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passed out by the Hongkong University and to learn that the Imperial College of Sclonco and Technology in London
THIS MODERN POETRY The Very Idea!
By The Sentinel
YO-YO-HODDLE-HOI
By Edward Kelly, Yodeller. ry," he whimpered.
"Yo-Yo and a Bottle of Raspber-
has accopted the University's -In one of Mr. John Galsworthy's how romance brings up, the 9.15. B. Sc. degree. Shortly to Essays (that in which he likens But unquestionably the greatest of celebrate its majority, the Uni-Literaturo to a "Diplodocus with all the new poots and the most versity, in spite of almoat con- a huge carcass, a tail you can the youngest poots of England as Influential la 1. S. Ellot, who is to tinuous handicaps.and in face of never get to the end of, and a tiny well an of America all that A. E. A correspondent suggested last extraordinary difficulties, la ne mouth, always nibbling at Life") Housman was to the generations weak that Hongkong's B.Y.T.'s suredly justifying itself. Let us a story is told to illustrate the into whose soul entered the frony should take up this great and novel hope that it will enjoy a long and modern craze for novelty in the of the Great War. He was born form of manly sport. sturdy manhood and realise arts.
into the strictest sect of Bostonian | those dreams in which Its found- There was held in London an ex-culture; his school.of prosody was experiences with Yo-Yo. It was Well do we remember our first ers had auch an unshakeable hibition of the works of a much-Milton; and he has now returned us who introduced Yo-Yo to Hong- faith.
discussed sculptor, which contain- to Harvard, having in fifteen years kong. We Yocuxed-Yocuxed up ed a number of sane and admirablo spread through the meadows of and down Dea-Vo-Vo Road, follow- pieces. Two young ladies came Isla and the Cam (yea and of the ed by a crowd of potential Yo- in one day, and flitted from flower Hiv gaucho and the Spree), a Yoers, and would have sold out to flower with a dissatisfied air, veritable epidemic of Eliotitis. our entire stock if the police till at last one of them caught
hadn't started interfering. Mr. de Valera, having falled eight of a vant seated assemblage
Gilbert and Sullivan were the He saw the modern world as it first exponents of Yo-Yo to settle his one-sided quarrel of elliptical rhomboids which was is, rejected all the conventional were fascinated to such an extent They with the Colonial Office, and wooing the Public under the name prottinesses, resorted to spoken that they wrote an Opera about apooch for an infinito variety of it. The fact that the San Carlo Before this supreme aho halted, if a butterly can halt. earlier veras
novelty Fresh rhythms. Yet much of his Company did not play "The Yo-Yo "Oh, my dear," she said, "here she cleverness. Thus he makes the attributed to jealousy. It is a sub. is but uncanny Men of the Guard" can only be youngest of the Magi recall the feet that Offenbach himself might dificulties and discomforts of his well be proud of. star-led expedition:
.Troubled Ireland
of Venus.
Walt Whitman (who has never boon as highly esteemed in his of all such charter rights without awn country as in ours) made use
But he was able to create poetry asking permission of the critics. with an elemental abandon like primitivo Nature's or like the mood of the widerncas winners ("there's nothing holding us"), whose trails he followed across the brink of sunset.
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A cold time we had of it,. Juat the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long
journey;
At Home last summer, people did nothing but talk, eat, drink and sleep Yo-Yo. It swept the country like a storm, Patriotic Britons, instead of going to the The ways deep and the weatherSwiss Alps for their holidays.
sharp,
Yo-Yodelled at Home.. The very dead of winter;
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Take the Eighteenth Amend- ment, multiply it by Magna Charta, and add the Nelson Monument, and you're getting realising what Yo-Yo meant
towards Britain.
to
on
alarmed by the signs of unity in opposition in the Free State, has dissolved the Dail and forced a general election, in which be is! Here's the Venus!" And put- fore January 24, the issue of a ting her head on one side, she add- Republic may become pared: "Isn't sho a pet?" She would amount. It his action is follow-have said the same of Epstein's ed by the establishment of a Genesis. shadow Republic, it will still be within the four walls of the new Empire Constitution. It will gratify the dream of an idealist, but will not bring peace and prosperity in Ireland. Mr. de
And the camels galled, sore- Valera is clearly a law unto him
footed, refractory, scif. His policy is driving the
Lying down in the melting snow, Irish people into a state of de-
But, he is made to forget the spair. Discontent is spreading,
great star in the violet hour bo tempers are being frayed, hence
fore the dawn, and to be doubtful! Trifles like Debt Payment, Mora- the disturbing reports of armed
whether it was birth or death he toriams, the Lytton Commission conflicts in the course of the America is constantly produc-journoyed so far to 800. election campaign. The Fabianing original poets whose full in- may behold "the night of atara", background.
Others and the World War faded into the tactics of Mr. J. H. Thomas still fluence, proving that poetry is a (one of the debased coins of It was not until the Test Team leave the way open for a peace-progressive art, is not felt until | imagery),
squalid, arrived in Australia that the re- ful understanding, provided Mr. generation or two after their splendid city, but this poet mecta, vulston of feeling comb. First of de Valera does not win this elec-death. Edgar Allan Poe, who had the night-wind in a mean street: RUTGERS. On January 9th, 1933, tion and make his success the 8 much to do with making Baude- to Mr. and Mrs. B. Th. Rutger, But the outlook is sorry. Were for example), is the earliest ex- at Matilda Hospital, The Penk, reason for precipitating a crisis, faire az Swinburne, and is still an Inspiration (with Edith Sitwell, Britain dealing with normal peo-ample. ple, we should not be discour- aged Mr. Thomas continues to exercise toleration and patience, but reciprocity is not to be ex- pected unless the result of the election ousts Mr. de Valera from the seat of power.
л коп.
BIRTH.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1933.
Artificial Hearts
So, if those we love are gone for Emily Dickinson calls the "golem- ever, then we must engage in what nest of industries enacted earth":
проп
The sweeping up the heart And putting love away We shall not want to use again Until eternity.
•
above
the
Every street-lamp as I pass
Beats like a fatalistic drum, And through the spaces of the
dark
Midnight shakes the memory As madman shakes a dead
geranium.
解
all there was the Nagel Incident, far rivalling the Saravejo incident in international significance. De- leaked out that the Second Teat had spite a rigid censorship the news
been lost.
The Lytton Commission was, au- thorised to make a roport, 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 atralia clauses in the Ottawa poetic conventions with" a сол Agreement were abolished. The ventionallam of his become
qwn and Importation of Australian Yo-Yoes one of the hollow (sometimes called. Boomerangs) men" of his famous fantasy, was prohibited. whose dried voices aro mean- Ingless as "wind in dry grass or rat's feet over broken glass." But now the secret splendour of living triumphs over the visible squalor, of existence, and he becomes a mystical poet apart like Paul
Amid uproar from the Tyneside members, Colonel Fitzsudds moved the suspension of the Standing Orders to introduce a bill of at- talnder against Douglas Walter Jardine on a count of high treason.
SPREADING BRITISH TRADITIONS Those who have consistently maintained that one of the best functions which the University of Hongkong can discharge is to cold, but now it is the Red peril. poetry that has been (in the aense Valery. He hears the dusty noises that the Cabinet took a very grave
Own
an-
We all feel a little alarmed about the Bolsheviks now and then. It used to be the Yellow peril that made our blood run
To seek truth, to know the worst as well as the best of things, is the chief ambition of the confessed modernist in poetry. He is not to be confuled, by the praiser of the
of having no megange for the
In the wind's singing
More distant and more solemn Than a fading star.
You had such a vision of the
Atreet
As the street hardly under-
stande.
The Prime Minister admitted
view of the situation. The utmost aignificance 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:
Everywhere through the Kingdom The revulsion was complete.
people publicly burnt their Yo-Yoca, 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..
train young Chinese in engineer- Those formidable fellows, with ing skill and make them avail- their unlimited supply of five-modern world) who recites, his of a sick civilisation almplified in
favourite passages in a Joud, to something rich and strange; able for service in their
year-plans, their fast-rising fac-frulty voice. As a truth neeker, tories, their elimination of the he must east away the old poetic
And voices are country will welcome the nouncements made yesterday by ture, and their other schemes ablos, which are opalescent on fallible factor from human na- diction: the decorative polysyll- 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 placing for student-apprentices to reckon with.
He will not forsake the meaner 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 "His Gracious Majesty the interest which these firms are have devised a mechanical heart, emotion. A poet like a philosofoam of other-worldly thought King has decided to abandon the manifesting in such a develop which can replace the old one phor, 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 professed lovers of poetry there than "burnt-out ends of
minology. The trouble for him is above it. But he will nee more tion of the Testa" 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 menaco that based 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, and his food-proof the formation of a committee on stomach, will be invulnerable. which practical engineering em- ployers throughout Britain will alt for the purpose of securing offers of apprenticeships, details of which will be forwarded to the University here. The scheme goes even further, since the com- mittee will maintain contact with apprentices already placed and rejuvenator, or recipe for per- arrange visits or short-term at-petual youth. It is still all too tachments
obvious that every one of us is to other works. These developments are all along scientists
becoming older every day, Our seem determined the right lines, for they mean not to move in the matter. that the student who goes from Hongkong will be able to pursue making gadgets for the scullery are too busy Perhaps they his practical studies in the finest or bathroom, as if that will ever British workshops and continue
SaveNa decaying civilisation!
America is rich, I am bound to
He will bestride the world like admit, In moderniat poetry. Thua One of the new poets who neek a Colossus, and will add to our, the great cities of to-day walled new truth first and last, he will
un-up to the skies and roaring like the find new beauty by the way. confusion by uttering his
And What are son, walk abroad in the verse of that, as always has been, will bo earthly language. our own inventors doing to pro- Carl Sandburg and others. Yet the final proof that his quest has vide us with artificial hearts?, they, too, like Kipling, can show us not been in vain. Nothing. They cannot even
give us a workable clixir of life,
to absorb his knowledge in a Other inventions there are which British environment. Not only are of still leas use. For exam- is he in this way sure of getting ple, our scientiate have hit upon a thorough grounding in the an apparatus which will per- very best traditions of engineer- mit persons tu recognise
easy to
any
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 see, let us him these traditions and a open our eyes. To enable us to distinct preference for British Bee with our eyes shut is machinery. When we bear in surely to put a premium, mind what a tremendous future on sheer laziness? If there is for engineering develop part of the face is to be ment in China, it is
kept shut most of the time, imagine the value of this ten- let be our mouths. Incon- dency as the number of British.ceivable mischief is caused in the trained engineers increases. world by the premature, super- Other nations, as we know, are fluour or too-continuous open- very much alive to the potentialling of mouths; but opening the eyes seldom does anyono harm. tles of the situation, and it is only by concerted efforts on the part of British centres of learn- ing and workshops that the spread
can
of British tradition be effected. Meanwhile, it is extremely gratifying to have auch glowing tributes from Home of the student material
A THOUGHT FOR
TO-DAY
THERE ARE MANY DIVERSITIES OF VICE; BUT IT IS ONE NEVER-FAILING
EFFECT OF IT. TO LIVE DIBPLEASED AND DISCONTENTED.-Seneca,
"Have you another bag just like this one? You see, we're.
twi na."
top
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TO-DAY'S THRILLER. He waited patiently
of
at the the stops, 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 shriek! "Help! Help!!. Marder!!— The man by the stops still waited· -waited. Accustomed as he was to sounds and scenes of violence, he could not repress a shudder at that awful cry.
Bearcely had tho 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. Ho hastily scanned it by the light of an electric torch and, beckoning the sewcomer to follow, led the way, flashing a guiding light upon the stoop steps.
Stealthily they mounted higher and higher, until he halted. there," he whispered hoarsely. Tho man squeezed past.
"In
Had he secreted the sinster stranger in a safe hiding placo.
Nol Another late. ""Talkfo" patron had been conducted to his Boat!
A SIMPLE STORY. Hora in natory from one of our Kildare cousins,
He had asked a Dublin road- man how things were with him.“ "Well, serr," was, the reply, "when I used to dig a car out of a ditch, they gave me a sovereign, and now they give me a shilling. Its these-English leaving the coun-
try,"
But you drove them out," pro- testod our cousin. "What if wo did." he replied sourly: "they'd no right to go."