Show Nr G LITERARY TR p Jl College Literature MODERN science investigates the phenomena phenomena phenomena phe phe- of nature modern literature those of the human heart But science has a purpose its aim is the discovery of truth What is the purpose of a certain cl class ss of modern literature it would be hard to divine It vivisects hu human an passion it pu puts ts the heart on the rack j tortures it burns it ita at t the stake j jr r and all for what We are at a loss to i. i know The Catholic inquisition had a purpose to extirpate heresy to save II men mens men's I s sou souls s in In spite 0 of f t themselves h emse 1 ves it was was ignorant brutal fatal but it had a aR R h l Ii s motive which could be dealt with f which marked it as an abnormal growth of the human mind which might be If I uprooted But ut this dissecting tendency J of modern literature so far as we we can see see is motiveless it has no aim no ideal either high or low it is a heartless heartless heartless heart heart- I less cruel play upon human passions for the amusement of distorted minds The enormities it discloses are peculiar rather than general They are the attractions of this dime museum of literature which goes out of its way to discover freaks These are not the f tendencies of a healthy mind they are the signs of mental disease Therefore it it is with sorrow and misgiving that we wesee see them exhibited in the productions of college students We expect them to be of all things natural We do not If expect them to see the world through r distorted glasses or to make shuttle shuttle- rn l' l cocks of human passions We look here for the freshness of morning the 1 dew on the grass the heart brimming over with gladness in the morning of i youths youth's bright May We find instead the hard cynicism which properly belongs belongs belongs be be- 1 longs to the declining years 3 ears of him who i ihas has seen lifes life's fairest flowers wither in j their bloom and found all trees laden j with Dead Sea apples Realism are not to be con- con as such far from it it is only when these are unaccompanied and un- un elevated by the desire to raise humanity to a higher place that they become per per- But the true veri paints the broad open side of nature it penetrates penetrates penetrates pene pene- dark places only to let in the sunshine and this is its one true pur pur- pose But this purpose we find is often lacking among the college story writers Many of them display talent j plenty of it but it itis js is is tinged with the cynicism of the connoisseur rather than the sympathy of genius t. t |