Judge — June 6, 1931 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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Omnia Mutantur, Nos et Mutamur in IIlis ATIN is no longer a sine qua non at L Y Certum est, quia impossi- bile est. You can now get your A. B. degree without ever know line of Latin. Years of protest from harassed and practical intellects have it last taken effect. Stillicidi lapidem cavat. We need not repes the ancient uments for and against. Nihil dictum quod non dictum prius. Our hat is off to the Y ulty, even though they did it : they had to. Laudem virtutis neeessi- tati damus. It was cither that or lose 1 lot of likely students. E) duobus What if it or so to get casus ily bee malis minimum eligendum., did t generation sround to it? quam, Standardized meet the Quod « num, Potius sero quam nun- education does not modern consumer demand, cibus est aliis fuat acre vene- The hard-boiled lads of tod. say life is too short for classical learn- in, Ars longa, vita brevis. are so often reminde the Age of Specialization. The all round man? We shall not. see more. Grammaticus, rhetor, tres, pictor, aliptes, augur, bates, medicus, magus, omnia novit. ‘To a red-blooded. hundred-per-cent what's the use of 4 guage or indeed of any len; > Ego sum rex Romanus, et supra grammaticam, Oh, well, it probably doesn’t matter much, Y men will still sell just ny bonds, marry just as many y debs, and join just as many country clubs. Si finis bonus est, to- tum bonut erit. is, as we rome- schoeno- Kansas Culture Not enough attention was paid to l the recent concert tour of the A Capella Choir of Southwest College, Kansas, Sixty lads and lasses with golden voices got into two motor buses ind traveled over 5,000 miles, giving JUDGE concerts in the big cities, including Chicago and New York. The mem bers of the choir have to practice an hour and a half « day throughout the year. But they are regular tes. The center on the foot- ball team is the student director. Th contralto soloist queen’ of the college. But the most impor- tant fact is that this choir is rated as of the three best in’ the United States. And it’s from an otherwise obscure college in was elected * whole zo was still rav- Indian warfare. fast has long since that only sixty years aged b The ceased to be the custodian of our culture. Poor Old Marriage Tue Nevada judze who hands out all divorces and who ¢ there asserts him ?—that it. Does anybody? From time to time we have an un- easy feeling that this wandering p ought to give a thought to this mar riage business, which we understand is of some importance to a lot of folks. We've never said much about it for the simple reason that we don't un- derstand it very well. Some days we think the shrewdest comment on it Tex “Marriage is carrying love just a little too far.” Other times we prefer the definition handed down from the bench : is a > of This seems « was Guinan’ air as any gen- erd picture of the prevailing situation in a world where millions of married women go out to work, where millions of men who can’t get jobs stay home do the cooking, where children ¢ their right to steer their own lives, where the moralities are all mixed up with the modernitie Churches ha tely been giving out pronunciamentos — on problems. marriage no two alike. Legislatures 13 have been revamping old laws. Whole Mexico and Russ trying out schemes. Authorities such as Bishop Manning ind Judge Lindsey have bee the subject. We are a lot ¢ have been new arguing informed that married couples, in the seni- privacy of home, have F little arguing, too, Of course the mat- ter will never be settled. One back over history and another at present customs among other r: than body that marriage most flexible issue in human affairs. There no eternal verities; only edicts and taboos. been doir our own should convine is just about the are “Go to Your Room” Arranes TLY Tap Day at Yale is doomed. ‘The Weekly calls it a “barbarous and juvenile public exhibition of bad taste mners.” Tt is senior secret so Alumni and worse 1 poin out that the eties have lost their original character and t the modern te-school polities and week-end 1 contacts have raised havoc with them. Now. their elections become an outdoor holi- day attended by large spectators—including m laughing in his frayed sl The same sort of criticism applies to fraternities and clubs in other col leges whose initiates are sent forth into the highways in strange garb to do silly antics. Youth has to blush often cnough anyway for the recollee tion of its natural exhibitionism, with- out giving to exhibitionism the sane tion of collegiate tradition. Nobody has much right to object to secret as- sociations of men, young or old, if they like that sort of thing. But whe the very secrecy of the association is made the for public display. then the of the community is given a license to hoot and howl. The proper admonition for every college society itself would be, “Go to your room—and stay there. R. J. W, crowds of townic excuse rest comicbooks.com