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THE COLLEGE NEWS

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Varsity Overcomes

William and Mary, 3-0

First Southern Hockey Team
to Invade North Proves
Unsuccessful



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-B.-M. TAKES OFFENSIVE.



On Friday afternoon, Varsity de-
feated the William and Mary hockey
team, the first Southern women’s. hoc-
key team to be. sent North, by the
score 3-0.

Although William and Mary boast-
ed an excellent backfield, which of-
fered a compact barrier to the con-
tinuous attack of the Bryn Mawr
line, the forwards were noticeably
lacking in any united effort to get the
ball into scoring position.

The Bryn Mawr forwards started
the game with a speedy offensive

drive backed up by a strong defense,

which allowed the ball to get into
Bryn Mawr territory only a few
times. The forwards, for the most
part, played better than we dared hope
for, had excellent control of the ball,
passed cleanly and accurately, and,
but for the stubborn resistance of. the
opposing backfield, would have scored
again and again.
Varsity ended its season with a type
of hockey that we have Aong wished
to see, played hard agafnst an excel-
lent team, and reaped its reward. If
the good work continués, there should
be plenty of opposition in the game
with the All-Philadelphia team on
ecember 9.






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William and Mary Bryn Moewr
Chammings: 63h We Gees Taggart
HOWAEG (so iccues Pol eases Larned
HONORING Ghai Kent
Holladay. \ hue" a voerer ember er Faeth
Dunleavy....... WOW 4 alsievee Brown
BIOWN occ. HW. ise Jackson
SOCK: ep ck cea Ge De sia Wines Bright
1 8 5g Ps a Lone aa Evans
WO ern | ae gare ETE ETEOS Bishop
Cummings ..... l. f. 2....Rothermel
Berger i. a eos Bee E. Smith

Goals—Bryn Mawr: Kent, 2; Tag-
wort, i.

Substitutions—W. and M.:
for Brown. Bryn Mawr:

Mann

‘for Jackson.

Time of halves—25 minutes.
Umpires—Miss Flannery and Miss
Ferguson.



James Stephens Discusses
Poetry at Informal Tea



(Continued from Page One)

morning he went to awaken a friend
who didn’t like to. get up in the morn-
ing, and while he: was waiting for his
friend to arise he picked up a small
book lying nearby; but when he saw
it was poetry, he put it back. He
waited longer, and finally picked the
book up again and read one verse.
His first inward comment—was,“My
God! The sense! of it!” So he read
the second verse. Now, at that time
he was the champion gymnast of Ire-
land, and he had formed the habit,

“on observing acrobatics, of accurate-

ly judging his own ability to do a
particular stunt. His reaction to the
second verse was a realization of his
competence to write poetry, and
thereupon ‘he went home that night
and wrote twenty-four poems. “Poets
are akin to unwieldy wooers who
win by strength and ignorance, not |
displaying the intellect, but creating |
unconsciously~’

His theory of poetic composition |

naturally brought forth questions re-

garding the obscurity in much mod-|

poetry, and, especially, objection
t6 ‘Hopkins’ obscure poetry. “There
is a value in obscurity,” said Mr.

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Stephens, “and if there is so-called

obscurity the blame is to be put on

. the poet or the reader, but in regard

-who is incompetent.”

to Hopkins’ poetry it is the reader
Hopkins’ verse

has two- subjects: the thought and

the music, which provides a back-!

ground for the first.- The words are
not merely strung together; they are
designed to give a feeling of melody.
Mr. Stephens remarked that he is
now engaged in writing twelve son-
nets, which he hopes will be utterly
incomprehensible to anyone but him-
self, “for only those who understand
can understand.” - He also read some

- of his own poems in this connection,

notably The Universe, which he de-

scribes as pure vacuity, and Love.

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Martha~Jane~Tipton, ’*83,-to”
Joseph Lemuel Johnson, gradu-
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Art Class Hears Alumna
Lecture on Iconography



m Continued from Page One

ebrred,—at fwilight on the*first day
of the Passion, One of the earliest
sources for the theme of the Vesper-
bild is a twelfth century poem in
which the desire of the Virgin to once
more hold Christ in ‘her arms is ex-
pressed. Then at the end of the thir-
teenth century, the Mirror of Con-
stance describes her wish as fulfilled;
Christ lies in her arms and she is
content. The greatest Vesperbild of
Italian art and*probably the greatest
in the world is that of Michaelan-
gelo in St. Peter’s at Rome.

The second motif,” that of the
Throne of Grace, shows the Virgin
and St. John, or God the Father, sup-
porting Christ after his crucifixion.
Sometimes this receives the generic
name of the Trinity when a dove is

included; but the wide. range of rep.

resentations of the Trinity makes this
label too inaccurate in the naming
of the Throne of Grace and it is bet-
ter to use the narrower term. A pic.
ture attributed to El Greco and rep-
resenting God the Father supporting
His Son, as the holy Dove hovers over-
head has the same purely spiritual
and unhistorical significance as the
Vesperbild. Both of these subjects,
therefore, are sublimations of events
in the Passion, and represent a mys-

tical and religious idea detached from



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James Stephens Sees
Renaissance. Ahead.



Continued from Page One

like ‘us. The values of the horse age
cannot be replaced:. artistic emigra-
tions to find an impetus and a revivi-
fication are’useless.

The United States, one of a very
few countries in which energy is re-
surgent, has no need to apply for ma-
terial to an old Europe, weary artis-
tically and materially. The time for
sleep has.come in Europe. America
and Russia will probably be the two
poles for international affairs which
England ‘and France have been so
long. Similarly, as England was a
wealthy and poetic nation, so the
United States will be; .as France’s
preoccupations were with war and
criticism, so will Italy turn to these;
and as Germany was engrossed in so-
cial organization and music, so Rus-
sia will be occupied. This transfer
of energy is'only normal, although
this is the first time in’ history in
which energy is being taken up by
countries with an idealistic rather
than a materialistic background.

This break from tradition is quite
recent. Until thirty or forty years
ago America was still following Eng-
land. So far as literary aspirations
were concerned,. Lowell, Whittier,
Poe, Emerson, Hawthorne and Mark
Twain were all getting in step with
the English tradition. Then came a
wave of immigration which forced the
United States to rest until the di-
gestive process was finished. Today
the United States is again upon its
feet, not following England this time,
but a little in advance. The earlier
American writings show that their
authors attained technique but not
content (with the possible exception of
Poe’s Helen), which was perfect in





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its sheer completeness. Between the
time of these writers. and: the present,
America was busy with legislation
and acquisition. of wealth.. Then
Frost, Robinson, and Lindsay captur-
ed the content of poetry in addition
to the form. This country is now, as
a result, almost entirely alone in its
production of a native literature of
imaginative ‘adventure. With this
came a renaissance in criticism as
well: America started working on
problems; indigenously and_ writing
readable, valuable, and original criti-
cism. ‘

This renaissance involves all of us,
either as readers or writers. We are
outgrowing the age of jazz that made
us live from week to week to sustain
a feeling that all was not denuded,
and we are now being trained to think
on many and: different problems, that
our mind and wills may be capable in
many directions, Thus is art being sta-
bilized by’ a naming process that di-
lates the mind. The’ sense of beginning

in us is not manifest until it is identi-

recognize its existence and give us a
previous sense of reality.

Mr. Stephens concluded his lecture
by reading illustrative poems from his
own works. He read A Minuet to
show his means of conveying the sense
of a dance, and a piece on water de-
signed to convey, an elemental feel-
ing of the abstractness of the subject.
Lonéliness also gave an extraordinary
sense of rhythm, emotional and with
an underlying sensuous mood that
made’ the piece seem all the purer
poetry for the absence of intellectual
substance.



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mittee for Mental Hygiene, believes
that thousands of jobless graduates
of colleges and: universities are be-
coming a menace to the recent order
of American society because of the
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