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PAGE TWO The Gold Bug, Western Maryland College, Westminster, Md. A REVIEW OF Around the Campus VARIETY BOOKS, PLAYS, AND LIFE At least one of the soccer men covered SUSAN LENOX thusinsm. But tbose who cnjoy eharae- ground in tho Penn State Soccer game. ter study and the necount of the every- Saturday. Aside from "covered The mueh-trurupeted Susan Lenox, Her day life of a simple folk will find tne ground," a fine "hor-lacntal game" was Fall and Riae, at the Stanley Theatre book worthy of merit nnd place it on Onic.iul UIlWSJUL[1cr of Western Maryland College, published on Tlnllsdny during played by this man. Who weeders who this week, eo-stars Greta Garbo and the list of best sellers. tho ueudem!e yenr by the students of Western Maryland College, Westminster, it wasf- CIDrk Gable. These two great names in Mllrylullu. Entered aa seeeud-elasa matter at the Westminster Poatoffiee. the (linellla world arc featured together "ShauoIl'S on the Rock" tells of the Subscription Price, $2.(10a Year Bunny 'I'nekerman no longer holds ae nnd designated for publicity purposes life of the early settlers in Quebec, long his ideal theme song "Snow Hill For as "lhe new jove team." No doubt before the city had ueen drawn into the eyer," but has now adopted ''Harris· about it, they do make a great pair. threes of industry find commercialism. EDITORIAL STAFF burg, my Harrisburg." We hear Tuck Both Miss Garbo and 1I1r.Gable fire for Miss Cather has portrayed in her in- Editor-in-Chief . C. W. KOOCKOGEY, '32 liked this town as a step-over Bntur dny tunnte to be able to make an impress imitable manner the euaracter of these night. by their own personulities. Trust them sturdy people, showing their traits of ASSOCIATE EDITORS to retain their euttfiea throughout, ruther 10"0 and fellowship, of daring and hate, Mary Lee Shipley, '32 Robert L. Rodgers, '32 A good many co-eds were shocked out than surrender their Iudivtdunlity in fa- in aueh a sympathetic fashion that the NEWS EDITORS of their usual equanimity, when }.1iB9 vor of the combined insipidity of, for In- render cnnnot bnt feel himself omong 111.Susan Strow, '33 C. Russell Herbst, '33 Parker, with uu iuctuslve sweep of her stance, the Gaynor-Farrell team. them,andofthclll. ann, said she hoped she'd soon find a COpy EDITORS The story contains nothi.ng especially 'I'he atory deals mainly with tbe F'reneh Louise B. Crozier, '32 William G. Pyles, '33 place for all the dumbells. Needless to new or significant. Susan runs away apothecary and his little daughter, Cecile. SPORTS EDITORS add, she was referring to the iron from her squalid 'horne and the prospect Together they mingle with their friends A. Beatrice Crowther, '32 Benjamin O. Boyd, '34 variety. of au uuweleorne marriage, and happens and neighbors, finding true fellowship Ideas, tlIey sa)", are not entirely fixed to be sheltered by Rodney, a young en- and a variety of eharneters to be dealt MAKE-UP STAFF this is the case. Managing Editor Thomas W. Otto, '32 in college, nnd we hope gineering student. She stays with him with. until UlelUght of her father, still seeking Wouldn't it be too bad for high school The greatest interest in the lives of Asst. Ma1tagi'l1gEditor. . .. William H. Sparrow, '33 students several years from now to be lIer to make her obey him, frightens her the settlers is the eoml ng, once a year, Asst. Managing Editor .. Frank P. Mitchell, '34 under the-baleful jjli:lucnceof the present iuto It second flight. She joins a Imvel- of the ship bringing news of loved ones, Junior wbo wrote, "Perdition is lhe aim ing circus and is protected by the man BUSINESS STAFF politi(lal gossip, and lllat"ri1l1 supplies Business Managef' .. Roger H. Cissell, '32 of all scientific investigation." ager of the troupe. WIlen Rodney fin- from the old country. ally succeeds in finding her, he is dis· WIlen the seekers for knowledgo keep Adverti8ing Ma1!ager. . .David Trundle, '33 pouring into the class-room, nnd it ecmes gusted with her and leaves her convine· 1I1issCather has created a hook whicb AssJt. Advedisil1!l Mana!lm .... Milton A. Katz, '3~ to bu 11question of choo~ing a ehair willl cd thnt she does not carll for him. In is unusual in setting, in content, and in book that ig well worth wllile. style-a Cirwlation Ma'11ager . . .. Wayne Moore, '32 or without arms, we put in 1l bid for spired by ll. desire for revenge, Susan something nell' nn!! different in elass. rises in the world unlil she is in a po· E. V. R.IGHTER, '34.. ASST. CIRCULATION :r.IANAGERS room furniture:-rocking elmirs. With &ition of power over Roducy when she Gladyse L. Somers, '33 Maurice C. Fleming, '34 tW{)arllls, please, not like I,onI Nelson. llfl"lInges another meeting. Once again, Zelma B. Oalvert, '34 Arthur J. Downey, '34 he rt'nOUllces her and SUBaa finds no AN ANTHOLOGY OF WORLD Lora 1\:[. Outten, '34 The calendar. proposed during the flavor in ller revenge. She leaves her Frl!lleh RevolutlOll Ilad a week of teu hard.earncd luxury to follow her ehosell POETRY Worthy opinion; Model management; Correct news. days, W~tll II dny ~f rest once during man fill into the tropics, fiually winning Edited. by Mark Van Doren U~at perIod. Sometimes. we wonder what I him back to a eonviction of her love. For the poctry lover r can suggest kInd .of calendar :RaloIgh Brown goes All this mal{c~ !), rather shakey story. III} better work than this volume con- by, With seyen days of rest a week. Assuming it to hnve been possible, we t.ainillg 1274 pngCf! of poetry from all An i.ngenious snggestion accounHng follow the two through llleir periods of ol'er Ihe world. In it can be found all for Justinian's success was the fact that joy, disillusion, and rceonciliation with the best poetry of the 1lllst nnd present; Progress Definite progress lUH; been made ill the pnst three years he hlld a wife. Stuilents of Napoleon perfect satisfaction in the thought that poetry to suit eHry 1lI00d; poetry of lhe toward making The Gold Bug not only a bigger, but mId Nelson might have other e..'l:plan. they can give life to a story jf it is as also a better college weekly. 'rhe next big steps in the program will ations to offer. muchosa bsreskeletoll I}fa pl()t. Evcn Chinese, Japanese, San~krit, Arabian, probably be the fUl'uishiJlg and equipping of the present staff room on fe~tures remiuiseent of several of Mar· Persian, Hcbrew, Egyptian, Groek, the first flool' of -Ward Hall, and the proposed consolidation with The "Educution" is responsible for many lene Dietrich's and Norma Shearer's pic- Lntin, Itnlian, Spanisil, French, German, Alumni Quarterly, the offieial publication of the We.stern :Maryland groans, but must get due eredit for as tures do not destroy the statement that Danish, Russian and English languages; '.rile question of the de· many laughs: College Alumni Association. sirability of retaining Latill ill the high this romance is made by, not for, Garbo poetry to delight and ullinM; and poetry 'rhe rise in the standards of The Gold Bug has been attested from sehool curricululll was discuss~d in class, ~lld Gable. dating from the thiTty-fifth century B. without the College by the fact that it was recently extended an invi- but the other h:mg·o\·ers were left up to M. SUSAN STROW, '83. C. to tile twentieth ecntnry A. D. Such tation to join tIle Illtcrcoliegiate Newspaper Association or the :r.riddle the individual. au A.nthology not ollly gives aile all the AlllUltie States, and from within by the inc.reased interest in its con~ "SHADOWS ON THE ROOK" wortllwhilc poctry in existence, but it tents, which is being evidenced by the stud'cut 1.Jody8nu faelilty. After the ell1~er-Icader's aecusation at The render who demands of lIis books n.lso ghes one an insight into the dis- Tracillg the rise of the paper in the past three years, we find that the pep meeting on Wednesday nigllt, n deep plot, with a thrilling sequence of positions and customs of the peoples of the cireula.tion bas increased from 600 to 800 as a direct result or a we're woud(lr;ng just who tile individ- e"eIlts, will find little in Willa Cather's the world. higl1el' standard of student jOUl'nalism in reporting int.eresting news uals "-are wllo were lueky ]lent of two movie shows. Gonclu After a. d:Ulec tit Gettysburg College est non-lit,eral'Y organization on the Bill, wllOse secrets ils thousand 01' 1~83 whispering of the crowd. "COll- sian: Row llluch money some stud~ts last _I>'riday,Dean Tilburg found the back more members have never yet violated, and ,diose fnndamentnl princi- form! Conform!" are losing, or how much undergraduates sent of ilis ear occupied by a cOllple who ple is a democratic. Olle. Its initiations, II"l1ethel'we eon"ider tl\Clll col- As college students 11"13 are expected prcfer shows' seemed to tlIink it a eozy apot. The orful or foolish arc immaterial. The great truth lies in the fact that to conform-too much so. As college Dean Dot willing to break np the party, .T. G. C. is more than an organization-it is a tradition in the fnll seuse students we should be individualists. To tipped ilis hat., told the captaill to reo of tIle word, cllampioning an open, honorary membersllip. go through \11"0 or tiJree dnys of U,e J. 'rhe "St. Bona Ventnre" tells us that main, !lnd walked llome with his wife. Now that we've divol'c.Nl the external initiations and llOwlings G. O. initiations just because it is a Beloit College,Beleit, Wisconsin, hili! de WIlen he returned a. few minutes later from the main issue. don't we see something worth pre:-;erl'ing' The eollege tradition really sounas, when one eided to a.ceept meat, pot-atoes, eggs, he found the pair had sRuntc.red IIway, nrst objec.tion is, "Well, they nevcr do anything after the init.intion!" honestly faees it, too foolish. Wily fru.il:.!l,and chickens as tuition. r wish and left the (lar to its rightful own- Such statements are honest admissions of lack of initiative on the part should we be tied down by nonsensical somebody at W. M. C. would pay their of those who make them. Tbe situation is a direet challenge to mem- traditions1 neal tradition is beautiful. tuition in e.hickena. bers and prospective members of J. G. C. You are bequeathed a tra- Palliily tradition is ene of the supports dition, not merely a. plan for ridiculing pled'ges. l\Iodify the initiation of society. But to sell college juniors A recent survcy of various eollega to fit your modern needs and tastes. Plan definite functions for the and seniors going nbout the eampn.s deck· From the same paper we learn tllat libraries S}IOWfithat 59,!a of library pa.- organization after induction of members. Bnild on the ideals for ed ill lampshadC!!, etc., is eCltainJy more AUlericnn Unh'ersity grades students trontlge for deteetivo stories COllles which the society stands. than any clear·headed man or woman (lan either passed, failed, or cenditioned. from members of the faeulty. In this Wouldn't that be a lot more interesting than to simply take the expect in the name of tradition. This cl:tange from the regulnr system manner they llope to get the lowdown line of least resistallce, throwing away one of the few worthwhile tra- WILLIAM G. PYLES, '83, was made: to place emphasis on knowledge eoneernig the actiens of some ef the.ir ditions of which Western Maryland boasts? Octo-ber 16. rather than Oil goods. studenh.