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THE MA ROON TIGER Page Twenty-seven sion, So Big, Simon Called Peter, The Wasted Gen eration, Street Called Straight, Never the Twain Shall Meet. Having read these, the student will have a fair background for more extensive poring into the realm of bookland. In the next issue a list of books every Sopho more and Junior should read will be published. More Social Intercourse for College Men and Women N. M. Christopher, ’28 In the mating of sexes there are three great laws of fundamental importance which college men and women in their social relations should under stand and observe, viz: the law of opposites, the law of similarity, and the law of complement. When these laws are carefully obeyed, there should be no doubt about the peace and joy of marriage, no skepticism about the glory and grandeur of the home, no dread of a disappointed old age. I must confess, however, that in this age of jazz and wild excitement, such doubts, skepticism and dread are fingering their way into the lives of men and wo men who rule sixty-five per cent of the world’s endeavors and now family life is fastly approaching chaos and pandemonium. But my faith in the strength of love is such that I firmly believe, if college men and college women have more contact, we can avoid it. But the strength of love is directly proportional to the natural attracting power between the two and that power is no stronger than the observance of these laws. Pause with me then for a moment that we may look into them. In consideration of the first law let me quote Elinor Glyn in her “Philosophy of Love,” the Ad vance Thought Publishing Co., in its book on Sex Force, and “Socrates in Dialogues of Plato”—“Likes Repel, Unlike Attract,” the tall is attracted to the low, the large to the small, the light to the dark, etc. This law is very necessary for the perpetuation of the race. It is only natural and operates solely on the physical plane. We see this law at its best when we agree that man and woman form a social globe one becoming the North Pole, the other the South Pole. In its revolution one has his winter while the has her summer, one his dark days, the other, light days. If both had winter at the same time, the globe would freeze up, and if summer, burn up. To state the relation in another way in natural phe nomena, man becomes the sun and woman the moon. Consequently men should realize that woman has a dark side as well as a light side and goes on changing very, very often. Now and then an eclipse occurs and the divorce court settles the matter. Men desire that women remain SHE women and if col lege women don’t remain so, college men will turn their attention to the normal and high school girls. Of course men should remain HE men, for when women become masculine and men become femi nine, each loses his attraction for the other. When college men turn their attention to the high school girl, they often face the brink of un happiness and ruin. The second law proves it—the law of similarity. This does not mean in form, ap pearance or dress, but similar in thought and ideas. Two minds are similar if the angles of the one are equal respectively to the angles of the other. Under this law love swings from the physical to the men tal. Aristotle argued for, “Unanimity of ideas ap preciable to one another’s aim in life.” This is where the high school girl fails. She cannot see why a man will spend so many years in college prepar ing for life. The eyes of her love are near-sighted, she cannot see “Italy beyond the Alps” I speak of the average. Her love is like a bed of roses in the summer, but she forgets that winter is coming, a time when nothing in the world can suffice save the real self alone, a time when dimpled cheeks, and sparkling eyes are lost in the bearing of life’s sorrows. Then, when the college man opens the word hole of his education, a thing he is very apt to do, and swoops down upon her from the peaks of philosophy, science and literature, she brands him, “Mr. Know-Every-Thing” Halt! Let me relate this incident, it illustrates this law quite clearly. As I sat in a theatre one evening last summer, I chanced to observe the eccentrici ties of a couple sitting just in front of me. The screen was twinkling with “Ben Hur.” The young man sat earnestly looking upon and drinking in the experiences a Jew was having with the great Roman Empire of Christ’s time. The girl gazed lazi ly on the screen, twisted and turned occasionally to complain of the “hard seat” the warm air, etc. She bought peanuts, and ice cream and would not remain any longer than the end of part two. But. before they could get away, I secured the man’s name and address. Later I called on him and found out that he was a sophomore and the girl tenth grade. Her lack of interest, as investigation proved, was due primarialy to the fact that she knew noth ing of ancient history, nothing of government, and nothing of Jews. Otherwise she was very nice look ing, had a good character and a sweet disposition, but nevertheless her angles of thought and ideas were so dissimilar to the young man’s that she was absolutely incompatible and unhappy with him. Man and woman should be as nearly as possible, in tellectual companions. But love cannot live by opposites alone, nor can it be tempted by intellect to jump down from the temple of passion to prove that similarity will bear it up. It is not true love until it worships the law of complement. God has so made man and wo man that what is lacking in one is made up in the other. Man and woman form a social unit. “Sex Force” the book referred to above, puts it this way: “If a man is eighty per cent masculine and twenty per cent feminine, he should mate with a woman who is eighty per cent feminine and twenty per cent masculine.” Every individual has both mascu line and feminine qualities. This law attempts to ad just temperaments as well as characters. This ad justment depends upon the amount of plasticity found in each. This brings age in question, mental as well as physcal. There comes a time in every one’s life when his mental images of women crystal-