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SPREADING BRITISH TRADITIONS
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passed out by the Hongkong University and to learn that the Imperial College of Science and Technology in London has accepted the University's
THIS MODERN POETRY
By The Sentinel
In one of Mr. John Galsworthy's, how romance brings up the 9.15.
a hoge carcass, a tall you can never get to the end of, and a tiny mouth, always nibbling at Life") a story is told to illustrate the modern craze for novelty in the arts.
B. Sc. degree. Shortly to Essays (that in which he likens Bat unquestionably the greatest of celebrate its majority, the Uni- | Literature to a "Diplodocus with all the now poets and the most versity, in spite of almost con- tinuous handicaps and in face of extraordinary difficulties, is as suredly justifying itself. Let us hope that it will enjoy a long and sturdy manhood and realise those dreams in which Its found- ers had such an unshakeable faith.
Troubled Ireland
The Very Idea!
YO-YO-HODDLE-HO!
By Edward Kelly, Yodeller. "Yo-Yo and a Bottle of Raspber- ry," he whimpered.
Influential is 1. S. Ellot, who is to the youngest poots of England as well as of America all that A. E. A correspondent auggested last Housman was to the generations, weck that Hongkong's B.Y.T.1. into whose soul entered the irony, should take up this great and novel of the Great War. He was born form of manly sport,, into the strictest rect of Bostonian Well do wo remember our first There was hold in London an exculture; his school of prosody was experiences with Yo-Yo. It was hibition of the works of a much- Milton; and he has now returned us who introduced Yo-Yo to Hong- discussed sculptor, which contain, to Harvard, having in fifteen years kong. Wo Yoeuxed-Yocuxed up moadows of and down Dea-Vo-Vo Road, follow. ad a number of sane and admirable spread through the ploces. Two young ladies, camelals and the Cam (yes and of the ed by a crowd of potential Yo- in one day, and fitted from flower Riv gauche and the Spree), a Yoors, and would have sold out our entire stock if the police to flower with a dissatisfied air, veritable epidemic of Ellotitis.
hadn't started interfering. till at last one of them caught of elliptical rhomboids which was is, rejected all the conventional aight of a vast seated assemblage Ho saw the modern world as it wooing the Public under the name prottinesses, resorted to spoken of Venus.
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•
Gilbert and Sullivan were the wero fascinated to such an extent arst exponents of Yo-Yo They that they wrote an Opera about spocch for an infinite variety of it. The fact that the San Carlo fresh rhythms. Yet much of his Company did not play "The Yo-Yo earlier verso is but unsonny Men of the Guard" can only be cleverness. Thus he makes the attributed to Jealousy. It is a sub- youngest of the Magi recall the feet that Offenbach himself might. dimeulties and discomforts of his well be proud of. star-led expedition:
A cold time wo had of it. Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long
journey;
The ways deep and the weather,
sharp,
Mr. de Valera, having failed to settle his one-sided quarrel with the Colonial Oflec, and alarmed by the signs of unity
Before this supreme novelty in opposition in the Free State, aho halted, if a butterfly can halt. has dissolved the Dail and forced "Oh, my dear," she said, "here she a general election, in which be-ial Here's the Vonus!" And put- foro January 24, the issue of a ting her head on one side, she add Republic may become pared: "Isn't she a pet?" She would amount. It his action is follow have said the same of Epstein's ed by the catablishment of at Genesia. shadow Republic, it will still be within the four walls of the new
Walt Whitman (who has never Empire Constitution. It will boon as highly esteemed in his own country as in ouro) 'made uso gratify the dream of an idealist,
of all such charter rights without but will not bring peace and asking permission of the critica.
The very dead of winter; prosperity in Ireland. Mr. de But he was able to create poetry
And the camels galled, sore. Valera is clearly a law unto him-with an elemental abandon like
footed, refractory, self. His policy is driving the
Lying down in the melting snow, Irish people into a state of de-
But he is made to forgot the apair. Discontent is spreading,
great star in the violat hour be. tempors are being frayed, hence
fore the dawn, and to be doubtful the disturbing reports of armed
whether it was birth or death he conflicts in the course of the America is constantly produc- | fourneyed so far to see. Others election campaign. The Fabian ing original poets whose full in- may behold "the night of stars" tactics of Mr. J. H. Thomas still fluence, proving that poetry is (one of the debased coins of above the squalld, leave the way`open for a peace-progressive art, is not felt until Imagery), ful understanding, provided Mr. a generation or two alter their splendid city, but this poet meets de Valera does not win this elec death. Edgar Allan Poe, who had the night-wind in a mean streat: tion and make his success the laira as Swinburne, and is still an as much to do with making Baude- reason for precipitating a crisis. Inspiration (with Edith Sitwell, But the outlook is sorry. Were for example), is the earliest ex- Britain dealing with normal peo- ample. ple, we should not be discour-
So, if those we love are gone for aged Mr. Thomas continues to
over, then we must engage in what exercise toleration and patience, Emily Dickinson calls the "solem- but reciprocity is not to be ex-nest of industries enacted upon pected unless the result of the earth": election ousts Mr. de Valern from the seat of power.
Artificial Hearts
primitive Nature's or like the mood of the wilderness winners ("there's nothing holding us"), whose trails he followed across the brink of sunset.
F
The sweeping up the heart And putting love away We shall not want to use again Until eternity.
* *
of having no message for the
Every street-lamp as I pass Beats like a fatalistic drum, And through the spaces of the
dark
Midnight shakes the memory As a madman shakes a dead,
geranium.
.
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At Home last summer, people did nothing but talk, eat, drink country like a storm. Patriotic and sloop Yo-Yo. It swept the Britons, instead of going to the Swiss Alps for their holidays, Yo-Yodelled at Home.
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Take the Eighteenth Amend- ment, multiply it by Magna Charta, and add the Nelson Monument, and you're getting on towards realising what Yo-Yo meant to Britain.
Trifles like Debt Payment, Mora- toriums, the Lytton Commission and the World War faded into the background.
It was not until the Tent Team arrived in Australia that the re- vulsion of feeling came. First of all there was the Nagel 'Incident, far rivalling the Saravejo incident in international significance. De- spite a rigid censorship the nowe leaked out that the Second Test had been lost.
stralia
The Lytton Commission was_GU- thorised to make a report, and an ultimatum was sent to Australia. By special resolution of the House Indeed.there was a danger that of Commons the Preference to Au- he himself would trample on
the Ottawa clauses in
The noctic conventions with a con- Agreement were abolished. ventionalism of his qwa and importation of Australian Yo-Yoes become one of the "hallow (sometimes called Boomeranga)
of his imen"
famous fantasy, was prohibited. whose dried voices aro mcat-
Amid uproar from the Tyneside
to something rich and strange:
And voices are
In the wind's singing
More distant and more solemn Than a fading star.
You had such a vision of the
atrect
significance was attached to the fact that shore leave had been stopped on all H.M. ships at Hongkong.
·
The death knell to Yo-Yoing was sounded when the following drama. tie announcement was issued in a Court Circular:
"His Gracious Majesty the King has decided to abandon' the tion of the Tests."
The revulsion was complete. Everywhere through the Kingdom people publicly burnt their Yo-Yoes, and a stockbroker caught "waking the dog" in Leadenhall Street was chased to the Embankment and forced to throw his Yo Yo into the Thames.
To seek truth, to know the worst inglons on "wind in dry grass or members, Colonel Fitzsudda moved We all feel a little alarmed as well as the beat of things, is rat's feet over broken glass." But the suspension of the Standing Those who have consistently about the Bolsheviks now and the chief ambition of the confessed now the secret splendour of living Orders to introduce a bill of at- Jardine on a count of high trenson. maintained that one of the best then. It used to be the Yellow modernist in poetry. He is not to triumpha over the visible squalor, tainder against Douglas Walter The Prime Minister admitted functions which the University peril that made our blood runbo confuted by the praiser of the of existence, and he becomes a mystical pqet apart like Paul of Hongkong can discharge is to cold, but now it is the Red peril. poetry that has been (in the senso Valery. He hears the dusty noises that the Cabinet took a very grave train young Chinese in engineer-Those formidable fellows, with modern world) who recites his of a sick civilisation simplified in-view of the situation. The utmost ing skill and make them avail- their unlimited supply of five-favourite passages in a. loud, year-plans, their fast-rising face fruity voice. As a truth secker, able for service in their
tories, their climination of the he must cast away the old portie country will welcome the an-
fallible factor from human na-diction: the decorative polysyll nouncements made yesterday by ture, and their other schemes ablos, which are opalescent on Sir William Hornell regarding for commanding the millennium paper, and all the worn similes. measures being taken for the are the force that we shall have and phrases and the imitations He will not forsake the meaner placing for student-apprentices to reckon with.
Now comes thereof, which have ceased to be streets in which life so mysterious- with big firms in England. The news that Russian scientists the symbols of living thought and ly ebbs and flows, flinging high its emotion. A poet like a philoso- foam of other-worldly thought interest which these firms are have devised a mechanical heart.pher. must devise his own ter and having a mystic rainbow bent practice of Yo Yo for the dura- ment shows that they have a when it shows signs of wear that pro cssed lovers of poetry there than "burnt-out ends of keen appreciation of necessities.ing out. You will perceive the have so long been used to the de-, smoky days" and compel you to There is, without doubt, room for seriousness of the menace that bused coinage that they think it admit: a very considerable expansion of we are up against. The Bol-the only genuine currency. the process.
The Liverpool shevik of the future, with his Modern poetry, they think, has China Committee's plan is also a full-proof brain, his bullet-proof gone off the gold standard. most admirable one-namely, heart,
his and the formation of a committee on stomach, will be invulnerable. America is rich, I am bound to
One of the new poets who seck which practical engineering em- He will bestride the world like admit, in modernist poqiry. Thus ployers throughout Britain will a Colossus, and will add to our the great cities of to-day walled new truth frst and last, ho will un-up to the skies and roaring like the find new beauty by the way. And sit for the purpose of securing confusion by uttering his
What are
sea, walk abroad in the verse of that, as always has been, will be offers of apprenticeships, details earthly language. of which will be forwarded to the our own inventors doing to pro- Carl Sandburg and others. Yet the final proof that his quest has University here. The scheme vide us with artificial hearts? they, too, like Kipling, can show us not been in vain.
Nothing. They cannot even goes even further, since the com- mittee will maintain contact with give us a workable elixir of life, apprentices already placed and rejuvenater, or recipe for per petual youth. It is still all too arrange visiis or short-term at-obvious that every one of us is tachments to other works. becoming older every day. Our These developments are all along scientists
determined the right lines, for they mean not to
move in the matter. that the student who goes from Perhaps they are too busy Hongkong will be able to pursue making gadgets for the scullery his practical studies in the finest or bathroom, as if that will ever British workshops and continue gave a decaying civilisation! to absorb his knowledge in a Other inventions there are which British environment. Not only are of still lesa usc. For exam- is he in this way sure of getting ple, our scientists have hit upon a thorough grounding In the an apparatus which will per- very best traditions of engineer, mit
recognise
sectri
to persons
food-proof
ing, but if he eventually finds objects with their eyes closed. employment in his own country Does anyone really want to do he will naturally carry with this? If we wish to sec, let us him these traditions and open our eyes. To enable us to with our eyes shut is distinct preference for British Hee
to put 蟲 premium, machinery. When we bear in surely
sheer laziness? If mind what a tremendous future on
n
any
there is for engineering develop part of the face is to be kept shut most of the time; ment in China, it is easy to
let it be our mouths. Incon- imagine the value of this tenceivable mischief is caused in the dency as the number of British-world by the premature, super- trained engineers increases.fluour or too-continuous open- Other nations, as we know, are ing of mouths; but opening.tko very much alive to the potentiali-
eyes seldom does anyone-harm. tics of the situation, and it is only by concerted efforts on the part of British centres of learn- ing and workshops that the British tradition spread of
can
be effected. Meanwhile, it is extremely gratifying to have such glowing tributes from Home of the student material
A THOUGHT FOR
TO-DAY
THERE ARE MANY DIVERSITIES OF VICE; BUT IT 18 ONE NEVER-PÄILING EFFECT OF IT. TO LIVE DISPLEASED AND DISCONTENTED.---S01004,
As the street hardly under
stands.
"Have you another bag just like this one? You sec, we're
twl na."
the
TO-DAY'S THRILLER. He waited patiently at top of the steps, in gloomy darkness, alert for any movement from behind the heavy curtains.
Suddenly, from Inside, a man's voice snarled:
"Hand it over, or I'll drill you!" Silence! A blood-curdling shrick! "Help! Help!!! Murderl The man by the stops atill waited -waited. Accustomed as he was to sounds and scenca of violence, he could not repress a shudder at that awful cry.
Scarcely had the echo died away when the curtains moved. Swiftly, he pulled them apart, and as deftly reclosed them behind the dark figure.
No words passed between them, but the unknown man handed him a paper. He hastily scanned it by the light of an electric torch and, beckoning the newcomer to follow, led the way, fashing a guiding light upon the stoop steps.
Stealthily they mounted higher "In and higher, until he halted. there," he whispered hoarsely. The
man squeezed past.
the sinster stranger in a safe hiding place.
No! Another late "Talklo" patron had been conducted to his Mont!
Had ho scercted
A SIMPLE STORY. Here in a story from our Kildaro cousins.
one of
Ho had asked a Dublin road- man how things were with him. "Well, sorr," was the reply, "whm I used to dig a car out of a ditch, they gave me a sovereign, and now they give me a ahilling. It'e those-English leaving the coup-
try"
"But you drove them out," pro- tented our counin. ""What if we did," he replied sourly; "they'd no right to go."