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PAGE TWO The Gold Bug, Western Maryland College, Westminster, Md.. lila ril't t! As lou GOt \Ie; One lInt1'r-QJ:ollrgiut1' A PLAYS AND OF LIFE Sometimes when 14ik1' lit get N1'Uls REVIEW BOOKS, students we collegiate and 'sixty~e\'en hundred loan what elden to Foundation American scholarships Educational will be provided by the Qf AMOS MEAKIN'S GHOST headoverhecla do first, in we work, wish not for the knowing American Bunkers, ninety-eight of which "All her childhood she had been ae- times when kings and courtiers "be· Official newspaper of Western Maryland College, publtshed on Thursday during are nOW being offered to seventy-one MI· eustomed to the sea, playing on the guiled the weary time away." If only the academle year by the students of Western Maryland College, westmtoeeer, and universities in thlrby-four sand, or bathing at will through the someone could ha,'e fonnd a method of Maryland. Entered liS second-class matter nt the Westminster Pcetcfflce. Swarthmore College is included long day. On moonlight nights, with process by which some of this wasted Subscription Price, $2.00 a Year on that list along with many of its other children of the village, she had. time could have been preserved for the neighboring colleges, such as Dickinson, loved to slip quietly into theeire1e of present I Of course not everyone needa Lafayette, Gettysbnrg, Franklin and the old people who watched and ap- extra time. Some students study their MANAGING STAFF Marshall, Lehigh and Penn State. the dances on the beach; then lessons-to some degree .anyhow-and ~Sw~rthmore Phoenix. have time to "go down the street Editor-in.Chief. . .... Casper P. Hart, '29 the first pause she would fall to play- every night too. Otners just can't ing tag with her companions and romp seem to accomplish nnything in com Managing Editor Joseph L. Mathias, Jr., '29 under the palm trees until she fell asleep Asst. Managing Editor. .Edwin Wal'field, '29 In view of the growing importance of with sheer weariness of the prolonged pnnson to with the the first work assigned. mom of More us the type; >,ower Business Manager ... .Paul Bates, '31 commercial aroused aviation, much interest in has the revels. she Here, she and heard at times the felt sea she no belong to the second. Is there any way among physicians sighed; been mare, Asst. Business Manager. ... J. Hammett Simms, '29 course of aviation medicine which will must climb over the mountains, and to have what the old poet asked man, come will true' you "Time, gypsy you Advertising Manager. ... Marvin B. Sterling, '30 be second resumed semester, at Georgetown opens during Pebru- the seek the the surf; beach and again having to' shout swum and far bathe out nnt stay, Put up your caravan just for in in which Circulation Manager .. . .Roy L. Robertson, '29 ary. It was established at the school to stand on a little board and ride the one day'" James A. Stach, '30 last year by Dr. Lewi~ H. Bower ef the curl of a great comber in triumph to Asst. Circulation Managers .. . . . .. Thomas Braun, '30 Aeronautical Bureau, Department of the beach." Then one dny an alnmna came back. { Commerce, as the first course of it. And then this paasage r LesLie Grover, '30 kind in a medical school in this country. .4.nd the alumna told \IS that homesick· when Hill evidence, Art Editor .. ..... ,"Pete" Gomsak, 'SO '1'he course is designed primarily to in- and "The eoherently prepared finally trial, obtained ness for it has College a poignancy is not that imaginary- sometimea shew- that for atruct physicians "in the examination of Sports Editor .. . L. G. Ekaitis, '31 ed that the death of the victim was due hurts, that memories of "the good old pilots not from the viewpoint of times" return with a feeling almost of eivilinn but militnry aviation to rnnlptactice and criminal carelessness. REPORTORIAL STAFF Yielding to the banal wnrd.ccining ten- despondency, and tllUt when the golden as well. News Editors -Bucknellian. dency of the timeS', this evidence con- dreams of what used to be glide softly clusively indicated that Amos Makin away, the day seems somehow richer. IV. G. Eaton, '30 Margaret Mm-tignoni, '29 had come to his death through "sur· Life takes a deeper significance after geonitis": a malady that annually slays college and the spirit is often tried Associate Editors With all the stir about international its thousands ; and \:aries in its fatality as gold a crneiblc; but again and nceord through tile peace trncte an,'! :Mary Walzl, '29 Curvin M. Seitz, '29 with the prevaJcnt medical fad that di again, the alumna told liS, she longs for heard Edith Kinkead, '29 Hoy C. Chambers, '29 arms limitations few people have through recta it, as this tends to become rut.icnnl, "care-free" days, days of happy ir· about good·will international Evangeline Lathem, '29 Charles R. Rensch, '29 l;~tween students of the or proves to be tragically foolish." responsibility. say to us that just 'lS All nlumnae States and of Europe, which be- The two passages above arc fitting when students themsell'es they read such Reporters COUle closer thall ever this summer. The samples of the interesting reading to be messages from former students and call· new Virginia Merrill, '30 Roy T. Edwards, '31 National Student Federation, organized found in a Ghost," booh; by entitled "Amos ed it "hokum," so we aball do the same Meakin's Wilbur Morri", Sara Freeman, '29 Rouy Day, '29 at Princeton in )925 and now represent- Stine. It may be found in our college and go about groaning because of ITelen G. Dennis, '29 C. E. Funk, '29 ing more than two hundred colleges and library nnd is at the disposal of those "killing" assignments, and this, and Catherine Reed, '30 Jackson \Y. Day, '31 univereitica Jn the sent Hs delc- who may wish to read it. It is well· that, and the other-until we ourselves Thelma Reid, '30 Paul Howard, '29 gntes this sumlllcr to tenth annual written, containing excellent charaeter· arc nlumnac. Elizabeth Clough, '30 ~;.~·cKe;~~~~~;~I,':~t conference of the Confederation IntC'f- ization and interesting description. Dorothy Johnson, '29 llutio-nale des Et'Udi.antes. poet Grace Armstrong, '30 Wilmer V. Bell, '30 'fhis ConfedrJralion wns founded nt Miller You I have In our heard library of the is a new Joaqnin If some hard people kick would give time themselves pat they every volume Helen Wheeler, '29 \Villiam Brown, '30 Strasbo\lrg in 19H1and it has grown in of his eolleeled verse ellti\Jed, "The on the back, they would look the intervening yenrs to embrace the Poeticlll Works of Joaquin Miller. It is tiko the sfter·effects of a prizefight student bodies of forty·eight nations. he who is responsible for that famous most of the timp. Worthy opinion; Model management~· Correct news. SOUlh ,l.fTlcans, New Zealanders, Flh poem called "Sail On." Joaquin Mil· pino and Chinese students were among ler is interesting and can be called !'he 1,400 who gathered at the Sorbonne modern poet of modern themes. Please, someone, answer my question: on August 10, for the annual oiling of "What does 'blah-blah' meant" Wtlh· IE.-D-I-T-O-R-I - A -LI their machinery of internn.tional inter· ster, for some reason or other, does not include this word in llis great English One sees quite II. numbcr of mngazine It needs only a recital of the agenda masterpiece, the dictionary. Perhaps A THOUGHT their entire lives to domesticity. They of this conference to indicate what bufIY articles and books t.oday which treat it does not belong in the "Who's Who" dell1:1n(l, and are willing to work for, II. men and women these students nrc: de with a question that is of some import but How many llOmcs are there all ovcr clwnce 10 make good in the business and terminntion of internation~l norms of aneeto a1\ of us. In these busy dnys of from the the English language; with which judging have trequency I thc land, where the children have gone artistio realms. Individual women are mcasurement for scholnstic degrees; the there are some few who stop occasion· heard ituscd recently, I should say that away and the fathcr and mothcr are not to they are merely the pro creation of university archives to house ally nnd ask themseil'es, "\Vhere Arc we it seems to be one of the most popular, alone, sitting in the quiet shadows of duot of the But this great feel· an internntional exchange of books, pub· going," "Whnt is the ultimnte goal of highly expressive, and venatile word the evening of life, remembcring, and ing of nnrest among womcn, this grow- licntionsand of seientifie and technical all the expended energy of millions of ever coined. living only in the remembrance of the ing desire to be and do eomething, 1l0lds films, to arrange for the ffCcuring of human beings'" At a recitnl one hears "high·falnting dny!!' when the little ones gathered rlll,1 in its hands possibilities. This special student rates on stcnmships and Science has been developed to a high. blah-blah" !!lmgj nnd nt a moving pic- prattley around them' Keen the pang feminine el'olution going on around liS railronds, the exchange of informati~n er degree than the medieval alchemist ture a squeaky, oft·runningdown vie· Qf disappointment when the expecte(1 nll the lime. Whether it will be bene- concerning the launching of investigu· ever thought possible. And scientific trola play "not.hing but blah-blah." letter docs not come. You arc not one fieinl to civilizntion nnd mankind in tions into the fensibility of building opinion is that the unknown will grad· One listens to something complimentary hundredth part as good, ns brave, as general remains to be seel~. In the student dormitories nnd restaurants, the nallyunfold in the years to come. Close a.boutoneself,and calls it II lot of smartns the mother thinks you nrc, your meanwhile it is fascinllting to watch manngement of an international sani· ly rclated with this marvelous advance blnh·blah; likewiso one shrugs ono's father, pcrhaps, hns some exaggerated the change, if you are a man, and to tarium for S'tudents, and, finally the or in science is lhe lnrge iilCale production shoulders at something not so compli- notions about you nlso, but unlike the tnke p~rt in it, if you are a woman. gnnization of international athletic in the modern industrial world. Litern· mentary, nnd dismisses it as "nothing mother he docs not hand them out to meets to be held concurrently with the ture is flourishing and more books are but blah·blah!" One writes "blah· all the neighbors. He is hnlf-hoping, annual conferenee.. bfing rend today than evcr before hl blah" on tests and to swcethearts, lis- hrllf-believing, th~t ho will he~r of some Student travel, for pleasure and for world history. Some men vjew nil of tens to "blah·blah" in classroom and highly creditable that you have receives major emphasis. The t.his and are led to believe that we are on cnmpus, and speaks "blah-blah" flu- done. You may :lCl'er it, but write By John V. A. Wea.ver Stndent Federation of Amer· in the midst of a new l~enajssance. ently. Still the question remains: him a painstaking and sensible lett~r icn has nlready issued over one thou· "What is blah·blah!" oecnsionaliy, so as to keep his confi,}· I ean't just understnnd about the Fall Bnnd student identit.y cards. 'fhese However, others look upon this same Yes, I agree with you, this article it· ence. Then when he lies down, his rest every thin's so wild and bright useful c.uds arc granted to I!tu world activity and arc disheartened. self is "blah·blah," pure and simple. will be less disturbed, welcome slumber ga?J or undergrarluate---of Things are not what thcy seem to be And the nearest we cnn come to any will come to him Ulore quickly and It's like the werld was at a Fancy Ball, .4.merican universities and and bencnth all i", turmoil and slow dis· definition of the word (dare we call it nbide with him more constantly througll And nothin' mattercd excep' just to inlegration. Instead of a Renaissance is thnt-welI, it is nothing but out the nights, which hare a way of play. they entitle the holder to "isa reduc· we arc on n. downward path. Though growing longer with one's increasing tions, and in some cascs frce visas in the world is rich, the spectre of pol'erty The birds ;s sing-in' crazy bran'-new Europe_ 'fhey also serve as introduc· is still present. Though we build mag )"<:'Ilrs. tunes; tions to EUropean students and often nificant enthedrals the stheist remains suicide and enter upon another period secure for the benrer reduced trnnspor· and forms societies to spHoad his belief The bushes got red ribbons for their simi tar to the Dark Ages. :FEMININE EVOLUTION hair; ta.tion ratcs. The practice of exchan;:-e -or rather his unbelief. Though the While one need not attempt at first Thl) trees 10Qks like they bought their· scholarships is I'ery common in Europe. democrney of the United StateS' is the tQ find an answer for those contending: \VllO ean dcny the ~\"idencc of evolu· aelfballoons, It is II common pradice for an English culmination of centuries of experiment views, it is well to "take time out" and tion' Man may not be able to pene· Scarlet and yellow wavin' in the air. man drsiring to in Germany to in government lVe have large scale graft, view the question from nll angles. A trate far enough into t.he past. to provo exehllllge homes a German who lacking of natural resources and eigllt philosophic mind is not needed, only a that his first kinsman was an ape Qr an They know they got old Winter fooled, wishes to study in England. per cent "cali money" in Wall street. desire to learn more about this world orangoutang, but he does not h!\\"e to Is'poso. In Americn, the students have just 'I'hese 'apostles of doom' recall that no we live in. Through an increased know tllrn back the pages of Hme very fnr to And though he'11. come some day, anJ. begun to provide for their common weI civilization in the past has been with ledge there will come to UlI opinions OD fare. '1'0 the al'erage student on the out end, thnt even imperial Rome decay· find the proof that the modern female teurandroar, this absorbing question. And opinions IIverage cnlllpus the initials N. R F. A. ed while the average Roman was ignor· is the dC8cendant of a \"Cry different Bust up their party, ruin their pretty are needed. Through them we may be to pass. sort of creature. clo'es, are as yet meaningless. ant point of to what the was coming Europe, just They able to ward oII the heralded decadene~ that past fact Iu t.he last fifty years woman haa It'l be all right when Spring oomes The Federntion officials have comeback the doors of one war, is feverishly in· or, if the former, group are right, mll.ke evolvcd from a dependent, clinging, back once more. from Paris, however, with plans for creasing her srmies, building huge fleets this twentieth century Renaissance ex practienlly uneducaed being into n fn~, And still, it makes me all ohoke up to strengthening the body through added ceed even that of Marlow and Boccacio. self· reliant, individunl whos.: wisdom responsibilities. This yenr the N. S. of airplanes, and conducting experiments rivalS', and in some instances outclasses know got ta F. A. has undertaken to supervise in on over radio·controlled battleships. flourishing More the is while literature ,0. thnt of man. Whether she has achiel' All lovely things that's now, has ternational debnte, which has become Il. vast majority of printed books sre Babylon & Lippy Company ed this slate through her own efforts or permanent and growing institution here. worthless and will never live to the whether she has been vitally aided by Which is the best to choose, I'd fain be A team from Oxford will tour the eoun· next generation. In like manner though the opposite sex is beside the point. The told, try, and anomer repre~nting the Brit- FLORSHEIM SHOES fact of the evolution can not be denier!; Great store of lell.rning, or great store ish Union of Students. This latter industry and wealth hns expanded, our STETSON HATS of gold! tenm has the distincUon of being the spiritual life i", injured and that people the important question now is wllat reo I know not, but the learned, all can first international womcn's debates team consequently are suffering from too suIt can be expected from lIUch an 10 come from these isles, which have so much meney and a variety of desircs evolution. tell, stubbornly resisted the encroachments of called into being by science and indus- The eo·eds on theRiIl are evidcnceof Pay court to those whose purse is International made-to-mea$ure apos· these this great change in the feminine world. 'plenished welL women upon the universities. New Student, try. All claim, of prove we tendencies, ~oon the commit Suit. tles' will Women are no longer satisfied to devote MELLIN DE ST, GELAIS.