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WISCONSIN LITERARY MAGAZINE
April, 1920
We must look for a larger and stronger organization
with more power and more energy.
It has become quite impossible for us to know
each other and be on familiar terms with even the
celebrities of our community. We may know the
majority of our own class in our own college, but to
obtain a larger acquaintance has become impossible.
This means that a leader who can organize and
bring into union of spirit any significant portion of the
students must be a man of strength and magnetism
such as is seldom found among young men and women.
As men grow older their powers of leadership in-
crease: it is the rare genius who can lead early in
life. Therefore, since the task of leadership becomes
greater, the leaders must in consequence become
stronger, and the leader strong enough is not to be
found in the average university.
Another element in the problem is the greater diver-
sity of courses, offered by the various colleges of the
university. Now instead of having the various col-
leges clinging together for support we find the members
of each course forming their clan. The Commerce
student resents being classed with the 'straight' Letters
and Science students.  Each course has built up its
own set, and among that set the individual finds the
greater number of his friends. It is difficult for him
to mingle in more than a general way with the students
of other special courses. The result is a natural one:
we find students gathering together and mating friends
among their own kind. We are so specialized in
our training that it is quite impossible for us to asso-
ciate on an intimate footing with men and women
whose general educational interests differ materially
from our own. In some degree, of course, social
fraternities and sororities tend to off-set this particular
phase of our new student life, but the net result is
very little affected by this influence.
The problem is a complicated one, and one which,
in all probability will not be solved while any of
those who read this are in school.  Nevertheless, the
sooner we realize the real problem and set about to
solve it, leaving the petty problems of social life to
solve themselves, the sooner may we expect to find a
unified, strong, and loyal body of students at Wis-
consin.
RE-DEDICATION.
I.
Sometimes
I wake from dreams
And know that thou art gone.
Then indeed it seems
My waking days
I live
In dreams.
II.
Gone
And yet-thy love and mine
Were less than love.
Did I not pour it forth
On altars thy dreams and mine
Would build for all mankind?
III.
Because I go about
And do my work,
And live and laugh,
And bare my body joyfully
To sun and wind;
Thou mayest know
Where'er thou art,
Thou hast not gone.
ELSIE GLUCK.
EDITORS
JANET DURRIE     CHARLES L. WEIS
JAMES W. GILMAN  RACHEL COMMONS
FRANCES DUMMER   ELSIE GLUCK
VICTOR SOLBERG   DUDLEY C. BROOKS
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