Norwich bulletin., 1919-02-28
CONNECTICUT COLLEGE

year, and the largest class affair to b. given during the college course. Gu rious looking framework is being put up in the gymnasium as yet undeco- rated, and a mysterious air pervadeS the whole place. The gym classes do Swedish exercises and folk dances to the sound of the hammer, tackinS up wire, and everyone wonders just what the decorafions are to be. Packages and packages of white. orange and black crepe paper and piles of boxes are discernable in the dormitories and to an anxious inquirer the answer is always forthcoming: There's for the hop.
 Parcel post is popular feature these days, just before the dances; dresses, slippers and other essentials being anxiously awaited; while in the evening a group of girls may be seen sewing on satin, silk or cheumeuse, of gay colors: putting stitch here, and something else there, hcE1ming or let ting down the hem, putting in maline CT taking 1t out. In fact wherever one goes, she is reminded of the com ing event; it's fine if You are , sopho more or a senior, but it's hard on the juniors and freshmen.
 Just to make things a bit exciting ] for themselves, the juniors will have 1 a class supper at a Chinese restaurant ! ] in New London on Friday evening. It 1 l has been rumored that a class mascot | 1 will make its appearance that night ! 1 but no one exactly knows what is go- l i ing to happen. Miss Edith l4indholIn 1 1 Of Middletown, president of the class, l l will act as toastmistress apd call on prominent members of the class to speak. Class songs will be sung and other features will make the supper q gay one. Following the supper the juniors will go to the movies and f. ! rally come back to campus and gaze in upon their college mates and try vainly to go to sleep while the or | chestra is playing Hindustan or 1 something just as bad frc1i the Ca nary. But at least there is the satis- faction in knowing that this years juniors will be next years seniors and 1 that last years sophomores are now this years juniors, and that each sTear has its recoppense for those that were. The campus is beginning 10 show signs of life with the coming of spring weather A party of trustees and a member of the college architects' firm have visited the college, and as if by magic stone is being quarrad and brought from Bolleswood to tha cam pus. Workmen are beginning 10 ap- pear on the grounds and blasting is f he heard daily. It IS expected thaN work will commence as soon as the frost is out of the ground sufficient for ground to be broken. The prospect of a new dormitory is . very pleasing one as it is a very material sign of , 1 the growth of the college, d fact which will always delight every college stu dent.
 : Students of the department of psy- cEology and philosophy, interested in psychological problems are arranging an informal gathering of students. to discuss such problems. The gather ing is a selective one and will be known IS the psychic circle' Mem ? bership in the circle has been limited ! to fifteen students under the leader t snip of Dr. Allen Thomas, instructor Of psycholoy and education at the ] college. Various phases of abnormal r psychology, insanity, criminology. ! psychiatry, effectiveness will be stlid jed and the more recent problems of f psychical research will be the feature of the group study.
 F The following students, members
 of the senior and junior classes, are charter members of a gathering which will in time undoubtedly be a perma = nent organization at the college: Flor ence Lennon, Hartford; Esther Batch 5 elder, Rocky Hill Alison Hastings, n Hartford; Leah Nora Pick, Chicago f H.; Elizabeth Naby, New Haven: f Mary Hester, Brooklyn, N. Y; Dorothy ' 1 Matteson. Meriden: Julie Hatch, New n Milford: Loretta Higgins, Norwich; - Rosa Wilcox, Norwich; Laura Batch
 elder, Rocky Hill; Marenda Prentis, l New London.
 r Dr. Louis Wilkinson, Q popular Ice : turer and English scholar, addressed
 
 e Q college assembly on Tuesday ere 1 ming. In the afternoon Dr. Wilkinson S spoke on Russia, and reviewed thor s oughly and interestingly the facts of Eussias condition today He. com pared Russia to America, saying that ill general appearance of landscape, n l quicllness of grasp, in alertneSA ir V their restlessness, nervousness. and . desire to know the truth. Russia re- n sembled America greatly He spoke e of Russia as Q land of extremes rarN. e iEg in history from the rcd terror tC It the white terror. Speaking Lf the ,f question of intervention he quo-cC e Lloyd George: If the government i,
 bad, it is @ matter for the people O e the country to decide, intervention t 1f a bad policy Intervention whe1 Ie there was danger of German occupa .e tion of Russia was a war measure hu intervention on any other ground i
 unjustifable. The speaker touched oI
 the Soviet gOvernnent now being trie( - out in the country and remarked tGa -o it was one of the most interesting eX periments that have ever been mad Ir For the Russian the revolution is th 0A only means of expression; from he past history she cannot be expected | - form liberal government; but tin
 solution must not come from the out
 side; it must come from their owl
 initiative.
 In the evening pr. Wilkinson spok
 on Russian literature, explaining tn
 Russian spirit bI examples from Tol
 stoi and Dostodvsky, Turgeniey an
 Checkov.
 Among the matters to be taken u
 at the next junior class meeting
 the matter of the Sykes Memoria
 The senior class have voted to tur
 over the $500 allotted for a nrize |
 be awarded annually to fG==u for
 library or chapel if the junior clas
 will vote to do the same. This wi
 mean fund of S1200 to stand on an
 to build on as alumni. The Syke
 Prizes have been awarded annual
 for the past two years for work {
 Shakespeare and in creative litera
 ture. The prizes by their nature ar
 1 restricted to a very few students ar
 it is thought best by the ma jority (
 students that they be dispensed wit
 The senior class at a recent meet
 ing took up the matter of having
 college pin or medal designed whic
 all students of the college would |
 entitled to wear. The matter will l
 voted upon by the entire student bod
 before it is adopted.