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THE COLLEGE NEWS

Wednesday, ‘March 25, 1959



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Wanderlust Lost

Spring arrives at Bryn Mawr with all the subtlety of 70° weather
after a night of frost and brings with it all its proverbial signs of
change. That the college is not unaffected by this is shown by the
migration of classes from stuffy Taylor-rooms to muddy spots near
Senior Row, and by frequent excursions into native trees ... and even
the menu is blessedly subject to change without notice.

But contrary to this surge, one element that is not subject to
change without notice is the residence hall of each student; full notice
of planned room assignments is duly rendered by the usual ample
amount of red tape, the first hint of which is an innocent dittoed sheet
left in each mailbox about this time of year. But the results are
simple: people either keep their rooms or they don’t, but no one
remotely. considers moving to ANOTHER hall—horrors, foreign ter-
ritory?

If one wonders where the old American wanderlust has gone when
one finds Bryn Mawrters thinking of the distance from Denbigh to
Goodhart or Radnor to Taylor as “a long way,” anyone with a touch
» of said wanderlust would be horrified to see the overwhelming percent-
age of people who settle down to four comfortably assuming years
in the same hall.

Most Bryn Mawrters drop into what a geology-type might call an
“incised meander”—they just meander down the corridor to anew room
and sink further into the easy familiarity of their own dorm. Why are
we so unadventurous? It’s not as though BMC were a gigantic, sprawl-
ing university whose masses make friendly penetration to any degree
utterly hopeless. oe

The fact is that despite the cherished picture of the “Bryn Mawr
Type” as a steel-trap mind housed in a bespectacled exterior of feverish
academic pursuit, when it comes to establishing our main stomping
grounds for the year we are mentally and physically lazy. Physically,
throwing a few things in a carton is evidently too high a sacrifice, and
mentally, we just can’t be bothered to buck the apparent (and apparent
only) “tradition” of remaining sealed in one hall—simply for the sake
of meeting new people and forming more accurate opinions of those
who are now just fellow-gladiators in the Reserve Room or fellow-
knitters at lectures.

To those who say they stay in one dorm because “I’d rather make
a few good friends than a ‘lot of superficial ones,” the most honest
and direct reply is ... “Hogwash!’”? The: people who will “stick with”
one, if already found, will do so despite another 800’ between them,
and there is no better way of meeting the ones as yet unmet than hunt-
ing them up.

This is a place where the most drab-looking wallflower turns |
out to have collected Syrian manuscripts since she was four and
becomes suddenly animated at the mention of a new find; and the
quietest’ of souls turns out to be writing’ a series of controversial! |
articles for a magazine, etc. ad infinitum. In short, there are too many
well-disguised fascinating people here and too little time to meet them.
Merely a more liberal attitude toward those who do decide to explore
a bit would relieve these from feeling that they had virtually announced
to their dorm, “I hate you all and I’m moving where the good people
are—so there!”



Without adopting required dorm-changes which are the case in |

some schools, and which would undoubtedly be received here. in a mood
vaguely equivalent to that of about the fifth day of. finals, it. does |

seem we could encourage rather than discourage-any exploring tenden- |
cies one may have toward those exotic foreign domains—OTHER halls. |



Spring, never half so sweet as now nor ever half so sweet’
again, now if never after, come spring. come

aa

with

tree trunks in pools of water, green rain and yellow willows,
daisy wheels and buttercups, meadow larks aoe song sparrows,
come spring come

with

milkmaids and shepherdesses, colin clouts and marris dancers,
may rings and tennis balls, white’ shirts and boys running, —
come spring come _

with :
broken hearts mended, wars hates.and. cares and fears forgotten,

_, green strength and. careless love, lazy» wits and shallow fancies, »
_spring, never half so sweet as now nor ever half so sweet

again, now if never after, come springcome.
Richmond Lattimore

| rationally. This worldis-used—as—2-

Poet Probes Blake’s Symbolism

Kathleen Raine, a poet from
Girton College in Cambridge Uni-
versity, chose. to discuss Blake
rather than, as originally planned,
her-own poetry.

She deseribed her study: of that
poet as a “transforming experi-
ence,” and one which illuminated
not only Blake’s poetry, but also
that of the other English symbolist
poets: Shelley, Spenser, Yeats, and
others. ‘They speak a common lan+
guage, in which fairy tales express
things which can’t be expressed

reflection of the eternal, and its
images represent spiritual, mental
nature. Such a language of symbol-
ism remains strangely invariable in
its terms. It is always fresh and
relevant, and only the style ofthe | ;
poet changes, according to hig per-
iod “in history.

Miss Raine stressed that a com-
prehension of this language of
symbolism is very relevant for

materialism in thought, and in
their writings express only the in-
dividual. human personality. ~This
she described as a “terible im-
passe,” which would eventually ne-
cessitate a return to symbolism,
“the highest form of poetry.”
Miss Raine then read and inter-
preted two “enchanting fairytale
poems ” by Blake: “The Little Girl
Lost and Found.” They have their
roots in the period of the classical
revival in. England, around 1790,
and refer directly to the famous



On the first level of interpreta-
tion, the story that emerges from
the poems is that of Persephone,
carried off by Pluto into Hades.

Below this most apparent mean-

ing lies a more universal one—the|

theme of the immortality of the
soul, Leyca’s death is merely sleep,
and her parents weep because they
don’t understand this.

The third interpretation which

Double-0 Sings
On Good Friday

The Bryn Mawr Double Octett
and a comparable group from Hav-
erford wil provide the music for
the Good Friday service at the
National Cathedral of Washington,
D.C.

The service is from 1.to 3 p.m.,
and the music consists of fairly
short pieces or~ excerpts from
larger works. ee
Bryn Mawr alone will sing
pieces ranging from Vittoria to
Caplet. Haverford includes in its
program the premiere of an “Ex-
posteilarion for Good Friday, “The
Penitent Thief” composed by Al-
fred Swan, the head of their music
department. The two groups to-

gether will. sing the Kyrie of
‘Vaughan Williams’ Mass in G mi-
nor, and a piece by John IV, King





modern poets, who tend towards







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