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LITERARY— This Craze The Wandering Jew.

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The Way It’s Done...................

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Indian Lore and the Seminary

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EDITORIALS— Aperitif

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

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

THE FORUM.........................

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EXCHANGE............................

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ATHLETICS.............................

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LOCALS...................................

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

CAMPUS AND CLASSROOM

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THE BLACK AND RED Volume XXXVII.

Watertown, Wis., April 1933

HnUTed at (he Postoflico at Watertown, March 3. 1870. Published monthly. Sul

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THIS CRAZE Blessed is the man who has not attempted to work out a 500 piece jig-saw puzzle, “normal time required, four hours.”

His delight is not in a Mephistophelian invention, in crazy look­ ing curlicues of cardboard designed for man’s “entertainment.”

That worried look is foreign to him, sleepless nights he knows not, the midnight oil he does not burn, and a sane man he re­ mains. Blessed is the non-worker of jig-saw puzzles.

You asked why? Have you seen the jig-saw puzzle in action? It is indeed a rare sight to behold.

There the J. P. S. (short for jig-saw puzzle solver) sits with hundreds of odd-shaped fragments spread before him.

Wildly his eyes dart here and there. He picks up a piece, scrutinizes it closely, then drops it with a shake of the head.

Now he finds one which seems to gain his approval, for you hear a cluck of satisfaction. He pulls up his chair with deter­ mination and continues his task with renewed hope. .

You, the ordinary layman, observe him from a distance.

You note his intense concentration, the anxious, worried look on his face, his bustling activity, his mien of determination.

Ah!” you conjecture, ‘‘here is a man who undoubtedly has

broken a costly vase cherished by his wife, and he is now trying to glue the pieces together.” No, it is a matter of greater importance. You have misinterpreted the symptoms. Here you have witnessed a true representative of that race of dyed in the wool J. P. S.’s in action and you are unaware of the fact!

Fascinated, you watch him as he completes his work of art.

Curious, you step closer and peek over his shoulder. He is mumbling to himself. “I wonder where that piece is. Looks like a cross between a kangaroo's neck and a caterpillar. I’m sure it’s missing. Shucks! I can’t find it.”

Suddenly he leaps into the air. You step aside, amazed.

Is the man mad? You still have to recognize a J. P. S. of the first water. Like an eagle upon its prey he makes a downward swoop and clutches the innocent object of his search. There is a gleam in his eye and he has a "lean and hungry look.” Can this be a human? Is it perhaps a robot, a Frankenstein?

He is now in the last stages of his absorbing task. Awed you watch every move of the great Solver. By this time his actions have waked the entire household, and everyone is doing his bit. Unnoticed someone slips a piece into his hand and slyly withdraws it. He is one of those fiends who insist on fitting the last piece in the puzzle. Hands dart back and forth with frenzied action. Almost done! Only a few pieces left to find a place for! One piece left now! But where is it?

Horrified the Solver stares at that vacant space. A reproach to his title of J. P. S.! His face blanches and his hand Look for it!” he goes to his brow. He gasps for breath, shouts hysterically.

They flee before his wrath. A frantic search begins. The house is ransacked from cellar to attic. Carpets are rolled up, pictures torn from the walls, furniture is indiscriminately tossed about. In a word, the house is turned inside out. Naturally the piece is not found. Hope has been abandoned. The Solver sits there bewildered, frustrated, beaten. An unsolved puzzle!

He hangs his head in shame.

All this time the imp who has confiscated the piece is gloat­ ing inwardly. He sees the dejected faces about him, he sees the havoc the search has wrought, and his conscience bothers him somewhat. The psychological moment has arrived. Dra­ matically he produces the piece from the hidden recesses of his vest pocket and fits it in. “Surprise!” he says naively...

The Solver’s wrath has finally subsided. He grins sheepishly. “Maybe I:shouldn’t have treated him as I did. He was a nice fellow.” But now is no time for mournful reflections.

The piece which was lost has been found! A difficult puzzle has been solved! The Solver is happy again. He calls over his neighbors to share in it. There they stand and gaze on their completed task. For several days the Solver basks in his 2

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glory. And then with one sweep of his hand he destroys the work of several hours. “Each man kills the thing he loves.”

Indeed a strange creature, a J. P. S.! You will find one in every American family.

R. Bretzmann.

THE WANDERING JEW This old and ever recurring legend of the Wandering Jew is the portrait of the Jewish race. Whenever we speak of the Jews as a wandering people, we never think of a voluntary wandering, but usually consider senseless persecution as the cause of it. The legend itself is probably more sad and pic­ turesque than most of the old superstitions, since it deals with a human being- who cannot die, but who must suffer through the centuries until the day of judgment.

Pontius Pilate, so the legend goes, had a Jew by the name of Cartaphilus as a doorkeeper in his judgment hall. When Christ passed him on his way to Golgatha, he is said to have bade Him hurry. Jesus, turning to him, said to him, “I am going and you shall wait till I return.” Another version of this story makes of this Jew a shoemaker by the name of Ahasuerus, who, when Jesus paused before his shop to rest, drove Him forward. To him Christ then said, “I shall stand and rest, but thou shalt go till the last day.” In one of the German versions this legend is confused with the myth of the Wild Huntsman. The children of the Black Forest hear the spirit of this unfortunate being in the tempests and in the howl­ ing blasts of winter.

But whatever forms these different versions may take, basically they are all the same. They all have the same in­ terpretation. They all represent the wandering Hebrew, the persecuted Hebrew. There was not a day during which they did not suffer and this heritage of persecution has descended through centuries from generation to generation. Every Christian state has at one time or other persecuted the Jew. This fate has not only come upon them on account of their faith, (which could more easily be understood), but more often on account of the wealth which the Jew possessed.

For about five hundred years during the Middle Ages there was hardly a place of refuge for this afflicted race over the entire earth, except in Moorish Spain for a short period. What \vas the cause of this? The Middle Ages saw in them a de­ cidedly foreign, proud, different element. This was the crime of the Jew. This was what the Middle Ages wished to punish —through persecution. One of the cruelest regulations was that the Jew had to wear a certain colored badge of a certain design whenever he appeared in public. This badge of shame 3

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was to him much heavier than the burden which Atlas had to bear on his shoulders; it virtually broke the Jew’s back. He lost everything that he valued, his pride of race, the purity of his language, the loftiness of his spirit.

The Jew then monopolized the money market. That was the only field left open to him, since the Catholic Church did not permit its adherents to engage in such matters. Again the Jew was persecuted. Everyone wished to rob him of his money.

Nor was this lust to despoil the Jew restricted to individuals; whole communities had their property confiscated and then were exiled. They were hounded from one town to another.

They were driven from Vienna, Cologne, and Hamburg. And they were driven from Wittenberg, Trient, and Magdeburg.

Expulsions grew more frequent. When the Church finally permitted its members to engage in money lending, conditions became well-nigh intolerable. The Jews were no longer indispensible. One after the other the Christian states then expelled them. In the year 1290 Edward I. exiled them from England.

They were not permitted to return until about four hundred years later. (Shakespeare wrote about Shylock in 1595). 1394 marked the expulsion of the Jews out of France. Germany also drove them out, although she never acted as a unit. Where this ejection perhaps had the most disastrous results was in Spain, which drove them out in 1492. Many went to Holland, and some subsequently also landed on the American shores.

Wherever they were permitted to remain they were forced to live a life of stagnation—in the ghetto. At first this separa­ tion was a voluntary action on the part of the Jews, but later it became compulsory. Venice was the first city to have its Jewish district or ghetto. The ghetto was usually in the foulest part of the town and was surrounded by high walls with gates which could be locked from the outside—a regular prison. The Jew sank lower. He became a rag peddler and a dealer m * second-hand goods. His only kingdom was his home; his fa­ mily, his only subjects.

The Jews still suffer. They will not come to rest until the last day, like the pathetic figure in the legend. In modern times Russia has been violently persecuting the Jew. The move­ ment in Germany today is, however, very mild, much exagger­ ated in the American and English newspapers. Their hue and cry is on the same level with the editorials they printed during the World War about German atrocities in Belgium. If, how­ ever, things really are as bad as they are represented, we can only ascribe it to the curse which rests on the Jewish people.

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THE WAY IT’S DONE So by 2:30 p. m. on a Monday early in June the city had learned that in a neighboring town a farmer had been attacked by negroes wielding razors, that his body had been hacked to butcher-lengths and had been thrown into the river. This had happened on the Sunday before.

The daily paper, coming two hours later, surprised the people by making the gruesome facts a bit milder. The gist of the write-up was this: The farmer owned land next to the river and the negroes and their families had considered the land good camping-grounds. Without asking permission they drove th^ir Packards and Cadillacs (no kidding) thru fences and over hay. Long ruts showed where the cars hesitated, and the scenery soon became decorated with tin cans, napkins, and rubbish. At this moment the farmer and his helper appeared.

True western hospitality would have required the farmer to smile and ask pardon for not providing containers, a fireplace, and gravel-paths. Still, I think we can understand him when he practically 'blew up’，swore, vowed, gesticulated and in general reduced their joy to a ‘mood indigo’. With the help of • wives and children (reminds one of the Indians) the farmer and his helper were deprived of their pitchforks, soundly clubbed and driven off. The farmer was bleeding profusely from a dozen choice razor cuts about his head and shoulders.

This had happened in the early afternoon. The hired hand had noted the license numbers and the sheriff was called.

Late the same afternoon the sheriff came to the negroes’ homes on a street in Milwaukee. And were the negroes sur­ prised ? A lawyer had impatiently been awaiting the sheriff for hours. The negroes were placed in jail for a few hours, (matter of formality it seemed) were released on bail and the date of a trial was set. The write-up occupied two sections in the local paper. The town never had had many of the dark race living in its midst. The race of Ham always had been con­ sidered a band of cut-throats. This convinced the town. It had become useless to try to force the children to bed by telling them that a policeman or a bear was coming. To say, "a big black ‘nigger’ is coming” now made the most stubborn child hurry to bed even though it had nightmares and negro-dreams all night through. . .

If you still think there was no basis for this scare, you might take your father’s razor and cut the least bit of a notch in your face. Or imagine a Bledsoe or a Caloway with distend­ ed eyes and bared, grinning teeth hacking away at your head.

One month later the case was at a standstill. The negroes were free on bail, the farmer did not prosecute, and he and his helper were being held. The fact was that the negroes were 5

being represented by a successful criminal-lawyer, a ‘wind jammer’，who could, if called upon, prove that the sun consist­ ed of red-pepper. The farmer, only recently recovered from his wound, was in no financial or physical position to prosecute.

As one individual bringing suit against another it would take money and money to put the offenders behind bars. It would be very little balm for the farmer’s field or his abrasions or his respect to. see the negroes in a jail. The state and the county had not interfered.

•Two months after the occurrence the tqwn heard the last about the case. — Justice must have gone out to frolic in some unknown region : — After a solemn warning the negroes were dismissed. The farmer’s helper was fined two hundred dollars for disturbing the peace. And the farmer was fined five hun­ dred dollars and given three months in jail. He was charged with disturbing the peace, disorderly conduct, and assault with intent to do great bodily harm.

Paul Bentert INDIAN LORE AND THE SEMINARY It seems rather strange that our Theological Seminary should have any connection with an Indian love story. Yet, such is the case. The tale was first introduced to the Seminary by one of our fellow students. He found it in the form of a German poem written by a Mr. Quickert; it was published about fifteen years ago in the “Milwaukee Herold.” For the dates and facts of the story, we are indebted to the memoirs of Mr. Wm. F. Jahn, who was among the early settlers of the terri­ tory around Thiensville. With the kind permission of his son, Dr. Chas. H. Jahn, I have made use of these memoirs.

Pigeon Creek flows through the Seminary grounds and into the Milwaukee River about three quarters of a mile southeast of the Seminary buildings. In the year 1845, this junction was the site of an Indian village. These Indians were a branch of the Menomonee tribe,, which had settled in Waukesha County.

The Seminary hill (better known to the old settlers as Pigeon Hill, because of the large number of wild pigeons found in it’s woods) protected the Indian village from the cold, raw north­ west wind, with which the Seminary students and professors have become fairly well acquainted. Waubeka, a tall, strong Indian buck of exceptionally ugly appearance, and well in the autumn of life, was the chief of this tribe, s is so often the case in stories, this ugly chief had an exceptionally beautiful daughter. In this case we have the testimony of eye witnesses to prove that this was true. The princess was named Mequon— the English translation of the name is “the Dove.” Mr. Jahn 6

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tells us that he judged the princess to be about eighteen years old at this time.

During this same year, Mr. Jahn often met a young Indian buck, whom he judged to be in his early twenties. The first time they met the Indian pointed to himself and said, “Pewaukee.M It was in this manner that Mr. Jahn learned the Indian’s name. Through the same process he learned much of the Indian language. Pewaukee does not seem to have come from this branch of the Menomonee tribe. The two men became good friends. The Indian showed his white friend various herbs and roots which had medicinal value, and the two undoubtedly hunted together. Where these two found doves, quail, and rabbits in great plenty, we now see sparrows, crows, and gophers. Such small changes lead to dreams of reminiscence in older people and at times cause interesting memoirs to be written.

Soon Mr. Jahn met his Indian friend, who was accom­ panied by a beautiful Indian lass. This was none other than the princess. When they met, the Indian pointed to himself and again said, “Pewau反ee.” Then pointing to his companion he said, “Mequon.” He then pointed to some wild pigeons sitting in a nearby tree and also said, 44mequon.n Such was 1 manner in which the Indian formally introduced his friend the to his companion, and at the same time interpreted her name for him. The poet to whom we alluded before tells us that Pewaukee loved to hunt pigeons. Only if we keep the princess in mind, can we get the full significance of this. Can you not see them, happily chasing each other through the forest, or making garlands of the violets, which grow stems from twelve to fifteen inches long，on the banks of Pigeon Creek? As much as we would like to create such an impression, for such a wellmatched couple surely deserved to be happy, we dare not, if we wish to hold to the truth. Mr. Jahn tells us that as often as he and happy. saw them together, he never saw them laughing _ They were always sad—tragedy was written upon both of those lovely faces. Our memoirist tells us that it was evident that they loved each other. But then why the sadness? Surely Indians do not react differently to love from white people. The tragedy was caused by the old chief, Waubeka. He could not be won over to their cause. Whether his tribe was hostile to the one to which Pewaukee belonged, whether he had promised his only daughter to another, or whether Pewaukee*s rank was not high enough to permit him to marry the daughter of a chief, is not known. One thing is certain, the old chief did not approve of this love affair. And thus two lovely faces became lined with care and sadness.

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they carved signs on a stick of wood, which he then kept for the other party. On one occasion, when the Indian buck Pewaukee came to read the message his love had carved to him, he burst into tears and left without any explanation. It was the last of such occasions. The old chief must have laid down the ultimatum. It seemed as though the love affair had been cruelly ended. In reality, however, it hadn’t been ended at all.

There were consequences to which the chief gave no considera­ tion. Had he been able to see into the future, he undoubtedly would not have torn these lovers apart. But since he couldn’t, the tragedy was completed. In the fall of 1846, Waubeka moved his tribe to the town of Fredonia. It was not long after this that the princess, Mequon, died, presumably of a broken heart. Her cold, lonely grave is to be found on the highest hill near Elkhart Lake. When the old settlers at Pigeon Creek heard of her death, they named their township “Mequon” in her honor.

What became of the Indian buck, Pewaukee, is not known.

The poet tells us that he never again hunted pigeons. Is there anyone hardhearted enough to deride the Indian's vow? Mr. Jahn tells us in his memoirs that he never saw him again.

Possibly he joined his own tribe and wandered off with them.

Is it not more plausible, however, that he also found an early, lonely grave? Be that as it may, this tragedy nevertheless has a happy ending, for the poet tells us that their souls have long since been united in the happy hunting grounds.

H. A. S. ’31.

An English translation of the poem alluded to in this article

by Carl Quickert has just been completed. - Thinking it might be of interest to some of our readers, we have appended it to this article.

Pewaukee and Mcquon Where the gentle Mequonsippi Joins her crystal-flowing waters To the stronger, rougher brother, To the river of Milwaukee— There long since the simple wigwams Of the ancient Pottawatoms Stood, the homes of savage red men, Homes of nature’s simple children.

Shielded from the rough northwest winds By tthe western wooded hillside, Stoo d the wigwams looking eastward, Mirrored in the murmuring waters, Waubeka their warlike chieftain— Proud was he and self-willed— Held his dearest em a daughter, Meq'uon called, :pigeon.

W.as a maid of rarest:beauty, Mild and gentle was her temner.

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Dutiful with grace angelic; Apt in weaving willow baskets.

She, the pride of all the village, One day wandering in the wildwood, Searching out the healing simples For the cure of all the ailing, For the ease of all the suffering— Met a young brave and a handsome From the neighboring tribe to westward, From the nation of Menomonee, He was hunting the wild pigeons, Pigeons nesting in great numbers Near the limpid Mequonsippi, Was no sachem’s son, Pewaukee, Yet one of the best and strongest, Copper-hued, of mien most noble.

Face to face with gentle Mequon, Soon his heart 'yas full of longing For the sim pie c harms of Mequon— Soon forgot.his bow and arrow.

Often now to hunt the pigeon Drawn away was brave Pewaukee.

Often, too, the maiden Mequon Sought the fragrant woodpaths early For the healing roots and simples. ’Twas the old and well-known story, Ever new and never aging, Of two hearts in love united.

Came to Waubeka, the chieftain, One fair day the brave Pewaukee, Bared his love for pretty Mequon, Sought for wife the lovely Mequon.

Not consenting to his pleading, Hard of heart, the ancient chieftain Turned away the ardent wooer— Found no favor the Menomonee In the eyes of Mequon’s parent.

Turned away Pewaukee sadly, Bare of hope and full of sorrow— Came no more with bow an arrow On the hunt for the wild pigeon.

Mequon filled with lovelorn longing Pined away with pinion drooping, Pined and died the gentle pigeon.

On the lake of Elkhart—thus the story— Buried lies Pe'vaukee’s loved one; But their hearts are now united In the happy grounds of hunting.

On the Mequonsippi, town of Mequon, in the year 1933. Aug. Zich.

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APERITIF An annual tale of dolorous woe is about to be recited. No doubt, incessant reading of this little proem has become dis­ tasteful to you. Still it must be written every year as surely as taxes afflict this nation. Human nature is unbelievably forget­ ful and indolent. Only constant reminders can keep up a sem­ blance of a spark of sympathy for this paper and generate at least half-formed wishes to write something for it. But hell is paved with good intentions to write articles. Last year the response was a little better than it was for some time. Even then our poor editor was occasionally racked with despair occasioned by his failure to sift out sources of material.

Perhaps students think that this foreword could contain something new as an incentive. If no one will take his pen in hand himself and produce something without being goaded con­ stantly like an ox, I believe that he shouldn’t be asked to con­ tribute. If a composition is forced too much it becomes artifi­ cial and stiff. Johnson, under the stress of circumstances, could write Rasselas in a week. But you are no Johnson. When there is such a dearth of writers as at present, the editor is often compelled to accept things that he knows shouldn^ grace 10

the pages of our fair volume. As it is, he is little more than a proof-reader and scapegoat.

Let me picture a Black and Red editor’s Utopia to you.

Every month there would be a dozen or more well-written articles. All that the editor would have to do would be to select the best ones. The staff would hand in its columns two days too soon. Typists would clamor for more material. Advertisers would vie with each other for the honor of being so fortunate as to advertise in the Black and Red. But, Wordsworth laments, “alas, that cannot be.”

Volume XXXVII has been entrusted not only to the staff, but also to the student-body. It should be our aim to provide for its welfare more assiduously than ever before. Don’t con­ sider the task well-done if the former standard is merely main­ tained. To the first person to scale a height goes the glory, not to those trudging up the well-beaten trails. Plant a new standard farther up the slope. The bungling criticisms of the Black and Red that we hear so often are expressions of a thoughtless mind. Forget your petty cavillings in the sincere desire to accomplish something. Outdo yourself. Break out of your shell and start to peep, at least. Give your thoughts and imagination free rein. Let them ramble all over the page.

Then in a saner moment organize the whole. Do anything.

But, by the great hornspoon, don’t sit idly by and catch flies.

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Martin Franzmann，’28，left for Europe March 15. Mr. Franzmann, it will be remembered, won the Shorey Travelling Scholarship at the University of Chicago last year.

Clement Hoy lei，，ex—’92, now a Bishop in the Moravian church, wrote an article on 4'Ephraim in the Making^, which was published in the Peninsula Historical Review, Vol. III. Ephraim is a village in Door County.

Rev. E. Blake well,，19，of Racine, accepted a call to the Salem Lutheran Church at Milwaukee.

Rev. Waldemar Gieschen，’26，of Crivitz, Wisconsin, announces the arrival of a daughter. Congratulations!

Herman Haase and Marvin Schoenwetter, both ex-’33, stopped in at Northwestern one afternoon to visit with old friends.

Among the Seminary students who were noticed at the concert, April 6, were : Cornelius Trapp, Paul Heyn, Harold Warnke, John Dahlke, Robert Meyer, Edward Krueger, Hugo Fritze，and Erwin Froelich.

The concert further attracted Rev. Kirst, of Beaver Dam ; Rev. A. Dornfeld, of Richwood ; Rev. A. Schultz and family, of North Milwaukee ; Rev. Bernthal, of Trenton : Rudolf Timmel, ’29，and wife, ’30; and Robert Fuge, ex-’37, of Manitowoc.

Merton Albrecht, ex-’34，and Sam Lenz, ex-’33, were ob­ served visiting friends and classmates, April 5th.

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ex- '34, engagement to Florence Granke of St. Paul, Minnesota.

Best wishes, old man !

Edmund Sauer, ex- 36, at present enrolled at Marquette University, was a week-end caller at Northwestern.

Helmuth Rutz spent part of his Easter vacation about Watertown.

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“Is the present method of. selecting a cast for the annual play fair to the students V1 A. B. ’33 — Usually the person who tries out for a part in the play presented by the Literary Societies each year, has at some time acted in a smaller play. He then realizes his abilities, and the audience, some of whom will be on the committee for choosing the cast, can judge. On the basis of that former success or failure he is selected or rejected. Why isn’t that fair?

B. F. ’33 — The present system of selecting the cast for the college play is theoretically fair enough. Anyone interested in dramatic work should be entitled to a fair try-out in open com­ petition. In practice, however, there are various obstacles.

Generally speaking, if one does an especially good piece of work in the try-out, it is in too many cases considered a chance occur­ rence, and the committee is somewhat prone to consider it thus rather than to credit that person with abiliity. In other instances, the fact that some of the committee have such strong attachments to friends biases their selection. In my opinion, the system of giving upper-classmen, particularly seniors, pre­ ference is pernicious. Theoretically the upper classman is given preference only in the event that everything else : talent, ability to cooperate with others, faithfulness in work, and general attitude are equal. In practice I have felt that the fact that one is an upper classman outweighs most other considerations, and someone can always find enough good reasons why the lower classman should not be chosen. The consideration of some of the committee insofar as they tried to determine which person would feel more hurt at being left out of the cast also seems to me a stupid one, because I do not see how one can determine that question for anyone but one’s self. No reasonable human­ being, however, feels too downhearted if he knows that he has been defeated in free, open competition.

The members of the Literary Societies should give more careful thought to the people they choose to represent them on the try-out committee. If they would choose people with a higher patriotism to their school rather than to their class and 14

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friends, and if they would choose people who had some criterion of dramatic work and ability, and if they would choose students really interested in dramatics, the obstacles that I have felt to be existing would, I am sure, disappear.

J. R. ’33—Yes, when original sin has been done away with.

In the meantime it is a pitiful waste of time, patience, and every virtue to bear with half a legion of indiscriminate choosers who argue that every man must have a chance, whether he shows himself worthy of it, or not; who can effectually wrangle away a whole afternoon without accomplishing a thing.

A. M. ’33 —It is my contention that the present method is a poor one. Regardless of the most noble intentions exercised in the choosing of the characters, feelings are an element which will come into play and might be avoided more successfully by some other method. The present method wishes to give seniors a preference, a realism gone crazy (forgive me !). It seems to me that any change in this matter would be an improvement.

Permit me to suggest that our coach pick the people he’d like to work with.

E. Z. ’34 No. The present system is a mere formality to satisfy the student. Most of the members of the committee know little or nothing about acting and either choose or reject characters for personal reasons. A much better cast would be chosen and a better play would result, if the cast were picked by the coach.

J, V. ’36 — The present system of choosing a cast is a farce.

It is my conviction that the cast should be selected by the coach; and that his selection should be presented to the Literary Societies for their approval.

R. H. W. ’34 — Oh — well—there are various ways of choos­ ing a cast. I shall suggest the one which I consider the best: by all means do not cater to the rights of the student-body in choosing a selecting committee. We are still children apparent­ ly. Have a committee of only two, the coach and the student whom the coach selects as the student authority in matters pertaining to aesthetics and art. Put away the try-out system which was invented merely to gratify our ardent democrats.

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If it takes “a trifle longer to get upJ, after the sermon ,it shows interest in the sermon, according to a story in the D. M. L. G. Messenger. I hereby express an apology to all late risers whom I had suspected of sleeping through the ser­ mon. in the papers of “Christian schools’’ one occasionally reads short stories which attempt to illustrate some great scriptural truth. I’ve never yet found a short story that did not do this truth a grave injustice by the method in which the truth is put forth. This same thing applies to most of our so called * 'Lutheran novels”, undoubtedly written by some seriousminded person, and with laudable intentions, but by the very seriousness of his intentions led to disregard every rule of literature.

I wish the College Humor would exchange.

The Round Table of Beloit College provides very enjoyable reading. Of especial interest is the report of a questionnaire presented to Beloit students. Seventy-four percent of the Freshmen believe that Jesus Christ was “immortal，divinely conceived, and that he rose from the dead”. The Sophomores are evenly divided on the question, the majority of the Juniors answered in the negative and only seventeen percent of the Seniors believe in the divinity of Christ. Twelve percent of the pen and three percent of the women believe in the story of Jonah and the whale. The Round Table takes a stubborn pleasure m the sophisticated scepticism inculcated in the Beloit students.

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I The Stoutonia, the newspaper of Stout Institute, is publish­ ing a literary magazine which is to be known as Young Wings.

What’s wrong with this sentence? “Professor Slinger lead the singing.” A very small percentage of the Milton Seniors could find “both mistakes” in it. I’ve been unable to find the second mistake. The only possibility for a mistake lies in the use of “led” and that possibility was easily taken care of in the N. E. D. v: 15 B. In the same intelligence test, the highest average was attained by a Senior who ranks as one of the poorest in classwork. This again brings to mind that intrigu­ ing question, “What would those highly intelligent chaps be if they took an interest in classwork?”

A sign of spring: A Carroll sorority news reporter turns to poetry (?) as the medium for the news. Cheer up! It’s almost summer.

Hurrah! The depression is over! No, not because beer is back. The Lake Forest debate team has solved the banking problem, and the solution is the correct one because it has met with no “successful” opposition during an extensive debating season. (Pardon the “printer’s devil” for the emphasis put on “successful”.）Lake Forest further demonstrates its merits.

President Roosevelt has appointed Mr. Ickes, the father of a Freshman, Mr. Ickes, to be Secretary of the Interior in the president’s cabinet. Of interest to Northwestern students (tears of disgust) is the appointment of the former coach of the Chicago Bears, Ralph Jones, to be head coach at Lake Forest.

Northwestern plays Lake Forest in football on September 30.

The college silverware and the Old Gold and Black still in­ sist on the existence of Northwestern University .of Watertown, Wisconsin, although the laws of Wisconsin since 1911 state differently. The Old Gold and Black has compromised in so far that both Northwestern University and Northwestern College are favored with a copy.

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A sensational spurt in the last minutes of play netted Northwestern a victory over the Seminary on the Thiensville floor on March 18. The game was a ding-dong- battle through­ out, with the lead changing hands continually. Though the Seminarians controlled the tip-off during the entire game, this advantage was offset by some of the finest floor work and ball handling Northwestern has shown this year.

The Seminary broke into the scoring column on the first play when Rutz received a pass under his basket and easily pushed the ball through the hoop. The Sem’s lead was cut short, however, by consecutive baskets by Kusel and Schewe.

From this point on, it was a battle royal. Each team fought hard for possession of the ball, Northwestern perhaps having a slight edge over the Sem. quintet. Northwestern used chiefly short passes in its attack. The Black and Red frequently worked the ball to within the free-throvv area, only to miss easy shots. The Seminary, on the other hand, resorted to long passes and scored most of its points via that route. The score midway stood at 12—10, Northwestern leading.

The second period provided the thriller. Led by Kettenacker, the Seminary five ran its score up to 27，while the best Northwestern could do was to reach 19. Only a few minutes of play remained. The Northwestern players were having con­ siderable difficulty in penetrating the Sem. defense, and things began to look all Seminary. At this point, a basket by Zimpelmann from the midfloor started things going. His basket was 18

LfQiath ^ followed in quick succession by baskets by Raabe and Martin • Schewe contributed a point on a gratis shot. Zimpelmann hooked a spectacular shot from the corner and Northwestern was out in front, 28—27. But Pless of the Sem. dropped the ball in the basket, and the Seminary again led. Their lead, however, was short-lived, for Zimpelmann again swished the ball through the net and won the game for Northwestern. Just before the final gun Raabe put in a basket to cinch the victory.

Zimpelmann was outstanding offensively for Northwestern, leading the scoring with 11 points. Kettenacker of the Semi­ nary led his mates with 9 points.

Incidentally, the game wound up the season for Coach Kleinke’s cagers. Captain Martin climaxed his collegiate career with the superb playing he showed in every game of the season.

His steady work defensively and offensively will be missed greatly next year.

Northwestern F.G. F.T. F. Zimpelmann, f. 5 13 2 0 2 Kusel, f.

2 0 2 Raabe, c.

0 0 4 Hey li, c.

Koehler, c.

2 2 3 Kettenacker, Martin, g.

Raasch, g.

3 Schewe, g.

0 0 0 Schwartz, f.

13 6 12 Referee : Schewe (Seminary) The athletic board awarded emblems to the following of the basketball squad : Captain Martin, Nommensen, and manager Knoll, seniors; Zimpelmann, Schewe, R. Lemke, and J. Raabe, juniors^ Fredericks, sophomore; Kusel and Schwartz, fresh­ men. Zimpelmann and Schewe will lead the team next year as co-captains.

Seminary Rutz f.

Krueger f.

Pless c.

F.G FT. F. 1 2 2 1 2 2 3 0 1 0 1 0 4 1 3 2 0 2 11 9

CLASS BASKETBALL The race for the inter-class basketball championship was unusually hard-fought this year. At the close of the scheduled ' Freshmen were in a tie for first season, the Seniors and the place. The Sophomores and Juniors were also deadlocked with 3 games won and 9 lost. In the play-off for the championship, the Freshmen lost a heart-breaker to the Seniors, 13—12. The Juniors won the cellar berth by losing to the Sophomores, 24—16.

Roekle of the Freshmen won the season’s scoring honors with his total of 88 points.

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Glass Standings Pet. Won Lost •769 Seniors.......

10 3 .692 4 Freshmen..

9 •308 4 9 Sophomores .231 3 10 Juniors___ In the annual post-season classic, the game between the Varsity and the “All-Stars”，the pick of the class teams, the Varsity surprisingly was defeated, 24—23. The game was in­ teresting enough, as the score indicates, but there was much of the excitement and spirit missing that was evidenced in oth er years. Neither team functioned exceptionally well, lacking team work and missing many easy shots. The “All-stars” worked together well enough, however, considering that it was the first time they had played together as a team.

The Varsity was leading late in the second period and felt confident of victory when Maas of the “All-stars” grabbed the rabbit’s foot and connected with the basket from all angles and positions. His scoring spree was good enough to put the “All­ stars” out in front. The Varsity desperately attempted to over­ take the “All-stars” but fell short by one point. The Varsity had an opportunity to win or tie in the last few seconds of play when they were given two gift shots, but they failed to convert on either one. Failure to make good from the free-throw line was one of the team’s great weaknesses throughout the season.

Those representing their classes on the “All-star” team were: Biesmann, Maas, and Gensmer for the Seniors : Schultz, Siegler, and M. Lemke for the Juniors: Schroeder, Frey, and F. Tiefel for the Sophomores; Roekle, Schoechert and Mielke for the Freshmen.

Tri-State Intercollegiate Conference Northwestern welcomes a new member to the Tri-State Intercollegiate conference. At a recent meeting of the con­ ference delegates, Mission House College of Plymouth was elected to membership to replace Mount Morris College of Illi­ nois, which dropped from the conference because of the closing of the school. The conference now includes Milton, Wisconsin School of Mines of Platteville, Wartburg College of Clinton, la., Mission House, and Northwestern. At the conference, the Wisconsin School of Mines was officially awarded the football championship for 1932, and Milton was awarded the basketball championship. Football and basketball schedules for next year were also drawn up. The basketball schedule will be very much similar in arrangement to the schedule of the past season.

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September 23: September 30: October 14 : October 20 : October 20 : November 3: November 10 :

Seminary, here (tentative) Lake Forest, there Platteville School of Mines, here Open Dubuque University, here Wartburg, here Milton, there BASEBALL With the basketball season relegated to past history, Northwestern’s baseball candidates are awaiting the formal call of Coach Kleinke. Northwestern will play the first of. its ten games schedule on April 29, against the University of Wisconsin Extension School of Milwaukee here. No league schedule has been arranged, but the Black and Red will meet two of the TriState conference members, Milton and Mission House.

Prospects for the season are very promising. No men were lost last year through graduation. The Northwestern roster will include thirteen veterans. The veterans are Captain Biesmann, Buenger, Buch, Ehlert, Nommensen, Siegler, Schewe, Hotlen, Schroeder, Frey, Trachte, Koehler, and Schwartz. There is also a possibility that a “find” will be made among the new men.

Candidates showing batting ability will be especially welcome, since stick-work has always been Coach Kleinke’s biggest worry.

Hnscl)：ill Schedule April 29 : Milwaukee University Extension, here May G : Milwaukee School of Engineering, there May 12: Milton, here May 19 : Milton, there May 23 : Seminary, there May 27 : Mission House, here June 1: Milton, here June 6 : Seminary, here June 10 : Milwaukee School of Engineering, here June 15 : Alumni, here An effort is being made this year to work out a spring sports program for the benefit of every Northwestern student.

An inter-class kitten-ball league will be organized in both col­ legiate and preparatory departments and a definite schedule drawn up. These games should provide as many thrills and arouse as much interest as the inter-class basketball games.

Tennis will be played chiefly among the students and be­ tween classes. A conference league tournament will not be held, though it is probable that matches will be scheduled between representative teams of the schools in the conference.

Arrangements are being made for a conference golf tourna­ ment, to be held at Milton. Nothing definite has as yet been decided, but golfers from the five schools doubtless will meet as soon as the season gets under way.

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Former Locals Editors aver that the students have incom­ petent faculties of observation. The solemn declaration of the student himself is that nothing happens. Ergo since the thumbscrew, iron lady, and rack are now forbidden by merciful Law, the Editor must use his imagination. So, if any student is not satisfied with the column, let him remember that it is his own fault.

The snow which fell at the end of last month to the surprise of all except those who held implicit faith in the old adage about lions, lambs, and March, furnished great sport for those mentally and physically Sextaners. Kugler received the reward offered for the best target. A snowball thrown at him struck the heating pipe leading to the recitation hall, was banked to the iron pipe supporting the conduit, and glanced into the . astonished Freshman^ face.

Since I have mentioned the word “Freshinan”，I shall also mention the fact again that most of the members of this class, or perhaps of this caste, possess and smoke pipes of every size, color, and odor — from Mielke’s reeking corn-cob to many dainty pipes, smelling strongly of burning varnish. With these pro­ jecting at every angle imaginable, they solemnly sit around in the Vesuvius Club, ready to philosophize on any subject and on any pretext. Manifold are the words of wisdom which saturate the air. So many ideas are poured forth, that they bump against one another,、and as a result each idea is left quite senseless.

Spring is in the air. From many students who are shrewd observers of human nature, we hear that such-and-such a student must have spring fever, for he loafs, dreams, and, in short, does nothing. In many cases this observation is wrong. 丄 he students are getting the necessary experience and qualifi22

cations to hold a sinecure. The position they yearn for is that of Janitor at Northwestern. For since some board or other de­ cided to alleviate the burden, if it ever was such, of our philo­ sophers whom Fate made Janitors, this position is indeed enviable.

The basketball letters were awarded at an unusually early season this year. It is rumored that they are the ones left over from last year, when the Athletic Board yet tried to live up to a standard.

One gloomy afternoon, Witt decided he needed a nap. He told Liesener to wake him for supper. Liesener also wished to do homage to Somnus, and told Witt to rouse him at supper time. Result - both slept until 8:30. Perhaps it was a good idea, but it didn’t work.

The methods of the Rev. Dallman created quite a furor among the students. No basketball game was ever replayed with more oral fervor than was to be found in this discussion.

Karl Broecker was the author of an interesting lapsus lin­ guae. He misquoted “No taxation without representation” saying, “No legislation without taxation.”

The nights of April 2, 3, and 4 will remain indelibly im­ pressed in the minds of the friends and acquaintances of M. Toepel. On these three nights he stayed up after 10:30. What he did is not known. The prevalent theory is, that he was per­ fecting his rough calculations of the number of class periods he must endure before graduating. Some Sextaners, and even a Quintaner, have calculated the number of hours until June 16, at high noon. # The Sophomore Class had its examination in Greek syntax.

All Sophomores say that they are glad they are better acquainted with Greek syntax, for it is the supreme proof of the old Adam’s existence in so far as the great and pious men of Alexandria should feel the diabolical urge to invent that sort of plague.

Since beer is National, and not only Local, we’ll drop the subject.

The N Club has now drawn up a constitution. Soon it will be a legal organization. All wonder whether this last attempt to interest the student-body in athletics will succeed.

On March 15, Phi Gamma Rho presented its last progam.

Miss Arline Schumann rendered a waltz of Chopin excellently.

She is the first young lady to play piano on a literary program since the day of the renowned Vogel—Geweke duets. Judging from the dormitory gossip, the entire audience was well pleased.

Herbert Fleischer delivered an original oration, “The Progress in Radio Programs. ” The speech brought out rather sharply the weaknesses of radio programs and extolled the attempts at correcting- these evils. Rudolf Weyland delivered two German poems, one of Goethe’s and one of Schiller’s. W. Dobratz and 23

T. Mittelstaedt played a cornet-trombone duet. They were obliged to play two encores, which praises them as they de­ served. Herbert Resting spoke about our telescope and its disuse. The one act play, “A Marriage has been Arranged’’， was the last number of this program. Arnold Bolle and Clare Scheblak were the characters. Mr. Bolle, even to the surprise of the coach, played his part excellently. Miss Scheblak’s acting, as is to expected, was quite flawless. The entire program was praised highly by the critic. Professor Kiessling.

Marcus Liesener was Master of Ceremonies.

On March 23 the Philomathian Literary Society presented its last program. The Mixed Chorus opened the program with two pleasing selections. Paul Ben tert delivered an original speech on “Nonentity of Romance”. Gerhard and Norbert Ehlert played a clarinet duet, which, according to expectation, was excellently rendered. Adalbert Schultz spoke on 4'Goethe and Schiller as Friends”. His delivery, as well as the contents " of his speech, is to be praised highly. The Quartette sang “Soldier on the Shelf”，by Smalle. A scene from Schiller’s “Maria Stuart”, was given. Dorothy Groth, as Maria Stuart, and Erwin Schroeder, as Leicester, were the most important characters. The highest praise is due Miss Groth for her ex­ cellent enunciation, pleasing stage appearance, and expressive voice. Mr. Schroeder had the most difficult part, although it was short, but acted it masterfully. The critic, Professor Schumann, could find but little to criticize. Herbert Nommensen was Master of Ceremonies.

The new officers were elected. A. Bolle is President of the Philomathian Society; W. Hoepner is Vice-President; E. Schewe is Secretary. E. Zimpelmann is President of the Phi Gamma Rho Society; C. Toppe is Vice-President; G. Barthels is Sec­ retary.

The Mid-season Concert was given April sixth. It is scarcely necessary to say that it was a success. The program was : I. Overture—Enchantment................

■…Hermann Artist’s Life—Waltz......................

Joh. Strauss Souvenir de la Suisse, Polka..........

• ■A. Liberati Soloist—W. Dobratz

Orchestra—Prof. W. Herrmann, Director II. 0 Siisser Mai... ..Joh. Strauss Song of Sunrise C. F. Manney Mixed Chorus—Prof. A. Sitz, Director III. Punch and Judy Geo. D. Barnard Clarinet Duet Norbert Ehlert, Gerhardt Ehlert

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Male Quartette 1st Tenor E. Schewe 2nd Tenor........ R. Bicsmann

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Guion—Riegger ..Mark Andrews H. VVicke A. Bolle

T. V. Short

V. A1 and Pal Trombone Solo T. Mittclstacdt

Intermission. Free-Will Offering VI. Du, du liegst mil，im Herzen German Folk Song The Old Refrain............. ... ....... Fritz Kreisler In the Northland .......... ........... Clay Smith Male Chorus — Prof. C. Bolle, Director VII. Panorama一Overture C. L. Barnhouse Zampa — Overture__ L. J. F. Herold March —All America ___J. S. Taylor Band Prof. G. Westerhaus，Director

Sprig haz cob! Hattchoo, Whoishe!

Birds singing Merry rounds; Girls wearing Gossamer gowns.

Boys wearing hats Girls saying “Rats”！ Fogpry mists For Botanists Seeking flowers (?)

Amid showers.

Yes! Sprig haz cob to the cam bus. Hattchoo, Gesundheit!

Do I hear someone say, “What, are those two still trying to write Coed-notes?”

One morning Helen Arnold came to school practically _ speechless. Just what caused her to lose control over her vocal chords is hard to say. At any rate, she was the cause of much hilarity—callous Coeds! Finding delight and joy in another’s misfortune. Tempting questions, not answerable by nods or shakes, smiles or Jewish means, were showered upon her until finally, in a voice ranging from coloratura soprano to bass she cried, "Betty, can’t you make them stop?” And Betty, of 25

course, put a stop to it. Sometimes we wish that the preps would become speechless during recess, especially when they try to arrange an impromptu musicale, or when they practise their mixed chorus lesson.

Elisabeth Stern, who is now attending Columbus High School, called on the girls the morning of April 12.

Eleanor Reuschel had a rather serious operation performed on her loot at St. Mary’s Hospital shortly before Easter. She is recuperating at her home in Kaukauna. We hope that her period of recovery will be short and that she will soon be back to school.

Arbor Day is the day on which the preps, domineered over for once by their elders, haul all the furniture from the girls’ rooms to the west entrance outside of the Recitation Hall and permit the “fruesche Fruelingsluft” to permeate its rather per­ meable composition. Then pails of water are lugged from the kitchen to the rooms, and, in all seriousness, the so-called duties of house-cleaning are performed. Tattered curtains are jerked down and solemnly rehung and redraped. The Encyclopedia and the remains of a dictionary are dusted. Wall paintings and ah—mottoes are washed off to make room for newer ones.

The day after Arbor Day is the day you come down into the girl’s rooms rather hesitantly, and then knowingly shake your head and say, “Well, I suppose they had their fun.

After that everyone rushes madly about trying to find books and per­ sonal belongings left there the day preceding Arbor Day. And the Collegiate Coeds—what do they? Alas and alack! They act not their age.

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April —the month of showers and the return of beer— it’s all wet.

Teacher : “Now, children, take care and don’t catch cold.

I had a little brother once, but he died of pneumonia. He caught a terrible cold playing in the snow with his sled.”

Silence for a time.

Voice (from rear): “Who’s got his sled now ?”

Prof. : “Who can tell me when Dante died V1 Silence.

Prof.: “Why, not so long ago —” Class : “What!”

Prof.: “We celebrated the 600th anniversary of his death.”

Quote “Translating Greek and Latin is no cinch.”

“Yeah. Even Shakespeare realized that.”

How do you make that out V1 “Didn’t he write, ‘My kingdom for a pony ?’ ” Cottonwood Prof.: “What is the English for Baumwolle ?’’

“Red”： “tree-wool.” (i

Willie was asked to write a composition on winter. This is what he wrote : ‘ ‘Winter is a cold season. In winter many old people die because of the cold. Many birds also go to a warmer climate.”

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“Bobby, it’s time to go to bed now. Look ! All the little chicks are gone to bed.”

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Good Time How does that clock run that you won at the fair ?’’

“Oh, fine,—it does an hour in 50 minutes.” (i

Warden: * They're allowing you one last request before they turn on the juice. Have you any to make ?’’

Prisoner: “Sure, make ic orange juice.” *

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“Our new dog is just like one of the family.”

“Wl^ich one ?” 氺 氺本 The general was dining at the fraternity hall and was much impressed by the orderliness the housemother maintained.

Turning to her, he remarked with good intentions, “Madam, do you run this mess ?’’ The housemother, unfamiliar with army terms, indignantly replied, “General, I’ll have you know that you’ll never meet a group of finer boys than these.” *

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Gallant Atlas!

“Dear, when I dance with you I feel as if I have the whole world in my arms.’’

Silence!

Silently he entered the door. Silently he took off his shoes.

Silently he ascended the stairs. There his wife stood — she wasn’t silent.

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Silence so profound, you could hear a cough drop.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

LITERARY— The Son of the Heathland.

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Intimations of Insanity.

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Sugaring for Moths................

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The Development of Science

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EDITORIALS— You!

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A New Schedule

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

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

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ALUMNI MEETING...............

THE FORUM........................ .

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EXCHANGE........................... .

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ATHLETICS........................... .

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CO-ED NOTES ^..................... .

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THE BLACK AND RED Volume XXXVII.

Watertown, Wis., May 1933

Number 2

W.it^riowu. Wis.,

Till•: SON OF THE HEATIILAND It was one hundred years ago today. A middle-aged mother, of the poorer class in the city of Hamburg, had just given birth to another child. A few weeks later the child was christened Johannes after a venerable relative. To the comparatively old mother the thought of another child was none too consoling.

Another future must be planned. Yes—Johannes is your name; but what—tell me what will become of you? Thus desolately the thoughts of the mother wandered into the approaching decades. But For tun a was more optimistic.

T\venty years later Johannes Brahms had the pleasure of being introduced to Robert Schumann, the great leader of the Romanticists, who was also Germany’s outstanding critic in music. It was this Schumann who was to play such an import­ ant role in Brahms’ life. After the usual introductory formali­ ties, Schumann asked his youthly visitor to play something of his o'yn composing; but he had not proceeded very far with the C-major Sonata before the host said: 4<Clara must listen to this. Fetching his famous wife, Schumann said to her: “Here, my dear Clara, you will hear music such as you have never heard before; now begin the piece again, young man.” A little later Schumann said "to his pupil, Albert Dietrich, who later became renowned as a conductor, “There is someone come of whom we shall all experience wonders. Johannes Brahms is his name.” To Joachim, the great predecessor of the equally 28

great Leopold Auer, he said soon after, ‘ This is he that should come.” Brahms, he that should come, came also by coincidence in modest alphabetical order. Bach sowed the seeds of Classic­ al ism on highly fertile soil. Beethoven hoed and tilled the soil.

The seed grew to a beautiful flower. And this flower of Classicalism culminated in the “Choral Symphony,” the criter­ ion of musical art. Who would reap the ripening harvest?

Would he come? Or were they to await another one? Brahms arrived in time to reap the harvest. The fruit was overripe already. The harvest was immense. The impact of Brahms’ force rocked the music world, it split the music world. Some loved the music Brahms wrote—most of them hated it and decried him as an imposter. They hissed at the music when it was presented. They scoffed at the composer. Yes—nineteenth century civilization permitted itself this savagery to appease its animal passion. We can imagine Brahms grinning as he wrote some years later to Joachim, “They even tolerate my music now.” Who can help grinning, Strawinsky’s music is being tolerated somewhat already after twenty years of glowing rancor. If we remember what the music critic at a recent Boston Symphony Orchestra programme said of the reception of Strawinsky’s music when it was presented for the first time, we have an inkling of how Brahms1 was received when first presented. Dryden understood this savagelike, unappreciative lot of self-appointed and otherwise critics: “They who write ill, and they who ne^' durst write Turn Critiqes out of meer Revenge and spight.

Despite these colorful receptions of Brahms’ works, he con­ tinued to hold his own in this war of music. He continued, to write until his ill health toward the end of his earthly visit deprived him of this pleasure. i Brahms’ true education began after his twentieth year.

This was the period of his association with the well-known Schumann. Through this ideal acquaintance he came into con­ tact with poets, novelists, painters, and men of culture in every sphere of art. His bosom friends were Joachim, the great violinist, and Albert Dietrich, the great composer and conductor of the past generation. It is Dietrich who in memory of Brahms collected and compiled many of this great composer’s letters in the book, “Recollections of Brahms.” One can judge a person best by the type of conversation he carries on, by his companions, by his manners, and by his letters to his friends. In these “Recollections” one feels that Brahms always was a youth and that his sixty-four year stay on earth was like a brief call with the purpose of delivering a message. Just as the servant rises early in the morning to reap the harvest and in the evening leaves the field and gets his rest, his reward—so Brahms came with this inborn mission to close the period of 29

German Classicalism and at the same time to prepare the field for Romanticism. When this task was finished, without bother­ ing much about earthly rewards, he went to his rest, his reward. He was always busy and always at leisure. He did not lead a life segregated from human society; on the contrary, his life was a constant service which he took joy in performing even though his private interests might suffer. He gained in depth and breadth of vision and thought just by his service to make others happy. He interrupted his plans by gladly setting about to reconcile his father to his mother again, this, by age ill-assorted couple. His object in life then was to see his parents happy. Later he offered his untiring services to Frau Clara Schumann during- her husband’s illness. After Robert Schumann died, Brahms, in the capacity of the head of the family, directed the family affairs and saw to the publication of the great Romanticist’s final works.

In that excellent book “Johannes Brahms/* by Richard Specht, we are afforded an insight into the character of the man in the following- quotation: “It is impossible to imagine Brahms manicured and scented, and, though he was of the most scru­ pulous cleanliness in body and dress, he always had the appear: ance of one who washes with common soap at the pump, and knew nothing- of pomatums and perfumes.” One could say this also of his works. If we read the history of great artists, we often find the frills of their attire represented in their pro­ ducts. Walter Spry says, “If we study the lives of great com­ posers such as Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann, Franck, Respighi and Macdovvell, we find them men of simple tastes.

This is because the spiritual qualities were more important to them than superficial requirements.” Brahms enjoyed above all to play with little children and thought nothing of it to carry a child on his back and run with it through town, compelling many a questioning： look from curious spectators. He regretted that the children of the poorer districts of the city were shy of him, since they could not understand his dialect.

Johannes Brahms really wrote only one hundred and twentyone compositions. Even though he wrote purely orchestrally, he wrote only thirteen compositions for the orchestra. We had occasion to hear Myra Hess, the English pianist, interpret Brahms，D-minor piano concerto over a year ago. This D-minor concerto caused Brahms his greatest blows and sorrows in his youth and in his prime. This very same composition brought him his greatest triumph and joy when his days were drawing to a close. Not till then did the world look up to this composer as him ‘‘that should, come/1 During the past season we had the privilege of hearing at least two of the Brahms’ Symphonies, which are unusually broad in their orchestral conception and in the treatment of the themes. The songs of Brahms linger in 30

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one’s memory, if for no other reason than entirely for their simplicity and naivenes. The same can be said of the ‘ ‘Walzer. ’ ’ The “Hungarian Dances” are unusually fascinating for their broadness and vivacity. They are a set of good-natured, jovial marches of strong Brahmsian color. In his rhapsodies Brahms developed the true spirit of a rhapsody, in classical style.

This is he that should come, whose one-hundredth birthday we celebrate today. It is he that closed the door of German Classicalism and bridged a way to Romanticism, Brahms........... ........... placed on high Amid the tuneful Quire With flying Fingers touched the Lyre: The trembling Notes ascend the Sky, And Heavenly Joys inspire.’’一Dryden.

Rud. H. Weyland INTIMATIONS OF INSANITY One simmering day in August I was stretched out under a hickory tree. My straw-hat covered my face, allowing just enough room for me to hold my corn-cob where I’d had that tooth out. A cicada and a Field Sparrow were singing in lazy duet—in fact, there was no better spot for deep, philosophic thought. If prone be the position for observation, then supine is the piosition for contemplation. The very position, I recall, in whic h Newton made his first observation on gravity.

“Surely,” I thought as I lay there, “it might fall to me to make a discovery fully as important. Who can say,’’ I murmured, ‘ ‘that perhaps at this moment I am on the threshold of some­ thing great.” “fiey, once!” The shout broke off my mental flight like a bombshell. Slowly I rolled over on my side with about the same feeling Diogenes had when he found Alexander standing in his light. It is difficult to say what course my mind-would have pursued at sight of the person who was addressing me, if I had not seen him previously. It was Hershold.

Hershold was an object of considerable interest to stran­ gers, but the villagers through long familiarity paid no atten­ tion to him, no more than an apologizing “He’s sort of nutty, not dangerous, just a little touched in the head” to strangers.

There was nothing more dangerous about Hershold than the collection of questionable characters in his family name, which sounded something like a belch, a sneeze, and a gasp all uttered at the same time and held for three seconds. But nevertheless it fit Hershold’s features better than his given name. He was regular enough from his boot soles to his torn collar. At least there was nothing sufficiently peculiar to show through his overalls and blue shirt. His peculiarities began at 31

I ^Math the Adam’s apple and proceeded from that point northward with increasing intensity. If Hershold’s eyes were the doorway to hi ssoul, then they certainly gave promise of very diversified inner life. They were a sort of empty blue and were so fixed in their gaze, that it took two men to look him in the eye at one time. The control which governed them was very, very remote.

But still one could be forgiven for not noticing his eyes at first glance. One was likely to carry off nothing more than a memory of two enormous ears flapping idly about. To one who had travelled in out of the way places, the first face to face encounter with Hershold suggested an Asiatic elephant about to charge.

To top it all off, he had a crop of fuzzy, white hair which curled and frizzed about his ears, not so much like sea spray as actual foam.

Hershold was leaning against a rail fence to my right, with only his head and ears showing over the top rail. To my still semi-detached mind, his head suggested a two-handled mug of beer.

“Been sleeping?” asked Hershold, regarding me from various angles. Under ordinary circumstances this prying into my private affairs would have rankled considerably, but I had a soft spot in my heart for Hershold. True, he had not received much of an education, but he had that simplicity, that disdain of luxuries which marks the true philosopher. Hershold’s one and only source of education was a Sears-Roebuck catalogue, which was the one and only volume in his posession. He often came to me for aid when he met a particularly knotty passage.

I wondered if it was to ask for my aid in some crux interpretum that he’d sought me out to-day.

“Ha吟sewed buttons won’t come off”，remarked Hershold gravely, his spare eye searching the sky for signs of rain, I recognized the quotation. It was contained in an advertise­ ment for clothes of some sort. It met with my whole-hearted approval. I saw that it not only was a statement of genuine truth, but that it carried a deep philosophic thought behind it, too. ，But Hershold had other things up his sleeve. He had most likely threshed out this particular statement by himself and had merely passed it on to me to think over in my spare time.

“Centrifugally plated discs — perfect workmanship’ ’’， chanted Hershold, quoting from a eulogy on cream separators.

I pondered a moment. The quotation was a gem. “Surely” I thought, “the depths of his artistic feeling must be profound.”

—and suddenly I had an inspiratiion. I beheld a light!

I had once been present at a dissection of art by a certain council which established the minimum limit of art somewhere between a bumble-bee and a louse, poor flea to have missed greatness by mere hair. It had occurred to me at that moment to present the particular council with a Sears-Roebuck catalogue 32

i and to have them go through it carefully and list all the articles under the headings “true art’’，01: “not art”. Unfortunately I was never able to present my idea to the council, and so it seemed unlikely that the- work would ever be.undertaken. I had hesitated from undertaking it alone, not having absolute confidence in my artistic taste. But here, I felt, was just the man for me. Not only did he possess a keen artistic sense, but he was also well versed in just what field into which our work would take us.

It took some time to convince Hershold and still more to make him clear on just what the work was. But thing was made clear, it was astounding what progress we made. It was the apple season, and we found ample opportu­ nity to pore over the catalogue, seated side by side.

I will not take the time to tell of the long hours and days we spent hard at work. There were days when we became so absorbed in the subject that we forgot all about eating. But one thing I shall remember out of it all, was Hershold’s astoundingfamiliarity with the book. I believe he had actually mem­ orized it.

It was three months and eleven days after we had first taken up the scent, that we passed from vises to farm implements and through to chicken-wire and so to the end. Although the work had certainly been one of the most interesting tasks I’ve under­ taken, I’ll admit it was with genuine relief that I jotted down the last and finest grade of chicken wire on the “true art” list.

There were a number of things upon which we could not agree. There was the case of bicycle spoke, which Hershold wanted to include under “true art，’，but I protested on the ground that the thought behind it was not sufficiently high and lofty.

“Heavily nickel plated, polished” quoted Hershold protestingly, but I would not give in.

Our work was done for the good of humanity. The question of money never occurred to us. And our only regret is that no publisher has yet had the urge to publish it and place it before the people. He had an offer to sell it to Paramount, who affirmed that they saw great possibilities in it as a thriller, but we decided not to demean ourselves.

We received numerous letters from intelligentsia who were interested in our work. Most of them were very inspiring1.

One, however, expressed an opinion which I have since given much thought. I will answer it here.

“My dear Mr. Smool, * I cannot detect a single passage which would lead one to share your opinion that the SearsRoebuck catalogue is merely an underhand attempt on the part of Messrs. Sears and Roebuck to corrupt the youth of the nation.

In fact, I am positive that they had no such idea in mind.

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Although I admit some portions might be found wicked by a mind naturally evil, I do not consider them sufficient cause to pronounce such a verdict as you have stated. No, I would not agree to expurgation of any sort.”

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SUGARING FOR MOTHS The two chief methods for collecting moths are with a light and by sugaring. The latter is the more interesting and productive of specimens. It is based on the inordinate desire that many moths have for sweet substances.

The recipes for making the sugaring are about as numerous as those for baking mothers biscuits” and vary according to the choice or fancy of the collector and the materials at hand.

Most of them include brown sugar with the addition of some liquor such as stale beer (any percent), cider, or rum, or a combination of all. If no liquor can be obtained, or if the quantity is limited, a cheap grade of molasses will also serve the purpose. A few drops of asafoetida makes the mixture still more attractive (to the moths), but care should be taken that the bottle is corked up tightly again. This is well stirred and mixed so that it spreads easily but does not run badly. A little flour may be used to thicken, if the mixture is too thin.

The preparation is applied with a brush to the bark of trees, stumps, fence posts, and the like shortly before sunset.

A strip three inches wide encircling the tree is sufficent.

Starting- out from some favorable location as a base, it is best to lay out a circuitous route, sugaring every few feet. Twenty trees will be enough to keep one person busy. The best places to sugar are along the borders of woods, orchards, or marshes.

As soon as darkness sets in, the moths, attracted by the sweet penetrating odor, make haste to the banquet tables that have been spread for them. The materials now needed are several cyanide bottles and a dark-lantern. An ordinary lantern with a newspaper placed on one side, or a little flash-lantern will serve. A few drops of chloroform put in each cyanide jar before setting out will prove to make the cyanide more effec­ tive. It requires something of a good memory to bear in mind the location of all the trees that have been, baptized. The sugared trunks must be approached quietly, and the light can be turned full on them only after one is very near to the tree.

The revelers, blinded by the lantern, will be seen eagerly sip­ ping the sweets with their long uncurled proboses, lifting them from one cranny in the bark to the other, their eyes sparkling 34

like fine pin-points of fire. The semi-intoxicating mixture is a . real treat.

Now with lantern hung on the arm and the bottle in hand, the open mouth is carefully brought just a little below the specimen desired. The lower ones are taken first and then those higher up, much in the same manner that wild turkeys in a tree were formerly shot from the bottom of the tree upwards in order not to disturb those above. Sometimes, however, the top one may be a prize worth the sacrifice of all of those below.

A little flick of the fin ger, cor cover above the head of the moth will cause it to drop down immediately into the open bottle. _ The bottle then is quickly closed. After a minute the flutterings cease. The majority of moths drop directly downwards when disturbed, but a few have the habit of flying away in any direction. A certain amount of practice is required to catch these, and many a time a fine specimen will escape unscathed in spite of all the speed and care in manipulating the bottle. Or it will disappear in the darkness before one can approach the tree or before everything is in readiness for the capture. Some are more easily frightened or are more wary then others and leave at the least noise or flash of light Patience and a certain amount of self-restraint as regards oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tongue is often necessary.

In this manner, one tree after the other is visited. It is not advisable to put too many moths in one bottle at the same time, in order to avoid their beating against one onother and rubbing off the fine scales on t*he delicate wings. After the entire round has been made, the bottles are emptied for the next trip. If a sufficient number of trees have been sugared, there need be no time for the rest. By the time the last has been deprived of its guests, others will be back on the first tree. Those that escaped capture the first time are likely to risk their lives again and return for a second drink. This tippling is carried on until midnight, although the earlier part of the evening* is the most popular time.

The moths, however, are not the only insects to indulge in the sweets. Multitudes of black ants are not slow in joining1 them, although the moths object to intruders running all over their repast and compelling them to change their position con­ stantly in their attempt to remain unmolested by these pests.

The ants, however, have the greater appetites, and if all the molasses or beer has not been drunk up, they are certain to be still busy the next morning, struggling hard to drain the last bit of moisture that is still left in the sugar. Occasionally a butterfly may be found on.the sugared spot the next day, but this is not often the case since butterflies are much more tem­ perate and refined in their habits and confine themselves largely to nectar.

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Night-flying moths of many colors and innumerable kinds, large and small may be obtained, but the genus Gatocala, of which there are over a hundred species in our fauna, are especially susceptible to capture by sugaring. This genus con­ tains many strikingly beautiful forms which, together with the Giant Silk-worm moths, are the amateur’s delight. The raising and the lowering of their dark and protectively-colored upper wings over the brightly banded lower set presents an interes­ ting semaphore effect. The lower wings of the Gatocala Gara, one of largest and most beautiful of the genus, are not unlike our college colors. But when only the fore wings are exposed it is small wonder that it is rarely seen during the daytime, be­ cause it resembles its surroundings so closely. The Gatocala relicta might be mentioned as one of the finest insects of local occurrence. The C；i(ocala conciimbcins, however, appears to be the most common species taken by sugaring.

In general, warm, sultry nights are best for sugaring, but no rule can be set, because insects are often caught in large numbers when they are least expected. The captures should be mounted the next morning, or relaxed if they are to be spread later.

A. Bussewitz TIIE DEVELOPMENT OF SCIENCE To primitive man the universe was anthropocentric. It was a comforting and essentially egotistical theory for man to regard himself as the center of the sidereal universe. As the centuries rolled by and man become more civilized the anthro­ pocentric theory was forced to yield to the geocentric theory developed by the school of Ptolemy. After thirteen more centuries passed, and man had become yet more intelligent, educated, and unassuming, Nicholas Copernicus introduced and established his theory, and the heliocentric theory succeeded the geocentric. And now, because of our unusually rapid de­ velopment in the past four centuries, a new theory has already matured. Modern scientists assure us that the sun is not at all the center of the sidereal universe, but the center is 3 -* 17 ciphers, or 300 quadrillion miles (ca.) from the sun. This, I presume, is also subject to correction. Thus the significance of man and his position in the sidereal system has dwindled to less than nothing. Such overwhelming modesty on the part of the scientists does not seem quite necessary, although they laudably and sincerely affirm that science, even if it minimizes man’s position in the universe, nevertheless enhances his significance in the cosmos as a comprehending individual. ; Modern science performs remarkable and admirable mira­ cles, which often border on the intangible and unattainable— 36

even on the occult. But the hypotheses advanced in explanation of these miracles are laughable to anyone the least bit sceptical.

True, these theories seem to hold good, but the theories- of Archimedes, which now seem so ridiculous to us more rational, sophisticated people, endured for sixteen centuries before they were questioned and disproved, when someone wished to pump water higher than thirty-two feet. And so it will doubtlessly be with our modern concepts. G. B. Shaw, the Irish thinking vegetable, as Swift would say, expressed the occult and myster­ ious quality of modern science rather cleverly in the introduction of his play, Saint Joan: “The medieval doctors of divinity who did not pretend to settle how many angels could dance on the point of a needle cut a very poor figure as far as romantic credulity is concerned beside the modern physicists, who have settled to the billionth of a millimeter every movement and position in the dance of the electrons. Why men who believe in electrons should regard themselves as less credulous than men who be­ lieved in angels is not apparent to me. In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they at least had the evidence of their senses; we believe it to be round, not because as many as one per cent of us could give the physical reason for so quaint a belief, but because modern science has convinced us that nothing that is obvious is true, and that everything that is magical, extraordinary, gigantic, microscopic, heartless or outrageous is scientific.’， It. is evident that modern science, in imposing its weird theories, although they are interesting, as all myths are inter­ esting, taxes the imagination of man to the utmost. To its students the abdication of common sense is the first requisite.

The explanations of the movements of the stars and the forces of nature as the Romans and Greeks developed them are certainly just as plausible as the explanations the modern scientists give; and the former have this advantage, that they clothe their explanations with romance, glamor and beauty.

R. H,

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YOU! You are under indictment. I accuse you of dishonesty; dishonesty to your organizations, to the student-body, and to the school. The accusation is this: Instead of selecting the person best suited to the office under consideration at an election, you are eliminating1 anyone who may prove strong and enthusi­ astic in his work; anyone who may raise a ‘‘rumpu尹You are electing to the executive positions of your organizations men who will eventually kill the organizations through indifference which leads to atrophy. Instead of considering the qualities of leadership and the all-important enthusiasm of the candidates, you are letting personal dislikes decide your vote. Your voting follows a process of reasoning in which you eliminate candi­ dates entirely for personal reasons until you have remaining as possibilities some persons so weak or indifferent that there is a minimum of possibility that you may be affected by the antics of the successful candidate. An apt illustration of the attitude is the remark overheard at a recent election: “I don’t give a d ..... who is elected, just as long _ as . it isn’t .

From the preceding, this accusation is a logical sequence, namely： You, official of an organization, are not the man best 38

fitted for the position you are holding. In fact, you have been elected for a certain lack of enthusiasm, or possibly even for a weakness of character. ..

Something must be done about this accusation. If it is false you must prove it so. If you are a capable executive, if you are a man of ability and a man of spirit, you will resent the slurs made against you and the student body and you will prove them false. It should be so easy to accomplish this. One of the premises of my accusation against the electing student-body is the hypothesis that the officials are incapable and lacking in enthusiasm. If this statement, therefore, is proved false, the entire accusation falls. This is a simple matter if you are cap­ able, but if you aren’t you’ll have to do some mighty clever bluffing to gain an acquittal, because your defense must, can only consist in accomplishment on the part of your organization.

Accomplishments can only be the result of your ability, coupled with enthusiasm. Therefore, by showing through accomplish­ ment that you have the ability that an executive should have, by imbuing your organization with life and raising it to a higher level of accomplishment you will exonerate both yourself and the student body. Whatever you do, don’t excuse yourself by saying that your power does not extend further than to l>c众 for order in meetings.

There is a new organization at Northwestern. It is an un­ known quantity. Its efficacy, its sphere of activity and its in­ fluence are unhampered by tradition or precedent. Therefore its activities and its accomplishments will stand out for any careful observer as if in silhouette. I think that the trial of this organization and its president will prove to be the best trial that can be arranged for my accusation. It is extremely im­ portant for the welfare of this organization that its officials have a clear conception of its possibilities and the necessary enthusiasm to make the most of these possibilities. You, Mr. President of the “Nu” club, are the person who will set the precedent of activity of a club that is to be either an influence, a powerful factor in the life and activity at Northwestern, or just another board or club which performs certain chores m a specified field of activity and which performs them inefficiently.

The eyes of the critical will be upon you. You will be the representative of the defense, the student-body and the men it has honored. Lack of accomplishment on your part will mean failure to convince us of your innocence. Accomplishment is acquittal. Show us!

R. S. A NEW SCHEDULE Five years ago a new schedule went into effect, according to which we have four classes in the morning and one in the 39

afternoon. Perhaps there were reasons for it, but it has its bad points, as we shall try to show.

The morning classes close at 12:30. By mutual assent twelve o’clock has been designated as meal time throughout North America. Eleven o’clock, 12:30, or one o’clock could also have been chosen, but twelve o’clock is quite well established.

We would do well to leave it alone. Students boarding at Col­ lege can accomodate themselves to any noon hour. There are, however, students who do not board at College, who live or board with families forced to abide by the rule of a twelve o’clock dinner. No laws are being broken by simply disregard­ ing these town students. But the world, strange as it may seem, does often try to please as many as possible. In this case, clos­ ing at 12:00 o’clock would be appreciated very much by these town students. We admit that it is asking quite a bit to change the routine of 150 College students in order to accomodate some 50. But the dormitory students would also be benefitted by another system especially to regard to the musical organizations.

In the organizations to which we belong,,the director often advises us to ‘get some pep, some life, cion’ t be so listless/ Probably indolence calls forth these remarks, but there is also the matter of singing1 after eating. .

In our experience we were told not to play any wind in­ strument until an hour after eating a meal. We are told that vocal instructors advocate such a practise for good singing.

(Practically, does that steak you just ate seem to be getting the treatment it deserves when you sit next to cordon of violinists getting their “a’s”？）Let it suffice to say that to get the most beneficial results from digestion or music, it is a good idea to indulge in them at different times.

We submit a schedule, digressing somewhat from our pre­ sent routine : We would like to see the classes close at twelve o’clock noon instead of 12:30，thus permitting town students to eat their meals with their landlady or their families. The after­ noon class would be between one and two o’clock, leaving the hour from two to three for the musical organizations. This will pro­ vide five hours for practise. The organizations need a total of seven hours weekly, since all but the mixed chorus practise twice weekly. The two additional hours could be taken care of in the same manner in which they are being taken care of now ; by having hours after three or five o’clock.

Those taking part in sports would be benefitted by an hour of free time from two to three on days when their musical or­ ganization does not meet. Those working while attending school would have an additional hour in the afternoon to work or study in.

Starting- school at eight instead of eight-thirty would shorten the morning study hour by one half. Collegiates, who have few afternoon classes, could make up for this lost time in the after40

noon, and the Preps not belonging to the musical organizations could study during the time that these were meeting.

In short we suggest having classes from eight to twelve and from one to two, devoting the hour from two to three to band, orchestra, or chorus practise.

Paul Bentert

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ALUMNI

Mr. and Mrs. 0. A. Halverson, St. James, Minn., announce the engagement of their daughter Amy, a graduate of St. 01af，s College, }30, to Rev. H. J. Wackerfuss,，27, of Bison, South Dakota.

“Happy” Klein, ex-’25, was seen about the place on May 3.

Rev. Phil. Koehler, *05, and H. Koch, ’03, watched the son of the former pitch against the University Extension here, April 29.

Ger. Herzfeldt, ex-’33, visited former classmates here on April 23.

Otto Engel, ’31，spent a half day of his Easter vacation visiting friends about the building.

Amos Schwerin, ’31, was here for the baseball game with the University Extension.

Rev. R. Gamm, J24, Faulk ton, S. D., was married to Miss Edna Wheeler some time ago. Rev. E. Gamm, ’14, brother of the groom, officiated.

V. Schultz, ’31, will begin to teach a parochial school at Caledonia, Wis., about May 15.

Theo. Mahnke, ’26, visited his brother, April 29.

Rev. R. Kremer, ’20, preached for Rev. P. A. Jahnke at Fort Atkinson on Good Friday.

A girl was born to Rev. and Mrs. Immanuel Frey, ’10，of Hoskins, Nebraska.

Rev. E. Blakewell, ’19，was installed at Salem Lutheran Church, Milwaukee, on April 23.

Gerhardt Meyer, ex-36, now attending the Mayville Normal School, at Mayville, Wis., visited friends at Northwestern April 22.

Louis Bleichwehl, '29, and H. A. Schultz, *31, were weekend visitors at Northwestern.

Rev. Herzfeldt, *06, of Appleton, Wis；, who has been com­ pelled to give up his charge on account of ill-health, delivered four sermons for Rev. F. C. Weyland, Larsen, Wis. during Easter week.

Rev. G. Pieper, ’09, of Fond du Lac, was here on business, April 28.

From Beaver Dam comes the news that Elmer Gentz, ex-’34, is as hale and hearty as ever.

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^lunutt Following the noontime luncheon the Alumni Society held its annual meeting on Commencement Day, Thursday, June 16, 1932, at 2:30 P.M. The president of the society, the Reverend E. B. Schlueter, presided. The minutes of the previous meeting were approved as read. Members present: Seventy-one, re­ presenting 36 classes from ’72 to ’31. The Reverend E. Pankow, ’72, only living representative of the first class to be graduated, was present. The Reverend Pankow had matriculated at North­ western College on the day it first opened its doors for the recep­ tion of students, September 14, 1865.

Admitted into membership: the twelve members of the graduating class of 1932，the Reverend W. Schaefer, ex_’10，. and Mr. B. E. Meyerhoff, ex-’02.

Dr. J. H. Ott, treasurer, submitted the following report for 1931-32 : Receipts Cash on hand, June 16, 1931， $103.75 Due 1931-1932,....... ............

226.00 Total.......... ..........

329.75 $ 329.75 Disbursements New Book..... .............

•75 Transferred to fund -219.30 Rent for Deposit box _• 2.50 Envelopes and Stamps 5.60 228.15 Total.....................

228.15 $101.60 $101.60 Cash on hand in open account 32.50 Interest not invested $134.10 In savings account, see book Investments In old book $4,956.32 From open account...................... $219.30

Interest.................................

117.50 336.80

336.80 $5,293.12

$336.80 paid for our equity in the Chilean bond M2703.

This report, after having been audited by the Reverend P. J- Bergmann, the Reverend R. Kremer, and Prof. H. W. Schmeling, was adopted as read.

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The Society honored the memory of the Reverend Alexander Korn, ?06, by rising. The Secretary was instructed to extend the sympathy of the Society to Mrs. Korn.

A short and informal discussion ensued on the librarybuilding matter. ， < The Reverend G. Schoewe of the golden jubilee class of ’82, and the Reverend W. Pankow of the class of *12, observing the twentieth anniversary of its graduation, related a few interest­ ing reminiscences.

These were followed by the singing of the college-song.

The committee on the noontime luncheon of 1930, Professor T. Binhammer, chairman, was requested to arrange a similar luncheon on Commencement Day, Thursday, June 15, 1933. A vote of thanks was given to the committee for its past services.

All business having been completed, adjournment followed at 3:20 P. M. Walter A. Schumann, Secretary.

Notice: Luncheon and meeting of <lic Alumni Society.

On Commencement Day, Thursday, June 15, 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 gymnasium.

E. Benj. Schlueter, President.

®I|e ^nritnu ‘‘Would the establishment of a class in advanced shortstory writing optional to all upper-classmen who are interested or capaDi ble丨 be advisable?”

C. T. ’34 From the standpoint of a harassed Black and Red editor a course in advanced short-story writen or advanced composition would be a highly desirable thing. There would be an ever-ready supply of material that could be relied upon, in event that the students not taking up the course would con­ tinue not contributing to the paper.

Besides, the literary career of future ministers shouldn’t come to an end abruptly, as soon as they have their B. A. safely stowed away. The benefits that would accrue from a course in which one takes an interest would be far greater than those wrung out of subjects in which progress is at a standstill.

C. H. *34 Yes. First, it would give the student very much needed practice in formulating his thoughts. Secondly, it would go far in establishing the student’s own individual style, and he would also learn how to arrange his material. Thirdly, this 45

class would excite or urge him to work out original plots and characters. Fourthly, it would give the student practice in de­ scription, a thing in which many of us fall short. Fifthly, this class would aid our college paper, the Black and Red, to a con­ siderable extent. The contributions would be well written, more interesting, and more original.

The success of this class would also be heightened by the interesting character of the work. This class should be and easily could be made a very interesting class. The short story would be a product of the students own work, and he would rejoice in his work as he improved in it.

P. B. ’34 An advanced short-story writing class will be of value especially to upper classmen, since the emphasis on this subject in lower classes has given way to other phases of litera­ ture. Now that the simplest composition requires such a great amount of time we realize the value of practice and time formerly spent on the short- story. We could write stories for our own amusement and benefit, but no criticism and no com­ parison with others (not to mention appreciation) leave us no incentive.

F. W. ’34 Not a bad idea at all, provided it does not inter­ fere with other activities. Its chief aim and purpose is to de­ velop that much needed taste for good style, which is lacking in about 90。of the student body. Not to say any thing con­ cerning upper classmen some of whom even worship Edgar Guest!

R. C. S.，34 Without a doubt a worthy movement, and if at all possible, include it in the curriculm. Any subject which requires the student to do original work, as short story-writing does, is undoubtedly beneficial and should be included in a course, as our own, which at present gives us little opportunity to enter such an interesting field.

C. S. ’35 Yes, a class in short-story writing would not only be an excellent addition to our present English course, but would be a material aid in self-expression.

Being elective it would, of course, only include those espe­ cially interested in the subject. .

R. H. ’35 That by far the greater majority of students cannot even tell their nephews and nieces stories is sufficient proof that such a course would be desirable.

C. B. f35 There is no doubt that a course in short-story writing would be a very beneficial innovation at Northwestern.

In my opinion, the development of student originality has been very much neglected at our college. A short-story class would i}ot only give the student an incentive for attempting some literary work of his own creation, but the technique of writing such a production as well.

But the question is, is the time available for such a course?

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Our full schedule gives sufficient answer. Any constructive measure such as a short-story writing class is impossible at Northwestern until some concession is made by our present all­ exclusive scholastic program.

JR. ’33 Absolutely not. The present course offers enough subjects to occupy any student’s time, and duty demands thoroughness. An optional course in a subject so light as short story writing, which we consider only of ephemeral importance in literature anyway, might very easily induce students of slothful or perverse inclinations to lavish their time and inte­ rest on it at the expense of the more substantial studies.

Journalistic ideals developed thus are quite unworthy of our institution and certainly harbor dangers.

THE NORTHWESTERN PLAYERS 0

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The Galvin College Chimes of Grand Rapids, Michigan, contains a series of interesting discussions. A Senior wrote an article entitled “Disillusionment”. Unfortunately the num­ ber containing this article is not in the reading room, although six articles referring to it are in the three numbers on the table.

The gist of the article, a severe criticism, is this : “He entered Calvin’s halls with high ideals and a sincere resolution to seek out true happiness. His ideals were not realized and as a result he has lost them.” In refuting this, the Sophomore accuses the Senior of belonging to that class of students ‘ ‘who have not yet subjected their ideals and dreams to the acid test of reality and still expect the rest of the world to measure up”. For the benefit of such students he writes an article called “Idealism and Realism” in the next issue of The Chimes. In this he sug­ gests way by which we all can swim with the inexorable tide of reality and can still treasure our idealism which is the only element that gives color and meaning to human existence.”

Unfortunately the solution is a hopeless confusion between alt­ ruism and reality, between individualism and idealism. His secret of happiness lies “in reviving the altruistic nature and in effectively shielding our individual nature”，thus retaining our ideals and guarding against cynicism. In a very bombastic article a Senior writes in defense of his classmate and accuses the underclass man of the unforgivable crime of being a So­ phomore.

“I am the chewer of my cud ; I am the swinger of my tail.’’

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“Me Imperturbato*7 by Henley, which also appears in the Chimes.------By the way, the roster of the editorial staff of this excellent paper sounds like a telephone directory of the days and land of Dietrich Knickerbocker. News items in the paper also lead us to conclude that Calvin is primarily a school for Dutch Americans.

We are keenly happy to extend our keen condolence to the Platteville Miners who are suffering a keen loss to their football team by graduation of the giant Soderburg, a mighty keen fullback.

The Minnesota Junior College conference, of which Doctor Martin Luther College of New Olm is a member, is including school publications in conference competition.

The Milton Review prints a daring demand that collegiates be allowed, yes, encouraged to learn the world’s most popular pastime, dancing. The article was occasioned by the sorry response to an invitation to an informal dance which was given for the benefit of the Milton College Glee Club after a concert in West Allis. I wonder what the reaction would be if some “Kafteeklatch” should offer the same opportunity to some of our organizations upon their annual tours.

The Kouml Tabic surprisingly informs us that “Beloit College has survived the tide of naturalism; Jesus still guides the weary to rest here; and the president of the college is emphatically against atheists on the college faculty.” The occasion of this information is an editorial debate on *'Compul­ sory Chapel”. The Round Tabic has a habit of dispensing bits of interesting information. The following comes through them from The Arkansas Traveller. Your weight divided by 28 tells how many quarts of beer you can drink. One-twentieth of your weight is blood. To sing “Sweet Adeline” in the approved fashion you must introduce alcohol equivalent to 0.02 of the blood into the system.

The Old Gold and Black of Wake Forest College, N. C., reprints an article from the Duke Ghronicle entitled, “The Intelligent Suffer”. It’s the old complaint against too much compulsory work, which allows no time for the things one would like to do, such as collateral reading. The fact that most students must be burdened with a great amount of work in order that a fair amount of scholastic accomplishment maybe obtained does not excuse the system, because it does not take into account the student who is really earnest and possesses intellectual curiosity. In the long run the latter students are the only ones who will be found to make a difference in the field of culture and scholarship. The Lake Forest, 111. Stcnlor carries on the discussion in a review of an address by Stephen Leacock to the English Speaking Union of Chicago. Mr. Leacock is an 49

eminent economist and humorist of McGill University, Montreal, Canada. The Canadian indicts present educational methods, depicting the college population as ‘‘dying of compulsion”. He says: "Compulsion to learn has killed the desire to know”.

Leacock wins our hearty support by further advocating the abolishment of examinations, acknowledging them only as a sort of necessary evil, a ghostly disfigurement on the face of our intelligence. The war against compulsion continues. The Tulane Hullaballoo is quoted by The Old Gold and Black. The main cause of cheating lies in compulsion, because lack of in­ terest is the immediate result of compulsion, and cheating in most cases is directly due to lack of interest in the classes. The S(ou(oniu and the Kouml Table reprint articles in which com­ pulsion is blamed for lack of independent thinking among students.----- That both of these articles are reprinted in the editorial column of the respective papers is a graphic demons­ tration of the point they wish to make, for an editorial column, in my opinion, should present the flower of student thought.

That “dippings” are used in such a column certainly is no compliment to its editor.

删 felTICS Wisconsin Kxicnsion 2; Northwestern 3.

Northwestern’s 1933 baseball season was officially opened o? the campus diamond on April 29, when the Black and Red nipped the nine of the University of Wisconsin Extension di­ vision of Milwaukee, 3-2. As might be expected in a seasonopener, neither team played exceptional ball. The game turned 50

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out to be a pitcher’s battle. Koehler went the entire route for Northwestern, allowing but two hits, striking out 15, and walking none. Rosecky, Extension hurler, sent 12 North­ western men back to the bench, walked one, and also permitted but two hits.

The Extension nine scored their runs in the second inning.

With one out Jones, second baseman, slapped the ball out into center field for a single. Tikvick, left fielder, stepped up next and drove one of Koehler’s offerings through center for four bases, scoring the runner ahead of him. Koehler tightened up, however, and forced out the next two batters.

Northwestern failed to reach first base during the first six innings. In the lucky seventh, however, two men crossed the plate to bring the count to 2-all. Biesmann singled, went to second when Schroeder was given a pass, and scored on Vinty’s error at third when the Extension tried to catch him stealingfrom second. Schroeder, who had advanced to second, reached home on Nommensen^ hit through the pitcher.

The winning run was scored in the eighth frame. Schewe reached first, thanks to an error by Sainsbury, Extension catcher. He stole second; when the catcher overthrew at third in trying to catch him coming up from second, Schewe crossed the pan for the necessary margin.

The Milwaukee nine did not threaten after the second inning. The first of the ninth was played in a rain storm which had been threatening throughout the game.

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Umpire—Wendland (Northwestern).

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j Milwaukee Engineers 4; Northwestern 5.

A single byMielke which scored Koehler from second broke up an 11-inning battle and gave Northwestern a 5-4 victory over the Milwaukee School of Engineering on May 6. According to schedule, the game should have been played at Milwau­ kee; because the field there was under several inches of water, however, the game was played on the college diamond.

Northwestern got off to a three-run lead in the initial inning. Bingles by Buenger and Schroeder and three Engineer errors accounted for the runs. In the fourth a homer by Buenger added another marker to Northwestern’s lead.

Buenger caught one of Gregor’s floaters square and boomed it out far over the center fielder's head. He had rounded the four corners before the ball was relayed to the infield.

The Engineers scored their first two runs in the sixth on hits by Masaki and Kuhlman, aided by a Northwestern error.

In the eighth Masaki’s and Kuhlman’s bats again barked to the extent of two singles and one run.

Singles by Gregor and Trainer with the assistance of a Northwestern error resulted in the tying run in the ninth. The deadlock was broken by Mielke^s timely hit, which netted North­ western its second victory this season in as many games played.

Play was slow and rapped in many spots, due partly to wet grounds. Gregor, on the hill for Engineers, fanned 17, gave 2 passes, and yielded 8 hits. Koehler, Black and Red twirler, was nicked for 9 hits; he passed none and retired 16 via the strike-out route. The Engineer nine was credited with eight errors, Northwestern with five.

Engineers— AB R HE Northwestern—AB R H E Williams, If .6 0 2 0 5 0 0 1 Schwartz, rf •5101 Trainer, rf.

5 0 2 0 Biesmann, c Masaki, c_. .5010 5 2 2 0 Mielke, cf „ .5 2 3 1 Kuhlman, c 4 12 1 Buenger, lb_ Thompson, lb •…5 0 0 1 Schroeder, If .4110 Lewis, 2b .5 0 0 1 3 0 11 Ehlert, 2d Lecan, 2b .5 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 Schewe, ss Reynolds, ss .5 0 0 0 5 0 12 Frey, 2b— Picket, of .5111 2 0 0 1 Koehler, p Mysziewski, cf…3 0 0 1 45 5 8 5 Gregor, p .5110 44 4 9 8 Home run—Buenger. Walks—Off Koehler, 0; Off Gregor, 2.

Struck out—By Gregor, 17; by Koehler, 16. Stolen Bases— Trainer. Umpire—Wendland (Northwestern) 52

Game Cancelled.

The game scheduled with the Mission House college, to be played here May 27, has been dropped. For some reason Mission house is not playing intercollegiate ball this year.

Tennis—Golf.

Pairs of matches with Milton college have been arranged for the Northwestern tennis and golf teams. The schools will meet in tennis at Milton May 8, and on the Northwestern courts May 30. Those representing Northwestern will be Schewe, Raabe, Nommensen, Geweke, Roekle, and Zimpelman.

Stiemke, Schwentzin, Siegler, and Mass, Black and Red golfers, engage Milton on the local course May 10, and at Milton May 23, Other matches which have not been definitely arranged are: Mission House, here, May 29; Lake Forest, there, June 3; Seminary, here.

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The Juniors have managed to triumph over every class and are at present leading the inter-class kittenball league with a perfect percentage. But the race is still young; no class is ready to concede victory, and the struggle for the champion­ ship is sure to be hard-fought.

The games to May 6: 1. Juniors 38; Seniors 29. A free hitting affair.

2. Freshmen 36; Sophomores 18. Freshman batting practice —almost every Frosh hit a home run.

3. Seniors 13; Freshmen 7. The speed of Maas, Senior' hurler, had the Freshmen completely baffled.

4. Juniors 21; Sophomores 7. The Sophs were helpless be­ fore Mahntce’s pitching.

5. Juniors 20; Freshmen 11. Errors enabled the Juniors to down the first year men.

6. Seniors 22; Sophomores 11. The Sophs finally filled their ranks by hiring several Frosh—but even then the Frosh couldn’t win for them.

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The Sophomore class planted its tree without the usual pomp, There was no colorful parade. The 4-piece band, two harmo nicas, and Fredericks furnished the music. K. Broecker started his speech on “Trees”，but was stopped after a few minutes. He had started with Eden and was up to the Roman Empire.

All of us have at some time or other heard of great seacaptains who remained at their posts through the wildest storms. But such a captain is incomparable to Sager. The stormy week-end, closing the month of April and producing the worst static imaginable in the radio revealed this startling fact. The noises drove all from the smoking room but him.

There was a baseball game on the air somewhere. This incent­ ive moved the heroic Freshman to brave that which throws ordinary mortals into a panic. He sat before the radio; his eyes bulged; his hair stood on end; his legs were twined around the legs of the chair to anchor him; he twisted the dials des­ perately. Ah—he has missed his calling in life. What a super­ intendent he would be for those inhabiting padded cells. What a great spirit in so slight a frame. .

The members of the Sophomore class turned to smoking dried elm roots for a time, that great smoke of our boyhood days.

No; the depression wasn’t the cause. Elm roots (some of the Sophomores must have taken a course in quackery) were be­ lieved to be good for curing bronchitis, colds, cigarette coughs, 54

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Marauding bands of Quintaners are again despoiling the woods. Boulders are dragged into their rooms under which they conceal their plunder. Result—neither, woods nor rooms are improved one whit in appearance.

The “N”Club，organized for stimulating the flagging in­ terest in athletics, and to raise the standard of the awards, has elected its officers. J. Raabe is president; C. Holten is vicepresident; M. Toepel is secretary.

The students seeking a sinecure, the position of Janitor at Northwestern, have stopped dreaming and are now observing, trying to learn the tricks of the trade. The most valuable pointer so far learned is when, how, and where to carry brooms. they These misplaced philosophers, statesmen, or whatever _ should have been, have three brooms in each building. When strolling from one building to the other, seeking a comfortable corner, a broom is carried, making for an appearance of great industriousness. A correctly furrowed brow is also an aid.

Russow has acquired glasses. Some say it makes him look almost intelligent; many that he now resembles a human being; others insist that they have not yet noticed that he had them, because his plump cheeks quite concealed them. But be that as it may, the fact remains—Russow has glasses.

The band is now giving a concert every Wednesday from 6-7 P. M. All who attend it enjoy it. It should be listed among our other social successes.

Errata. In the last number Karl Broecker’s given name was spelled with a “K”，for which heinous offence the Editor was almost brutally assaulted. The Editor meekly retracts everything. His name is spelled with a “C”.

The male Chorus was invited to Columbus on May 7. Both, the members of the chorus and those who heard the musical entertainment enjoyed themselves. And well might the latter be pleased, for our chorus is one which we may justly be proud of.

The musical organizations of Northwestern college will present their final concert on June 14. We may with utmost assurance predict its success.

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gr題e孤办 I wonder what some of the girls would do if we’d print all the silly things they tell us when we ask them for news! I’m beginning to doubt “where there’s a will, there’s away”. I’ve been "willing” for almost a year, but I haven’t yet found a way for extracting news. * * * The major formal function (harumpf) of the year — the annual Coed Banquet—will be held on Monday, the 29th of May, at the Green Bowl. In choosing this date, we feel sure that all possible excuses for necessary recuperations will be elimi­ nated, the next day being a legal holiday. * * * Glenna Rasmussen recently spent a week-end in Racine with her parents.

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May 3, the first Tuesday after the first Monday in May, being the sixth day before full moon, was election day in the Girl’s room. The new officers are Arline Schumann, President; Ruth Fredrich, Vice President; Lorraine Jacobson, Secretary; Helen Mitzner, Treasurer. Being a vice president or a secre­ tary isn’t such a difficult task, the vice president rarely being called upon, and the secretary keeping minutes as she pleases or does not please. However, being a president or a treasurer is by no means an easy task ; we, therefore, wish them cheer and success in abundance. Among numerous other things, it is the work of the president to be on duty before the chapel bell rings to see that all the girls get to chapel on time ; then, too, she must assign cleaning weeks to the girls and remind them daily to clean the room, at the same time keeping the good will of her friends. The treasurer collects the yearly dues in Sep­ tember, and if you think it’s a simple matter, look at the list of people who have not paid posted in June, and you’ll be glad you’re not responsible. ♦

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Florence Kuckkahn, a Quartaner, was bridesmaid at a wedding in Golden Lake on Easter Sunday. 氺氺氺

The swimming season was Coed-dically opened on Monday, the 24th of April. This is the earliest date for a first swim in our records.

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A MEETING CONDUCTED ACCORDING]TO “HOYLE” or “GOD SAVE THE KING” At exactly 10:30 Betty breezes in and warbles, * 'Meeting to-day, Girls. Somebody go in and tell the Preps/7 This is no mean commission, and the favored one approached the Prep room “with fear and trembling”. There is no noise. Every­ thing is as quiet as the proverbial tomb. I beg your pardon, I have omitted to tell you that it is quiet except for three dif­ ferent reasons.

Item 1. Four Preps are singing (Heaven forbid!) four different theme songs, in four different keys. P. S. We are suffering four different agonies.

Item 11. Six others are having a nice, quiet, ladylike bull fight. Two acting as Matadors, and two, as Toreadors, are chasing the enraged animals around the arena,—but all very silently of course. The Toreadors, armed with um­ brellas and flourishing red sweaters advance on the bovines.

Screaming lustily they charge, but in the wrong direction— the coat rack goes over with a quiet thud. Viva, el toro! We cover our heads with a lace curtain in lieu of a mantilla and bewail the fact that a perfectly good bull-fight is ended.

Item 111. One hardy soul is reciting a German poem at the top of her voice. Adding up all these items we find that there are eleven, apparently very quiet people engaged in knitting and fancy sewing. We hate to disturb the dar­ lings, but if we must, it is better to do it with chin up and a look of quiet resolve. We announce firmly, “Children, there is a very important meeting going on in the Co-ed room.’’ There is a mad scramble in that direction, and Betty bids them all be seated. “Humph, the idea of entering the “sancta sanctorum” in such haste.” “We have gathered here to elect officers. Now will someone please make a nomination.” A voice from the secluded corner (if there is such a thing) —“Helen.” We all look in that derection. The voice goes on “thy beauty is to me.” It is only Glenna reading her English aloud. Helen Arnold relaxes again, and the nomination goes on. We vote secret ballot. Our best note-book paper is torn out a passed around. One Prep nudging the other one says, “Say, who you going to vote for’，？ “Oh,—well, Pm voting for this one.” “Tell Mabel to vote for her too.” Betty, in exasperation, raps for order. The votes are counted, and Arline Schumann becomes our next president. We rush up 57

and kiss her, others carry off a lock of hair for a keepsake, and even her shoe-strings are taken by souvenir hunters.

Ah me! Fame is fickle, comes one day, goes the next. The common man ain’t got no rights no more.

The next officer is elected from the Preps. The din is outrageous. We suggest that Betty get up on the table and throw books on the offenders. We hate to say it, but the collegiates are numbered among the worst. Ruth Fredrich rides on to victory. Ladies and Gentlemen, our new Vice President! She gets off quite easy. (Pardon) Someone bites off her fingernail, but her shoe-string stays intact.

Helen Mitzner becomes our Treasurer, and is greeted with the usual number of damp handkerchiefs and tearfilled eyes.

Before we leave you, another little girl wants to say something. “I am six years old. My name is Helen Arnold.

Hello! Uncle Ed. and Aunt Minnie. Hello! cousin Jim. Hello! Grandpa and Grandma, and Aunt Elsie, and brother Tom. Hello everybody else in the Olympia.”

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Teacher: “What is a female bachelor?”

Student: “Let me see—er—a lady in waiting?”

A Scotchman’s son desired to become a musician. The generous father let the boy’s hair grow and told him that the rest was up to him.

Identical Lueck (.telling how he tamed some birds): “I soon had them eating out of my hand. I erected a dummy in a field and scattered seeds about it. The birds flocked to it fearlessly.

After a few days I removed the dummy and went into the field myself. They ate right out of my hand—they never knew the difference.”

And then there was the checker fiend who took up bridge and jumped all of his wife’s bids.

The golf club was giving a banquet for its caddies. When the dessert was brought in, one of the caddies was in doubt as to what piece of silver to use. Finally he turned to his nieghbor and whispered, “What does this call for, an iron or a spoon?”

He: “When Jack saw the enemy advancing he ran away.

I call that rank cowardice.”

She: “Why, no. He remembered that the earth was round, and he was going around to attack them in the rear.”

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Battling for Honors “How about a friendly game of cards?”

“No, let’s play bridge.” * * * “How did you make your husband quit smoking?”

“I bought a powder which I put in his tea.”

"And did he give it up?”

“Yes—he gave up drinking tea.” * * * A punster suggests the following name for a doctor’s country estate: “Bedside Manor.”

“As I was driving home last night a robber stopped me on the highway. He took everything I owned that was of any value, my wallet and my watch, and finally even drove off with my car.’’

But I thought that you always carried a revolver with you.

“Oh, yes, but he didn’t find that.”

Why Fathers Leave Home Papa, could anyone die of hunger on the Sandwich Is­ lands.”

“And do you play with a handicap?” the golf instructor asked the new member.

“Oh, no,” he replied, '*1 always play bareheaded.” * * * Doctor: “You needn’t worry. You’re only suffering from an inflamation of the eyes. Place five drops of this medicine in your eyes three times daily.”

She: '4Before or after meals?”

Judge: 'You say the defendant called you a fool?—is that correct?”

Plaintiff: “Yes.” Judge: “Then what are you complaining about?” * * * Jack: “You’ve studied French. What does ‘pourquoi’ mean?”

Jill: “ <Why,, Jack.” .

Jack: **Because I want to know, you idiot.” ♦

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And then there was the Scotchman who buried his face in his hands just before he died, to save funeral expenses.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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ENGLISH ORATION Richard Gensmer THE DRED SCOTT DECISION Much has been written concerning the decision of the Dred Scott case, the most far-reaching slavery case ever in the United States courts. Within the last twenty or twenty-five years new light has been thrown on the case, and it is my aim to discuss the decision briefly and to explain the different opinions relative to the decision of the United States supreme court. Before I consider these views, it might be well to refresh in our minds the facts of the case itself.

Dred Scott was a negro slave owned by Dr. John Emerson, a surgeon in the United States Army, who had purchased Scott in St. Louis. Emerson was stationed in Illinois for about three years. Slavery was prohibited in Illinois by the Ordinance of 1787, and also by the state constitution. In 1836 Emerson was transferred to Fort Snelling. Slavery was prohibited here by the Missouri Compromise. After two years Emerson returned to St. Louis. About eight years after Scott’s return to Missouri, suit was brought to secure the freedom of him and his family.

This suit remained in the state courts for six years. In the first trial in the circuit court the judgment was against Scott, but a new trial was granted and this time the judgment was in Scott’s favor. The case was then taken to the state supreme court, where judgment was again rendered against Scott, al­ _ though in eight previous cases this same court had held that a slave, sojourning in free territory, was free upon his return to Missouri. The court defended its judgment against Scott upon the ground that “times had changed.” The case eventually reached the United States supreme court. It is the decision of this court and the opinions regarding it which I wish to discuss more fully.

The only question which this court had to settle was whether Scott was a citizen. If he was no citizen, he could not sue in a United States court. The supreme court of Missouri had already decided that he was no citizen. Since each state decides who is a citizen of the state, the judgement of the state court was necessarily final, and all that the federal court should have done was to have upheld the judgment of the lower court. Not only did it uphold the judgment of the lower court, but it went much farther. The court did not confine itself to the case. Chief Justice Taney wrote a full and careful review of the whole law on the subject of slavery. All the members except two agreed with the chief justice. This part of his judgment is known as obiter dicta, personal judgments not necessary for the case in hand. They may be divided into two parts: first that African negroes had never been recognized in Am erican law as citizens; 62

anlt second, that Congress had no power to make regulations for the territories acquired after the constitution was adopted, except under the constitution, which recognized slaves as property and that therefore the Missouri Compromise was not valid.

Let us first discuss the former point. Taney said that all people who were citizens of the several states at the time of the adoption of the constitution also became citizens of the United States and that in every other state they were placed on an equali ty with the citizens of that state. He argued that the languiage of the Declaration of Independence clearly showed that no persons imported as slaves, nor their descendants could ever become citizens of the United States. Furthermore he said that the legislation of the states shows in a manner not to be mis­ taken the interior and subject condition of that race at the time the constitution was adopted and that out of due respect to those states it would hardly be just to suppose that they had held as fellow-citizens a class of beings whom they had thus stig­ matized. Taney could not imagine that a negro should enjoy the same rights as a white man. a fact that would be true, if the negroes were granted citizenship. Thus basing his whole judgment on suppositions he attempted to prove that the African race could not become citizens.

In respect to the second point the chief justice held that since the constitution admitted that slaves were property, and by the fifth amendment Congress had no right to take away any citizen’s property without compensation, Congress had no right to make laws barring slave property from the territories and that its rules must be in conformity with the constitution.

Since the Missouri Compromise prohibited slavery north of 36 30’，thereby interfering： with the natural right of a slave-holder to take his property wherever he wished and with the consti­ tutional equality of citizens, it was declared that the Compromise had been unconstitutional. I say “had been’，，because a short time before this decision was rendered, the Kansas-Nebraska Bill had repealed the Missouri Compromise.

The question which immediately arises is why did Taney, although he was a Southerner, render such a decision, when he himself was partially opposed to slavery. He had freed all of his slaves except two, who were too old to work. These two Jie supported until their death. The pro-slavery party hailed Taney’s words as the final and supreme judgment of the country. The opinion of the anti-slavery party maybe concisely pd accurately summed up by a quotation taken from the New York"“Tribune” soon after the decision has been rendered.

“The supreme court of the U. S. has abdicated its just functions and descended in the political arena. It has sullied ermine ; it has bedraggled and polluted its garments in the hlth of pro-slavery politics. ’ ’ 63

The critics of that day dealt harshly with Taney. They accused him of playing politics, and without doubt justly so, for in his inaugural speech Buchanan essentially foretold the judg­ ment of the court. It was also conjectured, that he allowed himself to be influenced by some of his associate justices. It must be admitted that his whole environment shaped his mind thus, but that does not excuse him for making a political argu­ ment, when only a judicial decision was called for. Although his patriotism and love for his southern friends may have played a part in the decision, this high motive does not exonerate the Chief Justice. The North saw in this decision the only tenable theory on which slavery could be extended, since the North was growing faster than the South. Only the conviction that slavery was being pushed to the wall could have created a sentiment which found expression in this opinion of Taney, out­ raging as it did precedent, history, and justice. Thus we see the Chief Justice in the light of his contemporaries.

As I said before, the sentiment towards Taney has changed somewhat during the last twenty or twenty-five years. Although it can scarcely be denied that the dragged the whole case into politics, nevertheless it has been established that he was prac­ tically forced to enter upon the two points which I have dis­ cussed. Shortly before a decision was to have been rendered on the case in question alone, it was discovered that two judges, McLean and Curtis, were going to dissent and that they were going to render a decision relative to the entire slavery question.

This put the remaining judges in a peculiar predicament, and thus we see that Taney was practically forced to discuss the political questions involved. The dissenting judges should really carry the brunt of the criticism which has been heaped on Taney. He was not so much guilty of a gross breach of promise as of a fatal error in judgment. An old and learned judge as he was should have known better than to have committed himself on the whole subject at a time when the country was already seething with the slavery question. He should have waited for a more opportune time, but what has been done cannot be undone.

The slavery question was not to be settled by the power of words, but by the force of arms, and within five years after the decision had been rendered the first shots of the Civil War were fired.

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5)ic erften beutfdjen 2ut[)eraner, bie fid) Dor bem 18. rjunbert in 电ennjijl加nien nicbertiefjen, fameu 1683 mit ©aniet s^a|toriu§ Ijeriiber unb geiinbeten ©ermantoran. ^aftociuS war jraar in 5)cut[d)(atib iiutljernncr fleraefen,巧atte fi由 aber bei [einet 级nfunft in uteri fa ber Oua!ecccUgion artgef由to6en, oftne S^cifel burd) fetn eitfleS ^ccrjaftuiS s^enn baju ueranfafet. ©ein 册otiu mac eljec poiitifdje 9iatfamleit benn rcdjter 9ie(igion3eifer. SBafjcenb nun bie 93eftrebungen beS 书aftoriu§ betrcffS be8 ©t^ulnjcfcn^ nicfjt a(8 luttjcriid) bejetcfjuet werben fonnen, fo war bod) ^auptfdc^Iicf) fein SBirten ber ©rimb, auf bem ba§ @rjier)ung§iuer! unter ben erften beutfdjcn 5(nficblern Beruljte. OB bie Seutidjen, bie oor 1675 in ^emiiutuaiuen raoljuteu, [id) irgenbrate ftir ©r^ieljung unb Untercidjt intereffierten, meiB man nidjt; aug ben ©djriften jener Beit ifts jcbcnfalls nidjt nad^inucijcn.

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LATIN ORATION Herbert Resting COLLEGIA FUNERATICIA ROMANORUM Vastly diversified activities of a great city or nation naturally give rise to a closer union of such as have a common interest. Societies, sodalities, clubs, religious and secular unions are there found in large numbers. In Rome, the greatest city of antiquity, all these unions were classified as collegia or colleges. Many of these colleges were closely connected with Roman religion, since they were either wholly or partly re­ ligious. Others we would merely call trade unions. These were separate unions for the various laborers, artisans, merchants, business men, musicians, actors, and others. Nearly every Roman citizen and freedman belonged to one or to several of these societies.

The majority of the religious colleges were groups of men who formed an organised body to serve some deity, as for instance, Jupiter, Bacchus, Isis, Serapis, or Mithras. Other groups formed societies for economical purposes. .Among all these the collegia funeraticia are perhaps the most interesting.

Broadly speaking, the purpose of the collegia funeraticia was to take care of the burial of their members. Just as all members of a tribe were customarily buried together; in a like 67

manner it was thought proper that members of the same colle­ gium be buried together.

There are also other reasons for including the burial of its members as a function of these collegia. The Romans, like the Greeks, considered the burial of the body after death impera­ tive, both for the future well-being of the deceased as well as for those who were left behind. If a body was left unburied, the soul of the dead person was unhappy itself and hovered about the remains and brought distress upon others. Thus the members of these societies performed a last and sacred duty to the departed.

Another reason why these burial societies became so pop­ ular in Rome was an economic one and can best be understood from the history of the Roman burial. Probably the most ancient manner of disposing of the dead was by cremation.

Then about 800 B. C. burial began to take the place of crema­ tion. Places of burial differed from time to time. Possibly burial first took place in the home under the floor of the atrium or in the garden. Whether this garden even in the earliest times was inside or outside the city is doubtful. Already by the Law of the XII Tables burial and cremation within the city walls were prohibited. Toward the end of the Republic cremation gained the upper hand. Even in this time not all the bodies of the dead were cremated. Children that had as yet no teeth were buried. Cast-off slaves and vagabonds were commonly thrown into pits and left there to decay. Some of the rich families as the Cornelii and Scipiones still clung to the older custum of burial.

There were no public cemeteries in or about Rome. Hence the disposal of the dead in a city of more than a million inhabi­ tants became serious. The rich tried to make their burial places very conspicuous, so they bought plots of land along the great highways and erected monuments and vaults that were as pretentious as possible. The poorer classes, however, had to be content with the remoter places. Soon the highways were lined with monuments, and even all the other suitable places were taken. The land became more expensive and only the rich could still afford to pay the exorbitant prices for places of burial.

The common people, the freedmen, and the slaves met this emergency by forming these collegia funeraticia. If the mem­ bers of one of these societies had places to dispose of their bodies after death, the society provided for the necessary funeral expenses. This money was taken out of the general treasury, into which every member paid a small monthly fee.

However, in many cases places for the burial of the members had to be provided by the society. For this purpose the society would then build a large tomb, commonly known as a colum68

barium from its resemblance to a dovecote. The cost would be computed and the expense shared by the members.

These columbaria were modeled after the private tombs of the richer families, the only real difference being their greater size. They were usually rectangular edifices of several stories with a dome. The lower story was beneath the ground level.

In the walls of these buildings were niches large enough to hold two or four funeral urns with the ashes of the dead. There were also places reserved for sarcophagi beneath the floor.

Some columbaria had room for more than a thousand urns.

Besides furnishing room for burial, the collegia funeraticia also would provide the necessary offerings and libations for the dead.

The various niches were divided among the members by lot.

In this way the collegia funeraticia freed the Roman of the lower class from the worry that his body would perhaps not receive proper burial. Their origin was brought about by con­ ditions accompanying the tremendous growth of the city, and therefore it is but natural that we find the greatest number of collegia during the most glorious period of imperial Rome.

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:: RICHARD GENSMER,

ROMAN BIESMANN,

Morton Grove, Illinois.

President of the class.

President of the student body.

President of the Phi Gamma Rho Literary Society.

Orchestra 1.

Male Chorus.

Quartette 3, 4.

Assistant Librarian.

Baseball; Captain 3, 4. ‘ 'Life is not so short but that there is always time for courtesy.”

Lewiston, Minnesota.

Vice-president of the class.

Male Chorus.

Football 3, 4.

Coach of the Prep, basketball team.

Baseball manager 4. (* True as the dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.”

JOHN MARTIN

Brownsville, Wisconsin.

Male Chorus.

Athletic Board.

Vice-president of theVesuvius club.

Football 3, 4.

Basketball 2, 3, 4; Captain 3, 4.

“Hang sorrow, care once killed a cat, therefore let’s be merry.’’

ROLAND BRETZMANN, Watertown, Wisconsin.

Black and Red. “Es bildet ein Talent sich in der Stille.”

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HERBERT BUCIi, Tawass City, Michigan, Male Chorus . s; Librarian 3.

Mixed Chorus 2, 3.

Football manager 4.

Coach of the Prep, baseball team.

“I am nothing, if not critical. ’ ’

WALDEMAR DOBRATZ, Sullivan, Wisconsin.

Editor of the Black and Red. Phi Gamma Rho. Pre sident of the Band.

Orchestra.

Male . chorus; Secretary 3, 4.

Mixed chorus; accompanist; secre­ tary 3.

“0 Music! Sphere descended maid, “A Friend of Pleasure, Wisdom’s aid.”

ADOLF BUENGER, Kenosha, Wisconsin.

President of the Philomathean Literary Society.

Drum Major of the Band 3, 4.

President of the Male chorus.

Quartette 1, 2.

President of the Athletic Board.

Football 1, 2, 3, 4; Captain 3, 4.

Baseball.

“Give me a place to stand and I will move the world.”

NORBERT EHLERT, Eitzen, Minnesota.

Philomathean.

Band; secretary 3, 4.

President of the Orchestra.

Male chorus.

Baseball.

Plain speech is better than much wit.”

Watertown, Wisconsin.

Philomathean.

President of the Coeds.

“A noble mind makes women beautiful.”

Wauwatosa, Wisconsin.

Black and Red. Phi Gamma Rho. Band.

Male chorus.

Mixed chorus, 3, 4.

"Agreed to differ.”

MARCUS LIESENER, HERBERT RESTING, Hadar, Nebraska.

Black and Red. Phi Gamma Rho Football 2, 3, 4.

Cedarburr疚，W isconsin.

Vice-pre;一sident of the Phi Gamma Rho Literary Society.

Male chorus.

President of the Mixed chorus.

President of the Vesuvius Club.

Athletic Board.

Football 3, 4.

ADELBERT MAAS, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Phi Gamma Rho. Male chorus.

Basketball coach of the “B. ’ ’ team.

Cheerleader.

Golf 3, 4.

"As a wit, if not first, of the very first line.”

JOHN RADLOFF, Suring, Wisconsin, Vice-president of the class 1.

Philomathean; Secretary 4.

“A genius can’t be forced.，’

HERBERT NOMMENSEN, Columbus, Wisconsin.

Philomathean.

Male chorus.

Mixed chorus.

Coach of the Prep, football team.

Basketball 4.

Baseball.

Tennis.

“Every man has his gift.”

MELVIN SCHWENZEN, Plymouth, Wisconsin.

Philomathean.

Vice-president of the Band 4.

Golf 3, 4.

“His very foot has music in it.”

WALTER DOBBERSTEIN

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Again the Lord has seen fit to take a fellowstudent from our midst. This time he called Walter Dobberstein away from his grieving parents, to whom he was a devoted son, and from his class­ mates and fellow-students. He was born at Hortonville, Wisconsin, April 21, 1916. There he completed his grade school years and was confirmed

by Rev. G. E. Boettcher. In the fall of 1930 he took up studies at Northwestern. Walter was bringing his Quarta year to a close when the tragedy took place on June 8. On Thursday afternoon June 8, Walter, accompanied by friends and fellow-students, left for the Municipal bathing beach for a swim in the Rock River. He was swimming toward the raft that was anchored in the middle of the stream, when the swift current caught him unawares and swept him downstream with it. His friends vainly attempted to rescue him from the treacherous current, but failed despite their utmost efforts. A boat was put out to take him in when he should reappear on the surface.

But when he came to the surface near the boat, the man in the boat failed to see him. After that he was not seen again until he was dragged up from the bottom with a hook. The body was found several feet from the spot where he had appeared last. For two hours all energies were expended to resuscitate him. For a while color seemed to be returning to his face. But it was a vain hope. He was pronounced dead. The funeral services are to be held either at Hortonville, or at Reedsfield where the family has moved recently. Walter Dobberstein is survived by his bereaved parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dobberstein, three brothers and one sister. The sad tidings of his death seemed scarcely credible to those who knew him. His geniality and frank, open-hearted behavior had won many friends for him. As a diligent student his death was a distinct loss to his class and to the school. But let us not all mourn as such that have no hope. It was the Lord’s will that he should be taken away. May all who are sorrowing over Walter’s untimely death take comfort from Christ’s words: “Where I am, there shall also my servant be”.

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FINALE. \Vith what fear and trembling we faced our first final examinations! Those who had been through the ordeal related ghastly, nerve-wracking tales to us of the anguish of mind and body that must be endured in those gruelling three hours.

When we had turned in our last examination paper, we really felt the need of a prolonged vacation. ， But, now we have grown calloused and indifferent. Finals are tolerated as necessary evils. Why should they be styled evils? First of all, semester finals cover altogether too much territory for anything but an extremely retentive memory.

Too much is taken through during the course of a semester. In the space of a few hours all of it cannot be recalled. What will the ordinary student do when he is required to review a thousand or more lines of Greek in a single evening? Of course he won’t do it. If there had been several hundred lines, all except the absolutely shiftless would have run over those lines arid profited by their labor. And then a question is asked concermng an etymology that was casually referred to on March 6, the second period in the morning. Usually the student doesn’t know the answer, or he gets it unfairly (the latter all too often). I believe that the semester finals do more to 75

encourage cheating in examinations than any other system would.

If the student tries to review everything in one night, he most assuredly will have to cram. “But you do learn some­ thing from cramming”，someone suggests naively. Perhaps we will know that Whittier wrote "John Underhiir, in 1873. We may remember it for three days. But somehow I can’t under­ stand how it will do us any good four days from now. Cram­ ming is an unnatural way to acquire knowledge. No good can come from learning if it is forced in as with the 'Ntirnberger Trichter’.

Permit me to propose a different system. Why not adopt the six-weeks system that is in quite general use. Six weeks of work can be reviewed by the student in a short time.

“Repetitio est mater studiorum” the teachers say, not “Resurrectio”. We should know that the best way to impress a fact on our minds is to repeat it to ourselves shortly after we get our first impression of it, not months afterward. By that time our elusive fact may have betaken himself to the Anti­ podes. Let us forge the iron while it is still hot.

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ALUMNI

Dr. Hugo Winkenwerder, ex-’98, professor of Forestry at the University of Washington, Seattle, has been appointed acting president of the University, following the resignation of Dr. Lyle Spencer, which becomes effective June 30.

Carl Selle, ex-’31, graduated from the University of Wisconsin with Phi Beta Kappa honors. He intends to attend Harvard next year.

Edgar Grunwalcl, also ex-’31，is writing for the “Tide Magazine” in New York. Mr. Grunwald was formerly editor of the Chicago Daily Maroon. It is not a generally known fact, but while at Northwestern Mr. Grunwald was editor of a publication called “The Quinta Tid-bits’’，a magazine written on the sly by certain members of his Quinta class. One or two numbers are still extant.

Adolph Scheck, ex-’34, passed through town Monday night, May 29. He was on his way to Ft. Sheridan to join the refores­ tation army.

G. Herzfeld, ex-’33，visited his former classmates on Saturday, May 20.

We wish to extend our sympathy to Malcolm Whyte, }10, whose ten year old son was killed by a truck on May 22. Mr. Whyte is connected with the law firm of Lines, Spooner, and Quarles of Milwaukee.

• Rev. Fritz Miller, ’29, of Colome, S. D., spent his vacation in Milwaukee and also visited his brother-in-law, F. Thierfelder, here.

Arthur von Rohr, ex-’93, now a druggist in Winona, Minn., paid the college a flying visit May 29., the first for thirty odd years. Needless to say, he was surprised at the changes that had taken place.

Herbert von Haden, ’29，now teaching at Evansville High School, was here for the play and the week-end following.

Rev. Jaster of Bristol, Wisconsin, accepted a call to Racine to fill the vacancy left by Rev. Blakewell.

G. Martin, ’29, decided to remain at Mobridge, S. D.f rather than to accept a call to Bristol to fill the vacancy there.

Rev. and Mrs. C. W. Siegler celebrated their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary, May 14.

Rev. J. Witt, ’94, visited his son at Northwestern on May 9.

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A1 Kauber, ex_’29，at present coaching at Asheville, Ohio, was seen in Watertown recently. _ Rpy, A. Schultz, 702, of Milwaukee, visited his son Walter Tuesday, May 30.

Henry Meyer, ’32, was noticed on the campus, May 28.

The concert by the Winnebago Chorus, May 14., attracted Rev. E. Reim, ’11，Rev. B. Pieper，’09，and Rev. Alfons Engel, ’25.

Rev. A. Baebenroth, 78, of Milwaukee, died May 8.

W. Wichmann, ’28, has re-accepted a position as instructor at the Johnson’s Creek High School.

Rev. G. Redlin，’28，of Allen ton, visited Northwestern recently.

A. Sippert，’31，and M. Zilz，’28，paid old friends a visit, May 27.

“Tuffy” Reich, ’29, was here on May 22.

The concert by the Stellhorn choir on May 21. found Rev. L. Kirst, ’03，of Beaver Dam, Rev. Kuhlo'v，’99, of Jefferson, and Rev. Pietz of Lomira among its audience.

The Seminary quartette, composed of A. Schewe, ’31，Paul Heyn, ’31，Otto Engel, ’31，and Erwin Scharf，’28，made the first appearance of their tour at Oconomowoc.

Among the Alumni seen at the play were: A. Schewe; C. Trapp; Rev. N. Paustian, J29; Rev. Kirst; Rev. Thurow, Waterloo; Rev. Fredrich, Helenville: Rev. Kirchner, *10, of Baraboo; E. Scharf; P. Heyn; E. Krueger; H. Heilman; M. Fleischer; 0. Heier; R. Schoeneck; A. Schultz; H. Warnke; L. Bleichwehl; S. Lenz; H. Kuhlow; O. Engel; L. Ristow; H. Vogel; H. Bierwagen; E. Schultz; H. Schultz.

Rev. H. Wojahn, of Waukesha, and Rev. J. Dowidat, of Oakfield, attended the celebration at Bethesda, May 28.

On Tuesday afternoon, June 6, 1933, Arnold Gatz, 24, was drowned in the Milwaukee river at Thiensville. He graduated from Northwestern in 1930 and at present was attending the Lutheran Seminary at Thiensville. Chester Bender, a fellow student, had attempted to swim across the stream. Caught in the current he shouted for help. Arnold Gatz hastened to his rescue but was helpless against the strong current. They were both pulled downstream and washed over the dam. Mr. Gatz’s body was recovered Thursday about three hundred feet below the scene of the accident.

The death of Arnold Gatz was distinct loss to all who knew him. Although he has been away from our circles for three years there are many of us who learned to know and respect Mr. Gatz, and our kindly inclinations toward him had not waned the slightest.

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“We cannot understand how any paper written in German, mostly, has the nerve to exchange with American school papers!”

This criticism of the liiack and Hed is reprinted in the April, 1919, Exchange column. Interesting in comparison is the item found in the (loiiHMiulohlaK concerning the first German news­ paper to be printed in America in 1732. Its publisher was Ben­ jamin Franklin. At present it is difficult for us to understand how anyone can arrive at such a state of mind in which some­ thing like the above can be written, but things are perpetrated in war that sane people could not possibly do. In fact, sane people would not enter into war. A new exchange “The Intercollegiate Di^csf* chooses war as the main topic for discussion in its first issue. The Intercollegiate Digest is simply a glorified exchange magazine instead of a column. Its contents are re­ prints of the outstanding articles of the different college papers.

From it we learn that a national poll is being conducted to determine how the students throughout the country feel about participating in war. An editorial from the Brown Daily Herald asks students to pledge themselves never to take up arms unless . an enemy invades our shores. In this way the writer believes that war will eventually be abolished because ‘‘the colleges of America provide the officers for the army. Without the Ame­ rican college students as officers there could be no organized arr^y and consequently no war.” The editorial also quotes Ein­ stein : ‘‘War would be abolished if a small percentage of the people would have the courage to refuse to bear arms in case of national conflict.” The Beacon, the Rhode Island State College 79

I ^Matk ^ paper, cheerfully proceeds to tear apart every argument used in the Brown editorial and concludes with the statement, “A national desire for peace is no valid reason for putting ourselves at the mercy of others.” Even the great Albert is not immune to their criticism. The Student Life of Ashland College, in commenting on the poll, assures us that the students of Ashland are for peace and will refuse to bear arms except in case of invasion. The author makes the suggestion that the Citizen’s Military Training Camps be abolished as the first step towards educating the youth to peace instead of war. The only reason that the author can find for the existence of these camps is their advertising value to the Department of War. He forgets the social accomplishments one may acquire at such camps. If you can’t play a saxaphone, you can still be the life of the party by virtue of the remakable store of pornographic wit one ac­ quires at the C. M. T. camps.

The Intercollegiate Digest deserves space in this column.

For any one who wishes to follow the trend of student thought, this magazine is ideal. It attempts “to give college men and women who are interested in events beyond the confines of their institution a digest of the best editorial comment and the most interesting news from the institutions of higher learning in this country and abroad.” It is, of course, not The College Humor. Another bad point is the subscription price of two dollars per annum.

The Beloit Round Table in an editorial distinguishes three types of recitations. There is that type in which the student simply parrots what , he has read in the text. The only value of such a recitation is to give the instructor an opportunity to know whether the student has read his assigned material — but why bother about the student that isn’t sufficiently interested to study the assigned material. Even more to be condemned is the recitation of the student who is merely trying to make an impression on the instructor and the class. * There is in every class some student who monopolizes over fifty percent of the class period in asking questions or making contributions which are intended solely to make an impression. ‘ The last, the rarest type is that recitation which makes a real and original contri­ bution to. the discussion•—“Examinations are purely lottery. I am convinced that they are conceived by the instructor in the first place in order that he might shirk his downright responsi­ bility of studying and diagnosing the student’s mind.” Dr. Edward S. Cowles, director of the Psychiatric clinic of Johns Hopkins University must be cotemplating a political career.

He certainly has clinched the votes of those people who are at present oppressed by the tyrant, Examination. In this connec­ tion \ve note with interest that Dartmouth has dropped entrance examinations. Instead, a selective system of judging candi80 'L

dates will be used. We owe this bit of information to the Lake Forest Stentor.

The Round Table suggests as one of the best similes of the year “As happy as a mosquito at a nudist colony.” I would suggest: As busy as a mosquito at Northwestern.

The Galvin College Chimes contributes this beautiful bit of pastoral poetry: “The herd is heard to low on high Mounting the mountain steep.

The weary shepherds hie below To get a bit of sleep.

The little swallows gulp and choke The early worm to swallow, While penned within the barnyard pen The pensive piggies wallow.”

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BAND

ORCHESTRA 82

MALE CHORUS

MIXED CHORUS 83

細謹Tits ■ft

Milton 3; Northwestern 5.

On May 12, Coach Kleinke’s baseballers squeezed out a lucky win over the Milton college nine by staging a three-run rally in the last of the eighth, just before rain halted the game. The Black and Red men were trailing the Milton swatters by a 3-2 count when the scoring spurt was made. Two were out in the eighth when Biesmann drew a pass. Mielke reached first on what should have been an easy put-out. The Milton second baseman’s bobble was indeed costly, for it permitted Biesmann to score the tying run from third, to which he had advanced on a theft and on an error. Buenger then poled a high one out into deep left field. On account of the darkness caused by the threatening storm the fielder lost the ball and it went over his head for a triple to bring Mielke home. In the general con­ fusion which followed Buenger stole home on the Milton boys who by this time were thoroughly upset. The storm broke at this stage of the game and provided a fitting climax.

Except for the fatal eighth Kelling, the Milton hurler, had the Northwesterners pretty well in hand, though they scored on a pass and Mielke’s triple in the fourth and again in the seventh on singles by Nommensen and Ehlert. Milton tallied once in the first and twice in the fifth on Steven’s pair of triples, and on two singles, and an error.

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27 5 Two-base-hits — Schroeder. Three-base-hits — Stevens 2, Mielke, Buenger. Walks—off Koehler, 0; off Kelling, 2. Struck out—by Koehler, 9; by Kelling, 17. Hit by pitcher—Kelling, 1.

Stolen bases—Stevens, Smith, Schroeder, Ehlert 2, C. Frey, Biesmann. Umpire—Wend land.

Milton 9; NorUiwestcrn 1.

The Northwestern diamond nine traveled to Milton on May 19, set to hand Milton another trimming. The Milton boys staged what was more than a come-back, however, and thoroughly trounced the Black and Red to the tune of 9—1.

Milton opened the afternoon triumph with a three run barrage in the initial frame. Our men were completely disordered by this disasterous inning- and were not able to find themselves again.

The Milton batsmen raised their batting averages by col­ lecting 12 hits, six for extra bases. A fusilade of hits drove Koehler from the mound in the sixth. Mielke, who relieved Koehler, proved to be just as ineffective in stopping the slugging Miltoners.

Werfel saved Northwestern the disgrace of a complete shutout by filling the bases in the third with a pass and then yielding another pass to force Biesmann home, thus scoring Northwestern’s grand total of one run.

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4 0 11 4 0 2 2 ..3 0 0 0 Schewe, s 10 0 0 ...2 1 1 0 Siegler, cf. ..2 0 0 0 Koehler, p 2 0 0 0 37 1 8 4 38 9 12 4 Two-base-hits—Dickhoff, L. Coon, Werfel, Palmiter, Biesmann. Three-base-hits—Kelling, 2. Walks—off Werfel, 3; off Mielke, 2; off Koehler, 1. Struck out—by Werfel, 8; by Mielke, 5; by Koehler, 3. Stolen bases—Smith, Dickhoff, Palmiter, Schewe.

Seminary 2; Northwestern 4.

Northwestern somewhat redeemed the stinging defeat at the hands of Milton by trimming the Seminary nine, 4—2, at Thiensville on May 23. Our nine showed they meant business by scoring twice in the opening inning. Though they hit in every inning they were unable to convert the raps into more runs until the eighth. In the eighth two runs were brought home

by Buenger’s bat. The larrupin’ first baseman sent Nommensen across the plate with a wallop that was good for four bases.

The Seminary nine counted once in the second on a quartet of singles and again in the ninth when Heyn was sacrificed home after he had tripled.

Outstanding factors in Northwestern’s attack were Schwartz’s and Biesmann’s trio of hits and Buenger’s single and home run. Heyn’s bat spoke loudest for the Seminary.

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4 0 0 0 Pless, lb....... .4011 Schewe, ss … .4 0 0 0 Siegler, 3d.... .4110 Frey, 2b … …• •3 0 3 0 Froelich, c.... .4 0 10 Schwartz, cf.

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Two-base hits一Schwartz, Biesmann. Three-base hits — Heyn. Home run—Buenger. Struck out — by Koehler, 7; by Raasch, 6. Stolen bases — Heyn, Nommensen, Biesmann 2.

Umpire—Schultz.

Spencerian 2; Northwestern 24.

May 24, the faithful followers of our nine saw the invading Spencerian College nine fall before a salvo of Northwestern hits and runs past recording. Spencerian used four pitchers in trying to silence the Northwestern bats, but without success.

Our batters found the visiting hurlers no puzzle and just ate up what they offered. The scoreceepers managed to chalk down at least 17 hits for the Black and Red, to which the Business College nine added 12 errors to score 24 runs. Spen­ cerian scored their two points in the first inning.

Schroeder turned in a neat performance of pitching by limit­ ing the visitors to nine hits and by striking out thirteen. He was never troubled in removing the Spencerian batsmen and occasionally gave the in fielders andoutfielders practice by letting the opposing batters hit to them.

Score by innings: R H E _-2 9 12 Spencerian ...

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24 17 2 Northwestern 352 531 50x Batteries: Traeger, Held, Flynn, and Laczkowski; Schroeder and Biesmann.

TENNIS The varsity netmen led off the season’s schedule with a victory in a tiff with the Seminary aggregation here on May 16.

The single matches were divided, but Northwestern carried off the honors by winning both of the paired encounters.

Singles : Geweke won from Bergfeld, 8—6; 6—1.

Raabe won from H. Schulz, 6一0; 6—0.

6-8; 6—4; 3—6.

Schewe lost to Dornfeld, Nommensen lost to Krueger, 6—8 ; 1 一6.

Doubles : Roekle and Zimpelmann won from Schulz and Krueger, 6—3; 8—6.

Raabe and Schewe won from A. Schewe and F. Zarling, 6—2; 6—3.

May 18, our court cavorters met Milton on their courts and made a clean sweep of the afternoon’s matches. The North­ western men played with a brilliance and drive that carried all before them.

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The singles matches: Geweke—Rogers, 3—6 ; 6—3 ; 6 _4.

Raabe—Hugle, 6—1; 6-0.

Nommensen—Babcock, 8—6 ; 6—0.

Schewe—Johnson, 3—6; 6—1: 6—4.

The doubles matches : Roekle and Raabe—Rogers and Hugle, 6一1; 2—6; 6—4.

Zimpelmann and Nommensen—Babcock and TerMath, 6—4 ; 6 一3.

Rain, the bane of the spring sports activities, caused the postponement to a later date of the return match with Milton, which was to have been played here an May 29.

GOLF Our golf team met the Milton niblickers in a match at Janesville on May 22. Although the Milton four were the vic­ tors—according to the score at the end of the eighteen holes of play, the match was forfeited to Northwestern on action of the Athletic Board at Milton when authorities there learned that the Milton captain had violated the conference rules by using a man who was ineligible because of graduation. Our hats off to Milton for their action! This is the type of sportsmanship that has made our athletic relations with Milton so enjoyable.

K1TTENBALL Handing the Juniors a decisive 9—6 defeat, the Freshmen put an end to the Scarlet and Pearl*s winning ways and moved up to a tie with the Seniors for second place in the inter-class race. Though the win did not dislodge the Juniors from their undisputed first place position, it showed that they at least are not invincible! The tangle was the most keenly fought game played so far this season. The Juniors threatened seriously in the seventh but Hoyer, Frosh strike-out artist, bore down and checked what might have been a winning rally.

In a previous game the romping Juniors caused the hard­ hitting Seniors to bite the turf. The Juniors got on to Maas’s “smoke” ball and hit for eight runs. Effective pitching and errorless support let the Seniors down with but two counts.

The Sophomores intrenched themselves the more firmly in the cellar position by falling before an avalanche of Freshman hits and runs, 22一2; they also lost to both the Seniors and the Juniors on forfeits.

STANDINGS Won Lost Pet. Juniors 5 •834 Seniors 3 2 .600 Freshmen 3 2 •600 Sophomores 0 6 •000 88

The time of the year has come again when we are forced to leave our recluse corner of the earth and get into the world— perhaps to work, perhaps to idle away two months. It is sur­ prising that anyone should eagerly await the close of school, preferring either of these to his life here at Northwestern.

Fama is sometimes slow, but always sure. April 30 she espied W. Dobratz, M. Schwenzen and two shingled heads cruising about the countryside, but delayed the report, perhaps enjoying this delicious incident too much herself. .

The Preps are the proud owners of several new, shiny lawn-mowers, but they don’t seem to appreciate them. The lawn, when it is cut, is as straggly and ragged as ever. But their carelessness is excusable; who ever knew of a child that had any sort of pride in the appearance of his lawn?

On May 27 almost the entire Sophomore class turned out at 4:30 to accompany Schroeder to the depot and to sing him a farewell “Lebe HochM as the train left. But it seems that it shouldn’t have been done, for one person, it is reported, ‘‘tsked’’，clucked, and elevated his eyebrows, wondering how this modern generation would end, “students staying out so late!” said he. Vae prepibus! If next year’s Junior class goes to such extremes for the sake of mere sentimentality, what will it do for the sake of duty?

The Freshman, in a display of puerility, the last we hope, played crack-the-whip down the stairs of the recitation hall.

Not at all becoming to men who smoke pipes.

Mirabile dictu! Students are peculiar. The robin’s nest on the fire-escape has not yet been molested. .

Sommers, Mueller, and Hinnenthal persist in throwing pebbles into the first floor windows. Such a fact can be mentioned, but what further can be said about such—humans 89

i (perhaps by ignoring Emily Post and stretching the definition to the utmost we can speak of them under that general appella­ tion. It has hidden evils almost as great) • Under the tutelage of Mother Earth, Father Sun, Brother Rain, and Sister Temperature, the Sophomore class trees are learning to appreciate their new environments and are actually growing.

As early as May 18, the Christmas decorations were re­ moved from Martin’s room. The archives of the staff could re­ veal better endurance records than this, we’re sure.

Pagels, the Gulliver of the comparatively Lilliputian Preps, carried a boulder to the third floor. What Pink ham’s Pink Pills wont do!

The N Club has won its first victory. Obstacles are being eliminated. Its reputation is established. In a remarkably short time it has already effected this, that a student, being asked, ^Who won?” will reply "We did,” and in an even wearier tone of voice than he formerly used in replying- “They did. 76-0’’. The successful baseball season is an excellent be­ ginning of a new career in the field of sports. Vivat N Club!

Reuschel has the distinction of having heard the Seminary Quartette four times in its recent tour. The quartette must be good.

Hoff has been making frequent trips to Milwau kee, not in the manner of Leander, but for the same purpose2 and with equal difficulty, for hitch-hiking isn’t a bit easier than swimming in these times. But this reminds us of the Play.

The Play was doubtlessly the most important event of the month. As far as the play itself is concerned the general opinion is that it was far inferior to any we have given, although some, including the Daily Times (we hope no one notices similarity to last year’s write up) praised it highly. “Horse­ play—all it lacked was a man slipping on a banana peel，’’ is the most common invective. But it wasn’t that bad; there were a few, perhaps several, really subtle bits of humor interspersed.

The idea that there is Romance before us every day of our lives, which no rational being ever doubted, was established by this play. But the acting in itself was glorious, sp lendid.

Betty Faber acted excellently; Claire Scheblak acted excellently; Dorothy Groth acted excellently; Lorraine Jacobson acted excellently; Erwin Schroeder acted excellently; Waldemar Thurow acted excellently; Arnold Bolle acted excellently; Meinhard t Raabe acted excellently; Orvin Sommers acted excel­ lently. The settings were excellently done; the artistic work was excellently done; the lighting was excellently done; the business was excellently done; the seating was excellently done; and all whom we have forgotten in our eulogy were excellent, or did their tasks excellently. The audience was not so excel90

lent, laughing at the wrong times, coming in noisily after the curtain had opened, having smoked between the acts, and applauding at the strangest times.

Hours upon hours upon hours of time were lavished on the production of this play. This is a great expense, but perhaps it was worth it.

Most of the student body accepted the invitation of the Telephone Co. and inspected it from top to bottom. Everyone was quite impressed at the complicated arrangement, but even the Freshmen could offer no suggestions for changes.

The Chorus of Concordia College sang at St. John’s Church on May 14, and the Winnebago Chorus sang at the College Auditorium on May 14. Both found the student body an appre­ ciative audience.

The Immanuel Children’s Chorus sang at the College Auditorium on May 21. To say that the audience was amazed at their accomplishments is mild.

The services of the ever-popular Band were required at Juneau on May 28.

Ah! The last number—our grief is profound. We are already looking over the prospects for next year. We hope the girls will appreciate it when we say “I told you so”. Half the thrill in being executed lies in the fact that people remind you of it. Now we’re becoming morbid. What would Pollyanna say?—or dear, dear Mr. Guest? Give us poison ivy any time.

But let us get back to the big event of the year, our Co-ed Banquet.

For days before, the girls planned their costumes. It was to be a very elaborate affair, with no men admitted. Alas! it rained, but we still decided to come out in full glory. Some looked like wilted butterflies (pardon the mix-up) when they arrived, but they soon revived when they got into the warm room. Then they sat down and began to eat. Here, Pm afraid we’ll, have to drop the butterfly illusion. Buxom maidens do pot sip. We’ll forgive them. It was a long wait. Seven-thirty is an unusual dining hour for the small fry. Certain items on the menu stend out fresh in our minds. Fudge cake!—Talk about ambrosia and “gefttllte” fish. It had walnuts placed at strategic points in and about the frosting. P. S. —There’s none left. We wound up (how vulgar) with speeches of the usual length. The procedure was:—Much applause—The speaker utters two dis­ jointed sentences, then sits down. —Prolonged applause.—We console ourselves with spoonfuls of ice-cream. The next one yises. Thank heavens she can’t speak—too much cake.一 More applause than ever.

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The last one is over. We hold out our cheeks for the parting kiss and bid each other a fond adieu. Another Co-ed Banquet goes down in history.

It doesn’t seem that the year is over; still, here we are—at the beginning of June, with finals waxing full and mosquitoes thriving. * * * Glenna Rasmussen, feeling an urge for a respite from common, ordinary events, attended the Oconomowoc High School Prom with Betty Jaeger.

Margaret Krahn recently went to a Walther League Convention in Racine as a delegate from St. John’s Walther League Society. * * * On the 22nd of May, the Sexta, Quinta and Quarta Coeds were royally entertained by Hildegarde Wallner at her home in Clyman Street. * * * It is rumored about that two Collegiate Coeds are seriously thinking of writing a book this summer. Just what the event or cause of the impetus is, is rather uncertain as yet, but the plans are that a third coed do the sketches, a fourth write a preface, and a fifth write a preface. A sixth has promised to peruse it with utmost care and incidentally, to benefit by it.

Such a noble idea should be encouraged, so success to you fellow schoolmates. We’ll be waiting for a copy. (Comp­ limentary) . * * Visitors: Ruth Bruesehoff visited school on May 24.

Gertrude Bunge was seen at the Stellhorn Children’s Concert on May 21. Adele Herro, Ruth Ibisch and Lillian Trapp saw the College play.

Arline Schuman, Ruby Holzhueter and Bernice Kieck went to the picnic in Juneau on May 28.

And these were wed! Gladys Hallet, ex-’33 and Bob Spangler of Jefferson. Best Wishes!

Margaret Stern graduated from the Denby High School of Detroit, Michigan on May 25.

Arline Schuman spent the week-end of May 6 in West Allis visiting the W. R. Bunges.

But how? Why? What can it mean? Who may it be? Of course, we^e not very romantic, but we should like to know all about the interesting ring Gertrude Wuethrich is wearing on the finger. We promise not to breathe a word, so won’t you please enlighten us, Wheatie, and break this awful suspicion?

Helen Arnold and Gertrude Wuethrich spent Memorial Day at the latter’s home in Doylestown.

Grace Meyers was a bridesmaid at the Hallet-Spangler nuptials.

We’ll see you at the Century of Progress, maybe.

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Mystery “Mary, why is baby sitting in the corner looking so miserable ?”

"I can’t imagine, ma’am. Half an hour ago he was sitting quite pretty eating plums and drinking my beer.’’

Or Too Much Overhead Tenant: “Why raise my rent when I occupy this miserable attic ?”

Landlord : “Well, you’re using the stairs more than any­ body else.”

Prof.: "And where are the horse latitudes ?”

A1: “In Kentucky.”

“My boy, why are you crying ?” asked the kind lady.

“My father fell downstairs.”

“And did he hurt himself ?”

:：No.”

"Then why are you crying.”

“My sister saw him and I didn’t.”

Secondhand Car Salesman: ‘ This car is sound in every part. ” Prospect (disgusted): ‘‘So I hear.” * * * Sager: “You’re a regular night owl.”

Bretzman : “Well, I don’t give a hoot.”

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One Senior to Another “Do you expect to see ‘magna cum laude’ on your diploma.

“No, ‘cum grano salis.’ ” Of Course Not Colonel (pointing to skin on floor): ‘‘That bear was only ten feet away when I shot him.” # ， Butler: “Well, sir, you could hardly have missed him, could you ?”

Untouched By Human Hands “My wife is always going through my pockets for money.”

“Why don’t you do like I do. I put mine in the basket with my undarned socks.’’

Liesener (beginning speech): “On such a gloomy day as this it is fitting to speak about our Blue laws.’’

Diplomat “Madam, will you buy some insect powder V1 “I have no use for it.’’

“Good! I will take the room you have to let.”

Oh! “But, dear, you wouldn’t marry a fellow just because he is a good dancer ?”

“Oh, no, Jack is clever at bridge too.”

Prof.: Schwenzen, please sit so I can see you. see you when you sleep.” ♦

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::Why all deep thought, Ethel ?” ‘‘I’m trying to make up my mind whether to be popular or to act like a lady. ” I.

今J didn’t know you had moved. How long have you

“Dear, (turning to his wife) how many months are we be­ hind m the rent ?” :‘My car goes for a while and then stops.”

A spurt model, eh ?” * * * It will be a pleasure to write this column for the July number.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

LITERARY— Chaucer and Langland on the lot of the common people of England— —95 The Thorny Side of the Rosebush— —99 Cretans All.

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Germany’s Plight

104

Linguistia

105

EDITORIALS— SEMINARY NOTES..............

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

EXCHANGE.........................

ATHLETICS..........................

LOCALS...............................

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

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Number 4

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CHAUCER AND LANGLAND ON THE LOT OF THE COMMON PEOPLE OF ENGLAND. Chaucer seldom treats of the life of the common people.

He was the court-poet. Occasionally, however, he does lend his hand to the portrayal of the common people and then gives a perfect sketch of homely life. The outstanding example of this is the description of the widow and her cottage in the Nun’s Priest’s Tulc. It is typical of Chaucer that he shows but little indignation at the abuses of his day. He is the poet of “merry” England and consequently presents us with a very peaceful picture. If we wish to learn how. the lower classes toiled and suffered, we must turn to the Vision o! Piers the Plowman, by Langland. Here it is the author’s intention to make the people aware of their evil lot and to set them upon a pilgrimage in search of Saint Truth. .

The Ntjn’s Priest’s Tale, with its grace and brightness of style and vivacity, proves to us — if we need any proof 一 that ' Chaucer was a master poet, in spite of Dryden’s opinion. The very simplicity of the description of the widow and her cottage makes the tale dramatic. Indeed, to appreciate this dramatic quality in Chaucer, it is necessary to read his verse fluently.

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^ Bell Simplicity is one of the essentials of the truly dramatic, and this Chaucer has in abundance. The simplicity with which this tale is told inspires us with belief in its relative truth to life.

We see the life of the poor and lowly person, at a time when there was peace and the oppression was not too severe. The widow’s entire life was simple; her diet was simple; her dress was simple ; her home was simple. Her kingdom was a narrow cottage and a yard “enclosed al about with stikkes.” Besides that she possessed “three large sowes,... three kyne and eek a sheep.” With husbandry she supported herself and her two daughters. Her diet consisted of milk and brown bread, sometimes bacon, and occasionally an egg or two for breakfast.

That was the life of the common people reduced to its fun­ damentals, working and eating. On Sunday they attended the village church and were duly impressed by a divine service of which they understood not a word. But they marked time by Sunday afternoons, devoted to the dance or to other forms of amusement. York and Chester were the centers for the prod uction of miracle plays, rude in dialogue and grotesque of p ortraiture. Noah’s shrewish wife was always assured of a laugh.

The occasional interspersing of comedy on English life was also received enthusiastically by the audience. On the way home, perhaps, they were entertained by jugglers and quacks who put on acts along the almost impracticable roads. The most favored form of diversion was the dance, every Sunday afternoon on the village commons. Here the widow’s daughters and the country swains came to dance, music being furnished by the wandering minstrels, who were the source of anything literary in the masses. The widow was not able to attend the dance.

Of her Chaucer says, “The goute lette hir no-thing for to dance.’’

Among the notable characteristics of the time must be counted the pilgrimage. A discussion of the pilgrimage in this theme is in place. Remember that the pilgrimage was the most democratic institution of the time. It was a leveler of the classes, as we see it in the Canterbury Tales. Both rich and poor^ high and low went on pilgrimages together. In fact, the pilgrimage was so characteristic of the time that Chaucer chose it as a new literary medium by which to lend his collection of tales unity. He had no literary precedent in this. Love of adventure as well as the wish to escape from the humdrum of home, after being shut in all winter, rather than religious zeal, undoubtedly^ made the pilgrimages popular.

The Vision of Piers the Plowman is a bolder effort and moves along broader lines than any one piece of Chaucer, but is not as artistic, since the author is more concerned about his message than about his form. It is filled with ire at the state of affairs. It is permeated by a zeal for reforming the world, 96

I ^ math ^ something which Chaucer never desired to do. Chaucer merely chuckeld at the foibles of his contemporaries or at the most satirized them but lightly. Piers (he Plowman, on the contrary, is all reproof and was evidently written by someone who sympa­ thized with the poor and downtrodden. There is reproof for idleness, reproof for the shortcomings of the church, reproof for the hypocrisy of the life round about the author.

It is difficult for us to understand why the people at that time endured the oppression described in Piers the Plowman, with only infrequent murmuring or opposition. They lived at the end of the Middle Ages and this was their medieval herit­ age. We must remember that at this time they were illiterate, were intensely gullible, and also adventurous. For the most part they were rustics — connotation and all. Those living in the cities were not much better. In fact, I can’t see why men ever wanted to go to these cities. What the priests, of whom Langland tells us, wanted in London except money is beyond me, since the London of that time was terribly filthy, in spite of a recent decree banning pigs from the city streets.

Langland in his poem is determined to denounce the folly of the higher-ups, since they were the oppressors of the common people. He first criticizes the idle and the fakers, then the in­ sincere monks and priests, and finally the jurists. In doing this, he does not give us a direct picture of the sufferings of the lower classes, but suggests them by exposing the faults of their masters. The clergy constituted the chief offenders, undoubted­ ly, because they were the educated (as far as education went) and could thus impose upon the illiterate people entrusted into their spiritual care and guidance. .As already stated, the roadsides teemed with jesters and jugglers who put on acts in order to squeeze the coins out of the purses of the gaping audience. Their fustian did the trick, Langland^ objection to them is that they could ply some worth­ while trade if they only wished to. He says of the beggars that they bustled about until their bags and bellies were brimful and bulging with the gifts of the poor. In the evening they fought brawls at the alehouses until the management threw them out.

There were also those who adopted copes to purchase their ease. Other friars preached to profit their bellies, perverting the Gospel to suit their needs. Langland also describes to us a pardoner who absolved the people from their sins for gold, reminding us forcibly of the man Tetzel. Chaucer gives us a similar scene in the confession, or rather disclosure of himself, made by the Pardoner. Langland traces the source of this evil back to the parish priest who had it in his power to put an end to this practise. The parish priests merely connived at it so long as they shared the gains on a fifty per-cent basis.

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their bishops'4that the parisch hath ben pore seththe the pesti­ lence tyme, M and requested a license to go to London, where they tried to influence the authorities to place them more favor­ ably. Of course, they had to pay dearly for any attention they received. (The “pestilence” mentioned in the above quotation was the Black Death, which was raging in Europe at the time.

This made the hardships of the poor all the more distressing)..

Yet, we must not conclude from this that all the monks and nuns were sanctimonious cheats. _The poem itself speaks of some who were good, devout, and sincere : ‘‘To preyeres and to penaunce putten hem monye, For love of ur Lord liveden ful streite, In hope for to have hevene-riche blisse ; As ancres and hermytes that holdeth hem in heore celles, Coveyte not in cuntre to cairen aboute, For non likerons lyflode heore licam to plese.”

All the money for the support of these parasites was sucked out of the poor class. The people sweat, guiding- the plows or sowing the grain, merely that they might win “that theos wasters with glotonye distruen.” What remained was barely enough to keep body and soul together. Is it any wonder that someone who knew the conditions intimately (Lang'land is said to have been a monk at Malvern and after he had left the order an extremely poor man) would in his indignation write a poem of the nature of Piers the Plovman ?

Not only was clerical order and morality very lax, but even justice seems to have miscarried. The lawyers or sergeants of the court pleaded cases for pennies and pounds, whether they represented the right side or not. Altruism did not enter into their make-up (somewhat modern !). They never “for love of ur Lord unloseth heore lippes ones.” They and the others mentioned dominated over the common people — over the •'Bakers, bochers, and breusters monye; Wollene-websteris and weveris of lynen ; Taillours, tanneris, and tokkeris bothe ; Masons, minours, and mony other crafts.”

This was the condition Langland fought. His remedy was that every person, whatever his station in life be, should fulfill his duty, seek for Saint Truth. Piers the Plowman was the man who could show them the way.

From the two poems which we have discussed we are able to get a true picture of the people in general at the time Chaucer. Either author taken alone would not give us a true picture. Chaucer shows us the brighter side of the life of the people. Langland gives us the shadier side. Both taken to­ gether give us the whole picture.

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It is true that a certain number of farmers have no debts on their property at all. Some of these even have money be­ sides their property. But when we hear or read that approxi­ mately eighty percent of Wisconsin farms are mortgaged, it be­ comes evident that the farmer without debts is an exception rather than the rule.

Let us examine the conditions of a so-called owner of a farm.

Bought when prices were high, the value of the farm today would very likely not exceed the amount of the mortgage. For this reason he cannot sell his farm without losing the substantial sum of money already invested in the property. Therefore the only thing to do is to “plug along”，working all day and part of the night, in order to save his home and investment. Most of them merely take in enough money for taxes, interest, and a simple living. And this is not the remuneration of one man's, labor, but that of his wife and of perhaps two or three children as well, without considering any interest on his investment.

Thus he can probably make a living, but many city people ― \yould quickly decline, if this same opportunity of making a living were offered to them. # Now let us say that he can not even pay his interest and taxes, what is there left for the farmer to do? If it is at all possible to borrow money, he can borrow enough money to pay the interest and taxes, thereby only increasing his indebtedness. On the other hand, he can let his payments drift along unpaid a little while and lose possession of his farm. In the latter case he may retain his personal property and become a renter, whose hardships I shall briefly attempt to describe.

The renter has no farm mortgage to worry about but usually has debts or a chattel mortgage on his machinery and live stock. If he rents the farm for cash, he is fortunate if he is able to pay _ . the rent. If the farm is rented on shares, usually on halves, the income is reduced enough to allow but a bare living, li to say nothing of paying old debts or the like.

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of forty or fifty dollars per month, as was often the case last year, and the renter receives only half of this amount, it can readily be seen that no spending orgy need be indulged in to rid oneself of the money. It is not a choice between buying luxuries and necessities, but rather between the necessary and the absolutely necessary things.

And the renter again is fortunate if he is able to keep the ball a-rolling and pay his expenses. But suppose that his per­ sonal property is heavily mortgaged. Instead of being able to purchase new machinery or additional live stock to increase his income, he may lose part or all of his personal property, be­ cause of his inability to pay for it. The only solution to his problem now is to do what the unemployed city man did at the beginning of the depression, namely, to be supported by some relief organization. This means that considerable capital (from the farmer’s point of view) is lost, never to be regained. Even if this latter step is not reached, it will take the average fanner several years of boom times to come up on top again. .

Is it any wonder then that the farmer is becoming1 dis­ couraged and unruly? I wonder whether Horace, if he were living in our midst today, would ask: “Qui fit, Maecenas, ut contentus vivat?” nemo W. H.，34 CRETANS ALL I felt like a true adventurer who had just left the last irksome outpost of civilization behind. True enough, the shady park in the heart of Billings in which I rested would hardly pass for wild unexplored country before a committee of hard­ ened explorers. But as I surveyed it from where I reclined under a huge Cottonwood the place seemed to teem with ad­ venture and romance.

The park wasn’t particularly different from other city parks except, perhaps, that this one was crisscrossed by a network of irrigation ditches. There were the same inevitable picnickers making a mess of the park and themselves with apparent en­ joyment, the same loafers napping in the shade with faces covered. But there was an added something which seemed to breathe of the life of the golden west —and similar phrases, which at the moment remain out of reach.

A flycatcher went after bugs with a vim that bespoke twogun determination. The mountain breeze that stirred the branches seemed to be humming “Roll along little doggies”， and even a vagrant pup had a decided bow to his legs.

I filled my briar and sat back contentedly like a prospector just in from a successful trip, or a rancher after heM branded his last calf for the season. IM have given all my knowledge 100

of Greek— no —that’s hardly enough, we’ll throw in Hebrew and pig-Latin — to have been an honest to goodness cowpuncher, bowlegs and all, or a prospector in from the hills for just one night, merely to feel at home with the natives and to be able to speak with them on even terms.

At that moment, I observed a good looking young fellow advancing through the trees. His ten-gallon hat was set far back on his head, his shirt-collar turned in, and although his clothes were of an eastern cut, he walked with a carelessness which suggested the jangle of spurs on high-heeled boots.

He noticed my frankly interested gaze and sauntered up with a friendly ‘‘ilowdy’’. .

“Howdy”，I answered, hoping that he would remain and talk.

He seemed in no hurry and we began to exchange remarks, not exactly brilliant, about the condition of the weather and the prospects of rain and cooler weather.

His accent, I noticed, had a southern ring to it, while mine, since we’re on the subject, was decidedly western— it smelled of sagebrush. After some minutes vve came to that point in the conversation where you ask a fellow where he’s from. I’d been aching to ask him all along. Finally, however, he told me his name, which he slurred beyond recognition, and gave his home as Arizona, occupation ranching. There was a happy feeling down in the bottom of my stomach.—A real honest to goodness rancher from Arizona — golly !

I hid my delight like a true, hardened westerner and in­ troduced myself as a prospector from Idaho. I did it with some compunction, but I felt it was worth a little lie to be able to talk to a real rancher on even terms. But unfortunatly I over­ did myself there. I overstepped the bounds, in short, I bungled.

For gold-mining was his pet ambition, and he’d been aching to talk to a real honest to goodness prospector. So instead of sitting enraptured while an Arizona rancher told hair-raising tales of the cattle-country, I was racking my brain for stories and calling myself all sorts of bad names. .

I tried the strong, silent man stuff and attempted to shift the conversation to ranching with becoming modesty but with no success. Ranching, in his estimation, was just every-day stuff when there was gold-mining in the air.

I groped around for a beginning, but I couldn’t get a start at first. He began to ply me with questions. “Had I had any success ? had I ever struck it rich ? did I have any of the stuff with me?”

All of these questions I answered as vaguely as I could.

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stuck all over and every one as rich as Croesus’ Treasury, and asked all the more questions.

I was getting desperate. Finally I decided to go ahead and trust to luck. I decided to talk.

“I came in for my winter’s grub stake.” I told him. “I know where there’s lots of the stuff if I only get enough grub to go back.”

“Tell me about it!’’ he asked, his eyes all excited.

About that time I remembered the story of a famous lost mine that I’d read and decided to spring it. No harm — I figured — I’m pretty sure it’s a true story.

“Last November” I began, “I was prospecting up around Bear Late”. （I had never heard of the place — but I figured that it was a hundred to one shot that he didn’t know of it either.) “I didn’t have much luck. Hit a little bit now and then,« ( but nothing worth while.”

I was getting ready to pull out along in November. One day I was out after fresh meat. I went way up in the mount­ ains and got a dandy buck 一 big feller — six pointM ， “It was getting late and a storm was coming up so I didn’t reckon — ahem — reckon that I could pack him out any more that night. I hung him up in a little cave figurin’ on coming1 out next day to get him. After I had him hung up, I noticed something sparkle on the wall of the cave. I looked close and found a streak of quartz, white as a dog’s tooth and all over it were stuck gold nuggets. I knocked off as much as I could carry and beat it, hopin’ to return next day and stake my claim.

I didn’t get back to camp till midnight and it was snowing heavy then. Next day it was still snowing as well as the dlay after. We had so much snow that I never got out there again that winter.’’

“I took the ore down and she assayed at $24,321.47 a ton !

“I wentout soon as I could this spring thinkin’ I could walk right up to it 一 but (and this very dramatic) I haven’t found the place yet. Not even anything that looked familiar.”

I’d been staring straight ahead for what seemed effect but was really fear that any look of doubt in his eyes — or recog­ nition of the story — would put me off my game and so ruin my prospecting career at the outset and I was beginning to like my new occupation. But when I finally dared meet his gaze, all I read there was rapt admiration. It gave me new nerve. ^What had happened to it ?’’ he asked.

“I think an avalanche covered it up.” (I could have made it a glacier or even a volcano. But I decided that an avalanche considering, of course, that it was a good big avalanche — and I tried to convey that impression — could do a pretty good job of covering up a mine. Good enough, anyhow, to finish the story.)

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“Ah，” he muttered with great respect, ‘‘It must be wonderful to be a prospector!”

I looked at him somewhat surprised. That from a westerner.

“And I suppose you’ll go right back to look for it, as soon as you get your grubstake?’’

This interest of his was just what I needed. My brain was a maze of stories.

•‘Well—’’I replied either that one or another one I found.

“Another?”

“A couple years affo，’’ I began, “three of us were prospect­ ing up the Jacknife River. We came to a place where a branch came in from each side. We split there, each of us taking a branch. I took the one to the west and struck it rich. I never sawsuch gold!” (that at least was the truth) "I filled everything I had and hid it under the floor of the cabin. One day a band of Indians attacked me. I made it to the cabin all right and tried to hold out against them. It was terrible! My hair turned white over night.’’

“Your liair?’’

•I caught myself. I felt Fd been rushing madly on into territory that angels are prone to regard with suspicion.

“No, not me. Did I say me? No, by no means. It was my granddad I was speaking of.”

I terminated that story in a hurry— and hastened on to another.

"One . afternoon two of us were out coyote hunting, when we noticed a lone figure staggering toward us across the desert.”

But my rancher friend seemed to have shifted his interest.

He seemed to be puzzled about something.

MHe carried a heavy pack/' I continued, valiantly trying regain his interest because I knew this story was a humclin择er and would undoubtedly redeem me. "We rushed to hia assistance. ‘Water! ’，he begged, in a feeble voice—” MPardon me,” said the Arizonan gazing at the irrigation system, “but what d’you suppose they dug all these ditches around here for?，’ ^looked at him astonished.

You mean—say” I said “Don’t tell me you’re a. rancher, yt from Arizona anyhow, and don’t know what an irrigation ditch is!〃

He blushed vividly and confessed he was merely a vacationy from Chicago.

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A. B. ，34 GERMANY’S PLIGHT It has been rumored that Hitler is persecuting the Jews.

Speaking loosely, this statement is perhaps true. However, we should not condemn him, since we are in no position to judge fairly; for the true facts of the situation in Germany are unknown to us. The newspapers, as is their wont, depict in glowing terms torture and violence, bloodshed and massacres; but, as we all know, when a newspaper columnist draws a snake, he inevitably adds legs. Common sense and information derived from letters of German citizens, censured by Hitler's aides, of course, to individuals in America, say that the so-called persecu­ tion is not at all severe, and that every German citizen who has the interest of the country and nation at heart sanctions his procedures and blesses him.

Hitler is persecuting, if we may term boycott and impera­ tive commands to leave the country “persecution”，only that class of Jews which has base moral standards, in which cate­ gory he places those whose influence on the people is indisput­ ably degenerating, as moving-picture magnates, novelists and others, and also those Jews who are unpatriotic, who live like leeches without regard for that which sustains them-some bleed the people, many others hold responsible positions which should belong only to those who understand and love the German people. That this is the caste against which he has taken so firm a stand is to a certain extent confessed even in the news­ papers and is clearly evident from the fact that those Jews who served in the European War, or whose fathers fought and died fighting for Germany, are, we might say comparatively speak­ ing, revered.

But regardless of the facts, whatever Germany does to itself, this ought to concern England, America, and all the other countries but very remotely. There is no need, and certainly no just reason for the redoubtable women of America to rush to arms, to demand a boycott of German goods, to organize a great organization, which, if given time, may reach the heights the W. C. T. U. attained.

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Why don’t the Women of America, since they are :such philanthropists, demand that the officials of our nation open wide the friendly arms of brotherhood to the individuals of this caste, who, while they are in Germany, 3000 miles away, are poor, unjustly persecuted humans, who have hands, organs, senses, passions, who bleed if pricked, laugh if tickled, die if poisoned, but who, when they are in America, are called "kikes”？ R. H. LINGUISTIA Haven’t you often longed to be endowed with the gifts of a linquist—to exclaim "sacre et diable” with the best of the swaggering sons of France—to dash off Spanish like a native— or to chat familiarly with the Bedouin in his tent? Hasn’t the lure of a stranpe tongue captivated you? Anyone who cherishes any love at all for the romance and glamour of a foreign country will have dabbled in their languages.

Spanish, Arabic, Norwegian, French—I have tried my hand at them all. How the liquid purity of Spanish intrigued me as I heard it for the first time. What a pleasure it would be to have such a language at one’s command! ‘‘Lo bueno y lo malo” 一never was there such liquid smoothness in any other tongue.

I set out to master it By good fortune, my patience was not exhausted when I had lumbered through the pronunciation, accent, spelling, rules to be observed, cum multis aliis. Every lesson was worked out with meticulous care and exactness. I aspired to reading Don Quixote in the original. But by the time page fifty-two was turned, my interest was flagging. At page fifty-four the spirit to advance farther into enemy territory ebbed away and left me stranded on the rocks of indifference.

Several years later another attempt carried me merely ten pages farther. Still Spanish is a beautiful language—beautiful, per­ haps, because it is so unattainable.

Norwegian once provoked my fancy too. To have com­ mand of the language of these romantic, blue-eyed Norsemen was an aspiration. Breathlessly I opened the text. What?

This is Low German, into which sufficient grunts, rattles, and wheezes have been injected to infuse the proper Norski spirit.

Fearing that the study of that language would corrupt my use of the tongue of my forefathers, I laid it aside reluctantly.

Perhaps I’ll take it up again when Tin skiing this winter.

Arabic also found a place among the things that I have loved. Imagination held me enthrall 3d. Wouldn’t it be a glorious prospect to be able to hear the Faithful at their prayers; be fitted to traverse the vast area between Gibraltar and and to converse with the Arabs in their own tongue?

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telligible. My romantic vagaries soon vanished in the storm that greeted me as I took up the alphabet. Since it was a Semitic language, it had no association with the Indo-Germanic group, whose relationship with our own tongue simplifies their study. And being Arabic, there were four separate systems of writing to be learned. I endeavored to trick myself into memo­ rizing them, but I faltered near the goal. Next time I’ll make the alphabet my own, even if I have to don a burnoose and haik to accomplish it.

Not more than a random glance was given French. There was too much conceit in it. Those who spoke the language seemed to be shrinking within themselves for fear of mispro­ nouncing a word, touching the hybrid sounds as if they were too hot to hold on the tongue. When a man wishes to express flights of fancy let him use French; but for the solid practically of everyday life, I would prefer something substantial.

After such experiences one might conclude that learning a foreign tongue in the privacy of one’s study would be impracti­ cal. To learn a language merely for the beauty of it is difficult after the novelty of beginning to learn it has worn off. There should be something more than merely an aesthetic appreciation to urge you on when ambition fails you. Moreover it is a simple matter to persuade yourself to drop a subject when you alone are taking it up. But to convince a professor that he has no business teaching it to you, and that it is not pedagogically wrong, is often a Sisyphean task even if it is often to your interest to continue.

Take my advice. Don’t look for even a smattering of a foreign language, if you have no more reason to study it than I have. Rather open that Xenophon of yours and read a few pages next Sunday afternoon as a more profitable means to waste your time.

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ALUMNI

一 Martin Sprengling, ’94, has been appointed acting head of the Semitic department at Chicago University.

—Benny Kimpel, ex-’2G，is teaching divinity and philosophy at Wesley University in Kansas. 一 Rev. J. G. Glaeser of Tomah died on the 22nd day of June.

He was buried in Milwaukee four days later.

—Louis M. Bleichwehl，’30，received a call to Larsen, Wis., as assistant pastor to Rev. F. C. Weyland.

—Hilbert Siegler, ’31, is taking a course in natural sciences at the University of Wisconsin this year.

—Jack Dalilke，’31，visited the dormitory September 4.

—W. Pless, ’29，has accepted a position as instructor at Winnebago Academy. Irv Scharf, ’28, who gave up his position there to complete his studies at the Seminary, has been recalled.

—Leroy Ristow, ’30, who taught at the academy last year is attending the Seminary this year.

—Walter Paustian，’29，married Miss Lillian Gauger of Mil­ waukee sometime last June.

—Wilmer Sturm, ex-536, visited N. W. C. on Wed. Sept. 13.

—W. Dobratz and M. Schwenzen, both ’33, were seen about the grounds Friday, Sept. 15. Wally played on four band jobs over the week-end.

—Irv Scharf preached at a mission festival at Rev. Wolter’s church in Lomira, August 27.

—Amos Schwerin was in town Sunday, September 10. 一 Lester Freitag and Harold Haefner, both ’32, were selling books in the dormitory the evening of Sept. 14.

—Rev. Ph. Lehmann, ’10, of Abelman, Wis., preached for the mission festival at St. Mark’s, September 17.

Rev. Herman Cares, ’21，of Allen ton, Wis., visited his brother here September 11.

— Rev. Roland Hillemann，，25, of Plum City, Wis., and for­ merly a tutor at Northwestern, visited the school September 8.

— Hans Schultz, ’31， was noticed in town during the first week of school. _ r~ Fred Bergfeld, ’30, was pulling a jinricksha at the world’s fair this summer.

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啦划“办咕 —Rev. Belno Lange, ’18，of White Lake, South Dakota, and Rev. Roy Vollmers, *16, of Geneva, Nebraska, were in town during the summer.

— Mr. Charles Moldehnke of Plainfield, New Jersey, visited N.W.C. on July 10. His father was a former President of N.W.C. — Rev. Walter Keibel,，13，of West Allis, wrote an article “Church Woods” in the August issue of ‘‘American Forests” magazine in which he tells of the out-door church at Kirchhayn, Wisconsin.

—M. Fleischer, *30, preached for a mission festival at Clayton, Wis., September 17.

—Rev. Herbert Schaller, ’09, of Medford, Wis” received the call to Tomah.

—Rev. Harold Zink, ’27，of Freeland, Mich., was married June 4. R. Hoenecke, *28, was best man.

—Rev. Waldemar Zink, ’26, was presented with a son,-John, last August.

—The Reverends F. C. Weyland of Larsen, Wis” and 0.

Theobald of Whitefish Bay visited N.W.C. Sept. 20.

Harold Schultz, ’30，has accepted a call to Fort Morgan, Colorado.

Question: “Is it necessary that a football player train?”

A. R. ’35—Yes, absolutely! No player, no matter how good he is, can withstand the strain of football if he does not train.

Football is a game where clear thinking, endurance and untiring muscles are needed and training gives them to a player.

E. C. S. ’34—If an athlete is to play to the utmost of his ability, he can do justice to his team as well as to himself, only, if he follows the common code of training rules.

J. R. ’34—Very few will dispute the fact that training is highly beneficial and necessary for the athlete.

Moderation in all things, which is the foundation of all training, can only bring good results.

C: H. ’34—I believe that it is necessary for a football player to train. By “training” I mean the following: 1) he should not smoke or use strong drinks; 2) he should have the required 8 hrs. of sleep; 3) he should not eat to excess. Of course, it is not possible to follow these two last requirements strictly be­ cause of existing conditions, but a player should strive towards them. The player who does not train is sluggish both mentally and physically. This means that he will not be able to play 110

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R. C. S. ’34—The mentors of all ages, from the old Olympic coaches down, ap：ree that rigiil training is necessary for an athlete if he desires to do his best. Merely making the team is, of course, not 44the best’’, nor is merely dropping smoking training.

C. F. :35-I think that it helps a football player a great deal to train. In the long run the player who trains will have more pep and power than one who does not. I also think that a football player should train of his own free will. It is not at all right for training to be forced upon anyone. If a player trains or does not, that is his own business; however, if a nontraining1 member drops from first to second teams, he need blame no one but himself.

M. T. *35—Because we play teams that have a choice of material and are better coached* because we lack material and competent substitutes, and because a player is often called upon to play the full sixty minutes, it is absolutely essential. and necessary for each and every player, from captain to substitute to train.

M. W. ’35-To me it seems expedient that a football player should train, because it is harmful to his health if he doesn’t.

A player is also obliged to show consideration to a fellow teammate who does train and who gives what he’s got.

H. F. *35—1 have trained and I haven’t. To me there is little difference. I am rather in favor of no training—because an occasional cigarette prevents one from becoming stale.

G. B. *36—Northwestern must be put on the sports map, therefore, we must train.

J. B. ’37—In all walks of life natural ability and sincere endeavor are the two phases of development. • Physical and mental supremacy can be obtained only as a result of a careful preservation of one’s natural ability, obser­ vance of training rules, and a sincere and earnest training in the fundamentals of football technique. The mental and physical coordination necessary to supremacy in football comes only as a result of practice.

D. S. ’37—1 am in favor of training to a certain degree.

Two things I consider very important are well balanced meals and plenty of sleep.

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mwm To all exchange editors this one extends condolence. “Dear graduates! Farewell! Ah yes, farewell! You are now about to leave the loving, sheltering arms of your Alma Mater. Soon the cold, cruel world will have you in its vicious srasp, but be of good cheer, be honest, (honesty is the best policy) be brave and courageous, be charitable and remember what you have learned within the sacred precincts of our dearly beloved alma mater under the kind, loving guidance of your beloved pro­ fessors, and all will be well’’. Saccharine is by no means forceful enough to describe the editorial “send offsM given to the graduates. Imagine the poor exchange editor with red eyes trying to wipe away a tear unnoticed by his roommates as he peruses the first description of the sad lot that is to be that of the graduates; and then imagine him after he has read the same thing ten or thirty times in as many different publications.

Still more of a discomfort in the cervix are the eulogies which some of the publications print under the pictures of the gradu­ ates. Roget’s “Thesaurus” seems to be the ever present help in the composition of these panegyrics. About the only reason for the existence of such “essays” is the practice for the com­ poser in discovering something of merit in everyone. He (my sense of chivalry forbids me to suspect a lady) finds that one person has a sense of humour, another ability as an athlete, • one is kindhearted and if the villain can find nothing else of merit he discovers that the subject of his pen plays a clarinet.

The Tuskegce Messenger of Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, provides a series of excellent articles treating- interracial prob­ lems. Tuskegee is the largest negro school in the country. Its first instructor was Booker T. Washington.

Next month this column will not consider editorials on football, college spirit, 01，“A Century of Progress^.

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The thud of cleated foot meeting pigskin is again heard on the campus. —Approximately thirty veterans and newcomers in quest of gridiron glory responded to Coach Kleinke’s initial call for candidates. From this group, with nine of last year’s letter-men as a nucleus, Coach Kleinke hopes to build up a team that will bring' victories to Northwestern in the 1933 gridiron campaign. Not to repeat the usual pre-season story of “the most promising： eleven in a decade”，we can neverthe­ less say with a certain amount of certainty that the coming season should be fairly successful. The 1933 schedule includes three games with conference schools, and is without doubt the most fairly matched and evenly balanced schedule arranged in years. Given an even chance, our gridmen should win a per­ centage of the games and regain for Northwestern its some­ what dimmed gridiron prestige.

In the backfield Northwestern will have such veteran ball carriers as Captain Reuschel at fullback, Fredericks at one of the ^ halfback positions, and Schwartz at quarterback. The ability of Stewart of Antigo High as shown in practice sessions indicates that he will receive the call for the other halfback position. Frey and Mielke, last year’s reserves, should also see some action this year. This gives the Black and Red an experienced and balanced backfield, with plenty of power.

Northwestern’s forward wall will include such experienced and Witt, veterans as Siegler, Toepel, and Bolle, ends; Raabe I tackles; Bradtke and Lemke, guards; Hotlen and Schroeder centers; besides there are a number of last year’s squadmen 113

and of freshmen who are showing increasing ability and who may prove to be of varsity calibre by the time the season gets under way. The line is admittedly light, but this disadvantage can be overcome by speed, force, and aggressiveness.

At present, Coach Kleinke is running the squad through daily signal drills and scrimmages, trying to whip the men in shape for the opening game of the season against the Lutheran Seminary of Thiensville.

The schedule calls for six games, four at home, and two on foreign fields.

The schedule follows: September 23 .... .......... Seminary here September 30. _____Lake Forest there October 14 _â&#x20AC;˘ ..Platteville Miners here October 28 ...

Dubuque University here November 3 不 ........... . Wartburg here November 10 ................... Milton there

School has begun again, and everyone is delighted. Those who fortunately found manual employment, which number, if we may judge correctly from the infallible evidence of tanned or freckled bodies, as the case may be, sparkling eyes and bleached hair, was not very large, find it especially gratifying to return to the field of mental activities ; only those who passed the time reading behind well-screened windows, have, it must be confessed, a certain reluctance to return, objecting to the halo of large and small bugs which is the inseparable companion of night reading. But, in general, everyone confessed that he was glad to return.

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Noble souls!

The first view which confronted the eyes of the returning students, a view, which through its repeated occurrence is be­ coming too familiar to hold any great novelty for us, was de­ bris, the product of the early September excavations in our court. The same thing happened last year, but then an attempt was made at camouflage — the nails were artfully intermixed with the cinders on the drive, and the slate-colored shingles somewhat resembled the appearance of seared grass; the whole was quite in keeping with the surroundings to one glancing but cursorily. This year the mounds of red earth, perhaps clay, were in full view. They held a certain attraction, of course, and were full of meaning to anyone who could place meaning into such a mound. They had educational value, too ; many of us learned to carry cement slabs. Someone suggested that if they had begun earlier they would have completed it sooner.

How silly!

Howard still has his cough.

On September 12, at 1:33 P.M., Mahatma Sager had his hair not only combed, but even parted. There are numerous witnesses.

One announcement was omitted at the opening exercises, which forced the Scxtaners to exercise their deductive, inductive and observant faculties. They were not informed of the cause of thundering, reverberating1 and truly frightening din and hubbub which occurs at regular intervals. Their first suspicion, grounded on the noises alone, was that a mad Dutch colony was encamped in some recess of the building. The second prevail­ ing belief, grounded on a smattering of German mythology, was that Luetzovv, he of the “Wilde Jagd”，had taken up his quarters in this neighborhood. The third conjecture, formed purely on the basis of reasonless Terror, was that the vault contained restless manes. Finally, after long discussion, in­ quiry, and observation, they discovered the truth. The cause of the unspeakable and indescribable tumult were the Co-eds, changing classrooms.

The usual Freshman-Sophomore dispute, in re: green caps, is again present. The former says, “We’re too big and too old to wear green caps.” The latter returns with its irrefutable rejoinder, “We hadda.”-----All of which is sheerest nonsense.

Rooms 53 and 54 are inhabited wholly by gentlemen from Manitowoc County. They may justly nod their heads and sage­ ly say, “ ’Tis a small world after afi.”

Witt, basing his claim on a pennant suspended on the west 115

wall of his room, maintains that he joined the House of David during the summer. He insists, although many consider it a questionable matter, that they were so impressed by his beard­ less condition, that they practically shanghaied him.

The following attended the World’s Fair: Witt, many others.

There is some rumor about Zimpelmann and his nurse. It is regrettable that Fama was not more explicit; but such is the fact, and for further information, we refer you to him.

On Sunday, June 11, the band played at Riverside Park for the St. Mark’s Church Picnic. The audience, as every audience always is, was well pleased by their talented playing—and well might it be, for each member who felt that there were just two brown, or blue, or green eyes focussed on him, played with ex­ ceptional care and precision, which rendered the whole most pleasing. After the concert each of these members, although he had been strictly ordered not to get his uniform out of press, found his partner to escort home, although he well knew that he might be urged to sit in an overstuffed chair which truly wreaks great havoc with a neatly creased uniform. There were Martin Toepel and Miss Kuckkahn, Frey and----- , but Homer himself would find difficulty in drawing up this catalog.

The Commencement Exercises were held on June 16. One event is always omitted from the program. True, it occurs at no established minute, but yet it does happen in the course of the program as inevitably as the speeches. After sixty-two repeated occurrences, we suggest that this be mentioned on the said program, perhaps in a foot note---- “A small baby — or better, a promising young brother, or nephew, or niece 一 will accompany one or two of the numbers with appealing1 cater­ wauls.1 * Ah — how proud would the mother, or uncle, or brother of this Prince of Wails be.

As a matter more of record than of interest, except to those mentioned, we offer the following : The officers of the Freshman Class : Thierfelder, President: 0. Siegler, Vice-President; F. Werner, Secretary; Zickuhr, Treasurer. Let’s hope for the best, and hope hard.

The officers of the Sophomore Class: T. Mittelstaedt, President; Koehler, Vice-President; A. Schultz, SecretaryTreasurer.

The officers of the Junior Class : Thurow, President; Zarling, Vice-President; Barthels, Secretary-Treasurer. .The officers of the Orchestra: Siegler, President; Barthels, Vice-President; Werner, Secretary.

The officers of the Chorus: Schewe, President; Wicke, Vice-President; Raabe, Secretary.

The officers of the Mixed Chorus: Schewe, President; Miss Engel, Vice-President; F. Weyland, Librarian.

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It has been rumored that there are to be three concerts this year.

For a time it seemed as if every student who owned a musical instrument practised during the same hour. The noise was ‘‘confusion confounded’’. But the senses are easily fooled.

The agglomeration of noises was intentional. It is said that a jazz band has been organized, and that it was music which was heard. Do not fear, members of the jazz band. We will not publish your names. The errors of youth, in this case at least, should not besmirch your reputations.

Karl Broecker has begun his regular weekend excursions to Milwaukee.

On Sunday, June 17, the three Toepels that are related made a hasty excursion to the Fair.

A Sextaner recently asked, “Oh — is it possible to get books at the library ?M Hoepner has returned, and was duly reinstated on the Staff.

The Junior Class is also increased by one member, Valeskey.

The Collegiate Department is larger than the Preparatory Department, a rather unusual situation.

First impressions—Happy reunions of friends separated _ during vacation. Timid Freshmen tiptoeing cautiously around, and rushing to class the minute the bell rings. Older students acting as information bureaus, freely dispensing knowledge with a liberal admixture of stuff and nonsense. The usually Tools strewn immaculate Collegiate Room in an uproar. . around, a hole chopped in the wall. Our heating system seems to be undergoing changes. Preps singing their usual melodi­ ous refrains. Universal hubbub—and a grand time had by all.

That stricken look on the faces of members of the Junior class is explained by the fact that they have been bereft of their co-eds. Dorothy Groth will enter Milwaukee Downer.

Grace Meyers is sedately “at home”. Claire Scheblack is also at home, taking a postgraduate course in cooking and sewing, we surmise.

Lorraine Jacobson has obtained a position in the office of Dr. H. P. Bowen. Vivian Zimmermann, ex *36, has accepted the inevitable and made the great decision. She is happily married. Congratulations, Vivian. Mabelle Zimmermann is at home.

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Two members of the class of ’33 have returned to take up a commercial course. They are Eugenia Meyers, who has been attending the University, and Lillian Lutovsky, who has been a student at Mount Mary’s.

A group of new co-eds has entered Northwestern. They are Evelyn Conklin, Marion Jones, Margaret Lutovsky, Catha­ rine McFarland, Evelyn Schroeder, Carolina Seyfert, Anita Weihert, and Helen Winkenwerder all entering from Watertown High School. June Wickert, a special student, comes from Slinger, Wisconsin. There is only one Sexta Co-ed, Mary Abelmann, of Watertown.

The girls room is haunted! Strange voices and weird noises have been heard. One day, while we were all studying quietly as usual, a voice was heard saying ‘‘How’s everyone over there?” An investigation was immediately begun by the bravest of us. The noise seemed to issue from a hole in the wall in the northwest corner of the room. After further investigation the mystery was solved. A long pipe connects the smoking room with the girls* room, and the noises we heard were only the ambitious students peacefully smoking pipes.

We all miss our “Kinderleinmuetterchen”，Betty Faber.

Arline Schumann is struggling manfully to fulfill all the duties of President, and thus far has succeeded very well.

Many of us attended The Century of Progress. Others, less fortunate, were forced to stay at home. Glenna Rasmus­ sen was prevented from going by a serious case of bacterial endocarditus, which kept her in bed for a month.

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That the students heartily endorse the N. R. A. program can be concluded from the following remark, made before the schedules were given out: “Do we get any hours off under the N. R. A., I wonder?,J Overdue.

Some students seem to have been working under an N. R. A. (not right away) plan for years.

Bussewitz: Any good-looking Co-eds in your class?

Bruesehoff: Boys?

Customer: Are these shoes worth repairing?

Cobbler: Oh yes. I can put new soles and new heels on them, and also new uppers. The laces seem to be al.l right.

Maybe Vanity Fair would be more widely read if people knew that one chapter is entitled: How to Live Well on Nothing a year.

Landlady: I think you had better board elsewhere.

Boarder: Oh yes, quite often.

Landlady: Quite often what?

Boarder: Often had better board elsewhere.

Disinterested: A new tavern is opening tonight. Free Choi ">uey.

Oh! Chop —」ssewitz: Chop Suey? I like it.

Suey? I thought_______ When a student body meeting was called the other day, one Sextaner asked another: “Did you join the student body already?”

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“Money,” the Social reformer said, “is the root of all evil.

It means trouble.” , ，• *'Maybe so, but it，s the only trouble hard to borrow,” came from a voice in the rear.

Nicolaus: Are we supposed to read Chaucer or do we get a translation?

Student: I always say what I think.

Another: I wondered why you were so quiet.

Son: Well, Dad, I hear you won the car in the puzzle contest.

Dad: I did, but twenty-five others also submitted the correct answer and my part was the tail light!

Students Beware “Wheah you all bin?”

“Lookin’ foah work.”

“Man! Man! Youah cu’asity gonna git you into trouble yit.”

Mary: And, don’t you know, Agnes has married a second lieutenant.

Lou: I didn’t know she had ever been married before.

Plymouth Rock?

Wanted: Experienced farmer who has own equipment to operate 200 acres on cement road near Plymouth.

He: I once thought of going on the stage, but friends dissuaded me.

She: Friends of the stage, I presume.

Schultz was making a heroic effort to translate, “ob ovo usque ad mala. ’，His translation ran: “From an egg to it must be something bad.”

That was a nice little party you held last night.

Wasn’t she though?

What’s so funny about this column?

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

LITERARY— SBitbung,

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De Vita Beatissima........................ 123 America: 1865. An Address De­ livered by a Professor of History in 3300 A. D................................... 125

EDITORIALS— Literary Programs.

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An Uncritical Credo

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

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EXCHANGE.....................

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CAMPUS AND CLASSROOM

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THE BLACK AND RED Volume XXXVII.

Watertown, Wis., Oct. 1933

Number 5

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DE VITA BEATISSIMA The^ever-recurring problem of mankind is “what is the best life V\ or ‘‘what is the best principle of life ?’’ There is much talk concerning the Vita Bcatissima and always will be.

Mankind seems to be trying to reach perfection — at least in theory. At universities learned doctors “in whose sunken eyes an everlasting questing lies” spend months lecturing on a “good life”. Among the children of Adam there have developed manifold principles of life. These principles are either ma­ terialistic or idealistic.

In the course of about six thousand years man has evolved many theories, some good and some not so good. Some few have come quite close to the most virtuous life; but all their attempts were futile. Indeed, our good men Socrates and Spinoza meant well. Their reasoning power has carried them to quite a height among the clouds. Novalis even goes so far as to call Spinoza “tfie god-intoxicated man”. Yet God did not will it that Socrates or Spinoza or any other man born of dust should of his own intelligence expound this vital problem to men. Who else could know better how we should conduct our­ selves than He who has made us? God, the father of life, is the father of vitae iKiatissimu principia.

As we have said before, there are two chief schools, the materialistic and the idealistic. The materialistic class is spread in every home, village and state. Its underlying thought or selfishness. • Our •evolutionists is self-preservation • • tell us that the cave-man would return to his den in the evening drag­ ging a woman by the hair, and then proud of the fair-faced wretch he would call his clansmen in to admire his acquisition.

It was a world of men, or rather of brutes一that is,, according to Darwin and his host. The principle was masculine power, and the fittest that survived became Lord Cave-Man. The more meat and the more wealth he could drag into his cave the more respectfully he was looked up to by the superstitious lesser lights, who in the course of time would elevate Lord Cave-Man to the height of prophet, priest, and king. At all times men have risen through power. Naturally, that became the desired virtue. The Roman virtus was manhood, bravery, courage, enterprise. Machiavelli and Nietzsche had the same ethics. When one looks at the human species today, one doesn’t find a great change. Football heroes are worshipped not only by. street urchins and co-eds, but even by the entire nation.

It is as when knighthood was in flower. A knight would go forth to show his prowess and come back to let his fair lady waft kisses at him with her lily hand. It may be a noble form of ethics, but in the last analysis it is rather futile. Masculine power excludes women, who cannot and should not find a place 123

under this code. Then also it is too selfish. He who possesses power cares not for his fellowman’s welfare; and on the other hand the other man must continually try to attain this power for himself. Moreover, what does temporal power mean in terms of eternity? The very thought shows how futile it is. .

Some find virtue in the accumulation of wealth. But this excludes the poor. Moreover, although the rich man has stocks and bonds in the solid sphere of the earth, what good shall it do him when this cosmos goes up in flames? Is his treasure laid up in heaven? Others seek fame, which is a Rood thing1 in itself; but it passes away as all temporal things. What Rood is glory to Caesar when he is doomed to sit among the blackest shades in Hades to all eternity? Some others seek after pleasure —pleasures of the flesh or pleasure of the mind. “But,’: as Spinoza says, ''after that enjoyment follows pain, which, if it does not hold the mind suspended, disturbs and dulls it.’’

When we read through the scrolls of history, we find that when a nation was at its height, which always showed itself in lust and pleasures of the flesh, immorality and total depravity are soon to follow. Not long after, the predominance of that nation would go to another kingdom still strong. Pleasure is like wheat bread without crust. It is pleasing to the tongue, but in time will weaken the body. Pleasure-seekers, according to Milton, go to Limbo, the eternal abode of all fools that have had their share on earth. The rich man who refused Lazarus that a is still suffering remorse in hell. So we see again , material principle of life, though pleasing in itself, is vain and empty.

Then others as Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, tell us that only the informed and mature mind can judjre. All others belong to hoi polloi. Virtue is intelligence. Only intelligent leaders should be kings, only intelligent women ought to be mothers. This is aristocratic democracy. Intelligence, indeed, is a noble virtue. It is pursued by all classes of men. But many believe that the mere knowledge of facts is intelligence.

They do not differentiate between knowledge and wisdom. Mere knowledge often leads to pedantry. The less-informed and even the truly wise shun him who displays his accumulated facts, not because they are knowledge, but because he instinctively feels that this is done in an antagonistic spirit. The student who forgets or at the moment does not know that the anti-penult never takes a circumflex is an outcast. This lacks love and points to legalism. In the end, of what good is this eternal pettiness when the wisdom of a higher genus is lacking? Will the knowledge of the fact that Columbus discovered America on a certain date help a poor soul in misery? Knowledge, indeed, is a delicious food but it contains a drop of green poison, and that is haughtiness. Therefore, we beg you to pursue 124

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Then lastly there is the ethics of Jesus, which, as the phil­ osophers say, stresses the feminine virtues. Feminine, because love is a feminine characteristic. This is the vita beatissima which God has revealed to mankind. No human being could give man such a philosophy. Man is too critical a judge. The outer shell of the law indeed reads, ‘‘Thou shalt” and 4<Thou shalt not!” but within one reads, “Love God above all things, and thy neighbor as thyself!” This is the spirit of every law.

Now, God who considers all men to be equally precious, has manifested His love toward mankind by making a sacrifice that the world has not seen before or after. The damning law was fulfilled and every philosophy of man has become empty.

There is no law to him who loves God for what he has effected for him. There remains only love—love to God and love to his fellowman. This principle of life does not only take the strong, the wealthy, the illustrious, the pleasure-mongers, the intelligent and learned; but also the weak, the poor, the infamous, the plain-livers, the truly wise, and—-to man’s astonishment—even the simple. Love Him who first loved you, and your neighbor as yourself. Though this vita beatissima does not distinguish a man in a materialistic way, yet it makes him a very tolerable and kind friend to every man and prepares him for the life hereafter, where the government is eternal love. Then will be the end of strife, envy, hatred, and cavilling. It is said in pragmatic terms that love spells service. It does, but not that kind of service which is done by a slave for a harsh master.

One who loves his fellow being will serve him and even endure hardships for the sake of love and ultimately, for the sake of Him who out of boundless love sacrificed his life that we could see the clearer light. Only one who is a humble Christian can accept*this kind of life with thankfulness. This vita beatissima is not only plausible in theory, but true in fact.

—F. R. Weyland, ’34 AMERICA: 1865.

AN ADDRESS DELIVERED BY A PROFESSOR OF HISTORY IN 3300 A. D. Gentlemen: The purpose of my address is to depict the America of 1500 years ago. The great cataclysm at that time destroyed all but the fragmentary evidence which we have here —a few sentences, which, happily, are dated. A controversy has arisen between several of us and our colleagues. Our opponents, if we may call them such, state that they had 125

attained to a fairly advanced state of civilization by the year 1865. But this cannot be true. I know this, for my deductions are logical and irrefutable. They are based on the only correct method of arriving at a positive, clear conception and interpre­ tation, namely, by going back to the root meanings of words.

Permit me to depict the age as I conceive it.

There had been a war, the causes of which our excavations have not yet revealed. But the matter becomes evident if we consider the root meanings of the words used by the people of this time.

Lincoln, the leader of one of the factions, was killed by an assassin. An assassin, by religion a Mohammedan, was a fanatic who roused his courage by eating hashish, and thus becoming murderously inclined, brandishing his scimitar, per­ formed what he considered his duty. Lincoln, as fortunately we know, was a Christian; and we may assume, to give the Mohammedan a strong motive for his action, that he angered him through his Christian acts, which as we have heard in other instances were gruesome and atrocious. Considering1 this, what can be more evident than that it was a religious war, the Christians against the Mohammedans? It is a logical deduction. To support this conclusion, evidences of similar religious battles which took place centuries before, have been found in the other hemisphere. Furthermore, this particular assassin, after killing Lincoln, cried, “Sic semper tyrannis’,’， which words are taken from an ancient tongue also spoken in the other hemisphere centuries before this period. From this it is certainly clear that America was a retrogressive nation.

Later, when this assassin was trapped, a bonfire was built by the Christians next to the barn in which he had taken refuge.

From this I deduce that it was a religious rite, rather a super­ stition of the Christians, that if a fire of human bones were built near an assassin, or, to be more liberal, near any criminal, he would become powerless, as we see from the result.

Gentlemen, how can it possibly be assumed that so retro­ grade a nation can be called civilized in which hashish eaters ran amuck, crying out in what even then must have been a primitive language, and which practiced black magic.

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LITERARY PROGRAMS Because the opening of the Northwestern literary season 二over a month distant, you might think my editorial a is still trifle premature. But I am intentionally writing now in order that the masters-of-ceremonies may give my appeal some con­ sideration before deciding the nature of their programs and who shall participate in them. ..

The majority of the masters-of-ceremonies in the past nave regarded the literary program chiefly as an entertaining func­ tion. Programs were arranged and participants were selected with the end in view of providing the most attractive diversion to the audience. If a Freshman consented readily, he was given an opportunity to present a speech. If he proved to be more or less reluctant to deliver a speech and more inclined to appear in a play, he appeared in a play. Some of the Freshmen were directly requested to take part in a play. Almost without exception they availed themselves of their opportunity. _ Let us assume that the speaker displayed actual rhetorical ability, and that the person participating in the play showed true histrionic talent. If such were the case, the speaker would be asked to deliver a speeeh in each of his three subsequent annual appear127

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ances. Similarly the actor would take part in plays for his remaining appearances. As the student progressed up the collegiate ladder, his performance in his one field improved, until in his Senior year he was a presentable speaker, or actor.

This practice served to make the programs most polished, and hence most enjoyable. Our presentations were becoming enter­ taining, and succeeded very well in satisfying the recreational hunger of the students and townspeople who witnessed them.

In my estimation, the master-of-ceremonies should be imbued with an entirely different idea. When one considers the nature of our college, the nature of the aim of the literary societies must appear in a different light. The literary societies exist for the purpose of instilling in the student the confidence which is indispensable for a good speaker, and in endowing him with poise when confronted by an audience. In limiting a student’s activity to one field, I concede that we enable him to acquire proficiency in that field, but only in that one field. By varying the nature of his presentation each year, we would permit him to acquire poise in different literary fields and exercise his versatility as well. True, the programs per­ haps would be deprived of some of their polish by this practice， but it is apparent that the students’ welfare must be considered before that of the audience.

Since many of us are versatile, perhaps the change in the outward appearance of the program would not be as obvious as we anticipate. If the programs under the suggested system would not be as appealing to the public and student body as they had been formerly is of no consequence, since the literary societies are there primarily for the students’ benefit. Thee cultural effect of the varying system would also be greater, because the student would encounter different phases of culture in pre­ paring for varied presentations.

Carl Broecker.

AN UNCRITICAL CREDO It is believed by many of us that: It is rank heresy to depreciate the value of a rousing pepmeeting held in chapel the night before the game.

The whole-hearted support of the student-body will win any game.

Smoking is an indispensable part of a scholar’s and man’s equipment.

Joining the Vesuvius Club raises your social status to a marked degree. Not to affiliate yourself with it brands you a coward and a slacker.

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The degree of one’s popularity is a very certain indication of his worth.

In cases of controversy, the faculty is always in the wrong.

Professors are unusually near-sighted.

Extra-curricular studies are beyond one’s mental capacities.

“Bumming:” breakfast is a manly virtue.

The tutor’s reprimands are puerile to the extreme, and must never be taken seriously, because he never grew up under the same conditions that you did.

This is the worst of possible colleges. I will heave a sigh of relief when I graduate.

Vagrants do not call at our dining hall for a second meal.

The only possible music on the radio is jazz.

The Saturday Evening Post is peer in the magazine world.

Profanity is virile.

Cynicism and skepticism provide the only correct approach to a subject.

A studious person is an intolerable bore as a companion.

It’s fashionable to be “broke” all of the time in order to make the other fellow wonder where you get all of the money that you spend.

Liberty to do as one pleases must be a glorious privilege.

You must be pedantic to avoid expressing yourself in slang.

Modern ideas are intrinsically far more plausible and correct than those of the thinkers of the last century.

There are excellent movies.

Indifference implies superiority.

To ask the professor more questions than the average student does (who asks but two or three a year) implies either an abysmal lack of understanding and comprehension, or rep­ resents a base attempt to curry favor. .

Cheating in examinations is scarcely to be considered an impropriety.

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Hilmar C. Krueger,，25，sent this column a letter of con­ siderable interest which we will take the liberty of reprinting.

“This fall I was promoted to be an assistant professor in History at the extension division here in Milvvaukee. I was also fortunate enough to have two articles published. One study， “Genoese Trade with Northwest Africa”，appeared in the July issue of Speculum, a journal of medieval studies, another, “The Routine of Commerce between Genoa and Northwest Africa during the late Twelfth Century’’，appeared in the October issue of The Mariner’s Mirror, which is published by the Cam­ bridge University Press, England”.

“On the night of October eleventh I am giving an illustrated lecture Medieval Churches und Cathedrals at Zoar Church, where I am a member.”

Orval Kreie, ,32, E. Schultz, *30, and A1 Maas, *33, were noticed on the campus, Sept. 26.

Herman Gieschen, ’33, is continuing his studies at the Uni­ versity at Madison. Rumor has it that he is majoring in German.

Herbert von Haden，’29, visited N.W.C., October 1.

Ex-professor Probst and wife paid Watertown a flying visit in the latter part of August.

Hugo Fritze, ’30, accepted a call to Valentine, Nebr.

Rev. Kurt Timmel，’20, preached in Manitowoc, Sept. 17.

Mark Hinnenthal, ex-’32, was here Thursday, Oct. 20.

Rev. E. Scharf preached at Kaukauna, September 24. 、?er^ert Nommensen，’33，visited N.W.C. the evening of October 8. .Froehlke, ’16, of Appleton, visited Northwestern in the latter part of September. ^ ^ Krupsack, ex-’37，was here for the Prep-Jefferson game Friday, October 6.

M. Schwenzen, ^3, C. Trapp ,，31, and W. Dobratz,，33, )vere noticed about the campus on ^ various occasions during the last month. on September^Q6 °^c^a^e<^

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Prof. Kowalke preached at Fond du Lac on the 15th of October.

Tutor Kremer preached at Trinity Church, here, October 1.

Harold Eckert, ’30，was installed as assistant pastor at Manitowoc, Sunday, October 8. .

Rev. A. Dornfeld，’27, of Richwood invited the orchestra to play for a chicken supper, which was given by the women of his congregation on the evening of October 12.

Reverends M. Raasch, ’03, of Lake Mills, and L. Kirst, also ’03, of Beaver Dam, paid Northwestern ai brief visit not long ago.

Rev. Irwin Habeck, ’24, of Minocqua was called to Medford.

H. Schultz, ’31，was in town recently.

Trinity Church of this city celebrated its Mission festival on the second Sunday of this month. Rev. L. Koeninger, ’13, of Manitowoc, preached for the evening service, and Marcus Fleischer, ’30, preached in the morning.

Rev. Schaller has been installed at Tomah.

Rev. A. Schultz of North Milwaukee was in town, Oct. 11.

A baby girl was born to Rev. and Mrs. G. Schmeling, Henry, S. D., September 28.

Rev. F. Reuter，’28，who served the Gary, S. D. congrega­ tion, accepted a call to White, S. D. Rev. H. Rutz，’30，is now in Gary.

From Dakota comes the report that Rev. R. Gam Faulkton, N. D., and Rev. W. Schmidt, *24, Flasher, mercilessly defeated Profs. Kowalke and Kleinke on the Watertown golf course last August.

Pastor W. Schmidt underwent a minor operation in the hospital here at Watertown in August.

Rev. Kurt Timmel preached in Milwaukee, October 1.

Prof. W. Schumann preached at West Bend, September 24.

Rev. H. Kirchnei.，’10，of Baraboo was here, October 14.

Prof. H. Fleischer preached for Rev. Sauer’s congregation m Ixonia, October 1.

Marcus Fleischer, ’30, preached at Neenah, October 1.

The Seminary Quartet sang at Kenosha, October 15.

W. Grosnick, ex-，36, was in Watertown the week-end of the 8th.

Victor Lehmann, ex-’33, was here the 6th of October.

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H. Cares,，21, was at N.W.C., October 14.

Walter Winkel of South Haven, Michigan visited North­ western on September 23. This is the first time Mr. Winkel was on the campus since he discontinued his studies here.

Although we’re a bit behind the times we’d like to announce the wedding of Martin Franzmann, 728, and Alice Bentzin, ’31, which took place here in Watertown, July 8.

Alfred Sauer, ’29，is at present making preparations for a trip to Europe where he intends to study at the University of Erlangen in Germany. His course of' study there will include Theology, and especially Semitic languages.

Initiation seems to have been the common topic for dis­ cussion in the early publications of the school year. The Inter­ collegiate Digest reprints from the University of Bishop's College, Lenoxville, Quebec: “We are but weakminded proto­ types of our ancesters if we allow paddling with barrel-staves, duckings in cold water, fights and so on to remain as forms of initiation. In British colleges Freshmen are treated as gentle­ men and they are without questioning admitted to the life of the college— 一According to The liactiucl, LaCrosse State Teachers College, a hazing bill was passed in the last session of the Wisconsin legislature which makes hazing a criminal offense punishable by a fine or a jail sentence. “According to several Sophomores who braved the welcoming ordeal last year this new law takes half the barbarism out of Wisconsin colleges.

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The other half will go when a law is passed prohibiting instruc­ tors from needlessly overworking students.” The law reads : ,4Any person engaged in or inciting hazing in any public school of this state shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than sixty days, or by fine not exceeding two hundred dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment.”

Last spring much editorial comment was occasioned by a war poll conducted in representative American colleges. The results of the poll show that of the 23000 votes cast 39% were for absolute pacifism, 33% for resorting to arms only in case of actual invasion, and 29fa were for bearing arms in any war that our leaders see fit to enter. In curious contrast to the results of the poll stands the fact that in the last session of the Wisconsin Legislature compulsory military training for the two lower classes at the University of Wisconsin was seriously. considered.

Something new in collegiate publication is a rotogravure section which is being issued by the Associated Collegiate Press.

Most of the weekly and biweekly publications of middlewest colleges have taken advantage of this feature and are including it as part of their paper. The section, called “The Collegiate Digest” will give “National collegiate news in picture and paragraph”.

The Lake Forest S“*n<or prints an editorial peculiarly applicable to Northwestern, expressing so aptly one of the advantages of a small college in the words of Caesar: “I would rather be first in a little Hibernian village, than be second at Rome.” The editorial is written for the Frosh.

Gone are the days of the Flapper, the Flaming Youth with its hip-flasks, its speedy cars, flamboyant clothes and many tacit declarations of freedom. ‘ ‘The collegiate business and all that” is definitely old fogeyish and as dated as balloon trousers.

The new era, beginning in 1930, was evident first in a drop in attendance at foot ball games, a drop in the number of those trying out for teams, an increased registration in economics, history and social science courses, and a flare of interest in politics. The nonchalant and well dressed man chiefly notable for his social successes is still, to be sure, prominent on the campus, but he is now recognized as a “smoothie.” On the other hand the greasy grind is no longer as funny as he once seemed, though he is not a model either. The brawny athlete is no longer a campus hero and is likely to be looked upon as a “dumb egg.，， These are the signs that the American College is turning somewhat from foot ball and its equivalents—to what? A growing minority is turning towards politics, as witness the student strikes, agitation against war, et cetera. As a whole, however, the tendency seems to be rather towards ‘.The new seriousness” which includes a whole135

^j some respect for the practice of reading and research. The phenomenon known as “the new seriousness” is not a respect for study as such, nor are high marks and other signs of academic distinction the motive. Rather it is simply a need to know, an interest in technique and information, which has established in many students the habit of careful reading and ‘‘has driven so many people to the library that the faculty is alarmed.” More than anything the most characteristic student is a skeptic. The self assured young man with the hip-flask has been replaced by a young man no less self assured, but sure especially of his right to doubt.

I. D. A survey of 62% of the students at the University of Rochester shows that 34% of the men and four per cent of the women are atheistic. Before entering school 66% of the men attended church regularly, and an additional 23% attended frequently. After entrance to school these figures dropped to 33% and 19%. Decrease in regular church attendance was 36% for Protestants, 10% for Catholic, and 24% for Jews, but these were only 16% of the last denomination who went to church regularly before entering college. Interesting- results might be obtained if this survey was compared with one taken before “the new seriousness” with its skepticism had set in. This comparison would perhaps show the degree to which “the new seriousness” is simply a fashion instead of an honest change.

Cheer up, you campus beauties! Personality, not brains is the reason for a girl’s success. Dr. H. W. Mikesell, professor of psychology at Wichita University says so. 4 4Psychology h as determined by actual experiment that success depends 85 per cent upon personality and 15 per cent on trains.”

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Seminary 12, Northwestern 12.

Watertown, Sept. 23: In a ragged, loosely played game, Northwestern led ofF the 1933 gridiron schedule by deadlocking with the Lutheran Seminary of Thiensville eleven, 12—12.

Hopes for a successful season for the Black and Red could hardly be gleaned from the spiritless encounter. Not until the second half did the team function with any precision, and even then play was “spotty”. The college men frequently started touchdown marches, only to lack scoring drive or to fumble.

The scrimmage did, however, show that Northwestern has a set of speedy backs, who, if they can learn to drive and block, should cause opponents plenty of trouble. . • The first part of play was all in favor of the Seminarians.

They first scored in the second period on a lateral pass from Buenger to Martin, who forwarded the ball to Lemke. Lemke also scored the second touchdown when he raced 80 yards on a cut-back on the kick-off at the opening of the second half.

Northwestern’s points were counted in the. third and fourth quarters. Fredericks plunged for the first six points from the eight-yard line, to which point Stewart had brought the ball on a flashy 60 yard run. The tying counts were added when Frede­ ricks broke loose on the 30 yard line and easily outdistanced the Sem. tacklers in his race for the goal.

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Gensmer Thierfelder LG Otto C Schroeder Engel R G Brennan V. Schultz R T Raabe Liesener RE Siegler Heyn Q B Schewe Rossin L H Stewart Martin Schwartz R H Buenger F B Reuschel —12 6 Northwestern 0 0 6 —12 Seminary 6 0 0 6 Substitutes—Northwestern: Fredericks, Bradtke, Tietz, Bolle, Sydow, Koenig. Seminary : Lemke, Zarling, Naumann.

Referee, Binhammer; umpire, Eick mann.

Lake Forest 26, North western 15.

A powerful Lake Forest eleven handed Northwestern a 26—15 defeat on the Lake Forest gridiron, September 30. Out­ played for three quarters, the Black and Red took the offensive in the last period and opened up a pass attack that netted two touchdowns and provided the only high-spot of the game, look­ ing at it from the Northwestern point of view. The North­ western defense was crippled early in the game by the loss of Captain Reuschel, stellar defensive back, who was forced to leave the game because of fractured ribs. Though the Black and Red fought spiritedly to check the rushing attacks of the Gold Coasters, they 'yere outclassed. The Illinois college eleven was constantly recruited and was able to wear down the North­ western defense.

Lake Forest began its scoring activities at the outset of play. In straight marches they steadily pushed back the North­ western defensive wall and twice scored touchdowns. The third quarter saw them clinch victory when they again scored a pair of touchdowns, one on a long 30 yard pass and the other on a forward-lateral that was good for 45 yards. Both North­ western touchdowns were made by Stewart, after a series of gasses had advanced the oval to within a few yards of the goal.

Fredericks successfully place kicked one of the points after touchdown. The remaining two points were scored for the piack 弓nd Red on a safety, after Tietz had broken through and blocked a Lake Forest punt.

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Erickson R G Raabe Gylenberg R T Witt RE Dohr Sydow Roberts Q B Schewe L H Dyer Stewart Enos R H Fredericks Eaton F B Reuschel 0 13 —15 2 0 Northwestern —26 6 13 0 7 Lake Forest Substitutes — Northwestern : Mielke, Toepel, Siegler, Bradtke, Bolle, Lemke, Craine. Referee, Wasserman (Chic.); umpire, Havlicek (Chic.); linesman, Harrison (De Kalb).

Pladville School of Miners 6, Northwestern 18.

Watertown, October 14 : — Displaying a clicking attack, surprising to even the most rabid Northwestern rooters, the Black and Red triumphed in the first conference encounter of the season against the highly-touted Platteville Miners, 18—6.

The Miners scored their only touchdown midway in the fourth quarter by resorting to an aerial attack that carried them from their own ten yard marker to the same yardage stripe in North­ western territory. From there Saudey, Miner fullback, bucked his way over the goal line.

The first three periods of the game were played entirely in Platteville territory. Most surprising in Northwestern^ attack was the alert play of the linemen, who outcharged the heavier Platteville eleven line almost without exception. The Miners were permitted but four first downs on their running plays. The blocking of the Black and Red was at times beauti­ ful to see. Northwestern first scored early in the game when Sydow blocked a Miner punt on the eight yard line, and Tietz downed the truant pigskin behind the goal line. The pass for extra point was knocked down.

Shortly after the second period opened, Stewart cut through tackle, neatly evaded the Miner secondary, and raced 37 yards for Northwestern^ second touchdown. Conversion failed.

Skirting end behind perfect interference Stewart again carried the pigskin for Northwestern^ third and last touchdown in the fourth quarter. The place kick for point after touchdown went wide of the uprights. . . If scores of other conference games mean anything, this impressive victory makes Northwestern a favorite to cop the Inter-state conference title, although none of the games remain­ ing on the schedule are set-ups. The next conference engagement will be with Wartburg college of Clinton, Iowa, at Watertown, November 3. On November 10, the season will be wound up when Coach Kleinlce’s men meet the Milton college eleven at Milton.

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Platteville Miners Northwestern Loeffelholz L E Sydow Anderson L T Tietz Lovin Schroeder LG Marcue Craine C Perrin Raabe R G Wiesen RT Witt RE Pretts Siegler Flickinger Schewe Q B Callahan L H Stewart Cordingely Schwartz R H Saudey F B Reuschel 6 —18 Northwestern 6 6 0 —6 0 0 0 6 Platteville Substitutes — Northwestern : Toepel, Thierfelder, Hotlen, Mielke, Bolle, Frey, Seifert. Platteville: Lawnsberg, Harvey, Clark, Rudlin. Referee, Nieser (Milw.); umpire, Binhammer; linesman, Eickmann.

On October 11, Mielke played at billiards.

Prep Mittelstaedt and Prep Hartwig, our budding alchem­ ists, in many respects unfortunately born in the wrong century, are at it again. Their monitor waxes most eloquent in describ­ ing their accomplishments.

October 16, 17, 18, were holidays, because of a conference at Baraboo.

There is a most touchingly sentimental rite at Northwestern which the Student Body seems utterly oblivious to. The statement of the sages, that use spoils all things, seems true.

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outer-most sphere and there add to the glory of the music of the spheres. What wefre speaking of is breakfast. Let no crass thought of food enter the student’s mind—but the warn­ ing is unnecessary; food and breakfast are not related. No, ’tis the spirit, the emotion, — how can it go unnoticed! It is the only meal where we all are together as a big, happy family.

What could penetrate more deeply into the realms of the known and unknown emotions than so tender a thought as this. We sit at our tables, faces bright and shiny from the recent ablution; our eyes soon also became shiny, then rheumy—soon almost overflow. As yet, stifled yawns are the cause of this humid condition of the eyes. But let us disregard the facts and pre­ tend that the solemn, above-mentioned thought produced the effect. Ah!—"This must be inviolate,” as was dramatically said.

Accomplishments of the N. Club: 1. Continued raising of standard of the N. 2. Enforced training.

3. On Thursday, Sept. 28, each had a pork sausage with his beans.

Schewe, Zimpelmann, Raabe, and Hotlen, Seniors, have lightly turned their energies to spinning tops, or more correctly, a top; for the communistic ideal touches every phase of life.

It seems that ei^ht years of relentless devotion to mental activi­ ties have proved too much. It is sad, but not surprising; it wasn’t a sudden reversion. An interesting comparison can be drawn with a class several years ago which also cracked under the strain and played Lotto; or with one preceding that, which played marbles.

Bradtke nobly gave some fellow football player an oppor­ tunity to develop a handy, if not necessary, ability to break shoulders. Even the Roman gladiators never learned the fine points of this science. He made a noteworthy statement, ‘‘A guy is really nuts for going out for football.” This statement was made while he was not only in great physical pain, but in yet greater mental anguish, for the hirsute superfluities on his manly chest, which he calls the greatest accomplishment in his life, had to be done away with. We’ll sigh for you, since you are so tightly bandaged that you can’t. Alas.

Wally Dobratz was on the grounds recently. He remarked that Ziegenhagen looked intelligent. All who heard his remark were astounded at his deep insight. .

It seems that football players mature more quickly than normal people. It seems that they have already developed so far, that they feel a paternal instinct toward the younger students. It must have been this deep emotion which impelled them to “show the Preps how” on the sidelines during a Prep football game; for no other emotion, however deep, could incite 141

a man wearing a topcoat to make himself look so ufterly ridiculous in galloping after a football.

Green caps are to be seen again, which makes us ask, “Why?” The first reason is, to make our college greater in every respect than any other. The curriculum does its share in providing a course of study which makes for culture. The Sophomores do their share in lending the proper air by enforc­ ing green caps. The second reason is, to make the Freshmen look foolish. This is a hopeless task. One of the first natural laws is that Nature cannot be improved upon.

On October 12, the orchestra went to Richwood, and on the 19, to Lowell. The audience of each town appreciated the music of our not untalented organization.

The Freshmen Class, as could be expected, selected canary and black for its class colors.

The Junior Class has selected its class ring.

Raabe, Schewe, and Siegler paid perfectly good money to see the Wisconsin-Marquette football game.

Some students persist in wearing hard heels. Perhaps there is some defense for such a thing. For one with an in­ feriority complex, that never-failing excuse for one’s foibles, it is a decided help; a firm masterful tread may be effected which may fool some people. And he of the superiority complex can glory in his clump-clump. But the outstanding- advantage of the hard heels is that the noise quite successfully drowns the squeaking of the floor boards. But yet, we have much to be thankful for. What if our football heroes would wear their football shoes to proclaim their glorious calling, instead of limping.

The Vesuvius Clubroom has been redecorated.

Arnold Lehman did not know any Locals.

So this is the coed column. Woe is me! With what a dearth of material we must contend. What uninspiring facts and foibles are offered us under the name of news. This is not to be a catalogue of who is “going witii” what, and how late they were out. Neither are we concerned with the progress one of us makes on the skirt she is sewing. History exams and English speeches are to be passed over quickly. Therefore it seems that none of the topics of our daily conversation are worthy of the pen of our scribe. Having so few activities which would bring us into closer contact, we girls do not really become acquainted until April or May. Until then we must confine ourselves to the traditional ‘‘small talkM of the girls the 142

world over. We tend to form cliques, and I am afraid we would have to become veritable Keyhole Katies to gather information from a group to which we do not belong. Methinks necessity will soon reduce us to that very state — until then our readers will have to content themselves with the bits of news which we are able to extract by force, threats, and bribery.

Elmira Hatzung came to classes on Monday morning look­ ing decidedly down and out. By hiring three detectives and inquiring into her past history we found out that she had actu­ ally been up for twenty-four hours — doing the fair in one day, so it seems.

In case the mention of the World’s Fair induces a slight feeling of ennui, follow the example of the Mixed Chorus. They are now focusing their attention on Sylvia fair.

Old Man River” can’t hold a candle to the water pipe in the girls room. The other day we came to school to find a real Mississippi flood. Apparently the water pipe had become tem­ peramental, and as a result we found our books floating in water not that we cared. We immediately sent for the janitor, Of course he was nowhere to be found, but we’re used to that.

Stepping from chair to chair we rescued our books, and went to class. Those who were fortunate enough not to have a class made themselves little paper boats and spent quite an en­ joyable hour sailing1 them. At recess some of the girls met us at the door. They were sitting atop a table which they were pushing about with brooms. They picked you up at the foot of the steps and took you to your destination somewhere in the room. You stayed there until recess was over, when they ferried you back to the door again. The day before yesterday the last water was finally bailed out, much to the sorrow of a pair of gold fish someone had contributed. Poor things! they were enjoying it so much, but you see they were only fish.

Anyway, we didn’t have to build a ark. After those few remain­ ing puddles evaporate, we’ll be on dry land again, so to speak.

Whafs that ?

Well, if you think we’re exaggerating, you should have seen what really did happen.

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It was gratifying to the editor of this column to find, for the first time in his experience, something worthwhile in the little green box in the library building. No, it was not a joke, at least not as far as the editor’s sense of humor could ascertain.

It was a pamphlet entitled : ‘‘Code of Fair Practice for the Periodical Publishing Industry.” Thank you, kind contributor.

Your name, were it only known, would go down in “Black and Red” history. .Volkselymologie ?

Prof.: What does Nottingham mean ? Ham means home.

Schewe: Nobody home.

We Sympathize.

Student: You remind me very much of my cousin.

Another: Do we look so much alike ?

Student: No, but he also owes me five dollars.

Schultz: What day was today ? We had chicken dinner.

Prof.: I suppose they didn’t wish to feed the chickens any longer.

Patient: Doctor, why does so small a cavity feel so large to the tongue ?

Dentist: Just the natural tendency of your tongue to exaggerate, I suppose. 二Doctor, you have saved me. I owe you my life.”

“Oh, no, not at all. You owe me only ten dollars.** Logical.

When Victoria died in 1901, that was the end of whom ?

Geiger: Victoria.

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Depressionistic.

She : So poor Roy sprained his ankle. How on earth did he do it ?

He: He fell out of a window. He was flipping a cigarette butt out and forgot to let go.

“Look here，’’ said the policeman, “this is the twelfth time I’ve seen you outside this bank !’’ ， “All right, officer. I’ll be here again tomorrow. I ain’t superstitious.”

Prof.: The ending —ster now has a depreciative meaning.

Give me some examples.

Student: Trickster, punster----Bolle: Lobster.

Some Speed.

Prof.: Travel in the olden times had about the same speed as the Seniors coming to class.

Bargains.

Ladies’ Handkerchiefs. White and Colored. $1.00 Embroidered and Prints 50c values........ .

Automobiles for Sale.

Selling out.

Hot tips $95 1727 Buick sedan Tommy had handed in his homework’，and the teacher ex­ amined it closely. ‘‘Tommy，’’ she said, “This looks very much like your father’s writing. What have you to say for yourself ?J, “Well, teacher,” said Tommy, “now I come to think of it, I used his pen.”

Plain Facts.

4'Sedentary work,” said the college lecturer, “tends to lessen the endurance.” “ “In other words,” interrupted the smart student, “the more one sits the less one can stand.”

“Exactly,” retorted the lecturer, “and if one lies a great deal one’s standing is lost completely.”

“So you met Marion today.”

Yes，I hadn’t seen her for ten years.”

“Has she kept her girlish figure ?’’

"Kept it? She’s doubled it!”

What part of a watch reminds you of this joke column ?

The “second hand.”

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After you have worn the Racine Shoe awhile and shined them again and again, you will find that live leather — all leather has kept them in good shape. They are the last ord in correct style and ease.

105 Main St.

A. KALIEBE

LET’S ALL GO TO THE

CLyHPIA

W.D. SproesserGo. JEWELERS

Watertown’s Most Popular

IGE CREAM PARLOR.

Drop in after the game and meet your friends here.

MIKE SALLAS, Prop.

Victor Victrolas,

Pianos,

Radios Phone 195

111 Main St.

205 Main Street

Drs. A. & M. Schlueter DENTISTS Phone 146-J Watertown, Wis.

313 Main Street

Northwestern Delicatessen "The Place for. Goodies”

A. POLZIN Ice Cream, Candies, Cigarettes, Groceries 1207 WESTERN AVENUE

Young^s

Marble Barber Shop 101 First Street 345-J WM. GEHRKE

DRUGGIST 315 Main Street

Watertown, Wis.

PLATZ STUDIO COMPLETE PHOTOGRAPHIC SERVICE 113 North Third Street Telephone 124-W

Shoes Repaired

THE ROYAL while you wait Meat Market丨丨 A. Sohrweide QUALITY

M EAT S I

210 South Third Street

Wc Specialize In

HOME DRESSED AND HOME MADE PRODUCTS ROYAL HAMS

405 Main St.

KOYAL HACON

When it’s Fruits or Groceries— Call up—or Call on

JohnE.Heismann&Son “THE GROCERS”

Phone 107

Tels. 71-62

H5 Main Street

H. R. SCHRAP Pupil of Ganz and Lamond

TEACHER OF PIANO, COUNTERPOINT, HARMONY AND THEORY

REDUCED KATKS FOR THE COMING SEASON

BENTZI^S

BUSSEYS Walgreen System Drug Store

AT THE SHARP CORNER GROCERIES TOBACCO

Corana Typewriters \ Sheaffer Lifetime Pens

FRUITS CANDY

204 Main Street Phone 181

VALLE riCST

Js your first Thought next to Price; our Merchandise consists of both value and Low Prices.

Suits and Overcoats SHIRTS \ $17.50 to $30.00

HATS

69cto$1.95\$2.00to$4.95

Wegemann_Faber-Kaercher Co. uValue First Store”

WHEN IN NEED OF

GOOD EATS CALL

PAGEUSBAKERY PHONE 650-W VIOLA KOIIU

IIEIUIF.RT KOIIU

THE PATIO Sandwiches Plate Lunches Soda Grill Telephone 1648-J Watertown^ JFis. 612 Main Sl We Recommend

Kelley&Metzger The Man’s Shop ntr：

“Where the Better Dressed Men and Young Men Buy” 106 MAIN STREET

”Say it with Flowers”

‘•BOSTONIAN，， SHOES FOR MEN

Leo Ruescli & Son 210 West Main Street

Loeffler & Benke FLORAL SHOP 10 Main St.

Phone 649

A. KRAMP COMPANY The Largest Garage in the city ■

Telephone 32-W Nash Cars Reo Speedwagons

CCUGSTCCE Prescriptions Corner Fifth and Main Streets

Kohls-Hafemeister Go. FURNITURE Funeral Service

WIGGfiNHOHN JKWELUY COMPANY Diamonds—Watches Watertown 13 Main St.

Our Service Satisfies 607 Main St.

Phone 150

Dr. Frank F. Schlueter DENTIST Office Phone 156-W

Next to Schempf’s

Residence Phone 1212

Watertown, Wis.

& Brand Star Lunch Restaurant Seagermsm MEALS AND LUNCHES 關麵 Regular Dinner 11:00 to 2:00 Courteous Service Always mm, Win, Schubert, Proprietor 411 Main Street

UP-TO-DATE BARBER SHOP ismm Phone 138-W 11 Main St.

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STUDENTS !

Come in and take a look at our new FALL SUITS See the lar^e assortment of new fabrics, beautifully tailored ana trimmed with sturdy lustrous linings. Prices-----------------------------

14.95 16-50 18_50 22.50 Kuenzi & Frattinger 305 Main St.

Clothes of Quality

Phone 175

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Hutson Braun Lumber Co. 『E SERVE TO SERVE AGAIN^ Phone 86

Watertown, Wis.

Kenosha Waukesha Whitewater

General Racine,

Wisconsin Gas & Electric Co. JVATERTOWJS, WIS. Ft. Atkinson Burlington Cudahy Silver Lake

South Milwaukee Plijmoutli IFest Bend Oconomowoc

Schmutzler’s BLOCK & ANDRES, Proprietors

FINE FURNITURE RUGS

Mail orders promptly attended to.

FUNERAL SERVICE

Overcoats

Sterling Chemical Go.

Blue Melton Coats in new fall styles, fitted young men’s models. At a price way below present replacement costs.

305 No. 25th SI.

Milwaukee, Wis.

Manufacturers

$12.50

ScaUitc Asbestos Fibre Liquid Roof Coating Scaliitc Asbestos Fibre Plastic Cement

The Jerrold Co.

Sealtitc Caulking Cement Boiler Coniponnds

Ql0nipIuncnts

Terminal Barber Shop

界efo Olaxurnaxtitl

Albert Farber, Prop.

Harold Schramm

109 MARKET STREET

PHOTO ENGRAVING efBest by Comparison

HALFTONE COLOR PROCESS ZINC ... BEN DAY AND COMBINATIONS DESIGNING ... LETTERING RETOUCHING

CAPITOL ENGRAVING CO. 3713 N. HUMBOLDT

EDGE^OOD 7401

MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN

D. & F. Kusel Co. THE STORE

OF

QUALITY

offers you only the best in POCKET CUTLERY-RAZORS GOLDSMITH ATHLETIC GOODS

Otto F. Dierker，M. D BILL KRUEGER Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Eye Glasses Fitted Office, 312 Main St.

Watertown

Watertown’s Insurance Man

Behlke Drug Co. A. H. KRUEGER, Mfir.

Corner First and Main Streets WATERTOWN,WISCONSIN

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Student Suits $16. 50 High class tailoring makes these an outstanding value.

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Perfect fitting $ slijleriqhl

Dr. E. J. Hoermann DENTIST

®olbcn ^lantern (lift ^I]op ^Ciitc of (^ifts stub 低rcctin^ 40 6 多trcct

W. A. NACK

MEAT MARKET •'Quality First” POULTRY IN SEASON

Phone 19-W

621 Main St.

cs^8ts，fTerf HARRISONS StuaenVsBarbershop

202 West Main St. Opposite Library

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The Insurance Man L. M. Moldenhauer Woolworth Bldg.

NEWS DEPOT 9 Main St.

Near the Bridge

Chas. Heismann KECK Furniture DEVOE Paints and Varnishes Co. Glass and Wallpaper Complete Line of

QUALITY SINCE 1853 OTTO’S GROCERY Dealer in Groceries, Feed and Flour, Vegetables and Fruits.

Telephone 597 Ill N. 4th St.

Phone 178-w

404 Main St.

Sabin Drug Co. Main and 4th Sts.

Watertown, Wis.

Dr. J. R. Gasanova DENTIST Opposite City Hall

'* 'Everything To Be Found in a First Class Drug Store”

Lumber - Goal - Goke ■■ Fuel Oil ALL KINDS OF BUILDING MATERIAL Phone 37 SERVICE

NO ORDER TOO LARGE NO ORDER TOO SMALL

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Association For Lutherans APPLETON, WISCONSIN

In Business Since 1902

Licensed in U. S. A. and Canada

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Our Own Home Office Building.

Membership

Adult 92,059 Juvenile 16,000

Adult $14,786,516 Reserve Juvenile 148,996

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KEHR BROS.

Phone 270-J—211 N. Third St.

Watertown, Wisconsin

CLOTHING

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FURNISHINGS

Bank of Watertown Watertown, Wisconsin 晒

Capital, Surplus and Profits

$320,000 EAST SIDE FURNACES Installed, Repaired and Rebuilt HOME OF PURITY BREAD FANCY PASTRIES

Phone 1266

618 Main St.

Sheet Metal and Tin Work of all kinds.

JOHN KUCKKAHN Phone 848-w 210 N. 3rd

Wm. Gorder Co. Coal，Fuel Oil, Wood，Coke Sewer Pipe and Building Material 608 Main Street

Telephone 33

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

LITERARY— November Moonlight............

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S)q8 SieBen an bet 況orbfee， 1600—1400 u. ................

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A Modern Department Store

148

With Apologies to Swift.......

150

Expression in Music..............

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A Short Story..................

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EDITORIALS— S)a8 ©tubium ber beutf由en Sibet SEMINARY NOTES..............

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

THE FORUM........................

EXCHANGE.........................

ATHLETICS.........................

LOCALS...............................

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

CAMPUS AND CLASSROOM

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164 165 167 169 173 .176 178

THE BLACK AND RED Volume XXXVII. March

Watertown, Wis., Nov. 1933

Number 6

187Q. IMiblishrd moiuhly. Subscription. One Dollar.

NOVEMBER MOONLIGHT The trees cast tall branching shadows On the pavement, Each one an octopus.

And I run over them Fleet and tiptoed with fear Half expecting to feel Their long, winding fingers Grasp my ankles And suddenly pull me back.

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2Bie after id)Ubert 笈acituS ba§ aufjere §(u§feljen ber GJermanen ?

Sr fdireibt, bafi itjre 5Hciber au§ ^ell ncmadjt luurben, baf3 fie fid) mit ©tiett)6rnern fdjinurften unb baft fie tief im bimfleu, bic!)ten SBalb iljr SeBen Jjinbrarfiten. 5)ie neueve Sorfd)iuig tuill aber bie[cn Seridit t)on SacitiiS nidjt oFjne meitereS Qnnetjmeu. ©ic befjauptet, bafj bic ©ecmanen fdjon (ange uor iljrcm Bufammentreffcn mit ben fRontern ein 3iuilifierte§ bilbeten 1111b in ber ©c^cnb 11m bie 0[t|"ee unb bic ^orbfec frieMidi if)ren 5tcterbau fortjctUcn, bi§ nidjt genug 93rot unb Sanb fiir die (Sinrocljncc metir uorljanben mar. ©aim wanberten grofte .^aufen berfetben na由 alien 9Jid)t«ngen au§.

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A MODERN DEPARTMENT STORE • Most people have, I believe, only a vague conception of the business transacted daily by a huge department store. Still more vague is their knowledge of the history and drama hidden behind the revolving1 doors of a really modern establishment.

It is a world in itself, a reflection of current trends, and a powerful influence on the ideas and living standards of the public. The incoming and outgoing merchandise presents an ever changing panorama of modern civilization. _ . One of the best examples of a modern store is Marshall Field and Company, in Chicago, and the best way to gain an idea of its importance and magnitude is to take a trip through the store with a guide.

Field’s had its beginning as a small retail store occupying but one floor of a building in 1852. It grew until it now occupies an entire city block, has sixty seven acres of retail floor space，and employs from nine thousand to thirteen thousand fight hundred people. It operates its own mills and factories in many parts of the world.

When we started on our tour of the store, the first thing to called to our attention was the telephone switchboard, one of the largest private boards in the world. It averages one 148

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call a second, and is located on the third floor, where are also the waiting： rooms, first aid stations, telegraph offices, theatre and steamship ticket offices and many other conveniences which lend a touch of personal service.

We looked up and down the great light well, which extends from the first to the thirteenth floor, and on which all the floors open like galleries. It is the only one of its kind in the world.

Having passed through the Candy Section, we came into the Book Section, which contains not only the largest works of modern authors, but many ancient and valuable books and manuscripts. In the Rug Section we were shown Oriental rugs ranging in price up to twelve thousand five hundred dollars, truly gorgeous examples of that art. .

Next we were taken to the upper floors for a peek behind the scenes. This is impossible unless one has a guide. On. the thirteenth floor we passed the operating mechanism of the sixty eight passenger elevators, which carry approximately two hundred thousand passengers daily.

We saw the workrooms and studies for the making of show cases and window displays. Then we were permitted to enter the Fur Storage Vaults, in which two and half miles of fur garments, valued at twelve million dollars, are stored. The temperature was belcv freezing, and reminded us of a good old Wisconsin winter. We got only a glimpse of the laundry, which is operated for store purposes only, and which handles thirty five thousand pieces daily.

The twelfth floor is devoted to the employees. It contains a cafeteria, a training division, where each sales person is thoroughly instructed, a library, a lounge, and medical rooms with a corps of doctors and- nurses in attendance. The Choral Society, composed of two hundred employees, is one of Chica­ go^ prominent organizations. * .

The eleventh floor contains stock rooms, so we skipped it and emerged on the tenth. There we were immediately made aware of one predominating idea - - system. For here the sales checks are sorted and the salespeople’s books audited. The charge accounts are here also. Everything must balance to the penny and be finished on time, hence the great importance of system and efficiency.

The ninth floor is very interesting. It contains the Interior Decorating Galleries. Many of the pieces are hundreds of years old, and almost priceless, and they are all displayed in authen­ tic settings. In many cases the panelling on the walls has been removed from some ancient castle.

The eighth floor contains modern furniture. A whole modern house of metal, glass and wood, with deep blue ceilings, is on display.

We walked down the Grand Stairway to the seventh floor, 149

on which are the tea rooms. There are six of them, each in a different style, and they serve from six to nine thousand people daily. Here the law of averages works out so well that the managers can estimate with amazing accuracy how much of each kind of food to prepare, considering the day of the week and the weather. They seldom run short of food and have little left over.

The Fashion Center is located on the sixth floor, The general stock is not on display but is kept in dust-proof rooms.

There are only a few garments on display in glass cases.

The fifth floor contains things of special interest to women, such as shoes, hats, and cosmetics. We stopped near the south rotunda to look at the Tiffany Dome. It is the largest piece of glass,mosaic in the world, and the first dome ever built of iridejscent glass. It contains hundreds of thousands of pieces, that were set together by Louis C. Tiffany. There is another Tiffany Dome over the Mens Grill.

The fourth floor is devoted to childrens clothing, toys, a Play Tent, and Young- Peoples’ Theatre.

Having seen the third floor, we descended to the second.

Here was wealth as we had seldom seen before. Treasures of old China —bronzes, porcelains, jades, and embroideries.

Picture galleries containing pictures, old prints, and etchings of consummate art. In a small room devoted exclusively to Russia were some of the jewels of the luckless Romanoffs.

The history of each piece sounded like a fairy tale, and the prices were unbelievable. We spent the rest of the afternoon here, experiencing how it felt to hold more wealth in the palms of our hands than we would possess in a lifetime. We saw snuff-boxes resplendent with precious gems, priceless jewel casks, Easter eggs, a heart containing miniature of the royal children, and many other articles, all lavishly decorated and each worth a king’s ransom.

On our way out of the store, we passed thru the Jewelry and Silver departments, saw some of the finest modern ex­ amples of this art, and also a collection of old English silver and Sheffield plated designed and wrought by old world artisans.

Since it was nearing closing time we departed with the rest of the great throng of customers, of which, by the way, there are from sixty-five to two hundred thousand daily. One of the facts that remained uppermost in our minds was that business |s not merely a matter of dollars and cents, but of something deeper and finer, involving culture and ideals.

G. R. ，34 WITH APOLOGIES TO SWIFT It is a melancholy object to those who live in this great country, when they see the fields of business, literature, and 150

politics crowded with racketeers and their gangs, each demand­ ing of every one a rakeoff. The victims of their demands, instead of being able to earn an honest liviing, are forced to spend all their time in paying off their obligations to these racketeers, who pay no taxes, are a burden to the taxpayer, and finally run away to their beloved Italy to spend their money out of our country.

I think it is agreed by all parties, that this prodigious number of racketeers at the heels of the business men or trades­ men is in the present deplorable state of the country a very great additional grievance; and therefore whoever could dis­ cover a fair, cheap and easy method of making these racketeers sound, useful members of the commonwealth would deserve so well of the public as to have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation.

But my intention is very far from being confined to racke­ teers ;it is of much greater extent and shall take in the whole number of criminals who are a burden on a state, in effect as little able to support them as those who demand our charity in the streets are. As to my own part, having turned my thoughts for many years upon this important subject and maturely weighed the several schemes of our projectors, I have always found them grossly mistaken in their computation. It is true, a criminal in prison may work for his board ; but consider the overproduction at the markets which are burdened too much already without prison products; and naturally it is expecting a trifle too much to expect the state to provide free boarding houses for them.

I shall now, therefore, humbly propose my own thoughts, which I hope will not be liable to the least objection : I have been assured by a very knowing acquaintance that young WopJs brain after being well fed on fish for a certain length of time would make an excellent object for pathological study, the corpse could be used in any medical school, and after the medicoes have finished with it the remainder could be used by makers of glue, or if the bony structure is of such an inferior quality as to be useless for this purpose the whole would make an excellent food for the fox farms; and I have no doubt that it would also serve as an inferior type of dog-biscuit.

I do therefore humbly offer it to public consideration, that oi the hundred thousand gangsters in the United States of America, which is a very conservative estimate, possibly five thousand of those who are caught under extenuating cirumstances be saved for reformation. The other ninety-five thou­ sand that are not taken for a ride might be offered for sale to universities, glue factories and fox farms throughout the country, always advising that the states let them feed liberally on fish in the last month so as to produce a brain larger and 151

more fit for research. Besides this, one average-sized body will make possibly two quarts of good glue. This glue would be correctly flavored for use in Jewish post-offices where the new glue would, of course, have to be flavored with garlic.

I have reckoned, upon a medium, that a criminal condemned to life in a prison will cost a commonwealth approximately $10,000.00 and at liberty much more. I have also computed the cost of fattening a criminal’s brain. Carp would be the ideal food for these racketeers, especially since carp are also a nuisance to the country as a whole. Carp may be obtained for the small sum of two cents a pound, or possibly even less if bought in large quantities. One good healthy criminal could hardly eat more than five pounds a day. Since it would be advisable to confine his diet to fish, the diet would hardly cost more than ten cents a day. If he were kept on this diet for a month, the cost to.the state would be about three dollars.

Any university would be willing to pay at least five dollars for the cadaver. Another three dollars should be realized from its sale to the glue factories. Thus the cost after capture would be negligible in comparison to the profit realized on these criminals. Of course, in the long run, the cost of capture and other incidentals would make this unprofitable as simply a money-making1 scheme, but it must not be looked upon in that light, but rather as a method of keeping clown the overhead in the police department.

This method of dealing with criminals would have the following results : it would lessen the cost of upkeep of our prisons since the number of prisoners would be decidedly dim­ inished. Second : it would ease the burden of our taxpayers, who would no longer find it a necessity to pay the racketeers* tax. Third : it would ease the unemployment problem, since it would do away to a great extent with the problem concerning prison goods. Finally, consider the immense amount of good that might follow out of the fact that the universities have live tissue to work with in their research laboratories. This alone should reconcile any criminal who might feel a reluctance to entering upon such a contract, namely: that through his tissue some doctor may discover exactly what causes sleeping sickness or any of the mysterious diseases that are threatening our civilization with extermination. That the greatest advantage may accrue from the use — of these criminals, the purchasers should buy them alive and use them if possible while they are still alive. For instance, if bought by a university with a foot-. ball team they could serve as tackling dummies for an evening °J practice before being used for the actual purpose for which they were bought. Of course this might perhaps be objection­ able because it is not humane.

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LUTHER THE MUSICIAN. “One of the most beautiful and glorious gifts of God is music — whose chief enemy is Satan, — with which one can drive away much opposition and many evil thoughts.” That is only one of the many ways in which Dr. Martin Luther ex­ pressed his love for music as an art. He himself played well on the lute and the flute, the popular instruments of his day.

Luther possessed a fine, deep voice and was also fond of making use of it. After the evening meal he was accustomed to spend a half hour or more with his table companions in singing both sacred and secular songs. In fact, whenever he would find someone in a melancholy mood, he would advise him to sing a cheerful song to drive away belt Scnfd bcr Srfjiucrmnt.

Luther placed music on the same plane with dueling, wrestling, etc. as a bodily exercise; it was his opinion that music elevated the spirit and drove evil or melancholy thoughts from the mind, while the others made strong healthy bodies.

For this reason he staunchly advocated that music hold a prominent position in the curricula of schools.

After Luther had broken away from the Roman Catholic Church, he found it necessary to alter the Catholic order of church service and to make it suitable for his church. Here his musical talent could be put to a practical use. It had long been his wish to popularize singing, to give the people a greater share in the church services and therefore make them more in­ teresting and enjoyable. The Catholic Mass had always been read in the Latin language, a procedure which was not very enlightening to the common man. He adapted his new Mass from the one in general use, but wrote it in German, eliminat­ ing most of the chanting of the choir and substituting congre­ gational singing in its stead. He did not, however, dispense with the choir altogether. In the ^cruta^muin 51UU (ScBct mibcr kii Surfeit, he says: ‘‘I rejoice to let the 79th Psalm, O God the heathen are come, be sung as usual, one choir after another.

Accordingly, let one sweet-voiced boy step before the desk in his choir and sing alone the antiphone or sentence, ‘Domine, ne secundum’，and after him let another boy sing the other sen­ tence, *Domine, ne memineris’; and then let the whole choir sing on their knees, *Adjuva nos, Deus’，just as it was done in the Popish fasts, for it sounds and looks very devotional.’•’ .

One of the chief difficulties which confronted Luther in his reformation of the church service was the fact that there were so few hymns. He immediately set to work to provide, them.

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The title of the book was: “Etlich christliche Lyeder Lobgesang und Psalm dem reinen Wort Gottes gem ess aus der h. gschrifft durch mancherlay Hochgelerter gemacht, in der Kirchen zu singen, wie es den zum tail bereyt zu Witenburg in yebung ist.

Wittenburg, 1524. ’’ Shortly after, larger editions were published.

The popularity they enjoyed was immense. They were spread throughout the country by wandering teachers and scholars.

Soon the enemies of Luther declared that he destroyed more souls by his hymns than by his writings and speeches.

0. S.，36 EXPRESSION IN MUSIC Let us not misinterpret the word, expression. Expression is no distorted, or contorted movement of a performer to accent­ uate certain parts of a performance. When I speak of this exaggerated, contorted movement, I am referring to an all too common disease ravaging pianists, organists, and occasionally violinists. The outward manifestations of this consist in a list­ less swaying of the body and a soulful, sanctimonious, and enlightened expression on the face while performing on what­ ever instrument it may be. True this is a pitiable affliction, but it certainly is not expression. It is merely a cheap method of impressing an unaesthetically minded audience. Expression is more subtle in essence and resorts to nobler means than this of telling its tale. Let us, therefore, regard expression as the acme of a musician’s art.

It is universally accepted that rhythm, melody, and har­ mony are the fundamental elements of music. Each of these ' elements contains great possibilities, which in turn remain purely technical in form. Rhythm is regarded as organic and inherent in the nervous system. Melody is psychical, and is found in the inner world of consciousness as the expression of a musical thought, not imitative however. Harmony produces the moods of a melody. One could say that rhythm is the system, or regularity of outline as of a piece of art; that melody is the idea or sketch set into the system; that harmony is the coloring of this work of art, the shadings accentuating this or that portion of the sketch in different colors. Nevertheless this piece of art remains lifeless. Something intrinsic is lacking.

We have present, system, idea, and paint, and also the necessary tools. We still have no artist to paint the picture, no trained musician to express the musical composition according to its thought. Yes, for the sake of its technical musical value and out of reverence for the ashes of its composer, a composi154

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tion can still be called a work of art even though it is presented in a hackneyed, insipid, and lifeless manner. Yes, it remains a work of art. The created universe is also a grand work of art despite our lack of appreciation. But, is that paying due respect to the creator that we accept the wonders of the universe without even desiring to probe into them, to under­ stand them as well as mortals can and accordingly explain them? Are we as surviving guardians of written works of art doing justice to their originators by not even trying to express them or explain them truthfully? The elements, rhythm, melody, and harmony, have neither charm nor artistic values for the hearer if they are not accompanied by expression.

Expression gives individuality and life to a composition.

It is the spirit of the dead composer, proclaiming the message from the score. Since the composer is the only person who knows the exact desired effect of his work, one could say that expression is the electric switch to set all the materials in motion for the intended effect. In a greater sense it is the motive and end for which music really exists. It throws an added light on the essential physical character of music. It is the power to interpret the symbols of the composer. If it is the object of expression to convey the intellectual and also the emotional con­ dition of the composer to the hearer, how then can we disregard this means of understanding and fully appreciating a work?

This means is ever present. Yes, this means is even presented most palatably to all musicians in an analyzed mechanical form.

Now, considering the essence of expression, one could briefly say the following. An element of expression is variation of force or intensity. This is also called the loudness or soft" ness of the tone or of a musical passage. As an element of expression these varying degrees of intensity depict the per­ former^ aroused emotional reaction to the formal material he is interpreting, thus enabling him to convey the emotional state of the composer to the hearer. The other element of expression is the marking of the measure and the phrase by proper accent.

There are, however, three types of accent. One is the metrical accent, which is inherently instinctive in character. It em­ phasizes that part of the composition which depends on time values. A second type is the rhythmical accent, which is con­ veyed through the intellect. It brings the phrase to expression by pointing and punctuating it through its peculiar accent.

This accent is indispensable, but is also most frequently disre­ garded. The last is the expressive accent which appeals to the emotions. Therefore, to express music one must feel it deeply 一not only through emotion and instinct, but through the intel­ lect. One can observe all of the aforementioned, but even then, one fails to express the thoughts satisfactorily, if the required touch is not employed. This required touch is ordinarilly indi155

cated whenever it is to be employed, whether it be staccato, legato, or tremulo” An earnest endeaver to follow the prin­ ciples of expression will reward the musician by giving him a clearer, more intelligent comprehension of the log:c or thought content of a composition. To effect the practical application of expression it is not absolutely necessary to have mastered the theory of music in its entirety. It is, however, of great im­ portance that one be acquainted with a few main principles that come into play under expression as guides. One ought to be acquainted with the significance of a phrase, and of course, with the dynamic markings on a musical score. Whatever may yet be lacking can be supplied by good musicianship.

There is a vast difference between the interpretation of a composition of the school of Formalists and one of the school of Expressionists. The essential of expression remains the same in both, however. But one can easily understand that it re­ mams a lighter task to express correctly works by Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, and Haydn of the Formalists than works

by Chopin, Wagner, or a Debussy. As expressionistic as a composition of the Formalists may appear, nevertheless, its great beauty lies in its evident logical structure, and is there­ fore interpreted chiefly according to its structure, however subtle it may be. Whereas a composition of the Expressionists (Romanticists and Impressionists) is often referred to as the language of emotions and'is more of a symbolic expression of the inner state of feeling1. Therefore the interpretation of a composition of the latter school must strike a deeper note than a mere appeal to the intellect. This subject should prove to be a field of great interest to the average musician who was here­ tofore more concerned about the notes than about the inter­ pretation.

Rud. H. R. Weyland A SHORT STORY He received permission to leave for the hospital on a Monday. On Tuesday the inquiries began to pour in. Since I was his closest friend, they were addressed to me. I wasn’t at liberty to make a statement, so surmises soon were rife. The first that came to my ears was that he had T. B. To anyone who sees him, this surmise would seem ridiculous, but it all goes to show to what extent surmise will go. This rumor progressed so far that some one asked me if he was expected to recover. After I had “spiked” this rumor the next to arise wqs that he was married. There was more reason to believe 》his than the former, but the people who started it didn’t real­ ize it and they killed it themselves. The next rumor to come to my attention was decidedly malicious. It had to do with criminal procedure etc. It was a mean piece of gossip and I 156

felt myself forced to invent some disease in explanation. My explanation, that he was taking a cure for D. T., was almost universally accepted. His return to school finally took the responsibility from my shoulders, although his silence on the subject still made me an object of inquiry. On the evening of his return the dean asked him what had caused his weakness.

He assured the dean that the doctor had said that it was un­ doubtedly caused by football. Later that evening he began to tell me all about his experiences at the Fair where he had been spending his last two weeks.

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3um Seifpiel, in faft jeber *i|kebigt Eommen foldje SSorter mie ‘sub­ vert’， ‘redound’，‘contrition’，‘dissimulation’，u. a. uor, bie ben ©orern unb man由 einern ©c^iiter fremb finb.

Snt erften Sutf〕2Kofe Fjeifet e2, „5(m 5(nfang fdjuf ©ott ©imniel unb (Irbe. Unb bie (Srbe war mUfte unb (ecr,----- .M @0 fonnte nid)t8 (eidjter Don bet 3unge gteiten, ober leidjter gu uccfteljen fein.

SBer e8 jroeimat lieft, ber oecgijjt e3 niema(§. ©nonfdje, “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void ;----- ”, forbert Diet mel)r Sip* penoerftedung, ift mol)! (eidjt ju uerfte^en, aBer ninmtt uie( metjc 5ln* ftcengung, um e§ ju Begotten. S)a3 S)eutfcEje ift $oefie, bie Slufmcrt* fam!eit unb 级itba由t ercegt; ba§ @ng(ifd)e ift tote, tuorttidje Uberfefeung. @Ben[o empfinbunQ§(o§ (ieft man biefd “A sower went out to sow his seed ; and as he sowed, some fell by the wayside; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it.”

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Wan tamt ud) nodi [o Beinii^en.

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5)a l)5rf§ ©efdjrei nod) lanfl nicf)t auf.

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5)ie <yru6ftiicE§bumm(er b^te^en brauf, 5)of3 id) nidit bimmctn fann.

5)ent cinen inadr id) %\x uie( Sarm. *Tem nnbcrn nirf)t genup.

Ter eine pfaubt, er lint nod) «Beit; 55er an here, c3 fci 93etrug. ^em eincn fpuim' icE) Diet frii巧.

C5r idiinuift mid) jeben Worsen.

Ter nnbcrc inpt, id) raerf’ il)it nie.— ^ie§ finb be§ ©immterS ©orgen ! fomite man nod) att uertragen, 文rojjbem e§ oinc fcfjroere Soft.

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9^efdi(offen \uirb ^ur felben ©tunb, 53immter§ 5Biirbe 111 un beflcfjen ! 沉m rcidiftcn 93?orgen frifd) unb fein 狄it (Sifen, ^etten, ©tangen, ©teHen ftd)仰ei ?vreunbe ein, ©ippert im Sett jit fan gen.

5)ie 5：reppe ^inauf. QS ffappert unb fcadjt.

Tie ©tangen rutft^en hunter. 尤ie %\\x gebt auf. ©an§ Martin ladjt.— 9?ur ©ebufb! eS mirb nod) Buntcr!

9(n all biefem Sdrrn ftort ©ippert fid) nidjt. >M)ig imb fan ft fdjfaft er fort.

Ob itjm uiellcicbt bie @d)faffurf)t anfidjt ? ?

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Rev. H. C. Nitz sent us the following: “Ruben Kettenacker, ’30, was ordained in his home church in Rockford, Minn., October d，by Pastor H. C. Nitz, ’15. Pastor A. H. Leersen, ’29，of Montrose, Minn., assisted. Pastor Kettenacker left the next day for his parish at Benrud and Volt, Montana, near Wolf Point, close to the Canadian border. His pastoral work will be done almost entirely in the German language. Although he will work under the auspices of the Dakota-Montana District Mission Board, he will be salaried by his father during the next few years. Such a spirit will bring our Synod back to normalcy without an NRA.” _ Carl Spilman, ’21，recently received his Ph. D. from Colum­ bia University.

Ralph Lemke，ex-,34, who is attending Whitewater Normal this year, was here for the Wartburg game.

On the 29th of October Prof. H. Fleisher, ’97, ordained his son Marcus, ’30，into the ministry. The ceremony was per­ formed in Trinity church of Watertown. Prof. Kowalke and Rev. Timmel assisted.

Rev. Sydow, 703, of Tacomah, Washington, visited his son at Northwestern October 20-21.

John Radloff, ’33, is teaching in a high school at Iron •River, Mich.

George Rosenhauer, ’28，resigned his teaching position at Carbondale, 111., purchased a house on wheels, and migrated to St. Petersburg, Florida, “mit Kind und KegeP,.

Rev. Kurt Timmel, ’20，was the principal speaker at the annual banquet of the Winnebago Academy Association, held in Fond du Lac the evening of October 22.

Rev. Herbert Witt, ’29, of Mullen, Nebr. installed Harold Schultz, ’30, at Fort Morgan, Colorado.

Paul Schmieder, ex-，08, now is in Rochester, N. Y. Richard Kleinke, ex-，35, was here for the Wartburg game.

Rumor has it that Rev. Al. Maaske，’28, was married Oct. 14.

Rev. Kirst，，03, of Beaver Dam, preached for the Mission Festival at Fort Atkinson recently.

Rev. John Witt, ’94，of Norfolk, Nebr. visited his son at A. W. C. during the second week in Oct. Fred. Bergfeld，，30, received a call to Bruce’s Crossing, Mich.

Rev. Immanuel Uetzmann，’22, of Picketts, Wis., visited his Alma Mater early in October.

Rev. Werner Franzmann, ’25，Coloma, Mich, received a call to Fran ken mu th, Mich.

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Rev. Ph. Koehler, *09, of Milwaukee, visited N. W. C. October 19.

Rev. H. Kirchner,，10, Baraboo, was here October 25.

Mr. Adolph Toepel, of Bangor, Wis” visited his son at Northwestern November 4.

Rev. R. Lederer, ’10，of Green Bay, was here for the Platteville game.

Reverends E. Benj. Schlueter ’00, Martin Raasch，’03, and Arnold Schultz ’02, were present at the Wartburg game.

Among others noticed about the grounds more or less frequently since this last went to press were: .

Marty Zilz, Herb von Haden, Erich, Hans, and Armin Schultz, Hilbert Siegler, Al. Schewe, Amos Schwerin, Lester Freitag, Harold Haefner, Cornelius Trapp, Roman Biesmann, Norbert Ehlert, Herbert Buch, Herbert Resting, Herbert Kuhlow, Sam Lenz, Mert Albrecht, Ed. Krupsack, Dean Hotlen, David Hahm, Edmund Sauer, Wald. Grosnick, Wilmar Sturm, and Wald. Dobratz.

Rev. I. J. Habeck, of the class of ’24，accepted the call to Immanuel’s Ev. Lutheran Church at Medford, Wis.，and was installed there on the 12th of November by the Rev. G. O. Krause, ’22, of Stetsonville, Wis. Otto List, ex-’26 is spending some of his spare moments as head linesman and time-keeper at various high-school games in the Black River Valley Conference. At present he is making his home at Augusta, Wis., hoping to return to his journalistic work in Chicago very soon.

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Do you think that the literary programs should be open to the public and consequently be made interesting as well as instructive?

W- H. ’34,一No, I do not think the literary progams should be open, to the public. If the idea of entertaining is once brought in, there is very much danger that the instructive idea would fall more and more into the background. More time and attention would be required, which, I believe, would interfere with the proper pursuit of our studies. .E. Z. ’34, - If the fundamental idea of the Literary Society, that is, that it be instructive and not entertaining, is not forgotten when the program is arranged, then the public is certainly welcome. The program should not, however, be arranged for the entertainment of the public.

F. R. W: ’34, 一Literary programs ought to be given before the public, i. e. only before those who have an interest in 165

literature, not before street urchins. This elite audience will then encourage the speakers to be more thorough in their preparation. The result will be, better programs. There should be no question as to whether the programs are suffic­ iently interesting or not. If any of the audience has no interest in this or that literary field, he has the free will to stay home.

If, however, the programs are to be given in clausum, then why have formal programs at all? Bat, again it may be said, that the street urchins ought to be discouraged from attending.

C. C. ’35, 一I do not believe that the public should officially be excluded from our literary programs. If the true nature of the literary societies is realized, the presence of the public at our programs does not necessarily interfere with their intended effect. Moreover, an audience of strangers provides good atmosphere to confront the participating student. As long as we do not make our former mistake of catering to the public taste in arranging our programs, the attendance of the towns­ people should be permitted.

E. C. S. *34, —I see no beneficial reason why the public should not be invited to attend our Literary Meetings. Mem­ bers in the programs would profit greatly by public attendance, in that their ability to speak publicly would be cultivated, more so than if they spoke before a number of fellow students only.

Including entertainment of educational value in the programs would promote interest in the programs and also make them more palatable for many.

R. A. S. ’34,一The difference between a classroom recita­ tion or speech and a speech given before the Literary Societies is that the latter is given to an audience which includes strangers, therefore it demands the height of polish both in composition and production. Some will say that a good student will do his best under all circumstances and before any audience. This is not necessarily the case, for the familiarity of a class-room, although it does not breed contempt, certainly does engender an indifference to the opinions of the classmates and to some extent also to the opinion of the professor. This familiarity, which is content with mediocrity will not be evident in a program given before an audience which includes strangers.

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The ideal school has finally reached actuality. Princeton University puts in its bid for fame by founding the institute for Advanced Study. The Institute is unique in that it actually has those improvements and advantages of which scholars have been dreaming for centuries. The members will be abso­ lutely free from all cares and worries. No longer will scientists suffer in poverty for science’s sake while they study, but they may live contentedly, free from worldly worries, in the pursuit of pure research. It is, in truth, an institute of highest learn­ ing, for it commences where other schools leave off. The entrance requirement is at least a Ph. D. When one is admitted to the institution he is under no obligation or restrictions.

There are no definite courses, no required subjects and no degrees or credits. The only extra-curricular activities are tea, chess and sleep. The institute was founded by Louis Bamber­ ger and Mrs. Felix Fuld. Among the faculty will be Dr. Albert Einstein and Dr. Flexner, the director.

I. D. Robert Einstein, cousin of the scientist Albert Einstein, is a student at Tulane. He likes the American university, because the students are more friendly here then they are in Germany.

He said a student in Germany wouldn’t dare to speak to a professor between classes. Boys must have formal introduc­ tions to girls before dates can be made.

I. D. The Old Gold and Black of Wakeforest College calls upon its students to vote against the repeal of the eighteenth amend­ ment. “No student would dare vote for such a disgrace (the saloon) to be brought upon him, his living friends, and his future generations. It will be the duty of every voting student 167

to cast his vote the way that will be for his benefit and for the advancement of the generations which will follow him.” The tenor of this editorial in a college paper is as surprising to us as the fact that it expresses the sentiment of the majority of that state, which was demonstrated at the North Carolina polls on November seventh.

Wakeforest is in the midst of its annual fall tennis tourna­ ment. Opportunity for tennis such as this explains the fact that tennis should be much more popular in the southern schools as an intercollegiate sport than it is in this section.

By far the worst product of these evil days is the pessimism in the schools, the colleges of the country. It is the hopeless­ ness of those who yearn for learning and are denied it by this monster Grendel’s mother whose son is the pessimism born of our depression....This pessimism must be conquered within the walls of college. While politicians and economists fight with­ out, still another battle must be fought within to rid us of that handicap. The world has no room for it. We are not sweating under the illusion that ours is the sole salvation of the world, but this world must not be polluted by the sterile pessimism of college graduating classes. It must be fertilized by new plans and new ideas, worked by new tools and new energies, harvest­ ed by new brains and new muscles— — We cannot wait for the world to be remade for us. This is a task we must do for our­ selves. Intelligence shall triumph over blind force. Hope shall triumph over pessimism. “I shall emerge some day, says Robert Browning. So shall we. And struggling __ _ through befuddled pessimism a great hope shall arise, for **Hope springs Carroll Echo. eternal in the human breast’’.

The absence of a Mission House paper from our exchange was finally explained by the receipt of a Mission House News numbered volume one, number one.

Why- are we not made to feel the emotions of the past ?

When History should transfer us back to those olden days and make us feel the triumphant glow of the Greeks, the terror of the Romans at the burning of Rome, the deep-seated hatred of the Jews against their conquerors, we rather assume a bored look that is caused by the manual labor of going through a card index— —We ask of the historian a great tapestry, crowded with figures, filled with shifting lights and crowds and landscapes; and 'ye insist sternly that he shall use no single thread for its weaving that cannot be vouched for as to its color, lenght, and weight....If the historian can set his reader dreaming of the past he has done his work, if only the dream is true.

Tlie Concordia Comet. .From the Stentor’s exchange column : A Freshman at the University of Kentucky attended a geology class regularly for two weeks before he found out it was a class in German.

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Dubuque University 7，Nortlnvestcrii 12 Watertown, October 28.— In their best performance of the season the Black and Red celebrated homecoming with an im­ pressive victory over the Dubuque University eleven^ 12—7.

The score does not show truly North westerns superiority over the Dubuque club. The margin of victory should have been greater by at least two touchdowns. In the final quarter the Black and Red had the ball within the five-yard line with downs to go no less than three times, but each time they lacked the inspiration to score. A stiff wind blew the length of the field, and both teams courted its favor throughout the game. Schewe did some nifty punting for Northwestern, averaging nearly 40 yards on his kicks.

All scoring was done in the second quarter. On the first play in that period Schewe capped a touchdown march that had been started in the first quarter with a 25-yard run, after he had received the oval on a pass. The pass for extra point was knocked down. After the next kick off and an exchange of punts had given Dubuque the ball on Northwestern^ 30 yard line, the Iowa gridders started a smashing drive that carried them over the goal. Baueries scored the touchdown. He also cut through the line for the extra point. Dubuque was out in front，7—6. Their lead was short-lived, however. On the following kick off Northwestern returned the ball to the 33 yard stripe. On the first play Stewart cut around end and slithered and sprinted 67 yards to a touchdown. Conversion failed, but the game was won. Dubuque did not threaten seriously in the second half.

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WadluirA 0, Northwestern 56 On November 3, Northwestern gainded a rousing victory over the invading Wartburg college eleven, 56—0. The Clinton, Iowa, team offered even less competition than was expected, and it was just a question of how large a score the Black and Red would pile up. The Northwestern gridders gave indication of the final result early in the quarter. The first time they got possession of the ball after kicking off to the visitors they marched 46 yards to a touchdown. After the next kick off and an exchange of punts, they again paraded down the field for another score. Nine times in all they crossed the last white marker. All of Northwestern^ regular backfield figured in the scoring. Stewart scored four touchdowns, Schewe and Schwartz, two each, and Captain Reuschel one. Schewe added two extra points on drop kicks. The fine blocking of his mates enabled Stewart to make consistent gains of from 20 to 64 yards and to average nearly 20 yards on a play. Every member of the Northwestern squad saw some action.

A glance at the more intimate statistics gives a fair idea of the comparative strength of the teams. On yards gained from scrimmage, Northwestern gained 501 yards, making 17 first downs; Wartburg, 107 yards, making 8 first downs. North­ western attempted 3 passes, completed none. Wartburg tried 14, completed 6 for 94 yards. Northwestern punted 7 times for an average of 38 yards; Wartburg, 10 times for an average of 23 yards.

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6 —56 25 Northwestern 12 13 0 0 — 0 0 Wartburg 0 Substitutes — Northwestern : Toepel, Bradtke, Thierfelder, Hotlen, Brennen, Seifert, Frey, Mielke, 0. Lemke, M. Lemke, McAllister, Sieger, Bolle, I. Frey, A. Sehultz. Wartburg: m Sanders, Jeck, Brail, Donsella, Schmitt, Jones, Referee, Thistlewaite (Carroll); umpire, Wendland; linesman, Binhammer.

MiUon 6, Northwestern 0 Undisputed claim to the Inter-state conference championchip slipped through Northwestern’s fingers as Milton turned tables on the dopesters and blanked the Black and Red in the season’s finale at Milton, November 10. Overconfidence, an off day, or what you will — it wasn’t even the ghost of the clicking machine that had rolled over Platteville, Dubuque, and Wart­ burg that lost to a Milton eleven that played inspired, though in no way exceptional ball. Fumbles and poor interference marked the play of both elevens —and it was anybody’s game for the first three quarters. The fourth quarter saw Milton get a lucky break which they converted into 6 points and victory. The Northwestern gridmen tried hard to stage a comeback in the last minutes of play, but the final whistle cut them short.

Kelling, end and back, was one of the big reasons for the Milton win. He figured largely in the winners’ attack, and also starred on the defensive. His scintillating punts traveled high and far, and kept the Black and Red fighting pretty much in victory retheir own territory. Northwestern’s chances for i ceived a blow in the first quarter, when Captain Reuschel was forced to leave the game because of an injured shoulder.

Milton scored its winning touchdown at the outset of the fourth quarter. At the end of the third period, with the ball in Northwestern’s possession on their own 17 yard line, Schwartz fumbled, and Milton downed the oval on the 6 yard line. From that point Vogel catapulted his frame across the goal in three plays. The kick for point after touchdown was ruled wide of the goal posts.

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Basketball After a lull in sports for a few days following the football season, Coach Kleinke issued the call for basketball candidates.

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Degeneration is evident in every field.

Shortly before the home-coming game plans were brewing* for a parade to rouse our latent school spirit (whatever that is) and to instil the necessary unit of verve into the Student Body.

It is even alleged that the N club favored this project. But fortunately some sane students pointed out that even the High School doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t perpetrate such things in this enlightened era, and the plan was discarded. The enthusiasts were forced to be content with a bonfire and fire-crackers, which, it seems, sufficed.

At a football game a comfort-loving- student realizes what a luxury it is to have two pairs of shoes, so that he can slip into a warm pair during the intermission.

Our deepest thinkers, now that their minds are to a great extent released from the trying thoughts of baseball and foot­ ball, have turned their efforts to a problem trivial in comparison.

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to meals be proportional to the amount of food on the table, or should one always eat according to the clock ? Stated less abstrusely for the benefit of those who have not had sufficient practice in interpreting titles of assigned themes, should one spend as much time ac a meal when he has but three pieces of bread to eat as he spends when he has a chicken dinner ? The solution seems evident, but practice contrary to the solution renders it a debatable topic.

On November 6 the youngest of our musical organizations, the brass quartette, went to Milwaukee to play before the Men’s Club of the Rev. Ph. Koehler’s Congregation. According to all reports, their efforts were highly appreciated.

Each year a student or two must, for tradition’s sake, break through the thin ice. Lederer and Eugene Toepel have the honor this year.

0. Siegler and Eugene Toepel intended to hitch-hike to Milwaukee, but the Fates opposed, and they were forced to take the in ter urban at Waukesha. Since they had lost so much time they changed their plans of returning- the same evening and reconnoitered. Toepel discovered some cousin thrice-removed, and honored him with a visit. “Our relatives! May their memories be keen !” is the toast they propose.

Sommers purchased a new pair of glasses. Apropos of glasses, the lenses of Eps Sche've’s persisted in dropping from their frame. Despite the N. R. A., he set them to rights him­ self. He had some dark glasses, the sort which clamps over the frame of the ordinary glasses. This turned the trick, if we may use a technical term. No pat. pend. .

On November 10, the Student Body expected a chicken dinner. Each student cancelled all of his engagements. Im­ agine his chagrin when he found his table enframing a slab of salmon ! But he had his chicken the next day, so his happiness was again complete.

Traugott Bradtke, Gotthilf Bradtke, Reginald Siegler and 0. Primo Siegler went “zum Kripplein Christi, Town Hermann, Dodge County, Wisconsin” on November 5. .

The football team continues its excellent practice of not having its picture taken. . .

One often reads the phrase ‘ ‘with a look of genuine longing in.his eyes.” To understand the phrase completely, glance at Mielke^eyes as he sits on the bench near the billiard table with his smashed shoulder. . .

The Student Body has either become sluggish or sensible.

Hallowe’en passed quietly—almost. Even the fresh cement was damaged no more than it would have been on any other e^n.

The football players have experienced their annual thrill 一 that of smoking their first cigarette after a season of arduous training.

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Scores of the Modern Pied Pipers Emil (Honk) Toepel — 8 —4 N. Luedtke —3 K. Lederer —1 (but in bed) M. Toepel — 0 (but he hears them at night) L. Groth Runners - around - the - campus - early - in - the-morning have dwindled to zero, in proportion to the thermometer readings.

Gray hair and premature baldness are predicted for the students of the North Wing, second floor. Nelson and T. Sauer have selected the trombone to express their inner emotions.

M. Toepel was selected as prep basket-ball coach. May he be as successful as Nommensen was as football coach a year or two ago!

History repeats itself! The Israelites longed for the fleshpots of Egypt; the Student Body longs for the fresh vegetable baskets of the refectory, and with equal avidity.

Myren, Stauske, and Zickuhr, in spite of the fact that they are Freshmen (physically), continue to haunt the Prep Club Room. The conjectures of the preps as to the motives of these visitations are:----- but it would be utter obloquy and slander to mention these.

Schabow was recently told to find out what an Editorial Sheet is from any Collegiate. He calumniously stated that the fifty-first was able to tell him. Whether this reflects on him or the Collegiate Body is disputable — perhaps.

It has finally been established that Roekle receives a telephone call on the first and third Sunday, I. Frey on the second and fourth.

Some students have donned their red flannels, but have not doffed their sport shoes.

The squad was defeated by the Milton squad. This time it was a psychological defeat. Exactly what is meant is not known to us; but at least it’s a different exoneration.

On October 18, Wicke, Sommers, and Hoepner visited Winnebago Academy ; on October 22 they had the opportunity to attend the Academy banquet.

On November 8, the Student Body had an opportunity to hear Mr. and Mrs. Farrar. They traced the development of the Christian hymn through the centuries, singing the typical hymns of the various eras.

Sunday November 12, Miss Dudley, pupil of Leopold Auer, gave a concert at the High School Auditorium. All who at­ tended were delighted at her remarkable rendering of the works of the Masters.

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Assorted Contributions C. Frey : Vincent’s settling down; he drops in here only once or twice a day.

C. Broecker: Nothing happens.

Bros. Lehmann : Stubby's toe is the same.

W. Hoyer : On November 1 there was a full moon.

Several Sophs: Koehler is the only Junior in the Sophomore Class.

Mahatma Sager: I had lots, but I forgot ’em.

L. Heller: Ditto.

Half-captain Zimpelmann : I don’t like it at all that there’s no heat in the gym.

Least, and best, the inane, lack-brained Vesuvius initiations are finished for another year.

If one of the rules of rhetoric were that all writings begin with ‘Once upon a time’，as they did when we were young, it would save such racking of brains for an introduction as I am now experiencing. But really, who cares for an introduction, so here goes.

On the night of Tuesday, October 24, the Girls’ Room was the scene of an uproar which was meant to be a Hallowe’en party. The entertainment committee carefully and painstak­ ingly planned a program, choosing games they thought agreeable to everyone, not too highbrow for the preps to comprehend and not too lowbrow to bore the collegiates. The preps are such timid and sensitive creatures that one must be very tactful!

New games were played, but it seems that the old favorites as bobbing for apples and peanut races were enjoyed the most.

The decorations consisted of cornstalks and pumpkins in the corners, jack-o-lanterns in the windows, and witches and cats on the walls. A very kind gentlemen contributed a radio. I believe he has forgotten to come to get it, but we don’t mind in the least, and please don’t remind him. Everyone told her best ghost story amid shrieks and screams that would have fright­ ened away the worst of ghosts. Refreshments were served at 10 o’clock, and were they delicious! Nothing was forgotten, not even the little black and orange candies. This concluded the gala occasion, except for those who had to remain to straighten up the rooms. You know, the best part of a party comes after the guests have gone.

We have a new table in the Girls，Room, a leftover from the party. It does not seem to belong to anyone, for no one comes to claim it. I don’t blame them, for we don’t want it either.

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It has, like the old men, ‘most weak hams’. It also has three pairs of legs, and for some reason or other the legs in the middle are longest and are anything but parallel to each other.

When we straighten them out, one or the other end of the table waltzes over to the side. The way it jumps around when we write on it cannot be described.

A strange thing happened the other day. No, not strange at all when you know the explanation. One of the co-eds came walking in backwards; not only down the steps but all the way across the room. Most of us stood silent and open-mouthed.

She stopped in front of the mirror, turned around and inspected her glasses carefully. “Now if they steam up/* she said, “will I ever be angry!” There were some sighs of relief, and someone said, “Well, I surely thought you didn’t know which way you were going•” The conduct of the preps has been outrageous. They enter our room with much stamping of feet and slamming of doors.

Judging from their high pitched voices they are obviously unaware of what is ‘a most excellent thing in a woman’. They even tore the ears of corn from our decoration of corn stalks to go Hallowe’ening with, but not without first scattering it over our floor. Madame President, I propose a little more high­ handedness on your part. They need to be thoroughly squelched.

Just a few miscellaneous items: Evelyn Conklin attended the Lawrence Homecoming October 28.

Eva Taras has glasses. “The better to see you, my dear !’’

We all enjoyed a short vacation from October 16 to 18, and came back somewhat refreshed.

The Girls’ Room has new curtains. This is rather late, but still important. There is also a new window. During the last football game one was broken. If anyone knows how it hap­ pened, we would appreciate it if they told us. We are eager to know. * .I’m trying to think of a way to conclude but it is more difficult than to begin. Well, anyway, enjoy your Thanks­ giving turkey.

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That is the Question Hotlen was trying to sell tennis shoes.

Hoep : I had a good pair in my freshman year, but I sold them again.

Hotlen: How can you sole tennis shoes?

‘■•Let ma see,” said the minister who was filling out the marriage certificate and was uncertain as to the date, ‘‘this is the fifth, isn’t it ?” ，.

No sir,” returned the bride indignantly, ‘‘this is only my second.

Boss: What is this item of $5 you have put down for over­ head expenses ?

Salesman: Oh, that was an umbrella I bought one day when it was raining.

Why was the Black Prince so-called ?

Stiemke : He must have been a dark horse. ‘‘Isn’t it hard，’’ said the sentimental landlay，‘‘to think this poor little lamb was cut down in its youth to satisfy our appetites?

“Yes,” said the sour-faced boarder, struggling with his portion, ‘‘it is tough.”

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

LITERARY— Beneath A Blanket of Stars

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The Quest of the Side-Hill Gouger-185 The Cloister Thief

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Siberia and the RussianExileSystem 192 Lucky Boy.

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A Depression Case in Four Scenes 195

EDITORIALS— The Advantage of Section Practice 198

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THE BLACK AND RED Volume XXXVII.

Watertown, Wis., Dec. 1933

Entered

Number 7

One Dollar.

BENEATH A BLANKET OF STARS. Old Man Moon, arrayed in his full dress suit and bedecked with his finest walking stick, frowned down upon the two lovers by the shore of Lake Oliver. The reason for the ex' tensive frown on the mellow countenance of this well-known gentleman can readily be deduced from his following soliloquy: “Why is that fellow so slow ? He’s known Miss Lois for three whole months now, and still he hasn’t popped the question.

Anyone can see she’s daffy about him, and he’d eat out of her hands at a second’s notice. Why, you can see they’re meant for each other! When Miss Lois came here last June, I said, •There! She^ just the girl for Lon Seymour.’ Well, I still think it, even though it’s now September, and he’s still acting like a college freshman about it. If only he could be a little bolder! Ah, what happiness would be theirs!’’ .

Now let us rapidly descend 238,840 miles to the subjects of the noble man’s soliloquy. They sat there with a strange Kght glowing in their eyes. Lon glanced at Lois. Lois glanced at Lon. The glance held merely a second; then Lon turned his eyes^ toward the stars, twinkling above, and remarked about the “wonderfui” evening, exactly as he had done on several 180

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They sat thus for some time, apparently absorbed in counting the millions of stars overhead. Silently Lon was exhorting himself for being such a fool. Why was it that their conver­ sations always lapsed into just such embarrassing silences as this ? He loved her with his whole heart and soul — of that he was most decidedly certain ; but to declare his love to his one and only heart’s desire and ask her to be his — that, for some mysterious reason, he could not do. Then suddenly the idea came to him that perhaps she did not love him as he loved her.

The more he dwelt upon the thought, the more assured he be­ came that it was true. Why, that was the trouble all the time !

Queer that he hadn’t thought of that before. Well, never mind —if her love for him was only a spark, he would stir it into a flaming torch. In his mind he was already forming a plan — a plan to gain the sincere love of the girl who meant more to him than anything else in the whole, wide world.

The next morning Lon arose, feeling just a little gayer, a little more assured, and went about his morning1 routine with a slightly merrier whistle upon his lips. Why ? Because today was the day of days — the day in which he would undertake to carry out the plan, conceived the night before, which, he was confident, could not but succeed.

He walked gayly along the back route to the Meridan residence. It would never do to have Lois see him on this particular occasion. Entering from the rear of the lot, he came upon the very man whom he wished to see — Jim Handy, the gardener. Jim was a jovial man of about forty, and Lon knew that he would understand and be glad to help him if he could.

“Howdy, Jim!” Lon called out merrily, although none to lustily, lest Lois should hear him. ^Well, blow me down!’’ answered the gardener, favoring1 Lon with his wide, humorous grin, which never failed to win the heart of everyone toward whom it was directed. “What in the Sam Hill are you doin’ aroun’ here so early ?’’

“Jim, I’ve come to ask you to do me a big favor.”

“Well,” said Jim, pushing his old felt hat far back on his head, and leaning lazily on the handle of his shovel, “I’m will­ ing to do anything for you in my power, lad.”

Lon’s face lighted up like a Christmas candle. < ( Gee, Jim, I know you would! Now, you take Miss Lois out rowing on the lake every afternoon, don’t you ?’’

“Well，I reckon I do,” replied Jim, warming up to the subject. "I haven’t missed an afternoon yet, except for when she went to the city for a week, and then when we had that big1 storm. Say, Lon, that was a corker! i’ve never seen anything1 like it! Why, when I was a boy, I remember as how------’’ • “I know all about that, Jim,” interrupted Lon, “I take it 181

for granted now that you’re willing to help me ?” Jim nodded and Lon continued. “Here’s my proposal. I want you to arrange the boat-ride for this evening： instead of this afternoon —now just be quiet till I finish 一 and then I want you to upset the boat purposely, making it seem accidental, of course.”

At this point Jim could restrain himself no longer, and blurted forth, “Lon Seymour, you should know better! You know very well I can’t swim a stroke, and neither can Miss Lois.>, “That’s fine, Jim !” said Lon, walking up to his companion and patting him on the back. ‘‘You’re not supposed to be able to swim.”

“But what about Miss-------- ” “Now Jim, don’t you worry about Miss Lois. You just hang： on the boat, and I’ll rescue Lois.’’

Jim, readily grasping the scheme, this time answered some­ what reluctantly. ‘‘Lon, I don’t know but what you’re taking the wrong path. One never - 一 ’’ “Ah gee, Jim,” implored Lon, “You couldn’t let a fellow down at a time like this. Why, I always thought----- ’’ “Hush up, my lad ! Who said I wouldn^ help you ? I just said I wasn’t sure you was doin’ the right thing1. But no one’ll ever say Jim Handy wasn’t a sport! Sure, Til help you, kid — you know, I was young once myself.” .

At this point the two conspirators shook hands heartily, until a soft humming was heard in the distance, which brought an abrupt finis to the shaking. They had both recognized the voice as Lois’s, and Jim pushed Lon behind a cluster of bushes nearbv. watched eagerly from behind the bushes, where, al­ though totally concealed, he could see and hear everything that was done and said. There, she had just come through the gate ! How her blonde curls glistened in the rays of the morn­ ing sun ! As she greeted Jim, the usual cheerful smile adorned her fair countenance. .“I thought I heard someone talking, but I must have been mistaken.” Lon was sure she had looked right through those bushes, as she said that. .

“No, you weren’t mistaken at all,” answered Jim, capable of handling almost any situation. “You see I like to talk to jnyself while I’m working. It sorta keeps me from gettin* lonesome. And, by the way, that reminds me — I’d like to postpone your boat-ride until this evening. You see I have a lot to do today, and hardly think I’ll be able to spare the time.”

"Why, surely, that’s all right with me, Jim，’’ Lois replied, and then, summoned by her mother’s call to breakfast, started toward the house.

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“Oh Jim, you know I love surprises !M Lois cried, and ran up to her pal, and standing on her tiptoes, kissed him quickly on the cheek, turned, ran toward the house, and was out of sight in less time than it takes to tell it. Jim stood there, looking after her, with a pleased grin upon his face.

Lon emerged from his hiding place and asked immediately what the idea of the blindfold was.

With mock seriousness, Jim replied, “Why, Mr. Seymour, I’m surprised at your inability to grasp the point! You told me, since I am unable to swim, to hang on the boat. So what would stop Miss Lois from doing the same, unless she can’t see ? Then too, won’t it be much more romantic to have you rescue her from the throes of death, and then, safely on land, take the blindfold from her eyes, and behold their look of praise, wor­ ship, and love, as she gazes upon the visage of her hero !” ‘ Aw, cut it out, JJim !M said the young man, good naturedly appreciating the.joke.

After the final plans and instructions had been discussed thoroughly, and one more hand-shake had bound the agreement more firmly, Lon left, so that Jim might finish his task and be ready for the all-important event of the evening.

That evening Lon appeared at the lake shore about half an hour before the designated time. He took his station behind some shrubbery about twenty-five yards to the right of the pier. Here he waited in silence, now biting，his finger nails, now rolling his shirt sleeves down again. Ah yes.— and there’s no denying it — he 、vas slightly nervous.

Ah, there they came! Lon watched them as they got into the boat. The moonlight exalted the splendor of Lois, s blonde tresses. A gentle breeze rustled them slightly. Her chatting seemed like sweet music to the ears of her lover. He saw Jim put the blindfold over her eyes. The boat left the shore. Under the skillful manipulation of the gardener, the oars scarcely disturbed the sleeping lake. Soon he could see them no more.

He would hear the whistle any minute now. Ah, there it was!

He ran toward the pier with all possible speed. But alas! y something stopped him. He fell. He had a feeling of pain in his head, and then all went black.

When he regained consciousness he saw that he had tripped over a rock and struck his head on a corner of one of the benches, which lined the shore of the lake. Then, for the first time, he remembered his mission for the evening. He looked to the left.

People literally swarmed over the shore of the lake. The tensity and excitement of the moment was unmistakably clear.

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on-lookers, until he reached the center. There she lay — the girl whom he had wished to impress by a heroic rescue. The man, who had been bent over the lifeless form, arose and slowly shook his head. Lon’s eyes bulged, his muscles stiffened, then he lost all control, fell to his knees, and covered her face with kisses. But not even the fervor of his passionate love could bring warmth back to that cold countenance, which had once possessed all the animation of youth : or color back to those pale, cold lips, which had always been of such a rich red.

Then the people began to leave this touching scene, not because of its pathetic nature, but because another lifeless form was being hauled in —that of Jim Handy. He had wanted to be a pal; he had done his part and had hung on the boat. But, when Lon failed to appear, even though he knew nothing about the art of swimming, he attempted to save the struggling panicstricken girl. But the noble attempt failed, and both were caught in the grip of the most horrible of all deaths.

Lon lived in a trance during the three ensuing days. He couldn’t be consoled, for no one knew the actual source of his grief.

The day of the funeral came. Lon was accorded the honorary privilege, as the inhabitants of the village called it, of walking with the chief mourners. He had not even looked at her lying in the coffin. No ! Never ! How could he look at her —now cold, white, quiet and lifeless, who had once been active, colorful and gay — the center hope of his life.

He had endured the service at the house and now sat in the church, which was packed with relatives, neighbors, and friends.

The minister was making1 an exceedingly emotional sermon. It was as if he had said, ‘‘If you have tears, prepare to shed them now,” for the weeping, sobbing, and wailing were indeed plentiful. He spoke of the sunshine which the departed sister had brought to their community, of her steadfast character and Christian activity, and of the many sincere friends she had gained for herself. Finally he began his words of comfort to the mourners. He spoke of the will of God, and of His mys­ terious ways of accomplishing his aims.

At this point, the conscience-stricken Lon could bear it no longer. He stood up and, running his hands through his hair, shouted like a maniac. “The mysterious ways of God ! Bah !

What has God to do with it ? Why should God want her to die ?

I tell you I killed her — do you hear me — I! Not God ! I. Although a good number received this with great satis­ faction, thinking that they were getting more than their money’s worth, one gentleman behind Lon thought it his duty to do something. Lon felt someone tap him on the shoulder; the tapping grew into a slight shaking, and Lon turned as it grew more violent.

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Suddenly the atmosphere seemed greatly changed, and Lon realized that he was not in a church, packed with a mass of weeping creatures, but on a bench by the lake shore beneath a blanket of stars. It was Lois, sitting at his side, who was shaking him. Lon looked at her with indefinable astonishment, as if he could not believe his own eyes. “Lois, — is that 一 is that really — you ?’’ he asked. .

Lois looked at him, puzzled. “Why, Lon, of course, it’s I.” Answered only by his blank stare, she continued. “Do you know it’s almost twelve ? I think we both must have fallen asleep. I was awakened by your shouting. You were shouting something about killing, God, and a lot of other stuff that I didn’t get.M A light of understanding passed over Lon’s hitherto clouded face. He looked at his beloved one. The same adorable creat­ ure, alive and beautiful as ever, she was still sitting at his side.

He looked at her again — this time with all boldness and con­ fidence. She looked at him, openly displaying her sincere love.

This time the glance held. Now the courageous Lon feared nothing; now he was the bold lover of knighthood days. With audacity, always hoped for, but never possessed before by him, he popped the question, not with a ridiculous, stuttered speech about the moon, stars, and sweet scent of roses, but with the simple, age-worn words, '*Darling, will you be mine?” The answer was in her eyes, and was about to be uttered orallybut was smothered when, not slow in reading the answer this time, he pressed his lips passionately to hers. As the old town clock struck the hour of twelve, they entered into an embrace, which would have put Romeo and Juliet to shame, if they could have witnessed it. At the twelfth stroke they were still in the clinch, the stars danced a bit more merrily, and Old Man Moon actually grinned.

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THE QUEST OF THE SIDE-HILL GOUGER ‘‘Waell，now I’ll tell yu，” began Old Windy Peters. Right then and there I began to feel sorry for the out-of-towper.

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Evidently the boasting and bragging of Doctor Crosby had raised his temperature to the point where he was inclined to wax eloquent. Usually his lengthy speaking was confined to the times when he was under the influence of an overdose of applejack, but just at present he was as sober as a judge.

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This particular evening seemed to have the proper setting.

A fair-sized crowd of hometowners had gathered on the steps of the general emporium to exchange idle chatter. The doctor was monopolizing the conversation with a glorified account of his hunting escapade, using the first person to an excessive degree. Windy was calmly rolling a smoke and waiting for an opportune moment to commence his upholding. After survey­ ing the results of his digital dexterity for a minute, he inter­ rupted the doctor’s story.

“I reckon that was a pretty large bear all right and I imagine you had one tough time to get him but he wasn’t as big or wild as another animal what once roamed these parts.”

“What do you mean?” asked Crosby. “Everyone knows that a grizzly bear is the largest and wildest game around here. ” 4'Well, maybe it is now,” went on Windy, ‘‘but years ago, when I was a young buck, there was an animal rambling these mountains what would make a grizzly look like a baby kitten.

Yes sir, and strike me pink if they wasn’t the most peculiar creature this world ever saw. I never seen the likes of anywhere. They were built kind of off balance like. Their right legs were shorter than their left ones, so they could stand perfectly level on the side of a hill. Because of this they could graze up above the timber line in the steep alpine meadows.

They would start out from one spot and eat a path right around the mountain. Sometimes there were so many grooves gouged around the peaks they looked like barber poles. On account of this strange habit, these animals were called side-hill gougers.”

• 一— Windy \ was going strong. Too strong, in fact, for the delicate conscience of the town’s sky pilot. He was about to tell Peters to spread it a little thinner, but the Doc started talking.

Side-hill gougers? Hmm! It’s very peculiar one doesn’t see them anymore.” .

“Oh, they were pretty vicious,” replied Windy. "The government put a big bounty on them and they were killed off in a short time. Still, they were hard animals to get. I heard of a fellow what once took a shot at one and hit him in the jjght foot and in back of the left ear with the same bullet.

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“It happened，’’ answered Peters, “that the gouger was scratching his ear just as the bullet hit him.”

That brought a general snicker from the crowd. The doctor could have kicked himself for being so inquisitive, but not to be outdone he made an attempt to embarrass Old Windy.

“Did you, by chance, ever get one of these so-called side hill gougers?n “Well, I came mighty nigh getting one once. It was years ago when rifles weren’t so good as they are now. I had a single shot breech loader on this occasion. A bunch of us went up to kill some of the gougers which were getting into our sheep.

Somehow or other I got separated from the rest. I was walk­ ing along all alone when my sixth sense kind of told me I wasn’t the only living being present. Sure enough, I was being followed by a gouger and, by cracky, he was the biggest one I ever saw. Well, I let him have it with my one and only bullet and high-tailed it for the open spaces. But it was no use. The old gouger came speeding along behind me. I was about ready to greet St Peter when I spied a cave in the rocks. Quick as a flash I ducked in it, hoping he would pass me by. Gougers couldn’t smell limburger a foot away. I couldn’t fool him tho.

He kept right on coming. I looked about for a means of defense.

Then’s when I made a important discovery. There was another gouger in that cave. Now I was in a tight spot and there wasn’t much I could do. I took out my skinning knife and pre­ pared to fight to the finish.’’

Here Old Windy paused as if to collect his thoughts. We were all willing to let the story ride, but Oosby’s curiosity was aroused. Immediately he asked, “My goodness, how did you ever get out of there?” .

That’s just what Windy was fishing for. He beamingly replied. “I never did. The gougers killed me.”

G. Sydow ’37.

THE CLOISTER THIEF. “If only I can come to that hospice before I freeze to death.

It surely must be unbearable here when a storm sweeps along this cursed pass.” Thus mused a traveler, Godfried Weidenheim by name, as he slowly plodded his way toward St. Bern­ ard^ hospice. Extremely heavy, thick clothing and a heavy knapsack made his walking resemble that of a very fat goose.

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Finally our weary pilgrim arrived at the hospice. Built of heavy stone blocks, it appeared to be a mighty fortress for battling wind and weather. Several hard knocks on the heavy oak door succeeded in gaining an answer from within.

"Who is it that knocks at the door of St. Bernard and what is his* * desire ?M A weary pilgrim who wishes to have shelter from the biting cold.”

Soon the door opened, allowing a gust of warm air to escape.

“In the name of God and all the Saints we give you a hearty welcome. Is the traveler perhaps hungry ? It is not long until supper. In such a cold country the body needs much food to keep it warm. Come, and we will pour you a gflass of Madeira wine. Its warming effects are wonderful. But may I ask who our guest is ?M ‘‘My name is God fried, son of Joachim Weidenheim from Dresden. For years it has been my desire to see the holy city of Rome, and at last I hope my desire shall come to pass.”

Meanwhile he had freed himself from a great part of his clothing and was comfortably seated before a roaring fireplace with a larpre glass of sparkling wine in his hand. Although he was seated, one could judge him to be a man of middle height, but rather broad. The features of his face betrayed his charac­ ter, stern, resolute, forbidding, and even a little distrustful.

With an awkward swing he lifted the glass to his lips and drew several heavy drafts from it. Soon he set the empty goblet on a small table near the fireplace, and addressed the monk.

4'Brother ah — I ask for your pardon, but how may I have the pleasure of addressing you ?’’

“Upon entering- the cloister I was given the name of Brother Antonius and I prefer to be addressed as such,” an­ swered the monk rather humbly. .

"Ah yes ! Brother Antonius. I once had a friend who also entered a cloister and received that name; but he died apout two years ago. By the way. Brother Antonius, could you direct me to the chapel or some other solemn place where I might commune with God ?”

• “Come with me. We have a small chapel especially furnished for strangers and travelers.”

The monk now led him through a long dark hall, at the end of which was a small door, which the monk opened.

“There,” he said; “you may worship and praise God as befits a Christian. You shall not be disturbed.”

Godfried entered, and the monk, closing the door, withdrew to the farther end of the hall.

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the articles on the altar. There were gold and silver candle­ sticks and holders, inlaid with rubies and other precious stones; wristbands, made of pure gold, engraved with unusual designs.

But one thing struck his eye—a beautiful gold ring, set with a large diamond. He took it and examined it more closely.

“A valuable item,” remarked Godfried to himself, “small， yet valuable. It’s worth more than any of those other articles on this altar. I，ll take it. It’s small and will not be missed so soon.

After a short stay in the chapel, Godfried withdrew to the sitting room where he again met the monk.

"Godfried, if it is permitted, the evening meal has been prepared and, if you so desire, you may now fill your empty stomach.” .

“I shall partake of it now. After a hard journey a little nourishment is necessary. ” They now entered a room, set with three long tables, two of which were filled with other strangers, who already had begun eating.

“When you are ready to retire, you may again come to the sitting room and I shall show you to your night’s resting place. ” With these words the monk left our friend.

While seated there and eating, Godfried was joined by several other strangers, none of whom were of any particular interest to him. Godfried had something on his mind and had no time for idle chatter, argument, or whatever his co-travelers were engaged in. ,.

After completing his meal, he went directly to the sitting room. Brother Antonius was already there waiting for him.

The monk always enjoyed a little talk with the travelers, since it kept him acquainted to a certain extent with the outside world. However, before he was given an opportunity to open the conversation, Godfried had addressed him.

“Brother Antonius. I see you have a large number of valuable tokens on your altar. Is it not dangerous to leave them thus exposed to the travelers who come and go, without any intention of showing their face here again ?”

“Yes, in a way it is. But there is only one article which is in danger of being taken. That is a beautiful gold diamond ring, worn at one time by our Dear St. Bernard who founded this hospice here in the year 962. But it has a queer connection with the chapel, the room which originally was occupied by our Saint and in which he breathed his last breath. It was his will that the room should be made into a traveler’s chapel. He gave us that ring, saying that it would never leave the chapelroom ; and even if it should, the offender would die and the ring be returned.” The monk spoke these words with a certain so189

lemnity and with great reverence at the mention of the name of St. Bernard.

“But do you believe that that will happen ? that the man who takes it from the room will die and the ring be returned to the room ?’，，asked God fried with a slight sarcastic note in his voice. **My friend, I do. Once a man attempted its robbery, but he now in consequence of it is in hell. It seemed God sent a snow storm soon after he set out from here especially to kill him. Later our dogs found him, frozen to death, and we got the ring back. Woe to the man who attempts its second removal. ’ ’ Godfried laughed inwardly.

“These superstitious monks !’’ he thought to himself. “Who knows that the man would not have gone to hell if he hadn’t taken the ring ? That gives me a much better chance for taking it. They will not watch the ring very closely, since they think it cannot be taken. I’ll take it in the morning when I go to the chapel before I leave.”

After a short discussion about other affairs，Godfried asked to be shown to his room. He knew what he wanted to know.

However, God fried *s keen interest in the ring had not gone unobserved by the monk. <4Let him try it. He will meet his end.” With these words on hiss lips the monk retired.

The next morning after breakfast Godfried again made his way along the dark hall toward the chapel. ‘‘Those monks are silly, superstitious, and heaven knows 'vhat else，’’ he said with an air of self satisfaction. "A plague take them. But why should that worry me ? If it were not for monks and cloisters I should perhaps be a beggar now. They 一’ are foolish enough to place valuable items where one can readily get them.”

He now was standing in front of the altar. He looked around the room, then listened sharply to find out whether per­ haps someone was coming along the hall. He was alone. He looked on the altar. Where was the ring ? He looked again.

0. yes. there it was behind a large candleholder. He took the ring and looked at it. ..

4'This surely is valuable. They’ll never catch we with it.

What if the monks should perhaps be right ? It’s worth gamb­ ling your life for this ring. If a hundred men had died because taking it before me, the devil himself would not keep me fjxmi taking it. ’’ He said this now, while no danger of death threatened him.

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“Yes, the longer I am on my journey, the greater my de­ sire to see Rome becomes. But I must be going. Farewell.” ‘‘God be with you,” murmured the monk as he closed the door.

Brother Antonins, who suspected the theft of the ring, immediatedly turned his footsteps toward the chapel. And indeed, the ring was missing. Who could be guilty but God fried ? At -first he was inclined to pursue him, but he changed his mind.

“Let God and the Saints punish that infernal cur. Our Saint will not let the ring be absent from this room long. ” As soon as Godfried had stepped out of the hospice, he heaved a sigh of relief. _ “The ring will be of more use to me than it will to St. Bernard or to these monks. What do dead people want with rings anyway ?”

Godfried’s steps were long and fast, much different from those by which he ascended the pass leading up to the hospice.

He wanted to get away from the chapel as far as possible.

In his haste he did not notice that the clouds were gather­ ing along the horizon. Slowly they moved along, coming closer, looking fiercer. After a short time they had covered the entire heavens.

Godfried hastened along, paying no attention to the gather­ ing storm. Only when the clouds began to shower forth white flakes in great number, did he realize into what danger he was advancing.

“Just when everything goes along nicely, this snow must come. Perhaps the monks were in the right. But only the devil could send so much snow.” He was not as certain of his ground as he had been. The path became more and more difficult to discern. Presently it became obliterated altogether.

“Those monks were right,” he muttered, ‘‘It’s all the ring’s fault that this snow storm came. Confound their prayers.

But one thing is sure, I can not go on.” .

He turned about and retraced his steps. However, with every step he took the wind blew harder, the snow became thicker, the storm blew fiercer.

At ‘ ‘I must hurry. My footprints are already filled in. piat moment he gave a cry of despair. He had missed his foot­ ing and slipped several yards.

He clutched the ring in his hand. ‘‘Those cursed monks were right. The ring is charmed.

I must return it before they know that it is missing.”

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“I，m as good as a dead man，’’ he told himself m despair.

“But if I am to go to hell, this ring will go there before me.”

He raised his hand to throw it far from him. But he must have been standing on the very edge of a rock, for the slight move­ ment of his arm unbalanced him and he fell downward into the snow.

On the morning after the storm Brother Antonius set out with several trusty dogs in search of lost travelers. He felt certain that he would find at least one corpse. But the first time the dogs dug, they found only an elderly man, still breathing, whom they immediatedly transported to the hospice. Several others were uncovered, some of whom survived, the majority of whom, however, had already given up the spirit.

Finally after the dogs had dug deep into the snow on a dangerous ledge several yards below the path, the monk found him for whom he was searching.

“Poor deluded sinner,” murmured the monk, as he searched the pockets of the dead man, confident that the ring was some­ where on his body. The search proved vain, however. In great perturbation Brother Antonius had the corpse carried to the hospice. Was the man really innocent ? Would the ring actually remain lost ? # While these thoughts occupied his mind, they arrived at the hospice. Once more Antonius looked at the corpse before him.

Suddenly he bent down. There, clenched tightly in the stiffened fingers, was a bit of shining metal. St. Bernard had reclaimed his ring.

Armin Schuetze.

SIBERIA AND THE RUSSIAN EXILE SYSTEM The word “Siberia” has deeply impressed itself upon the popular imagination. For the people of Russia it is associated with some of the saddest aspects of their national life. For the world in general, especially for literature, it has become a synonym for the suppression of free thought, and for the punish­ ment not only of political but also of religious ideas. The whole of the United States and all of the non-Russian Countries of Europe could be placed into this vast area called Siberia. The northern part is very cold and barren. The southern section is fertile, and is rich in natural resources.

Exile to parts of Siberia for the purpose of colonizing is mentioned as early as 1580. An account of the banishment of 7400 persons in 1622 is handed down to us. No definite infor­ mation is given until the eighteenth century. There were 14,000 persons sent to Siberia in 1709, most of them being war prison192

ers of Peter the Great. Most of these 14,000 died before reach­ ing their destination. The hardships which these prisoners had to endure is beyond all imagination. The journey had to be made by walking. Food was scarce and could be gotten only through begging.

The silver mines were opened in the eighteenth century and created a new demand for laborers. Prisoners were sent there from Russia by the tens of thousands. One of the worst examples of human cruelty was the treatment of these prisoners. There was no distinction made as to the nature of the crime. All had to serve the same sentence. Men, women, and children were lying along the road dying or already dead. .

Wives had the privilege of following their husbands into exile.

If they did they were also treated as prisoners.

The first efforts to improve this system were made in the reign of Elizabeth, 1754. Paul I (1796-1801) set aside a large sum of money to establish settlements. Even though conditions were improved very much, the system was stil上inhuman. Carts These carts were were introduced to transport the prisoners.― built like our box cars without windows. The doors were not allowed to be opened after they had once been closed. They were so crowded in these cars that while sleeping one slept on top of the other. There was no opening to dispose of refuse. It is said, that these caravans could be smelled several miles away.

The system at the present time distinguishes between four classes. The first are the "hard labor convicts”，those punished for grave crimes. They are not only banished for life, but lose all civil rights. The second class includes those who are being punished for lesser crimes. They are known as "penal colonists”. The third class is made up of those who are exiled but do not lose their civil rights. The fourth class is made up of women and children who follow some of their relatives into exile. The convicts of the first two classes go to Siberia in chains, with one side of their head shaved. They remain there for life. Those in the third class are not put into chains and may to return to European Russia after serving their term.

Many of the persons exiled are not banished by court procedure but by command of the Minister of Interior. This method is known as the “administration process”.

Every person exiled must pass through a forwarding station, from where he is taken to his place of exile. The forwarding prisons are always in filthy condition. They are so crowded that as many as 3000 prisoners are kept in a place built for only 1400. People who have visited these places say that conditions are frightful! One man writes, “tlie rooms were literally packed with hundreds of weary-eyed men, haggard women, and wailing children, sitting or lying in all conceivable attitudes upon two long lines of rough planks for sleeping benches, form193

ing a chaos of disorder and misery in which, amid an insuffer­ able fetidness, hundreds of human beings, packed so closely to­ gether that they could not move without touching one another, were trying to exist and perform the necessary duties of life.”

Along the road, taken by the prisoners, are houses located twenty miles apart. These houses are used as resting places.

They have hospitals at these stations in which there is no dis­ tinction made of sex, age, or disease. The medical attention is very poor and the death rate is very high.

Although conditions have been improved very much, this exile system is a practice that no nation can be proud of, not even Russia.

L. Koenig, ’37.

LUCKY BOY The Coast Limited was drawing out of St. Paul. It was about ten o’clock in the evening. John had been in the smok­ ing compartment while the porter was making up the berths.

Now as he came down the aisle, he noticed the porter helping a pretty young lady into the upper berth. When the porter came to him, John asked him if he enjoyed his job. The colored gentlemen was always ready for jokes. He whispered, ‘‘Boy, you oughter git acquainted wif her. Boy, dat gal sho has de cash. um-mmph!M “You don’t mean it?” “I sho does, boy.

But look out fo’ her aunts. Dey is some pow^ul mean babies Chuckling to himself he pulled the curtains together for John and walked away. It took long though before John could fall asleep.

The next day he waited for a chance to become acquainted with this girl. But every small opportunity was choked by the \varning he had received from the colored boy. He read the time-table over and over till dinner. Then he left for the diner.

He chose a table at the farthest end. He looked long at the menu. He looked up. She was at the next table facing him, but an aunt was also facing him. The girl smiled. He smiled but sobered quickly. The aunt gave him a haughty reproach­ ful glance. Someone nudged him. It was the portor, “Sorj, what you all want to eat?” John ordered his meal. He ate it slowly; toyed with it. Now and then he would look up only to be met by the glance of the aunt.

They left first He remained there for several minutes and then went to his compartment again. The aunts took her to the observation car. John would have followed her, but he felt out of place among all those dudes in there with their fat cigars.

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The conductor poked his head into the room, “Next stop, Mandan. Ten minute stop.’’ He added the latter for those who might care to stretch their bones and get some fresh air.

John got up and availed himself of the opportunity. The old gentleman preferred to stay in and smoke his ancient but power­ ful corncob. John went into the station after looking about for a moment or two. He saw her sitting at the refreshment stand, alone! Some one at his side also saw her, ‘‘Boy, you sho am lucky. Um-mmph!”

W. Zickuhr ^7.

A DEPRESSION CASE IN FOUR SCENES 1928 Mr. Reil sat in a soft, cozy armchair admiring the wonder­ ful household furnishings he had bought. They were of the most expensive type. On the floor were soft, thick, beautifully designed rugs. Each armchair had its floor lamp, one surpass­ ing the other in beauty. From the ceilings hung splendid chandeliers. The walls were decorated with fine tapestry and attractive pictures. Mr. Reil had supplied his wife with every­ thing that would be of use to her and would make work easier for her. The house was built according to his own plans and was as convenient as possible. It was one of the most beauti­ ful and best arranged homes in the city. Mr. Reil had a sub­ stantial income, but everything he had was bought on the installment plan, and at this time there was a five thousand dollar mortgage on his property. This, however, did not seem to trouble Mr. Reil, who sat comfortably in his chair smoking* a cigar. With the income he was receiving he could easily have met all his obligations within five years and could have bought a new car or two besides.

This was the financial status of Mr. Reil. He had nothing to worry about, everything seemed to be at its best and his debts were gradually being paid. No one would have thought that Mr. Reil lacked moral stamina or that he would ever be anything but honest and respectable. His creditors as well as his friends trusted him. He moved into better circles. It was the time of prosperity, abundance, and lack of foresight.

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1931 Two years elapsed. Mr. Reil had just come home from work and was disgustedly walking from one end of the room to the other. His wife, seeing- him, asked if anything- troubled him or if he had not received his pay that day. **We are up against it,M he said angrily. 4'When the boss gave me my check, he said that I needn’t come again because the firm was going to employ half its regular force, and that I was one of the men whom it would discharge.” "Is it true?” asked his wife suddenly. ‘‘What will we do about our monthly payments?

All we paid the last half year was the interest on our house.

What will we do now with no income at all?” “Yes, it is true,” said Mr. Reil. “I thought I could get work at some other place, but as I hear, there are men being put out of work all over the city. It’s a rotten deal. That’s what it is. The rich have everything, the poor have nothin釔.And the government is a bunch of grafters working with the rich fellows/* That was their conversation. Mr. Reil still had many debts on his property. Now he had no income and was unable to gret any work. He was soon to lose his beautiful furniture, his comfortable house, and everything else he had bought. How would he stand up under the strain which was already bearing down ever more heavily within the next years?

1932 On a cold winter day, a year later, we find Mr. Reil seated in an old wooden rocker near an old oil-heater. Of course it is not in the same house in which we saw him before but in an old flat. Mr. Reil had just come home with the groceries given him by the city and was warming himself.

“I don’t understand why the city can’t do more for me,” said Mr. Reil angrily. “What they give us is hardly enough for a week, although it should be enough for two weeks. If I wouldn’t get any money gambling and helping to deliver ‘alki’， we would surely starve. ‘ ‘You’re going to stop your gambling，’’ said his wife insistently, “and I want you to keep away from that whiskey business.” “Well, we are as far gone as we can be,” snapped Mr. Reil. ‘‘Nothing worse can happen to us any­ more and no one will take my last pleasure from me, if I have anything to say about it.”

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1933 **Robber Shot While Trying To Escape” was the headline in the newspaper a year later. In was indeed our Mr. Reil.

He had not listened to his wife’s warnings. He had kept up his gambling and had gone so deep into the ‘alki，game that it was hard for him to quit. He became a gangster. Two months before the above featured article had come into print, he had left the city with three of his friends, telling his wife that he was going to some other city to look for work. His wife did not hear anything from him till the day of the robbery. Mr. Reil and his three friends had returned to the city that day and had decided to rob a bank. Bank-robbing had come to be pre­ carious business in 1933，what with corps of vigilantes and stricter police protection. While their daring holdup was still in progress, the police were notified. As Mr. Reil and two of the men were running to the car with the money they_ had taken一while the fourth man was in the car—the police arrived.

The police ordered them to halt and when they refused, opened fire on the fleeing man. Mr. Reil was immediately taken to the hospital. His wife was quickly brought there because the gangster was very seriously wounded. When he saw his wife, he realized what he had done. But it was too late to start over.

The bullet had punctured his lung, and the doctors had lost all hope for his recovery. He died the next day.

Eldor Toepel *37.

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THE ADVANTAGE OF SECTION PRACTICE Twice a week our band meets, each time for a rehearsal of fifty minutes duration. After sufficient members have arrived, the rehearsal begins. Both marches and overtures are drilled.

Some members manage to play their parts well, and others not.

Now let us be absolutely impartial and remove all the truly competent players and have the same rehearsal with the re­ maining number. We all must admit that would be some re­ hearsal. Unless the director were a man having a super control of his nerves, he would give up in despair. After some serious thought, the director would say to himself, 4 There is something radically wrong. Something must be done about this. No wonder that the band was not able to do what I expected from it.”

What could be the cause of a condition like the above men­ tioned ? All the members of the band were required to pass an examination. Hence, they must be good players. True, they passed their examination. But how can the membership com­ mittee determine whether this or that player practised only for his examination ? He may have done well and then have been accepted as a member on the merits of his examination. Once a member of the band, he might not see the necessity of home 198

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That is sufficient.”

That this is not the attitude of every member can be seen from the fact that the band has a number of finished players.

But why not have a 100% band ? Surely there is not a member who does not wish to be a good player. Only the ambition is lacking. Perhaps a little urging will bring results. But it is a physical impossibility for the director to see that all band members practice at home. What then can be done ? We might suggest that the introduction of section practice would bring about the desired results. With this system the leader of each section knows exactly what the individual can do. He knows his faults and weaknesses and will try his best to find the reme­ dy. The individual, on the other hand, will feel his responsi­ bility and will make an earnest effort to improve. And if the leader of the section is conscientious, he will drill until every member knows his part. Then with the finished product of section practice the band director can with full confidence devote the two rehearsals of the week to the interpretation of the music.

• The result must be a favorable one.

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Herman Pape, ’30, is a regular member of the staff of the Inter-county Leader, printed in Centuria, Polk County, Wisconsin.

We wish to correct an error that occurred in this column last month. John Radloff is teaching at Iron Mountain, Mich., not Iron River. He is teaching Latin, Ancient History (includ­ ing Roman), and two English courses.

Fred Roehl, ex-’32, was in town November 26.

David Teske, ex-’35, spent the week-end of Thanksgiving in Watertown. Mr. Teske is a Junior at the River Falls State Teachers College where he is assistant editor of “Student Voice.” River Falls is 25 miles southeast of St. Paul.

Rev. Adolph Fisher, ’26, of Freeland, Mich., was called to town by the death of his father-in-law recently.

The report we heard concerning the wedding of Rev. A. Maaske has been verified. He was married to Miss Lydia Thiel, on October 22. The ceremony took place in Chicago.

Herbert von Haden, ’29, has been nominated for member­ ship to the Fraternity of National Education, an honorary society for exceptional work in education.

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To fill the resultant vacancy Rev. M. A. Braun was called. He was installed by Rev. L. H. Koeninger, *13.

R. Fredericks, ex-’39, now a student at Tomah High School, visited N. W. C. December 3.

Rev. Marcus Fleischer，’30，was installed at Red Granite on the 19th of November. Rev. E. G. Behm performed the ceremony, the Reverends F. C. Weyland, F. Schroeder and L. Bleichwehl assisting.

Rev. Louis Bleichwehl，’30, paid Northwestern a brief visit the Sunday and Monday after Thanksgiving.

Rev. Paap, of Johnson’s Creek, celebrated his silver wed­ ding anniversary November 19.

Rev. G. Redlin, ’28, was here December 5.

Rev. Mohnardt, father of P. J. Mohnardt，’10，celebrated his 50th anniversary recently.

Henry Pussehl, ’29, was ordained Nov. 19. and installed as assistant pastor at Enterprise and Monico, Wis. Edwyn E. Pfister appeared as a soloist on a program here in Watertown recently. Mr. Pfister is a featured artist over WTMJ. Since winning the Atwater-Kent audition some time ago, his fame has spread rapidly.

Henry Meyer, ’32, was pall-bearer at the funeral of Elmer Dietrich here December 2.

Robt. Fuge, ex-’37, was in town recently.

Among those present at the Concordia game, Dec. 2. were: The Reverends M. Raasch，’03; L. Kirst, ’03; O. Koch, 09; also, K. Bretzmann，’26; E. Krueger, *31; H. Nommensen, *33; W. Thierfelder, ex-’35; W. Dierker and W. Grosnick, ex-’36; and D. Hotlen ex-’37.

We have seventeen reports that Herbert Resting and Buch were here last week-end.

Vic. Siegler, ex-’25, was married November 15.

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"----- Why not begin to eliminate those courses dealing with factual knowledge and special subjects and give the student instruction instead in the classics and in the recognized leaders in all things since antiquity? Only in this way can one acquire that broadening culture which will enable one to attack all problems with equal ease. It isn’t the amount of technical knowledge, after all, that you possess that will get you places; it’s how you apply yourself to the varying- conditions of life.M . That Wisconsin acknowledges the deficiencies of a special­ ized education is shown by its experiments in new methods of education under Meikeljohn. A new experiment was started tjjis yeai\ I have as yet received no data concerning it, except that it confines itself to the liberal arts. I hope to be able to give further particulars of this experiment in this column soon.

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It follows therefore that such an educational system, such a philosophy will not suffice a nation in which six million people are idle. He brings as further proof of his contention the auto-de-fe of May 10, in which the German student expressed his dissatisfaction with the education he was receiving at the universities by burning the books of many of the authors whom he considered not kosher. As it were, he burned the authors in effigy.

The Princetonian suggests that the curriculum at Princeton lacks a scientific study of the Bible, which is necessary both to help the student to a sound and orderly religious basis and as literature.

The greatest indictment of modern education, of specialized education that has come to my attention came from a traveling salesman who had picked _ me up from the roadside. He had taken a degree in commerce at Wisconsin. He stated in all simplicity and truth: “The most beneficial course that I took at the University was my course in military training, the R. O. T. C.” It’s rumored at Madison that half of the Freshman class will have developed sore eyes by the end of the semester. They say that the Freshmen are the most promising football players to matriculate at Wisconsin for a long time, and at the same time they are the most obtuse scholastically.

The Wart burg Clarion prints an editorial on the answers to a questionnaire concerning Dr, Goodspeed?s revised and con­ densed Bible. The article is interesting in comparison with an article which appears in the Daily Maroon, University of Chicago (I. D.). At Wartburg sixty percent of the students who reported on the new edition agreed that the transposition of the books was its most alarming feature. It was pointed out that this would confuse the reader in his chronological study of the events of the Old Testament. Fewer of the students were 205

himself to alarmed that an uninspired man should take upon _ determine which part of God’s Word is still worthy of our modern, highly-enlightened attention and which parts have been outgrown. Wartburg expresses its attitude towards the new edition in the following words: “The modern Bible for Goodspeed but the Holy Bible for us.” On the other hand the Daily Alaroon says: “We are enthusiastic about the ‘Short The article is occasioned by Arthur Brisbane’s dis­ approval of the new addition. Mr. Brisbane says: ‘‘The best thing to do with any ancient monument is to leave it alone.

You spoil it when you try to improve it. No wise man would try to restore arms to the Venus of Milo or repair the Winged Victory.” The writer of the editorial maintains that the King James version of the Bible is not the ancient monument because it is not the original; therefore Dr. Goodspeed is perfectly justi­ fied in his attempt to edit a more exact edition of the Bible in the light of modern research. ‘‘Dr. Goodspeed has not tried to improve an ancient monument; he has, by translation and arrangement, merely represented an ancient monument more accurately.” As an instance of improvement the translation of anathema maranatha from First Corinthians is cited.

The King James version interprets this as curse. Dr. Goodspeed translates this as an expression of jubilation, an announce­ ment that the Lord is coming. The editorial says nothing of the condensing of the Bible. We can understand why Dr. Goodspeed should attempt to give a more accurate translation of the Bible, but why must he take it upon himself to condense the Bible? We certainly cannot excuse that with “in the light of modern research.J 7 o .

Since this is the Freshman number (forgive me for saying it) I am taking it upon myself to give you Freshmen some of the wisdom I as a Senior have presumably gathered in my so­ journ at Northwestern. You have almost four years of college life remaining. Regardless of what studies you fail to do pro­ perly, you cannot afford to fail to do foolish things. Remember, of foolishness must be sufficient for a long these next four years ^ lifetime. Go out and lose your dignity now. Cheer hard. Be collegiate in the worst sense of the word. Regardless of what our local Menck-Intyre may say, go out on the campus and act like high school kids. If you don’t you’ll envy them for the fun they seem to be having. Let this be my paternal blessing to you: God save you from ever losing your ability and ambition to do foolish things.

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Northwestern’s 1933—34 basketball season was officially opened in the game against Concordia, Milwaukee, December 2.

Though the Black and Red dropped the game to the Milwaukee quintet, it was a thrilling, fast, and scrappy encounter, an ex­ hibition of unusually good ball handling for a season-opener.

The late minutes of play were tight enough to rouse even the most sedate spectators. With Concordia leading- late in the second half, 26—16, the Northwestern cagers staged a sensa­ tional spurt that was only prevented from giving matters a different turn by the final gun.

Play opened slowly, both teams battling on rather even terms. Led by Kruschke and Eggold, Concordia took the lead and gradually ran up a margin. The passing and floor work of both teams was pretty much on a par, but the Concordians had the edge over Northwestern in connecting with the hoop. The score midway, 18—10, was in favor of Concordia. In the second half the Black and Red fought to reduce (Concordia’s lead, but the invaders were able to hold their advantage. The Concor­ dians were quite confident of victory until Northwestern put on the scoring spree that cut down the difference to a deciding point. The game was rough and tumble at many points 一 12 fouls being called on Northwestern, 14 on Concordia. Schewe, Northwestern guard, and Eggold, Concordia center, left the game on four personals.

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December 7, a fast, rangy Beloit college five scored an easy 53—23 victory over an outclassed Northwestern team on the Beloit hardwoods. Their superior height gave the Beloit c agers an advantage that the Black and Red could not hope to o Scoring on shots from midfloor and from all angles and po sitions, Beloit grabbed the lead in the opening minutes of play and was at no time threatened by the Black and Red. .The absence of co-captain Zimpelmann from the starting lineup greatly weakened the Northwestern attack.^ Koehler set the pace for the Northwestern scorers, leading with 10 points.

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The athletic board awarded emblems to the following1 of the 1933 football squad: Schewe, Raabe, R. Siegler, Hotlen, 0.

Lemke, and manager Nicolaus, seniors; Captain Reuschel, Schroeder, Witt, and H. Fredricks, juniors ; Schwartz, Tietz, and Mielke, sophomores; Craine, Thierfelder, Sydow, and Stewart, freshmen.

Inter-class Basketball.

Juiors 17, Seniors 4 Freshmen 15, Sophomores 10 Seniors 17,,'Sophomores 10 Juniors 15, Freshmen 14 Sophomores 22, Juniors 39 Seniors 22, Freshmenn 10

The Freshman Class, approaching i(s class number with the proper attitude, assumed the responsibility for what appears in the Locals and Joke Columns. The name of the Freshman editor of this months Locals will not be revealed by us. His earnest opinion is that the Black and Red stands aloof, and this column is his attempt at presenting his ideal in a concrete way..

They did not ask the editor for his contributions, think perhaps that he, as usual, knew none. But he wishes to down, merely as a matter of record, that the Black and Redâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s niost faithful advertiser, whose advertisements have appeared in the Black and Red for the thirty-seven years of its existence, has decided to discontinue his advertising. It has a sentimental as well as a pecuniary aspect.

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I处—峨卫成] cember 3 for the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the church buildings. The pastor is Rev. Treu.

Eugene Toepel and 0. Siegler again enjoyed the hospitality of relatives on Thanksgiving Day. Sydow wore a coat to classes on November 29. Miracles still happen !

The Freshman English class is going have a debate. It’s about time use was made of the informal training received in class meetings.

T. Sauer and N. Luetke were at Sauer’s relatives for their Thanksgiving feast.

G. Cares visited his brother, Rev. H. W. Cares, over our recent vacation.

Eldor Toepel, Lester Heller, and Dick Loga now go back to the farm for their Sunday dinners.

Until recently the Freshman history class had pictures every Tuesday afternoon. Many recovered much needed sleep in this period.

Tanny Lietke and Tate Sauer had a grapefruit fight about midnight one night. ‘Primo’ Siegler enjoyed it until nice, juicy pieces began coming1 his way.

Up to this time the Freshman class has followed England’s example, but it seems a constitution is somewhere in the offing.

Both Stewart and M. Lemke now have motorcycles. They quite succesfully compete with the traditional boiler factory.

Sydow ran into the Latin class on December 5.

The Greek class seems to find difficulty in passing page 103.

Reinke can hardly walk. Some of his friends were so kind as to let a bench fall on his foot.

Holtz, Lederer, Mvren, and Heller recently were at a bridge party in town. Bob Holtz maintains that he was not in nights more than one week in November. You’re getting along fine, Bob! Mittelstaedt has finally freed himself from tobacco’s dominion.

The Junior class has not yet fully recovered from the near defeat at the hands of the Frosh team.

The Sophomore table takes turns at receiving rebukes from the tutors. At the beginning of the year the Freshman table shared this privilege, but has now relinquished it to the Sopho­ mores.

• Ziegie’s popular song is, “Ooooo—oh, Ooooo—oh, Tm a night owl. I get up as soon as the sun goes down.”

Tutor Kremer and his wife now live in the Infirmary, We hope it is warmer there than in the dormitory.

Bradtke, Roekle, and Hoyer take turns receiving telephone calls. The reason ? You know as well as we do.

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The Barracks are not to be used during the winter. It is hoped enough fuel will be saved to do away with the necessity of a longer Christmas vacation.

The Fond duLac gang- Sommers, Wicke, and Hoepner 一 went there on November 23 for the reunion services of all con­ firmation classes since 1915. Tutor Kleinke drove them down.

Sager had four locals this time. He’ll get there yet!

Rooms 30 and 46 have missing pitchers. It is not be doubt­ ed that the inmates would take pleasure in their return.

So far no casualties have resulted when cakes or buns were put out on a tray, but minor injuries—sore toes — have^ re­ sulted. The Thundering Herd would be a most appropriate title.

Sager hasn’t fixed the billiard cues for a week.

Huds Fredericks will soon be out for basketball.

Concordia brought a big crowd up sgain. As usual, they did much cheering. This year none of them had the pleasure of receiving a bath while walking past the dormitory.

Many in our midst have become afflicted with poison sumac.

G. Bradtke will tell you all about the methods to get rid of it.

A great number of students do not j?et up until seven thirty or eight o’clock. It seems that forbidden fruit is still the sweetest.

Because of failing eyesight Arnold Myren has been com­ pelled to discontinue his studies.

Adalbert Geiger is recuperating at his home after having undergone an operation for a double rupture on December 5.

This is the Freshman number. All you Sophomores, Juniors (?), and Seniors will have to step down from your place of honor, no matter what it does to your pride. This issue belongs entirely to the Freshmen; and this column to the Freshmen girls, or might we say Freshwomen ? Here, boy, page Mr. Wooley. Be that as it may, I have now the privilege of introducing to you that bevy of artists, musicians, actresses, and great personalities of the coming years.

The fame of Evelyn Conklin’s prowess as a * trumpeter1 * jiad preceded her here, and her arrival was awaited with much interest. As soon as Evelyn made her appearance, she was pounced upon by at least a half dozen musical organizations, and thus far she has very ably fulfilled expectations in this and all other respects.

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a canary in the Girl’s Room. Nay, nay—be not deceived—it was Marion, and she can “pfeiff.”

Helen Winkenwerder — our most ‘‘studyingest” student.

If in doubt ask Helen, she’ll be sure to help you out. Ah, but here’s the surprise—combined with her great liking for Greek, Latin, German and English she has an inexplicable liking for popular songs. At present her favorite is “Paper Moon,” per­ haps influenced by our left-over Halloween decorations.

Anita Weihert—a girl who is interesting even when she is struggling with Greek vocables. A very friendly little miss— she would be our candidate in a Personality Contest. And another thing—she goes to gym, a virtue which no other Fresh­ man coed possesses.

We have in our midst a future librarian, Evelyn Schroeder, She also has a great liking for Greek, which is so rare among coeds and students in general.

Beyond a doubt Margaret Lutovsky is the most studious of all the Freshmen. While the rest sit around and discuss a “movie” they have seen, or the latest popular song, Margaret is busy with her Math. Oh for such studiousness! It would be a quieter Girls Room if we would all be a little more so inclined.

Eva Taras is another studious Coed who loves her Math.

Of course we remember her from last year, so not much more need be said.

Questions asked by Freshmen, which even our most erudite upperclassmen have not been able to answer: Why do students (male) who are otherwise well dressed, insist on wearing slippers which look like something our grand­ fathers used to wear?

• Why aren’t all the rooms kept at the same temperature?

Why don’t we have a longer Christmas vacation?

Why do those girls who 3on’t intend to take part in the gym class or attend any of the games have to pay their athletic fees?

Who really has the key for the sun dial?

When is Arbor Day? ， The usual flurry of excitement attended the drawing of lots to determine to which Literary Society the new coeds were to belong. After a great deal of preliminary talk and speculation matters were adjusted to the satisfaction of everyone.

• Attention, professors! Someone gave Anita Weihert a kiss class! ! What scandal—what unheard of goings on! But don’t be unduly alarmed—although it was very sweet it was only candy.

Much nibbling of pencils and wrinkling of brows is just another indication that the Freshmen are writing their annual letters to Santa Claus. Which reminds us一we, the coeds of Northwestern College, wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

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Soph, (to Frosh leading donkey): Why are you holding on to your classmates so tight?

Frosh: So he won’t join the Sophomore class.

Teacher: Parse the sentence, “Bob married Anne.”

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Math. Prof, (explaining problem): Now watch this board carefully, students, and I will go thru it again for you.

Schewe (seeking free advice): What would I do for a sprained ankle ?

Doctor : Limp.

“Did you get that second question in the history exam ?”

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“How far were you from the right answer T} “About five seats.”

Prof.: How was iron discovered ?

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First they throw water on him. Then they throw rice on him.

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January 1934

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

LITERARY— Plagiarism

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Romanticism In Music.

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Zazu.

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Our Little World.

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EDITORIALS—

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Lest We Forget.

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A Suggestion...

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SEMINARY NOTES ALUMNI NOTES....

EXCHANGE_____ ATHLETICS...........

LOCALS CO-ED NOTES......................

CAMPUS AND CLASSROOM

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THE BLACK AND RED Volume XXXVI1.

Watertown, Wis., Jan. 1934

March 3. 1879. Publislu d monthly. Si

Number 8

second class matter under Act of is” ription. One Dollar.

PLAGIARISM These are not mine I saw them written in the sky, I heard them sung As happy little winds went by.

I have them from _ The whisperings of cool green lips, I copied them From nature’s sundry manuscripts.

ROMANTICISM IN MUSIC “Out of the skies of poetry the spirit of Romanticism descended upon music at the beginningof the nineteenth centu­ ry. ..The secret wonders of the night, the conquering advent of spring, the grandeur of the mountain and sea, found expres­ sion in tones. And as this could be done by implication only, by a suggestion of mood rather than by pictorial preciseness, that quality of the human mind known as imagination became paramount with the composer.”

Judging from this quotation of Carl Engel, one would con215

elude that as sharp a line can be drawn to separate the Classical and Romantic schools of music as is possible in Literature. This is true to a certain extent, but one’s conclusion depends very much upon the point of view taken. To one living in the present day, such a sharp distinction cannot readily be dis­ cerned. The term Classical suggests a composition which has stood the test of time,—one which lives because of generally recognized merit. The audience living at the beginning of the nineteenth century was better able to observe differences be­ tween composers who wrote at this time and those of a few years before.

• At this time Classicism in music meant strict conformity to rule and convention, in order to obtain perfection of form. The composer expressed his deep inner feeling in broad themes, striving to maintain a balance throughout the work. He studi­ ously avoided any expression which might stand out sharply and destroy the proportion. This studied striving toward per­ fect form tended to the composer’s taking an impersonal atti­ tude toward his work. His method became like that of an ar­ chitect, whose chief aim is proportion.

The romantic composers sacrificed this perfection of form to freedom of expression, that they might give free rein to their imagination and emotions. Their subjects were in themselves romantic, and they treated them in such a manner as to stir the emotions of the hearer and instill a vivid thought or vision in the mind. “Romanticism 'vas”，in the words of Mason, 4 'sub­ jectivity and individualism, ... shifting the emphasis from ab­ stract beauty • • • to personal communication, to minute interest in detail,…and, in extreme cases, to concrete objects, persons, and scenes.’’

I do not wish to imply that the above are precise definitions of the terms Classicism and Romanticism. They are true in the case of Bach, whose “preludes and fugues of the Welltempered Clavichord are monuments of abstract beauty”， and in the case of Robert Schumann, the composer of the Fanta­ sies tiicke, who “penetrated farthest into the unexplorable realms that border on the confines of madness.” In most cases, how­ ever, there is confusion. Some of the chief so-called Classicists are romantic in subject, while some romantic composers hold fast to rules regarding form. Choice of examples depends al­ most entirely upon the attitude of the critic.

The Romanticists are divided into two schools of music, the German and the French. Carl Maria von Weber was the first important figure in the former. His subject 免 were taken from romantic literature, in which he was …deeply interested ; not in one of his compositions did he fail to be romantic. Other out­ standing. men of this school were Schubert, Schumann, and Brahms in Germany, Tchaikovsky in Russia, and Grieg in Nor216

way. ___ The chief characteristic of this school was the fact that its composers expressed in music the emotions aroused in them by external objects. They demanded a strong imagination and deep emotional qualities on the part of anyone who would fully understand their works.

The French school, however, was more realistic. They portrayed not the effects produced upon them by external ob­ jects, but imitated the external objects themselves. Being French, they were inclined to be dramatic. Berljoz’s sympho­ nies are in reality operas, with characters and their lines left to the imagination. Franz Liszt, although Hungarian by birth, almost always wrote with the stage in view. His Germanic blood, however, did crop up, for he more often treated of inner feelings than did Berlioz. His brilliant, dramatic compositions, intended to show off his ability as piano virtuoso, were no doubt a result of his umivaled career as concert pianist. To distinguish this type of music from the truly romantic, it has received the name Program-music, and stands on a much lower level than does the music of the German school.

The following incident, to which Mason, the American pianist, was an eye-witness, may serve to illustrate the differ­ ence in nature between the romantic composers and those of Program-music. When Brahms was quite young, he went to Weimar to show some of his compositions to Liszt. Brahms seems to have been too nervous to play himself, so Liszt took his place at the piano. Mason says : “Taking the first piece at hand from the heap of manuscripts, he performed the scherzo in such a marvelous way, carrying on at the same time a run­ ning- accompaniment of audible criticism of the music, that Brahms was both surprised and delighted. A little later some­ one asked Liszt to play his own sonata, a work which was quite recent at that time, and of which he \yas very fond. Without hesitation he sat down and began playing. As he progressed, he came to a very expressive part, which he always imbued with extreme pathos, and in which he looked for the special in­ terest and sympathy of his listeners. Glancing at Brahms, he found that the latter was dozing： in his chair.”

Our debt to Romanticism in music lies in the fact that niusic was prevented from becoming the product of cold reason­ ing-, from becoming- dry and stilted, and from resembling a science rather than an art.

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ZAZU Poor Zazu finally had a chance to leave the hated insane asylum, where she had been kept for such a long, long time.

Once, many years ago, certain people thought that it wasn’t ladylike for her to play with dolls and doll-carriages in the 217

<xn?t pre sence of guests; so they notified the proper authorities to tak e care of her. She still couldn’t figure out why she wasn’t allowed to kiss her rag dolls, if she cared to, just like her neighbor lady used to kiss her little daughter. In fact, that's all she ever saw mothers do. She would see them washing their babies, dressing them, fondling them, and even going through queer motions all day long just to keep them from cry­ ing. And when she had tried the very same things people began to protest violently. ..

Then one day certain men in bright uniforms came to visit her in a big, white ambulance and tried to force her from home and relatives. They told her that she was in need of a long, long rest in a hospital or some such place, because the strain of caring for her babies was too great. They told her too that the doctors in the “hospital” saw her plight and got enough people interested to get her a passport for that place where she could find the proper care. ...

For many years she had been in that big hospital, into which she had been lured by promises of peace and rest for herself and her babies—vain promises these all had been! In­ stead of a chamber, that would itself spell comfort, she had been confined to a large bare room, in which the blank walls and barred windows seemed to mock at her misery. After every entrance and departure of an attendant, the door to her .cham­ ber was carefully locked. Everybody feared that something terrible would happen, if she should be allowed to leave her room. She didn’t anything wrong that she could think of.

At least she tried very hard to become a good, honest woman.

To give Zazu her chance for escape, some kind nurse had failed, to lock the door to her room, after having visited her.

Zazu immediately blanketed two of the dearest rag-dolls, who were her only twins, tucked them within the fold of her arms, and walked out through the doorway down the long hall. Luck­ ily there yasn’t a person in sight. When she came to the exit of the building she gently slipped out into the open.

Zazu was never so strong in all her life. The air outside was refreshing and reminded her of springtime and flowers.

The wind was blowing gently but steadily against her face. It was so nice to be free again, free to do what she pleased, no matter what she had in mind, when, how, and why. The twins were just as enthusiastic at the thought of escape as she was.

They could go back home, where they would grow up into healthy young ladies and finally marry some rich upstarts. The doctors were so cruel to them that they forgot to grow. They stayed the same little babies that they had been when born.

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and start growing. Merrily she hopped, skipped, and jumped down the avenue, fiercer in aspect than Meg Merrilies, and quicker in legs and louder in voice than Madge Wildfire. She soon left the asylum behind her.

After about five minutes of such sportive movements, Zazu passed the homes of some of those talkative snobs who had called the doctors to take her away. To her bewilderment two of the most hated, Mrs. Pennyfeather and Mrs. Goldenberg, were just entering upon their walks with their perambu­ lators. Yes, many things had happened while she had been in the hospital. For instance, those very ladies, who protested because she played with dolls, were now themselves wheeling baby-carriages around the city blocks.

When Zazu approached them, she took a good look at their babies. Oh, but were they homely! One of them just then began to cry like a mamma-doll. Her twins never did that; they always had smiles on their lips. Now was her chance to revenge herself on Mrs. Pennyfeather and Mrs. Golden berg.

She would put them to shame merely by making a comparison between their babies and her Helen and Kate.

Zazu was so much affected by the thought of revenge that she forced a loud laugh, upon which her twins flew back and forth in her arms like popping corn over an open flame. She quickly took the offensive. Approaching Mrs. Pennyfeather, she barred the entrance into the yard and confronted her with a silly smile. “How are you, Mrs. Perjnyfeather? Isn’t this a lovely day to go strolling? Yes, my babies are so glad to get back home after staying in the hospital so long. Don’t you want to see them? They are so beautiful and love me so!” At this she kissed the cheeks of the inanimate dolls with a loud smack. Bending： over to let Mrs. Penny feather look at them, she said, “Aren’t they cute? The little brutes never cry like yours do.” Then she tried to imitate a baby’s cry. With a queer gesture and a loud thump she fell down to a squatting position and began rocking the twins to and fro mumbling, "Oh no, no, no. Please, be quiet now—that’s it—don’t cry, nobody will hurt you.’，Mrs. Pennyfeather couldn’t speak. She tried to stutter out some kind of an excuse, as though she was called away to take care of some urgent business in her house. Ah! and Katie.

Ha! She must be jealous of her Helen I After Mrs. Pennyfeather left, Zazu approached Mrs. Goldenberg. Mrs. Goldenberg was shaking within herself like a dry leaf in a windstorm. With a loud scream she wrenched herself loose from the crazed woman’s violent grasp. Half running and stumbling she made her way to her home.

Finding herself alone, Zazu’s joy again went to her feet.

She began her wild dancing where she had discontinued it.

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The weird figure swung round and round, jumped up and down, twisted, twirled, writhed like a coiled snake.

At last Zazu couldn’t stand up on her feet any longer. The stop came abruptly when she found herself sprawling headlong on the ground. She was thoroughly exhausted, breathing faster and faster as she tried to recover her breath. The per­ spiration rolled down her face like teardrops. In her arms she still held the twins. Then she thought of sleeping, for Helen and Kate must be very, very tired. Lying exhausted on the ground, she fell into a heavy slumber with the dolls cuddled on her bosom.

The sleep was refreshing. But it didn’t last long. Some­ body bent over her perspiring figure and tapped ruthlessly on her shoulders. Zazu woke up suddenly. Before her stood one of the doctors of the “hospital.” They came to bring her back to the asylum. Helen and Kate must come along. Once again within locked doors and barred windows the twins would pine away and finally die. At the thought of death for her twins, Zazu was overcome with a deluge of sobs, tears, and shrieks, which continued long after she found herself in the large, bare room at the asylum again.

Adalbert Schultz OUR LITTLE WORLD On one clear December evening, as I was gazing at the heavens, all the stars seemed to be sending their rays into in­ finite space with a more penetrating light than usual. My thoughts were attracted by these penetrating： rays and left this small planet of ours to soar up into the vast, boundless universe.

The more my thoughts wondered from one constellation to another and from star to star, the more insignificant this earth and the entire human race which inhabits it became. I finally felt myself as the one hundred thousandth part of an atom shrunk to one third its size by the intense frigidity of the stratosphere.

As I thought about this, I wondered how many people actually know the size of the planet Earth, in comparison with the other heavenly bodies. Perhaps, with the help of a few figures, the immensity of space and the insignificant size of the earth will be made more clear to you. You will then, perhaps, also have the thrill of being humiliated before the boundless creation as I was.

There are somewhere in the neighborhood of 3,000 stars visible to the naked eye and about 15,000 visible through a fairly good telescope. But this number is but an infinitesimal 220

㈣3^这j fraction of the total number of heavenly bodies. If you wish to know the estimated number of stars, you must multiply 1,000 million by two million, and the product by 1,000 million. The answer (2x10 to the twenty-fourth power) gives some indica­ tion of the probable number of stars in the universe.

Let us see what part of the universe our planet earth occu­ pies. If the same number of grains of sand, namely, as there are stars, were spread over the state of Wisconsin they would form a layer hundreds of yards in depth. If we now reflect that our earth is one millionth part of one such grain of sand, we can readily see what little space our planet occupies in this universe.

If we should take a photograph of the great Nebula in Andromeda, which, to the naked eye, appears as an insigni­ ficant blotch in the sky, through the largest telescope on earth, that photograph would have to be enlarged so as to cover the whole of Asia before a body the size of our earth would become visible at all, even under the most powerful of microscopes.

Since you now have a conception of the size of the planet Earth in respect to the immense universe, your conception of your little world and your achievements should begin to appear in their correct proportion to the universe. We must conclude that there is nothing like looking at the stars to take the pride out of yourself. Before these infinite distances and unbelievably enormous masses we mortals can only stand in awe and wonder.

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A SUGGESTION As one of the many affairs of Synod the proposed new library and recitation hall has been the topic of discussion.

Everyone has been assured by the officials that Northwestern College is next in line for receiving Synod’s attention and financial aid for this project.

But speaking in behalf of students enrolled at present and those who will be enrolled here during the next ten years, this promise holds no hope for them. For anyone can see, knowing Synod’s perplexing- financial status and being business-minded enough to see that even if prosperity should soon be ours, Synod would be quite slow in getting out of debt and careful not to get into great debt again. The over-optimistic attitude of the regents, that prosperity will very soon be felt in church finances, only tends to disillusion the people who give the monies for Synod.

But having agreed that Synod can not furnish Northwestern College students with a new building for some time to come, can anything- else be done to accomodate present students for some time, since the need for a new building has been im­ pressed on us ? Yes, one solution or suggestion can be offered.

This suggestion is to make use of the first floor of the old dor­ mitory as the temporary library, until financial conditions are such that a new building can be erected. This is possible, be­ cause at present Northwestern College’s student enrollment is so small that the study rooms and bedrooms of the first floor of the old dormitory would not at all be needed and could be ap­ propriated for this purpose. What would have to be done is that the walls would have to be taken out of the part of the old dormitory on the first floor between the chapel addition and the new dormitory. Pillars could be placed in the newly opened part, with the intervening space filled partly by book-shelves.

It surely would not cost a great deal to remove the walls and install book-shalves, neither would it require much time.

Our College has a large number of books, but they are all in closets, where students cannot have access to them. The stu­ dents would surely aid in moving them from their hideouts to the new quarters.

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This suggestion would fill the necessity temporarily and give present Northwestern College students the opportunity of a library hoped for by our professors. To rely on Synod’s re­ gents’ optimism would really get us nowhere. We students can offer suggestions only and do nothing more about it. That is the duty of the alumni and others concerned. Let us hope that something will really be done about the new building propo­ sition soon.

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Adolph Scheck, ex-’34, was married to Miss Phyllis Granke of St. Paul, December 31.

Alfred Sauer, *29, will attend the University of Tuebingen next semester.

Prof. Bert Voges, of Saginaw, spent Christmas vacation in Watertown.

Norman Marquardt； ex-’37, was here Jan. 8.

Waldemar Pless, ’29, paid Northwestern a brief visit Dec. 19.

Al. Maas，’33, was seen about the dormitory January 5, as were Adolph Buenger, and the Herberts Resting and Buch.

Rev. John Witt, ’94, of Norfolk, Nebraska, visited some of his sorf s classes recently.

Arnold Myren, ex-’37，was here for the Wartburg game, Jan. 11.

Roland Fredricks, ex-’39, visited N. W. C. Jan. 5.

Rev. Marcus Fleischer, ’30，Red Granite, was forced to spend some time in Watertown because of eye-trouble.

Revs. W. J. Schaefer and M. Raasch，’03，attended the Milton game, January 17.

Mr. and Mrs. Julius Rhode celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary December 28.

Victor Bolle, ex- ’31，has moved to Waverly, Iowa.

Rev. F. Marohn，’13，was here for the Wartburg game, Jan. 11.

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This is the Sophomore number, therefore it is no more than just that part of the subject matter of this column should be material which is pertinent to them and in which they are priarily interested: Fo r the past two weeks the weather ain’t been so hot.

The belief that the average athlete is a "dumb-bell” has been exploded by tests made at the Milwaukee State Teachers College. The median score for athletes was 78 and for non­ athletes 82. The slight variation is attributed to the fact that athletes study less. .

Once upon a time, before the days of Joesting, Nagurski, and Lund, the University of Minnesota graduated one of its full-backs, but that was long, long ago.

Columbia University granted a Ph. D. to the author of a manuscript on “The Duties of a Janitor.” Does this interest you?

Milton College is receiving a direct benefit from the C. W. A. The improvement of the athletic field has been approved as a project. The expenditure will amount to $5,800.

Christmas may be the most welcomed season of the year, but as a topic for editorials and articles in college publications it seems slightly old. In the natural order of things, with the exception of wine and fruit-cake, insipidity is in direct propor­ tion to age. This is also the case with Christmas as a subject for essays. I’m perfectly willing to say that Christmas is practically two milleniums old.-----Again the spirit of Christ­ mas prevails on our campus. Once more happy faces are seen 227

on the campus as the students hurry hither and yon in the pur­ suit of some article which will bring- happiness to the heart of a loving parent or — — me too! (Notice the reversion to type) There is no story more beautiful than the Christmas story and it never is heard too often, but as for this other trash, anathema est!

If college publications are at all a criterion for judging who forms young America’s literary style, 0. 0. McIntyre is the most important columnist in the country. Very many papers have a column which frankly admits imitation of McIntyre, and almost every publication has a column in which McIntyre^ influence is plainly visible. McIntyre’s style lends itself very well to columns of college papers. Boring locals often become . interesting bits of wit in his style. Above all his style provides a legitimate mode of expression for such bits of news that can’t be considered in the ordinary local column, but which present more than anything the spirit of a school. For this alone, that most college publications now have at least one interesting column, McIntyre deserves a niche in the hall of fame.

The new deal in examinations has finally been announced at the University of Chicago. Students taking examinations in the humanities will hereafter be allowed to use textbooks or whatever other aids they may have. The examinations will test the intelligence of the student rather than his memory.

----- This type of examination has been in use at Northwestern for the last few years in the advanced course in Latin, and has been found quite satisfactory.

A student in a logic exam, at Marquette ran out of subject matter after writing three pages, so he wrote: "I don’t think you’ll read this far, and just to prove it I’ll tell you about the baseball game I saw yesterday.^ For another five pages the student described the game, and he was never called on it.

• This story is told in Madison : Just before the Christmas holidays a student was writing an examination. His efforts had not been attended with success. Finally he came to the last question and realized that his fund of knowledge was exhausted, so he wrote in answer to the question : “God knows ; I don’t.

Merry Christmas!’’ After the holidays his paper was returned, marked: "God gets a hundred ; you get a zero. Happy New Year!’’

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Mission House NoHliwes(ern 2() December 15，Northwestern dropped its initial conference tilt of the season to the invading five of Mission House college, Plymouth, 33—26. The rangier Mission House quintet grabbed the lead in the first minutes of play and were at no time headed.

Late in the first half Northwestern knotted the count at 16—16, but Mission House again spurted to the fore to lead, 22—17, as the half ended.

Play throughout was slow and colorless. The Black and Red cagers performed in their worst form of the season. They were unable to hit the hoop from any spot and at no time presented a clicking- attack. Of some forty odd shots taken during the second half Northwestern scored on only four. Of eleven free throws attempted but four were caged.

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咕j School of Engineering 31, Northwestern 26 Northwestern rounded up its pre-holiday play in the engagement with the Milwaukee School of Engineering five, at Milwaukee, December 16. The Black and Red cagers led at the half, 12—8, but the Engineers came back strong in the second half to take a 31—26 decision. Zimpelmann was outstanding offensively, caging six field goals and a gift toss. Lough led the Engineer scorers with seven points. The lineups : F.G. F.T. F. Northwestern F.G. F.T. F. Engineers • _3 1 4 1 4 Lough, f__-_ Zimpelmann, f..6 ..0 0 0 0 0 Clemente, f 0 Fredricks, f 2 2 0 1 Dalton, f.._ Kusel, f….

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2 0 2 Thomson, g 12 2 12 5 10 13 Referee : Schiefelbein (Army) Warlbur^ 34, Nor(liMTeslern X3 Northwestern’s basketeers dropped a close contest to the Wartburg College five on the home floor, January 11. Gamb’s long basket with one minute left to play gave the Iowa cagers their one-point margin.

Wartburg took a long lead early in the game and at one time held a 15-5 advantage. The Black and Red shots began clicking, however, and at the half the score had been brought to a 15-13 count. The second half was a point-for-point battle that lasted till the final gun.

Damsalla, big Wartburg center, was the high scorer of the engagement, getting 17 points on six field goals and five charity tosses. Zimpelmann scored a like number of baskets for North­ western, but added only two free throws for 14 points. The Wartburg team made good on six of 11 free throws while Northwestern scored only three of 15 chances.

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Concordia 36, Northwestern 29 The Black and Red continued their losing ways in their encounter with Concordia, Milwaukee, at the Concordia gym, January 13. The Concordia five outshot the Northwestern cagers to a 36—29 verdict, the sixth straight set-back for the Black and Red. Both quintets flashed a fast passing attack that kept play moving at a fast tempo. Northwestern started fast and for a while kept the count fairly even, but the Concordians drew away and ran up a 24—13 margin at half time.

In the final minutes of play the Black and Red rallied and connected for baskets in rapid succession. Zimpelmann caged a short shot, Roekle scored twice off the board, Raabe pushed in a basket, Hallemeyer dropped in a short shot, Zimpelmann hooked two sensational shots from the corner. All told, North­ western brought its count up to 29 against Concordia’s 32. Eggold, Concordia center, tipped in two rebounds, however, just before the final gun sounded.

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Although it may be a misnomer, this edition of the Black and Red has been called the Sophomore Number. Therefore it is meet that this column be restricted to the Sophomore class.

The following is what several members reported about other members.

Schabow heads the list. He is not generally considered a Sophomore, but everyone knows that he is in a class by himself.

This unique class of his strongly resembles the Sophomore class in its essential characteristics; so we place him at the head of category. Schabow is a member of the Old School; no billetdoux leaves his hands but that the stamp is tilted. He also in­ sists that our Edgar belongs to the Chorus because he owns a black bow-tie.

Hoyer, because of either scholarly or unscholarly instincts, is compiling a new Greek grammar. He also received a twocent check, forty percent of his savings, from the Winneconne Bank (failed).

As a foil for his mustache, Mielke acquired a derby, which Kugler, in all seriousness, borrows. .A. Lehman had a tooth extracted, and puns. Specimen : Since Kugler has glasses heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the biggest spectacle around here.

Bergholz and Frey have again resolved to quit smoking.

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One Sophomore maintains that Vincent and W. Lehmann are “getting to be like Doc Johnson, drinking a lot of tea, only he drank coffee.”

Frey is going to start an orchestra; Koehler gets many hair-cuts. These two are written together because of the depth of thought required to interpret them.

The following is a specimen of Sophomore genius, surrepti­ tiously obtained.

This never-ending- —— class Which now and forever lasts, Gives me something that is like A splitting head-ache in all its might.

Sometimes I sleep, sometimes I dream Of things as pleasant as ice-cream.

This is the way I spend my time When I’m in this awful clime.

Sometimes I am awake and toss About like a colt that is a “hoss”.

Then I hear the dear Prof, say, “Come on, come on, don’t be that way.”

Oh ! How I wish I could awake And what is coming to me, take.

But oh ! How sad ! I think Pll bawl, I cannot keep awake at all.

From this and from other evidence, we can deduce that the niembers of the class more or less dimly see the light of civil­ ization一 except Russow, who insists on slamming doors on people’s noses, polishing his shoes in the bed-room when others wish to sleep, and numerous other heinous crimes.

The 1933-34 literary season opened on December eighth.

F. Weyland was Master of Ceremonies and presented a unified program to the student body. This long wished-for revolution was successful and the following Masters of Ceremonies fash­ ioned their programs after this model. The advantages of a unified program are evident and we hope that this excellent improvement establishes itself permanently. Mr. Weyland’s program was dedicated to Shakespeare. W. Schultz, as first speaker, gave us the setting, in his “Critical Appreciation of Shakespeare”. His delivery was in too low a tone and a bit too rapid. Fleischer showed the influence of Shakespeare on the great German writers, and their opinions of him. The speech was interesting and excellently delivered. M. Toepel presented the theory advanced to identify the mysterious Mr. W. H. of the Sonnets. The topic was perhaps a bit too learned, for of those who knew that Shakespeare had written sonnets, but few had 233

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read them, and much explanation of the sonnets themselves was necessary. How ideal a condition it would be if each student would study the topics of the programs for himself before the meeting. Miss Schumann, in a clever, humorous way, presented the women in the plays as a normal person sees them. Our co­ eds have appeared all too little as speakers or musicians ; Miss Schumann showed that they are able to play either role well.

The funeral scene from Julius Caesar was presented. The chief characters were: E. Schroeder, Antony; K. Gurgel, Brutus; 0. Siegler, Caesar’s body. Because of the poor stage and its dearth of properties, the omission of fifteen dramatic lines, the corner of the cloth covering- the body being accidentally raised, and the difficulty of the role of the citizens, the scene was not presented to its greatest advantage. The musical numbers, by the mixed chorus and by the orchestra, were also pertinent to the unity of the program. Professor Schumann, acting as critic, quoted from his voluminous notes, amassed in his student days.

Our chief objection to the program is that it was given in the gymnasium, which is unsuited to literary programs. It is cold, the stage is too defective, the lighting is poor. Sophomores and Seniors wander about in the rear of the gymnasium, and what is yet more annoying, if such a thing is possible, restless chil­ dren, for whom W. H. can hold no interest, find their way in.

On December eighteenth H. Wicke of the Philomathean Society presented his program, also unified, treating- the vast field of Romanticism and Classicism in English Literature. W. Thurow introduced the subject by explaining the difference be­ tween Romanticism and Classicism, as clearly und concisely as so vast a topic can be handled. Pope, as the outstanding Clas­ sicist, and Wordsworth, as a great Romanticist, were the topics chosen by R. Hagedorn and J. Vincent. A. Bolle exposed the ridiculousness of the Gothic novel by means of a clever parody.

K. Gyirgel’s presentation of “Toccato in A Major” was in perfect keeping with the subject, as were also the two selections “Canzonetta’’ and ‘‘Barcarolle’’，played by our newest and praise­ worthy musical organization, the Polyhymnia Trio, G. Barthels, R. Siegler and W. Lehmann. Selections from Goldsmith’s ‘‘She Stoops to Conquer” concluded the program. The characters were: W. Zarling, Hardcastle; 0. Sommers, Tony Lumpkin; L. Heller, Hastings; W. Zickuhr, Diggory; Miss Wall, Mrs. Hardcastle; Miss Weihert, Miss Neville. The program was educational, interesting, well-balanced. It contained all the elements necessary for a perfect program. Professor Sitz acted as critic.

On January twelfth C. Hotlen of the Phi Gamma Rho Society presented his program on “The Men of the ReformaR. Siegler’s topic was “Erasmus”. V. Weyland chose Zwingli. His speech was in the German languauge. His de234

livery was very good. K. Broecker spoke on “The Logic of Calvin”，a good speech, excellently delivered. ‘‘Das Gotteswerk der Reformation durch Dr. Martin Luther” was the title of A. Hoff’s speech. Miss Conklin’s cornet solo, ' ‘Holy City”，was ap­ preciated by everyone. The Polyhymnia Trio presented “Adante Sostenuto”. The new quartet, E. Schewe, E. Toepel, T. Sauer and A. Bolle sang ‘‘From Heaven above’’，and ‘‘Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring’’. In conclusion, the band rendered three selec­ tions, the last of which was, “A Mighty Fortress:’. The audi­ ence sang this last piece. It is necessary to mention this, or no one would suspect it. If the band must play, it should restrict itself to the softest of lullabies, and sit on the first floor. Pro­ fessor Kiessling did not act as critic, but was critic. His criti­ cisms were sound and constructive, and appreciated by every­ one.

On Wednesday evening, December nineteenth, the Christ­ mas program was held. Almost everyone enjoyed this program, because of the spontaneous singing after the luncheon. Every student was touched by the true Christmas spirit.

Of course we’ll start the New Year right by having the first Black and Red of 1934 written by the Sophomore Class.

The coeds have made all sorts of resolutions, none of which have been put into running condition as yet. Oh well, there’s always tomorrow to start, and remember the old saying: ‘•Never put off until tomorrow, what you can put off until the day after.”

What do you think Santa Claus left in the collegiate room ?

A brand new light bulb meant to aid us in bigger and better studying. A little light on the subject, girls.

But don’t you think that this newly inspired enthusiasm of the coeds at the basketball games is remarkable? We heard that Glenna wore out a pair of perfectly good shoes, size 9%, and six floor boards, each twenty feet long, while pacing the balcony flcior in the gym everytime the varsity would miss * a basket. Marion says that Helen “almost squeezed my arm off’’. There is something about that team------- !

When the sophomores have a history exam, the collegiate room is a place of torture for the other coeds. From one corner comes “In what year did Nero become emperor?” and from another *'Which emperors were the Flavians?” Then all begin to recite in unison the names and dates of all the emperors from Augustus to Commodus. The poor freshmen withdraw to 235

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1. Where was the battle of Waterloo fought ? .

2. Between what two cities does the Berlin-Bagdad rail­ way run ?

3. Who discovered America ?

4. Who were the pilgrims ?

5. Between what two countries was the Russo-Japanese War fought ?

6. Who wrote Emerson’s Essays ?

7. Who was the first president of the U. S? 8. Who is the present president ?

9. Who wrote Webster’s Dictionary ?

Look! Who is that mysterious looking woman, in the black suit, carrying a little white pad of paper and a pencil ?

Why, it’s a woman reporter, and she presents the appearance of having successfully interviewed five sophomore girls. Let’s find out.

Yes, it’s Arline Schumann, who is first on the list, that adorable little girl with all the brains any girl needs. Arline has been here longer than any of us, and she possesses a marked intelligence which shows either a good school training in Northwestern, or is it the girl herself ? We may say it is both. She is our president this year. It seems as though all good presidents arrive at the same time. Adine’s favorite pastime is playing the piano. She likes apples, basketball, Mathematics, and her baby brother. Her favorite expression is “Oh Yammer”. We have secured a copyright on a song written exclusively for Arline, in which she might express her feelings when she gets stuck while studying Latin.

My Latin, ’tis of thee.

Short road to lunacy O’er thee I rave.

Another month or so Of studying I know Will send me straight , Into my grave.

Arline’s chief ambition is to be the first woman professor at Northwestern College. Hei，e，s luck, Arline. We’ll be back for a post-graduate course if you ever are.

Now, who is this little blue-eyed blonde who looks as if she just stepped out of a fashion magazine? Of course it’s Helen Arnold, you can recognize her by that merry little twinkle of Irish humor in her eyes. She is official nurse-maid and com­ forter in the collegiate room. If anyone is hurt physically 236

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We listened while the reporter interviewed Melba Wall.

Melba says that her favorite food is raw carrots in Latin Class, and her hobby is collecting the words of popular songs. ‘‘She has a repertoire as complete as that of A1 and Pete on the “Try and Stump Us” program. Her pet peeve is having her sash opened when she is walking out of history class. Melba loyes to listen to Grade Allen and Guy Lombardo, and her ambition is to be another Eve Le Gallienne; and a very good one she will make. Melba is the entertainer in the girls room. Every time a new song comes out, we flock to Melba and say <4Sing it for us, ’ ’ and Melba does. As for disposition and personality Melba leaves nothing to be desired. If she has a temper we have never seen it.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

LITERARY— Snowflakes

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This Fanciful Universe

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Don Lorrimer’s Awakening

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EDITORIALSThe Male Chorus

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The Study Of Latin And Greek At Northwestern..................

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SNOWFLAKES Snowflakes are but celestial tears, Soft, woolly, drowsy-weaving.

By some sad virgin goddess shed For faithless lover grieving.

She speeds these little messengers, White as the bosom they bedew, To wrest him from a siren’s spell And cause chaste love to bloom anew.

They cease their wanton dallying And swirling scurry, lest the sun O’erwhelm them with relentless darts And leave their mission here undone.

Their virgin whiteness undefiled Wakes in his heart rememberance; From passion turned to dust he flees And seeks again white innocence.

Their mission done, they tumble on, Down to the happy, tossing sea, Where with companions numberless They dance and frolic endlessly.

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THIS FANCIFUL UNIVERSE Ring out, ye crystal spheres!

Once bless our human ears (If ye have power to touch our senses so), And let your silver chime Move in melodious time; And let the base or heaven’s deep organ blow; And with your ninefold harmony Make up full consort to the angelic symphony.

In this stanza taken from Milton’s works we have an ex­ pression, in poetry, of the ancient concept of our universe.

What an imaginative place that universe was! The earth, surrounded by nine or ten concentric, transparent, revolving spheres, was the center of a glorious creation. Imagine your­ self being privileged to hear that majestic music, that silver chime, that ninefold harmony produced by revolving crystal spheres! Does that sound too poetic, too romantic actually to be believed by sensible human beings? Maybe, but that was science at one time!

Perhaps you sigh sceptically and say that you have been born too late; that it has been your sad fate to be born into a world dominated by cold, clear scientific reasoning, devoid of romance and imagination. But that, I beg to disagree, is not the case. The world of today, the science of our modern era, is more romantic and imaginative than it has ever before been.

One rather new scientific theory, which is particularly visionary, has not failed, since the time that it was first explained to me, to intrigue me with its fantasy; that is the theory of the “Ex­ panding Universe’’ and of “Curved Space”. Perhaps, if I succeed in unfolding the theory for you, you will agree that even the prosiest modern mathematician must have an imagin­ ation fully as comprehensive as that of a lively novelist. At any rate, I can assure you that only by applying your imagina­ tion to the utmost can you comprehend this modern astronomical theory which has in late years caused wrinkles on the brow of many a scientist.

This modern theory of the form of our universe is easiest understand by means of comparisons. Imagine a universe m the shape of a ball; an all inclusive unite, floating about somewhere in emptiness. (I do not, by the way, say in space, tor space is to be found only inside the universe, if you please!) out this ball of our universe, innumerable billions of miles in aiameter, is hollow; i. e. it has no space inside it either, but again emptiness. Emptiness within and without the universe! Space, m!0t properly be compared to the rubber shell of a tennis lns!^e, nothing outside, but only the cover of a P eie or hollow ball made up of that elusive material called 242

Look at the space. And now, what have we in this space? _ stars about you on a clear night; can you count the myriads?

Every one of those stars is in reality a sun and, for all we know, may be an entire solar system like our own: a huge sun encircled by planets and earths similar to those of our own system. Furthermore imagine each one of these stars, or solar systems, to be a pin point, or rather a molecule, set in that tennis ball cover called space. Have you enough imagination to grasp that? If so, try to conceive of your relative size on that atom called the earth! So this is our universe, a hollow sphere made up of space and dotted with the molecules of all those luminaries of which we see so many on a clear night.

Rather fantastic, but more is yet to follow before we have exhausted the theory! ' This universe, you will remember, is called an “expanding universe”. To explain this second term let me use a slightly different picture. Imagine now, if possible, that space, inter­ mingled with all the millions of stars, is the rubber part of a balloon; and that this balloon is being blown up; space, you will now see, is constantly stretching and expanding, and the solar systems or stars making up our universe are of course moving out with space, as though flying in all directions from a common center. That, my imaginative readers, is the expand­ ing universe. For how long _ a time this process of expansion has been going on, and how long it will continue, no one has yet ventured to guess. The theory has it that there was a time when the universe was not yet expanding; the gravitational attraction of the stars for each other, like the attraction which holds together the molecules in the rubber ball, kept each star in its place. Such a delicate arrangement was, however, easily disturbed: and once the balance was destroyed, the stars began flying： in every direction: the great expansion, which is yet going on, had begun. For how long this expansion can possibly go on, has not yet been determined. If the theory is correct, then space must some day burst, just as an over-inflated balloon bursts, and our magnificent universe will then be blown to bits.

That should present a grand spectacle for those people who will opportunely witness it!

As you will have noticed by this time, we have no room, for such a thing as a straight line in this our ball shaped uni­ verse. Space, in itself only a globe, must of course be curved.

Light, travelling from one star to another, does not travel in a straight line, but follows the curve of space. Also, according to our theory, light travels only in space, and therefore there can be no light outside our universe; nor can light travel across the void interior of the sphere. But it might be possible that light from a star, or from our sun, making its way entirely around the sphere called space, would reappear at its source!

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What a small universe after all—just a journey of so many billion light years, and you are back at your starting point!

Perhaps I should yet clear up a misunderstanding that may have been created through the analogy of the balloon. Do not get the idea that space is only a very thin shell into which our solar system is cramped. No, there is plenty of room on all sides, for space is still comparatively thick. The distance from the sun to the outermost orbit of Neptune or Pluto is but infinitesmal when compared to the thickness of space. Beside our own solar system, towards the inside and outside of the sphere are of course many other stars and systems; if this were not so, we could not see stars in all directions, but only in what would appear to us to be the plane in which space extends. That would mean that we would see only what would appear to be a belt of stars encircling the sky about us. The fact is that \Ve do see more stars in one plane than we see in other directions: the Milky Way, that apparent ring which encircles our sky.

So when we look at the distant stars of the Galaxy we are in reality looking around the arc of space, looking partly around that ball of which we are a part. There is imagination for you: compare that with the small, limited universe by which the disciples of the Ptolemaic system of astronomy were bounded!

The one trouble with our scientific minds of today is that they too readily ask, “Why?” or, “What proof have you for such a preposterous theory?” Such a question of course im­ mediately pricks our bubble of romance and quickly, rather joltingly, brings us back to terra firma; this is especially the case when we are not able to give any proof for the validity of the theory. Suffice it to say that by going through a complicated mathematical process some astronomers can show that the theory is probably correct. However, there is no scientist so careless as to say that this is more than a hypothesis, a mere attempt to explain phenomena which must otherwise remain a mystery to us. Concerning the theory there is being waged a war of intellectual giants, and our pigmy minds would best avoid the field of battle.

But one thing we can do: we can learn that even the greatest scientists leave plenty of room for the imagination, And should not this console us who are otherwise too ready to “Mourn Romance, now on the town, 4<And Art, a vagrantM? ..

Had we only a Milton to immortalize present day scientific theory! . How the generations to come would look enviously back and wish that they had lived when romance was still to be found in the tomes of science! How they would sigh and say, “There was a day, when Romance yet dwelled in this all too scientific world!”

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DON LORRIMER，S AWAKENING Don Lorrimer walked blithely down one of the streets of Dartford. Why shouldn’t he be happy? He held the coveted position of student-body president at Dartford College, was a better than average athlete, and enjoyed the good fortune of having the friendship of Rheta Daniels, one of the most desireable coeds. Gaily he tripped along in the direction of his dormitory. Only one thing disturbed his complacency and peace of mind. “Curses，，，he thought, “those infernal exams are scheduled for next week. I wish I had studied Math and Philosophy more. They mean at least two all-night sessions for me. Oh, well, to-day is Thursday, and I can have a good time at that Psi Chi hop with Rheta to-night before succumbing to a three day siege of boning.”

The Psi Chi dance, in spite of the fact that it preceded the opening of examination week by only three days, was a brilliant affair. It was one of Dartford’s traditions, and was instituted, the year after Psi Chi’s founding, by some audacious souls who wanted the world to know that the faculty’s threat of exams was just another false alarm. Local syncopation was deemed inadequate, and a reputable orchestra from the state’s metro­ polis was hired. Altho Psi Chi expected to have its pretentious house taken any moment by insistent creditors, no expense was spared to make the event as glamorous as possible. « « Like the music, Rheta?’’ asked Don as he gracefully glided over the smooth floor with her. “I think it’s great, Don, those black boys surely know to interpret the hot tunes. By the way, did you see the girl that Ronnie Martin brought? She doesn’t attend Dartford, I heard that she’s from one of those swanky finishing schools near Boston.”

The subject of Rheta’s question was on a different section of the floor dancing with Ronald Martin, who was Dartford7s chief exponent of the Latin type and Dpn’s chief rival in the struggle for campus popularity. Ronnie participated in his companion’s trivial conversation in a perfunctory way, but his mind was elsewhere. As he saw Don and Rheta whirl by he thought: “There’s that fool Lorrimer with the girl I really want. If he weren’t student-body president I don’t believe she’d be so ‘soft’ on him. If I only had that position, she’d be easy to obtain. But that’s impossible, since Don is ace-high with the students.” At this point Ronnie’s reverie was inter­ rupted by his partner’s demand that he answer a question which she had thrice repeated. .

During the intermission Ronnie met one of his “crowd” in the men’s lounge, “kex” Schaefer, one of Dartford’s playboys and the faculty’s black sheep, was lolling on a davenport. Rex, altho possessing a keen mind, never really applied himself and

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“Say Martin, we’re in the same jam that Nelson and Krueger were in last June. You know how stiff old Altdorf makes his exam, and that your semester grade is based entire­ ly on it. I haven’t cracked a book for his class in this semester.

Those fellows obtained A，s in that exam, and all the inconveni­ ence it caused them was an easy night’s work. Because Krue­ ger learned how to pick locks from a cousin who has served time he was able to teach me a few tricks of the profession.

I know where Altdorf keeps his exam papers. It will be a simple matter to pick the lock on the door of his classroom. I suggest that you and I pay the Administration Building a visit to-night after we dispose of our dates. Is it ago?” Ronnie thought for a split second. ‘‘O. K.，Rex”，he replied，“if I fail to pass that course my allowance from home will be withdrawn, ril do anything to get by that exam except study.” "All right, Martin, Til meet you at the ‘Ad’ building at three.”

The dance continued. Don, in the course of exchange dances, found himself swaying with “Billie” Allisson, an at­ tractive coed who was also endowed with a magnetic person­ ality. To-night in her company Don felt, as he had on other occasions, that she had more than a friendly interest in him.

The truth was that she really cared for him, but he, as the male invariably does, thought she was too available and pre­ ferred Rheta, who seemed harder to obtain.

Because of a faculty ruling, curfew was called at two, and the merrymakers reluctantly brought another highlight of the Dartford social life to a close. .

An hour later two figures furtively approached the Admin­ istration Building from opposite directions. They met at the main entrance. “That you, Rex?” asked a muffled voice.

“None other”，Rex assured, “let’s try the door.” “That’s a jjreak，Rex, it’s unlocked.” The massive door opened creakingly. ‘‘I never knew those hinges were so dry. Follow me, we’ll tiptoe down the corridor.” The would-be burglars finally arrived at a door bearing the number thirteen. <4This is Altdorf^ room’’，Rex whispered, ‘‘now my piece of wire must do its duty.” A few deft manipulations of the wire were neces­ sary before a loud click announced that the lock had been suc­ cessfully picked. “Follow me Martin, I know in which drawer our friend keeps his exam papers•” A drawer was carefully opened and one of the all-important papers disappeared into Rex’s pocket. “We’d better get out of here in a hurry. What are you putting on the floor, Martin?” “Just a knife, Fll ex­ plain later, this is no place for talking. ’ ’ Quietly they retraced their steps, and in a few moments were standing near one of the campus，stately oaks. “Martin，I，11 bring the paper over to-morrow. We can then examine it and talk things over.”

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Late the next morning the conspirators sat in Ronnie’s dormitory room, eagerly scanning Professor Altdorf’s examina­ tion sheet. **Now we know what to study, and won’t the honorable professor be surprised to find that we are his star students. This exam is just what you might expect from the old villian. Its only object is to show how ignorant we poor souls are. I’d like to see how horrified he will be when he finds that we deserve A’s.

How about that knife you left in his room?，’ “That was Don Lorrimer’s. He let me use it last week, and I forgot to return it. When I came back to my room after the dance I noticed it lying on my dresser. Then a brilliant thought occured to me. This was an excellent chance to frame Don, and thus perhaps I could use our escapade as a means of obtaining a little revenge. By leaving his knife in Altdorf，s room we could create an incriminating link of circum­ stantial evidence against him and thus avert all suspicion from ourselves. But another step must still be taken. This sheet must be smuggled into his room so that it may be found when the faculty investigation is made. This should be enough evi­ dence to expell Don.” “Personally, Martin, I haven’t anything against Lorrimer. Can’t you think of a more gentlemanly way in which to even matters with him?” “He stands in my way, and that’s the only way I have to eliminate him. Moreover, 've’ve gone this far and we must have someone whom we can pin the blame on, since that knife will be found and some action will be taken by the faculty.” “I don’t like the drift of this whole affair, but I suppose that I’ll have to stick with you to the end. How can we get that paper into Lorrimer’s room?” **He usually goes out for supper at five-thirty. If you slip into his room a little later you should have no difficulty in •planting’ it. Hide it well enough to prevent him from finding it. The reason I’m asking you to do it is that it would look too suspicious for me to go prowling around, since there is no love lost between Don and me. If anyone finds you, give as a pre­ text that you came to borrow a book.” .

Rex succeeded in concealing the incriminating paper in Don’s room, and thus the implication of the college idol was consummated. . .

That day Professor Altdorf made a startling discovery.

When he walked into his classroom he found a knife bearing the initials “D. L.” lying on the floor. Another unusual cir. cumstance also struck his sharp eyes. The left drawer of his desk was slightly open and he could see that the examination papers had been tampered with. Immediately he deduced that some student, or students, had paid his classroom a nocturnal visit and had left the knife behind.

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Since Dartford was a small college, the number of students with the initials “D. L.” was not large, and Don’s turn soon came. When he entered the august assembly of the investiga­ tion committee he could see from the savants’ demeanor that this was more serious than one of the usual discipline cases.

The president of Dartford, who was of the committee, began to speak. ^Lorrimer, is this your knife?” ‘‘Yes, sir”，Don answered, '*1 loaned it to someone and forgot who the person was. ’ “The classroom of Professor Altdorf was entered Thursday night and a copy of his examination papers was stolen. Your knife was found on the floor. Did you take the paper or were you of the group that did?” "No, I did not:‘ “Then will you kindly explain how you spent that night?” “I attended the Psi Chi dance with Rheta Daniels. We didn’t stay until curfew but left at about one-thirty. I took her directly to her sorority and left her around two-fifteen. From there I walked to my dormitory and went to bed.’’ "Did any student, with the exception of Miss Daniels, see you after you left the dance?” “I don’t remember anyone. The dormitory was very quiet when I entered, because most of the fellows had not yet returned from the dance.” “Then we must rely en­ tirely on your word, but in order to make the investigation thorough I must order that your room in the dormitory be searched. If this reveals nothing, we will assume that you are innocent.” This closed the interview.

Four hours later the student body was electrified t by a sensational report. Ronnie hurried up to Rex’s quarters. ‘‘Rex, our plan was a knockout. The proctor of Icon’s dorm has found the paper you *planted, in his room. This, in addition to the fact that Don’s knife was found in Altdorf’s room, has made . .it a clear case. Don was just called before the faculty investigation committee for the second time to-day and forced to resign his student-body presidency. Because of his former record he was placed on probation only, but he might as well be expelled, for this disgrace will ostracize him socially. Boy, what an hour of revenge. I’m going to celebrate.” Ronnie hurried out to discuss the scandal with his crowd. On the way he met Rheta Daniels. Rheta had heard all about Don’s mis­ fortune. "What a sap I was, Ronnie, for stringing along with that tin horn Lor rimer. He surely is a washout. I wonder who will be appointed to fill Don’s unexpired term. You should have a good chance, Ronnie, since all the fraternities are be­ hind you. ’ ’ ‘ ‘Rheta, the best man on the campus will get it, y y

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At Dartford it was considered inexpedient that the student body be long without a leader. Accordingly President Smith immediately appointed Don’s successor. Because of his import­ ance in student activities Ronnie was named acting studentbody president. Rheta at once switched her allegiance from Don to Ronnie. She was mercenary, and had been associated with Don only because he was the apex of the college social pyramid. Now Ronnie was the man of the hour, and conse­ quently he was now her man. Don tried unsuccessfully to get into communication with her, and she flouted him by being seen at several student rendezvous with Ronnie. As the fallen meteor was dejectedly shambling down the street he met Billie Allisson. She was all sympathetic. “Don, I certainly am sorry that this happened to you, and I don’t believe you did it.

I think you were framed. Can’t you prove your innocence?”

“I’m afraid not, Billie, and since Rheta gave me the air I don?t think I would care for that presidency even if I did regain it. ” “Is there nothing I can do?” Billie entreated. “No, you’d only be fighting for a lost cause. There’s no use trying. The best thing for me to do is to leave school.” “You can’t do that, Don, think what a blow it would be to your parents if you didn’t fret your degree. Don’t throw away your career for a fickle girl. One thins you must promise, and that is that you won't leave school. You have only a semester ‘‘I don’t see the sense in your argument, but I’ll promise, since there isn't anything for me to do outside of school with this depres­ sion going on.” * As Billie hurried to her class she thought rapidly. ‘‘I always knew that Rheta was a gold-digger’’，she reflected, “and this proves it. Very likely she knows more about the case than she cares to tell. If I could only get some informa­ tion from her.”

That evening Billie saw Rheta walk in the direction of the college grounds. ‘ ‘She’s on her way to meet Ronnie, because they are always seen together now. I’ll shadow her and per­ haps I can find out something that will help Don.’’ With the silence of a cat she trailed the unsuspecting Rheta. At the edge of the college grounds she saw Ronnie emerge from the darkness and join Rheta. They strolled down a secluded walk and stopped at a secluded bench. Billie slipped behind a near­ by tree and strained her ears to catch something of the conversation. “Rheta,” she heard Ronnie say, “I’m sitting on top of the \vorld. I now have you, and what more is necessary for happiness?’’ ‘‘By the way Ronnie, what did you mention a few moments ago about somebody aiding： you to get the studentbody presidency? I’m curious to know all about it. Let’s have the whole story.” “I really shouldn’t divulge this, but I know 249

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Don broke in on Rex with the velocity of a tornado. “Rex”, lie blurted out, “you and Ronnie Martin were the reasons, why I was accused of stealing that exam paper. I have the infor­ mation from a reliable source and you’re either going to give me a written confession, or go with me to the prexy and tell all.” **You must be joking, do you think Pd do that?M “IDon’t stall around, I’ve the goods on you, and if you don’t confess I’ll beat you to pulp.” ‘‘Get out of here, or is it necessary for me to throw you out?”

A savage fight ensued. After Don had pummeled half the life out of Sex’s body, that worthy was more inclined to accede to his demand. Several of the students who had been attracted by the tumult acted as witnesses to Rex’s confession.

The unexpected turn of affairs provided the campus with another topic for "bull sessions.” Ronnie left school and Don was reinstated to his old position. As soon as Rheta discovered that her latest acquisition was disgraced, she attempted to re­ gain Don’s favor. She made her overture for a reconciliation by means of the telephone. * “Don, I，m extremely sorry that I misunderstood you. You know it was hard for me to believe otherwise with all that evidence heaped against you. Can’t you and I continue where we left off?’’ “that’s impossible, Rheta. You’re one of the countless young women who play up to a man because of his position. All you used me for was to put yourself in the limelight, I’m afraid it’s good-bye.” A vicious hang-up at the other end told Don that Rheta acted typically as a woman scorned. Don leisurely thumbed the telephone directory. The connection was made. “Would you kindly call Billie Allisson to the telephone A pause of a minute followed. “Billie, this is Don, how about a movie date to-night?”

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THE MALE CHORUS Our male chorus is in a flourishing condition 一 yes, in as flourishing a condition as it has been for the past half dozen years or so. During these years it has shown very little pro­ gress to speak of. Why does it remain at such an apparent standstill ? Why can’t it show more life and development ? Of course, one answer to these questions is, that every year it receives many new and inexperienced members and loses several leading veterans through graduation. True, this disadvantage is unavoidable, but I maintain that its effects can be overcome by more concentrated effort on the part of the remaining mem­ bers. Why can’t this group of capable young men produce a better and finer quality of singing ? The ability is there ; but the effort is usually wanting. If the members would compare their organization to many other vocal societies, which they frequently hear, some of which haven’t even the abundant supply of material from which to choose as our male chorus has, they would certainly have to feel somewhat ashamed of their organization. How strikingly those fine touches and polished flourishes, those crescendos and decrescendos fit into the spirit and unity of the selection ! We have sufficient proof that our choristers are able to do much better. Occasionally, especially 251 !!

immediately before concerts, slight spurts of really good singing manifest themselves at our rehearsals. From this fact we can justly conclude that the cause of our present unprogressive condition is purely a lack of interest, a sluggish indifference — that destructive element which stamps failure upon every enter­ prise in which it is permitted to exist. It actually seems that some come to chorus rehearsals merely because they haven’t anything else to do during that time; for whenever they find something else with which to occupy their time, they do not appear. Others seem to attend rehearsals, because they can usually have a happy time joking and laughing together there.

They sing because they’re expected to do so, not because they want to. Still others are apparently drawn to rehearsals be­ cause they seem to find there such a suitable somniferous at­ mosphere, and oh ! how their singing betrays them !

Such conditions cannot possibly bring about success. Real singing, which we can call a true art, must proceed from the heart, the soul. It must be the expression of something more than a happy jingle of words put to music. It must be born by that indescribable vehicle or means of communication between one soul and another. Only by keeping this in mind should true success be sought in singing. If this method would be at­ tempted, symptoms of the desired effect would soon begin to appear which would create a revival of interest. This revival of interest in turn would bring about a more sincere effort on the part of each individual member. Thus there should be established between these two agents a continual process of in­ creasing and strengthening one another, which could only have complete success as its final result.

G. R ，35 VERSE LIBRE Modern poetry in the guise of verse libi.e (which may freely be translated “no verse’’）： which is the hiccoughing of a catalog of images, symbols and impressions that are to convey some vague thought which the reader must supply, cannot justly be called “poetry”，because the essential, external form, the meter, is wanting. In poetry, as in every art, there are three fundamental requirements which must be met — thought, form and the mastery of the form by the artist. From Homer to Swinburne the external form for poetry has been meter, which was not infrequently accompanied by rhyme. This form is included in the very definition of a poem. Meter is to the poet as marble is to the sculptor, paints and figures to the artist, notes to the musician and sentences and paragraphs to the author. Therefore, since merely the idea is present in verse libre，for we grant that they are blessed with a thought oc252

casionally, which is but one-third of the requisites, we cannot name these productions “poems”，although we use the greatest leniency. They offer us a soul without a body.

Since nothing can exist without some reason, there are two theories advanced to justify the existence of this jerky, anoma­ lous creation. The one is: the modern writers are artists of first water and consequently should be restricted by no rules, conventions or precedent; by means of the formless verse libre they are able to soar to heights heretofore unattained and to probe the human soul to depths unsounded;;they stand as shimmering heralds on the threshold of a new golden era; they are making priceless contributions to literature. This is the ex­ planation advanced by the writers themselves. Sane people, realizing the difficulties of putting a thought into meter, at­ tribute these childish productions either to inability of applying the necessary technical knowledge, or to arrant laziness.

R. H. THK STUDY OF LATIN AND GREEK AT NORTHWESTERN I contend that our method of studying- Latin and Greek in the omega years of college is not only folly and a waste of time but absolutely worthless. The prime purpose for our study of the ancient classics is to give us the necessary knowlege and ability to translate the Bible from the original. This can easily be accomplished in the first four years of study. In the two final years we learn nothing1 new relative to grammar and syntax.

Besides this there should be certain cultural benefits de­ rived from such an intensive study of the classics. The students however will acknowledge and declare that this theoretical by­ product is woefully lacking. What do the majority remember of the Odyssey ? Perhaps only that Ulysses woke up when the cow-eyed Nausikaa was bathing. We know little of their philosophy, and what we do know has not been gleaned from the study of the original. Epics and dramas have been dis­ sected into tiny portions of perhaps thirty lines' each, and all continuity is lost. The translations are usually very literal and therefore meaningless.

Again the study of the classics, if it does not tend to the development of character, should certainly not at least serve to undermine it. Indirectly, however, it undoubtedly does. The students themselves do not wish to spend the time they are supposed to on subjects that have scarcely any value. The natural consequence is the use of the “Jimmy”，as the students fondly call it, or the “Pony” of the professors’ disparaging remarks. Through an informal inquiry I have ascertained that 253

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The use of translations is illegal. Nevertheless they are used, at first with a bad conscience. After repeated use the inward monitor is drugged and finally overcome. A condition is hereby established certainly not conducive to the development of Christian character.

My suggestion is this : the translation is to be taken to class; two or three hundred lines are rapidly to be perused ; ten or fifteen lines picked at random are to be translated by the class as a whole; finally certain hours are to be set aside for lectures given by the professors, concerning the culture and philosophy expressed in the work. If this were done the courses would be infinitely more interesting, educational, and cultural.

One could hardly use these adjectives in describing the courses as they are at present.

H. Fredricks LITERARY SOCIETIES So far no legitimate excuse has been given us for not having our literary programs in the gym, except the expense of heating the building. If it can be heated for basketball practice every afternoon, surely it won’t exhaust our treasuries to heat the building for an hour in the evening. Pressure from above and a little draft has driven us helter-skelter to the chapel. The lighting in the chapel is such that more light is thrown on the audience than on the speakers. The audience can hardly dis­ tinguish the features of the person on the stage, but the speaker can see every giggle of a sophomore, or nudge of a coed. This seems to augment his nervousness to such a degree that he must sooner or later falter in his speech. With but two exceptions, giving a speech without stopping and crying aloud for the as­ sistance of the prompter seems to be decidedly out of vogue.

Perhaps this situation would be bettered if lighting could be suitably arranged. We used to have fairly decent lights in the gymnasium.

Need we enlarge on the tumult aroused by the uncomfort­ able quarters ? No wonder the oboe soars up into heights of blue now and then. There is one advantage in conducting the programs in the chapel. If a number is not to our liking, the continual racket on the stairs gives an excellent excuse for not listening to it. The chapel, where we are ‘ 'packed like sardines in a can” certainly doesn’t add to the program's formality which we’re told it is supposed to have. Those who objected to 254

the inconvenience of the makeshift gymnasium stage now agree that the chapel stage is no marvelous improvement.

I wonder whether it couldn’t be arranged that we have our programs in the gymnasium again. From the standpoint of the speakers on the programs and of the Masters of Ceremonies the gymnasium would be far more preferable. I think that we have had sufficient opportunity to weigh the advantages on either side, and that those in favor of the gymnasium preponderate.

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JAZZ Much has been written for and against jazz. Have you ever stopped to consider what a real musician thinks of the subject ? When I say a real musician, I don’t mean a graduate of the “University of Tin-Pan Alley. ” Allow me to quote a world-famous choirmaster of Europe: ‘‘Jazz has a deteriorating effect upon the moral sense of the young people, who. allow themselves to become immersed in its characteristic sentiment.

Jazz is at the bottom, the music of savages, and to cultivate a taste for jazz is to turn traitor to culture, and to all that culture stands for, and to revert to a barbarous standard. You produce this non-moral music in an atmosphere of garish material lux­ ury% calculated in itself to soften the moral fibre; and the in­ evitable result is utter demoralization and a descent to a lower standard of thought and feeling.” If the younger generation would be honest, it surely would have to say that the melody in jazz is not what attracts it. It is, to be sure, nothing but the sensual rythm.

Have you ever listened to a jazz number critically? If you haven’t, try it. All you will hear is a repetition of ten measures of so-called music. The repetition is kept up until each mem­ ber of the orchestra has had a chance to play the solo part.

Each jazz piece has ten measures of melody in it in order to give the weak-minded people who listen to such music a chance to memorize it. Besides this, the measures in each separate piece are nearly the same. This is most noticeable in the lower types of jazz.

In order to give you an idea of what foreigners think of jazz and the dancing that goes with it, allow me to present this excerpt: 44An Indian Prince—Geidu Krischamurti who has be­ come thoroughly Americanized, and who is a Cambridge grad­ uate—upon a recent visit in San Francisco declared that modern civilization is all wrong and that he prefers the attire of India to the raiment of the ‘concrete’ sheik of America. The Prince declared that dancing as done in the United States would be a capital offense in his country. ‘This business of grabbing women 255

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Luther said that music is a gift of God; but he never heard jazz. However, Luther did hear bad violin playing, and would, I believe, give jazz not quite as much credit as he gives bad violin playing in the following quotation: "Die bosen Fidler und Geiger dienen dazu, dass wir sehen und horen, wie eine feine, gute Kunst die Musica sei, denn Weisses kann man besser erkennen, wenn man Schwartzes dagegen halt.”

If jazz does die out in the very near future, I believe that it will have been through the efforts of such men as Damrosch, who try to educate the people by instructing in classical music by the means of the radio. If you listen to the broadcasts of Damrosch a few times, it is impossible to make yourself believe that jazz is music.

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ALUMNI

—William Fleming, Oconomowoc, died Thursday morning, Dec. 28. Mr. Fleming, a graduate of Northwestern and of the Univ. of Wis. law school, was collector of customs in Alaska during Cleveland^ administration, clerk of courts for Dodge County, and for many years a member of the Waukesha county bar. Mr. Fleming was in his 83rd year when he died.

—Heinz Bluhm, ’28, is directing a U. of Wis. production of ‘‘Minna von Barnhelm”. Herman Gieschen，’33，is in the cast.

—Dave Teske，ex.，35, was recently appointed editor of the “Student Voice”，the paper put out by the students of River Falls State Teachers College.

—Rev. and Mrs. Arnold Mackdanz, Palouse, Wash., became parents of a baby boy on Christmas day. 一 Ralph Lemke，ex. ’34, was in Watertown Feb. 10. .—The rumor that Roy Stuhr, ex ’33, is married is very per­ sistent but details are surprisingly vague.

—Director Kowalke addressed the young people of Jordan Lutheran Church, West Allis, two weeks ago. His topic was 41 Young People and Their Friends”.

—Rev. Ph. Froelke，’16，Appleton, adopted a baby girl recently.

—Rev. G. Redlin，’28, Allenton, visited N. W. C. Feb. 5.

—John Radloff，’33, Iron Mountain, Mich., took advantage of an inter-semester vacation to visit friends at Northwestern.

—Rev. H. C. Kirchner, ’10, Baraboo, visited his son at N. W. C. recently.

— Otto Engel, ’31，was seen on the campus Feb. 3.

—Marty Zilz, ’28, has refereed basketball games at North­ western this season.

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—Mrs. Ph. Koehler, ’12, visited her son at N. W. C. Jan. 27.

—M. Schwenzen，’33, and W. Grosnick，ex ’37, attended the basketball game Feb. 10.

—Rev. A. G. Dorn feld, ’27，Richwood, is father of a boy, David Adelbert, born Jan. 18.

—Norbert Berndt，ex. ’34, student at New Ulm, paid North­ western a brief visit Feb. 2.

—Rev. F. C. Weyland was in Watertown Jan. 29—30.

—Rev. Carl Spilman, New York, visited a few classes at N. W. C. recently. .

—Rev. Ernst Schoeneke was presented with a baby girl on Jan. 26.

—Rev. F. Blume, ex. ’27, Lemmon, S. Dak., visited N. W. C. a few weeks ago.

—David Rhea, ex. ’34, has been chosen as a representative on the men’s union assembly at the University of Wisconsin.

— At the Sem. game were: Herbert Notbohm, Amos Schwerin, Adolph Buenger, Edwin Raasch, John Martin, Theodore Rossin, Paul Heyn, Rev. and Herbert Nommensen, Prof. H. Bierwagen, John Wahl, Edward Krueger, W. Pless, E. Scharf, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bunge, Jack Dahlke, Hilbert Siegler, Herbert von Haden, Wm. Wichmann, Merton Albrecht, Sam. Lenz, Rev. N. Paustian，Alfred Schewe，Rev. H. Cares, Harold Neubauer, Herbert Buch, Lillian Trapp, Gertrude Koehn, Ruth Bruesehoff, Armin Schultz, Louise Notbohm, August Timmel, Miss A. Greinert, Rev. Kurt Timmel, and Melvin Schwenzen. We ask the pardon of anyone we may have missed.

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In the “Stoutonia” we find the regular, one might almost say monthly, editorial on courtesy. This time the editorial is directed against the smaller discourtesies such as passing a person without a sign of recognition. There is one form of discourtesy at Northwestern that should be recognized as such.

Undoubtedly you will have noticed it. A student sits in class with a vacant look on his face. Suddenly he breaks out in an undertone that is audible throughout the room, and asks his neighbor some question concerning the lecture. If he had been listening the point would be perfectly clear to him, but since he was in a brown study while the lecturer discussed the matter he prides himself that he is showing a special interest in the sub­ ject by asking questions. The neighbor answers the question and misses what the lecturer is saying in the meantime ; or perhaps he evades the questioner with an absent-minded “I donJt know”，in which case he is a prig; or perhaps he even remonstrates with his disturber who indignantly insists that he has a right to ask questions concerning the topic under discus­ sion. This same person is the one who uses a fingernail file in class. He holds his hand against the desk for support and saws away with the noise of a stick scratching* cement, entirely ob­ livious of the chills that run up the spines of his agonized neighbors with each rasp of the file. May his children all play saxaphones and his wife be artistically inclined !

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nature of the victim. To the “bummer” her sex is of the same significance as “training” is to some basket-ball players, viz; it is an excuse for “bumming” cigarettes instead of buying them. The economic features of this practice concern me very little, since “the weed” is only a weed to me, but it is the aesthetic feature that really bothers me. The following illus­ trates the degree of temerity to which some of the fair sex have arrived in this odious practice : One of my friends picked up a “dame” in an hour of need to take her to a party. He was per­ fectly honest in expressing the opinion that the party would be a flop even though it would entail not a small expense to him.

The young lady seemed perfectly willing to go under any cirumstance. The party did prove to be a flop, and the young lady forfeited any claim that she may have had on the title of lady by sulking and finally, just before leaving, filling her almost empty package of cigarettes from the package that my friend had left on the table. I don’t mind if women smoke, if they really have a liking for it and are able to demonstrate it by a certain amount of efficiency, but I do not like to see those ama­ teurs who smoke because they think it is smart. I’m not Vic­ torian enough to say that lips that touch tobacco shall never touch mine, but I certainly shall sue that person for alienation of affections who encourages my wife to bum cigarettes.

The evolution of a college student: Frosh — May I go out, Mamma ? Soph I’m going out tonight. Fll be in at ten.

Junior—Tm going out tonight. Senior — So long. I’ll bring in the milk.

Required subjects are often the object of editorial attacks in college publications, and I’m rather surprised to find a defense of them in the “Daily Cardinal” of Wisconsin. The gauntlet is cast by the “Daily Northwestern’’，which asserts that requirements are the vestiges resulting from a lag in educational evolution, and that they stand on the hypothesis that courses numbered and listed in a catalogue can, if taken by a student, transform that student into an educated man. The “Daily Cardinal” contends that the fallacy in such reasoning comes from the fact that the editorial writer takes it for granted that a college student is quite capable of choosing his own courses, and that, given his freedom, he will graduate a well-rounded man. Students entering college are in no wise capable of de­ ciding for themselves just what courses they should take. Such is human nature, that in many cases a student who is poor in English will avoid taking this subject and spend his time in a field more to his liking. The fact that graduates are often shallow has nothing to do with required courses, except in so far as they are not stiff enough. They should be so stiff that unless a student applies himself honestly and vigorously, he will fail to graduate.

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Milton played its usual style of ball and scored mostly on short shots after Kelling had fed the ball from the free throw circle. Sunby was the most effective scorer for Milton, netting six baskets and three free throws. Roekle counted 12 points to lead the Black and Red scoring on four baskets and a like num­ ber of gift tosses. In all, 27 fouls were called by Referee Nieser. Kelling and Sunby of Milton and Koehler of North­ western were ruled from the game on four personals.

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Northwestern outplayed Mission House the first period to take a 19—18 lead at the half. The score remained close until the last minutes of play when Plymouth counted on two tosses from midfloor and a short shot to run up a lead which won the game. The lineups : Northwestern F.G. F.T. F. Mission House F.G. F.T. F. 1 Doone, f.......... 1 Kusel, f 0 2 3 1 Steinecker, f-…3 2 Zimpelmann, f..5 3 0 2 Eberhard, c___3 Raabe, c 3 3 0 0 Kessler, g...

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2 Zarling, g-............. 1 0 2 Schewe, g...........0 8 8 8 11 5 11 Referee: Nieser (Milwaukee) Platteville 18, North western 26 Northwestern’s hoopsters copped the first of the two-game western trip series from the Wisconsin School of Mines five, 22—18, on February 2. The Miners grabbed the lead in the opening minutes and held it until late in the first half when Northwestern pulled ahead to lead, 14—12, as the half ended.

The second half was closely contested. The score was tied several times. In the late minutes of the game the Black and Red started hitting the basket and were out in front, 26—18, when the gun sounded. Zimpelmann and Hallemeyer for Northwestern and Clark for Platteville were high scorers with seven points each. The lineups : F.G. F.T. F. Northwestern F.G. F.T. F. Platteville Hallemeyer, 3 Clark, f____ 3 0 0 0 Dixon, f____ 2 Raabe, f. .0 0 2 Wilkins, f....

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At this point field goals by Roekle and Zimpelmann and two free throws by Schewe again gave Northwestern the lead and a sufficient margin for victory. A basket in the last minute of play brought Wartburg’s score to 31 points.

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0 Roekle, 2 4 Gamb, g …0 0 2 3 Mielke, g ...…0 0 Kretzschmar, g 0 0_1 0 11 9 "T5 12 9 11 Referee : Harper (Coe) School of Engineering 28, Northwestern 34 Northwestern ran its victories to four straight by easily defeating the School of Engineering five of Milwaukee, 34-28, on the home floor, February 10. The Black and Red completely dominated play in the first period, netting 12 baskets against the Engineers’ three long baskets to lead, 24-6, at half time.

The Milwaukee five came back fast and strong in the second half and gradually cut down Northwestern’s margin, but the lead was too great to overcome.

Only two fouls were called on the Engineers, on neither of which the Black and Red converted. The Engineers capitalized on four of 10 chances from the free throw line. Roekle and Zimpelmann led the scoring with 12 and 10 points respectively.

Wilkins accounted for nine points for the Engineers.

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February 8, the college pucksters overwhelmed the St. John’s Military Academy six, 6—1, in a rough battle. R. Siegler led the Black and Red scoring with three goals and two assists.

Bussewitz scored twice and Craine once. The Academy’s lone point was made by Hoyt in the second period.

The Northwestern roster includes Bussewitz, R. Siegler, 0.

Siegler, Stewart, Pagels, Schumann, Craine, Valleskey, Stiemke, Lueck and Zehms.

Inter-Class Basketball Collegiate Department Standings Won Lost Pet. Juniors 8 2 .800 Sophomores 5 4 .55(; Seniors 4 5 •444 Freshmen 2 8 .200 Preparatory Department Standings Won Lost Pet. Tertia 9 .900 Quinta 7 2 .778 Quarta 3 7 •300 Sexta 0 9 .000

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On January nineteenth 0. Lemke of the Philomathean Society presented his program treating of “Early American Literature”. “American Literature in its Infancy” was the title of E. Mehlberg’s speech. Because he was very nervous, his sense of hearing was developed more than his latent rhetor­ ical abilities. G. Ehlert’s speech, 4 The Creative Period of American Literature^, held the attention of the audience, and he most laudably summarized briefly the outstanding points of his speech before the conclusion, the necessity of which, in a longer speech dealing with many facts, is apparent. P. Bentert spoke of the Transcendentalists in a weakly humorous way, which is all they deserve. W. Hoepner was without a doubt 267

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His theme, “The Golden Age of American Literature”： was delivered in his clear, logical mode of speech. The music for the evening was: “The Second Hungarian Rhapsody”，a dyiet by the Lehmann Brothers, an excellent interpretation of a diffi­ cult piece, with only this weakness, as the critic remarked, that the pedalling was not quite exact: the ever-popular Quartet sang “^weet Genevieve” and “Boys of the old Brigade”； and the orchestra played “Wedding of the Rose” and <<PoccatellaM. As a whole, the program was educational and properly restricted to and covering well a reasonable period in the field of Ame­ rican Literature, such as it is. Professor Schumann acted as critic.

On February ninth, J. Mahnke of the Phi Gamma Rho Society presented his program dealing with the “New Political Philosophies’’，and the program proved deserving of its title.

T. Mittelstaedt spoke on Russia, presenting it in a light rather favorable to Russia. His delivery was excellent and he showed a thorough knowledge of his subject, as did the other speakers.

The Song of the Steppes，’，played by the brass Quartet, fol­ lowed. F. Tiefel’s topic was “Italy”. His speech was well delivered. J. Raabe commented on Hitler’s policies. His speech was preceded by the appropriate selections “Die Heimat” and “Die Wacht am Rhein”，the Quartet. M. Raabe interpreted the trend of American politics as correctly as is possible by one living in these times. This talk followed the singing of the national anthem by the Quartet. This program approached the ideal very closely, the music being- appi'9priate, the four leading countries represented, in short covering the field completely. The criticisms and additions of the critic.

Professor Sitz, were appreciated by all the members.

As we said before, the programs are excellent. If we said half as much for the audience, we would flatter it unduly.

Applause and a majority of the members of the Sophomore class are the two weaknesses of the audience. That it passive­ ly permits the speakers to tell them anything and never quest­ ions the speaker, we will pass over. Why applause should exist is a question which has never been satisfactorily answered.

If, in its inane way, it would show appreciation, as indeed some applause, which seems to be of a better quality, may, it might be tolerable. However the applause at the literal^ meetings certainly shows no appreciation. The popular hero, the humorous blunderer and the most informal speakers will receive tremendous ovations regardless of their presentations.

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Sophomores, beneath whose dignity it is to watch the “Tarzan” serial at the movies of a Sunday afternoon, always look as if they are about to shove their fingers in their mouths and whistle. It is our sincere opinion that they and a few others should listen to Cab Calloway or Duke Ellington rather than attend a meeting of the literary societies.

Although appendicitis is not even connected etymologically with Greek, nevertheless, the Junior class is trying to establish some relation between the two, since Zarling, Schroeder and Reuschel were made its victims during Greek periods.

On February seventh W. G. N. Sager was enshrouded in deepest gloom. He missed the two words which make his days radiant. There is a plot for a short story available for anyone who observes his actions.

It may have been noticed that the sophomores’ names occur time after time in this column. This is not intentional, nor is it done for spite. It just happens that they are outstanding in certain fields, and we wish to assure them that there are no ulterior motives prompting us.

Preps Ruprecht and Detert have been dubbed “The Women’s Home Companions’’，because they so dutifully see to it that the co-eds have someone, i. e., someone of them, to skate with. # The student body was unexpectedly thrilled recently when Professor Herrmann’s barn burned.

Martin Toepel was elected to the honorable position of Dress-Sergeant of the Band, and Zarling to the equally honor­ able position of assistant basketball manager.

The N club recently met and lo! the .‘losing streak” of our basketball team was broken. This truly reveals the strength of our newest organization (founded, lest we forget, to raise the standard of the N and to enforce training), since the basketball problem was not discussed at the meeting. The time has come to honor the founder, to fix his name in the minds of posterity. It has been suggested that we name the tackling dummy after him. Unless a greater honor can be found, this is to be adopted.

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Of course each new dress calls forth a public panegy nc.

Later, at intimate get-togethers, its merits and “demerits” are more fully discussed. , Catherine McFarland came to school one morning without the little curls which had been a source of never-ceasing wonder to us less fortunate sisters. “Though sadly missed by all who knew them’’，we must admit that we like her as well without them.

The other day one of our ambitious little Freshmen was in consultation with the dictionary. She turned the pages frantic­ ally, backwards and then forwards again. She searched and searched in vain — the page with that particular word was gone —whither we know not. We pause briefly to inform the reader that this is not an uncommon accurence; on the contrary it happens only too frequently, and to this exhausted little Fresh­ man it was quite beyond endurance. You see she had just finished the lengthy process we resort to when we find our­ selves in such a predicament. If you will be patient I will ex­ plain and by the time I have finished you will probably be as exhausted as our Freshman.

This is the procedure: You find a word you are not quite clear on when you are reading, and you consult the dictionary.

After much paging around you come to the place where it ought to be, but somehow it isn’t there. Next you ask someone, usually a high and mighty Senior. She knows what it means but can’t quite explain it to you. The etymology also escapes her for the moment. But she knows some synonyms and you try these. Sometimes you find them — sometimes you don’t, and when you fail you grit your teeth and turn to antonyms.

You understand, we are in search of a definition which will satisfy the most exacting of our professors. You look up a word that you think is an antonym to the one you want and when you find it — if you do — you look at the antonyms of that —if there are any — and if you find your word among them you realize that you have achieved at least partial success — and is success sweet! Complicated ? Of course it is — but what can one do ?

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The Freshman was seen no more that day. We meant to men­ tion before that we call that relic a dictionary only out of respect for its great age, The most optimistic of us began gathering the pages and restoring them to their former order.

Perhaps you will permit us to say that it is a tedious occupation, but that we are as far as page 3296 and proud of it. That peculiar noise you hear as you pass the girls’ room is nothing else but some methodical coed rustling the pages as she sorts them into groups of baa, glmpf, sjz, tsk, and so on.

Kind reader, we appeal to you. We thrust our pride and our awe or whatever we have behind us and beseech you, can­ not something be clone about our Dictionary ? 丨

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The Juniors were discussing a recent basketball game.

Tiefel: We should have played more of a stationary game.

Toepel: Well, we all haven’t girls to write to.

A policeman detailed to stop traffic from going over a certain bridge hailed a large car.

“Stop, you can’t cross this bridge !”

“Is that so ? Well, this is Judge Brown, now will you step aside ?”

“I didn’t recognize your honor,” came the policeman’s answer. “You see, I was ordered to stop all traffic from going over this bridge, because it is condemned as unsafe, but seein’ as how it’s yer honor, it’s a pleasure. Go right ahead•” A Chicago auto dealer says he stands behind every car he sells. Good thing he doesn’t sell mules! *

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“Smith is unlucky — he put his whole fortune into his wife’s name so that his creditors could not eret it.”

”He dp right”

“But his wife has eloped with his chief creditor.” * * * Soup一That lawyer would make a good tailor.

Fish—In what respect ?

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I envy thee, little lightning bug, You worry not a bit, For when you see a traffic cop, You know your tail-light’s lit.

A modern girl’s idea of music seems to be tooting her auto­ mobile horn in front of her boy friend’s house.

Junior : Daddy will you please get down on your hands and knees ?

Daddy : What for, son ?

Junior: ’Cause teacher wants me to draw a picture of a hippopotamus.

Prof.: Who invented the hole in the doughnut ?

Stude : Oh, some fresh air fiend, I suppose.

Finals, finals everywhere Drops and drops of ink, And never a prof that leaves the room To allow a guy to think.

A girl in love is often unable to express her thoughts, but it’s different after marriage.

An old negro was receiving a lecture from a judge.

•‘No'v, I don’t expect to see you here again’’，ended the man of the law.

"Why Mr. Judge,” queried the negro, “You’s not a-goin to resign, are you sah ?’’

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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A PARTING GLASS .With the publishing of this number, we see another volume added to the files of the Black and Red. Reluctantly, and yet. with a sigh of relief the five graduating members of the staff consign its torch into other hands. No one has regretted the time he has spent in working for its welfare. At times the work was inconvenient, but never wearisome and devoid of interest. It meant accomplishing something beyond the daily humdrum order of things, beyond the mechanical pen sum.

But the hour has struck for us to doff our robes of royal state, to lay down our stylus. â&#x20AC;˘ We wish to express our gratitude to the rest of the staff, to the typists, to Misses Rasmussen and Arnold for the Coed Notes, Mr. Dahlke for the Seminary Notes, and to all kind con­ tributors for the efforts and time they have spent in its behalf.

A new staff now takes up the task that we have laid down.

We, the retiring members of the staff, wish un bon voyage to our successors. May their verve and enthusiasm for their charge never flag, but be translated into naught but good for the Black and Red. We introduce the new editorial staff to you: R. Hagedorn Editor-in-Chief Associate Editor G. Barthels Business Manager 0. Sommers Fleischer Advertising Managers Lehmann Exchange W. Thurow Athletics E. Schroeder T. Mittelstaedt Locals Campus and Classroom 0. Siegler T.

V了 THE BLACK AND RED Volume XXXVII.

Watertown, Wis., March 1934

Number 10

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OLD BALDY Old Baldy seems to be the conventional name for mountain as much as Fido is for dog, or Polly for parrot. So I was some­ what disappointed when I learned that the lord of the Big Belts (the Big Belts of western Montana) had been christened so unobtrusively, even tritely. But the longer I stayed and the more I gazed at his massive outline, the more I appreciated the name. A romantic sheep-herder to the west might have re­ named him for some lady, about whom his occupation gave him plenty of time to dream. But a woman’s name was not a happy selection. You could hardly expect any woman to feel flattered by having- her name associated with anything as ample and hoary as Old Baldy.

Baldy formed a natural boundary between the sheep country to the west and the cattle country to the east and further divided these warring factions by interposing a buffer state of gold miners. All three are prone to forget their cares as they watch the sun slowly fade from Baldy with the valleys long steeped in total darkness. ， The bunkhouse door of the Porcupine gave one a splendi d view of Old Baldy, so massive, though distant, beckoning, yet aloof, daring the adventurer and at the same time threatening 274

him. We used to sit there frequently, swapping yarns, with the call to dare strong upon us. Earl Peterson, my bunkmate, and “Dad” Lacy would never tire of telling stories with Baldy the hero, or the setting. Stories of lost mines, fabulously rich, stories of men who had set out for Baldy and had not been heard of since. Bill Nielsen, my self-appointed instructor in western ways and manners (and there never was a better), vividly outlined a saddle trip to Baldy. Even Arizona Al, soldier of fortune, made his adventures sound especially hairraising when inspired by a moonlit Baldy. All of which was very romantic. But when the weeks rolled by and the end of my stay grew constantly nearer, I began to grow desperate.

Finally on a Sunday in late August, a week after our first bad snowstorm, our mining engineer, a man with an unbounded contempt for eastern tenderfoots, grew rather *'fed up” with my frequently-voiced desire to climb Baldy and put it to me in the form of a dare, backing it with $20. It was more an attempt to silence me than anything else. I think my enthusiastic acquiescence rather surprised him.

So I set out at one o’clock, (we had worked in the morning) with Bob, the ungainliest pup on record, and a small rifle whose firing pin was badly worn.

The day was cloudy and an east wind blowing. The ground was slushy with melting snow (this was August 27). I stopped in at the Snowdrift for a short chat with Lou Wright and Shorty Barnes and then set out through Thompson’s Gulch. I crossed Gypsy Bill Creek on a log and scrambled up the slope beyond.

I was crossing gulches at right angles and often came to some very beautiful scenes. The cuts had steep banks, but they were all thickly wooded with Lodgepole Pine, and the ground was covered with huckleberries on which Bob and I gorged.

Two hours after I left I reached the rim of Birch Creek Basin.

Birch Creek Basin takes the shape of an enormous horse­ shoe. At its toe Baldy broods, immense. On all sides, forming the sides of the horseshoe, the grandest peaks of the Big Belts rise imminent. The side facing the basin is a cliff rising sheer to six hundred feet from the floor of the basin. The effect is that of an enormous crater, ten miles long and five wide. Birch Creek tumbles down the center and the floor of the basin is .studded with beautiful lakes, whose water is clearest sapphire.

The ridge of the basin is 9,000 feet above sea level, about tim­ berline at this latitude. I followed the edge of the rim.

The wind was blowing at me from across the basin with considerable violence. It was blowing with it heavy steam clouds, which soon shut off my view of the basin.

I walked rapidly with the dog at my heels for progress was fairly easy. There were always well-worn deer trails to follow, and although there were many sharp rocks, I didn’t notice them 275

at the beginning of the hike. I chased up a number of wild animals—marmots, badgers, a few deer, black-tailed mule deer, 一and once I glimpsed a black bear down in the valley. There were a number of birds that I’d learned to know only recently —Clark Crows, Audubon’s Hermit Thrushes, Leucostictes, mountain and long-tailed Chicadees, and the delicate pink-sided Juncoes which frisked about my path, Pipits on the tundra-like areas above timberline, and once while crossing an open park, a large Blue Grouse that strutted boldly in at right angles to my course. Our paths would have met, but I stopped and he crossed five feet ahead of me with only a cursory glance or two.

I was completely immersed in clouds—heavy clouds that condensed on my clothes and face, and what with perspiring freely from within I was soaked in a short time.

The Twin Sisters, the highest peaks, second only to Baldy, mark the half-way point. I knew I was to reach them soon enough but the clouds had grown so thick that I could not see fifteen feet ahead of me I knew it would be difficult to deter­ mine when I reached them. I stayed close to what I thought was the rim of the basin and climbed peak after peak a little higher after each climb.

The pace was beginning to tell, however, and toughened as I was after a month’s gold-mining, I was tiring and so, I knew, was Bob, for his frequent meanders were growing shorter con­ stantly. Then struggling to the tip of another peak I sat down on an abutment of rock to rest, my legs hanging over the edge.

The wind was blowing up out of the basin with extraordi­ nary force. The clouds swept up like steam from a boiling cauldron. Bob was sniffing about at my side, his ears flopping in the wind. Once he slipped and would have tumbled over the abutment on which I sat, if I hadn’t caught him. Slowly the heavy clouds began to break, torn apart by the wind. Through the breaks in the clouds a wooded slope on a jagged cliff would show for an instant, immediately to be covered once more. It looked as if the earth were taking- shape—like chaos. Larger breaks—a section of the valley with a single mountain lakethen the hulk of Baldy’s top. Like a curtain the clouds lifted in a blowing gust, and I saw the whole vista at my feet. My heart jumped to my mouth, for the abutment on which I sat was an outcropping of rock overhanging the valley, with a sixhundred foot drop directly below me. I drew back and climbed to a safer perch. # I looked about me and saw that I was near the tip of Mt. Edith, the highest of the Twin Sisters. Twenty feet off I saw a crude table with the initials of the people who’d been there before. I carved Bob’s and mine in with the rest and started on.

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to feel the nails working through. About the same place Bob showed signs of fatigue. Now he stuck to my heels entirely, going off on sides trips to satisfy only the strongest urgings of curiosity. I can well imagine his plight. I found things ab­ sorbing enough with eyes and ears, but he with the addition of a sensitive nose was practically staggered. But sticking to my heel he soon found a drudgery and varied it with short spurts ahead where he would lie and wait for me, then spurt ahead once more and wait. .

It remained clear for half an hour, then it grew steadily cloudier as we approached Baldy. We came to a rock slide, the remains of an ancient lava flow. And this is where the trouble began. The rocks were large and loose. Bob found the way particularly difficult and after one half-hearted attempt sat back and whined until I picked him up and carried him under my arm. I jumped from rock to rock where ever it was possi­ ble, and crawled where the going was more difficult. One large rock balanced precariously, tottered over with our additional weight. I fell below it, but it bounced over me and went rolling and crashing down the slide to tumble at lenght over the rim of the basin. Then I reached solid footing once more, only to be ‘‘stumped，’ by a peculiar narrowing of the ridge, which rose to a near razor edge with a steep cliff on each side. I picked up Bob once more and worked my way over, astraddle the top. It was difficult, what with toting dog and gun, and sixty feet across, but none the less I could fully appreciate the figure I was cutting, with one leg in Smith River drainage and the other dangling down into Missouri drainage. Just one of the advant­ ages of being tall!

In the rocky place farther on I glimpsed an animal as it dashed ahead. All I saw was a flash of white, but considering the size, I’d say it might possibly have been a mountain goat.

The clouds were growing constantly thicker and the visi­ bility poorer, until I had to proceed with considerable caution to avoid tumbling over a cliff. The ridge grew wider—how wide I could not see, but as long as I continued uphill I knew I would be all right. I was well above timberline—not even a blade of green showed through the four inches of sticky snow underfoot.

The wind was blowing straight at me and not from below. I climbed up and up—I was becoming fatigued. My legs were aching and the sole of my left boot was coming loose. Up and up—I wanted to rest. The clouds were coming in waves; in the crest of some I couldn’t see Bob at my feet,—then a reces­ sion in which I might see fifty feet.

I walked on a mile, two miles—an hour—I don’t know how long, but gradually I realized that I didn’t have to lean ahead any more—that the tendons in the back of my legs didn’t ache quite as much at every step. I realized I was approaching the 277

summit. I proceeded more cautiously, only going on when it cleared a bit. At last I came to a place where it did not rise anymore. The ground sloped away in every direction. I gave a shout, scarcely audible in the roar of the wind. I sought out a protected spot behind a boulder and Bob drew up close. How long we lay there I could not say, but some time later I noticed that the clouds were breaking once more. The clouds sailed by in short order and we found that we were on the summit of Old Baldy, perched on his hoary old brow.

Oh, it was a magnificent view, that the clouds opened! All of Birch Creek Basin spread out below us. Lake Ida, the most beautiful of the lakes, at our feet, the other peaks in subser­ vience to our peak. Far off to the west the low-hanging sun sparkled off the winding surface of the upper Missouri, and far beyond, scarcely visible, lay Helena, sixty miles away.

We sat there a long time—until the setting sun warned us of the twenty miles back. But still we lingered, spell-bound, till the basin grew dark. Then we started down the mountain into it. Bob refused to budge, nor could any amount of coaxing get him to move. Finally I picked him up and carried him, till we chased up a marmot. Espying this, he struggled to get loose and dash gaily down the mountainside in mad pursuit The trip back was many times more strenuous than the earlier part of the hike had been, but it was too replete with difficulties to make interesting reading. There was a crescent moon for two hours, and the sky held a red glow for some time after the sun had set. The sight was enchanting. The un: reality of it all was enhanced b y the howling of coyotes and owls and once what might have been a wildcat. But I was so fatigued mentally and physically that the conceptions are dream­ like and fantastic. I will never forget the picture of the twin sisters blotting out the stars or my first view of the needles (windswept rocks of the Bryce Canyon variety) in the semi­ light, standing, as I was, knee-deep in a lake into which I’d floundered.

Just when the moon dipped behind the mountain I stumbled onto a trail, a well-worn trail. I hurried along it as fast as I could making utmost use of the little light remaining. When it grew pitch dark I felt my way along for some miles till I finally lost the trail in a park. I struck down hill. I was utterly worn out and began to stumble. It seemed as if w’d never get out of the timber. I stumbled down the last slope, my eyes tightly shut, and bounced from tree to tree and when there was an opening I’d fall and roll. Once I lost the rifle and spent a half hour groping about for it in the dark.

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cold woke me. So I kept on: keeping up a brisk pace till I was warm, then sleeping till the cold bit through.

Once we got out of the timber the night lost much of its pitchy blackness, and I was able to discern objects once more.

I was further able to proceed with my eyes open—no longer afraid of getting a twig in one. We stumbled onto a herd of cattle, white-faced Herefords, that dashed about with consider­ able noise. But Bob feeling frisky just after one of our halts, dashed at them with considerable noise, which really sounded impressive, and they turned tail. I didn’t fully appreciate Bob’s act at first, but it didn’t take much convincing by my bunkmates later that cattle are the most dangerous things a person on foot can meet. Especially at night. .

A mile farther on an Arctic Horned Owl almost picked up the pup ten feet away from me, but I scared the owl with an enormous shout which awakened the echoes on all sides.

The soles of my boots were completely worn off, and both of the heels were gone—I tied up my left boot with a bandana.

Both feet were numb when I finally reached the cabin. The last few miles didn’t even leave an impression. I vaguely re­ member struggling up the last slope, pausing every ten feet.

But finally I plodded up the path to the cabin. I opened the door, carrying the dog, tripped over the door-sill and sent rifle and yelping dog all over the room. I slept the clock round— which was almost supper-time the next day. Bob snoozed on the same bed for three days.

I never did get that $20, but that didn’t concern me. Old Baldy smiled at me from that day on.

As for Bob, he treated me like a time-honored friend, but from that day he wouldn’t follow anything, man or beast, a hundred yards from the doorstep.

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The official seal of Northwestern College. Yes, we all wear it either on our ring-finger or lapel. Our young men whose hearts have lightly turned to thoughts of someone on the other end use Mon tag’s stationery with the college seal in beautiful colors. The symbol has become the most democratic ornament about the college. It adorns everything: stationery, college catalogs, Black and Ked cover designs, bronze calendars, bronze stilettoes, silver rings, and other bagatelles. It really is quite commonplace. Yet they all want it, because it represents the college which someone else’s boy is attending.

But — the seal seems to have dried up. The general lot of students have forgotten or else are ignorant of its significance.

The sigilluiu is the key, or secret, of our institution. Because it is such a simple affair, it is usually overlooked. Let us take a moment’s time to look at it with open eyes and open minds.

It reads: SiAillum Golle^ii Watertownicnsis. It bears the date MDCCCLXV, the year of our founding. The center of the design is occupied by a Greek temple, perhaps the Parthenon. Thus far, the design is purely classical. This would make a noble emblem for any college of liberal arts. The Parthenon is the symbol of all classical knowledge and art. The aim of this school is to give a classical education of universal scope based on a thorough knowledge of the ancient classical languages.— But, we have not yet finished with the seal. Above the temple frieze appears the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove, emanating rays of light upon the temple. Above the dove we see the word Jehovah in Hebrew characters.

Now let us abandon the figures themselves and speak in the terms which they represent. — Our liberal education is of a universal scope. It is to free our minds and open them to world-thought. First, mathematics is to teach our minds to be 280

i orderly and accurate. Then literature, especially poetry, is to give us a sense of beauty, even give us a beautiful mind and make us esthetes. Latin and Greek literature is taught prim­ arily to acquaint us with Greek and Roman philosophy, which ancient philosophy (both physical and metaphysical) was the foundation of all European philosophy. It shows us the utmost mankind can do to approach temporal and eternal happiness with its own reasoning power. Our complete course in history aids also to show us the futility of man’s reason and accom­ plishments. Lofty and noble, indeed, were the thoughts of the ancients: poets, philosophers, and historians. Great and mighty, indeed, were the deeds of ancient heroes: Alexander, Hanni­ bal, Caesar, down to Napoleon, Bismarck, and General Foch.

But, oh how small! They had, let it be granted, beauty and might But what have they done for humanity? Not much; they have made classical esthetes and brave hearts for these earth-worms. But they have not liberated mankind from the damnation which the individual feels in his own heart. — Here is where the Dove spreads his radiant beams of light upon their thought and deeds. It does not only show classical accomplish­ ments in a clear light, but also makes the true and undeniable wisdom of God intensely conspicuous by its absence. There is . a voidness and a futility in human world-thought. In divine wisdom, however, despite its vastness, our souls become satis­ fied. (Sir Thomas Browne suggests this idea.) Not only does the Spirit enlighten us in this respect, but He also shows us how we do attain temporal and even eternal happiness. Namely, by the love of serving in the spirit of love, both God and one’s fellowman — not by finding pleasure in another’s ignorance.

Natural sciences teach us the limitations of human understand­ ing, and at the same time to bow our heads in humility before the Creator and urge us to glorify the omniscient-omnipotent God. And, lest we forget, the little symbol within the frieze of the temple — the lyre — represents music. Daily we are urged and encouraged to develop a taste for fine music. It need not continually be sacred music. Classical music, the operas and symphonies, are brought to our attention. Luther said that next to theology music is the greatest gift of God. Good music is wont to develop an esthetic feeling. This in turn tends to develop an esthetic disposition. —We speak of developing esthetes. Why not leave the raw material roughly hewn?

Well, that’s a matter of taste which we do not care to enter upon. One thing is established: that an esthetic mind seeks the higher ideals in life. If these higher ideals are guided by the Dove-Spirit, we shall have true Christian characters. Such a character will seek to glorify God in song and pray to the Giver of light for further light. This, by all means, does not say that one who is untaught in poetry and music will lack faith 281

I 哪J3la洫啦 and will not humbly glorify God. It matters not what the station in life may be, or how far he may live in the hinterland; if he possesses faith, hope, charity, he is an esthete. The Spirit sheds his rays of divine light also upon him and his work.

—Lastly, may we utter a few words concerning dramatics.

Though dramatics seemingly is violently discouraged, still it belongs to a liberal classical education. It does develop good taste; it does give one a civil, gentlemanly bearing; and it does make esthetes. Negative products outside of our circles do not disprove the cultural merits of dramatics. True art is not called art for the sake of giving it a cloak to entice the unethical. We seek the sublime and beautiful. The pursuit of dramatics is an art, and therefore the players whose life is guided by the divine Spirit should become humble before the art and at the same time rejoice in the beauty expressed therein. The arts in general are there for us to enjoy and to remind us again of our Maker.

We are exposed to the liberal arts and to the Scriptures, sometimes indeed in a very formal and technical manner, at other times with a clear and decided purpose of leading us to an appreciation through the sense of beauty and through the all-abounding- Spirit of God. The curriculum is ideal in itself.

Such students who have become discouraged and disgusted with the hurly-burly of technicalities and their seeming ultimate uselessness should be encouraged and lifted from their melan­ choly condition and shown the true light by someone (teacher or fellow-student) who has an understanding heart of love.

—Ferd. R. Weyland

THE PURPOSE OF THE GREEK CHORUS That most wonderful of Greek dramatic instru­ ments, the Greek Chorus. — Gilbert Murray To the modern reader the outstanding difference between the drama of today and the drama of ancient Greece is the chorus in the latter. Most persons have a false impression of its real functions. To some it is a fossil, remaining from the worship of Dionysus, never successfully sloughed by the Greek dramatists. Others call it the ideal spectator, the mouth­ piece of the poet, a sop thrown the audience, or a clever mechanical device for motivating entrances and exits. Some of these statements contain a bit of truth, but. individually championed by unsympathetic persons they invariably destroy all chance of appreciating the chorus as an essential element, not an unnecessary evil.

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the play. It gives us, for example, the essential difference be­ tween the satyric drama and tragedy. In tragedy the chorus is the interpreter of the play and of its characters, usually being in sympathy with the hero or heroine. In satyric drama, how­ ever, the chorus does not act in this manner. Its chorus of satyrs, whom tradition pictures as an idle and mischievous race, obliges the play to deal with subjects of a lighter kind, to deal with love and wine. A chorus of satyrs could hardly express serious reflections or profound speculations. Nor was confidence between the satyrs and the hero likely. It would obviously have been out of place. A satyr chorus would also rather enliven than sadden the audience, even though it did not descend to the level of its comic sister. In tragedy, the chorus brought the correct tone of formality, of gravity, into the play, even in its more joyous and rapturous moments.

The chorus was also a physical necessity in the Greek drama, owing to the physical conditions of its theatre. Those who attended the theatre in ancient Athens received no play­ bill acquainting them with the drama about to be presented.

The chorus had to supply this information. Furthermore, the Greek theatre had no curtain, which would conceal an empty stage or indicate the passing of an interval of time. An empty stage is not artistic. The Greek felt this keenly. The drama­ tist was consequently forced to keep some human beings in the orchestra continually — the chorus. The speeches of the chorus had an indefinite time value. Sometimes they spanned hours.

This did not offend the Greeks, becauce they were artists enough not to permit their unities to impose upon them. The Greeks retained them because they saw the wisdom in them, which the French later missed, when they insisted on conforming to them as to absolute rules.

The chorus, however, not only determined the nature of the play, but in tragedy also bound its various parts into one single unit. Fundamentally, it seems, it was not the purpose of the chorus to sympathize with the hero or heroine, although by doing so it became a component part of the play. Rather, it acted as an interpreter, through whom the play acquired a smoothness and unity unparalelled. By its longer speeches it linked what had gone before with what was to come, leading over from one mood into another, thus making possible a smooth, well-balanced performance. The chorus, however, was limited in its interpretation and its preparation for what was to come just as the actors were limited. The final lines of Sophocles’ Ajax express this finely: “Before he sees, no man may read the future, or his fate.” This limitation to a certain extent humanized the functions of the chorus, brought it down to earth, and made way for a few surprises in the de­ velopment of the plot.

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A sudden change annoyed him. Modulation from key to key was necessary — especially in tragedy, which united what was finest in Greek life, religion, philosophy, and poetry. The Greek demanded an organic unit. A series of scenes which could only be connected with each other by doing1 violence to the senses displeased him. You may object, saying that you do not feel similarly when you see the dramas of Shakespeare and others. That may be true. But did it ever occur to you that this insensibility might be the result of habit or of a mere willingness on the part of the spectator to forego the enjoy­ ment of a perfect whole because of the superb beauty of the individual scenes? The Greek would not have tolerated Shake­ speare.

We have said that the main dramatic purpose of the tragic chorus was to bring about a unity of temperament, mood, and spirit. Without exemplification this statement will remain a vague thinjr. Let us use Sophocles’ Ajax as an example. The prologue of the tragedy establishes two facts as the basis of further action: first, that Ajax, afflicted with divine madness when about to slay Odysseus and the two sons of Atreus, had turned upon their sheep and cattle, thinking them his enemies; and secondly, that Odysseus will report this to the Greeks.

Preceded by a flute player, the fifteen Salaminian sailors and warriors of the chorus enter in evident agitation and perturbation: “I[quake exceedingly and am sore afraid, like a winded clove with troubled eye.” They emplore Ajax, within the tent, to deny these rumors, since they “are helpless to repel these charges.” Their imploring, agitated verses compel an audience which knows the general plot and outcome of the entire piece, since it is taken from the Homeric cycle, to take interest in a character who is by right not worthy of their sympathy and understanding-, since his present plight is the result of the arrogance which he had displayed toward the gods.

When Tecmessa (wife of Ajax), in the lyric kommos which follows, confirms their fears, the members of the chorus feeling the entire horror of the situation express their desire to take to the “seafaring ships.” Tecmessa, however, assures them that Ajax again is sane. This revives their hopes, since they can reason with a sane Ajax. (Here we have a clear example of how Sophocles humanizes the tragedy, making fate dependent upon human actions, not on divine intervention.)

The opening doors disclose Ajax sitting among the slain of the sheep and cattle. (An eccyclema was used here.) Address­ ing them he tells them that life is unbearable after such an humiliation. They can do nothing else than acknowledge his hapless position, but thereupon with Tecmessa implore him to 284

change his intentions. (The chorus here acts just as an in­ dividual would act. It is not an impersonal entity.) But Ajax is determined and solemnly takes leave of his son, Eurysaces.

The chorus then remarks ominously: “I am afraid when I mark this eager haste: I like not the keen edge of thy speech.” After Ajax curtly• answers Tecmessa’s, 4 Tor the gods’ love be softened!” wwith, “ ’Tis foolish hope, methinks, if thou wouldst begin now to school my temper,M the chorus in a depressing, heavy stasimon, conjuring up the effect which the insanity of Ajax will have on his father and mother, finally comes to the conclusion that death is the lesser evil, thus preparing for the following speech of Ajax which the audience interprets correctly but the chorus does not: ‘‘I will seek out some untrodden spot, and bury this sword, hatefullest of weapons.” % The chorus misunderstands this and with rapture sings, “I thrill with rapture, I soar on the wings of sudden joy!” But the messenger who comes bringing the report of the prophecy of Calchas changes the joy of the chorus into fear: 'This peril touches us too closely for our peace.” The chorus, dividing into two parts, then leaves to search the shores for Ajax.

After a change of scene, —- a rarity in Greek drama, the only other example being found in Aeschylus’ Eumcnides — we see the object of their search, Ajax, taking leave of nature and bidding her farewell as one of her children. The death of Ajax seems so inevitable that we feel no horror, that we do not realize its full meaning, until the chorus calls it to our mind.

Its hope of ever returning home lies shattered with its leader.

Tecmessa also is now exposed to the enemies of Ajax. But as long as the body of Ajax has not received its decent burial, the chorus cannot stop to bewail its dead leader. When Teucer arrives, the chorus spurs him on to bury the body before the news of the death of Ajax spreads among his enemies. Too late! Menelaus and Agamemnon come to prevent it. The consequent appeal of the chorus to Odysseus is the final service it pays to its dead chief. Their request is granted and the chorus leaves the orchestra behind the bier of Ajax.

Wicke ON READING BOOKS One flash through a human brain, and in spite of the abstruse nature of the dogmas, in spite of the absence of literary talent, the whole intellectual trend of mankind will be changed for several generations. Well and good. But where, how do we find this dynamic influence suddenly thrust upon the world? From conversation? Yes, a little. But much more from books, the magister stultorum. We are progressing rapidly. Books are tlie thing. Now, which books? Remenber, 285

Spinoza had but 60 volumes, and Kant had 300, of which onehalf comprised travel narratives. But, you ask, which books shall I read? Only those which are thought productive to you 一 let all else go. Truly, the deluge of books produces phan­ tasms, so we must draw the line somewhere. Therefore I must present you with this formidable thought: use introspection, and read only thought-productive books. “Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.” The author of this passage continues: Reading maketh a full man.

Or are you, gentle reader of the same mind as Lord Foppington, who says: "To mind, the inside of a book is to entertain one’s self with the forced product of another man’s brain. Now I think a man of quality and breeding may be much amused with the natural sprouts of his own.” Beware of that philosophy. The greatest obstacle to reading is a congenital capacity for in­ activity.

Our next crux is: how to read correctly? We must remem­ ber that we are Americans, and so admit that easy methods or practicality are a dogma with us. True, plodding along page after page with equal attention to each word results in word reading, but not thinking. That is why Greek and Latin are SO oppressive to the tyro: word reading. That is why home reading in an inforced method as some schools have, is also oppressive.

Genius doesn’t plod, so why not skip along right merrily? But make it a thinking, comprehending skipping. In order to criticize a book, one must comprehend it. So criticism is com­ prehension and criticism is a synonym for thought.

Also read aloud as the ancients did. They had not our voluminous libraries. A manuscript to them meant the same as family airplane does to us. Once a manuscript was procured, they read aloud so more could hear.

No, dear reader, thought alone counts, and thought cannot coexist with anything that is not our self in its highest and noblest possibility. Nothing is commensurate to thinking — it is a practical art. Inevitably, we mortals will reveal in our thoughts (thus to speeches and writings) our outlook on life, and the quality of these thoughts (or images) over against those of another man’s is the superiority of that person over the other. The man who has been of his own time has really been of all time. # ' To come nearer home, our school knowledge is an embryo of pleasure to be used later on. We must go over our knowl­ edge, reread books to find new delights in them. To slight this is as foolish as the idiot farmer who tills and seeds his land with great pains, and when the harvest is ripe turns his back on it and thinks of it no more.

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AN ESSAY TO ENCOURAGE At some time or other all of us are attacked by the feeling of “What，s the use?”，01，“Why study! I’ll never get to know as much as this or that fellow anyway.” In saner moments some of us went to work again. Some, however, remained in the rut, not because of lazinesss, but because they honestly imagined that they now had a legitimate reason for not studyingor that they had originated a new philosophy. Such students who at crucial moments resort to “My case is hopeless”，we would like to encourage. , If you are at the foot of the class, without enthusiasm or ambition because you cannot even picture a small success, if you have definitely decided that your case is hopeless, why should we interfere! But is it hopeless?

In this action in which you automatically renounce your ability to accept any responsibility, you may be able to slide by now. If in later years you could do the same, your troubles would.be over, and your “Who cares?” would be accepted as a new philosophy. Soon, however, the first of March will mean to you, as to every one else, the time to get the car license, the first of October will be the time to buy coal, and the first of any month will be the time to pay bills. If one could only apply the new philosophy then. There'll be a time when you are given the responsibility over something, anything between firing the furnace and running an auto factory. You probably will not ever want to apply your 'passive resistance’ here; but what will you have to fall back on if you’ve never exerted yourself? The bad part of your philosophy is that later on you . will have to stand aside while others begin to receive recogni­ tion. Have you ever noticed that the “Who cares?” student does not get on the Black and Red Staff, never gets an important office in any organization, never is considered when class elections are held, never even gets the captaincy of a sport? Attach to these attainments any importance you wish, they, nevertheless, indicate how much recognition you arouse.

Probably you are not here of your own choosing and would like to be working, or be somewhere else! Do you know that thousands of people, even young fellows of your own age, con­ sider an education a privilege! This one is the only son and must help support brothers, sisters and parents. Another fellow’s health does not permit his remaining indoors long enough to study. Since you are at school take all you can get.

Furthermore, how will you, who have gone to College and of whom great things are expected, be forced to feel when you come into contact with others who have had less of an education and are forced to answer their questions with “Well, really, I don’t know”，or, “I never studied that very diligently’’，or 287

even an “Aw, what’s the difference”？ Can’t you just see these questioners smiling to each other.

In the first six years at high school and college you are taught rules and regulations, fundamentals and principles. In these years your best efforts are criticized to an extent which often disgruntles you. In the following years you try your hand at constructive work and whatever you have absorbed be­ gins to appear. If you have applied yourself in your earlier years you will now have time for such work. In these two years your classmates, professors and friends form critical opinions, but seldom truthfully divulge them. It is as well that way. If in your creation it is clear, not that you are bright or quick-witted, but that you have applied yourself, no one will tell you about it. You will, however, gather as much from the respect and recognition you receive.

We are still dealing with the fellow who is convinced that his lot is to play second fiddle. When you say that your case is different; that there is no chance of your forging to the front; that your only refuge is “What’s the use?”，you are on the wrong track. And most likely you’ve admitted as much to yourself long ago; but how to go about the ‘leaf-turning’！ You could attack every subject with an unprecedented gusto, but we ve tried that — and on the very next day we have ‘flopped-in’ worse than ever before. Then if ever one is prompted to throw in the towel.

Try a different approach. There is a part of you which tells you to work hard; there is another part which says, ‘‘It’s a mess, let it go.” If you begin to harbor a germ of pride in yourself the first part will be strengthened and will not permit a flaw in any other part of your make-up. What else could one ask for?

How to arouse the germ of pride? You are without a be­ lief in yourself, so something must be found on which yon can base your self-confidence — your pride in your ability. To be­ gin with, you must do a small thing which no one else has done or can do. Let us say you go out for a sport and train. Be the first student to train and brag about it — to yourself. Or take up a musical instrument and spend all of your spare time in practice. The first band member found guilty of this may walk with a justifiable swagger.

Bring out some hobby you have always been interested in.

If it is new you may be ridiculed — the populace must have some way of hiding their envy. Probably you have an ability to draw, caricature, paint, sing, to take pictures, to write, to playfootball, basketball, etc. Do fancy skating, study your favorite subject — but you must excel in the hobby or study you choose.

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Then there is this also: you might think that, while your ability to do one thing is outstanding, everyone knows that your general knowledge is deficient. No ! Everyone does not know.

If your class numbers twenty-five then twenty-five will know your standings; and if the dormitory knows your weak subjects then one hundred and fifty will be 'in the know’. But what does that number matter over against the ten thousand inhabi­ tants of this community alone who will think you are 'the berries’！ When you graduate, whom will you deal with? The one hundred and fifty students who know your standings, or the ten thousand inhabitants of some community who look up to you because of your one exceptional ability — be it, let us say, speaking, playing basketball, drawing, entertaining, or studying!

The hoi polloi respects anyone who is able to do what most people can not or do not do. Of ‘big men’ big things are expected, even in fields in which these men do not specialize.

Selecting a few ‘big men’ at random we might mention Messrs.

Dempsey, Einstein, Gable or the champion U. S. High School cornetist. These men are leaders in their respective fields, but altho Mr. Einstein excels in Mathematics the public takes it for granted that he knows everything- practically. Mr. Dempsey and Mr. Gable are show men, and without asking for a proof people expect these men to be able to do anything' well. \Ve’ve never even seen the cornetist, but we believe he has pretty fair marks in school. The basis for this relief is; since a person is outstanding in this or that he is outstanding in everything else.

We will not discount or laud this public fallacy, but you might as well take advantage of it.

You need not have ‘Ex’s’ in all subjects, nor need you be downhearted if you have none at all. All that is needed is an excellence in some one subject, it need not be a study, or a steady application in all things that you deal with. Don’t worry about the ‘steady application’； your pride will unconsciously supply that in time.

The respect of your fellow-students will be aroused as soon as you have the reputation for excellence in one field. Pick out some student, in another class, whom you lookup to and expect great things of, because he is especially adept at a sport, or because he has a penchant for distinguishing between birds, plants or trees, or because he has a ‘Sprachgeftihl，for German.

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this is established you will be respected. There is a professor who appreciates when you work, there is a crowd which applauds when you make a touch-down. This is the small success which you may look forward to. While working for it there will be a reaction going on within you. If you have an ability to excel in one field, be it ever so unimportant, you will justify the respect which people will have for you by working to show that you can also do other things well.

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EDITORIAL GLEANINGS A notion that I could write once buzzed around in my head too. But by dint of sufficient self-castigation, I rid myself of it. Self-criticism became more searching and more intolerant.

Its garish light disclosed many aberrations and flaws. Now, instead of complacently dashing off essays with the imagined dexterity and polish of an old hand, I tear my poor productions to tatters and smile as they flutter around the waste-basket, as if reluctant to drop into it. That, fortunately, is the fate of many scribbled outbursts.

In the case of many of us, we are not sufficiently at home in the subjects that we undertake to present. There is a quota­ tion of Hardy’s that I ran across last summer, which I believe embodies one of the fundamental rules of compostion. He writes somewhat as follows: “The people who half know a thing are those that write about it; those who know it thoroughly don’t care to.” All too often the rule that lies latent in this simple statement has been transgressed. You must have a good grasp of your subject matter, must know what you are writing about. These brilliant sallies into unfamiliar subjects for the most part result in abortive productions. Too often a writer 291

may take a learned topic which will smack of undigested encyclopedia and magazine articles, or perhaps one that is too subjective for a young- mind, or a polemic that is not sanely written — in short he ventures forth into foreign territory, too often where he has no panoramic view. Those who really have an insight into the matter in hand can often scarcely refrain from breaking out into a hearty chuckle at the thought of the callow ideas expressed. To understand how maturer judgment may look at your production, read over what you wrote several years ago as a high school student sitting on the top of the world, and let your pitying and condescending smile light upon the manuscript now before you.

Let us suppose that you have made a good choice of a workable topic. By all means outline it, whether mentally or on paper, no matter how mechanical it may appear to you select, more fortunate individuals, outline it. No matter how intriguing the ideas expressed in such words phrases as, “a rhapsody’’，and ‘‘a rambling delightfully onward’’，may be, don’t fall victim to the style of writing suggested by them. I grant that great men may do this, but we poor Grub Street writers must tread on terra firma. Outlining1 is a drudgery, but you will find that it is well worth your while.

The picture of an author “writing at a white heat” has appealed to me too. But I venture to guess that most of the people who have written thus have felt strongly inclined to consign their work to the rubbish heap the next day. Fortun-, ately such saner moments do follow. The revising, boiling down, and refurbishing makes the subject presentable. The first draft may be likened to crude ore; the completed essay to the polished steel of a Toledo blade. If you will write you must inure yourself to recasting and rewriting. An unmarked first draft is to be eyed askance.

Don’t “fall in love” with your own work. Keep a weather eye cocked for weak points that will not stand the strain of a critical public. Never pamper pet phrases and expressions.

Regardless of how it pains you to drop them, even if they appear to be master strokes of genius, gems that will be quoted by others, will become household words, cross them out if they are an incongruous element. If they are not in harmony with the rest, they will be looked upon as a mere striving for effect, as something that was “raked up”，and the prejudice against these tactics seals their death warrant. With the rest, I pass over them with a shrug.

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Two of the nine Dartmouth students who were killed by coal gas in their fraternity house Feb. 25 were grandsons of Rev. Dr. Emil Mohldenke, professor of theology at the old Lutheran Seminary on N. Fourth St. back in the 1站0’s.

— Rev. Roland Kremer, ’20, on the 10th of March, accepted the inspectorship at Northwestern. We congratulate the Board on their choice.

— Dr. Carl Spilman, ’20, Ph. D. New York University, visited a few classes at Northwestern recently.

—Revs. Louis Bleichwehl, ’30, Larson, Wis., and Marcus Fleischer,，30, Red Granite, Wis., paid N.W.C. regular visits during the past month.

—Cornelius Trapp and Melvin Schwenzen still find time to visit their Alma Mater occasionally.

— The house of Rev. Harold Grunewald, ’24，Kiel, Wis.， burned recently. When the fire department ran out of water the used whey from a nearby cheese factory.

—Paul Pamperin, ex-’37，visited Northwestern February 18.

—Arnold Myren and Dean Hotlen, both ex-’37，were seen in the dormitory on the 3rd and 11th of March respectively.

—Erich and Hans Schultz still spend their week-ends in Watertown as heretofore.

—ArthurAustin, ex-’36, paid Northwestern a visit on March 11.

—Careful observers report that Resting and Buch were NOT in Watertown recently.

—Prof. Eickmann, ’16, taught at St. Mark’s school some time ago as a substitute.

—Irvin Gamm，’16 and wife, Seattle, Washington, spent two weeks in Watertown recently.

—MartinSchumacher, ?10, Sheboygan, Rev.W.Reinemann, ’ll, Mindoro, and Rev. Martin Zimmermann, ’18, were in Watertown for the golden wedding of Mr. and Mrs. H. Zimmerman, Feb. 26.

The following were the men nominated for the office of in­ spector at N.W.C. Rev. Walter Beck, Greensboro, N. C. Rev. Ernst Behm, Wautoma, Wis. 295

Rev. A. Berg, Sparta, Wis. Rev. August Bergmann, Jefferson, Wis. Rev. Fred Blume, Lemmon, S. D. Rev. Fred Brand, Appleton, Wis. Rev. Werner Franzmann, Caloma, Mich.

Rev. Im. P. Frey, Hoskins, Nebr.

Rev. Edgar Gamm, Mobridge, S. D. Rev. Edgar Guenther, White River, Ariz.

Rev. E. J. Hahn, Naper, Nebr.

Rev. Wm. Hartwig, Montello, Wis. Rev. Carl Hintz, Mason City, la.

Rev. Paul Horn, Zumbrota, Minn.

Rev. George Kobs, Markesan, Wis. Dr. Henry Koch, Berlin, Germany Rev. Roland Kremer, N.W.C. Rev. Wm. Lehmann, Libertyville, 111.

Rv. Wm. Lutz, Escanaba, Mich.

Rev. H. C. Nitz, Rockford, Minn.

Rev. Paul Oehlert, Kaukauna, Wis. Rev. Walter Pankow, New London, Wis. Rev. Gerhard Press, Sioux City, la.

Rev. Sigmund Probst, Woodland, Cal. Rev. Henry Rossin, San Carlos, Ariz.

Prof. F. Taub, Mobridge, S. D. Prof. Ernst Wendland, N.W.C. Rev. Wm. Wietzke, Shickley, Nebr.

Rev. Walter Zank, Waterloo, Wis.

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One of the trials of the exchange editor : His favorite paper arrives. Hurriedly he opens it literally smacking his lips in anticipation of his favorite column only to find to his disgust that it has made room for some cigarette advertisement. Such a situation was especially noticeable in one of the last Stentors and evidently its publishers were well aware of the fact. We read : “The administration feels that the college paper is an important activity and thus ought to be brought to the highest plane comparable to the other activities such as athletics, music, and dramatics. In order to remove difficulties arising from se­ curing1 advertisements to cover costs, it has been suggested that it would be better for the college to subsidize the paper in order that its major part might be taken up with reading： matter.”

To criticize a paper for its advertisements is obviously unjust, nevertheless the situation in many papers is regrettable to say the least. To any college whose financial standing is such as to allow it the solution that Lake Forest has adopted is certainly ideal---- In a further atte empt to improve the Stentor a set salary will be paid to the、editor and business manager, _ and a fund will be maintained from which writers of any noteworthy material will receive remuneration.

According to writ, the C.W.A. was to have provided work for approximately ten percent of the college students. I wish to affirm that an error has been made in the calculations, for the editors of the papers were not taken into consideration, and at least ninety-five percent of them have found work writing editorials on the project.

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the old institution of cramming, because it represents the high­ est order of concentration. He also asserts that modern psycho­ logists believe knowledge gained more rapidly will be retained longer and more fully. “*fhe Old Gold and Black”.

After a year of trying to find in college newspapers ideas that are worthy of reprint or comment I am in a position to sympathize with my successor. I have a suggestion that will aid him materially if it is adopted, namely : instead of confining this column to Exchange, change it to a column “de rebus om­ nibus”， possibly under that heading. Such a column was at one time in existence in the Black and Red, appearing as a regular .column until sometime in 1918. The column that I suggest would differ from the old one in that it would also contain the Exchange.

The “Black and Red” lacks what we understand by the term column. As far as I am concerned such a column is always the most interesting part of any paper that comes to this desk.

Besides being interesting as a rule, it has advantage and value in representing most completely the school and the student body to a stranger, for in it one finds those little touches that really portray more than any news that is important enough to be headlined can. In the present form of the Exchange column there is little opportunity for originality, and the material that may be gathered from other colleges is fast becoming merely news. Even the literary material is almost without exception local. The old policy of the exchange column was to criticize each paper constructively, of course using the Black and Red as a criterion. To return to this policy would be ludicrous, since there are very few papers issued in the form of the Black and Red. We ignore the fact that we have no course in journalism upon which we may base our criticisms. Since the Black and Red is primarily intended for a literary production it would really be out of place to make the column simply a journal of events occurring at other colleges. The editor of the exchange column must have a wider choice of material if the column should be interesting.

According to reports several of the coeds feel that too much liberty was taken in this column in the last issue of the “Black and Red”. If this is really the case I wish to apologize, and to affirm that I have the highest respect and regard for them as a whole. I have several times expressed myself in this strain to one or the other of them.

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Milton 25, Northwestern 15 The Milton College cagers clinched the inter-collegiate conference title by defeating the Black and Red, 25—15, at the Milton gym on February 14. It was a rough encounter, to put it mildly, and not much of real basketball ability was displayed in the play of either. Northwestern had great difficulty in connecting with the hoop. Schewe’s basket was the only one scored by the Black and Red in the first period. Milton led at the half, 12—6. Sunby topped the Milton scorers with five baskets. lioekle’s six points were high for Northwestern.

The lineups: Northwestern F.G. F.T. F. Milton F.G. F.T. F. 1 Hallemeyer, 2 2 Parker, f 0 0 0 Sunby, f.

Koenig, f 5 0 1 0 0 Zimpelmann, f ..1 2 2 0 3 Kelling, c 0 Koehler, c 0 0 0 Raabe, c._ 0 0 3 Loofboro, g .7-…2 2 0 Schewe, g 0 2 2 Rogers, g........... 1 2 Roekle, g_ 11 3 6 5 5 7 Referee: Matthusen..

Platteville 21, Northwestern 29 In the last home game of the season, on February 22, the Black and Red turned back the Badger School of Mines five, 299

29—21. Tight defensive ball was played the first half. At half time the teams were deadlocked at 11—11. Northwestern hit its scoring stride in the second period and piled up a 25—12 advantage in the first ten minutes. Co-captain Zimpelmann gave the home fans a spectactular shooting performance, net­ ting shots from the corners and from far and near to score a total of 17 points. Loeffelholz was most effective for Platteville, netting five baskets and two free throws. The lineups: Northwestern F.G. F.T. F. Platteville F.G. F.T. F. Hallemeyer, 0 1 Dixon, f..

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0 0 2 Zimpelmann, f…7 3 Rudkin, f 0 0 Raabe, c___ Loeffelholz, c■…5 2 2 Koehler, c..

2 0 0 Cordingly, g___ 0 2 2 Schewe, g..

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2 0 0 0 1 Grimes, g 0 3 Fredricks, g .0 Wilkins, g 0 0 0 12 5 7 8 5 10 Referee : Nieser (Milwaukee) Seminary .*51, Northwestern 47 Northwestern closed the current basketball season by over­ whelming the Lutheran Seminary quintet at Thiensville, Febru­ ary 24. After a period of fast, hard fought play the Seminary five held a 17—15 lead at the opening of the second half. As the Sem. defense began to weaken the Black and Red increased their scoring pace, caging 32 points during the second period to take a final 47—31 decision. Seniors Zimpelmann, Schewe, and Raabe, wearing the Black and Red for the last time, climaxed their collegiate basketball careers with a superb performance.

The graduating trio accounted for 37 of Northwestern’s total of 47 points. Krueger and Raasch were outstanding offensively for Seminary.

F.G. F.T. F. Northwestern F.G. F.T. F. Seminary 0 Martin, f._ …1 2 3 0 Hallemeyer, f-…0 3 Zimpelmann, f. 6 0 Krueger, f ...4 1 1 0 0 Koenig, f. 空 Nommensen, c..O 0 3 6 Raabe, c._ 0 0 1 Heyn, c___ 0 0 Koehler, c 2 Raasch, g...

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Statistics for the 1933—34 Season Minutes F.G. F.T. F.T.M. P.F. T.P. Player 21 27 19 139 547 59 Zimpelmann 12 28 23 55 16 547 Schewe 12 16 6 38 16 229 Raabe 18 16 37 90 36 571 Roekle 6 27 54 4 25 405 Koehler 4 6 3 25 214 11 Hallemeyer 6 6 2 12 3 102 Schwartz 4 3 9 18 174 7 Kusel 0 0 40 Mielke 2 0 102 6 6 Fredricks 0 0 3 0 0 17 Koenig 0 2 0 0 4 0 Tietz (F.G. — field goals; F.T. — free throws ; F.T.M. — free throws missed ; P.F.—personal fouls ; T.P.—total points.)

Games played—15. Won 6 (3 conference); lost 9 (5 conference).

Total points scored : Northwestern 434. Opponents 465.

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a On February sixteenth, P. Ben tert, Philomathean, pre­ sented his program. The Chorus sang Brahms’ "Wiegenlied” and Pfeil’s *'Still ruht der See”. M. Lemke read selections from the works of modern so-called poets. Many remarked that the poets which he chose were not well known; but there is such a multitude of these beings that two people can scarcely be expected to have heard of the same poets. M. Schwartz spoke on “Antarctica and Byrd’s Expedition”. The speech was well delivered and contained many interesting data. Herr C. Frey and his German Band played several selections. Herr Frey’s directing was very good, especially because none of the forced humor we are accustomed to hear over the radio was to be found in it. Miss Rasmussen sketched the life of Emily Dickenson. R. Stiemke read selections from Fritz Reuter’s works, which were, to the surprise of the critic, very much enjoyed by the audience. The play ' The Crowning of Caesar” showed true humor at rare times, but caused much laughter, especially of that kind which is heard from the bystanders when a man falls down the steps and breaks his leg. The pro­ gram was not a unit in the ordinary sense of the word. A unity of spirit was undoubtedly present, m that each speaker was permitted to speak on what pleased him. The thought, is a bit abstract, but some attempt at justification must be made. This L program served especially to show very clearly the advantages of a program constructed around one definite subject. Professor Kiessling was critic.

R. H. Weyland, Phi Gamma Rho, presented a program treating of John Milton, on March second. The program was opened with a clarinet duet by Messrs. Ehlert and Dobratz.

The first speaker, A. Hoff, showed the allegorical relation of “Samson Agonistes’’ with Milton’s life. The speech was some302

what intangible in sections. H. Elwein read from Matthew Arnold’s "Essay on Milton”. This reading should not have been considered too long, but the flesh is weak and the entire audience grew restless. L. Koenig spoke on “Milton’s Prose Worts”. The speech was well delivered. **A Critical Appreci­ ation of Lycidas, L’Allegro and II Pensoroso” was the topic of N. Luetke’s speech. It was highly interesting and educational, and excellently arranged and delivered. W. Trachte spoke on Milton’s Hell and Dante’s Hell. Both were presented, and the audience was to draw the comparison. Such thought-stimu­ lating speeches are not in the good graces of so passive an audience as is present at our meetings. An excerpt from “Comus” was presented as the final number. Miss Conklin and McFarland played the roles of “Attendant Spirit” and the "Ladyn. Both showed that they possess the potential requi­ sites necessary to actors, “potential” because the possibilities for real acting are meagre in a mask like Comus, which is based on the Greek drama. They played their roles excellently, as did 0. Sommers, as Comus, W. Lehman and II. Bergholz, as the brothers, and A. Bolle, as the shepherd. The entire audience was most pleasantly surprised at the excellence of the presenta­ tion of so difficult a selection. This is justly to be considered the best of the plays presented this season.

Herewith we regretfully, yet thankfully, take leave as editor of this column. Our chief ambition throughout the year has been to write the column in such a way that it would be read by everyone. Let this serve as an apology to everyone who thinks an apology is due him. The rest of this column has been written by a member of the Senior Class.

The rumor, that a senior was taxied back to school by the “cops” spread like wildfire. Thanks to Mr. Tiefel, who enu­ cleated the mystery by explaining that the ‘‘cops’’ were none other than Mr. and Mrs. Kopp.

There must be something fascinating about our kitchen force, since Geiger’s and Hoepner’s table, situated near the window opening on the kitchen, has the distinction of being the only one at which every member wears glasses.

John Edmund Raabe has acquired a few premature gray hair worrying about the leisure hours he will have at the Semi­ nary. To accustom himself to the humdrum life they lead there, he plays Rook, tries to wax enthusiastic about chess and checkers, and sleeps most of the time.

Our class is uncovering a new genius every day. Rudy Weyland plays the piano.

F. Weyland boasted of receiving the first Valentine. Most likely the “girl-friend” only wanted to be positive that she would receive one in return.

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effect on half-captain Zimpelmann. To"keep the memories of the season fresh, he decided to continue abiding to training rules.

The French Class is constantly diminishing. Only five members consider Room 7 cozy enough to continue it; and they are hanging in the balance.

The difficulty of choosing a suitable present for the insti­ tution caused the Seniors manifold worries, till a Soph and a Frosh obligingly settled the question for them, by arguing about the time allotted for personal telephone calls. A private phone booth will very likely be installed.

Rich. Stiemke can supply the necessary information to any­ one desiring to break his glasses. His record of four times in less than a year is hung up for anyone to shoot at.

To clinch the defeat of the depression, Hoepner bought a new brown hat, which, incidentally, is available to any collegiate.

After V. Tiefel had procured a life insurance policy and had taken sad leave of somebody on Second Street, he accompanied Martin Lemke on his motorcycle trip to the ‘Sem’’ game.

Contrary to his own expectations he came back alive.

That brief attack of concussion of the brain, which Olie Bentert experienced, following a fall on the ice, proved to be a blessing in disguise. His droll humor, which never before failed to arouse peals of laughter from his classmates, has become more droll, his quips and puns more numerous, since his active brain saw a day of rest.

Can anyone tell us the reason for ‘‘no-trump’’ Schewe’s sudden interest in the art of directing ?

If anyone wishes any further information concerning the class of ’34，we advise him to consult secretary Geiger. He has compiled the witticisms, conscious and unconscious, in a fair­ sized volume.

‘‘Seein’ as how’’ the columns seem to be becoming a clear­ ing ground for pet peeves, perhaps we may be allowed to give vent to some of ours. If there is anything that * 'gets me in the neck” it is the smug, narrow minded practice of classifying.all modern music as “jazz”，labelling it “quatch” and condemning it as demoralizing and unfit for our high and mighty ears. Of course, we all admit that classical music is the highest form of music, but who wants to live with his head in the clouds all his life ? Everyone should be able to enjoy classical music, and I think almost everyone does, at times. But as for listening to it exclusively, and the minute a strain of so called “jazz” comes 'floating over the ether, to shout “My, my, turn it off ! PhooieU 304

Contaminating !n seems to us quite as silly as the other extreme.

Instead, why not adapt ourselves to the time in which we live, and learn to appreciate modern music for what it is — an expression of the spirit of youth and the time in which we are living. Learn to discriminate, and please, please, do not classify everything as “jazz”. The very use of the term implies an abysmal ignorance, since it has been decidedly “out” for five or ten years.

As far as the demoralizing effect is concerned, may we say that whoever is not able to listen to modern music without losing his high ideals and his ability to enjoy classical music is a moron and a fanatic. We admit that the words are worthless except as exercise for the vocal chords, but why concern our­ selves with them ? — classical music does not boast of any.

Concerning their demoralizing1 effect, again we must learn to discriminate. Into what terrible thoughts are we led when we hear a song about a wagon wheel, a spinning wheel, a little pig who went to market, or a log on the fire ?

As example of our best loved and most harmless modern song writers, we recommend George Gershwin and Hoagy Car­ michael. I think anyone who will bother to listen to one of their songs will change his preconceived ideas, unless they are so puritanical and strait-laced in their ideas concerning music that they continue to hold fast to their own convictions and make no allowance whatever for the opinions of others. Very well, then, let them die in their ignorance, but please, those of you who belong to that category, do not try to force your ideas down our unwilling throats. We remain reprobates.

Pet Peeve number two:—This is written in behalf of the coeds who believe it is their duty to make some retort to a . certain paragraph which appeared in the Exchange last month.

Although we are filled with anything but approval for girls who conduct themselves in that manner, our inherent sense of fair play causes us to come to the rescue of our sex. All of what was said may be true, but is that particular column, or any other, for that matter, a fit place for such discussion ? We understand that the .column was for the exchanging of inter­ esting extracts from other publications, but it seems to be a corner for the exchanging of opinions on girls the boys have taken out. If a boy asks a “dame”，for whom *'other terms are too respectful” to a party, he should expect no more than he receives — or perhaps the party was of the kind to which he could not ask anyone but a “damg” he “picked up”.

The chivalric nature of the individual is fully exhibited.

He asks a girl to a party which he knows will be boring, and when she is bored he criticizes her for it. Chivalric nature in­ deed ! That article is not particularly flattering either to the informer or the informed. It is not beneath our notice that a 305

goodly number of “men” are surprisingly deft with the grapevine. Gossiping has always been attributed to the female of the species, and as men are rather shy of being accused of femimine characteristics, why not leave gossiping to its tra­ ditional owners ? Men make poor fishwives.

And as for the poor little boys who are continually held up for cigarettes, — and who, by the way, would never think of (< sponging a cigarette offa” a girl — why not run when you see one of these brazen creatures approaching ? You know— “He who smokes and runs away lives to smoke another day.” Then if they still persist perhaps you could employ a Sextaner or Quintaner for guard. I’m sure you could get them quite reason­ ably -by the hour or week, or maybe by the package.

Ahh- there now, we feel much better. . Two less “grumps” to worry about. We hope that they will be accepted in the spirit with which they are offered 一 good old constructive criticism.

By the way, this is the Senior number, but because there is only one Senior coed, and because she is somewhat timid and averse to public vivisection and eulogy, we must be content with merely mentioning her name. Ladeez an’ Genmun —May I present Miss Glenna Rasmussen, sole survivor of the feminine portion of the class of ,34. Take your bow, lady, take your bow!

At last there is peace in the Girls Room ! The dark clouds of war float gracefully away in search of a happier hunting ground. This is the why and wherefore : When girls wish to heighten the natural beauty of their lips by artificial means they must have some place to deposit the superfluous lipstick. We, being both practical and aesthetic, have hit upon the idea of using the curtains, and in truth the flowers begin to bloom with a much more brilliant hue. Our austere president observed this practice for some time very dubiously, and finally broke out against it with vehemence. But all of that is now changed.

One day, after vainly searching the room for something with which to polish her shoes, she seized the tablecloth and decided to use that. The tablecloth by this procedure seem to have found its place in the world, since as a decoration it was a very successful failure, but as a shoe polisher it is doing very nicely, thank you, and looks none the worse.

Out of this chaos has come peace. If we let her polish her shoes without an uproar, and do not ask to borrow her comb, we may decorate the curtain to our hearts’ (or lips1) content.

The dove of peace sits brooding on our <401d Faithfu!” hot water pipe, preening her feathers in the steam, and occasionally jumping as a scalding drop of water slithers down her back.

(Hmmm — she’s not the only one.)

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To prove that some students actually take notes in class, we have collected most of this month’s column from a Senior’s Note Book. (Note : There were also some actual notes inter­ spersed with these humorous remarks.) 本氺氺

Prof.: Bentert, don’t hurt your fingers holding open your notes. Please close that part of the book. 氺氺氺

I don’t know where the pins are going to. They are poin­ ted one way and are headed the other.

We call a ship her (feminine), because it is so expensive. 氺氺氺

Schewe, would you make an effort to sit so I can see you !

Would you also try to succeed in that effort! 氺氺氺

After this I’ll lock my door and let you stand outside. Just see what shape someone put my room into. The windows are all closed. * * * The class was laughing at a certain remark that had been made.

Prof.: I didn’t understand it, aber es wird wohl dumm genug gewesen sein.

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Prof.: Ziemlich schwach, Bussewitz.

Buss: I got a different book, and Fm not used to the text yet.

Solamen miseris socior habuisse.

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What caused the unsettling of the accent in millere ?

Hoep : The shaking of the mill.

What are the Protestant Irish called ?

Tiefel: Pat and Mike.

Historical novels are always defective. Why ?

Olie : Too much history in them.

Don’t get this Shaftesbury mixed with the other one down there.

Stiemke : Don’t worry, we don’t know him at all.

His wife died, and that gave him a chance for what ?

Hoep : To marry again.

What did Chaucer do when he used “I wol”？ Olie : He made a mistake.

The class is not so bright this morning, so we shall have to put on the light. * * * He cut the chicken’s tail off an inch behind its neck.

Prof.: (waiting for translation): I suppose he is still sadd­ ling his pony. * * * Ja, ja. Morgen geht die Hasenjagd los, aber ihr bekommt keinen. Too slow. Ftir euch mussen sie erst steif frieren.

Why does a dog wag his tail ?”

No response.

“Because the dog is stronger than the tail. If the tail were stronger it would wiggle the dog, but as it is the dog wiggles the tail.” 木 Prof.: (Looking over classroom): All right, I was just try­ ing to count the dead.

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Prof.: Wissen sie schon wieder nicht wo der Platz ist!

Schtiler: Entschuldigen sie ! Ich nahm mir ganz ernst den Kopf zwischen den Handen, um die Augen auf den Text zu halten; da dachte ich bald wie viel lieber ich ein Glas Bier gerade so erwiirgen mochte. * * * Famous last words: There are Seniors in the room.

She hummed a tune and cleared the plates, She found a note. Oh Joy ! Oh Hate ! *To you, my love, I dedicate This poem inspired as I ate: Your biscuits, it is plain to see, Have individuality.

We had, last week, Wisconsin cheese, On Monday had Virginia pork, On Tuesday we had Hartford peas, This morn the sidewalks of New York/ Before closing my career as editor of this column, I wish to thank Ihe one student who made frequent contributions to this column during the course of the year. Furthermore I wish to apologize if, by publishing this column, I have robbed the professors of the opportunity of springing these jokes on the succeeding classes.

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A Depression Case in Four Scenes—E. Toepel—196 A New Schedule—P. Bentert—39 America: 1865. An address delivered by a Professor of History in 3300 A. D.—R. Hagedorn—125 A Modern Department Store—G. Rasmussen—148 An Uncritical Credo—C. Toppe—128 An Essay to Encourage—P. Bentert—287 A Parting Glass—C. Toppe— Athletics - ] 8, 50, 84, 113, 137, 169, 207, 229, 262 A Short Story—R. Siegler—156 A Suggestion—H. Koehler -223 Beneath a Blanket of Stars—R. Holtz—180 Bildung, Was und Wie~H. Wicke—121 Chaucer and Langland on the Lot of the common people of England一 H. Wicke-95 Campus and Classroom—27, 59, 93, 119, 144, 178, 213, 239, 272 College Seal—F. Weyland—280 Cretans All—A. Bolle—100 Das Lcben an der Nordsee, 1600-1400 v. Chr.—H. Wicke—146 Das Studium der Deutschen Bibel—P. Bentert—158 Der Schoene Fruehling—P. Bentert—61 De Vita Beatissima—F. Weyland—123 Die Anfaenge der christlichen Gemeindeschule in Pennsylvanien一 W. Dobratz—64 Don Lorrimer’s Awakening—C. Broecker—245 Editorial Gleanings—C. Toppe—291 Exchange- 16, 48, 79, 112, 134, 167, 204, 227, 260 Expression in Music—R. Weyland—164 Finale—C. Toppe—75 Germany’s Plight—R. Hagedorn—104 Indian Lore and the Seminary—H. Schultz—6 Intimations of Insanity—A. Bolle—31 Jazz—C. Frey—265 Lest We Forget—C. Toppe—222 Linguistia—C. Toppe—105 Literary Programs—C. Broecker—127 Literary Societies—W. Zarling-264 Locals—22, 54, 89, 114, 140, 173i, 209, 232, 267 Luther the Musician—A. Sommers—163 Lucky Boy—W. Zickuhr—194 November Moonlight—H. Arnold—146 Old Baldy—A. Bolle—274 On Reading Books—W. Schultz—285 Our Little World—W. Hoyer—220 Plagiarism—H. Arnold—215 Romanticism in Music— —O. Sommers—215

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Snowflakes—W. Thurow—241 Sugaring for Moths—A. Bussewitz—.34 The Advantage of Section Practice—V. Weyland—198 The Cloister Thief—A. Schuetze—187 The Developement of Science—R. Hagedorn —36 The Dred Scott Decision —R. Gensmer—62 The Greek Chorus—H. Wicke—282 The Male Chorus—G. Barthels—251 The Quest of the Side-hill Gouger—G. Sydow-185 The Son of the Heathland—R, Weyland—28 The Study of Latin and Greek at Northwestern—H. Fredricks- 253 The Thorny Side of the Rose Bush—W. Hoepner一99 The Wandering Jew—H. Wicke—3 The Way It’s Done—P. Bentert—5 This Fanciful Universe—H. Fleischer - 242 This Craze—R. Bretzmann—1 Verse Libre—R. Hagedorn—252 Walter Dobberstein—74 With Apologies to Swift—R. Siegler—150 You!—R. Siegler—38 Zazu—A. Schultz—217

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ICE CREAM PARLORS Olympia Sweet Shop The Princess

AND THE FOLLOWING Bank of Watertown; Hartig Co.; Chas. Heismann, Painter^ Platz Studio; The Classic; 0. R. Pieper o.; John Kuckkahn; Nowack Funeral Home; Capitol Engraving Co.; Harrison’s Cigar Store and News Depot; Loemer & Benke; A. Kramp Co.; Dr. 0. F. Dierker; H. R. Schrap; Tietz Cleaners & Dyers; Wisconsin Gas & Electric Co.; Jack Thusius; Jaeger Milling Co.

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W. A. NACK MEAT MARKET "Quality First” POULTRY IN SEASON

Phone 19-W

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621 Main St.

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Kohls-Hafemeister Go.

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FURNITURE

DRUG STOKE Corner Fifth and Main Streets

WIGGENHOKN ,1EM7EL1{Y COMPANY D iamond s—Watches 13 Main St. Watertown

Funeral Service Our Service Satisfies 607 Main St.

Phone 150

SPRING HATS a Come in and look over our splendid new assortment of “Paragon” Hats.

8 You can’t get more style or value for your money. ® The latest styles are now on display. Make your selection now. \ Priced at $1.75, $2.50, $3.00, $3.50

Kuenzi & Frattinger Clothes of Quality

305 Main St.

LET’S ALL GO TO THE

CLYMPIA

W.D. Sproesser Go. JEWELERS

Watertown’s Most Popular ICE CKHAM PARLOR.

Drop in after the game and meet your friends here.

MIKE SALLAS, Prop.

205 Main Street

Northwestern Delicatessen “The Place for Goodies”

A. POLZIN Candies, Ice Cream, Groceries Cigarettes, 1207 WESTERN AVENUE

Phone 175

Pianos,

Victor Victrolas, Radios

111 Main St. ^ "

Phone】195

Young^s

Marble Barber Shop 101 First Street 345-J WM. GEHRKE

DRUGGIST 315 Main Street

Watertown, Wis.

PLATZ STUDIO COMPLETE PHOTOGRAPHIC SERVICE 113 North Third Street Telephone 124-W

Bank of Watertown Watertown, Wisconsin 國 Capital, Surplus and Profits

$320,000 EAST SIDE FURNACES Repaired BArECy Installed, and Rebuilt HOME OF PURITY BREAD FANCY PASTRIES

Phone 1266

618 Main St.

Sheet Metal and Tin Work of all kinds.

JOHN KUCKKAHN 210 N. 3rd

Phone 848-w

Wm. Gorder Co. ii

Coal，Fuel Oil，Wood，Coke Sewer Pipe i

and Building Material 608 Main Street

Telephone 33 i

Meyer’s HARRISON’S Shoe Store

CIGAR STORE -------- AND

BETTER QUALITY FOR LESS NEWS DEPOT 212 Main Street

KECK Furniture Co. QUALITY SINCE 1853 OTTO'S GKOGKHY Dealer in Groceries, Feed and Flour, Vegetables and Fruits.

Telephone 597 1 I I N. 4th St.

9 Main St.

Near the Bridge

Chas. Heismann Complete Line of

DEIVOE

Paints and Varnishes Glass and Wallpaper Phone 178-w

404 Main St.

Sabin Drug Co. Main and 4th Sts.

Watertown, Wis.

Jack Thusius FINE WATCH, CLOCK AND JEWELRY REPAIRING

Cor. 3rd & Market Sts.

‘ ‘Everything To Be Found in a First Class Drug Store”

Tel. 451-W !i

Lumbkr - Coal- Coke - Fuel Oil ATVL KINDS OF BUILDING MATERIAL

Phone 37 SERVICE

NO ORDER TOO LARGE NO ORDER TOO SMALL

Phone 38 SATISFACTION

H.R.Sclirap

TIETZ

PIANIST

CLEANERS and DYERS Relining，Repairing and Alteration 110 Second St.

Phone 620 Kenosha Waukesha Whitewater

General Office Racine, JFis.

Wisconsin Gas & Electric Co. WATERTOWN, IF/S. South Milwaukee Plymouth West Bend Oconomowoc

USE RACINE COKE Gan bo purchased thru all local dealers.

Ft. Atkinson Bu rling ton Cudahy Silver La ke

Schmutzler’s BLOCK & ANDRES, Proprietors

Mail orders promptly attended to.

FINK FURNITURE RUGS FUNERAL SERVICE

Hutson Braun Lumber Co. SERVE TO SERVE AGAIN

Phone 86

Watertown, Wis.

BILL KRUEGER j BehlkeDrugCo. PAUL H. BEHLKE, PRES.

WATERTOWN'S INSURANCE MAN

十 Cor. 1st and Main Sts. Watertown, Wis. Phone 43

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Shoes Repaired

THE ROYAL while you wait Meat Market 丨 | a. Sohrweide 210 South Third Street

QU ALITY MEATS Wc Specialize In

:ROYAL HAMS : ROYAL BACON

Phone 107

405 Main St.

When it’s Fruits or Groceries— Call up— or Call on

JohnE.Heismann&Son i

“THE GROCERS，， Tels. 71-62 115 Main Street

RPJZJNS Busses

Walgreen System Drutj Store

AT THE SHARP CORNER GROCERIES TOBACCO

FRUITS CANDY

Corana Typewriters Sheaffer Lifetime Pens 201 Main Street Phone Uil

D. & F. KUSEL “THE STORE OF QUALITY”

Offers you only the best in

POCKET CUTLERY - RAZORS GOLDSMITH ATHLETIC GOODS

Star Lunch Restaurant

Seager & Brand

MEALS AND LUNCHES

mmv UP-TO-DATE BARBER SHOP

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Regular Dinner 11:00 to 2:00 Courteous Service Always

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Wm. Schubert, Proprietor 411 Main Street

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11 Main St.

Phone 138-W

Watertown, Wis.

WHEN IN NEED OF

GOOD EATS CALL

PAGEUS BAKERY PHONE 650-W

MAINCAFE CLEAN.

COMFORTABLE. COZY PLACE TO EAT

COURTEOUS SERVICE

Kelley & Metzger The Man’s Shop “JVhere the Better Dressed Men and Young Men Buy” :HC

106 MAIN STREET

We Recommend

代Say it with Flowers”

•‘BOSTONIAN，， SHOES FOR MEN

Leo Ruescli & Son 210 West Main Street

Loeffler & Benke FLORAL SHOP 10 Main St.

Phone 649

A. KRAMP COMPANY The Largest Garage in the City

Telephone 32-W Nash Cars Reo Speedwagons

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SPRING IS HERE

: Our Showing of Spring Merchandise is that of Style, Quality and Work-: manship, at prices far below replacement value.

SUITS

TOPCOATS !

14.75 ond up.

14.00 ond up.

SHIRTS as low as (>9c and up.

HATS 1.79 and up.

NECKWEAR as low as <15c and up.

Wegemann-Faber-Kaercher Co. uValue First Storcfy Nowack Funeral Home built for

Better service

213 Fifth St. Tel. 54

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Winkenwerder’s The Wisco Store FOR BASEBALLS and BATS 207 Main Street

Bittner & Tetziaff otto F. Dierker, M. D The REXALL Store

“The Best in Drugstore Goods, Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat the Best in Drugstore Service” j Eye Glasses Fitted Kodaks, Films, Photo Finishing, Soda Grill— Lunches

The Princess Watertownfs Most Respectable Ice Cream Parlor

Office, 312 Main St.

Watertown

The Smartest Fashions Afoot You will want a pair of new Shoes to complet e your Easter costume, Let us fit -your feet stylefully in quality that "wears well.

105 Main St.

A. KALIEBE

Charles Sommerfeld

The Insurance Man

Student9s Barbershop

L. W. Moldenhauer

202 West Main St. Opposite Library

Woolworth Bldg.

Koser’s Bakery FANCY PASTRIES

DELICIOUS CAKES

We offer a Variety of the Finest Baked Goods that can be made TRY OUR “HOME-MADE BREAD，， The bread with the homemade flavor ALWAYS THE BEST

JULIUS BAYER Wholesale and Retail Dealer in MEATS and SAUSAGES of all Kinds !i Watertown

Wisconsin

Phone 25

Henry F. Schlueter PLUMBING and HEATING Bus. Phone, 716-W; Resident 1051-M

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Aid Association For Lutherans In Business Since 1902

APPLETON, WISCONSIN

Licensed in U. S. A. and Canada

LEGAL RESERVE FRATERNAL LIFE INSURANCE for men, women, and children MODERN PROGRESSIVE

SAFE

For And By Our Lutherans Only.

Our Own Home Office Building.

Adult $14,785,516 Reserve j Juvenile 148,996

..,..\ Adult 92,059 Membership j juvenile 16,000 Insurance in Force

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$113,765,145 22,798,000

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Hot Water Kelly❶rclmrd Go. and Vapor Heating 202 Main Street See us about the Ncu; Areola Hot Water System.

Watertown, Wisconsin

clothing and

KEHR BROS. FURNISHINGS

Phone 270-J-211 N. Third St.

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