Saturday, April 20, 1929.
THE SALEMITE
PAGE THREE.
La Fevre
Like the almost imperceptible lav
ender shadows of dusk, it steals
upon us; like the pale light of a
summer moon, it holds us spellbound.
What? What? This intangible
something, this golden mesh of sun
shine, cntagled in which we can
feel only the breath of a salt sea-
breeze upon our chcek, and can
hear only drifts of music played by
■saxaphones and banjos, this invisi
ble mystical net holds us lang-uorous
—inert . . . Ah, ruby eye of a
Hindu god! No matter how thinly
you slice it, it’s still bologny. (We
take this opportunity to acknowledge
our indebtedness to Mme. Louise
Thompson.) We have been grap
pling with a Chocolate Hyena among
the prickly cacti of Mumumu desert
this past twilight and so of course
we are in no state of mind to edi
torialize.- That is why we flopped
so at the end of the first two sen
tences. It was a brave start no
doubt, but we couldn’t focus our at
tention on the intricacies of com-
position .
I£ you get what we meaiij our
subject had us so much under its
control that we couldn’t handle it.
The restlessness, inertia, or what-
chamaycallit that comes to us au
pringtemps—lest you had not al
ready inferred as much—is the sub
ject of which we are the object. Yes,
my companions in confinement, my
partners in purgatory, how we long
to be outside these walls, beyond
reach of these restrictions. We can
not reiterate the ancient tritnesses
about spring fever, because our
mind is too filled with a number of
things which have nothing and
erything to do with it—the purpose
of the Irish National Theater,
so why? If not, why not? .
Did he mean what he said last
week end?. . . - How can we have
that yellow sport suit made
Wonder what mother will think of
a sunburn bathing suit? . . . Could
we possibly finish that term paper
in time to go to the Zeta Z
dance ?
Now let us all rise and sing the
last verse of the dear old Malma
Ater. (Wake up, Zenobia!)
* * * *
“Come faeries, take me out of this
dull house!
Let me have all the freedom I have
lost;
Work when I will and idle when I
will!
Faeries, come take me out of this
dull world.
For I would ride with you upon the
Run on the ’top of the dishevelled
tide, .
And dance upon the mountain like
areyoiT^e?
PER CENT OF
BLUFFINGS
We read that Professor S. W.
Fernsberger, of the University of
Pennsylvania recently asked the
question: “Define ‘Psyehoterminal-
• Twenty-onje out of twenty-
students had some answer to
to' the question, when in reality,
there is no such word.
Some statistically rabid individual
lias used this incident, with several
others to prove that our educational
systems trains young men and wom-
to be dishonest and pretentious,
maintain a false assumption of
knowledge and conceal ignorance.
He further states that in an investi
gation carried on with 100 univer
sity and 47 high school students, and
58 people who had not had the ad
vantages of higher education, the
students varied from 5 to 81
cent in bluffing. The Freshmen
bluffed most. Seniors least. The
bluffed a little more than the
women. The per cent of the n
university group was only 55.7.
Now it may be that in cases where
authors for books never written ■
asked, and where false quotations
were given to be identified, a little
too much imagination was used. But
’n the first trick of “psychotermin-
ality” no student could be con
demned for bluffing if he offered
some attempt at definition. In the
first place, one cannot be master of
every word in the English language
—certainly not at college ap. /
in the second place, the “fake
made up of perfectly legitimate parts
which anyone with any knowledge of
etymology could break into its r
ponent elements, and by logical
soning find some maining for the de
tached word, though not compre
hending its full significance.
Any student should justly resent
this slur on the intelligent young
America. This investigation seems
rather to furnish evidence of the
non-scholarly attitude of professors,
not of students.
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
tree wliose hungry mouth is
pressed
Against the earth’s sweet flowing
breast.
A tree tha'; looks at God all day
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me.
But only God can make a tree.
—Joyce Kilmer.
‘The old order changeth, giving
place to new,” and we watch the
change take place with mingled
tions. Wc arc grieved to see
leaders of this year 1928-29 laying
down their offices, and while we are
happy that we have had their leader
ship and inspiration, we tremble for
ourselves, fearing lest we fall short
of the standard that they have set.
It is always hard to see the Seniors
leave, it makes us feel that the world
s moving on and that we have to
go with it and some day be ready
to take our places Out there afte
;ollege days are over. That should
A BUGGY RIDE
Ordinarily this is quite a doggy
little place, but since the recent on
slaught of the bugs, it’s about to be
come the wrangling place of catty
girls, horsy girls and even mulish
girls. The social lion has become
political snake and the moles are
fast building mountains. Even the
quietest little mouse is waxing tiger-
Page Mr. Sparks, there’s the
menagerie.
a little observation study
that spring has a peculiar
effcct on a certain type of bug.
wakes up and splits tbs skin down
back, very much as a chrysalis
does, and emerges. When once lil
erated it sets idly by stretching ii
many tentacles back and forth and
gazing vigilantly around for that
peculiar genus known as a “yes-
lady.” (She is also called by other
names by those wlio havi
imaginations.) Finding a suitable
meek lady, the tentacles close about
her, the bug grins simpering upon
her and she is placed in office while
the bugs count the votes. Sitting
upon her pedestal the little lady
to grow tentacles and learns
simper prettily so that someday she
may be a bug also.
The spring night grows
springy,
Too Late
icil’s motlier made it a rule that
; came to the dinner table late
as not to speak during the meal.
The other days, as soon as he en
tered the room, he began, “I say,
mother,” but his mother quickly re
minded him of the rule.
‘But, mother—” he persisted.
‘Not a word,” said the stern
parent.
When dinner was over, his mother
asked what he wanted to say.
"Oil, I only wanted to say baby
s filling father’s socks with con
densed milk.”
Ccionial House Saved
By Art School at Yale
New Haven, Conn.—A house built
in North Branford in 1710 and care
fully taken apart for Yale univers
ity -when it was about to be demol
ished has been restored in part in
the new gallery of the Yale art
school.
The house yielded original wall
paneling, windows, doors, cornices
and other decorative pieces. These
are regarded by authorities as truly
representative of the American co
lonial and federal periods.
Two rooms have been set up, and
and try the other side. Now
the bugs are standing off in corners
sizzing and buzzing about weazelly
spoilitics; They gla|nce stealthily
about; move to another corner if
by chance there is some sturdy thou
sand-leg or other belligerent near
by; and continue to buzz. Now they
stand apart, slap each other with
Yale ’97, early Connecticut
pieces and portraits have been hung
"le walls to give the atmosphere
colonial home 200 years ago.
lead us to think whether the life antennae, and indulge
Are you s
= for which candidate
for the"^ Student Council you are go
ing to vote?
Are you sure that you made your
own decision by reason of your opin
ion of her ability rather than your
personal like or dislike?
Are you sure of what qualities a
good Council member must have?
Are you sure that by saying a
Council member should be “broad
minded” you don’t mean that she
must be blind at appropriate times;
but that you mean she will go to
Council meetings unprejudiced ana
open to conviction?
Are you sure that when she rep
resents you that she will represent
the Best of student opinion, and
the ideals of Student Government?
Are you sure that she will do her
duty consistently and that she wiU
have strength enough to report both
herself and you?
Are you sure that you will report
yourself and make an honest effort
to uphold the rules as you pledged
yourself to do?
Are you sure that you realize that
you have a duty towards a Council
member just as she has a duty
towards you?
Finally, are you sure that \
you have selected your Council that
'you will be loyal to it and its c
cisions?
—LILLYAN NEWELL.
REDUCING AND
SPORTS
“Reducing weather” is what some
all it, those over-weight ones who
re wise enough to make it such.
Their favorite remarks are: “Lost
two pounds today” or “six pounds off
this week.” Then there are thinner
who just call it ‘ athletic
weather.” At any rate it is good
old spring, and time for spring
sports. Baseball season is in full
swing, and there are more girls out
t than there have ever been be
fore. It looks as if there are go
ng to be four strong teams this year
instead of only two as there were
last year. There are girls that can
■ :, and girls that can pitch, and
girls that can catch, and even girls
that can do all three. More often
though there are girls who can’t do
any one of them, so come on out for
this noble sport and learn how,
whatever you are in the baseball
field—you won’t be the only one of
them.
The tennis tournament is starting
„jxt week. Give some one a lucky
break and ask her to be your part-
n the doubles tournament. Heed!
A warning! Get your partners and
t practicing; practice every !
for it is rumored that there
dark horse entered in this race—two
of them in fact, for they have
tered the doubles tournament
partners. Can you beat them?
which we are now living is one which
is laying the foundation for the fu- [
ture, the right kind of a foundation.
tVbether we have been chosen to
fill important offices for next year,
or are just unrecogsized members of
any organization, this is a time when
we should think seriously of our at
titude toward our office or toward
those whom we have elected to rep
resent us.
If we are of those who are to
be leaders, this is a time above all
others when we have to look to the
Master and claim his promise “I
with you.” In the rush
of college activities it is too easy
to forget that we have a true Friend,
and when we try to solve perplexi-
iwa strength we are
likely to make mistakes. This is as
true for every organization on our
campus as it is for the leaders of
the Y. W. C. A. A similar spirit
of Christian love should pervade the
rest of the student body. The per-
who has received the office may
be the one whom we wanted, but
the only thing that we can do, and
accordance with the highest
ideals, is to give the girls who have
been elected our whole-hearted sup-
success who
has to stand alone, so let us each
pledge our loyal co-operation and
sincere interest to every organiza-
and officer even if we have to
sacrifice 'a personal preference,
knowing that we can do all things,
'through Christ who strengthens
few side-splitting horse laughs. They
out. A few moments more, and
rather hardy bug steals in and
adds another yes-lady to the list.
Again I groan and try my back
I'hile; but I must have had too
much steak for the dream goes on.
Now I hear the best of the bugs
bewailing the fact that unity and
harmony seems to be a lost quan
tity. I want to murmur that a bug
probably put that old breaking
straw upon the camel’s back. I
see that she is no spoilitieian and I
to tear away her tentacles. I
away and go into a room where
nominations are being made. I ar
rive just in time to see them join
ing their tentacles together in order
to push a gay but harmless butterfly
from the list.
It’s all too much. I curse the
_Jght and pray for dawn. My
spring fever has gone to the brain.
The man who doesn’t care what
anyone thinks settles down with a
package of Luckies and a box of
sweets to enjoy an Old Gold radio
program.—Life.
The Call
The late Marcus Loew, the movie
millionaire, said one day to a New
York reporter:
“When a man don’t like his work
his work don’t like him.
“A friend of mine hurried into
his office and found his clerk asleep
one morning at ten o’clock. It
wasn’t the first time, either.
“My friend waked the clerk up
and said:
“ ‘You can go, Meyer, at the end
of the month.’
“ ‘My gosh,’ said Meyer, ‘what
need to call me so soon for that?’ ”
Chromium Reflector
For Auto Headlights
Washington. —■ Chromium, which
can be electroplated on steel and
more permanent than nickel, h
been found particularly suitable for
reflectors in automobile headlights
after an exhaustive research made by
the bureau of standards.
The research, undertaken to study
the reflecting power of chromium,
was extended to cover not only light
in the visible portion of the spec
trum but also the ultraviolet and
infra-red. As a result it was found
that chromium has much higher re
flecting power than nickel in the
ultra-violet and, since it is less af
fected by ultra-violet rays, it is more
useful as a reflector of these rays.
They call her “Equator,” her line
s warm, but purely imaginary.
--Hornet.
Our dumbest Freshman asks if
Scotchman ever gave a damn.
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