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DO NOT GO TO COLLEGE-SIHE OAC
E- BLIGHTED ROMANCE
UNLESS- Lanes Lead to Cities,
(From the Christian Science I by Georgiana Garry
Monitor) E. P. Dutton, Inc., N. Y. C.
Price $2.50 4'
Some boys should not go to col- In an earlier work Miss Garry
lege. Why tell them that it "is the created with austere irony a much
only correct place for a young better book than Lanes Lead to
gentleman to go"? There is an Cities. It was Pigsties With Spires,
important minority among us to and it recalled D. H. Lawrence's
Anteros, of an earlier period. In
whom we must look for many of her first book Miss Garry was the
our greatest achievements, and for more careful artist. Her most re-
whom four years in a liberal arts cent creation lacks its close-knit
college is nothing short of a crush- unity and its sustained effort to
keep a difficult theme above the
ing imprisonment. Forced to fol- level of the commonplace. It sags
low such a course, these young per- lamentably at crucial points.
sons lock away their richest tal- Part I of the novel is an excel-
ents, their most joyous interests, and lent- piece of craftsmanship. deli-
undertake that which other peo- ' cately woven in a pleasing lyi ic
ple have fastened upon them-"the style. In spots its emotional qual-
convention of going to college." ities strike surely and ring with a
Parents and others should with- true response. But this is the case
draw all pressure toward a classical only in the first part. It would
education when the careers of at seem that when Miss Garry leaves
least three kinds of young persons a pastoral for a more urban set-
are in question-the adventurers, ting she stumbles over foreign
the artisans and the artists. This ground and falls full length over
is the appeal not only of Wililam I. the hazards of banal platitudes of,
Nichols in the current number of both form and diction far beneath
the Atlantic Monthly, but of a the intellectual plane on which she
growing group of college and pre- is capable of progressing.I
paratory school executives. That is what happens in Part IIj
"As long as any nonacademic in- of Lanes Lead to Cities, and her
terest occupies first place in a boy's short-comings there are so marked
scale of values, he should be given and stand out so clearly that the
'time out' to investigate it before fine effect of the better pai~t is
he is sent to college," says Mr. quite deadened.
Nichols, who was until recently one Part I tells of the beatific, near-
of the assistant deans of Harvard perfect romance that comes to
College. Even if a boy spends a George and Barbara. It is, in fact,
whole year in such an experiment, so perfect that it escapes sloppy
it is not a waste of time. Some of sentimentalism only by the proper-
the experimenters will find after ly richened potion that constitutes
all that straight college suits. But Miss Garry's dulcified prose style
a lagre proportion will discover and imagery.
that their golden opportunity lies! Part II has all to do with their
in an art school, an agricultural married life and the temptress
college, an aviation school, musici that comes between them. Mean-
conservatory, or apprenticeship in while, Barbara learns to love the
Charles A. Askren
Helen Barc
Louise Behymer
Thomas M. Cooley
W. H. Crane
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Margaret Eckels
Katherine Ferrin
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Sheldon C. Fullerton
Ruth Geddes
Ginevra Ginn
ck Gol dmithai
D. B.. Henmpstead, Jr.
J~ames C. Hendley
ichard T. Hurley
Jean H. Levy
Russell E. McCracken
Lester M. May
TONIGHT: Dalies Frantz,
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give a recital at the School of
Music Hall on Maynard Street,
to begin promptly at 8:15 o'-
clock.
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Richard L. Tobin
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Night Editor-ROBERT L. SLOSS
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 19291
BESPEAKING A CHAIR OF
COMPARATIVE RELIGIONS
Permanent convocations com-
mittees, student forums on religi-
ous subjects, and most church ac--
tivities now rampant in the full
flush of the fall season may prin-
cipally be construed as indicative
of the undergraduate body's inter-
est in religions. This judgment is
not intended to ignore certain val-
ues which such proceedings may
have, but it merely employs them
as a means of broaching a ques-
tion long latent in the academic
affairs of the University. For in
spite of, evangelical eagerness, re-
ligious matters, whether denomin-
ational or not, remain by and
large extra-mural affairs, lying
without. theofficial academic do-
main. In fine, while the Univer-
sity maintains facilities for the
furtherance of science, depart-
ments of experimental research in,
every sphere from gear-noises to
job-hunting, it has no aggressive
interest in the scholarly and hu-
manized instruction in religions.
The present pursuits of the Uni-,
versity world are not to be thought
of disparagingly, much less to be
scoffed at, for we obviously con-
duct our lives in a period of civili-
zation when our energies are so
completely directed at the solution
of life's practical problems as to'
neglect less mundane occupations.
It is the old philosophical tenet
that as science advances, religion
recedes; we have less need for a
religious pursuit of happiness when
we find that it has been achieved
in a practical sort of way.
This is not an appeal to save our
souls, neither is it an attempt to
denounce the organized purloining
of materialism as a dictum for the
"good life." This is merely an ef-
fort at equilibration: let science
dominate our lives and imagina-
tions, let our view of society be an
affair of statistics and complexes,
but at the same time, let these
opinions be formed by the careful
weighing of the human factor
through the imagination and emo-
tions as avenues toward a satisfy-,
one of the highways of commerce.
The boy's own individual pref-
erences should be considered. He
ought to be allowed to live his
own life, with experienced and
wholesome guidance placed at his
free disposal. He cannot be or do
everything, but he should be help-
ed to do that for which he is most
gifted. He should be helped to
honor his talents, to respect those
interests which contain his real
promise. At the same time, be-
cause a boy has a notion that he
would like to be an artist, would
be insufficient reason for not tak-
ing a regular college course. There
should be as thoroughgoing rea-
son for staying away from college
as there would be on the other hand
for going.
Parents owe a great deal to their
children in this matter. They can-
not show too much understanding,
discernment and affection. Family
vanities, such as insisting that
since the father is a Yale man so
must the son be, likewise the son's
son, will have to give way to a
purer concept of education. Such
coercion can be as powerful and as
mistaken as physical compulsion.
No young man in college is real-
izing his highest power or un-
folding into his finest selfhood who
explains, "I did it to please the
family." Home and community are
doing their best for the boy when
he is able to say, "I feel that I
am in my right place. It is the
one above all others which I would
have chosen. I could not imagine
myself more happily fixed."
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When the entire fraternity chap-
ter climbs into a small coupe it
helps you to understand how a
French army was rushed to the
front in just a few taxicabs.
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The latest on the tariff is that
it is the Senate's ball on fourth
down, with 27 yards to go and
Quarterback Smoot calling for a
pass.
Some of our football teams that
started out the year like runaway
sand trucks are beginning to feel
like an uncompleted pass.
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Fairy Story: "Fifty thousand
persons arose en masse when the
halfback shot off tackle for 21
yards. 'Down in front!' shouted a
small man in Row MM, and the
crowd instantly subsided."
We miss a lot of the important
news. What became of the Den-
ver primary candidate who put on
his campaign card, "Is married and
lives with his wife at 100 Blank
street"?
Mr. William Fox is working out
husband of the temptress. He has
been mutilated during the War
and left impotent, and so their love
never goes beyond an adoration of
each other's mind and personality.
The ending is tragic, since Ron-
ald kills both himself and his wife
and Barbara takes back her peni-
tent husband. In reality she loves
Ron's spirit and mind, but the ad-
vent of her child forces her back
to her husband, and she seeks, as
is ever the case, surcease in her
child, which ws to be, as Miss
Garry expresses it, the "challenge
to the tyranny of existence."
L. R. K.
MODERN LIBRARY NOTES
The period from last August to
next January will doubtless see
Modern Library publish the finest
additions to their lists since their
founding. August brought, forth a
volume of four Greek plays edited
by Professor Paul Landis, of the
University of Illinois. The plays
selected were The Medea, by Euri-
pides, The Oedipus Rex, by Sopho-
cles, the Frogs, by Aristophanes,
and The Agammemnon,. by Aes-
chylus. Coupled with that was
Smollett's Humphrey Clinker, in-
troduced by Arthur Machen.
September produced Havelock
Ellis' much 'discussed and read
Dance of Life, containing a new
introduction by the author written
purposely for the Library edition.
The second publication of the
month was an unabridged edition
of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
The edition used was that of Wal-
ter Skeat with an introduction by
Louis Untermeyer..
Publication from O c t o b e r
through January will include an-
other Sudermann play, and an-
thology of Negro literature, Van
Vechten's Peter Whiffle, Casano-
va's Diary, Homer's Illiad and Ody-
ssey, a volume of modern short
stories, and Henry James' The
Turn of the Screw.
CHASTEN THE RIBALD,
CORRUPT THESERIOUS
Morrow's Almanack and
Every Day Book for 1930
Miliam Morrow and Co., N. Y. C.
Price $2.50
Morrow's new Almanack, minus
the Divine and Hallowed services
of Burton Rascoe, last year's edi-
tor, is just as incontrovertibly fun-
ny under the new Philomenus,
Thayer Hobsen. In addition to
never-before published pieces of
such recognized authors and poets
as John Macy, Donald Ogden Ste-
wart, Louis Untermeyer, John A.
Weaver, George M. Cohan, not to
mention Eddie Cantor and Milt
Gross, the book provides Calendars,
Forecasts, Weather Prophecies, Re-
cipes, Epigrams, and choice selec-
tions from the ancients, garnered
with care to beguile the benevolent
reader.
As its handsome cover suggests,
its purpose is "To CHASTEN the
Ribald & CORRUPT the Serious,
One-act Play Competition
The Division of English is an-
nouncing the one-act play contest
for this year. Last year this con-
test proved one of the most ef-
fective means of bringing about
practically that cooperation be-
tween the several departments in-
terested in the drama, necessary
to the estblishment of a real dra-
matic tradition at Michigan. So
it has taken on the character of an
annual event. There was no ques-
tioning the fact that closer rela-
tions between the departments of
English, Rhetoric, and Speech, (re-
spectively the study of the drama.
the writing of the drama and the
production of drama), were neces-
sary to the realization of that glor-
ious ideal, a University theatre
here like that at Yale. The one-
act play contest sponsored by the
Division of English was the first
result of this unification of ef-
fort. It was extremely successful.
Several people well-known in uni-
versity dramatics in America were
brought as judges of the produc-
tion. And later in the year, under
the editorship of Prof. Kenneth
Rowe, the winning plays were pub-
lished as Volume I of Michigan
Plays, an event that had just
enough of sentiment to it to add
some much-needed glamour to the
campus dramatic situation. The
whole affair was soundedly con-
ceived and carriedathrough. Sev-
eral years of healthy projects like
that one may bring the campus
its ultimate reward.
Of course, the contest has the
more immediate aim of making
available to the more talented of
creative writers in the drama the
support that production can give.
IIn the accepted sense there is no
prize. But for reward there is the
gratification attending production
and, more important, the advan-
tages of"a self-criticism that the
synthetic field of production can
offer to the dramatist writing in
the library and .inclined to forget
the values of the theatre. It is
hoped too that some of the plays
will go into the publication of Vol-
ume II. There is no need to urge
student cooperation this year. The
success of lt year's production
will sweep away all creative mod-
1 esty. Competition should be wider
and more keen.
The rules of the competition are
as follows:
1. The contest is open to all
undergraduate students of the
University and to any graduate
student not teaching in the
University.
2. The plays must be in one
act.
3. The plays must be in the
hands of one of the judges at
4:00 o'clock p. m., Monday,
January 6.
4. The manuscripts must be
typed.
5. The name of the author
must not appear on the man-
uscript but shall accomipany
the manuscript in a sealed en-
velope bearing the title of the
play on the outside.
6. The judges who will con-
stitute a committee on play
competition throughw--it the
year are Professor Oscar J.
Campbell, Professor Peter M.
Jack, and Mr. Valentine K.
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NEW ART MOVIES
The Movie program which is be-
ing presented this week at the Lyd-
ia Mendelssohn theatre is an ex-
periment; any understanding of
the films must appreciate this fact.
The aim of the producers is admir-
able, but the means used for in -
terpretation is for the most part
exagerated. It is an unnatural art,
this and understanding of the ex-
perience is endangered by the un-;
reality. This is especially true of
"Tell Tale Heart" and "The Iol-
lywood Extra."
"Tell Tale Heart" was without a
question the most appreciated of
the three features. It very effec-
tively makes use of black and
white, shadow and dark to indi-
cate the sense of emotion of Edgar
Allan Poe's tale. The story wasj
photographed from the point of
view of the insane murderer; this
attitude cannot be afforded by dra-
ma and the fact offers argument
for movie art.
The main event of the program.
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