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College news, February 20, 1963
Bryn Mawr College student newspaper. Merged with Haverford News, News (Bryn Mawr College); Published weekly (except holidays) during academic year.
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1963-02-20
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Weekly
4 pages
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North and Central America--United States--Pennsylvania--Montgomery--Bryn Mawr
Vol. 49, No. 13
College news (Bryn Mawr College : 1914)--
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BMC-News-vol49-no13
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THE COLLEGE NEWS
_ Wednesday, February, 20, 1963
_ Recipe For Instant Scholarship
~_ Requires Recondite Annotations
: by Pauline Dubkin
After Robert Benchley, after a
fashion _
(Which* means that I- borrowed
parts of this. idea from Robert Ben-
chley, but didn’t T. S. Eliot say that
“Immature poets imitate, mature
poets steal?” And I do consider my---
““ self a poet).
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—
We hear a lot about scholarship
around here, but how many know
just’ what scholarship really is, or
how to achieve it? =.
Fortunately, I have now ‘devised
a formula for instant scholarship.
It ‘reads “the more voluminous and
the more recondite the annotations, ©
the greater the amount of scholar-
ship.” It is foolproof.
Say you have to write a paper on.
“The Wasteland,” since we've. al-
_Teady “mentioned ~ Hliot:**rhis poenr
’* §n_its entirety obviously does not
lend itself to. scholarly. interpreta-
tion; which is ‘always intensive, not
extensive. So you only take a
small gection of the poem. In fact,
you can take only one sentence. In
that case, your paper will consist of
one sentence and 15 pages of foot-
notes. Here 2 ig an example, of the
technique:
April! ‘is2 ‘thes nee month.s
‘April, Corruption of
By “using this word--in-the~-opening
sentence of his poem, Eliot parodies
Chaucer, who did the same, and sug-
gests that the characters of “Fhe
Wasteland” are also “embarking on
a pilgrimage. It is interesting to
‘note that “April” is the first word
of the sentence and “month” is the
last, April being a month. Thus the
beginning and the end of the sen-
tence are correlates but not identi-
cal, as is the case in line {20, ‘““Noth-
ing again. nothing.”
2aIs, i.e, not not is. This concept
is borrowed-from-the-field-of logic,
were “p”.is the same as “not not p.”
3The.
“de, ‘that is the question” and Eliot’s
own “Murder in the Cathedral.” Most
commentators on the poem think it
“should” be~ pronounced” “thuh;” ~ al=
though some of the newer English
~ critics insist on “thee.”
aCruellest. The use of the super-
lative here makes it clear that Eliot
_ is comparing’all-12-months. ‘fhe
“were comparing only April and May,
‘as’ some critics’ have contended, he
.would. have written “the crueller’
month.” Cf. course, the superlative
_ is sometimes wrongly used. Viz. the
ogy
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“Aprille.”
Cf, Hamlet, “To be or no{ to...
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in”
account of.Joe Hackensack’s state-.
ment before a fight that he refereed
on Sept. 14, 1963 in Detroit: “May —
the best man (of two) win.” Cor-.
rectly, he would have said the better
man,
8 Month. i.e,, 30. days, if Eliot
-were indeed referring to April: Had
he been referring to February, for
instance, “month” would have equal-
led “28 days.” (Except in leap
years). Since “month” is related
to’ “moon” ‘and “moon” (“lune”) to
madness, the word gives the entire
sentence a tone of madness, quite in
‘keeping with the use of the word
-“eruellest.” On the- subject’ of _so-
called moon-madness, viz. the works
of Irving. Berlin, though. the time
there is June, not April.
Thus the sentence taken in its
~gatirety* seems ts mean that~Aprit;-
one of the months “of~ the year, is, -
ive.,-“not not. is,” the cruellest.. of
those months, although variant read-
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Remarkable East House Leprechauns :
‘Decline To, Emulate,,Student Exodus
by Diana Koin, ’65
—An epitaph to East House —
As most of us know, East House
will: be torn: down in the coming
months to make way for Erdman
dorm. The last Freshmen were
moved out last week.
Once upon..a time about a, block
down the hill from the campus stood
a homely white house which opened
its doors to a different group of
girls every single year. This wonder-_
ful palace was called East House,
Although its doors are now locked
forever, the girls who lived there
will never forget it.
An old. gentleman -named Mr.
Miserable helped watch over . the
girls, making sure. they were all
safely inside by dawn. Mr. Miser-
able told. the girls that the trees
aveund..the house..were, inhabited by ™
leprechauns; perhaps it. was their
magic that helped make East House
a very.-special: place. so z
The wonders within its walls were
incredible to behold. Most beloved
‘of all was an antique- refrigerator,
truly marvelous in its abilities, and
especially prized because. of its uni-
queness. The’ girls also loved the
windows on the second floor because
they led to the roof, an enchanted
place. in the spring. The plumbing,
heating and electricity were ‘also
‘fairly incredible due to their mode
of operation, or, as the case usually
‘was, their lack of operation.
The girls who lived in East House:
weren’t really any. different from
the girls who lived a block up the .
hill, but nevertheless,they had cer-’
tain distinctive traits.. For instance,
most of them were not extraordin-
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_tudinous’other diversions.
_ Gentleman”
arily fond of performing their ob-
vious duty: studyifff"
Instead, they often found multi-
The most
endearing activity was usually held
in the smoker, the inner charhber —
of the palace; some people dared to
call the activity ultimate procras-
tination, but as the girls were still
“Young, the harnifal-influences ‘were —
negligible. The activities of. the
inner chamber. lasted long into the
night, sometimes failing to cease
until morning.
* \Teday the palace stands locked
and alone. Soon it will disappear
completely and in its place will ap-
pear a glossy new structure. Al-
though the old palace will be gone,
“parts of its happiness will always | _
éxist;and if lepréchauns can sur--~-
vive bulldozers, perhaps .....
Hitherto And Ever After
Continued from Page 1, Col..1 .
Are My Specialty” and “A Proper
stood out among the
tunes. :
Among the performers Jacqueline
Giuliano carried her story with
poise and charm. ~ She was better
than the part the script gave her.
Karen Durbin wore a consistently
Hazelesque and. Southern character
as ‘ Rafflesia the maid. Deborah-
~Garretson projected the knowing
Family -Spirit in an -effortless_style.
As Aunt Abigail,
brought... off a quick. switch from
hypocrite to gamey old girl in her
song and dance with the piumber.
~Two: show stoppers were Barbara:
Miller’s sizzling Salome and- Mary
Daubenspeck as thé plumber in the
long. neglected of, pipes. Betsy
Bielski. did*a.. mother-pecked poet
with abundant flourishes.
Thom as Sir Donald timed her
laughs nicely and chose to stay in
character. rather than pirate the
rest of the show by leaving the
other half on when half-her mous-,
Miller
tache dropped off. Andy
did a graceful,portrayal of the gam-
bling cousin Alphonse, Suzanne
‘and fool-proof
-iams.
Mary Currie .
Mary.
Weidel played the lawyer with a
snappy Gilbert and Sullivan manner
exit line. Celia
Rumsey put over an extremely arch
Lady Katherine. Joan Cavallaro
wisely presented rather than at-
tempted to represent,..the martial
Roman Marcus Claudius. Elizabeth
Stamm: played--the - poet’s—--mother
~ with ~overtones* of -Tennessee Wii=
Anne-Lovgren -was properly °
withering -as- the~-butler -with. 200
years’ ‘service.
mused and sad lines as the Victorian
Gentleman.
lively Pict Lady Gwenyth.
Diane Sampson as Aunt Josephine,
Deborah: Rogers as Uncle .James,
Donna Macek as Aunt Matilda and-
Carolyn Wade as: Hepatica all gave
creditable performances. _, Caroline
Willis was* an‘ amusing Master Ja-
son Marlowe Monmouth Addison
Hugh in sailor suit.
Additional Ancestors were Ann
Bradley,. Sarah Dunlap, Victoria
Grafstrom, Leslie Hiles, Elizabeth
Roueche, and Sharon Shelton. Les-
lie Preston and Jo Ann Strom were
the think fast poster auctioneers.
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