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SPORTSMEN
It

is not infrequent

that

the, average follower of

college athletics has the wrong attitude toward sports
The University has a strong basketball team which,
needless to say, is backed wholeheartedly by a loyal
student body.

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There are other colleges that have teams as good
as our University, and they are backed by the same
loyal spirit that is back of the Wildcats.
In this day and age we are too often in the wrong
with our ideals of college sports; The main object in
athletics is that of development and not of winning
Our team has made a very creditable showing this
season. It did splendid work at the tournament and
that is all that can be expected. When a team plays
its best and is beaten, it is far more advanved than a
team that plays just half as well as it is capable, and
wins.
The Wildcats played a fine game of basketball
throughout the season. They were invited to the tour
nament at Atlanta where they eliminated two good
.teams before they were forced out of the tournament
by Mississippi. We modern folk have in us still a bit
of the ancient Roman idea about athletics, that is, that
victory is the chief end. The idea should be not so
much victory, but to play as true sportsmen. The Wildcat team this year has played the game with that spirit.
lhat they were beaten is of little consequence. They
gave their all.

The arguments of the moderns hold good in the
cast of the comedies. The entire group of Elizabethan
comic dramatists, including Shakespeare, were under
the influence of Plautus and Terence. Shakespeare's
great comedies are simply an infinite variation and a
subtle delineation of the comedy of situation of Plautus and the comedy characterization of Terence. Incongruity, reversal of situation, horse play, buffonery,
humorous characterization and all the other mechanism
of Elizabethan comedy can be just as effectual in a
steam-heated
home with costumes by Bond Street, as
in a Venetian law court in Renaissance dress.

But the presentation of Shakespearean tragedy in
clothes destroys the illusion. Shakespeare, in
his great tragedies, presents "great and terrible actions, performed by people of the highest rank, in a
world superior to our experience." Modern democratic
society has so destroyed individuality that the President of the United States wears the same clothes as
does a clerk. Hamlet in a sack suit is ineffectual,
Othello in a dinner jacket is absurd, and Macbeth in a
morning coat is ridiculous. The great tragic figures
should be resplendently robed, so that they impress
us with their grandeur and will convey the inevitable
tragic fall from fortune more poignantly. Shall Macbeth be taken from his rugged castle in Scotland and
placed in a drawing room, or shall Hamlet be made
to strut the boards in
Heaven forbid!
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The Theater Intime, the
Theater movement at Princeton University, opened Monday with a third
production o'f Isben's. "The Wild
WAILS OF
Duck." All of which leads one to obo
o serve that the influence of the mighty
"Ole Miss," according to the Associated Press, was Norwegian is still paramount in the
a dark horse in the tournament. We'd say rather that world.
she was more or less a night mare.
Willaim Boyd, in "Dress Parade,"
is the production coming to the
run
After all isn't it the street car motorman who. can Strand Sunday for a four-da- y
pick up a
d
and carry her a short while and then Oncej again one has the colorful and
drop her?
o- o
If you are really looking for signs of spring, we
Over
would say that the one which cannot really be overlooked is the progress of the zoology classes. The
rather ripe subjects of their experiments are even now
quite evident in most parts of the Science building.
(By J. Clark Graves)
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In the March issue of "Vanity Fair'
Another thing, it looks like these darn Mississippi-an- s there are quite a few very readable
are getting about as hard to beat as they are to contributions by foreigners. The epigrams in M. Paul Geraldy's "Notes
spell.
On Love" reveal Mr. Geraldy's exasperating insight into human characThere's no use denying it. People who live in glass ter. For instance, he writes: "The
houses might as well tell the truth.
man asks of the woman he loves that
she continually justify and corrobohis choice of. her. Since he is
Our freshman reported that he didn't have his out- rate
responsible for his choice, her shortside reading because it was too cold. He was right comings humiliate him. When he disat that.
approves of her it is himself that he
has ceased to love." And again, "To
Parents are getting out of the habit of kissing their realize a satisfactory ideal from the
conflicting elements of masculine senbeloved offspring good night. And who in the heck
suality and femining beauty, man is
wants to set up until 3 a. m. to osculate.
logical in asking of the woman he
loves that she be at the same time deAmong those present are those popular girls known sirable and inaccessible."
as the "tonsil group." Everybody takes them out. Ex.
Moreover, in the same issue of
"Vanity Fair" there is an autobiographical sketch of Adolphe Menjou,
"How the Screen Villian Has Come
to Represent an American Girl's Ideal
of a Parisian Gentleman," which,
without disclosing Mr. Menjou's age,
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reveals some interesting things about
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his rise to fame. One feels in
MARTHA CONNELL, Editor' ,4'
down "Vanity Fair," after having glanced at the drawings of
and read of Mr. Menjou's
enterprises; after having read M.
LATE SUMMER
Paul Morand and Mr. Lippmann's
Late honeysuckle after rain
The wild, sweet fragrance summer lends her .weamed
hours,
SEE
Effectuate essence of her alchemy,
Poignant as memory of your brief smile
That few days of sunshine
Your gay and bitter words ah love!
are bringing out some very
The honeysuckle withers
smart Topcoats at the K Shop.
Beyond the potency of rain, and I . . .
I would remember, but my heart is dead . - .
I.
F. D.

THE WEEK

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thrilling romance of a West Point
cadet and a girl. This is Boyd s first
picture as a star in his own right. He
will be remembered as the tall, blonde
Russian in "The Volga Boatman,"
and as the doughboy in "Two Arabian
Knights."

R. W. SMOCK
Watch Your Watch

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"The Throb of Music in American
Life," 4s the title of Deems Taylor's
third article, of a series of five, that
senior annual publication, appear the following:
he is writing for
"Is petting a vice?" "Have you ever kissed a girl?" writing he shows the Times. In this
that musical art is
"Would you marry for money?"
slowly being grafted on our tree of
As for their soulmate, "Is she a college graduate?" culture and predicts the advent of
"Does she smoke?" "Does she drink?" "Is she clever great native composers.
or beautiful?"
Comes the news that Harvard's
Other personal questions are whether a professor
more serious musicians have turned
smokes, drinks, gambles, or dances.
to a capella singing and orchestral
The questions, while trite and petty, were they an- symphony.
swered honestly, might serve as a most potent factor in
aiding the students and the faculty members of this
One of the largest audiences of the
institution in understanding one another.
Faculty year to attend a University band conmembers have too long refrained from discussing the cert assembled in the Men's gymnaintimate and personal side of college life. They 'do not sium Sunday. Though the audience
one could
ignore these questions, so why should they refrain from was not
see that the numbers played did regdiscussing them with the students.
ister. We enjoyed the interpretation
A direct answer to such questions, written as the of
"Circus Days," and so, one could
heart of the faculty member dictates, would go a long see, did the audience. However, the
way toward creating a greater sympathy between the band did far better on some other
faculty members and the students.
numbers.

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Dear Editor:

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8:00 P. M.

you did not publish my

I see that
little communication of last week,
md I concluded, since the U. S. Mail
las established a record for efficiency, that the
proofreader concluded
hat it was a linotyper's exercise and
iflled it.
Did you, by any chance, see the
comedy at the Strand last week?
it was absolutely rotten. I have never
een a more sickening spectacle in
my life. I think it is a disgrace to
che American public that they will
How such stuff to be shown on the
screen, and such comedies are coming
,o a stage where we must begin to
doubt our intelligence. Can't we do
something about this?
A high tribute to our modern engineers was paid the other day. One
of the professors spoke of an article
in the Atlantic Monthly which was
entitled "Widening the Gap Between
America and Europe." One of the
engineers inquired, "How are they
doing it?"
Another thing. Last Sunday at the
band concert, I was overwhelmed at
the generosity, or musical appreciation, or take it as you want to, of
the audience which attended it. While
Mr. Sulzer was carefully conducting
his band, others in the audience took
it upon themselves to help by their
superior understanding of music, their
fellow mortals in appreciation of the
flowed
harmonious strains which
through the Men's gymnasium, and
tap, tap, tap of their
the rythmic
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Beating thin hands against Thy ineluctable chains?
I would not be
Thyself! For if not free
Rather blind, agonizing finitude
Than feel, a shackled God, Thy cursed promethean pains.
F. D.
Ah God,

SHADOWS
Tonight,
While twilight shadows fall,
Alone,
'

I hear your sweet sad call.
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Why,
When I search for peace and rest,
Do
You recall the aching breast?

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creep into Heaven, dear,
Or
In your heart do you have a fear

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That
I again may happy be
Since

Death has taken you from me?
R. E. S.
IRONY

The years, I thought, had brought surcease of pain.
Your face grown fainter with the passing days,
My heart forgetful. All our various ways
Went each as we never dreamed
One hour of love . . . This moment madly gleamed
A perverse fate, shining with tears,, again.
F. D.

We
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SEARCHING

I searched the heavens for Truth,
And found a fading star and a planet cold.
I searched the earth for happiness,
And found the flutter of a wounded

bird.

I searched my soul for understanding,
And found the broken notes of a forgotten song.

I searched my heart for Love,
And found the seeds of eternal hate.
So now I search for Death,
And shall find it ere the night grows late!K. E. S.
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Infinitesimal me

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Within the last few years the presentation of Shakespeare in modern dress has gained considerable popularity even among the critics. The sponsors of the
innovation claim that the universality of Shakespeare's
genius makes costuming unnecessary. They argue that
he, more truly than any other author, presented human nature and that human nature is the same throughout the ages. Also, they cite the known fact, that all
Elizabethan productions were presented in the dress of
the period. Joseph Wood Krutch, the eminent dramatic critic, said recently in the Nation, "The idea is
good.
Now the average theater-goe- r
can enjoy the
plays without having to assume an hypocritical reverence."

know

everyone is trying to help me appre
ciate the rythm of the music this
jway, and I wish you would extend to
them my regards.
Trusting that everything is as good
with you as it is with me, I remain,-Youfriend,
JEREMIAH SILVERGOLD.

Music, Stage and Screen

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members of their faculty, it might appear to some,
rather impertinent questions. In a questionnaire sent
out recently by the editor of "The Microcosm," the

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