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EXCERPTS From EXILE





A-la Recherche de Combray
I think that the village of Combray
is one-~of the simplest and purest of
Proust’s literary amalgdmations.-Ad-

mitting that he transpianted the
viaduc, symbolic of the unknown re-
gions -of exjle and distress which lay
beyond his station, from Auteuil; that
he fitted all of his favorite bits of
Gothic architecture into the church,
Combray still remains so faithful an
adaptation of the little village of
Illiers that.one can easily use Swann
as a sort of Baedaker’ or Guide Bleu.

Tea with. Madame Mante, who is
the daughter of Proust’s younger
brother, preluded my visit to Illiers
and fixed all practical details. I had
been invited to meet a man so deeply
Proustian that he had been to Illiers
three times, (The ardour of medi-
aeval pilgrims seldom led them to
Jerusalem more thfan twice.) I think
he: was rather ‘surprised to meet me
in the. pantry. The concierge, hér
suspicions aroused when she saw that
I was dona ferentes in the form of a
bunch of jonquils, had ushered me into
the service lift. I also was bearing a
small notebook, in which I forgot to
take) notes, so excited was I by the
turn of the conversation, the charm of
Madame Mante, who looks lfke pic-
tures of Proust as a little boy, and
the flavor of the orange marmalade.
It makes one wonder why certain
people say that the French are not
hospitable to strangers.

The next morning, I am proud to
say, I arose a5.45 and caught a seven
o’clock train fa Chartres, where one
changes to a_ special transit ex-
press, renowned for burning up the
15 miles between Chartres and Illiers
in slightly less than three-quarters of
and hour. But I began to notice the
existence of Combray long before the
train arrived at Hliers. It is -as if
the whole plain of La Beauce were a
succession of Combrays fitted one in-
side the other like wooden Easter
eggs. Chartres, seen at a distance,



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with two far-off spires. giving ex-
pression to the town, is the big red
Easter egg of Combray; the whole
country of La Beauce, dotted with
apple trees, luminous with a sort of
hidden lighting, is a glorified cété de
Méséglise, and the Eure, and édition
de luxe of the Vivonne; Illiers is the
middle, green Easter egg; and I -dis-
covered .the touching, . microscopic
little yellow Easter egg. (the: one that
always gets lost first) in the village
of Vieuxvice, a white-washed baby
|Norman church in the middle of a
poultry yard, with a gutter running
down the road and a field stretching
out behind.

Recognizing the clecher of Saint-
Hilaire when I saw the crows flying
around the spire, I climbed out of my
compartment with trembling knees,
and walked to the Place. My first
surprise was in the point of size. Of
course I had realized that as Proust
was_a child when he visited his aunt
at Combray, everything must have
seemed relatively larger in his eyes,
so I had expected a small village,
but I had not expected a toy town.
In comparison with the church, the
different-colored houses looked like the
tiniest of chickens huddled closely to-
gether. And the Vivonne, that mighty
river that filled with pink in the sun-
set, was hardly a rivulet, crossed by
matchstick bridges. My second sur-

images; phrases that I had thought
poetic were rigorously realistic. The
roofs of the houses did look “laineux
et gris.” There were'-no other words
for it.

It was a rather Méséglisian day and
I was afraid that it might rain at any
bminute; so, in order to save time, I
rented a bicycle, one franc 50 the
hour, at the bicyclist’s by 6d on the
Place, called Rousseau. e man in
charge examined my carte d’identité
minutely, asked me why I left New
York to go to Tours, why I left Tours
to come to Paris, and then told me not
to go and “fourrer the nez” in places
I shouldn’t. I found his well-meaning
patronage reminiscent of the esprit de



prise was in the exactitude of Proust’s '

Combray until it occurred to me that
he was probably worried about the
bicycle. I spent all morning tracing
the walks that Proust describes.
Méséglise, which, in the eyes of
Proust, had as abstract, as ideal an

existence as has the town ¢ Paoli for
us, is indicated on all signboards as
Méréglise. I was constantly under
the impression that the authorities
-were guilty of typographical errors,
and also lost precious time searching
for the name of Combray on a sign-
board which pointed to Illiers. Then
I wandered around the town, ex-
periencing the curious sensation of
being “une de ces apparitions stu-
péfiantes
ne connaissait point.”

At 12.30 I went into the hotel on the
Place and ordered an enormous lunch.
Three commis-voyageurs were kind
enough to ask me to sit with them
(“La ’tite demoiselle va s’ennuyer
toute seule);” but they wére rather
unattractive so I remained aloof. I
regretted this decision afterwards as
they seemed to be having such a good
time smacking their lipg and telling
each other stories, but otr relations
were by-no means stained and I re-
ceived a great deal of information
about what they did last’ mardi gras
and also about “les amours d’une
, chevre et d’un bouc,” during the
course of the meal.

The park of Tansonville in Swann
is partly the Pré Catelan (not the
restaurant in the Bois, but a tiny park
on the edge of Illiers). A very sweet
old lady with a large black moustache,
showed. me the aubépines, not yet in
flower, and told me that the daughter
of the former schoolmistress .had
married a man who lived so far away
that it cost 60 francs “to get there.
Like Frangoise, she mistrusted all
that was foreign. But Tansonville is
also a private property several kilo-
meters outside of the town. It has
recently been bought by some gens de
Paris who are redecorating the-house
and grounds.




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Dinner Held in Honor
Of European Fellows

Patterson Defined Nature of
Modern Scholarship



Mr.



(Specially contributed by Alice A.
Ferguson.)



CAMERA CLUB VISITS ZOO

(Especially contributed by D. Tur-
ner, ’839.) ;

On Saturday afternoon the Camera
Club went on a field trip to the Zoo-
logical Gardens in Philadelphia. Pho-
tographs selected from those taken
will be entered in the -contest. now
being conducted by the Zoo. ,

While there, the club recorded not
only the tonsils of hippopotami, but
also. the stripes. of the - Princeton
tiger. The dromedary was disconcert-
ing, since it preferred to investigate
the photographers rather than pose.
One hungry kangaroo, misinterpreting
the camera stuck inside. his cage,
started to nibble at it. A cooperative
system ‘was. finally established; one
person attracted the animal’s atten-
tion while the others photographed it.



that Illiers seems quiet after Vienna,
and that the French don’t know how
to waltz. He finds the evenings
rather long at the. hotel and we both
regretted the fact that I was leaving
tat afternoon, as he would have
shown me some photographs. He
picked ‘me a bunch of pervenches, and
we parted sadly. I think he must
have been about 80. Two Parisian
architects were also engaged in the
rebuilding of TJansonville. I said
goodbye to them continually and was

felt it was the last, straw when I was
waiting for the train pn the platform,
and they both appared sheepishly
from. the waiting rjom. The fact
that I was going t#
first, saved us($fom the tiresome or-
deal of saying goodbye all the way to












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went to last year. My own crop
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The annual Fellowship Dinner,
given.-this year in honor of Miss De-
light Tolles, winner of the Mary
Elizabeth Garrett European Fellow-
ship, and Miss Mary .Taylor, newly
elected to the Fanny Bullock Work-
man Fellowship, was held in Radnor
Hall on Friday evening, March 18.

After the dinner, ,Miss Lena Lois
Mandell, as toastmistress, introduced
the following represeritatives of the
European graduate students: Miss
Elise van Hall, of Holland; Miss Vit-
toria Rossi, of Italy; Miss Hilda Cohn,
of Germany, and Miss Arsenia Ar-
royo, 6f Spain. These-foreign stu-a
dents brought greetings from their
home countries and expressed the wish
that the new fellows would enjoy the
year in Europe as much as they of
Europe were enjoying a visit to Amer-
ica,

The speaker of the evening, Mr.
Lindo Patterson, of the Physics de-
partment, discussed the meaning of
scholarship. He pointed out that a
scholar is really only a person whose .-
large amount of natural curiosity has
been confined within a prescribed field
and directed toward definite ends.
Also, he stressed the necessity for a _
sense of humor in a scholar, who must
be able to recognize that his own work
is thorough and well done, yet remem-
ber that his conclusions may be
proved entirely invalid when later
discoveries are made.

Miss Park, Miss Schenck and Miss
Ward, and several. members of the
faculty were present. About 75 resi-
dent d non-resident graduate stu-
dents also: attended,



bénie, the church tower, in the coms



vated Viennese hortieulturist showed] Paris. But I was particularly glad} pany of two citizens of Combray and
me around the garden. He told me|to have my last view of that. brioche | not*that of “les gens de Paris.”
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Thomas Middle-
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