. Smith College Monthly . more. A few years later we hearthat Lord Damnley is thoroughly rec-onciled with his daughter and his son-in-law. He finds Newport not such abad place to spend his summers in, andhis one regret is that he did not cometo an understanding with his son-in-lawearlier. COLORADO COLUMBINESCaroline Bancroft Columbines Wait for us under pines and aspens In the arroyo Where maraposa lilies spread thin white cups For afternoon tea. The columbines are colonial ladies Who drape their mauve and white gowns Embroidered in gold Across sofas Of clustered maiden hair fern To sip their
. Smith College Monthly . more. A few years later we hearthat Lord Damnley is thoroughly rec-onciled with his daughter and his son-in-law. He finds Newport not such abad place to spend his summers in, andhis one regret is that he did not cometo an understanding with his son-in-lawearlier. COLORADO COLUMBINESCaroline Bancroft Columbines Wait for us under pines and aspens In the arroyo Where maraposa lilies spread thin white cups For afternoon tea. The columbines are colonial ladies Who drape their mauve and white gowns Embroidered in gold Across sofas Of clustered maiden hair fern To sip their tea and discreetly gossip. The meadow through my cottage wTindow Is a ballroom. Those unsj^mmetrical galardias With their opulent reds and yellows Are over-dressed dowagers. The harebells by the brook Are shy young things in their first season But the black-eyed susans have been out timothy grasses are the staglineAnd the rose and white clover popular dancing to tunes of the wind and THE GOOSE-STEPBy Upton Sinclair Mr. Upton Sinclair thinks thatAmerican colleges and universities aregoing to rack and ruin, and he seeks tobring this idea of his to our attentionas forcibly as posible. Mr. Sinclairmade an intensive study of the seamyand less familiar side of educational ad-ministration, and he presents the in-formation which he thus gained in TheGoose-Step. The title has a double points to that condition of automatichalf-thought among students which iscolloquially known as being half-baked, and to what Mr. Sinclair con-siders a prime cause of this sad state—the fact that the professors, the trainersof the student mind, are not allowed tothink for themselves or to foster thehabit of correct thinking in others. Ac-cording to Mr. Sinclair, who knows moreabout it than anyone else, * our institu-tions of higher learning are run by cap-italism, which, in seeking to protect itsown interests, not only dictates whatthe student must
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