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Volume XXV HARTFORD, CONN., TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 1929 Number 22

The baseball team will play WOOD GIVES TALK The track team opens its season AMHERST PRESIDENT host to Worcester Tech., this Satur· this Saturday afternoon, when the LOWELL GAME OPENS. day afternoon at the conclusion Clark University runners come to DELIVERS ADDRESS of the Trinity·Clark track meet. TO STUDENT BODY Hartford. Lasd year the Blue and BASEBALL SEASO Worcester Tech has always been Gold had an easy time winning, Many Hear Dr. Arthur S. Pease hard for the Blue and Gold to de· Says College Should Offer but the fact that several high Outcome of Thursday Afternoon Extol Richness of Ancient feat in the past few years, and Leisure for Quiet scorers ha.ve been lost to Coach Uncertain Since Neither Greek Literature it is likely that Coach Me rriman's Thought Oosting's team this year would Team Has Played pupils will find the going quite seem to indicate that the team TRACES CLASSIC GROWTH rough. Adams will probably DESCRIBES IDEAL will be rather evenlJi ma:tched. !\DAMS PROBABLE PITCHER start on the mound, and Captain The first event will start promptly "What Is a Classic?" is Subject Cutler will catch. at two o'clock. Asserts Time is at Hand When We Game Postponed t o Thursday Due of First Charles E. Moore Must Face Life With or """'""""'""'"'"'"""""""""""'""'"''""""'""""""""'""'"'""""'""""""""'"""""'' to Heavy Rains-Practice Lecture Given by Slowed by General Noted Scholar. Without Educated BLUE AND GOLD TRACK Minds. BISHOP BREWSTER SPEAKS Bad 'Weather.

Before an audience of one hundred TEAM TO MEET CLARK AT WEDNESDAY CHAPEL Basing his address to the student Heavy rains caused the postpone and fifty to two hundred guests in First Contest of Season body at last Wednesday's chapel ser­ Pays High Tribute to ment of the baseball game scheduled Alunmi Hall last Thursday evening, at Trinity Field vice on Sir Edwin Arnold's "The Remarkable Life of for Tuesday with Lowell Text ile, and Arthur Stanley Pease, Ph. D., Presi­ Saturday Light of Asia", Professor Paul Spen­ Late Bishop Brent instead it will be played Thursday dent of Amherst College and class- cer Wood proceeded to develop the afternoon. The poor weather has been mate of Dr. Ogilby's at Harvard, de- The first real test of the year for old legend therein related with refer- At the Wednesday chapel service on a serious handicap to Coach "J ohnny'' livered an address on "What is a the Blue and Gold track tean1 comes ence to its bearing on the life of. a March 20 Bishop Chauncey B. Brew- Mernman · m· sorting out his material Classic?" this Saturday afternoon, when the college student of today. The sub- ster gave an address in which he paid and, with the opening game only two Dr. Pease began by commenting on Clark University tracksters come to stance of the story is that Prince high tribute to the memory of .Bishop days off, many of the positions are the vast bulk of literature being pro­ Hartford. Last year Coach Oosting's Sidhartha, the son of a great Indian Charles H. Brent, whose recent death still in doubt. It will take the Blue duced as a result of the advent of runners had a fairly easy time dis- monarch, having come in contact for while traveling in Switzerland brought and Gold several games before the printing, as compared with the scar- posing of Clark by a score of 93% the first time with the evil and mean- grief among his circle of acquaint­ team gets into any sort of shape at ances. His various accomplishments city of books at the time of the to 33%, but the loss of Even, Ikeler ness of the world, made a great res- all. Greeks and Romans. "The more books and Captain Jackson bids fair to olution to leave his home and his during a long life of activity, as set In the pitching department Merri­ forth by Bishop Brewster, presented there are demanding attention," he weaken the home team seriously. sheltered life of luxury and devote quite an imposing array. man seems quite well fixed, though said, the less of it they can receive. Even used to clean up in all the his life to his fellow men. "In 1901," said Bishop Brewster, none of the hurlers have ever played In the fact of this imposing situation weight events; Ikeler used to win the "What do you suppose he did "he was consecrated Bishop of the college baseball before. Adams, Gra­ men have acted in three different mile and two-mile with more than a Philippines. I remember I was with first?" said Professor Wood. "Did ham and Watt seem to be about the ways. First, there are large collec- usual degree of consistency, and the Bishop of New York in opposing he proceed with some project of social best thus far. Adams easily leads tions of as many works as possible, Jackson used to take care of the sending him there, but our opposition amelioration? Did he begin to preach was over-ruled. It was largely his the candidates with his wide-sweeping and the acceptance by the public of dashes. a new gospel? No, he went forth testimony that led the Board of Trus­ delivery, and he is likely to start the book reviews. Under this heading, Poor weather and a soggy track first of all to learn wisdom. He pro­ tees to appoint Dr. Ogilby to the Pres­ Worcester Tech game on Saturday. come three reasons: the spread of have..P.ombined to keep the squad in­ ceeded to self-corrquest, and in all idency of -Trinity College. Bishop Graham and Watt have been erratic humility to learn before he taught 'ournalism, the obsolete scientific dis­ doors during most of the time so far Brent was elected Bishop of Washing­ at times but they have plenty of curves coveries of yesterday, and the dictates this season. The Interclass Track others. ton, D. C., in 1909, and I wrote him an "Though some 2500 years have on the ball. 'Gooding, infielder of of fashion. Meet scheduled last week had to be ea1:nest letter at the time urging him postponed because of the cold weath­ passed since the time of Prince Sid­ to accept, but he said he would st ick last year's team, is trying his lot on "Secondly, there is the use of epit­ er, and the smallness of Alumni Hall hartha," continued Professor Wood, to his job. the mound, and he may develop into omage; that is, the abridgment of hinders the team from getting a suf­ "men react to the problem of evil in "While in the Philippines, he led an a good utility pitcher. an extended work, compressing many the same ways that they did then. ficiently beneficial work-out. investigation of the opium problem. Captain Cutler and Phippen, a facts into a small volume. Thirdly, The indoor track meet held several Some are indifferent; some are He presided OV!er the International Freshman, are both taking care of the there are selections from the Clas- weeks ago at Amherst and which shocked into impotent rage or un­ Opium Commission meeting there and ended disastrously for the Blue and availing grief; some rush into ill­ later at the Hague to limit the pro­ catching department in good style, sics." Gold failed to give much of an indica­ advised action; only the truly great duction of the drug to the require­ but it is likely that Cutler will start, Dr. Pease then proceeded to define tion as to whether or not Trinity is man unites the qualities of clear vis­ ments of medicinal uses. due to his three years' experience. a Classic and to give some of its es­ ion, wise reflection, and fearless ac­ to be represented by a weak, mediocre "In the World Wlar, he had the rank At first base, Hardman, Ellis and sential characteristics. "A Classic," or formidable team. The lack of tion. of Major. His services were such Deschamps are all showing good he said, "is not any one of miscel­ proper facilities for track were never "Confronted by a sudden and over­ that he received the medal of dis­ early season form. Hardman has the laneous Greek or Latin writings, but more manifest than they were in that whelming responsibility, in the face tinguished service and was made a rather the masterpieces of all lan­ meet. of a task which demanded all his en­ companion of the Order of the Bath. advantage in having played two years guages which have survived the pas­ Coach Oosting seems to be better ergies, Prince Sidhartha proceeded to As an evidence of his humor (he had on the 'varsity but his work with the sage of time. I believe great works are fixed in the track events than in the think before he acted, to discipline that, too) I remember asking him: bat is very weak. Ellis, on the con­ rmi.ning events. In the 100-yard dash and master himself before he served about some of the chaplains in the the product of leisure. True it is trary, while a none-too-sure fielder, that sometimes men have dashed off it is likely that Wright, Hall, and others. He distinguished between W.ar. 'I got along with them splendid­ hits very consistently-. Deschamps is masterpieces at one stroke of the pen, Snow will start. The two latter run­ activity and progress, between senti­ ly,' he said. 'They were all good men so to speak; but still, the greatest of ners are lettermen and Wright, al­ mental humanitarianism and his 1·eal except the Christian Scientists, who the best fielder of the three but his works are always preceded by a long though a Freshman, gives promise of duty to his brother men. He wanted got sick and had to go home.' batting is reported to be weak. period of thought. A Classic, in the showing his heels to his two nearest to plan before he built; he wanted to "The great cause to which he de­ At second, Sturm, veteran of two rivals. Nye, Wright, and Snow will serve mankind in his strength rather voted himself," continued Bishop truest sense, is a work great not only past Trinity teams, is again the lead­ in its conceptions but great in its per­ run the 220, and Nye will also run than in his ignorance and his weak­ Brewster, "was Christian unity. He ing contender. He plays his po,>it.ion fection." the quarter-mile with Captain George ness. Because he held firm to this conceived the idea of the Lausanne Dr. Pease traced the influence of Hey. The two latter runners always ideal, his name is reverenced by mil­ Conference on questions of faith and well and makes a good lead-off man the classics from the earliest times. made a good showing in this event lions to this day in the unhurried order; and at that memorable and in the batting order. Bush and Cole­ 'Again and again," he said, "men last year. and contemplative Orient. historic conference Bishop Brent pre­ man are having it out over the short­ Brainerd and Cornwell will enter Professor Wood then indicated how sided. have turned from the tyranny of the stop post. Coleman flashed rare present, with its fickle fashions, its the half-mile, and Roots and Doolittle this tale applies tq college life. "If "The fine quality of Bishop Brent's form earlier in the season, but his confusion of detail and its futile ma­ will do the mile. In the two-mile, there is one place in this complex manhood, his far-sighted vision, his work has been slowing up. Bush has terialism, to the great writers and Oosting is planning to start Carson, modern civilization of the Western unfailing championship of great thinkers of the past, and particularly Carlton, and Bartlett. Bartlett is the world, this high-geared, machine­ causes, all make him certainly the been coming along steadily, but his to those unescapable Greeks, who only veteran, but Carson and Carlton driven age," he said, "where we might most outstanding figure among our batting is still very weak. grappled in fearless, simple sincerity have showed good time in early prac­ hope to find · leisure for knowing American bishops and in the Ameri­ Slossberg seems to have third base with all the essential problems of tice. aright, for the quiet thought, the self­ can Episcopal Church. His simpli­ cinched if he can improve in his field human nature and searched for those Lynde May, and Dignam will do discipline, the self-mastery, that city, his character, and his charity play. He has a good arm and gets mmaterial things which are, after all, the hurdles and Lovering and Hig­ should equip us for the highest and make him a genuine leader; and his the ball over to first in short order. n the life of each one of us, what gins will enter the pole vault. Strong the most useful life, it is in college. services, touching, for example, the In the outfield, Merriman has the two really counts. and Dignam will enter the high jump Here is a pause upon the threshold opium traffic and the World War, veterans, Broughel and Knurek. It is "In modern times," Dr. Pease went and W elwai and Bronstein will take of our business and professional ca­ cannot be over-estimated. His pass­ quite likely that they will start on, "the self-restraint of the old clas­ care of the broad jump._ Strong, reers; it should be a time of ingath- ing is a signal loss, not only to our against Wprcester. Reynolds, one of sicists has been too little appreciated. Spray, and Kalasinsky will enter the ( Continued on page 3.) Episcopal Church but to the whole the Freshman candidates, is showing Surrounded as we are by the uncouth javelin, discus, and shot events. world, considering his broad and gen­ up well though he doesn't cover much l'''''''''''''"lllllllllllllllllllllllllltlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll!lllllllllllllllllllllllllll!l\1111111111111111111 achievements of national or even in­ erous attitude of tolerance. ground. One of the unsuccessful in­ ternational megalomania, pressed up­ ~ i "What he would call the motto of field candidates will without doubt be on our attention by selfish and undis­ his life is: 'Life is an adventure.' He shifted to the outfield. criminating advertising, our modern Professor W adlund recently re­ ~ H~:~o:· ~~t~:::~:~t ~! :~: ~ would disregard himself, thinking The innovation of a doubleheader barbarism is half amused, half puz­ turned from a trip to Wklshington. He nothing of his own comfort, always with the games played in different zled by what seems at first sight the attended a meeting of the American looking forward and trying to give the cities will be tested by the baseball naivete of an Attic grave monument Physics Society which was held at world a push ahead. His was an ad­ team this yell.r, according to the or the unaffected finality of the coup­ the Bureau of Standards and the N a­ i ~E~I:m~~~~~.:~~k~:~~:~ Iventurous spirit that could see into schedule made public by William G. let or quatrain chiseled upon it." tiona! Academy of Sciences from April things not only with insight but with Brill, faculty manager of athletics. (Continued on page 3.) 18 to 20. foresight." (Continued on page 3.) 2 THE TRIPOD

CONTRIBUTORS' COLUMN THE SPIRIT

~be ~ripob To the Editor of "The Tripod" Well, all I know is just what I read in "The Tripod" and what the l'iWSPRiNCi TRINITY COLLEGE, Hartford, Conn. J. K.'s editorial in "The Tripod" of March 26 deplores the lack of true Spirit's Spirit deigns to offer to my Member, Eastern Intercollegiate Newspaper Association. scientific spirit on the science side of imbecilic (rather than imbecile) cere­ I TOP COATS i Published twenty-six times during the year. the Trinity College campus. His prin­ brum. True, the valuable bits of in­ cipal point seems to be that there is formation that he might venture to not enough original creative work go­ offer are far below the calibre of any­ ing on and that there is a lack of 1 ~25.oo i thing that I have learned myself, but Sbmart Top Coats, single- Subscribers are urged to report promptly any serious irregularity in the receipt of THE comprehension of and admiration for 0 TRIPOD. All complaints and business communications should be addressed to THE TRIPOD, the true significance of science. even the best of us can learn from the reasted, with set-in or ' Trinity College, Hartford, Conn. This criticism probably holds for worst of us, when we are feeling I Raglan sleeves. Oxford The columns of THE TRIPOD are at all times open to alumni, undergraduates, and those arts students who take a few badly. 0 others for the free discussion of matters of interest to Trinity men. No anonymous com­ elementary science courses merely for gray, fancies and her- : munications will be considered, thougbi if the correspondent so desires, his name will not be I could, no doubt, ignore this writer published. THE TRIPOD assumes no responsibilfty for sentiments expressed by corre­ the purpose of fulfilling requirements. (great men often fear to write them­ ringbone mixtures. Sizes ' spondents. It is they who, never having rightly I selves down), but for the pleasure of studied a science, learn by rote, and c 34 to 46. Guaranteed my readers and for my defense I 0 sometimes not at all, a mass of facts shall reply to this person who con­ I as to all-wool, color, and Entered at the Post Office, Hartford, Conn., as second-class matter. Acceptance for which to them has no· ·significance at siders himself a "blood relation" al­ wear. Street F1oor. mailing at special rate of postage provided for in paragraph 4, section 412, Act of October all. In the case of those majoring in 0 I beit an illegitimate one. This scath­ 28, 1925, authorized October 14, 1926. sciences, however, I maintain that the ing critic wodld have me look at criticism is wholly unjust. 'Brown, Thomson= Subscription Price, $2.50 per Year. things from the point of view (rather To do a piece of creative work in than viewpoint) of a constructive any field requires a comprehensive i & Company I Advertising Rates furnished on application. critic and not from that of a sceptic 0)..-.<>~<>~<>._.co knowledge of all that has been done -did you ever hear of a nit-wit who previously along that line. .To do a was a sceptic? My "relative" says valuable piece of creative work it is he knows everything and that it mat­ Editor-Albert Victor DeBonis, 1929 necessary to know what is valuable ters not what our classmates do­ G. F. Warfield & C'o Literary Editor-Karl Konig. 1929 and what is not. Knowledge of these that's their business! And in his Associate Editors-Marcel Lucien Doub!ier, 1930; William Bradford Gardner, 1930; things constitute the history of the criticism he misquotes me as having Booksellers and John Kazarian. 1930; Harvey Dann, 1931; Gregory Jerome Wyckoff, 1931; subject, in other words, the facts. In written that Brud misrepresents Stationers Newton V. Blakeslee, 1931 science, especially, the mass of facts Trinity-my statement was that he 77-79 Asylum Street, Hartford, Cona. Daniel Butler McCook, 1931 is enormous and in the scientific de­ Photographic Editor-Kenneth Allen Linn, 1930 represents Trinity. And another Business Manager-Lyman Bushnell Brainerd, Jr., 1929 partments of this college it is gen­ thing-if this "bloody relative" of Assistant Business Manager-H. Rees Mitchell, 1931 erally realized that a four-year col­ mine insists on using words of more Circulation Manager-Joseph Delphis Gauthier, 1930 lege course can do little more than CALHOUN SHOW PRINT than one syllable he might find one DIGNAM & WALSH, Proprietors Assistant Circulation Manager-John Baldwin Meeker, 1931 open the eyes of the student . to the Circulation Board-Robert Otto Muller, 1931 ; Oswald Balbirnie Graham, 1932; besides sarcophagus which he could field before him and give him a . start POSTERS,PLACARD&- Edwin Horne Lawton, 1932 use correctly in a sentence. More­ BIG TYPE PRINTERS in acquiring the working knowledge over, if I am to be judged by this necessary for work of a creative na­ intellectual genius who writes "The ~lso CALHOUN PRESS- Quality Jo~ Printers ture. "Speculation even as lofty as Spirit's Spirit" it is no great wonder 356 Asylum Street, Hartford. metaphysics" is of no value if it has A Misconception In the "Wesleyan Argus" of April 18, we note that to him I am a "rattle-brained been done before. dullard.'' Again, for one of his intel­ SEE OUR DISPLAY AT THE an editorial called "Culture by Compulsion", That a student is willing to spend UNION EVERY FRIDAY. which offers some rather inept criticism of the Trinity College lect, it would require much growth four years and often longer in acquir­ of the gray matter to understand that Reading Course. The following excerpts show a misunderstanding, ing a foundation for future work MAX PRESS., INC. which we cannot allow to go uncorrected. certain things do happen. Again, would certainly seem to indicate that since when have cries of "fire" on Tailors, Clothiers, Haberdashers "Trinity College, that earnest institution flourishing sixteen he realizes the value and possibilities our campus produced creative Middletown: Hartford Office: miles north of us, is m.aking a !lliOi:e than earnest attempt to lead of science and that he does look for­ her sons along the path of lighter-than-air literature. . . . Conse­ thought? And finally, if this gentle­ 205 Main Street Bond Hotel ward joyfully to the mtaking of orig­ man-we assume that he is a gentle­ quently, there has been established a system whereby a student is inal investigations in order that he man in spite of his relative--can required to obtain a certain number of points each semester for may realize the fruits of his labor. outside reading. The requirement exists quite independently of deny the truth of any of the charges any course..... The student must fulfill a minimum requirement (if they be charges) made on indi­ of reading points, presenting at least two pages of typed notes per viduals and groups, I invite him to hundred pages of reading. try. Regarding the Senate, no one has ~~rinitp "We hesitate to cast a blight of discouragement upon the Trini­ tarians by what may be unjudicious criticism.. But we cannot but WE FROSH told it what questions to solve, first doubt the intellectual huit£ulness of this very earnest venture. It because there are so many problems still on the books; second, because the savors too much of the spirit in which Father offered us a quarter Authentic Letters of a Freshman to commune with the dentist. .... The Wesleyan plan of offering student body in electing the one man

LOWELL GAME OPENS AMHERST DELIVERSIJUDGE BUFFINGTON SAYS LITERARY CLUB ADMITS p!~~~E~~~ BASEBALL SEASON. SQUAD OF TWENTY-FIVE THREE 'TO .MEMBERSHIP New England cities; the one whose Stevens Tech, Hoboken; 8, Clark The only real difficulty in the way interest. Mr. Carson's composition beauty has not been destroyed by the University, Hartford; 11, Connecticut of a highly successful Spring Foot­ was of a new departure in the y.rork smoke stacks and unsightly incidents of the members, which has hitherto of materialism; whose parks are famed Aggies, Storrs; 15, Massachusetts ball squad is that several of last been almost wholly critical, but it was for beauty, number and variety; Aggies, Hartford; 18, C. C. N. Y., year's outstanding players are en­ generally agreed that, as the club's whose shaded streets, stately resi­ Hartford; 22, Williams, Williams­ gaged in one of the Spring sports. purpose is to encourage literary talent WOOD GIVES TALK TO STUDENT dences with well-kept lawns; whose town; 28, Connecticut Aggies, Hart­ Britton is captain of the tennis team; .among the students, creative, rather BODY. business buildings and public edifices Knurek and Phippen are playing base­ ford; 30, St. Michael's, Hartford; than critical, work should be stressed (Continued from page 1.) display such architectural beauty. ball, and Nye and Kalasinsky are on hereafter. Four years' residence at the College June 15, Wesleyan, Middletown; the track team. ering, of intellectual development Before adjourning, the club dis­ on the Hill makes a Hartford heart Alumni, Hartford. Head Coach Galvin is drilling the when we come in contact with that eussed the problem of attendance at in the Trinity man for the rest of his live candidates and he is assisted by truth which should liberalize us and meetings. The constitution provides life. It is no mere mechanical asso­ James E. Breslin and Edward L. Sul­ make us free. Here for a season, that a specific number of unexcused ciation of names that makes him, livan, former Trinity players. Each active doing is suspended and leisure -·----- .absences will cause the absentee's when asked where he spent his col­ practice session starts with a grass is granted for intellectual cultiv;~.tion. name to be dropped automatically lege days, unconsciously say, "Trinity­ drill and setting-up exercises. He're one seeks to know in order that from the roll. Several members have Hartford." W!hatever the heart of There seems to be plenty of he may do the more effectively. .already exceeded this limit and are, Hartford 'toward Trinity, there is no weight, and with a little training in Such is the ideal." THE SPIRIT. therefore, liable to suspension or ex­ doubt what the heart of the Trinity the finer points of the. game, Blue (Continued from page 2.) pulsion. The application of such a From this ideal, Professor Wood man is to Hartford. As he goes on and Gold football stock should rise rule will prove disagreeable, accord­ turned to, discuss the actual situation. in the world, the name of Hartford, draw up a set of rules for the elec- considerably. ing to the club, but it is only through He showed that, although conditions the fame of Hartford, the well-being tion of cheerleaders-including per- Herbert has been drilling his back- its execution that a strong and loyal fall short of this ideal, the possibility of Hartford, grip him. field charges in throwing and catch­ nucleus can be built up and the non­ always ex~:>ts for those who will ap- All of which leads "The Tripod" haps two or three new cheers as part ing passes, and this may be taken as working members weeded out. · ply themselves. In, conclusion,, he re- man to tell the absent alumnus of what of the requirement. Sixth, it might an indication that Galvin is planning The following men have been elected turned to the legend of Prince Sid- Hartford has been doing in a material suggest to the College that "cribbers" (Continued on page 4.) to membership and are expected to hartha. "The old legend of Prince . way in the oncoming world of aero­ in examinations of any kind be appear at the next meeting: Hyam Sidhartha," he said, "has a direct per- nautics. Topographically, Hartford Plutzik, J. Delphis Gauthier, and sonal application. We, too, are living is in a strategic position in New Eng­ "bounced." Seventh, it might demand Hugh Campl;lell. in a place of youth and beauty as land in the network of convoying and that all contributors to "The Tripod" HARTFORD NATIONAL yet detached from actual contact with distributing places which are being sign their names and thus make Trin­ BANK AND TRUST CO. the world outside. Echoes penetrate called into being by air transporta­ ity the first college to forbid free HENRY ANTZ to us here; shadows fall upon us; in tion. Between the great centers of speech. Eighth, it might try to com­ a little while we must meet the grim air distribution, mails and the like, A CHECKING ACCOUNT IS A BARBER SHOP realities. The day is at hand when Boston on the north and New Bruns­ pel students to pay class dues wheth­ er or not they attend class functions. 10 CHAIRS. we must face life with or without an wick and Newark, New Jersey, on the GREAT CONVENIENCE. educated mind." south, Hartford is a strategic liason The Senate, ninth, might advise its H.FITCHNER G.CODRARO midway; and the long-headed, pro­ secretary that according to its con­ Proprietors phetic vision of Hartford is nowhere stitution the student body should hear Resources Over $40,000,000 more marked than in its aviation a report of its business periodically. field with its ample spaces for rising 27 Pearl St., Hartford, Conn. Tenth, it might try to keep up the A SONNET. and landing. All these things are Branch Shop: useful to m.ake Hartford an important scholastic standards rather than low­ A REAL BOOK SHOP 2 Grove St., Old Times' Bldg. This land of ours, where you and I station, but the vastly more important ering them. There are innumerable would dwell, , thing, and that which will please our ways in which the Senate can serve Where heroes' memories linger in old time students is what Hartford has her Alma Mater. If my opponent grasped and already accomplished in Edwin Valentine Mitchell HUBERT'S DRUG STORE one's bone; wishes, I will supplement this list Those broad green fields, the faint securing to itself the great possibili­ BOOKSELLER, PUBLISHE.R AND 211 ZION STREET ties of aeroplane manufacture. Even with a longer one, next time. far-distant bell; PRINT DEALER. now what has been done is employing Unfortunately, we have given this "Right over the Hill from the Collere" What was this mound, that blackened numbers of men and distributing Spirit's Spirit entirely too much mass of stone ? large payrolls every week. Hartford space-he deserves very little; but we 27 Lewis Sbeet, Hartford. We Carry a Complete Line of Drugs, That brooklet red and blue with oily has a vast number of highly skilled workmen, and its light manufacturing hope that his lofty mind will accept Sundries, Stationery, Candy, Soda, etc. pools skill and its varied factories have giv­ it in the manner in which it is offered. Was once a surging crystal waterfall; en it an unique position in American After all, who knows he may be a This road now smooth-a paradise for Jefferson Pharmacy ·cities in that they have not detracted good fellow. We Invite Your Patronage. fools, from the city's beauty. The whole Prescriptions a Specialty. That's all then, until next week. It was a rugged path, village to stall. country has contributed to build up 1022 Broad Street, cor. Jefferson. Hartford's light industries, the type­ THE SPIRIT. U. 8. Post Office Sub-Station No. 11. Oh let's away; this rush-this bustling writer, the pistol, the machine gun, PLIMPTON'S age electric equipment and skillful pre­ Stationers, Engravers, Printers It draws us in, we rise at its com- cision mechanical work of all kinds. mand, And so Hartford grasped at once that The College Tailor We work to sleep, and stagger off her skilled workmen and her factories Cleaning and Pressing 252 Pearl Street, at Ann the stage. were fitted to take up the making of FRESHMEN HEAR LECTURE 1279 BROAD STREET One life, one day, it passes all too aeroplanes and generally the aero­ soon plane supply art. She has already At the meeting of the Freshman H. BORNSTEIN, Proprietor. made a great forward step of pre­ Class on April 22, Professor Babbitt For me and you to shape the formless STEINMEYER'S paredness in the tremendous field of gave the second of his lectures on sand Smart Haberdashery aeroplane manufacture, and she has Greek Art. This lecture was devoted It With Flowers" at While others blankly contemplate the outdistanced other cities before the to Sculpture. ·Dr. Babbitt illustrated "Say 755 Main Street near Pearl moon. race is well under way. his lecture with slides which he has * * It is not the purpose of this sketch taken of various types of sculpture, WIRE SERVICE TO ANY FOR OUR LITERARY COLUMN. to enter into details, but inquiry ranging from the early Egyptian to PART OF THE WORLD. would surprise one to know of the the fine work of the later Greeks. THE COLLEGE STORE Students are urged to send in lit- trade that has already been seized There were many interesting and fa­ THE PLACE OF ACCOMMODA'illON erary efforts. All mss. must be type- and settled here for all time. It is a miliar works shown in the slides, in­ .:J(ennc;J!l:~£lacko~ written and signed thus preventing step far in advance of what other cludihg Hermes of Praxiteles, the M. W. SCHER, Prop. loss and confusion. cities are doing. Discobolus of ~on, and other well­ HOTEL BOND. 4-t Vernon Street, Hartford, Conn. KARL KoNIG. (Continued on page 4.) known statues. Telephone 6-907 (. 4 THE TRIPOD

SLOSSBERG DE~~~D~~toi~S~L~:.LEE ITRINITY TENNIS TEAM DELTA PHI CONVENTION TENTATIVE RIFLE TEAM ASPIRANTS TRY OUT PLANNED FOR HARTFORD SELECTED BY GUN CLUB Tailorine: Parlor Celebration to Be Held in City May 3, 4 and 4, Date Set for Under Auspices of Alpha Chi Captain Bissell Announces One Hundred and Second A.. S. Higgins, Blauvelt, Laubin. The well known Trinity Taaor This Year's Schedule McCook, of '31, and Lawton, Chapter and Alumni. Annual Assembly. '32, to Meet Harvard Righ Class and Fashionable Tailoring of Games Dress Suits and Tuxedos our Specialty Alpha Chi Chapter of Delta Kappa Aspirants for the 1929 Blue and The Sigma Chapter of Delta Phi With fifteen candidates in the run­ ning, the Gun Club is now holding bi­ Epsilon Fraternity will celebrate its Gold tennis team have been working will be the scene of the one hundred 65 Lincoln Street, Hartford. weekly practice sessions to determine golden jubilee with a dinner and pro- out at the Hartford Golf Club for the second annual convention of the Fra­ the line-up of the rifle team which is Telephone 6-9162. gram of entertainment in this city past two weeks under the eye of ternity which will be held in Hartford to meet Harvard, near the end of May 3, 4 and 5. Coach "Dick" Rudolph. Captain May 3, 4, 5. Elaborate preparations May. Pending the arrival of regula­ The celebration will open with a Britton and Bissell, veterans from last are being made for the reception of tion Service Rifles from the Govern­ ment, there will be no practice possi­ TUFTS COLLEGE smoker May 3 at the chapter house year, will undoubtedly have to carry the representatives of the 15 chapters ble with the big caliber equipment DENTAL SCHOOL on Vernon Street. The van of more the brunt of this season's schedule. of the fraternity who will arrive in which is to be used in meets, and, Founded 1867 than 100 Trinity alumni, members of Bissell captained the team last year, Hartford, Friday morning. until the receipt of this consignment, CoLLEGE men-prepare for a profession ~f the chapter, is expected to be present. and both he and Britton were very A buffet luncheon will be served at which includes ammunition and target widening interest and opportunitf. Recent ~&­ search has enlarged the scope o every phase Celebrating members of the chap- much responsible for the good show- the chapter house on Vernon Street, supplies, the practice will continue of dentistry. The field demands, more than with .22 caliber rifles. ever before, men and women of ability, backed ter will play golf ·on the following ing made by the team. after which, the first convention ses­ by superior training. Such training Tufts Since the Gun Club is an innovation College Dental School offers to its students. morning at the Hartford Golf Club, Two matches were won over Tufts sion will be held. At the conclusion School opens on September 30 1929. Our at Trinity this year, it has not been catalog may guide you in cnoosins1 your the Farmington Country Club, Wam­ and Wesleyan last year; one was tied of the business session, the visiting possible to arrange a real schedule, career. For information address- panoag Country Club, Sequin Golf with Clark, and two were dropped to delegates will make an inspection of but C. W. Laubin, President of the ' DR. WILLIAM R!CB, Deatt •U6 Huntington Avenue Boston, Mau. Club and the Wethersfield Country W<>rcester Tech and Springfield. The the college. In the evening a Smok­ organization, says that a more am­ Club. In the afternoon a tea dance loss of James Smith, '30, by his fail­ er will be given at the Hotel Bond bitious program, to include several ure to resume his studies this year at 8.30 o'clock. college members of the National Rifle will be held at the chapter house to leaves a hard gap to fill. This year Association, is being formulated for which members of the Trinity faculty the promising candidates are Burke, The convention will convene the next year. Outdoor practice this FLY WITH DESCOMB and their wives, undergraduate mem­ Scaife, Reppert, Meloy and Arnold. second day at ten in the morning at spring will probably be held on the bers of the fraternity and their guests This year's schedule is more am­ which time the second convention range of the West Hartford Gun Club. bitious than last year's, and the Blue have been invited. session will be held. A buffet lun­ ttllllllllllllllllltllllllllllllllllllll1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111011111111111111111111!1!111111111111111111111 .. and Gold will have to develop a cheon will be held at 12.30 noon at The golden jubilee dinner will be strong team if a good showing is to held at the Hartford Golf Club the be made. The schedule is as follows: the fraternity house, and in the after­ same night, May 4, and will be at­ Mlay 4, Rensselaer Poly Tech at Hart­ noon the convention delegates will be tended by many Delta Kappa Epsilon ford; May 8, Williams at W~lliams­ entertained by the members of the men located in Hartford. In addition town, Mass.; May 11, Worcester Tech Trinity chapter. The Convention at Wprcester; May 18, Wesleyan at Banquet will be held at the City Club Aviation Field, to these, Kenneth M. Sills, honorary Hartford; May 20-22, New England president of the fraternity and presi­ Intercollegiates at Chestnut Hills; at 7.30 in the evening. Hartford, Conn. dent of Bowdoin College, has been in­ May 25, Clark at Hartford; May 29, On Sunday, May 5, a Delta Phi Ser­ "American Magazine." vited. Springfield at Springfield, M:ass.; vice will be held in the college chapel LYRIC The chapter, which now has some June 1, Holy Cross at Hartford. at 11 o'clock. Rev. H. Lilienthal Lons­ 250 living members, including many Harwood Loomis, '29, of New Y·ork dale, Trinity, '83, will preach. BARBER SHOP prominent business men of this city City is manager of the team. 878 BROAD STREET as well as a number who have taken College Men-Enroll Now! NEAR PARK conspicuous part in national and civic affairs of the nation, was founded PSI UPSILON NATIONAL McCall's Scholarship Campaign; Miay 5, 1879, by the following Trinity CONVENTION TO BE SQUAD OF TWENTY-FIVE Salary, Tuition and Transportation; men: J. C. Barrows, L. B. Bidwell, eleven weeks' Summer Work; Super­ DRINI{ MILK D. L. Fleming, H. C. Loveridge, W. HELD IN W ASHIN'GTON REPORTS FOR FOOTBALL. visors, Team Captains and Salesmen. That' is J. Rodgers, W. D. Bidwell, A. V. (Continued from page 3.) ·write for further particulars. E. H. PERFECTLY PASTEURIZED. Coles, R. T. Reineman, A. P. Grint, Justice William- Howard Taft will to use a snappy over-head attack next WORLEY, 44 Court Street, Brooklyn, Try It - You'll Like It! A. W. Reineman, S. M. Holden, A. B. be the central figure at the annual fall. One of the main weaknesses of Linsley, H. C. Black and C. L. Cook. N.Y. & The committee in charge of the convention of the Psi Upsilon Frater- past Trinity teams is that there has The Bryant nity which will be held in Washington been no forward pass system worth celebration comprises Howard R. Hill Trinity Men Prefer Chapman Company of Hartford, chairman; Glover John­ May 16, 17 and 18. On the closing mentioning. son, New York chairman; Victor C. day a national luncheon is to be given .The dummy, too, has come in for 330 Woodland St.; Phone 2-0264. Pedersen, Edgar J. Dibble, William THE HEUBLEIN in honor of the Chief Justice at .the his share of abuse at the hands of Quality, Courtesy, Service. G. Wherry, Benedict D. Flynn, Karl Mayflower Hotel. Reiland, Harry C. Boyd, Horace B. the squad. The squad has shown BARBERSHOP Olmstead, Harvey C. Pond, George Among the Psi U's in important good early season form although much 58 Mulberry Street, Hartford. public office, who are to be present, CAMPUS C. Capen, Harry Wessels, Roger B. of the tackling is still too high. Ladd, Lispenard S. Phister, Frederic are Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of BARBER SHOP State; Senators Hiram Bingham, The team is being led in its work Have you chosen Under New Man&.~rement. T. Tansill, Henry J. Uhlig and Bern Frederic Walcott, George Moses, every day by Captain Fred Cooper, GEORGE PAPPAS, Proprietor. Budd. c: your life work? Guy D. Goff and Frederic M. Sackett, and it is likely that he will be in the 189 New Britain Avenue, Hartford. together with a large company of IN THE ·field of health service The Har­ Opposite Trinity College. pivot position next fall. Other mem­ vard University Dental School-the old­ Representatives who are members of est dental school connected with any bers of the squad are Macinnes, Rog­ university in the United States-offers the fraternity. thorough well-balanced courses in all JUDGE BUFFINGTON SAYS ers, Mackie, Gillies, Weinstein, Mul­ branches of dentistry. All modern equip­ BOYS! If y~ur SHOES need The new Assistant Secretary of the men t for practical work under super­ TRINITY WELL SITUATED. Navy for Aeronautics, David Ingalls, ler, McCook, Eberle, Sayers, Bienkow­ vision of men high in the professiOn. Repairing, stop in at the Write for details and admission reqttirt- (Continued from page 3.) together with Trubee Davidson, Assist­ ski, Disco, , Waterman, M'onacella, metlts to Lero)• M. S. Miner, Dean SHOEMAKER SHOP, ant Secretary of War, and William Dunbar, Breed, Forastiere, Reuter, HARVARD UNIVERSITY Good work, Hartford, good work. P. MacCracken, Assistant Secretary DENTAL SCHOOL Zazzaro, Ullman, Keeney, and Slater. 1047 Broad St.; Tel. 6-2861. Every Trinity alumnus will rejoice in for Aeronautics of the Department of Longwood Ave. Boston, Mass. your prosperity, and some day when Commerce, are also to attend. COLLEGE STATIONERY he takes an aeroplane ride he will The convention will be held under feel his safety is as well insured by the sponsorship of the Eta Chapter of The Trinity Stationery Co. an air machine "made in Hartford" Psi Upsilon at Lehigh University. 253 Asylum Street as he now feels his home, his life or President Edward L. Stevens of the Near Ann Street his safety is safe-guarded by an .in­ executive council will preside at the We carry a Full Line of College surance policy "made in Hartford"; convention, and invitations to attend Supplies and not without reason when his col­ are being sent to all members of the lege training was also "made in Hart­ fraternity throughout the world. At OH BOYS ford." this convention plans are to be form­ Don't forget to call on ulated for the centenary of Psi Up­ silon, which is to be held with the The Professional Building Theta Chapter at Union College, UNLIMITED CUT LIST Schenectady, N. Y., in 1933. Barber Shop. ANNOUNCED 59 High Street, Hartford, Conn. The following students having ob­ THE CASE, LOCKWOOD tained a grade of 85% or better in not less than five courses are privileged ALUMNI NOTES AND BRAINARD CO. to exceed the allowed number of ab­ PRINTERS, BOOKBINDERS sences without penalty. All students, WHliam Leslie French of the Class AND PAPER RULERS however, are required to attend chapel of 1893, died in New York City on 85 Trumbull Street and physical training. Bienkowski, April 3, 1929. He was a member of Hartford, Conn. Blank, Blauvelt, J. Bronstein, Childs, the now dormant chapter of Sigma Cornwell, DeBonis, Deschamps, Alpha Epsilon at Trinity. He is sur­ THE VALET SHOP D'Esopo, Diplock, H. D. Doolittle, vived by a brother, George Herbert Gardner, Giffin, Guckenbuehler, Hack­ French, ex-'92, of Richmond, Virginia. Tailors, Cleaners and Dyers man, Kelley, Hall, Jacobson, Kazarian, Mr. French was the son of the late of the Better Kind. Klurfeld, Kneeland, Knurek, Lovering, Rev. William Glenney French, Trinity, "Spring and Summer Samples Are Menasian, Montano, Perlstein, Raffa, '37, nephew of Rev. Louis French, '53, Ready for Your Inspection." Rosenbaum, Rulnick, Spekter, • Tar­ cousin of Wlillilitm Freeman French, Work Called For and Dellvoered. kany, Toomajian, Vogel, Wallbank, M. D., '79, and second cousin of Louis 35~ Washington, cor. Vernon St. Telephone 6-1763. Wleinstein, and J. V. Wlhite. French Jefferson, '15.