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Untitled Aristocracy of England DIJQITESNE UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL QA CATHOLIC 'DAY SCHOOL for BOYS He ¡p % % $ s|c ACADEMIC A Preparatory Course for Entrance to College SCIENTIFIC A Preparatory Course for Entrance to Technical Schools COMMERCIAL Two Year and Four Year Courses in Business Training Approved by the Pennsylvania State Board of Public Instruc- tion; Accredited by the Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools of the Middle States and Maryland. Diploma Admits to Leading Colleges and Universities DISCIPLINE THOROUGHNESS SCHOLARSHIP CHARACTER Catalogue Sent Upon Request Address the Rev. Principal 801 Bluff Street, Pittsburgh, Pa. ©uqutótte Jlontfjlp oA Literary éMagazine VOL. XXX MARCH, 1933 No. 6 Published Monthly During the School Year by the Students of Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pa. Subscription Price $1.50 DUQUESNE MONTHLY STAFF—1932-1933 Editor-in-Chief L WILLIAM F. F.RAWLEY Assistant Editor PATRICK R. CULLEN Business Manager PATRICK H. MCCONVILLE Faculty Advisor REV. BERNARD J. APPEL, C.S.Sp. Co-Ed Editor MARYDESSIE BLAYNEY News Review Editor WILLIAM J. PURCELL Interview Editor .MARTIN J. GAVIN Exchange Editor S JOSEPH G. TRAGESER Literary Editors I DICK WERSING-C. G. HEIM Humor Editor JOSEPH A. GAILLIOT Sports Editors JOSEPH P. SULLIVAN-CLIFF SOISSON STAFF ASSOCIATES EDWARD A. TAPPE THOMAS F. CAREY C. RICHARD GINDER JAMES R. CULLEN Address: DUQUESNE MONTHLY, Room 37 Canevin Hall, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pa. Entered as second-class matter, April 30, 1911, at the post office at Pittsburgh, Pa., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided (or in Section 1108, Act of October 3, 1917 Authorized October 22. 1918 MARCH 1933 CONTENTS TIMELY TOPICS: Page Comments on John Galsworthy—Richard Wersing 197 Let's Face Facts—Edward A. Tappe 223 The Spirit of Lent—Anthony J. Chenot 230 SHORT STORY: Trinket—Paul R. Waddell 199 FEATURES: Dickens, The Educator—Martha Spoerlein 202 Holy Childhood Association—C. G. Heim 213 Robert Browning and the Drama— Sr. M. Perpetua Stupy, O.S.B 219 COLUMNS: EDITORIALS : Notice— ( . 206 Lent, The Season of Penance— ) „..„. „ „ . ( 206 "Catholic Action of Duquesne j Wllham K F^wley. University"— 1 " 207 Our Lost Art—C. G 208 LITERARY FORUM: "The First and the Last"—Reviewed by C. G. Heim 210 Co-Ed Viewpoint—Marydessie Blayney 216 Alumni News j 217 Sports—Joseph P. Sullivan - Cliff Soisson 222 Aftermath—Joseph A. Gailliot_. 225 News Reviews—William J. Purcell 228 Exchanges—Joseph G. Trageser ; : 231 MISCELLANY: All Men are Tyrants—Edward A. Egler 209 Scoops—Anonymous 212 The Snow (Poem)—Ralph G. Fallert 221 Retreat—Edward A. Tappe 227 God's Minute—Selected ; 227 THIS SPACE FOR SALE Compliments of a Friend Established 1875 Fort Pitt KODAKS and SUPPLIES Lithographing Co. WALL'S DRUG STORE Telephone, Grant 1005 643 FIFTH AVENUE Lithographers - Engravers (Cor. 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XXX MARCH 1933 NUMBER 6 DICK WERSING TlllWBnMlWIWIiMWMBBTlWWMTTillBMIIIIII II 111 Unlll I llilllllM imHHmiMn—lll III I I 11 lilITIMrr "Under the breath of laughter, deep in the tide of tears, I hear the loom of the Weaver that weaves the Web of Years."—ALFRED NOYES It is not often that the unfortunate have the picturing hand of a novel- ist to plead, for them, especially a novelist whose heart was so completely behind his hand as was the case with John Galsworthy. Modern litterateurs link Dickens and Thackeray, friends and generous rivals always, and Gals- worthy to form a trio whose humanitarianism has gone far toward the amelioration of society's "outcasts." A century antedates the birth of the latter and the deaths of these two Victorian novelists. Dickens and Thack- eray outrank him merely because they entered the field first. Galsworthy has only the demerit of contemporaneity. One of the most beautiful and romantic regions of all England is the Dartmouth Forest. Wingstone, a small town in the very heart of this Dartmoor district was John Gals- worthy's home. At the time of his death, however, he was living in Sussex in south-eastern England. Here, he enjoyed his leisure in a new country home, the replica of a Tudor manor house. With him were his wife, his artist-nephew, Rudolph Sauter and a large family of dogs and cats. Typical of Galsworthy's novels are the ever-present paintings and dogs. Works from his nephew's brush are prominent in his home; dogs were his constant companions on jaunts. It is in Sussex, too, that Rudyard Kipling, and his American wife have settled. Along with Shelia Kaye- Smith and Joseph Freeman, the Galsworthys have always lived in Sussex. "The Galsworthys have been in Devonshire as far back as records go— since the flood—of Saxons, at all events," Galsworthy once put it. It so chanced, though, that John Galsworthy was born in a London suburb in 1867 and lived just as many years before, as he did after the turn of the century. At school, Harrow on the Hill, he captioned the football team and was quite a track man. As a student he was sure and steady. After three years at New College, Oxford, he was graduated in 1889 with an honor degree in law. Although a lawyer's son, he made this reflection of himself: "I read in various chambers, practised almost not at all, and disliked my profession thoroughly." The privilege of being the first reader of the then sailor, Joseph Conrad, fell to the lot of Galsworthy. Meeting on a sailing voyage between Adelaide and Columbia, these two became fast friends. Conrad showed him a manuscript which Galsworthy estimated correctly. Then he advised his new friend to devote himself to literature. When he returned to England his wife-to-be induced him to write. Galsworthy relates: "If one has been brought up at an English public school and 198 DUQUESNE MONTHLY university, is addicted to sport and travel, has a small independent income, and is a briefless barrister, one will not take literature seriously, but one might like to please her of whom one was fond.
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