Colby Alumnus Vol. 26, No. 3: January 1937

Colby College Digital Commons @ Colby Colby Alumnus Colby College Archives 1937 Colby Alumnus Vol. 26, No. 3: January 1937 Colby College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/alumnus Part of the Higher Education Commons Recommended Citation Colby College, "Colby Alumnus Vol. 26, No. 3: January 1937" (1937). Colby Alumnus. 342. https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/alumnus/342 This Other is brought to you for free and open access by the Colby College Archives at Digital Commons @ Colby. It has been accepted for inclusion in Colby Alumnus by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Colby. 7heCOLBY man�1937 c-A LUM Nus CHEMICAL HALL ALL THESE FEATURES ARE FOUND ONLY IN THIS ONE LOW- PRICED CAR. 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The Colby Almnnus PUBLISHED BY THE ALUMNI COUNCIL FOR THE ALUMNI ON 'HE FIFTEENTH DAY OF OCTOBER, NOVEMBER, JANUARY, FEBRUARY, MARCH, APRIL, MAY AND JULY /OLUME 26 JANUARY 15, 1937 NUMBER 3 CONTENTS The Cover-Chemical Hall, photo-relief by Joseph C. Smith, '24 Some Colby Scene and Campu Activities ..................... .... : . 2 Some Comment On Manners .. ... ...... .. .....By Dean Ernest C. Marriner, '13 3 Some Comments On Manners ... ...... ..... ....By Dean Ninetta M. Runnals, '08 3 Colby Man Seeks Gold In Torthern Alaska .. .. .. .. ..B�· Ashton F. Richard on, '23 6 A Freshman Of Long Ago.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 9 Looking Baclrnrard Thirty-Six Year ... ..... ... ....B�· Mabel Freese Dennett, '04 10 Colby Faculty Represented at Conventions .................................. :. 11 The President's Page ... .... .. .. ...... ... ...... ...... .. .......... ..: . .. 12 Chatting With Our Colby People. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 13 Our Local Alumni Meeting;::....... ...... ... ... ........ ............... ....... Robinson, '06, Sends Greetings ............. ... 18 Tru tee Meeting ............................................................. 19 Colby Mu ical Clubs Will Have Part In New England College FestiYal...... .. .... 19 Winter Carnival Planned. 19. Sketche, 20 Mile tones 22 Necrology 23 Clas Notes About Colby Men And Women .. .... .......... ........ ...... ..... .. 26 Grace Wells !:ditorial Board: Oliver L. Hall, '93, Editor; Herbert C. Libby, '02; Frederick T. Hill, '10; Thompson, '15; '23; Ervena Goodale Joseph C. Mira L. Dolley, '19; Thaddeus F. Tilton, '20; Harland R. Ratcliffe, Smith, '2-!; '29, Business Manager. Smith, '24; G. Cecil Goddard, for Publication Should Be Sent To OliYer Hall, Executive Dept., Publication Office: Waterville, Me.; Contributions L. State Hou e, Augusta, Maine. Entered a- second-class mail matter Jan. 25, 1912, at the Po-t Office at Waterville, Me., under the Act of March 3, 1879. �ational Advertising Representative: The Graduate Group, Inc., New York, Chicago, Detroit, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Boston. The October, March and July issues, the Three; Single Copies, Checks, 3ubscription Price $2.00 a year; $1.00 $.35. drafts, etc., should be made payable to The Colby Al ui:inus. THE COLBY ALUMNUS 3 SOME COMMENTS ON MANNERS DEAN ERNEST C. MARRINER Colby Deans take temporary roles DEAN NINETTA M. RUNNALS as Lord Chesterfield and Emily Post HAT an unwelcome task it is OLLEGE men, however, bright to carry coals to Newcastle! and discourse on "Manners", which, as they are, get wrong ideas W What can a mere unmannerly Chesterfield said, "must adorn knowl Cabout deans of women, especially man say to well-mannered women on edge, and smooth its way through the if these deans of women-as is usually the case---do not have hus the subject of manners? E pecially, world." what can he say to Colby women, who bands. But these college men should for more than half a century have remember that there are other men set the mannerly example for Colby in the world besides husbands and men? To announce that Colby wo that very keen observing women men 11ave decided pay attention to (like deans!) can learn much from to manners is to say that the Dutch these other men. Take my own case have taken Holland. for example. To begin with I had Yet my instructions (or, as they not to mention more remote male con ay in England, my terms of ref nections-a father with whom I had erence) are clear. By my faculty very close friendly relationships. I colleague who has charge of student have also a brother several years as emblies I was told that the subject older than myself, and older brothers of the meetings would be mannerc;, do not let their sisters remain uncon and that Dean Runnals would play scious of the masculine world. Then Emily Po t to the men while I be I have three nephews who have been came Lord Chesterfield the women. much in my care and company from to Dean Runnals' splendid talk last babyhood through to the various Friday to our men et an example stages of childhood and manhood that your speaker this morning can which they have respectively reached. not hope to emulate. As our men And last but not least for the good listened to her keen analysis and her of my training in the understanding sound, good-humored advice, they of the male mind, I have lived years were deeply and favorably impressed. and years in a girls' dormitory! I Colby men know that their manners have learned to agree with the couplet can stand improvement. Yet may I "Men are only boys grown tall put in one mild word in their de DEAN ERNEST C. MARRINER Hearts don't change much, after all". fense. They are really not uch horrid examples as you may think. Need I say more to persuade you of Nor did Dean Runnals for one mo my fitness to give advice to men? ment imply that they are such. She If so, I might approach the situa made no criticism; she pronounced tion from an entirely different point no denunciations ; she merely off€red of view and say that I need not sound and constructive advice. Never hesitate to talk to you even if I did theles I fear that there exists too not possess these excellent personal general an impression that Colby men quaHfications which I have so modestly are crude, uncultured savages. Towns outlined. For I could quote the late people recall boisterous celebrations Vice-President Marshall who said, and the midnight depredations of "What we know about things that we former days. They recall the riots at know nothing about is the most re Freshman Reading in the Old Baptist markable part of our mental equip Church, the breaking-up of picture ment and our education. It is only shows in the old nickel admission the man who has made a thorough days, the stealing of signs and door study of a subject who hesitates to step ; and too generally these details express an unqualified, absolutely cer make up their conception of the tain opinion." So I am bolstering Colby man's mannerless manners. It up my confidence from these two is therefore refreshing in this year of angles. 1936 to have a newcomer to Water And now to be serious, I like ville and to the Colby faculty make Everett Dean Martin's definition of this remark : "I like Colby men; they education and I hope you already do, are gentlemen." or will after I repeat it to you. It is very easy to confuse man Please turn to page Please turn to next page DEAN NINETTA RUNNALS 5 JI.I. 4 THE COLBY ALUMNUS Dean Marriner (Continued) Walker were names connected with and nature's grim law of self-preser the old domestic industry of making vation eggs us on. But deep within ners and morals. The Latin word cloth. So it is that time gives new us we know there is something pro mores is translatable by both. In meanings to old words. Which foundly true, as well as sublimely those naughty nineteen twenties there brings me to remark that 1936 sees a ideal, about those words of the Mas grew up a considerable cult, especially new meaning which you so dearly ter, "What shall it profit a man if he of young people, who insisted upon love to apply to folh of Dean Run gain the whole world and lose his the identity of morals with manners. nals' and my generation. It is the own soul?" Thoughtlessness, care It is custom, they said, and only cus word "dated". Only four or five years less disregard for others, is really tom that makes actions right or ago it meant an appointment with a the fruit of selfishness, regard for wrong. The manners of 1910 tabooed man. Now it means old-fashioned, our own attempts to gain our own smoking by women; the manners of passe, out-of-date. It is a word that little world. And, in the process, how 1936 sanction it. The manners of we 1910ers have come to dread, easily we lose the real soul of the 1910 decreed the ubiquitous chap though we take some consolation from considerate, helpful life ! erone; the manners of 1936 sanction Walter Pitkin's insistence that life the sport roadster with the one-arm Another criterion is self-respect.

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