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, VOL. XXVI. No. 28 BALTIMORE, MD., JANUARY 31, 1922 PRICE 5 CENTS BIRTHDAY OF "HOPKINS' SIDNEY LANIER'S ODE TO JOHNS HOPKINS JOHNS HOPKINS SCIENTISTS OWN POET" THIS FRIDAY LEAD ALL OTHERS Sidney Lanier Was Lecturer of Uni- READ BY THE AUTHOR AT THE FOURTH COMMEMORATION DAY EXERCISES. Leads Other Universities With 243 Out versity During Years 1879-81. of the 1000 Leading Scientists. Wrote Ode to Hopkins. How tall among her sisters, and how The astronomer heliotrope, Where Chesapeake holds frankly forth fair,— That watches heaven with a con- her hands "Although during the past 20 February 3, 1922, marks the How grave beyond her youth, yet stant eye,— Spread wide with invitation to all debonair years the Johns Hopkins Univer- eightieth anniversary of the birth The daring crocus, unafraid to lands,— As dawn,'mid wrinkled Matres of old try Where now the eager people yearn sity has supplied more leading sci- of Sidney Lanier, the poet of the lands (When Nature calls) the Febru- to find Our youngest Alma Mater modest ary snows,— The organizing hand that fast may entists than any other university, Johns Hopkins University, a 'mem- stands. And patience' perfect rose. bind In four brief cycles round the punc- Thus she is today passing through a pe- ber of the faculty as lecturer on sped with helps of love and toil Loose straws of aimless aspiration tual sun and thought, fain riod of gravest travail," is the gen- English Literature during the years Has she, old Learning's latest daugh- Thus forwarded of faith, with hope In sheaves of serviceable grain,— ter won thus fraught, Here old and new in one. eral theme of an article in the 1879-80 and 1880-81. Although This grace, this stature, and the fruit- In four brief cycles round the strin- Through nobler cycles round a richer ful fame, gent sun sun, Johns Hopkins Alumni Magazine Edgar Allan Poe was a Baltimore Howbeit she was born This youngest sister bath her stature O'er-rule our modern ways. Unnoised as any stealing summer for January by Dr. Charles Keyes. Poet, he lived long before Hopkins won. 0 blest, Minerva, of these larger days morn. Nay, why regard Call here thy congress of the great "When that eccentric German From far the sages saw, from came into existence. James Russell far they The passing of the years? Nor made the wise, philosopher came nor marr'd The hearing ears, the seeing eyes,— Nietzsche once de- Lowell once gave a series of lec- And ministered to her, By help or hindrance of slow Time Enrich us out of every farthest cime clared that the university should Led by the soaring genius'd Sylvester was she: Yea, make all ages native to our time, be mainly tures at this university, but he was That, earlier, loosed the knot great O'er this fair growth Time had no Till thou the freedom of the city shaped for the excep- a Newton tied, mastery; grant tional mind many of his compat- guest and not a member of the And flung the door of Fame's locked So quick she bloomed, she seemed to To each most antique habitant. riots were inclined to faculty. Lanier is the only recog- temple wide. bloom at birth, 0 Fame. denounce As favorable, fairies thronged of old As Eve from Adam, or as he from Bring Shakespeare back, a man and him as a visionary; and few edu- nized American poet to whom and blessed earth. not a name,— The cradled princess with their sev- cators on this side of the Atlantic Johns Superb o'er slow increase of day on Let every player that shall mimic us Hopkins can lay claim. eral best, day In audience see old godlike Aeschy- dared to give him serious consid- So; gifts and dowers meet And Hopkins is the only college Complete as Pallas she began her lus,— eration. With the profound To lay at Wisdom's feet, way; Bring large Lucretius, with unman!- leav- now in existence that cart rightfully These liberal masters largely brought Yet not from Jove's unwrinkled fore- ac mind,— ening of the World War and a ma- Dear diamonds of .their long-com- head sprung, Bring Virgil from the visionary seas terial loss of our own claim Lanier. He was a student at pressed thought, But long-time dreamed, and out of Of old romance,—Bring Milton, no national pro- Rich stones from out the labyrinthic trouble wrung, more blind,— vincialism," the article continues, Oglethorpe College and after grad- cave Fore-seen, wise-planned, pure child of Bring all gold hearts and high re- "we may well give serious heed uating became a tutor there, but Of research, pearls from Time's pro- thought and pain, solved wills foundest wave Leapt our Minerva from a mortal To be with us about these happy hills, to this savant's warning and sub- And many a jewel brave, of brilliant that college closed its doors soon brain. Bring old Renown ject his declaration to careful scru- ray, And here, 0 finer Pallas, long re- To walk familiar citizen of the town— after the Civil War, and although Dug in the far obscure Cathay main,— Bring Tolerance, that can kiss and tiny." Of meditation deep— Oglethorpe University has recently Sit on these Maryland hills, and fix disagree,— Gauging of intellectuality is no With flowers, of such as keep thy reign, Bring Virtue, Honor, Truth and Loy- been created Their fragrant tissues and their heav- And frame a fairer Athens than of alty,— longer a mere guess, but is ca- to carry on the name enly hues, yore Bring Faith that sees with undissem- pable of quantative mathematical it is an entirely new and different Fresh bathed forever in eternal. dews In these blest bounds of Balti bling eyes,— The violet with her low-drooped more,— expression. The redistribution of institution Bring all large Loves and heavenly from the one that har- eye Here where the climates meet Charities,— the one For learned modesty,— thousand leading scientific bored Lanier. It is interesting to That each may make the other's lack Till man seems less a riddle unto man The student snow-drop, that doth complete,— And fair Utopia less Utopian, minds, determined by the authori- note that the Lanier Professorship hang and pore And many peoples call from shore to ties of the Upon the earth, like Science, ever- Where Florida's soft Favonian airs twelve main branches beguile shore, of American Literature at the pres- more, The world has bloomed again, at Bal- of science, "bids us to weigh anew And underneath the clod doth grope The nipping North,—where Nature's ent timore, the claims of Nietzsche." Oglethorpe is held by Profes- and grope,— powers smile,— Baltimore, 1880. Ten years ago sor James C. Routh, who received at the end of the Johns Hopkins' second generation both his A. B. and his Ph. D. from SIDNEY LANIER IVY TO BE the nation was immensely im- MARKED BY JUNIOR CLASS Johns Hopkins. pressed by the fact that this uni- Lanier's lectures at this Univer- Ivy Originally Planted by Class of 1915. versity furnished twenty-five per sity became the basis of Only Living Monument at cent. of the leading scientific his Homewood. "Science of English Verse," per- minds, 245 "starred" men of the When Sidney Lanier was in- 1000 being Hopkins haps his most important contribu- men. Now, at terred in the Turnbull lot in the beginning of our third genera- tion to scholarship, a fresh and ad- tion, there has "apparently Greenmount Cemetery his friends devel- mirable discussion of the relations oped no material abatement of our of music and poetry._ They also planted at the foot of the grave a creative productivity." resulted in his .'English, Novel,- a stalk of ivy, a token to the mem- Eighty per cent. of the 1000 "starred" men are closely less valuable but stimulating and ory of that noble writer still alive identi- fied with six interesting piece of literary criti- institutions. "As if in the hearts of the millions of still farther to emphasize this fea- cism. He was quite capable of dis- people who have read his works. ture of excessive concentration al- cussing the relations of music and most one-half of the leading Through all these winters and minds Poetry, for he had won fame as a belong to only two institutions— summers this ivy has lived as has musician as well as a poet. He was the Johns Hopkins and Harvard. the memory of Sidney Lanier. connected with the Peabody Con- Of the new alignment of "starred" men servatory of Music as master of the Upon the completion of the of science there were produced by first flute. buildings at Homewood the class Pct. Sidney gave the last and of 1915 secured a cutting from the Lanier 1910 1920 Inc. ivy at the foot of the grave and the best of his strength to the Johns Yale University 37 75 100 Ilopkins University. In spite of planted it beside the west wall of Cornell Univ. 44 79 80 his bad health, which often necessi- Gilman Hall. No mark of any kind Columbia Univ 63 100 60 Chicago tated his lecturing from his chair, was'placed beside it and when the Univ. 80 113 40 Harvard Univ 79 190 140 he was a hard and diligent scholar gardner planted several other Johns Hopkins U 245 243 0 and story told stalks near it many were unable teacher. There is a Our Alma Mater maintains un- to identify the original plant. At 0f him that relates how on one oc- disputed supremacy in eight of the casion he came to a social function present Dr. French is the only twelve branches of science, while directly from a lecture room, not one at Hopkins who knows the ex- Harvard holds precedence in the remaining haying had time to straighten his act stalk which was planted in four departments which RESTING PLACE OF SIDNEY LANIER she has wrested from Hopkins in hair; to arrange his tie, or to even memory of Lanier and he will not ten years. remove the chalk dust from his fin- disclose the location of this ivy "There is, however, the reverse gers. ungrateful to Lanier's memory is The only memorial vine or tree at until there is a tablet placed to He gave to the University side of this pleasing picture. If the luost unjust. A bust of Lanier is Homewood is an ivy climbing the it- one notable poem—the "Ode to mark the spot. It is the plan of statistical tables presented mean in the very shrine of Hopkins, the west wall of Johns Hopkins." He wrote it for Gilman Hall. It was the class of '23 to present such a anything, they indicate by no un- et,trance to Gilman Hall, the most planted on the class day of the the Gommemoration Day, Febru- tablet this spring, thereby perma- mistakable token that the Johns honored and sacred spot at Home- Class of 1915 in memory of Sidney nently marking the dedication of Hopkins has already arrived at the ary 22, 1880. As the University wood, the place the tablet to our Lanier, the cutting from which it turning point in her hitherto un- ‘214S opened to students in 1876, soldier dead was erected. The Eng- was started the class of '15. his having been taken from approachable career." President was the fourth Commemora- lish Literature Room—the Dono- Lanier's grave in Greenmount tb Although there are many tab- Goodnow rightly asserts that we °11 Day, and marked naturally van Room—is now used for the Cemetery. As this ceremony took lets and other forms of inanimate are in the midst of a crisis, that of ab°11t the end of the University Biology Laboratory. As soon as a place before the University moved objects at Hopkins dedicated to a deluge of undesirable and medi- Period of trial. new building is erected, however, to its present home, it may fairly be a ocre attendance, a condition which The charge, made a few months this room • will be restored great men, this stalk of ivy, the and the said that the first memorial of any s felt throughout the country. by a correspondent of a Bal- bronze tablet to Lanier, whith has established memorial to Lanier, is the only kind at Homewood was "Nothing so strongly attests the Illore daily, that Hopkins has been been removed, will then be replaced. tribute to Sidney Lanier. living monument to any notable. Continued on Page 2, Col. 3 THE JOHNS HOPKINS NEWS-LETTER, JANUARY 31, 1922

DRAMATIC CLUB TO INTERESTING LECTURE ON LIQUID TRIALS FOR DEBATING TEAM TO News-Letter AIR BE HELD The Johns Hopkins CHANGE PLAY 1897. Instead of having a regular lec- Tryouts for positions on Varsity' FOUNDED Captain Jinks Discarded. Role of Ame- lia Found Difficult to Fill. ture last Friday the class in Phys- debating team, which is to partici- Subscription $2.50 The Dramatic Club has changed ics I was entertained by Dr. Rob- pate against Washington and Lee December 3, 1909, at the Postoffice at Entered as second-class matter the play for its major production ert Wood with a lecture on liquid and North Carolina in the annual Baltimore, Md., under Act of Congress, November 3, 1879. which is to take place the second air. Dr. Wood first explained the Triangular Debates, will be held on Published semi-weekly from October to June by the students of Johns Hopkins University. week in March. For the third time method used in manufacturing .February 8. The subject to be Business communications should be addressed to the BUSINESS MAN- Miss Walter, the coach, has at- liquid air and then performed ex- used for the trials is the same one AGER, JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY; all articles and other communications should be sent to the MANAGING EDITOR. tempted to produce "Captain periments showing its properties. as was used in the Junior-Senior Telephone Homewood 100 Jinks" and for the third time she By immersing a coil of small wire debate: "Resolved, That the United has failed to find an "Ethel Bar- in the liquid air its rigidity was so States should own and operate coal Editor-in-Chief: Business Manager: H. DOUGLAS COTTON,'22, FREDERICK W. LIPPS, '22. rymore to fill the difficult role of increased that it did not extend mines." Managing Editor: Aurelia." when a weight was hung on it. To The debates are to be held on WILLIAM H. MOORE, JR., '23 boil the liquid it Circulation Manager: All during the summer Miss air was necessary March 4, and each college is to be Assistant Managing Editor: GLOVER P. FALLON, '23. Walter and members of the Dra- only to pour it into a container and represented by two teams. Hop- J. HUDSON HUFFARD, '23 matic club read numerous plays, place on a block of ice. Although kins is to uphold the affirmative Associate Editors: ELI FRANK, JR., '22. Advertising Manager: but were limited in their selection the temperature of the air was side at Washington and Lee and DONALD K. VANNEMAN, '23. CHARLES C. MARBURY,'22. by the number of female charac- somewhere around 180 degrees the negative at North Carolina. Junior Editors: ters cast in each. The plays which Centigrade, Dr. Wood took some The subject has not been definitely Assistant Business Managers: CRAIG E. TAYLOR, '24. received consideration were Strife, of it in his mouth. He explained decided. BERNARD C. HEARN, '23. JOSEPH S. LEOPOLD, '24. JOHN C. LEWIS, '23. "The Great Adventure," "The afterwards, however, that he was RIGNAL W. BALDWIN, JR., '23 FITZGERALD DUNNING, '24. not RANDOLPH NORWOOD, '24. Voyse Adventure" and "The addicted to the use of liquid air "PLAYSHOP" PRESENTS COMEDY T. REESE MARSH, '24. as a beverage. Witching Hour." These plays The new dramatic organization, considered, were read, reread, known as the Homewood Playshop, stitutions ; the college alumni Member of Southern Intercollegiate Newspaper Association: cast, recast and discarded. composed of students, alumni and se- should have some representation, Finally "Captain Jinks" was faculty members, plans to give its and the faculty should have ade- Printed by The Read-Taylor Co., Lombard and South Sts., Baltimore, Md. lected, the "dramatic personae" first production on March 24-25. quate jurisdiction." "This is in- chosen and work was started on Four performances will be given deed the main lesson of the new BALTIMORE, MD., JANUARY 31, 1922 the production. It was soon found, on these two days at the Vagabond statistics rendered available by however, that in order to present Theater. The program will prob- Professor Cattell's redistribution a more perfectly finished produc- ably consist of three one-act plays tion it would be necessary to cut of American men of science." with musical interludes. SIDNEY LANIER down the cast to a smaller num- "Yes! The Johns Hopkins is to- The activities of the Playshop are ber. This, of course, placed "Cap- day passing through a period of well under way. A club meeting tain Jinks" in the discard. In paying tribute to the memory of Sidney Lanier, Johns Hop- grav'est travail. Will she resolute- was held in the Barn last Friday The new play which has been night. included ly and manfully face the facts, re- The program kins honors not merely a true poet—the only poet of distinction selected, fulfills the requirements, musical selections by the Playshop verse partly her present policy and calling for few female parts. The orchestra, under the direction of whose name is linked with that of this University—but also a man of cast was announced just previous continue as the one really nation- Jules L. Simonivitz. great nobility and purity of character. His name was happily chosen, to the examinations. Two rehears- al university in our land? Or, will After the musical numbers, "En- als have been held to date and ter the Hero," a comedy playet by for different as his fate was from the lot of that Sir Philip Sidney, she seemingly as of late, drift on now that exams are over, work amid the flotsam and jetsam of an Theresa Helburn, was presented. whom all Europe mourned as the flower of knighthood, his cour- will be carried on in earnest. An informal dance brought a close inherited provincialism, and su- The business manager of the to the evening. ageous and cheerful struggle against poverty, weakness and evil Dramatic Club hopes to obtain pinely surrender her undaunted days is stamped with the same chivalry. either the New Lyceum or the Au- leadership "Calliope," the article NOTICE ditorium in preference to the Ly- concludes,"most honored and gra- It is not easy for us, a half cen- mosphere of the new university ric as a place in which to hold the cious of the muses, takes her The Beta Theta Pi fraternity turly later, to realize how evil easy and natural. He worked with lay. plume in hand to write the an- announces the pledging of Robert those days really were, though onthusiasm and, when his physical swer." Hopkins, '25. we are in the midst of a some- weakness is taken into account. HOPKINS SCIENTISTS LEAD what similar post-war period of with results little short of aston- Continued from page 1, The Johns Hopkins reconstruction. The Civil War ishing. Gilman, who was above all claim in university effort that it is quality rather than quantity which wiped out with one stroke all things a good judge of men, es- is telling and worth while." University f Lanier's high hopes for a schol- teemed him highly and urged his Three crises, the financial, the educational and the intellectual, arly career to be begun with study appointment when some of the coming together aggravate an al- FORTY-SIXTH YEAR OF INSTRUCTION, 1921-22 abroad, and forced him to under- trustees, doubting the adequacy of ready difficult situation. "The last mentioned is all the more serious take his life in a lawless and sor- Lanier's previous training, were INSTRUCTION because of the fact that we already GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. Degrees: Master of Arts; Doctor reluctant to add him to a faculty of did period of our . history, when goar to such lofty heights." "It of Philosophy. will surely take determined effort e-v en the strong and fortunate must Remsens and Gildersleeves. The MEDICAL SCHOOL. Degree: Doctor of Medicine; courses for physicians. to return to the high mental plane COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. Degree: Bachelor of Arts. Nvisdom of Gilman's recommenda- have found it hard to live for their bf other days." DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERING. Degrees: Doctor of Engineering; Master of Another problem is the contrast ideals. Yet he followed his star tion was made clear in the brief Engineering; Bachelor of Engineering; Bachelor .of Science in Chemistry. between city and country minds. SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND PUBLIC HEALTH. Degrees: Doctor of Public Health; and fought the brave fight that cul- time that remained to Lanier for When it was once noted that city Doctor of Science and Bachelor of Science in Hygiene; Certificate in i (Is no longer dominated the na- Public Health. minated when he dictated the last work and study. tion it was thought that the fig- COLLEGE COURSES FOR TEACHERS. Degree of Bachelor of Science. lines of Sunrise in a veritable race No better evidence of the whole- ures had about reached the bot- SUMMER COURSES. Accepted for degrees of Master of Arts, Bachelor of Arts tom but the .decline still goes on. or of Science. Also for graduates in Medicine. with death. Every member of hearted loyalty with which he gave Baltimore has scarcely half a hun- EVENING COURSES in Business Economics and for Technical Workers. johns Hopkins University, young to the University that remnant of dred men of science, while sparse- ly settled Iowa has ten times that et- old, who strives for lofty aims his life can be offered than the ode number. Iowa has furnished more JOHNS HOPKINS PRESS PUBLICATIONS. STATE BUREAUS: Geological Survey; Weather Service; Forestry. amid discouragements may take which we reprint on another page. Hopkins-bred "stars" than Balti- fore itself. The reason for the suc- heart, remembering Sidney Lanier. At a time when every ounce of his BUILDINGS cess of this prairie state may be GILMAN HALL—general library, class rooms, biology, administration. Uni- strength was precious and when Although he belonged to the found in President Eliot's words: MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING—housing also Physics and Col- "The country breeding gives vigor Chemistry. versity for little more than two Lanier had proved that what Ile lege and an endurance which in the CIVIL ENGINEERING—housing also Geology. wrote had a money value, he wrote years, Lanier entered fully into the long run outweigh all city advan- POWER HOUSE. this poem for the fourth commem- tages and enable endowed country AND PLANT Greenhouses and Garden. spirit of those spacious days that BOTANY PHYSIOLOGY—with Botanical oration day as his tribute to Johns boys to outstrip- their city compet- CHEMICAL LABORATORY—for graduate work. mark the beginning of higher edu- itors." PHYSIOLOGICAL BUILDING. Hopkins. Every Hopkins man who Few are the universities in cation in America. The Peabody ANATOMICAL LABORATORY. lacks devotion to honor of his uni- which there is not room for intel- HUNTERIAN LABORATORIES. graduate Library had been his versity may take shame to himself, lectual betterment. To accomplish PATHOLOGICAL LABORATORY. this betterment "university alum- SCHOOL OF HYGIENE. school, and he found the step from remembering Sidney Lanier, the ni should be in majority on the CARROLL MANSION—Johns Hopkins Club. it into the somewhat rarefied at- poet of Johns Hopkins. boards of trustees of all these in- STUDENT ACTIVITIES BUILDING. THE JOHNS HOPKINS NEWS-LETTER, JANUARY 31, 1922

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HONOR SYSTEM EXPLAINED TEN YEARS AGO AT J. H. U. SOCIAL SCIENCE CLUB ACTIVITIES ORIGIN OF THE Y. M. C. A. The Medical Standard Book Co. February 1, 1912. AT PRE-EXAM ASSEMBLY AT GOUCHER The Y. M. C. A. was founded in (THE BOOK MART) Football schedule for fall_ an- The Dean Urges Co-operation on Part "The Hopkins Social Science England by Sir George Williams Complete Stock of of Students. Prof. Christie Speaks nounced and includes Navy, Stev- Club is co-operating most beauti- (1821-1905), a merchant of Lon- Medical Books and College on Tau Beta Pi. ens, Swarthmore, St. John's and Requisites luny with us." So said the presi- The assembly on Thursday last V. M. I. don. 'Williams' organization grew dent of the Goucher College Eth- in Fine Books was devoted to the "Honor Sys- -year men out of meetings he held for pray- Importers and Dealers Sophomores defeat first ics Club, at a meeting held last tem." The attendance was rather meet, 56-13. 301 N. CHARLES ST. in track -Wednesday night in the college au- er and Bible reading among his IC poor until word spread around the Baltimore, Md. Baseball practice starts in cage. ditorium at Katherine Hooper Hall. fellow-workers in a dry goods campus that the Dean was taking • FIVE YEARS AGO On this occasion, the Goucher shop in London, and was founded the signatures of those present and February 1, 1917 Ethics Club, acting in conjunction in 1844. In 1824 David Neismith. then an avalanche of students, frorri B. Russell Murphy chosen coach with the Hopkins Social Science who also founded city missions in trembling freshmen to seniors, wise of football team, and general ath- Club, had succeeded in obtaining London and Glasgow, started the and learned, came trooping into the letic director. a very prominent speaker, Mr. Glasgow Young Men's Society for hall. THREE YEARS AGO Dr. Latane gave a fiery and February 1, 1919 Norman Angell. Mr. Angell is a Religious Improvement, a move- be straight - from - the - shoulder ad- Hopkins R. 0. T. C. re-estab- world-famous English economist, ment which spread to various a-tteri lished. m ES. OSCAR dress on Honor System. He said whose books have been translated parts of the United Kingdom. ak . H.& Dr. Murray P. Brush resigns his OWNERS that the system originated among lan- France and position as Dean of Faculty. into more than seventeen America; later the )•trig ril)k1;* colleges at the University of Vir- ?•44)rP6.."" Cotillon Board organized. guages. His address was on name was changed to the Glasgow 29 Baltimore St., East ginia in 1834, and after slow of Light St. Hbpkins Orchestra established. "America's Foreign Policy and Her Young Men's Christian Associa- One Door West growth through Southern colleges SOLE AGENTS FOR BALTIMORE Sophs win annual rush. Daily Life." tion. For College Fraternity Bands it is becoming generally adopted at (Greek Letter Societies) other institutions. The system has its entire senior class subscribe to worked wherever it has had the ST. DAVID'S prevailing opinion of students be- the code of ethics. The Chas. Willms Surgical hind it. He suggested that Hopkins adopt Protestant Episcopal Church Instrument Co. The Dean declared that the trou- a code of honor, which should be N. W. Corner OAKDALE ROAD and ROLAND AVE. 300 N. HOWARD ST., Baltimore, Md. endorsed by all students, who SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS ble at Hopkins is that the students Roland Park Microscopes and Supplies, do not feel the social solidarity would live up to the letter of the Stethoscopes code just as men in other profes- REV. DR. THEODORE CLINTON FOOTE, Rector Blood Lancets which is necessary for the success Blood Counters sions. He emphasized the fact that SUNDAY SERVICES of such a system. "The vital point 8 A. M.—Holy Communion c I the Honor System is that the a student might put something over 11 A. M.—Morning Prayer and Sermon J. H. Furst & Co. individual student must take upon on himself but not on the profes- 8 P. M.—Choral Evening Prayer himself the enforcement of the sor by cheating, and that his after Philological and Printers of principles that such a system pro- life will show the effects of it. Works Scientific motes," he said. "It does not as- HANOVER ST. If an Accident Occurs 23 S. sume that every man in college is The Episcopal Church of Baltimore, Md. honest, but it is the prevailing sen- And Medicines and Dressings are required St. Michael and All Angels or other Real timent among the students." The Pharmaceutical Service is Needed speaker said that the majority of ST. PAUL and TWENTIETH STS. THINK OF Why Not students, however, will not raise a Wyatt Brown, D.D., Litt.D., Rector finger to enforce their own law. The Holy Communion at 7.30 Hynson, Westcott and Dunning Student Council is a judicial body, Young Men's Bible Class, 9.30 but it is up to students to enforce TWO STORES: "Walk Over" the laws made by it. Morning Service, 11 o'clock Evening Service, 8 o'clock Charles and Franklin Sts. Eutaw Place and North Ave. Hopkins, the Dean pointed out, Mt. Vernon 890 Madison 405 Shoes is handicapped, however, because Special Invitation to Hopkins Students it lacks a hOrnogeneous group of 17 E. Baltimore St. students living on the campus •as a compact social body. Because of the absence of dormitories, the stu- Printers of the dent body is widely scattered over Johns Hopkins News-Letter the city and they do Apt feel the re- spOnsibility of a college man who lives on the campus. It is the duty of the college to turn out not only investigators, scientists and men of learning, but also a better class of citizens, and the college cannot put its stamp on men who are not in for fair play. The Dean declared that it is the duty of every college man, there- fore, to play square and the man who refuses to report on another, In Medicine 'm41140 I who is cheating, is just as much in the wrong as the cheater. TINEN you get out into the medical world, you'll find College Literature He proceeded to sound a final doctors are judged by something more than diagnostic ability and note of warning about observance knowledge of their subject. The at- mosphere of success plays its part—the evidence LOMBARD and SOUTH STREETS that you of the Honor System in the coming have 'arrived." And among the little details that indicate examinations, and .concluded by de- success, there's the habit cf preferring claring that man's most precious SHOES possession on earth is his moral fir rectitude. "Look any man in the face UNIVERSITY MEN without being ashamed. Don't sacrifice your moral rectitude or For Sport Wear For Dress you are a lost soul, miserable on Smart Styles—Best Leathers this earth and in the hereafter." Moderate Prices Dr. Latane then introduced Dr. elac 1.9 "The One Cigarette World A. G. Christy, of the Engineering Sold the Over School, who explained to the as- WYMAN Remember that Melachrino is a masterblend sembly the Tau Beta Pi Fraternity. of the finest Turkish Tobaccos as originated 19 W. LEXINGTON ST. the honorary fraternity of by MiltiadesMelachrino. Egyptian cigarettes the En- are simply those that originated in Egypt. gineering School, similar to the But the tobacco is what you want to know- SO-LO Phi Beta Kappa Fraternity of the about —and if it's Melathrino— it's right. Sweet and low, sweet and low, Academic School. A chapter of this Are the (Trades that come to national organization was organ- me; ized at Hopkins last year. Low, low, too darn low Dr. Christy then proceeded to ad- To acquire my credits three. dress the students on "A Code of In the morning mail the fated Honor for Hopkins." He spoke blow of the code of ethics of several pro- The yellow slip for me— fessions, especially of engineers, Below, below, the prof. lectures telling that all of the latter profes- low sion had to subscribe to an estab- Sleep, thou foolish one, sleep thou lished code and that Hopkins had foolish one, sleep.—Froth. set a precedent last year by having