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THE SUMMER MICHIGAN DAILY
SUNDAY, JUNE 29, 1924
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SUNDAY, JUNE 29, 1924
Night Editor-ROBT. S. MANSFIELD
PRE31ATURE DEPARTURE
It was Thomas Huxley who observ-
ed that the higher the state of civ-
ilization, the more completely do the
actions of one member of the social
body influence all the rest and the
less possible is it for any one man
to do a wrong thing without interfer-
ing, more or less, with the well-be-
ing of all his fellow citizens.
The complete truth of this state-
ment is brought out strongly in any
University lecture. Gathered togeth-
er under one roof, the students are
there supposedly for one common
purpose-that of learning. Freedom
under such conditions must necessar-
ily be limited. Recently, complaints
have been registered that students at
times have taken the liberty of leav-
ing lectures before the end of the
hour The number of students who in-
dulge in this practice are, of course,
in the vast minority. But, just as a
single stone may ruffle the smooth-
ness of a placed pond, so too, the
premature departure of a single stu-
dent will cause an unavoidable dis-
turbance that is in every case unex-
cusable, unnecessary and downright
rude.
In this regard, attention is called
to the following facts. The word lec-
ture is apt to arouse within a student
the recollection of some very unin-
teresting class hours which he spent
itslening to the words of a professor
in a course which bored him - a
course in the election of which he
showed the poor vision of a lazy man
looking for a "pipe" or to which,
strive as he might, he could not pos-
sibly adapt his mind. This interpret-
ation of the word in contemplating
the summer lecture program would be
a misfortune. The lecture program
is one feature of which the Summer
session may be justly proud. Fur-
thermore, it is etiquette at the Uni-
versity, and common politness every-
where, never to leave a lecture until
it is over. Such action is unfair to
the lecturer, and to the rest of the
audience.
Perhaps the most valuabel result
of all education is the ability to ex-
ercise self-control, the ability to
make yourself do the things you have
to do, when they ought to be done,
and whether they are pleasing to the
mood of the moment or not. It is the
fIrst lesson that ought to be learned
at school for it is the most important
part of a man's training which is re-
quired in the world. It is probably
the first lesson that is taught and the
last lesson that is learned. The prac-
tice of premature departure from lec-
tures is without excuse. If you're
there, stick; if you can't stick, stay
away.
HANDSHAKE PSYCHOLOGY
Even though some may be unwill-
ing to admit that character can be
logically judged from a man's hand-
shake, the fact remains that in every
day life the magnitude of one's traits1
Is constantly judged through thatc
ARIEL. THE LIFE OF SHELLY.
By Andre Maurois. Translated by
Ella D'Arcy. Published by D. Apple-
ton and Co. $2.50.
(Reviewed by Dorothy Wall)
Maurois has not burdened us with
another Shelleyan apologia. He has
given us something unique, the life
of Shelley in the form of a novel.
He has taken naked facts for his ma-
terial and with a dominant literary
instinct, has shaped them into a de-
lightful story. He has been very care-
ful in choosing and coloring his ef-
fects, in creating a brilliant atmos-
phere for his central figure. How
freely he has blended fiction into his
narrative is quite beside the point.
He does not pretend to strict bio-
graphy.-
Maurois has done the thing with]
exquisite detachment. He stands al-
most pitilessly aloof from the mov-
ing drama. Occasionally it is too
much for him and a flash of satire
indicates illimitable contempt for a
world that outlawed Shelley. Yet he
is too much a worlding to lose him-
self for more than a moment. He
keeps a hovering comic touch, a tend-
er sparkling irony and sometimes he
reaches the high water mark of de-
scriptive prose.
His interest in his subject is purely
creative. He cares nothing for Shel-
ley's genius. He makes only the
rarest incidental allusions to his poet-
ry and never uses it for interpreta-
tion. But if he ignores the poet he
is fascinated by the man. The per-
sonality of Shelley illuminates every
page, intensely alive, burning up his
energies of brain and body, plunging
madly into life. When the waters
grew too stormy "he had his aerial re-
fuges and once safely shut therein
the lugubrious tragedies of his life
seemed absurd nightmares." His cir-
cumstances were fairly sordid, detail
by petty detail, yet Maurois has tri-
umphantly brought out his indomita-
ble spiritual force. Against a back-
ground of commonplaces Shelley
stands in distinctive nobility. The
other characters are grouped around
him, an amazing parade of women,
Godwan, Hogg, and others. One has
a sickening sense of their utter in-
feriority. Byron stalks through the
last half of the book, demonaic but
charming. Maurois used him con-
stantly and effectively as a foil for
Shelley. The contrast was too obvi-
.ous a value to forego, but he car-
ries it, I think, to the point of in-
justice.
The book ends on a note of tragic
futility. You are conscious of Shel-
ley as an idealist combating a very
real world, buffeted by the stress, but
never able to understand life as it
actually is. It leaves an aftermath
of sadness and of wonder.
RECOMPENSE, by Robert Keable.
Published by Putnam. $2.00.
(Reviewed by Robert S. Mansfield)
A sequel always leaves me with a
feeling of resentment. The characters
have been brought to some sort of sat-
isfactory situation by the first book,
and the sequel of necessity plunges
them into new situations and circum-
stances which are foreign to the orig-
inal and to the people themselves.
"Simon Called Peter" was a note-
worthy book. Mr. Keable made of it
a plot of strength and a moral dis-j
sertation of no small value. In "Re-
compense," he has attempted to go
farther on a similar theme, and has
made a work of little real value. The
scene shifts from France to Africa
and to England with ease and rapid-
ity, the characters trailing along in
nondescript procession, shifting from
one attitude toward life to another,
and being quite humanly indecisive.
The effect of the "berg" of South Af-
rica upon Peter is really well demon-
strated, being, I believe, the only
outstanding portion of the work.
Mr. Keable is advanced in his views
of moral standards. The plan which
he gives to Dr. Sampson is worthy
of a 20th century Jules Verne of the
moralist school. Impracticable, high-
ly improbable outside of the mind of a
dreamer, the plan is not one which
the reader woul accept from a phy-
sician of the calibre which Keable has
made Sampson. The saving of the
character from entire'impossibility is
his fear at putting his plan into per-
sonal operation.
Peter continues throughout the
book the same admirable character,
torn between love and the duty to
the church which he was in "Simon
Called Peter." The strength of the
man is brought out in his hatred for
the "Rough Diamond" South African
trader, Stenhouse, and in his unques-
tioning friendship for his native serv-
ant. His final act in the book is rath-
er a surprise, and something of a dis-
appointment.
Julie is the same vivacious woman
of the earlier work. Mr. Keable has
not lost track of his personalities in
the time that intervened between the
two writings. She has the same steady
level head, the same indifference to
public opinion, and has grown more
mature only in her more serious view
of marriage and its accompaniments
which she neverthless avoids.
Aside from the fact that it is a
sequel, and as such cannot compare
favorably with its only medium of
comparison, the first book, "Recom-
pense" is an interesting enough work.
It moves in an advanced atmosphere,
to be sure, and there are few who
would like to place themselves in the
position of- any of the characters,
but it has a plot, and an involved one,
which holds the interest if it does not
convince.
GRAHAM'S
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"Classified" Columns
miles per hour. They lead simple,
plain lives, because they've found
these small-town men and women,
that happiness doesn't consist in scan-
.dal and filth and metropolitan world-
liness. And that's a secret of life the
cities have yet to uncover.
In real life things don't always
come out right; in reel life they gen-
erally do.
Try Classified ads for big Results.
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means. The average college man
meets at least two new individuals
each day during his stay at the Uni-
versity and the sincerity with which
he accents these introductions is in
no small measure reflected in the
handshake.
It is the impression gained through
the momentary contact of a first hand-
shake which often forms the only im-
pression of a new acquaintance, and
upon the character of this depends
the future of a companionship which
may or may not develop into a perm-
anent part of one's life. Either the
handshake is strong and impressive,
urging both parties on to closer friend-
ship or it is weak and flimsy, causing
a feeling of indifference. It either
rubs the right way or it rubs the
wrong way.
Accordingly the handshake will
bear watching.
A district court of Montana made
a decision that congress cannot reg-
ulate the amount of liquor prescribed
by physicians for illness. hat seems
reasonable enough, since there is
nothing more variable than individual
capacities.
EDITORIAL COMMENT
IN DEFENSE OF HICKVILLE
(The Columbia Missourian)
Since Sinclair Lewis described Gop-
her Prairie in "Main Street" the Am-
erican small town has come in for
more than its share of critical atten-
tion. Learned critics on the metro-
politan dailies went to war over the
virtues and stupidities of the little
town. And the question isn't settled
yet.
"The small town is provincial," say
the city master-minds, as if they were
pronouncing a vast and horrible judg-
ment. Of course it's provincial; its
people are interested in those pro-
vincial traits of honesty and virtue
and friendliness. Their world-outlook
may be a bit limited, but they haven't
forgotten the meaning of sympathy
and love and human kindness. Their
laughter is hearty and earnest when
the village loafer sits in the fly-pa-
per at the corner grocery and their
tears are genuine when Jim Brown
loses his golden-haired baby.
Some of the people of Gopher Pra-
irie and Hickville and PJumpkin Cen-
ter might not negotiate a six-course
dinner with social precision, They
might speak more accurately of crops
than of dadaism. They don't break
into sensational publicity often. They
have their little faults to be sure, but
their lives are sane and well-ordered.
They are wise, too, with a wisdom
grown of generations spent in austere
righteousness, learning humility,
righteousness and faith. They move
a bit more slowly than in the cities,
for contentment doesn't depend upon
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now is to keep quiet.
What's become of Railroad Jack,
the memory expert? Soap-box or-
atory is, at present, a neglected art
on the campus.
First it was wheat that went up.
Now it is corn. Oats also show signs
of soaring. The farmers are happy.
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