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MARY JOHNSTON WRITES FASCINATING Open Road Leaders
HISTORICAL AND MYSTICAL NOVELS Send Tour Accounts


Cora Finds That Nothing Of SemesterFS
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° .RMA~N I CUR ISI Mary Johnstor is given credit i
INfor . causing her readers more;
trouble than any other woman
.Elimination Games In Intramural writer. One is able to easily un-~
Tournament Will Begin derstand those books written be-
Second Semester 'tween 1898 and 1918 since theseI
There are fifteen enthusastic. are an array of very clear and di-
Ts rect historical novels. These are1
basketball teams still in the in- simple enough to fascinate a child1
tramural tournament, the first and are at the same time mature
part of which finished last week. enough for the average reader.1
Those teams which won two out - The high spots are, says Grant
Thos teas whch wn tw outOverton in his recent book, "The
of three of their first games are Women Who Make Our Novels"
now eligible for the elimination "To Have and To Hold" for Co-
tournament which will start as lonial days; "Lewis Rand" for the
soon as classes begin in the sec- days of the new-born republic;
on semesters. The games will be "The Long Roll" and "Cease Fir-1
playd somntr Tgesdayad We- .ng" for the Civil War-together
played on Tuesday and Wednes- they represent all that is finest in:
day afternoons, and every team fiction of the Civil War period. R
will play at least one game the No other writer of war days, no1
first week. not even Sabatini abroad, can
The finals for the tournament'combine such a powerful blend of
realism and panorama as does
will be played Wednesday, Febru- Miss Johnston in "The Long Roll"1
ary 27, and will be a feature of and its companion book. We find4
the Penny Carnival which is given in Tolstoy's great drama, "War and1
:annually by the W. A. A. The team Peace," only a match, nothing1
annullyby he . A.A. he eammore, for this woman.
which wins on that night will gain mry fohison.
possession for one year of the sil- Mary Johnston might have been
ver intramural basketball trophy. ahosen tori n f r herno-
;It is necessary for one team to ; chosen to write fiction for her vo-
twin the cup three consecutive cation, and she might also have
years before permanent possession been a philosopher to rank with
of~~~~ iti;and her contemporaries Santayana, andJ
xof t isgaind. ;Brgson. Here is where the trouble
The teams which have come begins; since the philosophical
through all their games so far un- Miss Johnson came into being so
defeated are Alpha Omicron Pi, late in life two new qualities have
Alpha Xi Delta, Kappa Alpha been developed in her that have
Theta, Kappa Kappa Gamma, greatly influenced her later faction.
Zeta Tau Alpha, and the Martha One is that she has become inter-e
Cook Venus team. Those which ested in the mystic, and the other;
'have won two out of three games estehtnhe hysticangeoher id
;are Alpha Gamma Delta, Chi it that she has exchanged her old I
,OmegAa, Gammah DBeta,Kapp historical method for one that is
Omega, Gamma Phi Beta, Kappa new
iDelta, Phi Gamma Mu, Sigma I As a result of this transition we'
Kappa, Betsy Barbour, Couzens have an "other-historical sort" off
eall, and the Martha Cook Portia writing that is evidenced in "Foes,"
team. These teams are those "Michael Forth," "1492," 'The Slavet
which are most skilled and most Ship," and 'The Great Valley." 1
proficient, as the preliminary Born in the South during the
tournament selected those which Bornsin dS, ding he
'were strongest. They will all wearl Reconstruction days, Miss Johnston
,s, was from childhood in intimate
their house colors for the re- contact with the traditions and
mainder of the tournament, 'customs of this South. Because of
All houses will be notified of ill health she was educated at
their first games at the beginning home and spent much of her time
of next semester by telephone. Ahoeadg t mnyhsorie it
schedule of games will also appear reading the many histories with
which the library of her own home
iln the first issue of the Daily. was -filled. So great was this in-
fluence that at the age of 20 whent
LOW HEELS ARE ADVISED Mary Johnston lived for a time inJ
_____a New York apartment she triedr
Women who have all their lives to transpose a romance of Colonial
worn very high heels should grad Virginia there and wrote most of
ually, rather than suddenly "Prisoners of Hope" within the
change over to lower ones, ac-: quiet confines of Central Park.
cording to William S. Sadler, M. This first effort was a compara-
D., in his article in the February tive success but it remained for her ;
American. Just as extreme high next book, "To Have and To Hold,"
heels throw the foot forward and to become a best seller that, be-
cause a strained unnatural walk, cause 'of its authenticity, was setI
so low heels also, to the woman apart from the flood of "historical"
unaccustomed to them, put the novels that were, a quarter of a
foot under a strain. century ago, flooding the book
i Dr. Sadler says that women market. Miss Johnston in her
,would find walking more enjoy- earliest novels wrote with an eye
"able if they insisted on buying for the picturesque and employed
,shoes that were long enough not the genuine dramatic method that!
Ito cramp the foot. "consists in saying just enough, not
too much."
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ence that is often so disastrous to
art where success depends on the
author being able to "control his
material in the interests of emo-'
tion." Some of the readers after:
finishing "Foes," published in 1918,{
must have wondered at the change
Miss Johnston's style had under-
gone. In this story the emotion
played so great a part that it al-'
most subordinated the plot. Then
too, only those persons who have
gone through the same period of
revelation as had Mary Johnston
are able to completely understand
this novel.
Later with the publishing of "Sil-
ver cross" the author's mystical ex-
perience has become so much a:
part of her belief and existance
that it ceases to be an intruder
and adds muchtto the intellectual'
interest of the story.
Mr. Overton in his book, which
is being reviewed with the consenta
of the Graham Book stores, is so
greatly impressed with the work I
of Mary Johnston that he says of
her, "We have had no greater his-
torical novelist." That must suffice
for as yet no one can say what her
final importance is as a writer of
mystical tales.,
TEXAS UNIVERSITY VOTES
AGAINST HONOR SYSTEM

TMichiganWoWell, my dear, believe it or not, ter, and I hope it won't for theUU
the semester is all over-that is all worse.)
Simmons College Students Tell Of over but the exams and the sub- Well, any way, speaking of exams
Iighhghts Experienced On sequent moaning over g-'ades. emnded me of a few helpful hints story department will be the
Their Journey on how to fill out the blanks on the eaker this afternoon when the
Exams are something that could be front of the blue book. If you are saerthi afoon we te
Nine women students from Sim- banned with great success, because doubtful as to the outcome, writer iAmerican Association of 'niver-
mons college, who toured Europe both students and professors have a fictitious name on the cover.I sity Women meets at the new wo-
last year, rece'ntly sent accounts of agreed that they are a terrible Then if you find that you do pretty men's field house. His subject will
their journeys to the leaders of the inuisance-to express it mildly. well, you can claim it afterwards be "Some Outstanding Problems
Unhesiy ofnyMtihegadrs1929e nuTsank--odxpesstoughmIhay.and if you don't, no one will ever of the International Situation in
University of Michigan's 1929 Open Thank goodness, though, I have know who wrote it. Then after Europe." Professor Frayer has for
Road tour. The tour of the Sim- n exam over with, but it was such "subject" write the name of the some time been connected with
mons students was taken under the a nerve strain that I haven't been subject that you feel the most cap- the bureau of University Travel,
auspices of the same organization. the same since and don't expect to able of writing on, if any. The and has assumed the position of
Excerpts from their letters give be again. I never took a more un- space after date is to be answered president of that organization.
somewhat of an idea of the high- godly final. I really don't think yes or no. That seems like sort of Miss Edith Bader, supervisorof
lights of the trip. While they were; the speech department is human, a silly thing to want to know, be- the Ann Arbor grade schools, will
in Vienna,.the director of the trip I mean I actually don't. I only cause so few people have dates for discuss, during the course of the
told them "When you leave Vienna hope they don't mark off for not exams that I don't see what differ- program, the use of the materials
for the Balkans we don't know answering in the exact words of pnce it should make to the instruc- collected by the A. A. W. U. for a
w t you encounter. Theremay the text book. Theonly bright spot tor whether you do or not, city school museum. This is one
even be revolutions." To quote the in the whole afternoon was te o the prjct ecnlyu'c
letters farther "Although no one moment when someone's alarm . of the projects recently under-
admitted a desire to live through a clock went off. Whoever belonged According to Bruce Barton in a taken by the association for the
real revolution, we heard frequent- Ito it must have read the exam and .recent magazine article, "when we benefit of the children in the pub-
ly vague murmurs among the decided that they couldn't answer I are through changing we're lic schools of Ann Arbor.
group about secret longings"to be it anyway, and might just as well through," and he advises that A tour of the field house will be
in" just a little one, or on the edge take an hour's nap before they left I rather than suffer from Neophbia, conducted at 2:30 o'clock. The
of one." 'so that their ignorance wouldn't be which is a fear of the new-change hostesses of the meeting will be
In Bulga ia several of the Sin-i- apparent to others in the mis- from the old order, we should Dr. Margaret Bell, Mrs. 0. W.
mons grduprdrankrTurkish coffee erable crowd. 'If I were going to make our changes at once and Haisley, and the International Re-
with-to quote their letters again- take another course in speech, strengthen our weaknesses. lations group.
"various sensations." which I am not, I'd try that too on
Just one hours ride by motor the final. It's really a clever idea, ;w
from Sofia,hthe little Simmons C besides relieving the monotony for
group came upon "a quaint Bul- everyone else.. + +t
garian village, with veryuprimitivenBut as though it weren't enough Nw Spring ha D ressIs
conditions of living-a church dat- 'ex avy earisrutrhedcas prn.as aD es e.
gin vlage, with ver prkingitexam my dear gstructor held class
ing ack 106 andlooing -and at eight o'clock at that-the : -.
though it had seen few changes nt m ig. C ou iagine
since that date. We peered arounda next morn ktg. Can you imagine
the interior holding wax tapers. that? I think that is absolutely
With the atmosphere of this the crowning blow, and besides all
old chapel fresh in mind, it was that, I was supposed to give a I
startling to be brought back 0t speech and forgot most of it. Well, S all
modern times by the strains of "In who wouldn't after such mental y-
a Spanish Town" coming from the rain the afternoon before? Any-
open window of the quaintest house way that instructor has sun ower
in the village." in my estimation than theonewho!
Th imn ru i o'gtgave the unannounced blue bookA
The Simmons group aid not get the day before Christmas vacation. i
into their !revolution but were con- Not that I have any personalR
ducted around Queen Marie's castle grudge against either them, be-
at Sinaia by the Princess Ileana's cause I haven't. I imagine that in F
governess, Miss Marr, and Mr. the bosoms of. their families, they ! _ -
Dimencesco, former c o n s u 1 to the quite kind and considerate, butki
Washington where the famous why they should feel it a sense of -
room with a movable roof, King duty to treat their students in such
Ferdinand's desk left exactly as it an inhuman way is too much for.ACle i=
was at his death, and other little me to determine even with the aid = Cor
details were pointed out to them. of all the psychology, sociology, to
economics, mathematics and all c
Mrs. Elizabeth Hanley who is kindred subjects at my disposal.
interested in various theatre ! However, I shall try to remember I -Stume el
'ovemients directs plays for Iboth these menx, and any who mayCo tmJ we y -
groups' in cities and colleges turn to be similar, as I knew them
writes in the February American, in their kindlier moments, for they * +
that, "everywhere young people really are dears most of the time. ! OPP
are striving for some form of ex- (No, my dear I don't expect this
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honor system has been defi-
abolished at t;e Uni-
of Tpxanq A t "f.a of 4'i.,..

y sa u lx. avole of nine
to two, in the student assembly
eliminated articles concerning the
honor system from the laws of the
student association.I
In effect since the founding of
the university in 1883, it has been
considered ineffective for the last'
few years. At present a plan is #
under consideration which pro-,
poses that instructors be in com-
plete charge of the examinations.
"Happiness, while it may be
made up of external things, it ?
never," says Edgar Guest in this
month's American, "depends upon:
these things." We must put our-
selves in a receptive mind to feelr
either pain or joy, for, according
to Mr. Guest, unless someone has
your permission he can make you
neither -happy nor unhappy.
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