No. 5
APRIL , 1930
Vol. LVI
STAFF RICHMOND COLLEGE CARROLL TAYLOR BRUCE MORRISSETIE
H. G.
KINCHELOE
WESTHAMPTON COLLEGE Editor-in-Chief Business Manager Assistant Editor Assistant Editor
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WELLS
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EDITORIALS
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0 ! The college poet advances, embued with HAT now with all th is outbursting of buds, multitudinous doctrines, creeds and isms. He green sprouts, the twittering of feather creatures sits at a littered desk, his fingers snatching at in the fields and trees-"the instinct within that handfuls of hair, and wrestles manfully with reaches and towers"-we have pearly gates about to be nestled on the near side of the worn pathway his imagination on the sheer precipice of inspiration. Someone has told him that poetry is a means of self-expression. between Tower Hill and Richmond College. This new found freedom of le printemps shakes its He therefore relentlessly proceeds to invent for his enhead sadly and mourns a doleful melody at such activity. deavor an invalued emotionalism controlled by the electric To shut the girlies up in their mountain fastness thus button of necessity. Serenely complacent in his thinking, is sinful. The ladies no doubt are shaking their heads he collars his defenseless mind and conducts it into vague and gazing off in the distance with a distinct yearning distances and unfamiliar channels. He struggles in the throes of that creative incompetence which so often results for dear old Sing Sing. This apparent crushing of social instinct most assured- in the production of a brainchild somewhat groggy of ly robs a university of what should be one of its proudest expression and unstable of posture; whereupon his chest measure extends some several inches, and he proclaims in assets-a calm geniality, casual gentility, and an utterly delightful charm bred of freedom. Young women of a v01ce of woe: "This have I felt and this experienced; indeed I have lived and sufcollege age should be able to fered." With the written take care of themselves All proof before him, it is easy manner of restraint, faculty TABLE of CONTENTS ' for him to believe. dictums, and other such quib4 ble of this particular sort But perhaps he yields to Slaves . 6 should be relegated to texts Pilgrimace, Paul Frederic Bowles an impulse to "keep the bit 7 on the dim history of higher The Dark Tower, M. L. Dinwiddie of restraint within the teeth 7 education. The time is past of wisdom." It is doubtless Ego, M. L. Dinwiddie . 8 true that poetry is not of newhen the lassies must be held Two Quatrains, W, F. Fidler . 9 in tow for fear of them being cessity a revelation of perVision, J. Battiato 9 sonalities-a dressing-up of carried off by great big bad Reincarnation, Larry Hans on . the mind of the individual men. Today is an era of A Monologue Addressed to My Soul, Hattie 10 Habel open understanding, sexual for the critical inspection of 11 Bacchante, Dorothy Gwaltney equality, and taking-suchthe hoi polloi. It may in fact 12 Water Boy, M. L. Saunders and Ruth Hale things-for-granted. \Ve are be word-music; it may be a 13 Fay Child, J. Adams • striking out on a well worn word-picture. But it is nev14 High Heels, Elf-babe, E. Scliielinger theme, but one cannot resist ertheless of no greater im15 Chanson Plus Vraie, Leslie L. Jones when he sees pearly gates portance to know one's self 16 Two Translations, Elizabeth Gill . erected and hears of a vast than to know one's subject. 17 Edna St. Vincent Millay order for individual straight-D.J.G. jackets. -L. N. B.
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