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trusting, perhaps, but uncertain, step
away from home, out into the fullness of
self-dependence among strangers. One
begins to catch a glimpse of one’s own
limitations. Estimates of human nature
change. One comes to learn not only
the selfishness and the littleness, but also
the breadth and nobility of others and
of one’s self. I despise the word “Life
work,” because it is so shiny, so thread-
bare from trite usage. But yet, in col-
lege, more than anywhere else, the vista
of the future slowly but surely unfolds.
And who will say that there is not a
noble seriousness in the intense expec-
tancy with which each one peers into
the coming unknown?
College is not wholly comedy. There
is a thread of tragedy in it all. College
diversions and jokes constantly change.
Yale Sixty-Nine used to cut all the but-
tons off the coat of every policeman
who came on the Campus. Consequently,
now, when two jolly policemen are
stationed regularly on the campus, and
are the best of friends with all fellows, a
modern “policeman” joke would fall
pretty flat to an old Sixty-Niner. But
college effort, college ambitions, college
hopes do not change. They are ever-
living in the college, as well as in the
outside world.
It is to this more serious, more per-
manent side of college life, that Miss
Daskam’s “Smith College
(Charles Scribners’ Sons, New York)
unconsciously draw and hold attention.
She attempts a complete picture of Smith
and the ten stories are redolent through-
out with the atmosphere of a delight-
fully serious college world of young
women. Nevertheless, when one has
closed the book and allowed the several
pictures to lodge in their chosen places, it
- is such stories as “A Case of Interfer-
ence’ ‘and .."A’* Family Aflair’ hat
eclipse all others in depth and truth of
insight into human nature. At last here
is a writer who can create a college
character that trembles with the anxiety
and hope, joy and disappointment, which
thrill and oppress earnest college men
and women everywhere. With one
stroke of the pen she reveals the inten-
sity of yearning of a brilliant but lonely
and disappointed girl. Her own words
best express my meaning: “Under her
touch the haughty, solitary figure.of a
scarcely known girl melted away before
them, and they saw a baffled, eager,
hungry soul that had fought desperately
and was going silently away—beaten.”
The simple diction, the inexpressible
longing, the deep but tender pathos, the
sadness of it all, place this story far
above the ordinary. It is a true picture
of life, wherever men and women strive
and suffer disappointment. In the book
this story ends happily. but that is a
play to the galleries; for in real life—
college life—there is very little inter-
ference in social honors. The popular
still are popular and the lonely geniuses
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are neglected. Afterwards, at the Tri-
ennials and Decennials things may re-
adjust themselves somewhat, but in col-
lege the spoils belong to the apparent
victors.
In the contrast between the poor re-
tiring, talented Susan, and the tart, socia-
ble, wealthy Sue, in “A Family Af-
fair,’ Miss Daskam shows her greatest
promise.
will add something of permanent note to
American literature. One who has the
grasp of human nature—its hopes and
fancies, its sorrows and _ indefinable
yearning, its joys and ecstasies, — to
paint this scene; “Belated children were
hurrying home; now and then groups
of college girls, fresh-cheeked from their
quick walk, swing by in haste for supper
and their evening engagements. Over
her heart, hungry and misunderstood,
there passed a sudden flood of passionate
longing for one hour of unconscious,
happy comradeship with homes and girls
like these; one hour of some one else’s
-—-anybody else’s—life; one taste of de-
pendence on another than herself’’—one
who has such power, I say, will give
America something broader and more
far-reaching than college stories if she
remains true to her literary trust.
Other phases of college life are treated
with less success. “The Evolution of
Evangeline” is a would-be satire on the
girl who succeeds with surprising ease. .
The author, however, disregards the
latent, undeveloped ability that there is
in hundreds of apparently stupid college
girls, when they enter college. This is
an unjust caricature on Smith. A real
Evangeline of this type would be in a
garret on Nowhere Street, until she grad-
uated, unless she did really possess na-
tive talent. The author would do well
to let satire alone. Her pen splutters;
and, besides, it’s a stub. ‘“‘Miss Biddle
of Bryn Mawr,” is a lost opportunity.
The plot is so available for exciting
episodes and hair-breadth escapes from
detection, that it is disappointing to see
the whole affair go off on tiresome
schedule time. The story should be re-
written before the second editidn ap-
pears.
As a fascinating story, skillfully told
in all its details, “The Emotions of a
Sub-guard” would probably be the most
popular of any in the book. It has a
dash, a swing, an expectancy, and yet
a succession of surprises that are pecu-
liarly pleasing. It is well for the sale
of the book that this is the first story in
the volume, for if the last one, “The
End of it All,” were first, that would
be the end of tt all.
‘The cleverest bit of realistic work I
have seen among college stories is “The
Education of Elizabeth.’ In other
stories of these ten, one feels now and
then an artificial coloring, a straining for
effect, a hot-house heaviness, that does
not go well with outdoor freshness and
the robins and the call of Spring morn-
ings to the sleeping buds. However, in
this story, to the actors themselves, col-
lege is a serious piece of business, but
to the on-lookers a farce-comedy. The
anxious, solicitous parents; the intense,
over-wrought, idealistic daughter; the
desperate young man, in love, of course;
the kindly matron, who knows every-
body’s affairs better than her own—they
all stand out as distinctly as a gnarly
oak among willows. It is satire without
the sting. And yet one shifts uneasily in
one’s chair for fear of being hit because
it is so true to life.
As a whole, “Smith College Stories”
possess an excellence of literary work
altogether unusual and unexpected in a
volume of college stories. To be sure,
in the handling of mass scenes, as for
example, “At Commencement,” the
author falls into mediocrity; not from
lack of ability, but because she does not
select concrete individualities from the
confused mass of a thousand chattering
girls—plus mothers, fathers, brothers
and other people. The story is a worse
ejaculatory confusion than commence-
ment itself. Besides it is lacking in
sympathy with those precious memories
of a last goodbye from college and col-
lege friendships.
_In the-analysis, or rather in the crea-
tion of character of a peculiar type—
characters that have not had the advan-
tages of tone, culture and refinement at
home; characters that are lonely,
through ignorance of the simple ap-
proaches to friendship and yet that are
filled with a vague longing for com-
panionship and with intense ambition to
attain high ideals—such as Winifred
Hastings and Susan Jackson, Miss Das-
ae shown a depth of sympathy, a
aneiuiness of humor, a touch of
realism and, withall, an insight into
human motives and hopes that promise
I predict that, in time, she
an uncertain though brilliant future in
permanent literary work.
Maurice P. Gou Lp.
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about each reunion since graduation, in-
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