The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-28
College Boys And Girls Reveal Inner
 Feelings On Emotion

cent boys and girls with amused tolerance, if replies of local col lege group to a questionnaire sug- gested by the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America are criterion.
 Some of the answers to word reaction test" and another series of questions designed to probe into youngsters minds on matters of sex and marriage-revealed to- day, however, considerable prac- tical knowledge of matters which would have shocked the children"s grandparents. Neither the name of the Brooklyn college at which the test was taken, nor the identity of the students was revealed.
 On the word reaction test" in which the students were asked to say whether each word creates "disagreeable impression" such words as "sex," "joy ride" baby" sweetheart" "necking," might club" jazz" and thrill" failed to arouse even a flutter of disgust. On the other hand, most of the stu dents crossed out, as disagreeable, the words free love-" tilted" Carrie Chapman Catt," Ben Lindsey" birth control" "pro- fessional woman," unmarried mother" and flaming youth" The name of Anthony Comstock failed to provoke any feeling whatsoever.
 In a truth or falsity" test, a majority of the students decided that dancing is form of axer- else in which all young people ought to engage" and that "physi- cal intimacies and liberties tend to become license and naturally lead to sex indiscrimination." They agreed that betting is dangerous because it might lead to serious consequences" but denied that it Is "a vulgar practice in which de- cent people will not indulge"
 Tt calls up very disagreeable as- sociations to indulge promiscuously in experiences with men, unless the relationship between the boy and girl is founded on something genuine and substantial" was one girls reply to what is wrong with 'spooning ?"
 The same girl decided there was no harm in cosmetics if artistical- ly put on, and then defined pas sion" as purely sensual stimu- lant whereby pent-up energies find their necessary release"
 Low necks and short sleeves, this girl found. were bad" be- cause of "the provocative appeal which presents itself to a man, him to admire her be- cause of her body" Such clothing, she added. bears a potential prom ise of purple nights, consequently she will be surrounded by ardent wooers and thus is inflated beyond her own mental Limitations"
 But what" asked the question naire, If boy steals kiss?'
 "Bosh," says this modern girl. Every woman, though she may let the man believe he is making all the advances, is primarily leading him to do what she wants. Very seldom do We hear of kiss being stolen. It Is given willing ly in most cases, while the male believes he is stealing it."
 "The ony evil result from boy. 1s. found, lis that it arouses further desires, the extent of which is measured by his training and moral character, and tuC u66iC oAOooOo oh tAC PoA of the girl to maintain her purity"
 The same youth found modern dance steps dangerous. but thought that "proper" dancing aroused no emotions beyond those called into being by harmony and rhythm.
 ''Not having experienced a true love-" another wrote, Tit is hard to answer the question of whether love Is primarily a sex impulse" He agreed however. that from what he knew about it," sex couldn't be all there ewas to love.
 Love is that state of mind" an- other gravely defined the word, fin which he thinks continually of one girl, dreams consistently of her, feels a funny sinking sensation in the pit of his stomach (some say around the heart) when thinking of her, and feel great happiness when in her presence"
 And a majority of the boys and girls, after answering the questions 10 the best of their ability, admit ted that they talk these things over among themselves very frank y" but prefer not to disclose their to older people "who youldn't understand" :"