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College news, January 15, 1958
Bryn Mawr College student newspaper. Merged with Haverford News, News (Bryn Mawr College); Published weekly (except holidays) during academic year.
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North and Central America--United States--Pennsylvania--Montgomery--Bryn Mawr
Vol. 44, No. 11
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BMC-News-vol44-no11
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THE COLLEGE NEWS
Wednesday, January 15, 1958
Regeneration Is Significant Theme
Of Ulysses Says Professor Quinn
“Joyce is saying in Ulysses ‘Ye
must be born again’, keynoted
Frank Quinn in his lecture on the
Irish novelist’s opus magnum
presented by the Arts Forum on
Wednesday, January 8. He went
on to say, “This is so familiar and
obvious that we don’t take it ser-
iously.”
Frank Quinn, who is Assistant
Professor of English at Haverford,
went on to examine regeneration as
the significant message of Ulysses.
He rejected physical death, the
death of complete self-despair, and
the death of submissive return to
the pious world that chants “ye
must be born again.” The only
death out of which new life can
spring, he pointed out, is self-
knowledge. Man in search of him-
self is being fashioned on the an-
vil of experience. To the extent
he does not flinch, he fashions him-
self; to the extent that he realizes
the blows are right and good, he
comes to a realization of himself.
To demonstrate the application
of this idea, Mr. Quinn dealt with
the five main characters in Ulys-
ses, and traced the development of
two of them,
_ (Reading from the first lines of
the book a description of Buck
Mulligan, priestly in his dressing-
gown, Mr, Quinn noted that though
Mulligan spoke the truth when
playing at being a priest, he was
~essentially little more than a play-
er of women. Along with Haines,
a white-man’s-burden sort of im-
perialist, Buck Mulligan played at
being holy. These men, said
Quinn, were in a wrong relation-
ship with life.
Stephen Dedalus, in love with
intellectualism and the intellectual
he presumed himself to be, killed
his mother spiritually and sought a
father confused with himself.
The character roughly antithet-
ical to Stephen Dedalus is Leopold
Bloom, a man who centers an in-
effectual life around a dead son.
To introduce this character, and to
present Joyce’s method of using
interwoven images to get across
ideas, Mr. Quinn passed out mim-
eographed sheets of a passage deal-
ing with Bloom’s relationship with
his wife Molly. He then read a
version of his own, reversing the
images:
The road to Bloom’s finding a
son in Stephen is one fraught with
nightmares of suffering and the
daily suffering of easily created
paradises smashed by realism.
Only when Bloom and Stephen
both throw themselves and their
principles away do they find them-
selves and find each other in a
father-son relationship. Bloom, by
saving Stephen from the police,
becomes a man, giving up his vi-
carious position as son; Stephen
finds his father in Bloom, gives up
the father-image of his intellec-
tualism, which opens the way to
his becoming a man.
By first stating the simple un-
derlying message of Ulysses, then
by outlining its demonstration in
the lives of characters, ramifying
by quotation, Mr. Quinn dealt di-
rectly with a book he said “offered
many delightful digressions.” He
noted that while one must have
read, understood, and admired
Ulysses to be a cultured reader, it
would probably take longer to un-
derstand it fully than ‘the seven
years Joyce spent writing it.
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REMEMBER to register now
for summer jobs. Sign for appoint-
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mendations, Taylor Basement.
Odd Jobs now open: Please see
Mrs. Dudley.
Elderly woman living in Rose-
mont needs someone to be in the
apartment with her at night. Will
give room and breakfast. Kitchen
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Room and board in exchange for
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Boys 6 and 7, girl 9.
Typing: Steady job, four to
eight hours a week, for Miss Op-
penheimer in the Biology Depart-
ment. Copy French: article, 15
printed pages.
Brookhaven National Labora-
tories, Upton, Long Island (peace-
ful uses of atomic energy): Ap-
pointments are offered in Biology,
Chemistry, Physics, and Mathe-
matics. Salary for undergraduates,
$260 a month; $285 to $350 for
graduate students. ;
Many more summer camp posi-
tions have come in during the last
week.
New York State Professional
Positions: ‘Applications for the
next examination close January
17th, Blanks available at the
Bureau. Open to citizens of the
United States, not to New York
State residents only. Notice post-
ed.
Doubleday and Company, New
York: Training program in the
publishing field. $60 a week. Typ-
ing and shorthand necessary be-
fore beginning work in September.
Further information at The
Bureau.
Clergymen and Psychiatrist Convene
In Panel Discussion
The Common Room was the
scene last night of the Interfaith
Association’s Panel on marriage.
Four men had been asked to
speak on the subject: the Rev.
Robert James, speaking from the
Protestant point of view, the Rabbi
Theodore Gordon, of the Main Line
Reform Temple, Mr. Dennis Clarke
who spoke from the point of view
of the Catholic layman, and Dr.
Phillip Roche, a psychiatrist.
Connie Brown, vice-president of
the Interfaith Association, intro-
duced the speakers and also Mrs.
Hugh Borton, wife of the Presi-
dent of Haverford College, was
there: “representing the point of
view of the Bryn Mawr alumna,”
said Connie.
Mr. James opened the discussion
with what he called not the
Protestant point of view, but a
Protestant point of view.” He said
that to the Protestant, marriage
gets its religious origin from the
concept of the Creation. It sug-
gests, he said: “essential cumpli-
mentarity by Divine Intent.”
Hence marriage. is a “being to-
gether” in the three kinds of love:
eros—love in the sense of love
for an object of desire, philia—
love in the sense of living success-
fully together and with the com-
munity .. . having a common in-
terest, and agapé — love in the
Don’t be late for exams
Have your watch repaired
at
WALTER J. COOK
Bryn Mawr
About Marriage
sense of care for each other be-
cause of God’s care,
Mr. Clarke spoke of the “indis-
soluble contract” of marriage. It
it, in the eyes of the. Catholic
Church, a contract between the two
parties involved and God. Thus it
represents a “sharing of the life
of God ... actually living in com-
munion with the spirit of creat-
ivity.” saat
Rabbi Gordon spoke from the
Jewish point of view. He empha-
sized the fact that to the Jew, the
home and the family plays a much
more prominent role than in the
other . faiths? Hence, the conse-
crated state that is marriage is
much more important and (al-
though divorce is relatively easy)
lasting. The most important thing
is the emphasis upon the positive
value of the family and the home,”
Dr. Roche, the psychiatrist. said
that the man in his profession was
in the position of observing all
three faiths ... that his primary
concern was with the elements
which were against happiness in
marriage , . . the anxieties which
confront couples. He emphasized
maturity and the ability to break
away from parental ties as two
of the most important prere-
quisites.
A discussion period followed.
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