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MESSENGER Vol. 24 No. 1 Autumn, 1921 Page 1 Fragment Page 3 Editorials Page 4 Apathy? Page 5 Prom. Page 6 Literary Studies The Going W. W. V. [William Vogt] Ladders John Mills Gilbert A Summer in Europe Bernard Iddings Bell Page 8 Aspiration George Fitz-Gerald Eastwind W. W. V. [William Vogt] 9 From a College Lover to His Recalcitrant Mistress L. M. M. News Review Page 11 Football, 1921 The St. Lawrence Game Page 12 The Eastman College Game The Connecticut Aggie Game Page 14 The N. Y. M. A. Game P. S. Prince The President Lectures Content Summary Continued on Next Page Page 15 The Princeton Intercollegiate Conference on the World Limitations of Armaments President Harding’s Telegram: Secretary Hughes’ Telegram Page 18 The Resolutions [sic] Drawn Up at the Princeton Conference Page 21 Administration Notes Half a Million by June Page 23 New Faces Jean Torok Archie Willoughby Henzell James Arthur Miller Page 24 Lionell C. Strong Mrs. C. I. Kuyk Miss Grace A. Littell Page 25 Through The Campus Window 1924-1925 Page 26 Fraternity Eulexian Notes S. A. E. Notes K. G. X. Notes Lecture of Dr. Guthrie Quoted in New York Herald Page 27 The New Constitution Page 28 Alumni Notes Cuthbert Fowler Page 29 Sixty-First Commencement of the College Account Albert J. M. Wilson Page 34 Library Chapel Announcement St. Andrew’s Club Begins Active Work Page 35 Dramatics Under the Lyre Tree STSIEPHENS COLLEGE VOL.XXI11l NUMSERt 1'12.1 AUTUMN NUMBER ANNANDAll ON HU050N N. V. r·-··--···--·M .......H ....M .... OO ............................... M.OO .......M.M·--·---··---- ..··-·-·· ... ·•Mt I I t I Why Is IrOn Magnetic? I A horse-shoe magnet attracts a steel needle. But why? .t-\ We don't know exactly. We do know that electricity and magnetism are related. I . In dynamos and motors we apply electro-magnetic effects. All our power-stations, lighting systems, electric traction and motor drives, even the ignition systems of our automobiles, i It depend upon these magnetic effects which we use and do not •t 11nderstand. f Perhaps if we understood them we ~ould utilize them much more .efficiently. Perhaps we could discover. combinations of .FRAGMENT metals more magnetic than iron. I The Research Laboratories of the General Electric Company l investigate magnetism by trying to find out more about elec .. An old man, trons and their arrangement 1 in a toms. Burning the first flakes of autumn s russet storm, I X.:.rays have shown that each iron atom consists of electrons Stands in the leaf smoke, rake in hand. grouped around a central nucleus-like planets around an Watching it merge into a grayer sky I infinitesimal sun. X-rays enable us to some extent to see into the He lifts h:ls bearded head . atom and may at last reveal to us what makes for magnetism. t it His eyes .look into the far-a~ay. t This is research in pure science. and nothing else. Only thus can real progress be ma~e. Studies of this kind are constantly resulting in minor improve.. ments. But some day a discovery may be made which will I I enable a metallurgist to· work out the formula for a magnetic alloy which has not yet been cas.t, but which will surely have the properties required. Such a result would be an achieve. I ment with tremendous possibilities. It would improve all + . electric generators, motors, and :magnetic devices. In the meantime the continual improvement in electrical machinery proceeds, in lesser steps. These summed up. con stitute the phenomenal progress experienced in the electrical art during the p~st twenty-five years. I! ~ .............. __M ___ O_ .. ___.. _ ............................... $ 4 THE MESSENGER Save these copies. At the end of this The alumni and friends of St. year they can be bound into a year Stephen's should pull hard for the book for a permanent record. teams in still another way, by sup There are two distinct parts to the porting them financially, It would be Messenger this year ,-the ·.news re indeed unfortunate to allow such a view section and the literary ·section consideration to hamper our progre:ss. one to record for you what the men of Funds are urgently needed for the this college in the years 1921-'22 .are continuance of the program. This is doing and why they are doing it; the vital obligation on your part. other, to record what these men are Now that an opportunity has come THE MESSENGER known shapes, sizes and forms; it has · thinking and why they are · thinking let us all stand and pull together for been resplendent with all colors and it. .As in any new undertaking this our teams, let us -see our Ahna Mater Editor-in-Chief designs. In fact, the Messenger has publication will undoubtedly contain ascend to her true place in the realm Howard E. Koch, '22 been everything, but the chief difficul its share of flaws and mistakes. But of intercollegiate sports and in so ty, we believe, is that it has not been Associate Editors an aggregation, like the aged gardner wh0 plants the doing work for the greater St. Herman R. Leonhard, '23 anything-always tiny sprout expecting not to enjoy the Stephen's. George D. Langdon, '23 never a unit, always a complex, never fruit in his own time, we feel that if ----6---- .a single definite thing with a single rich fruit Alurn.ni Editor .definite purpose. This year it is our future generations harvest and in their time from this tree planted in All of us realize the prominent Rev. Cuthbert J. ·Fowler aim as far as possible to unify its pur- vital part played in the administration a dis our own day,-if future boards shall Exchange Editor :pose, to create a Messenger with our purpose somewhere near its of our college by Mr. Haley Fiske, ' tinct and single message. bring Mr. Fiske has been confined Archibald M. Fits Randolph, '23 proper realization-we shall not have Trustee. to bed all summer .with a painful af Before stating this purpose let us entirely failed. Reporters fliction of the hip.: Through this edi consider briefly the conditions of the William Vogt, '25 Messenger as we find them. It has ----~o---- torial we wish to ~onvey to Mr. Fiske Allan Tongue, '24 Messen on behalf of all his friends here at St. Gerald Barry, Sp. been the fate of almost every To the casual observer the achieve ger Board of the past to stand alone ments of the football team may ap- S~ephen's our hearty wishes for his speedy recovery . Business Manager at the helm, unable to secure any co . pear quite mediocre. To those ac . Herman J. Smith, '24 operation on the part of students and quainted with actual conditions, how ----0--....-..;;....- · alumni and, thus, the first editorial of ever, they appear most' satisfying and APATHY? Assistant Business · Managers each year's initial number has become even remarkable. A clean, hard fight Harvey S~mmons, '24 by .the Wilbur Lown; '24 : the traditional space employed ing eleven, capable of holding their A land flowing with milk and . editors to lament loudly and publicly own against tremendous odds, has h~:mey-prosperity everywhere-hap Contributors for this Issue this fact to ears that never seemed to · been developed. Colleges, hitherto piness everywher-and the people lul President B. I. Bell, Major Perry Pierc,, hear. St. Stephen's led into slumber because of abundant regarded as beyond the Mr. John Mills Gilbert, Donald Kastler, Al Btit, Mirabile dictu, we earnestly fortune. Was that the case when ban Richy, George Fitzgerald, Horace Done- sphere, have been encountered an is in the real recognition suddenly an international fiddle string gan, Louis Myers, Samuel Sayre. believe that this condition held successfully. A process of disappearing. Most of the in the field of iiitercolligiate sports broke in 1914 leaving almost an utter Tbe Messenger : is p~blished quarterly Alumni have in their letters shown an has come to us at last.· A point has absence of harmony? duriflg the time of college is in session. active interest, the business staff has been reached where we must .go for War! Scarehead type blazons it S'JJbscription anq other business commun- · ward or turn backward. This deci forth.· Yes, war! · The youth of the icaticms should be addressed to the Business . met advert~sers who were actually sion rests not with the men who land springs to arms. Leaving his Manlger. ~ ' . glad to advertise, and, mqst important s1;1bscription~ over due will be dis- · of all, a perfect deluge of material has home behind him to the possible rav . 411 :represent the college on the various co~~inued. · · · d th b 'Id d d 't teams, but with the student body at ages of profiteers, slackers, and ~llice · of s:ubscription, in advanc~, $1.00 rmne upon e ew1 ere e l ors,- large ·and with the alumni and friends. enemy aliens ; across seas nlled with a y~·~r. Single copies, 25c. a storm unknown to even the oldest The size of the college demands a depth bombs, submarines, and hostile :Erntered in the Post Office at Annandale- · weather prophets in the village of on-~udson as seco~d class mail matter. Annandale. great abundance of spirit. The mem battleships; through air-raided cities bers of the student body must pull overflowing with wounded and dying~ Now, as to the purpose of theMes hard for their teams. They must en past .shrieking, gasping neighbors; During the course of its existence ·senger, we have decided that the col courage them at every.