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CAMPUS MIRROR
Significant Experience
When we become satisfied, the little
wisdom we own passes into other hands;
potentially we are either fools or mas
ters. Significant experience places the
picture of what we are, where all may
see and accurately judge.
The flow of life through us either
cleanses, enlarges, or withers us! Peo
ple are made dominant by experience
or else it crushes them.
The really great mind always remains
plastic, and alert. Such a mind is for
ever inviting experience. Everything we
think and everything we do is influenced
and colored by some manner of experi
ence. It may become our slave or master,
our devil or angel! Experience is some
thing like the air we breathe. We take
it in, and then send it out. Often it
has changed us and often it has helped
to furnish life for us. None of us can
be efficient and useful without some sig
nificant experience. It provides back
ground for all that we do or even think.
Experience often exacts a heavy pen
alty, and there are times when our ex
perience is charged to many a one, out
side ourselves, like old debts left to those
who are not responsible for them.
With our lives blanketed with rich
robes of the right kind of experience
we are enabled to meet the world and
all that it holds. But on equal terms with
the most favored, experience always has
to be earned. It is never given away.
And we can’t get it by merely reading
about it. It has to be ours, like the food
we eat and the clothes we wear! It must
become a part of us, either vicarious or
actual.
No experience is ever exactly the same
as another; this in itself is significant!
Ideas spur us on and arouse the most
latent forces within us so that, through
experience, these ideas may become fully
clothed and made to do useful service
in the world.
The Christmas Party
Jeanette Hubert
Why should I write about the Christ
mas party, you say. Everybody was
there.
Soft lights, attractive decorations, a
sparkling Christmas tree, sweet music—
all these things, lending an atmosphere
of festivity. Then there was the crown
ing of Santa Claus on that striking, im
provised throne and didn’t Janet Lawton
and “Tiny” Holmes make cute dolls?
Truly no one can help but say that
it was one of the gayest and most en
joyable affairs of the season. And those
happy expressions, the chorus of care
free laughter and general outbursts of
pre-holiday hilarity must have been due
compensation for all the tedious prepa
rations.
I)r. Norwood Attends the
Modern Language
Association
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in which he reported his progress in
the study of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, the
principle new element being his new ar
rangement of the Sonnets; a report on
the scholarship thus far of Jonathan
Swift, a bibliographical survey of
Swift’s scholarship by Professor Henry
Davis of Toronto University; and many
others of like value.
On the last day of the session the
meeting was held at the University of
Richmond, about two miles out of the
city of Richmond, an institution with
fine buildings, a beautiful campus, with
surrounding hills, trees, dales, and
streams.
Wednesday’s session was devoted to a
visit to Williamsburg, Virginia, with a
meeting in the afternoon, only leaving
time for the members to see with some
leisure the beautiful eighteenth century
town which has been restored to Ameri
cans in its original dignity and beauty
through the munificence of Mr. John D.
Rockefeller, Junior, thus placing us all
in Mr. Rockefeller’s debt.
The New Music Set
On Sunday afternoon, January 10,
from 4 until 6, the New College Music
Set, a gift of the Carnegie Corporation,
was on exhibition in the Blue Room in
Laura Spelman Rockefeller Building.
Members of the University community
gathered informally and enjoyed the
music played on the Schirmer Phono
graph, an assembled machine consisting
of the recorder and a recording ampli
fier. This phonograph reproduces tones
of a very rich quality.
The first selection played during the
afternoon was the “Nolo Mortem Pecca-
toris” sung by the Westminster Choir,
followed by Paul Robeson singing “Were
You There?” and then Elgar’s “Pomp
and Circumstance.”
As a means of dedication of the set,
President Read read scripture and the
group repeated the Fine Art’s Prayer
in unison. More records of compositions
of various noted composers were played
throughout the afternoon, including “In
the Hall of the Mountain King” and
“Anitra’s Dance” from Grieg’s “Peer
Gynt Suite.”
Pictures were taken of the group as
they informally and intently listened to
the harmonies of the different composi-
tions played.
Over one thousand records containing
works of the greatest composers of music
are included in the collection. In addi
tion to this there is a literary collection
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The Old Y«*ar and the
New Year
Haloise Walker, ’38
Old Year—Greetings, brother New
Year, I was afraid I would have to leave
before greeting you, but happily you
have not disappointed me. You arc here.
1 bid you adieu and pass on into eterni
ty. May God bless you and speed your
success each day of your life.
New Year—Sorry, old man, that
brother time has called you from this
peaceful planet. Farewell, and pray do
not grieve too much over your depar
ture.
Old Year—Be not sad at my going,
had I the choice to remain longer, my
weary soul would even then seek an
abode elsewhere. You see my burdens
have been many and I now am feeble
from worldly care. The world needs you
to take up the struggle from this point
forward. There will be times when you
will be downcast and heavy laden, but
keep faithful, for comrades who depend
on you—are pulling with you, and you
must not let them down.
New Year—Thank you kindly for
your wise counsel. Have no fear, for I
shall be courageous and fight to the end.
Old Year—God’s blessings upon you.
(Half-bent, trudges away feebly). My
younger brother ’37 called this world a
peaceful planet. Ah! ’Tis shame that
he must suffer such disappointment. In
my time there was too much bloodshed—
Ethiopia taken body and soul; Spanish
men fighting against themselves for
Fascism or Communism. That was the
“peaceful” life of ’36. May God grant
that this history never repeat itself.
(Passes from Scene)
New Year—“Strange he should seem
so happy to leave what appears to be
such an interesting and full world. Per
haps I should consult the Book of Ad
versities. (Leafs the pages of this ac
count of the past year). Ah! old man
’36 had many difficulties with which to
deal. There was reason for his weari
ness. But let me glance at the Book of
Progress before I, in my youth, should
become pessimistic. (Reads from the
latter). ’Tis inspiring to note in spite
of the shadows cast last year in the form
of war and bloodshed, human suffering,
and race hatreds, that the birth of high
er education in America was celebrated
in the 300th Anniversary at the Harvard
Tercentenary Conference! Athletics left
a valuable impression in the World
Olympics held in Germany; besides
many other positive accomplishments.
These give me courage to launch forth
and make for the world the most pros
perous year, ever—prosperity built on
a foundation of hope, hard work to the
finish, and endless faith in God and
mankind.