Vol. LVI
DECEMBER,
1929
No. 2
STAFF RICHMOND COLLEGE LAWRENCE CARROLL
TAYLOR
BRUCE MORRISSETTE
H. G.
KINCHELOE
WESTHAMPTON COLLEGE Editor-in-Chief Business Manager Assistant Editor Assistant Editor
BLOOMBERG
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WELLS
DOROTHY
GWALTNEY
VIRGINIA
BECK
ELIZABETH
GILL
JOHNNIE
ADAMS
Editor-in-Chief Business Manager Assistant Editor Assistant Editor
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Staff Artist
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EDITORIALS Sanguinary dictums and soft soap replies. What a profound collection of slush! Things in, about, and around this institution have come to a head-a head with one eye cocked and one jaw protruding where a palavering tongue has been stuck into it. A lons, en/ant-and all of that. 0 ff with their heads I And let us look this situation as much in the face as we can keep in the race. stand of it. The bodyless head has false teeth, a transSome of the faculty of this institution and a few en- formation, a feather brain, and eyes that were open, but terprising members of the student bodies of Richmond and could not see. What's the use of letting it die now? Glue Westhampton Colleges feel the need of developing and it back on the body and let it wobble around for another unfolding the now invisible geniuses, patrons and critical year. Cut it off, look at it, glue it back on then, and let onlookers who they feel sure are lost somewhere in the it go for another year, and another, and another. Ignorpresent atomic disarray of matter. Why do we not have ance is immortal. classes in the fine arts? We've crossed the Rubicon, we've dog-paddled back Some students feel an illimitable, insatiable longing for with water wings, we've met, we've talked, we've received replies • but what have we done? We're so busy an education; some have a similar desire, rather unintensirevolutioning that we are forfied, while others actually getting what we ourselves believe that on the receipt of can do to bring about-not a a degree, won with no overTABLE of CONTENTS share of qualitative credits, revolution, but a renaissance. 4 their education is quite comSands, W. F. Fidler . We become fighting mad over plete. The proverbial "extrala danse, but what of all else? The Baggage Car, Mary Lucille Saunders 5 curricular activities" are inCertainly let us dance, let us 7 Meditations Laiteuses, Cuthbert Whoosis significant-a complete waste all dance, but let us also make 9 The Return-Johnnie Adams of energy and industry, for as an integral part of the 10 Decade, J. Donald De Vilbiss . from this burdensome work scheme against Things As 11 Campus, T. J. Heston there is no manifestation of a They Are, a revival of culA Song of the Circus, Geo. W. Cutler, Jr. 13 return. Yet, how many of ture, of art, of writing, of Blue Ribbon Baby, John J. Sche1·er 15 us, awakening to a world of music, and those things not Gadsby's, M. Louise Dinwiddie 16 literature, music or the gencommonly classed under the 17 Once Upon a Time, Margaret Lowe eralized arts, could find our head of "social relations." 18 Book Reviews . way about? -D. J. G. -L.N.B. UNIVERSITY which has acquired prestige and pre-eminence in the University world has indeed the right to be proud. The ability to achieve is highly commendable-but the true test is in continuous achievement. One cannot rest on one's oars and still