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VOL. XLII, NO, 8
ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1957
© Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, 1957
PRICE 20 CENTS
BM Receives
Bequest From
Gerard Swope
Will Increase Salaries
And Loan Fund
Bryn Mawr College has received
a bequest of $100,000 from Gerard
Swope, formerly president of the
General Electric Company, who
died on November. 20 at the age of
84,
Mr. Swope’s will, which was filed
for probate last week, made pro-
visions for several bequests to.
various educational institutions.
Mr. Swope made substantial gifts
during his lifetime to American
educational, philanthropic and re-
ligious institutions.
The present bequest to Bryn
Mawr adds $100,000 to the Mary
Hill Swope Student Loan Fund
which Mr. Swope and his wife had
established previously. The pres-
ent sum is also to be used.to in-
crease the salaries of the faculty.
Charles Siepmann
Lectures Tomorrow
Tomorrow night in the Common
Room, Professor Charles A. Siep-
mann, of the Department of Edu-
cation and Chairman’ of the De-
partment of Communications, New
York University, will speak on the
topic “The Future of Educational
Television.” ©
Mr. Siepmann, “A noted author-
ity in this field” according to
Lynne Kaplan, vice president of
the Bryn Mawr League, has had a
good deal of experience with radio
and TV education,-and has served
as consultant at various times to
the Federal Communications Com-
mission, and Radio Free Europe.
He is currently an advisor in the
field of T'V education with the Ford
Foundation, as well as chairman
of the Board of Directors on the
New York Civil Liberties Union.
“Bryn Mawr is quite fortunate
to have Mr. Siepmann and ‘we cer-
tainly hope a> number of people
will come,” states Lynne. —
In addition to his other accom-
plishments, Mr, Seipmann is the
author of Radio, Television and
Society, Educational. TV in the
United, States, and TV and Our
School Crisis (to be published in
February).
German Club Presents Buchner Play,
“Leonce Und Lena,” A Royal Romance
by Miriam Beames
“It’s a riot!” exclaimed the pres-
ident of German Club, happily
munching her tenth triscuit of the
evening, as she discussed the pro-
duction of “Leonce und Lena” by
Georg Buchner (to be given this
Friday, December 13, at 8:30 in
Greek and Roman
Coins Being Sold
A collection of 120 Greek and
Roman coins, guaranteed to be
originals by the Swiss firm of Mun-
zen and Medaillen in Basle, is being
exhibited and sold by the Depart-
ment of Classical Archaeology on
the third floor of the Library. The
sale began on Monday, December
9, and will continue as long as the
supply lasts from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.,
Monday through Friday.
Also included in the sale are
some Etruscan scaraboids, a few
terra cottas, one Roman key, and
a Babylonian cylinder seal. On the
first day receipts totalled approxi-
mately $80.00, with prices ranging
upwards from two dollars.
Bryn Mawr’s own fine collection
of ancient coin sis displayed on
the Library’s third floor by the
sale.
Miss M. Mellink
Museum Speaker
Tomorrow evening, December 12,
Miss Machteld J. Mellink, Assoc-
ciate’ Professor of Classical Arch-
aeology, will address a joint meet-
ing of the Philadelphia Chapter of
the Archaeological Institute and
the Oriental Club of the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania in the Uni-
' versity Museum. Her subject will
be “Observations of Hittite Rock
Reliefs.”
Transportation to the lecture will
leave Pembroke Arch at 7:00 p.m.
‘Skinner—student admission 25¢).
“Leonce und Lena” jis the com-
pletely typical fairy tale of a
prince and princess - who, fleeing
from parental insistence that they
marry, accidentally meet, fall in
love, and live happily ever after.
Featured in the cast are Michael
Dohan gs Konig Peter (Prince
Leonce’s father—although he real-
izes the great responsibilities of his
kingship, he fails to observe his
own stupidity), Dieter Kuhn as the
attractive, indolent Prince Leonce;
and Carola Teegan as Princess
Lena, Leonce’s lovely fiancee.
Steve Klineberg is Valerio, the
comical companion of Prince Le-
once. Elka Scott is Die Gouver-
nante (Lena’s, of course); John
Hershey is Der Hofmeister, Ted
Mechling is Der Zeremonienmeis-
ter, Jack Rhoads is Der Prasident,
Cynthia \Stone is Rosetta (‘Leonce’s
mistress), and Betsy Emerson and
Nancy Farwell are Diener (men-
servants).
The production is directed by
Herr Joachim ppel. German
Christmas carols will be sung be-
forehand.
Student's Poem In
NationalAnthology
The National Poetry Association,
Los Angeles, California, announces
that a poem “To
Smart” by Paula Dunaway ’’S has
ben accepted for ralliiieattote in the
Annual Anthology of College Po-
etry.
According to the Association, the
LAnthelogy is “a compilation of the
finest poetry written by the College
men and women of America, repre-
senting every section of the coun-
try. Selections were made from
thousands of poems submit
Paula won the Katherine Fuller-
ton Gerould Memorial Prize for
writing during her sophomore year,
and last year received the Academy
of American Poets award granted
then at Bryn Mawr for the first
time. She is a co-editor of the
The lecture begins at 7:45.
Bryn Mawr-Haverford Revue.
xoaesetinpenmreeiammatameummtasttenieh cea
Christopher
Traditionalists Win Victories in Undergrad Poll
Favor Consideration For Freshmen, (Organization
The Undergraduate Association
has announced the results of its
poll on college traditions conducted
last month among members of the
three upper classes, Students were
asked to indicate whether they
wished to retain, abolish or change
Lantern Night, Parade Night, Hell
Week and May Day. Comments
were also requested.
The tabulated results show a
majority in favor of retaining all
traditions, Hell Week received least
support, with only 55% of 1958
voting “yes,” 60% of 1959 and 61%
of 1960. Lantern Night is most
popular, being favored by 92.8%
of 1959. The seniors voted 838% for
Parade Night, and the sophomores
63%, and Maw Day received a gen-
eral three-fourths affismation, Large
TRADITIONS POLL
Total Handed In—225
No Class—9 Handed In
Yes No
WOPANG oicicciicnuiiac ce 100%
ientern 100%
OE a ee 89% 11%
ee ee 100%
1958—65 Handed In
Yes No Change Don’t Care
POPAOG .ccic 83.1% 1.7% 6.2% 1.5%
LONUEEN |)... 86.2% 4.6% 6.2% 1.5%
re 55.4% 15.4% 21.6% 1.5%
MON nia 78.9% 3.4% 20.0% 1.5%
Note: If these fail to add to 100% across the row, it is because some
people did not answer all of the questions.
1959—65 Handed In
Yes No Change
POPNER 6G. idiciiciaiada 73.8% 16.9% 7.7%
WOBHUOTO oi 92.8% 1.5% 6.2%
ME = cialis 60.0% 18.5% 23.3%
MEG icine 76.9% : 10.8% 13.8%
1960—86 Handed In
Yes - No Change
POPB0G kl aheene ee 63.9% 19.8% 13.9%
PODIORR valine one 43.2% 4.7% 20.9%
WF Biioucuiusunamnqnane 61.6% 15.1% 22.3%
ee or 75.6% 10.4% 11.6%
portions of the student body are in
favor of changing both Hell Week
and May Day as shown both by
statistics and by comments.
Better organization and less time
was the general concensus of the
suggestions. Fines and social press-
ure to induce participation are de-
finitely unpopular measures. Other
comments scattered throughout the
poll sheets include two complaints
that the Parade Night fire is too
hot, three pleas that Lantern Night
not be held in the rain, four that
Hell Week become “help week” and
one that sister classes co-operate in
hazing. There are those on the
other hand who feel that Hell Week
is too watered down, and that May
Day should inclyde the oxen and
goats of its glorious past.
Change
Music to Highlight
Xmas Calébeions
Again Bryn Mawr is preparing
for the traditional all-campus cel-
ebrations of the Christmas season.
The. schedule begins Sunday eve-
ning in Goodhart when Rev. Mutch
of si Bryn Mawr Presbyterian
Church will conduct the annual
Christmas chapel service. The com-
bined choruses of Bryn Mawr and
Haverford will render selections
from “The Messiah.”
At 9:30 the entire college is in-
vited to a carol sing in Applebee
Barn. This. will ‘probably last
until about 11:30. Refreshments
will be served and the Haverford
Glee Club is invited.
—Monday~ the Spanish Club will
hold its annual Christmas party.
Tuesday the graduate students will
render their mummers’ play at each
hall.
Wednesday night the Maids and
Porters will go from hall to hall
Christmas aroling.
Thursday night the halls will
have their traditional. Christmas| :
dinners. Complete with faculty
guests, toastmistresses, and skits,
(as well as smoking in the dining
room) this promises to be a fitting
finale with only Senior caroling to
top one of the most festive weeks
of the se
Geist Gives Warm
Defense of ‘Godot’
by Kenneth Geist, Haverford °58
(A note from the director of the
production of “Godot” to be given
Saturday, December 14 at Roberts
Hall, Haverford College.)
The adjective “controversial” has
by now become overly familiar in
the American theatre. It is used in
reference to Tennessee Williams’
plays, or ones dealing with sex,
miscegenation, narcotics, and Com-
munism,
The nice thing about these topics
is that with slight variation there
is an accepted approach, a eet of
dogma that Eric Bentley terms the
‘Broadway mythology.”
Anyone caught straying from the
party line is chastize,d, and chast-
isement does not make for good
box-office.
known as playwrights, are hewing
close to the mark. ©
Samuel Beckett, the author of
‘Waiting for Godot”~ committed
the unforgiveable crime. Not only
did he choose an unacceptable
theme, namely, the human condi-
tion, but he employed a novel
method of presentation, some ultra-
modern form called allegory.
Allegory is not de rigeur this
season, nor last, for that matter.
It’s confusing, it makes one think
a bit, and to top it off, the charac-
ers don’t talk the way. “we” do.
These offenses were reason
enough for condemnation by the
Broadway critics. One may, how-
ever, question their judicious ques-
_Party _.workers,—-once}—
Polled Students Ask
Changes, Add
Comments
Changes Requested and Comments
General: Undergrad should form
a committee to study all traditions,
making them more efficient and
less time consuming for partici-
pants.
Parade Night
138 More explanation,
ganization.
more or-
3 Less rehearsal, no fined meet- .
ings.
Fire too hot and dangerous.
Step singing only.
Sing around bonfire,
More activities afterwards,
more fun.
Better band.
Too great a physical struggle.
>» Under more organization, it
was requested that ALL fresh-
men should know songs, fresh-
men should be warned about
nasty tricks of sophs, and it
should be harder for sophs to
learn songs.
Lantern Night
Less rehearsal, more efficient
(suggested rehearsals in hall).
38 Earlier in year (one person
suggested switching Lantern
Night and Junior Show).
6. No fined meetings.
No social pressure.
No admission — 4 split costs
among upperclassmen.
Less_cost.
Class vote on songs.
No Lantern Night in rain.
More explanation - of - signifi-
cance,
Lantern swingers tested for
rhythm,
1 No publicity—just the school.
1 It’s so Bryn Mawr!
bt bh bb be
—
25
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— CO at
—
Hell Week
10 Shorter.
6 More co-ordination over
campus,
2 More constructive; changed to
“help week.”
4. Not during Freshman Show.
9 Exclude those in Freshman
Show.
15 Less serious, less pressure on
freshmen.
No personal antagonism.
Less social pressure.
Don’t stay up Friday night.
Less work for sophs.
Hazing by all classes. More
“sister class” emphasis.
No exercising before breakfast.
East House and Inn included.
More explanation to Freshmen.
Saturday morning only.
Too watered down.
No costumes to class.
— —_ — et OD
— ht he et et DD
6 More emphasis on fun, less on
perfection of singing.
Later in morning. ’
All day if necessary on near-
est Saturday. (1—Requested
more rehearsal.)
More dancing.
Oxen and goats.
Less social pressure.
Songs chosen by class.
Only afternoon classes so less
rushed.
1 More explanation of signifi-
wo
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cance,
1- No papers due.
1 Better skits.
(Comments in bold are people
Continued on Page 6, Col. 4
——— 2 silat
who said “yes” or “no.”)
_May—Day i ;
18 Fewer rehearsals, no _ fined
meetings.
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THE COLLEGE NEWS
Wednesday, December 11, 1957
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Tradition Burnished
No doubt there are some who will find the results of the
Undergrad Poll on. Traditions disappointing, and those who
were apprehensive may have their faith in the community.
restored. Parade Night, Lantern Night, Hell Week and the
Maypole have scored their victory, and yet we hope that this
triumph will not mean inertia and a rhodadendron wreath.
If any of our much publicized rituals had failed to stand
the test of time involved in a reevaluation, surely this would
have been an indication that it had lost its value to the col-
lege. By the same token, one may confidently assume that,
since in each case the majority for retaining the traditions
exceeded fifty percent, the majority of students do partici-
pate as much from a sense of enjoyment as from one of social
duty. . :
"To maintain this significance as their chief value, it is
necessary that college traditions must evoke an active, rather
than a passive interest from the students; they must seem
fully as much activities of the present as relics of the past.
Any survival of ancient times gathers, rather than loses
meaning when it is altered to suit the needs and temper of
the present. Undergrad’s poll was a direct result of campus
opinian that something should be done to reform the rites,
and this opinion was reflected in the number of answers
which, while affirming the general tradition, made suggestion
of change. . :
Chief of complaints was the amount of time spent in
rehearsals, fined meetings, and hell week activities. The in-
terests of most students are perhaps not as closely centered
in campus life as they were even a decade ago, and time spent
in social life, must be cut either from academics or activities.
May Day, Lantern Night and Parade Night should have few-
er song meetings, but better organization of the meetings
which are necessary, and more emphasis on fun with less on
the perfection of class singing. E
Lack of organization seems to obscure the meaning of
tradition for many people, especially in the case of Hell Week.
Many feel that it should be shorter, and less serious with less:
pressure on the freshman class, but with better explanation
of the fun spirit of the occasion. Freshmen devoting their
time to freshman show might participate in hall activities
more or less on a voluntary basis. Perhaps more campus
wide co-ordination of the Hell Week activities might clarify
these issues and remove any shade of antagonism which
sometimes exists in the hall.
In the case of May Day it is felt that fewer rehearsals
and later hours would be encouraging. No one worried about
the publicity and admission of outsiders to May Day, but
several felt that the admission charge and posters for Lan-
tern Night were somewhat out of keeping with the spirit of
the ceremony.If-more freshmen knew the Parade Night
Song, and there were a more careful watch over song-stealing
sophomores, this occasion might be more fun for both classes.
The suggested changes are no more drastic than the
overall results of the poll, and perhaps they have even been
necessary for a good number of years. They are all easily
practicable, and having come before us in a manner more
organized than vague rumor and complaint, they suggest
that some organized action be taken.
Events in Philadelphia
THEATRE: |
Academy of Music: The Rivalry, Norman Corwin’s play, with Raymond
Massey, Martin Gabel, and Agnes Moorehead; Thursday and Friday
evening. )
4 CDr.
PEMBROKE ST. GORGE PLAY
(To be performed in the season
of Yule.
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
Mistress Toast
Dr. Philosophy
Dr. Witty
Dr. Silent
Dr. Archaelogy
Dr. Papers-Due
Dr. Shakespere
Dragon
St. Gorge =
o-.—4--—6
Enter Mistress Toast covered
with branches like a Christmas
Tree)
Sing we all right merrily
Holidays are coming—whee
Here is all the faculty
For cur curiousity.
Faculty chorus:
‘Round the table go
Head to heel and. hand to toe
We are full of Christmas cheer
First good meal we’ve seen all
year,
Mistress Toast: _
Doctor Philosophy thinks
‘Like the great sphinx
Ignoring instincts
He eats not nor drinks.
(Doctor Philosophy with tail,
claws and beard in academic gown)
Ideas empirical, finding hysterical
And ¢osomological, not onotological
So paradoxical, heterodoxial
I think the Platonic, rather moronic,
Chorus:
Brilliant, scintillating see
Is Doctor Philosophy
Mistress Toast:
Doctor Physics would be here to-
night
Had he not exploded with the sat-
ellite,
(moment of embarrassed silence)
(Doctor Witty comes in dancing
dressed as an owl)
Doctor Witty, hard and gritty
Does invoke your mirth and pity.
In my classes I am solemn
As a head stuck on a column;
Yet tonight tI’ll be not all glum.
Mistress Toast:
Silence remains
In his domains.
Silence comes forward and
retreats) ;
(Dr. Actheology dressed like Greek
Statue) .
Digging I come, digging I go
Through the rain and sleet and
snow,
When I find an ancient mound,
Down it goeth to the ground.
(Suddenly with much noise enter
Doctor Papers-due, in black, as
the angel of death)
I am Doctor Papers-due
Feel my piercing eyes on you!
Sleepless eyes and heavy head,
Far be you from thought of bed,
But my paper type instead.
~~
he: s
z
In Medias Res
by Ellie Winsor
Fifteen pages, wise and sages
No plagerazes.
(Student Paper-due enters, pale,
dragging feet, glasses, blue
jeans) ‘
Mercy, Doctor Papers-due
Christmas blessings rest on you
{Soften now your cruel heart
And in peace let me depart.
Doctor Papers-due:
|-What = - haurumph
Would you flunk -.- umph
(Meanwhile Doctor Shakspere has
entered, looking at his watch):
“The quality of mercy is not
strained '
It droppeth as the gentle dew
from heaven... ”.
(Enter Dragon in green with red
eyes shooting fire):
By Siegfried and the Red Cross
Knight
Quickly, quickly take you flight.
Yor the first man will I bite
Who does cross before my sight!
(St. Gorge rises with table knife
in hand, munching celery):
Peace, peace and there is no peace
Not even at dinner any release,
I have come for conversation;
Not-to give an explanation
Of dragon fighting, and
Knighting, but crunching,
And munching...
(Dragon seizes Gorge by collar
snatches celery and devours it
snarling then prepares to do
same with Gorge; Mistress Toast
intervenes) :
We cannot the dragon fight
For ’tis Christmas dinner night!
And lest he may think us rude
We must find him now some food.
What will you eat?
Dragon: Red meat!
(Doctors attempt to escape and
fall over each other in efforts
Dragon approaches):
Doctor Philosophy is dry;
Doetor Witty is too wry;
Doctor Silent is too lean;
Doctor Physics might have been—
Tasty.
But not to be hasty,
Dr. Papers-due: garummmm .. .
Fat and juicy—fie, fee fum
(Amid cheers he drags Papers-due
off-stage to be devoured; Student
dances with joy .. .)
Chorus:
Round about the table go
Head to head and heel to toe
First come fast and then come slow
And the moral then you show
Gloria in excelsis Deo!
Next Monday’s evening spot
at 7:15 will be taken by “Cur-
rent Events” again. “Arts
Forum” has sponsored the talks
given the past two weeks.
“Mark but this flea!” Michael ex-
ulted, leaping up and down on the
shift key, causing the works to
rattle so violently that we stopped
our ears for fear of being deaf-
ened,
“For Godsake hold thy peace,’
we bellowed in unison. “Have you
no brains, beastie?” the editor said,
~ Shubert: The Music Man, Meredith Wilson’s musical, with Robert Pres-
ton, Barbara Cook, and David Burns, begins final week.
MUSIC:
Academy of Music: Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conduct-
ing; Lorne Munroe, cello soloist, Friday afternoon and Saturday
evening. e
seppe Campora and Robert Merrill, December 17.
MOVIES: ‘
Bala: Cyrano de Bergerac, revival of Rostand’s classic, with Jose Ferrer.
Boyd: Search for Paradise, cinema adventure. Not classic.
Fox: The Deerslayer, fresh view of the Cooper classic, with Lex Barker,
La Traviata, Metropolitan production of Verdi opera, with Giu-
“Just my point,” he shouted.
bounding from the shift key to
f to k and from there to the
margin release, The carriage jolted
sideways with an horendous clang,
knocking a bottle of ink onto the
a man of action.” He brandished
his cane like a sword. “No whining,
puling, thin-lipped, chinless weak-
ling poet am I, No spineless, bandy-
legfed, high-falutin’ cockroach can
get the best of me.” He did a jig
“you'll shatter this poor antique.”’|
‘unfortunate editor’s foot. “I am.
djbe a bluestocking,” Michael said
it| glibly, “but as for me, I shall con-
Captitalist Flea - Michael ta Plans Shift,
From News Room To Satellite ‘Fleanik’
less. No red blood and a weak head.
‘Sicklied o’er with the pale cast ot
thought,’ and you know the end
of that story. He doesn’t deserve
capitals/“and if he got them, what
then? No longer eould he hide ‘in
his sneaking literary affectation:
of blank verse. Ha! The upstart
innovator would perish in a good
I
“But it takes all types,” said
one of the lesser editors feebly.
“Bah! Action’s what the world
needs, action, and none of your
driveling, meandering meditative
poets. I shall go up with the next
dog to circle the earth while archy,
lowly animal, will spend the day
crawling on his belly from a to r.”
“I just wish we didn’t have to
use permanent ink,” complained the
editor, rubbing her blue bruised
ankle.
“My dear lady, you always will
quer the cosmos.”
Tillich_ Explains
Relation to Holy,
Reality of A God
“The Absurdity of the Question:
‘Does God Exist’?” was the topic
of a speech given by Professor
Paul Tillich of Harvard University
at Swarthmore College November
24. Professor Tillich, who is con-
sidered one: of the foremost Pro-
testant theologians in the world to-
day, offered as one of his first
points the fact that mankind has
always lived in communion with
'God or gods. The question has
never been one of God’s existence
but rather one of how to encount-
er, how to deal with that which is
holy.
According to Doctor Tillich, the
question of existence does not fit
God. It may fit flying saucers but
it does not fit God. The reality of a
God or gods is beyond the terms
of existence.
At some time, however, the
Western’ mind began to deal with
the world of things and to analyze
them. The history of atheism start-
ed, then, when gods were put
before this alternative of existence
or non-existence.
Gods who didn’t follow the ordin-
ary conceptions were “explained
away as creations of the human
mind.” Atheism then was a reduct-
ion of these gods to beings whose
existence or non-existence could be
discussed.
Then, the period came when peo-
ple tried to reconstruct the idea of
God with arguments. This was
right as long as they described
the human situation and derived
from this description an idea of the
ultimate. This was wrong, how-
ever, when they tried to make con-
clusions from the human situation.
A better way of approaching the
question of the existence of God
than argument is the encounter of
reality, the encounter with the holy.
This Professor Tillich further
deseribed as (1) a “feeling of
otherness” which “cannot be grasp-
ed in terms of our ordinary real-
ity,” something which cannot. be
categorized, (2) a fascination, an
attraction which fulfills something
in us which needs to be fulfilled
and (3) it repels, inspires in one a
feeling of awe.
God’s appearance, according to
Professor Tillich, is, then, as a
manifestation of the holy. For this
reason, God. can bé distorted de-
pending on the way in which He
is encountered, However, the holy,
which should be identified with the
whole majesty, fascination and un-
approachable depths of reality, can
conquer such perversions,
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THE COLLEGE NEWS
Page Three
1917 Proffers A Valuable Fragment
Concerning The Evolution Of Law
The Great Parade Night Fracas,
(in three parts).
I.
From The College News, 1917,
October 10, page 2: “Parade Song
Fracas Staged On Pike; Clash Be-
tween sophomores and juniors.
A sharp scramble occurred be-
tween members of 1919 and 1920
last Thursday afternoon in the vill-
age, as a result of an attempt by a
junior to abduct a sophomore sus-
pected of having overheard the
tune of the Freshman Parade Song.
M. Peacock '19, gently humming
the tune of the Parade Song, “Yan-
kee Doodle,” was driving a Marmon
car along Bryn Mawr Avenue,
when she suddenly became aware
of the untoward presence of D.
Rogers ’20, lying on the running
board. Miss Peacock drew up be-
fore the Bryn Mawr Trust, Co. and
hoisted Miss Rogers into the ton-
neau. Almost immediately thirteen
sophomores and six juniors appear-
ed on the scene and a tussle for
the possession of the underclass-
man ensued.
After a moment more of vigorous
action Miss Rogers was carried
off by her classmates, and the jun-
iors, realizing that from her posi-
tion on the running board she could
have heard nothing above the purr
of the engine, returned peaceably
to the comparative quiet of the
campus.”
aa;
From The College News, October
10, page 5:
“Class Apologies Accepted
Severe reprimands for the fracas
in the village the afternoon of Par-
ade Night were sent to the junior
and sophomore classes by the
executive board of Self-Govern-
ment, C. Dodge, president of the
Association, announced in a meet-
ing Monday evening. Apologies
from the two classes were. read
and accepted. Letters of apology
for the affair in the village last
Acquisition ‘of New
Records Announced
"(he Record Library would like
to announce the acquisition of the
following L.P. recordings:
Bach: Cantatas #4 and 140, Mass
in B minor, Violin Concerto #2.
Barber: Adagio for Strings.
Bartok; Piano Concerto #3.
Beethoven: Piano Concerti #1,
8, 4, 5.
Brahms: Clarinet Quintet, Dou-
ble Concerto for Cello and Violin,
Symphony #2, Tragic Overture,
Violin Concerto.
Chopin: Sonatas in B minor, and
B flat minor.
Debussy: Gigues, Iberia, Rondes
de Printemps.
Donizetti: “Don Pasquale.”
Elgar: Introduction and Allegro.
Handel: Royal Fireworks Music,
Two Concerti for Oboe and String
Orchestra.
Honegger:
phony #2,
Liszt: Piano Concerti #1, 2.
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerti in
E minor, D minor.
Menotti: Violin Concerto..
Mozart: Clarinet Concerto, Clar-
“King David,” Sym-
18.
Paderewski plays Paderewski,
Beethoven, Chopin, etc.
Prokofief:: Piano Concerto #3.
Violin Concerto #2.
Purcell: “Come, Ye Sons of Art.”
Rimsky off: Capriccio Es-
Pp. Coq @’Or.”
Sehubert: Quartet, “Death and
the Maiden.”
Strauss: Burlesque in D minor.
Tschaikowsky: yarrnes¢ for
Strings. —
Vivaldi: Concerto for Two Trum-
. pets, The ta
Thursday have been sent to Presi-
dent Thomas, as well as to the
Self-Government Association . . .”
III.
From The College News, October
17: “Parade Night Not Abolished;
Association Accepts Junior Rules.
The reorganization of Parade
Night after the fracas in the vill-
age two weeks ago, came up be-
fore the Undergraduate Associa-
tion last week. Although the Ad-
visory Board recommended that the
parody be given up, the Associa-
tion adopted the less drastic mea-
sures drawn up by 1919.
The new rules are:
1. All activities shall be con-
fined to the campus.
2. The juniors shall take no
part except to give the Freshmen
the tune of their song.
8. Sophomores shall not ve
up conversations, open sealed let-
teres, or enter treshmen’s rooms
uninvited, and shall leave rooms
when requested. (This does not pre-
vent sophomores from hiding in
freshmen’s rooms to obtain in-
formation.)
4, Freshmen shall be able to
sing their song without written
words before leaving Pembroke
Arch.
5. No force shall be used.”
2 Students Attend
W. Point Meeting
Martha Bridge ’58 and Donna
Cochrane ’58 represented . Bryn
Mawr College at the Ninth Stu-
dent Conference on United States
Affairs held December 4 through
December 7 at the United States
Military Academy, West Point
New York.
A total of 160 students from 65
colleges and universities in the
United States and Canada were
chosen to participate.
| The subject of this year’s con-
ference was “The National Secur-
ity Policy of the United States,”
with emphasis on ways of peaceful
change and the policies required to
implement them. ‘Sub-topics dis-
cussed by the students were: The
Atlantic Community, Middle East
and Africa, South and Southeast
Asia, Latin America, and the
U.S.S.R. and Satellites.
The students were assigned to
round-tables of nineteen or twenty
participants. Each group was to
analyze a sub-topic, proceed to
some agreement on the scope and
nature of the problem, and then
develop a course of action for deal-
ing with the problem, Each discus-
sion group was led by a faculty
level chairman and counseled by an
advisor who is an authority in the
area.
The conference was opened with
a keynote address by Mr. William
C. Foster, Former Deputy Secre-
tary of Defense, Former U. S&S.
Representative on the NATO iCoun-
cil, now member of the Science
Advisory Group of the Office of De-
fense Mobilization. Near the closa
of the conference, Mr, ‘Chester
Bowles, former Governor of Con-
necticut and United States Ambas-
sador, addressed the participants
at an informal banquet.
West Point are planned and admin-
istered by a cadet staff drawn from
the membership of the Cadet De-
bate Council and Forum. Next
week’s News will carry an account
by ‘the participants.
Haverford
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K. F. Gerould Prize
CompetitionlsOpen
To B.M.C.'s Writers
Why not make your Christmas
holidays pay off?
The Katherine Fullerton Gerould
Memorial Prize of $50 is not
awarded until late in April, the
contest closing immediately after
Spring Vacation, but entries may
be submitted at any time during
the College year.
The categories are long and/or
short narrative, informal essay and
poetry (several poems, please).
The material may have been pub-
lished or may have been a class
assignment, but it must have been
written since Commencement 1957,
a clean, typed, double-spaced manu-
script, unsigned. The contest is
open to undergraduates and entries
may be brought to the Alumnae
Office, the Deanery, between nine
and. four o’clock any day except
Saturday.
R. Wallace Talks
At First Arts Forum
The Arts Council initiated a new
: program Monday, December 2, with
a reading by Mr. Robert Wallace
in the Common Room. The poems
read by Mr. Wallace, an instructor
of English at Bryn Mawr, are his
own and were recently published in
Scribner’s “Poets of Today IV.”
The Arts Forum will replace
Current Events intermittently dur-
ing the school -year.
Sophomore Researcher Examines
L. Doe’s Effect Upon © Addams
by Alex Van Wessem
The Bryn Mawr Charles Ad-
dams Fan Club is pleased to an-
nounce that its president, Miss Ann
Hill ’60, will soon publish her long-
awaited dissertation, tentatively
entitled, Morbid Morgues in Ad-:
dams and Poe, with Specific Refer-
ences to the Text.
‘Miss Hill p ved to be a-most
pleasant person to interview, Smil-
ing in her sinister fashion, she ex-
plained how the idea for this par-
ticular oeuvre was born. “It real-
ly started in a most un-literary
way,” quoth she. Apparently, Miss
Hill became involved in a discus-
sion on Edgar Allen Poe with her
English professor, who pressed her
for a decided definition dealing
with the depth of Poe’s diligent di-
versity. Miss Hill, never at a loss
for a flippant remark, stated that
she felt: Poe’s major contribution
to literature was his influence on
Charles Addams. The professor,
who was impressed with this subtle
and entirely new revelation, plead-
ed with his student to write her
thesis on this very matter,
She immediately went to the
horse’s mouth, by writing a charm-
ing letter to Mr. Addams, inform-
ing him of herproject and request-
ing pertinent information. A
week later, Miss Hill found the
following note in her mailbox:
“Dear Miss Hill,
You really stuck your neck in it
this time, didn’t you?
There really isn’t much available
material on me, but there was one
~
very literate piece in the Reporter
On Thursday, December 5, Mr.
Francisco Ayala, novelist, profes-
sor of sociology at th University
of Puerto Rico and visiting Pro-
fessor _at_Princeton University,
spoke on “E] Novelista en el Mun-
do Actual” at a meeting of the
Spanish Club.
Professor Ayala ‘published his
first book, Tragi Comedia de un
Hombre sin espiritu when he was
19, in 1925. He wrote quite reg-
ularly for a few years, stopped in
1930, took up writing again in
1947-1948 when he published four
short novels, three being about the
Spanish civil war in which he
fought, after finishing his studies
in Madrid and traveling in central
Europe.
Professor Ayala began his talk
by pointing out that the novelist
is one who writes for the masses
and at the same time writes about
the masses. When studying in Ma-
drid, Professor Ayala was in con-
tact with the Spanish “avanguar-
ing and in the midst of which nov-.
els were starting to be popular.
Novels are an answer to the dis:
turbed period that preceded dnd
followed the wars in Europe. They
are a way of trying to find a solu-
tion to serious problems; they treat
often of tense situations, try to
set examples of conduct, analyze
or even of the world.
One of the main fdeas in Profes-
sor Ayala’s discussion was that the
novel is not a literary form. It is
a sort of vulgar reading material
for the common people. At the
novel’s first appearance, the read-
ing of one was ‘looked upon unfav-
orably.
There are several classes of
novels; it could almost be said a
different sort of novel in each one
that appears. This is one of the
reasons for which the novel may
dia’”’ where new ideas were flourish-
tragic moments in everyday life as]:
-well-as-in-the-history of a.country,.
not be considered a piece of lit-|;
|The Novel, Written For Masses, Not
Literature, Maintains Francisco Ayala
how is it that the novel has become
so popular? First, it responds to
a social necessary: it is the reading
of a disturbed period, it is easy
reading for the people, and to some
extent, it is an historical document.
The novel is a sort of story and
an answer to the desire that: men
have of knowing one another.
The same situations often repeat
themselves over and over again in
novels without tiring the readers.
This is probably because man nev-
er tires about trying to learn
things about himself. Man is try-
ing to find universal law, and
know if there is not some universal
property belong to all men. In
man’s. own life there is the senti-
ment of the universe. Professor
Ayala recognizes Cervantes as the
first true novelist, because he feels
that Cervantes was really the first
to realize this. universality of all
men, Another characteristic of the
novelist is that of offering to his
reader some distraction. As an
artist he tries to define and to inter-
pret his time, and attempts to get a
general view of the ‘world, “hoping
to attain a total view of the world.
A novel is not meant to tell of
the past but about the present.
Every novel is historical but it is
the present that imposes itself
upon the novelist.
The points brought out in Profes-
novel is far from being an estab-
lished literary form, most probably
will never become one, and that it is
even almost certain that this new
reading will soon disappear to
leave place for some new form.
The novel is not a piece of art; it
may be well written ‘but it shall:
hardly be considered as literature.
The novel, it seems, is but a transi-
tory form following a very un-
stable period in history. For
we may well see, novels first began
pepiney at the be-
to gain great
———
‘von Webe:
So en cen ak Niles,
ummist.
January 14, Joseph E. “John.”
son, President, Carnegie Endow-
ment for International Peace.
erature; it has no rules, or more
precisely, it does not follow any
rules and has no definite outline.
The question is then often asked,
of July 21, 19538, by Dwight Mac-
Donald. Perhaps they’ll send you
a tear sheet. (220 E. 42, NYC 17).
If not, why not make it all up;
based on the theory that I’m an all
American boy, which I am, and a
former freckle champ besides.
Sincerely and good luck,
Charles Addams”
Since the historic receipt of this
letter, Miss Hill has become a vir-
tual stranger to her friends and
professors. Formerly friendly and
sociable, she now barely comes
down for meals; all her time is
spent in the library doing resaerch
on her project, in running
around campus collecting funds for
another idea: the building of a
or
Poe and the very much alive Ad-
dams. In this room she plans to
have collectéd all kinds of ghouls
and other Addams apparitions, as
well as a piece of wood which re-
portedly comes from the House of
‘Usher. Miss Hill is without duobt
adding to the versatility of Bryn
contribution to the Humanities.
As a matter of fact, she has been
requested to celebrate the publica-
tion of the most revolutionary doc-
ument of the fifties in the class of
1960 Lecture on “Edgar “and
Charles: A Study.” We, awed to
ibe in the presece of one of the
“happy few,” can predict only that
it will not be long before the Col-
lege will create a special interde-
partmental.. —— dealing with
‘Sadism in Literature and Art, with
Professor Hill teaching. A Cask
of Amontillado, anyone?
Brinton Compares
Religions Of East
As the last speaker in a series
on Eastern religions sponsored by
the Interfaith Association, Dr.
Howard Brinton discussed “Eastern
and Western Mysticism and Theo-
logy” on December 3, in the Com-
mon Room. Dr. Brinton taught a
course in comparative religions
rently at Pendle Hill, a Friends’
graduate study center.
Remarking that “comporisons are
odious,” Dr. Brinton began his com-
parison of Eastern and Western
religious thought by grouping the
main religions of the world into
two categories: those that origin-
ated in Palestine and looked to
Jehovah as God, and those origin-
ating in India and worshipping
Brahma. The main difference be-
tween the former, Judaism, Chris-
tianity, and Islam, and the latter,
Hinduism, Buddhism, and Taoism, is
the fact that Jehovah is a personal
god, while the Brahma of the East-
ern religions is an ab8olute, beyond
personality and form.
« To illustrate this; point, Dr.
}sor-Ayala’s discussion were that the! Brinton went—-on—to—describe the _—__
practices and to try to explain
(although, he said, this was prac-
tically impossible) the theology
underlying Zen Buddhism, as a
highly developed expression of the
essence of oriental thought and
practice.
Dr. Brinton told of his visit to
Japan in the summer of 1936 to
study Zen Buddhism, one of the
dozen or so sects of Buddhism in
a8|Japan. He visited Zen “monastar-
ies” (although not so technically,
because the worshippers do not
|take a. vow for life). Worship itself
special room dedicated to the dead’
Mawr College through her major’
here in 1934 and 1936, and is cur- ©
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olution not only. saclalig but in all
the domains of human power, cul-
urate aden
=lconsists of meditation in a bare
hall with a platform along the
walls, and interviews with.a teach-
Continued on Page 4, Col. 3
et regret
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Page Four
THE COLLEGE NEWS
Wednesday, December 111, 1957
Erich Leinsdorf In Friends of Music
Lecture, Tells Of The Conductor’s Role
On Wednesday evening, Novem-
ber 20, the Friends of Music of
Bryn Mawr College presented a
lecture by the well-known sym-
phonic and operatic conductor
“Erich Leinsdorf. Mr. Leinsdorf
/has been well prepared, by years
of conducting experience both here
and abroad, to speak on his sub-
ject: “The Techniques of Conduct-
ing Operatic and Symphonic Mu-
sic.”
Mr. Leinsaorf reminded his audi-
ence that only 60 years ago an
opera conductor’s name was not
even listed on the program in
Vienna. The transformation be-
tween then and now in the recog-
nition of the conductor’s import-
ance has been so great that today
the conductor’s name has first
place, although the opera public
still is more aware of and inter-
ested in the singers. Today, too,
the conductor’s personality has
come to be of prime importance.
As one explanation of the change
in position of the conductor, Mr.
Leinsdorf mentioned that the
earlier composers, for example
Bach and Mozart, paid very little
attention to posterity. One evi-
dence of this is the fact that their
music is less fully notated and con-
tains fewer performing directions
than do later compositions. Their
music was written to be played in
the near future by musicians close
to it. Nineteenth century roman-
ticism, in contrast, not only was
extremely conscious of posterity,
but also established the separation
of composer and performer.
The tasks of the serious conductor
are manifold. Included in what Mr.
Leinsdorf termed “preparatory la-
bors” is the time spent with the
score before rehearsals,. marking
phrasing, checking length of notes,
determining interpretation.
He characterized a concerto
as “a duet of two fully equal
partners,” and said it should be
played in a “spirit of unanimity.”
He pointed out that a concerto is
written to be performed in such a
cooperative manner, but that its
successful performance requires
give and take, and should be pre-
ceded by more rehearsal time than
the few hours, on the morning of
the concert, which today are often
the only time during which the
soloist and the conductor work to-
gether, The “artistic incompati-
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many explosions between perform-
ers may frequently be attributed
to the fact that artist and conduct-
or have to work together after and
only after each has fully developed
his own approach to the particular
compositidh. Some performers, ac-
cording to Mr. Leinsdorf, lose their
flexibility and can not adapt them-
selves to others’ ideas. It is for
this reason, for example, that nu-
merous conductors, among them
Toscanini, prefer to work with an
opera cast composed of non-top-
flight singers.
The essential function of the
conductor, in Mr. Leinsdorf’s opin-
ion, is that of leader. Often a con-
ductor finds himself at the head
of a group of extremely skilled
musicians; in such a _ situation,
again, success is largely dependent
on give and take, on the conduct-
or’s attaining a balance between
the necessary imposition of his
own authority and experience and
the equally essential respect due
the players.
The past half-century has seen
a great change in the career of the
conductor. Fifty years ago, he
traveled much less, and his moves
were chiefly from one~permanent
position to another. One result
was that the conductor and his
orchestra developed together, hom-
ogenous in repertory and. style.
Today’s conductor, however, is
“either a world traveler or a hack,”
and he loses stature and prestige
if he gives up his widespread com-
mitments. )
Mr, Leinsdorf feels ‘that the
conductor should be versed in lit-
erature and in pictorial art as well
as in music. He need not play all
the instruments, but he must have
‘a knowledge of the abilities and
possibilities of each.
Thus the conductor plays a large
and diverse part in the rehearsal
and performance of a musical com-
position. However, in the last
analysis, his instrument is neither
his baton nor his hands but the
human ensemble which he leads;
therefore, no amount of coaching
can alter the basic quality of the
orchestra or ensure the success of
the final product.
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Continued from-Page 3
er. The interviews may consist of
anything from a story told by the
for the worshipper to knock him
down.
The exact theology behind this
meditation no-one, not even the
Zens, is sure of. However, the sect
has developed the idea that deep
in the inner being of man, below
human contacts, below the con-
scious reason, and the subcon-
scious instinct, is a formless self,
the true self. Without form this
self has the possibility of all form
of all creation. The object of Zen
is to discover, experience, and
live in this formless self.
The very nature of the thought
pattern itself differentiates East
from West. The occidentals think in
a rectilinear way: “a” leads to “‘b”’
which leads to “c” and so forth.
The oriental, however, tends to
tackle a problem with all his facul-
ties: feelings, intutions, sensations,
as well as reason, and therefore
his approach seems to us compli-
cated and circular.
Western thought is most often
dualistic:. it thrives on antitheses,
Oriental thought does not depend
on any such system, but tends to
rely more on flashes of intuition,
and has not had any great system
builder such as Plato or Hegel.
Oriental thought does not draw
as sharp distinctions as Western
thinkers are likely to. For instance,
the line between nature and man
is indefinite; temples are made to
fit into the landscape, not to ex-
clude it as do our cathedrals, and
there is a strong sense of unity of
man with nature.
Nor is oriental religion as prac-
tical and materialistic as Western.
Zen sees no real necessity for social
reform, or for the kind of help-
thy-neighbor physically as well as
spiritually idea that has grown into
Western religious practice. Instead
the oriental finds a release from
material things in life as the form-
less self, a release. even from
suffering, and expects his neigh-
for to do the same.
teacher to a request by the teacher
the ego, the personal history, the’
Hockey
by Sandy Colt
The last games of the hockey
séason against Chestnut Hill on
Nov. 21st should be interesting to
all those who were beginning to feel
greatly discouraged by the results
of previous games. For the first
time all year the team achieved
its ideal of working together.
The JV won its game 1-0, with
Jean Hebb making the goal. Bryn
Mawr Varsity scored two of its
3 goals in the first half, one a
shot by the center half, Weecha
Buse, the other a run down the
field alone and a quick flick past
the goalie by Sandy Colt. The third
goal, made near the beginning
of the second qarter, was a
pass from Edie Murphy pushed
in by Sandy Colt.
Chestnut Hill’s ‘roused temper
brought forth one goal in this lat-
ter half. But all the time it was
Bryn Mawr in there fighting fierce-
ly with better results. Let’s make
these games a precedent for next
year!
Final Varsity and Junior Varsity
Hockéy members for 1957 Season:
Varsity
Pell, A., DuBois, MacVeagh,
Hoffman, N., McCord, Murphy,
Colt, Buse, Yaukey, Farlow, Berk-
ely, Trubek.
Junior Varsit
Hankin, Merrill, Hebb, Wolffe,
Janney, Parlin, Ober, Rowlett,
Balsey, Tench, Dobbin, Presbrey,
McHenry, Cohen, H., Davis, S.,
Pinckney.
West Wing Faction.
Accepts ‘Tribute’
Mrs. von Hulsteyn of the li-
ibrary’s west wing and her side-
kick, Marthe F. Smith 758
‘would like to express their ap-
preciation to the kindly soul
who donated a pair of beige
knitted gloves with leather
palms. The gratitude would be
superlative if the donor would
exchange the gloves for a small-
er size. Further contributions
will be welcomed.
‘COKE 08 6 REGISTERED TRADE-UAR, COPYRIGNT 1967 THE COCA-COLA COMPAION
a mene gy
Mile. Fire Destroys
CB Contest Entries
Mademoiselle Magazine’s College
Board Contest announces that:
1. All entries that reached Ma-
demoiselle before November 29
were destroyed by fire.
2. Entrants can qualify without
redoing their tryout by writing a
note of application to Mademoi-
selle’s College Board Contest, 575
Madison Avenue, New York 22,
he .
Any girl who did not receive an
orange card of acknowledgement
must asume that her tryout was
destroyed.
Engagements
Rhoda Becker ’58 to Louis W.
Fryman,
Mariellen ‘Smith ’58 to Frederic
Schwentker.
Marriages
Martha Weil ex-’60 to
Whittal.
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There is a general fallacy, in thecritic a service by flashing a total-
viewpoint that a play, especially
a Shakespearean one, is soiled once
it is performed on the statge, said
Mr. Moelwyn Merchant of the Uni-
versity College of South Wales, to
introduce his lecture on “Visual
Criticism of Shakespeare,” Mon-
day, December 2. Indeed, a play
Lis like a musical score in that it
must be realized in spite of the
possible criticism that such a pro-
duction might engender. Secondly,
time and place are important in
the production; each version
throughout the ages helps to add
to the accumulated meaning of the
play. For instance, Mr. Merchant
gave the example of the eighteenth
century: interpretation of Falstaff,
which has remained with us still.
His third premise is that the thea- |.
ter is a visual art; a mere radio
performance will not suffice.
An artist, be-he an illuStrator,
a painter, or someone occupied
wit hthe decor of a stage produc-
tion, possesses a particular percep-
ton in regard to the images which
we, the reading audience, tend to
miss. As an example of the art-
ist’s perception, Mr. ' Merchant
suggested Blake’s illustration “Pity
Like A Naked, New Born Babe!”|
Here the impression of pity
is created partially by a mother,|.
partially by a child. The total
image is atomized, only to be re-
synthesized, in order to leave a
general impression of the emotion.
In applying this to Shakespeare,
Mr, Merchant chose Runsin’s Lear
on the Heath. Here, we have Lear
on a promontary above the sea, his
arm around the fool, contemplating
some drowned bodies. In the play
itself, there is no storm at sea;
rather, a tempest of the soul is
suggested in the language of the
scene and the episode is one of ex-
treme pity: The artist did the
ly new light on the imagery of this
scene in the play.
Upon request, Mr.
went on to relate his experiences
with a production—with the em-
phasis on the visual effect—of Mea-
sure for Measure.
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8:30 p.m.—Legislature meeting.
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Thursday, December 12
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Professor of Education and
Chairman of the Department of
Communications, N.Y.U., will
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of the League. Goodhart, Com-
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Man‘s Loneliness ©
Says Mr. Maurin
Bryn Mawr Arts Council pre-
sented M. Mario Maurin, professor
of French, who. spoke on “Waiting
for Godot,”on Décember 9.
Monsieur Maurin first discussed
the advantages and disadvantages
faced by a man, like Beckett, writ-
ing in a foreign tongue. Beckett,
an Irishman by birth, has been liv-
ing in France for many years. As
an outsider he can see the strange-
ness and staleness of writers
working within the tradition. The
problem of writing in a foreign
tongue reduces the dialogue to
short sentences which bear the es-
sential meanings. In the work of
Beckett the ready-made sentences,
which are unlike previous artistic
uses of the language, emphasize
and underline the oppressive sil-
ence which is basic to the meaning
the work.
/ “Beckett implies rather than
states. He relies on the under-
standing of the audience for the
success of “Waiting for Godot.”
Godot remains the unknown fac-
tor of the play. Even M. Maurin
hesitated to apply any one mean-
ing to the “thing” for which all the
characters in the play are waiting
in vain. He did suggest that the
waiting gives a meaning, super-
ficial as it may be, to the lives of
the characters. The play, M. Mau-
rin suggested, might be a ‘waiting
for God. It might be a parable of
the destitute condition of man
without God. M. Maurin, however,
doubts the validity of this theme
since a Chrisitan framework seems
to be lacking from any other work
of Beckett.
In the place of this explanation
M, Maurin offered one that in-
volves the solitary condition of
man. This play is “a testimonial
to. the defenselessness of man and
his need to go on living,” even if
real meaning is lacking in his life.
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THE COLLEGE NEWS
Wednesday, December 11, 1957
Stendhal Admired
Artists of Bologne
On Monday evening, Jean Seznec,
Marshal Foch Professor of French
Literature at Oxford delivered a
lecture entitled “La Peinture dans
les Romans de Standhal.” Professor
Seznec opened with an apology for
his title which he admitted was
“both too ambiguous and too am-
bitious” a lecture topic. He there-
fore limited himself to a discussion
of the interrelvations of Le Rouge
et Le Noir and La Chartreuse de
Parme, and certain Italian paint-
ings.
Stendahl had a prediliction for
certain Bolognese painters who
have gained little recognition to
this day. Stendahl commented that
they gave of themselves so much
in their painting and. nevertheless
died poor and comparatively unin-
fluential in the art world, These
Bolognese painters revolted against
the Classic and Neo-Classic Move-
ments, denouncing the timidity of
their expression. For their un-
swerving attempt to vitalize artis-
tié expression by portraying
heightened emotion, Stendah] ad-
mired them.
Even before he was fully en-
trenched in his literary career,
Stendahl contemplated the disap-
proval which his style would incur.
However, he was ambitious, and
prowd of his originality. Gleaning
courage from the -contemporary
Bologenese..painters, he attempted
to quench his thirst for “energetic
emotion” n ihis literature.
Having postulated this parallel
purpose in both painting and Sten-
dahl’s writing, Professor Seznec
proceeded to support his contention
with concrete examples, A painting
was shown which Stendahl admit-
ted guided him in his description
of Mathilde with the head of Julien
near the. end of Le Rouge et Le
Noir. In the painting a young girl
is portrayed as the incarnation of
feminine heroism. This quality is
not only conveyed by the heartless
act which she is committing (de-
capitating a man) but also by her
poignant facial expression, frozen
by the artist at such a critical
moment. Although Stendahl paints
by Perry Cotler ’61
Mother Goose in To the Lighthouse
A Literary Criticism
Mrs. Ramsay’s function as the
mother image in: Virginia Woolf’s
To the Lighthouse is based on
that famous classic, Tales of Moth-
er Goose. Mother Goose is repre-
sented by Mrs. Ramsay, who is
the mother of eight children.
Mother Goose kept her brood
Mathilde with words, the emotional
affect which she has on the reader
closely parallels‘ that of which the
young girl has-on-the-viewer.
Professor Seznec cited also the
scene in Le Rouge et Le Noir in
which Julien Sorel discards the uni-
form of king’s guard and dons a
priestly robe, i.e. he renounces the
red for the black, Stendahl was
quoted as having said that a paint-
ing supplied him with a model for
Julien, who tried to emulate an
expression of piety and perfect
devotion in the seminary.
La Chartreuse de Pgrnie owes
many of its descriptigé ‘passages to
pastoral scenes in paintings with
which Stendahl was very familiar.
The “weeping distances” and dis-
tribution’ of light, the method of
using shadows to put objects in
relief and also to lend mystery
to the scene, all contributed to a
painting’s dramatic effect. To cap-
ture this vivacity and charm. in
literature, Stendahl sought a sacred
language dictated by his soul.
The ability to portray authentic
emotions in a convincing manner
is a sign of greatness. Stendahl
was obsessed: with Caravaggio as
well a the little-known Bolognese
painters since they painted with
their souls and thus were able to
portray “energetic emotion.” Sten-
dah] found his own sentiments and
ideas in these paintings so poig-
nantly conveyed that he relied on
them as models. In other cases, he
derived his inspiration from paint-
ings and endeavored to echo the
effect of the painting on him in
his writing.
“Virginia Woolf Obviously Studied
Mother Goose,” Claims Freshman
happy by telling them stories;\so
does Mrs. Ramsay, i.e., James 1
told the story of the fisherman’s
wife,
Lily is borrowed from the char-
acter who appears in one of the
tales, Miss Muffet. Little Miss
Muffet sat on her tuffet; in Lily’s
case, her camp stool, eating her
curds and whey; Lily was painting
her picture, Along came a spider
(Mr. Ramsay) and sat down beside
her (he walked up-to her) and
frightened Miss Muffet away. Mr.
Ramsey jarred her thoughts and
nerves so that she could not paint.
Minta and Paul are obviously
the fictional Jack and Jill. Minta
and Paul went up to the beach to
have a romantic interlude. Minta
fell down and lost her brooch, and
Paul went back to find it.
Mr. Ramsay and Mr. Bankes’
disagreement over the soup stems
from the age-old argument. over
the peasporridge.
‘Cam was a little girl, who had
a little complex, right in the mid-
dle of her ego. ‘When she loved
her father, she thought he was
good. When she didn’t, she thought
he was horrid.
The trip to the lighthouse in-
volves three characters: Mr. Ram-
say, James, and Cam, They are
at first the three men in a tub, but
as they cross the waters of anni-
hilation, they ‘become Hickory,
Dickory, and. Dock. The trip to
the lighthouse is parallel to the trip
up the clock, the lighthouse serving
as the clock image. It is during
this trip that they experience the
subjective, ie. the three men in a
tub, ard the objective states, i.e.,
Hickory, Dickory, etc.
I feel that the use of Tales of
Mother Goose ky Mrs. Woolf is
dueto her exposure to it in early
childhood. Mrs. Woolf, as were
many children of her period, was
read these tales at bedtime and
they have been lying in her sub-
conscious ever since. Whether she
‘used it consciously or not, is not
the point this author wishes to put
across, but merely the fact that
this symbolism is.
Continued from Page 1
tioning of Mr. Beckett’s integrity
as an artist. The conclusion pf
Walter Kerr that Godot ‘“‘is a pat-
iently painted, painstakingly form-
ed- plastic job for the intellectual
fruitbowl,” or another reporter’s
assertion that the play is “aimless
in plotting, devoid of excitement,
an impossible guessing game” seem
slightly biased.
A note of prejudice is further
suggested by the use of such
damning epithets as “foreign im-
port,” “cerebral,” and “existential-
1st,"
The main thing that seems to
have disturbed the critics is that
that play was difficult. It did not
lend itself well to the hasty con-
templation of a frantic last-minute
review. This was extremely aggra-
vating, for the critic feels it is
his task to synopsize, analyse, and
criticize a play’s ideas and import
in the’lead paragraph, an arduous
assignment with Godot.
Waiting for Godot was, and still
is “controversial,” but not in the
accepted commercial sense, and the
adjective became the eulogy of the
show’s press agent in a futile at-
tempt to spark public interest.
For the play had been already
rejected, labelled as pretentious
and meaningless simply because in
an evening’s viewing it could not be
completely assimilated and intér-
preted.
One might raise the question,
“What great play can?” Surely,
'Godot cannot. Its texture is too
rich; its symmetry, imagery, and
allusions too far reaching and intri-
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cate.
This does not mean that Godot
is exclusively literary, or designed
only for the intellectual; for it
makes its basic statements in pure-
ly theatrical terms, and brilliantly
at that.
Despite its bleak setting, and
morose preoccupation with boree
dom, despair, and death it is, as
one critic put it, “gorgeously
comic.” In its earthiness and des-
peration it is yet uproarious.
It cannot be classified, for Beck-
ett’s technique is novel, and his
style is unique and personal. His
ideas, however, are not new, only
their expression is. If their major
reference is to the plight of mod-
ern man, it is to be suggested that
man’s dilemma has changed very
little, his struggle for hope, faith,
and enlightenment being universal
and timeless.
This struggle for enlightenment,
a perplexed search for meaning,
is, perhaps, the major conflict of
Waiting for Godot. If the play-
wright has succeeded in extending
this bafflement to his audience it
is no doubt spiritually justifiable
and, I trust, artistically.
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