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THE COLLEGE NEWS

Wednesday, October 30, 1957



THE COLLEGE NEWS

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Go West, Young Woman, Go West

(BUT BE BACK ON TIME)



The College’s policy. in regard to leaving early. and re-
turning late from vacations is simple and clearly defined:
such violations are not tolerated, and no excuses are accepted.

vacation or to sign into her first one afterwards can be con-
fident that her punishment will be a deterred examination,
‘In-genéral, we feel that this policy is Justified ; Bryn Mawr
already has one of the shortest school years in the country,
and taking an extended vacation seems an abuse of this cir-
cumstance.

But, as ever, there is a case in which it seems reasonable
to grant an exception, for round-trip coast-to-coast coach
flights are forty dollars cheaper on Mondays, Tuesdays,
Wednesdays and Thursdays. This difference in price is
of particular importance to girls from the West Coast,
since a large majority of them are on scholarships. It is un-
fortunate that most. vacations begin on Friday afternoons
and end on Monday mornings, and it is scarcely feasible for
West Coast girls to remain in the Bryn Mawr area until the
following Monday and to return the Thursday before classes
begin.

In the past, the Dean’s Office has taken this financial
problem into consideration and reduced the punishment to
six weeks of cut probation. But even six weeks of cut pro
seems an exceedingly severe penalty for the student who has
little choice but to leave early and return late. The question
is no longer one of breaking a rule, but of financial necessity.

One solution to this problem would be to arrange all
vacations to start and end on the appropriate days; but it
seems much more reasonable to recognize the validity of
this exception and se the penalty.

tion weeks) in the interest of Bryn Mawr College at the Ardmore

The student who fails to sign out of her last class before a



boss once you know
there was this big cheese in the
big league philosophy whirl who had
a feeling quote imitation
. is natural to man quote
and somewhere right after this
comes art it is fancy imitation well boss i
have discovered imitation is natural to fleas
too parenthesis not to mention all those
other transmigrated geezers
who keep remembering
their other name besides bill or
george or daffy will is shakespeare byron
‘wordsworth and that what they really ‘
need right now just to keep
their head in so to speak and
a paw qn the pulse of self expression
is a typewriter
which they bum off some
susceptible type together with
other people’s style i wont say whose
is being modest but i ask you is there
any gratitude in this world it seems not
much end parenthesis
take this flea this is a prose
flea and his name is michael a little
long on legs but short
on brains he claims to be a writer but i
am not convinced-yet it is not.that. __. ‘
his stuff is without promise and who
am i to knock the spontaneous uprise of
a wider wastebasket school of art~
C: but he says he types
q his own material no flea i ever saw
q could work a shift key let alone spell -





a _ boss i think hes got a secretary this
is plainly not hoyle acne
what is art without the pain of creation
not much it tay no soul ite mot his :
yale a toh | eter bt ly 0











In Medias Res

by Ellie Winsor





Too often in questions of cur-
rent significance a neglect of the
deep historical viewpoint, pursued

with scholarly detachment, may
not only obscure the main point but
also lead to rash: and unthinking
judgment. Recent discussions of the
fascinating topic of matrimony
have, it seeyns, neglected this vital
facet, and the many eager maidens
who gather their knitting (as it
may) and meet to consider this
question would from all appear-
ances be lamentably slighting this
important aspect, of their problem,
May it” be recalled that almost
anything can be legitimately done
with Classical precedent.

We turn first to Homer and find
there an oft-mentioned—scene of
domestic concord in the relations
of Hector and his faithful spouse,
but in scholarly fashion it is wise
to deliberate before making gen-
eral statements. Close examination
of the text will reveal as an at-
tituide much more typical of the
noble ancients, that which is voiced
in the first book by the king Aga-
memnon:
““ |. . and indeed I wish greatly
to have ‘her in.my own house}; since
I like her better than Clytemnestra
to my wife... still I am willing
to give her hack. ” Noting in pass-

ing that Agamemnon finally settled |

tive. Cassandra and was ultimately
murdered by his wife and her lover
we continue for our example to the
contemporaneous affairs of the
shining Olympian Gods, and note
the very statement of Jove himself:

“«. « that time. when I loved
the wife of Ixion / who bore me
Perithoos, equal of the gods in
counsel / when I loved Akrisios’
daughter, sweet-stepping Danae...
when I loved the daughter of far-
renowned Phoinix, Europa / when
I loved Semele, or Alkmene in
Thebes,” but we cite these instances
not as information, but purely for
the learned light they shed.

Before leaving the Greeks it is
wise also to glance at Plato’s Re-
public and quote out of context a
statement attributed to Socrates,
“I do not think that there can be any
dispute about the very great utility
of having wives and children in
common; the possibility is quite
another matter and might be very
much disputed.” (Socrates, you re-
call, had a shrew of a wife.)

Perhaps also one should not
neglect the sterling example of the

fifty daughters of Danaus who
murdered their husbands on their
wedding night, In later times this
excellent precedent was followed by

moor. In our own degenerate ag
it is rather unfortunately more
difficult to accomplish with all suc-
cess and impunity.

Returning, however, to the an-
cients, and this time the Romans,
‘there stands the noble Cato who
when he reached middle age lent
his wife to his friend Hortensisus
in order (allegedly) that their two
families might be closer united.
Marcia in this situation behaved
admirably as should the wife of a
Stoic, and only after she had duly
buried“her-second husband did she
return to her first, begging for
peace in her old age.

As most medieval notables took
refuge: in monasteries, we shall
progress to the Renaissance; and
yet, there is a definite reflection of
this. aforesaid. trend in Hamlet’s
sage advice to Ophelia, “Get thee to
a nunnery, go; farewell. Or, if
thou wilt needs marry, marry a
fool, for wise men know well
enough what monsters you make of
them. To a’nunnery go and quickly,
too.” And a little later the prince
adds, “I say we will have no more
marriages,” we

Although it is surely pertinent
Sir Thomas More’s discourse on
the marriage customs of the Uto-
pians is surely too well known. to
necessitate quotation.~Less known

are the,phrases of the learned Dr.

John Donne, referring not specifi-
ally perhaps to matrimony but
surely to some of the circumstances
thereof. In his Paradoxes and Prob-
lems he states wisely, “that wom-
en are inconstant I with any man
confess, but that inconstancy is a
bad quality, I against any man
will maintain.” The facts here
might be subject to question, but
surely the viewpoint.is admirable.

By this time, perhaps. we have
progressed ‘to Scripture and_to
that opinion expressed in the Song
of Solomon, “Comfort me with
apples, for I am sick of love”...
ah yes, it may well be; but who
mentioned love. We were speaking.
of marriage . . ; knit one, purl two,
cross over cable oo . “Pm making
these socks for my brother.”

Again as our Shakespeare has
said, “The world must be peopled.”



Are there any questions?



Works of the Spanish

A recent contribution to the field
of Spanish literature has been made
by Professor Juan Marichal who has
edited and has had published sev-
eral of the works of the late Pedro

poet of the twentieth century. The
most recent book which Marichal
edited and prepared for publication,
Teatro Completo (The Complete
Plays) of Salinas was published in
Madrid last summer.

This, however, was not the first
of Salinas’ works which Mr. Mar-
ichal has edited, nor will it be the
last. Poesias Completas (The Com-

was published in 1955. Two other
books, Ensayos Sobre La Literatura
Hispanica (Essays About Spanish
Literature), which will include a de-
tailed ‘Study of Salinas as a literary
critic and teacher, and Volverse
Sombra y Otros Poemas, which con-
tains some of-Salinas’ poetry which
has never before been published,
are expected to appear early in

| 1958. In addition, Mr. Marichal is

now in the process of editing a

~{volume which will contain the com-

plete creative works of Pedro







Salinas, an outstanding Spanilsh|

plete Works of Poetry) of Salinas’

Marichal Edits, Prepares For Publication

Poet Pedro Salinas :

He studied at the University of San
Isidro and received his doctor’s
degree in Philosophy from the Uni-
versity of Madrid. In addition to
teaching at universities in Spain,
at the Sorbonne in Paris and at
Cambridge in England, he spent
several years teaching in the Unit-
ed States. He was Visiting Profes-
sor at Wellesley, spent several sum-
mers at the Spanish School of
Middlebury College, and _ also
taught in the summer schools of
the University of California, the
University of Southern California

|and Duke University. In the late

1940’s he was a visiting lecturer
here at Bryn Mawr. From 1940
until his death in 1951, Salinas was
Professor of Spanish Literature at
John Hopkins University,
An‘additional item of interest con-
cerning Salinas is that the Library
of Congress’ is publishing a.special
book of his poem, Sea of San Juan.
Mr. Marichal will edit this work
also and his brother, Carlos Mar-
ichal, of the University of Puerto
Rico, will illustrate it. In addition,
the Library. of Congress will pub-
lish a long playing record of
Salinas reading the poem. This is of
{special note, because Salinas wi







to have
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IL Everyone interested in the series

Letter to the Editor

Wyndhamite Proclaims
Hall’s Reorganization
To the Editor of the News:

In past years Wyndham, bet-
ter known as French House, has
suffered under the stigma of an
iconoclastic reputation. “Rebels”,
“arty”, “individualistic”, have been
some of the terms levelled at us.

This year, however, with the re-
organization (and re-population) of
our hall, we feel that it is time that
these now groundless Epithets were
done away with. The new Wyndham
is ready to stand beside Rockefeller,
Rhoads, Pem East, Pem West, Dén-
bigh, Merion, Radnor, East House,
and the Graduate Center. Lest it
be thought that we are boasting,
let us give you more tangible proof
of our.progyess:

1. We e a Hall President.

2. We also have a Vice-President,

8. Our Fire-Captain has already
organized one drill, early as it is
in the year.
4. We have a fully-organized
Social Chairman (with Committee)
responsible for one successful Open
House already.

5. We have five Permission-
Givers.
This may not seem much, but it’s
a start already. Our tone may. be
one of levity, but we are in earnest.
Though Wyndham | has’ gone
straight, it has not lost its sense _.
of humor.”
We'll be vents you at college
functions!

Ellen Dixon,

Hall Representative,
x Wyndham



MAIN LINE GAME
Count the Dogs in the

Station Wagons
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East Meets West
In Interfaith Talks

The Interfaith Association will
sponsor lectures on Far Eastern
Religions this fall. The object of
these lectures will be to make us
at Bryn Mawr aware of the basic
differences in Eastern and Western
modes of thought, and to show us
how the religious. and cultural
values of the East may or may not
contribute to the spiritual develop-
ment of the West.

The first speaker will be Dr.

Schuyler Cammann, Professor of
Oriental Studies in the Graduate
School of Arts and Sciences at the
University of Pennsylvania. He will
accompany his talk on Buddhism
in the Art Lecture Room on Thurs-
day, November 7th at 8:30 p.m.
with lantern slides,
- On Monday, November 25th,
Swami Pavitrananda of the Ved-
anta Society of New York City
will give a talk on Hinduism at
8:30 in the Common Room. Swami
Pavitrananda is himself a Hindu,
but he hag lived many years in
the West and has an _ excellent
understanding of Western as well
as of Eastern philosophy and cul-
ture. :

Dr. Howard Brinton, head of the
Quaker center at Pendle Hill for
many years and a former Professor
of “History of Religions” at Bryn
Mawr, will close the series on
Tuesday, December 8rd at 8:30 in
the Common Room-with a lecture |
on “Eastern and Western Mysti-
cism and Theology.” Dr. Brinton
has lectured on this subject several
times ‘in Japan and has had the
advantage of criticism from Jap-
anese students. Dr. Brinton will
stress Zen-Buddhism in his talk
should Dr. Crammann not have
time to cover it. :
| The Interfaith Association will
offer no talk on Confucianism.







is urged to attend the Class of 1902
lecture on “Confucianism and Mod-
ern China” this Monday, November



‘lath at 8:30 in Goodhart..