SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1935.
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Career Men and
Ditch Diggers
pORGET career-fixations and take a bread and
butter Job which will keep you going until you
get a job tn your chosen field," says Dr. Walter
B. Pitkin of Columbia University and author of
"New Careers for Youth."
Although this statement seems a truism, it
is surprising to check up on the number of college
graduates and undergraduates who may well take
the advice to heart According to the Columbia
professor, the fixation of the mind on a career is
the "grand tragedy in so many cases of highly
trained young men of intelligence.
Newspapers thruout the United States each
spring carry stories announcing long lists of young
men and women who are being graduated from the
nations numerous' educational institutions. Most
of these young people have specialized in some
particular field during their college days with an
eye toward a bright career in that field. And loud
baa been the wailing when their would-be employ
era do not receive them with open arms.
In most cases the embryo career men and
women honestly tried to find positions, but no posi
tions were open. Beautiful hopes were shattered
and the whole world came down around the heads
of the now thoroughly discouraged youngsters who
threw up their bands and muttered, "What's the
use?". Thus was that necessary enthusiasm of
youth completely killed.
ALL this could have been prevented if students
had realized while still in college what they
would be forced to face upon graduation. Old ideals
could have been broken down while there waa still
time to build new ones. Instead, not one ray of the
cold light of truth filtered thru to disturb the calm
of academic halls. Collegians went merrily on their
way to classes, dances and football games, secure
in the belief that the economic depression was ef
fective only on the lower, uneducated classes.
It Is high time that such a situation is cor
rected and it is encouraging to see that such is be
ing done to a certain extent. But to prevent further
tragedy students must completely disillusion them
selves. They must be prepared to dig ditches.
Mortar Board's Tea and
The Grading System
JfJORTAR Boards are again entertaining at tea
women of the three upper classes who have
made an average of 80 or above for the two semes
ters of last year. Thus again grades are unfairly
made the basis of judging educational accomplish
ments. Blame, however, should not be cast upon the
senior women's honorary society. They are con
forming to a time-hallowed tradition of the educa
tional world. Since grades have become the fetish
that they have, it is only fitting the Mortar Boards
should In some way recognize those who have suc
ceeded to garnering a high average. Whether or
not the bonoree has gained anything in the way of
real knowledge need not enter into consideration at
JL
AH this leads up to the conclusion that grades
are not a fair criteria of scholastic endeavor and
that the whole system is somewhere out of kilter.
A student with a high average may deserve it, but
on the other band a grade of 80 is not too difficult
to attain. There are certain methods known to most
students by which they can slide through four
years of school with a good record, and not once
tn those four years display any real knowledge.
On the other hand, the best student may come out
of college with no better than a 75.
Various experiments to remedy the situation
have been Instituted. Their results cannot be pre
dicted with any degree of certainty, but surely they
cannot lead to anything worse than the present
method of evaluating a student's work.
Browsing
Among Tht
Books
By
Maurice Johnson
AMERICAN WRITERS: WALDO FRANK,
FEW years ago newspapers carried pictures
of Waldo Frank among Kentucky strikers, his
head bandaged after a beating by a mob. Later he
told in the New Republic, to which he is contrib
uting editor, how he and his associates had tried to
get help for the strikers, and he described unpleas
ant living conditions in the Kentucky hills Certain
ly Waldo Frank is a spokesman for the proletariat,
and one who should be listened to but he is a
number of other things as well.
Waldo Frank is an experimental novelist, a
critic, a mystic, a journalist, a writer of superb
and disconcerting short-stories, and a specialist on
Spain and Spanish-America. He is one of the edi
tors of the new book on America's evolving art,
"Alfred Stelglita and America," and he wrote the
preface to the collected poems of Hart Crane. The
man's activity seems to be boundless.
"City Block" (1922) is a volume of short-stories
meant to be read as "a single organism." Sub
jective interpretation is here more important to
Waldo Frank than any mere recording of action,
and this is true of all his fiction. "Murder," the
second story in the book, has tn it strangely effec
tive paragraphs:
"The baby's voice was a little green vine, string
ing its way across the brown breath of the room.
It clambered up into the air: it lay athwart the
window; it drooped upon the bed, touching
Sophie's hands with its tender shoots. It touched
her ears that slept beneath her heair . . . Louisa's
crying was red small flowers upon the green of her
hunger."
Here is eloquent writing indeed; but the casual
reader is likely to be frightened away by Frank's
placing imagination over reality in importance. This
is unfortunate, because Frank has no intention of
making his work elusive. Of "Holiday" (1923) he
eays that it is "a story as simple and direct as I
could make it . . ." The novel is concerned with a
simple and stark enough theme: there is a lynching
on a sultry Sunday in the South. It is a tale of
Whitetown versus Blacktown. This is how it goes:
" What is God for? Jesus, what are you for?
" Ain't it a shame God's so hard to git holt
on? . . .
"Voices thickly dryly twine a straw tangle
through the slow mass moving up to Main Street;
. . . maze of eye-seek, lip-curl, finger-twist-and-jerk
. . .; gnaw of the spark a cancer in their brains
throb shuttle thresh deliberate slow to Main Street:
HALT."
One is so concerned with Frank's style that the
story becomes of secondary interest. In "Chalk
Face" (1924) Waldo Frank tells one ot the best
psychological mystery tales ever written, in this
same intangible manner of writing. The three mur
ders in "Chalk Face" are so far removed from
reality, however, that the style is peculiarly appro
priate. The book is mainly given over to the delin
eation oi mental agony, and no ordinary reader
can encounter The Man With The White Head ("it
has a plastic and smooth pallor like the form of
certain larvae") without leeling somewhat per
turbed. Turning from the lucidity oi his "America His
pana" (1931), Frank has published another novel
concocted in his intensely personal style. In "The
Death and Birth of David Markand" (1934) WaWo
Frank has written another book hallelujahed by
critics and unnoticed by the general public. He
dedicated it to "the American Worker, who will
understand," but one is inclined to doubt that The
American Worker will never hear of "The Death
and Birth of David Maikanu" because he would
not understand its symbolism and strange phrasing.
It is ironical that Mr. Frank's chosen audience
should not know ot the book, while the library
bound critics, in whom be is not interested, cry
out that it is important.
But New Jersey-bom Mr. Frank is not yet
dead; he is only forty-six. and other books wiil
come from him. He has something vital to say,
and perhaps in time he will keep his self-expression
from becoming entangled with his allegories
or perhaps we will in time accept and understand
his personal style. In the preface to Hart Cranes
poems he assures us that "nt-eessity. day alter to
morrow, will drive men to think personally (poet
ically, cosmicallyj, in order that their survival may
have meaning."
FAMOUS LECTURER
SPEAKS AT TEMPLE
Scholfield, Moled English
Christian Scientist,
Talks Sunday.
Ralph B. Scholfield win lecture
on Christian Science Sunday after
noon at 3 o'clock in the Temple
theater. Sponsors of the program
have invited an students to attend
the free lecture as Mr. Scholfield I J
Is one of Christian Science's most
prominent representatives. ;
Mr. Scholfield comes from Lon- j J
don, England, having obtained his
education at Eaton college. A : f
member of the First Church of
Christ Scientist of London since
1907. be has filled many positions
in the church during this time. The
OFFICIAL
BULLETIN
Book Shop.
The following books are in de
mand at the Swap Book shop:
"Analytical Geometry" by Love;
"Governments of Europe" by
Munroe; "Social Psychology" by
Allport; "Typing," college edition;
Gregg Shorthand; "Money and
Banking" by Bradford; and Gregg
Speed Builder. Those students
owning copies of these books which
they wish to sell should bring them
to the Swap Book shop In the Tem
ple hteater building.
Christian Science Lecture.
Free lecture on Christian Sci
ence by Ralph B. Scholfield of
London, England In Temple the
ater Sunday, Feb. 10, at 3 o'clock.
All students and faculty members
are invited to attend.
Social Problems.
There will be a meeting of the
Social Froblems club Wednesday
evening at 7:30 in the Y. M. C A.
rooms of the Temple building.
BIZAD STUDENTS TO
HOLD RUSH SMOKER
Men's Commercial Group
Sponsors Affair for
Freshmen.
The bizad rush smoker, get-together
of new bizad students en
tering the university, will be held
at 7:30 o'clock Tuesday evening,
Feb. 12, at the Delta Tau Delta
fraternity house, according to an
announcement by Ralph Noll
kamper, president of the Men's
Commercial club, honorary Bizad
society which is sponsoring the
meeting.
Dean J. E. LeRossignol of Bizad
college will address the group,
Nollkamper related, and he will
probably discuss some aspects of
the work connected with the col
lege. "Students already attending the
college as well aa those now en
tering are invited to the affair,"
the president stated. "The purpose
of the gathering is to better
acquaint the students with one
another and Dean LeRossignol."
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