work. It was announced in chapel the next morning that all classes would have that afternoon period free, without obligation, of course. A general groan issued from the Senior benches. .There is something new under thelsun. The Junior class united upon a class-ring in one meeting. There are those who se? nothing but ill resulting from hasty action: dissension will arise later; it shows indifference, and such like. Yet a hasty conclusion, of which we must make many, ofttimes has borne 195

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The Philomathean and Phi Gamma Rho Literary Societies have signed up their new members. The outlook for the coming season is promising. Activities will very likely begin the latter part of November or the first part of December.

An attempt has been made to organize a drawing class. A former student of Northwestern, who has studied in the Royal Art School at Madrid, has offered a good course in sketching for a very modest consideration. Most students carry too light purses to accept even such an offer.

On October 15 “Herbie’’Kesting and several other astro­ nomy students from Watertown drove down to Williams Bay, Lake Geneva, to look through the Yerkes telescope there. Their tour of inspection was highly instructive to them, in addition to being very interesting. _ The football squad was invited by the University of Wis­ consin to attend the Wisconsin-Coe College game, October 22.

Most of the players took advantage of the opportunity. The few seats in the bus that were not taken by the squad soon found other occupants. All were pleased as Punch at the trip.

Qrojje 贷nalt", and Herr Radloff are officially recognized as the worst pun-makers in college. All the same, some of their sallies of wit have provoked many a laugh.

It is in a fair way to becoming a custom that Mrs. Rohde’s birthday is celebrated with a chicken dinner. A right Rood custom’ is the consensus of opinion. After this, October 28 will be written in red on the student’s calendars as an event of no mean significance.

Symptoms of the Vesuvius Club initiations: lugging one’s books around in a suitcase, wearing ear-rings and hair-nets, carrying paddles around, wearing- vests on backward, and such earmarks of eccentricity. At least, the ordeals are over.

The band-room has removed from the north “big-bedroom” to the one on the south side. Sometime in the future the room left vacated will be converted into a study room in lieu of the chapel which is now in use. * An epidemic of black-eyes has swept the football squad.

The person that can boast of the best “sliiner” thus far is “Herbie” Resting. Very few are inclined to contest his claim.

Special thanks are due Mr. Buenger. In my experience, he is the first student that kept his promise of, “If I think of some Locals, I’ll bring them to your room”. If only more of us would take a leaf out of his book.

Hallowe’en developed to be a tame affair. The diligent tutor’s late rounds deterred many young vandals from going on their excursions. Not even the college cows and horse were molested.

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Evidently, Woman’s Suffrage cuts no figure with us.

Betty Faber joined the general trek to Milwaukee the week of October 17 to see “Reunion in Vienna”. The play is a very clever satire on psychiatry and was beautifully played with ^•lfred Lunt and Lynn Fontaine in the star roles. Lynn Fontaine is Mrs. Lunt in private life and Wisconsin people are especially interested in the couple because Alfred Lunt is a Wisconsin boy graduating from Carroll College and maintaining a residence at Lake Genesee. Speaking of plays and players—Clare Scheblack recently- took the leading role in the play “Thank You” pre­ sented by the Inter-fraternal organization. Eleanore Coogan took part in the same play. The proceeds of this production are to be used for the needy families of Watertown during the coming winter. Melba Wall and Lorraine Jacobson have roles 197

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Adele is gaining quite a reputation as traveler and lecturer.

The Co-eds have had five visitors this month. Lillian Trapp left her work in Hartland to come and visit us. Betty Jaeger and Glenna Rasmussen spent the week-end in Racine after which Betty came to Watertown to spend a few days with her former room-mate. Windy and Adele Herro visited classes last week. _ One of our number, Vivian Zimmerman, had an automobile accident and was laid up for two weeks. Returning from the Packer football game, the car in which she was riding ran into another. She is back with us again, apparently suffering no ill effects from it.

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Prof.: What does “cold” mean in French ?

Martin : Frigidaire. * * * “That’s a case of multiplication by division,” said the pro­ fessor, as the chalk fell in pieces to the floor. * * * Bill (phoning): Come on down. We need extra help at the hot-dog stand.

Will Nothing doing. It’s raining — I wouldn’t turn out a dog on a day like this.

Prof.: Avoid using “awful” for ‘‘very’’.

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Waiter : This steak is the best we’ve had for days.

Diner: Well, next time give me one you haven’t had so long. 氺氺氺

Mac : I’m not at all myself these days.

Jack : Cheer up ! If you were an impersonator as I am, you’d never be yourself. :::

The Battle Of The Century He: Well, Mrs. Culbertson, you were a maid in a hotel, but you don’t know how to make a bid. .

She: And you, Mr. Culbertson, were a triple-threat man on your college football team, but you don’t know when to pass.

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OUR ADVERTISERS (Without them the Black and Red could not exist) GENERAL STORES Schempf Bros. Co. J. C. Penney Co. MEN’S CLOTHING STORES Wegemann-Faber-Kaercher Co. Hoftmann-Kelly Co. Kuenzi-Frattinger Co. SHOE STORES A. K:aliebe Leo ]Ruesch & Son Wickner^ Boot ShoD A. Sohrweide, Shoe Repairer JEWELRY W. D. Sproesser Co. Wiggenhorn Jewelry Co. FURNITURE Kohls-Hafemeister Co. Keck Furniture Co. PLUMBERS Kehr Bros.

Henry Schluetor DOCTORS Dr. 0. F. Dierker DENTISTS Dr. J. R. Casanova Dr. E. J. Hoermann Drs. A. & M. Schlueter Dr. Frank F. Schlueter DRUG STORES Owen’s Bittner & Tetzlaff Behlke Drur1ceC o.

W. M. Geh Sabin Drug Co.

GROCERIES Bentzin’s John C. Heismann Otto’s Grocery Northwestern Delicatessen

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GARAGES A. Kramp Co. AND THE FOLLOWING The Classic ; Bank of Watertown ; College Athletic Supply Co.; Hartig Ice Cream Factory; H. C. Reichert, Music Instructor; Vogue Cleaners & Dyers; August Gamm Crockery Company; Chas. Heismann, Painter; Tietz Cleaners & Dyers; Platz Studio; London Shoe Hospital & Hat Shop; Olympia Sweet Shop: 0. R. Pieper Co.; Adams Cleaners & Dyers; John Kuckkahn; Globe Milling Co.; Nowack Funeral Home; Capitol Engraving Co.; Harrison’s Cigar Store and News Depot; H. R. Schrap; S. J. Casper Co. Inc.; Miller Cigar Store; Lutheran Sanitarium.

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TEACHER OF PIANO, COUNTERPOINT, HARMONY AND THEORY

The Royal Meat Market QUALITY

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Shoes Repaired while you wait

A. Sohrweide 210 South Third Street

HOME DRESSED AND HOME MADE PRODUCTS

When it’s Fruits or Groceries— Call up—or Call on

ROYAL nAMS ； ROYAL BACON

JohnE.Heismann&Son

Phone 107

405 Main St.

“THE GROCERS，， Tels. 71-62 115 Main Street

Lumber，Coal，Fuel-Oil All Kinds of Building Material Phone 37

YOUR NEAREST

Star Lunch Restaurant

BARBER SHOP

MEALS AND LUNCHES

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Regular Dinner 11:00 to 2:00 Tables for Ladies msn Wm. Scliubert, Proprietor 411 Main Street

B. J. SIMON 602 Main Street

Watertown, Wis.

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Always look your best --- YOU owe that much to yourself.

Clean Clothes will do it by having them cleaned and pressed ----------------------- svhen attention is needed.--------------------------

Relining, Repairing and Alteration OUR Specialty.

Tietz Cleaners & Dyers Phone 620

110 Second St.

Stop at the

We represent our name Gandy, Assorted Nuts and

CLyMPIA and eat a light lunch or Ice Cream

Baked Goods If you taste anything good, it comes from the

Treat the folks and friend with our home made Candies.

Quality BakeShop

MIKE SALLAS, Prop.

Dr. J. R. Gasanova

W. D. Sproesser Co.

DENTIST

JEWELERS

irUMH 107 N. First St.

205 Main Street

Victor Victrolas,

Pianos, Tel. 714-J Res. 504-W

Opposite City Hall

Radios 111 Main St.

Phone 195

Drs. A. & M. Schlueter DENTISTS Phone 146-J 313 Main Street

Watertown, Wis.

Bank of Watertown Watertown, Wisconsin

綱 Capital, Surplus and Profits

$380,000 EAST SIDE HOME OF PURITY BREAD FANCY PASTRIES

Phone 1266

618 Main St.

Furnaces Installed, Repaired & Rebuilt Sheet Metal and Tin Work of all kinds.

John Kuckkahn 210 N. 3rd Phone 848-w

Wm. Gorder Co. Coal，Fuel Oil, Wood，Coke Sewer Pipe and Building Material 608 Main Street

Telephone 33

Students

Will recognize real value in these new fall models.

A remarkable variety of new fall palternSj strictly all wool fabrics, two or three button models beautifully tailored.

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Dr. E. J. Hoermann DENTIST

W. A. NACK

WHITE DAISY

MEATS QUALITY FIRST

Poultry in Season Phone 19-W 621 Main

FLOUR St. ; Watertown’s Standard for over Sixty Years

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WHITE WAY BARBERS Their Experience is your Worth While

Globe Milling Co. Telephone No. 1

Koser’s Bakery FANCY PASTRIES

DELICIOUS CAKES

We offer a variety of the Finest Baked Goods that can be made TRY OUR scHOIVIE-IVIADE BREAD，， The bread with the homemade flavor ALWAYS THE BEST

JULIUS BAyEC Wholesale and Retail Dealer in MEATS and SAUSAGES of all Kinds Watertown

Wisconsin

Phone 25

Henry F. Schlueter PLUMBING and HEATING Bus. Phone, 194*W; Resident 105-M

113 Second Street

Watertown, Wis.

Sealer & Brand mm UP-TO-DATE BARBER SHOP

213 Fifth St.

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Nowack Funeral Home

Phone 138-W

Tel.: Office 54

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Visitors Welcome

Watertown, Wis.

HARRISONS

Sabin Drug Co. Main and 4th Sts.

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Chas. Heismann Adams Cleaners&Dyers 206 Main Street

Complete Line of

Paints and Varnishes Glass and Wallpaper Phone 178-w

Phone 362

Furwork and Remodeling

404 Main St.

OTTO S GROCERY Dealer in Groceries, Feed and Flour, Vegetables and Fruits in season. Telephone 597.

Ill N. 4th St.

Watertown, Wis.

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ICE CREAM

The Palace Barber and Beauty Shop 108 N. Fourth Street

MILLER BLDG.

Always Gives Good Work and Reasonable Prices.

Everything in Barbering and Beauty Cultvre.

Phone 1385 For Appointments.

Are you well Shod, are

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The REXALL Store

Bring them here.

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“The Best in Drugstore Goods, the Best in Drugstore Service” Kodaks, Films, Photo Finishing, Soda Grill—Lunches

Millers Cigac Stcce 108 North Fourth Street Watertown, Wis. Pn?ES TOBACCO—CIGARETTES EVERYTHING IX THE SMOKERS’ LINE

Phone 274-W

BENTZIP

The Insurance Man

AT THE SHARP CORNER tobacco PIPES fruit BAKED GOODS

Watertown’s Exclusive CROCKERY STORE

L. M. Moldenhauer Woolworth Bldg.

Aug,Gamm Crockery Co. 400 Main Street

Owen’s Drug Store Prescription Pharmacists Your patronage appreciated

INSTRUCTOR PIPE ORGAN, PIANO, VIOLIN, CELLO and HARMONY Studio 109 Main St.

Third Floor

KECK Furniture Co.

Studio Phone 762-W Res. 318-J Hoffmann-Kelly Building

Young^s Marble Barber Shop 101 First Street 345-J GO TO Winkenwerder’s The Wisco Store FOR HARDWARE 207 Main Street

QUALITY SINCE 1853

Kohls-Hafemeister Go. FURNITURE Funeral Service Our Service Satisfies 607 Main St.

Phone 150

Men who want STYLE and PRICE Suits $18.00 up Hats $2.29 up Top Goats $14.00 up Gaps 95cclup

Wegemann-Faber-Kaercher Co. Value First Store

SUITS

that fairly bristle with smartness and superiority -7 Tailoring details that were in last seasons $35 to $40 suits—styling-, fabrics and colors, that typify everything that is new and correct—

NOW ON SALE AT $22.50 HOFFMANN-KELLY CO. YOUK CLOTHING STORE Watertown, Wis. 107-109 Main Street

Northwestern Delicatessen “The Place for Goodies”

WIGGENHORN JEWELRY COMPANY Diamonds—Watches 13 Main St. Watertown

A. POLZIN Ice Cream, Cigarettes,

1207 WESTERN AVENUE a

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Candies, Groceries

DRUGGIST 315 Main Street

Watertown, Wis.

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Next to Schempf’s

Residence Phone 1212

Watertown, Wis.

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Vogue

Charles Sommerffeld Student Haircuts 25c Why Pay More ?

“CAREFUL DRY CLEANERS’

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Suits and Overcoats Cleaned and Pressed 81.00

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Leo Rucscli & Son 210 West Main Street

Loeffler & Benke FLORAL SHOP 10 Main St.

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A. KRAMP COMPANY The Largest Garage in the city -

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LITERARY— Two Trees.

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The Sheep Dog—-.................

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Henry I, King of Haiti

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A Retrospect On Our Band

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How I Came To Be An American 208

EDITORIALS— On Awarding Letters

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Economizing-----------

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THE FORUM COLLEGE NOTES ..................

EXCHANGE............... .............

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Watertown, Wis., Dec. 1932

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TWO TREES The poplar trees are maidens fair That stand so slim and tall, They tremble in the summer breeze To curtsy blushing in the fall.

The oaks are gnarled old gentlemen Who lean upon a cane.

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The land in some sections of the southeastern part of the state is rolling and stony and cannot be used very well for farming.

It serves very well as a pasture ground for sheep however.

One of the pests that the sheep raiser of these parts must con­ tend with is the so-called sheep dog:, a mongrel species of vicious, homeless, and wild dogs that live in some secluded cor­ ner or thicket the year round and prey upon the flocks when hungry. They creep up on the flocks and usually content them­ selves by killing an animal and sucking its blood. If they are desperately hungry, they will eat the carcass also.

There are societies of farmers who issue insurance for sheep killed by these dogs and also offer a reward of twentyfive dollars for every dog killed. As my uncle was an officer of one of these societies he had to inspect the sheep that were killed and try to trace the dog. In this way I came into contact with many of these killings.

Last summer, having nothing to do, I decided to go hunting, or rather shooting, because there was no game in season at the time. But one of the chief reasons for my hunting- trip was not to while away time, but to see whether I could not pick up some easy money by killing one of these dogs and bringing him to my uncle for a ransom. As affairs turned out, the dream of easy money was a dream indeed; for the job upon which I embarked was anything but easy, and it brought me no money in the end.

I had been shooting at birds and small animals for a time, wandering here and there to find the home of some rabbit or quail, when I mounted a small hill and saw a vicious looking dog running back and forth in front of a rail fence, on the other side of which was a herd of sheep. Immediately the thought came to me that this might be a sheep dog. I whistled to him so that he would face me. When he did this, I shot trying to hit him in the heart. But my aim was not true and the bullet entered his lung. This made the dog turn mad and come at me yelping and frothing at the mouth. I pulled the trigger again and the pin fell on empty space. That was my last shot一I had forgotten to see that the magazine was full before I shot. Here was the beast coming at me in long strides 一I had to get the better of him somehow—I had to kill him or he would kill me. I looked for a fence to jump or a tree to climb but there were none, so I had to stand my ground. I took a firm grip on my rifle hoping to club him with it, but when he came nearer I felt that this was useless. Throwing the rifle aside, I drew my hunting knife from my belt just as he leaped at me. I succeeded in stepping out of the way but 202

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After he had finished struggling I threw him to the ground and began to examine myself. My hand had been bitten in a few places, though not very deeply, and there were a few rents in my clothes. The front of my shirt looked like a butcher’s apron from the blood of the dog.

My next thought was to see if this really was a sheep dog.

I looked at his teeth but there was no wool between them. I looked at his hide but there were no dried clots of blood on it.

This would have been easy to see because he had a light brown coat with white spots. Although he had no mark of being a sheep dog, I decided to take him to my uncle. Because he had been near the sheep and had acted so strangely, I thought he might be identified as a dog seen at some other place killing sheep or convicted on purely circumstantial evidence. I tied his legs together with a rope and then, shouldering the animal, I started for my uncle’s farm.

I finally arrived there quite exhausted in body from my burden but buoyed up in spirit by the thought of getting twenty-five dollars. My uncle examined the dead dog carefully in the spirit of an official who is trying to be perfectly impartial to a relative. My hopes rose higher and higher. Then sud­ denly he turned on me with a grim smile and an ominous shake of his head. ‘‘So you want twenty-five dollars? I hope you won’t have to pay that much for this dog. That’s old Joe Spiegel’s dog- the one that takes care of his sheep.”

T. Russow，’36 HENRY I, KING OF HAITI Everyone knows of the accomplishments of Napoleon, but who can relate anything of the man who conquered him, who defeated one of his most enterprising young generals, who even withstood Napoleon his whole lifetime, and was able to scorn an offer for an alliance with him? This wonderful person was no powerful emperor or king of a country in Europe, but the，king… of a small island in the West Indies. He ruled Haiti as king_ ]Henry I with as much splendor as any European monarch ruled his own country.

Not in wealth and luxury, but in all the stench and filth of the slave-corrals was one of the few kings of the western hemisphere born. The place of his birth is not known, but the royal almanac, published in later years, gives Granada, a West Indian island, as the place of his birth in 1767. History does 203

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His seventh year brought him the trade of masonry, in which he was trained by his master. But this was unattractive for Christophe, for he soon ran off, and was taken to Cape Francois in Haiti by a passing vessel, whose captain sold him to a sergeant in the French army. The expedition from Haiti for the help of the colonies was a failure when viewed in a military aspect, but Christophe was amazed and bewildered by the fact that men who were in no way related to each other fought like brothers for a peculiar idea called liberty.

When they returned, the sergeant sold Christophe to an innkeeper, where, fortunately, he was given the position of billiard-marker. Two marked advantages were given to.Christophe by this job : he became acquainted with the conditions of the country through the conversation of the players, and he gained a fair knowledge of English and French. The liberality of the planters was so great, that in a few years he bought his freedom, and married.

The fall of the Bastile brought a new constitution for Haiti, which almost severed the bonds with France. Three men were especially responsible for the freeing of the slaves.â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Toussaint, Dessalines, and Christophe. In order to terrify the blacks into submission the rulers executed some publicly, but this only in­ creased the fury of the negroes, although it established greater caution among the conspirators. .

At the ripe moment the revolt sprang out overwhelmingly against the few French stationed in Haiti. In the rapid change of events which followed, Toussaint became governor-general over the island, with the privilege of picking a successor.

Dessalines was chief general, and Christophe became military ruler over the city in which he had been sold at auction and compelled to shine boots.

During the ascendancy of Napoleon the island was left un­ molested, and the generals, and Christophe especially, amassed a great fortune. In the lull in 1801 Napoleon thought of the former colonial possession which had brought in such a large tribute. He sent his brother-in-law, Le Clerc, with a fleet of 86 ships, and an army of 22,000 picked veterans against the negroes.

When the French arrived at Cape Francois, they sent an ambassador to Christophe, who should bribe Christophe. After his offer had been scorned, the young colonel, who had been sent with the message was feasted on plates of gold in rooms decked out with silk finery. When he told his almost incredible story on the ships, Le Clerc and Pauline, the sister of Napoleon, who was given to Le Clerc in marriage by Napoleon as a reward for his services, were delighted at the splendor they would enjoy.

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But when they made a forced landing and overcame Christopher small force, they entered a city of ashes. Christophe himself started the blaze which was to destroy his house, the richest on the island, and the wealth he had accumulated during Toussaint’s rise. ‘‘But the flames that gutted his paneled walls and melted down his golden plate caught the town, blazed across a world, and gave challenge of war to Napoleon — Napoleon who had never known defeat.’’

Le Clerc with his superior forces had the chief generals virtually captured. Daily the negro army was decreasing more by desertion than by loss in battle. But the indomitable courage and stubbornness of the negro chiefs finally conquered after many obstacles. On promise of great reward and generalship Christophe and Dessalines were finally won over. On promise of the continuation of freedom for the slaves, Toussaint retired.

But the foolishness of the French lost them their pearl.

Thinking that Toussaint was plotting, the French took him secretly to a French dungeon. But when they tried to abduct Dessalines, he escaped, and revolted again. The French were defeated, not so much by Dessalines and Christophe, as by yel­ low fever and malaria. Pauline, with a few remaining soldiers, went back to France a widow. Dessalines ruled the island.

The general, as in the case of Marins, and later Grant, was no great ruler. Dessalines soon became dissolute, and the island gradually broke away from him, until his subjects were in open revolt. Relying on his personality, Dessalines tried to quench the revolution without arms, but he was unsuccessful, and was killed. It is maintained by some, that Christophe started the revolt. At any rate he became president of the whole island with the exception of Port au Prince and the ad­ joining strip of land.

Christophe, having tasted power, began to let his ambition grow. After he had become tired of the power which he held at that time, he had himself crowned “King Henry I of Haiti”， and had a gorgeous palace, Sans Souci, built in French style with a magnificence that surpassed any other mansion in the western hemisphere.

In order to fill his deflated treasury, Christophe had all the gourds of his kingdom collected. These were the sources of kitchen utensils for the natives. So afterwards when the natives needed them he traded them to the natives for coffee, which he sold to the outside countries for gold. With this gold he began to rebuild his war-torn kingdom and cities. Besides building Sans Souci he built seven other magnificent palaces, and fifteen chateaux. In addition to all his splendor Christophe also estab­ lished a “Code Henri”. In this every negro was compelled to work over ten hours a day; also every one over ten years had to learn a trade at the king’s expense. He also established a 205

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theatre, an academy, schools, and built many roads. His army, navy, and police force were excellent, his laws very good, but the people hated labor, and in consequence of this hated him.

This brought about a number of revolutions, which Christophe had to be constantly guarding against.

Christophe foresaw the downfall of his empire at his death; so he conceived the idea of building a perpetual monument, which would constantly remind the future generations of the once glorious kingdom. The selection of a site was not difficult, for Christophe had a mountain that answered his purposes. This was leveled off in a circular shape of about three acres. The highest wall of the citadel was 130 feet high, and 25 feet thick.

La Ferriere, the citadel, was heavily fortified with over 300 large French and English guns, so that it was almost impreg­ nable. In case of dire necessity Christophe had sufficient food to quarter 1000 soldiers for a period of three years. There also . were many dungeons, in which Christophe had the latest contrivances in torture, and treasure chambers, chiseled out of solid rock, in which the treasure chests are still preserved. In this citadel the labor of many thousands, mainly negroes and prison­ ers, was spent for over 15 years. A number calculated to be close to 20,000 lost their lives at it. _ .

About 1819, when he was at the peak of his glory, a high admiral, Sir Home Popham, from England, visited him. To im­ press the Englishman with his strength, Christophe reviewed his troops one afternoon with Sir Home at Sans Souci. He summoned a regiment of negroes, each over six feet tall, to march past in their splendid uniforms. Twenty tinies a regiment of one thousand men marched by—decked out with more splen­ dor than was ever seen on an English army, and twenty times Sir Home held his breath at the magnificent spectacle. But he did not know that this was always the same regiment. The regiment walked past, and was led through a tunnel to a bar­ racks, where they changed uniforms, and marched past again to Sir Home’s astonishment.

Perhaps to remove the mental strain, or else to reminisce, Henry often worked on his citadel at night, boasting that he could accomplish as much in one night, as all the workmen could in a day. After he had worked all night following a difficult day, he went to a chapel for mass, and was stricken Avith apoplexy. Some say the ghost of a priest, whom he executed, appeared to him, others that he was overcome by fatigue..

After a few days he had himself removed to the citadel and wished to review his troops. He summoned a native witclvdoctor to rub him with a mixture of fiery rum and pepper, which stimulated him to such an extent, that he received his lost powers from his paralyzed body. But as he was mounting his horse in the presence of the army, he collapsed in a heap, and 206

was forced to review the army from a litter. Because the king had now lost his physical power the army revolted, as soon as they were out of his sight. Christophe, knowing he could do nothing more, shot himself with a golden bullet which he had moulded many years before. .

He was taken to his vault in the citadel by some of his most faithful friends and his family. Because the soldiers of the enemy arrived, they threw the body of the king into some newly mixed lime. The bystanders watched in awe the body of the king sink down, and disappear in the lime. The surface of the lime became still and smooth. But the king’s clenched right hand and wrist had not sunk. Even now, in death, it was still masterful, still strong.

Winfred Lehmann ’36 A RETROSPECT ON OUR BAND Fifty-five years! What a long time! The age of at least two dozen distinct bands, if we consider that the membership of a college band changes every two years at least. Through all these years the band has prospered and developed to what it is now.

Away back in 5 77 a group of students received their first band instruments. It naturally was a difficult task to distribute instruments among so many eager students. Finally, however, the band was organized and placed under the able direction of Prof. Preller. For four years it flourished under his direction until his resignation as a professor at Northwestern. Professors Weimar and Plum succeeded him. The band now made extra­ ordinary headway, especially under the baton of Prof. Plum.

It far surpassed any city band. It was called upon for church festivals, political rallies and all public occasions in the city.

Together with the military company the band visited the neigh­ boring villages. In the following years the gradual improve­ ment continued. Mr. W. C. Herrmann, who is now a professor at this institution, and Mr. Henry Siecker, then being students, directed the band for several years. After their graduation Prof. Bolle took over the leadership of it. In June, 1908, the band gave its first concert in Milwaukee under the auspices of the Northwestern Club of Milwaukee. A large audience was present and, according to the reports, the concert seems to have been a success. The audience was thrilled by pieces like *'Semper Fidelis” and a selection of “Faust” 一 by Gounod. A cornet solo was also delivered. . ,The membership had increased to forty-five. But at this t^ne Prof. Bolle organized the chorus and the band was again obliged to seek another leader. Prof. Frank succeeded Prof.

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Prof. Duetzmann, a professional director from Milwaukee, then came out and directed not only the band but all the musical organizations for a while at the expense of the students them­ selves. Since 1919 the present director, Prof. Westerhaus, has guided the destinies of the band. Under his able direction it has offered pieces like Schubert’s “Unfinished Symphony”, Liszt’s “Second Hungarian Rapsody”，and numerous other famed selections.

Within the last twenty-five years the band has worn three kinds of uniforms. The first ones were blue with a white stripe.

Then, torn away by the militaristic spirit of our country, the band bought the khaki uniforms in 1918. Last of all, in the year 1929, we strayed to the more colorful black and red uni­ forms in which our members are attired at the present day.

Thus we have dwelt for a few moments on the high spots of the history of what has always perhaps been the most popular musical organization of Northwestern. How many alumni and former students have not received their chief musical training in the venerable band ? To the tune of marches and overtures it has marched down the years until it has passed the half century mark. May it march on to the tunes of new marches and of old and may its members be, to use the title of a favorite march, “Semper 尹idelis”.

Everett Dobratz ’36 HOW I CAME TO BE AN AMERICAN It was on a Saturday night. A cold December gale \vas howling round the house, and old man Kabibonokka was driving the “little feathers of angel wings” before him; which in a few words means, that there was a little blizzard out of doors.

The very elements being thus arrayed against me, I was finally persuaded to give in to my parent’s better judgment and to be contented to spend an evening at home. ..

“Well, son”，says father to son, who was still unwilling, to take the stay at home, "you once told me that you would like to know a few of the things your father did when he. was young, didn’t you?’’ ‘I surely did, Dad/ said I, anticipating a rather enjoyable evening after all, ‘Won’t you sit down and tell me a few things ab?ut yourself? Might be I’ll disinherit you yet if you led too wild a life in your days. Tell me about your­ self as a great cavalry captain“0. i〈.”，says Dad, “here’s my story.”

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Here I received, what was supposed to have been the best military training- a German youth could acquire.

“Then came the day of my student life, when on one spring morning of the twenty-second year of my existence, I stood on equal footing with the head captain of the temple of knowledge and shook his hand; I then became a full-fledged cavalry general.

4,The next few weeks were spent in a manner which I do not wish to relate to you, because of your youth. No questions.

I 'yon’t tell you a thing about it and that’s that. I knew such a life couldn’t last lonjr, but I hoped to enjoy myself as long as possible anyhow. Then to make matters as bad as possible, some Russian got it into his head to get a few German officers over to Russin to teach his sluggish countrymen a few new military tactics. Well, as luck would have it, I got the cavalry command and a class-mate of mine, whom I’ll call Mike, got the command of the infantry.

Mike and I signed up for a period of six years, and once signed up, we were tied to our post. The trip into Russia was quite interesting- and we thought that we would actually like the life. , The camp to which we were assigned was near Kiew.

Kiew is about six hundred kilometers from Moskow. Moskow being the capital, was the city from where we got our own wages and also those of our men. ..

“Since the Kiew camp had new generals, the Tsar’s minis­ ters thought it no more than right that they should get some equipment. So when we arrived there we found every­ thing rather modern. All the guns were new. The old ones had been sent to the academies. The buildings were also quite new and, believe me. the men entrusted to us were also ‘plenty’ 5e'Y too. We were immediately shown to our posts and our duties were explained to us. All we had to do was to give orders to those under us and to take orders from the various ministers； who tried to show off their authority. .

4'Although we usually had our say and were the commandln& voices around the camp, nevertheless, doing the same thing over and over every day out there in no-man’s land gets on a person’s nerve, no matter how hard he might try to like his work.

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Going to and from the “Hash House” was done by marching in double file and in step. After breakfast a half-hour was given free to attend to one’s own affairs and for the respective oncers to check up on everything and to see if everything was in order.

Then at seven o’clock the bugle sounded for everyone to appear on the camp grounds or, if the weather did not permit, to meet in the field-house. The first difficulty which we encountered was to make ourselves understood. But no matter how clear we made ourselves, it always took an entire day before a company could go through the drill half-way decently. And when it came to going through the drill of the day before, why they had forgotten it already. To make matters worse, every now and then one of the ‘big shots’ would drop around and tell us that we would have to appoint different officers. Occasionally they did the appointing themselves. Just why they did this I never did find out, but I presume that they did it, because of their political affiliations.

“Now, as I have already told you and as you can quite readily, realize, such a life as this ‘tame’ Russian camp offered us, would finally work against us. So, after trying to like it for three years without much success, Mike and I finally decided to give the job the air. But we soon found out that the agree­ ment we had signed was for six years and that, if we returned to Germany before the six years were up, we would immediate­ ly be sent back to Russia for trial. Under those circumstances we decided to think of a new way of getting out of Russia.

After considering several different possibilities for escaping, Mike finally struck upon the idea that we might make our escape on our return trip from Moscow, where we had to go four times a year to report conditions at the camp and to receive our wages. We eventually decided to carry out this idea, for then we would have enough money with us to get somewhere.

“Two weeks later found us on the way to Moscow accom­ panied by two faithful Russian valets. After receiving the money from the Russian treasurer, we left Moscow as if return­ ing to Kiew. Railroads were just beginning to be developed in Russia] so the service was not the best, and one would often have to wait a day to make desirable connections. So it happened that，, while we were supposed to be waiting to make such a connection, we made our get-away. But we didn’t leave until we had，by disguising our handwriting, written a letter to the Russian government, telling them that they, (the supposed writers,) were holding Mike and me for large ransom and that we should be killed, if it were not paid in a few days. We wrote another letter and dated it a few days later, saying that Mike and I were shot to death, because of an attempted escape from their hiding-place. Entrusting our valets with these 210

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letters, we set out for the Dnieper river and reached it the same night. Here we easily bribed the captain of a little freight boat to take us to Cherson, which is a sea port town at the mouth of the Dnieper and the Black Sea. “At Cherson luck certainly was with us, for we arrived there during the night and immediately met one of our academy professors from Berlin. He was sailing to London and, having heard our story, invited us to come along as his guest. His ship sailed the same night; so there we were on our way to London on a German boat from Russia. We arrived in London exactly two weeks after we left the Kiew camps, dressed as German students with our mustaches shaved off.

“The first thing we did after our arrival in London was to try to find out how our plans had worked out in Russia. We looked up a vender of foreign newspapers for all the recent Moscow papers he had on hand. ' He must have done a poor business with his Russian wares, for he dug up all the back numbers of a well-known Moscow daily. Imagine our surprise when we beheld our photographs on the front page of an issue about two weeks old and the story of our ‘Murder’ by the ‘Gangsters’ below them. That article took a load off our minds.

All we had to do now was assume different names and board a ship for the promised land, America. A few days later found us on a ship bound for America, glad with the anticipation of becoming American citizens in the near future, so that we might join the ranks of America’s unemployed. Well, son, I guess that’ll be enough, so Good Night”.

4 4And did you come to America?” I asked, hoping my father would continue the story. **Would I be here now, if I hadn’t?”，he retorted. ‘‘And glad we were to get here. We had dreams for the future among which were none that in thirty years we’d be joining the ranks of the unempioyed’’.

My father laughed but I could not persuade him to take up the thread of the story again. I suppose he thought it was past the time for my wanting to go out and anyway the storm was still howling, so there would be no further care necessary to keep me at home that night.

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ON AWARDING LETTERS The awarding of letters to football players and to basket­ ball players is solely in the hands of the Student Athletic Board.

Their method of : ...................awarding is to judge according' to the training： of the individual, the spirit with which he applied himself, and the number of minutes he has played.

There is obviously something wrong' with this method.

This fall the Athletic Board presented the question to the col­ legiate body, whether or not they wanted to vote on the names of the“N” winners.

• ^ The Athletic Board' stated that it felt it could not give an unprejudiced and unbiased judgment in the case of each player. It took into consideration more the players' training and spirit than his time. The Board found itself in this predicament. It was composed entirely of football players.

Now, even if " they ' _ themselves " " had not trained, they surely would not want to disallow themselves a letter. Yet in that case they \yould have aroused hard feelings. .

• What is obviously wrong with the present method is this: infractions of the training rule are judged by specific incidents and not by general conditions and standards. If one broke the training mles only once, it was held against him. In the judg­ ing of spirit the Board was too easily influenced. Just a few 212

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years ago they withheld a player’s letter, because on one occasion he mentioned in the locker-rooms that now since he had in enough time, he would not have to work so hard. They used time merely as a gauj?e in judging the winners.

Other schools consider time solely. In some colleges a player in order to earn a letter must have played in two winning games and besides have the required time in games for the season. His time in a very important game counts double for that in any other game. The breaking of training rules is judged in a general way.

To allow the collegiate body to decide who should win letters, would have been unfair. It would merely have been a popularity vote. That is plain. To have the coach alone award the letters, would have been inadequate. In the electing of Board members for future years, such men ought to be elected as do not take part in sports, but are nevertheless interested in sports. Some who take part in sports could also be elected.

This would make the Board’s judging of the letter winners more unprejudiced.

A good method that could be suggested would be this one.

Time should be taken as the main element in awarding the letters. A player having the required time played, must have played in two winning games. If the team has not won two games during1 the season, only Seniors of the squad with the required time played, should be awarded letters. Training would be judged in a general way. Judging the spirit of the players would be more subjective. Training and spirit would be minor elements in the awarding of letters. If the players had not given their best and trained hard and shown spirit toward the coach and the game, the team surely would not have won its two games which were necessary for the awarding of letters.

Herbert Koehler ’36 ECONOMIZING Our synod has been experiencing extreme financial difficul­ ties. The present depression has increased this plight to such an extent that the synod's work has been seriously curtailed.

Consequently the future of our educational institutions is jeopar­ dized. The situation demands immediate attention. Are we responding? to say, has met the issue Northwestern, we are glad _ squarely and is now launching an economy program to stave off the impending disaster. The Board has assigned various duties to the “Indigent Students”，which lessens the cost of hired labor. A smaller room has been substituted for the chapel of 213

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the dormitory, as a common study-room. In like manner the chapel of the dormitory is henceforth to serve in the capacity of the gymnasium for the functions of the literary societies.

These arrangements will help minimize the coal and electricity 'bills. The last-named measure has indeed not met with unani­ mous approval of the student body; however, if the writer has been correctly informed, the literary societies have a fund from which they might draw the necessary money to reimburse the college with the sum which the use of the gymnasium entails.

The rumor of extending the Christmas recess has reacted very favorably upon the students. This would by rare coinci­ dence be in conformity with the idea of economizing.

The Board has found methods in order to save. The success of these plans, however, is largely dependent upon the co­ operation of the students. The dormitory life of the student offers an open field to all economical endeavors. The moderate use of lights, water, heat, and toweling, together with less wastage at meals, are some of the ways in which the student can assert his willingness and desire to do his share of the work in order to effect a successful economy program.

We are often prone to disregard the problems of our college, our synod. It ought rather to be our grave concern to solve them. It is true, this may inconvenience us in many ways.

However the disadvantages are hardly comparable to the bene­ fits which we will obtain. Let us realize that we are part of our synod and, as members of one family share one another’s troubles, so ought we also in our modest way to respond when our college, our synod is in distress.

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The Alumni are requested to send in all special news con­ cerning themselves and others.

Several pastors and other former students paid North­ western a visit in the last few weeks. Among them were Rev. Karl H. Buengei，，’94，of Kenosha, Rev. Martin L. Buenger, ’21，of Caledonia, Rev. Ph. Lehmann, *10, of Abelman, Rev. 0.

Koch, ^O, of Lowell, Rev. W.台illmer, ’13, of Kenosha; H. Schulz and H. Haefner of the Seminary, and J. Meyer, ^O, of Racine, W. Sturm, ex ’36, of Hartford.

Leonard Frank, ex ’31，of Wauwatosa, and Alicia Schmidt of Cedar Rapids, la., were lately married.

Belated comes the news concerning the celebration this summer of the sixtieth anniversary of Immanqel’s church at La Crescent, Minn. Rev. E. G. Hertler，’11，is pastor. We congratulate him and his congregation.

Rev. T. Mahnke，’21，of Cataract, now has a second baby boy.

M. Hinnenthal, ex '32, is now a bookkeeper in New Ulm. E. Schroeder, ex ’34，is lord of the beef and sausages in a shop at Holman. Wis. And P. Rasmussen, who was with us last year, is working at Oconomowoc.

“Would a Monday schedule of only two classes be an ad­ vantage ?M A—Blue Monday! There is no need for professors to say this. If the first two hours in the morning were omitted, most of the fellows would have time to clear their heads from a tire­ some week-end.

B—Psychologically, it is correct to begin a week with an easy schedule. It would give the students a Sunday of genuine leisure, and also help the professor by removing the habitual bad recitation on Monday.

C—Let us be logical. The beginning is always the hardest.

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D—Yes. Most of the students have to recuperate from the week-end holiday. The periods on Monday are long and stale.

I believe the second and fourth periods would be sufficient and these would be the ideal periods; for then one could rest and study for the next class.

E—No, because with such an arrangement practically noth­ ing would be accomplished on Monday.

F—Two classes on Monday would be of no advantage over our present system. I am sure that most of us would just as soon drop those two hours and stay at home an extra day longer.

Furthermore, I don’t believe that anyone has ever received a nervous breakdown from worrying about his Monday’s classes.

Besides, the week-ends are dull enough for those students who remain here, without the added tediousness of a two-hour schedule on Monday.

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A number of students of Northwestern have been enjoying the dramatic programs presented by the N. B. C. Radio Guild on Mondays at three o'clock. Works that have already been played (at the time this column was written) are : Redemption,

by Tolstoy; Antigone, by Sophocles; Marlowe’s Faustus; Shakespeare^ Coriolanus, Romeo and Juliet, Henry V, As You Like it, and Richard III; and Tartuffe, by Moliere. They are played by very good professional actors. One cannot, but ad­ mire the acute articulation and interpretative expression used by these actors and actresses, and the fine touches which are 216

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Concerning1 the dramas as a whole we might sometimes be slightly disappointed, because they must be considerably con­ densed to make it possible for them to be played within the allotted time of one hour. Nevertheless, an adequate idea of the dramas and much enjoyment can be obtained from these presentations of the Radio Guild by anyone who is at all in­ terested in these plays.

If we take a look at our park this fall we find that the trees are receiving unusual attention. Several students under the direction of Professor Fleischer are pruning and trimming them, thus beautifying- their shape greatly. It was a task too large to be done on one arbor clay in spring and consequently was always neglected until the present time. In this connection, stop for a moment and consider this question : Are your eyes observing- the beauties of our park as you see it daily, or are they always blindly focused on things beyond or only on ‘‘objects’’ upon the walks, which wind through it? Take a look at the beautiful and admirable work of nature as we have it in the largre old elm before the gymnasium, or the elm directly in front of the dormitory to the right of the walk leading from the main entrance, or the massive oak near the southwest corner of the park besides all the other various kinds of trees which we have on our campus. Time used for cleaning and beautifying this part of Northwestern surely is time well spent.

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The Calvin College Chimes prints two excellent articles on music in its November seventeenth publication. One affirms that music without words does not express emocion ; the other affirms that it does. The arguments of the former are as follows: It seems to be a prevalent idea, that the words of a song mean very little, as long as the melody, with all its accidental intri218

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His opponent’s retaliation is too difficult to condense. He gives examples, such as changing the words of some hymns to a different melody, illiterate soldiers weeping upon hearing phopin’s ‘Marche Funebre’，01，the funeral march from Wagner’s *G6tterdammerung, whose poem of tone-colors words would de­ stroy, to prove his point. (I wonder if he realized in which category he placed the former student by his first example ?)

“And then I would say that music is a language, a medium of thoughts which lie too deep for tears, a vehicle for emotions which it is not lawful for man to utter.” I would advise all students to read these two articles, for in quoting them, I have not been able to express all the thoughts contained in their con­ nection and with their subtle shadings.

While speaking of music, there is an article in the Luther College Visitor which further carries out the quotation taken wni the Atlantic Monthly: “The human whistle is the most delightfully informal of instruments. It needs no inglorious lu­ brication of joints and greasing of the keys like it’s nearest rellative, the flute. It is not subject to the vocalists’ eternal cold. It knows no inferno of tuning and snapping of strings, nor does it 219

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Wake Forest College, founded in 1843, is preparing a place to put the exchanges, so that the students will have an oppor­ tunity to examine other college newspapers.

Basketball The coming basketball season will be of special interest to Northwestern sport fans, because it marks the reentrance of the Goslings into conference competition. The conference which Northwestern is entering this year was originally com­ posed of five schools located in three states, whence the name “Cristate.” Unfortunately Mt. Morris, the representative in Illinois, has dropped out because of a merger, thus making： “Ti’istate” a misnomer. The members of the conference at present are Wartburg of Clinton, Iowa; Platteville Miners; Milton; and Northwestern.

All candidates for the basketball team were … called out on November 19, a week after the close of the football season.

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Martin and Nommensen, seniors; Schewe, Zimpelmann, J. Raabe, and R.Lemke, juniors; Fredericks, sophomore; Schwartz, Koehler, Mielke, Hallemeyer, and Kusel, freshmen. Un­ doubtedly the membership of the squad will undergo several changes before the first game, for several members of the “B” team seem to be improving very rapidly. In the opinion of coach Kleinke the squad must show great improvement before any victories may be expected. Whether the mentor’s pessemism is just some more of the traditional “hooey” of coaches, remains to be seen. Perhaps it is induced by the fact that Zimpelmann, “the eagle eye from Eagle River”，will not be in perfect condition because of high blood pressure. Another thing to add to the coach?s worries is a poorly arranged schedule, for the conference games are grouped too much. Anyone con­ sulting- the schedule may easily see this.

In the November issue of the Black and Red, the game with Milton on January 18 was omitted. The corrected schedule reads: December 9, Milwaukee State Teachers at Watertown.

December 17, Carroll at Waukesha.

January 18, Milton at Milton.

January 21, Carroll at Watertown.

January 31, Milwaukee State Teachers at Milwaukee.

February 3, Platteville Miners at Platteville.

February 4, Wartburg at Clinton, Iowa.

February 14, Milton at Watertown.

February 17, Wartburg at Watertown.

February 22, Platteville Miners at Watertown.

February 25, Concordia at Milwaukee.

March 11, Concordia at Watertown.

The Prep, basketball team is an unknown quantity this year. Coach Gensmer has only two veterans, Captain Lambert and Koenig, about whom to build a team, but his new material seems to be very promising. The first game will be played against the Dodge County Normal of Mayville. The game will be the preliminary to the contest between the college team and the Milwaukee Normal team.

Football Letters The athletic board has decided to award letters to the fol­ lowing: Captain Buenger, Martin, Liesener, Gensmer, Resting, and manager Buch, seniors; R. Lemke, Bolle, J. Raabe, Hotlen, Schewe, and R. Siegler, juniors; M. Toepel, Witt, Reuschel, and Schroeder, sophomores; Bradtke and Schwartz, freshmen.

Arnold Reuschel has been elected captain, of the 1933 team.

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The well worn story of being locked in the Recitation Hall has been revived again. M. Raabe and W. Dobratz happened to be unfortunate enough to be in the building after closing time. Raabe had reconciled himself to his lot and had already cast a longing eye on a particular chair on which he intended to pass the night. Tietz’s timely assistance saved him from the necessity of that expedient, after Dobratz had made his exit through the boy’s room and had nearly jarred the teeth from his head when he jumped to the ground.

Buenger, Hoyer, and Liesener drove to Cedarburg to hear the Seminary chorus, December 4.

No little stir and comment was occasioned several weeks ago when it became known that one of our most highly respect­ ed and honorable undergraduates had come into the posession of a letter from a rather questionable source. The return address was : Pepper Pot Inn, On Highway 41, Glenbeulah, Wis. Ob­ viously a bill could have been expected, but the contents revealed nothing. A blank sheet of paper had been inserted by mistake.

Gieschen and Buenger celebrated their birthd ays in the approved fashion last month. This meant that the eiitire Senior class was invited to attend both festivities. The theme song for the evenings was, *'Happy Birthday to You”.

The Tiefel brothers have a taste of the life a pariah must lea(J. Cases of sumac poisoning isolated and confined them to their room for several days.

Skating got off to an early start and was in full swing by tpe middle of November. The usual number of casualties among the ranks of the foolhardy was evidenced by the soggy con­ dition of several individuals’ clothes. The warm weather at the 222

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beginning of this month raised sad havoc with the ice. Bussewitz was so disconsolate because he could not go skating that he was up for breakfast one Sunday morning.

Thanks to a remarkable penchant of our star billiard-artists to bounce the billiard balls on the cement floor, the smoking* room has seen fit to purchase a new set of balls. In this con­ nection it might be well to state that Sager has a long lead over all other contestants in the number of hours put in at the table.

To commemorate Herr Louie und der Weasel another Ger­ man band has been organized. By February it expects to be in a position to book engagements for itself.

“Who’s seen my shoe V Barthels demanded as he hobbled about stiffleggedly on one foot. It appears that a mischievous pup took a sudden liking’ to footgear and dragged it away while the owner was skating. A witness to the crime restored the shoe to its anxious owner.

The following locals have been prepared by the freshman class.

This is the freshman number. Alas and alack ! What shall we say about that worthy class ? —- They are freshmen, of the same genus and species that freshmen have been from time immemorial. (At least, so they tell us.)

It has been said that a freshman is that which every freshnian wishes he weren’t and what every upperclassman is glad he isn’t. We can say no more. Nevertheless, this college could not exist except for the freshmen. Who would give life and color to the stony walls of these our hallowed precincts if not the freshmen ? Who would perpetrate horrors by way of pipes, stormy class-meetings, et cet” except the freshman ? How could this December number of the Black and Red be the freshman number if there were no freshmen ? Who — Thus, dear reader, 've could continue for hours. But not to be boring, let us pro­ . ceed to locals.

Every freshman dormitorian has joined the Vesuvius Club and has been duly initiated into the fraternity of “fire and brimstoneM. Features of the initiations were lonely moon-light hikes of six miles or so, political speeches, and “swats” by the Ne­ braska "sultan”，Sophomore M. Witt. ‘‘What were your feel­ ings when Witt signed your paddle ?’’ the preps ask.

— 1936 — Splash! . ” “That’s just Lehman dropping through the ice over there.

But really, the ice has been fine and every day finds quite a few students “gondoliering” on the frozen surface of the Rock. Incidentally, night skating seems to be very popular.

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—1936— The freshmen have put off their verdancy, at least as to the traditional green caps. The frosh did not effect the termi­ nation of this cruel and cold punishment by conquering the im­ perious sophs in battle, by mounting a greased pole and captur­ ing a pennant, or by performing any other such acts of daring and valour (not that they couldn’t have done it), but the sophmores in their great clemency, or perhaps in a moment of weak­ ness, limited the period of “buttoning” to ten days. — Several of the J36 men, however, are still flaunting the green caps.

They must think them becoming, or possibly they wish to in­ form the world that they are freshmen, to be honored and respected as such.

— 1936 — A certain freshman, about to study his Greek, couldn’t find his book. “Some horse-thief has been here again, I see.”

— 1936 — The theme song of the freshman class—-“Goofus”.

— 1936 — An innovation on the campus ! The sophomores are smo king cigars, “El Ropoes” to be specific. — Are these some of the traditional campaign cigars ? Or has prosperity returned via the Democrats ? — But (I shudder to write it, but since these are freshman locals, I must) we also find that some of the fresh­ men are emulating the example of the upperclassmen. If this fad spreads, what will become of our Lucky Strike—Chesterfield, etc., debates ?

—1936— There are only two good referees in the gym this year, and “Sag” Sager is both of them.

— 1936 — Rejoice, ye burghers of Watertown. The College Athletic Board has put a ban on freshmen buying class sweaters and you no longer will have to gaze with horror at students parading your avenues in sweaters of pink and green, green and orange, or any other such glorious combinations conducive to sore eyes.

— 1936 — How great is not the power of music! What tutors can not do by making three “rounds”，“Orv” Sommers and his saxophone accomplish in three minutes. Let bright Cecilia yield to him the prize, or both divide the crown. She drew an angel from the skies, Sommers drew all of second floor out of bed on the last five or six Sunday mornings.

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— 1936 — Are you in need of blotter pads, blotters, cigar boxes, etc., see "Tarzan” Raabe, the mighty giant-killer and high-pressure salesman.

—1936 — 0 yes, Oliver “Twist” Nehring rides the bicycle.

— 1936 — It must be terrible ! Kugler has found a quotation which expresses his hidden feelings. We shouldn’t say hidden, for he has printed it on a card on his desk. Here ’tis.

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

—1936 — Steinitz, Zuckertort, Blackburne,— and Hoyer. In case you don’t know, these are the masters of that most ancient of all games, chess. Of course you won’t find Hoyer listed in the chess histories or encyclopedias as yet, but give him a chance.

He already lays claim* to the college championship.

— 1936 — Could you imagine “Hep” Koehler driving an Austin ?

1936— "Adie” Schultz, class secretary and chairman of the finance committee, reports that he has been able to collect dues from all members of the class thus far barring ten. How can anyone be so tenacious as to refuse Adie’s eloquent plea, especially if added to this he is wearing his collecting suit ?

— 1936 — The freshman class has organized its basketball team.

Roekle was chosen captain and Bradtke was selected to buy the gum and the lemons, incidentally also to act as manager. The freshmen were bowed in defeat by the great Senior “five” in the first tilt of the season, but promise a strong come-back. So watch their smoke.

—1936— The freshman class bids you a Merry Christmas !

“Co-ed notes due to-morrow. Oh, what a day to be glad in. 、 Some time we’re going to invent something like a glori­ fied sausage machine which will grind out news at the touch of a lever. There just “ain’t no news.” Nothing exciting has happened since Vivian Zimmerman’s accident, and we made the 225

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“Eats,” of course. Helen Arnold makes swell fudge. She can bring about two boxes. Then there is our little “Elmiry”.

Cake is her specialty; six of them will do. Make them good and “gooie” with plenty of marshmallow filling and chocolate _. Gertrude Wuetrich and Arline Schumann look domestic, icing. so we'll have them bring sandwiches. No banana filling, please.

They freeze too easily. Now the only thing that is left is some­ thing to drink. That is easily fixed; the whole gang can file up to the bubbler. Talk about gastronomic delights! Entertain­ ment is the next important item. The two Zimmermanns, Vivian and Mable, will do a death-defying trapeze act from our over-head radiators. Our solid, inlaid-mahogany umbrella rack can serve as their safety net, if they should happen to fall.

Margaret Krahn and Louise Kusel will do a twin-sister ballet dance, first in Russian and later with “Ach du lieber Augustin” effects. Melba Wall and Lorraine Jacobson are going to croon an Egyptian Lullaby. If Janet Cary is very good, she may sit with Santa Claus in the Senatorial district.

Has November thirty days or has it thirty-one? That is the big question bothering the mathematical-minded students down here. The calendars in the classrooms just can’t seem to agree on the subject. Those from Gorders have an added day of grace. The students who had work due in December con­ sider this the one and only calendar, but the girls are not so fortunate. Dr. Miles says there are only thirty, and since we’re blessed with his, no one dare make any objection. He couldn’t be wrong, for he gives all the various _phases of the moon and warns us when to beware of chilblains. After per­ forming such a valuable service for humanity, who are we to dispute such trivial things as the number of days in a month?

Betty Faber, not satisfied with presiding over the co-eds merely by conducting meetings with a ruler-baton, has taken on the duties of a so-called Kinderlein-Muetterchen. Every morning about 8:31 finds Betty in the Prep room, Hymnal ’ tucked firmly under her arm, admonishing the girls to get to chapel in time. It doesn’t make any difference if they sit in the benches farthest from the door一no matter how many empty ones there are in between; yes, they could even choose to sit on the steps of the stage, as long as they arrived before the organist began. Even the welfare of the seemingly invin­ cible Collegiates is looked after; especially after recess is this necessary, when the supposedly unerring ones stand loitering 226

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about, ‘‘will-he, nill-heM searching for pencils, Spanish grammars and Rostovtzeffs. Betty “shoos” them all off to classes with a <4Run along now, girls.M We don’t know if the fact that it was December 1 had any­ thing to do with it, but on that day Eva Taras, a Tertianer, had rather an adventurous trip down the stairs. No one knows how it happened, but Eva hit every step with almost every­ thing except her feet. After her pulse was taken by a wellmeaning Collegiate and her forehead felt to see whether she had a fever or not, she was taken home for the day to recu­ perate. Don't fall so hard next time, Eva! The Freshman co-eds speak for themselves.

Elmira Hatzung thinks that we have a good deal of snow in this part of the country, for a few days ago she came to school with two pairs of overshoes.

Wouldn’t the boys be surprised if they could see several of the girls watching them from behind the curtains between classes!

We hear that the girls are going to have a Christmas party, and all the Freshman co-eds are eagerly looking foward to it.

Melba Wall hopes that Santa Claus will be there!—Please don’t tell her that there is no such thing!

Does anyone know the light-complexioned Freshman that makes Helen Arnold want to —- ? ?

Initialgrams of the Freshman co-eds: H. A. 一 Having art.

E. H. 一 Ever happy.

L. J. 一 Little joy.

M. K. — Much kindness.

A. S. — Always sweet.

M. W. — Merry widow.

G. W. — German whiz.

V, Z. — Very zealous.

Can you imagine: Margaret Krahn without her German? # , Gertrude Wuetrich unable to define a word in English?

Helen Arnold not at the Olympia?

Melba Wall not taking notes in History?

Lorraine Jacobson liking Mathematics?

Arline Schumann on time for chapel?

Elmira Hatzung ever talking out of turn?

Vivian Zimmermann knowing her Spanish?

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Prof, (entering classroom): Is that your cigarette stub on the floor ?

Student: Not at all 一you saw it first. :; :: Sager: Can you give me any well-known date in Roman History ?

Russsow: Antony’s, with Cleopatra. 氺氺氺

Dobratz was laughing in class the other day. The professor said: Are you laughing at me ?

Dobratz: No. Prof. Well, what else is there to laugh at in this room ? 氺氺氺

Koehler dreamt lately that he was eating- Shredded Wheat When he awoke, half of his mattress was gone. ❖ Mittelstaedt: See this tie clasp ? It once belonged to a millionaire.

Schwartz: Who was the millionaire ?

Mittelstaedt: Woolworth.

One day Bradtke entered the hamburger shop and inquired: JDo you serve lobsters here ?

The reply was: Yes, we serve everybody.

Hallemeyer is so far back in school that his father had to buy him some field-glasses, so that he could see the professor.

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First Scotchman: I don’t know what to do — I’ve come to the end of my rope.

Second Scotchman: Here’s half of my cigar.

Just before election Roekle and a few others were discuss­ ing the candidates. Then Roekle said: If Roosevelt is elected, four months after he is inaugurated, all the banks will be closed.

Lehman: How come?

Roekle: Fourth of July.

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Miss Wall: No. Miss Jacobson: Whoa, Kugler was supposed to write a “comp” of two hundred fifty words. This is what he handed in: My uncle was driving his new car one day and he had a puncture----- . The other 236 words are not fit for publication.

Miss Zimmerman: Did you ever see an elephant’s skin?

Miss Arnold: Yes. Miss Zimmerman: Where was it?

Miss Arnold: On the elephant.

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Frey : I ain’t got a pen.

Prof. : Where’s your grammar?

Frey : She’s dead.

Bloom: They told me that if I didn’t quit reading dime n ovels，I wouldn’t amount to anything.

Hoyer: Why didn’t you quit?

“It won’t be long now，” said the monkey as he backed into the lawn-mower.

Conundrum : What does a base ball player do in case of a shipwreck ?

Ans.: He “strikes out” for shore.

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January 1933

TABLE OF CONTENTS

LITERARY— The Scintillations of Mythology —230 232 A Momentous Ride.............. .

234 The Pitiful Story of Martius.

236 The Versatile Stream of Life

EDITORIALS— Wasn’t it Wonderful?.

Art In Appreciation of Gershwin’s Music................................

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COLLEGE NOTES................

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Watertown, Wis., Jan. 1933

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TIIK SCINTILLATIONS OF MYTHOLOGY Is there a person among my readers who can feel a thrill at such a prospect as standing on the soil of ancient Greece; the Greece of his imagination; the Greece which was at one time the home of the gods; the Greece of the dancing nymphs and of the grotesque satyrs, of mighty heroes and of mythological monsters? It is this person that I invite to come with me to enjoy that one bit of Greece which is free to everyone who seeks .it—its sky. Trouble? None at all; the sky, no section of which we can scrutinize without seeing some serpent, mon­ ster, bird, beast, man, woman, hero, semi-god, or even a god of Greece himself, is brought to us, so that we need do nothing but step outside to get a vision of antiquity.

Let’s take a look at Orion, that most magnificent figure of the sky. Surely you have heard of him! There he stands, right over that group of spruce trees to the south of us; there is no trouble at all in finding him, for the most impressive and beautiful constellation in the sky represents his figure. But he wasn’t always up there in the sky. He was at one time the mightiest hunter of all Greece. It was on one of his hunting expeditions in the mountains that he met Diana, the lovely 230

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However, she is rather careless and doesn’t drive her chariot, the Moon, across the sky every night, but prefers to spend an evening hunting with her nymphs upon the mountains. At the first meeting Diana fell deeply in love with the huge and manly Orion; but Apollo, the Sun-god, who is very conscientious about driving his chariot in its daily journey across the sky, was so greatly displeased with his negligent twin-sister, Diana, that he planned the downfall of Orion. He soon found the oppor­ tunity for which he was looking. While Orion was wading in the sea, Apollo cast his rays about the hero, so that he was un­ recognizable from the shore. Then he beguiled his sister into joining him in an archery contest on the beach. The bright object out on the waves became the target for Diana’s arrows.

Her first arrow, true as ever, hit the mark and sent Orion into such spasms of agony that Diana recognized her mighty lover.

Her violent outburst of rage at her brother’s deception could no longer save the hunter as he sank beneath the water. She took her plea for retribution directly to Jupiter and gained from him the assurance that he would place her lover among the stars, where she might always be able to see him as she crossed the sky in her chariot. .

As Orion has looked down upon that Greece which two thousand years ago saw the prime of its glory, so he still looks down upon us to-day. To-day we can see this mighty hunter just as a long list of poets, beginning with Homer, have des­ cribed him to us. There are the three stars of his belt in a per­ fectly straight line; from that belt hangs the sword which undoubtedly has served its bearer well for many years. A line drawn perpendicularly through the belt will join two firstmagnitude stars, one on each side of the belt. The top one, Betelgeuse, is a star of great size, wonderfully red, and marks the right shoulder of the hunter. The one below is Rigel, a brilliantly white star, which marks his left foot. In the ex­ tended left hand Orion holds his lion’s skin, represented by a group of small stars. In the right he holds his club, threaten­ ingly uplifted high into the sky. The reason for this hostile position is soon seen, for only a short distance above Orion is Taurus, the Bull, a huge beast which seems to be charging1 directly at him. That glaringly red star is the eye of the angry Bull. But we need not fear for our hero, for we are told that he is winning the battle and is forcing the Bull back into the sea. Behind Orion, that is to the east and southeast, are his two dogs; here we also see Sirius, the brightest fixed star of the sky, and who has not heard of this * ‘dog-star” ？ That is the story of Orion, as it was told thousands of years ago. The stories written in the sky by the ancients have sur­ vived from an age when the alphabet was unknown to the 231

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Shall we join the admirers of Greece? Shall we allow our­ selves to be entertained by the scenes which the Greeks enjoyed two and three thousand years ago? We need not travel across the ocean to see them; we need only to look at the stars.

—Herbert Fleischer.

A MOMENTOUS RIDE Jim Norwalk sank wearily into a seat on the commuter’s train that was to carry him up along the Hudson shore to the suburb in which he had lived for several months.

An overpowering feeling of dejection and loneliness had possession of him this evening, and he only glanced at his cus­ tomary paper cursorily. “SKucks，” he muttered to himself, "when I was in the backwater college in Iowa I imagined that a position in this metropolis would be the ideal thing. But here I am, slaving in that office eight hours a day, and then only to return every evening to an annoying aunt who always forces me to recount the day’s humdrum experience. And then fol­ lows the inevitable night’s reading for lack of anything interest­ ing to do. I have no friends, nor any congenial person to help sweeten the drear of life. But escape at present is impossible because the *home-to'vnei，s’ would get a good laugh to see the prodigal son return, defeated by the big city. But the thought of continuing this barren life nearly drives me mad.”

The rumbling of the train pulling out of the station dis­ turbed Jim’s reverie, and he aimlessly perused the pages of his paper in the hope that they would reveal something sensational or at least interesting. After the train had gathered speed and settled down to its rythmic vibration, Jim let his paper drop on the seat beside him. For lack of further diversion, he allowed his eyes to stray around the coach in examination and appraisal of his fellow-passengers. Yes, there were the familiar faces of the people who habitually took this train. His eyes passed rapidly over several persons without stopping, but suddenly they came to an abrupt halt. Several seats ahead sat the attractive girl he had so frequently noticed in his several months’ commuting on that train. He could only see the back of her head as she sat reading, but he had seen her at different angles before, and was not in doubt as to her identity. “Boy,” mused, ‘‘she certainly has a pretty head. Only the back of it is visible from here, but even that is easy to look at, and I know that her face is not of the clock-stopping variety. It’s a cinch that such a person could put rose-colored glasses before 232

my disillusioned eyes. But why think about it, she never notices me, and I never was good at those strong-arm introduc­ tions M The train rattled on. The right-of-way here was elevated, and the lights of the streets passing under the roadbed slid by as lightning bugs flit by a person in summer. As the more densely populated sections of the city were left behind the lights became fewer.

Jim meanwhile had leaned his head on the back of the seat and sat looking idly out of the window. But nothing that passed interested him, for his mind was in a sort of despondent stupor.

The first of the suburban stations was reached and several occupants of the car made a hasty exit. Jim now was restored to consciousness, and once more he looked about the coach. He saw that the well-shaped head was no longer protruding above the back of that seat, and he purposely stood erect to see where it had disappeared to. As a pretext for arising he fumbled about for some imaginary object in the pocket of his overcoat which hung nearby. ''Evidently my friend has fallen asleep,” he thought, “for there she is, slumped down, and the book still open beside her.,J He resumed his seat, and his thought con­ tinued: “Most likely she had a strenuous day. But still I never saw her sleep on this train before. But then it’s nothing out of the ordinary, for to some commuters the coaches are second bedrooms/* By this time the second station was arrived at, and a few more passengers left the car. The train started and returned to its normal speed. Jim’s despondency returned. 4That*s the way it usually happens,’’ he told himself. “Her station is the next, Riverton, and her departure from the car will take away my last object of interest. Why must a young man like me, not inferior to other people, be forced to lead such a dog’s existence? Hold on, that seems peculiar. She isn’t waking up in time to leave the train comfortably. But perhaps she’ll rush out at the last minute, the way some of these habitual traindozers do.”

After a grinding application of the brakes, the train came to a halt at Riverton station. But still the girl remained in the same position. Jim was in a quandary. Should he rush up and wake her, or shouldn’t he? His natural shyness restrained him, but still he felt that everything was not as it should be.

As he stood there undecided, the Riverton people quickly filed out. A few puffs and the train was again in motion. After a moment more of deliberation Jim acted on impulse. He strode d?wn the aisle and in a few steps was at her side. He extended his hand and gently touched her shoulder, but no response was forthcoming. The contact of his hand and her shoulder gave 233

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“I Beg your pardon,” Jim began, ‘‘but haven’t you over­ slept your station? I believe you usually get off at Riverton, don’t you?” “Why certainly,” she answered, “we haven’t arrived there yet, have we?” “We’ll be pulling into my station, Ludlow, in a few minutes.” “How stupid of me,” she con­ tinued, “I’ll have to stay on to Ludlow. Would you kindly tell me when the next south-bound train leaves Ludlow?” “Not until nine o’clock” sympathized Jim; "it’s nearly seven now, and you are due for a long wait. Those few miles between Ludlow and Riverton certainly will inconvenience you. And waiting in a station is not pleasant.” “Some inconvenience will teach me not to be so neglectful in the future. But I actually was so drowsy that I couldn’t keep awake.” By this time Jim had taken the seat beside and had thus obtained a much closer view of her than he had heretofore enjoyed. ‘‘I certainly didn’t make a mistake in sizing her up,” fie said to himself, “and she appears even more attract丄ve at dose range.”

Then a brilliant idea came to his mind. This was indeed- a “break.” “Two hours is an eternity to wait for a train. I’ve a suggestion. At Ludlow I’ll grab a cab and get you down to Riverton in a jiffy. ’ ’ ‘ That’s a chivalrous gesture, ’’ she replied, "but it would be an imposition for me to expect you to incon­ venience yourself for me. After all it’s all my fault and it’s up to me to worry along. I know you’re eager to get home and it wouldn’t be fair to expect you to waste time on me.”

After Jim had given the usual “no trouble at all,” “it’ll be a pleasure,” “it’ll only take a minute,11 and after a little more persuasion she consented, at least it appeared reluctantly, to allow him to play Sir Walter Raleigh.

By this time the last person was leaving the car, and Jim had not noticed that the train was drawn up in front of Ludlow station. After assisting his fair companion down the high steps of the coach, he jauntily hailed a nearby cab. A minute later a taxi whisked down the Riverton road. And thus was Jim sud­ denly and permanently deprived of his Manhattan loneliness.

Carl Broecker.

THE PITIFUL STORY OF MARTIUS Translated from an old manuscript.

All the deities in the heavens were horrified. Minerva, the very goddess of wisdom, was enamored of a mortal, and (infandum!) he was a gross, ignorant, barbarous gladiator. The deities were petrified. But there she stood before the throne of 234 -,

her father Jupiter and demanded that Martius be raised to the skies as her husband.

Now the omnipotent father of gods and of men, knowing well that such an affair should not be and could not last, be­ thought himself of a shrewd plan which should cure Minerva of her almost human weakness. He learned from Faunus that Martius was a devotee of his ; from Mars that he was a gladi­ ator ;and from the Muse that he had a crass soul, and despised the blind maidens, who, singing, were a joy to Minerva. So he told his beloved daughter that she must first raise him to her level, not using her divine might. So it was that the enamored Minerva took on the form of a lowly mortal, and mingled with the vulgar. For what is considered impossible by one in love ?

To effect her purpose Minerva went to the pious Scipio and told him of her passion for this lowly mortal, and that she wished to raise him from his base station, and to elevate his ignoble mind. The pious Scipio agreed to help his beloved goddess, and made the acquaintance of Martius, whom he too soon loved, for Martius did have winning ways, After he had instructed him in the usages of the higher circles, he took him to the elegant festivities he himself was wont to attend. Here Martius met Minerva. She could scarcely control herself, for she saw the fulfillment of her plan. Surely, with her wisdom and appreciation for true beauty, she could instill in him like attributes. Martius also was well pleased, and soon was filled with deepest love for her. Minerva took him for long walks, and soon he saw more in the ground than a place for standing firmly against a contender; he saw more in the breezes than a force endangering the accuracy of the throw of his net. He learned the philosophy of the Greeks, and their lyrics, and tragedies, and comedies. He no longer examined his scars when the blind maidens sang, but listened, enraptured. Minerva strove with might to teach him all the beautiful things life held, and he learned.

But woe ! By necessity he was forced to return to Gaul, his fatherland. Sad was the day of his departure from Minerva.

Every day would he write; every day would he dream of her; every day would he meditate on the beautiful things she had taught him. So he came to his fatherland. .

There (horribile dictu!) he met the maiden Carrollia of Germanic tribe, a crass barbarian, a companion of the days of his youth. Through her he was thrice more quickly drawn down to her level than Minerva had raised him to hers. 0 gross Carrollia! Again he attended the feasts to Faunus ; again he entered the arena and fought with the fellow man he had learned to love. 0 degenerate Martius ! He forgot his goddess come to earth.

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The pious Scipio went first and announced their coming.

Martius. troubled in his spirit, said, "0 Scipio, what shall I do?

I must fighU” And the pious Scipio grieved and was vexed.

After he had contended in the arena, he saw Minerva for a short time, for Scipio had by necessity to return. But Minerva was yet of the same mind. She yet hoped.

Soon Martius also returned to Rome, but did not try to see Minerva, the very goddess of wisdom. The pious Scipio, loving Martius, and knowing well what he was losing, tried to reason with him, but in vain. For who can reason with an ignoramus?

And (infandum !) Martius lied to the pious Scipio, thus incurring his disfavor. Yet Minerva hoped. But when she knew that he again contended in the arena, and again listened to the music of Faunus, she was angry - but loved him still, in vain. Sorrow­ fully she returned to heaven, seeking to forget him, and was received joyfully by Jupiter, who comforted her.

0 woe! Woe to thee, Martius! When old age shall creep on you, and your warlike spirit shall be broken, and you shall be sated with the crass pleasures in which you now rejoice, then shall you be of an age to realize what a treasure you have despised in your youth, but the goddess shall keep her eyes fixed on the ground !

R. H. TOE VERSATILE STREAM OF LIFE “Life is but a tale told by an idiot.” Yes, and full of sound and fury was the tale told me. But I felt him out and saw him through, and now his tale signifies nothing. Shrewd, indeed, he was and so deceived me greatly and grieved me deeply. ^ His tale was full of color, and thus he lured me on with exciting melodies. My sentiments tore the fine gossamer of reason’s warning, and I longed for the idiot’s favor.

In oratorical fashion he first showed me the way to the primrose path, light as a pin scratch ; and perceiving no grave danger, I followed the suggested path with delight and charm, for the stream of life was on its way. There was no hesitation for proof that this course led into a happy valley in the great beyond. So promising was his tale that of necessity the idiot deepened the pin scratch, and soon the stream of life had gained a furrow in which the currents of pleasure ran a race towards the popular sea. , The idiot applauded my gain and as a prize gave to the furrow broader shores, making it a river bed more adequate.

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river races around it in a torrent. I wonder and for explanation turn to the idiot, where I find only a scornful smile. The river has turned the bend — the bend of opposition — and flows markedly slower. But it is a different river : a turbid stream, made so by an emulsion of uneasiness.

Eager to rid itself of its burden, the river creeps into a reedy marsh. The uneasy ripples hug the reeds of excuse.

Then again, more eager than before, the currents of free thoughts rush forth, down a mountain side of folly. Mark their speed ! But why the sudden stop ? The waters rush into a pit of disillusionment — into a bottom of opposition, diamond hard, that threatens to invert any torrent. Then a cloud of spray rises from the cruel conscience of folly’s grave—the spray of remorse. Turbulently the waters are mingled, and as they writhe in that pit, something strikes them — a patient ray from a sunny sky flits into rainbow colors — a smile from the face of a true friend. The waters soon calm and from them a breeze of admonition blows away the mist of regret.

The idiot is seated and takes time out for thought. His face brightens, and he babbles on : The stream of life becomes restless in folly’s grave and wishes to flee the stagnant pool of simple obedience. Soon it rushes out again through a broad valley of forbidden privileges and floods a distant plain of free will and indifference. Unnoticed a dark cloud lowers, and the winds of adversity howl as they whip the musing ripples into billows of doubt, white-capped with shattered hopes, wasted efforts, and vain glories. The billows are driven against the breakers of conflict and opposition, while sprays of affliction glance from the jagged rocks. ..

The floods rave as they dash into the distance. The idiot continues to shout his tale: On the horizon there appears a constriction of two mountain walls — the marble pillars at the portals of wisdom and learning. Towards these the waves roll, a tumbling sea conveying the debris of fond ambitions, of bonds of precedent, of forces of habit. The waters enter in at this portal, and with great impetus beat against the rocks and cliffs of daily duties ^ and barriers of inefficiency. The passage nar­ rows into a. mill stream, and the momentum of the current struggles with,the resistance of the mill wheel as the gears of education begin to grind. The waters are now confined by walls of discipline, and their efforts are no longer vainly spent.

The currents of pleasures, gains, and ease are harnessed in by a barrier of applied attention.

Yet, how tragic that it is only an idiot’s tale ! The mill stream swings the paddles of the heavy mill wheel over and around. First the impetuous currents rush against the finely interwoven fabric of the paddle of science, and the stream flows on, rid of stray thoughts, misinformations, and inaccuracies.

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: But why that cheer from the idiot ? He sees the trouble: The paddle of science is made of fabric, and through it seeps every grain of uneasiness that is suspended in life’s river, and so life goes on more uneasy than before.

But another experience awaits the mill stream. It now rushes against another paddle on education’s mill wheel. This is a shiny, clear paddle of glass — the paddle of wholesome, classical literature. But the stream of life, so full of the muddy currents of disinterest and the sharp rocks of shortcomings, blur the shiny glass with disappointments and shatter it with ration­ al, rude opinions. And so the mill wheel turns, and the river flows on, increased with splinters from the glassy paddle — the cumbersome smattering of facts here and there, that only tend to retard the current of intellectual endeavor.

And then there turns up another paddle, framed with a rigid steel rim, filled in with delicately woven patterns of fine lace — such that were inspired by the melodies of human pas­ sions. The rude currents attempt to turn this beautiful, artistic paddle—music’s own. The pebbles of back-sliding and careless­ ness rattle past the steel frame of technic, and the stream flows on, leaving many a rent of injustice in the beautiful lace.

The paddle of History also turns into the stream. What a heavy slab stone this indeed is, fitted and shaped of so many porous sides! The waters pile up against it, and hesitant the paddle swings around.

But such is the idiot’s tale, and it is merely for me to bide the time when his pessimistic tale will end. His words do not give credit to my amusement, and he fails to see that I have become a trifle refined and the precious nuggets of experience are in the stream. Again the stream of life flows on to seek different lands of adventure. But while the pessimistic currents race on, they gain impetus from the thoughts of regret, shat­ tered wishes, fond desires, keen disappointments, and vanishing hopes.

Why, o ruthless idiot have you related your tale thus!

Listen — the silly fool has an answer: “From ignorance your comfort flows ; the only wretched are the wise.” And now the realization comes to me — WHat I have gained in aesthetics has been off-set by loss of morale.

Now, idiot, stop your babbling. You have drowned out the voice of sane thinking1 long enough. I choose to hear a different tale, to bid precedence to withdraw in silence, to convince my anxious striving to subside. Let it have this for a theme : “Love is the sweet mystery of life. For ’tis love and love alone the world is seeking; and ’tis love, and love alone, that can repay.”

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gentle slope will rid you of your burden. Let the swift currents of perverted desires rush on, over the banks to the quiet sea of memory and build up a delta of pleasant afterthoughts and noble reminiscences. Let the loitering currents of pessimism stop their flow near the banks and the drab sheet of melancholic waters be fanned by revolving days, while the sediments of ambition’s labor lost mold into an upright channel of character, for future streams.

But let the fine, sparkling stream of vigorous ideals carry the nuggets of hard experiences over the waterfall. Below the falls the tranquil pool of personality may take delight in a golden basin of love. Let the precious nuggets of noble ex­ periences settle to the bottom and form an impenetrable layer of confidence, while the calm waters reflect in images of admi­ ration the colored strata of the waterfall above : two terra cotta parallels, contrasted by a ridge of pearls and beyond the re­ sponding lily-white cliffs the sympathetic depth of a cerulean hue, where once that which now symbolizes true consummation, will find eternal realization!

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WASN’T IT WONDERFUL? Christmas holidays! What was it all about ? What are they for? Why Christmas? Everybody celebrated Christmas.

For whom was it a Christmas ?

A few days before Christmas, in spite of the poverty ex­ isting everywhere, there are bustling crowds on the streets of the city. Christmas trees are for sale everywhere. Attractive displays of gifts are in the windows. All the shops are dressed in festive attire. The buyers, thinking of the happiness which their little gifts will bring, are also happy. Frowns are ban­ ished and every one is smiling. And why not ? Isn’t it Christ­ mas ?

In the average home — for the average citizen, what does Christmas mean ? When an air of secrecy seems to enter the home, and little packages are hidden here and there, then all know that Christmas is coming. From the moment the Christ­ mas tree is brought into the house, the Christmas spirit in­ creases. It reaches its height on Christmas morning, when the church bells are ringing and a “Merry Christmas” is on the lips of everyone. c Let us accompany a family attending one of the more “liberal” churches. The vested choir sings the traditional 240

Christmas carols. The minister’s message will not be on politics today. No, for all should forget gloom, sorrow, and despair on this day. It’s Christmas. Everyone should suppress his or her usual feelings, and become friendly toward all. But what does he say of the Christ in their Christmas ? He is the ideal man at his best. It is man who wrote the story of Mary and the child, the shepherds and the wise men, and the star and the heavenly choir of angels. It is man who keeps alive the spirit of good will in a Santa Claus, making everyone happy with his gifts. It is man who has made Christmas. Man it is, who has become God — and has brought “peace on earth, good-will to men.” He has proved himself capable of bringing us salvation from ignorance. Therefore Christmas should bring us great joy. It should be a festival of merriment. And if each loves his fellow-men, a world-wide brotherhood will be established.

And if man can do this for one day, why can he not have this same Christmas spirit throughout the year ?

The family goes home. They believe that they have par­ taken of the Yule-tide spirit, and are convinced that man after all is not so hateful, so selfish, so altogether evil as some would have them believe.

But, is this Christmas? Is there a Christ in their Christmas?

Was this our Christmas ? As intelligent people we can also tell you the historic events of Bethlehem. But for us they have a different meaning — one which can be applied to every day of the year. It is not man who has become God, but “God made Himself of no reputation, and took upon Him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men.” A very one­ sided story, isn’t it ? All that is asked of us, is to enjoy the benefits. That is our Christmas.

F. Tiefel ART Among none of the departments of human endeavor does there exist so much diversity of taste and opinion as in connect­ ion with the subject of art. Even the definition of the word “art” varies with every definer. Let us just take a few . thoughts from this inexhaustible subject.

In our age much stress is laid on aesthetic education. This' consists mainly in cultivating the taste; in acquiring knowledge on the subject of the origin of the idea of beauty; in practicing to produce the outlines of the beautiful by the arts of drawing, painting, and modeling; and in criticising the work of art. The word ‘‘aesthetics’’ is derived from the Greek '*AESTETIKOS, meaning “fitted t? be perceived.” A person is therefore “aes­ thetic” when he is able to appreciate and enjoy through his senses the effects that appeal to the mind. In order to produce 241

such effects the artist, who chooses his subject matter from nature, rearranges and fits it that it can be perceived. This rearranging and fitting to be perceived is called “art.” There­ fore art may be defined as “nature made beautiful” or, in another sense, “a continuation of creation,” since creative imagination is applied. One characteristic of all leaders in the arts is their faithful study of nature.

Art is merely a method or process by which nature is fitted to be perceived. He that is able to design and produce is "artistic,” and he who appreciates and enjoys the results of design and production is “aesthetic.” The fine arts in the high­ est and most distinctive sense are defined as being those with the production of which men associate the highest results of human intelligence. As a rule we can not associate such results with any product that appeals to the lower senses: touch, taste, or smell. An aesthetic art product which is made solely to appeal to one of these senses is defeating the prime purpose of the arts.

The arts addressing or expressing that in man which is most finely and distinctively intellectual and spiritual are usual­ ly conceded to be those alone that appeal to either sight or hearing. An artist expresses himself with the chief physical characteristics in which the human being differs from the rest of the creation: the hands and the vocal organs. _ With these the artist can make an external product, otherwise material in its influence, to vibrate with emotion and meaning; thereby he can show himself able to communicate something of that sympathetic and intellectual life which has already given humanity to his own material frame. These, as all other defin­ itions on this subject, are rather ambiguous, and we must take them for what they are worth.

Allen Hoff AN APPRECIATION OF GERSHWIN’S MUSIC .

George Gershwin is undoubtedly the foremost writer of jazz in America. Do not let me frighten you by the word “Jqzz”.

It is rather an abstract term for a type of American music of the present era and includes everything from its lowest, most sickening form of “hi nonny nonnys” to its highest form expressed in ^Rhapsody in Blue”. Perhaps “modern” would define it better. I have heard it said that all modern music is bankrupt; that it shows an utter bankruptcy of melody and harmony and a poverty of imagination, substituting cacaphony for real music. This is certainly a deplorable situation and to a certain extent true. We haven’t a Bach or a Mozart to write for us to-day. But we have a few talented composers. Gersh­ win is one of them. Of course, it is altogether impossible to 242

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compare Gershwin with Bach or Mozart. Their music is of two distinctly different classes. Bach’s music is immortal. Gershwin’s ---- who can tell! But, when a young composer who has an in­ dividual imagination and who is talented to write music appears, it is our duty to criticize, praise, and encourage.

Mr. Gershwin has supplied tunes for some of the most suc­ cessful musical shows and is already labeled as being associated with Broadway. This put him in rather a dubious situation with some of the bigger musical critics of the day. After the first hearing of his Piano Concerto in 1926, the critics were a little unconcerned and sneering in their reviews. Lawrence Gilman simply dismissed it with a perfunctory gesture and pro­ ceeded to a lengthy discussion of Libelius’ “Tone Poem” which, by the way, appealed to him as “disappointingly boring’’. Olin Downes conceded that the work may have been underestimated, but gave only one paragraph to Gershwin and three to Libelius.

Other critics were altogether silent. Even the members of the orchestra were candidly antagonistic. People bewail the fact that America is giving so little in the art of music and that the little it is giving is influenced by Europe. Still, when we do produce something original, they are apt to raise their eyebrows and assume a doubtful, unconcerned manner. Walter Damrosch, conductor of the New York Symphony, says the follow­ ing about jazz or modern music: “Various composers have been walking around jazz like a cat around a plate of hot soup, waiting for it to cool off so that they might lift it to the level of musical respectability. George Gershwin seems to have accomplished that.’’

In 1924 Gershwin’s delightful and distinctive *'Rhapsody in Blue’’ appeared. It was accepted as a masterpiece of the highest form of jazz. So confident was Mr. Damrosch of Gershwin^ ability, that he commissioned Gershwin to write a jazz piano concerto. In one month it was finished, fully scored

by Gershwin himself for one hundred and ten symphony players. The success of the concerto was not as sensational as that of his 4 4Rhapsody in Blue”，even though it is his most ambititious undertaking in the large forms of cultivated music.

Other works of Mr. Gershwin are his “Concerto in F”， “An American in Paris”, “Second Rhapsody”, and his Six Pre­ ludes for Piano in Style of Chopin.

Let us, therefore, consider and appreciate George Gershwin:s music for what it is............... not classical or severely cultivated music, but music written by an American in America in our time.

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Rev. 0. Koch, ’12, of Lowell, suffered an attack of the flu just before Christmas. Prof. Wendland preached for him on Christmas Day. Rev. Koch is now again in good health.

We are sorry to report that Mr. A. Man they, ’15, principal of FriedensSchool, Kenosha, died after a short illness of pneumonia.

The Black and Red expresses its sympathy to Mrs. Man they.

M. Franzmann, ’28, who has been attending the University of Chicago and will soon continue his course in Greece, spent part of his Christmas vacation in Watertown.

On December 11, Friedens Congregation of Kenosha gave Rev. Carl H. Buenger, ’94, a surprise celebration for the completion of his thirtieth year as their pastor. Rev. Ph. Koehler, ’09, of Milwaukee, preached in German, and Rev. R. Ziesemer, 110, of Appleton, in English. The Black and Red also extends its congratulations to Pastor Buenger.

On January 5, E. Scharf, ’28, of the Seminary, and Prof. L. Ristow, ’30，of Winnebago Academy, Fond du Lac, visited Dr. Ott. Mr. Scharf also was a teacher at Winnebago after his graduation from Northwestern.

We are sorry to hear of the misfortune that befell Rev. J. Gamm, *90, of La Crosse; shortly before Christmas practically the entire inside of the church was destroyed by fire.

Rev. A. Eberhard, ’29, has taken charge of the congrega­ tion at Martin, S. D. — Rev. R. Horlamus, ’24，formerly of Broken Bow, Nebr., has recently been installed as pastor of the congregations at Hurley and Mercer. .

We have just heard of the marriage last June of Wilbur Goetz, *29, and Ina Oswald, both of Riga, Mich. We send best wishes to the couple.

L. Schliesser, ’32, is completing his theological course at St. Louis. — E. Sauer, ex ’36, is taking a Pre-Medical course at Marquette University, Milwaukee.—And E. Krubsack, ex ’37， is attending Eagle River High School一F. Mueller, a student of 1919 and ’20，is bookkeeper in the Algoma Wood Products Company. .

G. Albrecht, ex ’31，is now a teacher of Latin and Director of Music at Egan Consolidated School, Egan, S. D. —M. Schoenhoff，ex，24, is instructor of printing at the Vocational School at Waukegan.

Two of our former students have decided to enter the ranks of newspapermen. W. R. Hearst’s latest rivals are H. Pape, ’30 and O. Witte, ex }SS, who have become editors of a weeklypaper, the Kendall Keystone.

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The initial presentation of the literary societies this season took place on December 14. We might recall that during the past season of activity a marked step was taken toward im­ provement of our formal literary programs. It would be very desirable and commendable and should be the earnest aim of each one of us to make another step toward betterment this season, 'yhich is still in its incipient stages. Let us not be sa­ tisfied with what has so far been done and sit back and float along, for ..©tiHftanb ift 況iicfqa叩' you know! It requires but a little cooperation and a slight amount of more diligent and considerate preparation for appearances, which would be well worth the effort. The Phi Gamma Rho Society took upon itself to begin this season of activity. The well unified program, a comment which it received in the criticism, was arranged by Herman Gieschen. The program was dedicated to Sir Walter Scott, since the centennial of the year of his death was celebrated in 1932. A brief biography of Scott was first given by George Barthels. Then Carlton Toppe gave a synopsis of one of his most famous novels, “The Heart of Mid-Lothian’，. Waldemar Dobratz, our cornet soloist, was again called upon for a musical number. He played, “Washington Guard Polka”. The hearers once more admired Mr. Dobratz’s abilility on the cornet. Regi­ nald Siegler accompanied him at the piano. The program con­ tinued with a synopsis of and a comment upon one of Scott’s better known poems, ‘‘The Lay of the Last Minstrel’’，py Fer­ dinand Weyland. An appreciation of Scott was to be given by Theodore Mittelstaedt. Unfortunately, however, he was not able to appear on account of illness. To close the program, the band played two selections, “Altar of Genius”，by K. L. King and a parch, “Lights Out”，by E. E. McCoy. After the program Pro­ fessor Schumann gave his criticism.

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The usual closing exercises before the Christmas recess were again conducted by Professor Kowalke in the gymnasium the evening before school closed. Professor Kowalke made a few introductory remarks concerning each of the Christmas hymns which were sung by the assembly. The male and mixed choruses and the quartet each sang a selection in the course of the evening：. The student body again offers its thanks to the professors and their wives for their gifts, which were distribut­ ed to the student body the same evening.

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4 ‘Should we have a dramatic society in addition to the literary societies?”

C. B. — In my opinion a dramatic society would be very desirable. Dramatics occupies too much time on the programs of the literary societies. By placing it in the hand of its logical custodian, a dramatic society, we would permit the literarysocieties to exercise their true function and give dramatics an impetus as well.

H. F. — A dramatic society independent of the literary societies would be a distinct asset to the extra-curricular activi­ ties at Northwestern. Its membership would be made up of those interested in dramatics; this would, be conducive to better presentations. Ilere’s how the situation now stands: every member of a literary society must appear on a program at least once a year; then many of us take the easiest way out, by getting a minor role in a play. This attitude of course lowers the quality of the production and can only tend toward mediocrity, M. R. T. 一- The literary societies should be abolished and a dramatic society organized. This would offer us virtually as much aid in adapting ourselves to the art of oratory as the literary societies do. And since dramatics is more interesting both to the actors and the majority of the. audience，it would also help to revive the flagging interest so evident in our societies.

C. S. — No! All dramatics can and should be taken care of by the literary societies. Better results can be obtained by taking part in plays than by giving lengthy and invariably dry speeches. Plays offer the same opportunity to develop poise and improve diction without being uninteresting. A happy medium could be obtained by combining speeches and dramatics for an evening’s entertainment, but by no means have speeches take up the whole program. .W. A. T. — Surely the benefits derived from dramatics justify the continued presentation of plays at literary society 246

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meetings and a major play in spring, but a dramatic society is not necessary for the successful presentation of these plays.

Since the two literary societies have presented plays in the past with great success and will undoubtedly continue to do so, dramatics should remain under their supervision. Because of a smaller membership and the resulting curtailment of resources and loss of general interest, a dramatic society could not equal the splendid results which the two literary societies have ac­ complished.

G. B. 一 An independent dramatic society would be of no special benefit to our purpose. We can derive great benefit from dramatics if we apply the Greek maxim, “MEDEN AGAN.” A special society for this purpose, however, would be beyond the limits of moderation for us; and also superfluous, since we are sufficiently receiving the possible benefits from the degree in which it is included in the literary societies.

C. F. — No, because there is trouble enough trying to maintain interest in the literary societies. If interest in the literary societies is lacking, you may be sure that it would also be lacking in a dramatic society. Enough members of the literary societies feel that belonging to one society is almost too much.

H. 0. F. — The fundamental purpose in having any literary society at all at this school, which is preparing men to speak regularly in public, is to give the students practice in presenting to an audience a serious discourse in a pleasing manner, and not in performing for public amusement. When we speak of dramatics, therefore, we must consider this art as being foreign to the fundemental purpose of the literary societies and to that of the school in general.

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Among the countless articles which assure us that Christmas is coming：, there are a few which treat on more profane topics, and might be rated as good.

The Old Gold and Black prints an editorial which suggests that a course in music appreciation would be an asset to the curriculum of any college. It shows that the ability to ap­ preciate music is not sissy or high-brow in its worse sense, but an absolute necessity for culture, and for lesser things, such as getting the full benefit of a motion picture, since actors’ motives are often revealed in a musical background. **But what sort of music does one hear over the radio ? Popular, jazzy stuff, that will live its short life in the public fancy and then will be dis­ carded. It is the kind of stuff ground out with unceasing regu­ larity by such popular song writers as Irving Berlin, and played incessantly by radio and theater orchestras. A great majority of students actually enjoy sitting hours at a time by the radio and listening to such *music’！ Where does it get them? No­ where. It has not lifted their intellects in an aesthetic way; it has only meant money in the pockets of some orchestra person­ nel. And when one succeeds in reaching a station presenting music by the real masters, students instantly either leave the room, or mockingly accuse him of being a high brow. A way out ? Education offers the only avenue of escape.”

The Round Table quotes Dr. Ellen Pendleton of Wellesley College. She seems to be convinced that the so-called modern \voman is the 1932 counterpart of her sisters of the gay nine­ ties. “A trifle more showy, perhaps, and adorned with a more picturesque array of accessories, but the new model is a distinct 248

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The Stentor of Lake Forest College claims that it is unique in one respect. "It is the only newspaper in the world which waits for the news to come to it instead of going out and getting news.’’

Many of the papers contain editorials about compulsory chapel attendance, pro and con, which are well worth the time spent in reading them. ‘ ‘Recently, while I was reading a Lutheran school paper, one thing in particular attracted my attention with the notes of discord that it struck. It was this: on the pages were colorful cigarette and tobacco advertisements, so large that they could not hope to escape the eye of the reader. Lutheran schools and others, also, teach that smoking is a filthy habit and one that is especially harmful to boys as well as girls of the school-going age. Why then does a school turn right around and encourage this bad habit by flashing such rubbish on the pages of its paper, rubbish which undeniably exerts a potential influence on many students. True, a school paper is largely supported by its advertisers; but should a school sell its principles for the sake of a little money ? Greater in importance it is to sustain the morals of an institution, than to make money easily by publishing- advertisements of a questionable nature. Better forego a school paper entirely, if it cannot be supported by respectable means.” We wouldn’t get an advertisement either.

I wonder 'yhose doctrines he has reference to, or what sources would justify his use of such invectives. This quotation is from the Bethany Scroll. t The W. M. S. Geode explains its name. “Geode is defined as ‘a rock cavity in a rounded boulder lined with crystals pro­ jecting inwardly from the walls’. The name was chosen, not . lDecause of its suggestion of the mining industry, but because it is hoped, that, even as a miner underground, who strikes open these long, vaulted, crystal-lined cavities, and may be tempo­ rarily touched by the sight of the glistening mineral aggregates, even while exploiting their value, so may the reader b丨e held by our efforts to transport him to a bright spot in the mass of material in which the student engineer systematically moves.

We hope then that the reader may be able to gather some crystals of thought from among the ore, the gangue, and the country rock.” Quite Homeric.

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“It is interesting to think that on such a river bank or such a shore, Caesar or Charlemagne, or even some prehistoric man has actually stood, and that perhaps the grass or flowers or shells under their feet looked just the same as they do now. Waves beat upon the strand in the same cadence, or the water flowed with the same trickling sound. But when we open the pages of geology, we have before us a history of the earth itself, extend­ ing over periods compared with which the longest epoch of what is commonly called history seems scarcely more than a day, and of mutations in the face of nature so grand and awful, that as we reflect upon them, forgetting for a moment the enormous periods required to bring these changes about, they sound like the fantastic visions of some seer, telling in allegorical language the history of the creation and destruction of the world.”

The Concordia Comet, a quarterly publication of Concordia College, St. Paul, contains many excellent articles in its winter number. I shall quote from one, "Excesses of Modern Art^.

The topic is treated very briefly. “But it is regrettable that in recent years a type of ‘art’ has arisen which is supposed to satisfy our modern taste. Such ‘art’ finds its source in an unpleasant child, a lunatic, a primitive man hopelessly trying to express himself, the first futile efforts of an African savage.

It is the work of a class of subnormals, imitators of the imi­ tators of great leaders : and the public has become so confused that it cannot differentiate between the authentic and the spurious. The art of pleasing the public has become a technique with modern artists, who with their flattery and their oddity have shocked the public ; yet they make them like it. The theory has been advanced, that the creators of this modern art did it for amusement, and then were surprised to find it taken seriously by an audience of people to whom the bizarre and un­ intelligible appealed. This audience must have consisted of fanatics, who thought themselves ultra-modern, and had lost all sense of criticism. Since it has been suggested that moder­ nistic art is the product of lunatics, one brilliant mind has con­ ceived the idea that we could have an artistic nation by equip­ ping： our fine asylums with art studios. In this way the poor maniacs who are striving for the expression of their subcon­ scious minds, could express themselves to their heart’s content, and instead of harming, the inmates would benefit humanity.

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The Student Life prints a lengthy article about German schools.

The D. M. L. C. Messenger tells us the Christmas story.

The Christmas edition of the Calvin College Chimes is also well worth reading.

If you’ve heard this joke before, blame the editor of the Stoutonia. ::Say, can you give me change for a dime V1 “Yes, sir. I hope you enjoy the sermon.”

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Milwaukee Teachers College 46, Northwestern 22 On December 9 the Northwestern Goslings made an in­ auspicious debut into the current basketball season, falling m defeat before the fast Milwaukee Normal quintet by a score of ■_ The Normalties took the lead from the beginning and 46-22. increased it steadily throughout the entire game, led by Humke who made 16 points. Captain Martin was high man for North­ western with 8 points. . .

In the preliminary the Preps opened their season victor­ iously against Dodge County Normal with a score of 14-8.

F.G. F.T. F. Northwestern F.G. F.T. F. Milwaukee 0 2 Martin rf (Capt.) 4 4 1 Hohler rf 0 0 0 1 Kusel rf 1 Gother rf 0 0 0 0 1 Hallemeyer rf 2 Coggan If 2 4 0 0 Zimpelmann If 0 Iacolucci If 1 0 0 0 0 Koehler c 0 0 Ernest If 3 0 1 0 Nommensen c 0 Schmitt If 2 0 1 0 Schewe rg 6 4 Humke c 0 1 1 4 Raabe rg 1 Elliot rg 0 l o l 1 Fredericks rg Dorow l 3 3 2 1 4 R. Lemke lg 1 Boll If 1 0 0 0 0 Witt lg 0 Crowe lg 0 0 0 0 Schwartz lg 18 10 13 7 8 13 Officials: Thistlewaite, (Carroll) referee; Zilz, (Wisconsin) Umpire.

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Johnson of Carroll led the scoring with eight field goals and a free shot. Fredericks was high point man for Northwestern with 6 points.

Carroll F.G. F.T. F. Northwestern F.G. F.T. F. Reuter rf 6 1 1 Martin rf (Capt.) 0 10 Jens rf 1 0 3 Zimpelmann If 1 0 3 Johnson If 8 1 1 Hallemeyer If 0 3 1 Thiel If 1 0 0 Nommensen c 0 12 Breen c 4 2 3 Koehler c 0 0 1 Winchel c 4 1 2 Schewe rg 0 0 Clarkson rg(capi.) 2 0 1 Fredericks rg 2 2 Cullern rg 0 0 1 R. Lemke lg 1 4 0 Dillingofski lg 0 0 2 3 9 12 Wabish Ig 0 0 0 Kony 1 0 0 26 6 14 Referee: Larson.

CLASS BASKETBALL The popularity of class basketball is again demonstrating itself by drawing crowds to the games. The spectators seem to find as much enjoyment in the enthusiasm and keen rivalry of the untalented and sometimes uncouth class quintets as they do in the skill of the Varsity.

The Seniors, defending champions, are leading- the race at present and seem to be on the way to another championship, although the Freshmen are developing fast and severely threat­ ening the undefeated Seniors.

The standings are : percentage won lost Seniors 4 1000 0 Freshmen 2 666 Juniors 250 3 Sophomores 0 000 3 The race in the preparatory department seems to be for the cellar rather than for the crown. percentage won lost Quinta 3 0 1000 Tertia 333 2 Quarta 2 333 Sexta 2 333 253

On January 14 the Northwestern Hockey Team fought the Silver Creek Pucksters to a draw in an overtime game. The game was an even one throughout. In the overtime period of ten minutes no scores were made, although both teams threaten­ ed frequently.

Hahm’s shoe-string catches in the gosling goal won the admiration of all the bystanders. R. Siegler made the 4 goals for Northwestern. 氺本氺 A city hockey league of four teams has been organized in Watertown. The teams belonging to this league are the Hi Spots, Mamre, Blue Aces, and Northwestern. Each team will play six games, ice permitting. Northwestern will play its first conference game January 19 against the Hi Spots.

In opening it behooves me to state that this number is us­ ually known as the Sophomore number. In my opinion, then, I believe that the Sophomores should take the blame for it.

The prevailing notion in that class appears to be that the num­ ber is dedicated to them; that the intrinsic value of that body and their name on the cover warrants its worth. To be sure, the sum total of two and three-fourths Locals was extracted from them, yet that was a sacrifice on their part. Uninterested is a mild way of expressing their attitude.

Despite the fact that the Christmas vacation was protracted this year, Radloff, Resting, and Hoff stayed in the dormitory during vacation. The lack of heat caused a measure of discom­ fort, but nevertheless all hands affirm that it was a glorious three weeks. A collection of Quick Quaker Oats boxes in Radloff’s salon gives us a clue as to what the nature of their breakfast was. For the most part they subsisted on potatoes and 254

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According to expectation a howl of protest was raised at the idea of a longer Christmas vacation. The longer vacation was not only undesired, but also made possible at the expense of the other recesses. With the permission of the copyright owners, I present the following quotations as typical protests.

Nicolaus: “Now I have to chop so much more wood.” Schultz (the fellow who slept in the hall one night): “After such a long vacation I’ll have forgotten all that I learned this year.”

Wicke: “I won’t know what to do with myself.” Martin: “In what condition will my basketball team be?’’

Incredible as it may seem, Zimpelmann was among the first to have read his German book, Soli unb $ aben. The feat was accomplished during Christmas vacation, Now he，s waiting for someone else to read it, so that he can learn the story from him. Ed. nolc: I’ve often wished that I could withdraw from civilization to the backwoods and accomplish some reading too.

A novel method to keep his students’ minds on their subjects during vacation was instituted by a certain well-known pro­ fessor of our acquaintance. He sent each of his French students a card with a French New Year’s greeting： on it.

For some unknown reason Allen Hoir attended an Art course recently. _ The corduroy trouser and jacket craze is fast overwhelming us. The Freshman and Tertia classes appear to be afflicted most by it. Nearly every color except white is represented.

4 4Whafs the first aid treatment for a person overcome by smoke?’’ The question has been put to students on different occasions lately. Upon investigation it has been found that the victims had been overcome by the smoke of a peculiarly vile brand of Mexican cigarette. The name of the brand has slipped my mind for the moment; but the translation of it, as nearlj^ as If I can remember, is Smell-a-Milo or words to that effect.

1 you desire one of the rank weeds for a souvenir, be sure to see “Happy” Hotlen.

Mr. Lemke has seriously taken up the study of the science of trickhology. Since Mr. Lemke is a practical man and' not prone to repose much confidence in theories he has decided to experiment for himself. A struggling young mustache attests to his success at present.

—Among the late comers were Buch, Mielke, Grunwald, F. Tiefel, and Mittelstaedt. Tiefel was incapacitated for several days because of an infection in his eye. .

R. Weyland wishes to dispose of his bass-viol at public auction. A frayed bow will be given to the purchaser of the contrabass。.

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• One day during Christmas vacation A. Bolle and R. Stiemke indulged in a thirty-eight-mile hike. Stiemke slept till 4:00 P.M, the next day.

Since it has developed into a case of necessity that some kind of a definition of Locals be given, I have been compelled to insert it. A Local, in newspaper cant, is an item of news relating to the place where the paper is published. And College Notes, Alumni Notes, and Athletics are three different columns.

The Baron von Munchhausen is on tonight. At that call half of the collegiate body flocks to his standards. Study period, or no study periods, the Baron must be heard.

Bussewitz's lepidopteral proclivities have at length begun to bear fruit. Mounted cases of moths and butterflies are now on display to the public for the first time.

And so another Christmas vacation is past. —- At least, it was supposed to be Christmas. We’d like to believe the weather and think that we returned from an Easter vacation, but oh, the shock 've’d get the last week of January.

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On January 20, Betty Faber took part in a play given by the Euterpe Club. The play, “The Queens of France’’，by Thor­ ton Wilder, who is most known for his prize-winning novel, ‘‘The Bridge of San Luis Rey.” It’s rather interesting to know that Mr. Wilder is a relative of Louise Burns who attended Northwestern last year.

This number ? The Sophomore! * * * Marie Michaelis spent part of Christmas vacation at the home of Glenna Rasmussen in Hartland. * * * This is the number. Sophomore.

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This? Why, the Sophomore number!

Bernice Kieck saw ‘‘Of Thee I Sing” at the Davidson in Milwaukee. “Of Thee I Sing，’ won the Pulitzer prize as the best musical comedy for 1932 and is a clever “take-off” on politics. # * * Yes, of course, the Sophomore number.

Margaret Krahn attended the Auto Show in Milwaukee. 丰氺氺

You say this is the Sophomore number?

Vivian Zimmerman, a Freshman, has discontinued her studies at Northwestern. ♦

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Yes, yes! The Sophomore number. 你中氺

One noon the usual din in the girl’s room was heightened by a loud shriek of “Don’t sit on my hat” from Helen Arnold.

The next second she was over in the corner pawing her “oneear muff” from under Elmyra Hatzung who h?id innocently sat down to put on her overshoes.

Moral: Hang your hats on hooks, Or the tops of books, But stay away from chairs* nooks. 诈中中

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We may be weak in numbers, but we are brave and potent during a crisis. Take the foraging expedition, for example. It was the morning after the Christmas party and the girls were ravenous. Many of them hadn’t been there, but those who were explained in detail the amount of cookies consumed, the delicious ‘‘gooeyness’’ of the popcorn balls and the delightful “suckability” of the suckers. Here’s where the Sophs reenter the scene of action. They gently picked up the offenders and deposited some in the umbrella rack. The hungry mob lined up in formation and with the Sophs (of course) in command, advanced on the Dining Hall. “Let’s find Mrs. Rhode，” someone yelled. “That’s where we’re going, little Freshman.” (This from a Sophomore!) “Oh, I thought we were going to the office.” Aren’t Freshman perfectly “di!ly”？ (Please notice that expression—it shows we are well acquainted with modern slang!) The Hungermarchers reached the door.

“Chei’chez la femme’’ they cried, and knocked. (There’s that French phrase we’ve been promising you.) Mrs. Rhode opened the door and gave all of us a big smile. One very bold person, a Sophomore (of course), piped ‘‘Please, may we have some food?” While we applauded this person’s temerity, Mrs. Rhode went back into the kitchen and returned with two large trays covered with bags. “Help yourselves,” she beamed. Gentle reader, we will draw a veil over the next scene. Suffice it to say the army returned victorious because of the Sophomores (of course).

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Schwenzen : How did Santa Claus treat you this year ?

Herman: He socked me plenty.

Schwenzen : Socked you ?

Herman : Sure, he gave me nine pairs.

Prof.: Even in my day, twenty years ago, nickel shows were a rare thing.

Hoppe : They still are. ❖

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Science has practically achieved its aim of releasing man­ kind from toil and labor—there are millions unemployed already.

He: Do you know the difference between a taxi and a bus?

She: No. He: All right, we’ll take the bus.

Oh say, I ran across your cousin last week.

Do you know where he is now?

In the hospital.

Don’t take after your father. He’s a burglar.

When my father gets through with a job, there’s usually nothing left to take.

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Who Knows?

But in a civilized country like ours hanging should not be tolerated.

Hanging was good enough for my forefathers and it’s good enough for me. * * * The collection had already been taken, and I was puzzled by the word “collect” on the program.

I’ll bet you were flustered.

Oh, no, I was calm and collected.

Diner: How embarrassing!

Waiter: What’s wrong?

Diner: This turkey hasn’t any dressing!

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Dora: Yes? Dumb: Well, I can’t find his name in ‘ ‘Popular Mechanics. ’’ . Father: You said you had the faculty for remembering things. Then why didn’t you pass your exams?

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

LITERARY— A Mid-Winter Hike.............

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A Message from Valhalla. _

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A Trip Into Horicon Marsh.

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EDITORIALSAthletics and the “N” Club

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The American Schools of Today......273 .275 Tractatus in Aequisonantias SEMINARY NOTES..............

ALUMNI NOTES..................

THE FORUM.......................

COLLEGE NOTES................

EXCHANGE..........................

ATHLETICS..........................

LOCALS ...............................

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THE BLACK AND RED Volume XXXVI.

Watertown, Wis., March 1933

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A MID-WINTER HIKE Have you ever gone for a hike through woods, marshes, and along- rivers in mid-winter and observed how active the bird world is, although the rest of nature is apparently lifeless?

In the city, of course, this is not so evident, but get out and a\yay from the busy streets and you will be amazed at what might be seen even in this vicinity. One thing, however, must be remembered in going out and that is to take along as few companions as possible, because the more there are along, the less one can expect to see. It is even advisable to go alone â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but who could imagine anyone going for a hike alone! This is the case, because people are not satisfied with their own com­ pany, but must have others to entertain them. An experience such as the following is not at all unusual if one has open eyes and attentive ears. _ It was still quite early one clear, cold morning. The earth was covered with a thin sheet of snow and the trees glittered and sparkled with hoar-frost in the morning sun. We followed the course of a small creek and in the open field ahead of us we saw the first signs of life as a flock of prairie horned-larks flew over head. The creek flowed noisily along until it entered a patch of land overgrown with brush and young trees. There 261

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In our cross-country hike we now come to higher land again which is covered with tall maples and oaks. The woods are ringing with song and as we pause, we can clearly distinguish the song of at least three different birds. Not far ahead of us is a bird busily running up and down the trunk of a large oak.

The familiar “yank-yank,” a nasal call rather than a song, tells us that it is a nuthatch. By imitating the chuckling or scolding notes of the chicadee, there are soon three or four inquisitive birds a few feet away from us and we now have them imitating us. From the other edge of the woods a flat piece of lowland streches out ahead of us. In the distance a hill pierces upward through the trees and we make for that point. The field is quite wide, so we spread out. My companion takes one side and I the other. Suddenly I hear a “Bob-white!” and as I turn my eyes to the right, I see a frightened flock of quail taking flight. Not long after I come upon a female pheasant and a few steps farther the more graceful and gayly-colored male takes flight. A half-hour more and we are at the base ^of the hill among dense tamaracks. It is a good place to build our fire, because the hills and trees furnish a good shelter and the bottom is covered with a thick layer of moss. While we are eating, chicadees are fluttering about us and a small pair of red­ breasted nuthatches busily run down the trees looking for in­ sects. The morning has passed and we continue, but. we do not expect to see much, because early morning, even during the winter months, is the best time of the day to see birds. We hike the rest of the afternoon through woods, marshes, and over hills, but only see a red-tailed hawk and three screech owls in dense tamarack, which have been scared up by the cawing of crows. .A group of birds like this can be seen almost at any- time, if the weather conditions are favorable. Other birds which are 262

frequently seen are: Owls (great-horned and barn), blue-jays, brown-creepers, snow-buntings, shrikes, cardinals, red-polls starlings, and varieties of hawks.

Richard C. Stiemke.

A MESSAGE FROM VALHALLA It was in the spring of 1842 when a stage coach left Paris enroute for Dresden with two passengers. The one passenger was Richard Wagner—the lady opposite him was his wife, Minna. Paris at this time was at the zenith of its brilliance.

Hardly in the Golden Age of Athens or Florence could so much genius have been collected within the limits of one single city.

And yet Wagner had his back turned on Paris and was headed for Dresden. He was eagerly scanning the horizon for a glimpse of the Rhine--his beloved Rhine. Once within the boundaries of Germany he swore, “Never again shall I leave my native land!”

During1 the entire trip he was making plans for the future.

His “RIENZI， was accepted at Dresden and was finally to be presented. Dresden sent for Wagner to conduct the rehearsals.

This was his first success after many years of brilliant failures and frustrations. He spoke of the future with wild enthusiasm.

At last his art was becoming recognized. At last Germany had to admit that Beethoven was not the last son of her soil to be embued with a creative genius in music. He could see the day when the Academic de Musique would regret that it had not become his patron. All that he saw in his ecstasy was roses — and not the thorns. Minna, his wife, listened with an acqui­ escent smile. Little faith did she really have in her Richard’s abilities ; nevertheless she urged him on.

How could she have much faith in him with whom Fortune _ played as a cat with her victim ? Wagner in his youth was guided by a wise parent through the study of the humanities.

His education in music was slight. He could have scored as a pianist had it not been for his inability to grasp the practic­ ability of the scale. He cherished literature and languages. At the age of fourteen—some say sixteen — he produced a tragedy in Shakespearean style, in which he let forty-two of the charac­ ters be killed during the first four acts and had to recall some of them as ghosts in order to provide for some characters for the fifth. Aroused by the death of a certain Beethoven, Richard acquainted himself with some works of this musician. After hearing the “Egmont” and the “Choral Symphoi^y” his fate was determined. Music was his to pursue. With difficulty could he persuade his mother to let him study harmony since she well remembered his pronounced failure at the piano. After 263

three years at the University of Leipzig he succeeded in finding a master of composition to suit his somewhat imperious require­ ments. Till now he was self-instructed. If we accept Dr. Johnson’s definition that a self-instructed man has a very igno­ rant person for a teacher, and use Wagner as an example, we should be especially cautious of self-instructed persons. At the end of six months his teacher dismissed him saying, “You may go now, for you have learned to stand on your own legs.’’ He now started writing. He tried repeatedly to have his works presented. Either they resulted in failure or he was spared the embarrassment of refusals by not receiving any answers to his pleas for presentations. He tried different cities with the same disheartening fortune. His marriage was followed by an un­ broken series of defeats. The Golden City, Paris, attracted Wagner. Victory was in the offing, but its fragrance was soon diluted when the theaters which had been booked to present some of his works failed. Then followed a hard struggle to escape actual starvation. He failed miserably at whatever he attempted. He finally completed “RIENZI” and sent it to the Intendent at Dresden. It was his first confession of defeat.

The following winter he experienced the usual dreary round of drudgery and privation. During this time he started preparing a series of operas the background of which dates to the Middle Ages. Then came the news! “RIENZI” had been accepted at Dresden.

Once at Dresden, Wagner became the chief musical figure there. By late fall his compositions had permeated as far as the Gewandshaus at Leipzig. His fame soon spread throughout Europe. Critics accumulated quickly to dissect whatever was good of his music. As for these critics, they were merely as­ cetics, for they blindly worshiped at the shrines of noble Beet­ hoven and dainty Mozart and made not the least attempt to fathom, the rich Wagnerian music. Thus, at Berlin, the center of musical asceticism, Wagner failed.

Although he was successful, his life was a continuous tur­ moil. One could sum it up by saying that he was a composer, conductor, critic, poet, author, teacher, revolutionist, exile, and a divorce.

Wagner felt that the basis of true art is popular, social or democratic : it is the outcome of a national sentiment. It reQuires life for its impulse, freedom for its atmosphere; it is stifled by luxury, aestheticism, and by every form of artifice or conventiality. From the people alone can come any hopes of an art that has blood in its veins and sincerity in its soul. The drama is the most natural center of popular culture, the readiest source from which the people satisfy their artistic needs. It comprises within itself every form of artistic effort: the strength of poetry, the sweetness of music, the rhythmic move264

merits of the dance, the beauty of form and colour. Thus Wagner reformed the opera to his conceptions of art and drama.

As a poet he wrote his own librettos. His doctrine of combi­ nation was by no means original—merely a revival of the ideal embodied in Greek tragedy. But by this revival he transformed opera from an ingenious toy into a living organism. It would be superfluous to mention his works, all of which are well known. Unquestionably he paved the way for modern music.

The echoes of his voice remain not only in his own works, but in works of later composers as well.

One can easily imagine Wagner saying with Browning: “I have not chanted verse like Homer,—no Nor swept strings like Terpander, no—nor carved And painted men like Phidias and his friend : I am not as they are, point by point.

“But I have entered into sympathy With these four, running them into one soul, Who separate, ignored each other’s arts.”

Rudolf Weyland A TRIP INTO IIORICON MARSH Our fire had died. One stream of smoke rose idly without a ruffle in the quiet air. The only sounds to show that time had not stopped were the rhythmical croaking of frogs and the occassional lazy ‘‘quawk’’ of a heron. It was in the evening of our fourth day in Horicon Marsh and we were camped on the ridge of hills that marks its eastern border. My smoke rings drifted idly as I gazed on the panorama out at my feet.

The broad expanse of marshland that had seemed limitless to us those first few days cruising about in it, lay flat and stretching to the horizon in every direction, broken only by a few tree-covered islands. How small it seemed now! It seemed shrunken in size—as if I might touch all four corners by merely extending my hand. # I had seen the marsh. I had explored all its streams, all its island. I had spent four days learning its charms and secrets so I could enjoy full appreciation on that evening.

Three streams come together in the marsh and all are called the Rock River. I could see the surface of only the one that swung around the foot of the hill on which our camp was located, but I could trace the other two from memory. The western one is the smallest of the three and its water is a clear blue. The central one can hardly be called a stream at all al­ though it has a decided current. It is in reality a canal or ditch dug directly down the center of the marsh from its northern to its southern end. A good thirty miles in all.

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Monotonous it would seem, and not the sort of water any­ one seeking enjoyment would go out of his way for, and its promise had been monotony when we let our eyes travel to the horizon, but we were luckier than we might have been. A favorable wind blew us along and two pieces of canvas served us better than paddling would have—but they served another purpose also. They shut out our view of that seeming change­ lessness. Our view was cut down to the shoreline immediately at our sides.

Bushes and trees lined the canal and all were full of birds.

The twittering of warblers was incessant. Catbirds darting1 from shore to shore would almost crash into us, then fly pre­ cipitately to a near branch and call us the most frightful names; kingfishers would dash by with an angry rattle; black tern would drop into the water after a fish; and occasionally a cuckoo would come forth from the underbrush and give us a short view of him. Or possibly a brocd of ducklings would splash along ahead of us with a frightened quacking till the mother duck managed to shoo them into the reeds and turn on us either pre­ pared to do battle or to flap along just ahead of us as if wounded.

But still, if there were nothing but a ditch—no trees or bushes, no ready banks, no birds, no mighty smell of marsh herbage, the trip would yet be far from monotonous from the very spectacle of cloud formations. There is so very much sky visible! And there is always a display of clouds, assuming- the most grotesque shapes. There were usually three distinct layers. First a bulky, low-flying- mass of cumulus clouds, then a mackerel sky above it like flamingoes in flight, and above it long feathery hair, windblown. All would sail across at different speeds. It was a glorious sight.

Two nights we slept out there on the flat marsh, stretched out under the stars, a cold wind blowing, and the air as clear as on any winter night. The sky was an inky black sprinkled with a multitude of stars. In no direction was it marred by the glow of a lighted city. Two lights flickered on the far horizon—a good twenty miles away; but there were stars much brighter than they. What a joy to lie on one’s back, gazing at the stars and dreaming, with the pungent odor of mint in one’s nostrils.!

The broad expanses of marshland drew their charm from their very boundlessness. One could gaze—without focusingone’s eyes on any definite object—they seemed to be somewhat abstract—indefinite—vague, they had no distance. The islands drew their charm from their contrast.

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But we had another memory of those islands. It had been our third day out. We awoke after a dewless night with rain dripping on our faces. We set out as soon as possible with all our luggage protected from the rain, which we thought would stop in an hour or two. It continued in a steady downpour.

We’d brought only a pup-tent so we could not camp and keep out of the rain. We worked out a different plan. At a favor­ able-looking island we stopped and transported all our belong­ ings to it. We pitched our tent, piled everything into it and climbed back into our canoe. We paddled all that day soaked to the skin. Three bedraggled figures. Ted paddling bow, Rudy amidships and I straddling- the bedroll astern. Singing, yodelling, and story-telling soon lost their charms—but we kept on paddling to keep warm, and explored the west branch of the river.

Late that afternoon we returned to the island. Everything was soaked, even the greater share of our matches. We lugged together all the wood we could find, whether wet or not we heaped it together over some ascetylene we’d carried along in a miners lamp. The rain wetted the ascetylene and we put a match to the escaping fumes. Thus the rain supplied the fire, for the harder it fell the higher the flames sprang. We soon had a roaring fire. We burned whole trees. Aspens that had been standing dead for some time crashed to the earth when we “swung” them. Sometimes by the force of their fall they would break up into good sized lengths. We huddled about the fire until after dark when it finally stopped raining. We dried our clothes, and then went to bed. How lucky that there’d been an island with a wood supply for the night! I wonder if 、ve，d still have desires for more days in the marsh if we’d spent that night out on the flat marsh with only a few willow withes to burn and possibly two inches of water covering the ground.

My pipe had died. The sun approached the horizon. Slowly it lost its fire and sank beyond the broad expanse of marshland.

A solitary farm house stood out against the sky in blackest silhouette. It looked deserted—even if I hadn’t before seen its broken windows, its fallen plaster and sagging walls, its lone­ liness out there on the marsh made it seem deserted.

The broken framework of an enormous dredging machine, on whose highest point I’d left the seat of my pants, looked like a skeleton.

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Herons flapped across—their day done, a flock of ducks sped across in loose formation. A solitary cloud caught the sun’s rays a moment, blushed gold, and slowly faded as the brighter stars appeared. Venus, sparkling, brilliant, low in the sky, and Jupiter a bit higher. And the marsh grew indis­ tinct till all we could see was a limitless expanse of land covered with a purplish haze and just a few darker patches.

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ATHLETICS AND THE “N” CLUB Everyone knows or at least has some idea, that athletics at Northwestern are on the downhill grade. The road seems to be greased for them! Nobody seems to care anymore!

The attitude of the students is this: ,4We can’t win anyway, so what is the use of trying?” It is a deplorable condition when the school spirit, the pep and enthusiasm of the students have allowed themselves to sink to such a low level. I don’t believe that there is another school in the state in which the conditions are more opposed to the developmen t of good teams, The Various causes have been given for this condition. . main thing that is wrong is that there is a very vital lack of school spirit. Five years ago our present coach led our basket­ ball team to twelve victories in sixteen games. An amazing feat, if we consider our opponents! At that time we were no mean foe even for Carroll, and only the final whistle defeated us. Some of you will say that the fellows were intent on con­ stant application and study of the game. If this were the truth, why is it not being done at the present time ? Should we allow it to be said of us, that we lack the “guts and gumption” to do what our predecessors have done to uphold the glory of our alma mater ?

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This year we play for the first time in a new conference, “The Wisconsin-Iowa Conference”. The first conference game this year was with Milton College on their floor. It is hard to believe, but as the cars, filled with players, left for Milton, not a cheer of any kind was heard ; no band attempted to put fight and spirit into the fellows; no crowd of students swarmed about the cars to give friends pats on the back or words of en­ couragement. The boys made no attempt whatever to show the team that students of N. W. C. are always behind their players, whether in the joy of victory or in the gloom of defeat. DonJt you think that this has its effect on the players ? It certainly has! Through the attitude and speech of their fellow-students they develop an inferiority complex. They start the game with a feeling of anticipated failure and consequently they are ‘‘dead on their feet’’，so to speak. There is no vivacity and recklessness which should exhibit itself in youths participating in a _ There should be a more brotherly feeling among the game. members of the team and school instead of a surge of bitter­ ness against a player who misses a “set up”. There should be honor and encouragement for the player who makes a brilliant one-hand shot.

Some will say that spirit does not help win games, but I am absolutely convinced that the right spirit is one half of victory at least. I am convinced of this through my own experience and observation. It certainly is a great feeling to hear the crowd roar, when you are playing and know that they are behind you. It causes you to play way above your head on sheer pluck and nerve. It inspires you to unexpected feats.

Take the Ripon football game as an example. Ripon was the champion of the Big Four this year. Our team had only won two games, but we went to Ripon with a “do or die” spirit. I think that I can truthfully say that every felk^v in that game gave his best. There was an endless chatter of jovi­ ality, encouragement, and comradeship noticeable throughout the game. What was the result? We gave Ripon a hard battle and, were it not for several bad decisions of the referees, we possibly would have defeated or at least tied them. That shows what a little touch of spirit can do for a team. .

The one factor that will help to bring back school spirit naturally is a good team. But one essential of a good team is that the players train. We all know that training requirements are not met with at Northwestern. That, I believe, is one reason why there is such a lack of school spirit. In the first place the players stopped training, and gradually the school lost its respect and confidence in them. Now it is up to the players to win back this lost confidence and support by strictly observ­ ing training rules. Surely thi] is not too much to ask of true athletes. 一 270

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In fact the condition of athletics has sunk to such a low standard, that something must be done very soon. If this condition is allowed to continue, it probably will mean the end of our inter-collegiate sports. Certainly if we have any school pep and spirit left in our hearts, we will not stand by and, with­ out raising a hand to prevent it, admit that we are beaten. You will now ask, “What can be done about it ?” Here is where the so-called “N” club should play its part!

For some time it has been my desire to present an idea to the students: we should form an “N” club. It is a group which would be very exclusive, that is, it would only permit those students who have received an “N” to be members. The purpose of such a club would be to promote athletics to a higher standard at Northwetern College. It would do this in several ways.

All the wearers of “N’s” would come together and discuss athletics : namely, in fall, football; in winter, basketball; and in spring, baseball. At these meetings everything and anything pertaining to these sports would be debated, and everyone would be permitted to give his opinions on plays, players, and the like, without the feeling that he is offending. Then also the advice or criticism would or should have added effect, because the other members could pass decisions on the former’s opinion.

In truth, it would be a general discussion, a thing which at present is noticeably absent. .

Another pood result of an “N” club would be to raise the value of an in the eyes of the students. The thought has often impressed me that many of the students hold an *‘N’’ to be of very little value. If this is so, why are letters given out at all ? It should be recognized as an honor to wear that letter which represents our school and all it stands for in athletics.

I am sure that when we grow older and are out in the world, it will be a source of much pleasure to look back on the days when we won our “N” and to think that that letter is not only a letter, but also the symbol of clean and pure sports.

Besides this, such a club would also raise the morale of the school. This would not all come at once, but loyalty and spirit would gradually pervade the school. This again would redound greatly to the benefit of athletics at N. W. C. .Further: This “N” club would also help to insist on train­ ing. It would become more a feeling of honor and duty to train and to see that fellow-players do likewise. This could be one of the rules or duties of the club that, if a player is not training, he would be severely disciplined. It is very difficult for the coach to keep an eye on all of the players and to see that they train, but for their associates it is an easy matter. This would aid the coach considerably, in my opinion; that is, if he knows that he has a just and loyal body of students to assist him. Of 271

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course, this would require the absolute cooperation of the members. , One of the aims of athletics is to develop character in a man. If this is so, then the membership of this club should in­ clude some of the best characters of the school. I think that a glance at the “N” wearers will vouch for this statement. Of course, there are exceptions to every rule, as we say. Never­ theless, I believe that the “better element’’ of the club would see to it that the players train. .

This idea has already worked out to advantage in other schools. Therefore, I see no reason why it should not be brought to achieve a successful result in our alma mater.

The club would demand no fees. It would be presided over by a chairman or president, and its sole aim would be to pro­ mote athletics at N. W. C. Surely it could have no disastrous results, and there is an even chance that it will be beneficial.

So why not give it a try! There now, I have broached my subject. Let me hear the opinions of others concerning it.

Curtis Hotlen.

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I ^Math 砂:HeZt ment are concerned, but people are beginning to be skeptical as to the benefits derived from them. Many taxpayers are wonder­ ing if it really pays.

The maintenance of common schools is seldom objected to.

After learning the rudiments at such a school, Junior is urged to continue his studies. Until recently a high-school education was considered very important; success was hardly possible without it. Although this view is not so general any more, many youngsters are sent to high school because it is fashionable or because the law requires it, and their unwillingness to study is not taken into consideration.

After enrollment at the local high school, Junior will com­ plete his course in four years unless he is unusually stupid and lazy. The care of young people in their formative years is entrusted to strangers who very often fail to present facts in a true light. Theories in sciences are taught as facts, not as suppositions which may be soon discarded, or as ideas on which the “authorities” disagree. A growing1 mind is open to ideas which seem to push aside religion as old-fashioned, just ^some­ thing for granny”. The average high-school student, whether he has been diligent or not, graduates without realizing that he has been misinformed. ^ With four years of his life in the past, Junior may decide to go to college, especially if he is an athlete. He may belong to that group of students which believes that education is measured by so and so many credits and is to be had with little or no exertion. As a conscientious young man, however, he will study hard at his favorite subject. The undesirable thing about specializing is that his slant of life becomes one­ sided. He may spend countless hours studying the various prehistoric ages and try to determine how the “missing link” may . be discovered. He will never stumble upon the truth, neither will he understand the essence of history by deliberately turning his back upon Divine Truth. As a result much of the value of studying any subject is lost. .

Educational leaders in the country realize that there is something fundamentally wrong with the educational system of today although thousands of young- men and women are gradu­ ating from high schools and colleges every year. Education has not eliminated crime, neither has it made man any happier.

The standards of schools may be raised to a higher level by enrolling only those students who show willingness to broaden their minds by knowledge. Radical changes in the method of instruction are suggested by some teachers. It might be well in this connection not to overlook various abuses in some text­ books and the interpretation of them. Education, finally, pre­ sents problems which have developed in the course of time and which cannot be solved immediately.

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Its value is less than two cents. The art of punning is practi­ sed in asylums and dormitories. It is an alleged fact that punsters are the upstart progeny of natives of the Punjab. A swarm of these berattled creatures came over to the United States in the days when our immigration laws were compara­ tively lenient. Some of them were immediately put into asylums where they belonged, others were thrust into college dormi­ tories, and others escaped the officials’ notice. These latter begot puny punsters and reared them in the cult of their great Punjabi forefathers. Their native minds quickly grasped the prime idea of their oriental parents, namely that they were to pun to the end of their earthly sojourn. These upstart devils began to ply with puns from morning till night. The more they learned the more they punned. At first their Punjabi parents took great pride in their little eyases. Things went on in this manner for quite a time. Gradually a mystic element crept into their craft. Their parents were aroused to jealousy. The little hopefuls got too wise for them. One bright and happy morning the Punjabi found their offspring eating puns for breakfast.

This was the height of arrogance, their presence could no longer be endured under the Punjabi roof. So the parents of the accomplished punsters sent them off to college. That is where they are to be found at the present age. The mess is there. What can we do to eradicate this evil? They were born with a pun in their mouth. They were reared and nurtured in puns. They thrive on puns. Their entire life is a pun. What can we do? It harrows one to the quick to hear a pun!

At the last meeting of the A. P. A. (Anti-Pun Association), of which the writer of this article is a representative, a solemn debate was held for three days and nights. The question on debate was: ‘‘Shall the punsters or the pun be rooted out of college dormitories?” The Conservatives believed it to be their duty toward the government to annihilate the punsters, there­ by getting to the root of all evils in educational institutions.

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(You may ask, why the one-half? The answer is, some of these abnormalities have dual personalities, of which at least one person is a punster.) Since they were found to be so intellectual, the liberals deemed it wise to educate them into a cleaner # and more sacred mode of living; for they believed that if the punsters were properly cultured in the pure English, they could become very useful to humanity. A vote was taken. The result was 990一11 in favor of the liberals’ views. Plans were im­ mediately made. As soon as possible, the deans of the various educational* institutions that harbored punsters were informed of the new ruling. The A. P. A. is now working feverishly in all the dormitories in America.

Since they deal only with intellectuals, they cannot merely say, “Thou shalt, thou shalt not!” No, they must educate their patients and instil in them a better and more holy way of living. They must prove by logic, psychology, history, and ethics that punning is the worst visitation that has ever come To upon us. Indeed, this is a slow process, but it is sure. — give the reader an idea of what our course for punsters is like, we shall, in short cite a few of our principles.

Logic. The law of equivocation clearly states that terms differ if they are expressed with one and the same word but convey different meanings. This is the principle of punning.

This form of thinking is altogether too nauseating and confusing to the normal mind. To the normal mind it is illogical. In order to adopt a pure English, one should apply the corresponding law of the synonym, which states that terms equal each other, even if they are expressed with different words, as long a they convey the same meaning. This law will increase the vocabu­ lary and at the same time aid the suffering student in express­ ing himself. . Psychology. Fundamentally, the ways of reasoning are innate and universal. With “universal” is meant, mankind.

But since the scions of the Punjabi have been added to the human race, at least in outward appearance, they must at all hazards adopt our way of thinking. We realize, the process of tearing out something that is ingrown and placing a new thing in its stead is painful to the patient. But it must be done.

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Human reason must in time become innate in punsters, or all their intelligence is worthless. .

History. Punsters believe that to be able to pun like Shakespeare is a virture. On the contrary, it was Shakespeare^ greatest foible. This fault of Shakespeare’s is so grievous that it is beyond forgiving. If it were only for the sake of puns, Shakespeare’s works would not be studied. His puns are so abominable that ‘‘The Family Shakespeare’’，edited by Bowdler in 1820, is entirely without puns.

Ethics. Experience has proved that the pun is the root of all evils both in dormitories as well as in their corresponding colleges. It has been found that a punster is capable of com­ mitting almost any crime under the sun for the vile purpose of making a demonstrated pun on something. Some it has led to vain-glory. They boast of plying with puns. Yes, some it has even brought to insane-asylums. Worst of all, they make moral instructions impossible by making a cheap pun on some of the most sober terms. To avoid all these earthly evils, the advice of the A. P. A. is that punsters devote their entire lives to pure English and the classics as they stand.

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Rev. F. Weerts ’86, of Cambria, was surprised by a group of ministers and friends on January 26. It was the fortieth anniversary of his ordination as pastor.

Mr. Hans Gaebler ’07 delivered a lecture on general astro­ nomy before the Watertown Branch of University Women on February 15.

The home of Rev. Max Stern ’20 narrowly escaped the fire which razed several of Neosho’s buildings. The house was slightly singed. Shortly after the fire Rev. Stern suffered an attack of the flu.

Among the alumni who attended the Carroll game were: Rev. Ph. Martin ’96; Herbert v. Haden ’29; and Merton Albrecht ex ’34.

During one of the Christmas services Rev. L. Koeninger ’13, of Manitowoc, suffered a severe attack of the flu. Rev. K. Machmiller conducted the service to its close.

Rev. G. Redlin ’28, of Allenton, was seen in Watertown February 20.

Among the alumni attending the Wartburg - N. W. C. game were: Rev. L. Bernthal，18 ; Rev. L. Kirst ’03 ; K. Vertz ’31; H. Warnke : E. Koehler ^0: H. Siegler ’31; H. Meyer, 0.

Kreie, H. Haefner, R. Schoeneck, O. Heier, and L. Freitag of the class of 1932 ; and Raymond Lenz ex ’33. Rev, Kirst was here also for the Milton game.

Victor Lehmann ex ，33 visited Northwestern during the teachers’ convention an February 1.

Herbert Kuhlow ex ’33 called on his former classmates while resting from his examinations at the university.

A son was born to Rev. and Mrs. F. Gilbert ’28 during January.

News has also reached us that a son was born to Rev. and Mrs. W. Holzhausen ’会1，of Gresham, Nebraska, on December 30.

The funeral of Mrs. Juliana Notz, widow of Dr. F. W. ANotz，who passed away at Chevy Chase, Md” on January 18, was held in St. Mark’s Church, Watertown, on January 20.

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Rev. 0. W. Koch ex ’79 passed away at his home in Columbus on February 12. Many pastors of the Central Con­ ference attended the funeral on February 15.

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“Are high-school students equipped to begin specialization as Freshmen at a University?M Not adequately. The average high-school student has too little depth and breadth of education. If he specializes imme­ diately after his high-school training, he will have a one-sided outlook on life. The deep, rich humus of culture, which fits one out for life, not merely for a chair and desk (for which after all a robot would be more practical and efficient)，should be the foundation for one’s future. A man of culture can readily become a successful manager of a chocolate factory, but imagine a nation of bookkeepers building the Parthenon, or walking with Plato in the Academy. Let high-school students equip themselves for life first, and then let them take their Ph. D,’s if they need them.

C. T, The training at high schools should be considered as pre­ paratory to college work and merely introductory to the thorough studies of the latter. A young man or woman should be well acquainted with at least several of the branches of learning included under liberal arts. This will make him broad-minded and aid him in social life. Thereafter any special subject may be taken up which will train him for his future profession.

0. A. L. By no means! Even honor roll high-school graduates who have carried a maximum of five subjects are not mentally ripe enough to enter upon specialization. First a thorough college . course should be taken. During these four years the student is acquainted with a thousand and one things that will make him see more clearly the meaning of life. His peculiar likes 280

and dislikes are properly developed; and if he then specializes he knows that he has not made a mistake. Moreover, he will be able to judge good and evil, propriety and impropriety with the mind of a full-grown man, and not with the mind of a child.

A high-school graduate’s intellect is altogether too meager to venture upon any specialization.

F. R. W. No. When a student graduates from high school he is between the ages of sixteen and nineteen. At this age he is not yet mature enough to enter a certain field. He should first have the fundamentals of a general education and then specialize in the subject he is especially interested in. If he specializes too early, he is apt to enter a field in which he later on would not be interested.

G. H. G. Why should we narrow our productive abilities by speciali­ zing in any field while we still are so immature. I can converse more intelligently with an ordinary farmer than with one who has just approached the threshold of education and then has turned off to gratify his personal desire. The farmer possesses a reasonable amount of modesty whereas the high-school gra­ duate has found out that he knows everything. First he must again learn that he knows nothing before he can safely venture to specialize. We need modest men in every field. The highschool graduate cannot become modest by segregating himself from the rest of the crowd and specializing. He much rather nourishes his egoism; and we don’t want a Utopia of egoistic fools.

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Unfortunately one number again had to be cancelled shortly be­ fore the program was to be given. Ralph Hagedorn was pre­ pared to speak on “The Intangibility of Modern Science”，but on account of illness he was unable to appear. Melvin Schwenzen began the program with a musical number. It is hardly necessary to mention that he played on the saxophone, for when in our circles we speak of Mr. Schwenzen in respect to music we immediately also think of the “sax”. He played “Scenes That Are Brightest”，from “Maritana” by Wallace Round. We wondered why we were not to know the title of his encore.

John Radloff delivered an original German speech for the next number. The title of his talk was, „5)er ^Ibftnub Dei mi§ stnijdjen Se^rec unb ©djuler". The male chorus then sang two selections, ‘‘In The Nortiiland” liy Smith, and <4I Must Go Down to the Sea’’ by Mitchell. Arnold Bolle very frequently stirred his audience to hearty laughter in his humorous speech entitled, ‘‘The Pleasures of Getting Lost”. It might be well to mention that Mr. Bolle restricted himself to his own personal experience on his summer hikes. The German band, consisting of Waldemar Dobratz, Gerhardt Ehlert, Martin Lemke, John Raabe, Everett Dobratz, with Allen Hoff as director, closed the program by playing several of the old German favorites. The critic for the program was Professor Sitz. .

Another literary program was given on February 1； this one by the Phi Gamma Rho Society. Mr. A. Maas was Master of Ceremonies. The entire program formed a unit in that it was a review of the year 1932. Jonathan Mahnke opened the program with an original speech on “The Independence of the Philippines’’. A survey of music in 1932 was given by Reginald 282

l~^STa^ (Xttlt ^T| I Siegler, and Carl Broecker briefly reviewed the literature in 1932. The speeches were all well given. An excellent saxophone:cornet duet was then played by Melvin Schwenzen and Waldemar Dobratz. They played “Aloha Oe” by Queen Liliuokalani. .The duet harmony was arranged by Mr. Dobratz. As encore they played “Missouri Waltz”. For this piece, however, Mr. [Schwenzen had arranged the harmony. The concluding number of the program was a one-act play, “And There Was Light” by Charles O'Brien Kennedy. The Characters were: the doctor — Martin Toepel; the nurse — Dorothy Groth ; Mrs. Pendleton — Clare Scheblack ; and the girl—Lorraine Jacobson. All played their parts very well. After the program Professor Kiessling gave an interesting criticism.

This month’s Exchanges might as well not have been printed. They are worse than the September publications.

These examinations!!

The Carroll Echo tells a story which seems to have been hushed up on our grounds. ‘‘One incident of the evening is worth writing about. It seems that as Coach Batha’s beef trust squad was muscling its way into the gym, someone else tried to get in. Even your correspondent ambled by with never a questioning glance from the eagle-eyed guardian of North­ western^ athletic treasury, but one little fellow wasn’t so fortunate. The conscientious watchman spied this midget, among all those towering basketball men, and proceeded to eject him from this hall. He probably would have put him out into the night if Coach Batha hadn’t noticed the goings-on.

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As the coach approached the scene of the forced ejection he overheard these remarks: “I am too”一“You are not”一I am too”一“Don’t tell me you are because you aren’t. You’re too darned little.” Vince doubled with laughter as the full meaning of the situation came to him. He managed to stop long enough, however, to inform the vigilant doorkeeper that that ‘little fellow1 was Milly Reuter.”

To guard against overexertion of the mind, some of the schools are printing exchange articles in their Editorial colums.

The Stoutonia reprints one from the Cardinal. “In 1900 Wiscon­ sin offered 434 courses to its students. In 1930 the number was 1,143. Educational progress has come to be a forum of numerology, and the day of the over-stuffed curriculum is at hand. Except for the University of Chicago, the University of Wisconsin is the foremost educational emporium in the land.

Its wares are so many and various, that the entering student finds himself in the position of a bewildered shopper without an adequate shoppers，guide. 1,143 one-, two-, three-, four-, and fivecredit pills to choose from! And before he graduates he dis­ covers that 1,100 of these pills will develop his personality, his skill or workmanship, or his chest. The other 43 are ostensibly devoted to developing his mind The trend in the curriculum is away from Locke and toward Locksmithery, away from Huxley and toward Hotel Management, away from Burke and toward Business Letter Writing. The Vocational schools have moved in, and the scholars are shoved out. The modern university, with one or two exceptions, is quite ready to take the last step, that of inviting in the barber colleges. A university degree once had an evident relationship to the intellect. Now it is awarded as an evidence of either stamina or callousness. By fostering courses that give highly specialized training, the university completes the process of turning out cogs to fit the machine, insensible cogs unaware of the size of the machine, of the relations between parts, and certainly entirely incapable of repairing it or scrapping it when it breaks down.” That is the best article I ever found in the Editorial section of the Stoutonia.

In another Stoutonia, this is quoted from the Cardinal: **A survey conducted by an eastern university shows that six percent of the students sleep through three hours of class time each week.’’

There is much talk about the Honor System and Student Council. It certainly doesn’t seem to work out as it should.

The Old Gold and Black complains: “The honor system here seems to have decayed into a system of baleful freedom where­ by students can do almost anything in examinations and get by with it.”

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Creighton University showed that smokers drew better grades than non-smokers.”

“You can hardly make a friend in a year, but you can easily offend one in an hour•，” says the Academy News. This sentence, standing independently in the Editorial column, seems to be original. The rest of the column is filled by a quotation from the Onargosy. If there is nothing to print besides bulletin, board notices and quotations, I should think it a very wise act, if the students would give up the idea of trying so absurdly to edit a school paper.

There is an example of a true American joke in the Calvin College Chimes: “This is the play I wrote. It is about rheuma­ tism, flat feet, and halitosis，’’ said the student.

Prof: “What kind of a play is that anyway?M Student: ‘‘Why, you told me to put everything I had into it!’’

I wish to call the attention of all editors of papers printed on the newspaper style to the merits of certain geniuses, who are on the staff, whose great talent is usually unsung. These gifted men are the ones who roll the paper into the tightest possible roll, so that the editor of the Exchange column must always keep his thumb-nail long and carefully whetted, and must also keep a lawn roller at hand to flatten the wrinkled paper. These are deserving of a kindness. Let them die the most pleasant death.

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Martin was high man for Northwestern with 9 points.

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Milwaukee Normal 43, Northweslern 21 Milwaukee, Wisconsin : On January 31 Northwestern fell in defeat before the “green wave” of the Milwaukee State Teachers’ College. The score at the half was 22—5. In the second period Northwestern showed improvement but not enough to cut down the lead held by the opposition. Hunke of Milwaukee led the scoring with 11 points. Koehler was high man for Northwestern with 7 points.

On February 3 the Gosling quintet left Watertown in three cars to play two conference opponents, the Wisconsin School of Mines at Platteville and Wartburg College of Clinton, Iowa.

Both teams are new to Northwestern’s basketball schedule, and if their abilities remain constant, many interesting games are in prospect.

PIa((cville 21, ISorfhwestern 24 February 3 : In the first game, at Platteville, the Goslings gained a victory in an overtime period. Perhaps the change of climate or a change of diet was responsible; at any rate the Goslings played an excellent game. Kusel, substituting for Zimpelmann, became the hero of the day when he sank two field goals in the overtime period to provide the margin of victory for Northwestern. Schewe made 7 points, sharing the scoring honors for the evening with Rudkin of Platteville. The score at the half was 10—11 with Northwestern in the lead ; at the end of the second half the score was tied at 19 all.

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Northwestern Wartburg F.G. F.T. F. F.G. F.T. F. 0 2 2 3 Zimpelmann rf 1 Klein rf 1 0 4 1 Kusel rf Landdeck If 1 0 2 3 2 0 0 Martin If Bruns rf 2 0 1 Koehler If 1 1 Domsalla c 4 1 Lemke c 0 0 1 Eller rg 2 1 0 0 0 1 Raabe c Gamb lg 1 0 0 Schewe rg 8 1 1 Smith lg 1 0 2 1 Fredericks \g 0 On its western tour the basketball team was royally enter­ tained, at first by the Reverend Edwin Meier of Platteville, and then by the residents of Cotta Hall, the dormitory of Wart­ burg College. One of the purposes of intercollegiate sports is to promote a relationship between the different student bodies.

A trip such as this one seems to be the ideal thing for the purpose, for upon its return, every member of the squad was overflowing with Wartburg news and with unstinting praise of the hospitality of the respective hosts. Northwestern expects to play host in turn to Wartburg on February 17, but words must suffice to express Northwestern^ gratitude to the Reverend E. Meier and family.

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Bussewitz and Schumann are leading in points scored for Northwestern, while Hahm has covered himself with glory as the Gosling goalie. # Northwestern has played three conference games until now: January 22: Hi Spots 0, Northwestern 2 January 28 : Blue Aces 0, Northwestern 15 February 3 : Beer Barons 3, Northwestern 1.

The following football schedule has been arranged for the 1933 season: September 23: Seminary here (tentative) September 30 : Lake Forest there < October 7 : Mission House of Sheboygan here (tentative) October 14: Platteville School of Mines here October 20 : Milton there October 28 : Dubuque University here November 3 : Wartburg here

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If a maximum of fifty degrees was reached in some rooms on the west side during the day it was considered sweltering summer heat. During the cold wave there were casualties in profusion. Those most in evidence were frozen “auricular append agesM. M. J. Witt sported the best pair of cauliflo\yer ears. No doubt many a Freshman considered this a visitation on him for the suffering he caused them last fall. Ziegenhagen, Siegler, Schultz and others also sacrificed part of theirs to the god of the wintry blasts. A. Bolle’s roseate olfactory organ flashed a danger signal to all who would venture out without taking due precautions. Some even froze their ears while they were in bed. To top it all off, the janitors didn’t make their appearance until 6:15 one fine frigid morning. Several in­ dividuals left the lavatory with icicles on their faces. Someone seriously suggested setting the building on fire to provide the necessary heat It is estimated that one-half of the ink bottles were smashed to smithereens. Pagels’ hair tonic congealed.

But that was more of a deliverance than a loss. Many a water pitcher was cracked. An ingenious device for keeping out the wind was developed. The materials were a pitcher of water and cracks where the frigid air was rushing in. The water was poured into the cracks. In five minutes the windows were weatherproofed. As for pouring the water on the top of the windows, well, that’s another matter.

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The exams are over. _ A free-throw tournament, in which.Wartburg, Platteville, Milton, and Northwestern students competed, was held during ' the week preceding the examinations. There was no)prize offered. Schwartz was successful in 43 out of 50 attempts, Siegler in 36 out of 50. The conference winner has not been announced as yet.

The “B” team is no more. Most of the players immediately donned their class basketball suits and tried to put their class ahead in the race for the pennant. The Sophomore team was bolstered up most by three c*x-“B’’s. The confident Seniors, who received no additions have had some of their starch rinsed out of them since then. Wouldn’t there be a howl of protest raised if the ‘‘B’’ team should re-organize.

There have been some pieces of suet hanging in a birch and an elm tree on the west side of the dormitory that have been there for several months and have remained untouched.

The birds seem to be as fastidious about their meals as we are.

I suppose there isn’t enough salt on it to tempt them.

The quartette sang for Professor Huth’s 73rd birthday February 11.

The 'voi’kl’s mile track record has been bettered by fifteen seconds. This astounding: feat was accomplished on the after­ noon of February 11. The track was a cross-country run from the Gondolier ciub to the college. There were no witnesses except one woman walking down the street. And she was bowled over by the runner. The particulars of the case are: while skating Bussewitz submerged in a pool of water on the Rock river near the Fourth Street bridge. Immediately he took off his skates and began running back to school in his stockingfeet. Someone drew out his watch and decided to time him.

The timer skated up to the club-house, took off his skates, and telephoned Northwestern. That was four minutes after the accident. And Bussewitz answered the telephone!

The varsity basketball team thoroughly enjoyed their two， day basketball trip to Platteville and Clinton. The pleasantest surprise of all was the princely supper that was set before them at the home of Rev. Edmund Meier in Platteville. No one had any complaints to make about the waitresses either.

Reverend Dallman’s lecture on Evolution attracted large numbers of the students. Before he had begun his talk he re­ quested them to seat themselves near the front. Perhaps he wished to have a reliable source of information at hand; perhaps he may even have wanted them there for inspiration. Who can tell?

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Did you know that the Junior class has in its midst one who has rightfully been labeled one of few remaining platinum blondes still in existence? “But just where does John Raabe get those distinctive hair-cuts?” Mahnke asks.

The report has reached us that the Tertia class is consid­ ering not to join the Vesuvius Club next year. One of the pre­ valent excuses that is offered is that there is '‘too much kerosene” in the initiation. What a credulous class! Who’s been telling tales out of school? Anyway a scientist in New York has discovered that kerosene has a valuable vitamin G in it.

Another one of those infamous Junior English examinations has passed into history. If it were to be remembered by nothing else than by its uncanny ability to cause half of the class to fail, it would soon be consigned to the scrap-heap of forgotten facts. But it has accomplished more than that. It has brought to the foreground two members of the class, whose singular abilities have been unappreciated hitherto. The two shining lights, Schultz and Zimpelmann, led the class in the examination.

Final examinations are over and oh, the difference to us.

Reports are issued and oh, the difference in our parents.

After innumerable meetings and much changing of dates, the annual co-ed party was given in the college gymnasium on January 20. Custom and tradition establish our parties — one year at Hallowe’en, the next, at Christmas, turn and turn about — so this year it was a Christmas party, despite all ap­ pearances to the otherwise. Committees were chosen to take care of entertainment and refreshments. “Cooti” (something like Bunco) and “making baskets” were played and prizes were given for something or other. We’re a little hazy as to parti­ culars because of the frigidity of the gym. Lorna Hutson, Adele Herro, and Betty Jaeger, all former co-eds, were our guests.

This month we are even worse off then we were for the Sophomore number. There is just one, and only one Junior co-ed. It would hardly be fair to write a biography of Glenna, but, at least, we can mention a few high spots in her career.

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Her joy was nearly complete when she met her pal Lil Trapp and started to roam with her. They became inseparable and none of us heard any “fireworks” while the twain still held.

Now to balance these delights, there are two heart-rending* and sorrowful episodes. The first blow came in her Sophomore year when the invitable happened. Lil left her to go back to Hartland. Glenna does not like her solitary existence. Boarding alone has its evils — now she has to wake up herself without a friendly nudge from Lil. 一We weep— Glen weeps.

The second, and worst of all, concerns the person of Glenna herself. During- that absolutely frigid exam week, she came to school with a queer tingling sensation in the tip of her nose.

We looked it over and discovered that the said olfactory organ was very white. We immediately began applying snow to every part of her anatomy except the right one.

Just to show you how simple French can be. Pas de leur ont que nous — hold your perfectly good Yankee nose, slur all the words together and you get ‘‘Paddle your own canoe’’.

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Servant: “The doctor’s here, sii，.’’

Absent-minded professor: “Tell him I can’t see him. I’m sick.’’

Mrs. Smith and her daughter had arrived at their hotel room. “Did you register with the clerk before you came up, dear?” the mother asked.

Daughter: “The old thing wouldn’t even look at me.”

And then there was the absent-minded plumber who forgot himself and brought his tools along.

“Why do you dislike going to funerals?”

E. Bretzmann: “I don’t Tike to pass a bier (beer).’’

Tensely he bent over her. She had opened her eyes. Long and searchingly he looked into them. He drew closer. “Ah, there’s something in your eyes—” Quickly the doctor removed the cinder.

“Whenever I’m gloomy I call up my bootlegger.” ::Your bootlegger?0 “He keeps me in good spirits.”

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They’re rotten.’’

Clerk: ‘‘You didn’t have to return them. Your word’s just as good as the bananas.”

With so many banks closing, where are Scotchmen going to get ink for their fountain pens?

Hostess: “What do you think of the new violinist?’’

Novelist: “He reminds me of Paderewski/1 Hostess: “But Paderewski isn’t a violinist.”

Novelist: “Neither is this gentleman.”

“It，s hard’，，said the landlady, “to think a young calf was killed to satisfy our appetites.”

“Yes”，said the unhappy boarder, biting into his steak, “it is tough/J Patient: “Are you sure I have the flu? You know, some­ times doctors prescribe for one thing and patients die of some­ thing else.”

Doctor: ‘‘Madam，when I prescribe for the flu, you die of the flu.”

She: “Dear，I have to give Junior so many spankings.”

He: “Maybe I’d better not buy a car—you’re learning to be a back seat driver already.”

She thought a speakeasy was a school for public speakers.

“Did you hear about Helen’s getting married yesterday?”

"Who was the lucky man?”

“I’d say her father.”

And don’t talk about the cold weather. Kesting got so hot in our psychology examination, he had to remove his coat.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

LITERARY— An Afternoon in Washington.

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A Childhood Experience

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An Excellent Job

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A Fishing Trip.

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And I believe every one of us has derived some measure of joy and pleasure from his work on the staff. As to the new staff— may success accompany their labors, and may they strive not only to maintain the standard of past years but rather to raise and improve it. To all who have helped us to realize this volume we express our sincere appreciation and thanks, especially to Mr. Hellmann, writer of the Seminary Notes, to the Misses Groth and Scheblack for writing the Co-ed Notes, and to the typists. The next volume of the Black and Red will be edited by the following: Carlton Toppe *34 Editor-in-Chief Arnold Bolle ’34 Associate Editor Business Manager George Barthels ’35 j Harold Wicke，34 Advertising Manager (Waldemar Thurow ’35 Reginald Siegler ’34 Exchange Athletics Theodore Mittelstaedt ’36 Locals Ralph Hagedorn ’35 Roland Bretzmann ^3 Campus and Classroom With the September issue Mr. Bretzmann’s position will be taken over by Walter Hoepner, who did not return to school this year, but intends to be here again next year.

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THE BLACK AND RED Volume XXXVI.

Watertown, Wis., March 1933

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AN AFTERNOON IN WASHINGTON “Well Bill, now that we have the afternoon for ourselves, what shall we do with it ?” Bill and I were in Washington with one of the many excursions to the nation’s capital.

“Let’s go to Baltimore; my sister said there are many places of interest there,” came the answer.

“It’s three o’clock already. By the time we get to Baltimore we would have to think of coming right back to get here in time for supper.”

“I’ll tell you what we can do. Let’s go down to the Wash­ ington Monument, then to the Lincoln Memorial, and top off the afternoon with a visit to the Smithsonian Institute.”

“That’s a good idea. I couldn’t understand why they didn't take us into these places when we toured the city. I’m interested especially in the Lincoln Memorial Building.”

A taxi whisked us down Third Street to Virginia Avenue, and down Virginia to the Mall and the Monument.

“Looked like a long thin column from afar didn’t it?”

“A person can almost put his neck out of joint trying to look to the top of the column. You look like an insignificant little insect beside it. Do we want to walk up to the top, or shall we take the elevator?”

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“The elevator for me. We can always walk down, and see as much as if we had walked up, and it’s much easier. It looks like a pretty long drag up to the top. I wonder how many steps there are. I’m going to count them while we come back down. ” The elevator, which holds thirty-five passengers, was loaded, so we had to wait for the next trip. After waiting about five minutes it again made its appearance. Up we went, ever higher up. For a minute and a quarter we rose steadily and swiftly.

“That’s the longest elevator ride I’ve ever had.”

“Same here. By the way, you didn’t see many people walking up did you? I don’t blame them after realizing how high the monument really is. I thought the elevator would never stop. Well, here we are, five hundred feet above the ground. We ought to be able to see pretty far from here.

Look at the size of those windows ! They looked like little port holes from the ground. Both of us can easily stand before one of them. Let’s take a look.”

“Boy, what a view ! From here you can visualize the pro­ posed plan of government buildings. It ought to be good look­ ing when they get it finished. Look at those autos down there !

They look like ants crawling along. I wonder what they look like to an aviator at five thousand feet. The people hardly can be seen from this height. There’s the Capitol, there the White House, the Treasury, and all the rest of the buildings. Let’s look out on the other side. ” “There’s the Lincoln Memorial Building with it's reflecting pool. Looks pretty small from here. Look how the Potomac squirms around. It’s too bad there is a fog, or we could see much farther. I wonder if a picture would turn out all right if taken from up here ?’’

“You might try it. Here give me the camera. I’m a little taller than you. These window-sills are a little high for you.

What shall I try to get ? Fll try the White House and Capitol Building. — There, but I will not guarantee a good picture.

Well、are we ready to go down ?’’ ‘‘I’m ready if you are. Now for the big count.”

We walked down about a hundred feet where we met the first memorial stone. We should have gone up ‘per pedes* in­ stead of walking down to get the stones in their chronological order.

“When was this place dedicated ?’， ::I don’t know. Why “Here’s a stone from Idaho, with nineteen hundred and twenty-eight on it.”

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IAnd Inseparable.” Twenty feet lower are two more. One is from New Mexico, the other reads “Top of Statue on Capitol.”

“In other words the Capitol must be this high. I wonder how high this is. How many steps have you counted by now?”

“Two hundred.”

“These stones are getting more numerous right along.

These farther up in the monument seem to be from the states which are late-comers in the union,” We’ve arrived at the twohundred-and-eighty-foot landing. There are eight tablets at this point. “ ‘All that Live Must Die. From the Ladies and Gentle­ men of the Dramatic Profession of America.' They don’t seem to have restricted themselves to the states. There’s a plate from anything from friends to states at this level. Look here’s one from the Alexandrian Library in Egypt. They came from all over the world•，’ “What does Cliosophic mean ? Here’s a tablet from a society bearing that name.”

“You’ve got me, I don’t know. Here’s even a stone from a sunday-school class. And a tablet from a fire department.

Here's one from the Americans in China. One from the school teachers in Buffalo. Here’s one from Wales too. Why don’t you say something, do you like to hear me talk? How far have you counted ?” ‘‘So far there are five hundred and sixty steps. I wonder how far from the bottom we are. Let’s look down the shaft through the screen, maybe we can see bottom.— Not yet, can’t see the top either anymore. First time I’ve been in a place in which I couldn’t see the top nor the bottom. Now let me see, th<lt was five hundred and fifty steps wasn’t it ?’’ .

• 'There certainly are plenty of tablets from Masonic lodges.

That’s right, Washington was head of the Masonic temple at Alexandria, Virginia. Here’s the Wisconsin tablet. All that is written on it is, ‘Admitted May 29, 1848. ’ I wonder what level this is at. Let’s see if we can see bottom now. I’m getting tired of going down all these stairs. Hurrah! see, you can just see the edge of the ground floor! Boy, this certainly is a drag.

I’m almost dizzy from winding around that elevator shaft.’’

Before the last two flights of stairs the tablets ceased to appear altogether. We got to the bottom.

“Well, how many steps are there ?’’

Eight hundred and seventy-five. I wonder how close to the correct number I got.”

“Let’s ask the guard. Mister, how many steps are there in this monument ?’’ . .

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On what level is the Wisconsin tablet? Here it is. Ifs on the one-hundred-foot landing.”

We went to the Lincoln Memorial, where we found nothing but a colossal statue of the Emancipator. On the walls on either side of the statue were inscribed his Gettysburg address, and his inaugural address. After taking d picture of it, we set out for the Smithsonian Institute, but found it already closed for the day. We could do no more than return to our hotel for dinner.

H. Gieschen *33 A CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCE In the little village where I was born, lived an old man, Mr. Schneider by name. Mr. Schneider was a bachelor and lived alone. He had a few acres of land which occupied most of his time and attention. He was liked by everyone in the community, especially by the children, for his kindness, geni­ ality, and unending supply of stories.

Mr. Schneider was our neighbor and a daily visitor at our home. He would spend practically every evening at our home and very often would tell us stories, many of which were Bibli­ cal. He would teach us passages from the Bible and hymns; and would even go so far as to give us pennies, nickles, and even dimes for the memorization of these passages. In appre­ ciation of this we would regularly do small errands for him.

It was an exceedingly cold Sunday in January about twelve years ago. We had been to church in the morning： and on the way home my father remarked that Mr. Schneider had not been in church that morning. The thought however that anything might be wrong was dismissed because of the extreme cold.

In the afternoon my father told me to go over and see Mr. Schneider, thinking that perhaps I could do some errand for him. Without much delay I put on my coat and went over.

Coming to the front door I was going to walk right in as \yas customary, since no one ever thought of knocking when coming to see the old man. The door was locked however. This seemed rather peculiar as he was never known to have locked his door at any time. Without knocking I walked around to the rear door. This led into his kitchen. Walking to the other side of the kitchen I came to another door that led to his living room.

Again without knocking I opened the door. There across the room, in front of the door, where I had previously attempted to enter, Mr. Schneider was lying dead.

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AN EXCELLENT JOB A few years ago a part of my summer vacation was spent working at an airport. Some time later some one else had the same opportunity. He asked me whether or not I thought it advisable to work at an airport. “Yes,” was my answer to him and “Yes,” is my answer to anyone who has the same oppor­ tunity. Fill out your application immediately. It is more like a school than anything else. Furthermore, instead of paying for your schooling you are being paid. Although you only work for one month and although you do not receive a large salary, nevertheless what you learn about aeroplanes during that time is perhaps worth more than what can be learned at school during： the whole year.

Thus it was with me. I worked for one month. My salary was not large. However, during- that one month I worked through the entire process of constructing two aeroplanes. It would be a crime to give you the details, for the joy of your work must lie in experience. You will learn about everything from the tail to the “prop”，from the aileron of the right wing to the aileron of the left wing, about all the little things from wing pins to wood screws. You will learn where each part belongs and the importance of each part. Just wait until you get the chance of placing the canvas over the frame of a wing, sewing it to the ribs of the wing, applying the so-called "banana-oil” to make the canvas taut, applying the desired color of paint, and finally figuring out the accurate angles of the wings to the body. And just wait until you spin the propeller to start the new motor for the first time.

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Even if our task had never succeeded, hope, I believe, would nevertheless have nourished our patience.

Perhaps you know the danger of starting the motor of an aeroplane. One must set the propeller in such a position that it is parallel with the ground. When face to face with the front of the plane one grasps the left end of the propeller and with all his weight and strength suddenly pulls the propeller downward. As he pulls he must also avoid the path of the propeller. If he fails in this it means that whatever part of him is in the path of the propeller is not a part of him anymore.

Our danger was greater because of the stiff motor. The task was also more difficult for this reason. However we seemed to be unware of it. We began at noon. Each one made his series of attempts at spinning- the propeller. Continual changes were made with the spark-plugs and the accelerator. By three o*clock the motor had only issued a few sounds; by four o’clock it suddenly began to roar. Our constant labor found its reward.

We had no more trouble. After an hour was spent on the ground, everything seemed sufficiently safe for the plane to ascend. Up it went. Yes, the aeroplane flew. The only cas­ ualty was a sore hand which the person who spun the propeller most suffered merely on account of exertion.

If you will work outside, as I did, you will learn still more.

For during your work you will also be gazing at the aeroplanes circling round about above your head. You will also see things that continually happen on the field, such as the landing pro­ cess, the taking-off process, the stunts which may only be exe­ cuted above the field, the hair-breadth escapes, and then again the fatal accidents. Probably you will find out too that it wouldn’t be foolish at all to have “stop and go” lights in the air.

If you have the opportunity to work at an airport, do so by all means; and let me assure you that you are going to enjoy the experience.

R. C. Biesmann A FISHING TRIP Spring seems to be coming and as all things come in their due time, we shall all be expecting the spring fever rather soon. I suffered an early attack of it. There seems, however, to be only one way to get rid of this, and that is to relive one of the experiences I had last summer.

For years now we have been spending our vacation at one the larger lakes in northern Wisconsin, at Lake Shawano, year.as usual we again found ourselves in a cottage at the lake. This period at the lake is very crowded and eventful for me, but there is one general division that I stick to rather 301

I faithfully. The morning is reserved for fishing and the after­ noon and evening for swimming, tennis, horseback riding, and all the various other amusements which the lake and surround­ ings have to offer.

This particular morning of which I am to speak, was in­ auspicious from the start. Since I do not believe in early morn， ing fishing during hot weather, we did not get up until seventhirty. The first move always is to look at the lake. The lake seemed smooth enough at our shore, but one could see that it would be rather rough farther out. The wind also was not a good fishing wind since it was in the northwest. All this could not daunt our spirit. We wanted to get fish and we were going to get them. We then hurriedly ate and prepared for the trip.

The first difficulty lay with our motor. It was one which had been discarded by a resident some years before and given to me a few days before this as trash to experiment with. It was a rather old machine and therefore not so very complicated, I had spent most of the foregoing day getting it in shape, and much to my surprise it actually ran, after I had cranked it for over half an hour. The rest of that day had been spent in set­ ting it and finally it responded like a veteran. This morning of course I expected it to act properly. I was soon deprived of this hope although it started after about twenty minutes of cranking. After it was warm it ran very well. We were now under way. Since the warm weather had started, the fish were most likely to be found in deep water.

The spot we chose was a weed-bed about half way across the lake a little to the east, hence about two miles out. Our little motor, aided by a strong wind in our back, took us out in a surprisingly short time. We noticed that we had greatly misjudged the weather. The waves were much higher than we had judged they would be. We cast anchor, however, trust­ ing in a strong, heavy anchor to hold us. The wind was much too strong and the waves not only kept moving our boat little by little, but furnished us with our morning bath. We were now soaked and all the more determined to hold our own even if we would have to swim for it. 、Perhaps this was sheer stubbornness, because we couldn’t tell anyway if we had a strike. The fish must have known this, for we had to rebait continually. We had to change lo­ cations several times and after about an hour and a half of this we were nearly discouraged. At this time we noticed that the waves were beginning to abate. This was all we wanted. Soon the fish were biting in earnest. We soon had a fair catch — about eight or ten croppies and perch, a pickerel and two wall­ eyed pike, the last three weighing about two pounds apiece.

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How that fish responded !—First he tried to find the bottom of the lake and then chose all points leading away from the boat. I was thankful that I had a new twenty-four pound test line on that pole, but from the way he pulled I thought that even this line would not be strong enough. The waves must have frightened this fish, for he seemed to dislike the idea of coming up to the surface of the water. After a few minutes of fighting with him I managed to bring him near the surface.

That is, after I had nearly jumped in after him. That fish looked like a whale to me although in reality he was only about a twelve to fifteen-pound northern pike. After playing him for a while I thought he was tiring and that I would now be able to land him.

Here is where I met my next surprise. The fish had only been fooling before this. . Now he seemed to be working hard to pull me into the water with him. I was winning the fight though, and my partner was starting to work the net under him in such a manner as not to scare him. The fish, however, was a wise old veteran and the minute I worked him toward the net he took a dash below it. He then came back to the surface and, with what seemed to me a sarcastic grin, he snapped a heavy long-shanked hook in two. If you have ever lost a large fish you know how I felt then. If you haven’t, you have heard some one else tell about it, so I will not have to describe that.

This certainly was bad enough, but we soon found out that luck stuck with us till we reached shore. The fish was gone and also most of the bait. This did not make us any more satis­ fied. During this time we didn’t notice that the waves were again getting larger and already spraying over the boat. This was perhaps good for us, for we soon cooled off and decided to start for shore. Here is where our day’s work began. We had to head directly into the waves for two miles if we wanted to get anywhere near our destination. The motor responded gal­ lantly, but weakly. Against this wind and storm it could hardly do more than to hold the boat from going backwards. Luckily I had taken along a pair of oars and every foot of headway was made by manpower. We changed off rowing and running the motor and bailing out water. By the time we reached shore we were ready for a good long rest.

This however did not keep us from displaying the mess of fish we had caught in the wind that had kept all the other fishermen off the lake, and of course it did not stop us from talking about ' *The one I lost”. I know you won’t blame us for telling1 about a big fish we had really hooked and lost, even if we did exaggerate it a bit and called it a whale.

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A DISTANT PROSPECT APPROACHES Some years ago, three to be exact, an article was written about “A Distant Prospect of Graduating From College," a complaint about how much work the poor Freshman has, or should have. That was in my Freshman year. Of course I was in full sympathy with the writer then, but now I must say he knew very little about what work means. Truly, he must have been a model student in his Freshman year, but I am in­ formed that it was actually true that he spent sometimes from six to eight hours in preparing for the next day’s lessons, as he lamented. There are a few of these even today. But does it pay to spend so much time on your studies? I, who am a Senior now and should know, say it does not. I dare say the profes­ sors don’t even expect it of you. “Well,” you may say, “I’m working for my own benefit, and not for the professor’s.” All well and good. But you will soon find that you are working for no one’s benefit. The day will come when you become dull.

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No doubt he experienced that the succeeding years did not get easier. If he despaired in his Freshman year, what is his condition now? Does he still keep his mind on his studies con­ stantly? I shouldi say he doesn’t. He has time for all kinds of other things now,• A member of three musical organizations, and takes part in numerous other extra-curricular activities.

Do his marks show any difference? Yes, they are remarkably different. They’re better than his Freshman marks. He com­ plained of having no time to read books that he thought a Freshman ought to read. Now you can see him going to the library quite often, and it isn’t for a tryst with the fair lady either.

Not only has his attitude toward his subjects changed, but he is changed in his whole disposition. In his Freshman year he sat in his room continually, and I am told that this was the case in his Sophomore year also, and hardly knew his class­ mates. Then came the grand awakening. He was a different person in his Junior year. Gradually he realized that there were young men in the class, whose companionship he ought to seek. He tried it, only for a short period at first, quickly re­ turning to his studies as soon as he could. But the periods of recreation became longer and longer, and gradually he realized that the guilty feeling, which he experienced, of disregarding his studies had no foundation. His recitations were as good as always; yes, his numbers were better, and he Rot much more out of what he did study. His health improved I am told, no longer did he walk about with the care-worn face, which was so familiar to us in former years.

Tuesday afternoon, March 7, the male quartette sang before the Saturday Club. They sang several songs and responded to the demand of two encores. On the same program Prof. Kiess­ ling presented with his usual success Miss Betty Faber and Herman Gieschen, fittingly costumed, in a dialogue, a scene from William Congreve’s whimsical “Way of the World.” According to the Watertown Times both numbers won much applause and appreciation.

Thus was he disillusioned. Draw whatever lesson you would from him. Who he is, is not hard to guess, at least not for the students now at Northwestern. He has given his consent to this account, and hopes that, now that his “Distant Prospect of Graduating From College” is steadily approaching its reali­ zation, those who are laboring under the mistaken idea he labored under, will take a lesson from him.

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Dr. John Faber, ex-’29, has been appointed to a fellowship in gynecology (with some surgery) at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Dr. Faber took his degree last year, and is serving as interne in the Miller Hospital at St. Paul. He is leaving for the clinic on July 1.

Rev. Arnold Schultz, ’02, was in Watertown to visit his son Walter and other relatives on Sunday, March 12. George Knoll, ex-’34, was in the dormitory February 26. Rev. A. Maaske, *28, of Mukwanago, was seen about Northwestern on March 11.

Alfred Sauer, ’29，is attending the University of Chicago where he is studying Hebrew.

While attending the Central Conference February 21 and 22, Rev. H. Geiger, ’07, Rev. H. Zimmermann, ’00, and Rev. N. Paustian, ’29, were seen in the dormitory.

Rev. E. Reim，’ll, and son Robert, ex-’38, came to Watertown with the Winnebago Academy basketball squad on Feb­ ruary 22.

We have been informed of the marriage of Dr. Walter Brinkman, Acad.-’19, of Veblen, South Dakota, to Miss Gaynette Weldon, surgical supervisor of the South Chicago Hospital.

The marriage occurred last Thanksgiving day.

Rev. and Mrs. G. Redlin, of Allenton announce the birth of a daughter on March 3.

During the recent disability of Rev. H. Hartwig, the pul­ pits of Hartland and Pewaukee were filled by John Dahlke，’31.

Alfred Schewe, ’31，experienced the thrill of preaching in his home church for Rev. P. Pieper，’09, on February 19. He preached the English sermon, while Prof. A. Pieper, ’76，spoke in German.

Rev. K. Machmiller spent the week-end of March 12 in Watertown visiting with Robert Toepel, prep.

From advertising matter received here we see that Prof.

G. W. H. Shield, *00, Los Angeles, California, will teach French linguistics and phonetics at the summer school at Grenoble, France.

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Prof. J. W. T. Schlueter, former instructor at our institu­ tion, is now employed in the office of the Secretary of State at Madison.

Announcement has been made of the marriage of Rev. A. Eberhart, ’29, of Martin, South Dakota, to Miss Carola Peltz, of Cedarburg, Wisconsin on January 15. Rev. A. Mittelstaedt, ’27, of Brown Deer performed the ceremony.

We are sorry to report that an error was allowed to pass unnoticed in the last issue of the Black and Red. The funeral of Rev. 0. W. Koch was reported. It should have read the funeral of Rev. 0. H. Koch.

On Sunday, February 26，the N. W. C. Band presented an excellent concert at the A. L. A. auditorium in Milwaukee.

Arrangement for the concert was made by the Milwaukee Lutheran High School Committee on Public Lectures for the benefit of the Lutheran High School Revolving Scholarship Fund. The band, under the direction of Professor Westerhaus, made a favorable impression upon its large audience with its program of harmonious, spirited, and expressive marches and overtures .Special numbers were: a cornet solo by Waldemar Dobratz; a clarinet trio by Reginald Siegler, Everett Dobratz, and Norbert Ehlert; and a saxophone solo by Melvin Schwenzen. They especially drew hearty applause from the audience. The entire program as it was given follows: …_W. H. Kiefer 1. March—“Spi rit of Peace ..Joseph De Luca 2. “Exultation”，Overture 3. “Morning, Noon, and Night in Vienna’’，Overture -_F. v. Suppe 4. Comet Solo—4 'Gloriana*,.

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INTERMISSION ■C. E. Dubbe 8. March—“Bravura，’ -------------- -----------------C. M. von Weber 9. “Oberon”，Overture.......... ............ ........ ........

10. Saxophone Solo—“Scenes that are Brightest” ranscr. by H. Benne Henton .................Keler-Bela 11. ^Hungarian Comedy”, Overture 12. March—* *Washington Grays” ________ C. S. Grafulla

Another literary program was given by the Phi Gamma Rho Society on March 1. This program was arranged by Herbert Resting. Professor Schumann was critic for the societies. The orchestra opened the program with two select­ ions, “Overture—Enchantment”，by J. Hermann, and 4 Ameri­ can Patror*, by F. W. Meacham. This number was followed by two original speeches. Erwin Schroeder entitled his oration, ''Shall We Call Homer a Poetical Genius?” Due praise was given Mr. Schroeder for his good work. Walter Schultz spoke on the humorous subject of “The Rise and Fall of the Mus­ tache/J The male quartet then sang “A Medley of College Songs” arranged by Barry. Samuel Kugler addressed the audience with an original production, which he entitled “The Rivalry of Russia, China, and Japan in Manchuria.” The con­ cluding number of the program was a one-act play, “Such things Only Happen in Books”，by T. Wilder. The characters were: John, a novelist,—0. Sommers; Gabrielle, his wife,一G. Meyers; Dr. Bumpas—A. Mass; and Mr. Graham—R. Hoppe.

While the stage was being arranged before the play, H. Russow entertained the audience with a few card tricks.

The last literary program to be entered into this volume of the Black and Red was given by the Philomathean Society on March 8. John Radloff was Master of Ceremonies for the occasion. To begin the program, Winfred Lehman showed his ability at the piano in a solo entitled, “Castillian Dance^, by Albeniz. Ralph Hagedorn, having chosen a field which in­ terests him in no small degree, gave an original discourse on “Norse Mythology”. Another musical number followed; Harold Neubauer played “Adoration” 一 by Felix Borowski — on the violin. John Vincent rightly deserved the compliments he re­ ceived on his delivery of the German poem, “Der Handschuh”，

by Schiller. His German pronunciation was very good. The play which closed this program bears the title, * ‘Master Patelin, the lawyer.1 * The characters were: The judge—E. Mehlberg; Patelin, the lawyer — W. Thurow; Guillemette, his wife — B. Faber; Guillaume Joceaubme, a draper—R. Weyland; and Tibalt Lambkin, a shepherd—M. Liesener. Messrs. Thurow and Weyland deserve special praise for their acting. After the program Professor Sitz gave his criticism.

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I wish to mention at this time also that three students have organized a trio of piano, violin, and cello. A. Bolle plays the piano, H. Neubauer the violin, and R. Siegler the cello. They are making their first appearance at a Walther League meeting at the St. Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s parish hall in the near future. May they receive much pleasure and success during their career.

This marks the end of this column as a column for itself.

It has been decided that henceforth the editor of the Locals column take over any important material (when such exists) which pertains to and has heretofore appeared under College Notes.

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This month’s Exchanges are instructive. With due solem­ nity our two great patriots, whose birthdays were in the course of the past month, are eulogized. One paper alone radically and cynically doubts the veracity of the Cherry Tree story, thus seeking to slur and disparage the greatest man in American history. Be alert! Don’t let these Reds shake your faith.

Lincoln is treated with more respect. It is certain that he split rails in his youth. Furthermore, he saved the country which Washington founded. But this is not all the wisdom contained in the month’s publications. The minds of the students seem to be whetted. The origin of Valentine’s Day is propounded. Are affectionate notes exchanged on this day because it is the day on which the birds choose their mates? or is it celebrated in honor of St. Valentine, the monk? or is it a remnant of an old Roman festival? Such are the weighty problems which confront the students, not only of today, but of all ages.

The Round Table, of Beloit, speaks of patriots, the American Legion. It seems that in Beloit the Legion is dictating to the schools what sort of history course should be studied. ‘ ‘On the surface, this situation, ‘to give an additional incentive for patriotic interest’，seems innocent enough. But it is time to call a halt.” In 1918 the American soldier was a hero and a patriot. Today the American Legion is a greater threat to our national welfare than is the communistic movement.” “The American Legion has developed into one of the most powerful rackets in the country. Without principle or platform, they 311

have an organization so large, in mere strength of numbers, that they exercise a strong political influence.” ‘‘These men were poisoned with a venom of propaganda....................Today they are attempting to perpetuate this same propagandized system. With their necessarily distorted and prejudiced con­ ception of patriotism, they are going to write the history of the nation. They are going to make their invidious appeal to the minds of children, too immature to distinguish the obvious glamour of the battlefield from the inevitable aftermath of the holocaust. Peace will never come from the pacts and the sign­ ing of treaties. It must be built, not from the top down, but from the bottom up. In the education of the child lies the only salvation. A new set of ideals must be held before the youth of the world.” 44Write our histories, members of the A. E. F. 一but dip your pens in the blue ink of truth, not in the red ink of martial propaganda. Do not forget to record the cost in lives and dollars; that we have mortgaged the future of our nation to pay for war; that 83 per cent of our national income goes to pay for wars, past, present, and future; that we pay some billion dollars a year for an army and navy, when our citizens are starving.”

The Column Left of the Round Table contains interesting items. Hearst, who originated the catchword “Buy American”， buys the paper he needs from Canadian mills, and his house is decorated with countless ornaments from Europe.

• ‘Taken as a whole, American students are queer, but perhaps not queerer than the general run of people. Our queerness is expressed mostly in our choice of entertainment.’’ ''We prefer sexy, superficial photoplays to ‘Strange Interlude’ and 4Grand Hotel’.’’ ‘‘We concern ourselves more with the questions 4Why should I take this?’ and *What good is that going to do me?’ than with studying.” “We attach more im­ portance to the fact that Babe Ruth took a cut in salary, than to the efforts of Congress to balance the budget.” ‘‘We com­ plain when we are short-changed, but no student ever demanded a refund when the professor gave him a ‘cut’.’’ “We make glorified heroes out of athletes who are flunking most of their work; and what is worse, we wish that we could be these glori­ fied athletes.” “We sit beside radios for long periods of time listening to Bing Crosby moaning, or the Boswell Sisters ‘har­ monizing’， when we could, with a slight twist of the dial, hear music played by a great symphony orchestra/' “The average student is a perplexing paradox/f This is from the Old Gold and Black, which has the largest number of exchange papers sent to it of any college in the country, and which receives Black and Reds from six or eight different states.

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product of a young high school student, in the incipient stages of his normal revolt against religion. To quote a few choice excerpts, ‘‘The college man of today is tiring of a belief which compromises his common sense judgments.’’ 4<The average college man who repeats the Lord’s Prayer, or takes communion is either a hypocrite or an automaton.” “He thinks of the lack of salt in the bread, or the precentage of wine, not of the significance of the rite.” “Don’t ask us to pray to ‘God’. You kill him when you attempt to make him so definite, that he has even ears to hear our words.” “We like to go to church.

There are problems which we should like to hear discussed, but when that discussion is based on a biblical text rather than on the merits of the matter itself, we lose interest. Fill your pulpits with philosphers, psychologists, and sociologists. Then we’ll listen.” Prayer, of course, has a real psychological value. ‘‘We want a religion, but we can’t accept one that contains so many concepts in which we can’t believe. We realize that you In short, the don’t know what this higher power is............ editor wants a god which does not compromise his common sense; the Christian God is too definite; Christianity contains too much that is inconceivable; his god is indefinable. As was said in the paragraph before, “The average student is a per­ plexing paradox.” One serious blunder in both grammar and ethics occurs in this article. The ‘he’ is changed to ‘we’. The author is sophisticated, in the most modern sense of the word.

Many college students seem to think they are sophisticated when they believe nothing, and have faith in no one, when they doubt God and man, and have cast every illusion into the discard.

There is no way of arguing with the author. When he matures, if he does, he will see his own errors.

This edition concludes my term as Exchange Editor, In the course of the year, I have diligently perused all the ex' change papers that have come to me, and have come to the following conclusions: All college papers can be divided into two classes. Those in the first category have cigarette advertise­ ments; those in the other have not. The one paper which stands apart as an exception is the one which has a lingerie advertisement. A comparison of material might be made, but that is not so necessary. At any rate, it would be difficult to find enough material with which to work. An estimate of the length in rods of sport columns might also be made. In my opinion, if all the sports editors were laid end to end, it would serve them right.

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Watertown, Wisconsin : On February 14, the Milton Cats gained another victory over the Northwestern Goslings by a score of 38 17. The game was marred by an exhibition of the poorest sportsmanship to be seen at Northwestern for some time. This statement pertains to the spectators as well as to the players of both teams. Despite this the game occasionally approached a state of being interesting by reason of some fast passing or some excellent shooting. Dickhoff of the Cats especially displayed artistry in shooting. For a time his ratio of shots made to shots attempted stood at 4—5. Werfel took scor­ ing- honors for the evening with 17 points, while Dickhoff made 15. Schewe led the Northwestern scoring with 8 points. The score at the half was 19—8 in favor of Milton.

In the preliminary the Preps defeated a team from Burnett 25-16.

Milton F.G. F.T. F. Northwestern F.G. F.T. F. 1 Zimpelmann, f. 1 Dickhoff, f.

1 1 7 1 0 0 0 Rogers, f.

0 0 Schwartz, f.

1 0 2 1 Kusel, f.

Werfel, f.

8 1 1 Coon, f.

0 Lemke, c.

1 0 0 0 0 Kelling, c.

0 Raabe, c.

0 1 1 0 0 1 1 Martin, g.

2 Stevens, g.

0 2 Hugill, g. _ 0 0 3 Schewe, g.

3 3 Smith, g.

0 0 1^ Fredericks, g.

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^m4 Warlbur^ 26, Northwestern 37 Watertown, Wisconsin : On February 17, the Northwestern Goslings avenged an earlier defeat by defeating the Wartburg quintet from Clinton, Iowa, in a conference game, 37—26. The game stood in contrast to the Milton game in the attitude of appreciation rather than depreciation shown by the spectators, which had the effect of making the game a sport rather than an opportunity for “dirt”. Schewe duplicated the feat which he had performed at Clinton, of making 17 points. Most of these were made after “Zimpie” and Kusel had sucked out the Wartburg guards. Zimpelmann played his usual brilliant floor game. This game is the first in which the Gosling quintet ex­ hibited any decided team work and as such it has had the effect of raising the confidence of the team and its followers. The score at the half stood at 16—13 in favor of Northwestern.

In the preliminary the Senior class team defeated the Seminary Freshmen, 19—15.

Wartburg F.G. F.T. F. Northwestern F.G. F.T. F. 1 3 112 Zimpelmann, f. 3 Bruns, f.

Smith, f.

110 Hallemeyer, f. 0 0 0 :] Klein, f.

4 2 0 Kusel. f. o 1 0 2 Domsalla, c.

3 2 2 Schwartz, f.

0 1 2 Eller, g.

0 0 4 R. Lemke, c.

Simon, g.

10 0 0 10 Koehler, c.

Gamb, g.

2 0 1 0 12 Martin, g.

0 0 1 Fredericks, g.

9 8 10 Schewe, g.

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Referee: Thistlethwaite (Carroll) Platleville 20, Northwestern 29 Watertown, Wisconsin: On February 22, Northwestern defeated the Wisconsin School of Mines in the last conference game of the season by a score of 29—26, thus gaining second place in the conference. The game was very interesting, al­ though it could not be called fast. It was rather deliberate, demonstrating to the best advantage possible the Kleinke system of offense, which calls for a deliberate advance until an open­ ing presents itself. For a time in the beginning of the game a victory seemed very doubtful because of the superior height of the Miners which enabled them to get the greater share of the rebounds. Once they managed to keep the ball out of reach of the Northwestern guards, flying in the general direction of the 315

basket for what seemed like a minute. During this period they took at least eight fortunately wild shots at the basket.

Clark of the Miners shared scoring honors of the evening with Zimpelmann by making 10 points. At the half the score stood at an 11—11 tie.

In the preliminary the Preps kept up a perfect record by defeating the Winnebago Academy quintet, 19—12.

Platteville F.G. F.T. F. Northwestern F.G. F.T. F. Siers, f.

0 2 4 Zimpelmann, f. 3 4 1 Rudkin, f.

0 2 0 Hallemeyer, f. 0 0 0 0 1 1 Miller, f.

2 3 4 Kusel, f.

0 Terrile, f.

0 0 0 Koehler, f.

1 0 LoefFelholz, c.

2 0 0 Schwartz, f.

0 0 3 4 Cordingly, g.

1 1 0 13 Lemke, c.

Clark, g 4 2 0 Raabe, c.

0 1 1 2 0 0 2 Martin, g.

3 3 Wunderlin, g.

2 0 1 Schewe, g.

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Referee: Thistlethwait (Carroll) Concordia 36, NoHhweslern 21 Milwaukee, Wisconsin : In the fastest game of the season the Gosling quintet on February 25, was defeated by the Con­ cordia team, 36—24. The game started with a bang and con­ tinued with beautiful playing throughout. According to the opinion of some of the spectators Northwestern had the ad­ vantage as far as team work is concerned. Unfortunately Con­ cordia had Fierke and an uncanny ability at sinking their shots.

The game was close until the last few minutes of play, when Concordia began to stall on a small lead so that the Gosling for­ ward line was forced to move up so far that the defense was weakened. In this manner Concordia managed to penetrate for the four or five goals at the end of the game that made the score lopsided. One of the outstanding features of the game was the team work of Zimpelmann and Kusel. This duo of for­ wards had been doing steady work in most of the games since the overtime victory at Platteville, but against Concordia they approached stardom. The playing of Captain. Martin, on the defense especially, is also worthy of comment. Fierke of Con­ cordia led the scoring with 11 points, while R. Lemke took honors for Northwestern with 8 points. The score at the half was 18—13.

In the preliminary the Northwestern Seniors lost to the Concordia “B”s, 18—21.

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Koehnecke, f.

0 1 0 » 4 3 0 Fierke, f.

2 2 3 Eggold, c.

2 2 3 Pohl, g.

10 0 Schmidt, g.

112 Kruschke, g.

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Northwestern Zimpelmann, f.

Kusel, f.

Hallemeyer, f.

Lemke, c.

Schewe, g.

Schwartz, g.

Martin, g.

Fredericks, g.

F.G F.T. F. 0 3 2 3 0 1 0 0 0 4 0 3 0 12 0 2 1 12 4 0 0 0 8 8 13

Referee : Larson ; Umpire : Geil.

Concordia 41，Northwestern 16 Watertown, Wisconsin : On March 11, the Concordia College quintet conclusively proved its superiority over the Goslings teking the second game against Northwestern by a score 41—16. The game started rather well with Northwestern taking the initiative to bring the score to 3—2, but at this point the Concordia long shots began to click, and the score was 15—3 before another point was chalked up for Northwestern. The Gosling defense functioned well in keeping Concordia at a dis­ tance from the basket, but uselessly because of the accurate long shooting, which featured the offense of the Concordia team.

In the second half Fierke ran wild with five baskets to take scoring honors for the evening with 16 points. The score at the half was 7—18.

In the preliminary the Preps concluded a perfect season by defeating a Madison English Lutheran Church team by the score of 25—11.

Concordia F.G. F.T. F. Northwestern F.G. F.T. F. • Knischke, f.

1 2 Ill Zimpelmann, f. 4 Schmidt, f.

0 0 1 1 3 1 Kusel, f.

Pohl, f.

0 0 0 5 0 1 Schwartz, f.

Schreiber, f.

2 0 0 0 0 Lemke, c.

Eggold, c.

0 0 0 2 10 Raabe, c.

Fierke, S7 2 1 0 1 1 Koehler, c.

Werner, g.

0 0 10 1 2 Schewe, f.

Koenecke, g.

0 2 10 0 Martin, g.

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How does this all-conference team strike you ?

Second Team: First Team : Forwards : Werfal, Milton Zimpelmann, Northwestern Dickoff, Milton Miller, Platteville Center: Landdeck, Wartburg Kelling, Milton Guards : Martin, Northwestern Schewe, Northwestern Eller, Wartburg Stevens, Milton The basketball team of the high-school department has this year established the enviable record of going through the season undefeated in scheduled games. In the beginning ex­ pectations were low, since no regulars and only two substitutes remained of last year’s squad. Coach Gensmer therefore de­ serves so much the more credit for developing the team as he did.

The collegia.te class teams are at present in a deadlock : the Seniors and Freshmen for the crown ; the Juniors and Sophmores for the cellar. When these ties are played off, we may be certain of two very interesting games.

The Quintaners managed to nose out the Quartaners for the title of the high-school department, while the Sextaners upheld Sexta tradition by taking the cellar from the Tertianers. We must give credit to the Sextaners for departing so much from tradition as to win two games. Perhaps we are witnessing the rise of another generation of basketball players.

Personal nominations for good sports: The Wartburg quintet and the Freshman class team.

Members of the basketball team are unanimous in proclaim­ ing the sportsmanship of the Concordia team (why shouldn’t they be good sports as long as they win ?) but it certainly is too bad that Concordia can’t return the compliment to the studentbody at Northwestern as a whole. Collegiates console them­ selves with the thought, that it must have been a group of Preps who would go so far as to vent their disappointment in the basketball game by pouring water on the victors.

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Pm thankful this is the last time that I’m writing up this column. And I believe that you are more thankful than I am.

If I have offended anyone, I ask his humble pardon. If I have made free with some of the facts given to me, I’ll excuse my­ self by saying that it was localic license. If you didn’t enjoy the Locals, it makes no difference to me. The least you can do is to appreciate the amount of time I spent on them. You might also have sympathized with me every time I heard that insistent remark of “Get yom，columns in,” and when I asked you for a Local and you said “I’m sorry”. The best of luck to my successor and a fitting epitaph for me is all I ask for.

Most of the student body entrained for Milwaukee on Feburary 25 to attend the Concordia game there, or in some in­ stances to take advantage of the unusually low rates. The dormitory was nearly deserted. Not even an organ-player was present. Then the call went out for some one to “anstipinien’’.

There was a painful silence for about five minutes until Sager plucked up enough courage to begin.

The 4<Sign of the Cross’，，which was shown here during_ February, attracted a good share of the student body. Opinions concerning its relative merits were conflicting. We'll remember that sensual brute of a Nero . anyway.

• At the time that this is being written, March 10, no spring robin has been reported by students as having returned. I h今ve classified the robin as a spring robin, because several wintered in the vicinity. But the Fifer of the Fields has returned to remind us of flooded meadows and April showers.

Ine writer of this column saw one of the first in this territory on March 8. says: ‘ The man who smokes a pipe is satisfied th the world. And it’s so much more satisfaction if one 319

smokes an Italian Briar.” If a man can stand smoking a pipe, he can weather most of the disagreeable things that we all must put up with.

Ice-skating has had its day. Even the sanguine R. Siegler has given up all hope of participating in another hockey game this year. But no one could complain of a scarcity of ice. On the contrary, I believe that there was more skating done this year than there has been the last two years. Perhaps the last was done on March 10.

As soon as the skating season closes, or before, the ice-cake floating season opens. But unfortunately there was a very poor crop of cakes this year. The first floating on the official course between the “two-miler” and “three-miler” was on the last day of February. V. Tiefel went ice-cake floating the other day. While he was busily engaged in loosening a cake from its moorings with a fence-rail, a rusty nail entered his hand from the rail he was using. Fearing a tetanus infection, he treated himself with a tetanus antitoxin. “Can you imagine” how he must have suffered. A party of six set out one fine March day to do a little floating too. After a little while the floating- had degenerated into wading- across the Rock River and back. There wasn’t a member of that party that returned home without a pint of water in his boots or shoes. Some returned with minnows in their pockets.

R. Lemke broke a bone in his foot during the Concordia game.

Imagine yourself to be in a drowsy morning period when some trite book-reports are being read before the class. You’re tired from the night before. The reader has a particularly soporific voice—such a smooth, drawling monotone that every worshipper of Morpheus loves. The professor has the “goo3 sense” to sit still for a whole period. Then imagine yourself to be Hoyer in such an atmosphere. According to all the laws of the Somnus society he should sleep. Hoyer is a law-abiding citizen. Accordingly Hoyer went to sleep, Three-fourths of the class followed his example. There is a regulation that everyone must leave the classroom as soon as the last bell rings.

All heeded the signal and filed out, except Hoyer. He didn’t hear the alarm. The professor had to wake him.

Then, of course, there is the jig-saw puzzle craze. It’s a blessing that the storm didn’t last long. It raised enough havoc as it was. Even R. W. Weyland succumbed to it, although he made a valiant attempt to stave off disaster. The meanest trick one could play in those March-hare days was to hide several pieces of the puzzle that some one was working at It would be a diabolic pleasure to see the hapless sufferer tear his hair and wear a racked look of utter despair on his face. But it was fun while it lasted anyway, wasn’t it?

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Kesting’s latest accomplishment is his pronunciation of the difficult 4,r uvulaire”. It has become a matter of genuine con­ cern to the Senior class every time he pronounces it. They fear that he is choking. He has been practicing the impossible Hebrew “Ajin” too, but he has not ventured to utter it in public yet.

Since the Senior class is on the carpet now, we may as well make a remark or two about the wing-collar question. Every­ thing had been decided upon. The class was to wear wingcollars for its ‘‘cap and gown” pictures. Several days later some dissatisfied members of the class began to raise a howl of pro­ test. Finally the class dropped the dicision of the former meet­ ing and decided to wear anything, as long as it was a collar.

M. Liesener stayed at home several days last month to attend the funeral of his grandmother.

Before the Concordia game on March 11 all of us had high hopes of victory. The pep-meeting was the peppiest in years.

A dummy was stuffed. It was suspended in a tree for a short time, but was taken down again when some one objected to the ceremony. I suppose that’s why we lost. Hotlen, Nicolaus, and Schabow printed scores of posters. A parade was led down town Friday night. All of that didn’t help us to win. Let’s hope that we’ll have forgotten it by next year.

Waldemar Zarling, who underwent on operation for appen­ dicitis on Wednesday, March 14, at the Milwaukee Hospital, was able to go home to fully recuperate on Thursday, March 23.

Spring’s here too. Golfers were out in the beginning of March. Tennis rackets have been dusted off and are beingplied industriously by the younger set. There has been no swimming, at least none that was intentional. Hikers are dott­ ing the countryside. My hand has too become listless while writing this column. So, excuse my feeble attempt.

We thought that we were going to be spared, but this un­ expected pleasure came to us after all. Evidently a change of staff has no effect on the co-ed column. We go on forever babbling “sweet nothings”（at least we hope they are) like the proverbial brook.

In this Senior number Betty Faber comes up for discussion.

She has been our president for two years, and she has watched over us like Mother Carey over her chickens. But no mother has quite so many responsibilities.

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She becomes alarmed at our reactions to spring, changes of weather, and people, but our ruffled feathers are soon soothed and the wheels run smoothly again.

When the Preps attempt to prove the Darwinian theory by swinging from the curtains, Betty steps in and fixes them with a baleful eye. Result —just so many quelched Preps.

When the chapel bell rinprs, she gives a warning cluck and shoos us up three flights of stairs. .

She looks in corners and if she finds the most infinitesimal speck of dust, woe to the person whose turn it is to clean.

These are just a few of her many duties, but she carries them all out quite faithfully. But I think there is just one thing which has escaped her eagle eye. Does she know that we have a pet mouse—Cornelius Oswald by name ? We had a big argu­ ment whether he should be called Percival or Hezekiah, but we decided against both. Percy would be just too "cute” for a nickname, but just think of Hezie. It sounds too much like hussy. To get back to Cornelius —he is quite tame and is a gentleman to his toe nails. I’m sure Betty wouldn’t object to his manners. I’ll bet she’ll want his wife to be called Ermintrude.

I wonder if we can persuade Betty to come back another year, and hold sway as Kinderlein Mutterchen.

St. Patrick’s Day was patriotically observed by Melba Wall and Helen Arnold, who proudly displayed their ^wearin7 o* the green’’. We knew, of course, that Melba was Irish by her curly hair and merry eyes, but we never associated Helen with Ireland. Perhaps this nationalistic tie explains why Melba so motherly takes her fellow countryman on her lap and rocks her to sleep many a recess by crooning in her mellow tenor. As long as the rockers don’t object, why should we ?

Glenna Rasmussen went home over the week-end of the “big snow storm”. The week-end developed into a week-start, for Glenna was “snowed in” in the true sense of the words and didn’t come back until Wednesday. Wonder how it felt!

Gertrude Wuetrich attended the Paderewski concert given at the Pabst Theater in Milwaukee on March 13th.

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Famous last words: “Get your column in.” * * * ‘‘Dear, where is that jig-saw puzzle I left on the table?”

Absent-minded Professor: *'My goodness! I thought those animal crackers tasted funny!”

Mistaken Identity “Charlie looks pretty bad today.”

“Yes, he took his girl to a restaurant, and she found a fly in the soup. ‘Waiter, ’ she said, ‘remove this insect. ’ “Yes?” “They threw Charlie down two flights of steps.”

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Telling Him The car crashed into the telephone pole. As they flew through the windshield she told her fiance, "Well，I’m through with you.” * * * Definition Prof.: “Was bedeutet das Wort Lorbeer ? Er empfing einen Lorbeer zum Prcise•” Buenger: “Razzberry.”

Compensation ‘ ‘Well, how did you get along last night?’ ’ the hotel manager asked the new night clerk.

“Fine, except that I made one call an hour too soon.”

“Was the guest angry?”

Yes, but I fixed that; I made the next call an hour too late.”

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Schwenzen; “When Dobratz plays the trumpet he gets an ‘oxy’ tone.” * * * The bust of Phidias in room 2 should begin shooting pretty soon—it’s been cocking its head all these years.

City boy: “What kind of a cow is that?”

Farmer boy: "That’s our new Jersey cow.”

City boy: “How can you tell? I don’t see any license.” 本中本

Don’t bite your finger nails—look what happened to Venus.

This Would Happen Prof: “Kesting，give me a sentence which illustrates alliteration of the letter ‘r’. ’’ Resting: “’ound ’ugged ’ude ’agged ’ascals ’an.”

Effective ‘‘How did you cure your husband of staying out so late at his club?”

4'The last time he came home so late I called to him, •Henry，.”

“Yes?” “His name is George.*' (An) Aesthetic Feeling Prof.: “What does’aesthetic’mean?” .

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Doctor: “As sick as that! Pd better drop in to see her. * * * * Greek To Him Prof, (in English class): “Nommensen, please close that textbook.亍hat offends me.”

Nommensen (looking at book): “Me too.” ♦

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INDEX OF VOLUME XXXVI A Bare Escape—Glenna Rasmussen—172 A Childhood Experience—M. Schwenzen— A Depression Trip一H. Fleischer—111 A Distant Prospect Approaches—A Senior— A Fishing Trip—H. Nommensen— A Lost Lake—A. Bolle—37 Alumni Notes—17, 58, 95, 124, 149, 183, 215, 244, 279 American and Chinese Civilization—R. Hagedorn—89 American Schools of Today, The—0. Lemke—273 A Message from Valhalla—R. Weyland—263 A Mid-Winter Hike—R. Stiemke—261 A Momentous Ride一C. Broecker—232 An Excellent Job—R. Biesmann—300 An Afternoon In Washington—H. Gieschen—296 An Appreciation of Gershwin’s Music—Dorothy Groth—242 A Parable—R. Hagedorn—121 A Retrospect on our Band—E. Dobratz—207 Art—A. Hoff—241 Athletics-28, 64, 103, 130, 155, 190, 220, 252, 286 Athletics and the “N” Club—C. Hotlen—269 A Trip to Horicon March—A. Bolle—265 A Visit To Mount Vernon—H. Gieschen—41 A Year of Retrospection—C. Broecker—11 Before the Days of Flit—F. Weyland—43 Benefits of the Tristate Intercollegiate Conference~R. Siegler 51 Campus and Classroom—35, 70, 109, 136, 165, 199, 228, 259, 294 Change of Editorial Staff—W. Dobratz— Chicago! Hog Butcher for the World—H. Buch—137 Co-ed Notes—34, 69, 108, 134, 162, 197, 225, 256, 292 Co-ed Problem at N. W. C., The—Gertrude Wendland—52 College Notes—20, 60, 96, 125, 151, 185, 216, 245, 282 Criticism—C. Toppe—54 Desecrators, The E. Knoll-3 Die Gegenwartige Not—G. Geiger—272 Dramatics at N. W. C.: Pro - F. Weyland—90 Economizing—E. Mehlberp：—213 Exchange-25, 62, 100, 127, 153, 186, 218, 248, 283 Firefly, The—G. Barthels 139 Forbidden Fruit J. Radloff-73 Forum-18, 61, 128, 150, 184, 215, 246, 280 George Washington-R. Kaschinske—75 Gleanings from the Kit-Cat Club-F. Weyland—8 Governor Coles—L. Schliesser-1 Gustav Adolfs Beweggriinde fur sein Eintreten in den Dreissigjahrigen Krieg-B. Hahm-78 325

Henry I, King of Haiti—W. Lehmann—203 Hounds of Passion, The—F. Weyland—168 How I came to be an American—S. Kugler—208 In Memoriam—W. Dobratz—88 “It hath not yet been proved what we shall be”_E, Knoll—176 Locals—31，67, 105, 132, 160, 195, 222, 254, 290 Misologist’s Error, The—A. Hoff—13 Morris Chair—R. Bretzmann—141 Mr. Clangor—C. Hotlen—46 Music at N. W. C. —O. Sommers—145 New Season, The—H. Gieschen—180 On Awarding Letters—H. Koehler-212 On Shooting Profs and Other Things—J. Radloff—92 Our Black and Red—W. Dobratz—10 Our Newspapers—C. Toppe—146 Pearl, The Helen Arnold—179 Pitiful Story of Martius, The—R. Hagedorn—234 Rennaisseance—Clare Scheblack-173 Scintillations of Mythology, The—H. Fleischer—230 See America First V. Tiefel 142 Seminairy Notes—16, 56, 123, 148, 182, 278 Sheep Dog, The—T. Russow—202 Should Dramatics at N. W. C. be continued in the Future?— G. Geiger—49 Sonnet—J. Radloff—136 Sonnet—J. Radloff -167 Speaking of Noble Critics—J. Radloff—181 Tractatus In Aequisonentias -F. Weyland—275 Two Trees—Helen Arnold—201 Up Zion Canyon—A. Bolle—114 Versatile Stream of Life, The—A. Hoff—236 Walls of Pompeii L. Freitag—81 Wasn’t It Wonderful?-F. Tiefel—240 West Wind-,H. Wicke-6 Witch's Track, The—A. Hoff-169

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OUR ADVERTISERS (Without them the Black and Red could not exist) MEN’S :CLOTHING STORES Wegemann-Faber-Kaercher Co. Kuenzi-FrattingerXo. SHOE STORES A. Kaliebe Leo Ruesch & Son Wickner*s Boot Shop A. Sohrweide, Shoe Repairer JEWELRY W. D. Sproesser Co. Wiggenhorn Jewelry Co.

GROCERIES Bentzin’s John C. Heismann Otters Grocery Northwestern Delicatessen BARBERS Seager & Brand Young’s Marble Barber Shop Palace Barber and Beauty Shop Charles Sommerfeld The White Way Barbers MEAT MARKETS Julius Bayer W. A. Nack The Royal Meat Market

FURNITURE Kohls-Hafemeister Co. Keck Furniture Co. PLUMBERS Kehr Bros.

Henry Schlueter

BAKERS F. J. Koser Quality Bake Shop East Side Bakery

DENTISTS Dr. J. R. Casanova Dr. E. J. Hoermann Drs. A. & M. Schlueter Dr. Frank F. Schlueter

INSURANCE Aid Associations for Lutherans Bill Krueger L. W. Moldenhauer

DRUG STORES Owen’s Bittner & Tetzlaff Behlke Drug Co. W. M. Gehrke Sabin Drug Co.

HARDWARE D. & F. Kusel Co. Winkenwerder’s

LUMBER and FUEL Wm. Gorder Co. West Side Lumber Co.

Adams Cleaners & Dyers Tietz Cleaners & Dyers Vogue Cleaners & Dyers

CLEANERS AND DYERS

AND THE FOLLOWING The Classic; Bank of Watertown; Hartig Ice Cream Factory; August Gamm Crockery Company; Chas. Heismann, Painter; Platz Studio; Olympia Sweet Shop; 0. R. Pieper Co.; John Kuckkahn; Globe Milling Co.; Nowack Funeral Home; Capitol Engraving Co.; Harrison’s Cigar Store and News Depot; H. C. Reichert, Music Instructor; Schempf Bros. Co.; Star Lunch; Loeffler & Benke; A. Kramp Co.; Dr. 0. F. Dierker; H. R. Schrap; S. J. Casper Co. Inc.; Miller Cigar Store; Kelly-Borchard Co.; Chas. T. Piper; Kelly & Metzger.

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Otto F. Dierker, M, D. Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Eye Glasses Fitted Office, 312 Main St.

Watertown

Bill Krueger Watertown’s Insurance Man

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KEHR BROS. HEATING ENGINEERS American Radiators, Ideal Boilers, Arcolas, Vecto Heaters, Air-Conditioning — Oil Burners — Stokers Everything in the Heating Line for Heating Cottages, Houses, Stores, Hotels, Churches, Ets. With Steam, Vapor Or Water

211一213 North Third Street

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Kuenzi & Frattinger 305 Main St.

CLOTHES OF QUALITY

Phone 175

CAREFUL DRY CLEANERS”

Charles Sommerfeld Student Haircuts 25c Why Pay More ?

202 West Main St. Opposite Library

Suits and Overcoats Cleaned and Pressed S1.00

Behlke Drug CoA. II. KRUKGER, M^r.

PHONE 263-J

Corner First and Main Streets WATERTOWN,WISCONSIN

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Leo Ruescli & Son 210 West Main Street

Loeffler & Benke FLORAL SHOP 10 Main St.

Phone (349

A. KRAMP COMPANY The Largest Garage in the city -

Telephone 32-W Nash Cars Reo Speedwagons

Seager & Brand UP-TO-DATE BARBER SHOP

Nowack Funeral Home Built for Better Service 213 Fifth St.

Phone 138-W

11 Main St.

Tel. 54

Visitors Welcome

Watertown, Wis.

HARRISON’S Sabin Drug Co. Main and 4th Sts.

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Dr. x R. Casanova AdamsCleaners&Dyers

206 Main Street Phone 362 Furwork and Remodeling

DENTIST mmm 107 N, First St.

Tel. 714-J Res. 504-W

Opposite City Hall

OTTO'S GROCERY Dealer in Groceries, Feed and Flour, Vegetables and Fruits in season. Telephone 597.

Watertown, Wis. Ill N. 4th St.

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Hartig’s Quality

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Koser’s Bakery DELICIOUS CAKES

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Wholesale and Retail Dealer in MEATS and SAUSAGES of all Kinds Watertown

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Henry F. Schlueter PLUMBING and HEATING Bus. Phone, 716-W; Resident 1051-M

113 Second Street

Watertown, Wis.

WIGGENHORN JEWELRY COMPANY Diamonds—Watches Watertown 13 Main St. GO TO Winkenwerder’s The Wisco Store FOR HARDWARE 207 Main Street

TIETZ Cleaners and Dyers Relining, Repairing and Alteration 110 Second Si.

Phone 620

106 MAIN STREET

ICECK Furniture Oo« QUALITY SINCE 1853

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Kohls-Hafemeister Co.

INSTRUCTOR

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PIPK ORGAN, PIANO, VIOLIN, CKI.LO nnd HARMONY Studio 109 Main St. Studio Phone 752-W

Funeral Service

Third Floor Res. 318-J

Hoffmann-Kelly Building

Our Service Satisfies 607 Main St.

Phone 150

Clearance Sale Now On. Entire Stock Reduced SUITS-S9.75-SM.75 and up

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Fine Dress Shlrls guranteed fast colors and full cut Special GO Cents

HATS and GAPS Greatly Reduced.

Wegemann-Faber-Kaercher Co. Value First Store

THE ROYAL Meat Market QUALITY MEATS Wc Specialize In HOME DRESSED AND HOME MADE PRODUCTS ROYAL HAMS i ROYAL BACON : Phone 107

405 Main St.

Shoes Repaired while you wait

A. Sohrweide 210 South Third Street When it’s Fruits or Groceries — Call up—or Call on

JohnE.Heismann&Son ‘‘THE GROCERS，， Tels. 71-62 115 Main Street

H. R. SCHRAP Pupil of Ganz and Lamond

TEACHER OF PIANO, COUNTERPOINT, HARMONY AND THEORY

CWENTS Star Lunch Restaurant DRUGSTCCC

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Prescription Pharmacists Your Patronage Appreciated

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Lumber，Coal，Fuel-Oil All Kinds of Building Material

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$380,000 EAST SIDE IiOiMK OF PURITY BRKAD I'ANCY I»ASTIUES

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618 Main St.

Furnaces Installed, Repaired & Rebuilt Sheet Metal and Tin Work of all kinds.

John Kuckkahn 210 N. 3rd Phone 848-w

WmB Gorder Co. Coal，Fuel Oil，Wood，Coke Sewer Pipe

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W.D.Sproesser Go. JEWELERS Victor Victrolas,

Pianos,

Youngys Marble Barber Shop 101 First Street 345-J WM. GEHRKE

Radios 111 Main St.

DRUGGIST Phone 195

315 Main Street

Watertown, Wis.

NEW SPRING SHOES Northwestern We have a fine stock of New Delicatessen Spring Patterns in MEN’S Oxfords. They offer a new standard of value this season and we are prepared to serve you with your favorite style and last. You must see them.

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W. A. NACK MEATS QUALITY FIRST

Poultry in Season 621 Main St. Phone 19-W

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Bittner & Tetzlaff The REXALL Store

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404 Main St.

“The Best in Drugstore Goods, the Best in Drugstore Service” Kodaks, Films, Photo Finishing, Soda Grill—Lunches

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