FEBRUARY,
Vol. LVI
1930
No. 3
STAFF RICHMOND
COLLEGE
CARROLL TAYLOR BRUCE MORRISSETTE
H. G.
KINCHELOE
WESTHAMPTON COLLEGE Editor-in-Chief Business Man ager Assistant Editor Assistant Editor
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GWALTNEY
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BECK
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GILL
JOHNNIE
ADAMS
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EDITORIALS
we must believe after Huysmans, the nunnery on Tower OW what about this downrightly Freudian smack in our contemporary Westhampton lit- Hill is muchly in need of a good exorcist. -L. N. B. erature? Our precise young ladies of yore speak presently of the advanced woman; know with a degree of lucidity their Schopenhauer, Spinoza, and RusE begin to see the light--or do we? Have we sell; discuss freely, frequently, and frenziedly the good come to a realization of the value of compreMr. Ellis, this last without noticeable equivocation. These hensive social activity-or are we blissful vicoutward displays please us no end; this removing of the tims of that invisible force widely known as impedestal and the installation of the new single standard pulse? At any rate, we have grasped the proverbial bull allows any girl to take Sex In Civilization from the library by his horns, and having thrown him are now sitting galwithout being eyed by the attendants and called naughty. lantly upon him and triumphantly waving our banners. The Westhampton Prom was a success. We have done It is not this external manifestation which interests us at present; this thing at our elbow, red and green like a well with our first actual attempt at centralization, and Freudian complex, apparently is jeering at us and slapping the point to be made is that we also might do well to his cerebral hemispheres in high glee. We are frankly concentrate time, money and expenditure of energy on worried. One second the answer is within -our grasp, the other similar efforts, rather than on a number of smaller next it slips through our clutching fingers, like cream and less significant contributions to the social life of the college. The mildly defiant, from a chocolate eclair. Are finger-in-the-mouth attitude our proper young ladies fully which has permeated the ataware of the stir they have mosphere of the college camTABLE of CONTENTS been causing with their pus has somewhat decreased doubtful symbolism and inno4 Cum Lacrimis since the inner maelstrom has centlysuggestive phraseology? 5 The Scarf, Johnnie Adams . found its gentle outlet-the Just what fact, or facts, are 6 second-best. Faculty and Rum: A Philological Protest, Cttthbert W hoosis causing the arousal of these friends have enjoyed and apsubconscious ideas and ex8 Incubus, Evelyn Duncan preciate our valiant little pressions? It has been going 9 Love Song, Valerie Le Mamrier . stepping-stone. Our work on for two years now to our Terrors of the Non-Existent, Frances Rawlings IO will stand; it is permanent knowledge. Sketches of Thomas Nelson Page's Country, and durable. In itself it is Any attempt to explain 11 strength, for it is a marked Rttth Cox would lead us into a number victory over frustration. "We 13 A Sketch, J. L. Hart of seductive issues to which shall be free!" is the whoop 14 ?either time nor space lends Decency . and holler in answer to the itself. It can only be one or 18 Book Reviews staunch, historical "They _aUof three things ; professors, shall not pass!" -D. J. G. much reading, indigestion. If