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the door stood a dismal line of students, depending upon my whim as to whether they should be condemned to German Reading. Letters from parents imploring my mercy on their offspring poured upon my desk. Power! I had it. 1 arose and walked to my window to inhale the glorious air expansively. I blessed the name of Learning. Remembering, however, that the poor, ghostly fellow was still starving; remem- bering too that as a woman of honor I must keep my word before indulging in selfish pleasure, f turned to making my victims read, read, read, and remember, remember, remember. As soon as they looked well stuffed, I herded them together in a dark corner of Taylor beneath the blank white countenance of propitious Athena. I waved blue books in the air; I muttered the spell of quiz- rules, and such was the power of my words and acts that I conjured up the voracious spirit in the twinkling of an eye. He roared with joy at the sight of so much prey, while 1, a bit wary lest in his excitement he might confuse my identitv with that of an edible morsel, slipped out of the door and left him to his meal. Only after some time, when I was certain he was satiated, did I return to gather up the corpses. Insatiable, however, is spiritual appetite. With the years, the genius of Learning grew fat and full-blooded, but the more his health increased, the more he wanted to devour. I made excuses to him, I avoided meeting him, yet in the end I could not escape. Flashing blue flames, he confronted me and demanded that either I find some way of multiplying his matter of sustenance ten-fold, or he would then and there tear me limb from limb. The choice seemed to be obvious, yet in my nervous haste to assure him that I felt no hesitation whatsoever about ray course ol action, I rashly promised to multiply his fare not ten, but twenty-fold! He vanished in a complacent glow, but I was left to desperate dismay. Twenty-fold! How could 1 do it? And then — surely it was his diabolical spirit inspiring me, not my own invention — the idea came in a flash: Comprehensives. Xo more did I simply stuff my subjects until they were of an appetizing plumpness. No, I stuffed them to bursting, I saturated them, 1 charged and infused them. Working over a longer period of time, I changed their very substance into lood lor Learning. Xo loreign element did I allow to taint or lessen their prime condition. I walled them into their dwellings so that they could not escape I ro m my surveyal. I piled books upon them. 1 buried them in the Library, threat- ening dire punishment if they did not learn every word by heart. There, in the mkht ol dusty tomes and the shadows of infinite shelves, 1 suspect that the monster himsell appeared to them and urged them on. From their worn and pallid faces, I know thai they must have been assaulted by his terrors between the lines ol Milton and the laws l Newton, while he whispered lo them in heart-shaking tones, I. earn, learn, learn! I hey learned, incredibly they learned. ltir lour years, I had my victims reads. Draped in black, wept lor by the Friends the) were leaving, thej Followed me into I aylor where so often before I had summoned up the demon to his least. ol merely with spells and l)lue-books, bul with solemn arums, with Fires made ol all the books and papers ever used to pre p. ir - Foi this hour, with song and ritual dance, the mightj being was invoked and .uric I lied through lli ' - door, Iml I COuId ' Jo nn Farther. rear Iro .e me as I listened to the hortles ol inhuman joy, and the si reams ol too human despair and pain th.it echoed behind me. Foi limns I could not stir, and lor hours it lasted, an etcmih ol agony. Hearing such cries, I could not bul repenl lor whal I had dour; mv mind was seized with remorse as horrible in its niip .is the grip ol the fiend within upon those whom I had delivered up I i losed my eyes in terror and (Conilmiml n Pago 78)
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WE RAISE OUR DYING VOICES IN LAMENT- Our dear becloistered campus has become the home of the spirit of fellowship and freedom of expression: Look about you — everyone except the ruggedest individualist belongs to a club, union, or associession. Go join the Glee Club if you think you can warble Or hie yourself off to Varsity Dramat if you think you re adorble As a Thespian; for you aesthetes There s the Art Club, or yet the Dance Club, for interpretive aethletes. All you have to do to join the French Club is kick the Iangue around like a native American; and the German Club tries to sprechen and what is worse to singen die Deutsch all of which must be recreative. The super-super intellectual Belongs of course to the Philosophy Club and contemplates the actual and the inectual. The one who is peace-bitten or concerned with what the world is coming to Finds her field of action in the International Relations Club or the A. S. U. The members of which worry about socialism, capitalism, fascism, and the Asiatic and the European debacles And hold learned discussions to impress each other with the importance of sanctions and protocols. Far back in the days of two parties all good Republicans belonged to the Liberty League And there for a while the V. F. W. Auxiliary was a force to contend with although if the real truth be known the Princeton chapter was the source of its intrigue. We should now proceed to talk about the Nucleus But we are getting tired of it all and anyhow our knowledge of cameras is somewhat dubious As is our whole attitude towards the spirit of fellowship and freedom of expression To say nothing of the way we feel about those dear benighted souls who seem doomed to live a worthwhile life belonging to this club, this union, and that associession. Vlusicai Interlude 10
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