Class Day Number of Advocate Good and Shows Intelligence

The final issue of the Advocate contains the Class Day speeches and poems. Beside these, there are various excellent features by the regular contributors.

"Lucky At Games, Unlucky At Love," by F. A. Thompson '21, is the charming story of an 11-year-old American boy in France, while "En Route," by I. J. Williams, Jr., '20, is a vivid sketch of the American camion drivers in France, beginning at 3.45 A. M. It is evidently a very real experience.

E. B. B. and Mr. Williams have a debate on "Discipline and the R. O. T. C.," inspired by Colonel Applin's recent criticism. E. B. B., from observation of army schools, decides that punishments are not sufficiently severe; so he recommends hazing and bullying. Of course hazing and bullying have no more to do with real discipline than lynching has to do with justice; and Mr. Williams rebutts the first article very sensibly.

The Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize Poem, "Whither?", by Joseph Auslander '17, is a conventional piece of verse clothed in appropriate language. Occasionally his images, to use Dr. Johnson's phrase, "pass the bounds of Nature." But on the whole his lines are smooth and pleasing.

Mr. Auslander invokes "the high, unheeding heart of beauty" melodiously; then, with a sense of return to actualities we read "Runaway," by Malcolm Cowley. Here is poetry stripped of every decoration. The technique is clever, but concealed; and the whole interest is thrown on the psychology of the country boy running away to make his fortune in the city.

The Advocate is to be strongly congratulated on overcoming the difficulties of this year.