The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-16
The Lmst Largesse

AnG AeSt GAEEeSsG Spring love we missed; the wistful
 love, forgetful,
 That comes like fragrance on an
 April breeze,
 Or blue ng-flickers-fair and first
 and fretfpl- .ss
 Starlight above youths blind, in
 surgent seas; For all your spring was pitilessly
 haunted
 With strange and bitter phantom
 shapes, and mine Called but answered not, who walk
 ed enchanted
 And drugged with arts fastidious
 anodyne.
 We missed the pulses blory, we de- What time we met on summ err s
 dusty road;
 And then we knew red roses bloomed
 beside 1t,
 And laughing lords of life, as Gods
 we strode
 Sun-crowned, Dionysian 5hod with
 fleetness.
 Nor unripe doubt, crude fear, be-
 unused our eyes.
 Younger, we had not known our
 loves completeness
 Passion, and comrade sharing,
 mirth's surprise.
 May We go out, dear heart. when Of autumn blaze from hill to hid
 den glade.
 Scarlet and gold. the tall and pas
 sionate pyres
 Of earth's warm beauty, born to
 flame and fade!
 Age is unburied death, corroded rap ture
 Each watching each grow weak
 and wan and gray; Loves last largesse, ah, swiftly may we capture!- The sigh that-ends life's brave and s5 shining day.
 Is co-education failure?
 Not one writer of the many letters We have received on this subject agrees with H. G. Wells-who qulte unknowingly started the discussion by charAing as quoted Tn caples, Inas teachers, makes sissies of American boys. But, In letter from Fl. H.. there Is an argument against the woman teacher. She doesn't make them slssies, according to 'H. H." but -oh, well, here's the letter;
 education Is an advantage to the girl more than to the boy, put let the teacher be male. For the poy' after he gets the age of ten, or even eight. I believe 1t the part of wisdom to employ men as teachers, Not that the woman is less capable of impart- ing Information, nor that she turns hoy to a sissy-that Is hard task Sissies are@ born. not made. Ine danger comes from the natural anta- gonism. foundedeon sex, wnlch tne boys feels for the mature female III control of him. He pulls down the hlind." fuguratively speaking pe- tween his masculine self and all re- males, including his mother. He does this unconsciously, .nsunctlVely' .ror this reason, womon cannot be an efficient teacher of the youthiui na1e She does not know how TO iet him alone. but badgers him With ms directed displays of the maternal III stinct-a much over-rated Vil.ue Man know this underlying truth rom .ha axneriences of their own poy- hood hut all permit the same eouca tionaI methods in the case or thei, sons without protest. Pernaps tney naaiiza that na able, virile man wlli seiI h,. abillty for the inadequate pay aIiotted the instructors or youen This seems to us an ihteleI. .in1 viewpoint, but, as a gooo ien.a, ',n', we don't think the lnstihc'tse ,.n of the young male against woman should be encouraged. some women teachers, of course, are pad TOT oUy and bad for girls-because they re had teaehers. But the growing boy Miss Lily Byron Gill. head of the music department of the coilese, played as piano solo "Conceie Etude,r by Mcdowell. Miss jessie Mae Cannon played, Segudiila, oy Albernig. which was the openins