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Connecticut College NewsVOL. 9, No. 16 PRICE 5 CENTS

FOUR LEADING ORGANI-ZATIONS HOLD AMAL-

GAMATION MEETING.New Plan Works Well.

On wednesdav eveulng, Febr-unr-v:!7th, the fi\""l -Amatgcma uon Meeting"was held. 'rnts was nie initial expet-f-rnent in the (,:lI'l'~'ing-out of a new planwhereby the regular meetings or Stu-dent Government, Service League, A.A., and Druma.tlc Club are all held onthe same evening, thus obvtat tng thenecessity of ha ving- four separatemeetings. Tile plan seemed to wor-kmost successfully.The meeting opened with the busi-

ness of Student Government. It wu s.voted that in the future, the pl'esldentof Student Govermuent will be auto-matically elected to attend StudentGovernment Oon rerences. Council thensubmitted to the student body a i:-'ec-ommenda uon tha t in ull cases of sua-pension or expulsion the names ofthe suspended 01' expelled be posted,touetber with a short descrtnttcn ofthe case. Arter a di!;cussion, In whichit appeared that the opinion was thatsuch a procedure would result in harm-ful publicity. It was unanimously votednot to {[('cept the l'ecommendation, 1twas ,llso decided thut the open !'onlll1111~etings should be continued.The husiness of Sicl'vice League in-

cluded the election of Anna .Allwee " lthe vlcc-presidenC',\', to fill the vu('anc,\'left by the resig'nHtion of E,mil,\' ,\Vill'-lIeI'; and the l'eading or a l'eQueHt-fo'tile l'en('wal of til£' Coel'ne F':ehobl'shlpfol' Music', ill Chl'l!-lLadol':l IIOURE'.·A. A. \'ote,l to ('mpowel' its council

to make all necesR:ll'y revisions in tIl<'Constitution and to begin work 011 th<Outing CluhHut, allhoug-h the fundsal'e not yet sufficient to complete allthe details and furnishings which thecompleted plan will require,'t'he Dramatic Club accepted the re':

ig-llution of Charlotte Lang, as vierpresident, and elected Eugenia Walshto fill that position. It was announcedthat a shol't play, "'I'he Sequel," wouldbe given Satunlay evening, fOt- the en~tertainment of the Alumnae,'rile meeting closed with the singi'ng

of Alma Mater.

EXAMINATIONS PRO ANDCON.

Discussion Continued,

In this issue, the discussion oE theexamination system \vill be concluded.The fil'st article is the conc1uS'ion of01', Morris' statement, which involH'Sa justification o( the stand he h.lS

taken.It may be objected that examina-

tions and reviewing are not synony-mous, and that hence to show thevalue of reviewing is not to justifyexaminations, The answer to this js,I think, that an examination is, if notthe only, af least the most practicablemethod ]tnown, in our educational sys-tem as now organized, to insure thedcsi"able kind of reviewing. A termpaper, for example (sometimes pro-

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NEW LONDON, CONNECTICUT, MARCH 7, 1~"..

Intercollegiate Confer-ence Meets at Yale.

College and GuestsEnjoy Reception.

Delegates from Eastern CollegesDiscuss Causes of Criticism

of American Student,

Faculty, Alumnae and StudentsAssemble for Social.Evening.

Students rrom the Ea stern Collegesmet at Ya Ie, F'ebt-u at-v 29th-March2nd, to exchange Ideas concerntng thecrtttctsrn which is made of the presentday American Student. He is accusedof lack of interest In things worth-while, over- emphasis of his extra-curricular activities and indifferencetoward human movements outside thecampus. The Conference opened witha dl nnet- in Dwight Hall, followed byan address by Mr. Roger N. Baldwin,director of the American' Otvu Lfber-ties Union. His subject was "Socia!Thinking in Our Colleges."Advocates Student Control of College,"Mr-, Baldwin advocated a complete

and unconditional student con trot ofthe college, both social and tnteuectuut.nnd a faculty organized in a Iabbrunion to be affiliated with the Amer-ican Federation of Labor'.He assel'led that Emma Goldman

llad g-iven him more real educationthan he had received (rom his Pl'O-fessol's dUl'ing his student days, liesaid he was concerned with ~he spi!'itof gl'owth and pl'ogl'ess which .~: 1 heoutcomc of the enthusiasm fol' inqliil'yand the tolerance which the stuckntis beginning to show throllsh the jib·eral clubs.

A T.aboo on Thinking,MI'. Baldwin saiel: "Thel'e nre only

a fe\v colleges in the country to-r1::l.ywhere the a.uthorlties dal'e to be C(JI'~

dial to student Ol'g'anizaUons whichin any way arouse rttt::cl{~ ff"OIll tlwoutside worlel. 1 fincl mOl'e pel'sonulity,mOl'e creativb- pO\\'el', among radicalmanual laborers than among Cf)j!(~gestudents, "'e must tolerate thinking.At present we do not flnrt. t)ut f'.vl~rJ'-,thing at college. \Vhen progresscomes it is through rebel spirits, y..,reshould make college over in terms ofwhat we care about, :lnd create fnl'ourselves an inner life, 'l'he t·.ttu::e ofreal education lies clea~'ly w'th t.hestudents, as all growth n<·~C!:-.:"ariiycomes from within, We who ~:1.re todebate these issues of the collegeworld and the wodd of conflict aresowing the seeds of the only possibleprogress."

Accept the Challenge.He urged that we feel the new re-

sponsibility of the dn.y and 'accept thechallenge, Others hav.e what we havenot and we need a full, rich coopera-tlpn with them. vVe should bridgeOver the space by contact with theindustrial world.

Remainder of Conference forDiscussion.

The remainder of the Conferencewas dev,oled to sessioll~ on whichmany questions were raised for dis-cussion, such as the importance c.fcollege athletics, etc, Colleges arenot training camps for athletes, butthe quesfRin also came up why thethousanas turn out for the footballgames and onl;)' a half dozen to aliberal club meeting,Some attempt was made to define

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On Sat ur-day eventug. March 1, a re-ception was held in the gymnasiumtor- the faculty, alumnae and students.It was the first gathering of the sortin the nsstorv of the couege Theevening's rn-cgrnm wns opened byEsther Batchelder. chairman of theAl um nae Association EntertainmentCommittee, who tnu-oduced a series ofalumnae speakers,Winona Young '] 9, m-st Student

Government President, told how thecircumstances of the pioneer days res-tered the development of Student Gov-ernment, Mu r-Ion 'Varner '20, empha-sized Loyalty, a word which her classhad had made very vital to them by thewar background of their undergrad-uate days. Dorothy Gregson '21 (Mr-s.Lorimer' Slocum), chose for he r themePresident etnrsnun's phrase, "Do itbeautifully," which was the keynote ofhis lnir.ia.I speech when both he andthe daR'S of '2] came to Connecticut..lulla ',,'arner '23, enlightened theAlummte in I'egal'd to the C, C. O. C.hut, and the Charter House on JayStreet. Gloria Hollister '24, repre-senting the pl'esent ,student body, em-p11asized the desirability of unity amongall the daughters 'ot Connecticut. Ma-renda Prentls '19, Pl'esident of theAlumnae Association, urged that theAlumnae keep in touch with the 11l'ei'l-ent artivities and spirit of the col~lege by frequent l'e(Ul'llS to campus.President ),[arshall added his welcomeand assurance or faith in Connecticutstudents of the past "Ind pl'esent. andsome 01' his hopes 1'01' the futurc oftile institution.Following the speeches came the

presentation or Percival 'Vilde's one-act play, "The Sequel," by members orthe college dramatic club. EileenFitzgerald played the Butfer, who isalso the Prologue, MarjOl'ie Hastedtook the part of He, Eugenia '''alshof i:lhe, and Hazel Osborn of Hor-rocks, Inc.The play is a very clever little

skit, but the actol's did not alwaysseem to appreciate the full value oftheir lines. ""e also wonder Why She,. who was markedly astl'active, hadsaid "Yes" when He asked. The play~wright jntended that He should laterprove himself a dub, but He alsomust be conceived as haVing, up tillthe present, been clever enough toconceal his true cllUrllcter. HOlTocks.In('., had an amazing get~UI) anu wellexpressed by pantomine his emotionalcondition, though the hand-washinggesturB was a bit overdone, Thestage, piano and all, made a vel'y ac-ceptable drawing room,At the close of the play the floor

was cleal'ed for social dancing. Julia"Varner '23, and EvelYn Ryan '24,gave a very effective revival of one (;fthe song-and-dance interludes of themusical comedy, "Pierrot the Pirate.~'i\'[, P. Taylor '22, and Alice Ramsay

'23, delighted everyone with "Slinker-ton's Best," and ::i.\JlarySnodgrass verypleasingly sang the verse of "ChinaLove," with the audience joining in fhechorus, The evening closed with thesinging of Alma Mater.

MR. S. K. R'ATCLIFFESPEAKS AT CONVOOATION.Tells of "The Changing British

Empire,"

On Tuesday afternoon, March -lt.h,Mr, Samuel K. Ratcliffe, of England.addressed the college at Convocatlon.His topic was "T'he Changing BritishEmpire,"The great British Empire is not a

uniform thing; its gr-owth has beenremarkably unordered, Sir JohnSeeley said, "The British Empiregrew up in a state of absence of rnl nd."The Empire may be divided~nto

three parts, First, the Crown Colo-nies, Islands in the Pactftc and WestIndian Islands, having no setr-gov-ernmerit a t all, are included In thisdivision. 'They are under the directcontrol of Downing Street. Thisgroup Cowl-ares with our Pacific pes-session, the Ph IIIipines,Second come the self*governing

dominions, Canada, New Zealand, theCommonwealth of Austratta, and theUnion of South Africa, They arepractically independent, yet most pee-pie think of them as the characteris-tic parts of the true British Empire.The lesson which was bitterly andthoroughly administered to GreatBritain In 1776 was applied to Canada,\vith the result that to~day the onlysymbol of thelmpel'ial government isthe decorative figul'e of the Governol'-Genel'a!. Through the Independenceof Canada and the free developmentof hel' own life, lhe tie of union be-tween her and the motilet' country hasbeen strengthened. The only restric~tlon placed upon the Dominion is thatC'u1l3da Sh311 have no fOI'eign' polleyaggressi ve to England herself.The third division, or the "only

Empire," Is India, This countr~'presents to England her most difficultcolonial problems. The Indian race-problem is the greatest question fac*ing the Empire, and as yet, there hasbeen no principle or formula dis-covered for its solution,Since the Russo~Japanese War,

when a European power was defeatedby an Asiatic people, the spirit of na*tionalism has been steadily rising inIndia. One of the most interestingdevelopments has been the rise topower of the Indian leader, Ghandi.While studying law in England, hecame under the influence of the NewTestament and Tolstoy. His philoso-phy expresses itself in a life of theutmost simplicity, During the warhe was not opposed to England, forhe thought that IndTa would win lierfreedom by aiding the mother count.,y.When, at the close of the war, Intilastill remained under strict BL'iti3hcontrol, Ghandi became an Implacablefoe of the government.Accepted, against his .viII, a s the

leader of the Indian people he urgeda policy of non-resistance, His fol-lowers were encouraged to follow acourse of non~cooperation. Two yearsago the idealist leader, who talked offreedom but not of independence, wasarrested on three charges of sedition,At the time he said, "I have Frokenthe law, If I am free I will do itagain."

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CONNECTICUT COLLEGE NEWS

Connecticut College Newslife.feltthis

ESTABLISUED 1916Issued b)' the students of Connecticut

College ever)· Frida)' throughout theconege yea r' from October to June, exceptduring mid-year-s and vacattons,

STAFFEDITOR-IX-CHIEFOlivia Johnson '24

.NEWS EDITORLouise Hall '24

ASSOCIATE EDI'l'ORSCharlotte Beckwith '25

Helen Dodd '24

UEI'ORTERSJulia .\lorI88e:)' '24Lorraine Ferris '2GPauline 'Varner '26Hazel Osborne '26

:'!rA:o.'f\GI~G -EDITORxuuierme Shelton '24

.~SS'S'l'ANT lUANAGING -..-:DI1'OnsCharlotte 'rracy '25

Alma. Davis '2GnUSINESS l\(ANAC-ERlIe len Douglass '24

ASSISTANT nUSINESS ~[AXAGERSDorothy Wigmore' 25)fargaret Fowler '26

j.'ACULTY ADVISORDean Nye

LOYALTY.The bettel' the word, the mOl'e li-

able does it seem to abu!'!e. It passestoo lightly and readily from tongueto tongue with no thought behind it.There seems to be some danger

of this in connection with the use ofthe word loyalty, "'e who had u. re-cent reminder' from the class of '20as to how much the wOl'd meant IIIwrtr~time were set thinking as to howmuch it means now, "'ebster givesamong his synonyms fOl' the word fj~deHty, const:.lncy and devotion. Allof these and the original imply anobject nhout which they may cen-tel', It Is OUl' conception of the ob·ject which detel'mlnes the valUd l>'~our de\·otlon to it, Few of us, evenIn wal'-tlme, were willing to 5.Cceplthe slogan of "my countl·Y, right aI'wrong," without some reservn.thlll orexplanation; and neither should (JUI'conslan('y towanl Connectic:.Jt kkethe form of a blind accept.l!;0e of\\'hatevel· we "nct ill her. Rathel'should we devote ourselves to th'ltideal Connecticut of which the pres-ent institution is but the imperfectexpression, It is more disloyal to en·courage what is bad by a false fic1cl-ity than it is to fight against what\\'e are convinced is hal'mful, ('vpnthough by so doing \\'e lay o-\l[·sdvesopen to the risk of bein;; hai!t'd asmal-contents or pr'ophets of t::loonl.Let none of us take pride in being

constant merely to things as thernow are, but may we be ever eX9rt·ing ourselves for growth towal'd agonl which we see in our dreams,

FREE SPEECH.[The Editors or the Nelo& do not hold

themse;iv~ rcsponsi'ble tor the oplnlonllerpre<:lsed In this column,]

To the EditOl':r \\Tote that "Free Speech"-tlw,t

"Free Speech" on Seniors, which soannoyed them. But I was not annoyed-my sensibilities were del i cat e 1~amused, As If to make amends to oneat '24, I placed on hel' desk a handsomemagenta carnation, along with appt'o·prlate sentiments, Quickly, on spyingmy Illegible penmanship, she I'eclpro-cated as follo\\'s:Czechoslovakian BaIIade, entitled,

"Dry Those Tears Awa)".""Such fluent Free Speech-"\Vlth which you would teach-Arrant Seniors to think-just a bit,Has struck home at lastAnd our pride's going fastAs a result of your impudent wit,

But-

'nth a "life so In-cad and couun-e-nenstve'

I can well njfor-d (tt's not expen~l\'e)To nceern vour :1polo:::-r extenstve-c-"'!'it in flowery style most rife--

FOI'Like "the m-ar btuah of grnduntton"Blooms vour posatcnate cnrnu t tcn-e-So I roretve-c-aans tresttmton-c-)'11 "tease (neal' yours) my rut for

Life."Eve:' Thine

Ex-StaticallyWf th Ever 8uhin~ 'rears-c-A )'fOl'el!opeful Colleg-ian.

IN DEFENSE OF THECOLLEGE PROFESSOR.T feel SalTY for the colleg-e proressor.

He pt-nbnbly doe5<n't want my ptt y. but.~t's im posstote for me to orrer- myaympu t hy tor I have never- occupied aal rullar postt ton. The colleg(' pl·ofes.SOl'occupies, SUI1]lo!'H~dly,~ seat of hon-or at the front of a c~.assl'oom andfacps rows and I"OWSo.f chah's. "'henthe bell announces the beginning of aclass lle:-iod these chairs are usuallyfilled with a scattet'lng of bright· faced,and, on the whole disinterested, indi-viduals called pupils or students, Theypray with awfu~ telTOI' that they maynot be called on-with the idea-"hemerciful to us mi>;lel'able offenders,we'll really do our les~ons next time,if you'll spare us a ten·minute qui:!.today,"

Typical Class Pictured,Then, the class begIns, 'rhe pro-

fessor counts up the absentees, andbegins his lectul-e, After listening toa portion of this, the student elthel'I{ets discounlged in catching thejewels of wisdom that the pro(essortries to POUl' Into hel' mind, or' justnaturally fOl'gets what she is therefor.Bnng-! ~oes n. hool, on t.he (lOOI',

Some one ~1g-.t:"IC'R,One tnl,es a lookal'ound the ['oom. Sevel'al in the hack1'0\\" have come wpil supplied to ca.tchup on a month's cOrt'e~pondence, P.vPnsome in the front row nre hold enoug-hto write dil"(>l'tly llu(leJ.: the pr.oressot:.:.se}'ef:t, ,~rhethel' they think he is stupidai' blind is \VOl'thy of reflection. It Isfortunate that the college professorhas acquil'ed the hahlt of overlookng~uch tt'ilfles 01' is natur::l.lly not ~ensi-tive to lilck or attention. He wouldlay hims€'lf open to consldemble em-harmi'l.Sment if he 1001,ed around hisclassroom oc('asionally and saw someof his best pupils I'eading magazines,Teacher or Students Lack Spontaneity

If J were a college professol'-well,that's another thought-but 1 imagineI should get awfully til'ed or positively~lllgry if my pupils did man)' of thet.hings \ve students are often gOguiltyor. J think I should come to one oftwo conclusions, either that I wasn'tsufficiently spentaneous in my line ofteaching to inspire my lJUpils' atten-,tion, or else that my pupils needed agood tho:'ough shakin~ up, Just (ora practical example--I've paid abso-lute attention occasionally in classesto see what the pI'oressor had to sn.yahout his subject. L',sually he knowswhat he Us talking about. But-therewere g-aps. 1 don't know whether pro-fesson; wonder with awful qualms,gometimes, what they shall say next~but anyway I wonder if often they\vouldn't be tickled to pieces If somelwight-faced, or even particularlysleepy-faced Individual from the backrow should voice ~ome ftfimu/atillg re·mark ai' offel' some animated regpon~'ethat would rouse the l·est of the classto immediate attention so that, men-tally, they would· be stumbling all ovel'each other to get the Iloor, 1 shouldthink the professor would then feel asif he had accomplished a revival.Instead of pupils having systematic

filibusters to hold up the day's class-room legislation. how about the pro-fessors getting together and planning

a conentracv to see how many rea Imental bmues rhev could start i.'1t het- ctasses to make students actuallyvolunteer?

Combats of Wit Suggested.1 have heard tbnt combats of wit

in the classroom used to be popular,Something- like that might be benefi-cial. we use our sense of humor out-~:'de the ctnas, but ra-erv inside-itsinks into the dull onuvton of mentalfear, Of course with combats of wit,there would be a danger or roc muchinformality per-haps. but classes wouldbe a lot more enuctnz. par-aonalf y, Ishould like n few r-ent battles withcollege proressors berore I graduate--and "life Is short and time is neenne.'Drive for Lively Classes Proposed,As a remedy for the deter-lornt.ton of

recnnuons in the cta ssrocm. I suggesta drtve. we have had drtvea rora hnut everythtng but the the Intellec-tual shle of ('olleg-e-Endowment FundDrives, C, C, 0, C, 11m Drive Rnl!othf'rs, How about hn.ving a drh'e fool'good volunteel' I'ecitation, 0l>en discus-sion In the classl'oom, with the ex-pression of our l'eal ideas! Perhapsthe result would be that time wouldfly and we should a.ll hang eagedyal'oullel the professor's desk in pureinterest of OUl' discussion aftel' thebell had rung.This sounds like a l.:topia.I began by saying that I was SOl'l")'

fol' the ('allege pl'oressol'~and I endwith the same sentiment. After all,leaching- is his life work, and It mustbe horribly disheal'ten:ng day after dayto stare at the same unanimatedgroups taldng notes, mel'e obstructionson otherwise phI.in rows of chairs,

A Rebellious Obstl'Uctlon,

MR, S, K, RATCLIFFE SPEAKS ATCONVOCATION,

Collcluded from pave l, clllumn 4.Chand I has rece'ntlY bpen released

[I'om prison. Dul'ing his incal'Cel';]-Han, his followel's have been cloying,,"Home Rule fOI" Tndla." It is notknown how he will adjust himself tothe changed poslt~on of his party, 1-lehas proved himself to be one of thogreat lea.ders of the centUl'y, and isconsidered a saint In India,As the case now stands, ~he ('on·

StitUtiOll of India cannot be ,;n:lng8(1fot' ten yeal's, Yet it is IWoh,lble, ifthe Indians grow too restive, thE'J}I'esent Labor Government in Eng-gland might shorten the time limit.Changes will doubtless come about inmuch the same way as developmentshave proceeded in othet' parts or theI~tnpil'e, that Is, along the road ofpolitical responsibility,

INTERCOLLEGIATE CONFERENCEMEETS AT YALE,

Conctuded fmm l.1ltue I, column 2,the purpoge of education. It was sug~gested that we are educated to be ofservice to the community; that welearn to. be leaders, especially ofthought; that we gain a sense ofbe~utY and tmth and serve by givingthIS to othel'S.Question of Understanding Labor.One session was devoted chiefly to

the question of the student's under-standing of labm', It was said thatthe desire to know the problems ofthe day should be encour'aged, ""eshould try to acquil'e the laborer'spoint of view, This can be gained byworking in Industries. OUl' point ofview is warped if college furnishesour only experience, "Ve were re-minded that we come to college withprejudices and preconceptions thathave not been thouiht through, andthese require reconstruction,Means to Awaken Student Mind,The closing session was a general

review of what had been stressed be-fore. Emphasis was laid upon thosemeans by which It was felt that thestudent mind could be awakened tothe wider problems which are In

danger of neglect in campusLiberal clubs and publicity wereto be suitable means for attainingend,

EXAMINATIONS PRO AND CON,Continued from JXl(Je 1, column 1,

posed as an alternali\'e to an exami-nation), ts very apt to have the fol-Iowfng' results: (a) to cause the r-e-vlewfng of only those points of the.semester's work that have to do withthe topic of the paper; (b) tnererore10 cause some points to be neglectedby the student and an undue andper-haps mtse emphasis to be placedon those items actually reviewed andused; (c) thus to detent one of themain purposes of a review, i. eo, themaking of it total sur-vey of a field;(d) by mnking it possible for thesrudenr at any time to look up In atext anything she may have f'or-g-ot ten,to prevent that naref'u l attention todetails thal :[ student will give whoknows that nt examination time sheis going to be wholly "on her own."TenH papers or essays certainly havea value; but such papers should, itseems to me, supplement, not SllP~plant, examinations"It lllay a'so be objeC'ted (though the

essentially negative character of thisargument against examinations shouldbe noted from the start) that a stu-dent would take her daily work moresel'iously 'if she know that this dailywo1'l, would determine her mark, thatthere would be no opportunity to "getby" a course by cramming at the end,Now to me. at least, daily work of anearnest consistent sort and an exami-nation are both necessa.ry, They areIil,e man and woman~neither is ofmaximum value or e.fficiency withoutthe othel', Each is the desirable com-plement of the othel', Any scheme,

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VICTORIES TO '27 AND '24.The youngeI' classes of the college

met in theil" fil'Rt game of the seasonon Thursday, Pebnlfll'y 28th, when theFreshmen (Iefeated the Sophomol'es, 23to 21. The pl:lying was so close as toresemble in many respects the well~known guessing gnmes prevalentamong the youth of Amel'ica, thoug'hto the a!':~e.mbled Pol1.\·annas of '27, itj)rob:lhly ~eE'mec1more neal"ly like the"Glarl Gnme."The oWeI' nnrl more sedate classes

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ALUMNAE.Day by DayIn ever wayThe Annual

Grows-yes, it does, .\lumnae, nt last-c-ueu.er and better. \\'1'1 have now threecontributions, all told. But rnere arealso promises (tulle asaurf ng- one-s,too) of more- articles,This morntng'a mail brougtu an :If'-

ceutance n-om a nromtnent g'rndu .,But the INtel' implied that she mtrnot hn \'C ccn tr-Ibuted unle-ss she hadi-ecervod :1 personal aj.pea I!Alumnae <Ill! 'I'!ti/f i/f (f PERSOKAL

APPI~AL! Every aile of you, individ-ually, [hrough this column, Is and hasbeen, will be and will have been in-vited, requested. nay I/I'II!'(/ to do herstun-e. The cn-cutar letter was anotherund a bit mer-e nerscnat method orreachfng you, Some, we at-e also, itIs tr-ue. at lll rut-thor- goading with In-d ivld uul letter-a.

J111s1 !Ifill, fOI), wail IQ /1(' (/If"('(/ (I!/fl;JI!This is an Alumnae enterrn-tee. It isYOUR undertaking, YOU are re-sponsible ror the !"esults, You havebeen continually Ul'ged to do ~'ourshare, 11(11'1' yOIl dOlle ;I!'H[lve you sent ONE 'I\'QRD of orig-

inal contl'lIlUtion to, of suggestion for,in encourap;-ement of, the Annual to

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Have ,\'OUsecUl'ed even a foul' clollar($4.00) complimentilry aclvel'til;emen!fOl' Blanl'he li'ineHllvcl',

333 eapcn 8t., I bu'Uord, Conn.'!

Have you even expl'cssecl your faithin and loyalty to the ,Alumnae .'\$SO-

cifltiOn to the extent o( nt lenst olle

Oh the sparkle of the camp fireOn 'the sheltered woodl .. ,.,rl

shore,With the forest for a back-

ground,And the lake spread out be-

fore!While the frail canoes come

tossing homeTo harbor in the bay"

And the star above the sunsetMarks the passing of the day,

sevemv-nve cern (75c) subscriptionorder sent to

Esther Batchelder,3089 Broadway, Xew York?

TIME LBJlT FOR ALL COXTHIBL"-TIO~H, ETC., EXTEXDED TO MAR HIn-I ...A'I'EH II;' ~EC'EBSARY.

'22 to the Rescue.Just ~IS our- teat Items expired, there

c-nme a welcome con n-tuut ton n-omHelen MelThl, of rcew eall1l:l.l1. Conn"who wrnea:"JU!oIt:1 few notes Ior- the rn.s which

will be of ixu-ucutru- interest to '22. Ihnve recent ly received a tetter fromGrace Berg'er-, ex-'22. Grace receivedtier A.B. degree in June. 1922, and willreceive her deg-ree of Doctor of Juris-pr-udence in May, 1924. 'l'hel'E' are 350students In the College of .rurtspru-deuce of till' L'ni\'en~lty of cuutoru!anf whom twenty-five are girls. Grace,writes, "l'here is 110(el'.'lIng that we areptcneers. hut ra th er, that we are doingan average thing'.'"Grace saw Chat-lotte Hall '21, tor

one afternoon while Charlotte was onhel' way to Los Angeles,"

THB BACK LOG IDBA-Part 2.THE CAMP AND HOW WE LIVE IN IT

One hundl'ed miles nOl'thwest from Saratoga, and thirty miles infrom the edge of the gl'eat Adirondack wildel'IlPss, stretches neadynorth [lnd south the silver l'ibboll of Indian Lake, 'fhe six miles of Hssouthern end htls unl)roken shores of forest, and hl'.'re on the westernside, almost hidden by the trees and undershl'ubs, are scattel"ed thefHt~' tents of Back Log Camp.

'\'e really li\"e outdoors in the gl'eat woods, but these tents arethe alcoves whose roofs give us sheltel' [I'om the rain and whose cur-tains secure privacy, If the ropes al'e kept tight, the tents arethOl'oughly dry, wHh flies and board floors,

]n front of each is a fil'eplace, whel'E: a back log fire will cht!eTthe camper on cool evenings and rainy days. There al'c single an~ldouble tents and the gil'ls will take whiche\"er they !)refer. Gil'ls [I'omthe same ('allege will pl'esumahly be tented together and the wholeg'roup will he congenially pI3ced, but thel'e will be no distinctions be-twpen them nnd the rest of the camp, except perhaps such cveningcustoms as al'e usually found in gll'1s' colleges and which will be regu-uated by the girls themselves.

At the landing are boats and canoes, free [or all, The shores andcoves allure, and the watel' is sheltered and generally free from dis-turbing windi'"

Nestled among the hills, a mile or two back [rom the lake, arelittle ponds which al'e reached by pleasant trails, while steeper andmore rugged paths ascend several of' the mountains. Day excursions::tre continually being macie to one of another of these ponds and moun-tains. These trips always take one mea! out, and often two, cominghome in the dusk of the evening. Beaut..:ful views are seen from allof the mountains, but the top or Snowy unfolds a wond.erful panorama.of the southern and eastern wilderness, At one's feet lies the homecamp, while beyond are the regions of our longer over-night trips.These will be the subject of Part IlL• Connecticut College representative of Back Log Camp, SarahCarslake, 730 Williams Street, New London, Connecticut.

REV. GEORGE WEBSTER TOBE AT VESPERS.

The Revel'end Ceorge S, Wehster',secretal'y of the American Seamen'sl"l'iend Society or New York, wl1l bethe speaker at \'espel's on Sunday,:\l;tl"l'h Gth, 111>1 topic will be "ShillSand ~ailors," Hnl1 the lecttll'e will heillUBtl'ated WiLh coh)l'ed slides showingsome of his experiences and the wel-(are \\'011, Hlllong the sailol's, Vespel'swill sturt at G.45 instea.d o( 7 o'c!ock,

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Ever since the davs In the cradlewe have heard about "wme. womenand sene.' until they have become asfil"'ml~-allied In our minds as "Faith,HOlle Hod Char-fty," and other greattrtumvrrnres. Substf t utlng extra-or-dlnnt-Hy good toad in place of the age-old -wtne," one may get a. fair idea ofthe Alumnae Supper at the 'I'ea Houseon 1\!:lI'ch first. The whole made anatmosphere of conegfute perfection,Food, as we said, women, about elKhtyof them,-and jnnumera.hle songs,-class, comedy, college, all lusty andspirited.The women, OUI' alumnae, ale the

rood, sang the songs and enfoved theatmosphere. Esther- jasucnetder pt-e-sided and J ullne wurner spoke aboutthe duty of the alumnae to the under-m-a-Juatcs and nbout the Aj u rnnn e An-nual which they hone to puhlish nussprIng.

COLLEGE EASILYDEFEATS ALUMNAE.

On "Alumnae Dar," March th-at, theCollege team defeated the Alumnae,82-15, The College team was chosenfrom .Iuntor- and Senter ru-st teamg ir-Ia. The Alumnae team was mn deup of girls from '23 and '19,'rue Alumnae, much out of nracuce

and lacking then- former speed, wereno match tor the College team whichwas in pel'fect tl'im, "Neil" and JanetGoodrich, with theil' mltlal accUl'uteshot, made the college scol'e mounthigh, The College gual'ds interceptednf'al'iy every ball which the AlumnaefOl'\\'Hl'ds aimed at the busket,A.t the IJeginnlng of the second half,

the Alumnae, handag-ed and Umpillg-,took theil' places on the floor. "Les"Aldennan, lifting the bandage fromone eye, succeeded in making :J llotherbasket. 'I'he center. ",J udy" 1'I~al'nel'.casting aside the rules of the ;;amealong with the sling whiCh WHS sup-paning her rIght arm, also inCl'(l1lsedthe AlumnHc SC'OI'e.'rhe whole audience cheered time

and time a.gain fOl' the "'C, C: grads",,·ho chased hl'eathlessl~· flUer theil'~·ounget' collegt" sistel's nnd who in theend were ollt!)lared IJut not discoul'-:lg-ed,The line-uJ) wns:College 82, Alumnae 15,

Comelius '2 ..l, ... f. _ ,Alderman '23Goodl'ich '25 _ , ,f, '" Holcombe '23Hubhell '24. "c, _ ,," 'Yamer '23Hamblet '24. _g.. ",lUcCarthy '23Crawford '25, ,.g, "" Hatch '19Substitutions-College, Ferguson '25

[01' Hubbell '2-1; Hilker '2-1, for Craw-ford '25,

EXAMINATIONS PRO AND CON,Omcludulfrom 1>a(Je2, column 4,

therefore, to increase the \'alue of onegood thing by doing away with an-other good thing - is illogical. If"practically" it is s8.'id to be "ex-pedient" to give up two goods to in-sure the attaining- of one, then, in this

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case, at any rate, college communitiesmust admit to a shameful weaknessand the scheme would not turn out tobe practical. FOI' if college studentsmust be f(.Jfw(/ to take their daily workmore seriously because they wilt g-etno other chance to pass, they are notin the right mental attitude towardscollege, and no scheme or any sortwill produce any desirable ~ff2~t.The exarnm.uton method may have

bad points, but in my opinion, it has,both quantitatively and quautattvervconsidered, more good points thanbad. And by a dispensation, poestblyowing to a student of Psychology, rshould like to add this: that the ex-amination method, like anything good,can be rendered more or Ieas futile bya hostile at' indifferent attitude on thepart of those most concerned."A gentor says: "Mere supervtston

and tess direction in courses. it seems.would lnevlt.ab ly 11I:lI,e Interest. the«timut us rn thei- thun comnetltton 01'

conscience. 'Tvhis ntt ttu de of mtere st .whieh is an-tmporturu in tho orlur-.r-live process and certainly in the ("1,1-lege, might gradually be attained Iymeans of much class discussion, fre-quent short quizzes, and a long paperon a subject of the student's choice.In this way ever-y student would nndoppor-tunity for expression in themanner in which she might excel, n tthe same time. however, not disre-garding the other media,"1Jer-e is a Sophomore reaction:

"There is no reason why 11 studentshould go thr-ough the torture of anexamination if she has a B averagein a subject. In an examination onehas to gage what an instz'uctor wants,not what one knows, If one fails toanalyze conectly the pl'ofessol"S stateof mind, the examina.tion in mostC:lses is not favol'uble to the stuclent.'l'herefore, the exanlination is not :1fait' cl;iterion of knowledg-e_:Mol'eover, most people ('rum fOl'

exams, and ('I'<ll11 hare1. 'I'he m:ll1Yf11ct8 jammed into one's head in a 1'ewmidnight houl'~ :ll'€, rarely l'etnin€'(l(01' long_ .Thus the examin:ltloll doe"not even ac<'omplish itf> purpose of a~ood revie,v, H the student wereworking fol' a B average she woulddo het' lef>:'lons daily and not if>,l,-eevelTthin~ till the last minute, Inthe end she would have a more 1:IS(ing'knowledg"e of the suhject than hall!":'!of ('rummin.!:" would ever g-ive he!'."AnoLllel' SeniOl' says; "l:lm not in

1':l\'OI"of examinations at the end ofa term, upon which everything- de-pends, The student does better workif sh~ knows that her daily work isgoing to count. I heartily believe indail~' quizzes or a "-eekly exam, Atthe end o[ the term one is orten phy-sically unfit to take an exam, and themental strain is great. even thou.!:"hone has done <leI' work consistently,so that one Goes not do justiC'e tooneself or to the professor,Papers and essays are a good way

to get original work from a student.Dr, Lawrence gets a great deal fromhis students and the students, in tu I'll,like to wOl'k fOl' him, because theyknow that they are absolutely gettin.l::credit for what they do throug-houtth€' term, and credit {foes not dependon one exam."

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