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THE MAROON TIGER
IRONY
You would think
(When you are without it)
Love were glorious—
Even as the suii;
You might sigh
In your loneliness:
“Ah, love is sublime,—
Sublime as the stars.”
In your mad
Rapture, you shout:
“Love is Godly,—
Infinite, and Perfect!”
Rut it isn't,—
It is Life.
And Life
Is often
Hell!
G. L. C.
SUNKEN JEWELS
My heart is like a treasure box,—
In it are jewels rare;
But, true, my gems will turn to rocks
If life continues bare.
G. L. C.
CRUEL PHANTOM MINE
Again her face, her eyes, her hair,
Into my dreams come stealing there.
A flicker—then a faint sequence;
Her smiles awake my drowsy sense.
A phantom! But why haunt me so?
Of all the things, could 1 do more?
I gave my love, a sacrifice,
Alas, unto a heart of ice!
Bugcs.
SENTIMENT
A picture here upon way wall.
Simple? \es, but yet withal
Its modest and simple greca—
Deep in my heart, has its own place.
Buggs.
Professor A. E. Hall, head of the chemistry depart
ment, has been appointed acting Dean of the College of
Arts and Pure Sciences at the University in place of
Dean A. L. Bouton, who is leaving for Europe on a
Semi-Sabbatical leave of six months.
Co-eds at North Dakota Agricultural School find
plenty of time for meditation and study if they are un
lucky enough to fall in one subject. A new ruling for
bids any seeing of visitors or any receiving of calls
durings the hours of 7 to 10 on all nights of the week.
DOOMED BUT MUST NOT DIE
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Regardless of the illuminating defects, the Y. M. C.
A. can generate wholesome values to the student body.
Hence, the Y. M. C. A. deserves to live, but it has no
right to live as it is living now. It cannot live a vig
orous, useful life this way. Although the fault is not
entirely in the Y. M. C. A., the present administration
is apparently incapable of steering it into safe waters.
No administration is wise that represents that music
made by the clinkering of spoons against ice cream
saucers, is the sweetest chord ever played. So insen
sate and indifferent is this administration that it fails
to cultivate gainful friendship. However these are trade
marks of bad administration.
Other organizations on the campus which engage in
similar pursiuts as the Y. M. C. A. have not given the
“Y” generous cooperation and assistance. When they
lose controlling stock in the “Y” they lose interest in it.
In other words, they enjoy leading, but will not be led.
The test of a leader is his ability to be led. when it falls
his lot to be led. They remark, We can’t throw our
time away for them, or what’s in it for me?” What
prize can I get for myself? Finally,
“Just for a handful of silver they left us
Just for a ribbon to stick on their coats.”
For the most part the student body has not given
the Y. M. C. A. a square deal. If the administration
of the “Y” is guilty of egregious errors; then saga
cious and capable students ought to align themselves
with the “Y” in an effort to exterminate the ills in it.
Only a few students have been sympathetic enough to
secure membership with the Y. M. C. A. It is exceed
ingly difficult for the “Y” to operate without members,
money, and mentality. It seems that
“In this world who can do a thing, will not
And who would do it cannot,
And thus we have men struggles.”
The question becomes simply this: “Shall we have a
reorganization of the “Y” or shall we bave oblitera
tion? ” Pi ogress recommends reorganization, intelli
gence demands it, and wisdom pleads for it. However,
an incompetent regime might offer a speedy destruction
to the vitality of the “Y” Unless reorganization takes
place, the Y. M. C. A. will be like the ship that never
would have wrecked, if the captain on board had heeded
the suggestions of his crew. The Y. M. C. A. has been
doomed, but it must not die!
Emory O. Jackson.
The Morehouse Glee Club sang Thursday evening,
January 14th, before the Second Southwide B. Y. P. U.
Conference in the City Auditorium, Atlanta. Of their
singing, Mr. Lambdin, Secretary of the B. Y. P. U.
Department of the Sunday School Board of the South
ern Baptist Convention, writes, “We were very happy
indeed to have your Male Chorus sing for us in the
Southwide B. Y. P. U. Conference. Their performance
was superb in every way.
Second-hand Car Salesman (on trial run) : “This car
is sound in every part."
Prospective Buyer: “So I hear.”