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THE COLLEGE NEWS

Wednesday, November 20, 1957



THE COLLEGE NEWS

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Editor-in-Chief .........ccsccsccceceseecrsceeseeevses Anna Kisselgoff, ‘58
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OTe e eS Eye ee EOE STAN CMTE ERE AE EE, Miriam Beames, ‘59

Make-up Editor
. EDITORIAL STAFF

Barbara Broome, ‘60; Sue Goodman, ‘60; Tulsa-Kaiser, ‘58; Frederica Koller,

‘61; Gail Lasdon, ‘61; Betsy Levering, ‘61; Lynne Levick, ‘60; Elizabeth Rennolds,

59; Susan Schapiro, ‘60; Judy Stulberg, ‘61; Alex van Wessem, ‘61; Janet Wolf,

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Let There Be... ~

Off stage voices: (sepulchral, mysterious, laryngitical)

O light!

In the beginning was the dark...

O light?
A movement, as of many softly shuffling sneakers, is heard,
and presently On Stage voices:

No ink

No light

No think

To-night

Too hot

To sleep .

Two-watt

We weep
Chorus, full voice:

And Besides The Books Are All Stolen Anyway!

(The voice of the poets is heard through the land)
1st Poet: a

“Do not go gentle into that good night

Rage, rage...”
2nd Poet:
“AO dark dark dark. They all go into the dark,
The vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the vacant.”
(a murmur of “how unkind,” “oh, now wait” i§ heard, Sneak-
ers shuffle as in protest) .
“The captains, merchant bankers, eminent men of letters,
The generous patrons of art, the statesmen and the rulers,
Distinguished civil servants, chairmen of many committees,
Industrial lords and petty contractors, all go into the dark,
and dark the Sun and Moon, and the Almanach’ de Gotha
And the Stock Exchange Gazette, the Directory of Directors,
And cold the sense and lost the motive of action,
And we all go with...”





1st pair of Sneakers: (a younger pair)
Yes that’s very nice Mr. Eliot, and of course we had always
intended to write our long paper on you, but please can’t you
tell us why they don’t put the lights on in the library, These
nights we can only read you by day. And if it’s raining
sometimes not even then, Mr. Eliot... we
Chorus: (full sneaker shuffle) Vd
We peer \
We squint
We near
The print
The rain
The dim
The strain
No glim!
2nd Poet: (again)
“You must go by a way which is the way of ignorance
In order to possess what you do not possess”

Zu

Pair of tennis shoes: o Mr. Eliot...

Castle Guide:

Please to regard the main reading room, madam

It’s modelled on Oxford, old Wadham

College’s great hall for dining; quite

Ideal for study, especially at night

Don’t you think
Tourist tripper (female)

Think?

Oh yes.

Indeed I have always inclined

To think books the food of the mind

Don’t you guess?
An aga student minstral: (a monotone who will not be
deni
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (condensed by Addlemer Mor-
timer)

This scene we saw, this saw was seen

While strolling through the grey

Of reading room in la(f)ternoon

' Around 5:30, say;
For I never saw a girl “‘who looked
So wistfully at the day”

_As one bright scholar, who did wear
Long shorts and hours grey
Away in light unsure, at best, Ie ©
For the honors gained in May; |
~ “© carpe diem” quoth she sadly ‘
Which means enjoy the day.
2nd Poet (for the last time, softly) :
“What is the late November doing...”
Sneakers, Tennis shoes:
Mr. Eliot, oh Mr. Eliot, do you think you could explain the
symbolism, we’re in the dark you know .. .
Full Chorus of On Stage Voices: ~
- No ink
_No light
No think ‘



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ALERTED? a PEE gory an ee
(And Besides The Books Are All Stolen Anyway)

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Tis said brevity is the soul of wit.
Alas the professorial contingent
did not always subscribe to this
view. “Ah,” but you say, “it is not
the quantity .. .”

“Indeed, no, Miss Jeosophat, but
we can not judge you on 25 words
or less.”

“But sir, these aren’t just any
old 25 words. Each is carefully
chosen. i:

Mv e, Wells"

“One day sir, all language will
be limited to a meagre hundred
words or so.

“Indeed?” Then why not write
a paper on that topic. You could
deal with it quite copiously, I’m
sure.”

‘Am What Am

by Debby Ham







So she went home and wrote a
paper, but it didn’t look very long
so she rewrote it on her room-
mate’s typewriter which had larger
type. It. still didn’t look very long
so she re-typed it with two spaces
between each word and four spaces
between each sentence. That took
her a long time, and even when she
was finished it was still short. She
reset her margins and made a
thin column down the center of the
page, using long words and cross-

ing them out. When she got to the
end she wrote “end,” and there was
much matter and few words.

And from that day on, profes-



sors never asked for long papers.



Last Thursday evening Don
Americo Castro spoke in the Com-
mon Room to a large group of stu-
dents, professors and their families
and local residents. Don Americo

is considered one of the leading
figures of Spanish thought of the
20th century and one of the great
professors of literature of our time.
His topic was “El Caballero de O1-
medo”—a play by Lope de Vega,
famous Spanish playwright of the
transitional years between the 16th
and 17th centuries,

Don Americo commented early
in his lecture that the play was
constructed upon a “cantar popu-
lar” of that period, the inspiration
of the song, however, having noth-
ing to do with the happenings of
the play. Lope simply appropriated
the song already known and sung
among the people and wove the
play around it, substituting the
death of the play hero, Don Alonso,
for the death of one of the local
residents for whom the song was
originally written. This factor
brought out some thoughts of Don
Americo on the subject of literary
criticism. He felt it was easy to
become over-involved in a relation
of the work to reality at the
time it was written and overlook
the value of the work as an artis-
tic entity. He definitely felt that
\the reader should forget for a mo-
ment why this song was originally
written and whether or not the
heroines of the play were meant
to represent various lovers of the
author. Instead the reader must
enter into and participate emotion-
ally in the play itself in order to
understand and appreciate it fully.

The element of fate was men-
tioned by Don Americo as funda-
mental to the play. Dona Ines and
Don Alonso were fated by the stars
to love, and he to die. As in all
epochs, the drama makes use of
the clash between the life of the

and his adverse destiny as directed
from above. Lope does not com-
ment on the good or bad of this
adverse destiny, he merely presents
it—“que de noche le mataron!”
Lope presents the two towns of
Medina and Olmedo as symbols re-
spectively of life and death. The
constant goings and comings of
Don Alonso between Olmedo and
Medina—between life and th—
show that he is both a living per-

time. He continually speaks to us
from a world of fantasy and
dreams. How is it possible that he
‘ean be alive and dead at the same
time? “Only in art,” said Don
Americo, One must perceive this
paradox emotionally, not rationally.

In contrast to the world of death
from which Don Alonso speaks to
us ig the crude realistic world of
Fabia—iLope’s presentation of the
15th century’s Celestina. This huge

brought into a synthesis and har-
monized in the person of Dona
s from con-



character as directed by himself] |
son and a dead person at the same

| Tale of Two Cities!

scope presented by the author is|'

Reading of “El Caballero de Olmedo”
Follows Don Americo Castro’s Lecture

love ‘with Don Alonso in his very
world of fantasy and dreams. Don
Americo mentioned also that never
before had such originality ap-
peared in Spanish drama and at-
tributed it to the genius of Lope
de Vega.

The lecture was followed -by a
reading of fragments of the play
and the “romance” sung and play-
ed by students from the Graduate
Center. : :

Badminton

Last chance! Try out for the bad-
minton varsity Thursday night,
7:30-10:00 p.m. Everyone welcome:
you need not be a champion. A
wonderful game, congenial com-
pany, and a long time period to
suit your taste. Come anywhere
between those hours.

Self-Gov Initiates .
Meetings in Halls
by Nancy Dyer

On the night of November 4, the
Self-Government Advisory Board
held an open board meeting in the
Rockefeller Hall showcase. This is
the first time that Self-Gov. has.

held an open meeting in any hall;
it represents one of the chief aims
of the Board this year, which is to
involve as many people as possible
in the mechanics of its administra-
tion,

The Board feels that the experi-
ence of sitting in and contributing
to a discussion of objective Self-
Gov. problems can be exceptionally
valuable to the individual member..
One reason for this is that she:
will be dealing with situations in
which she herself is not directly
concerned. In Advisory Board
meetings the Hall president pre-
sents an anonymous case:and it is
up to the Board and any visitors
to examine the given situation and,
to arrive at a decision on the basis
of the rules and policy of the As-
sociation.

Unfortunately too many people
have never thought beyond defin-
ing their own position to a book of
rules and have consequently missed -
a conception of the system as a

‘whole; fo miss this is to miss a
‘very important aspect of life at.

(Bryn Mawr. :
Omen hall meetings are ar effort.
on the part of the Board to bring

_ | Self-Government as directly as
‘possible to the college.

It is up to
the college to decide whether our
system of Self-Government is ef-
fective, and if not, what changes

‘should be made. We feel this year
‘individual evaluation
larly
scheduled opportunity for revising

is particu-
important because of the

the constitution next semester,







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