-yrestudents..to.leave. the halls-betweer:" Presid+ ‘. a ‘VOL. XLVIII—NO. 13 - ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1963 — an & Trustees -of Bryn Ms: awr College, 1963 PRICE 20 CENTS Celebrated Literary Critic Frye Says alata: and Polish Characterize The Poet Lives in Simple Realm’ Freshmen’s “Hitherto and Ever After” » According to Mr. Northrop Frye, distinguished — literary critic and president of “Victoria College in the University of Toronto, the. poet lives in a simple realm where “the sun rises in the east and sets in the west over a flat world.” _...This is not to.say that Mr. Frye ~eondemns ‘the poet, for in his lec- ture in Géodhart on Monday evening he quickly established himself as a “style over content” mans. it-is not for ideas, but for new ways of ex- pressing these ideas, that we admire: the. poet and read ‘his poetry. Shakespeare’s* philosophy was pla- titudinous and Dylan’ Thomas’s world was one of ancient astrology rather than modern science, but Mr. Frye pointed out that nothing could ' be less important. “The «poet ‘is not profound except by accident.” He is an intellectual atavist” who ignores modern science and thrives on. superstition. He searches for the new expression’ of the commonplace idea, and the Tro- jan war is just as valid a subject for the modern poet as it was” for Homer. : Coming closer to’ the heart of his ostensible subject, “Action and Im- age in Modern Poetry,” Mr. Frye undertook a eonsideration of myth _ as a foundation from which all poetry is derived. Literature he de- fined as originally an attempt to. “transform the non-human physical environment into something .of hu- © man shape,” to set up conventions . to protect itself from life. Myth is one of the important “means by which literature attémpts to “swallow” life and present it in the form of possibilities rather than actualities. It follows . fromthe nature of the poet—the poet as re- «creator, not’ originator, of ideas— that he should use myth and fill in its “cloudy outlines’ ’with details ‘of his own making. Thus Mr. Frye feels that it is im- possible to understand modern poet- ~Self-Gov. To Give Midnight Crawlers ‘Later Exit Permits One of the most important revi- sions. made in the Self-Gov Ctnsti- tution went into effect February ‘11. It was a change. that will permit 10:30-p.m,-and-12:30 a.m. without special permission from the Hall President. - The responsibility which was for- merly. the--warden’s,- that—of—locking- the door and making sure. that. it remains locked until the lantefn*man comes ‘on duty, will belong to a stu- dent _door-keeper. ‘Between these hours; ‘studénts wishing to*ledve the - hall will beJet out by this girl and “those wishing: to enter wit be let in See bnndl 5 saa ,On Friday nights the halts _will= “not be locked ‘until 12:30: a.m. ; other words, . the present Fiiday “night system will continue as before. On:the lantern man’s night: off, the warden will open the door for girls wishing to enter the’hall between: 12:30 and 2:00: a.m. Students are reminded, however, - that if they plan to be out of their halls after 10:30 or to leave after 10:30, they still must sign out. . made every four years. duction of a more controversial sub- “at .through. Wednesday of election. paigning under: their sown auspices ry without realizing its relation to ancient myth. The modern poet dif- fers in form from his predecessors but not’ in ‘the use of mythology. -Mr. Frye ended .his urbane and witty~ lecture with -a--statement—of the tasks that criticism has before _ it. Judging from the large and at- tentive audience that turned out to hear_him,.. the literary community will be eagerly awaiting. his own answers: to some of the still-unan- * __ swered=questions he~raised. The freshman imagination ran deep here this winter. plumbed by. Peter Leach, Instructor in English In.the class of au blue clad’ nympth with a large golden key in her hand. ‘66. show Hitherto and’ Ever: After it She inherits this fecund symbol from her rich grandmother and after a pee chromatic dreain beats it under- ground, Inthe castle-basement, she has..some.instructive. encounters. with.characters..from.the..past. of the ‘race. She joins their mad banquet.to. welcome the late. grandmother,..then,-she--manipulates~the SORE: opener and cuts out misty-eyed into.the golden light there beyond ‘the gold handled door. When Hitherto and Ever After played around with its. theme, of, say,-initiating-er finding the-handle-or-the key= hole on the great world, it worked just fine. caught much of the right tone for that story and kept jt up most of the time. ambitious, but. well rehearsed, and often very funny. ‘When Hitherto and Ever After went serious, well, it went’ serious. Act |, Scene |: Aunt Abigail (Mary Caman: Cousin Alphonse (Andy Miller), Aunt. Matilda (Donna Macek), Heather McCauley. (Jackie Giuliano), Uncle James (Debbie Rogers), Aunt Josephine (Diane Sampson), and. the Lawyer. (Suzanne: Weidell) gather in the drawing: room of the McCauley Castle to read grandma’s will. ne Elections Revisions Provide ‘Hot’ Subject for Legislature by Sallee Horhovitz, ’64_ ' and Susan Morris, 64 The business for the Legislature meeting of Monday afternoon was dents about. their. policies...Thispro- posal will shorten the existing elec- tion system from four to. two weeks. A violent. and lengthy discussion followed this proposal. .Lee Cooper, to--be-a-—vote--on—the~prdéposed=revi—«President—of-Rockefeller-Hall, sug- ‘sion of the Undergrad constitution, But intro- ject resulted -in: a ‘change of. the schedule. sidney. OScsrCathy~Tre nell. announced at the opening of the meeting. that: proposals of the Elec- gested that the proposal (made in the form of a motion) was unconsti- tutional because it interfered with the autonomy of the five organiza- tions. Legislature, however, decided that the proposal was constituton- al, by- Be PRADA HOE ga assays = Sue Gumpert , then mcr an amendment allowing the presidents tion: Revision Committee - would be to the “Big Five” to determine, at the first order of business: -Shirley Daniels, Chairman. ofthe . ‘Eléctions Revisions Committee, made - the stiggestion that the election sys- » tem be provisionally (i. e: for this year only) shortened and simplified in this way: Undergrad and Self- Gov will have a shortened dinner system, .-their- candidates going to two—halls ‘each right, and.