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OCTOBER,
Vol. LVI
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No. 1
1929
STAFF WESTHAMPTON
RICHMOND COLLEGE LAWRENCEBLOOMBERG CARROLLTAYLOR BRUCEMORRISSETIE H. G. KINCHELOE.
Editor-in-Chief Business Manager Assistant Editor Assistant Editor LUTHER WELLS .
DOROTHYGWALTNEY VIRGINIA BECK . ELIZABETHGILL
COLLEGE Editor-in-Chief Business Manager Assistant Editor
Staff Artist
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EDITORIALS
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T IS FALL. Autumnal breezes stir the needled evertribution to the MESSENGER. Among the number of students greens and send wavelets scurrying across our Lake's clogging up the campus, it is only natural to expect a certain broad expanse. The leaves have turned a red, a amount of talent. It is not, however, in evidence. If it is a greenish yellow, an orange . A new MESSENGER present, it is a latent quality that needs the lubricating oil of arrives. Alas, no, the leaves have not turned. Will tender and insistent encouragement and praise to assist its progthe leaves of the MESSENGERturn only in a fall? A fall from ress from a clearly embryonic stage. a position of literary respectability to the level of a commonA third of the MESSENGER'S space is allotted to Westhampton. place, humdrum universal popularity. Not only is it allotted-it is even willingly and gladly given, Must we sacrifice originality, style, and craftsmanship for whenever there is enough material to fill one-third of the space. the tawdriness of appeal? Frankly, it seems so . . . but we A number of Westhamptonites have voiced bewilderment and a won't. It would place us much in the same position, we'd derive hurt indignation at the preference showri to Richmond College just about as much benefit as the hanged man who leads the contributions, but these very complainants leave it to some world by a rope. one else to uphold the glory and honor of the name of Westhampton. With this MESSENGER,we hand you the first number of Volume LVI. The size, the make-up, the general design is different It is necessary not only for the progress, but also for the from what we've ever had before. We are in no position to survival of the MESSENGER,that the best material be used. make promises or to commit ourselves, but we do say this: that Knowing t'i.is, each student should put forth his greatest effort unless more and better material is forthcoming we do not know to write something worthy at least of the consideration of the exactly what ' course we shall pursue. editors, who intend to publish the best reading matter, irrespective of the completed or incomplete quota of .either student body. What, we ask, is the solution to the entire attitude toward THE MESSENGER? It isn't read. You don't write for it. You On a college campus there should be much competition for don't seem to care anything about it. Why have it at all? a place among the acknowledged writers. Enough material It isn 't necessary now that it is should pass through the hands of no longer a medium in which the editors so that they might the best of campus literature is pick and choose or discard and published. Where is the campus scrap; however, they find it neTABLE of CONTENTS literature of years past? Where cessary to go about soliciting is the accompanying honor that from this or that possible conFrontispiece, Interior Cannon Memorial Chapel 4 went with publication in the tributor. What little success they Traditions . . 5 MESSENGER? have is due, not to the readiness John Archer Carter and promptness of the student, We've now placed on the Cinders . . . 6 but to constant nagging and campus what we believe to be John J. Scherer, III. brave but pitiful attacks. an attractive magazine ... atThese Talkies 9 John R. Steele tractive stationery for you to Many of us are standing on My Moon 11 write on. Use it, read it, critithe college stratum with a high cize it, but for someone's sake or school range of vision. Many Short Life Linc 12 other, maintain some attitude at - of us lack impetus, while still R. S. Addison least, either for or against. Faux Pas 15 . . others seldom give a thought to John P. Batkins -L. N. B. the needs and requirements of a Typhoon. . . 17 college magazine. And yet we M. L. Saunders expect great things of the jourBook Reviews 19 It should be entirely supernal to which we give no support. fluous to launch a plea for con-D. J. G.
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