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THE CAMPUS MIRROR
5
A DREAM
M. M. Price, ’33
Having tumbled into my bed for a good
night’s rest, I tucked myself comfortably in
and was soon off to dreamland. Shortly after
my arrival I discovered that I was with a group
of college young ladies whom I did not know.
They had what they considered joyful news to
tell me, but I simply refused to appreciate it as
much, after hearing it. Being a proud member
of a certain college Freshman class, I felt that
it was my duty to speak up for my class and
my college.
What do you suppose I heard? They in
formed me that Class A colleges were almost
forced by the uncontrollable appetites of the
young lady students to serve them food-props
about forty-five minutes before their evening
meals, and also forty-five minutes before retir
ing at nights.
I seemed to have become as radical as a leader
of a bloody mob and talked until I was ex
hausted in the attempt. Before they related
what they considered good news, they had told
me of their desires for more and greater privi
leges. They had not stopped to think that if
they could not master or handle an ordinary
thing, such as an appetite, that they certainly
had not qualified for more and newer privileges
nor did they prove eligible for them. I remem
ber trying to show them that there were times
when we could ask for such things as we
wanted, but before this could take place, I told
them that we would have to learn to accept
certain things—and sometimes fewer things.
Their eyes began to open as the people’s did in
the awakening period of the Renaissance in
Europe, when I said to them that as long as
they seemed happy while depending upon a paci
fier they would be kept in comparative bounds.
I continued by saying, “What would you think
of a man who insisted that he wanted to swim
the Atlantic and found it inconvenient to step
across a stream two feet wide?” I said, “Here
you are all wondering and raging over the
thought of not having such trustworthy oppor
tunities as some other students of big institu-
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RAINDROPS
Rachael Davis, ’33
I see you shining on the window pane,
Like dew in the morning on a grassy lane.
You are just like a friend, when one’s in need,
You water the earth and give drink to the seed.
Little drops of rain from the heaven so far,
Did you come to us in a fast speeded car?
Have you feet and hands? Did you fly or walk?
Please describe your journey, I know you can
talk.
“God sent me down for the good of man.
My duty is to do the best that I can.
I water the flowers and thirsty grains
Over mountains and hills, over vales and plains.”
SOME VALUES OF SPORTS
Inez Gay, ’33
What is the value of sports in a person’s life
and character? This is a question that naturally
arises in one’s mind when he hears that hiking,
tennis, golf or some other forms of sport are
essential to the proper enjoyment of life.
Sports, in whatever form taken, are a defi
nite asset to one’s character. They develop
within him the power to think quickly and cor
rectly and fix in him a sensitiveness to truth
and fairness. They make him a good loser and
bring him in contact with people interested in
fields different from his own, causing the inter
changing of ideas and the expansion of his ideas
into other fields.
There is no person who does not need some
mental diversion from the monotony of life.
Golf, tennis, or croquet are games which give a
change—a tinge of redness—to life. The busi
ness woman, the school girl and even the little
child need some change in the everyday routine.
Some forms of sport will do this. They take
the mind of the business woman from her office,
the school girl’s mind from her books and the
child’s from its nursery, and carry each of them
to another field altogether different. John D.
Rockefeller the multi-millionaire, plays golf to
give his mind a rest as well as to exercise his
body. Even Helen Wills varies from her tennis
practice to swim or to play a game of golf for
mental rest.
Sports not only develop the mind and char
acter but also the health and physique. The
Greeks, advocators of good form, develop their
bodies by means of the sports of their times.
There still remain in us some Grecian ideas of
good form and of health. In addition to actual
races and contests in various sports there is
constant competition in efforts to free the world
from disease and illness. The restraint and con
trol which the trainer must practice bring to
him an alert mind and strong body, which are
essentials to a long life and lasting confidence
in himself.
This interest in many games will not require
extra effort on the part of the trainer because
of bis natural love of play. He will be so
much interested in his particular game that his
work will seem like play and his hours, which
were heretofore restless, are turned into hours
of joy. The investment of interest in sports
brings not only the joy of living but also builds
a stronger and better character for the investor.
UNWRITTEN RECORDS
Vernelle Warren, ’33
Just think! Another semester has begun, and
we are still Freshmen. Yes, Freshmen. Whether
we are on the campus, in the laboratory, in the
class room, or at the social, it seems we can’t
evade the fact. I wonder what it is that has
marked us so indelibly? Is it that the initiation
by our “sweet” Junior sisters left some per
manent imprint upon us? Or is it a fact that
we are naturally “fresh” Freshmen?
I wonder if we shall act the same as we did
last semester. But why wonder? We can't act
differently, it seems, since we are still Fresh
men. Let’s see—I suppose Cecil Long and Fan
nie Smith will continue to give their free shows
before classes begin. Very probably they will.
Then Millie Dobbs with her winning “person
alities a la classc” will surely add zest to the
situations.
I wonder if Velma Collier will continue to
exercise her perpetual “gift of gab,” especially
in English class when the period is almost over.
But I don’t have to wonder about that, for it
wouldn’t be Velma to do otherwise. There is
one thing of which I am quite sure and that is
the Rockefeller girls may rest assured that
Laura Deaderick and Ercell Powell will con
tinue to entertain them after evening study hour.
I wonder if Evelyn Pittman will miss her
gym classes again this semester so that she can
take her “daily dozen” around the campus to
make them up. If she does, she mustn’t forget
Mary Vamack her competitor-in-walking. I
wonder if “the Nancy Lou Sherman and Myrtis
Middlebrook corporation” will still exist this
semester. They must now be prepared to pub
lish their dictionary for they surely have a long
list of self-coined words. I wonder if they
would accept a third partner. Alpha Tally’s
vocabulary seems to be very extensive since last
semester, and the words are from some un
known source too.
I wonder if Gussie Scott has yet learned to
stand up. Last semester she had more than her
share of hospital attention. I wonder if Helen
loxey would be afraid to dissect another earth
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