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College news, February 22, 1950
Bryn Mawr College student newspaper. Merged with Haverford News, News (Bryn Mawr College); Published weekly (except holidays) during academic year.
Bryn Mawr College (creator)
1950-02-22
serial
Weekly
6 pages
digitized microfilm
North and Central America--United States--Pennsylvania--Montgomery--Bryn Mawr
Vol. 36, No. 14
College news (Bryn Mawr College : 1914)--
https://tripod.brynmawr.edu/permalink/01TRI_INST/26mktb/alma991001620579...
Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2012 with funding from LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation.
BMC-News-vol36-no14
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THE COLLEGE NEWS
Wednesday, February 22, 1950
Genius Hunts Ennius
In Library Catacombs
Continued from Page 1
vowed not to cut until she plucks
: : ‘those Enniad treasures from the
- intestines of the earth; while she
continues in the editorial chair,
then, expect no concession to the
exigencies of style. Other charac-
teristics: an inability to receive a
mark below ninety, scorn in the
grand manner for any form of
turning the best of Shakespeare |
into “even better Latin,” a per-
fectly enormous appetite (four to
five is a sacred hour for Joan, de-
voted to daily pilgrimages a L’Au-
berge), and a calm competence
which is the envy of her elders.
Senior members, now passe, of
the NEWS, remember Joan’s jour-
nalistic career with mingled horror
and admiration. She is famous for
being the only one on the NEWS
who can read Miss McBride’s
handwriting, for keeping her poc-
kets stuffed with chocolate cake
and then sitting on them with su-
perb insouciance, for never allow-
ing Goodhart Hoagies to have the
usual unfortunate effects on her
temper, and for writing major ar-
ticles in seven minutes flat, includ-
ing typing. She imposes the strict
canons of the Latin Department on
reportorial style, and spends all
her spare time, aside from her
archaeological struggles, in keep-
ing her pernicious smoking prac-
tices a secret from her grandmoth-
er.
All this must at the least be ev-
idence of genius. When question-
ed on her plans for the NEWS,
Joan expresses her program terse-
ly: “Scrap it next week.” Those of
us who read last week’s issue will
surely hope that this is nothing
more than a Latinist’s professienal
pessimism, and that her future
motto may be “procedam ut in-
cepi.”
athletics but bridge, a capacity for |
MEET AT THE GREEK’S
Tasty Sandwiches
Refreshments
LUNCHES — DINNER
BOOKS! BOOKS!
AND MORE BOOKS!
All at Our
Lending Library
Country Bookshop
BRYN MAWR, PA.
Keep Your Room
Filled with Cheer
Every Season of the
Year
FLOWERS
from
JEANETTE’S
Editor Investigates
Secrets of the Past
Continued from Page 1
not even the most agile can dup-
licate it. She can do the most re-
markable things with a_ small,
| semi-deflated balloon, and many a
seminary blackboard has been dec-
expatriated Aristotle resides flag-
rantly on her bookshelf:
After consuming fabulous quan-
tities and combinations of food,
she will eat nothing for days; but
she must have been especially hun-
‘ery one night at the NEWS, when
she swallowed the “What To Do’s.”
Emily returns from almost every
basketball game with a splintered
finger or a wrenched knee. One
sprained knee, however, was not
inflicted by basketball. That was
the morning she fell out of bed.
Emily’s poise and dignity have
been shown on many an occasion.
One time was her morning assem-
bly speech, when, with quaking
knees, she delivered as cool, or-
ganized, and amusing a speech as
could be heard. As editor of the
NEIWS she could face every situa-
tion with equanimity; and she in-
stilled her staff with a feeling of
confidence that we hope will never
be dispelled.
And the NEWS is still in her
thoughts. She once offered, “If
séme Wednesday you don’t have
anyone to go to the plant with you,
may I come?” We have a sneak-
ing suspicion that Emily misses
the NEWS, and she can never
know how much the NEWS is
missing without her.
orated with her artistry. And an
Friend. Reconstructs Five Dome Mosaics
In Demolished Church of Holy Apostles
Continued from Page 2
copius, which verifies the poem of
Constantine of Rhodius.
There are many copies of the
Church of the Holy Apostles. St.
Marks Catheral, in Venice, is a
known copy, decorated with simi-
lar, but not as rich, mosaics. The
influence of the design of the’
Church of the Holy Apostles also
extended to churches in Russia and
Sicily.
Professor Friend then recon-
structed the mosaics on each of the
domes, beginning with the west
dome. He explained that the
mosaics in all four domes were in-
tended as a refutation to Eusabius
who wrote in answer to a request
of the sister of Constantine the
Great that no pictures of Jesus
‘Christ or of his acts could be ac-
curately represented. The west
dome pictures a dove on a book on
a central empty throne, the sym-
bol of the Trinity, and the Apostles
on like thrones around the sides,
with the pentacostal flames burn-
ing above their nimbae. The ap-
pearance of the throne set the con-
struction of the church before the
9th century, since previous to that
date, No thrones appeared in con-
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ceptions of the Apostles, or of the
Trinity.
From manuscript number 510,
now in the Bibliothetique Na-
tionale, come flat illustrations of
what were the mosaics on the other
domes. The east dome represents
the transfiguration, showing Christ,
Moses, and Elijah on Mount Tabor.
The south dome represents the as-
cension, and the north, the decent
into hell.
The center dome, higher than
the rest and with windows, shows a
medallion of Christ holding the
Gospels, and surrounded on the
lower sides by Mary, two arch-
angels, and the twelve Apostles.
This center was copied in the apse
of a Sicilian cathedral.
Professor Friend placed the
Seventh Icumenical Council (also
known as the first Council of
Nycea) under the central dome,
and compared the mosaic of the
Apostles in the west dome to one
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What To Do
Jobs For Next Year
The Foreign Service of the De-
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Officers. Must be U. S. citizen
between 21 and 81 years old. (Ex-
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Mrs. Crenshaw, third floor, Tay-
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Jobs Open_-Now
Regular morning™ babysit job
open for two or three mornings a
week from 9:00 to 12:30 on Hav-
erford campus taking care of pro-
fessor’s children. See Mrs. Vietor
if interested.
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council chamber of St. Sophia’s
cathedral.
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