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Parrot System
And Thinking.
That the "lecture system is probably the worst
cheme ever devised for imparting knowledge," is
the conclusion reached by Dr. Hamilton Holt of Rol
lins college, who recently voiced this opinion in a
speech before the Tennessee State Teachers asso
ciation. "It assumes that what one man has taken per
haps a lifetime to acquire by the most painstaking
observation, hard thinking and long continued re
flection can be relayed or spoon-fed to another man
who has not gone through a like process," declared
Dr. Holt.
Lectures with their subsequent recitations, in
which the lecturer's statements are handed back to
the lecturer by the students are opposed to true edu
cation and are entirely out of place in the modern
picture and situation where thinking men and wom
en are demanded, is the conclusion derived from a
study of conditions by many educators of our day.
An opposite sort of educational method is that
which can be best described as "discussion" or "con
ference plan" as Dr. Holt terms it
It seems that the latter methods, if they could
practically be applied in institutions of higher edu
cation, would be much more effective in carrying
out the true functions of education than is the lecture-recitation
system. University graduates who
continue to think about problems of the day and
therefore have a substantial basis for their opin
ions, testify to the fact that if one graduates with
the ability to think he will have derived from his
many years of schooling that element which should
be derived.
How can the ability to think be best developed
in a student by his professors?
At present we go through the machine in the
following manner:
We attend classes, many of them consisting of
lectures, listen to the professor expound his body of
knowledge, accumulated over a period of years. We
are told to purchase text-books, written by other
professors who In turn have gathered their knowl
edge from their teachers and their text-books. Of
course this system is more thoroughly applied in
some courses than it is in others, and a little bit of
original thinking does creep into many of the
courses, although it is often condemned as being a
nuisance and because it is a bit embarrassing to the
professor. Such a system as that existing today
makes for a near-stagnation, not resulting in a con
dition of complete standstill because it doesn't work
to perfection and because many students don't obey
to the letter the rule against new thought and in
their disobedience voice new opinions and present
new outlooks.
Some professors disapprove of this theory, be
cause their minds tell them to revolt against it.
They see and oppose the obvious defects inherent in
the "parrot" system outlined above.
At Rollins college the conference plan is used.
Students are assigned a certain amount of work to
do and that is their classwork. They may consult
their classmates or help each other. When that is
completed they are through. After mastering a part
of a subject they may pass on to the next without
waiting for the, rest of the class. There are no at
tendance records kept, but accomplishment records
art compiled. Students get credit for what they
learn, and not for their attendance and ability to
remember facts long enough to return them to the
original or at least the nearest owner, the professor.
There are professors on this campus who are
clever and original enough to bring out the student
mind and to exercise it Socrates, considered to be
oss of th ablest teachers of all time, taught many
young Greeks how to think by sitting down witn
them in the market place, talking over ethical, in
tellectual, and practical problems of his day, and
by stages drawing out their opinions and thoughts
until these opinions and thoughts were substantial
and would stand up against pressure.
concerts for the benefit of citizens of Lincoln and
vicinity.
Presentation of "The Messiah" opens the win
ter concert season on the campus. If plans carry
through as they did last winter, the university men's
Glee club, the university ROTC band, and other mu
sical groups will appear on the Coliseum stage.
Such public programs give students interested in
music opportunity for an outlet, advertise the uni
versity very favorably, and entertain several thou
sand people of this section of Nebraska.
In the eyes of many inhabitants and taxpayers
of Nebraska the university is a place where the boys
play football and the girls learn to smoke and to
talk in harsh tones of voice. There Is, however, as
these cultural presentations indicate, the education
al side of the institution.
It is hoped that this year a number of these
Sunday afternoon concerts will be held, and that
eminent speakers, such as those heard last year, will
appear on the Coliseum stage during the winter and
spring.
Where is the coed who attended the Mortar
Board party, and as a result, would like to check
the coats at every Coliseum dance?
University Y.W.C.A.
tins Its Values.
Although most of us at various times caustical
ly comment as to the political character of the Y.
W. C. A. on the campus, how that organization ex
ists for the purpose of manufacturing Mortar
Boards, and declare that the association is useless,
we forget to consider the good side of the Y. W. '
With the Christmas season at hand leaders of
the campus Y. W. C. A. are taking the leading part
in conducting an old clothes-old toys drive on the
campus. Last year students connected with that
organization co-operated with The Daily Nebraskan
in carrying on a very successful charity campaign,
thus aiding city and county relief organizations.
Such enterprises carried on by students develop
them into social-winded and altruistic citizens, de-
Blrous of working for the good of their fellow men.
Y. W. C. A. discussion groups play an Impor
tant part in developing the adult mind of freshman
women who are as yet unaccustomed to university
ways, and are greatly influenced by upperclass
leaders in forming their outlook toward life. A sen
ior girl who idealizes the better things of life and
attempts to transfer that attitude to the girl just
entering the university is doing great service to the
school and to numerous individuals. The freshman
girl molds herself after the pattern of her senior
class ideal, the "big shot."
Although the Y. W. C. A. has its shoddy and
superficial side in the shape of the Ellen Smith hall
political machine, that machine doesn't play as great
part in that organization as it does in other wom
en's groups.
In a couple of years or so, after the military de
partment has accumulated enough money from the
Military ball to pay all basic students' expenses, we
suggest that the department use the next year's
proceeds to build a new Student Union building.
After all, the money on the loans never leaves their
bands, so they don't even lose the interest, and there
la a limited number of sophomores and freshmen.
Campus Concert
Season Opens.
Sunday afternoon In the Coliseum the thirty
Hint!, premutation of Handel's "The Messiah" will
b offered by the University Choral union. As a
traditional Christmas season event, this perform
aace has taken root as one of the great musical af
fairs of the season in the state of Nebraska, and
raws a huge crowd each year.
Last year Sunday afternoon musical concerts
were established on the Nebraska campus as highly
important and enjoyable factors in the cultural life
at the city of Lincoln, ine university aunmiiai.ru
tion inaugurated a commendable annual series
of
STUDENT PULSE
Brief, concise contributions pertinent to matters of
student life and the university are welcomed by this
department, under the usual restrictions of sound news
paper practice, which excludes all libelous matter and
personal attacks. Letters must be signed, but names
will be withheld from publication If so desired.
Contributions should be limited to a maximum ot five
hundred words In length.
but I'd a hundred times rather have Avrahm Yarmo
linsky's biography, "Dostoevsky."
Elizabeth's new novel, "The Jasmine Farm,"
doesn't raise a flicker of Interest In me, but if you
feel extravagant, send me the four volume edition
of Marcel Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past,"
boxed in wood.
Forget about Faith Baldwin's "Honor Bound,"
but why not choose Jesse Stuart's remarkable and
uneven sonnet sequence, "Man with a Bull-Tongue
Plow," for my Christmas present?
Send me Cartoonist Soglow'a "Wasn't the De
pression Terrible?" and you'll get it back next year,
but I could find chuckles all the way through Peggy
Bacon's "Off With Their Heads" or even Robert
Benchley's "From Bed to Worse."
Julep and magnolia and moonlight make Stark
Young's "So Red the Rose" a little sticky, but if you
want to buy the best of proletarian novels, send me
Robert Cantwell's "Land of Plenty," Albert Halper's
"The Foundry," and Waldo Frank's "Death and
Birth of David Markand," dedicated to the "Ameri
can worker who will understand."
Let Max Brand's vigorous novel about the
Loomls gang, "Brothers on the Trail," remain on
the book counter, but Stefan Zweig's "Erasmus of
Rotterdam" sounds interesting to me.
You might send me Malcom Cowley's impor
tant "Technics and Civilization" or Ruth Suckow's
nostalgic novel, "The Folks," -pr "The Letters of
Gamaliel Bradford," if you. wish. I'd like to have
John O'Hara's "Appointment in Samarra" or the
dollar edition of Thomas Wolfe's "Look Homeward,
Angel," or the new "Forty Days of Musa Dagh," by
Franz Werfel. "-
But please, oh, please, don't send me anything
by Walter B. Pitkin. I'd rather have "Aunt Har
riet's Household Hints" by Allen Prescott (The Wife
Saver), in which he tells how to freshen chiffon on
page 1S8 and clean a fountain pen on 280.
Contemporary
Commciit
Y.W.CA. Urges
International Cooperation.
(This is the fourth in a series of religious group
opinions in regard to war and peace to be published
in the Daily Nebraskan.)
The Young Women's Christian Association, at
its thirteenth national convention, May 2-8, 1934,
took the following action:
"It is recommended that the national associa
tion adopt the following program in public affairs
as an expression of its purpose to serve as a Chris
tian social force in the life of the time.
International Relations:
This program involves primarily a concern for
the foreign policy of the United States, the domes
tic policy of the United States, where it impinges on
International issues, the measures for a world
planned economy, and the outlawry of war. The
following measures are advocated for study and ac
tive support:
1 Adherence to the world court; co
operation with and membership in the
League of Nations.
2 Substantial progressive reduction of
armaments; an embargo on the export of
arms to warring nations; opposition to ex
pansion of our military and naval estab
lishments; opposition to compulsory mili
tary training in schools and colleges.
3 The reduction of tariffs by reciprocal
agreements or in world conference; the
definite settlement of the war debts; inter
natlon planning for the control of access to
markets and raw materials.
4 As a major emphasis for study, the
manufacture of and traffic in arms, par
ticularly in the United States.
This program was taken from page 28, Actions
of the Thirteenth National Convention, Young
Women's Christian Associations.
ELAINE FONTEIN,
President, University Y. W. C. A.
Browsing
Among The
Books
By
Maurice Johnson
Dear Stephen:
Yes, I would very much appreciate a book for
Christmas; but Stephen, please let roe suggest a list
from which to choose. I simply didn't know what
to do with "The Romance of French Weaving" you
sent last year. I appreciated the book a lot, you
understand, but I simply didn't know what to do
with it
I really wouldn't care about having Mary Pick-
ford'a little "Why Not Try God?" in which she tells
of "the hardest years of my life," but German
Thomas Mann's "Joseph and His Brethren" in my
Christmas stocking would make me pleased as
Punch.
Let me plead with you not to send me William
Lyon Phelps stuffy "What I Like in Poetry,' but
do consider George Soule's stimulating book, "The
Coming American Revolution."
Don't bother about looking at Lida Larrimore'i
happiness novel called "True by the Sun." but I
would very much like to nave the Rockwell Kent
illustrated "Canterbury Tales."
If you buy "My Own Story" by Marie Dressier
you're welcome to keep it for your own library, but
a splendid gift would be the new one volume edition
of Romain Rolland's "Jean Christophe."
Bronlslaw Mallnowski's great classic, "The
Sexual Life of the Savages," may be a learned work,
Males and
Mistletoe.
Are college students as brazen
or as promiscuous in their neck
ing as they are supposed to be?
Yesterday,' a mistletoe experi
ment was given a trial in several
coke'n smoke and in 50 percent of
the cases the male welched!
Now we have been told in
grandfather's time the young gal
lants never missed a chance to
reap the pleasurable benefits of
osculation under the green sprig
of mistletoe.
Would erandfather have acted
In the same manner if he were go
ing to college today?
Perhaps the reason for the de
cline of necking in the open, as
sometimes practiced by college
men, can be found in the darkened
parlors of the sorority nouses,
Once the males have become ac
customed to a small amount of
privacy he is wary about exposing
himself to interested audiences.
However, regardless of what the
experiment proved it was interest
ing to note the embarassment of
nonchalant, sophisticated students
when they were confronted with
the enjoyable task of kissing one
of the opposite sex. The Daily II-lini.
College Days
And Indifference.
Too many of us slide gracefully
along thru this collegiate world of
ours with scarce a thought to the
inevitable; the inevitable naturally
being the time when we shall leave
this cloistered place and attempt
to adjust ourselves to an existence
quite foreign to even our superior
capacities. We frequently hear
about various forms of self-application
such as the belief that as
soon as we have our degrees we
shall fit ourselves automatically to
an unknown world we shall step
from Pennsylvania without so
much as a worry or care.
University 1 i f e regardless of
the institution definitely can and
does mold a rut of indifference,
sloth and complete lack of respon
sibility among a certain group of
undergraduates. It is this minority
upon whom most critics base their
findings relative to the college
man. They understand his fallings
and rightly enough can offer no
sympathy. He can learn only by
experience.
But we question seriously if this
minority can learn by experience.
College to them has meant noth
ing more than four years of pleas
ures, no cares conquest over ev
erything that is easy to conquer.
Their four years have hardened
them into believing that they are
minute Gods. Unknown to them
selves, their life is really over, for
a man completely satisfied with
himself at the age of maturity is
a man completely immatured.
The Daily Pennsylvanian.
The Only Hope
For Peace.
The problem of peace is so old
that many despair of solving it,
yet so young that few, if any, have
suggested any sort of fundamental
solution.
America wants peace. Every
body says so, and has said so for
years, ever since it came to be
realized that the great war might
not have ended all war. But oe
cause everybody can so easily
chant "Peace!", even as they care
lessly talk about "freedom of the
press" and many other things two
unfortunate conditions have come
about.
In the first place, the oft- ex
pressed desire for peace has given
many persons a false sense of se
curity. They do not want to be
lieve that war is inevitable, so they
don't believe It. On the other hand,
many who sincerely seek an an
swer and a program that every
civilized adult may support with a
firm conscience, find the only ex
isting organizations dedicated to
the task of making people shout
"Peace!"
The fallacy behind most pacifist
movements is the belief that war
can be done away with simply by
wishing It did not exist, by getting
enough people to abhor it and
swear against it.
Some persons will always be
willing to sign an Oxford pledge
and believe in it sincerely. Some
will always forcibly oppose con
scription even when war time ac
tivities make it most unpleasant.
But the few who wholeheartedly
join and fight for these groups are
not likely to be enough to break
the back of war as long as certain
things are true about the world in
which we live.
Going about stopping wars by
treating the causes is a long, hard
way to which it is well-nigh impos
sible to secure vociferous converts.
It isn't dramatic in nature. And
the work will drag on thru the
years as peace fervor rises and
wanes. Even if the actual research
and study are left to trained indi
viduals, an enlightened public opin
ion must be constantly alert to
urge on the work and see it
adopted by government authority.
At Minnesota a note of optimism
is apparent as a campus-wide
peace committee is organized. In
cluding present peace groups
which have been warring among
themselves and designed to be
broad enough in purpose to Include
all shades of opinion. Its propo
nents hope that It will be able to
"find the most effective means for
the expression of campus anti-war
sentiment and agree on some con
structive program in the cause of
peace."
What success will attend the
Minnesota effort is hard to say.
Obviously, neither this peace com
mittee or any other will have an
easy road to follow. Those who
are first to affirm their interest in
peace may be the last to respond
to a movement offering such re
mote possibilities, and, lacking
popular support, the committee
may die before it can suggest any
sort of practical program.
But one might hope that in a
university community, if anywhere,
there could be gathered sufficient
intelligence to start a significant
move of this kind. Michigan
Dally.
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GIVES MS PROGRAM
CMANTS
BY CHANCE.
A recent mishap caused Armand
Hunter to lose one of his precious
teeth, but Just in case anyone Is
In doubt, he promises to have a
new one Installed In time for the
performance of "Yellow Jack."
Two campus canines who are
scheduled to make an appearance
In the near future In dramatic pro
ductions are "Whiskers" and
"Prince Matternich." The former
is proud to call Pete Sumption
"master" and will be seen In "Yel
low Jack." The latter hound Is af
fectionately known as "Bruno" to
his friends, and is the mascot of
the Alpha Phi House. He will be
cast as the dead cat in the Chil
dren's theater production of "Tom
Sawyer." Of course, Bruno Is only
a toy Scottie, but nevertheless, he
will be one of the main attractions
of the show, when "Huckleberry
Finn' drags him in by the tall, and
announces to "Tom Sawyer" that
he bought a dead cat.
This afternoon will mark the
thirty-ninth consecutive year the
"Messiah" has been presented
here at the university. The public
is invited to the concert, which will
begin at 3 o'clock at the coliseum.
Joslyn Memorial will present Wil
bur Chenoweth in his third organ
concert of the season on Sunday,
Dec. 16, at 2:30 o'clock. Mrs. and
Mrs. Chenoweth entertained for
Mr. Chenoweth's pupils last Fri
day evening. Valorita Callen, vio
linist, will direct a string quartet
this afternoon at the Plymouth
Congregational church for the
Organist Guild program. Miss Cal
len, Eunice Bingham, Lee Heming
way and Ruth Sibley will compose
the quartet.
A tradition of the German de
partment is the annual Christmas
entertainment which will be given
this year from 4 to 6 o'clock next
Thursday. "The Tempters," a quar
tet of university fellows, will sing
Es ist ein Reis entsprunger" and
"Des Wandrers Nachtleld." Vance
Leininger will sing two solos, "Ihr
Kindlein kommet" and "Stille
Nacht." Wilgus Ebcrly will play
some piano selections and tnere
will be group singing. Dr. J. E.
Alexix and Mr. Eric Waldgren will
make some, remarks In German
and some Swedish folk songs will
be sung. Typical German Christ
mas cookies and hot chocolate will
be served. Any students in the
German department or those intre-
ested in Germanic culture, are in
vited.
One of the outstanding openings
of this week's Broadway hits
is Maxwell Anderson's "Valley
Forge." which the Theater Guild
is staging. Phillip Merivale who
played the leads in "Death Takes
a Holiday" ana "Aiary, ueen OI
Scots," is cast as General Wash
ington. Marglo Gilmore is cast as
Marv Phillips. The play had its
tryouts last week in Philadelphia.
Altho the Quaker City critics were
none too ecstatic over Mr. Ander
son s writing, tney were generally
pleased with the play. The author
has had three outstanding suc
cesses in the last lew years ana
these three are widely different.
"Elizabeth the Queen" which Al
fred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne
played so effectively in 1930;
"Both lour Houses," a ponucai
satire and Pulitzer prize winner of
1932; and "Mary of Scotland," an
other Guild success of last season,
are the three. Mr. Anderson is a
graduate for the University of
North Dakota and taught there for
several years after his gaduation.
He Is now recognized as one of the
four most outstanding of the
American playwrights, whose con
tributions to the field of dramatic
literature will probably last. The
other eminent playwrites are Eu
gene O'Neill. Sidney Howard and
Phillip Barry.
DRS. LACKEY, RIGDOX
TO PRESE1ST PAPERS
Instructors Will Attend
Geographers Meeting
In Philadelphia.
At the annual meetings of the
association of American geograph
er! to be held in Philadelphia dur
ing the Christmas holidays, Dr.
E E. Lackey, associate professor
of geography at the university,
will present a paper on "A Var
iability Series of Frost Maps of
Nebraska," Dr. Vera E. Rigdon of
the geography department will
give a paper on "Physiographic
Nomenclature a la William Morris
Davis." The programs of this or
ganization are limited to papers
which have recognized merit as
original contributions.
Students to Hear Stories,
Carols at Gathering
Dec. 18.
A French Christmas program
consisting of Christmas stories and
carols will be presented by the
French department to all interested-students
at 7 o'clock Tuesday
eveninr. Dec. 18. In Morrill Hall
auditorium.
First on the program is group
singing of Christmas carols, which
will be conducted by Ruasel Cum
mings. Following. Dr. Harry Kurz,
chairman of the romance language
department, will tell Christmas
stories and Vera Mae Peterson will
read the story of the first Christ
mas from the French Bible.
Russel Cummings will sing a
solo entitled, "Cantique de Noel."
Violet Vaughn will play Schu
mann's "Vienna Carnival Scene"
In which the theme of the French
national anthem is predominant.
The committee in charge of ar
rangements consists of Marjorie
Smith, Evelyn Diamond, Joy Hale,
Ruth Haggman and Lucille
Hunter.
'Never Take a Job, But Create
One,' Is Earnest Advice of
Dorothy Thompson Lewis,
Town Hall Lecturer Last
Week.
(Continued from Page 1).
of the year, she had an opportun
ity appear and the Ingenuity to
offer something that couldn't be
turned down. "I wanted to write
for a Vienna newspaper at space
rates, but with the assurance that
I would be the only correspondent
hired .Within eight months, they
were printing so much of my
copy that tney were paying me
much more than they had in
tended, and so I was reduced to
a salary."
For lour years sne neia wu
position and became chief of a
foreign oureau in cemrai jcuruye
for the New York Evening Post
and Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Another four vears at this ,and
she found that she was tiring of
dally journalism, that she was
more interested in what was be
hind the news than in the facts
themselves. That was 1928, and
in May of that year she was mar
ried to Mr. Lewis and came to this
country.
"I tried to be a may or leisure
those next two years, but 1 de
tested it. So I found what I had
started to seek two years before, in
free-lancing." She ad this to say
about journalism in general, jour
nalism is a marvelous profession,
and it is improving. A better type
of Derson is empioyea, ana ne is
less interested in scoops than he is
in giving an intelligent interpreta
tion of the news."
While in Germany, like all jour
nalists, Mrs. Lewis endeavored to
know the country. But unlike most
of them, she succeeded very well.
She immersed herself In German
literature and history found out
what Germans have been thinking
for the last three or four hundred
years besides examining their
modern modes. As a result, her
judgment of the present order is,
"I am convincea mat mis is noi
the final front of Germany. No
race can get away from its herit
age- . .
Concerning the movement 10
place the woman in the home
again, Mrs. Lewis believes that on
the whole it will be unsuccessful,
for as she says, "There are two
kinds of women: the free, if you
want to use that word, and wives.
And you cannot make one type into
the other. Such a plan cannot suc
ceed for it is contrary to nature."
She was exiled from Germany last
August because of publication of
her opinions on Hitlerlsm, thus be
ing distinguished as the only wo
man correspondent to be so con
demned.
Dorothy Thompson Lewis is
within herself the symbol of alert
and Intelligent journalism the
way she talks, the way she thinks.
She has been on a five-week speak
ing tour since Nov. 10, having lec
tured every day for thirty consec
utive days. She has written sev
eral books, one on Russia, and has
lectured on the latter topic, but
much prefers to discuss Germany
at the present time.
COMMISSIONS
College World
Approximately three-fourths of
the college women in the United
States attend coeducational col
leges. More students are registered for
the commerce degree at the Uni
versity of Georgia than for any
other undergraduate honor, a re
cent survey revealed.
"Working my way thru col
lege" is not a gag at Commercial,
college of Boston university. Al
most half a million dollars was
earned by students there last year.
Harvard was the first school to
play the modern game of football.
The Harvard University grad
uate school of business administra
tion has opened a coury? which is
designed, to train students for
"brain truster"- careen,
I
0 GIVE XMAS DINNER
Banquet for Y.W. Freshmen
To Follow Vespers On
Dec. 18.
Christmas vespers, which will bo
sponsored by freshman cabinet
and freshman commission groups,
Tuesday, Dec. 18, will be followed
by a dinner for all freshman com
mission members and all interest'
freshman members of Y, W. C. A.,
it was announced at cabinet meet
ing Thursday evening, Dec. 13.
Tickets for the dinner should bo
bought by noon Monday, according
to statement of Helen Nolte, chair
man of committee in charge of
ticket sales. Tickets are available
from freshman cabinet members or
at the Y. W. C. A. office.
"The response to the Christmas
giving campaign has been very
good," Kathryn Wlnquest, chair
man of the campaign reported.
Each euinnilsaion group has vis
ited a family and Is planning to
care for the needs of its family
this Christmas. Some groups are
planning to take the mother of the
family shopping so that she can
select the things her family espec
ially needs.
All freshman commission girls
are asked to come to Ellen Smith
hall some hour Monday afternoon
to help fix things for the families.
Committees are, vespers, Marie
Katouc, chairman, Betty Cherny,
Jane Pennington, and Barbara
Jearv: dinner, Agnes Novacek,
Helen Nolte, Iva Miller, Mary
Stewart, and Elinor Kelley;
Christmas-giving, Kathryn Win
ouest. Doris Burnett. Mildred Hol
land, and Virginia McAdama.
Ladies,' Gentlemen Requested
Not to Wear Hoops, Sword
to Presentation of Handel's
"Messiah," April 13, J742.
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in the room, and the sum collected
for that noble and pious charity
amounted to about 400 pounds . . ."
The story is told that the people
in that first audience became ex
cited and aroused as "The Messi
ah" was sung toward its climax.
Finally as the singers began the
incomparable "Hallelujah" chorus
the king and all the other listeners
stood, and this custom is still fol
lowed today.
On that day a Mrs. Cibber sang
the solo "He Was Despised." Al
though her voice was weak, she so
touched her hearers that it is said
Mr. Delany, friend of Swift, e :-
claimed from the boxes, "Woman,
for this be all thy sins forgiven."
Oratorio Written In 24 Days.
Handel composed "The Messiah"
in less than twenty-four days be
tween Aug. 22 and Sept. 14 of
1741. He placed in it a messaye
for everyone of all classes and
ages. Beside music of such power
and sublimity that it goes beyond
the understanding of ordinary mor
tals are passages so simple and
direct that anyone may compre
hend. Thomas Jennens compiled
the text, and from the prophetic
language of the Old Testament he
has selected words of tenderness
that are almost poetry.
"The Messiah" teus the story or
man's redemption. It is divided Y
into three parts. The first sets
forth the promise of the Redeemer,
the birth of Christ and His mission
of healing and comfort. The sec
ond is devoted to His passion,' res
urrection, and ascension, ' the
preaching of the gospel, the dis
comfiture of the heathen, and the
establishment of the kingdom of
God upon earth. The third part
deals with the Christian belief in
tthe resurrection of the body, and
ends with the triumph of the re
deemed and the glory of heaven.
World of Sin Presented First.
Beginning with an overture
which gloomily presents a world
of sin, suddenly the voice of the
Comforter comes like magic with
the recitative "Comfort ye my peo
ple." By contrasts Handel makes
his work impressive, and reaches
a climax with the chorus r or
unto us a child is born."
In the pastoral symphony and
the following numbers Handel pre
sents drama which tells of the
shepherds in the fields and the
angels' song to them. It grows
more and more exciting until the
angelic choir bursts In with its cry
of "Glory to God."
The second part of "The Mes
siah" opens with a solemn chorus
of tragic loneliness and leads into
the famous "He was despised."
Handel traces the spread of the
gospel, then pictures the wrath of
the heathen in the bass solo "Why
do the nations so furiously rage to
gether?" and the chorus "Let us
break their bonds asunder." Then
the heathen , are crushed and all
the earth Joins in a song of tri
umphthe majestic "Hallelujah"
chorus.
After the thunders of the "Halle
lujah" Handel makes another con
trast by hte simplicity of "I know
that my Redeemer llveth," the so
prano solo which opens the third
part of "The Messiah." This last
part tells of resurrection and life
of the world to come. "Behold I
tell you a msytery" sounds the
trumpet-call of doom. There fol
lows "The Trumpet shall sound
and the duet "O death, where is .
thy. sting?" Then in its final
chorus "Worthy is the Lamb"
sound the voices of the rednenm
Dr. G. E. Condra Spends
Several Days in Texas
Dr. G. E. Condra, chairman of
the department of Industry and
survey at the university, left this
week for Austin, Tex. He spoke
on Saturday at the quarter cen
tury celebration of the natural re
source survey department of the
University of Texas. For several
daya Dr. Condra will study in the
field as the guest of Di. Sellers,
Texas state director of survey.
135 of 283 Cornell University
freshman women Included in a re
cent survey have parents who are
college guduates.
At Northwestern University, the
men have just organized a knit
ting club.
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