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White there is Life there's Hope.” vol. XLII NOV. 26, 1963. No. 1100. 19 Waar THIKTY-FIRST St.. NRW YORK. ar extra. after Lifes months fron sy ecats. twill be returned unless stamped and addressed No contribution accompanied by envelope The illustrations in Lure are copyrighted, and are not to be reproduced. Prompt notification should be sent by sub- scribers of any change of address. right for Presi- dent Roosevelt to dissemble his love for Colombia, but _ why did he * kick her down stairs? Was it irrepressibly necessary? Are there not more ways of grasping an opportunity than to seize it by the scruff of the neck, as a terrier does a and shake the life out of it? Of course, the psychological moment is not a thing to be trifled’with, but to drop on it bodily, and ery ‘Tonch-down !” seems hardly dignified. The Post alone has suffered many million dollars worth of damage to its feelings by the President's precipitation, and many other molders of public opinion feel sore. Lire is less hurt. There seems to have been undue haste in clutching at the isthmus, and if there was, that is mortifying; but there is consolation in the belief that no in- justice has been done to any interest that deserved to be respected. The right of Colombia to govern Panama seems not to be a very sacred right. ession is a habit, as revolution is, ral America. Venezuela and Ecuador seceded from Colombia long ago, and Panama has tried to secede more than one If she succeeds this time, she will supply her own misgov- ernment instead of having it furnished Brening “LIPE* by Colombia. That will be more satis- factory to her, and civilization will be a gainer in that the canal will be built, and the French company will get the money, out of which Colombia seemed disposed to cheat it. These last are good ends and fit to be achieved, but they are more important to Panama and the French company than to us. We are not suffering so much for lack of an isthmian canal as to warrant us in getting a canal site by any sort of predatory means, The defenders of our course say that we have kept within our treaty obligations and done nothing for which there was not due warrant. Let us hope so. If the methods turn out to be defensible, thore is nothing to object to in the results so far as indicated at present. At this writing, however, it still remains to be seen what the effect of Panama's secession will be on Colombia, f | YWENTY-THREE women deans of the leading coeducational uni- versities of the West, who met in conference at Evanston, Ill., on No- vember 4th, are reported to have agreed that coeducation as worked out at present in many colleges isa menace tothe American home. The trouble, $s these lidies found it, seems to be that the girl,students, living in big dormitories, got too much accustomed to an independent bachelor life. One dean sai¢ Every young woman student in an educational institution ought to have a mother there as weil asoneat home.’ That seems like very good sense. Mothers are imperfect creatures, but it is a mighty poor mother that is not better for a growing girl than none. A first-rate boarding school is often a better place for a girl than her own home. The system of such a school makes possible some details of training that are bard to achieve at home. But no boarding school is first-rate which does not pro- vide successfully for mothering its girls. It was in this important de- partment of mothering that the women deans seemed to consider some of the coeducational institutions defective. The remedy they suggested was to do away with big dormitories, and house the girls in cottages. To dothat would be to borrow one of the good points of the good boarding schools, and to create something like home life for the girl students. Home life is primarily what girl students should be fitted for. For girls who intend to live in bachelor apartments, or even in boarding hous an experience of independent dormitot life may be valuable, but for girls who expect to make homes, and live in them, it isn’t. [HE football seacon came practically to an end on November ith with Princeton's victory over Yale. It has been a good year for tigers, both in politics and sport. The Yale-Harvard competition is still to come at this writing, but Harvard's defeat by Am- herst and Dartmouth has left the interest in the further achievements of her team somewhat faint. It has been a good year for football. ‘There have been some bad accidents, but not enough to raise any serious public out- cry. ither have there been inter- collegiate disputes of a sufficiently exclamatory character to engross pub- lic attention. Dartmouth had a negro player and took bim to Princeton, where his presence seems to have con- flicted with local sentiment. Notice was informally given that he would be put out of the game, and he was put out of the game, and the natural inference was that he was disabled because he was black. That wasa bad incident, but it belongs under the head of Race Troubles, and not of Football. The new rules were in force this year. They have not made much difference, but a large proportion of the players have survived the season. The game is asplendid game. Not the least of its advantages is the consolation it offers. to the parents of boys who are too small or too light to excel in it. Such parents, as they pay the annual bills for repairs on their sons, are gladdened by the thought that their boys can never play on the big college teams. comicbooks.com