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THE GUILFORDIAN
Published weekly by the Zatasian,
Henry Clay, Philomathean, and Web
sterian Literary Societies.
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EDITORIAL
The following is from the "New
Student" of October 11. From a
student's view is the editorial com
ment on Mr. Edman's article cor
rect?
"Something unaccountable hap
pened to Richard at college . . .
His education began to take." And
that was the beginning of the trou
ble.
This student has been chosen by
Professor Irwin Edman, for an
article in the October Century.
Richard Kane typifies the liberal
arts student who, toward May of
his Senior year, comes looking for
advice as to his career. All he is
clear about is what he does not
want to do.
"The problem of giving Richard
advice would have been simplified
if he were a genius. He isn't. . . .
He is a dilettante, an amateur,
what he once ruefully called him
self, a 'Nearly.' He knows good
prose when he sees it. ... But he
has neither the flair nor the facul
ty of a writer. He loves poetry
without being in the least a poet.
He 'gets' philosophy without being
technically agile nor spiritually
profound. He admires scholar
ship truly, and yet has not the pa
tience or the exactness of a s"hol
ar."
And so, having been spoiled by
college for the Bibbit life, after
graduation he is one of those who
are living in two worlds, one dead,
one powerless to be born. "They
drift from one job to another;
they come back 011 haunting, wist
ful visits to the campus. They are
failures practically and spiritu
ally . .
It seems, then, that the liberal
college ruins, not the genius, but
the mediocre man. How? Remv
de Gourmont, years ago, wrote san
ative words on the subject; they
appear in his book. Decadence.
"Life is a series of sensations,
bo-nd together by states of con
sciousness. Unless your organism
is such that the abstract notion
(the word descends toward the
senses the moment it has been un
derstood: unless the word Beauty
gives you the visual sensation; un
less handling ideas gives you a
physical pleasure, almost like ca
ressing a shoulder or a fabric, let
ideas alone. When a miller has
no grist, he shuts his sluces and
sleeps, or goes and takes a walk.
He never dreams of running his
mill when it is empty, and wear
ing out his stones grinding air.
Education is often nothing but the
wind raised by the whirling of
the bolts, and felt as words."
Richard apd the rest of us didn't
choose the ideas which concerned
us and leave the others; we were
fooled by professors' talk about
there must be some magic in all of
Scotch Grain
SHOE REPAIRING
JAMES B. JOYCE, COL. REPRESENTATIVE
GREENSBORO WINSTON-SALEM
Notice! Notice!
RUSSELL'S STUDIO
Students take advantage of our
Christmas Offer
See E. P. BROWN
them. So we criticised them all;
we had an opinion on everything;
it was our duty.
The end was a hopeless fuzzy
mindedness; the loss of a healthy
sensibjlity, which could reject the
poison which was another man's
food; the corruption of mental in
tegrity.
He doeesn't really like poetry
and philosophy themselves; he
likes them in the college atmos
phere. That's where his "higher
life" is rooted; he can't pull out
;he roots.
Professor Edman makes good
suggestions as to what the colleges
can do about it. What can the stu
dent do? Well, he must realize
that it is the nature of the colleges,
despite all possible reform, that
there is a certain conflict between
the interests of even the best teach
ers and of students. The student
must wrestle with his teacher, re
fuse to be taken in by oleagene
ous chapel speeches, test ideas by
himself, refuse to be snared by the
| very subtle pedagogical tricks of
| the priesthood of the "eternal veri
] t : es." He will live dangerously,
above the college, ready to drop it
at any time, ready to use it only as
it serves him.
THE FUTURE °IS GROUNDED
(Continued from pane one)
; catch the vision unless he is in
touch with the infinite."
In regard to night dreams, Mr.
White stated that the elements
which make up these dreams come
from the experiences and thoughts
of the past, stating that they are
"simply the calling up of past
thoughts and- experiences" from
the substratum of consciousness.
"One cannot think of something
that has not come into his experi
ence," affirmed the speaker. "Day
dreams may be controlled, night
dreams depend on the previous ex
periences of the individual.
Dreams are simply a desire to re
call and recognize the experiences
of the past. A sensory experience
may set into motion a train of
thoughts. One's dreams are more
or less an index to his experiences
THE GUILFORDIAN
DEPARTMENTAL NOTES
By Katherine Shields
Miss Ricks reports that the fol
lowing new books which were or
dered lately, have arrived and will
soon he accessible. They are most
ly reference books, ordered for
the use of the different depart
niens. Those included for the de
parment of Home Economics are:
How the world is clothed
F. G. Carpenter
Embroidery and Design
J. H. Drew
Costume Design and House
Planning E. P. Izor
Aunt Martha's Corner Cupboard
M. & E. Kirby
Chats on Old Lace and
Needle work Mrs.Lewis
The Secret of Distinctive Dress
M. B. Picken
Good Taste in Home Furnishing
M. A. & H. B. Sell
Clothing, choice, care, cost.
Much interest is being shown in
the ductless glands, as a result of
Professor Lea White's lectures on
Psychology, and for those who are
interested in this subject, several
on these glands have been included
in the list. These are:
Glands Regulating Personality
Berman
Diseases of the Thyroid Gland
A. E. Hertzlire
Internal Secretion of the Duct
less Glands Swale
Other books of interest include:
The Russian Immigrant.... Davis
Revue Hispanique
F oulche-Delbosc
The Riddle of the Rhine
Lefebuer
Tutankhamen and Egyptology
Mercer
Russia and Peace F. Nancen
Nouvelles, Les Deux Maitresses
A. de Musset
Poesies Nouvelles .... A. de Musste
Premiers Poesies .... A. de Musset
The New Poland Phillius
Life of Pasteur Vallery-Radot
New Masters of the Baltics
A. Ruhl
The Gospel of the Working
World H. F. Ward
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